*UPDATE!*

Someone responded to my appeal of the appeal and escalated it to their supervisor.

I am only suspended for 2 weeks!

“You have been suspended from deviantART for 1w 6d 23h 46m 14s with a reason of Re-submission of content previously deleted by staff.”

I think they must have dug deeper into my records and found a few things not-so-kosher with them. 

They were also swayed by the support everyone has shown for me on DA!

I need a nap now… but a happy nap now!

Original post below…

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I feel sick…

I just got the response to my appeal and the main reasons I got the ban WAS the thumbnail. But that is not all.

Despite behaving myself for 2 months, they still thought they should ban me anyhow.

Why jump to ban?

They said I had already had been suspended a few times before.

This is news to me.

I have never been suspended!

I have been a deviant for 7 years and I am pretty sure I would have noticed having my account suspended and taking it as a warning of possible future actions if I had not behaved.

In fact I would have changed the purpose of my account on Deviantart altogether.

It felt like I was unexpectedly being punched in the stomach when I was extending my hand to them in appreciation and agreement.

It felt like DA was saying: “We know you have been sincere and see you have behaved… but we don’t care about the fact you have changed and you promised not to be a problem anymore… we are going to ban you now and  not give you a chance to prove yourself.”

Sympathize.

Protest.

Schadenfreude.

Riot.

Whatever… do what you want.

I really don’t care right now.

They aren’t giving me a chance because of some made-up “suspensions”… so I am really fucked for another month… when they say I can try to appeal the ban again…

Mythical suspensions they pulled out of thin air…

Right now I want to just go to bed…

… for maybe a month…

…dream of a miracle perhaps…