All About AsymptoteGeorge Bernard Shaw once said: "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange those ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." Asymptote Journal embodies this sentiment, battling bravely against the two tyrannies of distance and every beautiful and irritatingly different language on this planet to bring you the best literature in the world. They've just celebrated their second anniversary with events in Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Chicago, Islamabad, New York, Singapore, and Taipei--and, seeing as how deviantART is practically a separate country in its own right, I thought I'd bring the party here too.
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Greetings, all, and welcome to my twenty-third
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Greetings, all, and welcome to my seventeenth
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Love dA Lit: Issue 46Welcome to the forty-sixth issue of my weekly news article, Love dA Lit!

Every Sunday this news article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, interviewing various members of the literature community and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed.
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Swag - For my girlsLadies and Gentlemen, this is Mambo No. 5
Oh hot damn this tune.
One, two, three, four, five, everybody in the community come on let's jive.....
To the, lit treasure around the corner.
The boys say they want scripts and prose but I really don't wanna.
Writer's Block like I had last week.
I must stay deep 'cause talk is cheap.
I like Amber, Sarah, Steph and Priya.
And as I continue, you know the read's sweeter.
So what can I do? I really beg, yeah I implore.
To me reading is just like a sport.
These girls write, it's good, let me dump it.
Please set it in the trumpet.

A little bit of Nicki in my life,
A little bit of

Fabulous Friday Feature 9: Obsessions

Greetings, all, and welcome to my ninth
FABULOUS FRIDAY FEATURE
This week, I'm doing something a bit different. I've done so many wonderful themed features lately, I decided I'd have a bit of a sit-down this week and reflect a bit. So this week, I am going to feature three pieces each by artists I've been obsessed with lately around the site. But there are a LOT of deviants, so bear with me! There are plenty of different styles and media, so there should be something here for everyone. Next week, expect some winter madness! If you've got someone you think should be featured in next Friday's Feature, send me a note with a link to their gallery and I'll take a peek

TWG's Featured Deviant of the Month - August 2012

Hello, lovely members! =LadyofGaerdon here to continue our series:

Featured Deviant of the Month

for
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This month's Featured Deviant is..........

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Here at #TalentedWritersGuild, we encourage deviants to select only their best pieces of literature for submission. As judges, we look for pieces that simultaneously move us, challenge us, and inspire us as readers; pieces that stimulate us emotionally and intellectually; and the pieces that display true technical skill. When we vote, we consider all these thin

30 Writers You Should Discover: Volume XIWhat's This?
Below you will find a new assortment of various writers on DeviantART who are worth getting to know. All of their respective galleries are packed full of tremendous works that I enjoy and hope that you will too. And, if there is a writer that may not be listed in this edition, you may wish to read the first

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A Call to Conversation (12)--:devthetaoofchaos:Welcome to the twelfth article focusing on featuring and getting to know the deviants behind the work! This series will be posted every Wednesday. If you have a deviant you'd like to see included, please send =TwilightPoetess a note with the subject "Call to Conversation"--make sure to include the deviant's name as well as a reason you think they'd make a good interview subject! Also, feel free to send along a question or two you'd like to have answered by them!
This week's featured deviant is `thetaoofchaos!
Another somewhat mysterious, elusive deviant, `thetaoofchaos is a name you've probably seen around the literature community. Active in many groups and projects, Shane strives to produce and bring to light quality literature pieces. But who, you might have found yourself wondering at some point, IS this mysterious, wonderful poet? I hope this interview will help give you a small bit of insight.
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Friday Night Features XCIVYear II - Issue XLII
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The Review Project, Competition... Thing
Hi guys! Well it's not so much a competition as it is a project in which you can win prizes... the idea came to me and I thought I'd share it with you all.
NB: There are copies of this blog post to take comments from here and here.
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Over my years here on DA I have kind of collected these reviews, and when I self published my poetry collections I used them on the back of my book because some of them were just so sweet.
Perhaps the person you review will add your thoughts on them to their DA page, or to their writing website to help other people get an idea about who they are as a writer.
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Demonstrably Deviant: Issue VIIIAbout
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Journal Entry: Fri Feb 1, 2013, 6:35 AM

Greetings, all, and welcome to my seventeenth

FABULOUS FRIDAY FEATURE

This week, I'm brightening up a grey winter with GARDENS. Unfortunately, I have to announce that there will not be a theme to next week's feature. I have made an executive decision based on my work load at grad school, and until further notice, I will simply be posting exceptional pieces I find over the course of the week. If you've got someone you think should be featured in next Friday's Feature, I AM EVEN MORE DESPERATE FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS, and I'd love it if you would send me a note with a link to the deviation in question and I'll take a peek

I'd also love to hear about other features, particularly themed ones. I'll list those in the bottom section to help spread the word! The same goes for contests or news articles!

Please favorite this journal and pass it on! And if you liked this feature, be sure to check out the one from last week: [link]

I am ALWAYS seeking donations and nominations for my pay-it-forward project! So far I've been able to donate four premium memberships, and I'm only a few hundred points away from being able to give away another one! I want to be able to donate premium memberships to deserving members, so please check out my journal for info on sending nominations:

Pay-It-Forward ProjectDeviants so far who have received premium memberships as part of this project:
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Thank you sososososo much to $namenotrequired for helping me to promote this project!
Greetings! I am posting this to let you all know I have decided I want to try to pay the premium membership love forward, and so I am looking for donations to go toward buying premium memberships for other people

You can find the donation box on my front page. PLEASE DONATE! I'll need lots of help - all contributions are appreciated, no matter how small

That's part one, here's part two:
I'm seeking nominations for extra-special deviants, especially those who are really involved in the community, who don't already have a premium membership. If you'd like to nominate someone (I will accept self-nominations, though I look extra-carefully at those), send me a note with the following information:
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ALSO, my dear friend ~angeljunkie is raising funds to renew #lacoterie's supergroup submission and would be grateful for any donations! Please consider just donating a point or two to help! Please check out the donation box on his front page.

And now, without any further ado: THE FEATURES!

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in the garden of eden In the days after, I learn the number of corners between her street and mine (four), the number of steps between the street corner and her fence (fifty-one), the number of bricks between the fence and her door (nineteen). I walk across those bricks four hundred times, maybe, and still it isn't until three years later—my last here—that I can bring myself to knock. So much for bravery.
But in the end, I don't have to knock. The door opens for me as I stand staring at it, like I've done every other time, only now her mother is on the other side smiling at me like she knows so

Twickenham GardenThe garden is dead.
The sun is spent
and the earth is sunk,
sullen. And everywhere
the scent of soil,
defeat. Deceit
in the shape of a serpent.

And here I stand:
a senseless piece
of this place; a faceless
participle caught
in the present tense,
in the I am, I make,
I do –

I make-do with the dead.
With the lost marble
limbs and the mandrake.
I suck venom from the snake
and sap the crocodile's tears,
for I do bring the spider love,
fear; those old self-traitors.

O the webs we weave –
the stones we've sown
into the horizon,
entwining spine
and time
like so much rope
round my neck.

Dream, she says,
of the a

In the middle of your garden..Through all the crunching ribs
and torn muscle fibers
it was worth it. The
weight of her sternum
drilled down to her
heart tissue, pricking

electrifying jolts of pain,
of progress. Her lungs
were heavy with asthma,
but the burning, the burning
was oh so worth it. Watching
those pounds shed like
dead skin cells when she

stepped on that glass scale
that clarified everything true. Her frame
would become magnificent. She envisioned
the protruding collarbones and tree branch
arms. Finally she would become

perfection.

ghosts in the gardenand she slung
her slender bones
down
swallowed by fabric
gardens
chintz roses echoed
on the rattling
teacup
in her shiver-quake,
taut-canvas fingers
and folded
her molasses tongue
around the unraveling
storm clouds gathering
gray
—good for the flowers—
and the canny mouse
curled cozy in some
dusky cabinet corner
—bad for the biscuits—
before smoothing
another sip
down her furrowed
throat.
when i was small,
she said into the silence
on a paper-whisper,
eyes cast
on an errant past,
my sister died.
and they laid her
on the kitchen table
in her Sunday best, and
i remember
her small fingers curled
and i fancie

flowerbedbloom my back into a garden,
crack me open with your lover's jargon.

dig the dirt out of my lungs,
feel my insides with the tip of your tongue.

hack my spine into 3s,
see the ugly in me.

break me down with words of truth,
i don't know what i would do without you.

give lilies with full handsBeautiful and apt:
for the story at noon –
the child on your lap,
the firebird in monsoon.

For the story at noon,
on the apple tree
feathers aglow were strewn
for the king to see.

The child on your lap
adores your story, and
follows the same map
through the same well-known land.

The firebird in monsoon
was adored, each time.
Every voiced call and croon
is missed; was sublime.

dandelion winethe dandelion has made its appeal
to wine and whimsy,
but it's plucked— regardless of nostalgia.

[i am that lion's ragged blooms, and you are the strong winds that blow my meek seeds away, and he— he is the brawny child pulling me like another weed passe. and there have been other gardeners with hands mortared in black veins by fertile soil, savaging between tame dalmatian tulips and mums the color of fat tabbies embellished by aureate mornings; there have always been these potted plants prettily set as if all of creation planned them so.]

and its roots remain tucked
In the good earth,
flirting with raindrops and shelved rever

Dandelion Winethe dandelion has made its appeal
to wine and whimsy,
but it's plucked-- regardless of nostalgia.

[i am that lion's ragged blooms, and you are the strong winds that blow my meek seeds away, and he-- he is the brawny child pulling me like another weed passe. and there have been other gardeners with hands mortared in black veins by fertile soil, savaging between tame dalmatian tulips and mums the color of fat tabbies embellished by aureate mornings; there have always been these potted plants prettily set as if all of creation planned them so.]

and its roots remain tucked
In the good earth,
flirting with raindrops and shelved reverie.

[i am t

Tire Notwhat flowered bed without weed
is worth our careful tending?

no grass growing in between
the stones of my rock garden

be not a plot worth having
with no good work to finish.

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Winter Feature of GrimGloomTale [2013]Here we are, one year after our first seasonal feature. I've seen many fabulous works submitted to the group this winter and they all deserve to be seen. Unfortunately, I can't show them all in this one little showcase. Here you will see only works having below 100 favourites.
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Creeping Wednesday #15

Welcome to the 15th Creeping Wednesday! This time we'll talk about hair in all its beauty. Thank you to *Sieskja, *SandraHultsved and ~JadasArtVision for suggesting some really good pieces for this article. The next theme is going to be Dracula! Please remember, dear suggesters, that I'm looking for traditionally done underappreciated artworks.
From now, every next Creeping Wednesday will be posted every 3 weeks - the main reason is that I'm preparing a new serie of articles and I don't want to spam you too much (: This means that you may expect the next CW on the 20th of February.

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What is that attracts you to traditional art?

Love dA Lit: Issue 113Welcome to the one-hundred thirteenth issue of Love dA Lit!

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Sunday Features - January 27, 2013Hey guys! So much good stuff found on dA this past week!!
I drove to Austin Saturday for a lit thing for my dear friend AK, so, naturally, I'm a day late putting up this week's features.
I feature art that inspires me, moves me, makes me feel something. Your art helps fuel my art.
Love y'all!!

Remember: if you have anything you think I might like to feature, please note it to me!!

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by :iconFuzzyHoser:
by :iconSammur-amat:
by :iconRiseandBe:
by :iconKaitForest:
And the fave of the week: by :iconvespera:
& ('cause picking just one is for boring girls)
by :iconIs-lnds:
FICTION -
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by :iconglossolalias:
by :iconSekT7:
PHOTOGRAPHY -

by :iconpink-coffee-cup:

by :iconHappyKootie:
by :iconfotografka:
by :iconLePitch

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Hello all!
As writers, we always talk about “getting that piece published sometime” or “maybe submitting to a few places”, but how many of us actually eat our words and get on with it?
It was suggested that perhaps we could help nudge you guys by sharing with you the opportunities we know of. Personally, I'm not well explored, but what I do know is that the community is! Therefore this journal is a chance to share the opportunities you find.
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Art History Photography RoundupBefore we hand over the reigns to Film + Animation, firstly a huge thank you goes to all who contributed this month to make Photography Art History pretty awesome! We've talked about famous photographers, famous photos, people here on deviantART who are making history by getting published in the present day - we've brought you colour features, interviews, historical facts and much more! Here's a roundup of all the articles submitted during the past month...

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100 Poem Project Update!
Current progress: 68/100
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blog: [link]
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=Sammur-amat Feb 2, 2013 General Artist

Thank you so much for the privilege to be mentioned alongside such stunning artists

=AzizrianDaoXrak Feb 3, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

You're so welcome, sweetie! ^^

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You deserve

s to the moon and back for your never tiring kindness and awesomeness, you know that?

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Awww, you're the best ^^

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Thank you, love it!!

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You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed ^^

*Vigilo Feb 2, 2013 Student Writer

Thanks so much - I'll have to read all the others now! Lovely feature, as always.

=AzizrianDaoXrak Feb 3, 2013 Hobbyist Writer

You're welcome, m'dear

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