i think i'm pretty much done with Scratch. i've had some great times here and made some great friends, but those friends have already started to leave, and i feel like it's my time, too. frankly, i'm too old for this site. i'm fourteen now, and i know a lot of people stay on Scratch long past that, but i don't think that's a thing i can do. firstly the most frequent complaint on this site: the censorship. it's sensible, i suppose, if hugely faulty, but i am getting to a point now where a lot of the things i want to say have a not-small chance of getting me banned. curse words, politics, romance, blood and guts and gore. stuff like that. second, something that i've already mentioned. my friends. i've made a lot of friends here, but they've all pretty much moved on. Willow has left completely. Book only checks in occasionally. Silver is barely active. and i can talk to them all elsewhere. we're all outgrowing this place. thirdly and most importantly. in general, i find myself increasingly frustrated with the people on this site. it's full of small children who remind me too much of my young self for me to feel comfortable, and i almost feel like i'm sitting on a bomb waiting for these kids to, like me, become stressed and depressed and uh other things i can't say here because death. i can't exactly explain how it is, but seeing these people, it just really drives me crazy. i've also been seeing more and more opinions presented here that are. how to say it. disturbingly black-and-white. if any of you remember the "stalkleaf is a bad person" thing that was going on in the tales of perfectheart fandom some months back, i made a post about that, and about how good people can do bad things and not have it detract from their goodness. i also hate how you can't block people here. without the options to block or mute people, i can't decide to not view certain profiles or content, and i can't decide to not let certain people view my profile or content. how, then, am i meant to avoid people and content i dislike? what detriment would being able to block or mute people do to this site? it doesn't make sense. so, that's why i'm leaving. but also! i'm not completely leaving! i'll be here for SWC, i'll still be reading my favorite comics, and i'm not dumping the voice acting projects i'm part of here. i'll still probably check in between three times a day and three times a week (that's also about how frequently you should be excreting solid waste, by the way). i'll still check in on my alt, too. but other than that, i think i'm done here. see y'all elsewhere, if you can find me.
