$- A title that commands respect, such as "Sir," "Duke," or "Bass Master." Also: ', @, ^, #, %, and +

Adoptee- A subspecies of deviant, which attach themselves to larger predators, much like remoras or temporary tattoos.

Anime- One of the most thriving, fastest-growing religions in the world today.

Avatar- The tiny, tiny window in the computer screen, though which a deviant may look at the outside world.

Community- A safe haven where like minds can gather, free from the prying and oppressive eyes of the outside world, to talk about how sexy Jack Sparrow is.

Constructive criticism- Any comment that does not involve the words "dood," "teh," "poop" or "gay." Any replies made to constructive criticism will contain all four.

Dark Art- Pictures of various pale women with too much eye makeup. May or may not be bleeding from somewhere.

Deviant- Once thought to exist only in myth, the wild deviant has recently been found thriving in various parts of the world, wherever internet connections can be found. Recognizable by its ink-stained fingers and pale, sun starved skin, it subsists on a strict diet of coffee, ramen, bagels and pocky. Although useless for domestication, (when not drawing, photographing or writing they go into periods of deep hibernation,) they can easily be tamed with prints and false promises of oral sex.

Deviations- The offspring of deviants. See scourge upon humanity.

Emoticon- A reasonable substitute for feeling.

Fanart- A one-way ticket to commentsville, with regular stops at favland. See popularity.

Fav- A sexual act, derived from the word "fuck." Different from it's predecessor in that the role of the powerful lies in the person who seduces and then "gets faved," as opposed to the one who "favs." Like fucking, faving is most commonly associated with the charming and the beautiful, or at least something with big tits on it.

Flame- See constructive criticism. See also what I'm going to receive for writing this.

Forum- A place deviants go to complain how much they hate the forum.

Full view- A way to see each piece as the artist truly intended it- blown up to the point where the character's left nostril fills the entire screen.

Furries- Human/animal hybrids, a result of bored mad scientists running around DeviantART.

Journal- A tiny box where millions of avatars are stored.

Poem- A string of words with irregular spacing. By nature, the words "blood," "rose," "drug," "blade," "dream," "soul," "ice," "rain" and "crimson tears" must be in every poem.

Popularity- A quality that each deviant despises in everyone but themselves.

Prose- A poem with the line breaks removed.

Scourge Upon Humanity- An artist or writer with no sense of humor.

Screenshot- A way of capturing that one, special moment before the dragon bites your laptop in two.

Whore- One who admits to wanting attention.

WTF- After 'round the clock research, our team of archeologists and linguists have determined this symbol is an abbreviation for "waffles talk funny." We cannot be wrong.

Yaoi- A sexual pairing that involves two men having a relationship while a teenaged girl watches.