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1. How long have you been on DeviantArt?

2. What does your username mean?

3. Describe yourself in three words.

4. Are you left or right handed?

5. What was your first deviation?

6. What is your favourite type of art to create?

7. If you could instantly master a different art style, what would it be?

8. What was your first favourite?

9. What type of art do you tend to favourite the most?

10. Who is your all-time favourite deviant artist?

But you should definitely check out futarinokizuna

11. If you could meet anyone on DeviantArt in person, who would it be?

12. How has a fellow deviant impacted your life?

13. What are your preferred tools to create art?

14. What is the most inspirational place for you to create art?

15. What is your favourite DeviantArt memory?

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TL;DR I wish you all a wonderful 2015!

I will tell you right away that this will be a long-ish journal.



I hope that it will be a better year than 2014 was in many aspects. I'm not much for making resolutions, but I will list things that I'll try to do on deviantART more in this upcoming year.

• Become more active again. I miss some people from here, and I wish to talk to them more again.
• Draw more.
• Join some contests, feature other deviants, donate prizes (and actually do them) to contests.
• Make a to-do list on my profile page, so I don't lose track of things I have to draw for people.
• Get commissioned. It feels like wishful thinking but meh..
• Clean up my gallery, delete super old drawings.

I feel like there was something else I wanted to add to the list, but I can't remember it anymore.

• To get my group WeLoveTraditionalArt back into an active running state.

On another note, I have been tagged by both Minato-Kushina and Arichy to write a journal listing stuff that happens to DD suggesters.



I do have a journal listing all accepted DDs, but there aren't many (espcially since I haven't been active for a while now).
There is one other thing that I can say about suggesting DDs - I rarely to almost never write a description because most of the time I don't really know what to say. i know what I think when I see a piece of art that i want to suggest, but I can't put it into words and make it sound normal. That's frustrating. //facewall



You can skip this part if you wish so, I will be ranting  talking a bit about my personal life.
Things have been so-so in general.
I lost one of my closest friends. The details aren't all that important, but it's sad because I was the only one who was trying to fix our friendship, and after a while I just gave up.  I guess, somethimes you don't have any other choice but to give up, especially when the other person becomes toxic for you. We still talk (rarely), but we aren't close anymore.
I also made some new friends, so I guess that's a good thing. I'm not really that fond of people in general, and am very picky when it comes to people I surround myself with.
I'm jobless again, and not to mention that my mom's putting me under pressure because of that. She's only making me crawl more and more into myself, and not wish to go anywhere or do anything. And I hate it more than anything. On a side note, I also realized that I'm currently not ready to be in a serious relationship, and have decided to get my life in order as much as possible before I do something about my love life.
Summer was okay, we had lots of rain, but it wasn't too hot, so I was cool with it. :'D At the end of August, I visited a friend for 10 days. Even though she lives near the sea, we didn't go for a swim. it was sunny most of the time, and warm, but not warm enough for swimming (at least not for me). I also caught a cold there a couple of days before leaving for home, and so I spent a week, after I got home, in bed.
In November, I had two minor surgeries, nothing to panic about. Everything went fine, got my stitches out after two weeks. There are tiny scars visible, but I'm not bothered with them. Actually, I kinda like them. They are a part of me, after all. (:
When it comes to Christmas, I'm not much for it. For me, it lost it's meaning years ago. It's not even a family thing anymore. Everyone just waits for lunch to be over so they can go back to their rooms, and leave me to help out mom with the cleaning. So yeah, that time of the year really sucks for me. I hope you had a good one, tho.

Thank you

Arichy, BitterBeanJuicer, Tajii-chan,  jessoterick,  Beesu,  C-91,  Nesmaty and many others, for your support, and your kind words, and your friendship (even after I've been away for so long). There aren't word which can describe just how happy and grateful it makes me feel.

Tagged by Arichy

  STEP ONE

Make a post to your DA journal. The post should contain your list of ten holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a ______ icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("all I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV."). The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your DA or link to this post so that the holiday joy will spread.

  STEP TWO

Surf around your friends list (or friends' friends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now, here's the important part:

If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use -- do it.

You need not spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf -- to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not -- it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Give, and you might receive. and you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

MY WISHLIST:

1. Collect postcards from all over the world. I already have from Vienna, Rome, London, Frankfurt, Turkey, Bavaria, Prague, Lisabon, and some towns from Croatia's seaside. Most of them were sent to me by my friends. If you want to send me one, just note me.
2. To recieve a Premium Membership once again. While I can use some widgets because I'm a senior, there are still many things that I can not use without a PM.
3. I have some super old adoptables lying around. I want to give them a nice home. link & link 
4. To find a job. Getting a job here is almost the same as winning an enormous amount of money on lottery.
5. This is the 3rd Christmas in a row that I want to get this mug my sister for Christmas, but I can't because I never have enough money or points.
6. To find a job. yes I know that I'm repeating myself but if I say it enough times maybe luck will finally come to me
7. I wish for a new 4GB RAM. Or 8GB. I'm really not that picky.
8. I wish for you to love yourself, and to remember that there's somebody who loves you too.
9. Any kind of One Piece, Fairy Tail or Assassin's Creed merch. I already have a FT necklace and a FT tattoo, and Law's pre-timeskip hoodie.
10. Another tattoo. There's still a long list, and I've barely covered one third of it.

I really truly am. I have been absent for so long from here, I don't even know how to come back. Or if I even want to. And I owe an apology to so many people. I really do. And so, I'm really really sorry for not replying to your messages and notes. I saw them all, but I just.. to be honest, I just didn't know what to say back to you.
Many things have happened in the past year and a half. About some I'd rather not talk about.
Anyway, becuase of the job at the nursing home (this had a development - I worked there for 3 months as a waitress and whatnot) I neglected many things, including deviantart. It's hard to work at a place where half of the people there are already with one leg in their grave. It literally drained all the energy out of me. Physically and mentally. And I stopped drawing around that time.
From that moment on, I barely drew. Even now, I try to get myself to draw, and I'm getting there. But I still can't manage more than 1 and a half piece in a month. Somtimes I even wonder if I should even continue. I didn't feel like many people ever really appreciated my works; it always felt as if they were just polite to me to make me feel good. I don't know, it might all just be in my head, but that's how I feel.
I'm just gonna say that I'm still looking for a job, and my mom is putting so much pressure on me that I don't wanna leave my own bed anymore. I don't think that she's even aware of what she's doing to me. She acts as if I don't want to get a job, as if I'm just pretending to look for one. God knows that I want to work, but I can't even find a job because I don't have the minimum 1 year of experience. Getting a job here (in Croatia) in my field is like winning the lottery; at least for the inexperienced people like me.
Some other things happened too, but they're not for public eyes. Or ears. Or whatever.
The only really bright thing that happend in that time (except seeing my baby cousin from Vienna) was me going to the see to visit a friend. I was there 10 days, and I have decided that I will at some point get a job there. It's so beautiful there, I felt as if I wasn't even in Croatia anymore. And that same friend is coming to spend New Year's with me, she'll be staying for around 10 days, so that's good. She's probably one of the few things right now that keep me going, and make me actually do something with my life.
Wow I've been babbling for some time. You are not obligated to read it.
But let me just tell you this: a part of me misses deviantart, and I want to get back. But I can't do it alone, not with the way I've been feeling for the past few months. I'm sorry that I missed last year's Christmas on deviantart. I'm gonna try at least to be here for this year's one.
Also, I haven't forgotten about the contest I did (it feels like it was ages ago). I've decided a long time ago who the winners were, but I never really got to post it, so yeah. I'll do that too, soon I hope.
Once again, I'm really truly sorry for everything. I will reply to your messages in time, but it's gonna take a while.

I've missed you all, I truly did.