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[priniya]

ᯓᡣ𐭩 GORGEOUS! ᡣ𐭩ᯓ

pairing. oscar piastri x leclerc!reader

summary. the youngest leclerc was known to be an outgoing, extroverted menace, but suddenly when she meets the new mclaren driver, she does something she never does — gets embarrassing.

notes. a fair warning for the google translated french.im sorry if it sucks 😭😭 its my first time doing something like this and i really hope u like it :3 ALSO??? OSCAR WIN IN BAKU WAS SO BEAUTIFUL THE OVERTAKE?? THE DEFENDING?? a great day for piastrination!!!!! (can you tell i totally dig x leclerc!reader??) send requests for more smaus pls :)

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yourusername spreading the rbr agenda on the streets of kyoto, because your girl finally graduated journalism and engineering with honours!

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arthur_leclerc charles just saw the jacket and had an aneurysm LMAO

user1 someone check on leclerc pls

charles_leclerc cant believe my OWN baby sister wears that in public

yourusername ill take it off once ferrari releases their own energy drink 👍

alexandrasaintmleux gorgeous as usual ❤️

yourusername please dump my brother and date me instead

yourusername please i beg you

yourusername JUST ONE CHANCE 😭😭😣😣😣😭😭

user2 yn is one of us

maxverstappen1 looking good in blue! 💙

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yourbff girl land that job or you gon go broke soon with that red bull addiction 👎👎👎

user3 atp yn is sponsoring the team 😭

yourbff you bet she is, girl

user4 double major in such different things pop off queen

user5 need to see her in paddock cos i know the girl is bout to argue with ferrari engineers

yourusername bin*tto left ferrari cos he knew i would drag him down 😁😁😁

user6 love how we had to go thru the 2023 drought without the baby leclerc and now shes baaaack

user7 fr i missed the times when ferrari wasnt the only thing making charles miserable

user7 congratulations on graduating queen!!!! cant wait for the new vid or to see u at one of the races 🥺

user8 im sorry im really new to f1 stuff who is she and why are the drivers here? 😭

user9 this is charlies sister yn!! but she has her youtube channel where she used to post a lot of diff stuff! shes been living in japan for the past four years of her undergrad degrees but due to the workload she had a hiatus for a year 💔💔 u should check out her channel its so cool

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arthur_leclerc good day in monaco today, changing professions to a photographer rn, what u think of that?

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user10 arthur you had one job to bring your sister to paddock…

user11 its just friday girl calm down

yourusername please restrain yourself from posting pictures of that ugly face you see in the mirror

yourusername …WHO IS IN THE SECOND SLIDE

yourusername ARTHUR ANSWER ME

yourusername my ovaries are quacking rn ARTHUR ANSWER ME

user12 not yn simping over oscar AND calling arthur ugly 😭😭😭

user13 shes so me tbh

charles_leclerc such a handsome man on the third slide 🔥🔥🔥

olliebearman why is yn tweaking like that 😭

yourusername cos he’s so pretty

oscarpiastri you were supposed to send me the picture not POST IT

user14 this is the guy yourusername 🔥‼️‼️

yourusername omg hes SO gorgeous

oscarpiastri thank you…?

arthur_leclerc yourusername please stop embarrassing the family name

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yourusername a quick pit stop in paris before the monaco course is broken!!!!!! (source: trust me bro 🙂‍↕️) drinking for my pookie dookiest brother to secure that pole and p1 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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yourusername dont let the caption fool you, i am NOT stopping drinking vodka red bull to make sure rbr doesn’t lose their biggest sponsor (me)

maxverstappen1 ty for your service 🫡🫡

yourusername no prob pookie, lecfosi by association but a red bull girlie at heart 😌😌

yourusername big thanks to the autocorrect ❤️❤️❤️ youre the real one babe 🔥🔥🔥

user15 wait till she realises oscar is in the likes…

user16 ohh the girl is gonna be so messy 😭😭😭

user16 im all for it tho 🔥

lilymhe WHAT A GORGEOUS GORGEOUS GIRL

alexandrasaintmleux face card is never denied!

user17 oscar in the likes 🥹🥹

yourusername WHO IS IN THE LIKES??????

yourusername NOO OH MY GOD HES HERE

yourusername HI YOURE SUPER CUTE oscarpiastri

user18 SHE TAGGED HIM LOL

user19 she really want that dick…

yourusername i just think hes cute that is NOT a crime

oscarpiastri i think you’re really cute too :)

yourusername HXJSKSJJDBDJSJS

yourusername sorry a red bull ran across my screen 😭

arthur_leclerc yourbff please tell her she’s not as slick as she thinks she is

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user20 what do you expect 😭😭 she probably partied all night before getting to monaco

user21 LMAOO RIGHT??? but if you watched her vids you know that the girl LOVES an opportunity for a party

user22 yn stronger than me because i’d kiss him on the spot

user23 alr weirdo… they JUST met

user24 he is probably weirded out like imagine meeting a girl who SIMPS over you in the insta comments… she needs to chill

user25 he won’t pick you 👎👎

user26 gtfo if he was weirded out he wouldnt be in the likes of her post or sayin he thinks shes cute lol

user27 the real gentleman out there 🥹🥹

user28 i need them together asap

user29 super delulu but i totally dig the golden retriever gf x polite black cat bf

user30 OMGGG I TOTALLY SEE THE VISION

user31 pls they just met and he was just being polite 👎 stop trying to get into their lives

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yourusername HE DID IT!!!! I TOLD YALL THAT HE WOULD DO IT!!! MY BROTHER WINS IN MONACO. DONT HIT US UP FOR THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO!!! ITS CELEBRATION TIME!!!! aussi, charlie, il n'y a pas beaucoup de mots capables d'exprimer à quel point je suis fier de toi. vous l'avez fait et personne ne peut vous l'enlever.

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priniya translation! also, charlie — there isn’t an amount of words able to express how proud i am of you. you did it and no one can take it away from you.

user32 girlie might tell everyone she’s a red bull girl, but like the king sebastian once said, everyone is a ferrari fan even when they say they’re not or something like that 🔥🔥🔥

user33 CONGRATULATIONS CHARLES!!! FINALLY WON!!!

carlossainz55 ay cropped my ‘carlos p3’ out 😖😖

yourusername this is a celebration post for my pookiest brother you are IRRELEVANT rn

carlossainz55 that was harsh

yourusername win YOUR home race and i’ll post one 4 u 👍👍

charles_leclerc je t’aime mon lutin ❤️

yourusername je t’aime mon coco 🫶🫶🫶

oscarpiastri congratulations to the man of the day, such an honour to stand next to you on the podium xx

arthur_leclerc man you gotta stop commenting on her posts, she’s going insane rn

oscarpiastri i’m sorry…?

yourusername NO DONT BE SORRY DONT LISTEN TO HIM IM COMPLETELY SANE

yourusername oscarpiastri please keep interacting with me i’m gonna die if you listen to arthur

oscarpiastri i guess i gotta text you now and then to make sure you don’t die

yourusername please do that

user34 do they know we can see that??

user35 idc im eating this up

user36 oscaryn truthers rise and shine

user37 atp i cant tell if hes interested or if hes doing that for his own entertainment

user38 probably both

user39 i LOVE how a celebration post for charles turned into an opportunity to flirt with oscar 😭😭

user40 she is NOT stronger than me because if i had a chance i’d took it

user41 setting her priorities straight

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oscarpiastri a quick but very much needed pit stop before zandvoort

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user42 someone check on yn ASAP

user43 yn one of us once again because we couldn’t bag oscar either 😭

user44 can yall stop talking abt that girl FOR ONCE no one gaf

landonorris looking good mate

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yourusername pls tell me you found more of these beautiful seashells and brought some back for me

oscarpiastri we did actually! y immediately thought abt you and picked the pretty ones

yourusername GOD. i love her give her a big hug from me

oscarpiastri will do maam 🫡🫡

user45 so it’s not yn in the pics?? NOOOOO

user46 my life is ruined rn

user47 throwing oscaryn into a memory box because oscar and his gf looks really cute together

charles_leclerc hope you had a great summer mate

oscarpiastri the best 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

user48 what if they r just trolling us because this caption looks really similar to the one yn posted before monaco???

user49 OMGGG YOURE ONTO SOMETHING

user50 hopefully on the way to the psych ward because this is some delulu shit

user51 soft launch over the summer 🥹🥹 hes so cute

user52 whoever his girl is, i just hope they’re happy and yall should too!

yourusername also plsplspls can y send me the id to the top?? it looks so cute from the back

user53 girl he wont choose you stop trying so hard 😭😭

user54 they can be friends ? lol

user55 does someone knows who the girl is???? i need to know its not yn 😭😭

user56 georgerussell63 tell us what you know 🫵🫵

georgerussell63 🤐🤐🤐

alex_albon he’s actually crying and gritting his teeth because he’d LOVE to tell

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gossipracegirl a rumour has it that a driver for formula one with a number eighty one was seen getting cozy with one of his on-track rival’s little sister, while in a relationship. was it a drunken mistake or was it all planned?

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user58 something is really wrong with leclercs one is a homie hopper and second is a homewrecker LOL

user59 shouldve happened in monaco so the people could get detained for invading their priacy like wtf WHO CARES

user60 all she do is bring bad pr to oscar BOO👎👎👎

user61 nooo oscar pookie you were supposed to be free from drama 😭😭

user62 gr63 in the likes LMAOO

user63 not yn being a homewrecker girl i liked u sm 😭😭

user64 yall acting like she’s in the wrong ? it gotta be consensual if they looked that chill n happy

user65 no wonder why yn has been streaming olivia rodrigo RELIGIOUSLY

user66 isnt that some type of incest atp?

user67 LMAOO imagine making out with your brother’s adopted son

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yourusername YALL THOUGHT. it was me all along :P i was giggling n kicking my feet pretending i know osco’s gf while it was ME. summer break vlog with osco coming up sooner than u think so please stop calling me a homewrecker 😖😖😖

also, girls don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, being yourself is what gets you an amazing guy even if your brother thinks youre embarrassing <3

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georgerussell63 ty for not SLACKING OFF anymore i barely could hold it inside 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

yourusername you told HALF the grid be for real brother you DID NOT hold it inside

fransisca.gomes no way oscar bagged you before i could 😭😭😭😭

yourusername i’m always gonna be yours kiks no one could take you away from me <3

francisca.gomes <3

pierregasly really thought getting u a bf would mean you leave MY girl alone

yourusername thinking is not your best thing, stick to racing

user68 shit user48 YOU WERE RIGHT

user48 NEVER DOUBT ME BITCHES

user69 this text?? oh he is down bad for you girl

user70 i need all of those bitches who called yn a homewrecker to APOLOGISE like rn

oscarpiastri thank you for letting me be a part of your life like this

user71 i know the girl is GIGGLING rn

yourusername thank YOU for making a part of YOUR life

user72 get yourself a man who THANKS you for being with you

user73 oscar piastri is the MAN

user74 osco 🥹🥹

user75 theyre the cutest your honour

arthur_leclerc cant believe you two are actually together

arthur_leclerc what is WRONG with you oscarpiastri

user76 SO OPPOSITES DOES ATTRACT

charles_leclerc i feel like i should tear those adoption papers apart no?

user77 nicole and pascale in the likes omg the moms r proud 🥹

hattiepiastri i miss youuuu come back to aus soon

yourusername I MISS YOU TOO 😭😭 i’ll be back soon!!

lorenzotl ❤️❤️❤️

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lilymhe double date when?

yourusername mark your calendar, we’ll be there 🫶

user78 does it mean we lose our favorite rbr girlie? 😭😭😭😖😖

user79 mclaren YOU TOOK HER AWAY FROM US 🫵

yourusername i am NOT wearing that ugly orange for a MAN (even if hes super gorgeous and sweet)

mclaren ☹️☹️☹️

landonorris it’s papaya

yourusername “it’s papaya” ☝️🤓

landonorris oscarpiastri please break up with her or you’re gonna be paying for my therapy

oscarpiastri send the bill mate, i’m in for the longest ride possible here

[angelsfat3]

ꮩ, 狂信者。⸻[𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘧𝘢𝘯...]

Summary: Your face is unique, your voice and your way of behaving is so special, maybe that's why he fell in love. But you're just his fan.

C/w: Ni-ki thought you were a girl (short reader), small mention of anxiety, everything happens very quickly. ㅤ－ㅤTw: Few curses, anxiety attack.

Genre: fluff, kinda suggestive, romance, two points of view.

A/N: Apart from the fact that I struggled to put Japanese and Korean words into romaji, I decided to write this story with Stuck in the Middle as background song, and somehow I feel that the whole writing feels like read a kdrama(This is so embarrassing and trashy (⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠))

your point of view.

The plane had finally landed at Incheon International Airport, marking the end of a long and tiring journey from Japan. You, with your backpack hanging from one shoulder and your heart beating with a mix of excitement and nervousness—because after months of insisting to your mother, she granted your wish to meet your favorite group—You decided that walking to your hotel would be a good way to familiarize yourself with the new surroundings and also to take advantage of taking photographs.

With the afternoon sun bathing the unknown streets, you began your journey trusting in the route marked by your phone, and your incipient knowledge of Korean.

As you progressed, the roads became narrower and the signs more confusing. The feeling of being lost began to slowly invade you, but your determination combined with stubbornness wanted to make you find the building through the image that was on Google...

As you turned a corner, you realized that you were just walking in circles, as the convenience stores and small restaurants were the same as those "three streets back."

The afternoon turned into twilight, and the warm lights of the lanterns began to come on, casting shadows that danced across the cobblestones.

The fear that you had been avoiding so much was present when a group of people passed by you and they only laughed. Your bad thoughts appeared with them, making you believe that maybe they were laughing at you.

Feeling more and more disoriented and exhausted, you decided to take a break and go into one of those stores just to buy a bottle of water and an onigiri. Five minutes passed just in you doing calculations to give the correct bill to the cashier.

As you left the premises you decided to start eating a little, trying to calm your mind and regain your composure. You checked the address on your phone again, but everything seemed just as confusing, the building was supposed to be a block away.

While you were looking for where to throw the plastic from the onigiri, from afar you could see a boy with a cap and a mask leaving a restaurant just a couple of meters from you, you thought it was destiny who gave you the opportunity to go to him and ask him. What can you lose? The dignity.

"E-excuse me!... You could- uh..." Your embarrassing attempt to ask him for help seemed to have scared him a little, because when he turned to look at you, he just made an "x" with his arms and gently shook his head.

Seconds later another boy came out of the restaurant, apparently he was with the person you had scared, so now you had two, quite tall men, glaring at you.

"Uh... Hotel?" Nerves took over you again, causing you to show them the image of the building you are looking for, pointing out the name of the place. When you didn't get a response you only felt a slight desire to cry, you felt that the last opportunity to have a comfortable place to sleep and to be able to see the people you admired.

Your hands began to shake and your heart accelerated after a few seconds because of how the boys looked around, not really knowing what to say to you.

"Uzai..." You turned off your phone as soon as you could and gave a small bow. "I'm sorry...I'm sorry for making you lose-...How do you say Jikan in Korean?" You whispered the last sentence. "Ah!, I'm sorry to waste your time..."

"You speak Japanese?" Suddenly, a deep voice interrupted your thoughts. “Do you need help with something?” You looked up slightly, meeting the eyes of the boy who had just come out. He apparently noticed your concern, so he would quickly try to strike up a quick conversation.

"Yeah.. I'm a little lost," you admitted, feeling a bit of relief at finally finding someone willing to help. "I'm looking for this hotel," you said, showing the address on your phone.

He simply nodded, understanding your situation. "Oh, I know that place, it used to be above the center of Seoul, but they changed it to the Gangnam area. It's not too far from here. Do you want us to accompany you?” He asked adjusting his cap.

“I like the idea! But... Will your friend agree?” You responded, tilting your head a little, noticing the brunette in the back with his gaze focused on his phone.

“He'll be fine, come on, I'll take you—we'll take you to the hotel, before it gets too late,” he responded with a smile from under the fabric.

You thanked him for his kindness and together they began to walk, eventually the other boy followed behind them. The conversation flowed easily, and you discovered that he was also a fan of the same group. The coincidence made you feel more comfortable and less alone along the way.

From the way you both laughed or made very clumsy jokes, people around you could deduce that you were lifelong friends, when the reality is that you had been talking for 15 minutes since he offered to take you. During some moments there were also small friction between your hand and his or even when you caught him staring at you, either in the eyes or at your lips.

As you two walked, you realized that you had missed a small alley that connected directly to the main street where your hotel was located.

"Well... I think this is the end, pretty girl" he commented, pausing in his walk, making you see the large building.

Finally, you arrived at the hotel just as the sky turned completely dark. When you said goodbye to your new friend, a feeling of sadness flooded your body for a few seconds, it was a shame that the only person who helped you did not have a phone number and continue to know each other, however you thanked him deeply for his help.

He wished you a good stay and reminded you to enjoy every moment of your trip.

As you were about to enter through the revolving door, turning around just to look at him and say, "I'm a boy," you let out a laugh as you saw his eyes widen.

"Oh yeah? Oh.. well, never mind. It was nice meeting you, pretty boy." He finished saying goodbye to you with his hand moving from side to side. You quickly went into the hotel with your face all red from the nickname he had given you.

Entering your room, you dropped your backpack and collapsed on the bed, feeling a mix of relief and satisfaction. Despite the setback, you had managed to get there and, in the process, you had made a new friend. With a smile on your face, you prepared to rest, knowing that tomorrow you would be face to face with your idols.

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“So.. Was she really cute or were you just doing this out of kindness?” a male voice asked.

“Cute.. he was cute.” The taller boy responded, with his head down as he continued walking towards a company, next to his friend.

"He?! Holy shit, Ni-ki... You're in serious trouble if anyone else finds out.” Heeseung commented.

“I know, but I doubt they will ever know, for my bad or good luck, I only spoke with him for a couple of minutes,” He paused while he removed his mask and cap once inside the facility. "His voice... his eyes, everything about him was so cute, did you see how small he looked next to me... ssibal" he whisper.

“Yes, I know how he looked like, I was also going with you two, in case you forgot,” Heeseung said with a slight expression of annoyance, this because of the dramatic way in which Ni-ki gently pressed his forehead with his hand. “It's not the end of the world either, you know? Maybe you will meet him by chance another day and—”

“Or perhaps I will never see him again and I will die without even knowing his name,” Ni-ki commented.

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The sun was just beginning to rise when, still with the excitement of the previous day throbbing in your chest, you woke up to the insistent sound of the alarm. Today was the day you would finally get to see the boys you've admired for a while face to face, and the excitement was mixed with a touch of nervousness.

A new day began normally, although given the fact that it was your first time in another country and alone, you felt like you were in a dream movie or drama. Clouds adorned the sky, which was as blue as the sea. When you jumped up just to open the window, your entire room lit up.

After a quick breakfast and a mental review of what you planned to tell them, you left for the event venue. The city was alive at that time of the morning, but you only had one thing on your mind: fansing.

And, although you didn't want to admit it, you also thought about the boy you had met the day before, the one who had turned you red and tomato for the simple fact of calling you "pretty boy."

You kept thinking about the way in which on the short journey from that place to your hotel, he always tried to make you smile or talk about your tastes. His deep voice, his height, the way he tried to make you feel safe and although it was difficult to see his face, his eyes were so pretty. A dark brown adorned on the outside by her long, drooping eyelashes... It was so cute.

You left the hotel completely ready, a small bag where you carried small gifts for each member, as well as the most recent album so they could sign it.

Upon arriving at the venue, the energy in the atmosphere was palpable. The lights, the preparations, the murmur of the people... Everything contributed to a crescendo of anticipation. You tried to stay focused as you waved at a few girls before you.

Ni-ki's pov.

The day had started early for him, as usual. The alarms sounded in sync with the first ray of sunlight, calling all members of the group to prepare for the day's event. With automatic movements, he headed to the bathroom, washing his face and brushing his teeth as he tried to clear away the drowsiness.

He carefully chose his outfit, casual but in the iconic colors of his comeback, adding the finishing touch with a pair of accessories he knew fans would love.

Although fansings turned out to be somewhat exhausting, there was something about this particular one that filled him with an inexplicable excitement. Maybe it was the fact that they had spent weeks in the studio, or maybe it was the simple pleasure of seeing their fans again.

As he got ready, his thoughts returned to the boy he had met the day before. The pretty boy, as he had called him in a moment of spontaneity, continued to haunt his mind. He remembered how his eyes sparkled when he talked about his passions, the way they became more slanted when he laughed at some bad joke, how his smile seemed to light up the surroundings, and how his initial nervousness dissipated as they talked.

Upon arriving at the event venue, feelings of nervousness and excitement were mixed. The routine of getting ready, arranging some things with the staff, and going over the day's agenda was carried out with precision, but his thoughts kept wandering to that unexpected meeting. He wondered if he would see him again one day, if fate would allow them to cross paths again.

With each passing minute, the anticipation grew. The team gave them the final instructions while preparations progressed around them. The lights were shining brightly, the stage was set, and the fans' enthusiastic screams echoed in their ears, creating an electrifying atmosphere. It was all part of the magic of the moment.

When Ni-ki finally took the stage, he focused on doing his best, trying to connect with every fan who had come to see him, shaking hands, praising fans' perfumes or accessories, etc.

And then, as he waited for the next fan, in the crowd, as he watched some girls, waving at them, his eyes met a familiar look.

He couldn't believe it: the pretty boy was there, approaching him, with a small bag in hand and a nervous but radiant smile. In that instant, all the noise, lights, and hubbub seemed to fade away, leaving only the memory of those brown eyes and the surprise of an unexpected connection in the midst of chaos.

Ni-ki felt his heart speed up, and a warm feeling of happiness enveloped him, unable to hide a smile from ear to ear.

The boy approached timidly, not really knowing how to start the conversation. Ni-ki, still shocked by the sight, was the first to speak.

"Hello!" Ni-ki said with a smile, trying to hide his own surprise. "Is this your first time here?"

The boy smiled back, although clearly nervous. “Um... Actually, yes,” the boy responded, almost whispering. “I…brought this for you” He extended the bag towards him, making the taller boy take a look inside.

Ni-ki carefully took the bag and looked inside better, finding a small letter and some candys. He looked up and saw that the boy was watching him carefully, waiting for his reaction.

“This is... Thank you very much, this is very nice,” he responded, letting out a soft laugh, feeling a pleasant warmth in his chest. "What's your name?" He asked.

The shorter boy blushed, his gaze dropping to the ground for a moment before meeting Ni-ki's eyes again. “My name is [...]” he responded as he watched his Idol take his hand out of the corner of his eye, causing his heart to beat rapidly.

Ni-ki felt a mixture of shame and tenderness. He didn't want to pressure him, knowing that his Korean wasn't the best, so he decided to move forward gently.

“Oh! Are you japanese? You would have told me before…” exclaimed the tallest one, regulating his voice so that only the one in front of him could hear him. "I'm glad you have come. You are having fun?"

The boy nodded, clearly relieved by the change of topic and language. "Yes, a lot. It's my first time at a fansing, and it's... amazing. I can't believe I'm here, talking to you, holding your hand...”

“Well, believe me, I'm very glad you came,” Ni-ki commented, feeling a special connection in that moment. However, unfortunately time couldn't stop just so the two of you could continue talking, so you continued at the same pace as always, one minute and goodbye. “I hope you enjoy the rest of the event. And thanks again for the gift. It means a lot to me."

You were both silent for a moment, just smiling, staring at each other. The rest of the minute they spent talking about basic things: tastes, music, clothes and sometimes about the album.

Finally, the boy said bye with a soft "goodbye", and Ni-ki watched him approach the next member, his heart still pounding.

When the event was over and Ni-ki had a moment to reflect, he realized that that brief encounter had left a deep mark on him. The unexpected connection, the mix of shame and love, all contributed to an experience he would cherish for a long time.

"So... that boy turned out to be our fan" Heeseung said, approaching the minor, gently squeezing his shoulder in a way to comfort him.

“No, he's just my fan.” He smiled, caressing the letter you had previously given him.

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메모 ! 📌ㅤ⸻ㅤ Let's avoid the fact that I put Ronaldo in the Lore and let's avoid that I also made everything very cliché. 😴

ㅤㅤ아이디어 !ㅤ⸻ㅤI'm very short of ideas lately, so feel free to ㅤㅤㅤ leave me any requests! <⁠(⁠￣⁠︶⁠￣⁠)⁠>

ㅤㅤ All credits to @angelsfat3 / @foschiamara

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The red lights of Atlantis

I missed the train, of course, at some point it had to happen to me, I'm always late. I take the next train, I haven't slept more than 4 hours per day in almost a week, I thought I'd fall asleep immediately but did not happen, the journey reminded me of a movie a friend recommended to me once, I looked for the one but there was no French girl around reading a book nor a couple arguing in a foreign language, there is no Before Sunrise story for me in this train. Paris passed by, Brussels passed by, Rotterdam passed by, the train stops, I walked out the station, I almost get hit by a bicycle, two days ago I was almost hit by cars several times for looking left instead of right, British stuff.

I can barely walk, my feet hurt, I'm hungry, tired af, I manage to keep going, bykes, trains and weed everywhere, I need an energy drink, it tastes good, wait... I kinda feel strange, read the bottle... Contains Cannabis, nice welcome.

This is the perfect city for my photographs, but I just realized that I have hundreds of photographs from Rome, Athens and London, the memory card is almost full and my back is almost broken, the camera is too heavy to carry all day, I decide to leave it at the hostel, instead I will use the small analog Kodak H35N that I recently bought, there are only 3 shots left of the Cinestill 800t, I Google a photo store in the city, this time I will try the Portra 800. I don't want to spend a lot of time taking pictures, so just 72 shots, think fast and shoot fast, think fast, shoot fast, I repeat to myself.

I head to Kokopelli, a smartshop I read about, basically the psylocybin shop, turns out mushrooms are not legal in Amsterdam now, but these clever people offer truffles instead, which are also a mushroom, but this one grows under the earth, but as the store owner explains to me, a higher dose of truffles is required compared to the regular dose of mushrooms to perceive the effect. Like any other psychedelic substance or plant, there is a lot of variety and each one produces different sensations, some more visual and others more introspective. There's the Utopia, the Pandora, Mokum and Atlantis. I bought 15 grams of Atlantis.

While the Atlantis takes effect on me, I walk through the neon lights of Amsterdam, /think fast, shoot fast/ suddenly I have taken around 50 photographs and the effect begins to spread through my hands. I get into the red light district and put my camera away.

I always trust in the psilocybin to guide my journey, so I just go with the flow, whatever happens, happens. I saw a beautiful pier in the morning and I definitely want to capture it at night. As I walk, the effect of the truffle increases and I realize that I am getting a little stressed because I am constantly distracted by wanting to take photographs... Just that photo of the pier and I turn off the camera, {I think}.

I got to that point in the city, the pier is right on my left side, but I was amazed by what I saw on my right side. I turned right, still thinking that the pier will be my last photograph of the night.

The night is very cold, a while ago I stopped feeling my body, I don't remember feeling this level of cold before but I know I have to keep going, hold on a little longer, I tell myself.

As I walk my senses begin to alter, the colors seem different, the body feels lighter. I stop in the middle of the street, trains, bicycles, people and cars pass around me, I look up and there she is, bright and full, hidden behind a delicate fog, Full moon, its brightness is so strong that the night is no longer night, its light is reflected on the river, the water refracts the light and creates a kind of rainbow in the water. Everything around me is magnificent, I feel like I'm inside a movie.

And just after this thought, I see a girl on the other side of the street taking out her camera and preparing to take a photo of the same view that shocked me. And then I realized, that is the most perfect scene in this movie that I am experiencing, that is the composition of a perfect photograph, a lonely girl taking a photograph of the most dreamlike landscape I have ever seen. I rush to take out my analog camera to preserve that moment, (think fast, shoot fast), Fuck!!!!!, I can't move the film to take the photo, my hands are so frozen I can't move my fingers, I keep trying, the girl is still in the same position, she's taking her time, it's like she's giving me enough time to take her a photo, I try harder to turn the camera roll... FUCK!!! I broke it, I broke the gear, REALLY??? (think fast, shoot fast), my phone, take it with your phone, quickly take out my phone, now shoot... A train crosses right between that girl and me... NO WAY!!!. And then the most surreal thing happened, when the train finished crossing, the girl disappeared, the girl was no longer there, I looked around and there was no trace of her.

Somehow, synchronicity brought together two solitary photographers in Amsterdam in the middle of the night with a full moon, amazed by the same dreamlike scenario, but only for a brief moment, without knowing each other, not even a photography, the universe just allowed me to keep this memory in my mind.

Maybe that was my Before Sunrise story, maybe I'll have to come back to that exact point in Amsterdam in a year. (26/03/24)

[Psilocybin always shares wisdom and guides the path of your experience in the most spontaneous and unpredictable way, this time it showed me that I needed to be more present in the places I go, in the countries I visit, the moments I live, photography is not everything, I need to keep some memories only for myself, for the soul and not in digital format, the most perfect scene is not the one I captured in a photograph but the one I experience in person, the one I feel. Probably instead of wasting time trying to take a picture of that girl, I could have met her.]

Returning to the red light district, the atmosphere starts to feel different, the moon hides behind the buildings, the streets became neon alleys with music and people having fun everywhere, it feels like I'm entering into a cyberpunk world, this is my kind of world. I put on my headphones and play Goodbye from Kavinsky on loop. I dive deeper into this cyberpunk environment I'm walking through. So many different people on the streets, a homeless asking me for €2, a group of elegant girls dressed like top models singing Beyoncé, a bunch of college students acting and walking like thugs guys, an elegant man sitting on a bench in front of a neon Mexican Restaurant smoking marijuana, a bunch of dealers dressed all in black offering me cocaine, a trash can on the floor with all the trash around that for some reason catches my attention, and of course, the ladies behind the red lights, they smile at me, they knock on the window to call me but I just keep walking. On the way a specific line of red lights catches my attention, different from the others, it's a red tunnel under a house, let's see... DAMN!!!... black hair, white skin, long legs, half body tattooed, the Greek goddess I dreamed of, she opens her door and invites me in, her beautiful voice made me nervous, her beauty intimidates me, I didn't come here for sex, I have never paid for sex, I'm just looking, I think. Well, maybe I'll just ask her how this works...

-- €100 for 20 minutes, darling- She says... No, thank you (Greek goddess), bye.

Next to this red tunnel is the Moulin Rouge, a Club with hypnotizing red neon lights that say "EROTIC NIGHTCLUB" "LIVE SEX SHOW".

Personally, I have never liked these types of places, "Tables", where girls dance, get naked, offer company for drinks and of course, sex. In Mexico I never go to these places, but I thought... I'm in Amsterdam, the main experiences in this city are Truffles & Sex, legal "drugs" and legal prostitution.

An elegant man who was at the door of the Moulin Rouge approaches me, - Would you like to come in? Our next show is in 10 minutes, the last one of the night, the cost is €40 - .

Cash or Card?

—Card please.

...

Enter the void...

The entire atmosphere in this place is created to stimulate your senses to the maximum, the air is covered by a fine mist combined with green and purple phosphorescent lights, the aroma is something that I have never smelled before but it immediately gives me a pleasant and relaxing sensation, I'm on the highest effect of Truffle, so the experience is much better. I sit at the bar which is full of shiny crystal glasses painted by a hypnotizing pink light... - Do you want something to drink? - A glass of ice water, please. - The taste of natural water when you're under the psychedelic effects is one of the most delicious and simple things one can experience, so I really enjoy my glass of bright pink water. I've been here for 3 minutes, I'm delighted and the show hasn't even started.

A blonde girl dressed in an angelic futuristic dress enters the dance floor, just as the first beat of the music begins she jumps to the highest part of the pole, the way she moves and combines with the music is perfectly coordinated, that dance left me in awe and again, the show was just beginning. What I saw there was one of the most surreal things I have ever seen in my life, these people were professional artists, I never thought that through sex and sensuality it could be translated into art, an erotic spectacle at its finest. In this place, clients do not pay for a private dance or for sex, you are not here to put a dollar in their panties, here people come for an artistic show, here they applaud at the end of each act.

The show is over, and so the Atlantis effect, the last minutes of the psilocybin effect is my favorite part, when you don't feel the weight of your body, when you are as light as a feather, you don't feel tired or cold or hot, for a moment your physical sensations in the body fade away.

I head back to the hostel, I walk through the lonely streets of the red light district of Amsterdam at 3 am, everything is quiet, I only hear a duck swimming in the river and some crows in the trees. But suddenly... KNOCK, KNOCK! I listen... I turn my head and there she was again, the Greek goddess under the red light...Well I guess the night isn't over yet.

Her name was Atenea but she was Bulgarian.

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The Hollywood sign may be one the most recognizable places on Earth. Photograph: RD Willis/Photo courtesy of the Hollywood Sign Trust and RD Willis

The Hollywood Sign At 100: How A Hillside Ad Became An Enduring Monument! The Familiar Letters Loom Over A Dreamy City – Yet They Remain Surprisingly Hard To Reach

— By Lois Beckett in Los Angeles | March 5th, 2023

There is an old complaint about Los Angeles. The Weimar intellectuals who fled here in the 1930s loved the sunshine but decried the city’s lack of civic culture. Los Angeles did not have the cafe society of Paris or Berlin; instead it had consumers in their automobiles navigating through an endless sprawl of single-family homes.

Nearly a hundred years later, the Weimar critics would hardly be surprised that a giant advertisement on a hill, monitored 24/7 by surveillance cameras, may still be the closest thing Los Angeles has to a town square.

The Hollywood sign, originally constructed as an advertisement for a local real estate development, turns 100 this year, and like any star, it’s been primping and preening in advance of its big day. It’s received multiple highly publicized makeovers, and its PR team (yes, it has a PR team) has been readying for major coverage, with centennial events planned and a fundraiser launched to build more amenities for tourists.

The Hollywoodland sign, originally constructed as an advertisement for a local real estate development, is erected in 1923. Photograph: Photo Courtesy of the Hollywood Sign Trust and HollywoodPhotographs.com

On a sunny morning in January, the trails beneath the sign are crowded with shapely visitors in athleisure doing a kind of Hollywood calisthenics, lifting hands and contorting bodies so that they can appear, in their tiny camera phone pics, to be tapping or lifting the letters.

The Hollywood sign may be one the most recognizable places on Earth, but the process of getting close can be absurd and torturous. The letters are near the top of a steep, barren hill, guarded by wild coyotes and the occasional rattlesnake. You can’t drive there. Your phone may not even give you the correct walking directions.

Some choose to hike to the sign via one of several miles-long trails that wind through Griffith Park, a 4,000-acre wilderness that the sign sits within. Others opt for a semi-illicit shortcut through Beachwood Canyon, a wealthy neighborhood in the hills beneath the sign, where there are no sidewalks and street parking is forbidden.

If you ask Google Maps how to drive to the sign, it will send you to a completely different landmark, the Griffith Observatory, approximately three miles away. From the Observatory, where parking costs $10 an hour, you can hike across the hot and dusty hills until you reach the vicinity of the sign itself. Even then, you will be peering down at the letters through a giant wire fence, surveilled by the LAPD.

The public aren’t allowed past the security fence, but if you have the opportunity to get through, as I did during a centennial press tour, the view is magical.

People who meet movie stars often say they’re genuinely beautiful up close, although much shorter than they look on screen. The Hollywood sign is like that, but the opposite: it is genuinely gorgeous and shockingly huge. Behind the giant backwards letters, Los Angeles shimmers in the distance. Cars move along the freeways in rivulets of glitter, like blood cells rushing through the city’s exposed veins.

It’s easy to understand why, despite all the barriers, tourists from around the world continue to flock as close to the letters as possible.

“In a city that doesn’t have a center, it feels like a real place to go,” Jesse Holcomb, one of the sign’s PR reps, said.

Left: A helicopter places steel beams for the Hollywood Sign rebuild. Right: One of the letters gets repainted ahead of its 100th Anniversary. Photograph: Left: Photo Courtesy of the Hollywood Sign Trust and HollywoodPhotographs.com. All Rights Reserved. Right: David Livingston/Getty Images for The Hollywood Sign Trust

Hollywood Facelifts

Like the Eiffel Tower, the Hollywood sign was originally supposed to be temporary, built to last 18 months as a flashy advertisement for the “Hollywoodland” real estate development. But the sign stayed on, successfully navigating the transition from saucy newcomer to icon, and it now presides over the dreamy city with the dignity of Meryl Streep or Judi Dench.

The path from gaudy advertisement to grand dame wasn’t easy. Over the decades, the Hollywood sign had to survive tragedy, abandonment, bad press, and outright calls for destruction. As with many of its industry colleagues, the process of becoming a star required a partial name change, and, in its later years, regular facelifts in the form of coats of “extra white” paint – plus experts monitoring it for the effects of erosion.

There’s no precise record of when developers first put the letters, which originally read HOLLYWOODLAND, on the hill; housing ads rarely make the news, even though one of the developers, Harry Chandler, was also the publisher of the Los Angeles Times. The first passing newspaper references to the “electric” sign, which was originally covered in lights that blinked at night, came in December 1923; the development that it advertised broke ground earlier that year.

The letters become infamous in 1932, when Peg Entwistle, a 24-year-old British actor and aspiring movie star, died by suicide at the sign, which came to symbolize both the lure and the danger of film industry success. During the Great Depression, the development the sign advertised struggled economically, and it eventually became defunct.

“It is silly to say that Hollywood, or any other city, is ‘unreal’,” the British writer Christopher Isherwood wrote upon his arrival in 1939, as he searched for an apartment in the lush neighborhoods beneath the “Hollywoodland” sign. “But what the arriving traveler first sees are merely advertisements for a city which doesn’t exist.”

By the late 1970s, with the Hollywood sign again in disrepair, the original letters were finally replaced. Photograph: Photo Courtesy of the Hollywood Sign Trust and HollywoodPhotographs.com. All Rights Reserved.

By the 1940s, the letters were crumbling and dilapidated, and officially given to the city to manage. “A recent windstorm made a cockney out of Hollywoodland,” the Los Angeles Times observed in 1944, with the sign now reading “OLLYWOODLAND”. In 1949, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce finally made a deal to restore the sign while removing the “LAND”.

By the late 1970s, with the sign again in disrepair, the original letters were finally replaced after Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine, led a campaign to save them. The length and girth of the new sign became a matter of pride: 450ft long, with 45ft-high letters, and a total weight, in steel and concrete, of 480,000lb.

In more recent years, the sign has become the scene of repeated pranks, which have changed the letters to read “Hollyweed” and “Hollyboob”. It’s become a favorite setting for disaster films, getting destroyed on screen at least eight times.

There have been news reports about pieces of the original Hollywood sign being auctioned online and sold off in fragments, like some kind of film industry equivalent of the true cross, though it’s not clear if those mementos are legitimate. Parts of the original tin sign were said to have been sold for scrap.

Look But Don’t Touch

Today, the sign remains both omnipresent and oddly remote. Angelenos can spot the letters in their rearview mirrors or from rooftop bars, but many have lived here for years without ever visiting.

Tourist access to the sign has sparked years of fierce battles, which have played out through pressure on tech companies to change their GPS directions to the sign, as well as in lawsuits, including one that resulted in the city locking a popular access point. The neighborhoods beneath the letters are full of stern warnings: “NO ACCESS to the Hollywood Sign”, and some of the wealthy residents argue that the star-struck visitors clogging their steep, winding streets represent a health hazard.

“If Disneyland had this sort of operation, they would close it in 10 seconds,” one resident told the Guardian in 2015 of the chaos that tourism brought to the neighborhood.

Given the controversy, I decided to try to hike some of the available routes myself. Starting at Griffith Observatory, known for its appearances in Rebel without a Cause and La La Land, I walked for miles along a battered asphalt road, with only the distant grumble of an LAPD helicopter for company. Wild coyotes trotted alongside me, eyeing me with resentment for being not quite small enough to eat.

Following my Google Maps directions, rather than the posted signs, I found myself on a narrow dirt trail that took me along a precipitous drop. I thought I must have taken a wrong turn, but some other hikers told me that I had not. “This is the easiest way,” a man in a Dodgers cap reassured me, as I shimmied down some rocks.

An Irish tourist I met near the sign’s summit told me she and her friends had started their journey to the sign by hiking through a field, then gotten yelled at, before eventually finding a path to the top.

Tourists park along Mount Hollywood Drive and walk up a hilltop to take photos with the Hollywood sign in the background at Griffith Park. Photograph: Allen J Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

Hikers pose for a photo in front of the Hollywood sign on a foggy day. Photograph: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters/Alamy

There’s a shorter route to the sign, if you don’t mind risking the wrath of wealthy homeowners. Up the twists and turns of Deronda Drive in Beachwood Canyon, a pedestrian gate into the park is typically surrounded by a scrum of double-parked cars and drivers reaching a dead end and desperately trying to turn around.

I walked down that way, dodging Teslas through the verdant, sidewalk-free streets of Beachwood Canyon, and thinking of Bertolt Brecht’s journal entry from 1941, in which he compared Los Angeles to “Tahiti in the form of a big city” and complained that “an incessant, brilliantly illuminated stream of cars thunders through nature”. (Los Angeles’s lush nature was itself an illusion, he added: “Stop paying the water bills and everything stops blooming.”)

Recognizing the continuing travails of sign tourism, the Hollywood Sign Trust, which manages the monument, announced that it would use the sign’s centenary to raise funds for an official visitors’ center, complete with lecture halls, a movie theater, museum, gift shop, and, presumably, bathrooms, something sign visitors have lacked for years.

“The people have asked for it, tourists have asked for it, the community at large has asked for it, so we’re doing it,” Jeff Zarrinnam, the chairman of the trust, announced in January as he stood below the letters, wearing a miniature version of the sign on his lapel.

This sounds like a great solution, until you learn that the current location options for the visitors’ center may not get tourists much closer. Proposed sites include the old pony stables in Griffith Park, about five miles away, “down on Hollywood Boulevard”, about two miles away, or even “behind the Hollywood sign, on the other side of the mountain”.

The current inaccessibility of the sign does have an upside. The area around the giant letters has remained a little patch of wild earth, a sanctuary for deer, foxes, coyotes, even the city’s celebrity mountain lions. On the steep dirt slope around the sign, it’s so quiet that it’s almost possible to hear the sun beating, or the flick of shadows from birds overhead.

“For some reason, the crows and hawks are always circling by the letters,” Holcomb, the PR rep, told me. “The gusts of wind must be fun to ride.”

Holcomb let me walk a few feet inside the giant fence around the sign, but said we had not been cleared by security to get any closer. Crouching on the dirt, between clumps of wildflowers, was as close to the sign as I was going to get.

And yes, I asked: they wouldn’t let me touch it.

The Hollywood sign at sunset. Photograph: Leonardo Mangia/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

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On The Map

Of all the apps I use on my phone, of all the sites on the internet, there is one that I use perhaps as much as all the others put together: Google Maps. I use my custom Google Maps to organize my life, my adventures, my ambitions. It gets me to where I want to be. And even when I know the way from A to B beyond a shadow of doubt, I still use it for navigational purposes if only to alert me of delays and hazards ahead, as well as my ETA.

But one of the best features of Google Maps is Google Street View, or GSV. Have you ever seen those Google cars out driving up and down every street in a city? They’re not just out having fun. They are photographing everything with a special rooftop device that has seven 20 megapixel lenses, for a total of 140 megapixels of coverage.  

The result is the ability to “streetwalk” online or in the app without even being there. Better yet, Google archives all of their return trips so we effectively have a visual record of how our streetscapes have evolved over the years. Going forward, I predict GSV to be the premier record of everything. It’s almost like we don’t need to be taking pictures of buildings and such like people did in decades past, because Google is doing it for us.



Since its launch in 2007, Google cars have now documented and mapped many millions of miles around the world. Well, except for Germany and Austria.

How’s that?

It all boils down to privacy, and depends on nation and culture. In the US, where there is very little guarantee of privacy, especially once you venture outdoors, in Germany and Austria there are the lingering memories of the Third Reich and communist East Germany. Those memories are still too recent, and people in both nations value their privacy, even though they have few squabbles with nudist beaches. Apparently they’re OK with letting others see their nether regions and things we can’t flaunt over here, but don’t want to take the risk of anyone randomly photographing them out and about.

In clothes. Yeah. Go figure.

So GSV has only small portions of Germany and Austria documented. Apparently, Google just gave up and said, “Y’all figure this out on your own.” It makes me wonder, though, whether they would be OK with GSV if everyone were walking around naked everywhere, because, you know, they don’t fret about that.

Google has been a good citizen in the US, though, by volunteering to blur out identifying features, like license plates, faces, and sometimes business names that are captured. They will even blur your house if you ask.

At a broader level, GSV puts the thorny issue of privacy front and center. We know that our data are being collected at every turn online. We know that our smartphones are just as much a beacon to our whereabouts as they are communication devices. But we probably aren’t thinking about a little car coming along with cameras on the roof. Even with blurred license plates and faces, there can often be enough identifying information to make a match, which could be problematic if you have something to hide. I’ll just leave that there.

Still, we Americans are comfortable with our overall lack of privacy. Maybe it’s because we never endured the tragedies the Germans and Austrians did. Maybe it’s because we’re just a very trusting society. Or maybe we’ve just thrown up our hands and realized that train left the station when the iPhone came, which, incidentally, shares a birth year with Google Streetview.

Coincidence? Perhaps. But then again, maybe not.

Either way, I’m heading out shortly for a day trip through the southern part of the Texas Panhandle. I am photographing old theaters and drive-ins to illustrate a two-part article I am writing for Panhandle Magazine. And, of course, I built a custom Google Map for the project. As soon as I start rolling down the driveway, I push the first pin and tell the app to navigate me to it. Tulia Texas, I’ll see you shortly.

And if any of y’all see me out and about, I’m good with it, even Google. Because I’m just the crazy guy with a camera. Wearing clothes, of course.

Dr “Map My Day“ Gerlich

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How to Research a Novel: Tips for Fiction Writing Research

Why Does An Author Need to Research a Story?

Whether you’re writing what you know or pursuing a fresh passion, research is a critical tool for developing the world of your novel. What you learn during research will allow you to immerse your reader fully in your setting. It will guide you in developing your characters and plot.

How to Research Based On Your Own Experiences?

“Write what you know” is a common refrain, and for a good reason. Mining your personal experiences for information and inspiration can help jump start a story. For example, you can easily describe how the air smells in your hometown during a certain time of year. These are the types of details that allow a writer to show the reader the story, rather than just telling them a string to details.

Some questions to ask yourself:

Did you have a particularly magical summer growing up where you fell in love with a new friend?

Is there a traumatic experience from your past that helped you grow as a person?

Is there a time when you were deeply embarrassed?

Can you think of when you regret something you did?

What is the saddest moment of your life? What about the happiest?

Name a secret you are afraid to talk about.

Many stories—from creative writing essays to New York Times Bestsellers—are written from personal experience, but that doesn’t mean that they have to purely dwell in straight facts. You can always embellish the experience to make the story seem more exciting, to push the narrative, or to make the characters more dynamic.

How to Research Topics When You Don’t Have Firsthand Experience?

Read everything. The preliminary stage of research is generally exploratory and involves reading anything that interests you. As you go deeper, you’ll find your research becoming more focused. You’ll begin asking questions about particular locations, histories, or scenarios that involve your subject matter. At this point, your interests will not only guide your choice of materials, they will also help you begin structuring your novel. Take notes, use bookmarks, record page numbers, and cite your sources as you research. Newspapers, magazines, Wikipedia, an online search engine, and your local library are all great resources in this endeavor. Street View on Google Maps can be a handy tool for geographic research.

Watch documentaries and listen to podcasts. These media can contain as much research as a traditional book or piece of print journalism.

Meet with everyone. Although reading is an invaluable research tool, it is seldom enough by itself. At some point it will be necessary to reach out to others. Talking to people about their passions can offer perspectives that you won��t find in books, and it can transmit an enthusiasm and authenticity that will come through in your writing. Meeting people in person may also inspire ideas for your characters.

Go everywhere. Visit a location you’ve never been to before— either an actual place from a setting you’ve chosen or simply a place near you that you find interesting. When you first arrive at the location, don’t record or photograph or write anything down, just spend some time absorbing it through your senses. Pay attention to the things that strike you most. Go home later and write a description of the place. Remember to include the sensory details—what it felt and smelled and sounded like.

Follow your interests. Your choice should always be informed by your interests, so immerse yourself in books, television, movies, and anything else that inspires you. You’ll be silently accumulating the building blocks for your novel. Trust your own tastes. You’re going to be working with these subjects for a long time, so choose things that interest you enough to sustain you over the course of a novel.

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608 Fifth Ave., NYC, NY Undated photo, unknown photographer

With a little Google Street View sleuthing, I was able to find this building, located in the shadow of Rockefeller Center. There’s currently a 2-floor Lacoste store in the base, while the rest is offices. In the online record, it’s listed as the Goelet Building, so in the 1930s it was associated with or owned by the Goelet family, but it no longer is. The building dates to 1932 and stands 11 stories.

From the listing by current owner, Vornado Realty Trust:

Vornado owns high-quality corner retail at the base of Rockefeller Center and in direct proximity to Saks Fifth Avenue. 608 Fifth Avenue offers 40,000 square feet of multi-tiered retail within a 144,000 square foot building. With 59' frontage on Fifth Avenue, 608 Fifth Avenue is prominently situated at the gateway to the most desired strip of retail in Manhattan.

Google Street View (with 30 Rock in the background):

Citation/Source Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "Fifth Avenue #608 - 49th Street" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1887 - 1986. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-01e8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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N° 1 - Staying Put. Getting Away.

Self-isolation. Just as it gnaws at the lively tendons of the bon vivant, it is equally merciless on the reclusive....

All of a sudden, I feel an impulse to wade into the world in ways I have never done before, all because I am told that, for now, it is not possible at all. Self-imposed isolation breeds mental fortitude in times like these. State-mandated isolation in the time of something not quite but possibly just as fatal as cholera breeds...minutes upon minutes spent cogitating about all manner of things, not least, death. A newfound proclivity for bucket listing. An uptick in the perusal of DIY tutorials for stitching together your very own dining banquette–far trendier, and superior, aesthetically, to the peninsula.  Online window shopping. Cooking more in one week than you have in one lifetime. Indulging in the second cardinal sin, spoonfuls to ravenous lips. Taunting the cat–and paying with the bloody, darkened scratches on your hands. Reading four, sometimes five books at a time. Getting the storylines jumbled in your head. Successfully getting through 'Insanity'–the warmup. Five weeks into the program. Fortunately, one abdominal, and then another, still manages to shred its way out of tenacious belly folds. Amazing!

The list of ruminations is long. Time moves slower these days, and that is a mercy. There is plenty of time to think. To be mindful. To be grateful. To change course. To start anew. Or to do nothing at all if your heart so desires.

Wanderlust. Is ever greater when even homebodying loses its heretofore, majestic appeal. Looking through old travel photographs makes for a great, hassle-free sojourn to another place, though it is difficult imagining getting away without getting away. I find myself fixated on certain photos, forgetting exactly where and when I was when these were taken. Having trouble remembering what it is that I was doing. What was I feeling? Come to think of it, is it really our bodies, or rather our minds that do the traipsing through meandering roads?  What does this say about the mind? Can we trust it­–and our memories–at all?  

Thankfully, if memories of old voyages slip away quietly, opportunity for creating new ones abound. Consider a walk around the block, where trendy, unusual houses flank older, more traditional homes, often awkwardly sticking out of everyday vistas much like the Spire of Dublin, that architectural anomaly erected in Dublin City Centre. It's incredibly strange. There is one such modern home in my neighborhood. A tall, slender, multi-level aberration akin to a shipment container with large windows overlooking rows upon rows of squat, standard houses. The spiffy new kid on the block turning up its nose at the old hats while enjoying the downmarket land on which it sits–tall and gorgeous and the envy of all of its admirers. The Google street views of Mont Blanc and other natural marvels of the world are as good as the real thing. Almost. Get to bucket listing must-see destinations for when we are permitted to flood airport terminals again and knee each other's very fancy reclining plane seats for the long haul flight to Paris. One thing is for certain: the logistics won't be the same. Neither will the whole of the experience from departure to arrival. And thereafter.

Addendum. Speaking of homes, and staying indoors, why is to be house-proud negatively perceived? House-proud: attentive to, or preoccupied with, the care and appearance of one's home. “I used to tease her about being so house-proud.” The dictionary's example sentence drives home this point. Before this new normal, Lysol was an afterthought, if at all. Many learned–in earnest–how to wash their hands (frightening). 'Tis better to be house-proud than not at all, no? Self-isolation is less imposing that way.

Something else that gets a bad rap, unfairly: Quiet. Noise is a pollutant, is it not? How is your hearing these days? City living does come at a cost, and sure, in some respects, it is par for the course to be able to indulge in the heady experiential buffet only the city can serve up from day to night, but what of the din we can obliterate with our own savvy doing? The blaring of the TV. The base trembling beneath the floorboards. Our own maddening voices shrieking about nothing. So many ills could be abated by even a modest dose of silence. Even while hearing your own thoughts, and all the ugly realizations that it entails, crisp and clear as day. – KJP

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Dystopia!AU Jimin x Reader

November, 2057

It only takes a moment for the future of the Earth to be completely altered. It took the President of the United States forty-seven minutes to surrender to the Red Bullet forces, thirty-two for the UN to yield, nineteen for the rest of the United Kingdoms to capitulate to a new supremacy and within ten minutes, the Red Bullet forces had set their camps throughout the globe, not giving any nation a chance to change their minds.

Not that it was possible.

They said it was ‘for the sake of mankind’ and that we were wasting resources by trading so they thought they’d make it easier for the world by centralising leadership, resources and manpower. Meaning, they’d depose the governments, take over everything we owned and strip us off our jobs until they decide what they could do to us.

But the nature of things is that if there was power, there would be an opposing force and it didn’t take long for y/n to join the Green Movement.

The Green Movement was a youth led rebellion against the new leaders and with the hot-bloodedness of young people and their raging hormones, their numbers soared. They felt oppressed, they felt like they needed to do something. Very soon, anyone below thirty who wasn’t part of it were deemed ‘slaves of the new world’.

It was an organisation where only the leaders knew what was going on, however. Many of the grassroots were in it for the thrill and pressure to do something about the sudden change without thinking. A lot of blind hatred for the Red Bullet were spread but when they started rationing basic necessities like salt and water, these youths took to the streets to protest.

It didn’t work, obviously.

Their angry cries were simply ignored and when they grew cold, tired, hungry and weak, they crawled back to their homes with tails beneath their legs.

January, 2059

By the end of the next year, the way the world work really wasn’t the way things were before the takeover. The internet had become a highly controlled community despite its incredible advancements. Sure, the speed of the internet and its data capacity was far beyond imaginable levels since pre-takeover, but network bugs were everywhere, sniffing for traces of rebellion among citizens of the Red Bullet Order. Food supplies were still being rationed, so was petrol and every day-use products like paper or medicine. Vehicles for regular use were controlled and public transport became redundant, now that people were divided into towns that were defined by the kind of work the people there did. People never needed to travel far to work anymore, they could simply walk and all these was a part of the ‘Active Living Scheme’, they said, and environmentally friendly too. Needless to say, people all over the world were uprooted to join these ‘work homes’ they were allocated to.

One such man was a Korean genius, Kim Namjoon, who was taken from his hometown in Seoul, South Korea, to India, Asia’s Silicon Valley. His own country had turned into a giant Artificial Intelligence and Organ developmental center and he knew that the only way he could help the rest of humanity regain some of their freedom was to take charge of the World Wide Web and he did just that. He had gained the trust of his superiors and he learned fast too. Soon he was able to control other computers from his own- he had the freedom of having his own to use, without the surveillance of the bugs and he even programmed a virus like software that could hide an entire computer browser from the view of any spyware.

And since he was made Head of the Red Bullet Internet Security Team, there wasn’t very much he’d need to hide.    

It didn’t take him long to find some of his fellow Green Movement comrades online and overrode their computers with the software and very soon, Green Movement activists around the world were back into action. He had created a platform for them to exist.

Then a flurry of activity online happened. Within weeks, teenagers and adults alike had formed ranks within their organisation and divided themselves into various groups. Some groups took it upon themselves to do work strikes, some who held aviation jobs formed a union that made it a point to ruin the flying experience of any member of the Red Bullet, and some extremists formed mass suicide groups, believing that the Red Bullet’s power only existed because there were people to control. Yet, everything was done in a childish manner. These minor atrocities did briefly catch the attention of the leaders but they were swiftly ignored. It didn’t matter to them that a bunch of losers were dying or that some people didn’t want to do their jobs. They had new members joining their order each they, in numbers that exceeded those of the trouble makers.    

July, 2060

It was a Green Movement ‘special team’, cleverly disguised as a prayer group that y/n had found herself a part of in the summer of 2060. At first, she joined wanting to seek a spiritual calm amidst the sudden oppression. Her job as a typists required her to get up at 6am in the morning and walk to the media station situated in Beijing, China, about a kilometer from her house and to type and transcribe whatever came through from the headquarters in Washington D.C. until she left work at 5pm. Lunch breaks were flexible but she had daily deadlines to meet so she ate when she could. Then whatever work was left, she could take back to the comfort of her own home and her personal computer where she held conversations with her Green Movement peers every night. They were a small union with around fifteen members had a private chat group where they conversed with each other. The leader was Park Jimin, a gentle looking Korean man, who was also situated in Beijing, as a music transcriber and so was his cousin, Jeon Jungkook. They had been lucky enough to have been allocated in the same town and the two of them shared an apartment just two kilometers away from her own place (or so that’s what google maps told her). She had never met the cousins although they lived near her but she spoke with them every night for at least two hours before she went to bed.

She would be lying, though, if she said that she didn’t have any thoughts of one day actually meeting them. They had hit off really well, even more than the other members of their group chat and it seemed that the feelings were mutual when Jimin messaged her privately one night.

It started off awkwardly. After all, all their conversations had always been public and never too intimate. They would usually encourage each other with prayer or shared Beijing’s condition and how their lives as transcribers in a foreign land was like to the other members or talk about their lives before the takeover and the most intimate thing they’d done was sharing selfies when they were bored. Nothing was too personal.

“Can we talk?”

Before she could reply to that, another message arrived.

“I feel like you’re my closest friend here.”

He was being so honest, she found it hard to keep herself from smiling. She was really nervous too, he felt so serious even though she couldn’t directly see him.

“Sure.”

A one worded answer. She hoped that he didn’t think she was crude so she quickly sent a second one.

“I’m happy to listen. ☺”

The smiley was very crucial.

And he talked. He told her how he felt, having to do the same meaningless routine of waking up, going to work, coming home and the cycle repeated itself. Heck, he no longer found any meaning to waking up anymore. In the beginning, he lived for Jungkook. But now Jungkook had become so much part of the routine he lived through stiffly each passing day. He hated the Red Bullet for making him feel that way and himself even more for even feeling this way towards his own cousin.

“All of a sudden I’ve got nothing I love anymore and it scares me, y/n.”

It came as a surprise to her as Jimin was their leader. He was the agony aunt to anyone who needed advice, he was everyone’s listening ear and he cheered for all of them endlessly. Then it dawned on her. Who was his comfort? Who could he turn to when he needed help?

“I feel so helpless.”

October, 2060

It took them four months to realise that they should meet up and they do, one night after work at a Green Movement run restaurant, hidden at an apartment just a few blocks away from their respective workplaces. They were nearer each other than they’d thought. Since food was rationed throughout the world, these restaurants only existed because of the Green Movement activists that worked in the Food Control department of Eastern Asia. Somehow, with another software, courtesy of Kim Namjoon, they could arrange the food stores, managed by a computerised program, to be delivered to the home of a Spanish retired chef who was allowed to remain in retirement. He was far too old to be a part of the Green Movement but he thourougly supported his son’s involvement in the rebel organisation. He didn’t like, though, the fact that Juan had been sent to Asia to type when he held a master’s degree in Spanish Literature.

Jimin had turned up at the entrance of  the media station in a borrowed car and a suit, promptly at 5.05pm. His job as a musical transcriber had more flexible hours and they could leave anytime they were done but it was precisely this freedom that had made him realise there was no longer any life in the cities outside of their work desks.

“I’d have brought flowers if I could but they don’t ration those. I hope you don’t mind this instead.” He grinned and held out a paper rose.

He looked just like his photographs, the same gentle yet alluring eyes and adorable cheeks and his smile. Y/n could’ve sworn she felt her heart skip a beat when he opened the car door for her with the happiest smile she’s seen in a while.

“I’ve always preferred Korean food but beggars can’t be choosers eh?” His smile had never left his face in the entire time they’ve been together so far. It was almost hard to believe that this smiley man was the same man who had nothing but sadness in his words that they’ve exchanged over a computer if not for the hint of despondency in the tone of his voice.

“It’s actually really nice, though. So much better than whatever I’ve been eating.” She digs into her prawns dipped in garlic aioli but her gaze never really leaving the man in front of her. He scoops paella into her empty plate.

“Can’t complain when I’ve been eating overcooked rice for the past year. Jungkook and I have never really figured out how to use the cooker.”

“How can you mess up making rice?” she laughs.

“Is that bad? Jungkook tried to fry an egg with the microwave once.”

February, 2061

It was a routine by then, to meet each other once a week. But Jimin hated routine so on some days, he’d show up just as she’d knocked off from work without any notice on his bicycle and some sandwiches and he’d take them to a scenic spot by the river where they stayed until the sun set and on other days, he’d turn up at her house suddenly with coffee, blankets and movie recommendations and sometimes, he’d take her to the mall (he calls them ration centers) where he’d use up a few of his ration tokens on dresses and shoes he liked on her.  

But her favourite was always the days he’d show up after a long day of work on his bike and they’d remain silent through the journey to his place. Words didn’t need to be exchanged. All Jimin needed wasn’t anymore sound. He’d had enough of that at work all day. What he wanted- no, needed was her cheek against his shoulders and her arms firmly around his waist as he took the longer route back to his apartment.

Jungkook welcomed her visits too. He hated the monotony of his life. As much as he loved music, having to face so many tunes in a day, everyday, almost made him lose the passion he had for making his own music.

“You’re here! I was getting bored. Maybe I should go find my own girlfriend too.” He joked. He was two years younger than his older cousin but he held a higher post in the Music Transcription center than Jimin did. His job was a music researcher and had the luxury of listening to as many kinds of music he wanted unlike Jimin who was often stuck with one song for the rest of the week. Especially if it was a symphony orchestra. He hated symphonies.

“You can, you just don’t want to. Doesn’t the Red Bullet groupie called Alice or something have a crush on you?” Jimin asks, not really looking for an answer as he rummaged through the kitchen cabinets for something to feed themselves.

“She’s a red. I’m a green.”

No one dares to fall in love nowadays and y/n counts herself lucky as Jimin tackles her into the couch with overnight tacos in his hand and Jungkook jumping of his side of the sofa with a yelp.

November, 2062

“There isn’t really any point in living, you know.” Jimin types into the group chat one day. By now, the number of members in the union had grown into a sizeable army of 600 youths. Within seconds, a hundred different people from all around the world respond, agreeing with him.

It shocks y/n when she opens her messages but that message was quickly buried by the onslaught of replies and she question’s if she actually saw it at all.

“Jimin, what was that?” she asks him privately over chat.

“Just saying how I feel. I mean, don’t you feel that way? I’ve been at this fucking job for three years now. Jungkook is a researcher. I’m a bloody transcriber. You too, don’t you ever get sick of it?”

She does, of course. She hates her job with every bone in her body but she doesn’t feel angry because she knows at least she has him.

“In this life, what do we have? We have a God? But he isn’t doing anything. At least when we die, we might get to see him. Or not. But it’s better than being a slave on this earth.”

She doesn’t dare reply.

“The best thing I have is you and I love you so much, and I feel like utter crap every time I realise I don’t have anything nice to give to you. I can’t provide you with a comfortable life away from the hell hole you’re stuck in, I can’t take you out on nice dates under a candle light, I can’t show you how much you really mean to me, I can’t even make you proud of me.”

She wants to shout at him that he’s being stupid and that everything he does, she knows it’s for her and she knows, she knows how much he loves her and she can feel it. She wants to yell that she doesn’t need fancy gifts and expensive dates because all she needs is really just him and his presence.

But she’s suddenly afraid because this Jimin wasn’t the Jimin she thought she knew. She’s scared of this stranger and the words he’s saying with her boyfriend’s online chat account.

She goes back to read their group chat and she finds that they’ve renamed their group ‘The Kamikaze’. It’s too late.

December, 2062

From that day on, it had been a downward spiral. Jimin stopped smiling, he stopped trying to get through the days, he stopped trying to make her happy, he stopped trying to make him happy. Every time she visited him, he’d only swear at himself for making her take the trouble.

“But you’re not even trying!” she once cried.

“What’s there to try for? There is nothing at the end of the road for us.”

She leaves his apartment, half outraged, half broken-hearted.

January, 2063

He shows up at her doorstep past midnight, in a complete wreck.

“I can’t take this anymore.” He stares at her with such lifelessness in his eyes. But she wondered if he was actually back when he falls into her embrace. Like the old times, he stays the night and they don’t leave each others’ arms until her alarm clock knocks the peace out of the house.

February, 2063

“I want to leave this place.” He tells her very matter of factly. “Will you leave with me?”

“Of course.” She says with a laugh, just to humour him. “Wherever you’ll go, I’ll come with you.” He smiles back with assurance and laces their fingers together and he waits for her to fall asleep first, on his bed. It was her turn to stay over at his, just like how they’ve done two springs ago. With his free hand, he brushes the stray strands of hair off her face and pulls the covers over the both of them before he too, falls asleep.

“You’re beautiful, my love.”

March, 2063

He meant it when he said he was going to leave.

“Love, I don’t want to carry on like this anymore. It’s torture.” He said those words with such pain in his voice that y/n begins to feel the suffocation he feels too. Her insides scream at her to stop, however.

Their group chat numbers had increased again but more than three hundred of the members were no longer active. They had went on with the plan hatched by their leader. To end their suffering, to hell with the Red Bullet and for the better of the world.

“Today, a hundred and fifty of our brave fighters have carried out their mission successfully,” Jimin writes, “It is time I did my duty. As your leader I will lead by example. After that, Jungkook will carry on our legacy.”

Y/n removes herself from the chat group.

Mid-April, 2063

“For the greater good of the world?” she whispers but the absurdity of her words make her howl with laughter. She doesn’t know what’s right or what’s wrong anymore. She never minded living out those long days with short nights because she knew he was always around to wipe her tears. He was willing to pluck the stars in the sky for her and that was all she needed to know. But here was a man who stood on a ladder with that very ambition but lost his footing and fell way down.

Now he was broken and no amount of healing would fix him.

“Yes, I’d say that’s it.” He smiles at her with the very smile she received the very first day they met. It’s chilling, it makes her heart leap and she falls in love with him all over again.

Late-April, 2063

His hands take hers, so delicately and he pulls her close, his eyes boring into her skull and his lips, ever so sweetly take hers with his and she finds herself heavy lidded and drunk on his touch, how softly he traces patterns onto her back, how firmly, yet not hard enough to hurt her, he holds her waist.

“I love you, so, so, much.” He breathes when he breaks away from her but then rests his forehead against hers, his eyes shut.

“It’s time for us to leave.” He takes her hand again and guides her to his bicycle where she sits at the place she’s all too familiar with, with her cheek against his shoulder and her arms around his waist and they take the long route back to her house.

“We’ll never need to part again.” He smiles, and it’s the brightest she’s ever seen, ever. There isn’t a sadness in his voice, his eyes are gleaming and worry-free and this is the first time she’s seen him so relaxed and happy.

When they reach her place, he picks her up into his arms and takes her to the bed. The whole place smells of peaches and almonds. He puts her down and joins her, holding her against him like how they’ve always done. He intertwines their fingers and rests his head against her.

And just like always, he makes it hard to breath.

His soft kisses made her dizzy.

And her heart leaps.

And then he takes her breath away.

And he’s gone with her.

Fin.

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Imagine signing for your Search engines like google Statistics bank account and searching at a lot of numbers and charts. What do they imply?

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MonsterInsights may be the plugin you may need.

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Convenient A digital Downloading converts your Word press homepage into a complete electronic stash with shopping cart application, individual bill, and promo code. Moreover it incorporates a built in reporting highlight for conveniently taking a look at your statistics and keeping track of your store’s down load activity.

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They are it simple to construct coupon codes, take reviews, get unique data in your affiliates and accept installment payments with primary integrations.

16. WPCOMPLETE

Try to ask any on the internet class creator the best struggle of coaching online… And you’ll buy this: low path completion and engagement.

WPComplete is often a light, effortless-to-use wordpress plugin, created to take care of this trouble for Word press owners.

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You may modify WPComplete to complement while using the design of your web site, and blend it while using subscription or school wordpress plugin you select (by way of example, Prohibit Posts Pro).

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Almost everyone raves around the new Wordpress blogs obstruct editor (Gutenberg) in the event it to begin with rolls out… however it is not me.

It seriously wants to be Medium sized but it’s not. It gives a lot more weight load to your blog (supplementary lines of regulations). Plus it replaces the vintage editor most of us have accustomed to and beloved.

If you’re like me, Classic Editor is for you.

It disables the Word press inhibit editor and restores the original editor as soon as you establish or edit a blog post. Time.

I had not a thing towards Wp hinder editor… When it’s equipped (has less bugs and does not compromise blog functionality), I’ll give it a try once again.

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WP Scheduled Articles carries a agenda schedule that allows you to:

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Employ them to add in and display screen any place choices you like out of your collection on your customers’ success stories.

20. Practical PODCAST Competitor

Raise your hand if you run a podcast… I see you.

Shrewd Podcast Participant makes it easy to design and blend your podcasts into the Wordpress platforms webpage.

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7.Insert Headers and Footers

8.ShortPixel Persona Optimizer

9.MonsterInsights

10.Rank Mathematics Seo optimisation

11.Sumo

12.Gravitational pressure Styles

13.WooCommerce

14.Uncomplicated Digital Downloading

15.Restrict Posts Seasoned professional

16.WP Extensive

17.Old classic Editor

18.WP Planned Topics

19.Personalized Article Variation UI

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3D virtual tours allows user to look at imagery and experience what it might be like to move through a property. They are created by photographing spaces using a panoramic camera lens and stitching together those images on special software in order to create a streaming video.

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Virtual walk-through tours would enable you to explore and navigate a real-world space seamlessly. You would be able to view space from diverse sides and corners through it. Such tours can be shared via both social media channels.

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The Dollhouse view technology gives you an unprecedented look at the structure and layout of a space. It helps you to acquire an improved sense and perspective of property by rotating it around its 3-axis. You can easily zoom in or zoom out such views, or even visualize the rooms relative to one another.

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Identifying rooms becomes hassle-free with colored floor plans having bird's eye view. All rooms are impeccably labeled to facilitate easy identification. You may opt to view each floor individually or have them as layers on top of each other.

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Enjoy the most immersive way to enjoy a 3D tour and add a new perspective to your brand with virtual reality technology. It enables people to soak in the ambiance of a place and get an incredibly accurate and realistic experience of the property, while sitting on their couch. For the best effect, virtual reality tours should be viewed on VR goggles like Gear VR, Google Daydream, Oculus, and Goggle Cardboard.

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Add context within your space through MatterTags™. This feature enables you to embed annotations and media in your video to highlight key features of your property. In addition to typical text and images, you can even put URLs there to drive the audience to a webpage, while providing a specific call to action based on your offerings.

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While 3D manages to offer a highly realistic experience, certain places, like the outdoors, are not feasible for a 3D scan. Hence, for such locations, one can incorporate traditional 360-degree views into a tour. This makes sure that each and every part of the property is optimally covered.

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Property listings need certain key elements, like a traditional schematic floor plan that is 99% dimensionally accurate. Such plans can be made available on request by making use of the data obtained from the Matterport scan of the property.

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