#bc your experiences are YOUR experiences and nobody elses 🥺

[willowser]

willow everyone around me has a partner/fwb (we're in our 20s) and i'm still a virgin i feel so excluded 😔!! i want to have sex too i'm just scared and feel soooooo left behind. childish almost because i am an adult woman with a job and license and can legally drink and rent a car! grrrrr! and i know in my heart that it's silly to feel this way but i can't help it sometimes

oh my dear !!! 🥺 i think when we're surrounded by people that are involved in something that we're not apart of, it's very normal to feel excluded !! a lil' left behind !!! but 🥺 intimate relationships are not the same as hobbies or tv shows that our pals are into for the moment 🥺 and i think the fact that you do feel scared is !! v important !! and something that you should pay attention to !! 🥺🩷 regarding a vulnerable moment such as this, i think you would regret it more to rush into it with someone while you're scared, more than you would regret just waiting 🥺 until the time feels right 🥺

being a virgin does not equate to being childish, friend 🥺 you're right !! you're a grown ass woman with a job and a license !! that can drink and rent a car !! you're a multi-faceted human being 🥺 and you can't be narrowed down any one way !! 🥺 this is just another piece of you 🥺 and life is so different for everyone, you really can't compare yours or your experiences with others !! bc all that usually does is leave us feeling off-track, when really !! there is no track !!

it's not silly to feel this way 🥺 it's normal !! and i'm sure it will come and go and that's okay ! but know what's best for you 🥺 and if you're feeling a scared or unsure, it's so important to listen to that little piece of you ! 🥺

i am kissing you on the head friend ! and hoping that you don't feel pressured or left behind 🥺🩷✨️

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

HAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII ARIIII IT IS IIIIII!!!!!!!!! i'm here to bombard you with the very same questions of the question game bc i really wanna hear your answers too!!!!!! so 1. your comfort characters pleaseeee pretty please andd 2. a scenario that you've replayed multiple times please pretty pretty please!!! luv u btw wait also u are 10000% that gojo cover is the most beautiful thing in the world and nobody can tell us otherwise<33333333333

- @catchuuu

MICKEY IT IS YOUUUUUUUU :33 welcome welcome!!!!!! take a seat……. here is your ari delivered pastry and drink 🍩🍵 <- some tea bc it’s late. it’s gonna help you sleep better trust !!

wahhh you’re so sweet to drop in w these…. i had a crisis answering them bc . i am …. indecisive,.,…… but i’ll try just for you :’3

1/ HHHHHHHHHHHHH what is there to say………… you already know a lot of them i think 😭😭 gojo our belovedest ALWAYS makes me happy and suguru too!!! i think gojo is a bit more of a comfort though… sugu makes me pretty sad….. ANDDD ofc kenjaku!!! my silly emotional support queercoded villain. he makes me smile :3 would also throw in nobara bc her existence feels like a warm hug. she’s my Everything. i had a crush on her when i first watched jjk and i will adore her always!!!!!

jjk aside though…… THIS is where i start getting indecisive bc i have too many fandoms to keep track of + my memory is bad :’3 but ummmm um. kunikida is my angel wife!! and reki from sk8 the infinity makes me sooo happy 🥺🥺 (you would LOVE him btw he has the brightest smile ever) ALSO NOYA FROM HQ…… and ryoji from persona 3….. and kazui from milgram… and tsukasa and emu from pj sekai……….

i could mention more but!!! i’ll finish by saying saber and archer from fate/stay night :> saber is the reason i started loving knights and archer is the sexiest man on this planet + the reason i’m into motherly men + voiced by junichi suwabe <3333 the fate series is soooo dear 2 my heart mickey…. my favorites r actually sakura and kirei but they both make me too emotional to be called comfort charas…. same w shirou……. and every single csm character too 😔 sigh .

2/ hhhh this one was . also tough……. :cc since you went w a childhood near-death experience i will do the same >:3 i was almost brutally murdered (<- grave exaggeration) by a cow when i was like . 10…. it might’ve been a bull?? i was too scared to look it in the eye 😞😞

it was raining a bunch right … and there was this lil nature reserve near my house . w a path you could walk up on a hill but also down by a river….. and it was raining sm that the whole thing was just FLOODED. you couldn’t see any of the rocks in the river…. or the grass you could walk on beside it…… so little ari decided to go down there anyway. for the sake of adventure. and i made it to the end of the path to a fence that you could jump over to get to The Normal Road Home .

BUT …. gasp ………. little ari came face to face w a bunch of cows . up on the hill. right by the fence. they were eating the grass and i was scared bc they were fucking HUGE mickey :((( i was shaking n shivering and trying to blend in w my surroundings……… carefully making my way towards the fence that they were kinda blocking.

BUT THEN …. another gasp….. suddenly i was face to face w this One cow/bull and it just stared at me. for a couple seconds. and then it ran right towards me and my childhood instincts kicked in …. so i like. ran down the hill and then back up so i could jump over the fence . and then i was ok :) but ever since that fateful day i’ve been scared of cows….. i can only admire them from afar 😔😔😔😔

hehe these were so fun to answer… ty mickey my angel <333 ALSO SO TRUE SO REAL i knew i could trust you…….. he’s so pretty!!!!!! ig we just have to bear the burden of understanding him better than anyone else …. a heavy burden but. it is what it is <//3

[alwaysmicado]

(You know in your hearts what happened, I know it)

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awww god damn it.. Joel definitely fucked her then 😂😭

I know they’re not exclusive or anything and he had every right to go on a date and do whatever he wants but bro, my heart 😭😭 like the other person said, knowing how shitty the reader was feeling, sobbing to Tommy over the phone while having to bandage her own hand bc nobody else was there… and he was with another woman 🥺 ouchie. Just ouchie! 😂 (AAAAND! literally only hours after he was with reader too. Like dude! hope you washed your dick Joel, ew.)

And just so I got it right, Jan from the last chapter is the same woman he went on a date with, right?

I know after everything in the last chapter they might finally be able to actually talk to each other and communicate and hopefully work things out but this still makes me sad. Joel saying reader can always call him for anything at anytime (which btw bro.. really. So if reader called while he’s balls deep in another woman he would just pick up? lmao) and reader feeling like she can’t call Joel for anything at anytime… 🥺😭

I saw another ask saying something and I agree so much! That while Joel does have every right to do whatever he wants bc they’re not dating, this definitely didn’t make reader feel like his feelings are actually genuine. Like, how is she supposed to believe he actually cares as much as he says he does when he then turns around and does this kinda stuff? That just basically confirmed all her insecurities and anxiety. Poor girl!

Still holding out hope he didn’t do anything but it’s like…. 1% left 😂 I’m sure it will eventually come out what exactly happened because I’m sure a serious talk between them is gonna happen eventually! And after the bar and seeing Joel with Jan and the mirror punch, I don’t think reader would be able to just let it go.

IM SORRY for rambling. I love this story and I have way too many thoughts and feelings and ugh. I get too invested lmao!

awww god damn it.. Joel definitely fucked her then 😂😭

But have you considered that I might just be messing with you for fun?

Like dude! hope you washed your dick Joel, ew.

lmao you just made my day!! (and I thought the same thing hahaha 😂😂)

And just so I got it right, Jan from the last chapter is the same woman he went on a date with, right?

Exactly. She's Tommy's age and has an adult daughter.

Joel saying reader can always call him for anything at anytime (which btw bro.. really. So if reader called while he’s balls deep in another woman he would just pick up? lmao) and reader feeling like she can’t call Joel for anything at anytime… 🥺😭

Very interesting (and kinda funny) thought 🤔. And yeah, that's exactly what reader is thinking!!

Like, how is she supposed to believe he actually cares as much as he says he does when he then turns around and does this kinda stuff? That just basically confirmed all her insecurities and anxiety. Poor girl!

Reader is convinced he's sleeping with Jan due to her insecurities (Simon & Laura 😑) plus her experiences with guys cheating on ther wives/gfs with her, like you said. But it's still very much possible that she's jumping to conclusions here because she's so disillusioned and just assumes the worst to preemtively protect herself from unpleasant surprises.

And the fact that she sees disappointment in Joel's eyes and assumes he'll leave her when he's literally just worried and continuously tried to reach her says a lot about how her view of herself and the people around her is very much shaped by her insecurity...

And after the bar and seeing Joel with Jan and the mirror punch, I don’t think reader would be able to just let it go.

Reader's MO for the past few years has been to cut and run when she starts feeling attached. She kept Joel at arm's length for a few months, but there's just something about him that made her feel safe enough to let herself fall a bit.

I think that this unexpected possibility of losing him suddenly, has opened her eyes to how much she actually cares about him and that she's in far deeper than she wants to admit.

But she did admit it and now I don't think either of them would be able to just let it go.

IM SORRY for rambling. I love this story and I have way too many thoughts and feelings and ugh. I get too invested lmao!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE SORRY?? I loooove that you're invested and have thoughts and feelings you want to share!!! 😍😍😍 Thank you so much for this message, your insight is amazing!! 🤍

[lannisterdaddyissues]

Mar im gonna need 3, 16, 20, 23 and 27 with bill cage <3

@calkale @sliderkerner WAAAAAAAAA THANK YOU MY BELOVED FRIENDS FOR INDULGING MY INSANITY I LOVE YOU GUYS <3333

1. My first impression of them hmm its funny bc i think i first watched edge of tomorrow in august and i was normal about it actually? i was like hm that was a good film but not the best of his movies for sure. i dont think i really understood most of it though so a rewatch was necessary, but that didn't happen until february and idk what clicked that didn't the first time but oh i am SOOOOOOOOOO insane about it now the lights are all flipped on

2. When I think I truly started to like them (or dislike them, if you've sent me a character I don't like) i knew as soon as he tripped over the chair that i was going to love his stupid pathetic ass <3

3. A song that reminds me of them ill NEVER STOP SAYING THIS but 'the proof of your love' by for king & country it is SO bill-coded, so billrita-coded, it's literally their theme song idk what else you want me to say

however since i've said that one before i'm reccing 'undercover angel' by alan o'day because it would be one of those classics he used to love growing up and when he hears it again on the radio some time after they've gotten together he's like "rita oh my GOD do you know how to dance 🥺🥺🥺" and she's like "nooooooo not the fucking angel song, cage, come on-" but he teaches her how to waltz to it and . let me be delusional okay

16. A childhood headcanon wawawa.... baby bill.... hm i have several small ones but i firmly subscribe to the headcanon that he was actually born in georgia because his mom is from there (it would explain EVERYTHING about him, especially because i also hc that his personality was just copy-pasted directly from his mom) but he moved to cranbury when he was like one or two so he considers himself "from cranbury, born and raised" anyway

20. A weird headcanon ok uhhhh idk if this is weird but it IS oddly specific so! he can make one (1) pie recipe! it's blueberry pie (cranbury is famous for it, according to google) and rita LOVES it. she's definitely not a sugar person and rarely indulges in anything at all but she's such a sucker for that fucking pie and bill is always over the moon whenever she gives him That Look that means she wants another slice but is too proud to ask

23. Future headcanon he takes rita to visit cranbury a couple years after they both fall into place beside each other and it's a very emotionally healing experience for both of them. he tells her lots of silly meaningless little anecdotes from when he was growing up while giving her the grand tour and rita isn't a very sentimental person either but she can't help how easy it is to picture him living in that cute little town when he gets so chatty about it :,)

(also rita eventually takes him to her hometown in wolverhampton and reluctantly introduces him to her very alive, very normal parents because i said so)

27. If they could meet a character from another show/movie/etc, who would be the most fun for them to meet? in my mind he and fix it felix jr get brunch every sunday to catch up about the horrors they have been through and gush about their sexy muscular action girlfriends. nobody can take this idea away from me

[taegularities]

Hi lovely Rid 💕💕

I'm coming in with one of my irrelevant and possibly annoying rants™ that I haven't done in a while.

But the part in cmi blooming where Jungkook was talking about how OC isn't even meeting his standards, she's actually building them made me think of my crush and :((

I'm usually so so wary when I talk to guys because in my experience, sooner or later, they always say something that makes me feel weird or uncomfortable, like they start being misogynistic or homophobic, or they start treating me weird. And don't get me started on the toxic masculinity!!!

So when I started talking more to my crush and realising I like him, I thought that the more I got to know him, I would find out something about him that would put me off, like it usually happens. But this man is literally too perfect????

He is so intentional with all of his political and moral views, with the activism he's doing, with the way he's intentionally defying gender norms. If someone says something weird, like sexist or any other kind, he'll be the first to call the person out on it. None of it feels performative either, just really intentional because he realises his privilege and uses it for good. And he's so kind and caring too, listens so well and remembers things about his friend's interests. Like his whole films watchlist is full of his friend's favourite movies and he must have a friend who's an army too because every time we come to that topic he knows so much 🥺🥺 I was nervous about giving him my discord because it's got a jungkook profile pic and everything but he just started asking like isn't he in the military now etc. Literally the biggest green flag of a person.

He's the one currently setting the standard for me! And the problem is that I really don't think he likes me back and now I don't know who else will meet all these standards lmaoo. But when I'm not feeling pessimistic and I look at it from the bright side, he has genuinely restored a little bit of my faith in men (just like bts actually) Because if he exists then surely there are others like him, right 😔

Anyway, this is a bit of an aimless rant, just had to get that off my chest. But of course, cmi Jungkook is the ultimate standard and nobody can surpass him!!

Thank you for listening as always, Rid. Love you 💞💞💞

hi ivi, my sweetheart 🤍

reading smth so wholesome after attending meetings of 4.5h is 🥹 the way you talk about him is so incredibly endearing and made me beaaaaam!! and it fills me with hope once again that such wonderful people do exist. even if you only remain friends, i'm so happy you've found someone who helps you restore faith in humanity. he truly sounds amazing :D and isn't it freaking amazing how knowing the right person makes you realise just what you look for in people? like, having no type but finding a standard in someone amazing is such a grand and irreplaceable compliment. (you should tell him how cool he is 🥺 he'd love that, i bet 🥺)

i was already going to mention it before you said it yourself, but i think he's the ultimate proof that not everything in this world is rotten. i know love doesn't always come easy to us, and somewhere in us, the fear of being disappointed is always present. i guess that's how you know how much you value and cherish your heart and that you won't settle for hurt 🤍 but, while everyone always says this to me, i want to tell you, too, that awesome people come into our lives at just the right moment, and that if things truly do not work out with your crush, there'll be someone one day who'll make you believe in the best in people, too and who'll love you in ways you soooo deserve (although cmon, your crush is tooootally missing out!! 😁). but keep holding onto hope bc love and tenderness do exist and we'll alllll get our very own cmi jk one day for sure, and he'll worship the ground we walk on just as he does with oc 🥺🤍

none of your rants are aimless or irrelevant and least of all annoying. in fact, more!! lol i always miss them when you're away!! i actually apologise for rambling, too like odidgsududh :') love you, ivi, thank you for putting a smile on my face bc this msg was the most wholesome thing ever <3

[lighthouseas]

hello oh my opinion of you is VERY HIGH (think about it every night and day..spread my wings and fly away..🎵) because youre so smart and silly and such a creep freak weirdo also (woah oh oh oh) not to mention an excellent conversationalist when talking to you isn't easy and fun its like a sword fight w pool noodles HoW ON eartH Could i possibly match your quick wits and funny quips..and yet we duel anyways 🤺 and not to turn this into a fandom hero worship thing but youre an indispensable part of the st crowd as i've seen your content is BALLER your fics r the BOMB your takes are BEMUSING (see that..triple B 👆✌for the three Bs in your name (phoebebeeberry)) and even when youre just hangin around everybodies so glad to see you (BABY YOU LIGHT UP MY WORLD LIKE NOBODY ELSE THE WAY THE YOU FLIP YOUR HAIR GETS ME OVERWHELMED etc) would donate one of my appendages to be able to take you to Chili's or something and play uno w you while we wait for the chips and guac youre a jolly good friend mate

tdlr: youre grrrrrrREAT

hey. hey noah. what if i took you in my hands and shook you so violently that you exploded like a coke and mentos science experiment. i read this like 3 times so i could fully absorb it bc. BRO. Brotato. man. this is so nice . like u think i'm a good conversationalist ???? as we battle with our silly quips???? YOU LIKE MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ST FANDOM???? paying me the absolute highest compliments here 🥺🥺🥺 and OFC the same goes for u bro i don't think tumblr would be anywhere without u tbh . or maybe i'm bias but WHATEVER.

[angelnumber27]

You know you’re a whole ass loser when

You’re in your mid 30s preying on innocent 15 year old girls. And then when said girls become aware and mature enough to realize they are being preyed upon and block your sick ass, you relentlessly beg them to unblock you, literally harassing little girls to talk to you. If you can’t see the problem with that then things are worse than I thought.

You call anybody who has exposed you for said pedophilia behavior and predatory shit a “stalker” saying we are “jealous” of your followers and your “staff picks” (shut UPPP)

You talk about an innocent girl (one of your past victims) who has worked hard to make sure thousands of people are a aware of your behavior and that you are a dangerous person in horribly awful and creepy ways, calling me a “meth whore” and things that you really have no business saying

Cry for help, faking struggling during the pandemic and being homeless on here and begging strangers for money they don’t have so that you can buy and shoot up heroin. Denying it and repeating.

Continuing to pester annoy and bother the people who have worked to make sure others know to stay safe from you

Spreading lies and manipulating people into not believing the truth so that you can have access to more young girls to prey upon

Still crying like a bitch begging me to talk to you again meanwhile saying horrible not true things about me even though you do not know me or anything about me

Doing any possible thing you can to deflect from the facts and the gravity of the real situation: that you are a predator and a pedophile and not well and a dangerous person that should not be allowed in society.

Posting photos that you have stolen from other people and then when someone else happens to post the same photo (and get more notes than you) you say they “stole it from you” and that they are “stalking you” bitch other people have access to the internet you’re not an artist for saving a photo on your phone smh smh

Continuing to manipulate young girls and then trying to convince them that they are wrong or being lied to when they show they want to get away from you or block you.

Literally begging girls as young as 15 for companionship..., you’re what.. 34? How do you not realize what is wrong with the statement I just said.... SMH

Anyways this is just the beginning dudes a train wreck of a human being and a straight up dangerous person so interact at your own risk I would suggest not doing so at all bc he will try to manipulate you (I know from experience and from talking to dozens of people he has done the same thing to)

As always please please stay safe and remember that you can’t trust everyone on the internet, especially not a middle aged man using tumblr as a way to find little girls.

To the angels who have been working w me to help make more people aware of this, thank you, and remember that anything he says is just an attempt to deflect from the real situation and create doubt in the minds of others. You’re all so strong and I love you all so much, thank you for everything 🥺❤️

To the angels who have been victims of this man (and I know it is many) please remember you did not deserve this, you are just a little girl and you should not by any means have to worry about being preyed upon by a grown man on the website that is supposed to be your safe space. I am so sorry you had to go through that and I am always here if any of you need anything at all. Please don’t doubt yourself, you know the truth and you know what was said and you know how uncomfortable he made you. It was not right or okay at all, despite how he made you feel like it was normal it wasn’t. He’s a predator, that’s what they do.

I’m crying I wish I could singlehandedly lock up every fucking loser that feels the need to mess with young girls like I cannot tell you how absolutely enraged that shit makes me please at least pick on somebody your age I know you can’t bc nobody your age wants shit to do with you and that’s why you prey on girls who are as young and naive as possible but if you’re going to be fucking weird and overtly sexual and extremely creepy please at least do it towards somebody who is legal.

PEOPLE DONT DESERVE TO BE TRAUMATIZED BECAUSE YOU ARE SICK AND HAVE A COMPULSION TO BOTHER AND PREY ON LITTLE GIRLS

bye I hope you get the help you need

@ Heal2k @ angelwh1sper

[willowser]

i really really enjoyed the whiplash of the morning after in Southern Charm- it was very Real, I think, cause there are definitely people who will hold you like they mean it than turn on a dime the next day (speaking from experience) so it was So So Cathartic to have the reader kinda freak at that, especially based on what we know of that recent, raw past relationship. Love how I understand both sides too, bakugou isn’t obligated to offer anything more and reader isn’t obligated to be unaffected so it was just gorgeous! I adore imperfect readers so much and I love how you’re writing them, and the other characters ofc too!!

oh, man, i'm so glad to hear this !! 🥺 you know, just the other day, i was having this big conversation with myself LOL about imperfect readers, bc i feel like we don't see enough of them ! and i also love an imperfect reader bc i make mistakes and do impulsive things and am hurtful in moments where i'm overwhelmed and — if i'm meant to be the insert in the reader-insert, then i love to see that reflected ! but i was actually very worried that the scene wouldn't go over well 😭 i was super nervous about how it would be received, if her hurt and his frustration would make sense and i agonized about this to my bestie while writing it LOL

i'm so happy for your insight, thank you so much ! things will resolve between the two of them, but nobody is perfect and two strangers aren't always going to be on the same page, and we all have our own hurts and it's not someone else's fault for not knowing ! but it doesn't make the wound any less deep. thank you so much for reading and stopping by, i hope you enjoy what is to come !!

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#5

Jesus Christ, the one and only Son Of God The Father, died on the cross for your sins. He was not sent here to condemn us, but to save us(John 3:16-17)! He knows you more than anyone else! You are wonderful and loved by Him. Let Him lead your life, and love Him with all that you are.

ur mom succ me good and hard through my jorts

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#4

happy trans day of visibility I'm Ava I'm trans and for one day only you, too, can experience me fully in the visible spectrum 🙌

(they/them or she/her)

13 notes • Posted 2021-04-01 02:14:02 GMT

#3

Happy gen 4 remake day anyway y'all go read my fav fanfic ever, a 545k pokemon fic called Pedestal. It's probably up there in my top 10 books of all time just bc of how much it meant to me at a time I really needed it and I would say it still holds up pretty well.

(also go follow its author @skittidyne)

27 notes • Posted 2021-11-20 05:35:19 GMT

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Hey gamers lost my job & I'm looking for work so if anyone's looking for computer repair around Denton TX hit me up 🤙🤙🤙

Or if u don't have a computer that needs fixing but wanna help anyway my v/nmo is @\qwerty0s lol

31 notes • Posted 2021-06-27 22:34:56 GMT

#1

Hey gamers since everyone's talking about security & I fix computers for a living I wanna make a post about PGP encryption, why you should be using it for anything you want private, a bit about how it works, and hopefully a good starting place for using it to encrypt your own stuff.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Hash: SHA512

If you wanna learn more about secure private online correspondence that no government actually has the ability to limit, read on!

*To avoid tumblr's hatred of links, I will be reblogging this with a few links after posting that may be mentioned, but you can get through the whole thing without reading any of them if you wanna go back for them later.

Most people think of encryption as a lock and a key; you give someone the key at some point, and then later when you need something unlocked by only them and you you lock it with the key that they use to open it. That's fairly useful for things like WiFi where it isn't really the end of the world if you're a little careless, but for some correspondence it just isn't enough.

Along comes PGP.

See, most encryption is of a type called Symmetric encryption, where one key is shared by the sender and recipient to both encrypt and decrypt data, but PGP works completely differently using something called Asymmetric Public Key encryption.

Asymmetric Public Key encryption is a system in which rather than having one key for every lock, every user has two keys for them: a private one that they never give to anyone else, and a public one that they give to as many other people as they can. Any time they want to lock up a message for someone, they create a new lock that is locked with the recipient's public key.

Through some dark, arcane magic involving prime numbers and algebra that I invite the reader to pursue on their own if they really want to know how it works [1], this process generates a lock that, while locked with these two keys, can crucially only be unlocked using the receiver's private key!

This obviously has a few uses. Number one, you can encrypt a message to someone very easily in such a way that there is no way anyone else (even you or someone who steals your computer) can ever open again, and due to how complicated these private keys are there's next to no chance of a brute force decryption.

Number two, you can sign messages to other users to prove that you are actually the originator of the message, in such a way that it's nigh impossible to fake without actually getting ahold of a user's private key. This can be used to verify nobody is impersonating you in an online space or to verify a message, even unencrypted, is coming from who you need it to come from.

There's always the issue of trust, of course. How do you know you're actually getting the public key of who you need to send things to? Well, for that there is the trust system.

There exist large-scale databases of public keys [2] that can be browsed, fetched, queried, and submitted to that work to help you trust that you are talking to who you need to, and furthermore if you trust a public key you can generate what is effectively a document that says "I trust you are you" with your private key and submit it to one of these databases.

Alternatively, you can always trust a trusted friend of a trusted friend of a trusted colleague of a trusted blah blah blah and so the web of trust is constructed.

Finally, there are a few more minor things I want to add.

See the full post

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