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mousehole5000 · 4 years

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tgcf lb the third chapter 14 - 21

okay hit me with the lore

Xie Lian hadn’t spoken his next words before the teenager said, “He dug it out himself.” Startled, Xie Lian asked, “Why?” The teen replied, “He went mad.” -digging out your own eye okay worm

If there were demons in this world who would scam or entice the hearts of people, then there would also be humans who would fool demons. There would exist much ongoing exploitation and betrayal. He said, “If it was handed over in infatuation, yet only results in broken bones and scattered ashes, it would indeed render one’s heart to feel aggrieved.” okay also kind of dope i love it when humans and demons get some back and forth. also this feels like it could be foreshadowing

awwww xie lian giving away his only steamed bun what a sweetheart

everyone keeps telling me this book is also a tragedy but now im just laughing at the visual of headless ghosts carrying their heads around and bickering

chronic bad luck and chronic good luck meet... what will happen to our heroes...

Xie Lian raised his head, softly saying, “You are tenacious, extremely dedicated, and despite many bitter encounters with frustrations and dashed hopes, you’ve stayed true to your heart. More often than not, your misfortunes will turn into blessings, calamity to prosperity. You will continue to have good fortune, my friend, your future is radiant and will blossom spectacularly.” All the things he said were made up on the spot, so they were complete nonsense. - fhklasjksldfdfh i know this is a ploy but still this was funny. also why didnt xie lian try to pick up palm reading from another source when he fell? are they just not as good? is he pretentious like that? either way i hope we find out more about what he got up to during those 800 years

Xie Lian felt rather skeptical on how he only ate half a bun for the duration of the entire day. If young people took advantage on their good health like this, sooner or later they would surely end up passed out on the streets. - xie lian is directly calling me out for my quarantine eating habits im sorry king ill do better

Previously, it had always been Xie Lian telling other people ‘it’s alright, it’s okay’. Today was the first time he heard those words spoken back to him, leaving him with an indescribable feeling. - awww okay this got me

oh my god there was only one bed

again comedy of the year. “oh you’re putting up a curtain that repels evil thats so interesting. on an entirely unrelated note im going to make you a door”

Brushing past him, San Lang pulled out the bamboo chopstick. He swayed it twice in front of him before saying, “It got dirty. I’ll throw it out later.” - edgy bastard moments begin

Xie Lian could hear the deliberation win Ling Wen’s tone. One thing he could be sure of was that she must be in a difficult situation. He said, “Okay, I understand. Since this is inconvenient for you, then there’s no need for you to say more. In addition, the two of us never had this conversation in private.” - awwwww considerate crown prince xie lian

“What, do you guys know him?” Xie Lian said. “……” Fu Yao coldly replied, “No we don’t.” - all men do is lie. also love the petty little broom dispute. i know its actually quite intentional and that only makes it funnier. also guys stop wrecking xie lian’s home he just got it fixed up!! if anyone breaks the new door ill be highly disappointed in them

Xie Lian nodded his head. “That’s right. I wrote it. If you guys continued fighting in there, I would be pleading for reconstruction instead of renovation. Then, I would really have no dignity left.” - see xie lian said if youre not going to contribute to it then please dont fight in my monastery its been through enough

Earlier, when Fu Yao had entered, he hadn’t gotten to examine the interior furnishings. Now, after standing in this crooked, shabby house for quite a while, he was able to see it all. As if his entire body, from head to toe, was uncomfortable, he asked, “You live in a place like this?” Xie Lian handed him a chair and said, “I’ve always lived in these kinds of places.” - ive seen this quote before and it really is just that “damn bitch you live this like?” meme. amazing

Fu Yao did not sit, his expression also turning rigid for a second. It was hard to tell what the look on his face was. It seemed nine parts blank shock and one part schadenfreude. - THIS IS MY NEW FAVORITE EXPRESSION I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT

In the desert, the difference in temperature between night and day was drastic. During the night, the freezing temperature was cold enough to seep into one’s bones, yet it was still tolerable. But come daytime, it was a whole other experience. The sky here was incredibly clear and expansive with dashes of white clouds, but likewise, the blazing sun was just as fierce. The group continued to walk, but the more they walked, the more it felt as though they were going into an enormous steamer basket. The hot air emitted from deep within the earth felt as though a day’s worth of walking could steam a person alive. - YES DESERTS YES

okay xie lian is so kind and so generous? he keeps giving stuff away when he has almost nothing and making sure that others are taken care of first..... love him

Xie Lian watched them put on airs. But when such airs were discarded, they finally got physical. Separated by the space of the table, the three of them fought with the poor water bottle, pushing it back and forth. - if these three really are who i think they are this is even funnier. the very clear toying thats going on is truly delightful

Even before, Xie Lian had always thought that although this teenager was always smiling, his smile often made it hard for people to distinguish whether it was actually genuine, or whether it was mockery in the guise of compliments. However, this time, anyone would be able to tell that there wasn’t even half an ounce of goodwill in his smile. - yeah that about sums it up. not even half an ounce of goodwill damn that sure the hell is not a lot of goodwill

He had Ruoye go grab onto something sturdy and stable, but Ruoye ended up grabbing onto San Lang! - awwww thats kind of cute. also the mental image... im going to make this its own post too but

im waiting for xie lian to cough up all that sand hes eating and say something funny when we’re back on the ground. i hope we get more very literal decisions from ruoye

It should be noted that there was a common saying within the mortal realm—a powerful dragon cannot crush a snake in its old haunts. - oh i like this and the translators note This is an old Chinese adage that basically means, ‘even a powerful man cannot crush a local bully.’

“General.” Nan Feng and Fu Yao both spoke at the same time, “What?” - CONFIRMED I CALLED IT tbh it was kind of obvious now ig now im just waiting. also again hysterical. if youre gonna hide your identities boys fucking lkafjfjlkdaf; try harder to remember that youre hiding

To be demoted again and again, to the point one couldn’t be demoted any further…… this kind of experience honestly felt too familiar. Xie Lian felt two gazes collectively fall on his body, but he pretended not to notice and continued reading the text on the stone slate. - this is a funny little set up for what seems to be a parallel between xie lian and this central plains general. he tripped on his own bootlace??? this HAS to be xie lian parallel what does it mean. oooh the common people on both sides of the conflict were the ones who commemorated him? interesting..

San Lang faintly smiled before he whispered, “No, I made that up. Since they had laughed at him before, making them kowtow to him now wouldn’t be asking too much, right?” Xie Lian looked and saw that it was really true. There was already no more text left to translate on the stone slate. He had originally wanted to sigh, but now he just found it funny. Thus, he also whispered, “Why are you so cheeky?” San Lang stuck out his tongue. The two of them were laughing when suddenly, someone screamed, “What is this!!!???” - okay they are funny and i respect the deception. also oooh scorpion tailed snake. oooh a horde of them. a classic cave blunder

“Yeah! The results are relatively the same as worshipping that rubbish immortal! The more you worship, the unluckier you become! “ “……” For an arrow to hit the bullseye despite being in a place so distant and unrelated, Xie Lian was left with no words. - oh my god xie lian are you wearing a spiritual “kick me” sign because it really feels like you are

HE GOT STUNG XIE LIAN NO

#i need to take a break from this i got fic to write #tgcf liveblog #mouse mumbles

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tamiddyinyourcity · 4 years

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6:53am.

Why am I up, you ask? I wish I could tell you.

Monday, April 13th of 2020.

There really isn't much to report. I just feel like writing.

Planning to buy string lights for my bedroom. Any man I've ever met who had strings lights in their bedroom, or a disco light, had super killer dick. I recall Zack #2 having an entire light system set up under his bed, so that sex with him in the dark was intense as hell. (Plus He Who Shall Not Be Named had a cool string of Christmas lights against the walls of his already pretty dope attic bedroom, and he couldnt fuck that great, BUT.... BUT.... HE HAD SPIRIT, so, thats what matters. More men need twinkly lights or a colorshow in their bedroom. And more men need to cry.

Anyway, I'm getting them since I used to have a lights set-up that I made in my old high school, where the christmas lights were in the shape of the Golden Gate Bridge. The class didn't entirely like me back then, but they still loved to walk into the class early and sit with all the lights off just to fully enjoy it.... As terrible as the last few years were, I still liked certain moments.

Fuck them kids, though. :)

I was the glue that held that class together for years and it unraveled when I left. We love to see it. Had my old teacher hitting me up like "why didnt you come???? no one came and it was so dry compared to other years".... she's a whore and im glad that the annual Christmas party was shit without me, its what she deserves absolutely. It got worse as the years went on, since I was the only person who bothered to GIVE during the holiday season, other than the teachers. Everyone else just kept on taaaaaking.

Oh yay, revisiting high school trauma during quarantine as well? Cool, yeah.

Well, while I'm on the topic...... Freshman year, the party was kickin! Everyone skipped their classes for a full day, had horchata and hot chocolate ready. Back when my hair was in those long wavy braided singles down my back, I was so pumped. I used to put on an elf hat and wear whatever red and green clothing I could find in my closet, even if it was tacky, since having fun was the more important thing about it. Music played, good movies, all that. And everyone in the class had liked eachother!

Sophomore year, the class was even MORE decorared than the last! I think that was the year James (curse his name) brought in his Playstation? Or am i mixing up occasions? Maybe that was the third year...... I just recall it being off the HOOK even more, even with almost all the boys in the class hating me, for... *checks notes*.... "dumping my ex for trying to cheat on me"..... Yeah.

And as the years went on, less parents donated for kids to get cool gifts or good food. Less peace between the students.

Less actual good spirit and appreciating what they had, while they had it.

I literally think the final party I attended senior year had:

No surprise iPads or cameras for students to win in the rigged raffles, just run of the mill shit youd find at a Goodwill, a shitty Daiso Japan, or at a 25 cent coin machine

A kid named Kevin brought in his Nintendo Switch. Instead of playing it with the other kids in the class, he literally stole the class projector and hooked it up in a corner, then played all by himself, on a tiny screen.....

No majorly nice decorations, and yet again, I was the only one setting things up. Yet again, no one bothered to donate any good decorations or christmas lights to hang up....

Wack snacks and wack drinks with bad company.

And the music was bad, that year. Hell, even that year where all the men hated me, we still all played Mortal Kombat and Soul Caliber against eachother anyway. The last year was wack, and kinda proved how lazy everyone else was while feeling entitled to a good time they did nothing to contribute to.

So surprise surprise, I didn't show up to invite everyone personally through updated emails, or think it was worth the effort to bother with some niggas who never apologized or made it up to me after years of traumatic bullshit they had done nothing to stop. When there's no cheery girl in an elf costume to put aside the past and decorate the walls or organize the event, then, theres no one else to do it. You know youve fucked up, when the go-to optimist thinks yall are too selfish to bother being in company with.

And thus, no one showed up.

Only one weirdo I know showed up, as well as my old on and off again friend William, but no offense, neither were cool enough to actually think a bus ride or an uber uphill would have made it worth the effort whatsoever.

But if I organized the event, and not the 50 something year old hag who can barely even use her phone camera after years of owning one, and still thinks mini skirts with brightly colored spandex underneath is mature for her age..... (ew,) then, niggas wouldve shown up. Bet your ass they'd come for their favorite person/enemy/ex that they havent fully gotten over.

Hilarious, mate.

Hmmm... not sure I wanna keep reflecting on high school. Memories are bad for reasons. :)

But I'll just say, my teacher should not be allowed to work among girls. I did document her bullshit for years on my other tumblr. Maybe that will come in handy?

Just.... ugh. The universe really went "oh look, this teenage girl is enjoying her life for once. Time to toss in betrayal upon betrayal to get her to hate the systems built for men and incapable adults having power over anyone they want."

Yay! :)

7:36am.

Might have a mental snap if I dont have something else to do......

So many triggering thoughts this month. Sexual assault awareness month been making me a bit painfully aware of how bad the last few years had been for me. And those who knew, and did nothing to help me or even stop it.

And just in general, how fucked it is that the ones who hurt me ended up still living much better than me, since hey, theeey werent the ones with the sore body parts or the fear of seeing certain people instilled in them.

Ugh.

Lets change topics.....

Hmmm.

Rowan's still my friend, and I dig it. Just been talking to eachother idly these days, feeling good. He's currently playing Trivial Pursuit with a friend he mentioned being worried about, so I'm giving him some space.

And noooow, just questioning life i guess.

Gonna reflect on that time Mari had sex with a man for a Subway sandwich.

Like....... Mari was my age short by a few months I think, and a bitchy girl, but she was going through something similar to how things had went for me during my final year. Her house with one side of her family had her aunt and cousin destroying the house every day by having discarded needles, broken shit, and garbage or piss everywhere. Strangers in and out of the house. Dangerous situation. And her parents were too pussy to be smart enough to tell that bitch to fuck off, so the landlord lied and said to evacuate the house for renovations... just to foreclose it and then proceed to say he was gonna sell it.

And then when she moved in with her stepfather or whatever, it was still dingy, no money for food, all that.

And since she knew I was making good money every now and then from sugaring, (every now and then, since i was still somewhat inexperienced,) she had asked me for advice. And despite aaaaaaall the advice in the wooooorld...

My points were:

Discuss an allowance beforehand.

Go on an actual date first, in public, during daylight.

NEVER go to his house, especially at night.

Avoid the "i dont like girls who make it a transaction you know?", types. Theyre just trying to guilt you into sex for free, and give the illusion theyll still give you an allowance, despite planning to fuck you once or twice then forget about you. (Never happened to me, since I did my research. Getting ghosted sucks, but imagine getting ghosted and still being broke... One weekly allowance before a male hoe loses interest and dips, is better than one terrible bang as you lose interest and self esteem without getting anything you want.)

And I gave her advice on what to wear, but, not like she would really listen anyway.

And she, with her Galaxy Brain, upon hearing hours of my advice, had then:

Planned a "date" at his house, several cities far away from her own, at the dead of night... for the FIRST MEETING. GOD, serial killers can just straight up get 18 year olds delivered to their door these days, and she just.... ignored an obvious safety rule?

Showed up wearing lingerie and jeans to his doorstep.... it passed as a top, but, jesus-

Saw that he put out wine and a fruit plate for them. No actual dinner whatsoever. And they had weed and good conversation. So, since he put out sweet nothings and wine, she had put out. Nothing would be wrong with that usually, if not for....

She didn't discuss an allowance with him whatsoever.

Why? Because "oh, he doesnt like girls who use sugaring as a means of rising their social status or for financial gain!" (In other words, "he wanted pussy for free and I fell for it since I was too naive to realize he's just trying to dick me down without helping add to my life value whatsoever".)

Just..... ugh. In a vanilla circumstance, I'd be happy for her. She's had her fair share of low self esteem or shitty relationships, so to a girl who hasnt had much, a little goes a long way. But not when she got my hopes up saying that she was hoping to sugar with me in order for us both to afford an apartment with eachother someday.....

Just for after a whole day of talking, she ends up openly ignoring all my advice, being whorephobic (its LITERALLY-- girl, wow,) and then all she got out of sex with him was a few grapes, to raid through his wine cabinet and get drunk for a few days, and dick. (Oh, and half a subway sandwich. How could one forget? Jesus christ.) The day before we were talking about how she had the potential for an Apple Watch or her college tuition paid off, and she.... settled way way low.

She was literally drunk as hell for three days with no food, her dizzy ass. Friendship ended quickly, once I realized how shady and stupid she always had been.

And damn, that was the best decision ever.

I deadass forgot about her and never looked back. And I look back on SO MUCH in my life. How bad of a friend must you be, if the girl that forgives everyone a little too quickly and even sees good in those who hurt her in the past.... openly doesnt remember you, and would never invite you back into her life whatsoever?

She was so draining! In the bad way! Inviting me all the way across two towns to hang out, just to openly act like she had better to be. (Or her flat out saying that she had no one else to invite, so figured, "Eh, might as well, its better than nothing".... Fuck you, Mari. I hope screwing a man almost three times your age without so much as bus fare back home humbled you.)

Smh.

I stopped sugaring mainly because of creeps. Too many bad experiences or low self esteem drops from men who shouldn't have deserved to look my way, but poverty and a disability meant accepting what could work for me.

Buuuuut too many men see it as just the more affordable version of escorting, where they can rape or manipulate women that are young enough to either be super vulnerable in life and naive, or who unlike them, think 400 dollars could make or break their life quality.

I never liked how a man with lots of wealth could dangle it over someone's face like that. Hell, I recall one terrible man doing an obnoxiously disgusting thing with me, (the thing itself wasnt bad, just he did so much wrong that the memory itself makes me cringe,) literally staring me in the eyes during sex like, "You still wanna go to Amsterdam and London with me, no? Yeah? You still do? Wanna travel with me, have more of this? Not regretting it now are you?"

The way he said it was so pretentious and obviously him trying to mock me, in a sense. All that nigga had to do was be polite during the date and also respect my boundaries! Not... *check notes*.... lick my armpit, ew, and then attempt to rape me without a condom.

Luckily I prevented the latter by putting my nice long nails right against his junk, when this gross potbellied man thought laying his fat ass stomach against my frame and my arms to pin me down would work... I don't feel bad for leaving him immediately that night. I hope I reported his account.

But yeah, I stopped sugaring after the whole "entitled man demands sex when girl is in pain/exhausted/has boundaries stating what she doesnt want to do" thing was too apparent. And honestly, it was so annoying the amount of men I could talk to for ages, and despite even getting to the point of a planned date and a set allowance, niggas would either forget, or just somehow lose interest within the few days or so.

I even recall one man who I almost hit it off with, that I told about how I'd be busy for the week on a film set, but would be happy for a date on the weekend or any day this week after.

And nigga just straight up said "This isn't going to work out. Goodbye." All since he had to wait a week instead of meet immediately?

Plus, Western Sugaring is literally different from the rest of the world.

Like how in certain parts of Asia, if a man wanted you to be his personal mistress, or was just a rich man who knew his girlfriend wanted to be taken care of, he had to buy her a place in her own name for her to even consider it. They keep their clothes on and go, "You like me and want me to risk social status by being a whore for you instead of marrying you???? Flash some dollars, maybe I'll holler if you're about that life for real".

And they SUUUUURE DID.

Meanwhile, I tell men my allowance hopes here, and they insist on trying to bid on what they think I should get instead. "Honey, come on now. Some girls in your city get 300, and the average in the city nearby get 500 the highest. Lets be more realistic here."

And so my realistic response to the take would be, "I'm sorry you can't afford me. But I understand, not everyone can!"

Lmfaoooooo, the mood of calling men who will probably have 100000x more in their bank account than me on a good week, a broke bitch, is forever a good mood.

Some men have a lot of nerve. "I can give you 800 a month".... a month? Bitch, thats a per week for me? If he caught me in that desperate point where I, young and naive and I think 18 by then, was in the Mari mindset and thought just because a man flashed money that I swore I needed, then my comfort didn't matter, survival and money for food did.

Then sadly, he would've had some luck. (But luckily I never went through with it, since my friend Pedro gave me the wisdom that even escorts get 700 dollars for a night. He's ordered one himself, he knows!), and how I'm definitely worth much more than I really think.

And honestly, thanks Pedro. You were a good person, sometimes, even if you mainly liked me because I was young and your version of a manic pixie dream girl to crush on. (I get it, 18 year old tomboy that also secretly gets dolled up and sugars, talks to you about films, and looks up to you? Let's just be grateful he was a good person, as opposed to some terrible people ive met, since that day alone super changed my mindset about sugaring.)

Since niggas that see a gorgeous girl only wanting 400, will think "shes willing to do all this just for what i see as penny change? will she be as desperate for 250?", and pushing their luck, to get more bang for buck.

I never go that low, ever.

The only time I ever considered that low or lower was when it was a man who was actually the same age as me, who would not leave me alone and trying to beg me for a date or sex. (CoughcoughMarcotryingtocheatonhisgirlfriendandfakeloveformeinhopesthathewouldgetlaidforfreecoughcough)

And even then, I wasn't serious. I just pull the card when a man can hear no a million times, and still try to come back and ask for more. (Like Zack #1, begging to eat my ass nonstop despite years passing from high school, or that one guy that I hooked up with ONCE when Patrick #1 had left, who kept claiming I was the best at (insert sex here)".) Only Marco actually did consider it.... never happened, but damn, a man on minimum wage would still blow 200 dollars just to have a date with me?

Nice. Hell, why even accept 100 dollars for any platonic dates in the past if even a man my age, that can use tinder, will cough up twice as much?

Anyway, I mainly aim for traditionalist sugaring. No more internet pervs that can see a profile full of "not interested in intimacy right away, i prefer a genuine and real connection instead of strictly sexual", just for MikeOckk69 to message me his phone number and a "come now pls". (Its like all the creeps looking for escorts on craigslist always trying their luck on the websites I use, jesus fucking christ. Even men sending me full on rants about how I'm an "entitled millenial", for having the audacity to still turn down an unattractive man, who lives at least five cities away from me, even though he wants to flash money (and his dick) to me..... Old men are.... yuck.)

I forgive myself for the past. When it comes down to either wanting to jump in the street and get my neck mowed over by a Jeep after getting off an 8 hour shift at Chipotle with the biggest lunch rush known to man, smelling like their shitty chicken and avocado bowls, or having fancy pork roast, runart wine, and looking like a 10/10 next to an overly greasy and quiet man with erectile dysfunction and a lack of empathy... Then yeah, making in one night what some people make in a week and a half of nonstop labor is what I'd take.

And despite all of this, still eat the rich nonetheless. If they can't help people out with their wealth unless its an attractive and downtrodden young woman wanting only a percentage of their hoarded wealth, then ready the nooses and make your axes as dull as possible, to set an example.

Fuck em.

8:54am. Writing is cathartic. Nice. :)

Gonna think about all the gourmet pork roast I have eaten in the last few years... peace out.

#rich people food is wack #just saying yall

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stonermurphy · 7 years

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*kicks down door* You should talk to me about NB Connor because NB Connor is the best.

um yes of course i’ll talk about my fave NB kid in the world??

ahjdgajhgdjhga this is WAY longer than i thought it would be so headcanons are under the cut

they’ve always loved doing gender conformingstuff from a very very young age, like painting their nails, wearing skirts,growing their hair out long, etc.,,, theres a ton of pictures of a rly littleconnor murphy running around in skirts and pigtails with their nails paintedall different colors,,, even still they HATED being called a girl, almost asmuch as they hated being told to ‘man up’ and ‘act like a boy’

zoe, their trans girl sister, came out when shewas 6 or 7, causing a lot of jealousy and resentment from connor. Jealousy becushe wished he could be as confident in one gender over another as she is but insteadhe just hates them both,,, and resentment becus their parents know how tohandle zoes situation waay better than they did connors (connor doesnt realizethat’s only because their parents had learned from their experience with them)

after zoe came out they stopped dressing up asmuch,, they didn’t feel comfortable dressing as girl when they weren’t one whenzoe was actually trying to live her life as a girl. They ended giving all their‘girly things’ to zoe as hand-me-downs and even let larry take them to get ahaircut

they realize they’re gay when about 13 or 14,,, havinggrown up hearing a lot of stereotypical homophobic rhetoric (not from theirparents specifically) they half believed the gay men dress up as womenstereotype and chalked up their gender issues to having issues with beinggay. They try their best to put out oftheir head how badly being called a boy or a girl makes them feel and focus onbeing comfortable with liking boys

when they started really go through the thick oftheir mental illness they grew their hair back out (mostly out ofdepression and an unwillingness to get things done) and started painting theirnails again (chipped black that would stay on for weeks,, never the freshlypainted rainbows from when they were young) and went back to questioning themselfon the daily. Im talking staying awake at night thinking “am I actually agirl?? no definitely not being seen as a girl sucks,,,, but I don’t think im aboy?? definitely not a girl and maybe not a boy what the fuck does that mean??”(they know they could probably google shit but their paranoia makes them tooworried someone will find out what they were googling and ask them about it andthey absolutely could not handle that conversation)

after their failed suicide attempt they spendthree weeks in the psych ward where they’re asked whether theyre comfortablewith their gender and sexuality and they lie through their teeth. They’re notcomfortable, they’ve never been comfortable, but theyre not about to tell thatto a strange. Saying theywere comfortable and happy with themselves in that regard felt like a punch inthe gut.

when they get home they have a whole list ofcoping skills and a ‘protection plan’ in place and theyre almost excited to seethings change for the better. they get meds, they get a therapist, and thingsare still really really rough but theyre actually trying now,,, and they wantso bad to rebuild their relationship with their family (mostly zoe, they knowwhat they’ve done to her and have no plans to forgive themself for it even ifshe eventually by some miracle does)

in an effort to actually work towards recoverythey try to figure themself outa bit and go back to doing their hair up and painting their nails differentcolors,, they even go so far as to get themselves some skirts and dresses fromgoodwill (only ever worn when the rest of the murphys are out of the house) andinstead of worrying about what those things mean they let themselves just enjoythe things they used to enjoy so much

zoe notices. she notices how hard they’re tryingnow. she notices how much less frequent their outbursts and episodes are. shenotices them specifically trying their best to be nice to her, to be a goodolder sibling. she notices how relaxed they look when theyre painting their nails, when theyre justfocusing on themselves instead of the world around them. she notices theyre a lotmore like the person she used to know. she also, thank god, notices thesick-to-my-stomach look connor gets when someone confuses them for a girl, andthe hesitation to correct them and say they were a boy. zoe notices all thesethings and they all point her in the direction of wanting to help her sibling,wanting them to know who they were.

·Her absolute first move is to drag connor along totheir high schools GSA,, having already asked alana (the genderqueer lesbian president)to make the subject of the next meeting a discussion on nonbinary genders. shesreally super confident they just need some things explained to them and thenthey’ll at least be on the right track.

Connor gets EXTREMELY overwhelmed at the idea ofso many fucking genders,, like they already hated the two and now theres so somany more for them to rifle through and figure out don’t fit them either. They kindof panic and leave in the middle of the meeting, not wanting to hear any more thanthey already did,, zoe chases after them and they absolutely pour their heartout in one long garbled paragraph that they barely breathe through before zoejust kind of pats him on the back like “you know its totally fine to just,, nothave a gender. Like that’s how a lot of people use the overarching nonbinaryterm, to just mean ‘genderless’” and that,,, genuinely calms them down. likeall those terms were so MUCH but just not having to deal with gender at allsounded SO appealing

and that’s kind of just?? It?? Like they knownow that gender doesn’t really HAVE to be a thing for them at all and they decidethat’s absolutely how they want to live their life so they straight up do,, being gay is the only thing that connects them to gender in anyway and tho that takes time to come to terms with on its own they really are genuinely happier now that theyre not left wondering whether theyre a boy or a girl

they still dont wear skirts or dresses in public anymore, but theyre fine wearing them around zoe and eventually theyre fine wearing them amongst their other friends as well (didnt take too long considering alana evan and jared arent cis either),, not to mention the shift in mood that came with their friends referring to them with they/them pronouns and gender neutral language

the end, connor is living their best life with friends and a sister who absolutely support them for who they are and are more than happy to help them through their rough days becus theyre willing to the same for all of them as well thank you

#connor murphy #dear evan hansen #deh #deh headcanons #murphy.txt #replies

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nsjang · 4 years

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6.18.20

Nai nai died yesterday at 11:15 am. We were 15 minutes too late and got to bah’s house at 1130am. She was lying on the left side of the bed with her eyes slightly open, and her bottom teeth showing with her mouth open. She looked skinny and had sunken cheeks. Her face resembled a skeleton, and she seemed lifeless. There was a nurse there on the phone on speakerphone, on hold trying to get in touch with her doctor to figure the situation out. My dad was distraught and could barely speak without choking up and having a shaky voice when trying to get a few words out. He was explaining that just 1 hour ago she was awake and fine. He changed her diaper, fed her some chicken soup, which she ate half a cup of. Then she looked very sleepy, so he let her sleep a bit. But then he thought it was time for her to be up and eating. So he went to check on her but he thought she had low blood sugar, so he got some brown sugar and gave her some of that. She ate one small spoonful, but the next spoonful fell out of her mouth. Then he tried to feed her some soup again, but that fell out of her mouth and fell on her shirt. She couldn’t sit up straight by herself.

But in the moment he was on her side of the bed, checking her pulse via her wrist, checking her breath, checking her pulse via her neck, asking the nurse who said she also checked her pulse with the arm pump but it was irregular. Everyone was trying to figure out what was going on, trying to suspend belief, not give in yet. But the more we asked the nurse--did you try listening to her heartbeat with the stethescope--the more I checked myself, putting my fingers up to her nostrils, reaching under the blanket to feel her wrist, sitting next to her on the bed, looking at her close up, not moving, reaching into her hoody to feel her neck, which was extremely tendony, sunken skin, had to reach into a sunken part to try to feel her pulse. We looked at the clock. It was 1135. We checked the pulse meter reader on her finger, which did sometimes give a reading of 35, but then it would go back to being flat, but then bumping up a bit and being flat on a different level. Then checking later, it was mostly flat. My dad was checking. He was saying there was no pulse. Then we asked when she started having no pulse. Then he said it was around 11 she was still up. Then he called juen and taeyang, thinking that would cheer her up. This was around 1030am. She was mouthing something, trying to say something. But couldnt hear. So at least she got to go seeing her second son and first son’s son together, them getting to experience her last moments every day on this earth for the past few months, doing kung fu fighting class together over zoom. my mom thinking that jon really is good at coming up with moves for taeyang to learn, that he was a good teacher, he knows how to teach. very good. she was glad to be teaching kung fu, which she got into the last few months without much explanation. she was imparting part of what she wanted to teach, directly to taeyang every day. for that i am so thankful that covid19 happened and we were able to have this type fo connection that might not have otherwise happened.

Now i’m crying writing this. thinking about this. sue is behind me writing her own thoughts.

it was sad to see my dad so distraught, knowing it was the last moments, knowing his care and his watch over her was coming to an end, in some ways relieved but guilty of feeling that, trying to bury that feeling, instead saying he didnt give enough to her.

sue just asked me if i was crying, which triggered me to start bawling uncontrollably. i had to stop writing and put my head down to cry. then sue came over and sat on me and i cried into her chest for 5 minutes. i couldnt stop. it calmed down for a bit but then it came up again and i had to cry for another few minutes. then i went to bathroom and cried some more, thinking about it.

my dad was great to her, a great caretaker, ever patient, calm, able to deal with the fury that my mom threw at him. she went out bitter, trying to fight against, trying to stay, trying to live more, fight through the darkness, her time was not up yet, she had to withstand just a bit more pain and nightmare to impart onto her children all that she had to give, all the wisdom and thoughts and cautionary advice, tailored to each one of us, tailored to what each one needed guidance on. in her last days she was still completely focused on her kids. making sure that all three succeeded and avoided the mistakes she herself made in her life. she lived with regrets. regret of quitting her phd because of me. regret that she saw reflected in bai mei ah yi. regret that she could not contribute to the world with her skill set that she knew she possessed. regret that she used to be rich and spoiled, but then all of that came crashing down with her dad going bankrupt and her mom dying while she was in college. regret that my dad did not earn enough money to bring her back to that level of living, where she could truly flourish and show her good tastes. so she prided herself on having great taste with small money, able to buy great items from goodwill at a fraction of the price new.

she was never proud of her looks though or vein, or that i ever saw. she did talk about how her nickname in college was black tornado and guys would dare each other on who would ask her out. but she was too busy riding her bike around campus with her long black hair. so she knew she was attractive but she was never bitter about growing old or losing those looks.

so her tailored advice to jon was harsh. she constantly picked on him, focused him out, nitpicked him, yelled at him during our zoom calls, and probably yelled at him a lot privately through phone calls as well. i never knew the details of those conversations and still dont.

but in our time of prayer yesterday before the mortuary came to take her body away, my dad said that ma always picked on juen because she was the most worried about him. and she said that she was so glad she got life insurance of 200k and that she would be giving most of it to juen because he needs the most help. i started crying then thinking about it and agreeing with it all. i would not take a single penny and it all goes to juen and lisa. while my dad was saying this juen was shaking his head as tears came down his face.

during my prayer i didnt have good words to say. i said something generic and short. i didnt know what to say. i was able to avoid crying.

but now i’m worried about my dad. what is he going to do now? for now he says he plans on staying in the newark house, as the price of the house is similar or the same as what they bought it at and there are high transaction costs.

our current plan is to rent in fremont so we can be closer to him, and see him often.

my mom didnt get to meet nova. she didnt get to finish her embroidery for nova. she didnt finalize nova’s chinese name. nor did she get to meet #3 if we are blessed with one. but my dad will meet all them. and he will take care of them from time to time.

just thinking about him passing too is unthinkinkable right now. but it is a fear that covid may prematurely happen. just unthinkably sad to even consider that possibility. god i pray that you bless him with a long life from now, content and flourishing. i pray you use him mightily in the church and protect him from any temptation or evil. i pray you keep him steadfast and overflow his cup.

god lead me to the right path. i am lost. i know not what i am doing. i admit that now. i do not know what i want or what i am doing with my time here. please guide my footsteps and my thoughts. show me what to read, what to watch, what to listen to, what to do, what to think about.

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porfirioenserafinakg73insur-blog · 5 years

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Can anyone help me regarding a huge fine for driving without insurance.?

Man, Im screwed. A few years ago I let my insurance lapse on my vehichle and didnt hand the license plates in. Failure to do so means an instant 150 dollar fine for the first month and 7$ a day afterwards. Ok, I was being a complete jackass at that time in my life and figured I would deal with it when the time comes. Well, its that time. I finally got my license back and went to buy a cheap used car. The dealer told me he cant get me plates for it cause I have a violation due to a fine for driving uninsured. The fine is off the charts, $4,455.00. Has anyone ever gotten the MVA to reduce this fee or waive it. I havent tried yet. They offer payment plans at 20% down and the rest must be paid within 2 years. I dont want to do anything illegal per say but just wanted to know if anyone has any ideas. I know, im a jackalope for letting this happen. anyone, let me know

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“Dope A-F”- 1/24-1/25 - “Booed Off Stage and Reg Charity”

Sweet lord almighty. Thursday/Friday were some slobbrerknockers of shows. I’ve got three bad boys to cover so let’s hop right to it laydees.

Earlier in the week I got asked by Travis Carl if I could fill in for him at The Richmond Funny Bone hosting for the “Fresh Drunk Stoned Tour”. I of course agreed. Luckily the open mic this night was The Camel hosted by Jameson Babbowski. This was an early mic so I got to get two sets in.

I head over to The Camel right after work. I am the first comic there. The Camel always has a chill fun vibe to it. When Jameson gets there I look at the lineup and I know like half of the comics. The influx of new comedians continues. It is getting kind of insane. I feel like more and more experienced comics are either moving away/giving it up/taking a step back from standup. Which is a shame. I love the new comics, but I do miss the feeling of going to an open mic and it being filled with all the dudes I started with.

New comics are always good for a scene. As people trickle out you need more comics to trickle in. They bring audience members, and a sense of enthusiasm that is kind of gone from people who have been doing standup a while. The downside is when your scene becomes all new comics booking showcases becomes difficult. You want to give people opportunities, but at the same time a showcase full of newbies is just an open mic.

There is a family with a small child at the show. They tell Jameson they are ok with the swearing and are going to leave aft4er a quick bite. I get to see a few of my friends like Alex Castagne and Mike Engle. So that was a nice little hang.

Jameson goes up and does a quick hosting set before bringing me up. I go up and talk to the kid a little bit and get a few laughs. The crowd is interesting. Paying attention, but not really loving the comedy yet. My set goes pretty well. I need to write some new stuff because I am getting to the point where the new stuff I am working on is starting to become fully formed. The jokes go ok. Some hit pretty hard and some get nothing. All in all I was able to riff a couple new tings, and work on wording. I’d give this set a C-. I grab my stuff and run to my car to head to Short Pump to get to the Funny Bone.

It has been a while since I have been on a show here. I walk in and say hi to the staff. Every time I come by they have some new wait staff, but a lot of the people who’ve been there for years are still around. People like Cory, Derek, Buz, Brittany, and of course Jason the gm. I get to talk to everybody for a bit and shoot the shit before the comics from the “Fresh, Drunk, and Stoned” tour show up.

They were coming from VB so they had a comic down there drive them up and they gave them a guest spot. Drew Grizzly is the comedian who drove them. I have only seen him perform a couple times at clash so I don’t know much about his standup. I know the couple times at clash I wasn’t super impressed, but also that was forever ago and I think he was a super new comic at that time.

All three of the headliners were super cool. They were Tim Hanlon (LA), Matt Bellak (Chi) and Franco Harris (Chi). Very chill dudes and fun to hang with. all real professionals as well. Franco came in and had the complete run down written up ready to hand over to the sound guy Buz. I was going to be doing 10 up top, Drew was going to do 7, then each of them would do 20 each to close out the show.

They also did a great job of packing the show on a Thursday night. They didn’t sell out but they came damn close. I think there was close to about 220 people in there. Which is definitely a treat for a Thursday.

I go up first and have a super strong hosting set. I tried some material I’ve never done there before and it went over great. My “problems with China” bit hit super hard, and my “Angel/Devil” closer really got them. I’d give this set a B+. I really had them in a good place to get this show going and I bring up Drew.

I walk to the green room while he starts his set. I don’t really pay attention to it. He’s not getting a huge laugh or anything, but I don't think anything of it. I am talking in the back with the guys, and after like 2 minutes we start to hear a noise coming from the green room. I can’t really tell what the noise it, but is most assuredly not laughter.

I start to listen closer and realize it is boos. Drew is bombing so hard he is getting booed. Tim and I go out to check it out and we are just in awe. This crowd that was super into the show had now completely turned on him. Apparently he had started his set and said he had weird pubes. A woman responded, “you got a problem.” Instead of rolling with it he doubled down and started to be aggressive with the lady. He had not built up the goodwill in his set to warrant this type of response. So the crowd started to turn. He also mentioned that he doesn’t date black women (he is a black guy) which honestly is where he really lost the crowd (primarily black audience).

I have never seen this kind of shit before. It is surreal. People are losing their minds yelling at him, booing him, screaming to get him off the stage. People are standing up out of their seats. Like it had the vibe that someone was going to come up on stage and get him. Jason came out of his office wondering what was going on. It was too much for security to silence everyone. He was getting the light from the back, and he wouldn’t get off stage.

I don’t know how much time he did but it felt like a millennium in that atmosphere. It might be the worst set I've ever seen in my life. I was inching closer and closer to the stage trying to give him a hint. Also I was worried I was going to have to go on stage and take the microphone from him. The worst part is I have to go up after this. I tell Tim I am going to try my best to get the crowd back and do something before he gets on stage.

Drew finally gets off, and I go back up amidst a sea of boos. They’re still yelling and I give them a second to see if they’ll die down enough to try to get a word in. I finally grab the mic and say, “I think this is the first time in history where a room full of black people are like, ‘Thank God the white guys back’”, and it absolutely murders. People stand back up and are screaming and hollering. People are giving me high fives, and I'm really selling it leaning over with the mic stand talking to people and getting them pumped up. I bring Tim Hanlon on stage and the show is back on track. This is now one of my favorite comedy memories.

I go back to the green room and Drew is talking about it, and Franco and Matt are giving him good advice. Bombing happens, everybody does it, this is not a reflection of an entire comedians career or act. I do know that I have never in my life seen a worse set, and at least Drew knows it can’t get worse. He was in good spirits, and we all ended up having a dope rest of our night. I get a lot of compliments and I get to watch Tim, Matt, and Franco have super hot sets to end this amazing night. I also get a weekend of work from Jason in March. I love filling in dates on my calendar.

After the show I stick around, take some pictures, and meet some people. I say my goodbyes to everybody and then head to my car. I drive home enjoying the end of this awesome night.

1/25

The next day after work I took a nice nap, and then headed down to perform on Tidewater Tonight in Virginia Beach at Pinboys. This is a talkshow co-created and hosted by Roberto Lundgren Rodrigues. This isn’t a standup show. I had to create a character to be interviewed. I low-key love stuff like this, but I don’t get the opportunity to do it often.

I came up with the character several months ago when I was first asked, but I kept having to reschedule. I finally got an open Friday and was ready to unveil Reg Charity. Basically the character idea I had was I'd be a disgraced, southern, ex PBA bowler who was banned from the sport due to my rampant alcoholism. So after my PBA career I started inventing. All my inventions are supposed to do the opposite of what they normally do (sunglasses that brighten the room, chips that help you lose weight, whiskey that sobers you up, and a toaster that turns toast into bread). It slowly becomes apparent during the interview that none of them work, and I get drunker and drunker on my “non-alcoholic” whiskey.

I get to the venue early and am just hanging out with the people who run the show. Ryan Dix, Roberto, Laura Batty, and a few others. My buddy Nick Deez showed up also.

So after they set up for the show we wait for it to start. There is a tiny audience of maybe 5 or 6 who aren’t involved in the show. That’s ok though because everybody is super into the show. I am so excited to see how the video turns out because I am super excited about it. I improvised the entire thing. I feel like I went in and out of my accent, but I honestly don’t care. It was super fun, and I got people laughing. I had an absurd outfit on, and some great lines. I’d give it a solid B. If I get to go back I know I’ll do even better.

They do some ads, and a singing commercial. Then Donna Lewis goes up and is doing the character of an ex child star. She is having a hot one, and everyone is having a blast. The show ends and it was definitely a success.

They make several attempts to lift the couch up with me in it. We get some funny pictures of me falling out of it, and them failing to lift me. We keep chatting for about an hour, and just talk shop, and shit. It was a super dope show, and I can’t wait to do it again.

All in all this was a helluva two days of shows. A real hoot and a half. I just want to give everybody who reads this blog a million kisses. XOXO I love you and I’ll be back to recap the weekend tomorrow sweeties! GOODBYE LAYDEES!!!!

#comedy #talk show #standup #bomb #boo #epic fail #improv #jokes

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ericsburden-blog · 5 years

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How to Drive Traffic to a Brand-New Site with Little to No Money

I know what you are going through.

You were excited to launch your brand-new site until you realized no one is coming to it.

So, you head to all of the marketing blogs to learn how to fix this, but for the life of you, your traffic won’t go up no matter which tactic you leverage.

What you’re feeling right now is very common. Not only have I experienced it, but when I was starting out, I even took the small life savings that I made from cleaning restrooms and sweeping up trash to pay a marketing firm to help me out.

And can you guess what happened?

They took my money and provided no results.

See, what most marketers aren’t telling you is that there are two main reasons why you aren’t getting traffic to your brand-new site (other than the fact that you don’t have much money to spend on ads):

Marketing is a long-term game – almost all of the tactics marketers, including me, talk about are long-term tactics. They take 6 months or even longer to see any results.

Your execution needs to be flawless – if you don’t implement the tactics correctly, you won’t see results.

Now, this doesn’t mean you can’t see short-term results or sales. More so you have to change up your strategy.

So, I thought I would do something a bit different today. I am going to break down what you should be doing during the first 12 weeks after launching your site.

I’ll be sharing a tactic for you to follow each week and, if you follow it, you’ll notice that your traffic will start going up right away. From there, you’ll start to see sales coming in.

Before I dive into the 12 tactics, note that you won’t have to spend much money, if any at all. I am also not going to give you advice that is extremely time-consuming, like writing blog posts, as you’ll also be running your business at the same time.

And of course, the tactics work for both B2B and B2C sites. It doesn’t matter if you are an ecommerce site or a SaaS company. Follow the steps below exactly.

Week #1: Respond to comments on other people’s blog without spamming

Have you heard of a popular site called Mashable? It was founded by Pete Cashmore.

When he launched his competing site to TechCrunch, no one knew about him and no one cared to listen to him as he was based in Scotland instead of Silicon Valley.

But do you think that stopped him? Of course not!

So, what did he do? He went out there and commented on every competing tech blog. And not only did he comment, but he always tried to be the first commenter.

See, when you leave a comment on a blog, most ask you to put in your name, URL, and comment.

Assuming you are leaving valuable comments and nothing spammy, you’ll notice that you’ll get referral traffic in your Google Analytics.

This will be because a very small percentage of people are clicking on your name when you leave a comment.

And considering some of the most popular blogs on the web receive millions of visitors each week, it’s not that hard to drive a fraction of a percent of their traffic back to your site.

The key with this strategy is to be one of the first commenters as that ensures your comment is at the top. The other key, of course, is that your comment must add value.

For example, if you own a marketing related product or service, marketing blogs would be a great place to comment. But what do you think will happen if you leave this kind of standard comment:

Nice post! Keep up the good work!

Nothing. On the flip side, if you put in some effort to write something that benefited the reader, you’ll have a chance at getting some traffic.

An example could be something like this…

Neil, I love the actionable tips on generating traffic for a brand-new site within the first 3 months of launching it. But I know you didn’t discuss much if any about SEO.

I know SEO is a long-term strategy, but people should get a head start right away or else it will take that much longer to get loved by Google.

One thing that I recommend every site to start off with is simple keyword research. You can use any free keyword research tool like Google Keyword Planner and type in your competitor URL. Google Keyword Planner will then suggest keywords and even show you the cost per click.

By going after keywords that aren’t competitive and have a higher cost per click, you’ll find that you can generate search traffic at a much faster pace and these keywords will drive sales. As keywords with a high cost per click tend to mean that they convert.

Do you see what I mean by writing thoughtful comments that help people?

This tactic works!

Jared, who runs Skincare by Alana, still leverages this tactic today. When he and his wife launched their ecommerce store they commented on other popular blogs and social sites when it came to all things skin related.

This helped them generate 931 visitors during their first week and 12 sales.

I know it’s not a lot, but you have to start somewhere and grow from there.

I also have leveraged this tactic for years. Instead of focusing just on blogs, I commented on relevant social sites too.

As you can see from the screenshot above, I’ve generated over 1.9 million views on my Quora responses.

Here’s an example of one of my responses:

You’ll notice that in my response I also link out to my own site which drives traffic back to me.

Yes, the response looks very long, and you may think I put in tons of work, but I literally copied and pasted a blog post I had already written and added it to Quora.

Google doesn’t penalize for duplicate content. 😉

If you are going to use this strategy during week one, try to leave at least 10 solid comments per day. I would try to leave 20 as it shouldn’t take you more than two hours per day… assuming you haven’t done this before.

I can typically leave 15 comments in less than 50 minutes. So, throughout the first week try to speed things up and spend no more than an hour on this tactic per day.

Week #2: Be helpful on Twitter and you’ll get tweets

Before I go into week 2, keep in mind you’ll still want to maintain the tactics I share in the previous week.

By week 12, you’ll want to be following all 12 tactics each week.

Of course, you won’t be able to put in the same number of hours into each tactic and that’s fine, but you can still do them a bit. For example, you can still leave 5 comments a day instead of leaving 20.

So, let’s dive into week 2, which is all about Twitter.

This tactic I learned from my brother-in-law Hiten Shah. He used to leverage this tactic for every one of our startups… Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics, and he now leverages it for his newest company FYI.

If you look at Hiten, he built up his personal brand and influence in the tech space because of Twitter. Sure, people like me may have a bigger brand or more Twitter followers, but he has much, much, much more authority on Twitter than I do.

As you can see influential people on Twitter are tweeting about Hiten’s latest company.

He even tweets and connects with well-known entrepreneurs like the founder of HubSpot and Drift because of Twitter.

So how is Hiten getting all of these people to show him some Twitter love? Well, he has a 3-step formula…

Help people

And no, I am not joking, that is his formula. He doesn’t care to promote his business, he just helps people.

Let’s look at his Twitter profile to dive deeper into his strategy.

If you look at the tweets above, you’ll notice that Hiten continually pushes out advice on his Twitter profile. He rarely mentions his own company, but instead just tries to help people.

And when people ask questions or need help, he constantly responds to people’s tweets.

Not everyone takes his advice, but his mentality is to just be helpful no matter what. Just look at how he responds to people’s tweets.

Lastly, he retweets stuff that he likes. Whether you are an influencer or an average joe, he doesn’t care. He just wants to share the best information out there.

This is why so many people tweet about his product FYI. It’s because he is super helpful, so people naturally want to help him out without him even asking them to.

Now I know this strategy that Hiten uses seems like it is going to take forever to get results, and it does. But there is a hack that he uses to get immediate results.

Every day you should search Twitter for people talking about your competitor. When people have questions about your competitors’ products or services (or they have complaints), try and help them.

Don’t pitch them on your company, just try and help them.

What you’ll find is people will be shocked that you are helping a competitor. And if you are this kind and helpful, then what kind of service would they get if they took their business to you…

In other words, being helpful wins you goodwill and it will cause people to switch from your competitor over to you.

And if you go above and beyond like Hiten, people who haven’t even used your product or service will help promote you. Just like how one of his followers tweeted about FYI and he hasn’t even used it yet.

His strategy to help, help, and help some more has made Twitter one of FYI’s biggest traffic source. It accounts for roughly 25% of their weekly traffic.

Week #3: Go after small affiliates

No matter what industry you are in, there are affiliates. If you aren’t familiar with affiliate marketing, check out this post.

When you are starting out you probably haven’t created an affiliate program yet in which pay other marketers every time they drive you a sale or a lead.

You can always use software like Hasoffers to set one up or go through a network. There are literally hundreds of options and with a few quick Google searches, you can find one which is the right fit for you.

Now, what most people will tell you is that no one is going to promote your affiliate offer because it is unproven and new.

Although it’s true that your offer is unproven, it doesn’t mean all hope is lost.

During your third week, I want you to copy the strategy ConvertKit used when they first launched.

The strategy I am about to break down helped them grow from a few thousand dollars a month in revenue to over a million a month.

What ConvertKit did was they went to all of their competitors’ sites and looked to see which ones had an affiliate program. One of those competitors happens to be Aweber.

Then once they had a list of competitors with affiliate programs, they performed a Google search for “competitor name vs.” An example would be “Aweber vs”…

From there they would email each of those site owners asking them to include ConvertKit in the article or even write a unique article about ConvertKit. Just like this one.

Just think of it this way, if someone is willing to be an affiliate for one company, they won’t mind throwing in a few extra competitors. All it does is give them the potential to make more money.

When leveraging this tactic, consider sending out 10 emails a day. It shouldn’t take long and people typically don’t mind adjusting their web pages to add in another link that could potentially earn them extra money.

Now compared to most tactics, this one will drive the least amount of visitors.

But the traffic will be very qualified and more likely to convert as you are going after “versus” articles. When someone types in “Company X VS Company Y” into Google, they are researching which solution is ideal for them. These posts rank well and they tend to drive sales.

Week #4: Hire guest writers

Now the strategy I am about to break down for you in week 4 is my favorite strategy.

This is what I used in my last startup KISSmetrics to grow our blog traffic to over a million visitors a month.

If you head to the KISSmetrics site you’ll notice that it now redirects to NeilPatel.com as I bought the site.

So how much traffic did the KISSmetrics blog get from this strategy?

As you can see from the image above, we peaked at 1,260,681 unique visitors a month.

Our strategy was simple… hire writers who had a social following.

We went to the Problogger Job Board and posted a job looking for writers.

The job description looked something like this…

Are you a marketing expert? Do you know marketing like the back of your hand?

That’s great because I have an opportunity for you.

KISSmetrics is a leader in the web analytics space and we are looking to work with expert writers who know marketing and analytics.

We’re currently looking to expand our team of writers with passionate enthusiasts for digital marketing and with expertise and passion for writing. We are hiring individuals for each of the following categories:

SEO

Content marketing

Social media

Web analytics

Conversion optimization

Paid advertising

Web design

Branding

Email marketing

Please go to our blog for examples of content we’re looking to create. [insert URL of your blog]

We would like to build a long-term relationship with you that is on a project basis. Initially, we will have you submit a list of topic ideas you would love to blog on, then we will pick one, have you outline it… and of course, you’ll then be off to the races.

The articles will be anywhere from 1,000 words to 3,000. Our goal isn’t to enforce a word count, we are more interested in high-quality content.

We’re looking for someone who is:

Looking for a long-term working relationship

Has 1 year of working experience as a writer

Has a good level of knowledge of digital marketing

Is willing to research and learn more about marketing

Has great grammar and spelling skills as well as proficiency in English

Likes working with deadlines and structure

Has a social following and doesn’t mind promoting the content you are writing as it will be published under your name

How to apply

Send an email to [insert your email] with – Applying For Writer Position in the subject line. Your email should include:

A bit about you as well as links to your social profiles

Why you’re a good fit for this position

Links to 2 -3 articles you have written

Your rate per 500 words.

The way we scaled up to over a million visitors a month was by publishing 5 blog posts a week. And every time a writer wrote a blog post for us, they didn’t mind promoting it to their social following as their name was on the article.

Once we got over 50,000 visitors a month, we noticed that we started to get inbound inquires of people willing to write for us for free. So eventually we slowly transitioned to a model where people wrote for us for free and we didn’t need to hire or pay writers.

You’ll notice that this will happen with your blog as it gets more popular.

What’s great about this strategy is the more writers you get, the more people that will find out about your company as each writer has different people following them on the social web.

Week #5: Create a podcast and interview guests

Have you listened to my podcast Marketing School? If you haven’t listened to it yet, check it out.

My co-host Eric Siu and I give marketing advice each day in under 5 minutes.

But don’t worry, the strategy I want you to implement isn’t to copy Marketing School or even listen to it (although I would be honored if you did listen to it).

Instead, it’s to copy my co-host, Eric Siu. He has another popular podcast called Growth Everywhere where he interviews someone new each and every single week.

You don’t have to do a weekly podcast, but I want you to interview someone in your space at least once a month.

And instead of making a separate site for your podcast, just pop it onto your main site.

Now when you publish each of these interviews, ask the guest to share it with their audience. From their social profiles to posting it on their own blog to even emailing their own list.

Although Eric has built a brand in the marketing space, he wasn’t well known when he started Growth Everywhere.

Just look at his stats from leveraging this tactic:

Eric’s generating over 15,300 unique visitors a month. That’s a lot of traffic considering Eric hasn’t even tried to grow the traffic to Growth Everywhere.

Best of all, you can generate similar results to Eric. But the key to doing this is interviewing people within your space so that way the traffic that comes to your site is relevant and over time those visitors will convert into customers.

If you don’t know how to start a podcast, watch this:

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You could buy fancy equipment, but I would just use whatever’s built into your computer until you start seeing results from this tactic.

And if you really want to make your podcast popular, check this out.

Week #6: Become a rising star

Do you want to be a rising star? Well of course you do… who doesn’t?

Now you probably wondering, what the heck is a “rising star?”

Well, let me first start off with, Facebook groups.

Whatever industry you are in, whoever your ideal customers are… you can find them in a Facebook group.

Look for niche groups on Facebook related to the product or service you are selling. You want to join these groups as long as they have over 1,000 members.

You may also find groups that have over a million members. You’ll want to avoid these groups.

Focus on groups that are between 1,000 members and 17,000 members. Those groups are big enough to where you can generate traffic and small enough where you’ll be noticed.

What you’ll want to do is join a handful of groups and post 4 to 5 times in the group during your first month.

Assuming you are creating posts that are engaging in which people are responding and interacting with you, then you’ll get a rising star badge.

That means people are interacting with your posts. So then when you mention your product or service, you’ll find that not only will people see it, but they are going to head on over to your site.

The key with posting to Facebook groups is to create a high amount of comments and replies. If you just link out to your site you’ll get very few clicks and you will look like a spammer. Posting links and nothing more will get you banned from the group.

But if you link out within context or answer someone’s question with a link to your site or share something from your site that will help group members, you are much more likely to get clicks.

But if the content isn’t engaging and people don’t care to leave comments, you won’t see much traffic from your Facebook group.

I have a private Facebook group with 2,616 members.

When you post something that is engaging, you’ll get featured as a “top recent post” and I’ve found with my 2,616 members I can generate 119 to 184 visitors when I post something that is super engaging that links to my site.

But instead of creating a group as I did, just join other popular groups. You’ll save a ton of time.

Week #7: Co-publish content

Have you ever thought about co-publishing content with other site owners? Even if you don’t have a huge audience, people will still love co-publishing content with you.

Why you may ask?

Well, they may have the audience, but they may be too busy to continually create new content.

Just look at me… I co-published so many guides with other writers.

And…

These writers got tons of exposure and did the majority of the work.

Over time, these guides have generated well over a million visitors. But I know they are time-consuming to create, and I’m not asking you to create guides.

Instead, you can co-publish blog posts together, record a webinar together, create a white paper, or anything else that you feel could be a good fit.

A good example of this is how my team co-published content together with a company called Hotmart in Brazil.

They wrote about Ubersuggest. They even co-published a video about SEO and, of course, my team mentioned Ubersuggest.

That helped make Brazil the most popular country when it comes to usage for Ubersuggest.

If you are going to try and co-publish content with others, make sure you are willing to do the majority of the work.

Hit up other sites within your space and make your offer. Let them know how they won’t have to do much work and, of course, mention what they’ll get out of it.

When you co-publish content, you can’t just talk about your company, you also have to talk about theirs.

Week #8: Product launches

Have you heard of Drift?

It’s a chatbot tool that a lot of people in sales and marketing use.

What I love about Drift is their Product Hunt strategy. Every time they release a new feature, they push it hard on Product Hunt.

You probably don’t have a ton of new feature releases as you have a brand new site but every time you have one you should consider pushing it out on Product Hunt or even a Sub-Reddit.

But for now, why can’t you launch your site on Product Hunt or on a Sub-Reddit?

Sure you site maybe live for a few weeks, but you haven’t announced it to the world yet. 🙂

Product Hunt is super effective when it comes to traffic generation. When FYI launched via Product Hunt they got over 1,000 votes. It was so successful, the HubSpot co-founder even offered them funding.

I did something similar with Ubersuggest. Every time I release a new feature, I announce it on Product Hunt. So far it has driven me 12,319 visitors.

The key with doing well on Product Hunt is:

Get as many votes right when you release it… ideally within the first hour (so ask your friends and co-workers to vote)

Participate in the community before you submit your own site. Ideally, you want someone else to submit, but if you don’t know any active Product Hunt users, participate for a bit before you submit your own site.

Make sure you respond to every single comment as this helps with engagement.

Submit your site very early in the morning Pacific Standard Time. Product Hunt resets every night, so consider submitting it around 4 am Pacific Standard Time.

I know self-promotion might be a bit difficult for you when you are starting off but you need to embrace it. There is nothing wrong with pushing your own company… if you don’t, no one else will.

Week #9: The gram

Honestly, what do you think of Instagram?

Well, whether you like it or hate it, it is one of the most popular social networks out there. And influencer marketing is becoming one of the most effective promotion channels.

Anytime a Kardashian talks about a product, it flies right off the shelves.

That’s how companies like FitTea came out of nowhere and grew to 7 figures in revenue overnight.

I know what you are thinking: It’s going to be too expensive to pay Kim Kardashian to talk about your business. And you are right, it will be too expensive.

Heck, anyone who has over a million followers will try and charge you too much. Anyone with over 100,000 will also probably charge you too much.

Instead, I want you to look for micro-influencers who have at least 10,000 followers. Find people within your vertical who aren’t too popular but whose followers would be your ideal customer.

Now I want you to reach out to these influencers and offer them a bit of money to promote your product or service.

When it comes to making your offer, don’t pay them money for a post because it will be too expensive, pay them to create an Instagram story.

See, the moment someone hits 10,000 followers, Instagram enables the “swipe up” feature. This means they can tell their followers to swipe up to head over to any website. And in this case, they will be telling their followers to swipe up and head over to your website.

You’ll find that influencers will create a story for pennies on the dollar as it expires within 24 hours.

Typically, if someone has 10,000 to 20,000 followers, I am able to pay them a few hundred bucks for 3 stories over a 2 week period.

I prefer this over a post because this drives traffic to your site and you can track the number of sales you are generating from each campaign.

You can also leverage sites like Influence to find influencers.

A friend of mine, Timothy Sykes, does this often. He goes crazy and pays influencers with over a million followers to do this because he has been able to make each campaign profitable.

Typically, you find that 1% to 2% of the person’s followers will swipe up and head to your site, assuming the story is good. With this strategy, you won’t get a ton of visitors, but the visitors you do get are more likely to convert into customers as they’ve already been pitched during the story.

Week #10: Wikipedia

Have you ever thought about Wikipedia as a traffic source? I know I didn’t until I attended a marketing conference years ago and heard someone from Comedy Central speak.

This marketer was breaking down how Comedy Central gets millions of visitors a month, which isn’t shocking because it’s a popular television channel.

But what was shocking is how they broke down how they generate over 100,000 visitors a month from Wikipedia.

You heard me right, they get well over 100,000 visitors a month just from Wikipedia.

How’s that possible?

Well, they go in and modify Wikipedia articles and mention Comedy Central whenever it is relevant.

But before you go off and modify hundreds of Wikipedia articles, know that you won’t get the same result as Comedy Central.

It’s more realistic for you to generate a few hundred visitors a month… and maybe even work your way up to a few thousand visitors a month over time.

The key with editing Wikipedia articles is to first adjust tons of pages that aren’t about your website. It’s not just about linking to your site, it’s more so about providing value to the community.

So, during this week, I want you to adjust 12 to 15 articles. Once you do that you can then adjust any relevant ones to your business and include your own company when it makes sense.

Again you won’t get a ton of traffic from this, but you can easily get a few hundred visitors.

Here are the steps you need to follow if you want to edit articles on Wikipedia.

Week #11: Speak at a virtual summit

By now you should have some traffic coming to your site. It may not be a lot, but if you followed all of the steps above, your visitors should be highly qualified.

And now I want you to leverage those visitors to get you a speaking spot at a virtual summit.

Search Google for a virtual summit in your industry. You should be able to easily find one.

It doesn’t matter if they are charging people to attend the virtual summit or if they are giving tickets away for free. Offer yourself to speak and promote the event.

You’ll be shocked at how many people will say yes if you are willing to promote their event.

Remember, unlike a physical conference it doesn’t cost them much to add hundreds of speakers and keep the summit going for an extra day or two.

When speaking, be sure you can promote your company during your speech and you’ll notice that you’ll be able to generate some visitors and sales. But that’s not why I want you to speak at the virtual summit.

Instead, I want you to ask the host of the summit to share the attendee list with you. Assuming they have the right terms of service and privacy policies this shouldn’t be too much of an issue.

You’ll also have to make sure they aren’t breaking any GDPR rules.

What you’ll find is this is a common practice with most virtual events in which the speakers will promote the event and the virtual summit will share the attendee list with the speakers.

This will give you a list of super qualified people that you can promote your blog posts to or even your product and services.

Week #12: Scripts and tools

You know I love SEO and it’s an amazing long-term strategy. But to do well with SEO you need backlinks.

The more relevant sites linking to you, the better off you are going to be.

And as you get more backlinks, in the short run it will provide referral traffic. In the long run, it will cause your search traffic to skyrocket.

Just to show you how powerful referral traffic is, just look at my referral traffic:

Over time, all of those sites linking to you will start driving thousands of visitors.

So, what’s the best way to get more backlinks?

Well, you don’t want to buy them. And manual link building takes a long time and isn’t as effective as it used to be.

Instead, what you should do is release free tools, like how I released the SEO Analyzer years ago. And over time, it’s naturally produced 2,369 backlinks from 450 referring domains.

Now, I know what you are thinking: building a free tool is expensive and time-consuming. But it doesn’t have to be. You can buy existing tools and put them on your website for pennies on the dollar. And over time, they will naturally get backlinks without you needing to do anything more.

For example, if you have a real estate website, you can always add a mortgage calculator to your website. And can you guess how much it would cost for you to add one to your site?

$13. That’s right, it only costs 13 bucks! How crazy is that!?

There’s a site called Code Canyon where you can buy tools for almost any industry.

You can use these tools as your own and put them on your site with a few clicks of a button.

Just head over to Code Canyon and perform some searches. You’ll quickly find some tools that can work for you.

Keep in mind that these tools won’t be 100% perfect compared to building your own tool. But that’s ok, you have to start somewhere. Plus, people will still link to your tool even if it isn’t perfect.

Conclusion

I know some of the tactics I mentioned above won’t drive you thousands of visitors right away but they can drive you hundreds. And hundreds of visitors is a great place to start!

And when you combine them over time, it will help you get thousands of visitors. You just have to be willing to perform all of the steps in each week… no matter how silly the tactic may appear.

More importantly, the tactics I broke down above will drive you visitors that convert into customers and leads. All you have to do is take the next 12 weeks and follow them.

It may seem like a lot of work at first, but you’ll get faster at them as time goes on.

So, what do you think about the tactics above? Are you already using them?

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Consigning stuff from my NYC days; transition from baby to toddler items

Ah! Its 11:20pm and I almost forgot to do this tonight. I was just surfing the net for the past hour. I made a calendar invite so hopefully I can avoid this in the future.

Thanks to the Artist’s Way, been trying out a reading fast. It’s haphazard but I try not to read in the evening, when I really want to munch on junk food and browse the internet. I have been organizing and purging in the evenings with all this newfound time.

I am in a huuuge transition and it feels great, exciting, thrilling. G is 19mo old. 1.5 years. He is no longer a baby. I organized all his baby gear. I have clear and organized bags of newborn stuff, 6mo + stuff, breastfeeding stuff, etc. It feels sooo good. I am so relieved. Coupled with the relief that I do not need to have a second baby anytime soon. So much internal pressure I generate. So much what I “should” do. I am taking time to listen to what I want to do.

I am asking for time, for permission to have a childhood with G. I want this year to be fun, carefree, to declutter, to get rid of stuff that is mediocre, not useful, doesnt serve us. I want this year to beautify our home. To make things pretty. I want to learn to sew to use my hands to make beautiful things.

I tidied up my breast pump and supplies. Ready to donate to another person but not sure how. There is so much waste and cost with child-raising. I wish I knew of a clearer way to efficiently get rid of stuff -- instead of on Facebook’s forums. I am not keen on having my personal address and infos on Facebook. Craigslist seems to do a better job of keeping it anonymous. I have been donating stuff to Goodwill but I suspect their mission is full of holes. I am also experimenting with consignment and re-selling online. We’ll see how that goes.

I am excited to finally start to let go of the vestiges of my NYC life. When I bought beautiful designer things only bc they were less expensive than normal (Not bc they were affordable by any means) and when I bought things with ex-R’s tastes in mind (his approvals, disapprovals, disdain, poking fun). Often those purchases ended up being uncomfortable and went unworn, or some were worn when I was at 128lb, running 5 miles a day.

I have so many leather shoes that I want to unload. Wool pants, wool coat. I dont have to dress for anyone else ever again. I think. Is this true?? God. That is freeing on such a deep level that it has taken my about 4 years to start to accept it. All the clothes I was keeping for a “Just in case” I need to look smart, put together, professional, etc. I dont need to do that anymore. I think I will always be self-employed (if not with our current biz, then with another biz), or if not, I will be brave enough to find work that is not white-collar and not-professional. I love this. I dont have to dress for anyone but myself. No more fitted skirts. No more fitted legs (I can barely tolerate skinny jeans now). I like a loose bottom half, an A-line, a fit-and-flare. The only fitted part could be the blouse area. That is the perfect silhouette for me. I dont need to experiment too much for now...well..a part of me wants to keep it simple, comfortable and fun. And another part of me wants to play and experiment. I wear so many colors now. I used to mainly wear and buy black bc it was easier to match with other items, and bc I didnt want any attention and I didnt find much fun in playing with color. Now I do find it fun. I want to experiment with color, with shapes, with proportions.

I am trying to accept my weight, my shape, my size. 130-135 pounds is my resting spot without much working out and without dieting. Eh. That is where i am right now.

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I am back in Baltimore!! I am sad that I am not with Jess anymore but I am really glad to be in my own bed. Today was a nice day. I feel happy about it. Going back to work tomorrow will be hard. But thats okay.

I did not sleep well last night. I could not for the life of me get comfortable enough to rest. I was super itchy just all over. And scratching at my psoriasis made me even worse. So I was a mess. And So I was just pretty unhappy. I was able to even see the clock change over from 159 to 3. Clock changing is weird.

I fell asleep after that though. And woke up at 8. A little unhappy, but fine enough.

I got dressed and soon Jess did too. We got ready to go out and get bagels.

And the bagels were great. And then it was time to get ready to go to goodwill.

We had a lot of stuff to bring there that we had sorted out last night. Some clothes but a lot of kitchen things. We had to call a car to take us because it was all just to heavy.

Donating was just fine. And we went in the store to look just for a minute. But we had some weird interactions. We were excited to see that they have a steamer trunk and that is something Jess was looking for. But they were using it to hold ties. Had price tags though. But when we asked they seemed annoyed that we even asked and said it was display only. And when we went to say um no. The security guard stepped up and said yeah that has price tags call in the back. And so they did. And it took way to long but they let Jess buy it eventually. Stellar.

I looked at some soft pants. Didnt find any I loved but I wanted to try this one pair on, but then when I went to go in an open dressing room an employee was very rude to me saying he was cleaning it.But I had been looking at clothes for a couple minutes and he had just been standing there talking to the other guy. He was very snarky and not in a good way. So I go to the next one and I was so upset about the way he talked to me, and the fact that this one had a bunch of clothes in it too (which was his snark about why I should have known he was cleaning the other one) so I took the pants out but I also rehung all those clothes and brought those out too and hung them up right next to him. Where he was just standing again. What a jerk. It really rattled me.

But I was excited about our trunk find, so together we carried it to the subway, got it back to the apartment, dropped that off, and went to the botanical garden.

I had a really nice time here. I liked the swamp part of the conservatory a lot. And the koi fish!! But the one thing that really soured it for it was the cafe.

We lucked out at first. This place is fancy and we got the last available table for an hour. We ordered and everything was fine.

But then things started going wrong. Our waiter just. Disappeared. So our biscuits took a long time. But while the sauces were a little weak, the actual biscuit was wonderful. But then the mains took. Forever. Its all good but still.

And then it was all wrong. Jess's "salad" was. Like super gourmet and did not even resemble a salad even a little. And my quiche which was supposed to be broccoli rabe, but instead it had those hen of the woods mushrooms that are haunting me in every vegetarian food lately. And it was super salty. I was pretty disapointed because this thing was almost $20. And then no one came back to check on us. At all.

I tried to eat it but it was just not good. I did get a little side salad that I liked and shared with Jess to make her weird thing more salad like. I wanted to talk to the waiter. But legit he never came back. We waited. Finally I had to go to the hostess and ask if she could get him. He came back and didnt say anything, just started taking our plates. So I stop him and I tell him the food was super salty and so he just mumbles "Ill take it off the bill" and walks away. ???? My guy. So then he leave for 10 minutes. Finally brings the check, cool the bill is half as much, thats good. But then he didnt come back. We literally waited 15 minutes before I went back to the hostess and asked if I was actually supposed to pay her. Nope our server. We wait almost 10 more minutes. I was starting to loose it. She could see this and came over and took the credit card. And finally after another 5 minutes of waiting, literately Im vibrating with anger, he comes back and puts it on the table and says nothing.

I was super pissed, but I had to let it go.

We went back outside. The weather was really nice. It helped me feel better. I liked the touch garden for the blind a lot, and the shakespear garden. The koi pond was the part that made me feel the best. So when we went to the gift shop I got a little ceramic floating orange koi. Made me feel happy. But it was time to go.

We went to get my stuff from the apartment. Headed to the station. It was a fine ride, though my bags were heavier because Jess gave me things. But it was all good. But then the line for my gate was a lot longer then expected. Jess gave me a big hug though and headed out. And I waited. Listened to my podcast. But then figured out that the line was long because the 330 bus had never left. These poor guys were the earlier bus.

Eventually someone came out and said they were going to get the 330s on their bus, but she wasnt super loud and no one understood and were getting upset. So I put on my best teacher voice and said "If you have a 330 ticket, move to the door, if you have a 430 stay put youre all good!!" and everyone was like "thank you!!" and then had a couple chats with people about teacher voice and it was funny and nice.

I got a good seat on my bus. And got comfy and packed all my belonging around me. A nice lady sat next to me and told me she thought we had assigned seats. She had never been on a greyhound before. I told her its a free for all and to just get comfy.

And it was a nice ride. I slept a little. I had a snack. I enjoyed the sunset and how late the sun went down. Day lights savings is here!

I was really happy to be back in Baltimore. My lyft driver was nice, we had some laughs. And I was so happy to be in my apartment.

I gave sweetP many hugs. I unpacked. I made outfits for the week. I took a bath and scrubbed the hell out of myself. Try to deal with the itchy.

Now I am chilling and eating popcorn. I put a differnt color nail polish on my one gelled hand. Because my hair stained the pink color. But now its a pretty blue.

I am now just waiting for James to get home. I am very excited to see him. And I am excited to sleep.

I hope you all have a great night tonight. Enjoy the worm moon tomorrow!!

#ootd #happy #garden #friend #best friend #sunday #road trip

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