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Monkie kid headcanons for fun

Red son headcanons:

Red son has bad memory and he only calls MK and Mei Noodle boy and dragon girl because he legit cannot remember their names to save his life.

Red son's glasses are shades, which aren't normal for prescription glasses which makes me think he actually uses them to control light intake due to his pupils not adjusting to light properly.

Red son has chronic pain but doesn't even realize it because He's lived with it for centuries so it's basically just the norm for him. His pain is mostly centered in his back and joints.

Red son has neurodivergent swag. Idk what kind but he sure as hell has it.

Red son doesn't like being touched. He probably has to be the one to initiate the touch to feel comfortable. (You could read this as him being touch starved but tbh i don't really read him one way or another :P)

Red son has the nonbinary swag. Source: trust me bro.

Red son can't cheat on anything. he legally is not allowed to cheat. this may or may not be related to the fact he feels the need to prove himself. Source: he tried to win the great wall race fair and square instead of just stealing the peach or cheating to win.

Red son just genuinely finds racing fun. Source: His truck literally turned into a race car before he ever had to race. he just likes going fast and building cool cars. also the fact he chose to race in the great wall race when there were other options to get the peach.

Red son has low empathy.

Red son isn't very good at comforting and instead is someone who tries to find a solution to a problem. He struggles to realize that sometimes there is no solution and some people just need comfort.

Red son is non-partnering aroace. He used to just say that romance got in the way of his work because he didn't realize that romantic interest wasn't just something you could turn on or off at will.

Red son actually doesn't have any bull-like features and he is rather self conscious about the fact he doesn't look like his father at all.

Red son is a cat person. Cats tend to flock to him due to being a living heater and he just accepts his fate and gets buried in them.

Red son doesn't know how to handle compliments or people being nice to him so he usually mistakes his confused feelings towards them with anger.

Red son is able to get "burnt out" in which he uses too much energy and his fire dies out for a while, in which he is only able to produce smoke. Usually after resting he is able to use his fire again.

His fire responds to his emotions. It can become hard to control when he is emotionally unstable.

When angry or stressed Red son turns to work. usually he will lock himself up in his room or workshop until he's calmed down or finished what he's working on.

Red son talks to himself and thinks out loud often. he finds it easier to work through his thoughts when he is able to verbalize them out loud as compared to them floating vaguely in his head.

Red Son doesn't really have a filter and will reply bluntly with his exact thoughts. he struggles to take into account how his words could upset others which has made him come off as rude.

The only time he is aware of what he is saying is when speaking to his parents. Source: Red son will seem to speak without filter until his parents show distaste in what he said in which then he will backtrack and try to change what he said to make them happy. (the "I have made it's power my pow - our power" scene in the pilot)

Red son doesn't eat beef because of his father being a bull. (more of a silly headcanon rather than serious)

Mk Headcanons:

Mk has the transmasc swag. Source: trust me bro. Also just him mentioning how he used to go by something before MK, how he wears a shirt when swimming, and how much he screams about being a monkey MAN. Very transmasc of him.

Mk has ADHD. He is SO ADHD you guys have NO IDEA. Source: IMPOSSIBLE DELIVERY THAT IS THE ADHD MOOD ALL THE TIME.

Mk cries over movies all the time. It's basically expected that every emotional scene in a film will end with him sobbing.

Mk is Gay AroAce. I imagine him being Demi or gray aro and then just plain ace!

The more power MK uses the more he shows monkey-like features.

Mk was actually decently strong even before he got monkey king's powers. basically he's got a bit of muscle on him.

Mk has a war form like Wukong, he just hasn't activated it yet :) (iirc Wukong's "war form" is really just Wukong's power to multiply his limbs so MK can do that too)

Mk will make weird noises as he does things, usually as sound effects to the task he is currently doing.

Mk can't swim. Source: He has monkey floaty :)

MK is sensitive to sound and uses his headphones to help control that. He often uses music as a stim and to help him focus. Source: he wears headphones a lot. also trust me bro. it's the adhd

MK talks to himself a lot, usually as a way to sooth his nerves to talk his way through a problem. He will also talk to plushes and other inanimate objects as a way to talk thought his thoughts as they get all jumbled in his head.

He tends to stay up incredibly late, even when he is tired. He can't ever seem to go to bed at a reasonable time.

MK is unmedicated for his ADHD. Not for lack of trying he just keeps forgetting to go get it prescribed.

MK can't drink coffee has it has the opposite effect on him in which it causes him to crash intensely. he tried to use it as a sleep aid once to go to bed earlier but instead it made him late for work as he slept way longer than expected. source: very common for ppl with ADHD to consume caffeine and become sleepy instead of energized. ofc this isn't how it is for all ppl with ADHD but it's common enough that i put it on MK ;)

MK tends to snack as a stim. He often will find himself missing full meals because of hyperfocus and his snacking stim making him forget he's hungry.

Mei Headcanons:

Mei also has the ADHD swag sorry I don't make the rules.

Mei is Lesbian Ace. I feel like she is either Demi-Ace or Gray-Ace.

Mei has a physical dragon form as well as the energy dragon. The energy dragon is a lot easier to summon compared to turning into a dragon - plus takes less energy.

While Mei likes cats, She is more of a dog person overall.

Mei used to be pretty shy as a kid mostly due to her trying to fulfill her parents idea of her. She only really came out of her shell when she became friends with Mk. Hence why Mei's parents, specifically her mom, didn't really care for Mk all that much. if anything they found him to be a bad influence for a while. also why Mk was never invited to Mei's house until S1E3

Mei has a better relationship with her father as compared to her mother. While both her parents are more traditionalists her father always was a bit more lenient and supportive of his daughters eccentricities.

Mei met Mk when out in town with her family. She saw him trying to win a crane machine and ended up helping him get the monkey plush he wanted...even if it was cheating the system. (also yes the plush he is seen with I headcanon to of been won by Mei and gifted to him)

Mei was a late bloomer when it came to her dragon powers which just added to the stress she had of being the family disappointment.

Mei often speaks without a filter when around the rest of the monkie kid group as she feels like she can truely be herself with her friends as compared to her family where she feels constantly stifled.

Mei is a variety streamer. She most often streams video games but sometimes will do vlogging streams along with MK as they go around the city. She has definitely streamed MK fighting a demon before.

Mei has raced illegally at least once and she totally WON.

Mei made the upgrades to her bike herself, such as the ability for it to come to her when she calls it. It made it easy when she has the sudden burst of motivation to drive it.

At first Mei was incredibly polite when meeting Pigsy and Tang, not fully coming out of her shell right away. At first Pigsy thought Mei would be a good influence on MK - he was proven wrong when Mei became more outgoing and starting causing mischief with MK.

Mei definitely crashed through MKs window while in her dragon form at least once (she was probably trying to visit him while he was grounded lol). Pigsy was not impressed.

Mei went to private school when she was a kid meaning that her and MK were only able to hang out after school. Though as she got older she had a tendency to start skipping class to go crash MKs classes instead.

Some mixed headcanons that don't belong with one character or another:

Mei and Mk are literally the only friends each other has. MK always struggled to make friends due to kids finding him obnoxious. Mei struggled to make friends due to her upbringing along with her ADHD making her rather abrasive.

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Meta and Formatting - Read more tags

This little guide almost solely applies to Tumblr where you can actually choose to put in a read more tag to shorten your post.

Why is a read more tag so important?

I always encourage writers to use the read more option because it can be quite a drag to scroll past a 7k word long story, especially if people reblog your story often and it pops up on people’s dashes more than once.

It’s not only more convenient for people scrolling through their dash, but whenever someone clicks the read more tag they will automatically be sent to your blog. And that’s what we all want, right? People visiting your blog!

Personally I use the rule: if a story is longer than 500 words, jam in that read more tag. If your summary and other meta is to point it will lure in readers anyway.

How to put a read more tag in your post?

First of all make sure you’re on an empty line in your post. The line has to be completely empty, including spaces, otherwise you won’t get the pop-up menu.

A little menu to the right will appear.

Click the little square with three dots on the right.

If you have done it correctly you will see a curly line with the words ‘Keep reading’:

If you hover over the line with our mouse a red dot with a cross to the right will appear. If you click that you can remove the read more tag. You can also click and hold the read more to drag it up or down, replacing it in your post.

My line is empty but I don’t get the menu...

In that case you’ve got the heading option turned on. The little cursor will be taller than normal. Just type a single letter, select it and turn off the header option. Delete the letter and the menu should appear again.

I’m on mobile/the app

In this case you won’t be able to put on a read more tag in your post  and you’ll have to log in on computer to put the tag in. A serious loss in my opinion, and something I’d like to see Tumblr fix, because mobile traffic is higher than computer traffic these days.

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Blog2Social - A Social Media Auto-Share, Auto-Post & Scheduler Wordpress Plugin that actually works

Among the many great features you get from using Wordpress is the Publicize feature, which allows you to automatically share your posts to your own social channels: actually, this has become so useful these days that you almost cannot live without it - unless you prefer to manually perform all the sharing / posting / scheduling job, which can be quite tedious if you're publishing a lot of stuff. Truth to be told, this isn't a built-in WordPress feature: you get that by installing Jetpack, am incredibly powerful & useful toolkit for WordPress that you can install as a standard plugin. With Jetpack, you will empower your WordPress-based website with free themes, social sharing, images tools, rich content editors, security tools, brute force protection features and so on (for further info on Jetpack, read here). Now, Jetpack comes with many available pricing plans, including a free one that - luckily enough - includes the Publicize feature, aka the social sharing tool: we already talked about it a couple of times, explaining how to re-enable the Jetpack Publicize feature for already published posts and how to automatically add hashtags to Jetpack Publicize.

When Jetpack's Publicize is not enough

Although being as great and lightweight as it gets, the Jetpack Publicize tool is still lacking some potentially useful features that could really help you with your social media sharing: No way to schedule or postpone the social media posts: you can either share them immediately or you won't be able to use it anymore, as the Publicize option is always disabled for already published posts (unless you follow our advice to re-enable the feature for published posts). This also means that you won't be able to auto-share everything you wrote BEFORE installing the plugin No way to differentiate the shared content among different social media: you'll have the same title and abstract everywhere, i.e. on all the social networks you connected the service to. This is very limiting, expecially if you have a Twitter AND any other social account (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and so on) since the Twitter character limitations which you need to observe will also apply to the other social networks. Few Social Network supported: Publicize allows you to share your content on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Path (?) and Google+. That's it: no Medium, Instagram, and Flickr, which is a rather severe limitation nowadays. No additional image(s) support: the only image you will get on the Social Networks post(s) will be the post's Featured Image. This could be OK for Twitter / Facebook / Google+ up to two years ago, but it's not ideal nowadays - especially for Tumblr. It would be ever more devastating for Instagram or Flickr, but you can't connect these accounts anyway, so you won't have to bother :)

Introducing Blog2Social

Truth to be told, despite being a huge fan of Publicize (I even wrote a dedicated plugin to make it better!), I definitely would have switched to a better alternative - if only there were some. Up to few months ago, there was nothing decent around it - except for some paid-only options that I wouldn't even consider: I wanted a free Publicize alternative, not a paid services. Everything changes a couple months ago, when I eventually managed to find that. The name is Blog2Social, it works great and - most importantly - it comes with  a fully-usable free plan which is already much better - in terms of features - that the standard Publicize.  With the free version, which never expires, you can: Connect profiles and share your posts on Facebook, Twitter, VK.com, Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram, XING, Reddit, Pinterest, Flickr, Medium, Tumblr, Torial, Diigo and Bloglovin. Connect a business page on Facebook Use Facebook Instant Sharing to share your blog posts on Facebook Profiles, Pages, in Groups and Events! Write different content for each Social Media (i.e., write different text, tags, hashtags, handles, or emojis for each social network). Share new posts or existing posts, including the already-shared posts (re-share old posts). Insert additional images where the Social Network API allows you to do that (such as Medium and Tumblr, for example). Keep track of your social media posts with the posting dashboard Automatically generate Hashtags from your WordPress tags (no need for my Publicize with Hashtags plugin!). Use the integrated Bitly URL shortener, which is a great way to track the performance of your links. Here's a screenshot of the Blog2Social sharing dashboard:

As you can see, it allows you to customize your content on per-network basis, which - at least in my opinion - is the most lacking feature of Jetpack's Publicize.

Free Edition limitations & workarounds

As a matter of fact, the only things that I do miss from the free version are the scheduler features and the ability to connect pages and groups on Facebook and Google+, as well as pages on LinkedIn, which are some of the additional "premium" features included only with a paid plan. I couldn't do anything for the scheduler and connecting LinkedIn pages, since you can't do these things even with Publicize, however I could easily work around the Facebook and Google+ pages limitation by keeping Publicize enabled just for them! Long story short, now I can share my WordPress posts on my Google+ & Facebook pages as soon as I publish them (using Publicize) and then on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+ & Facebook Profile, LinkedIn, Instagram, Flickr, Medium, Diigo and Bloglovin using the Blog2Social free version. The great thing about that is that I can also overcome the Twitter "character limitation" issue that way, since Twitter sharing isn't handled by Publicize, therefore its content can be customized within the Blog2Social sharing interface - without impacting any other Social Network.

Premium Edition

Right after settling up with the Free Edition, I also tried the Premium features - since you can activate it for a free 30-days trial - and I must say that some of them are very nice. The scheduler is great if you need to postpone the sharing process - which could be a good move if you write a lot during the night, since sharing is something you should really do during daylight! The chance to connect multiple accounts / pages / groups per network is also great if you have multiple Facebooks/Google pages: needless to say, it would also make Publicize useless, which is good because you'll have a single endpoint to better handle everyting.

Conclusion

I can definitely recommend Blog2Social to everyone who's looking for a way to improve the Jetpack's Publicize effectiveness in terms of Social Media sharing. The great thing about it is that you can use them both, as they nicely complement each other: in case you need the Blog2Social advanced features - scheduler, all-in-one sharing, multiple accounts per network, integrated reporting services, sharing networks among different Wordpress users and so on - you'll most likely end up with a paid plan, as it's definitely worth the price. DISCLAIMER: This is an honest and unbiased review of a Wordpress plugin I'm actually using, which I finally found after a lot of research: neither me nor this website have anything to do with Blog2Social or got a single penny for that review.   Read the full article