Second Round: Choose The Mascot!

Heh, the kangaroos will be gone in 24 hrs


I just remembered this, but one of the old logos for YWS had a dragon in it. I'll have to dredge up that logo, but it was only used for two weeks or so because Bobo came up with a much better one (not the current one mind ya).

I voted for Kangeroo!

MONKEY!!!

Dear God not a kangaroo.

I swear, I'll stop coming to YWS if we have a kangaroo mascot.

Only joking. JOKING! But really. They make my eyes hurt **shoots kangaroos**

Dragons are just...weird. Kangaroos, while original, annoy the hell outta me for some reason. So I'm a Monkey all the way. Haha.

I'd say yes for kangaroos if it was, like, an aussie based site or something, I suppose. But dragon FTW!

Okay, I can't stand the kangaroos. *laughs* If we can't have dragons, I'll go for monkeys. I don't even really mind. I mean, the monkey theme has been there from the start, so that's cool.

I'm just afraid my dragons will eat me if I don't put them first.

NATIVE AMERICAN CHEIFS!!! GRARR!

Lemur. I don't know why. It just seems like a lemur kind of place.

I think dragons are a cliche nowdays. Especially for fantasys (again, no offense! I beg it of you.).

Monkey, man! Monkey's rock! They symbolize our smartness, randomness and utter madness.
It's gotta be like a spider-monkey or something cute and clingy... no gorillas or chimps... well, maybe a chimp... but I prefer a skinny monkey .
Ok, I'm rambling again... tell me to shutup...

allow me to put some seriousness on the idea. think about this. Monkeys are used as a sign of UTTER STUPIDITY. it would be taken as a joke. Again, with the dragon mascot thing going on, we cant just focus on one subject. Most people are saying monkey because it is random like us. I am sorry to say, SOME OF US ARE NOT RANDOM. We all enjoy it, but sometimes seriousness is needed. And we got to contemplate this. would people want to join a writing website when there is a monkey, of all things, sitting as a mascot. again a say, it is used as a sign of stupidity. It will attract some, while it will repulse others completely. So, on a personal note, I will have to say that none of the top three are great choicem but if anything, the dragon. It is a classic writers insignia and my be cliched, but will attract more of a crowd. I may not be a well known person around here at all, but im still gonna say my piece. the dragon is the best choice. period.

Not random? That is blasphemy! You take that back, Darchoco

Monkeys are cool, but dragons are cooler.

darchoco wrote:allow me to put some seriousness on the idea. think about this. Monkeys are used as a sign of UTTER STUPIDITY. it would be taken as a joke. Again, with the dragon mascot thing going on, we cant just focus on one subject. Most people are saying monkey because it is random like us. I am sorry to say, SOME OF US ARE NOT RANDOM. We all enjoy it, but sometimes seriousness is needed. And we got to contemplate this. would people want to join a writing website when there is a monkey, of all things, sitting as a mascot. again a say, it is used as a sign of stupidity. It will attract some, while it will repulse others completely. So, on a personal note, I will have to say that none of the top three are great choicem but if anything, the dragon. It is a classic writers insignia and my be cliched, but will attract more of a crowd. I may not be a well known person around here at all, but im still gonna say my piece. the dragon is the best choice. period.

Quite the contrary, actually. Monkeys are intelligent, and are recognized as such. Monkeys are usually recognized as being silly--and that, no matter what anyone else says, describes this place pretty well. We are a rather silly lot, and a monkey as our mascot shows we aren't afraid to poke fun at ourselves, that we aren't so uptight that we must have a big intimidating dragon as our mascot.

Monkeys are not associated with randomness, and neither are we--are are not a "random" crowd--if we were, we wouldn't be writers. This makes perfect sense to me Furthermore, *I* am sorry to say that you're very much mistaken in assuming we all consider ourselves random in the first place

To turn this around a little, you said that monkeys would attract some, while repulse others. I would like to point out that any mascot would do the same--a dragon is likely to repulse people with any sense of a cliche , and attract those that like dragons. It seems to me that monkeys, however, symbolize fun-loving, sometimes silly, always adorable beings. Just like us ...And by us, I mean the collective us, as a website. Not any one writer, specifically. And that's what this is all about--what represents us as a website? Dragons are associated with ferocity, power, wisdom, and arrogance. I don't know about you, but it seems to me that that is not how a YOUNG writers website should be portrayed.

People will see a monkey and think SWEET, they have a sense of humor! Rather than seeing a dragon and thinking Ah...they have a dragon. For the past two years I've been here, and if its one thing, ONE thing, that's stayed consistent, it's our sense of community. And everyone knows that monkeys are community creatures, while dragons are often solitary.

MONKEY FOR LIFE!

EDIT: I have yet to hear an arguement why the dragon represents us as a website. It seems to me that everyone is just going by what they think is "cooler," rather than what is more representativ e of the site. Think about it.

Amen to that, Dono.

Dragon!