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December Community Events by moonbeam13, journal
December Community Events
Get ready to dive into a blizzard of creativity this December! From snowball-themed activities to winter wonderland challenges, there’s something for everyone. Check out the exciting events happening across our official groups and community accounts below!
Great Snowball Fest
Celebrate the season with our annual Snowball badge! Earn points, climb the leaderboard, and collect exclusive custom items available for the month.🔗 Read the Announcement Journal
Frost Yourself with Snowball Designs
Customize your profile for winter! Learn how to “winterize” your space with this year’s festive designs.🔗 View the Winter Customization Journal
Group-led Events
Snowy Animals Challenge
Choose a snowy animal as inspiration and create a new anthro OC to celebrate the season.
🔗 View Journal
Frozen in Time Adoptable Contest
Design a frozen-themed adoptable character to fit our seasonal vibe!🔗 Read the Contest Details
In a World of Snow Contest
Draw your OC in anime style, set inside a
Fan Art Friday: Harry Potter by Pascua-Tanya, journal
Fan Art Friday: Harry Potter
Hello everyone! For my first Fan Art Friday, I decided to honor Harry Potter, one of the most famous fantasy novel series in the world and one that I have loved since childhood . It consists of seven books written by British author J. K. Rowling between June 1997 and July 2007, which describe the adventures of Harry Potter, an orphan boy who discovers that he is a wizard when he turns eleven and is invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (the same school his parents also attended), to develop his magical abilities. At Hogwarts, Harry meets his best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, learns important things about his past (and his family) and prepares to face Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who murdered his parents when he was a baby. The main story arc of the novels concerns Harry's conflict with Lord Voldemort, who intends to become immortal, overthrow the wizard governing body (Ministry of Magic), and subjugate all the wizards and Muggles
Fan Art Friday: Percy Jackson by moonbeam13, journal
Fan Art Friday: Percy Jackson
Welcome back to Fan Art Friday, where we dive into the incredible creations from our talented community. This week, we're shining the spotlight on Percy Jackson, everyone's favorite demigod with a knack for saving the day (and making us laugh along the way)! Big thanks to kih3art for suggesting this awesome theme!
"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself." — Percy Jackson
"Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is remind each other that we’re related for better or worse... and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum." — Hermes
From epic battles to heartfelt friendships, Percy Jackson fan art captures the spirit of adventure and the bonds that define the series. Let’s celebrate this incredible fandom together!
💌 Got an idea for our next Fan Art Friday? Share your suggestions with me via note, and who knows? Your favorite fandom might just take center stage in the next showcase!
👉 Missed a
Freeze your friends at the Great Snowball Fest! by team, journal
Freeze your friends at the Great Snowball Fest!
Throw Snowball badges at deviations and comments to climb the Snowball Leaderboard and win points or a one-of-a-kind event t-shirt!
Get ready for a flurry of fun, because the Great Snowball Fest has returned once again! This year, the seasonal Snowball badge is free to throw, so let the snowballs fly to secure your spot on the Snowball Leaderboard.
The leaderboard is especially thrilling this year, because when the leaderboard tally ends at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on December 31st, deviants ranked 6 through 15 will receive 100 points, and the top-five snowball throwers will receive a special event t-shirt!
Winners will be announced on or around January 2nd, 2025.
The Snowball Leaderboard
Rank 1-5: T-Shirt Champions
— 17979 snowballs thrown
— 17634
— 17234
— 17050
— 15046
Rank 6-15: Points Pursuers
— 14527 snowballs thrown
— 14226
— 13590
— 12084
— 11892
— 11426
— 9749
— 9058
— 8534
— 8390
Leaderboard last updated: December 26th, 1:08pm
A Legend of Snow: Expecto Snowballis! by writeddreams2reality, journal
A Legend of Snow: Expecto Snowballis!
Welcome to CRLiterature!
This December, we’re discovering a desert world filled with magic that has forgotten the wonders of winter in our “Legend of Snow” weekly activities. ❄️ Follow the prompts below to build out your own version of this fantasy universe with a little magic and a lot of fun for your chance to win DA points or badges! 🏅
❄️The Legend of Snow, Part 1: ❄️
The desert is unrelenting as you make your daily march to the only well within hundreds of miles. From more than a mile away, you can already see the snaking lines of people queuing for their daily water allotment, already knowing it is never enough to crush that gnawing sense of dehydration in the pit of your stomach, but it is just enough that you won’t collapse while scavenging for food.
As you make your way down the hard scrabble path from the rocky outcrop you’ve called home for 20 years, a small boulder slides from under your feet, sending you toppling forward and onto your hands and knees. As you recover
In a World of Snow Contest by AlexanderPaupoff, journal
In a World of Snow Contest
The holidays are here, and your OCs deserve their own winter snow globe moment.
Welcome to the
In a World of Snow Contest
Show us how your OCs would spend their time in a miniature world of endless snowfall. Will they be making snow angels, building snowmen, ice skating, or starting snowball fights?
Draw your original character(s) inside this snow globe in an anime style.
Rules
Your OC must be drawn in an anime style inside the snow globe template provided above. [download link] Editing the template is allowed.
Use #snowyDA24 among your tags.
Submit your entry to the contest folder. Membership to the group is required to submit to the folder. All membership requests are automatically accepted.
Your work should be created specifically for this contest, which means no work submitted before December 01, 2024.
You can submit as many entries as you like, but only one of them may win a prize.
AI and AI-assisted images are not eligible for this contest.
Dates to
Critmas 2024: We Want You! by BeckyKidus, journal
Critmas 2024: We Want You!
It's the 1st of December, so we are officially allowed to start talking about Christmas... And Critmas, because we're back, baby For the 14th time in a row, if I have counted and remembered correctly, and it's a pleasure to be able to host it again!
What is Critmas?
Critmas is, said simply, a competition about writing the most art critiques. Starting December 26th, it lasts 12 days, and there are various challenges and ways to rack up bonus points along the way. Needless to say, the more points you have, the more prizes you get!
Who can join?
Everyone can! Visual artists, writers, or art enjoyers who don't post themselves - as long as you're interested in giving art critique, you're welcome! Sign up by commenting on this journal!
Like last year, there will be teams, but you can also sign up as an independent if you prefer that. If you are interested in leading a team, please tell me! There can't be teams without captains
The prizes
There will obviously be some neat prizes
SNOWY ANIMALS CHALLENGE by Yhorey-San, journal
SNOWY ANIMALS CHALLENGE
We’re joining in on the snow-themed Community fun with our own snow-themed challenge in
AnthroCommunity ❄️ We’ve collected a list of our favorite Snowy Animals below as your inspiration
for creating an original wintery Anthro character 🐻❄️ Create a new deviation based on one of the
following Snowy Animals and submit to our gallery for a chance to win some DA Points this holiday
season 🎁
● Arctic Fox
● Arctic Hare
● Arctic Wolf
● Caribou / Reindeer
● Emperor Penguin
● Polar Bear
● Snow Goose
● Snow Leopard
● Snowy Owl
● Walrus
Here’s the rules and rewards for this AnthroCommunity group challenge:
■ ✅ All deviations must abide by DeviantArt Terms of Service, our Fair Use rules for
submissions, and the Submission Guidelines for AnthroCommunity … off topic or
inappropriate entries will be removed
■ 🙏 Create your images with digital and traditional tools in whatever art style you’d like … use
the tag “AnthroCommunity” when submitting your deviation please and thank you
■ 🎨 One entry
Feature: Writing tutorials + undiscovered art by BeckyKidus, journal
Feature: Writing tutorials + undiscovered art
It is time to feature more tutorials and undiscovered art! :dummy:
As usual, the feature will be divided into two parts. The first part includes tutorials on how to design characters and creatures, and the second part is a selection of artwork I’ve discovered recently with fewer than 50 favourites.
Previous features are linked at the bottom of the journal, and I post a new feature each month on my profile, usually around the 15th :la:
This month, we'll focus on an art form which can be a bit hidden on DA, namely writing. There are a lot of good stories, fan fiction and poetry out there, though - as well as some excellent tutorials on writing!
First, we'll start with... well, story writing. @illuminara and @OokamiKasumi start us off by giving some tips on how to start writing in general, as well as giving some beginner tips. illuminara also has an enlightening guide on how to write your first draft, and then @MomoPoms gives some great advice on how to write good fanfiction
Fan Art Friday: Blue Eye Samurai by AlexanderPaupoff, journal
Fan Art Friday: Blue Eye Samurai
Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix is a visually striking animated series with a gripping storyline, unique characters, and powerful themes like identity, honour, and vengeance.
Set in Edo-era Japan, the eponymous blue-eyed samurai, Mizu, embarks on a relentless quest for vengeance. In a society that values purity and conformity above all else, the mixed-race Mizu is an outcast, experiencing deep-rooted prejudice and abuse at every turn. Demonised by society, Mizu's insatiable need for revenge against those responsible for her origin begins to threaten her very humanity.
This week's Fan Art Friday feature pays tribute to Mizu's unforgettable journey - her strength, determination, and vulnerability - with some amazing fan art created by the community.
An artist gives all they have to the art, the whole. Your strengths and deficiencies, your loves and shames. Perhaps the people you collected. - The Swordfather
If one god forsakes you, another one will help you.
- Akemi
To a man
Envy by PST-Magnus, literature
Literature
Envy
Beneath the hollow, starless sprawl of night,
Where shadows writhe in silence, cold and tight,
A serpent stirs, its coils of void unbound,
Its venom whispers where no hope is found.
The earth, a corpse; the sky, a gaping maw,
Time drips like blood from entropy’s raw claw.
No gods remain to mock the fleeting breath;
All things are ash, all roads converge in death.
Yet still it festers envy’s blackened seed,
A hunger born of nothing’s endless greed.
For what is left to crave in this abyss,
But ruin’s kiss upon what ruin is?
The mountains crumble, seas dissolve to dust,
And yet the serpent writhes in ceaseless lust.
Its fangs sink deep into the void’s own skin,
Devouring all that never could have been.
No sun will rise; no dawn will break this spell.
The cosmos rots within its shattered shell.
And envy laughs a hollow, soulless sound,
For even nothing envies what’s not found.








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