thatsuspiciouswhalenut asked: So Nothing is Many Things?
so this is gonna be a rare semi-explanation bc I don’t think it ever gets stated in the comic particularly bc you know I don’t do that
well, my whole reasoning with the appearance of Nothing being as it is is that there is “No Thing”- aka, no single thing. I’ve always had difficulty with environments where there’s a lot happening. I have hyperacuity, though I didn’t know it for a very long time, so I often get overwhelmed and all my senses- particularly my hearing- go into overdrive. My parents say when I was a kid if something happened that I didn’t like (like a bad noise or if there was a party and a lot of people were around) I would just up and take myself off to the very farthest part of the house- as far away from the ‘it’ as possible, and stay there, not doing anything. While I was thinking about the concept of the Nothing it was very difficult because, I mean, how do you draw ‘nothing’? It’s nothing! And eventually I ended up thinking more about the feeling of it I wanted, and then pulling the word around I was suddenly like hey, what about, instead of an absence of stuff like the ‘—–’ (because Nothing is different from that trust me) what if nothing is actually just everything happening at the same time, because there is no time. There is no space. There’s just, nothing, so it’s absolutely everything ever happening at once in a big discordant mass heaving around- because there’s so much, there’s no barriers, there’s no middles no endings or beginnings, there’s not even the bit that joins things up whatever that is. It’s basically that thing that I would take myself as far away as possible from, and stay still, so that I wasn’t it.