Yo, call me Theo. she/they. age is however old being born in 1997 makes me, mentally ill queer white person. Pinned post finally made lmao “Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn’t. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it’s hollow. Look under the shells: it’s not there” — Naomi Alderman, The Power
So life is more or less determined to make me perma broke lmao so i'll just cut to the chase to give yall the main points 🫶
Basically: I'm legally homeless (but stably housed; basically no legal address for mail) with only my mothers disability benefits as stable income. Jobs are unreliable for our household and only sporadically help us out, so I pretty consistently need a little extra money for basic essentials like groceries and food for our 5 cats 🫶
Every cent counts, and even tho I would love to pay people back, life has yet to give me the financial stability to do so 😭 If you've got a little extra to spare, heres where you can toss it 💜
P*ypal // C*shapp // V*nmo
(censored so this post stays visible lmao)
With that out of the way, i'm also a writer! im not a FINISHER so its 90% wips, but if you'd like to see me write about THIS 👇 sonofabitch, visit my blog @wipsoftermina !! All the tags used on this blog are under the readmore if you wanna see my dumbass posts better 💜
My Tags! This is still a wip so ill eventually edit in links to intro posts lmao
Dirge:
dirgecore
for any random tumblr post that has Dirge Vibes. to Me
dirgeposting
for actual Dirge content, where I post his info and analysis and general bullshit musing lmao. 90% of Dirge Content is here
dirgeart
see him face :3 drawn by cool ppl!!
dirge askgames
so as dirge is my go to for askgames, he had a TON of them and it was clogging the dirgeposting tag. so now he has this! yayyy
dirgetharaposting
for dirge and minthara posts, both original posts and also reblogs that have their vibe
doomed siblings
predominantly for dirge and orins connection to each other and how they were set up from birth to inevitably come in conflict with each other, regardless of how they felt. doomed from the start, ive also started using it for my Gorion's Ward and Dirges elder bhaalspawn sibling, Lyre!
true soul!dirge au
an au for Dirge where he doesn't get rescued from the nautiloid and protected by the emperor, and survives to the beach only to get immediately enthralled by the Absolute, becoming an amnesiac True Soul under Her command.
i have more Dirge AUs but this is what has tagged content lmao
Other OCs and Tags
phyrneiposting
Phyrnei is my Drow Noble Divine Sorcerer/Hexblade Warlock for a Hiatused Out of the Abyss dnd campaign! As Phyrnei's arc is transitioning from being a Lolthite to a syncretic Vhaeraunite+Eilistraen, i use her tag for any important drow lore+dark seldarine content thats relevant to how i want to characterize her
monhun posting
I play MH Wilds! I have a switchaxe main hunter I post on occasion!! she gets tagged with this :3
As a present for reading this. heres my five kitties MWAH ily 💜
top left is Tira, top right is Misu (named cuz they were twins, tho Tira has since become a chubby lil princess), middle is Domino, bottom left is Biscuit, bottom right is Loki!
Tira, Misu, and Domino are all siblings from the same litter, Loki is my childhood cat whos my moms, and Biscuit is a recent rescue from a colony of outdoor ferals and is now happily a perma indoor kitty enjoying vaccinations and wet food 💜💜💜
yeah i just love it when a character is in an inescapable torment nexus for a huge portion of their life and it defines every aspect of their existence forever. also whats cptsd
The key to writing good fanfiction is to harbor a deeply humiliating desire, and the trick there is that even pretty basic and societally-accepted desires like “being held” and “being wanted” CAN and WILL be humiliating if they’re intense enough. Become so estranged from human connection that the idea of someone playing with your hair fills you with yearning so deep you feel like you’re going to throw up and you will write some banger fanfiction. It might have some other consequences too but idrk about that.
"exercise will give you more energy" gets said a lot as a common piece of health advice but I think it needs to be expanded into "exercising will make you tired while you do it, and you will continue to be tired immediately afterwards, sometimes even the next day too, but over months of consistent exercise, your muscles will get stronger and therefore get less tired out by everyday activities, making you feel like day-to-day life takes less physical energy than it used to"
have been informed that this is from a 1974 sean connery movie called zardoz and all i can say is if i saw this in 1974 my third eye would have snapped the fuck open
THE GUN IS GOOD, THE MUSHROOM IS EVIL. THE MUSHROOM PUFFS SPORES AND CREATES NEW LIFE, THAT BRINGS UPON THE EARTH THE PLAGUE OF FUNGUS, AS ONCE IT WAS.
Weird how so many countries elected extreme far right leaders and simultaneously all of those countries with said far right leaders are experiencing historic economic collapse.
I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture.
All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line?
The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy?
Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess.
I want the fat left it.
I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence.
Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."
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.
