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jacksprostate · 1 month

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My boss invites me into his office, he's telling me, we've got a problem. It is always, "we." "We" are all in this together. "We" need to put a little more effort in, if "we" want our yearly bonuses. "We" have got to up profits by next quarter, or "we" are going to lose our jobs.

"We" don't all have half a million salaries and a three letter job title, but what can you do.

If you asked my boss, he'd tell you about his. The guy above him. Yeah, "we" are all beholden to him. My boss, he's just regional. Small fry, really.

I'm entering his corner office, big tall windows gaping, stretching the condo construction happening across the street for as far as the eye can see. He sees me looking.

"Perks of the job," he says. A little laugh in his voice. He's not funny.

"We need to talk about your performance last quarter," he says.

We, unto me.

I am Jack's rejuvenated individuality.

My boss had his secretary let me in, so really I've spent the past minute standing awkwardly, insomnia haze locking my gaze some place beyond our broken city horizon. My boss had his secretary let me in because that means he could sit at his desk and pretend to be doing something important. Wave me in, make me wait, give him the opportunity to boast about his jail cell amenities.

You'd think it makes him feel powerful, the way he's clinging to it all. I tongue at the hole in my cheek as I take a seat. Managerial threat displays have lost their effect on me, I think.

It makes him antsier. I can see it, taste it like the blood in my mouth. Oh, iron. Oh, fear.

If Tyler was here, he'd lean on those windows and get them splotched with dirt and worse. Those windows, they're spotless because my boss pays into the building fund with company money to get an old spanish speaking lady to wipe the glass clean before he arrives each morning. I saw her once, at a support group for some combination of cancer and impoverishment. She coughed, introducing herself. Said she couldn't speak well, but wanted company. She has to keep working, but it's making her sick.

The building doesn't pay her enough that she can buy PPE in between their scant offerings, so she's without a mask most of the times I've seen her.

Truthfully, there's been someone else under the building's thumb for a while now.

I found a different group for Thursday nights.

I still think I'll hear Rosa's wheezing when I see her cart by the restrooms.

My prolonged silence, it's unnerving him now, so he's puffing up like a bluffing frog.

I am still with my boss, and I've been staring at a damp spot of drywall behind his head as he yaps at me about how I need to follow dress code. Raise my numbers. Be more engaged.

I should be a precious bouquet of flowers, brightening up the office.

He just wants to help me out. Get me back on track. We used to have amazing figures coming out of Compliance and Liability, my one-man department.

If Tyler was here, he'd be filling the janitor's Windex bottles with 90 proof and blue dye instead, so when my boss comes in early for once in his life and spooks Rosa's replacement, the bottle gets spilled all over my boss and his carpet and his desk and then my workplace smoking habit really would be a fire hazard.

I tune back in, and my boss is informing me that it's with his sincerest regrets that he has to tell me that I won't be getting my bonus this year, oh, maybe something if I shape back up, yeah, he's sure he could fight upper management for me if I showed a good effort. He just wants to help, but I have to help him help me.

Whatever is going on in my life, it's got to be over.

I imagine going to Tyler. Going to fight club. Saying, let's pack it up boys. Fight club's over. I need to sit pretty for my boss so he can feed me a quarter of the salary he always conveniently has to withhold each year, due to all sorts of things impacting the car industry. A typhoon hit mainland China. The US dollar grew too fast with the collapse of the Soviet Union. A sparrow chirped in Belgrade on a Wednesday.

The usual.

Fight club's over. I've got to go be a recall campaign coordinator full time. Working hours, waking hours, what's the difference?

Tyler is always telling me, I could follow my boss home, and when he goes to work on his stupid meaningless hobby in the nice little air conditioned shed at the edge of his two acre two storey home, I could lock him in with nothing but millet. And when he runs out of millet, I could drag his body out and drown him in his pool, laced with armagnac, just like the French do it. And I could pluck and roast the corpse and eat it uncovered, hoping God has no choice but to see me now.

Or I could just give him a poisoned bottle of whiskey.

There's many options, according to Tyler.

The thing is. The truth is, I like my boss.

It's Tyler who wants to come in in the early morning and when my boss pushes open the door to his office, it's Tyler who wants to have a block of concrete in a bucket fall down and crack his skull like a rotten egg, looney tunes style.

It's not me. I gave my boss soap for the mandatory holiday office gift exchange.

I tell my boss, thank you for the concern.

Unfortunately, my grandmother's diagnosis seems dire, and it's unlikely I'll be able to switch gears before the year rolls over in March. Apologies.

He looks at me, and my battered face, at stitches painted across my temple. I can tell, he wants to shake me. Demand from me, why I can't I even pretend to give him a real excuse? Why do I have to make his life so very difficult? Why can't I just keep the broken toddlers from coming out of the woodwork with a smile on my face?

But he doesn't. He says, my condolences. It sounds a lot like get the hell out of my office.

With that in mind, I get up and take a nice, long moment to watch nothing through his huge, sparkling windows. Papers conspicuously rustle. There's the ambient noise of pointless keyboard clicking. I take a sip of my coffee. Behind me, my boss starts to pretend to get a call in hopes it gets me to move on, and I'm watching construction crews like ants. Perks of the job, indeed.

#fight club #my writing #needed to write smth without any goals #it is. like a very nice doodle to me #hope it's good :)

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verflares · 3 months

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meteorologists report sky just a little bluer today, and it's because skyloft residents link and zelda are in love :)

#zelink #link #zelda #skyward sword #loz #loz fanart #ss link #ss zelda #hi. we're still normal here #this is 'Officially' a practice doodle bcus i wanna do a bigger piece for them on valentines day #but i wanted to make it look nice too . for however much my brain would let me bcus i kept getting distracted while drawing #i dont think these two outpace botw/totk zelink for me but they Do come very close... they are like comfort food zink #same as spirit tracks i guess but ss is a fun game in comparison. im sorry.#anyways. gay people!#my art

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biblically-accurate-dca · 9 months

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bring it in friend!

#my art #daycare attendant #sundrop #sunnydrop #dca fandom #this was a warm up doodle but it ended up looking rlly nice so :]#even like this they manage to be cute #like usually a lot of people call them ugly but like.. sometimes when i draw them idk if its just me but like!! they look cute!!!#like i know in game they're not very easy on the eyes but like.. idk sometimes despite it all they can be cute

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azurityarts · 3 months

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emera infinity gauntlet

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spoopdeedoop · 10 months

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shitty quality spidersona doodles i did to flesh them out a lil more since he got a pretty positive reaction!!!

they’re straying more into oc territory than sona and honestly i think thats chill

#sorry you can see the phone shadow im in a hotel room rn and they dont have a lamp :(#my art #spidersona #across the spiderverse #atsv #across the spiderverse fanart #into the spiderverse fanart #saffron spider #hope to god that name hasnt been taken yet #its still subject to change but i do like saffron spider for a bame #its just the right amount of cutesy #into the spiderverse #thanks for being so nice to them btw tumblr knew you guys were chill ^^#these doodles were for me to figure out his general idea and personality and it was very spur of the moment decisions #hence the whip note lol #spiderverse #spiderverse fanart

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xxtaintedartistxx · 10 months

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The Idols

#my art #art #artists on tumblr #obey me #obey me simeon #obey me solomon #I had fun doodling them their idol outfits were very cute🤌#personal bonus: I feel like I finally found a nice way to draw Simeon's hair😭

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tomatoart · 2 years

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unregistered hypercam 2

#Edward Nashton #the batman #bruce wayne #riddlebat #the batman 2022 #the riddler #edward nygma #needle tw #doodle dump SLAMMM DUNK #they r so trans gender to me. also obsessed w drawing bruce smiling bc despite being a brit rob has the sweetest smile ^-^ (joke)#queue are lovely #also i rllt like the semirealistic eddie i rule.... HIGH FIVES HIGH FIVES #firm believer in brony ed but in a very nice and cute way

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canisalbus · 8 months

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I had a scrap piece of paper and drew the little freakish dog 👍 I have been silently enjoying your art for like a couple months now? I found it randomly on uploaded Pinterest and was like “oh huh that’s rad” and yeah he’s such a lovely sad little beast

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#oooh another tiny machete sighting!#I don't know but I find it just so endearing that people are out there doodling his weird little face #on post it notes corners of scrap paper and at work #I do that too but then again I'm rotating him in my head at least fifteen times a day so I kind of have to #the WHISKERS ah #scruffy little animal #putting him in my pocket and taking him to the grocery shop as we speak #thank you! and I'm glad you've been enjoying my art!#I've always had a little difficult relationship with pinterest because a lot of art gets uploaded there without proper sources or credit #and whenever a piece of yours gets reposted sourcelessly often enough you kind of end up losing ownership to it which isn't fun #it gets used without artist's consent as bootleg prints and shirts and tattoos and such #but lately a lot of people have come to me saying they discovered my stuff through pinterest #or had seen my character there and recognized it later when they came across one of my own posts #and it's always very nice to hear that I'm glad you've found me here #but I'm getting very off topic didn't mean to ramble like that #gift art #answered #wwildcatt #own characters #Machete

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littlecello · 3 months

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henlo

#Sam Tyler #John Simm #Life on Mars #drawing lark #LoM art #I doodled this today between work because all of you newcomers are SO NICE #AND YOU MADE ME FEEL THINGS #AND REALLY MISS MY BLORBOS #BUH #I hope you like #I will do my very best to do more and also be consistent with posting #I need to do some studies bc after only drawing anime women for two years I am #RUSTY #digital art #procreate

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cosmosnout · 11 months

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Dimitri would be an incredible dad I’m so convinced of it

#and like regardless of if he ends up with anyone hed be a wonderful parent #I like to imagine that he might adopt children #Dimidad makes me scream and cry and trash around like a wild animal #he is so dear to me guys #art #digital art #my art #fanart #fe3h #fire emblem three houses #fe dimitri #fe3h dimitri #dimitri alexandre blaiddyd #digital illustration #also also id like to think the kids would have russian on slavic inspired names #Nikolai and Anastasia would be very nice i think #sketch #doodle

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sysig · 3 months

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Gift (Patreon)

#Doodles #UT #Handplates #Gaster #Papyrus #Second go around! Maybe he can talk about it with the one who actually got the scarf!#Or not haha - better to just let some things lie #Though ♪ Of course Papyrus would recognize Gaster's efforts ♥ His emotional intelligence hhhh <3 #He knows everything there was Gaster's initially and so reading between the lines of Gaster telling him he can have it #It's a gift! Properly! That deserves praise!! Good job you did something nice!#I also deeply love when Gaster is first pulled back out how one of his first little smiles is at Papyrus being silly #Gaster is also very prideful! It's cute to see his son being self-aggrandizing in that kid way! Seeing him enjoy it is so nice ;;#Also I know that Papyrus is still shorter than Gaster I just really like the idea of him being almost his dad's height ;;#He's so grown up now! He's grown into such a beautiful adult <3 #It does make sense that he's still shorter considering the whole ''torn in half'' thing ahh #Maybe Gaster is leaning down just let me have this lol #I also ended up doing a lot of digital reconstruction on this one!#Especially panels 2 through 4 - I actually pulled out my tablet to draw in the bits that got cut off by the surrounding doodles #I wasn't as careful with my spacing with these oops :P But I think they turned out pretty style-matched :)#Cute lads happy <3

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katzirrart · 3 months

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"I feel as though I'm... shirking my duties.. Squandering my glorious purpose... What if this is all a mistake...? I don't want anyone at risk just bec -"

"O.B. is keeping an eye on things, he'll let me know the second there's an issue of any kind. But you? You need to learn to relax."

"Mobius -"

"Ya'know, there's a saying about working smarter, not harder. You're smart; just accept that maybe you can relax a little. Live a little."

My girlfriend and I have a little post-canon AU and a lot of it is just... Loki learning to relax and slow down. Something Mobius has been kinda doing.

I kinda like the idea that for all Loki can hear and feel the timelines while he's a being at the end of time, he really enjoys how much nicer it is to clearly hear stories directly from Mobius' mouth. And there's bound to be anxiety about not doing something actively with the timelines from our boy, and getting constant reminders he's also earned making choices if he can have them. They'll all fight for his ability to have them too.

Also my girl and I keep commenting on comfy analyst Mobius and his eventual returning to fashion icon someday to be boyfriend lol

#lokius #loki #mobius m mobius #loki laufeyson #loki x mobius #marvel mcu #loki mcu #marvel #fanart #thanks so much everyone on the nice compliments on the original posting of this... ;;#like legit that's the warmest reception to a foray into a new fandom I've had in fuckin AGES and it made me VERY SOFT #LIKE ALL THE NICE COMMENTS MADE ME MELT THANK YOU... ;;;!!!#i feel silly posting the scan though now because the notes on the other one LMAO BUT I HAVE TO RUN A QUEUE WITH MY ART....WHOOPS...#the curse of being impulsive with taking pictures of doodles djebkdnd #loki series

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surreal-duck · 1 year

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do i even need to caption these anymore you already know the drill

#i dont even want to count the amount of times ive drawn them atp its actually concerning #im very normal about them (extremely obvious lie)#duck scribbles #doodles #midoyuzu #yuzumido #midori takamine #yuzuru fushimi #enstars #ensemble stars #was going to make a 2nd related comic but from yuzurus pov but i ran out of time :'] maybe once im home from the con tmrw #just like to think abt mido probably only approaching him for his art and starting to pay more attention to the person himself after a while #obsessed w them labeled as ''perplexed by'' and ''big fan (+master artist) on each others relationship charts skjdjkgsdhkgdsgh #but like yuzuru said in jingle bells he is a little happy to have one of his juniors that attached to him its so. augh #its nice to see him go from gently turning him down or dodging his requests to humoring him instead and enjoying himself #hell yeah!! go have fun u two #they mean the entire world to me !!!!!#minicomic tag

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enhanced-operatives-division · 1 month

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By God Phoenix! What on earth are you doing with Doctor Prism?

(I love them - progress photos under cut)

#i think this ship is EXCELLENT #it goes VERY NICELY next to starstuck.....#actually the thought of prism being reggie's wing man and vice versa is very cute #hehehehe....#alas im VERY proud of this drawing #I've never drawn anything like this before and like???? it turned out great #esp cause i didn't use a refrence (i hate them to be fair my drawings always end up worse but thats me)#anyways #YAYYYY roxanix. im normal #ieytd #i expect you to die #[agent moose's art]#agent phoenix #roxana prism #roxanix #creator and me #i was gonna do more doodles but ummm i was impatient and really wanted to post this so. yk.

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iknowwhereyousleepatnight · 8 months

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could i offer you an L in these trying times?

#death note #death note fanart #l lawliet #my art #small doodle for today #the last thing i did was the lineless misa (excluding nonsensical painting)#and i was like. wow! i like it lineless! (proceeds to not do lineless anymore)#i’ll do it again sometime else i’m just feeling some nice lines. they feel like home :)#anyways y’all want to hear about my day because i said so. if you don’t then that’s not my problem #anyway i got nothing done today (boo)#because instead i was sick and in pain and i could not go home until like 3pm but i had been on campus since 6am #so i just wandered about trying to find someplace to hide #because everything was so loud and too warm and it was wet outside so i couldn’t be there and there were too many people #and i need to sit on the floor. i need it. chairs ruin me actually #so i was just pitifully wandering #i tried to do some assignments bc deadlines are approaching but i couldn’t focus so i was a bit useless today #as soon as i got home i just dry swallowed a number of pills and now i’m better and i drew L (yay)#now i’m going to go to bed at like 8pm because i’m trying to be more well-adjusted #on other news. i plan on stacking a pile of library stools to inconvenience that man tomorrow. very exciting stuff #:)

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thedrotter · 3 months

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cw BLOOD!!!!

2003 Kinder Yuuichi doodles motivated by this one battle sprite of him with this goofy face ... (also 2003 shunsuke appears there too did I need to draw him differently from my design of him no did i do it anyway yes)

Wanna doodle him more but first I'll be figuring out what's being said in the game ... Do not want to mischaracterize him even if he's slightly different so for now THE SILLY

#re:kinder #except it's kinder but still counts same game just its original shell #yuuichi mizuoka #my art #do yall think the things yuuichi summons are like his ocs or something #he has a very vivid imagination #SPECIALLY IN KINDER i mean honestly its not irrealistic imagery from the mind of an 8 year old #BUT HE HAS QUITE THE VARIETY OF MONSTERS HE CAN COME UP WITH #genuinely wanna know the context of why he summons creepy ol monsters there and then theres mistresses in rekinder #is that like. symbolic of his character in the remake #THATS WHY IM TRYNA NOT DOODLE 2003 YUUICHI TOO MUCH RIGJT NOW #I HAVE A FEELING THERE'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAT I REFUSE TO MISCHARACTERIZE #anyway ramble over #that one doodle on the bottom left is based on his silly lil menu icon #like everyone else has a rounndd baby face big bright eyes innocent look #and then theres him looking like the devil emoji #it got a nice chuckle out of me #DUDE IS *NOT* DISIMULATING😭😭😭😭

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