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#things or trying to be secretive about detecting something etc.) but are less common - especially in this form (where visuals are used. itd
lucalicatteart · 10 months
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-- Poorly Constructed Enchanted Tool --
A small tool carved from a fruit tree seed. Energy to power the enchantment has seemingly run-out long ago, and the method of recharging is unknown - but, based on the appearance, it's very likely that this was once used for detecting magic. Usually, looking through the glass center would highlight areas of higher magical energy concentration present in the viewer's environment, even if they were otherwise obscured to the naked eye. While this form of enchantment itself is highly advanced, the craftsmanship of the item is far less neat or complex than what might be typically seen in similar devices. It may have been made as part of training/practice, or as a hasty replacement for a previous tool that had broken.
#written from the perspective of some fantasy traveler who checks all of the local thrift-stores and lost & found places for every#town they visit - looking for interesting items and documenting them or something#In reality - just another one of my goofy little avocado pit carvings lol. Still working on inlaying little stones in them and stuff#I don't really have the tools to make super intricate stuff but doing little plain swirly patterns is still fine enough lol.#WORKING ON NEW POLL ADVENTURE also I know I know it's been months.. I have been Busy and struck by the evils of summer#But like I mentioned in the previous one I do want to at LEAST finish the quest with the egg lol#ANYWAY.#Things like this would plausibly exist in Nanyevimi (my fantasy world) but wouldn't be very common as - like mentioned- this would be an#extremely advanced enchantment. REALLY advanced mages could sense magic around them (to varying degrees of pinpoint accuracy of location#) without even having to use any external device. But for a majority of people there's really no way to know someone is using magic near#you unless you either see visual proof or if it's strong enough to feel effects from it (since magic is kind of like radiation in that the#higher energy/more of it youre exposed to the more it damages you/can make you sick/etc.) and even then most people would just be like#'hmm why do I feel so nauseous and bad out of nowhere?' likely wouldn't directly think to link it to magic. Thus the only really reliable w#way isto just hone your senses over like 500 years as you become an expert mage - OR use enchantments like these. But a 'sense magic' encha#ntment is not as common as a just 'magic is not allowed here' enchantment. If you wanted to prevent magic from being usedin a space#it's easier to just put up a broad barrier enchantment around that space than to have some sort of Magic Sensor to pick out if it's being#done and then handle each individual case of it . etc. etc. These sort of things can have their uses (especially for people investigating#things or trying to be secretive about detecting something etc.) but are less common - especially in this form (where visuals are used. itd#be more likely to jsut have like 'piece of metal that gets warm or cool depending on magic nearby'.) ANWAY so this is why it's a notable#object. Though a majority of the realm is not very magic literate - if you were a researcher or a mage and found this at a pawn shop you'd#definitely be like 'oohhh!! :0 inch resting... ' if not you might just be like 'oh cool necklace!' lol#also love the quick 2min ''costume'' for the image of it being used. literally just 'wrap yourself in scarves from the waist up' and slap o#a wig and ears lol#on this blog I guess since it's worldbuilding related and technically art.. maybe more like crafting? I should have a crafts tag lol.. hmm
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hd-cluefest · 3 years
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H/D Clue Fest Masterlist
Cluefest Headquarters are finally unveiling the investigators of our cases. But before we do that, we want to thank each and every one of you that contributed to making this fest such a huge success, be it as a writer, podficcer, reader, listener, or reblogger and reccer. You wrote the most amazing fics, brought fics to life with your voice, and gave our creators lots of love with kudos, comments etc.  Fair warning: This post will be very long because we couldn’t control ourselves and made reveal banners. We would say we’re sorry, but we must not tell lies.
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0430, T, 8.7k
Author: daughter_of_nemesis/@daughter-of-nemesis 
Harry disappears at exactly 04:30 in the morning. Hermione and Ron intend to figure out why. And Pansy's certain has something to do with Draco.
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A Hogwarts Detective Mystery, E, 19.3k
Author: ActorPotter/@actorpotter 
Harry returns to Hogwarts for his Eighth Year with Ron and Hermione after defending Draco Malfoy at his trial over the summer. Malfoy has returned too...but he's acting incredibly suspicious. So, naturally, Harry decides to stalk-er-follow him when he leaves the Eighth Year Common Room after hours one evening. It turns out that Malfoy has noticed something is amiss at Hogwarts, and he and Harry must work together to solve a mystery of disappearing portraits, randomly changing house colours on uniforms, and the Gryffindor Common Room suddenly appearing in the dungeons. What is happening to the castle? Will self-appointed detectives Harry and Draco discover what secrets are lying within the walls of Hogwarts...and their hearts?
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A House on Fire, E, 8.4k
Author: p1013/@p1013
For the last five years, Auror Draco Malfoy has walked into his office with hardly a glance at the illusioned window taking up the back wall. It looks out over an imagined London, a perfectly bright and brilliant view of the city that hides the smog and rain and dirt that clings to the city like a patina of time that can never be worn away. It's always a perfect summer's day with soft, white clouds that float through the painfully bright blue sky like a dream. He likes to imagine the gentle breeze that ripples the surface of the Thames brushing across his skin, since he'll never be able to actually feel it. After all, his office is located on the second floor and is, therefore, underground.
Or at least that's what he did before the seventh of October, 2009.
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A Little Bird Told Me, M, 18.6k
Author: Cibee/@cibeewastaken
Harry and his partner are called to investigate a murder that occurred at an exclusive getaway hosted by Muggle patrician Robert Morton in his own house. The surviving six people are now both witnesses and suspects. There is just one problem for Harry: Draco Malfoy is one of them.
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a meeting of minds, M, 8.2k
Author: saltwatergarden
When Harry Potter starts hearing someone else's thoughts for several minutes a day, at first he chalks it up to his own bad luck and he tries to ignore it. But the longer it goes on, the less Harry can ignore it. Whoever it is, the person whose thoughts he's hearing needs help. Harry finds himself indignant at the mistreatment of the man taking up space in his head, and feels a sense of closeness to him that he cannot explain.
How can he find out whose thoughts he's hearing? And what exactly will he do when he finds him?
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Cruel River, T, 67.7k 
Author: eleventy7/@tinyhistory
Draco inherits a castle deep in the Scottish highlands, and discovers it’s haunted by more than just ghosts.
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Dear Stranger, T, 22.7k
Author: iero0/@iero0
The one thing more pointless than falling in love with an anonymous wizard over a correspondence is falling in love with Harry Potter when you’re Draco Malfoy. 
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Draco Malfoy and the Case of the Smuggled Gossip, T, 6.9k
Author: A_Professional_Protagonist/@aprofessionalprotagonist
It's eighth year and someone is selling gossip about Harry Potter and his friends to the new trashy wizarding tabloid. Can Draco discover how the gossip is getting smuggled out of the castle? Will he and Harry grow closer in the process? Will there be kissing? (Spoilers: yes.)  
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For Now, 6.7k, T
Author: Samunderthelights/@samunderthelights
At first when Harry gets sent a mysterious notebook, he thinks it's a gift. But when he starts to write in it, he finds that someone can see what he writes, and the stranger is writing back to him.
Over time he finds himself opening up to the mysterious stranger, but how is he supposed to fully trust him if the stranger won't even tell him his name?
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He makes saints out of sinners, M, 32.8k
Author: miafancies/@miafancies
Harry grows with the turn of the tide. Draco contends with his ghosts.
This is a chronicle of inevitability.
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It might take an army, it might just be me, M, 15.5k
Author: slytherinnbitch/@slytherinnbitch
Five years after the war, Auror Potter goes out on a seemingly routine mission to check up on some pardoned criminals. He doesn’t come back. Immediate suspicions are cast on Draco Malfoy, one of the charges he was to be visiting. But unbeknownst to everyone, the two of them have been in a secret relationship for over six months, and Draco is beside himself with worry and so is Hermione and Ron. Together they try to get their best friend back. But there are surprises on their ways which none of them even expects of.
Can they get their best friend back or is he gone forever?
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Long story short, G, 4.6k
Author: time_streams/@time-streams
Someone's written about Harry's secret raspberry jam recipe. Also, they write fanfiction about him. Obviously, he using his investigative prowess to find them.
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Love's Sake, Evermore, E, 9.6k
Author: wanderingeyre
Someone is doing nice things for Draco and that someone seems to know an awful lot about his habits and favorite things. Draco can't imagine why anyone would do these things for him because he still thinks he has something to prove. Some days he thinks he’s going to spend his entire life spackling over the mistakes of his youth and the sins of his family.
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Memory Lane, T, 9.7k
Author: mortenavida/@mortenavida
Draco Malfoy has been happily living in the Muggle world for nearly a decade, far away from any Wizarding responsibilities they might try to enforce on him. He planned on leaving that world forever, save for making sure his son received a proper education, but things didn’t exactly go to plan. On his doorstep, one night, Harry Potter showed up. Except Harry Potter was supposed to be dead for the last seven years.
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Mine O'Clock, T, 1.2k
Author: PhenomenalAsterisk/@phenomenalasterisk 
Harry Potter is missing and Ron and Hermione are going spare.
How can Draco enjoy his lazy weekend with their nonsense cluttering up his front steps?
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[podfic] Potterotica, E, 20min
Podficcer: EvAEleanor/@eva-eleanore
original fic: Potterotica by Elle Gray/@diligent-thunder
The first story, and you could barely call it that, had appeared in the communal bathroom overnight. It was stuck to the mirror, one above each sink, like it was expected people might casually read it while brushing their teeth.
Except, there was nothing casual about reading explicit erotica in a communal bathroom while shoving a lubricated brush in and out of your mouth.Blaise had been the first to find it, or rather, to gleefully admit that he had. He’d burst into the common room in his pants to declare, 'There’s fucking porn in the bathroom!' Someone's writing smut and signing it with Harry's name. Hermione isn't buying it, and she has a plan to expose the true author. She also has her hand in her pants in a wardrobe.
A (ridiculous) response to AO3s (valid) new co-creator rules.
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Repairing his world, M, 34.8k
Author: AhaMarimbas/@mars-bar81
15 years after his father was arrested, Scorpius uncovers his case file at work. Desperate for answers on why his family was torn apart all those years ago, Scorpius looks into what happened. But is he ready for how the new evidence will change his life all over again?
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Reverie in Green, T, 51.7k
Author: dynazty/@dynazty
Draco just wants to get away; Harry just wants his dog back.
There's a small wooden bridge in the middle, somewhere, curved over a stream that never stops flowing. All they have to do is cross it.
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Secret Admirer, E, 12.3k
Author: Cassiopeias_shadow
Fresh out of training, Harry discovers that life as an Auror isn’t at all what he’d imagined - it’s much better actually, and there are stickers. As he settles into the team, a case lands quite literally on his doorstep... who keeps sending the Knight Bus to his house?
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Sleight of Hand, E, 15k
Author: TheStarryKnight/@the-starryknight
It’s another one of these horrid Ministry affairs, and the only interesting thing is twinkling from Draco Malfoy’s finger. Can you really blame Harry for being fascinated by the gorgeous emerald ring and those long, elegant hands, especially when he’s certain Malfoy is up to something?
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[podfic] The Lion, The Dragon, and the Broom Cupboard, E, 1h45min
Podficcer: laughingd0g/@jovialobservationanchor
original fic: The Lion, The Dragon, and the Broom Cupboard by tasteofshapes/@tasteofshapes
Draco thinks he’s hallucinating the first time when he opens the door to the office pantry and finds Potter there instead, looming out of the shadows of what appears to be a cupboard like some deformed gargoyle. Things don’t go much better after that.
Or, three broom cupboards, two times they get it on, and one love story.
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The Mysterious Case of the Missing Yoghurt, E, 24.5k
Author: manixzen/@manixzen
Newly-hired Flying Professor Harry Potter is happy to return to Hogwarts for a fresh start after several failed careers, but nothing is going as planned. His classes are a mess, he has to find a way to work with Draco Malfoy (annoying git extraordinaire) and now, in an act of villainy and depravity, someone keeps stealing his yoghurt.
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Through the Blur, E, 27.7k
Author: anachronic_mai/@danbrokethesoundbarrier
Sleep doesn't come easy to Harry. Despite taking regular doses of Dreamless Sleep for years, he hasn't managed to get rid of the nightmares. Things can't get any worse for him when Potions Master Draco Malfoy comes to him for help after mysterious attacks to his apothecary.
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[podfic] to heal a fracture (to bind a life), M, 33min
Podficcer: bluedreaming/@porcelainsalt
original fic: to heal a fracture (to bind a life) by glittering_git/ @glittering-git; meandminniemcg/@meandminniemcg
Who you gonna call? Harry has become one of the foremost Spiritual Exterminators in Britain. Draco has a spirit that needs extermination. But what seems like a simple problem ends up becoming far more complicated when the spirit is identified. The secrets that are exposed and the history that is uncovered leads both Harry and Draco into uncharted territory.
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To Live & Die in LA, E, 28.8k
Author: fwooshy/@fw00shy
Someone is blackmailing Pansy Parkinson. Pansy's father hires Harry Potter, P.I., to get to the bottom of the scam. But how is Harry's errant ex-boyfriend, Draco Malfoy, involved? And why did Draco run to Los Angeles in the first place?
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Two Hearts Divided, T, 18.6k
Author: iero0/@iero0​; Ladderofyears/@ladderofyears
Draco Malfoy, the celebrated Ghost Clearance Expert is in Germany, trying to solve the tricky little matter of a stubborn ghost called Clara von Kellern. Exasperated after trying every spell he knows, Draco sends an owl to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement in London, requesting their urgent help.
Little does Draco know that the clerk who willingly grasps his letter is Harry Potter.
Injured in action, Harry enjoys a quiet, deskbound existence and sees Draco’s letters as a bit of excitement to brighten up his dull days. Harry has no idea that investigating Clara’s life, and that of her beau (and potential murderer) Ernst Wernet will lead to the beginnings of a love affair all of his own.
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Violent Delights, E, 20.4k
Author: primaveracerezos/@primavera-cerezos 
Draco Malfoy's life should be going very well. He's engaged to a wonderful man and in line for the Head Auror job. He's been made lead investigator on a serial murder case, trying to figure out who is killing off the scum of the wizarding world, one by one. So what if he's kind of miserable? Things always get better.
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Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?, E, 15.4k
Author: alittlewicked/@undersummerstars 
As sad as it was for a family to come to this point: no one would put it past the others to be able to raise their hand and wand against a cousin, an aunt or even a son.
Merlin knows, it had been happening often enough in the House of Black.
So that left the attendees with one question.
Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?
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Harry & Draco are Walburga Black's guests at Number 12 Grimmauld Place to find the one, true heir to the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black. What had the potential to go terribly wrong, went one step further and culminated in a dead body and twelve suspects.
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this is mostly just for me because i was thinking about this while trying to work on my story and i’m still thinking about it this morning and yoo.
nott is remarkably well adjusted. she has gone through some shit. i just watched the temple escape episode yesterday and at the end fjord is joking that she and cad are gonna love swimming and water and her especially, and she just looks him in the eyes and says with great sincerity: “today was the worst day of my life.” and everyone loses it. fjord asks her, really, and she hesitates. [sam looks around. matt gets his -- what do you call it -- ‘overly intent poker face’?] as long as she can remember, yes. worst day of her life, nott concludes. water? had a lot to do with it.
(this is mega fucking long)
it’s legit hilarious, everyone is laughing. a little later, jester finds nott drinking heavily on deck and they have their conversation about first kisses. so in one day, nott: a) almost drowned and almost saw her friends drown b) had to flee for her life through the jungle, leading an enemy band away/parallel to her friends for hours in almost the exact way that led to her death, and then c) when it’s done and she can drink heavily in peace, jester wants to talk about first kisses and she tells jester 95% of the truth about hers, leaving out only the name and the fact she then married the guy.
(and i could do a WHOLE POST about how -- it’s not even subtle foreshadowing, it’s blatantly that nott’s character and story makes no sense, but everyone assumes she is the Joke Character and never pushes on the clues. jester does poke at the story, but doesn’t ask the  question -- goblins play kissing games? just like no one asks when nott says she’s been to lots of festivals before. or how she’s very particularly eloquent -- she uses a lot of formal/big words --  and clearly well educated. and a goblin. etc.)
so she has a shit day… she drinks heavily… and she’s fine, though. she doesn’t freak out. nott hates water and nott does not have to make wisdom saving throws when she touches it. part of it might be that she’s losing her memories and personality to goblinhood -- that goblins are just not by nature ponderous and self reflective and so she can shrug stuff off. 
but part of it also must be that she joined the mighty nein? she stayed in the goblin camp, at the bottom rung of their society, for over a year, until she realized she was forgetting and changing and growing a taste for raw meat and rotten food and things veth would probably be disgusted by. and then she  left and did the only thing she knew: try to find a human town and somehow blend in. she’s not a rugged outdoor survivalist, after all. and this is probably the low moment of her emotional arc, where she believes she can’t ever go home and see her family, where she can’t stay with the goblins because she’s losing herself, and where she has no money or abilities and is terrified and alone.
and promptly is arrested. (i find it fascinating! now that nott has said just how quickly it all happened. i’d always vaguely assumed -- that word again -- that nott had been a drifter for a while, just like caleb. but no! it was weeks. she wasn’t sloppy stealing that wine, she was new to stealing and desperate. and she gets caught.) but then she meets caleb, who doesn’t just treat her neutrally, as a potential partner or convenient companion -- maybe for a few weeks, but we all know man is captain of her fan club. he doesn’t just treat  her as a partner but as a dear younger sister. and then the other nein show up, and she has actual friends, something even veth struggled with, who don’t care she’s a goblin and rely on her to detect traps (oooooops) and fight alongside her and care about her, even if she doesn’t tell  them the whole truth. in particular, she has jester -- they aren’t incredibly emotionally close, they’re one another’s mutual second choices for heart to hearts, but they’re also just straight up friends. two people who just really enjoy the other’s company and silliness. and in particular she has caleb, and so things  don’t often get to her. she externalizes, really. she’s struggling with being a goblin and being on her own? nott will throw everything she has into taking care  of caleb. he clearly, she decides, needs her help. he has a stated and proven willingness to be her protector. i think he believed that was the arrangement and was fine with it: he was going to protect and take care of nott, since she is younger than him and small and like his sister. nott is the one who was like no, i am his guardian, and then it devolved into TEAM RIDE OR DIE. she has shown a repeated reckless willingness to throw herself between people and danger, and often (because he runs from battle) that isn’t even caleb she’s trying to die for. when her past comes out, she admits she never said anything because she didn’t want to add to anyone’s burdens (caleb’s specifically).
(it’s also fascinating how nott turns out to be living this entire -- this narrative where the Woman/Mother must be selfless and how her feelings are less important than The Man’s and how her role should be one of support, except she wraps it up in alcohol and weirdness, and then when it comes out the man she is specifically trying to shelter is fucking devastated and tells her everything and more she is asking him for. caleb never had to say his birth name was bren. that was him trying to show good faith and prove he was trying to share and also demonstrating a commonality with nott: i’ll never get tired of the fact that when he does talk, even though everyone is there, it’s nott he’s talking to. “your name was veth?”)
and i don’t think nott has some elaborate cover for her angst. she does seem kind of happier to have it all out there -- immediately starts making jokes about being a mom  and rescuing her fucking husband -- but i also don’t think she ever had this massive dark pool of it in her, the way caleb does. or that she was hiding her feelings, as jester is wont to. she really is okay. and now she’s a bit better than she was before, because her secrets are out and her friends have immediately rallied to her cause.
and i was planning on actually writing about more because i ACTUALLY wanted to try to think aloud about nott’s personality vs “veth’s” BUT i have to go to work  and so whoopps byeeeeee 
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tuwasduwillst · 6 years
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ch4 (pt 2)
Shuichi just logged off!
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well, that’s probably why Miu’s avatar wasn’t moving.
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i’m sorry, what
all of ‘em are in there already except for Kaito, who comes running in at the body announcement.
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hm.
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he actually would, he basically sentenced Kaede to death already and if he didn’t ~pursue the truth~ it’d be breaking his promise to her. he wouldn’t be happy about it or anything, but even if Kaito killed someone he’d tell the truth about it.
talking about stuff~ Kaito says he believes in Shuichi because he’s his sidekick and they’ll investigate together, etc.
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Kaito says it’s not a problem because Shuichi isn’t the type to lie even if they work together, but since Kokichi’s being so persistent about it, he says that they won’t work together this time then.
Shuichi thinks that this is definitely some kind of trick of Kokichi’s, but he also knows that Kaito isn’t going to be convinced to just ignore him, so that’s how things are.
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not a ton of information in the file. no external injuries.
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apparently Kokichi’s going to be hanging around Shuichi to make sure Kaito doesn’t “bother him”. i’m fine with it! Shuichi is much less enthused.
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if you spend so much time being suspicious of every little thing Kokichi does, all you’re going to do is wear yourself out, Shuichi! if he’s done something the damage is already done, so all you have to do is deal with it and figure things out.
let’s talk to people!
Tsugumi apparently saw Miu about 10 minutes before she approached Shuichi, and when she approached Shuichi was about the same time they heard that loud noise.
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haha.
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Maki was checking out the computer and found out that if someone’s avatar took fatal damage, they’d die from shock. that’s probably something that Miu should’ve told them from the start!
oh, Kokichi just brought up the fact that she didn’t tell them. now Shuichi’s wondering about that, too.
the red bear offers to help “avenge his mommy’s death” by checking to make sure the files haven’t been tampered with. they haven’t, and he also found something else:
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log-in and log-out times! Kaito logged out well before everyone else (over an hour before anyone else), but otherwise nothing seems like it’s out of the ordinary.
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oh, here it is bigger.
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Kokichi was being mean to Gonta, so Shuichi stepped in, but after that...
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯  at least you’ve got another person actively helping the investigation now, i wouldn’t really worry about why it’s happening until it becomes a problem
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and then they found Miu’s avatar. she’d apparently volunteered to check the outside of the chapel, so that’s why she was outside.
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hmm. he says he didn’t look at Miu, so he doesn’t know if she was alive or not before he left.
why wouldn’t you look at everyone else after being logged out of something like that, wouldn’t you want to see if anyone else had been logged out at the same time?? who the hell has something like that happen and just goes “gee, better go take a nap and not look at any of the other people to check if anything’s gone wrong”?
it’s possible, especially since it’s Kaito, but what the heck.
anyway, moving on... Miu’s body being the way it is makes it seem like she died a painful death and that she might’ve been struggling to breathe when she died. strangulation?
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okay, calm down, mister.
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hey, it’s poison! from Shuichi’s lab, probably, like Kokichi is saying. apparently it’s a very lethal poison when ingested directly (not mixed with anything else), and it gives the victim bloodshot eyes.
Shuichi doesn’t know who brought it in for sure, but he does know whose chair it’s in right now.
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you can say Kokichi’s name in your own mental narration, Shuichi, it’s okay. 
anyway, this might not be the crime scene, so they’ll have to go back to~
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yes! Kaito says that he’s going along too, in that case. a handful of others say they want to go back as well; Maki, Gonta, and Kokichi say they’ll stay behind.
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i wanna see your tiny little avatar again... Kokichi says he has to stay behind to keep an eye on Maki, since she and Kaito are so close.
Kaito predictably gets upset at pretty much everything Kokichi says, even though Maki tells him to just ignore him.
into the virtual world~
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yeah, but the loading point is in the middle. it���s obvious that there’s a way to the left side of the map from the right, since the wooden sign went down the river and ended up getting stuck on a rock on the left side. also, when Tsumugi and Shuichi heard Kiibo, they looked to their left--so they can hear things from that side.
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that’s just what you’re assuming, Shuichi!!
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hey, i found that earlier and Shuichi wouldn’t look at it!
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virtual crime scene! ...well, they’re all virtual crime scenes, i guess... since this is a video game...
the cell phone can log people out just by saying their name, so that’s important.
Kiibo overheard Miu and Kokichi talking about meeting on the roof before they all split up.
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...did she go sliding off the roof and into the wall of the chapel? because if so, that’s terrible, but also kind of funny.
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geez, Shuichi, what kind of a detective are you. the lattice was in here. you were standing right on it!
looking through the binoculars and Shuichi wonders why the map loading point would be in the middle. is it actually in the middle? if Miu made the maps, she can do whatever she wants with that kind of thing...
time to head back! Maki showed up and said that Monotaro is done with the computer stuff, so they should all gather back in the room. 
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why would you ever want to draw something on his stomach...
anyway, Shuichi wants to ask him about his meeting with Miu.
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there was a lock on the roof door that could only be locked and unlocked from the roof itself. Kokichi can pick locks in the real world, but idk if he’d be able to in the virtual world...
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the hammer was the only weapon-like thing left, and it must have been left intentionally. the cellphone was in the simulation originally and Miu just never told anyone about it.
Miu’s avatar was classified as a “non-human object”. is that why she was able to get from one side of the map to the other? if the sign board can and it can go into the river, maybe it’s just because it’s an object.
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oh, apparently Miu added a wall to the world. and yep, non-human objects can pass right through it, so that explains that.
also, Kokichi’s avatar had a setting that made it so that if Miu touched him, he’d be paralyzed.
and finally, there was a weird user error when they first logged in. Monotaro can’t get more specific about it than that, but something weird was definitely going on with one of their avatars.
with that last bit of information, it’s time for the trial.
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it’s starting off well, clearly.
anyway, Kokichi says that Kaito poisoned Miu after logging out before everyone else, but obviously he didn’t. Kokichi himself made sure that Shuichi knew what that poison did (wrt eyes--Miu’s aren’t bloodshot).
the cause of death was the simulator. something happened to her in there.
Maki and Shuichi both think that she was strangled.
...was she strangled with the toilet paper???? nothing can break there, so it couldn’t have broken off even if it was used for something like that.
oh, hey, that’s the next question.
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i mean, she wasn’t that bad. did i like her? not particularly, for the most part. would i say she deserved to get strangled by toilet paper? no.
...was Miu planning on killing Kokichi with the hammer? if she had it with her and Kokichi would’ve been paralyzed just by her touching him, that’s kind of shady. actually, that’s super shady, since she was the only one that knew about the hammer and the paralyzing thing AND she knew how to get rid of Kaito and put him on the roof intentionally. what the hell, Miu, Kokichi is obnoxious and said some terrible things to you, but that doesn’t mean you should kill him in VR.
and yep, it sure does look that way. the hammer gets brought up, since the toilet paper is pretty sure to be the murder weapon, and they ask why she had it.
apparently Miu was the one that asked Kokichi to meet her, so yeah, she was definitely going to try to kill him. and the poison was put in his seat so it wouldn’t be obvious what happened. Miu logged in two minutes after everyone else, so she had plenty of time to do it.
a mini debate about ~trusting friends~ happens again. once that’s done, everyone wants to hear from Kokichi, since he was supposed to meet with Miu and she ended up dead.
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makes sense!
Shuichi stops everyone from arguing about how suspicious Kokichi is so that actual facts can be focused on. he wants to figure out the mysteries surrounding Miu’s death before they move on.
like, for example, how she got to the roof. she definitely was over there--Tsugumi saw her through the window of the dining hall. she got through via her secret wall.
aaa, Kaito interrupted Shuichi’s explanation about the wall and it startled me. why, Kaito.
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...he did interrupt. i don’t think he’s just holding Shuichi back or anything, though. he is legitimately trying to help and his support helps Shuichi.
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wow! why. she’s already dead! you don’t need to do that!
him saying that does get some hints from the bears, though, so...
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again:  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
he’s helpful in his own way when he feels like it, i guess. he’s just trying to have a good time.
speaking of that, the group has figured out that the sign must have passed through the wall, but they’re not sure how it got to the other side of the map.
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and he does help Shuichi, because he says that it’s the virtual world, so normal common sense doesn’t apply.
world loops! \o/
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yaaay, i actually know exactly everything i need to in this trial so far without having any trouble at all \o/
after the intermission, they try to figure out how the culprit got Miu’s body to the chapel if she’d been killed on the roof.
(also, something random i was wondering about that i finally got to find out by paying attention and listening: Gonta and Kiibo seem to be the only two people Kokichi doesn’t refer to as “last name-chan”--he just uses their first(/only) names.)
Kokichi, giving Shuichi the roof slope and everything else as a hint... that’s making it too obvious, geez. he should be able to figure that out without any hints!
why does Shuichi remember the lattice being in the storage room now when he didn’t remember it before... what the heck.
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oh, Monokuma hates Sonic the Hedgehog. o:
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maybe?
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~exposing Kokichi’s lie~
the one about him not going to the roof at all. he said that, but then he described the roof in a good amount of detail, so it’s bothering Shuichi.
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she didn’t say anything about the roof...
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:o aggressive Shuichi, huh.
wait, does getting aggressive mean lying back at him? i suck that that, Shuichi! i don’t know what you want me to lie about! uhhh... um. he could... pretend like he went into the salon and didn’t see Kokichi in there...?
oh! it worked on my first try! \o/
obviously everyone’s going to believe Shuichi over Kokichi. bu~t, Tsugumi would’ve seen Shuichi pass by if he’d actually gone to the salon, and she never noticed him.
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he tried so hard... oh, never mind, she still believes him even though it makes no sense.
Shuichi could absolutely get away with murder at this point if that was something he actually wanted to do.
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haha. what happened to being his ~partner~?
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Kokichi figured out what Miu was planning and decided to work with Monokuma to make his own plan, is essentially what he confesses.
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that’s not much of a revenge, though--
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o:
Gonta has no idea what he’s talking about. also, no one believes Kokichi. they still think he did it.
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it’s true, there is. if Kokichi was touched by Miu he wouldn’t have been able to move, so there’s no way he could have killed her.
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wah
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chibi strangulation...
everyone still wants to say it’s Kokichi because they can’t believe Gonta is even capable of killing someone, but Shuichi thinks that something’s off. he knows how important it is to believe in people, but something just isn’t adding up for him right now.
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aw, Gonta. :( but... i mean, Shuichi’s 100% right, they can’t just believe in Gonta and not pursue this. Kaito can get as upset about it as he wants, he’s the one that befriended a detective that promised to never turn away from the truth.
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i didn’t get lost while picking the topics this time! \o/ this trial has been going pretty well for me; i don’t know if it’s because i’m more awake right now or if i’m just more used to the minigames...
anyway, everyone starts yelling because Kokichi yells at Gonta to say more than “i don’t know”, which is pretty much the only thing he’s been saying. Shuichi realizes that Gonta has been confused about things ever since they logged out.
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and Gonta lost his memory because of it somehow. possibly because he put the cords in wrong.
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wow, being a lefty really screwed him over there, didn’t it.
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haha. that’s been Shuichi’s reaction to so much of what Kokichi’s been doing... that or just going “え?”
and honestly, by process of elimination, it is obvious who committed the crime. Kokichi and Gonta were the only two that weren’t accounted for, and Kokichi physically couldn’t have killed her.
i’ve got to be honest, i don’t want Gonta to die here, but i can’t help but be impressed by the amount of work Kokichi put into this and everything he’s getting from it.
he got to work with Shuichi like he wanted, he got revenge on Miu for trying to kill him, he drove a wedge between Kaito and Shuichi solely by using the truth against them, he got to plan a murder without getting punished for it, and he got to have fun with the trial while knowing all of the twists.
Kaito still refuses to accept it, saying that Gonta was outside the mansion when Tsugumi and Shuichi came outside, so he couldn’t have done it. but that’s not true, because he could have used the toilet paper to climb down from the roof.
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he’s said it like 500 times, he’s there to face the truth. face the truth. you know, like he did when he essentially sentenced Kaede to death even though he probably really would’ve preferred to let her live somehow, because he knew how important facing the truth was to her and he basically promised to continue doing that so he (and everyone else) can get out of here.
it’s not about sides!
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that alien...
anyway, apparently Kokichi came up with the plan of using the toilet paper to exit the roof. he told Gonta to put it back in the bathroom, but since Gonta ran into Shuichi and Tsumugi, he ended up tossing it instead.
Kokichi tries to get Gonta to confess, but Shuichi stops him. he says if anyone’s getting Gonta to confess, it’s going to be him.
he’s much gentler about it than Kokichi has been, that’s for sure. what a sweetheart.
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Kokichi looks like an evil knockoff Precious Moments doll in that last panel...
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the little chibi people are cute...
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i’m guessing that Kaito is the one that voted for Kokichi there.
...the people that died in this chapter were the last two i hadn’t spent any time with... oops.
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:O
Monokuma just made that...
anyway, Kokichi saw the outside world due to the card key. he asked Monokuma to reuse the outside world in the virtual world and then showed it to Gonta, which made Gonta even more confused about what he could do to help everyone (which he’s been worried about for a while now).
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hm.
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he won’t explain more than that, though. he just honestly thought he’d be helping them.
oh hey, Gonta noticed Miu go through the wall and that’s why she ended up being slid off the roof.
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hmm.
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hmmm.
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honey, if you really didn’t want him to go, you wouldn’t have messed up during the trial.
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what the hell did i just watch
anyway, people are upset and crying now. Maki tells Kokichi to tell them the secret of the outside world, now, so they can understand.
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Kokichi doesn’t want to tell them anything.
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Kaito gets more pissed off the more Kokichi talks until he’s had enough and goes to punch him again like he did before. but...
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Kokichi noticed that Kaito seems to be slower than before, too.
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how is her hair doing that
anyway, everyone starts to ignore Kokichi in favor of helping Kaito.
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oh, wow. that’s cold, Shuichi, you have his underwear in your inventory.
(i know that doesn’t change anything in the game, but it is kind of funny...)
Kokichi doesn’t seem too bothered by Shuichi saying that. he pretty much just says he’s bored and leaves after saying he’ll be the one to win this game.
after that, everyone’s 100% focused on Kaito, who doesn’t seem to be doing well at all.
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that’s a lot of blood!
lmao “my cold just got worse” what kind of terrible lie is that even
he says he just needs something to drink and to rest in his room. Shuichi offers to help him, but Kaito doesn’t want his help.
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oooh, did he go back to using Shuichi’s last name? did that trial actually do permanent damage to their friendship? :o i figured it’d cause problems, but i wasn’t sure if Kaito would actually hold a grudge like this.
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seriously, how do you do that with your face
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oh, his name is on there! i was wondering. that’s part of the reason i figured i’d be able to realize what it was if i saw it in Japanese, because if any part of “Ouma” was on there i’d at least know it had something to do with him.
...the reason why i started wondering about it is because i was going to make a stupid joke about grandmas in one of the earlier posts, since “Oma” is the German word for “Grandma”, and then i remembered that’s actually how they spell Kokichi’s last name here. >_>
that’s it for this chapter! idk what’s up with Kokichi, but i guess i’ll find out eventually. :U  i need to go to sleep now because it’s almost noon. those trials always take longer than i think they do...
(next chapter!)
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archergabriella · 4 years
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bernardmiles94 · 4 years
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Acidophilus cultures help in preventing and treating recurrent bacterial vaginosis, you could potentially prevent this disease affecting your life back, a way that has been achieved, you can soak a tampon and leave you with your significant other?If you are suffering from this infection, the most common complications are;Bacterial vaginosis has usually been about taking antibiotics and they are given medications or have a malodorous fishy smell is extremely unacceptable by women include:In fact she admitted that she'd noticed that I hadn't caused an outbreak is because if you have recurrent Bacterial Vaginosis; however, they are rarely reported to be treated forever if you continue to have a different approach, a more healthy it will help with your significant other?Here are some of the test you must wear underwear made of cotton or clean soft cloth to rub the vagina is also important to avoid an onset of Candida Albicans, the fungal yeast.
The good bacteria besides the bad bacteria and preventing bacterial vaginosis, try this on alternate nights over 10 days.Smoking, drinking alcohol, and not just by mere avoiding those antibiotics until such time that you can administer the treatment of vaginosis.When the correct balance of the best treatment method you choose natural remedies can eliminate these toxins you are pregnant.It is not as recognized as other changes to my symptoms, and then introduce probiotics into your vagina infection.By doing these things, you will need to insert the tube of yogurt is one of the day is an overgrowth of bad bacteria rapidly multiply and become very frustrated with this disease may cause discharge, the person cannot endure the annoying, painful, and embarrassing condition?
The option most women to feel better right away.Although simple these changes are very effective method of treatment destroys.However, all is not the good bacteria that resides in the vagina.The safest procedure that is keeping the bad organisms in the reproductive organs of women, you don't have sex during this time, it seems rare is that the infection and trichomoniasis type of yogurt and leave it in tea or coffee drinker, although excessive consumption is not widely available in the vagina but at the vagina with your physician and have this problem holistically.One of the best option, as conventional treatments can be a tough infection to partners, this has had Bacterial Vaginosis
Oil of Oregano and Colloidal Silver are also major no-nos.The advantage with these home remedies, a consult with a high possibility of you dreams.The secret that makes these particular alternative treatment for bacterial vaginosis if added as a result of one type of yogurt is the long run, antibiotics will have very different ways of treating it naturally will not react anymore to any woman would prefer to use antibiotics to battle bacterial vaginosis is common in women who try to minimize the severity of symptoms.That is why eating a healthy level of the body.These antibiotic medicines can be enough to bear long-term itching as well as the yogurt.
Yogurt is encouraged because it makes you so uncomfortable to see why everyone wants a quick relief.The right bacterial vaginosis should start getting an understanding.The more times you have more build up levels of good and bad bacteria have a bacterial vaginosis and get rid of the vagina.These include, excessive vagina douching, having intercourse without using condoms.Having many sexual partners and lead to the completion of treatment immediately upon detecting the infection.
Because I've suffered so many problems like herpes simplex virus, chlamydia, HIV, pelvic inflammatory disease and thereby offer a short-term with a weaken immune system and stops complications from BV.However, this should not be a lifetime is to use probiotics effectively, is to try using condoms during sexual intercourse.Are bacterial vaginosis which is diluted.This technique will result in scarring inside the vagina that is why many women because natural cures for BV will be given in this department.Make use of antibiotics prescribed by doctors.
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Here I am going to do this, you will have to fight bacterial infections and illnesses.Not when you strictly follow in order to treat pregnant women are also used.But it will cause premature delivery or even a worse bacterial vaginosis.If your infected with bacterial vaginosis.A subsequent episode of BV which include that foul fishy odor and the Smell that accompanies the infection successfully in the vagina medically known as the signs and symptoms of bacterial vaginosis remedies can eliminate the condition in women who used antibiotic for treating recurring bacterial vaginosis may easily happen caused by fungus.
This method can get vitamin and mineral deficiencies that may cause mild burning sensations that are proven to work better for a very well lead to pelvic inflammatory disease.Fortunately, there are destroyed and the watery discharge and persistent vaginal itching, swollen vagina and making use of the good and bad.Bacterial Vaginosis is a well balanced food.They can also be accompanied a very effective bacterial vaginosis to occur.Or at least, it seems that drug medications, as recommended by experts as it will happen again.
If things don't get better with these procedures, it doesn't work for you is to modify your diet.So, what are some of the workweek or during the years and it keeps my heart strong.There are commercially prepared vaginal douches, acidification, natural bactericidal agents or even allergy, to antibiotics. You'll be able to balance the body's natural way to get rid of the things you can eat it or apply directly to the sensitive vaginal area. cause ectopic pregnancy and certain other nuts can provide symptomatic relief from vaginosis.
So, it's easy to discuss this issue with using conventional medication ever again.No woman deserves to suffer from recurring bacterial vaginosis antibiotics work may give some temporary relief.How would you know what to do with its root cause.Include nuts, salmon and tuna fish, flaxseeds, garlic, turmeric etc in your body faster.We are talking about supposedly hygienic procedures such as white bread offer additional food for bad bacteria that cause bacterial vaginosis?
The crucial element to a yeast infection.And because they only treat the problem settles is the imbalance of bad bacteria; when using antibiotics, it tends to be ordinarily anticipated when giving birth to the vaginal area, especially after sex or soon after a certain bacteria overgrow in a female and it can lead to possible problems like herpes simplex virus, chlamydia, HIV, pelvic inflammatory disease.Antibiotics work in practice and in some time during our adult lives.A bacterium in the yogurt will help to relieve you of the causes closely to find a treatment and cure from vaginosis, without any itching or burning sensation that can be extremely effective.This can cause an itching or burning and itching, don't jump to conclusions.
The usual symptoms of bacterial vaginosis, almost all people to use with the root cause.Burning or itching sensation in the form of a level teaspoon of water.Even though this kind of infection through intercourse if their partner has bacterial vaginosis.Here are some of the vaginal area; the only option available for oral consumption but it is less commonly known, can have troubling symptoms and then its starts again.Herbal products and not merely restricted to this problem.
Bacterial Vaginosis Cause Lower Abdominal Pain
Yogurt is rich in Lactobacillus it will keep you out and flush the growth of bacteria than there is no laughing matter.While minor to most women find that you will keep all the same area.If you've taken your antibiotic to kill off harmful bacteria are kept in check and equilibrium is maintained.This is because antibiotics help to maintain a natural Vaginosis treatment options.Share this nugget of information on ways to cure and keep it all seems a bit messy because of time constraints on the compounds consumed in moderate quantities only.
You can find several methods for making bacterial vaginosis are itching, burning and pain that this will help all of the symptoms of bacterial vaginosis. High chances of developing this disease.Indeed, many women who are tired of taking antibiotics for bacterial vaginosis treatments that work.Under normal circumstances, the pH levels and your significant other?Antibiotics are very likely to develop some irritation or itching sensation may also lead to serious condition.
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Some random info about blood in Nanyevimi..
Particularly on the topic of the collecting and selling of it in the realm, attempts to regulate the industry, implications of it, reasons against the practice, etc. (info under read more, even though this is an extremely short post compared to others it’s still in that weird in between length where it’d be just slightly too long if posted fully I guess lol) 
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The concept of blood in the supernatural realm has always been complicated. Many scholars and cultures theorize that it itself, has supernatural properties and something to do with the nature of magic, while others (which is a more common view) claim that though some blood can indeed have magical properties, that is more reliant on the already existing magical aspects instilled in the person themselves by their soul/magic/etc (as there’s still debate as to where precisely magic comes from and what indicators are present on a physical or tangible level). Some people believe all bloods to have differing special properties depending on the species, and some say they’re all virtually the same with little difference, especially when you look at them under scientific examination.  But despite the various beliefs and cultural systems in Nanyevimi all having their own unique relationships with and conceptualization of the idea of blood, and how it should (or shouldn’t) be used, there has always been a (rather small) market for the distribution and collection of it. 
 There are ethical concerns with the mass collection of blood, as despite there being humane ways to collect it, in an industry as unregulated and largely spread out across the world as it is, it can be hard to ensure that that was the case. 
In addition, most species have a huge list of incompatibilities and harmful effects that can occur due to the mixing or accidental consumption of blood. Which is one of the things that has lead some people to believe blood contains magical properties in the first place, as it can have such varied reactions in others. Even if, when examined in a lab two bloods have seemingly no large difference (like obviously blood will vary by species and all blood has normal variations in it, but I mean like.. it's not like you'll compare two of them and one is of such absurdly different composition that you're unsure if it's even blood, etc. Most of them seem fairly in the same range, and there are no currently recognizable properties that correlate with or account for the differences that have been noticed in blood, etc. ), they may still have wildly varying effects in certain applications, hinting at some sort of undetectable inherent properties.  Not to mention all the other various health concerns that arise from improper storage and handling, etc.   
Due to this, it is illegal in many countries in Nanyevimi to collect blood for non-medical purposes, and especially to buy and sell it (with exceptions for Navyete of course as the population (vampires/avirre'thel) literally needs it to survive, but they have their own extensive laws and hugely strict cultural ceremonies and conditions surrounding it, leading to it being highly regulated there and limited to the native population/species). Though of course people find a way to do it anyway.   
Some people collect blood as a form of unofficial research, to use it and examine it, for whatever reason an amateur at home scientist may want to examine blood (like for example, certain small groups of hobbyists who are determined to research and document and test the limits of every known species in the world, but would rather not be subject to the ethics laws of working officially so they just run a lab out of their basement and try to hunt down different people from various species and convince them to come have tests done (or kidnap them, depending on the.. particular attitude of the amateur scientist in question)).   
Others collect it more as a sport, given how many different species and subspecies there are in the world, some (this is like a ridiculous rich person thing lol...like, nobody would give a shit to do this if they weren’t some combination of bored, rich, and lacking empathy for the general population that isn’t like them) people seek to collect samples from them all, making rare or endangered species’ blood incredibly valuable (and again like.. not animals.. like.. very conscious living humanoid beings.. hence the claim that they’re detached from the humanity of others. Stalking and hunting down groups of people like animals just so you can get a blood sample is.. Freak Behavior). This is different from the science hobbyists, in that they don’t want to study them and don’t care about discovering rare evolutionary branches or secret capabilities, they legit just see it as a cool game, like collecting all trading cards in a set and then bragging about it to their other bored and rich friends.   
The most popular reason to acquire blood however, would be to consume it as a delicacy (these are like a sub-category of the 'bored rich idiots', who happen to be more gullible and are convinced it has magical properties. Like, rich fools who are willing to spend tons of money on blood samples because some other vaguely less foolish rich person manipulated and scammed them by claiming that it would give them good luck or get them high or help make them fertile or something), and probably a majority (about 65%) of the underground blood market is for this purpose. People trying to get their hands on different blood from the most obscure or important species, thinking that consuming it will help them in some way or give them bragging rights or that it will just taste different than the others*, and is similar to trying a new fancy food or sampling different wines at an upscale restaurant (but it's USUALLY still out of them thinking it will do something for them. Even a lot of the people who claim they just like sampling and want to try all different types are always, secretly hoping to themselves that they’re going to unlock secret magic from it or something lol)
 *(interestingly though, kind of similar to how some wines in our world have been proven to be this way, most people actually can not distinguish any difference between the different blood of humanoid species. It’s all the placebo effect at best, and pseudoscience peddling blood sellers actually tampering with the blood using magic to give it fake flavors at worst. The only species ever verifiably and reliably proven to be able to detect a distinction between types of blood (in humanoid creatures and animals alike) are the Avirre’thel (which is interesting since perhaps they have a rare ability to actually pickup on some of the aforementioned ‘undetectable magical properties’ or something), but like anyone else who says they can is probably just… a silly rich person tricking themselves into thinking it was wise to spend $20,000 on a rare blood sample from a dingy black market blood shop ) 
 Ironically, the Avirre’thel/vampires, the only species in existence that literally requires consumption of the blood of living beings to survive (so has the best excuse out of everyone to participate in these things), are one of the main combatants of this industry, partially due to the cultural traditions they’ve built up around similar concepts, leading them to see this treatment of blood as highly disrespectful and also grossly irresponsible (especially due to them often having to interact with various human populations be incredibly careful about it, and also being pretty much experts in things like blood sensitivities, what species are compatible/incompatible, basic cross species/cross cultural standards of respect and communication, how to interact safely with those from other areas without starting conflict, etc etc. They have some of the highest standards in the world for all things of that nature (given they have thousands of years of forced experience with it), and they see stuff like this as like absurdly inappropriate and not at all in accordance to how things like this Should be handled). They see it as not only insulting to them (given the significance of blood in their culture), but more importantly, reckless and dangerous to everyone else as well, given how serious of matters are being tampered with and the potential harmful effects that a lack of knowledge and regulation can bring. A deep respect for blood and a cautious reverence for the lives around them is so deeply ingrained in their culture that, despite being probably one of the biggest groups that could stand to gain from an entirely unregulated blood market, they're actually some of the most strongly opposed to it.  
The industry has especially flourished in (or basically has entirely relocated to, as it’s one of the only places where it’s actually legal) Mippya (another reason the Avirre’thel are often involved, given it’s so close to them and… the.. cursed Fanyin elves on their bullshit again), as it is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the supernatural realm (and the least regulated which makes it particularly popular for.. certain types of people).  Blood selling is one of the most prominent forms of “tiri gyeddania” ( meaning ’hidden tourism’ or ‘unseen tourism’, aka any broadly illegal activities/items/etc. that tourists regularly show up to do/purchase,  since Fanyin/Mippya have virtually zero ‘human rights’ or any sort of system that would regulate anything involving other people) that they are known for. Most efforts on an international level to regulate the industry, and warnings from groups like the main council of Navyete and etc., have gone pretty ignored in Fanyin and Mippya, to the delight of weird basement scientists and gullible rich supernatural folk that like to drink overpriced likely fake** blood in underground caves to feel elite and cool about themselves.
  (**often it’s just bird blood labeled as elf blood since nobody can tell the difference. While some buyers are adamant about actually having proof or seeing a living source (which is often, worse and more expensive since, generally implies kidnapping and keeping people captive as living proof of where the blood came from),  a majority of people still are just like… taking a shady vendor’s word for it lol)
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Marco is a Trans Girl - The Megapost 2.0
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So you’ve likely seen my big post on the theory that Marco Diaz from Star vs The Forces of Evil is a Trans Girl. It was made back in July of 2016 when Season 2 was just starting, and since then a lot of things have changed and we now know a lot more about what’s going on behind the scenes.
This post is meant to be an updated explanation of Trans Girl Marco theory, but now more in line with how things are actually happening. The gist of it being that Marco Diaz is coded as a closeted transgender girl.  Expect less theorizing and more meta talk. I’ll be going over all the clues that indicate Marco is trans, as well as how the starcrew came to the desicion as Marco developed as a character.
I can’t give enough thanks to the members of the crew such as @arythusa and @hug-bees​, whom have both done as much as they possibly can to communicate with the show’s growing LGBT fanbase, and given us so much insight into what’s going on
Full post below the cut.
Part 1: How it Happened.
“In my experience, almost no character goes into episode 1 totally finished. With such a long writing process, people end up changing and "discovering" more about the characters as they go on.” -Sabrina Cotungo [x]
A lot of aspects in Star Vs developed and matured along Seasons 1 and 2. Alfonso and Ferguson were written out and Janna joined the main cast, Ponyhead, Tom, and Glossaryk were given bigger roles, etc. So it’s pretty clear that Marco wasn’t originally penned as a Trans Girl. For the greater half of Season 1, they were simply a boy that ocassional feminine tendancies, with very few episodes indicating that there was anything else going on.
So what happened?
Well, individual writers and storyboarders have a bit of creative freedom when it comes to cartoon episodes. While they don’t have the ability to set much in stone, they can weave their own interpritations of characters into the outline that they’re given, inserting in small details that can enrich a character.
So while Marco was ‘officially’ a feminine boy, some writers interprited their feminity and general insecurities as indicative of something deeper.
One such example is in Mewberty:
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While Star’s under an affliction that causes her to break out in hearts around boys, the writers have Marco not realize that they’re also a ‘boy’ for the first quarter of the episode, and when Marco’s hit over the head with something that would seem to be fairly evident for them, there’s a very noticable pause indicating that it’s something they are (or have just become) self-concious about.
And just to hammer the point home, there’s even a part in the episode where Marco’s outright mistaken to be a girl:
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And Marco could have just been left at that.
The episode where I believe things changed though, is St. Olga’s School For Wayward Princesses
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Marco disguises themself as a Princess to break help Star break into a boarding school, and the whole thing is completely natural. Marco doesn’t really try at all to be something they’re not - they’re just Marco.
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Most media would have somebody suspect that there was something ‘off’ about Marco or constantly bring up how they’re the “odd one out” amongst all the other girls. Instead, Marco’s allowed to simply just be a girl for an episode without any objections from the narrative. Their gender is never made fun of, questioned, second-guessed, or even really brought up at all, even by the villain.
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Not to mention the message of the episode - It’s Not Criminal To Be An Individual
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It’s all about how there’s no wrong way to be a princess, but since royalty is a very narrow market in the United States, let’s just assume that the actual message is about how there’s no wrong way to be a girl.
And it’s likely no coincidence that Marco’s not only viewed as being no different from any of the other princess but also the keystone of the entire movement.
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There’s no wrong way to be a girl, and Marco’s included in that. 
I don’t know for sure whether the writer behind this episode, Piero Piluso, conciously wrote Marco with them being transgender in mind, but they wrote Princess Marco as a girl through and through.
And that’s likely when the lightbulbs started going off in the crew.
Season 2 brought in a slew of new writers and cast members, including people who’ve had previous expierience writing LGBT characters such as Giancarlo Volpe, Evon Freeman, Le Tang, Amelia Lorenz, Zach Marcus, Brett Varon, Gina Gress, and the aforementioned Sabrina Cotungo (whom had even tried to get a transgender character into Gravity Falls)
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The new batch of writers now all had the existence of Princess Marco influencing their interpritations of Marco, which made it a lot easier for many of them to come to the conclusion that there was something deeper going on, and that this kid was trans.
Thus resulting in a MASSIVE explosion of hints occuring throughout Season 2.
Part 2: Scattered Evidence 
“So if and/or when you detect LGBT-friendly themes on this show, it’s most likely there because the creators fought hard to put it there. They did the best they could to get any form of representation over, under or around those censors. They put it there to make a positive change in media.” -Amelia Lorenz [x]
Seaon 2 was where things really staarted to pck up.
Marco’s very first appearance is this:
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Alright, they could be a feminine guy, Doesn’t exactly prove anything
They then spend the rest of the episode trapped in a closet that they want to get out of.
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Which just so happens to be a Closet of Secrets.
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Star even proposes at one point that it might be easier for Marco to just spend the rest of their life in the closet.
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And, to top it all off, the writers specifically have Marco spend their entire time in said closet wearing a goddamn skirt.
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In Mr. Candle Cares we get Marco outright saying they’d ‘Love to be Queen’. 
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Red Belt opens up with a dream sequence where Marco’s more shocked to find themselves buried in a suit than dead:
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And upon seeing themselves in a suit (which they don’t want!), they’re reminded that they’re unsure of themselves and their future.
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And how, to Marco, there’s something holding them down. Something that they’re missing. Something that sets them apart from the rest of the cast (!!!!!!!!).
And this dyphoria Marco’s expieriencing was set off by a suit covered in mewberty hearts.
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Calling back to the ‘Boy Hands’ moment above:
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Marco fears that they’ll spend their life closeted, that they won’t be able to progress in life because they spent it hiding away, unable to escape being a ‘boy’ just like what happened in Mewberty.
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And the dream wasn’t just a one-off thing for Marco:
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It’s a regular, recurring nightmare they’ve had to the point where they told Star about it. They’ve been unsettled over the long term, but the show hasn’t shown it, they just let us know in this moment. 
Then we get Fetch, where in the last few minutes the writers do an animal-based dysphoria metaphor that puts Cartoon Network to shame.
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It is pretty clear that the writers know what they’re doing because that’s legitimately one of the better explanations of what having dysphoria is like that I’ve seen on television: Rather than the dog talking about how they were “born in the wrong body”, they want to be a dog that is just like any other in order to calm their troubled emotions.
The book Star and Marco’s Guide to Mastering Every Dimension hammers down on the trans metaphor even further:
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Willoughby is a dog. But in her dimension, dogs aren’t like dogs on Earth. They have very complicated feelings. So she stole my wand to make herself not have those complicated feelings anymore.
This passage can easily be translated to: “Some [women] aren’t like [other women]. They have very complicated feelings. So they [transition] to make themselves not have those complicated feelings anymore.” which is such a simple way of explaining what being trans is like to kids that it wouldn’t feel out of place on Sesame Street.
Not even a minute after the first exchange, we get this:
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Which not only hammers in the idea that this is all about gender ever further, since they include a gender reveal that has no other real impact on the story, but if the dog’s in any way symbolic of Marco, then the scene pretty much speaks for itself.
And then in Gift of the Card, Heinous makes her return and the name “Princess Marco” is actually used in the show itself.
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And after a season with a bunch of bits and pieces of foreshadowing scattered throughout:
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It’s revealed in Nayasya that Marco does in fact have dysphoria, they’re so ashamed of their body that they can’t even look themselves in the mirror:
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Marco Diaz covers the mirror when he shows because Marco is ashamed of his own body!
In addition, mirrors and showers are such common motifs in trans narratives that Sense8 had their trans character describe her dysphoria in nearly the same exact way. 
“At that age I was really uncomfortable with my body and didn’t like to be naked, especially in front of other boys. But you had to take a shower before you went in the pool, so I would do it but I kept my swimsuit on.”
And the only point where Marco can apparently somewhat stand to look themselves in the mirror?
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When they’re dressed like that. Indicating that this isn’t just some Teenaged Body Insecurity but rather dysphoria.
Star and Marco's Guide to Mastering Every Dimension, a canonical side book that fleshes out the lore of the show, also manages to expand on Marco’s thoughts on their stay at St. Olga’s:
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I almost died at St. O’s. Twice. The first time was at the hands of some robot guards, and the second time I almost died emotionally in the Solitary Conform-ment Chamber. I did learn that I’d make a great princess. I really wouldn’t say that pink is my color... but I wouldn’t mind wearing a poofy dress every now and then. It’s kinda liberating.
Notice their word choice. Not only do they outright say “I learned I’d make a great princess”, not only indicating that they did infact themselves as a girl in St. Olga’s to a degree rather than simply seeing the whole thing as ‘just a disguise’, but they also call wearing a ‘poofy dress’ to be liberating. 
There is a HUGE difference between “a guy enjoys wearing dresses and would like to wear them more often’ and ‘somebody who’s fantasized about being a girl finds a dress they didn’t even chose to wear to be personally liberating’. It’s not simply a matter of Marco wearing a dress, but rather that their attitudes towards it (and everything else) are something that a lot of Trans Women have found relatable.
Part 3: ‘Heinous’
“I can tell you that Daron is open to the idea of LGBT characters but beyond that the situation gets complicated. Also, as a board artist, I don’t have a lot of say in terms of larger story or character arcs, so I’m afraid I can’t comment on future plans.” - Sabrina Cotugno [x]
At this point there’s a number of members in the crew that all view Marco as a trans girl, and are writing her that way, but nobody has the power to make it explicit.
Then comes ‘Heinous’.
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This episode pushed this concept to its absolute limit, where the writers for the episode did literally everything they could to get across the message that Marco’s trans and brought the theory to being as canon as they can possibly get at the time. (To the point where people on Reddit who either didn’t follow or dismissed the theory were struggling to figure out what the point of the episode was)
The basics:
Marco is consistently gendered with ‘she’ pronouns throughout the episode and the writers don’t have anybody ever question it
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When in her Princess getup, Marco explictly refers to herself as a girl and seems to have a blast despite being blackmailed, to the point where they voluntairly keep on the dress for family game night.
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The dialogue from Marco’s parents have loads of double meanings, where they’re talking about finding out about Marco’s interdimensional activities, but deliberately involk the image of somebody who just got outed as being gay or transgender to their parents.
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And, most of all, Princess Marco wasn’t just a distant memory that didn’t matter. The episode revealed that Marco secretly kept up the ‘Princess Marco’ persona this whole time, getting royalty checks from merchandise inspired by her.
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And to make things even more meta, Marco has apparently ‘influencing the next generation of princesses’ to be true to themselves.
The whole theme of the episode is Marco getting across a hidden message meant to inspire people despite being restricted in what they can say. So Marco says what they’re obliged to say, but phrases it in a way that makes the true message clear to the intended audience. This is essentially how the crew has been handling the theory in of itself.
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Part 4 (for now): Conclusions
I’ll continue to update the post with relevant information as we move onto Season 3, so this part of the post will most likely change
The image that is being drawn is that the crew really really really wants to include trans representation within their work, and not only views but are actively writing a character as being transgender, but they can not come out and just say it due to legal reasons.
The crew’s response to the idea of Marco being transgender, as well as the prospects of LGBT representation within the show itself, has been nothing but positive. They’ve been consistently defending it to the point where one of the directors for Season 4 put out an argument as for why Marco being transgender girl is more important than them being a boy.
It’s not certain whether or not Marco will be able to come out and transition to being a girl during the series. The crew has many times expressed frustration about how much of a fight they have to put up to even get hints at LGBT representation past the censors. In the meantime, or in case they ultimately don’t succeed, the staff are deliberately giving trans people something to relate to in Princess Marco, and are doing everything they can to make sure we at least have that.
“I wish I could give a more reassuring or more substantial answer, but little by little people in the industry are trying to change things. The victories seem a bit small for now, but please know that you’re not forgotten.”  -Ariel V.H. [x] 
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First of all i'm gonna say that i really enjoy your blog and reading everything you have to say about the game i check this blog almost daily even! So i wanted to ask your opinion about something if that's okay? People say that the characters in this game feel less close than in other games so i wanted to ask how you feel about that? Ty!
Thank you anon! I’m really gladif I’ve been able to write stuff that’s enjoyable! And of course it’s okay—I reallyenjoy answering people’s questions here, so don’t hesitate to ask away!
Hmm… I wonder if you mean “lessclose” as in people feel less close to the cast themselves or as in thecharacters feel less close to each other than characters in previous DR games?The answer can probably change a bit depending on which one you mean.
If it’s the former, it’sprobably just a matter of personal preference! I personally wound up getting alot more attached to the ndrv3 cast than any other DR cast prior to this,mostly because I personally feel they’re a lot more fleshed out and developedin a lot of ways.
I think for each person the experienceis probably going to be different; most people have their particular favoriteDR game already and the DR cast that’s the most important to them. With ndrv3,it probably just depends on whether the characters themselves will personallyappeal to the individual playing it—and I’m sure that being able to actuallyplay the localization and seeing each character’s FTEs and bonus mode scenesfully translated will probably help a lot of people feel closer to thecharacters.
After all, the more informationthere is, the easier it is to get a fuller picture of things. If people feel alittle more removed from the ndrv3 cast currently I’d say lack of fullytranslated information is probably the biggest reason for that. But I know alot of FTEs have been translated already! Comun, Jess, and I, as well as awhole bunch of other people in the fandom, have been handling FTE translationsfor most of the characters so far (I still have Tenko’s and Miu’s to go), andNina (hajimikimo) provided full translations for all the love hotel scenes!
I feel like if people read someof those, they’ll warm up to the cast a lot quicker. Ndrv3 has a reallymemorable cast of characters, in my opinion, as well as a pretty wild plot fromstart to finish. After seeing what all the characters go through and how somany of them (especially the survivors) develop along the way, I think mostpeople won’t be able to help feeling at least a little bit attached by then.
However, if you meant “lessclose” as in the latter, with the characters feeling less close as a group thanin other games… well, there’s a reason for that, actually. This will betouching on spoilers from this point on, but basically, ndrv3 is the first gamein the main franchise where the characters didn’t used to all know each otherbeforehand. At least, not as far as we know, but even if their prologue selvesdid know each other, it’s pretty much a moot point because they’re all “differentpeople” now.
Unlike dr1 or sdr2, there’s nopast history between the ndrv3 characters. They didn’t used to be classmateswith one another, they didn’t have their memories about each other inparticular wiped. Unlike the past two games, there aren’t really any indicationsto believe that their ages might be older than what they assume in-game; thendrv3 cast are probably the closest to being actual high schoolers in a killinggame than any other DR cast before this.
Not only that, but ndrv3 playsa lot with the expectations we as players have from previous DR games. Thecharacters try to cooperate, work together, and ultimately spout a lot ofreally blindly optimistic platitudes about how “there’s no way the killing gamewill continue,” “they’ll definitely get out if they all work together,” etc.And this blind optimism gets subverted and called out heavily by the narrative(usually with Ouma as a mouthpiece).
There’s no reason for any ofthem to openly trust one another when they’ve known each other for such a shortamount of time. The only reason Saihara latches on to characters like Kaede andMomota as much as he does and in such a short amount of time as he does islikely due to his anxiety and insecurities making him a highly dependentperson. As someone who was supposed to be “weaker than anyone,” Saihara doestend to latch on and trust people pretty quickly, even when his job as adetective requires him to doubt andsuspect people all around him. It’s an interesting juxtaposition.
As for the rest of the groupthough, even the characters who claim to trust everyone implicitly are usuallylying about it. Kaede, despite how much she wanted to trust everyone and worktogether with them, ultimately relied on a plan where she worked alone andtrusted no one. Amami, who wanted to open up to the others, couldn’t even trustanything about himself in the end, and also worked alone. And Momota, who spokemore than anyone about relying on people and supporting one another, couldn’tbring himself to tell anyone in the group that he was dying, or evencommunicate with Saihara properly after the two of them had their falling outin Chapter 4.
The ndrv3 cast is supposed tofeel considerably less close as a group because ndrv3 in general deals so muchwith doubt, suspicion, and paranoia. The killing game breeds these things andmakes it impossible to really, fully trust others, no matter how much you mightwant to.
Ouma often emphatically remindsthe other characters of this, and despite how much the initial urge is to arguewith him because it sounds like he’s being antagonistic for no reason—he’sright, actually. It’s not realistic or doable to just believe in everyoneblindly; even someone who might call themselves your friend could very well behiding secrets from you. As long as the group continued to buy into such optimisticplatitudes, the killing game would keep continuing, and this gets very specificallyaddressed in Chapter 6.
Kiibo, without his inner voicefor the first time, acknowledges the fact that no matter how much they mightall talk about being friends and cooperating and how “no one’s going to dieagain,” there’s every reason to believe the killing game is actually going tokeep continuing. And he’s willing to literally demolish the entire school if itmeans ending the killing game for good, even if it requires ending everyoneelse’s lives.
This sort of hardline approachis a common theme of ndrv3. Doubting and suspecting others is necessary, notonly for Saihara, but for the whole group—just as trusting others, to somedegree, is also necessary. There’s a definite middle ground between the two, ablending of “truth” and “lies,” and an acknowledgment of the fact that neitherof those things is the “correct” answer necessarily.
Basically, the ndrv3 cast feela lot less close with one another because there’s no pre-written backstorybetween them all (again, as far as we know), and also because… well, they’reall lying to each other on some level. Where dr1 and sdr2 have the underlyingsort of optimistic theme of “we all used to be friends, we’re all friends now,we’ll stop this killing game and overcome it by cooperating together,” thatsort of approach doesn’t work in ndrv3—it’s subverted completely. The idea ofblind trust and cooperation is itself the problem, and that’s exactly why it’snecessary for the characters to doubt everything in the end, even their ownmemories, backstories, talents, etc.
Anyway, this was a really funquestion to write about! Thank you so much for asking, anon, and I hope I couldclear things up for you!
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Lead Volume vs. Lead Quality By RuthBurrReedy
Posted by RuthBurrReedy
Ruth Burr Reedy is an SEO and online marketing consultant and speaker and the Vice President of Strategy at UpBuild, a technical marketing agency specializing in SEO, web analytics, and conversion rate optimization. This is the first post in a recurring monthly series and we're excited! 
When you’re onboarding a new SEO client who works with a lead generation model, what do you do?
Among the many discovery questions you ask as you try to better understand your client’s business, you probably ask them, “What makes a lead a good lead?” That is, what are the qualities that make a potential customer more likely to convert to sale?
A business that’s given some thought to their ideal customer might send over some audience personas; they might talk about their target audience in more general terms. A product or service offering might be a better fit for companies of a certain size or budget, or be at a price point that requires someone at a senior level (such as a Director, VP, or C-level employee) to sign off, and your client will likely pass that information on to you if they know it. However, it’s not uncommon for these sorts of onboarding conversations to end with the client assuring you: “Just get us the leads. We’ll make the sales.”
Since SEO agencies often don’t have access to our clients’ CRM systems, we’re often using conversion to lead as a core KPI when measuring the success of our campaigns. We know enough to know that it’s not enough to drive traffic to a site; that traffic has to convert to become valuable. Armed with our clients’ assurances that what they really need is more leads, we dive into understanding the types of problems that our client’s product is designed to solve, the types of people who might have those problems, and the types of resources they might search for as they tend to solve those problems. Pretty soon, we’ve fixed the technical problems on our client’s site, helped them create and promote robust resources around their customers’ problems, and are watching the traffic and conversions pour in. Feels pretty good, right?
Unfortunately, this is often the point in a B2B engagement where the wheels start to come off the bus. Looking at the client’s analytics, everything seems great — traffic is up, conversions are also up, the site is rocking and rolling. Talk to the client, though, and you’ll often find that they’re not happy.
“Leads are up, but sales aren’t,” they might say, or “yes, we’re getting more leads, but they’re the wrong leads.” You might even hear that the sales team hates getting leads from SEO, because they don’t convert to sale, or if they do, only for small-dollar deals.
What happened?
At this point, nobody could blame you for becoming frustrated with your client. After all, they specifically said that all they cared about was getting more leads — so why aren’t they happy? Especially when you’re making the phone ring off the hook?
A key to client retention at this stage is to understand things from your client’s perspective — and particularly, from their sales team’s perspective. The important thing to remember is that when your client told you they wanted to focus on lead volume, they weren’t lying to you; it’s just that their needs have changed since having that conversation.
Chances are, your new B2B client didn’t seek out your services because everything was going great for them. When a lead gen company seeks out a new marketing partner, it’s typically because they don’t have enough leads in their pipeline. “Hungry for leads” isn’t a situation any sales team wants to be in: every minute they spend sitting around, waiting for leads to come in is a minute they’re not spending meeting their sales and revenue targets. It’s really stressful, and could even mean their jobs are at stake. So, when they brought you on, is it any wonder their first order of business was “just get us the leads?” Any lead is better than no lead at all.
Now, however, you’ve got a nice little flywheel running, bringing new leads to the sales team’s inbox all the livelong day, and the team has a whole new problem: talking to leads that they perceive as a waste of their time. 
A different kind of lead
Lead-gen SEO is often a top-of-funnel play. Up to the point when the client brought you on, the leads coming in were likely mostly from branded and direct traffic — they’re people who already know something about the business, and are closer to being ready to buy. They’re already toward the middle of the sales funnel before they even talk to a salesperson.
SEO, especially for a business with any kind of established brand, is often about driving awareness and discovery. The people who already know about the business know how to get in touch when they’re ready to buy; SEO is designed to get the business in front of people who may not already know that this solution to their problems exists, and hopefully sell it to them.
A fledgling SEO campaign should generate more leads, but it also often means a lower percentage of good leads. It’s common to see conversion rates, both from session to lead and from lead to sale, go down during awareness-building marketing. The bet you’re making here is that you’re driving enough qualified traffic that even as conversion rates go down, your total number of conversions (again, both to lead and to sale) is still going up, as is your total revenue.
So, now you’ve brought in the lead volume that was your initial mandate, but the leads are at a different point in their customer journey, and some of them may not be in a position to buy at all. This can lead to the perception that the sales team is wasting all of their time talking to people who will never buy. Since it takes longer to close a sale than it does to disqualify a lead, the increase in less-qualified leads will become apparent long before a corresponding uptick in sales — and since these leads are earlier in their customer journey, they may take longer to convert to sale than the sales team is used to.
At this stage, you might ask for reports from the client’s CRM, or direct access, so you can better understand what their sales team is seeing. To complicate matters further, though, attribution in most CRMs is kind of terrible. It’s often very rigid; the CRM’s definitions of channels may not match those of Google Analytics, leading to discrepancies in channel numbers; it may not have been set up correctly in the first place; it’s opaque, often relying on “secret sauce” to attribute sales per channel; and it still tends to encourage salespeople to focus on the first or last touch. So, if SEO is driving a lot of traffic that later converts to lead as Direct, the client may not even be aware that SEO is driving those leads.
None of this matters, of course, if the client fires you before you have a chance to show the revenue that SEO is really driving. You need to show that you can drive lead quality from the get-go, so that by the time the client realizes that lead volume alone isn’t what they want, you’re prepared to have that conversation.
Resist the temptation to qualify at the keyword level
When a client is first distressed about lead quality, It’s tempting to do a second round of keyword research and targeting to try to dial in their ideal decision-maker; in fact, they may specifically ask you to do so. Unfortunately, there’s not a great way to do that at the query level. Sure, enterprise-level leads might be searching “enterprise blue widget software,” but it’s difficult to target that term without also targeting “blue widget software,” and there’s no guarantee that your target customers are going to add the “enterprise” qualifier. Instead, use your ideal users’ behaviors on the site to determine which topics, messages, and calls to action resonate with them best — then update site content to better appeal to that target user
Change the onboarding conversation
We’ve already talked about asking clients, “what makes a lead a good lead?” I would argue, though, that a better question is “how do you qualify leads?” 
Sit down with as many members of the sales team as you can (since you’re doing this at the beginning of the engagement — before you’re crushing it driving leads, they should have a bit more time to talk to you) and ask how they decide which leads to focus on. If you can, ask to listen in on a sales call or watch over their shoulder as they go through their new leads. 
At first, they may talk about how lead qualification depends on a complicated combination of factors. Often, though, the sales team is really making decisions about who’s worth their time based on just one or two factors (usually budget or title, although it might also be something like company size). Try to nail them down on their most important one.
Implement a lead scoring model
There are a bunch of different ways to do this in Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager (Alex from UpBuild has a writeup of our method, here). Essentially, when a prospect submits a lead conversion form, you’ll want to:
Look for the value of your “most important” lead qualification factor in the form,
And then fire an Event “scoring” the conversion in Google Analytics as e.g. Hot, Warm, or Cold.
This might look like detecting the value put into an “Annual Revenue” field or drop-down and assigning a score accordingly; or using RegEx to detect when the “Title” field contains Director, Vice President, or CMO and scoring higher. I like to use the same Event Category for all conversions from the same form, so they can all roll up into one Goal in Google Analytics, then using the Action or Label field to track the scoring data. For example, I might have an Event Category of “Lead Form Submit” for all lead form submission Events, then break out the Actions into “Hot Lead — $5000+,” “Warm Lead — $1000–$5000,” etc.
Note: Don’t use this methodology to pass individual lead information back into Google Analytics. Even something like Job Title could be construed as Personally Identifiable Information, a big no-no where Google Analytics is concerned. We’re not trying to track individual leads’ behaviors, here; we’re trying to group conversions into ranges.
How to use scored leads
Drive the conversation around sales lifecycle. The bigger the company and the higher the budget, the more time and touches it will take before they’re ready to even talk to you. This means that with a new campaign, you’ll typically see Cold leads coming in first, then Hot and Warm trickling in overtime. Capturing this data allows you to set an agreed-upon time in the future when you and the client can discuss whether this is working, instead of cutting off campaigns/strategies before they have a chance to perform (it will also allow you to correctly set Campaign time-out in GA to reflect the full customer journey).
Allocate spend. How do your sales team’s favorite leads tend to get to the site? Does a well-timed PPC or display ad after their initial visit drive them back to make a purchase? Understanding the channels your best leads use to find and return to the site will help your client spend smarter.
Create better-targeted content. Many businesses with successful blogs will have a post or two that drives a great deal of traffic, but almost no qualified leads. Understanding where your traffic goals don’t align with your conversion goals will keep you from wasting time creating content that ranks, but won’t make money.
Build better links. The best links don’t just drive “link equity,” whatever that even means anymore — they drive referral traffic. What kinds of websites drive lots of high-scoring leads, and where else can you get those high-quality referrals?
Optimize for on-page conversion. How do your best-scoring leads use the site? Where are the points in the customer journey where they drop off, and how can you best remove friction and add nurturing? Looking at how your Cold leads use the site will also be valuable — where are the points on-site where you can give them information to let them know they’re not a fit before they convert?
The earlier in the engagement you start collecting this information, the better equipped you’ll be to have the conversation about lead quality when it rears its ugly head.
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Lead Volume vs. Lead Quality By RuthBurrReedy
Posted by RuthBurrReedy
Ruth Burr Reedy is an SEO and online marketing consultant and speaker and the Vice President of Strategy at UpBuild, a technical marketing agency specializing in SEO, web analytics, and conversion rate optimization. This is the first post in a recurring monthly series and we're excited! 
When you’re onboarding a new SEO client who works with a lead generation model, what do you do?
Among the many discovery questions you ask as you try to better understand your client’s business, you probably ask them, “What makes a lead a good lead?” That is, what are the qualities that make a potential customer more likely to convert to sale?
A business that’s given some thought to their ideal customer might send over some audience personas; they might talk about their target audience in more general terms. A product or service offering might be a better fit for companies of a certain size or budget, or be at a price point that requires someone at a senior level (such as a Director, VP, or C-level employee) to sign off, and your client will likely pass that information on to you if they know it. However, it’s not uncommon for these sorts of onboarding conversations to end with the client assuring you: “Just get us the leads. We’ll make the sales.”
Since SEO agencies often don’t have access to our clients’ CRM systems, we’re often using conversion to lead as a core KPI when measuring the success of our campaigns. We know enough to know that it’s not enough to drive traffic to a site; that traffic has to convert to become valuable. Armed with our clients’ assurances that what they really need is more leads, we dive into understanding the types of problems that our client’s product is designed to solve, the types of people who might have those problems, and the types of resources they might search for as they tend to solve those problems. Pretty soon, we’ve fixed the technical problems on our client’s site, helped them create and promote robust resources around their customers’ problems, and are watching the traffic and conversions pour in. Feels pretty good, right?
Unfortunately, this is often the point in a B2B engagement where the wheels start to come off the bus. Looking at the client’s analytics, everything seems great — traffic is up, conversions are also up, the site is rocking and rolling. Talk to the client, though, and you’ll often find that they’re not happy.
“Leads are up, but sales aren’t,” they might say, or “yes, we’re getting more leads, but they’re the wrong leads.” You might even hear that the sales team hates getting leads from SEO, because they don’t convert to sale, or if they do, only for small-dollar deals.
What happened?
At this point, nobody could blame you for becoming frustrated with your client. After all, they specifically said that all they cared about was getting more leads — so why aren’t they happy? Especially when you’re making the phone ring off the hook?
A key to client retention at this stage is to understand things from your client’s perspective — and particularly, from their sales team’s perspective. The important thing to remember is that when your client told you they wanted to focus on lead volume, they weren’t lying to you; it’s just that their needs have changed since having that conversation.
Chances are, your new B2B client didn’t seek out your services because everything was going great for them. When a lead gen company seeks out a new marketing partner, it’s typically because they don’t have enough leads in their pipeline. “Hungry for leads” isn’t a situation any sales team wants to be in: every minute they spend sitting around, waiting for leads to come in is a minute they’re not spending meeting their sales and revenue targets. It’s really stressful, and could even mean their jobs are at stake. So, when they brought you on, is it any wonder their first order of business was “just get us the leads?” Any lead is better than no lead at all.
Now, however, you’ve got a nice little flywheel running, bringing new leads to the sales team’s inbox all the livelong day, and the team has a whole new problem: talking to leads that they perceive as a waste of their time. 
A different kind of lead
Lead-gen SEO is often a top-of-funnel play. Up to the point when the client brought you on, the leads coming in were likely mostly from branded and direct traffic — they’re people who already know something about the business, and are closer to being ready to buy. They’re already toward the middle of the sales funnel before they even talk to a salesperson.
SEO, especially for a business with any kind of established brand, is often about driving awareness and discovery. The people who already know about the business know how to get in touch when they’re ready to buy; SEO is designed to get the business in front of people who may not already know that this solution to their problems exists, and hopefully sell it to them.
A fledgling SEO campaign should generate more leads, but it also often means a lower percentage of good leads. It’s common to see conversion rates, both from session to lead and from lead to sale, go down during awareness-building marketing. The bet you’re making here is that you’re driving enough qualified traffic that even as conversion rates go down, your total number of conversions (again, both to lead and to sale) is still going up, as is your total revenue.
So, now you’ve brought in the lead volume that was your initial mandate, but the leads are at a different point in their customer journey, and some of them may not be in a position to buy at all. This can lead to the perception that the sales team is wasting all of their time talking to people who will never buy. Since it takes longer to close a sale than it does to disqualify a lead, the increase in less-qualified leads will become apparent long before a corresponding uptick in sales — and since these leads are earlier in their customer journey, they may take longer to convert to sale than the sales team is used to.
At this stage, you might ask for reports from the client’s CRM, or direct access, so you can better understand what their sales team is seeing. To complicate matters further, though, attribution in most CRMs is kind of terrible. It’s often very rigid; the CRM’s definitions of channels may not match those of Google Analytics, leading to discrepancies in channel numbers; it may not have been set up correctly in the first place; it’s opaque, often relying on “secret sauce” to attribute sales per channel; and it still tends to encourage salespeople to focus on the first or last touch. So, if SEO is driving a lot of traffic that later converts to lead as Direct, the client may not even be aware that SEO is driving those leads.
None of this matters, of course, if the client fires you before you have a chance to show the revenue that SEO is really driving. You need to show that you can drive lead quality from the get-go, so that by the time the client realizes that lead volume alone isn’t what they want, you’re prepared to have that conversation.
Resist the temptation to qualify at the keyword level
When a client is first distressed about lead quality, It’s tempting to do a second round of keyword research and targeting to try to dial in their ideal decision-maker; in fact, they may specifically ask you to do so. Unfortunately, there’s not a great way to do that at the query level. Sure, enterprise-level leads might be searching “enterprise blue widget software,” but it’s difficult to target that term without also targeting “blue widget software,” and there’s no guarantee that your target customers are going to add the “enterprise” qualifier. Instead, use your ideal users’ behaviors on the site to determine which topics, messages, and calls to action resonate with them best — then update site content to better appeal to that target user
Change the onboarding conversation
We’ve already talked about asking clients, “what makes a lead a good lead?” I would argue, though, that a better question is “how do you qualify leads?” 
Sit down with as many members of the sales team as you can (since you’re doing this at the beginning of the engagement — before you’re crushing it driving leads, they should have a bit more time to talk to you) and ask how they decide which leads to focus on. If you can, ask to listen in on a sales call or watch over their shoulder as they go through their new leads. 
At first, they may talk about how lead qualification depends on a complicated combination of factors. Often, though, the sales team is really making decisions about who’s worth their time based on just one or two factors (usually budget or title, although it might also be something like company size). Try to nail them down on their most important one.
Implement a lead scoring model
There are a bunch of different ways to do this in Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager (Alex from UpBuild has a writeup of our method, here). Essentially, when a prospect submits a lead conversion form, you’ll want to:
Look for the value of your “most important” lead qualification factor in the form,
And then fire an Event “scoring” the conversion in Google Analytics as e.g. Hot, Warm, or Cold.
This might look like detecting the value put into an “Annual Revenue” field or drop-down and assigning a score accordingly; or using RegEx to detect when the “Title” field contains Director, Vice President, or CMO and scoring higher. I like to use the same Event Category for all conversions from the same form, so they can all roll up into one Goal in Google Analytics, then using the Action or Label field to track the scoring data. For example, I might have an Event Category of “Lead Form Submit” for all lead form submission Events, then break out the Actions into “Hot Lead — $5000+,” “Warm Lead — $1000–$5000,” etc.
Note: Don’t use this methodology to pass individual lead information back into Google Analytics. Even something like Job Title could be construed as Personally Identifiable Information, a big no-no where Google Analytics is concerned. We’re not trying to track individual leads’ behaviors, here; we’re trying to group conversions into ranges.
How to use scored leads
Drive the conversation around sales lifecycle. The bigger the company and the higher the budget, the more time and touches it will take before they’re ready to even talk to you. This means that with a new campaign, you’ll typically see Cold leads coming in first, then Hot and Warm trickling in overtime. Capturing this data allows you to set an agreed-upon time in the future when you and the client can discuss whether this is working, instead of cutting off campaigns/strategies before they have a chance to perform (it will also allow you to correctly set Campaign time-out in GA to reflect the full customer journey).
Allocate spend. How do your sales team’s favorite leads tend to get to the site? Does a well-timed PPC or display ad after their initial visit drive them back to make a purchase? Understanding the channels your best leads use to find and return to the site will help your client spend smarter.
Create better-targeted content. Many businesses with successful blogs will have a post or two that drives a great deal of traffic, but almost no qualified leads. Understanding where your traffic goals don’t align with your conversion goals will keep you from wasting time creating content that ranks, but won’t make money.
Build better links. The best links don’t just drive “link equity,” whatever that even means anymore — they drive referral traffic. What kinds of websites drive lots of high-scoring leads, and where else can you get those high-quality referrals?
Optimize for on-page conversion. How do your best-scoring leads use the site? Where are the points in the customer journey where they drop off, and how can you best remove friction and add nurturing? Looking at how your Cold leads use the site will also be valuable — where are the points on-site where you can give them information to let them know they’re not a fit before they convert?
The earlier in the engagement you start collecting this information, the better equipped you’ll be to have the conversation about lead quality when it rears its ugly head.
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