read the terms and agreements thingie again, got some advice from friends of mine, concluded the following:

Deviantart sucks if you want to keep your artwork "yours".

Therefore, as i am now working, i will eventually be transfering all my work to a personal site and notifying deviantart in writing of my termination of this agreement. Unfortunatly, the agreement- the newest one, at least, and there is no record of the older ones to which i am bound, but they should be the same- contain "survival" clauses which essentially indicate that nearly all of the agreement remains in effect even after the agreement is terminated. One of the only full clauses to not be protected is clause 2, the ownership clause. What this means is that when i terminate my agreement with deviantart, they could conceiveably argue that my ownership of the artwork is terminated as well. If they do, they will be reported to the appropriate authorities for universal copyright fraud and, if they do somehow retain ownership of MY art, they will face litigation in the future for me to reclaim my artwork. I realize i'm not a good artist, and there are hundreds, thousands out there on deviantart better than me, but the important thing about my artwork is that it is mine. When my artwork is available, I will post another journal. you may also e-mail me, in case this journal and my account gets shut down, at jon.ciupekreed@gmail.com.