Yep, I've said it. I'm going to be as blunt as possible about this: I am leaving DeviantArt behind. I've gone ahead and removed some things from my page, most notably my sprite set for Mega Salamence that is used on Smogon's Pokémon Showdown! simulator. At the same time, I'll come clean and tell you I've been having plans to deactivate this account as early as 2018. My presence here already started fading back in 2017, since... really, I'd just lost any drive to do anything here, nor could I find any other reasons to stay. I mostly used DA to contact some people occasionally, and Sta.sh was simply a useful tool to save things on. So as you can tell, I've been planning to leave for a while now, and it's time to be a little more concrete about my situation. My first impulse to leave this site emerged back in 2017. I had a very tough semester in university that all but slaughtered any creative energy I could've possessed back then, and my IRL activity continued well into 2018 as I