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[blortch]

Sorry if this isn’t the kind of asks you want, but I don’t have anyone else to tell lol I’ve been having some sexy dreams about Jay, and don’t really know what to do about it. I’ll spare you all the details but he was wearing very tight very small turquoise underwear. Lol

> " I'll spare you the details " > Uses 5 words to describe the underwear

[dreaming-of-barbi]

I have finally come up with a backstory for my reagent oc! I am so happy with how they have turned out !!! Very very long lore outline thing below, copied from my google docs and written on my phone so there might be some errors.

Sugar & Bone(s) | The Demon and The Vessel – lore dump / outline 

TRIGGER WARNINGS - not in order -

RELIGION, OCCULT THINGS, DEMON??, GORE MENTIONS, ABUSE??, DEATH, MAFIA??, DRUGS?? that's all I can think of 

Description of Sugar - 

About 22 years old when she reaches Murkoff.

5’3”, somewhat pudgy with blueish gray eyes and dark brown curly hair that reaches down to her hips. A large portion of her face is covered by a very sensitive, actively healing scar. 

She subconsciously touches the scar on her neck and face, feeling how much it has healed each day. She avoids mirrors and also hides her face with her hair when she can. She removed the night vision headset and E.S.O.P within the first few weeks of being there as the Demon can see in the dark just fine and they don't use the rigs.

She tries to hide the screws Murkoff drilled into her skull. She doesn't smile often as it feels weird against her healing skin. It won't ever fully heal, forever leaving a nasty spider web like scar across her face. 

Her teeth grew back sharper, some of her facial features being slightly altered because of the Demon.

Ages and timeline may change, especially as more lore for Franco comes out. It might be a little off with the ages but I tried to keep everything lore accurate. 

Locations are kind of unknown, for now. Most likely within Louisiana, before finding their way to Mount Sinyala in Arizona.

~

Ever since she had been born, it was as though she was cursed. Labeled as a “demonic child” before her birth, she was already doomed to be nothing more than a scapegoat for whatever was needed. 

The Demon found her at only a few months old, quickly latching on to such a sorrowful soul. How could something so young and small put off this much sadness? And this place? This was no religious commune, especially not when they could so easily step foot on these so-called “holy grounds”.

Shannon meets Franco at age 4 years old, very, very young at the time. Franco isn't much older, as he's almost three years older than her. 

She witnesses him being screamed at by Salvatore and, guided by a simple thought placed in her mind by the Demon, follows him when he runs off after, finding him hiding himself away and crying. She sits next to him without ever saying anything and shares a small loaf of banana bread with him, being called away by her guardians not too long after. 

Franco never forgets this gesture, recognizing her as he gets a bit older and starts learning more about his fathers… business. He sees her within The Commune whenever his father would bring him along in the following years, visiting sometimes to see how the operations were going. 

The commune is a cult, as well as a front for money laundering, and providing another way to smuggle narcotics For Salvatore. Has ties to a  “Freak Show” miles in the opposite direction of the city, which of course, also has ties with Salvatore. The cult buys and also helps distribute Salvatore's goods, earning a small profit for it as they use their ties with the Circus to keep production rolling through.

Who's going to question the little pilgrim-like Christian village out in the woods? 

Circus’ and Freak Shows were hardly even being bothered with any more, less and less appearing across the country each year as people grew bored and tired of it. 

With generous donations coming from Salvatore's companies, food and charity sent to both the Circus and The Commune, no one batted an eye at this tight knit circle. No one noticed them. 

The perfect front. 

It was a dying form of crude entertainment, the only thing keeping it alive was The exploitation of the gullible Commune members nearby, and the few people who visited occasionally. 

A deal was made with the Commune’s “Elders” and the Ring Master of the show, using one of the “attractions” to strike the fear of god into the gullible members. In return, they are paid a good sum of money, and given a discount on Salvatore's… finest selection.

A small albino girl, with a genetic defect causing feathers to grow on her face and body, skin pure white as snow, with two tiny, flightless wings to complete the look. (She is my fiance's oc! teehee) 

She was labeled the “Angle”, thanks to her own inability to pronounce the word. Anyone who attempted to correct it  would be berated and attacked by the Ring Master in a drunken stupor. 

Shannon was often taken with to the Circus, seeing the “Angle” trapped in her tiny cage, hearing the “Elders” scream how the members of The Commune lacked any real faith. Screaming as the small girl in the cage wept, demanding that they watch as she “cried for their sins”. 

Shannon would sneak out sometimes to see the Angle herself and even spoke to her, forming a small friendship, though it was fleeting, as Shannon couldn't risk being caught by the Ring Master or she (and Angle) would have hell to pay. 

She continued to seek Franco out in their younger years, despite him telling her to leave him alone for a while. He was fearful of both becoming close with someone but also fearful of what his father may do about it. Shannon was undeterred, Franco being the only person in her life who didn't treat her like an outcast, everyone else looking at her as though she was the devils spawn. 

He slowly warms up to her, they get to know each other more, Franco and Shannon always being very sneaky about their friendship. Shannon was supposed to stay within The Commune, to cook, clean, take care of the chores. Play the mini housewife for them, as all the Commune Women were expected to, and only god knows what Salvatore would do about his son prancing around with a lowly, nothing girl from that Commune, risking the operation that was held there. They knew the retaliation it may cause if either ever heard of their affairs.

Franco and Shannon knew better than to risk the wrath of Franco's father and the Commune… right?

Franco had many mixed feelings for Shannon.

She would actively look for him, wanting to spend time with him, unlike the other children and people in his life. He was often very skeptical of why Shannon was always so nice to him, even when he got incredibly angry she never switched on him or treated him with disdain like most. 

He was the only person who didn't treat her like a creature. All of The Commune members saw children as nothing more than easy, free labor, especially Shannon, training and treating her like a dog instead of a child. This would often translate into how other people treated her, as it was often encouraged to treat her this way by the “Elders”. 

Franco did not do anything like this to her, not once. She could deal with his temper, the yelling. It was nothing she hadn't dealt with before. 

She knew how kind Franco really was. 

Shannon began sneaking out of The Commune at around age 10, usually walking for miles to get into town and visit Franco, bringing him sweets she had made. 

Franco gives her the nickname Sugar (often Suga’ because of his accent teehee) sometime around when she's 11 - 12.

She makes him a dessert, accidentally adding too much sugar as she was distracted talking with him. He teases her for it, telling her it's “Just like you. Sweet as Suga’~.” the nickname staying as Franco keeps calling her such.

Franco began to flirt with her more around this time in their life, though he also often acted cold and harsh towards her as his own fears stirred. What was their “relationship”, if it could even be considered one? She would never be safe around his Father, around here at all. 

The “Beloved Elder(s)”, as they often demanded to be called, soon began to… up the Villages dosage of medications. They had drugged the “villagers” into submission for years, but for whatever reason they had decided to raise the amount, and even began including the commune children.

Sugar often wandered her way to Franco in town, nearly nodding off, clearly under the influence of something. 

One time Sugar appeared at his doorstep, about to collapse from whatever those bastards forced into the food. It was much worse than before, and He would stay with her, helping her ride it out. If only Sugar wasn't so naive, even as they talked of running away. Even as Sugar spoke of the terror the Commune Leaders brought her, she wouldn't hear his pleas to her that they were hurting her for such a long time, Franco trying to convince her for years that she was in danger staying within the commune. 

She learns what the Commune really is, and what Salvatore really does at 16,  finally witnessing it first hand at some point. 

Franco knew the Commune was going to break her eventually, and his father would make her disappear in an instant if he felt like it… nothing was safe here, for her. For them. 

They soon had begun to make more solid plans. Long nights spent talking about how they would run away together, Franco promising to keep Sugar safe many times. He had plenty of men he could get on his side if things ever went bad. 

He wanted a new life and he could start it with her…

But yet… his father needed him here, helping with his work. He knew that.

His father was so proud when he blew that fuckers head clean off, even gave him his beloved Lupara. 

He wanted to do good by his father. 

He was being the man his father wanted him to be now, right? He hunted down scumbags for his father, he did the dirty work. He made his father proud. 

He couldn't just let him down like this. 

“What does this girl know, anyways?”

“Sugar didn't laugh at me…”

“Father didn't stoop low, not for no whores.”

“She never scoffed at a word I said…”

Conflict within his mind happened often, going back and forth. He would ditch this broad once and for all… 

But yet, how could he ever forget…?

The way she never once avoided looking him in the eyes, how she smiled and laughed with him, never at him. Baking him things because she wanted to.

Seeking him out because she wanted to see him.

She called him “Fran”... how silly.

It really, truly is a shame. You never know when you have something so good, pure… precious. 

Not until it's too late. 

 

Maybe they had become sloppy, not covering their tracks as thoroughly as they usually did, distracted as their plans drew nearer.

Maybe it was always known, allowed to build and fester for years, until there was no denying it. 

No escaping fate. Cruel destiny. 

It was soon, she would leave this wretched “Commune” and live a free life with Franco. After the last time The “Elders” pacified the members, Sugar was almost unable to escape. She remembered how easily she could have died in that state. She nearly acted like a different person… 

The many, many times of being screamed at by his father, barely acknowledging Franco unless it was to blame something on him, or use him for his business. 

It often felt like there was another voice speaking in Sugar's head. These substances she was forced under were too much.

She was done. They were done.

They would get out of here, together…

She was 17 now. Giddy as she came back to the barbed wire lined fence of the Commune. He mind was filled with daydreams of running away together with Franco, a skip in her step as she made it back.

Only a few more days and they were free... 

They slipped through a small hole in the rusted fence, hidden behind a shed in a long abandoned goat pasture, her typical returning route.

However, this wasn't the same. As she slipped through, she immediately noticed the bushes and grass usually swarming the fence had been trampled and cut down. 

No one cleared the grass back here, no one ever came back here, and she made sure to keep the grass and plant life lush to hide her escape route behind the shed. 

Her heart began to race as she took her usual route back into the middle of the Commune, trying to avoid being seen as she snuck back into her family's shed. 

However, she was almost immediately grabbed as she stepped in, dragged out into the middle of the commune to The “Elders” by her “guardians”. 

They screamed at her about her disobedience, how she betrayed god and walked amongst sin. Commiting crimes against the lord himself and how she shamed their entire community. How dare you risk allowing the devil to infiltrate their precious sanctuary. They had known from the start what a ruckus she would cause in their precious sanctuary. 

They screamed that she was going to be punished, some of the other “villagers” being encouraged to throw rocks in her direction as they screamed and chanted for her to be punished.

Of course, Sugar had expected to be caught sneaking out at some point, and she knew if that happened it would result in her being in trouble… but her heart sank as she soon realized the extent of what the “Elders” really meant. 

They would not risk someone from the Commune getting out, possibly risking their whole operation here. 

She was just some nobody village girl. Not even her parents would miss her. They would have this solved. In fact… they called up some close friends to deal with the job.

Sugar was taken to the same abandoned pasture as the one she used to escape through, kicked down to the ground as The “Elders” gathered around her. Her fear kept her paralyzed in place, trying to think of a way to run and escape, some way to get out of whatever punishment The “Elders” had planned.

“You cannot be allowed to taint The Commune. You are a disgusting, filthy animal. From the moment you were born, you have defiled god, and now you have defiled us. This commune. Only god will judge you, now.” They taunted her, getting close to her face to say, once and for all. 

“It’s too risky to leave you alive, after what you know. You should have known your place.” 

As they step away, Salvatore steps forward and towards her, staying a few feet away as he encourages Franco to step closer to her with a push of his hand. 

Of course Franco was the one chosen to do it. Threatened earlier by his father; “Kill that pest. She means nothing to you, or you will mean nothing to this family.”

Who else was better for the job, anyways?

A fitting punishment for both of them.

Franco held the shotgun tightly, his father commanding him to lift the gun and aim for her head. He obeyed, shaky hands raising the barrel and aiming it to her face. 

Her gray eyes gazed up at him, no tears or reaction as he pointed the gun to her. Only her wide, fearful eyes gave away her terror. 

He couldn't risk angering his father more, cocking the gun and placing his finger to the trigger. He swallowed nervously, not saying a word. 

He had to do this. 

He had to do this. 

For his father, for himself. 

He didn't need her anyways, right? 

His father had done this many many times.

So could he. 

“I-it's okay, I forgive you, and… I love you, Fran.” Sugar said after a moment of silence, smiling to him the same way she always had, though it was weak and shaky. 

As if he couldn't stand to see her anymore, he pulled the trigger with a panicked cry, the sound covered up by the backfire as Sugar instantly fell to the ground in a limp heap.

She was dead. 

He had done it.

He stared down at her lifeless corpse for a long moment, watching the blood pooling around her in the grass, staining the wildflowers around her. Barrel of Lupara still smoking in his hand. 

He could have sworn… she was staring right back. 

And, just like that, Salvatore and himself were on their way home soon after.

None of the Commune members bothered with the corpse. 

She could rot right there, away from sight. 

Forgotten. 

—

“Man… I don't remember Romeo and Juliette being like this.“

A voice? 

What happened…? Why does it feel so cold? 

Jaw hurts, body aches… it's completely dark. 

No.. no it's not dark, there's a… projector? Playing a film on the screen in front of them. 

It feels so familiar, the movie. 

It was like watching through someone's eyes, seeing their point of view. They were climbing up a chain link fence. Why did the film playing look so familiar…? They've… seen this fence? 

The haunting memories come rushing back as she is almost forced to remember what had happened, nearly about to lose it when sue was interrupted once more;

“Hey. Let's make a deal, you and I. You rest for a while and I'll help you. You won't die because I won't let you. In return, you be my vessel. How does this sound, hmmm Sugar…?” 

That same voice again.

What deal? Well… Maybe some rest wouldn't hurt them. 

They did feel so very tired…

The Vessel fell dormant within the mind, and The Demon began to make their way through the dark forest. It knew having a nose, jaw and neck were important for these human things but… it had been so long since they were one. What was it even used for, again? 

Nevermind, it would heal back all the same. They'd get this poor, pathetic thing some help from another human.

Humans help other humans all the time, right? They're social animals.

This pity is such a weird feeling. What Demon shows mercy, takes it upon themself to help another? Following some random human girl until her untimely demise, helping her like this?

Don't they scheme, cheat and deceive? Only causing pain, tainting the land around them? 

Sure, maybe some, but not all. 

Demon is a species, not an evil. 

First order of business, a plan they had kept since these miserable places had drawn them in so long ago.

The Demon had seen the state of the nearby “Circus”, near the Commune. They made their way to that dingy little fraud of a place, unlocking every single cage and releasing the “attractions” to run free. 

It really had been too long since they had been around living beings, around humans. They didn't realize the chaos they would cause, possibly sealing the fate of a few of those poor souls within the circus…

Oh well, they were still a Demon, after all.

A few years had passed so far and They were nearly 22 now, the vessel's mouth and nose almost fully healed and regenerated thanks to the Demon. It had made quite an effort to keep this human hidden, like a fun little side quest, doing something… “nice” because they wanted to.

And how nice is keeping a human in this state alive? At least the mercy of slumber keeps the physical pain at bay, but what mental anguish would be left there after? Remembering her death, but never passing on?

However, that wasn't something on it's mind anyways, and soon, this human would be waking back up. The vessel was going to start needing things like food and water once more. There's only so much a Demons power can provide to a dying body.

No worries! They had found a flyer, with details about some kind of animal sanctuary thing for humans? The details didn't matter, it would be good enough. It promised things like food, shelter… a “purpose”? Whatever that means. Humans are weird.

Nearly a year later they were at the doors of a Murkoff charity facility, practically waltzing in. 

The workers tried to chemically knock out the Demon for a very long time but eventually gave up as it was a waste of their product, and the Demon just… willingly went in anyway. Walked right into the cattle car full of people, tied up, burlap sacks on their heads, not even batting an eye. 

It glanced around, clicking its tongue in amusement at the sight. 

“Quite the ride. What's the occasion, you got a Demon Lord visiting town?”

Typical.

—

It's hard to say who ended up more affected by Sugar's passing. 

Sugar herself… or Franco.

Salvatore nearly slammed him against the wall, demanding to know what he was thinking trying to get into the pants of some Commune girl, even making plans to leave with her?? 

Franco knew better than to risk his father's Business like this. 

The ultimatum was given, either kill this girl and restore some sliver of respect his father might have for him, or he would deal with the girl himself, and make sure Franco meant nothing to their family.

Franco tried to tell himself it was fine, nothing unlike the women his father went through. 

Many months went by and this thought only festered in his mind.

She was nothing, she had to be.

As the months turned into a few years, he started… exploring more. Branching out and refining his tastes, something to keep these pesky thoughts at bay. 

This would have been fine… if she didn't haunt him every time he tried to even speak to another woman. He would try his best to push her thought away, but nothing would happen there, and those god damn eyes would be staring at him all over again. 

She was dead, why was he still thinking about her. 

Why couldn't he do anything? 

He felt pathetic and it made him so fucking angry. 

But… there was one solution. 

His mind would cloud as he glanced to his Lupara…

A blinding rage would overtake him, once again seeing those terrified eyes staring at him. Forced to relive the undeniable rush that came from watching her body crumble to the ground so effortlessly. 

When he'd “come to”, yet another victim would lay in front of him. Visceral scenes he cannot remember making left in his wake, the image of Sugar in the grass below him being the only memory he could recall. 

Only… he really didn't care for these broads, and who would blame him if he… explored a little more? 

He would take it further and further each time, seeing what could bring him the same rush he felt with Sugar, her name becoming another one of the things he would mutter to himself when he hunted anyone down. Her image, his memories of her would become more vague, partially tainted by his endeavors.

He was starting to be noticed by his father, as he didn't always try to hide these misadventures… but that didn't bother him.

Things were really becoming a blur for him at this point. He didn't remember when Angelina showed up, his fathers fourth wife, his most recent step-mother. 

He didn't know when she suddenly took an… interest in him. 

He was finding himself being hurt by her, she would push him down, forcing him to kneel below her. She made him feel something he had never known before. Helpless, vulnerable, humiliated, afraid, like he couldn't stop her. It felt so familiar, feeling that rush in a whole new light.

He tried to ignore her lurking memories once more. He didn't want to think of Sugar anymore. 

She died. 

Now, he wanted to focus on this, the closest thing to attention he's felt since her. 

His father, of course, found out about the whole affair soon after.

Needless to say, Angelina disappeared, and Franco was lucky he didn't experience the same fate as Sugar that night, sent away to “help” in Miami.

His mind was a bit broken now, you could say. But, without the limitations and judgments of his father, he was free to truly explore his tastes while helping out “friends” in Florida with Cuba. 

By this point, Sugar had almost faded from his memory, only remembering the rush he felt that fateful night.

When visiting Gator Hook Lodge located in Florida, he would often try to experience his cravings with the working girls, trying to chase that rush all over again, even when he barely remembered Sugar's name.

While in Florida he is noticed and taken and transported to Mount Sinyala, a little less than a year after the Demon finds that silly little flyer. 

—

Sugar had gotten used to the routine here, going into a trial, trying to do what Murkoff instructed them to before inevitably being taken over by Bone to get them out of whatever deadly situation they had got themselves into. 

The Demon drove most of the reagents away from its many… habits. Often found gnawing on a bone from one of the corpses around the trials, complaining that the corpses are better than whatever slop the reagents are fed.

It happened often enough that they were soon being referred to as Bone or Bones by the Murkoff employees and other reagents. 

After almost a year of being with Mount Sinyala, they finally enter The Docks, to do one of the newest trials; “Poison The Medicine”. 

They had only heard of the new Prime Asset in passing, this was their first encounter with them face to face. 

They could handle it, right? How difficult could it be? Well, they knew the new Prime had a gun, so they would have to be extra careful going through these trials. 

Maybe Sugar would sit this one out…

The Demon made their way through the new trial environment slowly, keeping themself low and quiet for the time being. They neared the small room they were supposed to enter as a man begging and pleading for their life hung above, strung up almost as if on display. The sight drew a smirk from the Demon. 

As it entered the weird, rounded, rotating doors and into the small room, it took its time to take in the sight. The floor and furniture were soaked with blood, bits of flesh littered from the blast of a gun, corpses carelessly left wherever they died. This proceeded throughout the entire trial. Seems this Prime Asset certainly had been hard at work. 

The Demon pranced its way up the stairs getting a nice, clear view of the pleading, writhing man through the thick glass. If only they could find a way out there… sadly they couldn't risk making Murkoff upset like that again. 

The last time they derailed the trial, they were drugged and isolated for nearly a month! So boring. The Demon wanted to enjoy this new trial for a while before finally wrecking havoc. 

They turned and looked towards the other side of the room a large glass window revealed quite the interesting sight. 

A large expop corpse missing its head was propped up into a red chair along the corner of the room, with someone laying in their lap. They were happily suckling on the breast of the corpse, wearing a white suit stained with blood. 

The Demon smiled, scoffing with astonishment. This place just gets better and better. 

“When is it my turn?”

The Demon said aloud with great excitement before turning to press the button behind them, in front of the window displaying the strung up man. They noticed that the tank within the trial was now being lifted, and that same man was beginning to panic, writhing and kicking as he pleaded for his life even louder.

The Demon's attention was quickly drawn back to the room with the corpse, noticing that whoever had been in its lap had fallen to the ground. 

He was starting to yell something as the Demon stepped closer, peering into the glass to look, drawing an… odd reaction from the Prime Asset. He stepped back, going completely silent and never breaking eye contact with the Demon as he opened the door and made his way out onto the balcony. He didn't acknowledge the hanging man as he made his way towards unseen doors on the other side of the balcony, eyes still glued to the Demon. 

Sugar and the Demon stared right back, nearly in shock at the sight. They knew who he was, they recognized him. The gun he carried, barrel now sawed very short, his Lupara. 

Why was Franco here? 

They had him under some alias, something they didn't understand. How could they have known the new Prime Asset was Franco…? And now they were here, watching as he finally disappeared behind those weird Murkoff doors. Was he trapped in here, too...? 

He looked like he had been hurt, terribly. The Demon felt nearly overwhelmed by it as Sugar's heart ached for him, but yet also trembled from seeing him again. A conflicting dance of affection and terror, a nasty but also quite expensive cocktail in the Upper ranking Hells. No one would believe they got this shit from the source. 

They continued through the trial, doing the weird tasks Murkoff wanted them to, all while trying to avoid being stabbed. The usual, though this time it was certainly odd…

The Demon was no fool, these were real products they were placing into the cooker. They were doing real shit here. 

What the hell was this place? 

The stories they would have for their buddies at the tavern after this all…

Soon they were pushing some big, rusted, heavy, cart on a track over towards the other half of the trial. The Demon was having a good time, even as Sugar was practically bursting at the seems to know what was going on here. How was Franco here? Why was he so important here? …and how would she ever explain this to him… could she even face him? She felt so oddly terrified. 

The Demon finally butted in, a little irritated at their own lack of thinking room from it all; “C’mon, you gotta chill out. I can't do this if you're panicking, I'm feeling it all.” 

“But why is he here??” 

“Hell if I know! This place is fuckin' crazy, and that's saying a lot. I'm sure you'll get to ask him soon–”

“No, I can't just talk to him! What if he's angry with me?”

“He killed you, sweetheart… at least, he thinks he did. He ain't gonna be mad at you.” 

“But what if–” 

Their outward conversation was interrupted as they stepped into “The Train Depot”, stopped short by a gunshot to the floor beside them, causing a small crater in the floor. 

The Demon didn't jump, only turning to face him slowly before Sugar almost instantly overtook the Vessel. 

The change from the Demon to Sugar was very quick and subtle, but it was clear to Franco that something was off about her. 

Well… other than the fact that she was here and alive. 

He watched her fucking body fall to the ground, he put a hole right through her pretty little skull. 

Was he being tormented purposely by these doctors? 

They already knew so much about him, throwing his past into his face at any possible chance they could. Those fucking bastards.

He stepped towards them, causing Sugar to step back a bit in response. Her eye flicked to the gun clutched in his hand. She hadn't forgotten that night, even after years had passed. 

She could still taste the salty, metallic blood choking her as she laid there. It was so vivid, so distinct in her memory. 

Franco looked irritated, frightened, angry. He looked her up and down with a scowl as he continued to approach her. Memories that had almost been left and forgotten were being dredged up just as he was enjoying himself here. 

“Is this supposed to be fuckin’ funny or somethin’? You think this is a joke??” He demanded, nearly shouting as  anger rose with each word he spoke. Guilt and regret gnawed away at him every day, as much as he tried to ignore it. This was the one thing this wretched place hadn't thrown back into his face, how did they even know about Sugar? Enough to impersonate her? 

He was just staring at her for a long while as these thoughts rushed through his mind. 

Was she even real? Who knew what these scientist fucks were doing to him, why wouldn't he be hallucinating? 

He snapped out of his spiraling thoughts as Sugar spoke up, smiling at him despite the fear she felt, seeing that same gun held in his hand.

“I.. I've missed you, Fran.”

[robbybirdy]

47. Baking therapy on a budget Ft. Genshin Characters: Nahida Spice Cake with Caramel Apple Filling

Hello, Every birdy. Today we are going to be making a spice cake with a twist. The filling is interesting. Just like the character in question. 

Nahida is a very important character from Sumeru. She is a very adorable character and she says that her favorite food is nuts. Which is why I made this recipe. And unknowingly I actually made this cake on her birthday. 

We are going to be following a recipe from a Good Housekeeping cookbook that I have in my collection of cookbooks. The recipe itself will be in the description down below.

For this recipe you will:

Cake flour (all-purpose flour + cornstarch)

Sugar

Milk

Brown sugar

Shortening 

Eggs

Baking powder

Salt 

Ground cinnamon 

Ground allspice 

Ground Cloves 

Ground Nutmeg

Vanilla 

Filling 

Carmel Apples without the sticks 

Frosting 

Cream Cheese 

Butter/margarine

Powdered sugar 

Vanilla 

The first thing you want to do is preheat the oven to 350F. 

Grease, two 8 or 9-inch cake pans and set them aside. 

I have learned that you have to treat cakes as the exact step-by-step science experiments that they are. You can’t really experiment with them as much as you can with other baking things. They don’t always turn out the same. 

In a separate bowl, you are going to mix together your dry ingredients. This includes your flour, baking powder, salt, and spices. 

In a separate bowl, a bowl that would fit on your stand mixer. Mix together your wet ingredients. This includes your sugar, brown sugar, and eggs. Mix them together. 

Alternatively, add your dry ingredients and the milk to the egg mixture. Mix for 3 minutes at high speed. 

Evenly pour out your batter into your prepared cake pans. And bake for 25 to 30 minutes. 

Cooling them on your baking racks for at least 10 minutes in the pan. 

Then, CAREFULLY, remove your cake from the pans. Let them sit out on the cooling racks for 30 minutes. 

Once that 30 minutes is up, you will wrap your cake with plastic wrap and freeze it for 1 or 2 hours. Trust me, when I say you don’t want to frost a warm cake. You will be sad. 

While the cake is cooling, you can start on the frosting and the filling. 

Once again for the frosting, you are going to need:

Cream cheese

butter/margarine

Powdered sugar

Vanilla 

Salt

In a large bowl, you will want to combine your cream cheese and butter. Beat On medium to low speed, just until smooth and combined. This will take about 1-2 minutes. Make sure that you scrape the sides of the bowl. 

Sift your powdered sugar into the cream cheese mixture and add in your vanilla and salt. On a low speed, you are going to mix to combine. Then you are going to turn your speed up to medium to high and beat until light and fluffy, which will be 1 to 2 minutes. 

Put that aside, and then work on the filling. For the filling, I melted down a few caramel apples. The ones that are on sticks. My brother brought them home and because they are hard for everyone to eat, I just melted them down and used them as a filling. However, before I put them in the pot to melt them I cut them up and removed them from the stick. After they were melted I put them in the fridge so that they would not be hot when I went to put the cake together. 

Once everything was cool, I assembled the cake. And this is always my worst fear when making a cake. If you have one item that is slightly warmer than everything else, it will fall apart. Making for a very sad and miserable Robby. She will be crying and saying that she is a failure at baking and she should just give it up. Yes, that has happened to me, and sometimes I am just very dramatic.

This cake was so much fun to make and to think out the process. Whenever you make a cake or anything you have to remember one thing. One golden rule, if you are making for people who are not buying it and spending money on your product you have to remember to yourself: “I doesn’t matter what it looks like, as long as it tastes good.” 

I hope that you liked this recipe. Feel free to check out the recipe in the description down below. Thank you. See you in the next recipe. 

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Frosting: https://bojongourmet.com/cream-cheese-frosting/

Cake: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/food-recipes/a4937/spice-cake-brown-butter-frosting-1158/

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Canary Cry

Robin/Nightwing (Dick Grayson) x OFC!

Description: Her violence was silent. Until it wasn't.

"I'm fine."

"Fine is just another word for drowning."

Rating T-M (mentions of blood, child abuse, mental health, cannon situations of violence and the like. Loss of parents, hard of hearing/deaf character, poorly written fight scenes lol)

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ISLA SANTA PRISCA

July 22, 21:48 ECT

They were following a drug lord.

Must be a Tuesday.

The man stopped at a cliff, pointing to the building below, the factory. KF and Robin, still in contest of which would be the better leader, stepped forward, Robin with binoculars and KF with his goggles.

"Look at all that product, a buy is going down...." Kate's attention was taken off Robin when Bane walked away, her masked eyes watching him like a hawk. "But if Kobra isn't selling to the usual suspects then-"

"We need to identify that buyer." Aqualad said his light eyes burning holes down at the factory.

"Just what I was thinking." KF agreed, lifting his goggles from his face.

"Yeah! You're the thinker." Robin scoffed, looking to Kate in hopes of a positive reaction, frowning when he saw she was preoccupied.

"Sarcasm? Dude, a real leader would focus on getting answers." Kate shot the red-head a raised eyebrow, looking him up and down. Her thoughts clear over her masked face, because you know what it's like to be a leader. 

To be fair though, neither did she, but she wasn't vying for the role like the fifteen year old. The other's turning the direction she had when Bane lifted a large rock and revealed a tunnel.

"Answers, are this way." Bane entered the hidden tunnel, the team stopping just outside.

"So now El Luchador is our leader," KF sarcastically said, Kate rolling her eyes as she eyes the tunnel entrance. Knowing from a single glance that her powers would be useless inside, the space too unstable to handle a sonic scream and far to compact.

"Really KF? Sarcasm?" Fed up with the arguing and unable to help herself, Kate threw the speedster's words back at him. Earning herself a heated glare that she simply shrugged at. Robin pushing past Wally as he followed after Bane, leading them. Shooting Kate a small smile as he past her, entering the tunnel. The rest following suit with Kate brought up the rear with Aqualad.

"I'm guessing you would like to be leader as well?" the Atlantean asked quietly, Kate just shook her head, "Why not?"

"A lot of reasons," Kate shook her head, Aqualad taking in her words with a pensive look on his face.

"Care to share?"

Kate sighed in exasperation, "One; I'm not like the rest of you. Two; I barely know any of you. Three; it's literally my first day."

"How so?" Aqualad asked, not unkindly.

"How so, what?" Kate responded with a question, unsure of when he was asking.

"How are you unlike the rest of us? You're a hero, are you not?" Kate's footsteps almost faltered, a reaction that didn't go unnoticed by the older Atlantean.

"I mean- yeah. I guess." Kate shrugged uncomfortably, Aqualad simply watching in return, watching her squirm,"Jesus, quit staring, would you?", crack, "What I mean is... You all wanted this. I stumbled into it, Goldfinch wasn't even my idea. It was Di- Black Canary's."

"I think you'll come to see that we are all quite alike in the areas you think we are not." Aqualad nodded to himself, his eyes twinkling with something unknown to Kate and it pissed her off. Before she could snap at him though he continued, more reserved, "I did not know that about you, about Goldfinch..."

"I like it now; that's all that matters." Kate simply shrugged and Aqualad seemed to pick up that she was done talking and needed some space. So, he sped up to get closer to Bane at the front of the group. The whole group stopping as Bane scanned his thumbprint to unlock a door, Robin crouching down and looking through the crack.

"All clear!" The Boy Wonder took off and disappeared, Kate was really starting to hate it when he did that.

"Has that little fool already been caught?" Bane asked in annoyance.

"No, he just does that," Aqualad said, his voice tired.

"Stay put, I'll get our intel and be back before the Boy Wonder."

"Wait, Kid!" It was no use though, KF was already out of sight.

"Great chain of command." The remaining four members of the team shared equally annoyed and worried looks before making their way through the factory, crouching down behind a large conveyer belt, a crate and some barrels hiding them from view but not blocking theirs.

"It's a massive shipment." Aqualad said, his voice coloring in astonishment.

"Yeah, but they're only taking new product off the line." Superboy noticed.

"They're not touching the old Venom at all." The blonde watched closely as the Kobra cultists moved another forklift carrying a crate out of the large opening that led to a makeshift helipad-slash-loading dock.

"Maybe freshness counts?" Miss M trialed off unsure.

"For pills yeah – they come with an expiration date. Not stuff like this though." Kate shook her head, Miss M nodding and taking in the information.

"Helicopters coming." Superboy's head swiveled in the direction he heard the flying machine coming from.

Aqualad ordered Miss Martian to camo up and get closer, while she did that the Atlantean, clone, blonde, and Bane snuck their way up to a catwalk to get a better vantage point of the factory and so that no one would stumble across them while gathering the shipment. Kate realized just how serious this was getting and felt her blood race, but she wasn't nervous, not like before. No, she was excited.

"Sportsmaster, he is the buyer?" Aqualad questioned in shock, Kate whipped her head to the Atlantean at the name. Knowing who they were dealing with instantly and feeling her excitement go up in flames.

The league of shadows liked to lurk around Star City docks, using them as a transport hub and connector stop on their way to complete 'assignments'. Kate herself had never run into any of the assassins but she had heard enough from Dinah and Oliver to know a higher up like Sportsmaster was trouble. "Red Tornado, do you read?" Kate tried her own comms when Aqualad groaned quietly in frustration.

"Rob, Kid, you there?" The blonde quietly cursed and met Aqualad's eyes, shaking her head, "Nothing but static.".

"We can't reach the League, Robin, or Kid. Comms are jammed. We need a plan, now."

"I have a suggestion." Bane said with a smirk, hurling himself off the catwalk and onto the two Kobra cultist below. Kate cursed again, wanting to strangle the man with the painted face.

"What is he-" Aqualad couldn't finish his question, being interrupted by a large... she didn't even know how to describe the thing? Crashing through the windows behind them. Landing on the catwalk and splitting the metal under it's human-like, but oversized and blue, feet, Aqualad yanking Kate out of the way and keeping her from being crushed.

The three teens landed on their feet on the factory floor, Bane behind them, in defensive stances. The big guy and Superboy went at each other head on while the Kobra cultists that had amassed behind them ran at Bane, Kate, and Aqualad.

The red hood wearing bad guys letting loose volleys of bullets as the two teens crouched behind a shield Aqualad made with his water bearers, "Can you-" Kate knew what he was going to ask.

"Not without deafening you. Too close." Aqualad nodded and shot... water bullets? – Kate wasn't sure – at two of the cultists. Seeing an opening she took it. "Cover me!"

"Goldfinch!"

The blonde flipped in practiced evasive maneuvers, avoiding the bullets now being directed at her and rushed to hide behind a couple of crates, hesitating to build pressure in her throat. Looking around she saw Aqualad still stuck behind his water shield, M'gann was somewhere blending in, Superboy and the big man-thing were still duking it out. They were all too close.

Rough hands pulled at her arms and shoulders, the sting of a palm against her cheek sent her to the ground. Muffled yelling, screaming, and crying all landing on deaf ears. A boy sat crying, blood dripping from his ears, his legs refusing to move after the impact he had with the wall. The hole gaping and still raining plaster dust, which collected in the boy's hair and eyelashes and burning his brownish-greenish eyes. Making him cry even more.

She couldn't hear the high pitched cries of the boy of the terrified yelling of the group home head mistress, but she could read the older woman's lips.

"What have you done?!"

"Crap." Kate choked, ducking farther down behind the crates. Wanting to punch herself for her own incompetence. Things started to go bad when an explosion filled the air above the group, Kate fell on her ass when more gunfire was sent her way, seeing Aqualad was in just as much of a bind as she was.

She was pinned down as Aqualad got further away from the fighting, the blonde seeing the rest of the team regrouping, and she had no way to get there.

"Double crap," She mumbled and took another deep breath, knowing that if she stayed on the defensive, she was most likely going to get shot. Been there, done that, not up for round two.

She leaped out from behind the crate, tuck rolling onto her knees. Sweeping out the feet of a cultist and kicking him in the head as he fell. Leaping up and throwing herself at another, her boots digging in to his ribs as she brought him to the ground.

Backflipping away from gun fire, she twisted on her heel and jabbed the butt of a baton into a cultist's neck and ducked under another's fist. Watching as knuckles sailed into the coughing cultist. Getting behind them and landing a blow to the back of Knuckles head. Kate twisted, taking cover behind a pipe to catch her breath for a second before diving in again in hopes of making her way to the others.

"Everyone online?" Miss M's voice was suddenly in her head and it made Kate falter, distracting her from seeing a cultist on the ground grab his gun and pull the trigger. Her yelp biting with minimal use of her canary cry but still being drowned out by the other sounds of gunfire. What it did do was throw the bullet coming for her off course, into the pipe behind her, causing it to ricochet somewhere she didn't bother to see. 

"Yeah."

"You know it beautiful."

She had been forced off kilter by the voices in her head that weren't her own, a stinging sensation ripped into her side as her waist was grazed by a bullet.

"Good, we need to regroup."

Kate rushed for cover, hiding behind a pipe once again, still a way off from the rest of the team. Adrenaline dulling the pain in her side.

"What the-" Kate's thought was cut off by Miss M's voice.

"Don't be alarmed Goldfinch, the comms were jammed so I established a mental link."

"This is so strange." Kate grimaced as she stood up, her side burning as her gloved hand hovered over the bullet wound. "I'm pinned, even if I scream to my cold, dead heart's content there's too many bad guys with guns. And I don't fancy looking like swiss cheese more than I already do."

"Are you injured?" Aqualad asked in concern.

"I've been impaled by one of Speedy's arrows before, I'm fine." Kate brushed off, blood starting to seep down her side. She knew this was worse than Roy's arrows, she just couldn't feel the brunt of it because of the spiking adrenaline in her blood, dulling her pain receptors as her fight or flight raged.

"Robin, now!" Aqualad called out to the, up until this point, quiet Boy Wonder. "We need to retreat; Kid clear a path." Kate wanted to cheer as the speedster knocked over the cultists separating her from her team and giving them the opportunity to enter Bane's secret tunnel once again.

Superboy being the last one in, shoving the mechanical door shut and quickly catching up with the rest of the team. Miss Martian covering their tails as the monster Superboy had been fighting crashed through the door and brought some gun wielding cultists behind him.

"Superboy, the support beams!" Aqualad ordered, the clone punching them into oblivion as he passed them. The tunnel collapsed behind the teens and a wall of rock cut off any light, Aqualad cracking a glowstick and filling the space with an ominous red glow. Kate's body starting to ache as she leaned back against the tunnel wall and caught her breath. All she could think was that Dinah would definitely turn her injuries into a learning moment the teen did not want to endure.

"How could my first mission as leader go so wrong?" Boy Wonder asked himself, Kate's legs gave up on supporting her weight, letting her slide to the ground.

"You do have the most experience but, perhaps that is exactly what has left you unprepared. Fighting alongside Batman your roles are defined, you two do not need to talk," Aqualad spoke, giving the boy an answer, one he didn't want to hear, "But this team is new and the leader must be clear, explicit, he cannot vanish and expect others to play parts in an unknown plan."

"Oh so, I'm supposed to hold everyone's hands?" Robin snapped, looking away from the Atlantean and calming down as he realized, "Oh who am I kidding? You should lead us Kaldur, you're the only one that can." Kate wanted to cheer at the fact he had finally gained some common sense.

"Oh please, I can run circles around-"

"Wally come on; you know he's the one. We all do." Robin cut off the speedster who didn't look very happy.

"Fine by me," Kate agreed, applying pressure to her side, the worst of her injuries at the moment. Thanking everything that was holy that the light they were in was red and covering just how badly she was bleeding from the team.

"Hello Megan! So obvious!"

"Could've told ya." Superboy shrugged. Everyone looking to Wally.

"Okay." Kate's eyebrows shot up, surprised that he didn't put up more of a fight, considering that's all he and Robin have been doing. They reminded her of an old married couple you'd see in some early morning sitcom.

"Then I accept the burden, until you are ready to lift it from my shoulders," Aqualad smiled slightly, placing a hand on the Boy Wonder's shoulder. "You were born to lead this team, maybe not now, but... soon," Kate tried to hide her struggle as she got up from the ground, she apparently did okay as no one tried to bench her or looked at her strangely. "Alright, our first priority is preventing that shipment from leaving the island."

"Funny, I was thinking the same thing," Robin chuckled as the team circled up, Kate fighting off the soreness in her fatigued muscles as she stood between Robin and Miss M.

Push through, you've been through worse.

~~*~~

They took off through the tunnels, Kate landing near the back of the pack, in front of Superboy and Miss M but behind Boy Wonder and KF.

"Sportsmaster is the supplier-slash-buyer, but it still doesn't track. He doesn't have the juice to acquire the blockbuster formula or to get Kobra to do his dirty work!" Robin's voice echoed around the tunnel, his frustration at not having all the answers clear.

"And neither of them has the chops to bond Blockbuster to Venom, that took some major nerdage." KF added on.

"I believe the expression is "tip of the iceberg"" Their newly appointed leader said, coming to a stop at the entrance of the tunnel, Bane walking into sight of the teens.

"Halt Niño's," Kate wanted to scream, but knew that wasn't an option for multiple reasons. One being the structural integrity of the tunnel, the second being the team, the third being what Bane was holding in his hand. "I'm feeling... explosive." They all looked up and saw the charges placed above their heads.

"We should have left you tied to that tree." Kate growled at the man.

"You betrayed us, why?"

"I want my factory back."

"Kid you'll need a running start." Kate had to fight off the smirk that wanted to pull at her lips. A sense of victory starting to build in her stomach for the first time all night.

"So, I forced you into a situation where you would either take out my enemies or die trying. If the latter? The Justice League would certainly have come to avenge their sidekicks and when the smoke cleared Santa Prisca would be mine once more. Blowing the tunnel with you inside should have the same effect."

Bane's face when he realized his little trigger wasn't there anymore was just about the best thing Kate had seen all night.

"With what? This trigger thingy?" KF asked smugly, leaning casually against a tree behind the massive man. Bane trying to attack the redhead only to be lifted into the air by Miss M.

"Finally," Superboy growled, "Drop him."

~~*~~

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If you are in the market for a 4-burner gas grill, you have come to the right place. In this article, we will provide you with all the information you need to make an informed purchase. We will review some of the best 4 burner grills on the market and provide useful tips on how to choose the one that is best for you. So whether you are looking for a high-end model or something more affordable, we have you covered! Top-list Best 4-Burner Gas Grills ($300-$500) Best 4-burner gas grill on 2023 Char-Broil Performance Stainless Steel 4-Burner Cart Style Gas Grill FAQ Hello, you two Eric DIY with another great review today. We're gonna be looking at the Char-Broil Performance for burner gas grill! We're opening up the grill. It's a lot like my old one, which I got years of use out of it before handing down to you guys because this is supposed to be an upgrade version with extra features! The only problem? That Mad Yay feeling in our stomachs when we see all those pieces waiting for assembly. This is where the assembly starts. We have some screws to put in there, much like what you would find on an old girl grill if I remember correctly and by the way - do want to see my review of this particular product? It actually was really good. The grill has been a little damaged since we moved. It's definitely time for us to get another one, but before that happens let me show you this preview of our newest addition. There are many steps in getting your new gas stove or oven installed - I'm just going over the basics here so please don't be afraid if it sounds overwhelming at all because these processes vary from home installation team up through individual unit replacement depending on what kind of model year/make etc. The first thing I noticed when opening the grill is how much cleaner it looks than my old one My mud even tried saving on a replacement rotisserie and putting it onto this model, so there’s no reason for me to buy another one! There were some reviews that complained about grease stains coming out of their unit after cooking food at high temperatures but according to Lincoln's description, they've made improvements by adding more metal where you would normally find plastic which should help trap all types of oils through evaporation before the escape. The old grill was hard to find the screws and hardware for, but I have parts everywhere now. 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We have everything ready and it's just a matter of heating up faster than before, which won't be hard with these new gas grills. The first one is set at 350 already so let’s go ahead and turn that down low for now while we get our wide range here - unless you want your burger cooked quicker? This should work well even if they are kept below 340°F because all four burners only go up until about 330-340 degrees Fahrenheit (mini pubs often stay around 350). It makes sense why those higher temperatures would make things crispier but taste better too. What a beautiful porch! I'm so happy you're enjoying it. I'm probably gonna leave it, just cooking on there for a little bit.  Stay at how it's looking here and take in some of these beautiful features.  The bottom catches all the grease over there and we can pull out that tray way. We had to run home for a while because it was burned, but now my grill's doing great again. The grill's clamshell design is really appealing to me I like how small it takes up space and all of the other traditional meals that come in this type of cuisine, but something seemed off when they put cheese on my cheeseburger- until now! everything has been cooking well without any problems whatsoever so far I haven't bought into Ben's line before just because I've never felt particularly drawn toward their advertising article nor did anything special jump out at you while looking through their product catalogs online today which makes sense considering nearly every item seems too basic or simple for someone. Just got done cooking on the Char-Broil Performance Grill It performed excellently, and all stainless steel construction makes this grill very durable. The front doors are great because they allow easy access to your gas tank, and the low-profile roof makes it feel like you don't have anything on top. The 4 burners mean that this range is flexible for all of our cooking needs - we can do whatever whole animal proteins want without having any limitations.  This is a great improvement over the old grill. The slim profile and front lockable wheels make it much more stable, especially when you're cooking on your deck! There are also some nice additions that I think would be perfect for our needs-Hooks or magnetic holders to hang up this brush (or any other item) while keeping them out of sight until needed; just another thing my family can enjoy using from time immemorial. The grill has a good, durable design that will last for years. The igniters on each burner would be an improvement though and I wish it came with more than two skewers so you can cook multiple things at once without worrying about burning them all over the place. Overall, I give the Char-Broil Performance Grill a 4 out of 5 only because again of those things. 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rules of Chinese Product Translation require to follow

Guidelines for those principles of Chinese Translation

Translating from your maintain mother language is often something to avoid when learning a international language. If friends fabricate sentences in your gain native language first, & next translate them into Chinese, the route is often behind and the result is non-idiomatic.

The target must be to beget sentences in Chinese without seeming to necessity to switch to by some means language first. Nonetheless, this matter predicament is not easily achieved, & beginners and intermediate students & lower outlook difficulties with the same Translate finished product prior they interpret favorite words & basic grammar.

Looking at IT from someway angle, Translation is an integral fragment of learning & using Chinese. No matter how modern your own Chinese is, you will always encounter things this we can also say in your native dialect, though cannot in Chinese. Translation, even if it's objective a formality often used for personal purposes, is also one of the numerous often mentioned reasons only for learning a language in the first area. Many university courses comprise Translation, although very rarely in standardized competence tests

specific Chinese Translation instructions

In this article, I will discuss the mindset of upcoming Translation from your gain native language into Chinese. Mostly essays are written for beginners & intermediate students and below. More developed students possibly don't necessity such a hassle, besides can do sentences directly in Chinese. If you conflict with that, the article under is only for friends.

for additional about Product Translation in general, seek my ≠ essay on the topic, which also includes 1 number exercises good only for modern students.

how to translate from your have mother tongue to Chinese

I have taught numerous pedagogy courses including Translation under some Ways. In my experience, the biggest predicament only for beginners is word order & grammar, which is the cornerstone of topic below. You are fair starting to learn building block plates from textbooks, though while asked to spend them only for Product Translation, they are too terminate to the original Vietnamese & forget remarkable of what they maintain literate about Chinese syntax.

As students become more developed, expression impose can calm be an issue, besides word usage & phrases can turn into more vital. Getting Information Technology accurate while translating is mostly a matter of being capable to inspect up words in a dictionary properly, which is surprisingly augean.

In abstract, my advance here is to avoid writing Vietnamese sentences with Chinese characters & instead succor you to first acquire down to the basic connotation of these sentence, and then express that meaning in words. Chinese dialect.

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below is the particular description of the draw. To demonstrate this route, I will translate the sentence The apples I used to buy yesterday were savory. I will bring more VDs later and also donate friends 1 number sentences to practice. First, it's an overview of the steps:

whether possible, split the sentences

clarify a lot

Translate words based more context

combine ordain of translated words

fix up words according to Chinese grammar

whether necessary, summarize the parts and check the grammar

reference the translated sentence with the current

the perfect process looks like this, but don't be afraid if that looks confusing; I will disappear mid each step below!

1. Whether plausible, split the sentence

lengthy & tangled sentences are obviously challenging to translate more concise and typical sentences. Whether indispensable, convert the sentence you are approximately to translate into Multi easy sections above that can be translated independently. Please note that this problem is not limited to splitting a lengthy sentence into clauses; This is also plausible to isolate a complex component of a sentence and translate IT independently.

Example: The sentence The apples I bought yesterday were luscious consists of two clauses: The apples I bought yesterday (or it is possible this I bought apples yesterday) and x are appetizing. Figure out how to say each separately first because this is distinguished easier.

2. Simplify a lot

relinquish regardless of grammatical words, misleading happy and non-literal expressions. If there are 1 number indirect or non-literal expressions, replace these expressions with something this simply states what they be of value (for epitome, if the original contains the expression hit the). Sack , impartial had to write to bed because this problem has absolutely nobody to execute with sacks or hitting). The result should be a a lot sentence that means the same as the recent sentence, but expressed in the easiest way.

Example: The apples I used to buy last day that were appetizing are reduced to [the apples I used to buy yesterday] and [ separation was delicious]. These versions are also conceivable and are meant to be essentially the same as the modern, though very simple.

3. Translate words based on context

The next step is to translate these words individually, during times taking exhibit of the context. The problem is that most students halt here and say/write whatever results. Instead, reflect of the problem as not a sentence anymore; Your intent must be to believe a bunch of Chinese words this friends can use to write a modern sentence.

such as, [the apple I used to buy yesterday ] would change to [苹果 (蘋果) 、 我 、 买 (買) 、 昨天], & [ division was luscious ] would change to [X 、 是 、 非常 、 好吃].

4. Blend the ordain of translated words

though it is accurate that the expression order is basically the same in Chinese & Vietnamese (Subject-Verb-Object, SVO), anyone who has lettered somewhat of Mandarin knows this the general word ordain is nearly never the equivalent. Therefore simple now.

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To avoid by mistake keeping the unique Vietnamese word structures, blend the order of these words you believe. This forces friends to evaluate the situation of each expression, by a long shot than fair keeping the ordain why this is how friends tell IT in English.

you can carry out this by writing them down more diminutive pieces of paper, writing them randomly more a list, or regardless of ≠ diagram you can consider of. To produce the route supplemental effective once you've mastered IT, you too of lofty also mix words instantly while translating them in the preceding step, to some extent combining the two steps.

such as, here I will unbiased list the words in random order: [买 (買) 、苹果 (蘋果) 、 我 、 昨天] & for those moment fragment [非常 、 x 、 好吃 、 是].

5. Ordain words according to Chinese grammar

The then step is to consume what you recognize about Chinese grammar and wed words to express the connotation of the new sentence.

when practicing this stage, attempt to mediate of the plan in which the current sentence is described, rather than the genuine words old. This is also the step where friends mend regardless of expression selection obstacles. For example, maybe a definite verb is worn in Vietnamese although not in Chinese (in Vietnamese, having lunch is an idiom, although in Chinese friends often utilize eat instead). Or you should to insert an extra expression. Somehow to make Information Technology work (like 了).

Example: friends have 2 matters you desire to portray & you have 2 sets of words to carry out this matter. In the first case, you desire to reveal the artificial intelligence that bought apples & when; in the moment fragment, friends desire to reveal that they are quite delicious. Here's one way to do it: 我 昨天 买 (買) 的 苹果 (蘋果) and division 非常 好吃. Please note this that is done simply by method rearranging the parts & by omitting 是, which is not normally dilapidated to put through adjectives & nouns; 非常 is sufficient.

6. If indispensable, summarize the parts & review the grammar

Step 1 is to waive the complexity, so today Information Technology needs to be joined together. That is simply the role of inserting one remnant of translated text into x in the ≠, or combining multiple paragraphs of text in some way.

pay extra notice to high-level grammar here, such as linking words between parts you've translated. Also, check for tenses or anything ≠ that friends eliminated in the simplified step. Chinese does not acquire such tenses, although of lofty there is the skill to express time while something happens.

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for example, by method inserting 我 昨天 买 (買) 的 苹果 (蘋果) into x 非常 好吃 you get 我 昨天 买 (買) 的 苹果 (蘋果) 非常 . There aren't regardless of worrisome high-level grammars here, although whether friends increase incorrectly, it's a good space to reflect if that's really the best way to put through an since with the same 1 noun.

7. Compare the translated sentence with the same novel

this stage is relatively necessary, but often abandoned, be IT due to time constraints or laziness. Following you believe created a Chinese sentence, you need to see more & carefully reference IT with the fresh sentence. Of steep, the two versions will differ in vocabulary & expression impose, although they should add up to the alike object.

comparison with the same modern is extremely indispensable when taking the test with translated questions. Friends don't want to lose only objective why friends forgot to translate 1 number important sections of the novel sentence. Why translating sentences is challenging, you often by accident descend some sections of sentences during these processes. Practicing one final review will produce definite the connotation is as intact as possible!

Example: Compare! Chinese sentence: 我 昨天 买 (買) 的 苹果 (蘋果) 非常 好吃. Vietnamese original: The apples I bought last day were savory. Looks excellent to me; there are no lacking parts here!

implement creates you more perfect

In the following, I believe translated three supplemental sentences using supplemental modality. I would denote just reading midst the first VD as a way to reinforce the map, and then effort out the moment and/or 3rd example yours (the 3rd example is substantially further difficult).

exhibit this following splitting the sentences, I will translate the dissimilar parts bilingually, though you too and surely should execute IT one by one. The reason I place them whole together here is simply to avoid making the post unnecessarily lengthy. For better readability, I've points attached Simplified Chinese for the measures.

Here are three whether you desire to study them earlier pilot my proposed solution:

I normally believe lunch in the section restaurant following my company's school.

My cat likes to cheat on the TV because it's torrid there.

I idea I would be able to arrive the airport at three o'clock, though there was an unexpected queries dilemma along the way so I abandoned my flight.

precise 1

original Vietnamese: I normally have lunch at the restaurant unhurried my company's school.

Split: [ I usually gain lunch at separation ] + [ the restaurant slack my school ]

S implies: [ I normally have lunch at separation ] + [ the restaurant behind my unit's school ]

Dịch: [I, often, acquire, lunch, at X] + [restaurant, behind, our, school]

Trộn lẫn: [have, often, at division, lunch, me] + [school, restaurant, our, behind]

Sắp xếp: [I often have lunch at X] + [the restaurant tedious our school]

phối hợp lại: I often have lunch in the section restaurant unhurried our school.

Comparison: I normally acquire lunch at the restaurant unhurried my unit's school.

VD 2

Vietnamese original: My cat prefers mendacity down to TV why it's cozy there.

Split: [ My cat likes division ] + [ lying more than TV ] + [ because it's cozy there ]

S implies: [ My cat likes x ] + [ lying on the TV ] + [ why it is erotic there ]

Dịch: [my, pussy, like] + [lay, more, TV] + [because, equatorial, there]

Kết hợp: [cat, mine, like] + [on, TV, lying] + [hot, why, there]

Sắp xếp: [My cat likes it] + [Lying more the TV] + [Because it's feverish there]

Ghép lại: My cat likes to lie on the TV because that is relatively sweltering there.

Comparison: My cat likes to cheat on the TV why it's passionate there.

precise 3

English original: I idea I would be competent to receive to the airport at three o'clock, but there was an unexpected traffic predicament more the way, so I missed my flight.

Split: [ I conception I would be able to receive to the airport at three o'clock ] + [ but there was an unexpected queries dilemma ] + [ so I missed my flight ]

S implies: [ I mediate I'm possibly to receive to the airport at three o'clock ] + [ more the way to a sudden traffic scrape ] + [ therefore I missed my flight ]

Dịch: [I, consider, I, can, near, airport, three o’clock] + [but, unexpectedly, queries jam, more the way] + [so, I, overlook, plane]

Trộn lẫn: [I, three points] idea, I, can, airport, to + [but, queries quandary, more the road, actually] + [I, therefore, plane, missed]

Sắp xếp: [I conception I'd be in the part airport at three o'clock] + [But there was a hits spot on the road] + [So I missed the plane]

Ghép lại: I conception I would approach in the paragraph airport at three o'clock, but there was a queries predicament more the track, so I missed the plane.

Comparison: I notion I would be capable to get to the airport at three o'clock, though there was a traffic predicament that was additional unexpected than the road, therefore I abandoned my flight.

I teach this matter draw of Translation why IT tends to design better results only for students. Of course, Information Technology will seize further time than impartial reading knowledge or relying heavily more the fresh sentence, though this is not excellent only for communication purposes or only for your Chinese practice.

if friends reflect the route supplemental thoroughly, you'll see this what I'm really doing there is recommending that students decrease to the basic meaning course, then job on constructing a sentence in expressive Chinese. This connotation, without needing to care. Noteworthy approximately the unusual constitution & wording. This Product Translation is mainly the same as speaking and writing ordinary Chinese, there is no source sentence to translate!

so, in addition to creating further total Translations, I also believe that this matter type of implementation has a remarkable greater impact more practical speaking and writing.

Collection of excellent Chinese names for girls

if friends are looking only for Chinese names to exalt Chinese relics in family or to celebrate your fancy of Chinese civilization, there are many options for you must consider. From dilapidated Chinese names to novel and interesting Chinese names, there is forever something. Suitable for all babies. China infant names can maintain numerous distinct meanings, from flowers & gems to virtues esteem courage, intelligence & calm. Therefore, my business acquire collected Our 70 accepted Chinese names and inspiration to help you on your way. But earlier we obtain to the list, let's take a study at how parents in China (and Chinese expats) resolve a brand for those newest member of their family.

How are Chinese babies named?

The conference in China is that a person's final name is written first, followed by the family brand. Usually, the family brand is a Chinese character and the given name is the then one or two characters. (So ​​the Chinese first brand is actually the second!) Parents often avoid naming their children after any older relatives, as this is considered disrespectful. Avoid copying the name of a well person or historical assume, as it can bring the child bad smooth. Instead, parents will look for a new name with characters that harmonize with the characteristics of the kid. Them, as well as think their hopes only for a delighted and prosperous tomorrow for the infant. Whether they already acquire a child, parents have the skill to name their recent infant to a certain degree this adds his/her name/ their sister. For example, whether the first child's name contains a character connotation "sun",

What is a current Chinese name?

many Chinese names are gender-neutral, though some are more commonly given to boys and girls or men, therefore whether needed we've labeled them: whether you're looking only for a tried and tested name only for your child, here are 10 current Chinese names this you need to consider: Fang - perfume, morality ️ ️

Jing - calm or calm ♀️ ️

Thunder - mound of rock, remarkable, thunder ♀️ ♂️

Li - splendid or handsome, health ️ ️

Min - fast ️ ️

Qiang - stronger, more perfect ️

Tao - enormous wave or peach ♀️ ️

Wei - unbelievable ️ ♂️

Yan - splendid, swallow ♀️ ️

Xiuying - intrepid and beautiful ♀️

What are 1 number Chinese lady names?

What is a girl's name in Chinese? You interrogate. Famous, lulu is a lot in the eye of the beholder, & there are some remarkable Chinese maiden names to select from. If friends want your child's brand to recall the scent of flowers, we can determine your believe. "Chu Hua" (chrysanthemum) or "Ju" (chrysanthemum). Or if you want to inspire her to grow into a amiable and secure person, you too determine "Shu" (warm) or “Ting” (enduring). Here are 15 other Chinese girl names: artificial intelligence - magnificent

Ah Lam - serene

Baozhai - infrequent hairpin

Chu Hua - chrysanthemum flower

Chyou - autumn

Daiyu - dim jade

Fen - scent

Ju - daisy

Orchid - orchid

Liling - the sound of clear jasmine

Mei - magnificent, plum

word - graceful

Shu - cozy

Ting - enduring

Zhan - important, absolute, blameless

What are 1 number Chinese male names?

The typical Chinese name only for boys offers plenty of choices in all nature lovers, from “Hu” (tiger) to “Shanyuan” (mountain source).& friends will also score many numerous names to encourage his hold man more long-term adventures, including “Jianyu” (universe building) & “Zixin” (confidence). Here are 15 ≠ Chinese men: Aiguo - patriotic

Bingwen - frolicsome & cultivated

Bolin - Rain's brother

Chaoxiang - look for fortune

Donghai - East sea

Phong - sharp blade, wind, peak

Genghis - moral, righteous

Tiger - tiger

Huizhong - sage and loyal

Jianyu - building the galaxy

Park - cypress tree

Qianfan - thousand sails

Shanyuan - mountain source

Xiaobo - little wrestler

Zixin - confidence

What approximately genderless Chinese infant names?

As we have seen above, many Chinese characters are aged in the names of the pair of boys and girls. Together, distinguished nature photos & admirable private qualities are many, from “Chun” ” (born in spring) to “Ming” (enlightenment). Here are 20 gender-neutral Chinese names to select from: An - serene.

Bao - treasures, gems

They - he appeared

Chen - day off

Chun - born in spring

renown - glory

Heng - longevity

Huan - joy

Hui - dapper

river - river

Liu - willow tree

Ming - Enlightenment

Ping - peace, stability

artificial intelligence - autumn

Shan - impartial true

Shi - honesty

Xiang - has a scent, or hovers in the air (like a bird)

Xiaosheng - born less

Xue - snow or look exhausting

Yanlin - Swallow jungle or Beijing forest

What are 1 number delightful Chinese names?

eventually, whether you're looking for Chinese infant names this increase delightful or quirky meanings, my business has 10 of my favorites to section with friends. Contact to mythical creatures? Attempt “Chonglin” (big brother unicorn) or “Jaw-Long” (like a dragon). Or what could be additional dazzling than a name this evokes the radiance of these sun? Illustration “Mingxia” (bright daybreak clouds) or “Shoi-Ming” (sunlight life). Here are 1 number recent Chinese infant names for your dinky wonderful. :Ah Kum - apt as gold ️

Chonglin - unicorn teammate ♂️

Fengge - phoenix booth ♂️

Pink - untamed swan ♂️

Jaw-Long - like a dragon ️

Lian - graceful willow ️

Mingxia - fresh dawn clouds ️

Nu Wa - mom goddess ♀️

Shoi-Ming - life of light ️

Suyin - sound without decoration ♀️

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Make Money With YouTube Videos But Not With YouTube

YouTube motion pictures to make cash with out YouTube.

Did you recognize you can make cash online with YouTube motion pictures, and affiliate advertising but not with YouTube itself? There are 2 mystery sites I actually have observed; one can pay you for clicks on motion pictures (without video optimization). While with the other one I had more perspectives in a single week with less than half of the quantity of films than on YouTube in a month (additionally with none video optimization and/or algorithms).

It all started out after I had a few problems with mainstream social giants and reached the factor where I got bored with all the pink tape! Working my butt off to create precise first-rate content, handiest for my posts to get spammed and scammed by using bitcoin and binary trading spammers! Yip, you recognize precisely what platform I am relating to. (Youtube vanced apk)

Now, aside from supplying you with get right of entry to to these notable alternative video platforms. I am also going to provide you get right of entry to to refreshing options for mainstream media. That is in case you are as uninterested in all the problem, like ridiculous Ts and Cs, reality checkers, and all of the relaxation of the crybabies! These websites you are approximately to get entry to are quite engaging audiences, the general public (over 70%) are from top tier international locations (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).

Getting Buyer Traffic without all of the Hassle.

Getting traffic to affiliate hyperlinks is one issue. But, getting the ones traffic to convert into income and engagement is pretty another. Let's face it, everyone getting started with affiliate advertising right now run after mainstream media and social giants. Just stop already! Stop losing your effort and time most effective to get blocked, banned and suspended.

Spending days and even weeks learning and creating particular content, only to get a kick inside the nuts! All that difficult paintings down the drain, and then you definately need to watch for your blocked or banned period to expire. This, via the way will go away a big hole to your consistency, and this is why you are nonetheless struggling. Because whilst you want to force site visitors to associate hyperlinks, then consistency is of paramount significance. You do no longer need the social giants.

You do no longer want the ridiculous Ts and Cs. I am also pretty convinced you are as tired as I am of "fact checkers"! For heaven's sake, you cannot even percentage a funny story in recent times without the "truth checkers" having a tantrum! But I ought to admit, I am satisfied they drove me to that point of frustration. So a good deal in order that I located clean options and haven't seemed lower back given that.

Discussing the Sites and Refreshing Alternatives.

I need to be honest and say that these websites you are approximately to get entry to does now not pretty have the number of visitors than the giants. But ask yourself this. Would you alternatively have 1,000,000 traffic without a single engagement? Or would you choose 10,000 site visitors which can be active, attractive and buying from you? Yip, I thought so.

A unmarried tourist that converts, is really worth extra than one hundred,000 traffic with 0 engagement and/or income. When you figure your butt off using site visitors, then a few engagement and income are rather clean, proper? So, let's examine a number of these fresh alternatives to the mainstream giants.

· Rumble

· BitChute

· MeWe (Search Your Browser)

· Gab (Search Your Browser)

Rumble and BitChute are opportunity video platforms like YouTube. Only Rumble can pay you for video perspectives a lot quicker. Because Rumble will optimize your video mins after uploading it. Therefore, you may begin incomes for clicks from the get-move. BitChute is a touch more hard on the subject of video views and monetization. But this is besides the point.

With BitChute, put together to be blown away with the aid of an eighty% top tier traffic spike. Within 3 days, I got nearly 3000 video views from 25 films. But get this, I did not make a unmarried video and I were given 4 income from associate gives in the video descriptions! Now that is what I name client traffic! But how the heck did you do this, you may ask? Let me show you.

Getting High-Quality videos without making A Single video.

Getting excessive pleasant motion pictures to use and make cash is straightforward and you'll need but one tool to convert the videos. But you will have get right of entry to to this unfastened tool in a little bit. Really simple to do specifically when you have the unique video creator's permission with out asking. The steps are instead easy, simply start by using going in your YouTube channel.

Next you need to go into the key phrases and/or search phrases you need to target in the search bar and search. A entire list of films will appear in the YouTube seek effects. But you can't use maximum of these films due to copyright. To the top left for your YouTube search web page, you'll see "Filter". Simply click on on clear out, after which set off "Creative Commons". Now you have a list of videos you could use with permission.

Do a short test earlier than you replica the video URL and convert it by way of expanding the video description phase. Right on the stop of the description you will see.

License - Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)

This means that you can reuse the video, that is top notch for affiliate advertising specifically. Because there are numerous videos about opinions and fulfillment memories with several affiliate products that you could use. Then truly sell the associate provide that the video is ready.

Once you have got decided on a video below innovative commons, reproduction the video URL. But no longer the URL in the search window. You need to copy the video URL in the "Share" option. Then certainly upload the video URL to the YouTube Downloader tool within the steps beneath. Before we flow directly to the following heading, allow's simply move over the simple steps one greater time.

1. Search YouTube for a Particular Target Keyword.

2. Enable Creative Commons.

3. Double Check the Video License Attributes.

4. Convert the Video to 720P with YouTube Downloader (Search Your Browser).

5. Use Canva to Create Attention Grabbing Video Thumbnails.

6. Upload to Rumble and BitChute.

Important Note: With BitChute it's miles very well to apply cloaked associate hyperlinks in video descriptions, but I will no longer propose that with Rumble. Use Rumble to get perspectives and receives a commission for that. Do Not percentage affiliate links, cloaked or in any other case. In truth, do no longer proportion any hyperlinks on Rumble.

Getting even More traffic in your Rumble and BitChute Videos.

You guessed it; we're speakme approximately the 2 last alternative web sites. MeWe, and Gab. Where you want to share your motion pictures that you have uploaded to Rumble and BitChute once executed. But you furthermore may need to interact with audiences and be a part of agencies. These  web sites are like social media giants however without all of the hassles, and policies to paintings through.

Once you have created your Gab and MeWe money owed make certain to complete your profiles as expert as feasible. Simply because a faceless and/or suspicious profile will now not get a lot attention, if any at all. But social networking profiles is an entire concern on its very own.

With anything you do on-line, continually make your profiles as entire as viable because you are competing with human beings that do. A profile photo is a photograph of your face, like a passport photograph and no longer your favorite vehicle or much-cherished pet. Audiences recognize understanding who they are connecting with. Besides, it builds reputation and consider.

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A/N; hi. i have no clue where this idea came from. i don’t know why my brain always tells me to start more red velvet series’ randomly. but here is the latest spawn from it. this will have more parts to it because i’m interested in expanding on the dynamics of this trio plus i signed up for things that have since blown up my emails for this because i’m dedicated like that. anyway! enjoy. or don’t. idk anymore. 

It was only a suggestion.  A quick mention, really. “There’s this site, Seungwan,” is how it started. Except for that brief conversation spiraled rapidly into a whirlwind of curiosity and excitement. Perhaps, discussing the lack of sex life and the frustration that comes with that whilst you’re supposed to be busy working on the latest financial development wasn’t the smartest move, and yet, the conversation ended in a better resolution than she imagined when Joohyun had managed to pry the information out of her about why she’s been so on edge lately. 

On edge being both literal and metaphorical. Getting to the high is easy, however, toppling over into the rush of being able to feel the full experience of pleasure has been evading her for the last few weeks now. Nothing seems to do the trick and though you may think it’d be fun to simply keep trying, it’s starting to become an issue with the more extreme methods she attempts. So, it desperately needs to be fixed, just not in front of all of her colleagues who are idly typing away the dull workday. 

The rest of the day drags along. Nothing particularly interesting happens which Seungwan is grateful for, she could do without the extra stress. Though, she’s sure the new sponsorship to promote a dead-end product that everyone had warned their boss about will cause a headache in the future, she ignores the nagging feeling in the back of her mind. Joohyun was kind enough to buy dinner for the both of them which her stomach is currently grateful for as she’s certain her fridge at home is empty. But, watching her friend and colleague suckle on the ice cream bar she purchased for herself should not have resulted in her needing to press her legs together on instinct. 

Joohyun didn’t notice, or if she did, she didn’t say anything and continued to lap her tongue across the cold strawberry flavored ice cream. Probably for the best. Nothing good ever comes from getting too involved with people you have to work alongside every day, even if that person does look like Aphrodite herself. The awkward looks between you both, everyone else knowing that the two of you have slept together but are now deciding on which color scheme to use for an advertisement, it just isn’t something that Seungwan wants to deal with. So, she and Joohyun will have to remain platonic. Unfortunately.

It’s late by the time she gets home. The hallway lights leading up to the apartment door flicker every few seconds and the apartment across the hall has the television turned up loud enough that Seungwan is sure they’re trying to let those in hell hear the latest episode of whichever show they’re currently watching. The keys in her hand rattle as she unlocks the stiff door that barely wants to open anymore. The loudness doesn’t disappear once she closes it behind her but it’s home and somewhere she can erase the feeling of being stuck, in more ways than one. 

The latest routine of ordering in unhealthy food that is slowly destroying her insides, a cold shower to wash away some of the exhaustion, and then listening to the same songs for about an hour feels almost robotic but it’s what she’s grown used to now. Once the darkness begins to creep in across the apartment, cold air making the hairs on her arm stand to attention and the neighbors suddenly growing quiet, it’s the small bed in the corner of the room that calls out and the only thing echoing inside her head. 

Well, it would be, had she not suddenly recalled Joohyun’s description of a site where many people frolic and entertain those who perhaps need a little extra help with their more sinful needs. She moves on auto-pilot toward the jacket hanging on the coat rack and reaches into the left side pocket for the small piece of paper where only the web address is scrawled upon it in Joohyun’s perfect handwriting. The laptop she bought years before and barely runs anymore rests on the dining table she never sits at, closed, and with a line of dust taking up home upon it. Grabbing it, she plops herself down onto the bed after removing her dressing gown and the towel around her hair which has long since dried and throwing it into a corner of the room to be cleaned up tomorrow. 

Her fingers trace the keyboard idly, never pressing in a single key, simply going back and forth over the letters whilst her brain tries to decipher if this is something she wants to try out. 

“Fuck it.” She thinks. Soon enough, the site is loading, slowly, and asking for her to confirm she is of legal age to enter it. 

The screen finally loads and brings up a bunch of profiles under the “popular” banner. To say that the sight of all the various people before her is overwhelming would be an understatement. A sidebar reveals that she can choose a category as well as filter out specific things that are not of her interest. Some of the categories are the standard you would expect, for example, she immediately filters to only see profiles of women. However, others are a little more out there and specific toward what Seungwan assumes are people’s fetishes. A lot of them are things that she would never consider a person could find interesting sexually, and yet, the option is right before her. She ignores the curious voice inside of her head telling her to click on some of them. 

A screen full of women now presents itself in front of her. All of them are beautiful and there’s a whole variety to choose from. The profile pictures range from selfies where they’re simply smiling to some of them being without clothing whatsoever. She scrolls for quite some time simply admiring all of the choices before her until one, in particular, captures her attention. 

Wide dark eyes with hair of the same shade of brown, plump lips that are sporting a small smirk that’s both enticing and teasing. Part of the girl’s neck is on display for Seungwan to imagine herself kissing and biting softly. Without hesitation, she hovers over the username and clicks onto the profile. 

“xNotYourJoyx” she repeats mentally a few times. 

The next page reveals a sign-up box that doesn’t allow Seungwan to venture any further. She’s quick to type in her email address, a username not as clever as she would like and the same password she uses for everything else. The next step is to add her bank details in order to be able to subscribe to various pages. She hesitates at this portion realizing that it’s probably very easy for people to fall too far down this rabbit hole. Thus she promises herself not to subscribe to anything until she’s 100% sure. 

After completing her profile, she’s brought back to the girl she assumes is named Joy or at least uses that name here. Her subscription rate is the first thing to appear. Her price is low Seungwan thinks, around $10 when she was expecting something far higher based on the type of content Joohyun had told her the people on the site create. The next part is an Amazon wishlist with various items in it ranging from hair extensions, expensive perfume, and medical equipment? She must be a nurse, Seungwan thinks. 

Further down the page reveals a VIP service which is more expensive than the standard subscription but allows for you to request specific pictures or videos. There are rules that come along with it which Seungwan reads multiple times over. 

Don’t ask me to say or tell you anything personal about me, we are not friends. You don’t know me like that. 

No, you can’t have my Instagram or any other social media so don’t ask. 

Don’t be a dick. 

My amazon wishlist is not for me. I am not a doctor. But I’m down to dress as one for you if you’re into that. 

“Well, that clears that up I guess.” She thinks. 

For the next ten minutes, Seungwan simply scrolls through the free content on offer from Joy. A few shots of her without clothes but covering her body up with her hands or a sheet, all of which look professionally done which is surprising.  She’s captivated and drawn in by this girl a lot quicker than she thought she would be, she can see why Joohyun would recommend such a thing to her now. The possibilities are endless and there are no strings attached. It’s an ideal situation for both parties. 

Despite making the promise to herself, she’s quick to subscribe to Joy’s feed but ignores the large “upgrade to VIP” logo that’s glistening in gold below the payment button. It would seem strange or suspicious surely to her if someone new to her profile was suddenly paying for the premium option Seungwan tries to logic with herself. 

A few seconds pass as the page reloads itself before finally Joy’s profile is unlocked for Seungwan’s eyes to devour. The same type of photos as previously, however, without anything covering herself up. The same natural reaction to jam her thighs together that she felt earlier with Joohyun ends up happening again except this time she positions her hand under the waistband of her bed shorts. 

The further she explores everything Joy has posted the more the need to be touched becomes overwhelming Before she knows it her fingers are gently caressing her soft skin slowly yet with desperation. Many of the images have comments from other people praising the effortless beauty that Joy manages to convey with ease. Seungwan thinks that Joy must be someone with great confidence to display herself so openly like this. She wishes she too were able to picture herself in the way that Joy likely does. 

Her body aches for some release but once more she’s not able to reach the peak as the page of images suddenly comes to an end. Once more, the gold button for premium appears and tells Seungwan she’s reached the limit of what she can see. A blurring effect does a good job of hiding what follows next, however,  what it doesn’t do is stop her from being enticed further when she spots that Joy has also uploaded videos of herself, they are simply hidden from those on the basic subscription as her. 

Almost sub-consciously she finds herself going against every warning sign inside of her mind telling her that paying to watch Joy rather than just look at her is a bad decision, one she will definitely come to regret or become too attached to doing, and yet, it’s too late once she’s confirmed the upgrade and clicked onto the first video that appears. 

White background, likely a wall in her home, Seungwan thinks, until finally the girl steps into the frame with yet another smirk on her lips.  

“Hello, welcome to premium. Thank you for subscribing. I hope you enjoy all of the videos and pictures that only a select few of you will ever get to see. If you’re feeling even more generous please be sure to check out my wishlist. Now, let’s have fun together.” 

Her voice is silky smooth, Seungwan thinks. She replays the simple video a few times just to hear her make this decision sound like she’s part of an exclusive club where only she is invited, though, she’s aware that isn’t true at all. Joy likely has a ton of people paying to see the most intimate parts of her. The comments on this simple welcoming video are at 59 which means at least that many people have also fallen into the trap, though if Joy is the prize, Seungwan wonders if be tricked into paying extra like this is worth it in the end. 

She decides to read through some of them just to get a sense of how people communicate with her here. 

ksgeees says: can’t wait for you to send me my video Joy😏

canudoit2609 says: so hot🔥

r4bb1tfr13nd says: damn i should have subbed earlier🥵🥵🥵

speedzoom0408 says: YOU CAN HAVE ALL MY MONEY

HYUNSKY says: most beautiful girl ever 

Strangely, the latter comment is the only one Joy has bothered to give a reply to. 

xNotYourJoyx says: @HYUNSKY wow, thank you😳

The compliment is definitely correct and deserving of a reply, yet, Seungwan wishes she were the one to tell Joy such things and have her respond solely to her. Jealousy is a green-eyed monster and though she probably shouldn’t be feeling it toward a complete stranger, she does. The sound of the keys as she types out her own comment with her free hand that hasn’t been teasing herself is the only thing she can hear now. Not even the wind outside is able to pierce her eardrums and break her from this spell that Joy has put her under. 

Wannie2102 says: you are so perfect, Joy.

It’s simple and Seungwan hates it, but she simply must tell this girl something, anything, in hopes that she sees it and feels happy to be complimented. 

Silence now, nothing but the screen before her for light inside the cold bedroom. The list of videos, 71 in total, tempting Seungwan, taunting almost. Her left hand numb now from just resting against her own body whilst her right-hand clicks onto the next one in the list after the welcoming video. 

The same white background, however, Joy is positioned in the video as soon as it starts this time. Laying down on a black crushed velvet sofa in only her underwear. Her right hand gently caressing her breasts as she grunts out a few low moans. Her left hand in a similar position to where Seungwan is resting her own. The tired and slow circles in which she moves her hand causes her eyes to roll into the back of her head as Seungwan changes her own pace to match that of Joy’s on the screen. 

Her bed creaks with every movement of Joy’s that she mimics, the headboard bashing against the wall behind her whenever Joy quickens her pace and then sounds like a light drumming whenever she slows. The neighbor next door has definitely been awakened by the rhythmic sound of Seungwan rocking her body against her fingers. 

“You’re enjoying this, huh?” The words surprise Seungwan out of her reverie as it’s as if Joy is present and asking her specifically and knowing that she too is pleasuring herself as she is doing. Without even thinking she manages to gasp out a yes in reply that only she can hear, yet gains a response from Joy almost like she can magically hear her. “I wish I could watch you touch yourself to me.” she pauses to lowly moan. “For me.” 

The pressure rises between her thighs once more except this time her body allows her to release every bit of tension she’s had to keep trying to get rid of for weeks. Her entire body collapses against itself as she indulges herself in what she’s convinced is the longest orgasm to ever exist. Her legs shaking wildly as her arm tenses up and flex to make sure she feels every bit of her undoing. The sound of Joy finishing up her own continues to play in the background for further motivation but the deed has already been done. 

She rests momentarily, staring up at the ceiling as gentle pants fill the room both from herself and the laptop. Nothing else in the world matters at this very moment. However, once more Joy manages to surprise Seungwan with her telepathic way of just knowing somehow when to speak to her viewer. 

“Thank you for that, I hope you come back soon for more.” and then the video ends. 

A dark screen replacing the beautiful image of Joy just as spent as Seungwan feels. But, now she’s left to think about everything that has just transpired between herself, the screen and a girl she doesn’t even know. Guilt wells up in her chest and she slams the screen shut almost shattering the glass. “Why did you do this?” is the only thing that repeats inside of her mind. No longer focused on the pulsating feeling against her hand as she pulls it out of her shorts too fast and whips herself with the waistband which will no doubt sting in the morning.

Her legs shakily drag her body to the bathroom almost tripping over various clothes that have sat there waiting to be cleaned for way too long now. She turns on the shower for the second time tonight and steps into it, almost falling immediately. The cold water shocks her body into feeling something other than the after-effects of pleasuring herself. Scrubbing every inch of her body intensely and repeating inside of her mind that she’ll cancel the subscription tomorrow and never do anything like this ever again. She can’t. Joy is a stranger and she shouldn’t be doing these things.

By the time she’s finished almost burning her skin with the washcloth to make sure she’s rid herself of her sins and changing her fair skin to a reddish shade, the clock on the bedside table shows that there are only three hours before she’s due to wake up for work. The bed seems tainted now, so she grabs the blanket and sleeps on the sofa that is far less comfortable. 

Joohyun is definitely going to ask her about whether or not she used the site, definitely going to notice the dark circles under her eyes from the lack of sleep and will definitely draw up her own conclusion anyway no matter what her answer is. She tries her best not to think about any of this but there’s just a constant loop of the images of Joy, the sound of her voice, and the way she encouraged Seungwan to feel again. 

She dreams of dark hair and brown eyes that night and moans that could be the most heavenly sound in the world or a new addiction that Seungwan isn’t ready for but may not have a choice but to indulge in it. 

pt. ii

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7 Insider Trade-Secrets to Double Your Sales & Profits from Your FB Ads Campaigns!

Explore How to Advertise on Facebook and Learn the Hidden-Secrets Of Running Your Successful Facebook Ad Campaign With these 7 Steps...

If you’ve ever dreamed of running “a successful Facebook ad campaign,” now is your chance — as long as you’ve got a good marketing mind.

In this article, you’ll learn 7 secret strategies to increase your sales and profits from Facebook Ad Campaigns

Want to learn how to advertise on Facebook profitably?

If Yes, So Let's dive in right away...

✓ How to create a Facebook business page.

✓ How to Promote your business on Facebook

✓ How to create a Facebook Ad

✓ How much does it cost to advertise on Facebook?

✓ 7 Facebook Ad Strategy Secrets

✓ Conclusion

Facebook advertising is a vital feature that connects you with your audience on the world’s largest social network. It has 2.80 billion monthly active users

If you want to get the top results, it’s vital to learn the basics of Facebook Marketing and its algorithm before you learn the 7 Facebook Ad Strategy Secrets.

How to create a Facebook Business Page

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Your First priority to market your services or products on Facebook, you must have a Facebook page up and running. By doing that, you will become a part of the 2.80 billion monthly active users community from all over the world.

It sounds amazing, I know, but that’s why this step is so important. Crafting a killer page can really make a huge difference in the whole marketing process.

Before you start posting engaging content, you need to have a customized page, first. If you already own a personal account, then you might know how this works.

To connect with people, you’ll need to add them as friends, and follow businesses by liking their fan pages.

Remember: Don’t open a profile for your business instead of a page, Facebook may shut it down permanently since it’s against their rules.

To begin creating a Facebook page, go to https://www.facebook.com/pages/creation/. There, you will find two different categories to choose from:

✓ Business or Brand

✓ Community or Public Figure Assuming you are a business, Hit on ‘Get Started’ under ‘Business or Brand’ to start the process.

Everything starts with your page name; Think about the name carefully as it is the name that your audience will see. There is an option available for you to change the URL.

After you’ve chosen your page name, you should select the category that your business falls under. Include the details such as an address, phone number, etc., and click on ‘Continue’. You will then land on your own fan page.

Vital Features of the Page:

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   Profile Picture:    

The first step you need to take care of is to include a profile picture on your business page. Think of this picture as your business’ identity and make sure it is something that represents your company well, like a well-crafted logo.

Your Facebook Fan Page profile picture should be your number one weapon for your brand marketing, so make sure it is recognizable. You’ll be required to upload a photo with 180 x 180 pixels, but do not panic if you don’t have a square photo. Facebook will give you an option of cropping, but the important thing is that your entire logo (if uploading a logo) fits into the cropped picture.

Cover Photo:

Your cover photo is the widest image on your Facebook business page that is found on the top of your page, in addition to your profile picture, which is what gives personality to your page. You can add this photo to promote special offerings, discounts, etc.

To upload your cover photo just click the ‘Add a cover photo’ button from your Facebook welcome menu. The perfect dimension for cover photos are 851 x 315 pixels,

Description:

You will need a well-crafted and well-written couple of sentences to introduce your brand. You can only use a maximum of 155 characters so choose your words carefully. Keep in mind that this description will help you rank better in the search results so make sure it is creatively descriptive.

Username:  

The username appears in your Facebook URL so help customers find you more easily. Facebook only allows 50 characters for your username; make sure to use them for something unique that is not already being used by other companies.

Setting Up the Roles:    

Now that you have added the page information, it is time to set up the roles. The best part about the Facebook business page is that they are kept completely separate from your personal Facebook account.

That means you can give access to other people from your organization. They can also maintain the page without having to log in through your personal account. Nevertheless, it depends on your role assignment part.

Page Roles:    

The admin of the page manages everything From sending messages, responding to comments, publishing and deleting posts, to advertising and even assigning the roles. You should select the person carefully as it’ll receive an authority to manage your page

There are also other Page Members options such as Editor, Moderator, and Advertiser. Analyst, and Live Contributor.

Call-to-Action:

Call-to-action is a very convenient way for customers to take action with your business. You can set it up on Click on ‘Add a Button’ found above your cover and choose what the button should allow customers to do: get in touch, download, purchase a product, donate, book your services, etc. then include a link that sends them to your website, or another landing page.

Page Tabs:

To organize the content that customers will find on your Page, it is required that you add custom tabs. It’ll help your audience to see your photos, look for open jobs, go to your website, visit your other social media accounts, etc.

In your Page left navigation, there is a ‘Manage Tabs’ button. Hit on it to change your tabs.

Audience Trust those pages that have verified batch, it’s as simple as that.

It is not required, but if you want to add more value to your page and include a degree of authority, it is recommended.

You’ll need to head to ‘Settings’ ‘General’ ‘Page Verification’ to enter your phone number, country, etc. You will receive a Facebook verification code.

How to Promote your business on Facebook:

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You’ll need to head to ‘Settings’ ‘General’ ‘Page Verification’ to enter your phone number, country, etc. You will receive a Facebook verification code. Facebook is one of my best social platforms to produce targeted traffic to the squeeze pages, Lead Page, and website. Facebook is a goldmine if you follow the strategies I’m about to share.

Algorithm Slap:

Did you know only 7% to 10% of your fans can see your post in their timelines? To Become Prominent on Facebook, You’ll need to beat the Algorithm in their own game..

All of those fans who like or follow you want to see your content regularly, but people barely see your content due to algorithm changes.

Action:

To increase the reach of your content, you’ll need first to identify the right audience and their pain points, needs, and wants. You can view your Facebook page analytics to find the right audience, demographics, interests, and age.

How to Create A Facebook Ad:

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First, you’ve to choose the marketing goal that’s right for your business. Then, craft your first ad with the following options below.

Select Your Audience:

With this option, you can reach your ideal audiences, such as age and location. Select the Demographics, interests, and behaviors that perfectly match your audience

Placement:

You can place your ad on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Audience Network or across them all. you can also choose the placement manually.

Define Your budget:    

You can add your budget on campaign-level, ad set-level, or lifetime budget. You can use all of these budget strategies that perform well, and you’re comfortable with.

Choose Ad Creative:    

You can choose a single image, video, or multi-image format.

Submit:

Once you submit your ad, It’ll go for the review process and start working once it gets approval.

Measure & Optimize Your Ads:

You can track the performance of your ad through the Ad manager. And Measure your No#1 metric that generates ROAS.

How much does it cost to advertise on Facebook?

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There are many types of bidding models in Facebook, like Cost-per-click (CPC), cost-thousand-thousand-impressions (CPM), etc.

The CPC bidding model usually costs around $0.97 per click, while the CPM advertising cost is about $7.19 per 1000 impressions.    

AVERAGE FACEBOOK ADVERTISING COST

BIDDING MODEL

$0.97 Cost-per-click (CPC)

$7.19 Cost-per-thousand-impressions (CPM)

$1.07 Cost-per-like (CPL)

$5.47 Cost-per-download (CPA)

But these bidding models advertising cost isn’t 100% accurate. Its large depends on ad copy, landing page, target audience, and creative ad strategies.    

7 Facebook Ad Strategy Secrets

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#1 - Use the Facebook Pixel To Create a Custom & Look-Alike Audience!    

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One of the most common problems businesses face is they don’t have their audience data and don’t know which funnel step is converting most… This problem could cause severe head-ache to the owners, and frequent money loss makes the business wheel crash.

One of the most common problems businesses face is they don’t have their audience data and don’t know which funnel step is converting most… This problem could cause severe head-ache to the owners, and frequent money loss makes the business wheel crash.

Want to Explore the Secrets How to Store your audience Data & Retarget them continuously so they can buy from you.

Here are steps you can follow to integrate your Facebook pixel on your website.

✓ Create a Facebook Pixel(Connect to Data Sources & Select Web)

✓ Select a Connection Method(Choose Facebook Pixel)

✓ Name the Pixel and Enter Your Website

✓ Integrate a Facebook Pixel Code to your website (You can either manually add pixel code to the website or Add through Partner Integration.

✓ Set up Pixel Event(Open Event Setup Tool & Enter Your Website)

✓ Make Sure Your Pixel is integrated successfully through Facebook Pixel Helper

#2 – Map Out Your Customer Journeys    

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Customer Journey is the process in which customers go through from the informational phase to a raving-fan stage.

Whether you are running an e-commerce store or a Services-based Business, ideally, your customer journey starts from informational searches, comparison-based searches to purchasing a product or service.

You’ll need to map this journey and target each step of the journey with offers, discounts, contests, free-trial, lead magnets, and referrals.

#3 – Funnel Creation    

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Now, as you map out your customer journey, you’ll find the steps customers use to grab your product or service.

So You can divide those steps into a 3-Step funnel Which is TOFU, MOFU, and BOFU.

You’ll need to map this journey and target each step of the journey with offers, discounts, contests, free-trial, lead magnets, and referrals.

✓ Awareness (top-of-funnel or ToFu)

✓ Engagement (middle-of-funnel or MoFu)

✓Conversion (bottom-of-funnel or BoFu)

#4 - Influencer-generated-content  

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You can start working on an influencer marketing & outreach program as soon as you have found out your ideal audience.

You can leverage the power of the influencers in your industry just by persuading them to present our offers, services, and product in front of their audience.

#5 - THE ILLUSION OF SCARCITY & Urgency

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We, humans, find something far more attractive and desirable if it’s only available in limited quantities and for a limited time. Ever wondered why e-commerce sites often put time-sensitive calls-to-action on their website, such as “Only 2 left in stock. Buy now to avoid missing out”?

People know that it is quite frustrating to miss an opportunity that is offering in discounted rates.

#6 – Research Your Competitors Ads

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Before you begin crafting ads for your business, you’ll need to dive into the ocean of your competitor’s ad strategies. .

You may judge your competitors based on their ad copy, ad creative, and their call-to-actions.

Here you’ll find all the competitor’s ads.

Ads Library

#7 – Three Types of Campaign    

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You can leverage the power of Three types of Ad Campaigns: Creative Sandbox Campaign, Initial Data Collection Campaign, & Finally Data-Driven Campaign. In the Creative Sandbox Campaign, You’ll have to craft 3 Ads with only one unique variable in each Ad. In this way, you’ll find the best creative you can launch in the Initial Data Collection Campaign.

You’ll begin launching Initial Data Collection Campaign, Once you found out the best ad creative in the Creative sandbox Campaign. To establish an Initial Data Collection, You’ll need a custom and lookalike audience.

Once you find the Data >500 Pixel Events, You should launch a Data-Driven Campaign with warm audiences.

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Facebook Advertising can make or break how much traffic & Conversions you get. An excellent Facebook Ad Strategy will allow your business to grow leaps and bound.

If you want to reach your ideal audience, be sure to experiment with different ad creative, ad copies, and targeting strategies to see what gets your business the most results!

Want a Free Step-By-Step Guidebook For Your Business Growth? Here is the link

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So you want to start a YouTube channel 

and have no idea where to begin? Well, you have come to the right place! This article is going to give you an insightful overview of all the steps that you need to follow before you set up a YouTube channel as a beginner. The link below will further give you comprehensive lessons on how to start, grow, and monetize a hyper-profitable YouTube channel from scratch, so make sure you check it out. Keep in mind that I may receive a commission when you click the link and make a purchase. However, this does not impact the quality of the content.

Step 1: Choose a topic So let us get started, the first thing you need to do to start is to come up with a topic for your YouTube channel. Some people say come up with a niche. A niche is a product, service, or interest that appeals to a specialized section of the population. That could be in automotive, business, crafts, health, travel, etc. If you are creating a channel because you just want to have fun and you do not care much about how big your audience is, then go for it, but if you are looking to build a business or an audience, then you need to choose a topic or niche that people are looking for. Your YouTube audience should have a demand for what you are offering, so get out there and do your research. You can research keywords on Google or search on YouTube

and find out whether other people are doing what you have in mind. If other people are providing videos on your topic or niche and they have huge audiences, then you know there is a demand. This also means that you are getting into the field of competition. Therefore, you will need to figure out how to shine so that the audience will watch your videos instead of your competitors.

Step 2: Define your audience i now you are probably thinking, “Yeah, but I don’t have an audience yet…” Here is the thing, when you make a video, you are already creating it as though the people you are targeting are watching, and eventually, they will come. This is because they are looking for you, remember you already found a topic that there is a demand for. Let us say you are doing a health and fitness topic, and you want to share workout videos, are you going to target your videos to men or women? (Obviously, men and women work out differently to a degree) are you going to target younger or older people? Asking yourself such questions will help you create quality videos that are full of value and content that match your topic, and eventually, you will start to build your audience.

Step 3: Do a brainstorm To brainstorm in this context means to start writing down all your ideas of the video titles that you would like to make. Do not worry even if they are crazy ideas, try to get a couple of pages full of content for your channel. Ask yourself, “What content do I want to offer to my target audience? What problems are they having, and how am I going to help solve those problems with solutions? Now once you have done that, then pick out the best five or ten topics, and now you have somewhere to start. As you grow, you will find it easier to look at different areas that you could focus on and bring up the quality of your videos. You are not going to have tens of thousands of people watching your videos as you start, but do not worry about that as long as you have content.

Step 4: Choose your equipment Here you might be thinking “Okay I want to make videos but it’s going to cost me a lot of money. I have to go out and get fancy cameras and microphones and all these different things and I know it’s going to be expensive”. It honestly is not that costly! Many people make their videos in the most inexpensive ways possible, and they go viral. In the beginning, do not worry about the mechanics very much as getting some videos made and getting in the habit, so you can start by using your smartphone or laptop. For the microphone, many laptops and phones have a microphone that is good enough, but if you are using the former, it would be wise to experiment with it as some microphones pick up a lot of background noise that may affect the quality of your video. If this happens, you can buy a microphone on Amazon or from a preferred store. For your backdrop or background, it will depend on your content, location, and your audience. You can choose to do it outdoors where there is beautiful scenery, or indoors with different background decorations to keep your audience captivated. As you become more experienced with making videos, you may find the need to invest in better equipment to improve the quality of your videos, for example, a high-resolution camera, a tripod, and lighting.

Step 5: Come up with a schedule Now that you know what you are going to produce and how to do it, it is time to come up with a plan for when to shoot, edit, and upload your videos. Most successful YouTubers recommend that you upload at least two to three times every week. You could also upload every single day as long as it does not compromise on your quality. It is crucial to make sure that you are not focusing on the quantity more than the quality as the latter matters when you are trying to stand out on a very competitive platform like YouTube. Of course, you can batch film your videos, which means that you film five or ten videos once or twice a month to get all of your videos done in a short time. Whichever schedule you choose, you will need consistency with your uploading.

Step6: Create your YouTube channelYouTube makes this easy, especially if you already have a Gmail account. You can log in with your Gmail account on YouTube and then click through their prompts to set up your channel. It is super simple, and they make it very easy even for beginners to create a YouTube channel.

Step7: Create a banner for your YouTube channel Many sites on the internet will help you create a banner for your YouTube channel, for instance, Canva.com. You can choose from a variety of templates on Canva.com, edit to your preference, and download completely free of charge. Then you will need to write a description. Make sure you put a description that lets people know about your channel. These things make your channel look more professional. After someone watches one of your videos they may click on your YouTube channel, and they realize, “Oh! This person is making videos regularly, and they are committed to their work.” That makes them a lot more likely to hit that subscribe button. You can also put fun information in your banner or in your channel description that encourages people to subscribe to your channel

Step8: Film your first video Now here is where the fun begins. It is probably going to be a bit awkward if you have never done it before, but that is what everyone goes through, so do not worry. Many good things can come from having your own YouTube channel, and you have to bite the bullet and film that first video and get it done. Try being creative and enjoy the filming process by experimenting with different backgrounds, locations, expressions, and even having guests on your videos. This will help you have fun and be comfortable with the process and getting it off the ground.

Step 9: Edit the video and create a thumbnail Before you upload your videos, you may want to cut out some parts of the raw footage, or even add text or background music to your videos to make them more appealing to watch. So you will need to put your videos into an editing program to do this. There are some great free options out there like iMovie on Macs or Windows movie maker on Windows computers. There are also plenty of other paid options like Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro X. It does not matter much which program you choose when you are first starting as long as you do not do something overly complex. Once you edit the video, you will need to either take a screenshot from the video to use as a thumbnail or use another photograph or design a graphic for yourself. You can use a free program like Canva.com, or you can purchase a program like Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator to create that thumbnail. The main things you want to keep in mind when you are creating the thumbnail is to make it as eye-catching as possible and making it clear what is talked about in the video.

Step 10: Upload your first YouTube video Once you have completed all the above steps, it is time to upload your first YouTube video. There is generally no set time to upload your first video but as a tip, pick a time that is best for you. That time should be consistent so that you can start attracting people to watch your videos around that set time. As a strategy, some people prefer to upload their videos first thing in the morning to give their viewers the most time to watch them during the day.

Step 11: Boost your video Now that you have uploaded your first YouTube video, you need to give your video as much of a boost as you can. Every bit of push that you can give to that video helps. This means that you should watch the video too, hit the like button, leave a comment as yourself asking other people to comment, and share that video with everyone that you can share it with on your social media platforms. Tell your friends and family that you just made your first YouTube video and ask them to possibly help you out by watching your video and hitting that like button. There is a big difference between a YouTube video that has two views and one with fifty views. Although fifty YouTube views are still not that much, it shows that some people have an interest in the video, and the more views it has, the more other people are likely to click on that video and watch it. That is because of something called social proof, which means that we think that if other people are doing something, then it must be a cool thing to do it too

Step 12: Stay consistent When you start a YouTube channel as a beginner, everything is bright, exciting and you will have a lot of inspiration. However, as time goes by and especially when you have put up ten or so videos, but you do not see significant growth yet, you might feel discouraged and possibly want to give up. You have to be a lifelong learner and evaluate your work against what is working out there. That will help you understand where you are likely falling short and motivate you to improve the quality of your videos. There was never a channel that put out good quality videos with eye-catching thumbnails consistently and did not start seeing significant growth within the first six to twelve months. So it is not going to take forever, but you do need to stay consistent, keep uploading videos every single week and keep improving your quality with every video if you want to see that growth .How to start a YouTube channel for beginners

[neoneversleeps]

bad guy | j.jh

pairing: jaehyun x reader - bad guy

genre: angst, fluff, smut

warnings: cheating, swearing, semi-public sex, fingering, oral (female recieving)

description: 

The damn leather jacket that hangs over your desk chair is what compels you to finally come face to ace with the man whose heart you broke months ago. The outcome of the encouter however, is not what you had expected in the least. 

(this fic is kind of a twist on bad guy by billie eilish)

words: ~5k

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You feel the blood trickle down your nose before you even feel the impact. It takes a few seconds to actually register that you’ve just been punched in the face. Slaps were a common occurrence but actually being punched? Now that was a new one. You had to hand it to her, she had a mean right hook.

A chuckle escapes your mouth as your hand wipes off the blood on your nose. You could hear the murmurs of shocked onlookers around you. The girl seems even more infuriated after you chuckle, face contorted in anger as she opens her mouth to scream at you.

"You slut! Making out with my boyfriend for everyone to see?

You simply roll your eyes at her. This wasn't the first time you had heard those words. You hadn't really ran any background checks on the long list of hookups you had these past couple months. You couldn't bring yourself to care much, either.

"Who do you think you are, going around kissing other girls boyfriends?"

You cock your head at her, slightly narrowing your eyes.

"Shouldn't you be asking your boyfriend why he's going around kissing girls that aren't his girlfriend?"

She pauses, suddenly at a loss for words. A few seconds later she stomps her foot, not unlike a toddler during a temper tantrum, huffs indignantly and storms off, boyfriend in tow, tail between his legs.

You decide to head to the nearest bathroom, behind the club, to inspect the damage. You catch some stares as you round the corner, the people there clearly finding your bloodstained appearance more interesting than whatever else they were talking about before. You didn't shy away from any of the glances, choosing instead to sneer back at them, which made them turn their heads away without a fault.

You near the outdoor bathroom, a small rectangular construction with only one meek bathroom stall and a poor excuse for a mirror. Closing the door behind you, you lean forward on the sink and inspect your nose. It could look worse for wear, nothing broken at least. The bad lighting and smudged mirror didn't exactly let you see the full damage, but there was no cracking and no continuous pain so that was a positive. You figure it must be just a few burst blood vessels. You splash some water on your face, cleaning off the already drying blood. You look back up at your reflection. The shirt was ruined though. Bummer, you didn’t own a lot of white shirts that you liked and unfortunately, you did actually like this one.

Slightly sighing in frustration, you leave the stall to go hail a cab, ready to head home for the night.

The door of your small city apartment clicks shut as you enter. You flick on the lights and glance around. The place was in disarray to no surprise. Every time you claimed you’d tidy the whole thing up, something more important always seemed to come up. Truthfully, you couldn't bring yourself to care.

You glance at the clock as you stroll into your kitchen. 2:39am. Perfect time for some plain old buttered toast. You hadn’t drank much, the alcohol levels in your blood probably close to zero at this point. Your stomach, however, was growling in demand for food. So you get to work, taking two slices of bread out of the freezer and placing them in your hand-me-down toaster.

After finishing your honourable 3am meal, you slowly shuffle past your bedroom door and into the adjacent bathroom. You discard your clothes, making a mental note to throw the bloodied shirt away instead of just throwing it in with the wash.

As you step under the shower, the warmth of the water envelops you. None of your neighbors in the apartment complex showered at this hour, so it was always a guarantee for hot water. You stand in the stream for a while, letting your muscles relax and letting the water wash aways all your sins, worries and fears. Of course the water couldn't actually wash those away, but you liked to believe it could linder them. Make them disappear even for a little while.

The bathroom floor tiles are cold against your feet after you finally decide you'd soaked up enough water for the night (morning, technically). You dried off your body, wrapping the towel around your figure before wrapping another one around your hair. You made use of the few skincare products you had for your nightly (again, more accurately morning) routine.

You pad out into your bedroom, removing the towel from your hair and trying to dry said hair with it as best you could. Your eyes flick to the jacket hanging on your desk chair in the corner of your still dark room, illuminated only by the path of light coming from the open bathroom door. It was an old dark brown leather jacket, surely worth a lot when first bought. The years of use have worn it at its edges but it still shines pristinely, leather well kept.

A face flashes before your eyes. The owner of that very jacket. Jung Jaehyun. The one boy who had managed to get a little too close for comfort. The thought of him leaves a bitter taste of hurt and regret in your mouth. A twinge of guilt twists your insides as well.

You had been meaning to give the jacket back to him, tired of it being a constant reminder of your past relationship. You had been saying that for months now though, yet you never got around to actually get it back to him. Coward. the voice in your head helpfully provides the real reasoning behind not returning the jacket. You would one day. In fact you would go tomorrow. Today? Ok, realistically that wouldn't happen. You settled for the coming week. The coming week  you would return Jung Jaehyun’s jacket.

Content with your decision, you change into your pyjamas and slip into bed, the clock on the nightstand reading 4am.

It’s a wednesday afternoon two weeks after the bloody nose incident that you finally walk down the street where the garage that Jaehyun works at is located. Ok so maybe you didn't quite adhere to the deadline you set for yourself, but you were here now, right?

You were slowly approaching Jaehyun’s workplace. The buzzing sounds  of various machinery filtering in through your ears. The garage always had its doors open, probably willing more wind to enter the hot work space. The afternoon sun stands proud in its place, rays casting a golden light onto the city and pleasantly warming its citizens. Even though you appreciate the balmy caress of the sunlight on your skin, you imagine being stuck working on a car in this heat would be most uncomfortable. Jaehyun never seemed to mind however, you couldn't remember him ever complaining about his job. He was good at what he did, although he did always talk about rising up in the ranks. He didn't want to work at a garage for the rest of his life, and you couldn't blame him. You were sure he would achieve his goals however. If there was one word you would use to describe Jaehyun, it was determined.

Your eyes search the area as you arrive in front of the garage. There’s a nervous feeling in your gut the longer your eyes search, the jacket in your backpack seemingly getting heavier by the second. Maybe you shouldn't have come.

You’re about to turn on your heel but before you can do so, your eyes catch sight of a brown tuft of hair behind the car on the far end. You would recognize that soft brown hair anywhere.

Your feet stroll over to the car furthest away from you. A red 1966 shelby. Nice model, a vintage mustang, the apparently freshly redone paint-job glistening in the afternoon sun. Now, you wouldn't consider yourself a cars connoisseur by any means, but your granddad had taught you to have an eye for value.

“Beautiful car.” You say, your fingers lightly hovering above the shiny red paint, careful not to touch. The man behind the car gets up with a chuckle. “Yeah, well, she's not mine-.” A pause. “Oh, hey, y/n. What brings you here?” The tone of his voice is casual, but obviously forced. It stings just a bit. He stands there just as you remembered him. His well-built frame stands tall, defined muscles visible in the black tank top he was wearing, honey brown fringe damp from the sweat falling just below his eyebrows. His hair had grown a little since you last saw him.

“Oh, you know. Just passing through this area and thought I might stop by. Maybe looking to buy some car air fresheners.” His face tilts, eyes narrowingly only a millimeter. “Uh huh. You don't own a car though?”

Shit. “Right well… it's for a friend. Her car always smells musty.” You recovered rather well in your defense, able to play it off with a chuckle.

“Um, okay. Is that really all? Because if yes I should get back to work before-” “No!” Okay, that was way too quick, you mentally reprimand yourself. Clearing your throat, you continue.

“No, actually, that's not all. I was wondering… if maybe you would like to go get a drink sometime?” What!? What the hell was that? You were supposed to give him his leather jacket back, not ask him out.

Even Jaehyun looks surprised at your question. His hands fly up to his hair, running them through it a couple of times, a habit you had seen countless times before. “Well I, um-” “Jaehyun!” You heard the rather shrill voice of a girl coming from your right. Soon enough the girl that had called his name was now plastered to his side, hands curling around his arm.

“Who’s this, Jaehyun?” The fake tone to her voice is so obvious you want to roll your eyes.

“Oh uh, Y/n is an old...friend of mine. Y/n, this is my girlfriend Nina.” She sticks her hand out and you take it, albeit begrudgingly, while forcing a smile. “It's nice to meet you.” The blonde smiles back, face scrunching up just a little too much to be considered genuine.

“Likewise.” She quips before directing a pout at Jaehyun. “Hyunnie, you promised you’d get off work early to go to that one restaurant I was telling you about.” Hyunnie? You internally shiver in disgust at the pet name. Jaehyun's eyes, which were previously staring at yours, suddenly flit over to Nina’s face.

“Oh yeah, of course. I’ll go get ready and be out in a sec. Why don’t you go wait in the car?” He smiles at her, dimples showing prominently in his cheeks. You hadn't seen those in a while. “Ok!” She says chirpily, leaning up slightly to peck him on the mouth. Suddenly the pit of your stomach boils with anger. Why were you angry? You surely weren’t jealous, were you? No, Y/n. You broke up with him, remember? You ended things.

She turns in your direction, blonde hair swishing around in her high ponytail. “Bye, Y/n!” The lilt in her voice almost made you want to gag but you force out a smile instead and bid her a goodbye as well.

“She’s nice.” Jaehyun almost snorts. Apparently you hadn’t managed to keep the slight disgust out of your voice as well as you had hoped.“She is. I like her.” He says the words as he looks at you. It almost feels like he’s trying to gauge your reaction. You simply nod and give him a tight-lipped smile at first, your hands digging themselves into the pockets of your denim jacket.

“Well, she’s your girlfriend. Isn’t it kind of a given that you like her?” You state more than asks, although you do feel slightly confused now that you thought back on his words. Jaehyun just shrugs nonchalantly.

“Anyways, you heard her.” He jerks his head towards, presumably, the direction of his car. “I'm heading out now.” He worries his bottom lip between his teeth, as if considering his options. “About that drink, text me and we can agree on a day. Just as friends though, right?”

It was your turn to be surprised now. You hadn't expected him to actually accept, especially after his girlfriend had interrupted the two of you. It takes you a few stunned seconds before you can respond. “Um, yeah of course. Just as friends.” You scan over his face, curious if you could make out any hidden emotions, but all you can see is Jaehyun’s pleasant smile.

You start to walk backwards, suddenly itching to get out of the now slightly tense and awkward atmosphere. You feel his eyes trail after you. “I’ll text you then. Bye, Jaehyun.” You turn fully after your goodbye, still feeling the burn of his gaze on your back.

“Bye, Y/n.”

You walk home that day in the afternoon sun, a weird feeling brewing deep in your stomach and Jaehyun’s leather jacket still safely stored inside your bag.

You watch the droplets of condensation slowly slide down the side of your glass, thumbs drawing idle circles on the table. Jaehyun should be arriving any minute now. The thought of him makes tiny balls of sweat form at the base of your neck. You’re nervous. Just like the day you went to see him at the garage, you were starting to regret ever texting him in the first place. Thinking that maybe you should've just ignored his acceptance of your invite.

You had tried to, really. But Jaehyun’s name on the message app on your phone had tempted you one too many times. You had caved a few nights prior, asking to meet at a relatively well-known bar in the city and now here you were, sitting alone at a table, leg bouncing in anticipation.

You heave a sigh and take up your phone. Just as you decide to distract yourself with some mindless game, you hear the scrape of a wooden chair from across you.

Jaehyun gives you a smile as he sits down in front of you, prominent dimples poking out. “Sorry I’m late. Got caught up in traffic. Have you been waiting long?”

You shake your head. “No worries, I only just got here about five minutes ago.” Liar. You had been waiting for over half an hour. Jaehyun glances at your glass and raises an eyebrow. “They must have fast service then.”

You don't let the nervous churn of your stomach get to you as you respond. “For a pretty girl sitting alone in a bar? The service is always fast.” You let a small smirk adorn your lips and Jaehyun chuckles at the statement. “Fair enough.”

After a quick glance at his phone screen, Jaehyun directs his attention back at you, leaning on his forearms. “So, how’ve you been?”

You lean back a bit, unconsciously (or more likely consciously) putting space between you and Jaehyun. “Oh you know, going to work, reading up on the news, getting into brawls outside of clubs, the usual.” Jaehyun laughs at what he assumes was a joke. You bite your cheek as a smile finds its way onto your face as well. If only he knew.

It’s ridiculous really, how easy you could fall into conversation with Jaehyun. It feels natural. However in your mind there’s a voice constantly reminding you that this was just what you had come to fear all those months ago. What you had with jaehyun, you had considered it a fling, even though it had felt like a relationship more than you cared to admit.

Your parents failed marriage and the many failed attempts at love on your own part had made you quite opposed to the idea of a relationship. The last time you had been with someone for longer than two weeks had been Jaehyun. You were adamant about keeping feelings out of the mix as best you could, but Jaehyun was a dangerous man. He had found a way to weasel himself into your heart and as soon as you had realised, you shut him out completely.

You wonder why jaehyun was sat in front of you at that moment, an easy smile on his face. When you think back to the night you “broke up”, you recall being rather horrible to him. The hurt expression on Jaehyuns face resurfaces in your mind and you push it down, choosing instead to focus on the conversation.

You laugh genuinely at Jaehyun’s crazy work story and watch how he leans back, the smile on his face making his eyes crinkle up. He was still gazing at you after you finished your little fit of laughter. “What?” You ask, a shy grin pulling at your lips under his gaze.

“I missed your laugh.” You don't fail to notice the way his eyes trace over your face and down over your body, lingering at the curvature of your breasts in your low-cut tee. You shift slightly in your chair and his eyes flick back up to meet yours. You both stare at each other, as if daring the other to back down.  You can feel Jaehyun's leg brushing against yours under the table.

Oh, you think, Jaehyun was a dangerous man indeed.

The bathroom wall is cold against your bare ass as Jaehyun slips your jeans further down your legs. You were unsure of how you got here, your memory going hazy after the little staring contest you had earlier. He’s kissing you feverishly, lips travelling up and down the sides of your neck as you claw at his t-shirt covered back. You audibly gasp as you feel his fingers rub at your clit through your panties. “Fuck, you’re so wet already.” You whimper as he grunts in your ear. You had slept and made out with countless people over the past months and yet none of them could make you feel even a fraction of pleasure compared to what you felt whenever Jaehyun touched you.

His mouth trails down further along your body, roughly pushing your t-shirt and bra out of the way to latch onto your nipple, his free hand coming up to play with your other one. Your head falls back against the wall as he grazes your sensitive bud with his teeth, loving the mix of pain and pleasure.

Jaehyun’s hands grab hold of the back of your upper thighs as his face hovers above your heat. He looked up at you through his lashes and you grabbed a fistful of his hair as you urge him on, the ache between your legs nearing unbearable.

A jolt of pleasure shoots up your body as you feel Jaehyun's tongue lick up your slit before pushing his tongue inside of your folds. His hands still work at your clit in small circles, applying just the right amount of pressure to the bud. You bite your lip as you try to hold back the moans that were threatening to spill, this was still a public restroom after all.

“Fuck, Jae.” You curse as he inserts two fingers into your entrance, moving to suck and kiss at your clit. You could perfectly picture his satisfied smile as he hums against your core, once again sending vibrations throughout your body. Gosh, how you had missed this.  

As Jaehyun picks up his speed, you feel the knot in your stomach twist tighter, the gasps leaving your mouth becoming higher in pitch. After a few more pumps you feel your walls contract around Jaehyun’s fingers and pure bliss overcomes you, your body going limp, almost sliding down the wall if it weren’t for Jaehyun coming up to support your weight.

“Shit, I missed this so much. I missed you so much.” Jaehyun mumbles in your ear as he turns your body. Now you stand facing the large bathroom mirrors, hips slightly digging into the border of the sink and panties still halfway down your thigh. You stare at your reflection. You look fucked out, hair and clothes in disarray, with a flurry of small marks beginning to form on your neck and Jaehyun slowly kissing down your shoulders. Looking at yourself was like a slap in the face. This was wrong, oh this was all so wrong. You broke up with Jaehyun. Jaehyun had a girlfriend.  You were fucking Jaehyun in the bathroom of the bar where you had asked to meet up as friends. Friends.

Shit. Panic floods your body and you know you need to get out. Out. Out. Out. You turn around and promptly push Jaehyun off you, nearly making him topple over in the process.

“We can’t do this! You- I - We- we just can’t!” You make quick of pulling your underwear and jeans, grabbing the purse you had previously discarded and rushing out of the room, Jaehyun still struggling to keep up with the sudden turn of events.

“Y/n!”

You hear his shouts coming from behind you but you don’t stop. Making your way through the tables, you desperately try to smooth down your hair so you wouldn’t look as disheveled. You push open the main door and the cold air of the night hits you as you step out on the streets. A shiver runs down your spine. All of this was wrong.

And all of it was your fault.

It was currently around 8pm and you’re sat on the couch in your apartment, the stark light of the tv screen casting shadows around your dark room. You mindlessly flick through the channels, not really finding anything worth watching. Your eyes keep on wandering towards your phone. All week you had been avoiding Jaehyun as if he were the pest. You Ignored both his calls and his texts. There was a twinge in your gut.

None of this was Jaehyun's fault. You had given him false hope of a relationship and broke it off. You had ignored him for months after. You had asked him out. You had made him cheat on his girlfriend. You were the one that had played with him as if he were some toy.

He cheated on his girlfriend because of you. Granted, you had slept with guys who were in relationships over the past few months, but that was different. You didn't know prior if they were in a relationship or not, they were just a hookup.

But this time, you had actually seen the girlfriend. Talked to her, touched her. And while yes, you had not liked her in the slightest, that didn't justify your actions. You were a cheater.

Just like your dad. Thanks brain, for that helpful reminder. You sigh in frustration at yourself. Maybe you should just go to bed.

You get up and switch off the TV, but just as you are about to head to your room, you hear a knock on the door.

You freeze, unsure of what to do. A few seconds later, the knocks are repeated. Deciding to just see who it is and not stand around in your living room like an idiot, you make your way over to the door.

“I broke up with Nina.”

These are the first words that leave Jaehyun’s mouth, as he stands on your doorstep. You don’t know what to respond in all honesty. Jaehyun worries his lips between his teeth. “Can I come in, please?”

You nod in your stunned silence and step to the side to let Jaehyun through, letting the door click shut behind him. There’s a pause, you don't know what to say and it seems like he doesn't either.

After what feels like an eternity spent in silence, Jaehyun finally turns to face you. “Ok, I’m gonna say something now and… before you say anything in response, please hear me out.” There’s an unsure fluttering in your chest, your heartbeat speeds up as your hands begin sweating slightly. The situation makes you anxious but after a deep breath, you nod at Jaehyun, signaling to him that he could continue.

“I know that what we had a few months back was intended to be nothing but a fling to you. I may not have known it at the time, correction, I had no idea it wasn’t serious for you at the time. We had been together for three months by then. I believed your lies, I’ll even go so far as to admit  you fooled me.” He chuckles in attempt to lighten the blow, but its bitter and it makes the guilt in your stomach rise up to your throat like bile.

“I don’t think it was directly your intention to hurt me though. You probably wanted something fleeting, a temporary boyfriend to get your insisting friends off your back. But you fell in love.” You cross your arms defensively on your chest, an innate response to Jaehyun’s accusing statement.

He sighs and pauses for a moment. “You can lie to yourself all you want, Y/n. I know you were in love. I know it because I felt it too. And you realized... and you got scared.” You feel stubborn tears prick at your eyes and turn your gaze towards the now very intriguing pattern of your carpet floor.

“Now maybe this isn’t my place to say but.... but I feel like it is. I know why you’re scared of the possibility of loving someone, of loving me, but this whole agenda you have of pushing away anything that might make you happy is ridiculous.” You can hear the anger in his voice and it pushes you to do something you know you shouldn’t.  

“You say that if you know anything about me!” You yell at him and his expression is taken aback for a second before the furrow between his brows reappears.

“Oh, I don’t know anything about you? Will you stop pretending that our relationship, which by the way, was an actual relationship, didn’t happen? Just for one second, can you acknowledge the fact that we had hour long conversations, that we actually shared our feelings? That you’ve told me about the crap you went through.”

Your breathing has become labored. You want to disagree so badly, want to argue that he knows nothing, that he’s wrong. But he wasn’t, and you sure as hell knew it. “Fine!” You scream. “Fine! Okay! I admit it. We did have a relationship! It was real! I did-” You inhale a shake breath, your voice not as strong when you continue. “I do love you and it scares me.” Tears are flowing down your face freely and you don’t hold back, you can’t, not anymore. “I’m so scared because I love you… so much. I love you more than anyone. These past few months, I- I’ve tried e- everything to get my mind off you but I can’t- I can’t and I’m so fucking sorry. I’m sorry I mess shit up and make you confused and make you cheat-” “Hey, hey, hey” Jaehyun cuts you off as he crosses the space between you, his warm hands cupping both sides of your face. “First of all, the cheating part… we both take blame for that. And the confusion thing, well, it’s true, you did confuse me…a lot but it’s okay because you love me and I love you... and I forgive you.”

You shake your head fiercely and try to pull his hands from your face. “Don’t you get it, Jaehyun? I’m no good for you. I’m… I’m the bad guy.” jaehyun chuckles softly as he rests his forehead against yours, little puffs of his warm breath hitting your face. “You’re not the bad guy, Y/n. You deserve happiness. Will you let me give you that happiness?”

You breathe out deeply through your nose and close your eyes, feeling the anger and frustration at yourself slowly seep out of your body. Jaehyu’s touch relaxes yu and as you open your eyes to look at him, he smiles and leans in to press his lips against yours. It’s a short kiss, sweet and caring and delicate. The kiss is followed by another and another, until they get longer, more heated, more passionate.

Jaehyun’s calloused hands travel around your body with ease. He softly pushes you against the wall and presses his body flush to yours. His kisses trail all over your face, your neck and al the way down to your collarbone. It isn’t long before he hoists you up and you instinctively wrap your legs around his middle . Everything feels natural, easy. You let yourself relax fully and fall into his touch. You let him carry you to your bedroom and push you down onto mattress, let his kisses wander further south until your squirming under his hold. You let your sounds of passion echo through your room until late into the night and finally, finally allow yourself to actually feel something.

You’re done holding back from love. You could finally admit what you were repressing for so long.

You love Jung Jaehyun.

You trace the small crack in the wall next to your bed in the dark. It was well past midnight, and yet you’re wide awake. You feel Jaehyun’s arm safely secured around your waist, the warmth of his body behind you seeps into your very soul. The room aroundyou is quiet save for the few times a car outside passes by and the shallow breathing of the man pressed up against you. Some time ago, you would have found that Jaehyun’s arm around your waist felt like a cage, something that weighed you down and tugged at your heart uncomfortable. Now, however, you find comfort in the way his skin feels on yours, the way you can faintly feel his heartbeat against your back. You feel safe.

Your eyes fall to the corner of your room, where the brown leather jacket still lay folded over a chair. You smile to yourself.

You would give it back, eventually.

[rueur]

Morning Pages No. 61

Monday 24th August - 1:04pm

I know that it’s a bit late in the day to start this entry, but I needed another bit of a morning off. Evan and I had an early night last night but we had sex first. We were both so tired afterwards due to consistent daily workouts, that we ended up falling asleep naked and staying asleep till about 8am. To be clear, we went to bed around 10:30pm, so it was a long night of sleep for both of us. I’m grateful for it though, because even though my calves still hurt like crazy, I do feel refreshed and like the healing process is underway. What did we do this morning? The son of a bitch restarted Breath of the Wild and we’ve both been playing on his new save file. I have to buy another copy of that game because I really want to replay it now. Even so, I have a lot of work to do and I’m yet to make proper headway on Julie’s new site. It’s coming along relatively fine in Squarespace but I’ve only worked on it for about an hour and I’ve yet to add the privacy policy and finetune a lot of the product links. I feel like we’ll absolutely need to add some copy for the products, and definitely put a disclaimer about the use of fabric softener either at the top of the description or below...or both? It’s pretty important.

I’ve been chatting to Sarah on Whatsapp. I feel like Sarah is a bit of a better influence on me than Wren, but I hate that I’m comparing them both in my head. I just feel a bit disheartened in my relationship with Wren, because of all the horrid experiences I’ve had with them over the course of this year. It’s been quite confronting to see how Wren acts when they’ve decided they’re in a more dire situation than me...like I’m not even sure if that’s what’s happened, but that’s what it’s felt like to me. I can’t understand how they’ve just been able to decide that just because they’re living alone, this time is harder on them? I don’t know. And even if it is harder, which I can admit that it most likely is, that doesn’t mean that I should have to incorporate addressing their pain into my life on a daily basis. I was willing to chat every day. But I also don’t want to feel like my life has to be placed on hold for them, whenever they may want me. I’ve felt like that enough in this friendship as it is. I’ve given them whatever I’m capable of giving, and I’ve given them a hell of a lot more than I’ve given any other friend I have ever had. Except, maybe, for Malith. But Malith has certainly given me more than I’ve given him. Goddamn. I’m fighting the urge to delete this whole paragraph, but I deserve to express myself. This year has been fucking hard for me. I’ve not been suicidal, because that part of my life is over. Even if Evan and I break up, that part of my life will always always be over. It’s no longer an option in my head, to go down that route. It’s a time-waster. There are better things to do than yearn without end, than wish for better than you’ve got. I’ve been dealt both a bad and good hand, and it’s only bad because I see it as so. It’s only good because I see it as so. Wren needs to learn that everyone has fucked up mums, figuratively speaking. Everyone has SOMETHING that they wish they had lived without. Everyone has SOMETHING that they wished was just a smidge better than it was. I don’t want any part of explaining all the fucked up shit that has happened to me over the course of my childhood. I don’t want to have a dick-measuring contest when it comes to depression and trauma. Fuck that. I’d much rather live in the present and be happy with the life I’ve built for myself. Even Wren needs to feel their privilege to a certain degree. It would be ludicrous if they didn’t. Two apartments, a job that they love that compensates them really fucking well, and an abundance of resources that provides them with independence and agency. I have so little of all that they have, and I’m working my ass off for next to nothing in return, just building up a resume that may not even receive a stolen glance at the end of all of this mindful building. Who knows? My fate rests in the hands of people who I feel quite sincerely don’t want me to succeed. I have a name and face and degree that is just...unhireable. But I don’t let that beat me the fuck down, because I know that I work harder and fucking smarter than anyone else on that pile of resumes. So I keep going, knowing that my work will become of a benefit to whichever organisation I end up representing.

My whole being right now is just revolving around entering the industry, like properly becoming a content writer and being able to actually use my degree to begin to pay off that motherfucking HECS debt. I know I’m swearing a fucking lot, but I feel like it’s actually helping me so I’m not going to stop. I don’t care who reads this and who judges me for it because at the end of the day, you’re the ones reading these sensitive pages on a blog that I’ve told nobody about. How did you get here?

I’m feeling paranoid, fired up. I can feel it in my fingers. My hands are freezing cold, and Evan’s in the one room that has the heater and he’s sitting there on his ass with the door shut. And I’m starting to feel like maybe I always find myself on the outside because I allow myself to get there. I have to start standing up for my damn self, but also...I know how to choose my battles, I suppose. Is it knowing how to choose your battles if you partake in a MINIMAL number of battles? Like a fractional amount of battles to the battles that you could have potentially fought in? Fuck. Nicky’s sleeping on my white vest. I may need to patch that up, but the inner fabric is so sheer, I’m not entirely sure how it’ll respond to a needle and thread. I may need excess fabric...we’ll see.

My cross-stitch order is on the way, and I’m excited to begin this new activity. I bought a hot air balloon pattern for Wren, I’m not sure if I’ve already said that. I’m looking forward to learning how to do this, because apparently it’s quite similar to knitting? Or at least the basics of knitting. I’ve heard that cross-stitch is a good introduction to knitting. After this, it may be good to see if I can give crochet a go too, but it’s also a little bit intimidating. I mean crochet is all about three-dimensional creations, whereas cross-stitch and knitting are generally more...patterned art, scarves, and blankets. Still functional, but more veering on the side of two-dimensionality. I’m a touch surprised that ‘dimensionality’ is a word. It feels like the kind of word that a primary school-aged student would assert is ‘ACTUALLY A WORD’, even though you know it’s not. OH, listen to this fresh hell! That ‘SNACCIDENT’ Typo lunch mug thingo we have says that the word ‘SNACCIDENT’ is a VERB, which is plain RIDICULOUS. If the word ‘accident’ is a noun and they’re claiming that ‘SNACCIDENT’ is a verb, then a sample sentence using that word would read as follows: ‘Henry snaccidented’. VERBS ARE FUCKING DOING WORDS. In no CONCEIVABLE UNIVERSE would ‘SNACCIDENT’ be considered a VERB. My fucking lord. These pages are just RAGE-FILLED, aren’t they? Which is actually pretty interesting, because I don’t feel mad? I feel fine. I feel a little bit annoyed that it’s almost 1:30pm and I’ve not done a lick of work either today or yesterday. I’m thinking I should send Julie a text today asking if she’d be free to meet up again sometime early next week, maybe Tuesday or Wednesday? I feel like I could make great progress on the website during that time. We shall see what happens. We shall see what I eventually get around to doing. I need money, gosh darn...

I feel like I’ve been writing a lot about money during these pages, and I understand why. Money has become a bit of an issue for me since moving out, which I know...doesn’t necessarily need to be said. But you must understand that I’m studying AND working AND working AND working AND working. And I’m still not making that much. It’s frustrating. I’m trying not to think about it right now because of lockdown and the fact that the bulk of my situation is currently out of my own control, but this is all really because of the house. Just knowing that Evan and I are ready for that step is enough for me to just want it now. The issue is - as is usually the case - MONEY. If we had enough for at least a 10% deposit, that would be insane. But a 10% deposit on a house valued at $500,000 is $50,000, and combined we only have HALF of that. If we could potentially get some rich parents or guardians to match what we have, then we could actually do it. But who even has rich parents or guardians? And I don’t think my dad would sign off on this until maybe after we’re married? I’m fighting the urge to go check if the house is still even listed online. I’m hopeful that it’ll be up until we have the money. Or maybe until we can get to a combined $30,000, to give us a bit of a buffer once we’ve given the rest of our money to whichever gross corporation decides to grant us a loan. Ahhhhhh. Why does this world try its hardest to strip you of all your agency? Why is it that so many people struggle to even find a place to be? A place to call their own? It’s cruel. I can only hope this archaic order is on its way out. I was hoping the realities of climate change, or police brutality, or perhaps even COVID-19 would pave the way for the people’s revolution, but I now feel it may be something more innocuous, more unexpected. Something that the bigwigs won’t see coming, as the people themselves won’t see it coming. Even so, everybody knows that it’s on its way. The ultimate fight between the oppressors and the oppressed, and the one brawl that may reveal the future of western society. Democracy is indeed dead. We’ll see how quickly the next system comes into place, and exactly whose side that system will be on. And as for the universal base income, I find myself rooting more and more for it, but I also know that it may be provided to us as a band-aid, built to keep the people’s revolution at bay. But as long as there are billionaires, there’s no way that the revolution won’t be coming. Exponential growth cannot occur unless it’s built on the backs of millions, billions. This current system is just not economically viable, which is ironic considering that ‘economic strength’ is usually the reason capitalists vouch for capitalism. I believe capitalists are just people who haven’t shirked their ‘American Dream’ yet, who basically still believe in Santa Claus. I’m not even sure what to call myself. A social capitalist? I believe people should feel compelled to build their businesses and to innovate their industries, but I don’t believe in penalising those who have ‘valueless skills’. I also refuse to believe there is such a thing as a ‘valueless skill’. Perhaps being able to write stream of consciousness entries is a valueless skill. That may be the only thing.

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What is “Webroot.com/safe”?

You “webroot.com/safe “ is the right page to download your webroot product. A user can download the Webroot program directly from this page without creating a Webroot account. However, creating an account is still a better option as you can log into your Webroot account and get your product anywhere and install it on any device. Also if you somehow lose your antivirus in some way, all you need to do is log in to your account and you can recover your software from that location. Account creation is given just after the top section.

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If you buy a retail card, you will find this unique code on the backside of the card that you need to enter.

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note- If you already have an anti-virus installed on your device, you will have to uninstall that first and remove it completely from your system.

And you make sure that the latest updates are installed on your operating system so that it is compatible with Webroot Antivirus.

What is the simple rule of the webroot installation process?

This solution addresses Webroot SecureAnywhere for Mac OS X 10.7 and higher: Webroot Antivirus- get it now -24/7 customer support –

You can install SecureAnywhere on your Mac OS X 10.7 and above. And requires an Internet connection to install its software.

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“The most important thing – Make sure you select the desired language. Once SecureAnywhere installs, you cannot change it. “

In it, now in the first activation window, enter your keycode and click activate.

Your keycode is the 20-character license that identifies your Webroot account. If you purchased the product online, the keycode is provided in an email from Webroot. If you purchased the product in a store, the keycode is provided in the retail box. In addition, the keycode identifies whether you purchased a multi-user license, which allows you to install SecureAnywhere on up to three or five Macs.

Then in the next panel, enter your email address and click continue. (If you do not want to provide your email address, you can click Cancel to skip this step. Installation continues even if you cancel.)

If you are prompted, enter your Apple system password to confirm the installation and click OK.

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And if you click Create Account, your browser opens on the SecureAnywhere account creation page. Enter the required information and click Register now. For more information about account creation, see Creating a Webroot account.

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Tips for the successful install before reaching: Webroot Antivirus- get it now -24/7 customer support –

For a successful install of webroot safety in a computer, a user needs to ensure that he does not have any other antivirus already on the computer. Users step:

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Now restart your computer.

Frequently Asked Questions :

Is Webroot good antivirus software?

Protection Features. Like most modern antivirus programs, webroot secures anywhere Antivirus detects malware by comparing suspicious programs found on your computer with an enormous database of known malware. In Webroot’s case, that database is not on your PC, but in the cloud.

WHAT IS WEBROOT KEY CODE?

A webroot key code is 20 characters alphanumeric string which is situated at the back of the webroot retail card. We should peel it off gently.

WHY I USE WEBROOT?

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How do I redeem my Webroot code?

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What is Webroot Software?

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Does Webroot scan for malware?

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Webroot’s SecureAnywhere Anti-Virus protects your system against all types of malware threats.

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[menswearmusings]

Free Product Review—Spier & Mackay Custom Shirt (+Giveaway Announcement)

Spier & Mackay is best known to my readers for their excellent-for-the-price Neapolitan-style jacket cut. But actually, their roots are in custom shirt making. The tailoring, the accessories, the trousers, that all came later. Founder Rikky Khanna (who goes by Rick) asked me if I wanted to give an honest review of their custom shirt program. Intrigued by their multitude of collar styles and what I’d heard was nearly infinite flexibility, I said yes (for my policy on free products and reviews, see my disclaimer page here). With that said, let me dive straight into my thoughts on the shirt and the process.

Pattern is key

I’ve got several online custom shirts from other companies, which I usually make by measuring a shirt I like the fit of and copying the measurements. Over time, I’ve tweaked the measurements here or there to dial it in, and I’ve been happy with the results. But this shirt has changed my perspective a little bit. While none of those shirts fit poorly, something about the cut of this shirt makes it feel like it fits better—using nearly identical measurements. I can only assume it has to do with how the pattern is drafted. I asked Rick about this, and he said that they have a third-generation tailor whose entire career has been in making custom shirts drafting each pattern. He is also apprenticing two younger tailors to take over for him when he retires. Considering the price of these shirts (as low as $80), that’s remarkable.

Collar designs for everyone

While they can make any collar you want based on specifications, their standardized collar designs cover almost all the bases. From point collars to super tall Italian wide spreads, there’s something for everyone (though someone recently did ask in their Styleforum thread for short collars for casual use—a blind spot of mine, since I never wear those). I opted for the large wide Italian spread (“C21” on the website), and then specified a slight increase in front collar band height. It is identical to my favorite dress shirt collar, the Eidos Marcus collar (which is why I chose it of course).

By default, the collars all come with a stiff, fused interlining. Instead of that, I asked about un-fused collar linings. They have four stiffness options: 1) Light (a single layer of un-fused interlining); 2) Unfused lining bonded to a fused lining (which is sewn in; there is no fusing to the shirt fabric); 3) Unfused bonded to a medium fused; 4) Unfused bonded to a stiff fusing. I opted for the second-lightest option and am happy with it. Given that the fabric I chose is a dressy, business-appropriate fabric, it does very well with a tie as well as without a tie, standing up under a jacket. I’m considering doing a super light fused on future shirts (which is how my Eidos dress shirts are made), and will likely also try the lightest unfused option. For sport shirts, such as a washed denim I intend to do at some point, I’ll go completely unlined.

Unlimited possibilities

For customization and even designs, the sky is the limit. For instance, as mentioned above, I requested a small increase in the front collar band height and about doing an un-fused collar lining. But I also talked to Rick about other details like the shirt sleeve attachment angle (a detail Ratio exposed to me as a possibility) or pleated shoulders (a detail found on Neapolitan shirtmakers’ goods, like G. Inglese), and he said it’s all posible. I even asked if I could send him a shirt to just copy all the design details on, and he said this was doable.

I am not a fan of secret menus, so this would be kind of a turn-off for me if I were new to the style game—I wouldn’t know what I don’t know, and would be afraid I wouldn’t think of some critical detail that would take my shirt to the next level. However, the options that Spier does offer by default in their step by step process are enough to make an excellent shirt for most people. And in my opinion, besides a good fit and fabric, most of what makes a shirt special is the collar shape, where they’ve got most bases covered. So, I say if you’re worried about missing out on some secret knowledge, don’t. Just design a shirt with the tools available and you’ll be able to make something special. (I’ve listed exactly what I requested below if you’re interested).

Fast turn-around

The high water mark for quick custom shirt turnaround is Proper Cloth, who has shaved it down to 2-3 weeks. However, I was glad to find out that Spier’s turnaround was only about 4 weeks from the time of my order to delivery.

Some negatives

Not that it’s all roses with the Spier & Mackay online custom shirt program. My biggest gripe is that the fabric selection and descriptions are pretty lame. Their images can sometimes make it hard to know exactly what you’re getting. Maybe I’m just spoiled by Proper Cloth—which has gratuitous fabric images, a full paragraph of copy written about each one, and consistent information like opacity, weave, origin and more—but it feels to me like somewhat of a leap of faith to select a fabric. On top of this, they do not offer the ability to order a swatch (which again, Proper Cloth does). Rick says that’s something they might do in the future, but since their fabrics are all stored overseas in their factory, it is not currently feasible.

I asked Rick what their remake policy is if the shirt fits incorrectly, or you end up hating the fabric. In the event of an issue like that, they will remake the shirt for 50% off, which he feels is fair given the already low prices they’re offering. Compared with Proper Cloth or Ratio, which do free remakes, this makes for a higher barrier to entry for those hesitant to try it out.

As for my shirt in particular, one detail came out wrong: it came to me with the collar cut with curved collar leafs, instead of straight-cut. Some of Spier’s off the rack shirts come cut this way, and other companies do them as well, but I’ve never liked it. I assumed that’s how it was designed, and told Rick I wish I had thought to request it with straight leafs. He told me actually the collar is supposed to have straight leafs, and this was a mistake by the factory. To rectify that, I sent the shirt back, he had a new collar made at their factory in the same fabric, and their in-house tailor attached the new collar to the body of the shirt. It was back to me within two weeks. So, my advice is: if you get a shirt and you don’t like something, definitely ask about it, in case it was an error on their part.

Shop the Outfit: Brown tweed Eidos jacket (similar); Spier & Mackay custom shirt (see details below for fabric and design); Spier & Mackay charcoal flannel trousers (other options from Berg & Berg; SuitSupply; Brooks Brothers; Drake’s).

A couple of things I’d change about the design of my shirt: 1) I’d make it with a one-piece yoke (I didn’t think to ask, and their design tool didn’t offer either. Can someone tell me why the split yoke even exists?). 2) A wider forearm/more pleats at the cuff. They have you measure the bicep and arm hole size, and then you specify the cuff. I copied my favorite shirt for all three measurements, but there are only two darts in the sleeve at the cuff, which means the pattern of the sleeve decreases in width more dramatically than the shirt I measured. It’s a bit tight in the elbow (I’ve never had a shirt blow out the elbow, but this could easily be the first one that will). I’d probably just request they make my shirt with four pleats at the cuff to rectify this.

Overall, however. I’m very pleased with the shirt. I give Spier & Mackay high praise for their superior pattern making, great selection of collar shapes and extreme flexibility in customization. They need a major facelift on their website, and need to make options like collar linings, cuff linings and forearm fit more accessible in the typical step-by-step design process (instead of being special requests in the comments box). But, all in all, I highly recommend giving Spier & Mackay’s custom shirts a try.

My custom shirt specs

Fabric: “BLUE PENCIL STRIPE – TESSITURA MONTI – 2 PLY 160’S”

Collar: C21 “Large Italian Full Spread Collar”, with the following special instructions specified in the comments box:

Specified with front collar band height increased to 1-7/16”

Specified with unfused lining at the 2nd level of stiffness (unfused lining bonded to a fused lining, sewn in)

Cuffs: Round, conical cuff, which tapers toward the end (a custom option requested in the comments box)

No placket

No back pleats

No front pocket

Mother of pearl buttons with crow’s foot stitching

(Help support this site by buying stuff through my links; your clicks and purchases earn me a commission from many of the retailers I feature, and it helps me sustain this site—as well as my menswear habit! Thanks!)

Giveaway

I’m pleased to announce a partnership with Spier & Mackay to give away a FREE custom shirt, plus two other bonus prizes. To enter the giveaway, see the instructions below.

To Enter:

1- Make sure you’re following @SpierMackay, and @MenswearMusings on Instagram

2- Like this post on Instagram

3- Tag at least 3 friends in separate comments on the Instagram post; more tags = more entries

4- For an extra 5 entries, share the Instagram post to your stories with tags of both @menswearmusings and @spiermackay

Here are the prizes:

GRAND PRIZE: a FREE Spier & Mackay custom shirt

SECOND PRIZE: $50USD off a custom shirt

THIRD PRIZE: $25USD off a custom shirt

The entry period for the giveaway ends Sept. 2 at 11:59 p.m. Central Daylight Time. We will announce winners, who will be chosen at random out of all the entries, within one week after the end of the entry period.

Rules and regulations

Per Instagram rules, we must mention this is in no way sponsored, administered, or associated with Instagram, Inc. By entering, entrants confirm they are 13+ years of age, release Instagram of responsibility, and agree to Instagram’s term of use.

The give-away is open to people from anywhere that DHL or FedEx will ship.

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