Not much to say (or I'll never stop. that was a lot to process). See article title to get the gist of it.
TL;DR: I'm coming out of a big burnout+OCD funk, and figured I'd celebrate by spending some of that cool little pile of blue buzz I'd stockpiled.
...yeah.
So instead, I killed time by going through every article. Every single one (from past week). In case you don't realize, the site's article flow was basically dead for a while, so I come as bearer of glad tidings: the recent policy "update" has sucessfully resurrected the site. Never seen such a great week for community engagement, wow.
Winner of most upbeat article: @mystifying for his Go Go Gadget Grannie footrace image, check it out to crack a smile, you won't regret it.
Overall winner: me. I discovered several cool creators, mostly from noticing their banner images on the Bye Bye articles.
Overall loser: me. Sad that so many of those artists are leaving ( I only just discovered you!!).
Also, the site. Yeah.
P.S. Another congrats to me: I've cracked the site writer leaderboard, spot #463. ;)
maybe this article will bump me up further.