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Giveaway and great news!Guess what guys! I'm reopening my stores (Etsy and Storenvy) and commissions, I can finally announce that I'm getting married and I need to save as much as possible for the big day, July 27th. And just before anyone asks, the wedding is not improvised we've been planning it for a long time

but there's still a lot of things to buy and consider, I could use some more money to save

So buy my stuff

to celebrate the reopening I'm also doing a giveaway! Actually it's three giveaways running simultaneously on deviantART, Facebook and YouTube, you can join any of them or the three of them to have more chances to win.
To join DA's giveaway you have to do two simple steps:

History of dA CSS 2005

January
http://fav.me/d40vi4r

February:
The first site skin for dA was created http://fav.me/d8ynxy

November:
Changes to the CSS (affecting Site skin, generell CSS) http://fav.me/d40mp41 http://fav.me/d40mw6p
2006

August:
Changes to the dA CSS (affecting Site skins, generell CSS) http://fav.me/d40e16r

September:
CSS can now be added to journals. http://fav.me/d40aki7 + http://fav.me/d406zz6

Some of the first journal skins:

November:
First UserStyles have been released:

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Fabulous FridaysWelcome to Fabulous Fridays!

Here at #dAWishingWell We aim to grant wishes. However, we can only do this with the help of active members.
Here is a thank you to the outstanding deviants who have granted many wishes lately!.

This feature is now Bi Weekly, in case you didn't notice from two weeks ago.

`Emerald-Depths

Granted: 150 points (each) have been given to =Emberguard, *Sunnimi, *TheTwinkieDragon, and ~Wragziez
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New Management at #Fella - The Official dA GroupHello Deviants and Fellas!
For the past few months `RockstarVanity has been running #fella and has done an extraordinary job! However, she is trying to pull back a little and has handed leadership of the group over to me. `RockstarVanity will still be a part of the group's posse and help run things within the group.
For those of you that do not know me, my name is `TimberClipse, or in real life, Zev. I am a student and filmmaker and absolutely love the deviantART community. I currently run a number of groups, but the two main ones that I focus on are #fella and #deviant365 (deviantART's official 365 group).
We will be ramping up some new events here at #fella shortly including a small contest that will be announced soon, so stay tuned!
In the mean time, drop by `RockstarVanity's page and give her a huge thank you for all she has done and will continue to do.

My best wishes to you all,
`TimberClipse

Welcome + Overview 'Birthday Party'Hey everyone!
Today starts the party and we have prepared a few things for you. Below is a time schedule for you to see what you can expect and what you might want to join. There had been some more ideas, but time was too short to add that to the schedule so maybe there will be more smaller events in the future for you to take part.
For now we hope that you enjoy what we have prepared! Stay eCSSited!

Friday 17th May
- Welcome + Overview by `ginkgografix
- Stamp Contest Announcement by `ginkgografix -> http://fav.me/d6517e0
- Feature "Groups" by `ginkgografix -> http://fav.me/d6333f7
- Feature "Light Journal/Gallery skins" by ^ladygagz -> http://fav.me/d65meaj
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Another Project!

I'd like to let you know that I'm doing a monthly interview to anyone interested

Poetry is dying on me, I'm bored of writing "Something Like a Memo" and I don't want my art to fade away.. So I think its good if I interview someone in order to share with all

community information that will tie us all together

The questions will be simple... Something like:
- How long have you been on DA;
- How did you learn about DA;
- What started you on the kind of art you do atm;
- Who are you;
- Is there anything the DA communy could do for you to enhance your experience and help you upgrade your artwork;
.
.
Something along those lines xD
So if you are interested, note me, the whole process will be done by notes and I'll just copy-paste your answers.
Anyone and everyone is welcome. I'll try to announce the person I'll be interviewing if I have the time for it.

just so you know, this whole thing is voluntary... I'm not engaged in some project whatsoever.. Its purely optional

Lord of the FleyesThe fleyes are very feisty right now... but instead of their usual activities of mobbing Vlemmy, they have decided on a more nefarious activity, with the help of the Eye. The Eye is still sore about not having a date for Valentines, and has given the Fleye mob power to possess someone in the mansion...
By night, the Lord of the Fleyes will turn some unsuspecting mansion member into a fleye to add to the collective fleye conscious. By day, that person seems just like you... but the next night they'll strike again. Unless all the mansion dwellers want to become fleyes forever, you must select one person by day that you think is the Lord of the Fleyes and KILL THEM! Temporarily, of course. The Eye will bring you back, but first you must suffer. In other words, SOMEONE needs to take one for the team and be its date next year!
Hopefully you will find the Lord of the Fleyes before it's too late...

EVENT DETAILS
- This is an RP event, similar to the gam

Featured Help: DMCA Noticescopyright issues are confusing...
Go here to fill out an official DMCA report.
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deviantART has streamlined the way they take DMCA and Copyright Notices. While you can still make general reports on permission issues, you CANNOT make copyright infringement reports on any work but your own. This is because of US LAW, not deviantART. deviantART is simply following the laws of the USA (so please refrain from flaming the site staff as they can't do anything about it).
Permission Issues
Reporting a permission issue is easy. If you see a work that you are pretty sure the artist doesn't have permission to post, simply click the REPORT DEVIATION link on the deviation page. Choose "Permission Issue" from the list and tell the Help Desk why you think they don't have permission to post that work. Don't tell them they are infringing on anyone's copyright. Only the copyright hold

Several Fifi la Fume dreamsWhen I sleep at night, during my sleep-in I had several dreams of myself been with Fifi la Fume as my friend, she wraps her huge massive tail around me, it's really soft, and fluffy tail, me and her smiling at each other, she hugs me, while me hugging back with her, with my both of my hands rubbing her fur, and rubbing her back, rubbing the white stripe on her back, slowly up and down. I really like and love that purple and white skunk, Fifi la Fume.
*The hug scene of me and Fifi, she leaps on to me, me on my knees bend down low, she wraps her huge, massive tail around me, her tail is so soft and fluffy as blanket, kisses my cheek three times, her hands held on my face, laid her head on my shoulder, her hands wrapped around my neck, with my head her left shoulder, placed my hands oh her lovely back, rubbing her white stripe gently*

I am cryingListen to this http://m.soundcloud.com/eriikaa/sucide
please oh my gosh this is so sad and I'm crying wow. please don't every kill yourself. if anyone is ever feeling suicidal please tell me. talk to someone. you are better than that. stay strong. please don't.
You're sitting at your desk you know it's time to go. You've said to that to yourself over a million times, but this time you know forsure it's real you're tired you're just so very tired. Your parents pissed you off, like school wasnt bad enough today. You go to get the rope, or the knife, or the gun, or just whatever you choose to use because you're just that desperate to leave you're ready. You think of it as some game. The first one dead is the first one that wins. No one's home, it's the perfect time. You're ready. If you don't do it now you're just gonna look down on youreself even more forever. You're gonna hate yourself even more. No one knows, no one will know until later on. Instead of getting a paper and a pen, you ge

CISPA passed the House, but this isn't over yet.Word for word from this site http://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?http://www.sitesnotspies.org/
The U.S. Government wants to turn the Internet into a private surveillance system. It's called CISPA, and this Spring we're organizing the largest online privacy protest in history to stop it for good. Are you in?
So please pass the message along to fight CISPA.
Thank you.

*Rules

Alice in Chains is an anime that is created by Kamryn Wells (Founder of this group/ Kamryn30).

We accept requests. If for some reason we deny your request, probably because we have too many requests on our hands.

If you have mature content on the artwork, we have to check it out before we accept it and put it into our gallery.

Couples and fan-fictions are allowed. *Mature content needs to be checked out first ^

*Please! do not steal other's work and trick us into putting it into out gallery.

If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments below. We will ask as many questions as possible to satisfy your curiosity.

*DO NOT keep trying to submit an entry that we have denied already.

If you have anything to say, please say it.

*There may be contests later on.

We appreciate you joining us in our group!
:bulletblue: If you are wanting

Watchers!!Tada!
i've got the awesome number of 53 watchers!!!
muhahahaha! this is amazing ^^

So i'd love to thank everyone who's taking a little of their precious time to read some of my stuff and also apologize for not being as good as you needed.. but I'm a work in progress so in no time you'll see good stuff xD

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IMPORTANT Stuff You Need To KnowHey!
Welcome to "Stuff You Need To Know" #54! This journal covers what's up on our current challenge, the upcoming contest, and a pimp for an affiliate's challenge.

First, due to the result of the recent poll, the "Beautiful Women" challenge will be extended. I think one more week should do it, so the new due date is 10:00 a.m. CST, on Sunday, May 26th. Please, please, please, please participate so that we can have a real competition. Okay?

If you have not started on an entry, you can find the information here: http://manipulatethis.deviantart.com/journal/New-Portrait-Challenge-370041748
This also means that we will not have another challenge before the new contest. This will give us a nice little break.

Next, the new contest is called "Seasons" and it will be a background contest. Meaning, I'll give you backgrounds for the 4 seasons, and you will select one to complete the scene, add an appropriate model

War of the Worlds The True Story on DVDOn May 17 Pendragon Realised War of the Worlds The True Story on DVD you can Order it by going on the Website
Waroftheworldsthetruestory.com
If you can't find it message me and I'll give the link to the DVD ordering
PLUS it's also on Netflix but I am having trouble trying to rent it or play instant but having trouble

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12 Best Practices for Online Communities (like dA)

by `The-Lantiis, Jan 22, 2011, 4:43:29 PM
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Full story title: "Twelve best practices for online customer communities" --> Yep, the kicker is #3: "3. Active community management is essential. ...most customer communities lack proper management. Communities are indeed self-organizing, but like community of any kind they require active administration, management, and moderation or the community will devolve into a least common denominator environment where abuse, spam, neglect, inactivity, and poor behavior of a few go unaddressed and drive away productive participants."

^{Catch us at the #dAmn-army!
More news articles!}

[http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hinchcliffe/twelve-best-practices-for-online-customer-communities/190]

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