~~~ IT'S ALIIIIIVE! ~~~

*ahem* I mean, hello again! So its the penultimate week of August 2013 and its been...how long since the last update? WHAT? MARCH 2012? Oh wow, heh, my apologies everyone. @_@;;; Entirely my fault. If you want a creative excuse as to why I took so long, I guess you could say I was a little TOO into my fast food for the year and a half its been since I last updated this and I'm frankly surprised I can even reach for the keyboard these days! But of course, the actual reason why its been so long is incredibly simple: I've just been too busy with other things during that time. 2012 was a surprisingly big year and I'm still really busy nowadays, perhaps even more than last year too, so it hasn't been easy keeping track. But today, I decided to put my foot down (heh, figuratively speaking) and give an update.

So without further a-do, to all of those who've started watching this group since March 2012, thank you and WELCOME! :D Thank you to all 87 of you in this frighteningly huge collage! --> http://imageshack.us/a/img29/843/4o3k.png

~~~ Possible New Contest Soon ~~~

First of all, in order to further help spread awareness for blob art all over FA, we now accept fav suggestions. We should of accepted fav suggestions from the very start, but now any member of this group can link to blob art they've found that they'd like the group to see either through journal comments or shout comments or via notes or what-have-you and we'll...say, 8-9 times out of 10 fav it. :D Of course, if you want to make something specifically FOR the group, then please note us the pic you wanna work on when its done and we'll upload it with your permission to the group itself (doing this would lessen duplicates of the same pic around FA and such, that's why) but where general blob art's concerned, link us anything you want and if we want the other members to see it, we'll fav it! :D

On top of that, we've had some very interesting suggestions from a couple of people here. One of the users of these suggestions is now suspended/banned, but I'm still going to count his suggestion in anyway as its interesting enough. But before I get to that,  Flexico suggested that we should run another contest soon. Granted, we haven't held a contest since October 2011 and that was just to finalise our mascot so to run more contests and polls is always a good idea, so long as a good idea's attached. It turns out Flexico's idea's FANTASTIC. His idea for our next contest is to see who can "come up with the most unusual way of working up to blob-size quickly". Granted, I think we'll have to put some additional rules to this as this is mostly a G/PG-rated group buuuuuuut we'll see how and when we can hold a contest like that in the future. We'll certainly try and get something like this started VERY soon compared to how delayed other things have been, that's for sure. ;3

~~~ The Blobfurs Group...outside of FA? ~~~

The other suggestion was from the now-suspended user  Intelminer2. His suggestion was to set up an IRC channel that's dedicated to this group. Perhaps, using the generic example he gave us, #blobfurs on Furnet or similar. I'm going to drop the royal "we" for a sec and just say that, well, I have no previous experience in setting up IRCs and have only had experience in how to go *into* IRCs. Buuuuut if enough people here would like to have an IRC channel branching off of this group to exist, we'll see what happens. Made me ponder if anyone wanted this group to expand further in this same way onto other services too, services FA users typically use. Perhaps a Blobfurs group on Steam too, maybe? If you want it, we'll see what we can do. But as ever, if you have any suggestions at all on how to make the most out of this group, then by all means tell us what's on your mind!

And that's about it for this long-long-LONG delayed journal entry. Thank you to everyone who's joined us and unless I fall straight back into the immense void busyness / procrastination / (if you want to imagine I'm like this) constant, distracting overeating that has pulled me away a bit from managing the group, then prepare yourselves for a LOT more updates and a lot more things happening through this group. It's been a while, but hopefully it'll all be worth the weight.

...I'm so sorry, that had to be done. Have fun, blobs and blob-lovers!

~ Admin.