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First, I would like to wish everyone a positive and productive 2018!




I'm creating this list to organize my thought for the new year, it seems to have helped a little the past few years so why not? I encourage anyone to keep one of these even if it's ust in a personal forum.

Though this list is mostly for my own benefit, I make it public so that others may be inspired by the progress (as little as it may be) that I make. You can also check in here if I am doing a commission or contest for someone so they may see the progress (if any) I've made. If you want to commission me, check out this journal.
Update: I am now living in my own place with my boyfriend. We are living in our house as we build so it's a little underdeveloped at the moment. As of right now, we don't even have a bathroom. It has been super hard to keep up with my art but I hope to be able to upload in the next couple of months.
I was thinking of starting a gofundme page if anyone was willing to donate to our home sweet home lease comment below and I'll know its not a waste to start it up. I would appreciate anyone who stays subscribed to me in these dark days ahead. I promise to start uploading soon.

Here are some different ways to see my art or get ahold of me:
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and sometimes Tumblr.





Main Goals

1. [X] Move into my own Place-I am currently living in a house with my Dad, Brother, his girlfriend, and my boyfriend Josh while we build our house.

2. [] Get another Cat- Some people may know about my cat Anders. He disappeared around a year ago and I've kinda lost hope to be honest. I think it is about time I get another fluffy baby in my life. I will always miss Anders, he was the first cat that was mine. I actually wanted to work on a tribute painting in ps. I'm not great at drawing cats but it would be nice to have artwork of him. Sorry for the long, depressing paragraph guys.



Art Goals

1. [X] Finish contest entry for the Draw my OC Contest- Done



Personal Goals

1. [] Finish Chapter 2 of Story- I am still writing my story and finished with chapter 1 already. (Also give the story a proper name)!



Ongoing Goals

1. Practice and upload more digital art-I want to do more digital based art and get more proficient at it.

2. Exercise and take Vitamins-I need to be healthy in the year to come and take advantage of my youth and good health.

3. Make Friends, not Enemies-I have this bad habit of being reclusive and I need to stop before people begin to worry. Also, who doesn't want more friends to add to their support group?

4. Write More-I have been putting off writing my novel long enough. I do want it to become a graphic novel of sorts so a lot of art will be necessary.

5. Crochet- I started to learn to crochet after getting some yarn and stuff for Christmas. I hope to get better and if nothing else it is therapeutic.





Any and all support is appreciated, but if you are here to criticize my goals, please leave.

Please Comment Below a Goal you want to accomplish in 2018 or in your lifetime!

Thanks Everyone for Reading.
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:iconpunisama: is hosting a Beromimi raffle!


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You could win one of the babies above!

Join below before February 13th:

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Art here belongs to :iconpunisama:.


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Tagged by :iconwaningzane:


1. Write the rules!
2. Write 13 things about yourself.
3. Answer 13 questions made by the person who tagged you, and make your own 13 questions.
4. Tag 13 deviants
5. Make sure they know that they are tagged.
6. Don't say ''you're tagged if you read this".
7. It is forbidden not to tag anyone.
8. Tag backs are allowed.
9. If you don't make this tag in a week, you need to obey a wish of the person who tags you.



  1. Do you have any pets?
    Yes, my cat Anders.
    Image may contain: cat and outdoor
  2. Do you have a favourite YouTuber? If so, who is it?
    My favorite youtube channel is probably Super Beard Bros, my favorite youtube personality is 8-Bit Ryan
  3. What is your favourite book?
    Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children is hands down my favorite book right now. (Please read it even if you have seen the movie, it is life changing)
  4. Do you have an art piece in your gallery that you're currently very proud of?
    I'm still very proud of this one I drew of Muffet from Undertale<3
    Muffet's Spider Dance by MissDistractedFox
  5. Do you live with anyone else or do you live alone?
    Right now I am living with my bf (Josh), my dad (Big Larry), my brother (Little Larry) and his gf (Martha).
  6. Do you have a favourite restaurant?
    Papa John's is my favorite fast food restaraunt but I love a good steak house when I have money.
  7. Have you ever tried origami?
    Not really, but it is beautiful.
  8. If you play video games, what video game do you play the most?
    Good question, I usually fluxuate between games. Recently I got back into Stardew Valley and Smite. Would love some buds to play Smite (it's free) with as long as they aren't too try hardy about it.
  9. Quick! Show me a super cool piece of artwork!
    But there are so many DX, well here's a recent artist I saw that really caught my eye
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  10. What would be the hardest thing for you to give up on?
    It may seem cliche, but Josh is my rock and without him I would be a different person than I am today. He and his family has shown me what real loyalty and determination can do.
  11. Tell me something you've achieved.
    The last achievement I got was from Stardew Valley, don't remember what it was. If your talking about life achievements I guess I haven't accomplished much the past year except getting better at digital art and even crocheting to broaden my horizons.
  12. Tell me about your favourite song.
    That is the toughest question yet XD There are so many songs I love for different reasons. Right now I really love Clint Eastwood-Gorillaz, Bohemian Rhapsody-Queen, Day n' Night-Kid Cudi, and Lost Boy- Ruth B.
  13. Tell me about a time you were the most frightened.
I think I was most frightened the first time I ever watched The Thirteenth Ghost when I was like 8-10 by myself. I didn't finish it then sat outside on my steps because I felt the presence of ghosts or demons in my house.

13 Facts:

  • I try my best to help my friends when I can.
  • My hair is usually a crazy color, right now it's kinda pinkish purple.
  • If I could live anywhere I would pick in a Hobbit style home somewhere it doesn't get hot.
  • Coffee is my biggest addiction next to weed and chapstick. Don't judge please XD
  • Crocheting has become quite the hobby for me next to art. I mostly make hats right now.
  • My dish of choice to make is homemade mac n' cheese.
  • My favorite color is purple<3
  • I'm good at finding things that are lost (most of the time)
  • I am facinated with how people think, why they do the things they do good or bad.
  • Babies and small children make me unconfortable.
  • My favorite game trilogy would have to be Dragon Age.
  • I am a Hufflepuff and a Horned Serpant.
  • I have never finished a Pokemon game.


My Questions for you:

  1. What is your favorite mythological animal (original species count too)?
  2. What would your race and class be in a game of Dungeons and Dragons?
  3. Are you an indoor person or and outdoor person?
  4. What is the most facinating country to you?
  5. Show me a piece of your artwork along with one of your favorite pieces from your favorite DA artist.
  6. Are you an introvert or an extrovert?
  7. What is your favorite scent of candle or incense?
  8. Do you live in the city or the country, also which do you prefer?
  9. Do you believe in a thing called love?
  10. Coffee, Tea or other?
  11. Do you practice a religion, if so what is it?
  12. What was your first video game?
  13. What is your Harry Potter house?


Tagged if you feel up for it:

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  • :iconhardwirexx:
  • :iconmoonliteshadow:
  • :iconsephy90:
  • :iconmiully-sama:
  • :iconbellerae:
  • :iconphantomang3l:
  • :iconspookysprinkle:
  • :iconareksnyan:
  • :iconassorteda-art:
  • :iconcachomon:
  • :iconkairiibalto:
  • :iconsquitopus:


Thanks for Reading



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I just watched a very enlightening video about internet trolls and thought that I should share it with my DA people.


I have seen many of artists that have had to deal with internet trolls either harassing them, stealing art, or just general assholes. First, I suggest everyone watch the youtube video below (troll or not). Then say something nice to a stranger, kindness pays forward just as much as hate does!



I also scrolled through the comments section of this video and found this personal comment by another person. Hopefully, they will not mind me sharing their words in this forum. I just simple couldn't find any anecdotes of my own that could possibly stand up to it. Sorry about the legthy writing, I hope you enjoy nontheless.

This is interesting and its something I have thought about allot in the past. Allot of my friends are fairly... ironically detached, let us say. They enjoy off color jokes that blur the line between genuine vileness and showmanship and for the most part, I don't really have an issue with that. People enjoy what they enjoy and as long as your not hurting anyone (which tends not to happen when you keep these sorta jokes between friends and not shout them from the roof tops or on the internet at large) I find it all fairly, well harmless. Most of the time...

See the issue is that even with people who are purely in it for the off color jokes and who don't harass anyone or create tumbler blogs dedicated to gathering like minded people to feed on one another's bigotry, a culture starts to emerge. The more you joke about something off color without really acknowledging just how terrible that thing is, the more it starts to go from, "Ha ha, stupid people think that all Jews are greedy, so lets mock that concept by calling this greedy person Jewish in a sarcastic and obviously joking way!" to, "Ha ha, this person is greedy, just like a Jew!"

Just as an example, my nick name on and offline is Duhad and I am ethnically, though not religiously Jewish. After finding out that I am a bit of a neurotic and don't like spending allot of money, a few of my friends began to refer to me as, "Jewhad." I didn't mind that much, as I said, it all started fairly innocently as just some light ribbing for being such a cultural stereotype, but overtime that light ribbing whet from just being a joke, to being a integral part of how they saw me. If they needed to borrow money, they came to me and joked that I was their money lender. When they were thinking about where to eat they would laugh about how, 'Jewhad' would not want to go anywhere to pricey. Then they started to forget that I was not actually Jewish (religiously speaking) because they had started to just assume all of my 'Jewish' personality traits where related to my religion.

The whole thing had slowly gone from a joke about how terrible some people could be and ironically mimicking them, to ironically taking nasty stereotypes into consideration when thinking about people who fit into the groups being stereotyped. Which is not something I hold against them mind! I have had friends who where legit Neo Nazis or who genuinely  thought I was going to hell for being bi/trans/agnostic/pro evolution/est. People having unpleasant attitudes don't bother me so long as they are willing to be civil. But what DOES bother me is the thought that tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands even, of people every day go onto sights like 4chan or redit or tumbler and ironically chuckle at Nazi era cartoons of greedy Jews or read about how someone self identifies as an Apache Helicopter or about how women need to make men sandwiches just to tweak the noses of SJWs and I wonder... How many of these people after awhile go from laughing at the jokes ironic natures and start to laugh with the jokes intended message and how many even notice the change.

After all, its subtle. You start by laughing at it, then your still laughing at it, but you think its not really that far off base, just over the top. Then you laugh about how its pretty on point, though obviously you would never go as far as the people who un ironically post that sorta thing and then finally your posting on a video where a smart and educated sounding person talks about how black people are more violent then white people and your the one arguing with the people who are disgusted by the speaker because clearly they are just getting to easily offended by someone who makes some really good points.

I imagine some people will be annoyed by what I have written and that's fine. I am 26, I am old enough to no longer believe that anything I write on a youtube comment section will really reach anyone. That's fine. But before you brush me off as a reactionary or preachy or just for any of the things I listed above, can you do me just one small favor? Think about why you hold the beliefs you do and next time you see a comically offensive post and find yourself going to up vote it, really ask yourself if your doing so because its funny or because you agree with it and if the latter, when did you start feeling that way about it?


Thank you for reading, watching, and commenting.


Please know that what others say to you, either on the internet or in person, it says more about who they are in their souls than it says about you as a person. I wish everyone good luck in dealing with the hate that spews at us on a regular basis.



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