Hello everybody.I do apologize for not doing a blog for so long.My health has been not good to say the least.Been battling it for some time now.But I am doing better though.
I know that we all recently got forced into DA Eclipse recently and it's been tough to say the least on all of us.Many of us are finding that it places our work into "Visual Art" instead of normal categories we have been using for many years.So I'm hoping I can somewhat simply things.If you have deviations you wish to submit but it contains really sexy or adult themed content,continue to use the current adult folder.If you have work that moves like a GIF or slideshow,please use our folder for animated work.If you wish to submit written work like a poem or journal,please use our folder for Poems & Journals.Otherwise if your work does not meet these criterias,feel free to submit to the Visual Art folder itself.If for any reason the work being submitted is submitted incorrectly,we will let you know and to what folder it will belong in.If you have any doubts on what folder to submit to,we do have a folder named "Where does this go?" Myself or any admin can move your work into the proper folders from there.However,we would much rather get your work submitted to the proper gallery folders.So please don't abuse this folder.We are seeing photos,drawn work (traditional art),crafts,etc. with the category of Visual Art but wasn't long before we all had to go to DA Eclipse.We can not go by content as you can only imagine the arguments that would happen between the admins and the artists over what goes where.That's why we go by the category something is in.Makes it fair for all and nobody has to make arguments or leave the group due to a disagreement.I've seen things like that happen with other groups I was in.So whenever you submit something to DA itself and that work goes into your own gallery for the first time,check to see if you can select a category.If you can't or don't,seems DA chooses Visual Art for you.I'm hoping this blog/journal clears a few things up for you.But if not,you can send a note to the group or myself to ask whatever questions you might have.All I ask is that you be civil and kind.No drama please.I'm quite sure other groups are having some difficulties also.
So please keep your submissions coming in as best you can and if possible,get some friends to come join us.We'd love to expand ourselves.So have a great summer ya'll.
I'm truly sorry for not being around but it seems my stupidity knows no bounds, LOL The cousin that was living with me that chose to end his own life in my home,well it seems that I had a delayed reaction to it.I've been taking therapy for it and it seems to be working but it seems that sleeping well was out of my reach and my nerves got blown way out of porportions.Despite doing all I could about it,i've been a real mess lately. So much so,in a fit of being fed up with things I punched the side of my entertainment center.I lost.Now it seems that I now have a metacarpel fracture on my right hand.Being right handed,I'm more of a lefty for now.I'm doing ok,not much pain but I have to wear a custom splint till I go back near the end of July to get checked again,complete with x-rays.It's just a fracture and will heal but now I can't work and I'm on short-term disability till I get cleared to go back to work if I'm deemed well enough by the doctors.So I'm using this time to work on my sleeping,rest,and my nerves.With my faith,prayers,and lots of rest.I should be okay.Not sure when it will be before I come back full swing but I will try to peek in.Due to typing with only my left hand,it will take a great deal of effort to respond back,so please be patient with me till I get full use of my right hand again.Thank you in advance for the prayers and kind words that I know will come.I know it will mean a lot to me.So I will hopefully see you in a few weeks.

P.S. I  need to ask all who vote to please keep up with voting each day.Don't let it go too long alright?I can only type with my left hand and using a mouse or touch pad is extremely difficult.It'll be a few weeks before I probably will regain the full use of my right hand.So I'm counting on everyone to help me till I can return full swing.So keep your submissions coming in and hopefully before August gets here,I'll be okay again.All my best to you all and thank you all for helping me as I heal.Ttys. :)
Hard to believe that the first month of this year is gone and nearly another one.Hope all you lovers,married ones,and those who date had a great valentine's day.At least for those who do celebrate it that is.I do hope that 2018 has been kind thus far to all of you.

I wanted to let you all know that it seems that the voting is left up to me only now.One of my co-founders has had their account suspended for some reason or another.Not sure why but it was.That being said,I am going to be accepting offers from anyone who feel they are up to the challenge of becoming a co-founder or contributor so that the voting can be done more swifter that it has been.Now we all do have a life outside of deviant art and it can,from time to time,interfere with being on deviant art.For me,it consists of my job and all my remaining furry little "kids" as some might call their pets.You have my absolute word that I will be doing my utmost best to make sure the voting gets done every single day.Now we all should know by now that anyone who is not a member but is a member of an affiliate group,needs 2 votes for their work to be included in our group gallery folders.I'm not sure how this will be with me voting the work in by myself but if it becomes too frustrating for you as an affiliate member only to get your work in our group,I will gladly welcome you as a member instead of an affiliate group member.It would mean that only one vote would be needed to get your work accepted.So I would like to highly encourage you to join us as a member.We would be more than excited to welcome you to our group.  :nod:  So please,come join us won't you?

We are still an active group and wish for any and all of you who are willing to do so,invite your friends to come join us.Keep in mind that once we reach over 2,000 members and hold that,I will be doing what I can to make us a super group.But since it costs so much to do so and it's an investment on my part,I need to be sure it will be worth the money and efforts on my part and the part of others.So help us get there won't you?

So everyone have a wonderful weekend and don't forget,if you are willing to help us as an admin and with all the things it entails,let me know soon okay?You can note me or the group and I will answer you as soon as humanly possible.Oh,I do wish to say a HUGE thank you to anyone who wished me condolences and such when I lost my oldest dog and recently one of my two cats also.Saying goodbye to a beloved pet is truly heartbreaking and I am blessed by the ones who sent me comments.Means more than you know.  :nod:  If I could hug you in person,you would get a very warm and loving hug.Straight from my heart.  :heart:  I do,however,apologize for perhaps putting too much of my emotional issues out there.Wasn't my intention to worry anyone or make anyone no longer wish to be a member.I treasure each of you deeply,like family,and wish for nobody to ever leave us.I do sincerely love you all and look forward to getting over 2,000 members someday soon and perhaps resurrect a contest or two someday.So till next time,stay well and safe out there and always know I deeply care about you all.


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I suppose it's apparent to those who do watch me and read my blog's but I know many of you don't.My newest blog/journal on my profile says a lot of what has happened to me recently but I will write it some here so all may understand a bit better.So.....here goes.

In December of 2012.just barely under 48 hours after Christmas,my Dad passed away.I lost my Dad but also my utmost best friend.So the Christmas holiday season isn't what it once was for me.The hardest thing I have ever done for my mom,who also has passed away since then,was to tell her that her husband of 47 years was gone and it was just us.So to say that I go through some sadness each year at Christmas time would be an understatement.My mom's only sister that lives here,the other one lives way up north in Illinois,has stopped inviting me to dinner on Thanksgiving as well as Christmas.So this has added to my sadness/depression.But this last holiday season added something right after it to my depressive emotional state.Eleven days after Christmas day on January 5th of 2018,my oldest dog Jessie passed away.She was still alive that day before I went to work,drank some water I gave her,and was resting by the washing machine and dryer.After I came home that day from work and entered the house,upon setting down my lunch tote,I immediately went to her and checked on her.Much to my own horror,she was dead.I placed my hand on her side and shook her a tiny bit as if to wake her but upon further checking,she was gone.I cried so hard,my vision was gone for several moments.As soon as I could compose myself,I took what I needed and dug her grave on my property.I think it took about 1 1/2 to 1 hour and 45 minutes to dig.My back felt as if all the muscles got pulled and or broken.As night was nearly complete with little light left,I buried my sweet,precious little girl of 17 years.I had her since she was 2 months old.That's a long time to have a dog by most standards.Adding to my issues and grief,someone ran over intentionally the dog my fiance had.Her dog was no normal one.It was a trained service animal,her own service animal.So I have had a lot of small side things as well as the already mentioned things,my pipes froze and when they thawed,several pipes burst.It cost me over $1614.00 or so to repair it.To pay for it I had to get an unsecured loan of $5,000 to be sure I had enough to pay for it.Thus increasing my debt a good deal more.So with all this going on,it seems I have neglected our group with voting and organizing the folders.I have gotten the organizing done for the most part and will be getting the voting caught up soon.So hopefully now you may understand a bit better as to my absence of late.So I do beg your forgiveness for the past few weeks.

Group things:

1.If you vote,you must return to doing so.Being an admin like a co-founder or contributor gives you the ability to vote.I have seen only one person,other than me,who has been doing any voting at all.I need to be able to depend on those who vote to help me do so.Unfortunately,I can't be online here 24/7.I hold a full time job and still have 2 dogs left plus 2 cats that demand my attention each day.I can't be on DA 24/7 so I must rely on others to aid me with voting.So if you used to vote but don't now,please return to it immediately okay?I deeply do appreciate any and all help that you give and you mean more to me than you could know.

2.If you submit the same work to the gallery and to the favorites folder,the only one we shall accept is the submission to the gallery itself.If you only submit to the favorites folder,then we can accept it there but we would definitely prefer it to be in the main gallery.The work we already have in the favorites folder is work that once was requested to be in our gallery but the owner of it declined it or just never said yes or no to the request.Plus there is some in there that came from others who wished their work to be there and not the main gallery.But like I mentioned,if you submit to both the gallery and the favorites folder with the same work,only the submission to the main gallery will be accepted.There is no reasonable reason why something would ever need to be in both places.

3.I wish to send out a HUGE welcome to the newest members.Too many to mention but I still wanted to welcome you in and ask that if you have friends out there who you believe would like to join,tell them about us and ask them to join you here.As long as the work is submitted correctly and it's work that doesn't violate the rules of deviant art,we will accept it.Regardless of skill level or content.So invite your friends soon alright?


In Closing:

I wish I could say I won't go M.I.A. ever again but even I can't predict the future.But I will do my utmost to be here and be here for anyone who needs me or my help or help from the group.So I send you a very belated happy new years and I will see you soon with a new blog when one becomes needed again.I love you all,GOD bless.

Your Founder,

Darrin R.
Well it seems that we have half the year gone already.Where does the time go?Went fast for me for some weird reason.Don't blink or suddenly it will be Christmas.  LOL

Okay,now for some info.If you post photos or digital art like photos of models or digital art of women that is sexy work or adult work or fashion,we recently gained a member who posts work that isn't his.The profile says he is female but he's not.This person even posts photos and art with artist signatures on them,website names,and even at least one person on deviant art's screen name address for DA.This person was told about what DA feels about theft,not getting permission from the photographer or artist,and not giving credit to the real artist or photographer.I was told I was "lecturing".It was more like warning this person and explaining how serious theft is taken on here on DA.I even mentioned that they remove all the work that's not theirs and adding the work that's on DA to their favorites collections.So due to the conversation,he left our group.So as I told him,either get permission and give credit or leave our group.So he left us and I'll probably get blocked soon by him.If that happens,he will get blocked too as well as here in our group.Theft is real people.Happens more times than we could hope to count.I won't have someone who steals work without getting permission and giving credit to the real owners of the work.If you choose to look through the 30 pages of his gallery and see your work there without your permission,decide to report him to the websites he took photos or art from,or report him for work stolen from DA itself.Then it's 100% up to you.I found one and went to the DA member's page and left them a comment with the means to find their work in this person's folder/gallery.Sadly DA won't take my word for it and HAS TO HAVE the original owner report them.Been there before and that's what I got told by DA themselves.Shame they won't investigate at least when someone catches a thief here on DA and see it all for themselves plus actually do something about it.  :worry:  I will leave a link to this guy's page here on DA and if you see your work there or the work of someone you know,please do something about it okay?If nobody speaks up,then the ones who steal or don't have permission to post other people's work will win while we all pay the price for it.

The profile in question:  jessica-beaumont.deviantart.co…

To those that vote:

Please be mindful of the content in what you vote on.I've seen work going into normal folders that should have been placed into our adult folder in the normal folder it would go into if it wasn't mature work or too sexy or did contain some nudity or implied nudity.So be careful for me okay?I deeply appreciate it.Also if you approve of something to go into our "Where does this go?" folder,you need to move it to the right folder.If the group permissions don't allow you to do that,send me a comment or note telling me so I can take care of it.That being said,keep voting each day that you can okay?It takes more than me to keep us successful.  :nod:

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I've seen a rash of new members coming in and I can only assume some of you are getting the word out and asking people to join us.To you who have done so,I give a HUGE thanks to those that went that extra mile to help us grow.If I could do it,I'd hug each one of you personally.Means more than you know.I so hope we can grow large enough to become a super group someday soon.It would mean the world to me and I know it would to you as well.

In case I'm unable to do another blog before it gets here,I want to wish a great 4th of July to any and all Americans.Have a great time,eat well,have fun,watch loads of fireworks,and stay safe out there.Till next time guys,love you all.   :heart:

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