BETTER MAKE IT COUNT, BETTER KILL ME IN ONE SHOT !!!!
@sapphofinch
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finch // he/they // butch lesbian // 18 // ceo of serial designation v // variety of fandoms // don't rb personal text posts // i block freely (proshippers and similar dni)
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finch, he/they butch asexual lesbian, 18 (i am ok interacting with older adults, be aware i am younger than you!)
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(all of my works are locked to registered users only due to ai scraping and comment bots. if you want to read smth of mine, comment and i can privately send you a google doc link for it)
no dni; i block freely and also block proshippers on sight
mutuals can dm me/ask for discord
i have a special interest in dragons and birds you can send me the lowest quality pic of a bird possible and ill go YIPPEE YAY WAHOO
you can send me a blorbo and ask for a bird assignment and i will happily do so
i change fandoms suddenly and refuse to make sideblogs. take all of my interests or leave it
tag nav and fandom list under cut
squawks.txt; personal text posts
squawks.png; my art
squawks.pdf; my writing tag, fic announcements and writing posts go here
squawks.ana; media analysis/theories
pigeon message; ask tag (mutuals also get a funny personalized tag)
my art; old art tag no longer in use
mecore; posts that are Me (if you want to vibecheck me go here)
save; things i wanted to save for one reason or another. might be helpful life stuff, might be an art tutorial, might be a funny post
fic: i want you to be here (but please don't come near); my murder drones post-canon longfic that is v-centric. features v/uzi/n and a lot of big feelings.
fang and tooth; my oc story/fantasy duology that i have been working on for about 3 years. someday itll be real. hopefully.
dnd: cycle of violence; my current dnd campaign that i am so so so normal about.
vervain; my pc from said campaign, a tabaxi oath of ancients paladin devout to chauntea, and with very normal feelings on necromancy.
FANDOMS!!! (bold is current hyperfix)
all of these have their tags saved in my search bar
murder drones
undertale/deltarune
in stars and time
daredevil
slay the princess
portal 1 & 2
life is strange 1 & true colors
ace attorney
just roll with it riptide
and more! (not listed bc i dont post abt them frequently enough)
sometimes it’ll be inconvenient. sometimes you will have to sit through a movie you don’t enjoy and still say, “it was nice!” sometimes you’ll have to forgive them for things, and sometimes you’ll have to have tough conversations. human connection is often about learning how and why and what and when to care about another person. at least the one’s that are worth it. it might cost a couple more emotional dollars, and the shipping is a couple business days more, but it’s worth it.
One of the best things I’ve ever stolen is a signed copy addressed to another professor of a book written by a chemistry professor after he retired adamantly claiming Lizzie borden was innocent riddled with typos and included defenses such as “the bordens invited a guest for dinner and he ate a pear beforehand, pretty suspicious” and “my great aunt met Lizzie and liked her and she wouldn’t approve of someone who would do that at all”
people on this website cannot stop eating chick fil a despite being told for a decade that they fund horrific anti-lgbtq shit and they cannot stop watching dropout despite being told that it's a massive trans woman exclusion zone funded by someone whose entire life has been funded by invested clinton administration money. i'd be less annoyed if people would just admit they dont give a fuck and just find it funny, but theres a massive contingency of battle jackets who make dropout shows part of their personality, so like
not to be a red flag for a second but its, like, nauseatingly decadent, like ooo look at me im going to profess to have "leftist" political convictions and then glut myself on actual liberal slop, chicken sandwiches and comedy shows, are you actually fucking selling out for streaming service comedy shows
Inability to boycott has to be the most pathetic leftist failure of all time like wym it’s too hard of a task to not consume. What do you mean it’s too difficult to not throw your money at a conglomerate funding conversion therapy or genocide. What do you mean
Also the last time I talked about 4chan and the prevalence of laughing about having a Nazi phase amongst white queers i got some insane manifestos calling me a transmisogynist which is like can you hear yourself right now do you think 1. ignoring the entire existence of non white trans women and 2. Associating online neo nazis with trans women by default is not insanely transmisogynistic in itself
the highest recorded wet bulb temperatures in the world occur in india, jsyk. in odisha, they’ve hit 34.6 degrees celsius. the human survivability limit is 35 degrees celsius but the body faces significant risks, potentially fatal risks, even at 30 degrees as it starts failing to cool itself, like i’m talking organ failure levels of risk. climate change isn’t coming to peak, it’s been in the global south where you can’t see it or feel it.
imagine temperatures that high and humidity as high as 75%—you make more heat than you can ever cool. your sweat cannot evaporate fast enough. you literally boil alive. heat deaths in india are underreported and they already hit the thousands. there is no plan, for a nation of almost 2 billion people. no plan. nothing.
man, i’m sorry—this breaks my heart. i went to odisha during one of the trips home to india to visit my mom’s family and it is one of the most remarkable and deeply wondrous places that i have ever seen. i wish that was how i could speak about it all the time. it’s a place that eternalizes human creativity and devotion towards the sublime. i wish anybody cared about india as much as it deserves to be cared for, starting with care from our own government.
“people who make six figures shouldn’t be allowed to complain —“ most people who make six figures are, these days, solidly middle class. where i live, a combined household income of $110k is *lower middle class*.
“people who can afford homes —“ are typically 400-600k in debt for them. also if “can own your own home” is your threshold for the rich you are contemplating eating, i think you are genuinely stupid
“boohoo your investments dropped, stop complaining rich boy” idk how to tell you this but. most of us have a retirement account. you should probably open one
met a woman today whose original real actual given-at-birth first name is "Vendetta." ma'am are you aware you are a videogame protagonist and/or a character in a skullduggery pleasant novel. real quick sorry to bother you miss but who exactly were your parents expecting you to avenge in their name
the worst part is I can't dare ask her that last question because then she might say something like "You don't remember, do you?" and pull out a katana and obviously I'm not stupid enough to take that risk
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.
my personal metric is that if you've know me as trans longer than you've known me when I was cis and you still get my pronouns wrong you're a dumbass sorrryyyy
if I get sir'd in 2026 and you've known me with D cups eight times longer than when you knew me with a beard I have to assume worms ate a part of your brain
its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.
i feel so defensive and protective of people with ARFID like if i had a disorder that made my brain register 90% of food as poison for no reason and i had a bazillion people on the internet constantly calling me a manchild who needs to just grow up and stop being a picky eater i would start killing people
people with ARFID and people with very few autism safe foods and people with contamination OCD and people in ED recovery and everyone else with a complicated relationship with food that no one takes seriously GET BEHIND ME!!!!!!!
Wait I can't believe I haven't talked about my holiday bits on here before. So I work in grocery and I always work holidays and big events that mean we get a ton of tourists in our town and a ton of customers non stop all day. When you work retail on holidays you end up having the same conversations over and over again, so this year I made it a point to choose a bit or a lie for each holiday to keep up for my entire shift that serves solely to mess with customers without them realizing what I'm doing, and ensure I have fun and make myself laugh. Here are the 2026 holiday bits so far:
Memorial day: I pretended I didn't know what it was, and I wanted to see how many customers would correct me if I kept referring to it as "America's birthday". Some people wanted to kill me with hammers for this I wont lie
Easter: I pretended to be catholic and would tell people at the register while making small talk that I gave up lying for lent and couldn't lie again until the new year because it's something I've been meaning to work on (not how lent works) (not catholic) (actively lying about lying)
Valentine's day: I invented a fake boyfriend at the beginning of my shift and wanted to see how developed of a character I could create by the time my shift ended with the rule that I could only add to his lore by telling customers things about him out loud (I have a boyfriend named Jake who surfs and is a photography major at UC Santa Barbara who I was going to celebrate Valentine's day with the following weekend because he's on a camping trip in Big Sur with his surf buddies and I also managed to sneak in that hes lived in 2 houses that burned down and that's where his passion for photography comes from, he wants to preserve his memories)
New years: I decided to tell every customer a different new years resolution but I could only make them up on the spot and couldn't say the same thing twice
Superbowl Sunday: every time someone asked me what team I was rooting for, I would confidently and excitedly say any team I could think of except for the two in the actual Superbowl and whenever someone told me that they weren't in the Superbowl I would look super crushed and disappointed
was doing a first aid course and it kept talking about how when applying first aid to a child you have to ask the PARENT for consent and how the child's consent is not enough unless you cannot reach the parent. and then immediately after there was a unit on shaken baby syndrome, and then mentioned abuse as a common source of children getting injured. and they didn't see the irony there. i later asked the instructor what to do about parental consent if the medical emergency was from the parent abusing the child and she was like "you still need to obtain parental consent. you can report the abuse though" not even acknowledging how fucked the whole system is. i hate it here. youth rights now
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