#admittedly we have good prices tho

[landofgay]

was trying to figure out how my old job could afford to buy everyone Lululemon shirts with their logo on it, then remembered the Lululemon asshole is an investor in that company. all the more reason for me to be happy I quit!!!!!!

[trickstercaptain]

As an absolute pirate nerd myself, sometimes I think I’m thinking too much into the books and movies 😅 but unfortunately potc is a franchise with so much potential while being very underrated. One of the hard things about it is connecting the books and movies (the reason I wish they were written after all the movies). The only way for fans to make sense of things, as you said, is connect the events we like with headcanons and ignore the rest.

for example, I myself found the idea of Jack serving on Captain Morgan’s ship (tho not the Wicked Wench) a good idea after reading tLoTBC and realizing how similar they are. (Again, of course, with ignoring many things about him in the same books)

I headcanon him joining Morgan after Teague let him go on his own journey in the YJS books (in his 17) and joined Teague’s crew after Morgan’s death.

and I find it interesting to think the Misty Lady sunk in the battle with Salazar and only Teague himself and some of his crew survived by the help of Morgan’s crew. Like, imagine the angst when Jack sees the Lady sinking infront of his eyes and worrying if Teague is dead. If we assume he was hurt badly (despite looking quite fine in the movie) it would explain why he wouldn’t take control. And Morgan hated Grandmama and her family (except Jack, in my headcanon, because he wasn’t anything like them) so I don’t think he or his crew would listen to Teague or respect him enough as anything more than him being the Keeper of the Code to listen to him, especially in such a battle and with their Captain in the verge of death.

(I am soooo sorry for bothering you. It’s just really hard to have discussions about this fandom with anyone who’s not only a big fan but knows all the lore like you!)

noooo anon you are not bothering me at all! I love all of these theories of yours and I totally agree. I feel like POTC has been so mistreated as a franchise by the house of mouse. if you look at the two “big” live action franchises that are under the Disney umbrella, Ma/rvel and St/ar W/ars, for all that you could argue now that they’re totally oversaturated and Disney needs to chill tf out about making more, unlike with POTC the directors/writers have been allowed to do different things and explore different genres and types of film and media with them. 

with POTC, we have the original trilogy which, particularly with DMC and AWE, involved some really original and genius worldbuilding that a franchise based off of a theme park ride had no real right to have. but instead of running with that after AWE came out ( there were so many spin off opportunities! although this was before the MCU really took off and coined what we now know of as a cinematic universe ), we instead ended up with two follow up movies that ultimately still follow that classic POTC plot: the characters team up ( or not ) to find a magical macguffin. a lot of the books are also guilty of this, even The Price of Freedom which is arguably the best spin-off thing we’ve ever received in this fandom. deviation from the formula is not this franchise’s strong point lmao, but it could have been --- anyone remember Wedlocked? they made a short film during the production of AWE all about Giselle and Scarlett that links to both the films and the ride ( although it’s admittedly outdated now that they’ve modernised the ride ). even the recent Sea of Thieves tie-in with POTC has some great storytelling in it and it’s clear the game developers had so much love and respect for the franchise when making it.

part of the issue is of course Jack gaining main character syndrome. the trilogy also has a great ensemble cast that complemented his character and is often forgotten about when people make sweeping statements about these movies, but in making the franchise all about Jack when they did, the franchise now lives or dies by his involvement ( meaning that as it stands, the franchise is currently dead in a ditch somewhere ). but it didn’t have to be that way, if only Disney had taken a few more risks with the franchise following AWE, similar to the ones they made during the production of CotBP that turned it into a multi-million dollar franchise in the first place

[musicallisto]

the most you could potentially pay for giving birth is the car parking fee tbh,,, as for actual treatments, your health insurance covers up to 80% of hospital costs and sometimes 100% of pharmacy costs for prescribed medications. Say you break an arm in France; the total cost of the ER + surgery + anesthesia + overnight stay + cast & sling + medication is around like 1500€, which is approx. $1600

hold up,,,,, this has to be a full on ask because !!!!!!!! i'm cRYING?????

we all know the E.R. is expensive as hell, but you're telling me an E.R. overnight stay, and a super deluxe pack of surgery with your essentials is only $1,600? did you forget a zero, clara? pLEASE tell me you forgot a zero,,,, 😭😭😭😭😭 i've never broken an arm, but i just phoned a friend who did, and the surgery alone cost ~$15,000. admittedly, they didn't have insurance at the time, so that jacks up the price, but i still weep for them. 😭😭😭😭😭 a typical overnight E.R. stay in my state (minus any kind of tests) is ~$1,400 (with insurance) alone. can you imagine with a surgery? and medication is hell, i tell you. my little sister has asthma and for one (1) of her required inhalers, it's around $250 a month after insurance. 😭😭😭😭

if you want, i could pull up my medical records and tell you what it was for my heart surgery after insurance (which was a valve repair, wayyy cheaper than a replacement), but i'm pretty sure you'd cry.

interestingly enough, though, dental is pretty much the same! my sister got her wisdom teeth out (only 3 tho) and it was about the same price. i'm not sure how good or bad our dental is, though. i want to say it's good, but idk.

sadly, though, i don't have optical insurance, so that's a lot™.

in conclusion: i'm crying.

✧˖°࿐ I am 100% serious and I did not forget a zero! I used to go to the hospital all. the. time when I was a kid because I had severe allergies, and the last time I went (I was around 6) and they ran a battery on tests on me, my parents did not pay a dime. Or like, a ridiculously low price that insurance didn't cover. How it works is the public healthcare system (called Sécu) pays for 80% of the price for everyone regardless of insurance, and then if you have an insurance they cover the remaining expenses. According to a 2012 study, the average cost of a surgery in France was $5300 for heavy surgeries, and $1500 for light ones (which rounds up to $1060 and a whopping $300) after the Sécu has worked its magic). I found another, more recent article that claims a day at the hospital costs approximately $1500, and a day in intensive care is $3500. But what you really pay if you don't have insurance is more around $300 and $700 for intensive care. In some cases the Sécu covers all of your hospital charges and you effectively pay a grand amount of $0 without insurance (but that's rare cases, like a prolonged hospital stay or reconstructive surgeries).

I'm baffled that a hospital stay could be so expensive in the US, like,,,, how do you guys live?? I understand now why Americans are so prone to smiling through the pain and going to the doctor only when they're on the brink of death because holy shit- another instance of you being so much tougher than us lol

I'm curious about your medical records, even if I don't want to breach your privacy of course! But I feel like we will both just weep. Also, I do not want to shatter you but I checked the price of an inhaler in France and it's... $4. (According to Google, because my asthmatic friend is telling me it's more) Tell that to your sister and see how she reacts because I'm honestly crying for her 😭 When I was highly allergic I had an Epipen on me at all times (a pleasure many know too, I'm sure!), and one of them cost my parents something like $28.

(Ok, I'm not saying I don't believe you but I HAD to do some research because there is no way that an inhaler is so expensive. Like you need it to BREATHE?? but alas...)

(there is no way that's real. There is NO WAY that's real.)

Funny to see that dentistry is the same though! I had the nightmare helmet machine that Katy Perry has in the TGIF video (or the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory thing) + braces so I know what it's like and it's a PAIN. And glasses are SO expensive too??? Like I just want to see,,, be a normal, functioning human being,,,, not run into every fucking lamppost on the street,,,,, I'm very short-sighted so my lenses are thick af and last time I changed them my glasses were like $800?????? bitch?????

no but also - you guys have different insurances for different things?? like you have one insurance for the dentist, one insurance for the ophtalmologist...??? i'm,,, i'm feeling anxious.

one last thing we need to discuss in the price of PHONE PLANS in the usa... i mean this is not a phone plans in the usa are overpriced thing, it's more so that phone plans are cheap as hell in France (because there's a lot of competition? idk shit about economics). i have nightmares on the daily when I think about your phone plans,,,

[locktobre]

Okay, I did some thinking, and here are my thoughts on Kristoff. Just the first movie, since I have the most to say about it.

On the one hand, I feel bad for him. In the very first scene of Frozen, we see him as a small child among men doing their dangerous jobs, and nobody pays attention to him, not once, the entire day. Nobody appears to care about him. Nobody even seems to notice when he goes missing that night, since he gets kidnapped by the trolls after following Elsa’s ice. He gets kidnapped by the trolls and I can see how that would mess him up, even if they’re not supposed to be malicious. They’re not human, after all, and so many of them climb on him and jump on him--how early did that start? How often was he walking around with bruises or broken bones bc they manhandled the crap out of a fragile human child? Good thing he grew up big and strong, or he’d probably be killed, just on accident!

But on the other hand... we see in the present that he still has a human job! He still visits town regularly to sell ice! So... he wasn’t isolated from humans as a child? He should still know how to behave politely in society! How on earth does he manage to sell anything if he’s rude to ppl all the time? Bc that’s how he is with Anna for half the movie--he’s just plain rude. Why does anyone buy from him, if they could go to someone else and not have to deal with his attitude?

I could accept him being rude and not really knowing how he’s supposed to behave around ppl if he was like, a feral changeling raised in the mountains. But he isn’t. They literally show us and tell us at multiple points that he isn’t. He should know better.

Anyway then we see him at Oaken’s, where we get a spectacular writing fail, bc here’s the thing--Kristoff and Oaken should know each other. They should! Kristoff lives up in the mountain (right?), and Oaken’s appears to be the only store all the way up there--and yet! They don’t have ANY prior relationship! And Kristoff is, AGAIN, rude! Even when he’s ostensibly trying to haggle, he’s just rude! (And yes, Oaken is a dirtbag for price gouging during a crisis. My point still stands, bc even as someone who is supposed to be a businessman, Kristoff doesn’t know how to haggle!) That’s not even going into the way he physically intimidates Anna on their first meeting. His behavior toward her in their supposed “meet cute” moment (and I have seen ppl call that scene cute) is just appalling. It’s exactly the same body language as the scene in Beauty and the Beast where Gaston (the villain) is all up in Belle’s face when he’s trying to force her to marry him. I HATE it.

(Oaken tosses Kristoff out on his ass for being so rude right to his face, and I don’t blame him, as shady as he is. And Kristoff says he found them a place to sleep... Uh, what? You don’t think Oaken will kick your ass if he finds you out there? He doesn’t seem too fond of you, buddy. Not a smart move.)

Then we get “Reindeers Are Better Than People” which includes the lines “people will beat you and curse you and cheat you, every one of them’s bad except you” which is admittedly sad. That sucks that he thinks that. But is that based on stuff that happened to him in the past? Is it something the trolls told him, trying to keep him with them and to stop him going back to the human world? We don’t know. Keep this point in mind.

Then he meets Anna, he reluctantly agrees to help her, we get the sled scene, and Kristoff gets used as a mouthpiece for the jaded nature of the movie to rail against Anna’s engagement to Hans, which is hilarious considering how the movie ends. Yes, we’re supposed to believe that Kristoff is Anna’s true love by the end, even tho half of the time he spends with her he’s belittling her, bc they spent two or three days together. The time that Hans and Anna spent together, having fun and talking about their families and childhoods and actually getting to know each other, that doesn’t matter! She couldn’t be in love with him! She couldn’t get engaged to him! It can’t possibly be true love! You have to know him for days, not hours!

(And I know, Kristoff and Anna don’t get engaged for three years after the movie, nor should they have gotten engaged sooner. That’s not what this is about, this is about the ugly, cynical part of this fairytale movie that has no reason to be in there, and Kristoff is the mouthpiece for it so it’s a part of his character. Even tho it makes no sense at all considering his later behavior.)

Anyway, they have the talk in the sled, he puts his hand over her mouth to shut her up, the sled goes off a cliff and blows up, and we get my least favorite of his lines. He says he’s okay if she dies, but he won’t get his new sled if she does, so he keeps going. This is supposed to be our love interest. He doesn’t even KNOW Anna, they’ve traveled together for what, a couple hours? And he’s ready to let her die? For what? Does he just completely lack empathy? And yes, I know it’s supposed to be a Funny Joke. It’s not funny.

Then we get him asking what Anna’s going to do to end the winter, and she says she’s going to talk to her sister. And he scoffs at this. Do you have a better idea, jackass? Are you too busy thinking that Anna is just so naive and silly to consider that having her talk to her sister is probably the only way to end things short of burning Elsa at the stake like a witch? What else are you gonna do?

And then we get the climbing scene. “I’ve only got one rope and you don’t know how to climb.” How do you know that she doesn’t know how to climb? Why do you make that assumption? Bc she’s a princess? She’s been keeping up with you just fine. But no, he just stands there while she’s trying, instead of attempting to help her. “You’re gonna kill yourself,” he says. He doesn’t believe in her at all, for no reason. I don’t understand this. Is that just supposed to be a part of his “people suck” attitude? He just underestimates her bc he has no reason not to? (Even tho, again, he does have a reason not to. They’ve been traveling together for hours! She’s keeping up with him just fine!)

THEN we get the ice palace scene. Anna gets struck in the heart, and Kristoff... runs in, concerned? Why? You said a few minutes ago that you didn’t mind if she died. You said a few minutes ago she was gonna kill herself climbing, and you just stood there and watched. Why does he suddenly care in this scene? I don’t understand it. What could have possibly changed? Don’t try to tell me it was the “crazy trust exercise” bc that’s stupid. That’s just stupid. If anything, given his behavior up to that point, that should have worsened his opinion of her. He already seems to think she’s naive and reckless and silly, why would THAT change his mind? It shouldn’t!

Anyway, that all happens, they go cliff diving, and we get my second least favorite dialogue from him as he leads her from the trolls. “I’ve seen them do it before.” So he remembers that he saw her get brainwashed 13 years ago. He may not have realized what was happening, but he knows enough to know that she was “cured.” But he remembers. He knows. And there is no indication he tells Anna about this. I would LOVE him if he did, even with all of the above still intact, bc that’s one of my bigger problems with the movie--nobody EVER tells Anna what happened that night. Nobody does. (Not even Elsa in the ice palace scene, even tho she has that stupid little flashback to something the audience already knows so it serves no purpose.) WHY doesn’t he tell her? He KNOWS that she doesn’t remember--she says it earlier, in the sled scene! Why doesn’t he say anything? Doesn’t he care? He seems to suddenly care about her, so he doesn’t take this opportunity to tell her that this has happened to her before?  And I know I’m not the only one who thinks it is, bc this detail was included in one of the Frozen books. I know the books aren’t canon but the writer clearly agreed that the implication is that he remembers it all and said nothing. It’s just so maddening.

Then we get to the trolls, and the worst scene in the entire movie. This is where I say that his earlier behavior about the engagement doesn’t make sense--bc he brings it up! “She is engaged to someone else.” Suddenly he thinks it’s valid? Yesterday you were mocking her for it. Why the sudden change of heart? Why not say something like “I don’t even know her” since apparently you think getting engaged/married to someone you just met is so stupid. This is a writing problem more than anything else, but it still mystifies me.

(I won’t go on a whole rant about how much I hate the troll scene bc it has little to do with Kristoff himself and everything to do with those little rock bastards ignoring the fact that Anna is literally dying while they try to force her to be a bride for their changeling against her will. And Kristoff was raised by these ppl. He thinks they are love experts. That’s terrifying. But that’s a whole post on its own.)

I’ve already talked about how the ending of the movie doesn’t make sense, bc they want to talk about True Love and when it’s valid and when it’s not and apparently time is a factor... but again, days are somehow better than hours. Days that weren’t spent really bonding or talking about anything, just mostly him being rude to her for no reason, until suddenly, he isn’t.

Here’s the thing. Personally, I actually like couples that bicker, and I think it can be fun. It can be very enjoyable to watch two characters who aren’t alike start to come together. Disney has done this. They did this with Princess and the Frog, they did it with Tangled. They did it WELL. And then suddenly, after those movies, we got this one. And I think I could probably salvage it with one added scene.

What Frozen is missing between Kristoff and Anna is a moment where they actually bonded. There needed to be a scene that showed Kristoff’s change of heart. Tangled has this, in the campfire scene. PatF has this, in the bayou dance scene. Some moment where they talk or have a moment and realize that they like something about each other after all.

I think a follow-up to “Reindeers Are Better Than People” could have been that scene. (Remember I said to remember that?) Not a reprise of it, just Kristoff explaining where the hell his bad attitude came from. Maybe it came from being orphaned, and the fact that apparently, no one cared. Maybe it came from growing up with the trolls, and he picked up weird behaviors from them and got shunned in human society. Maybe he spent too much time with them, and by the time he talked to humans again, he was already weird in their eyes. Just something to show him opening up. Anna’s already a pretty open person, which is why I focus on him, but she could have done the same thing she did with Hans and talked about how miserable she was growing up.

Like maybe Kristoff laughs at her one too many times, or says her life was easy or something bc she’s a princess, and she gets fed up and says that it was NOT easy, and exactly why it wasn’t easy. And Kristoff can open up too. Just one scene. Instead of randomly flipping a switch on his behavior, actually showing the change, the bonding. They needed that. Bc what they wrote was a mess. That’s what sucks the most about Kristoff, he just has such inconsistent writing that feels like it was pulled from two different drafts of the movie--and considering the production on this thing, maybe it was. Bc there’s definitely a weird switch that flips in the middle, for no reason that I can tell.

Anyway, this last part was about kristanna, but that’s kind of part and parcel with Kristoff’s character since he’s supposed to be written as Anna’s love interest. If they hadn’t gotten into a relationship at the end, if they had ended the movie as just friends, I might not be so harsh on him. But since they did, I am just not satisfied. I’m not. His characterization post-cliff diving seems to have stuck, and F2 went some ways to making him more tolerable for me, but I just can’t forgive the first part of Frozen, and the fact that he’s never apologized (on screen) for how he acted when they first met, or even explained it. That’s unacceptable to me. You can say he was just gruff and he eventually came out of his shell, but I don’t know why. And that bothers me a LOT, considering how he was behaving. And he seems fine afterward, so like really, what was his DEAL? Am I supposed to blame it on him having a bad day? Riddle for the ages I guess.

tl;dr Kristoff was badly written/had inconsistent characterization and I hate that. Post-bizarre switch flip he’s okay at best but I can’t forget the way he was introduced.

[janiedean]

You could always write Jaime feeling satisfied that he bought a nice fan with his hard worn money that has nothing to do with the Lannister money. Sincerely, Cracktastic. I hope all is well with you, Lavi.

you know what I need to finish something, so: THANK YOU FOR THE INPUT DEAR ;) (also... I mean it’s moderately well tho it could be better, but still uu thanks for asking TT)

--

Thing is: Jaime is on a budget. He knows he’s on a budget. He’s known since he was cut off, and good riddance to it as hard as it’s been to adjust to not have all the money in the world conveniently at your disposal. But at the end of it... his one-room apartment with the kitchen corner and a separated bedroom and the bed on the mezzanine feels less of a trap than the Lannister manor used to be, he doesn’t miss his father nagging at him to take his job at the company more seriously nor Cersei treating his room like hers and never give him any privacy whatsoever before cutting things off between them with a three-lines note that she sent to his email a day before announcing her wedding to Robert Baratheon for financial reasons.

Honestly, Jaime had thought, what the fuck was he even still doing there? Tyrion had slammed the door years ago and he’d been thriving, so why the fuck shouldn’t he, when it was obvious that Cersei didn’t really give a fuck about him either way after all and he never wanted to work for the family company anyway and since in theory they worked together but Cersei was in charge she should at least have told him something about it, and she didn’t?

So, he left. Cersei hasn’t even contacted him since. Shows how much she really cared, he supposes, though he also supposes she will show up when she needs him for something, and at that point he thinks he will slam the door in her face when she does, but - that’s beside the point.

The point is: he’s on a budget but his small fridge broke down and he needs a new one, so he’s at the nearest electronics store to find a replacement, and he did, and he’s strangely surprised that he could find some that seemed perfectly fine that also didn’t cost an eye, and patience if they don’t have an ice dispenser. He’s within budget, and he’s on the way to the check-out where the salesperson said his purchase would be arranged... when he sees it.

Now, he technically doesn’t need a new fan. He has a perfectly serviceable one he bought for five bucks when Tyrion brought him to a used electronics sale when he was trying to get the essentials for the new apartment - admittedly, Tyrion had offered Jaime his couch for a while if he needed it, but... he really just wanted to be on his own and not relying on anyone else and so he said no -, and... well. It’s summer. It’s hot. He needed it. But the one he has is old, has three blades that make a hell of a lot of noise and recycles the same air every time, and the three speeds it has somehow never seem to be quite what he needs. Anyway: it works. He could survive until the weather calms down.

But the one he’s looking at on the way to the check-out... is really, really nice, he thinks. Actually, it’s... very pretty. It doesn’t have any blades, nor any buttons - has to work on some kind of touch system -, and it’s shaped like an egg, with an oval space in the middle and what looks like the commands on the bottom.

“Are you interested?” One of the salesgirls asks.

“Uhm,” he asks, “can I try how it feels with... the air?”

“Of course,” she smiles. “The exposition model is over there. Follow me.”

He follows her.

Oh, he thinks after she turns it on, it really is nice. The air doesn’t feel recycled, in comparison to his old one it’s practically silent, it turns on itself in a circle so it can provide fresh air to the entire room, it has three speeds as well but somehow it doesn’t mean it gets noisier as his old one. He also likes the blinding white color of it. He’s not surprised it’s a Targaryen fan, that company all has fancy-looking pieces of electronics after all. But - well. It really is pretty.

He’s also on a goddamned budget. Still -

“Hm,” he asks, “and how much would it be?”

The girl smiles wider and rattles out the price.

Oh. It’s not that much. They have sales right now so it does make sense, and - okay, fine, he’s on a budget, but he has saved up these last few months, and while his monthly paycheck at the local gym famous for training kids at an extremely affordable price isn’t the kind that lets you splurge (good thing they hired him the moment they said his extensive CV when it came to fencing and swimming competitions in university that he had to give up because of working in the fucking company), he’s made some money on the side fencing during medieval fairs and the likes, and even if he’s still budgeting... it wouldn’t put such a dent in his growing savings.

Also, he has earned the damned money himself. The thing costs seventy bucks when Targaryen electronics usually are never less than a hundred a piece, whatever it is. And it really would look nice on the floor instead of taking up unnecessary space on his only desk.

Ah, fuck it.

“You know what,” he says, “I’m taking it. Add it to the fridge I already bought, if you please?”

“But of course,” the girl smiles. “Should we deliver both at your house? Free of charge during sales.”

“Certainly,” Jaime smiles back. He doesn’t cringe when he takes out of his wallet his new, not gold-anything credit card.

--

Three hours later, he’s cooking dinner with the new fan freshening the room from the floor. It’s blessedly silent, turning on itself slowly at mid-speed. He’s not hearing the blades whooshing loudly anymore, and considering that he did paint the entire place white himself from the ground up when he got it with the last of his mother’s trust fund money left for him, it really does match the apartment.

He smiles to himself.

Who’d have said that using his damned money to buy egg-shaped fans would have felt so satisfying? Not him a year ago... but he thinks he likes how it is.

Well, he does have a good feeling about this whole handling shit on his own business for now. And if he can have it while not dying of heat, even better.

[howtotalktoagirlonfacebook]

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Number three, be the casual alpha. Possibly you're not just asking on your own, exactly how can I look extra attractive rather? Maybe you're asking yourself, how can I look extra Jak poderwac dziewczyne przez messengera eye-catching than every person else, men, this is just one of the age old methods to obtain women to chase you. And also it will definitely assist you maximize your appearance as well as one of the most effective method that admittedly takes.

Some method to master is the casual. Alpha, the nonchalant alpha man does all points alpha. He's a ruthless Dewar kind of a go getter. He's confident. As well as most importantly, he couldn't offer to ShipWorks about what other people think of it and fellows that's the key. Yes, you have to function faithfully to be your most appealing self, but trying also hard is shateringly apparent as well as comes off as being hopeless as well as clingy.

Being chronically uncaring is so efficient at making women nuts concerning you for a difficult mess of reasons. But the major factor is that everyone wants what they can't have, and everyone is mystically fascinated by that, which they can't manage and fellas, that's why being a bad-ass loose could not care.

Less alpha male is so damn irresistible. Oh, you know, what else is irresistible key, manly expertise, proven to obtain women to stress over you, yet the most detailed old Sanskrit degree wisdom regarding the artist's deductions completely worthless. If you do not recognize the main factors women believe you desire attractive, yet Hey, do not flip out due to the fact that I'm going to share a few of that valuable details with you at the end of the video clip.

So hang tough up until the end to figure out exactly what the majority of guys are doing to transform 99.9% of women away. Second, obtain her done. Of all the extremely practical pointers for males to look eye-catching. This one is probably one of the most possible. When we think of attractive guys, we believe tall, good-looking, physically fit, symmetrical face functions as well as stuff like that.

As well as while it's all real, the art of tourist attraction goes well past those standards. One of things that alpha individuals do that females can not stand up to is that they seem to be really effective day. Get shit done day in day out. And here's why women find this so appealing having the ability to handle a job or an obstacle and persist shows that you understand how to take advantage of your possessions, to achieve an objective, an irrefutable sign of leadership, to squash your ability to remain focused, to obtain her done as a sheriff fireplace.

Trigger you prospective to be not only a successful individual, however a successful partner as well. And that fella's is how you make a woman promptly. Like you. Leading, prioritize your interest. The very best of all the ideas to look a lot more attractive has nothing to do with any individual but on your own. As well as due to that, you remain in complete control of this one.

All cooled Camille wants roadway without passion, male is a plain unrealized force and also possibility without your interest, you're simply an intricate biological meat puppet, but with your passion for something nature and the outdoors, a sport, a price, whatever it is. You immediately end up being bigger than on your own.

And that is something you're squashed will not be able to disregard something. 99.9% of ladies find resistible. It's what makes you one-of-a-kind and establishes you in addition to the remainder? So if you're unsure what your passion is, or if you've simply been disregarding it recently, see to it you get it back on the front burner and also make it a priority today.

Do not bury on your own. Academic studies of destination are numerous and the extent is extremely wide, yet there is one item of common ground that scientists continually find concerning the legislation of attraction. And that is that also in the 21st century of online dating and also social media folks often tend to come to be brought in to those they're around and interact with routinely.

Like classmates colleagues or colleagues one huge and all too typical blunder alpha men often make is to cut themselves off from opportunity while they're out there in the world, kicking ass and also taking names much lesser guys are scooping up the single women simply because they're present in quest of their passion and obtain shit done.

This, they neglect to require time off to put themselves out there, which leads us to our last verdict. The fastest way to drive females away is to be chronically preoccupied with your daily grind and ultimately inaccessible. So bear in mind. Quit working so hard periodically, it is very important to pause and put on your own out there to develop an opportunity for your crush to notice you.

Or if you don't have a crush after that to go find one in the first place, gents, today, we're revealing you 12, purely instinctive, absolutely subconscious indications that a woman likes you by this point. You recognize, it's not always easy to understand if a lady is actually interested. Is she playing games or is it genuine?

What could be chemistry field flirtation for one lady? May only be standard run of the mill kindness for an additional. Which's why today we're showing you 12 subconscious indications of tourist attraction and also the one shateringly obvious indicator that a girl is most definitely not brought in to you. Number 12, she breaks from her besties.

Hey, have you ever before saw exactly how girls constantly start the night out by only dancing with each other? The reason for that is due to the fact that they feel most comfy with their closest friends. Which in many cases is other girls, yet it's a legislation of nature. A girl in her team are hard to divide. Not just are they usually friends, yet they likewise act as kind of bodyguards for each other by keeping away any type of undesirable attention.

So what are we getting at women stick together at the very least semi unconsciously out of a feeling of safety and security. And also what that suggests is that if a lady you're talking with separate herself from her squad to socialize with you alone, you far better think she's interested due to the fact that not just is she leaving the enjoyable crew that she was available in with, she's also revealing her buddies that she recognizes she remains in excellent hands with you.

And also they don't have to worry. Number 11, the following in the huge, large bulk of instances, body movement, isn't only non-verbal, it's additionally mainly non-conscious. As well as most of the moment it informs you every little thing you need to know. So, what should you try to find first? One of the greatest, many fundamental body language giveaways, when it involves tourist attraction is to merely lean or fall in towards the other individual.

Think about it. The women fall in to obtain closer to men. They do not such as possibly not. To make sure that indicates if she's literally leaning in your direction, even if it's from a considerable range. She's probably feeling your ambiance. Number 10, answer seeking. Right here's something to remember the following time you speak with a woman prior to you obtain a possibility to state anything, that girl has actually instantly unconsciously developed a story about you in her mind.

However the only thing exists are unavoidably some components on the story that are missing out on. Now, if she doesn't appreciate the missing out on parts, she'll carry on and will not seem fascinating. Yet if she's interested. The only point entrusted to do is to obtain some of those inquiries responded to. So if you're speaking with a girl as well as she keeps looking for out more regarding you, that's virtually most definitely due to the fact that she's allow her interest lug her away towards view number 9, face exploration, as you recognize, well, over fifty percent of communication is entirely non-verbal as well as ground zero for that quiet and also subconscious communication is what takes place through facial expression.

Just like a woman will certainly constantly find a way to obtain her inquiries answered regarding you. She'll also be exploring your face to discover as high as she can. And the reason is easy. While your words claim one thing, your facial expressions speak on a different degree. And in a lot of cases, a more honest one. So if she appears focused on your eyes and mouth and also your nose as well as cheeks, it's not since she's attempting to make you stress over nose hairs or that area is cutting today.

It's simply her naturally attempting to discover your quirks. You understand, the little things she actually likes about you as well as how you truly feel. Number 8, she's a soft group. Here's a real age, old examination of subconscious destination. Next time you're with a lady, claim something, you know, is in fact sort of stupid, not clearly stupid, but just a little, you recognize, low initiative.

If she giggles immediately, you recognize, she enjoys you, you may've noticed this with other individuals, a woman laughing as well as smiling at a person that actually hasn't stated anything. All that amusing. Well, right here's the thing regarding making a lady laugh. A lot of the moment, what you claim does not even require to be unbelievably amusing or perhaps that original, since 9 times out of 10, below's, what's truly occurring behind the scenes.

When a girl laughs at something you claim it's usually driven by the truth that she's enduring purposely strengthening the tourist attraction. That's currently there. Basically. She currently suches as, you intends to make fun of right stuff you claim to see to it she remains to like you. No, as with everything in life, there are exemptions to the policy, yet if she's simple to get a laugh out of, that's commonly good information.

Number 7, stoke matching. Almost the only point far better than speaking with a woman you like is to talk to a lady that's equally excited to speak to you in the dating video game. That's, what's known as chemistry and all chemistry begins and also upright an entirely subconscious level. So exactly how can you tell if a girl is thrilled to chat?

Well, there are a couple of means. If you message, she texts back rather swiftly. If you see each other in public, she does not wait to find up as well as say hi, and if you approach her, she makes a few adjustments to her position, her hair, or her clothing. Exhilaration takes lots of types, gents. However if you pick up that she's eager to speak or amazed by your attention, that's what you want to see.

Number 6 sensory override touch is among those things that's driven by a pretty primal part of the brain before we ever before also talk. We learn how to communicate with get in touch with first and not just do people require to be touched, they likewise need to touch so much. So actually, That when our restraints are overwritten by something like claim solid destination, we'll touch without also thinking of it.

Now as a whole, our culture has a tendency to be rather touchy about touch and for good reason, due to the fact that also for ladies relatively innocent touching can be high-risk. Generally, girls are on high alert and also totally mindful about how they literally involve with others. All to say that if a woman is touching you, it's because her natural need to get closer is outweighing a rather engaging need to be careful.

Hey people, if you like my knowledge, keep watching because we have actually obtained 5 more signals that a lady unconsciously likes you. As well as at the end of this video clip, we're going to show you one extremely misinterpreted signal. That individuals generally miss out on. All right, allow's start. Number 5. Conceal off for the same reasons why women might hold back on touching a person.

They such as, she may also maintain her faces from handing out her tourist attraction. Generally women camouflage their interest by sort of squashing out their expressions, straight lips, neutral eyebrow line, marginal movement all around, you understand it, when you see it. And also it becomes part of the reason why. Some women get the online reputation of being a little cold.

In some cases it's simply how it is. So what does that mean for you? It implies that if a lady is smiling, raising her eyebrows, making eye get in touch with, and essentially lifting up her facial expressions with the timeless signs of overlooked passions. It's due to the fact that she's determined that you're a hero. She can rely on sufficient to let her safeguard down.

Number 4, the auto look. All right currently. This one's a classic while repeated as well as extended eye contact is clearly an excellent thing. There's one other, widely known absolutely subconscious free gift that a woman sent to you modify is the laugh and appearance or what we such as to call the vehicle appearance. Right here's exactly how it works.

The next time you're in a group of the woman. See if you can find where she looks, when something amusing takes place, if it's you who she's checking out, that's her naturally choosing you to share that enjoyable moment with this is a body movement sensation. That's quite well-documented by psychologists. People in a group,

[bewareofthorns]

hi! i’m a and this is RENEGADE or REN. they’re an independent rogue with a murky past and even murkier morals. they’re always ready for a fight (probably to their detriment) and their life goal is to be a hermit (probably not going to happen.) this is a messy post with literally everything i have for them, so--- here we go. like this post and i’ll slide into your dms to plot. 

°✧｡ [INDYA MOORE, NONBINARY, THEY/THEM] IT’S BEEN TWO YEARS SINCE RENEGADE JOINED VELIA FROM NEW YORK, UNITED STATES. APPARENTLY THEIR NAME IS REN SPRIGHTLY AND THEY’RE A ROGUE. THEY HAVE BEEN FIGHTING AS A SOLO MEMBER FOR A WHILE NOW. DIDN’T PEOPLE SAY THEY WERE A BETA TESTER? I HEARD THEY TURNED TWENTY-FIVE THIS YEAR. LET’S HOPE THEY MAKE IT OUT ALIVE.

your name was not ren before.  ( that doesn’t really matter though. ) who you were before– that dirt-stained, unlucky sunuvabitch from the bronx whose hair was always close-cropped and whose fingernails were always cut short. that’s all behind you now.  you do not remember who you were before velia.  and, if you do, you do not care to.  - the thing is. they offer you the chance to beta test the game and, at first, you don’t know what to expect. but when you make the connection, when you first get online and you see this brave new world shimmer around you and look down to a body that is yours but not yours, you know. you just know. 

if this is a dream, you do not want to wake up. you’re never going to leave velia. not even if you had the choice. 

-

T(verbose)DR;

they used to be a member of the knights of the blood oath. was it a good fit? absolutely not. they joined because they wanted to do some good. in fact, if they’re being honest--- once, they genuinely did believe in the cause. in defeating all the levels. but then--- things happened. they lost faith. and that part of their life, just like the part before velia--- well, they don’t talk about that anymore. 

 they quit the guild after ~a year and have been solo ever since. 

wait tho... did they quit tho or were they ... ex-communicated? sdlfksjdf look. im not gonna say.

used to join parties and fight a lot. still does, on rare occasion. quests a lot. alone. 

let’s stress that one more time. alone. they are a lone wolf. they are independent. they do not need friends. 

and yet--- still somehow always manages to be around everyone else. can be found wherever the fight is. (likely lurking in shadows, but still around.) 

pretty skilled within velia. as a beta tester, they’ve done fairly well for themself here without making too many enemies. they share their knowledge, though, admittedly, not all of it. they’re an information broker -- and while everything does have a price, they’re not going to slight anyone, not without reason.

unfortunately for them, their penchant for being (begrudgingly) helpful to the guilds and their talent in the game makes them a-- person that guild recruiters approach. 

they’ve made it quite clear though-- they do not care for the outside world. they’re not completely delusional about what’s real or not. in fact, they’d go as far to say as they know what’s real. they choose to believe in this instead. 

look, they love velia. they love the game. they want to beat the game. they want to clear the levels. but leave the game? that’s the only thing they’re not sure they’re ever prepared to do. 

PERSONALITY: arrogant, determined, unpredictable, brash, independent, honest, self-motivated, quick-witted, versatile, resourceful, thrill-seeking, compassionate even--- to an extent.

WEAPONS 

(primary) a pair of sai (secondary) throwing daggers. on occasion, a blowdart gun

SKILLS

(+) stealth, battle healing, luck, listening, appraisal, enchanting (in-training) night vision, searching, cooking---this last one isn’t going so great.

MORE

job : information broker. (??? not quite sure what this entails yet so please don’t @ me abt what they know ) i could see them being a former mentor/trainer to people. 

gender : trans nonbinary femme aka please use they/them pronouns. they will occasionally refer to themself as a woman or a girl, but they prefer others to refer to them by gender-neutral pronouns. 

sexuality : asexual. though open to romance in a broader sense.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

former guildmates (open to current and former knights) -- i have... ideas but basically ren left... the knights. there could be drama or they could just be on rough terms or they are still in contact. ren had a pretty big personality change when they went from knight to solo (they were more ostentatious and open there) so there’s that/ 

guild recruiter (open to circus, catalyst, possibly unity or revenant) -- u try and recruit them to ur guild. they are very annoyed and yet--- (look, they could be convinced... given the right scenario)

buddy cop (open to any) -- aka together they make quite the odd couple, but they keep finding themselves together

longterm/former associates (open to any, but especially fellow beta testers)

enemies (open to any) -- look. i love drama.

reluctant friends (open to any) -- ren doesn’t need anyone !!! and yet-- look, they do. they want friends. they’re just not willing to admit it. 

[proteusspade]

On the debacle with Fallout 76

 I feel like the debacle with Fallout 76 has become a testing grounds for a lot of the dominating theories and myths about video games and video game consumers in general, as well as more specifically about Bethesda studios and Bethesda gamers. I apologize for the LONG post ahead, but there’s a lot to unpack here and I want to make sure everyone’s on the same page before I try and make any big points. For those not in the know, I will attempt to summarize: - Bethesda released Fallout 76, a multiplayer installment in the Fallout franchise, with a set release date of November 14, 2018.  - The game was announced with the marketing that it would be playable and enjoyable as singleplayer, that every person you ran into would be a real person, that it was a new Fallout experience, that its graphics would improve upon Fallout 4′s graphics by 16 times, and notably, one collector’s edition which cost $200 was marketed as coming with a wearable helmet and a canvas bag.

The beta was shaky and riddled with bugs, and upon release, the game itself was still pretty much broken -- far moreso than other Bethesda titles, and this coming from a company where the running joke since Oblivion has been that the bugs are so prevalent that they are a feature, not a flaw. An enormous patch was released shortly after launch, which was larger in size than the game itself, and which not only didn’t fix almost any of the bugs, but created hundreds *more* bugs, as if they didn’t playtest the patch at all.  For players like me who can go a surprisingly long time in a Bethesda game without seeing any bugs at all, I will note that these bugs include: - T-posing enemies which either spontaneously assume their correct animations only when you get close, or never do, or which teleport suddenly into you to try and display their attack animations - Horrendous enemy A.I. where a lot of them will just stand in one place looping an animation - Enemies spawning out of thin air directly in front of you due to slow loading - A bug where enemies spontaneously heal the exact amount of damage you deal to them, making them invincible - Falling through the ground out of nowhere - Clipping through and getting caught in the world - Frequent server crashes, often due to in-game happenings (the game eventually gives you access to nuclear bombs, but the same bombs can crash the server if you drop them) - Frequent disconnects - Frequent game crashes (with no ‘save game’ function) - Body horror bugs like the Wendigo Bug which have been present since Fallout 4 and haven’t been fixed by Bethesda yet, even though modders were able to fix them weeks after Fallout 4 came out. Three years ago.  Moreover, the game directly ported over most of its visual assets from Fallout 4. Most of the landscape elements come from Fallout 4, almost all of the weapons come from Fallout 4, almost all of the outfits and armors come from Fallout 4, most of the monsters come from Fallout 4, the physics and gunplay is directly ported over (minus the ability to pause the game to open your inventory, of course, and minus the time-slowing aspect of V.A.T.S, which makes V.A.T.S almost completely useless), the character creation is ported over, the loot is ported over, the base-building system and all of its assets (walls, floors, anything you’d use to build a base) are ported over. Basically, other than trees and certain monsters unique to West Virginia, you’ll have a hard time spotting content which isn’t directly ported over from Fallout 4, often without palette swaps. Is the promise of better graphics fulfilled?  Well, the lighting is significantly improved, and even very pretty and atmospheric -- though occasionally light will shine through solid far-away objects, like mountains. Modders had done this almost immediately with Fallout 4, too, though, so it’s not really a huge achievement. And the landscape is much more colourful than in any other Fallout game, which is admittedly a nice change of pace, even though it makes no goddamn sense why the trees would survive while everything else dies around them. But other than those two elements... yeah, it just looks like Fallout 4, but usually doesn’t render as well due to being on a multiplayer server and due to the graphical glitches. How about the promise that every person you run into is a real person? Well, that was true all right, but how anyone thought that was a good idea is beyond me. It’s one of those things that sounds really cool and innovative until you think about it for literally any length of time at all. Why would that be a good thing? Unless you have quite a lot of friends who you’ve somehow got onto the same server (which, by the way, I don’t think has much functionality in Fallout 76), you’re not going to be very interested in those people, and you have no reason to be. They’re just big lumps of immersion-breaking, as I seriously doubt many people are going onto the game to vocally roleplay their way through the game experience.  Moreover, this means no NPCs besides monsters and robots. No quests from anyone but robots and holotapes. Now, I like holotapes. I’m one of those unbearable players who listens to every holotape and reads every computer terminal. My favourite part of Fallout games is usually finding out the big stories behind Vaults or unusual locations. But when you are doing this quest for someone you will never meet, and have complete certainty of this fact, the reason to do quests in the first place starts to ebb away. You just get holotapes or robots telling you to go to a place, kill something there, rinse, repeat. That’s the entire game. Nothing is achieved; everyone who recorded those holotapes is dead, or a monster now. You’re not doing anyone any favours. There’s no one to help, there’s no one to hate, there’s just you (and whatever people you’re playing with, who, again, aren’t really part of the story as multiplayer gamers don’t typically roleplay). The main quest of the game revolves around trying to find the previous Overseer of the vault. There’s zero suspense, interest or urgency, because as a player, you know with complete certainty going in that if you find her, she’ll be dead or a monster. When you remove the NPCs, you remove all our reasons to care about quests. You also remove all interactions in the game besides “kill thing, loot thing, make stuff with loot”. And killing monsters with such laughable AI and glitches, AI designed for Fallout 4 where V.A.T.S could pause the game and dropped into a game where it doesn’t, isn’t nearly enjoyable enough to make that game loop anything but ghastly. How ANYONE thought this was a good idea is beyond me, and I’m pretty sure at this point that they didn’t do it because they thought it was a good idea, they did it because having NPCs function like they would in a singleplayer game, while in a multiplayer server, is an incredibly daunting task. When literally no one asked for the game to be multiplayer in the first place, but hey. Is the game fun to play alone? Not from literally anyone I know who has, no, and this is due to the above factors. Is the game, as the marketing said, more fun to play with your friends? Well, yes, but the same could be said of cleaning out a moldy garage alone versus with friends. Being with friends makes anything more enjoyable. The game does not cease to have all its serious underlying problems when you play with friends, you just have someone to commiserate with and witness this bullshit with you. Is this a new Fallout experience? Not really. It’s Fallout 4 with a prettier landscape, story constrained to holotapes and therefore constrained to the past (and not the present the player is actually playing in!), and it’s arguably not even a Fallout experience at all. It wears a Fallout skin but the core roleplaying, choice, and narrative features of the game are gone, and all that’s left is a world that’s much bigger, but where all the new space is pretty much empty anyhow.  Oh, and the canvas bags for the collector’s edition were cheap vinyl when people got them, Bethesda just went “yeah canvas was too expensive lol, u can have five dollars’ worth of the game’s microtransaction money for free tho if you want, just file a complaint”. The amount of the microtransaction digital money wouldn’t even buy a virtual canvas bag, mind. Then someone threatened a lawsuit, and it looks like people are going to get their actual canvas bags. But they still need to file a complaint, and WHOOPS! They accidentally doxxed everyone who filed a complaint, to some other people who filed a complaint! The absolute cherry on top. (Yes, it really was an accident, it’s even stupider than it sounds.) So what can we take away from all this? Well, I wouldn’t take away much hope for Fallout 76 as a game, for one. It’s a dumpster fire, and they keep pouring gasoline onto it. But the game has scored abysmally low basically everywhere. People have noticed, and they’re not pleased. The game’s price has dropped 30%, and that’s in the first couple weeks after launching, which is completely unheard of for a AAA game. Returns are going wild. Youtube is FULL of videos taking Fallout 76 to town. So clearly, gamers won’t lap up whatever you give them just because it’s a sequel to something they love. The sunk cost fallacy hasn’t run that deep, and people are suddenly extremely skeptical of whatever Bethesda releases next -- which at this rate, is going to be either The Elder Scrolls: Blades, or their new sci-fi game, followed by The Elder Scrolls VII (title as yet unannounced).  I would also suggest that studios may finally have been given a good indication that clumsily slapping multiplayer on something that had success as single-player isn’t the greatest idea. This is a lesson that probably should have been learned years ago, but better late than never.  I would also hope that game studios, Bethesda especially, develop a touch more respect for their fanbase and realize that player bases can be lost. Bethesda has relied upon their fanbase to mod away their bugs, laziness, and incomplete content hampered by release dates for many years now, but faced with a multiplayer game with no mod support, they are put in a position where they have to realize how heavily they’ve been leaning on those mods. But there’s another part of the story that isn’t being covered so much -- one which challenges the assumptions which has led Bethesda and the players to such a disaster in the first place. Red Dead Redemption 2 has been in the makings for a long time now, but was released something like a year late in comparison to its originally announced release date. The new Kingdom Hearts has been repeatedly delayed. I’d expect the fans would have reacted with nothing but outrage! But they ... haven’t, for the most part. There’s been some frustration and groaning, especially with people who have pre-ordered the games, but for the most part, the fans have been pretty understanding. It turns out they’d rather have a game come out finished than come out on time.  That seems simple, and even obvious, but for close to twenty years, it has been the prevailing logic that for a game to sell well, it has to come out at a pre-defined and specific date, and if it isn’t done, that’s just how the process of making games work, and we’ll fix it in bug patches, or wait for mods to fix it. This is such an assumed phenomenon that it shows up repeatedly in Extra Credits, a show which talks in great detail about the production of video games, and I’d be hard-pressed to name a game that I own or play which doesn’t have unfinished content, even if it’s fairly bug-free. But here we are, Red Dead 2 is out, and it’s a roaring success, despite considerable delays. The conventional wisdom is simply wrong. And it gets even better. This is the trailer for The Outer Worlds, a game made by Obsidian. I urge you to watch it. First of all, the game looks good. The graphics are good, the human characters are expressive and dynamic while still looking realistic. The backgrounds are great. The humour is great. The world-building, what we see of it, looks very promising. And oh my god, the shade they throw at Bethesda is gorgeous. Not only does Obsidian highlight themselves as the creators of Fallout and Fallout: New Vegas -- that is, the two most-loved Fallout games -- they play with the concept of a cryogenically frozen player character (possibly lampshading the use of the same concept in Fallout 4), and they point out that player choice isn’t just about a binary “who do you shoot” moment -- another moment from Fallout 4, and one of the few real choices you get to make in that game -- and implies that variety of choice, including non-combat choice, is going to be a Thing in this game. Look at the comments section for that video. You will see hundreds, nay, THOUSANDS of comments praising the trailer, talking about the shade it casts on Bethesda, making New Vegas meme jokes, praising the music, lauding the humour, wondering about the characters it shows us. You know what I didn’t see? Even one single, solitary comment complaining that there’s no definite release date shown anywhere in that trailer. Seriously, watch it again. It doesn’t say exactly when it’s coming out. Just 2019. No month. No date. Just sometime next year. You know... when it’s done. What you might not have known was that The Outer Worlds was originally estimated to come out this year. You didn’t know that because they didn’t release the trailer until just recently -- when they were far enough in production to produce such a great trailer, for one, but also once they were far enough to be certain they would be finished with production within a year.  No one cares when it’s coming. They care that it looks like a good game with so much original effort put into it. That’s what matters. And maybe if the game studios can realize this, we’ll finally see an end to the exploitative bullshit that happens -- exploitative of not just the gamers, but of the thousands of overworked employees it takes to make a AAA video game -- in the service of an absolute deadline above the game itself. God, now that’s a thought. So don’t be discouraged by the failure of Fallout 76. There’s way better on the horizon. The myths that studios need a firm deadline to put out a good game, the myths that players in some way demand a firm deadline, the myth that players will sit there and take any level of bullshit, they’re all being thoroughly, publicly debunked. Feels good, man. Feels good.

[wardencommanderrodimiss]

glasses

Really quick and messy Fae AU ficlet with Phoenix and Ema, written in about an hour and a half, trying to get myself back into the swing of the AU.

On the sixteenth of April, a box arrives at the Wright & Co. Law Offices.

Phoenix is suspicious of it, because Phoenix is suspicious of most things. It makes life in Los Angeles easier to trust nothing and no one, a conclusion Phoenix came to the hard way and has remained true to since. He examines the box on the doorstep without touching it; seeing no enchantments or curses and a European return address, he gingerly carries it inside and sets it on the coffee table.

(He would be much more suspicious if it came from anywhere in the LA area, because this is the hotbed and haven of the Court, and Phoenix inextricably tied to its royal family, Maya with her rows of sharks’ teeth and Pearl’s opalescent shiny skin, Iris insubstantial like ash and Mia and Dahlia who Phoenix does not know what they looked like beneath glamour. There’s a second Court, Maya says, one that her family once split from, somewhere in the Himalayas, but she doesn’t know more about it or worry more about it than that, so Phoenix filed the information away in the back of his mind to remember if he ever meets someone or receives something strange from that part of Asia. But Europe does not fall in the area of his suspicious -- Europe was home to Miles Edgeworth and Franziska von Karma, the two most solidly grounded people in Phoenix’s life, the two who look the same no matter what set of eyes he looks at them through.)

He cuts open the box and finds on top a letter, and beneath that, four Swiss chocolate bars that do not necessitate this box that is half again their length and deeper than them all stacked. The letter is written on lined paper torn from a notebook, the curly torn edge still attached.

Mr. Wright, it reads, and he almost recognizes the handwriting, a messy, loopy, child’s scrawl, and a quick run-down of his tiny circle of acquaintances and who among them are based in Europe lands him on the identity of the sender.

I lost the password for and got locked out of the email that I gave you back when, and I’d lost yours, so I had to snail mail but thought maybe it’s better for me to give you a box to start.

Phoenix sits down on the couch. There’s a few pages folded together.

Anyway I was home for vacation/as a translator for one of my professors - I get a scholarship for it! Sorry I didn’t get to see you. Didn’t have time, but I got to investigate a bit with Mr. Edgeworth. He seems to be doing good. I don’t know how much you talk. I helped him and his assistant on a couple cases and saw Detective Gumshoe too. It’s really helped my resolve to be a forensics investigator. (Sorry that I’ll be going up against you someday, but I’ve got to be on the prosecution’s side. I expect you to defend on all the cases I work on! It can be like a reunion.) Talking w Mr. Edgeworth’s assistant got me thinking, because she

Wait, his assistant? He has an assistant? It must be a new development -- in the past two months, since Phoenix last saw him. Ema can’t mean Franziska -- there’s no way Franziska would ever let a misconception like that take shape.

(Phoenix hasn’t spoken to Edgeworth since February. It’s probably time to reach back out.)

because she was talking about difficulties of what if there’s magic in the case that needs to be investigated. So I got an idea when we were talking about Luminol, and I was thinking about you and your magatama.

Phoenix does not like where this is going.

If it’s not too much trouble, can you get two magatama and mail them to me? I looked at mail rules and stuff and there’s no regulations about sending magical objects in the mail, I couldn’t find. You told me they weren’t particularly hard to make and the price shouldn’t be too steep, but you’re a lawyer and good with deals and contracts and I’m not so much. I didn’t think I should risk contacting anyone myself. I didn’t think you’d be happy about that. I need these to further the cause of science. You’ll be a great help. I can site cite you as my research assistant if I publish any papers on it. (The chocolate is not a bribe. I thought you might like it.) Sincerely, Ema Skye PS I have a new email

In spite of it, Phoenix laughs. “Oh, Ema,” he sighs, shaking his head, and then he glances quickly behind himself, because he feels like something or someone is at his shoulder. The office is empty, because of course it is, but he knows Mia would be interested, and definitely once she heard Ema’s name. 

He does admire Ema’s tenacity, and her enthusiasm, and that she’s at least mindful enough to know that she shouldn’t go out-of-the-blue trying to summon one of the fae to get a stash of magatama. (And that apparently part of her litmus is whether Phoenix would be disappointed in her.)

Taking the last page of the letter with him, he goes over to Mia’s desk and boots up the computer. It’s slow, but he has no inclination to get a new one. He’ll use it until it explodes. His money can be better put to other things, like groceries. He doesn’t use it enough to make a new one a worthwhile investment.

He pulls up a new email window and plugs in Ema’s address.

Ema, What exactly do you want two magatama for? I’m not going to consider anything without knowing what your plan is and advising you on whether it’s dangerous. -Phoenix

He waters Charley and picks a few pens up off the floor -- he doesn’t remember dropping them and not picking them back up and wonders if Maya appears in the night to scatter things -- and when he gets back to the desk he already has a response.

Mr. Wright. I think I have an ingenius solution for most investigators not having the sight. I’m going to mount hte magatama on a glasses frame for hands free investigating. I also want to see if I can use sandpaper/shop tools to cut open the hole in the center so it’s easier to see thru. I want to know if the exact shape of the magatama is important for its magical prowess and if it loses its power if parts of it are cut off. I think four might actually be a better number for the first batch. It gives me room to mess up. Thanks, Ema

Phoenix rubs his eyes and feels a headache approaching.

If you were going to try modifying it I wouldn’t recommend using anything metal, even if it’s not iron. Sandpaper would take longer but less risk of a bad reaction. But also, no.

It’s a really interesting question, actually, and Phoenix suddenly, badly, wants to know the answer, but he can’t condone the risk. Ema might draw attention to herself with the magatama, by altering them, or worse, attention from someone that wasn’t Maya or Pearl (because they are the only ones Phoenix would ask for a magatama) by her closer proximity to the Himalayas than Kurain. Or worse, she might succeed in making the glasses, wear them, and See things she shouldn’t and acquire bad attention that way. It’s rude to stare at the fae through a magatama -- the one rule for trying is don’t get caught which is difficult when it’s such an obvious and blatant motion -- and he fears that while there are no rules for a subtle magatama, one that doesn’t look it, the result might be even worse. Not only would she be staring, but Ema would also be trying to hide it, to get away with something she shouldn’t.

(It’s just scientific curiosity, he knows, nothing she means to be harmful, but They might not see it that way.)

Please, Mr Wright, it’s science! It’s important! Don’t you want to know? I’ll just take one to start with. It could really help our justice system and make sure that even magic isn’t above the law and isn’t getting away with crime.

He puts his head in his hands. God, Ema’s probably eighteen, now, isn’t she? She’s probably too old for him to petition to legally adopt her and bring her back to LA to keep an eye on her. Her extended family probably wouldn’t stand for it, anyway. He wonders what Lana would think.

I think it’s a clever idea, but too risky for you. I don’t want to see you getting hurt or locked in a bad deal or ending up like me. Promise me you won’t try and get any magatama yourself.

Mia likes to bind promises made in this office, make them stay true, and Phoenix wonders if that will work when one of them isn’t here, when Ema is on another continent, when Phoenix asks for the promise in electronic words. This isn’t honest of him, to try and lock her with magic into a promise, and for your own good is a slippery slope where naught but ash and bones lie at the bottom.

But Phoenix also spent a year living with my fault a mantra beating in his head, telling him that chosen death was my fault, and he was the one to introduce Ema to magic, to magatamas, to Sighted eyes, and if in investigating that she gets in over her head —

My fault.

He reads over his email again, after sending it, after he can’t take back the words, and it surprised him how much of his heart he laid out. I don’t want to see you ending up like me. He’s thought that, at Ema and Edgeworth and Franziska, but never said it. It’s easier for that sentiment to escape through his fingers than from his lips.

(He should try emailing Edgeworth but is afraid of what he might find himself able to say.)

Okay, okay, geez. You’re really serious on this. I like my soul where it is, tho, you don’t need to worry about that. I’m not gonna give it up for a science experiment but once I’m home and a real forensic scientist I’m coming to your office and hitting you up for this experiment because I still think it’s really important even if you’re gonna be an old fuddy about it.

No one’s ever accused him of being old before, though admittedly he thinks that being old is a blessing he won’t actually ever be afforded.

Good, good. So how’s school going? What were the cases you investigated with Edgeworth about? I didn’t know he had an assistant.

She probably knows this is a clumsy redirect, something to distract her, and she doesn’t respond until the next day — he thinks she’s mad at her until she sends back a novel-length response detailing the specifics of the crime scenes, evidence discovered, culprits, and methods.

In the next few days it’s suddenly much, much harder to keep a normal conversation going, to avail himself of anything but puzzling out the indistinct pieces of the Gramarye case that has left him unmoored and adrift, but the sporadic times he does manage to keep responding to Ema, he doesn’t mention it.

She probably knows the Gramarye name — everyone in LA does, the local coven like cryptids who appear when desperately needed to cut little dangerous deals. And if he mentions Gramarye she’s probably going to think magic crime and she’s going to return to the thought of the glasses —

Safer to keep her separate from that. Safer to keep everyone separate from that.

He only learns from Apollo and Trucy that she’s returned to the States, is working down at the precinct and on crime scenes now.

She doesn’t appear on his doorstep to bug him for a magatama.

[onceuponamirror]

watched the caos special. thoughts below the cut! spoilers, obviously.

CONS:

1. i'm not an xmas person to begin with so admittedly i am not the target audience with this one. the "festival of lights" joke was either hilarious or kind of offensive, i haven't fully decided, but thus this is not the first "demons --> jews" nods, however unconsciously, so i dunno! 

(i'm not taking it that seriously tho)

2. the stuff with sabrina's mom just felt...so strange, tonally? like i don't know if it was kiernan's acting that was so oddly stiff, and so inexplicably, or it was the odd fade outs in the writing/visual direction? perhaps it'll be clearer in hindsight, if sabrina has become more stoic/changed from what happened at the end of part 1, but given how she's still up to her same "i'll just talk to whoever will tell me yes" antics, i'm not so sure. it felt more like writing issues. 

i don't know---the whole mom thing, from the second it was mentioned in s1, felt like more of a mystery to be unravelled. to have it wrapped up like that in a present bow (oh, yee seasonal puns) was kinda disappointing. they made such a clambering implication that her parents were murdered, and then only to kind of shove one half of that aside? again with hindsight but. meh 

3. overall i could tell a lot was cut. i think this is a show that is used to having time to breathe across episodes, but RAS is once again not a well-confined writer. caos hugely benefited from the first season's pacing, where it wasn't forced to cram a beginning, middle, and end resolution into each episode. this one should've been two hours long, or an hour and a half, like most specials are, and i think that would've solved a lot of my above complaints re: stiffness. 

i am very glad once again for the streaming element of this show, however; an episodic "monster of the week" isn't the strength of the show. it's what sets it apart from things like buffy, and makes it work in its own right. here, i'm kind of reminded of that.

PROS!

4. i think it was really important to see sabrina and harvey's plotline, even if it felt a bit redundant to what she said at the end of the first season. but it also made sense from both their characters; sabrina doesn't easily learn from her mistakes, but i'm glad they're taking time to show how a giant, transformative moment....ultimately requires work to stay that way. or---it isn’t just a switch to flip. a personality is still a personality, and the habits are still the habits. 

it was interesting how in that, she took away the work that is required to heal from alcoholism. i wonder if there will be a price for that, if his urge to numb will just go elsewhere. or it may be dropped, i don't know. hard to say with RAS.

but some good character work done as a bridge between seasons, all in all. 

 5. fun campy aesthetics to vintage music = always fun 

stray thoughts:

did anyone else think it was interesting that hilda, when speaking to susie's father, said "we pray to satan [for the missing child's safety]" or whatever it was she said? that is an EXTREMELY interesting thing to say to a mortal man who is supposedly unaware of witches. 

she could've easily just said "we're praying" --- but given what susie learned from her ancestor/ancestor's books, do we think her father is aware of the spellmans/witches too?

[kitten1618x]

GoT Afterthoughts 7x07 The Dragon and The Wolf (Jonsa Edition) SPOILERS

So here we are -the finale. I’d like to bitch about how badly we’ve been ripped off by D&D, but I don’t want to be repetitive. lol We begin our episode outside the walls of Kings Landing. It looks like the Unsullied have abandoned Casterly Rock for a display of power and muscle, and are quickly joined by the Dothriaki -whooping and hollering in a most obnoxious way (I truly dislike them). Jamie and Bronn watch from atop the ramparts for some lively “cock banter”, ya know, since D&D are epic writers and such. Side note: I love how they slowed down Dany’s theme song here. At least the musical score is never disappointing. We get a nice aerial shot of Euron’s huge fleet, as what’s left of Dany’s sails towards KL. Jon, ever a Northerner, is NOT impressed with KL.  Stay true to your roots, Jonny boy. Suspiciously (not really), Dany is absent. Gee … I wonder if she’s planning on a flamboyant dragon-styled entrance? The Hound goes below deck to check if Bones is resting comfortably. The box is quiet -must have been that Dramamine they gave him to counter his seasickness. Nope -he’s awake, and clearly feels their hospitality leaves something to be desired. Side note: I wonder if Jon inquiring how many people live in KL is a foreshadowing of a future disaster there? Remember that there are casks of Dragon fire buried everywhere beneath the city. I’m almost positive that will come into play next season. We jump quickly to Cersei in the Red Keep who’s been informed that Dany isn’t with her entourage. How much you wanna bet that Cersei’s thinking the same exact thing I wrote above? She informs Ser Gregor that if anything goes wrong, he’s to kill the silver haired bitch first, then her brother and then the bastard who calls himself King. Now we’re back with the entourage, and we get a bit of a history lesson about the dragon pit ruins, and Jorah says something I perceived to be very important (as well as synonymous of Dany and her conquering Targ ancestors): Jorah: Dragons don’t understand the difference between what’s theirs and what isn’t. Land, livestock, children. CONQUERORS! We learn how over time, with entrapment, the dragons withered away to nothing, small as dogs. This particular part didn’t serve any purpose, other than to reunite the original brotp3, Pod, Bronn and Tyrion. We see that they all still have a fondness for each other -and perhaps a foreshadowing that Bronn will be switching allegiance soon. The Hound and Brienne also have a surprisingly friendly reunion, as they bond over their adopted daughter, Arya. I’m glad they brought her up, and I’m so very excited to see a Hound/Stark girls reunion next season! So, we’re in the Dragon Pit now, and truthfully -this entire 20 minute scene was utter garbage, and I’m pretty pissed that they wasted nearly the entire finale on this flaming dumpster, tbh. Clegane bowl is coming. Cersei is annoyed with Dany’s theatrical entrance (and truthfully, the extra-ness of it all was kind of lame). I guess it was necessary to put Drogon in the dragon pit? But when he flew away, let’s be honest -his wings would have sent those canopies hurling away and knocked everyone on their asses, too. Euron’s a dick. Tyrion attempts to open the floor for Jon, Cersei is her usual snarky, skeptical and extra self (I fucking love her), and finally Sandor releases Bones, and ……  the Dramamine must have kicked in? Time for a jump scare! Bones charges Cersei and is yanked back just in time. The Hound cuts him in half, but he keeps on coming until Jon does his sales pitch demonstration (how sad do you think Kit was that they made him do this terrible scene?) of fire and dragon glass (thanks Davos, for your assistance). Euron peaces out -all but throwing up deuces upon his hasty exit, but not before propositioning Dany. Cersei agrees to the truce -tell me honestly -did you all REALLY believe her? She suddenly became so reasonable, which is schiesty as hell, if you ask me. She throws some shade at Dany, and asks Jon to stay neutral. Cersei specifically evokes the honorable Ned Starks name, insinuating that she can trust the son to be as honorable as daddy dearest. Did this jump out at any of you? Because of course Cersei does know that Ned was honorable -yet, she also knows that he had forsaken that very honor in the end, for his daughters -at the request of Sansa (per Cersei) to save his life (and probably hers) which was all for naught because Joffrey was a cunt, as Sandor would say -but you get the point to this clunky run-on sentence, right? And not only that, but he LIED to everyone, and especially the people he loved and cared about (his wife, best friend, family) to save the life of his nephew -and he went to his grave with that secret. So what am I saying? Honorable Ned wasn’t above lying for the greater good, or to protect the ones he loved. Does that put some things in perspective for you? Back to our story (however shitty it is for the time being) Jon declines. Choosing this moment to back Dany, and again “figuratively” bending the knee to her -this time publicly.   Side note: Dany’s face in this moment. She’s so smitten with Jon. Cersei basically tells everyone to fuck off, and exits stage left. Brienne attempts to slap some sense into Jamie, uttering two words that stop him dead in his tracks: FUCK LOYALTY. This isn’t about honor and following whomever you’re loyal to -it’s about humanity. Did she appeal to his better side? Methinks so. Now everyone takes the time to belittle Jon for doing the very thing that they haggled him about for the entire season. But Tyrion the KING of bad ideas this season, has yet another -he’ll go talk to Cersei alone. He magically warps to the Red Keep, somehow making it through the city and the castle without being murdered for the hefty price on his head, but …. that D&D logic, tho. He and Jamie say “goodbye” one idiot to another (hey, you guys said it -not me), and as foreboding music drones in the background, the standoff begins. But, so I guess that Jamie and Tyrion decided to let bygones be bygones? And to one of my favorite scenes of the episode -my God, Lena and Peter SLAYED THIS SCENE! After the accusations fly, Tyrion tells Cersei to have him killed -the Mountain reaches for his sword and begins to unsheath it, but the order is never given. Cersei looks torn. Perhaps she isn’t as heartless as she tries to portray? Perhaps a tiny part of her does have affection for her little brother? Or maybe she just doesn’t want anymore Lannisters to die? I’m not entirely sure of her motivations, but she certainly looked gorgeous in this scene, though. After Tyrion collects himself (and likely wishes for a clean pair of shorts), he downs a goblet of wine and pours his sister a cup. We know now that he does regret killing his father (despite deserving it), and that Tyrion really doesn’t want to see the end of his family. Is he lying? Doubtful. He loved her children as she did (except for Satan incarnate, Joffrey). He realizes that Cersei is once again pregnant, and somehow appeals to her better senses …. And I’m just here SCREAMING at the TV: why do you all believe her??? This is Cersei -the son Tywin always wanted -but with a vagina (oh, the irony)!! We jump back to the Dragon Pit where Jon is back to brooding as he shuffles through some dragon bones. He lets his disappointment in the turn of events known, as Dany decides to join him. She tells him she respects what he did (is that what we’re calling it now? did ya’ll see her face when he announced his allegiance with her? It’s cool Dany -I “respect” Jon snow sometimes when my hubby isn’t around, too 😂) and then begins telling him how the end of the Dragons is what really spelled the end of her house. The dragons made them extraordinary -without them, they are just like everyone else. (BINGO). This leads to Jon complimenting her -she’s not like everyone else and her family hasn’t seen its end because she’s still here. Dany follows up that she can’t have children -in case you missed that last episode Jon, when she said the Dragons are the only children she’ll ever have, and then you nodded your understanding when she point blank asked you if you understood. Remember? Oh, are you just double checking? Okay my son, carry on …. *So this is important: J: Who told you that? D: The witch that murdered my husband. J: Did it occur to you she might not have been a reliable source of information? (Because clearly it’s occurring to Jon). D: You were right from the beginning. If I’d had trusted you everything would be different. J: So what now? D: I can’t forget what I saw north of the wall, and I can’t pretend that Cersei won’t take back half the country the moment I march north. So -let’s do a bit of reading between the lines here, shall we? What we know now: Dany fully trusts Jon, when she didn’t before. When Jon asks her “what now?” It’s pretty clear that he’s unsure whether or not he can trust her to prioritize the NK and his army over Cersei and the Iron Throne. And her answer lets him know that he’s in the right with his suspicions. J: It appears Tyrion’s assessment was correct, we’re fucked. You sure are, Jon. Better think of something quick -because apparently just “bending the knee” may not be sufficient -and you do need those dragons and army. As if by cue, Tyrion returns -Cersei and her entourage in tow and she agrees to help and delivers one of the most epic lines of the evening: “perhaps you’ll remember that I chose to help with no promises or assurances from any of you.” YOU LIE LIKE A RUG CERSEI, BUT SLAY YOU UNAPOLOGETIC BITCH -I LOVE YOU!! Now I want to ask if ANY of you caught the look that passed between Jon and Tyrion here? Admittedly, I didn’t on my first watch -but it’s plain as day. Remember it -I’ll return to it later, because I actually think it may be important. Now we take a ravens POV, flying through the heavy snow towards Winterfell. Sansa sits irritatedly tapping her message from Jon on her desk. She’s not happy about the news she’s received. Seems like Jon finally decided to write home and let her know he bent the knee. You broke up with the North in a text message? Really Jon?   Little Finger does what he’s always done -acts like he’s on everyone’s side while sewing his seeds of doubt and dissension. For those of you who were waiting for the crypt scene payoff: here it was … While discussing Jon’s “reasons” for doing this, he drops the bomb that the Dragon Queen is rumored to be very beautiful. Why? My guess is he’s wondering if Sansa has the same subconscious affections for Jon that he displayed in the crypts. S: what does that have to do with anything? LF: Jon is young and unmarried, Daenerys is young and unmarried. S: you think he wants to marry her? (the thought obv never occurred to her, due to her reaction). LF: An alliance makes sense. Together they’d be difficult to defeat. He was named KitN, he can be unnamed. S: Even if I wanted to (she doesn’t) Arya would never go for it. Shut down AGAIN, LF -Sansa isn’t going to turn on Jon. So, he switches gears back to Arya, thinking that’s the key to driving a wedge between her and Jon and setting the crown on Sansa’s head -get Arya out of the way. He continues his little mind game, encouraging Sansa to play along, and by the scenes end, we’re made to believe she’s fallen for it and is on board. Really -unbeknownst to him, he just planted the solution to Jon’s birthright situation in her lap (when it’s revealed). Unite the North and South by marriage -together they’d be difficult to defeat …. hello Jonsa season 8! And we’ve warped back to Dragonstone. They’re planning their strategy to head to Winterfell. Jon suggests that they sail together, and Jorah thinks Dany would be safer flying Drogon. Of course because she’s hot on Jon -she’ll take his suggestion -especially since we ALL KNOW the Northerners will NEVER see her as an ally. But she’s all: I’m going north to save them, not conquer them. 😏 So many nervous glances here amongst all the men … The meetings over, and Theon catches Jon and Davos as they pass through the throne room (anyone else curious about what they may have been talking about?). Okay, and OMG, another important conversation with so much hidden in the narrative! (I may paraphrase a bit here) T: What you did in KL, you could have lied to Cersei about bending the knee to Daenerys. You risked everything to tell an enemy the truth. But …did he? J: We went down there to make peace, and it seems to me we need to be honest with each other, if we’re going to fight together. See above. T: You’ve always known what was right. Even when we were all young and stupid. Every step you take  …it was always the right step. J: It’s not. It may seem that way from the outside, but I promise you it’s not true. I’ve done plenty things I regret. T: Not compared to me you haven’t. Clearly, he’s referring to betraying the Starks. J: No. Not compared to you. Clearly he has no intention of betraying his family like Theon did -although I do believe he intends to betray someone. T: I always wanted to do the right thing. Yada yada. It always seemed like their was …an impossible choice I had to make. Stark or Greyjoy. Confirmation here. Jon’s angry. He’s angry that Theon betrayed their father -who although may not have been his true father, he treated him like a son-better than Theon’s own father -sound familiar? J: Our father was more a father to you than your own father ever was. T: He was. J: And you betrayed him, betrayed his memory. T: I did. J: But you never lost it. He’s a part of you, just like he’s a part of me. Jon may as well be having this conversation with himself next season! Well - at least parts of it. T: But the things I’ve done … J: Its not my place to forgive you for all of it. But what I can forgive, I do. You don’t need to choose. You’re a Greyjoy and you’re a Stark. *I love this little nugget, because I feel like it gives credence to my Wars of the Roses meta theory -that Jon will combine both sides of his heritage/houses into one. Although, the deeper meaning behind it, is he’s allowed to be both without betraying the other. And …. he will always be a Stark. The conversation continues with Theon explaining that Yara tried to save him -she needs him now. And Jon gives Theon his blessing to go get his sister: “So why you still talking to me.” This scene with Jon was truly beautiful, with true healing quality for Theon. A little bit of old Theon emerges when he doesn’t stand down to one of Yara’s men and takes a hell of a beating (damn, he really is a Stark -can’t keep my babies down!) and succeeds in rallying the men behind him. Not for him -for Yara! We return to Winterfell where a very forlorn Sansa stands upon the ramparts in her and Jon’s “spot”. Is she thinking of him? I believe so -but that might just be my pesky shipping goggles. Sophie Turner has looked exceptionally beautiful this season -like bewitchingly so. She’s always been lovely -but damn. Shaking off her sadness: my skin has gone from porcelain, to ivory, to steel -she steels herself for what must be done, and orders the guard to have her sister brought to the Great Hall. We flash to the Great Hall. Arya is escorted in, as Sansa and Bran sit like they’re about to judge her. Arya and LF share a “fuck you” stare, and Arya asks Sansa if she “really wants to do this?” Sansa replies that honor demands it, and after Arya’s “get on with it”, Sansa rattles off charges, and then flips the script on LF, leveling the charges on him. Haha! He blinked so hard, I thought he was about to fall over! As Sansa annihilates him with charges, he stumbles with excuses, but all 3 Starklings gangbang his ass, and he’s done for. Using his own lessons and words against him -the student has surpassed the teacher. “I am a slow learner, it’s true -but I learn.” SAVAGE. MY QUEEN IS SAVAGE. And with a nod of Sansa’s head, and despite his resorting to crying and begging, Arya slits his throat before he even realizes what hit him. For all his scheming, what was his legacy …? I would have liked to see him go out with a bit more fight -but maybe that’s the point. BY THE WAY -I WANT FUCKING RECEIPTS!! I TOLD YOU ALL MY GIRLS WERE PLAYING HIM!!   To the Starks, who fought to make it back to Winterfell and each other -family is everything. They’re a united front. We jump back to KL for the last time this season. Jamie is going over battle plans with the Lannister soldiers. Cersei dismisses them and asks Jamie what he’s doing- he tells her that he’s planning his expedition north. Cersei resorts to her usual cruelty: “you really are the stupidest Lannister.” She tells him it was all a ruse, and Jamie’s not happy about this. After accusing him of conspiring against her and telling him that Euron didn’t really tuck tail and run, but instead went to pick up the mercenaries she purchased with the help of the Iron Bank, Jamie finally grows a pair! He pledged to ride north and he intends to. Cersei’s last bit of treachery is FINALLY the straw that broke the camels back! Cersei threatens his life -reminiscent of her earlier scene with Tyrion. Jamie calls her bluff, and again she doesn’t act on it. And as our hero leaves for the North, Winter has finally arrived at KL. (Told you better things were in store for my Golden boy … can he really be TPTWP?)!! We head back to Winterfell -Sam and Gilly have arrived and Sam seeks out Bran. Not gonna lie -this part confused me a bit, because I thought Bran was all knowing ….yet, he asks Sam WHY he’s come to Winterfell. Also -it’s Sam who informs him that Jon isn’t a bastard. Also -why has Bran told this to Sam, and not his sisters? Unless he has? And we just haven’t seen it? Like the Starks conspiring against LF? Makes me wonder of the other things that may have happened offscreen this season, too …. Bran does what he does and goes back in time to witness Lyanna and Rhaegar’s marriage -Roberts Rebellion was built on a lie. Jon’s real name is (barf) Aegon Targaryen, and he’s never been a bastard -he’s the TRUE heir to the Iron Throne -all of this over boatbang, sucking all the romance out of the coupling and painting it in an ominous light -just as I suspected. Remember when I told you all that CONTEXT was everything, and that there was a reason we found out about Jon’s parentage prior to boatbang -and the reasoning behind overlapping R/L’s wedding wasn’t to depict this EPIC romance, but to instead imply incestuous overtones and foreshadow the future Targbowl? Yep. That’s about it in a nutshell. But, more about boatbang towards the end -as well as my suspicions … We return back to Winterfell, where our Starkling sisters are perched upon the ramparts. Here they confirm their bond, both understanding the true strength of the other, and that despite each others quirks -they love one another and will take care of each other ….just as their father would have wanted. “When the Snows fall and the White Winds Blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.”  Despite their losses, the Starks are a pack, and they will endure. Lastly, we shoot to Eastwatch, where everyone’s favorite ginger is perched atop the lookout post -probably daydreaming of Brienne. A horn blows as the NK’s army has finally reached the wall. Viserion, gorgeous blue eyes shining soars through the air with the NK on his back, and shooting flames to match his eyes -the wall begins to crumble. We see people getting caught up in the destruction -hopefully not Tormund, because I’ll fucking riot, as the wall falls and the dead march forward into Westeros. Winter is here. Okay, so back to boatbang. Aside from the basics I outlined above -let’s break the scene down. Jon stands before Dany’s door. His expression is troubled. He heaves a heavy sigh, then he lifts his hand to knock on the door -yet he hesitates before actually knocking. Why? After Dany bids him entrance, Jon closes the door and we see Tyrion emerge from around the corner. Unless he’s been stalking Jon -he has perfect timing. Why is this? Could it be that Jon was just with Tyrion? Could that look they shared at the Dragon Pit mean something? Could Jon be the means as to which  Varys suggested Tyrion find a way to make Dany listen? Tyrion’s expression doesn’t look like jealousy to me -he looks concerned, worried even. Has he conspired against his queen, knowing how smitten she is with Jon, to stay the course and maybe feels guilty because he knows she’s falling for Jon and he’s playing her? Have secret discussions been going on offscreen, like with the Starks, only to be revealed later? You’ve kind of gotta wonder this season … Look, whether or not you subscribe to the undercover lover theory or not, you’ve got to admit that there’s been a lot of oddness surrounding this rushed romance. Two episodes ago, Jon was ready to hightail it out of Dragonstone and never look back (and he didn’t, although Jorah did), and we’re suddenly supposed to believe he’s smitten? I guess If I shipped them, I’d want to believe that -but what about Jon’s odd behavior? The fact that while Dany has literally poured her heart out to him, yet he’s managed to share absolutely NOTHING personal with her is a HUGE damn red flag to me. Not.One.Damn.Thing. Could he be attracted to her? Sure. She’s quite beautiful and he’s not blind, but it seems that D&D have been hiding little clues within the narrative -they’ve also managed to successfully sabotage this relationship before it even got off the ground -with the parent reveal last season. The way I see it, is we’ve got a strong case here, and a 50/50 chance that this is all for show and Jon’s actually LISTENED to Sansa -that he’s being smarter than father and Robb, that he’s NOT a Northern fool -and he REALLY does know how to play the game. All this talk of Ned, and honor? OR, he is truly a damn fool and Jon Snow really does know nothing …. I just can’t stand by this. If I’m wrong, fine -but everything screams at me that that Jon knows Cersei was lying, or just doesn’t trust she’ll follow through. Jon knows that  once Dany figures that out, she’ll probably want to go back south with her dragons and armies -pledging himself to her clearly didn’t work (as witnessed by her words at the Dragon Pit) -but clearly she’s smitten with him …he’s seen her heart eyes. What’s a sure-fire way to get her to commit to the war and assisting the North in fighting? Why, committing to her man, of course. So, back to analyzing the sex scene. There was no lead up -no first kiss, no tender caresses -just a closed door and then BAM two naked (damn Kit, daaayum!) people. Dany seems to have taken the aggressive stance on top. Jon  flips her into missionary, and before he thrusts, STOPS -again, like at the door, he’s hesitating as he looks down at Dany, regretful -like he’s not sure he should do this -NOT because he doesn’t want her (he IS a man, after all), but because he’s feeling guilty about what he’s about to do (to her), as she stares up at him all dreamy-eyed and awestruck, and he doesn’t feel the same way. Make no mistake that I do believe he likes her as a person, but love is not reciprocated here. He heaves yet another heavy sigh, with this same haunted expression, and then pants as he steels himself to go on -seemingly forcing himself to continue, squeezing his eyes shut as he kisses her. All I heard in my head was Arya saying “get on with it”. This was not romantic epic love. Jon didn’t look at Dany like she hung the moon. We’ve all seen the way he’s looked at Sansa -

Vs. a very intimate moment with the woman he “supposedly” has fallen for?

Nope. I may be wrong about undercover lover, but I think that there was so much more than meets the eye here. Buckle up babies -we survived season 7 and boatbang. Season 8 is ours and Jonsa is STILL endgame. It is known. 😘

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✖ You have such an amazing John, and I kinda feel bad that I haven't been able to read the comics or had access to the movie. I don't have that much experience with RP, and on other platforms no one had ever gone into that much detail like you do sometimes. I feel like I won't be able to write enough or write a strong enough response. I see selective and I feel like I might not be up to your standards. I have anxiety about this sort of thing a lot. I just wish I was braver. Sorry to bother you.

Send a ‘✖’ if you are intimidated by me

Bonus: Include what happens to be intimidating about me!

​Real talk. I secured a URL for this blog within reading like Idek. Six issues of Hellblazer. I was basically in love within an issue or two like “wow he’s awful. I love him.” Now mind you, I’d already been RPing for a couple years on tumblr. Honestly though, my first placeholder url ( experimental-user, which I had fully intended to change when I started threading but kept for a brief time because it made sense to me as vaguely fitting ) should have said enough that I was a bit insecure writing him at first. Anyway, I was reading the comic for the first five months I wrote John, the main Vertigo series, graphic novels, specials, miniseries, and for the record I torrented all of it. Also read Justice League Dark, but we don’t talk about that because it was abysmal and John’s characterization was a fucking mess ( but they did Zee worse, so that’s a thing ). I learned John as I went, to be quite honest. While I can’t say if I made any missteps in my characterization in the early months, I know there was a lot of hesitation on my part. 

My point is this: We’re all learning as writers and RPers. The only reason I’m a competent writer is because I’ve been doing so for years. Certainly not all of it has been RP and I feel like it showed in my earliest forays on tumblr. There were communication problems and stubbornness on my end because I wasn’t as good as improvising as I thought I was. It took me a long while to get to the point I’m at and there are still moments I’m like “wtf am I doing? lol”. Now admittedly, am I good for an uncertain newbie? Signs point to who the fuck knows because I can be very serious and not fun at all. I’ll admit to getting very nervous when someone is intimidated by me because I never mean to do that to anyone. Honestly, I rarely think there’s anything that special about my writing. It swings between blunt as a head shot and vaguely pretentious. More the latter than I care to admit. I’m selective because yes I concede to having standards but they’re not like…super high. I just want partners to be coherent and respectful and I like the way they portray their muse. That and I rarely RP with doubles due to my compulsion toward world building and I can’t continuously compartmentalize versions. I’m just not that good, I suppose. Lastly, I’m slow and I work. I know everyone has their own speeds so I want everyone to be copacetic with the fact that I may not always reply to a thread within 48 hours but that doesn’t mean I’m dropping it. ( and of course I have my people that I generate high volumes of threads with and I don’t want people to think I just always stick with my clique, there’s just a lot going on behind the scenes. )

Anyway, this is getting to be rambly and a bit of a downer(?) when I want it to be a pep talk or whatever. I’m gonna leave you with with the fact that you can read ​Hellblazer for free here. The site is ugly, sorry, but it’s less a hassle than seeking out torrents. Side stories and specials you’ll have to search on the site separately. The movie streams from time to time on Netflix or Hulu. It’s not right now, tho. So Idek what to tell you with that. There are a lot of free streaming sites that you can probably find it on, tho, if you know where to look. I personally caved and bought it on iTunes. Their digital copies are generally about the same price as a DVD. That being said I don’t insist people read the comic or watch the movie to RP with me. It just helps. The reason I am so vocal about being based on the comic is due to the popularity of the TV series and the fact that I don’t have anything to do with it. I don’t want people to get it twisted, you know?

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Ro & Ali

Just a nice lil’ chit-chat about what a great boyfriend Drew is...ha ha ha

Ro joined the chat 3 hours ago Ro: I'm hoping (selfishly perhaps) to prolong this good mood by sharing it so I've bought you something. The Little ones as well 💕 Ali: Oooh! I'd throw out the obligatory 'you didn't have to!' but I love gifts almost as much as Rio does so 🙊 Ali: Just seen the Instas, I am so jelly, its been ages since I've been into any of those shops/bought a book that wasn't printed on colourful carboard/plastic Ali: I need a book haul/to know what you ordered so I can live vicariously kthnx 😘 Ro: Hence I couldn't resist and the closeness of her birthday assuaged any tiny doubts that might have briefly appeared Ro: I'd say there's no need to be but in this instance that'd be a very big untruth. I'm having such a perfect day! Ro: Only made moreso by the fact Drew was the first to state your lack of suitable stimulation Ro: he's such a sweetheart Ro: He says you can thank him via me when I deliver each lovingly wrapped parcel later if you can't wait until the bonfire Ali: Exactly, we can seamlessly eek yours out into her celebrations beginning only ever-so-slightly early 😉 Ali: As you should be, following the plan set out above, tis your Birthday month and only perfect days are allowed 👌💕 Ali: Bless him Ali: Sure he wasn't just tweaking off all the book shop coffees? 😜 Ali: Well, as we all know it was you that chose the books out, I'll thank you Ali: Caleb made his last batch of pumpkin spice cookies for the season (all cinnamon from here on out, will that and a gossip over a cuppa suffice? 😊🍪☕ Ro: I prefer to think of him being high on love 💘 but he has admittedly spent a lot of time deciding between cold brew or americano Ro: He did honestly help, at least with your selection anyway Ro: How could I possibly refuse such an offer, hmm? Ali: You're so cute it makes me wanna throw up 💋 Ali: A cold brew tho...In this weather?! He is such a white girl. Ali: Well, he is full of surprises then Ali: Maybe you can use your boy taming skillz to calm Junie down, he's having a right day of it Ro: I all but forced him (in his words only I assure you) into a coat and the heat is apparently too much Ro: I do feel cute though, which is almost as bizarre a thought Ro: must be the power of 18 Ro: Poor boy! Is Caleb working? Ali: I get that, tbf, tis how I feel about shoes. But frostbite is a very real thing, he could use a lil nagging, you should get ma on the case 🤣 Ali: Yes! So here for that 👐 Ali: You been cute, its about time you recognised honey Ali: Yeah, but he did the potwashing/brunch/lunch shift so he can be about later for a family dinner so that's nice, you know how he feels about getting up early when he could at least try to lie in 'til lunch like Ali: Can't blame him Ro: Heavens! Terrible as this will sound I'm still keeping my distance as far as Tess is concerned. I can't help but feel she can read me like a book Ro: I'm not sure about that at all but thank you 💗 Ro: Oh that's so nice! Somehow we've both whipped these boys into a shape we like it's no wonder we're smiling Ro: would you like me to head over early so I can help out? I don't mind and Drew insists he has errands to run before he shows his face Ali: Yeah, she can. Ali: Again, can't blame you but distance or not, she'll find a way to be knowing Ali: Well I am so you're more than welcome Ali: I always liked his shape 💦 Ali: heheheheheh Ali: feel free! it'll be fun, we can get in Caleb's way with all our helpful help 😂 Ro: Oh Ali! You're making me blush in public I hope you're pleased with yourself Ro: Drew has his suspicious face on as if I'm bored of him already. Imagine! Ro: Boys and their egos Ro: Okay great I'll come straight there as long as you're willing to sort out the mess I'll be before anyone sees me Ali: I am Ali: I'd be even more pleased if you'd change my name in your phone to something suspect af like... the eggplant emoji! Ali: Really keep him guessing Ali: Oh, please, your look today is fire! But I am always down for a makeover and dress-up sesh, you'll have to share the spotlight with Rio but, don't we all? 😻 Ro: Oh my god don't! I'd die Ro: If only. I think the love has somehow swelled my heart and waist Ro: small price to pay for having him back though Ali: Nah you're perfect Ali: Well, tell him good job on today 👍 Perfect Ro day out Ro: I will he's earned that praise and more Ro: He says to tell Caleb it's his turn Ro: I'm playing messenger and delivery girl today it appears Ali: Poor you, don't let him run you ragged! But, if you're up for one more job you can tell him Caleb's never been afraid of a little healthy competition 😉 Ro: Well now he's excited. Typical not a single paperback has piqued his attention that much Ali: There's only so much whipping (into shape) you can do in a day, eh? Ali: Start in the kid's section mayhaps? 😜 Ro: Excellent idea! I do need to find Rio some actual birthday gifts Ali: Two birds one stone, love that efficiency Ro: If I can be honest Ali I really would like to look as close to perfect as I can tonight Ro: you will help me won't you? It's just....I did think it was over for us Ro: I want to make his wishes come true too, not simply my own Ali: Understood Ali: Of course I will, I'll fish out my best sex goddess duds for you Ali: We'll have you both saying yes to the dress sista Ro: I appreciate the enthusiasm but let's start with him telling me he loves me again first Ro: I know it, obviously, but hearing it is another thing, right? Ro: It'd be a truly perfect day then Ali: Yeah, at least he's showing it Ali: Love languages and all that Ali: but mission accepted Ro: Thanks Ali you're the best! Ro: Well, I better get a move on if I'm ever going to leave here. See you soon xx Ali: I'm sure the amount you've put into those places, you're basically part-owner, and thus entitled to be there forever but yes, we have plans so we both need to get a wriggle on! TTFN 💕

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NAME OF YOUR MUSE: magnus burnsides

ONE PICTURE YOU LIKE BEST OF YOUR MUSE’S FC:

TWO HEADCANONS YOU HAVE FOR YOUR MUSE THAT YOU NEVER TOLD ANYONE:

1. magnus will always blame himself for what happened to julia and, on that same note, not taking the chalice, not fixing what he had caused, not taking julia’s place or w/e came as a Price for that. he’s glad that he didn’t, and he knows what would’ve happened if he had and logically that like. it’s good he didn’t ? and like !!!!!! he knowwwws it wasn’t what julia would have wanted but. it’s what magnus wanted ? and he can’t help but feel almost,,,, guilty for not taking the chance to fix it. 

2. i might’ve talked abt this before but magnus has to. prove himself a lot. not even to other ppl just. to himself ? and it’s. honestly why that like. after julia he,,,,, became an Adventurer like. full time or w/e hgnfgn he has to prove that he is worthy of being here and worthy of the bureau and his friends and just. being alive ? and that’s so morbid but like. it’s honestly the only way he views himself like... if he’s not ? doing something good for others or good for the world like,, what purpose does he serve ?

THREE THINGS THAT YOUR MUSE LIKES DOING IN THEIR FREE TIME:

1. carpentry. he likes carving and putting things together and it’s so. relaxing and familiar & he gets lost in it for hours. it always reminds him of home and of ravens roost and julia and it’s just. very therapeutic and comforting & something that he just. default resorts to when he’s bored or chillin or w/e 

2. training ! magnus is a very. restless dude ? and gets bored very easily and training is always very unpredictable ( at least. when he’s training w/ killian & carey & noelle nfjnjn ) and it’s something different every time and it’s good for just. expelling his Emotions n letting stuff out n shit gnjfjmkf he very much loves like. the pain ? that comes w/ exercising honestly again it’s. very relaxing for him and something he knows how to do very well 

3. reading hngnjf.,,,, again he has. such a low attention span so he can’t always. focus on a book for that long ? and usually always just. skips to reading the dialogue between charas but it’s. kinda a comfort thing ? and something to do when he just,,, chills

SEVEN PEOPLE THAT YOUR MUSE LOVES / LIKES:

1. JULIA.   that’s ? his wife ???? ngnjfjmkm g od not to be emo or anything but jesus christ mag loves julia so much and so entirely and she. made him into a better person and made ! him ! good ! she taught him how to be better ! everything he is today is bc of julia ! what the fUCK im crying in the club rn !

2. TAAKO.   honestly like. whether we’re talking platonic or romantic, taako means,,,, the world to magnus ? he’s someone he’s grown so so close to in the past year ( and,,, the past century if we wna get Deep ) and honestly just. trusts him so entirely and he would literally do anything for him uuum im crying again

3. MERLE.   merle’s his fuckening DAD hgnfjmkmfn okay like !!! mag pokes fun @ merle n stuff but like. they’re so close !!!! and in a way he like. almost does see merle as a parental figure ? just. someone older and ( admittedly ) wiser and who, for all the Bullshit he makes them put up with, mag can always count on ? he would literally take a fantasy Bullet for taako and merle and that’s literally canon so. jot that down

4. ANGUS.   magnus absolutely,,,, adores ango gnnjfnj at first he wasn’t so keen and was kinda. mean 2 him like the rest of them but he’s like his lil brother / son at this point ? he just wants the best for ango and is a Proud Dad always um im weeping ?

5. LUCRETIA.   i’ve already written a whole Thing abt how important their friendship is to me so like. just to delve into the bob friendship for a moment can i just.... magnus probably looks up to lucretia so much ? i don’t want to say like a mother bc she’s like. i mean she’s technically his age, but she’s def someone he can count on to be there for him and she’s prob such ? a role model to him and just. seeing everything she does for the bob and how much she cares about this organization and the work they’re doing and believes so wholeheartedly in them and this mission & i think mag would admire her so greatly for that

6. LUP.   they’ve interacted like. twice and maybe it’s my Absolute Love for lup coming out but lIKE.... they’re just. so similar ? in my onion like.. mainly personality wise and in that like. in the best way, they bring out the absolute Worse in one another ? mag is always all rushing in and destroying things and never careful and always loud and while lup prob isn’t,,, necessarily always like that, magnus can 100% bring out that side of her and just. egg lup on & rile her up and they both have.. Zero Chill n when they get together they’re the fucking ! worst ! jnfmkfmf g od idk but their friendship is literally god tier i adore them 

7. BARRY.   magnus fucking. died side by side w/ this dude without like. a second thought u think he wouldn’t like or trust barry after that..... miss me w/ that ( also ummmmmmm sidenote but if travis / griffin don’t expand on that friendship....... 🔫🔫 )

TWO THINGS YOUR MUSE REGRETS:

1. julia. again, magnus will always, always blame himself for what happened to her. like. he left. for a chair. he should’ve been smarter, he should’ve seen it coming, but he didn’t and he left her & ravensroost alone for a fuckin chair. & like. even though he knows it was the right thing to do, the rebellion was him ? & kalen was him. if he’d killed him when he got the chance, if he hadn’t left julia alone, if he hadn’t brought about the rebellion ( no matter how much good it did, because it didn’t even matter in the end anyway ), julia would still be alive ? it was his fault and his mistake and julia never should’ve had to pay for that and he’ll literally never forgive himself uuuuuuh anYWAYS  

2. this kinda. goes hand in hand w/ the last one and is more,,, of a Concept than a direct thing but magnus just. he hurts for everyone he cant save ? sometimes it’s easier for him if it comes down to strangers or his friends ( in which case the choice is obvious & easy ) but like. with ravens roost or phandalin or fuckin. the trust or forsake thing in wonderland or every planet they hadn’t managed to save from the hunger it just,,,,, wrecks him and he takes it so hard because like ? protecting ppl is his fucking deal. it’s,,, what he does best ? who even is he if he can’t do that ?

A PHOBIA YOUR MUSE HAS:

1. it’s not really a phobia i don’t think but mag is scared shitless of spiders. he gets so so panicky and like. shaky ? n cant rly breathe when they’re in his proximity and he always has to calm down for like. an hour after he sees one aaaa,,, me 2 mag  :/ 

TAGGED BY:  @fromtv​ uuuh i lov u ?

TAGGING: :OO @fireperished​ & @bcttledscul n anyone else whom wants to bc tagging makes me Anxiety hgnjf ( feel free 2 say i tagged u tho 👀 ) 

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mun's opinion on whitley, whitley opinion on mun, whitley opinion on billy, mun opinion on billy, whitley opinion on sierra, mun opinion on sierra

this ask admittedly hurt my head and where did this come from? suppose i can’t expect predictability from my fans but what better is there to do only minutes before my psychology test???

mun ➝ whitley: i created whitley in my dramatics class in high school so needless to say she is precious to me. above all else i think, also know, she’s one of the strongest characters i’ve ever written. when you think about incriminating your father for your whole hometown, her hero just to save her unborn sister it’s kind of a hard decision for a 10 year old, younger than that. her whole life she’s sacrificed everything that a child, teen, adult is meant to experience for her sister and in the end, the price of her own happiness was her sisters death SO. i have a lot of feelings about her. promise. the plan was always for presley to die, by the way. it wasn’t just bait to hurt sierra and ryan even tho i thoroughly enjoyed it.

whitley ➝ mun: mostly she hates me. i mean look what I’ve made her life out to be?? there’s times when she wants to pat my head and help me on my endeavors but for the most part she thinks i’m a weak ass lil hoe and she’s RIGHT. i think we’d be good friends, like the kind that is always bickering at each other but would go to the ends of the earth protecting one another? you feel? yeah.

whitley ➝ billy: she loves him, obviously. she worked for him for so many years and had always admired him. hard to believe this shit storm was born out of a maid au isn’t it folks??? anyway she always admired the hold he had on his life and home and he was just really stable. from her point of view as his worked, anyway. as much as she is annoyed with him 23/7 she can’t really imagine her relationship being anything less than. as much as she may pretend that some romantic shit is what she wants, this is what she wants. she wants things to be rough and real and complicated and she loves what she has with him. they’re unapologetically themselves and well. shut up she loves him a lot. he may be responsible for her biggest loss but also, two of her best gains in life. love and a son of her own.

mun ➝ billy: complicated questions i guess? i’d probably have a really fun time annoying him as i tend to do with real stiff people. in which case he’d probably kill my ass like he doesn’t need my drama in his life. overall i think he’s often in a hard position, pun lowkey intended?? it’s a life i’ll never understand as much as I try to. i love his depth as a human being because he has a firm grasp on his life and what he wants blah blah. i love him, but like a smol troubled brother in law, you know?

whitley ➝ sierra: wHaLE that’s a harder question bc well, sierra’s opinions are always very within herself and whitley tends to determined her feelings by someone’s opinions of her. shitty, i know. but it’s true. in which case i guess she’s honored to be considered for billy? bc ya girl is a talented popular writer who was baited in her trash life and blog. she is grateful, as am i to be graced with her skill.

mun ➝ sierra: is this a serious one? how gay do you want me to gET? i love her like. can i end there? of course not. i’ve never met someone so compassionate and understanding, so supportive and loving and encouraging. talking to her makes me feel at ease, so long as she’s actually responding. for quite awhile i wasn’t as much of a flagrant hoe?? i wasn’t sort of closed off or as much as I could be and get ready, super gay. i really didn’t love and openly love myself until i knew her. for that i am eternally grateful. we’re really oppposites and it balances out for the most part. two steps forward, two steps back. we fit together ‘cause opposites attract. kk. sometimes i don’t think i’ll ever know someone who understands me as much as she does? it’s exhausting to even try and expect the same understanding and love i get from her from others. unfair expectations i suppose. i will always love her. end scene.

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Digital marketers out there! You should take website security on a very serious note. That’s because the less number of online security measures you have on the website, Google is not going to spare you. Your SEO Rankings deter automatically.

Learn about these security measures in the absence of which your Google Rankings are going to be drastically affected.

HTTPS- A Digital marketer is always aware of his search engine optimization rankings. Yes, Google always prefers a high-quality website. But the thing is not only about pleasing google. Your target should be users. They should be pleased. They should get everything they want in time. So your results must have the following adjectives in them-

– Relevant

– Authoritative

– Safe for interaction

If your website is unsafe, it ruins the user’s safety. Your website automatically gets a bad impression. People will throw wench in your SEO.

The only way is to secure data on your website and showing them to the users. This can only be done with the help of the HTTPS Protocol. Purchase an SSL Certificate as soon as possible for that.

If you are still on the HTTP trend, you are at risk of getting outdated. Google has made the HTTPS as a ranking factor many years before.

Also, the lack of protection in your websites makes it vulnerable to hackers. We know it takes months and years to get your SEO right. So no matter how much high quality the content is, it should be served to utter protection.

Why would anyone want their hard work to be tampered with?

SEO is the sole reason for many websites getting hacked. You might prefer link building. That’s it’s very important to work with reputed sites.

Hackers can even hack your link building. They can associate you to places where you do not want your website to be associated with. Search Engines especially Google are very much detective in these spams. Then the worst happens to you. You get blacklisted.

If you adopt security measures such as HTTPS, it restores the integrity of your website. You assure Google your website is hard to tamper with. And, the worst part of blacklisting is. “Even if you clean up your site after being blacklisted, it can take a while to get back to where you were before in the rankings.”

This is how users get to know you are trustworthy. If people by any chance get red flags on your website, they get the notion that your website is not secured.

If users get to know you are devoid of HTTPS, they will not waste a second in leaving the place. The worst happens if they get a direct notification that it’s not secured.

Sorry to say, if your website ranks lower and has high bounce rates, you are lacking security measures.

You might go and fix the issue, but people have already had a bad experience. So it will take time to get back the credibility. Users must leave your site with a positive experience. ALWAYS!

This is the secret to score good SEO.

Let’s speak on the boosting in computer program rankings. It’s so thrilling to expertise Google on its speedy progress of confirming a secure web site created with the SSL certificate. What matters is its future advantage over different websites that don’t seem to be secure and encrypted. It then speeds towards different computer program optimization factors (SEO) that stay identical. you may be pleasantly shocked to calculate the precise impact of the SSL certificates. However, that method isn’t that bright enough to be out there broadly speaking.

The number of impacts of the SSL certificate to induce lit of judgment is admittedly short once it’s compared with the journey of another web site. That web site may need to be reached an analogous niche with thousands of additional powerful backlinks, a traditional feature within the past.

It has been found maybe there’s a plus of waiting to possess 1000+, not usual backlinks! the choice ought to be created bent an additional powerful one. Ascension on this advantage, it signifies far more prosperity than disbursement off to not have the encrypted Secure connection( an SSL certificate).

Even at unearthly hour, web site house owners ought to perceive the importance of living around with the SSL certificate. Your web site then simply as if by magic flows through the traffic to the highest of the computer program results page.

If you overflow with the data of different computer program ranking factors, tho’ they team in all righteous things, the amendment within the work culture with SSL certificate can provide them their web site the abundant enhancing way of booming with the powerful and competitive niche.

There are many case studies of reworking the computer program ranking into a substantial boost. Cloudtec practiced a growing metropolis of just about doubling the quantity of high ten computer program rankings. Celebrations came about solely on the switch from http:// to https://.

Brian Dean from Backlino was conjointly ne’er weary of finding out the attainable impact of HTTPS. He tossed and turned informed however a web site ranks within the SERPs. He appreciated teaming up with SimilarWeb, MarketMuse, Ahrefs, and SEMRush to review the spectacular changes that had taken place within the necessary information. He was then comfortable and conversant in “HTTPS is moderately related with higher computer program rankings on Google’s initial page.”

Some direct effects of HTTPS on a site’s computer program rankings are created out there. The SSL certificate stays on touching a site’s rankings and geographic area at rock bottom line.

It’s ne’er wrong to believe the statement that rising SEO is often hunted for improving user expertise. There aren’t any aspersions on SSL certificate rising user expertise. To the data of SSL, it’s higher to be sophisticated with the very fact that if an individual lands on browsing unsafe web site, he would be considerably subjected to visible indicators that are significantly unsecured. Google Chrome is mixed with years of expertise and asks to quit browsing that page.

The unencrypted websites that are on the brink of life are subjected to specific shame. Google Chrome is making the platform for experiencing the various ups and downs of web security such as general internet users owe to an improved judgment. They currently waved by superficial factors and stay far from visiting unencrypted websites. The knowledge explosion on http:// websites (sites while not SSL certificates) is, however, no that simple these days.

Web site house owners and bloggers are to confine their data to the purpose that websites that provide poor user expertise will ne’er hunt to rank on high positions within the SERPs. It’s a vital call as a result of in relevancy unencrypted websites while not SSL certificates. Users don’t seem to be that eager and optimistic concerning their expertise.

This is for on-line users who seek for a selected keyword and our web site is protected within the search lists via Google. Thus he clicks it and in haste lands on the homepage wherever he intends to fill a kind. On the opposite hand, he’s seasoned and cautioned by the Google Chrome indicator that the web site isn’t secure. He makes a rational call of quitting it inside seconds of landing thereon.

Google takes a balanced read of things. They apprehend the virtue of patience and tolerance of assorted web site users. It’s in an exceedingly far better position to trace what percentage website guests attain the firm call of quitting the web site now. Take this recommendation as sensible and helpful as a result of Google can ultimately delegate your web site within the SERPs. Besides fewer traffic views features a tendency to form fewer backlinks, infectious agent traffic, higher engagement rate, .etc

Hence you must not follow the dictates of your heart while browsing, train your mind that you simply have to be compelled to have an encrypted web site.

Don’t be simply moved unless you’re positive that you simply have an applicable SSL certificate for your web site. It’s the browsing aesthetic attractiveness that the positioning ought to be 100 percent encrypted and safe for your site guests.

Be vulnerable to the right call of browsing and choose an SSL Certificate. With sound time it’ll go a protracted means in establishing trust. Logically speaking, there may well be instances of you not encrypting your web site. Within the future, there’ll return each day once, not having the SSL Certificate may price you your guests, maybe even your business may well be ruined.

This SSL Certificate is sophisticated as a result of it’s comparatively simple to implement and that they lack the flexibility to interrupt your checking account. With levels of SSL Certificates, the attribute is measured by the amount of security you wish. Web site house owners and bloggers, if your web site collects emails and passwords, build correct use of this valuable SSL Certificate as a result of its right for you.

So what does one think? Ought to SSL certificates exercise management over your website?