Astralseed

Wow, the journal layout is so different from the last time I posted one. Anyway, just stopping in to say I'm still alive and kicking. I still check in from time to time, but haven't had much time for personal art lately. I hope you're all doing well.

I decided it was time to step down from volunteering. This month would mark 6 years on the team this time around and wow time has really flown! Life has been pretty busy between work and my dogs, and DA unfortunately has been on the backburner for quite some time. I very much enjoyed looking at all the suggestions I got over the years, and browsing the site for all the gems I was fortune enough to feature. With the onslaught of of AI, finding DDs became increasingly harder. Every time I accidently clicked on one piece of AI, the algorithm would feed me more of them. I ended up not clicking on what was likely some really amazing art by very skilled artists out of fear it would be another AI piece. I really hated this a lot, but strived not to select AI as DDs. Suggestions which were sent to me were so incredibly helpful, not just to help me see things that I maybe would have otherwise missed, but also to help clean the AI back out of my algorithm. So even if I didn't