i think anyone who’s every used the internet has seen this picture at least once
yes that one exactly
wake me up inside
That first image is an edit of HUGZzz by Irene Strychalski. She’s improved tremendously in the past nine years, and you can see her current work on her tumblr, reniedraws! She has done backgrounds for Archer and Unsupervised, backgrounds and character designs for Chozen, and pencils and inks for issue #1 of Deadpool Family. She’s currently making a webcomic called Shaman Child. Here’s some of her current art:
As for the anime girl in the plaid skirt, I braved the hellscape that is early ‘00s anime websites, exploring endless gif-covered Gaia pages and vampire-filled roleplay forums, traveling across seas of unsourced DeviantArt edits and low-res hentai, to discover that she is an original character by Hiro Suzuhira. She has done work for Shuffle!, Ef: A Tale of Melodies, Akikan!, Phantom Breaker, and We Without Wings, among many others, and she is also a prolific freelance illustrator. Here are some examples of her art:
[chronicle cover] [misa] [soul eater] [higurashi] [phantom breaker] [leo]
tumblr VH1 presents “Where are they now? Early 2000′s internet artists”
Fuck yeah! Show those sources! Knowing after all this time of that stolen art being everywhere, seeing the artist named is really great!
From the article:
A hole that opens annually in the ozone layer over Earth’s southern pole was relatively small in 2024 compared to other years. Scientists with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) project the ozone layer could fully recover by 2066. During the peak of ozone depletion season from September 7 through October 13, the 2024 area of the ozone hole ranked the seventh smallest since recovery began in 1992, when the Montreal Protocol, a landmark international agreement to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals, began to take effect.
There's a reason you don't hear about the hole in the ozone layer much anymore--it's been on the mend since the global community banned ozone-depleting chemicals in 1992. Remember that it is possible for the world to come together to solve large scale environmental problems.
Random thought
One thing that's been really helping me with (not) catastrophizing about current events is to remember: historically, we're living in a time when our access to new information across the globe has never been higher. If we had social media during the Cuban Missile Crisis, both world wars, the Crusades, the Black Death, the Fall of Constantinople, literally any other day in Ancient Rome/Greece, et cetera, et cetera -- we'd be just as fucked up with anxiety right now.
I'm not saying shit isn't bad right now. But these are not unprecedented times -- we're just seeing them in high def.
Depression comic
Concept art for Treasure Planet (2002)
I'm starting a collection