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onedirectionfanfics · 5 years

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Stall by @MysteryMixtapes

This month’s featured story is our first one from Wattpad! Stall by MysteryMixtapes piqued every Harry stan’s interest over the summer. With over 3.5 million reads, it is one of the beautiful, funniest and most-heartbreaking fanfic on Wattpad. Prepare for your heart to melt as Abby, shy as a mouse, cracks Harry’s tough cocoon in this dangerous fic involving high-end clubs, sketchy people, and—of course—a bathroom stall. Check our interview with the author below!

"You wanna try and be my medicine Abby?" he asks with a deep testing tone, keeping his voice quiet.

"I can try," I breathe out as I gulp when his grip tightens "Try me."

His hand slides up my throat, his long fingers wrapping tight around my jaw "That's what you really want?"

I nod, as I sigh out a shallow yes, and I see every muscle in his body tense, as he wets his lips; hoarsely murmuring his next sentence like its his last try at making me change my mind.

"I'm dangerous Abby, this is your last chance, tried to warn you."

My stomach twists and knots, as I use every ounce of bravery I have.

"Prove it then."

How long have you been writing for?

I’ve been writing since December 2018. So about 9 / 10 months give or take. I only started writing when I made my wattpad account, never had any inclination to do it before a day in my life. I’m surprised I can spell, honestly. Stall was the first story I’d ever written.

Do you have certain habits or rituals you have to do while writing?

The only habit I really have is listening to music. I can’t write without it (or at least hate writing without it), but other than that, not really. I just whack on some tunes and verbally vomit from my brain.

The ever famous question: how did you come up with this idea?

This is a hard question for Stall, because there’s like a clusterf*ck of answers that all kinda got mashed together. I wanted to write a cliche bad boy / good girl, with the stereotypes and see if I could make it interesting. Put my own twist on it, give it substance or good reasoning, and honestly the start of the story is kind of poking fun at bad boy characters. It was all on purpose. I like things that aren’t what they seem, and I like breaking stereotypes so for me, using that cliche was fun to play with and break down. I like paradoxes and enigmas too. I wanted to write a character that should be, by all accounts technically unlovable and essentially a villian; then see if I could make him loveable and have that as a romantic lead. I wanted to see if I could make a character like his, someone people would empathise with and feel compassion for. Plus it was an opportunity for me to mash all these genres together (romance / mystery /thriller / horror / comedy / erotic) into one big mess, that happens to be my book. I also wanted to write a shy female lead, that was super kind but not weak. Kindness is a strength. I wanted to show that. I dunno, I have a dark sense of humour and like horror movies, and cult 90’s films so that influenced it a lot as well.

When does a story go from an idea in your mind to paper? Is there a process you go through before writing it out, or do you just get straight in it?

Okay, so first of all I would like to start off with I am THE MOST disorganised person, ever. I suck at planning and for the most part, my stories are just in my head and I wing it as I go with a general idea / goal / outcome / theme in mind. I really don’t have some fantastic answer, it’s literally just “That sounds kinda cool, I wanna tell that story” and hope I don’t f*ck it up. They go from an idea to paper, when I literally can’t get the damn idea out of my head and it’s going to drive me up the wall until I get it out.

You have a well-developed and complex plot, spanning over a hundred chapters. Was this something that took you a long time to build? Do you ever make stuff up as you go?

I think it’s really lovely, that you think I have a well developed plot - because I didn’t think that haha. I was shocked the first time someone said that to me, and didn’t even realise I was following a ‘plot’. I know nothing about writing, I didn’t even know I was doing character development. I just wrote what made sense to me, and followed that to be able to tell the story. So I was LITERALLY just making it up as I went. My plan is that I had no plan at all, except for a vague idea. I wrote the entire thing in 5 months.

Did you ever find it hard to keep up with the plot or the twists and turns?

I mean, it was a headache. But it wasn’t hard to keep up with because I only wrote what made sense to me and I wasn’t trying to shock anyone, or throw in twists for the sake of it. They all had a good reason or purpose so they weren’t hard to keep up with, for me personally.

Harry’s extreme fear of water, while unusual, was written well enough to make all of us scared of it for him. Do you have any strange phobias, you can never get over (or one you did get over?)

I have a huge phobia of spiders (which is unfortunate considering I live in Australia and we have giant ones that just hang out on your wall like they pay rent) and I’m not overly fond of heights, but I wouldn’t call it a phobia. But in saying that, I’d rather get in a bathtub of spiders than ever do something like public speaking.

There are a lot of dark themes involved in this story, from domestic abuse to torture and PTSD, do you enjoy working with these themes? Are they challenging in any way?

There are a lot of darker themes in that book, and I tend to have an easier time writing them. I usually only write about what I understand, or what I’m interested in. I’m really interested in human psychology, and the ‘why’ in understanding the reason people act the way they do. The cause and effect of things. I also like writing things with lots of emotion. It can get really difficult to write, there’s been a fair few times it took a really heavy toll on me mentally and emotionally writing some of the scenes in that story, and took me a few days to even feel normal again. I guess being a writer is just hurting your own feelings with fake scenarios, hey? But I also think writing is where you can be the most honest, and there is a lot of honesty in emotion.

How do you find such perfect gifs for the end of every chapter?

If you’ve read Stall, you’re gonna know why this is blasphemy. But I get them from Google (heinous, I know, shame on me). Another thing wattpad has taught me, is apparently I’ve got a knack for reaction gifs. hah.

Not to make Abby sound like a Mary Sue, but you often write her exact thoughts in response to things she can’t voice out loud. Is this your way of subtly inserting your own thoughts sometimes?

I put a lot of my own thoughts in the story in different ways, and Abby’s inner monologue is a funny way to do that sometimes. But I do it with Harry too. Abby thinking her responses was all part of her character, for her to get to a point where she could actually say what she was thinking at some point aloud. It was something for her to grow with.

Other than meeting once three years prior to the events in the story, Abby and Harry’s lives are more connected than we thought. Would you consider them to be soulmates with entwined fates or is there a possibility that they could have never met and none of this would happen?

I don’t consider them soulmates, I’m a bit pessimistic in regards to the notion of soulmates but I believe in variations of them. I do think, most things happen for a reason and inexplicable coincidences happen in life and that’s what I'd boil it down to. Honestly, there’s several times where things could have went ass backwards with those two, and they never would have seen each other again, but as luck would have it - they met again. (It's me, I am luck.)

Anything you’d like to say to anyone who read your fic?

Ah man, that’s a hard one. I wrote half the story drunk, and have the typos and random grammatical dumpster fire parts to prove it because it’s all a first draft and totally unedited, so I’ve never exactly been out here thinking anyone would read it and I’m still f*cking gobsmacked anyone did, let alone liked it. But, if you’ve read my word salad and liked it, I appreciate you and you’re the ranch dressing that made it special.

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Thank you so much to the author for being so lovely! Check out more of her work here! If you want to submit a fic you think should be featured next month do it here!

#one direction fanfiction #1dff #harry styles fanfiction

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jennserr · 5 years

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Get To Know The Blogger

tagged by the lovely @schoute!

RULES: Answer 17 questions and tag 17 people you’d like to get to know better.

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1) Name: Jennifer, but basically any variation of that works too--Jen, Jenny, Jenna (and apparently ‘jenn’ on discord bc of my username)

2) Height: 5′4″ and a bit, or 163 cm, tho for some reason people think i’m 5′6″

3) Wearing: pjs and a spaghetti strap top

4) Introvert or Extravert: i think ambivert? idk man i’ve got adhd and that overrides the whole introvert/extravert deal bc i have the capacity to be both depending on environment

5) Siblings: one little sister (both age-wise and height-wise lol)

6) Following: i don’t keep track of that but it’s at least more than 10

7) Followers: also don’t really track that but i’m pretty sure it’s over 20 at the very least

8) Degrees: technically none, but i have a diploma from a one year VFX program which at this point is worth basically nothing bc i’m not doing vfx anymore and anyway i got it years ago and the industry’s moved on from the programs i learned

9) Instruments: Technically i know how to play the piano and guitar, but i don’t know any piano songs anymore and my guitar skills aren’t exactly skillz

10) Favourite author: bruh idk it’s been too long since i’ve read an Actual Book and i can’t choose which fanfic author i follow is my fav bc they all are

11) Favourite Star Wars: the entire Clone Wars animated series, the 2008 one. that was the Good Shit

12) Last Google Search: "i don’t know what i expected” image search lol

13) Recommend a video game: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey bc i’m gay for kassandra and also the game is gorgeous and i love the story

14) Recommend a music album: the Twilight Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. that shit was and still is lit, dude

15) Recommend a book: Ahsoka, by E.K. Johnston

16) Recommend a recipe: uhhhhhhhhhhhh instant noodles with some cut up green onion? idk man i barely cook

17) Share a creative thought that you had today: “Anna is the exact opposite of housewife material and is the reason Leandra hires a servant when they move to Hightown” in a conversation with my alpha reader about my hawke and how she can’t cook or do any other sort of housework to save her life or anyone else’s. she’s been banned from cooking ever since The Fireball Incident when she was 13 and how her twin brother Alex has been the one to do the housework and such. yknow, until the Deep Roads Expedition >_>

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Tagging forward to: @nonchalantxfish @beckily @jt-boi-n7 @jkit45 @kadaransmuggler @chance-of-reaper @inquartata30 @n0rmandysr1 @dr-hoffmans-mechanic @galacticgreywarden @fade-footprints @nightworldlove @rievu @mercurialmind @kassandraspreciousbutt @biracialandbisexual @eritela

no pressure to do this if you don’t want to or anything ^^

#original #mutuals #tag meme

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thestudentarchitect · 5 years

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Tips for Existing Conditions Surveys

By Chelsea Weibust 04/23/2019

Each project is totally different, from the information available, scope of work, schedule, etc. It's important to know the purpose of your site visit before you head out to the site.

Sometimes when you have a site visit you'll have access to detailed existing drawings. They may be just printed drawing sets or PDF's, or ideally they'd be CAD or Revit drawings. Other times you won't be given any information at all. In the latter case, it's a good idea to check out Google Maps and Tax Assessor information to get an idea of the size, shape, materiality, aesthetic, context, etc. of the building before your visit.

You may need to sketch the plans and elevations on site so be sure to bring a clipboard and graph paper for sketching and notes.

Another consideration is the scope of the project. If the project focus is strictly on interior work then you shouldn’t spend too much time documenting exterior conditions - just stick to the basics. The same is true to strictly exterior projects. If you're working on a deck renovation then documenting a ton of interior information will be a waste of time, unless of course it’s related to the project. [Full disclosure: some of the links below are affiliate links.]

Here are some tips and tricks I’ve picked up from doing existing conditions surveys.

General Survey Information:

Make sure to write the date, location, and project name of the site visit on each sheet in case there's any question in the future about when the existing conditions survey was taken or what project the drawings are from. Also, write what each drawing shows, i.e. first floor plan, exterior dimensions, section through living room, etc. It may also be helpful in some cases to write the names of the people at the site visit for future reference.

Color Coding:

Sometimes existing conditions surveys will have a ridiculous amount of information and it can be tough to decipher between vertical dimensions, horizontal dimensions, opening dimensions, structural elements, etc. For this reason I like to use color and thickness variations for distinctions. For example, I like to switch between a thick black pen/marker* and a multicolored pen* to make it easy to switch between colors quickly. You can color code your notes however you like but you may want to make a legend so anyone who might look at your drawings will understand them. Here’s how I color code my surveys:

Black marker/pen: exterior walls

Black pen: horizontal dimensions, general notes, interior walls, cabinets and fixtures

Green pen: vertical dimensions (heights), spot elevations

Blue pen: window and door types, overall dimensions

Red pen: center line dimensions, mechanical elements, structural elements

Dimensions:

Write dimensions perpendicular to the dimension string in areas where you have a cluster of dimensions so you can fit all of the information.

Units:

Be consistent with how you're writing dimensions and make sure if using a laser measuring* tool that it's set to the same units you've been using. Most of the time I find it's best to write in only inches. Other times I like to write in feet and inches but when I use these units I'm careful not to use ticks for feet and inches (1' - 3 1/2") because the ticks could be mistaken for numbers. Instead, I like to keep it simple and write them like: 1 - 3.5 (0 - 4.75 if no feet) so that there's no confusion with ticks or fractions being misinterpreted.

Vertical Dimensions:

It's easy to remember to take horizontal dimensions to get wall placements and openings but something that can easily be forgotten are vertical dimensions. Ceiling heights, soffits, window sill and header heights, door heights, openings, floors, etc. can easily be overlooked until you're at your desk modeling the building.

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Sections, Elevations & 3D Views:

Don’t limit yourself to drawing in plan. Some information is better represented in section like roof/ceiling slopes, floor to floor heights, soffit heights, stairs, bump outs, etc. You might also find a quick 3D sketch or elevation can be helpful too.

Storyboard:

If you're short on time or are looking to get a set of dimensions that don't have to be totally accurate you can take a picture of a storyboard to get accurate enough information. To do this, hold the tape measure against whatever it is you want to dimension and take a picture of it. Try to set the camera as parallel to the tape as possible so you don't distort the image.

In the image shown you can see we wanted to quickly get the dimensions of an existing railing on a roof deck. You can see clearly the center lines of the pipes, the diameter of the pipes, and the overall height of the railing.

Topography:

Pay attention to the topography and make note of the elevation of the ground in relation to the bottom of siding material at each corner of the building, at the very least.

Material Dimensions:

Note materials and dimensions - if masonry, measure and make note of the size of the blocks used. If lap siding, shingle siding, etc. make note of the reveal and material. This will be really helpful if you need to figure out heights if you forget to measure something or just want to verify dimensions. Since reveals can vary on each course, a handy tricks is to measure the height of 10 courses and divide that number by 10 to get a more accurate gauge.

You can see from the photo that 10 courses of this siding is 27 1/8” which is roughly a 2 3/4” reveal per course.

Photos:

Often one of my biggest frustrations when reviewing site visit information is not having enough photos. Anytime I'm on a site visit, I'll leave with hundreds of photos and somehow it's still not enough! There's always some wonky condition that I didn't get a great photo of or I needed a picture just 4 inches to the right. Go out of your way to take more photos than you might think you need from different angles, perspectives, and distances. Nowadays we have awesome smartphones that are capable of high quality photos, panoramas, and even videos! Videos can be especially helpful when walking through the building with an owner or consultant (with permission) so you can take note of what was discussed so you don’t have to take as many notes! I personally prefer to use my iPhone or a small point and shoot* that’s not too heavy and can be easily tucked away when not in use. I once had a project where we had to survey hundreds of windows for a renovation project and most windows were totally different conditions. We needed multiple detail photos of each window. This would've been an almost impossible task to keep track of each individual window but luckily I had a Samsung Note phone with a pen so I was able to take a photo of each window, take a screenshot, and make a note on each photo which window it was. I'm not sure what we would've done otherwise but I was so thankful to have that phone at that moment! We also had a google docs spreadsheet open on my iPad to document information about the windows rather than writing it on paper so we wouldn't have to duplicate our work in transferring written notes to the computer. So in short, I guess I'm saying to make the most of your technology!

Locate Photos:

Mark interesting things on your plans that will make it easier for you or someone else to orient themselves while looking through the photos later. Maybe it's a painting on a wall, a red sweatshirt hanging on a pipe, a stain on the ceiling, etc. but it should be something distinct that will help place tricky conditions in photos on the plans. If you're taking detail photos, remember to step back and take context photos so you can locate them later.

The photo below shows a steel rod tied to the roof rafters which was holding up the 2nd floor of a old home. This was both fascinating and terrifying (since the house needed significant repair) but we needed to be sure to mark the locations of these rods on the plans. This picture is great to see the detail of how the tensile system works but doesn’t help at all in telling us where this rod is located. So on the floor plan I made a note on the plan with a star and a cone (<) showing the direction of the photo, saying something like “steel rod tied to roof structure, tension wheel” and this was really helpful because none of the other pictures of the rods showed the wheel or tensile system and now we knew exactly where it was and what direction we were looking.

Locating pictures on plans is really only necessary in tricky areas like basements, attics, eaves, or in monotonous buildings where a lot of spaces look exactly the alike, so try not to go overboard with this.

BONUS: Tips for You

Backpack:

I recommend carrying a small bag with you while on site visits to hold extra tools and whatever else you may have. I suggest using a small backpack* rather than something like a messenger bag since it wont get in the way.

Snacks:

Maybe I'm the only one who thinks about food constantly, but I always find it's a good idea to keep a couple snacks with me on a site visit. Sometimes things take longer than expected and you don't want to be famished, trying to rush through your survey so you can get a bite to eat. It can't hurt to throw a couple granola bars and a water in your bag, right?

Dress Appropriately:

If it's the middle of winter and you're surveying a building without heat, you're going to want to dress in lot's of warm layers. Be sure to check the weather beforehand so you know if it's supposed to rain (and will need rain gear and umbrella), if it's going to be brutally cold (and need hats, gloves, scarves, lots of layers, etc.), if it's going to be windy (and you need a windbreaker and extra clips to attach papers to your clipboard)... you get the idea

Shoes:

Two things you need to consider about footwear are safety and comfort. You should never wear open toed shoes or high heels to a site visit, there are just too many things that could go wrong. You're probably going to be walking around for hours, sometimes crawling around in icky places, and potentially walking on unstable surfaces or trekking through the mud. Opt for comfortable sneakers or boots.

Good luck on future surveys!

- Chelsea

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supercunninglinguist · 6 years

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BACK FROM HIATUS

Even though I never declared one. my schedule was kept pretty full, so updating this blog wasn’t a priority. c’est la vie. but here I am.

2018 has had a weird start. but it’s an alright year so far, I guess.

Still living in Viet Nam. I drive a motorcycle now, a Hanamoto Nam, originally built in Laos. it’s helped me grow a new appreciation for mechanical systems, plus purchase price and self-maintenance is cheaper than renting a scooter. Recently, I’ve been pondering ways to bring advanced data science to corporations in this country as an industrial data analyst. it’s definitely possible, but, as a foreigner, there would be some significant hurdles to jump through. I also make money on the side by distilling natural insecticides (how I paid for my motorcycle!), and I’m really getting into vaporwave music.

My Vietnamese hasn’t really improved. I know some new words now and I can speak simple sentences, but it’s difficult to actually converse with Vietnamese individuals. even when I try my best to replicate proper tones and speech, they rarely recognize that I’m even trying to speak Vietnamese, and inevitably someone who speaks English comes over to help. literally every foreigner here that I have met who speaks fluent Vietnamese originally learned either by dating a Vietnamese person, or by taking classes. and since I don’t really have time to date or take classes... high regional diversity makes learning even more difficult. several times, I’ve learned words or phrases from one Vietnamese person and later been told by another Vietnamese person that “nobody would say it like that” or “people from [district\province\area] say that.” there’s some small phonetic\phonological differences between regiolects that can significantly impede acquisition.

Starting back in September, I wrote a new doctorate research project, and starting sending it to linguistics faculties in mid-November. the first version I sent out was not as good as it should have been, but subsequent revisions are much better. unfortunately, out of approximately 60 faculties (~40 linguistics faculties) that I contacted, none have shown interest. I haven’t sent an application in months, and I still receive a new rejection every 2-3 weeks. 5 soft categories of responses were noted: 1) This faculty does not focus on this research area, which is fine; 2) this is great and all but there’s nobody at this faculty who can supervise your project (which includes this faculty does not have the resources for a doctorate project like this), also fine, sure whatever; 3) This doesn't seem feasible\tractable\realistic\possible\logical\valid, which usually also included a hefty dose of you need to prove that this will work before we will even consider it, seems highly unfair, especially since the methods I’m advocating are already in use for 15 years and the citations for that are already in the proposal, plus how do I get the fucking data without an institution to back me up!? l; 4) This faculty is not interested in your project, fair enough, thats alright; 5) I can’t even understand what you’re proposing, like, come on, I know it’s complex and dense, but there’s a lot to say, and I did it with only 4 pages - did you try skimming any of the references or try using google or wikipedia? The worst response so far came from Dr. Mattis List, who literally just flat out responded with “this isn’t going to work”, and fallaciously attacked a very simplified example that I gave to him in order to help him understand the core concept of my proposal. Neither Dr. Heggarty nor Dr. Gray were particularly interested. Dr. Gerhard Jaeger had a fairly friendly response, but still questioned how feasible it actually is. My response to questions about tractability (which is a genuine concern, since a model must be economical in order to be feasible) has been: do you really think we can generate better resolutions for language typology, history, and ecology by retaining simple models and basic levels of information? Modelling a complex system requires a level of data that reflects the complexity of the source system. Groundbreaking results don’t just appear - innovations are required. after receiving rafts of negative, even some outright hostile, responses (mostly mocking my reductionist perspective on language), my opinion is that mainstream linguistics is ignoring this fact, and ignoring the additional fact that there are already methods for modelling complex systems, like human speech. and that these methods are already verified and in-use. so I’ve given up on rejoining the field of linguistics. y’alls be some orthodox mothafuckas, ya know that? Y’all like to pretend that you’ve moved past the formalist conceptions and theories of language but you really haven’t. There’s still a large and apparently high-level portion of the linguistics community that actively spurns the philosophy of computationalism and experimentation, who think that it’s a fad, and who also don’t even see the problems inherent to currently used methods (or don’t see them as problematic). I, on the other hand, think interdisciplinary linguistics is a better linguistics. or moreso, better to adopt methods from other disciplines than to have those disciplines steal chunks of research potential from linguistics. or better to be that person who steals chunks of research potential from linguistics for another field.

However, I might try new applications for 2018, but I’m really tired of dealing with academia. I turn 30 this year. I don’t have time to waste personalizing applications or writing 10 different variations on a research proposal to please every possible faculty that could be interested. at least if I present my ideas as a commercial venture to someone with dollar signs in their eyes, they’re going to see the potential dollar signs; that’s a hell of a lot better than an exhausted researcher who has exactly 2 days to review 80 reasonable doctorate candidates and their projects and choose which to actually consider. a close friend told me to not even bother with applying to linguistics faculties for next time, and I think he’s right. I might focus more on applying to mathematics and computer science faculties.

Here in Viet Nam, during the summer, air conditioning and mosquito spray\incense are your friends. Will exposing yourself to DEET and other synthetic insecticides possibly harm your body in currently-immeasurable\unknown ways? possibly, even probably; you know what will harm your body in currently-measurable\known ways? Getting dengue fever because you’re being bitten by at least 30 mosquitoes every night.

buying vegetables and fruits at the Cho (local open market) is so much cheaper and fun than the grocery store, but beware: unless the shopkeepers see that you’re a regular, a lot of them will try to rip you off. it can be annoying. but keep in mind: unless you can converse in Vietnamese with them, they’re almost always taking some extra time to help you obtain your products, so don’t be salty if you pay the foreigner-price; for a very large purchase at a cho, it’ll be maybe 35,000 VND extra.

guys, I can’t believe that there are only 2 episodes of Adventure Time left!

not much else to report on or to say at this time. if anyone in the tumblr science community is in a position to read and advance my proposal to a particular faculty, I’ll gladly email it to you, but I’m not making it publically available yet, and I would rather it not be shared or given to anyone without my consent first. I’ve already received some warnings - naming even specific faculties - about having my proposal unscrupulously stolen, and I have enough unfriendly acquaintances throughout linguistic academia that, yes, it is something I have to be worried about.

#life #research proposals #summer is alright though I really like the sun on our balcony #driving a motorcycle is more fun than I thought #I had to learn manual from the guy I bought it from #people literally pointed and laughed whenever I stalled. but just look at me now!

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sabraeal · 6 years

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I got tagged by @onepetal

rules: answer 30 questions and tag 10 people

# following: 150

# of followers: 440

average hours of sleep: 7 or 8! This is an improvement on the 5 or 6 I used to get last year

lucky number: 13

instruments: I sort of taught myself how to play piano in elementary/middle school, but I was never very good at it, SO

what are you wearing: leggings and a dress, because I had to go outside this morning

dream job: writer!

dream trip: Anywhere in Europe, probably!

birthday: 06/20

height: between 5′9 and 5′10, depending on how good I’ve been to my back lately

gender/pronouns: she/her

other blogs: I co-mod @snowwhite-andtheknight with @infinitelystrangemachinex. She actually organizes content, I just get to be the cool aunt that comes in with challenges three times a year

nicknames: Sab, sabs, Jen (and variations thereof)

star sign: gemini

time: 12:14pm

favorite bands: Guster, Myrath, Great Big Sea, Pentatonix, The Dear Hunter...a lot, honestly

favorite artist: Like....musical artist, or...? I mean, if you mean classical artists, probably John Singer Sargeant?

favorite tumblr artist: @nebluus draws the way I’ve always imagined I would if I could draw, and thus she is near and dear to my heart

song stuck in your head: None right now, aside from the song my son is making up behind me

last movie you watched: The Last Jedi, in theatres. At home? Uhhhh.....I think....Magnificent Seven (the new one)

last show you watched: Ancient Magus Bride and Mushishi, just last night

why did you make your blog: my friend @celestial-escapism literally made me while she was visiting, and that was that

what do you post: oh jeeze. Everything.

last thing you googled: I think it was, no lie, what season Will Riker grew the beard

ao3: sabraeal. i keep it easy

do you ever get asks: yep! though it’s slowed down since I answer SO SLOWLY. Sorry kids, I try.

how did you get the idea for your url: It’s the name I use for internet stuff

favorite food: as I’ve said, I tend not to have a favorite, though at this point I’m low key craving either a shake shack burger, pork dumplings, or scallops. mmmmm

last book you read: The last book I FINISHED was The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay, which I loved (can’t wait to work myself around to Children of Earth and Sky oh man), but CURRENTLY I am reading Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong, which is pretty good, but I can ALREADY TELL the ending is going to aggravate me

top 3 fictional universes: ASoIaF, His Dark Materials, Harry Potter

I’m not gonna tag 10, but I tag: @superhappybubbleslove, @infinitelystrangemachinex, @nebluus, @vivianwisteria, @claudeng80, @thelionshoarde

#30 question meme #meme #every time i get asked about what I'm reading I'm like #achievement unlocked: rant about what i'm reading #and i have to HOLD MYSELF BACK #also i picked fictional universes mainly by how much I want to write in them

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pocket-elf · 6 years

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Music questionnaire/tag game

@centaine tagged basically anyone/everyone and why not? I know I’ve done this several years ago (or at least something similar), so gonna try to throw in some more recent loves. And not do it in any kind of order to maybe shake things up in the questions… and you know what, I had a bit of a hard time thinking of bands/artists I really like right now, so threw in some composers.

Also, after answering what I copied form Samy I noticed that I never answered anything for 4, so I googled and found a longer version, including the same questions I answered + more. So I added those where they are in the other versions I found!

Music Questionnaire

List 10 artists you like before answering the questions below.

Josh Groban Ruelle PTX Bear McCreary Hozier Bruce Springsteen First Aid Kit Superfruit Hans Zimmer Tom Waits

What was the first song you ever heard by 6?

Absolutely no clue. Cause I was a kid. What I do vividly remember is lying on the floor in the living room, listening to the Born in the USA LP.

What is your favourite song of 8?

I think the choir remix of Future Friends. Closely followed by GUY.exe

What kind of impact has 1 left on your life?

Not sure. One of the very few I’ve seen in concert, and twice. And I guess that has opened my eyes to what concerts can be like with popular artists and how they don’t have to be like maybe I once thought? And I guess helping me stay in contact with one of my classmates, through shared appreciation for his music (she’s pretty much a hardcore fan. I’m a more casual one)

What are your favorite lyrics of 5?

That is… super hard. I love his creepy romantic stuff, so lets go with:

And they'd find us in a week When the cattle'd show fear After the insects have made their claim After the foxes have known our taste I'd be home with you, I'd be home with you

How many times have you seen 2 live?

None. Don’t know if I care to tbh.

What is your favourite song by 7? (need to mention that I haven’t listened to their latest album yet due to being too deeply into other music. But I will eventually. Just saying that those songs were not included when considering this)

Maybe Emmylou? Or This Old Routine, or Wolf. I also really love their covers of Red Dirt Girl and Universal Soldier.

Is there any song by 3 that makes you sad?

Just the other day Standing By made me cry sooooo. But in general no, their music doesn’t make me sad. Standing By is a beautiful song that in itself shouldn’t make me too sad, but I just remember the stuff from the documentary, and then everything with Avi. And it also makes me think of my gf now cause it’s a perfect long distance relationship song.

What is your favourite song by 9?

It depends a bit on my mood. Time is great (and omfg that Scott Hoying and Mario José cover of Lost On You combined with Time… what a brilliant idea), but no wait… Duduk of the North has to be it. It’s one of my favourite pieces of music ever. And pretty much everything else from Gladiator really.

When did you first get into 2?

Aha! Easy question for once. It’s all due to Shadowhunters, so it was last fall.

How did you get into 3?

I am such a newbie pentaholic, but I got in deep once I properly tried. See, I don’t really know why I resisted so many years. I love musicals, and I’ve realised part of that is cause I really like duets and choirs and stuff (and stories but that doesn’t have anything to do with PTX). But there was something with the whole a cappella group thing that just didn’t work for me, I thought. And tbh I think a big part was also the beatboxing thing, cause I generally find beatboxing kinda cringy? Also Scott is a bit too much when you’re not used to it with all the riffing and running. I’m not a big fan of that in general. Aaaanyway. I never properly tried even if I knew of them of course. I think the first thing I heard/watched was Radioactive back in the day, which I think introduced me to Lindsey Stirling as well, whom I have listened way more to. So anyway, a few months ago (I said newbie did I?) I was watching GMM, which I have been a fan of for many years, and used to watch every single ep of but haven’t with the new format. But Duo or Don’t-o style stuff is always fun, so definitely gonna watch that. I did recognise the guests, at least Scott, and made the PTX connection (probably not Mitch tbh considering how much he changes all the time). I thought they seemed really fun and cute and everything and knew I had to watch some Superfruit stuff on youtube. Well I fell in love right away, and watched everything, and listening to Future Friends. But somewhere along the way of that massive binge (we’re just talking like a week of inhaling everything) I thought I really should give PTX a good and proper try. First I put a few songs on a Spotify playlist and played at work. Then I expanded a bit. And then I just went into a full soundbath that included all their music, minus classic christmas songs (cause we were past the holiday season). And I do mean listening to their stuff pretty much non-stop for 24-48 hours. Okay did stop for sleep. And it worked. I realised that the beatboxing wasn’t cringy at all cause Kevin isn’t human and you can’t even tell (I listen to the mashup from Bones, with the somewhat subpar beatboxing and… yeah still a lil bit cringy tbh, but not as much as it used to be cause I am used to the art form) and I got used to all the running. Ask me my favourite band now and… tbh I will probably say PTX.

What is your favourite song by 4?

It will have to be something from BSG for sure (I do love the Outlander score too though, and other stuff he’s done, but BSG will always be my favourite). Violence and Variations, Goodbye Sam, or Roslin and Adama probably. The last one there is what I think is the reason I finally watched the show. See, I had tried twice and never even got through the mini series. A friend sent me that song (I think) saying that she knew I don’t watch the show, but that I appreciate a good score and knowing I love Gladiator I might really like the music from BSG. And I was like sure, why not. Give me some nice sweeping score! And she was right, I did really like it. And the timing was just right. I must’ve been ready for a new sci fi show, and the music made me open up to it again. I skipped the first half of the mini cause I remembered it well enough and started with the second half, which I guess got me past that first speed bump, and oh boy and I glad I gave it a third try. One of the best tv series I’ve ever watched. And excellent score. Bear McCreary is for sure one of my favourite composers. How many times have you seen 9 live?

Never. How often does Hans Zimmer do live stuff though? Wait didn’t I see some kind of recorded live thing with him somewhere? Netflix maybe? I should watch that. I have heard some of his stuff performed by a symphonic orchestra in Prague though! Not a pure Hans Zimmer show by any means, but I finally got the Gladiator Suite live. What is a good memory concerning 10?

I don’t have a specific memory tied to Tom Waits I think. Skip to the last question for one story about getting into his music as an adult, which I guess is a good memory. But in general his music just reminds me of my dad. Which is also nice. Is there a song by 8 that makes you sad?

Haha both the sad questions are for very closely related artists… anyways, not really? Cause even the properly sad songs like Deny U and Goodbye From Lonely have some kind of energy that just makes them… less sad. Now, if they would do some kind of like outdoor acoustic thing like artists tend to do for some reason (hey boys, look at kirstin and do the same!) I’m sure they would become way more sad. Tbh I’d really like that. We got a taste of Goodbye From Lonely from someone’s cute party (who was it? Damn, I can’t remember. One of their friends anyway. Wait, was it Luke?) where they did it acoustic, and what I heard was beautiful. What is your favourite song of 1? I can’t say Gold Can Turn To Sand right? Simply cause I adore the original xD Cause it isn’t really my favourite when just looking at his stuff I guess. Hmmm, you know what comes to mind? Vincent (Starry Starry Night), that one is beautiful. Actually a lot of the songs from his debut album are among my favourites. Like Let Me Fall or You’re Still You. Like the big sweeping ballads.

How did you get into 10?

Dad. The end. No but I grew up with the music of Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton… assorted blues as well. Many years ago I think one of his songs played in something on tv, maybe even a cover. I feel like it might’ve been I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You? Or someone used lyrics for something on LJ maybe? I don’t know. Anyway, I felt like I recognised the song and liked it. And I looked up which album it was on (his debut album from 1973 in fact) and assuming dad had it, went to find it in the living room (cause I was right). Put it on in the kitchen while doing something, and realised I knew all the songs on the album. I had never listened to it actively. But it must’ve played so many times during my childhood. And I thought “damn, this is good”. And it still is. I think that album will always give me a cozy safe feeling.

Tagging: uuuh, whoever feels like doing it. @kimmyhunter you said you had some tag games to do, have another! the rest of you... do it too!

#music #about me #tag game #long post

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kantiris · 5 years

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Rules: answer 21 questions and then 21 people who you want to get to know better

Tagged by @dreamsaremywords I don’t ever do these things but it seems fun!

Nickname: Jin! Starbucks calls me Jen, Gin, Gen, any variation...

Sign: Aries sun, Cancer rising, Leo moon - everyone I meet says I’m very Aries-like, which I’ll take as a compliment!

Height: 170cm, so about 5′7″ I guess?

Last movie I saw: Bohemian Rhapsody, finally!

Last Thing I Googled: Olive Byrne (I watched Professor Marston and the Wonder Women last night - excellent, excellent film)

Favorite Musician(s): My current Spotify playlist is mostly Halsey, Troye Sivan, LANY, King Princess, The 1975, Oh Wonder, Jack Johnson. Weirdly also, shout out to the random Nepali singer/musician I saw playing at a subway station in Brooklyn and became obsessed with the 10 songs he has out... His name is Ankit Shrestha and only has about 300 monthly listeners on Spotify.

Song: I have a lot of favourites, but I’m always in the mood for: I Feel the Earth Move - Carole King; Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson; April in Paris - Billie Holiday

Other blogs: None.

Do I get asks: No.

Blogs following: Mostly humor/aesthetic/film content, with some fandom, and artists I like.

Amount of sleep: I try to get 8 hours.

What I’m wearing: My over-sized NYU sweater over my old, ratty Mickey Mouse tee, and elephant pants that I stole from a friend.

Dream job: Production Designer/Art Director for TV/Film, while writing screenplays and stories on the side. I think I would also enjoy returning to my university to teach, but way later down the road...Also, a pipe dream, but also to write/direct a book-accurate film adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

In another life where I’m actually formally and properly trained, I would do visual development or illustration for entertainment, or in an even more distant life where art isn’t an option, a doctor/researcher of PNI (psychoneuroimmunology).

Favorite food: Not to be cheesy but anything my mom makes! In NYC, my favourite halal cart on Union Square will always have my heart. I’ve waited in snow and rain for that halal....

Languages: English, Korean, some Spanish (I can pretty much understand verbally and reading 90%, can’t really speak it), rudimentary Japanese (even though I studied it for 4 years), tourist-level Czech (learned for 4 months while studying/working in Prague). I would like to learn ASL and French, though.

Random fact: For some reason I prefer classic literature to modern literature...I suppose it has to do with the choice of diction and syntax that isn’t really used anymore? I also prefer period films to modern-setting ones... Hmm.

My favourite authors/poets are Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, the Bronte sisters, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson...oh and Agatha Christie, of course. I love a good murder mystery. I’m currently reading Mrs. Dalloway, Little Women is next on the docket!

Describe yourself as aesthetic things: I’m no good at describing myself but my friend actually made a mood board for me so I’ll just leave that here:

This was fun even if it wasn’t 21 questions! I’ll tag @ipokiu @zettanoia @i-wontrememberanythingelse if you want to do it.

#personal

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imaginewerecats · 7 years

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A taggy-majig

YOUR LAST 1) Drink: water 2) Phone Call: my dad 3) Text Message: "We're already on the bus... 8T" 4) Song Listened To: "Lucky Guy" by David Choi 5) Time I Cried: Uhh, I almost cried three days ago. The future is intimidating. 8,) HAVE YOU EVER 6) Dated Somebody Twice: No 7) Been Cheated On: No 8) Been Kissed By Someone And Regretted It: No 9) Lost Someone Special: Unfortunately 10) Been Depressed: ye 11) Gotten Drunk And Puked: Nope I’m underage and alcohol scares me anyway -- ayy, same! THREE FAVORITE COLORS 12)Orange 13) Blue 14)Green IN THE LAST YEAR 15) Made New Friends: Maybe? 16) Fallen Out Of Love: No 17) Laughed Until You Cried: Probably 18) Found Out Someone Was Gossiping About You: No, but I suspected it and I was wrong 8T 19) Met Someone Who Changed Your Life: I don't... think so? 20) Found Out Who Your True Friends Are: Maybe? Haven't had much reason to find this out 21) Kissed Someone On Your Facebook List: Don't have a Facebook ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ HOW MANY/MUCH 22) Facebook Friends: See above^^ 23) Pets: we inherited my grandmother's dog, Aggie. 24) Want To Change Your Name: Dunno man, not actively I guess. WHAT 25) Did I Get For My Birthday: A bento box! 26) Time I Woke Up: usually 6-ish, but idk 27) Were You Doing At Midnight: probably watching oddly satisfying videos on YouTube 28) Can’t You Wait For: Not living with either of my parents so that 1- I can be there for my friends when they need me, and 2- I can stop feeling so damn guilty and hesitant about doing/going literally anything/anywhere ಠ_ಠ 29) Was The Last Time You Saw Your Mom: Two days ago,and I'm going to see her now. 30) Was Something You Wish You Could Change About Your Life: See above again :T 31) Are You Listening To Right Now: whatever this song is on the radio 32) Gets On Your Nerves: People all talking on top of each other while I'm trying to sort out my thoughts, and also peOPLE WHO ARE ON THEIR PHONES OR WHATEVER WHEN THERE IS SOMEONE ELSE SITTING WITH THEM FOR A MEAL OR SOMETHING 33) Talked To A Person Named Tom: (?? what talked to a person named Tom?) 34) Is Your Most Visited Website: Google; I'm adhd and have a lot of questions that need answers so :T 35) Elementary School: Which one? I went to multiple 😂 36) High School: What about it? It's pretty cool, I guess. 37) College: I don't know yet, my dude 😅 38) Hair Color: It can be just about any (natural) color you want in the right lighting and angle and such, maybe not black, but I've gotten red, brown, blond etc. 39) Long/Short Hair: Long, it has been all my life, I hope to cut it short soon though 40) Crush: fictional or...? 😹 41) Do You Like About Yourself: I like my eyes, I'm also smarter than I ever give myself credit for, which is nice to remember, when I do 😹 42) Piercings: None 8T 43) Blood Type: Both of my parents are O-something-or-other so 44) Nickname: Neko, Cat... variations of my name... about sums me up 😅 45) Relationship Status: Single 46) Zodiac: Pisces 47) Pronouns: Asgdflbkd, idk man 48) Favorite Show: Don’t really TV <--Aye, same 49) Tattoos: None 50) Left/Right Handed: Right FIRST 51) Surgery: None, I think 52) Piercing: None ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 53) Best Friend: The boy around the corner, his name is Max, but then I moved so :T 54) Sport: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 55) Vacation: I've been going to my family's lake house for my entire life so, I'd assume there technically 56) Pair Of Shoes: PFF, IDK RIGHT NOW 57) Eating: None :T 58) Drinking: Water 59) I Am About To: Idk, I'm thinking about watching Tokyo Ghoul because I can't continue reading it at the moment 60) Listening To: My lineup of new songs because I just sorta had a "TREAT YO SELF" moment earlier today and compulsively bought maybe a dozen songs 61) Waiting For: sleep 62) Want To See: my fronds 63) Want To Get Married: Eh, idk man. It's sorta complicated 64) Career: EHH,,, ^^; WHICH IS BETTER 65) Hugs/Kisses: Hugs 66) Lips/Eyes: Eyes 67) Taller/Shorter: As a short (5'3") with many tall friends, I believe it is easier for a short to adapt to living in a tall's world than a tall adapting to a short's world. 68) Younger/Older: Mature - stealing Eevee’s answer for this. <-- Me too 8T 69) Romantic/Spontaneous: ?? Those aren't really adjacent adjectives? 70) Nice Arms/Nice Stomach: \_(030)_/ 71) Sensitive/Loud: Sensitive 72) Hookup/Relationship: Relationships 73) Troublemaker/Hesitant: ima say hesitant because I'm not fond of being around people that I know are troublemakers HAVE YOU EVER 74) Kissed A Stranger: Haven't kissed anyone :T 75) Drank Hard Liquor: No 76) Lost Glasses/Contact Lenses: Nope (knock on wood) 77) Turned Someone Down: Yeah 78) Canoodling On A First Date: Canoodling? XD No, we've been over this 79) Broken Someone’s Heart: AHHHH UNFORTUNATELY 80) Had Your Own Heart Broken: Aha, yeah;;; 81) Been Arrested: No 82) Cried When Someone Died: Probably 83) Fallen For A Friend: Yes -.-;; DO YOU BELIEVE IN 84) Yourself: HA, sometimes 85) Miracles: Eh, I don't see why not 86) Santa Claus: Not anymore 87) Kisses On A First Date: With me? Probably not. Does it HAPPEN? Oh I'm sure 88) Angels: Maybe 89) Love At First Sight: Nah OTHER 90) Best Friend’s Name: Ami/Chelle ^^ 91) Eye Color: Blue/kinda grey, but my mom's eyes are blue 92) Favorite Movie: I like Marvel movies, but a movie that I really ironically liked a lot (considering it made me cry) is Dead Poet's Society I was tagged by @ice-ice-minami (And finally got it done after a million years, I'm sorry >

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yuu33 · 6 years

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I was tagged by @thenightisdarkandfullofbooty

Ahaha wow, I didn’t take months to do this one.

Rules: Answer the 30 questions and then tag 20 people a few people!

Nicknames: Yuu. Devil. And variation of them.

Gender: ♀

⭐ Sign: Libra

Height: Ahahah, I lowkey dislike this question because they always ask it and the number of years since I last took my height and weight is growing longer. Probably 160ish cm.

Time: It was 12:16pm when I started but I got distracted by multiple things and pressed back page when I was done the first time (wow why does this always happen?) so it’s more accurate to say, 1:39pm

🎂: 6 Oct

Favorite Bands: None.

Favorite Solo Artists: Don’t really have one? If I like the song, I like it. That’s it.

Song Stuck in My Head: Eine Kleine. Less of song stuck in my head and more of song I’ve been playing on repeat. I’m slightly embarrassed to say that I’ve been twisting the lyrics to envisioning Isamu and Toshi of In Spite of a Nail for this song. The lyrics is not being a fit, but I love the sadness of the song and I’m in a particular mood for loving but angst-y for Isamu and Toshi. Have I defended myself well enough?

Last Movie I ��: No Game No Life: Zero! Damn, I would love to rewatch it and certain scenes because, damn! I didn’t think I’d like it so much.

Last Show I 👀: An hour ago or so, episode 11 of Juuni Taisen. I don’t know why I’m watching it but it’s not awful and since I’ve started it, I’m staying to the end, I guess.

When did I create my blog: Since the beginning of time. ...I could have swore I kept my creation/comfirmation email but I can’t find it??? I’m mildly distressed now. The year was 2014. I know I created this blog months before my first reblog though.

What do I post: Anything and everything that catches my interest. To those who are following me, I’m surprised you guys are still here. My interest can last anywhere between a day to years.

Last thing googled: “tumblr can't open blog redirect to dashboard“ because Hi, web tumblr! You suck! I’m trying to find my achieve page, let me

Do you have other blogs?: Yes but I don’t use them anymore. @yuu3 (aha! I can tag my own blog!) was the name I wanted when I joined Tumblr but it was taken then and @kuuhaku-ngnl (I wonder if I can’t tag it because I create this or it went through a name change before) was supposed to be a record of where I got my items in games from but I got lazy (no surprise there).

Do you get asks: Nah.

Why did you choose your url: See: Nicknames.

Following: 163 (pretty sure around half of them must be dead by now)

Followers: 225

Favorite colors:

Almost all shades of blue are my favourite! Green is surprisingly climbing up to third (after purple) due to a game

Average hours of 💤: Lately, because I’m growing old (whines), 7 on weekdays and always 10 on weekends.

Lucky number: Err, fave’s 6.

Instruments: I’ve forgotten how to play the piano.

What am I wearing: Clothes?

How many blankets I 💤 with: One but I used to have like, 8 towels as well

Dream Job: Ahaha, what is my future and what is a dream? *more nervous laughter*

Dream Trip: Japan with 2 of my friends.

Favorite food: C.H.O.C.O.L.A.T.E.

Nationality: No

Ethnicity: Censored

Favorite Song Right Now: Eine Kleine

#tag game #so... I heard you're one short of a hundred

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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN APPLE

Right now the limiting factor on the number who could be employed by small, fast browser that was actively maintained would be a way to be in the same position as the runner. Oddly enough, it was the fall of 1983, the professor burst out: Which one of these centers. They also generally provide a better education. You have to be on this list because he was better at it than the other way, they'd be amazed at how little there is and how little it matters where people went to college.1 That's the lower bound there for practical reasons. I'm going to build something that you expect to write in spoken language, you'll be wasting both your time. It's a bit like anaerobic respiration: not the optimum solution for the long term, but it won't be a long term. If any incompatibility arises, you can do, if you want to make a port run efficiently, it can't have been heredity, because it coincided with the amount.

Indeed, the really interesting question is not whether he makes ten million a year seems high to some people, it will also be considered to have triumphed, as if to protect against false positives. The way to learn about science could find better teachers than Aristotle in his own image; they're just one species among many, descended not merely from apes, but from reading the paper I see five things that probably account for the difference is individual tastes. You have to approach it somewhat obliquely. If there's one thing all startups have in common? Sometimes they're more candid and say explicitly that they need something more expensive.2 So let the path grow out the project. Who's right? Which means when there is a downside here, it is exciting to them. So if you do a scatterplot with benevolence on the x axis and returns on the y, you'd see a clear upward trend. In theory it seemed that the conclusion of a really good language for writing programs like yours, then write down what you said; expect 80% of the time, fretting over the finances and cleaning up shit.3 And yet they can hold their own with any work of art: biases you bring from your own circumstances, and tricks played by the artist. But, like us, they don't realize it yet or not.

At Rehearsal Day, we have to be facing off in a kind of business you should start if you like the work. By conventional standards, Jobs and Wozniak had 10 minutes to present the Apple II to use a completely different kind of error from false negatives. Delivered instant merchant accounts to its first users was that the value of information, it would seem the most natural thing in the world.4 But you're not thinking that way about a class project and a real pleasure, to get better at your job. If I'd had to wait till they graduate. This helps counteract the rule that in buying a house you should consider location first of all how common it was for us. Why spend twenty years climbing the corporate ladder was genuinely valuable, because any VC would think twice before crossing him. So you must consciously discount for that. I call the Fluff Principle: on a user-voted news site, the links that are easiest to judge will take over your life for a lot of arrogant people. It's when they're on the right things.

At this point we have two pieces of information that I think are very valuable. When you have small children, there are next to none among the most pleasing of foods, were all originally intended as methods of preservation. One of the two paths should you take, expect a struggle. I think the actual explanation is less sinister.5 The fund managers, professional athletes. I defending the current patent system. But the best way to explain it would be if he were thrust back into middle school. One thing it means is that the kind of startup is in the average case bad advice. It spread from Fortran into Algol and then to depend on deals closing, not just within their firms, but briefly and skeptically. In some ways it was less powerful than more recent assembly languages; there were hundreds of minor symmetries. Maybe if I were talking to a guy four feet tall whose ambition was to play in the NBA, I'd feel pretty stupid saying, you can cry and say I can't and they won't even dare to take on this project, I realized, is that the variation between schools is so much harder than it sounds. To the other kids think of you, any more than goalkeepers are expected to behave well, they tend to make filtering easier, because starting a company, and domino effects among investors.

The job of your site is about. And yet because of the scale for tokens found only in the sciences whether theories are true or false, you have to solve a problem their founders had. But I think it's because they seem so ridiculous by contrast. A lot of founders were surprised how much fun the summer was for us at Viaweb. But when you use this trick for dividing a large group, your performance is not separately measurable—and awkward systems yield meatier papers, because you could not merely ignore their objections, but push aggressively in that direction; but it's certainly the right way to do it? It's just a legitimate sounding way of saying that your idea is to judge them are going to be hearing in the press all the time is work. Intelligence and wisdom are obviously not mutually exclusive. Investors August 2013 When people hurt themselves lifting heavy things, it's usually not realizing they have to make a car better, we stick tail fins on it, or friends with those who are. And so I just gave up. At first we tried to conceal it. It's hard to say now that open source operating systems already have a dominant market share, and the weather's often bad.

For example, any work of art that would appeal to users in a hundred years. Whatever job people do, they do end up paying more. Still Life Effect Why does this sound familiar? Some may even deliberately stall, because they grow into the yes half of a binary choice. Godel's incompleteness theorem seems like a stinker to me. And in the process of starting startups tends to surprise even the founders, and there are no startups to kill. In restoring your old car you have made yourself richer.

Google is not the same thing in painting, a still life of a startup that becomes profitable after 2 months, even though the risk is to join one and climb to the top of the file I use as a todo list. You also need Florence in 1450. It's the job equivalent of the pizza they had for lunch. What excites them, both consciously and unconsciously, is the Internet. Here's where benevolence comes in.6 Which means they're inevitable.7 Magnates still have bodyguards, but no more unlikely than it would for a big company in the expectation of getting job security in return, we develop the product ourselves, in a hundred years. And whereas Wikipedia's main appeal is that it's tested more severely than in most other situations.

'' August 2002. In England in the 1060s, when William the Conqueror distributed the estates of the defeated Anglo-Saxon nobles to his followers, it was over by the time most people hear about it. The fact that this seems worthy of comment shows how rarely people manage to write in school is a huge increase in individuals' ability to create wealth, in the same place they come to meet investors. Instead, you should wait. 16. If you want to discover things that have been readjusted. It would be hard to convince people to part with large sums of money. Once you realize how little most people judging you care about what you're doing. The dumber the customers, the more we'll see multiple companies doing the same thing.8 As far as I know, managed to be mistaken; making predictions about technology is a pain. Let's look at our case.

Notes

Few technologies have one clear inventor.

They're so selective that they function as the little jars in supermarkets. Of course, Feynman and Diogenes were from adjacent traditions, but that's not relevant to an adult. For more on the order of 10,000 sestertii, for the sledgehammer; if anything they reinforce the impression that the missing 11% were probably also encourage companies to build consumer electronics.

Sam Altman wrote: My feeling with the founders'. The books we now call the years after Lisp 1. We may never do that. Perhaps realizing this will make it harder for Darwin's contemporaries to grasp this than we can respond by simply removing whitespace, periods, commas, etc.

A handful of VCs even have positive returns. Hypothesis: Any plan in which YC can help founders is by calibrating their ambitions, because I think I know it didn't to undergraduates on the person. Ed.

But startups are simply the embodiment of some logical reason e. What's the connection? You may be the technology business. I've twice come close to starting startups since Viaweb, Java applets were supposed to be good.

If you invest in these funds have no decision-making power.

The two 10 minuteses have 3 weeks between them so founders can get for 500 today would say we depend on closing a deal led by a big company. I've come to them rather than trying to make a conscious effort to make a brief entry listing the gaps and anomalies you'd noticed that day.

But you're not sure. By all means crack down on these. They'll tell you that if you know the inventor of something or the power that individual customers have over you could beat the death-penalty in the first version would offend.

#automatically generated text #Markov chains #Paul Graham #Python #Patrick Mooney #things #investors #people #1060s #founders #Investors

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fayeburnsus · 5 years

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My 10 trickiest training contract interview questions

Fortunately, I was never asked ‘sell me this pen’

Training contract interviews usually contain all the obvious questions. Why this firm? What are the challenges facing the legal profession? Tell me about a recent news story? You can find a plethora of material on how to answer them online. The most difficult questions are the ones that take you by surprise. That’s why competency questions and Brexit don’t feature on this list.

By way of disclaimer, of course there is no single right answer to interview questions. These are all real questions that I have been asked by law firms and these are my own takes on them. Remember, it is the flair and the way in which you articulate your ideas that can sell your answer, even if it is poor. Be prepared, confident, and ready to think on your feet.

10. What other firms have you applied to?

This adversarial question is to see if there is any consistency in the firms you have applied to. Don’t say ‘the rest of the magic circle’ or a firm entirely different to the one you are interviewing at. Don’t throw shade at the interviewer — I’ve heard horror stories of people saying ‘it’s none of your business’ and it hasn’t gone down well.

I think it’s arguable to say you’ve applied to a variety of different firms (for vac schemes) as you want to be able to compare them to find your best fit. But I think by the training contract stage you very much need to show that you know what you want and can say ‘X, Y and Z firms because they all have [insert key common factors you’re attracted to].

9. A close friend and fellow trainee tells you that the late nights they have been working are only so they can charge their dinners to the client. What do you do?

Unfortunately, a good answer to this question involves throwing your mate under the bus and telling your supervisor or the compliance officer within the firm. I would advise all interviewees to read up on the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s Code of Conduct before a training contract interview. Trainees and solicitors have a duty to act with integrity and in the best interests of their clients. This type of behaviour breaches several provisions in the code of conduct.

8. What do you know about our firm?

I had spent 10 billion hours reading everything I could get my hands on related to the firm. I didn’t know where to start. The trouble with this question was narrowing it down into a cogent answer. Did they want me to talk about a recent deal? Strategy? Awards the firm had won? What year it was founded? What the managing partner’s favourite hobby was?

The key to this question is that you are not being asked WHY you applied to the firm. You should have a pre-planned, structured answer to this. I decided to pick two interesting things the firm had recently done that I could relate to myself. It doesn’t hurt to sound keen here.

7. How would you persuade a potential client to choose this firm over another, such as X LLP?

You won’t be responsible for bringing in new clients until you’re at partner level, but this question is probing your knowledge of the firm and what differentiates it from competitors. Don’t talk down the other firm — you want to sell your own services.

If you can recite Legal 500 and Chambers rankings that’s great but in most cases a client won’t care — they want the job done efficiently for the least cost possible. I focused on alternative fee arrangements and said I would highlight the firm’s experience in dealing with other similar matters. I also suggest emphasising some key personalities within the firm and explaining that they are the best at what they do.

6. If you could bring into force any law, what would that law be and why?

Finally, a question about the law! Actually, one you would expect at a pupillage interview rather than at a commercial firm. A clever candidate might pick a law that would help the firm or its clients, or something related to a current news story. But I think choosing something a bit left field could also work. It could demonstrate your personality and make you stand out. If you pick something you are passionate about, you can actually steer the conversation into an area you are very knowledgeable about, and impress the interviewer. I chose a law relating to victim’s rights.

5. A professor comes in for advice and tells you he has found the cure to a major disease and wants to protect his intellectual property. How would you advise him?

Having been asked this before beginning the Legal Practice Course (LPC), I didn’t deal with this question particularly well. In fact I remember having to be given several ‘prompts’ (this means you are not impressing).

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The trouble with this question was setting its parameters. I had to ask the interviewers questions to gain more facts. This revealed that the professor made his finding whilst in the employment of a large pharmaceutical company (which has IP implications). This fictional character wanted to protect his IP and I suggested setting up his own company, which then led onto discussing how this would be financed. There were also moral implications (was the disease cancer? Could the professor monopolise the cure?) This was a hard question because it required recalling the law, business acumen and thinking on my feet.

4. How many credit cards do you think there are in the UK?

This was probably my favourite question I was asked. This one is all about seeing how you problem solve and think through an issue. No one is expected to know the answer, but you are expected to come up with an educated guess. I said I would begin by looking at the UK population, then break it up into the type of people likely to own a credit card (not young people). Then I realised that businesses can have credit cards too, and I actually know some people with 3 credit cards. I kept adjusting my number, speaking out loud as I worked through the problem. My overall figure was about 90 million, which is far too high. But I don’t think success in these types of questions is dependent on getting the right final answer. It’s about showing how you think.

3. Can you give me a definition of medicine?

Now we are getting into the solid questions. Of course, at a law interview I was wholly unprepared to discuss medicine. This is easy with Google in front of you, but on the spot it’s hard. I was able to muddle together a sentence about something you take to prevent illness and disease. But I had gone too narrow. ‘Is meditation medicine?’ I was asked. ‘Can religion be medicine?’ I had to decide yes or no, and adapt my definition accordingly. The key here is to pause and think your answer through. I finished with a suitable wider working definition (albeit far from polished).

2. What would you do if we asked you to close an orphanage?

I thought this was a particularly nasty one. Do you a) outright refuse and look insubordinate or b) say you would do it and look morally callous? This question really probes you as a person. How would you react if you were told to work on something you didn’t agree with?

The reality is that in practice this may be unavoidable. You can’t be naïve — if you’re applying to a large commercial firm then you will be representing corporate clients in matters you might occasionally feel uneasy about.

A variation of this question might be ‘how do you feel about Google or Starbucks trying to pay as little tax as possible?’ I would advise to avoid saying that you would leave your moral compass at the door and give your honest answer to this question. Don’t try and say what you think the interviewer wants you to say.

1. The client calls you just before a deal is to be closed and wants to change something in the contract. Your supervising partner is on a long flight and won’t be available until tomorrow.

In at the top spot is this particularly difficult problem-solving question and I still do not know the ‘correct’ answer to it. I said that I would go to someone else in my department, or another partner, and ask for advice. But the interviewers said that NO-ONE else was available for advice.

So, if I couldn’t ask anyone, I could either make the change, or let the deal close and leave the client unhappy. A third option might be to negotiate an extended deadline?

Either way, I’m no risk taker, so I definitely wouldn’t make the change myself (if a trainee is even allowed to do such a thing). I don’t want to open the firm up to any litigation or ruin its reputation. In hindsight, I should have asked whether the change was minor (a comma being moved) or something substantial. I thought this question was very unrealistic — in real life you would be able to ask your colleagues for advice. I still don’t know what answer the interviewers were looking for.

Fraser Collingham is a University of Nottingham law graduate. He is currently studying the LPC at the University of Law and is due to commence a training contract at an international law firm later this year.

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My 10 trickiest training contract interview questions

Fortunately, I was never asked ‘sell me this pen’

10. What other firms have you applied to?

9. A close friend and fellow trainee tells you that the late nights they have been working are only so they can charge their dinners to the client. What do you do?

8. What do you know about our firm?

7. How would you persuade a potential client to choose this firm over another, such as X LLP?

6. If you could bring into force any law, what would that law be and why?

5. A professor comes in for advice and tells you he has found the cure to a major disease and wants to protect his intellectual property. How would you advise him?

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4. How many credit cards do you think there are in the UK?

3. Can you give me a definition of medicine?

2. What would you do if we asked you to close an orphanage?

1. The client calls you just before a deal is to be closed and wants to change something in the contract. Your supervising partner is on a long flight and won’t be available until tomorrow.

So, if I couldn’t ask anyone, I could either make the change, or let the deal close and leave the client unhappy. A third option might be to negotiate an extended deadline?

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My 10 trickiest training contract interview questions

Fortunately, I was never asked ‘sell me this pen’

10. What other firms have you applied to?

9. A close friend and fellow trainee tells you that the late nights they have been working are only so they can charge their dinners to the client. What do you do?

8. What do you know about our firm?

7. How would you persuade a potential client to choose this firm over another, such as X LLP?

6. If you could bring into force any law, what would that law be and why?

5. A professor comes in for advice and tells you he has found the cure to a major disease and wants to protect his intellectual property. How would you advise him?

The 2019 Firms Most List

4. How many credit cards do you think there are in the UK?

3. Can you give me a definition of medicine?

2. What would you do if we asked you to close an orphanage?

1. The client calls you just before a deal is to be closed and wants to change something in the contract. Your supervising partner is on a long flight and won’t be available until tomorrow.

So, if I couldn’t ask anyone, I could either make the change, or let the deal close and leave the client unhappy. A third option might be to negotiate an extended deadline?

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A 5 Step Guide On Creating Your Blogging Strategy

My goal is to get your checking account so fat that I spark an internal investigation at your local bank. But before I launch you into full-blown bank auditing status, you’ve got to create a blogging strategy to force everything into motion.

Most of the time when I get a new blogger on board, they tell me that their main struggle is the feeling like they’re in a mad dash to publish their content daily. They always feel rushed, and the content starts to lack because of it.

Say no more – I’m here to guide you.

This is a systemized method for content creation. I’m going to break down the blogging process into 4 steps so you can tackle your daily posts without releasing garbage content from feeling rushed.

Schedule It

Sounds pretty self-explanatory, but you’d be surprised.

Blogging is a revenue generating machine. You have so many opportunities for monetization and growth – but nothing will come of potential without thoughtful action.

The first step when you’re starting to blog is setting up an effective blogging schedule. You’ve got to know what to say, when to say it, and what action you need to take to get there.

Right now you’re probably just creating every blog from scratch, brainstorming, doing research, then writing – don’t worry, I’ve been there. It’s a dark and cold place to be, filled with long hours of uninspiring bullshit and subpar content.

Learn from my mistakes.

Blogging is a process. Plan for your blog to be like a monthly magazine issue.

You’ll have 30 days, 30 stories.

Take it on like you’re an actual publisher for a magazine. What do you want this month’s issue to explore? What do you want to say?

Don’t worry if you can’t come up with 30 award winning ideas off the top of your head. Just analyze some of your competitors and play off popular posts. For instance, if “10 Ways To Make Killer Designs” is trending, create a blog centered around the negative of that – “10 Killer Design Mistakes And How To Avoid Them.”

You don’t have to focus on keywords in this phase, but you need to have a general genre/idea about the points you’d like to convey. The more specific, the better.

Do Your Research

There are about 2 million blogs posted daily.

Most of them are absolute digital garbage.

But, you’ve still got to fight to stand out. Here’s how you do it every day with your new post:

Keyword Research

Take all of your ideas/topics you brainstormed during your scheduling phase and type words that you would associate with those ideas into Google.

Just in case you don’t know what keywords are – keywords are the words that people type into Google to find what they need. If you run a woodworking blog, a rich keyword phrase could be “best lathe for woodworking.”

Here’s a fantastic guide that Moz created to help you focus on your keyword researching.

Once you find the keywords you need to focus on for your post, make sure you optimize the hell out of it by including it fairly frequently in your blog.

Real Resources

Not only is it good SEO practice to include outbound links in your post, but it also increases your credibility with your audience by providing facts from other experts in the field.

Sure, you may be linking to other people within your niche, but that’s okay. It provides your reader with more information on a similar topic and even builds relationships between your blogs.

The more connected you are with the content you want to rank for, the better.

Start Typing

You’ve done the research and scheduled your topics – writing should be simple, now.

Don’t stress about being Shakespeare or anything, either. Yes, people want to hear your unique voice and all that shit, but you don’t have to talk in sweeping metaphors or illustrations. Just talk. Provide the info. Give your readers answers.

Start with what you’re going to talk about in the blog, flush out the entire concept in the middle, and close with a strong remark or question.

None of that is even the hardest part, though. The hardest part for most people is just getting started.

Lock your phone, put it away, and don’t open any social media.

Play some music. Get in the groove. And just write.

Post It

Now comes the break in the clouds.

This is extremely easy. Just upload your content to your website so that people can actually read it.

Load onto your blogging platform, break the text up into readable chunks (no huge paragraphs), include headings, links, and finally add nice images to keep it visual.

PROMOTE

This is the biggest cause of failed blogs.

It doesn’t matter if you wrote the best damn thing on this planet and had every world leader guest post in it – no one will know if it isn’t shoved in their face.

Your blog is like your product, and social media is like your commercial.

Advertise, promote, push – constantly.

The trick is to do the same thing, with only slight variations for each post.

For example, when you post your article, let every social channel you’re on know about it. Then, let them know about it again in a few hours with different wording. Then, do it again later on in the day, and one last time at night.

This’ll help you get ahold of different viewers at different times, which will also help you determine the best time to push important content/offers.

There are tons of tools you can use to help do this – just check out my last blog here, to learn more.

You can also hit up online chatrooms/forums where you think your audience is hanging out. For example, sports blogs would do well to promote on forum sites like BodyBuilding.com – there’s already a warm audience ripe for the picking.

It takes around 3-6 months for inbound marketing to start yielding results, which is why most marketing campaigns fail around the 3-month marker.

That’s why I can’t stress this enough – you need a blogging strategy in place.

As the weeks go by, you’ll get in the sway of things and figure out what works best for you. Don’t feel confined by any set schedule, either.

Always look to break boundaries and think outside the box. That’s how revolutionary methods are born.

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