Motivational Posters
Some years ago, I came down with a nasty fever. It only lasted
a few days, but the fever dreams were terrible. Instead of suffering
through them, I simply stayed awake (albeit in bed) until I collapsed from
exhaustion.
To keep myself occupied, I started reading the webcomic Homestuck, which my wife described as "I
don't really know what it's about, but it's popular." I read the whole thing
over two days, which amounted to something like four thousand pages at
the time. In my fevered state, the contents were seared into my brain. Deep
down, where all my formative memories of childhood are. It doesn't matter that
the comic is just over a decade old it felt (and still feels) like I'd
known it forever.
Fevers are weird, yeah?
Anyway, some months later I was organizing my photographs and thought, "Hm,
some of these might make pretty good backdrops for those sickingly-sweet
motivational posters that uncaring corporate bosses put on office walls so as to
convince the employees that the management are real humans and not just evil
lizard aliens haphazardly stuffed into a human suit."
You know the ones. So I took some of the photos, and some random
not-really-quotable quotes from the comic that I'd now known forever
and mashed them together. You'll notice that the text usually doesn't match the
picture at all. I'm okay with that.
Roswell Camp, January 14, 2021