#Google Ads Update

[socialladtech]

How To Get Ahead In Advertising With Google Ads Update?

Ads are the best way to reach the target audience. Many companies prefer to use many advertising tricks to enhance their sales. And the best way to sell your product is via displaying your ads on Google. 

Because Google Ads has a worldwide reach and it is easy to reach your target audience without any hassle.

So, if you are new to using Google Ads or Google Ads Update, then this article is really good enough to understand all about it. 

So, here we stop killing more time and start the article.

What Is Google Ads? Are They Useful?

Google Ads can help in business promotion, the sale of goods or services, awareness-building, and website traffic. Your ad campaign, including the ad content, settings, and budget, can be created and changed at any time because Google Ads accounts are handled online.

Additionally, these ads will provide users with the fastest results. Also, via displaying ads on google, then you will be able to reach your target audience instantly. Apart from it, you can also attract your target audience with these ads. 

Google Ads New Updates

As we know, changes are drastically taking place in every field. And in Google Ads also many things have changed. So, the following are the things that have been changed or updated in Google Ads:-

The Worldwide Site Tag Has Been Replaced By The Google Tag.

Because the tag functions for both properties, you can mix your Google Ads and Google Analytics tags, but doing so is optional. If you want, you can keep them apart. A new Google tag page will allow you to control your tag settings in Google Ads and Google Analytics. So, this is the change in Google Ads Update.

Google Is Helping Automate The Transformation Of Able-To-Qualify Accounts To Data-Driven Attribution Modeling.

You may or may not recall that Google switched to a data-driven attribution model as the default attribution model for new conversion actions last year. The most recent update states that in some accounts, Google Ads is now automatically moving eligible existing conversion actions to data-driven attribution.

A multitouch attribution technique called data-driven attribution uses previous data to more precisely weight each activity that results in conversion during the buyer's journey. 

Only advertisers whose conversion actions meet the data requirements can use this. In the platform's conversion settings or your notifications view, you can choose not to receive transition alerts.

Deprecation Of Third-Party Cookies Has Been Postponed Until 2024.

According to a July 27 announcement from Google, third-party cookies will be deprecated in Chrome in the second half of 2024. To target the right audiences and monitor the behavior of website users after they leave their site, advertisers employ third-party cookie data.

Since announcing in January 2020 that it will phase out third-party cookies in Chrome by 2022 for privacy reasons, Google has been developing cookie-free monitoring and advertising targeting alternatives.

Google is delaying the initial 2022 target because testing and putting these solutions into practice take more time.

Content Voice-Overs For YouTube advertising

On July 20, 2022, Google added a text-to-speech voice-over tool to the asset library of the Google Ads platform. Artificial intelligence is used in this innovative technology to translate your written composition into speech that sounds natural.

Google really created seven distinct voices—four male and three female—by analyzing 5,000 YouTube adverts. As a result, advertising should have several options to match their brand voice. I can speak from personal experience when I say that doing voice-overs for video marketing may take a lot of time, therefore I think this upgrade will help advertisers. So, this is the latest google ads updates of google ads. Furthermore, you can also do Free Advertising Online by using other methods.

Google Has Started Automatically Upgrading Smart Shopping Campaigns To Productivity Max.

It has long been rumored that Performance Max campaigns, which were a well-liked platform addition last year, will eventually totally replace Smart Shopping and Local campaigns. Having said that, Google declared that Smart Shopping campaigns will be automatically upgraded to Performance Max as of July 21, 2022.

Keep Up With Google Ads Updates.

You should anticipate a round of Google Ads upgrades after the new year starts and Google Marketing Live is over. Although platform changes are inevitable, your greatest chance of handling any updates without difficulty is to be as prepared as you can be.

You will ultimately save time and money if you are aware of what each update signifies, when and why it happens, and how to respond appropriately. Is there a fast way to accomplish this? Naturally, keep an eye out for more WordStream Google Ads update roundups!

You can also watch: How to Search Advertisements Using Likes, Shares, and Comments - How to Tutorial Series

Conclusion

Lastly, I hope you guys have enhanced some knowledge about the Google Ads Update. So, this is the end for now. We will come again with many more topics. Till then, keep reading!!

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands

I'm touring my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT (May 3) in CALGARY, then TOMORROW (May 4) in VANCOUVER, then onto Tartu, Estonia, and beyond!

Even Google admits – grudgingly – that it is losing the spam wars. The explosive proliferation of botshit has supercharged the sleazy "search engine optimization" business, such that results to common queries are 50% Google ads to spam sites, and 50% links to spam sites that tricked Google into a high rank (without paying for an ad):

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2024/03/core-update-spam-policies#site-reputation

It's nice that Google has finally stopped gaslighting the rest of us with claims that its search was still the same bedrock utility that so many of us relied upon as a key piece of internet infrastructure. This not only feels wildly wrong, it is empirically, provably false:

https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf

Not only that, but we know why Google search sucks. Memos released as part of the DOJ's antitrust case against Google reveal that the company deliberately chose to worsen search quality to increase the number of queries you'd have to make (and the number of ads you'd have to see) to find a decent result:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan

Google's antitrust case turns on the idea that the company bought its way to dominance, spending the some of the billions it extracted from advertisers and publishers to buy the default position on every platform, so that no one ever tried another search engine, which meant that no one would invest in another search engine, either.

Google's tacit defense is that its monopoly billions only incidentally fund these kind of anticompetitive deals. Mostly, Google says, it uses its billions to build the greatest search engine, ad platform, mobile OS, etc that the public could dream of. Only a company as big as Google (says Google) can afford to fund the R&D and security to keep its platform useful for the rest of us.

That's the "monopolistic bargain" – let the monopolist become a dictator, and they will be a benevolent dictator. Shriven of "wasteful competition," the monopolist can split their profits with the public by funding public goods and the public interest.

Google has clearly reneged on that bargain. A company experiencing the dramatic security failures and declining quality should be pouring everything it has to righting the ship. Instead, Google repeatedly blew tens of billions of dollars on stock buybacks while doing mass layoffs:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

Those layoffs have now reached the company's "core" teams, even as its core services continue to decay:

https://qz.com/google-is-laying-off-hundreds-as-it-moves-core-jobs-abr-1851449528

(Google's antitrust trial was shrouded in secrecy, thanks to the judge's deference to the company's insistence on confidentiality. The case is moving along though, and warrants your continued attention:)

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-2-trillion-secret-trial-against

Google wormed its way into so many corners of our lives that its enshittification keeps erupting in odd places, like ordering takeout food:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security

Back in February, Housefresh – a rigorous review site for home air purifiers – published a viral, damning account of how Google had allowed itself to be overrun by spammers who purport to provide reviews of air purifiers, but who do little to no testing and often employ AI chatbots to write automated garbage:

https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

In the months since, Housefresh's Gisele Navarro has continued to fight for the survival of her high-quality air purifier review site, and has received many tips from insiders at the spam-farms and Google, all of which she recounts in a followup essay:

https://housefresh.com/how-google-decimated-housefresh/

One of the worst offenders in spam wars is Dotdash Meredith, a content-farm that "publishes" multiple websites that recycle parts of each others' content in order to climb to the top search slots for lucrative product review spots, which can be monetized via affiliate links.

A Dotdash Meredith insider told Navarro that the company uses a tactic called "keyword swarming" to push high-quality independent sites off the top of Google and replace them with its own garbage reviews. When Dotdash Meredith finds an independent site that occupies the top results for a lucrative Google result, they "swarm a smaller site’s foothold on one or two articles by essentially publishing 10 articles [on the topic] and beefing up [Dotdash Meredith sites’] authority."

Dotdash Meredith has keyword swarmed a large number of topics. from air purifiers to slow cookers to posture correctors for back-pain:

https://housefresh.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/keyword-swarming-dotdash.jpg

The company isn't shy about this. Its own shareholder communications boast about it. What's more, it has competition.

Take Forbes, an actual news-site, which has a whole shadow-empire of web-pages reviewing products for puppies, dogs, kittens and cats, all of which link to high affiliate-fee-generating pet insurance products. These reviews are not good, but they are treasured by Google's algorithm, which views them as a part of Forbes's legitimate news-publishing operation and lets them draft on Forbes's authority.

This side-hustle for Forbes comes at a cost for the rest of us, though. The reviewers who actually put in the hard work to figure out which pet products are worth your money (and which ones are bad, defective or dangerous) are crowded off the front page of Google and eventually disappear, leaving behind nothing but semi-automated SEO garbage from Forbes:

https://twitter.com/ichbinGisele/status/1642481590524583936

There's a name for this: "site reputation abuse." That's when a site perverts its current – or past – practice of publishing high-quality materials to trick Google into giving the site a high ranking. Think of how Deadspin's private equity grifter owners turned it into a site full of casino affiliate spam:

https://www.404media.co/who-owns-deadspin-now-lineup-publishing/

The same thing happened to the venerable Money magazine:

https://moneygroup.pr/

Money is one of the many sites whose air purifier reviews Google gives preference to, despite the fact that they do no testing. According to Google, Money is also a reliable source of information on reprogramming your garage-door opener, buying a paint-sprayer, etc:

https://money.com/best-paint-sprayer/

All of this is made ten million times worse by AI, which can spray out superficially plausible botshit in superhuman quantities, letting spammers produce thousands of variations on their shitty reviews, flooding the zone with bullshit in classic Steve Bannon style:

https://escapecollective.com/commerce-content-is-breaking-product-reviews/

As Gizmodo, Sports Illustrated and USA Today have learned the hard way, AI can't write factual news pieces. But it can pump out bullshit written for the express purpose of drafting on the good work human journalists have done and tricking Google – the search engine 90% of us rely on – into upranking bullshit at the expense of high-quality information.

A variety of AI service bureaux have popped up to provide AI botshit as a service to news brands. While Navarro doesn't say so, I'm willing to bet that for news bosses, outsourcing your botshit scams to a third party is considered an excellent way of avoiding your journalists' wrath. The biggest botshit-as-a-service company is ASR Group (which also uses the alias Advon Commerce).

Advon claims that its botshit is, in fact, written by humans. But Advon's employees' Linkedin profiles tell a different story, boasting of their mastery of AI tools in the industrial-scale production of botshit:

https://housefresh.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Advon-AI-LinkedIn.jpg

Now, none of this is particularly sophisticated. It doesn't take much discernment to spot when a site is engaged in "site reputation abuse." Presumably, the 12,000 googlers the company fired last year could have been employed to check the top review keyword results manually every couple of days and permaban any site caught cheating this way.

Instead, Google is has announced a change in policy: starting May 5, the company will downrank any site caught engaged in site reputation abuse. However, the company takes a very narrow view of site reputation abuse, limiting punishments to sites that employ third parties to generate or uprank their botshit. Companies that produce their botshit in-house are seemingly not covered by this policy.

As Navarro writes, some sites – like Forbes – have prepared for May 5 by blocking their botshit sections from Google's crawler. This can't be their permanent strategy, though – either they'll have to kill the section or bring it in-house to comply with Google's rules. Bringing things in house isn't that hard: US News and World Report is advertising for an SEO editor who will publish 70-80 posts per month, doubtless each one a masterpiece of high-quality, carefully researched material of great value to Google's users:

https://twitter.com/dannyashton/status/1777408051357585425

As Navarro points out, Google is palpably reluctant to target the largest, best-funded spammers. Its March 2024 update kicked many garbage AI sites out of the index – but only small bottom-feeders, not large, once-respected publications that have been colonized by private equity spam-farmers.

All of this comes at a price, and it's only incidentally paid by legitimate sites like Housefresh. The real price is borne by all of us, who are funneled by the 90%-market-share search engine into "review" sites that push low quality, high-price products. Housefresh's top budget air purifier costs $79. That's hundreds of dollars cheaper than the "budget" pick at other sites, who largely perform no original research.

Google search has a problem. AI botshit is dominating Google's search results, and it's not just in product reviews. Searches for infrastructure code samples are dominated by botshit code generated by Pulumi AI, whose chatbot hallucinates nonexistence AWS features:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/

This is hugely consequential: when these "hallucinations" slip through into production code, they create huge vulnerabilities for widespread malicious exploitation:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

We've put all our eggs in Google's basket, and Google's dropped the basket – but it doesn't matter because they can spend $20b/year bribing Apple to make sure no one ever tries a rival search engine on Ios or Safari:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-payments-apple-reached-20-220947331.html

Google's response – laying off core developers, outsourcing to low-waged territories with weak labor protections and spending billions on stock buybacks – presents a picture of a company that is too big to care:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi

Google promised us a quid-pro-quo: let them be the single, authoritative portal ("organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful"), and they will earn that spot by being the best search there is:

https://www.ft.com/content/b9eb3180-2a6e-41eb-91fe-2ab5942d4150

But – like the spammers at the top of its search result pages – Google didn't earn its spot at the center of our digital lives.

It cheated.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/03/keyword-swarming/#site-reputation-abuse

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CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en

[oh-meow-swirls]

they are approaching.

[pocket-sized-nightmare]

here’s my entry for day 5 of @gem-pearl-week 2024! today’s prompt is “death/reincarnation”

The only time Gem sees Pearl cry during Real Life is when she loses her dog.

Pearl’s canine army no longer represents her only solace from isolation, but she still loves them like family. Matchbox and Mailbox have formed their own tiny pack with Tilly back on Hermitcraft, and Pearl was so excited to introduce Milly to them. She was such a sweet puppy. Before, the game felt fun for once – far more hopeful than the others, in any case – and Pearl is stunned by how quickly her emotions change. She falls to the ground and sobs, half-laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation. “Milly’s dead…”

Gem sees Pearl and lays down beside her. She plays with Pearl’s hair, trying to distract her. Real Life has been kind to its players so far, and a piece of her wonders if it would really change so quickly. Grian wouldn’t do that, would he? “Shh,” Gem whispers. “In the next life, there’s gonna be another dog.”

“Really?” Pearl whispers back.

“Of course.” Gem thinks of Tilly, cowering in the corner of Pearl’s house the first time Gem saw her. Her fur was singed, and she had an injured paw and a scar over her eye that still hasn't quite faded. She was alive, though. Pearl’s lost wolves have survived these games before. “There’s gonna be another dog.”

Two days pass after the group’s return from Real Life, and Milly still doesn’t appear. Pearl is grateful that she at least didn’t have time to get too attached. She doesn’t tell the pack about Milly, but she can tell Tilly knows something is wrong. Tilly curls up against Pearl and whines, then walks around in circles, confused. “You’re a perceptive pupper, Tilly.” Pearl pets Tilly on the head, and Tilly hesitantly flops over for belly rubs. “What’s goin’ on, honey?” Pearl asks.

Tilly has no response.

Pearl sighs as Matchbox and Mailbox join the cuddle pile. “I’m just glad I’ve got you guys.”

————

In just about all forms, Grian doesn’t quite stick the landing.

Everyone returns to Hermitcraft in one piece, but they all respawn in the wrong bases. Cleo lands right in the middle of spawn, Tango somehow wakes up in the med bay, and both Gem and Pearl end up in Pearl’s base. (All the Hermits find that one especially cute.)

Gem doesn’t pay it much mind until a few days after Real Life ends. It’s night, but she’s had one too many cups of tea from Cleo’s cat cafe, and it’s given her too much energy to settle down. She paces around her new base a few times, plotting out build ideas. The power lines could use some work. Maybe I could get one of the redstoners to check them out. And that area over there would be perfect for–

A soft, tiny bark distracts Gem from her thoughts.

“What the heck?” she murmurs aloud. “Okay, who got out now?”

She looks around the chunk she’s in, but there’s no sign of any wolves, let alone a familiar one. “Hello? Anybody around? Or anydog, I guess?”

There’s another soft bark, but no further clues. Gem can’t even place the sound. “Can I get a hint?”

No response. Gem sighs, then realizes she might have a way of figuring it out. Pearl’s wolf pack seems to accept Gem as their second human. She could go over to Pearl’s base, but it’s outside the mountain, and Gem has the sinking sense that whoever she’s hearing won’t last that long. She’s never tried calling Pearl’s wolves before, but it couldn’t hurt.

Gem takes a deep breath and calls, “Mailbox! Come here, Mailbox!”

There’s a brief pause, and then a soft thud as a wolf with a yellow collar appears on the grass in front of her. He immediately runs over, nuzzles against Gem, and rolls over for belly rubs. Gem happily obliges. She barely has time to grin at the realization that Pearl’s dogs consider her a part of the family before another soft bark echoes across the base.

Mailbox immediately sits upright. His ears prick up. Gem breathes a sigh of relief. “Can you go find it, buddy?”

Mailbox takes off running across Gem’s base at full speed. Gem follows.

On the other side of Gem’s base, there’s a pile of barrels leaning against a wall. One of them is tipped over with its open end facing the wall. It was once full of fish, but Gem remembers there’s only a few left in it – the darn foxes keep eating them. Mailbox sniffs the barrel, then paws at it and barks.

Gem sighs in exasperation. “Mailbox, you can’t have any fish. I’m trying to find the other wolf.”

Mailbox barks louder.

“Alright, fine.” Gem rolls the barrel towards her and peers inside.

A tiny wolf with a fish in its mouth peers back at her.

Gem gasps. “Oh my gosh, hello! What are you doing here? Did you tip over the barrel?”

She spots a collar on the wolf. As Mailbox barks louder, Gem dares to hope. “Let me see…”

She reaches into the barrel and stretches out a hand towards the wolf. It wobbles towards her and sniffs her hand curiously. Gem reads its collar. “Milly. If found, please return to PearlescentMoon.”

Gem is surprised by the tears that spark in her eyes. “You’re alive!” She looks further into the barrel and laughs. “You’re alive, and you ate all my fish. That explains why you don’t seem all that hungry. Come on, let’s take you back to–”

Mailbox nudges Milly’s side, and Gem notices why Milly wasn’t able to escape the barrel on her own. One of her hind paws is gone, leaving only a furry stump behind, and she can hardly walk on the other one. “Oh,” Gem whispers. “You got a little hurt on the way back, didn’t you?”

Milly barks softly. Gem scoops her up and cuddles her close. “I’m gonna take you back to your human now. She’ll be very happy to meet you.”

Mailbox, proud of his discovery, trots all the way back to Pearl’s base with his head held high. Gem follows with a bright grin on her face. Pearl’s wolf pack is back together at last.

————

Pearl wakes up to a large dog licking her face.

As her eyes adjust to the waking world, she sees the trademark scar identifying the wolf as Tilly. After a moment, she also sees the moon in the sky. “Tilly, it is not morning. Why are you waking me up?”

She glances over to the corner where her dogs were once asleep. Matchbox is still sleeping soundly, but Mailbox is completely gone. Pearl blinks in confusion. “Mailbox? C’mere, boy.”

Mailbox appears in front of her. Moments later, there’s a knock on the door. “Special delivery for the postmaster herself,” Gem’s voice calls from outside.

“You could’ve used the mail system,” Pearl says playfully as she walks over to answer the door.

“Believe me, this needs to be in person.” Gem smiles as Pearl opens the door. “I found your dog.”

Pearl doesn’t notice at first. “Oh, is that where Mailbox went? Thanks for taking care of him…”

Her voice trails off at the sight of the little wolf in Gem’s arms. “You– what… Gem, who’s this?” Pearl reads the wolf’s collar.

She bursts into tears.

Gem hands the wolf to Pearl, then wraps an arm around her shoulders. “No, don’t cry! She’s here! She’s back to us!”

“Happy tears,” Pearl murmurs, cuddling Milly in her arms. “Very happy tears.”

“I’m so glad.” Gem pets Milly on the forehead. “She didn’t make it all the way back in one piece, though. I don’t know if you spotted it, but–”

“Her back left paw is gone. Yeah, I had a feeling.” Pearl giggles as Milly licks her hand. “Do you think we can get a Hermit to make her a little wheelchair?”

“Oh, that would be so cute. Little wheels instead of paws?”

“Exactly.” Pearl sets Milly down on her bed, then wraps her arms around Gem and kisses her on the forehead. “I don’t know how you found her, but I can’t thank you enough. I love you so much.”

“I love you too,” Gem murmurs, hugging Pearl even tighter. “I’m just glad I tracked her down tonight. She’s finally back home.”

Matchbox finally takes note of the new dog and curls up against her. Mailbox curls up on her other side. Tilly sniffs her, then licks her head and joins the cuddle pile. On the other side of the room, Gem yawns. “Your dogs have the right idea. I should head back.”

“You could stay for the night,” Pearl says with a smile. “I mean, the dogs do seem to love having you around.”

Gem beams. “I can’t disappoint them, now, can I?”

Gem and Pearl lie down in Pearl’s bed together. Pearl blinks back another wave of tears, then cuddles against Gem and kisses her on the forehead one more time. “Thank you for everything.”

“You deserve it all,” Gem murmurs back. “Good night, Pearl.”

“G’night, Gem,” Pearl whispers.

As the moon shines overhead, Gem and Pearl – and their wolf pack – fall asleep together in the warmth of Pearl’s base.

[averagecatdoodlesenjoyer]

who do they think i am

[puppyeared]

One of these days they’ll make an update where it gives you a feedback pop up when u try to unfollow someone

[jadedlight]

//Poses, I think i'm gonna start work on moving this blog to a new one

I think I will be removing Valgrea as a muse because I haven't been feeling her for a while ngl. Everyone else should be staying tho

I'll probably be adding:

Vale (Reborn, Swarmkeeper Ranger)

Mas (Changeling/Dhampir, Eloquence Bard)

Cross (Human, Champion fighter) (Still debating this one tbh)

Kira (Dhampir, Battle Master Fighter/Assassin Rogue)

[nervousmonolith]

anyway omg guys guess what i got

[chirpycreations]

For the love of everything holy & your Youtube experiences, do NOT UPDATE FIREFOX!

I made the mistake of updating last night and got greated by this shit this morrning:

So apparently, on vs.12... whatever Firefox's latest update is, good old Youtube decided 5 second delays & annoying pop-ups to complain about add blockers wasn't enough. Now they won't let you watch higher than 360p or 720 p (how generious of them).

And no, it's not my computer, because on Safari I get this:

And it dose seem to be a latest Firefox version thing because, firstly, there's no reson Firefox would do THIS on purpose, & I got the old version back and...

The good news is, a quick google search and you can find the last version to redownload & install over the updated version you have.

You will get a warning window upon lauch about needing to make a new profile or quit, I did that, logged in to my account and seemingly everything is there. So asides from having to log back into everything & change preference to dark mod, everything seems to be where I left it.

Also, changing auto updates to manual, is a great next step :P

I'm still really peeved tho.

I'll tollerate the ad noncess, but videos in 360p. On a new-ish computer display they're practically unwatchable! If I wanna watch a video in 360p & have it look good, I need to go dig up my old Mac White!

This. This is a step too far with you and your monopoly-wanting-coperate-bullshit. I won't switch to Chrome, and I won't stop using my ad blocker. But what I will do is stop using Youtube. So fuck you Youtube, here's my 2 minutes notice!

I'm switching to Freetube.

Fuck you Google.

[hussyknee]

Hey, quick question, but why are reblogs turned off for the masterpost? Not being a dick or anything I'm just wondering if it's like. Being edited or smth?

Check the replies. The oldest, misinformation-riddled version went viral suddenly today. I'd turned off motifs but it got enough traction for rude asks to land in my inbox which was when I realized. Temporarily turned off reblogs to do damage control and dropped an ask on a few blogs to delete it. Will have to wait a few days to turn it back on.

[goldenguillotines]

Ships tags.. Ships that need names.. and ponder ships

SHIP TAGS

8-bit hearts ♡

After hours ♤

Angel cake ♡

Artistic muse ♡

Bared fangs ◇

Bad romance ♤

Bad trip ♤

Bell ringer ◇

Berry bliss ◇

Black magic ♤

Black widow ♡

Blinding lights ♡

Blood in the water ◇\♤

Bottled horrors ♡

Bountiful harvest ◇

Burning bright ◇

Burning rubber ◇

Case 143 ♡

Cats cradle ♡

Catnip ◇

Catzndogz ♤

Chatterbox ◇

Chiptunes ♡

Clash of crowns ♤

Cocked and loaded ◇

Commitment issues ♡

Conjugal visit ♡

Contract in red ♡

Corollary theorem ♡◇♤

Counter suit ◇

Covalent bonding ♡

Creatures of the night ♡

Crystalline heart ♡

Cupids sweethearts ♡

Daebak ◇

Demolition lovers ◇

Double down ◇

Double knot ♤

Dynasty decapitated ◇

Enchanted Rose ♡

Evermore ♡

Explosive love ♡◇

Fairy melody ♡

Fifty Fifty ♡♤

Fish to fish communication ◇

Fox and the hound ♡

Freaks of nature ♡

From the inferno ♡

Frostbite ♤

Game night ◇

Girls talk ◇

Graveyard shift ◇

Great southern bakeoff ♤

Happy hour ◇

Hard carry ♤

Heart attack ♡

Heart to heart ◇

Heartbeats ♡

Heavenly contract ◇

Hive beats ♡

Hyacinth tea ♡

Interstellar ♡

Jaded birds ♤

Kingdom come ♤

Knife game ♤

Lap cat ♡

Lavender blooms ♡

Love and desire ♡

Love bites ♡

Love lessons ♡

Made with love ♡

Micdrop ♤

Misery buisness ◇

Misfire ◇

Monsters and fae ◇

Monstrous melody ♡

Mortus Viventi ◇

Mourning sun ♡

My favorite listener ♡

Obsessive possessive ♡

Out of tune ◇

Paparazzi ♤

Paw prints ◇

Paw2paw ◇

Photobomb ◇

Photofinnish ♤

Pitch beats ♤

Pixel by pixel ◇

Primal instincts ♡

Prize fight ♡♤

Ready to love ♡

Record scratch ♤

Red espionage ♡

Red sea ♡

Red string ♡

Ripple in time ◇

Rock with you ♡

Rose perfume ♡

Schooling Fish ♡

Siren song ♡

Sleeping with the fishes ♡

Slow and steady ♡

Smashed keys ♤

Smear campaign ♤

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Starcrossed lovers ♡

Starstrukk ♡

Storm the bastille ◇

Straight pride ♡

Strawberry cream ◇

Sunnywaves ◇

Superfreak ♡◇

Swan song ♡

Sweet as honey ◇

Sweet tea ♡

Take me home ◇

Tea reading ♡

Tender riposte ♤

The red undead ♡

Till death do us part ♤

To our youth ♡

Twinkle tackle ♡

Two to tango ♡

Undying loyalty ♡

Venus retrograde ♡

Veterinary assistance ♡

Vivid youth ♡

Water lillies ♡ ):

Wild moons ♡

NO SHIP NAME YET-

Mahaou/Lethal

Prieti/Striga

Kotori/Elraik

Noxtus/Babble

[plumadesatada]

All hail ask culture, may she come back from near-death!! How has your day been so far? Gimme one bitching point and one nice thing!

babe!!! yes YES help me with my crusade!

gonna answer this about yesterday (bc today I'm freshly woken up)

bitching point: so. I work in IT. my actual job description is testing and being a help desk for NEW systems being implemented. pay attention to that "new".... because one else at my company does! they think I'm google! "hey so X program closed on me without saving how can I recover what I was working on?" "I need new lines on this excel table can you come over and insert some" (I wish I was joking) "ummmm outlook isn't showing me my calendar" (this one happens once a week. to the same person). I feel like goddamned sisyphus.

one nice thing: I TOOK MOM TO THE THEATER LAST NIGHT FOR HER BIRTHDAY. There was a production of Cyrano and it. was. bloody FANTASTIC. mom fell asleep in the intermission and I bullied her for it ("claims to love theater" etc) after I woke her up and the second bit resumed. afterwards we went out for beer and ummmm what do you call them in English? calamari rings, fried. it was a GOOD night

[cuntstable]

i wish i could write meaningful poetry or even do comics properly to express ideas and things in my brain that haunt me a bit but i cant so im just left sitting on my bed staring at a wall and going Huh. Okay.

[stefyjonas1]

Maybe it’s just me because I don’t have any of those adblocker apps but I’m so annoyed at the new YouTube update that only lets you skip one ad at a time then you have to separately skip the second ad. Just annoying.

[anondudeao3]

Me, reading over broken!verse #55: *throwing chairs and flipping tables* WHY! CAN'T! I! SHARE! IT! YET! I HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO SAY!!!

Oh gods please how am I still stuck on number twenty fucking SIX I'm never going to make it to posting this fucking arc 😣😩😩