Sorry if Meadow finds this a bit weird, I acknowledge I'm an internet stranger, but I really wanted to show my appreciation of all EA has done. It's hard to believe EA is over on scratch. I mean, it makes me sad, but... I'd rather have a harder-to-access story with no holds barred than what scratch forces us to have. Meadow is their own person, and wherever they take their story, you can bet me, and 12326+ others, will always be squiggling these charactersinn the margins of any paper they get their hands on. I was gonna do one big appreciation post for all my favourite scratchers when I finished a really big thing that's happening in my life right now, but if Meadow's moving out, I think they deserve a post to themselves. EA is a beautiful story. I learnt to write properly by choosing a scene from EA and describing it. EA taught me what a truly wonderful story has, and it taught me that I can make my own wonderful things. I learnt to draw off EA, too, and for a while, my drawings looked like they'd been drawn by Meadow's non-dominant hand. Pictured is my first drawing ever (not counting stick figures). Recognise them? Before I got into EA, I had no idea what I wanted to do in life. I just did things one day after the next. Then I saw this one project, ch. 27 of something. That was actually when I realised scratch wasn't just for coding. Reading EA made me realise I wanted to be an author someday, and from that point on, I had something to DO with my time - this world I had in my head, that I one day hope to get published. I met all these communities, and any other scratchers I'll ever do one of these posts for is someone who met me because EA convinced me to stick around. I can't express what EA has done for me, what it's taught me about, what it's introduced me to. Sure, I'm sad that all the fabulous comic creators I've looked up to for... gosh, it's been four years now... it's sad they're all leaving, but everyone second you miss something is because of a minute of joy it gave you. Besides, why can't I create something just as special as what they had? Maybe not on scratch, but that's what I want to do one day: my entire aim in life isn't to travel around the world or raise a family or anything of the kind: all I want to do is create something that does for others what Meadow's story has done for me. Legends never go away. They just go to StarClan and do some ars0n. Thank you so much for this story, Meadow. It's been a ride.
