A Long, Overdue Explanation

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I suppose I owe an explanation as to why I haven't said a word in half a year.

I just don't belong here anymore. 

I feel so estranged from the dA community. More than ever before. It was like one day every single conversation stopped and was never picked back up again. The drama that flared up finally took its toll and made me never want to come back. Even now I feel physically sick logging in, and it's been over a year since everything went wrong. I know that I had friends here. I had BEST friends here. I wish that all that's happened in the last couple of years didn't isolate me from you all, but it did. 

All the gifts for your birthdays I missed. All the developments in your art styles I missed. All your tragedies and celebrations I missed. 

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

This account was my start as a writer and is now one of my greatest shames. No matter how I try to clean it up, I keep remembering the way that I used to be and the doors I opened for people to hurt me. I remember how I used to be and I wish with all my heart that I could just go back and erase everything. I wish my oldest friends didn't have to see me like that. I wish that I could start over and be a better friend and a better judge of character. 

But you can't have everything you want, huh?

What I'm basically trying to say is... I'm inactive. I want to come back but I don't know how. I don't know if I'm at the point where it's worth it anymore. The account will stay and the art will be preserved. If you want to contact me at all, my Tumblr (decepticondanceparty) is always open. 

I'm sorry.


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Hey Rea! That Tumblr link didn't seem to work, so I hope that you see this eventually.

I thought about you the other day. I know some of these memories are evidently painful to you, but I want you to know that I remember you only as a really smart, talented, funny friend out of many I had for a time on this website. Like, you were special to me, trust me. I still smile today when thinking of our Blitzwing roleplays and how goofy I was. I also remember you for your writing/art -- you were pretty darn good at both!!

I hope time treated you well and helped you through some of these issues. You've always been too hard on yourself. :)

I didn't fully appreciate it at the time but you were a great writer and I can only imagine that you've only gotten better over the years. I am aspiring to be a writer too, so maybe we could help each other out.

If you would rather not talk to me, that's fine. You don't have to reply if you would rather not continue our friendship. I remember some years back that I had a feeling that you didn't like me that much any more, so rightly or wrongly, I just let the friendship drop and left without directly asking. I had some issues myself back then too -- well, we all do, who doesn't? Like you I had to leave this place for a while. I'm glad to say that I'm a much happier person now and only wish to reconnect with those that I lost through time.

I was quite an odd ball back then, but I have changed a lot (and hopefully matured, at least a little bit). It would mean the world to me if we could hang out again!

You can find me again here or reach me on mandolinminute.tumblr.com (I'll probably be more active on the Tumblr). Some of my friends amazingly still post art here so I created this account to keep up with it all and follow some artists that I enjoyed on Tumblr. ^_^ I also hang out on two Discord servers quite a bit, so I can always give you their links if you don't like dA/tumblr much any more. Discord is similar to Skype but waaay better than Skype. I voice chat almost every day. :)

Best wishes to you and, most important of all, be nice to yourself. You're a really good person.

-- Blaster, 'cause who else. <3