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kaiserouo · 2 months ago

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some ramble about my (public) twitter account and general platform stuff?

I think it's probably a good idea to talk about how i treat different platforms. It's not a post to ask everyone to follow my twitter account or anything (I care about this blog more than that account anyways), just to clear something up if you happened to find my twitter.

So, if you've read literally anything i post (doubt it), you might know i have...

Plurk: Actually the first platform i started doing art stuff with like 2.5 years ago. It's mostly about my ramble now (like ~70% of them. yes.) and it's in chinese anyway so i stripped the link from my pinned post long ago.

Tumblr: This. I actually made this account half a year later than the twitter account, but I like this platform more. Unlimited text / image and a separate tag section is perfect for me, and people generally talk and behave better / more politely here too. I post everything here so there's no need to check out my twitter account tbh.

Twitter: I've always been treating it as some art archive. I don't ramble and have almost zero interaction with anyone there. It's not like there's been anyone seeing my stuff there anyway... but apparently it skyrocketed when i posted valorant and warframe stuff. Huh, kinda weird tbh. Anyway I only sync somewhat finished art there, I also omit some comics because they're hard to make into twitter's 1 or 4 picture format (or i think they're not funny after weeks / months later).

Private twitter: Complete lurker account. For mutuals (if there are any), if you don't see me liking / reblogging your art on twitter that's because I don't use public account for that. If you saw me that means I forgot to change account.

TL;DR: you don't have to see my twitter if you come across that in the future. i sync stuff from tumblr to there anyway.

#idk i just decided that maybe i will sync stuff to twitter more frequently-#-because apparently there's people seeing my stuff there now and it's probably not a complete waste of time doing that #maybe it's just the algorithm treating few of my post well but yeah. i guess im already doing that anyway #no im not calling it X #what the actual hell is that name #ramble

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a1detective · 5 years ago

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Update, 12/19/2019

If we can be forced to say a man is a woman, there is nothing we can’t be forced to say. If a lesbian can be forced to have sex with men, there is nothing we can’t be forced to do. We will all increasingly be pressured to publicly affirm our support for these mores to the point where there will be nothing we can’t be forced to think. And that’s the point. A society whose subjects must not only declare but actually convince themselves that 2+2=5 is a society that is truly totalitarian, regardless of whatever lip service its politicians pay to democracy.

Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/12/transgenders_attacking_ Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook

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Original Article:

Satire: BY JEFFREY A. FRIEDBERG

FROM BENEATH AREA 52….

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NOTE from beneath Area 52: 9/8/2019

This piece of satire really struck a nerve or a thong or jockstrap or tooth or something. Because it’s still getting Visits, and heated “Comments,” even though it was originally posted, 7/8/2019, which a relatively long time ago, in Internet days.

9/12/2019: ACTUALLY, it even seems to me, to be under some sort of attack….

If you hate the article so much, why don’t you just scrub the article from your site(s)?

Why Not?

I GUESS, MAYBE, BECAUSE IT GETS YOU CLICKS ?? 🙂

This article is getting so many clicks, maybe I should put some ads on my site, which earns NOTHING, and write more articles like this one?

Thank you so much for the Traffic 🙂

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Let me “signal” here that I don’t care what “Gay” does with each other. We always had Uncle Maurice—who was NEVER, “in the closet.” The Gay Hairdressers Association of Philadelphia always treated me politely as an 18 year old, hot-looking, lifeguard.

Jeffrey A. Friedberg…”Even I was Once As You….”

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KATHY GRIFFIN IS DOING **WHAT** TO SMILING, SELF-PROCLAIMED, GAY ANDERSON COOPER? “Kathy Griffin has taken TV to a whole new level by giving Anderson Cooper’s ‘sack’ (her words, not mine) a smooch on CNN’s live New Year’s Eve broadcast. I wonder if she missed the announcement that he’s gay? You can see the whole twisted thing here.”

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Groin To Groin??

cdn.newspunch.com – OMG! I thought that was a woman! – Child laying on top of “Drag Queen Reader,” at a “reading.” Laying there, Groin to groin?

BUT—OH, WAIT!

STOP THE PRESSES!

THIS UPDATE (9/12/2019) EXPLAINS EVERYTHING:

Drag queen blames little children for shocking photos at public library

Child Abuse, Drag Queen Story Hour, Drag Queen Story Time, Homosexuality, Oregon, Portland, Public Libraries, Transgenderism

PORTLAND, Oregon, September 10, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The drag queen who was shown in multiple disturbing photos to have frolicked on the floor with young children crawling over him at a Drag Queen Story Hour blames those children for the backlash he experienced.

LifeSiteNews first brought photo evidence of children having inappropriate contact with drag queen Carla Rossi at Portland, Oregon’s St. John’s Library to the attention of the public in July. The photos, which had been posted on the Multnomah County Library’s own Flickr account in October 2018, were quickly removed after the LifeSiteNews report went viral.

Drag queen Rossi, who last year said the kids were climbing on top of him after a dance move called a “death drop,” changed his tune after receiving criticism, saying the kids knocked him over as he tried to fight them off. He also blames his bad hip and the six-inch heels he was wearing at the time.

In an October 2018 Instagram posting in which he was pictured with a little girl lying on top of him, he said, “Drag Queen Storytime yesterday ended with a death drop on a bubble wrap dance floor as the babies crawled all over Carla Gulliver’s Travels–style, and I have the best job in the world.”

Shortly after LifeSiteNews drew attention to the troubling scene in the Portland library, Rossi’s gleeful tune changed. In a subsequent Instagram post, he said he didn’t so much want to “set the record straight” as “break it altogether.”

“The photographed kids knocked me over and piled on me, and I laughed with them and their parents and the library director and told them we had to get up as I tried to look out for my bad hip in the process,” said Rossi.

“What would you do differently if kids having a Cher dance party — on bubble wrap — knocked you over in six-inch heels and a floor length rainbow caftan?” he asked.

—https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/drag-queen-blames-little-children-for-shocking-photos-at-public-library

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/drag-queen-blames-little-children-for-shocking-photos-at-public-library

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Ass To Groin??

rwcnews.com – “8-Year-Old Becomes Drag Queen, Left Supports Behavior Despite Claims Of Child Abuse.”

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GAY MEN IN MUSLIM HANDS. “Kill All The Gays:”

“اقتلهم.”

What does the US Liberal say? “Oh, that photo was taken in Turkey.” I see—so— what? In that case it doesn’t matter? Ca ne fait rien?

OMG! And I Thought This Was A Woman! i.dailymail.co.uk

GAY SEX TO BE REQUIRED FOR ALL? (“EXCEPT MUSLIMS?”)

Probably not immediately, but maybe—yeah.

Well, no, but—yeah, could be.

Nah. No.

Oh, speaking satirically, maybe at some future time, maybe when the diseased media, politicians, Hollywood, and other perverted social warriors decide, “The time is right,” but not right now. Nah.

BTW, no word from Muslims, but I already, however, totally do see maybe having Gay sex as a Test—a pre-requirement for joining ANTIFA (pronounced, “an-teefa.”) 🙂

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* I read someplace where Transgenders are upset and mad that “straights won’t date them.”

I can’t remember where I saw that. But this obviously has to be fixed. It can maybe be done by legislation or Executive order. Under democrat rules of equality, these trannie “folks” are apparently entitled to have sex with ANYbody they choose.

It seems to me that the LBGTXYZ (or Whatever) already rules Earth.

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It seems impossible to make a million, run for office, or keep your job without extolling a Gay Lifestyle, praising all sorts of not-usual sex, and watching Supergirl on Canadian TV.

When you even have the failed bartender, calling itself, “AOC,” on the Gay Bandwagon, then you know there is a large, loose, and smelly Movement coming.

“UHHhhhhhhh…I feel it COMING! (EEehhhhhhhh!”

Google, July 8, 2019

* I read someplace where we have already been asked to “take in” Nancy Pelosi’s gentle, divine, illegals. You know, board and feed them in our homes? The way King George had us take in British soldiers around 1776?

# # # #

UPDATE, 7/9/19: “

“NYT: Middle-Class Americans Must Sacrifice Their Suburbs to Aid Poor Immigrants”

I CAN ALMOST NOT EVEN KEEP UP WITH THIS WILD DEMOCRAT LIBERAL CRAP. IT JUST KEEPS POURING OUT—LIKE PROJECTIVE DIARRHEA.

YET, I REMAIN PROPHETIC.

SUBSCRIBE HERE.

* I ask, can demanding that we all have gay sex be far behind?

The intention of a group called SHFA (Super Happy Fun America) to run a Straight Pride Parade in Boston drew a whopping amount of poisonous attacks from the Left media, both social and mainstream.

The SHFA has been adjudicated as promoting homophobia, which is totally untrue, but at least could be remotely perceived, giving the usual twisted logic from the Left. There are gays among the SHFA members and main figures of the event — Milo Yiannopoulos, a “right-wing” openly gay activist, has been appointed the parade’s grand marshal.

Nevertheless, the “homophobia” tag is not nearly enough. On top of that, the parade organizers have been branded in the mainstream media as “people with connections to white supremacists” (defined as such by the ACLU) and the Alt Right. Apparently, some among SHFA have certain association with the ResistMarxism organization, built with an aspiration to defend our Constitution, our Declaration of Independence, and the economic system based on capitalism (rather than communism or Hitler-style national socialism). That, in the eyes of “progressives,” is a major sin on its own.

—americanthinker.com

Wow, I give this group, SHFA, positive credit. Even though they are already an object of leftist, deluded, lying, communist scorn. And will probably draw hatred, and violence.

I mean—they represent what was normal in America just a few years ago. Now, apparent maniacs have seemingly turned a world upside down with an unfathomable drive for seemingly “gay” ultimate supremacy.

And, “Socialist” sounds so much nicer than, ‘COMMUNIST.”

Who will protect this patriot group from the “tolerant,” benevolent, divine Left? Not the mayor of marathon-bombed and 9/11-airport Boston; he appears to be a deluded fool. Not the politicians, media scum, or kneeling (kneeling?) “entertainers.

The police? Maybe; we still have to see if they will even “approve” the march, we are told.

Because, you see: in my opinion, a “Gay,” Leftist, Communist, Illegal, Muslim-Jihadist, and Democrat-almost-Mafia-like Rule has somehow been insinuated into America’s Blood—as being “the new Normal.”

d.ibtimes.co.uk

YOU HAD BETTER OBEY.

BECAUSE, “Social media,” and mafiosi, ‘bots, algorithms, search engines, leftists, and communists, can Find you.

They can SILENCE you.

Not only might they critique your punctuation, and grammar, But They Might Also evaluate sentence construction!

WORSE— they can be FUNNY!

Even though it’s just satire, they can say it’s not— that it’s “the government,” that it’s “a conservative ploy,” or that it’s “from Area 51!” Nothing matters to Them—certainly not the truth—only ascendancy, of their Communist Doctrine.

But, they Can Still Fix You in Place. They can Scorn and Attack you, They can Swarm as taught doctrinally in “schools,” Destroy you, and Get You Fired. Your Life could be over.

Therein lies your democrat “freedom” and “equality.”

Love it. Live it:

“FREE AT LAST!”

Hey Kids, on both your sides: Jeez—CAN YOU MAYBE BE MORE TOLERANT OF EACH OTHER?

Jeff Dunham’s, “Achmed The Dead Terrorist.” – i.ytimg.com/vi/kF7znANAAkM/maxresdefault.jpg

* * PS: Kids, I had so much hate mail, sex-filth, and death-threats from the “tolerant, fair, humorless, peace-loving” side—who seemed so hatefully intolerant and violent toward satire—that I could not keep The site cleaned of their remarks. I mean, I don’t think I can print what some sent me.

So, I closed down “Comments.” 🙂

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UPDATE: Will Having Gay Sex Soon Be Required For All American Citizens? (“Excluding Muslims?”) Update, 12/19/2019 If we can be forced to say a man is a woman, there is nothing we can't be forced to say…

#gays #gays rule #Gays usa #transgender gay

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timeladyjodie · 8 years ago

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7. ryder/liam (if you want)

#7 “I almost lost you.”

(Given how much Ryder dies and is revived, this prompt instantly gave me ALL THE IDEAS)

This fic takes place post Liam’s loyalty mission wrap up ‘Community” and also post “hunting the archon.”

Sara had almost died twice now and it was starting to make it a bit hard for her to get any shut eye. Death was starting to feel like something that was stalking her, that was determined to get Sara one of those days.

While it wasn’t dying she was necessarily afraid of, what worried her was… There was so much she still wanted to see and do. Her duties as Pathfinder to attend to, reviving her mom, showing Scott around Heleus, and…

There was so much that felt unfinished with Liam. She still had that email of “things for us” sitting in her inbox. (And she was normally super good about cleaning out her email) She wanted to do the whole list, maybe combine some things: A sunset, a bottle of wine…

There was so much life to experience!

Sara Ryder wasn’t done yet.

Unable to sleep, she peeled off the covers, sitting up and moaning. SAM’s voice popped up in the corner from his router. “Sara, if you are unable to sleep, I could play a piano piece from my archives.”

“That’s sweet, SAM, but I think I’ll be good once I’ve got a drink of water,” Sara lied.

“Your heart rate has increased. We both know you are not being truthful,” SAM argued.

Damn, why had Dad taught SAM to read someone’s vitals. Useful for hunting down criminals, bad if you wanted to lie to a concerned AI.

“Oh, we’re going there, are we SAM? Fine, I lied,” Sara mumbled. “I’m not fine, but… I just want to go back to bed and forget what’s bothering me to be honest.”

“If that is what you want. I will be here if you need me.”

Finally, she didn’t have SAM nagging at her. Really, had Dad added a “nag Sara” algorithm at some point? She appreciated it, but she wasn’t an angara. Right now she just wanted to be alone in her emotions. Maybe go and make a cup of tea and mope until she fell asleep. She knew in her heart that Lexi would likely agree with SAM that her not sleeping because of what had happened in the Archon’s flagship was unhealthy, but Sara didn’t care right now.

She didn’t expect to have the door to the kitchen open and to find Liam sitting in a chair facing opposite a snoring Drack. He was staring at a glass of water like it held the meaning of life. His face lit up at the sight of her. He jabbed a finger at Drack, held a finger to his lips. Then leaned forward a little and whispered so low she almost didn’t hear him.

“You can’t sleep either?” Liam mumbled. Sara nodded a yes and grabbed a glass of water for herself. She filled it and was glad that the sink didn’t make much noise. The last thing Sara wanted to make this might better was to wake up an old cranky krogan.

Once Sara had her glass of water, her boyfriend motioned out the door, and flapped his hands as if they were talking to each other. Sara giggled and nodded. She wasn’t sure she wanted to deal with her own worries about death this late, but if happy-go-lucky Liam was up late, she should listen to his worries. He was a good boyfriend, sweet and attentive–not at all like Dad had treated Mom growing up. Even if she wanted to lay down and mope, she needed to make an effort. For Liam. She carried her glass outside. Once they were both outside, Sara used her biotics to lift both of their glasses to the bridge so they could climb free-handed. They both hurried back the ladder and soon sat on the bridge, legs dangling off the edge and sipping at their waters.

“You don’t normally seem like the kind of guy to stay up late pondering the meaning of life, Liam,” Sara said. her voice had a teasing tone, but was also somewhat considered. Brooding wasn’t Liam’s style. “What do you need to talk about?”

“I just,” Liam slammed his water down a bit too hard. “I can’t stop thinking about the Archon’s flagship. I almost lost you, you know?”

Great, the one thing she had literally hoped to forget about in a few minutes due to the sweet allure of sleep was the one thing Liam wanted to talk about. Guess there was no outrunning it tonight, even if she wanted to. Well, as Dad would say if you couldn’t run from something… Maybe she could at least help Liam deal with it.

Sara put a hand on Liam’s shoulder.

“But you didn’t lose me,” Sara said, trying to be soothing, but also firm. “I’m here, Liam.”

He sighed. “I know that, but… You didn’t see it. Cora and I watched the life bleed out of you. It–It–’’ Liam’s voice broke and he took a deep breath. “All I kept thinking was–you’ve been such a shoulder for me to lean on. You’ve listened about my parents, you forgave me for the shitshow that was Calot–”

Sara snorted a laugh. “Hey, hasn’t everyone had shower thoughts along the lines of ‘I wonder what it’d be like to run on the ceiling?’”

Liam’s laughter joined her own at the joke, but it was a hollow laugh if she’d ever heard one. “Yeah… Good one. But—I just keep thinking of everything I want us to do, and I just worry there might not be enough time.”

Liam… He had the same fears as hers? The side of the tempest blurred, and Sara’s sides began to heave a little.

“Oh, God, I didn’t mean to trigger you!” Liam said, wrapping his arms around Sara and pulling her up into his lap. “Here I was talking about my fears and worries and here they’re yours too…. I really should have thought about that–but you know me, I don’t think anything through and…”

One Sara had finally managed to stop crying, she wiped at her nose. “No, I’m crying because–I actually feel a bit better now. More normal knowing that I’m not the only one going ‘what if there’s not enough time to do everything that I want to do? What if I don’t get enough time?’ I felt so isolated and alone before but now that I know I’m not alone in my feelings…”

Sara snuggled a bit deeper into Liam’s arms, enjoying the physical contact. The feeling of being held by someone who cared. Eventually, her eyelids began to drop.

“I know we should head back to bed,” she whispered. “But I don’t want to move from this spot.” She giggled. “How angry do you think Kallo would be if he found us asleep here in the morning?”

They both laughed–real laughter this time, and not forced laughter. Sara yawned.

“If you come to my room we can do more of this,” she mumbled and then blushed. She still wondered sometimes what would have happened if she hadn’t panicked and pulled away that day when she’d told Liam they both needed someone. “I mean, cuddling not sex. I mean, not that they wouldn’t be nice someday, but it’s late and not to mention those pajamas are warm and I’m not in the mood to change out of them and–”

“Sara, chill!” Liam said, laughing. “I know what you mean, I’m only in a cuddling mood right now, too, no need to panic.” Liam stood up, grabbed a glass, and held up an hand to Sara. She grabbed a hold of it and didn’t let go even after he’d pulled her up. In fact, she inched a bit closer.

To thing this evening might have ended with a cup of tea and a pity party.

#skyorganasolo #asks for ts #answered meme #this is massively unedited #I want to fix the dialogue and description a bit #but it has potential #I might edit it at some point and put it on AO3 #anyway #death mention #kinda sorta?

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mbiceta · 6 years ago

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This is a very late thank you for 250 followers! It means a lot to me that people find my blog worth reading and enjoy it’s content enough to follow for more! I have wanted to show my stats for a while now because I think they’re pretty useful and interesting to learn from.

Also thank you to one special email follower (Lexie) who has been subscribed to me via email for 2 years! That means you’ve basically received 700 emails from my blog, through months where I would consistently release posts twice a day. You do still use that email address right? Right? Right?

So now I guess I’ll just show all my stats and then explain things about them. If theirs something that you want that I forgot just ask for it!

The stats (As of December 3rd when I wrote this)

53 Twitter followers YES! BTW

Latest post (I guess)

I think that’s all people care about now on to talking about the stats and what you can learn from them!

Organic Growth

goes 27, 109, 143, 162, 177, 449, 473

From December to June shows what organic looks like on a word press blog. You can expect to get more views than 15 in your first month because I started on the 27th of December so that’s not nearly representative.

Organic growth is where you just release your posts and do nothing else. You don’t interact with the community or cater to what people like. You don’t particularly try to get yourself out there it just happens.

What happened in May and June? I can only guess that I got lucky, maybe engaged with the community slightly or it could have been my post that did fairly well about eromanga sensei.

Boosted Growth

On WordPress it takes a lot to boost views and sometimes you need a push. However once that push is over it’s very rare that they revert back to their original state. So in July I released 69 posts giving me a huge boost from last time.

However increase in posts does not correlate to views. If you look I released 4x more posts but only doubled my views, which was not great. That could be attributed to the content of the posts – very short episode reviews a lot of which I didn’t care about.

Anyway after that month I released less posts and got more views for it. That’s due to the previous posts and the fact that suddenly stopping posting doesn’t reduce your views nearly as much as you think.

If you want more proof of putting less content out for posts doesn’t effect views that much then look at November and how I put out half the blog posts as the previous month but got more views for it.

High Output of Posts and High Community Engagement

This was me starting January and going up until August. The combination of both can really do a lot for a blog. The explanation for the high spike in March was due to my Sakamoto post going viral which sort of messes up my stats which were fairly easy to follow. While I’m thankful that the post went viral it’s harder in this instance to draw information about my stats to help other people know what’s going on.

At any rate my views were steadily increasing by a certain amount (on average) and that’s what normally happens. What’s interesting to notice is that the percentage increace in views is comparable to the time of organic growth. You have to put a lot more work in to gain more views when you already have a really high amount.

When you suddenly stop both a high output of posts and community engagement

Ever since University this has happened to me. In September and October I released a 4th of the amount of posts I usually do and the following I released an 8th of what I used too. Of course this is going to result in a substantial set back of views but not nearly by the same proportions. My views only halved after the second month (compared to outputting a 4th) and that brings me to the next point.

If you stick with the consistent change you will notice a difference.

But there is an interesting point in November where I dropped to 8 posts a month only to increase my views. I can only imagine this is one of a few things, The first is that people get recommended things on an algorithm and your blog might be on this, and changing your frequency of blog posts will change how your blog is treated, and it takes a while to get used to the change. That sounds so dodgy though.

Then it could also be that my Sakamoto post is going more viral lately and lastly the posts I released could just have been ones that get better popularity.

Predictions for this month

The month of December is going to be strange for me. I will go back home from Uni on the 15th which will give me more time to return to how things used to be. Though it won’t be the same since I’ll probably be with friends a lot more of the time.

At any rate it should result in an increase of blogging which I don’t know how good will be for views. It seems weird to say but I’m wondering if constant output will result in the opposite effect, like people will get bored of seeing me or that it will affect the search-ability of my Sakamoto post which is where a lot of my views come from now.

Now I think my views will go back to how there in September since my Sakamoto post is going more viral now. It’s got like 200 views in 3 days so yeah.

Hey I wrote this and guess what?

Common keep on continuing yeah!

What a viral post looks like

Some bloggers probably get posts that go a lot more viral than this one, however this is the best I can do to attempt to show you what they look like stat wise.

My Sakamoto post has about 9,000 views now which is quite a lot. March shows the start of when it went viral and before then it was already quite popular. What happened was that someone with a lot of popularity on Facebook shared it and I got a huge amount of views. I wish I could find out how many but I don’t know how.

The circled one highlights when the Sakamoto post got popular – you notice it

Then it just stayed like that which was very lucky. When I get to the 2.5k-3k views mark it might look like I have a lot but so much of that comes from the one post that you can off like 800 views a month from that stat for if the Sakamoto post never existed.

Conclusion

Thank you very much for 250 followers and I hope you found something useful about stats! I know it’s unlikely that you will use these stats to your advantage however they’re interesting to know. I myself like to see what the different sort of growths look like because that’s pretty much the only interesting thing about stats, that and the fact that each one represents a single person.

I don’t honestly know if this amount of views/comments/likes/anything else looks like a little or a lot. However I’m just very grateful to everyone who has read any of the posts at all, it means a lot to me and I’m really grateful anyone is reading me at all! Thank you to anyone who has read any post I’ve put out and thank you even more if you’ve commented and shared it and stuff. You readers are very special to me and without you, I probably still wouldn’t be doing this.

And most importantly I’m still beating Veol by a long shot this year

Wait

Veol only wrote 6 posts and two of them got over 100 views! If you do the maths actually 6: 306 and 700: 25,992 posts isn’t great. If you switch my ratio I only get 223 views for every 6 posts. No Veol beat me! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Veol didn’t even write any posts this year what the hell!

Next year I WILL win.

250 Followers Thank You! And Stat Showcase Too This is a very late thank you for 250 followers! It means a lot to me that people find my blog worth reading and enjoy it's content enough to follow for more!

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fashiontrendin-blog · 6 years ago

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The Biggest Trend at Fashion Week Had Nothing to Do With Clothes

http://fashion-trendin.com/the-biggest-trend-at-fashion-week-had-nothing-to-do-with-clothes/

The Biggest Trend at Fashion Week Had Nothing to Do With Clothes

When I posted an Instagram of a magnificent fruit spread at Roxanne Assoulin’s press breakfast last week with the caption, “Breakfast buffets are the new street style you heard it here first,” Leandra DM’ed me a few minutes later and said, “Actually though…Runner-up for most Instagrammable thing among fashion ppl, second to clothes, is def artfully arranged nourishment.” And thus, a trend hunt was born. It wasn’t difficult to find evidence of this theory; in fact, Instagram-worthy food abounded over the course of fashion week’s entirety. Since Man Repeller is in the business of peeling back the layers of trends to narrow in on their broader purpose, Leandra and I had a slack conversation to discuss the ubiquity of this movement and its implications within both the industry and the larger conversation we’ve been having about social media. -Harling

Leandra: The biggest trend at fashion week this season is designers feeding their audiences!

Harling: Seriously! And how interesting that the biggest trend has nothing to do with clothes? (Or does it????)

Leandra: Nothing to do with clothes, everything to do with social media? No, that’s not fair, and I hate blaming (and crediting) the internet for everything but I have been thinking A TON about the collective subconscious — groups of people tuning into the same frequencies at the same time and how that informs what happens next. And we’ve been talking so much about food even at Man Repeller — the art of nourishment! SO: we started on this trajectory at Roxanne Assoulin’s breakfast presentation, ya?

Harling: Yes, the Roxanne Assoulin breakfast had everything from yellow kiwis to Lucky Charms and all of it was styled perfectly. I know what you mean re: the internet, though. Sometimes it bothers me that Instagram/social media keeps nosing its way into all my thoughts and theses these days, but that’s sort of the nature of the world we live in, huh? I really appreciated Vanessa Friedman’s article about anti-algorithm fashion that you shared over email because I think it connects to this conversation we’re having in a lot of ways. (Although I do think there is joy to be had in the fashion/experiences that are tailored to the algorithm in addition to those that are not, so I sort of like sampling both.)

Leandra: There’s an argument to be made that social media is becoming the collective subconscious, right? It’s just not really subconscious anymore because it’s viewable outside the confines of a mind for public consumption. Do you think the food-rich presentations and shows have been made to appease the algorithm?

Harling: Absolutely!! Pretty food = likes and engagement. It’s social media currency, and I think it’s very savvy of designers to buy into it, because a show/presentation isn’t always guaranteed an Instagram post — but more often than not, a plate of beautifully arranged food IS.

Leandra: There is also a distinct correlation between food and fashion. It creeps in regularly; I don’t find it to be so new. Maybe it has to do with lifestyle because both entities serve an incredibly utilitarian purpose necessary for survival — clothes keep you covered and food keeps you full. But both can also take a turn for the wildly gluttonous/frivolous. And living between that tension, recognizing their importance for survival but also being able to indulge in what can be sinister about both is where a lot of cool stuff happens.

Harling: Interesting point. By “sinister” do you mean their mutual ability to cater to our more superficial instincts? There’s something simultaneously human and glamorous about both food and fashion, even though those things are seemingly diametrically opposed.

Leandra: To the most hedonistic parts of our identities. Why do you find those things diametrically opposed?

Harling: By human I mean our emotions, our vulnerability, our physicality, and by glamorous I mean something untouchable/elegant/lofty/aspirational. Fashion can occupy both of those spaces quite easily, but I agree that pinpointing the area of the Venn diagram where they overlap is where things get interesting. Same for food. Where else besides Roxanne have you seen artfully arranged nourishment this season?

Leandra: Mansur Gavriel had everyone seated — you were there too right? And we were all served Ladurée dessert. I wasn’t at Sandy Liang, but I saw on our Instagram that food was served there as well. There was coffee this a.m. at Michael Kors…not the same, but close. Hors d’oeuvres at Staud. Anywhere that I’m missing?

Harling: Breakfast at Brock, right? And I heard rumors that there were orange peels dipped in chocolate at The Row, which sounds very chic.

Leandra: Oh yeah, duh, we had avocado toast and croissants at Brock. It was a treat that didn’t really make sense with the Marie Antoinette-if-she-lived-with-Pollyanna-meets-Georgia-O’Keefe vibe of the show, but tbh that was a treat in and of itself. Anyway, WHAT TO MAKE OF THESE THINGS? Do you think they impact the viewing experience? Change your opinion on the clothes? Or the story the clothes tell?

Harling: I think there’s an element of it that is intended to combat fashion week burnout. i.e. here is something delicious to partake in, to make you feel nourished/taken care of during an extremely busy work week with no weekend. But also! Something different from clothes to look at on your Instagram feed, which you might be getting sick of at this point. It’s like a palate cleanser (literally). Other than that, I think it plays a role in helping us envision the 360-degree worlds these designers are creating — worlds that aren’t just made up of clothing. More than ever now brands are trying to CONNECT, and what better way to do that than with food served communally around a table?

Leandra: Good conversation, I guess!

Harling: Yes. Only slightly ironic, then, that everyone will subsequently share it on social media 🙂

Leandra: I agree that food is the most natural and obvious extension to inform “experience” which has become THE buzzword, but the thought of it becoming so pervasive that good food starts to feel like overkill instead of joyful upsets me. And that’s a direction we might well be headed in. The pro, I suppose, is that if it happens, it does require us to reflect inward and appraise, as we have had to do with clothes, what purpose beyond the obvious it serves in our lives. But maybe I’m reading too much into it. Just eat the damn cake, right?

Photo by Harling Ross at Sandy Liang.

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If you hate the article so much, why don’t you just scrub the article from your site(s)?

Why Not? I GUESS, MAYBE, BECAUSE IT GETS CLICKS ?? 🙂

This article is getting so many clicks, maybe I should put some ads on my site, write more articles like this one— and make money?

Thank you so much for the Traffic 🙂

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Groin To Groin??

cdn.newspunch.com – OMG! I thought that was a woman! – Child laying on top of “Drag Queen Reader,” at a “reading.” Laying there, Groin to groin?

BUT—OH, WAIT! THIS UPDATE (9/12/2019) EXPLAINS EVERYTHING:

Drag queen blames little children for shocking photos at public library

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“What would you do differently if kids having a Cher dance party — on bubble wrap — knocked you over in six-inch heels and a floor length rainbow caftan?” he asked.

—https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/drag-queen-blames-little-children-for-shocking-photos-at-public-library

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Ass To Groin??

rwcnews.com – “8-Year-Old Becomes Drag Queen, Left Supports Behavior Despite Claims Of Child Abuse.”

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GAY MEN IN MUSLIM HANDS. “Kill All The Gays:”

“اقتلهم.”

What does the US Liberal say? “Oh, that photo was taken in Turkey.” I see—so— what? In that case it doesn’t matter? Ca ne fait rien?

OMG! And I Thought This Was A Woman! i.dailymail.co.uk

GAY SEX TO BE REQUIRED FOR ALL? (“EXCEPT MUSLIMS?”)

Probably not immediately, but maybe—yeah.

Well, no, but—yeah, could be.

Nah. No.

BTW, no word from Muslims, but I already, however, totally do see maybe having Gay sex as a Test—a pre-requirement for joining ANTIFA (pronounced, “an-teefa.”) 🙂

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It seems to me that the LBGTXYZ (or Whatever) already rules Earth.

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It seems impossible to make a million, run for office, or keep your job without extolling a Gay Lifestyle, praising all sorts of not-usual sex, and watching Supergirl on Canadian TV.

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UPDATE, 7/9/19: “

“NYT: Middle-Class Americans Must Sacrifice Their Suburbs to Aid Poor Immigrants”

I CAN ALMOST NOT EVEN KEEP UP WITH THIS WILD DEMOCRAT LIBERAL CRAP. IT JUST KEEPS POURING OUT—LIKE PROJECTIVE DIARRHEA.

YET, I REMAIN PROPHETIC.

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* I ask, can demanding that we all have gay sex be far behind?

The intention of a group called SHFA (Super Happy Fun America) to run a Straight Pride Parade in Boston drew a whopping amount of poisonous attacks from the Left media, both social and mainstream.

—americanthinker.com

Wow, I give this group, SHFA, positive credit. Even though they are already an object of leftist, deluded, lying, communist scorn. And will probably draw hatred, and violence.

And, “Socialist” sounds so much nicer than, ‘COMMUNIST.”

The police? Maybe; we still have to see if they will even “approve” the march, we are told.

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YOU HAD BETTER OBEY.

BECAUSE, “Social media,” and mafiosi, ‘bots, algorithms, search engines, leftists, and communists, can Find you.

They can SILENCE you.

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WORSE— they can be FUNNY!

But, they Can Still Fix You in Place. They can Scorn and Attack you, They can Swarm as taught doctrinally in “schools,” Destroy you, and Get You Fired. Your Life could be over.

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Love it. Live it:

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Hey Kids; on both your sides: BE MORE TOLERANT OF EACH OTHER.

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So, I closed down “Comments.” 🙂

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