with a blazing determination

Amber/Nebula | she/they | over 25 Some nerd who's on and off tumblr. Video game enthusiast who's sold their soul to Nintendo and flits from fandom to fandom. Occasionally active, mostly tired. I've got a Twisted Wonderland sideblog over at areyuuserious and I'm doing a liveblog of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure! Picrew for my avatar can be found here!

[seblester]

The man in the office next door is calmly threatening me with physical violence if I play the Benny Hill theme tune "one more time." To be fair to him, I own the loudest domestic speakers available in the UK, and it has been on rotation for six hours.

[seblester]

Ps. Someone on IG commented “at least you’ll have the perfect soundtrack when he finally snaps and chases you around the building at double-speed.”

[sourdough-seal]

getting inspired to create stuff is honestly the meaning of life. like i found a great story and now i wanna make a cool story too. literally could there be any better feeling

[flowerbleedme]

[pitviperofdoom]

It's kind of fucked how the original Scandal in Bohemia is essentially about a woman being harassed by her wealthy and politically powerful ex when all she wants to do is mind her business and move on with her life, and every single adaptation that isn't a line-by-line recreation of the short story turns her into a self-serving Femme Fatale con artist criminal, like fuck the only crime she committed was being poorer than her boyfriend.

She doesn't want to fuck sherlock and sherlock doesn't want to fuck her either.

[browniefox]

We don’t talk enough about how fanfiction writers love to give character large amounts of non-specific paperwork they hate doing

[streamofsalmon]

say more pls

[browniefox]

Yeah sure why not.

So most stories take place when Events are Happening, and this means that no matter what kind of job the characters have, they’re probably not too focused on them. Fanfics, on the other hand, often show the down time. Which means that the writer has to figure out what the hell these characters do in their jobs. Unless the characters have a job the author understands or knows well, the author is often at a loss for what to have the character doing.

So they sit them at a desk and give them paperwork. What is the paperwork for? Rarely specified. It is Paper Work for the characters Important Adult Job they have and they need to read or sign it or something. And there’s always a line about how Character Hates Paperwork. Doesn’t matter if Character is a Mafia Boss or a General or a Diplomat, here they are in an office trying to get out of Doing Paperwork.

There’s also a sense of, like, humor and mundanity that comes with it. Like the examples above, it always particularly stands out to me when a dangerous individual is griping about some paper they need to sign or something. The less you can picture Character doing paperwork, all the better to force it upon them. If Character is saddled with Paperwork, they’re usually now concerned about the physical damages their motley crew causes, because damage = More Paperwork.

Anyway I just think it’s fun or funny, Sephiroth doing paper work and Sawada Tsunayoshi doing paper work and this just in, Tony Stark is doing paperwork. Sorry, Phoenix Wright can’t play right now. Yeah, it’s paperwork.

[elumish]

A very non-exhaustive list of actual paperwork they could be completing/reviewing/approving, in no particular order:

Timesheets

Expense reports

Requisition requests

Budget justifications

Payroll

Performance evaluations

Incident reports

After action reviews / post-mortem analyses

Incident Action Plans

Contracts

Contract proposals / grant applications

Reports / briefings

[redwingedwhump]

Your Royalty or Nobles in your feudal society should be doing this constantly unless you want to show how they're losing the kingdom and about to be usurped or overthrown.

petitions, speech-writing, complaints, requests, assignations, disputes, judiciary forms, declarations that need signing off on, matters requiring the Royal seal, matters requiring a royal endorsement, pardons, judgments, invitations, rebuttals, census data, crop yields projected or actual, livestock records, water rights, Sumptuary laws, taxes taxes taxes...

[val-ritz]

solid point there!

even when the royalty look like they're just fucking off to have fun, they're doing Socially Mandated Fuck-Off and Have Fun Time

Tournaments? Gotta show you're manly and virile through sport, or the nobles will supplant you. Feasts? Gotta show you're wealthy through conspicuous consumption, or the nobles will supplant you. Patronizing the arts? Gotta show you're cultured and erudite, or the nobles will laugh at you behind your back and probably supplant you.

[delicatefury]

Lawyer here. Here’s some more mundane/modern ones for you:

Invoices.

Intake sheets (information about new clients. The one for my firm is 13 pages and requires an hour long meeting. Then you have to do something with the info gathered)

Data entry for invoices and intake sheets.

Billing. (More involved than timesheets because you’re justifying to clients why you’re getting paid so much).

Form letters.

Taxes. Including 1099s for any contracted work.

Bank statements/accounting spreadsheets. Gotta track how expenses are trending.

Insurance documents.

General messages. Lots of office still use a paper system for missed calls and “important” stuff because it just works better than emails and chats for some people.

Memos. Big enough office to have at least one attorney on payroll? You’re getting memos about every legal question and concern and contract. It’s how we’re trained to communicate in formal settings.

[letslipthehounds]

And if you want to get into modern military, the forms are numbered, and people will refer to them by either their actual name, or the number. (Have you filled out the 4187 for this? Yes, I filled out the personnel action form.)

The military has so many forms.

[leebrontide]

If you want to add a rage level, there’s the Regular Paperwork and then the special hell of Fuckup Paperwork.

Cause there’s the invoice, and the follow up invoice and the we are about to have a problem follow-up invoice.

There’s the incident report and then the I swear I yelled at that worker about this don’t be mad at me if they do it again second warning documentation

The requisition form and the it has been six months now get me the fucking thing or you’re gonna hear from Cindy escalations form.

Paperwork has layers and protocols and backups.

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

May I add: GRANTS.

If your character is any sort of lawful do-gooder or works for anything charitable or non-profit, they'll always need to deal with grants.

Grants are when a government, organization or rich person say "I have a large amount of money and I want it to be spent on this cause I care about". And everyone who is attached to the cause has to write an essay about why they deserve it including

their cause's audience and budgetary information

Describing the specific project they're going to use the money for

The project's budget and timeline

The justification of the budget and timeline

The amount of staff hours the project will take

Any amount their institution can match

And THEN if they get the money, they've got to keep track of every item on that list and write a report AGAIN when the project is done explaining how according-to-plan everything went.

If they're a Batman sort and they're giving away money, then someone has to read through two hundred copies of the above.

Grant writing and management is a full time job that's NOTHING but paperwork and emails, but is also necessary for most nonprofit and charitable organizations.

[prokopetz]

The idea that using dialogue-framing verbs other than "said" is the mark of fanfic is wild to me because I grew up reading commercially published authors whose dialogue was routinely slinging around framing verbs like "opined", "temporised", and "demured".

[prokopetz]

"You shouldn't use 'shouted' or 'whispered', only amateurs do that" fucker, I once read a book by an author who got paid six figures to write dialogue tagged with "vociferated".

[sleepingpigeon]

the actual truth is that i’m loved . like regardless of what i achieve, there are people in my life that see my heart. that’s where fortune is. being seen and being loved. so i am rich in this way.

[hauntedwhiskers]

Pondering my orbs.

[tormentum-ab-intra]

help

[karrakazz]

there are a lot of people on this website who are incredibly, flamboyantly wrong about things, but theyre also like……clearly in gigantic amounts of pain, and arguing with them on the internet isnt going to change the situation of either their wrongness or their pain

[epically-epic-epicosity]

[absentlyabbie]

#she really did breast boobily down the stairs (via @boxingcleverrr)

[heymerle]

It's hard to do that in clothing from that period - that's bad costuming.

[moniquill]

No, that's historically inaccurate costuming. It is good costuming in that it is doing exactly what it is trying to achieve. It's just that what it's trying to achieve is BOOBS.

[6qubed]

so dig this; in this movie (which is Clue, if you don't know) she's not actually a french maid, she's a call girl who is playing the role of a french maid, and in all likelihood provided her own uniform from either her "work" closet or that of the brothel where she was employed

[postsatthepeakofperfection]

The word you are looking for is “selfish.” Not narcissist, not sociopath, selfish.

[miggylol]

[thegothicalice]

Black velvet 🖤 Lipstick Blackmoon Cosmetics “Sleepwalker,” everything else thrifted.

[i-am-a-fish]

[fluffygif]

Fantastic art

[cassiopeiasara]

The better story is hope. The better story is survival. Yes death comes for us all. Yes we can never guarantee it will be peaceful or when we’ve lived a long life. Yes time is always a limited resource. But story, most importantly fiction, is a place we can have meaning. If death happens, catharsis and meaning is the better choice. Shock, “shaking things up” is the dumb choice. It’s not creative, it’s lazy. It also already saturates the market. If you truly wanted something different, then choose hope (esp when you founded your beginning on it) and how to survive when things change.

[deactivation-fee]

[glowcowboy]

silliness and sincerity are not opposites btw. they are married. bisexually