Blueoriontiger

Well, haven't posted one of these things in forever. After some commenting swaps here and there, I happened to come across this piece by @CapnDeek373 . It caught my attention somehow, and a half-joke of my nosy brunette poking around the place resulted in an 11,000 world tale with granted permission. I just got it done last night, and was recommended I post a journal about it due to wonky literature posting tools. So here we are! The general premise is my Heather and Janus characters find an interdimensional door to his setting, and start to uncover the secrets of Wharftown. While short, it was mostly a short project to delve into the art piece beyond the illustration, and let people follow that with a character. I get writing practice and some illustrations to draw out of it, and honestly enjoyed it. :painter: It's currently hosted on my blog, and if uploading issues are solved I'll get it stuck up here when able. You can go ahead and read it here:

So this past week I discovered a feature that deviantART implemented on their site. I don't know when this got changed, but it certainly was between this summer and now. What is this feature, you may ask? Removal of notifications over a year old, or if you have more than 10,000, that the older ones go. You can save your comments if they're important to you, but you *have to know the feature exists*, otherwise you can't save them. I lost a decade worth of comments and replies that I counted on deviantART to keep, just as it always did for 15 years for me. Stuff I said I'd follow up on one day when I hit a point, old forum posts links, replies from friends back in 2006. All of that, gone. Not going to lie, my holidays are partially ruined. That was my pastime for December; spend hours and hours going through my old faves and comments out of nostalgia, shooting an occasional message to someone in that thread. Or reconstructing a chain of events. It's not enough that