SilentDragon64

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I'm hoping this year doesn't suck as 2016.

Happy New Year everyone!</sub>

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HA! The world's not ending. I had a feeling that it wouldn't. Then again...I was paranoid and doubtful...

But anyway, I'm bored, so I'm writting a journal...

I guess this could be part 2 of my Yearly Journal thing like I wrote on 12/12/12. Probably talk about what I hope for next year and the little things I will be doing for my artwork and G-Mod pics and other things.

Well, Christmas is in 4-3 days, and New Year's is just around the corner. I am very excited and hope that 2013 will bring a promising year to all of us. Again, it has been a great year for me on Deviant Art overall. I had no idea that I would make it this far and have so many people interested in my works.

While I made many new friends, I have seem to have lost some as the year passed. Old friends just...disappeared on me as life grew busier for them. While I do miss them and I do want to talk with them again, I shouldn't bother them if they're busy...Playing TF2 became lonely and Single-Player Garry's Mod was my new normal when it came to the Steam games I have. Altough I am very grateful for the few friends I have...I wish I could talk to my old friends as well...But I guess I can't be holding on to the past too tightly and I should move forward.

While others seemed to be moving on to Source Film Maker, I'm still stuck using Garry's Mod (Not that I'm complaining or anything). I tried SFM...but it was too hard for me so I stopped playing with it. You'll probably never see me use SFM for a long, long, time...

With the G-Mod update and the wonderful addition of downloading addons from Steam Workshop, I'll be experimenting and creating a ton of pictures from there.

As for Adoptions and Point-Commissions...they've been a hit or miss. I'm hoping for things to get better next year.

My artwork in general seems to be a hit or miss as well. Sometimes, they do great. Other times...barely anyone looks at it. I'm trying to give a variety. As I improve in both drawing and G-Mod...I hope that things will get better.

Assassin's Creed. I'm new to the fandom and barely know anything...yet I'm in love with it! One day, I'll play the games and understand more of it. Even though TF2 and Pokemon are my biggest fandoms as of now...Assassin's Creed will someday be a bigger fandom of mine than it is today.

Well...that's all I can think of for this journal. If I don't respond with another journal by Christmas or New Year's, I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas (Or other holidays that you're celebrating) and a Happy New Year!

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I think it's a bit early to write my "What Have I learned this Year and My First Year Progress" (I actually first joined DA January 4, 2012). But this day is very rare...literally, so I decided to post up my Year-Journal.

What can I say? This year has gone by very fast...and I never expected to have this sort of progress on DA. Who knew that I would have over 300 Watchers so far in about a year's progress? I didn't know that so many people would like my weird crossovers and cartoony-drawings. I wasn't expecting to make as many friends as I did now, and I'm happy for it. What a year this has been...

Over this year, I have learned many new skills, made wonderful new friends, went through betrayal and heartbreak (quite a few times actually), finally learned how to deal with the despised haters, understood that MLP is just horrible and a virus to the rest of the fandoms here on the internet, found new fandoms to like, learned how to RP correctly, and done over 500 deviations with 20K pageviews for this year.

I think my highlights this year are:

-Finally playing TF2
-Learning to play Garry's Mod and use it as a creative tool
-Making new friends, especially some good ones out there (You know who you are. ;D)
-Learning How to properly deal with haters by immediately blocking them.
-Going through spikes of depression (especially that big one in June)
-Understanding what is Right and Wrong while doing RPs.
-Knowing that many aquantinces is not as good as a few good friends.
-Understanding what fandoms I love...and which fandoms I hate. And how to state my opinions in a "passive" way.

So far, that's pretty good in general for my very first year on DA...I wonder what next year will hold (And for my sake, don't talk about the End-of-the-World...I really don't want to hear it.)

And, for those of you that have trouble with haters and those that give you no respect, here's my advice: Just block them. That's it. Just let them know that you won't take their crap anymore and just block them for good with no second chances...even if they are "popular". Popularity does not give one the right to be an asshole. We, or at least I, don't support assholes. So stop watching them, block them, and find other people who are nicer and more accepting. Haters deserve no watchers. Haters deserve being ignored. Haters deserve having no attention. They brought them upon themselves to deserve being blocked. Few people hated on my work, even one or two who were well-known...I won't give out names, but I blocked them...so really, who cares about them in the first place? I sure don't! And you shouldn't either! So overall, do not support haters...Support BLOCKING haters.

Anyway, I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!