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.

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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.

The shooter was identified as a cis white man who was registered as a Republican.

They can not point fingers at the left, they can not point fingers at queer people, they can not point fingers at trans people.

It was one of them, with an AR-15.