< Pawn to D- oh fiddlesticks! S-She’s back? Goodness, goodness me, I thought she died or something! Ummm … shoot. Wasn’t prepared for this. Line, line. Uhh, tap the green … flag (it’s a flag still, right?) and press the … space bar, yeah! Press the space bar or tap your screen to progress through the slides and see this project Peo made. Wait … what is this project about? > Hello. Happy April Fools I guess, hehe? It’s been about a year now since my last project. Weird to think I would actually take the age-old Scratch joke of “oh no, I’m leaving” and … actually follow through with it almost legitimately. I’ll put a deeper ramble about that in the Notes/Credits, although just know I’ll be a whole lot less active from now on. Being an adult (lord, who would have guessed I’d make it this far), working at my externship site, and attending classes keeps me occupied most of the day, although just know I am more than down to chat. Also, if you got drawing requests (or ATs, DTs, invites, etc.), would be happy to consider them as well. Oh, and feel free to send in a character or two for the Comic Pilot project! I have some super cool ideas, and I think you lot would truly enjoy being able to help me vote/decide between them. Better yet, your characters will pop up in them as well! How cool is that? I’ll link the submission project here if that sounds interesting to you (or if you’d like to submit more in, I still need a lot more characters for a few of the pilots): https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/944803640/
Peo’s VERY Long Ramble: Like I stated within this project, I was having severe burn out around this time of last year. I was in multiple role-plays all at once, and genuinely started to dread getting messages because, honestly, I wasn’t enjoying having to reply to a new person constantly (or the same person right after I just sent a thread reply). I wasn’t having fun on the site anymore, and just wanted to do anything else. April Fools was approaching as that was happening, and I thought a week-long break would do me fine. So a week passed, and then another, and then a month, until before I realized it, I hadn’t bothered to check on Scratch for almost five months. I was having so much fun drawing critters, learning to code/make video games, making art for Art Fight, doodling with cool people on the funny dico ball app, and creating adoptable designs that a lot of people genuinely showed interest for that I just kind of brushed the idea of doing Scratch again as impossible (no joke, I have multiple people on a list to be messaged on my next adoptable batch, it’s so cool!) I think it was seeing my brother still doing Scratch and making those cool spinning text designs that he does so darn well that I kept reminding myself about the fact that I had left the site. I didn’t want to come back because I was afraid of having to respond and apologize to everyone for not replying back to their threads, amongst other silly concerns I had at the time. Were people upset? Were all my characters already deleted? Did Cloudy post a birthday project? Was WoFTC still somehow kicking despite my absence? (seriously, I checked it earlier, I swear that studio must be cursed to never be able to truly die out completely) It was silly at the time to think about, although I let my own fear keep me from considering an alternative way to get back into Scratch. I was enjoying myself making designs and art outside of Scratch up to now … so why not just do that, but on the site like I used to do back in the day? I don’t immediately need to get back into doing role-plays. Nobody’s gonna beat me up for choosing to draw silly guys for a bit till I feel comfortable treading back into those role-based waters again. Not only that, but I learned how to draw my own style of dragons confidently now! I want to make some cool dragon art on Scratch! I want to try and make a bunch of designs and see if people would like to adopt them. I can talk about my (positive) experience with RPs and help share my 4+ years of knowledge for others to learn from. Sure, it won’t be what I used to do a year back, but it sounds so fun, and I just want to try and do it! So, here we are to now! I’m back on Scratch, I finally got through that 340+ message box, and you just read through this mini-essay of mine. I’m excited to be back, and I have so many ideas on what I’d like to do. My main priority is the comic pilots, although I’ll also be posting an art dump of some of the silly stuff I’ve made this past year (at least, the ones I’m proud of, lol) sometime as well. Gotta get around to finding where all of them are though, lol. idk what else to put here, I've yapped way too much already. go drink some water and hydrate kiddos
