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that's super fair, i'm glad whenever someone gives it a shot anyway and tries understanding !

fig 1 just needs to be done twice (with the frog), i tried showing the amount of bugs reducing each time you hold it and was debating if i should just make it cross off after doing it once, but i wanted to have more variety so i left it at two

my friend interpreted the hand marks as aversion to touch and not liking some textures, which i think is a valid reading, my inspiration for it was specific moments in my life when touch felt bad
the residue is me trying to draw how it feels like for me to be sad, i tend to feel it more in my hands so i went with that, the paper covering it beforehand is because i have a hard time noticing i'm feeling a strong emotion, so removing it is kind of like focusing on it and recognizing that it's happening

thank you for your kind words ! originally i had a different idea, but i knew i was not gonna be able to work on it both days of the jam so i choose something simpler instead, i do like what i ended up with, but i am aware a jam might not be the best audience haha, still, i appreciate people just thinking about it with intent even if they don't end up relating