#i dont need a website that appeals to boring people i need a website that tells people exactly what im about

[sibyl-of-space]

about me: this afternoon, i bragged on my private twitter about how i am “immune to peer pressure” because despite going to a school that is trying to make me a Professional Composer TM who is Businesslike and Polished i still have a website that is very clearly and shittily coded by hand in HTML and full of anime fanart and shit.

however, upon posting this, i realized it wasn’t true. i have been in the process of creating a new landing page, and the purpose of that landing page is to hide the current clusterfuck of an index page behind a link so it’s not the first thing people see. sure the new landing page was still tacky, I made it of course it was tacky, but it was SOULLESS. it didn’t have my mikleo zestiria fanart background and it had a link to a youtube video of my stuff instead of interactive cheesy sound effects. it SUCKED!!!!!!

anyway, so i was overcome by outrage at myself for letting myself in fact be convinced to compromise on my tackiness [the entire point of that website was to host MY ART on MY TERMS!!!!] that i went home and spent like 3 hours updating the main index page again so that it *by the loosest definition* includes the new things that i am supposed to include [links to an “about” page, a demo reel, a portfolio page... that are all WIPs at the moment] but still is a tacky mess and maintains MY MULTIMEDIA ART GALLERY as the #1 most important centerpiece.

basically i have just spent a really long time updating my website so it looks like this, which is only slightly different from how it looked before, and every bit as tacky:

I realized that the problem is I respect my lesson teacher too much so I actually listened to her when she told me to make a clear, concise landing page. If anyone else had told me that I would have ignored them [and I have, multiple times]. But I listened because I respect my teacher.

Unfortunately I care more about being insane and TRUE TO MY #VISION than listening to my teacher, even though I respect her. So. Back to tackiness... with a renewed vigor

[zucchichat]

My opinion to "desperate" artists and TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR ART

This is my art journey

6 years later...

If artists want support and followers, they should earn them by their own accomplishments and hard-work.

I hate it when they earn it from guilt-tripping others, being desperate and earn followers out of pity

You can never have a stable and healthy relationship with your followers that way, and you may get worse when you dont gain any interactions with them

Please stop doing this, and start growing your acc on your own. If you feel like your art doesnt appeal to others, start taking advice and study from other artists around you that you like. There are thousands of FREE resources on all platforms: Instagram, Youtube (recommended) , Pinterest (for reference) ,... And alot of separate websites you can find!

Trust me, hard work pays off

Its okay to feel like you dont improve at all, but thats not true, if you study and practice often (no need to do it everyday, it can be 2-4 days a week) you're already better than yourself yesterday

Compare your art to other artists has alot of benefits since you can see what to improve and see the progress. But dont do that too often, it'll turn to be an unhealthy obsession and in this world where there're always people better than you, you'll suffocate yourself forever. Thats a hard hit to reality but it's the truth. In this i recommend:

Find artists that you like and set them as your art goals, they can be artists with totally different artstyles, art is never something stable and its always good to try new things

From your art goals, start "taking" some of your favourite things about the artists and "artistically" add them to your own.

Tracing is another way to study privately for beginners, but i dont recommend doing this for long, it can stagnant your progress if you rely on it too much.

Unless its your style of choice, practice confidence in your streaks and lines, use your whole arm to draw (i know it can be boring at first, but everything you do now will have a rewarding result)

Stepping out of your comfort zone sometimes. You dont have to do this if you consider art as a hobby, but if youre serious or wanting your art to take a new step, i recommend expanding your art to many categories, like drawing backgrounds, hands, poses, anatomy, ect.

Study color theory, this is optional but i heavily recommend, this makes your art UPGRADE NO EXCEPTIONS

Here are some of my very basic tips, you've probably seen them everywhere and hear these thousands of times already, but if you're reading this and feel motivated, consider this the start of your journey! This is gonna be an exciting, might be tiring and frustrating, but memorable

Goodluck! The future awaits new extremely talented artists to bloom💖

[fawnfulart]

I'm taking my work to an art show in a few months to try and make some extra money and I cannot find the strength in me to actually do the things I need to do to prepare for that.

It has kind of been eating me alive because it feels like so much but I know if I just put in the time it wont be that much and I'll be fine. Like I need to at minimum resize a few things and contact my manufacturers, who I already have a relationship with and should have no problem contacting. At maximum I want to make changes on my website, draw a few more things, and test out a few new manufacturing materials before the show. I'm running out of time for some of that stuff, though.

I've been telling myself this story about how I want to be a full time artist for a while but sometimes I'm not actually sure if that's true. I think it's more like I want to do SOMETHING that makes it feel like I'm not under the capitalist boot 24/7. I also want something that isn't location bound, something I can take with me when I inevitably try to leave the country.

It's hard to know for sure what I want though because I've realized I might be an entirely different person if I were in different circumstances. I have been slowly trying to untangle from my family and step one was moving out of the house in January so I could have slightly more control over my life. Circumstances still aren't ideal for me yet but the act of moving out of that house has entirely changed me and what I'm capable of. In doing that I've realized the potential for improvement and for a happier life is....vast. So what I find myself asking pretty often is "am I having a hard time with this because it isn't right for me or am I having a hard time because it's hard to fit it into the way my life is right now?" Like would I have these kinds of hangups about art obligations if I wasn't always tired and had time to devote to drawing? Would it be easier if I didnt have to go to work and wasn't constantly running around over family obligations? Would I enjoy being a "full time artist" more if I had a fuller amount of time to devote to it as opposed to other more draining things?

Unclear.

Piling a lot of obligation onto my drawing has made me do it a lot less though, and I dont like that. I have always loved writing but I know the only reason Ive leaned into it so hard over the last few months is because unlike the drawing it's entirely unmonetized and free of pressure--easier to start, costs me less brain cells to do, just a fun thing I can make for me that as far as I know, will not impact my future or survival. It doesnt have to be good, it doesn't have to appeal to other people, it just has to exist because I want it to.

So anyway I'm gonna try to do some of the stuff I've been stuck on today. It wouldn't be my first attempt, but maybe today is the day I can finally get un-stuck. Inb4 my mom eats up the entire day again and makes that impossible. Maybe if I force myself to put in a manu order and do the boring stuff and the hard stuff I can go back to drawing deer unencumbered.

[consumeconstantly]

Small Buff Girl Sightings Ch. 5

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3:00AM | CoffeeVamp: bb bat update us TheOG: ^^ more info on the situation in paris

3:28AM | Demonspawn: It is difficult to obtain information on Hawkmoth. The butterflies disperse after they are cleansed, and before they land their target, they don’t show up electronically.  Coffee Vamp: o how the mighty have fallen i thought u said u could best me bb boi

3:42AM | Demonspawn: I’d like to see you do better. Coffee Vamp: IS THAT A CHALLENGE Coffee Vamp: ill take u up on that gimme 24 hours and ur going down TheOG: he has had a whole month so dont be too sure of that LadyLady: would you guys SHUT UP its two and some of us have jobs to do Coffee Vamp: cmon babs u luv us dont deny it LadyLady: Don’t make me hunt you down, Tim. Coffee Vamp: oOooO proper punctuation im shaking TheOG: just shut off notifications Babs TheOG: Bruce does Jesus: i don’t think the man has checked this chat in years Coffee Vamp: wdym brucie checks the chat all the time hes just a silent lurker Coffee Vamp: he doesnt even set himself to invisible

3:57AM | Daddy is away. Coffee Vamp: im so glad i have admin privileges imagine if i didnt bruce would have a boring normal nickname like his actual name LadyLady: good lord, why am I even in this chat?? Daddy: You’re supposed to keep them under control. Coffee Vamp: SEE I TOLD U BRUCE IS A SILENT LURKER> THIS. IS. SOLID. PROOF. IN YOUR FACE TheOG: nobody said otherwise Coffee Vamp: also how are the people have you made friends Jesus: Demon spawn? Making friends? Id be less surprised if he told us he has a new fling Coffee Vamp: is j right? Got a winter fling? 

4:12AM | Coffee Vamp: ur lack of a response tells us nothing  TheOG: im sure he’s just adopted his usual icy persona Coffee Vamp: haha hes the bb of so many things Coffee Vamp: bb vamp bb demon spawn ice ice bb Coffee Vamp: getitt im so funny

4:36AM | Coffee Vamp: guys?

“I told you I could get her to write her number on your cup,” Marinette grins with pride.

“And I told you I didn’t want her to.” Damian scowls and kicks a pebble in his path.

“You’re still wearing the clothes I picked out for you,” she points out.

“You told me to wear it. I wore it. I’m not interested in her.” 

Marinette squints at Damian, evaluates whether he’s telling the truth or not. “Huh, you really aren’t interested. I guess it’s a good thing you didn’t wear the other outfit I picked out for you-- that one would have gotten her to ask you out on the spot.”

Damian groans. “We’re going to have to find a new coffee place.”

“Or we could just come when she’s not on shift and run away like mice when we do see her?”

Damian gives her The Look.

“But they have good coffee here,” Marinette whines.

“Maybe you should have thought about that before dressing me up and sending me to my death.”

“It’s not my fault! You only have your parents to blame for your looks.”

It’s true; both of Damian’s parents are good-looking. His whole family is, actually, adopted or not. All of the good looking people he meets are talented and have a tragic life story. Which is the cause and which is the effect, Damian isn’t sure. But it holds true even in Paris. All he has to do is look at Marinette or Adrien, though he’s not a hundred percent sure where the tragedy kicks in for Marinette. Probably the time when she was at odds with Lila, but he hasn’t looked much into the situation. He can even use Lila Rossi as an example. She has even worse color coordination than Damian is, but her features are model worthy. Lila Rossi is also definitely fucked up in ways that Damian doesn’t care to explore.

The effects of Marinette’s well-placed compliments has Damian thinking about himself in a positive manner that he never has before. Bruce is always stingy with praise, and the other senior members of the Justice League of America see him as another Robin that doesn’t need praise because competency comes with the mantle. Dick and Barbara compliment him occasionally, but that’s rarer now that his place is more firmly cemented in the family. Damian doesn’t think he’s ever had someone so willing to genuinely compliment him. Marinette’s compliments extend to more than just his looks, as well. She praises his technological skills as he sets up her website and has complimented him as he helps her out with whatever altercations she inevitably comes across on the streets. If he reveals his skills as Robin, reveals himself as Damian Wayne, will he receive even more praise?

“But since we did buy you that absolute knockout of an outfit, you’re going to have to wear it eventually. So whose heart do you want to steal?”

“I don’t want a relationship,” Damian repeats. They seem like more effort than they’re worth, and he always sees couples fighting and complaining about each other. Plus, they have to make time for each other and his alter ego doesn’t allow for that, though he supposes that he isn't Robin. At least, not right now.

“You don’t need to want a relationship just to flirt with somebody. Who’s it going to be? The intern at the Louvre? My parent’s newest hire? Oooh, how about Nicolette?” Marinette’s voice takes on a more mischievous tone. 

Damian will give Marinette this much: her taste in the aesthetics of people is far from bad. The intern from the Louvre is two hundred pounds of lean muscle with a devil-may-care smile and a deep, belly laugh that makes people laugh with him, but Damian and he don’t have anything in common. Her parent’s new hire is knockout gorgeous, with warm brown eyes, and definitely the kind of girl Damian would have gone for as a one night stand back in Gotham. However, he’s also 98% sure that she has a very possessive boyfriend who stops by the bakery every time she has a shift. Nicolette is considered her college’s belle, and her intense gaze paired with her surprisingly friendly demeanor might have been appealing to Damian if she weren’t ten years older than him. 

“I’m not into any of them,” he says, simply.

“Then who are you into? Surely someone has caught your eye in the past month?” Marinette looks genuinely curious, but her expression shifts into horror. “Oh my god. I’m so sorry. I never asked your preferences, if I was being insensitive, I’m sorry, I mean I’m pan, but you absolutely don’t have to tell me, it’s your right if you’re not comfortable.”

Damian does look slightly uncomfortable now that she’s looking at him more closely. His arms are crossed over each other, across his chest, and his hair is tousled. Then, he lets out a small laugh, and Marinette melts. “It’s fine, Pigtails. All of the people you listed are attractive, but I’m not attracted to them. I’m more of a personality guy, though I can’t say that personality has stopped me from things more than dates before.”

He’s had his fair share of hook-ups and makeout sessions in the past when feeling particularly frustrated with something that wasn’t going his way, though his primary method of relief is through sparring. Short missions and one night stands go fairly well together; he doesn’t ever have to deal with people wanting long term relationships, and even if they do, he’s gone before they know it. So far, he hasn’t hooked up with anyone in Paris, but then again, he’s only been here for a month and this is a long term mission. Whatever time he’s not with Marinette or at school is dedicated to piecing together the mystery that is the Miraculous and trying to figure out Hawkmoth’s identity. 

“Oh,” Marinette continues to blush.

She’s clearly too embarrassed to bring up any other topic, so Damian decides that he’ll shoot the same conversation topic back at her. Marinette is attractive, and people she meets ask for her numbers and dates often enough. She’ll accept the former if they aren’t a total creep, but she always turns down requests for dates.

“And you? Why aren’t you out there questing for love? No crushes or significant others that I need to beat off with a stick?”

This does manage to lessen her flush. She frowns, turns something over in her mind. 

“No crushes right now, no. I used to have a huge crush on Adrien just a year ago. He’s such a sweet person, but we don’t see eye to eye on important matters.” And also not into sex, either. Even physical affection hits him the wrong way sometimes, which makes Marinette worry even further for his well being with Lila’s constant touches. Still, he hasn’t said anything, and Lila hasn’t done anything more than grasp his arm or shoulders every now and then, to reassure the class that yes, they are the golden couple. Marinette also suspects that he is very unwilling to talk about the whole situation in general, and it’s not as though they’re super close.

Of course she had a crush on Adrien. Damian can see it now, Marinette looking at Adrien with her big blue eyes, her lashes fluttering when she gets close to him. Stuttering when she gets embarrassed or when she gets close to him. It makes his lungs constrict, but he’s not sure why.

“As for past relationships, there’s only really Luka. We had a pretty good run, but he’s out of the country, touring. He wanted to try long distance, but I didn’t really want that. But he’s respectful-- there’s no need to beat him off with a stick or anything.”

“I’m surprised a pretty girl like you doesn’t have more suitors,” Damian says, stepping over a crack in the sidewalk as they walk towards the park.

Marinette gags. “There are some other people who have been interested, but I wouldn’t exactly consider them relationship material. If you’re going after a girl just because she looks exotic, that’s sort of nasty. I guess I’m just unlucky in love.”

“At least you’re not as bad off as Ladybug is,” Damian jokes.

She looks at him strangely. “What makes you say that?”

“Well, first there was that creepy sculptor who must have been twice her age, then there’s Chat Noir who keeps flirting with her despite her requests not to, plus all of the random love akumas. I’m not even going to talk about the hordes of guys who chase after her, trying to get a date just because she’s a superhero. It’s not even like she can kick them between the legs because she has an image to uphold and all that.” He smirks, nudges her with his arm. “I’m surprised you haven’t done that with some of your stalkers.”

“Oh. You’re right, huh. Though, I don’t think Chat Noir has actually flirted for a while now.”  Chat Noir has been very subdued as of late, and it makes Ladybug worry.

Marinette feels uncomfortable with the way the conversation has shifted. How does Damian know about all of these past akuma attacks? As far as Marinette is aware, most information about anything Miraculous related is difficult to get a hold of abroad, largely because the Miraculous try to hide their existence as best they can, and partially because Mayor Bourgeois doesn’t want word to get out that he hasn’t flushed a supervillain terrorist out even though he’s had three years to do it.

“Copycat happened three years ago.” It’s a question, almost.

“I figure I might as well keep up with the heroes of Paris. I’m here and they’re interesting.” Damian figures this is as good a time as any to bring up his interest in Hawkmoth. Marinette has been nothing but helpful and she’s definitely the kind of person whose heart is in the right place. Not to mention that she’s definitely smart and seems impartial; the one time he asked her about her thoughts on the heroes, he found out that she didn’t see them as perfect. She was able to critique Ladybug in full, which seemed pretty odd considering the rest of Paris seemed to have nothing but glowing praise for the heroine. “You’ve had some awful luck with akumas yourself. Weird how Ladybug didn’t show up when you got kidnapped by Evillustrator. One of the only times she didn’t show up for an akuma.”

“And what happened to the other heroes? It’s mostly Ladybug now. She must be in an awful state with her civilian life.” He looks off to the park, occasionally flicking his attention back Marinette’s face, evaluating her expression.

She catches his eyes and he swiftly looks away, looking almost nervous. Marinette stiffens. He knows, he knows, he knows, he can’t know. But how? How does he know that she’s Ladybug? She hasn’t let anything slip around him. She's been careful not to. Everything she’s ever said about Ladybug has been brief and curt, taking on an almost angry tone.

“If you’re so interested in Parisian heroes, I’m sure you saw the press conference Ladybug and Chat Noir gave last year about why the other heroes would be showing up less often.” Marinette keeps her voice carefully neutral. She needs to play this safe. She’s probably over reacting-- she’s been on edge with Hawkmoth sending out an akuma attack nearly every single day for the past few months.

Damian shakes his head. “It didn’t seem like good reasoning. Ladybug and Chat Noir are too untrained. They haven’t beat two villains in three years. They should let someone else take over.” 

Marinette has come across a good number of Ladybug and Chat Noir haters throughout her time. Those who dislike the Parisian heroes often make the exact same arguments Damian is now. That they’re not fast enough. That they should have taken down Hawkmoth and Mayura already. This is nothing new to her, though it does hurt hearing it from Damian, for some reason. She can’t even argue with most of the points he’s brought up. Going mostly solo was because of her own, selfish reasons. She really should have beaten Hawkmoth and Mayura by now. 

“The only thing they have going for them right now is that they’re keeping their Miraculous out of Hawkmoth’s hands.” She pretends that the reason why Chat Noir doesn’t show up to battle is to ensure that Hawkmoth can’t get both of the Miraculous in one fell swoop. It feels hopeless to fight villain after villain without any movement forwards. Her mind wanders to the increasing frequency of akumas and smiles, sardonically. “Some people think it’s only a matter of time until Ladybug and Chat Noir lose.”

“Hawkmoth almost seems to be the better strategist.” The two of them pass store front after store front. “Do you ever wonder what they look like, under the mask? Who they are?”

Marinette stares at the concrete underneath her feet. Hawkmoth, the better strategist? Laughable, and entirely incorrect. Even the people who hate Ladybug admit that her plans almost always work out, and that her plans are second to none. Really the only person who can possibly think that Hawkmoth is a better strategist is--

She can’t think like that. Damian is her friend. He’s just curious about Paris. Her lack of sleep and increase in paranoia re making her imagine things that are impossible. Besides, Damian isn’t on her list of suspects-- he told her he’s only been here for a short time, and Hawkmoth’s Miraculous definitely has a limited range. It’s a real pity that the world of Miraculous makes concrete evidence hard to come by, otherwise, Marinette likes to think Hawkmoth would have been behind bars already. 

“No,” she lies. Hawkmoth haunts her dreams and every waking hour. She spends hours and hours on theories and scouring out information and people who fit the clues she’s painstakingly pieced together. “Not really.”

Damian’s eyes are a piercing green, and for a moment, Marinette thinks she stops breathing. “Is that so? I’m really interested in who Ladybug is under the mask. I’d love the opportunity to talk to her in person, especially about her Miraculous. The powers she has are… very interesting.”

No. There’s no way that Damian can be Hawkmoth, right? This is all just her paranoia speaking. Damian is just a foreigner who is interested in super heroes. It’s no biggie. Still, she can’t shake off the idea that there’s more to Damian than meets the eye. The way he walks-- no, prowls-- commands respect. Marinette can tell that he knows how to fight, and knows how to fight well. He’s very good at finding information on people-- she sent a whole case file to her on Renee and his situation with his mother within twenty four hours of going into the precinct, complete with video evidence Marinette knows should have been impossible to procure without hacking-- and keeps up with her critiques on Ladybug and Chat Noir’s techniques like he’s watched their battles over and over again. He remembers akuma battles Marinette has half forgotten, because they happened so long ago.

She stares up at him, hands shoved in the pockets of the jacket she chose for him when they went on their wardrobe makeover. Damian is surprisingly wealthy; he purchased anything she even glanced at with passing approval. He looks straight forward, apparently waiting for some response from her. Just because Damian is her friend, doesn’t mean she can immediately expunge him from her list of suspects. So far, she has taken all of Damian’s words at face value. It didn’t matter to her that he rarely talks about his family or his life before Paris. It didn’t matter that he hadn’t brought her to his home during all of the weeks that they’ve been hanging out together. Really, Marinette just figured that he had a rocky relationship with his family, and that he may have been on the poorer side and was embarrassed to show her where he lived. But clearly. Damian is well off enough to afford brand name clothes without batting an eye. Things aren’t adding up. All of the red flags that she’s blatantly ignored start to crop up in her head.

The book on the species of butterflies that akumas are made of, tucked under his arm. The way he showed up after every single akuma attack when she rarely saw him in the area before or during it. His knowledge of the three languages that form the basis of the Miraculous Tome-- Mandarin, Arabic, and English.

If he is Hawkmoth, what sort of emotions would he be feeling right now? Some sort of euphoria, maybe, realizing that he could get infinitely closer to Ladybug when she is Marinette. Anticipation, too. Has Marinette been hanging out with a super villain for the past month? Has she really come to the point where she can call a supervillain her best friend?

Marinette takes another look at Damian’s outfit. Master Fu said that the Miraculous Hawkmoth owns is in the shape of a brooch. Marinette sees no such object on Damian, which could either mean that he’s not Hawkmoth or that he’s just been taking it off whenever he’s with her. She’s really hoping it’s not the second option.

She needs to gather her thoughts, make a plan on how to proceed. When she’s sure that Damian isn’t looking, Marinette sets off the ringtone that is saved for her Maman’s texts and calls. This catches Damian’s attention, and she waves looks up from her phone as though she’s responding. 

“Maman wants me to do a delivery. If you’re looking for more information on the whole superhero situation in Paris, I can get you Alya’s number. She runs the Ladyblog-- I’m sure she’d be glad to talk with you.” Alya also has some of the worst conspiracy theories that Marinette has ever seen. She doesn’t often keep abreast of what the Ladyblog’s portrayal of Ladybug is, but back when Marinette and Alya were friends, she was subjected to wild theories that made her stomach nauseous with how little logic there was. Which means that if-- if-- Damian is actually Hawkmoth, he might be thrown off by what she says.

“I’ll see you on Monday? Jagged texted me last night and wants me to change the embroidery on his commission.” This isn’t exactly a lie; Jagged wants one of the smaller details to be changed, but it certainly won’t take as long as she’s suggesting. Marinette hopes that it’s enough of an excuse to get Damian off her back for the rest of today and tomorrow while she reevaluates her game plans and life choices. 

Damian waves her off. “I don’t think that Ladyblogger girl knows anymore than I do. She’s of no help to me. I’ll see you on Monday.”

#

Marinette’s reaction to Damian’s questions are weird. There’s an underlying tension that she exuded before they parted ways, and he’s still thinking about it a day later.

Marinette, who he always finds near an akuma attack right after it occurs. Marinette, who is emotionally and physically superior to most other Parisians. Marinette, who hasn’t been akumatized in a class full of idiots and other victims. Marinette, who doesn’t like Ladybug even though she seems like a fairly competent and kind hero, despite the fact that she hasn’t caught Hawkmoth yet. Marinette, who rarely talks about akumas despite all of the time he spends with her, which is highly unusual because even people he only briefly meets manage to slip in something about akumas into the conversation. Damian feels like there must be some sort of connection between Marintte and the akuma situation that he’s not getting, but it’s eluding him.

He sits down with his laptop in his apartment and looks up information about Marinette Dupain-Cheng. She’s definitely just as talented as he suspected; in her ninth year of schooling, she won a Gabriel competition, participated in a music video of Clara Nightingale’s, and collaborated with Jagged Stone on an album cover. So that was how she met him-- he wondered, but never asked. There are also a few instagram posts that have tagged her as a good samaritan and a few articles that detail a small, asian girl who’s going around Paris helping random people that are in need.

The weird things that Damian finds are contained in her school records. She’s apparently in very good company with her IQ, but what’s more interesting is all the dates that she is tardy or absent from school. They line up perfectly with all of the dates that akumas appear. He feels dread gather in his stomach. 

A few more searches seem to cement his growing suspicions. Around the same time that Marinette obtained a truce with Lila matched up with when theorists believed that the Italian girl started working with Hawkmoth. He reads the instagrams and tweets of her classmates from the first year that Hawkmoth arrived, which talk about how excellent Marinette is at calming them down and guiding them to a better place. He also reads the posts of Chloe Bourgeois and Alya Cesaire and the articles about Marinette and Evillustrator that tell a slightly different story-- that Marinette is capable of manipulating others into more unpleasant situations.

Damian jolts. There is an incoming call from his father. 

“Are updates on Paris, Damian?” 

Should he give them a clue to his growing suspicions that Marinette is Hawkmoth? No, he can’t tell them until he gathers more information. 

“No,” he says. “Information about Hawkmoth and the Miraculous are hard to come by.”

There’s a sigh and what sounds like the rustling of papers from the other side. “I figured. Tim and Barbara can’t find anything over here, either, but the Justice League is worried. They want results.”

“The Justice League and I agreed that having Robin make an appearance would be beneficial. Gain Ladybug and Chat Noir’s trust, or find Hawkmoth. Information might come easier with your alter ego.”

“All right.” 

Another pause. He and his father have always had an awkward relationship. Bruce didn’t know of his existence until he was ten, and by that time, the most formative years of Damian’s life had already passed. Bruce Wayne may be many things, but good at dealing with children, he is not. Even after adopting so many children, he doesn’t know how to raise a child. Damian and his brothers have all raised themselves, with Bruce only stepping in when one of them is really going off the rails.

“Is everything else going well in Paris? School is good?”

“School is fine.” Damian wonders whether he should tell his father about Marinette. About the girl who is kind and capable and scarily efficient at dispatching criminals for a citizen and-- he can’t think about her like that. He decides against telling his father about her. She might be Hawkmoth, after all, and confirming her existence to his father means that he’s denying that possibility. “Gotham?”

“Nothing out of the usual. A few run-ins with the Joker.”

Another silence. The lapses in conversation aren’t awkward, but Damian thinks of the playful banter Marinette has with her parents and frowns. 

“Goodbye, Father.”

“Goodnight, Damian.”

Damian looks around at his empty apartment. There is nothing in it, except for his suitcase and a few pieces of furniture. It’s nothing like the manor, where he knows that Tim is up at all hours slaving away on another project that Damian rarely gets to see, or that Jason is in the training room with Dick joining him occasionally. He can’t pick a fight with Tim or have Dick try to mediate the conflicts between himself and Jason. No nightly patrols with three or four people talking over the comms, or near instantaneous backup when he gets into a tight spot. There is no Alfred or Barbara or Cassandra or Bruce here. Only Damian. 

He looks down at his laptop, at the various information and images of Marinette that he has up on his screen. In good conscience, he can’t continue being friends with her. Not with the possibility that she is the person he’s trying to hunt down. 

He remembers her saying that being lonely is different than being alone. 

Damian is lonely.

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Patrol is a necessary evil. 

Ladybug doesn’t hate patrol. She’s not very fond of it, though. It cuts into time that she could be spending sleeping or designing or anything else, really. In the beginning, it started as a way to figure out how everything worked under the guise of the dark and without the constant threat of an akuma hanging over head. Then, it progressed into disproving the theory about Ladybug’s age, because civilians aren’t inclined to believe that a teenage girl who has school the next day would patrol every day in the early morning. Now, it shows the Parisians how devoted Ladybug is-- that’s something that she’s struggled with ever since withdrawing the Miraculous from all of the part time heroes-- and lets Marinette blow off any steam that she has. 

Right now, Marinette needs to blow off a lot of steam. Still, even as Ladybug, as much as Marinette wants to scream to high hell and back about how she’s been friends-- very close friends, she’d dare to say-- with the same person who has been terrorizing Paris for years, she can’t. If she screams, there will be media coverage on it, and she doesn’t want to deal with what the press would write up some article about how Ladybug was overworked and needed to bring back the other heroes, or that Ladybug wasn’t mentally sound enough to take care of Paris, she should just give up the Miraculous, or that Ladybug’s scream was [insert some poetic nonsense that English teachers wax about for hours even though the author never intended the audience to read that deeply into it].

Marinette doesn’t want to admit it, but she’s gotten close to Damian. She’s as close to him as she is with Kagami, Luka, Jagged and Penny. Damian knows that she’s MDC. He knows her hopes and aspirations. He knows her family, knows the majority of her friends, and knows what’s important to her. It will be so easy for him to tear her apart now. Marinette isn’t sure what Hawkmoth is waiting for, but she almost hopes that he’ll get it over with sooner rather than later.

What will Hawkmoth do first? Go after the website that he helped her make, probably. Cut off the financial support that she could use to run away and create another identity. Then, he’ll go after her friends, few and far as they may be. Renee next. Her family, last. She wonders who Mayura is, if he is Hawkmoth. She hasn’t seen anyone that’s close to him. Then again, Damian reveals next to nothing about himself. She’s never even seen where he lives.

There’s a shadow on the rooftops. 

God, of course Hawkmoth would send out an akuma today. He knows how horrible her mental state must be. There’s no way he wouldn’t take advantage of that.

She yoyos over to the shadow, not close enough to strike or apprehend, but close enough to easily give chase without the akuma being able to give her the slip.

“Ladybug,” the akuma says.

“Cut the crap. We all know you want the Miraculous, Hawkmoth. Let’s get to it.” The shadow steps forward where a street lamp illuminates its costume, and once again, she is assaulted by the barrage of colors on her eyes. After seeing how awful Damian’s color coordination was, it’s easy to come to terms with the awful designs of all of his costumes. Still, she’s surprised that the boy who dresses in the same outfit every day creates such outlandish costumes for all of his minions. 

The akuma frowns, tenses. 

“I’m not Hawkmoth,” it insists. “I’m Robin, a vigilante from Gotham. I’ve come to learn more about the current situation and aid you in taking Hawkmoth down.”

 Ladybug scoffs. She’s not sure what this akuma’s tactic is, but none of the others have tried to lie to her so blatantly about their identity. And ripping off an identity? That is a new low, even for Hawkmoth. She’s sure that the real Robin didn’t agree to this, and if she were close with the vigilante, maybe she could get him to throw a lawsuit or two at Hawkmoth once he was in custody, just for kicks.

Robin the akuma scrambles, apparently looking for something that can verify his identity. 

Ladybug strikes. There’s no pride in striking an opponent when they are distracted, but it’s a means to an end. If Damian is dumb enough to send out an akuma confused about its identity tonight of all nights-- a night where Ladybug is distressed and it would be all too easy to take advantage of her-- then she’s going to take advantage of it.

It’s easy to bind the akuma. Startlingly easy. The akuma is different tonight, then. His powers have something to do with close contact, maybe? Ladybug looks on his person for things that could be the point of akumatization, eyes flitting from Robin’s waistband to his mask.

She comes to an unpleasant conclusion. The measurements and the coloring are a perfect match. Hawkmoth has come to meet her in person.

“Damian,” Ladybug hisses. 

Damian’s eyes widen, like he doesn’t know how she’s pieced together his identity. How stupid does he think she is? He’s been dropping hints constantly. Information a transfer to Paris shouldn’t know. Never telling Marinette anything personal. Always being near an akuma attack when it happens. It’s almost like he wanted her to figure out his identity.

“How did you know?” 

“Please, Hawkmoth, did you really think that Marinette couldn’t connect the dots? You must have thought awfully little of her if you thought that your constant appearances near all of the akuma and questions about the Miraculous didn’t lead me to your identity.”

“Hawkmoth? Ladybug, I’m not Hawkmoth, I’m Robin.”

“And I’m the queen of England. Renounce your Miraculous now, Hawkmoth. Or I’ll beat you until you detransform and take it from you.” 

Damian looks confused before his face contorts to an expression of resignation. He recognizes a cold fury in her eyes that is distinct to people who won’t give up until they get their way, and there’s really no other way around this right now. He should have brought his comm with him, but he wasn’t expecting to meet Ladybug tonight; he just wanted to assess the situation as Robin, to get out from his apartment for a second. Rookie mistake. 

True to her word, Ladybug beats Damian unconscious and also until he’s black and blue. She’ll be lying if she didn’t say she took out some of her fury from the past years on him.

But here’s the thing; Damian doesn’t detransform. He stays in his god-awful costume that has the same disgusting shade of mustard yellow as that one top Damian owns. That’s not what’s supposed to happen. When Miraculous users faint, they detransform because it takes a sort of mental awareness to handle the powers bestowed upon them. Is it different because Damian is an akuma? Is there some sort of Miraculous bylaw that if a Miraculous user gets akumatized, they get to stay in their alternate form? Oh wait, that’s right, he’s an akuma, not Hawkmoth right now.

Ladybug stumbles forward, breaking all of the weapons that are on his belt, taking off his mask and breaking that as well. No akuma comes out. She tries his gloves, then his boots. She pats him down, seeing if there’s anything she missed. She rips his suit, too. Nothing. There’s no brooch in his personal effects either.

What is she supposed to do now? 

Seeing no alternative, Ladybug picks Damian up and yoyos back to Tom and Sabine’s Boulangerie to safely detransform and figure out what the fuck is going on.

He’s not Hawkmoth, is the conclusion Marinette comes to after a side by side comparison of pictures of the vigilante and Damian. The horrifying conclusion: the person lying on the floor of her bedroom is actually Robin, the vigilante from Gotham. 

Marinette knows it’s better to err on the side of caution, but she still buries her head in her hands in embarrassment. How can she have gotten him so wrong? She really needs to get better at reading people, because deciding that random civilians are Hawkmoth clearly has not paid off. 

She also cannot believe that the Justice League has decided to step in now, and with a sidekick from America, of all things--Marinette is pretty sure that she sent the videos to the European branch. It must have been three years since her first notification to them. She contacted them immediately after Stoneheart, and again, after Syren when she was distraught at the death that surrounded her. With no response, there was nothing she could do. She has to start relying on herself and her own skills. 

Ladybug only contacted them once more, after Heroes’ Day. At that point, Ladybug had been thinking for a while that someone who was naturally superpowered or someone with a high grade of intelligence-- like the heroes affiliated with the Justice League-- would do more harm than good if they were allowed in the city. After the devastation of her teammates being akumatized, and the nearly week long battle that ensued, she was certain that she could barely fight her teammates, let alone trained professionals. So with shaky hands and red rimmed eyes, she said to please disregard her earlier messages; the situation in Paris wasn’t that bad, and Ladybug could handle it. 

Damian groans. Marinette jumps; he is waking up far earlier than she anticipated. She wants to transform back into Ladybug. Being in her spots gives her a pseudo sense of security. First, though, she has to restrain him. Even though he isn’t Hawkmoth, she’s not sure whether he’s a threat or not. She makes quick work of it, using the thickest zip ties that she has on hand and restraining his arms and legs.

She doesn’t get the chance to transform back into Ladybug, but that’s just as well, because at the end of the day, Marinette is the foundation of anything that makes Ladybug a hero to the public. Damian opens his eyes almost immediately after she has finished restraining him, taking in his surroundings and the person in front of him.

“Marinette? Where’s Ladybug?” No questions of how he got there; Ladybug can clearly carry her own weight and more. No questions as to why there are zip ties cutting into his wrists and ankles; he has seen too many of Marinette’s victims on the streets.

“What do you mean, where’s Ladybug?” Marinette is right in front of him. She might not have the suit on, but at the end of the day, she does have the Ladybug Miraculous, which means she’s Ladybug through and through, and Damian must know that. Otherwise, there’s no real reason for Robin to be spending so much time with Marinette. The fact that she feels more real and true to herself as Marinette than as Ladybug probably means nothing to him.

“She knocked me out on a rooftop. Didn’t know that you two knew each other personally. I’m not Hawkmoth, by the way.” He twitches, then realizes that he’s been tied up. “Why’d she leave me with you?”

So he doesn’t know that she’s also Ladybug? This whole thing keeps getting more confusing. Still, the less people that know about her alter ego, the better. Marinette will keep him in the dark. She attributes his blatant misunderstanding to the identity concealment magic of the Miraculous. It’s powerful stuff. If it didn’t exist, she’s sure she would have found concrete evidence as to who Hawkmoth is by now. 

“She asked me to assess whether you were a threat or not. Whether or not she casts the Miraculous Cure is contingent on my response.”

“Ladybug wants you to assess whether I’m a threat or not? Why’d she leave a possible super villain with a civilian?”

“I help Ladybug out with many things.” Her voice turns to clinical detachment. She uses this method to dissociate as Ladybug when things get overwhelming. Assess the situation. Get in, deakumatize, get out. Marinette needs to distance herself. It’s bad enough that the situation is this convoluted, but she doesn’t need Damian to doubt Ladybug’s capabilities as well. “Ladybug knows that you’re not Hawkmoth now, and she knows that I can handle myself with any run of the mill bad guy, even if they are a supposed vigilante.”

“Tell me, Robin,” Marinette spits the name like a curse, “Why should I tell Ladybug that you’re not a threat? That you are who you say you are?”

In all honesty, all Marinette wants to do is knock Damian out again so she can collect her thoughts. She’s not sure how she should address his presence as Robin in Paris and is still reeling from the whiplash of thinking he was Hawkmoth only for him to turn into a foreign vigilante. Next thing she knows, he’ll tell her that his name isn’t even Damian Grayson. Well, now that she thinks about it, he’s definitely not. After this encounter finishes, she’ll look up Damian and Gotham and see what she gets.

He looks flustered, like he never expected anybody to question his identity or presence. It’s laughable, really. Marinette doubts that the Justice League actually sent him; he’s probably here to explore on his own. That means he’ll only be a pain in the ass to deal with. Maybe she needs to get into contact with the Justice League again, if only just so she can deport Robin with more ease. 

“I can call Batman,” he says.

Marinette doesn’t think this is a very good solution. There’s no way for her to prove that the person on the other side actually is Batman and not some actor. But after racking her brain, she can’t come up with a much better solution. It’s not like Robin has any superpowers that she can request to see, and she doesn’t have a direct line to anybody from the Justice League.

“Fine. Call Batman.”

“It’s in the pocket near on my right side.” Marinette doesn’t bother going closer to him. She destroyed everything on him earlier, in case it was the akuma’s vessel. Ladybug thought she came across a phone, but now she’s glad she smashed it and left it on that random rooftop. He probably has some sort of tracker on his phone. In any case, Marinette thinks it’s weird for a vigilante to have a phone on them while on the rooftops. Shouldn’t he have an earpiece or something? 

“Your phone was destroyed by Ladybug. Tell me the number to call. I’ll put it on speaker.” Marinette isn’t sure if the number he’ll have her call will be some sort of secure connection or direct line that is only accessible through Damian’s phone, but she doesn’t particularly care because the Miraculous Communicators are exactly that. Miraculous. Master Fu assured her that all communications were private and impossible to crack unless they also had a Miraculous. Which is why she’s using the Miraculous Communicator to call Batman.

Damian winces, then speaks into the offered phone. 

“Batman, it’s Robin. I need to verify my identity in order to proceed.”

“Are you with Ladybug?”

So he is on a mission, then, and not just playing hooky. If Batman is involved, Marinette has no doubt the rest of the Justice League will follow soon. This will be a dreadfully unpleasant call.

“I’m making it a video call,” Marinette says. “And no, he’s not with Ladybug. I’m Ladybug’s point of contact, and she doesn’t take kindly to people encroaching on her territory without permission.”

“Robin, what happened?” Batman isn’t accepting her video request.

Marinette cuts off whatever Damian is about to say. “Damian was suspicious; I reported his activities to Ladybug and she believed that he could be Hawkmoth. Then, she caught him on the roofs and took him back to my place after verifying that he wasn’t Hawkmoth. Video call, Batman. I’d like to see that you are who you say you are, before I send Robin back to the states.”

“She knows your civilian identity? Two people know that you’re Robin?”

“Turn your video on. If you can’t prove that you are who Damian says you are, Ladybug and I will do everything in our powers to deport him and make sure that the Justice League is not allowed in Paris again. Ladybug said that she doesn’t need any unknowns in her city, and I’ve been hoping Robin came here of his own volition. It sounds like that isn’t the case.”

Marinette thinks that Batman curses in English, but she’s not sure. Fluent though Marinette may be, she is not well versed in curses, colloquialisms, or American memes. The camera turns on. It’s Batman, or at the very least, an actor wearing a very good knock off costume.

It’s annoying that Marinette can’t see his eyes. There’s some white film where his eyes should be, and the fact that his cowl covers more than half of his face isn’t doing her any favors in letting her read his facial expression. She moves herself so that Batman can see both her and Robin.

“Why is Robin restrained?”

“Like I said: he was suspicious. I’m not taking any chances.”

A moment of silence.

“How do you want me to prove my identity?” 

That’s good. He’s not asking who she is, though she’s sure that there are cameras pointing at the screen on Batman’s end, running facial analysis and background checks on her. The Miraculous magic will ensure that any connections between her and Ladybug will not come to light. Other than her identity as Ladybug, Marinette has nothing to hide.

“If you’re Batman, then you should have access to the League’s calls, European and otherwise. Play me the last video that Ladybug sent you. I know what she said.” She spares a glance at Damian. His jaw is tight, but when he looks at her, she finds what looks like regret. It’s not entirely Damian’s fault. A mission is a responsibility, and Marinette understands that in order to be a hero or vigilante, one must be willing to do anything to accomplish the mission. Really, she’s only Ladybug because she feels that heavy weight of the words duty and responsibility on her shoulders. Fu’s fault.

“Behave. If you try something, I’ll knock you out.” Marinette sets the communicator on her desk and eyes him. The zipties are so tight around his arms and legs that he is bleeding. Marinette feels a flash of sympathy, then pushes it away. It was his fault for-- why was he at fault, again? 

“I have the video.” Batman sounds even peakier than when they started the call. He plays the video.

“Justice League. This is Ladybug. I rescind my requests for help; I can take care of Paris with my own team. Any help from you at this point would be a detriment and could potentially harm the citizens of Paris. Hawkmoth manipulates strong emotions, and I don’t need to handle a metahuman or tactical genius to gain more power to wreak havoc on my city. I will not contact you with any further requests for assistance.”

It’s an awful video. Marinette had to wait a day after the Heroes’ week fiasco just so her eyes wouldn’t be red. At least her voice doesn’t waver in it. There’s a conviction in the whole video that was unique to that moment. 

Marinette looks at Batman, then at Robin. 

“Clearly the Justice League refused to listen. Ladybug doesn’t want or need your help at this point in time. Why are you here?”

“The Justice League is at fault for not paying attention to Ladybug’s other videos. But Mayor Bourgeois and President Macron can only cover such alarming incidents for so long. Ladybug and her… team clearly need help in order to find and take down Hawkmoth, so once the American branch of the Justice League found out half a year ago, we started to investigate.” Batman speaks in lieu of Damian. Marinette briefly wonders if Damian knows who Batman is under the mask. She bets he does. They’re probably close, what with how worried Batman sounds. 

“What makes you think that the Justice League is any better equipped to handle this situation? Ladybug and her team have been fighting for the past three years and resolved every akuma with no help from you. She needed your help in earlier years. Now she doesn’t.”

“Exactly; it’s been three years and she still hasn’t caught Hawkmoth.”

“You say that like the Justice League doesn’t have a team with more wealth and manpower than Ladybug does that’s been looking into Hawkmoth and the Miraculous for the past half year and clearly has not found any reasonable leads. Ladybug has only been actively looking for Hawkmoth for the past two years, not three. The police handled the first year, not that you’ve done any homework on the situation. Thought that a field agent would help your chances?” 

There is fire in Marinette’s stomach. Batman sounds so dismissive of all of the work that she’s been doing. It’s been hard on her; she doesn’t have the support that she needs and doesn’t have the experience or expertise to hunt down Hawkmoth on her own. She trained briefly under Master Fu to learn spells and ways to expand her powers as Ladybug, but that was an equivalent exchange: she no longer trusts that other holders won’t be akumatized. Her growing cynicism and physical training from Maman came at the expense of Chat Noir; after the whole Lila incident in her first year as Ladybug, she found out that Chat Noir and Adrien were one and the same. And Gabriel Agreste is not afraid to use his son until Adrien is stretched far too thin, which forced Marinette to nearly bench her partner.

“Three years,” Batman says again.

“If the Justice League can’t figure it out nearly unlimited resources and funding in half a year-- both ordinary and super human-- then clearly it isn’t a question of time. It’s a question of capability. Get off your high horse, Batman. You haven’t given me any reasons why Ladybug and I shouldn’t deport Robin here, and you’re definitely not making a good case as to why she shouldn’t go to Mayor Bourgeois and France’s president to ensure that the Justice League and its affiliates and ban hero travel into Paris. Bourgeois already doesn’t want information on it’s supervillain situation to get out.” 

“Marinette,” Damian pleads.

As Robin and as Damian, he doesn’t pose a threat. He hasn’t been helpful, but he certainly hasn’t messed with the status quo for the month that he’s been here. Still, he is a liability. If he stays in Paris, he is the gateway for the other members of the Justice League to fly in and try to commandeer the fragile balance that she has found. She can’t afford for something like that to happen.  

“You’re not any better, Robin. Why did you even hang around me? Thought I was a threat?” Her eyes narrow in realization. It makes sense why he decided to hang out with her, despite his initial cold front. He was playing a role.“You thought I was Hawkmoth.”

His silence is an agreement.

“We just want to help,” Damian says, and against her better judgement, Marinette believes him. 

Her shoulders round, and Marinette sighs. She can’t truly begrudge Damian for that train of thought, not when she believed the same about him. She’s been a little harsh on them so far, in part due to old resentment that they never responded to her in that first, awful year when she needed the help. 

There’s a dull tiredness that comes with knowing someone who she considered one of her closest friends suspected her of being a supervillain, though she did believe the same of him, so maybe they’re even. It still hurts, though. It hurts like when Alya decided that Marinette was mean-hearted enough to stop the members of their class from reaching their full potential. It hurts like when Marinette finally realized that she couldn’t repair their friendship, not to what it used to be. It hurts like when she looked around the classroom and realized that she couldn’t talk to anyone there. It hurts like when Marinette decided that she couldn’t risk helping her friends the way she wanted to. 

“What kind of help can you offer us? We don’t need any more of you to come out here.” Resources are nice. More money to fund therapy programs around town won’t hurt. Master Fu doesn’t help on that part. Really, he doesn’t help at all. Even though she has Chat Noir and had a team, she often feels like it’s herself against the world. Some days, she reaches up to her earrings and feels an aching emptiness, like there’s something more to the Miraculous that’s been sealed away.

“We can give you resources. Money, connections, experience. Robin is good with technology. He can help you track down where Hawkmoth is.”

Marinette’s laugh is bitter. “Sure, he can try, but the butterflies Hawkmoth sends out aren’t visible by the normal human eye or electronically until they’ve found their mark. Once they’re purified, they’re just normal butterflies, and they go off in random directions.”

“Normal human eye? It sounds like there are exceptions.” Damian readjusts himself. He has fidgeted his way into an uncomfortable looking seiza position, where his ankles are bleeding. 

“A true holder can see the butterflies at all times.”

Marinette also decides to throw them a bone so there’s no questions as to why a mere civilian is working with Ladybug. “That’s why Ladybug recruited me. I was Multimouse.”

Multimouse was in the file that Damian sent his father, but he asks, just to make sure. “The one that can split itself?”

“That’s correct. I guess now is as good a time as any for the two of you to get your questions answered.”

“Why are you the point of civilian contact instead of any of the other more frequently used heroes? Didn’t you appear only once?” Damian avoids looking Marinette in the eyes, and that makes her feel slightly better. He’s ashamed of his actions. Good. 

“Ladybug said that the other hero’s civilian forms were either compromised or not in a good position.”

“Ladybug knows who all the holders are.” Batman speculates. He looks less tense now that Damian is no longer tied up, but his voice remains gravelly and distrubed. Maybe that’s what he sounds like all the time.  “Who else knows? Do you?” 

“Only Ladybug knows.” Marinette lives in half truths. She’s not sure that they’re much better than lies, but they’re all she has. Secrecy is the only thing Master Fu has sincerely taught her.

“Why have all the other heroes disappeared?” 

“Ladybug said that it was too dangerous for someone who could be akumatized to hold a Miraculous. Rena Rage, Shell Shock, Queen Wasp-- they were all frighteningly powerful akumas. It’s also why Chat Noir has been showing up less and less; his home life is not the best, and she’s trying her best to ensure that he doesn’t get akumatized.”

“She’s not worried for herself or,” Damian’s eyes flick to Marinette, away from Batman. “For you?” 

“She knows that both of us are good at dealing with stress. We have our own methods of coping.” She looks at Damian, her mouth tightening into a frown. “If you want to stay in Paris, I’ll cut you a deal. We can work together for two weeks, and if we don’t get any results, you have to leave and the Justice League must promise that they won’t interfere again.”

“Two weeks isn’t enough time,” Damian objects.

“If you don’t think it’s enough time, just leave now. I’ll say now that I’m only willing to work with you during the night. That’s the time I work on Miraculous related stuff now, anyways. And stay out of the akuma battles.” She doesn’t actually think that working together will help anyways, and she wants Damian gone sooner rather than later. He’s been making her feel too much and emotions that are far more explosive and easy to take advantage of than Marinette has in a long time. She doesn’t want to be targeted by an akuma because of her inner conflict. 

“Two weeks, then,” Batman agrees. “Robin can contact me if you need any extra resources.”

Marinette hangs up and assesses Damian. He looks almost pitiful, with bruising around his eyes, tousled hair, a ripped suit, and cuts where his skin is exposed. She opens her trap door in a clear gesture for him to depart. Downstairs is dark; her Maman and Papa have long since gone to sleep, and it’s only a few more hours until they wake up to start baking. “We start tomorrow. If you need Ladybug for anything, tell me.”

He’s half way down the ladder when he looks back up at Marinette, into her eyes. 

“I’m sorry,” he says.

Marinette can’t breath. She feels like vomiting. His eyes are so green in comparison to the purple bruising on his face. She did that to him. She made him look that way. All she’s ever wanted to do as Ladybug is protect the people she cared for. But Damian-- Marinette doesn’t know. She doesn't know whether what Damian has done can actually be described as bad. He was just trying to do what Batman told him to do. Keeping an eye on a threat. Marinette wonders how long he thought she was Hawkmoth. She wonders if he ever thought they were friends. 

“I’m sorry too,” Marinette says, and shuts the trap door.

They’re both sorry for very different things.

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If you are looking for a Russian bride with a European mind, welcome to Saint Petersburg marriage agency! Tolerant and harmonious, these girls are beautiful both inside and outside. They are mature personalities with a warm heart and a generous soul. If you want to meet the queens of the Northern capital, register a profile at this online dating service. All you need to do is to select the most appropriate candidates and enjoy the communication. Kind and bright, self-sufficient and benevolent, the women of Saint Petersburg will warm the cockles of your heart.

What are single Saint Petersburg women like? Read further to know!

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Who are Saint Petersburg brides?

The women in Saint Petersburg are very special and differ from the rest of Russian women. They live in the second largest city in Russia, which hosts the major cultural events, such as theatre performances, movie marathons, concerts, exhibitions etc. There are a lot of sites and historical monuments in St. Petersburg, too. An exquisite taste and elegant manners of its female citizens set them apart from the rest of the brides in Russia. Due to the proximity to Europe, St. Petersburg is believed to have the most flexible, progressive, well-bread, patient and friendly women. Do not hesitate to start chatting with these charming ladies at our online marriage agency!

- Appearance of Saint Petersburg brides

All women from the city on the Neva River have an intrinsic sense of proportion and elegance. Thus, a single girl from St. Petersburg usually looks very elegant and stylish. Thanks to her good taste, she is likely to wear fashionable things that do not look neither vulgar nor boring. Such a bride prefers natural colours in clothes as well as in her makeup, because they gently enhance her inborn beauty. These ladies do not like showing off too much and, instead of blatant colours, they adore black and all shades of gray. Such strict colour patterns are usually diluted with the help of red, orange, pink, blue and yellow spots and accessories, such as shoes, handbags, scarves, gloves and umbrellas, which are an integral part of their wardrobe because of the frequent rains. Indeed, the local climate might have as well influenced the preferences of these women (there are approximately 60 solar days out of 365 in this city.) However, gloomy clouds do not have enough power to shadow a sunny character of St. Petersburg women.

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The ladies from the city on the Neva River make very good wives. They are well-balanced, positive, kind and compassionate. In fact, harmony is the most suitable word that can describe the nature of a bride from St. Petersburg! Many men find this quality very appealing. It does not matter which country your wife comes from, if she is able to surround you with her loving fluids, doesn’t it? Real feelings do not know any limits or borders, even if at first a person seems to be a complete foreigner to you…

Exquisite and dignified, these women make incredible life partners. If you are looking for an intellectual lady who will be able to discuss any topic with you, choose a girl from St. Petersburg. Most of them have higher education and know several foreign languages, so they also make good travelling companions.

Nota bene

There is a peculiarity of the local girls which you should know about. They preserve their comfort zone like the Scandinavians and do not like touching people whom they do not know very well. They usually avoid the places that are overcrowded and keep a distance from the people in a subway car or in a bus. If you come to St. Petersburg one day to visit your beautiful lady, do not appoint a date near a flea market and definitely do not put the pressure on your girlfriend by touching her too often. You should rather give her some time to get used to you. Please take this peculiarity into account and do not think that these women are “touch-me-nots.” They just do not like to have their private space disturbed, nothing more.

Housekeeping skills

Russian girls are considered to be amazing housewives, and the women of St. Petersburg are not an exception. They inherited the best recipes of the local cuisine from their mothers and will be happy to cook delicious meals for their beloved husbands. They can look after the house very well, creating a cosy atmosphere there. As for raising children, the ladies from this city will definitely want to do it themselves, without any help of a nanny. Being good mothers and wives is a must for them, as it is considered to be a sign of family well-being in Russia.

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What men are Saint Petersburg brides looking for?

The girls, who create profiles at Saint Petersburg marriage agency, are looking for a mature and a reliable partner. The influence of Europe is rather strong in this multinational city, so it might be a little easier to get along with a local bride than with a woman from other part of Russia. They will hardly ever judge you by your origin or religious beliefs. No wonder that these brides want to see the same qualities in their partner! Unfortunately, they often fall victims of an aggressive behavior and an arrogant attitude, typical of some Russian men. Instead of being worshiped, these women are underestimated. There is also a constant lack of men in this country, so the brides from Saint Petersburg resort to online dating services in order to meet a real man, who has the same goals in life.

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If you are a self-sufficient man who is looking for a Russian wife, welcome to Saint Petersburg marriage agency! Hundreds of ladies are waiting for you there, hoping to meet their special one and find the love of their life! It might seem hard at first, to get in touch with a woman from a foreign culture, but you should not be afraid of any cross-cultural differences. You should give your new relationship a try and soon you will overcome all the obstacles.

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Why Do Individuals Play Online Gamings

In a recent short article on CNET, William Moss observes that in a Net cafe in China, of the pair of hundred individuals making use of the coffee shop when he saw it, with the exception of two individuals, everybody else was seen utilizing them to play computer games. 

   People paying loan just to play on the internet video games on per hour basis show the pull and appeal of the online games. 

   Below is an effort to comprehend why on the internet games are so prominent these days? 

   An online video game essentially refers to the kind of video game, which is used your computer while you are connected to the Web. These can be solitary gamer video games that you have fun with a remote server or multiplayer games where numerous customers like you are having fun with each various other. 

   There was a time when computer games were for the supposed geeks or geeks that were essentially singular beings. With the rise in popularity of the Internet as well as with broadband gain access to coming to be progressively cost effective, the high quality of totally free online video games being used has increased drastically. Playing video games online is no more a solitary activity. Studies reveal that it is a social experience that more and more extroverts as well as out-going people are entering into. 

   Free gaming sites have actually ended up being the areas for gamers to meet and also have social interactions. Popular regulars at pc gaming websites are a typical phenomenon that all of us recognize. These pc gaming sites generally supply games that range from a fast, informal game during your coffee break to involving multi-player games. 

   Why do people play online video games? 

 a. Firstly, the allure of privacy. Nevertheless you can produce a personality on your own as well as can be what ever you intend to be. This is a really effective factor for people to hang out at these social sites. 

   b. Net is a fantastic medium that allows you to be part of a society where all are equal. Definitely no discrimination of any range. 

   c. The video games are becoming increasingly easy to setup. The majority of the moments you just dont require an indigenous installation on your PC. A web browser is all you need to play a multiplayer video game. This has eliminated the operating system associated difficulties that a person would certainly or else have come across. These games are mainly complimentary as well as in addition to that you do not need to mount anything to enable you to play these games. You simply heard of game, possibly from a friend or through an e-mail or a newsletter. You simply go to the gaming internet site and also you prepare to play. No setup associated hassles in all. This definitely is a very big contributor to the success and appeal of online video games. 

   d. Online games are popular since they give people who are bored having fun with their computer a possibility to interact with genuine challengers. As a gamer you can talk with other gamers, you can sign up with hands a couple of gamers as well as scheme against the others, simply the means you perform in real life, however with the benefit of privacy. 

   I make certain there are a lot more reasons. This by itself can be a subject of research study for social researchers. Web is changing the way we live. It is transforming the way we bet sure.

[sailorrrvenus]

Don’t Let Social Media Ruin Your Photography

I’m at a Starbucks in Hanoi. Typically it’s a peaceful location where I can write and think, but today it’s overrun with young people smoking cigarettes, occasionally smiling and laughing, but mostly consumed with their phones browsing Instagram and taking selfies to reload their feed with an annoyed older man in their background typing away.

This social media narcissism isn’t a scene unique to Vietnam by any means — it’s everywhere in the world. At 40-years-old I’m ashamed to admit it, but I can be slightly guilty of spending too much time on my phone. However, in the past few years, I’m more apt to reading a book rather than aimlessly browsing my phone and it feels damn good.

Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a bitter old man rant about how smartphones and social media are ruining humankind, but I do believe that to be true. It’s not a rant about how social media is ruining photography as a whole either. I want to talk about how social media and the chase for instant recognition is leading to copycat photography (copying or replicating other photographer’s work) and is making us worse as a photography community and suppressing our creativity.

HCMC Archive Justin Mott

I’m not talking about your average teenagers like the ones sitting across from me right now chasing that dopamine rush of more comments and likes. I’m not judging them, who am I kidding, yes I am, just stop staring at your phones and have a conversation with each other would you, ok ok, they aren’t my target audience here.

I’m addressing the budding amateur photographer, weekend warrior, hobbyist, prosumer, or whatever you call them, the person that really enjoys photography and somewhere inside themselves wants to improve.

I scroll through my feed and it’s flooded with the same boring images shot almost identically of a fisherman throwing a net into the water in a small village, the lady in a conical hat sorting through an endless sea of vibrant red incense sticks, and that shot of a person at the edge of a seaside cliff with a sunset silhouetting them.

Yes, there are thousands of more examples like this but I don’t want to even give them merit by mentioning them, but you all know the cliche shots I’m talking about. One could argue that I need to follow new people, and yes you would be right to some degree, but I also like to teach photography to a global audience so I follow many of my followers back to see what they are shooting.

Are those pretty shots I discussed above? Yes, they have some beauty to them and they’ve won some awards. Hats off to the originals and some of the original photographers deserve to win the awards, although many of these shots that are trying to pass as natural moments are meticulously orchestrated, fake. That’s a whole other story that I’m not going to address here but while I’m on the topic, a piece of advice to budding photographers. Photograph the world naturally and it will amaze and surprise you. It won’t be easy in this Insta-World and it takes experience, time, and patience but it will pay off, I promise you that.

Let’s get back to those pretty shots I described. The original shot was nice and that’s why it won an award and received so many of those cherished social media “likes.” The problem isn’t the original, it’s what comes afterward, the flood of copycat images that ensues. The awarded pictures spur endless amounts of knockoffs going to the same or similar locations and setting up the same shot with the same exact composition.

I mean, why not right, who is watching, who knows you are copying another shot? You saw it on National Geographic Your Shot or some other popular photography hashtag feed, 500px, or on a competition where your photo didn’t get any praise and you said “hey, I can do that too”. I can tap into that flow of likes, comments, and praise. I mean, the winner probably copied that shot from someone else so who cares.

You might say to yourself, who cares if I’m copying, is anything original these days anyway? It begins like a drug habit by doing it just once, just this one time, while you are still learning, just to get you over the hump. No one is going to catch me, no one is going to publicly shame me, are they? Probably not, and you might win a contest or two, as many contest judges don’t always have time to scour the internet to see if this a copycat image so they rewarded what’s good and appealing to them. At the very least you’ll be rewarded with more of those cherished “likes.”

The problem is you don’t deserve the likes, comments, and you definitely don’t deserve the awards. At this point, you might think of me as a bitter older photographer who doesn’t win any awards anymore. I’m not big into photography competitions nor do I judge myself by these standards so there, take that! You are taking a shortcut to nowhere and worse off, you are destroying your own creativity.

That’s the part I care about and the part you should take a long hard look inside yourself to see if you care about it too. If you continue this creative killing cycle of copying-receiving praise-repeat, you will never get anywhere in your photography and your creative soul will eventually die. That sounds harsh, but it’s the reality.

As professional photographers, judges, and people of influence in the photography community, we also have a responsibility not to praise and reward these types of images, but as an individual, you need to police yourself.

Photography is about you finding your own style and having something to say with your images. I’m not saying you can’t be influenced by other photographers — of course you should study the greats. It’s important and can be very helpful to look at the greats, but don’t study the best influencers, study the icons in photography and yes those are unfortunately very different people these days.

Be mindful not to confuse influence with copying. Don’t do it for me, don’t do it out of fear of being ridiculed online, do it because you want to get better. Finding your vision as a photographer takes time and endless practice and it’s an ongoing journey. Don’t let your number of followers, likes, and influencer status be your measuring stick, forget all that. It takes terabytes of awful photos and hours of deep thought and studying your own and others work to hone your skills. Like all things, it simply takes time and grit to improve.

Taking a shortcut in your photography is fine if you want to hang out with these kids next to me and you are chasing “likes” but if you want to sit among the “greats” or even just the” goods”, or simply you want to improve, stop copying what you see on social media and focus on the journey of finding your own vision.

About the author: Justin Mott is photographer and founder of Mott Visuals, a boutique photography and film production studio based in Thailand and Vietnam serving all of Asia and beyond. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. Since arriving in Vietnam over a decade ago, Mott has established himself as one of the best-known and well-respected photographers in Southeast Asia. He has shot over 100 assignments for the New York Times while a collection of his work in Vietnam has been featured on the BBC. Additional major editorial clients include TIME, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian among many others. Mott is also familiar to TV viewers as host and resident judge of History Channel’s hit photography reality series Photo Face-Off now entering their 4th Season. Visit his website here. For more tips and articles from Justin please visit askmott.com and follow Justin on all social media outlets with the handle @AskMOTT. This article was also published here.

source https://petapixel.com/2019/02/07/dont-let-social-media-ruin-your-photography/

[pauldeckerus]

Don’t Let Social Media Ruin Your Photography

I’m at a Starbucks in Hanoi. Typically it’s a peaceful location where I can write and think, but today it’s overrun with young people smoking cigarettes, occasionally smiling and laughing, but mostly consumed with their phones browsing Instagram and taking selfies to reload their feed with an annoyed older man in their background typing away.

This social media narcissism isn’t a scene unique to Vietnam by any means — it’s everywhere in the world. At 40-years-old I’m ashamed to admit it, but I can be slightly guilty of spending too much time on my phone. However, in the past few years, I’m more apt to reading a book rather than aimlessly browsing my phone and it feels damn good.

Don’t worry, this isn’t going to be a bitter old man rant about how smartphones and social media are ruining humankind, but I do believe that to be true. It’s not a rant about how social media is ruining photography as a whole either. I want to talk about how social media and the chase for instant recognition is leading to copycat photography (copying or replicating other photographer’s work) and is making us worse as a photography community and suppressing our creativity.

HCMC Archive Justin Mott

I’m not talking about your average teenagers like the ones sitting across from me right now chasing that dopamine rush of more comments and likes. I’m not judging them, who am I kidding, yes I am, just stop staring at your phones and have a conversation with each other would you, ok ok, they aren’t my target audience here.

I’m addressing the budding amateur photographer, weekend warrior, hobbyist, prosumer, or whatever you call them, the person that really enjoys photography and somewhere inside themselves wants to improve.

I scroll through my feed and it’s flooded with the same boring images shot almost identically of a fisherman throwing a net into the water in a small village, the lady in a conical hat sorting through an endless sea of vibrant red incense sticks, and that shot of a person at the edge of a seaside cliff with a sunset silhouetting them.

Yes, there are thousands of more examples like this but I don’t want to even give them merit by mentioning them, but you all know the cliche shots I’m talking about. One could argue that I need to follow new people, and yes you would be right to some degree, but I also like to teach photography to a global audience so I follow many of my followers back to see what they are shooting.

Are those pretty shots I discussed above? Yes, they have some beauty to them and they’ve won some awards. Hats off to the originals and some of the original photographers deserve to win the awards, although many of these shots that are trying to pass as natural moments are meticulously orchestrated, fake. That’s a whole other story that I’m not going to address here but while I’m on the topic, a piece of advice to budding photographers. Photograph the world naturally and it will amaze and surprise you. It won’t be easy in this Insta-World and it takes experience, time, and patience but it will pay off, I promise you that.

Let’s get back to those pretty shots I described. The original shot was nice and that’s why it won an award and received so many of those cherished social media “likes.” The problem isn’t the original, it’s what comes afterward, the flood of copycat images that ensues. The awarded pictures spur endless amounts of knockoffs going to the same or similar locations and setting up the same shot with the same exact composition.

I mean, why not right, who is watching, who knows you are copying another shot? You saw it on National Geographic Your Shot or some other popular photography hashtag feed, 500px, or on a competition where your photo didn’t get any praise and you said “hey, I can do that too”. I can tap into that flow of likes, comments, and praise. I mean, the winner probably copied that shot from someone else so who cares.

You might say to yourself, who cares if I’m copying, is anything original these days anyway? It begins like a drug habit by doing it just once, just this one time, while you are still learning, just to get you over the hump. No one is going to catch me, no one is going to publicly shame me, are they? Probably not, and you might win a contest or two, as many contest judges don’t always have time to scour the internet to see if this a copycat image so they rewarded what’s good and appealing to them. At the very least you’ll be rewarded with more of those cherished “likes.”

The problem is you don’t deserve the likes, comments, and you definitely don’t deserve the awards. At this point, you might think of me as a bitter older photographer who doesn’t win any awards anymore. I’m not big into photography competitions nor do I judge myself by these standards so there, take that! You are taking a shortcut to nowhere and worse off, you are destroying your own creativity.

That’s the part I care about and the part you should take a long hard look inside yourself to see if you care about it too. If you continue this creative killing cycle of copying-receiving praise-repeat, you will never get anywhere in your photography and your creative soul will eventually die. That sounds harsh, but it’s the reality.

As professional photographers, judges, and people of influence in the photography community, we also have a responsibility not to praise and reward these types of images, but as an individual, you need to police yourself.

Photography is about you finding your own style and having something to say with your images. I’m not saying you can’t be influenced by other photographers — of course you should study the greats. It’s important and can be very helpful to look at the greats, but don’t study the best influencers, study the icons in photography and yes those are unfortunately very different people these days.

Be mindful not to confuse influence with copying. Don’t do it for me, don’t do it out of fear of being ridiculed online, do it because you want to get better. Finding your vision as a photographer takes time and endless practice and it’s an ongoing journey. Don’t let your number of followers, likes, and influencer status be your measuring stick, forget all that. It takes terabytes of awful photos and hours of deep thought and studying your own and others work to hone your skills. Like all things, it simply takes time and grit to improve.

Taking a shortcut in your photography is fine if you want to hang out with these kids next to me and you are chasing “likes” but if you want to sit among the “greats” or even just the” goods”, or simply you want to improve, stop copying what you see on social media and focus on the journey of finding your own vision.

About the author: Justin Mott is photographer and founder of Mott Visuals, a boutique photography and film production studio based in Thailand and Vietnam serving all of Asia and beyond. The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. Since arriving in Vietnam over a decade ago, Mott has established himself as one of the best-known and well-respected photographers in Southeast Asia. He has shot over 100 assignments for the New York Times while a collection of his work in Vietnam has been featured on the BBC. Additional major editorial clients include TIME, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and The Guardian among many others. Mott is also familiar to TV viewers as host and resident judge of History Channel’s hit photography reality series Photo Face-Off now entering their 4th Season. Visit his website here. For more tips and articles from Justin please visit askmott.com and follow Justin on all social media outlets with the handle @AskMOTT. This article was also published here.

from Photography News https://petapixel.com/2019/02/07/dont-let-social-media-ruin-your-photography/

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Competitors Marketing

Cyberdog

Cyberdog has their own Instagram page where they post new stock , offers and about topics that matter to them and their fans. They also will post images and videos of Cyberdog fans wearing their clothing as well as videos of what's happening in their stores which would draw people into the shop.This works very well for their target market which is young adults and people into a futuristic style and partying. Many young people use social media and are exposed to adverts on such pages whether it comes up on their feed or whether the brand itself has a page. At the moment Instagram is one of the top social media platforms to advertise on ( being in the top 3 at the moment. ) Cyberdog doesn't do a lot of advertising however upon further research I discovered that some of their merchandise appeared in an advert for the "Dave" channel where a man worse some of their clothing to fit in with his futuristic look.Cyberdog also appeared in a fashion magaziene from Japan called "Kera ! " which talks about alternative fashion in Japan.Cyberdog is a brand that is also  a topic in many articles centered around alternate fashion as the craetor of the brand felt that a lot of clothing was too boring and that it shoud be more loud and interesting.The brand also has stalls in conventions such as Hyper Japan where large amounts of people with similar intrests gather as Cyberdog is a very fan based company and has their own community od similar people with common intrests from the employees to customers.Their stores are always filled with dancers and people all intrested in the same thing as well as this the store always had loud music playing which will interest people around the store as they would wonder where all the noise is coming from. Cyberdog always has open doors and some stores include statues outside bringing in tourists. The shop is very popular amongst tourists and appears on many websites for tourists about what to do when your in London and tourists will be more likely to make purchases as the style is very unique.The Cyberdog website offers free delivery to orders over £50 in the UK and over £75 worldwide as Cyberdog is a UK brand , this offer often makes customers spend enough money to get free shipping if they are close to the minimum spending amount.

Dolls Kill

Dolls Kill also has their own instgram page but also an active facebook page meaning that their brand is accesable to many people from around the world. Looking through their facebook I can see that they have many videos that have and advert type style even though i dont believe they advertise on television, many fans of the brand comment and share the images and videos posted by the brand to their friends spreading the name of the brand by the word of mouth .Their Facebook has many different pages such as and events area where fans can see where pop up shops may be appearing and even a community page and links to their instagram, snapchat and twitter where people can look at the brand through a variety of sites. Their pop up shoes are very rare which would bring in people that what to view their products in person and the company only has one store.Even though Dolls Kill hasn't sponsored any youtubers in my knowledge the brand is very popular amongst alternative people and reviews and halls of their products exposes their brand to fans of the youtubers and good reviews will help convince potential customers to buy items from their store. Their website also offers free delivery over $75 and they offer shipping worldwide for different prices depending on the country.

Couch Uk

Couch Uk is a brand that has an online store and has items in the Cyberdog store as I remember seeing these garments in a designated section in the shop. The brand has a very consistant style including a splattered paint effect on all of their products as well as the "paint" being able to glow in the dark which is rather unique in clothing.All the clothing is a one-off and is hand painted appealing to people that like higher-end clothing. The clothing is also customisable allowing you to create your own designs by getting into contact with a worker via email and choosing how much "splatter " you want on your product .This feature at a affordable price will appeal to a lot of people as many like to have different things that no one else has. This brand offers free shipping over £35 which is rather cheap in comparison to the two previous brands.

Alternative mainstream

Alternative mainstream is other primarily online brand, they have pop-up stalls for festivals and events and even sell hand-made tutus on amazon and also have an etsy store selling headdresses, tutus , bows etc. The brand sells a mix of their own designs and others brands as they started off selling different brands of alternative clothing.The brand has many onine pages such as facebook, twitter , youtube , instagram , pintrest and tumblr allowing people into alternative fashion to find them through tags and looking at similar posts.

Overview

These brands all dont have a large amount of advertising as their presence is minly online do to the style not being very popular or mainstream. Many of the brands have pop-up shops however they dont do tv adverts or have billboards and dont apper very often in magazienes. The larger brands such as Cyberdog have appeared in magazienes however the biggest advertisment for them is their fans and the store itself as it is seen as a tourist attraction. The reason these brands dont advertise other than online is becuase the brands are very community driven as often fans of one shop will discover other brands selling similar thing or tey might find out about brands from seeing their pop-up shops at festivals or hearing abpout certain btrands from their friends. The brands dont need to advertise too much as they already have a loyal community and a lot of the general public wouldnt be interested, the fans of the brand is what keeps them alive and offering unique designs and option such as smart fabrics can intrest the avarage person to buy from the store even if they arent very keen on the louder garments available.

[gianhovn]

Just how to Publish a Successful College Scholarship Article

Residing in Vancouver I could let you know this land is very smart in computer tech. Nevertheless as a result of this, online tradition is widespread and vast and the world that is relationship is rapidly heading online. Vancouver may be the domain of Bachelors, for many causes or another people have become very particular in choosing who they wish to date, it’s become the Los Angelas of Canada. If not be a spam gentleman or play find the crazies lol and you would like to go on it really first off whenever you signal, onto this web site, then atleast 2 photos are needed by you. Spammers may have friends playing pranks on the pals, or usually just one pic, compromised by someones bill, taken on the web, lots of seafood appears to be a superb prank website for the hopelessly passionate. Although completing your page, do not attempt to bull shit your features to much, because it is authentic people you are working with, plus one way or another your profile shows them who you are, and they’ll utilize the things they learn about you in a talk, therefore when they find out the many lies you put-down, that may be a dealbreaker, as trust is important in almost any partnership. This is not at all hard to know but persons however take action, to ease their pretentious minds. It is a numbers recreation, and psychologically you will have to take care of rejection.

Be sure that you’ve outlined talents of the business plan and all the beneficial points.

So that you need to generate those communications like your undertaking Articling (or whatsoever they call it in-Law School). I know men are not great at this, since girls I’ve voiced to privately who use the website frequently, possibly these on the webpage itself condition on the ACCOUNT how men should stop publishing back indignant communications for motives being why they’re not being responded to, so focus on whats created on the account. You can simply imagine today with denial inside the real-world, could possibly not even inquire females out should they recognize they will feel this way how they deal. So in other words anticipate to encounter rejection LOTS OF denial. Because this choice is LOOKS on-line and artistic BEAUTY, and whichever photos any people is able to http://ift.tt/2kKrnh0 see and relate solely to present that instantaneous appeal, it is seriously one of many most critical attributes unfortunately to own on the website for that unfortunate. Being lovely has its rewards that are fantastic if your girl and a gentleman, your account is merely fit by you there with boring phrases along with the people will come in groups with messages. Nevertheless we’re people, and as such appeal we observe destination in lots of sorts, not merely appearance but in what we pride ourselves your head itself, in best our brains. Which means you dont look like tyrese or brad pitt, not even close to wanting like ryan gosling for photographs from a perspective possibly, or get that ideal present like Betty Kardashian and also starlets. You can probably become the next Hank Moody nonetheless when you can write like Bukowski, or Hemingway.

Release the tensioner and slide the serpentine belt.

Even if you can’t create excellent, fundamentally if you devote enough energy and create innovative elements about you to ultimately the person you’re composing to, they’ll relish it and publish you back and a conversation can happen. The target listed here is to preserve it around a couple of messages before asking somebody out, to construct enough partnership and trust to meet in-person. This is tricky for males, should they rush factors, the lady can feel urged, and if you decide to try lengthy, she considers your not so passionate and may probably be monotonous, therefore begins losing interest. If you can uncover some method of writing that gets interest, stay glued to that and revise, improve it in line with the girls you satisfy, don’t try to copy wordforword often simply because they may understand, females protest alot about content and substance messages from folks. Creativity is key. For people specifically placed energy into your profile as if it was your provincial finals for examinations. Or your Documents in the university-level in case you have the capability to do so. Don’t spend to much focus on the women with an actually concluding listing of what a gentleman requirements, do not feel compelled to contact her out either it’s a waste of power, let folks figure out the troubles for themselves they won’t need visitors pointing it out for them.

I have got assessments done and anything is not completely abnormal.

They need in a guy, simply proceed, as you get used to this it will make it more straightforward to go on when courting within the real world should you feel the listing is preposterous for the demands. Occasionally you will fulfill users with unlikely credentials or objectives to fulfill somebody, sometimes the habits they declare they dislike, could be the habits they themselves show if you really get acquainted with them, so review the report cautiously before you attempt to the pursuit courting them. In case you follow with your penis, and also you wind up meeting the lady and discover she’s a, well the report was not browse by you well-enough. For ladies, its relatively easy to identify a douche, in the event you look closely at the images and interests (eg kind of clothing, ed-hardy, different types of decorative clothing etc). Likewise his what he’s looking for, generally hangouts you can find a great number of douches lurking within this classification, and writing design. Which means you get what you study…Almost the blessed factor with girls is mens account are strong in and of itself. “Searching for” this is extremely important point to appear for in the pages also, once you notice customers while browsing you’re able to typically view what category they’re searching for, and folks that want to have laid are usually inside the’hang-out” group. “Other associations” and “close knowledge”, or additionally categories for your hedonistic gentleman, the only real advantage you’ll have in these groups is if you are quite attractive or good at composing dirty talk, the average joe often stick with “hangouts” where you have an increased chance of meeting somebody not as fussy, and objectives are not therefore superior since the bulk of consumers put themselves in this category anyway.

There is a premature baby one which is born far too early plus some of those infants do expire.

“Action Partner” is for all those attempting to meet associates or buddies that are possible to accomplish extra-curricular exercise with outdoor actions perhaps, this classification houses the attractive crowd that is implied to in case you search enough, if that is what your into. For the most part although, if you’d like to try to collect buddies to-go hiking then you venture to the “task spouse”. “Friendship” is just how it’s reported friendship. This group the same as “Extended term”, means that users listed here are really looking to invest in someone probably being a commitment, you will not discover the most people within this group as the most loads of fish customers come in it to primarily get laid, sometimes the “Long Lasting” can also be deceptive for those just planning to get laid, the trick is in studying the PAGES. The tricksters in this website would be the types for a bang-bang many thanks mam kind of herd looking. If you go through the ladies image pages, be sure if she is obese to notice ques. If she is using bathroom pictures from the length it is likely that she might be a butter face where she seems good from far, poor up close, or a going body and not so great face. This means they could be loading, because the viewpoint of the chance hides their abdomen, if they get images from above, nevertheless the chests are visible.

The internet has simplified goal setting.

It covers the midsection you have been warned fundamentally when they create in ways. For ladies the site is relatively simple to make use of, hence the guide is more on the basis of the males, also I could simply discuss about it this website for knowledge and your demographic whom i have written to inside the location i dwell which will be Europe. If this can be silly to you personally in new york, it could even be individuals start factors then and as it is New York here. I am open on how internet dating must be translated, remember these are my observations and recommendations on what you can do to improve your probability of dating on this site to suggestions.

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Just how to Publish a Successful College Scholarship Article

Residing in Vancouver I could let you know this land is very smart in computer tech. Nevertheless as a result of this, online tradition is widespread and vast and the world that is relationship is rapidly heading online. Vancouver may be the domain of Bachelors, for many causes or another people have become very particular in choosing who they wish to date, it’s become the Los Angelas of Canada. If not be a spam gentleman or play find the crazies lol and you would like to go on it really first off whenever you signal, onto this web site, then atleast 2 photos are needed by you. Spammers may have friends playing pranks on the pals, or usually just one pic, compromised by someones bill, taken on the web, lots of seafood appears to be a superb prank website for the hopelessly passionate. Although completing your page, do not attempt to bull shit your features to much, because it is authentic people you are working with, plus one way or another your profile shows them who you are, and they’ll utilize the things they learn about you in a talk, therefore when they find out the many lies you put-down, that may be a dealbreaker, as trust is important in almost any partnership. This is not at all hard to know but persons however take action, to ease their pretentious minds. It is a numbers recreation, and psychologically you will have to take care of rejection.

Be sure that you’ve outlined talents of the business plan and all the beneficial points.

So that you need to generate those communications like your undertaking Articling (or whatsoever they call it in-Law School). I know men are not great at this, since girls I’ve voiced to privately who use the website frequently, possibly these on the webpage itself condition on the ACCOUNT how men should stop publishing back indignant communications for motives being why they’re not being responded to, so focus on whats created on the account. You can simply imagine today with denial inside the real-world, could possibly not even inquire females out should they recognize they will feel this way how they deal. So in other words anticipate to encounter rejection LOTS OF denial. Because this choice is LOOKS on-line and artistic BEAUTY, and whichever photos any people is able to http://ift.tt/2kKrnh0 see and relate solely to present that instantaneous appeal, it is seriously one of many most critical attributes unfortunately to own on the website for that unfortunate. Being lovely has its rewards that are fantastic if your girl and a gentleman, your account is merely fit by you there with boring phrases along with the people will come in groups with messages. Nevertheless we’re people, and as such appeal we observe destination in lots of sorts, not merely appearance but in what we pride ourselves your head itself, in best our brains. Which means you dont look like tyrese or brad pitt, not even close to wanting like ryan gosling for photographs from a perspective possibly, or get that ideal present like Betty Kardashian and also starlets. You can probably become the next Hank Moody nonetheless when you can write like Bukowski, or Hemingway.

Release the tensioner and slide the serpentine belt.

Even if you can’t create excellent, fundamentally if you devote enough energy and create innovative elements about you to ultimately the person you’re composing to, they’ll relish it and publish you back and a conversation can happen. The target listed here is to preserve it around a couple of messages before asking somebody out, to construct enough partnership and trust to meet in-person. This is tricky for males, should they rush factors, the lady can feel urged, and if you decide to try lengthy, she considers your not so passionate and may probably be monotonous, therefore begins losing interest. If you can uncover some method of writing that gets interest, stay glued to that and revise, improve it in line with the girls you satisfy, don’t try to copy wordforword often simply because they may understand, females protest alot about content and substance messages from folks. Creativity is key. For people specifically placed energy into your profile as if it was your provincial finals for examinations. Or your Documents in the university-level in case you have the capability to do so. Don’t spend to much focus on the women with an actually concluding listing of what a gentleman requirements, do not feel compelled to contact her out either it’s a waste of power, let folks figure out the troubles for themselves they won’t need visitors pointing it out for them.

I have got assessments done and anything is not completely abnormal.

They need in a guy, simply proceed, as you get used to this it will make it more straightforward to go on when courting within the real world should you feel the listing is preposterous for the demands. Occasionally you will fulfill users with unlikely credentials or objectives to fulfill somebody, sometimes the habits they declare they dislike, could be the habits they themselves show if you really get acquainted with them, so review the report cautiously before you attempt to the pursuit courting them. In case you follow with your penis, and also you wind up meeting the lady and discover she’s a, well the report was not browse by you well-enough. For ladies, its relatively easy to identify a douche, in the event you look closely at the images and interests (eg kind of clothing, ed-hardy, different types of decorative clothing etc). Likewise his what he’s looking for, generally hangouts you can find a great number of douches lurking within this classification, and writing design. Which means you get what you study…Almost the blessed factor with girls is mens account are strong in and of itself. “Searching for” this is extremely important point to appear for in the pages also, once you notice customers while browsing you’re able to typically view what category they’re searching for, and folks that want to have laid are usually inside the’hang-out” group. “Other associations” and “close knowledge”, or additionally categories for your hedonistic gentleman, the only real advantage you’ll have in these groups is if you are quite attractive or good at composing dirty talk, the average joe often stick with “hangouts” where you have an increased chance of meeting somebody not as fussy, and objectives are not therefore superior since the bulk of consumers put themselves in this category anyway.

There is a premature baby one which is born far too early plus some of those infants do expire.

“Action Partner” is for all those attempting to meet associates or buddies that are possible to accomplish extra-curricular exercise with outdoor actions perhaps, this classification houses the attractive crowd that is implied to in case you search enough, if that is what your into. For the most part although, if you’d like to try to collect buddies to-go hiking then you venture to the “task spouse”. “Friendship” is just how it’s reported friendship. This group the same as “Extended term”, means that users listed here are really looking to invest in someone probably being a commitment, you will not discover the most people within this group as the most loads of fish customers come in it to primarily get laid, sometimes the “Long Lasting” can also be deceptive for those just planning to get laid, the trick is in studying the PAGES. The tricksters in this website would be the types for a bang-bang many thanks mam kind of herd looking. If you go through the ladies image pages, be sure if she is obese to notice ques. If she is using bathroom pictures from the length it is likely that she might be a butter face where she seems good from far, poor up close, or a going body and not so great face. This means they could be loading, because the viewpoint of the chance hides their abdomen, if they get images from above, nevertheless the chests are visible.

The internet has simplified goal setting.

It covers the midsection you have been warned fundamentally when they create in ways. For ladies the site is relatively simple to make use of, hence the guide is more on the basis of the males, also I could simply discuss about it this website for knowledge and your demographic whom i have written to inside the location i dwell which will be Europe. If this can be silly to you personally in new york, it could even be individuals start factors then and as it is New York here. I am open on how internet dating must be translated, remember these are my observations and recommendations on what you can do to improve your probability of dating on this site to suggestions.

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