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Ameri-com #1776: Americanize It; BECAUSE PARASKY WON'T LET ME POST IN OFFICIAL COMPETITIONS
Topic Started: Jul 4 2017, 12:07 AM (1,505 Views)
Kamidio
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Time has run out, and submissions are closed. Voting is open.

So which will it be? The bird, or the ant?
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HangingThief
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I figured it was supposed to represent a gypsy moth.
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opeFool
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I just realized I could've made red white and blue sea snakes from Guam. I cri.

The butterfly is just a generic butterfly.
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HangingThief
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I'm not aware of any connotations of patriotism surrounding butterflies/moths (it's a moth) so given the subject of the competition I thought it was meant to represent a famous invasive species.
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Kamidio
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The fire ant was the invasive species used. Only the focus creature need be invasive.
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No Burmese python descendants. Surprising.
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Corecin
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Have you ever been bitch slapped for lack of listening? lack of doing what your told? cuz i'm not far from slapping you
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Well, if we're being fair, there was very little time to do anything, which is a shame since this seemed really interesting.
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I quite enjoyed the time constraint, but this is almost certainly just me.
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"There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars..."
"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere."
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I was thinking of fire ants teaming up with trees in the everglades similar to the devil's gardens in South America, but I knew I couldn't type fast enough.
This was getting fairly big.
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opeFool
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I just thought: "red white and blue ants would be cool". Since, you know, 'Murica.
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
"There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars..."
"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere."
"My opinions are formed from a perfect blend of science and morality and as such I am an unassailable bastion of absolute truth. All opinions are subjective but mine are objectively the least subjective."
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Why did I not see this earlier? Curse my inactiveness!
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I was thinking of doing red white and blue lionfish, but it didn't occur to me that the fourth of july com would only be on the fourth of july so i didn't get anything besides the concept.
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Kamidio
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I think I'm gonna call it now. CryperVilla's Patriot Fire Ant wins, with ten votes to the Starling's one.

Congrats, Cryper. Ask parasky to give you an american flag badge 'er something. I can't really do anything since this is 'unofficial' whatever that means.
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Ah well, it was fun making these ants :D
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"There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars..."
"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere."
"My opinions are formed from a perfect blend of science and morality and as such I am an unassailable bastion of absolute truth. All opinions are subjective but mine are objectively the least subjective."
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Zorcuspine
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Enjoying our azure blue world

Dude, running a com for a single day is an absolutely awful idea.
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