I ran across this site years ago - I forget what I was looking for, and it's not really germane to my present ramblings - it was interesting to surf and there were good pieces on here. I actually forgot about it for quite a bit of time. Then - fairly recently - I was cleaning out my bookmarks/favorites (rearranging clutter and eliminating duplicates to better fit my current world-view) and rediscovered DA.
WOW.
I think what makes this such a wonderful place, for me, is that I get to discover new artists, and artforms as well as re-discover some favorites! Quite a few artists whose work I've grown to admire are deviants: Joel Adams, Ada