KilluVone really captured the way I’ve been feeling the past few days via this Tweek drawing.
One thing I haven’t really ever explained, but that ties into my love of Craig and Tweek, is that fact that both represent very much 2 sides of me. With them together making a whole.
I am often version quiet, stoic, pragmatic, and realistic as Craig has generally been shown to be in the series.
And I am often, hidden from the observable world, but very much so in my own mind, just a anxiety-ridden and externally pressure-dominated like Tweek. I just don’t physically or visibly show it. I chalk that up to my Polish/Slavic firmware and being an only child American Gen X’r who spent a solid portion of his young life dealing with things on his own from a very young age.
The two blended blended together very much make at least some kind of integrated, yet imperfect whole.
There have been so many days over the past 6 years, dealing with such bad crazy management decisions at work, in which I sat there, much like Craig during the excellent 2-part “Pandemic and “Pandemic 2: The Startling” episodes.
I would sit in meetings with management and peer coworkers and openly say in a dead pan emotionless voice my opinions on the state of fuckupedness much like Craig does throughout both episodes.
“My name is Nala. Last years I was tasked with a project by management with no clear scope or guidelines. I was not happy but I have learned to not trust management to have a clue on most things. But then, in one year, I was shunted through 3 different reorgs to 3 different managers who had no idea what I actually did even though I have been employed to do my job for 24 years by the exact same company they work for in the exact some division and after repeating documents and charts and graphs and reports as to what I did. Then my coworker and I continually highlighted the major critical operational problems to these same managers who told us they understood the problems and would work on them. They lied to us and it was easier to just get rid of us and not actually address the operational problems we continued to highlight making our day-to-day operations inefficient. And so that is why our already taxed responsibilities where eliminated because the problem of inefficiency went away because we were no longer making the problems known. If I die, let it be known it is because of multiple managers all making sizable salaries and bonuses repeatedly lying to me and now took my jerb.”
I would say such things all while feeling like KilluVone’s Tweek anxiety interpretation because on the outside, I’m Craig, but on the inside I’m Tweek.
Once again, I’ve rambled.
But perhaps you can understand just a bit more about me and ultimately, why I’m drawn to 2 fictional characters who in many ways very much represent aspects of me.
KilluVone. This image is beyond the feelings I experience internally on a daily basis. Thank you for encapsulating it in your interpretation of a freaked out 10-year-old. It is probably, and I don’t say this lightly, probably the single greatest Tweek illustration summing up his internal struggles. Something that many no doubt can relate to.
Artist: KilluVone – https://x.com/KilluVone