Yo, long time no see! Kind of a long post so skip to the end for tldr if you don’t wanna read the whole thing (idk how to put things under the cut on mobile so.. sorry to put a long post on your dash...)
So, I haven’t really posted here for like..months probably, sorry for being so absent lmao, and I’ve been really thinking about what I wanna do with this account.
When I first started this I didn’t intend for it to be a sonic focused blog, it was just meant for my art, but I started having a lot of fun drawing and engaging with the fandom and I met some really cool people I’m still friends with now! But I ended up wanting to branch out into more serious and professional work, so I created a second account on the side that was meant for non sonic related stuff and soon I felt a sort of disconnect between the two versions of myself posting on each account which made it more and more exhausting as I tried to put more effort into posting there.
Creating sonic art started to feel almost like a chore, “It’s been so long since I’ve posted something, I have to draw something to upload” and, while I know my art improved, I feel like you can tell my enthusiasm and creativity for posts on here gets less and less the more recent the art is and it’s kinda sad to realise that something that I used to enjoy drawing was no longer fun. Because the sonic fandom had been such a big part of my life and was basically my introduction into posting art online I held onto it for longer than I should have and wanted to because it was almost a comfort place in its familiarity.
I tried really hard to upload something every once in a while but I started paying more attention to my other art account where I felt I could post everything that wasn’t sonic related. I know that’s a dumb thing to think because I could have posted that stuff here but in my mind this became a place just for posting sonic stuff, and that’s what I felt was expected of me here since that’s what people seemed to like and want to see when they followed me. But posting other stuff made sharing art fun again and I felt I wasn’t tied to a fandom in the same way I was here, so I could switch to a new interest more freely without feeling like I was letting people down.
All of this has been kind of running through my head a lot over the past year or so, and I think I’m ready to actually step out from the sonic fandom officially instead of keeping one foot in the water. It’s sad to leave it behind but it’s no longer an interest of mine, but it has been awesome being a part of it! I’ll be keeping this account up (I’ve got a lot of art and memories attached here and I don’t want to just delete it) but after a few months I won’t be responding to anything on here. That said, if you need to contact me I’ll still be checking Twitter and Instagram (I plan on continuing commissions there because I still enjoy drawing for others, I just have no motivation to draw original sonic content anymore) since I don’t have to log in and out of accounts just to check things.
Sorry to come back after so long only to say I’m leaving, but I hope you guys who still follow me understand and I’m so grateful for all of you!! I didn’t mention my other accounts name because i still want to keep the accounts separate since I still feel like I can’t mesh the two accounts’ worlds together, but if you really want to follow it just shoot me a message and I’ll let you know.
TLDR: no longer enjoying posting sonic art so I’m officially moving on from this account to my other one.
