Stel

poetry, art, writing, greek mythology, ocs .•° ✮⋆. ݁˖ current hyperfixation: The Blind Prince

[shigure]

i'm sorry i never did your tag game. i love you

[omghotmemes]

I laughed way too hard at this

[mezimraky]

in case anyone is looking through the notes trying to find the original artist it’s will mcphail !! feel free to check out his site but also here are some other things he made too !!

[smooththegoofyshark]

OOOHHH CLICK ON THAT LINK THIS GUY IS FUCKING GREAT

[evilkitten3]

HOLY SHIT

this guy GETS IT

[murgaliciousdefinition]

He is also responsible for one of my favorite comics of all time.

I wanted to buy this print but last I checked on his site it was sold out. Here’s his shop though:

WILL McPHAIL

Giclée Print on Hahnemühle German Etching Paper Limited edition of 100, signed and numbered.  A4 - 30 x 22 cm Orders will be shipped

[faejilly]

There’s a Lady No-Kids Continued

Also Triangle is one of my favorites

[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.

[booberrybawls-deactivated202504]

i need this hold on a minute

[prettiest-boy-in-town]

I have so many royal and business owner ocs lmfao this shall be helpful!

[dafliwali]

my goal in life is to be romantic with all my friends and platonic with my boyfriend

[rosxhii]

[aamtreeanalogy]

you seem pretty heartbroken for a girl who doodles cute little hearts in the margins of her notebook.

[aamtreeanalogy]

don't ask a man his height, a woman her age, and a 12th grader "so what plans next?"

[aamtreeanalogy]

bhai meri sharam se baat hogayi hai, woh keh rhi hai ki woh nhi ayegi

[south-africa-official]

i never really got it when people made posts about light pollution and seeing all the stars for the first time and crying. i always assumed that everyone has gone on a road trip to a bortle 1.0 place and seen stars like that, and it's fantastic, but not like life changing. and then i went to europe last month and was in a mountaintop village of like 300 people and could see about 5 stars in the sky. like fewer than i can see from my home in a big metropolitan city.

my apologies to the non-africans, i did not realise how fucked your sky is

[prettiest-boy-in-town]

It's baffling to me that five stars is so little for you

I mean it makes sense ofc but

I see 5-8 stars on a good day

[lunadoggos]

Same! Best ive ever seen was like most of the constellation Orion while I was on a camping trip quite far from city lights but even then there wasn't much

[prettiest-boy-in-town]

Yess exactly! Once on a clear night I very faintly saw the other stars in the Leo constellation and I was mesmerized, even tho I had to mentally zoom in and keep rechecking with my constellation app to make sure they were actually there and I wasn't hallucinating those stars 😭

[lunadoggos]

Ooooh I have an app too! I honestly am not that educated on star locations lol, I just use the star app 😭😭 BUT ONE DAY I WONT NEED IT TRUST

[prettiest-boy-in-town]

SAMEEE

WE'LL MEMORISE THE SKY ONE DAY TRUST

[feefal]

Science witches in the forest, conducting experiments on the local flora

[feefal]

A tranquil forest~

Background painting for a silly illustration I have in mind, so I guess this is the calm before the storm

[feefal]

A calm, perfect evening to touch grass with your undead dog? companion

[important-cat-pics]

[writing-prompt-s]

The queen is 6 years old. The plan was to, like, have a regent or something, but she’s doing such a good job that no one can be bothered.

[weepingwidar]

Leonard Koscianski (US-American, 1952) - The Astronomer (2025)

[urgetocreate]

Oil on canvas

[updatingranboo]

Ranboo tweeted O-O

[prettiest-boy-in-town]

Nah it's not over

It's just begun

[bunnioats]