Hello. You may have noticed the decline in activity here. Also, I'm considering leaving Scratch. It's been ten years, and being an adult here without being Griffpatch or the Scratch Team will get tricky. And yet I can't. I'm unable to leave Scratch. And I won't. Not yet. There are still a lot of things I didn't say. I usually forget them each time I log on, but I've decided that I might as well scream them loud someday. I have stories left to tell, things left to make, and Scratch is the best place for them. Kudos to the Scratch Team: you really helped make this site wonderful. I've heard stories of the horrors people face on other websites (even seen a few of those comments), and I'm grateful for you, although trying to credit @Colorsnatch for that one code is a pain. I'm probably going to try to put out little animations every day I can, and hey: maybe I'll respect the character from my PFP! My developmental process may be developmental H-E-double-hockey-stick, but I'm going to take back my life here, if only to a small extent. I started this modern arc of my Scratch career with bad expectations. I wanted to make awesome animations like @CattyCodes, @Berricake, @GoldenEagleStudios (I'm sorry for what I did), @Eloctrasyd, @--biohazard, and itsnicsalad on YouTube, and make them regularly. That was before I realised how much work an animation would take. I got myself in too deep after I took my first hiatus for my IGCSEs, and ever since then, being online's been a constant anxiety-inducing "What if I can't tell them this?!" and "I never got to say hello". Foundation theory states that you can't escape your foundations, and since my mindset is built on a bad foundation, I'll get a new one. I'll post my comic. I'll make skits. I'll turn this into ScratchXKCD. I'll plan things better. I'll make my projects, and I don't really care if nobody else believes. I've still got a lot of fight left in me. Music is Fight Song by Rachel Platten. Too long have I considered this a bad luck song, although all it's done is make me slightly more reckless, which I think I need. To quote Paul-Muad'Dib Atreides from Dune, "The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever." I've tarried too long, and it's time I did something, no matter how small it may be. Expect a membrane wing tutorial sometime in the future.
