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On Second Thought...
I've spent about an hour trying to browse this place in its newest incarnation and I am absolutely confounded, frustrated, and saddened. Gone is any semblance of the useful gallery structure I remember. Confused, I checked out an article dated from last year on how to navigate and search the new structure only to discover this place is now run by ALGORITHM? Can we not have left that to Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok? By only using algorithm-based browsing, it actually makes it harder to engage with the content you're after. I'm incredibly disappointed in this experience and will now sod off until the next time I'm feeling nostalgic.
Many Years Later
My last posting here was like 9 years ago, I think. I don't know. Everything has changed. Me, my life, this site, the whole damn world. While I can't promise I'll be around often, or even at all, I'm here now having a poke around. Where have I been? A long time ago I got *really* depressed and started to lose interest in art. And then there were some fractures in the corner of the community where I hung out that made me not want to be here for a while. Eventually I lost interest in the community here, and life got busy, and my interests changed. Then life got interesting, and shifted a lot. Everything changed. What's new with me? Literally everything. My children are, for the most part, grown. The "baby" is almost 16 now. Elderspawn has a baby of her own (yes, that makes me a grandma). I have a different partner than I had for most of my time here. That's a story for another time, but suffice it to say I've found my Person and I'm happier than I think I've ever been. I'm content in
It's a happy day...
All my deviantWear fits me again.
This tells me I have lost a lot of weight since last spring when none of it fit. :dance:
Learning to Paint
Remember the other day when I was all sad and mopey because I couldn't art anymore (and suddenly I'm using "art" as a verb, but I think I like it...)?
It had a great deal to do with the fact that, no matter how much I wanted to create, or long I sat here staring at Photoshop, I just couldn't do anything with it. I was uninspired by my very large collection of stock photos or by any of the stock I found in the galleries here.
So I decided that, instead of sitting about moping, and instead of just ignoring my urge to create and pushing it to the back of my brain again, I would make myself spend an hour a day on non-fibery art. That first day,
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