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CarterSterling
Hi there! I'm Carter Sterling, and I'm a photographer and an icon moderator here on Newgrounds as well as a member of the community for well over a decade. I hope you're having such a great day!

Carter Sterling @CarterSterling

Age 20, Male

Illinois

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2023 - A Long, Unimportant News Post

Posted by CarterSterling - March 3rd, 2023


Hi-ho, Carter Sterling here!


I'm gonna be quite honest, this news post doesn't really have a point to it. It's 11 PM, I'm tired and I'm gonna word everything in this terribly, but I haven't made a news post since October of... 2021. Yikes! But that's okay, because just as time goes by quickly when you're not paying attention, I find that it also goes by slowly when you're paying attention. And I intend to pay more attention to this site - to contribute in at least some ways, other than silently icon moderating and paying for Newgrounds Supporter - whatever that entails, I'm not entirely sure yet! That could just mean being more active in the forums or reviewing more, or maybe even *gasp* actual content?? It's weird how I believe that all content on here is good and purposeful no matter what it is, and yet when it comes to my actual content I worry about that. But no longer! I'm young enough to where if whatever I make is crap, you can still kinda defend it as "ehhh well he's still young" lol.


But hey, I've also been busy! Just the other month, I visited Colorado for the first time ever and it was so incredibly lovely. I haven't gotten those pics all uploaded yet, but when I do I'll definitely make another news post including them. Speaking of pics, I've been taking a lot of those! Here's just a few circulated specifically around me, maybe I'll make some dedicated posts for specific events where I took a lot of neat photos.


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First of all, here's the most recent picture of me from when I was testing out my webcam! Look at that handsome face ;)

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Me with professional wrestler Nick Aldis, at a local wrestling event.

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Bigfoot at a restaurant I was eating at recently! Any of you remember when I did that podcast about Bigfoot? No?? Okay then... :'(


I've been having a great time recently, but I can't help but miss being on here. And even though I'm "part" of this wonderful community, it feels like I've kinda let that slip away from me. I miss you lovely people, and I want to try and start being a much better contributor to my most favorite website <3


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there are some damn powerful little people here
i choose to browse them, and not log into google/fb/yt/et al and prop up mass media
i'm here for ass media

Hopefully you dont hooked on Sasquatch again

Sasquatch isn’t a phase mom!

[It's weird how I believe that all content on here is good and purposeful no matter what it is, and yet when it comes to my actual content I worry about that. But no longer! I'm young enough to where if whatever I make is crap, you can still kinda defend it as "ehhh well he's still young" lol.]

Growth, this website is constantly promoting artistic growth. Seeing young people evolve and become pillars of creative integrity is beautiful. The only other place I've seen the same drive was in art school. It was a place where young people arrived and inspired one another to lead and invent. A few older kooks would push the class in a direction with technique or knowledge but Uni always felt like it was driven by the undergrads insane hustle to find purpose and survive.

Newgrounds isn't so different. In regards to what you said about all content having a purpose, it goes back to growth. In our attempts to find meaning or purpose we share our inventions with other creatives that might host similar feelings and ideas. We constantly inspire each other, which is why even a basic sketch can carry the potential to bridge a friendship or enkindle a journey. Every creative work is a proclamation that we exist and that we desire to find or give meaning to our hustle. It takes hundreds or thousands of drawings to become an expert at drawing but each mark catalogues a desire to exist, create, and define. A drawing or a work of art is posterity left for others to evaluate.

Hope you enjoyed your time in Colorado :)