#paperwork

[lapseinart]

I’m really fond of the idea of Zuko being a very competent bureaucrat. Is he an amazing fire bender by literally anyone other than the royal family’s standards? Hell yeah! But he’s also got an incredible head for facts and figures and his calligraphy is On Point and he can read really really fast so he’s just really good at paperwork.

And so one day Zuko gets fed up with Azula taunting him about being Fire Lord as soon as she escapes that he’s just like fine. And he dumps copies of rice tax allocations and legal petitions and a long list of candidates for a new Minister of Health and funding requests from the Minister of Education and the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Culture (all of whom he’s planning on firing but he gives them to her just to see what she does) and he says okay. Be the Fire Lord. Those need to be done by the end of the week. I’ll bring the rest down tomorrow.

And Azula’s beyond competent okay? She could do all of this and more. So she looks through everything, makes a few modifications, some of which Zuko even takes up because his little sister is a genius, but damn if it isn’t boring as hell. Sometimes when Zuko comes by she’s looking over a budget allocation for the Ministry of Agriculture and casually says, oh we had to arrest Minister Yu because he tried to assassinate me. His replacement gave us a new budget. And Azula’s eye twitches as she crumples up the parchment she was holding and thrusts her hand out to receive the new budget allocation form. She sets it on fire and pretends it’s the traitor. Nobody should get to kill her brother except for her.

And by Agni Azula knows what he’s doing because between the two of them there was one that actually enjoyed doing homework and one that would rather be outside practicing forms. But Azula Will Be Fire Lord mark her words. Azula was the politically savvy one. Azula was the one who knew how to maneuver all the pieces into place.

Azula wanted to burn all the paperwork, even if that was as good as admitting defeat.

She lasts until Zuko peers into her cell to comment on the fact that she couldn’t set a meeting with the cabinet on the day of the summer solstice without losing the support of the Sage’s (who were invaluable in maintaining the dynasty) that Azula loses it. She sets the paperwork on fire. Zuko opens the door to her cell and she stomps out.

Zuko is the Fire Lord, and the Lightning Princess stands at his side. Pointedly not doing paperwork.

[catfindr]

[pratchettquotes]

"You know I've always wanted a paperless office--"

"Yes, Archchancellor, that's why you hide it all in cupboards and throw it out of the window at night."

"Clean desk, clean mind," said the Archchancellor.

Terry Pratchett, The Truth

[pterribledinosaurdrawings]

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[loyal-without-flattery]

DO YOU KNOW JEAN ANDOCHE JUNOT

I have heard about him. A friend of His Imperial Majesty is a friend of mine, I suppose... but, in all honesty, I would not touch that man with a ten foot pole.

[modmad]

TPoH mini hiatus

head's up that TPoH will update this Sunday as usual, but then I will take a week off to do admin work and a lot of irl things that have stacked up and are super stressing me out :'D the comic will resume normal updates on the 23rd

[trash-inu]

working overtime wip 👀

[duke-wrio]

[On a more relaxed day that has been so far uneventful, a report comes in of a kid that they seem to have forgotten to register participating in the Pankration Ring... and winning?]

[Wriothesley walked into the Pankration Ring, a clear glare in his eyes. There was a loud clang as a metal glove struck a wall. There was silence before he turned to face Roussimoff.]

Care to explain?

@ask-pitch-dark-hook

[evilhorse]

I’m falling behind in my butt kicking!

(Savage Dragon #25)

[fuxkfacefave]

If Vox got a redemption

Angel Dust: Woah, watcha working on? Do you have to do all of that today?

Vox, working through a giant stack of paperwork: Huh? Oh, no, this is just the first half of the morning paperwork.

Angel: What? You're tellin' me that's only a quarter of all the paperwork you gotta do today?

Vox: No, there's the morning paperwork, the noon paperwork, the afternoon paperwork, the night paperwork, and the midnight-

Angel: I think I understand why you aren't that fun to be around now

[waystargojo]

heres how gay greg can still win

[pratchettquotes]

Nine-tenths of the universe, in fact, is the paperwork.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

[ineffable-ponds]

I gonna laugh so freaking hard if next season one of them gets inconveniently discorporated and the “paperwork” is one page long with 4 check boxes and a signature line.

Seriously, they gave Crowley the ANTICHRIST with a signature, zero instructions, and neither demon trusting him.

[takahikohayashi]

Title: D-18.Dec.2012　いのりの巣 Image: 43.5 x 29.0cm Paper: 53.8 x 39.5cm Description: mixed media painting / acrylic, water / papermaking, original emulsion base ,collage *available ©Takahiko HAYASHI 林孝彦 2012

[inheritance-beyond-genes]

08.04.24

I am posting today because i have to record also good days and not just struggle.

I want to celebrate that i finally managed to matriculate to the university after long period of paperwork rejection and more paperwork. The bureaucracy i experienced in Germany is insane and after all this difficulties I did it!

Also today i received the first batch of my sequenced data i sent last year for my PhD project and i need also to celebrate this because i had to organize hundreds of samples and speak with many different people to decide and create the final sample list. Another yei!

I got some tulips and cooked Japanese curry to enjoy these wins

[acesentialsketches]

So much paperwork to do...