Department physical's coming up and I've just got to watch my weight or they'll put me back on Doctor D's Diet Elixir. I hate that slop ... skim blood tastes awful. 

After a long, hard day the only thing on my mind is sleep. But that idiot wanna-be necromancer downstairs keeps waking me up. 

I just love Halloween -- it's the one night of the year my neighbours don't run screaming about like raving loons if I happen to forget about glamour spells while taking the pups out for walkies in the park. Sheesh, you'd think they'd never seen hell hounds before!

"Crazy Karen's boyfriend hit you with a holy water grenade while you were writing her up for public nuisance drunk & disorderly and you're NOT a smoking mess on the sidewalk ... what are you, Super Vamp?!"

"Nope," :: big fanged grin while cuffing perp:: "just Pastafarian."

"Thu-Thu! Baby, I can explain ..."

"How could you ... with that, that skinny bleached blonde mortal BIMBO ... for Great Azathoth's sake, Howard, she doesn't even have tentacles!!!"

A perfect Bloody Mary -- no, wait, I think her name was Delores. At any rate she won't be abusing students any more.

Speaking as someone who shared a name with both my grandmother and a great aunt from a different side of the family, I know all too well how confusing this can be. We solved it by using my middle name, which nobody else in the family had. Perhaps that might work, especially as it has no associations with elder/younger, junior/senior, big/little, etc. that might not quite apply or cause the named-for character to be extra sensitive about any tags or diminutives.  

::sigh:: "No Trick-or-Treaters again this year; I wonder why they don't come."

::hiss:: "Dude," ::hiss:: "you live in a sarcophagusssss."

So here I am, minding my own business, when this bat-poo crazy Karen jumps outta nowhere and starts yelling: "Go back to Transylvania!" in my face. Witch, please -- I was born bred and bitten in New York.

Ugh, those loud, lewd and rude idiots upstairs are at it again! Already complained to the landlord I couldn't sleep and was late for work on account of their crazy racket -- he just laughed and said I shoulda paid him the extra thousand gold for a properly sound-proofed crypt.

Agreed. Reported a gambling ad pretending to be art just last night, those and the "escort" or "model" or "rent a yacht/villa/whatever" spammers are usually pretty easy to spot. Not so easy is the piece I just saw posted to the Fan Art gallery. It's a photo, accompanied by a full page of very informative text concerning the design and history of the item depicted, and is probably of interest to people who collect that sort of thing. Whose hobby is fashion. BUT ... it also reads like a very long advertisement and the "artist" happens to be the company that makes the sneakers. Not only that, it is their only post and they just joined here a few days ago. It's a well crafted post, nothing like your typical spam, but I can't help question its status as genuine fan art. You know the old saying "if it quacks like a duck" ...

'kay, that makes sense. Thanks.

How does:

• The contest will not be anonymous.
• You are permitted to repost your entries online, such as on FB or the Renderosity Galleries, and talk about your entries, and to encourage others to come view or enter the contest.

match up with:

• You cannot sign your real name, Renderosity username, or use any logos on your image or thumbnail, but you can sign your real name or Renderosity username in the description box.

That seems just a wee bit contradictory, at least to me. I mean, if it's NOT anonymous, why the part about no signatures?

Found it. You are correct, there is no mention of AI anywhere in the rules. Which leads me to infer that whatever the current policy is regarding such usage on site also applies to this contest. But to be safe perhaps one should check with a mod before submitting one's entry, if one has doubts.

I'm seeing "Sorry!" page too now. Guess they're working on sorting out those details. Best to make sure everything is in proper order before officially announcing.