I'm here; up at 6am after having one of several night terrors which is the norm lately.

Things are crazy friend; but we're willing ourselves through it.

Eeyy thanks for responding.

That sounds awful. I myself used to sleep with the radio on to avoid disturbing audio-hallucinations.

It is CRAZY to say the least. In my city there have been more incidents of robbery and violent crime than I've seen before. I feel fortunate to have the privilege of suffering a full time job and then hide in my hut while helicopters and sirens swarm around. Leaves me less time to think about politics.

Here's to finding ways to keep on keeping on, when things basically suck.

the world is crazy. not easy to make friends at our age, but good people are still out there. Been a while since I've seen some of your work. You have a lot of talent and a great character, I'd love to see some more of them ^^

My god. It's been nearly impossible to meet or talk to anyone. Becoming an 'adult' at THIS time in history, has made me severely depressed.

I thank you kindly. In my heart I desire more artistic endeavors and writing, and to revel in devilish antics once more. Those like yourself who maintain the will to create are an inspiration.

Thank you for your kind words ^^ You do not have to face those challenges alone, you are also welcome to chat with me any time. I feel the same way when I see other artists hard at work too!

Shit is very crazy. I agree with Big Red Imp that making friends at this age is so tough. As new blood continues to make their way into the fandom I just continue to feel more and more alienated and out of touch.
If you ever need someone to talk to bud, I'm always around, and you're always welcome to poke me.
Also I still need to draw your OC sometime.

Meeting anyone has been a struggle. I am grateful that you are all still around. I've felt very alone. The normal space isn't working for me.

I will likely take you up on your offer sometime. We've not met properly but I see we are in the same circle since forever.

I'm out here also. Whether I want to be or not. Also nice to see you again :)

You too, bud.

I've found this place hard to escape. Especially with social media trending towards an AI-infested hellhole where everyone* is mean, ignorant or some combination of the two. I'd rather be here, in my favorite, familiar dungeon. With all my weird kin.

Its just good that FA at least isn't tolerating AI yet. The online world is become hostile and tribalistic. So many arguments over such silly things.

Yeah it's a real shit show, and I cannot stand that AI stuff. I feel like they're slowly replacing humans and just auto-generating content based on vague approximations, and people click on and consume it thoughtlessly. Since the vast majority are not artists they won't notice immediately that it's not art.

And yes it certainly is. People are MEAN. Especially to anyone weird, atypical, vulnerable, traumatized, etc. They're just awful. I can't stand it so here I am. Hopefully FAR away from those types.

I think this AI thing will be a flash in the pan. What I don't understand is why isn't there AI to do the dishes, clean up the house and so on? That way we humans can focus on the art, music and writing.

The media doesn't help either, usually goading you to criticise it and then scream at you for whatever reason.

Well we do have that to a degree. We have washing machines, and those rhoomba things. But there's way more money in entertainment. Figures they're gonna try to automate things we like doing so we can focus more on labor.

Flipside of that, if we get AI/robots/whatever to do all our 'chores', humans won't be paid for it and many will lose their jobs.

Yuck!

It's a year of elections on many places, expect a circus everywhere

Yup, we're already seeing that, aren't we...

I try not to watch too closely or I'll get a headache. I still have to live my life while the world shits its proverbial pants, and our unstable infrastructures begin to unravel before our eyes.