roastduckstew

If you're looking for my bases, please go to: http://duckie.artician.com/ (duckie.artician.com) For more information as to why I'm leaving please see my previous journal entry, here: http://roastduckstew.deviantart.com/journal/36056419/

If you do not wish to designate your gender and prefer to deactivate your account due to being forced to make this choice then you may do so if you choose. Okay,  deviantART. If you would prefer that I -- a transgendered person -- delete my account rather than stay, participate, and increase your ad revenue, I can do that. Sure, no problem. I won't be updating this account any longer, except to announce where I will be moving my art to once I find a place. But personally, I refuse to stay on a site that thinks erasing me, and others like me, is an acceptable behavior. - Duckie~ More information is available here if you'd like to better u

Lets talk about names. This is a conversation I've had far too many times: 'Hi, my name is Duckie!' 'Yes, but what's your real name?' My name is Duckie. For most intents and purposes, it is my real name. It's the one everyone important knows me by; it's the one I answer to. It isn't my legal name; the name my mother gave me because she thought it was pretty girl's name. It is a pretty name, but it isn't mine. People calling me by that name makes me want to vomit. It hurts for reasons I can't change, can't fix, and I don't really feel like explaining to the internet. If you know my legal name, and you're not the DMV or family, you probabl