He raised a villain

lihua is so unintentionally funny guys she's eating up all those erotica books maomao provides SHAMELESSLY😭 LOOK AT HER

rip lady lihua you would've loved the emperor x reader & smut tags on ao3 and tumblr

maomao when every important figure in the empire keeps asking for her help

selfshipping is cool when you're 13 and it's also cool when you're 40. everyone should selfship forever

the tragedy of tumblr is you will inevitably meet people who you should be having a sleepover with. you should be rolling around on their floor and rummaging through their fridge and watching shitty movies with. you should be shopping with should be going out to a cafe with should be wandering through the aquarium with. people who you should be experiencing quotidian joys with... and you cannot! because they live one million miles away

♬⋆.˚ Well it's a little bit dangerous, my friend˚.⋆♬

logging onto tumblr is basically just saying hi i'm annoying sad and horny and i'm gonna make it everyone's problem

How to put “wrote fan-fiction” on your résumé:

Leveraged an inventory of established fictional character and setting elements to generate a disruptive custom-curated narrative entertainment asset.

I worked in HR, handling applications and interviews, and if someone turned in that string of techno babble nonsense, I would have rejected them out of hand.

A resume doesn’t need to sound fancy or overly technical, it needs to tell us why we should hire you.

“Independent novelist/writer” is more than sufficient here. If you want to express the skills that fan fiction taught you, something like, “creative writing, editing, and publication,” will get you a lot further than… Whatever that just was.

A resume should be tailored to the position, if you can afford the time and energy for that. But if not, then just think about what writing got fandom taught you. How to respond to criticism, how to present a professional pubic face, how to correct punished mistakes, creative thinking, project planning, persuasion via emotional leverage, html formatting, office suite fluency.

There are a lot of actual, marketable skills that go into fan fiction.

How to put “I was in a zine” on your resume

Writer:

Artist:

Merch artist / graphic designer:

Running a zine

This is so good! The only thing I would add is, avoid passive voice and “can/able to” constructions in your bullet points. If you did the thing and are putting it on your resume as a reason to hire you, it’s safe to assume you can do the thing. What you want to show is that you’ve DONE the thing successfully, within limitations, or above and beyond expectations. Example:

“Able to keep layout design simple and in accordance with the project director’s chosen theme” could be changed to “Designed layouts in accordance with the project director’s specifications and chosen theme”.

Your bullet points should start with a verb whenever possible. Created, Managed, Organized, Edited, Designed, etc. It’s also a good idea to make the tense and person of your bullet points match as much as possible.

Have bullet points that are about meeting money goals, reducing costs, or solving problems? Put those at the very top!

Lastly, unless your resume is short and you’re looking for things to add (which is fine! we’ve all been there) I would recommend looking at each individual position you’ve listed and picking out the top 3-5 skills or triumphs for that position that are different from those demonstrated in other positions. They might build on each other, but ideally they should not be the exact same.

The moral of the story is, you don’t have to turn “I can do fanfic things” into a string of bullshit, because it involves actual skills that you can actually brag about.

Fic writers and artists and editors are prone to think of the issue as, “How can I fool Human Resources into thinking these Trivial Fan Things translate to real skills—” No. Stop that. I will wallop you with a fish. They are real skills. You just have to have a little information about how these skills can be presented on a resume, and maybe a little thought about how they are relevant for the specific job you want.

(In my experience, “Can express yourself clearly in text,” is of interest to most employers. I once got a part-time job because I sent a fiction piece to a courthouse reporter and he hired me because I had Proper Respect For The English Language and I pet his dog a lot during the interview. Fiction had nothing to do with the job in question but holy hell did that job teach me to do better summaries.)

So, I’ve been having a couple ideas and don’t know what I should start with! Then I remembered polls are a thing and you all can decide!

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Cerberus at the pet store