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 <h2>what's artfight? </h2>
 <b>Artfight</b> is an online art game every July. You post profiles for your original characters then go off browsing to find someone else's character to draw. Everyone's sorted into teams and each "attack" or drawing is valued for a certain number of points, so one side wins at the end of the event. You don't get anything for winning, and people game the system so bad that it's hard to even care about the competitive side of the site. <br></p>
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-<p>It's more fun to approach the game with your own personal challenge. There's a huge variety of character types and art styles, so there's no harm in trying something. Female or male anatomy, mechanical characters, fat or thin characters, old or young characters, simple cartoony characters or intricate designs...The person on the other side will appreciate your effort, even if it was unfamiliar artistic territory. I know a lot of people try a new style or technique during this month, like my friend trying single-layer digital paintings. My personal approach this year is thematic. I drew cute couples! I don't usually draw boys, so it's a good compromise if his girlfriend will be in the frame, too. Also, more characters per attack = more points! <br></p>
+<p>It's more fun to approach the game with your own personal challenge. I know a lot of people try a new style or technique during this month, like my friend trying single-layer digital paintings. My personal approach this year is thematic. I'm drawing cute couples! I don't usually draw boys, so it's a good compromise if his girlfriend will be in the frame, too. Also, more characters per attack = more points! <br></p>
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 It's a huge community, so at least a few people are bound to draw your characters, which is such a fun surprise when it happens. Some people like to make art in return for people who attack them, too, as thanks. Their discord is probably the best place to get attention, but it's intimidatingly fast for me. <br>
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 <h2>my attacks </h2>
 <p>These are the characters I drew. <br></p>
-<img src="/static/img/ent/AF22_Abbey_Lune_Arcon_SanoAmaterasu_goddess_big.png" alt="(pixelart: Sano Amaterasu in a lupine field, playing her harp.)"><br>
-My pixelart of Lune_Archon's Sano Amaterasu, a horned goddess with her harp.
+<img src="/static/img/ent/AF22_Abbey_Lune_Arcon_SanoAmaterasu_goddess.png" alt="(pixelart: Sano Amaterasu in a lupine field, playing her harp.)"><br>
+<img src="/static/img/ent/AF22_Abbey_Lune_Arcon_SanoAmaterasu_goddess_big.png" alt="(pixelart: same but larger size)"><br>
+My pixelart of Lune_Archon's Sano Amaterasu, a horned goddess with her harp. (75x75px, 45 colors) <br>
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+<img src="/static/img/ent/AF22_Abbey_Skye_0723_Aisu+LunaStarleaf.png" alt="(pixelart: Aisu, a blue winged man in a sweater standing behind his seated blonde wife with a pink shirt.)"><br>
+<img src="/static/img/ent/AF22_Abbey_Skye_0723_Aisu+LunaStarleaf_big.png" alt="(pixelart: same but larger size.)"><br>
+My pixelart of Skye_0723's Aisu and Luna Starleaf, a winged warrior and his druid wife who can turn into a pink unicorn. (163x157px, 79 colors) <br>
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+<img src="/static/img/ent/AF22_Abbey_EmmArrGus_Brody+Char.png" alt="(pixelart: Brody, a scruffy fisherman sitting on a bench with his anthro shark girlfriend Char.)"><br>
+<img src="/static/img/ent/AF22_Abbey_EmmArrGus_Brody+Char_big.png" alt="(pixelart: same but larger size.)"><br>
+My pixelart of EmmArrGus's fisherman Brody and his shark girlfriend Char. (150x123px, 54 colors) <br>
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+<img src="/static/img/ent/AF22_Abbey_BlackReshiram_Lilac_dragongirl.png" alt="(pixelart: a fluffy pink dragon girl named Lilac.)"><br>
+<img src="/static/img/ent/AF22_Abbey_BlackReshiram_Lilac_dragongirl_big.png" alt="(pixelart: same but larger size.)"><br>
+My pixelart of BlackReshiram's Lilac, a fluffy pink dragon girl. (51 colors) <br>
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 <h2>my defenses </h2>
 <p>These are my characters, drawn by other people. <br></p>
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 <h2>do you recommend this game? </h2>
-<p>It's one of the more fun art communities these days. A lot of communities have turned completely business-minded or are littered with off-topic content, which is fine but not as collaborative and laid-back as the 00s and 10s communities. Artfight, however, is structured around getting people interested in OCs outside their own canon and interacting with other artists. I try to play at least a little every year. <br></p>
+<p>It's one of the more fun art communities these days. A lot of communities have turned completely business-minded or are littered with off-topic content, which is fine but not as collaborative and laid-back as the 00s and 10s communities. Artfight, however, is structured around getting people interested in OCs outside their own canon and interacting with other artists. It's a nice drawing motivation. I try to play at least a little every year. <br></p>
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 <p>This community definitely has a lot of overlap with Toyhouse and Tumblr, though, so don't be surprised if you keep running into massive text walls of character permissions and "original character donut steal" warnings. Obviously less complex art can be churned out faster to dominate the front page, but there's a wide range of ability. I see everything from minors taking grainy photos of lined paper to a sea of amateur digital artists trying to copy Tearzah to university illustration students to kinda condescending professional artists. It feels like old DeviantART in that respect. <br></p>
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 <h2>faq</h2>
 <h3>who is poltics cat? </h3>
-<img src="/static/img/ent/screenshot_June292019.png" alt="(photo: My pet orange kitty with an empty look on his face and legs tucked entirely under his body. He looks like a loaf of bread.)"><br>
+<img src="/static/img/ent/nolegsthecat_polticscat.png" alt="(photo: My pet orange kitty with an empty look on his face and legs tucked entirely under his body. He looks like a loaf of bread.)"><br>
+<p>My kitty! <br></p>
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 <p>It's just an inside joke. There was a guy who kept posting his cute pet in the politics discussion on social media, so I copied him. I tried to post the most annoying picture of my cat as the "politics cat" but made a typo. <br></p>
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 <h3>where'd his legs go? </h3>
-<p>Aren't cats cute when they sit like that? It's called "loafing." Kitty's so fluffy that his legs become totally invisible when he does that, and he just stares helplessly at us if we start heckling him. It looks like his legs are missing for real this time, though. He couldn't have gotten far without them, so they have to be somewhere in the maze. <br></p>
+<p>Aren't cats cute when they sit like that? It's called "loafing." Kitty's so fluffy that his legs become totally invisible when he does that, and he just stares helplessly at us if we start heckling him. <br></p>
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+<p>It looks like his legs are missing for real this time, though. He couldn't have gotten far without them, so they have to be somewhere in the maze. <br></p>
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 <h3>isn't one breakfast enough? </h3>
 <p>I dunno, my cat is weird. He wants us to give him breakfast first thing in the morning, then again when we eat our own breakfast. It's still so early, it's like he eats two breakfasts. He doesn't care about food for the rest of the day. It's like the concept of lunch and dinner are completely foreign to him. He's a dishonest little guy, though, so he'll come to both my husband and me separately to beg for "second" breakfast. We're usually too smart for him, but I'd be lying if he hasn't bamboozled us into <i>three</i> whole breakfasts before. <br></p>