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#99 So what if you can see, the dark inside of me...

black_emerald

on July 27, 2008

Page title comes from the emo-song 'Animal I have Become' by Three Days Grace (yeah, okay, so I like some of the songs by an emo band… to be honest, I love darker-side style songs and themes, which is kinda weird since I have this very optimistic view of human nature.)

I think that, deep down, we all love a really really really REALLY evil villain, the sort of villain who is completely psychotic and murderous, because it allows us to dehumanise them and make them the sort of creature which only exists in fairytales and stories such as this. Somewhere inside of us, we all have the capacity to become those villains we love to watch and read about. By creating those characters, we have a chance to pretend that their mentality doesn't and can't ever exist inside up, in some perverse way deceiving us about the nature of ourselves and making us feel all the better for it.

What? I can be darkly philosophical AND have optimism for the human race!

Oh, next week we reach triple figures! And the second of the hand-drawn pieces!