If you made it to my DA page because of the song I just submitted to /r/programming, rest assured that it IS me who wrote and submitted it. I would have linked to it directly, but to be honest, I forgot. Thanks for being so suspicious about it, though.

Apologies for the delay, for those of you who actually care - I was in Europe in September and thus missed my six-month mark.

The creativity has been taking different forms lately. I find myself thinking more along the lines of architecture these days, rather than my usual poetry or photography. Perhaps it's time to fire up my pixel artistry once more - I've got some ideas that would look pretty kickass in pixel form.

As to my personal life, I've been in college for some years now, and finally ended up picking a major; no doubt the added coursework is contributing to the decline in my creative output. I still need the outlet, though, so don't give up on me yet! I may yet surprise and astonish you.

- A. M.

Seems I've been spending less and less time on Deviantart these days. It's most likely due to my lack of creative output, although I do still occasionally put some writing up, as you may have noticed. I'm in the low point of my creative cycle, if you will - hopefully it will kick in again at some point.

I'm missing not making any new pixel arts, but it's more for lack of ideas than anything else, so if anyone has anything they'd like to see made, I'd be willing to take a crack at it.

For the time being, I'll have to content myself with school and listening to records and so on. Hope you guys are all doing well, and all that - be a shame if I found you worse off than I left you, eh?

Those eagle-eyed viewers of my work (or those who simply pay attention to their DeviantAlerts or whatever) might have noticed that my two most recent works are of a more political nature than usual. I created those two charts to try and help people understand the differences between the present incarnations of the U.S. Democratic and Republican parties, and maybe understand the election here a little bit better.

Basically, the way it breaks down is thus:

Democrats want to provide services for the voters, so that they'll get more votes for less work, but since this means that corporations will get shafted, rich people won't give them money and they have more trouble funding their campaigns. They either have to make compromises with rich folks, or appeal directly to voters for donations.

Republicans want to make it easier on the rich folks, so they can get more money to spend on their campaigns, but have to come up with all sorts of stories to explain why giving tax cuts to rich people will help the voters, because voters still technically decide who gets in office. This is where the theory of "trickle down economics" comes from.

Hopefully this has cleared up any confusion you may have had, but feel free to ask questions if anything isn't clear.

Since I last updated my journal, that is. I suppose one of the reasons why I take so long between journal entries is that I really don't have much to say here. I suppose I could talk about my personal life, but those of you who know me already know the stuff that matters, and those of you who don't know me, wouldn't find it interesting (trust me) so I'm rather at a loss as to what to say even when I want to say something.

The only part of this update that is even remotely necessary is the part where I say that I might be adding some new pixel art soon, which is kinda cool, I guess.