Hello, my name is a Ranko and I will be filling in for news anchor Ro. Unfortunately, tragedy struck when a pile of crap attack her at knife point last night. She is currently in CRAZY MODE condition.

On to the real news:
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See ya'll on Friday at the AA!



I'm sticking to the East Coast cons this year because of financial and work situations.

MegaCon 08: Orlando, FL March 7-9th CONFIRMED
MetroCon 08 Tampa, FL July 18-20th pending
Otakon 08 Baltimore, MD August 8-10th
AWA 08: Atlanta, GA September 19-20th


*eats list* ...

Still have so much to do and end up doing this instead:

o1 . YOUR REAL NAME:

- Ari (R-E ) M. ((HA HA! OLD SCHOOL!))

o2 . YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle)

- Arizzle ((Sounds like someone sneezed. D: ))

o3 . YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fav color and fav animal)

- White Wolf (( D: This one was kinda hard because I like a lot of colors and animals, so I just put my favorite combo together. XD ))

4. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)

- Munar (( Mun- ARGh?!? I'm a pirate FTW!!))

o5. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (Your 2nd favorite color, and favorite drink)

- White Mt. Dew ((My powahs amass when I consume the green liquid! D:< ))

o6. YOUR IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, first two letters of your middle name, last two letters of your first name then last three letters of your last name)

- Ruarisoz (R U SRS?!? XD Or something like that! ROFL! I don't have a middle name so I just used my nick name. 8D ))

o7. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (both parents middle name)

- Lorenzo (( Mom doesn't a middle name either! But no one would find me! D< ))

8. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one of your pets)

- Black Kitty (( XD Actually it should probably be Black Romeo but we've stopped calling him that since he was adopted. XD Either way... sounds cool! ))

Now tag four people
o1. You
o2. You
o3. Yooooou
o4. And.... YOU!


I'm sticking to the East Coast cons this year because of financial and work situations.

MegaCon 08: Orlando, FL March 7-9th CONFIRMED
MetroCon 08 Tampa, FL July 18-20th pending
Otakon 08 Baltimore, MD August 8-10th
AWA 08: Atlanta, GA September 19-20th


*eats list* ...

I wanted to come back in here for a bit and restate something: This is good for DA. Granted this new favoriting system is currently like trying to navigate through white water rapids, it is much better than the old system we had prior. Again, this is a good direction for DA although admittedly a bumpy one.

In reading up more on how the actual system works, “Fair Exposure” is more catered to the underdog categories. There is also some sort of working in of comments and views that makes no sense to me but factor into the overall ' popularity ' of a piece. Regardless, I have come to the understanding that Anime Art is being discriminated in a sense. That's not fair either, I’ll admit that.

What is actually quite ironic is the idea that the old system had a sort of “democratic” vote theory to it. I find that this system actually represents that idea better by brining in a ratio sort of issue. Just like states that have a larger population than lower populated areas their votes become a more weighted and equally as important. DA trying to apply the same concept here, that while no art is created equal, every artist is.

I realize that a large part of the community here is in Anime/Fanart (I mean that is where I am right?) and they feel that since they are larger they should have more impute, but this is DeviantART not DeviantANIME ART. What DA is trying to put back into place is the ART aspect of this site. A lot of what is in the popular is one conformist idea. Artists are supposed to break the boundaries that they live in and move beyond the limits that we are given so why when the challenge is issued do so many cower?

Another large problem lies in what we (the community) are going to do about it. So many people are whining/griping about it others are actually coming up with valuable suggestions. Still it looks like DA isn’t moving on this and frankly I can see why. They want to see what is really going to happen here. Will there be more problems with miss-categorization (Lord knows that is a mess)? Or is this going to propel a lot of artists to grow exponentially? Will artists that had left come back now that they too have a chance against the ever growing commercialism or are we going to lose the standards that people reach for? In either case, the situation is this: We are not to accept the idea of “ONE ART THOUGHT.”

When I had first complained about this was because the popular only promoted one idea instead of promoting a multitude of ideas. That is why I love this new system (even though the issues are starting to become apparent) because there is diversity and shows that an artist is limited only by their imagination.

I’m on the goal to grow so I plan to stick around at watch what happens.

To read more about how the system works, what it’s about please view this link: [link]

Petition against the new system: [link]


I'm sticking to the East Coast cons this year because of financial and work situations.

MegaCon 08: Orlando, FL March 7-9th CONFIRMED
MetroCon 08 Tampa, FL July 18-20th
Otakon 08 Baltimore, MD August 8-10th
AWA 08: Atlanta, GA September 19-20th


MegaCon Art List *throws out list* @__@;;; halp....