#this is essentially a diary entry like the rest of my blog

[vegtable-bucket]

Hi so um I'm on anti depressants now and also got diagnosed with add LMAO hahahahahhahahaahhahhaha

Wow. I am hoping to be out of my sad girl Era forever so I can enjoy this really nice month with my husband

I have to apply for my masters in england

And I leave next year even if I don't get in and that is scaryyy. And also every day I live on this earth I believe that smash mouths song "all star" was a prophetic song by an oracle predicting climate change. Aka I'm trying to shake off the doomer inside me that will not stop screaming.

I hope to be posting more and trying to be a cool internet girl again. But maybe a happy internet girl instead of a sad one?

[autolenaphilia]

Edit: as hoshi9zoe pointed out, the original version of this post needlessly berated other transfems like Jennifer Coates, for which I do apologize, and I have toned it down in this edited version. The original version survives in reblogs.

Some months ago, I was searching through this transandrobro blog to see if they posted a callout of me, and i found this reblog, which I couldn't really write about for months, because what do I even write. I recently wayback machined it for posterity, and I guess this is my attempt to write a post about it.

It's saint-dyke himself, the coiner of transandrophobia, saying that the infamous (at least for me) article "I am a transwoman. I'm in the closet. I'm not coming out" is what made him coin the fucking word. It's literally bolded and underlined: "Reading this article is what made me coin “transandrophobia”.

The reason I put off writing this post is that reading that article makes me feel like i'm drinking poison. And it is poison, make no mistake, it's internalized transmisogyny brainworms dripping out of the writer's brain and onto the page.

It's a justification for why the author, known by pseudonym Jennifer Coates, doesn't want to transition, despite knowing she is a trans woman. And it's the exact kind of internalized transmisogyny that keeps trans women in repression and not transitioning. "I'm not going to pass, i'm forever going to be an ugly freak who will at best be humored by other women, the closet is uncomfortable but at least it's safe"

It's the same exact bullshit a lot of represssed trans women tell themselves because it's what society tells us about trans women, that we are freakish parodies of women, that we will never pass, and if we don't pass we have failed and are ugly freaks. It's all to scare us into staying in the closet and make others hate and fear us. Transmisogyny permeates our society, and the majority, maybe all transfems will absorb and internalize some of it.

Coates says that it all is just applicable to her, but again so many transfems believe this shit before transitioning and realizing it's a pack of lies. If this bullshit was in any way valid, a lot of trans women shouldn't transition, because before we actually transition many of us believe it word for word. And "it's only true for me" is how we justify it to ourselves. We tend to be way harsher on ourselves than others. This kind of self-hating transfem tends to think: "Other trans women are beautiful graceful goddesses, earthly manifestations of the divine feminine, always destined to be women, while I'm an ugly forever male ogre who just has a fetish."

It's all bullshit, it's poison, it's internalized transmisogyny.

And the rest of the article is bullshit too. It is not some insightful mediation on gender as some people say, it's the author confusing and mixing up actual transmisogyny with an imagined problem of misandry. She does this because she has gone full repression mode, and decided she has no other choice to live as a man, so her dysphoria and experiences of transmisogyny are actually men's problems.

It's a bad article, excusable because as Coatas points out, it's "essentially a diary entry." that was meant to be a way to "vent frustration" and she "did not intend for anyone else to actually read it." It is clearly not the product of a healthy mind.

I hope the author sometime in the past seven years eventually did transition, and that for whatever reason she didn't want to publicly repudiate her own article. Maybe she lost access to the medium account so she can't delete it.

Far worse than the article itself is the response to it. I've seen it passed around as some insightful commentary on gender by the "feminists are too mean to men, misandry is real" crowd. I have argued against this before. And other people have made insightful comments about it.

And learning that saint-dyke claiming that he was inspired to coin the word "transandrophobia" because of this article is the cherry on top of this shitcake of transmisogyny. For my thoughts on "transandrophobia" theory and how transmisogynistic it is, see here.

Of course, Saint-dyke absolutely could be bullshitting here. Claiming that Coates's article is what inspired him to coin the word might be a lie to claim that transandrophobia theory is not transmisogynistic because it came from listening to trans women.

This is why "listen to trans women" doesn't work. Because TME people will always choose a trans woman who confirms their prejudices. Blair White has made an entire career out of this. And Coates article is popular because it says that misandry is real and trans women's issues are partly caused by it, misgendering herself and other trans women.

And it's popular for another reason. Coates has thoroughly internalized transmisogyny, and thus her article presents a trans woman that is exactly as transmisogynistic patriarchal society wants her to be. She is suffering, but ultimately accepts her assigned role. She truly believes that her biological sex dooms her to forever be male. She literally "manages her dysphoria by means other than transition" as conversion therapy advocates want us to do. She never makes an social claim on womanhood by actually transitioning, so she doesn't invade the sacred women's spaces. Yet she performs the role of woman perfectly by serving men, by defending them from supposed feminist misandry. And she fulfils the ritualistic role that the rhetorical figure of "trans women" sometimes serves in progressive spaces, of giving a blessing to TME people's pre-existing views and actions, all while actual flesh-and-blood trans women are destroyed by those same deeply transmisogynistic spaces. This time it's a blessing for the same "misandry is real" soft-MRA bullshit that has infested the online left and created the transandrophobia crowd.

That is why this article and the positive response makes me sick, makes me feel like i'm drinking poison. This is what its fans want trans women to be like. I'm acutely aware this kind of self-denial is exactly what transmisogyny wants from me and tried to indoctrinate me into doing it. And I want none of it. I want to live, I want to be a woman.

[amiiancasselmanyet]

Fix Me is a Mid 2000's Classic, You're Just Not From Canada

before I start this essay series, I would like to clarify that this is NOT a series of reviews but just me genuinely expressing my feelings I have towards the albums in question because I’m a highschool dropout…bon appetite or whatever

also tw for eating disorders, self harm, general mental illness and addiction but this is fix me, you probably knew that

When most people think about early to mid 2000s rock albums that became staples and bands that became household names, there's a few that genuinely come to mind. Let’s get the “emo trinity” out of the way; From Under The Cork Tree was Fall Out Boys sophomore album from 2005 that is still widely loved for good reason. The songs are good and the lyrics hit when you least expect it. Every. Single. Time. Then, of course, we have The Black Parade. I cannot express my love of this album enough, it is quite literally my all time favorite and while Three Cheers has a more solid concept (man kills other men to try and get his lover back, homosexual antics ensues), there's a reason it’s arguably their most well known and beloved by the kids who used to bully you in middle school. Of course we have A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out coming in right after this, there’s not much I can say since this album truly deserves it’s own essay that I won't manage to write (Ryan Ross please come back the kids and I miss you) but, like the other albums, it's a STAPLE at Emo Nites and Emo Nite knockoffs (shout out to Sneaky Dees in Toronto). There is, however, an album among them that's a hidden gem due to the fact that . Fix Me was the debut studio album from Marianas Trench, arriving in 2006. This album stands out from the others in a lot of ways, its sound, its vulnerability and its general lack of a concept. This album was a shot in the dark and a testament to taking chances. Let's talk about it. 

If you’re even a little bit familiar with Marianas Trench (you definitely are because you are on a blog dedicated to the drummer, my beloved bias Ian Casselman), the sound you’re used to most likely isn’t here. This album is gritty, it’s production is grungy. When you look at the other albums at face value, it stands out as nothing like the rest. If you dig deeper, however, you realize that this album truly was the foundation of what was to come. The guitar heavy sound continues throughout the discography, even if it feels less clean than its successors. It adds to the aggression a lot of the songs have, it makes the lyrics hit harder. It was too rock for the pop charts but too pop for the rock charts.(I’m pretty sure Josh said that but this thing isn’t getting a bibliography, this is a more sophisticated shit post on a blog that, again, focuses on the silly drummer with mutton chops) While the sound is incredible, the true core of the album lies in its vulnerability.

Fix Me is essentially an auditory diary, with each track feeling like a new entry. There are themes focusing on the actual struggles Josh Ramsay dealt with at the time. There’s a lot about addiction (specifically heroin), self harm, eating disorders (specifically bulimia) and general depression. It's angsty. It's difficult  to hear at times. You're not supposed to get personal during essays but this is literally on a blog where I refer to the followers as “casselman nation”, it’s a lawless land and fuck you I’ll do what I want. This album, at its core, felt like it was almost a diary entry from a younger me. 

14 year old me was very different from the current me, I had a different name entirely, a different outlook on life and a lot of things that shaped me today had not happened yet. I was unmedicated and everyone else's problem. If you ever scroll down on the personal tag of my main (you WILL NOT, you DO NOT need to see my digital footprint and angst), you'll notice that there's a lot of themes on this album that pertained to me at that time. I was VERY depressed, undiagnosed bipolar 2, bulimic and…doing things in school bathrooms I shouldn't have with items from my art class I shouldn't have had access to in that state (not going to elaborate, I’m sure you get where I’m going). When you deal with those things head on, you tend to, from experience, seek out public figures, whether it be musicians or celebrities or youtubers (shout out to Dan and Phil lmao) who have similar experiences that you had. For me, a big one from the get go was Marianas Trench. There’s something oddly comforting in not only knowing you’re not only alone but that you’re ALSO going to survive. I truly wish I was able to hug 14 year old me but I also know that they’d be proud that I DIDN’T do the thing I wanted to do before I turned 17.

There’s another reason Fix Me is truly removed from other albums and it truly feels like the biggest component; there's no concept. Fix Me has its own identity but it's not through a story or through successful singles, it's through the fact that it has none of it. It shines through its simplicity, its impact is through the way it can stand alone. It’s an album by the band that could be, and should be at times, put on shuffle. It’s an album where you can pick any song, off the top of your head, and listen to it when you’re feeling angry or sad or full of unbridled angst. Sure, you CAN listen to other songs on other albums one at a time, Masterpiece Theatre is the first on I can think of off the top of my head, however, would you want to? Would you want to listen to The End of An Era and have it followed up with a song like This Means War? It 100% kills the immersive nature that the band has carefully crafted over the last 20 years. (yes they’ve been a band that long considering the fix me bsides are from 2001, yes it makes me feel geriatric) I think the biggest reason that it personally hits every mark imaginable for a grungy punk record is the fact that there is no secret meaning hidden in each song, its open and honest from the get go. It’s raw, real and does exactly what it needs to do.

Through its sound, its ability to be honest and vulnerable in its writing and the easily accessible material, it's a staple. Shake Tramp belongs in an Emo Nite just as much as something like Sugar We’re Going Down and more than Welcome to the Black Parade (I love that song but it doesn’t fit the vibe as well as House of Wolves or The Sharpest Lives, Emo Nite is just catering to the normies and preps). Decided to Break Its video should be as beloved as I Write Sins Not Tragedies. Marianas Trench deserve their flowers for being such a staple in the lives of canadian teens who are struggling, the adults who want to comfort their inner teen selves and those who, in general, are feeling small.

[skunkes]

honestly after coming back and talking here a little more (and having fun discussions) tumblr is still good + fun. Its perfect actually.

I just still wish you could turn off reblogs bc while reblogging my drawings, furry discussions, or csp advice/brush setting posts etc is okay i really hate posting whats essentially a diary entry for logging/coming back to read it in the future reasons (bc blogging is fun! And theres tags on here!) or just answering an ask with...no real reason to want to reblog it and theres always people who reblog it for no reason.

With no tags. So its not even a "saving this for later" thing. And you look at the rest of their blogs and its funny posts like why did yu reblog my personal post im not here to be a tumblr funnyman LOL leave me olone....let us turn reblogs off for a post im begging

[theunconcernedembalmer]

ok i got the aesvic out of my system now time to pick apart the letter n why i wont really be following aesops diary exactly here. literally no one asked but i wanted to get my thoughts down somewhere cos i have. a lot

just gonna put a quick rundown of aesops diary entry as a refresher (mostly for myself so i dont miss anything): he dreamt that he was helping jerry with what was probably a murder n was affirmed n he thinks its a sign congratulating him on carrying out his duty. over the years, he carries out his duties as an undertaker n comes to the manor looking for a “fresh start” aka what sounds like his first victim. according to aesop, said victim should be quiet, n potential victim number 1 is victor. something about badly needing him to become his��“silent friend” n he mentions he’ll get to wick n the 2 other survivors in due time, but for now he’s very eager to start his “mission”.

im generally okay with the letter (i have seen so many fights over this aha) cos there is no surprise he wants to kill ppl (ppl who r fighting over this point. did u even read his deductions?? guy happily killed his mentor??). but i didnt quite like the fact that he still looks up to jerry (although. i guess thats valid i just. dont like it). i was also initially kind of confused about the real reason why he would want to kill ppl since as u progress through the letter it sounds less like he kills for duty (cos of the whole dream thing at the start) but more “because i want to :)”, which is an okayish edgy kinda take imo. like not that u cant characterize aesop as Kill Kill Murder Die, but i kinda find that. pretty boring in the long term.

im just gonna put what my original take on aesop was, like all of it. first off, he hates jerry. u cannot tell me a psychotic serial killer like that can raise a child without emotional trauma. like any child, this isnt even counting the extra damage done because hes autistic. (n i also hc that aesop has read his moms letter to him at some point, n he should have come to the conclusion that it was somewhat also jerrys fault, whether through logic or denial that his mom would want to leave him, so that just adds to it.) but as much as he hates him, his teachings are the only ones hes been exposed to, n its been so ingrained in him since young so even if he hates jerry he would still subscribe to whatever twisted ideology jerry was feeding him, which ill get to in a sec.

going through his accessories, he has that origami that he folds for each of his clients, n it shows that underneath it all, aesop is still kind. this isnt expected of him n its definitely not part of his job scope as an embalmer. he (still?) has the heart to wish the best for those that have departed n takes the time n effort to fold one for each n every client he sends off, which is probably a lot. so going off on that, my hc is that jerry, being the manipulative asshole that he is (who probably definitely manipulated his mom into indirect suicide) probably used his kindness against him to make him believe that by murdering ppl he is helping them, framing all of his serial kills as a sort of mercy kill (like his mom). so the thing that aesop takes away from all this is the very twisted logic that by killing ppl he is helping them, therefore being a good embalmer and a good person in general. n everyone wants to be a sort of good person, or at least for aesop that is part of his job description to be a good embalmer. n we all know aesop is very serious about his job.

i also hc that he has killed several ppl between killing jerry n coming to the manor, cos i follow the story that he took the invitation from that poor lady n thats how he ended up at the manor. surely the lady didnt come to him right after jerry died?? but anyway, the way i see it is that he thought he liked to kill. like he finally truly understood why jerry kills so much (which is interesting now that i think about it. guy really just went along with all those murders without truly believing huh), because it felt good to kill. at least thats what he thought, the revelation that killing felt good n is good, but i say its because he hated jerry, n offing someone u kinda hate should probably feel pretty gucci. n its also so much easier to pick clients off the streets than in the manor, so i would think that he has killed ppl like his mentor did, but each time he did the great feeling that came with ending ppls life just. wasnt as good as the first time round. it just became a sort of normal satisfaction of a successful embalming.

this can go two ways: 1. he keeps on killing to try to find that great feeling again, which is cool i guess (n probably what canon would want, except canon states that he hasnt killed since jerry), but id like to go with 2. he just stops because jerry isnt around to enforce it whenever he isnt feeling up to psychoing someone to their death (which is probably how jerry got his victims, n damn if that doesnt take a lot of mind games that i dont think aesop has the mental capacity for since half of it is fighting with his social anxiety n other issues. dealing with alive strangers?? no thanks?? i doubt he would have learnt properly how to lure in clients as efficiently as jerry because of this, mostly cos he was only needed for the murder afterparty aka embalming n funerals). n as much as he stays professional, there is no. professional way of gaslighting someone to their death.

(n also since ppl have pointed out that his twitter replies n other kinda informal stuff have shown that aesop does have reverent respect for life, which also adds to him not being so blindly bloodthirsty as implied in the letter. i dont really see the twitter replies as very canon, but it does make sense that he would come to revere life with his unique take and obsession over death, for one cannot exist without the other)

so this leads me to the motive that aesop brings to the manor, at least how i see it. he isnt exactly coming to the manor to kill per se (like from the very early story, he came to the manor to return the letter to a relative of the deceased lady, something about respecting her last wishes. something like that, its really been a while since i saw that exerpt), so like killing ppl isnt his main purpose of visit. its more of hes always on the lookout for weaker (or at least those that take less mind games to kill) people to mercy kill, n it just so happens that he knows the manor n his mentor almost died from there, so theres a pretty good chance he can find some ppl that fall into this category n so it just so happens that he also has a job to do there. its still counted as a Job for him since no ones gonna tell him that embalmers dont actually. murder. 

so in my version, aesop only tries to sway ppl that he knows he can convince, n these ppl would typically be those very sickly ones like his mom (andrew im looking at u) or those with an actual death wish/ very weak will to live. but here aesop is choosing his “first victim”, and the criteria for that is... quiet? never mind “not evading him” and “not cranky” being on the list too, but that isnt quite what i was expecting from someone so dedicated to their duty of murder. sure he wants an easy first kill, but like. i dont think its consistent if his motive was really to continue jerrys bastard legacy. especially when the next paragraph is essentially him gushing over victor, that... sort of implies something else. or at least in the way i see it, since i believe that canon wants us to think that aesop just really loves to kill.

aesop likes victor. very much so. so much till he wants to kill him. which i guess makes sense cos he likes death, n now he likes victor. so he just. puts the two things he likes together. whats better than victor? dead victor. anyway the rest of the letter is more like “whatever, i technically should kill the others too but my priority is victor” so like. he confuses his (dare i say) yandere tendencies with his duty since the end goal for both is a body in a coffin.

having said that. i know i have aesvic brainrot but i also know this is one sided as hell (at least from the letter alone, not counting the letter shaped cookies in his birthday art that apparently belonged to victors birthday cake aha) n lowkey alarming since. the goal is to kill victor. i kinda want to interpret it as him genuinely wanting to be friends with victor (really wanting him to be a “silent friend”, maybe cos he doesnt actually know how to be friends with living ppl n is better with dead ones? therefore victor should be dead to be friends?) but not knowing how to n throwing in his obsession with death ends up with. this minor disaster waiting to happen. but i uh. dont know if this is valid. its valid to me at least, with my original interpretation of aesop. n again cos of his ingrained professionalism, he also kinda sees this as part of his job to send ppl off, so its another plus. not for victor, tho.

idk if ill add this yandere side in my aesop. i mean my boi has technically tried to kill victor multiple times in the past HAHAHAHA. maybe like sometimes he can be a bit obsessive. as a treat. but generally nah cos thats definitely gonna end up in a murder somewhere somehow n i cant. just kill victors here on the ask blog scene lashjflkjhdlfkjhas

so yeah that kinda takes care of the last part of the letter, as for the first part. as much as aesop hates jerry, i would also think hes pretty starved for affirmation (like i said jerry isnt going to be a good parent figure ever) n i guess it makes sense if the only times jerry has ever complimented him was aiding him in his kills n hiding the evidence, which might (?) add to his desire to kill (but that probably dies with jerry aha). so the way i see it as aesop is getting affirmation n takes it as a good sign instead of. remotely liking jerry. idk if im stretching it a little but i really dont like the take where hes okay with jerry. anyway we are ignoring that he hasnt killed before entering the manor cos that doesnt quite make sense to me (i wasnt dreaming about the letter from a lady stabbed in the face 36 times or so right???? right???????)

im also not like. trying to defend him, im just trying to make sense of his diary. boi has issues n is a little too far gone (not as far as canon tho), in my take very deluded in his way of showing kindness. literally cool motive still murder (or in canon, just murder?), please get therapy. but i just dont really like the direction that the letter was originally trying to imply, with him really just hell bent on murder without like. a clear motive (at least to me it isnt very clear since the last part really doesnt sound consistent with his supposed intentions). i mean i love being edgy with aesop every now n then but i dont think it would make for meaningful characterizations in the long run so. ill still be sticking with my original take on aesop with maybe a bit of yandere for victor cos thats always fun

[keithsjourneyposts]

Poem to God 27 April 2018

Why was I given

the disease of addiction?

God, you know it causes,

immense affliction

I know you have a reason,

for it,

I know you can use my story,

to help a bit.

God, you know it’s not the easiest thing.

That is why to the cross I bring.

God take it away,

to Jesus I pray.

I know I will always be this way,

but that is just the price I have to pay.

God, you have rescued me before

and I know you can do it again.

You are faithful, just and true,

In Jesus’ name, I trust in you

Amen

So, this is a poem I wrote to God about my addictions. For years I have been addicted to one thing or another. Only this year, I decided with the help of my Psychologist to replace the addiction this time with a hobby or something new. Hence the blogging. I want to share my life here on these walls and tell my story from beginning to the end. Maybe by reading some of my writings, it will help and motivate someone else to become a better per so to speak. So, like I said, this poem was written on the 27th of April 2018 and I was at a very low point in life, but my divorce was at a very high point. Later on during keithsjourneyposts, you will get to know more about me. Where I came from, what I did, how I got saved and where I am heading. This is just the start.

The poem was coupled with a diary entry for that day. So, remember I said I started out old school with pen and paper? No It is going up new way. On that day my entry was :”So essentially, this little book will become filled with my daily happenings, emotions, feelings and just stuff to help me on the road to recovery. It will also be mostly filled with prayers to my father God and Jesus and just to shift my focus from cravings to God’s peace. Basically, it’s a diary with detail. I woke up this morning the usual grumpy self, but in the back of my mind I think I made a promise to myself not to leave this room without a smile. Somehow, it is slowly work. God is hearing my prayers for that peace every morning He has taken me back AGAIN after countless times and Father God, I just want to thank you for your love and mercy shown to me.

Johan, My stepfather had a fit (I’m staying with him and my mom till my divorce is finalized and all the custody battles.) and now no one is talking in the house. I know it will calm down later as it always does.

God, I pray that you help me with my cravings over this looong weekend. Help me to stay focused on you Jesus, and as you promise in your word, the rest will fall into place when I seek you first. Give me your peace. I want less of me and more of you Dad. I am not myself anymore but a new creation.

Show me your ways. I had my 12 ‘o clock Pax / Valium now. I could not have done it alone. I am 12 days sober and clean today. So after taking the Pax, I will be numbe to my emotions again as the fighting continues in this house.My mother on the one side (Hard-headed) Johan on the other side (Hard-headed) and me, also hard headed. God give me your strength.

The next part, I prayed in Afrikaans which is my home language, but I will keep to English. Dad, I’m asking that you also give Johan some inner peace, his heart needs it and he DOES have a good heart Lord. Make his heart a bit softer. I pray in Jesus’name, amen. It looks like Johan is going to have a braai now (That is what everyone else calls a BBQ. I have some Netflix to catch up on and keep my mind off “things”

So I just want to thank you Lord Jesus for calming him down. The day is finished and we all survived.

You see, this is the type of entries I will be entering and slowly you will get to know me, Keith Gerber April

Till tomorrow, when I enter what happened

Keith

[monika-red-diary]

My Newfound "Wealth" ~ March 16, 2021

My Newfound “Wealth” ~ March 16, 2021

Wealth, Wealthy, The Wealthiest. Wealth-Wealth weeeeeaaaalth. Oh. Wealth. Wealth. My Wealth Wealth Wealth. If you don’t like pointless diary entries, then don’t read… Is it that hard? WEALTH! I’m only gonna say this once. And then I’m gonna let the new audiences to come, wonder why I do it for the rest of this blog’s lifetime. Essentially, and this isn’t a new battle, my fight with WordPress’s…

[daylflay]

Gen-Z

Biters’ Remorse (Or Lack Thereof)

Most good horror movies have something to say, some social commentary to thrust upon attentive and thoughtful viewers, especially zombie movies. George A. Romero was perhaps the most prominent director of zombie movies in cinematic history, and that’s because he basically invented the modern, flesh-eating, slow-moving, undead variety of zombie that contemporary audiences hunger for (forgive the quip). With Night of the Living Dead, Romero’s first, and arguably most seminal, foray into the genre, he used imagery such as that of hordes of white people attempting to kill a black protagonist in order to comment on the racism endemic in America circa the 1960s. Ten years later, In Dawn of the Dead, Romero once again used zombies as a vehicle for criticism, but this time he set the action in a mall in order to tackle the issue of consumerism. The latter portion of Romero’s zombie oeuvre features a couple of entries, Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead, whose messages would undoubtedly resonate with modern audiences even though the two films were released almost fifteen years ago: The former features a fortified city separating the entitled from the rest of the embattled world, commenting upon the xenophobia and nationalism engendered by a post-September 11th America; the latter features individuals recording the horrors of the apocalypse with handheld cameras, an obvious allusion to the advent of YouTube (Diary of the Dead was released in 2007). If Romero were still alive, then I’m certain that he would still be making zombie movies, and furthermore I’m pretty sure that the criticisms he’d be levying would be directed at misinformation and its propagation on the web, among a plethora of other subjects (recent events would’ve given him plenty to work with, to say the least). The world is currently facing a real-life pandemic, COVID-19, and its spread is attributable to many factors, such as lack of hygiene, large gatherings of people, etc., but I’d argue that misinformation has also played an inordinate role in this crisis. In Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology And The Law To Lock Down Culture And Control Creativity, Lawrence Lessig states that “the internet has unleashed an extraordinary possibility…to participate in the process of building and cultivating a culture that reaches far beyond local boundaries.” Lessig isn’t criticizing the internet with his statement, but I’m indeed doing so with my quotation. That “reach” that Lessig referred to, it’s what ultimately makes it difficult to quarantine those infected by misinformation, and it in turn makes life more difficult for those trying to survive in the web’s hordes of misinformation/misinformed people. 

The Survivors

Not all of the individuals I’m tracking carry pretensions of professional journalism, some are simply trying to live their lives as normally as possible during this national emergency. Having said that, considering the prominence of the novel coronavirus currently present in practically all matters of public discourse, much talk of the epidemic is present in almost everyone’s tweets to some degree. Of the individuals of my blog’s focus, Kashana Cauley and Patti Harrison are easily the least politically active and journalistically inclined. The Twitter accounts of both women have been producing a minor amount of content as of late, which makes sense considering they, like everyone, are likely dealing with the coronavirus situation and all of its associated complications upon quotidian life. Cauley’s only tweet from 3/12/20: In response to a quoted tweet from CNN journalist Ana Cabrera that read, “McConnell ally says Senate won't take up House #coronavirus bill until after recess. ‘The Senate will act when we come back and we have a clearer idea of what extra steps we need to take,’ Sen. Lamar Alexander told reporters.”, Cauley tweeted, “I don’t know why, but I think if the rest of us rolled into work & said ‘let people die until March 23rd’ we might get fired.” Cauley is obviously paying attention to the news, but not necessarily engaging with it in any major way. Harrison only tweeted twice on 3/12/20, and one of the tweets read: “Lying in bed bottomless, legs spread, patting my mound, my phone 2 inches from my face, arching my back and moaning with SINFUL anticipation for all of the front-facing character videos we are about to see when all these comedians get quarantined inside our houses…mmmm fuck!”. Harrison is responding to the news, but not intimating at criticism of said news like Cauley did in her aforementioned tweet, instead vying for the use of apolitical humor in order to entertain her followers. 

Rick Wilson spends a lot of his time on Twitter attacking Donald Trump and the Republican party, and that hasn’t changed, as evidenced by his activity from 3/12/20: In response to a quoted Trump tweet that read, “Sleepy Joe Biden was in charge of the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people. The response was one of the worst on record. Our response is one of the best, with fast action of border closings & a 78% Approval Rating, the highest on record. His was lowest!”, Wilson tweeted, “So this is how you want to play it?”. Wilson has never claimed to be a journalist, but he provides a lot of commentary on the news, especially news of a political variety, so it’s no surprise that a lot of his current tweeting pertains to the coronavirus considering its proximity to politics. Despite lacking in professional ties to the journalistic industry, Wilson is still playing an important role in the fight against misinformation by fact-checking and pushing against sophistic Trump/Republican narratives being circulated (https://www.vox.com/2020/3/12/21176750/trump-coronavirus-response-disaster).

The Quarantine

For all of the responsible web users who aren’t contributing to the spread of misinformation, there are of course those who need to be quarantined due to their being carriers and deliberate disseminators of said misinformation. Candace Owens is one of those individuals who needs to be quarantined, immediately. Twitter is by no means a newspaper, but it’s nonetheless a source of news for some, and when one has a following the size of Owens (2 million as of 3/12/20), then one has a responsibility to at least attempt to promulgate accurate information, especially when one likes to play at being a journalist. Owens has always fancied herself a journalist of sorts, but if she hadn’t dropped out of the University of Rhode Island while attempting to acquire a degree in journalism (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/youtube-tested-trump-approved-how-candace-owens-suddenly-became-loudest-n885166), then perhaps she’d understand that the journalistic institution has a code of ethics. One of the most basic aspects of journalism, an aspect that’s tragically being undercut in the modern era by irresponsible fools such as Owens, is so simple that a child could ascertain it: Get the basic facts straight. This is one of Owens’ tweets from 3/10/20: “One day, we will look back and study the impact of the coronavirus…Not the virus itself of course, but the mass global mental breakdown that it inspired…Because people think it’s novel that 80 year olds are dying at a high rate from a flu…This tweet will age well.” Not only is the information contained in her tweet plainly incorrect, but it’s dangerous. First of all, there’s a big difference between coronavirus and the flu (https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-vs-flu-which-virus-is-deadlier-11583856879), evidenced not only by the disparate terms, but by the simple fact that the flu doesn’t lead the World Health Organization to declare the presence of a pandemic every flu season (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51839944). Secondly, while it’s been reported that it’s primarily older people dying from COVID-19, youth doesn’t preclude one from catching coronavirus and spreading it to those older people; not to mention those of varying ages with underlying conditions such as autoimmune diseases who could easily die via coronavirus (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/health/coronavirus-midlife-conditions.html). Owens is just an extension of a type web-user Christian Fuchs refers to in Social Media: A Critical Introduction: “Cultural communities are not automatically politically progressive...Facebook group[s] [exist]…for Norwegian right-wing extremists…[like]the fascist terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in the Norwegian terror attacks on July 22, 2011”. Owens isn’t a violent terrorist (that I know of), but the misinformation she’s spreading could nonetheless be responsible for far more deaths than that of Breivik. It’s no wonder that Owens is a pariah to the vast majority of professional news outlets and can’t find columnist work outside of conservative propaganda-peddlers such as Fox News.

The Anti-Quarantine

Graduate of the University of Oxford, host of UpFront on the Al Jazeera network, writer/podcaster for investigative journalism outlet The Intercept, frequent commentator on networks such as CNN, Mehdi Hasan is essentially the diametric opposite of Owens (https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/6/14/18678698/mehdi-hasan-intercept-impeachment-donald-trump-pelosi-kara-swisher-recode-decode-podcast-interview). Hasan is a serious, passionate journalist who takes the dissemination of information/news very seriously, whether it be on Twitter or otherwise. Hasan has been absolutely restless on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting on germane news as it breaks and fact-checking those who attempt to misinform. Here’s Hasan challenging NBC columnist Richard Engel on 3/12/20, less than an hour after Engel posted his tweet: Engel tweeted, “The reaction/overreaction in the US to the virus seems largely political. Trump’s critics have no confidence in him, so they panic. Others defend Trump no matter what he does and don’t listen to anyone else. Not a recipe for keep calm and carry on. When broken you can’t be strong”; Hasan quoted Engel’s tweet and responded with, “Please don’t ‘both sides’ the anti-science, failed-on-testing, pandemic-minimizing conspiracy theorist in the White House.” Hasan is the antidote to the infection being spread by individuals such as Owens; whatever the opposite of a quarantine is, that’s what we need to do to Hasan. 

The Line

The line between amateur and professional may be blurred in some cases due to the rise of social media and the power of web-based technologies such as smartphones, yet in a lot of cases that blurring isn’t relatively important, but in the case of a pandemic such as COVID-19 and the blurring between amateur and professional journalism, the difference between an amateur like Owens and a professional like Hasan is of the utmost importance. Owens’ misinformation-spewing may well contribute to the deaths of actual people, and furthermore disrupt the important work of good-faith journalists like Hasan. What’s at stake here is clear: life and death. 

Life and death were subjects very much on George A. Romero’s mind during his filmmaking career, e.g.: Romero’s cinematic universe, a patchwork of films loosely connected to each other by an overarching narrative a la the Marvel Cinematic Universe, was kicked off by Night of the Living Dead; the concept of the living dead of course remained a linchpin of Romero’s work until the end. Unfortunately, like the namesake of so many of his films, Romero himself is now dead, so I have taken it upon myself to propose the concept for the next film in his cinematic universe of the living dead. In Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture, Henry Jenkins talks about “the story of American arts in the twenty-first century [and how it] might be told in terms of the public reemergence of grassroots creativity as everyday people take advantage of new technologies that enable them to archive, annotate, appropriate, and recirculate media content.” If I had more time, I’d certainly attempt to contribute to Jenkins’ perception of “twenty-first century” art via a short Romero-inspired film uploaded to YouTube or some similar platform, but I’ll settle for this faux-blurb instead: The year is 2020, and the world has rarely been more divided and vulnerable. Catastrophic weather events have ravaged the globe and displaced millions, spurred by a rapidly changing climate and subsequently decaying ecosystem. Political divisiveness has led to international protests and civil unrest with heretofore unparalleled levels of fervor. A highly contagious virus has begun spreading inexorably from country to country, slowly but surely infecting and killing an increasing number of people. Misinformation is running rampant on the web, leading to mass confusion and extreme skepticism of any and all information being disseminated. At the Biology department of a university in Fullerton, California, an accident is about to take place that will blur the lines between the living and the dead. For some, it’s felt like the end of the world for a long time, but those feelings are about to validated, and the world will be too distracted warring with itself, and the truth, for anyone to do anything about it. When the world already feels like hell, the living dead will feel right at home. Welcome to the world of…Gen-Z. Like those selfies while you still can. Coming to a theater near you…NOW! It’s already happening, so stock up on toilet paper…          

[scfrankles]

Thank you to @educatedinyellow for tagging me! How many fics have you written? On AO3 there are 149 listed. On DA, which is mainly original fics… er, 580. That does give rather a false impression though - about 100 are six word stories of varying quality, many of my ACD Holmes 60 word stories are crossposted there singly, and my 60 ACD Holmes clerihews are there too. There’s some other pieces that overlap with what’s on AO3, there’s poetry as well and a bit of non-fiction stuff. And of course on both sites I specialise in microfiction which doesn’t take long to write. Where do you share your writing? On AO3, LJ, DW and DA. What is your pseud? SCFrankles/scfrankles everywhere. Though I do also use maiden_aunt as a secondary pseud on AO3 for my Dear Ladies fanfics. Simply because I fancied having another name. Where/when do you usually write? I usually write at home, in the dining room (because it’s got a table) or sitting up in bed. And I suppose I do generally write in the evening after work. I am at my best in the morning and early afternoon though. I find it hard to concentrate and come up with ideas when I’m tired. I write best on my days-off, when I’ve had a good night’s sleep and I know I’ve got the whole day ahead of me. In terms of planning stories I often do that while walking or having a lie down. What is your favorite fanfic that you’ve read? I’ve rather fallen out of love with reading Sherlock fanfics but back when I was reading a great many of them, my favourite hands down was What to do When Your Flatmate is Homicidal by hyacinth_sky747. It is can’t-catch-your-breath-please-make-it-stop funny (there is a bit with John doped up on painkillers and writing a blog entry that I shall forever remember fondly - I’m laughing just thinking about it). But it also addresses the unpleasant and sad aspects of the world without any abrupt changes in tone. And it’s a story always full of hope and love. I’d love to be able to write like that. I do sometimes talk about ‘humorous stories’ and ‘serious stories’ as though it’s impossible to combine the two aspects but the best comedy always has a serious aspect too. Not that I make a habit of it, but the first time I ever stood up in front of a group of people and made them laugh was at my elder brother’s funeral. My fics tend to ignore real life altogether and be silly but I would love to write stuff that stares life in the face and makes you laugh anyway. Another fic I’d like to mention is the ACD Holmes fic Literary Shortcomings by rachelindeed - and not just because Rachel was the one who tagged me. Rachel wrote this as part of the summer 2015 round of ACD Holmesfest, with me as the recipient. It’s a beautiful, beautiful fic and I still love it. But I’ve chosen it here because I think it illustrates so well the possibilities of amateur writing, and the creativity in fandom. I can’t see there being much of a market for a story written in this particular microfiction form - it’s too left-field. I couldn’t see anyone ever writing something like this in the hope of selling it or a publisher ever commissioning someone to write something like this. Rachel wrote it for, I assume, her own artistic satisfaction and in the hope of pleasing me, the recipient, and the others taking part in the fest. Beautiful and experimental things that perhaps the professional world would ignore get to exist and flourish in the amateur world. What is your fave fic that you’ve written? Nothing really stands out as my favourite overall. I am quite proud of my longer Dear Ladies fics, my Without a Clue and Whitehead Holmes fics, and my collections of ACD Holmes 60s. And of course there is Watson’s Diary and my infamous ACD Holmes/My Fair Lady fusion… What inspired you to start writing fanfic? Er, it’s kind of a long story… I was a fannish kind of kid but I had absolutely no connection with fandom in any sense growing up - no fanzines or anything like that. And I came relatively late to using the internet - I first used it in 1999 when I was about 30. I absolutely loved it and from then I went online as much as I could, using computers at local libraries, but still no involvement with anything fandom related. And to be honest I had rather a skewed idea about what fanfiction was all about, as outsiders tend to do. In 2010 I joined DeviantArt. A couple of years later, we finally had a computer at home, series 2 of Sherlock had aired and I had just rewatched the series on DVD. And I felt the urge for more. I was looking forward to series 3 (hollow laughter) but it was a long way off, so I decided to investigate the Sherlock fanart and fanfics on DA. And I found a few perfectly nice and competent fics, and a fic that was off the scale badly-written but still oddly readable. And then I found Harry Knows Best by hbomb90. And I was blown away by it. Here was a writer writing prose at a professional level. At that point she was the best writer I’d come across on DA (it took me another couple of years to find the talented original fic writers there). And I wondered if she had other fics elsewhere on the internet. I Googled her name which took me to a rec list on LJ. So I did find more fics of hers but of course it led me to other Sherlock fics and other writers too. And those fics led me to other fics. I wasn’t paying too much attention at first to sites but  LJ and AO3 came up more and more. I did spend an awful lot of time on AO3 waiting for ivyblossom’s The Quiet Man to update so that encouraged me to explore the site. Like all kinds of fiction, with fanfiction you get all levels of writers. There are beginners, the competent, the experienced and the just plain talented. But I was just amazed by how many extraordinary stories there were online, written for fun and absolutely free to read. This was entirely out of my sphere of experience up to then. Good literature came in a book that you had to buy or borrow from a library. You became a writer only when a publisher graciously bestowed that title upon you. ‘Amateur work’ meant poorly written work. It was utterly amazing to me the quality of some of the work I was being presented with. And that you could talk to these talented writers! It wasn’t always a one way relationship. It changed my worldview - it really did. Essentially I thought, crikey, I want to be in that gang. Fandom was full of such creativity and, paradoxically, originality. But on a more minor note I also wanted to try new forms of microfiction and was very taken with 221Bs. Then I met someone on DA who was writing ACD Holmes 60s. I started writing them on DA on my own but was eventually brave and joined sherlock60 on LJ. And that was my proper entry into fandom - I found my niche in the ACD world. I think perhaps most of my Sherlock fics have a generic feel to them - I was essentially just reworking what I’d read. But I think writing ACD fics I found my own style a bit more. Though - I’ve said it before - I think I’m a good writer but I don’t think I’m a particularly good fanfic writer. Because although I enjoy discussing the source material that doesn’t really translate into the urge to write fiction about my thoughts. I think fanfiction is essentially about making closer examinations of the internal workings of the characters. I like writing stories in which people slide corpses down staircases on tea trays. What is your favorite trope to read? According to AO3, it’s ‘first time’. Which doesn’t surprise me. Though ‘angst’ is then joint second with ‘humor’, which really, really does. What is your fave trope to write? Not really a trope, but humour. What is the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever read/heard/would like to share? This is a difficult one to answer. Maybe adding on to the excellent advice I’ve read as part of other people’s answers - try not to compare your writing to others’ too much. I sometimes think someone is funnier than me, someone’s writing is lovelier, someone’s writing is better technically, someone’s writing is more insightful. And it’s generally true. But as a reader on AO3, I have 8 pages of subscriptions. Readers don’t just pick the top three best writers to read for the rest of their lives and ignore all the others. I read the work of many different writers because I enjoy them in many different ways. As a writer I try and remember to take pleasure in what makes my work mine. What is your favorite feedback you’ve received as an author? I had my answer ready even before I was tagged! On The Case of the Deceased Marmalade Thief, bubblesbythebeach commented: If a fic was ever going to be described as "shenanigans", this is the one and I for one am delighted Me too, kid. Me too… Anyone who sees this and wants to have a go, consider yourself tagged!

[blizardstar]

How do you think the IPRE reacted when one of their own died early in a cycle for the first time? Like some freak accident takes out Barry like week one of cycle 7, how do people react? Lucrecia gets sick with some crazy new virus and Merl can't heal her in time three months into cycle 40. How does Taako react the first time Lup leaves him alone for more than the time it takes to escape the hunger and respawn??

Oh wow am I really such a TAZ Blog™ now that people are gonna ask my opinion on this kind of stuff? That Umbrastaff post really brought attention to me, huh?

As to how the IPRE would react: think in a word, poorly. The very first time it happens is when it hits the team that this isn’t just something that happens when the Hunger comes, they’re actually dying and dead for the rest of that year. I think the first time this happens, just one of them has that one paranoid thought for just a second that maybe it IS only with the Hunger that they get to return, maybe they actually lost them, maybe they aren’t going to be brought back to the ship if they’re in the Astral Plane, maybe- and when the Starblaster moves planar systems that year everyone waits anxiously to see if the missing crew member comes back. They do, of course, and it’s tears and hugs and intense relief all around.

With Lucretia gone early for the first time everyone slowly realizes that, shit, who’s going to keep records now? That year everyone pitches in and writes down when anything interesting or possibly important happens in one of Lucretia’s spare journals. The next year when she comes back, they present it to her as a gift and she’s incredibly relieved and proud of her team for continuing an important part of their scientific mission even though it wasn’t their assigned job. She spends the first few weeks of the new cycle reading everyone’s journal entries, correcting spelling mistakes and illegible handwriting as she finds out both about what happened in her absence and about her teammates in general, since you learn a lot about someone when you’re reading essentially a group diary.

Also, they all must have seen multiple Astral Planes, right? Magnus nearly gets drawn into it when he’s dying in Wonderland, so they DO go there. How many reapers like Kravitz are there out there, hunting escaped souls who don’t even exist in their planar system anymore?

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

“Why is it called a Bullet Journal and not a To-Do list?”

When a friend of mine online asked me this, it stopped me short. As a teacher, I love questions like this. They force you to analyze what you’re doing, why you’re doing it, and distill it down to an easily-digestible essence.

I would say that 80% of what I record in my Bullet Journal is, indeed, a to-do list in some sort or another. Another 15% of it is a time-planner. But that other 5%?

There are times when it makes me feel like Margaret Beaufort and her Book of Hours.

A Book of Hours is essentially a prayer-book and calendar. Lady Margaret, Mother to Henry VII, was in the habit of writing marginal notes for the great happenings of her life, though the casualness of the dating is enough to send medieval scholars to distraction when using it as primary source material. She recorded births and deaths in it, as well as other great happenings of the day.

This book with its notes in it also make me think of my own grandmother. Nanny did word puzzles when she was on the throne in the morning. She made lots of marginal notes – about the weather, who was due to visit that day, births of grandchildren… We sometimes look through them to try to reconstruct family happenings.

And this is where the “Journal” part of the Bullet Journal comes in. It’s not necessarily journaling like writing a diary entry, or spending a lot of time writing out your feelings. It’s merely meant to record things that have happened – dates and times, if you want to. But the idea is that you record what happened, not necessarily what you feel about it.

I don’t do it a lot – mostly for dates and times on The Big Stuff. It records my granddaughter’s birth.

It recorded my granddaughter’s death.

It was a tool I used to stay organized in the face of that, too. Lady Margaret might have spent her time kneeling in prayer during the great tragedies of her life. Not having servants to take care of my needs, I need reminders to take care of myself. So, my Book of Hours is quite short on Compline and much longer on lists of things to do, meals to make, and reminders to space the activity out with rest.

I know it’s Thursday, my usual day to post a piece on the US Constitution. As you can imagine I haven’t been writing much on the US Constitution in the past few weeks. It’ll start back up next week, but one’s granddaughter passing away does throw your cognitive capacity for a loop. I chose to spend what ability I had to think on things closer and more immediate to home.

[mansoormaghfoor]

Effective Blogging - How to Get Wealthy Blogging

"There are two kinds of knowledge. One is general, the other is specialized. General knowledge, no matter how great in quantity or variety it may be, is of little use in the accumulation of money." Web blogs are online diaries made up of short, frequently updated posts. Moreover, they are inexplicably common.

Steve Pavlina's blog, devoted to assisting you make conscious choices about your personal development and bravely follow them through, is a nice illustration of a very famous blog. In February 2005, the website received about 86,000 visitors, in January 2006 about 715,000, and today Steve's Blog gets more than 1 million page opinions each month and is ranked by Technorati as one of the Top 500 Blogs in the globe.

It is mentioned in almost every search engine because of spider food. Almost every single day, new material is introduced. We're going to discuss that later.

One main benefit of blogs is that they're simple to update. The other hand is that surfers expect you to update your site very frequently. If you don't, they're going somewhere else.

When you sign up for a Blog or create one on your own site, use a part of the name or similar name to the name of the sponsoring program that you are promoting unless it is against T.O.S. sponsors. This blog, Marketing-Tipps.blogspot.com, will appear in the Search Engines within 3 days. It's not even in the top 10 for most search engine terms yet it continually generates revenue, mostly from AdSense.

But when you build your Blogs or Blogs, it's really essential that you choose a niche that you know and comprehend. Ask yourself: Is my blog appealing to me and does it? Is there anything that makes me excited about it?

If you don't, you need to go back to the drawing board.

When you build your blog, let's talk about "mp3 players" and use your sponsors ' galleries and Urls for their messages. If they have a description, use them. If you have a choice between short or long descriptions, use the long descriptions. This is the spider food you eat.

However, do not add all of them to the blog at once. Add 7 to 10 at a moment. Set up a timetable for you. Add more every second or third day. If your sponsor does not have a lot of galleries to use, you will need to use several sponsors for each of your blogs to maintain them updated on a periodic basis. After 10-15 days when the first posts are buried out of the site, repeat them. You're after the surfers coming from Search Engines, and you're laying down spider food. It's kind of like fishing. You're putting out bait for both the surfer and the spiders or the Search Engines bots. What's more, it's very important to think about Spider Food. Use the descriptions for each of your contents with the name of your blogs in it. For example, if you are promoting Asian content, use a number of related names in the entries you make to your blog. This is very crucial to me. 

Go to Google and type in, for example, "mp3 players" Write down all the related keywords that you find on your notepad and as you make entries in your blog, weave those words into your entries. These keywords will operate in your articles over the next few weeks, when you do the entries. Repeat it. Yes, repeat it. Repeat and do it often. When the search engine surfer goes to your blog searching for an mp3 player, he's not going to set it up most of the time and read your messages. It's going to go for connections that lead to an mp3 player. So what you really need to maintain in your mind is to get him there.

The quality of Search Engine Traffic is very high. Although at first you won't get a lot of traffic from Search Engines, the quality of the traffic you get is very high.

There are three places you need to submit to when you get your blog up on the web. The two main search engines Google, Yahoo, and BLOGGERNITY.COM, the Blog Directory. Hand Submit your blog to these three locations. Once BLOGGERNITY has listed your blog, go there and vote for yourself. Sign up for a free account and write a review of your blog. It doesn't have to be fancy. Just write about how you want the surfer to feel and see your blog.

Networking! Networking!

Make a list of other Blogs at BLOGGERNITY and contact the owners of these locations (as many as you can). Write them a brief email and ask them to exchange links with you. Most of them will do that.

It's very essential that you use cautious approach and tracking to promote your blog. Use the referrers script to understand what's going on. Keep a record of what you're doing on paper.

Now, if you've followed the examples I've given, you know how to set up your blog and how to get traffic to it. You can create cash if you pursue it. 

Again Steve Pavlina: his blog, http:/https://ift.tt/MREqVI, makes $4,700/month with AdSense based solely on the following ten principles: 1. Create precious content for you.

2. Create the initial contents.

3. Create timeless content for you.

4. Write first for human beings, second for computers.

5. Know why you want to have a high-traffic site.

6. Let your audience see the true one of you.

7. Write down what's true for you, and learn to live with the implications.

8. Treat your tourists like human beings.

9. Keep your cash in its adequate location.

10. 10. If you forget the first nine suggestions, just focus on actually helping people, and the rest will take care of themselves.

It's a intriguing business model. Obviously, I haven't invented it, but I'm sure I'm enjoying the trip. It's extremely easy, it's a lot easier than running any other company. The danger is nearly zilch, and there is no overhead other than web hosting (assuming you already own a laptop and have access to the internet). There are no sales, no products, no clients, no order processing, no fraud, no inventory, no shipping and no deadlines. And yet you're earning revenue 24/7.

source https://blog.hireavirtualassistant.net/2019/09/effective-blogging-how-to-get-wealthy.html

[i-jayadevi]

Effective Blogging - How to Get Wealthy Blogging

"There are two kinds of knowledge. One is general, the other is specialized. General knowledge, no matter how great in quantity or variety it may be, is of little use in the accumulation of money." Web blogs are online diaries made up of short, frequently updated posts. Moreover, they are inexplicably common.

Steve Pavlina's blog, devoted to assisting you make conscious choices about your personal development and bravely follow them through, is a nice illustration of a very famous blog. In February 2005, the website received about 86,000 visitors, in January 2006 about 715,000, and today Steve's Blog gets more than 1 million page opinions each month and is ranked by Technorati as one of the Top 500 Blogs in the globe.

It is mentioned in almost every search engine because of spider food. Almost every single day, new material is introduced. We're going to discuss that later.

One main benefit of blogs is that they're simple to update. The other hand is that surfers expect you to update your site very frequently. If you don't, they're going somewhere else.

When you sign up for a Blog or create one on your own site, use a part of the name or similar name to the name of the sponsoring program that you are promoting unless it is against T.O.S. sponsors. This blog, Marketing-Tipps.blogspot.com, will appear in the Search Engines within 3 days. It's not even in the top 10 for most search engine terms yet it continually generates revenue, mostly from AdSense.

But when you build your Blogs or Blogs, it's really essential that you choose a niche that you know and comprehend. Ask yourself: Is my blog appealing to me and does it? Is there anything that makes me excited about it?

If you don't, you need to go back to the drawing board.

When you build your blog, let's talk about "mp3 players" and use your sponsors ' galleries and Urls for their messages. If they have a description, use them. If you have a choice between short or long descriptions, use the long descriptions. This is the spider food you eat.

However, do not add all of them to the blog at once. Add 7 to 10 at a moment. Set up a timetable for you. Add more every second or third day. If your sponsor does not have a lot of galleries to use, you will need to use several sponsors for each of your blogs to maintain them updated on a periodic basis. After 10-15 days when the first posts are buried out of the site, repeat them. You're after the surfers coming from Search Engines, and you're laying down spider food. It's kind of like fishing. You're putting out bait for both the surfer and the spiders or the Search Engines bots. What's more, it's very important to think about Spider Food. Use the descriptions for each of your contents with the name of your blogs in it. For example, if you are promoting Asian content, use a number of related names in the entries you make to your blog. This is very crucial to me. 

Go to Google and type in, for example, "mp3 players" Write down all the related keywords that you find on your notepad and as you make entries in your blog, weave those words into your entries. These keywords will operate in your articles over the next few weeks, when you do the entries. Repeat it. Yes, repeat it. Repeat and do it often. When the search engine surfer goes to your blog searching for an mp3 player, he's not going to set it up most of the time and read your messages. It's going to go for connections that lead to an mp3 player. So what you really need to maintain in your mind is to get him there.

The quality of Search Engine Traffic is very high. Although at first you won't get a lot of traffic from Search Engines, the quality of the traffic you get is very high.

There are three places you need to submit to when you get your blog up on the web. The two main search engines Google, Yahoo, and BLOGGERNITY.COM, the Blog Directory. Hand Submit your blog to these three locations. Once BLOGGERNITY has listed your blog, go there and vote for yourself. Sign up for a free account and write a review of your blog. It doesn't have to be fancy. Just write about how you want the surfer to feel and see your blog.

Networking! Networking!

Make a list of other Blogs at BLOGGERNITY and contact the owners of these locations (as many as you can). Write them a brief email and ask them to exchange links with you. Most of them will do that.

It's very essential that you use cautious approach and tracking to promote your blog. Use the referrers script to understand what's going on. Keep a record of what you're doing on paper.

Now, if you've followed the examples I've given, you know how to set up your blog and how to get traffic to it. You can create cash if you pursue it. 

Again Steve Pavlina: his blog, http:/https://ift.tt/MREqVI, makes $4,700/month with AdSense based solely on the following ten principles: 1. Create precious content for you.

2. Create the initial contents.

3. Create timeless content for you.

4. Write first for human beings, second for computers.

5. Know why you want to have a high-traffic site.

6. Let your audience see the true one of you.

7. Write down what's true for you, and learn to live with the implications.

8. Treat your tourists like human beings.

9. Keep your cash in its adequate location.

10. 10. If you forget the first nine suggestions, just focus on actually helping people, and the rest will take care of themselves.

It's a intriguing business model. Obviously, I haven't invented it, but I'm sure I'm enjoying the trip. It's extremely easy, it's a lot easier than running any other company. The danger is nearly zilch, and there is no overhead other than web hosting (assuming you already own a laptop and have access to the internet). There are no sales, no products, no clients, no order processing, no fraud, no inventory, no shipping and no deadlines. And yet you're earning revenue 24/7.

[jhansikumari]

Effective Blogging - How to Get Wealthy Blogging

"There are two kinds of knowledge. One is general, the other is specialized. General knowledge, no matter how great in quantity or variety it may be, is of little use in the accumulation of money." Web blogs are online diaries made up of short, frequently updated posts. Moreover, they are inexplicably common.

Steve Pavlina's blog, devoted to assisting you make conscious choices about your personal development and bravely follow them through, is a nice illustration of a very famous blog. In February 2005, the website received about 86,000 visitors, in January 2006 about 715,000, and today Steve's Blog gets more than 1 million page opinions each month and is ranked by Technorati as one of the Top 500 Blogs in the globe.

It is mentioned in almost every search engine because of spider food. Almost every single day, new material is introduced. We're going to discuss that later.

One main benefit of blogs is that they're simple to update. The other hand is that surfers expect you to update your site very frequently. If you don't, they're going somewhere else.

When you sign up for a Blog or create one on your own site, use a part of the name or similar name to the name of the sponsoring program that you are promoting unless it is against T.O.S. sponsors. This blog, Marketing-Tipps.blogspot.com, will appear in the Search Engines within 3 days. It's not even in the top 10 for most search engine terms yet it continually generates revenue, mostly from AdSense.

But when you build your Blogs or Blogs, it's really essential that you choose a niche that you know and comprehend. Ask yourself: Is my blog appealing to me and does it? Is there anything that makes me excited about it?

If you don't, you need to go back to the drawing board.

When you build your blog, let's talk about "mp3 players" and use your sponsors ' galleries and Urls for their messages. If they have a description, use them. If you have a choice between short or long descriptions, use the long descriptions. This is the spider food you eat.

However, do not add all of them to the blog at once. Add 7 to 10 at a moment. Set up a timetable for you. Add more every second or third day. If your sponsor does not have a lot of galleries to use, you will need to use several sponsors for each of your blogs to maintain them updated on a periodic basis. After 10-15 days when the first posts are buried out of the site, repeat them. You're after the surfers coming from Search Engines, and you're laying down spider food. It's kind of like fishing. You're putting out bait for both the surfer and the spiders or the Search Engines bots. What's more, it's very important to think about Spider Food. Use the descriptions for each of your contents with the name of your blogs in it. For example, if you are promoting Asian content, use a number of related names in the entries you make to your blog. This is very crucial to me. 

Go to Google and type in, for example, "mp3 players" Write down all the related keywords that you find on your notepad and as you make entries in your blog, weave those words into your entries. These keywords will operate in your articles over the next few weeks, when you do the entries. Repeat it. Yes, repeat it. Repeat and do it often. When the search engine surfer goes to your blog searching for an mp3 player, he's not going to set it up most of the time and read your messages. It's going to go for connections that lead to an mp3 player. So what you really need to maintain in your mind is to get him there.

The quality of Search Engine Traffic is very high. Although at first you won't get a lot of traffic from Search Engines, the quality of the traffic you get is very high.

There are three places you need to submit to when you get your blog up on the web. The two main search engines Google, Yahoo, and BLOGGERNITY.COM, the Blog Directory. Hand Submit your blog to these three locations. Once BLOGGERNITY has listed your blog, go there and vote for yourself. Sign up for a free account and write a review of your blog. It doesn't have to be fancy. Just write about how you want the surfer to feel and see your blog.

Networking! Networking!

Make a list of other Blogs at BLOGGERNITY and contact the owners of these locations (as many as you can). Write them a brief email and ask them to exchange links with you. Most of them will do that.

It's very essential that you use cautious approach and tracking to promote your blog. Use the referrers script to understand what's going on. Keep a record of what you're doing on paper.

Now, if you've followed the examples I've given, you know how to set up your blog and how to get traffic to it. You can create cash if you pursue it. 

Again Steve Pavlina: his blog, http:/https://ift.tt/MREqVI, makes $4,700/month with AdSense based solely on the following ten principles: 1. Create precious content for you.

2. Create the initial contents.

3. Create timeless content for you.

4. Write first for human beings, second for computers.

5. Know why you want to have a high-traffic site.

6. Let your audience see the true one of you.

7. Write down what's true for you, and learn to live with the implications.

8. Treat your tourists like human beings.

9. Keep your cash in its adequate location.

10. 10. If you forget the first nine suggestions, just focus on actually helping people, and the rest will take care of themselves.

It's a intriguing business model. Obviously, I haven't invented it, but I'm sure I'm enjoying the trip. It's extremely easy, it's a lot easier than running any other company. The danger is nearly zilch, and there is no overhead other than web hosting (assuming you already own a laptop and have access to the internet). There are no sales, no products, no clients, no order processing, no fraud, no inventory, no shipping and no deadlines. And yet you're earning revenue 24/7.

source https://blog.hireavirtualassistant.net/2019/09/effective-blogging-how-to-get-wealthy.html

[shared-diaries-online]

Entry 17 - Gifts and Curses (Teachers Edition)

January 15, 2019

Dear “Diary,”

         I know this story, this whole story and the story of Ada, is coming out very broken. And this whole projectis ill-thought-out. No one has told me this. I just know it to be true. Partially because… I know what I was envisioning prior to launch. I wanted to recount my many romantic misadventures, which meant taking the time to plan out everything I wanted to say, needed to say, and REALLY couldn’t say only to fall in love again. When I realized I was in love, everything went out the window because I want to be with this woman. I love her. I cherish her. But at the same time, I’m afraid of being in love again. It’s a fun, amazing, and beautiful thing. But I’m not very good at it.

         So now I’m trying to figure out what I need to say and what details you need to know one the fly. Which led to me realizing that there is one key character to the next part of Ada’s story that you’re missing. Also, this person—while not a romantic love—probably messed me up. I loved her platonicly, and we need to talk more about platonic love. For one, it’s just as valid as any form of love. But also, it’s just as destructive. So let me catch you up.

         I mentioned someone in passing in my “Tale of Three Michaels,” and that is the teacher who disliked “otherness.” In the context of that tale, that’s all I needed to say. He loved her. She was pretty horrible. Consequently, I needed to be thankful that this Michael and I never came together. That would have been a whole lot of unnecessary suffering.

         But this monster plays a bigger role in Ada’s story. And maybe mine still if her posts on social media is taking the toll on my health. I don’t want to keep even this loose connection with her, truly. I just don’t think I have much of a choice.

         Ms. Nightmare hated “otherness,” some more than others, and some are more pressing issues than others. In short, she has two kids while being the type of person to disown her children for being gay and then feel so proud of it that she would then go brag about it on social media. And, frankly, with my mom still in my hometown, I sometimes feels like I have a very distinct responsibility. While I'm aware of my cosmic insignificance and powerlessnes, I know I can do this much: I can protect her children from the worst she could do. When they are out of the street, I can find them a home with my mother. I can't do much if anything about the plight of homeless LGBTQI+ youth, but I can find them a home.

         Yes, she shouldn't have been left in charge of children, but she was. Still is. The thing is, her horribleness manifests in a way that protects her. In our area, you can't be out if you don't want your life to be worse than anything she could do to you. After all, your friends would stand with you, but school administration is disturbingly indifferent to the inevitable student-led torture. So you couldn't tell them what she was doing. If you did, then they would ask why she was doing this to you. And then you were caught in-between a rock and a hard place.

         Now, you might be thinking, if she targets the wrong student, then this little card house is going to come apart. And you'd be right. Like she is… Seriously, she's never been wrong once. And we all knew this. We didn't know how she figured it out, but she always did.

         As you have may figured out, I'm not exactly straight. Maybe it’s been easy for you. I've been around way too much to even take my anonymity as a way of pretending that my life is anymore straightforward than it actually is. And it helped that you all were able to see the events of my life. She didn't have that. I don't know what she had other than a larger-than-Satan reputation and the ability to spin a dream.

         She was our band and orchestra teacher, marching and concert band. Which also meant she doubled as the orchestra director for the school musicals and any student clubs involving instruments, even guitar. All of which was rather legendary in our school. She was a nightmare, but these experiences we're a dream. It's participants supposedly made up a makeshift family. A band family, everyone involved said, and it was talked about frequently. Looking back, it was more like a “band cult,” but that's with the wisdom of age and the communal mocking of multi-level-marketing groups across the internet. In the moment, it was a drop of water in the desert. By then, Dad was dead, his infidelity had been revealed, and Mom's reaction isn't something I was ready to tell you about just yet.

         Desperately, I wanted a family, and I thought dealing with her abuse was a price I could handle paying, even if it was an unjust punishment for the directions my heart swings. After all, it didn't seem so bad. Or at least, she wasn't very obvious about it. Sure, you clearly didn't have her favor, and you would be passed over for auditions or workshops. You'd be relegated to secondary ensembles and just kept out of the spotlight where she couldn't see you, but I didn't want to be a musician anyway. I wanted a family. Even when I had Ada, I wanted a family.

         And like with some families and especially with some cults, defection was a punishable offense. Limited punishment given the context but by some standards only. After all, for a teenager, social acceptance was the ultimate treasure, that thing which all good we're measured against. But it came from people who were still young and impressionable. And that's where she could strike. It made sense to her: if she gave you that family, then obviously, it was hers to take away.

         So I stayed. Even when she started being more aggressive to me and a girl named Liza in my graduating class, we didn’t think we had much a choice. We would lose everything if we said something, and she made it so that she personally was the keeper of a great deal of it.

         It got to the point that she was able to essentially abandon us in a rest stop for a few hours before “the bus was able to turn around.” And still, we had to say nothing to anyone that could do something about it.

         We actually grew to become friends from all the torment. It’s weird how things like that can bond you to a person. “Weird,” as in we probably shouldn’t find something positive in a situation like that. All the same, we sat next to each other on a bench beneath a streetlight and talk about our lives. That’s probably the inevitable part: once you’re in the muck, you might as well dig deeper.

         I told her about my dad, about his mistress, and about all the things I wished to say to either them. I told her about Dad’s life support machine and how… poorly… that whole thing went. She told me about a bunch of things I have no business mentioning in this blog. But she also told me about her girlfriend and how a phone call between the two of them was how the monster found out. She didn’t regret anything, though. She loved her girlfriend so much that come what may, this love was worth suffering for.

         I wanted to tell her about Ada. That seemed fair, but I coudn’t bring myself to do it. I didn’t really talk about Ada that much. I still don’t.

         As for the most beautiful woman in the world who just happens to work in my office, I’ve never spoken Ada’s name allowed to her. She’s back in the office from the holiday, though. And I’m forced to realize yet again how in love with her I am, how much joy even her smile alone can bring me. I made her a little holiday gift bag or post-holiday gift bag. Her work load is going to intensify in the next couple months, so in my note, I called them “emergency rations.” She seemed to like them. She also liked being noticed.

         I’m glad she liked it.

Digitally yours,

Alex

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[poemtogod27april18-blog]

Poem to God (Written 27 April 2018)

Why was I given

the disease of addiction?

God, you know it causes,

immense affliction

I know you have a reason,

for it,

I know you can use my story,

to help a bit.

God, you know it’s not the easiest thing.

That is why to the cross I bring.

God take it away,

to Jesus I pray.

I know I will always be this way,

but that is just the price I have to pay.

God, you have rescued me before

and I know you can do it again.

You are faithful, just and true,

In Jesus’ name, I trust in you

Amen

So, this is a poem I wrote to God about my addictions. For years I have been addicted to one thing or another. Only this year, I decided with the help of my Psychologist to replace the addiction this time with a hobby or something new. Hence the blogging. I want to share my life here on these walls and tell my story from beginning to the end. Maybe by reading some of my writings, it will help and motivate someone else to become a better per so to speak. So, like I said, this poem was written on the 27th of April 2018 and I was at a very low point in life, but my divorce was at a very high point. Later on during keithsjourneyposts, you will get to know more about me. Where I came from, what I did, how I got saved and where I am heading. This is just the start.

The poem was coupled with a diary entry for that day. So, remember I said I started out old school with pen and paper? No It is going up new way. On that day my entry was :”So essentially, this little book will become filled with my daily happenings, emotions, feelings and just stuff to help me on the road to recovery. It will also be mostly filled with prayers to my father God and Jesus and just to shift my focus from cravings to God’s peace. Basically, it’s a diary with detail.

I woke up this morning the usual grumpy self, but in the back of my mind I think I made a promise to myself not to leave this room without a smile. Somehow, it is slowly work. God is hearing my prayers for that peace every morning He has taken me back AGAIN after countless times and Father God, I just want to thank you for your love and mercy shown to me.

Johan, My stepfather had a fit (I’m staying with him and my mom till my divorce is finalized and all the custody battles.) and now no one is talking in the house. I know it will calm down later as it always does.

God, I pray that you help me with my cravings over this looong weekend. Help me to stay focused on you Jesus, and as you promise in your word, the rest will fall into place when I seek you first. Give me your peace. I want less of me and more of you Dad. I am not myself anymore but a new creation.

Show me your ways. I had my 12 ‘o clock Pax / Valium now. I could not have done it alone. I am 12 days sober and clean today. So after taking the Pax, I will be numbe to my emotions again as the fighting continues in this house.My mother on the one side (Hard-headed) Johan on the other side (Hard-headed) and me, also hard headed. God give me your strength.

The next part, I prayed in Afrikaans which is my home language, but I will keep to English. Dad, I’m asking that you also give Johan some inner peace, his heart needs it and he DOES have a good heart Lord. Make his heart a bit softer. I pray in Jesus’name, amen. It looks like Johan is going to have a braai now (That is what everyone else calls a BBQ. I have some Netflix to catch up on and keep my mind off “things”

So I just want to thank you Lord Jesus for calming him down. The day is finished and we all survived.

You see, this is the type of entries I will be entering and slowly you will get to know me, Keith Gerber April 

Till tomorrow, when I enter what happened 

Keith