#as i was sat at my desk at work

[onpie]

Noodles and Tea’s work inspired me fr

[blixabargelds]

has adjusting to mood stabilisers made anyone else ffucking stupid before or am i suddenly developing dementia

[whirl00]

sound of broken glass (fig study)

[sharkdays]

AMETHIO INHZ064????

[ovenproofowl]

Bottom of the Food Chain

The appetite goes first.

No one ever gets that part right. Easy to write off as a million other things. Sickness, stress, change in the wind. Doesn't matter. Point is, food no longer means anything to you.

Probably for the best. Means you can spend more time doing stuff, right? Skip breakfast every day, no need to sit down for lunch. The evening just flies by.

And then you're back.

No need for water, either. Y'know, that basic human right that everyone squabbles over? Not you. Not anymore. Now there's no need for bathroom breaks. You count that as a win, you can never find anywhere private here, anyway. There's always a cubicle closed for one reason or another.

Sometimes you hear whimpering through the cracks.

You don't sleep anymore. Maybe it's the stress.

Nights are wide open now, so they call you in. Extra dosh, shifts wide open that no one else has the right mind to take. But your mind is just right. Ever since you stopped eating.

There's others like you, that's the thing. No one talks about them, those crazy zombie idiots who take 18 hour shifts just to feel alive. Must be snorting a line on the side to power them through, but it's a big company and if the CEOs can do it, who's stopping the little guy?

You sometimes check the mirror just to make sure your face is still there. Been a while since you've felt it. All the muscles have gone numb. You prod and poke at your sagging skin, practically sloughing off bone.

Someone's crying in the cubicle behind you.

Well, the toilet still needs to be used for something, you suppose.

Time's gone all weird. All craggy around the edges. How long have you been here, really? What decades have slipped by past your notice? You're still the same. Can’t eat, can't sleep, but hey, you look good. Bones so prominent it could be Botox, but you don't have the cash to burn on that, no matter how many hours you work.

You work every hour. Home's a distant memory. Friends and family are long gone, left behind or aged out of their skin. Sounds like a personal problem. You don't discuss those anymore, not since the crying moved behind the walls.

Time's no longer kind to you. It happens to us all, eventually. But you were meant to be different. The perfect machine.

You're malfunctioning. We all do. Don't be so hard on yourself.

They don't want you near the execs. Soon, the smell is too much for even their expensive cologne to disguise. They put you on the phoneline for a while, conveniently out of sight, right until your jawbone snaps off and your tongue lolls out and sputters.

No voice, no worries, they can still make use of you yet. You'll clean the floors till your arms waste away and even then, pieces of you can always be repurposed.

We're all about sustainability, here.

The rich always want to live forever, but that gift isn't for them. They don't put their whole body into the company like you, they don't make the same sacrifices. They're envious of you, you know? They'd kill to be as skinny as you are now.

Maybe their names will be immortal, but you, my friend, you are.

Your blood is in this company. You'll never die.

Hey... why are you crying?

[spookysplatt]

I just left school because the rain was giving me coughing fits what kind of sickly Victorian child-

[lostherlemons]

definitely outside of the comfort zone for my usual art, but i had fun with this! made for my niece's 2nd birthday 🎂

(petals/leaves were drawn freehand on the back of scrapbook paper, then individually hand cut and glued together! i don't have a ton of experience or skill with really crafty stuff like this, but it was a surprisingly fun project)

[comas-are-for-sleeping]

every few weeks i must fall hopelessly behind, stop doing anything at all, realize that if im not actively learning i feel like a corpse, feel like a corpse, and then wake up one morning locked tf in. this lasts a few days and then the cycle begins again

[acedavestrider]

i am about to have........... a Rough Day

[elastica1995]

sometimes at work i get emails about changes in our department that i feel are 100% because of me. and maybe that's just me being anxious and paranoid but actually it certainly isn't.

[the-casbah-way]

i suppose i owe it to myself to not die but also to stop talking myself out of things that might make me happier because i would be a much better person for everyone around me if i were able to navigate the world in the way i want to because insecurity and bitterness and constant suicidalness do just make you not as kind sometimes i think. i would like to be confident enough in myself to speak and be seen and therefore be as kind as i feel i am on the inside. i hold back so many things because i am scared of being perceived so maybe if i let myself do the things that will help me be ok with being perceived then i will put more good out into the world. i always get hung up on the fact that i so badly want to be good and kind and i care so so much about other people but as it stands currently most people would not really bother too much if i wasn't here anymore because i'm so cut off from everything emotionally and physically. someone send me c.300 quid so i can pay for therapy and you can stop being subjected to posts such as these, by the way.

[raspberrybluejeans]

guys the state of my final project is looking quite dire. it seems like i usually manage to finish final projects/papers/etc at the last minute somehow but man. it is not looking good right now

[silverskyy]

my contribution to yesterday's Make A Terrible Comic Day, about my blorbos, Izz and Candor!

if the text is hard to read an ID is in the alt text and beneath the read more

id: an amateurly drawn ink comic with 8 panels, the last 2 smaller than the rest.

panel 1: center aligned text reading "Make a Terrible Comic Day AKA "Have You Heard the Good Word" by silverskyy (not an artist)". in the spaces around the text are speech bubbles reading "wow", "so cool", and "aaaahhhh!!!!!!!", as well as a simple sketch of the creator's head.

panel 2: a fullbody sketch of the creator, very basic in quality. they have short hair, glasses, and a wide open mouth, with their arms raised in excitement. text above them reads "have you heard the good word about my favorite little guys?". in large underlined text to their left is the name Izz and to their right is the name Candor.

panel 3: a headshot sketch of Izz. arrows are pointing to it from text reading "they/them", "32", "changeling", "a crude copy of the official art made by my partner (a real artist!)", and "this is Izz! [the name is circled] a former assassin, now good guy paladin. LOADS of trauma, especially from their idol/savior/love being murdered by their sibling who they then killed from grief".

panel 4: a headshot of Candor. arrows are pointing to it from text reading "he/him", "totally normal tiefling", "32 but actually 12", "this is so bad [sad crying emoticon] he's actually handsome I promise", and "this is Candor! [the name is circled] a mental recreation of Izz's dead love who they intended to replace them. when he remembered this he instead dedicated himself to protecting Izz. he's an incredibly kind and helpful person, basically a caricature of a good guy".

panel 5: a header reading "other notable people", with a flower on one side and a bug on the other. following is a bullet point list, with the names circled.

 • Veylan: the dead love, a good man but not as perfect as Izz thinks

 • Karim: another identity of Izz's, who spent time with Veylan more than Izz. autistic, loves bugs and other critters

 • Yan: Izz's 2nd sibling, younger, abandoned when Izz left. free of the family now but their relationship is complicated. Izz would do anything for them [next to this bullet point is a broken heart]

panel 6: a header reading "but wait! there's more!", with a dripping dagger on one side and a circle with a radiating aura on the other. large, centered text beneath reads "VARNA", followed by text reading "a scary elven assassin who has used this changeling family to extend the lifespan of her identity. they train to emulate her and eventually the Varna in their brains kills and replaces them. The Singularity [this last phrase is circled]". underneath is a small stick figure sketch. one figure with pointy ears pokes a blade through a gap at a figure with horns; an arrow points down to that same figure on the ground with a pool beneath it. text beside it reads "(varna killing candor that one time. he found his body later it was weird)".

panel 7: a header reading "I love them" with hearts and exclamation points on either side. beneath is text reading "my favoritist characters since 2022", "I literally have a heart locket with their pictures", and "Blorbo Brain Is Real", as well as a sketch of a heart locket.

panel 8: text reading "for more info go to strangeite.tumblr.com" and "tags to check out: [two drawn eye emojis]". following is a collection of bullet points:

 • izz et al

 • shadowhawk sibs

 • izz and candor

 • replaced my heartbeat with your name

 • worshipping at the altar of veylan

 • I am both wound and knife

a closed off area then reads "the end!".

[thisismyobsessionnow]

When you start feeling the post concert depression before the last concerts have even happened. Lovely.

[hope-ur-ok]

Hey, I just want to say I'm sorry you're unwell... I deal with chronic pain so I think I may have a sense of how you feel... It sucks, I hope you feel better soon!!!!

I feel significantly better today (though that wouldn't have taken much). I slept on and off from like 6pm yesterday to 4pm today, and while I'm still tired and don't feel good I no longer feel nauseous and dizzy just from being upright, which is a huge improvement

[lesbian-diana-cavendish]

Well so far my first RG has been a lot of fun :) these legs are more complex then an entire HG ngl