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whatevstu — A Decade of Drawing (almost)
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Published: 2020-01-01 03:11:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 1945; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 0
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I wanted to upload something special considering that the end of 2019 is quite an important event, the end of an entire decade after all. Unfortunately, I had absolutely no time to upload ANYTHING in time, but then I found this nice little meme and I thought to myself: “Huh, this could actually work pretty well!”, so here we are!
It's only the second decade of my life and I am already at the point where I feel like I've accomplished something that makes me proud personally. I went from cringey OC drawings and writing teenage fanfictions to low quality animations, and from there I went to comics, and from there to writing again, and then to drawing and from there only went upwards. So many things happened it really made me think how both long and short an entire decade is, and it really makes me think now how much the term “a new decade” means, while it also means absolutely nothing. I’ve accomplished things I never thought I could get to, met some amazing people and quite grew as a person. I had my ups and downs here and there, but every bad situation I was in taught me something important, made me stronger and better, and led me to a better place. As I was looking through my old drawings for this meme, I noticed that I actually did come pretty far in the last few years, and even though my artistic development is very slow, I am still improving, and I am willing to motivate you by showing this meme, to prove to you that if I started with some simple lineworks that represent an animal or a human, and I achieved what I’ve achieved, you can do it too.
I met EndiDjPrime and SinderyNaralex during this decade, and now they are my closest friends I ever had, and they helped me emotionally. I broke out of numerous very toxic relationships one of which lasted for almost four years and managed to recover myself before the end of 2019 and become better as both a person and a friend. I graduated during this decade and got out as one of the best students in my entire school. Additionally, with your help I reached 1,000 watchers on DeviantArt and 10,000 subscribers on YouTube, which seemed nearly impossible to me when I was ten years old. I became more social because I got used to talking to a lot of people on the internet and I improved my English over the years because of it as well, which is kinda funny because I haven’t met someone irl who knows English as well as I do at the moment.
Aside from my personal stuff, this decade was incredibly awesome because of all the technological advancements we went through and so many new things we have now, and how can I ignore all the new movies and video games we got this year? Yeah, some of them sucked, but some of them hold up even after so many years. I can’t even begin to list all the things that were released during those years because there are just so many amazing things to talk about! This decade was NUTS with progress!
Although, I am willing to say that I’m glad I got to play Skyrim, Dragon Age: Inquisition and Dark Souls during this decade, I love those games to death. 
A decade really seems like it's a lot when you want to talk about everything that happened during it, but when you just think about it it seems so short. So weird.
Welp, time to wrap this up. What did you think of this decade and what are the best/hardest moments you've had? What are your expectations for 2020 and the entire third decade of the 21th century? I honestly have no wishes or expectations for both 2020 and the next decade aside from everyone being healthy and happy. And hoverboards. We're running 5 years late for the invention of real hoverboards!!!
Happy New Year, and thank you guys for everything you've done for me during some of those years!
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I cannot be more in agreement with everything said! This decade was sure full of all kind of news and discovering, and it will take hours to just think about all the things that happened during these years, we catched up with a lot of stuff, found new interests, experimented something new, hobbies or places.
as for me: I graduated at school, with a pretty good result; I was able, on my little, to travel outside my home town, visiting small and big aesthetical and suggestive surroundings, even hidden streets and old fashioned houses with balconies full of flowers plants, and see the beauty of arts on Historical and cultural places, museums, exhibitions, on painting and sculpture - but also the nature and breath-taking landscapes; go at conventions and meet authors I have esteem for, even chatting with them, participating at meetings within the community; spent time with my friends, new found friendships came, some grew stronger over time, some became toxic and broke out, some very old friendships from even the decade before that for a while lost touch due to business with studies and other drawbacks, have reached a re-found connection and starting keeping contacts again (which for me was so heart-warming and I'm glad for); I discovered a certain interest in theatre, on musicals, prose and Opera & classic ballet, some of them I could be able to watch live, experiencing the magnificent of the most ancient and well-worth italian theatres, like in Venice (Teatro alla Fenice) or on Verona (l’Arena di Verona, which is an open place); get into a lot of musical genres, even classic (love piano and violin in particular); experimented new series/cinematic content that I truly enjoyed watching and following, and extended being part of its community and share between one another the liking for said content; at December experimenting ceramic painting; I kept growing my passion for literature and writing and I came near new friendships/mutual appreciation boud with amazing persons despite the geographic distance, like here on DA on other socials, and for someone I even had the chance to see them face to face and spend time together knowing better each other.
I have not too specific expectations for the 2020, besides staying healthy and wishing prosperity and luck for all the people, family and friends, I care for. I hope just to keep experiencing art, literature and theatre, keeping connection with my beloveds and spending time with them
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Oh my goodness! How could I miss this comment?
Man, even if you wrote just a summary of all the things that happened to you, it still sounds like a summary of a quite interesting book I would totally be on board to read! Your decade surely was a whole lot exciting and full of so many interesting things! Although, to be fair, I am quite content with what I had in recent years too, so, luckily, I don't burn in jealousy or anything. I know I'm very late at replying to this comment, but I hope this decade would be even more interesting, full of experiments and a whole lot more adventures, even more interesting than the ones you've already had, and I hope you will only grow from this point on with all the amazing talents you got and wish to develop!
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Born from the first decade, matured into the second!
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This decade was really something. I enjoy your art summary of the decade. It's really great! <3 It really shows your progress of you as an artist. I'm glad that I subscribed to you when I saw your animatic of "You're wrong, Professor". I thought "More animatics of ponies in musicals?!" It was such a great feeling. Then I started to watch you on Deviantart and was blown much more with your art. I loved your characters for the different musicals and your own character. You became one of my role models too and I'm glad that I found you in the sea of bronies. c: I'm glad that you could free yourself from toxic relationships. I got free from the too and I'm very proud to be at this place. c:
It was the My Little Pony Friendship is magic decade for me. c: I got to the show while I was alone at home and watched some TV. I zapped through the channels and suddenly I saw the first episode of MLP. I was interested and continued watching. After the first two episodes I wanted to see more and came across this wonderful tv show. x3 It was also a hard ecade for me, because my school years weren't very good. I was bullied and had some fake friends. I managed to get away from them after some years. I wa so afraid of being alone, but I learned that I liked it. When I watched MLP I noticed that I don't want to be alone the entire time. One day, I hink it was 6th or 7th grade, I watched into the mirrior and saw...someone. It was me, but I was kinda empty. I could feel things, but I had no hobbies or clear morals. I took this opportunity to shape me how I wanted it. I started taking role models and build my character. I discovered hobbies, interests and became one of the best students in my class. In my apprenticeship my grades went down, because I didn't understand anything anymore. I managed to get grades liek C and D and I felt terrible. I was so good in school. I even got a certificate as the second best student in graduation class. Now I was so bad and I was too ashamed to tell anyone. I allowed myself to cry when I was at home alone. My friends tried to help me, but my grades didn't got much better. I passed my apprenticeship, but with low grades. Now I have the chnce to get accepted in a job. I don't have the answer yet, but I hope so. In this decade I also had to learn that the only blood related family that I can really love and whom doesn't judge me is my mum. But Applejack reminded me that friends can be family too. She made me less afraid of the future. In 2019 I was on my first MLP convention and it was a blast! It was a place filled with people where I truly feel like that I belong. I had no fear or anxiety that someone would judge me or be mean to me. I coudl trust all of these strangers right away, because they are the kind of strangers who are just friends that you haven't met yet. x3 I also got a poster from my favourite episode "Rarity investigates". I framed it and now it hangs on my wall overmy bed. There was the option with colour or with the black and white like in the episode. I chosed the black and white version and I love it! <3 I also got to sell some figurines and the money got to aid organisations. Everypony in the room made "awww" when they saw my figurines. It was amazing. <3 I stated that the figurines are worth (I think) 5-7 dollars. The prices went much higher then I ever expected! I was glad to sell the three figurines of Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Princess Skystar, because the money would go to a good place and other bronies could enjoy them. x3 I'm very excited for G5 and don't believe any of the news about G5 yet, because it's too soon to take somethin seriously. Nothing is official yet. If they truly take the mane 6 again and change some of the races, then I consider G5 as an alternative universe of Equestria. This makes G5 so much cooler. x3 Don't judge G5 until you have seen the official first episodes. And yes, watch some of them, because one episode can be bad and most of them can be great. I'm very excited for "Venom 2", I know that you love Venom too, because I saw your comic. x3 I think positive of this year and decade. c:
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This was one hell of a decade if being honest. So many things happened and yet so little. I'm glad I met so may people both here on DA and YT, and I am happy to hear that so many of you enjoy my work. It is beyond anything I would've imagined for myself when I was little.
A whole decade of MLP is also something I never actually considered up until now, and now that I think about it, it's really weird to think that there was an entire decade of a cartoon that so many enjoyed and actually grew up with it and now we're moving to G5... Just, wow.
Let's hope everything is going to be better this decade tho, although judging by the news at the very beginning of the year, many doubt that everything will be fine
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I also just noticed that there was a whole decade of MLP FiM when it ended. I'm really excited for G5. I don't believe any rumors about it yet, but I like the idea of using the mane 6 again, just with some personality changes. It would be like an alternative universe of Friendship is magic. x3
Yeah, the news are pretty bad at the moment. We just had a bad start, but we can have a big finish! x3
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There's still a slight feeling of an "ending" I see many felt during this New Year celebration (myself included), and many people I know refer to the end of 2019 as the end of a decade, so I see no reason to go against everyone here and say that they're all wrong 
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