I'm really very happy with the service I get here at DA. For all of NO money they host at virtually any resolution all the fan art I could care to create. They've got an aesthetically pleasing layout (or did.... but that's another rant, plus: their prerogative to change) and overall, are an absolutely top notch web sight.

The users, however, are another matter.

There are a few definitions for "favourite" but the one which rings the most clear to me, (from those offered at dictionary.com) is "preferred above all others and treated with partiality." In my mind, something actually has to... well, be a favourtie before I even think of hitting that fave button. The only other exception is perhaps gift art, made for me. But even those hold a special place to me, and are works I like to revisit, frequently. Oh, and the occasional tutorial or reference page. Tutorials included, I have.... seven pages of faves. And even that makes me go "ehh" because that seems like a LOT to me.

Now, clearly other people don't agree with me, but I find it amazingly frustrating and indescribably annoying when I log into deviant art to see "131 Messages." This happened to me the other day, as a matter of fact. 3 girls, who shall remain nameless, fave-bombed my entire gallery. Nine pages of fave from one, and another page from the other two. out of 110 faves, between them, they left one comment.... TELLING me that she had faved my work.

Really?

Really?

This in addition to the usual influx of faves I find in my box.

Really.

Now, I don't want to come of like an ungrateful bitch (too late) but this... is really annoying. I should also mention that out of the 111 messages I had to sort through from them, any "+watch" messages were NOT included.

This baffles me.

How is it you like my work SO MUCH that you fave almost my entire gallery, indiscriminately, but you think "Eh... clearly she's hit her peek, and will NOT be creating any more work worth viewing EVER AGAIN. I need not return to this place."

Not to mention! When you fave my entire gallery, you've essentially just made a copy of my gallery at your page. You know where else you can find that? ON MY PAGE. If you're really... REALLY chasing your own tail and almost piddling yourself out of sheer "NEED TO HAVE" at my shitty gallery, why not save yourself all the clicking, and just WATCH me. Then, when ever you like, you can come back and Poof! Like magic, all the pictures are there gathered for you in one place.

MAGIC.

I've resigned myself to getting faves without comments. Hell, I'm guilty of that one, though I try, anymore, to leave a comment when I fave telling them why, but mass gallery faves still piss me off.

This is why I think DA needs to limit the number of faves per day to like... 1. Non transferable. However, this would likely start riots, so I resign myself to have ranting bitch sessions with my friends, and to write angry journal updates.


Edit: Felt I should mention.... I'm basically guilty of this exact behaviour in my mod persona over at EOC. I feel that because the EOC is a CLUB, and not an individual's art page, though, the faves are treated more as a comprehensive collection of ALL the evo art on DA. Which is why I think there should be a seperation between "faves" and "collecting" but TOO LATE. 6.6



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THE LIST

• Contest Prompts (EoC, Challenge, WandaClub)!!


• Evo Everlasting


• X-girls hotline


• GH Evo


• K/C


• Space Cases


• November 22, 1963


• Only a Lad


• You Can't Stop the Beat


• Chillun!BH


• Parkour Jubes and Toad


• Kiriban Winner

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Anyone who's actually interested in seeing what I'm doing, would do well to check the "scraps" section of my gallery, or as it should be called, the "Sketch Section."

Direct Linkage to Blaze's Most Recent Work! w00t!


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Now, for some quotes from You're Too Smart for This.


"Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of it's shortness."
--Jean de la Bruyere, wo could've also applied this to.... heh. Well. Y'know.


"Play hooky like you're playing to win"
-- Uncommonly clever quote from a Citibank billboard around LA





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