Outsiders could never begin to understand As they hiss while passing the forsaken ruin Where ramparts lie wreathed in tenebrous ivy They have no memory of its halcyon age They have not felt their souls inflamed By the tingling rush of forbidden ecstasies Of stealing creative fires from the divine Of our cabal manifestation coming to life Once, this place thrummed with wild vitality Two daring minds crossed epiphanic galaxies There, we created our preternatural tulpa Truly beautiful, terrifyingly resplendent Boldly, we sipped those savory secrets Occult impetus fueling each other’s fires We wove enchantments to carry our spirits An amalgamated dream of true freedom Beyond the limits of mortal constraints We constructed a scintillating, chimeric angel Forged as an alloyed avatar of our dreams Stronger and more alive than either alone Our living manifesto took wing and flew Blazing like a comet across the firmament Mocking the paltry heat of stellar fires Transcribing our

DD Chat Save the Date! by Zara-Arletis, journal

DD Chat Save the Date!

Feb 11, 2021

Hello Readers, Writers, and other deviant sorts. We will be hosting a Daily Deviation Discussion on February 20th from 11am EST to 1pm EST. You can view that in your time zone at the World Clock Meeting Planner. The event will be held in our discord channel. If you haven't joined us there yet, you really should. Good times are had by all (I swear!) Here's an invite: CRLiterature Discord Server We're still lining up our guests, but to get an idea of what literature pieces may come up, you can check out: We'll be posting again closer the chat date with a final list of our discussion pieces, so hold onto that date! See you there!

January 2021 DD RoundUp! by Zara-Arletis, journal

January 2021 DD RoundUp!

Feb 2, 2021

Join us for a new year and a new list of fantastic literature. May I present . . . the January Daily Deviations! Features by Barosus DD Suggestion Guidelines Features by Evangeline40003 DD Suggestion Guidelines Features by Malintra-Shadowmoon DD Suggestion Guidelines Features by SingingFlames DD Suggestion Guidelines Features by Zara-Arletis DD Suggestion Guidelines Thank you to all who left a DD Suggestion this month! @DelightfulDolphin @varelabro1 @RTNightmare @Asahi-Taichou Save the Date for our DD Chat! This month's DD Chat will be announced soon! Please keep your eyes peeled for the announce journal. Since we missed last month's DD chat, this one will combine authors from both December 2020 and January 2021! Have questions that need answers? Found a great literature deviation that needs love? Need support for a contest, event, or literature feature? CVs do that and more- so reach out to one our fantastic Community Volunteers!

Lit DDs: May 20-26 by JessaMar, journal

Lit DDs: May 20-26

May 26, 2020

If you haven't been keeping up with Daily Deviations lately, here's what you've missed! “The tumbley cadence to this poem serves its message very well.” - @JessaMar (suggested by @Rose-Em) “Interesting poem in which the author describes how to be drawn in into the stories and living their own characters.” - @Malintra-Shadowmoon (suggested by @JustACapharnaum) “For such a short piece I find this really evokes emotion in me - sadness, loss, worry but also love - especially knowing a deep abiding love developed over more than 50 years of marriage, something many people will never experience.” - @BGai, Suggester (featured by @Zara-Arletis) “I love the dream-like imagery in this, and the sense of absent love.” - @SingingFlames “This story offers enough detail to engage the reader without overwhelming - which is a marker of both great flash fiction and great science fiction.” - @JessaMar “I love how frank and unusually sweet it is. It's unlike other love poems I've read, and

The Call of the Rift: A Compendium by akrasiel, journal

The Call of the Rift: A Compendium

May 15, 2020

The Call of the Rift is a YA fantasy series inspired by historic conflicts between Canadian First Nations and European colonists during the Age of Sail. Book #3 Crest is out now! Purchase: Flight: Amazon, ECW Press, Audible Veil: Amazon, ECW Press, Audible Crest: Amazon, ECW Press Follow me: Facebook: Jae Waller, Author Twitter: JaeWalrus Goodreads: Jae Waller Instagram: JaeWalrus NEWS: updated June 19 Crest has been out for a month now, and it's been a strange time – here in Melbourne we spent most of that time in strict COVID lockdown, so I couldn't hold a launch party, yet lots of exciting book-related things have been happening anyway! I did an interview on CBC Radio with a journalist from my hometown, talking about lilacs: the colonial history of them, how iconic they've become in that part of Canada, and how I wrote them into Crest. Take a listen in the June 10th episode on Daybreak North; the segment starts at 54:30 and my interview starts at 59:07. The audiobook is up on

I'm Still Invisible... by PennedinWhite, journal

I'm Still Invisible...

May 14, 2020

Hello my friends, I am not dead, but things have been rough the last couple of weeks. Nothing I can really control, which makes it all the worse. Job is doing well. I am still working 80% from home, only going into the office twice a week for a few hours each... due to needing to make sure things get filed and what not. The scenery has changed, but the work has not, which I feel very blessed about right now. I have been playing with my camera more now that I am home, which has been fun - but I honestly haven't felt like doing anything the last couple of weeks, and I think I am slowly getting to the bottom of why I have been down for so long. I recently had to change therapists...(yes, again). The one I found here in town, left the agency, which made me quite sad. I was very happy with her and I had hoped we would have been able to get into my past a bit more other than me just telling her about it. I need to process it; not necessarily relive it in my mind, but find a way to

Supporting Artists Through Covid-19 by Mrs-Durden, journal

Supporting Artists Through Covid-19

May 11, 2020

UPDATE The 2 deviants chosen to receive a commission of up to $30 are: Sparkle-Photography (https://www.deviantart.com/sparkle-photography), who wants a commission from Concini (https://www.deviantart.com/concini) WolfoBeanz (https://www.deviantart.com/wolfobeanz) who wants a commission from Nalak-Bel (https://www.deviantart.com/nalak-bel) I'll be contacting them now. :heart: Dear all, I don't plan on going into depth about the current world situation, I think everyone is well aware of the pandemic and its effects. Indeed, many have lost their jobs, been put on part-time work, have had to close their businesses or faced other similar financial effects due to Covid-19 spreading worldwide. It goes without saying that artists have also been affected. While right now is certainly a time where spe

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