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:thumb360301317: :thumb359941237: :thumb360296409: :thumb360295993: I just came back from working with disaster victims in Mississippi.  It was just like in so many other places I've worked: Louisiana, Florida, Iowa, Pennsylvania, but somehow magnified.  People there have been teetering on the edge of poverty so deep that it threatens to engulf them.  And this last disaster has done just that to some, swallowed them right up.  Despite whatever government assistance they may be eligible for, they will disappear, and most likely die, as a direct or indirect result of this event. The elderly there, surviving on Social Security that they paid in

  Fan Art Law Mon Sep 10, 2012 by techgnotic (https://www.deviantart.com/techgnotic) I t seems there’s nothing quite as dear to the hearts of many of our deviants as their production of fan art, and at the same time, there is nothing so knotted with legal and ethical headaches. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but in the form of fan art it has also become one of the most frustratingly complicated. At some point, the sheer volume of fan art around a single property may become so large that the issue rises to another level of scrutiny by the creators of the original work. With this dynamic in mind, we thought the following panel that Josh Wattles, our Ad

https://spyed.deviantart.com/journal/Regarding-SOPA-amp-deviantART-269431917 $spyed's journal entry regarding this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act - Wikipedia This is a informative article, outside of the normal DLD activities, to bring awareness to a pair of bills currently under much discussion and debate. These  bills are called called SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIP (Protect IP), presented to the House of Representatives and the senate (respectively) in the United States. Later in this article, we will also discuss how these bills have a world wide significance. At the end of the article are several links to t

I often receive warm complements on my knitting.  I love getting compliments!  However… I don't knit.  I crochet.  :giggle: There are some crocheters who get in a bit of a huff when someone assumes they're knitting (and I'm sure there are knitters who get in a similar huff when someone assumes they're crocheting!).  I am not one of them.  I'm sure that to someone not familiar with needlecraft, crochet and knitting seem very similar, if not identical.  Some may even think they're interchangeable words for the same thing.  So I am never offended, and just gently correct people.  But since it does happen on a somewhat frequent basis, I tho

December 7th:  The Fandom Menace Welcome to another article of the Project Educate series! :love: Today is Dec 7th, and this day will revolve mainly around the community, aka the fandom, but we'll also have interviews, features and important info such as what we're going to learn about now: Fan Art vs Official Art! Project Educate: Fan Art vs. Official Art Fan Art vs Official art is one of the topics that generates most headaches within the community when they are not sure of the differences between them. Today I'll explain the differences between these two and hopefully ease your brainaches in the process :giggle:. In this case the defin

deviantART's new feature: Deviation Editing and Uploading! In beta testing mode. Click the above title to go to the page! or Click here! From the journal of :icondevbug: : Hello Beta Testers :wave: We've got some great new features for you to have a play with :eager: The deviation edit page has been a complicated mass of buttons and options for a while now, so it was in need of an update! Click here to see the image or check below to see an example :bulletblue: Deviations can now be edited without leaving the page :bulletblue: Neatly organised options make it easier and faster to edit and update your deviation But Wait! There's MOAR

Do You Love Plz Accounts? Wait, what? If you don't know what a plz account is, you can find out here. This may also have you wondering how to create plz accounts. You can learn all about that by reading Project Educate: Plz Accounts by Krissi001 (https://www.deviantart.com/krissi001). Now that we're all on the same page, here's some exciting news! ~rightthumbsupplz (https://www.deviantart.com/rightthumbsupplz)helpplz.info:iconlefthumbsupplz: HelpPlz.info is a portal to a massive database for deviantART's plz accounts. At the time of this article's publication, there are already over 25,000 plz accounts listed in this database, and that number is continuing to grow. Before this, deviants have been using journals