I'm becoming less and less happy with social media. It feels like more infrequent, higher quality stuff is pushed out in favor of thoughtless reactionary takes and no-effort slop. I thought I could get around that by trimming who I follow on Tumblr and who I subscribe to on Youtube, but it still feels like those sites suck up a majority of my time unless I deliberately force myself to avoid them. My ADHD ass needs as much dopamine as I can get, and social media isn't hacking it any more. I feel creatively unfulfilled.

So I'm going to upload some of my art backlog here. I don't draw as much as I used to, but I hope I can change that by spending more time in art-focused communities like this one. This feels like one of the last bastions of the old internet, one that was made for and by people, instead of tech mega corporations harvesting data.

Not that I'm trying to give in to nostalgia, of course. As John Hodgman said in his book Vacationland, “...normally I consider nostalgia to be a toxic impulse. It is the twinned, yearning delusion that (a) the past was better (it wasn´t) and (b) it can be recaptured (it can´t) that leads at best to bad art, movie versions of old TV shows, and sad dads watching Fox news. At worst it leads to revisionist, extremist politics, fundamentalist terrorism, and the victory-in Appalachia in particular-of a narcissist Manhattan cartoon maybe-millionaire and cramped-up city creep who, if he ever did go up to Rocky Top in real life, would never come down again.”

Yknow what? I also don't read as much as I used to. I should go to the library more often. And so should you.