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nerissa98 · 7 years

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Famous - Zerkaahd Imagine

BANG. An overwhelming amount of sound follows. That is it. The tour is finally done. I give the crowd one final wave and walk backstage. The chanting of my name gets quieter the further I walk away from the stage. I get rid of all the accessories Alexis (my stylist) made me wear. Entering my changing room I put the accessories on the make-up table with vanity lighting.

As I sit down on the couch my manager enters the room. "You were absolutely splendid darling. I know you have time off, but don't forget to write. You need to bring out another album soon. The label has been breathing down my neck, lately. They are expecting something new. Go and hit up your little friend Eddie or whatever his name is and collab. Use all your contacts. Write with everyone and their brother. Go all out on this album. Your label and myself are expecting something even better than your last album. Also don't disappear like last time. You need to stay in the Media's eye. Stay relevant even if you're not performing or doing interviews. We cant have everyone forget about you."

Before she even opened her mouth I already knew exactly what she'd say. It's always the same. However I just sucked it up and listened to it for probably the hundred time. Kind of pissed of the fact that she continues to forget Ed's name. He's been one of my best years for years now. She doesn't care about that though. It's only the fact we can write together, that interests her. Sometimes I wonder why I still have her as my manager. My personal health is never a priority. I might drop her and try to find someone else. One that does see my health as a priority and is not consumed by money.

I'm greeted by fresh air as I step out of the building. There were a few people who had VIP passes. I met them after the concert. They were all incredibly nice and so supportive, it's unreal. My fans, they never fail to surprise me with their kindness. I'm so lucky to have their support, their love and their incredibly kind comments on social media. They never fail to brighten up my day.

Even though I love touring. It's the best thing I've had the pleasure of doing. I haven't had any time for myself. Especially these last couple of shows. Instead of meeting up with my manager I decide to go to a coffee shop nearby.

I order my usual and after getting it I go and sit in a booth. I try to take a sip, but I end up burning my lip. It might be smarter to wait for a bit, before I try it again. Opening my phone I see I have quite a bit notifications on different social media platforms. Opening Instagram up first thing I do is upload a picture I took of the crowd tonight. I thank everyone who came to see me not only tonight, but on my entire tour.

I haven't posted it for more than a minute and I already see so many replies rolling out. One catches my eye though. "I absolutely loved tonight's show!! You were incredible!!". This person goes by Zerkaahd. I quickly reply to him. Showing my gratitude for his kind words. Suddenly my phone is blowing up even more. People being so excited that I noticed 'daddy'? What even are they on about? Are the talking about that Zerkaa dude? I look up and go to his profile. He has a check mark, which means he has a lot of followers. Now I'm almost a 100% sure those daddy comments were about him. I log off Insta and go on Twitter.

I've been sitting in this coffee shop for quite a while. I even got another cup of coffee. This stuff is too good. "Hey would you mind taking a picture with me?" I look up to see a tall blond standing next to my table. I smile up at him "Of course not" I reply while standing up. After taking the picture we just talk for a few minutes. We sit down at the booth. He tells me his name is Callum and he went to my concert with a few of his friends. Eventually we both needed to leave. We exchange phone numbers and go our different ways.

There's a party going on, tonight. The people I'm the closest with on tour, are all going. I don't go to London that often, so I'm glad I can follow other people. If it were just me, I'd probably end up getting lost.

After getting ready, Derrick, the guitar player, picks my up from my hotel room. We get in a cab together with Chad, the drummer. The rest of the group is already at this party.

As we pull up to the club, we can already hear the music. Before getting out, we pay the cabdriver. The bouncer recognizes us three and let's us through.

We haven't been in the club for over a minute and both guys have left me. I walk towards the bar and order a drink. Not wanting to get drunk tonight, I stay clear from the alcohol.

30 minutes in and I'm not alone anymore. I've met up with a few of my friends. We are in the center of the dancing floor, dancing our hearts out. It's so much fun. However it does get tiring, so after a while I decide to go sit on the side somewhere.

It takes me a while to get trough the mass of people. Eventually I get to where I want to go. I'm shocked to see Callum standing there. Shaking that off I put a smile on my face and head in his direction. "Callum, hey how are you" I great him. As he turns my direction his smile gets brighter when he realises it's me. He hugs me and answers my question, followed by him asking the same thing to me.

We talk for a bit, but are eventually cut off by someone clearing their throat behind me. We both look at culprit. Callum realises he hasn't introduced his friends to me, so he does that. It's a lot of names to remember. The short Indian guy is Vik, the person who resembles Cal in a way is called Simon, there's another Callum, but the one that stuck by me the most is this Josh guy. He's taller than me, has dark hair, green eyes and a beard. I didn't know that I have a thing for beards, but looking at him made me realise that I do.

After getting introduced to Cal's friends, they all kind of dispersed. They all went their own way. I don't even know where Cal went. The only person that is still here is Josh. Let's make the most of this. I start up a conversation to get to know him a little better. We go back and forth asking and answering questions. Somewhere in the middle of it, we decided to sit down in a booth that is hid away from the rest.

I think I can say that I know Josh quite well. Even though we only met a few hours ago. We've been talking ever since. Talking about anything and everything. I even found out he was the Zerkaa dude who commented on my Instagram post.

I get a text from Chad asking me where I am and if I still want to go back to the hotel with him. After I tell him that I'll be outside in a few, I put my phone away and look back up to Josh. I tell him I have to go. "It was really nice to meet you" I say while I stand up. Walking around the table I stand in front of him and I go in for a hug. We already exchanged numbers earlier tonight. I tell him that we need to meet up in the near future and he agrees. We finally let each other go and I stare into his eyes. I realise I'm already falling for him. His eyes are so easy to get lost in, but somehow I shake myself out of it. I say another goodbye and with that I head outside.

Thank you for reading <3 I hope you enjoyed it :)

Have a nice day x

#Zerkaahd #Sidemen #Imagine

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seven-oomen · 4 years

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I JUST SAW THE NEW PREVIEW AND I AM SCREAMING!!!!!!! I’m so ridiculously excited to read the full scene! It’s entirely possible some of the noises I made were not entirely in the normal human register. There was probably some blushing and flailing (read: there was definitely some blushing and flailing.) Peter being all shy and trying to cover it with sass. Chris being so confused about just what the implication of the offer was. Noah being amused at both of them but also not even fully letting Peter ask before bursting out with an emphatic yes. My precious awkward turtles, I love all of them so!

And if you would like my perspective as an American who would have been just a few years behind the boys in school, I will say that it’s highly likely they would have known about some methods of contraception and such, even if their parents weren’t the type to bring it up. In that sort of post-emergence of the AIDS crisis time period, safe sex became a thing that was hammered into you in health classes, after-school specials, etc, unless you lived in the much more rural, conservative areas (so I guess with Chris it would depend partially on where all he lived growing up?) Now their ability to (legally) access anything like condoms, etc, would have been much more iffy (though the idea of John, Talia, or Deuc offering to get some for Peter is hysterical to imagine.) How much they would have cared about/been stopped by this lack of access is really a matter of character interpretation, though :D

I’m so down for attempted family prank shenanigans. (Also, side note, the best way to find Linden’s Insta is actually through links from his Twitter. He had to do one of the variation things, like Hoechlin, because someone was already using his name for one. His vibe is pretty much a combo of aging surfer dude and MASSIVE dad energy.) Actually speaking of family shenanigans, may I put forth the idea of game nights? Can you imagine them sitting around playing Apples to Apples or Monopoly (and how many fights between Stiles and Jackson this might cause)? Or even better, when the younger kids are off at a sleepover, or at least busy in another room, the older kids and the parents sitting around playing Cards Against Humanity? Seeing who can manage to make the group break through card chosen or the reading of said card (and boy are there some doozies to choose from)? I feel like the best at maintaining a complete deadpan presentation or reaction would be Noah, Jordan, Erica, and Lydia.

I had to look up some of those music ideas (and boy are my YouTube algorithms probably confused right now), but yes, I love all of those. Especially Peter’s, because it reminds me of a headcanon/scene I thought of for a fic I will never actually write because I am a coward where Noah wanders into the kitchen one morning to find Peter making breakfast and full-on rocking out to Wham’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” in nothing but an ancient BH Sheriff’s Dept t-shirt and a pair of boxer briefs. With Chris I just keep going back to the ball thing because one of the few Nickelback songs I know is “Something in Your Mouth”. XD So, I have a fun story for “Never Gonna Give You Up”! When two of my friends got married, they had a friend of the groom’s be the officiant. Rgiht before he got to the part with the vows and having them repeat after him, it only took me like one or two lines into his lead in speech to go “…wait a minute this sounds familiar…”, at which point he began having them recite the lyrics to that song as their wedding vows. Pretty sure everyone was cracking up (I mean, the ceremony took place in the middle of a zombie walk with all of us in full costume. no one was expecting anything normal, but still. that was hilarious.) But oh god, can you imagine if any of the kids ever figured out Chris liked that song? The sheer amount of rick-rolling that would occur boggles the mind. The things Jackson could try to talk Danny into using his tech skills to do. It might be one of the things Stiles and Jackson could bond over. For Noah, maybe he heard them while he had some kid pulled over one day and was like “well that’s stupidly catchy” (because it is), or maybe Stiles had some of their albums at one point, and he kept hearing them and realized he rather liked it, so snuck in and burned himself a copy at some point? I also considered suggesting ABBA, because that also seems like one of those out of left field choices. And omg, yes, on the Caramelldansen. I feel like they’d play it up even more once they notice how horrified their older kids were, because they’re assholes like that. (Related if you want it to be note: Did you know YouTube has a 10 hour loop of the Swedish version?)

The funniest thing to me with the kids eating the dog cookies is how often it happens and how rarely it gets noticed. And they always pick the nastiest ones, too. If they’re gonna do it, they should wait until Christmas, that’s when we get the ones that are basically like the blandest sugar-style cookies ever (I will neither conform nor deny having taken a plate of those to a party once, because I, too, am sometimes an asshole) And yeah, I don’t get the cat water thing either, particularly since the tap water in our area is actually really good quality. Some other entertaining stories I forgot last time:

1) Our corporate office told us we had to start carrying snakes, so now we have a ball python named Julius Squeezer.

2) Speaking of eating weird things, we once had a group of college kids come in on a scavenger hunt and one of them bought and ate a feeder fish to check an item off their list.

3) A guy who worked in one of the other businesses apparently lost a bet of some kind and had to come up to our front doors after hours, dressed as a cat, and rub all over them and generally act like a cat wanting back in the house. We know this because the whole thing was caught on one of the security cameras, and it ended up getting shown at the company holiday party, and one of our cashiers was like “Hey I recognize him.”

4) We have a cardboard stand-up of Rachel Ray (a celebrity chef) that we have to have out because we just started carrying her pet food, and this thing is the stuff of nightmares. It is technically life-size in that it is about as tall as I am, but the proportions aren’t quite right. All the employees are weirded out by it. Every time you walk past it, you can feel it’s soulless gaze following you, mocking you with it’s dead eyes and rictus grin. Recently it got damaged, and my boss had to temporarily move it until it could be repaired. Unfortunately (and perhaps coincidentally) the spot he chose was directly across from the employee entrance, so that was the first thing they’d see entering the building. I witnessed some great reactions that day. I wish I’d gotten to see the ones from when he took my suggestion back when we first received it to slide it behind one of our propped open warehouse doors so that the face was right where the little window in the door is. Apparently one of my coworkers jumped a solid two feet when someone pointed it out to him. I was probably more proud of myself for suggesting it than I should have been, but oh well.

Glad you were spared having to attempt public transport. I can’t imagine how nerve-wracking that would be right now. Hope your day has somewhat improved (I know other people who work tech support, I understand there’s only so far up that part of it can go), at least!

That makes me so happy!

No seriously, my workday was absolute shite and I come out of work and I see this wonderful message and my god my friend. You made me smile today. I smiled for the first time today when I read this.

I’m so excited to read your response to this chapter, I’m just so excited and that’s what’s keeping me going. Because I really feel like crying and giving up for a bit. But this, this means so much to me. Thank you <3

I’m definitely going to need people to have a little bit of suspension of disbelief I guess. I mean, yeah, teenagers can do very stupid things and technically only Chris & Peter did the stupid thing, but I might need a little bit of suspension of disbelief. Now that I read how well-known birth control was in the US during that time. I know it was a big thing in The Netherlands (where I’m from) but I wasn’t sure about the US.

I like to think werewolves would be pretty open about these things and Talia and John were definitely like; wrap it up. Deuc definitely bought Peter a whole box of condoms after they found out Chris and Noah were knocked up. ‘Just to be helpful’.

Talia definitely talked to Chris and Noah about birth control more and educated Chris on sex and what’s going to happen now that he’s pregnant. I might actually include that in the story somewhere or in the prequel. I like to imagine that due to moving so much he never really got much education on everything and when he did he was probably tired from hunting and couldn’t focus much on school.

DUDE

I wanted to put Cards against Humanity in the story but the game doesn’t come out until May 2011, the story takes place in January XD

But yeah, game nights are definitely a thing, especially CAH, Monopoly, Life, Clue (Cluedo in Europe), Trivia Pursuit (Stiles, Lydia, and Noah rock that one), I actually don’t know Apples to Apples but it looks like fun and definitely something they might play!

During Monopoly, they have the general rule that no-one can flip the board and Allison is the bank. (she’s the fairest and most level headed during Monopoly.) Although that role is passed to Kira when she starts playing.

Noah wanders into the kitchen one morning to find Peter making breakfast and full-on rocking out to Wham’s “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” in nothing but an ancient BH Sheriff’s Dept t-shirt and a pair of boxer briefs.

This is one image where I’m like, yeah, this is going into the story because it is awesome! I need it more than life itself.

Also, I can see the three of them swapping clothes quite often too. Like Chris wears Noah’s BH Sheriff’s dept jacket or cap and Peter’s Stanford Hoodie, Peter wears Noah’s worn BH Sheriff’s dept t-shirt and Chris’s worn Metalica/Green Day sleeping shirts, Noah tends to wear Peter’s leather jackets and Chris’s sunglasses. (Because Chris’s shirts are a little too tight for him and his pants too short. He does occasionally steal those loose sleeping shorts from Chris)

Occasionally he’ll take Chris’s weird pens (from Argent Arms or places like BK that Chris collects) with him on patrol. His favorite Pen to steal is a pink feathery one while on late DUI patrols where he can write tickets with them.

And dude the rickroll at the wedding is brilliant! I should have done that at my friend’s wedding.. damn.

But yeah Jackson would enlist Danny into helping them. Stiles still pitches Derek shirtless to use as leverage against Danny. (Which to me is extra funny because Derek is actually their cousin.) Derek is okay with it because he gets to extract revenge on Uncle Peter for that time where Uncle Peter gave him the talk by just throwing condoms at him.

At some point there’s just a rickroll VS Carameldanssen battle, it needs to happen XD

All of these stories are wonderful, honestly, they really made me smile and if I wasn’t this tired I would’ve shared some from my vet tech days too. Those days were wild man. But I do want you to know, I’ve read all of them and tell Rachel Ray she’s awesome and Julius Squeezer he’s a ball and I love him <3

#ben says stuff #once upon a time comments #submission

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jesicajparksuk · 7 years

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How to Develop a Hashtag Strategy for Instagram

Love them or hate them, hashtags are a way of life on Instagram. Do you have a hashtag strategy for Instagram in place? Hashtags on IG are a lot like people at cocktail parties. Some folks show up and offer very little except to annoy the heck out of everyone else by trying to be the most popular. Other folks are there to add to the conversation and make the experience more enjoyable for everyone. Then there are the folks who attend a cocktail party and set their own pace, making their mark in a memorable way. Let’s have an Instagram hashtag party by helping you creating a strategy to call upon with each Instagram image, video, and IG Stories content you create.

When an Instagrammer clicks on a hashtag, any post that includes the same hashtag will be seen. More popular and more recent posts with associated with that hashtag will show up first.

Types of Instagram Hashtags

Hashtags, like people at the cocktail party, are not all created equal. Understanding that different hashtags can help you achieve a variety of goals is the first step in creating a strategy.

Instagram Community Hashtags: People come together on Instagram around an established hashtag. For example, in the pet space, an example is #tongueouttuesday where pets with their tongues showing can be seen. By visiting a community-oriented hashtag like this, you can engage with others, like and comment on their content, and see learn some other hashtags along the way.

Discover community-oriented hashtags by narrowing down your scope and seeing what other people in your niche are using. Do you have favorite Instagrammers in the pet space? What hashtags work for them? Take note. In fact, make use of your phone’s notepad feature for storing hashtags in bulk.

Unique Branded Hashtags: For my blog, I use #MyHeartBeatsDog. What is your special brand and hashtag message you want conveyed to your demographic? It is not essential to have one, but many bloggers and online influencers do. Perhaps you want to use the name of your blog, such as #ADogWalksIntoABar. You can build a community around a branded hashtag.

Instagram Hashtag Hack: Use autocomplete to your advantage for getting hashtags. Start typing a hashtag, such as #pets into Instagram and Instagram will give you some auto-suggestions to complete it as well as how many people are using that hashtag with post #. Here’s a screen shot:

Where to Find Instagram Hashtags

Use both hashtags you find on other accounts you follow and who perform well, and also discover a plethora of hashtags in a variety of places. A golden rule is that just because a hashtag is popular (trying searching #cute) does not mean it will perform well for you. Chances are your posts will get lost in a sea of content. Experiment with a purpose, test hashtags, and then build those key performers into your IG hashtag strategy.

Daily IG Hashtags: Every day of the week has its own unique set of hashtags, and these evolve, change, and expand. For example, #mancrushmonday is a popular one for showing off handsome gentlemen. Why not be different and add your totes adorable mancat. Hey, there’s another hashtag: #mancat.

Start typing in the day of the week and see what hashtag results populate in Instagram, like this example for Saturday:

I find the best hashtags by exploring other accounts and seeing what they use. I have a notepad doc (or two or three) of hashtags. You may also consider using Google Drive with Google Sheets, which is mobile accessible to store, copy, and paste hashtags.

Bonus: Here are 158 Currently Popular Hashtags per the folks at Shortstack.

Trendy hashtags can be fun, but be careful: DO not try to hop on news cycle hashtags where you have no business posting images that can be deemed uncaring and spammy. For example, #HurricaneIrma should not include a photo to your latest blog post unless that blog post is helping those affected in some capacity.

If you are interested in finding out what is trending at any given time, check out Trending on Twitter here and adapt to Insta. Or, try these:

Hastagifyme

RiteTag

Tagboard

InstaProject

Where to Place Instagram Hashtags

There are two schools of thought on Instagram hashtag placement. The most obvious is within the body of the post itself, but skipping a few lines with periods to pause for breaks. In this way, the hashtags are separated from the content itself.

Many online influencers put the hashtags in the first comment after the Instagram post. In this way, your photo or video is clean but labeled with the appropriate hashtags.

Within Instagram Stories, hashtag usage is encouraged, again with a purpose. Within the IG Stories stickers, one can use a hashtag sticker or one can simply use the text feature to type in a hashtag.

Frequency and Amount

The million dollar question: How many is too many? While Instagram allows up to 30 hashtags in each post at this time, sometimes too many is, quite simply, annoying. Experiment. See what works and what does not work. Hashtags are the way to get found, explore content, and be in the mix of what is happening on IG.

Bonus Instagram Hashtag Tips

The narrower the scope of the hashtag, the more engaged the users are.

Unusual hashtags get noticed, too. For example, take a peek at the IPartyWithBruceWayne account, where Bruce’s mom combines humor and wit in her hashtag features.

You can share blog content slides on your IG Stories. Canva has free templates to appropriately size images for IG Stories.

Try browsing through posts containing a hashtag you’re already having success with as you explore for new ones.

Cat lovers, check out #Caturday on Saturdays!

Don’t Stop Now

Keep the energy flowing and momentum growing with Instagram helpers. Check out these related posts:

How to Start An Instagram Account for Your Pet

Tips and Tricks for Instagram Stories

Your Turn

What is a favorite hashtag or two that you use frequently? Have you had success on Instagram? Share in the comments below.

Carol Bryant is the Marketing and Social Media Manager for BlogPaws and runs her own dog blog, Fidose of Reality and its fundraising arm, Wigglebutt Warriors. When not busy playing with her Cocker Spaniel, Dexter, she stays far away from cooking. Her trademark is her mantra and is tattooed on her arm: My Heart Beats Dog.®

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