#ozy vc: I like her

[ardenssolis]

@shecharm said (inbox):

a light clicking of claws against floor , she is not accustomed to such . . luxurious surroundings. she carries a bottle of - something , wrapped neatly in a deep red cloth , tied at the top with a string to keep it all together. upon reaching him , she offers naught but a gentle smile and flutter from tall ears. arms extend , offering him her gift. "honey wine , from my homeland." a pause , tails of five moving in all different directions from one another. minds of their own. "i wanted to share some of my culture with you. the last time we spoke . . you asked a lot of questions , not many do. i thought you may enjoy this."

     ❝HONEY WINE? THAT SOUNDS heavenly.❞ He stepped closer, happily reaching out to accept that offered gift with a wide and genuine smile. Gifts that he had received far, far in the past were all dull – most of which done to win some kind of nod from the great pharaoh, but she…well…she always did such of her own volition without desire for anything in exchange. It was gifts like these that he coveted – gifts like these that could truly bring warmth to his heart. ❝I thank you for this, and know that I will enjoy every sip of it.❞ He paused, if only for a moment, before soft laughter slipped from his lips. Ah, yes, he had asked her a great deal of questions, hadn’t he? It was hard to not be curious when met with someone so different from the other individuals he had met since being here. ❝You always bring me such excellent gifts, and yet I have not given you anything in return. Unacceptable. This will change in the foreseeable future, so prepare yourself, Inari.❞ He would give her the most splendid of things as further thank you.

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The 4 main types of news startups

The news startup scene is, thankfully, impressive. There ar numerous new startups that it becomes tough to induce a handle on the particular new corporations being launched and what they hope to try and do.

Thus, here’s a quick guide outlining the four completely different varieties of news startups: content, curation, aggregation and social.

All ar attracting investment — albeit for what i believe ar completely different reasons.

Content Perhaps the foremost exciting for the news trade ar startups centered on making a wealth of original content. These sites even have bonafide editorial employees.

There ar numerous examples that have gotten cash — Buzzfeed with its $50 million funding spherical (with a complete of $96 million raised); Ozy with $30 million from Axel Springer; vocalization Media with another $61.1 million; and Vice with a ridiculous $580 million.

For no matter reason, venture capitalists ar within the game for content: content is back and price investment in. I’ve detected from every of the seven content startups I’ve spoken to it VCs finally believe that digital advertising may very well herald cash. however additional usually than not, some content sites ar claiming that their underlying schoolnology platform offers a competitive advantage that creates the corporate [*fr1] tech and [*fr1] media, such the corporate now not views itself as simply content however product.

Curation These startups ar primarily intermeshed toward repurposing content created by another news supply. there's no original news going down, however the content is so original. The startup remains making original content although, really crafting news content into original presentation. Hind News 

For example, Circa offers — in chunks — up to 256-character summaries of stories articles on your phone. there's a commentary team that's viewing wire services and different major news sites to assemble each breaking news and informative content. this is often then written up in a resourceful means.

Other curation sites ar centered on video. NowThis News accustomed provide original content, however executives created the choice that this merely wasn’t progressing to be as effective as taking content gathered elsewhere and shaping it up into bite-sized videos. the location currently offers compelling, transient headlines to each serious news and weird news like Saint George W. Bush shared a rest room with prostitutes.

A native web site to the Missouri faculty of Journalism, Newsy is additionally another curation web site. Scripps recently bought Newsy for $35 million to assist the corporate build the jump to additional digital video.

My guess is that these sites ar ready to build the case to funders that they're not manufacturing expensive original content, and as a result, with alittle employees offers massive amounts of daily content due to quality redaction. and therefore the hope, I think, is that with individuals encircled by a inordinateness of choices for news, every app are the orientating ground or initial stop for busy individuals wanting to catch up.

Aggregation These startups ar centered on taking news really written by some other person and serving it up to readers. As I’ve written before within the Columbia Journalism Review, these apps (as they're principally apps) create some danger to ancient news shops. Not solely is there very little linking, rare byline attribution or traffic pilfering, however these startups ar investment heavily in personalization.

An human that may individualize holds wide promise because it offers refined algorithms that may probably higher serve readers with content they require. Again, within the argument for one-stop buying content, aggregators gather a wealth of sources in one set place. In leading examples like Prismatic and News360, the algorithmic program is prompting investment, as is that the affordable promise of content delivered via personalization.

Social These social startups have confidence user-generated content for his or her existence. while not YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, these corporations wouldn’t exist. The startups typically provide a platform to gather user content and host this user content on their own systems.

Consider maybe the primary startup during this class, Storify. The startup offers virtually a blank CMS giving anyone anyplace the prospect to arrange social media into a coherent story. This was created with news in mind, and journalists adore it, however Storify is being employed by all kinds of individuals and even brands.

Storyful, on the opposite hand, cuts out the work of stories organizations by providing social media verification, although currently it solely will this for NewsCorp, that nonheritable it for $25 million. A team of social media verifiers explore for national content to reinforce news events and so verifies it in step with a spread of criteria. The social media is then transferred via the Storyful platform to the news property. 

These social sites don't seem to be essentially the darlings of VCs however instead have a business model wherever the foremost logical next step is acquisition by a serious media company. this is often associate degree unsure model to follow, particularly providing major media corporations might not have the spare money to shop for up these corporations. On the opposite hand, the power to host and verify national content appears to be a requirement for any wire service that really has some regard for democratic content creation.

With these four classes in mind — content, curation, aggregation and social — we will see a breakdown of the landscape. Hopefully this makes it easier to check the various funding claims that every kind of web site offers to potential investors, and makes it easier for you to have faith in making your own startup, maybe investment, or just selecting a replacement thanks to get your news.

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#5

KNOWING YOUR PARTNER WELL CAN POTENTIALLY MAKE WRITING TOGETHER A LOT EASIER. REPOST DO NOT REBLOG !

NAME: Shi

PRONOUNS:  she / her / they / them 

PREFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION: IMs usually! Discord is fine too especially for plotting and general chitchat since that IM box is tiny as hell. But it tends to definitely be easier to catch me on here since for some reason, my discord doesn’t always alert me to people talking and left messages kfjsdfhdsfs. Me checking discord to see someone talked to me hours ago -- me sweating wondering if they think I ignored them while I was posting on tumblr. 

NAME OF MUSE(S): Ozymandias

RP EXPERIENCE/HOW LONG (MONTHS / YEARS?): Like...over 15 years? I have, quite literally, seen and experienced everything at this point. That’s why my rules probably sound so strict because I am just a tired woman who feels like I aged to 80 sometimes. I don’t play when it comes to my boundaries anymore like when I was younger and allowed things I shouldn’t have allowed for the sake of keeping the peace and being liked. I have been so much happier putting my foot down.

BEST EXPERIENCE: Meeting really great people and continuing to meet great people! Idk I’ve met so many who have inspired me to keep writing and just enjoying this little hobby of mine. Even now I just finger gun at all those individuals and really great mutuals that make my time here on tumblr A+.

RP PET PEEVES/DEALBREAKERS: Getting me excited for stuff and then ghosting me. Then coming to me, getting me excited again, ghosting me again -- rinse repeat like that’s a normal way to communicate with someone. Like I’m not here for that. I’ll softblock or hardblock you in a heartbeat and move on.

FLUFF, ANGST OR SMUT: I like all three honestly, but angst??? Emotional stuff? GAWD DO I EAT THAT UP. Especially for Ozy because he’s just -gestures at him- Sometimes I want him to really feel things which can be difficult. But the fact it’s difficult is what makes me love it even more.

PLOTS OR MEMES: I don’t mind both since we can basic plot something like oh how they’d meet? Are they friends? Do they hate one another?? That kind of stuff can make interaction so much easier. But memes are certainly the best way to come at me and continue things from there since I don’t do starters. 

LONG OR SHORT REPLIES: Long replies! But short is nice when your brain is tired and after staring at a computer for eight hours and working HR, my brain is often very tired during the weekdays. So a nice balance of both!

BEST TIME TO WRITE: Normally in the evening. My writing just feels like it flows better for some reason.

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Crossover ships and OC x Canon ships save lives.

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@tenkoseiensei​ said (inbox):

sa vc teehee

     HE DOES NOT PERCEIVE. 

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If you’re a lot younger than Ozy, chances are he will:

a.) Adopt you as his child

b.) Adopt you as his younger sibling

These are just the rules I don’t make them.

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@miinune​ said (inbox):

holds his face mei vc : tell people I’ve got the sex appeal of a walnut Ozy please?

     ❝I AM NOT SURE, Meilin. When you sat on my lap and kissed my chest that was rather attractive in itself. Of course it was devoid of the usual steadfast confidence I am used to, but I believe you have plenty of sex appeal, and this is coming from a pharaoh.❞ Which meant that Meilin should be overjoyed to have his attention on her in such a way because it was coming from him in particular -- the King of Kings, Greatest of the Great, and pinnacle of sovereignty. Who would not like being told that they were attractive enough for a king like him? Pfft, no one. That was the answer.