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The unending non-holiday by diamondie, literature

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The unending non-holiday

Losing a beloved pet is heart-breaking for anyone, but even more so for someone who has already lost so much to years of being sick. Even when you have a neurological illness that few people understand, animals can provide unconditional love and support. Helen still has her other bichon frisé dog Snuffe, but the recent loss of "her little shadow" Lillen (pictured) dealt a devastating blow, especially since any stress tends to make chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) even worse. Helen studied Swedish and English, became a librarian and had three children in just over three years. For several years she was effecti

Where there is will... by diamondie, literature

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Where there is will...

Where there is will, there is pain Timo is 22. He used to do gymnastics in the Finnish national team. He wouldn't let something little come in the way. It's not that he is a perfectionist, he just wanted everything. Or at least a Masters of Science and to be a top athlete. Then Timo got an ear infection, not exactly a major illness, but that's when things started to go wrong. After a few weeks of tinnitus and antibiotics he got well again. Almost. He was more tired than usual and started struggling with brainfog. Six months later the doctor of the Olympic committee diagnosed Timo with mycoplasma, a bacterial infection which is usually only

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Where there is will...

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A Casual Funeral by nonculture, literature

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A Casual Funeral

A plane home, holding it together like winter in June, a passed away friend’s dry ground hard to find as any from a mile up, or only six feet away. No cocktails, no Dramamine, I’ll sick and seizure just the same; my manual is made of liquid, fragile as a prayer recited in slumber at the luggage station, where a conveyer lets go, go, go until the rollers break; until the rubber throws up its hands in split hair strands, and finally says “no.” A plain home, holding it together like a desert palm, a seed that strayed from comforts of tropical showers to root in spider-webbed salt flats o

The Aunt's Demise by nilocnag, literature

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The Aunt's Demise

The first thing that one usually does when his or her aunt is found dead is to celebrate. Of course, this process varies across cultures, but the general rule is to throw your hands up and yell "Hooray!" upon receiving the news, or discovering it. So when little Tommy came home from soccer practice to find his aunt dead on the lazy chair in the living room, he did throw his hands up and yell "Hooray!" (Children are very well read nowadays and know all about these traditions.) He didn't yell too loud, though, as he wasn't totally sure she had expired. Tommy took as evidence her stillness, her glazed-over eyes and a little drool which had come

The Bird by Holy-Mecha, literature

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The Bird

"Found a bird in delta." I say. John doesn't stir, so I repeat. "Said a bird flew in. Little scrawny thing, but it got in." "Can't of." "What I thought. But it did." I can hear John stretch out in the bunk above me, the ancient springs groaning as his body and muscles shift across them. "Where's the leak?" "Sally's looking. Be in delta though - can't of got through a bulkhead." "Better not be delta two." I nod, because neither of us want it in delta two. "What sort of bird?" "Little scrawny bastard, don't know. Could look him up." John swings himself off the top bunk, and sits down on the end of my bed to do

250 christians can't be wrong by missedpoints, literature

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250 christians can't be wrong

I. The counselors tried to keep the children calm before meals. They lined them up by cabin in front of the dinning hall and preformed various stunts to pacify them until the tables were set. Sometimes they sang songs with hand motions: "Baby Shark do do do do do do, Baby Shark do do do do do do, Baby Shark. Mama Shark do do do do do do, Mama Shark do do do do do do, Mama Shark, Daddy Shark do do do do do do…" The song continued to tell the story of a woman swimming who suffered a shark attack and flew to Heaven. It was an annoying tune with gestures that involved little more than clapping your hands together in a vertical snapping moti

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ASCII art tutorial 1.0 by diamondie, visual art

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About diamondie

Artist // Professional // Literature

Netherlands
Deviant for 21 years
www.youtube.com/user/DiamonDie
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27-year old Finnish writer (author, journalist, medical writer), translator, artist and photographer living in the Netherlands. I'm hardly on DA any more, having grown tired of the abusive, lying, sociopathic admins.

Favourite Movies

Magnolia, Dancer in the Dark, The Sea Inside, most films by Trier and Almodovar

Favourite Bands / Musical Artists

Bon Jovi, CMX, Bjork, Juno Reactor, The Beatles, VNV Nation, Negative Format, Biosphere, Nick Cave

Favourite Games

Nethack/Slash'Em

Favourite Gaming Platform

MS-DOS

Tools of the Trade

JavE, ACiDDraw, Notepad, Atlantis, PSP 9, TieraZon, Canon EOS 400D, Wacom Graphire etc

Deviousness Award

If there were art-related superheroes, `diamondie would be the superhero for textmode art. She is, without a doubt, the uncontested queen of this medium, utilizing her power and undeniable talent to educate the community through tutorials and countless news features. Her careful nurturing of this community has helped it grow and garner attention in a world dominated by flashy colors and 3-dimensional graphics. It is because of her dedication and superhero-ness that we bestow deviousness upon `diamondie for January.

Awarded Jan 2007

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Dec 11, 2021

A whirlwind year

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It's been many years. And this year has been incredibly weird, and that doesn't even begin to cover it. I won't go into detail about the non-art stuff, but having your personality completely change in an instant, half a dozen times, has been great and fascinating but also disorienting and alienating. Last year I started recording hypnosis and meditation audios and more poetry for my YouTube channel, and those have received great feedback but alas, I got sicker and can't do that much any more. Earlier this year my beloved muse enticed me to start pencil drawing and I turned out to be pretty good at it (I thought I can't draw). I tried my hand at watercolors, which I always saw as an impossible medium, but turns out it's not. Alas, I again got sicker, as things tend to go, and have hardly been able to do any art for over six months. I've written over 250 poems this year, thanks to both my muse and the massive cognitive overhaul I've experienced. It feels like after 30+ years of

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diamondie

Jun 1, 2014

Alive-ish

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It's been a while. A few years. Quite a few since I essentially stopped using DA because of the extremely abusive admins (my comment average is still 4.2 comments a day!). I'm not sure if anyone I know is still reading this. Lots of stuff has been happening, good and bad. The Netherlands is a wonderful place. When I got away from Finland life was great for a while. I could work 15-hour days despite the CFS/ME, thanks to LDN. I thought my nightmare was finally over. Until November 2011, when my pituitary was destroyed by sabotage. Hypopituitarism is one really shitty illness and has put me close to death more times than I can count. Also very