How to Win Friends and Influence Deviantart Part 1 by RobynRose, journal
How to Win Friends and Influence Deviantart Part 1
*Title stolen from a well-known and favourite book of mine
Part 1: Submitting with POWER
I know there are a million "how to be popular" guides on DA and a million more parody versions of them. This article isn't about becoming popular, or starting drama or racking up pageviews as fast as possible for the sake of seeing a larger number.
This article won't make your art better, or make you more a more popular personality. However, what I've noticed is that many artists are missing out on feedback and exposure that they should be getting if not for a few common mistakes. Time after time, I've read on Artist's Confessions, or just browsing thr
Lost in my need for solidarity, I set off into the night's January rain with the sense of an incomplete motive. I stepped onto the shelter of the porch and settled myself into one of the lawn chairs facing the storm. The chairs were riddled with cracks from years of rust and weathering; memories from long summer afternoons when there was music, cookouts, runs through the backyard sprinklers until grass glued itself to your heels, a mother's laughter cross legged in a chair, a father whistling a tune opposite her, there was childhood, life had innocence then. Now all that remained was the barren skeletons of the furniture still in their origin
1. Sometimes at 3am i go outside and pretend to be a banana
2. Using 'Thus' in an essay because you are a Literary GOD
3. Pushing your mate into the chick he likes because you are a top wingman
4. Backflipping your way out of an awkward situation.
5. Dumping your girlfriend via your eraser that decides "Yes" or "No".
6. Dad can I go to a 50 Cent concert? Dad: Here's $1, take your sister too
7. I understand you got your swag on but could you please walk a little faster
8. Pretending to die in front of your pet to see how it would react.
9. I was going to tell a chemistry joke but was afraid there'd be no reaction.
10. "You're fat" "It
Chicken Banana Theory
A man walks down the street and encounters another man. This other man believes he is a chicken, and promptly approaches the first man to inform him of this amid a series of chicken-noises. The first man acknowledges this, and hurries past.
Later, the first man is walking back along this same path and encounters the same man, though this time, the other man no longer believes that he is a chicken, but rather a banana.
This is an illogical transition– one cannot logically explain it by tracking the events that led to this mental transfiguration from chicken to banana. You cannot, for example, say that the man woke u