#it’s was over 600.000 words

[headful-of-worms]

It crazy how it’ll cut to a particular shot and I immediately know what iconic line is coming up or remembered how a thousand artists redrew this particular scene. It crazy how involved in this fandom I was lmao.

Oh my god I started rambling in the tags and I maxed out limit of tags. I guess in higher than I thought

I can’t believe I forgot about the hot lesbian squad in season 3 of Voltron

[librarianficrec]

A Brother to Basilisks

Reasons You Should Read This:

1) It’s 155 chapters of Harry finally having a support system.

2) It’s both Slytherin-esque Harry but also not. He’s still in character!

3) A basilisk with a love of drama.

4) Dumbledore bashing but honestly he does some questionable things in canon… this is just taken further.

5) Draco: I can't believe I'm gonna sleep with him.

Blaise: Well, you don't have to.

Draco: No, I'm gonna.

[ilovealeclightwood]

out here fucking owning the constitution 

[katehuntington]

Title: Black Dog - part eight Word count: 1900± words Episode summary: When Sam gets an anonymous phone call with information about his father, Dean receives a text message with coordinates to different location. The brothers clash and split up, one following orders, the other trusting his instincts. Meanwhile, in the wilderness of Cascade Range,  Washington State, Zoë loses grip on a personal case and is forced to confront her  demons. Without back up, this might very well turn out to  be her final hunt. Part eight summary: Sam finally arrives in Nashville and is about to begin the search for his father, when an unexpected call comes in. Episode warnings: Dark! NSFW, 18+ only! Angst, gore, violence, character death. Description of blood, injury and medical procedures. Supernatural creatures/entities, mentions of demon possession. Swearing, smoking, weaponry. Descriptions of  torture and murder. Illegal/criminal practices. Mentions of nightmares and   flashbacks. Descriptions of suicidal thoughts and tendencies, depression, panic attacks, hallucinations. Author’s note: Beta’d by @winchest09​​​​​​​​ & @deanwanddamons​​​​​​​​​. Thanks, girls!

Supernatural: The Sullivan Series Masterlist

S1E03 “Black Dog” Masterlist

     Nashville, Tennessee      December 3rd, 2005 - Present Day

     With a sigh, Sam gets off the bus. The rain beats down on him straight away, but instead of being annoyed by it, he finds it refreshing. Finally, he’s in Nashville. It’s  taken him three days to get here. Three days of torture - which included waiting for his damn transport to arrive in the first place, being forced in a seat made for someone who is 4’8, and having to change twice to get to his final destination - but he’s in Nashville. 

     Of course, he could have hopped on a plane for a journey of only several hours, but he had a hunch he would have a bit of trouble getting through customs, carrying a duffel loaded with blades, guns, and ammunition. He might always be complaining about his brother’s driving skills or his collection of Metallica, Motorhead, and Black Sabbath tapes which he plays over and over again while he sings along, but seventy-six hours of traveling to get from Texas to Tennessee wasn’t a joy either. 

     He watches the touring car take off into the night, continuing its trip, the droplets that run down the side catching the light of the overhanging streetlights. The sound of the engine fades as the carrier merges into traffic again. Suddenly, he feels alone, left behind, and not just by the bus. It’s not the first time he experiences this uneasiness, because Sam has pondered about the fight he had with his older sibling more than once. Truth be told; he never expected Dean to leave him on the side of the road. He called his bluff, and when his brother didn’t give him an inch, he himself refused to surrender as well. If he’s completely honest with himself, he started regretting this impulsive act the minute he saw the Impala drive away, but he couldn’t let it show, he couldn’t let Dean win. He is so tired of being bossed around and being treated like a little kid. Stubborn? Maybe. Guess it runs in the family.

     Sam can take care of himself, but tracking his father will not be an easy task without Dean. When it comes to Dad, the oldest son knows him best and Sam realizes he’s going to be missing him on this search. He hopes the woman who set him on this path will call him again, because he could use a lead.

     So, what now? He decides it will probably be best to settle down in a motel and get online, see if he can find some information, then he will start asking questions. There’s not much he can do right at this moment, considering it’s 2.30 AM. It’s going to be quite a task, finding a man in a city covering 550 square miles with over 600.000 citizens. And all he has is the word of a girl he has never met, of which he didn’t even catch her name.      “This is insane,” he mutters, looking around.

     A voice of reason whispers in his ear again: go back. Dean’s words had some truth to them. What if this is a trap? What if he’s walking straight into it? Sam’s doubts will not make him turn around, though. He is here and he is not going to stop searching until he finds Dad. 

     Sam keeps his head low and buries his hand in his pockets, protecting himself from the rain as he shivers. It’s not particularly cold for this time of the year, but 39 °F isn’t anything near Texas. Raindrops bring down the temperature as well and continue to fall down on the hunter as clouds block out the moon.

     He starts to walk in the direction of what seems to be a hotel. The interstate, which lays directly next to the parking lot, crosses Highway 70. Lines of cars travel by, their white headlights and red tail lights lighting the road like it’s Christmas already. 

     Through the curtains of water, the young Winchester spots a neon sign at the entrance of the building he’s approaching. He was right; it is a hotel, funnily enough one from the same chain where Zoë spent the night in Paragould. The Hampton Inn Bellevue looks like a fancy place from the outside, and remembering the luxurious room of the huntress, he reckons this hotel will not be any different. Sam doesn’t like to waste money, but he will do anything for a decent bed after being crammed into that touring car like a canned sardine. Not that he’s planning to sleep much; he has better things to do. He has to find Dad, it’s all he can think of. 

     Right when he’s about to enter the establishment, he hears his cell phone ringing. Hastily, he takes his Blackberry from his pocket, hoping it to be the anonymous caller who tipped him off three days ago. The display announces the caller as ‘unidentified’, it might not be so far fetched. Sam picks up immediately.      “Hello?”      A relieved sigh sounds from the other side. “Hey, Sam.”

     It’s a feminine voice alright, but it’s not the ‘mysterious lady’, as Dean called the woman who passed him the information about their Dad. He does recognize the person on the other end, though. She is the last human being on earth he expected a call from.      “Zoë,” he concludes, stunned.      “Yeah… hey, listen,” she cuts to the chase. “I’m in deep shit.”

     Sam stops dead in his tracks. He thought she might be after she left so abruptly back in Arkansas, but the fact that she’s admitting that she’s in trouble means that this is serious.

     “Where the hell are you?” he asks.      “I’m just outside Darrington, Washington State.”      “Are you hurt?” Sam asks worriedly.      “Yeah, but that’s not the point.” She pauses for a moment, knowing what she is about to say might come as an unpleasant surprise. “Your brother’s here.”

     Completely staggered, Sam stares ahead with his phone still close to his ear. What did she just say? Dean is there? With her?! A million questions pop up in his head, but he finds it difficult to choose the first one to ask. 

     “What?!” is the only thing he can cry out.      “Yeah, I thought you might say that.”      “But, how the…? He went out to do Dad’s dirty laundry!” he recalls, stunned.      “Are you calling me dirty laundry?”      Sam’s eyebrows reach his hairline, remembering the coordinates John sent his brother. “You are Dad’s dirty laundry?”      “Apparently, but it doesn’t matter.” She interferes before the receiver of the call has the chance to ramble on. “Listen, Dean’s life is in danger. If he stays here with me, he’ll die. You have to get him out bef--”

     Now, it’s Zo who gets interrupted. Puzzled, Sam stares at his phone for a moment, assuming the connection might be bad. When the display shows three bars in the right upper corner, he presses the Blackberry against his ear again and listens carefully, trying to identify the sounds he hears. It seems like Zoë is fighting someone over the phone, then he hears Dean in the background.      “Give me the damn phone! Give it!”      “No! Let go!”      “Zoë!”      “Don’t Zoë me, you son of a--”      “Hand me the fucking phone!”

     The line cracks, but then the noise of static stabilizes. Dean has apparently won the fight over the device, because he can hear his voice loud and clear.      “Sam?”      “What?” he replies coldly.      “Whatever you do, don’t hang up,” Dean pleads before Sam does something he will regret later.      “I thought you were on Dad’s job?” the younger brother confronts, still angry with his brother.      “I am, this is the job. The coordinates led me to Zo,” he explains. “This is not some ghost hunt, Sam. This is unlike anything I’ve ever faced before.”

     The hunter hears the concern in his sibling’s voice and he immediately swallows back the smart response he had waiting for him.      “I need you to get over here, and while you’re at it look up everything you can find about hellhounds,” Dean demands, calm but stern.      “Hellhounds?” Sam repeats, perplexed. “As in the actual soul claimers of the crossroad demons?”      “Yep, and we’re on the menu.”      “How did that happen? You have to make a deal before they claim your soul at the arranged time,” Sam remembers from one of the lore he studied.      “They were let off the hook,” Dean claims. “Sam, you have to find out a way to kill them.”      “You can’t kill hellhounds, Dean,” Sam replies.      “No, you don’t understand. You have to find a way to kill them,” Dean repeats slowly, making sure the words sink in.

     The youngest gulps, realizing how much trouble Zoë and his brother are in. He has read some books that mentioned these creatures, but he never found anything about killing them. He turns around and stares up, letting the rain fall down on him, the water clumping his brown hair together in strands. The hunter scoffs; and he thought he made it to his final destination. He just traveled half the country to get east, now he has to travel all the way up north?

     “This better not be some excuse to get me away from Dad, Dean,” he warns.      “I wish it was, Sam,” Dean says, concerned. “Hurry it up, will ya?”      “Will do.”      “And - uh, about what happened down in Texas…”      “That’s not important now. We’ll talk about it later,” Sam replies to Dean’s unspoken words.

     Knowing they both can bury their pride and work this out, the younger brother closes his eyes as a burden falls off his shoulders. It must, for him to be able to carry a much heavier weight on them. Zoë’s and Dean’s life will depend on him.

     “One more thing,” Sam states, before hanging up. “You do know what happens when these things catch you. You don’t just die…”      “I know. You go to hell,” Dean finishes.      The young Winchester nods his head, although his sibling can’t see that. A short silence follows, after which Dean ends their conversation.      “See you soon, Sammy.”

     The line disconnects and a tone beeps in his ear, but it takes a few seconds before the young hunter actually lowers the phone and puts it away. Well, that changes things. There is no time to lose; he needs to get to Washington State and fast. 

     Determined, he stalks back onto the parking lot, observing his surroundings. No bus ride this time, he needs faster transportation. His gaze glides over the parking lot. Then he spots a silver 2005 Chrysler Crossfire Roadster amongst them. He nods, approving, knowing that the vehicle would make good time, but his conscience kicks in soon enough. He can not just connect some wires and steal a car like that! Or any car! But the thought of his brother and Zoë ending up dog food because he was too civilized to go grand theft auto isn’t something he could live with either. He’s left with no other option. 

     Reluctantly, Sam groans and eyes the vehicle, but then steps towards it while shaking his head and mumbling to himself, “I am so gonna regret this.”

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[fandomdaydreamer]

Have I read a triology of Star Trek/Data slow burn fanfiction with over 600.000 words during my finals period? The answer is, I'm a horrible hedonistic trash gremlin with no self control whatsoever.

[aridara]

I’ve seen that this list of bad-stuff-that-feminists-SUPPOSEDLY-did-to-harm-men is going around again recently.

So, I’ve decided to simply copy-and-paste my rebuttal here, with slight modifications. Now with added quotes!

Okay, I’m going to number each single link Takashi0 provides. If it’s something that I’ve already talked about, I’ll be very brief about them, because there are 138 (if I didn’t miscount) links, and I can’t repeat myself every fucking time.

Feminists threaten to kill woman for saying men need abuse shelters.

1 No proof that it was feminists who threatened, in any way, Pizzey.

Feminists prevent a meeting about male suicide.

2 The meeting did happen. It wasn’t prevented from happening, nor did the protesters tried to via violent means.

Feminists stage mock murders to scare men.

3 No mainstream feminists defended them.

Feminist attacks male cartoonist and is hailed a hero of feminism.

4 Solanas wasn’t “hailed a hero of feminism”, neither back then, nor now.

Feminists shut down forum for battered husbands.

5 No proof that it was feminists; the forum continued.

Propaganda campaign against male fathers wanting custody.

6 Unsourced claim.

Feminists wish to slander accused names before convicted.

7 Feminists pointed out that protecting the names of those accused of rape while denying the same to those accused of crimes like murder or terrorism is patently unjust. This from Takashi0’s own source.

Try to shut down female prisons.

8 Becuse they don’t work - reconvictions and suicides were unusually high. Moreover, the release only involved convicts with light sentences that weren’t threats to society.

Create rape laws that exclude female rapists.

9 Suspicious source (see here); also, no word about whether those laws passed or not. Not to mention that, given the massive epidemic of rape on women in India, they really neded to sort out their priorities. (See also this thread.)

Make it impossible to charge women with rape.

10 Due to how Israel’s trials go, a man’s testimony trumps over a woman; if that law was in place and a woman can’t prove she has been raped (which is hard to prove), then the rapist could use this “non-conviction” as “proof” that she raped him and score a conviction. Also, the law only applies to a woman forcing the victim to penetrate her; if a woman penetrates a victim with a body part or object, even without this particular law she’d still be charged with rape.

Feminists against equal custody.

11 They’re against using 50/50 custody as the default; this is because it has repeatedly demonstrated that the most beneficial thing for the kid is to be able to stay with the parent that took care of them the most.

Female felons should serve home sentences.

12 Should read “Female felons should serve home sentences if they aren’t violent, but have parental duties, since we can’t just throw children in foster care”.

Told judges to be lenient on women.

13 Because they’re more likely to have parental duties or mental illnesses. It’s still a case-by-case procedure.

Feminists cover up female domestic violence.

14 Murray-Straus cites only ONE case where a publication was blocked, and offers no proof that it was feminists, nor the details of the case. The rest of his argument is basically “Feminists don’t talk about male victims of DV, this means that they are preventing everyone from helping them”. Sure. So is the World Wildlife Found. </sarcasm>

Feminists don’t want the gov to help unemployed men.

15 Feminists pointed out that there were various female-dominated jobfields in difficulty, too. And they didn’t ask for men to not be helped - they asked for women to be helped too.

Feminists launch campaigns to help girls only while boys are doing worse in every facet of education.

16 There still is a wage gap, a pay gap, a hiring gap, and a promoting gap. That’s the reason for those pro-girls campaigns.

Males who were raped as a child still have to pay child support.

17 The most recent case is from 1996, all of those cases haven’t been picked by any newsource whatsoever, and male rapists can get child custody for the children born from those rapes in these days.

Women should have the right to put a child up for adoption before the father gets custody.

18 The father in question didn’t have custody in the first place.

Feminists against beyond reasonable doubt when it’s male rapists.

19 Penal cases are based on “innocent unless proven guilty beyond any reasonable doubt”. Civil cases - what the article was about - are based around “preponderance of evidence” which, as the article’s author puts it, means “the relevant body looks at all the evidence and rules for the party it thinks has the stronger case”. So, basically, slagartehfox wants civil cases of rape - and only rape - to have the same restrictions to evidence as penal cases.

5 rights feminism ignores for men.

20 This is actually a 5-in-1 bullshit list. (Also: JudgyBitch? Really?)

Men already have the right to decide whether to keep or terminate their own pregnancies. Oh, wait, JB wants men to be able to decide for others’ pregnancies. What next, does she wants to stay at home on sick leave when a colleague has a broken leg but she’s perfectly fine?

Feminists ARE the ones taking male rape seriously. MRAs… not so much. (See point 4 of this post of mine.)

Feminists aren’t the ones shaming men for talking about their feelings or admitting that they have mental problems - misoginysts are the ones shaming other men for being “weak”, or rather, “feminine”. (See here and here.)

Again: feminists aren’t against 50/50 shared custody being the default because they assume that women are “naturally” better caregivers - they’re against it because favoring the kids’ “primary caregiver” is more beneficial for those kids.

Feminists HAVE spoken against forced circumcision, and they aren’t preventing anyone from trying and solve this issue. MRAs? Only speak about it in discussions about FGM, in order to paint feminists as penis-cutting monsters. THAT’S IT.

Feminists blame males for their abuse.

21 Tries to demonstrate that women commit the majority of DV act by referencing the study that uses the Conflict Tactics Scale, which, among other things, doesn’t differentiate single incidents from repeated behaviours, doesn’t differentiate acts in self-defense from acts of abuse, and doesn’t consider at all sexual assaults and rapes.

The primary aggressor clause where only men get charged with abuse.

22 Unsourced claim. Also: no proof to disprove that the vast majority of DV offenders are men.

Shame men into going to war.

23 The White Feather Movement was created in the first place by far-right nationalists.

Feminists dismiss female child rapists.

24 The Honey Badge Brigade did, in fact, lie. The HBB stated “95% of abused boys in juvenile facilities reported being attacked/coerced by female staff“. This “statistic” doesn’t appear anywhere in the cited source; what is written is “Among the estimated 1,390 adjudicated youth who reported victimization, 89.1% were males reporting sexual activity with female staff only, and 3.0% were males reporting sexual activity with both female and male staff” (p.23). How is “sexual victimization” defined in the survey? “Sexual victimization—any forced sexual activity with another youth (nonconsensual sexual acts and other sexual contacts) and all sexual activity with facility staff“ (p.7). “All sexual activity with facility staff”, even if consensual and legal.

Feminists say men can’t talk about domestic abuse.

25 Question: where did Costello said “Men can’t talk about domestic abuse”? Answer: Nowhere - Takashi0 made that up!

Feminists mock a man who has his dick cut off.

26 Pretty much no feminist has defended that one. And before you say “No Ture Scotsman!”: we’re at 26 links so far - 30, if you consider the JudgyBitch one as 5 different points. Up until now, Takashi0 managed to drag up only 3 istances of feminists doing something awful - and ZERO istances of those people being defended by the vast majority of feminists.

Strawmanning MRA members.

27 That’s because MRAs are misogynists. Hell, have you forgot the existance of Pick-Up Artists (”I hate women but I want to have sex, here’s some ways to coerce them into sex”) or Men Going Their Own Way (”I hate women, so I don’t want to think about them, let me talk over and over on the Net about how women are awful”)? People can’t discern sides of the manosphere because they’re pretty much all characterized by misogyny.

feminists attack church.

28 The video depicts a (probably feminist) protest in front of a church. Not an “attack”. [EDIT 19/01/2016: Apparently it was a protest against Argentina’s massively fucked-up laws on abortion, which severely limit them. They’re the reason why 80.000 women per year end up in the hospital due to complications caused by illegal, non-sanitary abortions… and are arrested for having an abortion if they survive afterwards. And only 1 in 8 abortions (out of 450-600.000 per year) in Argentina are performed legally.]

Feminists transphobia

29 Congratulations: you finally found a sizable group of feminists that are legitimately awful (Trans-Exclusionari Radical Feminists, or TERFs). Too bad you’re way too late for the “Feminists should care about trans* people too, not being transphobic!“ by about a quarter of century.

Feminists slander the MRM

30 Repeated link - see 27.

Again,

31 Nope, the article is accurate. There is no systemic oppression of white cishet men (Systemic oppression isn’t just “I am discriminated against”, you also need a social system that upholds said discrimination to a systemic level - and there is no vast majority of women/POCs/lgbt+ people oppressing white cishet men); MRAs really did try to slander the Don’t Be That Guy campaign with their “False rape accusations are an epidemic, stop encouraging them!” bullshit (which has been repeatedly proven to be false); pretty much none of the issues MRAs worry about are caused by - or prevented from being solved by - feminists; and, in fact, the MRM has done nothing at all to solve those issues, preferring instead to attack feminists.

And again,

32 Elliott Rodger was literally dripping with his own misogyny. He regularly frequented first PUA sites, and then the PUAHate subreddit. His violent misogyny was pretty much the final consequence of the general manosphere’s misogynistic rethoric. Also, feminists didn’t claim that Rodger was a MRA, the Daily Kos did. And no, despite what the Honey Badgers can say, Futrelle wasn’t involved.

Call them terrorists.

33 While peole do think that calling the MRM “terrorist” is quite excessive, there’s no denial of the massive amount of hate present in it. Here and here manospherians justify Lepine; here’s proof that the Tom Ball manifesto stayed on AVfM’s front page for way too much time; and here, here and here are the manospherians’ opinions on Rodger. They aren’t terrorists - they’re cheerleaders for terrorists.

Feminists say Men can’t be raped.

34 Broken and probably repeated link - see 9.

Feminists defend female raping minor.

35 ………Barbara Ellen is a prominent feminist? Oh, right, I forgot - she’s a woman, and she’s saying something you don’t like, therefore of course she’s a feminist. (Meanwhile: MRAs believe that a minor boy “having sex with” an adult woman is something enviable: 1, 2, 3.)

Feminist defends why fucking an 8 year old boy isn’t rape.

36 Zero proof that kermitismywaifu is a feminist. In fact, it seems he’s NOT.

Feminists primary aggressor clause discriminates against males.

37 WAVA is already gender-neutral. Plus: if the MRM wants male shelters, then why didn’t they do like feminists did and fund them?! Hell, with WAVA you’d easily get financial aid from the government!

Feminists cover up female domestic abuse stats.

38 Broken link, but probably a repeat of 14.

Woman smashing bottle in mans face in public. Nobody gives a fuck.

39 Oh, right, I remember when they’ve tried this before. How many times have they done the play? And how many times they’ve shown the one istance where nobody helped?

Jezebel mocks men who are abused.

40 Jezebel critiqued the faulty CTS study. Bad taste? Sure. Plenty of feminists admit that. We’re still waiting for MRAs to stop bringing up that massively flawed study.

Feminists make sure the gov doesn’t spend money on male shelters or male research.

41 Same argument as 37. Why don’t MRAs fund male shelters? Oh, right, because they don’t give a shit about male victims.

Female on male abuse in public is at best ignored, and at worst celebrated.

42 Where’s the unedited footage? Where are the bystanders’ reactions? (See point 39)

Public stops a man from abusing a woman in public, same crowd laughs when the roles are reversed.

43 Oh hey, it’s the #ViolenceIsViolence fraudolent video! See here for details!

No funding for male shelter.

44 Again: WAVA IS GENDER-NEUTRAL. There’s this guy who’s asking for help to build this shelter, but have any of you ever heard MRAs raising their asses and doing something to help building those shelters? Nooooooo! (Also: good job spreading that “there are no resources for men” narrative. Apparently MRA’s prefer to tell male victims that they cannot receive any help, than to direct them towards actually existing resources like this or this or this…)

Founder of Canadas only male shelter for abuse forced to close due to lack of funding before committing suicide.

45 Did feminists cut off his fundings? No. Did they prevent anyone from supporting him? No. Did MRAs raised money to help this guy? No.

Feminists threaten to kill woman for saying men need abuse shelters.

Feminists prevent a meeting about male suicide.

Feminists stage mock murders to scare men.

Feminist attacks male cartoonist and is hailed a hero of feminism.

Feminists skewed the Definition of Domestic Abuse, resulting in only male abusers being arrested and female abusers not.

46-50 Repeated points - see 1, 2, 3, 4 and 22.

Feminists’s DV training hurts Police training

51 Misleading title. What happend was: a husband attacks a man. He claims that it was self-defense because, he says, said man attempted to attack and rape his wife. The wife had previously given a taped statement to the police, stating that the man wasn’t armed. She then refused to testify in person by invoking marital privilege. Not “feminists’s DV training”.

Feminist Mary Koss denies malerape victims.

52 Koss doesn’t “deny male rape victims”. She simply states that for the purpose of researching the subject “forced to penetrate” should be a separate category.

53 Broken link to a page named “Sommers”. Possibly, it portrayed these debunked statements of her.

54 Link that shows that Koss, in her survey, attained herself to the local (Ohio) legal definition of rape because otherwise her critics would’ve dismissed her survey “because she broadened the definition of rape beyond the reasonable”. They still tried to discredit her that way, though.

Feminists violently protesting against Warren Farrell at U of Toronto

55 Repeated point - see 2. Also: no acts of violence were made.

A mob of feminists at a recent protest attacking and sexually molesting a group of Rosary-praying Catholic men who were peacefully protecting the cathedral in the city of San Juan from threats of vandalism.

56 Repeated point - see 28. And there was no “attack” or “sexual molesties”.

Feminists disrupt a forum for battered men

57 Repeated point - see 5.

Feminists fought a law for equal custody to be the default if both parents want custody and neither parent is unfit.

58 Broken link to Glenn Sacks. Also: probably repeated point (11).

Multiple times.

Feminists started a campaign against Father’s rights groups

Feminists fought against laws granting men anonymity until charged with the crime of rape—not convicted, just charged.

Feminists fought against a law to end to the justice system favoring women simply because they are women, and giving men harsher sentences simply because they are men.

Feminist fought against men want equal treatment when victims of domestic violence, and to not be arrested for the crime of “being male” under primary aggressor policies.

Feminists in India and Israel fought against femalerapists being arrested, charged and convicted of rape.

Feminists fought against a economic stimulus for male-dominated job such as construction, etc.

59-66 All repeated points - see 11, 6, 7, 8, 21, 9, 10 and 15.

Feminist fought a law against Paternity Fraud.

67 The link only states what the “Revocation of Paternity Act” is. Not that feminists fought it. In fact, a search for “feminism revocation of paternity act” pretty much only brings up anti-feminists sites linking to the same webpage.

Feminist Harriet Harman has publicly requested employers to hire women in preference to White men if both job candidates are equally

68 It was basically affirmative action, it was for women and ethnic minorities (and yes, there IS discrimination against them), and most importantly it was NOT a law proposal and thus there was no obligation for those firms to follow.

Equality Minister,feminist Patricia Hewitt, was found guilty of breaching the Sex Discrimination Act by “overlooking a strong male candidate for a job in favour of a weaker female applicant”.

69 Congratulations: you found a woman doing a Bad Thing. And? Are you claiming that feminism as a whole is bad because of one woman, but that one of the biggest MRM websites putting up a libelous “criminal registry” is the action of an extremist fringe? Or that widespread hiring biases against women don’t exist because of this one woman being biased?

Elected in 2009, the lesbian feminist prime minister Johanna Sigurdardottir has vowed to “end of the Age of Testosterone

70 Do you know what the “Age of Testosterone” refers to? The 2008-11 Iceland financial crisis, caused by aggressive economic policies opposed by, among other groups, feminist groups.

Feminists want to peeing while standing illegal

71 False description - that left party is pushing to exchange stand-only toilets in male restrooms with sitting ones. Newsflash: you can pee on a sitting toilet while standing up.

Erin Pizzey had to flee the UK because she and her family received death threats and her dog murdered all because feminists didn’t like that she discovered women were equally as violent as men.

72 Repeated point - see 1.

Also Suzanne Steinmetz and her children received death threats and bomb threats she discovered that the rate at which men were victimized by domestic violence was similar to the rate for women.

73 No proof that it was feminists.

Richard Gelles and Murray Straus have all received death threats from feminists, simply for publishing their findings (that female-to-male family violence was equal to the rate of male-to-female violence).

74 No proof that it was feminists.

75 Yep, it’s the CTS study. Debunked.

Feminists say Men can’t be raped.

Feminists defend female raping minor.

Feminist defends why fucking an 8 year old boy isn’t rape.

76-78 Repeated points - see 9, 35 and 36.

Most feminists backed studies are bullshit.

79 This doesn’t prove that “most feminist backed studies are bulshit”. All this proves is that people have forgot to actually check the BOJ statistics.

Beyond reasonable doubt doesn’t apply to rape.For men only

80 A college hearing is considered akin to a civil lawsuit, and thus it isn’t bound by the same restrictions as a penal trial. Plus, even in the rare cases where the school does take disciplinary action against a student accused of sexual assault, 75-90% of the time it’s a token punishment - if the school decides to give any punishment in the first place.

Feminist changes mind on rape culture when her son is falsely accused.

81 False rape accusations are awful. The fact that they exist doesn’t change the fact that rape culture exists, or that way more often is the accuser that gets disbelieved (including by the police), or that false rape accusations are no more common than false anything accusations.

Feminists primary aggressor clause discriminates against males.

Feminists cover up female domestic abuse stats.

Jezebel mocks men who are abused.

Feminists make sure the gov doesn’t spend money on male shelters or male research.

82-85 Repeated points - see 37, 38, 40 and 37 (again).

Feminists prevent a meeting about male suicide.

Feminists stage mock murders to scare men.

Feminist attacks male cartoonist and is hailed a hero of feminism.

Feminists shut down forum for battered husbands.

Propaganda campaign against male fathers wanting custody.

Feminists wish to slander accused names before convicted.

Try to shut down female prisons.

Create rape laws that exclude female rapists.

Make it impossible to charge women with rape.

Feminists against equal custody.

Female felons should serve home sentences.

Told judges to be lenient on women.

Feminists cover up female domestic violence.

Feminists don’t want the gov to help unemployed men.

Feminists launch campaigns to help girls only while boys are doing worse in every facet of education.

Males who were raped as a child still have to pay child support.

Women should have the right to put a child up for adoption before the father gets custody. Feminists against beyond reasonable doubt when it’s male rapists.

5 rights feminism ignores for men.

Feminists blame males for their abuse.

The primary aggressor clause where only men get charged with abuse.

Shame men into going to war.

Feminists dismiss female child rapists.

Feminists say men can’t talk about domestic abuse.

Feminists mock a man who has his dick cut off.

86-110 All these points are a repeat of links 2 through 26.

feminists attack church.

111 Repeated point - see 28.

Feminists shut down a festival about gender equality for including men.

112 That’s not what happened. What happened was that the sponsors realized that CAFE had nothing to do with equality and everything to do with MRAs and misogyny, and ran away from them.

Feminists hope MRA’s die.

113 Correction: ONE person who defines themselves as “feminist” and who doesn’t have any relevant spot in feminism whatsoever hopes that MRAs die.

Feminists against fathers day.

114 #EndFathersDay is a troll tag created by 4channers.

Feminist makes up fake assault stories.

115 Again: only 2% at best of rape accusations are false. There is no epidemic of “false rape accusations” or “made-up stories of assault”.

Female reporter bullied by feminists at the National Young Feminist Leadership Conference

116 Yes, because telling someone “Your conservative magazine isn’t welcome here” is totally bullying on par with what feminists face. </sarcasm>

The Wage Gap is a myth.

117-121 Besides the fact that the wage gap has been always correctly labeled by feminists as “How much female workers collectively make/how much male workers collectively make“, there’s some small factoids such as: women are penalized if they get pregnant more than if they take a pause from their jobs from any other reason; women are penalized if they try to negotiate their salary; there’s hiring and promoting biases; and even if we consider a man and a woman doing the exact same job/efficiency/hours worked, there’s still a 7% difference.

Women Now a Majority in American Workplaces

Labor force participation rate for men has never been lower.

122-124 How is this a problem? Feminists aren’t “stealing jobs” or “preventing men from taking jobs”.

Women in some cases make more than men.

And their husbands dont have a problem with it either.

125-134 Still doesn’t negate the existance of the gender wage gap.

Women CHOOSE to stay away from STEM field

135-138 Still doesn’t negate the existance of biases against women in STEM. (Here’s two examples.)

Did I mention that at least 50 of these links are repeats? Good fucking job, Takashi. Good fucking job.

[borchmadsen]

The City of Mirrors

I just finished the last “The Passage” book, The City of Mirrors.

2600 pages, over 600.000 words and the story is now over. 

Just as suspected, I feel just as empty as when you finish a great tv series. But on the other hand, I also feel so happy that I found these books and that this epic story was written, so I could read it and it was an incredible experience!

Thank you Justin Cronin. Thank you for this story.

[onlybooksandfanfics]

There is a petition u can sign that has already received over 600.000 signatures and is aiming for 1 Million . Help spread the word & protest. We can still change this.

This is important, people!

Article 13, the controversial new EU law that everyone has been afraid of for weeks, was rejected and sent back to the drawing board an hour ago! It was officially NOT PASSED, but it hasn’t been rejected completely. It’s been sent to be revamped and then it will go up for a second round of voting in September. Now is the time to protest and save our fandom rights!

[hetrodevaandel]

ZE WILDEN ZOVEEL MOGELIJK SLACHTOFFERS MAKEN

Er is al veel geschreven over de arrestatie van 7 islamitische terroristen die in Nederland een grote aanslag plande. Maar eigenlijk zegt de bovengenoemde zin alles, ze wilde zoveel mogelijk slachtoffers maken. Gelukkig hebben ze de kans niet gekregen. Deze zin geeft het complete beeld van alles waar de politieke islam voor staat. Moord, geweld, bloeddorst, en onverdraagzaamheid. Het is de gebruikelijke oorlogsverklaring van deze vijandelijke elementen, die onze samenleving hebben geïnfiltreerd, met bevelen die direct uit de koran komen. Deze keer zijn ze niet geslaagd, maar hoeveel van dit soort figuren lopen er nog rond, met exact dezelfde plannen? Deze vraag kan niemand beantwoorden, want sinds Merkel alle grenzen in Europa open liet zetten, zijn er zonder twijfel ontelbare terroristen meegelift op de vloedgolf van migranten.

 Maar dat is nog niet eens het enige probleem. De verdachten die nu zijn opgepakt zijn deels al eerder voor de rechter geweest, in verband met aan terrorisme gelieerde misdaden. Toch waren zij in Nederland op vrije voeten, en hadden alle kans om hun moordcampagne te plannen. Dat dit niet is gelukt is prima, maar het is  niet het belangrijkste punt. Waar het om gaat is dat dit soort figuren, die duidelijk een gevaar zijn voor ons allemaal, hier niets te zoeken heeft. Toch lijkt de overheid zich niet in te zetten om terreurverdachten buiten de grenzen te werken. Steeds wordt er weer een juridisch handigheidje gevonden om uitzettingen te verhinderen. We blijven het zeggen; de overheid houdt de islamisten de hand boven het hoofd, zelfs als dit ten koste gaat van de veiligheid van de eigen bevolking. In Duitsland zijn zelfs tussen de 600.000 en 850.000 als gevaarlijk geldende migranten gewoon verdwenen. Hoeveel er hier in Nederland kwijt zijn weet niemand, omdat dit soort cijfers nooit wordt gepubliceerd.

 We moeten trouwens nog wel eerst zien of de beweringen van de overheid, dat er een terroristische aanslag gepland was ook kloppen. Er zitten namelijk een paar vreemde kanten aan de zaak. Toen men afgelopen week toesloeg waren er al snel filmpjes van de invallen overal in de media te vinden. Het lijkt er dus op dat journalisten getipt waren. Ook werd er heel stelling beweerd dat men alle verdachten in handen had. Die garantie kan bijna nooit gegeven worden, want een paar contacten kunnen altijd door het net heen glippen. Toch bleef men bij de bewering dat het gevaar nu voorbij was. Hoe kunnen we dit verklaren? Natuurlijk kunnen we alleen maar speculeren, want de echte feiten zullen we nooit kennen. Maar het lijkt er wel enigszins op dat de geschiedenis van de zogenaamde Hofstadgroep zich heeft verhaald. De westerse geheimdiensten zijn vaak bezig met het sturen van islamistische terroristen, dat is een verkleinde versie van wat de Amerikanen internationaal doen. De terroristen laten zich meestal rustig sturen tot ze hebben wat ze nodig hebben. Daarna gaan ze zelfstandig verder, wat natuurlijk voor enorme paniek zorgt bij de zogenaamde “handlers”. De operatie van vorige week lijkt een beetje op dit soort paniek. Na de aanslag in Amsterdam had men natuurlijk ook een succesje nodig. Het is speculatie, maar uitsluiten kunnen we het niet. Laten we eerst maar eens zien of iemand daadwerkelijk in staat van beschuldiging wordt gesteld.

 Overigens doet dit niets af aan de motieven van de terroristen. Welk doel zij voor ogen hebben is meer dan bekend. Dat er nieuwe pogingen zullen komen, is bijna zeker. De westerse overheden denken dit soort figuren voor eigen doeleinden te kunnen gebruiken, maar dat loopt bijna altijd fout af. Blijkbaar wil of kan men dit niet begrijpen. Gelijktijdig zien we ook de naïviteit van het publiek. Na de arrestaties van vorige week spraken buren hun verrassing uit. “Het waren toch zulke aardige jongens, en altijd rustig en vriendelijk.” Men kent de mentaliteit van het midden oosten en Noord Afrika niet. Vriendelijk of rustig zijn betekend in deze cultuur helemaal niets. Een vriendelijk persoon kan een minuut later met een mes klaar staan, of een bom af laten gaan tijdens een concert vol vrouwen en kinderen. Wie de slachtoffers zijn maakt ook niet uit, als het maar om “ongelovigen” gaat. In al deze dingen schuilt het grote gevaar voor ons allemaal.

 Toch willen de overheid, en de Multi-Culti ideologen dit niet zien. Men weet waar de moskeegebouwen van de salafisten staan. Men weet ook wie hier in en uit gaan. Toch laat men begaan. Het enige waar men interesse in heeft is kruipen voor de islam. In Duitsland mag de bloedsultan Erdogan de grootste moskee van Europa in Keulen openen. Hij mag het islamisten teken maken, en zijn bewakers mogen Duitse politie agenten aan de kant duwen. Erdogan mag zelfs openlijk spreken over de gelovigen die in zijn ogen het Turkse leger in Duitsland, en in de rest van Europa vormen. Noch Merkel, noch Steinmeier, de zogenaamde Duitse president, spreken hem tegen. Wat zijn dit voor zogenaamde leiders, die hun eigen landen en volkeren laten vernederen om een Turkse dictator ter wille te zijn? Een eerst reactie zou zijn dat het om lafaards en slappelingen zonder ruggengraat gaat. Maar dat is niet de hele verklaring. Men kruipt voor de islam omdat men de islamisten nodig heeft voor de geplande bevolkingsuitwisseling. Dit soort figuren heeft de islamisering van Europa al lang geaccepteerd als een middel op de weg naar het uiteindelijke doel.

 We kunnen dus niet spreken over lafaards en slappelingen, maar over collaborateurs en volksverraders. Een leider die zijn eigen volk op deze manier verraad en in gevaar brengt is schuldig aan hoogverraad. Hij of zij hoort niet op de regeringsbanken, maar voor een tribunaal. Daarom is het ook zo belangrijk dat iedereen ziet wat er precies gespeeld wordt. Turkije is namelijk niet het enige land dat zijn invloed in Europa gebruikt om de islamisering op te voeren. Saudi Arabie en andere golf staten doen precies hetzelfde. Zo wordt het sluipende gevaar voor ons allemaal alleen maar groter. Omdat we nog maar weinig tijd hebben, is het van het grootste belang dat we ons ontdoen van de heersende elite. Zij willen Europa onherkenbaar veranderen. Dat mogen we niet toestaan. Laten we massaal in verzet komen, en de volksverraders en collaborateurs verjagen. Het is de enige manier om onze toekomst veilig te stellen. WORD WAKKER, EN KIJK DE REALITEIT IN DE OGEN! ALS RECHT TOT ONRECHT WORDT, WORDT VERZET EEN PLICHT.

[cringlenet]

SPREAD THE WORD – CRINGLE GOES CROWD FOR THE SECOND TIME

It seems like it was only yesterday that we successfully raised 800.000 Euros through Companisto, but it has actually been a year since we announced our first crowdfunding campaign. Last year we found it pretty spectacular to watch the numbers go up minute by minute and to observe the trust our users had in us, at first hand. More than 1.400 investors believed in us during the campaign and supported us in every possible way. Unfortunately, it wasn’t possible to accept the funding from many other investors due to time constraints. We would like to change this. Please spread the word - starting from today, we will be initiating another crowdfunding campaign; to make sure that EVERYONE has the opportunity to be a part of our journey this time. 

With the capital from the last campaign we were able to move and advance Cringle a lot! We built a couple of awesome products for our beloved users and already started planning how we can surprise them in 2018. Here is a quick overview of what happened over the past 12 months:

Well-known companies and FinTech investors such as Axel Springer, the Investitionsbank Berlin and yabeo invested in us.

We have been able to renew and re-design the Cringle App for a leaner user and partner experience. Cringle 2.0, as we call it, will be launched with plenty of new features in the upcoming weeks. We can’t wait to demonstrate our group payment & cost sharing function with you all!

We have developed the Cringle API to integrate our smart P2P solution in third party apps.

We have doubled our lovely team of experts

We have doubled our user numbers and already exceeded the 3.500.000 EUR transaction volume milestone.

We have expanded to Austria, as a part of our European expansion. 

We have added 3 new partners to our partner network.

... and much more

You can find a full overview under www.cringle.net/companisto

Nevertheless, we are not done yet! We would like to pull cash from the market and to enable Cringle throughout the whole SEPA Europe. In order to become the one and only P2P and cost sharing app for Europe, we need additional growth capital and that’s why today at noon, we will be hitting the green button to start our second crowdfunding campaign on Companisto. We are planning on raising an additional 600.000 Euro from the crowd in exchange for shares in Cringle.

And what do we do? We develop mobile payment solutions and we are the trusted partner for banks and app providers in Europe. Users can use our payment solutions to send money directly to any mobile number, as easy as an SMS. We make payments practical, easy, fun and social.

Invest now: www.cringle.net/companisto

[seocompanysurrey]

Clean up your bad backlinks

Websites that have made the mistake of hiring some shady SEO company to buy bad backlinks for their website can loose almost all their rankings. In this post, we will go beyond on-site optimization and explain a bit more about bad backlinks for your website and how to clean them up.

Although buying bad links might give you short term wins, it will backfire in the end; you’re at risk of a Google Penguin penalty. Unnatural links indicate that your website might not have the quality or content to be interesting enough to get proper backlinks on its own. At the end of this article, we’ll mention a way to get great backlinks without buying any. 

Optimize your site for search & social media and keep it optimized with Yoast SEO Premium »

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How to find bad backlinks

The main difference between good and bad backlinks is the quality of the website they are on. Sometimes bad backlinks are easy to find, sometimes you do have to check the website itself to see if and why the backlink can have a negative impact on your website.

There are a couple of categories in this.

Links from a website that is just set up for SEO links

If a website has a ton of articles that lack all coherence, chances are the website is set up solely for the purpose of linking other websites. If the website is a WordPress site, most of the times a default WordPress themes like TwentyEleven is used. These websites are usually not linked from other websites, or are part of an odd link network designed just to link these lousy websites.

Links from the comments of other websites

MajesticSEO link profile

At Yoast, we use the link profiles provided by Majesticseo.com a lot. The combination of a Trust flow and a Citation flow gives you a nice overview of how good your backlink profile actually is.

Trust flow refers to the authority given to the website that links to you (by MajesticSEO, based on a number of chosen factors), and Citation flow refers to the number of links the website has. Low quality backlinks come from websites that are low on both trust and citation.

We get dozens of these on a daily basis, here at yoast.com. Bots populating your website’s comment forms telling you ‘great article, love the info, hope you can elaborate more about the topic soon’. Personalized comments even, including author name. Spambots get more intelligent by the week, unfortunately. We’ve reviewed a site that was run by an older man replying to all of these comments, thanking them for the kind words. Don’t get fooled. Comment spam links are bad for your backlink profile.

Links with over optimized anchor texts

In general, one can assume the most backlinks to a websites are linked using the website name as the anchor text (link text). The URL itself is also often used. If your website has a huge number of websites linking to your website using exact keywords, as the shady companies we mentioned tend to do, that looks very suspicious. If our main backlinks would have Yoast SEO Premium as an anchor, that will ring some alarm bells at Google. The most used anchor for links to our site should be ‘Yoast’ in a natural link profile. And it is, of course.

Links within lousy, duplicate texts

Usually, websites that are just set up for the links have content that just doesn’t make sense, or is scraped from related websites. Some black hat companies create sites per subject, to make it look like the links are on related, quality websites. In most cases Google Panda will hit these sites eventually, resulting in yet another low quality backlink for your site. Duplicate content is a sign of low quality in most cases, and that is (among others,) what the Google Panda updates are about.

Links from Russia, while your local audience is in the US

As the websites linking to you are likely to be related to your business, you’ll understand that a link from a Russian or Dutch website (for that matter) for your local consultancy company site in Kansas City doesn’t look natural at all.

Of course there are more and more specific indications that a backlink is of low quality. Alan Bleiweiss listed some more in his article How To Clean Up Bad Backlinks and Establish Trust With Link Vendors (2013, still valid IMO).

How to remove backlinks

Now that we have a general idea of the links that you don’t want for your website, let’s get rid of them. In general, we have a number of ways of disabling these links so they won’t hurt your Google rankings:

This is the easy one: find the contact details of the website owner and ask him to remove the link. Don’t demand the other website to take the link down, but ask this politely. That usually works better :) However, you will most likely also be faced with webmasters who ask you to pay for link removal or who don’t reply at all. In such cases, you should disavow the unwanted links that can’t be removed.

Check which low-quality pages on your website are linked by bad backlinks and get rid of the pages (404/410) instead of the links. That is probably not what you want, as most pages will have value for your website. Besides that, too many 404s send a wrong message to Google as well. In addition to getting rid of the page, you should also disavow these bad backlinks.

Get rid of the domain and start all over. Drastic, but if your site isn’t worth investing to clean up these bad backlinks, that might be an effective way. I wouldn’t do that unless Google has clearly penalized you for Penguin, Panda and more, though.

If you have just too many backlinks you want to get rid of, or webmasters aren’t responding to your call to remove the link, you can also disavow these links. That’s basically telling Google you’d prefer these links not to be taken in account when assessing your site.

Now there is one thing I have to warn you about: you will probably lose traffic. Your website will have less links pointing to it after this, so less people will visit your website via these links. In the case of disavowing, the links will still be there, but the sudden drop in backlinks (bad or not) will trigger something at Google, telling it your website is less interesting. That’s the signal Google gets when these links disappear. It will work out in the end, but traffic will probably go down at first. There is no telling how much and how long, to be honest.

Of course, this is a lengthy process. It will take a lot of steps and therefore time. However, there is a way to speed this process up.

Let’s speed up the bad backlink cleaning process

If your website suffers from negative SEO (the competitor buying bad backlinks for your website), or you have made the mistake of buying bad backlinks via that shady SEO company in the past, cleaning up your backlink profile is quite a hassle. We tried to explain that above.

That’s where LinkResearchTools comes in

LinkResearchTools (LTR) provide excellent value for money when it comes to cleaning up your bad backlinks. They have helped us out on more than one occasion, where one of our customers had made the mistake of buying bad backlinks.

Especially when Google Search Console is telling you that you have bad backlinks via their Manual Spam Actions, you want these links cleaned up as soon as possible. No matter the cause of these backlinks! But also, keep in mind that you need a tool that shows you as many links as possible, so you have a chance to see all the links Google knows about.

LTR provides monthly subscriptions for their link tools that help you to for instance:

manage your backlinks and find the links that actually harm your site. LTR will show you which links should be removed or disavowed asap;

get rid of a Manual Action and/or algorithmic Google Penalties by cleaning up your backlink profile that way;

compare your backlinks to competitors and find great new backlink opportunities;

find possible linking partners and be notified of new links to your website.

For $649, LinkResearchTools offers their Superhero plan, which will include their Link Detox Boost, Link Alerts, Competitive Link Detox and many more tools. You can analyze up to 600.000 links with this plan, but also have the chance to upgrade to a plan that fits the size of any domain, even multiple millions.

In the philosophy of LRT, link audits are about “all or nothing”, and they will support you finding the right plan, so that you can give your domain a complete audit. They do that by combining and re-crawling link data from up to 25 different link data sources.

Sign up for a LinkResearchTools (LRT) plan »

Note that this isn’t an affiliate link! We trust LinkResearchTools and recommend them based on our own experience.

Clean up your site!

Can’t wait to start with a spring cleaning on your site? Go ahead and give your website a good clear-out:

Read our advice on cleaning up your site structure

Tidy up your old posts and pages

Have Sucuri check and monitor your website’s security at a 25% discount.

Have LinkResearchTools clean up and monitor your bad backlinks.

Read more: ‘Link building from an holistic point of view’ »

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[mccullytech]

Clean up your bad backlinks

Websites that have made the mistake of hiring some shady SEO company to buy bad backlinks for their website can loose almost all their rankings. In this post, we will go beyond on-site optimization and explain a bit more about bad backlinks for your website and how to clean them up.

Although buying bad links might give you short term wins, it will backfire in the end; you’re at risk of a Google Penguin penalty. Unnatural links indicate that your website might not have the quality or content to be interesting enough to get proper backlinks on its own. At the end of this article, we’ll mention a way to get great backlinks without buying any. 

Optimize your site for search & social media and keep it optimized with Yoast SEO Premium »

Buy now » Info

How to find bad backlinks

The main difference between good and bad backlinks is the quality of the website they are on. Sometimes bad backlinks are easy to find, sometimes you do have to check the website itself to see if and why the backlink can have a negative impact on your website.

There are a couple of categories in this.

Links from a website that is just set up for SEO links

If a website has a ton of articles that lack all coherence, chances are the website is set up solely for the purpose of linking other websites. If the website is a WordPress site, most of the times a default WordPress themes like TwentyEleven is used. These websites are usually not linked from other websites, or are part of an odd link network designed just to link these lousy websites.

Links from the comments of other websites

MajesticSEO link profile

At Yoast, we use the link profiles provided by Majesticseo.com a lot. The combination of a Trust flow and a Citation flow gives you a nice overview of how good your backlink profile actually is.

Trust flow refers to the authority given to the website that links to you (by MajesticSEO, based on a number of chosen factors), and Citation flow refers to the number of links the website has. Low quality backlinks come from websites that are low on both trust and citation.

We get dozens of these on a daily basis, here at yoast.com. Bots populating your website’s comment forms telling you ‘great article, love the info, hope you can elaborate more about the topic soon’. Personalized comments even, including author name. Spambots get more intelligent by the week, unfortunately. We’ve reviewed a site that was run by an older man replying to all of these comments, thanking them for the kind words. Don’t get fooled. Comment spam links are bad for your backlink profile.

Links with over optimized anchor texts

In general, one can assume the most backlinks to a websites are linked using the website name as the anchor text (link text). The URL itself is also often used. If your website has a huge number of websites linking to your website using exact keywords, as the shady companies we mentioned tend to do, that looks very suspicious. If our main backlinks would have Yoast SEO Premium as an anchor, that will ring some alarm bells at Google. The most used anchor for links to our site should be ‘Yoast’ in a natural link profile. And it is, of course.

Links within lousy, duplicate texts

Usually, websites that are just set up for the links have content that just doesn’t make sense, or is scraped from related websites. Some black hat companies create sites per subject, to make it look like the links are on related, quality websites. In most cases Google Panda will hit these sites eventually, resulting in yet another low quality backlink for your site. Duplicate content is a sign of low quality in most cases, and that is (among others,) what the Google Panda updates are about.

Links from Russia, while your local audience is in the US

As the websites linking to you are likely to be related to your business, you’ll understand that a link from a Russian or Dutch website (for that matter) for your local consultancy company site in Kansas City doesn’t look natural at all.

Of course there are more and more specific indications that a backlink is of low quality. Alan Bleiweiss listed some more in his article How To Clean Up Bad Backlinks and Establish Trust With Link Vendors (2013, still valid IMO).

How to remove backlinks

Now that we have a general idea of the links that you don’t want for your website, let’s get rid of them. In general, we have a number of ways of disabling these links so they won’t hurt your Google rankings:

This is the easy one: find the contact details of the website owner and ask him to remove the link. Don’t demand the other website to take the link down, but ask this politely. That usually works better :) However, you will most likely also be faced with webmasters who ask you to pay for link removal or who don’t reply at all. In such cases, you should disavow the unwanted links that can’t be removed.

Check which low-quality pages on your website are linked by bad backlinks and get rid of the pages (404/410) instead of the links. That is probably not what you want, as most pages will have value for your website. Besides that, too many 404s send a wrong message to Google as well. In addition to getting rid of the page, you should also disavow these bad backlinks.

Get rid of the domain and start all over. Drastic, but if your site isn’t worth investing to clean up these bad backlinks, that might be an effective way. I wouldn’t do that unless Google has clearly penalized you for Penguin, Panda and more, though.

If you have just too many backlinks you want to get rid of, or webmasters aren’t responding to your call to remove the link, you can also disavow these links. That’s basically telling Google you’d prefer these links not to be taken in account when assessing your site.

Now there is one thing I have to warn you about: you will probably lose traffic. Your website will have less links pointing to it after this, so less people will visit your website via these links. In the case of disavowing, the links will still be there, but the sudden drop in backlinks (bad or not) will trigger something at Google, telling it your website is less interesting. That’s the signal Google gets when these links disappear. It will work out in the end, but traffic will probably go down at first. There is no telling how much and how long, to be honest.

Of course, this is a lengthy process. It will take a lot of steps and therefore time. However, there is a way to speed this process up.

Let’s speed up the bad backlink cleaning process

If your website suffers from negative SEO (the competitor buying bad backlinks for your website), or you have made the mistake of buying bad backlinks via that shady SEO company in the past, cleaning up your backlink profile is quite a hassle. We tried to explain that above.

That’s where LinkResearchTools comes in

LinkResearchTools (LTR) provide excellent value for money when it comes to cleaning up your bad backlinks. They have helped us out on more than one occasion, where one of our customers had made the mistake of buying bad backlinks.

Especially when Google Search Console is telling you that you have bad backlinks via their Manual Spam Actions, you want these links cleaned up as soon as possible. No matter the cause of these backlinks! But also, keep in mind that you need a tool that shows you as many links as possible, so you have a chance to see all the links Google knows about.

LTR provides monthly subscriptions for their link tools that help you to for instance:

manage your backlinks and find the links that actually harm your site. LTR will show you which links should be removed or disavowed asap;

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TEARING MUSCLES

You don't merely inherit success from being the strongest, smartest, or wealthiest, but rather from consistency, diligence, integrity, character, and a lot of hard work and time. . Famous people and companies advertise and market like 90% of the time or more and you can always find people who wrote books or did many things but are not famous or successful or not winning or not happy or not where they want to be in life. I learned a lot from a Stefan Molyneux video last Sunday, the 14th of May 2017, and Stefan talked to a man that fell and could not walk any more. Stefan told him to work on apps or work on writing or whatever he could and try to tell people and share his story with everybody. I learned a lot from that video specifically as I worry that nobody knows me but I think that we should find confidence and also consistency which comes from who we are as in our character and we start from there and we filter through our priorities to do what we love and to love what we do each and everyday as we demonstrate the meanings of life by loving others through altruism and agape through serving others and everything and that is what gives us happiness and success and so much more as we get back to the roots and foundation to what life and love is all about which is found in history and found in our service to others and it grows over time through wisdom and it becomes a passion for us as we grow in altruism and agape. . Business English Class Notes 2017-05-18 Thursday Night 7 PM ICT Opera HCM with Teacher JoeyArnoldVN .

La Diem Dung . Detectives profile and guess things about situations, cases, and people, concerning the past and the future too. . One Hit Wonder . Gangstum Style by PSY1 . Diamond & Silk, on their show for yesterday in the USA, the 17th of May 2017, talked about Steve Harvey whom announced a new privacy and space policy for the media and fans whom stalk him at the dressing room and they ambush him in hallways and he is like in his 60's and is getting older and he says please make appointments and we need breaks because we must save energy if we want to energize others and what Harvey said is a good thing and deserves it and it takes a lot of energy and stuff to be on the go when you are a celebrity and it wears or wares or tears us up and we must pace ourselves if we want to make it. . She has an army sprain and my mom bad a broken arm and a cast. . I used to get sprain ankles . I have pulled muscles and sprained bones and joints but have not broken bones I think. . A sprain ankle can get better in a day if it is not too severe or too big or too serious. . You are using your fingers and you are also have a cast on. . If you have a cast, you probably should not use your fingers on the arm. . If you're using the hand right now, then that is either a good thing or a bad thing. . I see you using both of your arms right now. Why are you using both of your arms right now? . Your doctor told you not to use your left arm, but you are using your left arm. Why are you using your left arm? . But you ARE using your left arm. . You are using it a little but maybe not too much. . Why is there a cast on your arm? . You had pain in your left hand and your wrist. . That means the problem is not related to picking up heavy stuff. . No pain, no gain. . The pain can tell you to stop using your arm and hand and wrist but the medicine can make you forget the pain and then use your hands maybe too much. . How is the cast helping you? . Does it protect you? . Bone Bones Pressure . Normally, casts will keep you from moving, but your wrist is still moving . Maybe, I am wrong. . Maybe, your wrist is not moving or like bending. Maybe your cast is keeping your wrist from bending . Inconvenient . Sign your name on the cast on my arm with a black marker and this can be like a game and it can be fun while we party at the workshops in Da Nang. . Tendons are part of the muscles . Muscles will push and pull and tendons are there Technical . Tendons connect bones with muscles . I would call the tendons an extension or part of the muscles, and I say this partly since pulled muscles will also result in pulled tendons as well and therefore the tendons receives the results from the muscles and are therefore maybe part of the muscles or the bones or a third category or something . Pain killers . People become addicted to pain killers and medicine and drugs too much and too many and too often . Specifically, tendons are not muscles but you could say they are the same if you want to be very simple . Muscles and tendons are part of a muscle system but they are different parts of the same system . Common sense Logic Intuition: to know before you know something Gut Feeling = intuition . I am learning all the time and my mom is like a doctors and we read books and research and I was born in 1985 and I am 32 years old now and have been talking to many people for many years now and I do not always remember how I know what I know but I do know that I know a lot more than people think I know and I do not always let people know how much I know and that results in people underestimating me and then I can blow them out of the waters and I just finished the second half of season 6 of the TV show called Suits which focuses on Lawyers and their cases in the criminal justice law and order world. . Suits . Congress Complete Comple . Tense Tendon Tender Tenderness . PRONUNCIATION: 1. TENDER 2. TENDON . You are tender . Tho Nguyen Youtuber . 2015-03 I went to Cambodia with a letter that sponsored and invited me back to make a new VN visa. . I made a new VN visa in Cambodia and came back with a 3 month visa and extended that 2 times but was not allowed to extend a 3rd time in December 2015. . Then, I went to many people to get help and they tried and then failed many times and they did not tell me why they could not help at those times or not exactly. . I was thinking about going to Cambodia again but some people kind of said to me like maybe I was like on a black list or had some kind of problem with police or something and that scared me a lot because that might mean that I would not be allowed back in VN ever again . Now, I think that was not my problem but I did not know at that time. . Now, I think it was that I needed a work permit within the first 90 days of a work visa and that was probably my problem and I think I know that now but did not know that then because nobody told me and instead said some crazy things that scared me. . Now, I have to pay for overstaying pass the expiration of my last visa by almost 2 years and the fees for that may exceed 60 trieu VND maybe or more or so. . You have to pay for each day like maybe 600.000 VND for each day and almost 2 years now . The fee will be determined by the police at the border . 2015-03-09: 3 month DN visa 2015-06-09 1st extension 2015-09-09 2nd extension 2015-12-09 visa expired Ligament Tear Rip Pull Sprain Not a disease Hurt Injure Injury Damage Damages Damn = great, big, terrible Damning I forgot to charge my phone and now it is out of batteries and it will go dead and it will die Construction I got lost . I have ever heard of this place I have once heard of this place I have heard of this place before Medical students study all night sometimes . Adverb Past . Once upon a time, I was there. Yesterday, I was there. A long time ago, I was there. Last week, I was there. Last year, I was there. An hour ago, I was there. . On comes from upon Upon is the older word and on comes from that . On comes from like upon and onto . Upon = towards + on + at + inside . Context = the story that surrounds the words or the things or people or smaller stories or whatever .

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. Business English Class Notes 2017-05-18 Thursday Night 7 PM ICT Opera HCM with Teacher JoeyArnoldVN .