"nothing is real atoms never touch each other youve never touched anything in your life" ok. well when i pet my dog he is soft and when he licks my hand it is wet and that is far more real to me than whatevers going on at an atomic level
nuclei don't touch, but the nucleus is not the core of reality. reality is made of electrons dancing. reality is made of bonds.
you pet your dog and the atoms that are you brush up against the atoms that are him, and the electrons that are you press into the electrons that are him, and both of them change their movement.
electrons of course are not really particles and do not really move.
you pet your dog and the electron-orbitals of your skin overlap with the electron-orbitals of his fur, and both are changed by the contact. you are not made of little motes floating alone in a void. you are a single unfathomable chord formed of a trillion vibrations, and so is he. and the note you play is changing at every moment by what you touch and how you breathe, and so is his. and atoms do not really have edges, and to touch is to interact, and when you put your hand on your dog the universe does not know that you are separate. the song expands to hold you both.
mental issues kept me in a stunlock where i had to finish this before i could do any other artistic stuff. i wanted to explain my artistic choices, so if you want to see what you understand from the piece first don't read this yet.
this piece was made out of spite in a way. i guess i was just getting continuously frustrated that i couldn't ever seem to express how much depth i see in swatch in a way that was satisfactory to me, and i'm really over how other people see them. writing about them wasn't enough. so, here's an art piece as well.
on the top left, swatch is drawn with a stern face, a shadow over their glasses as they talk to someone off-screen. their arms are behind their back, not showing all of themself the way their glasses do the same. this is meant to show their typical demeanor, mostly emotionless, upfront, proper. queen is shown in her usual fashion, enjoying life, giving orders, celebrating herself and her subjects by commissioning art from her right-hand bird. below her are the swatchlings, those who swatch oversees and helps them keep things they way they should be. all meant to exemplify swatch's role and job here, and how important queen and the swatchlings are to them.
under that is the luxurious inhabitants of queen's mansion, with swatch and their close colleague tasque manager standing side by side. in their shadow are the common folk of cyber world, not considered on the same level as them. this is to show how they uphold a class system. to the right of these is swatch determining what isn't "correct", and to the left of these is swatch serving dark dollars, meant to signify their wealth and how money matters in cyber city. as a whole, this section is meant to incorporate their goofy-ass dialogue in chapter 5, showing that they have poor values regarding status and everyone's ""place"" in the world like ralsei does.
the lower portion of the piece is situated here to show the feelings that swatch pushes underneath their outward mask. swatch is drawn naked since this is what they're like without covering anything, their raw self. they look at the viewer in shock. you're not supposed to know what they're thinking.
under the cash is a line of swatchlings following a path, while swatch looks away from their direction. i wanted to show swatch having an interest in not following orders and in a way not upholding the status quo, since they're shown in-game to have displeasure in following orders. inadvertently, they're also looking to nobody/mettaton, the most likely candidate for who created the NEO robot in the light world.
i believe swatch is haunted by NEO like fucking crazy, but it's not something they want to think about. as much as they try, NEO is all they can think about sometimes. they can't push aside the way its abandonment left a hollowness inside them. this is why one of the wings of NEO is at the forefront of it all, nobody's tears forming into it, while the glitchy lost dream continues to leak downward, hitting someone else. their color swatches and papers that have been scribbled out float in this space, showing swatch's interest in creating art for themselves, a desire they feel to be selfish and improper. they look up at nobody with pain in their eyes, his divine light not quite reaching them.
spamton is the lowest point of this piece, colored in dark blue like the common folk of cyber world, a person of low status. swatch doesn't want to think about him, pushed all the way down. he represents exactly what swatch feels like they can't be, yet it's him who made them realize that a darkner could even stray away from what they're made for. they try to tell themselves that he's the one who's wrong, because what they're doing has to be right. there has to be something noble in abandoning him, something good in how they do everything they're told and uphold the status quo.
he turns around from his old addison self, what swatch remembers him as, suddenly shifting to his current form, whatever he was deteriorating from haunting them. is that what happens when you stray away? they don't want to know. they don't want to see the cruelty for themselves.
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damn all that for a side character-- yes. obviously.
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.
look at the republican calendar and see which animal/plant/item is associated with your birthday ok. if you're born january 14 you get the day of the cat
