StellaTortuga

deviantART, you win. Jerk. :P :chew: I left deviantART because it made me angry.  I don’t believe what I did was rash, and I don’t believe my anger was misplaced.  I still believe that what took place on this site last spring was despicable.  However, I was wrong when I thought I didn’t need this site.  I need a place to put my artwork where it will be critiqued, where I can grow as an artist and where I can bring attention to my work.  Plus, when you boil it down, I really love this site. So, dA, let’s call a little truce here.  I’ll return to the site, and I will upload my art, and I’ll give you hell next tim

I can have nothing to do with this. It would be wrong to even consider it. It would be wrong to the principles of my religion, my loyalty to my family, and my value of human life, dignity, and respect. I know that there are people out there, some of whom I consider my friends, who think it's silly for me to get worked up about an artist expressing his opinion. I know that some of you will wonder why, after over three years, I'm choosing to abandon deviantART because there was a Daily Deviation I disagreed with. My reasons were stated in my previous journal entry.  I would not have you believe I didn't think this through enough.  I have.  I

. . in the world which could anger me more . . than people who have the nerve to refer to the people of Israel as the "new Nazis". http://manasrah.deviantart.com/art/for-Gaza-110651231 Today, I have been angered more. By someone who had the nerve to give the above deviation a DD. And by a website which allowed it. I don't know much about my family history.  Mendel Notes, my great-grandfather, said very little about his life before leaving Lithuania in the early 1900's.  I know that my family was kicked out of many a place over the generations because of their religion and race.  I know that at least three dozen of them died in the Holo