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One might say, networking is getting to know and connect with people.

But.

It's not actually networking, it's branching out, all your little twigs and leaves starting to touch other trees until make a happy little canopy (with the occasional conifer in between).

young me especially would have hated hearing this but networking is literally the most important thing you can do to improve your situation like forget economic barriers to education etc just keep making friends with different people and eventually someone will offer you a hand up just because they dig your vibe and that is exactly all that's happening when undeserving people surpass you anyway

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I think I should feel mildly concerned because I'm relating to House so strongly. In that "everything thinks I'm not secretly an asshole when will they finally learn" kind of way.

#house md

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For the past two weak's, I've been binging House. I'm mid-season 3 and I really need a break from all the medical drama. Give me pure, condensed House/main cast banter and maybe some hilarious clinic hours and spare me the entirely irrelevant "it's Lupus" "no it's not" "now the patient is bleeding from one to six orifices" crap. Please. I'm there for House being an asshole, not the medical lingo and needle-diving-into-tissue close-ups.

#house #house md #medical malpractice

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I thought I was alone in this

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There is nothing that takes the motivation to comment on a fic away from me faster than

"This work's creator has chosen to moderate comments on the work. Your comment will not appear until it has been approved by the creator."

My comments are not an assignment turned in to be graded, thank you very much.

#ao3 #fanfic

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being alive is great because there are so many different vegetables you can sauté. but then there are also the horrors

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are the two brothers from supernatural really gay for each other or is that a fan thing

are you really asking me if a network television show from the mid-aughts had canonical gay incest in it

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Not a lot to do with "seeking a home".

Everything to do with people or things stalking you at home, where it hurts.

forever and always insane about the fact that haunting means "heimsuchen" in german which literally translates to "homeseeking". a haunting is a search for a home you can never return to

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and i would swim 500 miles and i would waddle 500 more just to be the walrus that swam a thousand miles to knock on your door

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I've asked this question before and been surprised by the results, now I have access to more weirdos it's your problem:

It is the middle of a Sunday afternoon. You have nothing on, and aren't expecting visitors, deliveries or post.

Unexpectedly, there is a knock at the door.

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yeah I'm a fan of like, one of the most popular bands ever but I like them in a better way than the other million people guys I swear

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A customer contacted our team with questions, and then finished their email with: "I am daunted by the complexities and unknowns." I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since.

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*white knuckling the bathroom sink* do NOT infodump ppl about the fact that the first spn fic was a wincest one and that it was posted mere hours after the pilot and that the founder of ao3 was a wincestie and that the first fic on ao3 was wincest too and that the omegaverse as we know it was created by wincest shippers for jared/jensen fics *pointing at myself in the mirror with a shaky hand* ppl will think you're weird and off-putting you need to control yourself–

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After roughly twenty years in fandom, these are the things that make me skip a fic at first glance:

huge walls of tags

tags that are overly meta and lay out not only the central conflict but the entire resolution, aka the plot

questions in the summary

explanations and justifications in the summary

activism anywhere I can see it

formating issues that become apparent in the summary, e.g. the summary is too long, wrong punctuation, sp&g issues beyond the occasional typo,

"I'm bad at summaries"

WIPs

a word count/chapter ratio that indicates that chapters are less than two thousand words on average

a word count higher than 300 k, not because I don't like reading long fic but because anything beyond that is unlikely to still be compelling

drabbles, drabble collections

AUs

summaries that summarize the entire fic

summaries that are so devoid of anything even remotely intriguing or original that they could have been written by AI

"this is my first fic ever"

no summary at all

cringeworthy titles

anything AI-related

Things that make me skip a fic at the first paragraph:

formating issues (no paragraph breaks, no empty lines between paragraphs)

wrong dialogue punctuation. No, really, I hate it.

epithets

exclamation marks (sometimes even one is enough)

introducing the main characters and the setting as if the readers didn't know them

non-intentional switching between past and present tense, especially if it happens repeatedly

flowery prose

boring introductions

untagged AU or A/B/O

Things that (likely) make me stop reading a fic provided I've made it that far:

badly written sex scenes

formulaic sex scenes

abundance of dialogue tags; the more creative they are, the faster I'm out

capslock

"cum"

immersion-breaking attempts at putting dialect into writing (if I can no longer read it at the same speed as the rest)

extensive notes before each chapter that outline possible triggers or explain the fic

worse, lines inserted into the text to warn the reader that something possibly triggering will now happen or be discussed

And all that is really just formalities. When it comes to the actual content, I'm just picky as fuck.

#fanfic #writing

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superb fairywrens

what

A little over a decade ago, researchers in Australia were placing recorders in the nests of superb fairywrens (Malurus cyaneus) when they discovered something entirely unexpected. The female songbirds were singing to their unhatched eggs. Even more astonishing, when the chicks finally hatched, experts noticed that all the birds that grew up in the same nest used a similar tune to beg their mother and father for food.

Continue Reading.

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