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  • Happening Now

    Applications Now Open: 2027–2028 Lafayette Fellowship

    Dear Friends,  Building on the success of the Lafayette Fellowship’s launch last year and following a successful Summer Leadership Program with our inaugural cohort, I am delighted to announce that applications for the 2027–2028 Lafayette Fellowship are now open. They will remain open through December 1, 2026.  This program offers a unique opportunity to join the next generation of young leaders c

  • OCTOBER Favorite films + musics

    Someone asked me to give old horror films i recommend and are my favorites... I added some good to watch, what say you?   Recommended The Seventh Victim- 1943- you may enjoy this one, I saw this for the first time recently. The end is electric, a human horror or is it?:) I want to know if you think this is more frightening than rosemary's baby? The Uninvited 1944- I despise that the

  • 15 underrated 1970s sci fi films and banned films

    15 underrated 1970s sci fi films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM_mgmy0dN0 1974 the conversation One of Gene Hackman's greatest roles.  When you think about a film like the matrix, what makes the conversation so much more frightening is that coppola doesn't involve the fantastical elements and leaves it all into humanity. Hackman's character Karl is Neo but absent anywhere to

  • Earliest Sword and Soul question?

    https://www.mvmediaatl.com/group/sword-and-soul/discussion/05f8116f-53fa-4698-be89-23f5ce62d1d5   CONTENT What is the earliest sword and soul from descended of enslaved in the american continent? Does myths or legends of haiti count? does john henry count? does sword and soul have to have a sowrd? some examples of mine that I think may count https://www.devi

  • WATN: Dorian Gray 10012026

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/WATN%3A-Dorian-Gray-1374480446 CONTENT Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group. Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @CRLiterature in reporting on some of our favorite fictional unknowns by writing fun fan fictions based on legendary characters in the public domain. 📽️📺 Ponder media's most ancient

  • Palimpingere 10012026

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Palimpingere-1381011151 CONTENT Title: Palimpingere from Richard Murray @HDdeviant January, in a year, inside a gentle home, a real estate agent is inside a hall aside a customer. "Mrs. Sussy, wasn't this painting different last week" Mrs. Sussy look at the painting of the house in the house and reply:" No Mrs. Yam. You know this is a work by Safed S

  • A Lady Leaves 10012026

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/A-Lady-Leaves-1387156503 CONTENT EMBEDED EMBED CODE TITLE: A Lady Leaves for the European Renaissance art challenge in @color-me-club 🌅 European Renaissance Contest 🌅\nBrought to you","html":{"type":"tiptap","features":"[{\"type\":\"TIPTAP_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"tiptap\":true,\"version\":1}},{\"type\":\"WORD_COUNT_FEATURE\",\"data\":{\"words\":901,\"

  • CUMYA CHILDREN 10012026

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/CUMYA-CHILDREN-1387183230 CONTENT TITLE: CUMYA CHILDREN subtitle: A Black Fable Pageant 1.CHILDREN ARE BORN A. Dancers Nut- female , embodiment of galactic night which extends beyond any light. Black soft fabric covers all but head. Black afro hairstyle head covering with black tulle veil to cover rest of head. Geb- male, embodiment of Earth. Blue an

  • October 2026 : European Renaissance 10012026

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/October-2026-%3A-European-Renaissance-1373078979 CONTENT European Renaissance: October 2026 Contest 🌅 Brought to you by: Join @color-me-club in coloring or creating coloring pages about themes that enliven our spirits. Coloring can be meditative fun or a communal activity, open to anyone at any skill level. Making a coloring page is like maki

  • European Renaissance Inspiration Guide 10012026

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/European-Renaissance-Inspiration-Guide-1381838803 CONTENT FOR THE October 2026 : European Renaissance Challenge in LINK TO CHALLENGE turn underline line sections below into inks to the challenge Trecento and the First Phase European Renaissance This phase of the European Renaissance is based on getting all elements in works of art to be as natu

  • Earn the October 2026 Group Profile Badge! 10012026

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Earn-the-October-2026-Group-Profile-Badge%21-1381833605 CONTENT No AI generated entries in this group. Check out @DeviantAI for AI specific contests. Thanks! Join @color-me-club as we celebrate the season of spirits. For some this time is a time of fear, curses born of murder that spread through the interaction of the living with the spirits of th

  • Giant Monster Attack Monster House 10012026

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Giant-Monster-Attack-Monster-House-1387152573 CONTENT EMBEDED EMBED CODE TITLE: Giant Monster Attack Monster House for #hauntedhues monthly badge challene for @color-me-club Earn the October 2026 Group Profile Badge! 3 hours ago No AI generated entries in this group. Check out I used the bloodwine apple hue for coloring. The monsters in the monster ho

  • #BlackHistory337 - 8: Stageplays 10012026

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/BlackHistory337---8%3A-Stageplays-1381899790 CONTENT #BlackHistory337 is about the time outside the 28 days designated as Black History Month, an opportunity to celebrate the contributions of the Black community during the other 337 days of the year. Let's continue learning all year long, because history doesn't stop when February ends. For this e

  • Roller Coaster Promptibilities

    Roller Coaster Promptibilities https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/PRollercoaster-1248211029    

  • If I Only Had

    A lyrical poetry https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/If-I-only-had-1248257724 If I only had, a stem I could use If I only had, I would step right in If she didn't want! why is her skin smooth And what makes my pulp, boil to sauce while my seeds sing sooth ... if I only had   inspired by  If I didn't Care by the Ink Spots +  under

  • Anniversary of the first peanuts comic strip

    1950 Peanuts debuted - notice how the characters look different. One of the problems today is when an artist starts a comic, people want the character to be in a "final" state but most toons, the characters changed over time. Look at the smurfs, originally in the Johann and Peewee strip but then flushed out. Look at charlie brown originally?  I see too many artists who are unwilling to submit work

  • Cento Series End 09/27/2025

    The Cento series has gone on for a very long time.    The cento series was because I love to write poetry and share other artists work. So with centos I could create artwork I like and feature other artists in the same. Field. It was a joy being on this creative journey. From May 28th 2023 to September 7th 2025 is circa two and a half years. Fifty two weeks in a year so, 52+52+(52/2)  =

  • Zero's Unfolding Adventure in Literature/Coloring Pages/Audio

    Zero's Unfolding Adventure   LITERATURE Zero's Unfolding Adventure https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Zero-s-Unfolding-Adventure-1242313656 ART Amate of Yabu, Mui, and Zero https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Amate-of-Yabu-Mui-and-Zero-1243104279 Zero sleeping after adventures with Yabu Nda https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Zero-sleeping-after-adventures-with-Yabu-Nda-1243106596

  • Richard Murray's Public Literary Challenge Examples Listing #RMPLCEL initialized 10/05/2025

    Richard Murray's Public Literary Challenge Examples Listing #RMPLCEL https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/richard-murray-s-public-literary-challenge-examples-listing-rmplcel   A an ever-growing list of examples, as long as I am alive. Currently the examples stem from my activities at the CRLiterature group in Deviantart, where I am known as HDdeviant. Each example from each public chal

  • Artist!!! Another charity is here!

    from the project creator  This project will be sending shoeboxes to underprivileged children for Christmas packed full of goodies like school and art supplies, toys and other goodies! We have a very special canvas which is "The Floor". Due Nov 5th join @Charity-Guild to stay informed on deviantart if you are not on discord, but you don't need to be on discord to take part. I re

  • Undead Face Stitch Makeup by V

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Undead-Face-Stitch-Makeup-by-V-1377419264 CONTENT EMBEDED EMBED CODE stichstitchestutorialundeadstitchtutorialvstitchedskinrichardmurrayhddeviantrichardmurrayhumblr Description This is My OC Undead, a gift from @DeathIsOnYourCards She studied @Vitani4000 's tutorial and made herself up like a proper undead woman Tutorial: How to draw stitches wit

  • MOTHERHOOD SEX MARIJUANA PODCAST | SEASON 12, EPISODE 4 | SPECIAL GUEST HDDEVIANT

    LINKS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1bmYf2f72M https://x.com/MotherhoodSex/status/2107231187529855332 https://rmhreblogs.tumblr.com/post/829690846120230912/my-ebook-series CONTENT Tumblr RMHreblogs My Ebook series https://www.kobo.com/series/richard-murray-short-story-collection https://www.kobo.com/series/jihi https://www.kobo.com/ebook/gospel-of-joseph... Adult Black Links Blktouch ht

  • Vimeo Submit your short film for a chance at $60,000

    Filmmakers, don't let this one pass you by! You've got 10 days left to submit your short film project for a shot at $60,000 cash, plus gear, mentorship, and distribution. If you've been sitting on a great idea, now's the time to get it down on paper (digitally, of course) and hit submit. Submit your film https://vimeo.com/shortfilmgrant 5 winners will receive… •$60,000 cash — toward an original sh

  • Art Comments 10062026

    PRIOR ENTRY https://aalbc.com/tc/events/event/828-art-comments-09232026/ NEXT ENTRY ? COMMENT URL https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/1385294092/5313291054 COMMENT CONTENT @leothefox thank you for the features beautiful artwork shared as always @4mberhead22375 what is that mechanical device? is it a bot or a ride? @Astanael great adventure scene @Onirio beautiful, i see the black hole, but is

  • The Siberyaki

    The Siberyaki, a story inferred from an image in heavy metal https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Siberyaki-1249974403  

  • Black Building Wealth today, spurred by profd

    POST URL   MY COMMENT    @ProfD   And all the middle easterners black gold has the blood of middle easterners on it shed by other middle easterners.  I support all your points to nonviolent financial growth. but I have to say, whites whether they be arab/asian/latino/african/male/female/christian/muslim/ or others have intentionally killed each other for financ

  • Where Are They Now: Zero - A Nightmare Before Christmas

    URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/WATN-Zero-A-Nightmare-Before-Christmas-1242380366 CONTENT THIS CONTEST IS CLOSED BUT THE INSPIRATION IS FOREVER Where Are They Now : Zero - A Nightmare Before Christmas Human writing only please - No AI generated entries in this group. Thanks! Joe @ DA Join @CRLiterature in reporting on some of our favorite fictional unknowns by writing fun fa

  • Indigenous People's Day

    I want to honor the legend of Jonas Caballo. Who fought against the USA in the Seminole wars in Florida, fought again the White and non Black indigenous citizens or residents in the USA in the trail of tears, fought the borderland groups on either side of the USA /Mexico border to find a home for his people, that still exist in northern mexico , today. One of my favorite ancestors.  Columbu

  • Economic Corner 47 10/09/2026

    From the web to the world, the following are my comments in a post from Troy HIS ARTICLE https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12912-a-search-engine-you-have-to-consider/ MY COMMENTS https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12912-a-search-engine-you-have-to-consider/#findComment-83635 In all earnest, the web directory is the best model, it isn't just keywords relating to content but also the quality of the website. the

  • The Omnitard 

    Title: The Omnitard  https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/For-A-HINT-OF-DARKNESS-2025-1251034394 For a challenge to make a story with 25 words or less  

  • Do Black DOSers and those not Black DOSers comprehend the uniqueness in Black DOS heritage in the usa or elsewhere?

    @ProfD  never forget, the majority of Black leadership from the late 1800s, rightly or wrongly, has always emphasized that nonviolence is a path to freedom and power equal to violence and guided the black masses in that way. And the black masses in the usa, the DOS forebears mostly embraced that, rightly or wrongly.  And always remember profd, I know i say the following a lot, but it s

  • Charity Coloring Book 10/14/2024

    Charity Coloring Book    This is for the coloring book project from the charity guild group on deviantart, mine is at 1:48+5:27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTInog0-EqE if you are in deviantart , join the charity group i have felt very good about all the projects I have been apart of... many people talk about doing good, well here is a group that literally gets artists

  • Any one in a leadership position who doesn't offer an effective plan to those they are leading will lead the led to negativity

    @ProfD well, very few human beings in human history choose to change the way of things absent a path or something they can see.  This is the problem with the million man march, black lives matter... women lives matter, the modern immigrant populace in the usa today. MAny say, we need to change this or that. and ok, but then when the masses ask, what do we need to do, and where are

  • The Receptrix

    The Receptrix initial 10/15/2025 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Receptrix-1252765499 fictional prose inspired by an image  

  • Membership First, Individualism for all others, is the problem with tribes in the Black populace in the USA or greater humanity

    @ProfD exactly      amen, I can only add one thing , the designers of the million man march, the nation of islam/farrakhan have to be blamed for the lost opportunity + no long term plan or follow up.  And I can see why , cause though I have no proof, I will gamble a reshare online that, the nation of islam + farrakhan saw the million man march as a membership drive.

  • The Revolution Will Be

    Someone somewhere cited The Revolution Will Not Be Televised in a quick graphic. MY REPLY I told someone else somewhere, the issue is guidance. All movements need a destination. Absent a destination, a movement is bound to fail, meaning it will not move the world around the movement to somewhere.  IN AMENDMENT yeah gil scott heron:) .. I said somewhere else, the usa will be 250 years ol

  • ALZA FESTIVAL 2026

    Photo Katie Korfhage, Pete Torres and Rita Vinnik, the co-founders of Alza Festival. The next generation of storytelling belongs here. Submit your project for the opportunity to premiere at ALZA Festival in New York City, October 16-18, 2026. https://www.alzafestival.com/submissions TORRES LIVE (Copy) ALZA Festival | NYC Micro-drama & Vertical Storytelling F... Submit your vertical short, ser

  • False Promises by Ric S. Sheffield

    False Promises The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio by Ric S. Sheffield Imprint: Swallow Press Referral https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12114-false-promises-the-struggle-for-black-voting-rights-in-1800s-ohio/ my comment https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12114-false-promises-the-struggle-for-black-voting-rights-in-1800s-ohio/#findComment-78250  

  • Machine Stories - completed

    Machine Stories is about my view towards machines/robots/programs/true artificial intelligence/androids.  How they exist from their own truth and align to humans in various settings. I think of lot of fiction assumes the machine is merely a metal mirror to humanity and I oppose that position.  A prequel was this stageplay. It isn't a machine story but the machine character was one of the init

  • Never Really Sucked at THis

    Never Really Sucked At This challenge is to take the earliest work you have in deviantart and redo it. The earliest work I did is a graphite https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Never-Really-Sucked-Pea-In-The-Pod-1255327428     The Original EMBED CODE  

  •  Giant Pseudozombie Manual Mobile Fortress for #ghostsofgalleriespast

    Giant  Pseudozombie Manual Mobile Fortress for #ghostsofgalleriespast https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Giant-Pseudozombie-Manual-Mobile-Fortress-1255330430     Original Image    

  • THE PROMOTION 

    THE PROMOTION  https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/THE-PROMOTION-1255339028  

  • Relaxing Sudowoodo for Shoebox Charity 2025

    Relaxing Sudowoodo for Shoebox Charity 2025 https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/Relaxing-Sudowoodo-for-Shoebox-Charity-2025-1255345616   The following is only the front image, the coloring page, the colored page, as well as the image for the charity is within EMBED CODE    

  • Economic Corner 22 10/22/2025

    United States Postal Service 2025    The United States Postal Service in the USA compared to other models you can't compare denmark to canada. yes, denmark is getting rid of letter shipping. but postnord has a functional monopoly on the postal service in scandanavia denmark/sweden/finland and another. And by postnord's admission, they are ending letters, not mail. mail is letters+ pack

  • kuroshi-tenshi birthday

    Kuroshi Tenshi birthday https://www.deviantart.com/kuroshi-tenshi   https://www.deviantart.com/kuroshi-tenshi/journal/Commissions-923892686   I do edits and the like, and I always source them and the only bases I use are ones where the creator has green-lit for their use in this way. I also do freehand too. Just specify which you want.   I do edits and the like, a

  • Thonet bending wood process

    Thonet bending wood process Literature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentwood https://www.worthpoint.com/dictionary/p/furniture-furnishings/german/german-furniture-style-bentwood https://michaelthonet.eu/the-bentwood-process-a-revolutionary-technique-in-furniture-design/ Video Soak in steam for five hours Three minutes to shape wood before it dries and breaks, using metal st

  • Dungeons and Dragons, Celts and Vikings

    Dungeons and Dragons theme https://youtu.be/8f-vCEaJZPQ?si=zdNib8GEXu-YdhWO   intro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHnsMKQJBDA   The irish used slings mostly, not bows and arrows. They didn't have a unified army, nor was the terrain of ancient Ireland good for finding arrow hears nor was the resources for bow making affordable. but Slings were.  https://irish

  • the black superhero paradox

    the black superhero paradox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYzQdGuirRY     MY COMMENT nice video:) One thing is that the black populace in the usa has survived mostly nonviolently/law abidingly/self incriminatingly through a lot of white violence/oppresion/terrorism to be more financially profitable today and that helps black creators. At the end of the day, the artist of

  • Why do black people hate talking about colorism? asked by momentswithmani

    My Answer I can't speak for all and I know all black people don't hate talking about colorism. so I will answer with the following... the past-the speech, present-absent concern over future or past, future- how to solve... the past is simple, talking about colorism is black people talking about black people . But from early 1500s to late 1970s I argue Black people in the usa were not free from w

  • Peter Cushing on calling the work he does Fantasy

    Peter Cushing on calling the work he does Fantasy Horror isn't a term you like is it? It isn't that I object to it, I just feel it is the wrong adjective as applied to the films I do , cause horror to me is say a film like the godfather or anything to do with war which is real and can happen and unfortunately no doubt will happen again sometime but the films that dear Christopher lee and I

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