It's...been a very long while since my first, and last journal on this site. I sought to make this place my new art home but shortly after getting myself settled in, I kinda disappeared after that...

There's a number of reasons for this, besides work and life, and all the shit going on in the world that has taken attention away from my online connections. But the main thing that really killed my activity for as long as it did? I'd say was my mood tanking so heavily after the LLM art scrapings and how DA is now functioning to this day. How my first and true main art home had been raided and destroyed by this 'AI' fad and how all art made is just....fodder for a machine. A sort of art 'depression' for a lack of words to describe it took hold of me. Over a year and a half had gone by and hardly any art was made.

With no motivation to create nor drive to repost older works here....my presence pretty much ghosted out of existence here. I know it's going to take a really long time to gain the traction I had on DA here--if at all--but it's just so hard to leave the site that I built my artistic identification on, the friends I made, the watchers I had who appreciated my works. It's not going to be the same here, but I want to try. I want to get out of this art depression I'm in, and I am hopeful that I'm finally starting to do that with a returning love of a character(s) that I haven't touched upon in a long time. I know I'm not the most present here...but I'm still here, and I want to help keep Sheezy relevant. As I know I'm not the only one that feels this way, and I really want Sheezy to be an actual artist sanctuary that I can actually call a new 'art home'.

Thanks for reading. :'3