DISCLAIMER: CONTAINS INFORMATION ABOUT THE CURRENT ISRAEL-PALESTINE CONFLICT AND IMPORTANT RESOURCES. Hi there. I'm billygoat. So, regarding my decision to leave deviantArt, I have left for a few days but I felt as if I did not elaborate on that enough and have been rather sheepish in not calling out the conflict by name, and would rather instead explain and give additional resources on how you as a person can support the Palestinian cause, but that will be at the end because I want to explain what is going to happen in my deviantArt page. For those who haven't been updated, Gaza was striked by bombs from Israel, which has given the excuse of targeting Hamas as their sole reason, although they have taken out internet cables from Gaza which have made Palestinians in that area feel vulnerable, and have launched air strikes on the country, killing thousands of Palestinians instantly, and 45 bloodlines have been killed and have been taken off registers with the 2023/2024 academic year
HEY, any followers, mutuals, people I watch that are seeing this somehow, and are still active here to some degree-send me your socials/new sites you're on. I want to follow/interact with y'all still.
Hey. I know I haven't really been messing with dA since the big switch of...'19? Gosh, it's been so long XP and I don't want to make promises about regularly keeping up here. But. I still can't bring myself to abandon this place entirely. I'm not sure what that means yet. Maybe I'll upload the art I've been doing elsewhere. Maybe I'll try reviving the Jak Club again. Heck, maybe I'll even try both. I know I mention it every time I talk here, but I do feel absolutely awful about letting that club wither so much. It does have a basic discord now, but I would like to bring it back there and on dA. Get events going, posting news and updates on one of our favourite game series and it's future. But from being in a few closed groups that run such events, and my previous experience doing so, it's a lot of work. I know it doesn't seem like it, but it really is. I want the group to flourish, at the very least survive, and I'm wondering if I'm still the person meant to run it right now. If
Full-time Lightning Mage and some-time Digital Artist that dabbles in short stories, fan-fiction, and fan-art. Armed with a tablet, black tea, and a cup of noodles.
(SEE FULL POST FOR PICS! :D ) Most days, it feels like I can't draw anything, or I'll look back at an old piece that I was proud of and think, "Oh no, oh geeze, I can't believe I uploaded that for the world to see. Maybe I can make it better!" And then that re-work will take days. Weeks. Months. Seems that no matter what I do, it either looks marginally better or abysmally worse. But someone once told me that even a little progress is still progress. You just have to keep sticking with it, keep practicing, keep getting better. "TNT - Secret Smile" (2022) "Torn and Tess - TNT" (2017) "Heir of the West - Rin and Tokijin 2"(2020) "Heir of the West - Rin and Tokijin" (2017) And let's be real, it's a great feeling to look back on that old stuff and see not only how far you've come, but how much further you're going to go.
Not sure if anyone's around anymore to read this, but I feel like I should post it anyway. I've always been pretty shy, but I really should start making more of an attempt to communicate. Can't stay lurking and quiet forever, right? So um, here goes: I think we can all agree that 2020 was a year that was damaging in more ways than just the one. In-between the unregulated work schedules and the lay-offs and isolation, there was a lot of other unexpected obstacles (and tragedy) that fully succeeded in pushing me out of communication. Like...with everyone, both online and irl. DA's new style killing the Groups may have been the last straw for me. I was, and still am, burned out and have fallen out of love with both my work and the things that I like to do (and the people that I like to do them with). By the time I remembered to check my messages, months had gone by, and I just didn't have the heart to respond or continue. I'll spare the dramatic details - I'm no good at talking about