I think I'll start a thread of images that make me happy (whether in a LOL way or just pleasant). To be updated as I think of it. Please enjoy, if you have similar criteria for happy images!

(Below, by Tove Jansson)

Illustration by Paul Galdone from Space Cat by Ruthven Todd

I don't know what this book is about, but I found the cover on the internet & it made me glad.

Two rabbits with a sled, by Beatrix Potter

Li'l Shel Silverstein one

Whatever is happening here

And one more for this evening, in our current tribulations
(Tove Jansson, as always)

Little Dot, living her best life

I assume this is the source material for that TV show you all keep talking about

This book that makes a very straightforward & attractive promise

This dramatic tale that looks very promising

Moomin's concerning diagnosis (& perhaps one that we share, some of us). Rude that it should be both acute AND chronic idealism.

(Tove Jansson)

TOOT !

This excellent costume idea from Dress Up & Let's Have a Party by Remy Charlip

This wonderful cosy illustration by Richard Scarry for The Golden Book of 365 Stories

A disgruntled crook

Little Golden Book about a bear who appears to be a coureur des bois

Pierre Bear & the little guy hunting seals:

This incredibly successful move on the lady bear's part:

A man thinking about shark-ball, Atlantis's favourite sport

This very fuzzy friend
(unknown photo credit; apologies)

This very good New Yorker cartoon

Bear having a nice breakfast (he doesn't eat the toaster)
(Richard Scarry illustration)

The... horror?

This very round seal, on a day I am grateful for seal content

(unknown photo credit; apologies)

This extremely interesting book

(full text here: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81855#page/3/mode/1up)

This pretty versatile image; deploy as needed

This cover for a no doubt good & wholesome book, but which nonetheless makes me laugh (show your children BEES!)

A cookbook that threatens to enable me a bit too much in these potentially slovenly times

A lovely seal (called a ribbon seal) -- I love black-and-white animals

This page of a Silver Surfer comic book, getting a bit too real

This one that I should probably save for October

(by Tove Jansson, once again)

This 1896 book featuring a pretty sassy lass on the cover, & which was, we are told by historians who consider such matters, a historically significant & empowering text. (Read the whole thing if you like: https://archive.org/details/commonsenseofbic00ward/page/n8/mode/2up)

Another useful one to have in your pocket for when the whole TL starts acting up

[citation from zoologist needed]

(from Richard Scarry's BUNNIES)

This hilarious horror show