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New Guidelines for Community Weeks For those of you that may not know yet, a Community Week is a chance for everyone in the community to bring to light their favourite subject, art, project or any other topic that you consider important but may get overlooked otherways. If you're interested in participating in the next Community Weeks, then please read the following info!
First of all, `im-not-sana joined the CW team as Editor, so let's welcome her properly

Now, let's get down to business!

Getting involved in a Community Week

If you'd like to get involved with an upcoming Community Week then you need to send a summary of the article you wish to write to #projecteducate via note

with this title "Community Week Summary" within the following two weeks after the last Community Week ended (for the following CW the notes should be sent in by next

How to Roleplay in the dA DangerverseMany people seem to be confused about roleplaying in the dA Dangerverse, so here are instructions on joining and information about the universe, as well as advice on what to do and what not to do.
Instructions
1. Create a deviantART account for your character. (You can roleplay with your main account, but most people prefer to keep their main account and roleplaying separate.)
2. Now it's time to find other players. Find one roleplayer and check their watch list, which should be located on their page. (If it's not, find another player.) Most RP accounts watch other RP accounts. Unlike Tumblr or Twitter, where you have hundreds of roleplayers and dozens of different groups, dA has just one big Dangerverse.
At the time of writing this, you can find many roleplayers at #KilljoyRoleplayers.
To introduce yourself, watch as many active Dangerverse RPers as possible. Players are always glad to see a new

FotoFriday: 1993Welcome to FotoFriday at #CRLiterature #7!
We brought FotoFriday back by popular request a few months ago. Last week, ^neurotype featured this image as a prompt:

Here are the pieces this image inspired:

Please share your thoughts and comments (and even favorite

). They've posted their work for the world to see, and we thank them for getting involved!
How does FotoFriday Work?
Every other Friday we will post a photograph from a deviant's gallery that we find intriguing and interesting. Using this photograph as a prompt, you are encouraged to write something—anything—based on it. It doesn't matter what form of writing, how much you write or even whether you end up with a complete piece—this is all about the prompt and what it inspires!
The photograph is meant as i

Discussion: Writing Believable Characters

Just added some member-suggested question~

What are your options on mixing species in a comic? Should it all be one species, or should you mix it? (Say, wolf talking to birds and such rather then just wolf talking to wolf.)

What do you find to be the most overused main character design?
What do you think constitutes a well-rounded character?
What are and are not Mary Sue qualities, to you?
What are your pet-peeves regarding characters or certain types of characters?
How much do characters matter to you?
Do you prefer character-driven stories, or do you care not for characters and prefer a plot-driven story? (Cause, really, it's not always about character development, especially in short stories.)
Any tropes you want to share?
And whatever else might occur to someone on the subject...

Teen victims, NEED HELP NOW!As many of you know, I work for StreetLightUSA
A non-profit lifehouse for survivors of sex trafficking, as well as sexual exploitation.
These girls have been through hell, and we are one of the few organizations out there that actually has beds for them. When they come to StreetLight, their life begins! They get school, their own bed, a bedroom, clothes, shampoo, everything they need! They have "house moms" rather than caretakers. These are women who do act as their mothers and cook for them, help them with their school assignments, teach them things, watch movies with them, play games...
But we want to do more for them. We NEED to do more. All you have to do is vote, there is a link in there to the voting page: http://dmlcompetition.net/project/summer-technology-camp-and-digital-learning-event
That's honestly all we need, we have everything else set up for it. We have professionals willing to teach the lessons, we

Today we will have a different journal!Today let's talk about knowledge...

Do you think knowledge needs a REVOLUTION?

The purpose of this article is to spread the notion and rise the awareness among all creative people around the world about the noosfeer (in English, noosphere), a concept that according to the tough of Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin, denotes the "sphere of human thought"

What is noosfeer?

Theihard used to refers the noosfeer in relation to thought, to the human sphere, the sphere of reflection, conscious invention and innovation. At the universe level is analogous to the thinking, the product of the cerebral cortex in humans. Also defined as the planetar

Submitting Art to Poketopia:Iconptbanner1::iconptbanner2::iconptbanner3::iconptbanner4::iconptbanner5::iconptbanner6:
Welcome to Poketopia! This guide will help you submit your artwork correctly. There are three sections to this guide:

General Submission Rules

Folder Submission Rules

Frequently Asked Questions about Submission
General Submission Rules

All submissions should relate to Pokemon. In the event that the submission is a crossover, Pokemon content must be equal to or greater than other media content.

All submissions should be submitted to the right folder. You can find more detailed information on folders further down this guide.

Regular members are limited to two submissions per day. This includes work by other people that you have submitted. These limits may be automatically enforced by deviantART's software, so please submit your best images first!
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donate to her please?hey my little dashies! :iconNeonpandasxD: needs some points. i would really appreciate it if you guys could possibly go to her account, and donate some points. shes going to use them in a give away, so who knows, you might get your points back! im not forcing to donate and neither is she. she just wants to have a giveaway and she needs alot of points to do so. see her journal for details http://neonpandasxd.deviantart.com/#/art/Omg-cx-378760719?_sid=5ea41ed we'd really appreciate it. and, hey, even 1

would be good enough. so, yeah. thats all i gotta say. peace off!

To Praise Life:6Hang on. Sta.sh totally destroyed it when I saved. I'll get it back on once the problem is resolved.

Collaboration ProjectHello Folks

I thought it was about time to announce some sort of official activity. But since I can't afford prizes it won't be a contest. Instead I thought that it would be great to manage some sort of Collaboration Project. That means that you will create a picture together with someone else who possibly has a totally different style - the pairs are built randomly so if you get someone with a similar style or the same it's your luck

This works as follows:

You must be a member of this group.

Write a note to the GROUP titled "Art Trade Project" to sign up.

We need an even number of participants so nobody ends up alone.

The SignUp will run one week counting from this journal.

The selection will be random - you CAN'T chose your partner.

The pairs will be listed in this blog (so be sure to watch the blog or to stop by regularly)!

From the moment the pairs are posted you will have 2 weeks to create yo

Have some points to spare?Part of my goal as Community Volunteer, is to offer you fun, challenging and interesting activities, projects and contest to participate. These activities will be open for everyone, regardless of age, location, level of skill or color hair.
In the following weeks, I intend to start a few of these projects, and as an incentive for the community to participate, (because I know you! you greedy bunch!) I plan to offer some prizes for grabs; points, premium memberships, journal features, nude pics, etc. Of course, most of these prizes will come out of my own pocket but unfortunately, I'm not rich! so I can't offer much on my own.
And here is where you come in!
I'm calling you, the community, to donate some points if you have them to spare. 10 points don't seem like much, but if 10 people donated 10 points each, we have... wait.. oh yeah! 100! So it doesn't matter the quantity, your donations will always be appreciated.
The 100% of the points donated will go towards activities and contests h

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30 DAY CHALLENGE

It's time to start the Thirty Day challenge! So get your creative juices flowing!
RULES!
1. Submit your own original works; Starting and finishing on the same day!

2. Appoint the work "Day "x" - topic of the day" (if topic applies) and add in the description to list of challenge (if applicable/or using a theme) and other information;
Good luck~
List of participating ~~victims~~ uhh volunteers!
~Balkeir
~arianna96
~KristopherSwaby
~ianpdrews121
~littleauthor12
~ChadHarlow
*MGilhang
~HalfMeltingEyes
*Pyocora-Tan
~draumstafur
=SadistSkunk
~bwahhahahaaa
And finally, the challenge theme I am following (Not all participants will be following it.)
Day 1 - Swe

Re-Homers and Open AdoptsJune 18, 2013

Just had a fancy idea. I'll be releasing a sweet fantasy design and shift (no natural variation; not DARPG-able, but the Fantasy DARPG group is getting closer to opening!) along with the rehomer formerly known as Savvy~

There are also two open adopts, btw~

June 15, 2013
Comments disabled on the updates journal... I feel so smarts =/ Fixed...
June 14, 2013
Is the breed information available in the front page useful?
June 13, 2013
+ Breeding Contract for the fae is finally up! I found a way around dA's glitch. The teapups' rules will be similar to the fae, in case anyone's wondering. Anywho, you may either start asking questions, requesting geno interpretations, coloring up your trial litters, or wait until I've got the dew pattern sheet up...
EDIT:: Just realized the fae's official name in the import sheets was flipped. That's embarrassing |D; ::EDIT+
Sorry about the spam, folks! I was trying

Teamwork chat [week 3]Listen up, listen up!
It's time for the third TeamWork chat

Date: Saturday, June 15, 2013
Time: 6 PM BST (what time is that for me?)
Place: :#ArtistleChat:
We're looking forward to hearing from the various team members about the progress you've made so far, seeing work you've created as a part of the project, and also answering any questions you might have

What if I can't come?

We would appreciate it if at least one member of each team could attend the chat. So, if you're unable to make it, please talk to your partner and confirm that they shall be there to represent the both of you.

If you are both unable to make it, but would like to share your progress, or any questions you might have so far, with us, please feel free to send a note to the group or visit #ArtistleChat at any time.

We shall be having two more chats over the next two we

Week 25, 2013 at #deviant365Congratulations to ~MangaGirlNum6 for this entry and ~taibossigai for this entry on completing Week 23's task. They will each receive 500

Hi, everyone!

Father's Day has just passed, so to all you fathers out there: Happy Father's Day!

This week's task is going to be centered around this great holiday:
Using :damuro:, draw an item that you wish you could get your father as a gift for Father's Day! Save your creation and submit it to this folder!
Two lucky deviants whose submissions are in the folder by the end of the week will win a 3 month premium membership, courtesy of deviantART!
Now let's see those wonderful gifts!

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Nyiana's 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway

by `Nyiana-Sama, Nov 29, 2012, 8:21:10 AM
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Hey everyone!

With Christmas coming up pretty fast, I decided to do a giveaway for Christmas, actually 12 days worth.

Pretty sweet right? The twelve days leading up to and on Christmas itself, I will be giving away different gifts to people who enter, from premium memberships, to shirts, to collectibles.

Now, this project doesn't start until December 14th, but there's a reason why I'm announcing it now. I added up the cost of the prizes, and its not exactly cheap, over 14,000 points. So, I'm making this journal today to see if anyone would be willing to help donate towards this cause. Of course, I should have done all of this earlier, but the idea didn't strike me until yesterday.

On the front of my page, I have a donation pool set up with the amount of points that I need to reach my goal. If I don't make the goal before then, that's fine.

I'll cough up my own money, but its open to anyone who wants to donate and take part.

For those of you who aren't able to donate, but wish to participate and get some of these awesome prizes (which will remain secret until the day I give them out), keep your eyes open for journals with these giveaways starting on the 14th.

Also, I will be hosting the Muro for *Membership contest as usual during this time.

So there will be even more chances to win.

Fourteen days, fourteen gifts, 14,000 points. Remember, if you wish to donate, please go to my page, if you aren't able to, no worries.

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Nyiana's 12 Days of Christmas Giveawayby `Nyiana-Sama

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Nyiana's 14 days of Christmas Giveaways will start on December 14th, 2012 and end up December 25th 2012. This is a journal calling for donations if possible, since the prizes will cost a bit.

~SilverCelestt777 Nov 30, 2012

Advertized: [link]

`Nyiana-Sama Dec 2, 2012

Thank you!

~SilverCelestt777 Dec 2, 2012

Your welcome!

~666phantomoftheopera Nov 30, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

oh wow this is really nice of you to do this > w <
i wish you loads of luck! > w < this is ace~

^TheLastHuzzah Nov 30, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

This is wonderful

I wish you much luck with raising the points, I don't think I can spare any at the moment as I'm 'booked up' with various contest prizes, but I will double-check as I may have a few

Would you like me to help pimp this journal?

`Nyiana-Sama Nov 30, 2012

Please do!

~xpockygirl Nov 30, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I wish I could donate but i don't have points (just 10

)
I join when it starts 8D

`Nyiana-Sama Nov 30, 2012

That's no problem.

*rainylake Nov 29, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

Good luck with your project.

`Nyiana-Sama Nov 30, 2012

Thanks!

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