Yes. I am returned. Briefly. God knows if my stolen internet connection will last, or if my boyfriends microscopic netbook will decide to explode. (For $100, I would say the exploding probability is quite large. Wouldn't you?)

In any case...I don't even know where to begin to explain where I have been. The storms during the summer with heavy rains and winds, not to mention hail, pretty much left us without internet, and our cable internet company is still trying to recover from the burden. So, I have shamelessly hacked into a wireless connection out of frustration and decided that sucking away someone else's bandwidth is better than leaving my friends to think I've abandoned them >_>;;; Blarg.

Life has been strange. I had a freak accident in which my leg fell through the rotting boards of the front porch and a nail went through my shoe, almost all the way through the top of my foot a little over a month ago. They were very large, old nails T__T Needless to say the damage to my tendons/bones has left me unable to walk that well. Though I can walk now, its neither very fast, very far, or for very long periods of time.

The good news? I no longer work at the hell hole called S&S. Although I'm not where I desire to be (The Netherlands *sigh* ._.) A close friend of mine who works in a tattoo/art shop got me a job working along side him, customizing BJD's and sculpting heads. Yes...at long last I get to touch those $600+ dollar dolls I so covet EVERY FREAKING DAY X3 Its a dream job, and I have so much less stress NOT being a manager. I was offered managorial duties because of my resume. I declined. Its a wonderful, peaceful little shop. But frankly I know where being a manager got me, and I think that I honestly still have to recover from what the stress left me with.

Oh...and I turned 23 O___o I feel old T__T

I'm seriously not used to blogging anymore, so forgive me if I don't seem my usual self, or if my writing is rather inelegant...I've been away from the internet for far too long, and its a little strange trying to get back to it again O_o

So, what has been going on on this account while I've been gone? Lets see...

I have 8,729 Deviations, 2,931 Messages and 1 Note

ONLY 1 NOTE? D8< That's almost dissapointing.

But lets look at some of the wonderful comments I've received while I've been gone, shall we?

Here's some of my favorites >: D

1. FREAKING BLOODY HELL! YOU WERE SO AMAZINGLY LUCKY! (I still have no clue as to what this comment is about. I'm certainly not.)

2. *pounces at Jareth and kisses his GORGEOUS face!* (Jareth: O_____________________o)

3. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
can i play with him please o please o PLEASE *puppy dog eyes* (T____________________T)

4. ...you're terrible (YES YES I AM.)

And before I get flamed for being a jerk...these comments are thousands of years old. XD

ANYWHO.

Now onto the mean and nasty stuff.

I have something I would like to say.

MY ARTWORK IS NOT FOR TRACING. EVER. NOT EVER. That is called COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. I don't give a flying monkeys ass what deviant art says about "tracing being art" Tracing is not art. Tracing is stealing from artists who work hard to produce creative, origional pieces. I don't care how long I have been away from DA, or how long my account has sat unused. That Dosn't make my art bloody free game for fucking art thieves. I don't care how much you change in the tracing-I still see my origional lines there, and unless you think I'm stupid,you probably imagined that you've gotten away with it.

And the fact that my *MOST* Important, *LEGALLY COPYRIGHTED* characters was ripped off....seriously...how could anyone possibly think that they could get away with ripping off the goddamn FIGUREHEAD of my entire gallery. Trejah. Yes, they thought they could get away with changing his name, tracing my work....and didn't even have the origionality to alter the storyline of "their character" beyond scraping away my origional touches and creating "generic romance hero gypsy/thief/ladies man regrets his past hates himself and longs for love # 467".


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Seriously. Don't ever think you can steal my characters. Ever. Trejah will eat you in your sleep.

Really.

My only consolation is that the art has been removed by deviant art staff and taken down, almost as soon as I reported. Granted, the tracings were EPICLY BAD. But still recognizeable as having origionated with my work.

I have saved the pirated works to my computer, for mocking and seething purposes. And for the LOLZ when I'm not annoyed out of my skull any more.

But honestly. Don't steal what's important to someone, what they put their heart and lifeblood into. Anyone who knows me well knows Trejah is as important to me as any living person...if you or anyone you know ever thinks of tracing or nicking someone elses art, don't do it. Learn to draw, or don't waste your time. Think of the feelings of the artist, for fucks sake. Have a little decency.

*sighs* T__T

Anyway...I'm epic. I've lost half of the passwords to everything and need to recover them XD *headdesk* That and I need to top up my phone and call people (yeslovethatsmeansyou o.o;

I suppose this is all for now...perhaps an update tomorrow? XD

If I remember XD

~Nightshade