My brother, walking into Lowe’s to see a giant Halloween display: …it’s July.
Me, on tumblr every day for 9 years: It’s the only thing standing between us and Christmas. Goth kids hold the line.
My brother: Yeah, okay. That’s fair.
in my last fictional necromancer battle poll, MANY people brought up how i had left out a NOTABLE character, so. REMATCH:
reblog with YOUR REASONING SHOW YOUR WORK.
SPOILERS!
round three interview next Friday in person with the local office
Like to charge, reblog to cast.
Really, really, really want this job.
Also really want the loan to go through from the credit union, but if I get the new job paying it back will be much easier.
yeah bro it's a character study. the 2 thousand words of blowjob is vital to the study of the character
Sorry Derek, I cannot reblog it without your tags as they are just... the essence. The extract 🤌
if y’all do good vibes please send them to me, I have a second round interview on Friday and I really want this fucking job
You guys know you can reblog my posts right
I am filled with a deep, seething, violence-inducing rage as cold as the Marianas Trench. My body is shaking with the effort of not strangling the next living thing I come across.
Would you like a pro tip? Never ever tell an employee that their role is 'exempt' from participating in the use of a professional development tool. ESPECIALLY never say this to an administrative professional.
I have been an administrative professional for over a decade, and I am capable of thoroughly wrecking your professional shit without ever making it seem less than utterly reasonable and polite. I have had my fill of being the only person on the team who doesn't get regular meetings with my boss to discuss my career path and what is needed to move up. I am SO. GODSDAMN. TIRED. of people treating administrative professionals as static figures who don't need to feel like they are growing in their career.
Administrative professionals make it possible for EVERYONE ELSE to do their jobs. The range of tasks we handle as a matter of fact would stagger anyone else. Just because boomer and gen x management don't UNDERSTAND how to develop administrative professionals because their perception of our jobs is Mad Men-esque doesn't 'exempt' them from having to DO THEIR FUCKING JOBS.
If you don't know how to develop an administrative professional, you have no business being in management. But as we're apparently well beyond fixing that particular problem, I have an easy solution for you: ASK THEM. I'm absolutely 112% certain you'll get a detailed response including timelines, cost of any external conferences, the benefits the department will receive from requested learning opportunities, and the title, responsibilities, and expected salary of the position they'd like to have in 3 years. And if you can follow through with a discussion and the ability to follow a development plan, you've earned a significant amount of loyalty from a powerful professional.
Don't ever tell any employee that they are 'exempt' from professional development. What you're actually telling them is that you don't care about them or their professional aspirations. That is THE quickest way to ensure that they are disengaged, unmotivated, and a huge flight risk. Call me crazy, but I'd think that would be something you'd want to avoid with one of the unique positions in a team whose job it is to handle the things no one else thinks of.
This. Shit. Right. Here.
so I like multiple pov 3rd person omniscient because I write a lot of sex and I write a lot of dialogue, and it’s integral to my structure in both instances to know what thoughts are going on in people’s heads
like, usually I do end up writing 3rd person limited, but I reserve the right to switch perspectives at any time/when it feels right, and I know what all the characters are thinking, so why wouldn’t I tell you if I thought you might be curious?
anyway I also write Narrator As Character (but not in first person), because that is also fun, and when the text itself has opinions and an agenda in spite of not being a person in the usual sense, it’s very funny
Casey, Jr. Circus Train, Disneyland
1950s concept art by Bruce Bushman
It's so funny getting into heated discussions about reading preference styles with some people. I'm in a Discord group chat, and the topic of different POVs in fiction came up, and it was apparently a popular opinion in the group that multiple POVs in a book is "garbage" and "hot trash."
I kind of laughed it off as a funny quirk, then mentioned I couldn't relate because I find singular POVs to be extremely dull and a major turn-off when it comes to reading. But y'know, to each their own. Brains like what they like.
The temperature of the group chat got noticeably chillier, and I was informed curtly that several people in the group write singular POVs and I should think before I speak.
I said I know, just like they know I write multiple POVs, but they felt fine trashing that.
"Well, that's different."
"Why?"
"Because you're a fluke. No one likes reading multiple POVs."
Oh-kay. Again, I didn't want to get heated over it and again reiterated that not everyone's writing style will vibe for everyone. I then helpfully added, "It's like, y'know. I don't particularly enjoy first-person narratives, either. They feel juvenile to me, probably because they're predominant in a lot of YA lit, and it's jarring to read in adult fic. Doesn't mean it's bad; it just means I don't like it."
Anyway. I'll let you know when they're done burning me at the stake.
I arrive at the Group Chat Multiple POVs in the book. Narrative third personed. Tits out. I am forcibly removed from the Chat.
Ah, a poll! Wonderful.
To the surprise of literally none of my followers, I like multiple POVs with omniscient third person narrators.
Everyone who reads my writing knows this.
Part of me wants to choose one thing and stick with it. It's hard to market myself as a photographer, dancer, tarot reader, painter, illustrator, author, and florist all at once.
But all of these things are me.
One of my uncles ran (maybe he still does, I'm not sure actually) a flower shop from which he also did singing telegrams, hot air balloon rides during which he could legally officiate weddings as the captain of a registered vessel, and the traffic reports for the local radio station (plus gorillagrams, but he sometimes hired a guy for those because the suit was really stuffy and I don't blame him, South Carolina heat doesn't fuck around). He just lumped it all together under the persona of Captain Telegram and called it a career and nobody could tell him shit about shit, because whatever he felt like adding to the job description, that's just what Captain Telegram does, of course he's doing it because he's Captain Telegram. I think your list of stuff might actually be slightly more cohesive than his even, but it definitely reminds me of him.
(I came by my ADHDtism very honestly and it really shows when you look at the rest of my family, lmao.)
Your uncle is an absolute person. Quintessential guy. Possibly even a dude. I love that for him.
Being from South Carolina I was not surprised at all to see that’s where this man is from. Absolutely an SC thing to do.
Yeah, I agree; that checks out as South Carolina behavior.
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yeah bro it's a character study. the 2 thousand words of blowjob is vital to the study of the character
