Purinblood

Hello everyone! A very few of you may have known that almost 10 years ago, I had moved from my home state to a completely different state! Well, now it's time for me and my brother to move back! The unfortunate thing is, we are both not well off financially, and while our parents are helping us out as best we can, I have various disabilities that is preventing me from getting a job, and my brother is also struggling with mental health issues at the moment. It would be a great help if any of you guys could check out our Gofundme page we made, and if you can, maybe help us out with moving costs, furniture, and other expenses we need to survive this move! https://gofund.me/b5090f3e Thank you guys so much!

DeviantArt, this AI nonsense is disgusting. Even suggesting the idea of making an AI-Art thing for anything other than pure fun is absolutely vile. First you ruined everything with Eclipse sitewise, and now THIS??? You're losing even MORE users this way, including me. I'm not sure where I'll be moving to just yet, I have to do my research, but this site has turned from bad to worse. I can juggle your garbage UI and site layout, but I can NOT accept AI-Art tools, and mass theft of art. 'It's not theft if you opt out!' Some may say, but not only is the whole concept they're pushing vile, you have to go in individually and opt out each art piece. You also have to send in a FORM, which I think is utter fucking bullshit. It saddens me to leave this site, but it's clear to me that the higher ups at dA have no soul left in their bones, and only the desire to preserve their crumbling, dying site by pandering to harmful ideals and trends. For those who care to follow me to whatever new art site I'll be moving to, stay tuned. I'll make a Journal post notifying everyone. Thanks for all the support and love over the years. It's been real. ;) -PB

10 years. 10 whole years since I have made this account, as an aspiring near-12 year old artist and writer. It's actually baffling to think about just how much time I have spent checking this site regularly, through some of the hardest times in my life, through some of the best. I remember the first time I scrambled to get my printer scanner to work, kneeling on hardwood floors and feeling the discomfort of that as I put the paper in and waited for it to do it's magic. To scan a picture of some Sonic OC that wasn't well drawn AT ALL lmao! At the time, I had no shame over posting my artwork despite it being horrible, and I kinda miss that carefree mindset that I had when I would just post anything because it came from my brain. A lot of people actually thought I was a troll account just because I was posting hideous art!!! LMAO! Some of them found out I was for real, and helped me grow. I've made a good bunch of friends here on the site that I still love and talk to this very day, even if it's only rarely in passing or through comments on other people's art. It's amazing to say I've known someone online for 10 years, haha! At the time of writing this, I am now 21 years of age and will be turning 22 in a couple of months. I'm still quite a little babby considering, but not quite as babby as I was when I was twelve! In my personal life, some might know I made a move down to Memphis, TN in 2014, and I am sure i've posted a bajillion journals on how I felt I didn't belong here, that I was away from my friends back home in Michigan, and I fell into quite a deep depression. I have news. Next February/March, I will be leaving the nest and going back home to Michigan to find my feet! I am beyond excited and will be around my friends once again. I'll be living with a family member in a temporary living situation while I find my feet and make enough money to support myself! I'm hoping that this change will lift my motivation for everything out of this awful slump, and i'll be making more art!! All of this is to say that it's been quite the rollercoaster of 10 years for me both on and off this site. Of course, as of writing this, dA changed to Eclipse very recently, which :))) mmmm. Hate it. It's awful. It literally took me more than a half a minute to find the button to write this godforsaken journal in the first place! LOL! It's just... wonky as fuck. Not intuitive. But that's another journal, hahaha. I will absolutely continue to check and post here (despite the hideous new UI) and hopefully rack 10 more years up. I'd like that. Thank you to everyone who's talked to me over the years and watched my crazy art journey, you gave my volatile teen self advice and comfort while not even knowing it. <3 Here's to 10 more years, adult style! -PB