TL;DR I'm not ditching this site but I'll only be semi-active. Scroll to the bottom for websites I'm more active on.
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Here I am. Once again. I'm torn into pieces, can't de
Ok seriously tho, idk if anybody's even gonna read this. I have like 400 watchers now, only like five of which actually engage with my posts. This site has felt more and more like a ghosttown for the past year or so. But anyway, for those five of you who care: yes, I am still alive. I've been posting elsewhere, but I kept forgetting to post here, mostly bc I just don't really care that much about DA anymore. Which is a shame, since this site along with Flipnote Hatena pretty much molded me into the artist I am today (probably for worse, in DA's case, but nonetheless), and general social media sites keep getting more and more hostile to actual creatives each day.
But I think everybody knows by now that this place has lost its luster. Who knows, it could still make a Newgrounds-esque comeback and everything will be sunshine and rainbows again, but I don't really wanna exert myself trying to make that happen. That's not to say I'm ditching this place for good, however. I'm gonna try my best to keep my gallery up-to-date. But still, don't be surprised if I let a few more months slip past me without uploading again; hell I hardly check my inbox anymore, even when I did post regularly.
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Anyway, I've been doing ok. Obviously the virus has taken a toll on me but I don't think it's really affected my artistic output (in that I was already slow as fuck before all this), just the rest of me. I've still had to work for most of the pandemic (tho I haven't worked since December), and I have two (2) chronic illnesses so uhhhh yeah I've been very nervous! All the time! And I'm still stuck with my parents so I gotta worry about them passing bugs onto me too (my mom's very large family all caught it but somehow she was unscathed). I already spent most of my free time at home, but I did go to concerts at least once or twice a month, which I haven't done since last March. I never had many close irl friends but I have been trying to connect more with my internet friends, even voicecalling them on occasion, which I hadn't done in years and is always a nice treat. I was hoping to come out of my shell more in 2020 which obviously couldn't really happen. Now I'm stuck in my bedroom all the time thinking about my future and my life being 1/3 of the way over (being realistic here, again I'm chronically ill) and what I could've done differently and how the world is ending and neoliberalism is killing us and what kind of person I wanna be and sometimes I think of weird gender shit and I don't like doing that and god jesus fuck my weed gummies aren't enough for all this.
In lighter news uhhhhh, I collect vinyl records now. Got two colored Ween albums, my favorite band. Still need a turntable tho. Anyway I'm tired of writing all this.
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If you wanna follow me elsewhere in case I finally drop this place for good, you have a myriad of options:
I mostly just RT art and memes I like, plus some Radical™ political posts here and there but even those are jokey half the time.
I retweet all my art here, in case my main acc. gets too spammy for your liking (wouldn't blame ya)
Pretty much just art, other shit will mostly be relegated to Stories. I made a side account for personal posts/memes too but I don't post there much.
Yeah I'm becoming one of those guys. Say what you will but it's the only site that actually gives a shit about its userbase, so I automatically love it. (Also 18+ shit here~ eventually~)
I don't really draw actual porn ever but when I do it'll all be here so don't miss out. Maybe even some real freak shit I'm too scared to post on NG. The possibilities are a lot!
Sites I'm semi-active on, but behind on uploads:
I still pop in here every now and then. Most of the freaks fled to Twitter after the porn ban so it was almost a blessing in disguise lol.
Same deal with the art-Twitter.
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The site's down rn so I can't link this yet lol.
DISCORD/TELEGRAM - Only for people I know or recognize, no complete randos.
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RULES:
➡️post a reference in the comments⬅️
➡️tag 2 friends you'd think would like this⬅️
➡️put up a journal with this journals link⬅️
(please show all 3 in the comments too!)
This ends on the 5th of October!
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