keeping myself sane in spite of current events by reminding myself it would be so so much worse if I was still living with/near family in Oh*o

I didn't know this artist until seeing their news post in the Artist News feed on the Newgrounds homepage just a moment ago.

strawpage • ko-fi

Attached art examples above are taken from their latest gallery in the Art Portal: sep 23 sketchbook

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This website is really cheesy, but it does a good job aggregating "good news" from a bunch of different sources around the internet. If you're like me, and your feed can doom you out some days, I strongly recommend building it into at least your weekly browsing habits.

Social media and even news feeds are built around sensationalism and alarm. It's incredibly easy, with just a basic news- and social-media diet, to starve your worldview of hope, delight, or interest.

And that stuff is out there! You really do live in a world where both bad and good things happen, all the time. I started visiting Good News Network about a year ago, when I realized I had gone a whole week without seeing a single hopeful post online, and realized what that was doing to my mental health.

I'm not saying this is an incredible journalistic endeavor or anything-- the "here's what these celebrities look like now!" energy of the place is high-- but I promise you, my suicidal ideations have dropped considerably, and my mood has improved considerably, since I started regularly intaking good news, and intentionally limit the amount of regular social media and news media I absorb.

Anyway, it's a very stressful time right now, so I hope some of you take me up on the offer. Even go back in the archive a bit. My favorite stories are the ones about local conservation efforts bearing fruit. Here's a recent story about how recent rewilding efforts in an English meadow has increased sightings of bilberry bumblebees. Even just typing that sentence gave me a kind of seratonin boost. Anyway.

And of course, you're always welcome to follow me; I post about Star Wars the way Homer Simpson was a food critic. Bweep bwoo.