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adaptacy · 8 months

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Hi! Since requests are open I wanted to suggest a second part to the fic you wrote about Johnny escaping from prison and tracking you down, obviously sexually frustrated, missing the touch of his partner and being treated with basic human decency. It would be so cool if you could make it angsty too 🥲

hiiii anon! here you go :)

no smut here but rough treatment/handling and angst.

It was gentle, but it was still a push. A push away. He remained in the same spot, though his head recoiled, and he looked down at you, eyes narrowed, irritated with your choice. "Why?" He hissed.

"It's been twelve years. You're a fugitive, Johnny. I- I have a son. We can't be doing this," you stammer, shaking your head as you keep him away with a palm against his chest. "I'm sorry."

"None of that shit matters. C'mon, darlin'. I've missed you," he stressed, pushing back against your hand and nearing your lips again, but you pulled away.

"I'm serious. I'm sorry, maybe I led you on, but... I never intended to- Can't you see? Don't you... see the problem?" You asked, your voice light, trying to remain unaccusatory. You understood him to an extent; you'd been able to make a life for yourself, and he'd been nothing but a spectator to the outside world. You were living a completely different story from his. And your paths had crossed in the past, but they weren't meant to cross again.

Hell, he was supposed to be in jail. Both of you knew that very well. Every day that he was out may be his last day before the cops found him again. You couldn't just cling onto a fading memory like that. Never knowing when your kiss may be the last, never knowing how long he was going to be in your life. That was way too much stress, even if some part of you did still love him.

You'd tried loving others. Hell, you'd married one of them. Had a kid. But it wasn't the same. Nothing ever came close to what you and Johnny had all those years ago. And when the marriage fell through, he conveniently showed up a few months later. A possibility you never could've even dreamed of being real. And you dreamed about him quite often.

With a quiet sigh, you pushed him off of you and tried to step out of the way, but he grabbed the middle of your shirt and tugged you backwards, pushing you against the brick wall of the alley the two of you were in. He was tipsy, but he wasn't drunk enough to accidentally be rough. He was doing it on purpose. "Johnny, I'm not doing this."

"Just fuckin' explain it to me again. Tell me why," he demanded, looming over you, his tone nothing short of menacing.

"I have a family."

"No, you have a kid. What he doesn't know won't hurt him."

"I have a life- I can't go housing a fugitive," you argued.

"I got my own place. You ain't gotta house shit."

"I hardly even know you, it's been forever," you pushed.

"So? We'll get to know each other again."

"You're dangerous, Johnny!" You snapped, heart picking up it's pace as you shook your head at him. His expression fell, his head retracting a few inches. "You killed people. Broke out of prison. You-" You huffed, finding your voice shaky despite trying your best to remain calm. "You're bad news," you whispered.

There was silence on Johnny's end, his chest rising and falling with a sort of determination as if his anger was slowly bubbling up. "What the hell did you just say to me?"

"Please, just... let me go. I shouldn't have encouraged this, I'm sorry, Johnny. I think it's best if we part-"

"No. What the fuck did you just say to me?" He snarled, and you flinched, your breath caught in your throat. His grip on your shirt tightened, and he pushed his fist harsher into your chest, his breaths coming out in rough bouts. "You didn't give a shit about any of that twelve years ago. That husband of yours fuck you that good, huh? Think you're too good for someone like me now? Think you're gonna be a good little suburban wife who can't be caught with a criminal like me?"

"I didn't say any of that. And, god, no- He's an ex, for one, and-"

"Listen, little miss picket fence, I don't give a shit about your new life. Whether yer believin' you changed, whether you think I'm nothin' more than a fugitive, it-" Johnny huffed, looking down, some unfamiliar emotion crossing over his eyes. "It don't change what we had. You wanna go denyin' that?"

"Johnny, that was twelve years ago. You-"

"It don't matter. None of it fuckin' matters. Ain't you able to see that? You wouldn't have given me the time of day if you didn't miss me."

"Of course I missed you. But you're insane if you think that just... randomly showing up as a goddamn jailbird escapee is going to suddenly have me back on my knees, you need to have a reality check. Please understand," you begged, scoffing at his inability to see clearly.

"That's all I am to you now, huh?"

"What?"

"You were the only thing I thought about in those walls. The only thing encouragin' me to break out. The only thing keepin' me fightin' back against the rat bastards who went around pickin' fights. You think you're just gonna say no?" He scoffed, looking back up as he searched your eyes for something. What exactly, you weren't sure. "Ain't you scared, pumpkin? You think yer safe from me?"

You frowned, lifting a hand and slapping him square across the face, staring him dead in the eyes. His head turned at the impact, and he stared down the alley for a few moments. "I know I am. Get the fuck off of me, Sawyer."

"The hell'd you just call me?" Johnny finally returned his sights to you, and he released your shirt just to slide his hand up to your throat, tightening his fingers around it and forcing your head back.

"Get. Off," you repeated, stern despite how incredibly intimidated you were. He could very well snap your neck like it was nothing, and he had no reason not to; he was already on the run, it wasn't like crimes were something he was scared of. Especially not murder.

"You think you can just talk to me however the hell you want? You think I won't kill you?" He growled, and you grabbed at his arm as he squeezed even more, causing genuine difficulty breathing. As you strained for an inhale, he leaned down, his mouth right next to your ear, his every huff making you flinch. "I was made for you. You're s'posed to be mine. Ain't that what you said? Promised me you'd be mine forever. I'm just comin' to claim my property."

"I'm not- an object, Johnny," you choked, but he hardly seemed convinced. "I said that because I was young, and dumb. And I was in love," you strained, squeezing at his arm. "I don't love you anymore, Johnny."

He stared for a moment, and then surprisingly, released you. You coughed, rubbing your throat where he'd grabbed you, breathing heavily. You never realized you could take breathing for granted, but you certainly had.

"You left. You killed. And clearly, you haven't changed," you muttered, taking in a deep breath as you panted. "I thought you didn't belong in prison. But I read about what you did. I... I guess I thought you'd changed. Thought you'd learned your lesson. But you're still as aggressive as ever."

"Sweetpea, I-"

"Don't. You just tried to kill me. Don't- Just... I'm going to go. I don't want to see you again. Especially not around my kid," you demanded, and his mouth hung slightly open, some apologetic rage behind his eyes.

But he didn't say anything else. Just... let you walk away.

Truth be told, he would've killed you. You knew that. He had the means to, had the reasons to.

Why he didn't, you had no clue.

#tcm game #tcm #johnny slaughter #texas chainsaw massacre #johnny tcm #johnny slaughter x reader #johnny slaughter tcm #johnny slaughter headcanons

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faithfromanewperspective · 4 months

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you know what gets me about climate change action spaces these days? we’ve finally figured out after 30 years that this thing exists but people are still out there acting like (and sure, it’s not their point that they grew up in an individualistic society and they never learned otherwise) we each live in a bubble. and if we just I dunno, recycle a bit more and ride bikes we can fix this? don’t you see how this is just a recycling of Protestant guilt like oh? You used toothpaste in a TUBE not TABLETS or even better made your own? ecological terrorist

and I’m going to say yes this includes billionaires with their private jets. I know it’s a controversial take because yes, the fact that billionaires even exist is fucked up. but these same people will go and demand concerts in their home town, demand new music and new movies all the time and be a fucking asshole to celebrities like do you ever stop and wonder? why they don’t want to fly commercial and risk running into people like you? these same people use the paps that we know would make life very uncomfortable to track the movements of said celebrities. do you wonder why they want more privacy? don’t you think you’d be scared to go outside in public too if you were them? and deeper, don’t you know that guilt doesn’t work?

the thing about ecological collapse and climate change is that they’re not done by individual people, they’re done by systems, and people have varying degrees of power to uphold, create, or change such systems. like for example food, we have a system that exploits places in the global south and uses their prime arable land to grow food for not people, but the animals that those of us in the global north eat, which require 10-15 times as much food and water than if we ate mostly plants and meat only sparingly. some people aren’t ready for that conversation.

and you know why you’re not ready for that conversation? because you’re part of a system of food supply and demand and you’re not ready to admit that, that you have less control than you’d like and it’s turning you into part of the problem without your consent. that’s happening to all of us, and it is a legitimately traumatising thing to feel like that. but it’s the exact same as realising as a white person the existence of systemic racism. what we need to do is come together to dismantle the unhelpful systems and work towards creating something better. and it’s hard but means overall if we do this well, sustainability will be like a second nature. it will be easy. it will be most convenient for us. for those who have been exploited but now we know we can’t and we see the ways exploitation was hidden in our products and services. it will also be convenient for those who have a lot because they’re in the spotlight: they can get their privacy needs met through design. it won’t feed a system that exploits, making those who like to feed that system automatically more sustainable because what they do that isn’t, doesn’t work.

and this isn’t coming easy. yes. it’ll only come through the combined sustained work of the majority of the population. a population who are collectively realising that guilt doesn’t work and realising how to meet our needs. realising that other people and the planet have needs and we need to be an ecosystem that prioritises meeting them. and I think we’re hitting a lot of the criteria to facilitate us getting there. even if we don’t see the fruits of it yet. we just need to collectively connect these dots and then go find each other.

#urban design #sustainable lifestyles #climate action #climate change #climate solutions #getting optimistic for a second and also annoyed

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watmalik · 1 month

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Drake Bell's father was victim

Hey anon!

Yes. That’s why I said “some parents” in my og post regarding the issue. I didn’t explicitly said who exactly I was referring to, but I definitely meant to say Drake’s mother. I didn’t want to go out and blame someone bc it’s traumatic for everyone, but sometimes you have to point out when someone royally fucks up, so people learn and don’t replicate unconsciously this type of behavior. And his mother did, unfortunately, was not aware of the signs even though they were there.

It didn’t matter if Peck was someone she thought she knew or worked with other children. Drake’s father literally warned her about him, yet she dismissed him. And allowed for her 14/15 year old kid to stay with a 41 year old man just because it was more “convenient” than driving one hour for auditions.

If she couldn’t drive him herself or someone she genuinely have known and actually has spent enough time with that adult to trust them with her child (example; a best friend/direct cousin/other close family etc) then she should’ve said: he’s not going. That’s why I mention, he might’ve resent her or tell her he hates her, if she might have not agreed with him, but that’s the thing a common teen will say when things don’t go their way. That perhaps, at least he would’ve been saved. And when they’re old enough they can look back at it, and when they’re outside of the bubble that is childhood, he would’ve thanked his mother for protecting him.

Parents need to be authoritative and should never agree with everything their child says, do not agree just on the purpose to agree with them but always analyze what they ask you or what they do. Because although they might not think this, you are the adult/parent and you know the bad shit that happens on this world. I’m on my early 20’s and I can assure you if I look back in life and see outside the bubble I was in, and see those truths our parents protected us from, on my own? I’m either mesmerized and/or horrified on what a dystopian, horrible type of world we live in, anon, that at times can be good…as fucked up that may sound… that’s the life we live in.

But going back to the main topic, that man doesn’t even have kids of his own, and it’s not even family to them, how and why would you let your kid stay with someone like that? She should’ve been more present for Drake, she might have been there physically for him (at times) but mentally? I’m afraid she didn’t connect the dots soon enough. She didn’t wear her parent goggles (as my dad calls them)

Drake’s girlfriend’s mother at the time literally find out 6 seconds after being in the same house as him and her daughter, where she noticed he wouldn’t answer his phone. She was there, really there, and pulled him aside and talked to him. That’s how a parent should act 🤷🏽‍♀️

Again I don’t want to blame Drake’s mum but we must understand that she def fucked up so things like this don’t continue to happen

#anon #quite on set ask #tw: sa mention #man im not even religious no more but I pray for his dad and for drake #and i cry for them in hopes that one day they can find peace #whatever that may be

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soulvomit · 2 years

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Ok so basically I feel that people are massive confusing NT with Normie. I feel like a lot of the discourse seems to be moving us toward this weird individualistic, biologically essentialized understanding of difference that’s more convenient for policy makers and school administrators than addressing the underlying structural problems that cause the NDs to be the first to wash out. Some of the interactions and dynamics that people are assuming are NT, are a manufactured normalcy optic, much like the white 50s TV family, and... probably have more in common with the white 50s TV family than we want to admit. The further you get away from the specific prescribed middle class cultural optic, the... stranger things get. What strikes me as NT is the upper middle class white norm where it’s assumed that you have access to enough resources and supports to hide your problems from the outside. (And there are more older [white and not in generational poverty] people who have had access to these things all their lives, than younger people.) I don’t think there are as many NTs as there are people who have moved through life with invisible supports from birth. Much of what’s described as an ideal sense-scape for autistics is the kind of environment rich people already prefer. Rich people already have access to help with all kinds of things. They have access to individualized schooling that other people don’t have access to, and to tutors and assistants and cleaners and cushier jobs and various other kinds of invisible support that for anyone else, would have to come through the disability pipeline. There is a point at which I have to ask, is anyone actually NT or are some people just rich and white and assimilated and gender conforming and healthy. I feel like a massive amount of autism discourse requires me to flush away so much of my understanding (based on direct observation and lived experience) that society is not simple, people are not simple, and interactions between people are not simple. It dumbs down the understanding of our culture and lived world the very same way that normie “NT” proscriptions about How Shit Works, dumb down everything. There are a lot of linguistic and social behavior norms that are absorbed into that “normalcy” optic, that can differ from culture to culture, environment to environment. They are enforced by specific people. Yes, it is okay when one person says this thing, and not okay when you do. The reason for that, a giant chunk of the time, isn’t always your brainmeat. It’s proximity to power/status/authority. There is a lot of stuff about status and power that is completely left out of ND discourse. In many cases, an NT doesn’t stand any more of a chance in succeeding in that environment than you do, because the game is rigged to begin with. An ND who has a nepotistic connection to the boss has a better chance than an NT who doesn’t. Many lower support needs NDs lost a lot of access to society because a vast majority of people are increasingly losing it, though this may express in ways that look specific to being ND. What is more often the case is that the ND is the canary in a space that’s becoming harder and harder for even “normal” people to navigate. We used to have open conversations in the 80s about status and power that we don’t anymore outside of specific bubbled-up spaces. We also used to have discussions about gendered social dynamics. And giving weird boys the “Department of Pre-Crime” treatment, isn’t the only vested interest that school types have in setting apart average-to-high intelligence ND kids from other average-to-high intelligence kids. It’s very very common to treat kids who are bullied, as if the victim is the actual problem, and easier to just remove that person from the environment. (Have been through this. Teachers basically trying to kick me out of their class because it was easier to control their classroom without me there.) In general, bullied individuals are treated by authorities as if the victim is the actual problem. We also have to consider the loss of workplace protections and the changing nature of the workplace and how this is another place where NDs are the canary in the coalmine for a broader structural problem. What people are often assuming as a specific type of ND experience, isn’t even just an internal experience, but a narrative of navigating the school system from a young age and having to deal with all of that ish. I can completely talk to my non-autistic partner (who has CP, ADHD, and a high IQ) about a giant chunk of my experience in school because he experienced the same things, even though there are some internal aspects of my experience that he absolutely can make no sense of because they’re impossible to explain.

Whereas I’ve known “Boy Genius” late diagnosed autistics, who somehow escaped diagnosis with *anything* besides giftedness and were coddled by their family and given access to a ton of invisible supports before they pipelined seamlessly into a computer job, who absolutely have no clue what I went through, even though we allegedly shared the same diagnosis (and gendered autistic experience is NOT the reason why; gendered ideas about intelligence do, and class plays an even bigger - much bigger - role.) I don’t relate to their experience at all. And not for the reasons that the present discourse thinks. I *was* visibly ND as a child, and treated accordingly by the system, and they were not. I feel like I’ve been policed by some NDs just like I have by some NTs. Especially high masking NDs who have internalized that another person being ND around them, threatens their ability to pass as normal in public. This is the axis of abuse I’ve experienced by my autistic mother, and my autistic ex partner.

This is actually a dynamic that was discussed in countercultural, outsider, and subaltern discussion of the 60s and 70s, that somehow is lost discourse now.

I’ve never been policed harder by anyone, on my ND traits, than I’ve been by people who are trying to pass: people struggling against some kind of axis of marginalization who were trying to fit with “respectability optics.” Some of the worst I got when I was younger was with normie-aspirational 90s/early 00s lesbians trying to prove that they were normal. A giant chunk of how I ended up running with people identifying as queer and not people in specific gay/lesbian spaces (and college LGBT culture - in the 90s - was actually more the latter) was this. There were a ton of normie-aspirational upper middle class gay-identified people who were heavily invested in proving how normal they were. Meanwhile there are pretty mellow stoner/hippie type “NTs” (I question how NT sometimes, many may have been ADHD or dyslexic) who basically just let me be me. There is a linguistic/cognitive norm that people are taking for “NT” but I think a lot of what is being described is actually cultural. And finally I don’t find communicating with other ND people to necessarily be a picnic. A person having a similar thinking style (which I do NOT observe as a universal across a broad range of autistics... at all), vocabulary, and education is a far greater indicator of whether or not I will have to “compile” my every word in interacting with them. And guess what, just as I have to mask and compile (run my translation algorithm in my head while interacting with them) among a giant majority of people - there are also plenty of autistics I have to mask and compile around. There are a lot of factors besides the other person having the same diagnostic labels, that indicate whether I’ll have to do this or not. Sometimes I have to do it even harder, because they’re going to take the weird shit I say so much more seriously and personally, especially if I’m talking to an autistic woman in particular. Whereas an allistic is often more able to just let a slip go or at least allow me to go through the motions of redeeming myself.

This doesn’t exclude the idea that there is some innate essentialist quality that makes a person NT. But I really think that there is a ton that’s cultural construct and it’s about whether or not we’re able to adhere to that construct.

One of the reasons I can’t discuss this shit with my parents is because they are from a generational framework that has very different ideas about the essential self, and a ton of modern ND discourse is rooted in ideas about the essential self. My mom sees herself as NT because she sees an NT as a person who acts NT. This is a very strong generational attitude with some more trad people her age but an increasing norm with Silents and Greatests. It doesn’t matter if you quietly go home and drink yourself stupid, if you acted NT in public then you’re NT. The thing that brought a lot of NDs of that generation in for questioning was violation of some kind of sexual norm. The relationship between autism and being LGBTQ is something that kind of scares me in present discourse, like, yes absolutely this was connected in the past and it didn’t go anywhere good. The reference points for many Silent Generation people for that matter, for “what is normal,” are very different. To many of that generation, if you act normal, you are normal. It’s a reason I was able to pass as long as I was around older people. I was able to pass as long as I was around people who were more trad. Up to a point. I knew how to act around them, because most etiquette books and most of the Hays Code era reruns on 80s network TV reinforced these norms. Many autistics I knew, in my age group, for that matter, know how to act around Silent Generation people and more trad people. Believe it or not, “hyper-polite with conspicuously old fashioned manners, but still can’t manage social pragmatics” is an autism way just as “obnoxious” is, and with older people it’s much easier to get by on etiquette. It’s a reason I liked working with elders. I am in a writing group with people 30 years older than me and it is very different from being in a group of people my own age. I don’t think it’s just because older people don’t notice that we don’t match this or that social norm. This idea that you are going to prepare a mask for each individual person you meet, is to some degree, I suspect, because society itself has changed so much and now instead of one space having “house rules” you take into account the individual sensitivities and preferences of each person there. NTs have to do this too. NDs are just saying the quiet part out loud. This has also always been more expected of women (but not necessarily the woman whose house it is) and people who are already “outside.” It is very very difficult though to know what’s the ND vs what isn’t, when ALL of us live in a fucking panopticon and when we are probably also evolving some new culture bound disorders [1] that reflect that. I did not grow up feeling watched 24/7. I did not acquire many of the traits that many ND women are talking about until I was in an abusive relationship with someone who micromanaged my behavior and presentation, and stuck in low-income female-dominated work. [1] whatever you call this endemic anxiety disorder that more and more people have, but especially women, regarding being watched, snooped on, recorded, or even their private thoughts and feelings being found suspect. Please stop gaslighting yourself. You feel these feelings because they’re true. You aren’t imagining Skynet, and I’m really sad that autistic women’s spaces are the ONLY culture space talking about what is probably a broader endemic problem.

#I stopped believing in normalcy after I was in the psychiatric day program #seeing allistics be just as fucked up as me or more fucked up - was really instructional #for the most part the social connection allistics have is provided by social institutions and socioeconomic belonging!!

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01solarsmiles · 2 years

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01solarsmiles’ kitchen nightmares: [day off] quite a few

a/n: quarantine, am i right?

warnings: none, i think!

edit: i’ve had this in my drafts for godknows how long and realised it was basically complete and i’m slowly convincing myself to get back into old things that made me happy. so. here this is.

taglist; @stayinzencity @floraljae @thoreeo @alterlovess<3

After the Dreamies party -- one of the better ones you’ve attended over the past few months -- you had an impromptu ping from your phone, telling you that you may have come into contact with someone who had Corona. Not the beer, although you wish it was a practical joke not too dissimilar to the fleeting thought, but you wish it had been. Now, you lay, in a starfish position, on your bed, staring up at your ceiling.

Wouldn’t it look so much better with glow in the dark stars stuck up there? Maybe you could manipulate them to look like constellations so your bedroom didn’t look like you’d let your five-year-old cousin decorate it.

Your head falls to the side, choosing to watch your phone light up with notifications that really don’t interest you. It’s possibly the work group chat to be getting this much action in the middle of the day but you’re not convinced that you’re mentally up for facing it right now.

In theory, you could take a test, proving yourself to not be carrying the virus but a small part of you wouldn’t mind the break from work… and the money from the government for isolating. But you know that you rely too much on the interactions from the people of the outside world, thrive off of the anger that comes with dealing with particularly rude customers and the feisty side of you that avenges your colleagues. Yes, you could do the test but at what cost?

“Okay,” you whisper to your flashing phone, “I’ll bite.”

Scrolling for a second, your eyes widen, “What the fuck, Taeyong was there?”

taeyong (manager) what the frICK guYS???

taeyong (manager) i have to isolate bc of you imbeciles!!

chenle soz bossman didn’t know you were coming

jisung yeah :( would’ve told miss rona to stay out if we did

taeyong (manager) i can’t believe you guys seriously

chef mark miss who?

chef mark wait guys did i miss something

chef mark gUYs!

lucas ngl that was some party,, and here i thought i was the party animal. take it back, you weirdos are the dream team fr

joy not one to burst the bubble but you must realise that at least ONE of us must be payed a visit by miss rona if we’re all isolating

chef mark again w the woman! who is she, please don’t ignore <3

You turn away from your phone, thinking better of replying in the state that your head is in. You’re not OKAY okay you’re just okay. Life could be better but so could Mark’s detective skills.

Deciding against a possibly snarky response, you lay your phone down and pad into the kitchen, deciding that making some home comfort mac and cheese never killed anyone. You live alone and therefore no one will be around to judge you when you eat the whole thing.

Halfway through mixing together the milk with the odd dough in the pan, your phone starts ringing from your bedroom, where you’d conveniently left it to avoid anymore stupid text messages.

Sighing, you pull the pan off of the stove, put it down (away from the flame) and walk to fetch your phone. You barely spare a glance before answering the phone.

“Hello?”

“Hi! Yn, it’s Jaehyun,” you inwardly curse yourself for not checking the caller id when you picked up.

“Jaehyun,” you force the smile onto your face, knowing that it too often makes you sound happier than it really should, “what can I do for you?”

His breath hitches the other side, you’re not sure if he can hear the fake smile in your voice, like he used to claim he could, but he continues anyway, ignoring it if he does notice, “Jungwoo kinda kicked me out…”

Shit, you think, he’d been completely serious when he had told you that was what he planned on doing at the party last night. You had drunkenly explained your and Jaehyun’s arrangement but how he had been infringing on your time with Mark as you tried to stop that arrangement.

He continues, “And I was hoping you’d be kind enough to let me crash on your couch… or something?”

He knows he’s asking for a massive, out of pocket, favour and it shows. Nibbling on your lip, the angel and the devil on your respective shoulders begin to fight.

You know you can’t leave him without a bed for at least one night, he needs to be able to gather himself together before making any decisions.

“Or something…” you mutter out, “I was just making mac and cheese. If you’re quick enough I might still have enough for you.”

He breathes out a sigh of relief, knowing he’s safe for now from you and your wrath.

“You’re an angel.”

“You keep saying,” you refer to many nights, between the sheets -- while he’s between other things.

irene (manager) you guys realise if you all take pcr tests and they come back negative you’re al good to come back to work, right?

chef mark covid tests?

chef mark for wha--

chef mark oh

chef mark OOH

Maybe a few days wouldn’t kill anyone.

#nct x reader #nct imagine #nct mark #nct 127 fics #nct 127 imagines #nct 127 fanfic #mark drabbles #mark lee #nct fake texts #nct 127 fake texts #nct jaehyun fic #jaehyun imagines #01solarsmiles

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marigoldispeculiar · 2 years

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Find the Word Tag!

Thanks as always to @aohendo for tagging me!

My words are grit, gape, gain, grasp, and gasp.

In turn, I'm tagging @bardic-tales, @the-finch-address, @whimsyqueen, and @orphicpoieses!

Your words, should you choose to accept them, are: PAY, PLAY, PRAY, DELAY, and OKAY

My main wip is getting longer, and searching through all the scene docs is starting to get annoying, so today I'm doing something different! I'm going to search an old, abandoned wip! That I haven't read since middle school!

So we're going to find out what's in this sucker together...

For context, this was a 9-12 fantasy adventure story about a dragon girl from a crystal sky colony who either falls to/lands on land and decides to... convert people to her religion or something? It also takes place at a school setting. Because of course it does.

This is before I knew what outlining was, so I wrote it with zero planning and managed to get 100k works in before I realized that I hated the main conflict that had developed. (This makes it the longest wip I have ever written.) Also, all the humans have colours for names. Hope that helps.

GRIT

She barely held back from crying out in surprise, and gritted her teeth as he began to use her hair as a rope. She started pulling him up too, not wanting to prolong the unwanted experience.

“Sorry,” he whispered, “but it was just too convenient.”

“You could have killed me!” she hissed back.

“I wouldn’t have jumped if you hadn’t been holding your hair,” he promised, and she hoped he was telling the truth.

GAPED

The expressions changed to abject horror.

“Good mercies! Where did you live? In a cave?” Neige asked, incredulity written all over his face.

“Something like that,” she said, just to see what would happen.

They just gaped. For three whole minutes. They. Just. Gaped.

GAIN

“At the same time, it would put the humans at a major disadvantage. If Syron does join up with the other dragons, then they’ll know what the humans will do. Chrysali, I know you can predict movement in the present area and the immediate surroundings, and nobody beats you in a fight, but will we be able to counter Syron? And that’s only if the humans suddenly gain a Clear strategist,” Burgundy pointed out.

GRASP

They shuffled off to class, Chrysali wondering what in the world apple pie would taste like. They had a test in anatomy that day, though Chrysali could barely remember what it was on. She’d given up on anatomy, since it was her ticket to the head administrator’s office, the only way to grasp what was going on outside the school. She still didn’t like failing, but she doubted that she could pass even if she studied; besides, she had a feeling that she wouldn’t be able to ask Gold for help when he was so busy tutoring Lavender.

GASP

In the badly lit mess, it wasn’t easy to see them from a distance, but she managed to get a good look at them anyway. They were quite pretty, clear glass spheres with little golden bubbles trapped inside, though she couldn’t see why Lavender had gasped.

#tag games #abandoned wips

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Americans learn other countries exist and have real people living there, who are capable of having their own problems and traumas, and then refusing to believe any of that either exists or writing all of it off because they do stuff differently than they do it…. Make a whole lot of offensive and ignorant statements because they don’t know much if anything about said countries, claim bigotry when people tell them to shut the fuck up, sometimes by pointing out American societal problems that have been made global problems largely in the way activists online, that no one wants to admit exist, actively attacking people for not participating in their politics their way.

The world is becoming fatigued by America, I think maybe some of you need to step outside your exceptionalism bubble and realize that you are exhausting to people who have nothing to do with things. I can’t vote in your elections, I can’t phone your senators, and never have I seen this kind of expectation for attention for other countries and their politics. Genuinely intelligent and educated people I have spoken to still have no idea how Canadian government is run. I’ve seen thousands of Americans assume it was the same as theirs and talk over actual Canadians about the issue but also really conveniently not mention or think about the way America treated our trade agreements have led to the crippled economy we are dealing with.

You don’t get to act like the victim when you’re taking over the world. Fuck.

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what do you think of people who live in their fantasy world? like people who do not interacting with the outside world unless necessary (still working etc) but also do and complete their religious duties?

im mentally not okay and im trying really hard to keep going and the only thing that keeps me going is to live in my little fantasy world while i ignore the real world as much as i can.

Hmm... this question is a tad paradoxical because how can you live in your fantasy world while still working. Work is one of the biggest provider of socialization so if you keep working and going to church than you're most like not really into a fantasy world.

The only people subscribing to that definition are NEETs (who are basically terminally online no life with non existent social life or work)

I totally understand how fantasy and entertainment are a convenient way to cope out of depression (I too have heavily dived into manga/anime in my teen bc that's when I was the most depressed) but you can't remain stuck that way.

This fantasy world is nothing but a cope - not a solution. I don't know how old you are but know that the older you get, the more will be expected from you and you won't be able to shove your head down into the sand whenever stuff happens, even if you are in a bad place mentally. So you should seek out help to fix it ASAP. Lead a self introspection to seek what makes you feel bad : your family? Friends? You feel like not doing good in life? Fearful for the future?

Personally I realized I wasn't depressed as in 'something is wrong in my head', just that I needed to get my own place by moving out and avoid my toxic mom for a while lol

Sometimes we tend to internalize issues that aren't even from us to being with.

Sorry anon I hope I am not too blunt but I am a very honest person and kinda an idealist and I genuinely don't think humans purpose is to live in their bubble. We are made for fellowship & Love, and not fearing to live in the real world. We won't be able to change the world if we just give up and withdraw ourselves in our tiny 'fun bubble'.

#I'm wary of fantasy culture because it makes people very sheltered mentally and emotionally #i said what I said #answered

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What's with this "netflix" spam, Taotie?

Lower jaw pulls way back into an overbite.

Taotie was a mythical monster attributed to Gluttons or gluttony.overtime. in artifacts they were portrayed as having no lower jaw.

Look at what autocorrect does to "correct" MY work.

Do your music producers like Bob Rock get paid by the hour from the record company you're on contract with?

Was that apostrophe X (Netfl1'x) supposed to hint that Elon musk is a personal fan of mine? Does he want to netflix and chill with me? Oooh!

Or is he on a lawless Mormon vendetta and singling me out for an entire industry of "sins"

Or is Bill Gates closing a window on a Windows OS.

I have nothing to confess. Mr. Catholic.

How about you pin down your rules and guidelines under the Law so that people can know how to obey the rules instead of some self-important Dick making the rules up according to some Lawless Dick's opinion as they go along.

Surrender your fucking ego magician. Lawless Dick GLITCHING the system.

3:42 am - that was a nice "touch".

- M ingzi

Route is absolute bullshit. 98 cents to insure delivery and provides tracking.

It also links amazon with every other one of your purchases and financial activity that you make while shopping online through mail order that you make outside of Amazon Dot com.

Ebay owner, Pierre Omidyar. vs. Amazon.com owner JEFF BEZOS

Online purchases mean that I'm buying their merchandise or services, and not stealing them. Accuser.

"Take care" - Countee Volz

How's Bob and buddy? You still taking care of your own things and apartment? I wouldn't know, you kicked me out to live on the streets on zero notice right after the sept 11th 2001 attacks and my grandmother's funeral. You kicked me out on my return to El Segundo for the day on oct. 6th 2001. My grandmother died on sept. 6th. Her funeral was on Sept. 11th 2001. Remember that or those moments or funeral details? It's convenient to remember important dates this way isn't it?

Do you think I forgot the el segundo incidents?

You kicked me out while calling me a "guest" in your home on zero notice, or reason, as gratitude for cleaning up after you and Tim Barnes' slob ass who never had to lift a finger to clean even one dish while I paid your rent for the "priviledge" of living there. Tim ghosted you and vanished after you guys kicked me out, leaving you to pay all the rent by yourself.

Our cats bob and buddy supposedly died when Countee abandoned them and threw them out too. Maybe you're lying about that too. Everybody else thinks it okay to lie to me, why would you be any different? Who's your owner? Who are you betraying me for? Who's your "man" directing traffick behind the scenes? Snitch.

What about your secrets instead of pressing me for information?

Was the world and the United States government going to suddenly pull off the veil and say "surprise, we were just kidding" my grandmother and mother and father never died, Bob and buddy never suffered and died. The sept. 11, 2001 attacks never happened it was all just a faked global boy-in-bubble environment about the whole thing and none of it really happened other than my firsthand experience? That they just wanted to watch people to see what they do when they think noone is looking?

Yeah right.

#I want to talk about it #TAOTIE

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Well that's the most honest bio I've ever written. I am always devoted to the truth. People may as well judge me coming in the door. And I certainly do mean it when I say ask me anything. I'm devoting what is left of my life to doing real good in the world. At least my bubble of it. Sometimes you're afraid to admit who you are and where you came from. Sometimes it takes a lifetime to be able to even admit it even to yourself. Life is what you make of it. We all have stories of our lives and how we dealt with them. I firmly believe that people should not be afraid to communicate with each other. I do know at this point in time in the world today people are afraid to admit who they are and where they came from. And can someone please explain to me how do I label myself? Former trans? Is there such a thing? Former second generation trans I may add. Of course everybody is more interested in the lured serial killer story. It's someone I never met in my life but who's shadow passed a melancholic doom over my entire family who were very good people and did not deserve the judgment they received from the world because of the misguided actions of one person. I know I must have told the story before here I tell so many but I did have a conversation once outside of a roller derby event with a guy who was related to the young girl that he killed in a convenience store on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Just standing there smoking a cigarette. I Could Have Lied kept my mouth shut and walked away when he told me that but I didn't do that. We had a long conversation about the harm that it did to both of our families. I expressed to him my deepest condolences and apologies but I also know that there are no platitudes to heal such a wound. There is only acceptance and the need to move on in the world. I'm not afraid to talk about it anymore. I'm not afraid to talk about my experiences with transgenderism on many different fronts including my own. And I will tell you one thing, the most substantial change to my mental health and my battle with substance abuse ended when I lost the fear of exposure.

Let me say that phrase again because I use it very often. The fear of exposure.

I guess in a way it's a kind of coming out. And when I finally did that, being unafraid to admit that I battled with transgender feelings and unafraid to admit my great uncle was a dyed in the wool serial killer then I no longer had the fear that my secrets would be revealed and the bones of the skeletons in my closet would come spilling out across the floor to xylophone sounds. Losing that fear was the only thing that led me to the path of sobriety. So I'm also a firm believer that to beat any substance abuse you must first solve the underlying issue that causes the self-destructive Behavior. When I solved mine the alcoholism/addictions fell away like a dried out and crusty cocoon. The pressure inside myself that I was containing all my life like a fusion reaction happening inside of my chest ready to erupt at any moment and always manifesting in the endless blackouts simply winked out of existence. The fear of exposure.

The fear of exposure.

You must divorce it at all costs and the only way to obtain that divorce is the truth. Like the fear Mantra in dune. You must face the truth. You must pass through the truth and then turn around and look behind and what is left is you, standing taller now because you have lost the fear of exposure. You take the power back that fear has taken from you. You can now move forward and the judgments of others can now be of no concern to you. No one can blackmail you. No one will panic when they find out who you really are. No one can control your destiny now. Now you can control your own destiny confident in the fact that no one else's Judgment of you but your own is driving the vehicle. Now you can comfortably talk about what happened in your life and how it affected you and now perhaps you can help someone else who is struggling with their own fear of exposure. I believe that this problem is so prevalent in The Human Condition that it drives a high percentage of the hate and culture War Mania on one level and on another level keeps everyone from being honest with anyone about anything. The reason for pretense is fear. The fear of exposure. Even if it is just the simple fear of being found out as a klutz for a not so tidy person, so many silly reasons. People are afraid to have eye contact with each other in public places, some of that is fear of stranger danger and I do understand that. But I'm still the guy who strikes up a conversation about the Big Bang at 7-Eleven at 6:00 a.m. getting a blueberry coffee and rattling on about how much I love blueberries to someone that I've only known for 3.5 seconds. I guess that's the Smeagol in me.

divorce the fear. embrace the truth.

I am smeagol and I approve of this message.

~ciao

#smeagoling #fireside chats with ranxid #its probably the medicine talking #updated bio

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i have heard your voice, weighed your every choice || futaba || trial 6.2 || re: im so owned

Futaba Takemoto-Mashita hadn’t wanted much from life for a long, long time.

She can’t say with certainty what the real Futaba would have wanted had she lived long enough to decide, but she’s confident she would have thought of something. That Futaba was vivacious, confident, full of willpower and energy, and that Futaba was never her. They shared a face and a name and a voice, but the Futaba of today was never so lively or sure of herself as the girl she was supposed to be had been. She simply did what she felt she was meant to - she didn’t have any particularly strong desires or likes or dislikes, and while she may have felt that something was off, she saw no need to step outside of the well-kept bubble of familiarity she’d built over the years. No matter how uncomfortable things got, she could easily fall into a comfortable enough routine, and for nearly a decade, that was fine with her.

But she’d met people here that changed that, and Jinpachi Otsuka - or Juzo Miyazaki, rather - was one of them.

“Now you have two hands to watch out for, Hanji-kun!”

“What tHE AAGH– I can’t believe you’d turn on me– when were ya on Ozu’s side?!"

”… We are both devils. I’m simply fostering team spirit.“

Frankly, there were few people she felt strongly for at all for a good while. Before she’d grown into herself, her family were the only people she knew how to love. Everyone outside of that was simply an acquaintance, a peer, a coworker. She had no attachments to anyone aside from those she was made to have an attachment to, and she rarely saw most of them anyway. She wasn’t entirely alone, but considering her circumstances, she may as well have been.

She can’t recall when it was she began to care so deeply for Juzo. Maybe there was an inkling of that big sister instinct when Aldie had hunted them down on the beach, or maybe it was there when they’d first arrived on the airship and he’d shared his worries with her. Maybe it was when she agreed to join him on the ferris wheel even though she’s terrified of heights, or when they’d ditched the minigame at the amusement park to play Candyland with Hanji and Spud (and teamed up to bully the former), or when he helped her get ready for the gala and they gossiped about the motive and their own small secrets. Maybe it was when she said he could call her by her first name, or when they talked about what they wanted to do with their lives in the future, or when he’d still treated her exactly the same after they all found out what she was. Maybe it was when they shared their insecurities with one another, or when he asked to call her onee-chan, or when they’d simply rummaged through the old convenience store in the abandoned village together. Maybe it was some small moment they’d shared that she wouldn’t have even thought twice about, or maybe it was everything - all the big and little bits of time they’d spent together - that set in stone who Juzo was to her.

"I mean…if you don’t want them to be your family then…you really get to choose your own family.”

“… I’m not certain what I want them to be, and vice versa. I think… that will take quite a lot of talking between us to figure out. But I don’t think that bars me from choosing who I’d consider family, either.”

They’d talked briefly about family, and about how nothing could really stop them from picking their own. To Futaba, that’s what Juzo was - he was family, a little brother that entered her life far later than she would have wanted.

And from the look of things, he’d be leaving it far sooner than she would have wanted, too.

Actually wanting anything was new to her, but Juzo was someone who taught her how to want. And at the moment the blade that once belonged to Juzo skewers his chest, Futaba wants nothing more than to cut down the man that took his love for granted. She wants him to hurt - genuinely, not the sort of “overwhelming despair” he’s searching for. She wants him to suffer. She wants everything he’s ever hoped for to crumble beneath his feet, and she wants it to matter.

Because all that ever mattered to her was seeing Juzo happy.

She wanted to protect him, make sure he was safe, make sure nothing could hurt him anymore.

She wanted him to find some way to lead a normal, peaceful life like he’d wanted.

She wanted to get away from everything with him and Hanji.

She wanted him to have a chance to ask Hanji about an apprenticeship, and if that didn’t work out, she wanted him to follow whatever path he felt fit. Maybe he’d become some sort of builder.

She wanted to see the sort of person he’d grow into.

She wanted him to be there when she grew, too.

But she wouldn’t be getting what she wanted now, and she was going to make sure Jinpachi wouldn’t either.

So, even though there’s a horrible storm of anger and misery and grief threatening to take her over, Futaba doesn’t let herself falter. She can’t, not when there are so many lives on the line, and especially not when she’s positive it would make Jinpachi’s day to see her break. At the very least, she’d much rather find a way to break him first.

She’s quiet for a long while, calming herself enough to speak once she’s finally found the words to do so.

“… How annoying. Are you done with the dramatics?”

She briefly wonders if he was this grating at Happy Smiles. He must have been.

“There isn’t much I can say that hasn’t already been said… but to be clear, there’s not a word I’ve heard that I disagreed with. I assume you were hoping for an especially strong reaction to what you’ve just done, but I’d rather not waste more time on you than is necessary. … Though I do think I can say with confidence that I was a better sister to him than you ever were a brother.”

“… If you could make your explanation quick, please. I’d like to go home now.”

#reaction #ch6 #futaba

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Unlocking the Keys to Wealth: Overcoming Your 3 Toughest Foes

Success can mean different things to different people, but regardless of what it means to you, there are common enemies standing in the way of achieving it. These enemies can come in the form of limiting beliefs, procrastination, and fear. Overcoming these enemies is crucial to building wealth and achieving success. Browsing on YouTube I discover the following little gem, by Bryan Tracey.

The 3 great enemies of success.

Comfort Zone: Getting comfortable wherever you are and not seeking to challenge yourself

Learned helplessness: The believe that I can’t do it

Path of least resistance: Looking for an easy way to achieve results, putting in the least effort

Defining success

Before we dive into the three enemies of success, it's important to define what success means. Success is not just about having a lot of money or a high-paying job. It's about achieving the goals that matter to you, whether it be personal or professional. Success can be different for everyone, and it's essential to know what it means to you personally

Comfort zone:

Your comfort zone is like a cosy bubble that you make around yourself. It feels safe and familiar, but if you stay in it too long, you won't grow or learn anything new. Sometimes we're scared to leave our comfort zone because we don't know what's out there. But if we take a risk and try something new, we might get a big reward! Start small by doing something just a little bit outside of your comfort zone. Set goals for yourself and take action to achieve them. Don't let your fears hold you back! Try new things every day and challenge yourself to learn something new. Break down big tasks into small steps and give yourself a deadline to finish them.

Learned Helplessness:

Have you ever felt like you just can't do something, even if you know you can? That's called learned helplessness. It can make you feel really sad and hopeless, and like you don't have control over your life. This can make it hard to do well in school or at work. But there are ways to overcome it! You can start by setting small goals for yourself and tracking your progress. You can also try new things that challenge you. It's important to keep trying and not give up, even if you feel like you can't do it. By doing this, you can break the cycle of learned helplessness and feel better about yourself.

Taking the path of least resistance

Sometimes we like to take the easy way out and do things that are convenient. But this might not always be the best way to succeed in life. If we always choose the easy path, we might not grow and learn as much as we could. To change this, we need to challenge ourselves and try new things. We can set goals and learn new skills to help us grow. It's important to be proactive and take charge of our lives.

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4 Reasons to Install a Skylight to Your Home

Skylights have always been seen as a luxury feature, although this is no longer always the case. Modern skylights do more than just improve lighting and aesthetics. They improve comfort, promote security, reduce how much energy you use throughout the day, brighten small rooms, make the house safer for the elderly, who typically need more light to see better, and allow fresh air to circulate through the home. Newer skylights are an improvement over the old bubble-style in many ways. For example, you can see the night sky so much better with the newer styles than you could with the bubbles-style.

Let’s take a deeper look at why adding skylights to your home can be a good investment – especially if you’re going to sell your home.

Natural Light

Having natural light streaming into a room is the primary benefit of installing skylights, which far outweighs any savings on electricity costs. Homes with adequate lighting are safer, more comfortable places to live, and more pleasing to the eye. To save money on lighting, increase your home's access to inexpensive natural light by installing skylights of various shapes and sizes. In fact, skylights are a great option for bringing in more natural light to otherwise dark corners of your home's interior. It has been scientifically shown that people avoid places that are too dark. So why not make use of the entire house?

Health and Safety

Numerous health advantages have been linked to exposure to natural light and air on a daily basis. To begin, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is associated with a lack of sunlight; those who suffer from SAD experience low mood, increased appetite, and sleep problems during the winter months. Around 20% of the US population experiences SAD. Second, numerous health problems are exacerbated by being indoors in poor air quality. Ventilating your home with fresh air is one of the best defenses against it. Last but not least, as we become older, we require more light to maintain the same level of vision we had when we were younger (as much as 60% more light is required). The elderly are particularly at risk for injuries caused by slips and falls in dimly illuminated sections of the home. Screened skylights allow for the entry of natural light and ventilation into the home.

Energy Efficiency

When it comes to maximizing passive solar heating and minimizing heat loss, skylights are among the most popular additions to a home undergoing a green renovation. Natural light is amplified by skylights as well. Those dusty, fading plastic bubble skylights are an energy drain if they are currently installed in your home. No longer as effective at illuminating a room, and less economical to run, as modern skylights. They may be able to save around $13 per month. When compared to plastic, glass is preferable because it is more energy efficient, lasts longer, and lessens outside noises.

The Benefits of Investing in New Skylights

While installing skylights to reduce your carbon footprint may cost more than a more conventional option in the short term, the money you save on utilities more than makes up for the initial investment. Nevertheless, cutting energy expenditures shouldn't be your only motivation for purchasing new skylights. A home with modern skylights is more comfortable, convenient, visually appealing, and healthy for its occupants – all of which are great selling points, regardless if you’re using a real estate agent or using a program like Sell Fast Preston.

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Whatsapp Enables Customer Acquisition And Conversion

The customer journey is long and nuanced, and as a brand you must make sure it is as hassle-free as possible. You need a marketing solution that works for all the major touchstones in a customer’s experience with your brand – from the time they first hear from you to the time they are enthusiastically recommending you to their friends and family.

Since so much of our communication in the modern age happens over mobile devices, WhatsApp Business is uniquely suited to serve as a solution that works for several stages in your funnel.

Today, we will be exploring how WhatsApp helps you create an unforgettable customer journey that adds value, solves problems, and keeps people engaged all the way through.

1. Customer Acquisition

I. Website Chat Bubbles

One of the major rules of thumb for creating a successful WhatsApp campaign is simple – Make sure there are as few steps as possible required for a customer to begin a conversation with you.

Website chat bubbles have become widely accepted and having a WhatsApp chat bubble means the user can easily start a conversation with your brand on their laptop and continue it on their phone when they step away from their desk.

Since the user is opting in to chat with you, it eliminates them having to first save your number to their phone before they can initiate communication.

II. Click-to-WhatsApp Ads from Facebook

Within your PPC campaigns on Facebook, instead of creating a standard landing page with a catalogue of products, you can send users to a WhatsApp conversation.

WhatsApp has become the preferred mode of communication for many people in their day-to-day lives which makes it very natural for them to be messaging you back and forth on WhatsApp.

Creating automated conversation flows within WhatsApp is quite simple so you can have a campaign-specific funnel that guides users through to buying what they saw on the ad they clicked.

III. QR Codes

QR Codes are a fantastic tool to get people on your WhatsApp list. In keeping with our theme of eliminating unnecessary steps, QR codes allow a prospect to begin a conversation with you almost instantaneously.

All they have to do is scan the QR code and voila – they are in a WhatsApp chat window with you where they can ask questions, ask for guidance and have you address any doubts they might have.

This kind of access to a brand is unprecedented, and people are more likely to trust you if they essentially have a 24-7 open line of communication with you.

IV. Product in-stock notifications/Tips and tricks

For mobile users specifically, you can create opt-ins that lead to WhatsApp communication. For example, if you are a supplement brand, you can have users opt-in to receive daily health and fitness tips from you.

Another effective way to use WhatsApp is as a notification or reminder service for when specific products go on sale or are back in stock.

2. Engagement

Once people are in your ecosystem, you need to make sure their interest level and brand stays at a high level. WhatsApp Business API can enable this in several diverse ways.

I. Interactive product recommendations

Everyone likes a bespoke recommendation. Even though on an abstract level people may be aware you have thousands (or more) of customers, they still like having a product specifically picked out for them based on their preferences.

The WhatsApp Business API allows you to create chat flows that ask the user certain questions and then query your product database on the backend to produce recommendations based on their answers.

For example, you could ask someone

What is your favourite colour?

What is your main fitness goal? (Build muscle/lose weight)

Do you prefer working out indoors or outside?

And then you recommend them a set of track pants or shoes (with a convenient link to purchase said product) depending on what they answered.

II. Quizzes and surveys for data gathering and entertainment

Getting regular feedback from your market is key for adjusting and optimizing your marketing efforts.

An uncomplicated way to get some feedback and make it fun for the audience is to create a quiz or a survey that people can partake in over WhatsApp.

These check-ins with your customers can reveal some insights that you may not have considered. For example, you may find out that most of your customers use your products at the workplace (tea/coffee/audio equipment). With this information, you can guide your next marketing campaign to appeal to working professionals.

You can also discover some areas for improvement if you ask your customers what their biggest problems are while using your products.

III. Help Guides + FAQs

As an expert in your industry, you should regularly create high-quality, original guides that double up as a product brochure and send them to users over WhatsApp.

Within the guides, you can lay out best practices for usage and include subtle recommendations from your product catalogue.

For example, let us say you are a personal grooming brand – you can create a well-illustrated guide with professional pictures that talks about the best practices for grooming and which products people should use to achieve that well put-together look.

IV. User-generated Content

User-generated content is a terrific way to garner social proof and leverage your most enthusiastic customers as evangelists for your brand.

You can ask people regularly to send in photos or videos of them using and enjoying your products over WhatsApp. The best ones can feature on your social media and other marketing channels.

In addition, you can also send these videos and photos to other prospects if they are considering buying a specific product that was featured in the user-generated video/photo.

3. Conversion and Sales

People make purchasing decisions when they trust a brand and feel like they are listened to. As repeated real-world examples have shown, WhatsApp is exceptionally well suited to boosting sales and conversion.

I. Real-time customer support

Several surveys have shown that live chat is the preferred mode of communication with a brand for most online shoppers.

One of the best parts about having your customer service channel on WhatsApp is that you are conversing on a platform where people are already invested in having private conversations with people they trust.

Plus, there is the unmatched convenience for customers of simply opening their favourite chat app and within a few seconds or minutes, having their query answered by a brand they are interested in doing business with.

II. Abandoned cart recovery

Cart abandonment is the #1 problem in the online commerce space. In 2020, the average cart abandonment rate was 77.13%!

Traditional methods of reminding users they have incomplete transactions such as email and SMS are quickly falling out of favour. This is where WhatsApp, as the most popular social conversation platform, allows businesses to send abandoned cart reminders quickly and painlessly to people.

WhatsApp messages have a far higher open rate than these traditional marketing channels, making it a no-brainer for your abandoned cart recovery funnels.

III. Transaction confirmations and Invoices

WhatsApp creates end-to-end secure communications, which means you can easily send out purchase confirmations and invoices over chat.

It is much more convenient for the customer to have all their details easily accessible on their phone so they can refer to it as and when needed without having to sift through a large email inbox.

You should also use WhatsApp to send out shipping notices and delivery status updates to customers so they know exactly where their package is and how soon it is expected to arrive.

IV. Loyalty/Reward points

Creating a loyalty points program is a promising idea to encourage repeat purchases. A lot of brands have loyalty programs but do not utilize them to their fullest potential.

With WhatsApp Business, you can easily create a workflow that intermittently reminds people that you have a loyalty program they can sign up to. If they are already part of such a program, you can gently nudge them to redeem any points they might have.

V. Collect user feedback

Collecting user reviews is usually a hassle, because the more steps someone must take to submit a review (sign up to your site, confirm their email, log back into your site and type out a review) the less likely they are to do it.

With WhatsApp, you can get feedback directly from the customers in one simple step. Ask your customers to simply type in their reviews to you over WhatsApp chat. They can even submit voice notes or videos of themselves talking about your brand if they so desire.

These reviews become one of the trust metrics that other prospective customers who learn about your brand take into consideration before making a purchase.

In conclusion, we hope this article serves as a primer for the tremendous potential WhatsApp Business has as a marketing and conversion asset for your business. At each point in the customer journey, you can leverage the WhatsApp API’s unique strengths to make an unforgettable impression.

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