Literature
How dA Changed the Deviant
deviantART has changed my life. No, really. It has. I've been here for six years, and every year that's gone by this site has become a more and more important part of who I am. Let me start from the beginning.
2003 was in the middle of a particularly difficult part of my life. I wasn't exactly what I would call stable in any sense of the word. When I came to deviantART, it was because I wanted to read my friends' writings. They gave me their userpage URLs and the next day I toddled off to the public library (because I didn't have a computer at the time) to check it out. I checked it out, was interested and decided to join myself, even thou