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beast-feast · 1 year
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Imagine them being put in a room together. Tension through the roof
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seaside-lovers · 1 month
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👁️ Seek & Cold ❄️
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Ship name/tag: 👁️ lost in your eye
Anniversary: February 27, 2023
My backstory: I'm an entity that roams the Hotel. I happened to come to existence in a room one day; I wasn't sure where I came from or where I was, but I know my goal: upkeep on the hotel. I spend a lot of my early days cleaning up broken glass, sweeping, fixing up things left from those trapped in the hotel, etc. I spend my free time in the library reading, one of my favorite activities.
I meet Figure this way; I end up starting a weekly meetup with them where I read out loud to them.
How we meet: I meet Seek for the first time when they happen to come into the library; they usually stick to certain parts of the Hotel so I had not met them yet. They happened to approach me and introduced themself as Seek. I offered my name in return.
First impressions: I'm intimidated by Seek when we first meet. I can't really get a read on them at all and find them a bit scary to talk to since they seem so serious and cold.
Seek thinks I seem like a perfectly fine person but takes no real interest in me.
Getting closer: Seek enjoys listening in on me reading to Figure and ends up approaching me, asking if I would like to start a weekly reading session with them. We both share an interesting in reading so they figured it would be a good way for us to get to know each other more (and I definitely was not because they found me attractive and wanted to spend more time with me, not at all).
I agree to this albeit I'm quite nervous since I assume they dislike me based on their demeanor. However, once we start our reading sessions, I start to realize that they don't dislike me; they're just really awkward when it comes to one-on-one conversations. It is charming to me and is one of the reasons why I end up falling in love with them.
Meanwhile, Seek is completely in denial about them being attracted to me; sure they think I'm pretty, and I have a nice voice, and I check in on them, but it can't be... truthfully, they have little experience in the world of romance and are somewhat spooked by the idea of falling in love. Based on my talking about romance, they assume I am super experienced and that I would struggle to be in a relationship with them because of their inexperience.
Beginning our relationship: Much to Seek's surprise, I also have basically no romantic experience; all my love for romance comes from books. This is a relief to them, and after I end up admitting that I am romantically attracted to them by accident, they return my feelings and we decide to become exclusive. We start experimenting romantically, though we keep our relationship private from the others, merely announcing that we are a couple now... and being surprised that everyone was waiting for it to happen. Apparently our mutual pining was a bit obvious.
Ship trope(s): Tsundere, mutual pining
Aesthetics: Books/libraries, dark romance
Our song(s): "Addicted to Love" by Robert Palmer, "Kiss Me You Animal" by Burn the Ballroom
Favorite forms of affection: Nuzzling! A lack of mouth on Seek means we both really like to nuzzle / gently touch foreheads together.
Favorite kind of date: We both really like sitting together in front of a fireplace and reading; I'll usually read out loud to Seek.
Ways we comfort one another: I listen to Seek when they're struggling, letting them vent and listening intently, offering words of comfort or advice depending on what I need.
Seek likes to find something for us to do to help me feel better and give me a distraction. Sometimes we'll go for walks in the courtyard and just talk; this can help relieve the stress I'm going through.
What we love most about each other: I love Seek's leadership. They are a confident person who stands up for themselves and is also great at organizing and bring people together. I'm not very assertive so I appreciate that part of them balancing out my own personality.
Seek loves my caring nature. I love checking in on people and doing things for them to help them out; they are not great with checking in on how others are doing, so they appreciate that about me and try to mimic me.
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masterqwertster · 10 months
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Have you ever done an AU of what if the starting pairs were different? Like if Laudna found FCG instead somehow, or Chet had been in EXU crew with Orym?
I've seen a brief fic where Fearne and Ashton were a starting pair (because Fearne pulled him out of Hexum's courtyard and Ashton ended up with flower filled cracks instead of gold), so FCG got thrown in with Orym and Dorian (it just went to initial Bells Hells meetup), but I can't say I've given that sort of thing much thought myself before (besides the slight Ruby Hells AU reorganization), so...
Partner Swap AU
Bells Hells starting mini-groups are organized differently.
Ashton & Dorian
That time Dorian got his purse stolen in Jrusar? It was Ashton. There was absolutely no fucking way that fancy-pants blue boy couldn't afford to lose his coin
Except the next day, they see him performing on the street as a simple bard, and when they pass by again later, Ashton sees some thugs trying to take everything the guy's got because they're not satisfied with Dorian's earnings for the day
Feeling kind of bad that he put Dorian in that situation, Ashton steps in, kicks ass (with some help because Dorian is not completely helpless, just a bit clueless), and somehow ends up taking the other genasi under his wing
Look, the blue boy is just so clueless and anxiety ridden that the suppressed sibling instincts kick in
And Dorian is so lost in this big, strange world outside the Silken Squall that another genasi, even a surly earth one, is a comfort (even if Ashton is an asshole and a criminal. Please stop involving me in your crimes. Please. Never!)
Orym & FCG & Laudna
Dancer, FCG, and the Division of Public Benefit manage to adventure their way out of Marquet, and instead set off FCG's murder-mode somewhere in Tal'Dorei
Laudna just sort of stumbles upon the scene by accident, but FCG is conscious and greets her. They talk, becoming fast little friends, and Laudna takes them with her (which isn't easy because FCG is probably a little heavier than her and their wheel is bent out of shape)
With some collaborative work between Laudna's fixer-upper skills and FCG's basic knowledge of automata (and a little bit of input from Delilah on advanced arcana) they get him back in working order
Laudna and FCG become part of the Crown Keepers alongside Orym (Laudna gives Opal advice on making goo work)
Laudna may not have put together Keyleth being part of Vox Machina by the time her, Orym, and FCG bounce through Zephrah for marching orders to Marquet
Fearne & Chetney
Fuzzy be(a)sties!
Morri gave Fearne a little more direction than just shoving her through Artagan's Gate, instead directing her to head to Marquet to find her parents
Somehow, Fearne and Chetney end up on the same ship to Marquet (maybe Artagan's Gate wasn't the fey rift Fearne was sent through? or a layover in Tal'Dorei for a ship from Wildemount to Marquet)
Anyways, the two chaos gremlins make eyes at each other, possibly some pickpocketing (at least by Fearne to Chet, not sure if he steals back), and decide to keep going together since Marquet is a big place and Fearne doesn't actually know where her parents are to be found beyond that
Imogen
Finally got sick of Gelvaan and decided to hop a caravan (circus?) out of town. At least strangers won't look at her funny until she actually does or says something
Heard about the Starpoint Conservatory in Jrusar and decided looking for research/answers to her powers was as good an idea as any
Runs into the same lack of clout problem to gain access, and ends up running with the Hells to get Lord Eshteross's patronage
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Alone [Billy x Dave]
Audience: Teen and Up Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Injury Tags: Loneliness, Existential Dread, Breakup, Hurt no Comfort,Angst, Child Abuse + Injury, Implied Depression, Implied Suicidal Thoughts Relationships: Billy/Dave, Past Billy/An Old Friend Fandoms: Billy's Basic Educational Game, Dave's Fun Algebra Class
For most of his life; Billy was alone. And namely, he prefers it that way.
It doesn’t matter how much of a lingering ache he has in his chest, this loneliness that tears his body apart and consumes him over and over again. It doesn’t matter how he longs to have someone in his arms, or even vice versa, anything just to have tender closeness with someone without that care decaying over time. It doesn’t even matter how hard he tried to fill this gap, because eventually people leave him alone all over again, alone and aching.        
So when Billy meets Dave, he doesn’t expect the ache to go away. He assumes the ache will continue to consume him, through their introductions and simple pleasantries.  This self-inflicted solitude continues even as Dave talks about inviting him to his home, when they’ve had their fill of meetups with coffee and Dave wanting to introduce Billy to his son, Tristan. Billy lets his heart flutter with anxiousness as he leaves both of the children to venture to the dark cobblestone laboratory Dave stashes under his home. Dave has an array of impressive work hidden away from plain sight, the most interesting being some giant robot that he’s been working on for who knows how long, Dave admits.       
Billy still aches even as he becomes slowly more invested into Dave’s life work, watching him becoming increasingly fervent in what was what, and how that worked, and how beautiful he looked explaining it all. He still doesn’t expect the ache to lessen as they spend more time together, eventually the conversation of their lives and loves and losses coming up and swirling together in a bittersweet taste in their mouths. The alcohol does not help.
Most especially, he didn’t expect Dave to approach him with the promise of a sweet summertime date. He couldn’t see himself holding his hand, faces so close together as the heat of a campfire spurned them on. Holding onto each other, basking in warmth and dusk they simply sat together, with the assurance of finally having someone truly care about you.
And the ache was gone, and Billy finally, finally, finally felt so good in his life.
And Billy doesn’t care how attached he becomes to Dave. Things were going so good, and for once he forgets ever thinking about wanting to end it all or the overbearing emptiness that enveloped his being barely months prior.  He forgets his father, the ship, his childhood, instead he clings to Dave’s shoulders in a steady kiss and forgets it all.
He loves Dave, but in truth Billy loves someone more than he can possibly love anyone; his son.
His own image, his greatest creation, one of a kind and fragile like he is. He worries if his son will carry the disease that took his legs, most of his body. He braces himself for the day he gets word that his son is getting bullied like how he was. He dreads the time his son will eventually leave him for personal pursuits. He readies himself when his son can’t achieve his dreams, be it a rejection letter or job dismissal. He mourns the day his son's room will be empty, that he will be the one to empty it because his foolish decision to extend his lifespan with cyborg upgrades may cause him to outlive his own children. But the love smothers his fears when his son shows him a crayon drawing on a blueprint, or his latest Lego creation, or which pages of his many fictional books and machinery manuals are his favorite (usually the ones with pictures).
What he doesn’t love is the fact that Dave hits Tristan.
Already, the ripples of uncertainty are so gently tearing through him again, and it makes him want to cry. Dave spanks Tristan because the latter gets into trouble doing things he's not supposed to. He grew up under the same type of discipline, he shouldn't have any issues with it. But he does take issue and it unsettles him, seeing how Dave brushed off the physical violence like a mild inconvenience. It was only so long before images of Tristan became his own son and Billy wants to vomit with the guilt he feels in the pit of his stomach. But he’s too much of a coward to tell Tristan he’s sorry, because that’s all he is and all he will ever  be. Always running from everything, running on legs that have long since stopped carrying him. And he cries and cries and cries.
He ran out of tears when he confronted Dave. According to Tristan, he collected some gifts that were laying around Dave’s home one day too early for his birthday. Then he broke a second rule by using a vent key to escape from Dave through, assuming a vent system, only to find where Dave’s secret lair was. Apparently, Dave was furious at Tristan, and the two fought to the extent that now Tristan had a gaping wound covering most of his shoulder. 
Like their love, the blood on Tristan’s shoulder blooms feverishly and unhindered, no matter how much Billy presses the torn tissues. Tristan only sobs and hiccups at the pain, and Billy too is in pain knowing that no matter how bad fights get between Tristan and Dave, that Tristan is always going to love Dave as a father. Tristan will never think badly of his dad, for his heart had already been steeled against Dave’s outbursts of frustration, more often than not. And Billy then comes to the realization that if Dave truly couldn’t handle his temper around his own son, then what about Billy’s child? What of his Junior, who often did make mistakes and had minor streaks of rebellion as any other normal kid did? He doubts he is going to forget Tristan leaning on  his passenger side car door, heaving and curling into a defensive ball as the pain sears itself through his body and into everlasting trauma. Billy closes his eyes, and has to make a choice.
What Dave did was not exactly forgivable. 
He was at first quiet when Dave expressed grief over his decision. He moves up close to Billy, grabbing onto his hands as if they were a rosary in desperate prayer. He lets Dave grab onto him, his arms, reaching those beautiful hands to his face. He cries and begs Billy not to leave him, leaving behind everything they built together, literally or emotionally. But Billy turns away and Dave’s grief gives way to anger. “So you’re going to leave me? Was I not good enough for you? Is nobody good enough for you?! You pretentious piece of shit! COME BACK–”
Dave’s voice is shut out when Billy leaves his home. He promised Tristan that he’ll visit in the hospital, but right now he doesn’t even know he could keep that promise. Dave most likely doesn’t want him anywhere near his son, let alone him. He decides to drive home instead.
When Billy gets home, his son is safe reading on their couch, quiet as always and no blood to seep through the layers of his small wool vest. He looks up at his dad, blankly.
“Hey Dad”
Billy only could offer a half hearted hum, refusing to let his verbal dam break now. 
“Tristan called. He, um, wants to know if he can come over?”
Billy looks on incredulously, but realizes that there’s certainly a phone at the hospital that Tristan must have asked to use. On the brink of exhaustion, he simply nods. At least Junior looked happy about that, offering a small side smile before returning to his book. If Billy tilts his head right, he sees that Junior is reading a fantasy book this time.
He simply drags his wheels into his workshop, semi-sound proofed for the sake of his son’s ears in the dead of night. He sits down in a beaten office chair, folds his arms on his scratched workbench, and lays his head down. Billy feels even more guilt, knowing that he may not wake up anytime soon. He knows Junior has quickly developed methods of sustaining himself, making himself sandwiches or a cup of noodles when Billy overslept far past dinner. And he wants to vomit, because he really does feel like a piece of shit father, piece of shit lover, piece of shit friend. 
Billy is alone and aching again.
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oni-tengu · 2 years
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ive basically had my ask box open for months so feel free to send requests but i got a booster today & my shit hurted (arm is sore) so im gonna chill tonight maybe. idk.
aaaaanyway, status aside, i just. man. those asks this morning LMAO ive had to just say shit before (ie getting inc*st shippers in my notifs) & clarify im not down with this shit, so.
i just need to talk, and if you disagree with the following, have any issues at all, question the legitimacy of things listed below, just do me a favor & block. i wont be responding to any potential distaste for anything i talk about, but here's some shit i am against and feel vital to clarify. so you know where i lie and that this blog has no space for awful things, its become unfortunately very important to state certain....things. long post
cw / tw for mature topics in mention (AGAINST the following) : p*dophilia inc*st gr**ming
firstly, the topic of inc*st. hard no, this ALSO goes for anything involving minors in any sexual context, minors with adults in an unreasonable age gap (lets just say the limit is 18 y/o with a 20 y/o as acceptable and i generally avoid thinking about people under 20 anyhow bc im 23 and ive lost relatability with people that much younger than me)
why? the idea that fiction does not affect reality is just something i dont agree with. fiction needs criticism, yes, but having things portraying p*do and inc*st in a sexually gratifying light contributes to brainwashing & grooming, and ive seen it firsthand because i was on homestuck tumblr in 2012 when i was 13 years old and it was NORMALIZED. it was a case of community grooming and it FUCKING WORKED. i feel grateful that i was able to see past it when i got older but it was DANGEROUS and theres a plethora of horror stories of kids at cons & meetups being actively groomed and put into harmful situations in real life. this is just a fact, this all happened, i witnessed it firsthand, and i have friends that were right there with me.
placing the blame on minors and victims is not the response anyone should have. saying to "think critically" about the media a person consumes when someone is being actively harmed by the topics above, is harmful in itself. it is not on the victims to "know better" when they are being groomed, just because it seems easy for others, when this is an active, real life issue. and honestly, fuck you so hard if you disagree with that, or that its not even "real"
i truly have such a hard time believing that people honestly defend literal fucking p*dophilia online under the guise of "its harmless fiction". i think people who agree with that are perpetrating this propaganda, brainwashing, and the minors who think its okay HAVE been brainwashed and they dont even know it. they vehemently defend it, and most people in the REAL WORLD would be horrified and disgusted by this, even afraid for these teens and preteens. i certainly am!
moving on to the next point of discussion, i think sexualities and genders should be respected! youd think this is an obvious one, but hey look, last night someone wanted me to draw dirk strider in a romantic ship with a woman. this goes for fiction and real life, sexuality and gender matter & should be respected. ill be honest, theres some microlabels and identities i dont always understand, but people finding comfort in things, figuring stuff out, its usually just something you should let be, and i try to. i dont believe harassment is the answer & i'd go out of my way to defend someone with an identity i dont understand, if theyre being bullied! as long as youre not being offensive or harmful, this is a safe area for yall
i.e. trans men are men, trans women are women. i've had my own identity questioned since i identify with being nonbinary/agender and a lesbian at the same time, and to me and many others in the community, this makes sense, but to others it clearly does not. as long as youre not encroaching on communities that are not for you, your identity should be respected, and i am determined to reflect that in my creations as well.
to wrap this up, hoping i got the more "controversial" things out of the way, i want to point out that there are nuances to every social topic. i was not born with knowledge of all things, and every year im learning about stereotypes ive never heard of, history that belongs to communities im not a part of! so, i want to say that if im unconsciously adding to or portraying some offensive thing, itd be important to me to be made aware. morals & empathy are two things i care about very deeply and if theres something i should know, then i'd at least LIKE to know.
if theres another social topic that matters to you enough that you want to know where i stand so you can feel comfortable in who you follow, i'd be open to questions. but to reiterate: any bullshit about disagreeing with me, any hate, etc will not be responded to & will be met with a VERY adorable block (: so cute when that block button is utilized. feel free to use it tbh
so. there we are. showing my whole ass here. morality matters and im sticking to my guns
TL:DR
i hate inc*st and p*dophilia, fiction affects reality, non harmful identities should be respected, tell me if i fuck up.
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radiantmists · 1 year
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Genuinely would not be surprised if someone in the room when they suggested the checkmarks stack was like "wont that break shit if they buy too many" and someone else was like "even better, these idiots like it when shit breaks"
65 notes - Posted November 10, 2022
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so semi-related to this other post i made, i’ve been thinking about the conversation ed has with jack when he realizes that stede’s been lured into a trap, because it’s just such a good example of the mindset and culture Ed has been trying to break out of over the course of this season. 
At the end of the conversation, Ed gets fed up, breaks the oar, and then jumps into the water to head back to the ship. Just before he leaves, he yells that Stede’s his friend, and Jack yells back:
“What do you mean he’s your friend? What kind of pirate has a friend? We’re all just in various states of fucking each other over!”
Now, as Ed is swimming away at this point I don’t think he hears, but I imagine if he had this would have been an extra kick in the teeth, because he’s spent the whole episode catering to and entertaining Jack, trying to cheer up his friend who’s been (allegedly) mutinied against. And clearly, Jack sees his ‘betrayal’ as no big deal, cheerfully musing on where they should head next and surprised when Ed is actually upset about it.
He doesn’t think Ed should expect any better than betrayal, because Ed has absolutely been on the other side of this mentality. At the end of episode 4, I think it’s fair to say that he’s at least charmed by Stede even if he doesn’t consider them ‘friends’, and yet his plan is to use Stede for gentleman lessons, then brutally murder him and steal his identity. Ed is friendly to him over the next couple episodes, but he hasn’t yet resolved that this is someone he’s actually going to value and stick by. Their relationship is transactional (teach me to gentleman, i’ll teach you to pirate) and comes with an expectation of inevitable betrayal.
The shift only comes after Ed’s confession about the Kraken in episode 6, the moment when he’s fully confronted by the kind of person he believes himself to be and the moment where he starts to reject that personality. But even in episode 7, we see that Ed struggles with the idea of an equal friendship; he’s planning to leave now that his plan isn’t going to happen, and is just. so baffled by the whole treasure-hunt outing. Specifically, he’s constantly grumbling about the pointlessness of the whole thing-- it’s only after Lucius sets him straight that he notices that he can enjoy just spending time with Stede, even though he knows there’s no other benefit to the whole thing.
For the ‘real pirates’ Jack talks about, other people are just tools to get stuff you want-- maybe they’re tools you like, but at the end of the day if you need to screw them over to get something you want more or to save your own skin, you will.
But on the Revenge, Ed has slowly been exposed to a different way. Stede can talk a bunch of aristocrats into sinking their own ship just because they made Ed sad. Stede can see him having basically a panic attack about the Kraken and comfort him instead of think less of him for being weak. He and Stede can co-captain, just because they’d both like to spend time together, rather than parting ways when neither of them needs the other for some practical reason. And when Ed does leave Stede, we get Lucius dumping his stuff on him, very clearly communicating that he expected better. 
And so the moment that Ed chooses to go back to the Revenge, to die for Stede-- and later to give up piracy, which is very lucrative for him, in order to just peacefully retire with Stede and be happy with him-- is him starting to branch out from an extraordinarily self-centered culture where no one is valued for themselves. His excitement builds when Stede seems to return this sentiment, first refusing to let Ed die for him and then agreeing that Ed makes him happy and that he’ll run away with him.
But then Stede runs home instead. Now, there are a lot of ways to interpret why Stede actually does that, but from Ed’s perspective Stede is rejecting him utterly: not only does he not want to be with Ed, he doesn’t even want what Ed can give him.
So understandably Ed is moping about being rejected, and he gets these two voices trying to ‘comfort’ him and get him back on his feet. One is Lucius, very patiently telling him the way he feels is valid and encouraging him to continue to reach out with those soft feelings, to do fun things like a talent show with the crew just because they’d all enjoy it-- all of the new lessons he’s been learning  with Stede.
And this is lovely, but Ed has just had his first real foray into that type of trust brutally stomped on by Stede. It doesn’t help that, as this post brilliantly highlights, Ed is very used to being laughed at when he tries to be himself, and is primed to see the crew’s amazement at his reaction as mocking (which it kinda is, even if they’re probably not judging him too harshly for it). From that perspective, Lucius’ concern seems insincere; when you’re used to people fucking you over at the slightest moment of vulnerability, and have been accustomed to people fronting that they like you when they’re actually trying to expose more vulnerability for them to take advantage of or mock, Lucius’ attempts to draw him out start to look actively threatening.
The other voice is Izzy, who tells him to go back to being that closed-off person who uses other people and never lets himself be vulnerable. Which brings me to the other bits of the conversation with Calico Jack that I think about a lot. When Ed first notices something is wrong, Jack points out that the ‘old blackbeard’, the one Izzy wants back, would have seen the betrayal coming a mile away-- because he wouldn’t have given Jack the benefit of the doubt about Blind Man’s cove, and would instead have been on the alert for tricks like this. And then, when Jack mentions Izzy and Ed expresses surprise that Izzy would betray him, Jack says: 
“No, he sold Stede out. Sentimental bastard wanted me to get you out of there before the English arrived.”
Now I don’t know about you but ‘sentimental’ is not one of the first words I would use to describe Israel Hands. But in this world, Izzy’s brand of loyalty-- conditional and vicious though it may be-- is just about the most sentimental people get: the thing Ed can give him, the person Ed can be for him, is so valuable to Izzy that he’ll team up with Spanish Jackie and the English Navy to get it back, and he’ll send Jack to try and make sure Ed isn’t destroyed in the process. That’s nuts.
Izzy doesn’t seem to really care about Ed’s happiness, and he doesn’t make Ed happy to spend time with; in fact even in more casual moments like the ep6 opening (where Izzy’s trying to get him down from the rigging) they seem to annoy each other more than anything else. But for Ed, Izzy is utterly predictable: as long as Ed performs Blackbeard, keeps giving Izzy victories and validating his macho pirate fantasies, Izzy will stick by him. He’ll even go a bit further and give Ed warning and an extra chance when he wobbles in that, so long as there’s a reasonable chance that Blackbeard will come back.
The issue with caring about people is that they might leave you; the issue with being vulnerable is you might get hurt. But if you’re paying someone, even in the nebulous way that Ed ‘pays’ Izzy, they’ll never leave you, and if you scare them enough they won’t dare to betray you.  Being Blackbeard is awful, but safe.
It’s a guarantee where the other option is a risk, and while Ed’s been taking risks this whole season (and that is a Whole other post) he’s finally experienced the consequences of a risk gone bad, and it’s awful. So Ed throws Lucius overboard, rejecting the idea he represents-- that being vulnerable can be worth it, that people can be valuable in and of themselves and because you enjoy their company-- in favor of the stability that Izzy personifies, transactional though it is.
So for me, the big tragedy of the ending (beyond Lucius being dead because he’s not shut up) is that Ed has accepted... not necessarily that he doesn’t deserve to be happy, but that happiness isn’t possible for him, that this kind of relationship is the best he could hope for. He was introduced as someone looking for something better, something to break out of the pattern he hated, and instead he had it reinforced.
And hopefully, someone will come back and convince him that he can have friends and nice things-- but it’s gonna be rough, because I think the lesson he’s learned here is that nice things are just a trap so the people claiming to be your friends can fuck you over worse.
68 notes - Posted April 25, 2022
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God the moment where Ed picks up the ‘rather exquisite cashmere’ and gently brushes it against his cheek... 
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113 notes - Posted April 25, 2022
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so at the end of episode 8, i think, ed arrives back on the revenge with the english closing in and tells stede to fly a white flag. and maybe it’s because i’d seen gifsets of the moment where ed starts yelling about the act of grace, or maybe i was just buying into the blackbeard persona, but I really thought he had a plan, that there was some clever fuckery in the works that would make everything turn out alright.
and then it turns out that there was... sort of: ed’s ‘grand plan’ was to sacrifice himself, trade on the blackbeard reputation and take responsibility for all of stede’s crimes. presumably, he would then have been executed.
it turned out that, just like with the spanish in episode 4, there were factors that ed had missed-- a combination of badminton’s personal vendetta, stede’s log, but most of all stede’s personality: the plan relied on stede confirming or at least not denying that yes, it was that awful blackbeard who did those horrible crimes. but stede didn’t take that opportunity. 
and of course, as with the lighthouse, they come up with something at the last moment to save their skins, but that moment of failure is intriguing. ed has gotten so used to the rhythm of things-- keeping track of the date by counting days, expecting other pirates to grab any chance to save their own skins-- that he’s utterly blindsided when something-- a leap year, stede’s concern for him and his sense of responsibility-- breaks out of that rhythm.
he’s clever, but he’s been coasting on the fact that he knows the world he lives in better than almost anyone else, so all he has to do is take advantage of pieces of it-- the weather, his reputation-- to get what he wants basically handed to him. it’s only once something disrupts that landscape that ed starts thinking outside of the box and changing the landscape, creating a circumstance that his opponents would have believed impossible and thus never would have prepared for. 
there can’t possibly be a lighthouse there, and blackbeard would never give up piracy; but break him out of his rhythm and ed remembers that he can do whatever the hell he wants. and stede is so alluring because he breaks that rhythm effortlessly, just by being who he is-- and, in the case of Act of Grace, by caring about ed.
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My #1 post of 2022
the funny thing about htn is like. it's so obvious that gideon is narrating the second person parts. she makes it about five sentences into her description of harrow waking up before she starts complaining about harrow not taking care of the sword, and her reaction to harrow kissing ianthe is so obvious. the audiobook accentuates this even more because the delivery of parts like this are so clearly in moira quirk's gideon voice.
and yet there's so much nonsense going on that by the middle of the book you're genuinely starting to doubt everything that happened in the previous one.
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lynnthefrenchtoast · 2 years
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🌱lynn's thomaluc hc
ACK IDK IF THISLL FLOP BC THOMALUC IS A RAREPAIR BUT IM A SUCKER FOR CHILDHOOD FRIENDS ALR
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you cannot tell me diluc, kaeya, jean & thoma were not childhood friends. i simply will not hear it.
yk how kaeya was taken in by the Raginvindr family?? so at first it was just thoma, jean & luc then kae joined
and immediately he realized 'oh. the blonde one likes my brother.'
HE EVEN ASKS THOMA ABT IT AND THOMAS LIKE 'WHAHAHAH NO?? AHAHA?? UHM HOW DID YOU FIND OUT pls dont tell diluc.
thoma in genshin is so frckn flawless like he cooks and cleans and knits and is kind to animals and isnt misogynistic and-
but everyone is a kid once, right???
i feel like thoma crushed on luc bc luc was a good person (raised well by master crepus🙂) and thats why thoma is such a good person now
he had a role model eheee
i dont ship jeanluc but the idea of the adults shipping jean and diluc and thoma mildly being like ':(('- PLEASE
kae would comfort him and theyd always have secret meetups to discuss how to make diluc fall for thoma
...but diluc notices this and starts thinking thoma has a crush on his brother
PLEASE LUC-
also the Mondstadt Archon Quests compared to the Inazuma ones are rlly lighthearted?? like in Inazuma you fight a war and multiple ppl die-
in Mond,,, you save a dragon and meet a lazy God who likes music
so i have a feeling thoma's shift to inazuma was rlly bad.
like he came from a fairytale land and suddenly boom war vision hunt decree a tyrannic archon
he came from the City of Freedom to the opposite of freedom
but i feel like diluc would understand. he came from a fairytale life to losing his father, brother, and future as a knight all in one day
so they confide in each other
they also reminisce on their childhood and one day kaeyas there too so he casually goes;
"oh yeah and you liked diluc so-"
"you what."
"uHM-"
"wait you didnt know?" *turns to thoma* "you didnt tell him?"
"yOU WHAT."
"KAEYA!"
yk when your middle school crush never actually does anything wrong to you so you dont rlly get over them you keep a fond place in your heart for their memories?? YES THATS THOMA FOR DILUC
since theyre childhood friends theres also not much awkwardness- i mean youve seen each other with missing teeth what more is there to see
i love childhood friends ok bc you skip the awkard talking stage and you have no fear for the future bc your whole life has already been written intrinsically with theirs
i also think thoma is close to both diluc and kaeya so hearing that those two are on bad terms made his heart hurt a little
after their confession thoma definitely admits hes been in love with diluc since they were kids and it was not just a "childhood crush" like kaeya made it sound like
ever since thoma visited home theres been dogs crowding around Dawn Winery bc thoma keeps going to dilucs work and feeding the pups
the maids love him bc he basically does their job for them and luc always chides him like "why are you cleaning the winery youre here for vacation!"
also since growing up diluc has def gone from :D!! to >:(.
but yk how when you meet smn from a long time ago you automatically reboot yourself to be a little bit more like how you used to be?
i feel like diluc becomes a bit more :) when talking to thoma bc all thoma has ever known of him was :D!!
the difference is still stark but ykyk
AS KIDS DILUC DEFINITELY CAUGHT A CRYSTALFLY FOR THOMA AROUND THE WINERY GRAPEVINES BUT WHEN HE GAVE IT TO THOMA THE BUG LIKE SQUIRMED IN ITS LAST MOMENTS OF LIFE AND THEN TURNED INTO LIKE THE LUMINISCENT THINGY
and thoma started wailing
"Come now Diluc, why the sour face? You used to smile so cute as young lad. Right, Thoma?"
"I guess so."
"Oh?" Is that insinuation I'm no longer attractive? "I'm hurt."
AND NOW THOMAS LIKE 😀 BC HE DOESNT KNOW WHETHER TO DENY AND BE LIKE 'no i do think youre attractive' and then get teased abt it
OR
not say anything and be rude and let diluc feel bad
istg pls be kind to these two
this ship has my heart but content is so hard to find of it smh,,, anyway if you want to see more of my content!! ;
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dystopiandilfs · 3 years
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Dream's discord podcast. Basically him answering questions for 2.5 hours. This will sort of be in order but I fucked up my notes so it might not be in order completely. (From 13th May 2021)
For reference the photos at the end are: A prototype of fidget spinner merch as loads of people asked, a reference photo of his favourite merch and a photo he sent of his hair to prove he wasn't a brunette.
•He said his teeth are mostly straight but he's thought about getting Invisalign. He's never had braces. He has a tiny gap in the left side of his mouth and his canines are longer and sharper (vampire arc). He's never had teeth surgery so has his wisdom teeth still.
•He thinks pineapple on pizza is good.
•He likes seafood like lobster and crab. He had crab made in an air fryer last night. He like peas. He thinks quesadillas are good and likes most food.
•He hates Coffee and most drinks
•The Dream Shorts team is Ken who is his personal reminder (Ken's main job is to spam him with texts so he doesn't forget things as he's got a habit of reading texts and not replying) and also comes up with a list of sets for Dream shorts. The builder is a friend and munchymc builder "his talent gets wasted on Dream's shorts but we pay him so"
•His editors are currently Dizzy, Firesale and Mjcr. Willz doesn't edit for him anymore
•The mask animation isn't done but Mask should be released May 21st. He wants to release them together as "the whole song is a double meaning and the whole nuance will be lost without the animation" but no matter if the animation is done the song is getting released on the 21st.
•He and Sapnap eat together often.
•He and Sapnap prefer medium rare Steak
•He wants a home gym it's something he's willing to splurge on. They currently have a weight rack but they haven't even set it up.
•"Eat the rich? Shut up shut up" - Dream
•Talked about money basically saying "Most people don't understand how money works I don't have millions in my bank account it's in assets like merch, land and warehousing for that stuff" (He's not in his landlord arc)
•He's been debating Pride Merch because of Rainbow Capitalism. He doesn't want it too be seen as a money maker and if he does most proceeds would go to charity. He's currently super busy merch wise with Sapnap joining and George in the middle of joining. He did say "Only if the LGBTQ+ community in this community wants it" He thinks he's going to at least change the merch website to a pride one. Sapnap wants to make pride merch including a rainbow flame on his.
•He wants to create a charity that's centered around helping LGBTQ+ one day because he thinks that there's a lack of them. He mentioned that creating a charity was expensive and took a lot and was a complicated process including a board of directors but he wants to do it someday.
•He wanted to buy a bunch of houses in Florida which was a service to house mostly LGBTQ+ youth and people stuck in abusive households for free to get them out of bad home environments. But he didn't because he didn't want people thinking he was profiting of of abuse victims and LGBTQ+ community.
•He said he's terrible with time management and replying to people which is why Ken helps him (and also helps George and Sapnap). He mentioned how Sam messaged multiple times and Dream just forgot to answer but felt bad "I feel like people think I hate them..... Cause I'd be mad if people did that to me"
•He tries to reply to a few texts a day (community number). He also can't do birthday messages everyday because you can only reply at certain times so it's not abusing the system so if you get one it's special. He said he does try but it's got a weird time gap.
•Him and the manhunt winner are trying to come up with a good time to film
•He wants to stream this MCC on twitch and says his team is good.
•He talks about why he's not partnered with Twitch. Basically Twitch has a lock rate (in which you make money) and you legally can't stream on YouTube. So legally if Tommy wanted to stream on YouTube he couldn't. Someone then mentioned how Bad is a twitch partner but still streams on YouTube "Bad streams on YouTube but he has for a while and I don't think that he cares" - Dream
•He likes to reply to every donation he gets on stream and feels bad when he doesn't so he'll turn them off when he streams and wants a platform deal where he can be payed to stream (not twitch). If he gets a streaming partnership he will stream a couple of times a week. He looked in to Facebook but they don't have an alias system meaning you can see everyone's actual Facebook account and personal info, he doesn't like seeing real names on Facebook so it would require a lot of altering if he was to stream there so he's thinking it's probably going to be YouTube.
•He was asked about if his demographic was what he expected and he said he went in with no expectations, he didn't even know what stans were, wasn't really on social media so he wasn't aware of the fan culture. "You guys are a handful sometimes but it's worth it"
•He also mentioned how he and the DreamSMP changed the twitch audience demographic. It used to be male dominated in both streamers and audience and now it's almost split which is unheard on.
•He has 5 fidget spinners in his house. Two in his bedroom. Two in his office. One in the living room.
•He likes his Minecraft skin as he thinks the arm is cook and you never see the rest of his skin really. He says it's unique and different and "me". Dream: You can't even tell half the skins apart on MC.
•He's not lost the motivation to stream. Most of the times if he wants to stream he gets George or Sapnap to do it and he just turns up. It's more beneficial to them as they have donos and subs on. (Don't we fucking know it "can you say hi to")
•He has listened to Lovejoy. Says the ep was great and they're very talented and awesome. Doesn't know what his favourite song is but probably would pick One Day because the chorus slaps.
•RIP to acoustic Roadtrip. He said instead of acoustic Roadtrip we get Mask so no losses today for Dream stans.
•"With Roadtrip I went to Parker and I said Hey I have a story I want to tell through music. I have no experience with that can you help me" He said sure. He crafted the music and melodies and how things are formed where it's catchy. I have less comfort singing that. I love the song and it's my song, it's very representative of me and I'm sure I could sing it but it's a song I'd be kinds of scared to sing live, with Mask I basically did everything. I sat there the entire time and maybe an hour out if the 100 I wasn't in the call. Dream came up with the lyrics and main melody for Mask (First one he's ever come up with) "That was just notes in my fucking voice memos"
•The clip we heard of Mask was a prechorus not the actual chorus. He thinks he'd be more comfortable to do a mask acoustic and it's more melodic than Roadtrip. The chorus also has a lot of instruments similar to Roadtrip. Mask starts of slow and guitar with minimal reverb and is more raw.
• He doesn't want music to be his main thing. It's something fun to do and he's passionate about it as it's a way to express emotions. He wants to release mask then go from there. He wants to release at least one more song but has nothing on his mind currently. His two ideas were Roadtrip and Mask.
•He wouldn't quit his job to become a pizza delivery man.
•His favourite features on himself are eyes or freckles and he also confirmed that he does have eyebrows.
•He was told that Parkour warrior would be bought back some time in the near future and he got excited for it. "Even if I don't win, which I will, it'll be fun"
•Went on about his MCC team but I'm not going to put that in as we should be getting them today. He did say he wasn't on Pink but he did sound confused. (For reference he's always in Pink as it's the last team announced and keeps the hype up by announcing the biggest streamer last)
•Said he and his mum had the Mr Beast burger. He recommends because he likes the avacado. He mentioned how Mr Beast uses "Ghost Kitchens" which is basically where he gives restaurants permission to cook his food so it's restaurant quality food.
•His favourite piece of merch is the circle smile. (The pool photo on Instagram). He said the quality was bad (he worked with a different company and didn't have his own company) and it was elasticy feeling and he's planning on re-releasing it again but with good quality.
•He's started to send merch out in custom packaging. So his bags have the smile and will mostly be green. Sapnap's has the flame and is either black or white. He's also trying to make it so every order has the sticker packs for both him and Sapnap.
•He loves the coins as it's cheaper than a hoodie but still celebrates the milestones and will last a long time. He mentioned how the old coins are getting removed off the site and how if you have any of the coins your special because only a few thousand get made. He's kept around 100 of each coin that he wants to give away in person.
•He wanted to have a cool store where you could access computers that give you access to the DreamSMP in spectator mode. But it's too costly and would require too much time and isn't safe fight now. He doesn't think it'd be worth it financially.
•Most of the hoodie are black instead of multiple colours because of limited supply and covid. Getting the colours are harder because if the pandemic which hopefully won't be an issue soon.
•He wants to do a short meetup tour with Sapnap and George with a few locations in the US (and if others nearby want to join like Quackity or Karl they can). He also wants to visit Australia, UK, Canada, Mexico and Philippines and do something like that there but definitely at least visit with George and Sapnap.
•He's never been to the Philippines but his mum has. He wants to set up a place in the Philippines where he can ship merch in bulk and it would help to reduce shipping. However it would probably be big milestone merch.
•He's not got the vaccine yet but will get it when he needs to. He doesn't leave the house so he doesn't see the point.
•He's the ideas man. George's footcam video was Dream's idea. The T-shirt video was Dream's idea. Most if not all of the Dream Team's videos are Dream's ideas.
•Said he's got a similar/the same hair colour as Froy (Dream buddy at this point the only difference between you and Froy is that one of you is dating Richard Madden /lh)
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weapon13whitefang · 3 years
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Here’s why I, personally, don’t think the Daryl Spoiler is as big of a fucking deal as people are making it out to be.
So it’s all over the fandom by now, Imma just say shit now. If you don’t wanna know, don’t read anymore okay? Sorry not sorry at this point.
For those that don’t know what I’m talking about and want to know, here’s the scoop – This is all told in flashback due to Dog leading Daryl and Carol to a Cabin Daryl recognizes. In the flashback, after the bridge explosion that “killed” Rick, Daryl seems to still be off wandering the woods and searching the water for Rick’s body (As we knew he was).  We don’t know his state of mind or how he’s acting but if this isn’t long after Rick’s “Death” then he’s most likely still in mourning.
Well then Daryl runs into a woman named Leah, which we see a glimpse of this woman in one of the trailers (Which, honestly, is so quick and brief and for a second I thought it was Magna funny enough but annyywayyy), and at first she’s very stand-offish and up in arms against Daryl (understandable, most of the survivors that don’t know each other tend to be hostile/guarded against each other). She seems to realize Daryl isn’t a threat and the two part ways.
We’re give moments of time that show Daryl and Leah keep running into each other as he’s searching for Rick and Leah is doing whatever she is doing. We aren’t specified on how these constant run-ins are played out. We don’t know if Daryl talks to her or she confronts him a lot. We don’t know. We just know that time goes by and that they’ve formed a relationship with each other. We don’t get any specifics, again, besides she’s cooking for him at his camp, they’re snuggles up watching stars together, and apparently there’s a hint that they’re noodling with one another because the. we see Daryl and Leah under a blanket together in front of a fire and she snuggles him closer to her… And we get Dog as a Puppy… Which, does that mean Daryl and Leah found dog together? Or was Dog Leah’s dog and she left him to Daryl? Or what?... Oh well, Puppy Dog! Also… They don’t SHOW Daryl having sex. It’s implied, sure, but anything can look sexually implied with the right lighting and angle. So if they did bump uglies, I don’t know for certain until I get to SEE the episode.
Well, anyway, we then go from snuggles by the fire and puppies to back at the cabin with Leah telling Daryl that he needs to start choosing what he wants because she thinks he’s all over the place… Now, to be fair, it’s kind of always been that Daryl gets dragged all over the place. He’s torn between his loyalty to Rick and finding him, his loyalty to those in Alexandria, and now apparently his whatever relationship with Leah. Well if Daryl says anything to this, I don’t know the spoiler doesn’t say. But he apparently leaves and goes back to his search for Rick’s body before he’s back at the camp. Which leads to a meetup with Carol, who comes by his camp to bring him stuff but also to tell him she isn’t going to be able to visit him anymore because Ezekiel and Henry need her at the Kingdom (which explains a little to why Daryl seemed surprised to see her later on when she and Henry go looking for him). This news seems to settle things for Daryl and he wanders back to the cabin for Leah… But Leah isn’t there. But her shit is still around, so Daryl believes she’ll be back. So he leaves her, basically, a little love note. “I belong here with you. Come find me.” But it’s implied she chose to just leave him, even knowing the routes he takes to look for Rick and how to get to his camp.
So… that’s the big booharah that has everyone shitting themselves and freaking the fuck out… Over what? This is a flashback. FLASHBACK. Something that happened during the missing years of the time jump… This implies Daryl has been out in the woods for YEARS looking for Rick, first of all (Which OMG my fucking heart. Knew this but the confirmation makes my heart want to cry for their brotherly love U3U ). But this whole mess has shown me that… A lot of people would rather have Daryl alone and miserable in the woods than find any form of comfort in someone. He’s lonely for fuck sake! He’s lonely, his best friend said she won’t be coming around anymore, his brother-friend is “Dead”, and he’s not happy back at Alexandria without being able to put Rick to rest but doesn’t wanna be far from them in case they need him… He’s just a lonely guy. And, I’m sorry, but this belief that Daryl needs to be alone for six/seven years… That’s just cruel.
But here’s what is making me laugh. This is OBVIOUSLY a show of character develop for Daryl. About why he is more comfortable with opening up to someone like Connie (this isn’t a ship call out, this is an observation). That Daryl can be open to having a romantic interest when, up until now, he’s been the lone wolf character just floating around everyone. No real settlement to a character (no matter what you all think or wanna say, Daryl was never in-canon called out as being with any character in a romantic way. Can still say the same for Leah to). This was an opening for Daryl to not be alone anymore, because Carol wasn’t gonna be coming around anymore and no one else came out to help him/stay with him. So I don’t blame him for reaching for someone he connected to, even if only briefly. If Daryl is comfortable with you/cares for you in any capacity, he will reach out for you. And whether we like it or not, he got comfortable with Leah. He let her snuggle him, guys. That’s a big sign he was okay with her. Sexy time aside, whatever. He was something with her and she to him and then she was just outty-3000. Which is really sad for him... Someone else he was close to stopped coming around. Like, Damn. Daryl can’t catch a break. Also, let it be noted, he didn’t go chasing her down. He could’ve easily tracked Leah down to stay with her/let her know in person he’s picking her... He didn’t. That tells me a lot. That should tell you all a lot!
Third thing is… This happened IN THE PAST. This means that the Daryl we see that Carol and Henry finds and up until now is still the same Daryl we’ve been seeing. This doesn’t change his narrative. It just adds more layers to him. It shows more growth, That’s great after all those seasons of Daryl having no lines or actions or any growth. It’s downright beautiful to me!
Nothing has changed for Daryl. He’s still the same as he was… Well right now he’s very angry and hurt and fighting with Carol, but he’s in a raw state right now. Remembering something like that then having a recent heart wrenching event be brought back up – the Connie trapped thing – has made Daryl’s hackles rise and he’s lashing out. We know that’s what Daryl does. He bites hard and digs into what makes you upset. Like when he threw the stuff about Beth cutting her wrist at her. He said that to specifically hurt her. Just as he threw the “No… That’s on You. That’s on you because you never know when to stop”. He held back on biting her head off back when the event happened. Which shows a lot of growth from Daryl and a lot of maturity. But he’s raw and upset so he’s digging at her.
This won’t end their friendship. Friends and couples fight all the time. This doesn’t mean they’re finished with each other. For the Carylers out there hissing a fit, these two are raw and broken characters and sometimes two similar characters hurt each other cause they know how to. But that doesn’t mean they hate each other. And I believe Daryl when he said “I aint ever gonna hate you”. He’s just angry and Carol is defensive and that’s not a good combo for anyone together...
For you Bethylers, so what if he fucked someone else? It’s not like Daryl was an actual virgin. Norman said he liked the idea of playing Daryl LIKE a virgin. But I always took that as emotionally. He’s an emotional virgin learning to experience and grow and shy about his feelings and understanding them…. He’s MERLE DIXON’S little brother. He followed Merle around. You think Daryl didn’t fuck around when he and Merle were running around? Look at Season 1 Daryl. That boy was a rough around wild man. Aint no way he never fucked before. Or at least got a blow job. I’m not saying he couldn’t be, but I don’t see Merle letting his brother move about with him without getting fucked/not letting his brother come off as gay (To put it in Merle’s colorful term). Not the way those characters were before S3. Nah.
For the Donnie fans, this just explains why he’s been so easy to open to Connie. He’s had practice letting someone in and being comfortable with the idea of it again. Connie also makes it easy on him by being her adorable and understanding self. Without Daryl’s growth into a previous emotional/physical relationship, I don’t see them connecting as quickly as they did.
I really do not see why this has everyone in a frantic state, Maybe I just look at things differently? Or I just don’t care that much about who Daryl ends up with forever. As long as he’s in a good headspace and happy… Let Daryl Fuck! Let him develop away from the Alexandrian’s and everyone else. Let him develop at all, Jesus…
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gold-and-ashes · 3 years
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LFRP ––– – Askhwab Kroemspyrsyn
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|= Basics =|
Full name: Askhwab Kroemspyrsyn
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Nameday: 5th Sun of the 6th Umbral Moon
Patron Diety: Llymlaen, the Navigator
|= Physical =|
Hair: Dark Plum
Eyes: Gold
Height: 7 fulms, 6 ilms (7′ 6″, 228.6cm)
Build: Only looks mean. Broad, bulky, and soft. Generally muscular, but a bit of a pudgy appearance in the upper arms, belly, and thighs due to extended periods of inactivity while sailing. Somewhat self-conscious of the ‘necessary swagger’ walk he’s adopted to help maintain his top heavy balance.
Distinguishing Marks 
Dusting of freckles across the cheeks, nose, and chest; large, deep scarring on the upper right side of face.
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|= Personal =|
Profession: Captain of a merchant trade ship
Hobbies: Reading, Poetry (mostly reading, but he’s been known to write it… poorly), Exploration, Good food, if that counts...
Languages: Common Eorzean, Rudimentary Roegadyn [As used in naming conventions]
Residence: The Kingscup, his ship
Birthplace: Exact location unknown; born on his parent’s merchant ship.
Religion: Casual acknowledgement of the Twelve, not devout.
|= Relationships =|
Children: None. (Wants so many.)
Parents: Wyssuwil (mother, deceased), Kroemspyr (father, presumed deceased)
Siblings: Eifapfrym (younger sister, presumed deceased)
Other Relatives: None, that he knows of.
Pets: Chocobo, named for his beloved sister, whom he had trained professionally to heal. She lives a pampered life, and is not ridden or expected to carry cargo.
|= Traits =|
Extroverted / In Between / Introverted
Disorganized / In Between / Organized
Close Minded / In Between / Open Minded
Calm / In Between / Anxious
Disagreeable / In Between / Agreeable
Cautious / In Between / Reckless
Patient / In Between / Impatient
Outspoken / In Between / Reserved
Leader / In Between / Follower
Empathetic / In Between / Apathetic
Optimistic / In Between / Pessimistic
Traditional / In Between / Modern
Hard-working / In Between / Lazy
Cultured / In Between / Uncultured
Loyal / In Between / Disloyal
Faithful / In Between / Unfaithful
|= Additional information =|
Smoking Habit: Will occasionally take a cigar.
Drugs: Known to occasionally indulge in those known to induce deep, dreamless sleep.
Alcohol: Wine and Ale connoisseur, famously often. 
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|= RP Hooks =|
Investment Venture, or Anonymous Beneficiary
Always on the lookout for ways to supplement his business, connections, and the services he offers, Ash has become fond of providing startup money for those that can bend his ear with a convincing business proposal. Not one to casually show off his wealth, and dreadfully soft for seeing a young dream from to fruition, he’s also been known to drop a significant amount anonymously, or provided as a gift he does not expect repayment on. Looking for a business partner, or, just someone who’s willing to hear and believe in your craziest dream? Look no further…
People Finder
Living with the fact she may be long gone with the rest of his family, Ash is constantly on the lookout for anyone who may have seen or knows where his little sister is. A Sea Wolf like himself, and much the same in appearance, she’d be around twenty and nine summers now; he hasn’t seen her in more than twenty of them. All he has is a name, and some generic traits but he’d be willing to pay more than a fair amount of gold for useful information.
Monetary Counsel 
With his mother’s head for quick numbers and finances, his father’s planning and foresight, and his own instinctual nose for whiffing out a bad deal from a mile away, Ash doesn’t hesitate to admit he’s been blessed with the good fortune to carve out a successful niche for himself. Trade secrets and protected information are absolute bullshit to him; everyone deserves a fair chance to make a way for themselves, if they’re willing to put in the legwork. Need money or business advice? Think you’re being shaken down or swindled and can’t quite put together two and two? Need a bit of muscle to back up the dissolution of a bad business deal? Let’s talk.
|= Contact/OOC Information =|
I am in the NA Eastern Time Zone (EST/GMT -5 // EDT/GMT -4), and am active online earlier in the afternoon, and in-game later in the evening. I am 21+ and I prefer my partners be the same, for the comfort and respect of us both.
Ash’s home server is Balmung, but I’m happy to move around for meetups and events. ^^
** I like to let my partners know I suffer from severe epilepsy, which manifests in a number of ways, up to and including debilitating convulsive episodes. Due to this, I may sometimes be unavailable, answer messages late, need to cancel a pre-scheduled meet up, or need to leave an event early. I appreciate your patience and understanding in working around this. ♥ **
Feel free to contact me on Tumblr, or in game at any time. Discord information can be given upon request. I’m a bit shy to approach or start RPs, I always feel bothersome, so please feel free to reach out to me!
Tags for Visibility and Sharing: @ffxiv-crystal-rp​, @crystalxivrp​, @crystal-rp-ffxiv​, @mooglemeet
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cyberdva · 4 years
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Hi, could I have ship? I love reading and watching crime shows (especially Criminal Minds but I enjoy others as well) I'm a pretty big geek for Marvel, DC and Star Wars. I'm a really good listener, a lot of my friends and family come to me for advice/ they need someone to listen to them. Appearance wise I'm kinda short (5'3) I have black hair that I dye myself, like the damn emo I am 😂 its short and only goes about an inch past my ears. I have green/blue eyes and long eyelashes and I LOVE music
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Ship Request- Hi, could I have ship? I love reading and watching crime shows (especially Criminal Minds but I enjoy others as well) I'm a pretty big geek for Marvel, DC and Star Wars. I'm a really good listener, a lot of my friends and family come to me for advice/ they need someone to listen to them. Appearance wise I'm kinda short (5'3) I have black hair that I dye myself, like the damn emo I am 😂 its short and only goes about an inch past my ears. I have green/blue eyes and long eyelashes and I LOVE music
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A/N: From your description, you sound so lovely! I’m also extremely emo lmao
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You guys met in the arcade Richie usually plays at. You occupied the left side of Street Fighter machine most of the time. You saw each other from time to time and he joined on the right. It pretty much all started from there, every weekend it was a meetup.
Some days you went out for pizza too! Richie instantly took a liking to your appearance, no one in Derry was like you, it made him feel special to know you.
Richie would help you dye your hair, sometimes in the school bathroom, everytime it faded out Richie was the one to make the new decision on color, one time he wanted you to do yellow, but he mixed wrong and it came out as a weird lime green color. When you finally saw it he’ll broke loose, but you forgave him because the color was sleek.
It was like this around every 3 months. Richie loved to play with your hair, his is around the same length as yours (roughly).
When Bowers verbally messed with Richie in the arcade, you weren’t there. After he ran from that ginormous Paul Bunyan Statue to your house. He was crying and you took him to your room, unbenounced to your parents wishes.
You didn’t say much, just things to comfort him, and listened to him. He ranted for two hours, he felt so much better with you holding him.
Richie would take you to concerts, when a new album from your favorite band came out he was first to get tickets, especially in the pit. As you know, he also is a huge music fan and would eat up anything he could find in record stores. Imagine what he was like when CDs came out.
You would play bass or guitar with him, Richie was in a band for a short amount of time, but he did get kicked out. You were the only person that would let him play with you. He wasn’t bad, but he wasn’t good.
This bond continued last your teenage years, but you lose connection for a year or two, the curse of Derry basically made all thoughts of each other sort of fade away. Somehow you found each other at an airport and exchanged numbers from there.
He would take you to comic stores around the city, dump loads of money into Spiderman comics and to see various DC and Marvel movies. At that point Richie’s career was at his peak.
With his growing fame, you got to go to a red carpet event for an Avengers movie. You met all of the cast and got third row seats! You couldn’t thank Richie enough.
Things just kept going uphill for all of you, until you went back to Derry. You were an unstoppable power couple and you even saved Eddie from dying last minute! With extra eyes it paid off. You and Rich were a funky alternative couple that lived on powerfully in Pop Culture.
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vivien-dot-exe · 4 years
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Ask meme - every todoroki :eyes:
lmao BET
(this is super big huge I’m so sorry askdfjsh)
Shouto
NOTP
I don’t?? really think I have one. I’m pretty alright w/ all shouto ships tbh.
BROTP
todomomo. I get the ships but I kinda see em as them Good Supportive Friends that are just close enough that everyone Thinks They’re Dating n cannot believe they’re not but like. they never would. (am I projecting my best friendship onto shouto?? Maybe. fuck off.)
OTP
rn?? enjishouto lmao. I love love enjishouto man,, favorite child lovin,,,,
second choice
I ~guessss~ todobaku?? but tbh I’m not all that into most shouto ships. like we neutral most days. we just stay lovin bakugou + denying they’re friends???? so cute man,,
tied though is reishouto bc mommy kink. I won’t sit here and lie to you I just love gentle mommy kink sm
fluffy pairing
cliche fan fave - tododeku. we love a pair of supportive boyfs. I still do like seeing some tododeku art sometimes cause it makes our heart warm
angsty pairing
enjishouto again - I play things for angst so fuckin much dude,, if I can’t play my otp for angst then it probably isn’t gonna stick.
poly ship
can I say like. natsu/fuyu/enji/shouto. cause siblings that thirst over their hot dad together stay together
however hawks/enji/shouto is an incredibly tasty rarepair. there’s only one fic for it on ao3 but it’s So dang good,, 
weirdest pairing
I guess still enjishouto!! I have a very small amount of ships for the boy, man,,
Fuyumi
NOTP
n/a once again. every fuyumi ship I’ve seen to date or conjure up from crack shipping is cute bc she’s cute. I love seeing her in general.
BROTP
lowkey?? fuyuhawks. I can see them being excellent friends. I know romance takes are also good but. consider this: them chillin and acting goofy.
OTP
fuyunatsu. no question. it was my v first fuyumi ship and I will go down with it. (more explanation below)
second choice
fuyumi/miruko is really good!! maybe that’s just me being all ‘lesbians good’ @ the few fics n art pieces I’ve seen but Still.
fluffy pairing
reiyumi. we Love a girl n her mom huggin tight n kissing softly.
angsty pairing
fuyuenji. I’ve seen such good angst w/ these two man,, makes my heart heart Good ya feel?? them sad n guilty daddy’s girl feels Get Me
poly ship
sibling thorst: the ship (fuyu/natsu/enji/shouto)
weirdest pairing
if I was to make up a weird pairing,,,, bakuyumi. they interact Once but I like ships that are basically ‘we cook and it’s romantic’ (read: natsuki from ddlc anyone?). it’s a lil crack shippy and I’ve never ever seen any material for it, but wouldn’t it be cute to have bakugou cook w/ a cute older woman n have a cute romantic time while he’s all tsundere?? sighs wistfully,,
Natsuo
NOTP
hmm,, I’m honestly thinking I should take this option out. I really do think it cute to think the whole ass todofam w/ Anybody you know??
BROTP
natsushouto. like wow great job viv takin it Literally but as we don’t know much about natsu’s college life, I can’t exactly elect a best friend or nothin, and I Really love the concept of natsu and shouto acting like regular sibs. fighting n competing but hyping each other up, ya know?? sighs wistfully,, I actually really love brotherly dynamics a lot. like shipping em is usually my first thought but I also just???? like seeing em play around n be normal sometimes lmao. is that weird?? that it makes me happy?? idk.
OTP
fuyunatsu!! I love the concept of them constantly being there for each other, plus childish curiosity?? if you got sibs you know what that shit’s like. “you wanna try kissing??”
like listen not to be gross about it either but like. Puberty w/ that like entirety of the house to themselves. you can not tell me horny things never happened.
second choice
enjinatsu has Mad potential. I don’t get to see a lot of content for them but they make my heart happy. love the idea of both them being sweet to each other slowly in a path to forgiveness dotted with confessions and soft embraces,,,, or of course guilty dad thirst. both are Tasty
fluffy pairing
fuyunatsu is Cute. listen I want em to cuddle and support each other though they’re so different. like foils, ya know?? I am very weak for natsu having a weakness for fuyumi’s gentleness (though that could be said for the whole todofam. stan fuyumi)
angsty pairing
hmm,, I guess that’d be enjinatsu?? path to forgiveness enjinatsuo I can see being v feelsy and Tasty.
poly ship
sibling thorst Again.
weirdest pairing
man I don’t think any of these could be counted as Not weird. enjinatsu maybe?? as their dynamic is rather complicated n versatile + parent/child. I think the Least weird ship I’ve ever considered w/ him though would be natsuhawks, but I’ve not seen a lot of material for them nor do I have any ideas for dynamics. they just look nice together.
Touya (dabi)
NOTP
okay I’ll be real w/ you I lied I do have One notp and it’s dabihawks (hotwings). it’s. it’s okay, I’ll admit, but it kinda squicks me out in canon verses. like, reverse aus, genderswap aus, most aus really that slightly shift the dynamic, I’m good w/ dabihawks, but Not In Canon or any approximations of it.
(big rant on why, feel free to skip)
I guess antis just kinda fucked it up for me?? I was kinda neutral when it first was proposed, ya know like ‘oh that’s cute!! not for me but more power to ya!!’ but then dabihawks shippers started getting in hawksdeavor shippers’ faces n giving the usual arguments against age gap ships (as if a villain/hero ship was so uwu pure n unproblematic), and then there came the ‘hawks will betray the heroes and become a villain for dabi’ theories from them and it just. that was 2018 and it Still makes me uncomfortable to think about. 
I very much enjoyed hawks’ double agent thing!! but I knew an infiltration mission would end with betrayal from the beginning and that’s what I liked about it. him doing the absolute Most for the heroes even if it feels scummy to do so. I was Devastated for a moment when I saw hawks’ first meetup w/ dabi and it looked like he might be spying for them, but then we were quickly assured that it was a ploy and I was like Oh My God Thank God I Near Had A Heart Attack. but other people, the loudest group being dabihawks shippers, were dissatisfied with this and wanted canon to take a different direction and I Dunno Man, I just had very strong emotions about that and still do. 
I love hero hawks in all his double agent endeavor fanboy glory and people wanting to take it a different direction in canon felt like a blatant kind of???? idk defacing of character almost, even though that’s a mega mega mega dramatic way to put it loL don’t ask me why I got such strong feelins about it I couldn’t explain it if I wanted. I’d love to go back to being chill about it I really really would.
BROTP
idk, I think I might not???? have one for him. he seems kinda all or nothing to me, very intense w/ his emotions. if I was to Name one off the top of my head, maybe maybe togadabi, but even then I’m kinda hm on it.
OTP
first and favorite dabi ship is 1000% shigadabi. not even in most canon settings; I just like them chilling and being lovey (and going on large scale crime dates).
second choice
probably shoutodabi?? not Big on most dabi ships but love that older bro angst.
fluffy pairing
shigadabi bby!! if I wanna imagine dabi soft ever then shigadabi is a Lovely escape, canon absolutely notwithstanding.
natsutouya is also a good one to imagine, what w/ the image of them cuddling making my heart Warm
angsty pairing
shoutodabi. I saw this one reunion fic of them and I had So Many Emotions oh my god.
dabihaul is also a good candidate, though it’s less Angst more hurt little comfort. (not to mention I don’t ship it much myself lol a friend sold me on their interp) it’s not very emotional as I like my angst, more just got them whump aesthetics.
poly ship
good question. I’ve highkey not thought about it smH - maybe if I just,,,, *takes shoutodabi n shigadabi n smooshes them together*
idek how that’d work as a dynamic dude I Don’t KnoW LMAO
weirdest pairing
I guess enjidabi?? I think about it from time to time but I dunno how the dynamic would work but. very angsty whatever it is. lots of apology sexy times in my mind’s eye.
Rei
NOTP
n/a - rei is definitely one I will take any ship for.
BROTP
enjirei - I’m doing this out of order so I wrote the explanation on enji’s lmaO see below for details
OTP
oh man otp???? good question,, I’m a v big fan of reishouto tho. gentle mom lovin,,
second choice
rei/inko is also a good one!! something I still think is very cute from my early days in the fandom. just a couple of moms supporting each other and going on cute park dates,,
fluffy pairing
rei/inko is def the fluffiest. however, it can be argued that rei/anybody has good fluff material. rei is so,,,, ethereal lookin???? she looks like a flower or a ghost,, like breeze rustling sheer curtains in an empty sun lit room. gentle on the eyes but hella poignant. I can imagine her bein soft w/ everyone n everyone.
angsty pairing
reitouya. For Sure. rei taking care of her lost eldest who’s finally come home, ya know???? Sobs,,,,,,,, I don’t see shippy content of them ever but reunion fics/art Get Me
poly ship
this one might be a little weird, but inko/rei/mitsuki. I’ve only seen material for it Once but in my head it’s taking the cute mom ships of inko/rei and inko/mitsuki to make the Ultimate Supportive Mom Ship. and maybe masaru is there too supporting this bc I think he’s really good tbh I don’t want him sad or lonely.
weirdest pairing
uhhhhhh,,, idk man probably polyship is the only “Weird”/super rare one. mitsuki ain’t exactly gentle mom:tm: after all, but I think her spice goes well w/ it all, ya know?? inko n rei being gentle and mitsuki being the hype who arranges more fun dates n such for them to all take a cuddle pile nap afterwards,, and you know she’s the hype woman for the trio. 
Enji
NOTP
never met an enji ship I didn’t like tbh. they’re all good and I will fight on that.
BROTP
highkey?? enjirei. I ship em romantically sometimes, but I really like the idea of them divorced and getting other lovers but supporting each other fullheartedly. love that solidarity. like shit I could see them still living together n such but they just. drop the husband/wife shtick and support each other like friends.
OTP
enjishouto!! y’all been knew.
second choice
hawksdeavor is a longstanding fave. we love that fanboy/idol dynamic sm,,
fluffy pairing
oh jeez fluffy,, maybe enji/burnin?? I can see her being very energetic n supportive and being rewarded w/ soft forehead kisses. soft boss crush even if it’s one sided.
angsty pairing
both enjishouto and hawksdeavor provide Wonderful angst. the flavor is Immaculate y’all should try it.
poly ship
enji/the rest of the todofam/hawks/happiness. pls lma o
I am very much an enjibowl enthusiast, can y’all tell?? I just want him Smothered in love sometimes.
weirdest pairing
hmm,, enji/tsukauchi. I saw a doujin for it once and it was Lovely. an absolute crackship, but I love the hero/detective dynamic of toshinori/tsukauchi, but toshinori just doesn’t give it enough Spice in most interps I see. now enji being tsun n aggressive + level headed detective tsukauchi,, that was a tasty doujin for sure.
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That Darn Love Triangle
So I’m going to throw my two cents in on the love triangle of Alex/Michael/Maria. But first a few quick links to relevant previous posts:
My previous A/M/M thoughts (Mid season):
My post about Maria’s POV: 
My post about Michael’s Headspace in 1x13
My post about Maria’s plotline with her mother:
And I did highjack this post about small town dating:
All of which are relevant to my final view.  I also have two views - that as a storyteller viewing the narrative and as an audience member trying to understand the characters headspaces and interactions. This got really, really long.  Here’s the short version.
Storytelling - I don’t like the choice of a love triangle involving these three characters. I don’t really see it as moving the plot or character development forward right now - which is the whole point of a plot device.  Not just random drama, but plot and character development.  I’m a ship and let ship gal - I can see the appeal in both ships - I’ve written fics for both ships.  I just wish things had been handled slightly differently.
Character Headspace:  All three characters are to blame for the mess they’re in.
Then there’s the long version.
When it comes to the set up for the love triangle, it all comes down to one main factor.
Alex and Michael’s complete silence over their relationship
While Max and Isobel seemed to have figured out Michael’s feelings for Alex over the years (possibly due to the pod squad’s psychic connection), the relationship doesn’t truly come to light to anyone else until the present day.  The silence when they were younger is pretty understandable - especially given Jesse Mane’s actions.  However, there’s definitely a hint that they’ve met up since that fateful day as teenagers, and that comes from their words at the drive in:
Michael:  Guess you’re still the guy looking for any excuse to walk away
Alex:  Maybe, but you’re still so good at giving them to me.
Seeing as I don’t see these lines referring to Jesse attacking them in the shed, this hints that there’s definitely been at least one more meetup.  Either before Alex joined the Air Force, or some time during the ten years that followed.  Their continued silence into the present day is part of how the triangle is set up.  With nobody knowing how Alex and Michael are connected, it changes viewpoints and dynamics that otherwise would have existed between them and their respective friends and siblings.
Which brings me to the second part of the set up, and I am firm on this.
Alex ends their relationship at the drive in.
Sorry, but the words:
Alex:  This isn’t going to work out.
Is pretty much classic break-up speech.  I count the drive-in as a date for them, despite the three feet retained between them on the truck flatbed.  (Feel like making a Quiet Man reference here.  The proprieties shall be observed at all times. No patty fingers.)  (And the lack of shared funnel cake.  No, I’m not letting that go.  Seriously, who doesn’t share funnel cake with their date?)  So I feel they were viewing their latest interactions as the start of a relationship.  Alex actually refers to them as us in the trailer that same morning.
Alex: Wait, does she know about us?
If they didn’t consider themselves in a relationship, he could have asked that question in a variety of ways.  Does she know about this?/Does she know that I’m here?/Does she know we’re having sex?  All phrases that could have easily been used to indicate he didn’t consider them to be anything serious.  Instead he terms it like a relationship -  Does she know about us.  So when Alex then says it’s not going to work out, that’s a break up.  He follows it with a line I actually find a lot of fault with:
Alex:  I’m an Airman, I can’t be with a Criminal.
His line about Michael’s side hustle is fine with me.  If he doesn’t approve of how Michael is living his life - than, sure - it’s a legitimate excuse to end a relationship.  These words, though?  They cross a line for me.  They aren’t - I don’t like what you’re doing.  They’re - I’m better than the likes of you. Which, whoa, objection.  Alex basically just called the guy he’s in love with trash, which is not okay.  I definitely feel this is Jesse getting to his head, but like with so much of what follows for all the characters, the reason why may give the audience an explanation, but it’s not an excuse.  It’s still a shitty thing to say to someone.
Despite this, Michael attempts to approach Alex again over two months after the drive in, and Alex won’t even engage him in a conversation.  When he goes to leave, Michael asks where they stand and if it’s really over.  And Alex confirms that, yes, it is.  Which leaves Michael in a position to pursue a relationship, regardless of who either still have feelings for.  Feelings are not a relationship.  Relationships require mutual consent, not just mutual feelings.
Small Towns Views Dating in Social Circles Differently
Because of my viewpoint of small towns - which given Liz’s soliloquy in the pilot as well as the general atmosphere of the town during the show I feel Roswell is presented as - I don’t really have an issue with Michael choosing to pursue Maria.  If Michael had ended the relationship, I may have thought it was a questionable choice.  But he didn’t - Alex did.  That changes the dynamic.  Especially since Maria occupies a space in both their social circles.
Frankly if I had friends/acquaintances  A, B & C, and A broke up with B, then B got into a relationship with C months later, and A came to me to complain?  I’d tell A they were being a little bitch, and to grow up. Considering workplace relationship drama, I probably am guessing I may even have said that sometime in the last ten years.  If A was upset about it, I’d tell them to reconsider their feelings for B, but that they really still had no claim on B.  That’s kinda part and parcel to the whole dumping thing.
That brings us to Michael and Maria, for which I have two things to stress.
Maria does not know about Michael and Alex’s history at first
Michael and Maria’s relationship is not based on a one night stand
I think the second part is what is throwing some people off.  All they want to equate is that Maria and Michael slept together.  To me Maria crying on Michael’s shoulder was in no way romantic, and more about Maria shattering under the realization she can’t save her mother and Michael shoving his own pain about Isobel aside to comfort her - making the scene doubly tragic.  However, it’s a scene that changed both characters views of each other.  Michael had never seen Maria vulnerable til then - and let’s not forget that MIchael has a positively huge hero complex - and Maria had never seen Michael as someone capable of kindness and selflessness til that moment.  That starts the change to their dynamic, which then continues into friendlier banter when he fixes her sign, followed by them flirting in Texas.  All this leads up to the one night stand, which isn’t truly romantic, either.  Both are upset about the outcome of the trip in regards to helping their mother/sister.  In that moment both of them are looking to grab onto something to take away the pain.  Let me stress that, even.  Both are looking to grab onto something to take away the pain.  Remember that, because I feel it’s very important for what happens in 1x13.  However,  the moment their viewpoints of each other change, that’s what starts them towards a relationship - not the one night stand.
Honestly, from a storytelling standpoint, I think this is actually not the best choice for setting up a love triangle.  I see plenty of relationship set up, if this relationship was set between two characters whose relationship stands alone.  However,  I think having the relationship between Michael and Maria be new wasn’t a smart storytelling choice in this case.  They could easily have had them have a previous relationship during the ten years Alex was away, and fall back into the relationship after Alex dumps Michael and Michael comforts Maria.  I just feel in terms of a love triangle, the two relationships are unbalanced because more history and episode time are given to Michael and Alex.  You don’t generally build that big a back story, and have huge moments involving romantic confessions in the middle of a building that’s about to explode with a couple you don’t intend to end up together. (Short of killing one)   That makes how the love triangle will play out transparent, and makes me doubt how useful it will be as a plot device. Moving on.
Alex claims his feelings are past tense to Michael
After Jenna brings the Alien Serial Killer to their attention, and Kyle knocks some sense into Alex both about teetering on the edge of drinking his father’s kool-aid about the pod squad and his feelings for Michael  (Thank-you, Kyle.  Everyone is seriously hopeless on this show.  At least someone has perspective.), Alex does go talk with MIchael.  Despite Kyle calling him on the fact that his feelings are current, twice, Alex places their love in the past tense when talking to Michael.  I’d say he’s both right and wrong about how well they know each other, because while his only known random fact about Michael is his dislike for Mars Attacks, the conversations they did have when younger were far deeper than fav movies or foods.  Alex shared that his own home life was bad and offered his bolt hole. Michael told him about his chaos and music, and his lack of belief in humans just being kind to each other.  Those are heavy conversations, tbh, and worth more than fav colors.  Still, starting to get to know each other from scratch isn’t a bad idea.  However, I still feel a miscommunication is going on over what Alex wants from Michael in this moment, and I feel Michael misunderstood why he chose to leave when he did.
Maria lies to Alex about her feelings
This is one of Maria’s biggest errors.  While I feel it comes from two places.  (Guilt and denial over her own feelings) - she still left Alex with the impression that she doesn’t care about Michael.  At all, really.  Do I think Alex suspects she’s lying?  Yes, I do think so.  I also can see why Alex wouldn’t have pressed that matter.  He doesn’t want Maria to admit she likes the guy he’s in love with.  I think overall this is Maria’s biggest contribution to the mess of the love triangle.  At some point, when she began to realize pushing Michael away was hurting her feelings, she should have come clean to Alex. This is her moment of an explanation is not an excuse.
Storytelling wise they don’t give them a single scene past that confrontation, which makes the confession impossible.  They could have made time for it, though, and I feel a second conversation on the subject would have gone a long way to making this love triangle less about random drama and open the door to it actually being used for character development.
Michael tells Maria he and Alex are over
Because their relationship is over.  Refer back to previous facts.
Alex dumped Michael
Alex confirmed they were over when Michael flat out asked him
This is why breakups can be messy.  One party can still have feelings - even both parties can still have feelings.  Relationships require more than feelings.  They require consent, the ability to build a life together, effort; communication. (That last one is a huge issue with these two)  Michael and Alex are not on the same page at any time post breakup.  So, Michael was telling the truth to Maria.  Alex feeling hopeful is great for Alex.  If Michael doesn’t feel that way, even if he still loves him - that’s Alex’s tough luck.  Love isn’t an obligation.  Until Michael is ready to be in a relationship with Alex again, Alex doesn’t have any say in Michael’s life.
Alex confesses at Caulfield, and seeks him out a few hours later
While Alex’s confession is huge, especially for his character, it comes at a desperate time.  They are both minutes away from dying when Alex manages to finally tell Michael how he currently feels, but Michael fails to return Alex’s confession, instead focusing on trying to shut him down and send him away to safety.  MIchael is desperate to save his people or die trying - until his Mother talks sense into him.  (Thank-you, Mara.  Damn, for such a short scene you really steal everyone’s hearts.)
This leaves their relationship on an edge, with Alex being the one whose put his heart on the line, and not sure where Michael stands.  It’s not surprising he seeks him out again, both to ensure he’s alright and to try to get clarification on that.  The problem is, they are again not on the same page.  Alex is messed up about Caulfield because his family was running a house of horrors, and he nearly lost Michael.  MIchael is traumatized by what happened to the rest of the people on their ship and the loss of his mother after finally finding her.  Alex’s desire to finally talk about his past choices and the problems he’s currently wrestling with would be a great step in their relationship, if it didn’t occur at a time when Michael is not in a good mindset to receive it.
Michael tells Alex they will talk the next day, but doesn’t speak to him before going to Maria
While I admit, Michael is traumatized, and storytelling wise I don’t like him being in a relationship with anyone right now, this is another of those an explanation is not an excuse moments.  Alex was definitely going to kiss him, and Michael did not look like he was planning on pushing him away.  While I do have objections to Alex approaching him in that moment when Michael is pretty messed up in the head, Michael should have spoken to Alex first the following day.  Even if it’s just to tell him he can’t be with him - it still should have been his first stop.  Trauma or not, it’s a jerk move.
Maria accepts Michael’s overtures to a relationship in 1x13
I see a lot of people saying they don’t understand her choosing Michael over Alex.  That’s how they see this choice. Friendship vs Crush.   That’s not what I see.  To me, she isn’t choosing Michael over Alex.  She’s choosing herself over Alex.  That’s a very different thing, and occurring for a very different reason.
This choice is likely to damage her friendship with Alex, and hurt his feelings.  So in terms of her friendship with Alex, it’s wrong.  However, all of them are single.  This isn’t adultery.   She is not “stealing” Michael.  He is not an object to be stolen to begin with. Her accepting a relationship with him is not inherently wrong.  Nor does it make her a bad person. It means, just like Alex and Michael through this whole love triangle mess, she’s making a call that’s going to hurt somebody else.   It means she’s human.
So, the real question is - why is she making this choice?  Let’s refer back to my earlier statement of why they slept together in 1x09:
Both are looking to grab onto something to take away the pain.
Every complaint I read about Maria’s choice seem to look upon this action as if Maria is in a happy, chipper place.  Like her life is hunky dory, and she has no reason to be in anything but the best headspace.  I’m really baffled by this interpretation.  So, let me enlighten you.  She’s not in a good headspace.
Will you step away from alien drama and take a good hard look at Maria’s life?  Let me give you the shorthand.  She has been solely responsible for her mother as her health failed for years.  She’s emotionally and mentally exhausted from that - we witness that in 1x07 and 1x09.  She is financially unstable despite owning the bar she also works at due to her mother’s medical bills. (Mentioned in 1x07)  Her own mother no longer recognizes her. (Stated in 1x09). And three days ago, considering the only questions Deputy Evans asked her that evening, she believes she was targeted and drugged by a serial killer.(Noah taking control of her and using her to steal the serum in 1x11)
Seriously?  How good a headspace do you think she’s in?  Chipper and well adjusted right now? Hell to the no.  Just like Michael, she is falling to pieces right now.  They are both in pain, both experts at fake it til you make it,  and choosing to grab onto something new that seems to promise happiness with no pain attached.  Do they honestly care about each other?  Yes.  Is it love?  No, I don’t think it is anywhere near that level yet.  If it weren’t for life really sucking right now, would they make this choice?  We don’t know - because that’s not the story we’re given.
From a storytelling standpoint, I actually wonder why they chose to reveal Alex and Michael’s relationship to her in 1x10, rather than hold out for second season.  It would have been easy not to do that scene, and have them get involved in an actual relationship before she found out.  I really don’t see how that would have hurt their relationship more than them putting them into a relationship and then her finding out, say,  Michael is an alien. (Still do not approve here.)  Liz found out before she got into a relationship with Max present day.  Alex found out during their break up, and before he chooses to pursue Michael again.  Even Cam found out after she split with Max.  Other than Noah, who doesn't really count anymore due to being an evil manipulative murderer who already knew anyway, nobody found out during a relationship.  How is that not going to be way worse a secret to reveal in the middle of a relationship?  Not to mention that her two best friends are also keeping this secret from her.   Right now I don’t see this plot ending happily for Maria, on any fronts.   So from a storytelling standpoint, especially as a fan of Maria, I hate this love triangle.
From a character headspace - All three are having potentially the most miserable year of their lives since they were seventeen, and are really effing things up.
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"Kubernetes engineers keep your favorite software running"
In Greek, the word "kubernetes" means "helmsman." In tech, it's a system created by Google that uses containers to help software work more efficiently with the server space it has. Just as someone helms a container ship, Kubernetes makes sure everything gets where it's supposed to be.
Containers are systems that have everything needed to run a piece of software: the code, the dependencies, and on and on. Companies build their products using containers so they’re standardized, whether it runs in the cloud or in a physical data center. Kubernetes manages the workloads and services associated with containers, so software efficiently uses server space. Kubernetes, which Google donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is now one of the most active open-source projects ever. Google remains the top contributor for the project, including leadership and committee positions. 
Aug. 26 marks the five-year anniversary of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), our managed version of open-source Kubernetes, becoming available to everyone. GKE engineers contribute beyond Google Cloud to the Kubernetes community at large. Here, three of those engineers—Michelle Au, Janet Kuo and Purvi Desai—explain why Kubernetes is so important, and how it’s used in the real world. 
Google Kubernetes Engine turns five this year. How would you explain Kubernetes to a five-year-old?
Michelle Au:Kubernetes is a tool that helps many of your favorite games and websites run without problems, even when all your friends want to play at the same time. It makes sure that there are enough computers running to support everyone using them, they are restarted if they crash and that they update without problems.
Janet Kuo:Think of containers as plants. To grow a plant, you need to first find some pots, and then fill the pots with seeds and compost. Let’s say you have all the plants in one pot and there’s not enough compost in that pot. Then you need to move them to other pots. Kubernetes is like a gardener that helps you take care of your plants, check the compost levels of each pot, check the health of your plants, remove dead plants or transplant them when needed. Kubernetes can also grow more or less of certain kinds of plants (“I want at least two roses and at most 10 roses at all times”) based on your preferences. 
Purvi Desai:Imagine a child wants to build a huge city out of Legos. Deciding which Lego blocks needed would take significant time and hard work. Now imagine instead, the child vaguely describes the idea of the city, along with shapes and colors, to their mom. Mom buys Lego kits and builds them for the child. She also works with them every day to add more buildings, so the child can spend more time playing rather than working. Think of Kuberentes as the mom, applications that you use on your computer or tablet as the Legos and the child as the application developer.
And how would you describe your role in GKE to a five-year-old?
Michelle:As a software engineer on the storage team, I write computer programs that make sure your important information is safely stored in Kubernetes.
Janet:I’m the Kubernetes project maintainer. I review code, fix bugs and implement new features. I also build products and tools on top of Kubernetes. You can think of those products as equipment Kubernetes uses to do fancier work. 
Purvi: I’m a senior manager in GKE and Kubernetes development team. My teams build the plumbing or roadways, aka the networking, for Kubernetes. We do the heavy lifting for our customers. 
Why is Kubernetes so important?
Janet:In a world where customers need access to software—regardless of their location—Kubernetes allows applications to run at global scale. Another benefit of Kubernetes is that it runs anywhere, so you can move your applications around. Kubernetes also allows you to customize and manage any resources you want, even the ones that live outside of Kubernetes, using the Kubernetes APIs.  Michelle:Kubernetes makes it easier for users to adopt good practices for running applications. It provides basic building blocks for scaling workloads, monitoring their health and updating them. This enables teams to develop, roll out and test their applications faster—making those applications more reliable and dynamically scalable. Kubernetes took off because it’s portable across any infrastructure provider and flexible to extend it with custom APIs. 
Purvi: Kubenetes enables you to run cloud native applications anywhere consistently on various platforms. It’s become massively popular not only with developers of modern cloud native microservices applications but also with developers looking to move their traditional applications to a platform that isn’t dependent on the underlying infrastructure. It’s enabled developers and operators alike to run their test and production workloads in environments of their choice without needing to rewire the application. This will continue as more businesses become digital. 
What are some real-life applications of GKE? Tell us a story of a favorite customer use case.
Janet:One of my favorite customer use cases is Shopify. Shopify runs entirely on GKE. They chose GKE and Kubernetes because it allows Shopify to cope with huge spikes in traffic, such as Cyber Monday, Black Friday shopping events or when a celebrity shares a new product on their Shopify store. 
Michelle: I love hearing how GKE enables customers to push the limits of computing. My favorite customer story is this Kubecon keynote by CERN that included a live demo on GKE processing 70TB of data in five minutes to rediscover the Higgs boson. This was impressive not only because of the scientific achievement and processing power demonstrated, but also because they highlighted the portability of Kubernetes and the reproducible environment of containers. 
Purvi: My favorite use cases are when customers have successful massive-hyper growth in a matter of minutes and GKE helps them scale to those demands. We see amazing graphs during launch of new online games, Black Fridays, flash sales, during live events like the Super Bowl, when customers migrate traffic and during customers’ new product launches. It’s so satisfying to see our customers’ business growth and our platform’s role in seamlessly enabling it.
What has your experience been like as a woman in software development? What do you think the future will be like for women in the field?
Janet:A few years ago, I went to a developer meetup with a woman friend of mine who had never been to one before. She was surprised that we were the only two women there, but I didn’t even notice because I was so used to being outnumbered. Luckily, our industry is becoming increasingly diverse over time. 
Michelle: In college, I was part of a women’s engineering community where I established many long-lasting friendships. On the GKE team, I’ve been able to work with many great women leaders, and the leadership in general has been very supportive and accommodating to make sure everyone feels safe and comfortable on the team. I know that my experience is unfortunately not the norm for a lot of women in the field. I hope that with more women role models and leaders, we can help build inclusive communities and encourage more women to take up a career in software. 
Purvi: When I joined a startup straight out of college, I was the only woman in the engineering and product group. But thanks to my upbringing and deep focus on my work, I never felt out of place in the field. I did, however, feel the pinch later at a different startup job when I had my kid and I was the first mother on the team. The company didn’t have support systems like paid leave or a mother’s room. Overall, things are getting better with more women in the field. I think the future for women in software development is bright.  
What’s your advice for aspiring developers who want to get started?
Michelle:It’s important to spend time learning about computer science concepts rather than deep-diving into specific technologies. The latest frameworks and programming languages will come and go, so it will be easier to adapt and learn if you have a good conceptual background.
Janet: Be hands on. Build something from what you’ve learned, and don’t worry if it’s “good enough.” Write articles about what you’re building or learning. This helps you grow and deepens your understanding of a new technology. 
Purvi: Find your passion or interest and explore how computer science can help you realize it. You have to lay the groundwork by learning programming languages, algorithms, data structures and such. This might get boring and tough, but these are fundamental skills just like reading or math. Once the groundwork is laid, the ability to turn your passion into reality will be exhilarating. 
Learn more about how to develop using Kubernetes. 
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NINJA Q&A #5 | LIVE AMAZON FBA YOUTUBE – AMAZON FBA NINJA STUDENT QUESTION & ANSWERS Ninja Q&A #5
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What up yo man what up Brad, see you guys for a Brazilian, what are your thoughts on taking investors, into your private label, any common investment structure, cuz you recommend Echo, please share month, sry, investors in, private label, you’re right because this is a lot of, hidden fees, really think about upfront like, you know you don’t want to be, 3 or any number of waves, sides you know just, 50/50 right because, another storage, fifi the nephews, products, then you know, just gets extremely calm book, located with, fulfillment season, all of the different things right, because things aren’t as, ideas you might put, and so I was recommend that you, keep it at 50., fifty partnership, you do want to partner with people if not, then, definitely Aldi, invested on the same products, so, yeah that’s my answer for that Amazon is reporting earnings tomorrow by the call options AMD, Just announced Mass hiring thought, i mean Amazon’s been absolutely., destroying it on a tear their stalkers, the world as everyone, you know knows as all of us know a spell, what kind of our livelihood, so, you know I always I always recommend buying a call, you know what are you going to trade options or just buy login, woodstock itself, i think Amazon is a great long-term pick, whether or not they actually do you know Alpha, perform for the Amazon has obviously has, expectation, being one of the craziest growth stocks of all time, what up Andrew, whatever Emily you need to come to the east coast for a black belt Meetup yeah I know it was fun we did our first kind of, official meet up, it was small one finger like 10 or 50, cannabis in Denver, cuz I’ll be here for the next, do you want until I head off, Soon as the owner Australia, but yeah about to do an East Coast meet up next time I’m on the East Coast will definitely do that or more we might have to meet, regrettably and you know bgsm Paradise place like that, is a trademark by shamsi brand registration apply to your storefront brand name or the individual items, you sell stuff you get brand registered you have to have a, trademark now, which means that your store name right so when you go to like, garlic press or Alpha grillers or whatever, right you’ll see their store name of that little link you can click, that is now the, same name as your trademark or it should be right because you should be, trademarking, either your logo itself or the actual name of your business, you know or if your logo is the name of your business but in like some specialized font, That’s actually kind of a.
Little trick that I use with all of my dick, different trademarks, i’m to make sure that both my logo and the text are covered, at least partially a kind of loophole but it’s what I’ve been doing, i’m cuz they usually try to make you either do, you know just the logo itself or just the text, or if you want both kids, pay double, but if you have your logo in like a specialized font that reads, your text, it’s kind of a way to get, 242 / 1, austin, nick is it possible to use ClickBank for Amazon listing if so explain in detail how it’s done, yes you can, we talked about this the other day basically you just, you know you create a link, using ClickBank right, and, people on ClickBank will sell your product for an affiliate, So it’s just like any other party like if you’re going to sell, a digital, coaching package teaching somebody how to meditate, and you get 51% of, you know your overall cost, to your affiliate, they’re going to Market it they’re going to make 51, 5% of the sale when they get a sale you’re going to 49, it’s the same thing with a physical product, the only difference is, you know you have to go through a little bit more stringent of an application product, our process, not working for you make a video, okay yeah I can make a video on exactly how to do it I’m not sure what you mean by not working for me but, you know me and a bunch of my friends who are, doing very well on Amazon, i’m use ClickBank all the time it depends where your product is right like, clickBank, Affiliate marketing talking to, reselling, toilet paper or like some commodity, but you know if it’s like a taxi, little flashlights are like some, thing that has a little bit you know more Pizzazz than, that works a lot better, what up bro man what up Bentley, i hear you want to sell Equity stake in ninja what’s your asking, nick all your questions are so amazing, nothing I’ve never I never thought I could you’re not the point I’m obviously he’s joking around but, never sell equity in your business is or have you, you do make sure that it’s worth your while tenfold right B, equity is everything, it’s what we’re building right, scale, it’s what you want write it, leaving that nine-to-five grind behind, where you’re directly exchanging, one hour of your time and your life, forex dollars, is what we’re fighting to the death to, to avoid right, When we get to the point where we have a, scalable infrastructure, bill where we know we’re earning money while worth, sleeping that is what true equity in, true wealth is so never give away your points, percentages of your comfort, ever, and if you do make sure it’s, damn worth it, hey man how much items do I need to give away, edwards, so this is a complicated question I’m take a look at module for the latest video I added, all the new stuff that I’m adding consequence, the course I’m actually time-stamping now, so it was I put that out on 721, it explains in very detailed in a very detailed way, exactly how to know, how to get to page one, through giveaway so if you haven’t watched that video, make sure you’re checking to the chorus consoling got cuz I’m updating it constantly and adding brand new stuff, As it becomes available so.
Edwards take a look I think it’s the last video in module 4 part 2, it tells you exactly how many you have to give away, to get to page one and had to do a very quick, and very inexpensive, mitch hey Kev, i was going to the modules but I’m getting stuck on how to calculate if, the product of 9 and 9 I tracked is worth, moving forward with, step by step process, 909, i track message right it’s, important to, 2/2, some perspective about the, what the numbers actually, write the product selling a thousand a day but is making zero profit, then you don’t want to sell it right or if it’s selling, 1 per day and making a hundred profit per unit then you do want to sell it so it’s not about actually the number of unit, it’s selling per day, It’s more about the, profit per day, does units are generating right so when you, cU number of sellers are you, uCA light landscape, that looks like something that you want to pursue, do right so let’s say you, find yunobo, a turtle sweater, do you know for your turtle in case he gets cold, and you find it like the highest volume keyword is, turtle sweater right until you look on, you look on Amazon into the search bar you type in Turtle sweater, you see it you know, 10 people all of which have less than 100 less than 50 review, used rides everything okay cool then you run jungle Scout Chrome extension you seen that everybody is kind of has good numbers you seen at the height, attract is not concentrated just in that first a seller right, and then, from there, basically, you need to take the next step right you need to have, At least, reasonable a reasonable idea of the cost of goods sold for the turtle sweater right, and then you have to have a reasonable idea of the cost per unit, to ship it, and so the way you do that is you contact manufacturers right you get some basic cost of goods sold quotes, and then you contact one of the freight forwarders that I share with all my students right, and you say hey this is what I’m shipping, it’s a waste this much we’re going to do this many cartons right or you estimated Lee, right, if you can’t figure out the shipping cost estimate, $1 coffee gets old, is $1 shipping, extreme estimate, incredibly, extreme estimate don’t say, what time-in you told me that $1 cost of goods sold equals $1 shipping, i’m 10 if you absolutely cannot find, a quote, worshipping then use that estimate once you have caustic, It’s old and shipping right you can use the Amazon FBA calculator once you have those numbers you can get a very accurate, profit margin, per unit sold after FBA fees, after referral fee, once you have that right let’s say that is 50, super sad then if you see all of them, the top 10 guys are all selling five units, 5 units per day right, that $20 then you know you’re making, 5, times are profit margin of 50% at $20 5 * 10 is, $50 profit a day, that’s how you make, how do you find Wholesale Distributors if you want to wholesale Nick I don’t I don’t sell wholesale it’s not, it’s not a viable business model compared to private label in my personal opinion you know it’s a race to the bottom Amazon, specifically structures, there, sales platform to enforce, you know the, the lowest, bitter winning the buy box, in most cases right, Obviously there’s one on cases where you know Prime eligibility is involved or seller metrics but normally.
You know the person who has the lowest price especially in wholesale wins, and I’m not interested in creating, you know an Empire of Louis bitter right I want to create a luxury brand and everything that I do I know, never want to compete on price right so I’m not into, twisted personally in wholesale, that being said there are a lot of people who are making you no good money doing it, but I’d rather Focus my personal time on private label because that is what I’ve seen, w much more profitable, and how about you how much higher longevity, weird thoughts on Amazon entering Singapore worth the investment for a relative, consumers already used, alternative, i need to do more research, bjorn to be sure about that but, I mean I’ve been to Singapore number of times they have a lot of money, they have a lot of high-rise buildings where people are living in luxury type, environments, i think that the excitement over Amazon is going, how to be a huge wherever they go cuz they have unbelievable marketing budgets, and your brand loyalty like no other company in the world, that’s why I definitely think it’s worth pursuing maybe that’s something that you know the students can vote on, for those of you who don’t know on YouTube the students, boat on topics that they want me to do a video on and then I usually try to put at least like one, you know out of weed so if you guys, vote all the students all my maybe she was out there if you vote, and you want me to do a video on Yo may be entering the Singaporean market then I can do some research and get a better answer, For you guys, right now, i don’t know for sure, i’ll always be honest, transparent, but you know I would, off my initial, kind of got feeling I would say yes, it’s definitely worth it wherever Amazon answers, but I would need to do more research to be able to sell for, would you go into a product that only has one listing and it’s sold by Amazon, i posted that before in Black Ops, yulia yeah I mean it depends on what the product is right if it’s, patented it Amazon owns a patent to it or a trademark, that people are searching, for the product, by name like it, kevlar, then you don’t you don’t necessarily want, it has a listing that has, 50 reviews, maybe it’s a brand new market that no one’s found yet and it’s a, Right at the diamond in the Ruff so message me message me about it if you want to share what it is I can take a closer look, otherwise I wouldn’t I would need more information be able to answer that, what are the best apps to run that yield best results traffic, the campaign, la exedra, it depends what you’re selling Nick obviously I mean give me more details there, aboluo I don’t answer that, if Milo keyword, milo Baker campaign in common, spelling for Spanish, accuWeather, milo bikira campaign, common misspelling / Spanish, keyword exact match campaigns aren’t giving me any impression, what should I do, loki where did campaigns should be broad match, if if you’re using your you know most common words, and most common phrases related to your product and you, you’re breaking it down into single word, using the word counter how exactly how I show you to do, Those 100 percent should be getting.
A ton of impression, if that’s if that’s not the case and you need to restart your campaign, because how Amazon’s auction, can work, is, loaded campaign, i’m sorry I’ll answer that in a second, how how the Amazon ad campaign works right as if it gives you initial Impressions and you’re not getting click-through-rate, you’re not getting any no buys based on that keyword, amazon at Austin system will deem that supposed, keyword not relevant to your product right, and so sometimes you have to restart campaign from the beginning, wiki words that you know should be working, right and you will get impressions furlough keyword, for 100% fact, calling to spelling test Spanish., for exact match, amazon’s algorithm is smart right I’ve never gotten huge, impressions for common misspelling, or for Spanish right it’s, If more like a couple, yo, between, 2 + 10 sales per month, right it’s not like you’re going to get huge, cute styles from it just kind of like a really quick thing you set up, forget about it’ll give you a few extra low-cost sales per month, what’s the best way to ensure that your supplier doesn’t take forever with a manufacturing inspection, i’ve been waiting for 1.5 months now, yeah so you want to you want to include a clause, in your purchase order right that says you know, we agreed on 25 days for manufacturing, is it goes over one week, right we’re going to take $200 off the overall right off 217 up to 70% final, balance, if it goes over 2 weeks, we’re going to take off 500 additional, right until you work that into an arrangement where they should, i’ll be keeping their word if they’re not then they’re losing out on money from it, Does it help, if people search garlic press and then leave an unverified review of a product, compared to, f, how to compare death age, just click on the Amazon product link, turn on verified route, review or doesn’t matter at all, yeah I need some clarification on that question Joel could you could you clarify down below, we’re done with the Amazon, tDCJ search, turmeric are there a bunch, customer service job with a lot of impressions, do you recommend adding is a sandstorm annual campaign, guess of the reason this happens right is if somebody clicks on a garlic press, anime scroll down Elsie sponsored products related to year, to your product, click one of those right maybe they like how your garlic press picture looks better, maybe they like your dress but your price better, if they click on one of those, that will actually read, Mister as a Nathan in your customer search term, excuse me in your search term report under the customer search term exact match right, if you, run a campaign, for those Athens it actually, you know it won’t do that much because no one’s actually, putting that a sin, into the search bar, at which point you, you know you register as a sponsored ad for that how it’s actually working is there clicking on a garlic press going down sink, sponsored products related, clicking nearest, an Amazon Xeno auction at auction software for whatever reason, basically just register that as a customer search term, even though they’re not actually ever, searching your, specification in the search bar, how often does Amazon update product rankings and move your products page up or down, on the search, at least once a day according to my observation, bSR get updated, You know pretty much constantly it’s like hourly right.
Google pagerank, i’ve seen a scene calculated or updated at different time intervals, so, i seen it updated you know daily I seen it for sure s updated, 7 Days right it’s different for different subcategories and different, overarching categories on Amazon they all have different delay periods for updating actual page, they drank your BSR rank, is updated basic, the hourly from what I’ve, but you know the reason that it’s important when you’re doing your product launch when we talk about you know how to get, the page one, if you want to, sustain that sales velocity, which is the number one factor for product launch, you want to sustain that sales velocity, 3 to 7 days, because you want to be you want to have that impression you want to give Amazon A9 algorithm the impression that you’re maintaining that sell, Velocity, for its entire duration, before it resets the page rank right and that’s how you, you jump so quickly, thanks yeah you’re welcome. I hope that answered if you have any additional questions we went down below, my part is on his way to Amazon it’s showing us out of stock since it’s not in their warehouse yet but I have to, you listing ready, ciroc, when will my listing, show up in search, i tried to copy and paste my title, jason it’ll show up when you’re actually when you actually show in stock, what kind of other businesses, how do you run, i mean I have a digital, i have a digital product business obviously have a coaching business I have, you know but big physical product business, no I do stocks and bonds and, some friends and I are getting into, do real estate Sol, i try to keep it into kind of like the main, 3 write digital physical and real estate, but, things constantly change when you meet new people and you realize new, investment, peso, hopefully that’s a number of different, future but as of right now, kind of my main focus, i noticed a giveaway for being promoted within the black belt, which I think is a great show of support but I’m wondering if this, could trigger a violation of Amazon, tOS what do you think, yeah it’s safe just because there’s enough, people now injury it’s like, if you and I are the only two people in the black belt group, and we kept exchanging products, right we kept reviewing for just one another I think that it would be a lot more, sketchy, so don’t always use the same people write try to try to, red Owl, on the people who are, You know reviewing your products especially if it’s full price and reimbursing them on PayPal which, is against terms, but a lot of people doing it, but you know it, what’s the best way when you have a, people that are close-knit right that you, you trust and that you’re not related to, to write like they’re not family they’re not friends in real life you don’t live in the same geographical area, is absolutely the best way, that you can you know build reviews very quickly on a new product launch which, is extremely important for maintaining momentum for getting TP, pC up and running right, maintain that initial product launch velocity that you’re using, that you’re getting, giveaways, some master ninja posted a bunch of hacks, can your Facebook group, nick I seriously love all your question, my thoughts on these Golden Nugget I also read through them and I’ll share the best of the Golden Nugget, From the 700.
Call Matt, thread that is on the, the 20 mm, 10% Advance Facebook, people that haven’t seen it take a look, all weed through them and share the best ones that I can, can verify are for sure, no good ones that aren’t going to get your account suspended, i’ll do that eventually, danmark when are you coming to Australia in which part of Australia, i’m going to do the whole East Coast so I’m going to start kind of the bottom and work my way up, and then I’ll probably be I’ll probably do the same thing go from the top Island to the bottom Island, new Zealand Charter, head as much as I cannibal, i know you brought it up a few, few times but it seems, the 250 character backend, thank you words saying it, real Amazon is slowly rolling out across the board, How to listen to the, still getting 5000 but then I have another which is getting about, 280, give a listing an index, 5000 yard I be incredibly surprised with us, if if it does happen which it one hundred percent has not happened yet for everyone, they could be rolling it out slowly Amazon you know does whatever they want and then you can have to figure it out as of right now., the 250 character backend keyword indexing is a myth, it is not true for everyone, that is not to say that it isn’t true for some people it could be for but not for me yet, i’m still you know I’m still indexing, 600-700, here are two main characters in my back and so it’s 100% not, affect, for everyone, yet, effect that I think it’ll have, is that would have to be, be smarter about how we, Choose those 250, what is user will use a character account software, and, will have to will have to really narrow down, all of our experiments and be extremely, precise, with, the 250 that we do, dude shoes, once that does happen, i know the service that gets, the back-end keywords, competitor should I use it you have it in the list, yeah I mean I’ve used it it’s it if you want to just, get if you want to immediately not have the internet not have to test things, if you want to just, copy, the organic first position seller, right, if you if you wanted to, just copy their their back in keywords you know it’s working, you know Amazon deals them relevant right you know, that if their inorganic position one, you know assuming that they’re not using black hat Taxi, if you know that if they’re organic position 1, Then basically, amazon has deemed their back-end keywords very relevant and, did you copy those and then you don’t mix, slight alterations, what’s that you’re selling stainless steel and there’s a ceramic obviously, replace the word ceramic with stainless, tLC make slight alterations, 4, aquatic NFL way to, guarantee, that, you know you’re listening is going to start out with a lot of organic Rank and then when you’re running your your product, product launch giveaways, keyword specific manually how we discussed what in the product launch module, then you’re going to get us, fun, organic keyword rank for words you know for sure are a very relevant and then one, what’s your rank for all those relevant long tail keywords that the A9 algorithm is putting together, from your back-end keywords then you know you’re going to get a ton of organic sale that’s just how it that’s how it’s, Going to work.
What are the disadvantages of this if any, the disadvantage of this, it cost money for some people obviously, sprite if you don’t have the budget for it, you kind of have to test for, yourself, but other than that there’s not a ton of disadvantages, i just saved you some of the iterative work., figure out which ones are hitting, hey Kevin what barcode scanning software do, do you use to check if, the FSU, you print it on the box, is working when manufacturer, prodigy, i never done that Slava I mean there’s, you going to search, amazon fnsku or Amazon, uPC sticker requirements, and it’ll tell you you know, it needs to be like this quality of printer on like this type of stuff but like, any serious manufacturer that, you know hat Amazon sellers before is generally going to, Going to know that but, as I always say, client has nothing it’s on you to make sure that everything is done correctly rights, share that article with them say hey, i just wanted to make sure you know that, this sticker and RFS use that we’re putting out whether it’s on the sticker or whether it’s on the box itself are up to Snuff, and you know they’re not going to be turned away or unable to, police can buy Amazon FBA, reasonable profit after, the first month, starting, i mean it depends that you are shift right and you do everything perfect, berkeley for your product, research, you know and you order enough units that you’re happy that you have a healthy giveaway budget, play the get the page one and then you know you know what you’re doing, bBC, you could easily you know me, 3000 profit a month or, 325 or even more, pretty easily if you do everything right and you, you hit the ground running, you have enough stock right now, you use the best freight forwarders to get you, the best prices, right you use levers the suppliers against one another to get the lowest prices, you use 1688 you use, free shopping China use all the difference, i’m tools that we talked about, in all the different modules, if you do that you know you can easily make 3/5 or even more depends on, depends on how well you product research and, you know your, your budget for Inman, what are the main considerations When selecting, retail package, can you steer clear poly bags Kenny FM, sKU be printed on a nylon drawstring bag, no it can’t be printed on a nylon drawstring bag, i use poly bags on the outside of my bosses pretty often actually, Just so they don’t they don’t get likes, stop. Right cuz I always want to be giftable right, his gift products, it’s taboo to return them to the return rates, significantly lower, sprite for holidays yourself, explode for Q4 is absolutely insane, right until I like the, the product Packaging, to be in pristine condition in the way you do that right cuz nobody gives a s*** about your product, at the UPS guy throwing it on the ground, write the Amazon employees hungry and a baby’s crying and he’s, brick and tossing it on the, ground as well so nobody stickers, about your products you have to, protect it right, if you use all of the, you know all the, tricks that you can do, keep your products safe and to keep your product packaging safe, put a poly bag on the outside as far as, just no box I’ve never done that because I always want to go, Premium and charged.
The premium price right I’m never trying to compete on price, there’s no point to do that you’re always going to get hijacked and is going to be somebody selling it for like $3 from, shipping from China so it’s just not worth it, how much are the manufacturer, recharging for white gift box, packaging, depends how big it is obviously and it depends if you want glossy depends if you want, you know, a color logo but, $0.25 and fifty cents right may be lower if you want some, super simple, can you talk a little bit about bonds when buying from Alibaba I can’t figure out where to start, how do you need Customs Bond, even answer below and I’ll answer it, i’m looking for a potential project, you said to Amber 50, 80% net margin are you impressed with, Specific monthly gross profit regardless of margin, yeah after a 50%, margin right but, if you’re selling one product a month, angela V, 80% net margin obviously you don’t want to do that right foot, itrack right if you’re selling, 510 units a day, you know a price point of $20 or more $15 or more whatever your low point is right, you never really want to go below 14 or 15 just, trust me on that with Amazon FBA fees and storage fees, you just don’t want to, right but if you’re selling a car for $20 a day for $20, and it’s telling according to I track 5 to 10 units a day right, if you’re a 50% margin you’re selling 10 units a day, write $200 profit, verde right when you, when you annualize that to a month, all the sudden you’re making, 3000 profit from one product, and Mom you know as you start to add parchment to attend, It’s up to 30000 a month so, it it’s scales quickly and that’s the point of Amazon FBA right, call yes I was you talking about ketchup on, bon Qui Qui memes, there’s two times right there single-use bonds and it was, continuous use, is your baby shipping year-round right you’re jumping in, full Tilt you know you’re going to make it work you feel very confident from the group but of course heard my YouTube or wherever you getting information, right you probably want to get it, continuous pain, you know I do shipment, weekly from, from alibar from China, so you know, it would be stupid for me to pay for the single you, respond if I’m to be shipping, every single week or even sometimes he, morphe, single-use Bond, is phyno half the price or a third of the price, and, you know, it basically allows you to ship your products from China to, United States one time, a continuous Bond, gives you the right for 1 year to do the same thing but it’s more expensive I think it’s like 450, tUSD, when looking for a potential product I think, i already read that, can we have a seller and buyer account with the same email address yep you can, can you confirm whether the online course offered by Fredo Thor actor, the final cost, i’ve never personally used for Ada, when I was originally looking for a freight forwarders I literally, contact like 50 people gave them all, dachshund facts, cut it down to 10, right and then levers them against each other and whichever one you know said hey you know we’re not trying to make a huge profit we want to build a long-term relationship, i got a final quote and whichever one I felt the most comfortable with, Right I went with until I share all of those with.
The students, i’m with all my students, they are by far the cheapest right if, if you use an international Freight forwarder, can you use a pray for the Basin USA Juliet one person that’s, pitch perfect English and charges you $5,000, and you going to get one person that said speak, 6900k English they could that charges you, $2,000, and so if you want somebody that speaks, perfect English, and you’re willing to pay $3,000 extra, go ahead and do that but I’m not willing to do that until I don’t care at all you know I still get it done at the, zach, same thing in my products still arrive in the exact same way, exact same time, but I pay you know 40% the cost, then if I was using a freight forwarder in the United States so obvious, Maybe option, answer to answer your question, more, closely, we currently have a student is doing a case study for me he’s comparing my specific Freight forwarders, with the lowest price that Freitas offers, he’s going to report back to me and I will report back to, do you to see if bred 4S Fredo can you, can compete or get close to what we have, for the, students I really doubt it but if it is true then you know I’m not I’m not proud, then we’ll change, what changed the cheaper option especially if they’re reliable, can you make a Canadian ninja group for Canadian so that weekend, join help each other out please, i mean there’s enough is enough groups at this point, there are a lot of Canadians though and I actually just spoke to, one of my friends who lives in Canada and sells on the USA market and he’s doing you know, 7 7 + figures I think he’s probably close to 8 figures by now, he agreed to do a, an Ama, for our group so he’s going to tell you all about how he sets up all of his infrastructure, from a business perspective, right Fork for the Canadian Market selling in the USA, so I did that because of you know the questions you had, so he’s going to come and he’s going to answer every single question all the Canadians have, in the student group, he’s going to get you guys completely set up, to the point that you know you’re you’re in a, huge a huge advantage over other Canadian sellers, cuz he’s just learned so much getting you know up until the 8th figure range, if it’s wired I have if we saw an Amazon should we tell them yes or no, Also if they ask if, we have sold the product we are inquiring about so we tell them yes or no, tell me some on Amazon cuz there’s different things that they, think about right like they need to, be able to pass a drop test, they need to have a certain level of UPC, right they know that the quality that you’re looking for is generally higher, then you know if it, if you’re selling wholesale, so tell him yes, if they ask if we, we saw the product we’re inquiring about should we tell them yes or no, i don’t know what you mean by that, sold in the past, don’t think it matters that much I’m not sure why they even ask that, try not do giveaways and still rank Edwards, i mean, during the fourth quarter so, go to park model for and watch the new stuff that I put out I make it extreme, Clear.
Exactly how to get away and how to read, damn straight don’t have time to care unfortunately USPS causes that s*** everywhere, no one cares about your products at all except for you rice you have to make sure that, you know I stand a nuclear attack, then you’re probably in good shape, because it’s going to on its way to your Amazon customer, does Alibaba allow purchases, payPal credit, i mean you pay through PayPal does no like, does not like, widget on the Ali Baba portal that allows you to pay through, payPal credit, but you can email, through PayPal say hey, for the 30% I’m going to pay you via PayPal, unless I always recommend doing your initial 30, payPal with, the funding method as a credit card if you have two lines of Defense, in case anything crazy happens and you need to get that money back, I like hugs, qnasl getting more complex, until the ninja members are evolving at a frantic pace, i know yeah it’s so amazing I love it, i love when things get more complicated to it because it’s more fun for me to answer right, it’s not it’s not that fun for, you know answering the same exact questions all the time, which is why I made the common questions document right is why that you people needs to, yeah read that if they’re interested, because it helped a ton and it saves me a lot of time, you know not having to answer the same questions all the time I try to make a centralized resource, very valuable to everyone so check it out if you want to, it’s in the pinned post of all the different Facebook groups, it’s another 10% at the top of the Facebook group, Just look where I said, questions click the link, can read through it if you want, have you ever tried starting a competitive product under 3000, honda S2000 review, how to launch a competitive bark like a garlic press, well I wouldn’t, launch day a garlic press Daniel there’s no point, i mean if you want me to answer this this question in a in a theoretical way, post it down below but my answer to it right now in a pragmatic way, is there so many products on Amazon, there’s absolutely no reason at all that you would launch a product, that is a competitive, and as mature the marketplace as a garlic press, should I hire a Chinese translator negotiate prices from suppliers to act as if we’re selling in China to get cheap, i mean you can find a Chinese to English translator on upwork for like $3 an hour or so, I mean it’s ridiculous right if you can save, $3 a unit, and you’re selling 500 of those units right, you are paying for the translators wage, in like one second, so it’s a really easy option, i’m a lot of people aren’t willing to do that Nick I know that year, a very unique, from a human, perspective, so maybe you should do it, i’ve done it, it’s worth it, but more often than not I use 1688, and you know, the, china version of Alibaba or the China facing, portal of Ali Baba which is 1688, i use that more so just to Leverage, against Alibaba sellers, just because I’m more used to it, but you know, if I spoke, mandarin, or you know I cared more, then I would definitely use a Chinese translator, it’s just getting, the point now we’re launching multiple products per week, And when you’re watching that many products trying to do everything perfectly.
From my guy you know, 1688 Chinese translation, introspective, just slows you down too much, i’m so excited for this AMA I’m trying to I’m trying to answer your questions when I see a lot of people from Canada, having the same questions right I’ll solve it, write the whole purpose, of having a coach and having a mentor especially if they give a crap about you, is to make your life easy, so I mean, i’m going to get up you know a powerseller, a huge powerseller from Canada to come live, into our group and do an ask me anything, i’m for you guys so stay tuned it’ll probably be next week, are you still in Columbia man Colombia is dangerous get out fast, no I’m not going to Columbia I’ve been back in the USA for a little bit now, Is Colombia dangerous, i didn’t, experience any type of danger when I was in Colombia, i mean I got I got robbed when I was in Rio de Janeiro during Carnival but nothing during, nothing happen to me at all during my time at Columbia, what up Alden, andy how do we get back to regular page one or two, if we get pushed back I mean it’s all about sales velocity and E I mean, you can, you know if somebody at 10 Depot on page one and all of them are selling you know 10 a day 12 days, 15 a day right, you want to get to, vision one on page one, then you need to be selling, 2 more day, in the person who selling the most per day on page one so, if they’re showing 15, you need to give away 17 units, 3 to 7 days, to outpace them right and then you want to mix make sure that you have enough for, reviews and you have a quality product, the people are going to buy naturally that you, you can maintain, sustain that momentum, or else you’re going to be waste, money right doing your giveaways, what is your daily sales goal per product when doing product, i mean it’s only a daily sales goal Andrew it’s more of like, and I recognize I recognize his name, you should come to the brown belts group cuz I want to answer all of your questions, all I want answer all my questions and I recognized some of your name to asking questions in YouTube so come back to the, randolph juvenile answer, questions are, we will you be making other courses like for Shopify affiliate marketing Etc, mmm yeah actually, i have a few in the works right now, So eventually I’ll make a course on Facebook marketing, cuz it’s something that I know extremely extremely well in a very detailed Advanced whey, it’s much much further, then what I’ve seen out there for Facebook, i’m in mine hoodies, a lot cheaper than other guys charging two grand for it right and it’s going to be way better stuff so Facebook marketing is coming, clickfunnels is coming, and then how to make a core, is coming right because making a course is is a is a narc, you can you know you can make a course on whatever you want in the world right you can make it, course on how to meditate, yeah you know if you have experience with that let’s say that you’re an artist, and you you digitally paint right I’ve seen people make, a ton of money, we are selling a course on how to digital, Do we paint right or how to use Photoshop.
Do you take your passion, and your hobbies, right and then you you know you monetize them and reach, a ton of people and you show them how to, you know, how to better themselves or learn whatever you have to, and it’s a very very powerful way to mix, you know what you love and you, your passion, with away so you know earn a living like everyone has to, alright I’m going back into the student, foray, iU 1688 as leverage in negotiations against apartheid also, what does, typical responses, getting of late is, is the Quality Inn, 1688 is shittin hours, who’s better including our Manufacturing, technology, process, how to respond to that, i mean that’s complete BS you aren’t there the exact, same factories they just have, one is like a Craigslist ad right, You put a Craigslist ad on 1688, can you put a Craigslist ad on you know, alibaba, is the exact same Factory, it’s just listing the exact, simpatico 68, and they’re exactly price on Alibaba that’s complete, cBS, will you be making a quick one of course yes I absolutely will clickfunnels is a very powerful tool they had, you know they had a minor, issue with your membership went out, and their serve their customers, support was absolutely terrible with me but I’m going to I’m going to forgive them for now, and hope that you know, they get better about that, and, you know they give, people that the customer support and service they need, it’s a very powerful, call tool it has a very, incredible transformative, it gives you transformative cable to capabilities, without a huge technical know-how right, it gives you actionetics, which is you know your email follow up all in one place that gives you backpack where you can do, Very Advanced affiliate marketing, yeah in the same exact place, where you can build, you know web, web ready, photos, and web pages, landing pages that integrate with your email, systems and you know all these types of things, things with automated, timers, sticky Footers and things that would require a ton of technical know-how in other web, services it gives it, a dragon drop, incredible interface so I have a huge amount of faith in it, i’m going to be putting out a course or at least another module specifically on, clickfunnels that’s coming soon, and so, stay tuned, are you closing the course the end of the month, john Paul yes that is the plan for now on I’m going to I’m going to go ahead and, you know evaluate things when. Comes, You know what people are looking at I’ve had a ton of people messaging me saying hey, i know you’re closing the course at the end of the month but I can’t afford it right now is there anyway that you’d leave it open, so I have to weigh, i have to weigh the options and make sure that, you know I’m always capable of giving people, the one-on-one help that they need, seed right and make sure that everybody who does join the course, is joining it feeling very confident that you know everyone has enough time, to get the help they need, to be successful, how much is your course, it’s 11 it’s 1150 but if you use the YouTube promo, it’s 997, so if you’re into, he said it’s, it’s cheaper if you do use that promo, and it’s available in description, final 150, get the type it sometimes when, When you copy and paste it doesn’t always work.
Because we had to custom code, the promo code portion of our Twitter page, looking forward to this course is Kevin, thank Godin, can I change my Amazon Seller name easily, yeah you can, have you have any videos we can use, 4 octillion, yes that’s actually a very good question so my top affiliate, my top affiliate right now, the people who know we have people that have made 20, $25,000, just from affiliate Commission, selling the ninja course right so those top people all the top affiliate we’ve been working hard trying to spread the word about the core, for if they believe in right, i’m going to be giving them some very very, good videos right we have some, studio quality videos coming out we we shot some, really awesome footage with a, professional team, we have a animated video coming out on a Blackboard that I’ve been working out right so we have some very, Very interesting advertisements coming out, and people who are into, just did can definitely be a part of it and you know get to that point where no we had a couple Affiliates make, $20,000, in three days selling the course right and so and now is with, just my, crappy quality, computer stuff Vista, is going to, to be really really interesting, people who take advantage, imma jump back into the, singing group nice is more questions here, tell me when you coming to Toronto for a Meetup, i don’t know soon I think you’ll be, organize like a mastermind type like retreat right, there’s not going to be any profit involved, a lot of the other gurus are coaches will duties, for-profit events where they charge people $10,000, and you know that gets you like a crappy hotel room, And a couple drinks, mine when I organize a meet-up for all of our amazing students it’s going to be no profit right I’m going to charge you, exactly what it costs, her person who organize a really amazing, retreat and some Paradise plays right with a, beach with a lot of Nino, entering interesting activities were going to do Mastermind, collaborations talked about you know new product strategies and, how the evolution of amazonas, changing an interview very very fun, kevin Alaska. Connections you answer my question what was your question Sue I did answer your question about Canada, i’m so not sure if it was that one, bearded account, search on 1688 whenever I search it asking to login know you can just close it, frontier login right and most of us can’t actually, read what it’s saying on that problem, are you going to close it or click outside of it and the prompt goes away, Fancy that, the stuff, no account needed I use it all the time yeah you don’t need it, an account, what every seller knows how to hide their stock that we won’t be able to find them, versailles right, yeah but I mean that’s an incredibly large assumption, do I mean, it’ll never get to the, the point where the, breath of this data, has reached, everyone right there’s always going to be a learning curve as Amazon is constantly changing an ecosystem, to better the environment, for the customer, right and the people who, to stay ahead of that, you know like our like our amazing ninja group, they’re always always going to have a huge advantage, is going to Maine, contain no our dominance, in all the different product categories Beach, pictures of selling, that sounds way better than Toronto meet up yeah definitely, Is a freight forwarder necessary yeah I think I think a freight forwarder is probably.
One of the most, important uses of money in my in my opinion, it takes out so much headache, so much complexity, shipping is a very complicated process, are you going to hand it to someone, who’s making a very small profit, the handle all of that logistic, 6 for you, incredibly worth it right the other the other thing I would say is very worth it, is, paying for amazing pictures, right never skimp on Park photography it is going to, 2 Chainz, your Amazon business, rewrite if you have, amazing pictures that you pay $1,000 for versus like crappy picture that you pay $300 for it’s going to be, the difference, between having a successful business and having a business that fail, oh sorry Emily, has anyone paid a supplier with an AMX card through PayPal how do I find out if Alibaba accepts Amex, Oso, payPal, payPal that accept Amex, payPal will fund, into their PayPal balance, based on you funding with your AMEX card in PayPal for sure accept American Express, so you can pay with an American, express card on PayPal for sure, i’m going to jump back into YouTube for a second, so if you guys are watching YouTube, ask your question, on the course is 100% worth it, but why does vids your closing the course, yeah that’s a good question I mean I I started a long time ago it takes a long time so, create you know really high-quality video stuff, so I’ll all eventually reopen the course but I am, considering closing it down for a while, what kind of refocusing my my time to, creating, you know new content whether it’s clickfunnels whether it’s Facebook advertising whether it’s dropshipping right but whether it’s a quarter, On how to create a course, right and, the way that I’ll free up, some time to be able to do that is by closing the course and not, accepting any more members for at least, the time, mastermind at Cancun do it Kev, yeah I said, jackal or did you answer my question I’m not sure what was your question, it again, good morning Kayla I finally caught one of these live stream, oh what up I love your YouTube name and it’s awesome, is Amazon still allowing you pee, pC codes from resellers, i mean yeah so this is a good question people always ask me to, just constantly, do we need to get gs1, dC code which is what Amazon says you, to write, yes that is what they say, no that is not what they enforce so I still use, Nationwide barcodes where you can pay $30 and get a hundred, or you can go to gs1 and pay $700 and get like, so it’s a really obvious choice, i think Amazon, eventually will create their own barcode system or Force us to use, igf-1 and what I mean by that is they won’t let you, create a product listing, unless, you have just one but it’s not gotten to that point yet so I still use it, the cheat codes, i think a retroactive, you know, a retroactive approach from Amazon would just, destroy their catalog, there’s no way they’re going to retroactively, reinforce gs1, cuz there’s too many people out there that are using, unresolved, what stage of the latest should I have an LLC set up after the first product is selling successfully, yeah you can’t I mean, you could but, You know you want a professional seller account right cuz there’s no per unit sold fee.
Give an individual account right no LLC, can you pay a per-unit fee for selling writing on FBA that adds up fast, is removing a ton of inventory so, the latest you want an LLC, you know before like right before your product arrives than you, you change to a professional account address OC, and then starts selling a ton of, do you close the listing after you run out of stock no Amazon owns the listing Muhammad you can never close, that you don’t you don’t actually own even your own listens, ucreate which is kind of suck, but it’s just how it is in Amazon’s world, what’s your mindset and differentiating your part by always differentiate ASAP, i mean, you never ever ever ever wanted, create an exact, carbon copy of another product, There’s no point in not adding value, you’re not bringing a new, you know, a new product into the market place that people are going to approve, appreciate right if you do the exact same thing, why would somebody by your brand new park when they could buy the farthest, hippie reviews, you have to add value, every choice, do you make, can I just use Google images in Photoshop to high-quality photos to make them mine, absolutely not Roman, intellectual property infringement and Amazon has any, incredibly, accurate way of telling if you use you know images that aren’t yours and they’ll shut you down, very quickly, do you get product help if you only buy a module and not the entire core, i mean yeah I try to help everyone whether it’s somebody that’s in the course or not but you know I have to obviously like everyone on Earth, Prioritize my time, and I prioritize people who you know are very serious about this and do join the chorus and make that investment in themselves I try to, prioritize them first, but you know, if you catch me at the right time even if you’re not into any modules I’ll still obviously, what’s your question, i like to actually genuinely like help, you know for the money, like it is some people are those videos only available, the top affiliate folks I haven’t decided yet Drew but, if you’re in, videos which are going to make a major in, impact on affiliate commissions and it’s going to make a, some people have a ton of money, been involved in the affiliate program now, get themselves under your belt right and, message me, i’d be more than happy to share those, studio quality, you know videos with p, People if they’re super angels, is it in the armrest, cab just want to know if an item selling 8 to 10, yesterday not me, players good news to go for Joel Sean Hardin, you know I’ll need a ton more info in the common questions document in the pinned post, i talked about this, 6 steps of proper, so grab that info look at it you know, review it if it looks good and then go for it, you know if you’re in the chorus or you know if not, just message me if I have time I’ll go over it with you and will, will decide, thanks for the clarification on YouTube, you see that’s exactly what I was looking for you of course, well I’m willing to spend around 2K and I was wondering what quantity and how many products should I buy, sao Quantas, you know, you basically calculate that on a six-month, Schedule.
Definition selling, 10 units per day, right, you want to never have more inventory than 180 days, amazon start charging you launcher, storage fees, witcher about 22, two Times Higher, then average storage fees, you do, 10 units per day * 180 days + your giveaway budget, length of 10 * 180 is 1800 plus giveaway that stays another, 200 so you wouldn’t want to buy more than 2000 units and not supposed to, civil case we talked about that super in-depth and you know our, 1st and I first module actually have a video on it, exactly that, i’m going to jump back in, student group see if there’s any more here, we have about 10 more minutes. So if you have more questions make sure you get them out now or forever hold your peace, what are you dropping that mixtape, sumatera probably melt your laptop so be careful, is Freight forwarding that’s okay, can I use my Google Images yes I just answered that and you too, YouTube Roman don’t ever do that, any idea what we, savior Paradise retreat, no not yet Emily but I mean it’s going to happen, it’s probably going to be somewhere that I personally am so it’s either going to be extinct in Australia, new Zealand, spain, so, look up you know, some rates for that, for the flight, it’s going to be you know, some type of resort that is a reasonable, a reasonable price for everyone I’m going to try to make it as a, inexpensive as possible again, zero profit on my perspective it’s just going to be, know the exact cost, passed on, two people who want to join and it’s going to be really, focused on, you know maximizing the value and building people’s businesses and building this relation, that are so vital, comfort, Success one business, if you’re closing the court that we purchased the module will those who purchased the module be able to print, what’s the forecast during the clothes, ., the great question Anthony I think the answer is probably yes, yes, spain when is that going to happen I can visit my family then so I’m going to I’m going to be in Spain in February I think, i’m so he’ll probably be sometime after that, what if someone was unable to sell their stock in 6 months more what do they do, i mean if you’re doing your due diligence up front right that won’t happen, just you know as a as an answer but if you, you can’t sell your stock, and you’re doing everything right and you’re on page one in your ring for your keywords in your PVC setup well and your listings optimizing your pictures look good, Then you know maybe, some crazy thing happened, that you know maybe, donald Trump like outlawed the products on Amazon shut you down or something, you can make a destruction order, or you can make a removal order send them to yourself and sell them you know on eBay or by other means, what’s the best way to run a lightning deal how come my most, someone ended with no sales, the best way to run a lightning deal is to, only accept it, if it’s at a certain time right so you want to be at like, 9 a.m., pacific so it’s 9 a.m. and noon it on the East Coast, you want to make sure that you know your, going at the right time I actually have a, video and a PDF on, how to run lightning deal successfully, in module 4, karen so if you want to take a look at that I talked about it a lot more in-depth, But that’s the general idea.
Timing, right you want to make sure that it’s a product that is, you know, fit for a lightning deal so again like a taxi, google flashlight myself significantly better during a lightning deal., the people kind of head, impulsively wanted, but it’s, it was never available at the, does Target price, versus if you’re selling toilet paper, people probably don’t care that much of a, the dollar off, but I don’t, alright I’m going to go back to the YouTube until there’s more questions, what are the Spanish version of the course coming out, i have a very dear friend of mine who’s translating right now and she should be done with that, within the next you know, 2 to 4 weeks, that’s why I will release that separately from the chorus, and we’ll probably have some separate groups cuz, I’m working on my Spanish, well so maybe that would be good for everyone, good startup capital I always recommend you know between 1000 and, $6,000 for inventory, i invested a little over 6000 but I simultaneously why, 70, products all the same time, i’m that’s probably abnormal for most people drive, it was a lot more rest up front but I was, wasn’t sure about a business model, i jump in right, i think Tony Robbins said the one thing that you know, will always make somebody, fully commit and invest right is, is a single word Annex, certainty, if you’re 100%, certain, if something is going to work, then you have no fear I use jumping cuz you know it’s going to work you know you’re going to make more than $1, $4 investment and I was certain that I can, make it work and, luckily it worked out, Can you talk more about image ownership with the guards Amazon I did not think it was a, mysterious thing I need, yeah I mean if you didn’t take the picture Roman, don’t don’t use it Amazon, uses Google image search they use a very the very accurate algorithm, compare IP right, use dates, write a summary about the picture 6 months ago and UFO that exact same pixel-for-pixel picture right now and, cuz I will shut down your listing for intellectual property, so never ever ever actually use, you know other people’s images, just taking herself, i’m going to try to use, express Roundup sounds like a no-brainer yeah it is, i mean it’s pretty cheap to, how can I find out someone’s store, that’s a good question, especially have a, student in my group is quite good at that he’s thinking about offering a service to find anyone, Gun store, i mean, i don’t personally, do this I think it’s private and it, people you know work hard and they should be able to protect their privacy so, i don’t I don’t personally, i do that I mean, i could do it but I just don’t I don’t want, i think it’s a private, thing that people have worked hard for and they should be able to, poke private if they, what’s the forecast cheaper when you offered Sensei 500 code, before know it was, nina, the cheapest price of course had, ever been and will ever be ever, is 997. It will never be, the cheaper than that, when I offered to send 3500 the original price was 1497, we took $500 to make it 997 it’ll never ever ever be, ricci for the map, and thus the payment plans are more expensive obviously cuz, if it spread out over months, the cheapest possible price could ever get the course for is 910, Start-up capital.
Yeah I just answered that D’Angelo between one and two, 6000, is worth running out of stock or anchor, increasing price of release, slow sales, i mean if you run out of stock with the, the same momentum and you restock within 2 weeks, you’ll come back, the place you already were, if you increase your price like a ton of time to slow down your sales, when you restock, you know you’re going to be significantly lower on the, bSR ranking, because Amazon will have calculated your, if you’re most, rank, when you stopped out as much lower car, your sales are much lower, enterprise attire, only asking about startup Capital cuz I’m ready to quit my job and have about 9k yeah if you have $9,000 usual you’re ahead of a lot of, start Amazon FBA in your in a really good, You’re in a good spot, does the course help out with web landing page setup, yeah silly last I actually give you my exact landing pages that I created in clickfunnels, and you’re free to use them, so yes we have to, for email collection 4K, coupon distribution for all of that, what is the most reliable method for finding the number of sales of product, a strapped up the most reliable way is, use the 909 I track method right where your, going into your Amazon cart, you’re clicking the quantity, depressing 10 + putting in 909, nSA, sorry the seller only has you know 63 left, and then you can write 63, you do it the next day, brighten the now they only have 50 right so they sold, 13 / that one day, you going to stop, selling your course at the end of the month if we buy it now can we access it after the end of the month, Yeah absolutely Jake, that mean, good question, whenever you purchase a quart, if your, forever, you always get, unlimited updates, all the brand new stuff that I knew the course, no daily or weekly, you get absolutely for free and you always will get it absolutely, play for free until I’m dead, all right I’m going to jump back into the student group, i’ll do a little bit longer one I’ll just stay for another few minutes even though you’ve already passed our cuz, cuz we had, a little technical issues, are you able to do a video on hiring virtual assistants or template on how to hire and what to look for, yeah definitely I mean upwork is the best way, online jobs. PH is a garbage website they’ve they’ve, you know been so money-hungry recently that they’ve basically taken out the functionality of their entire website it’s awful so I use a, Upwork exclusively now I’ll make a video if people vote if the students vote on that Jason I’d love to I have, very very, specific way of how I hire virtual assistants using filters right, getting an initial kind of difficult task to see how they react to it right, seeing how well how good they are staying on time planning calendar events right messaging you when you, you say to message you when you give them six, random little task throughout the day, to see if they let you know finish them and report back to you, and things like that, what is better if we go through the course and then start looking for a product or start looking for a park after product, i’m the best way my parents do is to finish, 1 module right module 1, Pedigree search finish it all the way through take notes through the entire thing.
And then start product, all the way through module 1 taking notes dance art project, research and then come back whenever you have a question say, oh I kind of remember this maybe I’ll re-watch that while I’m looking at bestseller list, while I’m here looking at storefronts and running in infinite page extract, and things like that, nick, can I have your scooter when you move from Denver, yeah for $2,000 for sure, how do you use followliker. Com, i’m actually having, did you use a spacer because it won’t let you post that in the comment next, what do you feel about Shopify dropshipping, i feel good about it I mean dropshipping is a good way to, to get your feet wet in e-commerce right, you require zero upfront Capital except for creating a landing page, Write what you can do, incredibly, cheaply with clickfunnels and dropshipping I know people who are making, $10,000 a month right or more, so it’s absolutely possible, dropshipping is, you know it is going to be included in my clickfunnels module when I create it, i’m so don’t worry about that as of right now the most viable e-commerce business, for sure Amazon FBA, if I ever think that that has shifted, then I’ll create a course on it and you know all that, teach everyone, the way to, to be successful at it and quit your job cuz, i’ve got all I need, you know by now my life goal is, is to free as many people, from the 9 to 5 slavery, so let’s go for about 5 more minutes, how do you get add-on icon add-on item icon and why do you get it usually get it if it’s less than $10 fee, Peter stuff you do $10.01 it should just, superior, did you mention in the course about how to get a good brand name, i mean you can, you can make a brand name in any way you want right there, does brand name generators on Google, it just being creative right it’s whatever you’re passionate about and you love, so I mean I love I love certain things so I make brand names about them and, if you know if I’m selling high margin products I’ll make it General enough, do you know be able to sell a variety of different products under that one brand umbrella if I’m doing a, pacific Brand that I’m planning on expanding horizontally obviously it’ll be a little bit more, back to that, brand, but it’s no, just be creative with a have fun with its the whole point of all this, can you give me the link to the video you were talking about quantity of the product to order, Yeah it’s in it’s in module 1 jacks or just message me on Facebook I’ll give you the name of the, of the actual video itself but it’s in module one, i think it’s in probably, part 1 and part 2 of module 1, you advertise your product in Amazon store on Craigslist or other size, i don’t know why you would nobody’s nobody’s really searching Craigslist to, you click an Amazon link rides are searching Amazon, i want to create a product that is similar to The Parson and nice and selling it, in one of the, product has a logo on it, and website and moderate review, views but I can’t find Paddington out, patent info on it, the has no logo One battery, view but good cells, sorry I’m not sure if I follow that could you maybe rephrase that Leyland, Cambria quartz.
Can we pay each month yeah we have a couple of payment plans. Sean, i’m so if you start your payment plan, and the course ends at the end of the month obviously you’re in, you know you’ve locked in your spot so don’t worry about that, if we purchase one module can we, by the whole course after you close it, i answer that question earlier and I guess I’m I’m thinking the answer is yes but you know you probably want to act fast on that if you’re going, are you read expert Secrets yeah absolutely I love Russell Brunson I think he, he’s one of these, sharpest guys out there right now, i might fall everything he does, i’m very closely, how detrimental is running out of stock in regards to momentum, what if we don’t get the parts in, Before, what if you don’t restart that product in time before the two, it’s, it’s detrimental right if it’s outside the two-week. It’s detrimental if it’s inside this week., you can come back in almost a, exactly at the same place, that you were at before, so, you know if you can get back in within 2 weeks even if you have two Airship even if, you have to cut down your profit a little bit it’s worth it, any tips for getting product videos, ebooks done, yeti books I use my graphic artist that I found on Fiverr he’s incredibly talented I share his, is information how to contact them in this, student group, pug videos I use a v. Jen, so I mean if you Google search bed. Then they they do a great job you can ship them an Amazon product and their YouTube, influencers right and they’ll make a product video for you, And they’ll Target you know into your related video section on your Amazon product listing, play Amazon pay me quickly enough so I can reinvest the sales into, amazon pays you every two weeks, you can request them to pay you faster but you have to have metrics, but how about the long shipping times from dropshipping, it’s not a deal-breaker, ePacket shipping isn’t actually that long John Paul, i’m so now it’s not a deal-breaker and people are willing to wait, for novelty for novelty items right, people by their Essentials on Amazon but if you’re buying like a, like a, in a ring made out of dinosaur bone or something that’s hard to find on Amazon they’ll wait a little bit longer so dropshipping you have to, sela different, types of products, but yes they will wait, amazon back-end, the student group, When talking to Chinese manufacturers, cooling a fee that is always typical what is, how to link B, so cooling basically means like a mold right like so if you want to make like a, what’s up with you making a cake pan in the shape, a ninja, right so they probably don’t have that specific mold made in their press that shaping, that aluminum, oil right, and so you have to pay for them to create that mold, between $200 to $5,000 I’ve seen it so you know there’s no one answer to this but yes, if you could, you know, pay range of price, megamind really not comment, half a nine-to-five yeah they absolutely believe that Andrew you know, my biggest passion point right, it is not, normal it is not normal to work 40 hour week is not normal to work 50 hours a week, is Ivory not what it’s not, Even close to normal and Society has been a great job.
Because they need more workers, they’ve done a great job convincing, people that is normal, to work 4050, 60 70 80 hours a week or more when that’s the farthest thing from normality, and people need to, the brake that you know fully system, and it’ll create a sustainable Equitable scalable, business built on a nymph, infrastructure right witcha, is what we’re doing and witches, why I’m so passionate about helping everyone do it, how can I tell if a seasonal item will, did well last year I can’t find any listings, call you can use Google Trends so, find whatever the highest volume keyword is related, dot product, and then put it in the Google trans, for the market that you’re talking about, and you can see overtime right last year the same time it was a spy Court Roth, You can kind of tell., the generator is the vagina, so, so the exact website is, i forget what it is hold on I’m looking it up right now, the exact website is, i’ll post it because I’m not seeing it right now but it’s, if I think it’s like then. Jinya, art and you know what it is or does anybody else out there know what the exact URL is all posted in the Sudan Group after this but, i don’t know what it is exactly right now Jay-Z, does Amazon put a hold on your money when they tell you every, two weeks now, newpark need made in China on the package to be sold in Amazon order, importing, just for importing but I mean if you’re selling it on Amazon you have to import it into, the United States where you’re going to sell it on Amazon, Could you go through process of activating UK Market Center, intercourse video, activating UK, yeah yeah I think I can go over UK Markey I mean, we have international stuff in the course right talking about, how to do product research in different markets, how to talk about whether to enter certain markets, things like that I’m as far as actually activating your account, that’s pretty easy to do I’m not sure what you mean by activating but we can definitely do something on the, uK Market because it is very important obvious, what happens if you have a large, a larger box or carton, then Amazon requires, if the part is oversized if it’s longer than, i think it’s, 1025, any side or 50in I forget the exact, the exact, metric Park, if it’s longer than a certain number of inches per side, amazon says that they might charge additional fee, I think it’s 25 or 50, my business partner handles all the, shipping stuff so I’m not as well versus him in., pacific area, but I’m pretty sure it’s 25 in on the longest side or 50 in, we just deal with it, just recently, i’m so if you’re under that right and if you’re under, i think it’s 50 lbs per box then you’ll have no issues, but Amazon has, really detailed, stop on that so just you know, go to your Google search, amazon carton Amazon FBA carton requirements right and it’ll tell you, must be under 50 lbs, longest side must be under, ask number of inches, just Google search it is pretty, vista, can you briefly cover hot trade Assurance works on Alibaba, no I can’t use PayPal, easy protection methods International, yeso trade assurance and Ali pay is the best alternative right, they have basically an arbitration service where you, You know let’s say your order is for $10,000.
It’ll go into an escrow account that Alibaba controls, until the order is kind of finalized and then Ali Baba will release, lisa to the manufacturer, it’s much safer than just like a straight-up bank wire, but still I think, safest method, is Paypal goods and services and credit card, as the payment method for people who, do you have that as an option, alright guys let’s do like three more questions, how do you say ability no I haven’t but I’ve heard about it I don’t need the money daily, personally you know every two weeks, this is fine so you know I’d there’s no reason, to pay to that for that, yeah you can, you can, nick is right you can, request to withdraw at any time based on how close you are, but Amazon won’t always grant that if you don’t have like a hiss, History of, you know, good seller match, how how, does any long-term, please apply if you, restock before you run out of product, yeah so let’s say you have a hundred units right and you sell 99 of them, and 6 months, as has happened now you have one unit left right and then you restock 6 months and one day, don’t charge you, 1 units worth, of that long-term storage and all of your new units that just arrived will obviously have a new 6 month, counter online, so you yeah you want to restock when you’re, supply is low, when you sell out of those and, you should never have to worry about the sea, 6 month Angus, it’s not very common, if you’re doing your due diligence, andrew Park research up front, my suppliers I cannot pay by PayPal because I’m shipping direct to the warehouse is this, This normal, yes Plaza, spurs always tell you that you, you can’t pay by PayPal and I always pay by PayPal so, if you have to argue with them, suppliers you know they pay Morpheus say okay we’re going to, split the PayPal fees, but I am paying via PayPal or I’m finding a new supplier, when setting for manufactured in Ningbo fob isn’t normally spawn, surfer light item, zahir you should, message Mandy and Kelly I mean they’ll tell you, exactly what those costs are, it depends on, the way, where the factory is in China and, things like that, so, hi guys I’m going to answer one more question in a suit and Groupon answer a couple more, and, what if you run out of budget quickly because you’re bidding so high however are not getting clicks, with a lower bid, in razor budget especially if those pics are profitable Andy, You know if they’re not coffee, if they’re not profitable clicks, then try making a number of different campaigns you know, some of which with lower bids, some of which are Tire beds, you know for proven keyword like we talked about in module Six turn on did Plus, are you a millionaire, the interesting question, i glad you learn that early love your generation, absolutely, how much invest, do I need to make a million in a year, mega Million Revenue, i mean you can, usually do that, i turn 6002 / 100, 50000 right, sophie multiply that by, you know, 6, we were at the million Mark right and, 6000 *, 6, you can you can healthily do it, in a very, a very controlled where you could get a million dollars in Revenue with a, $50,000 investment, selling on Amazon FBA, if you choose the right product, and you do everything correct, From the start.
But you know much much easier you could do a million off 100000, centric, same question I’ve been tracking a 909 cart, track doesn’t work because he only allows five, to be sold at a time, this is probably the most common question that I get, augustinus, a ton of times right but it’s a it’s a very important question, the way that you do that is, if there are competitors that don’t have that 5 Max quantity limit, then you attract them, right if there’s no one that has that doesn’t have that limit order, there’s no one that has under 999, then use camelcamelcamel.com, the sales rank right it’ll show you the, sales rank chart, for that particular item, you can see you know, how how high to BSR is right we talked about this, very in-depth in our first module, but you can use camelcamelcamel and when you see the PSR chart, If it’s you know if it’s really high, and the PSR is very low that means the best-seller ranking, is very good which means that they’re selling a lot of units and, you can kind of make estimation that way, but that being said the most, pure and most, accurate Way, is using GI tract 909, all right door door no key says he has 40 Grand that’s great and then you’re you’re way ahead of a lot of people and you should be proud of yourself, probably not much saved up, you know it’s, stuff to do and you can you know really killing Amazon, if you make a series of correct decisions just like everyone else right, my guys that is it I’m going to answer or maybe one more in the student group that’s it thank you so much YouTube, i’m done answering questions unfortunately for now but next time I will answer, A ton more, of course, i love you, nick Jonas thanks Kevin, what is your favorite color, green of course, the color of the Ninja, thanks God for all the great info, 6, cicada / 100, 50k in what time frame, it was about is a little over Eighty Days 85 days Andrew, when you doing I track it, fairfield by Marriott, you need to look at Kim, pokemon not trust that, if you’re doing I track and it’s fulfilled by Merchant you can’t actually, please see any numbers right Jason together, the reason that I track works, is because Amazon has a record, of how many units at FBA seller has, in Amazon FBA Warehouse, if it’s Merchant fulfilled right so I have the units at my house, amazon has no idea how many units I have rights, attract only works if, cellar, why you so awesome, I don’t know I just try you know I’d like to thank my mom, love her, hi guys so thank you so much for joining I hope is that was helpful sorry for the technical issues earlier, but I can’t wait to happen next, ask me anything, ninja session and we’ll see you then.
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