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beaft · 7 days
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if i think about job hunting too much i get so angry that my face blows up and goes bright red like a person in a cartoon. so i try not to
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angelwiththeblue-box · 5 months
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you ever just cry about jatp
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betterbooktitles · 22 days
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The screen I spend the most time with these days is a black LCD monitor attached to a PC in an indie bookshop on Long Island. I spend whole days looking at point-of-sale software called Anthology which also keeps track of the store’s inventory. Often, it’s accurate. Occasionally, it says we have three copies of The Bell Jar that have simply disappeared from the face of the Earth. No one stole them. They were raptured, like socks that never make it out of the dryer.
If you’ve never worked a retail job, let me tell you what it’s like: you come in with a little spring in your step, caffeinated, and ready to greet your coworkers and update them on how terrible your last shift without them was. Though the memory of the previous shift’s slog might give you a little anxiety, and though a hangover can make your fuse a little short, you’re in a better mood at the start of the day than at the end. Tedious tasks like ordering and unboxing books (sci-fi movies did not prepare me for how much cardboard there would be in the future) seem manageable in the morning. Customers seem kind. The items you’re selling feel necessary to human happiness. Whatever is going on in your life is put on pause to manage store operations, and time flies. Then, by 3 PM, whether you had time for lunch or not, you wish you had done anything else with your day — or, better yet — your life. 
While the back-straining work of moving inventory around the store or walking the floor helping customers all day without a second to sit down might make you physically tired, the real work of retail is mental and forces employees to become part-machine. Retail workers have to ask the same three questions (“Rewards?” “Bag?” “Receipt?”) and reply to the same three questions (“Have it?” “Bathroom?” “Manager?!?!?”) for 8-10 of their most worthwhile waking hours. 
In bookstores, there is the added expectation that while you’re participating in this mind-numbing routine, you’re at least able to pretend to like and engage with literature. I'm not arguing that people working at Old Navy aren’t eloquent or as over-educated for their job as I am. If they aren’t teenagers, most retail employees I’ve encountered have, by virtue of talking to coworkers and customers all day, the same high emotional intelligence as the smartest people I know who chain smoke outside bars. Still, my guess is that it’s rare for a customer to see a clothing store employee folding clothes, and think “I wonder what their opinion is of the latest Ann Patchett book” or “I wonder if they read Knausgård and run a book club when they’re not helping me find jeans in my size.” People see booksellers doing the same tedious tasks as any other retail employee and assume they not only possess unlimited knowledge about the state of publishing but also have unlimited hours to read while in the store. Customers hold booksellers to an impossible intellectual standard. When they fail to live up to said standard, they’re subjected to conversations like this:
“You haven’t read the latest Kingsolver?” a customer will ask, “Why not? What about this one? Or that one? It’s so good though! I thought you would have read all of these!” 
What’s a shame is that they think they’re being kind when they half-recommend, half-admonish bookstore employees. Worse are the people who are flat-out rude. Case in point, a man came into the store at hour six of my shift, and without any preamble, treating me like I was a human Google search bar, said the name of an author, then started spelling the name. When I asked for a second to look up what I assumed he was asking for, he rolled his eyes and began spelling slowly and loudly: “PAUL. P…A…U…” 
Sadly, I’m too old to be treated that way and without thinking I raised my hand and said sternly “Don’t do that.” Now some oblivious retired banker is walking around Long Island asking himself why indie booksellers are so mean. My Midwestern niceness has disappeared, my helpful attitude is now nonexistent. I have been worn down by the people I’m paid to be kind to.
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napping-sapphic · 2 months
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my boyfriend is trans, mtf but doesn't like that i consider my sexuality sapphic. what do i do? doesn't sapphic also apply to trans men?
Ah.
Another advice ask😓
Yall i appreciate that some of you feel comfortable asking me for relationship advice or that you might be comfortable here since im an anonymous stranger etc
HOWEVER, let me be straight up honest with you— i havent ever been in an actual relationship, im a MAJOR shut in so i’m not at all up to date with all the minutiae of the queer community, full on i have averaged leaving the house one (1) single time PER MONTH for the last FIVE months
I do not want to give you bad/naive/shortsighted advice
And i promise you do not want my bad advice
I am begging you Please do not ask me for advice i am so stressed
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Masterpost of my Analysis, Artwork, and Fanfiction
So, apparently my link formatting was limiting me on my old masterpost, so I'm making this new one. Old masterposts will be linked at the end.
Literary Analysis ("meta") of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman
"I Tried So Hard, and Got So Far, But in the End, it Doesn't Even Matter": The Awkward Meta-Tragedy of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman [google drive version]
Signs of Life: A Season of Mists, Augustus, and a Hopeful Interpretation of The Sandman [google drive version]
Flying? Or Falling with Style? Fear of Falling and Yet Another Analysis of The Sandman [google drive version]
We Need to Talk about Death of the Endless [google drive version]
About The Corinthian...
Dream Killing Bitches, Evil Exes, and Bad Moms: Portrayals of Women in "The Kindly Ones"
Why is Dream's role important and why is he so depressed?
Customized Art Dolls
Dream of the Endless [details] [outfits]
Death of the Endless
Desire of the Endless
In which "I" meet Dream, Death, and Desire (featuring my doll self portrait/OC/dollsona)
Delirium of the Endless [details]
Brief Lives.jpg
In which "I" meet Delirium
Fanfiction
See my Ao3 Here: https://archiveofourown.org/users/EmptyIceCreamContainer
I have written primarily MCU fics, but I do have two Morpheus/Johanna Constantine fics and am open to writing more Sandman-inspired stuff if the inspiration strikes!
Prior Masterposts
Old fic link masterpost
Previous meta masterpost
My original masterpost that got out of control and had half the links break
Tagging those that might want to know:
@serenityspiral @duckland @orionsangel86 @violetoftheendless @roguelov @honeybeezgobzzzzz @dotieeee @notallsandmen @academicblorbo @ambercoloredfox
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acespaceacepilot · 6 months
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yeah i am 30 songs deep into a wyll/astarion playlist what of it
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coldvampire · 1 year
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academia is currently keeping me from making any content for them that isn't just screenshots. unfortunately.
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Wed, 15 Nov
After 2 hours of studying and 2 hours of reading today, I am proud to announce that my first draft for my essay on literary devices in Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy and The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton is done, and I am just over 100 pages in to A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas!
I am so proud of myself considering the gargantuan cold that is wracking its way through my immune system at the moment, and the fact that the sims has been overtaking my entire life for the past 2 weeks.
Let's see if I can do the same tomorrow ...
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timeisacephalopod · 10 months
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All those idiots who say uni educated people should have "just done trades" need to watch me do something as simple as installing a shelf and get asked AGAIN if they think trades are something any idiot can do because if the answer, after watching me swear up a storm for an hour installing THREE shelves, a task so simple a DOG could do it, is still yes they're dumbasses who thinks trades are Super Easy and skill-less and also straight up want their house to kill them if they'd let me touch ANYTHING during construction. Trades are not something everyone can do I can BARELY install a shelf, shit feels so unbelievably unintuitive to me it's like I'm forcing myself to swallow hot coals I have NO idea how people are good at this shit.
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peanutstudying · 1 year
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No one can understand my writing lol 😂
How to solve problem:
Need to make a Anya cipher/secret-code 😎
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nelapanela94 · 2 years
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GUYS
Once I’m done with some kinktober fics I have in mind I’ll jump into the 1k event drabbles and other requests.
Please cope with me.
Love you ❤️
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thisaliennerd · 1 year
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me explaining that i've had to leave school because of my debilitating chronic daily migraines
literally everyone: so...are you working?
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m0e-ru · 1 year
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