I’ve been mostly quiet online this last month, because I wanted not to talk over BLM voices. The art I make is largely about escapism from the world, and I didn’t feel comfortable trying to share that during the peak of this moment. I thought it was more important for society to focus on the pain and amplify the public outcry. I felt that my saying “Hey look at this unrelated pretty stuff I made!” would be detracting from the introspection that society needs right now.

That said, I knew that eventually we would need pleasant distractions again. And personally, I’ve hit the point where I need to put some fun back into my life, or I will burn out hard. So I’m going to resume posting stuff, so I can recharge my energies before feeding them back into politics.

Keep going to protests. Keep holding power to account. Keep donating to community support organizations. Read up on police+prison abolition, and write in to your city council--it’s budget season, and defunding police forces is suddenly a big issue everywhere. Make sure you’re registered to vote. Talk to your friends and family about this stuff. Support Black and other marginalized creators (even though that’s not me). Keep wearing your face masks--the pandemic didn’t get bored, even if we did.

Society is finally confronting some of the problems it’s been ignoring for decades. And this is an exciting opportunity to make some real progress. It’s exhausting, and as always things will take a long time to change. But if we all keep pushing with the strength that we are able, we will eventually move society to a better place.

And take the time to step back and rest when you need, to keep yourself happy and sane. That’s what I’m doing, that’s why I’m here.

I do try to keep my art accounts to mostly just places to showcase my work, but if you want to get the firehose blast of reblogs of things I like and care about, here is where I do that: https://twitter.com/DracoLoricatus Recently it’s mostly been boosting Black Lives Matter and related issues.