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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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3000+ Watchers : Thank you / Free PS ActionsWhen i checked my Stats yesterday and noticed that i already got past 3000 watchers !

I am so grateful to every person that even views my works and of course i am even happier if they appreciate them.
I know that i am really inactive in things like answering comments, notes and taking the time to appreciate the work of others.
But please don't think i am ungrateful for all of that, because that's really not the case.
On the contrary, your compliments really encourage me and make me smile !
I am kind of trying to figure out what i want to do with my life after i finished school and of course i have to get good marks to
leave as many options open as possible. I hope you do understand that.
I am still taking photos ( which you probably know ), since it's a important time for me to just take my dog and
go for a long walk searching for pretty flowers or ladybugs or just sit in my room for hours trying to take pretty photos.
Unfortunately all the things around it, like answering comm

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.

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Granted: 150 points (each) have been given to =Emberguard, *Sunnimi, *TheTwinkieDragon, and ~Wragziez
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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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Featured Help: DMCA Noticescopyright issues are confusing...
Go here to fill out an official DMCA report.
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:faq157:
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

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;
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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

*sigh*When Cameron deactivated Chris's account, the artwork was removed as well....i'm sorry to say but all of his artwork that was in the folders is gone. We now only have the comments on our artwork, old messages from him, and this group to share our memories and past experiences of him as proof that he did exist and to not let him fully die in the world.
Something I suggest as something to help those ( like myself) who still ache from his death to go to Stash Writer and write your experiences and memories of Chris and submit it to the group. Others can then comment and form bonds and heal together.
Just a suggestion. But it would be nice to connect with others who knew him.

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

:iconholdheartplz:

KIA Motors is promoting violenceKIA motors is promoting female-on-male violence with their latest commercial "Hotbot" in which a female robot beats the crap out of a man for no reason for looking at a new KIA car model. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emhtp2prOxQ
This is not funny. This is a serious issue. Male victims of violence already have enough problems (being laughed at and mocked, nobody believing them, etc.). Contact KIA motors and tell them to stop this madness.
http://www.kia.com/worldwide/contactus.aspx#
This message was originally sent to me by the SAVE Organization (Stop Abusive and Violent Environments)
http://www.saveservices.org

~mcm london expo~xd hai
i am going to be attending mcm expo on the saturday and the sunday
i don't have much money this time but i wanna try find some cute homestuck/naruto related stuff as well as pocky omg i need pocky
and i might buy some one piece manga if i see any who knows, depends how much money dad gives me heeehooo
anyways i'm meeting my (internet) friend matt and his girlfriend there which is super exciting and if anyone off da wants to meet n just like idk whatever we don't even have to know each other it's just cool to have ppl who you can hang around with then drop me a line ok
i'll be cosplaying john egbert (homestuck) on saturday
and i'll be cosplaying tenten (naruto) with my best friend as kiba (also naruto) on sunday~~
if you see us don't be shy come say hi pls cause wow it gives me the best feeling when people come speak to me or ask for pictures or yea aahhhh you will make my day!!

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My thoughts on Premium Content

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 5:19 PM

So, pretty much everyone knows about the Premium Content Platform by now. It's basically a new system that allows artists to sell content for points and get the profits either in cash or points. The intended purpose is to sell digital content such as stock images, brush packs, etc. I, however, have been using it mainly for taking commissions. How? Well I created a bunch of commission sheets for my basic "stock" commissions, ones that are very simple and don't require to much from the client aside from a basic reference photo/drawing. When a client wants to purchase a commission they simply pay for the download and send me a note or comment with what they want drawn. It works very well, and it allows me to easily take point commissions and make real profits from them. But what if someone wants a commission that doesn't fit one of my "stock" sheets? Simple, I talk with the client until we settle on a price for whatever they want. Once a points price has been agreed on, I upload a special, one time commission sheet that is priced for their commission. They purchase the download and I delete the commission sheet. It's very simple, and I love that it lets me take commissions in points since many younger people don't have access to paypal/creditcards but do have access to points. So far I've made close to $40 using the system. Of course, I still take paypal commissions as well, and those are slightly cheaper due to not having to deal with the 20% fee deviantart takes.
And the 20% fee. I think a lot of artists are confused by this. They think that the 20% is being taken from what they sell, which isn't exactly true. Here's how +spyed explained it, which breaks it down very well: "It works out so that your royalty as a seller returns $0.01 (USD) for
every 1 Point. (80 Points = 100 cents, you earn 80%, so a 100 Point
transaction returns 100 cents ($1.00) to you, while the buyer is
spending $1.25, which is equal to 100 Points.)" So, basically, the 20% is coming out of the buyers pocket, not the sellers. If I set the price of a download to $10, I will be making $10 but the buyer will be paying more than $10.

Now, as much as I do love the system for how easy it makes for me to take point commissions, there are some things I'd like to see added:

Custom user agreements need some work. Aside from the bugs I've run into and reported, I would love to be able to save multiple custom agreements and have each one show up every time I submit. Basically, I'd like to be able to create a "Commissions Agreement" and a "Custom Box Resources Agreement" and have each of those agreements show up as an option when I submit, along with the standard agreement and the "Custom Agreement." I think this would make it a lot easier for users who want to use the same agreement for all their stuff, without having to paste the agreement in every time.
It would also be nice to have the custom user agreement box be Stash writer based so that we could have access to easy formatting tools.
I'd like to be able to have more in depth stats when it comes to what's being downloaded. This will allow me to see what stuff is the most popular, and adjust things accordingly as well as make more, similar products.
It would also be useful to see who downloads a piece, but I know this is something the staff are already aware of people wanting so I'm not going to press it to much.

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