Gotten a free subscription for active use of the site
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Established that to be polite on deviantart, you must thank those that fave your work ( beginning with the discovery of the emoticon and moving onto simpler ways of thanks like )
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Made your own avatar, not just downloaded a 50x50 from any random site
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Created a signature with at least one emoticon (gone through a possible rainbow emoticon phase (usually more elaborate))
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Clicked on a stupid link in someone’s signature that promised something cool but ended up just rerouting back to the persons gallery
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Determined that the little marks in front of deviant usernames have some sort of meaning (* = ` ! etc)
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Crushed on/Admired *saturdayx or *BellZ [if a girl, or an emo boy]
or *kedralynn / *larafairie [if a boy, or a girl that rolls that way]

*done fanwork for any makes you even more devout
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Done up your journal with CSS if subscribed; if not subscribed, admired those who have pretty journal entries and asked to no avail how to obtain a pretty journal
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Featured thumbs from other deviants in your journal entires
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Become envious of `blackeri for mastering the Seven Deadly Sins -


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Marvelled at `foureyes square landscapes

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Said “aweeeeeee” out loud (in the head is acceptable) for *faboarts amazingly cute creatures

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Realized that you will never be as good as *BatDesignz at creating the perfect eye picture, though you will probably try anyway

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Discovered `gilad’s The Love Omen and the perfect shaped heart cloud that is impossible to recreate

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Observed just how many deviants are into anime (and actually anything Japanese)

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Found that when you put the words sex, love, heart, etc in a deviation, it’s bound to get pageviews

*this is even more true if there’s nudity/fetish-like features
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Seen the classic points of view - by *sanja
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Come to terms with the fact that the whole heart shape made in the fold of a book has been done, too many times, and should not be replicate (although if you do you’ll probably still receive a nice amount of favorites, and don't get me wrong, the following are beautiful pictures)

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Noticed that being emo is praised and that emo deviants roam the site
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Faved at least five dewdrop pictures from the millions to choose from

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Admired the numerous pictures of Polaroid pictures
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Come to terms with the fact that boys kissing boys and girls kissing girls is sex
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Posted at least once in the forum
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Accumulated over 500+ deviations in your deviantwatch box from slacking off
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Gotten to know random deviants that have amazing deviations but go unnoticed; helped to spread news of their wonderful gallery through forums/discussions/etc
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Checked out the following deviations from the amazing following deviants

~poop-art :



*girltripped :



*enayla :



`suzi9mm :



*whorer-movie :



~kittynn :



*pyromaniac :



=333bracket :



=TheTragicTruth-Of-Me :



*complejo :



`karincoma:



*acidlullaby :



`SeaFairy :



=anjali:





But the most important factor in being a true deviant is improving your artwork, interacting with others and their galleries, and having fun


* If you feel like I’ve missed something, or have a great idea of your own that would add to this article, just note me what you’ve got here

[this article in no way defines your stance as a deviant, it’s only something I wrote for fun! :]]