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Play the Adri Game We all get down and feel at some point in the year, month, week, and day.
How can it get better?
Play My Game
Get a few friends together and make a promise that somehow every single day you will tell each friend one thing that makes them awesome and unique individuals unlike no other. You're their friend for a reason, and their your friends for their reasons. You just have to let them know and hear them out.
I'm your friend for a reason, I don't want you to constantly feel bad. So let my words influence you positively when you feel down; I want you to know as a friend how awesome you are. I want you to feel that awesomeness for yourself, so I'll remind you every day of it.
So I'll play my game, and make it happen. You should do it too.
You can do it on twitter, Facebook, sticky notes on their desk, skype Im/calls. Let them know how much they mean to you and learn intimate details why you have these friends. Even if
Devious Minds: TopicalityDiscovering what makes us devious.
*Topicality :spank: :iconTopicality:
How did you first discover deviantART?
:spank: I was looking at art online when I was young, and saw `loish's work, it eventually led me to deviantART. I lurked for a while, then eventually joined!
What was it about dA that made you want to stay?
:spank: I wanted to post my artwork... however once I discovered chats, I learned about GMs (now CV's) and Daily Deviation suggesting. I had and continue to have the loving support that keeps me here, along with my ability to find and collect beautiful artwork- Tis it is all about the art!

What is the story behind your username?
:spank: At one point I wanted to do debate in high school, but I've gone off to do other things. I was thinking of good user names and was playing with a random word generator. It came up with the word Topicality, a word I remembered was used in debate. It's used in debate when one is g
Spirit Day: Make Your deviantART Avatar Purple!Spirit Day, a commemoration to support LGBT teens who face bullying, is Thursday, October 20th. Many people are participating by wearing purple, while others are participating online. Last year on Facebook, millions of people signed up to change their avatar to purple. DeviantART's 2010 Spirit Day article is the most +loved article of all time on deviantART.
If you'd like to show your support on deviantART, change your avatar to purple!
As Wikipedia states:
"In early October 2010, Canadian teenager Brittany McMillan promulgated the observance of a new commemoration called Spirit Day, the first observance of which took place on October 20, 2010, in which people wear the color purple to show support for LGBT young people who are victims of bullying. Promoted by GLAAD, many Hollywood celebrities wore purple on this day to show their support of this cause, and many w
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Chat Basics
So it might be your first day, or your 1800th day on the deviantART Chat
Network, but maybe there are a few tricks here and there you've
forgotten. This article aims to go over the basics of chatting on dAmn,
and whether this is a first lesson or a quick refresher, here's hoping
it helps!
Reinventing the Wheel
I don't want to do that, entirely. So before we even start, I want to show you this. That, my friends, is the Chat (and forum) FAQ section. It covers most of the tips and tricks I'll cover in a bit less detail here, and if you're ever curious about something, don't hesitate to look there! Either that, or pop into :#help: and a Community Volunteer or one of the awesome Community Helpers will be happy to lend a hand!
First Things First
What is that shiny dAmn thinger anyway... some sort of fa
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First, thank you for agreeing to be interviewed! I truly appreciate it. If you don't mind, could you tell us briefly how it was that you came to be an official staff member, and about how long ago that was?
I joined deviantART as  a member in 2003 and in 2004 I started volunteering as a Photography Gallery Director.  After volunteering in that area for a little over a year I was offered a job as the Director of Artist Relations (Now Community Relations) in June of 2005 :)

Very interesting! At the time, and even now, what part of this job do you enjoy the most, and could you give a brief overview of what you get to do?
The unique community at deviantART is what encouraged me to join and take part as a member in the first place, and I consider blessed that I get to work directly with the community on a daily basis as par
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opening words of the Artist:
" Hello World.   "
  
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opening words of the Artist:
"  Can't think of anything, and I know I'll be talking a lot in these questions, so--
Oh wait, got one.
Kadul () is not a bear. He is a 5-year-old (human equivalent) male European beaver from Russia. So please, no 'pedobear' jokes. No, you are not the first. Or even the dozenth.
(Just thought I'd put out some preventative measures.)  "
  
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to one truly outstanding deviant.

   As 2012 kicks off with fireworks around the world, we're also celebrating in style with the

latest addition to the recipients of the illustrious Deviousness Award.

   
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I wanted to put together a series of articles that focus on the opposite of drAma, instead focusing on positives. Here is a collection of messages I have gathered from members of the community, that highlight positive moments, be they success stories, kind words or general messages of encouragement for those who work hard.

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deviantART - Let's Extend the Spirit Day 2011

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deviantART - Let's Extend the Spirit Day 2011!
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:bulletpurple: Those of you who have been here for more than a year or heard from others, may have seen deviantART going purple on October 20th, 2010 which marks the Spirit Day - an event to honor teens who have lost their lives to anti-LGBT bullying as well as to show support for them and others around the world.

However, deviantART had extended it to encompass all sorts of bullying, since bullying of all sorts happen to everyone, everywhere whether we notice it or not regardless of age, sexual orientation, gender, race, religion, profession, physical and/or mental ability, etc.




:bulletpurple: Here was last year's message to deviantART community by +spyed in the news article, deviantART Honors Spirit Day.








:bulletpurple: Last years motto was to make it last longer than a day, and there was a surge or changed avatars, deviations included in special gallery, features, journals and news articles throughout deviantART community to show solidarity.

Sure, there were opposing viewpoints, but however it did bring up bullying (of all types) to forefront for discussion and awareness.

The reason for this news article being that, while I was browsing tumblr I noticed this time of year has arrived once again with several tumblr notes flying everywhere related to Spirit Day appeared in my dashboard. o_O

So I was wondering, based upon last year's initiative by deviantART and the community's response, why not extend this community's support of the Spirit Day ahead of time, so we will be head on ready for when the actual day does arrive!

This will lead to hopefully more response than last time. All of us do have to wait and see deviantART's official response related to Spirit Day, however, why not we as a community take the initiative to 'purplify' deviantART ourselves to our best of abilities?


Be it from a simple avatar change, purple or bullying related deviations for Spirit Day (visual and literature, all type), journals (purple journals!) you name it!

This will surely raise controversies, and discussions like last time, with deviantART's initiative being questioned, but if we as a community stand up and show our pre-support of Spirit Day by extending it from now to later on, someone out there may know they we support them through whether for a day or not.




:bulletpurple: Spirit Day Features! :bulletpurple:








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Also check out Count Me Out / Allyunicorn, o_O, etc for deviants having deviantIDs to show support! Read about it here!















So deviants,

Can You Do It? :eager: :la:












This news article would have been more awesome, if I could have turned it into purple for this
*Thanks to deviantART's main article for the link references
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~Dead-Deviant Oct 20, 2011
Spirit day! :dummy:
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`phoenixleo Oct 21, 2011
\o/
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`LiliWrites Oct 12, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
I wrote an essay about it last year. Have to dig it out and repost it. :la: Thanks for pushing for this. :heart:
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`phoenixleo Oct 13, 2011
Great! :la:
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`LiliWrites Oct 14, 2011  Hobbyist Writer
Here's the link, if you'd like to read it: [link] :)
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~darkmatter86 Oct 12, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
here is the link [link]
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`phoenixleo Oct 13, 2011
:iconsuperw00tplz:
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~darkmatter86 Oct 12, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I made a stamp just for the day last year :thumb183403011:
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Mood: Noble *marthig Oct 10, 2011
Excellent idea! I would like to add my little bit to it, to start, this is a [link] :thumb183605122: to a stamp I made for last year's Spirit Day, will try to make a new one for this "Extended day!" , also will add a link to this article in my Journal :clap: :cuddle: :icondoublehugplz:
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`phoenixleo Oct 10, 2011
Thank you very much! :)
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