''Dino'' + ''Rainbow''

~ We had nothing to do at the garden workplace today, so we stayed inside and they gave me paper and some drawing supplies. I originally wanted to take inspiration from some existing illustrations, because I brought one of my dinosaur books with me that I could potentially use for reference. I consistantly do that because they've got almost NOTHING else to read other than books about plants and gardening, which... misses the whole point for me. You read books to ESCAPE from reality, not to embrace it. If I want to be gardening, I do that outside -- during lunch break you're supposed to get AWAY from work for a moment, and all those plantlife- and garden-themed books they have, while fitting because of their giant frikking garden, do not help me relax. I know almost nothing about plants, and frankly I don't want to know. This place I work at right now is the THIRD instance in a row where I am a part of a gardening organization, and I'm getting so tired of the same types of biome every time.

Going way off-topic here, but -- I got a feeling that everything around me is standing still. I don't progress through things anymore, even those I like to partake in. The films and games around me are almost always remakes or revisits of already existing works, like the Nintendo Switch ports of Wii and Wii U games, or all those godforesaken Disney remakes. We're just hot off the heels of the ''The Little Mermaid'' remake, which itself went in one ear, out the other; and they're already working on their next project, being a remake of Bambi of all things. I wonder how they're gonna mess THAT one up.

I'm just so burnt out on everything -- The film remakes, the games' remakes, and even my own video game collection starts to feel samey. That last one might be my own problem, but the games especially, is entirely Nintendo's fault. Because of those guys, we're still playing a 10-year-old 60$ price-tag mascot racing game with way too much content crammed into it purely to rake in even more money from our nostalgia. I'm DONE with this bullsh*t. I'm eagerly awaiting something new from the guys that created the series that I and so many other people love. Even the YouTubers I frequently watch are now starting to complain themselves about how we desperately need a new game in the Mario Kart series, or how Pokémon has gone downhill from Generation 6 onward, depending on who you ask. I'm DONE with the trickling out Nintendo does for their decades-old games on the most decaying hardware they've developed in possibly forever.

This is why I am desparately looking for something actually new -- a new perspective on things, or a new chapter in any of the series I hold so dearly. With art like this, be it digital or hand-drawn, I feel myself trying to go forward where all of those big companies lean backwards and watch the money roll in due to their way overpriced game and film remakes.