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listed in the subject of this journal are some of the generally odd and dysfunctional terms that I tend to use way too often

If I am gonna learn to write I am gonna have to learn not to depend so heavily on this type of language.

the one I think I have the biggest problem with is "alot" I use the word "alot" really alot, y'know?.....lol

( LOL is also a dysfunctional word I use too often)

so, I am going to try to remove the word "alot" from my written vocabulary...it's not even a proper word anyhow, and it has no redeeming qualities. it's not cute, or individual or ethnic or clever or quirky or deeply meaningful, or extremely positive.

I mean at Least "awesome" and "cool" are awesome and cool. "alot" is a pretty pointless word, for which there are many other words which could serve the same function much better, in various contexts.


DEATH TO THE WORD "ALOT" !!!!!!!!!!!

(hmmm...I wonder if it is related to the word allotment )


are there any other words I use way too often which you thing I ought to also avoid? I bet I have a million other little verbal bad habits which I don't even notice

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Feature volunteer #3; Saskuto

As most who read this already know, I am interested in everything and anyone, I wander around DA randomly greeting anyone and commenting on anything. If you have a cute avatar or leave an interesting comment for someone else, I come and see you, randomly. If you leave a comment or fav for me, I come see who you are.

Last fall, I met Luka *Dentednotbroken when he left a comment on one of my poems, and I was immediately impressed with his writing. But since then, I have been even more impressed with his friends. He has a real talent for making friends with wonderful people, probably just because he himself is such a wonderful person.

That’s how I met *Saskuto . She is one of Lukas’s many wonderful friends. She is a very wonderful beautiful person, and very active on DA posting many journals and a variety of deviations, including writing, coloring, photo manipulation, photography, etc.

As always, it’s hard for me to picked only three, and I haven’t time to even read or look at everything in her gallery, so you should go see for yourself,



A recent coloring. full view please, as the darkness of his clothing makes it look just dark in the smaller view, but in the large view the colors of his clothing look awesome As with anything, a big part of the art of coloring is choosing the subject, and then it is a matter of showing that subject to best advantage. She’s done a great job of choosing colors and applying them here, plus adding details like the energy ball, and that background is great too.


This poem is beautiful to me because it shows the sensual appeal of smoking, while still framing it as the Self-destructive practice which it is. Very well done I hope you take the time to read it and leave a comment, since written works on DA often don’t get the attention they deserve.


I love self-portraits, and I always says having a beautiful modal makes it so much easier to get a great photo, but apart from all that, this is just a great photo.

Oh oops…I just remembered another picture I really wanted to share, a photo manipulation… but I promised to limit these features to only 3 thumbs, I can’t cheat on my rules, so you’ll have to go look in her gallery now

Keep sharing good stuff *Saskuto .



Second Vollunteer

~Glinadaro

We have been DA friends for a little over a year. I’m not really sure how we met, but I’m glad we did. Her paintings make me want to paint, her photos make me want to make costumes and pose people in them and take photos. The hard things about doing these features Is picking only three things to show off here. I like many different things in her gallery. So go look for yourselves.

She is also a very nice person, leaves me comments and even helps me find typos in my writing I love when people do that for me

Thanks, ~Glinadaro ! and thanks for volunteering to be featured here.

This is a beautiful drawing:

I haven’t yet read the book it is about, but I have been wanting to and seeing illustrations like this makes me want to even more. Those wolves look so lifelike. I know they are trying to kill him, but they just look so soft I want to pet them.


This is a cool painting and it has a story/poem to go with it, so to fully appreciate this you have to go read the poem, not just look at the painting, but isn’t that dead horse rising out of the ground just so cool? (I love bones)and the Moonlight looks so...um...moonlightish

I also love that she always gives links to reference pictures used for her paintings. It’s always fun and inspiring for me to see how artists use reference images for their creations


Ok it was a hard choice because there are so many other great drawings and paintings in her gallery, but just for variety, here’s a great photo. So pretty, I love candle light, and that’s such a wonderful outfit






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~DawningDevil

In real life Erica has lived down the street from me and been one of my daughter's best freinds for about 10 years. Actually it's the other way: I moved here 10 years ago; she has lived there all her life, her family has been here for generations, she is a part of the heart and soul of the small town of St George, Kansas.(whereas I am maybe an infected toenail or a mole on the nose or something...lol)

On DA, Erica leaves great comments, and responds to almost every comment and almost everything posted by her DA freinds. SHe has beeen an awesome freind to me here, she has even read most of my stories, in fact she is the only person in the world who has read most of my stories, and I really really really really appriciate that.

Erica, you are so Awesome!! everyone in the world should have a DA friend like you!!!



the above image is a photo of my Daughter Aubyn in Blackjack creek in St George Kansas. this Summer me and Erica had fun taking pictures of the same subjects, on a differant day, at the creek, and then comparing. usually hers were better than mine, tho I did get some good ones she has several good creek photos in her gallery. Be sure to read the description. Ericas pictures are always even better if you have read the description

I like the bucket in the foreground on this shot, it gives it the hunting for treasures feeling that is one of the fun things of creek exploration.

yummy macro, must full veiw
I love this cause it looks so yummy, and has great macro details. it makes me want home grown strawberries. I wonder if any of my strawberry plants will have lived through this winter.


this one I like cause I just like pictures of old junk, and this just has the perfect feeling for walking arround in St George looking at old junk in people's yards. lots of us have old junk here

but also.....
these last two go together. I didn't know until after I read the description, but this one shows where the strawberry came from. full veiw to see the little vollunteer strawberry plants growing under the washtub planter.