I guess I'm a vow breaker. Can't wait till I get married to see how that works out. But I am here to clean stuff up. Some people who I know outside of the cyber-universe stumbled upon a friend of mine's deviantART account. We had collaborated on the old ducky series, some of my writing, and, in all actuality, life up to now. I've known her longer than I've known those other people. So, seeing my duckies up on her front page, they decided, without questions asked or investigation whatsoever, that it was most definately me who owned the account. After I had made the announcement that I was leaving deviantART. So she, not knowing who these people randomly sending friend requests and commenting on the work, blocked them. About two days after that, I get angry messages from a few of those people (involving the words bitch, it's not my account, and liar, in that order). Then, just a few days ago, without my knowing, the owner of the other account found the account of one of those aforementioned people while looking for something on this site. I did not know the username of that person, so no, I did NOT tell her to go to it. She went through some of the work and disliked it, and voiced her opinion on it (irony 1- the person who was being commented upon has, pretty much every day, bashed the Bush administration for taking away people's right of free speech). Then the commentee commented back and called my friend me. And the bitch thing ensued with no word back from her since that reply.

These two had never ever met before, but the owner of the mistakenformine account (no, i will not name it or the other account) left once before because she disliked what deviantART was becoming. Left and right she saw cliched artists in their pre- and early teens posting their "angsty poetry" and lookalike anime and manga pictures. She decided to leave her old account and create a new one where all of the people she disliked were blocked immediately. These people who just instantly added her as friends or posted cliched work (in her opinion, since neither she nor I want to tell you what is good or not) were automatically on that list.

I'd like to take this time to put in my words. I don't want to lose either as friends, but if forced, I will join my older friend who was there for me when I've been sick and has always given me good advice. The other girl will just have to accept that I'm not always going to choose her side and that she should kind of grow up about these things. And that she shouldn't use deviantART as myspace.com, which I have seen her do.

As something final: I will most definately be permanently gone from deviantART once the resolution for this is found, whatever it may be.

I wish everybody luck and prosperity out there, but don't try to gain it by being something you're not or doing something you're not passionate about.

CK