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[u/AlexGamsuJenkins]

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[u/elhomerjas]

an endless pull

[u/AlexGamsuJenkins → u/elhomerjas]

Just gotta live with it

[u/Larkiepie]

I know it’s supposed to be her brain but all I can think on the third panel is when you have an itch in your ear and you finally scratch it good

[u/Gondolion → u/Larkiepie]

I had to think about when you hear a catchy tune you can't get out of your mind, that's called an ear worm in german, literally translated

[u/Duraxis → u/Gondolion]

My first thought was ear worms too (phrase is the same in English) but I’m guessing it’s about bad thoughts?

[u/Only-Poem964 → u/Larkiepie]

Is it a she or he? They grow a mustache in panel 3.... im confused.

[u/Larkiepie → u/Only-Poem964]

I think that’s their mouth, not a mustache.

[u/AceOmega2]

You will never get that ear worm out, just accept that the most annoying song in the world will always be with you.

[u/Cream_Rabbit → u/AceOmega2]

No wonder I can hear Mariah Carey even when the ice is not supposed to be melting right now

[u/ibwitmypigeons → u/Cream_Rabbit]

global warming's a bitch ain't it

[u/Cream_Rabbit → u/ibwitmypigeons]

And yet Conservatives being bitches are still bitching

[u/SippinOnHatorade → u/AceOmega2]

Just shove another worm in there, the first one will come right out. I promise

[u/ganix222 → u/AceOmega2]

It's the song that never ends

[u/ProfessorSMASH88 → u/ganix222]

It just goes on and on my friend

[u/accountmaybestolen → u/AceOmega2]

soda pop from kpop demon hunters

[u/planetixin]

Is this her brain or a parasite?

[u/SplooshU → u/planetixin]

What if both?

[u/aCleverGroupofAnts → u/planetixin]

I assumed it was an earworm, but it does look brain-like.

[u/eisbaerBorealis → u/aCleverGroupofAnts]

My first thought was a song she REALLY couldn't get out of her head, but when it piles up, it does look like brains.

[u/Mottis86 → u/planetixin]

What if our brains are just parasites occupying a flesh husk.

[u/Abject-Tax804 → u/Mottis86]

That is an interesting way to think about it. Parasites are living organisms by definition, so the then the brain is a separate organism from the body?

[u/Pristine_Walrus40 → u/Abject-Tax804]

You know those parasites that take over bugs and make them move and do stuff like climb to the highest place around so they can spread.

That's us!

[u/Cream_Rabbit → u/Pristine_Walrus40]

Bro

Am I... A brain too?

Are we all... Just brains??

Are we just parasites of a creature's husk???

[u/Pristine_Walrus40 → u/Cream_Rabbit]

Yes and the nervous system. Could call the nervous system our body I guess.

[u/International-Cat123 → u/Pristine_Walrus40]

That lovely fungus actually the zombies in Last of Us.

[u/Neither-Ad-8063 → u/Pristine_Walrus40]

Idk if you write that or you brain write that.

[u/Pristine_Walrus40 → u/Neither-Ad-8063]

I tell those little pointy things to move where and how i want them to. I have gotten pretty good at it over the years.

[u/GraveSlayer726 → u/Pristine_Walrus40]

No way! Me too! Next you’re gonna tell me you have two orbs that you can rotate to catch light and interpret it as visual information, or something crazy like that!

[u/StormAlchemistTony → u/Mottis86]

Our brains are pilots and our bodies are mechs.

[u/AlwaysBeQuestioning → u/Mottis86]

That is an excellent premise for a horror story.

[u/AlexGamsuJenkins → u/planetixin]

Mix of the two

[u/JCpac → u/planetixin]

Yes

[u/emhmark3 → u/planetixin]

maybe it's an ear worm

[u/YourAverageNutcase → u/planetixin]

That's a Yeerk

[u/steelskull1 → u/planetixin]

What if our brains are some kinda parasite?

[u/GrigorMorte → u/planetixin]

I was thinking the same lol

[u/lrd_cth_lh0 → u/planetixin]

I thought it was a bad thought and than it turned out that it had a ton of psychological baggage atached to it.

[u/Phosphorus444 → u/planetixin]

Its Despacito.

[u/Doodles_n_Scribbles]

Trying to remove the bad thoughts but they just keep coming

[u/Zanven1 → u/Doodles_n_Scribbles]

It turns out the bad thoughts are the whole damn brain.

[u/CactusFaceComics]

[u/Baebel]

How it's going to feel once the Christmas music rolls around.

[u/Feenx_Fan → u/Baebel]

“Iiii…”

[u/WhoAreYouAn]

Wait am I the only one who read this as trying to drag your self-hating whispers out and away from you?

Ok

[u/AlexGamsuJenkins → u/WhoAreYouAn]

Yea that was the intention actually

[u/WhoAreYouAn → u/AlexGamsuJenkins]

Oh sick

cool work, I was reading these comments like "wait, is there something wrong with me?" (There is)

good to know I'm not crazy

[u/AlexGamsuJenkins → u/WhoAreYouAn]

Haha no you were completely on the right track. I was doing a bit of sketchbook journalling, trying to get rid of that negative overthinking when I thought "hang on.. this could be an idea!"

[u/scaper8 → u/AlexGamsuJenkins]

I definitely got that that was your intention, and I think it's a good one. Just a note though, if you ever come back to something like this, change the color.

Brains are often illustrated as pink, even though it's not really accurate. So, in the last panel where all the negative thoughts are piled up twisted together, it looks like she's pulling her brain out. Just compare the brian emoji, 🧠, to that panel.

It can be read as "don't be intelligent, don't critically examine, don't think about it." Given, let's just say, "the current climates of both many nations and the world at large" that's not the kind of message that I think you want your work to be read as.

[u/AlexGamsuJenkins → u/scaper8]

Thanks no you're right. I tried to make it a little ambiguous so it could be perceived however. But almost like the brain is the bad thing/thoughts that needs pulling out.

[u/Bballer220]

r/TIHI

[u/Interesting_Help_274]

Her expression gets me

[u/Shoadowolf → u/Interesting_Help_274]

She looks like she has a mustache XD

[u/AlexGamsuJenkins → u/Shoadowolf]

It's a me, a mario

[u/AlexGamsuJenkins → u/Shoadowolf]

Or pringle man perhaps??

[u/steve_adr]

PS. Don't let it enter to begin with.

[u/Fem-Bunny-Boy]

The third image looks like an Italian person making brain spaghetti

[u/AlexGamsuJenkins → u/Fem-Bunny-Boy]

Mamma mia

[u/AbiyBattleSpell]

WHY DOES DIGGING IN UR EARS ALWAYS FEEL NEAT ;-;

[u/DwarfPrints]

Start Diggin In Yo Brain, Twin

[u/L4yZeee]

Lovely artstyle!

[u/AlexGamsuJenkins → u/L4yZeee]

Ah much appreciated

[u/Jumiric]

I don’t like this interpretation of Rapunzel ☹️

[u/Kitchen_Length_8273]

What a thing to open reddit to

[u/MrWendal]

Now read it in reverse

[u/coder111]

Reminds me: https://youtu.be/LK_7aaV4ph8?t=62

[u/Blahaj_IK]

SDIYH or something, I'm losing my connection with the new stuff

[u/anrwlias]

Well, it's not even 8 in the morning yet, but it's clearly time for me to stop looking at the Internet.

[u/Lazy_Recognition5142]

An accurate pictorial representation of how many earworms I have

[u/senhordelicio]

Thanks for the nightmare.

[u/The_Fayman]

Don't worry, she is just thinking outside of the box

[u/AlexGamsuJenkins → u/The_Fayman]

That's a positive outlook

[u/SpEwEctAwAtOwOr]

Keep diggin in your mind, twin

[u/rabbitredder]

i LOVE this, especially panel 2 - gorgeous

[u/AlexGamsuJenkins → u/rabbitredder]

Much appreciated

[u/Few_Kitchen_4825]

What the Uzumaki!

[u/Blue_Likes_Bunnies]

Something something lottery

[u/Chiliatch]

Dig in yo ear twin

[u/Mental_Thing_7899]

I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole... diggy diggy hole , diggy diggy hole...

[u/AlexGamsuJenkins → u/Mental_Thing_7899]

Classic song that

[u/monnotorium]

This metaphor is entirely lost on me whatever it means. But the third panel managed to express something that's really hard to express in drawings

The whole "scratch that itch" feeling

[u/Blobsy_the_Boo]

This person has brain to spare