hey guys! uh. hi. heck I have so much adrenaline running through my veins right now heck heck heck uhm. so if anyone is still checking my profile (which you are, apparently??? what the heck???) I've been gone for... much longer than I want to check for. Originally I wanted to make a whole comic thing to explain this, but that would take WAY TOO LONG and would actually contribute to me staying gone (which sounds bad but I promise I'll explain) so instead I just decided to bite the bullet and write both a shorter version and a longer version. Short version is that when I first left scratch, I never planned to stay gone. I love all the friends I've made (and hopefully still have?) on this website, but I ended up overworking myself and that combined with some irl changes made me leave for longer than planned, and then I felt guilty about being gone so I just... stayed gone. But I missed everyone a lot and I never stopped thinking about scratch, and now I'm back :) and I'm very sorry for being gone! (longer version is inside the project if anyone wants to read! but do be warned it gets a little bit personal and a liiiiittle bit emotional so if you're not a close friend then uhh I wouldn't suggest you read it? But do what you want) As a welcome back to myself (and an apology for being gone) here's some of the art I've been doing while I was gone! It's not everything obviously because a lot of it is just paper sketches, but it's a bit :) love yall <3 as a note I'm not gonna reply to anything for just a little bit because this much stress CANNOT be good for my mental health /hj Edit: okay woah why do people keep seeing this- I didn’t think anyone knew about me when I left??? Why is this gaining traction???