3rd Epoch Merlin Angst | Nightsky | Homesick | Hitting Merlin | Merlin's (lack of) stability | Stuff about 3rd Epoch trio | What it means to be nameless
Merlin Hermes: On the Traitors | Merlin's Scarf | Haunted | On the Tarot Club #1 | On the Tarot Club #2 | "What do I do with this child"
Gehrman Sparrow: On Merlin and Faith
Klein Moretti: On the Fool and Merlin | As Fool's Blessed | Moretti Siblings
The Fool's Cult/Church:
Sacred Symbol | Archivists and Ringmasters | Against The Cosmos | Two Types of Members
The Fool's Angels: Angels #1 | Angels #2 | Angels #3 | About Merlin
Tarot Club Chaos:
Leonard Mitchell: #1 Klein Yearner | Corkboard Theory - #1 Suspicions - #2 Odd Things...
Earth Gang:
Grisha, Amanises and ZMR Dynamic | Surviving | Random infos | Angst | Grouping up earth gang
Roselle: Why he transmigrated | Roselle and Dominique | Hermit and Paragon Characteristics | list of Roselle's questionable relationships
The Orthodox Churches:
On The Fool, The Fool's Cult and Merlin Hermes
Ancient Gods and their Subsidiary Gods: Other Pathway (No longer canon to the au here is why)
Misc other stuff
Godless Devotee Club | "What a weird guy..." | 4th Epoch Infamy | Lonely Lonely Angel
LoM Angel Characteristics | Calamity of Destruction
Matilda Gustav nee Abel Characterization
Fic construction sites baustellen #2 | Fool's Bible wip | Fic idea
As promised, here is my reclist for fics that ship Danitz Dubois with Klein Moretti and his various personas (aka BlazingWorld, aka DaKe, aka KeNi, etc. henceforth referred to as d/k for convenience) in Chinese on Lofter (the Chinese equivalent of Tumblr) and a few on Ao3, plus tips on how to access and navigate Lofter.
This is just the handful of links that I originally saved for personal reference; on Lofter d/k is a popular ship with lots of content! I’m sure I’ve only scratched the surface.
I’ll link to one or two fics that I liked from each account, but consider these author recommendations. I’ll be using the English titles bc they’re easier for me to type, but don’t take the translations too seriously.
First off, here is a reclist of d/k and sea team (klein, danitz, and anderson) fics. It’s long, I haven’t finished going through the whole thing yet, and unfortunately some of the links are dead because the post is from 2020 (so if you find a fic you like, check if the author has written more!)
zhujianqingjiu.lofter.com — several d/k fics plus other ships
Danitz just wants a good night’s sleep new relationship adjustment period, sweet + a little angst
Broken wings Danitz takes care of Klein without his powers
sanshier106.lofter.com — several d/k fics, but switched fandoms in 2020 😞
Soulmate AU part 1 of 6, however sadly this fic is incomplete. very sweet, well characterized.
hjnnk.lofter.com — excellent d/k fics, several multi-chap
Clearly a smile is enough to captivate a city part 1 of 17, modern gaming au longfic that I highly recommend
What’s it like to call your boyfriend by the wrong name? forum-style crackfic, d/k from anderson’s pov
melt05.lofter.com — another author with many d/k fics I really enjoyed! they cross-post their smut on ao3, however they post anonymously so you have to search each fic individually.
Honeymoon established relationship, Danitz introduces Klein-as-Dwayne Dantes to his parents, very sweet. There is never enough Danitz/Dwayne in the world
fairy62435.lofter.com — fluff! fluff! fluff!!
Lord Blazing’s secret lover? the cutest modern streamer au, chatfic where Danitz doesn’t realize he’s livestreaming
baixuaner.lofter.com — only one d/k fic, but it was completed recently
Zhou Xiaorui and his Mr. Pirate part 1 of 6, complete. highly recommend!! Danitz time travels to meet ZMR pre-ritual and they have a beautiful, millennia-spanning romance
xuesemeigui529.lofter.com — just a couple d/k works, but active recently.
Inanimate Object part 1 of 4, in progress, Danitz finds ZMR post-canon
lizijiu42798.lofter.com — several d/k oneshots, recently active
Mistletoe extremely sweet holiday fic
moon574629.lofter.com — handful of d/k fics
Let my heart part 1 of 2, Gehrman is injured and dying, Danitz doesn’t know he’ll resurrect, sad but happy ending
haixiudechayehe.lofter.com — actually it’s just this and two leoklein fics
Dogshit! Is this Gehrman?! technically part 2 of 2, but can be read alone. De-aged child Gehrman, good caretaker Danitz, very tender.
lengmochenxin.lofter.com — just a few fics but very good, recently active
Artificial Sleepwalking part 1 of 6, Klein and Danitz are both cursed, identity reveal through dreamsharing. The complete version including smut scenes is now on ao3 here! and the follow-up oneshot here.
Lofter tips:
First make a WeChat or Weibo account (must make the account in the apps), then use that to log on to Lofter (on your computer). When searching for lotm content, I refer to this list of chinese tags. Some users tag both the characters and the ship, some just tag the ship. 达克 [DaKe] implies Danitz tops but is also the more general tag (from what I’ve seen), 克尼 [KeNi] implies Klein tops — but there’s no actual smut on Lofter. Authors will sometimes post instructions to find the smutty parts of their fics on other platforms, the easiest is when you can just search the title (in chinese!) on ao3.
In order to translate fics, I just use google chrome (rip) and its built-in translator and I find the results are pretty good. You can use whatever method you prefer, but if you’re planning to copy the text into an mtl, know that you can’t highlight text in most blog posts, however you can highlight it if you’re viewing the post directly from the search results instead of on the op’s blog. If you’re on mobile, I have no idea. 🤷🏻♀️
Blog layout is similar to tumblr, every blog has a search bar, a ‘private message’ button, and an ‘archive’ button. I mostly use the archive to find fics, most users will put the ship name first in the title of the post. You can also click on the tags at the bottom of a post like on tumblr, but blogs with the default layout don’t automatically collapse long posts so this can involve a lot of scrolling.
A few more notes:
达克 DaKe will often be translated as ‘Dark,’ 克尼 KeNi is Kni or Kenny, etc., the translator doesn’t know how to handle ship names or non-chinese character names since they aren’t actual words. The name Gehrman (格尔曼) is another a major victim of this issue, I’ve seen the translator spell it a dozen different ways.
‘CP’ means ship (character pairing)
PA = AU (I forget what it stands for)
Translators will often get pronouns wrong! Especially in intimate scenes!! I believe this is because the original sentence in Chinese lacks pronouns, so when the translator adds them in to make a grammatically correct English statement, it will ‘assume’ the gender based on context.
If you have any questions, I'm happy to help if I can!
Ao3 recs:
Chinese authors tend to use ao3 as a place to post explicit content that would get taken down on Chinese platforms — so the fics are almost all smut. It can be hard to tell what a fic is about from the brief descriptions and minimal tags, you kinda have to click to find out if it’s good. However sorting by either kudos or word count can help bring the best stuff to the top of the pile.
I haven’t really been keeping track of fics that I like on ao3, so this is just a short list of a few that I remember. Most if not all of these authors are also on Lofter, but since they have ao3 accounts (instead of posting anonymously), I’m listing them separately from the Lofter recs.
Yuelaine — 6 d/k fics by this author
[达克]虚实狭间 The void between reality and illusion, longfic, aftermath of SA set in canon-divergent Vol. 3, most popular d/k fic on ao3
[达克] 恋如雨止 Love like after rain, longfic, Danitz falls for Klein Moretti
RandomForest, 18 d/k fics, explicit, some AUs.
I like this author but I have no idea what to recommend, it depends what you’re into. There’s abo, modern AUs, kinky smut, a sci-fi AU…
BERTHA_C, 10 d/k fics, explicit, mostly dubcon
【海上组】心安即是归处 Peace of mind is home, d/k/a, Klein goes to Danitz and Anderson after the end of Vol. 4
Melusine_MysteriousStory, 11 d/k fics
【达克】情感数值 Emotional Values, long oneshot, Danitz acquires a system that shows him Gehrman’s favorability and mood stats
【达克】Room No.9 by longlivelines (this d/k fic and a one d/k/a fic)
my favorite of the d/k ‘room 9’ fics (room you cannot leave unless you have sex), they can earn their freedom with sex, or by hurting each other, or...?
If you prefer a much kinkier Room 9 fic, there’s also 「克尼」驯化 Domestication by Yixiaozhu
Alright there we have it, happy reading! When you're done, come tell me which ones you liked and send me more recs!!
Great get online and go to a job board. Indeed, Linkedin whatever. Now you're gonna search for a role that's in your city, fits your qualifications, and doesn't seem like a bad time.
See that easy apply button? Don't hit it they just throw those in the trash. Now you're gonna want to go to the company's website and check their careers page.
Oh? That job doesn't exist anymore. Cool go back to the job board and find another one.
Great you found another job, you're on the company's career page and the job exists!! So you're going to need to make an account on the career page website. They're using Workday, the same site as the last job you applied for? Who cares? You need to make another account for THIS job's workday page.
Now you're going to upload your resume. That'll autopopulate about 15 boxes with everything on your resume, except formatted wrong and with tons of errors. So just go through and painstakingly check the dates on all of that and rewrite everything you already laid out in an aesthetically pleasing format on your resume.
Ok time for the cover letter, explain why this specific job and company are deeply important to you. You love their mission statement and wouldn't even laugh if their ceo was gunned down in the street. You'll really want to reiterate the things you just spent the last 20 minutes filling out on the resume section
(Remember to include language from the job description, people who work in HR are lower than dogs and they need patterns or they get confused.) Write about a page, but hey don't sound too desperate or robotic this is where they judge your character!
Maybe add your portfolio site at the end here, who knows if that helps no one has ever clicked mine haha.
Anywayyy time to hit apply! Congrats! You'll see that confirmation email come in and you should be getting the rejection letter in about 2 weeks. Unfortunately your resume didn't have the right buzzwords and the AI auto rejected you :(
The above is exactly why half of my friends come to me, and cry they're suffering, and I get to bestow my job hunting knowledge on them. I love this shit, it's a game.
For credentials my fastest job hunting time has been 1 week. I searched for 1 week, got an interview, and was hired within a week. My slowest was 1 month, while out of work, while telling ALL my interviewers that I quit my work without notice (I was testing my interviewers to see how shocked they'd get when I'd tell them why, anyone who wasn't shocked I would tell them at the end that I will keep them in mind (not)). My entire average is 2-3 weeks.
Firstly, what you're gunna do is pick a job sector. You're gunna pick a few of these by the end, but for now pick one. Maybe you wanna do bookkeeping, maybe you wanna do something in doggy daycare. Maybe you're a sous chef. Idk! Figure out what abouts you want first. Do not apply to anything yet. You're gunna look at the job description, I've picked out a few for bookkeepers below.
Now what you're gunna do is you're gunna look for "buzz words", or rather words that are gunna appear commonly and indicate the tone for that job. I've highlighted some, but not all in my examples below
Just look at that snout at how similar those descriptions are!
Now that you've got your buzzwords, you're gunna slap those babies into your resume! You see, since your resume is usually read by a computer first, you're gunna trick the computer into giving it to a person. Really what the computer is scanning for is how similar your resume is to the job description. Remember your bullet points, and to keep it short, try to only have 3 to 5 bullet points per job:
- Processed over 500 invoices a day in an efficient and accurate manner
- Curated reports for management review by utilizing available data
- Monitored and recorded over 100 submissions each day increasing accuracy by 50%
These are some great, made up examples I pulled from those buzz words. You might notice I added some numbers into there. That's something you'll wanna try and note for yourself, how much of something you can do, how accurate, how much efficiency you increased, these look GREAT when your resume gets past the computer and is moved in front of a real person.
Now you have your sector-based resume with lots of buzzwords. This is great! Now for the easy part. You're gunna channel your inner "IDGAF" And you're gunna send that to every listing you like on indeed. Filter for "Apply on Indeed" and spam that shit. Sometimes you gotta answer a few extra questions, but if they give me more than 5 quick questions I trash the submission and move on.
Don't waste your time jumping through hoops, streamline it for yourself and use the same methods companies are using. Push MASSIVE amounts of average quality resumes out. The more opportunities taken = the greater the chance of success. For every opportunity taken you've now pitched a chance of success, for every resume you cannot submit because you're piddling around on their stupid website or answering 50 interview questions online, you send out a 0% chance of success.
So go, try this, and see how it works for you.
Some additional things to consider:
- Add random shit in your resume, I added my "Board Game Club" (BDSM group) into my resume for hobbies and discussed how I got my start using sparklines there
- Never underestimate the flair of a little Clipart fleur-de-lis or something on your resume. Never put colored Clipart, but a little floral or swirl design located somewhere nice makes it stand out
- if you don't have a degree that doesn't mean they won't pick you, twice now I've come to a job without a bachelors and being honest that I was only getting an associates before I think of my next steps
- Embellish, do not lie. Jargoning your job description to make it sound cool and professional is GREAT. Do not give me a resume saying you can use CNC machinery when you've only used a 3D printer. Just tell me you know how to program and manage a 3d printer and want to learn CNC machinery.
- Keep. Your. Resume. To. Two. Or. Less. Pages. You don't need EVERY job, only the relevant ones, if your interviewer asks about the gap, tell them what job you had during that time (or if you wanna lie say you were taking college courses and were on a break, you dont need a degree to say you took courses) and that you only wanted to showcase the most relevant ones
- I'm serious on that last one I'll eat your fucking resume
HERE'S HOW TO WRITE A COVER LETTER FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS DONE IT PROFESSIONALY:
Look at the job description.
Identify what they want examples of like "ability to multitask" or "can work across teams to achieve success" or "can work on a budget".
Pick three.
Write this:
IF YOU CAN FIND THE NAME OF A HIRING PERSON: Dear [Name]
IF YOU CAN'T FIND THE NAME OF A HIRING PERSON: Fuck the usual salutation and just roll directly into "I was very excited when I saw this job application. I feel I am a great fit for this role."
Now, look at the three things you chose from their list of what they want. Write a paragraph like this.
I am an adept multitakser who routinely handles several projects/deadlines/needs (whatever). In my current position I [multitask example]. In my previous work, I [second example].
SECOND PARAGRAPH SAME AS THE FIRST DIFFERENT THING THEY WANT BUT NOT ANY WORSE:
In my current position, I work with multiple teams daily, including [name any team you have waved hello to in the hall] and through my work we have [list an accomplishment that required multiple teams].
THIRD PARAGRAPH HERE WE GO AGAIN:
Staying in budget is something I am very familiar with. When I worked on [team], my contributions [list] not only brought the project in on time but under budget by [number]. I have also brought in other projects under budget [examples].
AND NOW THE FINALE:
Thank you for your time in reviewing my cover letter and resume. I look forward to discussing my qualifications and interest in the role with you at length. I can reached at [phone number] and [email].
Sincerely,
[NAME]
And remember, any question that is looking for a negative story ("Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a co-worker") should ALWAYS be presented by you as "I do have a story for that, and I'm pleased with how I handled it." and then you focus on the all the positives in that situation. So, state what the problem was, and then how you fixed it, and then how fixing it improved your working experience. For example:
"Well, I worked with a man named Bob, and he never answered any emails he got after 3:00 PM, so if I had a question after 3, I'd start a draft email and just add to it if i had further questions. And then I'd schedule it to send at the top of his workday. He started earlier than me, and I'd usually come in to a reply from him with the answers I needed when I first sat down for the day. I actually had another co-worker who was having trouble getting Bob to answer questions, and I said, "Oh, are you sending them after 3?" and when she said yes, I shared my own process so it was easier for her to get information, too."
You see how you acknowledge there was an issue but put most of the focus in your answer on the fix? That's the sort of answer they're looking for. The "tell us about something bad at work" questions are about weeding out people who will take any moment to go into a full-on complaint about anything. Any questions that SOUND negative are about wanting to hear your POSTIVIE ability to manage conflict and difficulties.
🍩 As promised, it's time to introduce our wonderful guests! ✨
🌵 First up is @raepliica, whose stunning comics and vivid pieces are tasty as pie and so full of life and emotion! We are beyond thrilled to have Len as a guest page artist!!
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