This is the part where I talk about how school got in the way, right? Where I say it's impossible to maintain a Scratch/life balance and that I'll miss the friends I made? Where I tell whoever's reading to not expect my return? ...kinda. It's a long story, so listen up. TRANSCRIPT Pied: Well, you read the description. This is kind of a goodbye. And look! I'm at the upper age limit of this site as per the ST. After this, stuff'll get weird. But it's been weird for a while. Sit down and listen. Unshrimp if you're curled up like a prawn. It all began in the glorious year of 2021. The world was beginning to vaccinate against a certain RNA-based virus. I first got active here in that year. I made a lot of friends and enemies. I had the slightest inkling that it was wrong, interfering with school, but I carried on. Then it was 2022. I was still fairly active then. Not as much as during the lockdown, but still. And then the first blow was struck. I was talking to some of the people I'd met here somewhere else, where they were more active. Then it was banned for me. I realised who I couldn't share my problems with after this. And then I overcame a problem on my own, so I knew I was bound to walk alone. And then 2023. I truly left then. Turns out focusing on studies makes you drift away from friends you had. I went in assuming I'd go back... but I never really did. "It's just 1 month, don't overreact" Pied, your ambition and your unwillingness to put the effort in aren't going to get you anywhere on Scratch! So now my account isn't quite dead, but it's not alive. This zombie state has continued for two years. The only thing I've really worked on is my comic. If I described my current account state to myself three years ago, they'd panic. And I still panic at the prospects of the future. Especially with what happened this year, in 2025. The year the USA was wrecked. It started as a repeat telecast of 2023... and then my laptop broke. I figured out the problem too late, and I needed the very people whose help I'd rejected long ago - my parents - to fix it. I learned what had had to be done and that the error was unfixable on the same day. So I suppose 2025 marks the official end. It's been a good deca- HOLD UP. I'm not done! Sure, I've been softlocked in several ways, but the fact you're reading this on a Scratch project from my account should give you hope. I can't use Griff Meister P's perks like I used to, but I can still create! I may need to pull a few clever manouevres to post my comic and finish this Defying Gravity animation I wanted to finish in June with a cool trick I learned from KPop Demon Hunters, but I can still do it! I've got stories to tell, OCs to share! I can't keep wishing I was on Scratch while studying and wishing I was studying when on Scratch! If I keep compromising between life and death, I'll never truly live. If I shirk, I shirk; when I study, I study, knowing that this will be here! I have stories to tell. I may not tell them as often as I'd like, and the road I chose will get lonely, but I'm not alone. Well, thank you for tuning into this rant. I look forward to seeing you next time. SONGS (in order) Epilogue - Oliver Francis Huang-Hsu (RIP) What It Sounds Like - HUNTR/X (Huntrix) Golden - Huntrix
