New stickers, a badge, H3 contest and writers leaderboard

First things first (I need to promote my stuff...). I made two new animated stickers for Halloween. It's not like I have a strong connection to this festivity, but some people I know have, so I thought, why not?
This is Kuro my OC dressed up as mummy and coming to get you. Unfortunately the animation with Minimax was a desaster to make onsite, background color was spilling on the sticker all the time. It seems like there has been some degradation in Minimax output for onsite generated videos the last weeks.
This is a sticker of a cute ghost spooking around. There is some grizzle on the animation, but it shouldn't be visible too much at normal resolutions. I only got these made in time because the Sticker Queen FreijaFoxy helped me with the animations. Thank you a lot.

Unrelated to Halloween I also made my first badge. This one really took some time to clean up the background color and it's still not perfect, but at the small size that badges appear on civit the small imperfections shouldn't be visible.

This is Kuro again. If you would like to get the badge or the stickers, they are available in my shop now (500 buzz each, any color you like).

Also we got the results for the H3 training contest yesterday and my SumiInk model got placed second in the Staff Picks. This is really nice and I am grateful for it. However having the same creators place in different categories or in Staff and Community Picks jumbled up the placings and not everyone was happy with it (probably only me). So I suggested that they let the creators choose which place to take when placing multiple times instead of giving them just the highest placing. Maybe this will apply for the next contest...
(If you are wondering why I don't have the yellow badge but a purple one, I really don't like the yellow badge and my model also placed top 5 in the Community Pick, so I asked to switch the badges). Congratulations to the other winners and also thank you to DazMakeArt for including my other model in his personal picks.

I guess I have to apologize to every active writer suddenly falling off a lot of places on the writers leaderboard last Wednesday/Thursday. I just pointed out the leaderboard was reading wrong numbers for bookmarks and after that got fixed a lot of older article bookmarks let some creators go very high on the leaderboard, while some active writers were dumped. After seeing that I also pointed out that the leaderboard reads all-time counts and not "last 30 days" like advertised on the leaderboard age and that was corrected with the next leaderboard change, so all the guides and announcemnet articles from 2024 do not count anymore. I think the leaderboard now represents the active writers much better than before, but there is still room for improvement. Azimondious made a suggestion about 5 new leaderboards with focus on different articles. Another suggestion was made by Eiri17 for an engagement leaderboard. Maybe different writers can get together and come up with an idea how to make the leaderboard(s) better and account for different types of articles.

Cover image was made with Kyhu Style MOSS *Coming Soon