testing - please respond

hello all! as you might have heard, there've been some technical problems with my account here on dA lately. one of them is that my submissions are not appearing in many of my watchers' inboxes. i've contacted dA about it but it's been a week now and i haven't heard anything back. so i decided to just upload something as a test to see how many people receive it and contact dA about it once more. it's pretty important to me and i've decided to put off uploading any finished pieces until the problem is solved, so if you could please comment and let me know if this appeared in your message center, that would be great and very helpful! thanks so much.

since this is a test, i might end up re-submitting it a few times to see if the problem has been fixed. my apologies in advance for those of you who DO receive my uploads and may find this submission in their message center more than once! i hope you understand my reasons.