One Of The Most Beautiful Sights In The Summer Twilight Is The Gentle Glow Of Fireflies Lighting Up The

Tree Log Bag Pattern // Shroomigurumi

Btw I think it's worth mentioning that I'm like. In some ways an extremely cynical person:

Literally, one of my major opinions on humanity is "Humans really seem to like committing genocide???" (Looks, obviously genocide is a fucking atrocity, and I'm in no fucking way diminishing that. It's just also something that people keep fucking committing.)

I work professionally with survivors of abuse, rape, and incest.

I think that most people are (by design, aka evolution!) fundamentally self-interested (and also that that's usually okay)

I am more caught up on the news than like/at least 90% of people.

So when I say that I think that:

Hope is real

There is real, substantial evidence for hope

I think we're going to beat climate change

There is a ton of evidence that supports us beating climate change,

We're going (continue) making the world a better place

The good of humanity and the world ultimately outweighs the bad

It's not because I'm sticking my head in the sand. It's really, really not!

I'm saying that in very real knowledge of how fucking shitty things are and can be.

And despite all that, I'm still hopeful. I'm still optimistic.

I still think hope is going to win.

You don't need to be some huge optimist to have hope.

Anyway here's a link to my masterpost on why we're going to beat climate change,

And here's a link to a great article on all the reasons that this century is, on average, the best time to be alive in human history.

Working in education has maybe ruined some personal art for me. But not in a burnt out kinda way. I think if I ever made any gallery-piece-type 3D art, my biggest concern would be,

How long would this last if a two-year-old was alone with it. for five minutes

a new guy fresh off the hook

Beeg Pheonix

shoutout to when i made the most stress insucing contraption ever just to automate my pokewalker

my beautiful boys