song: O's Piano by amos roddy (i accidentally set this song to 100 pitch and why does it sound just as if not more emotional as the original) (also ive been obsessed with minecraft music lately)
the notice is that im gonna stop posting for an indefinite amount of time (other than the map parts and cc prizes i have to do). schools been stressing me out a ton lately, i got roughly 70 drawings to do within 10ish days, a new expansion of a game me and my parents play came out a few days ago that i wanna play and the whole ai thing is making me do some deep thinking (which i talk about in the rant section). theres one other map id like to join after this one cause i was invited and i might make updates but other than that im gonna be taking a second to step back another thing is that im gonna stop posting TRSF chapters here. the story gets way too dark chapter 19 is entirely a fight scene with blood its just not an 8+ comic theres a death scene where someone bleeds out from a bear scratch im not gonna share that on a kids coding platform and the story would be too hard to follow if i just kept censoring each chapter and poorly explaining it. so im gonna end it here. i never made trsf for the views. i made it for myself. and im gonna keep doing that even if its not here and only my 3 friends ever see it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- rant below i wont lie ive been really really really conflicted lately i dont know if i wanna stay here (on scratch) it feels like this place is becoming... split there are parts that i really love there are parts that i really hate i love joining maps and coding contests sometimes its really fun sometimes i put too much pressure on myself because of it i love all the really interesting people here who share such amazing things i hate all the rude people and the people who steal that feel like theyre just trying to spread negativity i loved having a place i can share all of the things i create but i hate that now i feel like it's in danger of being used without my permission i feel like im in a box now every time i post art beyond a sketch i slap a huge watermark on it and even then im still scared. just because ai isnt being used for art right now doesnt mean it never will. and ai might be used for other things too here. and im mad that i have no choice, that unsharing my projects wont matter i have no way to opt out this isn't fair potentially stealing from children with no way to back out? is this what scratch has turned into? what happened to the imagine in imagine, program, share? but the problem is i dont have anywhere else long story short there are parts of me that i dont want to reveal to my parents because we have very different opinions (mainy being a furry + therian) and im worried if i talk to my friends about it parents could see my messages/overhear me on a call and ive loved scratch because its the only place i can actually be myself and not worry about it but honestly even ignoring the whole ai thing that might be changing too im growing up i started scratch when i was like 10 im a teenager now i write stories with really dark themes and make art that has blood and violence all the stuff i post here is gonna be seen by 8 year olds im close to double that age i cant share my stories because they're too scary/deep. i cant share most of my art because it could get used by AI. but again i dont have anywhere else i dont know where i would go im not allowed on other sites and i dont wanna secretly do anything else so im just trapped what do i do
