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Hello.. saw u were going to vet school and I wanted to ask:

How did you go about getting experience in the field? I’ve tried to search for volunteering events or part time jobs or anything i can find that involved working with animals, but theres barely anything where I live. Closest thing i found was farm work but i don’t know if that counts. Sorry if this is a bit vague

So I emailed a practice and asked to shadow. That turned into me working there as an assitant and that was how I got the majority of my experience. My other experience was volunteering in shelters and then also an internship doing aquatic things.

Farms definitely do count! Getting hands on experience on farms can be incredibly helpful, especially because you tend to do more there than you would in a small animal hospital just because Farm medicine is Like That. But yeah, if Farm Med isn't your fav, I would email around local practices asking to shadow. That's what most people I know did to get experience.

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Just wanted to pop in and tell you that your writing is absolutely delicious, always a delight to go back and re-read it!

(The absolute temptation in my soul between Cute UwU Food GIF and Titan Devouring Someone In the Fall of Shiganshina was too much to bear, so I will simply say ‘Thank you!! 😊’ and move on lol)

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I'm glad to see you're back despite the hell of the 4k event 🤣 sending you all the luck and energy to get done what you want!! Over all glad you're back and doing well!

We gettin’ there 😬 Slowly but steadily lol

And thank you!! It’s lovely to be back 💜

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I hope this doesn't come across as annoying but with summer coming up will you be able to write more?

No worries at all, my dude. And that’s the hope! My exams are the second week of May and then graduation is the very end of June so I have an entire straight month of vacation! Which is wild. I am, unfortunately, after finishing, an actual like Adult Adult now (and a doctor!!! Wild ass thought holy shit), so summers aren’t really “summers” anymore, and I will have to start working at my job. Buuuut, it is a nice, cozy GP very close to home. No more 80hr hospital weeks for this bitch lol So my wee break aside, I’ll have oodles more time in general now.

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First of all welcome back😊. And considering the poll well, I just adore adore your monster mayhem Rook and Vil series but honestly anything you'll write will be a delight either way. So I'll say write whichever you feel like.

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Soooo. Fun fun. I've been gone long enough suffering in Clinical Hell that the 4k Event I started is now technically a 5k one.

Firstly, thank you very much to all the lovely friends who decided to pop in to say hello despite the fact that I was so very clearly MIA. Secondly, I wanted to pop in and check something. I am still working my way through sorting through the initial asks I got, because tbh I was expecting maybe ten, fifteen, and nah it was like 50. Which I'm glad you all wanted to participate and it makes my heart so happy! But also like, I am going through trying to list out the similar ones/overlapping prompts etc. so I can start working through them and there are so many dear god.

So! My question is to you lovely people. It seems fitting to give you all the choice and just lazilly call it my attempt at a 5k Event.

Would you prefer that I A) Keep working my way through the prompts and try and put out some of those, or B) work on continuing parts of the series that I have up instead? And off of that, if you have a preference for which one to work on first, feel free to drop it in the replies so I can start taking note

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hey dilly hope you're doing great! just wanted to say i reread siren vils story last week and somehow tiktok found out. now all i get is siren lore on my fyp. wanted to share one with you- not lore, my fyp upgraded to musicals now TT https :// vm.tiktok. com/ZMMCp4Eh3/ dk ig i can send links so i chopped it a bit lol, have a nice day!

Tik tok watches us all o.o But ooooh yes siren lore is always so cool! I'm not quite sure if the link is working because it's just redirecting me straight to the Tik Tok front page, or whatever it's called. But I'm glad it's been showing you cool shit!

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To the friend who asked not to have their ask posted, you're totally fine my dude. Things happen! I've just had a bad experience with similar situations in the past so I tend to take a hard and fast reaction, but thank you for reaching out nonetheless. Happy reading <3

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Can I offer you this cookie 🍪

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OMG ERIC VENUE REVEAL I REPEAT ERIC VENUE REVEAL AAAAAAAAA

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Hi this is a weird question but I was wondering what were your gpas, stats, and hour for when you applied to vet school. I’m going to apply this year but I’m nervous my gpa and hours are not good enough.

Hello hello! Best of luck to you my friend! 😊

Here's everything I can think up, so hopefully it helps answer whatever questions you have!

My GPA was low, about 3.45, which was just above the minimum 3.4 needed to apply to the the majority of schools. That was my biggest concern, but I'd read that overall if you kept your head up and did well in other areas it would work out. And, well, I got in on my first round so I'd say it was all fine!

I took the GRE + Bio rather than the MCAT, because I'd heard the MCAT was really heavy psychology and wanted to avoid it. I don't remember what my exact score was, but I was somewhere in the 90th percentile for the regular GRE and somewhere in the 80th percentile for the Bio portion

My saving grace was that I did a LOT of work experience. I spent every summer of my undergrad working as an assistant in a Small Animal ER/Referral Center, averaging about 50hrs a week. So by the time I applied during my final year of undergrad, I had hundreds, if not thousands of hours of experience. On top of that, I was lucky enough to get into a decently competitive internship doing marine rescue and rehab, so that helped a lot as well. However, that one wasn't on my application itself because of overlap of submission deadlines and the final internship selection, yadayadayada. So you don't need something super high intense to get the interview. But I think it definitely helped during the interview

The biggest thing I've seen from my own experiences and my friends' is that it comes down a lot to your mentality, if that makes sense. Like I remember getting absolutely grilled in my interview over it to the point I thought I'd absolutely flopped the whole thing. Vet medicine is tough, especially now with the post-pandemic pet boom and the way owners seem to be getting nastier and nastier. My program started before all that went down, and I still know at least half a dozen people who dropped out in the first year. Schools want people who are going to stick around. So you have to show that this is a career you're passionate about and that you have at least a basic understanding of how the current environment in the field is. Basically, you have to show that not only do you love animals, but that you love medicine. And that the field has its challenges now but you want to be a part of improving it for the better.

It's a tough process, but it all works out in the end. Don't let bumps in the road get you down! Only about 50% of applicants get a spot every year, and it can be even less than that on a first attempt. Not to scare you off!!! But as a "it is really, really hard. And it's not just you. It's hard all around so don't think you aren't cut out for it just because you may not feel great about how things went the first time around."

Good luck <3

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the links of fanarts on ao3 arent working,and since I already read everithing I you wrote abaut twst ,I really want that extra content

When I checked them they seem to be working okay for me! Are you trying on mobile or desktop? I haven't tried mobile yet so maybe that's where things are going a bit ary?

Either way, if you're on my blog, the #fanart tag should have everything up there too!

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HELLO! IM A HUGE FAN OF YOUR WORK!!!! i have read everything THRICE now!!!! the m/c's antics and the characterization of the twst casts are super entertaining! your villain vs heroes series are probably my favorite. it's the suspense the pin drop the angst the pettiness the resolve the pining AAAAAA!! i shall wait for any additions to your library of works!! i hope you plan to make more in the future:

please accept this rose in the mean time 🌹

Thank you so much!!! TT^TT I miss all these idiot MCs so much, and I can't wait to start expaning on their chaotic stories again <3

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Hiiiiiii not sure if you're up to date with the JP server schedule but what was your reaction upon the possible Eric Venue reveal?

YES AND I AM FROTHING AT THE MOUTH OVER IT

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Hey! I’ve just entered the fandom so everything is very new to me, but can I say that you are the best writer in it? I genuinely think this. I read that you are on hiatus to focus on school, I hope you’ll achieve whatever you want because you are truly talented❤️

I do try to put as much of my favorite type of nonsense into this fandom as I can, so it always warms my heart to know it's appreciated <3 Welcome to the Twst Club! Hope you enjoy your stay!

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currently snorting your writing like crack cocaine

Not to dis my own nonsense, but it'd probably better for your brain to snort actual cocaine. Best of luck to you, my friend. Happy to have you