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It is said, to pay it forward in life, so that others can have the chances that we have been blessed with ourselves. That is what my journal entry will be about today.
dA has a since of community that facebook and other social media outlets just don't have. When you connect on them, you search for your friends and loved ones, and you share a whole bunch of meaningless photos that circle around back to you, two or three times. Here you share your heart, soul, and the entirety of yourself, every single day you post your deviations. That is what art is, it's not a pretty picture or a little sonnet but it is you, all of your being, that you are revealing to strangers, who decide that they love who you are so much by what your soul reveals, of itself, that they want to follow you. So strangers, learn so much more about one another than your existing friends or family know or want to know about you. Now that is paying it forward. Everytime you hit the, add to favorites, or even gift a silly little llama, you are paying it forward. Not to mention when you decide that the work you have seen from a complete stranger is so utterly amazing that you just have to see more of it, so you select the most amazing button, +watch. That tells that person, they are so great, so worth while, that you, someone who doesn't even know them, is willing, nay, desires to see more, of who they are. Now that is paying it forward. I am not rich, so I can't offer points, and I am no expert in my field, but I can tell you my opinion and if you watch me I will sure as hell watch you back and give you a silly little llama, because though they are silly, they are just fricken awesome!
Now go out there, and look at a complete strangers soul, and tell them that they are worth a llama, a favorite, or even a second glance. I know that some people don't want thank yous for every single llama or favorite they dish out, but me, you can thank me till the cows come home driving a car, and I will alway tell you that you are most welcome, because it is the thank yous, that tell me on some tiny little level, that I have made your day a tad bit better, and that is what really actually matters in the grand scheme of things, not what I get out of my life but what I am able to do to make yours a little better, a little brighter.
-Sophie
dA has a since of community that facebook and other social media outlets just don't have. When you connect on them, you search for your friends and loved ones, and you share a whole bunch of meaningless photos that circle around back to you, two or three times. Here you share your heart, soul, and the entirety of yourself, every single day you post your deviations. That is what art is, it's not a pretty picture or a little sonnet but it is you, all of your being, that you are revealing to strangers, who decide that they love who you are so much by what your soul reveals, of itself, that they want to follow you. So strangers, learn so much more about one another than your existing friends or family know or want to know about you. Now that is paying it forward. Everytime you hit the, add to favorites, or even gift a silly little llama, you are paying it forward. Not to mention when you decide that the work you have seen from a complete stranger is so utterly amazing that you just have to see more of it, so you select the most amazing button, +watch. That tells that person, they are so great, so worth while, that you, someone who doesn't even know them, is willing, nay, desires to see more, of who they are. Now that is paying it forward. I am not rich, so I can't offer points, and I am no expert in my field, but I can tell you my opinion and if you watch me I will sure as hell watch you back and give you a silly little llama, because though they are silly, they are just fricken awesome!
Now go out there, and look at a complete strangers soul, and tell them that they are worth a llama, a favorite, or even a second glance. I know that some people don't want thank yous for every single llama or favorite they dish out, but me, you can thank me till the cows come home driving a car, and I will alway tell you that you are most welcome, because it is the thank yous, that tell me on some tiny little level, that I have made your day a tad bit better, and that is what really actually matters in the grand scheme of things, not what I get out of my life but what I am able to do to make yours a little better, a little brighter.
-Sophie
Trying to Return
Hello Deviant art. I am going to try and learn this current rendering of Deviant art. I really want to return to hosting my Awareness of the Arts Contest after I get settled in. So if you watch me and are still here on DA comment and lets reconnect! Also, if there are any good tutorials on Eclipse (I think that is what it is called) please send them my way. -Amarantheans
Thanks for killing DA
I have been working on trying to figure out how to do some things on the new DA interface and wrote a note to support. So lets see what they have to say about this, will they answer my questions or just get pissy about me criticizing their sameness. Hi, So I have been trying to avoid eclipse as long as I could due to it’s newfound lack of personality. I was actually in the beta group and was disappointed that the site had us suggest issues we see with the system only to be ignored. Now, I was lookin through your help menu and saw nothing on submitting Community Emoticons, I had an old journal instructing people how to do so on the previous platform, however I don’t know how to do it here. Not only that nether do the people commenting on my journal. Then there is linking, though I loved the old system with thumbs and such making it easy to use, I have found very little information on this as well and the instruction I found is horribly written, and makes no since. I find this new
Hello DA
Hi. I have been absent. Depressed, and overly busy. I am making a blanket for my daughter and it is taking everything I have to keep working on it. I will post it and some other things I have made for her once I am finished. I just wanted to update you. :huggle: Anita
Winners of the 5th Annual AOTA
The 5th Annual Awareness of the Arts: Beauty in the Mundane
Once again we were inundated with amazing artworks paired with beautifully descriptive literature! How do we judge such great works? Well it takes a very long time and it is really, really HARD. But the show must go on and we must have winners, otherwise the entrants get a little fussy. :giggle:
Here are all of the entries:
Awareness of the Arts: Beauty in the Mundane
Now for the news you all have been waiting for!
1st PLACEImagination
Literature By Meterious (https://www.deviantart.com/meterious) and Art by SlytherclawPadawan (https://www.deviantart.com/slytherclawpadawan)
They won:
6 month/or equivalent (2000 points) from communityrelations (https://www.deviantart.com/communityrelations)
1500 :points: fro
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Some complete strangers here become lifelong friends. Love your insight sis! I get to know more about ya here than over the phone. Your even more wonderful than I knew!