#brother bartholomew the nafty

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jock lifestyle: 1

the inner self-loathing masochistic monk that lives in my brain and tells me what to do: …also 1?

[captaindibbzy]

For brain goblins from the same school of Brother Bartholomew the Nafty talking shit cause I want to buy clothing and my brain wants to play like I am personally responsible for fast fashion and global warming. Get back in your hole you prick. I want some shorts for the summer and some tights for the spring. It's not a £1000 Shen Haul. 🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹

[zennagreenwitch]

This looks like Brother Bartholomew the Nafty @chaumas-deactivated20240115

3.99 for this delightful guy!

[spirit-sys]

the urge to redesign henryk vs brother bartholomew the nafty.

[deerydear]

Sometimes I feel like a computer that's been left on for too long.

You know, they get laggy... They need a sleep, a reset.

I fasted for several days, as a religious practice. I would compare the positive effects to "defragmenting disk-space".

Felt pretty good.

Taking a Detour of humour...

yee olde blogger Chaumas said:

"I’ve been joking that I’ve been haunted/possessed by the ghost of a fucked up medieval monk since childhood despite being raised an atheist. Recently I’ve started illustrating Brother Bartholomew the Nafty as the anthropomorphic personification of intrusive thoughts."

I had been raised atheist, too, but I fasted occasionally, as a teenager, for the purpose of bodily mortification. I wasn't anorexic. I didn't hate my self image. I thought I looked good... I just liked depriving myself of stuff. xD I wanted to see how it felt.

Maybe it was the Catholicism of my ancestral line, blooming into my conscious brain. Something in the blood.

[specialagentartemis]

Feeling the urge to invent/draw/otherwise externalize my own version of Brother Bartholomew the Nafty because anxiety over food waste/water conservation/not donating to people’s gofundmes enough/etc is starting to drive me crazy in a very similar way

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my friends have gotten really good at recognizing when I lapse into BartBrain9000

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I was in a play last year and I’m still not sure whether standing on stage silently weeping with snot and tears running down my face for half an hour every night was cathartic or just, like, bad for me.

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I posted this one already as part of the original thread but it deserves to stand on its own.

Religious OCD? Sure, I’ll take whatever you’ve got.

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when one neurosis gets nipped in the bud by a larger, more powerful neurosis

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the worst part about having a breakdown is how ableist it is towards people with mental health problems

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Experimenting with something called “making an effort”. I’m not sure how I feel about it.

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logically I know that a device designed for trimming the stems of flowers is going to break before it successfully performs a self-inflicted amputation of a human limb. BUT. that’s not going to stop the version of me that is apparently going to be possessed with an irresistible violent urge to my own fuck shit up for no reason.

[trifoliate-undergrowth]

Bart won't let you profit? Sounds like Bart. Also woah there's merch?

Since people have been asking recently: I do have an anti-Brother Bart design on my redbubble. I’ve set my margin to 0% on shirts and stickers for the next few days because I feel weird directly profiting off my brain problems, lmao.

[spirit-sys]

sometimes we doubt we have ocd and then we have a thought process that goes like this

silly comfort content! -> "ew, freak, you will be found out" -> ok i'll watch yt. funny british orphan joke video -> "you know how much people suffered at that time, this is offensive to your british mutuals" -> make a genuinely lighthearted joke abt brother bartholomew the nafty that lives in my brain -> "how DARE you vent to a friend without permission. they hate you now"

and then im like. ok yeah that makes a lot of sense

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what if instead of doing the right thing I had done the wrong thing, wouldn’t that be bad?

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below-average art quality on this one is due both to being out of practice and running out of micron pens… ultra fine point sharpie is a bad look