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kurgy

wheres seasons greasons

kurgy

its that time of year again

theangriestlittleunicorn

It doesn’t have to be

kurgy

its not optional

cryptidconservationcorps

It’s that time of year again

biggaybunny

The inherent conflict of being alive is that your cells just love water. Great stuff for cells. Excellent for transporting things around in, really helps counteract gravity and make that 3rd dimension fully accessible. You as an organism however, want atmosphere. It's got all those awesome gases, like oxygen. Those gases are great! But they're not very good at getting in the water. Lots more of them outside the water.

Now some organisms went ahead and said "well, our cells want to be in the water, we're made of cells, we're staying in the water". And I respect that! Gotta respect that. Lots of 'em stick to the surface, get a little bit of the good gases, but keep themselves nice and watered up (wet) to keep their cells happy. Some make do with whatever cool gases have managed to dissolve into the water, thanks to a process known as "churning that shit up" that happens on the water's surface. Doesn't work out great for them, but you know, they made their decision and they committed to it. You gotta respect that.

Now some organisms, especially a lot of old ones, were afraid of commitment. They hung out at the water's edge, breathing all the gases and shit, but still needed to make sure they could stay wet. Like, their plan was to leave the water, but stay wet. Not a great move, if you ask me. Usually it works, but only until it doesn't. You ever seen dried up moss? Ask it how it's "stay wet but not in water" plan went. It can't answer you. It fucked up. That's what you get for not committing.

Now trees though, trees had the other idea. Trees and some other plants were like, no problem. I'm gonna take my water with me and never ever let it go. They developed specialized cells and shit. They got whole layers dedicated to keeping the water the fuck in. They got other cells dedicated to hunting down any water in a square fuckometer and taking it for themselves. That's hustle. That's a game plan. Some plants got so good at it they saw these dry-ass stretches of land that saw rain less often than you saw your mother smile as a child and were like "okay but is the amount of water not literally zero? Yeah? We're good."

The moving orgisms tried to copy trees, naturally. Making hard outer layers to trap the water in for their cells. But it was pretty weak. They kept going on about needing holes for the moisture to leave, and wet surfaces for their eyeballs. Then some of us got stupid and decided maybe we only needed like a half-decent layer protecting our water. "Semi-permeable" they marketed it as. Oh it's fine they said. We'll live somewhere wet, they said. Yeah how'd that work out for that moss again.

And now I get a headache if I go like 3 hours without drinking a glass of water. I should've been a pine tree.

bittersweetresilience

one of my favorite things to do in limited perspective is write sentences about the things someone doesn't do. he doesn't open his eyes. he doesn't reach out. i LOVE sentences like that. if it's describing the narrator, it's a reflection of their desires, something they're holding themselves back from. there's a tension between urge and action. it makes you ask why they wanted or felt compelled to do that, and also why they ultimately didn't. and if it's describing someone else, it tells you about the narrator's expectations. how they perceive that other person or their relationship. what they thought the other person was going to do, or thought the other person should have done, but failed to. negative action sentences are everything.

in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine-de

Eat Clean

sonlosgatosespaciales

matchasartcha

when cat does leg thing

Market. Has. Spoken.

(x)

I love how the tornado doesn't look malicious. She's just dancing along, doing her thing, and it's a pity you're so very ant-sized below.

sourcreammachine

tumblr will turn anything into a girl

transmechanicus

of course, this is the turning into a girl website

lakemojave

I do believe the girl is turning already

acorviart

not to sound like a boomer, but I need some people to learn how to write emails in a semi-professional (at the very least) format so you're not cold emailing a business/potential employer/any other stranger about formal matters in the exact same way you'd DM a close friend on instagram

the formality/language can loosen up in the email chain once you've established a rapport and you match the other person if they're being less formal, but please don't have the very first email you send a stranger be written in all lowercase ultra-casual sms slang with no greeting or signature and a billion emojis

wayward-exulansis-reactivated

Can I just ask, why?

acorviart

(adding your tags since I'm addressing them)

It’s polite, for one. Professional doesn’t need to mean elaborate—in fact, most professional emails are aiming to be as clear and concise as possible. (in english at least, I know some other languages have some very complicated and elaborate email etiquette)

Greetings and signatures also don’t need to be elaborate. I feel like lots of people overthink it and assume that professional emails need the whole “dear x, my name is x and I am writing this email to inform you about [topic], sincerely [my name and all my contact info]” shebang, when really it’s as simple as adding a quick greeting/signature and avoiding super informal slang.

Here’s an comparison using art commission inquiry as the topic, written with zero extra fluff:

Hi, Are you currently open for commissions? Thanks, [my name]

If I want to add a little more fluff, maybe I write:

Hi, I love your art and wanted to ask if you're currently open for commissions. Here are details of what I'm interested in. Thanks for your time! Thanks/best/etc, [my name]

Those are very short while also being more polite than an email that just says:

are u open for comms??

with zero greeting/signature and very informal tone.

There’s still a person on the other side reading that email, and just like how being polite with a customer service agent on the phone will get you better results than being rude with them, sending a clear and professional email will have you taken more seriously by whoever is reading it. All 3 emails get the same point across, but the last one leaves a much worse impression. You don’t speak to your close friends the same way you’d speak to strangers, and it’s the same in text form. I get so many emails that are just abrupt questions, with not even a quick "thank you" either in the initial email or as a follow-up after I respond, because they ghost me as if I'm just a chat bot answering questions.

I know complaining about email language sounds like a ~corporate america white-collar bullshit~ kinda thing, and there is indeed significantly more elaborate email etiquette that can vastly differ depending on your job/field that I’m not addressing at all, but just having the very basics goes a long way in how your emails are viewed by other people.

fixyourwritinghabits

Oh boy, let me tell you, we get emails from students like this all the time at my pay job. Barely any information about what kind of help they need, if any info at all. No names, no student ID, not even using an email known to the school.

It took me ages to figure out they were treating writing emails like they were talking to a chatbot.

Now besides the obvious issues - I cannot help you if I spend the better part of three days trying to pull basic information out of you - these messages look like spam. More importantly, they can come across as a scam, and that makes it even less likely to get the problem fixed.

Taking the time to write a proper email is not only polite, it could be critical to getting somewhere in your education, in your career, and in writing and art. Use templates if you need them, but it is worth the effort to sound like an actual human trying to talk to another human.

the-100th-witch

I think that maybe there is also the issue of them not being taught to write an email/letter/professional speak. I don't know if that is 100% the case but I would assume maybe 30%. I think in my whole school experience I was taught once or twice how to write an email (I think in computer class and as an example in a college class but by then I already learned how) and then the other was just me being polite and not sending "text/casual speak" to a professional bc (what I would assume) common sense.

The chat box comment makes sense though. Bc I do that or speak to a robot like that until I can actually speak to a real person. Maybe ppl my age and older just assume kids to know that?

And if you didn't know that, don't feel bad just google some examples of "Professional Email examples" or something. There's a LOT of shit I don't know and when I say, "oh I dont know how to do that" ppl are always like "omg really?" like yea sorry this type of thing never came up for me. Everyone has different experiences in life or learns at different times in their life. I think if you're polite from the start people will forgive you. But also be ready to maybe not get a response if that does happen.

fixyourwritinghabits

This absolutely is a huge issue and these critical skills are not being taught in high school. It sucks that kids these days have to go out and learn basic things they will encounter at jobs, like Microsoft Excel and effective online communication and I'm not blaming anyone who lacks these skills at all.

These programs have been cut at fundamental levels because people assume teenagers know know how to do it. But Microsoft Office is expensive as hell and a lot of people don't have laptops or home computers. These gaps exist in the education system, and while folks are out there trying to get them addressed, it never hurts to build those skills yourself with whatever tools you can find. There's no shame on anybody for not knowing what they don't know.

casket-of-beauty

red-mercer

People who sculpt in marble do fabrics and shit just to flex don’t they

paulsebert

Marble is a medium in which you can be horny on main and everyone’s like “wow that’s classy.”

alexaloraetheris

I think having skills to construct flesh out of stone gives you as much right to be horny on main as any creator god.

cosimaloveshalloween

paulcifur-deactivated20240310

hotsaucebear

maltedsoda

similar vibe to this absolutely unhinged car

insomniac-arrest

brightwanderer

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

gvq

scarlett-the-seachild

think this has to be one of my favourite headlines of anything ever

dingusmcdougall-deactivated2023

The best thing about that article is that there gets to be a point where you’re like surely. Surely we can’t get sexier and less-martyr-y than this. And that point is about a 3rd of the way through the piece.