How come nightmares and night terrors are popular with fanart?

How come nightmares and night terrors are popular with fanart? Almost every fandom that I seen has a dramatic fanart of a character going through it, then revealing some past trauma to the audience.

ITT post nightmare fanart

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  1. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >B.O.B. smiling

  2. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    How do frick do you fail to draw Charlie

  3. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    What's with the random bits on fur on them?

    Especially when they also clearly have body hair?

    I could even look past the transition scars on Charlie, but this art just looks like shit.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I'm guessing they heard critter, and either failed to understand the concept or thought they could cutify it somehow

  4. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Wtf happened with that Charlie?

  5. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  6. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    The reason why any kind of mental illness is interesting to portray in art- people’s struggles are interesting, and when they’re not, well, mentall illness MAKES them interesting I guess.

  7. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I noticed that it's the Animaniacs fandom which does this trope the most

  8. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Wtf are the first two panels?

  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Does Charlie have breast reduction scars? And paw pads?
    How the frick could you even be a fan of Smiling Friends while also being like this, these seem like incompatible personality types.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Thanks my brain was having a lot of trouble interpreting what charlie even was. I thought his right arm was his nose somehow.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I have not an issue with the scars or implications of them but agree.

      This is similar to those people who draw as South Park fanart and get offended by the actual show.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >South Park art
        I fricking knew it

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          What's wrong with Charlie's armpits and hands?

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            he has pawpads and stretch marks. and fat breasts and those are surgery scars under his breasts. its what i am certain of.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      The Oneyplays guys say "moron" and use "autistic" as an insult yet somehow they have Game Grumps-tier fans

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        that's because they're ex game grump fans, during 2016-2017 oneyplays was made in the game grumps office and that helped them gather their audience but they had a falling out

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I don't mean to sound like a gay but it's unreal to me how something like that can ruin someone's reputation these days

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          It can't. Extreme wokists getting vaguely mad at you isn't a ruined reputation.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I have not an issue with the scars or implications of them but agree.

      This is similar to those people who draw as South Park fanart and get offended by the actual show.

      they're probably like those people that find something they can identify with in the original content but deem the rest problematic. if they're especially awful people they demand the creator to bend to their will instead of stopping to consume the content

  11. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    What the FRICK am I looking at
    Also you're the kind of moron who answers their own moronic questions and can't even comprehend it because some basic cognitive function is missing in your brain

  12. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I cannot tell what's happening to charlie in every pannel except the last one

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I had to focus my brain in order to understand his body positions.

  13. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  14. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  15. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  16. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  17. 2 weeks ago
    He has the eliacube

    I legitimately do not know what I'm looking at

  18. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  19. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    What in the name of lovecraft is that anatomy

  20. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Most of this is just shipping art where one character wakes up from a nightmare and the other one comforts them. The author of course self-inserting into the character being comforted because EVERYONE IN THE FRICKING WORLD WANTS THE OTHER PARTY TO PUT IN ALL THE EFFORT IN A RELATIONSHIP

  21. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  22. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I hate this fluffy tumblr style but holy shit this is especially bad. I had to really stare and use Charlie's belly button to triangulate his position.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      I think I see it

  23. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    This is like that pic meant to depict how someone might see the world during an acute bout of schizophrenia. I seriously can't tell what the frick that body structure is supposed to be

  24. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    it's called "whump"

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Zoomers call it hurt/comfort

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >comfort
        cringe, give me agony

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          wtf is that

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          this is equally as cringe
          way too over the top with the edge

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          I wish I was the ribcage

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          You say agony, i say crude.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >The flesh is weak
          >This is what I understood
          >And yet... I kept going, why?
          >I should clean the blood away before mom finds out....
          Just like my chinese cartoons.

  25. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    That's just a pile of hairy yellow tumors. So perfectly on-model for a Zach character.

  26. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Nice excuse for fluff/angst.

  27. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Someone is having a stroke, and I can't tell if it's me or the artist.

  28. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    i can't explain why but this image is deeply and uniquely disturbing to me. it crawled out of MY nightmares.

  29. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Because a lot of these kinds of artists are nutso and/or on so many mental health meds that they're already halfway to madness while they're awake.

  30. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    It was easier to identify the transition scars than it was Charlie's face.

  31. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Why is he so battle scarred? I thought he was just a fat guy working a job.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      the biggest smiles hide the most pain

  32. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    i thought the extended paw at the top was his neck and face. why is his belly folded over the blanket like that too.? he really looks like an alien dinosaur.

  33. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I can barely make out what I'm looking at
    >surgery scars?
    >stretch marks?
    >furry paw pads
    >Fur
    Why they gotta do my boy Charlie like this, he's loveable as is

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      A fine example of character assassination

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      See the stretch marks make sense, he is a fat guy.

      But everything else is "riiiight kinda cringe".

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        He's fat not obese
        Not that I've ever been fat but I know fat people and I've only seen obese people with stretch marks like that

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          How many hefty people are you looking at under the shirt to gather this?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      The surgery is zipper breasts. They’re imagining him as a trans man

  34. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Do women REALLY

  35. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  36. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Send it to Zach, maybe we can convince him to reference it for the lols

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        I don't want any attachment to this just wanted to draw the melted charlie

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >ALANEDAAAAAAA
      What's the name of the b***h in that movie Tetsuo crushes between his uncontrollable tumor masses again?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Pim... You gotta put him down. There's no saving him after the tumblr ray gun got to him

  37. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous
  38. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I for one won't dedicate more than a few words to this:
    This is proof women should have been gatekept by basis of sex from fandoms.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      In the end it all balances out. Women ruined Smiling Friends and South Park and men ruined things like mlp and Totally Spies.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >grouping all women with this
      C'mon that's like coming across scat porn and blaming all autistic people

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        This

        I seen like 75 percent of the women in the fandom be cool and normal about the characters and show. They also draw reasonably normal fan art too.

        It's just begrudgingly there's the handful that are like the op. Where they make the characters barely recognizable and inject a new personality into them.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, you should in fact do that

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Look at what men have done to kiddie fandoms like MLP.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Be humbled by the fact moronic headcanons and autism aren't exclusively an autistic male thing.
      God knows there people worse than you will ever in your lifetime...

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >men draw oodles of fricked up fetish art
      >"fetish artists are so cringe"
      >women draw a bit of fetish art
      >"women are so cringe"

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      damn bro that is cringe.

      This

      I seen like 75 percent of the women in the fandom be cool and normal about the characters and show. They also draw reasonably normal fan art too.

      It's just begrudgingly there's the handful that are like the op. Where they make the characters barely recognizable and inject a new personality into them.

      let people draw what they want nobody is forcing you to look at it.

      https://i.imgur.com/v16glK6.jpeg

      How come nightmares and night terrors are popular with fanart? Almost every fandom that I seen has a dramatic fanart of a character going through it, then revealing some past trauma to the audience.

      ITT post nightmare fanart

      looking at the way the lines are weighted i think the artist drew it on the phone

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        anybody who draws on their phone is a masochist

  39. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    His thumb is on the wrong side.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Maybe this is why it was difficult to decipher Charlie's body

  40. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Took me almost a minute to figure out where the yellow thing's face was

  41. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    they are called critters alright but they aren't THAT kind of critters.

  42. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Whoever drew that must had a lobotomy or something.

  43. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I legitimately can't tell what part of Charlie is supposed to be what. It all blends together into this yellow blobby mass.

  44. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Why does Charlie have paws?

  45. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >fur
    >paws
    >trans scars
    >chest hair
    It gets worse the longer I look at it

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