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Best advice I’ve received so far

the time you take being jealous of other people’s success is the time you could be using to build your own

you’re never going to “feel like it”

doing and practicing now is better than waiting for the perfect moment

eliminate people with toxic habits from your life

you are in control. Everything you’ve done up to this moment led you here. Therefore, your future is determined by what you do now.

everything is as it should be and only later in life you can connect the dots.

self discipline will give you freedom. consistency will give you results

everything is temporary. You should find freedom in this concept

the rich stay rich acting poor and the poor stay poor acting rich

being healthy means finding a balance between the good and the bad

the people that outranked you have outworked you.

you can’t be grateful and negative at the same time.

Meditate on these statements. They are so very powerful! Xxx

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MASTERLIST

Requests:

Chubby!Reader x Credence

Credence tries to surprise you for your birthday.

You coax Credence to dance and end up grinding with him.

Credence beats himself up for a mistake, and it ends up with a kiss. 

Credence has to take a bath but needs help from fem reader, which leads to sex.

You catch him masturbating to thoughts of you, and he gets embarrassed. Smut.

You walk in on Credence singing.

Credence protects you from abusive parents and shows you how he’ll protect you. Smut.

Human!Obscurus!Reader x Credence (Part One) (Part Two coming soon)

Reader has intimacy issues too, so he meets her halfway. (Part One.) (Part Two coming soon)

Credence wants to give Reader the love and attention he never got.

You get jealous of someone flirting with Credence, leading you to confront your feelings.

You are part of the 1920s movement in which women began wearing pants, and you’re not very feminine in the traditional sense. When you develop a crush on Credence, you enlist Queenie’s help.

Credence is confronted with his past again when he discovers Reader is pregnant.

Clearly annoyed Reader worries Credence, who thinks it’s his fault. Reader must reassure him that it’s not him.

Credence discovers Reader’s self-harm scars.

Original Stories:

Kind Eyes, Kind Smiles, Kind Understanding: Part One || Part Two || Part Three || Part Four || Part Five || Part Six || Part Seven || Part Eight || Part Nine || Part 10 || Part Eleven || Part Twelve || Part Thirteen || Part Fourteen

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brb reading all these preciousness. 👌🏻

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Based on funwithlanguages’ method !

VERBS (infinitive) Be - être  There is - il y a Have - avoir Do - faire Create - créer, fabriquer Cause - faire, causer Go - aller Say - dire Speak - parler Know - savoir Think - penser Want - vouloir Like - aimer, apprécier Can - pouvoir Need - devoir, avoir besoin Should - devoir (conditional e.g. je devrais) Try - essayer Feel - sentir, ressentir Work - travailler Learn - apprendre Understand - comprendre Get - obtenir, devenir Use - utiliser Start - commencer Eat - manger See - voir Write - écrire Give - donner Sleep - dormir Buy - acheter

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Hello. I was wondering if you have some french movies you could recommend me and I'd like to ask if there are any french series because I've never known of any. Merci!!

Bonjour! Here’s the link to all my posts tagged ‘film’. If you scroll down a little, you’ll be able to find a list I wrote of my favourite French films, as well as links to websites where you can watch them for free. 

As for French series, unfortunately American series are by far the most watched and loved (as far as my experience in French households go with teenagers, anyway). French series exist, of course, but most often American shows are played on TV dubbed in French. I tend to watch these shows in French - it takes a little getting used to at the beginning if you’ve never watched anything dubbed before (i.e. the mouths don’t match exactly to what you hear) and if you’ve seen the show before in English, the voices are different which is funny sometimes. But generally I think it’s great, especially if you’re not an advanced learner, because when you’ve seen something before in your own language, it makes it much easier to understand it when watching again in a foreign language. I watch:

Gossip Girl in French.

Pretty Little Liars in French.

Skins in French.

Tellement vrai (interesting documentary show on random topics).

The Returned (creepy but awesome).

Le Tunnel (The Tunnel - bits in English and French).

Le petit journal (not a series but about current affairs).

I tend to also watch a lot on Youtube, because there are some great French youtubers - you’ll find a list of them here.

And here’s a website I found which suggests 10 TV series which are great for French learners.

To find all series, try:

Series on regarder-film-gratuit.com

Series on streaming-series.org

Series on vkstreaming-series.com

Or simply enter ‘regarder [name of TV show] streaming gratuit’ into google.fr

Hope this helps!

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Expressions

Here are some expressions we use in the everyday life : 

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Félicitations  -> Congratulations

Ne t'inquiètes pas  -> Don’t worry

Plus facile à dire qu'à faire  -> Easier said than done

Je ne peux pas le supporter  -> I can’t stand it

Ça m'est égal  -> I don’t mind

Ça ne fait rien  -> It doesn’t matter

Je me demande …  -> I wonder …

Je reviens dans une minute  -> I’ll be right back

J'en ai marre  -> I’m fed up

J'ai soif / J'ai faim  -> I’m thirsty / I’m hungry

Ça ne vaut pas le coup  -> It’s not worth it

C'est à tes risques et périls  -> It’s at your own risks 

Quel gâchis  -> It’s such a waste

Laisse-moi tranquille  -> Leave me alone 

Pas question  -> No way

Du calme  -> Take it easy

Tu devrais avoir honte  -> Shame on you

Et alors?  -> So what? 

Arrête de dire n'importe quoi  -> Stop talking nonsense

Quel dommage  -> Too bad

Qu'est-ce que tu veux dire? -> What do you mean? 

Quoi de neuf?  -> What’s up? 

Tu plaisantes  -> You’re kidding

Mieux vaut tard que jamais  -> Better late than never

À plus tard!  -> See you later !

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Hi! Could you help me understand the use of "en" / "y" in french? I'm so lost with those two pronouns. Thanks a lot! I really love your blog!

Hello! ^-^

En and y are both pronouns, which mean that they replace a word or a phrase in a sentence. 

En can mean “some” or “any” or “of it,” depending on the sentence. Sometimes it doesn’t really translate to English (because in English the corresponding words might be optional), which may be why it seems confusing sometimes.

If there’s de and a definite article (so du, des, de la, de l’) before a noun and you want to replace the entire group, you would use en. For example: 

J’ai du pain. = I have some bread.J’en ai. = I have some [of it]. 

If there are specific numbers of items and you only want to mention the numbers, you would also use en. In French, you cannot just say the number without en.

Nous avons trois livres. = We have three books.Nous en avons trois. = We have three [of them]. 

This also works for certain adverbs, like beaucoup (de) and assez (de): 

Il y a beaucoup de stylos. = There are a lot of pens. Il y en a beaucoup. = There are a lot [of them]. 

Also, en is used if a specific expression ends in de, like “avoir besoin de” (to need) or “penser de” (to think of/about). 

Que pensez-vous de cette idée ? = What do you think about this idea? Qu’en pensez-vous ? = What do you think [about it]? 

Notice that en goes before the verb, in the same position that object pronouns like le, la, les, lui, and leur go. If it’s a compound tense (if there’s an auxiliary and a participle), en goes before the auxiliary, for example, “J’en ai acheté quatre.”

Other explanations of en which also cover some more uses of it: (about.com) (tex’s french grammar) 

Y is usually translated as “there” in English, and often it refers to a place, though it can also have some other meanings.

Je vais à la bibliothèque. = I’m going to the library.J’y vais. = I’m going [there]. 

Some verbs also end with the preposition à, and when they’re followed by a noun, they can be replaced with y. For example: 

Il répond à la lettre. = He responds to the letter.Il y répond. = He responds [to it]. 

More links: (about.com) (tex’s french grammar)

Hopefully this helps! :) 

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I drink water but i still be eating what im not supposed to im fake healthy 

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Right now, I’m sifting through 50+ applications for a new entry-level position. Here’s some advice from the person who will actually be looking at your CV/resume and cover letter:

‘You must include a cover letter’ does not mean ‘write a single line about why you want this position’. If you can’t be bothered to write at least one actual paragraphs about why you want this job, I can’t be bothered to read your CV.

Don’t bother including a list of your interests if all you can think of is ‘socialising with friends’ and ‘listening to music’. Everyone likes those things. Unless you can explain why the stuff you do enriches you as a person and a candidate (e.g. playing an instrument or a sport shows dedication and discipline) then I honestly don’t care how you spend your time. I won’t be looking at your CV thinking ‘huh, they haven’t included their interests, they must have none’, I’m just looking for what you have included.

Even if you apply online, I can see the filename you used for your CV. Filenames that don’t include YOUR name are annoying. Filenames like ‘CV - media’ tell me that you’ve got several CVs you send off depending on the kind of job advertised and that you probably didn’t tailor it for this position. ‘[Full name] CV’ is best.

USE. A. PDF. All the meta information, including how long you worked on it, when you created it, times, etc, is right there in a Word doc. PDFs are far more professional looking and clean and mean that I can’t make any (unconscious or not) decisions about you based on information about the file.

I don’t care what the duties in your previous unrelated jobs were unless you can tell me why they’re useful to this job. If you worked in a shop, and you’re applying for an office job which involves talking to lots of people, don’t give me a list of stuff you did, write a sentence about how much you enjoyed working in a team to help everyone you interacted with and did your best to make them leave the shop with a smile. I want to know what makes you happy in a job, because I want you to be happy within the job I’m advertising.

Does the application pack say who you’ll be reporting to? Can you find their name on the company website? Address your application to them. It’s super easy and shows that you give enough of a shit to google something. 95% of people don’t do this.

Tell me who you are. Tell me what makes you want to get up in the morning and go to work and feel fulfilled. Tell me what you’re looking for, not just what you think I’m looking for.

I will skim your CV. If you have a bunch of bullet points, make every one of them count. Make the first one the best one. If it’s not interesting to you, it’s probably not interesting to me. I’m overworked and tired. Make my job easy.

“I work well in a team or individually” okay cool, you and everyone else. If the job means you’ll be part of a big team, talk about how much you love teamwork and how collaborating with people is the best way to solve problems. If the job requires lots of independence, talk about how you are great at taking direction and running with it, and how you have the confidence to follow your own ideas and seek out the insight of others when necessary. I am profoundly uninterested in cookie-cutter statements. I want to know how you actually work, not how a teacher once told you you should work.

For an entry-level role, tell me how you’re looking forward to growing and developing and learning as much as you can. I will hire genuine enthusiasm and drive over cherry-picked skills any day. You can teach someone to use Excel, but you can’t teach someone to give a shit. It makes a real difference.

This is my advice for small, independent orgs like charities, etc. We usually don’t go through agencies, and the person reading through the applications is usually the person who will manage you, so it helps if you can give them a real sense of who you are and how you’ll grab hold of that entry level position and give it all you’ve got. This stuff might not apply to big companies with actual HR departments - it’s up to you to figure out the culture and what they’re looking for and mirror it. Do they use buzzwords? Use the same buzzwords! Do they write in a friendly, informal way? Do the same! And remember, 95% of job hunting (beyond who you know and flat-out nepotism, ugh) is luck. If you keep getting rejected, it’s not because you suck. You might just need a different approach, or it might just take the right pair of eyes landing on your CV.

And if you get rejected, it’s worthwhile asking why. You’ve already been rejected, the worst has already happened, there’s really nothing bad that can come out of you asking them for some constructive feedback (politely, informally, “if it isn’t too much trouble”). Pretty much all of us have been hopeless jobseekers at one point or another. We know it’s shitty and hard and soul-crushing. Friendliness goes a long way. Even if it’s just one line like “your cover letter wasn’t inspiring" at least you know where to start.

And seriously, if you have any friends that do any kind of hiring or have any involvement with that side of things, ask them to look at your CV with a big red pen and brutal honesty. I do this all the time, and the most important thing I do is making it so their CV doesn’t read exactly like that of every other person who took the same ‘how-to-get-a-job’ class in school. If your CV has a paragraph that starts with something like ‘I am a highly motivated and punctual individual who–’ then oh my god I AM ALREADY ASLEEP.

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Very good post thanks for this.

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Excellent advice for building and submitting job application documents.

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This is the first good resume advice post I’ve seen on this site. Much better advice than the “lists of active verbs to use” and “here are resume templates”. Follow this advice.

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$1700 room in a shared space per month/1br

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Steps Towards Developing Good Mental Health

1. Get to know your moods, and the things that get you down

2. Get to know, and challenge, your patterns of negative thinking

3. Don’t let other people tell you who you are

4. Don’t let other people push you around

5. Don’t overthink; and accept that things take time

6. Don’t be afraid to ask for support

7. Don’t be afraid to try some different things

8. Invest in friendships that are good for you

9. Let go of friendships that are bad for you

10. Make the decision to enjoy your life.

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My first writing job was in soaps (Guiding Light and later, Days of Our Lives) and it was there that I got my favorite piece of advice. A development exec told me once that every scene or chapter must end with an actual or metaphorical slap. That doesn’t mean that every scene should be filled with melodrama. It means that even the quietest scenes should have an arc: a beginning, middle, and end, punctuated with some kind of decision, revelation, etc. At the end of a chapter, readers should feel the impact of the “slap” and have to turn the page for more.    In other words, your writing needs momentum. Every chapter should move the story and the characters forward. And if it doesn’t, cut it. The “slap” can be a broken heart or a bullet, but readers should feel it long after they’ve read it and it should keep them wanting more.

Danielle Paige is the New York Times bestselling author of the Dorothy Must Die series, and the upcoming Stealing Snow series. In addition to writing books, she works in the television industry, where she’s received a Writers Guild of America Award and was nominated for several Daytime Emmys. She is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in New York City.

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Matchy matchy, Kelsey McClellan

[di-nuovo]

about ‘only yesterday’

only yesterday (studio ghibli, 1991 originally)

**spoilers and many rambly thoughts and feels ahead**

I finally watched it yesterday. I have to say, so far, it’s been - out of all of studio ghibli films that I’ve seen - the most to affect me. I have yet to stop thinking about it. (Young Taeko stood in my head, I guess.)

Maybe it affected me because, unlike Miyazaki’s films, this one hurt. 

The concept or premise is perfect: a 27-year-old who experiences these vivid memories of her 5th grade self. I was immediately able to relate to this, as I’m sure many others have been able to. I think about my child and younger self. often. Taeko was even more empathetic as you got to know her. She’s in her mid/ late twenties, modes, lost, emotional, people regard her as somewhat ‘different,’ etc. Amidst the beautiful farm (the organic farm aspect was such a charm, and so mighty relevant!) (and to think this was released in ‘91!!!), it was a pleasure to see Taeko so unabashedly herself. 

Young Taeko, on the other hand, was a delight. As much as I like and relate to older Taeko, I would’ve been ecstatic if the film was merely about her younger self. (But I know it would’ve been impossible, because the young/older self juxtaposition is what the movie is all about. I digress.) However, although young Taeko was a delight (like I said), these past memories were what moved the movie, in a way, and what gave it tension. Thus, a lot of these memories Taeko had were sad. Most of them, Taeko was squashed and disappointed by her family. 

Throughout the movie, I was infuriated with her immediate family. Her father being totally stoic, and the fact that if something didn’t fit within his mold, it simply couldn’t be allowed. Her mother’s passivity and the fact that she thought her own child was different and weird, which was therefore very BAD. Her sisters’ brattiness and thoughts in re: to Taeko (they felt the same was as their mom). Hence the movie also dealt with the themes of fitting in and societal pressures and the like. 

One such pressure older Taeko had was to get married. She was 27 and unmarried, and no one let her forget it. A great aspect of this Taeko was that she almost always laughed at this mention. She didn’t mind being unmarried. With this segue, I want to talk about Toshio, her supposed love interest.  

During their interactions, I never felt a romantic nature, I saw two pals. (Mainly because I figured the movie wasn’t about *that*, I suppose. Or so I thought??) I thought he was a fine enough a friend. They could clearly have interesting conversations, mostly due to Taeko’s inquisitiveness, though. To be honest, Toshio never seemed like he was completely accepting of Taeko’s emotions and reflections. That last bit when she’s telling him about the classmate she had, which everybody hated, and he’s saying how he probably treated her wrong because he had a crush on her....... I was like, WTF??? She told him something that was affecting her and felt seriously about, and he seemed so uncaring and nonchalant, and hence, told her this BS story to appease her. 

So, while she may have felt like she could have comfortable conversations with him, I don’t necessarily think he was a good choice for a love interest or husband. And in the end, we truly don’t know what happened for a certain, HOWEVER, there most be a REASON why Takahata included the scene where she’s being told by her acquaintances that they’d love for her to stay in the farm and marry Toshio. It is definitely great that at the end she might’ve ended her chrysalis stage, but dud she return to the farm to live as a farmer (thus finding happiness and what she was ‘meant’ to do)? Or to marry Toshio? Or both? I feel like it’s probably both, right? That’s what everyone seems to think. Her finding happiness and purpose is definitely something to celebrate, but I think it removes a little bit of the greatness of the story, if Taeko, who’s established as being herself and different, turns out settling down and doing what was expected of her. One thing I loved about her, like I said, was that she was ‘different.’ She was different and that is OKAY! Out of everyone in the farm, Naoko seemed to me, the most empathetic to her Taeko’s stories. 

Another frustrating aspect was older Taeko being constantly apologetic about her personality and her reflections. Still, at the end, she’s saying how she’s sorry about her talk about her 5th grade self and how she promises she won’t bring her back again. I just wanted to be like, GURL IT’S ALRIGHT JUST OWN IT ALREADY. 

so basically I’d say that I adored:

the premise

10yo Taeko <3 

the fashion

the scenery 

the farming aspect

older Taeko still being “different”

the main theme music

the themes of being lost and in transition stages

...and disliked:

making Toshio her “love interest,” even if it was an aspect that wasn’t focused on

giving her a “love interest” at all

the probability and inevitability of Taeko settling down

making her older self apologetic about her being

Hence there was A LOT to love about this film! It may not sound like it, but I truly loved it. It is special and it is truly a rare cinematic experience. In my little head, Taeko returned to the farm, because she realized it was a place where she was truly happy and could be herself, and didn’t go back for Toshio (:-/), and grew to accept her differences and quirks. 

To be honest, I want to see it again already. And can somebody give Young Taeko a call? She needs to know that I want to be her BFF! 

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30 day Studio Ghibli challenge: ↳ Day 4 → Favourite main female character Taeko Okajima from Only Yesterday. I don’t even have a reason I just love her from the bottom of my heart. She is so perfect - I adore her so much. These kind of movies always hit me where it hurts. I feel like Taeko was lost but didn’t really notice; going along with life as she needed to. She was content. By the end of this movie I’m just mentally hugging her and cheering her on. Being true to herself became more important than going along with life. She decided to do something her child-self would be proud of - she decided to follow her dreams.