I probably love you, and you don't even know it.This is what my heart looks like, when I think about you.The older I get, the more I love people. I'm not saying that in the same context as, "I love rainy days" or "I love reading books".. I honestly feel love for people. People in my life. People I've never met in person. Even people who don't even know me.. I often find myself feeling this rush of affection for someone for no other reason than the fact that they exist. Just for the fact that I know in that moment, they are breathing somewhere. They are living; trying to carve out a little piece of happiness for themselves. And I want more than anything for them to have it. I love people most of all, I think, for their sadness. Their loneliness. Their hardships. I love people who struggle, and who feel. Most of all I love people who want to be loved. Who have never really known what it feels like. But that desire frustrates me more than I can really express. Because I have an enormous amount of love to g
Lit-Visual Alliance Allied Artwork Feature #5 Hello my glorious Allies! It's time again to showcase more of the amazing Allied Artwork pieces that have been making their way into our Featured Folder over at #Lit-Visual-Alliance. :iconlit-visual-alliance:What is the Alliance, you ask?The Alliance is a project group intended to encourage visual and literary artists to work together. I've felt for some time that the dA Literature Community can at times be somewhat insular - to its detriment. We in the Lit Community are also sometimes prone to griping about the lack of exposure our work receives when compared to that of visual artists. So in the spirit of ^thorns brilliant Complaint Challenge I thought I would try to do something about that. And so the Alliance was
Help Himmapaan!For those of you who have not yet found :iconhimmapaan: Himmapaan's work on DeviantArt, please go and check out his page now. He is a fantastic artist whose work evokes all the best fairy tale stories we read when we were growing up.He is also in dire financial straits at the moment. If you enjoy his work, please take a moment to consider purchasing one of his prints, mugs, greeting cards, or magnets from here on DA, via Redbubble , from The Folio Society, or purchasing one of his illustrated books which have been well-reviewed on <A href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A1UD4RFNIM2B9W/ref=cm_aya_bb_rev">
If you don't accept criticism, you won't improveThis statement is, to be blunt, incredibly stupid. I see it repeated around DevianART and, as bad as it is hearing it from the general public, I have to laugh uproarously when I see it coming from an artist. I usually try to be more diplomatic, but sometimes my inner Snape just can't be contained. Here is the reality of the situation. A person who is building a set of skills can improve without feedback of any kind. Through trial and error, a human being can identify their own mistakes and, with honest work, rectify those mistakes. To say that this is not possible is so counter to reality as to be absurd. I could give thousands of examples but I'll just say this: if it were not for an individual's ability to invent skills from within themselves we would have absolutely no skills to pass on to other people.Is this a good reason to reject any kind of negative criticism or criticism in general? Does this mean that criticism is useless? Absolutely not. This
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Hello my glorious Allies! It's time again to showcase more of the amazing Allied Artwork pieces that have been making their way into our 
