She Is Dead

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

[charcoalowl]

[galileosballs]

Also, please do not listen to how people talk about cover letters on this site. Cover letters are important, and in many industries you can be damn sure they'll be read. And no, they're not 'fanfic about working in your office', or just re-stating the resume contents in a fancier guise. If you treat them like that, then of course they're not doing much for you. That makes you sound like a syncophantic windbag, and it's not doing anything else to help.

I was trained in the dark arts of the cover letter by my mother, who is a hiring manager. And her training has paid off: I've been consistently told my cover letters are excellent. Let me pass on the wisdom.

The job of a cover letter is to give a prospective employer strictly more information than is on the resume. This is where you take the resume contents and put them into context. You look at the job requirements (you are looking at the job requirements before applying, right?) and look at your resume and ask the question (in your head) "why would a person think this candidate would be good for this job?" and your cover letter is the answer to that question. If you don't answer that question, the hiring manager is going to have to do it themselves, and you have way more information to work with than they do.

This is especially important if you're moving from one industry to another, because then the relevant connections aren't obvious. It's also very important if you're overqualified, because then you can use the letter to say "I know it looks like this job would be too entry-level for me, but I'm interested to pursue it for reasons x, y, and z". You can also use this space to explain away something that might otherwise be disqualifying, like job-hopping or a long break in employment. The tone to strike here is always matter-of-fact and constrained to topic - don't go into detail about health stuff or personal tragedy, just tell them what they need to hear: that this period of your resume was affected by [bad thing] but that it's now in the past and you're looking forward to the next chapter. Remember, one of the things they're trying to learn is whether you'd be content in this role, or whether you'd be miserable and leave after 2 months, which would force them to do all the work of hiring again. You're trying to establish that you will fit right in and not cause problems. Knowing what drew you to this job in particular (and don't just say 'money', that's true for everyone) helps with that.

And the other mistake? Everyone writes cover letters that are too long. One page is fine. Two is the absolute maximum, and that's if you have a lot of specific things to say. It's a waste of your time and theirs to pad it out with fluff. Of my two most recent successful cover letters (i.e. jobs for which I was interviewed) one was 390 words and the other was 550. That's the length of this post. How long did it take me to write this post? About 15 minutes to write, 5 to proof and edit. That's how long you should be spending on a cover letter, maximum.

[berrycobbler]

fascinated by this sexology article from 1953

[greenfinchg-illustration]

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My third Artwork request for Pride Month was Utena ✨ A classic 🥰

Requests are still open until June 20th; you can continue sending in your suggestions until then.

[soracities]

“(I am ashamed—but it is useless—I am what I am)”

— Walt Whitman, from “[Hours Continuing Long, Sore and Heavy-hearted] (Rejected Poems), Leaves of Grass

[valend]

Yahhh I have to build Rome. Yup it’s due tomorrow.. noo I haven’t started yet haha is that bad?

[meanbuddhist]

ran out of things to run to or away from. what now

[eisbecherovka]

History is so good for nosy people

[ichimakesart]

Puberty

I was instantly inspired to make this after listening to "Body horror" by DeathbyRomy

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[holly-warbs]

Sketchbook drawing from a moment in Verőce, Hungary.

[twirld]

The Sarcophagus of the Amazons from Tarquinia, Etruscan (detail, ca. 4th Century BC)

[marinolta]

[miamaimania]

Night Rush ~ Saigon Streets by Paul Chesley ⌘ Motorbikes blur past red lanterns

[salvadorbonaparte]

I'm not Spanish so I don't have a say in this but I fully believe bullfighting needs to be abolished BUT the costumes and intricate rituals need to be applied to some other area of life for the sake of tradition and sexiness. like grocery shopping perhaps.

[antigonickpdf]

story time pealese of people self shipping with your oc (what strange terminology)

oh my god so i used to be part of this oc roleplay when i was in my teens and for some reason my characters specifically really had people acting up. there was selfshipping there was kinning it was a complete battlefield i can’t even get into all of it because the lore is so extensive. but one of my OCs was named jake and he was the main character of this portal fantasy trilogy i was trying to write, and like overall he was a pretty bog standard YA protag, except for some reason he induced an acute hysteria in the community. people wrote unsolicited porn about him multiple times and dropped it in my DMs as a little surprise for when i got out of freshman algebra or whatever & there were threats of self injury if jake did not return affections. and i used to roleplay jake talking to people when they had a bad day because they’d ignore me, teddy, the real person, to be like JAAAAKE. Can I have a hug :c And i was ljke ummm ok “Jake: *hugs* Awww, hiya, bud. What’s goin’ on in your noggin’ today? That talk with your dad went rough or somethin’? *pats your hair*” because i had no idea how to navigate it even at all. one time a 23 year old told me that the idea of jake not getting a happy ending made him suicidal because He Was Literally Jake And If Jake Died Then How Could He Live. i was about 15 at the time so i didn’t know what to do about it except change the story ending like uhh dont kys look he’s happy now yayy!! LOL. and this sort of thing went on for like eight years. i learnt so many things about what people wanted to do to my imaginary friends, owl

[ificouldlookoutyoureyesiwould]

“Insomnia” by Laurence Sackman (1972)

[ihexu]

rare soviet-era cheburashka dolls