So. I used to fancy myself a bit of a poet. Read a little Eliot, a little WCW, and decided that, since my parents wouldn't get it, I needed to share some shards of my soul with the Internet. Did some looking around, and found good old DeviantArt dot com. From fall 2002 through late 2005 or so I spent quite some time on the site, uploading Deviations, browsing galleries, posting on forums, participating in hilariously pointless protests. Over this period of time, I worked on my English degree at college, reading and writing poetry rather extensively. Gradually, my skills improved, and I came to notice that, well, with very, very, very few exceptions, all writing on DeviantArt sucks. I still used my site as a storage unit, but stopped paying attention to comments and favorites. Eventually, I stopped bothering with that, and my page lay completely dormant.

So I decided to destroy it.



Here is the header. I do not actually live in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The numbers in the lower right hand corner indicate the bulk of the work I have to do. 71 poems to delete. I have uploaded more, but every couple of years I would do a culling of whatever ones I thought sucked. I would estimate the total number of poems I have had on the site at around 200.



Here's a nice example of my writing circa 2003. Ugh. Deleted.



And, after several dozen mouse clicks, here we are in 2007, the last time I uploaded anything. Deleted.

But DeviantArt is not merely a place for one's gallery. You can also use it as a 'webbed log' of sorts, with its Journal feature. I didn't use this feature very much. I've always been bad at any sort of diary/blog thing.



Apparently, I liked this poem. Entry deleted.



Deleted.

Uh, it turned out that in order to delete a single journal entry, I had to load three separate pages. After about thirty minutes of that crap, I decided, fuck it, and moved on to something easier. So, yeah, if you visit kingvitamin.deviantart.com, and do some searching, you'll find some random journal entries from 2003.



Yep, DeviantArt also has its own fun private message system! Let's see what's inside before we delete it.



Here's my spam. Yep, as it turns out, hot internet chicks want me for my art. Also, philip22. The little exclamation points before the names mean that the users have all been banned. All deleted.



Here's a nice representative page of my inbox. I read everything in it before deleting.  More on this in the picture descriptions.

All gone now.