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Dan Howell’s consent matters.
Dan Howell’s comfort matters.
WE are more than crazed teenagers that scream over how attractive he is, and HE is more than some attractive boy that crazed teenagers scream over.
He should not have to take it “because of the lols” and we should not be afraid to speak up “because of the lols” and I hate that he feels he should and I hate that some of us feel we should
He is SO MUCH MORE than what the media/youtube culture is reducing him to and we are SO MUCH MORE than what the media/youtube culture is trying to reduce us to
There is nothing wrong with recognizing that you think someone is attractive, nothing wrong with pointing out that someone is recognized as attractive. However it is wrong to reduce someone’s entire carreer and intelligence to the fact that people do find him attractive. WE are more than crazy, hormonal teenage girls. HE is more than some pretty boy we gush over. HE is intelligent, articulate, creative and a wonderful creator and WE are intelligent, articulate, creative and wonderful fans (most of us anyway).
He may have been problematic some times, and some fans may have gone overboard. I am not a stan of any kind.
But Dan Howell’s consent matters. His comfort matters.
And we should never shut about that.
dont like me ? well come and kill me be the change you wish to fucking see
apparently porn bots are now hacking into in-use accounts (I’m assuming larger accounts) and posting while the blog owner is still active.
holy fuck.
why are staff so incompetent
rather than fixing their obviously very flawed code and development, they’re deciding to ban tits? fucking tits?
that being said, although it’s so unlikely this will happen to me, please know that it’s not me posting these links and photos. Please dont click on the links.
oh my god.
,,,,,I have a concept
Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.
Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.
Isaac Asimov.
yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point
If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels
Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it
even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?
PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame
And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.
Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:
Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.
Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.
You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.
Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it
I have literally been telling people this for over a year.
the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman
The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).
The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.
This is gonna be a long list.
IM SORRY BUT WHERE THE HELL ON HERE IS THERE ADULT CONTENT??????????????????????????? How do I remove this utter bull crap and get my post reinstated?
@staff what r u doing
Right now, I’m sifting through 50+ applications for a new entry-level position. Here’s some advice from the person who will actually be looking at your CV/resume and cover letter:
This is my advice for small, independent orgs like charities, etc. We usually don’t go through agencies, and the person reading through the applications is usually the person who will manage you, so it helps if you can give them a real sense of who you are and how you’ll grab hold of that entry level position and give it all you’ve got. This stuff might not apply to big companies with actual HR departments - it’s up to you to figure out the culture and what they’re looking for and mirror it. Do they use buzzwords? Use the same buzzwords! Do they write in a friendly, informal way? Do the same! And remember, 95% of job hunting (beyond who you know and flat-out nepotism, ugh) is luck. If you keep getting rejected, it’s not because you suck. You might just need a different approach, or it might just take the right pair of eyes landing on your CV.
And if you get rejected, it’s worthwhile asking why. You’ve already been rejected, the worst has already happened, there’s really nothing bad that can come out of you asking them for some constructive feedback (politely, informally, “if it isn’t too much trouble”). Pretty much all of us have been hopeless jobseekers at one point or another. We know it’s shitty and hard and soul-crushing. Friendliness goes a long way. Even if it’s just one line like “your cover letter wasn’t inspiring" at least you know where to start.
And seriously, if you have any friends that do any kind of hiring or have any involvement with that side of things, ask them to look at your CV with a big red pen and brutal honesty. I do this all the time, and the most important thing I do is making it so their CV doesn’t read exactly like that of every other person who took the same ‘how-to-get-a-job’ class in school. If your CV has a paragraph that starts with something like ‘I am a highly motivated and punctual individual who–’ then oh my god I AM ALREADY ASLEEP.
Very good post thanks for this.
Excellent advice for building and submitting job application documents.
This is the first good resume advice post I’ve seen on this site. Much better advice than the “lists of active verbs to use” and “here are resume templates”. Follow this advice.
Self care isn’t always washing your hair and wearing nice clothes. Sometimes, it’s doing more difficult tasks like summoning an ancient entity to help around the house or finding the right number of bones and the right drink to appease the old gods that hang around you.
neither, bc brownies are fucking nasty and so are the bitches who eat them
I’m sorry that nobody in your family can bake
my moms a private chef and im in culinary training dont roast us like this
i’m sorry that your mom went to culinary school and still can’t bake :(
liberals be like: who wants to get evicted at gun point because your poor, but by a good cop!!!
Our Pink Cops will evict you at gunpoint, but they’ll be LGBT-friendly about it!
A cop, pinning me to the wall and dislocating my shoulder: WHAT ARE YOUR PRONOUNS WHAT ARE YOUR PROUNOUNS
My fiancé just whispered in my ear, “you’re my secret Santa”
so I said “what?”
And he went, “ah shit I meant soulmate”
The boy forgot the word for soulmate and his brain thought, “it’s called secret Santa”
