/taps mic/ Sssso, uhm, hello? Can anybody hear me, is anyone still out there?? After long consideration, I felt like it was time to come back here, swipe the dust a bit and try to shape my space into this platform once more. You know how most artists have migrated to social media platforms due easier exposure & engagement, but no one can deny that in the past few years, things have gotten out of control (due many factors, from nsfw bans & puritanism content policies, to fucked up algorithms that only work for corporations), and smaller content creators have taken the hardest toll of it all. I'm aware dA's not entirely perfect (but what is in this society tbh) (wait- AO3 IS), but mayyybe, perhaps with some of its new features, more similar to social media's, it might become The Platform for artists once again in the near future. Maybe. Once all social media falls AND if nothing better comes up lmao Despite it all I've decided to take a leap of faith & come back here once more