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I'm not doing banners for this one, since unfortunately the winner of both icon and texture challenges was me (icon #5 and texture #1). I'll put tutorials up as soon as I have a chance.

I would like to invite both immortalje and wunderkind_lucy to put up a tutorial for either or both their texture sets, as I like to see how other people go about making these things.

The winner of Challenge #117 was pensnest.

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And now, I think I need to ask for your help. I'm obviously not doing a great job of finding images that inspire lots of you to make icon entries. I admit that I sometimes find them harder to icon than I expected to, but that's part of the challenge... isn't it?

Anyway, what I would like to do is to ask you to find an image that you think would be a good source image for a future severalplums challenge, and post either the image, or a link to it (please make sure it's not in a locked community), in comments here. I'll use as many as I can. It doesn't matter what kind of image you come up with (caveat: no porn!), and I'd be particularly pleased to have animé and screencaps of TV shows I don't know—and, really, anything you think would be interesting to icon. A HQ image is best, if you can manage it.

I'd love to have a good bunch of images to add to my stockpile, so please, if you can, comment with something.

A very, very close thing this week. Thanks to everyone who voted! Congratulations to:

First place: tiah15
Second place: callirhoe
Third place: quoshara

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Thanks for the votes in extra time, everyone—it didn't change the actual result, but it's better to have more opinions.

Congratulations to this week's winner, pensnest. (Thanks!)

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Sorry about the late announcement, everyone—my internet has been very gluey for the last three hours.

Congratulations to the winners:

First place: yvi
Second place: tiah15

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Thanks to my Resident Expert's habit of keeping Stuff in the loft, I have a new graphics card and consequently can see the screen on the Big Computer. So a big thank-you to the people who volunteered to make banners, but I didn't need you after all.

Congratulations to:

First place: enjirux
Second Places: wunderkind_lucy There was actually a *tie*, but most conveniently, the two icons were both made by the same entrant, who also gets the Mod's Invitation—you may pick whichever icon you think will make a more interesting tutorial.

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Congratulations to this week's winners,

First place: tiah15
Second place: pensnest
Mod's invitation goes to yvi, because I like the ghostliness.

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Many thanks to everyone for voting, and welcome! to the ones among you I don't recognise. Just in case you'd like an explanation of how the voting is counted: the first count goes on simple numbers, ie all votes are equal. If there is a clear winner/second place/etc then that stands, however, if there is a draw, I look at the preferences to count up who has more first-choice votes, etc. If you have any queries about it, do ask me.

Anyway, now it is time to say congratulations to this week's winners:

First place: pensnest
Second place: tiah15

Mod's invitation goes to brigid, because I am intrigued.
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Congratulations to this week's winner, arithilim.

Also to stripped, who gets the Mod's Invitation after another very close vote!

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Congratulations to this week's winner, ahem,

First place: pensnest
Mod's invitation was a very difficult call, but then, the voting was *incredibly* close, so I'm sure many of you will be pleased to see the Mod's invitation going to nagashiwa.

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