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Holy moly

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Imagine going to a Billy Joel concert and he doesn't play Piano Man

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So, turns out both Billy Joel and Schroeder are big Beethoven fans… 🎶

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he’s literally him 😭😭😭

✨ This night, you're mine It's only you and I ✨

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WIBTA for taking advantage of my boss’ possible manic episode?

I know this already sounds bad but hear me out.

So I (30M) am the sole employee of this guy (62M) who’s honestly just a miserable boss and an even more miserable person. It sucks so bad working for him—the pay is horrendous, he’s verbally abusive, and the working conditions are awful (in the winter I literally have to stay bundled up the whole work day because he refuses to put the heat on in the office). He wouldn’t even give me holidays off if it wasn’t for the fact that there’s basically nothing to do those days because everywhere else is closed. I’m almost positive he unironically thinks poor people should die if they can’t work. His nephew (aka his only living relative and just the nicest guy) came by yesterday to invite him to Christmas dinner and he told him he’d see him in hell.

I cannot stress this enough—it’s BAD. I’d quit, but it’s been hard finding a better job and I’ve got four kids at home, including one with special needs.

Anyway, so here’s where I’m wondering if I’d be the asshole. Today was Christmas Day and he showed up at my house out of nowhere (huge red flag, I know). At first I thought he’d forgotten I had the day off and he was here to chew me out, which was worrying enough, but then his whole demeanor changed and he was super happy and excited and talking about how he was going to raise my salary. He even mentioned possibly making me a partner in the firm.

Now if that was it, I’d feel a little weird about the suddenness of it but it’d be fine. I’m not going to complain about having more money to feed my family. But then he started talking about how he wanted to pay our mortgage off. He talked about wanting to pay for our son to get the very expensive medical care that’s probably going to save his life. He mentioned at one point that he was going to be donating a huge amount of money to charity too—I knew he was rich but it staggered me. All this from a guy who doesn’t (didn’t?) even want to turn on the heat or the lights because it costs too much money.

It was such a sudden and drastic change that happened very literally overnight and now I’m kind of concerned he’s having a manic episode or something. I really, really want to accept his sudden generosity (I probably will; my wife is all for it and thinks he owes it to us), and I would love to believe that he’s truly had a sudden change of heart (an actual Christmas miracle lol) but I’m just worried about the possible consequences of accepting huge financial gifts like this from someone who I believe might be experiencing some kind of break from reality. Even if there’s nothing legally wrong with it, I’m worried about the ethics of it.

TLDR, my asshole boss might be in the middle of a mental breakdown. WIBTA if I accepted his offer to pay off my mortgage and my son’s medical expenses?

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the Billy Joel hyperfixation is so strong that I spent all morning transcribing lyrics from his live performances so that they'd show up on spotify and ??????? musixmatch is LITERALLY UNUSABLE

it makes you go through all these hurdles only to tell you you can't fix the problem you want to fix. there's duplicate pages and then lyrics get saved under different songs that they were transcribed on, and it's so nitpicky - it'll tell you something's wrong with the lyrics but it won't highlight what!! It's so counterproductive that it's so hard to fix lyrics because then you get things like this:

like why can't I change the fact that it says that Ray Charles performed all of Billy Joel's songs. they had ONE collaboration. why is Billy's header picture Ray Charles?? Why is Ray Charles featured more prominently on his profile picture??? Why is he with Ray Charles in the first place????

and it's not like Billy Joel is a small artist, which I'd forgive because there's less people checking their pages, but like. it's BILLY JOEL. His name is synonymous with "Piano Man" and they couldn't even get that right.

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It was Cyndi Lauper to Billy Joel btw! He says it in this video:

Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson, and Billy Joel during the recording of “We are The World” in 1985.

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Peanuts sketches!

In my Charlie Brown era I guess lol

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on the Demeter, straight up “eating it.” and by it. well, haha, let’s justr say. the entire crew

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Many of my friends on discord don't have Tumblr so I shared link to your MH and Jonathan fanart and they're going wild over it

ahh omg thanks for letting me know!!! (it's breaching containment) I'd love to see some of their reactions or ideas for future interactions if you can!

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God be like, “My child, you have persevered and endured the (self-inflicted) hardships thrown your way these past few weeks. As a reward, I shall grant you Harvey Dent—bound to a chair, disheveled—drawn by the illustrious Chris Samnee.”

Thank you, God 😭🤲

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guys… I’m thinking too much of their comedic potential

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🥺🥺🥺 thank you so much!! I can’t believe I waited so long to post it haha I started it in august 💀

I’m so so happy with all the positive reactions that my Dracula x Monster High fanart received AHHH 🥰🥰🥰 I’m literally smiling ear to ear 😭 love reading the reblogs

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odysseus & polites & eurylochus

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PART 1 . I really love how dramatic Odysseus and Poseidon's encounter is in Epic 🌊

I wanted to see how a musical would look adapted into a comic...So part 2 will come out very soon 👀

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Would it be funnier if Draculaura knew what was going on with her dad and told Jonathan "not to worry I'm a vegetarian!" OR would it be funnier for her to be completely oblivious

Reading Dracula. When does she show up?