#this cpc chapter is making me post a lot

[randomgentlefolk]

WAIT WAIT HANG ON HANG ON

I know I've talked about the plaid princes a lot of time after the newest chapter, but hear me out.

I'm pretty sure long term isolation with no form of communication can really affect your mental and physical health right? Even to the point where it literally make someone go insane?

So uh..Frederick? You good man? (Probably not)

Because right now he's trapped in there with all of his self hate thoughts so like.. not exactly the best situation to be in after you went through hell?

Not to mention it's stated that it has been days. What the heck? Do the princes even get any sleep or food?

Leland mentioned that the Blaine and Lance needed a run through the re-training gauntlet. By "retraining", does that mean they've been through this since they were kids?! That does makes sense, though. Considering Lance's extreme strength and Blaine's extreme desire for perfection. It also support the theory that Frederick's dream is a repressed memory.

I also want to talk about these 2 scenes in comparison

It's interesting how one panel has Blaine complaining over Frederick's wrongdoing, but then a few panels after that show's him and Lance having scared faces. It's like while they're mad at Frederick, they're also terrified because they know what Leland is capable of (or they're just terrified of Leland in general but I want some brotherly angst haha)

I hope Leland isn't lying about the trip though. I'm really curious about how the Plaid Princes interact with each other now that these are all happening.

Oh! And where is Frederick locked in anyway? He's definitely deep in the dungeon, but the roof's open so uh.. Yeah kinda confused there haha

[rgr-pop]

i wish i could have gotten mab to the 25k goal but i did know we couldn’t pull that off. i’m pleased with myself for being able to project we could do 5k but not 10k, and i have a strong sense of how/where we were effective and what could have made a bigger difference. pretty good considering i never fundraise for anything (except participating personally in fundathon a leetle bit). learned a lot and accomplished a lot. going to put something together possibly for funds or ideally for dsa national that’s like a toolkit for doing this—it helps that i have a close relationship with a fund already, but what we did could really be replicated and serve as a good beginner campaign for any chapter, i think the key to making it work is having an organizing project to follow it (determined and continuously recalibrated based on measuring how your fundraising is building capacity). abortion fund was tremendously good for our organizing but only because i had come up with good language and a vision ahead of time, brought a bunch of potential next step campaigns to the table, was able to quickly identify the one people wanted to connect with most (cpcs), created some strategy around that to show people as i went, and (key) was setting up positive situations to talk to literally hundreds of people. mostly all labor organizing basic skills! it certainly helps that we’re organizing around the most popular and beloved issue in the world :) as i love to annoy my comrades by saying. it’s true though: if your chapter isn’t organizing around abortion right now, you’re not organzing at all. connect people connecting to each other to a sense that collective action can do more than put out fires. SIMPLE AND BEAUTIFUL!! FUND ABORTIONS YOU INCELS!!!!

eta and what i wanted to say was that all this strategy came only because i felt like i had a long investment in this struggle—as not a repro organizer, or worker, but someone whose life put me in community with repro organizers for a long long time, and has been along for it all. really crucial resource that i finally feel like i’m making sense of. the repro movement and socialism have a stressed out relationship (somewhat earned, somewhat overhyped) and i really want to see more of us with a foot in each working on exactly what i’m trying to do, which is develop new marxist strategies based on the moment, and refine our language the way we have with so much else. but ultimately what played a huge part was honoring genealogies of struggle, and people who have put a lot of time and work into repro struggle. and i accidentally realized i’m one of those people lol, and i feel a high level of satisfaction. i have some negative thoughts about this, for another post….

[shitizsrivastava]

TB#10 || How Facebook Marketing is changing the face of business and why you should delve in it too.

Gary Vaynerchuk opened one his seminars asking people whether they have heard the name of a company called Wish.com. No hands were raised. It was then he told them that this company’s turnover is more than 6 Billion dollars. Then he waited for few seconds to note their reactions and they were spot-on what he was expecting.

Wish. Com is an e-commerce company like eBay and Amazon started by two young programmer friends at google and yahoo, which sell products directly to its customers and the most astonishing fact about that company is that it spends nearly 98% of its marketing money on Facebook advertising.

I reckon that when Facebook was opened to people in 2004 anybody literally thought that it would become such a giant marketing tool.

As of 2018, it boasts of more than 2. 3 billion active users. When Myspace died a few years after the advent of Facebook, the active users of myspace literally emptied by 2012. Orkut suffered the same fate. People thought maybe in a few years Facebook will face the same destiny.

Facebook proved them wrong. In fact, the destiny of Facebook is on ever-rising slope ever since they came into existence. The recent scandals like the Cambridge Analytica Data Scandal that maligned the name of Facebook briefly did not affect its user base, instead, it just kept on growing.

That is where the genius of Zuckerberg comes in. He didn’t start gloating in the glory of his billions of dollars in the bank and neither he got immersed in the intoxication of his massive popularity, instead he invested his time in researching, data finding and changing Facebook to make it better and better year after year, something that Orkut and Myspace didn’t do and you know what happened to them.

Facebook has become the premier marketing tool for business companies, top fortune 500 companies too, to promote their websites, products, values, contents and what not.

Earlier it was difficult to market your product as there were no absolute means. Companies hired marketing teams, advertising teams, research teams, analytics team which would cost them millions of bucks with no guarantee of sure shot results.

But today, all that team of hundreds of people have got concentrated to just one person whose only qualification is that he knows how to do facebook. Anyone on Facebook can open his page for free and do his own marketing, advertising, research, analytics and get done with all the work in few hours, costing him only a few hours and literally no money.

The old concept of opening an office and operating from there so that you meet people and impress them with your team, work and infrastructure has gone in the past and is now well replaced with a Facebook page where you can show your entire infrastructure, team and work where both the parties can see it from the convenience of their home and do business in their pyjamas.

Social networks earlier were just social networks but today nearly every social network has turned itself into a marketing tool and is helping thousands of business and startups to sell their ideas, profiles and products.

I pity people who are on facebook and yet avoid talking to people on it, refrain from adding friends on it and protect their profile like it has some secret information when the entire premise of social media is to share your life with other people. If it contains personal stuff, it is your fault so you better not put it there. It is as simple as that.

I use Facebook for my personal benefits. not for sharing my personal life. These days meeting people in their offices is very difficult so I contact most of the people on Facebook and nearly every time they would reply to me without ever asking where my office is.

I don’t have to take appointments anymore and I don’t have to bother calling their secretary again and again and bombarding them with my resume and visiting card. My profile is now my resume and my profile is now my visiting card.

Most importantly I have used Facebook to arrange workshops, seminars and inform people about my work. Imagine this — earlier I had to make DVDs and CDs of my work and force people to watch them because there was process attached to it on their part also. They had to take the DVDs out, put it on the DVD player and watch it but they would close it if the first few seconds were not good. Most of the time they would not even watch it.

Today however they will at least take a look because they don’t have to do anything. While scrolling their feed if my video pops up, it plays automatically and no matter whether they chose to watch it or not, they get to at least know about it.

I also use Facebook as a means to update myself on what is going in the world and in the lives of people. I am a filmmaker and facebook updates me about who is doing what in the film industry all the time. My entire knowledge of the film industry and whos who mostly comes from Facebook. Facebook is my magazine, my directory and my newspaper.

When Facebook realized that marketers are using its users to promote their products through profiles, messages and pages they started offering their own services.

Now you don’t even have to own a website to become influential on the internet. All you have to do is make a facebook page, post content and start increasing your followers so that you can shout about your products and work on it.

Yes, I do understand that with due course of time the digital marketing on Facebook and other platforms have become complex and now there are courses offered to teach people how to reap the maximum benefits from it.

Institutes like IIMs and other top universities all across the world now have Digital marketing as a major in their curriculum. Philips Kotler has even written a book about Digital Marketing. So yes, the abundant case studies and the analytics is a little complex, but then it is an only a little complex. I can assure you that if you will watch only ten videos on any digital marketing topic, you won’t need the eleventh video to find yourself expert in doing it. It is not obvious but at the same time, it is not that difficult that only people with a certain degree can understand it.

However, let me make it easy for you. No one still knows exactly how the digital marketing works and the more rules and case studies they are creating every week, more exceptions to those rules and case studies are popping up every day on the internet. They are guessing in the guise of chapter names and specific works, that’s it.

If you meet a digital marketer, he would throw heavy words on you like CPC, CPA, CPM, CTR, organic views, backlinks, bounce rates, crawler and many more but when you get to know what they mean you will realize that they are just random jargons and means the most obvious thing. Like CPC means cost per click. How difficult it is to decipher it? Backlinks are links to previous articles in the current articles that take you to other articles which helps in increasing user time on your website. Was that difficult to know? I don’t think so.

Facebook is pretty easy and simple to use. Just remember this one rule — show, don’t tell.

Put a lot of photos on Facebook to attract people to your page. There might be things which you think are not very important which you can put in simple text and post it as a status but try to avoid that. Try putting texts on photos and ahem, try to attach a human face next to it. It affects people psychologically and makes them want to read it. The mind thinks in terms of images and the more images you will use to define your ideas, the more successful you will get.

Facebook does not have too many restrictions on their posts like many other social networks. Some websites only allow photos, some allow mostly texts but Facebook allows everything and the interface it uses is really simple which makes it all the more useful for people, even people who haven’t handled internet before. My parents who are not tech savvy can use only Facebook and WhatsApp on their mobile. I tried introducing them to other social networks but they just don’t get it. There is a reason why more than 2 billion people are using it every day.

You don’t have to employ yourself in posting content every day. The best part of social media networks these days is that they are very friendly to marketing people and inviting more and more people to use their platform to promote their products. Making it complex will limit its use too few specialized people. The interface of Facebook is designed simple because they want more and more people to feel powerful and not helpless. If they find you suffering from a problem and simultaneously they find more users suffering from the same problem than they will introduce a new algorithm to make it useful for you. That is why they keep collecting data from users, their browsing patterns and keep asking them for their reviews. Constant updates on their interface is what makes facebook stand out.

Use Facebook wisely and it can turn your business into an overnight success. There are numerous courses like LinkedIn Learning, Lynda, Udemy and myriads videos on YouTube to teach you everything you want to know about it. Start working.

[asfeedin]

What Is a Natural Link? (A Good Link)

In the SEO world, terms like natural links, quality links, and good links are thrown around like crazy.

Whether you’re going into a client pitch, attending a search marketing conference, or your boss asks you why you aren’t getting quality links, it’s important to know (and be able to explain) all the different types of links.

This chapter will help you:

Understand each type of link by providing you with definitions.

Determine which types of links may be able to help boost your rankings.

Figure out which types of links you may want to add to a disavow sheet.

Although there is normally debate on specific types of links (.edu and relevant, manually-updated directories, for example), this will be a good baseline for you to use.

Types of Links

Natural Links

A natural link is one that occurs organically (not easily seen as being placed by your company).

Natural links don’t:

Have tracking parameters.

Exist within sponsored or paid content.

Redirect through JavaScript or monetization tools.

A natural link exists as a reference to a piece of content, website, or source.

Unnatural Links

Unnatural links are any links that are paid for.

These types of links can be placed and tracked by PR firms and media buyers, or monetized through affiliate programs, CPC campaigns, influencers, or monetization scripts.

If these links aren’t nofollowed, Google can potentially take manual action on your site or your site could be negatively impacted algorithmically (most likely by Penguin), because they are not earned/natural.

What are unnatural links? Links:

With tracking parameters (e.g., UTM source and medium).

Within sponsored content on a site (because search engines do not know who paid for the content to be placed).

From sites using monetization scripts because scripts say you get paid for linking to retailers.

You can find these in the site’s code, outbound redirects, and other mappable techniques.

Semi-natural Link

On occasion, you’ll discover a “mixed” link pattern. For example, you may find a natural link that uses tracking parameters.

Let’s say you click through from an influencer who has been paid to share a link. That link will lead to the landing page that may have the tracking parameters in place.

Bloggers, aggregators, and others who follow that link may copy and paste it directly into their site giving natural links that also have these parameters. This could result in an unnatural but organic link scheme.

To help resolve this, make sure that as a person reaches your site through a tracked link, you set a redirect to pass the parameters but also resolve to the natural page structure. (i.e., the utm_campaign redirects to a version without any UTM parameters).

Now you’ll have the standard and non-tracked URL as the one they use and be able to properly attribute sales, traffic, and leads back to the original site.

You can still measure the halo effect of additional links and exposure by pulling a link acquisition report and crawling/scraping the likes, shares, and retweets from the initial influencer.

What Are Quality Links?

Quality links are links that come from high-quality sites.

This definition will change depending on the quality of the SEO you’re talking to. Here is what I look at to determine the quality of a website:

The site is niche, or at least has a regularly updated section about the topic.

There are no outbound links to adult, illegal, payday, or scam sites.

You won’t be able to see that they allow sponsored content (with the exception of clearly marked advertorials).

Media kits and publicly viewable advertising sections do not have a price for or mention of text links or backlinks.

Finding them in the Google news feed is a good sign that they are trustworthy or high quality in Google’s eyes.

Acquired links will be by staff writers and not contributors. Contributors can be bought more easily and many large publications have begun nofollowing their links. Do a Google search for Huffington Post and nofollow and you’ll see multiple discussions from when they flipped the switch.

The links come from body copy. That has to be earned – unlike blog comments, forum mentions, press releases, and other areas where anyone can easily build or buy links.

What Makes a Good Link?

A good link is different than a quality link. It can be any type of link that can have a positive impact with a bit less risk.

The factors of a good link vs. bad link can also change based on the type of SEO you’re doing local vs. national and country-specific vs. international – Russia and Yandex vs. the UK and Google).

A good link for Yandex should be ones that are approved by the Russian government and aren’t also linking to sites that have banned content, contraband, and things that are forbidden in Yandex.

Alcohol gifts, for example, could potentially be bad for Yandex traffic, but good links for other countries and search engines.

Local directories that are managed, maintained, and don’t have a submit your site option may be good for local SEO, but probably not national because of the content relevance and potential quality.

If they have a lot of age and continuously clean out old sites, dead sites and 4XX errors they may be beneficial instead of harmful.

If you notice I’m saying <strong>may</strong> or <strong>might,</strong> it’s because there is no solid yes or no. It depends on the specific situation and website.

You could have a blogger who has great niche content but no age or authority and may quit blogging in a year. Although it looks like a good link, it would fall under “maybe” or “OK�� for me. That is 100% debatable.

Then there is an established blog without a huge following that sticks to its niche. They are not doing well in Google though with organic even though they have great content. This would fall under “OK” for me as well.

Another could be a new blog that is content relevant but doesn’t have a ton of SEO traffic, but does have a lot of engaged readers.

This would be a good link for me because they have a quality audience and if they continue down the niche path they could be a great source of traffic/sales and also pass authority from their links for SEO.

The trick with good backlinks is to determine and watch how they impact you currently and what they may do in the future.

Each site is unique and each link should be considered independently before disavowing it as bad or keeping it as good/quality.

How Can You Build Quality Links?

You’ll find a ton of posts on Search Engine Journal about building quality links, including a few I’ve written. (Use the search box and you’ll find them.)

What works best for me is always keeping a few things in mind when creating copy that I want to get links for.

Who have I empowered or made feel important or have an emotional reaction?

Why would that person want to share, link to or call out my content by tagging a friend in it?

Did I provide a solution to a common or unique problem?

What is unique, special, or different about how I’m presenting this content?

Which ways have I better explained, detailed, or given examples of something complex, funny, or useful?

How have I enabled people to easily share and link to this content?

Where have I advertised it so that I can keep it in front of people who can give me quality backlinks and references (sometimes this is an influencer who has a large following of bloggers and journalists)?

When someone mentions natural links, it’s all about quality. That means they can’t be easily acquired, they’re in a good SEO neighborhood, and that they are in topically related content sites that match your services, stores, site, or niche.

Focusing on quality over quantity is what can help to protect your site as Google updates.

More importantly, focusing on quality can help constantly bring in relevant readers through referring sites who may also become customers, engaged readers, and a new source of links and social media traffic.

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How Much Does A Successful LinkedIn Campaign Cost?

Advertising with LinkedIn campaigns can be very effective. Still need to properly manage campaigns, choose the right budget, the right format, good audiences, etc.

Grace MacDonald spent two years as a campaign manager with LinkedIn. She was responsible for following the campaigns of her clients to help them optimize the latter. His experience and immersion at LinkedIn have allowed him to develop techniques and reveal the “right mechanisms”.

She decided to share her secrets and tips, as well as those of her colleagues and predecessors, in a white paper titled “Confessions of LinkedIn Experts”!

Everything goes from the cost of advertising to the choice of the audience through the format … Here is a summary of our reading, and we start with a key point: the cost of advertising on LinkedIn!

The cost of advertising on LinkedIn

  When we think about advertising on LinkedIn, we already know that the budget will have to be higher than on Facebook.

It’s a fact, LinkedIn costs more. To be competitive, you will need to have a sufficient budget.

However, while cost-per-click (CPC) or cost-per-lead (CPL) may seem expensive, conversion rates are generally much higher than on other platforms such as Facebook and others.

Especially since it is not necessary to be a big company with a huge budget to start getting good results.

It’s clear that the amount you invest will play on the bottom line, but the question is: how much do I need to invest to make my LinkedIn ads profitable?

1 – How to establish your budget?

No need to invest millions but, in case of a tight budget, it will be necessary to adapt your approach! If you only have $ 10 a day to dedicate to each of your campaigns, you will necessarily limit the number of people you can reach.

In this case, prefer the creation of two to three campaigns maximum trying to allocate your budget equitably between them. You can then determine which one is worth investing the rest of your budget!

To give you an idea of ​​the budget advised, know that in general, an investment between $ 3,000 and $ 5,000 per month on several campaigns can observe a significant difference in conversion rates.

In case of a lower budget, again, the data are longer to harvest and the campaigns less effective. 

The 10% rule of one of the experts can help you calculate the budget needed to reach your audience: go to your LinkedIn campaign manager and start by establishing your target audience. Then calculate 10% of this hearing to determine your starting budget. 

Finally, besides your advertising budget, it is important to dedicate a budget to the creation of the visual of your advertising. Whether you use photo or video, a quality visual is essential to make your audience react. 

You can invest millions if the visual does not follow, the efforts will be in vain! Think about it when thinking about your overall campaign envelope. 

2 – How to allocate the budget between different formats? 

On Linkedin, different advertising formats are available. Let’s see which ones can potentially help you achieve your goals:

The Sponsored Content ( “Sponsored Content”) is used by our experts! According to them, “it is the ideal tool that can suit almost any type of offer, for both large audiences and more segmented. “. This format would provide quality leads because really interested in the content. Some ideas of adapted content: checklists, webinars or white papers.

Text Ads ads are generally the cheapest option to reach a large audience. The only downside, they are only accessible from your computer. To keep for broad audiences and content accessible only via desktop (or difficult to read on mobile).

The Sponsored InMails are a good option to encourage your audiences to attend events free-to-face or return to the limited access resources. More adapted to a restricted audience and very targeted because more expensive!

3 – How to manage your budget more efficiently?

The distribution of your budget between your different bids will have a non-negligible impact on the results obtained. 

Given the cost of advertising on LinkedIn, it’s important to maximize your budget. To do this, you need to be able to determine effective bid strategies and optimize your campaigns. 

This will allow you to adjust your campaign as and when the first fallout. 

Know, to begin with, that ”  increasing your bid will not always produce better results .” You should be able to reduce your bid with experience to increase your return on investment. 

To help you with these adjustments, do not forget to use the Campaign Manager tools to manage your bids. 

An interesting indicator within these tools is the range offered by Campaign Manager. It builds on the existing competition on the audience you are seeking to reach and recommends a bid amount. It takes into consideration the amount you want to spend each day. 

According to experts, ”  the upper half of the suggested range is a good starting point “. Thus, for a range of $4.5 and $8.5, you could leave on the amount of $7.5.

4 – How to save and optimize results on LinkedIn?

The advantage of the tools offered by LinkedIn is that they allow you to retrieve a lot of information from the profiles of the target audience.

Without even having to run a campaign, you can already use the Campaign Manager to get the demographics of users visiting your website.

All you need to do is configure your advertising account on Campaign Manager. This is free, the only requirement is to have a Company page. You will have the opportunity to install an “Insight Tag”, in other words, a piece of code that will allow you to retrieve the demographics of visitors to your site who are connected to LinkedIn. 

In the same way, when your campaign is launched, you will be able to see which categories of people are most committed to your ads. 

All this information will be very useful to adapt your future campaigns! 

This budget for LinkedIn advertising is over. We hope it has enlightened you on the amount to be allocated! Do not miss our next chapter on the selection of your audience, another key point for the success of your campaigns … 

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[randomgentlefolk]

CPC CHAPTER 158

With each chapter updated, the more I sob to my cat (while wearing my plaid clothes of course)

Also this post is going to be long because I love psychology so much.

Tw: mentions of un-aliving oneself

Lorzanna fighting alongside each other....... that is the most badass way to say "we're girlfriends"

Lorena using the chains as whips and Suzanna doing fencing style!! THEM. I NEED MORE OF THEM.

Medic Syrah! It's like one of those I things I never know I want until I get it.

Aww Orson and Monika holding the portcullis together <3 they're so strong???

Frederick telling Syrah step by step on how to do first aid <3

Also, Frederick using his strategy skill!! He can finally show his talent for Leland to see >:D or, uh, not really since Leland is not currently in the room but ANYWAY

Beckett..Beckett, Beckett, Beckett.... Man got snitched and I'm having second hand embarrassment 💀💀 well he won't be Pastel Top 1 guard but at least he can be with Maria. Oh yeah finally!! He knows who the real Maria is!! I hope he won't forget when he's back conscious tho.

Fellas, let's give appreciation to our guard homies Horace and Old guard (he still needs a name)

Also may I just say Maria looks GORGEOUS in this panel?? HER HER HER??? Also her starting to wonder why Frederick is against the Plaid kingdom?? IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER Y'ALL.

I went from "Lance!! :D" to "Lance :'(" because damn...DAMN??? Bro tbh I'm relieved the gala foreshadowing is him getting hit on the head and not gettint CHOPPED but on the other hand DAMN. The commander did NOT have to do that DAMN. The blunt head trauma??? What if he hit head when he fell?? "So he won't hurt himself" my foot BRUH. I just checked again and HE HIT HIS HEAD. Bro is gonna get a concussion.

Also his face is still bleeding out. In case someone, uh, forgot.

Go Lorena and Suzie go help him! I know what he did was horrible but he's trying!!

Confrontation Time Yayyy...

Blaine. Blaine bro. Stop. Just. Okay there is a lot of childhood issues to be unpacked here. But you know what before talking to him before telling him what he should do maybe we should all just. Let him relax, for awhile. I mean ngl he looks awful, and I'm not trying to be mean here but he and Frederick clearly needs professional help. But let's unpack them one by one. Let's start with the pianist.

(Disclamier: I am not a professional. I am simply telling you my opinion in this post)

Holy shit. Someone give him a break. Give him lots of sleep. Anything to make this boy relax. Let me just say this right away, golden child syndrome. I'm blaming all of these shit on Leland. Y'all our lesson today is: don't put too much pressure on a child, don't compare your children to each other, and accept your child however they are. Please y'all this has happen too much. A child is smart and they achieves lots of things, then makes that their only reason of living, the only reason they are loved. That's horrible. In Blaine's case, I think he feels as if those achievements, those trophies, are a way to validate his life. It's like he cannot fail because if he fails automatically he disappoints everyone including himself.

We know that he has been 'thriving' since he was child. Let's say approximately since he was uhh 9 years old? That would be 12 years of intense hardwork hell sugarcoated by the paradise of 'winning'. Once again, not exactly the best childhood ever. Not to mention, does he even have any friends? We have never seen him mention any. So we can say that he doesn't have any support outside of him being 'perfect' (well, until Maria at least, but that was pretty short-lived :')

At this point I won't even be surprised if the reason he has been doing self care is only so that he looks good as a model and so that people love him.

Man, he needs intense reality check. Also I'm like 99% sure he definitely doesn't want to kill Frederick. The event of him and Lance beating the shit out of the bullies still live in my head rent free. Bro is VERY confused with his life right now and needs help.

Let's move on to the youngest now

Right of the bat I'm going to say:

Scapegoat child, self esteem issues, possibility of depression, and uh we're gonna have to add this now... possibility of being suicidal. Alright.

What is a scapegoat child? A scapegoat child is the child who is pretty much blamed for everything and takes attention of the center of the problem, if that makes sense. As far as I know, this is the child who recognize the actual problems in the family, and is the one to break the cycle of abuse. These children are the opposite of the golden child. And you know what it makes sense that both of them are in the same household. If there is a golden child to praise and give attention to, then there is the scapegoat who is blamed and left out. That is what Frederick is in his family.

Self esteem issues. This boy has been told he is pathetic, weak, useless, and all of those words for his entire life, to the point he actually believe that those words are his entire personality.

Now, I'm not gonna straight up say he is suicidal, though we have an evidence in the panel here. But if we look at the past chapters, he doesn't exactly actively try to die. Those moments where he fell of the Pastel hills are accidents. But we can also say that the suicidal thoughts just came recently. Especially considering what is happening lately. Being trapped in a deep hole with little to no socialization can really do some things to you...even if you're an introvert. We are social creatures. As much as we say we hate chatting with people, we also don't want to be alone with no social communication our entire life now, do we?

Anyway, I'm going to suggest this, there is a chance that Frederick probably has what is called passive suicidal ideation. He doesn't actively try to die, but he wouldn't care if he die. But I'm a little conflicted on this one. Maybe someone else who is better at this field of study can help me?

We can also assume that Frederick told Blaine to kill him out of desperation. There are lots of possibilities that I hope Lambcat will explore more in the future.

Also his coping mechanism of escaping reality is something to watch out for since he has shown signs of not being able to differentiate between reality and fantasy

Now, I just want to say that there is a chance that I'm heavily wrong here. But I'm just stating my opinion and I'm not trying to offend anyone. If there is something wrong in what I wrote please do tell me.

Okay, let's move on to the next scene now—

NAH BLAINE SWINGING THAT SWORD 💀💀 Bro is clearly so stressed istg. C'mon Blaine the curse tattoo doesn't look THAT bad. It looks aight if you ask me. I would even say it's unique.

Yeahhh! What Whitney said! Lmao I'm so sorry but this scene reminds me of Steven Universe and Spinel. Whitney just wanna talk it out :') he has changed so much from his old self.

YOOOO ALL THE ELDEST SIBLINGS ARE GIVING BLAINE A REALITY CHECK. Maria, Whitney, Calpernia. Snap outta it Blaine please.

"I'd like to cut in" Goals. I do also want to start my battle by saying a pun. I can't wait for Prez vs Blaine!! It's going to be sick.

THE MAIDS. HOLY MOLY (haha get it?). Of course they also have weapons. It makes sense considering how protective Jack is! Also

Was. Was the cleaver not enough? Lol 💀

I am even more hyped for Leland vs The maids!

Well, that's it for now. That was a long ass post lmao. I'm gonna go back to class.

Mono out! (But still in to hear your thoughts)