2 Year Anniversary!

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Happy Mais Anniversary everyone! :party:
It was exactly 2 years today since the Mais Pond group was founded and I’m amazed how much this group has grown during this time. 180 out of 180 mais character has been adopted (not counting batch 19), but we got 280 members! This means there are 100 members that don’t even have a mais character but is still still a part of this group. And on top of that there are 385 people watching the group.

Thanks to all of you that have helped making the Mais Pond to what it is today and I’m looking forward to yet another year :D We’re gonna celebrate this special occasion with a parade, a new mais pond website, the pond’s very first Draw to Adopt contest, the release of a new Mais batch and a recap of year 2!

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The  Pond Parade 2015
Look at this -almost- never ending parade! Thanks to everyone that entered, I personally love how it turned out! :D And as promised, everyone that entered get 5 Mystic Orbs.


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A New Mais Pond Website!
There’s a lot to learn about the pond, which can be a little overwhelming for new members and it can be difficult to find all that useful information which is scattered around the group. So that is why I’ve created a Mais pond website where you can find everything that might be good to know about mais and the pond. I’ve been working on this site for a few weeks now so I’m excited to finally share it with you all!



Everything is not completely done yet though and new information will be added every now when then whenever it’s needed, so visit the site whenever you got some time over to see if something has been updated.

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Draw to Adopt – Contest!



To those that still do not have a mais, this is a contest specifically for you! It’s pretty self-explanatory how this contest is going to work; if you like the character design above and would like to make it your character, you simply have to draw it to get a chance to adopt it.

How this will be judged
I want to give this mais to a person that would really appreciate to own a mais character and that wouldn’t just draw it once and then forget about it. I really like this mais’ design so I want it to get a good owner. Giving your entry (or entries) a lot of character and personality will give you an advantage.

Rules & Guidelines
• You may enter as many times as you want, but quality over quantity is preferred.
• You must be a member of The-Mais-Pond
• This mais got a mais-backfin right of the bat! But if you ever would like to change its fin-type to something else than the classic mais fin, it will lose the backfin. (fav.me/d6kkejz)
• You decide this mais’ sex.
• The same rules and conditions applies to this mais as to regular batch mais. (Read the description of the latest mais batch)
• You may not include your own characters in your entry, however you may include other people’s mais characters.
• A background is not required but will give you a big advantage, so it’s highly recommended.
•      :new: The winner will also get 10 Mystic Orbs.

Deadline & Subission folder
Post your entry before April 22nd or else it won’t get accepted and make sure to submit it to the correct folder. Link underneath!



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Mais batch #19
For this batch I went with SilverGALAXlES suggestion and made some sushi themed mais :D



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A Recap of Year 2

March 2014: The first event we had Year 2 was a Costume Contest in which we entered our Pond Parade outfits since we had a parade last year as well.

April 2014: On April 1st our third Mitrus Season started and shortly after we had a egg hunt event because of Easter. I had hidden 10 eggs around the the different group pages and mais related art. The Seed Hatching event starts April 22nd and our third Mitrus season ends as May starts.
During the month of April we also discussed what would happen to inactive mais and if a member deactivated their account, and what we decided on can be read in the Rules & FAQ journal.

May 2014: On May 1st I post a journal titled “Plans for the Summer!” with a lot of contest and event ideas, and we had many of those contest during May already. Such as a fin and a mais designing contest. This is the month we started with the Challenge of the Week too! An idea that was suggested by Smash-Wolf.

June 2014: Not too much happened during June, we mostly ended old contests and I was making plans for a new contest and events.

July 2014: But life took an unexpected turn for me and my family, so nothing happened in the pond during July at all.

August 2014: During August the pond slowly started to make a comeback. By the help from members donating mais designs, I managed to put together a new mais batch and the CotW started again.

September 2014: On September 3rd I kick started a new contest, an Autumn themed contest! And despite the group’s inactivity for the last two months, the contest got a lot of amazing entries.

October 2014: Two new events started this month, the fourth Mitrus season and a Halloween Costume Contest. Both these events and the Autumn Contest ends this month.

November 2014: At the end of November I started to plan for the Mais Pond’s Secret Santa and all notes was sent out before December event started.

December 2014: During this month we had “All of the Winter Festivities!” Three lucky winners won a Mais character in our very first Mais Give-Away and yet three more members won deviantArt Subscriptions. And of course, people started to post their Secret Santa gifts. That is how we ended 2014!

January 2015: Not a lot happened during January in terms of events. But the Challenge of the Week got an upgrade!

February 2015: On February 2nd we had a Valentine’s Day event. And the Pet upgrade started, which we’re still in the process of!

March 2015: This is where we are now! Celebrating our 2 Year Anniversary with a Pond Parade, the pond’s first Draw to Adopt contest and a new website!


What will happen now?

Well, first of all the Pet upgrade will be completed. And I know I talked about the schedule of 2015 in a previous journal, but I’ve been thinking about it. We decided to have a sort of ”Mais Olympics” contest, which is an event that would take up the whole summer and I really don’t feel like I’m up to the task to arrange and host this. And most of my summer last year was taken from me, I don’t want to spend this summer doing something I won’t have any passion or interest for.

As for now I am not sure how many contest/events will have this year. But what I do know is that I want to spend time to develop the pond more, like drawing more environment pictures and also work more on other personal stuff. So for now it seems like this will be a year of mostly “behind the scenes stuff”-development, rather than a year of contests and events. But that doesn’t mean it will be a total event free year, Mitrus season will of course still take place and we will probably have some smaller events scattered throughout the year =)

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Thanks for another great year and thanks so much for reading :D
Sincerely, Rubilight
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Master-Kankuro's avatar
A really nice recap of the part and the draw to adop is a cool feature here too. It´s a really cute design as well too.
The webside trned out really nicely and I LOVE the real-life pet secion. OMFG the artworks are cuute~!
And wow the parade pic is soooo frigging huge. ^^

Oh that´s quite surprizing about disbanding the Olympic-sports..really sad...sure it´s understandable that you want to do something else at Summer but how about doing distributing some Olympic work? But I geuess it´s again difficult to set the borders what possible co-workers shall cover up and what not or? Otherwise I also shall be quite glad about this cuz several big exams will lure around these times too. QAQ

As long as the CotW will remain tbh.... ^^ Yeah in thie short time almost a half year I was able to draqw quite alot here and it´s really inspiring for me. Thanks for anythig so far dear Ruba and ALL other superlovely Mais-Members here.:hug: