Because...hey, DeviantART's 14th birthday and I saw two of my friends do it. You can ignore if you want.

Back when I first discovered DeviantART around 6 years ago, I mainly used  it to look around for dress up games. My first account was where I was primarily a Pokemon drawer. I used to upload stick figured-like small pixel jpegs of Pokemon...mainly Eevee...and it all looked like crap. Though during the time, I managed to create many many OCs. Tons of Eevees and eeveelutions, a Milotic named Shamallamadingdong, several Pikachus, a Kirlia, and including a character literally named after me, Rachel. She was a typical Mary-sue who acted exactly like I would, down to being an obsessed fangirl over any franchise I liked at the time. I did meet a few of my friends along the way that liked my character, though I've forgotten most of them. However is one that I still remember to this day, and I'm grateful for the time we spent as friends. I think I also remember someone whose character was named Twilight the Eevee and another with an Eevee with blue patches of fur...aiya...it's been so long that I don't remember well. None of my old friends barely talk to me anymore.

 I guess you could say I really got hooked on  DeviantART when I met my friend . We had a roleplay together (that had bad grammar and spelling at the time...I was young.) and it went on way longer than I thought it would. That's when I created a lot more of my original characters, I'm guessing I had close to 70 or so. In these roleplays, Lotte's OC named Snowengel (who I thought was a Mary-sue at the time like my own character) went on a journey with a Lucario named...Lucario and a Chatot named...Chatot and my own character, Rachel, as we meet various characters, franchises like the Legend of Zelda and Super Smash Brothers Brawl, in order to discover "Secrets" about our own characters. I mean...it was fun and all at the time, but near the end it got confusing. I did cut it off when I realized it went on too long (It went on for two or so years) but I still remember it to this day.

My art on the other hand, barely improved through the years. I went from using Paint, to using GIMP, to using SAI...and now I don't even draw at all. 3D posing is a lot more fun despite having the MMD-Police telling you what you should or shouldn't do 24/7. I was a tracer, I admit. There were tons of pictures  I would trace then try to pull off as my own and get praise.  I regret it now, of course, but back then I didn't know better. I guess you could say I've always been a lazy artist.

My interests over the years have changed as well. The Eevee phase I had lasted almost 3  or so years (if I had to guess). Along the way, I had an obsession for The Legend of Zelda (and was attracted to Link) that lasted almost as long as my obsession for Pokemon, an obsession with Touhou Project that's still present to this day but not at the degree it was at before, an obsession for Okami (and Waka) alongside a new Obsession for Pokemon (and N), and now an obsession for Hetalia that's slowly dying down because I don't like the fanbase.

I did take a break from DeviantART and decided to quit for awhile when I went and posted my art up on Whirled instead. At Whirled, I did make several friends (and two friends that have traveled over to DA with me). I'll advise: Don't go onto Whirled. It's practically dead now. When I returned, I moved from my old Eevee10001 account over to this new account based on my two favorite characters, Russia and Romano. Here, I  uploaded various Hetalia and sometimes Touhou pictures for fun and games. That's when I realized MMD is a horrible community...and it still is. Though around this time, I also created an ask account to be a parody of actual ask accounts...but then it literally became a full-fledged ask account that I update frequently (Oh, the irony). Nowadays, I sit in my chatroom talking about different things with my two friends and as I slowly lose faith in myself and anything I could be doing.

So that's my story.