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#idc if this has been giffed a lot i love this scene
anewp0tat0 · 9 months
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AAAAHHHHH!! CONSIDER MY SHIT FLIPPED!! THE BLACK BUTLER LIVES! What are your thoughts on the new art style?
BRO I'm with you, flipped like that pancake I managed to throw half out the pan😩 I still can't believe. best Monday every fr.
and ooo thanks for the question, I wanna hear your thoughts after this👀 I've already said a little bit about this in the tags of some other posts, as well as touched on it in my master post of the crew, but I suppose I may give a big final answer(for now, from this teaser).
judging the art alone, not the fact that we get a new anime or anything exciting like that, just the art alone... it's very pretty!
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yea this is very pretty. the kid looks great, small and good, and his hair looks feathery and neat, so I approve. I think they nailed his general proportions, I think they'll do a great job at keeping them consistent during episodes! the image to the right does looks a tiny bit like a 3d asset, which is a bit jarring compared to the previous anime style, but I'm flexible towards this change. even if he looks like a video game cutscene character, I usually love cutscenes!!
but here's the drama I'm sure you're here for. yes, unfortunately, there are some wee things that I don't love as much🤏
the first thing, it really doesn't matter and I should shut up about it now... but YOU asked so ajdjfksksk why did they have to shrink sebs jaw cmon my favorite art of him ever was during the Greenwitch arc so don't tell me I'll NEVER be able to see that style of him animated😫 I just like prominent features man. I know he's meant to be pretty but but but....
ah okay. heres the main thing that I think most people may agree with.
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these are two screenies of sebster from the teaser. honestly, as ☆luxurious☆ as his lashes are, I'm not a fan of the left image. the airbrush on his hair feels a tad overdone. I love the attention to detail, especially in the one on the right, it shows a lot of love! but there's just something about it that's a bit off for me.
and I think after 24 hours I've finally figured it out: it's the colors.
the realization started to hit me when I saw my favorite edit so far here by @ashxketchum. the colors have been edited to be much more saturated and warm. and I think this is exactly what is missing here.
I even tried my own hand at it, and yea personally, I think slapping a saturation, tint, and just a BIT of contrast on the whole thing can do numbers on it.
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already I like it(no I'm not just praising my own work, it's not the best edit out there I did it in 30 secs). I think the reason for this is because the background is very rich in contrast and warm tones, so the characters(particularly sebastian who is all black) stand out when they are muddy and low contrast. I love stylistically when contrast is high, but that's just a personal thing, and I shouldn't hold a studio to those standards.
I tried it for the poster too though, which again I felt was a bit off. official art has never been the most top tear, and the poster is GOOD, the background is awesome and the two peeps looks amazing. but my problem with it was clear once I did another color edit.
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(edit on the right)
again, I feel like everything was very muted in the left original, not to mention a tad monochromatic. I really think a kick of contrast and hue could do wonders.
BUT. I know that at the end of the day, it's not a big deal. I don't really care. would it make my day or whole year if they slapped a color filter on it, or continued to work on the color grading of the scenes? probably yea! but my opinion isn't obsolete, and most of all, I look forward to and respect the artists decisions.
so no I'm not "fixing" the art😅😒.
and finally, I think this is awesome:
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(I had forgotten but this gif is edited by @kilruas from this post)
GORGEOUS. could it turn some people off cause it's mostly cg? maybe. idc though. gorgeous. gimme some of that beverage.
sorry for the rant, hope it's what you wanted! I think that's everything... I like it 85%!
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theheightofdishonor · 5 months
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Inspired by this post, I kinda wanted to make my own dream cast for a female Only Friends since it seemed so fun. However, it turns out that i'm indecisive (which you'd think I already know) so I mostly just ended up musing different options. I kept a lot of @pranink's casting because they were so dead perfect.
Like Pat and Fah for Ray and Sand, especially Fah for Sand is such an inspired choice because she can pull of that same edge of sincerity that Sand has. And Pat ofc is a master at playing terrible and yet sympathetic characters. (she's a miracle in P.S. I hate you)
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Mew was a bit harder. I love Namtam but I kinda wanna see Piploy too. I couldn't find gifs that got across the energy I wanted but I swear, she'd pull off Mew's slightly condescending sweetness and need for moral superiority flawlessly.
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For Top, Jane Ramida would be my first pick but I think Tu would be really interesting and in this type of role too. I really can't pick between the two.
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I'm keeping pranink's casting of Jamie Juthapich and View for Boston and Nick because it's so ridiculously perfect. Like look at them?
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Boeing was the hardest to cast tbh because there's so many options that would work and yet they'd all give totally different vibes.
If we keep Jane as Top, then i'd want Tu as Boeing. Imagine Tu getting between Piploy and Jane?? It'd be amazing. Also this means we'd get FahTu and that's a dream pairing if there ever was one.
But Ciize would kill it too?? And I also kinda wanna see Milk in this role? It's soo difficult. Pics below so you can see.
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Final decision though is that if Tu is Top, then Milk is Boeing because F4 (You don't understand how convinced I was that Lita was going to fall in love with Gorya and my dismay when she took the far more boring route of liking Thyme. It doesn't make sense, idc if it's adhering to the storyline)
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However, if Jane's Top then Ciize because I know in my heart they'd have excellent chemistry together. And they're both part of SIZZY and I'm slowly accumulating the entire band for this cast.
Gigie for Daddy Dan. I don't think her and View have acted together yet so it'd be a really fun pairing and I think Gigie's got that slightly suspicious vibe that made all of us think Daddy Dan was going to be terrible before he turned out to be hella sweet. (Honestly, Gigie could do Boston too and probably would've been my first pick for it if I didn't fall in love with the idea of Jane J as Boston.)
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Cheum and April were also surprisingly hard to pick, especially Cheum. The mean girl that thinks she's a mom friend? Like there are sooo many options. New Thitipoom and Gun Atthaphan would be easy picks but I also like Mike Chinnarat too and Pod because Pod tends to play sweeter characters and i'd love to see him play a mean girl. Ofc, Gun Korawit would kill it too. April would be Guy Sivakorn (he's incidentally in the last gif here and also I believe in my heart that he'd have chemistry with any of these boys. Plus. he's already partnered with Pod (ps i hate you) and Guy S. (2gether) .
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If I was casting April and Cheum as a pair though Gun Atthaphan and Tor Thanaphob together would also be great and it wouldn't matter which one plays which because they'd both pull off either.
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For Yo and Plug, I kinda like Man Trisanu and Prim Chanikarn. We know Man can do Yo's commitment issues and Prim has that indignant righteousness of someone in their early 20s when dating an older person.
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But- and this is literally just for wish fullfillment- you could keep the genders unswitched and go with Zani Nipaporn for Yo and either Pond or Nanon for Plug. Though honestly, as long as Zani's Yo, any of Gmmtv's younger cast could do Plug.
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Prigkhing Sureeyares for Atom. I'm imagining her in that scene where Atom lies to Cheum about Boston and honestly, she'd be so perfect for it.
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and finally, Jan Ployshompoo for Gap.
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llycaons · 10 months
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ep16 (part 1): for some reason I didn't think it could get worse
15 is one of those eps that you need to follow with 16 asap so here we go
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BLOOD IN THE LOTUS PONDS. FUCKED UP
this is shit like the CR attack - lots of violent scenes fading in and out. effective as shit
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WHY DID LITTLE ARCHER BOY DIE LIKE THIS!!! at LEAST give him a kill like this felt so pointless and empty from a narrative point of view. 'well sometimes in war people die randomly' I know that! but this is a story it's supposed to mean something. it was just to make this scene sadder and I for one do not appreciate that
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I've seen that translated as 'my lady' in other services and I like that one better. more formality/feels more ancient fantasy setting
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and this bastard idiot man walks in and IMMEDIATELY gets stabbed. myu was holding down the fort for what could have been HOURS and this fool stumbles in and just dies within 30 seconds. GOD jfm you useless man
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swear jyl has some kind of gift that lets her portend when her family members are about to die
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there's a lot of horrible stuff that happens in this series but honestly nothing gets me as much as this scene. the sheer. idk. simplicity of it? unlike a lot of the convoluted storylines later on, this is something so straighforward that can and has happened to so many people. their home has been taken over and their family and friends have been murdered. they're watching the bodies of their shidis and shijies being lined up by a force that came into their home and destroyed it and insulted it and defiled it and will now claim it as theirs. and it's happening right in front of their eyes. it's just something so raw and in-your-face and impossible to ignore or sugarcoat. one of the worst scenes to watch
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and then THIS. honestly I don't really understand the significance of the hand-holding and I don't think it added anything to the characters or story. I don't understand why so much time was spent on it. what did they love each other after all? deep down? I don't really believe 'deep down' matters after what a mess their relationship was and how much it hurt their kids
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a long time ago I read a meta post about how jc hearing his mom publicly mocked for caring about someone who didn't care for her back is one of the reasons he's so fucked up about expressing affection to wwx and why he takes wwx leaving so hard. his mom is dead and humiliated on the floor, her corpse desecrated. I don't think he ever got over this
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and wwx too obviously. just horrific trauma happening before our eyes
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going to say something controversial but I think xz is a better ugly crier than wcz. wcz is really good but more looks scared in most of his crying scenes, but xz just lets his face crumple with the force of his grief
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WITH THE CURTAINS??!!! GIRl
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damn...conquest is fucked up huh
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gorgeous shot 10/10 no wonder its always giffed
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I guess jfm had something he wanted to say before dying but idc.
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jc would be so dead without wwx...
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DID HE SLAP WWX. HOLY SHIT. after that scene with his mom and wlj and that line about servants knowing their place that REALLY sends a message. god damn, I'm really mad at him for that
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this strangulation scene went on for a terrifyingly long time. wwx had to struggle to breathe when it ended. really scary to watch
I don't believe jc views wwx as A Servant but I also don't think he really views him as his equal either because his behavior towards wwx is uniquely aggressive and disrespectful. wwx may be treated as a young lord by most of the world, but he's also not in a position to fight back or hurt jc in any way, and he can't really leave the jiangs when he's being mistreated because he feels he owes them a life debt
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anyway. gorgeous shot here
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oh god. he's so young
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I think wwx is keeping himself from crying because. he's not allowed. fuck
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shit, that's a lot
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americancowgirl19 · 3 years
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Unconventional but Perfect
Summary: Cillian has a habit of choosing roles on the darker, more serious and complicated side. Some days it’s hard for him to snap out of character and relax but you’re always there to help him.
Warnings: tall and curvy reader, minor-ish age gap (him 45 and you 30 [it’s really not specified so you can be older/younger idc you do you]), fluff, small angst maybe?, SMUT, a kind of abrupt ending
Reader: Alpha Female Reader
Pairings: Omega Cillian Murphy x Alpha Female Reader
Word Count: 1,681
A/n: He is so fucking adorable in this gif
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You didn’t even notice Cillian had returned home. You were singing semi-loudly and swinging your hips around the kitchen as you cooked dinner (or warmed up something you bought earlier). You were hoping to have everything done by the time your husband return home. 
You wanted some quality alone time with Cillian. A dinner just the two of you. It had been a while since that had happened but that was alright. You understood that he was busy and so were you.
When you twirled around you caught sight of him. You slowly stopped singing turning your focus on him. He was leaning against the entry way with tired eyes but a lovely smile.
You checked on the food before approaching him. His eyes remained on you, his head tilting up the closer you got. His arms naturally wrapped around your waist as yours went on top of his shoulders.
“I missed you,” Cillian sighed, hugging you tight. The last couple of days you and Cillian probably saw each other a total of two or three hours. You could feel the his body sagging against yours.
“I missed you too, love,” You whisper, threading your fingers through his hair soothingly. “Long day?” Cillian groans, tightening his hold. You purr lowly and kiss the side of his head. “Why don’t you take a shower? When you’re done we’ll eat and watch a movie or you can read a little bit,”
“Come with me,” Cillian whispers, lifting his head from your shoulder. You were going to decline in order to finish the food but upon seeing Cillian’s pleading eyes you cave.
“Go start it and I’ll join you,” You promise. Cillian smiles softly before lightly kissing your lips. You lean into him, holding the back of his head. You massage his hair and deepen the kiss. When you pull back the two of you are slightly breathless. “Go on, now,” You wink at him. Cillian’s smile turns into a smirk.
You watch him, specifically his ass, as he walks away. You nibble the inside of you lip before taking the food off the heaters and placing them on cold burners. You make sure nothing is going to catch on fire before going up to your room.
You disrobe listening to the shower run in the adjacent room. When you join your husband you see him standing under the water with his eyes closed and his head back.
Cillian was always tired when he returned home but this was different. It seemed like the last few days had completely drained him both mentally and physically. He loves playing Thomas Shelby in the Peaky Blinders but, as everyone knows, Tommy isn’t exactly the happiest character. Tommy has a lot of mental issues and the show itself has a lot of emotionally challenging scenes. Sometimes going through these types of acts so many days in a row takes its toll on Cillian.
If Cillian didn’t enjoy his job so much you would have tried to persuade him to stop. It isn’t common, but it’s not unheard of, for mated omega’s to work like your husband. 
However, nothing about the two of you is normal nor common. You were younger than him, just enough to make some people uncomfortable and question the two of you. 
You were the alpha and he was the omega. That gained you both plenty of looks. The fact that the roles were reversed for the two of you had been questioned in nearly every interview he did. Your roles were completely natural for the two of you and neither of you understood why other people were concerned about the function of your relationship.
You couldn’t remember how many times you were bullied for being a ‘bad’ alpha. You allowed Cillian to continue working (as if you could or would have stopped him), your omega had the higher paying job, you accepted him even though he had been married before, and you hadn’t started a family with him yet. You were an unconventional alpha, an unconventional pair, and that made so many people, who you have never met, upset.
You wouldn’t trade anything for the world. Cillian is happy and so are you, that’s enough. As long as your omega is happy then all is right in the world.
Despite being younger you were fiercely protective and slightly (majorly) possessive of him. You made sure everyone knew that he is and always will be yours. Cillian is the same way for you but it’s subtle.
Reaching your arms out, you gently switch spots. You grab the shampoo and lather his hair with it. You shampoo, condition and wash his body. He moans quietly as you massage his sore muscles before standing in the hot water.
You intended to wash yourself quickly so that you could continue to pamper him but Cillian took things slow. You bent slightly so he could wash your hair. When you were done you pulled him into another kiss.
He leans back against the wall causing you to press him against the tile. Your hands ran up and down his chest while he gripped your hips. You pulled back just enough to disconnect your lips. He tried to reconnect them but you smirked and pulled back each time. He whined and pouted, which made you want to kiss him but you held back.
“Y/n,” He huffs. You laugh quietly.
“Patience, baby,” You tease causing him to groan. Normally your omega was perfectly patient but not tonight, which just made teasing him all the more fun. One of your hands cups the side of his neck while the other lightly brushes down his chest.
“Sweetheart, please,” He begs, pressing his head back against the wall. You have mercy and grab his cock. Relief and pleasure mixes in his face, his eyes closing as he stays still for you. 
You slowly, but firmly, pump his dick. The hand that was cupping the side of his neck moves to choke him. His fingers dig into your hips trying to leave bruises. You continue a slow agonizing pace. He tries to thrust in your hand but you continue to control the speed.
You can feel his pulse quicken. You pay close attention to the head making him whimper. You surprise him by connecting your lips to his. He instantly kisses you back, his hands trying to pull you closer.
You pull away from him completely. Your hands drop and you step out of his grip. Cillian’s eyes snap open and he whines loudly. You smirk. You turn off the water and step out of the shower. Cillian doesn’t let you dry off before he’s reaching for your neck and pulling you down to his lips.
You blindly grab a towel and try to dry him off as best you can while continuing with the kiss. Neither of you are completely dry but you won’t get sick either.
You lead him into the room, the both of you stumbling onto the bed. You press him onto his back and give him a dizzying kiss. He pants when you begin to crawl down his body. You bite his nipples and suckle your way down to his cock.
His hands go to your hair but you take them out. He whines but keeps his hands on the bed. You kiss and lick is cock before taking him into your mouth. His head falls back onto the bed.
“Baby, please,” He whines, lifting his hips. You hollow your cheeks and suck the head. “I want you. I want your pussy, your sweet pussy. Please,”
You lift off his dick. You go back up to his head and give him a slow kiss before switching positions. If he wanted to eat you out, who were you to deny him?
You straddled his face, his hands instantly returning to your hips. He pulls you down as far as you will go. You moan loudly and ride his face before bending over and retaking his cock.
He ate you out as if you were his last meal. You could already feel your pussy wanting to clench around him. You tried to rock your hips but Cillian wrapped his arms around them and held you still. Your pussy clenches at the reminder of his strength.
“Cillian, stop,” You whisper breathlessly. Your breath hitches as his focuses shift to your clit. “Oh, god,” You whimper. You could feel yourself coming closer and closer but you didn’t want to cum on his face, you wanted to lock around his dick. “Omega,” You snapped. Cillian tenses and his dick twitches. “Let go,” Reluctantly, he releases you and you spin around. 
“I want you so badly,” Cillian lifts his hips up against yours. You both moan as his dick teases your entrance. “Please, please, please,” He whispers his mantra until you silence him with a rough kiss. Cillian’s hand weaves into your hand and he grips it tightly. 
Unable to wait any longer you lower yourself onto his cock. His hand releases your hair and his back arches into you. You sit up and sink lower. He looks at you through hooded eyes.
“You’re so beautiful, my alpha,” Cillian whispers. A shy smile comes onto your lips. “You feel so good. I love you,”
“I love you too, Omega,” You mutter, lowering your body to hover over his. Your lips reconnect with his. He rolls you over and takes over the pace. He kisses your nose, cheek and neck before resting his head on your shoulder.
You could feel him getting close as the desperation sets in. You whisper encouragingly in his ear. He whines before stilling inside of you. You breathe in sharply as your cunt locks around him while his cum shoots inside of you.
“Sh, you’re alright,” You whisper, when he tries to keep thrusting into you but your lock tugs on him. “Relax, I’ve got you,” You kiss his shoulder, running your fingers through his hair. His body collapses on top of you. His muscles twitch but slowly begin to relax.
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companionship · 3 years
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okay one big post to get the finale out of my system! it's been lovely reading all of your analyses and reactions, and looking at all your amazing gifs and edits :')
fair warning: this is going to be so stinking long omfg
the things i enjoyed:
vincenzo remaining an anti-hero through and through, especially the fact that he didn't hold back at all when it came to myunghee and hanseok's death. he gave them a taste of their own medicine and then some forreal, their deaths were brutal but oddly satisfying, and i'm saying this as someone who usually hates violence/gore. throughout the show, they've always hinted at what he was Truly Capable Of and boy did we get to see it
vincenzo fumbling in hanseok's house and not being his usual self – a lot of people thought it was ooc, which i understand! i felt like that was the Point, to show that for once, he's not the invincible mafia consigliere that everyone thinks he is. what he did to the man who killed his mother and the army of security guards was a reaction, but this is the first time he's flustered, caught at a disadvantage, and faced with the very real possibility that he might lose somebody incredibly important to him. idk it made him more human to me
vincenzo literally not hesitating for even 0.1 seconds to fold his entire body around hers when he thought hanseok was going to shoot again – yeah that whole bit made my heart clench i feel like a crazy person i won't get over it
the chayenzo hospital scene... my god it was so tender my heart broke. the laugh they both shared, out of sheer relief that she's okay. the little joke about paying for the private room. the way not much was being said, but everything was being said at once. the way they looked at each other, as if it wouldnt ever be enough :( the quiet acceptance that this is their last night together, and that he's going to have to kill a bunch of people after this, but for now they have this. for however brief.
chayoung being chayoung – her big ass personality at the courtroom at the end after winning ms oh's case. her hopping around in those heels, looking elegant and sleek, mocking the hell out of rich conglomorates. she's in her element again and it made me so, so happy to see. i absolutely adore her, she's everything really. after all that loss and the whole ordeal, i'm glad she's able to return to what she does best: putting capitalists back in their place
mr lee being Very Much Not Dead – idk how i wouldve been able to handle it after witnessing hanseo's death like im glad he got the chance to be a dad
the kiss – my god....
the things i didn't like:
hanseo's death – lmao is it even a surprise... say what you will about his death being foreshadowed, but i really just hated hated it. i hate that hanseok won this one. i hate that hanseo worked so hard to redeem himself, only to lose it all. i hate that he was given a taste of what a real family was like, and then having it taken away so cruelly. even though i said above that i didn't mind that vincenzo was ooc at the mansion, i was still screaming at the screen because there were plenty of opportunities for the situation to be reversed. i don't necessarily blame vincenzo for hanseo's death, but i do wish that they had a funeral scene for him. i wish they acknowledged his sacrifice, and how pivotal he was in turning the tables. if not for hanseo, vincenzo really couldn't have pulled any of this off, from the interpol tipoff to the tracking device in the watch. idc idc hanseo is in malta rn, enjoying the sun and the beach, going to therapy, and teaching the local kids how to play hockey even though there's no ice :(
chayoung being bedridden the whole finale – like... NAH lmao this aint it chief... if things went my way, she wouldve gotten out of the hospital depite her injury and dealt with myunghee before handing her off to vincenzo. i loved their animosity for each other, and i wanted chayoung to be the one at myunghee's apartment waiting for her, rubbing it into her face. i wanted chayoung to verbally finish myunghee with that sharp ass tongue of hers and really dump a load of salt on her wounds. then vincenzo could do whatever the hell he wanted. you could argue that the show is called Vincenzo but i really dont care lmao it started with chayoung avenging her dad and she should've been able to strike the final blow. also what was her big second party? are we really just going to ignore her capacity for evil? after all that moral work done, after that time she spent coming to terms with using evil to combat evil, we're just going to... keep her bedridden? park jaebum u will pay for this
vincenzo losing his family – besides hanseo's death, i think this was what i hated the most from the ending. the start of the show showed us vincenzo's departure from the mafia with the very clear intention of Not Returning. the capo died, his loyalties lie with no one, paolo can suck it. throughout the show, we see him repeat over and over that he wants to get the gold and skip off to malta to enjoy a peaceful life there, while reflecting/repenting for the things he's done. vincenzo was gearing up for a lifetime of solitude. the whole point of the show was for him to find a real family and have a real chance at happiness. park jaebum really said FUCK THAT! we're gonna have him ditch the family that he built from scratch with the love of his life and then make him return to the family that tried to kill him AND make him the capo... pjb said we're gonna separate vincenzo from the family that accepts his past and sees it as a strength and not a weakness. the family that was formed out of solidarity, the family that he fought for and fought alongside with blood, sweat and tears. not to mention the goddaughter of his? sorry i would laugh if it didn't actually rile me up so bad
vincenzo not being able to come back to korea – i've said this in another post of mine, but given that he is The Vincenzo Cassano with all those resources at his disposal (guillotine file, mr ahn/mr cho/the chief etc.), the fact that he isnt even able to stay in korea for 30 fuckin minutes after finishing hanseok was ridiculous. the whole police chase was dumb as hell considering that the show has managed to stop politicians and mf presidential candidates from going after him like ? huh LMAO park jaebum had an on-demand pigeon army in this show and Yet he can't stop like 10 suddenly-righteous policemen. another big ass HUH
chayenzo (here we go...):
NOPE! i've reflected on the ending and decided that i'm going to be petty and salty for a while more before coming to terms with it
i can rationalise and try to be positive and tell myself that their love is enduring can transcend space and time and that in due time, they will find their way back to each other, and i have no doubt that they will because they're one soul in two bodies. it's quite literally canon that they're soulmates.
but let me wallow for a second
here we have two people who have done questionable and terrible things in their past coming together, growing together, grieving together, fighting together... you get the gist of it. you have two people who have found a home in each other. two people who, for all intents and purposes, were about to live in a whole lot of bitterness and solitude if not for each other and the life they built together (chayoung didn't have friends like that, and her family is gone too). to separate them like that at the very end is cruel. i know chayoung and vincenzo are mature and incredible and will be able to function without the other next to them. i know that they will still excel as lawyers and will defeat evil with their underhand methods the way they do so well but my god are they going to feel the absence and miss each other
my point is that they shouldn't have to. from what i could tell, they can't even communicate on a regular basis bc he'll be tracked and whatnot, hence the postcards. a postcard every month is a poor substitute for all those nights they stayed up drinking makgeolli and celebrating their wins. its a shitty replacement for coffee dates and fist bumps and all the moments in between. after everything they've been through, after literally fighting to death for their family, they don't deserve this. they don't deserve to meet up once a year for a couple of hours. they don't deserve pockets of time in malta or korea, their life in a perpetual countdown to when they're going to see each other next
they both deserve love and some semblance of peace (finally finally). they both deserve to have someone to come home to after a hard day of work, because doing what they do cannot be easy. they both deserve a family, deserve to have someone next to them that accepts their past and would embrace their future. they both deserve a hand to hold and a shoulder to lean on. i know they will still be It for each other despite the distance, i just wish the distance didn't even exist in the first place bc its stupid and cruel and their love shouldnt have to be proven or tested with time and space. let them stay together. let them grow together. let them be.
side note: song joongki and jeon yeobeen need another project together idc take it up with god
tl;dr: park jaebum u will be paying for my therapy bills
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hoedameron · 3 years
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typically i don’t talk about the gifs that i make for myself but i am in a chatty mood so we’re have a socratic seminar right now.
also, before i get started, you can use these headers if you’d like! literally everything you see on this blog are freebies tbh. just a forewarning that the cas one is not the standard 640 px width because i was experimenting with something so just...be mindful of that <3 no need to credit unless you feel inclined to! just know i spent...quite awhile on them xx
i get most of my ideas for spn gif headers by seeings gifs on the tl that make me go “you know what? this would make for a great header” and run with that. i do pray that the op put the season and episode in the tags and if they don’t...SHH don’t laugh but if i’m desperate enough, i actually go through the tags to see if any hardcore stan knows the exact szn/ep. other times, i write some scenes down in my journal that i think would be great but again, those written down are definitely from scenes i saw in gifsets. call me unoriginal idc i’m just making things that make me happy and i know would be hella sexy.
let’s talk about how fucking LONG it takes to down/load an episode of supernatural like....i deadass spent five hours downloading plucky pennywhistle’s magical menagerie and around three hours to download the man who would be king....is it just best to t/orrent the whole ass season or WHAT like i’m deadass about to do that for any spn gifs i wanna make because that ajsdajksldjksla RIDICULOUSLY FUNNY. i’m not even that mad like it humbles me and it shows how dedicated i am to the craft. if anybody has tips for t/orrenting old spn episodes, please hmu because i would like to make more content in the future but this is a big hurdle on why i hesitate to create content for this show (among other things BUT this is one of the biggest reasons). you could have the fastest wifi speed the world has to offer pero if that bitch has no seeds...
for the castiel header: i had three different colorings for him. i really wanted to bring out his eyes because that is what drew me to make the header in the first place. y’all know that as a gifmaker, i really like making my gifs warmer and using pale/aesthetic coloring is so out of my wheelhouse and not my forte...but i do try to branch out of my comfort zone. back to the eyes, i went through a lot of psds, tinkering with their settings, and came out with three of them: the warm one that i did end up using and two pale-ish ones. the other third one isn’t here because i ultimately determined that it’s basically this one here but a lot lighter. the coloring made cas almost a ghost so i’m like...we still need to keep SOME of his skin tone even if it’s a lack thereof...okay, the reason why that this one doesn’t have the typical 640 px dimension is because i wanted to keep...how do i say this...i wanted to keep some of his facial structure? because the scene is really focused on cas’ face so it’s the entire frame. because tumblr is the way it is, it cuts at a weird spot where he looks like that bitch from doctor who all stretched out. so in an attempt to prevent that, i made it in this dimension where it’s basically me free handing the crop but ultimately it didn’t do anything lol. so i basically went back and made an entirely new gif with one of the colorings i saved and ta-da!
for the sam header: going in, i knew it was going to be a dark lit scene. i knew i had specific spn colorings that have been useful for shows outside of supernatural so i was like...i mean, tried and true, eh? i went through about six colorings until i finally settled on like...four. the first two of the six, though colorful, really made sam’s skin a bit...washed out. the next two were...basic. one of those basic coloring was the dark spn coloring and though it looked okay, there wasn’t any flavor to it. if i can be colorful in a gif, i will definitely climb up that tree. i love and admire vibrant gifs so if i can do that, oh man, it’s such a fun feeling because it’s like WOW i actually did that! then there were two colorings that were really, REALLY good because one of them was vibrant but it also had a subtlety to the gif. the other one was vibrant and brought out the blue in the background. it was a hard decision but i did save both of them and was like well, this is a problem for future me. i was actually surprised that the glitter on sam’s jacket and shirt didn’t up the mb because it definitely had me worried there. i also thought about making this gif header as another scene but realized it was a little too short for my liking (it was when he was surrounded by clowns but they magically disappear into thin air, leaving glitter in their wake). really love how this gif turned out :)
and yeah, that’s all i got to say about them. everything went smoothly with the sharpening, no problems on that front...i thought about opening up my inbox for suggestions of what scenes i should gif pero i’m afraid that 1) nobody will respond, 2) i will get some strange requests, or 3) i will get a lot of them. i would love to create more but i am like..creatively stuck. i don’t typically make those fancy edits with templates, i am more of a practical gifmaker aka i just stick to the original material. who knows...maybe i’ll be pushed and motivated...thanks for taking the time to read this !!
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Since of some of your anons brought Secret Boutique the other day (I watched it as well, it feels it came out ages ago lol) let's not bring how hurt I was with Min shi giving me SLS considering how much chemistry she had with K/m Jae Y/ng. Anyways Jae Y/ng looks so sexi 🥵 with his long hair these days.
Am I crazy for pushing for a Min shi x Jae Young second drama???? lol Tbh I feel Minshi is one of those actresses that has chemistry with almost all her scene partners (men or women) She's gifted and chamaleonic. Love that for her.
oh i def wanna see them back as lovers again in some drama that treats them better because they were amazing together omg have to gif more of them idc about notes or not and you're right she does have chemistry with lots of her male or female co-workers so like yes!!!!!!!!!! you're not crazy I've been saying that for months that they should make round 2. (remembering him with han/so/hee in that weird 100days drama the way she had only chemistry with him and they were fire but they killed him there...)
pls i'm crazy i really think we're getting minshidohwan shut up everyone lemme be delusional. 2 months more or less and he's back they just have to. minshi's waiting for that drama announcement like it's crazy everything adds up.
(on that note i kinda want minshi with middle lenght hair again the way she had it in SB like that looked so good on her. or long hair and bangs again. or with her hair colored black. )
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carbonitekisses · 5 years
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Kit’s acting had me like 👀 during the war council—and made me go hmMm.
Something is going on in Winterfell. We got “my queen” but no “I love you”. So, is Jon playing the game? Or has he truly been blinded by love for a woman his family does not trust?
Most of Kit’s acting for our fave gloomy boy relies on manneurisms and small facial expressions. A squinting of the eyes, furtive looks, jaw tightening, hand clenching etc.
And boy oh boy, does the war council scene deliver. (I cannot gif for the life of me so I am sorry for the text abundant post.)
Jon makes himself appear as little of a threat as possible.
Right off the bat Jon presents himself as unthreatening by holding his hands together in front of him. His shoulders make him look like he is small, or caving in.
Don’t believe me? Compare him to Sansa and Arya who have their hands clasped behind their back, their shoulders pulled back but relaxed and their chins tilting upwards. They present themselves as strong and very much present.
Jon knows he is seen as a threat by Dany, no matter how many times he tells her he does not want the throne. We’ve seen over and over again how people are drawn to Jon and still treat him as King—Dany’s fear. This is why he caves into himself and assumes a submissive posture. He takes a backseat in the war council and only speaks when he needs to placate or sway Dany.
Compare him to the Jon in the battle planning of 08x02! Jon doesn’t have his hands clasped before him or his shoulders hunched. No, quite the opposite actually. And when he dismisses people to rest, they all leave—never mind that Dany as queen didn’t dismiss them (her own council almost leaves without her before catching themselves).
But then... Sansa draws Dany’s ire.
Jon and Tyrion have finally gotten Dany to agree to a siege instead of more dragonfire reliant tactics. And then Sansa voices her concern for their men. This is when his facade changes. When he has to defend Dany. He unclasps his hands and casts furtive glances between Dany and Sansa.
Jon has to assert himself and his allegiance with Dany. He turns to Sansa, arms at his sides, and head held loftily but tense. It is a confrontational pose.
He commands her to put aside her concern because the only thing that matters is Dany’s war. His stare is intense and harbors no leeway.
Once he’s made his point he turns back to Dany and softens his gaze for her.
“What you command we will obey.”
As soon as he sees that Dany has accepted his postulating peacocking, he goes back to clasping his hands before him...and makes himself look subservient once more.
Dany views Sansa as an enemy and Jon is aware of it. Twice now, she has complained about her and more or less threatened Sansa in front of Jon. This would explain Jon’s stare and aggressiveness when shutting down Sansa.
He needed to draw the attention away from Sansa and placate Dany. Basically saying to Dany, “Sansa has no power here, she is no threat. If I say we will follow your orders, Sansa must obey.”
Because we’ve been blocked Jon’s POV it looks like Jon really could care less about his men’s need for recovery. But what’s really going on is that Jon is on thin ice with Dany and if he doesn’t make her feel secure, he will have no way of protecting Sansa since she is the one Dany has become fixated on.
Then Dany says, “In all seven kingdoms men will live without fear and cruelty under their rightful queen.”
Although the camera is focused on Sansa, Arya, and Davos, the left side of Jon’s body can be seen behind Tyrion (who is slightly out of focus).
I hadn’t noticed it on the first watch, but Jon’s left hand is clenching/fidgeting at his side while Dany says, “will live without fear and cruelty”. This is a notable and proactive acting choice by Kit.
Honestly, I could be looking way into it but at this point idc lol. I think it was a conscious choice by Kit. Especially because it happens during the line: “In all seven kingdoms men will live without fear and cruelty...”
Jon is restless and tense, and his hand fidgeting reflects it. I don’t think he agrees with Dany but he can’t voice his disagreement, can he? After her outburst (bordering on paranoia) from the night of the feast, Jon can’t be blind to what Dany really is. So, when she says that men will live without fear and cruelty when she becomes queen... Jon doesn’t believe her and his hand betrays his true feelings.
What does this tell me?
I think Jon is Playing the Game. There are too many acting choices that would make no sense without some form of sacrificial! or pol!Jon. The submissive posture, the OOC disregard for his men, the nervous hand fidgeting. It’s a lot of little things that, once added together, make me think Jon Snow has not been replaced by some fake Aegon Targaryen. Jon is a Stark. He is part of the pack. I just hope that in the next episode Jon remembers that the lone wolf dies but the pack survives and that he trusts his family enough to let them know he’s playing the game.
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Dreamlike Dispatch 4 of 9
See Recap One for a complete note, but TL;DR SPOILERS FOR ZHU YILONG’S PARTS OF GRANTING YOU A DREAMLIKE LIFE.
Important extra note: you can expand all these screencaps, in case you, for instance, want to see the glint of tears in Zhu Yilong’s eyes! :D
Recap One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine
Zhu Yilong is like WELL THEN, FUCK ROMANCE and goes on a bender of extremely attractive gang violence where he wears that camel-colored jacket from all the gifs and wields a machete. MAN. HE IS HOT. AND DOING GREAT, if body count is what you're looking for.
But the madam (??) of the dance club (??) knows that something is really wrong. She goes up to see him in his room above the club, where he is drinking sadly alone. She gets it out of him that this is about the girl, and he starts CRYING, and this enormous boneheaded baby says this:
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And she's like, aw bud, this happens to everyone, you will be okay. And he's like haha yes of course I will, everything's fine, and then she leaves and his face crumples into more tears and he cries alone for a while. :((((
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MY SAD OPERA-LOVING GANGSTER CHILD.
He does A LOT of barely-holding-back-his-tears devastated face for the next few episodes, which are buck fucking wild. Turns out the girl is adopted, and her adopted dad has been grooming her to marry her ADOPTIVE BROTHER her entire life, despite having told HER that they are biologically related. WHAT! THE FUCK!
Both of her suitors are very fucking upset about this, but only the best friend is "allowed" to be upset, since they're dating, and since Zhu Yilong "lost" the contest for her attention or whatever, he does a lot of running around silently supporting the two people he loves while barely suppressing his own inner turmoil and grief. U KNOW, JUST ZHU YILONG THINGS.
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This. This is the content I came here to see.
There is Plot:
The girl agrees to marry her brother out of filial piety. (WHAT. THE FUCK.) The best friend, again, loses his entire fucking shit, not in a cute way, and crashes the wedding with a gun and scares her dad into having a heart attack and basically kidnaps the girl. (WHAT. THE FUCK!!) Zhu Yilong arrives too late to stop them but he takes her dad to the hospital. Then he finds them at the boat station (dock? port. please help me) and un-kidnaps the girl while the best friend is buying boat tickets like, get on my motorcycle right now, your dad's about to die.
They rush to the hospital, where her dad's last words are, please don't date the best friend. The best friend rushes onto the scene just in time to yell that her dad is faking his own death because he hates their love (WHAT!!! THE FUCK!!!!!) and Zhu Yilong is like my dude, my best friend, my beloved didi, please come quietly with me out of this fucking hospital room, where you should not fucking be, my god.
The best friend immediately goes back to the club to get hammered AGAIN while Zhu Yilong makes his apologies at the fucking final goodbye tableau he wrecked, and when he finally catches up with him at the club, the friend explodes. Zhu Yilong is selfish, he's been trying to get between them the whole time, he's ruining their lives, etc etc. Zhu Yilong endures it all and says, no matter what you're saying right now, I still think of you as my brother. (The word isn't one I know - it might be xiong-di?) The best friend screams that one off the table and says that they will never be brothers again. This entire scene is extremely painful but this is the face Zhu Yilong makes at that point:
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The best friend has swan-dived off the deep end and does a few other fucked-up things like crash the funeral, and also handcuff himself to the girl (IN HIS POLICE UNIFORM) so that she'll agree to get on a boat and leave town with him, both occasions where Zhu Yilong has to intervene and it's very upsetting for everyone. I think the friend is under a lot of pressure from his dad, who is also a gangster? Idk and honestly idc. He made Zhu Yilong cry and he kidnapped a girl and semi killed her dad. He sucks now.
This is vaguely the halfway mark of the show, and we now enter a new period where Things Are Changing, among them that the best friend fucks off to police academy (thank god. although we appear to follow his military-esque training sequences throughout the next few episodes, so I'm very worried that he's going to come back but this time as a powerful villain, and not in a sexy gay way), and that the girl loses her opera voice due to stress (OBVIOUSLY. my god, please check yourself into a spa or something) and the opera house has to disband. Zhu Yilong feels responsible for all this, so he follows the girl around paying for everything she needs, cutely threatening her landlord into charging her less, giving her rides to her new job as a (I SHIT YOU NOT) FLORIST in a FLOWER SHOP, and generally just being dependable and supportive in between bouts of gang killing.
Anyway, that's where I'm at, I'm deeply worried and semi-invested in the canon het romance, send help, also there is a MASSIVE plot about rival gangs that I am literally skipping all of and keep hearing snatches of conversation about, lol. THIS ENTIRE POST WAS PICTURES OF ZHU YILONG CRYING, YOU'RE WELCOME.
Recap One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine
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heyo, i’m pepper, and i’m late as usual (who’s surprised?? not me lmao)! i am here to introduce you to my favourite mess, simon who was actually one of my first muses! i’m trying to revive him so atm he’s a bit bare bones but here’s hoping i can get through this intro coherently (unlikely, but i’ll try)
[ MUSE 3 ] ●● is that LUCAS JADE ZUMANN ? no, that’s just SIMON ARMSTRONG , the 16 year old CISMALE who is a HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR. some say they’re NERVOUS AND AWKWARD, but their family and friends will swear they’re INTELLIGENT AND COMPASSIONATE. when i think of them, i think of the smell of books, fingers indented by violin strings, freshly dusted spelling bee trophies, wrinkled noses, ironed socks, ink stained fingers, and notebooks filled with doodles. i wonder if their family know that HE is hiding that HE’S QUESTIONING HIS SEXUALITY. ●● ( pepper && twenty two && est && she/her )
BIO(ISH)
tl;dr he’s a soft anxious overachieving nerd who likes to draw. that’s it, that’s really it idk why i took so long to say that sdkjsdkj
here is an aesthetic moodboard for simon and here and here are a few personality one’s with gifs! also here is his pinterest board 
inspired by: seth cohen, stiles stilinski, amy santiago, hermione granger (and a bit of neville longbottom i’m ngl), spencer reid. 
simon has always been a bit high strung tbh i’m ngl. he was the kid on the playground who was always a bit too mature for the kids around him in the way that he’d be like five and stressing about his potential career paths or the state of global warming yk, always kind of had conversations with grown adults that made them do a double take just because very adult conversation coming out of a tiny kid can be kind of startling. that said, he never really quite fit in with his peers because of that, i feel like he may have even been bullied for it a bit in the past. he was definitely that kid who reminded the teacher about the homework i am not going to lie to you. 
 simon always took academics extremely seriously. he always puts pressure on himself to be perfect and get straight a’s and he is like the definition of a try hard, simon tries hard at freaking everything. his hard work pays off though, he’s been at the top of the honour roll for the past few years and he’s got more spelling bee, science fair, debate, and decathlon trophies decorating his room than he knows what to do with.
(not one for any athletics though,,, physical exercise was never simon’s strong suit)
also plays the violin and the piano, again, more evidence of him being a huge overachiever. he is actually quite talented honestly but he isn’t really incredibly passionate about either instrument. 
simon has asthma, is allergic to bees, has sleep paralysis and pretty bad anxiety. he used to get panic attacks as a child and while he hasn’t quite grown out of it, it’s not nearly as bad now. i feel like he is on medication for it though and he may even go to therapy. 
afraid of abandonment (irrational because i’m pretty sure he’s never been abandoned but it’s there) and he’s also afraid of failure, of being a disappointment to his family, of never living up to his potential (when he was younger he was advanced for his age academically so he has skipped a grade.) he fears that he’s a disappointment to his parents as a son considering he is the farthest thing one can be from a potential fbi agent, and considering he can’t even do a lap without wheezing he doesn’t think he ever will be, but he is trying to aim for forensics instead of anything in the actual field anywhere close to actual danger. kind of insecure despite his success and low, low, low, low low key kind of feels like the kid his dad brought home might be his new replacement as a son. 
one of his closest friends is the school guidance counselor atm. think edge of seventeen. he just goes in there, eats his lunch and talks to her about everything that’s going on with his life like it’s cheap therapy. 
wants to go to harvard and is a big ball of stress over it currently. he’s hit a whole new level of academic intensity and his sexuality crisis is not helping in the slightest, but it is very much happening and he doesn’t know what the hell to do about it thanks for asking. he may be bi or gay or pan or none of the above, he’s not sure and he’s not thinking about it because he doesn’t have time to be questioning his sexuality when college admissions are rearing their ugly head. 
a big introvert. can occasionally be very witty and funny if he’s comfortable you but if he’s not he tends to just be quiet and kind of awkward. tends to enjoy to spend a lot of time alone in his room playing animal crossing, or indulging in a very private hobby, drawing. 
simon has always loved art and comics and drawing but he knows they’re kind of pointless passions, like realistically he doesn’t think he will even actually become a comic book artist the odds are too low. and yet that hasn’t stopped him from doing it. drawing is really one of the only things that really calms his anxiety, and that he really enjoys doing. that and reading. so simon has secretly been drawing a comic. he hasn’t really shared it with anybody and would die if anyone found out about it. here is a moodboard for the comic (he’s going by the pen name orion kace like the nerd he is) and here are some headcannons about it. 
honestly a big sap. like lilo and stitch can still make him tear up even if he won’t admit it dkjdkj. he’s got a soft heart and kind of just wants to make sure everybody’s okay tbh. tends to worry more than he lets on which is saying something because he worries outwardly a lot too.
can be very tempermental/moody and selfish though, especially when stressed. he gets to a very self centered ‘woe is me i’m the only one with problems’ place when he’s stressed out. 
a big ass nerd! i feel that goes without saying but loves comics books, loves star wars, harry potter, and could probably recite the opening scene of game of thrones yk, that kind of nerd. 
has never gone to a party. has never smoked weed. has never snuck out. has never tasted more than a sip of alcohol. honestly, simon hasn’t done anything, and he’s okay with that. 
i think that’s it omg tHAT’S PROBABLY IT. 
WANTED CONNECTIONS ;
best friends - i feel like at least two of these would be fun! a little squad for my lonely boy (2/2) cailin, john
childhood friends - i will give you my left arm for a childhood friends plot. unlikely friends maybe? or just two nerds being dweebs together? friends who are still close as hell friends who had a falling out or just grew apart, idc i love it all please give it to me. cailin
the ex - i feel like simon maybe had ONE relationship in his lifetime if that and relationship might be stretching things. they could have held hands on the playground when they were six or dated in middle school (do you like me check yes or no sdkjsdk) kind of think like it could be that or it could be a high school thing, once again idc give it to me. 
student - someone who simon tutors maybe? simon is probably volunteering to do it to look good on his uni application so Yes free tutoring from your local nerd. skylar, aria, 
crush - like i said simon is questioning his sexuality so if anybody wants to volunteer to be the boy that simon has an inconvenient crush on please be my guest. scout
rival - an academic rival would be !!! so fun, because simon is lowkey quite competitive so this could be a really interesting connection. farrah
mentor - someone who simon looks up to a whole lot. this would likely have to be someone either really cool or really nerdy and this is open to older muses mostly, just older than simon tbh ajax
bad influence - someone who will get this boy to live a little! maybe drag him out to a party, get him a joint, get him drunk, the works! leo, andrew
those are just some ideas but ofc like this if you want to plot and i will come running! okay thank
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webanalytics · 6 years
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Smarter Career Choices #3: Solve for the Global Maxima!
Today, a simple lesson that so many of us miss at great peril. In fact in your role, at this very moment, your company is making a mistake in terms of how it values your impact on the business.
The lesson is about the limitation of optimizing for a local maxima, usually in a silo.
We are going to internalize this lesson by learning from Microsoft. It is a company I love (am typing this on my beloved ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 5, using Windows Live Writer blogging software!). I bumped into the lesson thanks to their NFL sponsorship.
If you were watching the Oakland Raiders beating the hapless New York Giants (so sad about Eli) this past Sunday, you surely saw a scene like this one:
Quarterback Geno Smith using his Microsoft Surface tablet to figure out how he added two more fumbles to this career total of 43. Or, maybe it was him replaying the 360 degrees view of the three times he was sacked during the game.
The Surface tablet is everywhere in an NFL game. Microsoft paid $400 million for four years for the rights, and just renewed the deal for another year (for an as yet undisclosed sum).
For all this expense, you'll see players and coaches using them during the game (as above). The Surface branding also gets prominent placement on the sidelines – on benches, on movable trollies and more. It is all quite prominent.
Here’s one more example: Beast mode!
I adore Mr. Lynch’s passion. Oh, and did you notice the Surface branding?
Now, let’s talk analytics and accountability.
NFL ratings are down, but an average game still gets between 15 m – 20 m viewers. That is a lot of pretty locked-in attention, very hard to get anywhere these days.
The question for us, Occam’s Razor readers, is… What does the Surface Marketing team get for all this money?
If the Surface Marketing team is like every other team at every other company engaged in sponsorships and television advertising, it’ll measure the same collection of smart metrics like everyone else.
First one will be Reach. The Surface team is likely measuring it with deep granularity (by individual games, geo, days, times of days, and a lot more).  I’m confident that their analysis will show they are getting great Reach.
The team will rightly be congratulating itself on this success.
Next on the list, having spent enough of my life with TV buyers, I can comfortably say that the Surface team is also expending copious amounts of effort measuring one or more dimensions of Brand Lift metric. Ad Recall, Brand Interest, Favorability, Consideration etc.
Brand Lift is most frequently measured using surveys.
Given the number of times Microsoft Surface, or its branded presence, shows up in a game (52 times in my count in the OAK – NYC game), I believe the Surface team is getting very positive reads from its post NFL ad-exposure surveys.
After 52 times most people would recall the ad, surely answer the survey with some interest in the brand, and everyone (except Coach Belichick) seems to like using the tablets, a favorability that will surely transfer to a whole lot of viewers.
This would, indeed should, result in more congratulations in the Surface team.
The two-step approach above reflects the most common approach Marketers, and their Agencies, use to measure success. Did we reach a large audience? Do they remember anything?
The answers to these two questions power job promotions, bonuses and agency contract renewals with higher fees.
I believe this is necessary, but not sufficient.
I believe this approach optimizes for a local maxima (the media buying bubble) and does not create the necessary incentives to solve for the global maxima (short or long-term business success).
Let me illuminate this gap.
Here’s the global maxima question: How many Surface tablets have been sold due to this near-blanket coverage in NFL games via precious undivided attention?
That was the question that crossed my mind during Sunday’s game.
I had one data point handy.
According to TripIt I’ve visited 156 cities across 32 countries in the last few years. During these trips, meetings and meetups, I've never seen a Microsoft Surface tablet in the wild. Not one.
That’s not completely true. I have seen one frequently. The one I bought for my dad four years ago.
One data point does not a story make.
To assess a more complete answer, we turn to our trusty search engine Bing…
The picture above starts 12 months after Surface inked the $400 million NFL contract. The Surface's share of shipments is so small, it does not even show up in a graph.
Not being content with just one view of success, I tried other sources. 
The data from IDC, shows no meaningful Surface anything. Statcounter provides an interesting view as it measures actual use the Surface when accessing the two million websites that use Statcounter. Surface is at 0.29% share.
This is a bit hyperbolic, but in the grand scheme of things… No one is buying a Surface.
Local maxima view of success: The Surface team’s NFL contract is a smashing success. The team is getting great Reach and great Brand Lift. Contract with NFL renewed for another 12 months.
Global maxima view of success: Microsoft is losing.
[Key caveat: The data Statista and IDC provide capture shipments. It is possible that the Surface is being sold directly in a way that neither of these two sources would capture those sales. Perhaps some kind of B2B sales. To overcome this possible issue I’ve used the Statcounter data to capture usage. Still, there is a possible scenario where none, or not enough, of the Surfaces sold visit those two million sites.]
Sadly, Microsoft is not alone in this local maxima focus. Most companies function in a similar manner. Yours. Mine. Other people’s. Our collective mistake is that we don’t think critically enough about what we really are solving for. Our company’s mistake is the incentive structure they put in place (which almost always rewards the local maxima).
Let me give you two examples of this sad local maxima obsession that crossed my desk just this morning. All in the space of one hour.
Local – Global Maxima Example 2: Gap Inc..
A report has been published on The Age of Social Influence. Its goal is to aggressively recommend the strategy of marketing via Social Influencers. Here’s the publishing company’s intro of themselves: “We are a powerful data intelligence tool that combines the knowledge and insights you need to deliver a successful celebrity and social influencer marketing strategy.”
Their claims of this wonderful Social Influencer strategy is based on a survey of 270 respondents. 270. It seems like an oddly tiny choice by a powerful data intelligence tool company (PDITC).
They have all kinds of numbers from the 270 survey sample showing glory.
The very first example in the report of a brand winning hugely with a Social Influencer strategy is Gap.
Here’s a screenshot from the report…
While we all love Cher, seriously she is special, this is a classic local maxima let’s only look at what will make us look good to pimp stuff we want to strategy.
What would be a global maxima if you are going to use a company as a poster child?
Here’s Gap’s financial performance over the last five years…
Gap Inc. has been struggling for years, flirting with financial disaster recently in every facet of its business.
I invite you to explore other financial data on the eMarketer Retail website. Look at Revenue, Earnings, Margins, Employment… Everything is super sad. For an additional valuable lesson, click on Digital as well. It shows the social performance of Gap (illustrating even the local maxima is quite suspect).
I dearly wish the Gap survives, they make good quality clothes.
I also wish that the powerful data intelligence tool company would have chosen to focus on looking at the global maxima success before using Gap, and the other examples in their 40 page report. That would have made their drum banging for Social Influencers more persuasive. It would also have resulted in fewer clients of powerful data intelligence tool company shuttled in the direction of spending money on something that mostly likely will not produce any business results.
Local – Global Maxima Example 3: Amazon
A celebration was shared with me for 31 custom gifs created by Giphy for the up and coming retailer Amazon.
Here’s a non constantly looped, to ensure you’re not annoyed, sample…
The celebration was based on the fact that the total view count for these 31 custom gifs was 31 million.
[Sidebar: Always, always, always be suspicious of numbers that are that clean. 31 gifs being viewed a clean 31 million times is cosmically impossible. Seek the faq page to understand how views are measured. Identify that there is no clarity. Now, be even more suspicious.]
I’m afraid in my book views don’t even count as a local maxima. Even if they are in yours, I hope you’ll agree they are a million miles away from a global maxima.
I wanted to share this example from Amazon because you can’t use the global maxima of overall business success I’ve used above. Even if Jeff Bezos goes around hitting people with feather dusters, Amazon will keep selling more and more products. They have already reached perpetual motion.
What do you do when it is difficult to identify the global maxima from a super-tactical animated 31 gifs with 31 million views effort?
Try to move four steps up from wherever you are. Global maxima lite.
In this case, here’s a great start: % of Users who shared the gif who are not current Amazon customers.
So much more insightful than Views, right?
We are shooting for a deeper brand connection, by an audience that holds business value for us. Sure these people are annoying their friends, but hey at least as Amazon we can remarket to them – and friends (!) – and convert them to Prime customers!
I’m sure you can think of others that are five, six and eight steps above Views. (Share them in comments, and earn admiration.)
It does not always have to be revenue or profit. But, please don’t pop the champagne on views, impressions and other such primitive signals of nothingness.
On the topic of measurement, let’s go back to Microsoft and brainstorm some strategies for their unique use case.
What should Microsoft have measured?
Purely as an academic exercise I’m leaving aside the possibility that the Surface is simply not a good tablet. That would certainly impact sales – marketing or no marketing. But, since Microsoft went back for year five, it is safe to assume at least they believe it is a good tablet.
Ok? It is a good tablet.
Again as an academic exercise I’m going to ignore the four year horizon. There is no question that at the end of year two Microsoft had overwhelming proof from a multitude of data points that the NFL contract was not selling any Surfaces. They did not need Big Data or Artificial Intelligence to come to that conclusion. If they could not get out of the contract, at the end of year two a better use of $100 mil spend per year would have been to change the covers on the Surfaces to Xbox green, and change the numerous printed brand opportunities on the sidelines to Xbox as well. A great selling product, with a much bigger overlap with the NFL audience than the Surface.
Ok? We are not looking after year two.
During the first and second year, what could we have measured as Microsoft if we wanted to do better than the local maxima? Better than Reach and Brand Lift metrics?
Let me plant three ideas (please add yours via comments).
An enhanced survey would be a good start. Along with measuring ad recall etc., they could also ask how likely are you to choose the Surface over the iPad as your next tablet?
It is a tougher question than do you remember the ad or what tablets can you name. It is going head to head with the thing people usually say when they mean tablet. And, you are looking for switching. A strong behavior shift, a harder yes to get when I’ve done surveys. All this brand exposure, if its working, should shift that key intent signal.
Really easy to do. And, you can easily get thousands upon thousands of responses – you don’t have to settle for 270. It would have given the Marketing team a leading indicator that no one is going to buy the Surface as a result of the NFL partnership. The signal could have been received even a couple months in, and certainly by the end of year one.
Time series correlations would have been a great start right after the first week of the contract. How many people are visiting the Surface website on Sundays? Is that materially significant compared to weeks prior or weeks where there were not as many games? Was there an improvement on Sundays in digital sales? How about retail sales on Mondays?
This is simple stuff. Even visits to the site would have been a nice low level signal.
As the season went on, we could look for test and control opportunities. The NFL always has blackouts in cities/states where the stadiums don’t have enough attendance. This past weekend it was in two states, complete blackout of free broadcast games. Is there a difference in site visits, online conversion rates, offline sales, between states that had one game broadcast on Sunday, two games broadcast on Sunday and no games broadcast on Sunday?
A little more complicated. The site stuff is easy to segment. For store sales Microsoft could easily get data from its stores in malls, and likely also from retailers like Best Buy with a little arm twisting. This data would have shows Microsoft, a few months in, that the global maxima might not be reached.
If you don’t have this type of ubiquity, Matched Market tests are also fabulous in these cases to discern if a specific marketing strategy is having a business impact.
Three ideas that I hope will spark many more in your mind when you shoot to measure the global maxima.
I want to briefly touch on one refrain I often hear about these long term efforts, or short term efforts that are not working but are looking at a longer horizon: So what if the results are not there. This is a long term brand building play, Apple did not become a beloved brand in one year.
There is a kernel of truth there, brand building take time. There is a kernel of BS there as well, Apple is Apple primary because of its innovative products.
Let’s not talk about Microsoft in context of the above statement as even if we assume there was some long term brand building happening, it did not translate into business success.
When you hear a statement like that, after you launch a new underwear, cooking range, VR headset or whatever… Obsessively measure more than the local maxima to discern signals in the short term that illustrate that the long term brand building play is not just an excuse to flush a lot of money. Both the Gap and Amazon examples have ideas to inspire you.
Or consider that even your long term brand building play, in the short term should cause you to take noticeable amounts of market share. It won’t be 80% in the short term, but neither is that statement a reason to spend more money if all you got is 5% in year one and 10% in year two.
Don’t settle for opinion.
Use data.
You have data.
Bonus: The real winner of the Microsoft NFL contract?
The NFL of course.
Microsoft makes great hardware. To make it work for the NFL, Microsoft surely wrote lots of custom software for the NFL’s specific use cases. Microsoft likely invested in tens of millions of dollars of camera equipment, wifi/networking upgrades in every stadium, deployed a small army of Microsoft employees to do on-site tech support before, during and after the games in every single stadium. And, more and more and more.
The NFL should be paying Microsoft $110 million a year to upgrade the ability of its coaches, players and teams to have access to this state of the art technology to compete more effectively every Thursday, Sunday and Monday!
The NFL is slated to make $14 billion in 2017, they can surely afford to give $110 mil a year to Microsoft.
Back to the real world… Even when you measure short term success, please do not be satisfied with a local maxima. Even in the short term you can measure something better. On the long term, you have all the elements you need… Definitely measure the global maxima!
Do this because it is the right and smart thing to do for your company. But, a tiny bit, do it because in my experience (across the world) global maxima solvers progress exponentially faster in their career. Turns out, delivering business results matters. :)
As always, it is your turn now.
Do you have a suggestion for what Microsoft or Gap or Amazon should measure as their global maxima? If you’ve been successful getting your CEO to focus on the global maxima, what approach really worked? If you were the role of the Chief Scientist of powerful data intelligence tool company, how would you measure the impact of Social Influencers in a more intelligent manner?
Please add your powerful ideas, brilliant critique and innovative strategies in comments below. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you.
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Smarter Career Choices #3: Solve for the Global Maxima!
Today, a simple lesson that so many of us miss at great peril. In fact in your role, at this very moment, your company is making a mistake in terms of how it values your impact on the business.
The lesson is about the limitation of optimizing for a local maxima, usually in a silo.
We are going to internalize this lesson by learning from Microsoft. It is a company I love (am typing this on my beloved ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 5, using Windows Live Writer blogging software!). I bumped into the lesson thanks to their NFL sponsorship.
If you were watching the Oakland Raiders beating the hapless New York Giants (so sad about Eli) this past Sunday, you surely saw a scene like this one:
Quarterback Geno Smith using his Microsoft Surface tablet to figure out how he added two more fumbles to this career total of 43. Or, maybe it was him replaying the 360 degrees view of the three times he was sacked during the game.
The Surface tablet is everywhere in an NFL game. Microsoft paid $400 million for four years for the rights, and just renewed the deal for another year (for an as yet undisclosed sum).
For all this expense, you'll see players and coaches using them during the game (as above). The Surface branding also gets prominent placement on the sidelines – on benches, on movable trollies and more. It is all quite prominent.
Here’s one more example: Beast mode!
I adore Mr. Lynch’s passion. Oh, and did you notice the Surface branding?
Now, let’s talk analytics and accountability.
NFL ratings are down, but an average game still gets between 15 m – 20 m viewers. That is a lot of pretty locked-in attention, very hard to get anywhere these days.
The question for us, Occam’s Razor readers, is… What does the Surface Marketing team get for all this money?
If the Surface Marketing team is like every other team at every other company engaged in sponsorships and television advertising, it’ll measure the same collection of smart metrics like everyone else.
First one will be Reach. The Surface team is likely measuring it with deep granularity (by individual games, geo, days, times of days, and a lot more).  I’m confident that their analysis will show they are getting great Reach.
The team will rightly be congratulating itself on this success.
Next on the list, having spent enough of my life with TV buyers, I can comfortably say that the Surface team is also expending copious amounts of effort measuring one or more dimensions of Brand Lift metric. Ad Recall, Brand Interest, Favorability, Consideration etc.
Brand Lift is most frequently measured using surveys.
Given the number of times Microsoft Surface, or its branded presence, shows up in a game (52 times in my count in the OAK – NYC game), I believe the Surface team is getting very positive reads from its post NFL ad-exposure surveys.
After 52 times most people would recall the ad, surely answer the survey with some interest in the brand, and everyone (except Coach Belichick) seems to like using the tablets, a favorability that will surely transfer to a whole lot of viewers.
This would, indeed should, result in more congratulations in the Surface team.
The two-step approach above reflects the most common approach Marketers, and their Agencies, use to measure success. Did we reach a large audience? Do they remember anything?
The answers to these two questions power job promotions, bonuses and agency contract renewals with higher fees.
I believe this is necessary, but not sufficient.
I believe this approach optimizes for a local maxima (the media buying bubble) and does not create the necessary incentives to solve for the global maxima (short or long-term business success).
Let me illuminate this gap.
Here’s the global maxima question: How many Surface tablets have been sold due to this near-blanket coverage in NFL games via precious undivided attention?
That was the question that crossed my mind during Sunday’s game.
I had one data point handy.
According to TripIt I’ve visited 156 cities across 32 countries in the last few years. During these trips, meetings and meetups, I've never seen a Microsoft Surface tablet in the wild. Not one.
That’s not completely true. I have seen one frequently. The one I bought for my dad four years ago.
One data point does not a story make.
To assess a more complete answer, we turn to our trusty search engine Bing…
The picture above starts 12 months after Surface inked the $400 million NFL contract. The Surface's share of shipments is so small, it does not even show up in a graph.
Not being content with just one view of success, I tried other sources. 
The data from IDC, shows no meaningful Surface anything. Statcounter provides an interesting view as it measures actual use the Surface when accessing the two million websites that use Statcounter. Surface is at 0.29% share.
This is a bit hyperbolic, but in the grand scheme of things… No one is buying a Surface.
Local maxima view of success: The Surface team’s NFL contract is a smashing success. The team is getting great Reach and great Brand Lift. Contract with NFL renewed for another 12 months.
Global maxima view of success: Microsoft is losing.
[Key caveat: The data Statista and IDC provide capture shipments. It is possible that the Surface is being sold directly in a way that neither of these two sources would capture those sales. Perhaps some kind of B2B sales. To overcome this possible issue I’ve used the Statcounter data to capture usage. Still, there is a possible scenario where none, or not enough, of the Surfaces sold visit those two million sites.]
Sadly, Microsoft is not alone in this local maxima focus. Most companies function in a similar manner. Yours. Mine. Other people’s. Our collective mistake is that we don’t think critically enough about what we really are solving for. Our company’s mistake is the incentive structure they put in place (which almost always rewards the local maxima).
Let me give you two examples of this sad local maxima obsession that crossed my desk just this morning. All in the space of one hour.
Local – Global Maxima Example 2: Gap Inc..
A report has been published on The Age of Social Influence. Its goal is to aggressively recommend the strategy of marketing via Social Influencers. Here’s the publishing company’s intro of themselves: “We are a powerful data intelligence tool that combines the knowledge and insights you need to deliver a successful celebrity and social influencer marketing strategy.”
Their claims of this wonderful Social Influencer strategy is based on a survey of 270 respondents. 270. It seems like an oddly tiny choice by a powerful data intelligence tool company (PDITC).
They have all kinds of numbers from the 270 survey sample showing glory.
The very first example in the report of a brand winning hugely with a Social Influencer strategy is Gap.
Here’s a screenshot from the report…
While we all love Cher, seriously she is special, this is a classic local maxima let’s only look at what will make us look good to pimp stuff we want to strategy.
What would be a global maxima if you are going to use a company as a poster child?
Here’s Gap’s financial performance over the last five years…
Gap Inc. has been struggling for years, flirting with financial disaster recently in every facet of its business.
I invite you to explore other financial data on the eMarketer Retail website. Look at Revenue, Earnings, Margins, Employment… Everything is super sad. For an additional valuable lesson, click on Digital as well. It shows the social performance of Gap (illustrating even the local maxima is quite suspect).
I dearly wish the Gap survives, they make good quality clothes.
I also wish that the powerful data intelligence tool company would have chosen to focus on looking at the global maxima success before using Gap, and the other examples in their 40 page report. That would have made their drum banging for Social Influencers more persuasive. It would also have resulted in fewer clients of powerful data intelligence tool company shuttled in the direction of spending money on something that mostly likely will not produce any business results.
Local – Global Maxima Example 3: Amazon
A celebration was shared with me for 31 custom gifs created by Giphy for the up and coming retailer Amazon.
Here’s a non constantly looped, to ensure you’re not annoyed, sample…
The celebration was based on the fact that the total view count for these 31 custom gifs was 31 million.
[Sidebar: Always, always, always be suspicious of numbers that are that clean. 31 gifs being viewed a clean 31 million times is cosmically impossible. Seek the faq page to understand how views are measured. Identify that there is no clarity. Now, be even more suspicious.]
I’m afraid in my book views don’t even count as a local maxima. Even if they are in yours, I hope you’ll agree they are a million miles away from a global maxima.
I wanted to share this example from Amazon because you can’t use the global maxima of overall business success I’ve used above. Even if Jeff Bezos goes around hitting people with feather dusters, Amazon will keep selling more and more products. They have already reached perpetual motion.
What do you do when it is difficult to identify the global maxima from a super-tactical animated 31 gifs with 31 million views effort?
Try to move four steps up from wherever you are. Global maxima lite.
In this case, here’s a great start: % of Users who shared the gif who are not current Amazon customers.
So much more insightful than Views, right?
We are shooting for a deeper brand connection, by an audience that holds business value for us. Sure these people are annoying their friends, but hey at least as Amazon we can remarket to them – and friends (!) – and convert them to Prime customers!
I’m sure you can think of others that are five, six and eight steps above Views. (Share them in comments, and earn admiration.)
It does not always have to be revenue or profit. But, please don’t pop the champagne on views, impressions and other such primitive signals of nothingness.
On the topic of measurement, let’s go back to Microsoft and brainstorm some strategies for their unique use case.
What should Microsoft have measured?
Purely as an academic exercise I’m leaving aside the possibility that the Surface is simply not a good tablet. That would certainly impact sales – marketing or no marketing. But, since Microsoft went back for year five, it is safe to assume at least they believe it is a good tablet.
Ok? It is a good tablet.
Again as an academic exercise I’m going to ignore the four year horizon. There is no question that at the end of year two Microsoft had overwhelming proof from a multitude of data points that the NFL contract was not selling any Surfaces. They did not need Big Data or Artificial Intelligence to come to that conclusion. If they could not get out of the contract, at the end of year two a better use of $100 mil spend per year would have been to change the covers on the Surfaces to Xbox green, and change the numerous printed brand opportunities on the sidelines to Xbox as well. A great selling product, with a much bigger overlap with the NFL audience than the Surface.
Ok? We are not looking after year two.
During the first and second year, what could we have measured as Microsoft if we wanted to do better than the local maxima? Better than Reach and Brand Lift metrics?
Let me plant three ideas (please add yours via comments).
An enhanced survey would be a good start. Along with measuring ad recall etc., they could also ask how likely are you to choose the Surface over the iPad as your next tablet?
It is a tougher question than do you remember the ad or what tablets can you name. It is going head to head with the thing people usually say when they mean tablet. And, you are looking for switching. A strong behavior shift, a harder yes to get when I’ve done surveys. All this brand exposure, if its working, should shift that key intent signal.
Really easy to do. And, you can easily get thousands upon thousands of responses – you don’t have to settle for 270. It would have given the Marketing team a leading indicator that no one is going to buy the Surface as a result of the NFL partnership. The signal could have been received even a couple months in, and certainly by the end of year one.
Time series correlations would have been a great start right after the first week of the contract. How many people are visiting the Surface website on Sundays? Is that materially significant compared to weeks prior or weeks where there were not as many games? Was there an improvement on Sundays in digital sales? How about retail sales on Mondays?
This is simple stuff. Even visits to the site would have been a nice low level signal.
As the season went on, we could look for test and control opportunities. The NFL always has blackouts in cities/states where the stadiums don’t have enough attendance. This past weekend it was in two states, complete blackout of free broadcast games. Is there a difference in site visits, online conversion rates, offline sales, between states that had one game broadcast on Sunday, two games broadcast on Sunday and no games broadcast on Sunday?
A little more complicated. The site stuff is easy to segment. For store sales Microsoft could easily get data from its stores in malls, and likely also from retailers like Best Buy with a little arm twisting. This data would have shows Microsoft, a few months in, that the global maxima might not be reached.
If you don’t have this type of ubiquity, Matched Market tests are also fabulous in these cases to discern if a specific marketing strategy is having a business impact.
Three ideas that I hope will spark many more in your mind when you shoot to measure the global maxima.
I want to briefly touch on one refrain I often hear about these long term efforts, or short term efforts that are not working but are looking at a longer horizon: So what if the results are not there. This is a long term brand building play, Apple did not become a beloved brand in one year.
There is a kernel of truth there, brand building take time. There is a kernel of BS there as well, Apple is Apple primary because of its innovative products.
Let’s not talk about Microsoft in context of the above statement as even if we assume there was some long term brand building happening, it did not translate into business success.
When you hear a statement like that, after you launch a new underwear, cooking range, VR headset or whatever… Obsessively measure more than the local maxima to discern signals in the short term that illustrate that the long term brand building play is not just an excuse to flush a lot of money. Both the Gap and Amazon examples have ideas to inspire you.
Or consider that even your long term brand building play, in the short term should cause you to take noticeable amounts of market share. It won’t be 80% in the short term, but neither is that statement a reason to spend more money if all you got is 5% in year one and 10% in year two.
Don’t settle for opinion.
Use data.
You have data.
Bonus: The real winner of the Microsoft NFL contract?
The NFL of course.
Microsoft makes great hardware. To make it work for the NFL, Microsoft surely wrote lots of custom software for the NFL’s specific use cases. Microsoft likely invested in tens of millions of dollars of camera equipment, wifi/networking upgrades in every stadium, deployed a small army of Microsoft employees to do on-site tech support before, during and after the games in every single stadium. And, more and more and more.
The NFL should be paying Microsoft $110 million a year to upgrade the ability of its coaches, players and teams to have access to this state of the art technology to compete more effectively every Thursday, Sunday and Monday!
The NFL is slated to make $14 billion in 2017, they can surely afford to give $110 mil a year to Microsoft.
Back to the real world… Even when you measure short term success, please do not be satisfied with a local maxima. Even in the short term you can measure something better. On the long term, you have all the elements you need… Definitely measure the global maxima!
Do this because it is the right and smart thing to do for your company. But, a tiny bit, do it because in my experience (across the world) global maxima solvers progress exponentially faster in their career. Turns out, delivering business results matters. :)
As always, it is your turn now.
Do you have a suggestion for what Microsoft or Gap or Amazon should measure as their global maxima? If you’ve been successful getting your CEO to focus on the global maxima, what approach really worked? If you were the role of the Chief Scientist of powerful data intelligence tool company, how would you measure the impact of Social Influencers in a more intelligent manner?
Please add your powerful ideas, brilliant critique and innovative strategies in comments below. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you.
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Lunii I feel like a foooool but I'm finally on the dohwan and jung/eunchae bandwagon...and I came across all your old gifs of them....like hooooolllyyyy shiiit!!! Cast them together immediately!!!!!!
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omg (I did delete lots of gifs i made with them because i do not like my old gifs anymore) but it feels like ages even decades ago omg they really were the drug and i was the junky getting off on them and they had 5% of scenes together omg the spawn of hell can forever choke and rot in hell for not putting her 2nd leads together. the braindead energy she always has when it comes to her 2nd leads. it starts with a k and ends with an illing.
anyway, welcome to the club but hugs from me because pain! and would love that too happen but we know that they will never act in anything together again so i do not even try to think of that possibility because it will never ever happen...........................
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the noona romance that could have been and would have devoured every other couple on a drama. idc they would have killed all the other couples with just them being together and that's what they did.
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THE WAY I KNOW THEY WILL NOT HAVE SCENES TOGETHER BUT THE WAY THEY SHOULD
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