Fascinating how around this time five years ago I was continually making journal entries consistent of the most inane drama that ever plagued my later teenage years. If you're somehow reading this in _current year_ or at some point in the later future-- hello! I'm Drip.  I used to think I was big shit on here. For whatever reason, drawing generic Lucario art over and over again gave me a mildly respectable following on here and it somehow allowed me to enlarge my ego to the likes of a tennis-ball-sized brain tumor. That right there is a simile. I didn't know what a simile was five years ago. Because I was flunking school when I should have been paying some attention. But what did I do? I treated DeviantArt like it was my be-all end-all. And what did it get me? A lot of hurt people. Some spectacular enemies. And a couple good friends. 


Nothing I did here registered to my real life. In fact, my life got significantly more bearable after I left this site for the likes of twitter and tumblr (rest in rip, tumblr.) But the sad thing I found from re-reading all these old journal entries tonight was that I realised that I was not an outwardly good person. In fact, I acting fucking selfishly. For whatever reason, I well and truly thought I was hot shit from mid 2013 well until the near-end of 2014. And it's embarrassing. 

But why am I spamming this account with another cumbersome DeviantArt journal some five odd years later? Well. I'm not very sure. But it felt a bit cathartic to write something proper here to say, "yeah, I've matured." And how have I matured? Probably not all that significantly from how I will likely view this very journal entry perhaps another five years from now. But I can say that --right now-- I am in a better frame of mind than at any point in 2014. 

I caused drama. I didn't know I was causing drama. But I was. Every time I wrote some asinine theatrical journal entry-- I incited in-fighting and bickering and finger pointing. Sure, some of these people were likely guilty of whatever it was I accused them of. But even then-- I never should have publicly displayed that bullshit in a fuckin journal entry. Of course, to any of you reading this, you might be read out of some curiosity. Tho, predominantly, I'm positive most people won't give a shit what's written here tonight. And good on them! But good on you as well for reading anyway!

I'm rambling a lot...

Anyway. five years have passed and I can see the change from who I was then and who I am now. And it's surreal. So I may as well vocalise that here since this provides a good timeline of how a person can be altered mentally/emotionally and never even notice. Whether being altered by the people in their life, or their own life choices. I was altered by both. I cant truly describe it. But it's been fun to write this down. 

I'm married now. I do artwork as an occupation now. I'm comfortable with where I am. I moved across the world. And I don't know what comes next. But when enough time passes... I'll do my best effort to make some kind of update. If only for myself. 

"Echo OUT~" 

That was such a lame ass outro for me to inconsistently write. Anyway, be good happy people! Back to doing art that DeviantArt doesn't allow me posting despite their non sequitur website name! (And no, I did not check this entry for errors, I'm just writing it on the fly.) 

I've made a suggestion to the deviantart admins. The suggestion is to basically restrict brand new deviants from being able to comment or privately message anywhere until either the end of a two-week waiting period or that they have proven their legitimacy with a few tasks (follow and fave art, etc)

If you want to learn more about this suggestion, please read this: support.deviantart.com/entries… and if you agree, PLEASE Upvote it! 

If you want the harassment to stop, this is as good a shot as any to make it end! 

READ THIS LINK PLEASE

I'm going to reiterate it one more time so you all can understand:

If you get ANY kind of message from ANY account claiming they are me or anyone else (yet the account is brand new and has just about NO history) then you are BEING SPAMMED. Hateful spam, lying spam; spam made by a CYBER-STALKER who's only goal is to confuse and harass both you and me.

Most of you have had to deal with this spam before. Some of you may be here because the spammer said something terrible about me and either linked this account or you found it yourself. Either way, you've been spammed by a cyber criminal's alt-bot just sending bullshit to confuse and fool you.

If you get a message from ANY account that is not THIS very account, then you are being spammed and harassed and should simply ignore it and report it.

In any case, if you are being spammed or harassed by any of these current alt/bot accounts then I highly implore you to simply REPORT them immediately to the DeviantArt Staff HERE. Just file it under the category "Abuse Report" and write away. 

I've also explained this in my other journal entry if you wish to see that as well: 

READ THIS: Cyberstalker SPAMMING and Harassing YouHello. If you are one of my followers or have just been spammed a message and linked to my page PLEASE READ THIS:
If you are getting a message from a so called user claiming to be Kuro-No-Yuki or ANY other user associated with this site yet their account is barely a day old and has MANY MANY comments in their comment history; disregard and report this user IMMEDIATELY. The user is searching and  spamming your comments or replies to lie to you and confuse you.
I repeat: REPORT THE ACCOUNTS YOU GET MESSAGED BY IMMEDIATELY.
Why? 
You are being spammed and harassed by a cyber stalker. This user has desperately attempted to harass me and many many other users in recent months and MUST be recognized and reported as such: a cyber stalker trying to trick you into believing whatever this cyber criminal wants you to believe. 

This user has persistently spammed your messages and you have been HARASSED by this pers

This needs to be reiterated VERY clearly. Whatever spam or messages you've received from alt/bot accounts is SPAM and HARASSMENT. You all have most likely been spammed by a current cyber stalker who has IN FACT broken many laws in the past several months in order to harass and threaten me. Any comment you've made on my deviations has been spammed with unfounded slanderous links.

This user is a cyber Criminal. Anything they say or post is nothing more than an unfounded defamatory LIE to deceive you and make you believe whatever they want you to believe.

I personally have plenty of evidence now to identify and DIRECTLY PROVE that this person is completely committing crimes. And you should merely recognize them as exactly that and nothing more. 

In any case, if you are being spammed or harassed by any of these current alt/bot accounts then I highly implore you to REPORT them immediately to the DeviantArt Staff HERE. Just file it under the category "Abuse Report" and write away. 

I've also explained this in my other journal entry if you wish to see that as well:  READ THIS: Cyberstalker SPAMMING and Harassing YouHello. If you are one of my followers or have just been spammed a message and linked to my page PLEASE READ THIS:
If you are getting a message from a so called user claiming to be Kuro-No-Yuki or ANY other user associated with this site yet their account is barely a day old and has MANY MANY comments in their comment history; disregard and report this user IMMEDIATELY. The user is searching and  spamming your comments or replies to lie to you and confuse you.
I repeat: REPORT THE ACCOUNTS YOU GET MESSAGED BY IMMEDIATELY.
Why? 
You are being spammed and harassed by a cyber stalker. This user has desperately attempted to harass me and many many other users in recent months and MUST be recognized and reported as such: a cyber stalker trying to trick you into believing whatever this cyber criminal wants you to believe. 

This user has persistently spammed your messages and you have been HARASSED by this pers

I've been getting bombarded a lot lately by spamming alts etc and it's just sorta driven me off the edge. You guys all mean a lot to me and all, but I have to go. You guys mean a lot to me. Thank you all for the support