I share that to explain both why I like the painting below--the title of which serves as this post's header, by the way--as well as why I've liked pretty much every piece of art New Zealand-based deviantart user melonjaywalk has produced.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitRZ9WoDWX_OzKdw0ch4swHbyWu20MJgg0m8p5a0vedHwqwQawcg4VeNCnavqlWvXS-1H_ZEmg3yUHSS0nYxLuCpi0-Frv5TbnKmv1ERar5WO4G1_NbP0sgfthB9ZgsNDIZuHY/s1600/don_t_get_yr_hopes_up_by_melonjaywalk-d6y4910.png)
It also should help explain why I got such a kick out of a note melonjaywalk published along with the painting, which was inspired by a scene in Sonic the Hedgehog 3: "Was originally just a landscape before I decided that I just needed to ruin it somehow. So, text."
To see more of melonjaywalk's stuff, go to melonjaywalk.deviantart.com or melonjaywalk.tumblr.com.