(NOT A VENT!!!!!!) hello, everyone. I have an update on my retirement, and how it has been moved to be much earlier than previous date. I have decided to retire by the end of this month. This is my final decision. Visuals will unfortunately have to be canceled. My lack of motivation to keep anything Scratch related going will harm my writing, and can make the story seem rather dull. It’s hard to keep consistently writing highish quality stories when you eventually don’t care about it anymore. And other than posting art dumps, I’m basically rarely online. Again, I have lost all motivation to keep posting on this site. I’m getting too old, and I’m not interested anymore. I’m sorry. I really didn’t want to make this decision, but when I thought about it just continuing would lower quality and ruin my mental state even more. And considering Scratch is meant for kids, I’m getting more uncomfortable with adult topics and explicit violence. Visuals (and my overall edgy state) started when I was 10 and immature, so I didn’t think twice about things. Whilst I’m surprised that ST barely has done any action against this, I’ve now come to my senses. I do not wish to post for children that might stumble on my projects randomly, but I want to keep a teen-young adult audience since it would best fit my extremely edgy nature. Again, Scratch is meant for 8 year olds so posting extreme gore feels very unnatural. Luckily offsite websites allow my type of content more since most social media websites are meant for 13+ anyways. So what now? Where will Cody be after he leaves? Well, luckily I have 2 main socials. They both have the same username as this one. A YouTube channel, for animations on characters and OCS, and a Pin Interest Account for art of a lot of my favorite things. I will post a final project around the end of the month, if I can try. Thank you all for supporting me. see you all in the next ecosystem. -Cody
