HELLO NEWGROUNDS I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!!

You may be pondering my sudden activity... and I have two answers for that

First off, I have to make a speech for my final output in english for this quarter. It's about any topic we like, but knowing that we're gonna be heavily graded for it is the difficult part. I chose to make a speech about Newgrounds, for i believe not enough people in this world realize or even know how the indie animation and gamedev scene was revolutionized by all the awesome people of this site!! For goodness sake ya'll grew up playing flash games, the least you'd do is know where they came from!

And I didn't wanna JUST make a speech, I wanna feel and spiritually connect with newgrounds the way how i did back when i had free time. And honestly, the speech is kinda overdue, but i did my research far and well by hitting the sources and playing and revisiting the games here... I owe newgrounds a lot for shaping my online presence and exposing me to different kinds of people. I genuinely miss being here and it pains me to be away for so long...

But that will change once I tell you my second reason for my sudden activity: I will be graduating from highschool in a few months... time flies so fast man. I joined here back in 9th grade during "The Funkinin" where i wanted to find a place to post my Madness Day 2021 fanart (which is actually the first art piece that i posted here!) in a place that wasn't instagram or twitter... I never regretted it since

With me graduating in a few months, it means that we'll be heavily crunched in time and overloaded with a ton of work.. on the bright side, I have finished the majority of my requirements needed to be on the list of graduating students. no you don't only have to pass in all of your subjects, but submit two major portfolios (for internship and for this annoying program in our school that requires so much time and dedication to do so), and finish the entirety of your research paper for it to be ready for copyright. and let me tell you that we've been doing a fuckton of manuscripts for the past 3 years,,, yikes!

And there goes the yappings of the burnt out student... but what im saying is i have finished the brink of what i must do so my burden isnt as heavy as it was... Enough time for me to prepare for the final quarter and slowly get back to hobbies.. which means I can spend more time here on newgrounds more!! But for now, I'll just be here playing games for the time being while i slowly work on other stuff... expect to see my name in a few later collabs :))

-Shedawn