Check this shyt out I found on reddit:
It's unexplained, so there is no right answer about why Audrey drew those pictures or set up the dolls in that tableu. But you want a theory?
This show is a metafictional adaptation of Lovecraftian cosmic horror. It wears this influence in its sleeve, and it uses what might otherwise just sound like nihilistic rumblings to actually be pretty straightforward about its intent.
In episode one, Rust tells us about how the towns he is in feel like poorly-remembered, faded memories of a real one, and he chides the present-day detectives on how their entire lives are just a dream they had that they were real people. Well, Rust is one of many partially self-aware characters on this fictional show driven nearly to madness by their small glimpses at the true nature of their world. Again, episode 1, Rust proclaims how he now sees that time is a flat circle, where their consciousness is on rails circling over and over through their lives, where there exist higher-level beings who perceive their time not as linear, but in this flat circle. I.e we the audience see time skips, changes in scenes, the inexplicable presence of a boat in the character's possession, etc.
This is the classic Lovecraftian notion of horror. To peer into the incomprehensible dimension of higher beings to whom you are of no consequence in a universe which is utterly indifferent to your insignificance. In True Detective, the audience are the Old Gods, and Nic is Cthulu. Other works of fiction are infinite parallel universes.
Drug use seems to have something to do with characters becoming self-aware, a la the cult, Rust's time in vice, the pharmacy robber, Dora Lang, etc. For some, it is a dim perception that the world is not what it seems. For others, it is a glimpse between the cracks. And for others still, it is starring into the abyss and seeing wisps on the other end the Yellow King in Carcossa, and being driven mad by it.
Errol fell fukking deep into this rabbit hole. A disfiguring facial injury at a young age sounds like a pretty good reason to start using perception-altering drugs, and using them often. He saw through the cracks, and while unable to see us the viewer, he sees his peers in their different worlds with their many accents, most feared and respected of all the Yellow King, and he makes it his life's work to ascend from his plane to join them.
Anywho, there's loads of clues for this reading of the story as a whole (not the least of which is the scene where Marty literally asks the show's writer why he's making him say things. This isn't an Easter egg or just a cameo, it's the thesis, and reminder that Marty does not understand his true nature). But I think Audrey is also somewhat self-aware. She draws dikks and sex and arranges her dolls like the ritual rites because she has the misfortune of seeing them between the cracks of her world in the scenes that surround hers. We know that at least later in her life she's medicated (and toying with her dosage as a teen), so my inference here is that it started earlier than the show reveals.
to any suggestions that the Tuttle family was involved in any way.
