#TRIAL APPLICATION

[scentofpines]

i got an email today from my uni that was sent to all students from the faculty i'm in and it's a job offer for a project from the uni's school museum where they catalogue and analyze old school note/exercise books from 1820-1950s and...idk i should probably apply right??? They're not even asking for a CV (mine would be empty), how often do you get that lmao. And it's only 6 hours a week, starting this October and the project is supposed to last 3 months and there is a possibilty of the museum hiring you for longer. And i mean, if it sucks i guess i can push through the 3 months? should i do it ahhhh my panic brain is screaming but it's not often that there is a job offer that is that nice

[murasaki-cha]

I will always stand by the headcanon that Apollo willinglly becomes the next camp director after Dionysius' punishmen is over and insists on keeping his Lester Papadopoulos body and having the other campers and Chiron call him Lester instead of Apollo

I love it so so much you can take this headcanon form my cold boney withered dead hands!

[oakwookandink]

been re-reading toa and just read chalice of the gods and I started thinking about something.

how do demigods apply to new rome university? i assume the university wouldn’t want them to use digital applications (lest students are put in danger or attract monsters) so does everyone mail in their applications? or do students have to put themselves in potential mortal danger to apply?

and putting all that aside, how would percy and annabeth even apply to nru when demigod communications were down? how did percy know he was accepted in the hidden oracle when demigods couldn’t communicate with each other? does the uni have some type of special application system that somehow evaded the triumvirate?

[zinjanthropusboisei]

A university just posted not one but three tenure-track hires in science/risk/environmental communication, with specialization in my precise areas....

....but they're in Florida 😑🚬

[pjo-equinox-solstice-exchange]

Hello PJO Fandom!

I am @hallsoffandom, and I am attempting to host a seasonal gift exchange for the fandom with deadlines around the equinoxes and solstices.

I wanted to do a quick interest check to see how many people would be interested in participating, as well as putting out an open call for 1-2 moderators to help me run this event. If you are interested in moderating, there will be a section below the poll explaining what to do in order to apply for a moderator position.

For anyone interested in moderating, these would be the things expected from you if chosen for the moderation team:

help answer asks of questions that come into the blog

help match gifters with requests from gift recipients

help send out the gift assignments after all matches have been made

help track down or assign pinch hitters to any gifts not completed by the deadline

make sure that all the rules of the exchange (which will be posted later this week) are followed by participants

If these expectations seem reasonable to you, here is how you should apply for the moderation team. Dm me @hallsoffandom with these things:

Name (what you prefer to go by online)

How long you have been a part of the PJO fandom

Your experience level with event/exchange running (saying none is NOT an automatic denial of you application, I will still consider you)

Your experience level with Google Sheets

If you pass through the first round of moderator applications, I will ask you a few more questions to determine if you are a good fit for the moderation team.

[trash-bin-ary]

I can go on that ramble about the future and housing and aromanticism though now. It’s like man, the future is already something that is so inconceivable to me. To then have the sexuality that does not allow me to slot in the cookie cutter you find a romantic partner that you end up moving in with is terrible. And like In this economy I sure can’t live alone, and I know at least when I’m sick I desperately want someone to be there. And then there’s I’m likely to move around a bunch how do you deal with that housing, other than the work having paid housing. like constantly having to find somewhere that’s looking for roommates and it isn’t terrible? And then long term, when I find a job I stay at for a while (that’s remote so I’d love to live in a remote place) is it like I find a place to stay and then I’m stuck there forever and I just have to hope that I make good friends at this new place. (Friends that don’t want to live exclusively with a romantic partner no less.) I want to live with close friends so bad and I’m not sure if that’s a feasible thing for my future. I’m a person that has so much hope so I have to assume that yes it will work out, I do believe that. But man just hearing someone mention it, sparks that hope.

[the-many-children-of-the-void]

So I watched a video about the Salem Witch Trials a couple of days ago, and a couple of the things the guy said in that video really stuck with me. He pointed out that economic hardship historically correlated with outbreaks of witchcraft in Europe. He went on to talk about how intense economic stratification can apply individual psychological stress and lead to an increase in psychosis and other psychological issues. He tied this all back to the Salem Witch Trials in that video by pointing out that they follow this pattern. In fact, it's so obvious in any study of the events in Salem in 1692 and 1693 that sixth grade me picked up on the economic implications of it and wrote it into her paper on the subject. So, I thought, if economic hardship can be directly tied to outbreaks of witchcraft in Medieval Europe, does that observation have any modern applications? And it does. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that online discourse meets this description. Of course, nobody's accusing someone of being a witch anymore (being a witch is something to be proud of on the modern internet), but they are accusing each other of other things. Witchcraft accusations have been replaced with, say, pedophilia and so on. But the rule generally still makes sense. People in New England in the 1690s couldn't afford basic necessities (as they were generally unable to in Salem Village, from what I understand), and psychologically, they were flailing around (accusing people of witchcraft). Today, people can't afford basic necessities (because of brutal price gouging), and psychologically are flailing around (accusing people of being pedophiles online). It's the same type of psychological damage inflicted by capitalism that's happening now, online.

[rookcoppinger]

Hey guys I’m taking new Will applications, this one keeps bullying me

[shadowkat2000]

love the fact that my med school application counsellor basically told me to trauma-dump a bit more in my personal statement

[eachlittlebird]

Being forced by job application websites to manually enter all of my work history after uploading a resume that supplies all of my work history is legit my villain origin story.

[robinsnest2111]

just realised the one year anniversary of me starting my job at the movie theater is coming up next month. Time really flies when your life is in tiny shards floating through space and you desperately try to keep the pieces somewhat close to each other haha

[elveny]

Oh, I did not like the start of Strange New Worlds S2 *at all*. Especially the second episode. That was such bullshit in every aspect and the whole thing they tried to convey just didn‘t work in the least. They really shot themselves in the leg with that whole thing. Ouff.

Who the FUCK thought that drawing a parallel between “people that are genetically modified to be Better Than Others” and “people that were persecuted for beliefs or skin color” was a good idea?! They really went down the road of saying “I was genetically engineered without any reason to be stronger and faster and deadly viruses can’t hurt me and I’m less killable than others, I’m such a sad little miaow miaow”. What. The. Fuck.

[liapher]

hiiiiii <3 25, 4, 20, 13, 14, 4, 3 + is there any passage you read this year that really stuck with you?

hiiiiii! evilly skipping 3/4/14/20 since i've answered them in other asks even though you asked first

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

dodging the question a little. none of the books i read were absolutely horrible, else i wouldn't have finished them. brennerova (wolf haas) wasn't particularly good, but brenner novels exist for their writing style, not the story/characters. didn't like the echo wife (made the mistake of thinking about the world-building), small game (which was gripping and enjoyable but tragically missing a proper ending) and la couleur des choses (could we please get to breathe for one page before getting the next bit of horrible news) as much as i hoped i would, even though all of them have something interesting going on in terms of their themes (echo wife), tension (small game) and narrative techniques (couleur)

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

next year i will finally read at least one french/german/norwegian/swedish book each again. also, despite numbers being entirely meaningless, finish 30+ books. ideally, branch out a little in terms of genres (some poetry? collections of letters? some other fiction genres?)

passage that stuck with me

dissertation epigraph just kidding kidding question mark but also it's funny (with added funniness for personal reasons and also based on the context in which it's placed in moby dick)

Finally: It was stated at the outset, that this system would not be here, and at once, perfected. You cannot but plainly see that I have kept my word. But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane still standing upon the top of the uncompleted tower. For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught⁠—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

w&p andrey bolkonsky battle of austerlitz sky moment. but also many of the war scenes about the utter somehow humanizing stupidity of the soldiers and generals. i did go into this book thinking i'd enjoy the society scenes and tolerate the war scenes, but some of the war scenes are in fact pretty good

[dweeborea]

I got the mental image of Nathan meeting his original iteration JFVHDXG

[hollow-reign]

trying to get a new job so I can leave Retail Hell and it feels like every application I fill out is some new mind game I have to navigate. Is this a trick question? How am I supposed to answer that question? You didn't say anything about a cover letter in the listing, but there's a spot to upload one on the application, so should I write one anyway? But who or what do I address it to? Please just tell me up front what you want from me so I'm not overthinking every question and blank space.