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remembering when the something awful forums made a word filter that changed the word "females" so it was surrounded by Ferengi emoji (we called em 'smilies' not emoji back in the day) so it looked like this:

because someone was sick of incels using the word to refer to women

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“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

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A comic inspired by a comment by one of Regular show’s storyboard artists.

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A couple job interview hacks from someone who has to give a job interview every single goddamn day: (disclaimer: this goes for my process and my company’s process, other companies and industries might be different)

1. There are a few things I check and a few questions I ask literally just to figure out if you can play the game and get along with others in a professional setting. Part of the job I interview for is talking to people, and we work in teams. So if you can’t “play the game” a tiny bit, it’s not going to work. Playing the game includes:

- Why do you want to work here? (just prove that you googled the company, tell me like 1 thing about us, I just want to know that you did SOME kind of preparation for this interview)

- Are you wearing professional clothing? I don’t need a suit just don’t show up in a ratty t-shirt and sweatpants.

- Are you able to speak respectfully and without dropping f-bombs all the time? Not because I’m offended but because I don’t want to be reported to HR if you wind up on my team.

- Can you follow simple directions in an interview?

2. Stop telling me protected information. I don’t want to know about what drugs or medications you’re on, I don’t want to know about you being sick, I don’t want to know if you’re planning to have children soon, I don’t want to know anything about your personal life other than “can you do the job?” 

3. When we ask, “What questions do you have for me?” here are my favorites I’ve heard: - What does the day-to-day look like for a member of your team?

- If one of your team members was not performing up to his usual standard, what steps would you take to correct that?

- What can I start doing now to accelerate my learning process in this job?

- What are some reservations you have about me as a candidate? (be ready for this emotionally….it will REALLY help you in the future, and I’ve had people save themselves from a No after this, but can be hard to hear)

- In your opinion, what skills and qualities does the ideal candidate for this job possess?

- What advice would you give to a new hire in this position/someone who wanted to break into this industry, as someone who has worked here for a while?

Those are just my tips off-the-cuff. I work in sales in marketing/SAAS, so these can be very different depending on the industry, but I wish the people I interview could read this before they show up. 

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Mrs. Claus opens "The Year Without a Santa Claus" by claiming the eponymous year took place "before you were born". Seeing as the movie was released in 1974, this means the year must have been before then.

Bounding this on the lower end is the presence of ice hockey - mentioned by Heat Miser - and the use of telephones. Ice hockey was invented in 1875, while Alexander Graham Bell built the telephone in 1876, meaning the year must post-date these. These figures give a range of approximately 100 years during which Santa may have taken his holiday.

Yet, narrowing this further is the presence of a December calendar counting the 1st to a Wednesday. Between 1876 and 1974, only the Decembers of 1880, 1886, 1897, 1909, 1915, 1920, 1926, 1937, 1943, 1948, 1954, 1965, and 1971 started on a Wednesday.

But still this can be narrowed further.

When Santa set out that Christmas Eve, we see what appears to be an almost full Moon in the sky. Within the years listed, only 1920 had a full Moon on Christmas.

Ergo, 1920 was the year without a Santa Claus.

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some bullet points about Madame D’Aulnoy that you may want to know:

she was given by her father as a bride at the age of 15 to a man 30 years older than her, who was a known gambler and overall not good person

she was pregnant at least 4 times before the age of 20, and bid her time until she could get enough information to get her husband convicted for treason

after her husband was released, by convincing the authorities of his innocence, she ran away through a window and hid in a church (some sources say she did some time in prison while pregnant, but the child died young)

she spent years working as a possible spy to gain access to the country again

once back, and after writing spicy memoirs of life in court, she surrounded herself with literary ladies and created salons where they could tell their own stories, starring powerful characters taken from folklore like fairies, goddesses and witches, which could emancipate themselves in ways they had never been able to in real life

she helped friends deal with their abusive husbands, sometimes it went into extreme directions (Angélique Ticquet got her abusive husband murdered and she was executed for it in the end) 

the growth of the stories in her salon got her to include a story in one of her published works in 1695, though she had been telling stories like these since at least 1690

subsequently, she coined the term “fairy tales” (contes de fées) and defined the genre as we know it today

she generated a retroactive popularity of the genre, going back and forth from print to salons, which served to ignite the genre as it was known in Europe in the late 1600s and early 1700s

the majority of published authors of fairy tales during the birth of the genre as a publishing success were women, most of whom were inspired in the salons or by d’Aulnoy’s stories and some of which were friends (some of these include Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier, Catherine Bernard, Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force, Henriette-Julie de Murat and Catherine Durand)

contrary to earlier folk story works, like those of Basile or Straparola, d’Aulnoy and her storytellers were centered on ideas of magic women archetypes

in 1697 she published the first volume of her most famous compilation of stories, which would solidify the genre and its archetypes

that same year Charles Perrault would publish his first fairy tale collection (Histoires ou Contes du Temps passé) under his son’s name, to avoid criticism from the “Ancients” and avoid being connected to a “lesser genre”, having been entirely aware of the salons, the genre and D’Aulnoy’s work, yet this let him be credited, to this day, as “the founder of the modern fairy tale genre”

which is why most of you don’t need bullet points to know who Perrault was, but you possibly don’t know about Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy

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You. Me. Festival.

Also back from kerdly haha

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Dec 4: Remember that time we learned Clark Kent totally peeked at all his Christmas presents with his X-Ray vision? (Justice League, “Comfort and Joy”)

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Blushy blushing Orange collection🍯🧡

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My take on OuterFellSwap bros. since there’s already versions of this AU combination. I’ll just have it be named N!OuterFellSwap instead then. :p

The first pic was made a few weeks ago before I really had anything planned except designs, so the names there are Sans & Papyrus, but I’ve decided to give them other names, like Saiph & Procyon!

There’s a bit more info on them here(WIP)

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Found this on facebook but reposting to SAVE A LIFE.

Or at least some of y’all’s GPAs.

You’re welcome.

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Run, little ferret, run.

An idea concept sketch that I played around when I was brainstorming about the au plot part 3. I’ve been trying to understand Ink Sans’ character and how I could portray him in through my au plot, and what type of interaction and dynamic they would have if they ever met….

I’m still not sure on everything but I hope it still works out well enough hahaha

Ink Sans belongs to @/comyet

Trickster belongs to me

I thought of this music when I finished this sketch, ‘The Spinner’ by Mammal Hands. Dont know if it fits to this sketch but you guys could try listening to it if you want!

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swap and stupid

I felt bad for not posting anything since the comic I'm working on is taking a hot minute, so I whipped this up real quick to feed the masses tehe

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