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[channiekyun]

loud//wanna one//jaewhan

pairing: kim jaewhan/reader genres: bullet fic!, absolute fluff, soulmate au! word count: 1004 summary: ‘you wished god could’ve given you a different a soulmate or just even a different way of connection bc this guy was way too much for you’ a/n: it’s the first fic of 2018, ya ya ya, i wrote this like 2 weeks ago lol and it’s finally up, please, i want feedback on my works

the universe was weird

particularly to you tho

since the dawn of time, humans had had their soulmates

and you were no different

soulmates were connected to each other in many different ways

and those different ways always led to daily inconveniences for everyone

for you, well, you could hear the other person scream

you don’t want to blame god on this one but he knows

people would say that soulmates are a blessing and a curse

and well

you definitely think this was much more of a curse

judging from the tone you at least knew he was a male

with um very girly screams

and sometimes you heard him laughing??

‘??’ bc you’re not really sure bc it’s always a mixture of laughing+screaming

so um

this led to some very tough times

like for instance, when you were in middle school when you were in the middle of taking a test

you heard him scream

and you literally jumped out of your chair because of how loud this boy was

if you cannot handle his screaming rn, how would you be able to for the rest of your life?

esp when you meet in person?

you were legit scared now

and that’s how you almost got a heart attack when you were like 12 lmao

good thing you never screamed as much

but like sometimes you would seriously not be able to handle this man

when you’re studying for a huge test and you heard him you wished he was right in front of you

bc you would really like to punch him right in the mouth

but if it really got bad well

get ready

you would go to the most secluded space you could find

and scream

‘I SWEAR TO WHATEVER RELIGION’S GOD U HAVE IF U DO NOT SHUT UP I WILL FIND U MYSELF JUST TO SMACK YOU’

the screams would stop and you found yourself in triumph

but lol then

‘OMGOSH IM SORRY I’LL STOP RN’

and you were rlly amused by this

your soulmate can be a troll

but like

he must genuinely not be a jerk at the same time

like

who knew

‘THANK U’

and you would be able to live peacefully for the next hours

you missed the sound and you decided to go back to that secluded space where nobody could possibly hear u

‘HEY’

it was not long

‘UM HELLO?’

‘WHY HAVE WE NEVER COMMUNICATED THIS WAY?’

‘IDK’

‘OH, SO UM, HOW WAS YOUR DAY’

‘GOOD ACTUALLY’

this was the stupidest thing you’ve actually done

but it was a good idea

you guys talked for a straight minute

which meant one minute of screaming

and you cut it short mostly bc you couldn’t feel your own throat for some reason anymore

the next day your throat thanked you for preventing any further damage

next time you do that, you'll need to prepare yourself

you were invited by a group of friends to this popular amusement park during your spring break

like u don’t wanna be no grinch so you accepted

and abt 5 minutes in you were going on every roller coaster ride there

you had strong mixed feelings on amusement park rides

a rule from your cousins you learned when you were younger was to always scream your heart out whenever you drop

and it kinda helped

when you did scream, you knew your soulmate could hear but he was giving you hard times already

+you’re kinda also a troll so

there was this ride where it was shaped like a ship and it rocks back and forth

((y’all know what i’m talking abt right??))

the line was long and your friends surrounded and bombarded you with convo topics so you were unable to see what was going on around you

you were almost at the front when you heard a cackle

it was extra loud for some reason

and that’s when your head snapped to its source

a man was throwing his head back and heaving joyfully while the somehow familiar cackle came out of his mouth

and on both of his sides were two men who looked very uninterested in him

you excused your friends and went closest to the 3 males

you were going to sit closest to the cackling boy in any way possible

and it came to you being right behind the tallest of the 3

you all boarded the ride, each row holding 4 ppl

you were lucky that you were in the same row as the 3

the operator started the ride

and you sucked in a huge breath

and you started screaming for dear life when you started to swing down

don’t get me wrong you love this ride

and you hear this really really really loud scream in your head and in your ear

and your eyes widened

and not bc of the ride

you were still screaming btw as you realized it

and looked to your right to see his face

this scene was really comedic

especially if u played it in slow-mo bc he was looking at you already with his mouth wide open

and he was screaming too

you tried your best to smile while screaming

he did the same

both of your hearts’ skipped a beat

you couldn’t believe you were probably looking your worst when you finally met your soulmate

and he wasn’t looking all that well either

the ride stopped and you two couldn’t keep your eyes off each other

when you got to the ground you didn’t know what to do

heck, you didn’t know that u were meeting the person you were destined to be with

you felt a tap on your shoulder

which made you turn around to see him

“hello, i’m kim jaewhan and i believe this is the first time you actually hear me talk, not scream or laugh.”

[mimicofmodes]

“The Ladies Waldegrave” by Joshua Reynolds, 1780 (NGS NG2171)

I’ve complained before about two very big pet peeves of mine - corset stuff and Regency women being dressed in 1770s-1780s clothes - but one that may dwarf them because of how frequently it comes up in historical and fantasy fiction is the oppression of embroidery.

That’s probably putting it a bit too strongly. It’s more like ... the annoyance of embroidery. Every character worth reading about knows instinctively that sewing is a) boring, b) difficult, c) mindless, and d) pointless. The author doesn’t have to say anything more than “Belinda threw down her needlework and looked out the window, sighing,” to signal that this is an independent woman whose values align with the modern reader, who’s probably not really understood by her mother or mother figure, and who probably will find an extraordinary man to “match” her rather than settling for someone ordinary. To look at an example from fantasy, GRRM uses embroidery in the very beginning of A Game of Thrones to show that the Stark sister who dislikes it is sympathetic and interesting, while the Stark sister who is competent at it is boring and conventional and obviously not deserving of a PoV (until later books, when her attention gets turned to higher matters); further into the book, of course, the pro-needlework sister proves to be weak-willed and naïve.

Rozsika Parker, in the groundbreaking 1996 work The Subversive Stitch, noted that “embroidery has become indelibly associated with stereotypes of femininity,” which is the core of the issue. "Instead embroidery and a stereotype of femininity have become collapsed into one another, characterised as mindless, decorative and delicate; like the icing on the cake, good to look at, adding taste and status, but devoid of significant content.” 

Parker also points out that the stereotype isn’t just one that was invented in the present day by feminists who hated the idea of being forced to do a certain craft. “The association between women and embroidery, craft and femininity, has meant that writers concerned with the status of women have often turned their attention towards this tangled, puzzling relationship. Feminists who have scorned embroidery tend to blame it for whatever constraint on women's lives they are committed to combat. Thus, for example, eighteenth-century critical commentators held embroidery responsible for the ill health which was claimed as evidence of women's natural weakness and inferiority.”

There are two basic problems I have with the trope, beyond the issue of it being incredibly cliché:

First: needlework was not just busywork

A big part of what drives the stereotype is the impression that what women were embroidering was either a sampler:

sampler embroidered by Jane Wilson, 14, in 1791 (MMA 2010.47)

or a picture:

unfinished embroidery of David and Abigail, British, 1640s-50s (MMA 64.101.1325)

That is, something meant to hang on the wall for no real purpose.

These are forms of schoolwork, basically. Samplers were made by young girls up to their early teens, and needlework pictures were usually something done while at school or under a governess as a showpiece of what was being learned - not just the stitching itself, but also often watercolors (which could be worked into the design), artistic sensibility, and the literature, history, or art that might be alluded to. And many needlework pictures made in schools were also done as mourning pieces, sometimes blank, for future use, and sometimes to commemorate a recent death in the family. A lot of them are awkward, clearly just done to pass the class, but others are really artwork.

Many schools for middle- and upper-class girls taught the making of these objects (and other “ornamental” subjects) alongside a more rigorous curriculum - geography, Latin, chemistry, etc. At some, sewing was also always accompanied by serious reading and discussion. (And it would often be done while someone read aloud or made conversation later in life, too.)

Once done with their education, women generally didn’t bother with purely decorative work. Some things that fabric could be embroidered for included:

Jackets 

Bed coverings and bedcurtains

Collars and undersleeves 

Pelerines 

Neck handkerchiefs and sleeve ruffles 

Screens

Upholstery

Handkerchiefs

Purses, wallets, and reticules

Boxes

Book covers

Plus other articles of clothing like waistcoats, caps, slippers, gown hems, chemises, etc. Women’s magazines of the nineteenth century often gave patterns and alphabets for personal use.

(Not to mention late nineteenth century female artists who worked in embroidery, but that’s something else.)

You could purchase all of these pre-embroidered, but many, many women chose to do it themselves. There are a number of reasons why: maybe they wanted something to do, maybe they felt like they should be doing needlework for moral/gender reasons, maybe they couldn’t afford to buy anything - and maybe they enjoyed it or wanted to give something they made to a person they loved. That firescreen above was embroidered by Marie Antoinette, someone who had any number of other activities to choose from. It’s no different than people today who like to knit their own hats and gloves or bake their own bread, except that it was way more mainstream.

embroidery patterns from Ackermann’s Repository in 1827 - they could be used on dresses, collars, handkerchiefs, etc.

Second: needlework wasn’t the only “useless” thing women were expected to do

Ignoring the bulk of point one for now and the value of embroidery - I mentioned “ornamental subjects” above. As many people know, young women of the upper and middle classes were expected to be “accomplished��� in order to be seen as marriageable. This could include skills like embroidery, drawing, painting, singing, playing the piano (as well as other instruments, like the harp or the mandolin), speaking French (if not also Italian and/or German), as well as broader knowledge and abilities like being well-versed in music, literature, and poetry, dancing and walking gracefully, writing good letters in an elegant hand, and being able to read out loud expressively and smoothly.

This wasn’t a checklist. As the famous discussion in Pride and Prejudice shows, individuals could have different views on what actually made a woman accomplished:

“How I long to see her again! I never met with anybody who delighted me so much. Such a countenance, such manners! And so extremely accomplished for her age! Her performance on the pianoforte is exquisite.”

“It is amazing to me,” said Bingley, “how young ladies can have patience to be so very accomplished as they all are.”

“All young ladies accomplished! My dear Charles, what do you mean?”

“Yes, all of them, I think. They all paint tables, cover screens, and net purses. I scarcely know anyone who cannot do all this, and I am sure I never heard a young lady spoken of for the first time, without being informed that she was very accomplished.”

“Your list of the common extent of accomplishments,” said Darcy, “has too much truth. The word is applied to many a woman who deserves it no otherwise than by netting a purse or covering a screen. But I am very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general. I cannot boast of knowing more than half-a-dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished.”

“Nor I, I am sure,” said Miss Bingley.

“Then,” observed Elizabeth, “you must comprehend a great deal in your idea of an accomplished woman.”

“Yes, I do comprehend a great deal in it.”

“Oh! certainly,” cried his faithful assistant, “no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved.”

“All this she must possess,” added Darcy, “and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”

Mr. Bingley feels that a woman is accomplished if she has the ability to do a number of different arts and crafts. Miss Bingley feels (or says she feels) that it goes beyond specific skills and into branches of artistic attainment, plus broader personal qualities that could be imparted by well-bred governesses or mothers. And Mr. Darcy, of course, agrees with that but adds an academic angle as well.

But what ties all of these accomplishments together is their lack of value on the labor market. A woman could earn a living with any one accomplishment, if she worked hard enough at it to become a professional, but young ladies weren’t supposed to be professional-level good because they by definition weren’t going to earn a living. All together, they trained a woman for the social and domestic role of a married woman of the upper middle or upper class, or, if she couldn’t get married, a governess or teacher who would share her accomplishments with the next generation.

(To be fair, almost none of the trappings of an upper-middle/upper class male education had anything to do with the kind of career training that college frequently is today, either. Men were educated to know the cultural touchpoints of their class and fit in with their peers.)

There are reasons that an individual person/character might specifically object to embroidery, but it was far from the only “useless” thing that an unconventional heroine would be required to do against her inclination by her conventional mother/grandmother/aunt/chaperone. Embroidery stands out to modern audiences because most of the other accomplishments are now valued as gender-neutral arts and skills.

“The Embroidery Frame”, by Mathilde Weil, ca. 1900 (LOC 98501309)

So, some thoughts for writers of historical fiction (or fantasy that’s supposed to be just like the 19th/18th/17th/etc century):

- If your heroine doesn’t like embroidery, she probably doesn’t like a number of other things she’s expected to do. Don’t pull out embroidery as either more expected or more onerous than them. Does she hate to sit still? I’d imagine she also dislikes drawing and practicing the piano. Would she prefer to do academic subjects? She probably also resents learning French instead of Latin, and music and dancing. Does she hate enforced femininity? Then she’d most likely have a problem with all of the accomplishments.

- If your heroine just and specifically doesn’t like embroidery, try to show in the narrative that that’s not because it’s objectively bad, and only able to be liked by the boring. Have another sympathetic character do it while talking to the heroine. Note that the hero carries a flame-stitched wallet that’s his sister’s work. Emphasize the heroine’s emotional connection to her deceased or absent mother through her affection for clothing or upholstery that her mother embroidered - or through a mourning picture commemorating her. There are all kinds of things you can do to show that it’s a personal preference rather than a stupid craft that doesn’t take talent and skill!

mourning picture for Daniel Goodman, probably embroidered by a Miss Goodman, 1803 (MMA 56.66)

[antichristsxbox]

Can I have a part 2 to your Hawthorne Michael x cheerleader!reader fic please?! 👀 I loved ittt! 💙

Summary: Michael comes to a basketball game to watch you cheer. I’m not sure how else to describe this without giving away any spoilers. :D

From the writer: Hey guys! This is the second part to this request I received. I really like how this turned out, so let me know if you have any more requests! Feel free to check out the other things I’ve written here: Fiend, Gnarly :) Update: here’s part three to this fic! :)

Word count: 1,236

“I’ll come to the game tonight,” the text read, and you felt the butterflies in your stomach already. Michael would be there to see you mostly, but he might enjoy the game as well. Basketball is a fun sport to watch, much more than football (in your opinion at least). There’s no being outdoors, getting sweaty and gross, and bug bites. It’s all inside and air-conditioned; another upside is basketball games are much shorter than football games.

The court was well-lit and shiny when you entered, as always. There wasn’t a tremendous crown tonight, but this was going to be an easy game. Michael hadn’t arrived yet, but the basketball players are finishing up their warm-ups and getting ready for their pre-game huddle.

It’s an unofficial tradition to take spirit buddy pictures before every game— Instagram and Snapchat have to know about the games for people to care. Kyle approaches you and extends his arms for a hug.

“Are you boys gonna win tonight?” you say with a smile, returning his hug.

“Only if you cheer loud enough,” he says, breaking the hug to squat down so you could safely get over his arms— he’ll hold you for a picture to post on his Snapchat story. It’s a cute photo, your legs crossed as you sit on his left shoulder; his left arm is keeping you steady while his right hand is occupied with a basketball.

One picture turns to many as you also need something to post. He’s now holding you bridal style with one of your legs popped in the air and an arm around his neck. As he puts you down, you notice Michael in the stands, waiting for the game to start. Michael glances down at his phone the second you make eye contact with him, although you’re sure he’d seen you taking pictures just seconds before. When did Michael even get here? He seems to have snuck in without you noticing at all.

The game started shortly after pictures were done, with the boys coming in hot at 20-5 in the first quarter. Kyle is the starting point guard, and he’s had his hands on the ball at least once every minute since the game started. He’s at half court and shoots the ball in the net with ease.

“Whoosh! Let’s go Locks!”

The mascot for Hawthorne is actually a Warlock, but that’s a mouthful for a cheer. After every basket a player makes, the cheer goes ‘whoosh!’ then you stomp your feet twice, then you go ‘let’s go Locks!’ while moving your arm from a horizontal position, to a vertical position, then straight up. It’s pretty simple, but hard to keep up with when the boys keep dunking.

“Yeah Kyle! Let’s go one!” you shake your poms and wave to your spirit buddy (his jersey number is one, for obvious reasons as well as point guard being the first position on the court). He’s so focused, he almost doesn’t notice, but a small smile is exchanged between you two.

The boys end up winning the game, with a total score of 60-15. A very good game, but still not their best total score. You retreat to the cheer room to grab your bag, then you’re on your way back down to see Michael.

When you get back down to the court, you see Michael and Kyle having a conversation. Oh no, you hope this is only a simple congratulations for winning the game.

“Man, I’m a lady killer, if I want her, Imma steal her,” Kyle says, walking away with the rest of his team while he’s spinning a ball on the tips of his fingers.

“Fuck you!” Michael blurts out, loud enough for anybody in a twenty-foot radius to hear.

A collective ‘woahhh’ is audible from the rest of the basketball team as they begin to surround Michael, with Kyle in the middle of the circle, face-to-face with Michael. Kyle slams his ball down hard enough for it to bounce to a height over the highest bleachers. Yet, when it was expected to start dropping in the air again, it remains frozen in the same place at its highest point. The ball then moves to slam in the middle of the backboard and then drops in the net.

“You living up to to our mascot? Huh? Should we get you a pointy hat and a wand?” Kyle sneers, getting closer to Michael’s face before he’s suddenly flung backwards due to Michael’s now-revealed force of some sort. The team then surrounds their star player as Michael makes his exit, receiving glares from the entire team as well as their coach. You’re still standing near the bleachers as Michael walks by. Not to look suspicious, you wait for Kyle to get up. A quick goodbye is all that is exchanged between you and Kyle before you exit the court to meet up with Michael.

Once you’ve walked with Michael far enough towards the dorms until the hallway is clear, you turn and face Michael from the front so he stops walking in front of you. Hands on your hips, head cocked to the side, a disapproving look on your face.

“That was really fucking stupid,” you say, raising an eyebrow.

“What was I supposed to do? He was going all nuts for you, saying he could make you fly away with him like his little butterfly,” he goes on. It doesn’t matter though, he’s visibly angry and he’ll need some time to cool down. This probably isn’t the best time to mention that you and Michael aren’t official and you only hooked up once.

“Look, I’m tired, I just want to go to bed,” you say, looking up and smiling at Michael as you rest a hand on his shoulder.

“Come with me?” he asks in a hushed voice, taking your hand in his and offering a soft smile back. You look down at your feet, then nod your head.

“I’ll go get some pajamas and let my roommate know where I am, I’ll be up soon.”

A soft knock on Michael’s door is all it takes for him to open up and let you in. You sit on the edge of his bed and cross your legs. Soft sweatpants and a t-shirt feel so much better than your itchy shell and tiny skirt. Michael sits next to you and wraps his arm around you before leaning in and going for a kiss. Your touch is noticeably less urgent than his, so he pulls away from the kiss but wraps his arms around you, drawing you in closer.

“Babe, let’s just go to bed,” you say before letting out a small yawn.

“Of course,” he says, standing up to turn over the corner of his comforter for you to lay down. He does this for his side of the bed as well, then both of you are under the covers together. You scoot closer to him so he could pull you in and wrap himself around you. Michael is a very comfortable spooning buddy.

“This is your cocoon, you’re going to fly away with me one day,” he says before placing a soft kiss on your neck, then returning to his position of his arms wrapped around you with his head nuzzled on your shoulder.

“I would love to, my rowdy warlock,” you reply before laying your head down on Michael’s pillow.

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Tag list: @langdonsoceaneyes @ms-mead

[tlbodine]

What is the Market Value of Writing?

OK, so I wrote a while back about what it’s like to work with a small press, and again about how to spot a good publisher, and that raised a pretty good question: How can you know if the rates you’re being offered are fair? How do you know if you’re being ripped off? How can you even tell how much money you should be making as an author if nobody talks about money? 

Well. The short answer is: It’s complicated, and there’s a lot of factors to consider. 

But let’s try to crack it anyway. 

Short Fiction

OK, let’s get this one out of the way first because it’s the easiest. Most literary magazines and anthologies list their pay rates in their market listings. So if you’re using a site like Duotrope, Ralan’s, Dark Markets, Horror Tree etc. (sorry I don’t know what other genres are using these days)...you’ll find the rates. 

The range is usually:

Contributor copies

Token payment (usually $10-25 per story)

Per-word ranging from 1cpw to 10cpw

A “professional” market generally pays upwards of 2.5cpw -- so a 5,000 word story would sell for $125, and so on. (some would argue that “professional” rates start at 5cpw, but I think that’s a bit restrictive, there are plenty of perfectly fine markets selling below that). 

By that logic, you’d expect book rates to fall in the same range -- so, say, $2,000 to $8,000 for an 80,000-word novel. 

But the reality is a little bit different. 

How Publishers Pay for Books

The role of a publisher is to absorb the production costs of a book -- editing, cover, typesetting/interior formatting, etc. -- and then, hopefully, turn a profit on selling the finished product. 

Which means the publisher is looking at the book, trying to guess how many copies it might sell, comparing that against the production costs, and gauging what to offer the author. 

A book deal is usually paid in two parts: 

The advance, which is sometimes divided into 2-4 payments between when you sign the contract and when the book goes out. 

The royalties, which are a percentage of the cover price and are paid out only after you’ve “earned out” on your advance

So let’s run a hypothetical scenario. Let’s say you’re offered a $1,000 advance with royalties of 10% of the cover price. The book sells for $10, so that means you get $1 for every book sold. This means that you’ll need to sell 1,000 copies of the book, before you “earn back” your advance -- so you’ll start getting royalties after your 1001th sale.

Make sense so far? 

So, okay. What are standard royalty rates? 

Depends. Small presses usually don’t offer advances (or will often a token advance of less than $500) but usually offer higher royalties. 10% on print and 30% on ebooks is fairly standard; I’ve also seen 50% of net (so NOT the cover price). Traditional publishers that offer bigger advances often pay middling royalties, 3.5% or so for print, but not always. 

And how much are standard advances?

It really, super depends. It varies from one publishing house to the next, and from one author to the next. In general...less than you’d think, probably. You hear about the 6-figure and 7-figure advances because they’re newsworthy. Low 5-figure is really good for a debut. A low-to-mid 4-figure advance isn’t rare at all. Which means that, yes, if you’re published by Bantam, you might still get a $4,000 advance (spread out over four different checks, maybe). 

Sometimes you can get an idea for what things are selling for by stalking Publisher’s Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/index.html

They don’t always include pricing, but sometimes you can get a feel for it. 

What About Self-Publishing? 

Self-pub skips the middle-man and splits the costs with the author -- up to 70% royalties on ebooks. My Kindle books at $2.99 earn me $2 per sale. 

Of course, you have to account for the other expenses (covers, editing, etc.) to make that an even comparison. 

How the $^*()&^ Does Anybody Make a Living Doing This??? 

"Hey, uh, TL, this is cool and all, but I make $2k a month at my crappy job, so are you telling me I have to churn out 80,000 words a month at 2.5cpw to clear my shitty wages?” 

Yes. That’s exactly what I’m telling you. I’m sorry. 

There’s some good news, though: There’s some opportunity for passive income, so you can gain traction and make more money as it goes along. Passive income includes: 

Royalties (once you’ve earned out your advance) 

International/translation rights

Audio rights

Film options etc. 

Speaker/panelist stipends for conventions (if anyone invites you)

Reprints (selling the same story multiple times)

See why you don’t want to give up any more rights than you need to in your contract? 

So if you want to make money writing, generally speaking, you need to: 

Be very prolific/fast

Publish with higher-tier publishers (more $$ per word) 

Keep your books in print so they keep creating residual income

Sell lots of copies

That said, how much money are writers actually making? 

Hard to say. The Author’s Guild does an annual survey that is very interesting to read. It’s a pretty bleak picture: https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/authors-guild-survey-shows-drastic-42-percent-decline-in-authors-earnings-in-last-decade/

Bear in mind though that the thing with these surveys is they’re self-reported, and their data can skew because on one side you’ve got Stephen King and on the other side you have roughly a bazillion self-publishers slapping up random garbage on Amazon and wondering why it doesn’t sell. It makes it a bit hard to find the mid-point. 

But I think it’s safe to say that most authors do not make a living being authors. They supplement their income by teaching, or copywriting, or working a day job, or having a spouse who supports them. 

Then again, there are authors doing this full time, or making a really good supplemental income with it -- authors you’ve never heard of, who aren’t big names but who sell consistently in their target genre and release books regularly. So it’s not impossible at all. Just...not easy or glamorous. 

That’s probably not the answer anyone (least of all me) wants to hear, but it’s what I know. 

Hope that helps, @ snowflake927 and anyone else who’s been wondering that same thing! 

[noqueenbutthequeeninthenorth]

A 2018 Fanfic Retrospective

Since it’s the end of the year, I thought I’d look back on the past year of fanfiction that I’ve written, read, and loved. The past year has been my most active fandom year since.... almost a decade, probably. So thanks to everyone who’s made this fandom such a great place to be. Here’s to 2019 and to Jonsa totally becoming canon.

Writing in 2018 I wrote so much this year, it’s unbelievable. I’m usually not just a slow writer but one who doesn’t produce much of anything -- a one-shot or two a year has been my tendency. But this year’s been totally different. Not only am I writing more, I’m writing multi-chapter stuff ...... and actually finishing it. 

In July, I finished up A Heart That Offends, which had become a huge pain in the ass at that point because I’d never intended it to get so long. It was supposed to be a oneshot! And then it was supposed to be two chapters at most! It just kept growing (this is a recurring theme in 2018). There’s a lot I’d change about that fic now, including breaking it into more smaller and more digestible chapters, but I’m proud of myself for finishing it and seeing it through to the end. Except for the epilogue.... which I swear is coming.

I also posted all of Winter in My Blood, a fic that had its beginnings nearly a decade ago when I idly starting writing a Queen in the North AU with next to no plot. In the end I think you can tell that this was a story conceived of at a totally different point in my fandom of GOT/ASOIAF, but I honestly love this fic and feel really proud of it. I think it’s got a few of my best bits of writing in it. 

And now I’m in the midst (8 chapters in!) of The Seasons of My Love, a fic that began as a fun Harry Potter AU that I could work on when I couldn’t get myself to write A Heart That Offends. Now it’s definitely become something else. It’s my most “traditional” chapter fic, and it’s ended up being a lot more about the emotional toll of all the shit Sansa’s been through, but I think it’s been valuable trying to work through that. I also love writing UST that I just stretch out for as long as humanly possible. 

My writing goals for 2019 are to finish The Seasons of My Love and the A Heart That Offends epilogue, but also to go back to my roots and start writing more one-shots. I’ve got a couple in the works already. I’ve also got a list of AU ideas a mile long that I might just start doing tiny excerpts from because there’s no chance I’ll actually have the patience to sit down and write an entire Legally Blonde AU. 

Reading in 2018 I’ve read so much fic this year and I’ve been consistently terrible about keeping track of it, which is why I’m trying to use my new sideblog @the-lords-kiss​ to write up recommendations and all that jazz. However, I thought I’d give out a few superlatives for fics that have really stuck with me this year (and if I’m being honest probably mostly from the latter half of the year).

Most delicious slow burn: But She’s a Forest Fire by Shippershape. I love this WIP with a passion and can only pray that it continues to be updated. The tension between Jon and Sansa is truly killing me in the best possible way. I also just LOVE how Sansa is written in this fic, and I love how it handles her working through her trauma.

Hottest sex scene: Chapter 24 of and no net ensnares me by @athimbleful​. Look, we all know that thimbleful is an incredible writer whose plotting, characterization, and dialogue are all on point. She’s a superstar. But somehow, in addition to all that talent, she’s ALSO outrageously good at writing smut. This sex scene was so hot I sent my friend @wishwars​ who wasn’t even reading the fic a link. And, unsurprisingly, her response was, “Wow that was hot .... and also that was a really good chapter. What a good writer!”

Most surprisingly delightful update: Saskatoon Berry Pie by @justadram​. This was one of the earliest Jonsa WIPs I read, but I’d sort of forgotten about in intervening years ... so imagine how excited I was when I got the notification that it had updated! I reread the whole thing again and the prose is just as gorgeous and subtle as I remember it. A warm, domestic gem.

Cleverest use of Alayne Stone: The Blood of Winterfell by @captainbee89/Queenofthebees. I just love this AU, and every time it updates I do a little happy dance. I love Alayne Stone fics and this is one of the best out there. The moral quandary at the heart of it is genuinely difficult, and the romance between Jon and “Alayne” is understandably and deliciously complicated.

Most evil (in the best way) use of Alayne Stone : the ghosts followed by home by @junsnow and ayuminb. Every time I read this fic I laugh to myself the entire time with pure glee. The concept is just so good. The reveal is just soooo good. I don’t want to diminish the fact that it’s a really well-written fic with real emotion behind it, but it’s also makes me cackle with delight because of how fucked up everything gets. I love it.

Most “awwww”-inducing: Spring Floods by @athimbleful​. Yeah, thimbleful made the list twice. I can’t help it. I have gushed about this fic about a billion times before but it’s so intimate and warm and sweet and gentle and romantic. It just makes me so happy. It’s so simple and yet the emotion it packs in there is incredible. I don’t know how she does it.

Most promising new WIP: Totally Clueless by @jeynesgreyjoy​. I think most of Jonsa fandom knows about this one by now, but if not, jump on it! It’s a Clueless AU and yet it does a remarkable thing, where tonally, it also has the ability to be incredibly thoughtful and serious. The way it’s handled the abuse in Sansa’s past, as well as Jon’s dysfunctional family issues and grief over losing his mother, while maintaining a snappy, sexy style is really incredible.

There were so many good fics I read this year so seriously, to every Jonsa writer out there, you’ve made my life better in all kinds of big and little ways. Thank you for all your hard work and creativity! Keep writing, keep fighting, keep making our babies fall in love!

Hopefully I’ve linked/tagged everything correctly -- let me know if not!

Also, if anyone else feels moved to do something like this, please do! I won’t tag anybody specifically but if you’re a fanfic writer/reader, I’d love to get your end of the year takes. Tag me if you do it so I can see what you write!

[whitewolfofwinterfell]

Thoughts from my recent LOST re-watch

There is absolutely no coherence to this, so please forgive me. It’s just a very long list of all of the random thoughts I’ve had throughout my re-watch of LOST about my opinions on characters, ships, plot lines etc. and how they’ve changed or stayed the same. Feel free to send me an ask if you want me to expand on any of these points. 

Season 1 is perfection. Literal perfection. I can’t find a single criticism for it. The mystery, the suspense, the anticipation, the characterisation, the plot, the build-up. Just everything. It doesn’t matter how many times I watch it, it’s still so impactful and the pilot is one of the best pilots of any show I’ve ever seen

It’s still so funny that all of the characters so happen to have the perfect combination of skills to survive - Jack the Doctor, Locke the Hunter, Sayid the Soldier and Kate the Tracker

I always knew it anyway, but the Jack/Kate/Sawyer triangle really is awful. And the fact that they (attempted) to bring Ana Lucia into it and then actually did bring Juliet in to make it a love square is even worse. 

Jack and Juliet actually kind of make sense as a romantic pairing and have good chemistry (but Suliet still rule all) 

Kate is the worst character on the show. I’m sorry, I’ve tried to like her but I never have. She doesn’t undergo any development until around the time she gets Aaron in season 5 - she kills her father in cold blood and justifies it by saying he was a violent drunk (hello, there’s nothing that can justify murder with maybe the exception of self defence), she then goes on the run where she constantly lies, schemes and manipulates to get what she wants, which ultimately leads to her best friend getting killed in the crossfire. From the second she lands on the island she consistently plays Sawyer and Jack off one another by taking advantage of their feelings for her without any consideration to how that impacts them 

John Locke is an asshole a majority of the time and I really don’t like him (this doesn’t include pre-island and flash-sideways John, who’s a sweetheart) 

Charlie Pace is also an asshole and I don’t know how I didn’t see this sooner

I’ll never be over Boone’s death or the fact that he died for nothing because of Locke

Walt getting taken from the raft is still one of the most shocking and haunting moments of the series

Hugo Reyes is the definition of cinnamon roll, I love him with every fibre of my being and LOST wouldn’t be what is is without him

Kate treats Sawyer like shit from the beginning and he deserves so much better. I’m not gonna lie, I still don’t understand how or why Sawyer falls in love with her

Also what is that bullshit with them having sex in the cage? I know it’s supposed to be this hot-we-could-die-at-any-moment raw sex but it just comes across as very weird?? Even if they don’t know there’s cameras on them, they’re outside in the open where anybody could see them at any time

Shannon is a very misunderstood character who deserved better. So. much. better.

I still hate Ben, but he’s one of the best written villains in television I’ve ever seen

Charlie/Claire is the worst romance in the world. They have no chemistry, Charlie develops an obsession with her and practically stalks her, forces her to do what he wants her to do, constantly tries to take over with Aaron despite having absolutely no right to. There is just nothing even remotely redeeming about this ship and I still don’t get it

Locke’s musical theme makes me cry every single time 

And following on from that, as much as I dislike Locke, his flashbacks always make me cry. “Don’t tell me what I can’t do, ever!”, when he gets in the wheelchair in the hospital after his father has pushed him out of the window and when he cries in the car after his father tells him he’s not wanted. It’s heartbreaking 

I still can’t get over all the amazing character connections - Charlie saving Nadia, Sayid meeting Kate’s father and Kelvin during the war, Jack meeting Desmond before the island, Christian being Claire’s father, Christian and Ana Lucia going to Australia together, Sawyer meeting Christian in the bar etc. - it’s all so beautifully done in a way that feels authentic and links the characters (even the ones with more superficial ties) together so well

Michael is not a bad person and is unfairly hated. He’s just a father that did what any parent would do to keep their child safe 

Hurley and Libby are sweet but severely underdeveloped

I actually really dig the episode about Paulo and Nikki

Eko has such a touching and emotional arc, which although short, is very well rounded

The Other 48 Days is still one of the most chilling episodes of the series

It’s sad that the Tailies were all killed off so prematurely, I feel like they all had potential to be more

Jin’s development is so unappreciated. He’s probably the character that goes through the most amount of growth from the pilot to the finale

I know I should feel sorry for Claire (and part of me does), but I still find her too annoying to feel anything but dislike for her

Desmond and Penny’s love story is freakin’ beautiful and nothing can compare

Also how cute are Rose and Bernard? I’ve come to appreciate their relationship so much. They’re literally just two people who love each other in the purest way and want to be together. It’s so beautiful

Sayid is one of the best characters on the show and my love for him has been reaffirmed 

I understand the appeal of Sayid and Shannon but Nadia was Sayid’s soul mate and no one can tell me otherwise

Jack is probably the most unstable character on the show but it’s never acknowledged

Am I the only one that notices that Charlie flat-out lies about not being able to swim? In season 1 when Joanna is drowning Charlie tells Jack he can’t go in to help her because he can’t swim, but he consistently dreams about swimming to save Aaron, Desmond has a vision of him saving Claire from drowning and in season 2 he flat out tells everyone he’s swimming junior champion and swims down to the Looking Glass. Is this Charlie being a liar or simply a fault of the writers, I wonder? 

The episode where Sawyer, Jin and Hurley fix up the Dharma car still makes me so happy

Sun and Jin’s relationship is one of the best developed fictional ships I’ve ever seen. It’s so rare that we actually get to see a married couple who are on the verge of breaking up actually love each other enough to work their asses off to make it work and end up being happier and more in love with each other more than ever before

The Others are still absolutely terrifying in seasons 1 and 2 before we find out who they are

Charlie and Hurley’s friendship is overrated 

Adding to that some underrated dynamics are - Sayid and Desmond (in The Constant Sayid blindly does everything in his power to help Desmond despite not understanding what the hell is going on with him), Kate and Sayid, Hurley and Sayid, Michael, Sawyer and Jin, Shannon and Walt, Boone and Shannon, Eko and Ana.

Jack is by far the most flawed protagonist I’ve seen in any show

I’m intrigued to know what direction Ana Lucia’s character would’ve gone in if she’d survived

The musical themes are still the best of any show I’ve ever seen. I love that each character has their own theme which perfectly encapsulates them

The way that everyone just forgets about Claire after she goes missing and don’t even attempt to find her is so bad. Particularly when you consider the fact that whenever anyone else has gone missing or were kidnapped - Jack, Kate, Michael, Hurley - they’ve gone on a rescue mission immediately 

I’ve always been indifferent to Sun but I realise now that I don’t like her. She’s very hard to connect with and in the last seasons she becomes completely irrelevant and has no personality what-so-ever

Jack reacts so coldly to finding out that Claire is his sister. Like he finds out, he’s shocked, has tears in his eyes but nothing changes in how he behaves and thinks about Claire and Aaron, which makes no sense (but I’m glad we got to see this explored in the Flash Sideways)

Danielle and Alex Rousseau deserved better. So much better

All these people that accuse the show of having an abundance of plot-holes just aren’t paying attention or want everything to be spoon fed to them. There’s actually only about 1 or 2 inconsistencies big enough to be considered a plot-hole (the main one being that Danielle actually sees Ben face-to-face when he kidnaps Alex, but later on doesn’t recognise him when she captures him in a net) and everything is tied together perfectly

I didn’t realise before but season 5 is actually a pretty bad season. The most redeeming aspect is Suliet

Did anyone else notice that Naveen’s (Sayid) accent regresses into his own English accent in season 5 and 6? 

I actually hate the entire concept of Jacob and the MIB and what was done with them

Jack really does become Locke in seasons 5 and 6 

Following on from that, I really can’t blame Sawyer for wanting to murder Jack in season 5/6. He saunters back onto the island like he’s King of the Island thinking he’s some hero who’s going to save everyone he left behind whilst also fixing himself without any consideration to the repercussions. He completely destroys the life Sawyer and Juliet have spent 3 damn years building which results in a lot of people dying, including Juliet and he doesn’t even really seem that aware of how badly he’s fucked up 

We were robbed of a Frank Lapidus centric episode and flashbacks. Robbed, I tell you

I love Jack and Kate as a ship, but when they get back to the island in season 5 they’re very OOC (which is a writing problem imo). Kate wanders off and leaves Jack behind all the time and they don’t really stick together which is just not like Jack and Kate at all. No matter what they always stick together 

Sawyer’s character development is amazing. I love him so much 

The Temple is dumb. The concept of it, the people we’re introduced to - everything. It should’ve just been scrapped 

I also don’t understand what the hell happens to Sayid when he’s drowned in The Temple???? It’s so random and inconsistent, it makes no sense

I still love the concept of the Flash Sideways and don’t understand how people can hate on it or claim it doesn’t matter. It’s so important in so many ways 

But I still don’t quite understand why Jack and Juliet have a son in the Flash Sideways? I understand why Jack has a son, because it makes sense for him to work out his ‘daddy issues’, but I don’t understand why Juliet is the mother and what the significance is of that

We really should’ve got more Desmond centric episodes

The Constant is still one of the best episodes of television ever made

The older I get the more I understand and appreciate the religious and theological meanings of the show

I still don’t understand how or why Hurley starts being able to see ghosts. Like that ability just comes out of no where with little to no explanation 

It also gets very confusing trying to distinguish between literal ghosts and when the MIB has taken on a dead person’s form

I understand now that one of the many reasons LOST speaks to me on a personal level, and always has, is that I too have felt lost (both metaphorically and literally) throughout my life and I’m able to connect to every character on that basis regardless of whether I like them or not

The characterisation on this show is still second to none. The way each character has distinct lives that are fully fleshed out by flashbacks and that we get to understand every intimate detail about them - the worst thing they’ve ever done, their happiest moment, their greatest fear, the person they love most - I’m yet to find another show that writes its characters in such a complex and fulfilling way

I will always love the show and stand by it being one of the best shows ever, but as the seasons progress it does decline in quality, especially seasons 5 and 6 

The finale is still perfect though. I cry like a baby every single time - the church, the way Jack cries in his dad’s arms, it’s just too much

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[hjbender]

You’ve got no idea the amount of time it takes to write a story. Take it from somebody who’s been writing fanfiction for 25 years, studied writing in college, has a degree in English, and has written 30 novels’ worth of fanfiction. It is a freaking lot. So the fact that we still offer it for free? Has got nothing to do your argument and everything to do with the fact that you apparently think fan authors shouldn’t care how their work is accessed or if it’s being manipulated by a third-party app. (And it is, in this case.)

Do authors not deserve recognition for their shitload of work (which has taken them months or years of research, editing, and revising)? Is it too much to ask that opportunistic “fans” refrain from creating apps that remove links in the author’s profile and stories and actively prevents readers from interacting beyond a certain point? Because that’s exactly what the Fanfic Pocket Archive app does.

Not only that, but the consent verification protocol that makes AO3 so bulletproof is effectively annihilated by this app. I have explicit erotic art posted on AO3 behind two layers of consent verification agreements for non-Archive users, plus an entire cloud of tags and warnings. This app has removed them all. (Fun fact: warnings for content that contains underage material is put under a single non-descriptive “Archive warnings” tag. Readers have no idea what they might be clicking on.) This is a huge problem, and guess whose fault it is? I’ll give you a hint: it’s not the creators. They did their job on AO3 by tagging and properly warning. But this app has ripped out the safety net and thrown it under a bus. It’s irresponsible and shows a blatant disregard for the system that AO3 uses to keep its guests and users safe and comfortable.

Oh yeah. It also removes translations, author’s notes, and related/inspired works links. But you know, no big deal. Translating entire stories into another language and making them available to readers is just another thing any old fucknut can do (like writing). And who cares about “other works inspired by this one”, right? Probably no good anyway.

(Wow, this app really is shit, isn’t it?)

It’s the same principle same as reposting someone else’s artwork, stripping out the artist’s comments, and removing all social links that the artist depends on for followers and exposure. Sure, the art is not being sold outright (because that would be stealing, which does have legal repercussions), but the reposter still benefits from someone else’s hard work. They get the attention, the likes, the comments (the ad revenue, in this case). They did not earn any of it. They just use the artist. This is exactly what this developer has done by monetizing this sleazy (and frankly cluttered, disorganized, and inferior) app.

The sheer entitlement in your argument is what floors me more than having to list the myriad reasons why this app is so shitty. As if writing is easy. As if anybody can do it well. As if we should be grateful that we’re getting atttention. As if we’re the ones getting felt up by drunken frat boys at a party but it’s okay, we should be grateful because they’re popular and rich and now you’re part of the popular club, too, sweetie, congratulations, you’ve been promoted! So many people are going to see you now, you’re gonna go places! Be happy at the exposure!

Screw that.

We write these stories and post them on AO3 with the implicit understanding that they will be viewed on the site and nowhere else. For free. Because we love writing. We love our readers. We love our fandoms, the characters, and engaging with our readers.

But sure, yeah, these app developers deserve to get paid for hijacking a free service under the pretense of “MaKiNg iT lOoK BeTtEr” and trying to turn a profit out of something writers have always given freely.

Because this app developer deserves to be paid and recognized for their serious work and the fanfiction authors who are earning them money do not. Because writing is easy (it’s just a hobby, after all, no real work involved). Because fanfiction authors are just a bunch of marginalized nerds who will always be considered less worthy of respect and autonomy than any other type of creator on the internet. Because we owe this app for its unconsented use of our works that does absolutely nothing to benefit us and everything to harm us and the fandom communities we have built and love.

But hey. Free advertising. Why not. 👍

🚨ATTENTION🚨

All Writers Published on Ao3:

This app, “Fanfic Pocket Archive Library”, is lifting all public content from Ao3 and making it available through a service they profit from.

Your work has been stolen and is being used to make money for a third party.

^above are the ways in which the app makes money off of Ao3 content. The developer is called Simple Soft Alliance. Here’s the app’s Terms and Conditions.

Any fanfiction that can be accessed without a password on Ao3 is already available in this app. Yours, mine, every fan creator’s. Whether this is illegal I do not know, but it is certainly unethical and needs to be fought. Ao3 is a site of unparalleled integrity and shows the utmost respect to creators, so this content grab is an even bigger slap in the face for that reason.

🚨Please flag/report this app in your app store. 🚨

🚩Google Playstore link (go HERE to report directly)

🚩Apple Store link (download app, then go to report it here )

Feel free to contact Ao3 as well to alert them to this issue. Let’s take em down, folks. In the meantime, you can put your Ao3 in private mode to prevent any more data theft.

Please reblog and tag your writer friends. Signal boost this.

[tribalfox147]

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However like … what else? These cannot be the solely methods to discover a new job. Or, should you’re seeking to rent somebody, to search out your subsequent nice crew addition. To paraphrase each infomercial ever, there’s gotta be a greater approach.

There’s. The “higher approach” to rent and get employed is to get discovered within the locations candidates and employers are searching for you. Sort of like inbound advertising — what a coincidence …

Under, you will discover 11 locations you won’t have considered, however typically show to be wonderful advertising venues for locating job openings and the candidates to fill them.

Greatest Job Websites

Mashable Jobs

American Advertising Affiliation (AMA)

LinkedIn Jobs

Twitter

Job.com

Expertise Zoo

Mediabistro

Behance

ProBlogger

AngelList

Your Personal Net Properties

1. Mashable Jobs

Excellent for: Jobs sorted by employer

Mashable is not only a mashup of stories content material it’s essential to learn about at the moment. Amid the leisure, tradition, tech, science, and social good sections, this bright-blue media outlet additionally occurs to be a job web site.

In case you’re job looking, there are a number of methods to browse present job openings from the dashboard proven above. To begin, you may merely kind key phrases associated to your job into the blue search bar. You can too search by employer (when you’ve got your coronary heart set on that one firm you’ve got at all times wished to work for). In case you’re an employer making an attempt to develop a job opening’s attain, click on that huge pink rectangle within the top-righthand nook of the web page.

Mashable’s job web site is devoted to jobs in social media, advertising, expertise, and enterprise. They usually submit for firms which might be, properly, type of an enormous deal — like Yelp, Viacom, and Digitas.

2. American Advertising Affiliation (AMA)

Excellent for: Advertising jobs

The AMA is a widely known and revered advertising affiliation that publishes content material and hosts networking and instructing occasions that hold members updated on what is going on on on the planet of promoting. The positions there vary throughout many sub-specialties in advertising and throughout many various industries. These seeking to recruit candidates may submit jobs at a reduced fee in the event that they’re an AMA member.

One other added advantage of the AMA jobs board? It additionally affords instructional sources like resume writing suggestions, details about reference checking, and the best way to use social networking in your job or recruitment search.

3. LinkedIn Jobs

Excellent for: Jobs & candidates sorted by trade

Talking of social networking … you did not suppose we would neglect the holy grail of social recruiting and job looking, did you? LinkedIn is unbelievable should you’re searching for a advertising job. Severely, I can not state it sufficient. It. Is. Superior.

LinkedIn Jobs helps you to seek for jobs by trade and site, plus it suggests jobs you is perhaps fascinated about primarily based on the knowledge in your LinkedIn profile, equivalent to the place you are situated and the expertise you have already got.

What’s nice about making use of for jobs by LinkedIn is that your resume’s already achieved — should you’ve accomplished your LinkedIn profile, that’s. Let me clarify what a number of the biggest options are so you may leverage them now should you aren’t already:

On-line Resume

If you have not already, fill out your LinkedIn profile as fully as you probably can. They make it foolproof, too, together with a progress bar that tells you ways full your profile is, what extra you are able to do to beef it up, and why doing these issues will profit you.

Sanctioned Stalking

Do not feel dangerous about stalking — it is enterprise stalking. For example, LinkedIn has a fab characteristic that permits you to see who has been viewing your LinkedIn profile (supplied your privateness settings are set so others can see if you’re viewing their profile).

Wish to see precisely who’s been viewing your LinkedIn profile? LinkedIn Premium exhibits you precisely who is perhaps fascinated about you as knowledgeable. Whether or not they’re recruiters, HR managers, or work for a corporation you’ve got been eyeing, this visibility allows you to attain out to them proactively.

Networking Occasions

In case you’re a type of individuals who prefers face-to-face networking, you can too leverage a instrument known as LinkedIn Occasions. This lets you see who on LinkedIn is attending trade occasions — in case your hopeful future boss goes, it is perhaps a good suggestion so that you can present up, too.

Teams and Firm Pages

In case you’re vying for a selected firm, comply with that firm on their LinkedIn Firm Web page. Not solely will you be capable of get a really feel for what the folks that work there are like and what their worker turnover and promotions seems to be like (simply go to the ‘Insights’ tab), you may see new jobs pop up, too!

Or should you’re not seeking to be a part of one firm particularly, take into account becoming a member of some inbound advertising teams to determine your title as a thought chief — and get to know people who find themselves hiring, or know people who find themselves hiring. We suggest slightly group known as Inbound Entrepreneurs – For Advertising Professionals.

4. Twitter

Excellent for: Jobs & candidates sorted by trade

Profession alternatives for entrepreneurs do not finish with LinkedIn. Imagine it or not, Twitter can also be a good way to search out jobs (and folks to fill them). And since most individuals will not suppose to go to Twitter after they’re job looking, it is a solution to stand out from different candidates. There’s a couple of ways you should utilize right here:

Observe particular jobs Twitter accounts. Do a fast seek for “inbound advertising jobs” or “advertising jobs” and you will come throughout tons of Twitter accounts whose sole job is to tweet out open roles in our superb trade.

Observe particular jobs hashtags. You already know what else you may discover if you conduct that search? Hashtags related to these jobs. Hashtags like #marketingjobs or #jobsearch are good locations to periodically test in for current alternatives.

Observe the businesses you wish to work for, and the individuals who work there. Search for job postings that come from them, notably if these firms have a referral bonus. At HubSpot, as an illustration, many workers take it upon themselves to tweet out new jobs as a result of, if they create in a brand new rent (even from Twitter), there is a good referral bonus on the finish of the tunnel.

5. Job.com

Excellent for: Jobs & candidates sorted by {qualifications}

You’ve got by no means seen one thing like job.com, I can guarantee you. This intriguing recruitment web site makes use of blockchain expertise to match candidates with employers primarily based on the attributes each events are endorsing.

Though it caters to professionals in each trade, job.com is an ideal match for writers, optimizers, and analysts who depart no stone unturned when promoting themselves to a brand new employer or candidate. In different phrases, should you love optimizing your resume or job itemizing with particular language that appeals to professionals such as you, you may wish to give this web site a strive.

6. Expertise Zoo

Excellent for: Advertising & promoting jobs

Would not this job web site sound like a recruiter’s dream? Expertise Zoo does certainly have a zoo of expertise — and job listings in want of that expertise — particularly for entrepreneurs, advertisers, designers, and even internet builders. Along with a spot to add a resume for repeat use, the location has a slew of articles providing profession recommendation to assist employers and candidates put their greatest foot ahead when reaching out (and, in the end, working collectively).

Expertise Zoo additionally takes a playful strategy to its person expertise — you needn’t look additional than its search button, “Convey It, Daddy-O!” In case you or your organization tradition is simply as informal, posting to this web site can guarantee each events can be a match for one another on a social degree.

7. Mediabistro

Excellent for: Advertising jobs & freelance candidates

Mediabistro has been round for an extended whereas, and though it is modified quite a bit because the web has grown, it is remained dedicated to an viewers of entrepreneurs, content material creators, and media professionals since day one. The positioning organizes its job listings throughout 5 navigation buttons to present you a way of what alternatives to count on:

Writing Jobs

Editor Jobs

Advertising Jobs

Inventive Jobs

All Jobs

Not shy about its dedication to contract employees, Mediabistro additionally reserves a piece of its web site for freelance — accessible from the highest navigation bar. There, you will see a database of freelancers throughout every of the industries listed above the place you’ll find knowledgeable that is excellent for the work you want achieved. Are you a freelancer, your self? Turn out to be a Mediabistro member and create a profile.

8. Behance

Excellent for: Design & inventive jobs / Networking

You may affiliate Behance with downloadable design templates, inventive instruments, and collections of art work. However the place would Behance be if it did not additionally assist discover employment for the individuals who search inspiration on its web site? For that, there’s Behance’s job record, which surfaces job listings throughout dozens of industries that rely on inventive professionals.

What actually units this job web site other than different inventive recruitment platforms is its firm profiles. Inside every job itemizing is a venture web page for the corporate that posted the job. The employer can record present tasks they’re engaged on, who’s following them, and even their most energetic crew members. It is a good way to get to know firms and candidates as people so they do not change into simply one other utility.

9. ProBlogger

Excellent for: Writing jobs

This job web site tells you exactly what it’s in its title. Wish to be knowledgeable blogger or discover writers to create content material for you? ProBlogger makes it straightforward for firms and candidates to search out one another for varied content material advertising initiatives. Jobs are clearly sorted by contract, freelance, full-time, and part-time.

10. AngelList

Excellent for: Jobs at startups

It may be arduous for startups to draw superior expertise on huge recruitment websites like Certainly and even LinkedIn, particularly after they’re competing in opposition to huge manufacturers for publicity. However there are thousands and thousands of expert professionals who wish to work for startups however simply cannot discover them. That is the place AngelList is available in.

AngelList is a job web site solely for startups and people who wish to work for them to search out one another. Rising firms like DuckDuckGo, a search engine; Asana, a productiveness instrument; and Hinge, a courting app, all discover top-tier expertise on this job web site. 

11. Your Personal Net Properties

Excellent for: Private branding

Why watch for another person to submit a job itemizing? Take issues into your individual fingers. Entrepreneurs could be notoriously dangerous at advertising themselves, however should you’re actually good at advertising, why not use your talent to your individual benefit?

If you would like a brand new job, assist your self get discovered all by yourself. Consider your job hunt as its personal advertising marketing campaign. In actual fact, we have had loads of our personal inbound advertising hires execute full-fledged inbound advertising campaigns to get the eye of recruiters, hiring managers, and even recruiters right here at HubSpot.

So, should you’re not sustaining a web-based portfolio or a web site that showcases you in all of your [marketing] glory, hop to it. I can inform you firsthand that each new potential advertising rent that crosses my desk will get promptly Googled. What am I searching for? An energetic, up-to-date on-line presence that demonstrates their data. That might imply they’re running a blog for his or her present firm, their very own on-line portfolio, frequent exercise on websites like LinkedIn and Quora, even a wholesome Twitter following. All of those are indications that they “get it.”

Irrespective of how arduous a time you are having discovering a brand new gig on third-party websites, keep in mind that you at all times have you to fall again on.

Click on right here for extra job websites which might be notably useful for recruiters, and enroll under to learn to change into your individual greatest skilled advocate.

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‘Five Things’ meme

Tagged by @randombiochemist and @francesca-wayland. Thank you! Your answers are all so interesting, mine might not be, lol!

Five things in my bag:

I don’t usually carry a bag (other than the kit I use for work), but you’ll never see me without these:

1.A thin, silver card case with fleur-de-lis designs, holding IDs and cards

2. My tiny, Jurassic-era cellphone that everybody laughs at (it doesn’t even have a camera) -- my assistant tells me I probably need to burn it and get a smartphone, but some of us aren’t quite so techie

3. Car keys and pepper spray

4. My tinted eyeglasses

5. My necklace, which I never go without -- a silver scapular with an image of the Mother of Perpetual Help, hanging on a silver chain. My mother and grandmother were both devotees, and my Mom gave it to me before I moved to the States -- the chain mysteriously broke the week before she died and I had to get a new one.

Five things in my bedroom:

A mess that a grown woman shouldn’t have, lol.

1. A whole lotta books, some of which I haven’t had the time to read, and my journal collection -- I collect journals with interesting designs

2. Some pieces of artwork I got from New Orleans: a sketch of the Cafe du Monde, a framed collage of miniaturized posters from previous Carnivals, along with some painting postcards from the time I visited the Met Museum... and my favorite, a small painting print of two lovers walking down the streets of the French Quarter at night.

3. My collection of interesting refrigerator magnets (yes, I keep them in my bedroom), from places I’ve been to so far -- including a magnet shaped like a Mardi Gras mask, one from Cirque du Soleil’s Ka, and few with art nouveau Tiffany designs (also from the Met). There’s not as much as I’d like, but then I’m not very well-traveled.

4. A genuine Harry Potter wand (Narcissa Malfoy’s -- it was the most Irene-esque one I could find in HP World), and three I designed myself with dowels, paint and a glue gun

5. A photo of myself and my family beside my ‘memory’ box with all my old pictures, ticket stubs, letters and cards from old clients, etc.

Five Things I Want To Do With My Life:

Aside from not screw it up?

1. Write. In whatever fashion or incarnation -- for myself, for the publication, for the screen, for the stage -- I don’t really care, I just wanna do it. Although one of my dreams as a child was to write a story that could be read alongside the literary greats (and then I grew up, and LOL)

2. Act. I’ve always loved films and lately, the theater (theater isn’t very mainstream in my native country, so it’s a recent passion), and my dream as a child (yeah, I spent most of my time dreaming as a kid) was to one day take part in making cinematic magic. Directing, for stage or film, is another thing I’d like to try. I’ve been trying to work on it more lately, but RL refuses to cooperate.

3. Travel. I have extreme wanderlust. I love to spend time at home, being lazy, surfing the net, watching films and reading and writing, but my heart is happiest when I’m experiencing and trying new things, seeing new places and meeting new people. Unfortunately, no one told my Wanderlust how expensive travel is, lol, so now she and Budget are having daily arguments.

4. Be more involved, in interpersonal relationships, in the community, in the world. I’m an introvert, and most of the time, I tend to live inside my head. It makes it difficult for me to reach out and build relationships and be involved in things in a productive manner.

5. Improve my health. Seriously guys, so important. I’ve been neglecting this far too much lately, cause of my job, but I’m trying to do better.

Five Things on my To-Do list:

1. Make some very important calls and set some plans in motion that might change the trajectory of my career and my life (that I’m currently having second thoughts on. Dammit.)

2. Prepare for my move (ugh so much stuff to do and so little time to do it in)

3. Clean my frickin’ apartment

4. Conquer writer’s block and actually write out at least one of the eight different plot bunnies in my head right now.

5. Prepare for another trip I’m taking (lol, what’d I tell you? Wanderlust)

Five things people might not know about me:

1. English is my second language. Being bilingual is fun, but it does give me problems sometimes (like having to translate things in my head first, occasionally speaking in my native language without realizing it and having people go “huh?”).

2. I have a deep fear of being a bitter old lady constantly telling anybody who will listen that “I could have been this, but...” or “I could have been that, if only...” and then blaming other people or my circumstances for those unfulfilled dreams, or constantly having to defend myself for wasting my own potential... Also, frogs. I’m scared of frogs.

3. In the very first story I wrote when I was around four, I killed off my main character. I don’t remember what it was about, but my last illustration was of a coffin and my lead character was in it. My mother asked (rather worriedly, now that I recall) why she was dead, and I answered with a very illuminating “I don’t know, I just wanted her to be”.

4. I am, apparently, what they call “ethnically ambiguous” (my acting coach’s words, not mine), appearance-wise. I have been mistaken as Pakistani (by a Pakistani woman), Mexican (also by other Mexicans on several different occasions), half-African American (also by another African-American woman and one slightly racist Caucasian woman), Japanese (I have no idea how), Hawaiian (also, no idea how) and Indian (by an Indian family who thought I was related to them). I don’t really see it, but whatever, I just politely correct them if the situation calls for it.

5. I’m the only member of my family who’s left our native country.

Five Things I’m Into Right Now:

1. Adlock. I am in love with those two brilliant idiots.

2. That crack headcanon I’m cooking up with @elinorx with Nero, Rosie and Archie and our OCs (like seriously, soooo obsessed with it right now) How did a little crack headcanon evolve like this and take over my brain?

3. 70′s - 80′s music: Led Zeppelin, Heart, Fleetwod Mac, Seals & Crofts etc. I still listen to other music of course, it just happens to be my favorite right now,

4. Looking for new TV shows to watch

5. Looking for new films to watch

Lol, I do tend to blabber on. Anyway, don’t know who’s been tagged and I’m lousy at tagging people, but I’m tagging @elinorx, @lyrangalia, @realestofgeek. @dinnerxx. @themissadventurer, @equusgirl, @annieanhworld, and whoever else wants to do this.