First Fabulous Friday Feature!

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Greetings, all, and welcome to my first FABULOUS FRIDAY FEATURE!

FABULOUS FRIDAY FEATURE

Okay, so I got a little over-excited and posted this a day early. REGARDLESS:

I've decided that now that I've got this fabulous year-long subscription, I should take the opportunity to get the word out about other deviants and their magnificent work! :) 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 ;)

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!


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Visual Art

The Song of Your Sadness by alicexz The Suspended Oscillation Device by MoonEcho:thumb287453661: Maythorn by tonypowys Mt. Gaia by Phons08194 GOLDEN by HannahChapman The Wedding Preparations by Hellanim birthday party of Baggins by breath-art The woodland prison by KatrinaCorrigan:thumb330642357: just a drop in the ocean. by herooftheheadset

Literature

ComfortI'd rather clothe in my rage
Than face your burning eyes.
If I could wear your skin
I'd live in a streched-thin surface;
I'd be sicker than a quick fix.
I'll set flames to my mind. Rewind
to when it's all my fault. Remind. Me.
This heart only beats when it's breaking.
You're an ache that I keep shaking (off).
I thought you could tell
When heaven looks like hell.
You're made of golden bricked homes,
Once where I've housed in.
I had to run from your quick fists.
Your skeleton caged me in fast;
There wasn't enough room for us.
I'll blame my trigger's tick. Rewind
to when it's all my fault. Remind. Me.
This heart only beats when it's breaking.
You're an ache that I keep shaking (off).
I thought you could tell
When heaven looks like hell.
I've tried to sedate you; give you your own pill to swallow.
But you wouldn't learn to; you never followed.
You can't trust a lover like all the others.
This heart only beats when it's breaking.
You're an ache that I keep shaking (off).
I thought you could
StuckThe morals of men has been hurled so high
its demands, expands too much in our minds
now it hurts to think, so we listen and lie
and with gods on our side, righteously criticize
the inside turns outside, the world seems painful
we are raised with guilt yet eternally grateful
we tell our children not to eat with their mouths full
and that grey is a color, no matter how dull
there's teachers and preachers on every block
condemning all who's outside their flock
with their rights and wrongs; do's and do not's
they've dealt enough shame to fill up a book
we all know the way and that it is bright
but tell me then why we sneak out at night
to glance and dance at the ancient lights?
before telling ourselves it's a waste of time
I've seen your beliefs and what they require
to kill the aliens, and then to retire
your peaceful heart devoid of desire
as long as you are for thy morals admired
but you can't shoot them down, you can't shut them up
with a brain like the rest of us you have been struck
I SworeI swore: eternity with you, with you.
And dare I question now if I was false
but we were waging war as if you knew;
we used to waltz, we did. We used to waltz.
Supermassive Black HoleStrings of starless strands
lasso my sanity,
as a Lyzzard's tongue
slays unawares a fly.
Distorted snarls melt
my glaciers in the dead of night;
vibrating in the frequency
of tachycardia.
Falling upwards
in your wells of gravity,
you set my soul alight;
spinning towards the singularity.
A blink before the light,
the brims of Space
of satin waves
smile and unweave a word:
"What?"


Community News, Features, and Fun(ny) Things

Why do you love dA's Literature Community?Reasons to love dA's Literature Community
:new: Today, November 3rd, is the last day to send me in your reason! :new:
Love dA Lit is turning one hundred! :excited: One-hundred weeks that is. In that time I've really come to appreciate how active and passionate the Literature Community on dA is; this community is truly amazing and I'm honored to be a part of it. And what better way to celebrate than to spread a little love and hand out some prizes? It's also a good excuse for me to hug you all.
So why do you love dA's Literature Community?
:bulletpink: Share what you love about the Lit Community, your reason doesn't need to be long, it could be a few words or a few sentences. Be as specific or general as you want!
:bulletpink: Anyone can participate. Even if you don't 'include' yourself in the Literature Community you can still send me a note!
Inner Divinity Contest!:new: FINAL WARNING! You have ONE DAY to finish up your entries! The contest folder will be closed as of 11:59PM tomorrow, October 31! Thanks so much to everyone who has entered so far! If you're in need of inspiration, consider checking out the current submissions: http://wordsmiths-guild.deviantart.com/gallery/39247216:new:
Yes, that's right! I'm starting up another contest to try and revitalize the group. AND WE'VE GOT PRIZES!
So here's the concept:
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This contest is all about celebrating inner divinity. Poetry, at least for me, is always about the spiritual on some level. In this contest, I invite you to try to explore an aspect of your spiritual self by writing from the perspective of a deity of some kind.
Let me emphasize: you do not have to be religious for this contest prompt to work. Go out and find a deity from a religion - ANY religion from ANYWHERE in the world (I will also accept saints) - that you identify with on some level.
Feel fre

Cups, clasps and Chinese boob vibrators.UPDATE: The wonderful folks at H.A.L Publishing have featured a short sci-fi piece by yours truly on proverbs, puberty and passing exams. It's called Mo Chu Cheng Zhen (To Grind An Iron Rod Into A Needle) and your comments would be most appreciated. In my rampant gratitude, I may even get the next transliterations prompt up this weekend!
Dear everyone,
Apologies for my extended absence. I'm extremely focused on my translation and writing work right now, and the deadlines are overwhelming. I'm more active at Metre Maids, and a little less at my own blog The Duck Opera, but mostly I'm hunched over a computer screen at two in the morning, making words my bitch. I'll be back with you shortly, I swear. In the meantime, here are some Chinese breast enhanc
The Ladies of Lit: Volume XXIVWelcome to volume twenty-four my Literature series, The Ladies of Lit!
The premise here is simple. Below you will find an assortment of Literature features from a selection of female deviants here on DeviantART, all of them suggested by you. In this article, you will also find a variety of other things of interest, including:
:bulletwhite: This article’s deviant spotlight: featuring the amazing HugQueen. She has offered to answer a few questions as well, to tell us a bit about what inspires her writing and which piece in particular she favors.
:bulletwhite: Additional information about our upcoming events, including a special critique Q and A session in our official TheLadiesofLit chatroom. And we also have a selection of other interesting Literature news links to share with you.
:bulletwhite: Our “meet our contributors” section. Be sure to

Fantastic Feature Tuesday #13hello!
this is a weekly feature of amazing literature that i come by during my
travels across deviantart. this is only a small sample of a vast amount
of wonderful pieces of literature written by absolutely fantastic
writers. each deviation was carefully selected from a writer's gallery
based on structure, impact and word usage. i try (try!) to feature
deviants who get less spotlight than others and i will never feature the
same person twice.
these are truly some spectacular works and i urge to you take a look! i only pick the best, you know! (;
please take the time to read through each one - seriously, it takes five minutes - and be sure to the journal! (:



The second time I went to jail by WhoKilledKirov :thumb327615072:
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Maim Your Protagonist Halloween ContestYou create them. You love them. You nurture them. You literarily give them the world as their playground. 
And then you put them through hell. 
Here at lacoterie we want to see exactly how rough you can be on your protagonists, and, in honour of Halloween, we're bringing you a contest to do just that. 
The Rules
:bulletblack: Protagonist must be maimed in course of narrative.
 55-1000 words, prose. 
 No obvious maiming - i.e. legs, arms, heads*.
 Maiming must cause some sort of problem for protagonist (i.e. it can be a papercut, but that papercut better do a helluva lot of work to impact the narrative. like. earth-shattering epic papercut).
 Protagonist must hate themselves at the end.
 There are more ways to cause injury than harming the body.
:bulletblack: Incorporate a wedding (in honour of betwixtthepages); how you incorporate it is entirely up to you, but it needs to be in there somewhere.
:bulletblack: Must

Prompt 13: The Beginning!:new: The new deadline for this prompt is October 23rd. Partly to give you all more time to mangle our mother tongue, but mostly because I'm on holiday, today is my partner's 30th birthday, and I really can't be arsed writing an article to close it off. Take advantage of my laziness. Get to work!
There's just ONE WEEK LEFT to submit to this prompt. One week to get down and dirty with the English language, 2 Girls 1 Cup style.  We've only had three entries so far, and anyway, it's not suprising Your Seperating sperm ring dimensions are smaller versus the Conventional paper measurement, so get writing now!
I've learnt two important lessons since the last transliterations prompt, lessons I feel are worth sharing. The first is that I like this place and I miss it when I'm not around. The second is that if you wait too long to release a new prompt, the Youtube video it was based on will be taken down for copyright concerns and you'll have to start all fucking ov

:thumb324527420: Colors Poetry Contest - Cash prizesColors Poetry Contest!!
When I started the Wordsmiths group here at DA, I had three goals - produce a new sitehttp://word-smyths.com/   , an ezine  http://artsmyths.wordpress.com/   and a paid poetry contest. I have accomplished the first two. I am pleased to be able to say that our wordpress site is receiving daily submissions from authors outside of DA, as that gives all of you featured there more exposure.
     
I am pleased to announce my third project - a poetry contest with a cash prize awarded to the first three place winners.
The contest will be poetry only and will run from August 1 - October 31, 2012. The theme is "Color". You can choose to write about one color, or many. You can describe a situation, person, object, scene - anything, but describe it in color(s). How it looks...makes you feel.
The prizes will be as listed below: (It would be helpful to have a Paypal account in order to be paid.)
Firs


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Visual Art
Just up:
Coming Soon: whenever I get around to it - a wendigo


Prose
Short Stories
Just up: The Love Song of H Philip Lovecraft
Coming Soon: The Dream-Makers - Part III (Not a chance in hell!)
Not-So-Short Stories
Just up:
Coming Soon:


Poetry:
Just up:
Coming soon: Whatever strikes me

100 Poem Project
Current progress: 59/100
journal: azizriandaoxrak.deviantart.com…
blog: 100-poem-project.blogspot.com/
Also note that the terribly sweet SayaStarshine took a look at my list and decided she wanted to do it, too! She is using the same topics as me, and you can find the link to her stuff here.

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