#you gotta choose one that's actually mouse-centered though.

[vulpinesaint]

new tag game what kind of anthropomorphic mouse series would you be in. are you a desperaux kind of mouse or a redwall mouse? the kind of mouse who would exist in the rescuers or the great mouse detective or geronimo stilton or an american tail? do you wear a handkerchief cape and carry a needle sword or wear a flower hat or do you have little mouse clothes made to fit? what are your friends like? what kind of challenges do you face? tell me about your mousesona

[thebomb-thebird-andtheburntbitch]

all three heartbeats

bakugou katsuki / f.reader

genre: married au (husband/wife), angst, hurt/comfort?, fluff, katsuki being a sap in lowercase

synposis: katsuki works full time as a prohero, but his time working to ensure the publics safety kept him busy- far too busy at times.  he seeks comfort in you and his newborn little girl because the both of you keep him grounded and keep him fighting. he just wishes he could find a way to feel like a better father and husband. 

w.count: 3.6k

a/n: hi hello i aint never written for bnha before and i thought i would never write anime fics again but here we are years after (it has been actual years, someone save me LOL). what better way than to start back out with blasty amiright? 

It was one of those nights.  Katsuki had just walked into his home at an ungodly hour and as he shut the door behind him, he leaned his back against it, He flicked all three locks of the front door shut and dropped his duffle bag at his feet before he tipped his head back to rest on the wood.  He closed his eyes, sighing as he had the urge to just sink to the floor of the entryway landing and power nap. 

Lord knows when his phone would buzz or ring again- his seemingly never ending work calling him to clock in again. It seemed like recently he never clocked out of his job- always working, patrolling, fighting petty villains trying to commit petty crimes and occasionally stopping more dangerous situations that kept him on edge and busy for hours to days on end.  

The duffle he dropped at his feet was full with his gear and his hero suit that was in desperate need of washing and minor repairs- things that if he even muttered to himself about, you would happily offer your aid. 

His closed eyes opened and his chin dropped back down, the back of his head coming off the door as he pushed the rest of his body off it as well.  He heeled off his shoes and ruffled his hair as he finally walked into his home, leaving his duffle at the door as he made his way to the bathroom.  

In all honesty, Katsuki wanted to go immediately to the room he shared with you where he knew you were asleep. He desperately needed a shower though, and he wasn’t planning on crawling into bed to hold you smelling like sweat, smoke and hero work.  

You told him before you didn’t mind his post-work scent, in fact you told him it was charming in it’s own way since it was proof that Pro Hero: Dynamight worked harder than anyone else to one day be the No.1 Hero he’d been dreaming of his entire life. 

Katsuki never told you, but he’d think about that almost everyday and it always made him smile when he did. 

The shower he took was brisk and quick because all he wanted to do was go to bed.  He couldn’t remember the last time he wasn’t just taking power naps on the couch at the agency. He couldn’t remember the last time he got to go to sleep in his own bed. Katsuki couldn’t remember the last time he got to hold you and it was starting to really piss him off.  

Since graduating UA, getting engaged, married and then having a child with you, is tempter had considerably settled.  He wasn’t entirely tame by any means, he was still a quick fire with insults, refused to use people’s names and stuck to stupid nicknames he thought of, cursed like a sailor and exploded when something mildly frustrating ticked him off- but he wasn’t like he was before.  

When Katsuki can stand to be in the same room as Todoroki and Midoriya and not blow a giant fuse within the first sentence exchange, anyone would call that progress.  

It was no shock that you were a large factor in his settled image- he had to start leaning self control and how to manager his attitude.  The one extremely rocky point in your relationship with Katsuki back when you both were third years and you threatened to leave him if he didn��t shape up made him change.  It wasn’t easy, but the arguments and fights you both had back then serve as a reminder of how far he had come according to you. 

When Katsuki stepped out of the bathroom, he sighed- feeling refreshed- as he walked to the bedroom with a towel around his waist and another over his head drying his hair.  It was way too late to be running the hairdryer, he’d risk waking up his child that he knew was otherwise dead to the world in their crib.

Twisting the doorknob as quietly as he could, Katsuki stepped into the bedroom and his eyes immediately looked to the bed, seeing your body’s shape beneath the comforter of the giant, Alaskan king bed you insisted you absolutely needed.  

He felt his lips twitch as he left the door cracked to let in a small amount of light from the hall without stirring you.  He went to his dresser and snatched a pair of shorts and a tank top and threw them on before he left the room as quietly as he had come in. 

Katsuki went back to the front door and picked up his duffle bag, moving it into the living room and setting it on the couch to fiddle with it in the morning. He grabbed his phone from the side pouch of the duffle and began to shut the lights off and retreated back down the hall.  

Before he went back to the room you slept in to join you, he stopped first in the room that was directly across the hall from his and yours and as quiet as a mouse crept in.  

The nursey was painted in a pale yellow with sunflowers painted on the walls (curtesy of the bakusquad who insisted they were in charge of nursery decorations). Against the wall was a shelved cubby for toys and items for the baby and beside that was a changing table.  Across the room was a tall dresser filled with way too many baby onesies and outfits for the future. 

Katsuki walked to the white, wooden crib at the back of the room as the room itself was glowing in the soft, blue light of the baby’s nightlight.  He leaned over the crib side and looked down to see his child sleeping just as quiet as can be.  

He smiled as he reached down and stroked her chubby cheeks with the back of his knuckles.  She was warm and soft. 

“Hey there, Girlie,” he whispered, barely audible. Just watching his little girl sleep so soundly made his chest warm. God, he loved her so much.  He frowned as he thought about how tough it might be on you while he’s away looking after her by yourself.  She was barely a few months old and he hasn’t even had a weekend with you two yet.  

Katsuki bit his lip to keep from letting the disappointment he felt in himself slip out in the form of growls. 

He stuck around in the nursey for a few more minutes, just petting and admiring his child before he snuck back out and finally, finally went back to his room and as carefully as possible slid into bed.  

You slept in the center of the bed that could easily fit four sleeping bodies, and Katsuki shuffled in further towards you before he was right behind you.  He stared at your back in the dark room, his eyes adjusting more and more as the minutes pass.  

Katsuki lightly grabbed your shoulder before he was pulling you to your back and then reaching over you to lay on your chest.  On an ordinary day, Katsuki would be happy just holding you, but he felt especially worn out and drained. So, for once, even if you were sleeping, he just wanted to be held instead. 

His cheek pushed into your chest, listening to your steady heartbeat beneath his ear. His right arm stretched over your shoulder to rest by your head and his left stayed beside his own body, his right leg hiked over your waist to be as close to you as he could get. 

He felt his eyes roll before he shut them, finally feeling comfortable and warm and safe for the first time in days.  He was finally breathing easy and all he wanted to do was stay here, in your arms, for the rest of his life. 

As he started to finally doze off, his eyes fluttered open at the feeling of something carding through his hair. 

He heard you take a deep breath before you were shifting just a bit to curl around him more and he felt your chin push against the top of his head. 

“Go back to sleep,” he muttered, feeling your sleepy gaze on the top of his head.  The small, sleepy chuckle that left your chest hummed against his cheek. 

“Welcome home,” you whispered, sleep laced heavily in your voice as he felt your lips push against his scalp.  “How was work?” You ask so innocently, but the question only made Katsuki burrow his face into your chest further. He doesn’t answer you, so you prompt him further. “Katsuki?” 

“Don’t wanna talk about it,” he muttered, lifting his face just enough to speak clearly then pushing it back down again.  

You say nothing at that and instead return to just carding your fingers through his semi-damp hair as you bask in each other and the silence of the house.  You glance over to the alarm clock, seeing the time 4:03 am in orange, glowing numbers. 

You feel like you have loads you want to talk about with Katsuki, things you want to share with him that had happened and things you want to have him tell you that’s happened, but it’s too quiet and too peaceful to bring them up.  They’d have to wait. 

“’m sorry,” he suddenly spoke from where he lay on your chest.  Your fingers stop their mindless fiddling in his hair and he grips onto you tighter. 

“What for?” 

“Not being here.” 

You felt your heart crack at the tone of his voice.  He’s always been more open and mushy around you- as much as he denies it and he only get’s more open and more mushy when he was sleep deprived and just plain exhausted.  

“I’m always working, always gone, always away doing fuck-knows-what out there and not here.  I’m not home and that’s gotta really fucking suck.”  He’s silent for a moment but you dare not speak. You feel like he’s been holding a lot in recently and if he’s choosing now to let it all out, you would silently encourage him to do that.  

“I mean-” he scoffs at himself, “we’re married for fucks sake.  We have a baby and I’m basically leaving you home alone day after day to raise her by yourself.” 

“What?” Your shocked to think that’s how he feels.  “Katsuki, that’s not-”

“It feels true,” he whimpers. “I feel like if I keep doing this, keep leaving you and Misuzu alone,” his voice cracks at the sound of his daughter’s name leaving his lips, “then you’ll both just disappear and I won’t even have the balls to go after you two.” You think you feel something wet seep through your sleep shirt, but you don’t say a thing about it.  “I don’t feel like a husband and I don’t feel like a father. How can I feel like a hero if I can’t even spare the time to be with my god damn family?” 

“Well,” you start.  In truth, all you want to do is console him, but for all you know that could make him feel worse. You had to figure out what he wanted first. “What do you want to do then?” 

He took a deep breath before he let it out again. 

“I think I’m going to take some time off,” he concluded.  It had been on his mind recently and now was as good a time as any.  He just wanted to be home. “Maybe a week or two.” 

“If that’s what you really want to do, then I think that’s a great idea. Just don’t forget to tell Eijirou or else he’ll blow a fuse if he just think’s your late because the great Dynamight is always punctual.” 

You got a hearty puff of air and smile out of him for that little line.  it was no shock that when all came down to it, Kirishima Eijirou and Bakugou Katsuki ended up working in the same agency. 

“I’ll just text the bastard.” 

“You need to tell the agency too, you dolt,” you lightly whacked him on the bed as he groaned.  Getting time off wasn’t going to be hard for him considering the god awful hours he’s been forced into the past however long.  Just going into the office to get that time off is annoying and a process he wish he could get someone else do to for him. “Just head out in the morning and let both your partner and your agency know. It won’t be so bad.” 

“Whatever,” he huffed.  “Just, go back to sleep.” 

You glanced back at the clock to see that only about half and hour had passed.  You sighed as you closed your eyes happily ready to return to sleep before Misuzu woke up. 

You swore Katsuki was out before you. 

-x-x-x-

You woke up three hours later, just after 7 am to the sounds of your daughter’s crying from her nursey. When you opened your eyes and sat up, your husband was no where to be seen.  

You frowned, knowing that he was awake somewhere and he had only slept a few hours. Shaking your head, you got up and went to Misuzu’s room to get her from her crib and bring her into your arms.  

You shushed the infant in your arms as you left the nursey and walked around the house.  Katsuki was no where to be found and his everyday shoes were gone from the shoe rack next to the door.  He must’ve went out already. 

Not thinking much of it, you moved to the kitchen to grab one of Mizusu’s bottles from the fridge.  One plus of pumping was getting bottles for the future- but that was one of the only pros among a number of cons.  

With Misuzu being still so young, she didn’t do much beside nursing, napping and diaper calls.  She would coo and whine and clutch onto your fingers and clothes and hair, but her energy was never prolonged.  

After nursing, burping and playing with her she was yawning again. You left to place her back in her crib in her room as you let he sleep a little while longer. Flipping on the baby monitor, you left the room and went to the kitchen.  Your daughter had breakfast, it was only fair that you got something to eat too. 

As you scrambled the last eggs in your fridge, enough for Katsuki just in case you saw him this morning, you heard the front door open and shut again.  You smiled as you heard footsteps come treading into the kitchen and you looked over your shoulder to see your husband.  

You smiled at him as he rubbed the back of his head. Dressed in jeans that tore just slightly in the thighs and a t-shirt, Wwhen he saw you, he immediately started going towards you. 

“Good morning,” you told him as he was at your side looking over your shoulder. “Welcome home.” 

“Mmn,” he hummed at you. 

“Where’d you go so early in the morning?” 

“Agency.” 

“You should’ve slept in a little bit more.  You didn’t sleep long.”  

“I didn’t want to wait any more to just be able to stay home.” 

You smiled at his answer.  You brought one hand up to pat his cheek as he leaned into your touch.  

“Why don’t you go get comfortable if you’re staying home then?” 

He hummed at you again, nodding before he kissed your shoulder and sauntered back into your shared room. He took his time getting changed and getting into more homey clothes, because when he came back into the kitchen you were placing your food on plates for the both of you. 

This time, when he came to you, instead of standing beside you, he latched onto you from behind as he buried his face into your neck.  You could tell from the feeling of his eyelashes tickling your skin that he was still tired. You had half a mind to tell him to just go back to bed and he could really wake up and eat later. 

The way he tightened his grip on your waist and started to sway ever so gently back and forth in the kitchen made you stay silent though.  It was a serene moment between you two and you just closed your eyes and basked in it.  It had been so long since you just got to bask in him and him in you. 

“You hungry?” You asked as softly as you could muster. He nodded but made no effort to try and move away from you.  “Do you expect to eat with your face hidden?” You teased. 

“Just a little longer,” he muffled, his breath making your skin rise with gooseflesh as it tickled.  

Half and hour later, you were taking his plate from him as he cleaned it of food and went to put them in the sink.  He jumped from his chair at the table before he was gently moving you away from the metal hole in the counter where you were about to wash the dishes you had dirtied this morning. 

“I’ll wash them,” he insisted. 

“I don’t mind doing it.” 

“Don’t be so damned stubborn.  You cooked, so it’s fair.” 

You shrugged as you relented. “If you really insist. Thank you, Katsuki.” You placed a small, short kiss on his cheek before you moved back to the table to sit.  

As he cleaned up the dishes, you sat at the table and fiddled with your phone, scrolling through apps to see what you missed and then flicking occasionally to watch Katsuki’s back.  

“I feel you fuckin’ staring,” he spoke as he shut the water off, shaking his hands before he dried them on a towel.  The dishes all sat in a plastic draining rack as he turned around and leaned against the counter.  You placed your chin in your palm as you laughed at him. 

“Yeah? Got a problem with it?” 

“Not necessarily.” 

You both jumped when a small whine was heard over the speaker of the baby monitor you had sitting on the center of the table.  You pushed your chair out, but before you could even stand up, Katsuki was up and down the hall to check on Misuzu. 

When you made it to her door, he had already lifted her out of her crib.  She had reached up and snagged a tiny handful of her father’s hair as he hissed. 

“Listen you little brat, just because your my baby doesn’t mean you can yank on my hair.” Her small fist only yanked down on his hair more as if to say ‘I can and will’.  You chuckled as you walked into the nursey and started to detangle her hand from his blond hair.  

Katsuki watched as her fingers released his hair and instead wrapped around your finger as you bounced it slightly. Her tiny arm moved in tandem with your finger bounces. 

“Hey,” your soft voice calling him suddenly brought him out of his own mind. You gently pulled Misuzu’s fingers off you as you pushed your palm against Katsuki’s cheek. “Why are you crying?” 

Was he? God, he hated crying- especially in front of you.  He clicked his tongue, whipping his head to face away from you as he used one of his hands to quickly swipe under his eyes. 

“I’m not.” 

You smiled at him, holding back a laugh as you pushed your husband into the living room to let Misuzu play on the floor.  Katsuki sat on the living room floor cross legged as you watched him play with her as she lay on her back.  

Occasionally he would glance at the time and remind you to pump, as if your tender chest wasn’t a constant reminder anyway.  You always just nodded and told him you would when you needed to. 

The three of you spent the morning in the living room until the infant began to yawn back to back and rub at her eyes clumsily.  You let Katsuki put her down for her nap in the afternoon since he never really had the opportunity to.  Through the baby monitor you could hear him mutter and coo at her to go to sleep. 

When she was down, Katsuki came back into the living room and sat himself beside you on the couch.  He sighed, throwing his head back against the couch and closing his eyes, obviously ready for a nap himself.  

“Why not try and sleep while she’s down?” You had planned on getting him to rest while you start to go through the duffle bag you had relocated to the corner of the room a while ago to see what all he needed done with his hero equipment.  

He opened one of his eyes, seeing you eyeing towards his bag and he frowned.  He shifted his body, snatched your waist and threw himself back to lay on the cushions, you following in tow to lay on top of him. 

“Katsuki!” You scolded in a hushed tone as to not wake up your daughter who just went to sleep.  

“I’ll nap here and you will too. No objections.” He brought one of his hands up to start stroking your head. “Just let me take care of my god damn wife for once.” You just shook your head and pushed your cheek further against his chest to get comfortable.  When he says it like that, you can’t really bring yourself to oppose him.  

“Hey,” you whispered. You felt him hum in response to you. “I love you.” 

His legs shifted and his arms wrapped around you tighter, getting more comfortable. He let out a deep, comfortable breath as you felt him push his cheek into the top of your head. 

“‘Fuckin’ love you too.” 

[ceo-of-lions]

Hello! I was wondering how you made the videos with the faces layered on top and such? I’ve always wanted to make some.

Putting this under a read more because I ended up severely overexplaining (as I do) and i’m not about to remove all this typing I did. Anon I am so sorry if this is ridiculously long and no help at all.

As a disclaimer, this is meant for pc/laptop. Phones can probably do it, but they’re much less capable in general and most editing apps are paid, watermarked, just plain bad, or a mix of those. Also, it’s entirely possible this is a very unnecessarily tiring and inefficient way do do this. This is just how I personally go about it. If this method gives you the ol’ jangle bones (cause it sure does that to me!) and it doesn’t quite feel right of fulfilling then I strongly recommend asking other people on how they do it.

To get started you’ll need a few things beforehand:

✦ A video editor of some kind (I’m using Lightworks; it’s free, unwatermarked, and autosaves your projects if it ever crashes)

✦ A photo editor (I’m using Pixlr E, it’s, again, free, and you don’t need any installation

✦ The video you want to edit characters onto

✦ A render for the charcter with a transparent background

I’m not sure whether or not installing Lightworks has any oddities i need to mention here, but if you (or anyone else) ever gets stuck, don’t hesitate to dm me or shoot me another ask!

First of all, you’re gonna need a good video. Trust me, once you manage to get into The Zone, this is going to be your only obstacle. And it’s an annoying one. Having a source that reliably uploads these kind of “short but sweet” videos (preferably around 30secs long or less) really is half the battle!

Once you’ve got your video chilling somewhere on your pc, you’re going to need a character render (or two) of some kind. Fandom wikias are often good (or at least decent) sources for this. Of course, you’ll need one that has as little covering/touching the character’s face as possible. Once you’ve got your renders, go to Pixlr E, click the blue “open image” button over over on the left get the pic you need n’ open it. After that, it’ll look like this:

Next, you’ll need the crop tool. Go ahead and crop away everything till the face is the main focus.

Once you’ve done that, zoom in and select the cutout tool. Then, select the “draw mask” option and reduce it’s softness all the way down to 0.

Once you have that going, just draw over the character until everything from their chin down is all gone, like this;

And it’s all done! Click “file” in the upper left corner, then “save” to download it. Make sure you save it as a .png file, otherwise the background won’t be transparent. You can just close the tab from here. I recommend taking a break here, get a drink or maybe a snack!

Next, open Lightworks. If it asks you to log in, do so. Take a tutorial if you feel like it. (I strongly recommend watching the “quick start’” video tutorial they have over at the lightworks forums along with some more in-depth ones; for creating simple videos with characters pasted over it, my guide will be all you need, but it might be useful to know how to mess around with audio, crossfades, greenscreen/chromakey, etc.)

Once you’re all free to do what you want, create a new project, give it a name, and set the framerate. (if you don’t know about this one just set it to “auto”) 

Now, it’ll look like this:

Go to the bottom left and select “local files”. From there, select the video and your characters’ faces and import them. (tip: holding ctrl or left shift while clicking allows you to select multiple, don’t remember which one it was www)

Once you have everything, go to the “edit” tab.

Make sure the long red stick-thing at the bottom is all the way at 0, then double click your video to open the source viewer and press “b” (or click the button labeled ‘replace.). Once it’s in the bars at the bottom, you can get rid of the source viewer. Then, if your clip is anywhere under 5 minutes, you’ll be stuck with this gaping hole next to it: 

Right click the empty void and click “close gap” to solve the issue. This is somewhat necessary, because if you export the video afterwards without the gap closed there’ll just be a black screen for 4 minutes. Make sure you don’t have any tracks hidden, otherwise closing the gap won’t work (though you probably won’t have anything hidden if you didn’t click anyting else).

Alright, now for the most soul-murdering part of the process (after looking for the video, of course): Image Key, a.k.a where we actually put the characters’ faces on top of the video. Go ahead and click “VFX” at the top, and you’ll have a menu like this:

In the effect library to the left, select the “key” category and then double click “Image Key”. You’ll need one of these image key effect for each face you’re using. (Also, you can just minimize the color correction if it’s unfolded, we’re not gonna be messing with it.)

So now, we’ve got this! For the sake of simplicity, you can rename the effects to the characters’ names so you don’t mix them up. Under “choose a file,” select the character faces. If you imported them into your project when you started, they should be easily findable under the “Project” tab. Right now, the characters will be in the center, right under one another. You can move the characters by either using the “Position” sliders on the left or by clicking and dragging them with your mouse in the actual video. For the most part, we’ll be doing the latter, but because the faces are stuck under one another in the exact center, you move both of them at the same time. To fix this, move one face away from the other using the slider one time. 

Okay, moving on! This part is important not to skip. Notice the little timer-like icons to the left of the sliders? If you hover over them, it says “Enable/disable keyframes for this parameter.” Click them for every slider under “scale” and “position”. Now, we can start keyframing it; keyframing basically tells the image where it needs to be, when it needs to be in that location, how big, etc. For us, this means that we can make faces move along very fluidly with the video.

By now, we’ve made quite a bit of progress! I recommend taking another break before this to avoid feeling tired. Green tea helps! Once you’ve done that, go ahead and click “Graphs”. Since you enabled the keyframes, your effect should show up with, lo and behold, some graphs to go with ‘em:

I personally work by keyframing one face at a time. To do this undisturbed, I disable the little green light that says “toggle bypass” when you hover over it for the face i’m not going to be keyframing. It hides that face temporarily until i put it back on again. To decide what face i’ll be keyframing first, I just look at whatever face appears in the video first. Once you have the face that appears first, make absolutely positively sure the red bar is at zero to be able to set where and how the image starts out. Then, drag the face onto the poor human soul whose face we’ll be replacing today. Go back to the “settings” tab and slide with the “Scale: Master” until the character’s face is big or small enough for your liking. Then, if the person we want the second character to portray is not on-screen, we click the green (now gray) lamp on the unused face and drag it off: depending on your video format, either to the black on the side (which we’ll crop off when we’re done) or just off-screen if your video is fullscreen. If the person is on-screen, just drag the face on top of that person and adjust size like we did with the first face. These will be the locations the characters start on. Switch the green light back off for your second character, and move back to Graphs.

This is where the “””””fun””””” begins. So, right now, you have your red bar at 0, and you have your character where you want it. We need to move the character’s face frame-by-frame. Luckily, there’s an easier way to move frames: with your arrow keys. Every press with your left or right arrow key moves the video one frame into that direction. Now remember what i said about using your mouse to drag the images where they need to be? It comes in really handy here. Press your right arrow key thrice to move 3 frames ahead, and then drag the image to wherever the face is on that frame. Lightworks will automatically fill in where the image needs to be on the frames in between those frames so you don’t need to precisely move the image on every frame (though this might be helpful on shorther videos or videos where there is very fast movement.) Do this repeatedly until the video ends or the character disappears off-screen. Every 3-4 or so frames. For the remainder of the video. Entertaining. Very, very entertaining. (In short, it’s just: press arrow keys thrice > reposition image > repeat.)

Adding to this, sometimes the characters go off screen and then come back, but the faces move gradually to the spot leading to them appearing too soon. (sounds incredibly vague, I know, but you’ll know what it means when it happens.) To fix this, you need to go into the graphs labeled “position”. It’ll look something like this:

What you need to do here is click somewhere above or below the diagonal line in the middle to move your red line there. Press the arrow with the vertical line to the left to move to the previous keyframe. Copy the numbers that are to the left of the graph, press the arrow with the vertical line to the right, nudge one frame back with your left arrow key, paste the value you just copied over the one that’s already there and then press enter or the plus. That should fix it.

Okay. You have now keyframed all of the faces. It’s all done. Take a break here. I don’t care how determined you are right now. you Gotta. You Just Gotta. get some water, you deserve it.

After getting your water, go back to the “edit” tab at the top, right click your video and select export. Select the format, give it a name, and huzzah! Finally. Unless you have a video format with black edges, then it’ll look somewhat like this. To crop those sides off, we’re going over to Kapwing to crop it off. (You need to register (free) to remove the watermark, and i’m pretty sure Lightworks can also do it, but I haven’t found that option yet and I’m too stubborn to) Once you’re done with that, download it, delete the old version and you’re really done. You deserve a pat on the shoulder now because god fuck if this isn’t one of the most tiring processes to do out of free will (and that times 10 if you’re a slow worker like I am) but honestly making hundreds of people laugh is SO MUCH of a payoff you can’t help but keep wanting to do it wwww

if there’s any more questiong about this or if i forgot something (which i probably did) please shoot me an ask or dm!! all i am physically incapable of doing is simplifying this into less of a wall of text

[thistlecornandthyme]

Get to know me tag!

I was tagged by @amartyrforme

Rules: Complete the survey and say who tagged you in the beginning. When you are finished tag people to do this survey. Have fun and enjoy!

1. Are you named after someone? The biblical character/I believe a relative?

2, When is the last time you cried? A while ago, I have a hard time crying even when I want to. I’ll just get teary-eyed then it stops, its really frustrating.

3. Do you like your handwriting? I’m a lil out of practice but I like my unique mess of half-cursive.

4. What is your favorite lunch meat? Why do I need to choose? Probably roast beast.

5. Do you have kids? No.

6. If you were another person, would you be friends with you? I can be problematic and blunt but just call me Narcissus already.

7. Do you use sarcasm? Why would I ever do that?

8. Do you still have your tonsils? No, those horrid things left me long ago and now I have a hard time palating plain milk :/

9. Would you bungee jump? Am I scared? Yes. Sign me the fuck up.

10. What is your favorite kind of cereal? They all have their good qualities. I also haven’t gotten cereal in a long time.

11. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? Usually

12. Do you think you’re a strong person? I fluctuate. I’m less a strong person and more an empty one.

13. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? Butter pecan, fight me.

14. What is the first thing you notice about people? Faces most often.

15: Red or pink? Depends on the day and the shade.

16. What is the least favorite physical thing you like about yourself? Currently I’m not enjoying my weight very much, but I really hate the 6 or 7 moles on my face, and my smile, just kinda my face in general, save my eyes.

17. What color pants and shoes are you wearing now? I’m not.

18. What was the last thing you ate? A delicious cedar wood smoked ham and super hot pepper cheese sandwich on an onion bun that was perfectly heated with a mellow yellow and a fudge-dipped coconut granola bar. 

19. What are you listening to right now? The Travelling Wilburys and as always my favorite indie operas 

20. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Yellow-Orange was always my favorite crayon.

21. Favorite smell? I honestly can’t pick one. You can’t have just one smell. There’s a smell for every emotion and color of the rainbow.

22. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone? It was either mom or a certain special someone. 

23. Favorite sport to watch? Sports are very boring to watch. Unless you mean in person and then I enjoy watching friends play tennis.

24. Hair color? Currently my natural brown because I work for a “respectable” republican grocery. 

25. Eye color? True Hazel, the kind where the outer rim is a light brown and the center is tinged green. I love my eyes.

26. Do wear contacts? On occasion, they make a lot of things easier but I like glasses.

27. Favorite food to eat? I am gluttony’s child, taste sensation is a horrible temptress. Basically the only thing I have a problem with is lettuce-based salad because its so bland.

28. Scary movies or comedy? Both.

29: Last movie you watched? Resident Evil: the final chapter.

30. What color shirt are you wearing? White.

31. Summer or winter? I love summer for many reasons but I thrive in the cold of winter. Plus cuddling.

32. Hugs or kisses? I’ve only had hugs so I don’t have enough info to answer. Not that I wouldn’t mind changing that.

33. What book are you currently reading? Children of the Serpent Gate by Sarah Ash. Currently my third (or fourth?) time through the trilogy, and I’ve gotta say, now that I’m older and know a lot more, I’ve gotta say it has its share of bad qualities, but I still do love it. It does a wonderful job in the number of pages it has. 

34. Who do you miss right now? All the friends I made in one year of college, a distant friend who used to be close, a faraway sweetheart, a friend I alienated, my dog, let’s just say that the list goes on, I have the heart of a character out of a Shakespearean tragedy. 

35. What is on your mouse pad? Zero from Borderlands 2. It was a pseudo-gift 

36. What is the last tv program you watched? The last thing I watched on netflix was lemony snicket’s a series of unfortunate events, the last thing I watched online was doug. I don’t have actual tv service by choice for like 7 years now?

37. What is the best sound? The rain. runner up being someone else’s heartbeat.

38. Rolling Stones or The Beatles? These tough questions, probably The Beatles.

39. What is the furthest you have ever traveled? I haven’t been out of the states yet. I’ve been to both coasts though and I live in the Midwest.

40. Do you have a special talent? I’ve a natural talent for massage. And I like to believe I have a touch of clairvoyance, it happens often enough that coincidence stopped covering it a long time ago.

41. Where were you born? MN

42. People you expect to participate in this survey? Hopefully people I tag.

Tagging: @toxanonamous @cakeandcrows @floralknight @lexa117

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The Break Down Of A Gigantic Online Business Empire

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The Break Down Of A Gigantic Online Business Empire

    Recover, Reboot, Rebuild . . .

I was totally shocked to discover the demise of The Gigantic Online Business Empire Empower Network. I’m sure there are tons of people out there who are devastated because Empower Network was the go to network marketing business for so many people. Tons of investments had been made and a lot of people had high hopes and big dreams as to what this industry leader could provide.

I’m sure disappointments are high and many people are pointing the finger at the company for setting their expectations high and then dropping, them to the lowest points of their lives. The scriptures reveal that “hope deferred makes the heart sick.” Yet, online entrepreneurship can cause deferred hope more often than many of us would like to admit.

I for one invested thousands into the company, but I feel as if I got millions in return. Well, how could I say that? David Wood let us all down right? Wrong? Too many people depend on others for the manifestation of making their own dreams come true. Let me explain . . .

When I first joined Empower Network I was sucked into the bright and shiny wonder of possibility. It was the first time that I found an actual pathway to being a 7-figure earner.

The sales funnel was flawless:

Lead Magnant: $25.oo Blogging Platform

Trip-Wire Upsell: $100 Inner Circle Audio Collection

Core Products: $500 Costa Rica Mastermind,  the 15-K Formula, and the Master’s Course

Money Multiplier: $19 per month Affiliate Fee

Now that I understand more about Sales Funnel Mastery, this sales funnel was perfect. In fact, it’s the best sales funnel I’ve ever seen. The whole idea of starting customers on their online entrepreneurship journey for $25, then through mentoring and coaching scaling them up to $3,000 and multiplying profits on the back-end is simply phenomenal.

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Call it greed, but in all honesty, we’re here to provide value in exchange for monetary resources right? In that sense, David Wood built an incredible funnel for profits. As a previous customer, I can say I learned a lot from Empower Network. I discovered some of the greatest leaders in the industry there such as Nicole S. Cooper, Tracy Walker, Lawrence Tann and many others, not excluding David Wood. Yet, I learned early on that I wasn’t going to put the responsibility for my success into their hands solely. I started paying more attention to what they did versus what they said.

What did their sales funnels look like?

How were their blogs set up?

What was the structure of their marketing content?

In addition to investing in the training modules and coaching programs; I began thinking: ” How do I build an online business?”  I knew up-front that I didn’t want to build my entire income based on what someone else did or didn’t do.  I never really focused on recruiting people but rather masterminding with them, because I was more interested in how to create my own products and services that I could sell for 100% profit. I wanted to get money for every sale I made without trying to keep others motivated to make a sale so I could get paid.

Yet, I invested in David Wood, because he was just a kid who had figured it out:

Be yourself

Offer people products and services they needed

Solve their problems

Get Money

        Take Responsibility For Your Own Success

Early on, I decided to take responsibility for what I wanted versus being sucked into what someone else wanted for me. In reality, it’s no one’s fault if you choose to put your future in their hands. Truthfully, every relationship has risks, but you have to believe that whatever happens whether good or bad is an opportunity for greatness to emerge. There’s always a blessing in the storm, and the sun will shine again.

I’ve Been There . . . 

If it’s any comfort to you, I’m not talking from my head but rather from experience. I’ve suffered homelessness and dealt with the family crisis, and much more during this process of building my online business. It “aint” been no bed of roses, but I discovered that where I’ve been is far scarier than where I’m going. I’ve set a torch to every ship back to land, so it’s sink or swim. Even though I’ve shed many tears in the process, I choose to swim.

    I’ve decided come hell or high water, I’m going to reach my destiny. Have you? Here’s the deal, if you were a part of Empower Network, let David Wood have his human moment. Take what you’ve learned and apply it to your life, to your business, to your new venture whether it’s with him or somebody else. Don’t you ever put your future into someone’s hands solely, but rather grab the golden nuggets they offer you and put them to work in your process.

Always remember, when someone has poured into your life as David Wood and other leaders of Empower Network has, be sure to keep them in your prayers,  be grateful for what they’ve taught you, see if you can serve them in any way during their time of need, then do the 3 R’s of online entrepreneurship break-down:

Re-Cover

Re-Boot

Re-Build

We all need grace, Mike Dillard a new Billionaire in the Online Business space talked about how he lost it all once. He had trusted someone and invested a lot of money from clients, into a well-known investor, only to later find that the guy was a scam artist. He was hit with multiple lawsuits, his partner almost died from stress, he lost his family and more, but he didn’t let it take him out. He rose up from the ashes and built other phenomenal businesses in spite of the devastating losses he’d endured. He publically admitted his mistakes and apologized for everything. Many people bashed him, but others loved him through his human glitch.

I’m sorry if you were looking for the next big strategy to getting rich online, but my heart was just aching for a dear leader who just lost his way momentarily and who knows how long the path to recovery will be. . .

Yet, it’s up to you to pull yourself up by the bootstraps and move forward with your goals because it’s up to you to make them happen not anyone else. . .

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  If you’ve been devastated by your online business building process or you just need a little encouragement to keep going check out the resources below

When You Feel Like Giving Up By Motivation Grid

How Bad Do You Want It By Eric Thomas

It’s A Mindset By Teresa Cole

You Gotta Be Hungry by Les Brown

How To Reach Your Goals In The Face Of Obstacles By Teresa Cole

I know that these resources will encourage you and help you rise above the challenges whatever they are so that you can do what you came to the internet to do. . .

I know it’s hard to determine what to do next, especially if you’ve done the same thing for so long; therefore, I’ve made it super easy and inexpensive for you to join me. I don’t care where you’re at in the process of building your online business, together we can make it. I can help you leverage the internet for profits in spite of what you’ve been through.

Follow the 3 simple steps below, and I’ll meet you on the inside of your comeback.

Join the Online Business Builders Library &  Grab  Your Coaching Tools HERE

Connect with the BRAND NEW Online Biz Builders Reality Group HERE

Program this number: (515) 604-9000 and Enter Pin# 691998 into your phone & commit to the  Online Biz Builder Coaching Calls, every Tuesday night, @ 8:30 pm CST or 9:30 pm EST

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About The Author

I’m just a single mom who got tired of choosing between work and family. As an Online Business Strategist, I get to spend my time doing what matters most to me. I discovered that most people don’t want money, but they want the freedom that money can buy. Let me help you build your lifestyle business so you can focus on what matters most to you.