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[TychoTheDwarf]

OK, so, a very good friend of mine is in the running for a scholarship prize from a site called Zinch.  She has her heart set very heavily on getting into college and needs all the help she can get.  If it isn't too much trouble I would appreciate it greatly if some of the folks here would suffer through the whole "make a Zinch account" thing so they can give her a vote.

http://www.zinch.com/ratte

Sorry in advance if this breaks some kind of forum rule but I'll be damned if I don't give it a TRY, for her sake.

EDIT:  Her Bio.

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I'm a 19 year old residing in a small town in Minnesota. I love small animals, am mildly interested in politics and often very involved with LGBTQ issues. I am a freelance anthro artist with a fascination for the northern world. I am transgendered-FtM, homosexual, liberal, self-conscious, and agnostic-to-atheist. I have a fear of my family finding out about my orientation and gender identity, for if they do I run the risk of being kicked out and/or disowned. It's not easy.

Other than that I also have an interest in body mod and I have a strange love of glass bottles. I also tutor and monitor/administrate a few websites. I enjoy helping others when I can and have started raffles and contests to raise money for those who need it. When I graduate from MSU I would like to work in a lab performing whatever research is relevant at the time that could help people in the future. Helping others is what makes me happy.

I worked hard in high school and I have a number of awards for academics, agricultural science, and art. My high school closed in summer 2011 but I graduated with a 4.0 and as my class's valedictorian. Due to my school closing I am probably unable to get endorsements from it. Thanks to a really tough home life with constant fighting, I moved out, but for about four or five months I was trying to support myself and three others to keep us off the streets during my senior year, but two of us were homeless for a few weeks. During the latter part of my year I was getting frequent death threats from my roommate's brother and the stress from school and home wound me up in the ER. Because of my workload I did not partake in school activities besides being the chief editor for my school's newspaper.

While I make art I will be attending Minot State University in August 2012 to study biology. Sadly I am unsure whether I will be able to afford it as I've only been unlucky with FAFSA and my family will not be helping me (they've made that really clear). I'm hoping I can win this scholarship because without it, my chances of being able to attend drop to nearly nothing. Because of expenses I was forced to look out-of-state for college because MN schools are too costly. I have never actually won a scholarship that wasn't to a school I could attend, plus the school I received one from lied to me about the costs and forced me to withdraw before I could attend in 2011. So please, if I'm able to get that scholarship, I would be forever grateful. If not, I hope it goes to someone who really deserves it.

I also have some of my art in my media.

Her Merits and Qualifications.

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    Artist
    ZED Traveling Art Show 2008 to 2010
    Zumbro Education District's annual local art show.

    Minnesota State Art Show 2010 to 2010
    2010 Spring art show.

    Studio Academy Spring Juried Art Show 2011 to Now
    Juried art show hosted by Studio Academy.

    Best 2-D Piece(s)
    Studio Academy Senior Art Show 2011 to 2011
    My gallery received the award for Best 2-D Piece(s).

    I draw stuff
    Visual Arts 1994 to Now
    I draw things in my spare time. Sometimes I get paid for it.
    1 recommendation
        Erin Seabright,
        Friend
        (friend)

    Olmsted County Fair

    I had two ag-science projects hosted and awarded here.

    Dodge County Fair

    I had two ag-science projects hosted and awarded here.

    Chief Editor
    Newspaper Editor 2011 to 2011
    I was the chief editor for my high school newspaper during my senior year.

    Artist
    Raffle/Iron Artist 2010 to Now
    Raising money to help people out of bad living situations and cover moving costs.
    1 recommendation
        Tycho Evans,
        Beneficiary
        (friend)

Experience

    Site Administrator
    Ferrox Art LLC (Admin-Clerical)
    2010 to 2011
    Basic administration of Furaffinity's mainsite.

    Site Administrator
    Varka Enterprises (Admin-Clerical)
    2011 to Now
    I work as an admin for www.20pc.org under Varka Enterprises.

    Site Admin/Owner
    Studio Pawprint (Other)
    2010 to Now
    I own Furpalette Forums and administrate Furryplay, both running under Studio Pawprint.
    1 recommendation
        Elizabeth Kendall,
        Owner
        (supervisor)

    Freelance artist/illustrator
    Freelance (Other)
    2009 to Now
    I handle private commissions and have begun an illustration project for a book I have edited.
    1 recommendation
        Tycho Evans,
        Customer
        (friend)

    Book Editor
    Kriss Wolf (Other)
    2011 to Now
    I do private book editing for an author in Montana. I have edited two books of a ten-book series thus far.

    Tutor
    Private (Education)
    2010 to Now
    I tutor a ten year old in math.

Education

    Studio Academy High School, Rochester, MN
    2010 to 2011

    Kasson-mantorville High School, Kasson, MN
    2007 to 2010

Honors & Awards
3 Art Superiors (Minnesota State Art Show)
3 Art Medals (Minnesota State Art Show)
Junior Artist of the Year 2010
Merit Award: Studio Academy Charter High School Spring Art show
Best 2-D Art award: Studio Academy Senior Art Show
7th place Dodge County Fair
two 7th place Olmsted County Fair
5th place Dodge County Fair
4th place Olmsted County Fair
2007-2008 High Honor Roll
2008-2009 High Honor Roll
2009-2010 High Honor Roll
2010-2011 High Honor Roll
2011 Valedictorian
Specialties & Skills
Freelance art, book editing/illustration, forum administration/moderation, tutoring.

I can draw, sketch, ink, paint, sculpt, wheel-throw, you name it.

I use art to raise funds for people who need it.
Info
Basic

    Last Update:
    March 7, 2012
    Gender:
    Female
    Birthday:
    October 19
    Religious:
    Agnostic // Atheist
    Military:
    No Affiliation

Background

    Ethnicity:
    Caucasian or White
    Heritage:
    English // German // Irish // Jewish // Polish // Scottish
    Citizenship:
    US Citizen
    Fluent Language:
    English // Spanish
    First Gen Student:
    Yes
    Hometown:
    Rochester, Minnesota

Interests

    Agriculture
    Animal Sciences
    Biology
    Art
    Liberal Arts
    Earth Sciences
    Environmental Science
    Ceramics
    Meteorology
    Digital Arts
    Drawing
    Fine Arts
    Game & Interactive Media Design
    Illustration
    Painting
    Sculpture
    Science

Favorites

    Movies:

    Transformers, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, any Pokemon movie, The Secret of NIMH, Little Nicky, The Last Unicorn, Accepted, Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa, Watership Down, Tommy Boy, For the Bible Tells Me So
    TV Shows:

    Ed Edd n' Eddy, Invader Zim, South Park, Survivorman, Futurama, Fullmetal Alchemist, Pokemon, Digimon, Monster Rancher, Fooly Cooly, Desert Punk, LA Ink, Robot Chicken.
    Music:

    Fox Amoore, Killswitch Engage, Sonata Arctica, Goo Goo Dolls, Train, Eluvium, The Offspring, Digital Summer, ICP, all sorts of things.
    Websites:

    http://www.furaffinity.net/user/ratte
    http://www.furpalette.com
    http://www.furryplay.com
    http://www.20pc.org
    http://ratte.us
    Quotes:

    Anything worth keeping is worth fighting for.
    Books:

    Tithe, Blood and Chocolate, The Good Dog, The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes, Zink, The Tiger Rising, A Long Way Gone, The Tale of Despereaux, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

There are some things that can't be spoilered into a forum post (easily).

[nenjin]

While you're intentions seem noble...sorry but, it (scholarships through web raffles which require accounts) sounds very sketchy to me.

[TychoTheDwarf]

It's a pretty above-board looking site to me.  It centers on scholarships/"shopping around" for colleges.  It's tied to Facebook, you can use your FB account to quickly set up your Zinch account.  Put whatever the hell you want into the signup fields, I don't care.  The voting ends midnight tonight and I am pulling HARD to get this friend that scholarship.

[Capntastic]

I don't think anyone wants to sign up for anything to help the friend of someone someone who has 11 posts try to maybe win a scholarship.  We're not here for your friend's benefit.

[TychoTheDwarf]

I don't think anyone wants to sign up for anything to help the friend of someone someone who has 11 posts try to maybe win a scholarship.  We're not here for your friend's benefit.

I'm sorry, when did this turn into a dick-measuring contest over postcount? I'm asking for some of your time and a little bit of effort and what you are doing right now is saying "You're not a popular kid on the playground yet, so nyeh to you and your friend." Heavens forbid you show a shred of charity or expend an ounce of effort on something that doesn't benefit you or your ego.  No, you're not here for my friend's benefit, but I'm asking if you would be willing to oblige regardless. I am pretty much combing through every single venue I am a member of and trying to garner support.  It's one thing for you to say "nope", it's another thing to play at these elementary-school level "he's the new kid, he's icky, ignore him and his friend" antics.  Because you were never a "new kid" and you never hoped someone would help you out despite your "new kid" status, right? Get real and grow up.

[Capntastic]

I don't think anyone wants to sign up for anything to help the friend of someone someone who has 11 posts try to maybe win a scholarship.  We're not here for your friend's benefit.

I'm sorry, when did this turn into a dick-measuring contest over postcount? I'm asking for some of your time and a little bit of effort and what you are doing right now is saying "You're not a popular kid on the playground yet, so nyeh to you and your friend." Heavens forbid you show a shred of charity or expend an ounce of effort on something that doesn't benefit you or your ego.  No, you're not here for my friend's benefit, but I'm asking if you would be willing to oblige regardless. I am pretty much combing through every single venue I am a member of and trying to garner support.  It's one thing for you to say "nope", it's another thing to play at these elementary-school level "he's the new kid, he's icky, ignore him and his friend" antics.  Because you were never a "new kid" and you never hoped someone would help you out despite your "new kid" status, right? Get real and grow up.

Hahaha chill out.  It has nothing to do with post count so much as you having been here for two weeks and asking for people to do things not for you, but for your friend, who apparently can't even be bothered to ask us on her own.  Yeah, you're trying to help your friend, and that's cool, but you're being kind of rude by showing up and saying "sign up for this it helps my friend".  It's spammy as heck and not cool.

Edit:  I mean you straight up admit you don't care about the forum or its rules:
"Sorry in advance if this breaks some kind of forum rule but I'll be damned if I don't give it a TRY, for her sake."
You can't fault anyone for seeing that as sort of pointedly disrespectful.

[Jopax]

Because you wouldn't try that for a friend?

Besides, I was of the impression that postcount didn't matter much unless you were registered minutes ago on this forum :/

[TychoTheDwarf]

I don't think anyone wants to sign up for anything to help the friend of someone someone who has 11 posts try to maybe win a scholarship.  We're not here for your friend's benefit.

I'm sorry, when did this turn into a dick-measuring contest over postcount? I'm asking for some of your time and a little bit of effort and what you are doing right now is saying "You're not a popular kid on the playground yet, so nyeh to you and your friend." Heavens forbid you show a shred of charity or expend an ounce of effort on something that doesn't benefit you or your ego.  No, you're not here for my friend's benefit, but I'm asking if you would be willing to oblige regardless. I am pretty much combing through every single venue I am a member of and trying to garner support.  It's one thing for you to say "nope", it's another thing to play at these elementary-school level "he's the new kid, he's icky, ignore him and his friend" antics.  Because you were never a "new kid" and you never hoped someone would help you out despite your "new kid" status, right? Get real and grow up.

Hahaha chill out.  It has nothing to do with post count so much as you having been here for two weeks and asking for people to do things not for you, but for your friend, who apparently can't even be bothered to ask us on her own.  Yeah, you're trying to help your friend, and that's cool, but you're being kind of rude by showing up and saying "sign up for this it helps my friend".  It's spammy as heck and not cool.

If she had shown up, reg'd here and posted you would have dismissed that just as readily if not more so.  She doesn't play DF, she has no reason to be here.  The sole criteria on which I made the decision to post this thread here was that I knew there were human beings here and a few of them were bound to be charitable or at least polite enough not to do what you did.  Asking you or anyone else to vote for her isn't "spammy".  "Spammy" is when a bot with a keyboard-mash screenname comes in and posts about deals on fake Rolexes.  I did my BEST to make my request as polite and concise as possible.  Are you going to accuse petitioners who sit at desks near supermarkets of being "rude" too?

I am HOPING people will read her profile and see someone who deserves a shot.

[Capntastic]

It's more about being polite and phrasing things a level or two above "please upvote my friend kthxbye".   I mean, look at the effort he put into calling me a dick-measuring bully trying to kick sand in his face compared to the effort he put into the opening post of the thread.  Were he really trying to sell us on helping his friend in a decent way, he'd probably go so such lengths as to to laborious deeds like "telling us her name" or "the major she's going for" or "who she is".

[nenjin]

Truth? I got the impression he's sweet on her and is trying to play White Knight.

[TychoTheDwarf]

It's more about being polite and phrasing things a level or two above "please upvote my friend kthxbye".   I mean, look at the effort he put into calling me a dick-measuring bully trying to kick sand in his face compared to the effort he put into the opening post of the thread.  Were he really trying to sell us on helping his friend in a decent way, he'd probably go so such lengths as to to laborious deeds like "telling us her name" or "the major she's going for" or "who she is".

The profile details that information better than I could.  I deliberately refrained from posting a wall of text as the opening to a thread that I wanted to grab people's attention with, not wax pedantic about my friend in.  I am asking you to look, read and vote.  If you feel she deserves it, anyway.

Truth? I got the impression he's sweet on her and is trying to play White Knight.

Why would it matter if I were? Why would it matter?

[nenjin]

Pro-tip: OP information in a spoiler will get read by FAR more people than asking them to go to a foreign website, sign up an account and read someone's profile off that site, that they don't know.

It also shows you care enough about this community to put in some real effort in your OP. Which is what the Cap'n has been trying to tell you. This is a forum. Trust us. We'll read it.

[Capntastic]

It also shows you care enough about this community to put in some real effort in your OP. Which is what the Cap'n has been trying to tell you.

Yeah, it's one thing to have a low post count and ask for people to sign up for something, and another thing entirely to have a two sentence thread asking people to sign up for something.  It's when it's both that it becomes really shady, and kind of weird.  Again, you assert that you don't care if you're breaking forum rules, so why wouldn't people question your motives or respect for the community?

Laying back on the whole "well I linked to a place where you can read more!" is silly.  No one phrases a proposition with "if you want to learn about why i think this, read this other thing entirely".  You claim not to want to fill up the thread by waxing pedantic about your friend, but the whole point of the thread is to try to help her get a scholarship.  You've made a complete disconnect between goal and method, here, and I'm hoping you recognize that you're going about this the entirely wrong way.

Other people on this forum, in the past, for instance tend to be a bit more organized about "help me / my friend out" threads, giving information, usually a message from their friend to the community directly.   Some even get creative and offer to do MSPaint scribbles in exchange for help or whatever.   There's a lot of ways to actually do your friend's cause justice.  You've literally taken the least effort route, while simultaneously propping up your own altruism on your friend's behalf as the reason for it.

[TychoTheDwarf]

She's been getting the short end of the stick for a while.  I am firmly of the belief that she can and will do well in college.  She has AMAZED me with the level of knowledge she possesses in biology (for one example).  She is leaps and bounds above what I ever did in my schooling in SoCal.  She sincerely enjoys being of assistance to others and making others happy.  She has potential that I would hate to see wasted.

I can keep on rambling but the bio does a better job.

EDIT: I have been to way too many discussion forums where any message perceived as being a "wall o' text" gets dismissed with a tl;dr or something similarly asinine.  They're there to read things but not really.  Must be an attention span thing.

[Capntastic]

Congratulations you've turned your friend from some vague periphery non-figure into an actual person people will be more likely to want to help.   Doesn't it feel good?