I felt I should make this because I don’t want to leave any of you in the dark about things; I feel like it’s unfair to everyone who enjoyed my art and ideas to just disappear with no explanation. Even though the said explanation is nearly a year later than it should have been. Saying I grew out of Scratch would not be the full truth. I genuinely love making games and Wings of Fire content despite not being invested in the series anymore. But the pressure of having to complete a huge game series like Echoes of the Stars by a promised deadline during a bad period of demotivation got to me, so I gradually went offline more. I couldn’t handle such a large commitment a year and a half ago, and so I gradually went offline, causing the stress to build further, which just led me to being online less and less. Eventually I just stopped logging on entirely because I didn’t want to have to deal with people being upset that I wasn’t releasing any of my promised upcoming projects, because I genuinely wanted to finish them and make everyone happy. But at the same time, I couldn’t bring myself to work on them after so long. The second reason because of a thing that I promised myself I wouldn’t ever do… But I think we can see by now how good I am at keeping promises. Often when I was younger on this site I would see people leave, talking about how they outgrew Scratch and wanted to do other things. I never understood, and I swore I would never leave Scratch. (Even though I attempted to do so many, many times in the past, only to come back because I never actually outgrew it like I had claimed.) But now, I feel distance from this site because many of my interests now I’m not able to really discuss in depth here due to most of the media I consume nowadays being for mid-older teens; and of course, I want to respect the rules of Scratch seeing as there are children on here that could stumble across such things. At the same time, I also miss when things were more simple on here. I miss the crappy roleplaying I used to do and the people I used to talk to on here. (Even though I often got into arguments with random people because I didn’t know how to control my anger. I was very impulsive.) I don’t know where I’m going with this, really, but in all honesty I just wanted to provide some sort of explanation for my absence to the people that worried about me. Does this mean I will come back and continue to work on previous projects? Not entirely. But hopefully I’ll start posting a bit more again; I still want to make games and Wings of Fire content, even if it isn’t my main interest. I’m incredibly sorry for making everyone wait this long. Going forward… I’ll try not to promise things if I’m not 100% sure about them. ( more lighthearted bonus thingy: The character featured is a stylized version of myself— I got my hair cut & dyed a few months ago! It was originally half purple, half platinum, but now it’s faded to platinum and a weird patchy light blue-purple. Still looks epic in my opinion, though.)
