#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. 🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹

[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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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

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not a scrupulosity thing but how could I resist drawing a magical monk transformation scene

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sometimes a fleeting truce

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I heard about something called line weight but I’m not sure I quite grasp the concept yet

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the perils of clothes shopping

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Reading Peter Pan as a child was alarming because Hook had all these weird internal monologues about his obsession with “good form” beaten into him at Eton and least some of his hatred towards Peter Pan came from this deep moral jealousy of Pan’s innate sense of fairness and nobility, that a kind of perfect gentlemanly morality just came naturally and effortlessly to him

now obviously Pan was also a little monster who may have just killed his playmates when they got too old but boy did I have a time trying to figure out if sharing moral anxieties with Captain Hook made me an evil murderpirate

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I wasn’t going to turn this into a comic because I didn’t think I could make it funny. (And also because I don’t know how to draw cars. But mostly for the first reason.)

Moral OCD, in my experience, has been great at camouflaging itself as my conscience. Most of the time this just means stressful hangups over stupid things, but occasionally it manifests as a destructive inhibition against removing myself from dangerous or uncomfortable situations—either because I can’t trust my instincts, or because I feel like I don’t have the right to avoid being harmed.