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For LiliWrites's challenge. Reasons why I'm thankful on dA;
So, I've been around on dA for a long time, just about eight and a half years now, and I've been active on here for all of them. I've had my drama, the "BAWW, I'M LEAVING dA FOREVER!" moments, along with many other ups and downs. But no matter what negative things have happened to me here, the positives will outweigh them in every possible way. Now then, I shall list three reasons overall as to why I am thankful for deviantART.
The first reason may be the most obvious reason, but it's the people I get to meet here, and the friends that I have made. I have a weird issue where I can't grasp how big the city I live in is, the state, country, or world. Even though I live in a city of 50,000 people, I can't imagine more than 1,000 or so living in it at any given time. I guess that just means I have a small, closed off personal world. Anyway, I digress a bit. The reason why I'm thankful is because I'm able to meet people from all around the world, and I get to interact with them. Whether it's greeting new deviants, talking to them in the chats and forums, or discovering them through their art, I'm able to communicate with people across the world that I normally wouldn't be able to even know of if it wasn't for dA. I met some wonderful friends including AmiFire, Astralseed, VelCake, Topicality, phoenixleo, and many more friends thanks to dA. And it's the people that I get to meet that make me thankful for the site.
The second reason I am thankful to deviantART is that I can help to make a difference. Whether it's a site wide project to help make a difference in a person's life that is less fortunate, or an individual person's cause to help out a friend in need, I know that I can help to make a difference. Either through helping to promote causes, donate to causes, or just being there for a person in need, being able to make a difference makes me feel good, because I know that I'm able to help out somehow.
The third reason why I am thankful to deviantART is because it's helped me become the person that I am today. Growing up, I had a lot of anger and self-esteem issues, I grew up as the youngest in the family, my brother and sister were four and seven years older than me, and they treated me as a burden a lot of the time because I was too young to play with them. And of course, being older siblings, I was constantly picked on, and it got to the point where I was too afraid to do anything but just sit there. If I just sat there, I couldn't be made fun of, but if I did anything, no matter what it was, I would be mocked. That feeling hasn't gone away, and because of it, I've become a very socially awkward penguin, and I just stay in one spot not doing much of anything. But being on dA, I've been able to express myself as who I really am, which is something I can't really do in real life, because I still get mocked quite badly. Since I was able to have this website as a way to express my frustration, anger, sadness, or any other emotion, positive or negative, I was able to help myself grow up. I've learned quite a few lessons throughout the eight and a half years that I've spent on dA, and one of them was being able to handle the world with a grain of salt. I've dealt with enough trolls, "newbs", art thieves, and all kinds of people on the site, that I know how to handle myself in the real world a bit better. My anger issues have resided, I'm content, and even though I'm still socially awkward and paranoid, I can now be like that with a smile, and not let any of what happens get under my skin. So yes, I am thankful to dA for being there when I was undergoing my teenage angst faze, and helping me to become a much more calm adult.
There are plenty of more reasons why I'm thankful for deviantart, but I decided to go with these three. For all of my American friends out there today, Happy Thanksgiving, and for everyone else in the world, I hope that you have an awesome day.
So, I've been around on dA for a long time, just about eight and a half years now, and I've been active on here for all of them. I've had my drama, the "BAWW, I'M LEAVING dA FOREVER!" moments, along with many other ups and downs. But no matter what negative things have happened to me here, the positives will outweigh them in every possible way. Now then, I shall list three reasons overall as to why I am thankful for deviantART.
The first reason may be the most obvious reason, but it's the people I get to meet here, and the friends that I have made. I have a weird issue where I can't grasp how big the city I live in is, the state, country, or world. Even though I live in a city of 50,000 people, I can't imagine more than 1,000 or so living in it at any given time. I guess that just means I have a small, closed off personal world. Anyway, I digress a bit. The reason why I'm thankful is because I'm able to meet people from all around the world, and I get to interact with them. Whether it's greeting new deviants, talking to them in the chats and forums, or discovering them through their art, I'm able to communicate with people across the world that I normally wouldn't be able to even know of if it wasn't for dA. I met some wonderful friends including AmiFire, Astralseed, VelCake, Topicality, phoenixleo, and many more friends thanks to dA. And it's the people that I get to meet that make me thankful for the site.
The second reason I am thankful to deviantART is that I can help to make a difference. Whether it's a site wide project to help make a difference in a person's life that is less fortunate, or an individual person's cause to help out a friend in need, I know that I can help to make a difference. Either through helping to promote causes, donate to causes, or just being there for a person in need, being able to make a difference makes me feel good, because I know that I'm able to help out somehow.
The third reason why I am thankful to deviantART is because it's helped me become the person that I am today. Growing up, I had a lot of anger and self-esteem issues, I grew up as the youngest in the family, my brother and sister were four and seven years older than me, and they treated me as a burden a lot of the time because I was too young to play with them. And of course, being older siblings, I was constantly picked on, and it got to the point where I was too afraid to do anything but just sit there. If I just sat there, I couldn't be made fun of, but if I did anything, no matter what it was, I would be mocked. That feeling hasn't gone away, and because of it, I've become a very socially awkward penguin, and I just stay in one spot not doing much of anything. But being on dA, I've been able to express myself as who I really am, which is something I can't really do in real life, because I still get mocked quite badly. Since I was able to have this website as a way to express my frustration, anger, sadness, or any other emotion, positive or negative, I was able to help myself grow up. I've learned quite a few lessons throughout the eight and a half years that I've spent on dA, and one of them was being able to handle the world with a grain of salt. I've dealt with enough trolls, "newbs", art thieves, and all kinds of people on the site, that I know how to handle myself in the real world a bit better. My anger issues have resided, I'm content, and even though I'm still socially awkward and paranoid, I can now be like that with a smile, and not let any of what happens get under my skin. So yes, I am thankful to dA for being there when I was undergoing my teenage angst faze, and helping me to become a much more calm adult.
There are plenty of more reasons why I'm thankful for deviantart, but I decided to go with these three. For all of my American friends out there today, Happy Thanksgiving, and for everyone else in the world, I hope that you have an awesome day.
June 28th, 2021. I'm nonbinary.
Yo. Its been a while. I accidentally skipped over my 17th anniversary on here. oops. Anyone that knows me, knows that I've played Kingdom Hearts since I was 12 years old, I'm gonna be 31 this year to put that in perspective. When I first played KH, Utada Hikaru's song Simple and Clean struck a cord with me. I loved it. A friend was able to get a burned CD of their songs all the way back in 2002/2003 and I've been drinking the Utada Jpop juice since. I adore their songs, and I can't tell you the amount of times I've cried listening to their music. Their most recent song, Pink Blood came out, and when I saw the video with closed captioning on, and I could understand all of the lyrics instead of picking out certain parts. I fucking cried. Pink Blood is basically an anthem at this point for me. It captures a lot of how I've been feeling for so long. And now, Utada has come out as being nonbinary. I was at work when I learned this, and for some reason had to stop myself from happy
Sweet 16!
So uh, I guess today, June 4th, 2020 marks my 16th anniversary on the site. Who knows where the time went. :lol: Now that my account is 16 and I am 29 going on 30, I can safely say that I've had this account for more than half of my life. That's a weird thing to think about. But yeah, seriously. I am an adult. I do adult things. I have a husband. And like, we are starting the process TODAY to buy a house. We reached out to a realtor who we will be talking with this evening about how to do the process. A HOUSE. LIKE, WHO DECIDED THAT I AM ADULT ENOUGH TO GET A HOUSE?! But yeah, wow .I've been here for 16 years. Geeeeeeeeeeeeez. I know that I really haven't been active much at all for several years now, but I still linger in the chats. Hm... some other updates maybe? Well, I'm currently playing Animal Crossing. Its June 27th on my island, which means today is the bug-off, and Flick is here. AND OMG FLICK IS THE MOST PRECIOUS DORK EVER, I LOVE HIM SO MUCH AND WILL DIE FOR HIM.
Getting Married Today!
So, today is September 22nd, 2018. Which means its time for this girl to get hitched! :noes: If you told the 14 year old me who first joined dA, they would've been slapped. *I* wouldn't get married, said teenage me. I aimed to be the worst kind of woman possible to be a giant "fuck you" to the system.
Oops.
That only somewhat happened.
At 5pm EST September 22nd, 2018, I will be married to the Derp of my life. :lol: Wish him luck!
30 more days!
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There's only 30 days til this gal over here gets married.
T H I R T Y D A Y S
Then I will go from Sam Normandin... to Sam Normandin. :lol: I literally just renewed all of my legal documents back in July, I am NOT changing them again. Besides, I like my name. I gotta finish up some of the wedding shit, come up with a seating plan, and kick some booty. Literally, I have an aunt who wants to bring her boyfriend, but he won't know until the day before the wedding if he'll make it. Um, I know my wedding is really informal and all, but this isn't a backyard bbq. That "maybe or maybe not" is $88 to me.
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I love that you've used a big negative on dA (trolls, art thieves, etc) as a stepping stone to better yourself. That, in my opinion, is the very definition of being an awesome deviant.