i managed to wrestle back my art content from the last 17 years from Deviant art. i have unlocked so much of my childhood cringe, and i am so happy to have it back.
(for context, my art was automatically archived by deviant art, and then they removed the link to unarchive it from thier interfaces. i managed to finally find that. https://www.deviantart.com/managedeviations/ )