ok last call for my new blog

im forcibly cutting myself off from here cuz holy shit am i being lazy or what at swapping over, like this post if i havent already given it to you cuz at the end of today im OUTIE

im now fully over @ my new blog!! moving cuz i want a fresher more organized start and there’s a lot of stuff i’m embarrassed about here

There is the “gender bread person” and now there is the “snowflake/gender dragon” :D 

thanks for the cute new fursona

fanart for the fursona, who prefers they/them pronouns and is cool with cis people, prob has a girlfriend

is also a feminist but not a radfem bc radfems are transphobic and this dragon is fucking non-binary

Holy heck this is so good and cute! Really nice soft shading that makes em look so huggably soft, and gentle expression. Wonderful job! I love it!

ooh i like them

I had to draw them…they’re gay and non-binary. 

I can’t wait till they destroy the gender binary

Someone draw them as fat too bc that’ll piss off op as well (((:

here’s another 🖤

Wooaahh this is so good! The anatomy is great and I adore the cool foot talons, the sassy expression and the nice new shirt! Fantastic job!

I had to draw the gay non-binary D R A G O N 

Love this!! The pose and expression ooze attitude, and I love the little details like the extra scales on the talons and the nose piercing. Fantastic!!

I support them!

You drew them so cutely! The shapes of their body are wonderful, love the little dainty talons and smile. Amazing work!

I wanted to contribute with a pixelart portrait I made on my phone! I support them, they’re A+ wonderful

woah, you did this on a phone? it’s so good!! Love the big smile and spiky punk hair! Great job!

oh my gosh there’s more!

This is the most important Fuck You I have ever seen on this blue hellsite and god bless them and all of you

“pineapples” except pronounced like “minneapolis”

Scientists invented fabric that makes electricity from motion and sunlight. To create the fabric, researchers at Georgia Tech wove together solar cell fibers with materials that generate power from movement. It could be used in “tents, curtains, or wearable garments,” meaning we’d virtually never be without power. Source

Y'all are fucking idiots. Clean energy will NEVER be enough to replace the energy we have now. We’d have to tear down DOZENS of forests just to fit enough windmills and solar panels to get even a QUARTER (probably less, tbh) of the energy we can produce now.

Yeah, sure, when they’ve already calculated that a few square miles of panels in the empty ass Arizona desert could power the whole nation. But ok, fracking and the diminishing petroleum supply is worlds better.

Nevermind that windmills are often most efficient off the coast. There they take up no land, impact no trees, don’t pollute the water, and are conveniently located where winds are often strongest anyway.

And solar panels can literally be built into roofs of buildings and in empty areas like deserts. The sun strikes the Earth with the same amount of energy in an hour that our civilization uses in a year.

But yeah, it would be impossible for us to ever have enough energy from clean sources.

Durr hurr technology is bad and I would rather light shit on fire than have clean energy

I can also testify to the Arizona desert being empty ass. And the California desert. And the Nevada desert. 

also…no forests were cleared to make space for Denmark’s windmills and yet they regularly produce so much power that it covers almost all of the country’s power needs. Oh, and then there’s the times when the windmills generate 140% of Denmark’s power needs. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/10/denmark-wind-windfarm-power-exceed-electricity-demand

Friendly reminder that oil pipelines are a scam.

The fact that anyone can believe a limited amount of dinosaur oil is more plentiful and efficient than moving air or fucking sunlight is proof that entire populations can be completely brainwashed.

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.

@loveybun here’s more job stuff!!

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if U say U wanna fuck dragons but ur rly talking about that maid girl from the anime then ur a fake dragon fucker

A new slur

I’m actually a somewhat notable blogger in the aro sphere, but because I’m also an otherkin, I don’t necessarily feel comfortable talking about this completely there, as the person I’m known as. 

I’ve noticed that there are a lot of people who doubt that aromantics are actually queer, and even some who doubt that we face oppression. And I think in part that’s because we don’t have a slur to point to. I mean, we experience things that are just as bad, if not worse, as the things that queer allosexuals face, but we don’t really have a slur to point to.

And that’s where my idea comes in. I believe that because, once we’re found out to be aromantic, people usually call us robots or imply that we don’t have feelings, we actually do have a slur to point to.

ARObots. That’s basically what they’re calling us. And because I firmly believe that slurs should be reclaimed, and only by those affected by the slur(queer), I think we should all start to reclaim this slur. 

People who want to believe that they’re “allies” to the aro community should take heed: Don’t you dare fucking use the word arobot. (Unless you’re a robotkin, which I think is a whole different set of oppressions, and also if you are, we should be friends! Hi!). 

To the aro community: in order to make people see that we’re in fact oppressed, I think it’s important that we make it clear that arobot is a slur, and something we’re reclaiming. No one else, (save robotkin) should be allowed to use this term to hurt us. We’re reclaiming it, and people who use it are actively participating in the oppression that keeps us marginalized. They are arophobic.

Basically: Here’s a slur that applies to us, and that people have been throwing around and claiming isn’t a slur, and here’s us reclaiming it and making it clear that anyone who calls us this, who isn’t aro, is in fact an oppressor and has to check their alloromantic privilege.

Used in a sentence:

I’m arobot.

Yo, what’s up my arobot?

We are arobots.

@blackmodel this post

bitch who has ever said this word LMFAOOOOOOOO

i genuinely wrote this

ok last call for my new blog

im forcibly cutting myself off from here cuz holy shit am i being lazy or what at swapping over, like this post if i havent already given it to you cuz at the end of today im OUTIE

I just closed the door to the stall in a bathroom at LAX and saw this lovely message

I’m not about to kinkshame a whole aquarium but

carry me into the sunset, my cephalopod prince

The most and least remembered states in Sporcle quizzes

Midwestphobia….