[EDIT August 4th, 2019] Strangely the things below still apply to my life. lol
My inactivity on DeviantArt is bothering me a little, but the reasons are simple:
job
I'm now layout and emote artist on Twitch
university
crafting stuff I can't find the time to take decent photos of
Thankfully I have at least my Harry Potter fanfiction
Until I Die that is 99% done(of course I find issues while doing
spell checks lol) and I am so eager to get this monster of text on the internet that I find myself throwing in chapters even more frequent than the a-chapter-each-13-days schedule I set. And even more, I LOVE doing double uploads! XD But mostly only if the chapters' story flow suggest the need.
Sadly with all that, translating
Three Days - and a bit more... is going so slow that I realised I haven't translated more than 3 pages within 4 months....again....... RIP me.
But during the days I would have time, I sit down and look at it - and don't feel it. I translate a paragraph and it's just not fluent! A problem, I believe, that comes once you've written an entire story in a foreign language, which English IS for me, as I'm a native German speaker. But thinking back on when I started
Three Days 8 years ago, I just couldn't have written it in English. Now I know that this is the language for me to write fanfictions in, and IF I want, I will translate them over to German, but only when the story is concluded and all of it is online. (But not
Until I Die - too much content and so many phrases and insider knowledge that just wouldn't work when trying to be accurate to the original German translations of the Harry Potter novels - and I've put in quite a load of that which will give good laughs and AHA!'s to the devoted reader and fangirl/boy as they progress through the story.)
Long story short: If you find me submitting any other stuff than literature, it will likely be old pieces I am proud of but haven't found the time to get them in here yet.
Still I want to thank everyone for the ongoing support - and sorry for being slow at returning Llama favours. I keep all these notifications until I have given the giver a Llama back. And I will do it in a bulk, whenever I really have time I can't use for anything else.