So, I didn’t do a journal for X-Mas (shame on me, but like I’ve said Deviant it’s sorta’ dead these days), but I can’t pass on new years celebration (this year it's my year, eighteen it's my number) since it’s one of the few traditions I have left. Having said that, you know what’s coming...
"We could just go home right now,
or maybe we could stick around,
for just one more drink, oh yeah...
Get another bottle out,
lets shoot the shit,
sit back down,
for just one more drink, oh yeah...
Here's to us!
Here's to love,
All the times that we fucked up!
Here's to you,
fill the glass,
cause the last few days have kicked my ass..!
So lets give em' hell!
Wish everybody well...
Here's to us,
Here's to us...
Stuck it out this far together,
put our dreams through the shredder...
Let’s toast, cause things, got better...
And everything could change like that!
And all these years go by so fast...
but, nothing lasts, forever...
Here's to us!
Here's to love,
All the times that we messed up,
Here's to you,
fill the glass,
cause the last few nights have kicked my ass..!
If they give you hell!
Tell em' to go fuck themselves!
Here's to us!
Here's to us!
Here's to all that we kissed,
and to all that we missed,
to the biggest mistakes,
that we just wouldn’t trade.
To us breaking up,
Without us breaking down,
To whatever's come our way..!
(...)
Here’s to us! "
I want to be completely honest about my experience here on DeviantArt these days (and past few years in general). I feel like the site it’s dying.
A few years ago (like a decade or so) it was absolutely trending and awesome, you HAD to own a DA account if you ever touched a pencil (or took a picture, or made anything related to art) or you “technically weren’t an artist”. But nowadays it’s “just another site” on a whole new different spectrum of websites from Tumblr to Facebook or Instagram or whatever is that you use.
So charging US $50 bucks for a year of “premium features” you will not likely use, and having no the same benefits than some years in the past, seems stupid from the administration to ask for (since last years Christmas the “buy/ give one core membership and get one for free” it’s limited, last year to “6 months max” and this year “only 3 months max” when every Christmas before was unlimited, a year or “till’ hell freezes over” where an option, but 3 months it’s hilarious, for fuck sakes, fucking give me a year for me and someone else and I MIGHT pay you your $50 bucks, because I’m giving away a year of premium to someone else for free, ...even 6 months I can work with if we previously talk to the person involved on the exchange and I give him/her 6 months getting the same for free for me, and, the other user does the same, so in sum we get a whole year each and paid %50 because US$ 25 it’s a reasonable price for a year of premium, NOT $50, that’s just too much, I can spent that on collectables, movies, or even some BJDs ....and I have a lot more art website options for free!).
So having this in consideration, I will NOT renew the Premium Core “Whatever” features into this account. Maybe if the situation changes, in the future, but I see that as very dim possibility to be honest... I hardly use the account (as you can see).
I’m devoting myself to art, work, games, and life outside the internet. The drawings and things I do are usually going to my books or presentations and DA feels somewhat “old”. The things they update do me no good and I still have the account mostly because... I have no idea to be honest, it was there from before so it’s a force of habit I guest.
:/
So I will once again leave you with a music video, but be completely aware that DeviantArt might have had "their golden era", but now it’s just a place I go to keep up the groups I have and maybe upload something every now and then but not so often to justify $50 bucks and no free gift to anyone. I’m not rich enough to pay for things I don’t use. The account will remain and I’ll still be here, just not “premium”, but as a regular DA citizen.
Enjoy the music...
And Jurassic World 2 trailer just because it's awesome...