1000 Friends Art Event - Express Yourself!
Heyo every-amazing-one! ^-^
Can you believe our little family, this sub-community, is already at 1000 subcommunity friends? Thats right! I mean, me neither, but it is time to celebrate! :)
You may wonder what this whole Express Yourself! event thing is. Well, it is *drumroll* an Art Event! :)
Thats right! Art is just such an amazing way to help us deal with so many different and otherwise hard things and we have so many amazing friends here now so we have been thinking of combining the two and let you show us some of your amazing art! :)
How are you feeling? What does this place mean to you? What does "recovery" mean to you? What do you think about the 1000 friends, on a similar journey to you? All that, and anything else is on your mind you would like to draw or write out, we would be happy to see here! :)
For this occasion, we will be collecting written and visual art.
Visual art can be any drawing or moving image such as gifs you would like to share with us. You can submit these using any anonymous image-sharing sites such as > imgur.com <
For written art now we are open for poems and short stories - stories under 2000 words.
For this you can use > this form < to submit your art to us with or without your username!
If you do have something else you would like to submit, please contact either me or @JaydenIsHere. We are always open to new ideas! :)
Of course, all of our general rules apply here as well. Please do not use any inappropriate language or share triggering details or if you do, please state it at the appropriate sections of the form. I mean, this is why we do have this form in place, as otherwise, we would have no way to moderate your submissions, but this way we can make sure that this thread will stay as clean as possible with the right trigger warnings in place at all times as we do not want anyone to get triggered.
As for the deadline: there is no such a thing. We will go through the submissions every once in a while and I will post them in this thread!
I am really looking forward to hearing from you and see and reading your amazing art! 
Of course, if you do ever have any question please feel free to go ahead and PM me or @JaydenIsHere.
Tagging some of you awesome recovery ninjas who may be interested! :)
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@redmark this sounds awesome! c: I'll try to submit poems if I have time to create them XD
@Erato
Woohoo! Good luck!
@Erato I am glad you do like it, I would really like to hear from you as well and read your poem if you do feel like sharing something! :)
Going to try and make a painting
@XwonderlandgirlX
Yey! I'm excited to see!
@XwonderlandgirlX Oh, that sounds soo exciting. I hope we will be able to see some of your amazing artwork here :)
@redmark
@nolongerafraid
Wow, this looks awesome! Great work!
@JaydenIsHere
Thanks!
@nolongerafraid I do really like it and the message is such a strong one
Thank you for sharing it with us! :)
@redmark
You're welcome. Thanks!
@nolongerafraid amazing message, one that EVERYONE should know.
@black1995
Thanks Black!
Heyo every-amazing-one!
We have already got our first submission, a poem, and it is truly special as we have got it from our 1000th friend here, @StrawberrymilkshakeandOreos
This poem is >Was It Worth All This?< [[Trigger Warning]] and it is truly a special and very brave piece of art showing one's struggles.
Thank you very much @StrawberrymilkshakeandOreos for sharing this with us, we are really happy to have you here as our friend! :)
Also, a bit of shoutout to an other berry, for @RaspberryCheesecake as according to @StrawberrymilkshakeandOreos you have already connected once in 2016 and they have found you really cool! :) - which we already knew of course :P
@JaydenIsHere
Heya @redmark! 
That poem was amazing! I remember connecting with @strawberrymilkshakeandoreos! Thank you for the lovely shoutout! That poem was both amazing and very powerful. It's funny how much weight and expression words can have on an individual! 
I can't wait to hear and see more submissions! 
You are welcome @Raspberrycheesecake. You were the best listener I've ever spoken to.
Aww thank you so much @StrawberryMilkshakeandOreos! That is a really sweet thing for you to say!
Youi are very welcome @Raspberrycheesecake. I will surely take the love and treasure it. Thank you for responding to me so quickly. It means so much to me. I am so glad you are part of the team.
@redmark
I love this poem. This is so well-written. Awesome work, Strawberry
Thanks @JaydenIsHere!
Hey @StrawberryMilkshakeandOreos
Amazing poem I love it! What lovely expression I'm so proud of your work!! Have an amazing day friend.
High Paw to you!!
Thank you so much @bear228!
Hey @redmark, thank you for posting my poem!
@redmark
This poem is amazing @Strawberrymilkshakesandoreos!! I love it so much! I was crying while reading this because I haven't completely stopped and this poem just..
I love it, I really really do. Thanks for sharing it!!!
@redmark
Can I submit some shitty re-sketch of a mask design?
@Accentus
Art is art! Please feel free to :)
@Accentus Hey! There is no such a thing as "shitty" art!
I would be really glad to see those mask-desings
Thanks. I'm joining.
@TheBirdNextDoor
Yeeeyy!
@TheBirdNextDoor Yaay! I am really looking forward to your art! :)
How do I upload an image from my phone?
@Moondust673
On the beginning of this thread there is a step by step guide how to do that.
Take care!
Hey there @Moondust673 I am sorry for my bit sluggish response time.
I think there is an imgur app for both Android and iOS and with that you can easily upload pictures to imgur which you can later on share anonymously with us using the form :)
Heyo every-amazing-one! ^-^ @JaydenIsHere
An other one of our amazing friend has shared an amazing poem she wrote with us, can you believe it? - I mean, I find it pretty amazing anyways but see it for yourself :P
On My Road To Recovery by @RaspberryCheesecake
"On my road to recovery.
I knew I always was beautiful,
I just had to figure it out,
People kept telling me and reminding me.
They would say "you're beautiful the way you are"
To let my inner-self shine,
I just needed time.
And all the demons will run away,
I'll be okay and I will get through this.
I needed some help,
On my road to recovery."
- You can read it forwards and backwards :)
As I said I do really love it but I am curious, what do you think about it? :)
Also, I would really love to see your art as well so feel free to submit anything using the form in the first post. :)
Thank you so much @redmark!
@Raspberrycheesecake
I really love this poem, great job!
Thank you so much @nolongerafraid!!
@redmark @RaspberryCheesecake
This is so beautful and sweet :)
Aww, thank you so much @wonderfulHart1330!!
WHOOOOO YAY!! I LOVE THIS POEM. GO @RASPBERRYCHEESECAKE!!!!
Thanks @redmark for posting this awesome poem... defiantly should have its own hall of honour!!
Thank you so much @StrawberryMilkshakeandOreos!
@redmark @Raspberrycheesecake
WOW! I thought this poem was good... then I read that last bit! This is soooo cool!
Thank you so much @JaydenIsHere!
@redmark
Love it @raspberrtcheesecake!! Its awesome!
Thank you so much @black1995!
@redmark I hope it's okay that I submitted a picture that I made in the past. It was still one I made to express myself.
@EarlyOwl Of course it is okay, I will get to it very soon!