heyo guys, as you can see by the thumbnail and title, i’m partially leaving scratch. but don’t be alarmed, i’ll explain why here. 1 . no motivation. due to the fact that my chromebook was taken away, i don’t have full access to scratch everyday- which is how/why i was so active and posted every day. now, i don’t have my chromebook anymore to draw/go on scratch, and although i have my ipad, its so different and ive just had no motivation to draw on procreate. i tried in my 19 hour car ride, and it just wasn’t my thing. because of this, my art motivation for digital art has like went down 90%. 2 . connection honestly, i feel like im just less and less connected to scratch. i’ve found myself talking less to online friends, less looking around, not even replying to comments and litterally only just coming on to post art. it’s really upsetting, but i’ve just found myself not really in the mood to actually be apart of the community anymore, as much as i want to be. adding onto this, i’ve realized im getting less and less messages. normally, when i wake up, i check my messages and get around 20-30 messages overnight. lately, it’s been around 0-10 messages. (for example, this morning i had 5.) and honestly, that’s not that upsetting. i get if i don’t get as many messages. the thing that made me pause is that i’ve stopped caring. instead of being sad about it, i just shrug and move on. so yeah, less motivation to be apart of the community. 3 . irl stuff too i have a lot going on irl too, and im taking a trip in a few days that requires me to have no access to cellular or anything online. i think it’ll be a good break for me, but i also have a lot going on irl so that counters into that too. so what does this mean? i’m going to be much less active on scratch. i’d say my prime is coming to an end- im reaching a pretty busy part of my life, and i don’t know when it’ll go back to being normal like before- or if it even will. i’ll do art fight and occasionally post, but i wont be posting projects everyday, or at least for the summer. ill also finish my payments and map parts, but i dont think ill be going into many maps anymore. i think i,l see how summer goes, but for now, im kinda leaving scratcg.
