Also I‘m hiding it down here because I’m a coward, but this fanart is a companion piece to the fanfic I’ve been writing (for four fucking months and it’s only 4,7k words!!) which you can find if you look into the Withnail & I tag on Ao3. I mean, we all know it’s pretty quiet up in there so you’ll know I’m the one who wrote it lol I just didn’t want to put a direct link bc I’m scared like that idk man
As an ADHDer, it really amuses me to imagine Withnail as having ADHD himself.
The case for the prosecution m’lud:
Can’t stick to any one thing godammit
Bizarre sleeping hours
Forgets to eat
Unpredictable
Fondness for ‘genius’ terrible schemes which cannot possibly work
Gets fixated on one particular person
Weird highly specific flights of fancy and enthusiasms inflicted upon anyone who’ll listen (Jeff Woade anyone lol) interspersed with complete torpor.
Constant talking
Disproportionate emotional reactions and general drama
Bad at organising and prioritising household tasks…we don’t even need to discuss this one…I mean Jesus Christ look at that kitchen….😬 It’s gonna boot his DSM score right up to roughly the height of Kanchenjunga
Fussy about clothes
Swears a lot
Lightning fast reaction speed (to rampaging bulls and alarming pub homophobes)
Absurdly hypersensitive to criticism
Tendency to self medicate with addictive substances
Impulsive behaviour
Doesn’t yet have a driving license and this is probably for extremely good reasons
Awful spending habits
Absolutely no sense of personal space around others whatsoever
Just generally awesome
IRL, Vivian Mackerrell, the inspo for Withnail, was a somewhat asexual bi guy who apparently once extracted his partners’ kid out of school for the day because he was heartbroken- as Elvis had just died and he needed someone to keep him company and cheer him up. He regularly hung out with a friend who tried to found an unsuccessful garden gnome empire, and was also insanely competitive on the matter of taping up garment boxes absolutely perfectly and better than everyone else (from a side job he worked at) which IMO just adds to the ND chaos vibes of the man/character.
When he was terminally ill he also insisted his favourite niece addressed him as ‘dying Uncle Vivian’ every time they greeted each other which is peak self-dramatising melodrama and I’m here for it
i made a little withnail & i discord server - it's 18+ only for now (this may change in future)!! feel free to join if you like talking about silly drunk and soggy men
Guess who watched Ordinary Theatre Major & Wet Puppy two times last week (once in German, once in English) and has been indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell ever since
(some traditional sketches (and memes) under the cut)