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How many of you guys and gals have fallen in love on the internet? How many of you would like to prove your love for that person a bit further? How many of you don't know what the heck I'm talking about?
In June 2007 I started conducting a series of online weddings in chat channel #devart that stimulated some great responses for that month... some were like "ooh, can you marry me too?" and some were like "that's got to be the most depraved thing I've ever seen on dA!" Nevertheless, the events proved fruitful and a whole lot of fun, and lately I've been getting lots of requests about doing it again and again, it has literally become a Valentine's Day tradition on chat channel #devart, so...
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!
I'll be hosting 8 more chatroom weddings in #devart on the weekend of Valentine's Day... that's right, for all of those that will have spent recent February 14th's lavishing your beloved with chocolates and flowers, devPrints and Fella plushies, why not extend the significance of your love through me and 50+ other #devart devotees in a humble setting provided by your friends and staff at dAmn??
... okay, I can't guarantee it'll be all that humble, but you get the general idea...
I am recognized as the only ordained minister on the MN@ staff and revered as its official chatroom Justice O' dA Peace, so I'll be providing e-wedding events based on my timezone here on the west coast of the US (also known as dA HQ Ground Zero)... slots available will include 11:00am, 12:00 noon, 1:00pm & 2:00pm PST on both Saturday February 14th and Sunday February 15th... you can click here for a handy-dandy world time converter if you're not sure of the slots available for your location...
So let's go people... it's time to pick your colors out, choose your ushers, what shoes you are going to wear and find that something-old something-new something-borrowed something-blue stuff. It also helps to find yourself a sweetheart partner to get hitched to as well-- hopefully you already have someone in mind!
OFFICIAL RULES
(I really hope you read this because it's important)1. Couples must select one time slot and one alternate for their ceremony and limit your requests to this news article only. To make a reservation, simply post your partners' username as well as your choice of time slot-- please do not ask for alternate partners or your request will be disregarded. If you make a reservation and then change your mind afterwards (understandably so, everyone gets cold feet sometimes), post a reason for the cancellation and your new choices in this article, I will be monitoring it quite often...
2. Please limit your questions and concerns regarding the e-wedding ceremonies to this news article only and I will be only too happy to answer them here. What does this mean? Do not e-mail me, note me or post questions on my userpage or your request will be disregarded. This rule also applies to spamming or bugging any of the other MN@ admins with silly requests regarding the e-wedding ceremonies...
3. On February 12th I will make my eight selections based on a semi-random choice with the help of MNBot and a crack judging team of MN@ admins (they don't know this yet), post the winning couples names in this article as well as a journal entry then contact each with the joyous news. I also encourage all contestants to use this news article thread to attempt to sway the decision-making process... convince us why I should pick you and not someone else... use creative ways such as essays, poetry, song lyrics or interpretive dance...
4. On second thought, forget the interpretive dance... I hate that crap...
E-WEDDING FAQ
Q: What happens if there is a cancellation?
A: I'll be happy to offer a "shotgun e-wedding" in its place where I will join any two willing #devart guests in a spontaneous celebration of online matrimony... it's called "being in the right place at the right time"...
Q: Can I write my own vows?
A: Yes, as a matter of fact I would encourage it... if you don't want to, that's fine... I'm sure I can come up with some sappy boilerplate vows somewheres...
Q: What about the rings, the bridesmaids' dresses or the photographer?
A: I'll leave all that up to you and your fiance, but the winning couples should try to have two witnesses picked out to attend the ceremony in #devart...
Q: What happens if a week or two goes by and I realized I e-married an idiot? Can I have my union annulled?
A: I can see if Tachy-on or fourteenthstar could possibly ban them, but then your partner would have to be a really REALLY big idiot...
Q: But will you allow minors or same-sex ceremonies?
A: Absolutely! Any two registered members of deviantART can join in this union, but only two at a time please...
Q: Can you really do this? I mean, is this legally binding and are you really an ordained minister like you say you are?
A:
an honest liar
... if you have Netflix and like magic, you really need to see the documentary "An Honest Liar" about the Amazing Randi who devoted his later years to debunking popular faithhealers and "psychic spoonbender" Uri Gellar in the 70's... I promise you will not be bored...
... so, the treadmill, the elliptical, the jump rope, bicycling to the grocery store, task upon task upstairs full of oak furniture, kill the gravity, you now dominate the bathroom scale... eye of the tiger!!
... the bathroom scale? Woo... stomp-stomp-stomp...
*cough*
... all in the name of science... I miss you too...
Your call is important to us, please hold...
"Hello, Dad?"
"Hiya kiddo, what's up?"
"I wanted to let you know I'm legally changing my last name back to yours, he was never my father...."
... and I clutched my heart...
*****
When I was 12 years old, my parents packed all of us kids in the Chevy station wagon and we took the painful trip from Seattle WA to Broken Bow OK, where Grandpa finally told me how he lost his thumb in a train accident, and Grandma asked me if I liked peanut butter on my waffles...
Decades later and every time I mix maple syrup and peanut butter in my kitchen, I get a little misty-eyed...
It was a sweltering summer 104*F day, early afternoon with the cicadas
quite possibly
I turned on the bathroom light yesterday and my mirror looked back at me like a Johnny Depp cartoon character, I wasn't sure if it was really me who was leaning in over the sink... scratched reading glasses, John Deere t-shirt, topped with a swamp hat made from Peruvian canvas... I live alone but I still found the need to whisper, "Who are you? You look like Hunter S. Thompson with a mustache..."
Thanks to a recent bid on Kickstarter.com, I'm now the proud owner of an electric Yamaha violin... you may find this funny, but honestly this weekend was the first time I had ever held a stringed instrument, thankfully my wonderful instructor lives
and how do you tie a bowtie? do that again...
I'm guessing that many of you know I like to perform magic, especially for local kids whose parents have a love/hate relationship with old white dudes like me, most consider me as the community babysitter while the rest think I'm a lurking threat to society. I live in a ground-floor unit of a 22-building apartment complex and as fortune may have it my patio faces the one and only playground in the area... so from time to time I've been inclined to test out some of my new effects on the kids that hang out in the courtyard directly across from my sliding glass door. They have since nicknamed me "Magic Man!" (always with an exclamation point).
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I'm sorry to bother, but yesterday I've found a New about the e-weddings, that quoted some parts of it and had even a link to the whole event in .pdf.
I can't find it anymore and I thought maybe you could help me with it~? ;0;
I'm sorry to bother again. ;w;'
I can't find it anymore and I thought maybe you could help me with it~? ;0;
I'm sorry to bother again. ;w;'