#now that google sucks i can't search it on there anymore and i could never find that bitch on tumblr

[comfortlesshurt]

oh my god i'm going crazy over voltron art from like... 2017?

[honking-up-a-storm]

6/28/23

I'm sweaty and it's pouring out. Lots pretty empty, slow day, I'm not gonna complain after yesterday. Odd my head is pretty empty. Had a goal this morning and I guess my brain is focused on getting that done when I can't. I need a laptop and a tall chair out here, speaking of chairs I'm so happy with my new one, it's so comfy. I think I wanna take a trip out to NYC soon. I wanna go on my own or with my friends, I really don't wanna go with my parents. You know this book came with two others, lined and graph paper and yet I'm using the blank paged one to write. How silly is that? Anyways yhea New York. I could do a weekend trip. Amtrak is $60-$80 and I don't really need to spend more than $70-$100 on a nice hotel room for a night or two. Though I could check if flights are cheaper, ok Google says it kinda just depends on the day for which is cheaper. My aunt is a flight attendant maybe I could just ask for buddy passes even though they're a bit unreliable. Now the lot is filling up. But also like travel times, the train is surprisingly more reliable. I wonder why hotel rooms in times square are so cheap. I wasn't even looking the location up I just searched NYC and they popped up. But god yhea do not wanna be there. Visit for a second sure, but staying, hell no. But like what would I do there? Nintendo store... Which is ironically in TS. I could go- this guy smoking is killing me. I could go to some other specialty shops around the city. We really just be doing a shopping trip that's what this is. Of course, we can do some tourist stuff like sightseeing. Maybe hit up [Friend] and see if he wants to see a show or something (he'd probably say Moulin Rouge, he's seen the damn thing like 10 times now). But shit I've never seen a show on Broadway. I know I'd love the Disney ones, but I've heard tourist audience etiquette has been abysmal, so I wouldn't get to really enjoy it. I don't even know what else is playing. Like I know Sweeny Todd is, but I'm terrified to even look at ticket prices for that. Which sucks because it's one of my all-time favorites. All my favorites are Sondheim. Ew yhea barely anything under $100, hell very limited in finding anything under $200-$300. I don't think I can rationally pay anymore than like $150 since even though I love the art form and craft, seeing live shows are a memory dump kinda situation where I can remember most of the night but none of the performance, I don't know why I have this curse but I do. I think it's an eyesight thing. Yippieeeee a ten dolla dolla bill. Not the mosquito.

[monstersw1thv1bes]

Actually I put this all in the tags but I think it's important enough to make it a comprehensive reblog:

As a content marketing specialist, I resent the idea that I don't put my all into everything I write. I also write novels, and I take writing very seriously.

Also, if you think Google results sucking nowadays is the fault of SEO, you very clearly haven't read Google's TOS or paid attention to any of the updates to Google's content guidelines (which are really rules for ranking) since, like, 2006. The latest Google Core Update proved again that you can't just spam keywords anymore. You need to write something people actually want to read and which actually helps them.

User experience (known as UX) is at the forefront of Google's ranking algorithm now. They don't want SEO'ers to optimize websites for search engines, they want us to optimize websites for search engine users. This involves content (anything readable, watchable or interactive on a website) but also the tech behind the site. A site has to work fast, it has to be easy to navigate. In short: a website will only rank well if a user, after going to it through Google, then stays on that website for a long time and interacts with a lot of things. And yes, Google can see this, cookies or no.

The reason Google works worse as opposed to 20 years ago isn't SEO specifically. It's that the people who expect the results to be the same as 20 years ago, fail to realize that the entire internet isn't the same as it was 20 years ago. When you're looking up information about something, you're not finding those hobby blogs by people with a special interest because

a) the overall percentage of those blogs has gone way down. Many, many websites are offering the same information now. Even when it comes to conspiracy theories, big companies and even newspapers are covering these topics because that is what attracts readers, watchers, listeners. And no, they're not always doing SEO.

b) when the small hobby blogs do rank high somehow but then users click on them and their website looks like shit or is slow, people tend to leave quicker, which means they rank lower again because GOOGLE LITERALLY ONLY CARES ABOUT THE USER EXPERIENCE NOW, AND THEY MEASURE IT BY HOW LONG THEIR USERS ARE WILLING TO STAY ON A WEBSITE.

Search engines like Google don't give a shit if I put a keyword in a text 20 or 30 times. That's not how SEO works anymore. All keywords are good for now, is to help a writer decide what blog ideas may be useful for their clients. If a lot of people are looking something up, then a lot of people want to see content about it.

The more effort I put into writing something actually good, the higher it usually ranks. I have seen my content rank at the #1 position of keywords with a high search volume several times, when I never even did a keyword analysis beforehand. I just wrote that shit because I thought it would be helpful, interesting, or fun.

In conclusion: OP doesn't work in SEO and doesn't know a thing about it. Most companies these days don't even want to do SEO because contrary to popular belief it isn't free, it costs a lot of time and effort you have to pay somebody for, and there are never immediate results. At the marketing agency where I work, almost every client first come to us for SEA (search engine advertising) and we convince them later that they could profit from a website with a better user experience, which is basically what SEO is now.

Content farming, link spamming, and all those things you hear about, which supposedly "make the internet worse," are called Black Hat SEO. Lots of Black Hat SEO tricks don't even work anymore, but more than that, they are deeply frowned upon even by the online marketing industry. If my boss found out I was using those tricks, I could get fired. If Google finds out a website is using those tricks, they are immediately punished with low rankings.

SEO is not the death of good writing. People's inability to read is the death of good writing. I'm tired of my job getting a bad rep because people see the internet, which just sucks now, and go "you know what MUST be the cause???" without actually knowing how SEO works or what Google's content guidelines are. Fuck all the way off.

Hill I will die on: SEO optimization is the death of good writing.

People who know I'm an English major: Why not get a marketing job?

Me: *points aggressively at the hill*

[aishiteimasu]

Why I prefer Fluff over Smut!

Edit: I made up my mind about this. I may not be a minor, but I don't tolerate smut anymore! Timeskips are a thing, but other than that, no thank you!! <3

I can't write smut for the life of me, how are people so good at it?! I'm sick to my stomach of doing things I consider to be daunting chores, having multiple smut-related tabs open to copy-paste from just to please the others, dismissing my own feelings of discomfort and regret for being unable to say no. I'm done. Can't do this anymore. In this post, I will tell you exactly why I stopped writing smut altogether, and why I decided to replace it with fluff!

🦋 I initially had conflicted feelings about this. I planned to be an 18+ roleplayer just like many others out of sheer curiosity to see how things work here, so I binged GiyuShino lemons (since I write Shinobu currently) to see if I have what it takes to write my muse in the same lustful way they did.

🦋 Passionate kisses? Mm, I can wing that no problem. Mild foreplay, as in... being an actual tease, temptations... That's where I'm out. That's where my brain & stomach implode. Foreplay is the first step for the big thing, and I can't complete it. I don't have the willpower to write that scene, let alone all the ones following it. While it DOES make sense for Kocho to have a "seductive" personality in that situation, as a writer I can't do it. People wrote them having the time of their lives way better than I ever will.

🦋 I don't care about the whole "You never know until you try" bullspit. Trust me, I did. With different characters but the same trope. A tease and a person of few words. All of my partners in the past thought I was perfect. One of the many things that make me laugh in this life. Boy how I wish they'd realize by now how they made fools of themselves for meeting someone like me. They could just select any of the lines I responded with, search them up on Google, and they'd find out that I didn't write them from my heart.

🦋 How in the burning hell am I supposed to write about an experience I've never even had, and never ever will?! I don't trust people's words until I experience them myself, so I could FEEL what the character is feeling, so I could write and describe everything as if it were happening in real life!

🦋 For me, sex is stressful after all, though I've never had it before, and never will. I always fail to understand how such an energy-sucking activity could be considered fun. What do people see in it? I only see it as a healthy way to make biological children, that's all. Speaking of which, I wonder how many Giyuu & Shinobu would have in the future.

🦋 Heheh... I guess, writing smut is not for everyone huh?.. Good to know! My true strength lies in romance and all the other positive themes aside from lust! Last time I made a character I played lustful, I had no idea what I was doing, but Google, being the faithful friend it is for me, got my back and carried me all the way through!

🦋 I love me some wholesome fluff! I'm fine with kisses & pecks as long as they're not lustful, and hugs & cuddles will definitely make my day! If our muses (Mine: Shinobu, Yours: Giyuu) do those heartwarming signs of affection towards each other, then I would finally sleep peacefully, without any worries at the back of my head.