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Post by bird on Jan 8, 2023 8:19:10 GMT -7
Dear moderator team, I would highly appreciate it if once the event is over this thread could be moved to my archive in my own board. Thank you! <3 Welcome Welcome to the second annual winter olympics thread of The Blackbirdsnest! Introducing my team: -insert image here- for official profiles you can find them at: dj7.proboards.com/thread/9031/great-sort-2023?page=1&scrollTo=88814 because man I have been working hard during the great sort of 2023 to get EVERYONE introduced  Just like last year I am going to attempt to playfully introduce each member of the team in a gameplay challenge to come! For the gameplay challenges themselves I would like to refer you to post 2! #BlameBuckForPresident #Melon #SleighWithMe #ReindeerGames #TeamJuly #TeamAlpineIsSuperFine #Evergreen4EverGreen |
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Post by bird on Jan 8, 2023 8:21:18 GMT -7
Challenges and new members I peaked at how I did this last year because I remembered it worked well!
Week 1: Jan 8 - 14
x Introduce your petz team! Post pictures, names, and any other info you want.
x Dress up your petz in their team colours!
x Make a Winter Olympics stamp to share. -Simon
x Update your avatar or signature to show team spirit!
x Introduce (or re-introduce) one pet to another and see how they do.
Total: 5 / 5
Week 2: Jan 15 - 21
x Set a timer for 2 minutes and see how many times your pet jumps through the hoop. -Primrose
x Share a photo of a pet drinking hot chocolate. -Simon
x Share the reasoning behind one or more of your petz names. -Simon
x Take a photo of a pet doing a trick for a treat! -Cheese and Jen
x Decorate the snowman in the snow scene with one or more petz. -Simon, Primrose, Cheese and Jen
Total: 5 / 5
Week 3: Jan 22 - 28
x Set a timer for 2 minutes and see how many treatz your pet can eat. -Snowdrift 7
x Bows, bows, bows! Dress up your pet(z) in them and share their cute photos. - Eleora & Addius
x Send a surprise card/graphic to a person who hexed/bred one of your petz to thank them. -Addius & Eleora
x Help one of your petz discover their favorite toy. -Blizzard
x Get one of your petz to go for a ride on the sled! -MintTea
Total: 5 / 5
Week 4: Jan 29 - Feb 4
x Set a timer for 2 minutes and see how many times your pet catches the frisbee. -Aleu & Alpine Hero
x Get a show pose out of one of your petz and enter them in a show. -Birchi
x Share a cozy photo of your pet(z) snuggled up by the fireplace. --Addius & Eleora
x Introduce your pet(z) to Mitzy or Bear at the snow scene and see how they do. -Dandy & Lemonade
x Write an eight page essay about why you and your petz (hopefully) enjoyed WinOly 2023. -Holly
Total: 5 / 5
♡-Total: 20
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Post by bird on Jan 8, 2023 8:22:27 GMT -7
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Post by bird on Jan 8, 2023 8:29:39 GMT -7
Merch
You can take this stuff. For free. Because I made it.
There are rules, something about saying thank you and please and loving thy neighbour by giving them credit.
You can find the merch here:
drive.google.com/drive/folders/12vKmWwBumIzsUUPyAgCphvn2Eey7Rxjh?usp=sharing
I made a little stamp for Simon my badger. When I put the Evergreen harnass on him it looked like he was wearing a tie.
He's ready for bussiness (now let's see how well he fits inside a stamp at the end of winonly because right now he has been completely unaltered and fit in the stamp JUST LIKE THAT!)
The merch right now is eight cool textures and one stamp!
That's all folks! |
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Post by bird on Jan 11, 2023 13:30:59 GMT -7
The Team  This is my team. I spent a TON of time making profiles for them over here: dj7.proboards.com/thread/9031/great-sort-2023 I'd love it if you go and take a look over there! Feel free to react over here if there's anything you would like to mention! Please forgive me if I don't reintroduce them all straight away over here. I'm going to try to do each challenge with a different pet So far the names of my team are: Addius Calvin the tenth and his Fiancé Eleora daughter of Jack and Elaine, Alpinehero (the only one without a profile at the time of writing this), Birchi, Blizzard, Cheese, Dandy, Grapefruit, Holly, Jen, Maple, Minttea, Panettone, Primrose, Simon and Snowdrift. As you can see in this pic I dressed up several of them in evergreen green they've also been reintroduced quite a few times now. I have the feeling Holly might be crashing my game. Dress wise notably most dogz are in evergreen harnasses for sleighing, cats often have green bows. Feel free to comment I've been waiting for your comments <3 #TeamEvergreen |
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Post by bird on Jan 19, 2023 6:13:45 GMT -7
Hot Chocolate Bussiness Badger Simon would like to share this hot chocolate with you.    You see he has a serious topic to discuss with everyone.  Please make sure you lift all football nets from the ground when they are not in use. a lot of wildlife gets stuck in the football nets and then the people from wildlife aid need to come and rescue an animal that would have been fine if you had lifted the net from the ground or put it away for the night.  Doing one small thing can make a difference in the lives of your local wildlife no matter on what side of the planet. Thank you for listening to Simon, please make sure your petz with a z can enjoy plenty of hot cocoa because our real life counterparts can't so someone has to!  Simon was named after Simon Cowell from the Wildlife aid foundation. Together the team at Wildlife aid rescues thousands of animals each year. Unfortunately last year he was diagnosed with a terminal illness and he'll be leaving us soon. I loved him on animal planet as a kid and still watch the youtube videos of WAF on occasion. Simon is also a little cheeky just like his real life counterpart. Whilst I was writing this he was bumping into the carrying case until he could steal my cheese. #TeamEvergreen |
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Post by bird on Jan 19, 2023 6:32:27 GMT -7
Hoopsie For hoop jumping I decided to pick Primrose, she reminds me of Sassy in Athletic capabilities and I thought she would be a good candidate for jumping through the hoop!  Hoop jumping? Bird, have you listened to what Simon is saying? I think this is more important than hoop jumping. Fine Fine I'll give you guys a minute to get to finish your conversation.  -a while later- What? No Bird i'm too busy talking to Simon! ABOUT THE FOOTBALL NETS BIRD THE FOOTBALL NETS! I can't believe you want me to jump through hoops instead of talking about how to help our local wildlife! -flirty eyes- Right that's my cue *puts Simon away* I know it was an important topic but you guys can't go make babies. I'm glad you like each other though! You can be friends and all but no babies.  Why did you send Simon away Bird? He's my best friend now. PRIMROSE PLEASE! JUST LET ME FINISH MY TASKS I promise that if you jump the hoop as many times as you want within two minutes I'll bring Simon back out ok?  OK! Turns out I was right about Primroses Athletic capabilities  She was doing this like it was all I ever trained her for  and there was some flopping too.  four  five  five... you missed the hoop.  six (thought she was gonna flop on the other side when I saw this stretch lol)  SEVEN! (I missed the hoop on this one). Simon and Primrose are currently enjoying some playtime together. They seem to enjoy each others company. (Simon was at the door pretty much the moment my two minute timer rang which was at the moment of the last picture) #TeamEvergreen |
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Post by bird on Jan 19, 2023 6:40:22 GMT -7
Treatz  Cheese doing an uptrick. Cheese then proceeded to eat all the tricks as Jen was trying to also do a trick Jen got mad at him  Jen was NOT sad Cheese left  Jen then also did an uptrick.
Snowman Turns out the bag of carrots wasn't for decorating. I forgot it wasn't. No one was disappointed because they liked eating carrots. |
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Post by bird on Jan 27, 2023 11:40:07 GMT -7
Cheese  Parameters: 2 minute timer. As many Cheese as I could bother to toss from the closet. (at least like 50 or something) Measurement type: Swallow sound = 1 eaten cheese Goal: Get Snowdrift to eat as many cheese treatz as possible within 2 minutes. Start.  Snowdrift had to contemplate the meaning of cheese for a moment at the start, but I did know that Snowdrift was cheese approved from doing the great sort. Fun story: as a kid i'd also toss as many cheese as I could into the toy closet to watch them eat (petz 3) I loooved doing this, sometimes i'd prepare it and toss down lots of treats too (i'd often do the hearts as part of my petz love ritual) and it was like a giant feast!  we have locked onto target  Touchdown! We have landed the first cheese.  many cheese were harmed in the making of this set of pictures  and this was the last cheese. We had a total of seven cheese. In retrospect maybe a non cat based animal would've been better :') #TeamEvergreen |
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Post by bird on Jan 27, 2023 11:52:55 GMT -7
Bows  For those of you that haven't met her (I start typing this as I notice she's got wonky eyes, thanks cat) this is Eleora. She is the GORGEOUS offspring of Jack and Elaine from last years winter olympics and she likes bows, like this black one here!  just not this one  or this one  nor does she like this one  but she does LOVE this evergreen one!  ah yes this is what your eyelids are supposed to do  look at how happy she is with it, let's ask what the judges think of her look.  Addius compliments the fact that the green bow makes her eyes look EVEN MORE pretty.  and then procceeds to get tacklehugged without mercy.  it did say pet(z) so here's a picture of Addius NOT appreciating that I put Eleora's bow on his head. |
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This was the first official Stamp I found it features evergreens covered in snow and frost.
now this one is my favourite so far. It mirrors my 
of last year 
This set is one I enjoy a lot. I just love puns
Team Frost IS fighting back though :') Silly team frost, you know you can't freeze trees. We're self insulating!
The Summer Olympics will be here before ya know it... ^_^