Dear Deviantart,

After receiving a three month subscription from I came to the realization that the subscription offers nothing that I desire. I am content to browse 24 deviations at a time, I've found that CSS styles are not very vision impaired friendly so there's not much I can do to my journal, and I don't really need to see more deviations as thumbnails when looking at my devwatchlist's submissions.

That said, I have a very humble request. Please stop trying to pressure me back into getting a subscription. Yes, I used the word pressure. I can understand the e-mail I received when my subscription was about to run out. That's a standard practice on websites that offer paid memberships. What is NOT standard practice is interrupting my browsing with a full page ad prodding me to resubscribe when the subscription ran out. Another non standard and rather spammish (but I'm not sure I want to call it spam since it is infrequent) is to send me messages through the notification section of the message center.

I am a smart person. I graduated with two degrees from a reputable state university. I have an IQ somewhere between 126 and 136. If I want a subscription, please have the faith in me that I can figure out that the link stating "upgrade now" must be where I can renew my subscription if I ever so desire.

I am not swayed by such tactics. If anything, and many of my teachers over the two decades I spent in some sort of school environment can attest to this, this type of pressure advertising bombardment always sends me in the opposite direction. I admit I was the kid who didn't get motivated by teacher's giving us candy. I don't get motivated by fliers shoved in my post box for various things. What motivates me is internal and my own desires, which currently cannot and do not involve a subscription.

I know that in this economy where people are reluctant to shuck out the money to have th membership, you are probably suffering a loss in the gains you typically make in a year here at Deviantart. I know this creates an environment which is tempting to carrot and stick everyone that can be carrotted and sticked into getting a subscription. That's business I know.

I just would like to be offered it once and be done with it. I'm not into buying luxuries right now. I'm not into purchasing something that is beyond my means right now.

I would like some respect. The site is already well advertised without assaulting my message center.

Thank you for your time I am really grateful for this site,
Uozumi

I would like to inform everyone who is waiting upon a chapter of any of my fanfic that the updates might be very slow currently. I have gotten inspiration for an original project which is going to take priority over fan projects. This does not mean I am abandoning my stories, but simply that my inspiration for them might not be as frequent in favor of the original project.

I am sorry that the updates will be sluggish but do not worry. I am not planning on abandoning what I write for you.

Thank you for your patience.

This is the situation.

Pretty much server went out and now they're doing some upgrades and Y!Gallery should be back sooner than later.

I thought I'd pass that along since I know not everyone watches y_rant over on the LJ.

They are on hold. Recently I've had a big fat health problem land in my neck and I am just not in the right mindset to further Where No Wizard or Time Series simply because I might as well be wearing a brain slug for as much coherent function as I'm getting from it.

I have enough of my act together to write one-shots and such, but not enough of it together for fic that relies on consistency and furthering a multi-chapter/multi-part plot.

Hopefully after I see the doctor on Monday, it'll all shape up and ship out and I'll be able to write without making inexcusable mistakes.

So don't worry I am not abandoning any fic, I am just hitting a really big snag and I would like to give you guys quality instead of quantity.

My suspicions were incorrect and compromising myself on DA was not the source of my bad karma. I'm not quite sure what is the source, but I can say with certainty it is not this site nor this account.

I have a lot of fic to upload, so be prepared for your messages to get an influx. I also have over 600 deviations to go through o_O

God I was only gone for two weeks. You guys were super busy!