Stole this from Avyris:


1. Being Gay Is Not Natural, and real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning, tattoos, piercings and silicon breasts...

2. Gay Marriage Will Encourage People To Be Gay In the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3. Legalizing Gay Marriage Will Open The Door To All Kinds Of Crazy Behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract. Lamps are next.

4. Straight Marriage Has Been Around A Long Time And Hasn't Changed At All, hence why women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

5. Straight Marriage Will Be Less Meaningful If Gay Marriage Were Allowed, and we can't let the sanctity of Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage be destroyed.

6. Straight Marriages Are Valid Because They Produce Children, so therefore, gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our population isn't out of control, our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7. Obviously Gay Parents Will Raise Gay Children, since, of course, straight parents only raise straight children.

8. Gay Marriage Is Not Supported By Religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9. Children Can Never Succeed Without A Male And A Female Role Model, which is exactly why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

10. Gay Marriage Will Change The Foundation Of Society; We Could Never Adapt To New Social Norms, just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

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Also, I have a contest running: [link]

I realize I don't have many watchers, but I thought I would give a contest a try, especially now I'm getting better at my own art so I can provide actual prizes. So.

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Create a reference sheet for a character whose design is based on a specific color scheme--complementary, split complementary, triatic, or square. The character may be any species, but it must use only the colors from the selected scheme, and it must use all of the colors! Different tints, shades, and intensities of each color are allowed.

(This color wheel [link] by ~thomasdian is very useful for finding color schemes. To find a "split complementary" scheme, select the "analogous with contrast" and remove the middle color from the three analogous colors. The triatic and square schemes are the three and four color contrasts, respectively. Also see this color theory tutorial [link] by ~MaskedMarvel.)

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First prize: colored piece with gradient shading (example: [link])
Second prize: colored piece with two-color shading (example: [link])
Third prize: flat colored piece (example: [link])

*I realize the last two pieces aren't as detailed or... good as the first prize example, but the actual prizes will be, I promise!

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To enter, note me!