Books and Berries

On storytelling: books, collaborative, fairy tales, mysteries, how-to, and such and so on and what have you Call me Bee or Berry or whatever! Pronouns are also whatever

[kosmogrl]

[bashcrandicoot]

Based on a true story

[mindsmist]

always think of this meme when this scene comes up

[booksandberries]

THANK YOU TO MY MOTHER FOR CONTINUING TO LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE AND TO GOD FOR SETTING THIS ALL UP AND TO MY LOCAL LIBRARY FOR NOT ASKING ME ANY PROOF BEYOND REPEATING MY CARD NUMBER, ADDRESS, AND PHONE NUMBER TO RENEW MY LIBRARY CARD

I HAVE ACCESS TO MY LIBRARY APPS AGAIN YAAAYYYYYYYY

[bisexualhunterbiden]

I need to remember that 90% of the people discussing politics on here are basically operating at this level of historical literacy.

[thancbread]

i love this reply in particular

[youngerfrankenstein]

To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

[catcrumb]

[0w0whatisthis]

I drew this yesterday but forgor about posting art sorry. Artfight attack #1 @sgnarl yayyyy I love their art so so much and all of their character designs n world building is so freaking cool….

[truelovevip-deactivated20190324]

being as i am an idiot, and having been one my whole life, i just wanna say that i find it very easy to do nothing, and go nowhere. i eat chocolate late at night in the dark. i stand in the garden also. and i’m often waiting for something to happen. and i’m stupid.

[invisible-goats]

Hiii. This is about your cover letter post. I was wondering if you could take us through what makes a good cover letter?

So speaking from a UK context (and working in GLAM, which may affect things).

Do include:

here is my work/education background in a couple of sentences. I often open with some variation of "I am a GLAM professional with a postgraduate education and experience in the charity and arts sector. I have a particular interest in accessibility", but you know, tailor to yourself and what the person reading the application probably wants to see

i like your organisation because

i would be a good fit because <- remember PEE or PEEL from high school English? use that with the points being the things from the job description. try to mirror the language they use in the role description/person specification wherever you can. state the obvious. be clear as you can. the hiring manager doesn't know you and might not have heard of the things you've done before

thank them for their time/consideration

Do not include unless directly relevant to the role/one of your examples, and then keep it to a minimum:

your sexuality/gender/disability (eg. i mention the nb group I run because of the relevant skills I have from this, I do not mention having mobility issues or other queer stuff. If it's outside of the art sector, which ime is chiller than average with queerness, I'll usually just say community group)

a picture. they don't need that

dates (can reveal age)

if you have/want kids

relationship status

religion

basically anything they can't legally ask you about

Formatting/language

full sentences

paragraphs

correct punctuation (no exclamation marks!)

standard grammar

formal language - they aren't your friend

if something wants an acronym, state it once, followed by the acronym in brackets. from then on you can just use the acronym (I don't do this for GLAM because it's just the name of the sector). Eg. Young Archaeologists' Club (YAC). Then in future sentences I can just say YAC

[lemontongues]

shoutout to slow growers, late bloomers, people whose plans got derailed by circumstances beyond their control or their own choices, people who never had a plan to begin with, people who have had to start over when theyre too old to feel like theyre supposed to be where they are, people who cant pretend theyre built for the environment theyre in, and everyone who's not living the life they thought they would. im proud of you for making it this far and i hope you keep going until youre happy ♡

[wizardarchetypes]

”we’ve been trying to reach you”

GET in line

[wizardarchetypes]

didn't realize this post got any notes because you know what i'm also not checking? my activity feed.

[ybz]

gabeirg on twitter

[yarrayora]

once again thinking about aro blorbos who are successful at romance because they're following The Rulebook of being a romantic and gets fulfillment not from the relationship itself but from getting good grades at pretending to be interested in romance

[quasi-normalcy]

We have gradually come to accept that all old people used to be young, but the necessary corollary--some things old people like used to be things young people liked--has much greater difficulty sinking in.

[chirowoneko]

ssmy abuelitos

[raichett]

liking a ship but disliking the distinct set of stock fanon that they have been assigned is like one of those punishments dante came up with when he wrote the worldbuilding for hell in inferno