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To artists who want to offer commissions. I would like to address something I have been seeing as of late here and on other sites. Artists who are asking if someone would commission them if they were to offer commissions and if so, how much should they charge or how much are they willing to pay?
I say this with a real heart to all artists, but that is a foolish line of questions.
Really. I have been there. I even did those myself. But look at it from the side of a potential buyer.
1: Would you even commission me?
Can you imagine if a doctor were to say that? If I were to open an office would you even come to me? That makes the doctor feel like a failure. Like he has so little faith in his ability to do his job he is afraid to do it. So he has to ask a thousand people IF he were to open an office would ANYONE come? Would you? Or would you want a doctor who just opens it and does his job and believes in his ability to treat you?
Same with an artist. You sound like you have no faith in your ability. If you do

A Crash Course in Slam PoetryThere are ten days left to submit to the Louder Than dA Bomb submission folder. With that being said, I'm putting out an article that offers some tips and quick solutions to problems a poet may be facing when writing their slam poem. But very quickly, I would like to address a stigma surrounding submitting "great" work to contests.
I'll keep this brief. The world is not set to your pace. Or anyone else's really. Everybody's just trying to keep up. This line of thinking can't be taken to the publishing industry (for those that would like to publish) or anywhere else for that matter. Applying the thought to your art or literature that unless it was created under certain circumstances is to not take your work seriously.
If you don't believe you can write and read a slam poem in ten days, I'm here to tell you different and to tell you the ins and outs of slam.
Slam Poetry 101
Slam poetry works the way it do

How To Write A Critique For A ProfessionalProfessionals like myself will occasionally ask for a critique on something or other that we've done. I'm going to explain how to do a critique for someone like myself. I'm going to tell you now that this was brought on by a critique I received from someone who never did a critique before and had no idea how to do it.
Read Other Critiques
The worse thing you can do for yourself is write a critique when you have no idea what you're doing. It will be promptly rejected as it's very obvious to the person reading it. If you've never written one the best thing you CAN do is look at some critiques from other people. Example, I'm a writer so look at critiques that were done on other literature pieces. Also keep in mind that I'm a novelist so look for critiques for short stories instead of poetry or lyrics. They're a completely different genre.
Be Objective
If you're going to say something negative about a piece explain why you think it's bad and make sugge

Legal Free Music

1. Spotify
I didn't bother with Spotify at first because I figured it had only mainstream music, but it actually has a huge variety. It does have mainstream music, but it also has loads of obscure/indie songs (yes, I'm a hipster. :iconhipstermikeyplz

It's an excellent place to discover new music. These are some of its features:
1. You can make playlists with any songs you want and post them on Facebook or Tumblr or share them with a link. You can also search for playlists to find new music.
2. There are several applications you can download that offer more playlists, musician info, etc. (available for free in the program, so you don't have to download them from outside sources.) My favorite is Sifter, which works similar to Pandora: you type in a song and it gives you several similar songs. I've discovered great music that way.
3. You can read biographies of most bands and musicians, and find similar artists.
4. Like I said, it has incredible variety. It

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Every time you take out a camera you become the invader. James Natchtwey once poignantly put it as:
"The act of being an outsider aiming a camera can be a violation of humanity. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person's predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other, and to that extent I can accept myself."
In this case he was discussing the nature of photographing tragedy and war, but it's also true when we photograph anything, anyone, anywhere.

Turning the Other CheekWhat is it?
What is turning the other cheek? Thefreedictionary.com says that it is to "ignore abuse or an insult," figuratively speaking. If you turn the other cheek when someone attacks or insults you, you remain calm instead of attacking them back. Imagine standing in the middle of a street, and someone you know from quite some time ago that you were never on good terms with comes running up to you and literally slaps you right across the left cheek. You stand there for a moment, bewildered, and then turn around and walk away, even though that person is throwing insults at you. You turned the other cheek and showed that you do not want confrontation.

When should you show it?
As a simple answer to this question: all the time! Tolerance, patience, and turning the other cheek can really mold someone into a different person over time. And it does not only affect the person you are tolerant with,

Understanding Jihad

The word "Jihad" is derived from "Jahada" and "Ijtihad"
which both are synonymous to success and striving for a good moral conduct.

It is a pure misconception that non-Muslims
carry even Muslims that Jihad is a holy war.
Holy war in Arabic transliteration goes like this "Harb Muqadassa"
and it is found nowhere in the holy Qu'ran.

Jihad has many levels.
The most important form of Jihad is the personal one.
Which means striving to make yourself a better person
and resisting the evil temptation within one's self which includes:
lying, stealing, engaging one's self in adultery and loose sexual whims.
If a student is passing an exam or a patient going through surgery
he is doing personal Jihad by striving to become better or achieve satisfactory results.
It does not mean to kill any human being be him a muslim or a non-mus

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Here are just a few of the terms Amazon has:
“Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright.”
Kindle Worlds is a creative community where Worlds grow with each new story. You will own the copyright to the original, copyrightable elements (such as characters, scenes, and events) that you create and include in your work, and the World Licensor will retain the copyright to all the original elements of the World. When you submit your story in

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Season 1 episodes 6-21 underwayor at least I hope so... I'll give it 1 week thats right next week is our next Fire Island meeting and if people don't show up after a 1 week warning well then I must way this whole project would be a waist of time...

¡Abrimos la tienda online![Spanish]
Nos complace comunicaros que la tienda online que tanto nos pedíais por las redes sociales twitter https://twitter.com/NeoDragonEd y Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Neodragon-Ediciones/332651280188417 por fin ha sido abierta en nuestra página web: http://www.neodragon.com
Allí podréis además encontrar toda la información de nuestras obras ¡Os esperamos!
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We are pleased to announce that the online store you asked us in both twitter and Facebook it´s finally open! http://www.neodragon.com
Also we regret that it is only in Spanish, we are working hard for it to be in English soon, sorry for the inconvenience.

Todo ira bienDuérmete que yo estoy aquí;
la luna te guiará, te acunará su voz.
Sueña y ve hacia donde
el sol desprende paz, rayos, color de amor.
No mires atrás ella estará bien
su ángel eres tu nunca te olvidará.
Espérame, tengo que vivir que al río del sueño
pronto iré a nadar junto a ti.
Lloraré al pensar en ti,
lagrimas de soledad,
perfumarme de ti.
No descansaré,
no hasta que tu recuerdo viva en mi
dame fuerzas pues debo continuar
aunque sin ti quiero vivir.
Duérmete, duerme padre y descansa sin temor
que al despertarte ya no habrá dolor
y todo irá bien, mi amor
que al despertarte te arrullará el amor
y todo irá bien, mi amor.

The culture of Notarious wolfenYou all know ~RedTabbyRedash's original characters, LoneWolves. And whoever read those small memes are probably not understanding anything of what the __*Killdan*__ or the ::::Notarious:::: wolves are saying. Well, lucky for you, Redash made a small online LoneWOlf game, where you can between a LoneWolf or TribeWOlf and learn the languages, culture, hunting style, area-range, and more. I will NOT say what game it is. Me, ~BlackAshenGermanwolf, and ~RedTabbyRedash share a tight bond and only use Notes to send the codes to get on or whatever. Anyways, So im going to help you all learn Notarious and, if i can bonus up and get relocated, the Killdan culture. So today, since my name in the game is Ytuk (Which the game chose my name thank you very much) and I am a Notarious female wolf of Minwee Tribe, I will teach you what I know about the Notarious/Minwee cultures and language. For a start, here is the Politeness of a Notarious Wolfen. (If you don't know how to pronounce Notarious,

The Beginning of The EnddA has crossed another line.
I keep thinking, trying to give them the option, the opportunity to fix themselves, to stop descending this path, but I'm tired of giving warnings.
With this new "Promoted" fiasco (which is exactly what it will be, a fiasco), I'm done giving them seconds chances.
If you want to continue following me, I invite you to stop by DreamClassier: Around the Web and find me elsewhere.
It will be a slow process, moving all of my art, making sure I have everything, but I'm not going to be here forever.
It's been a long 9 years, but it's time to move on.
deviantArt is dying.

portal topic: equestria girlsalright, alright. we all know about the upcoming movie where twilight goes to earth. but my opinion? the thing is just like jake's parenting manual: A PIECE OF JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DON'T CARE THAT IT'S NEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DON'T CARE THAT A PUPPY IN LOVE WITH A GIRL "SEEMS LEGIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT JUNKY JUNK JUNK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FOR ONE, WHY DIDN'T TWI'S FRIENDS FOLLOW HER INTO THE PORTAL?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! AND 2, THEY JUST CONFIRMED TWI'S AGE, WHICH RUINS THE WHOLE MY LITTLE SKYLANDERS SERIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIDN'T THINK OF THAT WHOEVER DIRECTS MLP NOW, EH??????????????????? AND BESIDES, ALL OF THE TWILIGHT+SPYRO STUFF IS JUST BEEN THROW OUT THE WINDO LIKE A USELESS SCRAP OF PAPER!!!!!! AND ALSO, IF TWI NEVER GETS BACK TO EQUESTRIA I WILL TRY TO SUE HASBRO FOR PURE EVILNESS!!!!!! WELL(morphs to rath) LEMME TELL YOU SOMETHING ALL EQUESTRIA GIRLS LIKERS, RATH DOES NOT AGREE WITH YOU, AND RATH IS VERY, VERY, VERY, ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Weekly Rant 9: Mind Your Language

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 9:33 AM

Okay; my rants are becoming more and more often; but seriously; this is an issue I NEED to discuss

Actually; I do, right now

However; as some of you know; English is most definitely not my native language.
Like; at all.
And funnily enough; most of my DA friends have the same "problem"

In fact; lately I've been meeting more and more examples of how not being a native English speaker is considered a problem by some strange persons here on deviantArt.

And thus I want to talk about it.

When I'm targeted about speaking a language other than English; it's not more annoying than a gnat, honestly.

But when AT MY PAGE my watchers are being targeted because they don't use English when talking TO ME....

Moreover; at most of the times I realize we talk in English with my Russian friends when we could have as well spoken our sweet native Russian.
Yet for some reasons we still stick to English - I don't know why; may be because it's fun?

But not all of our compatriots here know English to a CPE/120 pts TOEFL level and I absolutely HATE it when some brat comes up and demands them to speak English; because you see, that brat has troubles with understanding and others just OWE him explanations.

Thus; let's be honest.

Questions to the reader:

English-speakers; does the use of other languages in comments; journals and authors' notes really offend you?

Non-English-speakers, do you ever get harassed due to your use of your native language?

Any ideas how to tolerate this?

Footnote.
If seeing a comment in a language other than English offends you; please LEAVE IMMEDIATELY and preferably without making much of a fuss.
You're not welcome here if you can't tolerate the fact other people speak differently.
Or you may personally ask me to ban you.

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~ChantellyRawr Jan 28, 2013 Student General Artist

I only speak english but I would like to learn another language.

I honestly dont get why people get upset or create a fuss if two other people are speaking in a different language. Maybe its because I'm used to others speaking in their native language because where I work theres alot of people from over seas. And when I see that I'm like, "K, their having their own conversation. None of my bussiness. Keep working Chantelle."

Lol I'm okay with all that jazz as long as nobody bad mouthing me. XD

~bunnykiller23 Jan 27, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

ARG! I am embarrassed to be American some times. If you can't understand it, learn it or suck it up. I can't stand people who think others should bend over backwards to please them.

*innocent-rebel Jan 25, 2013 General Artist

>_< The fact that people get mad at others for using a different language besides English is absolutely beyond me. Especially when it comes to people using it to talk to someone who speaks that same language ON THEIR OWN PAGE! Who do these people think they are to demand that someone only use a language they can understand? That's their problem, not the other persons. And I have two ideas for them (besides telling them to shut up because they're complaints sound stupid even in English) one is that they use google translate or some other program if they are that desperate to understand all comments. Another, although I admit this one may be a challenge for the small minded, IS TO READ A BOOK. If they get so mad about someone using a language they don't understand, why not just try to learn language? Why not try to educate themselves instead of putting a demand on others? Maybe if they tried to learn another language they'd also find a new respect for the people who can use more than one language, because it's not an easy task to learn another language. And I'd even venture that learning English is harder than most other languages because when you get down to it, it's got some incredibly strange rules even native speakers don't know or follow, strange spellings (lose and loose anyone?! O___O ) and just some downright odd stuff in it. If English is someone's second language, they deserve to be applauded and praised instead of insulted. *headdesk* Some people's lack of common sense and common courtesy makes me fear for humanity.

~KatnissRueClove Jan 25, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

It never offends me because I love seeing different languages since it shows how universal everyone is, and how we can join together.
I can't believe how intolerant some people can be!

=VerbasLupinus Jan 23, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

It never offends me, but what does is when non-English speakers change languages on me because they don't think I understand. This has happened more than once, and I've have been seriously cussed out in Portuguese before.

I actually kind of love seeing different languages as it just shows how universal everyone is and how we can come together.

~VictoriaRay Jan 23, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

that's is odd... I don't think I have ever heard of someone making a fuss over such a thing. I hope it gets better!

~xbrightknee Jan 23, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Generally if I'm that curious about a conversation in a language that I don't understand, I put it through a translator, it's so much easier than causing a shitstorm, and there's the little fact that maybe the person actually can't speak english. That's disgusting. I mean, it's a basic degree of respect, it's almost like walking up to someone in the street who isn't speaking your native tongue and saying SPEAK MY FUCKING LANGUAGE. It's not okay, and it's pretty much harassment.

~Lola22 Jan 23, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

English is not my native language either, but I like English and I gladly use it. And I think everyone has the right to use their own language. I never got harassed for using my native language (Serbian), people who do that are bad and jealous in my opinion. A piece of advice to those who complain all the time: learn other languages, if not, simply use translators or dictionaries!

For example, I don`t speak Russian (I just know a few phrases and words), but that didn`t stop me from joining and following some Russian forums.

*catelee2u Jan 23, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

It's a global community. I think people should be able to express themselves as they please. It's what Google translate is for.

~CosmicMyth Jan 23, 2013

1. It doesn't bother me whatsoever. This world isn't made of one language, why force everyone to use one language? I like the multiple languages, gives you something to learn I reckon.

2. Never been harassed, since I speak 'English' it's more like "Australian mother fucker! Do you understand it?!".

3. I'd probably tell the whiny kid to bugger off. Either that or just ignore them, and if they keep up with the harassment, block them from your page etc.

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