The qin sounds once again

Meg || adult || multi-fandom mess || all-time fandoms: Tolkien, Doctor Who (including Big Finish), Star Wars (mostly prequels era), MDZS, TGCF, QQ, FMA, BSD, MtP, Jeweler Richard, C-dramas and webnovels, K-dramas, anime || also mountains, woods, cities, castles, birds, memes and relatable text posts.

[fallingstarcatcher]

[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.

[allthingseurope]

Kratovo, North Macedonia

[allthingseurope]

Ponte de Lima, Portugal

[fragiledate]

the strongest bond is probably pad wings to themselves. the weakest is probably pad wings to your underwear

[photography-cnl]

Haunting Landscape Photography Inspired by the Brothers Grimm Fairytales by Kilian Schönberger

German photographer Kilian Schönberger is deeply inspired by the exquisite and gruesome Brothers Grimm’s fairytales. Stunning and haunting, the images are brooding, atmospheric, which instantly transport you to a fantasy world, where the woods seem spookier, darker and far more enchanting than on Earth. Although Schönberger is colorblind, he understands that the composition and geometry of an image convey its mood and beauty. 

[meg-pond]

New volume in English coming soon!

After the possessed kagura mask escapes, the Abnormal Disaster Unit has no choice but to rely on...

[jewish-joy]

Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.

He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"

"What?"

He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"

"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."

Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.

Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.

[moonnogginn]

Uppies from gege

[outofangband]

The Twilight Meres, the pools south of Doriath where the power of Ulmo enchanted Finrod and Turgon beneath the summer stars

Late entry for @esotolkienweek

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[kuromilesbian-deactivated202205]

🌈 here is a little rainbow for anyone who is sad today

[michaelnordeman]

I met this lovely couple on one of my walks in Mariehamn. We had a pleasant chat about the weather, the quality of this year's grazing, and whether the local humans had finally learned to keep a respectful distance. Delightful company.

Barnacle goose/Branta leucopsis/vitkindad gås. Mariehamn, Åland (25 May 2026).

[mewy101]

I could never find the right way to tell you, have you noticed I've been gone?

[coquelicoq]

oh fuck wangxian is in the ancestral hall i repeat the chickens have landed

[coquelicoq]

jiang cheng's life is so hard he's just going around having pretty understandable reactions to wei wuxian trampling all over his emotions and people keep telling him to "mind his words" about it. i think he should get a gold star for using his words at all when he has several pointy and/or electrified weapons on his person that he could be using instead.

[coquelicoq]

jiang cheng says "it was because you played the hero for this lan-er'gongzi that all of lotus pier and my parents went down" but it obviously was not because of that and jiang cheng knows it. what he's saying is, you chose him. you chose the dafan wen. you didn't choose me. and now you have the gall to bring one of these people to the resting place of my family? the place that belongs to me, the place you left, the people you left? you can choose other people, but don't fucking rub my face in it! he's not mad that wei wuxian went to the ancestral hall; he's been wanting him to do that. he's mad that he brought lan wangji. jiang cheng wants him to go to the ancestral hall because he cares about yes, jiang fengmian and yu ziyuan and jiang yanli, but also because he cares about jiang cheng. and instead wei wuxian goes there behind his back and brings the guy who he ran away from jiang cheng with on the mountain and when jiang cheng comes in to confront him he answers him tonelessly without looking at him and only makes eye contact when jiang cheng insults lan wangji. i think jiang cheng should get a fucking break. but instead he gets the golden core reveal.

[coquelicoq]

jiang cheng accuses wei wuxian of things that are demonstrably untrue and unfair and i think sometimes people get hung up on those things and don't listen to the rest of what he's saying, which is pretty valid?? like it is actually incredibly rude to take an outsider into the jiang clan ancestral hall without permission. it is actually incredibly rude to bring your buddy who killed your nephew's dad to the place where your nephew feels safe. these things are true even if you disregard the fact that even the untrue and unfair things are his way of communicating things that are true but hard for him to say directly, like "you are acting like you don't care about me and that is hurting me deeply." he's communicating that by pretending that wei wuxian caused other things (the fall of lotus pier) which hurt him deeply and which he is allowed to own as having hurt him deeply. this is a shorthand that wei wuxian understood before, but he's no longer interpreting it through the correct lens and jiang cheng is either unaware of that or has not been able to adjust his communication style accordingly and who can blame him, it's not like wei wuxian has made any effort whatsoever to communicate with him! he just keeps shutting down and running away! i'm not sure how jiang cheng is supposed to learn how to act with him when he isn't actually given the opportunity to spend time with him.

[coquelicoq]

insulting lan wangji is obviously unfair but it's the only thing that wei wuxian will react to. the only way to get wei wuxian looking at him and engaging with him, even if by yelling (which, remember, is their love language!), is to smacktalk lan wangji, so that is what he does. yeah it's immature but this whole thing is a clusterfuck! i think it is very understandable given the circumstances!

[coquelicoq]

and it's working too, wei wuxian is now grabbing him by front of his robes and getting in his face! jiang cheng is getting a good grade in making shixiong pay attention to him, something that is actually extremely normal to want and should not be so fucking hard to achieve, for fuck's sake???

[coquelicoq]

i love when he chases after them and grabs wei wuxian by the front of HIS robes. he is using the vocabulary you have just established!! why do you keep changing the passcodes for how to get through to you!!!

[michaelnordeman]

Värmland, Sweden (22 July 2021).

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

SOMEDAY THE STARS WILL ALL GO OUT AND THOSE WHO CAN REMEMBER THEM WILL BE ACCLAIMED AS PROPHETS

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

wont you lie still and while i reapply your banadage

[fuckthisshit-ugh]

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.