little lady on the moon, close your eyes.

danielle • when the world gave you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway.

[lunamonchtuna]

to be seen without performing. to be heard without screaming. to be missed without disappearing. to be enough without proving it. to be held without falling apart. to be understood without explaining. to be wanted without conditions. to be. to be.

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Joseph Brodsky, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir

[paper-wounds]

[nixscriptum]

[feral-ballad]

Carrie Fountain, from Burn Lake; “Burn Lake 4”

[thenarator]

as someone with a bachelor’s degree in english, i am inexpressibly tired of people telling me to get highly specific jobs that often require highly specific degrees. “just go write for a magazine!” you need a journalism degree for that. “just teach!” you need a teaching certificate, and also fuck you. “just go work at a tutoring place!” tutoring children with learning disabilities, which make up the majority of the clientele at those places, requires not only a teaching certificate but a specialized master’s degree. “just go work at a library!” you need a master’s degree in library science to be a librarian. it is actually a highly skilled and extremely competitive field. you don’t just “go work at a library,” you train for years in the vain hope that you will get one of handful of available jobs. “just go work at a library.” the nerve. the unmitigated gall. “just go work at a library.” ugh.

[krushmaster]

serious question, what can you do with a bachelor’s in english? 

[myrosecolouredgirl]

take you in a fistfight, that’s for damn sure

[hamletthedane]

A few actual answers for any panicking liberal arts majors out there:

Paralegal (8wk cert helpful but usually not required). Industry is desperate for employees. In my experience, you’ll often make as much as the junior attorneys. Excellent job security as long as your firm exists. And if it folds, there are more firms desperate to hire.

Public Relations, Communications, and Marketing. No you do not need a specific degree in those areas to apply for jobs in them. Most of the communications people at my current place were English majors (many graduating in the last five years)

Yes, you can teach English with just an English BA, at least in the US. Most K-12 private schools do not require a teaching certificate and you can start immediately. And if you want to teach public K-12, most states have a fast-track 8wk (one summer) teaching certificate program

Grant writer. Look for universities and nonprofits. Not a traditional job route but one you CAN do - volunteer to write grants for nonprofits in your area to build your portfolio, then apply to jobs with your experience supporting you. Your English degree is incredibly good training for this field.

Copy editing and publishing. Jobs are limited but if it’s your passion, you can find something. Work at it and self-advocate.

Executive Assistants with a heavy writing responsibilities often get paid relatively well and can have fascinating jobs.

Creative writing. Take a year and write your sci-fi novel, or scripts for YouTube videos, or whatever else you’re called to write. The world will be waiting on the other side.

Also: get creative in looking for positions!! English is an incredibly powerful degree in that it’s trained you how to quickly and analytically process a large amount of information and communicate it back with critical analysis. The only reason it gets trashed is that the career paths from are rarely traditional or straightforward: it’s not an engineering degree that pipelines into one of three industries (that you’ll probably be fired from within five years), it’s a degree that you use to find your own way in the world.

My English major friends went on to become (with zero additional schooling): a hospital administrator making six figures, a translator living in Belgium, a report writer for McKinsey & Co, a state representative and political organizer, a nonprofit vice president, a bank manager, and a script supervisor for Hollywood.

Or, at the end of the day, maybe you just want to be a very well-read person doing a job that might only require a GED or AA/AS. That is perfectly fine too. Education for the sake of education and not to better commodify yourself in the economy is a wonderful way to spend your brief time spinning around the globe and I’m very proud of you for doing that.

[lexilapis]

By caitlynmarieprints

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Oh shit. Sally Field kinda went off here. “The garment you knit for yourself as a child.” Might have to read her memoir now.

[Chris Dennis]

[selfcarereminder]

hey if ur reading this and ur in a bad spot mentally or anything i hope u feel better soon and have a good day

[vexheart]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— josé olivarez // natalie diaz

[terrorignitis]

Juansen Dizon, i am the architect of my own destruction

[derangedrhythms]

Margaret Atwood, The Animals in That Country; from ‘Speeches for Dr Frankenstein’

TEXT ID: you dangle on the leash of your own longing; your need grows teeth.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

late night reminder to self: your depressive episode will not last forever. it will have an end. tonight will not be the end of you.

[knightclubbing]

worry not my lord, allow me to unscrew that jar for you. i would not want for you to strain your hand or break a nail. alright. hmm. HMMMM. HNNNGRGHHHHHH. HNNGGHHHH HRRRRRGHHH. AAAAAARGHHHHHHH fucking. squire fetch me my grippy gloves

[c3meterycat-deactivated20260326]

idk i’m just a house cat don’t ask me

[dragongirlteeth]

I am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising

[dragongirlteeth]

I am skipping your ads as fast as I can. I'm skipping past your sponsor read. I'm muting the tv. I'm muting the tab. If they get too annoying I will simply stop trying to watch.

If advertisers can use every manipulative trick in the book to get me to buy their product, I am fully within my rights to do everything I can on my end to make their job impossible