DVS (pronounced "devious") is an adults-only yearly online furry convention with a silly, supervillain bent. Each year we gather artists, entertainers, writers, streamers, and all kinds of other colorful community members to raise money for charity. To date (2024), DVS has raised over $102k CAD/$74k USD!

Yes! Our chosen charity for 2025 is Transgender Law Center. Founded in California in 2002, Transgender Law Center is the largest transgender-led civil rights organization in the United States. Their cause is to fight for the rights of transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals as well as championing knowledge, freedom and compassion in our communities. You can read more about them and their mission on their website.

Yes, there is a bit of silly irony that we, a group of internet supervillians, are helping a charity with ‘law’ in the name. But trust us on this, they do great work.

All you need to do is show up for a stream through our online venue Piczel! The event is entirely free and requires no registration. However if you wish to chat, we do require viewers have a Piczel account no later than August 13th to be active, to help keep out the trolls.

We also operate an event-exclusive Discord server the duration of the con where movie screenings, hangouts, and general chatter occurs. You can watch and comment on goings-on either way! There are also virtual reality spaces for those wishing to watch the streams in a more immersive environment. :)

This year we primarily stream on Piczel, an artist-focused livestreaming service with easy-to-use multistreaming abilities and a permissive attitude towards erotica, making it perfect for our purposes. DVS makes use of their multistream feature- this allows our main channel to be live as well as other panels and events simultaneously! As long as each channel is in the official DVS multistream, you'll be able to see it playing by visiting http://piczel.tv/watch/DVS.

NOTE: Multistream events are best viewed on desktop. There is no Piczel app for either Apple or Android app stores at this time.

Lots of reasons! Twitch itself does not allow discussion or visual depictions of erotic subjects, has done little to help its minority creators who suffer from frequent hate raids, and has implemented some very controversial and draconian DMCA rules. It's also owned by Amazon, a craven and morally bankrupt corporation. Hosting DVS on Twitch (though we tried the very first year!) would run counter to everything we're about. Youtube is similar, if not even more strict about their content than Twitch is.

Which brings us to Picarto, which as many may know, has been our online venue for the last five years. So why change? Listening to feedback from previous years con attendees and internal volunteer discussions, we are giving Piczel a try in hopes of offering the best viewing experience for this year’s DVS. We have a number of artists on staff that have been using Piczel for their personal streaming needs and have spoken positively about the experience.

We'd love to have our own service that we manage entirely, but that takes time and skills of many, many minions that we don't currently have (as well as the cost of running such a service.) If you're someone who's very passionate about streaming service alternatives, we're always looking for more minions to help with organizing the convention each year! Keep an eye on our socials and reach out when next year's minion applications are live.

Nope, it's just stylish geeky fun. Like cosplay, or renaissance faires, or drag. It's a sex thing for more than a few of our members, too-- capes and tights can be just as kinky as leather or latex.

You know what? Okay. Let's get real for a moment.

Think about all the people in the world who put a lot of effort into convincing you they're "good" people. Politicians, religious leaders, celebrities, cops. How many of them really care, and how many of them are just covering their asses while reinforcing our society's deeply screwed up status quo? Meanwhile, queers have existed since our ancestors climbed down from the trees, and yet somehow in 2023 we still have to fight for the barest scraps of human dignity from the powers that be. We're encouraged to assimilate, to conform to what popular culture defines as "safe" representation, and to keep any deviance hidden from sight. Those of us without the luxury of passing as "normal" are treated as freaks and pariahs by our governments, our workplaces and our peers. A resurgent authoritarian nationalist movement – what used to be widely recognized as fascism, before right-wingers got better at working the refs, and co-opting or destroying noncompliant media – is increasingly unafraid to advocate the genocide of "undesirables." How is any of this good? How is any of this worth fighting for?

Is it any wonder that, in the midst of unprecedented global chaos, hundreds of queer people have found catharsis and community in imagining what it'd be like, if they had the power to push back and build something better? Or that, given the chance to actually make a real, tangible difference for an otherwise painfully underserved LGBTQ2S community, they'd take it in a heartbeat?

It's all just for fun, though. Just a little bit of kinky, campy Saturday morning cartoon fun. Right?

Right...?

Our on-stream donations go through popular fundraiser service Tiltify. Attendees are able to send their donations directly to the charity via debit/credit card or PayPal (some payment options may not be available depending on the region you are located in). If you decide to donate through other means during the event, send the receipt to overlord@d-v-s.online, and we'll add your donation to our grand total on the website's front page.

Whether or not your donation is tax deductible or matchable depends on where you are, where your job is, and where this year’s charity is. Our 2025 charity, Transgender Law Center, is located in the US state of California and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, federal tax ID (EIN) 05-0544006. We are not tax experts- please forward all in-depth questions to the charity, your job's appropriate personnel, or to a tax professional.

Yes! Similar to last year, there will be a VODs page available a week or so after the convention is over. We do depend entirely on the hosts to send us their recordings though, so if there's a stream you missed that isn't available, that means we never received the video from the host. Sorry!

• Can't send messages in the Piczel chat? While Piczel does support guest chat, for security purposes to protect our streamers and viewers from trolls, we require that accounts must be registered for at least 14 days to participate in the chat (August 13th is the last day you can register to do so!) If you're having issues, you can join our Discord instead to chat with other DVS attendees.
• Can't hear any of the streams? If you've loaded up the page and no audio is playing, you may need to manually unmute it. Please check before alerting staff if there's no sound on a stream!
• Want to view just one stream? You can pop-out the chat by selecting the icon above the chat window, resembling a square with the arrow pointing north-east and fullscreen the stream you'd like to view.
• Can I customize my chat a bit? Like make it easier for me to read? There’s plenty of options to tailor the appearance of the chat for your convenience. Above the chat window, select the gear icon and a menu will pop up. From here you can do things like change the color of your user name, enable or disable certain chat effects, font size, font choice (including OpenDyslexic), notification and message options, and plenty more!
• I want to italicize or bold some text for emphasis in chat, can I do that? Yes you can! Piczel has a few standardized markdown commands available for viewers and an expanded list for streamers. The ones available to viewers are:
• Bold = ** bolded text **
• Italic = * italicized text *
• Strikethrough = ~~ struckthrough text ~~
• Spoiler = !! spoiled text !!
• Are two streams you want to watch on at the same time? Most streams are being recorded and will be viewable on the convention website after the con is over! If you're really concerned about a specific panel, please read out to the panel host specifically to ask.
• Have a question/complaint that isn't addressed here? Please email us or open a modmail ticket on the convention-weekend-only Discord server! We'll do our best to get back to you in a timely manner. Please understand that during the event we are extremely, extremely busy, so do not take it personally if we do not get back to you during the convention. Do not be rude to volunteer staff.