MintCarmel here... or who used to be. I've been on Deviant Art for a long time. My profile says 9 years, but I actually had a different account before that for about 6 or 7 years. I've had four different names (including what I just changed it to) and I've created a whole slew of different things in the last 15 years, mostly related to anime/video game fandoms. Through all of that, I've learned a lot and grown a lot as a person. For a long time, DA was for showing off things I intended to sell. I recently deleted a lot from my gallery because a lot of it was related to what I used to sell at anime conventions. Or crochet stuff that again, was intended for sale. The rest were deleted because I feel they never really represented me. Basically, I've decided to almost start over here. (I mentioned this change in a previous post, but my last illustration job combined with pandemic messiness kept me from getting to it until now) My crochet stuff is gone because it's evolved into something