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Reposting from my new screenname DumonchelleDraws ONCE AGAIN. If you still haven't seen, I am switching screennames.
Slowly.
Refollow at :icondumonchelledraws: if you wish to do so XD The next art I post here will probably be the last.

I have been signing in to this screenname intermittently to reply to questions and such, but from now on I'm not replying to messages here. I appreciate all your comments and faves and such, but if you have questions regarding my work or any such thing you need to message me on the new screenname or it will not be answered. I just can't keep up with two screennames at once XD I couldn't keep up with this one alone before.



Now that that's all done, I figured I'd post this journal here since I posted that last article that didn't go super well LOL.

So anyway, I wrote up this thing...
It's a kind of explanation thing for an interview Alec did for Marian that mentioned my gender change. I think the last DA article thing I posted may have pissed some people off (my apologies for that, it's really difficult to offend me I should have been more sensitive to the fact I think) so I thought maybe this would be a better something to look at lol, not that I assume to be better at this or something, but it's at least from the mouth of an actual transgender person. It's pretty lengthy, and it talks a lot about my recent work 'Antigen', so if you're interested, do feel free to check it out on my tumblr 8D

Transgender

Here's the Marian interview Alec did too, it's pretty in depth, probably the first in depth article solely about Marian and the Fantastic World of Dreams, so you should check it out 8D

Marian and the Fantastic World of Dreams interview

Anyway, I haven't been doing much work to post here recently. My brain is a tumultuous place at the moment, and not been balancing the work and personal stuff very well, aside from stupid neck problems. Still, trying to get some stuff done though XD; I have a couple PBN pages in the works, one is super near completion, the others still need a little work. And I have a couple things planned, for some point.
I'll be more around soon I hope!

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I have MOVEDDDD. MOVED MOVED MOVED.

Over here folks: DumonchelleDraws


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Hey guys.

Guys.

I moved my screenname.

Don't stab me, some people still don't know okay LOL.

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LEAVING SHLEY77

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For you TL;DR people I AM MOVING FROM SHLEY77 TO HERE: :icondumonchelledraws:



I've had this username for seven years, almost eight now, isn't that crazy? It's crazy to think about for me. I've built up a lot here, and even though people say 'IT'S JUST DEVIANTART', because I've been here so long I've been hesitant to move. As soon as I started really making art I came here, it's like a giant history book of everything I've done as an artist. I think most people find that appalling to look back at, but I don't want to lose it, maybe I'm just a masochist.

For the majority of the years I've been here I was trying to figure a lot of things out about myself, as I'm sure most people do! It's never been easy for me to understand myself. I'm not really sure why, but I'm pretty dense about those things, kind of funny actually. For whatever reason I often explore things in my artwork long before I realize they're a reflection of me. For that reason I feel like what I'm about to say probably won't come as a surprise to those of you who really follow my work and are familiar with it's themes.

So why the change then and what even is this so called change and what does this have to do with anything?

Simply put, I have started taking the steps towards, and hopefully will soon start, gender reassignment.
Okay that's not simple.
There's a lot of details into that, and while I feel deviantart to be my cyber art home, I won't go into it.

So to put it lightly, I'm a boy.

I know most of you know me as female (or you just didn't know), and I was born and raised as such, but I've always been a guy, I just didn't get it till now.
I told you I was dense.

The name Ashley, though technically considered male AND female which I think is kinda cool, I can't bring myself to accept and keep.
The new name is Asher.
That being said, since I have effectively dropped the part of my name this username utilizes, it seems kind of stupid to keep it. And also makes me want to stab things. Stabbing things isn't good.

So there you have it. I am officially shoving off and moving slowly but surely to DumonchelleDraws :icondumonchelledraws: SO FOLLOW ME THERE.

I will be making the move slowly (and what is here will stay, not deleting i don't think. maybe one day LOL), so the next couple things I post will be notices kind of. If you want to keep up with me THEN YOU MUST FOLLOW ME AT THE BURG OF DOOM.

FARE THEE WELL SHLEY NAME.

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Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes ;3; <3<3<3<3<3
Totally completely made my day seriously.
YOU ALL SO AWESOME<3

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**All done now! Thanks to everyone who dropped by! Unfortunately ustream was apparently being silly for some people, sorry to those who couldn't talk! Maybe I'll try livestream next time :)


I'm just taking a break from work for a bit and figured I'd give this ustream fanciness a try ;D

Probably only for 2-3 hours. BUT COME STARE AT ME WHILE I PRACTICE DRAWING DIGITAL (I was really bad at it till I got this new tablet so YEA)

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