#otherwise I would have to search for images and do a bad meta myself

[heyeinin]

i , once again, for no good reason at all, have redesigned cherp. not posting screenshots of the last time cuz it was ugly and i was just curious what i could get up to with the existing css. this, however, is a ground-up purely design-based rebuild that i did from scratch that required me to brute-force learn javascript because i am.... insane.

heres the link if you wanna click things though 95% of the things you can click do nothing, except the directory menu and the expand/collapse buttons on the prompts. i coded the javascript myself and its only my second attempt at doing so.

notes/fun stuff i learnt while doing this under the cut, with information starting from the top of the doc to the bottom.

so when i started this project my first thought was about how to make the header look less like "cherubplay with the serial numbers ground off" and i decided to go for a single inline "logo"/nav setup. i like the two navbars and actually preserved it on smaller screens/mobile (as is necessary, frankly) but tossed it for the desktop version. i think this looks fun & modern and adds a unique touch that keeps it from looking too much like cherubplay.

the nav bar gave me some trouble. if you click the "directory" button, you get a dropdown of links accessible through the directory (which, since this happens to be a directory page, is the links under "navigation" in the sidebar as well.) this gave me so much trouble-- right now its just a onClick toggler that adds or removes the "show" class, which is just... a single class with the "display: block;" declaration. i did at one point have this as a clickable link that would take you straight from the directory, but if you HOVERED (or rather, onMouseOvered) over the directory button, it would actually bring a popup menu of these links. and when you stopped hovering over the popup link menu (or onMouseExited as the case may be) the menu would disappear. however this proved to be a huge bitch on mobile and i didnt love it so i replaced it with the current onClick menu.

im not sure this is done as best as it can be done. the onClick menu isnt in the nav element, its outside of it, which i think is probably bad for screenreaders. unfortunately i was using a flex div inside the header (which holds the "cherp logo" which is actually text (h1) as well as the navigation links) so when i tried to keep it inside the nav header it just caused the whole thing to expand, which i didnt love. i have no clue how i would go about fixing this right now, so its staying

i was thinking of coding some meta elements for this-- like, say, a toggler for if you wanted to preview the site as if you had a new unread-- but decided not to because i was getting angry. but maybe in the future. for the record, my idea for new unreads was to have a "glowing" (read: span of "(1 unread" with a text shadow of the lightest color) notification in the header. this would obviously be lost on mobile..... or maybe it wouldnt. i just realized ive never tried to apply text-shadow to bootstrap icons. maybe that would work. idk

anyway moving on toooo THE SIDEBAR!

the sidebar on cherp has always pissed me off. everything about it makes me angry. i am not joking. i "fixed it" (read: made it look the way I WANT!!!) in stylus and imported those styles here. here are the major changes i made

i made the search dropdown the full width of the div to match the search box which IS the full width of the div

i moved the dropdown links out of the dropdowns

i made the text size consistent across the buttons, inputs, and dropdowns

i moved the advanced search button beneath the other two (this one i did because i aligned the buttons to the right and i felt it looked silly otherwise.)

i used the hr element which. holld on what does hr stand for. like img srrc stands for image source but what does. okay w3schools was useless for that but i used the hr tag to separate the different sections rather than having two dropsdowns. i think this looks neater.

and now moving on to THE MAIN CONTENT!

the changes here are incredibly minor and are mostly quality of life. however i think they would be useful but even more importantly, fun!

first of all, i changed the nsfw extreme tag to a different color red. the other warning tags-- and every other warning that isnt nsfw extreme (so nsfws and nsfwv) show up as the slightly darker red that the regular extreme warning tags show up as. originally this had a little text-shadow too for a glow but i thought that was overkill becausseeeee

i was thinking that, if you were searching the directory by a tag, it would be fun to highlight the tag you were searching for as it appears in prompts. this would be kind of redundant given that every single prompt that would appear when you searched would obviously have the tag in it, but like..... i think it would be fun.

anyway, aside from that, i divvied up the fandom/character/gender tags with some colors to show where they end and begin. i think this looks neater. it looks nice with a few fandoms and is helpful if you have a LOT of fandoms because it would show where the characters start, so if youre, say, in a tag for a fandom and the prompt has 20 fandoms tagged with 5 characters each, you can see at a glance where the characters start to see if the character you want to play is one that theyre looking for.

this is a minor detail, but in the expand/collapse buttons, i tried to add enough padding that they didnt partially cover up the last word in the prompt. i care.

some final notes:

the code in this is so messy and contains a lot of redundant code or code that i started to use and then decided not to use and just left. it was also my second attempt at writing my own javascript (the first was creating a dark mode for a different webpage) so its probably............ inefficient. but i made it work and im very proud of myself. yes it took hours because i tried to brute force it

its mobile compatible! peek at it on your phone.

i would have liked to have added other features such as darkmode and a meta information toggler (preview a fake unread for instance) but i didnt do that

if you are scrolled any amount down the page, when you click on the directory button, it brings you to the top. i think i know why this happens but idk how to fix it sorry lol

i would have added keyboard prompt navigation which is like my #1 cherp 3.0 wish but unfortunately when i googled it it looked like it required jquery which i am not fighting with until i finish this stupid javascript course on vanilla javascript

........ yup. thats it bye

#éinín feeling chatty! #cherp

[yashahimewasamistake]

Where are the comparisons between Naruto and SnK?

Seriously, pals, you have a genocidal older brother, an "evil" race, a vengeful younger brother, a founding powerful mother...

At this moment, it looks like Izayama went and thought "hey, what if I made the story from the pov of the Uchiha's" and rolled with it.

That would explain why Izayama offered an answer to the question "how to break the cycle of hate", an answer that had nothing to do with saying to a victim of oppression "hey, your people don't matter to me, so, why do you care about them? let's be friends, believe it!"

#snk #naruto #i know there's a meta somewhere and I'm gonna find it #otherwise I would have to search for images and do a bad meta myself #:/

[dontcallmecarrie]

So what’s up with Howard in the multi period time travel scenario? You mentioned he’s still alive, but he doesn’t seem to be around in any of the three endings.

For context: in By Myself But Not Alone, the butterfly effect cuts both ways. Also, it’s Tony-centric and I was hammering it out at 3 am [so if there’s stuff I missed, that’s why]. That being said, for something that’s a fic idea and not an official WIP, it’s…kinda growing on me. In this case, the Howard Stark thing. 

Stepping back a bit: Howard Stark is a pretty complex character. We never really see him in the MCU even if his presence is felt long after his death […I’ve done some meta on him before on my take on him, and it’s key to this AU]. While the main plot’s Tony-centric, Howard’s also another case of the butterfly effect kicking in. And not necessarily in a good way.

See, while Howard and Maria’s deaths in canon were tragic, everyone who remembers that universe at least knew what followed afterwards. Everyone knew Obadiah Stane’d step in until Tony turned 21 and inherited his father’s company. Even if they didn’t know Howard personally, they knew his son and thought they could extrapolate from there, thought they could predict his actions. 

…unfortunately, however, people change, and human memory is a fickle thing.

Since Steve Rogers went into the ice, Howard Stark’s had several decades to grow colder, harsher, more bitter. He was part of the Manhattan Project, helped found SHIELD, supplied weapons to the US military throughout various conflicts, from Korea to Vietnam to Operation Desert Storm. He got married, had a wife and kid […both of whom he neglected in his search for Steve, but that’s an issue for another day].

He also picked up vices along the way, with the alcoholism being the most notable one as evidenced by the car accident [an actual one, this time] caused by his drunk driving. The accident that killed his wife, because as it turns out, the safest part of the car’s the driver’s seat. 

Here’s where things diverge, because in this life, Howard survives.

also there’s no serum here because keeping track of the other divergences. thanks to the butterfly effect is a mess and no I’m not going have another WIP at this rate, nope, brain work with me here gdi

So. Howard Stark’s still alive. That’s a good thing, right?

Right?

[under the cut because RIP mobile users otherwise]

Of those who remember a different world, Fury was the one who knew him best, save for Tony, and so he’s the only one who’s unsurprised by what followed. Dismayed, perhaps, but not surprised.

See, this isn’t Steve’s Howard, bright and hopeful and eagerly showing off his flying car prototypes. This is a Howard who’s cold and bitter, who’s seen the war so often it’s the only thing he knows, now. This is a Howard whose motto was “Peace is having a bigger stick than the other guy”, whose son grew up to be the Merchant of Death.  

Natasha had thought the apple hadn’t fallen far from the tree, when she’d met Tony; Steve had wondered how Tony could be so different to his father. Here, however, they both share an incredulous look, when they see the latest interview featuring an unapologetic Howard showing off their latest line, and,  when the question comes up, being almost painfully dismissive of the idea of shifting his company’s focus away from building weapons. 

Well, almost. But first, let’s backtrack a bit, shall we?

See, Maria Stark died during the car crash, back in 1991. When she died, so did any chance of Tony and Howard getting along, because Tony’s relationship with his dad may not have been the best before, but now? He blames Howard for his mom’s death, and has yet to forgive him for it. 

Here, the world knows Howard and Tony don’t get along, knows there’s bad blood. There were rumors of Tony creating his own company a while back, but they petered out fairly fast after the announcement that Tony would be the head of R&D once he turned 21, and that he’d step in as CEO once his father retired. 

Howard, meanwhile, is known the world over for being a war hawk, and he uses it as a badge of pride. Tony, meanwhile, isn’t as brash about it; when it comes up for him, he’ll just smile and say something about keeping their boys safe, making sure they come back home. Doesn’t mean he doesn’t pull his punches, though; here, the Merchant of Death is even more ruthless than canon, thanks to Howard pushing him to greater and greater heights […if only out of spite].

That being said, even with all this going on, their relationship isn’t the greatest. I cannot reiterate this enough, because it’s key for what’s going on later. See, here, Tony’s not an orphan. Here, it’s Howard who controls the Stark fortune, and…um. 

Howard’s not cut out to be a parent, okay? Not the way his wife was, anyway. Add in the complete lack of respect Tony has, and what you get is Howard’s main [only, really] way of attempting to discipline his son is via cutting him off, threatening to disinherit him. Which, granted, may not sound like much, but seeing as how the other option for inherting’s his business partner, Obadiah Stane? 

Obadiah Stane, who, while still nice to Tony, is more of a yes-man than in canon. Obadiah, who Howard trusts because he’s worked with him about as long as he had with Nick Fury. Tonys pretty sure Howard’s bluffing, but…he doesn’t want to risk it. 

So Tony plays ball. And manages to eke out a few concessions, from time to time—such as the creation of the Maria Stark Foundation, looking at Howard in the eye the entire time he was proposing it to the board—thanks in no small part to his being able to work PR with the same mastery his mom had.

 For the most part, though, it’s just example after example of how dysfunctional the Stark family […of two, now] is, with Tony lashing out however he can and Howard’s oscillating between wondering how his wife did it, and threatening to cut him off yet again. [Plus passive-aggression. Lots of passive-aggression.] 

For the most part, it’s a working system: Tony doesn’t speak to his father outside of work-related concerns, Howard mostly keeps out of his business unless Tony’s messing around in the press is getting too much on his nerves and he needs to dial it back, etc. Nobody’s really happy, but then, when’s the last time they were? 

It was a working system, one they were both okay with. 

…then Tony came out as bi. […or pan, in retrospect; whatever, the tabloids got a picture of him kissing a guy, same difference to Howard, okay?]

Which, as it turns out, is something Howard disapproves of. Greatly. 

Only thing is, this is his only son we’re talking about, his heir, who’s his spitting image and just about the only thing he has left of his wife, and while he’s threatened to disinherit him, he’d never meant it, okay? He’s not cut out to be a parent, he’ll be the first to admit it, but…fuck. And it’s not like he can’t do nothing, his son’s basically the face of the company at this point, as well as half the brains, but…

In the end, Howard decides to punish his son for dragging the company’s name through mud by moving him to the dustiest, worst-funded section of Stark Industries, and putting him in charge of it. Who even cares about green energy these days, anyway?

However, this is Tony we’re talking about. Tony, who, in another life, built a suit of armor of the same weapons used against him, almost entirely out spite. Here, Tony sees what he’s got, cracks his knuckles, and sets to work. 

Revenues go up by 300% in roughly two months, and steadily climb from there—right up until Howard noticed how much R&D’s progress had slowed to a crawl, and had him transfer back. 

That spike of progress in regards to green energy, however, didn’t go unnoticed. Oh well, at least it made for good fodder for the press, right alongside the intellicrops. 

…suffice it is to say, almost everyone who remembered a different life is in for quite the nasty shock because Howard is a piece of work.

It doesn’t help that he takes his time in retiring, either. Those who remember know Obadiah’s a traitor, know that he’s using Howard the same way he used Tony, but good luck proving it when accusing the right-hand man of a guy who once co-founded a vague yet menacing government agency. 

All in all, the situation with Howard’s complicated. 

Everyone knows that if Steve were to ask, he’d rain hell on their behalf [just like his son had, in another life], but at the same time…he’s not the type of ally they want to have. He’s very much like Tony, yet could not be more different if he’d tried. 

He’s stalwart and unrelenting, driven to a fault—but where Tony’s been working hard to make the world a better place, Howard’s demons have been haunting him for far too long for him to do the same. And the sticking point: where Tony hadn’t hesitated in stopping the company from making weapons, Howard wouldn’t. [Not even if Steve asked.]

To sum up: in many ways, the effect he has on the timeline isn’t stellar. This is something nobody expected to need to fix, and is part of why everyone’s really looking forward to Tony remembering—Stark Industries is being led by a war hawk, and in no universe is that a good thing. Kinda ironic, really; they’d expected HYDRA would be the biggest hurdle, when instead it was Howard Stark. 

Also, they’re having a hard time deciding whether or not to go and approach him, since he’s a wild card and the timeline’s been twisted enough as is. […let’s just go with Fury being hella secretive about finding Steve, okay? To keep things simple, for now.] 

That being said, I was kind of picturing Howard leaving the picture after his retirement. Partly because I was thinking that since Tony only ever talks to him about work, there’s nothing else he has left to say to the man who got his mom killed, and partly because I was figuring that at his age, he’s at the risk of having a heart attack or something offscreen. [According to the wiki, he’d have been 91 during Afghanistan, for instance.] 

Ending-wise:

Like I said, wouldn’t be surprised if he died after hearing his son was killed in Afghanistan. 

Heart attack, or from grief [and/or combined with alcohol poisioning as he hits the bottle one last time]—because no matter how hardened he’s been, or how bitter, that was his son. His only child, and he’d outlived countless other people over the years, but…this was his son, all that he had left of his wife. His greatest creation, gone from a world that’s passed him by, and he’s so, so tired…

Obadiah’d be gleeful; he’s the only left to inherit, now, after all—right up until JARVIS remembered, anyway. Then it’s only a matter of minutes for him to find every single instance of his double-dealing, and forwarding a file to every branch of law enforcement in the country, as well as the world. [Or Natasha stepped in, or Bucky finds an exception to his ‘no assassinations’ rule, or something.] 

No chance for reconciliation, here,  between father and son—then again, any chance of it died with Maria, back in 1991. 

As for if Tony came back as Iron Man?

He might very well get a heart attack from the surprise, tbh. Or from the rage, because did his son really just make an announcement about Stark Industries not making weapons—

“I saw young Americans killed by the very weapons I created to defend them and protect them—”

Oh. Still. The idea of shutting down the weapons manufacturing is unthinkable to Howard, what was Tony thinking?! 

The more time goes on, the more of a mess it all is, and suddenly Howard’s very glad he’s retired because as is, the discovery that his business partner had been double dealing for years was a bitter pill to swallow. Almost as bitter as the discovery that this was a whole new world, because his son is Iron Man— [and didn’t that dredge up old memories? How was Hank doing these days, anyway?]

The more time goes on, the more it feels like the world’s passed him by, because he’d only ever seen war and yet everyone’s saying his son helped privatize world peace, and…

The more time goes on, the more proud he is of his son, his greatest creation.  

Not that Howard will ever say it out loud, of course; where do you think Tony got his abysmal communication skills and emotional awkwardness from? Tony, in turn, almost never speaks to his father again, and when he does, it’s with an incredibly defensive edge because he’s expecting nothing but disappointment from that corner [as always].

Just…in this one, Howard’s in the back, seeing all this go down, and he’s actually pretty damn proud of his son. Also, there’s several meetings off-camera going on, including Howard meeting Steve at least once and Bucky having an incredibly awkward conversation with the guy over a cup of coffee. 

fun fact: in this AU, when he made press conference he was 100% ready to be disinherited because he knows just how Howard is about the weapons manufacturing thing. Even if he’d been bluffing about it before, Tony was like 95% sure Howard’d actually do it this time, simply because of the nature of the press conference.

Hopefully Howard doesn’t come across as much of an ass here. He’s human, he fucks up, and he dropped the ball big time when it came to his family. 

Off-screen, there’s plenty of guilt over the ‘my drunk driving killed my wife’ thing, and trying to go sober afterwards. [Kinda hard to do it, when self-medicating due to mental health issues a la the shit he’s seen over the years.]

Also, his reaction to Tony’s being not-straight? Bear in mind he’s from a pretty damn conservative era, and isn’t used to the parenting thing. Add in the fact that coming out’s a pretty big deal, and was a way bigger one not too long ago; just check out the reactions to Ellen’s coming out, back in the ‘90s. It was a Very Big Deal, when Tony did it, and to be fair SI had to do a lot of fast talking in the days that followed because of it. Plus, again, Howard’s parenting skills aren’t exactly anything to write home about. 

Dysfunctional families come in all ways, shapes, and forms. Here, the really messed up dynamic + shitty communication skills constitutes the bulk of it, though. Incidentally, that was pretty much Not Cool on Howard’s part, and the main reason I don’t consider it abuse is because it’s not so much a power imbalance thing [both Tony and Howard knew he wasn’t going to go through with it] so much as…well, dysfunctional family stuff in general. 

In this case, their dynamic’s really messed up thanks to Maria’s death, combined with years of Howard’s neglect and alcoholism and Tony’s resentment. 

btw:  if anything looks familiar, it’s because I have several headcanons that tend to be recurring elements in my fics, such as JARVIS’ secretly being closer to Skynet than most would be comfortable with, Howard being a complex character, Maria Carbonell née Stark being awesome, and the list just goes on.

 ..and now the more I think of it the more Howard’s starting to shift from a subplot character to a main one but that’d derail canon even more because of how Tony’d react and brain, no, this is just an AU fic idea not a WIP damn it

#I got an ask! #behind the scenes #By Myself But Not Alone #behind the scenes mini fic #replies #Naught replies

[evakuality]

So it’s meta Monday again, and here I am finally with this clip analysis.  Please, if you want to play along and give me something to talk about, then hop over to my asks and give me some ideas.  Otherwise, it’ll be another of these next week :)

Episode number and name: Two. Du er over 18, sant?

Clip number and name: Five.  Mekke øl

My thoughts/analysis:  Not only is this a long clip, it’s also one in which a lot happens.  And is, understandably, a favorite for many people including me.  So I apologize in advance for this thing being roughly a million words longer than it probably needs to be.  It’s also very very hard to say anything new about this clip.  It’s been analyzed to death, but I’d never forgive myself if I missed it.  So bear in mind there’s not much new here; this is just my version of a long running love affair with this clip.  

It starts after school on a Friday with what are fairly typical joyous shots of people really happy that they don’t have school again for a couple of days (I empathize -- I may not be a student but I too would like to dance in the streets when school’s over for a week).  And into this, of course, come our boys.  Magnus is showing himself to be someone who wants to learn and do better, and yet is still a bit of an idiot.  He’s taken on board that guys should go down on chicks, and has decided he’s going to do it himself.  Just exactly how he’s going to do this is hard to figure out, considering it’s very clear that he isn’t really experienced and has literally zero game.  Isak doesn’t help, insinuating that Magnus would need directions if he ever got anywhere near a girl, which, from him, is just a teeny bit hypocritical I have to say; but it does say a lot about the personalities of the two.  Neither of them is particularly experienced, neither of them is as good with this stuff as they’d like to be and yet one of them has everyone around convinced that he’s the master of flirting and hooking up, while the other is the object of jokes.  The fact that Magnus can wear his heart on his sleeve like this while Isak has to hide so much is yet another pointer to the distance there is between this group.  The fact that Isak is so good at this mask he uses is sad; it means he’s been doing it for a very long time.  This is second nature to him, and he has cultivated and perfected this image of a player to the extent that it doesn’t even seem like he’s trying.

Then of course, we have the scene where they argue about who owes who beer and so who has to be the one to get it.  The main point here is to set up an evening they are all looking forward to, which Isak then rejects in favor of Even and his many charms.  That Isak ends up agreeing to source the beer makes the stakes here higher than they otherwise would be.  If he was just going it’d be fine for him to skip but a) he’s the one with the in to Emma and her friends and b) he’s also now the one who’s supposed to provide the beer.  So, when he makes the decision later to ditch them it has a lot more weight.  He’s disappointing Emma who thinks he’s into her and he’s disappointing his boys not just by pulling the promise of the party away from them, but also by not providing the alcohol.  We tend to not blame Isak here, because we see how affected by Even he is, but this short scene is here to make us realize that this is a bigger deal than we might think and that the others around him are justifiably pissed off with him when he decides not to go.  

Also obviously, we have Isak sincerely trying to get beer for the guys.  He’s not unexcited by this party etc tonight; he actually wants to go and is making a goodwill effort to get the beer.  Eskild is a no go, but that doesn’t stop Isak from trying.  He’s genuine here.  As a side note, the boys should probably have planned ahead here.  They’re not old enough to get beer themselves so it’s presumably not the easiest task and they’re giving themselves only a couple of hours.  On the other hand, that’s fairly typical teen behavior really.  Decide in the moment what you want to do, and then try to make it happen.

Then we have that perfectly awkward meeting on the tram.  Imagine how joyous Even must be right then.  He’s just standing here minding his own business and then the object of his affections turns up in his tram!  It’s a sign!  Fate, or something!  Unfortunately, this guy is so engrossed in his phone that he hasn’t even noticed Even at all.  The resulting conversation is so deeply, painfully awkward to watch but it tells us so much about each of them.  Isak is overwhelmed, clearly nervous and has no idea of what to do or say.  He looks down and away, he can’t hold eye contact and he’s just a mess.  It’s up to Even then, to carry the conversation, which he does though he leaves it in the realms of small talk.  Contrast this with his very forward behavior at the kosegruppa meeting.  There he had a plan and he set it in motion.  Here, it’s out of the blue so he’s winging it.  And Even’s winging it is kind of not that great, heh.  There are long pauses and Isak pretends to be really interested in his phone, which seems to blunt Even’s approach somewhat.  Thankfully, Isak has his inspiration and asks Even to get him some beer.  I do wonder how awkward that walk between the tram and the shop and Even’s home must have been.  They’re neither of them good at small talk, or at least not when they really care about the person they’re talking to, and this time there’s no weed to help them along the way.  At least not yet.  Again, thank goodness for Even and his inspiration!  He’s not willing to let Isak go now that he has him within conversing distance so he comes up with a plan to take him home with him.  My feeling is that this must have taken a little bit of planning between the tram and the shop because he’s so supremely confident again.  His ability to walk off as if he doesn’t care at all is useful to him because it intrigues Isak and he’s more than willing to follow.  The amount of courage that must take, though: Even has no way to know Isak will follow along yet he does what he thinks will be his best bet at getting Isak alone a little more.  Walking off has worked once, so maybe it will work again.

I actually think, given that Even is shown later to be somewhat scattered and not terribly responsible, that it’s possible that he really did forget the ID.  I know it’s apparently unusual in Norway to not have it, and it’s entirely plausible that this is 100% made up (Isak certainly looks bewildered by the idea that he might have forgotten it), but it’s also a possible hint towards Even’s issues and his illness.  Either way, it gets Isak into Even’s home and they’re instantly more at ease, even Isak.  He’s curious, drawn to Even’s walls as he tries to figure this guy out.  It all serves, of course, to make him seem even cooler.  He has guitars!  He draws!  He’s funny!  Isak’s charmed by it all (and you can see Even’s happiness that Isak seems so into it in his glances towards him as he searches).  This all makes it much easier to forget the beers when Even can’t find his ID and instead produces that social lubricant, weed.  

The next time we see them, they’ve clearly been talking for a while and they’re a lot more comfortable. Isak’s almost garrulous as he talks about school and what you can get away with.  It helps that Even is so very focused on him.  How heady that must be for Isak: this very attractive boy seems to want to know Isak as much as Isak wants to know him.  He’s still playing up a little of course: he’s the tough guy, the one who skips school and who the principal doesn’t like enough to extend the grace for attendance to 15%.  It’s all designed to make Even think he’s cool.  He even admits it when they talk music.  He has his things he listens to when he wants to feel cool.  It’s very close to an admission that there are things he does or says when he wants to feel cool.  This is contrasted very nicely with Even’s mention of Nas.  He’s almost hesitant when he brings it up; this is something that’s important to him (certainly he has memorabilia surrounding him too, so it’s not just a casual connection with 90s rap).  Isak has been trying to act cooler than he really is to impress Even.  Even is trying to show some of his vulnerabilities to connect with Isak.  They both have the same intention: making a closer connection with the other person, but their approaches are very different.  And I think in a lot of ways, the issues they have later arise from this different approach they each have.  The nice thing about it is that as soon as Even realizes what Isak is doing (pretending in order to impress) he calls him out on his bullshit, but does it in a way that’s charming and isn’t intended to hurt or belittle Isak.  It leads of course into the montage where they both clearly fall deeper for each other.  And it’s such a natural move into that moment, allowing Isak to appreciate Even and the way that happened.  They laugh easily, they sit quietly together too.  It’s all such a huge contrast with the tram that it’s hard to believe this is the same afternoon.  Of course, weed has a lot to do with it, but there’s so clearly a natural flow between them.  They get on well right from the start.  

So it all means that by the time they’re making terrible cheese toasts in the kitchen, they’re very much at ease.  They can tease and joke and have fun.  Isak is pretty sure that there’s something happening here; enough so that he’s allowing himself to look at Even in a way that he’d have been too scared too before the tram (in fact, that we saw him being too scared to do just a few hours ago).  Enough so that he’s confident enough that he can blow off his plans for the evening in the knowledge that he can stay with Even.  He also has enough confidence that he can contradict Even with his ‘so bad it’s good’ line.  He’s no longer trying too hard to fit in with what Even wants, and is happy enough to be a little more himself by now.  Incidentally, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: he is not a master liar and manipulator.  His lies here are appalling; telling different lies to two sets of people with easy enough ability to contact each other: rookie mistake.  I don’t for one second buy that Isak was a clever manipulator of Eva in s1.  I think he was an opportunist who didn’t think things through properly and got burned.  Much like he does here.  Because he’s terrible at this stuff.  Even, too, by the way is terrible at lying.  He gives Isak a beer, right out in the open and later says he has plenty.  Like, Isak could have bought those off him and headed off to his party happily.  But since neither of them wants to separate, neither of them brings it up.  Beers for the boys are totally forgotten in fact, because it’s far more interesting to stay here with their crush.  That both think it’s unrequited at this point is both adorable and frustrating.  As is Even’s idea that flirting by talking about male genitalia is cute.  Of course, it seems to work on Isak so maybe he’s just got the measure of his man already.  Or maybe he’s just lucky that Isak is so readily charmed by him.  They eat, they laugh, they have fun together.  It’s all very lovely (and Even’s casual ‘yeah I have heard about your rapping’ is the height of understatement; don’t tell me he didn’t do exactly what Isak did and scour the internet for Isak sightings, much more successfully it seems than Isak was with Even sightings), and it’s designed to show again how well they fit together, how much fun they have when they’re alone and unselfconscious.  It’s all very very sweet to watch.

Of course, all this bliss is there at least partly to make the thorough destruction of all Isak’s hopes that much worse.  His face when Even introduces his friends and Sonja (and then kisses her thoroughly) is heartbreaking.  It’s also then that his lies also come home to roost.  So, not only does he lose the fantasies he’s been feeling for Even, he’s also caught out by his friends and Emma.  The mask he’d been so careful with has been allowed to slip, and just when he thought it was worth doing he finds himself without it right when he’s actually going to need it the most.  He can’t hide from the boys and Emma anymore, even though he does try.  But I think this is the seed of Jonas figuring everything out; that Isak is willing to blow Emma off suggests he’s not into her and Jonas is smart enough to notice that and be able to put it all together over the next few weeks.  It’s also clear that if Isak was thinking properly, he’d probably realize just how significant it is that Even literally forgot all his friends and his girlfriend while with Isak.  But as it is, he doesn’t see it, probably because he’s caught up in his own misery, his own jealousy and his own horror that he’d misread the situation so badly.  So we end the clip and the episode with Isak feeling completely lost and miserable.  It’s not a good way to leave him.  He’s in a vulnerable place and it’s difficult to leave him here after having seen him so very happy and relaxed earlier.

Romeo and Juliet connections for clip:  Certainly none that are overt.  Unless maybe Sonja is meant to parallel Paris a bit the same way Emma has before.  Representing the decent, nice person the ‘Juliet’ figure should be with.  Neither Paris nor Sonja is a bad person; they’re just not the right person for Juliet and Even.  Or not right in these moments.  I’ve mentioned before I think that both Isak and Even thinks of themselves as Juliet, and that makes this all stronger now.  Juliet makes a decision to move away from the person she’s with and to take a leap of faith on Romeo.  A leap that isn’t actually that huge, because Juliet isn’t invested in Paris at all.  She feels a duty to him, but no actual love.  So, maybe this is a hint that despite Even seemingly engrossed in Sonja here, that she’s not actually the obstacle she appears to be.  Even has a duty to her (a 4 year long one), and he clearly feels some compunction around all this.  Though not enough for him to stop pursuing Isak until the Sonja thing is properly dealt with.  In that respect, it’s fairly similar.  Paris is strung along, mostly by Juliet’s parents, but he still thinks he has some call on Juliet and her affections.  As does Sonja, with more direct encouragement from the actual person.

Associated extras: There don’t appear to be any.  Which is a good thing for the sake of my wordcount, which is already eye wateringly large.

Overall impressions: As with probably the entire fandom I absolutely love this clip.  I love how easily and seamlessly it takes us from awkward beginnings to affectionate teasing and casual friendliness.  I love that they both seem so into it, that they both cast knowing glances at each other.  I love that Isak, for the first time, allows himself to hope.  That it ends so sadly for him doesn’t negate the joy that seeps through in every frame of the earlier scenes.  It’s a masterful clip and it does its job superbly.  I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of watching this one.

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Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens review

‘A 7/10 is a work that is, for the most part, successful in its intentions. It’s a worthy and entertaining experience that perhaps slips a little here and there in how it keeps you engaged. It might have issues that frustrate, or it might be an acquired taste, but it certainly deserves to be elevated about its peers for reasons of quality, uniqueness, or ambition.’

- Me, 2017

A few months ago I wrote an article detailing my rating criteria. I wanted not just to inform the reader as to how I come to make my decisions, but set out some clear guidelines for myself, something that I could come back to if ever I felt uncertain about exactly where my feelings fell and, perhaps, to mark a line in the sand that would help me come to terms with some of the more negative feelings I have towards popular pieces of media. Above you can see the little blurb I wrote for what I believe a 7/10, or a ‘good’ film or novel or video game stands for, and I want you to pay particular attention to the last four words – ‘quality, uniqueness, or ambition’ – because for now they’re going to be important.

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is a film by J.J. Abrams Disney’s board of directors. It is the seventh film in the series, and most reviewers regarded it as a welcome return to form following George Lucas’ shockingly inept reappearance with the prequel trilogy in the late nineties/early noughties. For the majority of today’s youth, their memories of Star Wars are defined by these pulpy, clumsy, brightly-coloured prequel movie. They films were a big thing at the time, make no mistake, partly because of the anticipation held by established fans, and partly because children couldn’t escape the merchandising that littered every fast-food restaurant on the planet. But, like the overpriced plastic cups bearing Darth Maul’s scowling visage, so too were the films disposable tat, aimed at drilling gaudy two-dimensional images into the modern consciousness. Lucas, for his part, has always remained steadfast in his belief that his vision of Star Wars was the ‘one true’ Star Wars, but some cursory and utterly unscientific polling on my part indicates that children that were first introduced to the series via the prequel trilogy largely lack the reverence for the series that those who were weaned on the classic three. And why would they? What about the prequel trilogy would leave any self-respecting individual hungry for more, especially after the sinister mystery and the darkness of Darth Vader has been replaced with this:

And this:

I can only speak for myself at this point, but as someone for whom the stories of Luke, Leia, and Han were an irreplaceable part of my youth, the thing that made me return to Episode Two and Three was a naive and desperate hope that things would change - the same naive and desperate hope that led me to believe that Disney might be the saviour of the franchise, or that Star Wars Battlefront II would be anything other than a greed-raped stain upon the world, which is to say that at midnight on the night of The Force Awakens’ UK release I too was hopeful for something, anything other than the ugly, bloated, and utterly asinine prequel trilogy.

But ‘a return to form’ from older fans desperate to purge the memory of Mister Binks et al. is not necessarily a definitive seal of quality. Nor is the endorsement of a generation of people that never knew the original trilogy in a context separate from Hayden Christensen’s sand tantrums. And as the minutes and days and weeks stretched on following my first and only viewing of Episode VII, I found myself more and more disgruntled by it, by the memory of it, and by the many faults that existed despite the low bar it had to leap to be better than its immediate predecessors.

Now don’t get me wrong - The Force Awakens is not a technical failure, nor could it reasonably be called a ‘bad film’ were it to exist in a vacuum; from most angles it is objectively better than all three of the prequels, but I can’t say that it demonstrates either uniqueness or ambition. It’s possibly the most brazenly derivative film I have ever seen, and to simply call it ‘safe’ would be to seriously understate the depth of the film’s cannibalisation of its own mythos. This lazy and insulting lack of originality is made worse by frustratingly insubstantial glimpses at a wider narrative which are followed by, at best, nothing, and at worst…well:

‘You haven’t bought the season pass that unlocks the rest of this film’s plot.’

The above moment was not the first point in The Force Awakens that I audibly groaned, but it was the point that I remember the best because it typifies the one of the biggest problems with the film: nearly everything in the narrative of this film that might otherwise be interesting is left unelaborated - the story has been gutted and the meat saved for a time when the Star Wars Plot Advisory Committee can inform future auteurs directors writers meat puppets as to what they can and can’t include in order to maximise appeal amongst the key age demographics of zero-to-dead. And I would apologise for the slight spoiler in the above gif, but if you think that the scene contains some pivotal plot point or revelation then you’re wrong. The film repeatedly hints at a grander and more engaging arc that it doesn’t just fail to elaborate on, but actively hides from the viewer behind the most galling cardinal sin in storytelling -  the ‘I can’t explain now’ hook. Worse still is the fact that the film doesn’t explain why it can’t explain, we’re simply expected to swallow it hook, line, and sinker. I imagine that at this point, Abrams Disney pictured the audience on the edge of their seat wrapped in suspense, not scoffing and searching the theatre for other visibly incredulous patrons as I was. In any case, I couldn’t spoil the plot of the film for you if I tried, because everyone who has watched the original trilogy has seen it already. 

A plucky, Force-adept youngster lives on a desolate sand planet. After coming under threat from an army of technically superior stormtroopers, the youngster flees on the Millenium Falcon, falling in with a scrappy bunch of resistance fighters. Leia Organa and Han Solo assist. They are pursued by an evil Sith Lord in a black mask and are tasked with demolishing a super-weapon capable of destroying planets. The main characters infiltrate on foot, and the oldest of them dies. A group of pilots attack the super-weapon from space, and their weapons cause a chain-reaction that destroys it.

Sound familiar? Of course it does, because it’s the plot of A New Fucking Hope. You know this by now because it’s two years later and you’ve read all the reviews, but I can’t overemphasise just how much of The Force Awaken’s story is copy-pasted directly from the first film. But at least Mr J.J. Abrams Disney makes a pretty fucking compelling case as to how the Starkiller Base is NOT AT ALL like the Death Star (apart from the fact that it has exactly the same function, and contains the word ‘star’ in its name, and a word relating directly to death). 

I mean, for one thing, it’s bigger. That completely changes everything right there. 

Sorry J.J. Disney, my bad.

You’ll also notice that the design of the Starkiller Base is what I like the refer to as ‘shithouse’, and ‘not at all memorable’, which might be the single biggest difference between the two weapons. Maybe I was wrong after all. 

Sigh, but it’s not all bad, I guess. In fact, the one single thing that I think they managed to do right was arguably the hardest thing to do - nail the new characters. While it’s clear that this is Daisy Ridley’s first major film, she has enough charisma and courage to allow Rey to be the naive vessel the audience needs. She stands particularly strong in scenes across from Adam Driver’s villain, Kylo Ren, and their emotional tug-of-war is compelling. John Boyega is a natural performer, and his exemplary comic timing is keenly displayed both in his dialogue and through his performance. These three people form the pillars of energy and focus upon which the entirety of the film’s integrity rests. Harrison Ford’s comeback is welcome, but much of his input feels keenly meta and thus at odds with the character of Han as we knew it, exposing J.J’s Disney’s weakness at adapting such well-established and iconic personalities. I might say the same for Carrie Fisher, except she has fuck-all to do but stand around, talk in no detail about anything, and have her disgusting old age blurred out by a tasteful CGI filter that sits over her face the entire time. Oh, and Oscar Isaac plays a pilot gifted with the ability to destroy planet-sized doomsday cannons in 30 seconds of screen-time. Which is…y’know, a great way to end a film (and further invalidate a threat that was outmatched forty years ago by a plastic orb on a string). 

But again, my vitriol has outpaced me, so I need to come back and reiterate that, as an individual viewing experience, The Force Awakens is not a ‘bad’ film. It’s capably shot, has some witty dialogue, and a good cast with an excellent grasp on their characterisation and fantastic rapport. It isn’t perfect no matter what lens you view it through, and some of its greatest flaws come as a result of Disney’s clear desire to make the most mass-appeal product possible, but if you’re looking for some safe, immediate entertainment that won’t demand much from you, then The Force Awakens is a reasonable choice. 

But I’m not sure if I’ll ever feel compelled to watch it again, because at its core I don’t think this film is art. I don’t think it exists for any reason other than because a company saw a demand they could offer a supply to, and make some sweet dollas in doing so. It checks the boxes on its list of ‘things to please the average moviegoer’ so transparently that it almost feels as if it were written by an algorithm, and as much as the people in it are trying to make something meaningful of it all, The Force Awakens remains a product, an item, market-researched so thoroughly your psyche can still detect the aura of the focus-grouped decisions at every turn. It’s in the absurd jokes, and the conspicuous acceleration through the thin plot, and the way it waves references in your face like someone trying to get a smile from a baby by jingling their keys - it feels like the film is toying with me, pointing at all the positive reviews and asking me goadingly why I don’t come over and play with it like everyone else. Perhaps if I weren’t so cynical I could get past that, but I can’t forgive the insidious process through which Disney churns these movies out. As shitty as the prequel trilogy films are, you simply can’t say that they’re not imaginative, original, or creative - the unmistakable imprint of George Lucas’ mind was branded upon them, for better or worse. Whose creative mark lies upon The Force Awakens? It’s been sterilised by Disney’s corporate cloth, and watching it feels like watching a stranger rifling through someone else’s old stuff and playing ‘Star Wars’ with toys that aren’t theirs to touch. It’s not a ‘good’ film. It’s not a 7/10. It’s just okay. 

6/10

Just Okay

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My First Digital Product Creation

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I’m a product creator. I launched more than a dozen digital-products in the affiliate networks. You can check the collection of my best products here. But there was a time when digital product creation process was not even in my dreams!

I become nostalgic recalling the time of first digital product creation. It was hard for me, I was new in the industry but I took the challenge. And that’s what paid off.

I started my Internet marketing journey with the affiliate marketing at the end of 2009. I was making commissions here and there. But I realized that I need to create digital products to make considerable amount. I committed myself to the product creation at the start of 2001.

But what product I can make? I was a newbie at that time. Didn’t got the experience needed to create digital products from scratch. So I checked warrior forum and warrior plus. What were the products that others creating? Which product sold in good numbers, etc. I researched a lot. And finally came up with an idea.

I noticed that done-for-you type of products was selling very good. They are still now. I studied a few successful done-for-you products. I studied their sales page and JV page. I bought a few to check the quality of the products.

Then I decided I’m going to create a done-for-you list building funnel. I detailed my plan. I listed the elements I need to create. I planned a basic sales funnel. The list becomes like below:

1. Squeeze page (HTML) 2. Offer page (HTML) 3. Thank-you page (HTML) 4. Optin Report for Squeeze page 5. A digital product to sell from the offer page 6. Funnel set up manual

It was a daunting task for me. I can do these 7 steps from scratch in 7-10 days now. But it took close to 2 months from planning to listing on the affiliate network. I will go through each step in details, how I managed.

Now, about the first 3 steps. I was not a techie. HTML code was Hebrew to me at that time. No way I could do it all by myself. I took the easy rout. I paid money to someone else to make the pages for me. As per my instructions. I appointed a local boy to do it. And I visited his office more than 10 times to check.

But funny things happened there. I told him I was going to deliver the file to my customers. But I was not aware that I should instruct him to make the files editable for my customers. Well, he was no Internet marketer. He thought these files are some kind of copy-write things. He thought it’s his duty to see my customers cannot change or edit a thing! So, he coded the files making editing as difficult as possible for the non-techies. LOL.

So, I took the files and my step 1-2-3 was done. But later, I got many complaints from my customers on this.

I wrote a 34-page pdf report on list building for the step-4. LOL. That is to give away a free report from my squeeze page.

Let me tell you a secret. You do not have to write 34 page to create a 34-page pdf report. Maybe you need to write 10 pages in a document file, in 12 points single line. Writing 3000-7000 word report is good to go. My one was 6795 words.

You can increase pages in pages to look good and heavy in many ways. For first 2-3 pages go for a full image and some legal thing. Another page for the “Table of Contents.” Insert as many relevant images as possible. It will increase engagement with your readers and it will increase the number of pages at the same time! LOL.

Use the last page as resources page. Insert as many relevant recourse-links, your affiliate links if possible.

There are a few other tricks to make your pdf report beefy. Use the font size 14 to 16. Make double or 1.5 line spacing. Increase or decrease the borders around. Choose a color and put a colored border around your content. Your pdf report will look nice and professional this way. These little things add up and make your report professional.

I also watched a few YouTube video to understand how to prepare the look of my report. Go to Youtube and search the program you are using. I use Open Office Org. So I looked for, “how to structure a document in open office org.”

So I wrote a 6795-word report and it was not easy for me. It needed a lot of research, a lot of reading. I also listened to some YouTube video and wrote the transcript on a notepad. I used these texts later in my report. Adjusting making necessary changes.

I planned my report, decided my chapters, and then wrote down the headlines of the chapters. Okay, let me be more specific what I did. I took a few similar reports. I got a few for free at warrior forum’s war room. I also purchased a few. I studied how they have structured their content. How they broke-down their contents into chapters.

I took only the headlines of the from those reports. Some from here and a few from there. I re-wrote the headlines to make them to my liking. So the structure of my report was done.

The next step left was to expand those chapters. It became easier for me. Because anytime I searched Google using my headlines, some articles showed up. All I had to do was to read those relevant articles and re-bottle in my own language.

I used a few online and free-grammar checking tools to make my document as error-free as possible. I use “Grammarly” to correct my grammars. They have a free version. I also use Hemingway app to check readability. The tool is free as well!

Then I made a pdf version of my document. It is a one-click thing at any type of word program. I named the report, Killer List-building Blueprint. You can check it here:

Step 5 was the hardest of all steps for me. I needed to create a product that my subscribers would buy. So it’s quality must be up to the standard. Otherwise, they will not pull their wallet out!

I decided to create another tutorial, a video series. But the problem was I’m not a native English. I could write pages after pages in English, but I cannot talk in English at a length. Also, my English pronunciation is bad. Another problem was, I thought no way I could speak in front of the camera. So how could I create a video tutorial with a series?

But I didn’t give up. I started to create the video scripts using the same technique I created my optin-report. I made slides and required screen casts. Then I hired another person for the voice over. With trial and error, finally, I made the video series. I named it “One Stop List Blueprint.”

Creating the funnel set up manual was easier than other steps. I already got my funnel files and testes them uploading to my domain. Then I added my lead capture form. They were working perfectly. So, I just documented the process. It became quite good with a lot of screen-shot images. That was step 6.

The story of my first digital product creation ends with the successful completion of step 6. I named my product package “A complete List Building & Email Marketing Funnel.”

I was sure that the quality of the product was pretty standard and I could put a lot of value. The story continued with the promotion of the product, but it’s different story. May be some other time!

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Finding my Confidence #MotivateMe Monday

Hey guys, 

It’s been quite awhile since I last posted a #MotivateMe Monday post, and for that I apologise.  I’ve been struggling  big time with self confidence, motivation and weight gain since Ironman Muskoka 70.3 in 2015.  My friend Allison has summed up how I’ve been feeling perfectly in her post Thursday Thoughts: Weight Gained and Confidence Lost.  It was nice to read her post last week as it helped me to realise I’m not completely alone in having these thoughts.  Her post has also helped me to get the courage to share my own thoughts.

Although I try not to entirely use aesthetics as my motivation for being active, I would be lying to you if I said it never crosses my mind.  It actually crosses my mind far too often, especially now that my clothes barely fit, I huff and puff trying to keep up with my running buddies, and can throw my back out doing something simple like picking up a piece of paper.  Everywhere I turn (instagram I’m looking at you) the media is telling me that I should strive to be a certain size and shape, otherwise people won’t like me, and I find it hard to feel confident when I don’t look the way the media tells me that I ought to look.  

This year I’ve been stuck in this endless rut where I don’t feel confident about myself, try to go on a run to feel better, but can’t run the paces or distances that I used to run, and then end up feeling WORSE about myself afterwards.  It’s like a crazy black hole of self-pity.  

Then a few weeks ago something changed. I put a deposit on a trip to Punta Cana for April 2018.  I’m going with my friend Amanda to our friend Tracy’s wedding.  I’m giddy with excitement!  I have never been to an all-inclusive resort, and my husband has no desire to go to one ever, so this is like my one chance to go!  

Booking this trip has finally kicked my motivation into gear – I put together some goals for this month:

attend two boot camp classes/week

run 4 times/week

log my meals with MyFitnessPal.

With MyFitnessPal I’m and making some interesting discoveries about my eating habits. (Like I don’t overeat as much as I think I do, and thus I shouldn’t cave and eat massive sums of chips to drown my self-pity in being a bad eater).  With running I’ve given myself permission to run walk/run intervals and to run slower (at a lower heart rate). 

And guess what?!?

I feel so much better about myself!  

I feel WAY more confident and I’m starting to see some PERFORMANCE improvements, yay!  My running has definitely become more enjoyable and so far I’ve already run 53k this month!  

I stressed the performance part because it’s far too early to see aesthetic improvements.  And to be honest, now that I see performance improvements the aesthetics don’t seem to matter to me near as much.  Yes, I still think about how I want to look in a dress at Tracy’s wedding, but it’s not ALL I think about anymore.  Now my brain has drifted off into researching training methods like heart rate training to improve my 10k time.  (I may have spent a whole evening researching training plans and trying to figure out how to create my own custom plan). My focus has changed and I feel so much more confident.  (I don’t want to mislead you though – I still occasionally get down on myself when I review my run stats after a run).

I’m happy to be back, and I hope that this new found confidence in myself continues.  I look forward to sharing my training with you on a more regular basis, especially now that I actually have some training to share

Have a great week!

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