I think at some point I looked at my own stats on this website and thought, 'jesus christ, 600 deviations?'. I didn't get there meaning to. I used to do a lot in terms of culling poems out that I had decided either I didn't like or that hadn't 'done well', but I grew tired of that judgement. I will admit: while I enjoy writing poetry, and think that I have come to a mature place and even to some extent a recognizable style, I still don't think I am very good at poetry. As far as projects I have tried to launch with physical collections, I'm not sure if I just don't have the dedication or if it's an issue with quality or talent, but they always end up being pretty abysmal experiences.
I'm not one of those people that announces hiatuses from websites. I've never announced one here, though my activity has waxed and waned. Despite liking this site, I have not formed new friendships here. I feel instead that I have felt the literature community as a whole wax in activity and community with particular folks - and seen it fade and quiet wen those personalities leave. It's an odd sensation, feeling like I have been a somewhat dull but steady presence on this site. It is not that I any longer feel ignored, with four Daily Deviations under my belt and a core of reasonably dedicated readers, even if I still consider myself fairly mid-list as far as writers go on the site.
I guess this journal is a couple of things to me: a thank you for the people who have read my work, who have seen 600 (or some fraction of that) deviations in their inbox, and read some of them; an apology that I have never been able to be the force of a personality here that I occasionally would have liked to be; and a brief examination of where I am, after almost nine years and 600 deviations on a website that managed both to challenge and coddle me in turns.
I wish my gallery was easier to dig through, but while I have made efforts to keep it manageable the truth is looking through it is something like digging through layers of archaeological sediment. It's just as difficult to define the context.
As always, yours,
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The History Guy Podcast
Hello all, my silence on dA has not been entirely in vain. I've ramped up working for The History Guy, and last Friday we released our first podcast, hosted by me. At least at first our concept is to repackage episodes of the youtube channel and add new content. Our RSS feed is: https://feeds.captivate.fm/thehistoryguy/ Clicking on that link should get you to a player where you can listen to the first episode, about two aviation accidents: The story of a pilot who survived falling out of an SR-71 blackbird when it disintegrated, and the story of an experimental plane that crashed during a photo op for General Electric. We SHOULD be available just about anywhere you can find podcasts, including Apple, Spotify, and google. We'll be posting these every two weeks on Fridays in addition to our regularly scheduled youtube episodes. Great if you like history - we do stuff from every corner of history from the History of Potatoes to the Cold War to Alexander the Great... basically if
Update
Hello everybody, it's creativelycliche, your friendly admin. I know it has been a long time since we gave an update. My fellow admins have largely left the site, so it's just me running the place from my ivory tower. I am currently working two jobs as well, and dealing with a number of other crises both due to COVID-19 and other, unrelated events. Eclipse does not seem to offer a way to notify me when group submissions come in, so I have to manually check and I'll admit that I struggle to do that everyday. While I have not submitted any feature journals lately, I still look at everything coming through the group. I will consider doing some other things that can maybe encourage sharing/commenting within the group on each other's art work - after all, as sci-fi fans, I think most of us are happy to talk about our own work, the work that inspires us, and the works of others. I had a conversation with some folks elsewhere about, for instance, this video judging the relative advantages
The Guy Who Thought We Should Wash Our Hands
In 1846, a Hungarian doctor in Vienna figured out that he could save lives by washing his hands. Instead of listening to him, many doctors scoffed at him and refused to implement his advice. Ignaz Semmelweis is history that deserves to be remembered.
Marie Marvingt, Fiancee of Danger
Born in 1875 in Aurillac, France, Marie Marvingt would go on to become one of the most decorated people in history, a world-class athlete in countless sports, a pioneering aviator, and possibly the most important advocate of air ambulance services. As my dad put it, this is the story of possibly the most interesting person you've never heard of. My most recent script for The History Guy. (Btw, if you are looking for a rabbit hole, we (my dad, stepmom, and I, mostly) write about all kinds of historical things, from the history of Toilet Paper and Ketchup to the Library of Alexandria to Norton I, so called Emperor of the United States.)
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