Fabulous Friday Feature 12: Alice in Wonderland

Greetings, all, and welcome to my twelfth

FABULOUS FRIDAY FEATURE

This week's theme is one of my favorite artistic and literary themes of all time: Alice in Wonderland. Just a quick peek and my gallery will show you how much I love Alice! Next week's feature is also going to be based on literature: H. P. Lovecraft! If you've got someone you think should be featured in next Friday's Feature, send me a note with a link to their gallery and I'll take a peek I'd also love to hear about other features, particularly themed ones. I'll list those in the bottom section to help spread the word! The same goes for contests or news articles!

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I am ALWAYS seeking donations and nominations for my pay-it-forward project! So far I've been able to donate three premium memberships, and I'm only a few hundred points away from being able to give away another one! I want to be able to donate premium memberships to deserving members, so please check out my journal for info on sending nominations:
Pay-It-Forward Project:new:Update: Unfortunately, due to a number of factors, I will not be continuing this project. However, I strongly encourage you all to pay it forward yourselves! Deviants so far who have received premium memberships as part of this project: :iconkinachuku::iconhillsofmyst::iconcelestialmemories::iconai-sanura::iconsurrealcachinnation:Thank you sososososo much to :devnamenotrequired: for helping me to promote this project!Greetings! I am posting this to let you all know I have decided I want to try to pay the premium membership love forward, and so I am looking for donations to go toward buying premium memberships for other people :) You c...

Finally, to everyone celebrating Yule and Christmas: HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

And now, without any further ado: THE FEATURES!



Visual Art

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Literature
In a Jabberwocky MoodThe umbralings worgFrothed lights in the throlly moolsGowls and lunps at dusk we should be old by nowHis soles are in the sidewalk and I have trouble breathing such tendencies; such inclinations to dance, even as the violets collapse beneath the incling -incline --fjeld rocket-launching into the air: seclusion arisen. God, his cigarettes are bread crumbs on the ground; oh, the tendrils, tendrils of pity and worry and sickness winding beneath those shoulder blades, striding, two jackets to keep the cold out.I make both of us sick and there's coffee in the cracks in the sidewalk in the ground, plants rising with baited breath to scour the sky blueless. Pollution tastes so pure when all you see is destruction, and oil spills are just rainbow... there is Alice in her hairwanderset on destination furthest point: away, come away hallow-hills:hollow-bones birdlike, with feathers ripping through her poresthere is alice in her hair, irrevocable sorrow her Heart:muscle wants to wind upside-down so that when she falls she'll fall into spacefollow her down to, china-strewn linoleum floors and wallpaper patterns like shower curtains wonderland? is dark (without the luciferin lightningbug love of her life)& bloody fingernails reach for the sun that was taken away [come away] she thinks she cannot speak&her spine is just a thread the medicine is messing with her head whispers:(sometimes she believes life is better de... alice.you remind me of the cheshire cat, restrained chaos hiding behind a perpetual grin, the insanity is always justified by the win, your immortal attire, your lackluster eyes, the way you teach me nothing, the way everything is a lie.i remind you of the mad hatter, tea parties full of sad expressions, confused verbs and endless lessons, misshapen top hats, tattered gloves, the one who stands beside you, the one you can't help but love. almost aliceSometimes I almost feel like Alice. sleeping off their dull words and dreaming of girls dressed in white that will whisk me away with the talk of petticoats and pocket watches. Alice-SongI don't know how to be a woman, that soft, coddled creature, all back-lit hair & skin that smells so good you could hurt it bakewell tarts & pussies like orchidsbecause I'm too black-eyed & tired, my hair smells like forest fires. Theseus won't write me love letters anymore & when I cry on the bus it's at a child, quiet yelps of a black-jawed vixen eating herself as she listens to the Alice-song of those flower-cunts purring, Why do you have to make being sad so ugly?because I don't understand how to be a woman, that the hammered envelope of obedienceor the little girl that sits in my stomach and swings her shiny shoes, cryingbeg,sit,stay.:thumb109949571: Gateway Drug Theory:thumb278622082: Alice"She's fucking POISON," my friends would say. Beautifully morbid, like an Alice who tumbled on a fourth in the month of May.Beautifully morbid, like an Alice who tumbled down the rabbit hole. Into her dreams, my beautiful Alice has now stumbled.Down the rabbit hole, into her dreams, those nighmarish and ghoulish shadows where nothing is everything as it seems.Those nightmarish and ghoulish shadows, the twisted pair of the hare and the hatter are hellbent on stringing you up in the gallows.The twisted pair of the hare and the hatter, sitting comfortably at the Red Queen's party, just want you for tea. So, what is the matter?Sitting comforta...

Community News, Features, and Fun(ny) Things

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Fantastic Feature Tuesday #23This is a weekly feature of amazing literature that I come by during my travels across deviantART. This is only a small sample of a vast amount of wonderful pieces of literature written by absolutely fantastic writers. Each deviation was carefully selected from a writer's gallery based on structure, impact and word usage. I will never feature the same person twice, so check out these wonderful writers now while you can! Please this news article so it will reach a larger audience! PS. These first two are a collab, so be sure to check them both out! :thumb313269639: :thumb313272663: :thumb340010624: :thumb199518712: :thumb322502721:  :...:thumb338688692: Love dA Lit: Issue 107Welcome to the one-hundred seventh issue of Love dA Lit! :holly: Every Sunday this article will aim to promote volunteer opportunities, various resources, prompts, challenges, and workshops, as well as highlighting various contests, and spotlighting a specific group every week. This is by no means a complete list of all the literature going-ons, merely a tool to help you get involved and stay informed. :star: This week’s group spotlight is :devPoeticalCondition:! :star: :devlitplease:'s Community Portal Navigation Literature Links | Group Spotlight | Workshops, Prompts and Challenges Literature Contests | Resources | Open Admin...
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100 Poem Project Update!
Current progress: 67/100
journal: azizriandaoxrak.deviantart.com…
blog: 100-poem-project.blogspot.com/
Also note that the terribly sweet SayaStarshine took a look at my list and decided she wanted to do it, too! She is using the same topics as me, and you can find the link to her stuff here.