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baekhvuns · 1 year

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No American football in this household as it should💘 god, sometimes players go to more established clubs which gives them more money and prestige, however those clubs already have their stars, so they're just kinda.... there waiting. Mbappe can definitely shine in PSG more, but who knows maybe he'll fit in with RM 🤔

Damn not Pele and Vivienne Westwood dying on my birthday omfg. But I forgot both Joshua and Tae were born on Dec 30th 1995, lol!

As much as it pains me to say this, Ronaldo made the 🇵🇹 team, love him or hate him, but he's good in a team for the most part. Unless there's no one to help him 😭 🇦🇷 has always been stronger as a team

Omg not the nose 😭 did he break it? HANDBALL IS EVIL BAEK I was forced to play it and it's so dumb 🔪 football>>basketball>>>volleyball>>>>>>>>handball. I had some aggressive teammates lol, I was also pretty wild and yeah shit happened I can't explain it 😅

What if Pique's a double agent hired by tabloids to inflirtate Madrid. Pique spy AU ahajajjjsbsusistsiagsjsgsgssh. It's true I legit forgot Italy won that year it's just Zidane goat-ing Materazzi and I watched that match liveI was GAGGGGED, I tell you. Yeah wtf is wrong with Italy??? I showed my friend this IoI the comments are killing me

Justice for Salah 😭 I don't wanna get between people and their religion, but 💀 does it have to be that serious... btw Mou my guy, stop 😭

I'm gonna check out the songs then. I think I saw Happy New Year actually 👀

Omg Betty White, just remembered she's gone too </3 and why would you give me the power to imagine that runner AU?! Why tease me and leave me blueballed...

EXO does raffles? Wtf, manifesting a ticket under your pillow!

Yeah and he's going to jail with me

I quite like Halazia, I can't say it's top tier for me, but it's good enough, I wish I was obsessed, but they have many amazing songs it's hard to surpass them. But it's a step up from Paradigm for sure, lol. I feel like Jongho's note was too high, they tend to process it and it's unnecessary. The chorus doesn't hit as much as it should I think. Anyways, people are claiming it's their best song ever, besties calm down! 😵 (tbh they say it about every single track even Paradgim) the MV however was AN EXPERIENCE WOW. My eyes couldn't keep up cause it was A LOT to take. Digipedi delivered! The choreography too?! And Seonghwa Christ!!!🙏🏻 🧎🏼‍♀️

Uhm, no Seonghwa collab again, so him and Jongho are the only jobless ones since the rappers have a stage unit. Idk how to feel about it, why won't they pick Hwa or why won't he participate....... this is getting more and more ridiculous

AND THIS 😩😩😩😩 we keep losing, hope it's just 10mm. Also rip to his scalp, but it's worth it, he's serving and serving <3333

Damn right Hwa my baby girl, my girlfriend 🥰

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA STOP GIVING US SO MANY GREAT PCS

"silent - a lot has happened to you. its demoralizing, i know. you cry with your head leaning against the wall, tears streaking your face. your lip quivers but your mouth stays firmly closed. you keep your problems to yourself to not bother anyone." The quiz omg Baek calm down with the angst 😩

Ikon not renewing is not surprising at all, soon there won't be anyone left in YG except their new gg

Anyways goodbyeeeee - DV 💖

hi hello!!

absolutely not, never, not even in my fics 🔫 yeah! like ronaldo going al nassr 😭😭 but tbh he’s kinda right in that action, kept getting disrespected and treated like business so i guess he’s also gonna think of it as a business but it is sad to see him leave euro teams 😭😭😭🤚🏻🤚🏻 pissed a little but he secured the bag bUT FOR WHAT,,, habibi era,, little sad that rm couldn’t give him a 6 month contract so maybe he could retire as a madridista 😭😭 somethings i guess can not happen 😭😭

apparently ramos is going there too?? and since psg’s having a friendly match w alnassr we’ll see messi, mbappé, neymar and ramos v ronaldo fhwkd a reunion mayhaps,, the final we all wanted vs what we are gettinf 😭😭 yEAAAH i think he’s trying to get psg’s name out there the most and he do be doing it, dominating ligue 1 too! if he moves to rm hopefully bro doesn’t try to sell his own teammates

im screaming actually

Damn not Pele and Vivienne Westwood dying on my birthday omfg. But I forgot both Joshua and Tae were born on Dec 30th 1995, lol!

NAURRRRRRRR 😭😭😭😭 FIRST OF ALL HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!! 💖💓💖💓 ur a thv girl after all huh 🤨 YOU’VE BEEN HIDING IT 🔫🔫🔫 what a rare birthday u have,,, i hope it went well!!

wait and the pope..

basically, every time someone says portugal u immediately think of ronaldo no one else really,,, yeah, cannot deny that he’s a goal machine, bro deserved better the disrespect is getting out of hand atp,, yeah! esp this tike argentina was on a new level,,, di maria’s magic 🤌🏻

almost did actually! has a permanent bump on his nose now, he was batting and the dude form the opposite team threw the ball and it hit him right in the face dbdb <33 HANDBALL IS FUN 😭😭😭 pretty aggressive teammates bestie from the way you BROKE urself it’s as if u faced pepe 😭😭😭

hear me out in that scale, hockey is forever the lowest🤚🏻

LMFAOOOO GTFO PIQUE SPY AU DHWKDHWKJCKC no srs bro is so iconic and at his last game 😭😭😭 what an exit !!! U WATCHED IT LIVE??? BFKWDHWK STOP THE REACTIONS MUSTVE BEEN ALL OVER THE PLACE,,, italy is cURSED it would be even more fun if he coached brazil and they have to verse italy 😭😭 unfortunately the video is unavailable 😭😭

Justice for Salah 😭 I don't wanna get between people and their religion, but 💀 does it have to be that serious... btw Mou my guy, stop 😭 /// I'm gonna check out the songs then. I think I saw Happy New Year actually 👀

no yeah just enjoy everything don’t take it too seriously 😭😭 LMFAOOOO i was watching his funny moments and the one where he was drinking water and found out someone needed to be given a yellow card the way bRO RAN 😭😭 he’s a special one,, yeah! the only reason that movie had one good song was bc of that one! OH U DID, waCK ass movie tbh, the second half was better fbf

Omg Betty White, just remembered she's gone too </3 and why would you give me the power to imagine that runner AU?! Why tease me and leave me blueballed...

YEAAH 😭😭😭 so many ppl gone,,, hoping 2023 is not that worse 🤚🏻🤚🏻 JFVWKDBWKCJCK AND U THINK IT HASNT BEEN BOTHERING ME TO WRITE IT ! 🔫 ! the reader continuously saying no to train seonghwa while he’s begging for reader to do so 🫡🤌🏻

EXO does raffles? Wtf, manifesting a ticket under your pillow! /// Yeah and he's going to jail with me

yEAH APPARENTLY THEY DO,, hoping for it too 😭😭😭 i have terrible luck at getting things but great with avoiding things <33 …. now that photo he dropped. i genuinely forgot how to breathe,,, i CANT DO THIS ANYMORE ANON 😭😭😭😭😭 THE LIKES ON THIS??? LOOK AWAY

it’s def not top tier but still great and delivered!! tbh it had the chance to be an inception if not for the hala hala halzia part and if they only kept the halazia halaziA ~ yeosang’s deep voice >>>> i do agree, it def was high,,, music video wise def on of their best ever! but music wise certain parts stood out more than others,, PARADIGM IS JUST NO NO NO 🤚🏻😭 SEONGHWA CHRIST, BUT SANS SACRIFICED

bro popping his chest with full force

no literally,,, it would be nice if they would nicely ratio members out for every collab so everyone gets the chance BUT THIS couldve gotten a post malone x hwa 😭😭😭 yeah why won’t they pick him or why is he not wanting to participate 🤨 fbi open up we have some questioning to do 🔫

AND THIS 😩😩😩😩 we keep losing, hope it's just 10mm. Also rip to his scalp, but it's worth it, he's serving and serving <3333 /// Damn right Hwa my baby girl, my girlfriend 🥰 /// AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA STOP GIVING US SO MANY GREAT PCS

NO SERIOUSLY RIP HIS SCALP THE HAIR IS NOT AT ITS BEST 😭😭 AND YEOSANG??? but…this.. now..

sTOP I DIDNT GET THE ALBUM NOW HES MAKING ME WANT IT esp with the photos in here BUT THIS PC?????

Ikon not renewing is not surprising at all, soon there won't be anyone left in YG except their new gg //// Anyways goodbyeeeee - DV 💖

LMFAOOOO i have also gor the same result! anON IS EVERYTHING OK AT HOME DBDB,,, i do hope they can have collabs w bi not,, the blackpink leaving yg and then being confirmed they are not and then the new yg gg dropping jan 1st 🤨🤨 sussy behaviour

also will not stop the angst train

HELLO????

also what 😭😭

#✉️ : ask #dv 💖 anon

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chibimyumi · 3 years

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Autopsy of Weston Arc

A few days ago I visited a beloved friend @sweetbunny8, and we were bitching about the Boarding School Arc together. That friend is so incredibly smart, she brought up amazing points I never thought about... and so we spent the afternoon facepalming, discussing how many missed potentials there were. The below are the 5 points we talked about, on FIRE🔥🔥🔥!

1. The Arc owes us a thorough Power Dynamic Swap

I think the biggest draw of Kuroshitsuji is the unusual power dynamic between our protagonists. It would have been amazing to see a thoroughly explored power dynamic swap between master and servant.

The manga did touch upon this swap, and it gave us a delicious appetiser of what this Arc could have been. I really would love loved to see more of how Sebas and O!Ciel would deal with their cognitive dissonance of role.

Our Ciel

O!Ciel was raised in a world where the roles of servant vs master are very distinct. To O!Ciel it must have been very weird to now suddenly be subordinate to his servant. I would have loved to see if O!Ciel found it uncomfortable, or just really fun to try something new without stakes, or how his habits would slip through. In the Circus Arc we saw very clearly how both Sebas and O!Ciel still succumbed to their habits, thereby accidentally drawing unwanted attention.

Doing so in the Weston Arc would not have been a carbon copy of the Circus Arc, because unlike at the circus now O!Ciel would be performing in a more familiar environment with people of comparable status. I really wish we could have seen more of that.

Sebastian

Sebas would also have been a blast to see in a likely unprecedented role for him. In this post I argued how Sebas was probably never given opportunity to interact for real with humans on close proximity, and how he was probably not ever considered more than a mass-destruction weapon. It would have been very interesting to see how Sebas would handle suddenly being surrounded by people who don’t just interact, but are also subordinate to him as a teacher!

I find it unlikely Sebas ever had the experience of playing a superiour role to his own master. Sebas loves testing his limits with his master, and it would have been a blessing to see how Sebas could now “legally” exploit his own position of power over his master. I’m sure he would have gotten a kink out of it.

2. Planning and Calculation???

It would have been logical and responsible if the Queen just told her Watchdog what House Derek was in for O!Ciel to investigate. A “P.S. He’s in Red House according to the latest information btw, loves - Vicky” would not be too much asked. She knows Derek’s parents, and I can’t imagine the March of Arden being secretive about what House the kid is in. But even if Victoria didn’t do the efficient thing, we still would have loved it if O!Ciel had to discuss with Sebas and strategically choose a House to get into, rather than him just being planted in Blue House.

My friend thought O!Ciel would have chosen Red House regardless of whether he knew for sure where he’d be, because as the nephew of the Queen, Derek being in Red was the most logical. As an actual Lorded Earl himself, O!Ciel would have a decent chance holding down a position in Red House. And considering how Redmond has a talent for choosing awful personalities for fag, O!Ciel would have fit in perfectly too!

Then O!Ciel’s goal could still have been to become a prefect’s fag, but then the showdown with Maurice would at least have direct, immediate conflict, rather than... whatever it was the manga did. Maurice had NO reason to neutralise O!Ciel as long as they’re in different Houses! Maurice you... boring, inefficient, redundant twat...

3. Yana... is Edward a joke to you?

Why didn’t O!Ciel/Yana capitalise more on Edward being at Weston?! It would have been a perfect chance to develop Edward further and show O!Ciel’s interaction with family! I love Lizzie, but it would have been amazing to see Edward interacting with our protagonist without his sister being the reason for interaction. UGH 💔

Also, the cricket drag could have been shortened dramatically if O!Ciel had thought of using Edward. Edward has been at the Weston for longer, and he is a prefect’s fag to boot.

Sure, O!Ciel didn’t know that at first, but he finds out BEFORE the cricket was set up. The moment O!Ciel would learn that he’d need to win cricket to meet the principal, he should have gambled on Edward. If O!Ciel explained to Edward that he is investigating the disappearance of the Queen’s relative, I can’t imagine Edward not being willing to help by winning cricket in becoming “the chosen one” through gentlemanly play. That’d be what Edward would be aspiring to become, anyway.

4. Why Cricket ANYWAY!?

Even IF Edward for some reason refused to help, the cricket would still entirely have been unnecessary. It wouldn’t matter at all who would win, because as the prefect’s fag, Edward had the privilege to attend the Midnight Tea Party ANYWAY. All four prefect fags are present, as we all can see. O!Ciel would only have needed to ask Edward to act as his agent, and tadaaa.

Besides, even IF Edward didn’t exist in the arc it’d still be entirely fine, because all the prefects would SURELY have access to the Party. That is known. O!Ciel only needed to tell Sebas to keep an eye on where the definitive participants would be going, and track them. When push comes to shove, Sebas could just barge in like he did anyway (and bring O!Ciel even if he’s uninvited), and the case would still have unfolded the way it did.

5. PLOT HOLE!?

My friend also brought up a humongous plot hole so large it became a space on its own that I didn’t even notice it was a hole. Why did the prefects react so differently to Agares and Derek being “alive” respectively?

So, my friend and I both watched the musical adaptation as the last thing, and in the musical the prefects were all being totally chill about Agares being around, but shocked shitless to see Derek back. All four prefects were present during the killing of Derek AND Agares, so they should all know both are dead. It had not been addressed in the musical that the prefects have knowledge of corpse reanimation, so they shouldn’t have been able to act so normal next to Agares, but freak out about seeing Derek. (This is yet another example of WHO IS YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE, KUROMY21!?)

In the manga it had been addressed that the prefects have knowledge that reanimation of the dead is possible. And it seems like Redmond arranged for the reanimation of at least Agares. But why didn’t they arrange for the reanimation of Derek too? (@chibmib Thanks sis, for checking this for me so I didn’t have to suffer through it again)

Derek is the Queen’s relative, his disappearance would really have invited suspicion, as it indeed did. The reason the P4 didn’t arrange for Derek’s reanimation can’t be because the they considered Derek too evil to bring back. Agares was namely arguably worse; he was an adult and the vice-principal! It was his literal job to be responsible.

The P4 couldn’t have decided to not reanimate Derek for fear of him ratting them out for assault. There are plenty witnesses of Derek’s crimes, and the P4 would be first-hand witnesses too of Derek’s lying. If Derek told the authorities he was assaulted, all witnesses could have helped testify for the P4 against Derek.

The only reason I can make sense of the double standard in the P4′s reaction is that Undertaker told the P4 he only succeeded in reanimating Agares and not Derek, because the technology is still very young; which would have been true too. BUT THEN THE MANGA SHOULD HAVE ADDRESSED IT.

Even if that’s what happened though, the P4′s reaction shouldn’t have been such horrified surprise. They should be relieved to see the Queen’s relative alive, because then they wouldn’t have ‘murder of Queen’s relative’ on their résumé. All they had to do instead then is explain why they attacked Derek in a moment of lost control at the sight of a future-prefect being a lowlife. And again, the victims could have helped testify...

And this all would only have happened if we momentarily accept the unlikeliness of Sebas coincidentally having a plugged nose and not smelling Agares’ corpse stench the entire Arc.

#Boarding School Arc #Weston Arc #Kuro Potter Arc #Autopsy #Analysis #I really hate this arc so much #and after talking with that friend about the amazing potentials that was just missed...#I mourn those potentials

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selfcareparker · 3 years

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(lovely anon) i'm so happy to finally be answering this oh my goodness hi gorgeous human being i feel that it has been too long 🥲 SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED SINCE THE LAST TIME I'VE WRITTEN ONE OF THESE HOW HAVE YOU BEEN

to answer the things you have said most recently- i'm so mad that spring break is over bc now i have to go back to life??? like dancing and school and shit that feels so unnessacry 😭 and like i can't just do nothing anymore? i was so used to it and now...... ugh. i STILL haven't played sims (i think it's because ✨depression✨ be hitting sometimes) lol but MWAHAH IM SO HAPPY FOR YOUR NEIGHBOR!AU AND THAT THEY HAD LITTLE BABY LEO!! i feel the name thing.. i just come up with something that sounds nice? i think leo is a nice name, it makes me think about lea michele and the fact that her son's name is Ever Leo but anyway. i don't name my sims after what i want to name my children irl either... idk why though. (i don't know why i'm telling you this but for boy names i love Liam🥰 and if i had twin boys i think i would do Liam and Peter though i am not married to the name Peter.... anywho)

LMAOOO the therpaist coming made me laugh thank you :)) i hope it's helpful? this may be tmi but i've only really had negative thoughts recently and not many healthy outlets so i'm hoping crossing one thing off this sad list will make me feel better :') i think during spring break my anxiety and my depression really spiked? idk, it comes in episodes but yeah THIS GOT REALLY SAD

i think a lot of things when i read your posts but i never say them hahaha so imma say it now: i googled what bon appetit meant ( i also just had to google how to spell it ) but ur right, i feel like bone apple tea makes more sense than bone apple teeth.. the "th" is throwing me off bc how i say it bone appa (like app-a) teet (like you're saying tit but teet lol) so bone apple tea makes more sense to me lol

i never know really know the time difference for anything lmao but est to germany (that's not gmt is it?) is like 6 hours wOAH so it's like 9pm while it’s 3pm here? wowee

i feel mega weird after watching this show called hollywood (darren criss is in it, so is laura harrier and a bunch of other people) but i don't like it💀 i feel really icky rn and idk why but reading your last response to my ask (?) always makes me feel better :')

i am doing what you said btw, i'm typing this on my computer first then gonna transfer it to my phone's tumblr lol but when you said a digital detox, it's interesting cuz i feel like i've been having one since tom's new project was announced? gOD i don't wanna get into it bc i get so triggered but i've been off of instagram since then bc instagram stans literally stand by tom through whatever even when something ain't right- i’m just gonna leave it there bc i’ll continue the rant, but yeah so i took a break lol

also heard abt your driving lesson thing (?) was it that bad? i can't find the old post but someone asked if you hooked up with your lesson person and i was sOOO CONFUSED LMAOO LIKE OK ARIA GET SOME BUT UHH HUH?

now to address the actual response HAHA the way you touch my heart :') by :') bringing :') up :') halle :') being ariel :') (i honest to God don't remember if i brought this up first, forgive me if i did, it's been a minute lmao) i'm always talking about it and i'm pretty sure my family is so tired of me talking about it lmao, but YEAH when i found out they weren't twins i was so surprised but idk why i always thought they were twins? but YOU ARE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE WITH THE DISNEY TALK- everyone is always like "tiana is my favorite princess" and yea she's strong and stuff but...... she was a frog. for almost the whole time. it's about time we got another one!! i do agree with some people on the fact that disney should just make another black princess but halle is adorable and i was ariel on stage so it's already really special to me :')

yeah lol there are good times with my brothers but they make me mad for a good portion of the time (there's the 12yo vincent and the 7yo daniel but vincent??? psshhh he is a piece of work and i'm not sure how much longer i can put up with him HAJAH AND YES VINCENT IS THE ONE WHO WAS 👁👄👁WHEN I CRIED AND THE ONE WHO DOESN'T LISTEN TO MUSIC- writing this now makes it sound like vincent is awful. which he isn't... we're working on him ig. not to add to the awfulness but no, he listens to obnoxious loud VIDEO GAME MUSIC and won't stop when we ask him to stop... he gets beat up a lot) anyway i imagine being an only child is really calming.. like you have time to yourself and its just you and your parents 😌

yeah let me know if you end up watching it (wandavision)! i think it's great but if you like it lmk!! tfatws is sooo good like PHEW i am honestly loving it. sidenote: j*hn w*lker makes me wanna jump through the screen and choke him to the ground. i was thinking right, and the falcon and the winter soldier (THATS SO MUCH EASIER FAJHKDAH) would techinally be like a 10 hour movie right? because every episode is an hour long and there'll be 10 episodes? like wow. i get what you mean though, abt the racism in the show etc, like looking forward to it but not like..... no i get what you mean i will not try and give another example lol but you make me wanna learn more languages like really badly (bc of what you said about the german to american translation) & if you end up watching hamilton PLEASE LMK ABT THAT TOO HAHAHA i love it so much, same thing with lion king lmaoo

speaking of germany, i was at lunch on saturday with my mom and her friend and we were talking about my schooling and like-- she planted this idea in my head lol like what if i just got my GED and went around the world (to england probably) to get a theatre experience??? and i think it sounds so cool but no where near practical lol, it's just..... the dream haha and i would then try and learn a language 😉

uh yes we absolutely should order basically a resturant meal at a cinema, how about burgers, chips (fries), and a large drink? any time next week works for me, should i pick you up?

also about cherry (which i still haven't watched yet lol) i got the timestamps from tumblr😌 i couldn't find them anywhere else, but i agree, i probably wouldn't even look twice at cherry if tom wasn't in it? like i liked tdatt a lot, but it's not a movie i would be itching to see ya know?

HAHAHAHA THE 24 HOUR NOTIFICATION- i think i have around 1030 hours on sims? but i've had it since 2019 lmao (reading the screenshots, yes u are 100% a genuis, i take screenshots too but on anon you can't upload them so i just read them and retype what i wrote lmao) i think the university experience in the game is fun, but time consuming and it's all work imo. idk why i do it so often tho 😭😭😭

and agreed!! when you're making good money in the game you have to find other ways to make it interesting. my cousins who play it just continously do "motherlode" and i'm like.... then what do you do in your game?? it just sounds boring to me... my current sims household, i had a famous comedian sim, her name was dylan, aND SORRY IM LAUGHING SO HARD WHILE WRITING THIS BC ITS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF THE UNI THING UNLESS IM JUST DUMB, she went to college for communications when i wanted her to be a comedian and when she graduated i realized that degree did nothing for the career 🥲 so yeah, i think i'm just dumb. but she had a kid in college, guy didn't stick around and she was pretty broke HA but then she got married to this (great) guy named steve, made good bank, had 5 more kids (two sets of twins and one more lol) but then she passed. uhm... yeah that's still an open wound . lol i'm kidding, but when you get rich like that, you have to find a way to make the game interesting and i chose a million kids.

(this was one giant paragraph until i broke it up uhh yeah) i seriously don't pay attention to the sims prices and just end up spending way too much money and not being able to finish the rest of the house😭 but then again, i'm so used to having sims live in apartments... if i end up building a house FIRST OF ALL it'll look like what you explained before lmao but i'll tell you if i actually end up building a house HAHA & planning out your sims game is so fun to me lol, did enisa and michael take in his daughter yet? i may be thinking too far ahead lol and i love that they fucked woohooed (i say woo woo lol) in celebration HAHA but when i was playing with this one couple i had them woo woo every night hoping the dude would have horrible pull out game and they would concieve, but one night they were too tired and i was like why? get back in there man. if i was in college and lived with my partner we would be fucking every night homie. be grateful. i have been talking a lot about sims, and like you said: enough 💀 i just love this game a lot 😭😭

SORRY LAST THING i think the sims romantic and sexual stuff is so nice bc its what i want?? LMAO IDK like the whole hot tub thing you're talking about- puh lease ITS JUST NICE TO SEE OKAY

i'm reading the german section over again and i said aloud "my german friend is so cool" lol (i was saying that to my brothers & i know they don't care LMAO) (& i'm glad the uni zoom call went well!!) so on a form, in german, it could possibily say Einführungsveranstaltungsteilnehmer because you would be a participant to an introductory event? i swear german sounds so cool 😌 but i love reading your german lessons!! it's really interesting, most of the time my brain can't comprehend it tho?? like that word makes sense to you, but i need a translation. like to be able to look at that and know what it says.... its just appealing and seems so cool lol i kinda wanna write something out in german but i feel that google translate will fail me. während googeln "google übersetzen" mein Computer war so verdammt langsam und es fühlte sich einfach wie etwas Gutes auf Deutsch zu sagen. ich bin nicht sicher, welches Wort ist "fucking", aber ich mag es lmao (did it fail me like i thought it would??)

LMAOOO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP JUSTIN BC WHILE AT THE RESTURANT THEY PLAYED A JUSTIN SONG AND I IMMEDIATELY THOUGHT OF YOU AND THIS STORY😭 lol i was thinking it's depending on your age but not even that either... i really don't know.... but tom's fans are hollanders💀 i would consider myself one? he's the only person i'm really into like that (like a lot lol) so idk lmao (directioners 💔💔the pain is real)

LMAOOO (both of these paragraphs started off with “lmaooo” smh) "i like my men when they look like they are on the brink of death" PLEASE, i don't like pete's blonde hair... i just don't. i'm not sure if i wasn't watching the most recent snls but yea. my mom thinks he looks like trash, but i think he's okay? like he said staten island people just look like trash LMAO and I STILL HAVEN'T SEEN KING OF STATEN ISLAND GIRL I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THAT!! now i'm gonna make plans to watch it lmao, & yes agreed i find pete hot, don't ask why i really couldn't explain it to someone he's just .

my favorite songs from rex are from pony oh my goodness 🥺 anywho i'm gonna go eat cereal (i ended up eating bun and cheese instead) and listen to the Stormzy songs you recommended... aria. aria aria aria. i would like to thank you for introducing me to stormzy i- i don't have any words or any emojis to express HOW GOOD STORMZY IS. i hope he's popular in germany/the uk because i haven't heard of him but GURLLLL

one second - delicious i love it. it's really good. it’s not my favorite from the album, but its great.

superheroes - at first i played the non-explicit one (on accident) and wondered why the words weren't playing but i was reading them in the lyrics??? THIS ONE THOUGH??? IS THE BEST SONG I THINK I'VE EVER HEARD. i am so SO SO into black people empowering songs (like brown skin girl by beyonce) and this song???? PHEW I CRYYYYY ITS SO GOOD.... i was gonna quote some lyrics BUT THERS TOO MANY I LOVE, "i am young, black, beautiful, and brave" "black queen, you're immaculate, it's coming at the world, they ain't ready for your magic yet, and that was never your fault" THAT WAS NEVER YOUR FAULT- I ALMOST CRIED THIS SONG IS SO BEAUTIFUL (i played it twice lol)

lessons is another beautiful one, like its slow and it feels intimate and nurturing and just OO chefs kiss, beautiful . like you can feel the apology and the regret... it’s so good

own it - OWN IT OWN IT OWN IT IS AMAZING!! swear you would catch me dancing to this song, this song is so fucking good i cannot comprehend like this one might be my favorite for real... "it's the way you wind up your waist, i'm so in awe, you never have to worry abt nothing, you know its yours, you know you own it" 🥲 i played it two or three times honestly

rachael's little brother - YES I DID LISTEN TO IT LMAO AND YES I LIKE IT, its a very complex song and it's very layered in terms of emotions i think and i really like that about it. i probably won't listen to it that often, but its really good. i would recommend this song to my "older brother" bc he would just absolutely love this

shut up - i was taking this song seriously (also very good) until i heard him say shu-T up LMAO, this one is good, i probably wouldn't listen to it 24/7 like rachael's little brother but honestly its still fire

before listening to blinded by your grace and vossi bop, i know you brought up the religion bit, i definitely don't mind that, especially because i'm Christian lol and i actually liked that he brought up God in some of his songs like idk i just like it🥰🥰

(i then went to bed after that lol but first thing in the morning i listened to superheroes and... that song is probably my favorite tbh, i was gonna write MORE quotes that i loved from it but, yeah no there's too many. if you want i'll tell you lmao but this is already so long i would just be quoting the whole friggin song)

VOSSI BOP IS A BOP (lol) I CANT EVEN LIE, i love a song that hypes up a dude's girl so the line- i love that my phone decided to fail to load the lyrics, lemme google it, okay the lyric "looking at my girl like what a goddess" i was like AYEEE its honestly just really good. and no one in america says "sauce" like "i've got the sauce" but now i do (thanks to love island and Nas from last season) and now stormzy so (also im gonna watch the music video for superheroes bc it looks great so 😛)

(because this is already so long i feel like i shouldn't finish the rest but . no i'm gonna do it)

now for blinded by your grace pt2 idk why i’m nervous lmaoo PAUSE I'M NOT EVEN DONE WITH THE SONG GIRL THIS SONG IS *chefs kiss* no words, speechless PHEW y'all gon make me start jumping around. why did i not know about stormzy before, he is amazing i- ok yeah i finished the song, all i have to say is that Stormzy is immaclucate. period. i am literally sending his music to all my friends he is..... amazing

you want my song recommendations 🥺🥺 hmm uh okay lol i listen to a lot of old music, whitney houston, marvin gaye, queen, celine dion, i love "more than words" by extreme uhmm okay, but for actual music i listen to on the daily? (this is a lot of different music like.... they do not go together lmao so be prepared) a song about being sad by rex orange county, betty by taylor swift and lover by taylor swift and... most of that album lol, treasure by bruno mars lmao, OOOO and versace on the floor by bruno as well, lazybaby by dove cameron, creep by tlc has been on repeat lol, deja vu by olivia rodrigo (i saw what you said about drivers license and AGREED LMAO but i like deja vu a lot more haha) and two albums that i listen to in general, rare by selena gomez and ungodly hour by chloe x halle 🥰 you don't have to listen to all of them or any of them lol but that's a sense of what i'm into :) so basically everything haha, i'm into literally every single kind of music really so i wasn't too surprised that i enjoyed stormzy :’)

HAHASBSJHAHA your h20 story cracked me up,, like "wow these actors are so dedicated, learning german just for us" 😭 the beauty of overdubbing

once again, math and maths, in my mind maths makes sense because its mathmatics, but saying maths doesn't feel right to me lol, like if i said maths i feel like everyone would look at me like ??? and yea i was taught it as math so its just more natural for me. but yes math/maths is disgusting, easily one of my least favorite subjects so .

mkay. i- the first time i read this i could not contain my laughter when you said the only pollen you know is sex pollen LMAOKOOSHBABJFAJF STOPPP I'M EVEN LAUGHING WRITING THIS,, anyway. wow! that's interesting, my dad (<<< mostly anything else) gets migraines from the sun and the heat and stuff, yesterday (sunday, i was outside for like hours watching my brothers play football, the american kind lol) i was in the sun for like ever and i got a headache😔

summer clothes🥲 i need to go shopping fr fr. for my birthday my mom and dad got me a giftcard like dedicated to a shopping spree and we've yet to go so..... i should bring it up to my mom lol, but!! i went bra shopping (ended up returning literally all of them cuz they honestly didn't work for day to day work? its a long story) and if i could i would walk around in this new "summer bra" i got, i would. it's so fricking cute and its really light fabric (which isn't perfect for my nipples but still) so i don't get hot in it, but that bra and some shorts would be perfect. its the closest thing to being naked so

IS THE BIRD STILL BOTHERING U ARIA, TELL ME NOW ISTG, i laughed really hard that the bird isn't stupid and is really trying to torture you LMAOO like i was rolling, it wants you to suffer, badly

when you said "mensus" it was still close to mens!!! latin speaking queen 😌😌

okay STORYTIME i was reading back your response and started (fake) crying bc i love you lol and my youngest brother (daniel) gon say "oh man, catherine's crying about something we don't care about, again" I--- i swear when i tell you about them they sound awful, but they aren't that bad, just the stuff i say about them is sounds really mean LMAO

but the thing you said about being kind, same, what i always say is: don't be the person that makes people say "i hate people" ya know? like there's no reason to be a jerk or anything.... but its true 🥺🥺🥺🥺 you are really kind and every time i talk to you i would like to personally fly to germany and give you a hug 💖💕💞💗💓💝💖💘

& i'm gonna show my stretch marks some love bc of you 🥺😭 i really hate how men have basically everyone conditioned that you can't love your own body </3 fuck them, y'all beautiful :')

also thanks for what you said :')) you literally are the kindest, sweetest person i think i've ever spoken to and i love you 🥰🥺🥲💓💗

READING YOUR TAGS HAHAHHAHA the spelling errors makes everything so much funnier. once again, i like your german lessons & yea!! i'm gonna play sims after writing this hahah

#catherine's tags are back #i don't think i've told you my name before?? #anyway it's catherine🥰🥰🥰 #i'm typing this on my computer (without emojis) and if i didn't edit this you would be reading shit shite like #heartface and pout and cry LMAO #yeah abt the tattoos #some stuff with my parents i'm like deal with it??? lol #my mom tells me "if there's something you enjoy or you like but i don't have the same opinion on it... why would my (my mom's) opinion matter? #and i love that #like i'm not gonna go and do whatever i want #but if my mom doesn't like that i swear (which isn't true just an example) #its like okay.... #but whatever #and your tattoo ideas sound really cute!! #and yeah @ your parents, i mean you aren't getting something wild #and the tattoo album>>> #i'm gonna look up ariana's butterfly tattoos just so i know what you mean lol #but i'm guessing you don't want something so incredibily simple, but not super like over the top? #correct me if i'm wrong lol #LMAO the tags were in order don't worry ! #and yeah lol ily2 <33 #and once again, again, sorry for this post JSHJS ITS A MESS AND LONG AS HELL #and you don't need to go in order of my post its literally longer than your german compound words #u're fine #also !!! while writing this the birds were chirping outside and i was like 😳 #and one of your fics (i’ve read all of them, i don’t remember lol) that valentine’s day one where y/n had lingerie on (the pancake one lol) #inspired me to buy lingerie #like when i look back on me “growing up” #that fic & basically you lol really helped with that #that made no sense and i don’t know how to make it make sense... but... yeah. like ily

hiiiiiiiiiii <3333

Dear catherine, 😌

(you have said your name before, but it wasn‘t like an introduction or anything i think you were talking about .... was it possibly the incident at the cinema??? And you said something like ‘calm down catherine‘ like you were telling yourself to calm down idkd dkdkkdkd anyway i didn‘t mention it cause i wasn‘t sure if it was an accident or not dkdjd but now i know 😌❤️ Catherine is such a cute and lovely name btw omg and so are your brothers‘s names 🥰

Sorry that I‘m answering this so late, it‘s been an emotional rollercoaster for me since last week but i‘ll get to that in a second lol

Sksklssk girl i haven‘t played sims in like 2 weeks now ekejdkdlldld ok that‘s not that long at all actually but i keep wanting to play but then i end up not playing for whatever reason, so no news about my sims game 😔 but i love the names Liam and Peter and for twins!!! That sounds really nice actually

okay i‘m trying to answer your ask in chronological answer even though i wanted to wait for the depressing stuff and write it at the end or something OKAY so. i thought that i‘d feel so good when i start uni and that i‘ll like... have a purpose in life again and just be happy (cause in the last year i didn‘t do much and i was depressed like half of the time lol).... anyway i kind of feel even worse now? 😭 i think it‘s because in my brain it‘s like: university!!! that means your life will change and it‘ll all be so exciting. and don‘t get me wrong it is exciting butttt..... idk the online thing is so weird cause you‘re not meeting any new people (i‘m introverted anyway but still lol) and it doesn‘t feel like you‘re listening to/talking to actual people cause it feels the same as just watching a video?

also i thought i‘d be busy again but i only have one lecture (90mins) a day and theres one day where i dont have any lectures at all and just one day where i have 3 hours but.... idk i mean i shouldn‘t complain about having so much free time but i just don‘t know what to do all day and in a pandemic there really is nothing to do but i also can‘t relax bc it‘s like during the week and i know i have uni the next day and .... yeah.

There‘s also this one assignment i had to do that took me AT LEAST SIX HOURS AND IM NOT EVEN EXAGGERATING????? so that was the only thing i‘ve been doing besides “going to“ lectures. for this one course we have to read two (really really long) texts (like it literally took me 3 hours to read them) and we‘re supposed to post it on this website that all the professors in our uni use. So after 5 days of anxiety (✌🏼) i posted mine this morning bc last night i realised that i didn‘t even know why i was having anxiety so i just posted mine today. The deadline is tomorrow at 12 and no one except me has posted theirs yet........ so i have anxiety again 🥰 cause idk if i‘m the only one who did it or if i even did it correctly

Edit while i‘m rereading this: my anxiety about uni is a lot better and i‘m not as d*pressed anymore maybe it was just hormones? idk but i‘m better so that‘s good

(I started writing this like 5 hours ago and then i randomly completely forgot lol)

I‘m in a better mood now though so let‘s move on from that (oh wait also, i think i‘m gonna see if i can find a psychiatrist bc with my anxiety symptoms (long story) i need to go to a psychiatrist, and so far i‘ve only gone to like psycholgists and it didn‘t help but i think that‘s just bc i was meant to go to a psychiatrist and not a psychologist so dldjdjsj

n e ways but yes you‘re not alone, ily, things will get better and yes i love you (i‘m not good at this type of thing🥲 but i‘d hug you right now if i could <3)

Yess i think the time difference between est and me is 6hours but gmt is uk time i believe? i think mine is called.... cet? For central european time? I could be completely wrong though lmao

Oof i completely forgot about hollywood, i remember when laura kept posting about it on instagram but i never actually watched it and i definitely won‘t now lmaodkdksjsn

Okay my driving lesson LEBDJDKDK I DID NOT HOOK UP WITH ANYONE AKSJSKSMMLM especially not my 40 or 50 year old driving instructor lol i like her but NOT LIKE THAT, the lesson was really really really good actually and i think i‘ll have my driving test soon, but i don‘t even remember why the anon would have thought that??? Oh wait now i remember okay KEKSKDLDL so during the lesson my instructor was like do you mind if i turn on some music? AND THIS WOMAN TURNED ON ONE DIRECTION I LOVE HER so i made a post about it and i said something about the song up all night and i guess i phrased it in a .... idk in a dumb way 💀 so the anon made a joke that i stayed up with my driving instructor all night and NO. No.

Wait did i read that right? YOU WERE ARIEL ON STAGE? SIALDBDJDKSLMSBDKDMDMDKDJSLSMDJFJJEDMBFEKLEFBJDLDVSIDLESKSKWKDKDJDOWNYUEKWNDUWLNSUFLWVSUDLEHDOENSIDBEISBEHENJELBSIEMWUDNRIW KB WOBE JO ON SBEUU HIII S HWS LV W ICH US KB okay this keyboard smash is getting out of hand but uh please do elaborate on that 💘😌???? Like you can‘t just drop that information and not say more??? I forgot if you‘re in like your school‘s drama group (is that a thing? lol idk anything about acting) or in an independent group? Either way - ARIEL that is so fucking cool

Your brothers loooooool, no i get it though obviously you love them and stuff but esp at their age children are so annoying so good luck with them 😭😭😭lmao

Yeah “anyway i imagine being an only child is really calming.. like you have time to yourself and its just you and your parents 😌“ yeah just me and my parents who constantly fight 🥰 lmao no i like being an only child, like i cannot imagine having siblings but i feel like if i had siblings i would be saying that i can‘t imagine being an only child so? but i do think it‘s quite different like i‘m trying to imagine having siblings and WHAT that‘s just so different omg i‘ve never really thought about it like properly ???

I saw a tik tok the other day that was like “sometimes i forget that my siblings have a life of their own. like i see them as side characters in my life“ and even though i can‘t relate obviously i felt that. lol, like i can really imagine how it feels idk what i‘m talking about like shut the fuck up, daria

(also my actual name is daria not aria but i dont like it, and also i wanted to be more anonymous on tumblr so now i‘m aria lmao. pls don‘t mention it though cause no one knows except for you and mel (peterbenjiparker) dkdkdkdnkdnd. but i‘m starting to identify with the name cause everyone keeps calling me that looool😭😭😭 (but i like the name, more than daria anyway? well it also depends on the accent, cause the way germans say daria is okay. the was Americans say it is also okay, but some of my family in England are from the north of england and i don‘t like how they say my name 💀 no offence to them(?) but yeah pls don‘t mention the name in your ask cause the chance of people seeing it is higher then (or if you want to say something about it just send a separate ask and i just won‘t post it (IDK what you‘d want to say about my name but yeah just in case slsldlldmsndnsns)

I‘m loving falcon and winter soldier so much but when i was watching an episode the week before last week (?) my laptop broke😭😭😭😭 during the scene where the dora milaje came at the end my laptop just shut down? And it had these lines all over the screen and i had to bring it to the shop where i bought it and they said it‘ll take 6-8 weeks to repair 💔💔💔 but at least it‘ll be for free, cause if i brought it back to apple it would cost like 400€ (i think that‘s nearly 500$) so yeah. but it sucks cause now i‘m “going to uni“ on a really old rusty laptop and on my phone which kinda sucks. oh yeah and also i can‘t watch anything on there 😭 i definitely want to watch wandavision but it‘ll have to wait🤧

Yessss you should def get your GED! I googled and I‘m still not entirely sure what it is dldks but from how you described it- YES!!!!!!

Idk if you know this? Like no idea if I‘ve told you this already (hmmm wait i feel like we talked about it actually?) anyway i was originally gonna go study in England, but for loads of reasons I ended up staying in Germany and I‘m def happy with my decision, but I definitely want to go to England sometime even if it‘s just for six months or maybe for my masters or something? And (obviously everyone is different) but i think everyone should go abroad and live in a different country once in their life, no matter if it‘s for school or what, and even if it‘s just for a few weeks. But i think that‘s something that you‘d never ever forget! And combining that with your acting/theatre??? You really would be living the dream 💘💘😌

how about burgers, chips (fries), and a large drink? any time next week works for me, should i pick you up?— sounds good see you soon 🥰🥰🥰

i used to be one of the people who‘d just do motherlode motherlode motherlode and just... what did i do? Why did i do that??? But not anymore lol. Like I said i haven‘t played sims in a few weeks but i‘ve been watching a few legacy challenge let‘s plays and usually i play with the aging off. So my sims just don‘t age 💀 but i could (should) turn aging on so that it stays exciting and i have limited time and everything. and once i get bored with my current sims i can just make them have kids and continue playing as their children when they get older- like recently i remembered that i haven‘t played the acting career in ages? and i haven‘t had a shop in ages? and i think you can even become a vet right??? like those are definitely some things i want to do in the next weeks!!! Also yes sksksjs i have a few hundred hours on sims as well (if not thousands 😭) it was just that one household that i‘d been playing with for 24hrs

AND GIRL SSKSKJD THE UNIVERSITY THING HAPPENED TO ME TOO, it was a while ago so i don‘t remember what degree and what job it was about but i made my sim study something for aaaaaages so she‘d get a better job from the beginning (you know what i mean like get in at a higher level)...... and i apparently studied the wrong thing cause i didn‘t get any benefits from studying and still had to start at level 1 and shit 🥴🥲

Oh also (this was like 2 weeks ago) Enisa and Michael did take in Michael‘s daughter and i think Enisa currently even has a higher/better relationship with the daughter than Michael but um💀💀💀 also i was hoping (since michael and enisa married (in their back yard i think lol) that the daughter (i forget what her name is😭) would have enisa as her step mom? Like you know how you can see the relationship and it says daughter or son or sister.. and i was hoping that it would say step mom but it doesn‘t say anything 🥲 but in my mind (and if the sims had proper family relations) she is her step mom😌 also Leo is a teenager now???? I mean I aged him up lol dkdk he was being too annoying as a toddler but i don‘t like children so i aged him up twice in one day and now he‘s a teen, but that means he can look after his half sister when she becomes a toddler which is good (the game recognises them as siblings tho even if they‘re just half siblings? why can‘t they have step family members in the sims🥲) okay i‘ve annoyed you enough with sims ✋🏼

I‘ve been a bit sick these past few days and now i‘m getting a headache so i have to finish this response tomorrow 😭😭😭 </3

It‘s not tomorrow, it‘s 3 hours later but i‘m better lol

oooff when sims are ungrateful and won‘t woo woo (lol i like that) cause they‘re too tired like?? Be grateful that you‘re not living with your parents anymore 🙄 no okay dkdkdkdl idk if you play with mods (i don‘t) but i know there is a mod (or it‘s part of a mod idk maybe wicked whims?) where you can adjust the percentage of how risky a normal woo woo is, like you still click woo woo (3dksksks okay i‘ll say woohoo again— wait is that what’s it called? 😭) but there‘s like a 25% chance that your sim can still get pregnant just like in real life there‘s always a chance of getting pregnant even if you‘re using protection (just not 25% lmao) but yeah i personally don‘t play with mods sksk and you can always just click try for baby but it would be cool if you could add stuff like risky woohoo to the game without mods (i have no idea how to download mods and i play sims on a really really old laptop and sims is literally tje only thing that works on it anyway so—) i repeat my words from earlier: okay i‘ve annoyed you enough with sims ✋🏼

okay i‘m so sorry i‘m gonna watch fast & furious 1 now cause i need to watch f&f 1-5 until the 30th of april cause they‘re only on netflix til then (i mean i could watch them somewhere else but the quality is never as good) so i will finish this tomorrow after all😭

it is now 1 am, i finished the film, can feel a new obsession coming up again (i always have these f&f obsessions for six months before and after a new film comes out)

THE GOOGLE TRANSLATE wkekdjdj tbh it sounds like someone is speaking with some kind of foreign accent i guess that‘s probably because it just is a direct translation and so anyway slsjsj i don‘t know if you asked me what the word fucking is in german? like idk cause the translation is a bit weird but in case you asked lol sidjsjs theres not really a good translation like we just say fuck for fuck lmao, i don‘t know if you typed in fucking in google translate and it came out as verdammt? cause that means damn (or damned sksjjs) ummm yeah idek if/what you asked so imma move on🤧

I‘m not gonna comment on what you said about every stormzy song cause you already said all the important things but SKSKSJSJSKNSNDBDUDOENWBSLSKKHSULSLSKSBSJSKSK I WAS SMILING SO HARD WHEN I READ YOUR RESPONSE FOR THE FIRST TIME BECAUSE AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH finally i know someone who loves him as much as i do 💘💘💘 also since you brought it up, i‘m pretty sure he‘s considered the most successful UK rapper or if not then at least top 3 so he‘s defffffffffinitely big in the uk, in germany more and more people are listening to uk rap too but not as much stormzy cause theyre dumb apparently 🙄 but anywY i‘m sooooo sooo happy that you like him. i think hith came out end of 2019 (i could be wrong but i think it came out on the 13th of december so (in a european way) you‘d write the date: 13.12 and obviously i don‘t KNOW this but i can definitely imagine that he chose that date because ACAB and yes, Michael. Yes. But he hasn‘t made too much music since then so i hope he‘s working on some new stuff 🤞🏼

Also i ordered the stormzy poster😌 also a nicki minaj one bc i decided i‘m gonna have one wall with red-ish posters (i already have two kinda red ones) and one with blue/green-ish posters (already have two) and i can add stormzy to the blue one and nicki to the red one, but i think that‘s it cause if my walls are tooo full it could look cluttered? I‘m not sure how that type of thing works lmao but my room is generally untidy so i don‘t want the walls to look unorganised too so i think that‘s it for now

I really want to finish this now but my brain is getting kinda slow and i need to sleep soon so this will have to wait till later after all 🥺🥴 (not that it makes and difference to you bc you‘ll see this whenever i post it buttttt i wanted you to know that i want to talk to you again but with my slow brain i‘m just taking too long to do it in one day😭😭😭 and i‘m so busy tomorrow hmm but i‘m sure i‘ll have 30 minutes to finish this then <3)

Okay wait I‘m so dumb I didn‘t realise I‘d nearly answered everything i could have posted this yesterday 😭😭

Oooohh that summer bra sounds so nice like if i was confident enough i literally would just wear a top that resembles a bra (or really is a bra lol) cause my tiddies always be looking amazing i‘m just insecure about my stomach sometimes 🙄🙄🙄 but recently i‘ve been loving myself more and more tbh 😌

also i hope you can go shopping for some nice clothes soon ✨😌

I‘ll be honest I haven‘t listened to your song recs YET but only because i wanna take my time with them and i‘ve been so busy and slso AJ tracey‘s album came out last week and I haven‘t listened to that one yet either so ekdkdj (he‘s also a uk rapper like quite popular and successful as well, but i feel like i‘m not gonna like his album cause whenever i‘m looking forward to an album it ends up being really bad and the albums where you weren‘t expecting it turn out to be bangers.... so yeah but i‘ll let you know when i listen to your songs!!!! :)

Omg i keep having to scroll up all the way to see the next thing you said so sorry if I completely miss some of the things you said😭😭

So when you sent this the bird was still bothering me oh my FUCK DKDLDMMDMDMD but now i‘ve been going to bed at like 1-2am so the bird is probably still asleep lool

Okay and for the rest of your ask my response is: 💘💖❣️💚❣️💛❣️💛💕💞❤️💓💟💞💕💕💖💘💝💟💟🧡❤️🧡💞💛💚💓💚💚💚❣️🧡💖💘🧡💝🧡💕💘🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥺🥺🥺🥰🥺🥺💘💘💘💘💘 (okay that looked cuter in my head i don‘t really like the green hearts dldkkdksndnd)

#lovely anon #<3333333333333 #‚‘it‘s literally longer than your german compound words‘ LMAODKDMSLDKSLKS #ignore the comma at the beginning of the last tag????#aww wait i just read what you said at the end of your tags🥺🥺💘💘💘#love youuuu #ooooof i‘m reading my response and do i not know what a period is? like period as in. full stop.#my sentences are literally paragraphs and i use keyboard smashes to separate sentences from each other like what‘s wrong with me???#or ‚lol‘ snd ‚lmao‘#imma need me to do better (did you listen to heavy is the head as a whole? like the whole album? the song do better is stuck in my head toda #today so)#i‘ll try to write normal length sentenced in the future💀#sentencessss*

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hahahah why so impatient? are u a fire sign by any chance? 🧡 please play with me a little longer <3

ohh i didn’t expect seungkwan, inch resting! i’m glad your opinion on him turned around 🥰 imagine not liking boo seungkwan? can’t relate 💗 and it’s funny how u weren’t into the maknae line at first but now the maknae is your bias <3 the universe works in mysterious ways ~

as for the wrong impressions, it’s jeonghan for me. i fell for his angel agenda and thought he was just a soft and nice dude who’s a bit cheeky. i really wasn’t prepared for him to be this cunning and cause chaos for his own entertainment. i LOVE it tho ✨ and also whenever i see new people get into svt and they’re like “jeonghan is an angel 😍” i’m like... oh you’re about to witness the biggest plot twist of your entire kpoppie life.

and also mingyu. he’s not that different from my first impression... but he’s the designated hot guy/himbo of the group and bc of that i thought he was quite one-dimensional. it was a very pleasant surprise that gyu is actually very smart and interested in sooo many things - photography, filmmaking, cooking, drawing, design etc - all things that i’m also very into <333

ohh yes please check easy out ~ the mv is also very good because. um. 💖women💖 and i’m glad you gave hanbin and epik high’s albums a listen <3

yeah the school i went to had a strong focus on music so we all had to be in a band, choir or orchestra! so i chose band lol. i play piano/keyboard and sing. it was quite a while ago tho. when i started uni i focused on theater more, but it’s all been put on hold now 😿

i totally feel u abt the concepts and styles! it’d be cool for them to pursue an actual storyline in a series of mvs... and same. sets are very aesthetic and visually pleasing and all, but it’d be nice to see the svteenies outside in natural environments more 🍃 same again about the concepts. fresh concepts are definitely their trademark but they do dark concepts so well 🖤 i’d actually love for them to attempt smth like fear again. or something completely ethereal and surreal! or a rockband concept!! or smth with a touch of comedy like left & right. sky’s the limit 🌟

ahhh whatever. why drag this out? let’s wrap it up then 🥰 i’ll reveal myself in my next ask, but before i do please tell me: 1. how the event has been for you, whether you enjoyed it or not <3 and 2. who u think my biases are or should be based on your impression of me ~ (don’t be worried, i won’t be mad if u get it wrong, there’s no member i dislike)

btw my kpop blog is a side blog so my next ask will also be on anon (can’t send asks from sideblogs 😒) but it’ll just leave my url there ok 😽 see u soon <3 - 🥕 anon

uhhhmm whoopsie. i didnt know thats a thing for fire signs

i am! only my sun sign tho.

i think i didnt like vernon and seungkwan as much at the beginning as i do now bcs 1. vernon is on the quieter side of the whole group and for those it usually takes time for me to really notice them. (btw have you seen the new gose episode... they just left the dude at the house but he was such a cutie singing all alone). and for seungkwan it was the other way around for me. he was one of the ones who talked the most in my eyes, kinda like an attention seeker and i didnt like that much at the beginning. but with time i noticed how caring and lovely he actually is... i think my whole impression of every single member changed with time. except for dino... i loved him from the beginning and i think my impression of him didnt change much hahahahah.

yeah it seems that a lot of people seem to fall for jeonghan like that! idk why i never did bcs i feel like about every other carat feels or felt like that for jeonghan...

oh!! i think its so cool that you went to a school like that. when i went to secondary school we had to choose sth like a "school branch" and one of them was music and i actually chose that one but unfortunately only one other student chose it too and so it never actually happened and i had to choose another "branch".

thats sad to hear :( did it all got put on hold bcs of the virus or for other reasons?

there probably isnt a concept i would love for svt bcs everything theyve put out so far, no matter the concept, was such a chefs kiss. but i think your ideas are very nice!!!

dont worry about it. i think i will be able to wait longer if you want to keep this going for a while. i am very happy i can talk to you...

1. the event uhhm idk it kinda made me sad bcs i didnt feel like i did talk much to you as well as the blog i was the anon for :( but i really loved reading every message i did get from you so its not that bad and i think i still got to know you a little <3<3<3 also i think anon events in general are such a sweet idea and i will surely participate in another one :) 2. well tbh i still dont really have a clue. wonwoo aaaaaaaaannndd vernon idk idk idk (i dont know if i already guessed this; tbh i am not really sure who is the closest in svt paringwise... i think i know kinda but gose and stuff confuses me... also the cat person clue does)

sorry for taking so long to answer. as i said its okay if we keep this going if you want to :) do whatever you feel like. see you <3<3

#hi 🥕 anon #carat anon

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todokori-kun · 7 years

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Ack

that sounds horrible, getting sick is the worst ;-; get as much rest as you can! I really hope you get better soon<3

(omg the pics are GORGEOUS. Like, Wow. Once I’m done writing this message I’m probably going to go back to stare at them for like an hour and silently scream over how awesome everything looks)

Don’t worry about it, I admit that Stoki is pretty much a crack ship ^^;;

And, well, the redemption fic I mentioned helped me fall deeper into Stoki hell, but I shipped it even before that XD I think part of it is just because I think they could have a really interesting dynamic- they’re just so different, complete opposites. Steve would confuse Loki so much tbh

Also, I just think that Steve (or at least, post-CW Steve) might be one of the avengers most willing to at least try to understand Loki. Partly because Steve’s just a nice guy, and then because of his relationship with Bucky- ‘cause Steve-Bucky and Thor-Loki are really, really similar and I think Steve would realize that.

And then like I said, Steve cares a lot about other people. If Thor ever told him about everything that happened between him and Loki Steve probably wouldn’t have too much difficulty in starting to see Loki as a human(?) being instead of some one-dimensional fairy tale villain.

Lastly, I feel like Steve is just the best person to handle Loki’s issues. He may not be able to personally relate to a lot of it (Tony, Bruce, maybe Natasha would be better for that) but he can take a step back and think rationally about the situation, help convince Loki that just because the rest of the world sees him as a monster, doesn’t mean he has to be one.

Hopefully this made sense? lol)

yeah, that’s pretty much how I felt about it too. It was just so freaking frustrating OTL

(And yes that letter destoyed my feelings too)

btw, can I ask what you think about T'challa? He doesn’t seem to have that many fans yet but I think he’s really cool and possibly one of the more sensible people in the CW movie (once he stops being furious at Bucky). Also the trailer for his new movie is epic and I can’t wait to see his sister…

Hisoillu is bizarre (sadistic murdery Clown with no sense of fashion + sadistic murdery needle guy with dead fish eyes) but also makes a lot of sense at the same time? Like, Hisoka got away with joking about killing Killua in front of Illumi, so…yeah. They’ve got something special LOL

omg imagine.

‘Satisfied but when you fantasize at night it’s Illumi’s eyes’

'Helpless but look into Illumi’s eyes and the sky’s the limit’

'History has its Eyes on you but it’s actually Illumi’

Why do I want these memes to be a thing

With the new revelation about who Touka was visiting at the hospital, I’m beginning to have my doubts about how this will end…maybe they might actually both survive for now???

But I’m a bit miserable rn because if one of them has to die I’d rather keep Juuzou too but it seems much more likely for Touka to survive. She’s like the main female lead, plus she has Kaneki’s baby…

R.I.P Naki, the sweetest cinnamon roll who just wanted to see his big bro again ;-;

(Also: Wow, way to go Kaneki, you finally started acting like an actual leader (in a way)! But can I just say, what absolutely perfect timing)

WTH I had no idea Soul Eater’s art style developed that much???!!! That’s actually pretty amazing! (And yeah, I know that SE has some pretty complex characters and interesting stories in it :D it’s just still a lot lighter and has different themes from the mangas I usually enjoy ^^ I might try it out though!)

Death The Kid seems really cool! (does he really have OCD in canon, though? Like, I’ve seen a lot of Soul Eater fans talking like he does but idk if it’s actually a thing? Maybe I sound weird but it just seems insensitive to say characters like DTK and Levi have 'OCD’ and talking about it jokingly when it’s actually incredibly difficult and stressful for people who actully have OCD, so I’m not sure how to feel about those fans)

Yay! Gotta go and try to find that fight scene now…

Join me in my suffering. I loved L so much ;-;

(But hey, don’t be too sad (what’s this? Is Evans actually COMFORTING Queen Luna for once instead of rubbing salt in the wound?!)! There’s always the book Death Note: Another Note (The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases)- it’s a prequel to the Death Note manga/anime with L chasing a murderer known as Beyond Birthday (…no comment on that alias). It also shows how he met Naomi Misora which is awesome if you like Naomi (I did, and kinda screamed when Light kiled her))

Eh, I think I’m one of the few people who doesn’t mind it being set in America because what’s the point of making an American adaptation if it’s going to be set in Japan anyway? I also don’t really have a problem with 'white-washing’ for this same reason (though I am disappointed because being Japanese-American would have added an interesting layer to Light’s character; despite fighting for justice, in canon, LIght’s never actually been victimized or discriminated against. He’s a handsome, intelligent young man who appears to be cisgender and heterosexual (even if it’s never confirmed) and is Japanese, just like everyone else around him. Japanese-American Light, on the other hand, would have really experienced how the 'rotten’ world could hurt people, so his acts as Kira might have more personal emotion in them)…like, it’s possible to cast a white actor as Light without it being white-washing, and since they changed the entire setting I think it’s fine to change other things too. Just, I’m cool with anything as long as they portrayed Light’s character properly…BUT THEY DIDN’T SO

I’m really just disappointed that they botched the characters and all the themes of the original Death Note story so badly. Sure, change the setting, change the circumstances, change the plot, changehe designs, but why did you have to take Death Note’s philosophy away?

But, because I might have been a bit too mean:

I will say that the movie LOOKS really good. The visuals are great. The soundtrack seems decent too. Also, though Ryuk’s motivations/role also weren’t done very well, Ryuk’s actor did an amazing job…and while I’m not happy with how L was portrayed in this movie, I do think that the actor they cast for him could have been a good L if not for the bad writing.

Well…from what I know, Light Turner ends up in a hospital at the end of the movie with his One True Love Mia(Misa) dead, so nah. The Keikaku failed.

(which just proves that Light Turner really is nothing like Light Yagami, because Light Yagami’s keikakus never fail.

Until the end of the Death note manga/anime, that is.)

Yeah, I know about SU’s terrible fandom, so I’m not going to actively participate in writing fanfic, drawing fan art or making HCs/theories with other people…I’m just gonna watch the show with my sister and look at pretty fanart XD

Tysm tho!

(Question: Which character do you think you are? And what kind of gem do you think you’d be?)

Aww, I’m so happy my awkward rambling actually made you feel better??? Like. Come on. You have no idea how much our convos helped me with anxiety and stress, so I have to thank you for that too <333

(And seriously, Queen Luna is amazing.)

For most people, they start going to elementary at seven (in international age) as far as I know, and then go to middle school at around thirteen. Then high school at…um…sixteen? Maybe? I’ve never really gone to school here so I might not be 100% correct but it’s something like that ^^;;

I really wanna try Mystic Messenger but since my phone is an old flip phone…I like my phone but sometimes this can be inconvenient LOL

(I’m totally fine with messaging here, but are you really ok with it? 'Cause if you’re not, we can try to work something else out!)

hi im luna and i wanna die.

HNNNNNNNNGH have i ever told you how much i hate school? because i freaking hate school from the bottom of my heart i can’t feel my neck anymore from the amount of studying ive been doing that’s depressing.

anyway. heartfelt advice: do not fuck your stomach up in any way, because you will suffer if you do. take it from me, i’ve managed to develop this amazing thing called Gastritis and now i cant eat anything without getting the feeling that im gonna throw it back out which is absolutely wonderful. thankfully, i don’t throw up, but it’s freaking annoying and ive lost waay too much weight already. best part? the whole reason why i have it is apparently purely psychological, too much stress. i got it in the middle of july. HOW my mom is also being INCREDIBLY helpful by basically telling me to ‘get over it’ like i can just snap my fingers and tell myself ‘oh yeah this is only in my head’ and it’ll all pass over. cause that’s how it works. so is my sister by always laughing at me

oook moving on.

yep, school started and i am suffering. ive already gone through 4 tests and a bunch of oral quizzes. yay. thanks teachers for totally not putting horrible pressure on us from the start. i stg, one of my most common thoughts these days is ‘see, this is exactly why i have a psychosomatic sickness.’ they’re sending my to a psychologist to see if i can let everything out and maybe get some advice on how to handle things better. i will laugh my ass off if i get diagnosed with a mental disorder. that’d be absolutely hilarious (I am in no way trying to make fun of people with a mental disorder, I’m just saying I honestly wouldn’t even be surprised if they said something like Burnout Syndrome or Depression (im not even joking when I say that I’ve been sleeping pretty much all afternoon + night these days, cry way too often, feel no motivation for anything, feel worthless, no apetite and also occasional suicidal thoughts which is oh so fun (ok but in my defence, the thoughts are really rare, probably caused by the fact that I feel nauseous like 90% of the time, and I would never ever do it, mostly because some people would miss me (I hope). there are moments when I go ‘wouldn’t it be easier to disappear?’ tho))

sorry about that rant

MOVING ON TO HAPPIER THEMES (and proper writing):

Yeah, Norway was truly gorgeous ^^ I don’t think I’ve ever felt more at peace than then. I fell asleep in the car at one point while watching the scenery outside, and it was one of the best sleeps in my life, despite being in the car. I’m glad you enjoyed them ^^ If you want, I can upload random pics like that every once in a whole.

Aaah, that’s pretty good reasoning! It makes a lot more sense now, thanks for explaining!

Yeah, I kinda see why you’d ship it. Steve is a pretty understanding person and, like you said, would probably understand Loki the best ^^ Recommend me some fics and I might even start shipping it myself ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I LOVE T’CHALLA THANK YOU FOR ASKING YES. I mean, he angery™, but also freaking cool! Not to mention crazily powerful *^* I’m pretty excited for his movie, cause more badassery from him!

Wow those sound like genuine memes. Seriously why can’t i draw XD

Also HIstory has its eyes on you but it’s actually Illumi will give me nightmares.

GODAMNIT I JUST WANT JUUZOU TO BE HAPPY IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR?? (apparently yes)

Yep, since I have all the volumes, I like to flip through them sometimes and I’m blown away every time by the development. I also cosplayed the main character a while ago, so it holds a high sentimental value to me. But it is a lot lighter than your usual reads, true...

Well, uh, it’s kinda hard to explain? I mean, DTK is obsessed with symmetry and will go to crazy lengths to preserve it, get mad if someone disturbs it, will jeopardise missions if he’s not sure if he left something perfectly symmetrically at home etc, but it’s not so much as a mental illness as it is a consequence of who he is (part of the Grim Reaper)? Like i said, it’s really had to explain.

Did you manage to find the fight scene?

My reaction to Death Note in general: FUCK YOU LIGHT YAGAMI. oooh, I’ll search that manga up!

Well, I’m not so much upset about the whitewashing, more about the fact that I feel like the japanese general ideology plays a big role in why light decided to start killing bad people? Idk how to explain it...

Oh, Japanese-American Kira would’ve been a really interesting thing to see!

Yay, at least you found some good things? Well, it’s nice that you managed that ^^

Damnit, so it didn’t go according to Keikaku! It’s all because they didn’t include the potato chip scene.

Uuh, i don’t exactly remember much of SU, but I guess I’m most similar to Pearl? I didn’t really sympathise with any characters that much tbh. As for gem. Uuuuuh *quickly googles gem meanings* ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA. I like Zircon because of the colour and alexandrite because it changes colour which is incredibly cool!

Your rambling always makes me feel better tbh. It gives me a looong message from a friend I appreciate incredibly much so, yeah, I always smile when I see a message from you (even though my replies are so slooooooooow)

Aaah, I see! That’s pretty interesting ^^ Quite different from our system.

Ah, shame, you would’ve liked the most recent route, there is so so so much suffering.

Yeah, I am 100% fine!! Don’t worry about it! The reason why I suggested something else is because on sites w an instant messaging system, my replies would probably be a lot quicker,

I AM IN LOVE WITH THE AESTETHICS, ESPECIALLY LIZZY, THAT IS GOALS

and the drawings are adorable ^^ Hide tho ;-;

#evans #submission

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andyl394 · 7 years

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REQUESTED - Blind date

Request: Can I get an valentine's day Bucky x Reader, pls? It can even be a drabble maybe some fluff or sexual tension? u choose <3 - Anon

Pairing: Bucky Barnes X Reader

Word Count: 2,159

Warning: FLUFF!, Sexual tension, Cursing, make out session.

(A/N): Ok, I’m working my way through the requests, I’m really trying and some of the requests are AMAZING AND I’M SO EXCITED TO WRITE THEM AAAAAAAAAAAA! Btw, I’m so sorry for having taken this long, but to be honest, I write the requests on the day I receive them, my big problem is to FINISH THEM. And I’m not even kidding.

MASTERLIST

“C’mon, Y/N! It’s just a little game! What is the problem with that? You’re single, all the people that will participate are single, maybe you could finally found love and as a bonus, you won’t have to pass the Valentine’s day alone… Again.” You narrowed your eyes at Natasha’s sadistic smirk

“And how is exactly this ‘little game’? The last time I trusted you on a blind date, I ended with Brad, the jerk from the Intelligence. He couldn’t stop talking how he is soooo fucking smart. The whole fucking night, Natasha.” She chuckled and shrugged her shoulders, biting her lower lip and shaking the box she had in hands

“This time, destiny will chose.” Nat gave you a cheeky wink and you sighed, rolling your eyes and sliding your hand inside the box to get a fucking piece of paper

“Table four, at seven” Reading it out loud and frowning your brows, you curiously looked at Natasha, she smiled excited and you thought that that was weird, even for her. “You know who took the same paper, don’t you?”

“Maybe. You’ll love the company, I’m sure of it. Wear black.” She waved her hand and quickly ran from you, making you roll your eyes again and look around the corridor, trying to remember exactly what you was going to do before Natasha start to follow you around, shaking the fucking box around you.

A frustrated groan slipped out of you when the reminder of the task popped into your mind, you couldn’t control the disgusted hiss:

“Fucking smart Brad.”

“Hey, Doll.” Raising your eyes to Bucky, you controlled the sigh when the Winter Soldier rested his hips on the balcony next to you, smiling softly. Why do you have to be so god damn hot? “What’re you doing?”

“Nothing that important, just finishing my ‘study’?” You heard his chuckle as you rolled your eyes; he knew what that was about, obviously

“Steve?”

“And Natasha. That little prick threw these files to me and I didn’t even notice! I’ll probably even be late to my date.” Humming in acknowledge, his eyes walked all over your figure

“You also have a date?” Snapping your eyes back to his, you studied him, taking his suited sight again, now noticing the flowers resting on the balcony on his other side. Those were the exact flowers you liked and you thought how fucking lucky was the woman who would go to a date with him.

“Also, huh?” His blushed cheeks made you giggle, even though the thought of someone else going on a date with him made you sad, you couldn’t stop him from following his life.

You were too coward to call him on a date before, scared that he would shut you down and start to avoid you, as he did with one of the Intel girls.

“Yeah… She’s one of the prettiest and smartest woman of the tower.” Your mind flew, trying to remember any woman from the tower that would suit his definition of pretty.

“Are you going out with Nat?” He laughed loudly as you continued to do your work, trying to get it done so you could go get ready for your blind date. Even though you weren’t excited about it, being late was never a thing of yours.

“No, no. Actually, Nat that set me up with her.”

“Is it Lauren from the IT?”

“Nop.”

“Jen from the Intel?” Bucky took your figure, you were still wearing your uniform from the mission you had arrived and he couldn’t help but to think how lucky he was to have Natasha as his friend so she could make you go on a date with him.

“Not, actually.”

“Well, do Steve consider himself as a ‘she’? Because I ran out of names.” The light chuckle made his lips crack in a smile, watching you finally finish your things.

“Not that I know of. Huh, you know her pretty well, actually.” Still not being able to think of somebody else, you closed the files and shrugged your shoulders, packing your things and smiling to Bucky, trying not to sound annoyed.

“Enjoy your date.”

“You to.” His warm smile made you feel bad for wishing that his date went horribly wrong, so you sighed and headed to the apartment’s floor so you could get ready for your blind date, the only thing you could do was to pray that the guy that you were settled with, wasn’t a complete douchebag.

It took you long than expected, especially because you had to change your dress after Natasha came bursting into your bedroom to hand you a black dress she found and that she thought it would look perfect on you.

“Well, I surely can’t feel my boobs, so it’s working?” Her laugh made you sigh and look yourself in the mirror, you liked what you saw. “Nat, I swear to god, if I dress up this nicely and the guy you settled me up is Mark, the other Intel jerk, we’ll be in great trouble.”

“I promise you, you’ll love your date.” Her lovingly stare from the mirror made you smile and take a deep breath after grabbing your hand purse.

“Well, I’m ready to meet the lucky guy.” Natasha laughed and got a hold of your hand, leading both of you to the elevator. “Oh yeah, who’s your date?” A surprise blush spreaded over her cheeks as you smiled widely. “Is it Steve?!”

“Uh… Yeah.” You squealed in joy; it was obvious to you that both of them liked each other and it always made you smile when they would just stare at the other when they thought nobody was looking.

“You finally grew some and asked him out!” Nat laughed at your excitement.

“But you didn’t, huh? You didn’t ask Bucky out.” She wobbled her brows at you, making you sigh and nod with your head.

“I was too late. Someone asked him first, and it had that stupid mission that didn’t give me time to it before. Besides, he seems to really like his date.” You mumbled, sad with the thought of someone else enjoying his company that night.

“I know that, I settled her with him.” Slowly glancing at her, you saw Natasha scrolling through her phone as if she hadn’t just betrayed you.

“What. Did. You. Say?” Looking back at you, she shrugged her shoulders

“He asked me to. Bucky said he really likes the girl and I’m also his friend, you know that.” You huffed, denying with your head and narrowing your eyes at her relaxed figure. “Oh, don’t look so bitter. You also have a date, and he is the most amazing guy you could ever imagine. I’m sure you two will get along.” Her devilish smile made you shiver thinking that the person you were settled with was a jerk. “Table four, don’t forget.”

It was a fancy restaurant, you didn’t like that.

“Can I help you Ma’am?” You smiled politely at the old man dressed in a tuxedo

“Yes, can you, please, lead me to table four? I think someone might be waiting for me.” He nodded with his head and signed for you to follow him.

The air got stuck in your throat when you saw familiar shoulders, the ones you liked so much. You prayed with all your might, wishing that the table that Bucky were sitting; was table four.

“I deduce the nervous gentleman is waiting for you.” You giggled, clutching tight into your hand bag. Oh boy, you loved Natasha.

“You lied to me.” Your playful tone made Bucky smile and get up with the flowers in hand, when he turned on his heels and looked at you; all of the air seemed to get out of his longs with the sight of you.

“Wow, you are looking… Wow.” You smiled widely at the men in front of you, only not falling to your knees because you had seen him before.

“I’ll take that as a compliment.” He chuckled and handed you the flowers, pulling you gently by the back to sit. “And you lied to me, Mr. Barnes.”

“Oh, yeah? How so?” You bent over the table, getting closer to Bucky and smiling at his confused face.

“You told me the gal you were going on a date was one of the prettiest and smartest of the tower and, you told me I knew her really well. Do I look like I know myself, James?” He chuckled, ignoring the chill that ran down his spine when you said his first name.

“You are one of the prettiest and smartest woman in there, there is no use denying it.” Laughing, you saw him shift uncomfortable on his chair. You quickly looked around to see some tables staring at him, it wasn’t hard for you to get up and stretch you hand at him.

“I want to eat pizza.” He smiled at your hand, happy that you also were a trained assassin, so you noticed how he was feeling under so many eyes.

“I know just a place, c’mon, Doll.” The grin you sent him made his hear race at an incredible pace, well if you didn’t ran away when you recognized him, then maybe there was a chance of you feeling the same way as he.

Luckily, Bucky went with a car and not with his motorcycle.

When you were about to open your door, Bucky moved faster and did it for you. Your heart seemed to want to run away with the speed he was beating against your ribs; the ways his eyes shined made you stop just to stare at him, amazed by the beauty of the men that you were on a date with.

“What?” He chuckled, red cheeks and still waiting for you to take your sit.

“I’m just amazed by your beauty.” The smug on your face seemed to make him blush even more, looking at his own shoes, flattered by your compliment. Giggling, you finally entered the car, winking at him before he closed the door and walked to the driver’s side.

“For the record, I always get amazed by yours.” You kept staring at him, surprised by his tone.

It was low and hoarse, making you want to jump on his lap and kiss him hard, that same feeling you had when you saw him for the first time on his combat gear.

“It’s rude to stare.” Bucky placed your security belt on you, since you had been hypnotized by him; his face inches from yours, so close that you could see perfectly the small wrinkles on the high parts of his cheeks, so close that the smell of his cologne sent you to a buzzing zone, shaking you to the core.

“And it’s rude to be so damn hot.”

You expected him to get flustered, but then, he turned his eyes at you, those that you once thought were crystal clear, were now as dark and luscious as they could, the image sending goosebumps through all your body.

You quickly took off your security belt to jump on his lap, his lips crushing against yours.

The kiss was all teeth and bites, his hands on your thighs, squeezing them as you tugged on his hair like your life depended on it.

His lips traced your jaw, moaning when you panted, trembling on top of him. Bucky enjoyed the way you unconsciously rolled your hips on him, he also enjoyed your short dress as he raised it to grab a hold on your butt cheeks, leaving love-bites all over your collar.

“Gosh I love you so much.” Your eyes snapped wide and your whole body tensed, just like his. There were those ten awkward seconds where you tried to let those words sink in.

Bucky loves me.

Backing away slightly, you saw he was just as pale as he was when he first found out about twerking, his eyes glued on your collarbones.

“Say that again?” If your heart wasn’t running fast enough, now he was ready to blow out of your chest.

Bucky took a deep breath, relaxing and smiling sheepish at you; he crossed his fingers behind your back and sighed.

“Yeah, you heard right. I’m in love with you ever since the day you wrecked into the kitchen to punch Tony for talking shit about me.” You stared into those blue eyes for long seconds, watching them grow worried. “It’s okay if you don’t feel the same way, I don’t want to put any pressure on you for reciprocating my-”

Your mouth shushed him gently and you could feel him relax even more under you, sighing and caressing your cheek with his thumb.

“I love you too.” You didn’t knew who was with the biggest smiled, all you could tell was that you were in deep love with that men.

And you were happy with it.

Condemn to a forever tagging: @fangirlandnerd @tommys-girl1980 @myplaceofthingsilove

All Bucky: @ifoundlove-x0vanessa0x

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smartoptionsio · 6 years

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Signals Thursday #1 – Interview With Cryptomedics

In the first issue of our new Series “Signals Thursday” we will publish an interview with the guys behind Telegram signal groups each, well yeah, Thursday. We had no clue that the first one would become that exciting! Cryptomedics – one of our favorite channels – provide a holistic roundup of fundamental & technical analysis, along with Bitmex and Altcoin signals and several bots. We met two heads of Cryptomedics for a small talk and this became a pretty interesting chit-chat. We learned much about how they find their 10x – 100x low cap gems (they shared their Gem “Holo” with you in this guest post long ago) and other interesting facts, you should be eager to know more about… Let’s welcome Jonny & Damian in our #1 issue of Signals Thursday.

SmartOptions.io: Cryptomedics is a very special Crypto signals channel – your subscribers got a lot of information others don’t have. How do you manage to stay ahead of the game? You must have tons of “leaking” contacts?!

Cryptomedics (Jonny): Thank you, Steve! When we started our channel the purpose was to be different than other channels. Damian and I are both very enthusiastic about fundamental analysis and wanted to educate people. Our analysis and research approach has helped us finding great projects in a very early stage like ZIL, VEN, ICX and recently Holochain which is one of our biggest positions at the moment. Besides analysis, we have to build a very strong network in the crypto space so that we are able to get information from everywhere. Recently, the best evidence is our Ghost coin (codename), which – we are sure – will perform fantastically and has already seen a huge spike since we have announced it.

SmartOptions.io: Besides this “unfair advantage” against other traders which are not in your channel, you provide a great fundamental analysis and pick the real gems (we remember HOLO or ZIL) quite before it is shilled everywhere. Which methodology do you use to find these in a sea of shitcoins?

Cryptomedics (Damian): I can´t give away too much. Together with our great FA (editor’s note: Fundamental Analysis) department, lead by Trajan (engineering background), we had to build a detailed scoring system that covers both- micro and macro analysis of projects. We know exactly what we need to look for that determines a great project and I can tell you 90% of the projects do not meet our requirements to be called a „gem“. Besides, it helps us a lot that we have advised several crypto projects before and exactly know the ins and outs of the industry. We have a proven track record when it comes to finding gems and we are often very surprised what other crypto outlets, Youtubers etc recommend to their followers. I feel some of them don’t even know the difference between a DApp and a protocol or just promote projects because they see a huge discount (ICO) or a low market cap. Of course, not every recommendation was a huge success but this motivated us to a degree where we can now say our FA has developed exactly the way we wanted it. To sum it up – our FA is based on experience, analytics and a great team that clearly understands what it is doing.

SmartOptions.io: You plan to release a managed crypto fund. Could you provide us some cornerstones of what this fund has achieved already and what the traders will do to increase the equity of the participants? (Obviously trading, but a bit more detailed, please)

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Is $5000 a lot to charge for a sales page? Here’s what people said.

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I spent the last 4 days writing a long-form sales page for one of our Copy Hackers programs.

At my day rate of $5000, that’s a $20,000 investment.

Given what a long-form sales page can do for revenue generation, $20K is money well-spent.

But not everyone would agree with that. Few would. And, to be honest, even yours truly would have a very, very hard time paying a freelance copywriter $20,000 to write a sales page. I’d need… well, we’re gonna get into what people like moi would need in order to pony up what is effectively a quarter of the average marketer’s annual salary.

But forget $20,000, which is a lot for almost anyone to pay for a single deliverable.

What about a $5000 invoice?

Is $5000 a lot to charge – or to pay – for a sales page?

I decided to ask a few top marketers. Here’s what they revealed.

These are the 14 marketers we asked

We reached out to some of the thought-leaders, marketers and general powerhouses growing today’s coolest (and most profitable [read: they can afford $5K invoices]) businesses online.

Among the handful of questions we asked them was this one:

If a freelance copywriter quoted you $5000 to write a sales page, what do you think your reaction would be?

Although two declined to answer (because the question was optional), the other 12 reacted like so:

You’re probably not terribly surprised by those reactions. As you’d expect, there’s no consensus. There’s no certainty. There’s no definitive takeaway – no sense that, yes, freelance copywriters can always safely charge $5000 or, no, you never should.

The surface reactions aren’t the point.

The stuff BEHIND those reactions – that’s the point.

That’s why we dug into why these marketers reacted as they did. If you’re trying to get prospective clients to sign off on projects like $5000 sales pages, listen closely to what they told us. And see what you can do to put yourself in a better negotiating position.

What does “$5000 is too expensive” really mean?

Surprise! Most people aren’t in the top 1% of expertise in their field.

Bigger surprise! Most copywriters aren’t in the top 1% of expertise in their field.

Biggest surprise! Marketers and founders are wise to the random guesswork that happens too often in the copywriting world.

When I’m talking with marketers about how they hire freelance copywriters, a strong distrust of the freelancer’s skills comes through time and again. After all, there’s no reliable third-party stamp of approval for copywriters. No degree in copywriting. No peer-reviewed portfolios. So until clients see proven, measured results, they don’t really believe that their new freelance copywriter knows how to, well, write copy.

(And even when the results are present, there’s still this strange sense that, somehow, it’s a fluke.)

Perhaps the biggest reason for this distrust is this:

There are just far too many people calling themselves copywriters.

Check out how many freelance copywriters are listed on one of the most popular spaces for finding freelancers, Upwork:

And how many of those copywriters have data or proof that they’re actually skilled at the job?

When you refine your search for job success (a form of proof), you see this:

So 2000+ freelance copywriters have “experience” getting the job done right.

Which doesn’t help a prospective client make a decision.

Because there’s still no PROOF that you can do what the client needs doing. Job success is not synonymous with proven results.

For a top marketer to pay you $5000 for a sales page project sans sticker shock, one of two things needs to be true.

You either need to have a great portfolio of results. Or you need to do pay-for-performance – as in, you get paid after the page performs well.

A few of the marketers who were NOT in a rush to invest $5K in sales page copy said they needed proof + results:

“It better make me at least 2x that amount or at least exponentially more than it was making before. If it does the job, I’m happy to pay it.” – Nadya Kohja

“Ouch! Unless I know they’re great.” – Oli Gardner

“You better be damn good at what you do! ROI matters more than cost, so you better be able to produce ROI at that cost.” – Barrett Brooks

Clearly your prospects need to KNOW that you’re gonna do great work. They can’t take on all the risk in hiring you; they need to feel confident that their investment will bring a return of, as Nadya said, at least 2x. I’d push that 2x further to something like 10x. Why? Because most people considering proposals for a page think exactly like Peep describes here:

“Some freelancers will quote 2k, 3k – and that’s the hard part: it’s often VERY difficult to see how the 5k quote would deliver a better result. As they say, if I can’t tell the difference, why pay more?” – Peep Laja

You’ve gotta answer this question: “Why should a client pay more for me than for the next freelance copywriter?”

Your results need to justify your rate. Period.

Your clients need to believe they’re going to get a 10x return on their investment. Period.

Of course, you don’t know how your page will perform until you put it out there. And that’s where pay for performance can be an appealing option for you and your prospective client. But let me be honest: P4P is super-tricky. I wouldn’t rush into it. And even clients who perk up at the idea of it lose interest when they realize how much work it’ll be to track it – to say nothing of the % of their revenues they’ll be sending your way.

Instead of pay for performance, bring a strong portfolio of results to those early convos with your prospects. Results sound tricky to collect. In fact, they are not. There’s data about your work all over the place – you just need to go grab it. Quickly assembling a list of your results over the course of, say, the last 6 months is actually pretty easy, and it doesn’t require that you start participating in complex A/B tests or funnel optimizations.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Start measuring your work immediately so you can reduce the risk for your clients and charge more. A few ideas for you:

Start asking for the before-and-after data (for traffic, conversions, etc) for the landing pages / websites you write for clients

Grab open and click rates from MailChimp, ConvertKit or whatever platform you and your clients use to send the emails you write

Set aside time each week to track week-over-week increases in shares, comments, traffic and more for the blog and social posts you’re responsible for writing

Run your own Facebook ad tests for your business

Run your own A/B tests for your landing pages inside Unbounce or your page platform

BTW, showing results is not optional.

No one would hire an SEO who couldn’t point to the traffic growth s/he had generated for clients. No one would hire a CRO consultancy without first reviewing highly persuasive, data-rich case studies. Possibly the only role that does get hired sans numbers is the role of the designer – but even that’s changing as marketers abandon gut reactions in favour of hard numbers.

Those who think $5000 is doable expect the same things as those who think it’s not: strong data going in, and strong ROI going out

Sorry, punkin, but there’s no escaping it: businesses dig numbers.

CFOs love numbers. They obsess over numbers like it’s their job.

Your skill with words will only get you so far as a freelance copywriter. Ultimately, you’re hired for the numbers, not the words. Here’s proof that measurable performance is everything when choosing a copywriter:

“Does this writer have evidence to support their claim that the copy will perform well? If yes, I’m ready to sign the quote. If it ranks and converts, $5K would be a bargain. ” – Andy Crestodina

“The biggest challenge would be to make the investment without knowing how the page would ultimately perform.” – Nate Turner

And let’s not forget the one marketer who said $5000 is too low

Lars Lofgren is the Senior Director of Growth at IWT. Unlike a lot of tech businesses and agencies, IWT uses long-form sales pages heavily – they’ve got a big ol’ team of copywriters – so Lars knows full well the power of a high-converting sales page. When I asked him the $5000 question, he said:

“If someone told me their salespage would cost $5000, I’d assume it would actually cause damage to the brand and not generate any tangible revenue. It’s going to hurt more than it helps.”

I couldn’t agree more.

When copywriters quote me $3000 to $5000 for a sales page, I know I’m going to have to do a lot of work on it. And truth be told: I’ve never had a freelance copywriter quote higher than $5K for a long-form sales page.

Now here’s a question.

Why is Lars the only one who said $5000 is too low for a sales page?

Is he just terrible with money? Has he got nothing but cash to burn? …Or is it something else? Is it that he’s not only written sales pages himself but also overseen the creation of some of the most profitable sales pages in online marketing?

That no one else reacted like Lars reveals one of the bigger issues underlying resistance to a $5000 invoice for a sales page: Not a lot of marketers have SEEN what a killer long-form sales page can do for their business.

And even worse?

Not a lot of COPYWRITERS have seen it, either.

The reality is that a long-form sales page is a one-page funnel. Imagine optimizing your funnel for just $5000. If someone quoted you $5000 to optimize your funnel, you’d have the same reaction Lars had: it’s not gonna work. Yet somehow a long-form sales page – which moves prospects from TOFU through MOFU to BOFU – isn’t obviously worth AT LEAST $5000 to many people hiring freelance copywriters. Do I blame those marketers and think they should all turn into Lars as soon as possible? (I’m actually pausing as I consider my answer.) …No. We copywriters just need to do a much better job of:

Writing strong long copy and

Telling the world about when it works and when it doesn’t so that

More marketers can stop wasting money on low-yield initiatives when they really need to put their copywriting budget toward expensive but high-converting long-form sales pages.

All that said, how can you get more clients to recognize your value and pay you like a champ?

To justify solid rates for writing sales copy, copywriters need to connect their work directly to two things: lead generation and revenue generation.

We asked this group of marketers:

What was the business objective you were trying to solve for when you recently hired a freelancer?

All answers fell into one of these 3 categories:

We wanted to generate more revenue

We wanted to generate more leads

We wanted someone to execute

The third category shows that, in some cases, businesses just want to hire you to do the execution work of writing copy. Four of the marketers we talked to simply wanted a freelance copywriter to execute without a direct success metric; for example, one freelance copywriter was hired to remove the jargon from a landing page.

But ten of the 14 marketers hired a copywriter for an outcome directly tied to growth: revenue or leads.

Nobody said they hired a freelancer to build their brand. Or to revamp their voice. Or to generate creative concepts. That doesn’t mean that other marketers on the planet won’t be looking for the creative side of copywriting… but 14 out of 14 marketers (in high-growth, profitable businesses, with a history of hiring copywriters) said absolutely nothing whatsoever about hiring a copywriter for creativity.

Get inside your prospect’s head! You know what they want. Now use their words in YOUR copy…

So you know you need results to woo clients.

But what else can you do, say and share to tip the scales in your favour?

You can use what marketers want and don’t want to write more persuasive sales copy for your services.

And what follows can help you with alluhthat…

So if you’re writing a sales page to sell your email copywriting services… or drumming up testimonials and wondering what to ask your past clients to focus on… or putting together a proposal and trying to figure out what to say under “About Me,” you should use the words your prospects would use / have used. Because you’re a copywriter. And that’s what copywriters do.

We asked these 14 marketers how they’d describe their ideal freelance copywriter. These are the words and phrases they used, in alphabetical order:

Aware

Brings a process

Data-driven

Disciplined

Fluid

Has courage

Empathic

Intelligent

Nimble

Perceptive

Proactive

Shows initiative

Specialist

Subject matter expert

Succinct

Takes ownership

And a few more insights into what clients want when they’re hiring freelance copywriters:

“A “dual-threat” SEO/conversion copywriter!” – Andy Crestodina

“Someone who ‘goes deep.’” – Nathalie Lussier

“In the past when I was looking for some help increasing conversions on a pricing page, I was looking for the best pricing page copywriter there was, and my search queries followed suit. So my ideal copywriter knows who they are, their strengths, and as a result, knows how they can help me better than everyone else.” – John Bonini

“Committed to staying a freelancer, able to write in multiple “voices”, good on the phone so I can trust them to call clients.” – Dana DiTomaso

And while you’re at it, overcome their biggest objections when you’re pitching

If you’re wondering why your prospective clients are skeptical about your value, chances are insanely good that they’ve been burned before.

Here are some of the frustrations these marketers have felt when working with copywriters. They may be the very same frustrations your next client wants to avoid. So consider them all when writing copy for your freelance services and/or talking to your prospective client on the phone.

FRUSTRATION 1. It’s simply hard to tell the great freelance copywriters from the ones who talk a good game.

‘Member all that stuff above about results? Yup, lack of results / lack of expertise is the #1 frustration people have with copywriters.

Tara Robertson, head of agency partnerships at Sprout Social, put it this way:

“Copy tends to be the hardest function to outsource for multiple reasons. For one, while loads of freelancers state they are ‘data driven writers,’ my experience has been more so that finding writers who are also great marketers is generally very hard to come by. Couple that with the need to learn a potentially new niche, product, or industry, as well as find your brand’s tone, really means you’re looking for a unicorn.

“There aren’t a lot of people in the world that truly “get it,” which is why this process can be both hard and cumbersome. I look at my outsourced team the same way I do as my internal team, and therefore it’s almost more important that your freelancer is able to deliver quality work as they’ll already be working at a disadvantage (less internal training, ramping time, etc).”

Nadya Khoja, Head of Marketing at Venngage, said:

“It’s hard to find someone who not only knows how to write well, but to write in a way that engages audiences. Naturally this can be said for any job or industry, but many people looking for a job tend to over promise and under deliver. When people claim to be a “writer” and we take a look at the copy written, it’s either overly academic, or poorly written in general.”

Nate Turner of Sprout Social said:

“[The most frustrating thing is finding] the right expertise and fit. There are plenty of resources available to source freelancers but it usually takes more time and effort to find people that have some expertise in your industry and can fit your objectives/tone/style.”

And Andy Crestodina of Orbit Media said it like so:

“[The most frustrating thing is] finding someone who can back up their recommendations with data.”

Your portfolio can help showcase your expertise. So can a case study cleverly disguised as a blog post (and shared in multiple places, not just on your blog). But be careful not to rely only on showing your expertise! Most people have no idea what goes into the work you do to create high-converting copy. So take the time to talk about and describe your process. Do as your math teacher said in elementary school: show your work. Don’t let your client guess at your expertise… ‘cos they might just dramatically underestimate you.

FRUSTRATION 2. The learning curve with new freelancers can be too much.

Your competition isn’t necessarily another freelancer. When your prospective client is considering you, she may also be considering simply training someone in-house to write the copy. Or getting her niece the English major to do it. It’s not that she thinks anyone can do your job; it may simply be that she doesn’t want to deal with the hassle of training a person who may not even be a great copywriter (see #1 above). Think about everything you need to know deeply as a copywriter:

The market

Market segments

Specific personas and/or jobs to be done

The product / service

The company vision

The brand voice

The marketing ecosystem – how X plays with Y

Editorial standards

Where to find enablement stuff, like testimonials and research

Creation and iteration processes

Oh, and you’ll have to be introduced to the team and integrated into it. You’ll need to use the right meeting tools… get added to specific Slack channels and kept out of other channels… get added to the right Trello board… not get in the way… know when to get in the way…

All that for a sales page?

John Bonini of Databox breaks down his experience onboarding freelance copywriters like this:

“You’ll spend a good deal of time chopping the wood with a copywriter in order to get them up the learning curve as quickly as possible… Everyone sees the output of a copywriter, but what they don’t see is everything that goes into defining the market, understanding the customer, and solving then real challenges businesses are facing.

“For example, improving plan mix for a SaaS company isn’t just about making the premium plan sound better – it’s more about understanding the motivations of their current buyer, the aspirations of the buyers they don’t yet have, and how to best position their plans to influence both.”

And Laura Roeder of MeetEdgar said that the learning curve is one of the hardest parts of working with a freelancer:

“When you’re working with someone for the first time, there’s so much to learn about each other’s needs. A lot of the time, it’s easier to work with someone you’ve worked with in the past and with whom you already have even a little bit of a professional rapport. Working with someone new can be great, but even in a best-case scenario, there’s a learning process involved!”

If you have reason to believe that the client you want to land is worried about the learning curve, what could you message in your copy? Do you have a unique system for integrating yourself into their world? Do you offer incentives for repeat work, given that the hard learning-curve stuff is out of the way after the first few jobs?

FRUSTRATION 3. The freelance copywriter is not hardcore.

The really, really good clients you want are the ones who 100% respect the work copywriters do. They don’t think you’re a wordsmith, and they don’t think they could do your job if only they had more time. They are hiring copywriters because they value copywriters. They have actual line items in their budget for “Freelance conversion copywriter.”

These hiring managers want someone who cares at least as much about the art + science of copywriting as they do.

No, scratch that. They insist that you care 100x more than they do.

As in, they need you to be hardcore.

Lars Lofgren explains well his frustration with hiring non-hardcore copywriters:

1) They don’t talk to customers. You know how hard it is to really get inside the mindset of a target market? You have to talk to HUNDREDS of people. Not surveys, not dumb Reddit threads and Amazon reviews, you have to actually talk to them and really dig deep. Great copywriters take every chance they can to talk to as many people as they possibly can. They feed off it. Most copywriters don’t and their copy is terrible. It’s just a collection of random copywriting templates they learned from the popular books.

2) They’re not willing to eat a giant dose of humble pie. You may have read all the books and collected a swipe file. Who cares? You haven’t even started yet. Until you’ve built funnels from scratch to six and seven figures by relentlessly failing and iterating until you finally succeed, pay very close attention to the folks that have. Most copywriters think they’re rockstars. Only a few are.

(Side note: Lars added that you can refer to surveys, reviews, etc. His frustration is when that’s ALL you look at – when you don’t actually immerse yourself in the head and heart of the customer.)

How can you prove you’re hardcore? If I were you, I wouldn’t start by being particularly subtle…

Finally here are some additional frustrations your prospective clients may have felt:

“[It’s hard to find] samples of their work in the right format.” – Oli Gardner

“It’s important that anyone I work with understand the mission of my blog.” – Nir Eyal

“The hardest part is finding someone who can understand my market, and also ramp up to the technical aspects of our software. I’ve hired from referrals, after seeing someone’s work in a Facebook group, and these have generally panned out… but it’s hard to tell how someone will write in a totally different market than their previous work.” – Nathalie Lussier

“It’s difficult to evaluate whether someone is a good fit for a particular gig.” – Peep Laja

“[It’s frustrating when a copywriter] checks the box to get the work done, but they don’t treat the work like I think they would if it were their own. In other words, the quality of output is often underwhelming.” – Barrett Brooks

Of all the takeaways, here’s perhaps the most interesting one, IMHO…

The people who were most enthusiastic about spending $5000 on a sales page had this in common: they’d written long-form sales pages before. They know how hard it is to write a great sales page. And they know how well a well-done sales page can perform.

Which means that if you can, in early conversations, get a sense for who on the client’s team has been doing the writing, you may be able to pull those people deeper into your conversations. And nudge them to share the challenges of writing this kind of copy. So the person making the hiring decision doesn’t rely on assumptions and her calculator when it comes to signing the proposal or not.

Now I gotta wonder…

…would you balk at a $5000 sales page?

What would you need to know about a copywriter before you’d agree to a $5000 invoice?

What’s the most you’ve paid for copy, and would you pay the same copywriter that amount again?

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Is $5000 a lot to charge for a sales page? We asked 14 marketers who hire freelancers. What they revealed could help you land your next project.

I spent the last 4 days writing a long-form sales page for one of our Copy Hackers programs.

At my day rate of $5000, that’s a $20,000 investment.

Given what a long-form sales page can do for revenue generation, $20K is money well-spent.

But forget $20,000, which is a lot for almost anyone to pay for a single deliverable.

What about a $5000 invoice?

Is $5000 a lot to charge – or to pay – for a sales page?

I decided to ask a few top marketers. Here’s what they revealed.

These are the 14 marketers we asked

We reached out to some of the thought-leaders, marketers and general powerhouses growing today’s coolest (and most profitable [read: they can afford $5K invoices]) businesses online.

Among the handful of questions we asked them was this one:

If a freelance copywriter quoted you $5000 to write a sales page, what do you think your reaction would be?

Although two declined to answer (because the question was optional), the other 12 reacted like so:

The surface reactions aren’t the point.

The stuff BEHIND those reactions – that’s the point.

What does “$5000 is too expensive” really mean?

Surprise! Most people aren’t in the top 1% of expertise in their field.

Bigger surprise! Most copywriters aren’t in the top 1% of expertise in their field.

Biggest surprise! Marketers and founders are wise to the random guesswork that happens too often in the copywriting world.

(And even when the results are present, there’s still this strange sense that, somehow, it’s a fluke.)

Perhaps the biggest reason for this distrust is this:

There are just far too many people calling themselves copywriters.

Check out how many freelance copywriters are listed on one of the most popular spaces for finding freelancers, Upwork:

And how many of those copywriters have data or proof that they’re actually skilled at the job?

When you refine your search for job success (a form of proof), you see this:

So 2000+ freelance copywriters have “experience” getting the job done right.

Which doesn’t help a prospective client make a decision.

Because there’s still no PROOF that you can do what the client needs doing. Job success is not synonymous with proven results.

For a top marketer to pay you $5000 for a sales page project sans sticker shock, one of two things needs to be true.

You either need to have a great portfolio of results. Or you need to do pay-for-performance – as in, you get paid after the page performs well.

A few of the marketers who were NOT in a rush to invest $5K in sales page copy said they needed proof + results:

“It better make me at least 2x that amount or at least exponentially more than it was making before. If it does the job, I’m happy to pay it.” – Nadya Kohja

“Ouch! Unless I know they’re great.” – Oli Gardner

“You better be damn good at what you do! ROI matters more than cost, so you better be able to produce ROI at that cost.” – Barrett Brooks

You’ve gotta answer this question: “Why should a client pay more for me than for the next freelance copywriter?”

Your results need to justify your rate. Period.

Your clients need to believe they’re going to get a 10x return on their investment. Period.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Start measuring your work immediately so you can reduce the risk for your clients and charge more. A few ideas for you:

Start asking for the before-and-after data (for traffic, conversions, etc) for the landing pages / websites you write for clients

Grab open and click rates from MailChimp, ConvertKit or whatever platform you and your clients use to send the emails you write

Set aside time each week to track week-over-week increases in shares, comments, traffic and more for the blog and social posts you’re responsible for writing

Run your own Facebook ad tests for your business

Run your own A/B tests for your landing pages inside Unbounce or your page platform

BTW, showing results is not optional.

Those who think $5000 is doable expect the same things as those who think it’s not: strong data going in, and strong ROI going out

Sorry, punkin, but there’s no escaping it: businesses dig numbers.

CFOs love numbers. They obsess over numbers like it’s their job.

“The biggest challenge would be to make the investment without knowing how the page would ultimately perform.” – Nate Turner

And let’s not forget the one marketer who said $5000 is too low

“If someone told me their salespage would cost $5000, I’d assume it would actually cause damage to the brand and not generate any tangible revenue. It’s going to hurt more than it helps.”

I couldn’t agree more.

Now here’s a question.

Why is Lars the only one who said $5000 is too low for a sales page?

And even worse?

Not a lot of COPYWRITERS have seen it, either.

Writing strong long copy and

Telling the world about when it works and when it doesn’t so that

More marketers can stop wasting money on low-yield initiatives when they really need to put their copywriting budget toward expensive but high-converting long-form sales pages.

All that said, how can you get more clients to recognize your value and pay you like a champ?

To justify solid rates for writing sales copy, copywriters need to connect their work directly to two things: lead generation and revenue generation.

We asked this group of marketers:

What was the business objective you were trying to solve for when you recently hired a freelancer?

All answers fell into one of these 3 categories:

We wanted to generate more revenue

We wanted to generate more leads

We wanted someone to execute

But ten of the 14 marketers hired a copywriter for an outcome directly tied to growth: revenue or leads.

Get inside your prospect’s head! You know what they want. Now use their words in YOUR copy…

So you know you need results to woo clients.

But what else can you do, say and share to tip the scales in your favour?

You can use what marketers want and don’t want to write more persuasive sales copy for your services.

And what follows can help you with alluhthat…

We asked these 14 marketers how they’d describe their ideal freelance copywriter. These are the words and phrases they used, in alphabetical order:

Aware

Brings a process

Data-driven

Disciplined

Fluid

Has courage

Empathic

Intelligent

Nimble

Perceptive

Proactive

Shows initiative

Specialist

Subject matter expert

Succinct

Takes ownership

And a few more insights into what clients want when they’re hiring freelance copywriters:

“A “dual-threat” SEO/conversion copywriter!” – Andy Crestodina

“Someone who ‘goes deep.'” – Nathalie Lussier

“Committed to staying a freelancer, able to write in multiple “voices”, good on the phone so I can trust them to call clients.” – Dana DiTomaso

And while you’re at it, overcome their biggest objections when you’re pitching

If you’re wondering why your prospective clients are skeptical about your value, chances are insanely good that they’ve been burned before.

FRUSTRATION 1. It’s simply hard to tell the great freelance copywriters from the ones who talk a good game.

‘Member all that stuff above about results? Yup, lack of results / lack of expertise is the #1 frustration people have with copywriters.

Tara Robertson, head of agency partnerships at Sprout Social, put it this way:

Nadya Khoja, Head of Marketing at Venngage, said:

Nate Turner of Sprout Social said:

And Andy Crestodina of Orbit Media said it like so:

“[The most frustrating thing is] finding someone who can back up their recommendations with data.”

FRUSTRATION 2. The learning curve with new freelancers can be too much.

The market

Market segments

Specific personas and/or jobs to be done

The product / service

The company vision

The brand voice

The marketing ecosystem – how X plays with Y

Editorial standards

Where to find enablement stuff, like testimonials and research

Creation and iteration processes

All that for a sales page?

John Bonini of Databox breaks down his experience onboarding freelance copywriters like this:

And Laura Roeder of MeetEdgar said that the learning curve is one of the hardest parts of working with a freelancer:

FRUSTRATION 3. The freelance copywriter is not hardcore.

These hiring managers want someone who cares at least as much about the art + science of copywriting as they do.

No, scratch that. They insist that you care 100x more than they do.

As in, they need you to be hardcore.

Lars Lofgren explains well his frustration with hiring non-hardcore copywriters:

How can you prove you’re hardcore? If I were you, I wouldn’t start by being particularly subtle…

Finally here are some additional frustrations your prospective clients may have felt:

“[It’s hard to find] samples of their work in the right format.” – Oli Gardner

“It’s important that anyone I work with understand the mission of my blog.” – Nir Eyal

“It’s difficult to evaluate whether someone is a good fit for a particular gig.” – Peep Laja

Of all the takeaways, here’s perhaps the most interesting one, IMHO…

Now I gotta wonder…

…would you balk at a $5000 sales page?

What would you need to know about a copywriter before you’d agree to a $5000 invoice?

What’s the most you’ve paid for copy, and would you pay the same copywriter that amount again?

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‘I’d even ship him with Shuu’ what have you done now I’m actually shipping that (Shuu trying to be his usual romantic, flirtatious self and then realising Urie either doesn’t get it or doesn’t want to get it)

I KNOW IT’S SO SAD

TG’s quality does seem to be going down a bit these last few chapters (I think the real problem started with the Touken romance. I swear I’m not being salty about a ship I don’t particularly like being canon, I just feel like the pacing was a bit bad…Touka’s ‘are you a virgin’ came completely out of the blue, plus Touken has hardly interacted in Re before the recent chapters. It’s been YEARS since they’ve seen each other, wouldn’t things have changed? Neither of them are teenagers anymore. Both of them have grown and changed, but Touka chose not to stay near Kaneki and watch his growth, while Kaneki had no way to see how Touka’s experiences gradually changed her. But Ishida decided to suddenly make it canon and then start focusing on the Touka-Kaneki-Mutsuki triangle to the point where it feels like he’s abandoning his other plot threads… kind of like what Isayama’s been doing lately.).

However, I believe that Ishida is completely capable of making things better if he wants to (remember, he still has the Hide trump card- bring Hide back in a believable way that nobody has predicted and also adds to the story, and I imagine most of the fandom will forgive everything that’s gone wrong in Re so far) so I’ll stick around. Plus, I’ve just gotten too attached to all the characters ;-;

Ugh, y'know, even if it wouldn’t fit very well with all the implied Mutsurie, I wish Ishida would just pull a plot twist and make Ken/Urie or Urie/Saiko canon.

I think I kinda hate centipedes now.

1: Yeah, I don’t think that’s Mutsuki’s hand either (like you said, it looked pretty 'fresh’. Plus, I have no idea how Mutsuki would have gotten one of the limbs Torso cut off). The only reason I mentioned it was because of the parallel with Torso showing Mutsuki their own hand with a wedding ring on it…Ishida loves his symbolism so I thought this might actually matter to the plot.

2: I think it was probably either a stranger or an acquaintance, since she seems slightly surprised and not exactly 'happy’ to see this person, but not afraid or displeased either. I’m scared…why would Ishida not show us who it was if it wasn’t something important? If things went well Yoriko’s probaby just gained some knowledge about what’s going on (perhaps she’s been told where Touka is and why she can’t come to the wedding?), but if not…perhaps a villain’s blackmailing her…idk :(

3: I want to believe that too, but I’m not sure yet. If there’s a reason for Yoriko looking so serious then that might be connected with the mystery character who greeted her when she was out shopping.

Thank you, that really means a lot to me <3 What I’m really worried about right now is that I go to a piano 'hagwon’ (a cram school of sorts, I guess?) and this year they’re going to do a small concert. Everyone who goes to the hagwon has to play a song and I have no idea how I’m going to do this ;-; just trying to look a person in the eyes when I’m talking to them scares me, how am I supposed to get on the stage in front of a crowd (a small crowd, since everyone there to see the concert will be the parents/family of the kids participating, but seriously). Things are just a bit complicated XD

Adorable Shuu. I guess that would just make me tease him even more LOL I’d probably ruin all his dramatic moments.

(Now that I think about it, though, Shuu and I have similar interests: music, fashion, art, literature…though I guess he’s a lot more interested in food than I am haha)

Oh, I’m so glad you liked them! I tried my best ;)

I actually like doing matchup things so that may be why they’re acceptable…if I ever get a tumblr account I think I’d like to make a scenario/hc/matchup blog.

As for Storm in Lover, yep, that was from your 'the names are weird’ message XD after I decided to add Love Live into the headcanons I ended up going on YT to listen to a few of the songs. They were all really cool, but it just felt like Storm in Lover would be Urie’s guilty pleasure song (or maybe that’s just because I ended up likng SiL way more than I was prepared for?)

BLOW US ALL AWAY QUEEN LUNA

I’M GLAD MY HUMBLE HEADCANONS COULD HELP

I WILL WRITE MORE

AS MANY AS YOU NEED TO GET THROUGH NEXT WEEK

(Seriously tho

-since your hair is either 'too long and in a ponytail’ or 'really short and in a ponytail’, Urie is secretly very, very disappointed when you’re wearing it short. He likes playing with your hair when you’re too busy watching TV or reading to notice he’s being cute ok

-short or long, whenever Urie gets a hold of your hair, he WILL style it. Don’t you dare say no to the Captain of the Q squad. A simple ponytail? Unacceptable.

-Saiko approves of this relationship

-So would Sasaki, if Sasaki still existed

-Shirazu approves from beyond the grave

-Mutsuki doesn’t care)

Thanks! <33 And yeah, I think I’m slowly starting to get the hang of it ^^

I find all of those moments very relatable. Golfishes unite! :D

Burr is one of those weirdly shippable characters that almost every fandom seems to have…

And oh, I see! Honestly Tony is still one of my favorite avengers…RDJ really brings him to life. And if you’ve seen Captain America I definitely recommend The Winter Soldier and Civil War (next movies in the series)! So much Bucky angst ;-; Also the Thor movies, because I have a feeling you might like Loki.

Some of the best Loki quotes:

“Well done, you’ve just decaptitated your grandfather!”

“An ant has no quarrel with a boot.”

“Freedom is life’s great lie.”

“Oh dear, is she dead?”

Btw, do you remember the time I said I’d write a Heathers one-shot on the Yoi blog and never did? I think I’m getting over my writer’s block so maybe I can write that one-shot and submit it here?(And if that’s ok, do you maybe have any suggestions for which character I could use? I was going to write it as a Yuuri/reader but that doesn’t seem to fit so well anymore, so I might go with a TG character…I’d also like to use a character you like, since you’ll probably be the only person reading it ^^;;)

Speaking of Heathers though, when you have the time, is it ok if I try to drag you into that fandom again? Along with Dear Evan(s) Hansen. It’ll hurt you very, very badly but it’ll probably be worth it.

Oh dear, even more rarepairs. And I’m the one who ‘invented’ this one. Well, like I’ve said, as long as Urie is happy, I don’t care about whom he’s with.

ISHIDA IS A GHOUL, ONLY HE DOESN’T LIVE OFF OF DEAD HUMANS, HE LIVES OFF OF PEOPLE’S SUFFERING!!!

Honestly, you’ve voiced my thoughts perfectly. I can’t help but get irritated at all the changes that have been happening. For me, it started around the time we found out about Mutsuki’s past. I mean, can’t we have one character who had a nice childhood and isn’t insane deep inside? At this point, basically everything is overdoing it for me. Let them have a break. A nice moment. A single day without a centipede or someone dying. TG is slowly turning into shoujo manga. A sick, twisted shoujo manga, but a romantic one. That is the one thing I didn’t want from it. It was actually nice to have a manga without pointless crushes which play an important role in the plot, for a change. Guess I was wrong.

Dude, I don’t care who he kills, if Ishida brings Hide back, he is automatically forgiven for everything and anything. Well, I would care if he killed characters like, but other than that, he’s free to kill anyone he wants (like Furuta (or maaaaybe Mutsuki, but I’d like it better if they redeemed themselves (though that might be difficult))).

I just… I want the cookie to be happy. And Mutsuki is definitely not making him happy.

Gaaah, so many questions and symbolisms, it’s making my head hurt. Here’s my theory: This is a huge setup for everyone to be happy. Mutsuki will run away to New Zealand or something and restart their life, Kaneki and Touka will get married (tho I don’t quite ship it, whatever, as long as they’re happy), Urie will realise he’s loved Saiko all along and she’ll be there waiting for him. Kanae is actually alive and so is Hide. Kanae and Shuu get married. Hide finds himself a nice girlfriend (or boyfriend, not gonna discriminate), opens a pet shop and is happy.

Everyone is happy.

Okay, but imagine this au: ghouls don't exist and there's no reason for so much suffering. Kaneki and Touka are two kids who knew each other from school and now run a coffee shop together. The Q squad went ri the same class and Saiko alway loved Urie. He recently realised it. And so on.

Ah, I definitely know how you feel. I went to music school as well, and we had yearly (or half-yearly, depending on how long you’ve played the piano) recitals. My method of calming down was to imagine I was at home, alone and just practicing. There was no one around me, and it didn’t matter if I messed up. I could always start again. Also, the audience was vegetables, as far as my imagination was concerned. It did help.

I know you can do it (๑و•̀ω•́)و You’re a fighter! The great Evans who can always cheer me up when I’m down. If I’m the queen, then you’re the king! All hail king Evans who’ll kick the recital’s butt!

Oh you would ruin all his moments, and it would be the most amazing thing ever. I’d always laugh at it, cause he’d be denied of all his theatrics.

They’re not ‘acceptable’, they’re absolutely perfect. I seriously can’t thank you enough, because they were very nice cheer-up material after a whole morning of cramming my two least favourite subjects. I’m pretty sure you’d do amazing if you got a blog. You do have amazing talent for writing.

Oh my~ Would you mind then if I listed a few more songs, my favourites?

Yozora wa nandemo shitteru no?

Bokutachi wa Hitotsu no Hikari (there’s a bit of talking in this one, it’s hard to find a version that’s not sped up)

Omoi yo hitotsu ni nare

Mijuku dreamer

Guilty Eyes Fever

soldier game

Thrilling・One Way

Ookay, I’m done ^^ I’m telling you, Idol Hell is very subtle. You won’t even realise you’ve been dragged into it huehuehuehuehuehuehue

Aaand there goes my heart, again. I have no words to thank you enough for writing those, since they help me keep my sanity.

however, we know whom we’d like from TG, but what about other fandoms we share? AoT? YoI? Kuroshitsuji?

Yeah, I’ve been told many times that I’d like Loki, but strictly looks-wise, I must admit I prefer his brother, and I prefer him very much. Idk, I just have a thing for guys with slightly longer hair.

All of that sounds suspiciously like something I’d say…

Of course, feel free to submit anything here! As for the musicals, I’d be happy to listen to them, but after this week is over, because exams. Then, I’ll listen to both Heathers and Dear Evan(s) Hansen, despite the feels ^^

#evans #submission

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I spent the last 4 days writing a long-form sales page for one of our Copy Hackers programs.

At my day rate of $5000, that’s a $20,000 investment.

Given what a long-form sales page can do for revenue generation, $20K is money well-spent.

But forget $20,000, which is a lot for almost anyone to pay for a single deliverable.

What about a $5000 invoice?

Is $5000 a lot to charge – or to pay – for a sales page?

I decided to ask a few top marketers. Here’s what they revealed.

These are the 14 marketers we asked

We reached out to some of the thought-leaders, marketers and general powerhouses growing today’s coolest (and most profitable [read: they can afford $5K invoices]) businesses online.

Among the handful of questions we asked them was this one:

If a freelance copywriter quoted you $5000 to write a sales page, what do you think your reaction would be?

Although two declined to answer (because the question was optional), the other 12 reacted like so:

The surface reactions aren’t the point.

The stuff BEHIND those reactions – that’s the point.

What does “$5000 is too expensive” really mean?

Surprise! Most people aren’t in the top 1% of expertise in their field.

Bigger surprise! Most copywriters aren’t in the top 1% of expertise in their field.

Biggest surprise! Marketers and founders are wise to the random guesswork that happens too often in the copywriting world.

(And even when the results are present, there’s still this strange sense that, somehow, it’s a fluke.)

Perhaps the biggest reason for this distrust is this:

There are just far too many people calling themselves copywriters.

Check out how many freelance copywriters are listed on one of the most popular spaces for finding freelancers, Upwork:

And how many of those copywriters have data or proof that they’re actually skilled at the job?

When you refine your search for job success (a form of proof), you see this:

So 2000+ freelance copywriters have “experience” getting the job done right.

Which doesn’t help a prospective client make a decision.

Because there’s still no PROOF that you can do what the client needs doing. Job success is not synonymous with proven results.

For a top marketer to pay you $5000 for a sales page project sans sticker shock, one of two things needs to be true.

You either need to have a great portfolio of results. Or you need to do pay-for-performance – as in, you get paid after the page performs well.

A few of the marketers who were NOT in a rush to invest $5K in sales page copy said they needed proof + results:

“It better make me at least 2x that amount or at least exponentially more than it was making before. If it does the job, I’m happy to pay it.” – Nadya Kohja

“Ouch! Unless I know they’re great.” – Oli Gardner

“You better be damn good at what you do! ROI matters more than cost, so you better be able to produce ROI at that cost.” – Barrett Brooks

You’ve gotta answer this question: “Why should a client pay more for me than for the next freelance copywriter?”

Your results need to justify your rate. Period.

Your clients need to believe they’re going to get a 10x return on their investment. Period.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Start measuring your work immediately so you can reduce the risk for your clients and charge more. A few ideas for you:

Start asking for the before-and-after data (for traffic, conversions, etc) for the landing pages / websites you write for clients

Grab open and click rates from MailChimp, ConvertKit or whatever platform you and your clients use to send the emails you write

Set aside time each week to track week-over-week increases in shares, comments, traffic and more for the blog and social posts you’re responsible for writing

Run your own Facebook ad tests for your business

Run your own A/B tests for your landing pages inside Unbounce or your page platform

BTW, showing results is not optional.

Those who think $5000 is doable expect the same things as those who think it’s not: strong data going in, and strong ROI going out

Sorry, punkin, but there’s no escaping it: businesses dig numbers.

CFOs love numbers. They obsess over numbers like it’s their job.

“The biggest challenge would be to make the investment without knowing how the page would ultimately perform.” – Nate Turner

And let’s not forget the one marketer who said $5000 is too low

“If someone told me their salespage would cost $5000, I’d assume it would actually cause damage to the brand and not generate any tangible revenue. It’s going to hurt more than it helps.”

I couldn’t agree more.

Now here’s a question.

Why is Lars the only one who said $5000 is too low for a sales page?

And even worse?

Not a lot of COPYWRITERS have seen it, either.

Writing strong long copy and

Telling the world about when it works and when it doesn’t so that

More marketers can stop wasting money on low-yield initiatives when they really need to put their copywriting budget toward expensive but high-converting long-form sales pages.

All that said, how can you get more clients to recognize your value and pay you like a champ?

To justify solid rates for writing sales copy, copywriters need to connect their work directly to two things: lead generation and revenue generation.

We asked this group of marketers:

What was the business objective you were trying to solve for when you recently hired a freelancer?

All answers fell into one of these 3 categories:

We wanted to generate more revenue

We wanted to generate more leads

We wanted someone to execute

But ten of the 14 marketers hired a copywriter for an outcome directly tied to growth: revenue or leads.

Get inside your prospect’s head! You know what they want. Now use their words in YOUR copy…

So you know you need results to woo clients.

But what else can you do, say and share to tip the scales in your favour?

You can use what marketers want and don’t want to write more persuasive sales copy for your services.

And what follows can help you with alluhthat…

We asked these 14 marketers how they’d describe their ideal freelance copywriter. These are the words and phrases they used, in alphabetical order:

Aware

Brings a process

Data-driven

Disciplined

Fluid

Has courage

Empathic

Intelligent

Nimble

Perceptive

Proactive

Shows initiative

Specialist

Subject matter expert

Succinct

Takes ownership

And a few more insights into what clients want when they’re hiring freelance copywriters:

“A “dual-threat” SEO/conversion copywriter!” – Andy Crestodina

“Someone who ‘goes deep.’” – Nathalie Lussier

“Committed to staying a freelancer, able to write in multiple “voices”, good on the phone so I can trust them to call clients.” – Dana DiTomaso

And while you’re at it, overcome their biggest objections when you’re pitching

If you’re wondering why your prospective clients are skeptical about your value, chances are insanely good that they’ve been burned before.

FRUSTRATION 1. It’s simply hard to tell the great freelance copywriters from the ones who talk a good game.

‘Member all that stuff above about results? Yup, lack of results / lack of expertise is the #1 frustration people have with copywriters.

Tara Robertson, head of agency partnerships at Sprout Social, put it this way:

Nadya Khoja, Head of Marketing at Venngage, said:

Nate Turner of Sprout Social said:

And Andy Crestodina of Orbit Media said it like so:

“[The most frustrating thing is] finding someone who can back up their recommendations with data.”

FRUSTRATION 2. The learning curve with new freelancers can be too much.

The market

Market segments

Specific personas and/or jobs to be done

The product / service

The company vision

The brand voice

The marketing ecosystem – how X plays with Y

Editorial standards

Where to find enablement stuff, like testimonials and research

Creation and iteration processes

All that for a sales page?

John Bonini of Databox breaks down his experience onboarding freelance copywriters like this:

And Laura Roeder of MeetEdgar said that the learning curve is one of the hardest parts of working with a freelancer:

FRUSTRATION 3. The freelance copywriter is not hardcore.

These hiring managers want someone who cares at least as much about the art + science of copywriting as they do.

No, scratch that. They insist that you care 100x more than they do.

As in, they need you to be hardcore.

Lars Lofgren explains well his frustration with hiring non-hardcore copywriters:

How can you prove you’re hardcore? If I were you, I wouldn’t start by being particularly subtle…

Finally here are some additional frustrations your prospective clients may have felt:

“[It’s hard to find] samples of their work in the right format.” – Oli Gardner

“It’s important that anyone I work with understand the mission of my blog.” – Nir Eyal

“It’s difficult to evaluate whether someone is a good fit for a particular gig.” – Peep Laja

Of all the takeaways, here’s perhaps the most interesting one, IMHO…

Now I gotta wonder…

…would you balk at a $5000 sales page?

What would you need to know about a copywriter before you’d agree to a $5000 invoice?

What’s the most you’ve paid for copy, and would you pay the same copywriter that amount again?

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