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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

i will now be reporting any donation asks sent to me as spam. i used to vet each one i got (and they were often verifiably spam, but the influx has become too much and my energy too little. if you are somehow a real person sending me requests for donation and you don’t want to be marked as spam, this is your chance to back out

hey i have other blogs!

so, here’s a pinned post telling you to not just look at this mess of a blog but also my other blogs!

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my dreamwidth, probably will have similar vibes to my art blog

ART

@bismutharts, my art blog where i post my own art. this one is so super important to me and you should all follow it. i do digital art, crochet, knitting, sometimes poetry, embroidery, fun stuff!

@its-all-good-here, my art blog for other people’s art, especially stuff that inspires me in some way

@all-the-fashion, primarily fashion, largely historical, but sometimes i decide that non-fashion images that are useful as reference images go there as well

@writing-and-drawing-prompts, my inspiration blog, mostly for writing but a little bit for drawing, also where i put how-to’s for both of those

@could-be-incorrect-quotes, a blog once borne out of a plan to make one of those “incorrect-X-quotes” blogs, but now it’s just anythinig that’s a cool quote, there’s actually a tagging system that’s moderately adhered to here, and i’ve got a theme on desktop

OTHER

@cadmium1040, my oldest sideblog, that is a lot like my main but slightly more focus on fandom and just. less. if you like this blog but wish it’d not overtake your dash, go follow that one

@jesus-judas-coffeeshop-au, my religious sideblog

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ohmystcrs
teaboot

My boss has a new boss who's been dropping in to check on how different sites are doing and I keep introducing her to the clients by going "This is Hank. Hank, this is my boss's boss, she's very important, please tell her nice things about me" and that's my big Autistic secret to professional networking. Letting them think you're funny

teaboot

Other fun Professional Hacks:

  1. "Networking" doesn't have to feel like one big huge façade of manipulation and lies. You just find people you like. The things you talk about don't even have to be related, you just gotta find people who you like working with who you might reach out to for questions or projects later.
  2. You don't need to look professional and respectable or like a "real" adult. I like to just show up and make it clear I'm receptive to jokes and quirks and weird ideas, and the people who vibe with that usually come to me.
  3. Introduce people you like to other people you like. Talk them up. You can tell your boss "This is Mike he kicks ass, he knows everything about this place, if you want to know something talk to him, if he ever quits we're stealing him"
  4. I found can't think of a polite or socially normal way to say something, sometimes you can just say it like "I don't know if this is dumb or not but I don't know anything about this. Can you explain what you mean?", or "I was taught something different. Should I change how I've been doing it?". I've never had a negative reaction to this.
  5. When in doubt, ask a weird question. "What's your favorite dessert food" is a p good one. Sometimes folks think I'm childish but at least they know what they're getting into and they know I'm not judging them.
  6. Sometimes when higher-ups approach me with a stiff upper lip I'll test the waters with a "is your job as insane as it sounds" or something similar to remind them that I, a worker performing a role, and speaking to them, a worker performing a role. If they give a stiff and measured answer I stay distant and professional. If their performance cracks and their tone changes or they smile or laugh or give a funny reply I know I can relax and joke a bit too.

I still don't enjoy business stuff outside of the most basic day to day duties of my job and conventions n shit are still pretty draining but learning that other people are also following a script and the performance has room for "yes-and" type improv has helped a lot

vinceaddams
rosenkranz-does-things

an illustration of Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. it depicts a statue of the Faun, holding one finger up to his lips, and in his other hand he holds a pan flute. sitting in the crook of the Faun's elbow and putting his arms around his neck is a dark skinned man wearing rags and green running shoes. he's much smaller than the statue, which makes him look like an infant in his father's arms. below the statue there are waves crashing on its plinth. around the Faun there are several rooks, one sitting on his horn, another on his flute. it appears to be a bright sunny day.ALT

Suddenly I saw in front of me the Statue of the Faun, the Statue that I love above all others. There was his calm, faintly smiling face; there was his forefinger gently pressed to his lips. In the past I have always thought he meant to warn me of something with that gesture: Be careful! But today it seemed to mean something quite different: Hush! Be comforted! I climbed up on to his Plinth and flung Myself into his Arms, wrapping my arm around his Neck, intertwining my fingers with his Fingers. Safe in his embrace, I wept for my lost Sanity. Great, heaving sobs rose up, almost painfully, from my chest.

Hush! he told me. Be comforted!

I resolve to take better care of Myself.

imperatorsapphiosa
andhumanslovedstories

I started using Head and Shoulders ten years ago for itchy scalp and dandruff, and then for ten years I have not had itchy scalp and dandruff, so I thought “why do I still buy shampoo to combat itchy scalp and dandruff when I do not have itchy scalp and dandruff,” so I stopped buying the shampoo for itchy scalp and dandruff and can you guess I have now? Can you predict what currently afflicts me? It’s alright if you can’t because apparently I fuckin couldn’t either

andhumanslovedstories

Cutting something out of your life because you think you don’t need it any more only to realize that it was in fact working as intended and preventing a problem that will return should you stop doing this is a good experiment to run periodically with something small like dandruff shampoo, lest you start to think it would be a good idea to do this with like let’s say public health and the social safety net and vaccines

thomrainierskies

I had a liver transplant when I was 14 and like six months later I was chatting with my surgeon and he said “there’s gonna come a time, probably when you’re a teenager, where you’re gonna think, ‘I feel great, why am I still taking all this medication? I haven’t needed it in years.’ and you’re gonna want to stop taking all this medication. Guess what’s gonna happen then? You’re gonna go into rejection and your liver is gonna start failing, and you’re gonna be dying again, and we’re gonna have to find you another liver. So don’t do that.” And I said “why the fuck would anyone do that?” and he said “people are stupid.”

every once in a while when I get annoyed by a pharmacy or don’t wanna get out of bed to do my drugs I think “ugh, this is dumb, why do I do this?” and that conversation slams into me like a truck and I remember that I am, in fact, stupid

zenosanalytic

#you are not immune to the recency bias(via@arrows-for-pens)

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Every person on earth needs to read this post. It will make people’s lives a lot better and lessen the crises everyone faces in day-to-day lives.

ziggy-scardust

I reblog this every time I see it because I am not immune to the recency bias

prokopetz

the-august-one asked:

Begging, pleading for examples of this

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prokopetz answered:

(With reference to this post here.)

There’s already tons of examples in the notes – just read ‘em.

(One of my personal favourites is the anecdote about how Hidetaka Suehiro accidentally made the protagonists of all of his games hypoglycemic via the particulars of the hunger mechanics because – as it it later transpired – he had undiagnosed hypoglycemia himself.)