Okay, so I obviously left dA in 2007.

I saw !ndifference, !CageyButterfly, and !surrealist-geek banned earlier in the year, not for violations, but for expressing opinions and facts that the administration didn't want to hear.

So there's the dilemma, do you see?

I could either continue to contribute here, and allow the implication that I found those events acceptable...

Or I could speak my mind and be banned myself.

But I want my journals to stay here. So I backed myself up, every note and journal, and engaged the "proper removal of the delete function" a couple of hundred times, to leave in every other way.

I can't even say any more about it, can I? That's the dilemma. Speak up, but risk being shut up. Permanently.

And that's how my life at dA came to an end.

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Maybe I'll update you someday, if I ever get another web presence rolling. I sure promise that my artistic motivation misses you!

But anyway, I've been thinking of you guys a lot, missing you and wanting to update you. There's an end-of-year entry posted now on my rarely-updated blog, if you want to soak up some blather.

It's all about the New Year's juncture, the most important to me personally in the whole year, and I wrote it largely with you in mind, so thought I would give you a head's up.

Miss you a lot, wish things had gone differently...

And of course, wish you nothing but the best for 2008!