At this point, we’re about to slap a communicator on these thwomps and make them part of the USS Tucson crew. We hosted an art contest to show just how far this infestation has gone!

Winner: Sierrmo

Thanks to everyone who sent in art! We had a lot of entries that made us laugh, and made it hard to choose just one (or heck, even narrow down the Honorable Mentions). Congratulations to Sierrmo, and we hope you enjoy your Desert Bus shirt!

Honorable Mention: RueBloodletter

Honorable Mention: Discordant Creations

Honorable Mention: Tichtac

Honorable Mention: TowerSlayer Note: we couldn’t get the gif to play in WordPress, but if it did you would see an avalanche of Thwomps fall down and fill the screen!

We’ve had <URGH!> a bit of an ongoing problem here on <URGH!> Night Watch. They were cute at first but <URGH! URGH!> these Thwomps have really started to get out <URGH!> of <URGH!> hand <URGGGGGGH!>.

All styles of Thwomp are <URGH!> welcome!

But we’re all about making the best <URGH!> of things, so let’s have an art contest! Please send us <URGH!> your rendition of a room on the USS Tucson being overwhelmed by Thwomps. You know, like <URGH!> Tribbles!

Send your art to [email protected] with the subject line “Thwomps” before 11pm Pacific Time. In the body <URGH> of the email also make sure to include your <URGH!> Desert Bus For Hope username, your chat name, or whatever <URGH!> else you’d like to be called out loud on stream! We’ll pick our <URGH!> favorite to win a free Desert Bus t-shirt! <URGH URGH URGH!>

First off, thank you all so much for your awesome entries!!! We got so many impressive, funny, and sometimes horrifying pieces of art, and we are happy to announce our winner!!!

But first, our honorable mentions: 

Art by Scott1e

Art by Armiyana

Art By Steph H

And now, our winner!!!!! Made by Bramante

Congratulations, Bramante!! You have won a Desert Bus 2021 shirt, as well as a golden DBloon!!!

We at Zeta Shift have been hard at work trying to figure out who, indeed, is that Animorphs. Sometimes it’s a squid. Sometimes a bee. Sometimes a horrific nightmare of a pre-teen turning into a mouse. But for this Animorphs, rather than Marco, Cassie, or Jake, it is ZETA. Your art challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create art of a member of Zeta shift ‘shifting’ into their Animorph form. Does Carrie turn into a cat? Is Beej a secret tardigrade? Is Heather a hummingbird? It’s all up to you!

This art contest will run until 5am PST. Please submit your entry in the form of .jpg, .gif, or .png to [email protected], with the subject line “Animorph Crossing“. Please include which name you would like to be referred to on screen if you win!!!

But what do you win, you ask? You will win a Desert Bus 2021 t-shirt in the size of your choosing by Fangamer, as well as this year’s shiny gold DBloon!!

We hoped this art contest would reveal the King of Spades’ location so we could track him down and find him but… at this rate, we think he’s having so much fun that we’ll just leave him alone. He’ll come back when he’s ready. If he’s ready?

Anyway, here are the results of tonight’s Night Watch Art Contest!

Winner: Briar

Well, we’re horrified now. Thanks Briar and we hope you enjoy the shirt you won at the cost of our collective sense of safety!

Honorable Mentions

The Honorable Mentions are plentiful (and even include a song), since you all are so clever and talented! Thanks to everyone who sent an entry in for this contest. We loved all your King of Spades art and all the forms it took!

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Last night, the USS Tucson lost a crew member. Well, maybe “misplaced” more than lost. We wouldn’t want to be misleading. The point is, we don’t know where he is or what he’s doing. But maybe you do? Hence tonight’s art contest: show us what the King of Spades has been up to!

He looked like this when we last saw him, but he may have adopted a new identity by now.

How it Started | How it’s Going – A King of Spades Story

Once you’ve finished your piece of art, please email them to us at [email protected] and have the subject line be King of Spades. Make sure we RECEIVE the email by 10pm PST!

In the body of the email also make sure to include your Desert Bus For Hope username, your chat name, or whatever else you’d like the be called out loud on stream. Thanks in advance for letting us see what the King’s been doing!

We have our winner!

Congratulations Quietcat! You will be receiving a Desert Bus for Hope 2019 t-shirt and a 2019 DBloon!

They included the following explanation of their gem choices:

“I did gemsonas for Cori and Cam, being Fire Opal and Hematite respectively.

The gauntlet has been thrown, and an art contest challenge has been issued! You have been tasked with drawing members of the Zeta Shift as their Steven Universe style gem-sonas! Tonight, WE are the Crystal Gems!

For this challenge, you can choose one or more members of the Zeta shift team for your art, but you will need to justify your choice as to which gems. Let us know why you chose what you did! We’re curious!

To enter, you will need to send your art to [email protected] with the subject line “Zeta Gem-Sona Contest”. All entries need to be in .jpg or .png format, with your username as the file name. This contest will run until 5:15am PST.

What will you win, you ask? You will win a Desert Bus for Hope 2019 t-shirt, as well as a 2019 DBloon!

A MASSIVE thank you to everyone who participated in our Jeej makeover contest! We were seriously impressed with your social media skills.

Honourable mentions go to:

Lemistith

Chris365

CoffeeCasualty

kinogami

Our very own Kolin Toney

However, there can only be one. Congratulations to Minachirp!

See the entries below!

For our latest art contest here on Night Watch, we want you to show us your Photoshop skills! Take a screenshot of our fearless leader, Jeej (poses supplied below, or at http://photos.desertbus.org/), and make him over!

Edit away the background and give us your best social media and/or influencer interpretation for the chance to win a Desert Bus 2019 t-shirt and DBLOON!

Title your entries with your username (or how you’d like to be referred to on stream if you win) to [email protected], with the subject heading “Jeej Makeover”, until 10PM PST to be in with a chance of winning!