rust and stardust

If you’re shy and worried about making “Adult Calls”, I would recommend that you contact HR departments through email. That way you can spend as long as you like looking over what you’re written and tweaking it. 

Here’s a simple email template:

Job Inquiry Template

Dear [use a specific person’s name if you can find it, otherwise write “to whom it may concern],

My name is [insert name] and I’m currently seeking jobs in the ______ field. I would like to inquire about any positions you’re hiring for, and to put my resume on file with you. I’m happy to come in person to meet with you about possible opportunities.

Attached is my resume and cover letter. Please let me know if you need any additional information.

Thank-you for your time,

- [Your name]

[Phone number]

[Email address]

If you don’t hear from them within the week, reach out to them with another email or a phone call. They may not be hiring at this time, and if they aren’t, ask them to consider you for future positions.

Here are some other ideas for you:

DMV in the county you’re moving to (if you’re going to drive)

Your doctor’s office

Your college (even if you graduated, they send out alumni letters all the time)

Your credit/debit card company

Your bank

Your phone company

Any government programs you’re a part of

Any companies that you have loans with

Your health insurance company

Your auto insurance company

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

The notes that explain what happened in the HYYH era aka BTS’ past MVs that resulted in many questions and theories were included in BTS’ Love Yourself ‘HER’ album. Find below the links to the English translations: 

SEOKJIN HERE

YOONGI: HERE

HOSEOK HERE

NAMJOON HERE

JIMIN HERE

TAEHYUNG HERE

yearning to the past. dead authors and artists. and Paris. boarding-school on the 1930s. obsessive relationship and girls. I am bored. I am bored of seeing the same dark academia films over and over again in Tumblr. So recently I have been searching for some other dark academic films, and alas, these are so underrated.

(thank me later)

Cracks (2009, dir. Jordan Scott)

boarding-school on the 1930s. obsessive relationship and girls.

The Dreamers (2013, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci)

old films & art, revolution, unconventional sex, Paris. the 1960s.

Midnight In Paris (2011, dir. Woody Allen) 

“Dark academia is the unofficial term for a genre of fiction with stories that revolve around an academic campus. In literature, it’s recognized with the title campus or academic novel. Film has no term for it yet.

Dark academia works contain elements of satire, tragedy, and philosophy. They tend to promote humanities and liberal arts as passions for their protagonists to pursue. Since dark academia centers around an academic environment with young adults, most of the stories are coming-of-age.

Dark academia criticizes static social attitudes by encouraging new and unique social perspectives represented with its protagonists. Simultaneously, the genre emphasizes how students never truly get prepared for the turbulent reality they face outside their campus, despite a school’s claims to do so.”

-Definition by user @decadeance

Dark Academia in books

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh (1945)

Hangsman by Shirley Jackson (1976)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1993)

The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (1998)

Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum (1998)

The Chinese Garden by Rosemary Manning (1999)

The River King by Alice Hoffman (2001)

The Groves of Academe by Mary McCarthy (2002)

A Separate Peace by John Knowles (2003)

Mona Lisa Smile by Deboarah Chiel (2003)

The History Boys by Alan Bennet (2004)

The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman (2005)

The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler (2006)

Special Topics In Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl (2006)

And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs (2008)

The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton (2010)

The Bellwether Revivals by Benjamin Wood (2012)

Sleepwalking by Meg Wolitzer (2014)

Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates (2015)

Long Black Beil by Jennifer Finney Boylan (2017)

If We Were Villains by M.L Rio (2017)

People Like Us by Dana Mele (2018)

Dark Academia in Films

Rope by Dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1948)

A Seperate Peace by Dir. Larry Peerce (1972)

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Dir. Peter Weir (1975)

Suspiria by Dir. Dario Argento (1977)

Maurice by Dir. James Ivory (1987)

Dead Poets Society by Dir. Peter Weir (1989)

School Ties by Dir. Robert Mandel (1992)

A Little Princess by Dir. Alfonso Cuarón (1995)

Lost and Delirious by Dir. Léa Pool (2001)

Mona Lisa Smile by Dir. Mike Newell (2003)

The History Boys by Dir. Nicholas Hytner (2006)

Freedom Writers by Dir. Richard LaGravenese (2007)

The Great Debaters by Dir. Denzel Washington (2007)

Brideshead Revisited by Dir. Julia Jarrold (2018)

Black Swan by Dir. Darren Aronofsky (2010)

Kill Your Darlings by Dir. John Krokidas (2013)

The Riot Club by Dir. Lone Scherfig (2014)

Whiplash by Dir. Damien Chazelle (2014)

Raw by Dir. Julia Ducournau (2016)

Handsome Devil by Dir. John Butler (2016)

Novitiate by Dir. Margaret Bettes (2017)

Suspiria by Dir Luca Guadagnino (2018)

Dark Academia in Different Medias

TV Shows

Brideshead Revisited (1981)

How To Get Away With Murder (2014 - )

Elite (2018 - )

Video Games

Life is Strange (season one)

The Persona series

Living On Your Own (For the First Time)

1. PKW. Phone, keys, wallet. Every time you go anywhere. Check twice. The worst part of living on your own is having to rely on yourself to never forget to lock yourself out or leave your wallet at a sandwich shop in a mall. Make absolutely sure you have duplicates of your keys (I would get a couple made) and give one to a friend who lives nearby who you can count on. I also like to keep an extra set inside the apartment itself in a secure place, just in case. Your landlord can let you in during office hours, but giving a key to a trustworthy friend helps you 24/7.

2. Cleaning routine. You don’t have to sit down at a writing desk and draft this out, but spend a few minutes coming up with a basic cleaning regime for you to follow. It’s definitely easier to do a little each day, but if that doesn’t work for your schedule set aside at least an hour and a half during your time off to get your apartment spotless. I don’t know about you, but whenever I deep clean my apartment I feel like I’m living in a hotel for a day, and I absolutely love it.

3. Make a “moving” shopping list. This is everything you will need (minus food) for your first week at your new place. First aid kit, cleaning supplies, tape, cat food, etc. Your first week moving into your new place will be stressful enough, you don’t want to be halfway through setting up your living room and realize that you forgot to buy trash bags.

4. Secure yourself. I’m not the most agile or fast person in the world, and I do live in a mid-sized city that has a good deal of crime. The apartment complex I live in is very safe, but I still like to double lock my front door at night. It might be smart to keep some pepper spray or a baseball bat somewhere in your apartment, just in case.

5. Stay social. Even the most anti-social person gets lonely. Make sure to hang out with your friends, not just your co-workers, your actual friends. Get out off your apartment every few days and go see a movie, get a cup of coffee, go people watching at the park, etc. It’s easy to get depressed if you’re living alone and doing the same things the same way every day- allow yourself to mix it up.

6. Meal prep. It can be stressful and seem useless to cook complicated or “fancy” meals when you’re living on your own. Plan your meals for the week and make a list before going shopping. Get yourself enough food to make a variety of dinners that will only take you fifteen minutes. If you do want to go crazy and make steak and mashed potatoes for yourself, make enough for two meals. Also, nobody is going to think poorly of you for stocking your fridge with a couple frozen dinners.

7. Customer service. Living alone means that you are going to be doing a lot of talking to customer service representatives. Get comfortable talking to people over the phone. Tell the rep what you need as quickly as you can, and try to be polite because customer service at a phone center is a garbage job that doesn’t pay well. On the flip side, don’t be afraid to ask for a manager if you’re upset or unhappy with your service. Take their survey at the end of your phone call, tell them how unhappy you are. It’s someone’s shitty job to look at all those surveys, no complaint goes unheard. Companies with great phone service: Verizon, Apple, Amazon. Companies with awful phone service: USPS (literally the worst), electric companies, health insurance companies.

8. Guest space. This is not required, but it’s a good idea to have some sort of space for a friend to stay the night. A friend of mine had a bad breakup, showed up at my apartment with ten minute’s notice, and then fell asleep on my couch after an hour of crying. It as 7:30! Whatever, she needed it. Keep an extra blanket and pillow in your closet, I like to keep travel sized shampoos and conditioners in my bathroom cabinet on the off chance a guest wants to use my shower. I got these at a hotel for free, but they’re available at CVS and other pharmacies.

9. Toilet paper. Don’t let yourself run out of toilet paper! I like to buy more when I notice I only have one roll left. The same deal goes for paper towels.

10. Enjoy. Living on your own is simoltaneously exciting and exhausting, but an all around must-have experience. Enjoy the freedom to forget to make the bed, to decorate your bathroom however you want, to have ice cream for dinner, to watch reruns of Friends and cry when Rachel decides to move to France. Make sure to give yourself lots of space to move at your own pace, but please remember to eat three meals a day and to go to the doctor’s for a checkup at least once a year!

Making Friends

First things first- we as humans are social creatures. We seek out social interaction, even the most antisocial person in the world still needs the occasional stimulating conversation. Don’t stress about making friends, it’ll happen one way or another.

The best friendships are created organically, but that said, there are some things you can do to quicken the process.

1. Friends by proximity.  Be social and inquisitive when meeting your new co-workers and that openness will help you create fast friendships. Ask lots of questions, people love it when you ask them lots of questions about things. Remember elementary school? Remember how easy it was to make friends then? You’ve got this.

2. Places. Hang out at places that you would normally hang out with your friends. Scope out cool bookstores and cozy coffeeshops, and be on the lookout for similar-minded people. Find reasons to talk to these strangers, whether that means asking them for directions, what they’re drinking, etc. The next time you run into them, you’ll be able to start up a conversation.

3. Events. One of the quickest ways to make lots of new friends is to join a group that meets weekly that does something that’s important to you. This could be anything from a book club, to a Dungeons and Dragons game, to volunteer work. Go to your local library and read the bulletin board looking for groups that interest you. You may have to get on the internet to find something close by. At the very least you’ll have a weekly social event to go to where you won’t feel out of place.

4. Neighborly. This next one depends on you, but if you have cool looking new neighbors introduce yourselves to them. Hit them up at random and say something casual like “I was going to go out for a drink, wanna join?” Planning things in advance puts pressure on acquaintances, so try to be spontaneous.

I make a lot of money. Enough money to buy an old estate on a large bit of property. Something like this:

Then, I modify it into classrooms and dormitories. I make common areas and a cafeteria that is open to the kitchen. All of this serves a purpose.

I open a girl’s school. Grades 6 through 12. It’s called something like

Artemis Academy

or some other strong female symbol name. It has no religious affiliation. It is scholarship based, maybe a pay-what-you-can model, but ideally we work our way to 100% donation based maintenance, with every penny going back into paying the staff and bettering the schools.

Our teachers and instructors are all women, highly educated women or women skilled in their trade. There is a STEM and Law focus, ideally, with plenty of the arts. The girls are taught history and painting and music and writing alongside biology and law and physics and calculus and coding. The curriculum does not hide women, it highlights them and their accomplishments.

They take shifts to help cook meals in the evenings with the female chefs, so they can be self-sufficient. There is a large garden on the ground that everyone tends so the girls have that connection to their food, that understanding and pride. Maybe there is room for chickens and goats too, for milk and eggs, and to teach them how to get their hands dirty. Chores like mopping, and dusting, and laundry, and mowing are divided among the girls and rotated so every one of them learns how to live independently.

Science classes can venture onto the grounds for sample collection, some instructors may prefer to give their whole lecture in the courtyard. A painting class may spend an afternoon setting up easles on the lawn to study capturing light.

The lawn is for physical activities: running, and yoga, and kickball. Any sports teams the girls want to form, maybe there’s a rec league run by the older girls.

Movement, and the possession of one’s own body, is important. Uniforms are comfortable and non-restrictive. Something like this:

Clubs are abundant. Poetry clubs, and book clubs, and dance, and knitting, and debate, and scary movies, and whatever they want! There’s a mentorship program that pairs each girl with one in the grade below her. There are event nights, for movies or crafting or “How To” presentations where the girls can teach things to one another (how to sew a button, how to draft a professional email, how to change the oil in a car). The community is diverse and close.

We bring in women judges, and physicians, and professors, and engineers, and sculptors, and chefs as speakers. They talk realistically on the struggles of being a woman in their field. They talk about how they overcame and thrived. They talk about career paths, and college admission, and navigating the world through the unique lenses of womanhood.

It is a school by women for girls, to let them become self-sustained, self-realized, self-loving, truly empowered women.

i’ll be honest: texting in french is somewhat of a nightmare. things are often written phonetically and literally nothing will look like the french in your textbook. however, just like actual french; it may be nonsense, but it’s nonsense with rules.

in general: - no apostrophes - no accents - je/tu + être and je/tu + avoir become one word je suis → jsuis tu as → tas - je + any verb can become one word je dois → jdois - objects become one word je l’ai → jlai - basically anything that can be combined is combined

ajd - aujourd’hui bcp - beaucoup c - c’est dac - daccord dmn - demain eske - est-ce que g - j’ai gt - j’étais je ss - je suis jcp - je ne comprends pas jpp - j’en peux plus jsp - je ne sais pas jtm - je t’aime koa - quoi koi - quoi mdr - mort de rire mm - même oklm - au calme pq - pourquoi pr - pour prcq - parce que psk - parce que ptn - putain ui - oui wi - oui we - ouais ue - ouais qqch - quelque chose qqn - quelqu’un qlqn - quelqu’un qlq - quelqu’un sa - ça slt - salut ski - ce qui squi - ce qui stp - s’il te plaît svp - s’il vous plaît tfk - tu fais quoi tg - ta gueule tjr - toujours tqt - t'inquiète tt - tout wsh - wesh ya - il y a

Bonne Année - Happy New Year Vieille Année - Old Year Nouvelle Année - New Year Les bonnes résolutions du Nouvel An - New Year’s resolutions Le Saint Sylvestre - New Year’s Eve Hiver (m) - Winter Décembre (m) - December Janvier (m) - January Fête (f) - Party Célébration (f) - Celebration Concert (m) - Concert Parade (f) - Parade Tradition (f) - Tradition Champagne (m) - Champagne Toast (m) - wassail Oraison (f) - Speech Horloge (f) - Clock Compte à rebours (m) - Countdown Minuit (m) - Midnight Bisou (m) - Kiss Pétard (m) - Firecracker Feu d'artifice (m) - Firework Présentation (f) - Presentation, display Confettis (mpl) - Confetti

I don’t really know what people generally call this method of sigil making, so I’m just calling it “Letter Shaping” because you’re using the basic shapes from certain letters. This is the most common form of sigil making, and it allows the most creative influence. As you see above the sigils are for nearly the same thing, yet the sigils came out completely different. Not because the purpose was different, but because I approached them both a different creative way, and that’s what I like so much about this method. There’s a lot of freedom and personalization involved.

I was looking through dance tutorials on youtube, and I found a channel I think would help you practice at home (it may depend on your level, though).