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Commission for  Ethoras

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Commission for Ethoras

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A small b-day gift for @ffxivspark :D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

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I’m Quitting Healing

This is probably going to be a longer post so I will have everything below the break. I’m not going to be swearing or yelling, so you won’t find any of that here. This is my opinion and my feelings and it’s perfectly okay if you don’t agree.

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full version available on my Twitter! 

Commission for Sparky! 

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“Glassy Sky, Above…”

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Photo dump of my Roegadyn.

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You’ve got Smart Water, Smart Watch, Smart Phone, Smart Home, Smart Car, and now…………..

Smart Paissa

Install this mod to add glasses to your paissa pal so that he is ready to read a nonfiction book with lots of big words in it. Or file his taxes.

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Helping pugs clear o12s that soon after becomes friendships.

It makes me miss the social aspect of this game, and how I forced myself into an anti-social state due to how scared I was.

I’ll try again this year. But better.

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Right now, I’m sifting through 50+ applications for a new entry-level position. Here’s some advice from the person who will actually be looking at your CV/resume and cover letter:

‘You must include a cover letter’ does not mean ‘write a single line about why you want this position’. If you can’t be bothered to write at least one actual paragraphs about why you want this job, I can’t be bothered to read your CV.

Don’t bother including a list of your interests if all you can think of is ‘socialising with friends’ and ‘listening to music’. Everyone likes those things. Unless you can explain why the stuff you do enriches you as a person and a candidate (e.g. playing an instrument or a sport shows dedication and discipline) then I honestly don’t care how you spend your time. I won’t be looking at your CV thinking ‘huh, they haven’t included their interests, they must have none’, I’m just looking for what you have included.

Even if you apply online, I can see the filename you used for your CV. Filenames that don’t include YOUR name are annoying. Filenames like ‘CV - media’ tell me that you’ve got several CVs you send off depending on the kind of job advertised and that you probably didn’t tailor it for this position. ‘[Full name] CV’ is best.

USE. A. PDF. All the meta information, including how long you worked on it, when you created it, times, etc, is right there in a Word doc. PDFs are far more professional looking and clean and mean that I can’t make any (unconscious or not) decisions about you based on information about the file.

I don’t care what the duties in your previous unrelated jobs were unless you can tell me why they’re useful to this job. If you worked in a shop, and you’re applying for an office job which involves talking to lots of people, don’t give me a list of stuff you did, write a sentence about how much you enjoyed working in a team to help everyone you interacted with and did your best to make them leave the shop with a smile. I want to know what makes you happy in a job, because I want you to be happy within the job I’m advertising.

Does the application pack say who you’ll be reporting to? Can you find their name on the company website? Address your application to them. It’s super easy and shows that you give enough of a shit to google something. 95% of people don’t do this.

Tell me who you are. Tell me what makes you want to get up in the morning and go to work and feel fulfilled. Tell me what you’re looking for, not just what you think I’m looking for.

I will skim your CV. If you have a bunch of bullet points, make every one of them count. Make the first one the best one. If it’s not interesting to you, it’s probably not interesting to me. I’m overworked and tired. Make my job easy.

“I work well in a team or individually” okay cool, you and everyone else. If the job means you’ll be part of a big team, talk about how much you love teamwork and how collaborating with people is the best way to solve problems. If the job requires lots of independence, talk about how you are great at taking direction and running with it, and how you have the confidence to follow your own ideas and seek out the insight of others when necessary. I am profoundly uninterested in cookie-cutter statements. I want to know how you actually work, not how a teacher once told you you should work.

For an entry-level role, tell me how you’re looking forward to growing and developing and learning as much as you can. I will hire genuine enthusiasm and drive over cherry-picked skills any day. You can teach someone to use Excel, but you can’t teach someone to give a shit. It makes a real difference.

This is my advice for small, independent orgs like charities, etc. We usually don’t go through agencies, and the person reading through the applications is usually the person who will manage you, so it helps if you can give them a real sense of who you are and how you’ll grab hold of that entry level position and give it all you’ve got. This stuff might not apply to big companies with actual HR departments - it’s up to you to figure out the culture and what they’re looking for and mirror it. Do they use buzzwords? Use the same buzzwords! Do they write in a friendly, informal way? Do the same! And remember, 95% of job hunting (beyond who you know and flat-out nepotism, ugh) is luck. If you keep getting rejected, it’s not because you suck. You might just need a different approach, or it might just take the right pair of eyes landing on your CV.

And if you get rejected, it’s worthwhile asking why. You’ve already been rejected, the worst has already happened, there’s really nothing bad that can come out of you asking them for some constructive feedback (politely, informally, “if it isn’t too much trouble”). Pretty much all of us have been hopeless jobseekers at one point or another. We know it’s shitty and hard and soul-crushing. Friendliness goes a long way. Even if it’s just one line like “your cover letter wasn’t inspiring" at least you know where to start.

And seriously, if you have any friends that do any kind of hiring or have any involvement with that side of things, ask them to look at your CV with a big red pen and brutal honesty. I do this all the time, and the most important thing I do is making it so their CV doesn’t read exactly like that of every other person who took the same ‘how-to-get-a-job’ class in school. If your CV has a paragraph that starts with something like ‘I am a highly motivated and punctual individual who–’ then oh my god I AM ALREADY ASLEEP.

Addendum: Stop sending me rude messages about this post, jesus christ. I DID NOT INVENT CAPITALISM OR THE TORTUROUS HELLSCAPE THAT IS THE JOB MARKET CULTURE. I GET PAID LIKE SHIT. I’M JUST AN EXHAUSTED MANAGER TRYING HER BEST. and i mean if you can’t take honest advice without complaining about how it’s phrased then boy howdy do i have some bad news for you about the big, mean world of jobhunting…

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I’m on Twitter if you’re interested, I guess.

Twitter: @ethorasw is my Twitter. Feel free to follow.

Just keep in mind it’s NSFW/R18, so i will def “like” some nsfw art. Of course, my screenshots will appear there too.

Have fun!

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しぬｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗしぬｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ（ 佐藤チャン さんのツイート ）

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How to display weapons in your house using Mannequins

- A FFXIV Housing Guide -

Recently, @ourashenbride​ and I have messed around with a few designs and we discovered a neat trick that was present since the release of Mannequins: The ability to display holstered weapons. With this guide, you can see ideas to built an armory or weapon rack/display.

I used 2 mannequins and guns the picture above to demonstrate the usage. This will work with any short/small shield or gun, and also other weapons to a certain thickness. You can move the Mannequin inside a wall, where only the shield/weapon part is visible. But some great sword, axes and spears work too. The pose of the Mannequin might influence the way the weapon is tilted, but as of right now the difference is very insignificant. I’d suggest you use the arms crossed pose.

Don’t forget the most important part: Hiding the tail. This is the only part of the Mannequins that will stick out below the weapon or even clips with it. In this example below, I have books hiding the tail and it looks like the shield rests on them. You can also use shelves on a certain non-grit height to make it look like the shields stand on it. Some surfaces align nicely to the height, like in this example:

 Normally, you will always have the same height for weapons. Of course, the weapon size will differ and you will have to adjust to that. But you could also choose to float the Mannequin with some storage tricks, with permanent surfaces around the house, like the wooden parts of the static walls.I personally like to use the books in the picture below to hide the tail. In a cluttered/messy environment you could easily hide some bigger weapons behind those stacks of books.

Once we have different races available to use for Mannequins, the tail problem will be gone, and we can have more flexible design choices. Shame that they are not tabletop items like the ishgard stand – that way we would have amazing weapon and armor displays! Please share with me the designs you guys made with this trick. I have seen a few but this trick is too good to not use!

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Special Deal for my lovely followers!

With the completion of my fall blowout i’m offering limited slots for color commissions specifically! 

This is also to help me learn to color with a wider variety of characters and monsters so its a big help with a bonus to you guys!

These will be fullbody pieces, full color, and i’ll be selling them for a discounted price! (usually 200CAD, i’ll be offering them for around 150-180CAD depending on difficulty)

Here are some examples! 

If it sounds like something you’d be interested in please come poke me on my messenger or you can ask me for my discord! 

I’ll only be offering 3 slots for these! 

Not fandom or game specific, anything goes!

Once closed I wont be opening up anymore slots until after the new year!

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