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Getting a job:

Ask the Bitches: What the Hell Else Can I Do to Get a Job?

How to Write a Resume so You Actually Have a Prayer of Getting Hired

How to Write a Cover Letter like You Actually Want the Job

How to Frame Volunteering on Your Resume When You’ve Never Had a Job

Prep Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: Getting Ready for a Job Interview

Common Job Interview Questions and How to Answer Them with the Confidence of a Mediocre White Dude

10 Questions You Should Never Be Asked in a Job Interview

What to Wear (and What Not to Wear) to a Job Interview

What to Do When You’re Asked About Your Salary in a Job Interview

How NOT to Determine Your Salary

How to Find Remote Work: On Getting the Elusive Work-From-Home Job

High School Students Have No Way of Knowing What Career to Choose. Why Do We Make Them Do It Anyway?

The Actually Helpful, Nuanced, Non-Bullshit Way to Choose a Future Career

Myers-Briggs Personalities and Income

I Just Applied for a Job. How (And When) Should I Follow Up?

Freelancing and side jobs:

Should Artists Ever Work for Free?

Stop Undervaluing Your Own Work, You Darling Fool

Romanticizing the Side Hustle

The Ugly Truth About Unpaid Internships

Freelancer, Protect Thyself: The Importance of a Fair Contract

Ask the Bitches: My Boss Won’t Give Me a Contract and I’m Freaking Out

Workplace benefits:

Workplace Benefits and Other Cool Side Effects of Employment

Your School or Workplace Benefits Might Include Cool Free Stuff

Take Advantage of No-Copay Medical Care

Dafuq Is a Retirement Plan and Why Do You Need One?

How to Save for Retirement When You Make Less Than $30,000 a Year

Navigating the workplace:

My Secret Weapon for Preparing for Awkward Boss Confrontations

Are You Working on the Next Fyre Festival?: Identifying a Toxic Workplace

Woke at Work: How to Inject Your Values into Your Boring, Lame-Ass Job

Looking Weird at Work

Short Hair DO Care: Why Is Short Hair Still Controversial?

How to Successfully Work from Home Without Losing Your Goddamn Mind (Or Your Job)

Episode 001: “Should I Tell My Boss I’m Looking for Another Job?”

Accepted a Coworker’s Social Media Friend Request? Yeah, You’re Gonna Regret That.

Getting a raise:

Salary Range: Are You Asking for Enough?

A Millennial’s Guide to Growing Your Salary

The First Time I Asked for a Raise

You Need to Ask for a Fucking Raise

Should You Increase Your Salary or Decrease Your Spending?

Getting a promotion:

Santa Isn’t Coming and Neither Is Your Promotion

How I Chessmastered Myself into a Promotion

Job Hoppers vs. Career Loyalists: I Want to See Numbers!

The Fascinating Results of Our Job Hopping vs. Career Loyalty Poll

Confession: I Hate My Job and I Don’t Know How to Leave It

A New Job, a New Day, a New Life, and I’m Feeling Good

Episode 009: “I’ve Given up on My Dream Career. Where Do I Go From Here?”

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Nim’s Island - scenery

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Joe reading to Henry YOU | 3.01

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There are all sorts of angels. Details of painted wings. (The first one is digital art.)

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Yoon Young and Yoon Ji Bae photographed by Songyi Yoon for Marie Claire Korea, December 2020.

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“I think everyone in the world thinks they’re either blessed or cursed. I’ve come to realize I’m neither. I am a curse. Nobody that gets within ten feet of me survives. And God help you if you get up close, skin to skin, then you’re really screwed.”

American Horror Story; Hotel - The Countess

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american horror story meme » [2/3] sad moments: Elsa and Pepper’s farewell. 

No matter how far away I am, I will always be your family.

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A collection of my favorite Myrtle moments

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AMERICAN HORROR STORY SEASON 2 ⇢ ASYLUM 

Just remember, if you look in the face of evil,

                            evil’s going to look right back at you. 

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Rings are one of the oldest forms of bodily adornment.

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Forgotten Women Friday #44

Empress Theodora- 500-548- Byzantine Empire

“The Sex Worker Empress”

Theodora was quite literally the empress of scandal. Born around 500 AD, Theodora was probably either born in Syria or Cyprus, but she grew up in Constantinople. After her father died when Theodora was four years old, she and her older sisters worked as sex workers in a brothel and as actresses (at this time in history there was a very thin line between the two professions). On stage, Theodora became famous for her portrayal of Leda and the Swan, during which, she stripped down to as little as she legally was allowed to in public. Off stage, Theodora was rumored to have taken as many as 40 men to bed in one night. For some time, Theodora was a mistress for multiple men, and it’s likely that she underwent numerous abortions before she was even 18-years-old. When she was 21, the tantalizing Theodora caught the eye of Justinian, the soon-to-be Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire. However, it was forbidden for Justinian, an heir to the throne, to marry an actress, because of their promiscuous lifestyles. Justinian ultimately persuaded his uncle, Justin I, to repeal the law and he happily married Theodora, who became Empress two years later when Justinian succeeded the throne.

Theodora would become one of the most influential empresses in history, and Justinian called her his “partner in my deliberations.” Theodora truly proved herself during the Nika riots of 532 AD. When Justinian’s forces could not control the angry mobs in the streets, the Emperor prepared to flee, but Theodora spoke up saying, “My lords, the present occasion is too serious to allow me to follow the convention that a woman should not speak in a man’s council.” She urged her husband and his men to stay, arguing that it was better to die in power than flee and live in solitude and safety for years to come. Standing in a room full of men, Theodora declared, “May I never be deprived of this purple robe, and may I never see the day when those who meet me do not call me empress.” Theodora’s words won the men over, and Justinian’s army eventually settled the rioting.

After the Nika riots, Justinian never forgot that it was his wife who saved his reign. From then on, he gave Theodora real power, and the two transformed Constantinople into one of the most sophisticated, artistic cities in the world. Theodora got laws passed that advanced women’s rights, such as a law that banned forced prostitution, better known today as sexual trafficking. She also made pimping a crime, made rape punishable by death, and expanded the rights of women over property and in divorce. Theodora died at the age of 48 of cancer, and her husband wept bitterly at her funeral. Along with Justinian, she is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Theodora is the true embodiment of the rags to riches fairy tale and forever remembered in history as the most powerful woman in Byzantium.

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Charlie Says - trailer (2019) 

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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Richard Wright, Native Son (via quotespile)

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Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer Manhunt Tiller Russell USA, 2021

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damn i hate fall season my feet get cold until next summer