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[potofsoup]

there's a tag comment on a tumblr reblog of my July 4th comic that says, "It's both comforting and depressing that the artist keeps making these, but the situation keeps getting worse. We've all got a lot of work ahead of us."

And ... yeah. I feel like the tone of my July 4th comics have really changed since the 2016 election -- less about the power of friendship and doing good because it's the right thing to do, and more ... hey the world has a lot of shit going on that often seem too big and too depressing but we've GOTTA do SOMETHING. I wonder how much of that is the world being actually shittier, and how much is that I live with someone who has an increasingly fatalistic view on the world. I have a lot of faith in humanity, but it's been increasingly challenged in recent years, and I wonder how much of that is coming across in the comic.

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[minoanmiss]

I think it's 40/60. The political situation has definitely gotten worse, but it's still a dip in a general upward trend. I mean, look at the two of us, immigrant WOC. Neither of us are chattel, right? we both have our own money, we can see our little girls go to school, and so on. WE do have to do soemthing, lots of things, but I also think the general trend is upwards even with severe dips like the current administrations in the US, UK, and Brazil (among others).

[potofsoup]

::nodnod::