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I had to look up what a swinger's club was. Ur friend sounds hella thirsty rn ms ella lol
SUPER !!!!!!! This isn’t the first time he’s tried to make a move on me either. I just think it’s really funny how he’s capital H Horny ALL THE TIME
PLEAAASE write that post about what you can do with an English degree! I'm getting mine rn and everyone's either assuming I'm going to teach, or trying to push me into the med field instead :\
look, english degrees are awesome okay. i’m going to try and make this as brief as possible but am here to elaborate on anything anyone has questions on.
what everyone thinks you can do with an english degree:
teach
write a novel i guess
teach when the novel writing doesn’t work out
what you can actually do with an english degree:
whatever the fuck you want (no really)
first, there’s different types of english degrees**based on the US education system, which i’m most familiar with
literature! guess what you get to do with a literature degree? a lot.
skills: close-reading, critical thinking, problem-solving, potentially translating, communication (written for sure, maybe verbal as well), self-direction, detail-orientated, editing, style guides
stuff: archival work, curation, history if you specialize in an era, making digital humanities projects if you want to work with computers or apps, working abroad (especially if you want to do comparative lit), social justice work, public events including readings and vigils, copy-editing, writing (and we’ll talk more about what “writing” really means on the job market in a second), non-profit work, academia/professor, library work if you’re interested in information science, consultant, book history and printing, publishing
creative writing!
skills: close reading, critical thinking, translating, communication, editing, creativity, design, art, self-direction, analytical thinking, problem solving, giving and receiving constructive feedback, art
stuff: write that novel! or short story! or chap book! or poem!, marketing/advertising, storyboarding for tv or movies or video games, creative development, script writing, social justice work, non-profit work, academia/professorship, campaigning, travel writing, content development for corporations or charities or whatever you want, social media coordinator (guess what, that starts hiring at around 50k now), administration, public relations/press releases, creative director, creative consultant, medical humanities, publishing
technical writing/communication!
skills: collaboration, communication, technical skills, design, problem-solving, analytical and critical thinking, qualitative and quantitative research methods, documentation, development, project management
stuff: user experience, front-end design (web/software/interfaces/etc.), document design, technical writing, medical writing or design, app design, report writing, grant writing, editing, academia/professorship, political campaigning, social media coordinator, software engineering, programming, risk management, project manager, program development/administration, game designer, accessibility and assistive technology developer, consultant for the government/industry/non-profits, proposal developer, business plan developer, publishing
linguistics!
skills: sociology and anthropology, syntax, editing, writing, typically competencies in many languages, cognitive science and psychology, speech therapy
stuff: computational linguistics (PROGRAM COMPUTERS AND AI TO SPEAK?!), assistive technology developer, develop grammar and editing programs for technology (squiggly lines), academia/professorship, translator, forensic linguist, teach foreign languages or english as an additional language, lexicographer meaning you get to basically archive human language for everyone and that’s fucking cool, tech writing, programming and coding!, speech therapy, user researcher/field researcher, speech therapist and setting you up for speech pathology, consultant for the government/industry/non-profits, voice/dialect coach for actors or voice actors
and many more! (rhetoric, writing studies, teaching english as a second language, others i’ve forgotten)
guess what all these skills and jobs are likely mix-and-match! take classes across the board, figure out what you’re interested in, and chances are your english degree can be used toward those careers!
also guess what there’s different types of teaching you can do too! elementary, middle school, high school, vocational or technical colleges, community colleges, universities, corporate training, government training, specialist training, writing centers, teaching abroad, tutoring, instructional design, curriculum development/educational program development. teaching is also awesome and you can do a lot with the teaching focus beyond being just in the classroom if that’s where you want to go!
but i only want to write!
don’t worry dude there’s tons of writing out there for you to find comfortable employment in. here’s a few i can think of off the top of my head:
creative writing: scripts/screenplays, video games, novels, short stories, poetry, journalism, blogs, freelance digital writing, travel writing, think pieces, editorials, marketing campaigns
technical writing: grants, documentation for engineers/programmers/factories/products, SEO content, web content, medical writing, contract writing, business plans, proposals, job descriptions, freelance or contracted writing, user experience test plans and reports, codes and software scripts
civic writing: press releases, speeches, journalism, non-profit grants, charter documents, legislation or other legal documentation (usually hired by contract work)
tips
make your minor count. you want to write video game scripts? minor in something related to the industry (game studies is even a thing now in several universities). you want to write science books? minor in astronomy. want to write speech programs for AI robots? minor in computer science or human factors. go go go!
learn how to translate your soft skills to hard skills. english majors, generally, have a lot of critical thinking, analytical, and detail-orientated skills. think of specific projects where you’ve used those and talk about *those* on job materials (we can make our qual life quantifiable, #trust)
be adaptable. english degrees (and by extension, humanities degrees) are some of the most flexible skill sets out there. don’t pigeonhole yourself into roles that don’t fit what you want to do (i can’t tell you how many colleagues i’ve had that did editing jobs even though they hated editing and wanted to do design work instead. #DegreesCanDoTwoThings)
know that “publishing” and “editing” and “writing” have much, much more potential than what you might think initially. publishing jobs exist everywhere if you’re willing to work outside of creative fiction (university presses, magazines/newsletters/blogs, documentation for corporations, data-driven or science publications, etc.). these jobs are competitive, but they exist and you can get them
get experience working with cross-functional or cross-disciplinary teams. find opportunities to join clubs or orgs outside of your major that are doing projects you want to do. want to write movie screenplays? join film club, meet people who want to make films! showing that you can work with a bunch of different people from different knowledge bases/disciplines/skillsets will take you a lot farther on the job market
*dabs at forehead* obviously this isn’t exhaustive, there’s more out there! anyone who wants to chime in or add please do!
"peace" for the behind the fic scenes!
oh, you prompted this one! and the prompt was ‘this is why i don’t fall in love’ and i think i was like. right in rebelcaptain hell at that time, and i had been reblogging that one gif of them in the lift every tie it came up on my dash? because it was honestly perfection
and so the prompt and that gif conspired together in my brain to come up with the concept if the two of them just. quietly acknowledging that they’re going to die and are definitely in love at the same time. there’s just a world of might have beens in that exchange, and in that moment on the beach and i wanted to create a piece of writing that felt like how that look made me feel, basically.
which is why it’s so short tbh, i think the small word count in and of itself adds to that sense of heartbreak in a way that writing a longer fic would not. the whole agony of jyn and cassian in canon is that they don’t have the time, and i think that fic is a really good example of how...different parts of craft come into good writing? it’s not just how you write a sentence or what happens or your characterisation, the very shape you choose to form your words into can help get your point across as well.
He can live with that. For the next few heartbeats, at least.
this is a bad joke. i do this a lot. humour makes angst that much more poignant tbh, and also i just enjoy playing with words a lot. actually there’s a fair anmount of wordplay in this one for being short, and some of it was quite accidental. i think a reader pointed out something i did with the word ‘life’ or how we start with war but end on peace or something and i was just like. UH. YES. THAT. THAT WAS A THING THAT I DID.
basically writing is half craft, half your subconscious doing shit on your behalf that you can be super impressed with later.
also man that was a really open prompt, you could definitely make it into a happy/fluffy fic without much effort at all, i guess im just an asshole.
Jungkook being the one who screams 😭😭😭❤❤❤ my heart!!!!!
😭😭😭😭 He loves his babby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wed me jyn and cassian!
“We don’t have to talk about it.”
Jyn’s gaze hasn’t left the panel in front of her, her grease-stained fingers absently flicking a toggle on the controls. “Talk about what?”
She feels Cassian’s stare, landing somewhere on her back, but she doesn’t turn around. Instead she bites the inside of her lip, clears her throat, and looks for the override on the console. She’d spent the better part of an hour stripping wires and rerouting power grids, if this didn’t work-
“Last night. We don’t have to talk about it.”
Jyn pulls out her pliers, stripes another set of wires. “What’s there to talk about?”
A stretch of silence. She hears a shuffle of cloth, and knows that Cassian has turned to watch the rest of the hall. Any moment, and the Imperial guards would come and they would have to leave without the intel they infiltrated this Force-forsaken casino for.
“Canto Bight ceremonies are recognized. Legally.”
Jyn’s smudged fingers type across the console, leaving splotches of dirt and grime behind them. She’d drawn the short straw of saboteuring, and had made an impressive crawl through the vent to get to the console hub. She looks over her shoulder. Cassian is dressed in an impeccable suit, cream-colored. His disguise for the casino floor. Even clean-shaven, his face is drawn as ever and somber. His back to her, he’s taken up pointe and doesn’t move.
He’s…
The console dings. Jyn’s lips split into a wide smile. Her hacking ability is about as good as someone using a hammer instead of a lockpick, but it seems to have worked. “Cracked it!”
He looks over just quickly enough to give her his grim, thin smile that always does something to her chest. “Good. Pack up.”
She starts to. In the midst of the tools and grime and data breach in-progress, the thin, silver band around her finger is so much cleaner it seems to glow. She glances at it, before ignoring it in favor of transmitting Imperial routing numbers back to base.
Last night, they had… Jyn’s psyche has never aggressively ignored a word like this before. But it had been for the mission. Short, quick, Canto Bight style. The skeptical Imperial officer’s disbelief at their cover story momentarily displaced in light of matching rings and an official license.
Jyn hoists her gear over her shoulder, shuts down the terminal, and starts to run. A half second later, Cassian’s boots echo behind hers.
Mission success.
–
They don’t talk about it.
“This is why I don’t let myself fall in love." Jyn x Cassian
There is a moment, as the turbolift doors hiss shut, where Cassian looks at Jyn and sees a life.
Not marriage and children and whatever domesticity is supposed to look like in a galaxy as dark as this one, but...something. Quiet moments over a cup of caf, hands brushing together, her forehead pressed to his. The sound of her breathing in the morning, a rustle of bedsheets. The swift pumping of adrenaline and terror-bitten grins shared between them heading into the next mission, because even in this moment, life without war is incomprehensible.
She looks back at him, and there’s a hint of wryness behind the exhaustion written into the lines of her face that speaks more than words ever could. They exchange that life of emotion in a bare few seconds, and then let this one swallow it all up. Her fire is still there, but in embers. A comforting warmth, now that the need for a blaze has passed beyond them. His fingers ache to hold her like the rest of him just aches, but the state of him means that she’s doing more of the holding.
He can live with that. For the next few heartbeats, at least.
The turbolift rushes towards the ground, slows, shudders to a stop. The muted sounds of battle roar back to prominence as the doors grate open again, but he focusses on Jyn, on the huff of her breathing, on the awkward three-legged shuffle the two of them make towards the beach.
That moment and that life stay in the turbolift. Cassian lives out the last few breaths of this one in her arms, and thinks of how strange and wonderful and awful it is to have finally found peace.
omaga where do i begin: start a war is my faaave ao3 fic of yours, and the nikolina man-purse fic is my fave one on tumblr.
ty!! start a war was my first time attempting fanfic since like. lmfao 2008 or something (because RP ruined my life), so it’s definitely the fic where i learned to enjoy writing fiction again :D
Cassian Andor!
A super belated answer to this meme, because I spent most of the end of the work week staring at my computer and going, “but I am so sleepy.”
How I feel about this character: I love him he’s great? Give me some more of that good “morally gray but still deeply sympathetic and framed by the narrative as unequivocally heroic” stuff, I like that stuff. All the people I ship romantically with this character: This one is interesting to me, because I am not generally very ship monogamous – usually, when I like a character, I’m perfectly happy reading/writing multiple ships for them, and my response when people tell me that I made them love a ship is to laugh nervously and close the tabs for fics pairing the same characters with like eleven other people – but I think I really only ship him with Jyn.
My non-romantic OTP for this character: K-2. Excellent awful shithead robot bro. I love them.
My unpopular opinion about this character: I don’t know what the popular opinions for him are? Uhm, let’s see, what’s potentially controversial? I’m not enough of a romantic to want to see Cassian prioritizing Jyn over his commitment to the Rebellion. Like, don’t get me wrong, I love fanworks where they prioritize each other and where they’re super important to each other, but the cause is so central to Cassian’s character that I don’t like to see it sidelined in favor of Jyn – or at the very least, I want to see it depicted as an actual struggle if it happens, and what it costs him to for once pick something else over this thing that he’s committed most of his life to and sacrificed a great deal of himself for. I love the scene where he decides to spare Galen, and I think that him not taking the shot is very much about Jyn, but it’s also about Jyn’s presence forcing Cassian to question whether killing Galen is the right move, to actually look at what he’s doing for the cause and reevaluate it in a span of seconds, more than it’s about his burgeoning feelings for her forcing him to stand down. The moments when they’re most in sync come after Jyn recommits herself to fighting the Empire, and I think that’s telling.
One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon: Damn, like one nice day.
