JemLeigh

It's been a long time since I've used deviantART with any sort of regularity. I've recently cleared out the entirety of my journal history and deleted a lot of older pieces, but I may end up moving to an entirely new account here if I decide to keep using the site. 

It was really strange going through the old journal entries though. I started using deviantART in 2010 when I was 13 years old. A lot has changed since then. I was a very cringy kid. A cringy kid who thought they were straight and cisgendered, of all things. God, how did I ever think I was cishet. I didn't really play video games, I was Lolz So Randomz, I complained about how the internet had to 'make everything gay when it's not, ugh' (oh, you sweet summer child). And reading through the old journal entries as I was deleting them, I could see the decline of my mental health, me accepting more about myself, remembered things that happened in my life that I'd totally forgotten about, made and lost friends... it was a little disconcerting. Weird to think that I've been on deviantART through all of that, albeit with varying levels of activity. And seeing how far my art has come over the years, too! There's still lots of improvement needed, but I'm getting there. 

I'm not even sure that most of the people I used to talk to are still around. I kinda just infrequently dump art here and run away again, lmao. I could always start posting more of my sketches and smaller pieces, I guess?

I hope everyone's having a wonderful day, staying safe, and doing something that you love