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New Username Symbols
As part of our ongoing process to make the user experience cleaner and more intuitive, we've launched a new set of username symbols designed to help easily identify deviant-types.
Easily Identifiable
At a glance, the new symbols are quickly recognizable. When hovering over a username symbol, a tooltip appears, providing a brief explanation of that user's deviant-type. If clicked, a modal appears, giving a brief explanation for each username symbol, with "Learn more" links that lead to more detailed explanations.
A word from Heidi:
Over the years, a few things have come to seem like deviantART mainstays. Deviant green, intricate art categori
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"In Death" -- Art
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Literature
A Promise She Made With Death
She was conceived on the edge of a mirror,
lined with pretty white lace,
that burned the inside of her parents' nostrils.
She was born with a hole in her heart,
that the doctor's never noticed,
and no one bothered to fill.
She met Death on the playground,
when kindergarten was bending her bones.
Enticed by the glinting of his scythe,
as it preyed on a malformed baby rabbit.
She made a pinky promise with him,
swearing that she'd never forget his face.
He came and went,
swayed by corpse breaths
and east-coast winds,
but always leaving her alone.
He showed her how to hurt,
in the worst kind of way.
And each time,
he paid her a visit,
he'd ta
Featured DDs
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Suggested DDs
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Accepted DDs
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Literature
easter
i'm in the back of the car, sucking my chlorine hair and watching with sleepy eyes out the window. brown dirt is soon ochre and we are nowhere in particular yet. we are going to the atheton tablelands for easter. i fall into a broken sleep on my sister's warm shoulder and when i wake up we are there.
it is nighttime and my cousin is only still a baby and she cries from inside the house (which is really only a very large shed). out of the car the air is like freezer air but fresh and crisp like cold water. my eyes become wide at the rolling of the hills around us, the living green they are, the horse paddocks, the shapely trees. there is a lo
Lit. Daily Pick
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Monthly Theme Daily Feature
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Literature
A Demon's LieXRaven'sPointOfViewXProlouge
Raven crossed her arms over her chest, her tiny foot tapping on the ground. Her older brother,Christian stood a few feet in front of his younger sister Raven, holding her favorite doll Sarah high. He tugged on the dolls small, blonde pig tails, making Raven cry out on protest.
"Chris, give her back!" she shouted.
"I think I'll keep your stupid doll instead, Rae." He snickered as he tried to pull her arm off. Raven stamped her foot and snatched Sarah away from her meddlesome brother. Her brother, disappointed for the fun was over, walked up the large, winding staircase. Raven hugged the doll tightly and walked into the kitchen. Being six
Critiqued Pieces
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Literature
Punctuating Dialogue
For non-native English speakers and young readers: If you hover over a blue word, you'll see its definition.
Punctuating dialogue can be surprisingly difficult, even for people whose first language is English. It's one of the things that you see all the time in books, but you pay little attention to, and all your English teachers assume that you already know it. Sure, if you read a lot, you pick up the basics, but even then it can be difficult to unconsciously absorb all the rules. (Until 2012, I was making heinous mistakes with commas vs. periods. I'm still weeding out errors from my novel.)
Anyhow, for the sake of my fellow spirits who be
Resources and Guides for Writers
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New Username Symbols
As part of our ongoing process to make the user experience cleaner and more intuitive, we've launched a new set of username symbols designed to help easily identify deviant-types.
Easily Identifiable
At a glance, the new symbols are quickly recognizable. When hovering over a username symbol, a tooltip appears, providing a brief explanation of that user's deviant-type. If clicked, a modal appears, giving a brief explanation for each username symbol, with "Learn more" links that lead to more detailed explanations.
A word from Heidi:
Over the years, a few things have come to seem like deviantART mainstays. Deviant green, intricate art categori
dA Community Related
67 deviations
Literature
Black Butterfly
There's a black butterfly
Whose wings are tipped
With blue and white
Sparkles like pixie dust
Every time I try to grab her
Out of of the air
Her wings take her far up
In the sky, near the clouds
One day I caught her
And I really didn't know what to do besides set her free
Because it's really pointless
To keep so much effervescent joy all to yourself.
Literature
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Requiem Fanart
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Of Sins and Sailors Fanart
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Darker Than Sin Fanart
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Blood Among the Roses Fanart
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Animals
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