Hey guys, OneDude here.

First off (and this has been a VERY long time coming), I wanna congratulate literally everyone who worked on the Creature Collab! Thank you so much for creating your own dubious critters and placing them inside this cacophony of talent. Special thanks go out specifically to programmers @MSGhero and @NikZapp for helping conceptualize the project and putting it all together! I couldn't have done it without you guys :)

Second off, I want to apologize as to why it's taken so long to say that! In short, I've been rather busy with school work, extra curricular, family, and relationships. But alas, even with the down time in between all those things, I gotta be honest here!

I'm just not attracted to social media anymore.

Maybe its because I'm so busy? Or maybe it's because I'm overwhelmed with platforms to use on a day to day basis that I can't manage my time properly? Not entirely sure. All I know is that I find myself less on a screen, and more living life. Over the past few months following CC2022, despite all the work, I've gone out with friends, snagged a girlfriend, done surprisingly well on schoolwork, played very few videogames (save for a few, club penguin especially), gotten into anime (msg00), began reading the original Dragonball manga, and started to take care of a Christmas cactus.

I'm aware listing the things that has happened to me immediately after I said I'd keep it short is like, very asshole-like of me, but I wanna emphasize something here.

Because I'm in my grade 12 year, I've realized that there is a lot less less time for me to do stuff before i gotta get serious. Hell, It's already too late! I gotta put a portfolio together with some of my stuff (i have basically nothing!) so i can hand 'em into these art schools! The future is very scary to me. I know I'll survive, but I absolutely wanna get the skills down so that I do, which is why I'm not active online anymore. Suddenly, the internet becomes a resource!

That's not to say I won't log onto tiktok or some shit and find a video that makes me cry laughing, but all that's recreational to me! I've shed my need to be in a community, at least for now. I've already forsaken some of the friends I've made on here too. But, if they are reading this, I hope this finds them well, and I also hope they understand that eventually life takes priority one way or another. I hope some day I appear again in full force with the same motivation I had when I first began posting here, and if some of you still retain that drive, and that ambition to create,then more power to you! I'll be here, rooting from the side lines haha.

My account isn't going away. It's just gonna be dead for a while! I might post, and I might not. We are sure as hell doing CC2023 because my goodness was it awesome! But for now, I suppose you can catch my very limited activity on my instagram. There you can find some stuff. Good, bad, doesn't matter. I'm sure it's linked in my profile, but I am NOT gonna link it here. Too much work, and it feels disingenuous to do so!

OOO! P.S.! If you have any experience with portfolios 'n stuff, feel free to comment or dm! I'm going into illustration, and I'll need all the help i can get :)

That's all for now!

-OneDude20