#how to find a mentor

[bharatiyayuvashaktitrust]

How to Find a Mentor

Finding a mentor can be a great way to gain guidance and support as you embark on your entrepreneurial journey. A mentor can provide you with valuable insights, advice, and connections that can help you avoid common pitfalls and achieve your goals. But how do you go about finding a mentor? Here are a few tips: Identify your needs. What are you hoping to gain from a mentor? Are you looking for…

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Started a new book series, and has been a journey...an Odyssey, if you will.

[rocketbirdie]

deranged picnic

[just-an-enby-lemon]

"The kid seems scared.

Tip had always been a little nervous. Or at least that was the reality when the two had met.

It was fairly obvious for everyone that met them that the child had not been treated well by their formar guardian and in a way that Elphaba sadly recognized still seemed to afraid of facing the same pain and rejection again.

Still lately the kid seemed more relaxed and open, treating her with the same easiness and earnest they did Jack. More determined to learn than eager to please. Following her around with questions and vibrating with excitement as she turned wooden sticks into dolls and toy swords alike. It made her think of Nessa in a very bittersweet way.

She failed her sister and she would not allow herself to fail another young person she became responsable for.

That's to say Tip's strange turn to the same scared kid she met soon after leaving her behind and being declared and enemy of Oz scared her.

"Miss Elphaba, I have something very serius to tell you."

Maybe they want to leave. They are not in fact different in the same way Elphaba is. Tip is a normal if deeply magical child who just ended up in the care of a horrible woman. Being her aprenticce is actually the only thing turning them into a dangerous and hated figure.

"I understand."

The kid takes a deep breath. Elphaba tries to think on the best words to explain that of course they can leave if they want to and that they can take as many provisions as they need. Tip will never again be a prisioner.

"I don't think I am a boy? Wait no. I know I'm not a boy. Like the idea of it is still a bit scary because it seems like it will be a big deal but I'm fairly sure I'm a girl actually. I just never though about it before but Jack called me she accidentaly and it just makes sense. I am still the same Tip and please let me keep being your aprentice." She says in a single breath.

"What?"

The girl looked scared. "I'm a girl." She says. Than in a smaller voice. "I can try to be a boy if you want?" It does not appear to be something she wants and the fact she still sugests it breaks Elphaba's heart a little.

"Oh! Oh. No, no, that's fine. Do you want to be called something else?"

Her eyes go huge and she stops deep in thought before answring.

"Uh. I guess so, but I'm still thinking on it. I don't mind Tip for now."

"Okay, tell me when it changes?"

"Will do."

"Anything else?"

Tip looks a bit shy for half a second before a excited smile covers her face. "Could you let me borrow a dress?"

Elphaba laughts.

"You are too tiny for my dresses, kid. But I can help you magic one for yourself. "

Her eyes shine. "Cool!"

[...]

"Morrible says you'll marry some prince soon." Dorothy says making a face.

"I don't see why you are soo distraught, my dear, I'm pretty sure she'll find me a great prince." Glinda says with false cheer.

"I doubt it. Princes are all very dull."

"Met many princes did you?" She jokes lightly, trying to find a way to change the subject. She loves the kid dearly and for all it's bleak consequences will always be glad the tornado ended up bringing the girl into her life but she would preffer not to discuss those subjects. Specially not in her own bedroom in a rare moment of relaxation.

"Well no." The girl pouts. "But most boys are dull and I can't imagine liking to marry even the ones that aren't. I guess I just thought you were the same? I'm sorry."

"No need to apologize. And I sure hope marriage is unimaginable for you, you are way to young for it."

The girl smiles a tiny bit before frowning.

"I can imagine myself marrying a girl one day."

"Oh!" Is all Glinda says.

"I told Aunt Em once she told me to never say it again, she told me I was too young. But I'm ten now and I feel the same. " Dorothy rarely talks about home, sometimes Glinda tricks herself into beliving it is because her the kid just loves Oz better, that she forgot all about it, but she knows deep down that Dorothy will always miss Kansas, always miss her uncle and aunt and Toto, she just accepted home as a place she'll never return to. In the good days Glinda knows Dorothy would also miss Oz, would miss her munchkin friends and mostly would miss being Glinda's apprentice. In the better days she thinks about bringing Dorothy's family here. After all Kansas always seems sad and hungry. "Girls don't marry each other in Kansas." She continues. "But I though maybe they did here. "

"I think they do everywhere, Dorothy, is just some people pretend they don't because the different scares them."

"Like the Wizard and the animals?"

Glinda had only recently convinced Dorothy to only speak her very dangerous beliefs on the Wizard in private and even there she sometimes corrected the kid. But right now it felt too much like liying to Elphaba she couldn't do it, not when she knew Dorothy to be right.

"Yeah. Just like that."

And after a second she adds.

"Between us, I would also like to marry a woman".

Dorothy smiles, just a little bit.

[...]

She knows she should not be here.

But it's fun, she likes the dancing and the food and the small chance of going back home with something that can actually help Elphie. Maybe a magical item or even just some usefull information.

Besides the girl she is talking to is very pretty and fun and smart and she is not open about it but she's definitivaly not the biggest fan of the Wizard either. Oh and a great dancer.

"I'm sorry" the girl says "but I think I did not catch your name?"

Now it's the moment to say something clever like 'i never gave it to you' or maybe just invent some fake name. She can't say her name. It's too easy of a conection to make. But she doesn't need to lie. After all it was never really her name. And she has a name now. Has had it for days and just keept it a secret in some weird form of fear. But it felt like time. She would tell it to Elphie and Jack when she went back.

"Ozma. I'm Ozma. What's yours?"

[...]

Dorothy had never had so much fun at a party before. Her new friend was the most beutifull girl she ever met and the funniest and cleverest and it had never felt so easy to talk to someone before. In fact the only thing Ozma didn't appear to be was a good dancer but Glinda had teached Dorothy well and she found herself leading the other girl steps into the best dance she ever had.

She noticed Ozma did not gave any surname but it was not her place to pry. She just hoped to mert the girl again.

"Dorothy." She says and takes the hand. For a second she considers continuing in the way she was instructed to (Dorothy Upland at your pleasure and a kiss to the hand) but while she loves Glinda that's not really her. And she somehow trusts Ozma enough to be honest. "Dorothy Gale." She shakes the hand just like Uncle Henry used to.

[threestargirls]

the mentor’s yearbook ♡

[lots of love and ty to anyone who I bothered for faceclaims and quote ideas!!]

[canisalbus]

Is that canon!?! Was Machete just really naive/didn't really understand the implications of his relationship to Vasco? Did his mentor ever find out about them or discuss such things with him? I assume bc he didn't have parents, he kinda didn't get educated on sex or anything. Was it a big shock to realize he was "sinning"?

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[burins]

when I'm capable of writing the Cass murderer fugitive essay.

[like-that-one-weird-dog-thing]

honestly the ah-duo/maomao au was originally just like. for the bit. bc i love making my favorite characters lesbians and also i find it REALLY funny if maomao were to fuck jinshi's mom, but now its. its consuming my thoughts. im losing it i actually love this au

both of them struggling to get close to others and having trust issues,,, both of them falling outside of societies expected roles for them as women,,, both of them expecting to be able to hold the other at arms length only to find themselves getting closer and closer,,, ah-duo struggling to keep maomao hidden and safe bc she knows how ruthless the rear palace and later the outer courts are,,, maomao time and time again choosing to help others to the detriment of herself,,, ah-duo and maomao the women that you are

[nobodyfamousposts]

New Dolls Crossover

Because I have no shame...

Shadow: I am the ultimate life form!

Littlebug: (Looks unimpressed)

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Littlebug: (Sitting on Shadow's head, patting him and oblivious to his glowering)

Sonic: (Trying not to laugh) Uh….you….you got a thing there.

Shadow: Shut up.

Littlebug: n_n (Pat pat)

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Shadow: I am the ultimate—

Littlebug: (Spritzes Shadow)

Sonic: Looks like someone thinks the "Ultimate Lifeform" needs a bath.

Littlebug: (Spritzes Sonic too)

Sonic: HEY!

Shadow: (Smirks)

Littlebug: (Waves the spritzer, warning him to be nice) >:c

Sonic: ...fiesty little thing, isn't she?

Shadow: She is a good judge of character.

Sonic: ...

Littlebug: (Stares)

Sonic: ...wanna go on a run with me? Meet some of my friends? Not try to destroy the world?

Littlebug: (Smiles)

Sonic: I'll take that as a yes.

Shadow: Wait. Don’t you dare!

Sonic: (Runs off with Littlebug)

Shadow: Get back here!

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Amy: (Hugging Littlebug) SO CUTE!

Sonic: Welp, Amy loves you. No surprise there. Tails is busy, so next up is bothering Knuckles.

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Knuckles: Halt! No one's getting the Master Emerald—oh, it's you guys. And what is this?

Littlebug: (Stares)

Knuckles: (Stares in confusion) ….are you Cream's or something?

Littlebug: (Tilts head)

Knuckles: No, she's not food.

Sonic: ….you can understand her?

Knuckles: …you can't?

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Sonic: Of course we can't go ONE day with a new friend without Eggman messing things up.

Knuckles: We need to get the chaos emerald, but it's in this vault and we don't have the key.

Sonic: Oh, I'll just speed over and—

Littlebug: (Makes a Lucky Charm key)

All: (Stare in amazement)

Amy: (Uses it on the door and it opens) It works!

Littlebug: (Proud)

Amy: Good job, little Lady! (Pets Littlebug)

Littlebug: (Even prouder, happy with pets)

Sonic: ….it's cool. It's fine. Was only gonna go super fast. Because super speed. Kinda my thing.

Amy: Shush.

Knuckles: …can she just….magic up a chaos emerald while she's at it?

Littlebug: (Pauses, looking thoughtful)

Sonic: (Stops her) Don't.

[johnsspacesuittight]

Brackenreid has literally so many kids my god, there are his actual three biological kids, and then there's Higgins, Crabtree, Watts and Mrs. Hart, at LEAST

[randomness-for-life]

Finished replaying Apollo Justice and I forgot how truly GAY Klavier and Apollo are for each other

[toddtakefive]

despite the fact that spider-neil is heavily based off of the amazing spider-man (2012) peter parker, neil is infinitely more similar to miles morales from the spider-verse movies

[modelxis]

Gods of Destruction, that's what he reffered himself as. Aile instantly knew that is Omega Zero from the history books she had read. But as the ancient murderous "robot" continue to describe his glorious days and accomplishments in the Elf war. Aile couldn't help but feel...bored, even when the guy is telling her about every gory details.

"So what made you different from the other killing machine?"

Omega turned at her, he seem annoyed at the question

"I'm more effective"

"You are not needed"

[And author now wonder why Omega Zero hadn't pop Aile's head at this point]

[o-bromio]

can anybody hear me

[spinnysocks]

Any hcs for the skinks and the crocs meeting?

ooh ooh ooh! i assume this is based on the headcannons that nikki and i made about the croc-skink friendships - well, i'm very happy to elaborate!! :D

to set the scene: in canon during scar's reign over the outlanders, kiburi's mainly the one who talks to the skinks, but he doesn't care for them more than being told news of course. things change when scar is defeated and jasiri becomes leader; kiburi's float and the skinks no longer have any link, at least not until the skinks slowly reform along with kiburi's float because of jasiri's efforts (which include enticing the skinks to stay in the outlands, as they weren't sure whether to stay or go). as before, the skinks like to slink around the outlands so they come across kiburi's float eventually

njano is pretty outgoing so i can imagine him just showing up out of nowhere and chatting to kiburi at his watering hole! njano doesn't leave him alone after that lmao, he becomes kind of like his little messenger but kiburi grows to see a friend in him more than he'll admit :3

nyororo is looking for someone to trick for fun when she happens to hear tamka in the middle of practicing acting. she cringes at how bad he is at it first, then gives herself the challenge to at least make him a little more convincing. tamka is probably a bit sceptical at first, but he loves acting so he finds it fun! they have a loose mentor and student sorta friendship but they have fun talking about the best ways to fool other animals! in a human au, nyororo would be the best of her drama class and takes tamka under her wing

i- kinda forgot what exactly me and nikki came up with for nyata and nduli's friendship BUT i do imagine nyata also overhearing the crocs, specifically nduli being all sassy when the crocs chase out a trespasser or smth. she finds his attitude amusing, reminds her of herself, so she chats to him. i can't remember exactly what they bond over but, kinda like nyororo and tamka, nyata encourages nduli's sassier side :]

nyeusi and neema like to watch the drama of the outlands from the sidelines, and that's exactly how they meet. neither of them ‘talk’ but they pick up what each other are saying, and they're both aroace, so they become friends pretty quick! in a human au, they'd be the ones watching the chaos with a bag of popcorn lol - also i just wanna add that i hc nne and tano being friends with neema so they're friends with nyeusi by proxy, despite janja and the skinks' rocky relationship. they don't really care about it bc they just like to watch the drama together, even if it's between their leaders lol

outlanders interacting my beloved! :] i have a second outlander interactions prompt generator post in the works that i'm really excited about bc i love developing ideas for this silly found family!!

[sisterdragonwithfeathers]

constantly managing to draw 1-4 good things and thinking "oh nice I'm good now" and then trying to draw another thing and it kinda sucks and was really hard and going "ah"

also constantly expecting good things to just come immediately onto the page despite the fact that I know I do better roughing the shape out first and then sketching over it

sure am glad I don't care too much about traditional "polish" or perfectly accurate depictions of detail, or this would be a Sisyphean task