If you don’t think about any of this stuff, you’re incredibly lucky.
Lucky bastards don’t check every price tag:
Lucky bastards have connections who are happy to set something up.
Lucky bastards figure they can get away with it:
Lucky bastards aren’t followed around by security.
Lucky bastards don’t have to be twice as good to be taken half-seriously.
Lucky bastards are “obviously qualified.”
Lucky bastards are really proud of themselves.
Lucky bastards obviously know what they’re doing.
Lucky bastards can be as mean as they want to the server.
Lucky bastards do what they want.
This is gloriously accurate.
But, it wasn’t grabbing me the way indexed usually does, and I couldn’t put my finger on why, initially. I finally noticed it:
I think the hand-drawn format of your indexed entries is more engaging, because it’s slightly imperfect, more human... And, less ‘textbook graphic,’ (less ‘PowerPoint?’)
I think the mental image for me is when I see margin notes in someone else’s textbook.
Yes, the book content is all in typeface, and that content is organized and informative. But the ballpoint scribble on the edge represents the human who has digested something within the info on the page, and wanted to highlight it, or bring it into more personal (or more sarcastic) focus. The underlining looks more organic. The writing in the margin is forced to be smaller by context, but reminiscent of someone whispering in the back of a classroom, or meeting. Reading those old notes feels like relating, for a second, to the person who added them.
And sometimes the observation says as much about the person writing it, as it does about the text. Like the edge of a thermodynamics textbook page, with the note: “No wonder I have to eat so much Ramen... my tired old volkswagen is burning everything I earn...”
Or “Wow... Entropy really IS just like having children. Slow descent into disorder, that just can’t be reversed...”
I wonder how it would look if you added a hand-drawn red line, that pointed to/ circled the cloverleaf, with a hand written “lucky asshole...”
And/ or
(Andor! Ha! ...stupid Disney Star Wars, eating my brain, it is...)
pick the most infuriating graphic, and let bigger, bolder letters indicate that this is the one that has really fucking gotten under your skin...