They're gonna force me to update my username on March 4. UGH. I've been holding onto my # discriminator for as long as I can, buuut WHATEVER.
New username is chiakihayasaka. Feel free to add me if u want, but I'm super duper slow at talking sometimes so sorry about that >^<

Well... maybe not sad, but definitely disappointed. I kinda grew up with dA as, like, the art platform for beginning artists to get seen and find each other. The recent deviations tab was my favorite thing about that place; I'd upload, then go browse and like other people's recent art for a while. It was just a nice thing. It was nice to see the art people were making in the moment, and it was nice to be supportive in some way.
I think the recent deviations tab is gone now... it's kinda there, but just as a little scroll that shows you like 6 deviations at a time now, and it stops at around 50 posts in. Unless I'm missing something.
If anything, I think dA is just betting all their money on AI art now. There's more tabs for AI than recent stuff, at least... I don't know. I just miss the old dA I guess.

HI! Unexpected hiatus!!!
I'm still alive, I promise!!! Just been studying, and playing, and... well, goofing off between studies. I've still been drawing also! Just also forgetting to upload. You know how it is.
Gonna try to be more active again :<]

Would love to put a spoiler warning on my JKM sketches, but just plain deleting them also works, I guess... I'm cool with just not uploading it.
Maybe I'm just a bit dumb right now, though. :P What are thumbnails for, if not to be... I mean, the thumbnail?

Been feeling like an absolute mess over the past day, physically speaking. Itchy throat, throbbing headache, lethargy. I've taken enough ibuprofen to kill an elephant.
I had a weird dream about my characters last night; they were working together, a few of them, to try to figure out what was making me so ill. It was as nonsensical and hazy as any fever dream, but I think they were coming to a conclusion by the end of the dream, and moving to act on it.

I awoke sweating again, and my throat feels a little better. I wonder if I'm coming back out of it.

Over the past week or so, I've been looking for material, translations for obscure media that I'm interested in. Things once cared about and not so much anymore, that I feel almost alone in exploring, outside of the knowledge I've shared and been shown through my little friend group.
I'm just bringing it up, honestly, because most of the information I've found has been scattered throughout someone's personal blog circa 2008, and it's... odd, in a weird way, I think. Information shared through a 15 year window, spoken through one's personal translation project accompanied with notes only appropriate for its time. And scattered between the posts themselves, eager updates about the life of somebody who only exists now in a vacuum; still alive and in this world, yeah, but very likely not that same person anymore, if that makes sense. The one I read is delighted to share their experiences with college, and jokes "don't laugh at me" about listening to the newly released Disturbia. The version that exists out there, by now, probably hasn't thought of this blog in a very long time, or of their contributions to a very niche, small community.
It's just weird, how some things still exist as a time capsule. My dad mentioned to me a few months ago that he used to be well known for his contributions to the DOOM community for his WADs. I wonder often how long it's been since somebody has played them, or if they sit hidden deep in an archive somewhere.

I don't know. It's kind of endearing, in a way, seeing the happenings that somebody wanted to share with the world, 15 years ago. And as far as I'm aware, this blog is the only place where a translation for the media I'm looking through exists at all. It's a translation that's just as important to me today as sharing it was important to them, so long ago. A corner of the world where time is meaningless.

IDK.