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Shadows and Darkness: One and the Same (ch. 7)

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This fic is meant to be read in connection with my Azriel-centric prequel stories. I would highly suggest reading those first to get the full reading experience of this fic. 

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“And so there you have it,” Lena said, slamming the now empty bottle of wine back on the table. She took in a deep breath, smiling at them all. “Questions?”

“You went to the queens’ palace?”

Lena blinked as everyone at the table whirled their gaze to Nesta, who was clearly waiting on an answer.

“Um — yes. Yes, I went to the queens’ palace,” Lena spluttered. “The King sent me there to placate them and—”

“So you could go back,” Nesta interrupted. “You could go to their palace, they would let you back in and we could kill all of them. Or you could go back to that King of yours, pretend to be loyal to him.”

In an even, low voice, Azriel said firmly, “She’s not going back there.”

Silence descended over the table.

“Nesta,” Feyre said finally, clearing her throat, “The mortal queens will die. As will the King. But we aren’t going to use Lena to do it.”

“On the contrary,” Lena jumped in, crossing her legs brazenly, “I will certainly be of use killing all of those bastards. I have plenty of useful information about Hybern and the queens. I can meet with Cassian tonight and—”

“Tomorrow,” Cassian said. “We’ll go over it tomorrow. You need to rest.”

Lena looked poised to object, but at the expression of pure concern on Cassian’s face she simply nodded and gave him a small, grateful smile.

“We’re calling a meeting between all of the High Lords,” Feyre said. Her eyes shot to Rhys at her side, whose eyes were glassy as he watched his little sister after hearing her harrowing story “We may need you and Nesta to provide testimony to our allies of what Hybern has done. What they’re capable of.”

At the exact same time, both Lena and Nesta said, “No.”

The two females looked at each other from across the table in surprise.

“You said earlier you were fine going to the Court of Nightmares with Amren to prepare for patching up the wall, but you won’t speak to people about—”

“We’re not whores selling out our stories, Feyre,” Lena snapped. Rhys seemed to finally snap out of whatever daze he was in at her tone. “I only told all of you everything I have been through because you are family and deserved to know. Well, three of you I only met today, but you’re family by association I suppose.” She gave a semi-apologetic glance to Lucien and Nesta while Amren only laughed darkly. “I’m not going to relive my trauma in front of the other High Lords to convince them to stop the King when they should do that out of common decency regardless.”

“And I’m not going to grovel to those High Lords who would have gladly killed me as a mortal to try and garner their sympathy,” Nesta added, her voice coated with much more venom than Lena’s.

“The High Lords may not believe our account—” Feyre tried to say.

“Then it is not my fault you are unreliable,” Nesta spat, standing to her feet. “I’ll help with the wall, but she is right,” she looked over to Lena who was silent, observing, “I am not going to whore out my story to everyone for you. And if you even dare suggest that to Elain, I will rip out your throat.”

Silence descended over the table, as Nesta met everyone’s eyes, extending the threat. When she met Lena’s though, she found curiosity and amusement written there. That only seemed to enrage Nesta further and she threw down her napkin and stormed out of the dining room.

Feyre sighed, leaning her head back against the chair.

“You know I think that went well,” Lena said after a few more moments of quiet. Everyone turned to look at her and she chuckled. “Although I am upset that I bore my soul to you all only to have the attention diverted from me so quickly.”

“Lena, you don’t have to tell the High Lords everything you just told us,” Feyre said quickly. “You can tell them the parts you’re comfortable sharing. Your story is more than enough to—”

“No,” Lena interrupted firmly. “It’s not. Feyre, the spell that the King convinced me to stay with wasn’t even real. Technically, I stayed of my own free will.”

“Helion will attest to your belief in it,” Mor jumped in. “You went to see him, he’ll vouch for you.”

“It doesn’t matter,” Lena said, sighing heavily. “As soon as I start telling them all who I was and what the King made me do, they’ll want to kill me on sight. Everyone has heard stories about Hybern’s nameless, faceless weapon. I’ve killed innocents from every one of their Courts. Even if I told them everything, I would likely harm your cause more than help it. I’m sorry.” She looked over to Rhys. “I’m sorry, Rhys. If there’s another way, I’ll do it, just say the word. But if it’s any consolation, I sincerely doubt Nesta is actually opposed to telling them her story. When the time comes, she’ll do it.”

“Why do you say that?” Cassian asked.

“Because she’s decent. I mean, she’s certainly a bitch, that much is for sure.” Feyre growled, but Lena held up her hands. “I mean no disrespect. Everyone is entitled to being a bitch every now and then. People act the way they do for a reason and she has plenty I suppose. But beneath all of that bitchiness is someone that’s hurt. And hurt people are typically the ones who work the hardest to prevent others from being hurt. And she’s young — by both human and fae standards. She hasn’t learned how to manage her emotions, she doesn’t even know who she is at this point really. But she will do what she needs to do when the time comes.”

The ensuing silence was only broken as Lucien’s chair scrubbed against the floor when he stood up suddenly.

“I believe that you all likely have family business to discuss,” he said formally, albeit a bit awkwardly. Lena’s eyes widened as he said directly to her, “I am incredibly sorry for what you have been through.” He opened his mouth to say more, but then changed his mind and gave a weak smile before turning and leaving the room.

“He’s nice,” Lena said casually, sliding Cassian’s plate in front of her and picking through his leftovers.

“Lena.” Rhys’s voice was hoarse and thick with emotion. “I’m… I’m so sorry. You must know that if for a second I believed that you were—”

Lena grabbed Cassian’s fork and pointed it at her brother threateningly. “Rhysand I swear if you ever apologize to me for things beyond your control again I will shove this fork so far up your ass you will taste it. Nothing that happened to me was your fault. It was nobody’s fault but the King’s.”

“You know I actually do have a question,” Cassian said suddenly, folding his hands on the table and looking between Azriel and Lena. “How did you two manage to keep your relationship hidden from the rest of us for an entire month? Were you two hiding in broom closets or…?”

“Cassian,” Rhys groaned.

Lena only laughed and smirked over at Azriel, whose high cheekbones were flushed with pink. “I think I recall a broom closet or two,” she said with a wink.

“Why didn’t you tell us what she was to you, Az?” Mor asked, and the amusement around the table dropped instantly. “It’s been centuries and you were suffering alone.”

“It was my burden to bear,” he said simply. Lena looked away, the food in front of her suddenly much more interesting.

Rhys stood up suddenly, making half the table jump. “You,” he said, pointing to Azriel, “I need to speak with you in private.”

“Rhys—”

“No, Lena, it’s fine,” Azriel said gently, standing to his feet. Rhys leaned down and whispered something in Feyre’s ear as Azriel came around the table. He paused next to Lena’s seat and took a deep breath, thinking through his next words carefully. “If you’ll allow me, I will do whatever is in my power to help you heal. However you want me, I’m yours.”

Lena held her breath, nodding as she blinked quickly and forced herself to look away.

“Az,” Rhys snapped, drawing his brother’s attention. Azriel glanced down at Lena once more and resisted the urge to press his lips to her forehead before following Rhys out of the dining room.

~~~~~

“Rhys, I—”

“No,” Rhys snapped, whirling on Azriel as they stepped out onto the balcony on the opposite side of the House, as far from the dining room as they could get. “I am going to talk and you are going to listen. Do you understand?”

That’s all I’ve been doing this entire evening, Azriel thought to himself.

He nodded, mentally preparing himself for the worst.

Azriel and Rhys never fought. Rhys and Cassian, yes. Azriel and Cassian, certainly yes. But the Shadowsinger had had conflicting opinions and emotions with Rhys perhaps five or six times since they had known one another. They agreed on most things, and Azriel’s loyalty persevered to a fault sometimes.

But Azriel knew that this was different. This wasn’t just about he and Rhys — it was about Lena. Rhys’s sister, the little girl they had all taken care of as young males. Rhys had been a father to her in ways that Aeron never had been. She was his world and he had thought her dead for centuries. Only to have her return and find out her heart had been given to his best friend — his brother in every way but blood.

Azriel couldn’t imagine what Rhys was feeling. And he felt that ever present guilt and shame within him growing more and more as Rhys ran a trembling hand through his hair and stared at him with a rare expression of vulnerability.

“You’re my brother,” Rhys said simply. “You became my brother the day my mother brought you into our home. You know that Cassian and I claimed you that very day, don’t you?”

Azriel nodded, trying to control his shadows from curling in on him.

“And Lena… she’s my sister. My sister, Azriel. She’s — dammit Az, you know. You know, she’s Lena for Cauldron’s sake.”

Azriel was silent as Rhys began to pace. He hadn’t seen his brother this erratic since he had become High Lord.

Laughing humorlessly, Rhys placed his palms on the balcony ledge, shaking his head as he looked out over the city.

“I used to dream that she was still alive. Of what life here might be like. I would certainly be a better High Lord — if I were High Lord at all.” He looked over his shoulder then and Azriel felt like he had been punched in the gut at the sheer emotion in Rhys’s gaze. “You know two days before she was taken, right before you two ran off to that cabin we never knew about… you told me something. You told me that I needed to start being her brother instead of trying to father her the way that Aeron never had. And you were right, Az. I needed to just be her brother for once, and I wanted to. But I never got the chance because I thought she was dead.”

Azriel flinched. “I’m sorry—”

“My world died, Azriel,” Rhys trudged on, stalking right up to the Shadowsinger. “My world died right alongside my mother and sister, and the only way I kept going was because of all of you. You, Cassian, and Mor. You kept me alive because you knew the grief that I was going through, I let you all see my pain. And because of that you knew how to help me, how to keep me going. So why the hell didn’t you let us do the same for you?”

Azriel blinked. “What?”

Rhys scoffed, reaching forward suddenly and grabbing Azriel by the shoulders and embracing him tightly. Azriel tensed, afraid that perhaps he was going to be misted any second, but when he realized that Rhys was only hugging him, he cautiously returned the gesture.

Rhys pulled away and shook his head in weak amusement. “Az, you’re one of the most intelligent people I know and you are an idiot. You’re my best friend and I trust you with not only my life, but my mate’s life and the well-being of my Court. And there is no one — no one better suited for my sister.”

Azriel’s breath hitched. “But before, you clearly were upset about us.”

“I was hurt, I’m not ashamed to admit it.” Rhys shrugged. “The thought of you with her is… still strange. It will take getting used to. And I suppose that I — I’m selfish enough that I wished I had been the person she was most happy to be coming back to.”

Azriel looked away. “You’re still her brother, Rhys. She would choose you over me in a heartbeat.”

“No, no she wouldn’t,” Rhys said with a weak smile. “It’s different with a mate. If it were between you and me, she would sacrifice herself on the slightest chance of saving both of us. You’ll understand as things... progress.”

Azriel chuckled, running a hand through his messy hair. “I don’t know how you did it, Rhys. With Feyre, when she was in the Spring Court — both times. The moment I saw Lena last night, and felt the bond, it just—”

“Changed your whole world,” Rhys finished. Azriel loosed a breath, nodding. “I know. Which is why I know you’ll never hurt her.”

Azriel shook his head. “Never.”

Rhys smiled, his shoulders relaxing. “You know, when she was younger I always thought that she would end up with Cassian.”

Azriel’s nostrils flared and he cursed as Rhys laughed at him. A heartbeat later Azriel was lunging, grabbing Rhys in a headlock. Rhys only laughed harder, but they both went silent when they heard a slightly amused voice call out —

“It’s been five hundred years and you morons still act like twelve year olds.”

The two males stood up immediately and for a moment they both felt like they had been transported to the Illyrian camps as teenagers once again, being scolded by Wren for wrestling in the house.

But it wasn’t Wren scolding them. It was Lena, standing next to Cassian, the pair of them staring in amusement. Cassian was trying hard not to laugh while Lena had her arms crossed and a neat eyebrow raised.

“Are you two done?” She asked. “Or should I give you guys a moment to make out?”

“Did you hear that, Lena?” Cassian said. “Rhys thought we would have been a couple. We would have been the most attractive pair in all of Prythian.”

“And Hybern,” Lena pointed out. “I can attest that all of those Hybern fae are ugly inside and out.”

“Alas, we would have been too beautiful together,” Cassian continued. “The Cauldron knew that you, being a 10, needed an 8 to keep the balance and not overwhelm all the poor 7 and unders of the world.”

“I think it’s safe to say I’m a 9,” Azriel said drily, eyes narrowing at Cassian, who only laughed.

“9.8,” Lena said quickly. Azriel snapped his gaze to her and she grinned wickedly.

“Well this 10 is going to give you two some privacy,” Rhys said suddenly, turning to Lena. “The 6 and I will meet with you tomorrow morning to discuss what you know about Hybern’s armies.”

“6?” Cassian cried indignantly.

“Actually,” Lena said, hesitating just slightly, “I was wondering if I could talk to you tonight, Rhys. About some other things. Meet me on the roof in half an hour?” Rhys’s eyes widened. “I mean, it’s okay if you can’t. I’m sure with Feyre back you two probably want to just be alone together, but—”

“No, no,” Rhys said quickly. “I can be on the roof. Half an hour.”

Lena smiled. “Okay. I’ll see you then.”

Cassian grumbled something under his breath about not being a 6 as he gave Lena a quick hug before snapping his wings wide and taking off into the sky. Rhys rolled his eyes and embraced her tightly and clapped Azriel on the shoulder before following after Cassian into the night.

Lena chuckled as she watched the pair began to race down to the city. As they left her line of sight though, she became acutely aware of Azriel’s presence behind her. With a deep breath, she willed herself to turn and face him.

And it struck her all over again. Her Azriel — her mate. Finally together again. She swallowed back her fear that she felt ashamed of even feeling.

“I really don’t want to cry,” she said suddenly. “I’ve cried enough and it is really annoying me at this point so we can just agree to no tears?”

Azriel chuckled, looking down at his feet as he put his hands in his pockets. He hoped she couldn’t tell that it was to keep from reaching out and touching her.

“I think I can do that,” he said with a small smile that cut straight to Lena’s heart. How she had missed that smile.

Lena cleared her throat, hopping up on the balcony ledge and swinging her legs. Azriel couldn’t help but grin at the familiar sight.

“So,” she said, biting her lip and looking up at him. “Rhys is alright with… everything?”

Azriel nodded. “He seemed to be.”

“Good, good. That’s good,” Lena stammered.

Azriel watched in awe as the moonlight reflected off the dark tones of her hair making it look almost blue. The sheer fabric of her dress swished around her legs as she continued to swing her feet. She had taken off her heels at some point and he wanted to laugh — she had always hated heels, but loved the intimidation factor of walking into a room and having everyone be quiet as the shoes clacked on the floor.

“So that was… a lot,” she spoke again, snapping Azriel out of his reverie. “In there. The whole story, I mean.”

Azriel froze. His shadows stilled as he took in the female in front of him — the powerful, strong female that he would die for in a heartbeat but much preferred to live for.

“Lena, you are… incredible,” he said, the words coming out of him as if of their own volition, as if his heart couldn’t fathom not saying them. She cocked her head to the side. “You’re incredible.”

“I’m… Azriel, how can you even say that?” She asked incredulously. “You just found out that I’ve been working for the King of Hybern for the last 500 years and didn’t so much as try to write a note and let you know that I was alive. I never told you we were mates even though I’ve known since my twentieth birthday — that was two years before I was taken.”

“You worked for the King because you thought you were protecting me,” Azriel said quickly. He took a step closer to her. “You did all of those things for me, for all of us. Do I wish you had told me we were mates? Of course. But it doesn’t matter. Because I fell in love with you all the same.” He took yet another step closer, pausing when he heard her breath hitch. “You saved my life, Lena. You risked everything to save me when I was in the Middle and I didn’t even know it was you.”

“I killed your friend,” Lena cried out. “Breen, that was his name, wasn’t it? That’s whose name you said when you tried to kill me out on the ice.” Azriel flinched. “I killed the very creature I asked to save you, and I let them throw that faebane in your face to begin with!”

“You,” Azriel said, surging forward and capturing Lena’s face gently between his hands, “have been to hell and back thousands of times over and you did it all for us. You are absolutely and utterly incredible, Lena. You’re remarkable. And so unbelievably strong. And I know you don’t believe it yet but I do. And that will just have to be enough for now until I can show you how wonderful you are.”

Lena inhaled sharply, her eyes firmly trained on Azriel’s. A single tear slipped from her eye and she cursed.

Azriel chuckled, swiping his thumb over the tear with the utmost gentleness. “Sorry. I know you didn’t want to cry.”

“I wish I could say I was surprised,” she muttered, rolling her eyes.

Azriel smiled down at her and then paused, taking note of the way he stood between her legs, their chests barely inches apart. Lena must have realized it at the same time he did and the air shifted as the tension rose between them. With a small clear of his throat, Azriel dropped his hands and took a single step backwards.

Lena took a deep breath, straightening out the bottom of her dress as she pressed her legs together.

Azriel put one hand in his pocket and lifted the other to scratch the back of his head, looking down at his feet. He snapped his gaze back up when he heard Lena chuckling.

“What is it?”

“Nothing,” she said with a shake of her head. “It’s just… the way that the dreams worked, they played off my actual memories. And Rydan, he used to do that all the time. That same stance of yours, one hand in his pocket and the other scratching his head. I must have always noticed the way you did that.”

Azriel went very still, lowering his hand slowly.

“I know it sounds so ridiculous,” Lena murmured, unable to meet his gaze. “That I could miss someone that wasn’t even real. It’s just that… I remember it so clearly. The way he moved around in my womb. Giving birth to him — Cauldron, it hurt so bad I broke three bones in your poor hand and two in Rhys’s. I remember nursing him and holding him. His first words were ‘Uncle Cass,’ which we never lived down and Rhys was very jealous of. I just…” She looked up then and saw the devastated expression on Azriel’s face. “I’m sorry, you probably think that I’m delusional, I—”

“No,” Azriel said firmly. Lena’s eyebrows shot up at the intensity in his voice. “I don’t think that, not for one second. It doesn’t matter if he was real by everyone else’s standards. If he’s real in your heart, then he’s real.”

Lena swallowed thickly, blinking away more tears. “Thank you. And I know that this is sick and kind of twisted, but… I wish you could know him. Real you, not — not dream you.”

Azriel smiled sadly, trying his best to keep his utter grief from showing on his face. The knowledge that Lena had experienced the life he had always wanted for them — and it had been a form of torture — wrecked him. The knowledge that she had a son with him, she had his child, and he would never know them… it felt like he needed to mourn alongside her.

“Maybe one day I can,” he said softly. Lena looked at him incredulously. “I mean whenever you’re ready, perhaps… perhaps you can show me. In here.” He tapped the side of his temple. “Only when you’re ready though.”

Lena’s eyes lit up and slowly, ever so slowly, her lips turned up in the brightest smile Azriel had seen in centuries.

“Really?” She asked softly. “Maybe — maybe after all of this is over? After we kill the King and fix the wall and things are hopefully back to normal?”

Azriel swore to himself right then and there that he would fight harder against Hybern than he had fought in anything before if only to give Lena that sense of safety and normalcy she clearly longed for.

“Of course,” he choked out. “Of course.” Lena smiled even wider, looking away when his gaze became too intense. “And Lena, I… I want you to know that I meant what I said before. However you want me, I’m yours. As a mate, a lover, a friend… I’m yours. I know that the bond is there for both of us now and I will always love you with my entire soul—” Lena inhaled sharply— “but I will be yours in whatever way is best for you to heal. There are no expectations. You tell me what you need, and I will give it to you.”

Lena bit her lip as it trembled and Azriel could practically hear the way she was undoubtedly cursing herself for almost crying again.

“How about,” she began, forcing her voice to be even, “we take it slow. One day at a time. We still have a war to fight and I know it’s going to take some getting used to for everyone that I’m back, so… why don’t we just figure it out as we go? No expectations.”

Azriel loosed a breath. That wasn’t a rejection. Even if it had been, he would have stepped away, but the pain would have been… unfathomable.

“No expectations,” he agreed. “So are we friends?”

Lena laughed suddenly and the sound had Azriel grinning. “Az I think we both know that ‘friends’ has always been too small a word for you and I. We’re still… us.” A thoughtful expression came over her then and she smiled softly. “Remember the bridge?”

“Of course,” Azriel said instantly.

“Well I still see you,” she said. Azriel’s heart stuttered in his chest as she repeated those words from so long ago to him. “Do you still see me?”

“Always,” he said hoarsely. “Always.”

~~~~~

“You’re late.”

Lena rolled her eyes as she flipped herself over the edge of the rooftop and landed in an easy crouch, glaring at her brother as he only smirked. She still couldn’t quite get over how much older he looked and yet… he was still the exact same. It was strange. She couldn’t imagine how he felt seeing her — the age in her eyes and the scar on her face.

“I had to change,” she said simply, walking over and plopping down next to him so that their feet dangled off the edge. Indeed, she had changed out of her dress into pants and a loose sweater that Rhys was fairly certain she had stolen from their mother’s old room.

“You didn’t fly up here,” Rhys observed, his voice too even to be casual. Lena kept her eyes forward. “And you pitched a fit when Cassian offered to fly you up here this morning.”

“I did not pitch a fit.”

“Oh it was a fit.”

“Well I was a bit on edge after having my mind assaulted by the King and almost destroying my own city,” Lena snapped. Rhys had nothing to say to that. “Sorry, that was… unnecessary. It’s been a long day.”

“It’s been a long life,” Rhys said softly. Lena turned her head to look at him. His shoulders sagged and she could almost see the burden weighing upon them. The burden she was supposed to have been there to help him with all these centuries.

Not knowing what she could say to possibly convey her emotions, Lena scooted next to Rhys until they were knee-to-knee. He looked down at her curiously, but she only drew her legs up in a criss-cross and stated matter-of-factly, “You are a damn good High Lord, Rhys.”

Rhys started, his eyebrows shooting up in surprise. “What?”

“You heard me,” she said. “Look at this.” She gestured to the city below them. “This city is radiating more life and joy than it ever did when our father was High Lord. I walked around the city today before the dinner, staying hidden so people didn’t think they were seeing a ghost. The people though, the way they talk about you… they love you. You are an amazing leader, Rhys.”

“You would have been better,” he said softly. “You were the one that was made for this. If you had been there when Father died, the power would have transferred to you and maybe—”

“But it didn’t,” Lena said firmly. “Rhys it went to you for a reason.”

“It went to me because you were kidnapped.”

“No it went to you because this city needed you. This Court needed you. It needed a dreamer who still chose to dream in spite of their grief. It needed someone willing to sacrifice everything for years to protect their people.”

“You did that, too.”

“No, I didn’t,” Lena said. “I sacrificed everything because of only a few people. Make no mistake Rhys, I don’t know how to consider the greater good when my family is on the line. You do.”

Rhys had nothing to say to that.

“And that’s why you’re High Lord,” Lena continued. “And why I have utter faith in Feyre as High Lady now.”

“I wish that—” Rhys hesitated, but Lena gave him a look to go on. “I love Feyre, and I don’t regret making her High Lady for one second. But if I had known you were still alive, that you would be coming back to us, maybe… maybe I would have waited. For you to come back and take the title.”

Lena chuckled, shaking her head as she looked over the city. “No, you made the right choice with Feyre. Perhaps who I was before was suited to be a leader, but not who I am now.” She looked back at Rhys. “You and Feyre are exactly what this city and Court need. And what Prythian needs, too. It’s not about sheer power. It’s about leadership and heart, something the two of you have in a way I could never match.”

Rhys smiled thoughtfully. “Thank you,” he said. “Though if it were about sheer power, you would definitely have us beat, as much as I hate to say that.”

Lena threw her head back as she laughed. “Well believe me, if I could give all my power to you I would. It’s not nearly as fun as it sounds.”

“Did you really turn invisible back there?” Rhys asked in wonder. “When you showed up to the dinner?”

Lena chuckled. “Yeah, I learned that about 200 years ago on accident. If you work with the darkness in reverse, you can actually manipulate the light waves around you and within you. It’s difficult, but it makes for a hell of a dramatic entrance.”

“I do love a dramatic entrance,” Rhys said wistfully.

“It must run in the family.”

The two laughed together, a comfortable silence enveloping them shortly thereafter.

“You know when I first saw you,” Rhys finally said, “when I came into that healing room and saw you there on that bed… And I realized it was actually you, I felt like everything was just right again. Despite the war, despite the King, despite all of it, it was right. I had my mate, I had my Circle, my city was safe again, and you were back. You were alive. It was all right again.” He turned and met Lena’s eyes. “And then you had to go and be my best friend’s mate.”

Lena scoffed. “What does that change about anything?”

“It means you’re not just my sister anymore,” Rhys said. “You’re my sister, but you’re also Azriel’s mate. You’re still you, your identity isn’t defined by him, but… it means I have to share you.”

“Well I have to share you with Feyre now,” Lena pointed out.

Rhys tilted his head. “True.”

“Who’d have though we would ever end up here? You’re High Lord, we’re fighting a war together, we’re both mated. Well, you’re mated. I technically just have a mate.”

“What’re you planning on doing about that by the way?” Rhys asked.

“What?”

“Do you plan on being with him? You love him, he loves you, the bond is there… So what are you going to do about it?”

“You mean am I going to wear a pretty dress and have a party where I hand Azriel a piece of bread like a servant girl and let him haul me off like a brute with a new prize cattle?”

Rhys rolled his eyes. “You know it’s not like that.”

“Might as well be,” Lena muttered.

“Seriously.” Rhys nudged her shoulder with his own until she looked at him. “What are you going to do?”

Lena sighed heavily. “I don’t know,” she finally said. “I really don’t. I know that I love him — I always have and I always will, but I’m — I'm not the person he fell in love with anymore. The female he loved died 500 years ago and now I don't really know who I am anymore. And I think I need to figure that out before asking him to make such a commitment to me.”

Rhys was quiet for a moment. “You know that we might not have all that much time,” he said softly.

Lena gave him a weak smile. “I know.”

Rhys only nodded, trusting her decision. “Well as long as you two aren’t hiding in any more broom closets, I’m alright with whatever you decide to do.”

Lena cackled. “You know we hid in your room one time. He had me pressed against your dresser when he did this thing with his tongue on my neck and—”

Lena squealed as Rhys grabbed her by the shoulders and mussed up her hair, trying to cover her mouth with his hand.

Real life and hard choices awaited them tomorrow. But that night, the two heirs of the Night Court were able to simply be brother and sister the way they had always wanted.

Beyond the Cauldron, somewhere in another world perhaps, they both hoped that Wren was smiling down upon them.

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Grand Theft Auto 5 is re-released on Smart phone, too, such as Android as well as IOS. So GTA 5 Android is precisely comparable to the PC/Consoles variation, and the storyline as well as game mechanics are just made portable with the same gameplay, so it is perfect for the mobile players out there. Basically, the changes that are made in GTA V mobile is simply the control as well as video game device. Riding the automobiles appears rather very easy as a result of the easy control mechanism established by CRAZE especially for smart phones.

After each hazardous battle, gamers can quit anywhere to see the scenery of the city. Each scene in this video game is meticulously polished in regards to the image. So it is not only a disorderly area however also includes much poetic beauty. They once failed, however after that they found each other and also the distinction in their characters is what links them to becoming a team. Since then, they have actually been involved in numerous major objectives, showing resistance to the government and simultaneously damaging other distressing challengers in the underworld. Therefore, if you are a gamer that suches as to discover the criminal world.

Whenever a phone is seen on ads, it constantly has a battery life with one sector missing out on (the battery level appears to be at 69%, an additional reference to the 69 sex setting). However, personality's phones have unlimited battery life. In older versions of the video game, if the gamer has twin handguns possessed as well as gets a call, Carl will take out 2 phones. In the console variations of the video game, the phone can likewise be utilized as a type of "extremely handbrake", to instantly quit any type of vehicle, no matter the rate.

For example, the patrol car chase in the game has actually been completely redone, and also the bank break-in mission. The enhanced version of the video game likewise includes the new moped lorry, which can cross the countryside without excessive trouble. The storyline is based upon the renowned book/poem 'We Are Older' written by William Christner.

As GTA V go back to Xbox's preferred Game Pass from Thursday, it has actually additionally been revealed that the video game will certainly now be playable on mobile phones likewise. Make an entrance directly right into the activity ofGTA 5 Mobileby downloading and install the documents at this moment! You must just get break for Android catch and also you're good to go. Attempt not to waste your time on remote continuous communications or emulators with various layouts.

The video game is currently available for gaming consoles and also Windows COMPUTER. It will be launched for PlayStation 5 and also Xbox Series X in late 2021. There is likewise an on the internet multiplayer mode where up to 30 gamers explore the open world where each player can engage into a participating or affordable interaction between themselves. This game series is extremely well-known by gamers and also reviewers for it having a flexible story as well as loaded with action. This GTA 5 for Android has the very same attribute as the PC variation and also PS3/PS4 variation have. The only thing that differs in this version is you can not play this game on your android tools in the first-person mode. We are still trying to make it feasible on this version.

Bear in mind, you'll be play the preferred game only via Vapor Link, which is the electronic distribution service. Rockstar additionally said that although it may shed some "performance", it will certainly acquire brand-new features also. Rockstar defined it as being a contemporary phone, with Dan Houser saying that the player will certainly use it for things like "accessing the web",.

The various other one is created apples iphone, iPads, and also various iDevices that are fit for boosting the game. GTA BOOM is the initial source for all things Grand Theft Auto. We are the only site devoted to publishing everyday GTA information and also have the biggest collection of GTA game guides readily available anywhere. Using the invincibility cell phone cheat codePlease read our FAQ if you experience any concerns utilizing these cheats, or if you have any type of concerns.

Even more information was launched on the internet site on 24 August, 6 September, as well as 13 September. Superstar Games initially verified the video game's existence on 25 October 2011 in an announcement on its main website and also Twitter feed. Take-Two Interactive's share cost ultimately enhanced by 7 per cent. Journalists said the statement stired up substantial expectancy within the video gaming market, which they owed to the collection' cultural significance. The game did not fulfill its initial forecasted March-- May 2013 release day. By 30 October 2012, marketing posters had spread to the Internet, as well as a listing by the store Game had actually dripped the forecasted release date.

Superstar Games made their ton of money from this highly prominent in addition to debatable franchise. The entire series redefined the standard of open world gaming. Grand Theft Auto V is the current entrance in the schedule, originally introduced on PlayStation 3 and also Xbox 360 in 2013.

If you bought the video game from an additional Store, you would certainly need to add the executable data of the game to Heavy steam. The developer did a wonderful job on their parameters and also images. The programmer attempted to keep all the functions as well as move the video game to Android phones and also tablets without shedding capability. If you have not attempted the video game yet, after that we advise that you do it today. This video game is not a main growth of Superstar Games. The video game is improperly enhanced, so it will certainly be tough to run it on the majority of smart devices.

These two video games are additionally quite prominent till currently in the entire Grand Theft Auto collection due to a range of factors. In this contemporary gaming period, Graphics make a decision how effective any type of game is. There is no comparison in between the graphics of GTA 5 and also GTA San Andreas, GTA 5 functions excellent and top notch graphics that look even more sensible than GTA San Andreas. We understand there is a significant difference between the release day of both of these video games, but to be really honest GTA 5 is a clear winner based upon realities and logic. Hundreds of people are currently able to play this GTA 5 on their Android devices.

If you remember i have published GTA 5 Lite 100MB variation prior to yet this game is various. This video game is developed by MikeGaming who has a working YouTube Network. You will get to play Its GTA5 mod apk Objective with mostly all primary game information on it Grand Theft Auto 5 was released in 2013 as well as is still amongst the most played video games, many thanks to its ever expanding on the internet setting called GTA Online. As well as while the video game doesn't have a mobile variation, it's really feasible to play on your Android phone if you desire. The game first introduced on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, after that made its means to COMPUTER.

We will certainly update new functioning download links immediately. Feel free to ask your any kind of question related to this tutorial via comment section, we will reply you soon. After seeing lots of passion of Android users towards GTA 5, Superstar has actually determined to make this game feasible to operate on Android OS. SO they had developed and launched GTA 5 Apk in beta version.

Superstar in fact made it out of the park from the GTA franchise business. With the arrival of mobile video gaming, they have additionally released many games for Android and also iOS tools. Darrell is a blog owner who likes to stay up to date with the most up to date from the technology and also money globe.

The game welcomes you with wonderful affection to comprehend you for fairly a long time or even months. If you have ever play GTA 5 on your Computer system after that I don't think there is any kind of need to tell you features of this game. Yet you are playing it for the first time then allow you recognize what fantastic functions are included this brand-new game of Superstar Games.

But is is time to take pleasure in GTA V for all Android Gamings fans. One of the most distinguishing characteristic of GTA 5 APK is a revamped story play making up 3 varied protagonists. Michael De Santa, an outlaw that ran away being jailed as well as set himself in a spacious manor where he deals with locating a purposeful lifestyle. That introduction of three separate characters is absolutely something brand-new as we practically have separate storylines as opposed to one extensive plot aimed for one character development. By doing this the gameplay of download GTA 5 is way a lot more interesting.

Considerable adjustments have been made with the increase in the variety of tools modifiers and also the capacity to take turns. Consequently, you can actively switch guns as well as extremely versatile sources whenever you go anywhere. This game's new functions make it much more sensible and also difficult than previous Grand Theft Auto games. And like in various other games of this kind, you will be given numerous alternatives in terms of garments, hairstyles, and also facial expressions.

The storyline teems with twists and turns, and also it's quite remarkable how the entire video game plays out. I never get tired of soaring mobsters, driving about in my individual Lamborghini, and also viewing the property of the abundant as well as famous burn down around you-- all while earning money for it. First COMPUTER variation development started in parallel with PlayStation 3 as well as Xbox 360. COMPUTER growth later paved the way as emphasis shifted to the console releases however ultimately resumed. Since the team had planned a COMPUTER variation from at an early stage, they made technical decisions ahead of time to promote later on growth, like support for 64-bit computer as well as DirectX 11.

The sites asserting to offer you the mobile variation of GTA V are phony. We can only wait for Superstar Gamings to lastly re-release GTA V for mobile devices. Till then, we can take pleasure in the other titles they have currently launched. To get the complete version of the video game, you need to get the OBB documents together with the information documents. The GTA V APK data alone is not enough to permit you to play and also enjoy the premium variation of the video game on your cellphone.

The initial thing that you were going to need to do is confirm that your device hardware is set up as well as powerful sufficient to run the game in the first place. If you 'd enjoy absolutely nothing greater than to have the chance to play this innovative video game on your favorite Android devices, you're going to need to obtain your hands on a proper GTA 5 APK. No, the GTA 5 APK is not created by the main GTA engineer. Some video game designers have actually developed the mobile APK variation.

However, with the increasing interest of players in GTA V, it projects to locate a solution to download and install GTA V on mobile devices. Before downloading as well as mounting, you have to make certain that you have actually totally removed the previous version or cost-free variation of GTA5 from your Android gadget. If you missed this action, your installment will certainly be failed at any time and you will unable to set up and also play the game effectively. Pavlovich discovered that while Rockstar appointed the team objectives to compose songs for, a few of their arbitrary creations influenced various other missions and triggered motivation for further score advancement. He reviewed a "stem-based" system made use of to make music fit vibrant game variables where the group would certainly make up songs to highlight end results players could make quickly after completing objectives.

That song is a simplified variation of the GTA I motif's background songs. It was additionally the pager's ringtone in GTA III, and also remained in the GTA Vice City introductory under the retro Superstar Games logo design. If the gamer changes or fires weapons after a telephone call, the phone will certainly not disappear on CJ's hand. Changing to various other weapons, or entering an auto would certainly then eliminate this technique. If Carl has his phone out and also faces water being sprayed from a Firetruck, possibilities are that if he is just finishing a discussion and also is about to place his phone away, he instead will certainly maintain it in his hand.

[theharellan]

THE POSITIVE & NEGATIVE; Mun & Muse - Meme.

fill out & repost ♥ This meme definitely favors canons more, but I hope OC’s still can make it somehow work with their own lore, and lil’ fandom of friends & mutuals. Multi-Muses pick the muse you are the most invested in atm. tagged by: stolen from @dansiere tagging: @ghiassan, @deathsreflection, @altuspavus, @windrunnerrs (velanna), @hopewrought, @willbeshot, @seahaloed (iron bull), @asterfed​ (noctis), @ anyone who wants to steal it! also multis feel free to choose a different character

My muse is:   canon / oc / au / canon-divergent / fandomless / complicated (i’m open to roleplaying with non-dragon age characters, and have AUs for other fandoms)

Is your character popular in the fandom? YES / NO. solas is both wildly popular and wildly hated. he’s been more consistently popular than the controversial women in the series, like sera or vivienne, who have only recently begun to get to the point where their tags are less vitriolic (although i’m sure it’s still out there), but there’s still a sizable hatedom that can’t have his name breathed in their vicinity w/o them talking abt how much they hate him. even if you’re currently cosplaying him!

Is your character considered hot™ in the fandom?  YES / NO / IDK. again, you have ppl who are super into him and ppl who think he’s ugly. my personal opinion is that i think he’s weirdly pretty, and wish ppl would commit more to his unconventional features rather than try to chisel him into sb more traditionally attractive and that ppl who don’t find him attractive would maybe chill w/ calling him ugly. find him unattractive by all means, but lets embrace the fact that inquisition let their love interests have skin flaws etc and accept that some won’t be our cups of tea.

Is your character considered strong in the fandom?  YES / NO / IDK. its hard to deny at this point tbh.

Are they underrated?  YES / NO / IDK. frustrating as the hate in the tags he has enough fans that i couldnt say he’s underrated w/ a straight face.

Were they relevant for the main story?  YES / NO. he’s the reason the game starts with a bang and not the inevitable dissolution of the conclave b/c the sides are disparate.

Were they relevant for the main character? YES / NO / THEY’RE THE PROTAG. regardless of solas’ relationship with the inquisitor, there are parallels and contrasts in their stories and he also is the reason they survive inquisition.

Are they widely known in their world? YES / NO. fen’harel is well-known and revered, if feared, among the dalish, yet at the same time he’s not remembered for a lot besides locking the gods away-- and the context of that decision has also been lost. as solas he’s relatively unknown until inquisition and especially trespasser.

How’s their reputation?  GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL. again, polarising!! he has loyal agents and people are willing to speak well of him despite everything, including his enemies sometimes (depending mostly on the inquisitor). 

How strictly do you follow canon?  — generally i try to have a canon basis for my interpretation, even if i interpret the text differently than the author.

SELL YOUR MUSE! Aka try to list everything, which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutuals.  —  solas is an immortal who is simultaneously jaded and very much invested in the small moments of life. far from being weary of the day-to-day lives of ordinary people, it is systems and orders he is most tired of. he walks an interesting line that feels far less misanthropic than other immortal characters i’ve experienced, yet still he’s quite cynical. as a character who has fought against religious based tyranny before, but in a completely different era, he is in a unique position where what he sees around him is both horrifyingly familiar and yet completely new. it allows an exploration of the wrongs of thedas’ society from an outsider’s perspective. his motivations are complex and multifaceted, often condemnable and yet also understandable. his character arc in inquisition (if befriended, or regardless in the case of my solas) takes him from a dispassionate, disconnected antagonist to someone deeply invested in the people of thedas, deeply conflicted and actively hoping he will be proven wrong again. i think his story is a testament to human (or elven, or dwarven, or-) connection and how even when we resist we can’t resist creating bonds with the people in our lives. i personally see this bond going beyond the inquisitor hence why i play low-approval solas as conflicted as high-approval, if not when it comes to the inquisitor.

Now the OPPOSITE, list everything why your muse could not be so interesting (even if you may not agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?).  —  solas is selfish and motivated solely by revenge, he’s clinging to a past that clearly no longer exists, if you ignore all the people from it who are still alive. he’s totally unaware of all his flaws and never owns up to any mistakes ever. no, i haven’t listened to a single word solas has said in my life why do you ask. he’s also critical of my faves which means he’s #cancelled, there is clearly no validity to what he’s saying. ksjdf no but in all seriousness i think a lot of reasons ppl don’t find solas interesting are just... weird readings of his character that sometimes have no basis in the text of inquisition, but also there are plenty of perfectly valid reasons to not find him interesting. usually those ppl don’t like... talk abt how much they don’t find him interesting constantly tho. they just chill and aren’t invested in this particular villain. for one thing i think the game missed out on opportunities for exploring how someone who may not have even had a body at the beginning of his existence would feel about gender and sexuality, so making him presumably straight and cis was a boring choice. i also think that the dragon age games being very protagonist-centric hurts solas’ character, there’s no real reason why the inquisitor is the only one who can throw his plans into question but making the player the center of the universe means he’s not allowed to change due to the effects of other companions or NPCs. thank god this is rp and i do what i want.

What inspired you to rp your muse?  —  i have a history degree so when the inquisition companions were being teased, solas describing bias in primary sources from the memories he’s seen got me interested in him. but my first playthrough i didn’t actually take him with me all too often, i think my main party was dorian-blackwall-varric. i liked him, and i think he or dorian were my first friends in skyhold, but my initial interest was in other characters. between his dialogue that appealed to the historian in me tho and how his spirit opinions sort of turned everything i’d felt about spirits in the last two games on its head, i started vibing with him more the farther i went in. like merrill set me up for the “spirits are people” thing and solas hit it out of the park. then temple of mythal happened, and i did bring solas with me there. i found his dialogue fascinating and also suspicious, i’d just finished masked empire like the day before da:i came out so i definitely thought solas was an ancient elf in the same vein as felassan. it was after temple of mythal that i actually decided to make his blog, although like as one idk linchpin to cement my status as solas trash... i was hit BAD by the banter bug on my first playthrough, probably got like a dozen banters total. but then at some point late in the game i took solas to the forbidden oasis and he wouldn’t stop talking to people, and i really loved his banter with the rest of my party at the time.

What keeps your inspiration going?  —  replaying inquisition, new DA content when the bioware gods deign to grant us a lifeline, but the biggest thing is my rp partners. i wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the people i write with, new and old. my activity of late hasn’t been the best, work and the summer heat has really been sapping me of energy, and does even during years when we aren’t going through a pandemic. but it’s the thought of my rp partners and love of solas that keeps me coming back.

Some more personal questions for the mun.

Give your mutuals some insight about the way you are in some matters, which could lead them to get more comfortable with you or perhaps not.

Do you think you give your character justice?  YES / NO / I SINCERELY HOPE I DO? i have my doubts sometimes, but i think i do ok.

Do you frequently write headcanons?  YES / NO / SORT OF? there is no headcanon too small for me.

Do you sometimes write drabbles?  YES / NO. but not lately * gestures to the low activity * i’ve been in this cycle where i get anxious abt late replies, so prioritise them, then burn myself out and can’t write the fics i want. i’ve had two i’ve been DYING to write tho i just... need to find the space in my brain to let myself.

Do you think a lot about your Muse during the day? YES / NO. i mean it depends on the day. if i work closing shifts at my store it gets very quiet and boring around 8:30 so i spent the next 90 minutes thinking about character stuff.

Are you confident in your portrayal?  YES / NO / SORT OF? 

Are you confident in your writing?  YES / NO / SOMETIMES. 

Are you a sensitive person?  YES / NO / SORTA.

Do you accept criticism well about your portrayal?  —  i’m going to say ‘no’ because like, i don’t ask for criticism. this is a hobby based on my interpretation of a character, if you think i write solas too soft then you’re welcome to think that, but i’m happy with the balance i’ve struck with his internal versus external behaviour and how he changes based upon who he’s speaking to. if you think i’m erasing straight people by making solas pan then ksjdfs. ok.

Do you like questions, which help you explore your character?  —  yes!!! even if they retread ground already trodden, a) my interpretation may have adjusted since the last time i played or b) a reminder is nice. if it’s new stuff then it’s fun to think about.

If someone disagrees to a headcanon of yours, do you want to know why?  —  it’d depend on why they disagree. if they just disagree on a subjective opinion about what i took from a certain line, then they’re welcome to their opinion but i don’t necessarily care to hear it. if it is unintentionally hurtful then i would like to know. although rather than a comment i’d rather a non-anonymous message.

If someone disagrees with your portrayal, how would you take it?  —  same as the above.

If someone really hates your character, how do you take it?  —  if they’re vocal about it i typically just unfollow / softblock if i was following in the first place. people can feel how they want about solas, but i’ve found over the years that if people really hate solas ooc it can often bleed into their ic interactions. it’s really weird seeing your character being brought up repeatedly in threads with others specifically to dunk on, for no reason other than i guess solas is living rent free in their heads, so at least we have that in common. but anyway unfollowing is just the best choice to avoid getting kinda pressed if i’m having a bad day.

Are you okay with people pointing out your grammatical errors?  —  roleplay is the wild west of writing, so i think it’d depend on what the error was. coming at me like “you shouldn’t start a sentence with a preposition” would get a laugh, but i don’t edit my replies much if at all and mistakes will 100% happen. pointing out typos is chill so long as you do it politely.

Do you think you are easy going as a mun?   —  it depends! i’ve learned that being too easy going actually just means i’m subjecting myself to negative emotions to please people. so i’ve gotten less easy going as the years go by. how does one define “easy going” anyway? does asking that question mean i am objectively not easy going? the longer this thought goes on the more the answer seems to be “probably not,” but i like to think it could be a lot worse.

[charginger]

long flight ahead

“James if you don’t stop bouncing your leg I’ll throw you off the plane and you’ll be swimming back to London.”

The messy-haired boy turns his head to face Sirius with a grin that contains the faintest trace of an apology, but mostly just looks amused. “I’m not even touching you, and I’ll go right to sleep once we’re in the air anyways. I just get nervous about the takeoff.” He nudges Sirius with his shoulder. “Don’t tell me you aren’t excited to be going home?”

Sirius is. He and James had embarked on what was meant to be a weeklong trip to New York, but they ended up staying in the city for closer to a month. Their primary goal had been to check out a football team interested in signing James now that he was out of university (“They had a gorgeous pitch, but under no circumstances will they get me to call it soccer.”), and it turned into 3 weeks of James sitting in on a few practices while Sirius got to check out the New York City art scene he’d always heard about. He was also freshly graduated, with a Fine Arts degree, and wanted to have some fun before actually looking for work.

It was a good trip, but now they’re on a plane at six in the bloody morning and someone has already kicked his seat twice from behind him.

“Just because you’ve all but signed a contract with the Lions doesn’t mean you need to jostle my seat the whole flight. I’ll get crabby.” Of course, at that moment, there’s another sharp hit to Sirius’ seat from behind. The timing makes James snicker, and Sirius closes his eyes to take a deep breath.

“You’re already crabby and we haven’t even taken off yet.”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“Sure. Just wipe that haughty expression off your face before the flight attendant explains to us the responsibility that comes with sitting in an exit row. They might deem you unfit to help save lives, then you’ll have to give up this leg room.”

It’s several minutes later while they’re waiting for permission to take off when yet another kick reaches the back of Sirius’ seat, and he decides to say something before he needs to deal with nine hours of seat kicking. He loosens his seatbelt enough to twist and face the aisle seat behind his.

“Pardon me, but there is somebody actually sitting in the seat you keep kicking-” The bite dies from his words once he gets a look at the man behind him.

“I’m so sorry mate, my leg just keeps cramping, but when I try to move around- I just don’t have that much space back here so- I mean that’s not an excuse, honestly,” the man comments, mostly to himself. “I’ll be more careful with bumping your seat.”

The stranger is not American, that’s the first thing Sirius notices. His accent curves around the words into something more familiar than the harsh, spitting New York cadence that had been a shock upon first exploring the city. He could be from Wales, maybe?

Sirius doesn’t contemplate the origin of his accent for longer than a moment in his mind, because a much more pressing realization is holy fucking shit this is not a bratty 13-year-old kicking his seat. This is a beautiful man. This is a very tall and beautiful man. His long legs seem to be folded almost in half in front of him, one mid-adjustment is pulled halfway to his chest and the other is mostly poking into the aisle beside him. He’s wearing a pullover sweater and joggers that come up just too short on his legs, revealing mismatched socks, both with clashing tartan prints. And if Sirius is being honest with himself, he’s only half paying attention to this man’s apology because his curly brown hair keeps falling just over his eyes. There is also a silver hoop piercing in his left nostril that just didn’t seem to go with the rest of his style, but Sirius finds himself staring at it for maybe a second or two longer than is normal before responding.

“No, don’t even worry about it! I mean, looks like you’ve got a lot of leg to handle there.”

James snorts at the bumbling comment, and Sirius wishes he had said anything but that, with just too much enthusiasm compared to the irritated tone he had just a moment ago.

Luckily, the stranger doesn’t look offended, just slightly amused, and the faintest blush graces his face to make way for a small, kind smile. Meanwhile, Sirius can’t help but wonder if it’s just the poor airplane lighting, or are those really freckles he sees? As the man seems to draw a breath to respond to the leg comment, which Sirius would really just like to move on from, he changes the subject. “You’re Welsh, I’m guessing?”

The man’s parted mouth twitches into the ghost of a smirk, and Sirius hopes it’s because he recognized the accent rather than the definitely red tips of his ears. Of course he had his hair pulled up into a bun, and he can feel them burning under the scrutiny of the man’s gaze.

“Spot on. I lived there most of my life before moving to London a few years ago.”

“That’s so cool!” Sirius responds, again, much more enthusiastic than he means to.

The man releases the faintest breath of a chuckle before both of his thick brows furrow, “Definitely cool. The ever exciting rain-and-sheep combo lends to a thrilling life.” The man keeps a straight face but the sarcasm is obvious.  

James is, at this point, silently shaking at Sirius’ expense, but takes a deep breath before finally turning around as well. “Tell you what, mate, why don’t we switch seats? We’ve more leg room in the exit row and I get less motion-sickness in an aisle seat. It’ll be mutually beneficial.”

The man’s eyes flick from James back to Sirius for a second before smiling and nodding. “As long as it’s mutually beneficial.”

“Brilliant.” James quips, and starts gathering his neck pillow and headphones. The man makes himself busy gathering the book and small bag he has with him, and Sirius takes the opportunity to turn back around and deliver a sharp elbow to James’ ribs.

“You don’t get motion-sickness you prat.”

“I also won’t get any sleep on this flight if you’re planning on badly flirting with Freckles McLonglegs back there.” So they were freckles. “You can talk about how cool you think sheep are.” James pats Sirius on the shoulder before shuffling into the aisle, and within a moment the tall man is sitting right beside him and looking very grateful to be able to stretch his legs.

Sirius at this point realizes he doesn’t know the stranger’s name, and pulls a bit of his usual confidence out of his arse to extend a handshake, “My name is Sirius, by the way.”

“I’m Remus,” he accepts, with a warm and calloused hand.

Sirius barks a quiet laugh and adds, “Well I’m glad your parents gave you a shit name, too.”

“Well I say you’ve got it worse. At least there aren’t many puns to be made with ‘Remus’.”

“Oh, on the contrary. Name puns are one of my redeeming factors.” Sirius is glad to receive a laugh from the man- Remus.

“I can’t imagine they’re all that creative, you sure you want to call that redeeming?”

Now, Sirius has dealt with making jokes about his name for 22 years now, and the familiarity of the topic gives him a confidence boost. He puts a hand to his heart in mock-offense.

“Bold words from someone who was violently kicking me in the back not 5 minutes ago.”

Remus lets out a laugh so low it can almost be described as a giggle.

“I really am sorry,” he says after a breath, “My mum likes to joke that I still haven’t grown into my legs.”

Great. The cute Welsh man who wears sweaters, blushes, is endearingly tall, and upon a closer look- yes, he definitely has freckles, is also a momma’s boy. Sirius wants him.

With a ‘here goes nothing’ attitude, Sirius comments, “I’m sure your boyfriend doesn’t mind, though.” It’s not an original line, but who wants their time wasted?

Remus doesn’t seem to mind the choppy segue, as his smile doesn’t falter when he responds, “I don’t have a boyfriend.”

Sirius furrows his brow as though Remus has presented him with a complex equation to solve. “I see…” Sirius raises one shoulder into a shrug, “Were you looking to change that by any chance?”

Remus giggles (fucking giggles) once again, and with his ears slightly reddening from where his hair curls over them replies, “Well, I did run into this fit posh bloke not too long ago. I was thinking about asking for his phone number.”

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okaaay wow I’m nervous to post this, but I had the idea in my head and got it written down so might as well? I’ve been following other hp writers/ creators for awhile and love all of the content that gets put out by them, so I figure if anybody out there likes what I have to write I should just go for it.

if anybody wants to send me ideas of other things to write please feel welcome!! I have some other things I’m working on right now as well but I’d love to hear from anyone who has anything to say. 

I’m gonna go ahead and tag some blogs I really love down below, I can’t get them all in (there are soooo many amazing and supportive people on here wow) but I really appreciate the inspiration from you all!

[bing-fucker]

"oh fuck me" *"that's the plan" for bimgle please? (I'm late to your request for more bimgle-I was busy enjoying what an undiscovered treasure trove of smut this blog is)

You Are Never Too Late For Bimgle. It’s literally my top favorite ship, you’re never late. And I’m glad you like my blog!! There’s lots of fun stuff on it!

Blue is, obviously, Blue Google or Primary Google. Bim is trans. Not really explored in detail and you can pretty much ignore it if you want, but I felt like it was important to say.

Also. I’m not usually this fast at getting requests out, but it just so happened that I’d written this fic as a self-indulgent thing for myself and it fit perfectly, so I figured I’d share it!

Warnings: Android sex, slight degradation, gratuitous use of pet names. As always, ask me to add any necessary warnings!

Walking into his bedroom, Blue was prepared for many things. A bed with dust on the covers, since he barely ever used it. A charging cord draped dangerously over the settee in the corner, since he’d left in a hurry. Maybe the room being a bit colder than it should be, since he never turned the heater on.

What he did not expect, was his boyfriend. Bim was supposed to be on set, filming. He was supposed to be at the studio, probably annoying Wilford or his contestants, or fantasizing about his next meal. Instead, he lounged on Blue’s bed, button-down shirt pushed halfway off his shoulders and open slacks just barely clinging onto his hips.

Blue swallowed thickly, the action unnecessary but comforting as Bim’s purple eyes fluttered open and fixed him with a lascivious look. The young game show host shifted slightly, a small whimper falling from his lips that almost took all of Blue’s self-control with it.

“Wh-what are you doing?” Blue asked, voice glitching as he approached the bed.

“Waiting for my boyfriend~” Bim replied, voice breathy as he looked up at Blue with a hand still down his pants.

“Clearly not waiting patiently enough,” Blue purred, sitting on the edge of the bed next to Bim. “Or am I misunderstanding what this means?” He gently ran his own hand over Bim’s, smirking down at the human.

“Oh, I think you’re understanding perfectly,” Bim replied, removing his hand from his pants and wiping it off on his shirt.

“That’s disgusting,” Blue growled, shoving his own hand down Bim’s pants and groaning softly at how hot he was. Bim whimpered softly, gripping Blue’s wrist as the android carefully pushed his hand under Bim’s boxers and stroked him gently.

“You love it,” he replied, panting and rocking into Blue’s hand gently. “I can tell.” He looked pointedly down at Blue’s crotch.

“Yes, it would appear that I do,” Blue replied, voice surprisingly steady as he pulled his hand away from the human. “Strip.”

Bim laughed, but complied quickly, practically tearing off his slacks and boxers before climbing into Blue’s lap. In any other situation, Blue would have laughed at his usually graceful boyfriend almost falling on his face in his hurry to get undressed. But with a lap full of gorgeous human, there’s only so much humor one can have.

Blue growled lightly and practically smashed his lips against Bim’s, kissing him fiercely. Bim whined into the kiss, grinding against Blue’s lap weakly. Blue smirked and fisted his hand in Bim’s hair, pulling the young celebrity’s head back sharply and latching onto his throat. Bim gasped at both the rough treatment of his hair and the feeling of Blue biting and sucking harshly on his neck.

“C-careful,” he stuttered, rocking his hips against Blue’s thigh and moaning. “Make those any darker, and our resident edgelord will get jealous.”

“You talk far too much,” Blue huffed, shoving three fingers into Bim’s mouth. “Put that pretty mouth of yours to work and suck.”

Bim grinned around the digits, gladly sucking and rolling his tongue over them. Blue groaned softly, thrusting his own hips up against Bim’s. The human moaned around the fingers currently occupying his teeth, returning the gesture enthusiastically.

“You’re like a horny teenager,” Blue huffed, pushing Bim off of him and onto the bed so he could strip. Bim whined shortly at the loss of Blue’s fingers, but swiftly fell silent as he watched Blue strip.

“You know, I’ve always wondered why they gave you such a realistic cock,” Bim commented, smirking lightly.

“I was made to resemble humans. I might as well be able to fuck like one.”

“And are you going to fuck me?”

“If you shut up, I will.”

Bim laughed again and spread his legs, pulling Blue down into a softer kiss as the android climbed onto the bed. Blue smiled softly into the kiss, pulling away to trail soft kisses around the marks on Bim’s throat.

“Makeup is going to have a field day with me tomorrow,” he laughed, running his hands through Blue’s hair gently.

Blue hummed in agreement, pausing his kisses at Bim’s chest. “Do we have lube in here?”

“Left pocket of my slacks,” Bim replied. “What, am I not wet enough for you already?”

“Don’t want to hurt you,” Blue replied, pressing a kiss to Bim’s stomach before standing to get the lube.

Bim whined as Blue moved, pushing his hand between his legs and carefully fingering himself. Blue turned around and rolled his eyes, returning the bed with lube in hand.

“You are ridiculous,” he muttered, pulling Bim’s hand away from himself and pouring lube over his own fingers. “Utterly ridiculous.”

“You wouldn’t love me if I wasn’t,” Bim replied, his second comment drowned out as Blue pushed a finger in. “Oh, fuck me~”

“That is the plan,” Blue replied, letting him adjust before pushing in a second and starting to scissor him open.

“Oh, shut up,” Bim laughed, moaning as Blue pushed in a third finger. “Fuck, Blue. I need you now~”

“Patience, baby boy,” Blue replied, purposefully teasing the young show host with his fingers.

“Don’t want to be patient,” Bim huffed. “I want you, angel.”

“Oh? And how do you want me?”

“I want your cock inside of me,” Bim gasped, arching his back and fucking himself down on the android’s fingers. “I need your cock inside me. Need to feel you, filling me up and claiming me. Need to be yours.”

“You’re always mine, baby boy,” Blue groaned, crooking his fingers in a way he knew would drive Bim crazy.

“F-fuck, Blue, please! I need you, Blue, so bad it hurts~”

“I know, baby boy,” Blue replied, pulling his fingers out. Bim whined at the loss, grinding down against nothing. Blue watched his desperate boyfriend for a minute before pouring lube over his cock. “Ready, baby boy?”

“I’ve been ready since you walked in the door, babe,” Bim replied, getting impatient.

“Oh, yeah? How cute~”

“Blue, I swear to god, if you don’t fuck me until I can’t walk right this instant, I will flip us over and ride you until you-”

Bim’s words cut off into a moan as Blue pushed the head of his cock inside of him, rocking his hips down to try and take more of the android inside.

“Relax, baby boy,” Blue grunted, barely restraining himself from fucking the human ruthlessly.

“Not a chance, angel. Fuck me.” 

“So demanding,” Blue grunted, “What a brat.” Regardless, he quickly pushed as far in as he could, bending over Bim and pressing their foreheads together as their hips pressed together.

Bim whimpered, arms and legs wrapping around the android. “Blue, move, please.”

“Need to let you adjust,” Blue replied, once again resisting brutally fucking the tight heat around him.

“No, what you need to do is fuck me until I can’t walk.”

“Fine.”

Blue shifted and lifted Bim’s hips, angling so he could get deeper into the human as he set a brutal pace. He didn’t go as hard as he could - after all, he didn’t want Bim to actually be hurt - but definitely hard enough to satisfy the bratty bottom beneath him. His grip on Bim’s hips was definitely going to bruise, but he couldn’t find it within himself to care. In fact, the idea of his handprints remaining on Bim’s pale skin even after he came was enough to get him to thrust faster.

Bim whimpered at the pleasure of being filled, digging his heels and nails into Blue’s back. He was moaning some nonsense, the most common phrases being ‘I love you’ and Blue’s name.

“Tell me how it feels,” Blue grunted, leaning down and kissing Bim’s heaving, sweaty chest.

“F-feels good. It feels great,” he panted. “God, I love your cock. Love feeling you moving inside me, filling me up so perfectly.”

“You’re such a cockslut,” Blue huffed, rolling his hips lightly and dragging a mewl from Bim’s lips. “You’d do anything for this, wouldn’t you? My beautiful little cockslut.”

“Anything,” Bim agreed, throwing his head back. “Fuck, angel, I’m close~”

“Come for me, baby boy,” Blue purred, angling his hips to hit that spot he knew drove Bim crazy with every ruthless thrust.

Bim gasped and arched his back, moaning like he was being paid for it as he came, nails and heels digging into Blue’s back harshly. Blue groaned as Bim tightened around him, thrusts becoming uneven and erratic until he buried himself as far inside his human as he could and came.

Blue panted and pulled out, collapsing on the bed next to Bim. He didn’t need to breathe, of course. But he liked the pattern of it, the feeling of his chest rising and falling. Bim whined and rolled over, wincing slightly as he shifted to snuggle up to the android.

“You’re sweaty,” Blue commented, brushing sweaty, glitter-filled hair from Bim’s forehead. “And you have glitter on your glasses.”

“Humans tend to get sweaty when they just got their brains fucked out,” Bim laughed. “And my glasses always have glitter on them.”

“You hardly got your brains fucked out,” Blue huffed. “I would have to fuck your face for that- and a few other strange occurrences would have to take place.”

“Oh, no, buddy-boy,” Bim laughed. “I just got this pair of glasses, I’m not having you breaking them because you wanted your dick sucked.”

“Oh, hush,” Blue huffed, turning and pulling the human close to his chest.

“Yeah, okay. I’m gonna get some sleep. Goodnight, angel. I love you.”

“And I, you, my primary objective.”

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I have been using the Apple Watch consistently for 1 1/2 years, constantly wearing it everyday with few exceptions when I traveled and forgot to bring the Watch's charging cable. Overall I am happy with what the Watch has done for me, but I feel it's time I move onto a different approach to health tracking.

I originally bought the Apple Watch for 3 main reasons:

Health tracking

Notifications available at a glance

To use my iPhone less

The Apple Watch has succeeded in many ways in motivating me to get more in shape. I starting off with light short jogs and walks to fill the Watch activity rings, and over a year have built up my muscles and jogging stamina so much that I ran a half marathon distance on a weekend morning in November.

Health & Workout Tracking

The apps I use for keeping track of my runs are: Zombies Run, Runkeeper, Nike+ (Now renamed Nike NRC), SportsTracker, and Charity Miles.

Zombies Run is the best immersive jogging experience. You are a survivor of a zombie apocalypse and are sent of jogging missions to get supplies and save other people you find along your way.

Runkeeper & Nike NRC are pretty similar in terms of features, the difference is their users. If you want to compete against others for how many mikes you've run in a week or a month, both apps offer this. So ask your friends who jog, if they're using one, probably you'll want to use the same app so that you can see each other's runs. Regarding the Apple Watch, both have apps but I've noticed in my experience the Nike NRC Watch app tends to be less stable and more unreliable. Worse case scenario the Nike Watch app would crash and no log of your run is recorded at all, hence I prefer to use Runkeeper's Watch app. But I still use Nike NRC on iPhone to see how jogging friends are doing each month.

Sports Tracker is one of the older workout tracking apps, and has roots from being born & spun out from Nokia. (I used to work for Nokia in the booming Symbian days.)  I find other users of SportsTracker to be more communal and supportive rather than competitive. Sports Tracker has a feature where after logging a run you can share the route as a jogging path publicly with other users. Using this along with SportsTracker's photo sharing support you can find new and interesting jogging routes.

Charity Miles is a different type of app than the others above, what it does is allow you to jog or cycle and use the distance you ran to donate to a charity of your choice. It's less of a fitness tracking app, and more of a community of joggers and cyclers who want to utilize their workout to help others.

But after a few months of filling the activity rings mostly by just jogging, I began to realize that my other muscle groups weren't being worked on by just jogging. My legs were in great shape but my other muscles were pretty much the same as before I started jogging.

So on days when it was raining or cold out I started doing other workouts using FitStar and Sworkit to help work on my arms, back, chest, abs, etc. By alternating from just running all the time my other muscles started to become more tone overall.

Nutrition & Food logging

Another aspect of health & fitness that I started exploring is food logging. I started out using MyFitnessPal. I have never tracked how many calories I ate before. When I started using it I did not plan to eat a certain amount of calories per meal nor did I plan to cook certain dishes, I simply started entering what I ate each meal. What makes food logging easier is you can search for the name of a food, or even easier if you buy prepared food from the store and there's a barcode you can scan it and if it's in the database the food is automatically added. Often the barcodes are recognized recognized by MyFitnessPal.

What did logging my food do for me? It made me better understood how many calories were in different foods, and what type of nutrition they provide. With this knowledge I could be better informed when I picked something to eat. I could see if I had a big meal with lots of carbs, I should try to balance it out by having more protein and fat other meals. If I ate a dessert that ended up having a lot of calories, I could choose to eat a smaller portion the next meal to balance out total calories eaten. In addition to this, I could exercise more, by jogging further or other exercises and burn off the calories I ate so the total calories eaten didn't jump suddenly after eating high calorie foods.

MyFitnessPal was a good starter app, but I ended up switching to Lifesum for nutrition & food logging. The thing I like better about Lifesum is it shows you a rating of the food you ate based on its nutritional contents. Recently the Lifesum Rating has switched from an A - F scale to a Smiley scale. A big grinning smile means the food you ate is good for you, a non-smiling face means it has too much sugar or salt or fat, etc. and it tells you the reason why the food earned that rating.

Both Lifesum and MyFitnessPal can write your nutrition data in HealthKit in case you want make your nutritional data available to other apps that read from the iOS Health app.

The only downside to Lifesum is their database of food barcodes is smaller, this means sometimes when I scan a prepared food from the grocery store Lifesum doesn't know about it. For this reason I keep MyFitnessPal installed, I scan the food with MyFitnessPal then Add the barcode & nutrition info to Lifesum. After I add the food once, Lifesum has the barcode and the next time I buy the same food from the store I can scan it with Lifesum.

Sleep

The last category of health and fitness that I started trying out was sleep tracking. Sleep is an often overlooked aspect of health but is actually very important and impacts your life more than you might think.

Simple question: Do you know how many hours you've slept in a given night? Unless you've actually tracked it, including when you get up and go to the bathroom, or a noise wakes you up during the night, etc. the answer is probably not.

You may know approximately when you got into bed and when your alarm went off but if you don't log it you don't know how much you've slept.

I started off using Sleep++, then used Pillow, then Sleep Pulse 2, and many others I tried out inbetween. The thing that wasn't great about these is you must remember to Start them when you're going to sleep and then Stop them when you wake up. Only recently has this been improved greatly with AutoSleep that doesn't require Starting & Stopping the app but estimates your sleep from your Apple Watch movement & heart beat during the night, and it ends up working quite well.

What has always been missing about sleep tracking is a lack of analysis, even with months of data logged. Sure I could manually look at how long you slept yourself and compare it to yesterday or the previous week but this gets old. The app that did the best job of presenting the sleep logs is Jawbone Up's purple app, that reads Sleep entries saved in HealthKit and displays it in daily graphs. I wrote about this is another blog post.

However there's a bug in Jawbone's Up app, for a sleep session with more than one Asleep entries, each additional Asleep entry is read & duplicate entries to display on Jawbone Up. You can simply delete the duplicates, but that can get annoying that the issue hasn't been fixed. But considering Jawbone's financial status the bug may never be fixed.

Now that I've gone over much of my experiences of using the Apple Watch let's move on to the other reasons I got the Watch, for app notifications and to use my iPhone less.

Here's the kicker though, these 2 goals end up conflicting with each other.

Notifications and Watch apps in practice are literally an extension of the iPhone. So when I choose to allow notifications on my Watch, this leads me to checking or fiddling to reply with my Watch, and when I want to take an action from the notification message received it often leads me back to picking up my iPhone.

Jumping back to Health tracking, the problem with health tracking with the Watch is it's all very manually. Remember to Start a workout, Remember to Start Sleep logging, remember to Stop the workout. Simpler and cheaper devices from Jawbone, Withings, & Fitbit do these things automatically by analysis of the data. This is a clear weak point of the Apple Watch to me.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to bash the Apple Watch. I'm glad I bought one, it motivated me to be more active and healthy, I'm probably in the best shape I've been in a long while. I plan to continue to use Zombies Run, FitStar, Runkeeper, Lifesum, etc. but I'll be using them on my iPhone not on the Watch. I feel that I'm ready to try a different approach.

What is Ōura?

Ōura is a ring that can track your Sleep, heart rate, temperature, steps & activity with a battery that lasts 2-3 days.

Why Ōura?

Not only is the design different than others (a ring instead of a bracelet or Watch) but also it's approach is fundamentally different than other health trackers, Ōura focuses on Sleep as THE primary measurement, then calculates a Readiness score and adjusts your activity goals for the day and expectations for your energy levels. The Ōura app actually analyzes your data and provides tips or helpful suggestions to support you along the way. Instead of keeping the same Activity goal every day of the week, or telling you to take 10,000 steps despite having not slept well Ōura adjusts your goals.

For those of you that enjoy & use the "It's time to stand up" feature on Apple Watch, the Ōura app on iPhone has this, but it's improved because it sends you a notification at different times to remind you to stand up and move around during the hour not 10 minutes before each hour at x:50 like Apple Watch.

How good is Ōura's analysis & suggestions?

I've been using it for 3 weeks and Ōura actually warned me that I might be getting a cold based on a night's heart rate, temperature, and Sleep pattern being different. You know what, it was right! I did catch a cold and the next couple days after that I was recovering from it, and that is pretty amazing & awesome analysis.

Switching from an Apple Watch, What is Ōura not good at?

Currently Ōura has HealthKit support but is mainly used for logging Sleep sessions. It doesn't log (at least not consistently) other HealthKit measurements, such as Steps, heart rate, Active Energy, etc. though the ring tracks these. I've asked Ōura about this and they have said they plan to work on improving HealthKit logging in the future.

Ōura tracks Steps & activity but doesn't log Heart rate during workouts. Ōura uses heart rate tracking while you sleep. Does it matter though if I don't have heart rate logged during a workout? The answer is it depends if you use the data or not. It doesn't prevent or stop me from working out as I'll be using run tracking apps when jogging or FitStar/Sworkit when doing an indoor workout anyhow. So for me, the lack of Heart rate tracking during a workout is not a deal breaker for me.

Overall the Ōura so far is an improvement in the area I want to focus on, Sleep tracking, being rested, & prepared for the day.

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Like lots of you maybe, since COVID-19 hit, I’ve resorted to working fully on my own.

Granted, this isn’t an enormous shift for me, given that almost all of my enterprise I run fully solo as is (ah, the fun of a freelancer) however my largest adjustment has been with regard to pictures and the way I create alone. Don’t get me improper, I really like being behind a digital camera, however once you’re used to collaborating with fellow creators to inform a narrative that requires you to be in body, it may well definitely throw you for a loop when each function now falls in your shoulders. Again in March, I shared this submit detailing a couple of suggestions for getting your individual dwelling photograph studio up and operating. At this time, I wished to interrupt down a couple of useful suggestions with regard to self portraits with an emphasis on ones taken outdoors on location — maybe in a close-by park or round your neighborhood. I’ve gotten fairly a couple of requests for this over the previous a number of weeks, so I hope this helps make the method really feel considerably much less daunting!

On the finish of the day, my primary hope is, whether or not you create pictures/content material for a residing or it’s merely a artistic outlet for you, that you simply don’t really feel afraid of attempting and experimenting with a brand new ability.

1. Spend money on a distant (however self-timer may also work) and a tripod: For the sake of at this time’s submit, we gained’t belabor tools an excessive amount of so far as the professionals and cons as I believe it’s worthy of it’s personal devoted submit in some unspecified time in the future (belief me, it’s within the works!). As an alternative, let’s make the most of what you have already got at your disposal, whether or not that’s a DSLR, a mirrorless level and shoot or your telephone. For self portrait pictures, particularly on location, you’ll need to familiarize your self with a digital camera, tripod and distant arrange you are feeling snug assembling, adjusting and toting round your self. Since April, I’ve shot primarily with my boyfriend’s Canon 5D Mark IV, usually with a set 50mm lens and I set it up with this Manfrotto tripod. For the time being, I’m in between wi-fi remotes, which implies I’ve to depend on a self-timer and setting the main target earlier than hand, which is a bit cumbersome, however you get resourceful on the subject of partitions and different placeholders (like umbrellas) to set the main target the place you plan to face. Don’t be stunned if the primary few occasions you head out to shoot on location someplace that it feels disheartening or irritating — I can’t let you know what number of occasions I wished to tear up simply because one thing wasn’t understanding correctly or I couldn’t get a setting to work excellent.

2. Discover your fast environment/neighborhood to review gentle all through the day: I began doing this beautiful recurrently throughout our day by day quarantine walks with Elvis — and I discover myself noticing gentle and shadow far more with out even deliberately in search of it. Personally, I choose golden hour, which now hits between 5 and 7pm right here in New York, however maybe you like how early morning gentle appears (softer and extra ethereal), all of it is dependent upon what temper and feeling you’re attempting to evoke. For the sake of feeling extra snug taking pictures in numerous daylight settings, I might attempt to get within the behavior of bringing your digital camera together with you throughout walks and pay attention to attention-grabbing corners, distinctive shadows at totally different occasions of the day. I’ve a operating listing in my Notes app on my telephone of intersections I need to revisit at sure occasions of day, which helps give me a place to begin the following time I’m making ready to shoot.

3. Storyboard/temper board pictures earlier than hand: I’m an enormous planner and the extra I can visualize what I’m striving for in a photograph, the extra productive I find yourself feeling. This isn’t to say it’s best to’t enable pictures to occur organically as you’re out taking pictures, however in case you have a beginning composition and framework in thoughts, it helps present construction to work in and round. For that cause, I usually pull 3-Four pictures (from Pinterest, from pictures books, from previous movies) that compositionally talking, signify what I’m striving towards — so I do know the place to focus my efforts first. I believe it’s additionally in good observe to know as a solo photographer, you gained’t be taking pictures and executing on the identical fee had you been taking pictures with a photographer, that means, you could have much less “ultimate” pictures. And that’s OK. Once I exit to shoot on my own, my purpose is to hopefully get one photograph that I’m pleased with. The remainder is a bonus. I really feel far much less stress that manner.

4. Analysis totally different composition and technical parts: Equally, once you’re pulling and researching photograph inspiration, attempt to pay attention to the technical issues at play that draw you into sure images and make it some extent to deal with them individually throughout shoots. Some ideas to review embody detrimental area, shallow depth of subject, objects obscured within the foreground (like this photograph I took of Lydia with a flower petal), double publicity and sluggish shutter pace for blurred movement (like this photograph that Carter took of me at Grand Central). The extra snug you are feeling bringing these ideas to life individually, the extra sturdy your “toolbox” turns into and also you’ll really feel far more inclined to mix and blend and match when the temper strikes you!

5. Deliver props to assist add curiosity and inform your story: You all know me, I really like an excellent prop — an previous e-book, a parasol, flowers — I assure you, no matter is round your residence in the intervening time might possible be used as a tremendous prop or two (together with chairs that you can contemplate taking with you to shoot on location for a extra editorial feel and appear). Plus, the great thing about a prop, is that it’ll offer you extra of a “goal” within the photograph — as if you happen to have been caught mid-activity doing one thing.

6. Don’t be afraid to shoot close to or in entrance of different individuals: This subject comes up very often with you guys in my DMs. Whereas I’ve been running a blog kind of for the previous 11 years, I nonetheless fully perceive the awkwardness of taking pictures in entrance of different individuals — and it solely feels doubly extra susceptible once you’re taking pictures alone with a tripod. Belief me, I get it. It took a variety of easing into the method of taking pictures with photographers and ultimately taking pictures on my own to get increasingly snug with onlookers and curious passerby. In case you can muster it although, attempt to energy by way of and also you’ll like find yourself realizing that most individuals aren’t actually all that anyway. In case you get curious questions like, “What are you doing?” “Who’re you taking pictures for?” “Do you want assist with that?” I usually attempt to diffuse the state of affairs shortly with some small speak and well mannered solutions earlier than ultimately letting them know that I’m a photographer and whereas I want I might chat longer, I’m at present engaged on a deadline. Most individuals will transfer alongside quickly after. So far as maintaining a tally of tools, preserve every little thing consolidated into as few baggage as attainable, to make it straightforward to gather, arrange, preserve tabs on and pack up. I carry my digital camera and lens in a backpack and my tripod in sling bag — and as a lot as attainable, I attempt to keep away from carrying any extra tote baggage on prime of that. A whole lot of you have been curious if I’m ever frightened about having the digital camera “too far” from me whereas taking pictures, maybe operating the chance of somebody stealing it and so forth. The quick reply is not any, I’ve by no means felt overly frightened, however I might advocate you research and perceive your environment. Regardless of the place you’re taking pictures, be hyper-aware of who’s round you and the way they’re making you are feeling. If somebody gained’t go away you alone, merely pack up and discover a close by espresso store to recharge for a bit.

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Solutions To Common Remote Work Issues During COVID

Solutions To Common Remote Work Issues During COVID

by JJ Sutherland | March 27, 2020 | Blog

Two of the clients I have been working with this week have interestingly similar issues, despite being in radically different industries. One client is military, a strategy group rather than a warfighting force. The other is a major player in the healthcare industry. 

They are both struggling with the same thing we all are, the switch to the world of remote working. 

These clients are both known for their innovation, creativity, and vision. And I want to share some solutions they have found to common work issues in the time of COVID. 

When The Workday Includes Kids And Distance Learning

Efforts to contain the spread of Coronavirus have shuttered whole cities, states, and even countries. Schools across the globe have sent students home with the expectation that lessons will continue online.

My wife and I are wrestling with this ourselves. 

We have two young children at home. We both work. This week we have somehow drifted back into the traditional gender roles of previous generations. She is doing the bulk of child care while I’m locked in my office all day. Besides being incredibly unfair, this also makes her miserable because she feels she’s now doing a poor job as both a parent and professional. So next week, we are going to try an approach I learned from our healthcare client. 

I find their approach amazingly transparent and productive. They began by labeling this sudden need for their members to also be partial teachers and full-time parents as an impediment. They crushed it by allowing members with kids to set or change the team schedule. 

For example, if someone puts ‘kid stuff’ from 8-9 am on the calendar then no team meetings or Scrum events are scheduled for that time. The Team Members without childcare adjust their workflow to match. And for Scrum teams, parents adjusted capacity to allow for this shift.

Our military client took a similar approach. They saw parents needed more time in the middle of the day for childcare. So they insisted those team members take a 2-hour break instead of 1. Simple fix. It took a lot of pressure off of the parents and the team stayed focused on the task at hand. 

I’m inspired by both of these moves. Realizing the work-life balance has gone through a tectonic change isn’t easy even though it’s all around us. And both of these can add more to the plates of non-parents. But to see teams bond together and have each other’s backs - that is amazing.  

Surviving An Avalanche Of Meetings

As soon as work from home became the norm, both of these clients noticed an unexpected increase in the number of meetings they had to attend. There was a lot of talking about what work needed to be done, would be done, should be done. And after all that talking was done, there was no time to actually do it. 

My colleague, Matt Jacobs, shared an approach that had an immediate impact: all meetings are now working sessions. Something tangible must come out of each meeting that demonstrably advances the team towards an outcome. A document, plan, or a pitch deck. Whatever it is, meetings are now collaborative creation sessions in which solutions are built. 

To help create this mindset, the task at hand and a definition of done are laid out at the beginning of the meeting. The attendees begin with a quick discussion to ensure everyone is on the same page about what needs to be accomplished, and then they roll up their sleeves and get at it. This approach ensures every meeting materially advances a priority. 

Another way to deal with this is to create regular meeting-free time. I’ve started to block my calendar for dedicated heads-down work. Because the same thing was happening to me, meeting after meeting. 

Who Is Working On What?

Our military client is having problems with clear roles, responsibilities, and accountability. Not at the team level, mind you, but across the organization.

Multiple teams were working on the same thing without realizing it. Clearly a huge waste. Worse yet, it created rework because the work done wasn’t quite right and did not meet expectations. 

This seems to be happening to everyone as we adjust to what is being called the new normal.

To me, it sounded like they didn’t have a good, clear, and accessible backlog and work wasn’t visible. Which makes sense now that they can’t simply walk over to their colleagues to see what is going on. The need to call or email someone creates a real barrier to communication.

Alignment requires more discipline in virtual work environments. It also requires direct communication. 

And something more. Have a Scaled Daily Scrum, or call it something else. The name doesn’t matter. What does matter is having a focused conversation about who is working on what will make a huge difference. 

When Other Teams Are Slowing You Down

Our military client is one of the first Agile teams. They were seven sprints in when they suddenly all had to work from home. 

It wasn’t easy, of course, but the structure and rhythm of Scrum allowed them to make the switch in 24 hours and keep projects on track. The real problem, one leader said, was the other parts of the organization, the parts that aren’t Agile.. 

As a result, this group of teams is going so much faster than anyone else that they became blocked by needing critical input from non-Agile Teams. Teams who are still reeling from the shift.

Understandably, the Agile teams are incredibly frustrated. 

Another colleague of mine, Alex Sheive, told them what we tell any Team with external dependencies: Write the story so that the definition of done stops at the dependency. This Team has done their part and passed it on to another Team, or has requested something from a different group. Just submitting the work or making the request is when the story is Done. When it comes back, you start a new story that captures the rest of the work needed to finish it. 

Individual teams may not be able to solve for a dependency. This at least lets you build a backlog that accounts for them so you minimize how much they will slow you down. 

The Toughest Question

I spent the bulk of this blog talking about two particular clients. I want to step away from them to address a question I’ve heard from people across the globe this week.

Does my work have any value at all? 

Meaningful work is one of the primary motivators of humans. Working on something seemingly unimportant, unrelated to the crisis engulfing at all can seem pointless. Demoralizing. 

I always say the same thing in reply. Pandemics end. Crises end. The world may be shaped differently on the other side, but it does pass.

It is incredibly important for people to be thinking about how they want to shape that future. It’s not enough for you to just survive. You can come out of it stronger. To not only be resilient but to be better. 

Perhaps after this pandemic, we will have better ways of incorporating the demands of parenting into our corporate lives. Perhaps “meeting” will come to mean a powerful collaboration of minds, rather than a waste of them. What is happening is unprecedented in modern history. Ask yourself, what can we learn from what we are living through?

As we’ve all learned these past few weeks, the final value of the Agile Manifesto seems very apt right now. Respond to change over following a plan. 

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Security is a most well-known bid for wordpress customers. We give attention to on a bizarre foundation about safety, amongst a great deal of issues, in indicators about themes and plugins and defend ourselves from hackers. Nonetheless the observe “safety” is a straightforward degree of gaze and there may be by no means a limit to the safety of our internet sites.

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Majority of the customers don’t mediate the similar as quickly as they voice “conceal wordpress”. What is going on to we progressively counsel by “hiding that we spend wordpress”? The reply is straightforward, we try to hide the confirmed actuality that our net whisper works in wordpress, to all customers and robots making an try to call our whisper materials administration system (CMS).

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Fairly a great deal of us also can private requested, “ conceal my wordpress?”. The muse is not modern, however there inside motive a couple of controversy about hiding or not hiding that wordpress is powering your net whisper.

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You’d be per likelihood questioning, why?

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It will be illustrious that many slight on-line eCommerce shops mediate that hackers won’t ever assault them as a result of their shops are too slight to passion them. The reasoning is intuitive, however the actual reality is a great deal of. Based mostly completely on an article in Forbes Journal, close to 30,000 internet sites are hacked every day. Equally, Sucuri issued Hacked Web location Yarn 2017 that “analyzes over 34,000 contaminated internet sites” and wordpress tops in that signify with 83 %.

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In transient, it doesn’t subject whether or not or not you’re a whale (AliExpress, Amazon, eBay, Walmart) or a goldfish, it is potential you may effectively effectively be hooked or caught at some point.

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The second rule is to make updates as quickly as a brand new model is obtainable. We’ve seen many wordpress web site house owners (together with skilled web sites) who “fantastically” ignore all updates: wordpress Core, plugin, and themes. This habits is the door open to the issues since hackers solely anticipate that vulnerabilities to entry your web site with out permission.

The third rule is to make use of a safety plugin similar to iThemes Safety, Wordfence, and so forth.

The fourth rule is to think about defending your login web page from brute drive assaults by inserting a CAPTCHA and/or two-factor authentication.

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Many wordpress web site house owners will not be satisfied that utilizing obfuscation to safe their web sites is an effective factor and that’s why we’ve got talked about few causes at first of this text.

Listed below are different causes that will persuade you to not use obfuscation to safe your wordpress web site:

Malicious robots don’t think about the model of wordpress.

There are lots of methods to know that you’re utilizing wordpress.

Any hacker capable of entry your web site will finally discover info that you simply forgot to cover.

If obfuscation was the answer, we’d don’t have any model of the merchandise accessible in the marketplace.

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We perceive that there are numerous conditions that may result in using obfuscation for safety, however regardless of the motive, we should go forward and conceal wordpress from hackers.

wordpress is a well known content material administration system. Greater than 30% web sites on the Web use wordpress. Due to this reputation, hacking a wordpress web site has change into a objective of accomplishment for hackers.

Yearly, 1000’s of wordpress web sites are hacked. The explanations are many, similar to weak themes or plugins, easy passwords, and so forth.

But that wordpress is a safe platform?

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If a hacker features entry to a wordpress web site, he makes modifications more often than not to cover his tracks and maintain his entry as administrator of a wordpress web site:

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There are completely different plugins, free and paid, to safe wordpress web site. The most well-liked are WordFence Safety, BulletProof Safety, and iThemes Safety.

And in case you might utterly disguise that you simply use wordpress for web sites for much more safety?

You probably have the funds and in case your wordpress web site is the hub of your enterprise, it is strongly recommended to strengthen the safety of your web site to make sure you are protected towards focused assaults.

The most well-liked plugins so that you can take away proudly powered by wordpress are Cover My WP, Swift Safety, and WP Cover and Safety Enhancer.

Cover My WP

Cover My WP works as a normal safety plugin and hides the truth that you utilize wordpress by altering your permalinks with out making any modifications to the precise areas of your information. The objective of this plugin is to provide your wordpress web site an additional layer of safety:

It permits altering the permalinks of the information (like wp-admin) to cover them from the amassing robots.

Removes meta info (such because the model quantity) out of your headers.

Management entry to your PHP information.

Modify subdirectories of default weak folders, similar to wp-content.

Cover information that may give details about your wordpress set up (like readme.html or license.txt).

Warns you of safety dangers with the brand new “Intrusion Detection System” service.

Entry notifications to a 404 web page.

Setting customized URLs for static information (picture, CSS, and JavaScript information) and so forth.

Cover My WP is straightforward to put in and configure. All settings and choices are effectively defined so that you at all times know what you might be doing and what every function works. It’s a nice funding for anybody utilizing wordpress for running a blog, ecommerce or a small enterprise.

Swift Safety Bundle

Swift Safety places a bulletproof vest in your wordpress web site. This plugin, not content material to take away powered by wordpress, additionally has a Firewall module and a module that scans the code to detect the malicious code.

It has many options similar to:

Minification of CSS/JavaScript code

Filter IP addresses

Anti Drive Brute

Notifications by e-mail or Push

Blocks spam feedback

Removes HTML remark code and so forth.

With Swift Safety, you’ll make your wordpress web site safer. An enormous benefit of this plugin is that you simply don’t want any particular technical information.

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Block any direct folder entry to utterly disguise the construction

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WP Cover is an efficient plugin if you wish to utterly take away proudly powered by wordpress out of your wordpress web site.

Methods to Take away Powered by wordpress Utilizing a Plugin

For this text, I’ll use the free Take away “Powered by wordpress” plugin which you’ll be able to obtain from the wordpress repository.

As soon as you put in and activate the plugin, navigate to Look > Customise.

Click on on on Theme Selections…

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Daily information and insights about search engine marketing techniques, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION and paid search. Lookup engine optimization, commonly referred in order to as SEO, is the procedure of maximizing visibility by obtaining a website to appear higher on unpaid, organic results. Nearby upgrade your SEO Strategy plus just go with the present and traditional methods, it may be critical to boosting your own site ranking in search outcomes. In order in order to make the content of the particular business website more visible upon the internet and attract visitors, it is mandatory that a single seeks the services of expert SEO services. If we appear at the Google search outcomes, it shows at least 1 video result in the SERP, which always came from Youtube . com (although it also a component of Google service), but video clip marketing should be considered like a prominent strategy for SEO 2018. 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A big component of the internet marketers believe that online marketing is restricted to SEO, SMO & SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING, where in fact, a lot associated with other online marketing strategies have got previously arrived at the finish of 2016 plus some of all of them are still coming since the particular beginning of 2017. Today, a person are going to know the best SEO techniques that will assist improve your website's optimization (and traffic) remarkably. Ranking nowadays has more to do along with meaningful and useful content compared to SEO voodoo link crazy connecting techniques and spending your period on keyword density and various other technical items. HubSpot's SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION tools make it easy in order to quickly track your organic lookup traffic with a few keys to press. I believed it as simple as a good example to illustrate an factor of onpage SEO or ‘rank modification', that's white hat, totally Google friendly and not, actually going to cause you the issue with Google. Enhancing your site's on-page SEO and creating or upgrading content to be the greatest result for its target key phrases, knowing to link back in order to your most significant product webpages. A good instance of White Hat SEO would certainly be a focus on acquiring quality backlinks from related sources that will Details deem credible. Ranking signals all stream together to help SEO internet marketers create awesomeness. Keyword research is the preliminary step in an ecommerce SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION campaign.

Ranking today provides more to do with significant and useful content than SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION voodoo link crazy linking strategies and spending your time upon keyword density as well as other technical products. SEO is increasing findability, user experience, and wedding by making certain content plus messaging is aligned and arranged based on the language that will potential customers and visitors are usually most often using to explain the products, solutions, services or even information that a website is definitely providing. With a couple of correct best WordPress SEO methods you can really see the nice little boost both within SERPs and Google Picture Search. For this reason whenever these people plan to expand their web business; they quickly need in order to take the help of SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION optimization services. First, understand that schema markup is one of the nearly all effective, least used parts associated with SEO today Schema are essentially brief snippets of data that will can give extra information in order to search users and search motors like google. As lookup engine algorithms have become even more refined, the nature of SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION profession has additionally changed. 2017 delivered an entire new set associated with changes in the way companies market their products and solutions, marketers try to improve their particular ranking with seo (SEO), the particular way people surf the internet and much more. If RankBrain will certainly become more and more important in rankings, which is quite likely, that means that SEO's will start optimizing more plus more for user experience rather of other factors. As marketers plan their content marketing technique for 2018, SEO is definitely top-of-mind — or at least this should be! 2018, certainly is going to be a good interesting year for SEO within support of time will inform who manages to maintain the particular right blend to come at the top. Digital marketing and advertising experts dealing with both SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION and AdWords rely on the particular keyword page of the lookup console to show which key phrases trigger user queries for each organic and paid content.

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Search engine optimization (SEO), a subset of internet marketing, is the process of enhancing the volume and quality associated with traffic to a web web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search outcomes. UX is now being focused simply by many among the core SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION strategies, and it definitely performs an important part in maintaining your articles in top rating because lesser bounce rate provides a very positive impact upon SEO of the website. The first keywords in order to Google are guide to SEO regarding 2018” or SEO guide 2018”. Where I train you about content marketing, long-tail keywords, and Shopify SEO technique. Among the particular misconception about SEO is that will it will depend on composing the number of keywords a specific time. Your SEO web page title is the title that will is displayed online search outcomes. 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On-Page SEO through strategic keyword optimisation in meta tags and content material. Nevertheless, in 2018, with the latest updates associated with Google and the evolution associated with technology, refining the rankings will be unquestionably possible by embracing tone of voice search, mobile optimization, featured thoughts, user experience, machine learning plus artificial intelligence, Google Quick Reply Box, long-tail keywords, and visible search in your SEO methods. Effective SEO aims to enhance search engine position, user trips, return visits, and to enhance conversion rates, which reflect the particular amounts of visitors who consider desired actions on the web site. SEO stands intended for Seo and explains the procedure of getting visibility, authority plus recognition of all websites, internet pages, blog posts by Internet Search engines like google like as Google, Bing, Yahoo that will takes of 92% of company. 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White Hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is really a focus upon quality. 2018, certainly will be an interesting season for SEO and only period will tell who manages in order to maintain the right blend in the future on top. You are usually able to optimize your cellular site to become fast upon Google but if you have got trouble with understanding SEO after that don't even try to enhance your mobile site. Making use of an SEO advertising campaign may allow you to boost your own rankings by means of popular search terms that may in turn generate more visitors to your site. I just began concentrating on perfect on-page SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION techniques, I did some errors inside my previous articles which I actually have to update now, I actually never used my keyword within first 100 words in most my articles and not focused on LSI keywords. 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Really important that you think associated with your SEO strategy and targets if you map out all associated with your other internet marketing programs, as they can help boost your engine optimization with small to no extra effort, apart from some creative thinking. For this reason, whenever building links, SEOs focus not really on building any links. It also helps in quicker indexing, which supports boost your own search ranking and drive even more traffic to your website plus as such, if you need to ace the SEO video game in 2018 then implementation associated with AMP is really important. Which was the description but if we follow the particular SEO Trends then it is definitely considered to be among the particular ranking factors. In the digital advertising world, naturally, this fast-growing sensation means that marketers must create new ways to tailor their particular SEO strategies to optimize regarding voice search. 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While I nevertheless see this trend in have fun with with many enterprises still within the midst of their electronic transformation, the convergence in the particular MarTech space is creating numerous synergies and opportunities and this particular should be seen as a good welcome development for brands plus agencies who are looking with regard to an edge in relation to their SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION driven content marketing or outreach strategies. SEO, or even search engine optimization, is the particular process of improving your internet site in a way that allows users find your company even more easily in search results. Is there any program code or something which can assist because I want it regarding my promotion business not with regard to the seo. (promotion business circumstance to affiliate links) Anyone may help to find a ideal code with any of the particular techniques like iFrames, or any kind of other will be really quite useful. I must declare your talk about techniques and research based factors are really helping to improved SEO back linking. Although I actually asked about online marketing methods, nearly every marketing practitioner I actually reached out to mentioned SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION being crucial aspect of increasing either their businesses or their particular clients. 5. Implementing SEO methods enables you to gain beneficial knowledge of keywords used simply by your potential clients to discover the services or products a person offer. As a marketing strategy regarding increasing a site's relevance, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION considers how search algorithms function and what people search intended for. If you've go through from the beginning, you realize that links are a important SEO ranking factor. I believe that will these types of trends will certainly gradually force us to use the broad view in online advertising, instead of merely look at, with regard to instance, SEO. Plus that is local SEO which usually has different ranking factors (Google My Business, citations, reviews). While normally you try in order to only go after high specialist sites and prevent links through low quality domains for concern of Penguin, when it arrives to local SEO, local relevance has much more weight compared to authority. Users don't want to watch for a web page so in the event that your website is slow within 2018, ignore SEO and your own bounce rate will down. A sensible strategy regarding SEO would still appear in order to be to reduce Googlebot get expectations and consolidate ranking collateral & potential in high-quality canonical pages and you do that will by minimising duplicate or near-duplicate content. Winning SEO in 2018 will require marketers to carrying on with honing their concentrate on consumer intent and topical authority. Ensure redirected domains redirect by way of a canonical redirect and this too offers any chains minimised, although BECOME SURE to audit the backlink user profile for any redirects you stage at a page as along with reward comes punishment if individuals backlinks are toxic (another instance of Google opening up the particular war that is technical search engine optimization on a front that basically, and fact is converse, in order to building backlinks to your site). Wise SEO activities improve your own rankings in the search motor results page (SERP). 1. Boost your Google My Business Entries (the top local SEO rating signal) to help improve nearby visibility and branding. Big Brand name campaigns are far, far various from small company SEO promotions that don't have any hyperlinks, to begin with, to provide you but one example. SEO has been confusing by these Internet marketers since they assume that you can find much better ways to get visitors plus SEO takes a lot associated with time and effort which basically worth it. If you are usually after growth and targeted visitors then search engine traffic will be really a traffic source that will you seriously have to think about. These happenings of the particular past year will shape upward mobile SEO in 2018. SEOQuake: A plugin with regard to your web browser, not Wp, SEOQuake allows users to rapidly and seamlessly assess SEO qualities of any website without starting up extra programs. Earlier they will were always concerned about the particular SEO ranking factors, as they will keep on changing with the particular periodic algorithm updates rolled away by the search engines. Consequently, your SEO campaign provides to be more mind believing and adaptable to changes within the search engine rankings surroundings. Google Lookup Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) offers lots of great info with regard to our SEO audit. Image climbing helps to increase the web site speed also which helps intended for better SEO ranking. I think you'll see 1 overarching trend for 2018 plus SEO: Search is getting wiser, better, and much more user-friendly. Perhaps the easiest way to gauge the effectiveness of your Local SEO campaign would be to measure your ranking positions for the target keywords on a monthly basis. As stated before, the SEO process will be there to make sure much better websites for everyone, so ignoring to supply a quality consumer experience if you are browsing the web with their mobile phones will score you negative factors. You believe a person could get away if a person try a few of these types of black hat SEO techniques, yet sooner or later you may lose rank or traffic, damage your own reputation, obtain a penalty through Google, lose credibility and customers, or worst of these almost all, face a lawsuit. SEO is used as the description for a person, somebody that does search engine optimisation as a job, and because a verb I'm going in order to internet search engine optimize this particular website”. Google takes very serious argument to such Black Hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION techniques. And when you have the handle on that, it's period to optimize your site with regard to the new SEO trends that will I outlined within this guide. Research from Intellectual SEO and others shows the relationship between search rankings plus social signals. SEO content is a mixture of keywords and keyword key phrases. A big component of the internet marketers believe that online marketing is restricted to SEO, SMO & SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING, where the truth is, a lot associated with other online marketing strategies possess previously arrived at the finish of 2016 and a few of all of them are still coming since the particular beginning of 2017. Today, a person are going to know among the best SEO techniques that will assist improve your website's optimization (and traffic) remarkably. Ranking nowadays has more to do along with meaningful and useful content compared to SEO voodoo link crazy relating techniques and spending your period on keyword density and various other technical items. HubSpot's SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION tools make it easy in order to quickly track your organic lookup traffic with a few ticks. I believed it as simple as a good example to illustrate an factor of onpage SEO or ‘rank modification', that's white hat, totally Google friendly and not, actually going to cause you the issue with Google. Enhancing your site's on-page SEO and creating or upgrading content to be the greatest result for its target key phrases, knowing to link back in order to your most significant product web pages. A good instance of White Hat SEO might be a focus on getting quality backlinks from related sources that will Details deem credible. Ranking signals all movement together to help SEO internet marketers create awesomeness. Keyword research is the preliminary step in an ecommerce SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION campaign. While every single client has a different goal, the SEO ranking principles are the very same. In 2018, it's going in order to be increasingly important for SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION builders to incorporate longer-tailed key phrases into queries. On-page SEO is the optimisation of the elements that can be found on your own website, which includes content, the code behind every single page, visual elements and consumer experience. Only continuous updation of your website with the particular latest SEO techniques will help to raise it to the particular top most positions within the particular ranking. No matter how many improvements Google gets released for SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION but without having a correct content for a website most these updated will be exhausted. That makes SEO an perfect leads generation tool, because when people follow links back to your own site, you have the possibility to convert them to prospects, and later make sales. There's simply no question that focusing on your own business' SEO is critical intended for a successful marketing strategy. Plus 2018, making your website cellular friendly is the biggest tendency in SEO. When we talk about SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION or Local SEO, most companies limit it to Google. A successful SEO technique in 2018 will gravitate in the direction of mobile-friendly websites, content material relevance, brand and relationship advancement. Based upon the previous point, SEOs may think about various landing web pages with proper keywords, meta labels and the overall website construction from the SEO perspective. RankBrain can force a much closer examination of user experience, and SEOs will need to monitor jump rate and average time upon page much more closely compared to they have previously. All of us concentrated within the keyword-based aspect associated with all the SEO tools that will included the capabilities, because that is where most business users can primarily focus. Hence, it's essential to keep track of every Google algorithm change to enhance rankings, organic website traffic plus finally boost SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION.

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A Fool-Proof Formula for Easy SEO

Search Engine Optimization, often recognized by its acronym SEO, could be the improvement of a web web page or a website visibility within a search engine's unpaid, "organic" or "natural, " search motor results. Looking back at data through the past year, we'll discover how these trends will keep on to shift the SEO business in 2018. Providing a positive mobile knowledge should be a key element in a business' SEO strategies within 2018 and beyond. If you are usually a nearby business that desires to get noticed searching motors and generate more customers, a person have to understand Local SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION. Keyword study definitely is one of the particular SEO basics. Google made it so SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION tactics of before are simply no longer recognized, and rankings right now are based on quality, value, social proof, and authority. There are usually also plenty of authoritative SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION websites and blogs such since Moz and Search Engine Property that are always quick in order to offer insights on major adjustments to Google's search algorithms. Let's assume you appeared for SEO updates” in Search engines and gets a list associated with results like beneath. The keyword trouble or keyword SEO difficulty will be an extremely useful metric intended for keyword research.

This particular on page seo guide will be really helpful to rank within first page of google. Numerous consumers and small businesses with this point have hired SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION companies in the past that will hurt them with bad back-links and more. Since many marketing is right now digital, SEO includes a correct seat at the table create as a lead organic visitors driver contributing to end company goals. On-Page SEO through strategic keyword optimisation in meta tags and content material. Nevertheless, in 2018, with the latest updates associated with Google and the evolution associated with technology, refining the rankings is usually unquestionably possible by embracing tone of voice search, mobile optimization, featured clips, user experience, machine learning plus artificial intelligence, Google Quick Reply Box, long-tail keywords, and visible search in your SEO strategies. Effective SEO aims to enhance search engine position, user appointments, return visits, and to enhance conversion rates, which reflect the particular amounts of visitors who consider desired actions on the web site. Rank high or at the desired position zero for local SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is extremely advantageous for regional businesses, large and small. The particular benefits of SEO and lookup engine marketing are enormous. As much since things change online, they stay the same and content will be still king when it arrives to SEO. So while the particular Web is divided into HTTP and HTTPS websites, SEOs plus marketers are facing two typical difficulties with passing the referral information. For all those logged in, go to SEO Toolkit » Keyword Research » Keyword Overview. Fortunately presently there are a wealth of exceptional resources online including my SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION course online, which has already been set up to assist little business owners start the trip to learning how to develop their business online. For too long, SEOs have relied on simple techniques made to produce links within the short run. This visually engaging infographic is usually a simple tutorial on a few important SEO Techniques and Strategies for 2017 which you may easily use for those on-site SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION elements such as blogging, Wp and title tags, meta explanations and many more.

This means the SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION trends and techniques will furthermore dramatically change since the SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION experts will need to discover out new voice-based keywords intended for optimization purpose. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is the process of enhancing your website so that this can rank better searching motor results pages, and therefore, provide more traffic to your recently designed website. Google previous improvements destroyed many black hat developments, many SEOs lost their work especially after Panda and Penguin, Google panda was affected regarding 12% queries, and penguin simply on 4% on mobile plus desktop queries, and today one particular of the Google professional stated that is going to become affected more than 40% associated with mobile queries. Within the 2nd chapter of our own SEO guide, you will see how lookup engines work, how people make use of them and what type associated with search queries they submit. In conclusion, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is far more complex compared to keywords. Though it's not really certain that social media marketing links straight support SEO delete word, solid social media presence indirectly provide many benefits to brands. These SEO Developments of 2018 are ruling the particular digital world. The particular better you get at SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, the more traffic - plus much more leads - if you're likely to attract as time passes. Cloacking is the kind of black hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION, used to present the articles on the webpage to the particular search engine spiders, it provide a different content that the particular user browse in search. They can program a negative SEO attack, delivering a lot of spammy hyperlinks to your website. Many web-content creators concentrate on optimizing various aspect associated with their SEO in areas like as local search, academic lookup, image search, video search, plus news search among others, which usually involves the information seen simply by search engines, as well since, website visitors. There are various free equipment such as Pro Rank System and SEO Book Rank Band which will help you discover potential longtail keywords. Making use of an SEO advertising campaign will certainly allow you to boost your own rankings by means of popular search terms that may in turn generate more visitors to your site. I just began concentrating on perfect on-page SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION techniques, I did some errors within my previous articles which We have to update now, I actually never used my keyword within first 100 words in just about all my articles and not focused on LSI keywords. 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Long tail keywords may be very profitable to your own SEO strategy and narrow lower on the needs of particular customers by using descriptive lengthy tail keywords which can become very useful to boost traffic. One of the particular most important parts of the particular SEO is creating unique from SEO 2019 Slide ease with proper keywords. I predict the particular biggest SEO trend in 2018 will be companies and people diving into video as the particular written content space gets even more competitive. But there are usually some affordable SEO trends that you may use in 2018 to position your page in Google. Another most recent post is simply titled How to Write for SEO” Advice includes writing from a customer's perspective, forgetting regarding the hoary idea of keyword density, creating supplemental content for your site and much more. Naturally, the developments in SEO strategies vary significantly and rather rapidly, making this essential for marketers to maintain track from the necessary adjustments that need to be made to improve user experience. Their full thoughts are usually catalogued in our annual e-book The eBook, titled ‘The Supreme Facts SEO in 2018: fifty Insiders on the Future associated with Search, ' provides detailed information about from GDRP to Amazon . com Alexa. 2018 is almost all about getting the victory, exactly where the SEO success will not really depend on how you handle and optimize your website regarding Google, rather, Google will today search for the technical needs, which are simple but should. The particular user experience reaches the primary of your SEO strategy. It will end up being helpful if you share several on-page SEO tips and exactly how to perform a keyword study. Really important that you think associated with your SEO strategy and objectives if you map out all associated with your other internet marketing programs, as they can help boost your engine optimization with small to no extra effort, apart from some creative thinking. For this reason, whenever building links, SEOs focus not really on building any links. It also helps in quicker indexing, which supports boost your own search ranking and drive even more traffic to your website plus as such, if you desire to ace the SEO video game in 2018 then implementation associated with AMP is very important. Which was the description but if we follow the particular SEO Trends then it will be considered to be among the particular ranking factors. In the digital marketing and advertising world, naturally, this fast-growing sensation means that marketers must create new ways to tailor their particular SEO strategies to optimize with regard to voice search. It's furthermore important to realize that SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION is not the only method to show on top associated with search engines. Semantic Research: Further fortifying the value of this sort of content material creation strategy, as well because the SEO advantages it may translate into, it's essential in order to comprehend Google's recent focus upon something many known as semantic search.

In this particular post, I would like in order to highlight on 10 SEO tendencies (Old & New) that may help you gain a competing advantage and improve SERPs within 2018. Search engine optimization (SEO) is frequently about making small modifications in order to parts of your website. The particular 10 SEO tools we contributed above can help achieve higher rankings in 2017. SEO-ers will have to realize traditional marketing concepts like the particular 4Ps, the client journey, plus how the website supports the particular entire business goals. This is a good industry term that refers in order to agencies and consultants that bring out search engine optimization procedure on behalf of their customers, and by employees who carry out SEO services in-house. Including your own target keyword within the article title is a good SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION practice. As mobile queries are all about context, brand names should provide the best achievable results for every question, whilst local SEO is going in order to become even more popular. But if we are going to looking for a bigger pattern it's that SEO and specifically what we call real marketing” will continue to blur the particular lines together as the work of an SEO becomes that will of a traditional marketer -- having to comprehend the consumer, the competitors, the marketplace mainly because well as the implementation aspect. For years, hyperlinks have been the trust transmission for search engines — 1 which SEOs spent the almost all time on optimizing (and usually manipulating). This is the major factor for all associated with us, and we can notice why this is a large one of the SEO developments in 2018. Companies ought to devise their SEO strategies whilst considering the users of almost all such devices. I guarantee that even though you're experienced with SEO, you will find a trick or two in this post that will assist your blog or wordpress site climb higher on Google. In 2018, local SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION makreting will focus more upon mobile-first with Google using cellular pages as the primary list for search engine results.

Daily information and insights about internet marketing, SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION and paid search. Research engine optimization, commonly referred in order to as SEO, is the procedure of maximizing visibility by obtaining a website to appear higher on unpaid, organic results. Should you do not upgrade your SEO Strategy plus just go with the present and traditional methods, it may be critical to boosting your own site ranking in search outcomes. In order in order to make the content of the particular business website more visible upon the internet and attract visitors, it is mandatory that a single seeks the services of expert SEO services. If we appear at the Google search outcomes, it shows at least a single video result in the SERP, which always came from Youtube . com (although it also a component of Google service), but video clip marketing should be considered like a prominent strategy for SEO 2018. The SEO Book Key phrase Suggestion Tool aggregates search information and offers volumes, related conditions, and more. While normally you try in order to only go after high expert sites and prevent links through low quality domains for worry of Penguin, when it arrives to local SEO, local relevance has much more weight compared to authority. Users don't want to wait a web page so when your webpage is slow within 2018, just forget about SEO and your own bounce rate will down. A sensible strategy with regard to SEO would still appear in order to be to reduce Googlebot get expectations and consolidate ranking collateral & potential in high-quality canonical pages and you do that will by minimising duplicate or near-duplicate content. Winning SEO in 2018 will require marketers to moving forward honing their concentrate on consumer intent and topical authority. Ensure redirected domains redirect by way of a canonical redirect and this too offers any chains minimised, although BECOME SURE to audit the backlink user profile for any redirects you stage at a page as along with reward comes punishment if individuals backlinks are toxic (another illustration of Google opening up the particular war that is technical search engine optimization on a front that is not, and fact is converse, in order to building backlinks to your site). Wise SEO activities improve your own rankings in the search motor results page (SERP). 1. Improve your Google My Business Entries (the top local SEO rating signal) to help improve regional visibility and branding. Big Brand name campaigns are far, far various from small company SEO promotions that don't have any hyperlinks, to begin with, to provide you but one example. SEO has been misinterpreted by these Internet marketers mainly because they assume that you will find much better ways to get visitors plus SEO takes a lot associated with time and effort which basically worth it. If you are usually after growth and targeted visitors then search engine traffic is usually really a traffic source that will you seriously have to think about. These happenings of the particular past year will shape upward mobile SEO in 2018. SEOQuake: A plugin intended for your web browser, not Wp, SEOQuake allows users to rapidly and seamlessly assess SEO qualities of any website without starting up extra programs. Earlier they will were always concerned about the particular SEO ranking factors, as they will keep on changing with the particular periodic algorithm updates rolled out there by the search engines. Sensing that people were misusing the liberty given to all of them, Google came up with their own Panda Algorithm and a Penguin update that began penalizing sites using such Black Hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION strategies. Links will keep on to be one of the particular leading SEO components if a person want to rank well within 2018. Find out how to write articles, understand how to write some easy HTML, and the find out pretty basic principles of SEO, and you will make money online using SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION and article promotion to obtain your web page (you just need one from each website) listed on Page #1 associated with Google (forget Yahoo and the particular rest) and you will obtain loads of traffic to that will web page. Stat to: seventy two percent of SEOs believe back links are a significant ranking element, which is surprisingly low. Within order to help you obtain on top of SEO intended for 2018, I'll cover two locations here: the trends to view out for and the equipment to take advantage of this particular year. SEO is used as the description for a person, somebody that does search engine optimisation as a job, and since a verb I'm going in order to internet search engine optimize this particular website”. Google takes very serious argument to such Black Hat SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION techniques. And when you have the handle on that, it's period to optimize your site with regard to the new SEO trends that will I outlined in this particular guide. Research from Intellectual SEO and others shows the relationship between search rankings plus social signals. SEO content is a mixture of keywords and keyword key phrases. A big component of the internet marketers believe that online marketing is restricted to SEO, SMO & SEARCH ENGINE MARKETING, where the truth is, a lot associated with other online marketing strategies possess previously arrived at the finish of 2016 plus some of all of them are still coming since the particular beginning of 2017. Today, a person are going to know among the best SEO techniques that will assist improve your website's optimization (and traffic) remarkably. Digital Marketing and advertising and SEO would be the particular most trending topics across the particular globe so when a items goes trending a number associated with other new and trending points get connects with it. Such as AMP, Voice Search, AI plus Mobile friendly website are the particular preferred and trending part associated with SEO now. Are outstanding but their SEO potential might be lower compared to solo links. Right here are 8 off-page SEO methods to expand your page ranks on search results. By 2010, marketers began to see the growing significance of social media content within SEO, so both Google plus Bing added ‘social signals, ' which would show any composed Facebook posts that matched someone’s search. For me, I experience as though I gained the valuable, all encompassing picture associated with SEO and it will assist me to create a method to move forward with rating goals. Simply by incorporating an actual SEO technique into your overall content advertising plan, you will be capable to climb the major lookup engines rankings within a issue of months.

Ranking today offers more to do with significant and useful content than SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION voodoo link crazy linking strategies and spending your time upon keyword density along with other technical products. SEO is increasing findability, user experience, and wedding by making certain content plus messaging is aligned and structured based on the language that will potential customers and visitors are usually most often using to explain the products, solutions, services or even information that a website is definitely providing. With a couple of correct best WordPress SEO procedures you can really see the nice little boost both within SERPs and Google Picture Search. Essential whenever they will plan to expand their web business; they quickly need in order to take the help of SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION optimization services. First, understand that schema markup is one of the nearly all effective, least used parts associated with SEO today Schema are generally brief snippets of data that will can give extra information in order to search users and search motors like google. As lookup engine algorithms have become even more refined, the nature of SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION profession has additionally changed. 2017 introduced an entire new set associated with changes in the way companies market their products and solutions, marketers try to improve their own ranking with seo (SEO), the particular way people surf the internet and much more. If RankBrain will certainly become more and more important in rankings, which is quite likely, that means that SEO's will start optimizing more plus more for user experience rather of other factors. As marketers plan their content marketing technique for 2018, SEO is usually top-of-mind — or at least this should be! 2018, certainly is going to be a good interesting year for SEO within support of time will inform who manages to maintain the particular right blend to come at the top. Digital marketing and advertising experts dealing with both SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION and AdWords rely on the particular keyword page of the research console to show which key phrases trigger user queries for each organic and paid content.

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12 Issues You Need to Know In advance of You Even Commence a Site

blog Considering of beginning a website? Blogging is a wonderful matter to get concerned with and can lead to all sorts of wonderful prospects. But before you dive correct in, it is very well value first of all getting a step back and contemplating about a number of important points. Listen up. Starting off a blog site is quite simple, but getting it correct is a ton a lot more tough and there are numerous conclusions to make together the way. Below are twelve things you need to know prior to you even start out a site: one. Self-Hosted WordPress Site You may well be questioning about the greatest solution for commencing a weblog. Do you develop a WordPress website, or would a platform like Blogger suffice? What about some thing like SquareSpace or Wix? In my viewpoint, a self-hosted WordPress weblog (ie. WordPress.org) is by much and absent the ideal alternative. There are a couple of primary good reasons for this: For starters, a self-hosted WordPress blog site provides you full ownership and regulate in excess of everything you do. There are hundreds of thousands of themes and plugins for WordPress, when it can be also wonderful to know that nobody can appear alongside just one day and get down your blog site since it 'breaks' some type of rule. Which is a big problem with many platforms! As soon as you have put in WordPress (it is free of charge and most hosts let you set up it with just a few of clicks), you can basically do whatsoever you like. You will require to commit a bit of money on hosting and a area name, but individuals can be picked up very cheaply. 2. Develop a Brand name To build a successful site and stand out in the group, you require to operate to produce a unique manufacturer. This means select a quite certain market and performing to produce a brand that really speaks to your audience. What helps make a model? 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A phrase of warning: Do not throw a load of money at the wall and hope it sticks! Established a tiny spending budget (e.g. $twenty) and exam the water to see if it performs. 9. Responsive Layout is a Have to Absent are the days when most individuals browsed the web on their desktop pc. Today, it is all about smartphones and tablets. If you're organizing to set up a new blog site in 2017, you should, make sure you, Please make certain it is responsive and easily viewable on mobile products! It'll make the viewing expertise substantially superior for your site visitors, and it has certain Search engine optimization positive aspects, far too. ten. Be Knowledgeable of Growing Security Threats When location up a website, it really is very important to just take security very seriously. Weblogs are vulnerable to hackers and other online threats, so it truly is certainly crucial to consider steps to safeguard your website as considerably as feasible. 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These are the 12 factors I consider you want to know in advance of starting a new weblog.