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“The Department of Extradimensional Affairs thanks you for volunteering for this year’s Christmas tree disarmament committee. Now, if you’d step this way …”

#AIart #bureaucracy #filmnoir #cthulhu #lovecraft
December 29, 2024 at 7:56 AM
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“Thank you for joining the Senior Executive Service Christmas party. If you could just don your protective ear wear and proceeded past the non—ceremonial screaming towards the ceremonial screaming …”

#AIart #bureaucracy #filmnoir #cthulhu #lovecraft
December 22, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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“We have some concerns about your land use planning application. In particular, the zones you’ve set aside for ‘ritual human sacrifice’.

We feel they need to be significantly bigger.”

#AIart #bureaucracy #filmnoir #cthulhu #lovecraft
A black and white image of a man in a double breasted suit, standing in an office with his hands on architectural drawings - a swirling tentacled monster behind him.
December 16, 2024 at 7:04 AM
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“Paperwork? Oh, I’m sorry Mr Sinclair, I think you’ve misunderstood the nature of our work at Internal Audit. Now hold still, this will hurt quite a bit.”

#AIart #bureaucracy #filmnoir #cthulhu #lovecraft
December 9, 2024 at 9:52 AM
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Of course Nyarlathotep would choose to return at 4.58 on a Friday. Still, if she could just avoid looking out the window for a minute and a half, it would be the weekend duty officer’s problem. 

#cthulhu #lovecraftian #horror #bureaucracy #filmnoir #AIart
A woman sitting at a desk, staring straight ahead, while a monster descends upon the city outside her window.
December 13, 2023 at 8:15 AM
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“No, Mr Yog-Sothoth we can’t hand write in ‘destruction of humanity’ under purpose of visit. Let’s just tick ‘business’, shall we?”

#cthulhu #lovecraftian #horror #bureaucracy #filmnoir #AIart
A bureaucrat issuing a tentacled monster a visa
December 12, 2023 at 9:59 AM
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“The First Assistant Secretary will see you now.”

#horror #filmnoir #cthulhu #bureaucracy
July 27, 2024 at 7:34 AM
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While Estelle found that her unexpected integration with Uxagnneh came with certain advantages, none of them involved her hair care routine.

#cthulhu #filmnoir #horror
July 21, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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‘Well,’ said Miriam, brightly, ‘if we’re all agreed those are two class 12 entities, I’ll amend our fieldwork expenses forms.’

#cthulhu
July 14, 2024 at 1:08 PM
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As Dorothy always told herself, while work in the Bureau of Tentacle Grading wasn’t the most glamorous of assignments, it was vital to the Department’s functioning.

#cthulhu #filmnoir #horror
July 13, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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It was generally felt that whatever Madeleine’s rendition of “happy heat death of the universe, Mister Nyarlathotep” lacked in genuine warmth was amply offset by the scale of the ensuing carnage.

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
June 10, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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“Oh gods,” thought Miriam, clutching her martini, “ if I make eye contact with Zhebb’xur he’s going to bore us all with stories of his last field trip collecting flayed souls.”

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
June 9, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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“Do close the curtains, darling. If you stare into the Yoc’thiogguth too long, they just stare back through you.”

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
June 5, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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‘Here at the Department we take the relationship between productivity and sleep seriously. Now, if you could just stare into the eyes behind me and count backwards from one hundred – you will never need to sleep again.’

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
May 24, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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‘Well, we all regret the indignities forced upon us by budget cuts Lord Azathlad, but as you change the lightbulb would it help if we were to chant “Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn”?’

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
May 14, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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‘No, Mr Armitage, it’s not a scar. More a zipper. It’s not like the First Assistant Secretary can travel to these meetings without a vessel.’

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
May 13, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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“… and, concluding orientation, here we have the Crypt of Khaiopex the Undying and Staff Cafeteria. Questions?”

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
May 12, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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“I can assure you, Mister Thwaites that here in forensic accounting we do not make jokes. Or mistakes. Now, about your travel dispersements.”

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
May 1, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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“We’ve been over this before my Lord Akthaadhoor. The Department’s reasonable work policy specifically prohibits these out-of-hours meetings.”

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
April 29, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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On the whole, Helena found the move to open plan offices in the Department rather distracting.

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
A woman in a suit shot in Fillis style, in an office with a tentacled monster visible over her shoulder
April 17, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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“Why does the director have her portrait hung in here? Oh I’m sorry, Mr Whyborn, if there’s been a misunderstanding. That is the director.”

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
April 14, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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‘I’m looking for Gn’xar in Room 277B. Is that in Central Administration or the Garden of Torment Annex?’

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
April 3, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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The intake class of ‘38 were widely thought too naive and pretty to take on Great Zag’lth. As events transpired, it turned out to be more the other way around.

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
April 2, 2024 at 11:57 AM
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‘Mr Merriweather, thank you for stopping by. I and Mr Shantak I had some questions about your recent expenses report.’

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
Film Noir heroine in an office, looking smug, with a monster looming over her shoulder
March 24, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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‘Yes, darling, these performance review conversations can be difficult. But you can have it with me or you can have it with Bel’thag’r. It’s entirely up to you.’

#aiart #filmnoir #Cthulhu #lovecraftian #lovecraft #bureaucracy #horror
Film Noir hero and heroine in a Gothic reading room with an ectoplasmic apparition looming behind them
March 15, 2024 at 12:04 PM