Hi i love your art and headcanons a lot! The game hit me hard cuz my (ex) childhood best friend and i had a similar situation that ended with a falling out. They were also diagnosed schizophrenic and portrayed a lot of the same symptoms. The friendship is not something i would like to go back to, but your art makes me feel... nostalgic? miss them? idk... anyways tdlr love seeing very specific things i can relate to and your art is really good thank you 👍
Hiya—thanks a lot for tellin’ me, pal. I opened Tumblr and I for sure wasn’t expecting to see a post like this but man it really does feel nice to know that the stuff on here is able to hit you hard. I mean, that’s what I’m going for here, right? A lot of the stuff I draw is mostly to show things like, the experience in someone’s head—mine, mostly—but keep it vague enough to not only leave people wondering, wanting for more, but also to be able to understand and relate to it—honestly, I never considered the idea of someone else who was there alongside the ride that comes with being that kind of person, y'know, their psyche beaten and bruised, and being reminded of them.
While I’m aware that things like this could potentially cause a lot of harm towards the people around them—I mean, look at what you’re telling me here, that experience of yours is not something ya wanna go back to. And it’s like, y'know, I get it. I do. I myself have found me perpetuating that harm. It can be difficult, it can be very frustrating, and usually I end up using characters like Jim or Jack help cope and hopefully get others to understand what it’s like for people like me.
as a severely schizophrenic mentally ill loser, even though we have been a victim for sa for our entire life, I LOVE YALLS CHARACTERIZATION OF JIMMY. i am unhappy 2 say that jimmy is just a little bit like me fr but YAYY THANK U SO MUCH appreciate ur art ^^
I think a goal in my art in general is to have people react and have things click in their head, kinda—my stuff is vague and yet filled with like, a lot. I’m glad to hear that people find it relatable; it is very, very easy for me to understand Jimmy as character, his thoughts and actions and motivations are eerily similar to that of mine. The game serves as a warning of our potential to perpetuate harm to those around us. I think it’s important to fully take him in as a character, of course, he is unforgivable, but we as the audience have to be able to put ourselves in his shoes and realize he is just as human as any of us.
