Realm of the Unreal In case you were wondering where I get my inspiration...it comes from the odd world of Henry Darger who "was only known as a janitor for the majority of his life, until it was discovered, shortly before his death, that he had been working on an a 15,000 page manuscript since the age of 19."
From Mind Hacks:
The story is fantastic, bizarre and disturbing and recounts the tale of an ongoing and sometimes graphically bloody war between the Vivian Girls, sometimes aided by winged creatures called the Blengens, against child slavery imposed by the Glandelinians.
Darger was diagnosed with a mental illness in his youth, although his diagnosis was reportedly 'masturbation', which was thought by some doctors at the time to cause madness (not an uncommon belief throughout history).
One idiosyncratic feature of his artwork is an apparent transgenderism of sorts: the fact that in the many scenes where characters are portrayed unclothed or partially clothed, many of them, regardless of ostensible gender, have male sex organs. It is speculated by some that Darger was simply unfamiliar with female anatomy, or that he modeled the girls — whom he idolized — after images of the baby Jesus.
He is a strange guy, and if was a janitor and masturbated more, I might be just like him.
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