How long have you been on DeviantArt?- Ah three years? Yeah, three I think.
What does your username mean?- Jade is my favorite stone (I wear it all the time) and I used to want to be an author. It's actually a username I coined in like sixth grade that I never really gave up.
Describe yourself in three words.- Smart. Anxious. Loyal.
Are you left or right handed?- Leftie.
What was your first deviation?- Oh God. I don't talk about those.
What is your favourite type of art to create?- Photography. I cannot draw to save my life. (You'd see that if you look at my first Deviations.)
If you could instantly master a different art style, what would it be?- DRAWING. UGH IT PAINS ME.
What was your first favourite?- Probably some anime crap from my old weeabo phase. It embarrasses me still.
What type of art do you tend to favourite the most?- People's drawings of characters, especially in a Disney-ish style. I also follow some comics.
Who is your all-time favourite deviant artist? Amazing artwork.
If you could meet anyone on DeviantArt in person, who would it be?- Not sure. I have social anxiety and don't really like meeting new people.
How has a fellow deviant impacted your life?- Is my pal. And a piece of shit. But he's good. Saved my life a few times.
What are your preferred tools to create art?- Rebel XTI Camera
What is the most inspirational place for you to create art?-At a horse ring/ horse show. Or just outside in general, there's so much people miss I can show them with pictures.
What is your favourite DeviantART memory?- Somebody talked with me about something personal to them after I posted a journal about suicide and self help and I think I helped them feel better.
Hi, I’m 15.
Fif-fuckin’-teen.
I’m currently in London with a group of students from my college to study criminal justice and writing, and we travel a lot to have class and do all these cool cultural things, right?
Right.
BUT- on my way back from touring Bond Street (no way I could buy anything on that street with my whole future salary) on the Tube it was rush hour. (Lo and BEHOLD!) I have a thing about people called “agorophobia” and “social anxiety disorder” as well as “please don’t touch me it’s just a personal boundary thing”, so sometimes I have panic attacks when I’m pressed into tight crowds with people.
SO:
I was pressed against the PlexiGlas piece in the Tube (Londoners you know what I’m on about) by the Tube doors and trying not to touch anyone, which I understand is impossible in rush hour but I was determined to do my best. Then this man gets on (like forties/fifties, I only saw him over my shoulder) and the train starts moving again. My group was separated from me on the other bottom half of the carriage, so I was keeping my back turned to the doors so other people could get in and not bump against my camera or purse (because heaven help the American tourist who carries so much shit around it’s crazy). But after the man got on I began to feel him bumping my butt every once in a while. I dismissed it because I was too nervous and scared in the crowd to address it and because the train was obviously bumpy and everyone was jostling around, but when we pulled into the next station he bumped me again but virtually SLID his hips across my butt. His torso didn’t touch me, but after his hand slid down the pole he was holding onto behind me and grazed the bra strap on my back I knew what he was doing.
I shifted a little bit (like I had in the beginning) to try and ease away from him in a non-confrontational way, but when you’re stuck between glass and a creepy cretin trying to grind on you your options are very- very limited.
I had my headphones in to distract me from the crowd, but after a few more stops I pulled my right earbud out and turned to him and said “Sir, if you can can you step back?” He nodded his head and stepped back, and I got off at the next stop with my group. As soon as I got off I went from scared to furious (and scared) enough to cry. I’d always wanted to be able to be super strong in the event that I ever was in one of those situations, but I failed by taking it and only stepping up at the station before my stop.
This is disgusting. This is a grown man (amongst tons of other women and men) who prey on people- young girls, even- in public with nobody looking or noticing. I don’t know if what happened to me counts as Sexual Harassment or Sexual Assault or anything, but this is a serious issue that I do have a new perspective on now.
I always thought I’d be able to retaliate with a Falcon Kick or a swift slap/ punch to the face like some buff badass lady, but in reality the whole thing is covert. I feel like I reacted the right way, but I’m NOT happy about it. I WISH I’d punched that sick bastard on the Tube and handed him off to someone, but I didn’t. And I do regret that. The point of this post? Hell I don’t know. To share? To let people know? I don’t know, but I’m absolutely livid and embarrassed that I took it for so long and that there are people like that man who even ENJOY this.
FROTTAGE IS A CLASSIFIED PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER OF GAINING SEXUAL PLEASURE BY RUBBING AGAINST PEOPLE IN PUBLIC, SOMETIMES WITHOUT THE VICTIM KNOWING.
Fix yourselves.
RULES: (Argh, boundaries)
1. Do you think I’m crazy? Be serious I won’t get offended if you think so.
Nah, we're all pretty crazy inside.
2. Favorite actor, actress or both.
Benedict Cumberbatch. Why would you even ask me that?! Johnny Depp and RDJ, too!
3. Favorite song.
Everything besides country! (Across the Line- Linkn Park)
4. Are you afraid that someday technology might be even more intelligent than us?
Honey please. I'm smarter than technology. (No seriously... SkyNet)
5. Which is your craziest wish?
To be able to get a full night's sleep.
6. Last movie you have seen and how was it.
Um... I watched Sherlock. That's a movie in itself. It. Was. Awesome.
7. Last TV series you have seen and how was it.
Same answer as above.
8. Do you like reading books? If os, which is your favorite book?
I love reading, I really like Jurassic Park.
9. If you could live in any other universe, which would it be?
Probably Sherlock or Hetalia or FMA universe.
10. Do you have any other website apart from Deviantart?
I started using Omegle! And I have my FanFiction site! (Ahem... Jade-Author is my name; feel free to check it out)
I think my friends are tired of being tagged repeatedly so I'll just say anyone who reads this is tagged!