the spaghetti doesn't stick

I'm becoming more aware that I do NOT like business casual clothing, in general.

Like... I don't...... hate? these clothes but I don't like them and generally wouldn't choose to wear them if I didn't work in an office?

It's just not me at all.

I like the cut and fit of the sweater and the way it feels, but checkers aren't a pattern I tend to wear.

So like... I don't hate any of the items I'm ordering, but I don't like them, either.

It's just not ME.

I don't know what my personal style is, but I know it's not this.

I got a talking-to by the store manager. "Excuse me, but my mother bought me this dress as a gift to wear to church on Easter," I replied. The response was that it showed too much cleavage. "I know that you like costumes," said the manager, "You should treat this job like a costume opportunity."

Girl. I already do. Since then, though, I've shifted my Work Drag into a gender presentation that I call "Grandma."

Grandma is kind of the way I'm going, too. I'm old enough to BE a grandma and getting that typical body-shape so it works.

The workplace is actually very lax about dress code. "Business Casual, jeans are ok" is the official statement but people are running around in tshirts, pajama pants, open-toed sandals, sleeveless dresses, sun dresses with cleavage, men in soft workout shorts, while some people do commit to true business casual.

Since my job is more physical than the other office workers I have the go-ahead to wear sneakers and cargo pants as I want. My manager tends to wear soft-waisted skirts, short sleeved light sweaters, and either sandals or ballet flats. Makeup and doing hair up nice isn't required for anyone.

No one wears leggings, though. I guess they draw a line at leggings. Yoga pants that look nice are allowed as long as they have a flare at the bottom.

No one walks fast, no one's in a hurry, no hustle and bustle in the cubicles, just in the warehouse...

If it weren't so right-leaning or if they added some color to the grey areas, it would be a really comfortable environment overall if you can ignore lots of dead animals staring at you from every corner....

Honestly I'm surprised they didn't do the thing with like, putting sky view panels in the flourescent lights or the ceiling panels, or make the "this represents waves on the lakes" ceiling art installation panels shades of a dull blue instead of all roughly the same grey, or at least change up the colors of ceiling tile here and there just to break it up a bit. It's so bleak in there.

There are no taxidermied animals in my office thank goodness.

I'm honestly pretty happy that the mail room is small, a little run down, and less crispy-corporate than the rest of the office spaces because I'm more comfortable in a softer, less perfect place.

...

Well someone went off on a ramble.

I will be downloading everything I purchased from Bandcamp and keeping an eye on it.

Damn has my webcomic been fun to draw lately

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

the image of the voodoo doll as a magic doll you stab to hurt people actually comes from a practice by english pagan witches of making poppets. the poppet would be made in the shape of someone you hate and filled with their hair and then stabbed with big needles repeatedly. and the poppets got conflated with voodoo dolls later on.

voodoo dolls were actually a way of keeping records when black people were prevented from reading or writing. a voodoo priest who would serve as a communities doctor would make a doll that looks like the patient, and stick a pin in it where the patient was experiencing symptoms, this would let the doctor keep track of who was having what issues. for example if a patient has a headache, the voodoo priest puts a pin in the dolls head. the priest gives the patient a treatment, when the patient comes back the priest knows which doll is theirs because it looks like them, and they know they're dealing with a headache because the doll has a pin in it's head. when the symptoms resolve the pin is removed, until then the doctor has a reminder that this is an ongoing issue for a specific patient.

I wrote this because when I saw it this post had a TL;DW that conflated the information about poppets and the information about voodoo dolls, creating new and original misinformation about voodoo dolls that comes from confusing them with poppets so like don't reblog that one maybe.

also someone else in the chain included this freeze frame so you can read it

I don't give a shit if me being a weird furry online loses me any job prospects or if people talk or whatever- maybe it's fucked up that we hold something as minor and meaningless as that over someone's head, that we give it weight it doesn't deserve, you ever thought of that? Maybe I see the culture of belittling a person as "cringe" for having interests counter to the norms as a failure of society, and I'm gonna throw myself onto the damn pyre and fight to my last breath against it, ever considered that?

I'm not just being cute and funny when I say "live your truth no matter how weird it is," because you know what?

If you're not hurting anyone in a real and tangible way, if you're respecting the rights and comfort of others, nobody- NOBODY has the moral grounds to stand against you, and to hell with them if they try.

Please get weirder. Please stop being afraid of being your truest self for the sake of judgemental dorks online.

What you put into the world as a weirder, louder, more interesting person also enriches the people who read your work, see your art, take inspiration from your style or your courage, and from them it also enriches the people who reap THEIR increased and improved output.

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I was going through some notebooks and found the first doodle on a page of notes for my “family systems therapy” class that lead to the creation of this comic