The Grizzly Gazette

The Grizzly Gazette Creation Festival: The Submissions

From 15th February to 17th March, we hosted the first Grizzly Gazette Creation Festival! People were free to create anything for the platform and its users, like code snippets, themes, buttons, banners, other art, fiction, poetry and more.

We got 13 people's submissions (that we know of!), and some even submitted multiple things; so let's look at them!

Visual art

We had a lot of cool art entries!

Sylvia made amazing Pixel Bears for the users of the platform, and it even led to others creating some for each other via her template! a selection of sylvia's pixel bear creations that capture the essence of the bloggers

Other than that, we got a variety of buttons and other things to put on your blog. We got very cool ones by Vick that are very high quality and cover a wide variety of topics, like using no JavaScript, using no cookies, having used no AI/not supporting bots, Mastodon, LibreWolf and support for EU purchases, and another post that also features pixel art icons.

pixel buttons from vick

pixel icons by vick

At last, we also got Ava with some Bearblog buttons and a banner/forum signature!

two bear buttons and a forum signature by ava

Audio

Futureperfect graced us with a nice song called Bear-ly Awake that's calm and optimistic.

screenshot of music player and the cover art

Poetry

Thoughtspiral wrote us a poem about oversharing!

Code

We got quite a few code-based submissions. Robert Birming submitted a lot, like his way to display your blog age, and the Grizzly Theme! Angrybunnyman made a stamp/seal code snippet that you can set at the end of each of your posts to sign them.

a screenshot of how the bear age can look like on the blog

a screenshot showing how toe grizzly theme looks; bear-focused, orange

We got also got a theme from Usamainsights and Loreleice provided code on how to make hoverable table rows! Pseudosingleton adjusted some of Robert Birming's Bearhug theme features to use Markdown instead of HTML in case that's more your drift.

a mix of notes and differently colored admonitions

Suliman kindly shared his theme code as well, and Kami made a bookmarklet that lets you edit your blog posts as you visit them.

Other

Ready for a word search? Dabi made one about blogging. Can you spot all the words? If you're up for more games, why don't you try the Solo Journaling Adventures, which is, as the name says, a solo journaling RPG?

a screenshot of a selection of dabi's word search

a piece of the cover art for the rpg

Final word

Thank you all for participating, and we hope to do this again some time!