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So first I want to go ahead and disclaim, that I am in no way abandoning/deactivating this account. Like..EVER. Haha, seriously I couldn't even imagine completely getting rid or leaving this account. It means way too much to me; there's 8 years worth of work and memories here. All too precious to me for me to ever even think of doing that :heart:

However, with that being said, at the same time..there's also 8 years worth of a looot of other stuff. Which has led to it becoming very cluttered and disorganized. To the point beyond help. Well, not completely beyond help, but it would take an awful lot of work and time to completely get it to a place where it feels manageable and not so messy. That feeling having to do with the fact I just can't bring myself to properly clean it up.

To do so I'd have to first and foremost unwatch ALOT of people. I apparently watch over 1,000 people. Which as you can imagine leading to the largest deviation stack you've ever seen. Seriously, looking up now it's at 3,059..and my watch stack is 3,083. Granted, that's after maybe a couple weeks of build up, but even so, averagely my stack gets up to a few hundred each day. Which means I'd have to clean it out several times a day to keep up..and when I don't, it builds up fast. Which results in me just clicking everything away just to keep the numbers down. Which means I get to barely look at much of the art. (If I've ever seen very lacking in feedback with my friends out there, this is why. Your stacks get washed away in the abyss of probably artists names I probably don't even remember why I watched in the first place.) Maybe you're wondering how it can get to this point, and the short and simple truth is just again, I've been here 8 years.. To add to that, you have keep in mind I joined when I was 12 years old. I grew up here. Which when you think about it, joining at a young age can turn an 'artist account' into the equivalent of a childhood bedroom. Filled and cluttered with, while precious memories, are still things like: changing hobbies, tastes, friends, art, personality, opinions, decisions.. a growing teen also isn't exactly inclined to think about tidying up every couple years as she evolves, hehe. Some of you have probably had your account just as long, or even longer than me. But a lot of you are also older than me, and some joined at a time where they were mature enough to keep your account in check. And then there's even some of you started at the same age as me and were just really good at keeping organized, or can manage your chaos better. Yeah, well I can't :D

There's also all my old art, journals, conversations, comments, etc... all of which, like people I've watched, I just can't get rid of.

So therefore for me, this account has become that 'childhood bedroom' (account) at your parent's house (the deviantart A! community) that while you love and don't want to change, you therefore can't exactly function in it either. But rather beg your parents to keep around, so you can keep revisting continuously for the nostalgia, but to not exactly live in either.
For those who think it would be more worth it to just unwatch the people I don't keep up with anymore, and just do a completely cleaning overhaul to make it more functional, frankly, that would take far too long, and I honestly don't have the energy or patience to sit down and go through that many accounts, art, and journals. I would just keep putting it off and that leaves things unresolved and me stuck >< And I partly don't want to either, the people I've watched even for the most mundane reason are still part of memories I've made. Even if that reason was just because I liked a person's username XD (Yes, I admittedly have done that)
All of this may also be the reason I don't post my work that much. I can't emphasize how much art I have compared to how much of it I actually post..maybe it's just too stressful to get work out in a messy environment ><

So rather, I want this account to remain as and become more of a scrapbook for myself, and an archive. A time capsule, if you will. Because this account is literally an entire diary on a big piece of my childhood. And that's something really precious, and that I'm so grateful to have. That's why to this day you can still find everything I've ever posted; journals, artwork, comments, etc. Throughout 8 years of being here, I could never once bring myself to delete even the most miniscule thing. I never archived or stored away anything for the most part. As cringey, embarrassing and even shameful (lol) as some of these things are (especially stuff from the early days, ooooh boy.) they're still mine. Don't think everyone can say they have that much kept to look back on, and that makes me pretty lucky. :heart: 
....Or maybe I'm just a hoarder, :rofl:      

I've been thinking about making a fresh new account off/on for the past few months..and only finally in the past few days have been able to put desires into reasons and words. 

So to clarify, I'm not entirely leaving this account, again I'm keeping it as a preservation of all of my memories since 2011. I'm sure I'll even still be somewhat active in some ways. Like having conversations, and such. For a little bit I'll be transferring some things from here to the new one, like maybe most recent pieces, as well as the artists/friends I keep up with. But I do want to shift most of my activity to the new account. So I'll definitely be over there more.

I'm not exactly 'starting over', trust me I'm still going to do Animaniacs fan art. Don't think I could have an un-Animaniacs related account of any sort. Just wouldn't be me XD Not to mention still pursuing the stories :SkelletIvory: and I still have going. I'm just making a fresh account to keep things organized. To keep with all the metaphors I've been using in this journal, it's like moving out of your parent's house. Instead of throwing them out, you leave the mess of memories in your old bedroom behind to revisit, but take the current active things in your life with you to utilize going forward. :heart:

Annnd I'm also keeping this account open because, I really like my alliases Valentoon , and want to keep using it. As well as, who knows, maybe I'll end up wanting to do something else with my 'childhood bedroom' in the future. 

Sooo without further ado, my new account is :iconlaffimaniac:. I thought the username was fitting as I fucking love bubble tea, and food in general. So I wanted to fit my inner foodie into my user haha. And bunnies are just my spirit animal, needed to work that in too. Although I'll also be using my new account to explore new artistic sides of myself, wouldn't be surprised if it's still 'furry' based. So bunnies for that reason too.

Please give me a watch over there if you wanna keep up with me, and see familiar as well as new work/ideas from me! Don't think I'll be posting art so much here now, that would kinda get rid of the whole point of this whole decision haha. So if you like my art (bless you if you do :heart:) you'll need to go there for it! The account is a little blank as of the moment, but that'll change soon! c:

Also I'm sorry this journal is so long, I just thought the decision was worthy of a thoughtful explanation for my reasons. :heart:

~Thank you so much for everything everyone. Couldn't have memories without people to make them with, good and bad. It's made me who I am today. :heart: 
See you on the other side to make even more memories!
  -Laffy:heart:
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You wanna know my favorite video on the internet forever.
What makes me intensely ugly laugh.
That I use to endlessly troll my friends with.
Which makes me ugly laugh even harder? 
THIS:
 


Please actually maybe take just a few seconds to watch this. I can't emphasize how I hunger for more recognition and appreciation upon this glory that has brought me literal tears and the kind of laughter that makes one's stomach muscles ache in beautiful agony. <3333
also if you're feelin extra spicy slowly let the speed settings descend to 0.25
please plague your loved ones with this masterpiece everywhere. amen. thank you <33
(fun fact: on christmas night SkelletIvory and I had a sleepover with our closest friends. skellet can vouch for the fact I blasted this on my phone in the room we all slept together until like 3 am. i can conclude it was the best christmas ever.)
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Sooo I'm thinking about potentially opening a couple, simple commission slots, and wanted to see if there was any interest? I know I did a poll on that a while back and was surprised to see so much positivity. :heart: 

I'd only be opening a couple, like 3 at most, because I want to guarantee they'll get done. I can only come by so much art muse, and I definitely don't want to bite off more than I can chew. 

In a way it's also like a bit of a personal test for me to see how well I could handle doing commissions. Depending on how it goes, maybe I'll open up even more? c: 

By 'simple' I mean no more than two characters per commission, a simple background, and flat coloring with no shading. So the most simple of a picture would be a drawing of one character like this:
Drawing-Nice To Meet You by Valentoon

I'd price that around $10?
+$5 for an additional character. 

And the most complex picture would be two characters, colored, with a simple background like this:
Smooch! by Valentoon
More examples of simple backgrounds I can do:
Stripes with border,  ~VALENTINE: Tied To Your Apron Strings~ by Valentoon Flat color with messy border,  Puppy Love by ValentoonSimple 'object repeat', ~So Happy Together!~ by Valentoon 
I'd price stuff like these around $20-$30 depending on complexity of certain details, specifications, an additional character, ect. But no more than $30. We'd definitely talk it over until we reached something fair. :heart:

:star: Another possible thing I'd definitely consider is designing people cartoon personas based on actual pictures of themselves? Like if you'd like to send a picture of yourself to me and have me 'toonify' you! Into an inkblot, cat, bunny, y'know a toon! I'd be interesting in doing something like that! If there's any interest for that please leave a comment! o:

Annd I would like to take payments through PayPal? I know some people take points and know how to convert points into actual money, so if someone can teach me this, I'm completely open to it! o: 

If you know my work, my specialty really is toony type characters, inkblots. However if you want to see something slightly different done in my style, ask me and I'll see if I think I can do it, I'll at least take a look. :heart:

So yeah, commissions AREN'T OFFICIALLY OPEN YET, I just want to see if there's interest first. Depending on if I get some, check back to see if I open up some slots!
And if you have any questions, please feel free to ask me! The most I'd do is kindly turn you down. :heart:
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Hellooooo Lovelies! Let's just ignore the fact I literally never have enough muse and am too lazy to write journals more than once every 6 months! Pfttt~ <33

So yeah! As the title implies! I graduated! Surrealness hasn't set in yet! After 14 years of school (I had kindergarten twice, story for another day) I'm still in that, "oh summer will come to an end and I'm inevitably going back to school eventually" mentality! Gonna take some time to break I think. But yaaaay! I get to be a total slacker now for a while until I decide (Or literally need to) start working! Probably the latter! 

I turned 19 years old 3 days ago!.....Nothing has changed 8DD :heart:

Blah blah blah, I'm literally still in no way an 'adult', blah blah school is over..HECK WITH ALL THAT.

I'M FINALLY GOING TO FKDKFSJLFLK DFJ FLIPPIN' MEET :iconskelletivory::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart::heart: ?!?W?D S ?D%$#?!~~?!?~?~~?~??!?!?! :heart:

Long rant short, Skelly and I have always thought about the idea of eventually living together..I mean, we have something far too special (that we sooo have not been obviously shoving in your face the last 6 years) for that to not eventually be a thing.
But of course I had obligations I needed to finish up before that could actually be anything realistic, the biggest one being finishing up and graduating from high school. Skells graduated 3 years ago (I'm younger, and again, had kindergarten twice) so I was a bit behind them. Skellet had their own things as well of course.  

BUT THAT'S ALL OGRE NOW (I hope a lot of you get that reference)

We don't have school anymore! We're ''''''''adults''''''''' now //trying not to gag.
AND IT'S BEEN FJDLSKJ FFFDLKFJ FLIPPIN 6. WHOLE. YEARS. And we haven't even met yet! 

Sooo over the last couple years we've actually been discussing future plans together more seriously, as my time in school was coming to an end, Skelly started working. More recently they've been holding down an apartment with their best friend, and obviously Skelly and I have entered a relationship together //cough cough, 11 months tomorrow //cough cough :heart: ~

The timing is just right, and not even a heart beat too soon! IT'S BEEN 6. YEARS. DAMMIT. JANET. (Pwease get that reference too) THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS 'TOO SOON' AT THIS GOSH DARN POINT ANYMORE. :heart:

So over the past so many months, my dad and I have been checking flights and airlines for good prices and my dad has been absolutely amazing and lovely doing everything he can to save up, because he knows just how much this all means to me. I literally cannot emphasize the forever appreciation I will feel toward him for all of this, not even a spam of endless hearts will ever be enough <333

My dad is also immensely supportive, he knows how much Skellet means to me, and how much we've been aching to meet each other since we've met. Again..6. DAMN. YEARS. JKLFDJSDFJ

So the plan was always to visit for a month, and my dad to accompany me for the first few days to obviously go all dad mode and check out all the important stuff and make sure all goes well. (I wouldn't want it any other way :heart: ) To see where I'll be living, the area, meet Skellet obviously along with their parents and friends. And of course have a little fun as well~! <3

AND THAT. IS WHAT IS FINALLY HAPPENING... 6yearsdammit. :heart:

Early last week my dad was actually checking out prices and mentioned to me how he found some good numbers that would work within our budget. But told me not to get tooo hyped quite yet, because obviously airline ticket prices can change from day to day. We had to wait for his new card to arrive friday anyhow. 
THEN ON FRIDAY. I heard him discussing things with my grand-dad, and at some point going into his office for a considerable amount of time to use his laptop, I haaad my suspicioussssss <33

...then around 5 pm he walks in my room, drops a stack of papers with airline info on my bed, and says, "Happy birthday."

WE'RE BOOKED FOR SEPTEMBER 13TH. (We leave late at night and actually arrive in Canada on the 14th in the morning, but you get the idea)

OUT OF ALL THE TIMES SKELLY TAKES FOREVER TO REPLY (Pfttt~ :heart: ) AND I JUST HAVE TO...SIT IN FRONT OF MY LAPTOP VIBRATING WITH FEELINGS BY MYSELF, THEY FINALLY REPLY, WE WEBCAM, I TELL THEM, WE PRETTY MUCH BOTH CRIED AND QUESTIONED REALITY A LOT, I'VE NEVER BEEN SO EXCITED FOR ANYTHING LEADING UP TO THIS POINT IN MY LIFE I DON'T THINK :heart:

AND IF ALL GOES WELL (I'M SURE THEY WILL) after the trip I'll start really making plans to actually move up there~ c:

So yeah, this is the most important journal I ever wrote, I hope a lot of you manage to read fjdklsfjsdkjf ~ :heart:


~Thank you all, and oh! I Love you Skelly~ c: 
50 days to go, Luvy~:heart: 

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Got this idea about a month back. Kinda wanna make a new yearly tradition leading up to my favorite holiday haha. Similar to inktober, draw a picture every day (or as many as you can) related to the theme. The only difference in this concept is obviously instead of surrounding Halloween, it surrounds the concept of Valentine's Day. :heart: c:

But I kinda wanna make it more interesting than that? Perhaps every year have a specific Valentine theme? :heart:

I think this year I wanna make the theme centered around my favorite decade, being the sixties !~ :heart:

I'm kind of regretting introducing this idea so late. Maybe some other people in the community would have liked to have had a go at the concept? If anyone wants to, or do something similar of the like, please, go for it!! >w< 
But hey, let me in on you doing so! I wanna seee! I wanna knowwww! I'm curioussss! Hehe >u< <33

No need to stick with my ideal of this sixties theme either, this is mostly for me anyways. I may even give myself some wriggle room and wiggle out of this theme a little. Possibly doing some stuff from other decades too? So more like a, throughout the decades theme? But I think I'll try to stick to my sixties thing going. There's just soooo many songs I could pay homage to that I wuvvvv~ <3333

Also not sure if I wanna leave it only the first 14 days of the month, and stop and have the finale be Valentine's day itself? Or keep going after that? We'll see! I'll use this year as my test run I guess on this concept, and maybe next year have a whole community idea set up to get others involved in, if so wish! :meow: :heart:

But for me personally the goal is to throw something Valentiney up every day up until the 14th at least. Kind of a drawing challenge for myself in a way? Doesn't have to be full out colored, and clean or anything! It be just a messy sketchy, or a quick scribble, that works! Just as long as I'm drawing something related to my favorite topic everyday! Giving myself some positively, loving motivation! :heart:

On Valentine's day itself, if all works well and the muse, motivation, drive, and flow all stick with me well enough. I plan on posting something rather personal and special to me~:heart: Buuuut if I'm a little behind, (or heck really behind, I'm a horrible procrastinator, especially on the bigger things) I'll get it out there eventually! >u< :heart:~!

~But yeah! I'd love to hear your thoughts, and feedback on this concept, if you're willing, Lovelies! :heart:~


:heart::heart: ~Love you all and I'll see you throughout this months Valentines o' mine! c: ~:heart::heart:

~xoxo,
         Laffy:heart:!~

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