*dA Groups Suck*Seriously I hate dA groups these days. And it isn't one group or even a genre of groups. Groups that seem abandoned or inactive, weird themes with a million folders, administered by idiots / children / clowns who have no fucken idea what they are talking about, decline anything and everything for the most petty and insignificant reasons or never even bother to vote on submissions at all so they expire, and etc etc etc
I had planned to write a long detailed rant about it. Usually a long detailed rant with some comedy thrown in makes me feel better about silly shit on this site and or in life. But I honestly don't give a fuck enough to bother anymore, and that means my disillusionment with aspects of dA has now become irreversible. So enough is enough of the group submissions bullshit
*Self Promotion*I am not real big on blowing my own horn, in fact it makes me feel like something of a shameful fraud for some reason known only to a therapist I have yet to see. Up until now generally the only self promotion I do is to submit stuff to groups, but groups suck as per above. So in lieu of groups sucking and sucking up time, energy and patients I am opting for submissions to the "journal portal" thing which I guess is the new version of "news submissions"
*Project Re-Edit*I started doing revised edits on some older images, mostly to get rid of those ghastly frames I was putting on stuff that I now can stand. Well it turned into a gateway thing and now I have starting doing fully revised edits of almost everything prior to June 2010 or so
I don't really want to bore everyone silly for the next six months by posting "updated files" so I will just do journals and put the thumb images in there and you can look if you like or not look, it's up to you. But submitting them to the "journal portal" maybe pulls in a few new watchers etc. So here is a few I have done so far
`anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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and some small creatures who love flowers 
this article so it reaches more deviants. Thank you.
Lazy 
but with me i always submit correctly and people giving you reasons like "the models ugly and fat" as a reason for criticising your photography its just gross
i did 2 huge rounds of groups submissions to test it out
about 15% of submissions expired and when i asked why they expired i got no answer
about 20% were declined and when i asked why i got no answer from most and stupid things from others like "thats how we voted" and "it just doesnt turn me on enough"
i discovered about 15% of the groups i had been submitting too are completely inactive / abandoned / the admins are banned / all the folders have hit their limits / now only accept 1 image a month
and its a time consuming thing submitting to groups
and you should have seen the self portraits of the woman who said this model is too fat and too ugly - [link]
and thank you for the nice words about the image
Thanks for the re-edits
Peter
dont leave respect us though