soothing ruffled mechanical feathers

Cinccino: Pulsing Aura 179/155 (2026)

Artist: Shibuzoh.

And it pissed me off so badly that I spent the ENTIRE WORK DAY today compiling evidence from every project my team has ever done for her, pulling past emails she’d sent us, putting together an entire case proving that she had been the problem all along. That she got projects mixed up, that she’d made requests that were nonsensical, literally everything you could possibly imagine. Screenshots of emails, reports we’d submitted, EVERYTHING.

This woman in particular has been terrorizing my team for years, her name is almost a slur in my office, I had simply had ENOUGH of her.

I put all of this evidence together and sent it to all of my bosses at 4:30pm. Then I took a long break to eat a sweet treat and drink some tea.

After my break, my bosses all called in an emergency meeting with me and they said they read my report and fucking loved it. And I sat on a teams call with my boss’ boss as she wrote my nemesis the scathing email I had always fantasized about sending, using the evidence I’d compiled, and hit send.

Creative energy is a renewable resource; you can use it on any number of projects in many different art forms, including ones you've never even tried before.

"but I don't know anything about--" Who cares??

Amateur work is more than okay. You don't have to show anyone, and you don't have to learn any of the complex theories if your goal isn't to get really good at whatever you're doing.

(and who knows, maybe you'll fall in love with the new form!)

Also, sometimes you just need to get an insistent idea onto something other than your brain matter so other ideas can keep flowing. Our minds can be like clogged drains that way.

Combee alternative art from Pokemon TCGP Space-Time Smackdown expansion set

Illustrator: Shibuzoh