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Jimmy & Janis

Jimmy: I'm not at work Jimmy: if you were gonna come in and be #goals Janis: weren't Janis: but tah for heads-up Jimmy: 👍 Janis: do you know 'bout my fave barista or should I roll the dice Jimmy: he's covering for me Janis: oh good Janis: 💕 Jimmy: can't say I never do owt for you, mate Janis: don't cash the IOU yet Jimmy: why? Jimmy: I get it, you look as rough as I feel but Pete ain't that shallow 💕 Janis: fuck off Janis: I'm great Jimmy: bollocks Janis: am too Janis: been for my run and everything Janis: I can handle mine, like Jimmy: fake it for the 'gram, my dear, I don't need to hear it, like Janis: later then skiver Jimmy: piss off Jimmy: I've got two kids hanging round my neck, what are you doing? Janis: no concern of yours Janis: check the socials if you're so interested Jimmy: you'll be grooming your horse or counting your cash, no need Jimmy: and now making yourself look #🔥 for the CG Janis: wow, you know me so well Janis: #flex when it counts Jimmy: [does like a cringey tweet for her or something] Jimmy: there Janis: 👏 Janis: sound cover it for today Jimmy: 👌 Janis: if you see a purse can you chuck it back to me Jimmy: after I've taken all the cash out, yeah Janis: 👑 don't carry cash Janis: it's got my gym card in it though so, if you do find it Jimmy: guess I'm working out today too then 💪🏆 tah Janis: welcome Jimmy: [a moment cos he's looking for it genuinely] Jimmy: where do you want me to bring it? Janis: oh good Janis: you at work tomorrow Jimmy: Can't pull a sickie every day, can I? Jimmy: not cancer riddled yet Janis: cheery Janis: don't bother getting out your sickbed Janis: just give it to grace Jimmy: how's that gonna look? Jimmy: you're already not babysitting with me right now 💔 Janis: 🙄 Janis: fine I'll come get it tomorrow then Jimmy: or meet me at the park by mine, get it, pose a bit and pretend you're with me today Janis: not really in the mood Janis: hungover or nah Jimmy: fake it Janis: that's precisely what I'm not in the mood for Janis: I ain't at home, just say I'm there Jimmy: hang on, I'll just photoshop you in Jimmy: won't be suss Janis: we don't need to be together 24/7 Janis: only that lot are that highkey Jimmy: you wanted highkey, mate Jimmy: and I just put my hand down the back of a fucking minging sofa for you, top that Janis: nah, that was definitely you Janis: 💕 Jimmy: leave it out Jimmy: on it with your lies this morning, you Jimmy: just what I look for in a lass that 😍😍 Janis: bitch what lie, where Janis: highkey for highkey was 100% your line Jimmy: you said some shit about appealing to our audience first Jimmy: and that you didn't wanna scale it back so there's your lie, Jenna Janis: whatever Janis: I'm busy right now Janis: maybe I'll come by later Jimmy: I won't be walking the dog later, I'll be walking her in a bit Jimmy: gonna knock and run instead though Jimmy: 🙄 Janis: fuck sake Janis: be there then Janis: not hanging about Jimmy: and I am? the shit you've gotta do ain't more important than mine, girl Janis: how'd you know Janis: not a competition anyway Jimmy: that'd be a first Janis: ha ha Janis: stop mucking about Janis: can you be there in 20? Jimmy: can you? Janis: obviously Jimmy: 👍 Janis: try and look like you're not dying Jimmy: late nights are #goals Jimmy: keep up Janis: if you leave out all actual details Janis: sure Jimmy: weren't gonna tweet 'em all out Janis: have you checked what you did put out Janis: always got to take back the bootycalls and texts to your ex before the PM Jimmy: I deleted my ex's number ages ago, we're all set Jimmy: only got the 1 Janis: 👍 Jimmy: in a bit then Janis: toodles my love Jimmy: 🤢 Janis: it's alright Janis: not gonna tell your manager on you when I'm there Jimmy: You'd have to run into him first Jimmy: even for an athlete like you, that's a challenge too far Janis: #officebants Janis: save it for Pete Jimmy: giving you a freebie to woo him with Jimmy: welcome Janis: if you knew how, you would've already Jimmy: might've done, how would you know? Jimmy: gotta keep it off the socials for your sake Janis: 😂 Janis: you think you'd be better at faking it by now Jimmy: oh you've got complaints, eh? Jimmy: go on Janis: don't you have an official procedure to follow Janis: another question to ask Jimmy: not on the clock, babe Janis: 'course Janis: so sick Janis: poor boy Jimmy: 🎻🎻🎻 Jimmy: I'll live Janis: wow, way to ruin my day Janis: 💔 Jimmy: too soon to start posting vent statuses probably Jimmy: poor little rich girl Janis: I'll deal with getting consoled on the low, like Jimmy: 👍 Janis: you gotta bring the kids or Jimmy: or what, lock 'em in? Janis: I dunno, your sister ain't that young is she Jimmy: she's not coming Janis: okay Janis: well I won't keep you Jimmy: I'm on the dog's 💩 schedule not yours Janis: yeah but you know what I mean Jimmy: you're busy, you don't need to kill your horse to flog it, Jasmine Jimmy: point made Janis: if you like Jimmy: how? Janis: how? Jimmy: how are my likes owt to do with it? Janis: well that ain't what I meant so it must suit you at the very least Jimmy: what did you mean? Janis: that I ain't gonna hang 'round and cause drama Janis: I remember waking him up last night, like Jimmy: he's got swings and a slide and climbing frame, on top of a puppy to chase, he's not gonna give a shit about me or you Jimmy: my sister's the one being dramatic and as I said, she ain't coming Janis: well either way Janis: I shouldn't have come back, like so Jimmy: you didn't stay, it don't matter Janis: I know that ain't how it works Janis: got enough inconsiderate older brothers and sisters, like Jimmy: how it works is I was back later than I said Jimmy: nowt to do with you Janis: literally untrue Jimmy: you were there, don't mean you get it Jimmy: no need to unlock my family dynamics Janis: ain't trying or planning to Janis: I kept you out late and I'm trying to say soz so take it Jimmy: like you forced me, piss off Janis: didn't mean to get you in trouble with your boss, like Jimmy: you didn't Janis: sounds like it Jimmy: where you getting that from? Janis: she's giving you the 🥶 out Jimmy: she's giving me the 🖕 Jimmy: used to that Janis: 🎻 Janis: alright then, I'm here early Janis: gonna do some laps, text when you're here or something Jimmy: [appears not long after like oh hey but not texting cos can't be tamed] Janis: [when you're shook again but hide it like boy, putting your hand out like purse please] Jimmy: [chucks it at her obvs which makes Twix a little bit wild] Janis: [meet cute with the dog lmao, also saying hello to Bobby 'cos you aren't that rude] Jimmy: [when Bobby ain't saying hello back cos shy egg but Twix is friendly enough for everyone] Janis: [not gonna take it personal, like, even if this is so awks now, takes a few snaps of Twix and turns to him like yay or nay?] Jimmy: [takes some pics of her and Twix in response cos nothing fake about that love or cuteness and it's a good delaying tactic before you have to pose with the bae yourself] Janis: [takes him his messy self and is 😏 but can't be properly smug 'cos feeling it too] Janis: in* Jimmy: [he's literally 😎 but grumpier lol then he has to let Bobby take some pics cos the boy wanna do whatever he does like bear with bae] Janis: [when that's shamelessly cute so you just chill on a bench nearby, giving love to Twix when she comes 'round Jimmy: [when you go sit on a swing so your brother will but you gotta beckon her over to sit on it with you for the pics and it's gonna be so awks bye] Janis: [when you just have to commit to it 'cos overcompensate always] Jimmy: [taking so many pics and vids for the different angles honey] Janis: [when you're still looking #goals oh lads, as if you're not dying at having to be sat on him rn] Jimmy: [when he's likewise dying at her being on his lap though #don'tletherseedon'tletherknow] Janis: [you do not need this many pictures, hop off] Jimmy: [when you then spend 3x as long as it takes to go through 'em deleting etc cos the awks] Janis: send me any decent ones Jimmy: [does] Janis: tah Jimmy: 💕 Janis: have fun Jimmy: without you, never, baby 😘 Janis: [does lil lol as she's slowly walking away like okay then, but Twix keeps following so it's taking a while] Janis: come get your dog Jimmy: take it with you Janis: don't be mean Janis: it's adorable Jimmy: have it then Janis: the kid don't hate me yet, don't throw me under the bus as a 🐶napper Jimmy: he ain't noticed, on you go Janis: he will do Janis: you just want me to walk it, yeah Jimmy: Keep it Jimmy: what could be more #goals? Janis: we need to buy one together and have a custody battle Jimmy: alright Jimmy: let's go adopt a new 🐶 Janis: what breed Jimmy: what's #trending? Jimmy: leave this one tied to the roundabout, hang on Janis: not with your brother Janis: get rspca and social on you Jimmy: I'll send him home Jimmy: note pinned to his coat, like Janis: actually 💔 Jimmy: don't cry, you'll get a headache Janis: so comforting Janis: #baeoftheyear Jimmy: 🥇 or nowt darling Janis: I've had my vitamin c already Janis: but we can pretend you hit me with a smoothie of 💕 Janis: ew Jimmy: do you genuinely have a vomit kink or what? Jimmy: getting me close, girl 🤢🤢🤢 Jimmy: trying to put me off my 🍕 before I've ordered it Jimmy: Mia would be proud Janis: hot Janis: 😬 I didn't think that sentence through leave me alone Janis: I'm not on top form rn Jimmy: 😂 Jimmy: knew you were wrecked too Janis: not as much as you, boy Jimmy: I drank more than you, lightweight Janis: yeah, 'cos you stole it Janis: wanker Jimmy: you stole my jacket, I didn't wanna freeze to death Janis: I did not Janis: you wouldn't take it back Jimmy: don't sound like me, that Janis: I remember being gutted it WAS you, trust me Jimmy: 💔💔💔 Janis: I know Janis: heartless, me Jimmy: You wanna fill that hole with pizza or keep flirting with me? Janis: 'scuse me Jimmy: it's an easy question Jimmy: how many braincells did you 💀💀💀 last night, pisshead? Janis: sounded sordid Janis: I was just wondering if #kinkunlocked Jimmy: Are you hungry or not? You know I'm a feeder Janis: Yeah, I could eat Jimmy: so come on back to the house of fun Janis: sure Jimmy: [rounding up dogs and kids like but Bobby's in a mood cos he wanna stay so Jimmy's like FINE I'll get it delivered to the park ffs so then he gotta text Cass to get her to come over lol] Janis: [moves closer to 'em again, sits on said roundabout Jimmy: [sits with her obvs when you lowkey lying there cos you feel crap] Janis: [popping out some painkillers like here boy] Jimmy: [when you dry swallow cos you ain't got a drink & then stick your tongue out to show her they gone cos you a nerd] Janis: [pat his head like he's a dog] Jimmy: [letting it happen] Janis: [pushing back his fringe 'cos sweaty forehead] Jimmy: [thank god he's got his shades on so he can look at her & she doesn't need to know that he isn't a grumpy boy in that moment] Janis: [when Bobby wants to be pushed so she's like is it okay if I do it 'cos Jimmy is in no fit state lol and Bobby is like okay 'cos just wants to be pushed and she ain't up in his face] Jimmy: [you know he's gonna be snapping sneaky pics of them cos cute. Also I like to imagine Twix annoying him as he's tryna chill lol] Janis: [just loling to herself 'cos also cute] Janis: probably go sleep on something that doesn't spin 'round and 'round, babe Jimmy: I'm not going to sleep, I'm 💀💀💀ing tah very much Jimmy: show some respect all of you Janis: 😂 Janis: I'll save the kind words and tears for when you gone Janis: gotta fake it 'til the end Jimmy: 😍😍😍 Jimmy: what do you wanna eat? pizza faves weren't on our couples questionnaire Janis: anything hot, anything with meat on Janis: I'm easy tbh Jimmy: 😏 Janis: Oh, shut up Jimmy: or what? Janis: or I'll come give you a push Jimmy: so fierce you 🐅 Janis: better hope you never find out, boy Janis: 👊 Jimmy: 😱😱😱 Jimmy: [a wild Cass appears and ignores everyone but Twix cos mad about last night still] Jimmy: you've got competition now, mate Janis: nah, you're on your own Janis: 🤷 soz Jimmy: 💔💔 Janis: got enough sisters of my own to deal with without taking on yours Janis: you'll need to fake marry a bitch for that level of service Jimmy: swap you Gracie, she likes me Jimmy: [goes to talk to Cass and she shouts at him as is their standard, really helping that headache] Janis: happily Janis: beats crying Jimmy: 👍 Janis: [Keeping Bobby busy running 'round the park like a crazy person] Jimmy: [if this weren't awks before thanks Cass just don't smack him his fake gf don't need to see that before she's even met you] Janis: she'll cheer up when pizza gets here Janis: all been hangry Jimmy: subtle hint that, Judith Janis: I'm being lovely, fuck off Jimmy: not to me Janis: you really gonna push a child off the swing to have a go Janis: not #goals mate, not #goals at all Jimmy: you really gonna let my sister think my girlfriend don't like me Jimmy: #savage Janis: Yeah, what she needs right now is some PDA Janis: love me for that, like Jimmy: you leapt to that, mate Jimmy: lads and lasses can talk you know Janis: You know I don't talk Janis: we been over this Janis: #specialsnowflakesyouandme Jimmy: we've been over this, you have to fake it Jimmy: I get that you really wanna kiss me but everything else Janis: 😒 Janis: you really want another woman in your face rn, fine Janis: [comes over like hey] Jimmy: [drags her far enough away that they can 🚬 without being around kids or dogs] Janis: [grateful for the break but also more awks 'cos just them again] Jimmy: [smoking in awkward silence such fun lads] Janis: [taps his head, not roughly, like, how're you doing now?] Jimmy: [shrugs because v helpful always] Janis: ['good talk' like ain't that what we're meant to be doing lmao] Jimmy: ['you don't wanna' like here's your out for a sec, take it] Janis: [goes to shake head but turns it into a shrug] Jimmy: [on his phone like an antisocial bitch] Janis: [when you're bouncing your legs up and down 'cos can't sit still at the best of times, just keeping an eye out for the pizza hardcore] Jimmy: [meanwhile you just straight up sit on the floor cos you realise you don't need to be standing rn] Janis: [Twix gonna jump you boy] Jimmy: [when you're like come here cos you don't want the dog in your grill so the bae MUST sit on you instead, that's just logical and nbd] Janis: [when you look at him like really?] Jimmy: [ just lifting your shades so you can look at her like come on] Janis: [does and gives him a look like 'I hate you so much' but when it's also a LOOK] Jimmy: [is 😏 but when she's sitting with her he's just touching her in the SOFTEST ways like playing with her hair & so lightly tracing her skin with a fingertip that you might think it's a bug or something lol cos tired af since he barely slept and is the softest boy] Janis: [when there's no faking that you ain't about it 'cos you have never felt anything on this level of soft so you don't know how you're meant to be so you're like help] Jimmy: [when you're then just leaning on her so its lowkey snuggling] Janis: [when you literally say 'what the fuck' but quietly and with feeling] Jimmy: [when you don't say anything cos what can you tbh] Janis: [gotta have that pizza show up to cockblock] Jimmy: [just casually gonna go eat pizza with the fam like that didn't happen okay boy] Janis: [when you're just there like do I stay or do I go] Jimmy: [when you literally handhold her over to the fam like eat your pizza but obvs its so fake bye] Janis: [palm a couple of slices and yeet babe like g2g bye] Jimmy: [Twix is 💔 we're all 💔] Janis: [give her some sneaky pizza kids] Jimmy: [nomming the crusts like a Roo] Janis: [getting tooty] Jimmy: [well that was awkward, thanks so much Jimothy] Janis: [later like early PM] Janis: I need a favour Jimmy: ? Janis: doesn't matter if I can't come over/you can't come out but just meet me for obligatory selfies to prove we're together Jimmy: where? Janis: doesn't matter, can be a #datenight or #cosynightinwithbae but gimme fake plans to get me out of real & unwanted ones Jimmy: alright Jimmy: come here then Janis: you home now? Jimmy: I'm not gonna send you somewhere I ain't, am I? Janis: alright smartarse Janis: was being courteous Janis: be there in fucking forever 'cos gotta get the bus in Jimmy: I just got out the shower if you need details, like Jimmy: you want me to meet you somewhere else? Janis: I did not need to know but I'll get the 😍 on then, tah Janis: nah, it's fine, got to get out this house anyway, wherever I'm going Jimmy: 👌 Jimmy: Tell Mia I missed her today before you go if she's there #obvs Janis: how did you know Janis: but get to fuck Janis: she's being avoided #obvs Jimmy: 💔💔 Jimmy: How did I recognise an #obvs SOS or the #obvs cause when I heard it? Janis: yeah well it's all your fault so you should be more ready to help Janis: #letdown tbh Jimmy: what have I done? Janis: they wouldn't be strongarming me into a sleepover if you weren't a thing Janis: but you can be my excuse too so do me a solid and make it good Jimmy: 🎻🎻🎻 Jimmy: you're v loved babe and you were before I took the job on Janis: oh yeah, so loved Janis: no doubt end up getting waterboarded for info Janis: #justgirlythings Jimmy: 😂 Janis: it is not funny 😡 Jimmy: a bit Janis: 😑 Janis: swap places with me then Janis: sure they'd welcome that just as much Jimmy: if I wanted an orgy with 'em it'd have happened before now Janis: 🤢 Janis: literally shut up Jimmy: you should've got me to pick you up Janis: in what Janis: your sportscar Jimmy: 🖕 Janis: I've got the 🐎 don't I Jimmy: might've turned it to glue Jimmy: party animal you are Janis: is that what you're thinking then Janis: party? Jimmy: what are you wearing? Janis: 😏 the creep makes a return Janis: wys I should be wearing Janis: bus ain't even here yet so Jimmy: Look down, girl, are you night in ready or night out ready? Janis: I dunno, obviously I've not rolled out club-ready like a nutter Jimmy: stop pissing about and send me a picture 🙄 Janis: ffs alright! Jimmy: ⏲ Janis: [snap] Jimmy: fuck it, let's go out Janis: yeah? Janis: okay Jimmy: a knobhead from work is having people round, I weren't gonna bother but Ian's just got in Jimmy: don't wanna double with him and his missus Janis: definitely not Janis: nothing goals in that Janis: works for me Janis: not such a knobhead he'll have a dresscode, yeah? Jimmy: hot girls get to ignore dresscodes, how don't you know that? Janis: I would've probably put jeans on still Janis: what happens when you're forced from your own home without warning Jimmy: he wears shorts all year round, don't worry, like Janis: not got the legs for it Janis: I understand Jimmy: I'll dress the same as you mate, make it a #mood Jimmy: we're just one of them couples Janis: ha, if I use the # twinning not in reference to her, gracie will deffo cry Janis: worth it just for that Jimmy: there you go then Janis: 💕 Jimmy: I'm going shop so we ain't empty handed, what do you want? Janis: can't be THAT couple Janis: you want me to tell you I'm easy again 'cos Janis: not fussed Jimmy: my mum would cry, didn't drag me up like that 🙄 Jimmy: 😏😏😏 Janis: such a 💔breaker you Janis: but really, just get more of whatever you want and that'll be fine, I'll get you back when I get there Jimmy: yeah yeah Jimmy: no need to flex rich girl Jimmy: you're a cheap date Jimmy: didn't even stay for icecream or owt earlier Janis: so I'm cheap and easy Janis: yeah, keep digging, like 😏 Jimmy: 😍😍😍🤤🤤🤤 Jimmy: have you not got a jacket or were you just #posing 'cause you're a massive flirt? Janis: why would I need a jacket when you're handing yours away like a philanthropic chippendale Janis: how dare you imply I was implying anything, also Jimmy: I can't even read them words Jimmy: too northern for that shit tah Jimmy: I'll just grab you one #OMG #soannoying Jimmy: how dare you flirt with me so openly, anyone'd reckon that's what snapchat was invented for or something Janis: Chippendales are SO northern, shut up Janis: I've done my research, I take this seriously, tah Janis: you know, too much nip for Insta, could post it on twitter if you're feeling too special rn Jimmy: I didn't get that far the word before it was well big and tripped me over Jimmy: as for my research the 🐶 ate it, soz Janis: Cute but disappointing Janis: if I was to give you a yelp review Jimmy: she is Jimmy: get used to that Janis: omg Janis: so mean Jimmy: 🐶💔 Janis: We're gonna make a club Janis: get jackets that ain't yours Jimmy: you're so fake Jimmy: couldn't do one fast enough from her before Janis: oh yeah, that's deffo what that was Jimmy: ain't stopped crying 'bout it, the poor pup Jimmy: 🎻🎻 Janis: again, your fault Janis: and you ain't even sorry Janis: poor, poor pup Jimmy: I only take the blame for shit I ain't done for my real girlfriends Janis: plural now Jimmy: past and future, duh Janis: duh indeed Janis: hopeful Janis: it's cute Jimmy: say what you really think, Janet Janis: always do Jimmy: [sends her pic of his outfit] Jimmy: Go on then Janis: I mean Janis: not as good as me but you'll do Jimmy: 💕 Janis: 🍻🤞 Jimmy: don't let me get as wrecked Jimmy: If I have to call in sick tomorrow an' all, you'll have to pay me Janis: So I'm babysitter Janis: alright Janis: easy Jimmy: I've done it all day, swapsies Janis: not me Jimmy: could've if you'd been here Janis: you reckon Janis: last I remember you was about half 💀💀💀 Jimmy: you're calling yourself high maintenance now? Jimmy: easy a bit ago Janis: just saying Janis: you needed looking after more than me Jimmy: leave it out Janis: why Jimmy: why not be a massive dickhead? Jimmy: up to you that Janis: you wanna play nice? Janis: n'awh Jimmy: you're the one asking me for a favour Jimmy: so you do Janis: nah Janis: I asked for a photo, that's all Jimmy: stop being a twat Janis: charming Jimmy: you just said you don't want that Janis: you're very, very annoying Jimmy: 💔💔💔 Janis: but I'm on the bus Jimmy: congrats, mate Jimmy: I know it's beneath you 👑 Janis: piss off Janis: I spend half my life on this fucking bus Jimmy: shouldn't have done your 🐎 in Janis: s'what happens when I'm done w you Jimmy: 🎻🎻🎻 Janis: got my headphones but thank you Janis: efforts are always appreciated, boy Jimmy: 😘 don't mention it, babe Jimmy: anything for you obvs Janis: too kind Jimmy: 💕 Jimmy: let me know when you're about then Janis: yeah 'course Janis: it's about half an hour so Jimmy: 👍 Janis: damn Janis: how haven't I asked Janis: is my fave barista gonna be there or what Jimmy: ??? Jimmy: man of mystery him Janis: how irritating yet attractive of him Jimmy: I keep telling you, slide into his DMs, girl Jimmy: sort it out Janis: not right now Janis: biding my time Jimmy: probably got a gig anyway 🤩🤩 Janis: exactly Jimmy: if I had anywhere else better to be Janis: what you gonna do eh Jimmy: 🎻💔 Janis: gutted Jimmy: give us a chance to get in the door before you leave your review Jimmy: bit rude shouting it from a bus window Janis: that's me Janis: got money but no manners Jimmy: #kinkunlocked Janis: 😏 what mine or yours Janis: #transparent Jimmy: weren't speaking for you Jimmy: we ain't that couple Janis: 😶😶 Janis: that couple Jimmy: 😂 Janis: Jimmy Jimmy: What? Janis: how much of last night do you remember Janis: 'cos my memory is a bit fucked Jimmy: after I lifted that bottle, I dunno, why? Jimmy: Does it matter? Janis: probably not, no Janis: just Janis: idk Jimmy: Just? Janis: It ain't my usual thing Janis: losing massive chunks of time like that Jimmy: doing shots ain't my usual thing, is it yours? Janis: no Jimmy: none tonight then Janis: not for you, anyway Janis: I don't need to work 💰💸🍀 Jimmy: you ain't doing 'em without me, you dickhead Janis: 😂 Janis: fine Janis: be doubly entertaining then Jimmy: 1. full time job holding all that hair back tah and I'm on the clock enough Jimmy: 2. piss off I'm the CG's top employee so goes without saying life and soul of this party Janis: 1. I could put it up, IF I was going to vom but that's so unlikely it's almost an impossibility so Janis: 2. I don't work there so your shop bants will have no effect on me and I'm the one you're trying to please here Jimmy: 1. your kink is so blatant shut up oh my god Jimmy: 2. you'll be pleased by all the drinks I just bought #easy Janis: 1. 😑 Janis: 2. 😑 Janis: do you wanna get me drunk or nah, make up your mind, lad Jimmy: Baby, don't be expressionless, it's 💔 Janis: [pulls stupid face to send him] Janis: ❤🔫 Jimmy: my heart has grown back! and loads of sizes 😍 Janis: #humblebrag Jimmy: send that tweet Janis: ❤ or 🍆 lads, you decide Janis: I'll start a poll Jimmy: 👍 Jimmy: Why did you fuck off last night, is that in the black hole or what? Janis: I can't remember exactly Janis: just weird fragments that don't quite fit together like I've got it secondhand or something Jimmy: go on Janis: it don't make any sense Janis: but like you said, doubt it matters Jimmy: probably not Janis: I am p sure it weren't 'cos we woke any of your fam up or something so Janis: so don't need to worry Jimmy: that was before and only our kid Jimmy: he always wakes up when I come back Jimmy: if he was even asleep Janis: yeah, I remember that too Janis: did you get him to sleep in the end Jimmy: 🤔🤔 Janis: what? Jimmy: did I get water? If he let me do that I must've Janis: Yeah Janis: 'cos you scared the shit out of me Jimmy: Did I? 😂 Janis: I thought that was earlier but no, yeah Janis: definitely on the sofa Janis: softer than the park Jimmy: You scared me earlier Jimmy: that's why Janis: did I? Jimmy: I was walking and you showed up like 👻🔪🔪 Janis: how mean Janis: sounds legit, I believe you Jimmy: well creepy that was Jimmy: tah Janis: you're the creeper Jimmy: leave that right out Janis: didn't say I hated it Jimmy: didn't say you liked it Janis: what's it to you Jimmy: nowt Janis: 😏 Janis: there we go then Jimmy: what kind of picture do you need? Janis: just one to prove we're somewhere doing something Janis: I was purposely vague about our plans in case you were already out or something Jimmy: 👌 Janis: no way I was sleeping in a room with Mia in Janis: actually end up 👻 Jimmy: you can stay at mine if you want, she'll probably use your pillow for black magic Jimmy: or spooning Jimmy: bit rude of us not to lend her a sharpie so she could draw your face on Jimmy: turn the bus around like Janis: 😂 Janis: don't, it's too real and it makes me feel uncomfortable Janis: defs looking for hair and fingernails as we speak Jimmy: How haven't I drawn you and sold it to her for 💰💰💰💰 Jimmy: going soft me Janis: always on the clock, babe Janis: it'll kill your creativity/soul Janis: 💁 Jimmy: I bet you real cash she'd eat it 🐍 Jimmy: what are the calories of paper and pencil? Janis: anything over negative is too high, but she'd get the pleasure of puking me up that way so Janis: it's a must Jimmy: can't compete with such romance, fuck me 💕 Janis: well she gets to fuck everyone so only fair Jimmy: not me Jimmy: or you Janis: ❄❄ Jimmy: your sister 100% Janis: 🤢 Janis: disgusting Jimmy: trying to get you to vom 'cause you're so into it and I'm that kind of boyfriend 🤞 Janis: 😍😍😍 Janis: easier ways, I'm sure Janis: but know you're an 🎨 Jimmy: alright, challenge accepted Jimmy: 💘 Janis: no shots, remember Jimmy: nowts a shot unless it's in a shot glass Janis: yeah, that's how that works Janis: 😏 Jimmy: means I have everything to play with and more space to mix it Janis: oh god Jimmy: bigger measures for you to down too Janis: I'm babysitting you, remember Jimmy: You just might die trying though, Juliet Janis: behave Jimmy: or what? Janis: find out Jimmy: alright Janis: alright Jimmy: is your bus anywhere near yet, it's fucking miserable out here Janis: you don't wanna wait inside Jimmy: weren't given the nod for that one Jimmy: Ian threw his weight about and me out Jimmy: earnt himself some 😍😍😍 Janis: Gross Janis: wtf Jimmy: 🎻 and 🤢 Janis: well, we ain't that far Janis: you should get a head start on the drinks if you ain't Jimmy: 👍 Janis: is he gonna let you back in later Janis: you could come back to mine but you would have to pretend to have crazy hot sex with me if the coven is still lurking so Jimmy: 😂 Jimmy: Cass'll post a key through Janis: 👍 Janis: gotta stick together vs the 'rents Jimmy: we can't be as late back though Janis: yeah Janis: whenever's fine Jimmy: you're easy, I get it Janis: shut up 😏 Janis: the favour is the alibi, anything else is just extra Jimmy: most of my wage is tips, I'm gonna keep you out all night now Jimmy: habit Janis: so above and beyond, babe 💕 Jimmy: 💰🐮💕 Jimmy: can you remember what we drew? should go check out the finished masterpiece #🎨 Jimmy: got a mental image of you sucking on the end of my sharpie there but otherwise nowt much Janis: Filth Janis: 😂 Janis: when we find out it's as intelligible as smeared shit on the walls, like but seemed like a masterpiece at the time Jimmy: when you reckon its 🥇 but it ain't even 🥉 Jimmy: #tragic Janis: hopefully we didn't sign it 😱 Jimmy: shit I probably did do! Jimmy: cut my hand off instead of my ear so I can't be that dickhead Jimmy: still post it to you though 💌 Janis: this country ain't quite THAT religious Janis: but romantic Janis: I'll keep it in a jar Jimmy: I won't tell you I'm ambidextrous and it's another scam, that'll take the shine right off the gesture Jimmy: and that's witchcraft in the north if it ain't here Jimmy: gotta take the secret to my grave naturally Janis: you are SUCH a show-off Janis: but I'm left-handed so we can get burnt together Jimmy: don't be a HATER when I'm trusting you with my secrets Jimmy: obvs you are #evil twin Jimmy: so romantic though #datenight 🔥💕 Janis: it's just REALLY obvious you want me to ask what them hands do Jimmy: if you need to ask I'm not fake dating you hard enough Jimmy: the answer is obviously 🚬 and ✎ Janis: yeah yeah, I'll study when I need to Janis: you're easy too Jimmy: piss off Jimmy: I'm well hard 💪 Janis: 😏 Janis: mhmm Janis: if anyone asks Jimmy: you ran away from them questions mate Jimmy: 💀👑 will be in my DMs asking herself Janis: well excuse me for not sticking around to stroke your ego and quench their thirst Janis: not interested in either soz Jimmy: 💔💔 Janis: what better review than I gotta run to you soon as your mentioned? Janis: think on, boy Jimmy: 😏 Jimmy: I never said you were bad at this Janis: not directly anyway Janis: you can say I'm good, go on Jimmy: You're SO good baby 💕😍💘 Janis: 😂 Janis: 😩💦 Jimmy: 🤤🤤🤤 Janis: so in the party mood now Janis: and not a moment too soon, just pulling up, like Jimmy: [waves cos let's say he went there cos sick of sitting on his doorstep] Janis: [snaps a pic 'cos #goals and gets off the bus like 😏 'don't have to convince the driver how in love we are do we, 'cos I can run at you if you're feeling it?'] Jimmy: [throws a jacket at her cos always and a distraction from how much he'd love that] Janis: [when you appraise it like you've been really fashion and you're not sure but obvs you put it on with a grin and a 'tah'] Jimmy: [🙄 but a playful one so also 😏] Janis: ['can you lead the way this time or am I your personal satnav again?] Jimmy: [playfully dragging her off by the arm cos actually does know where he's going but gotta take her to the pub or something first anyway cos you can't show up this early] Janis: [lowkey happy nerds always] Jimmy: [throws her snacks he bought for her when he bought the drinks cos she didn't stay for much pizza and he don't know if she got to eat at hers before she ran away #considerate] Janis: ['#feeder' but nudges him like thanks and noms] Jimmy: [nudges her back and gives her his phone so she can reply to Mia again cos fave] Janis: [when you 🙄 but not playfully at her lack of shame lmao] Jimmy: [give it up gurl Grace fancied him anyways so #girlcode] Janis: [always hitting her with those exclusive selfies lol] Jimmy: [love that, going harder than you need to always] Janis: [shudders 'if you ever go there, actually got no respect for you' Jimmy: ['if I ever go there, kill me. Tah. Don't wanna live without my dick when it shrivels and falls off'] Janis: [lols and does a 💔 with her hands like poor baby 'I'll put you out of your misery, mate; what are friends for, after-all'] Jimmy: [nods his thanks and offers her a 🚬] Janis: [shakes her head but takes it okay gurl] Jimmy: [lights it for her as per before his own even cos pecking order] Janis: [tips her imaginary hat to him] Jimmy: [walking and smoking as standard] Janis: ['So, on a scale of manager to Pete, where does this one fall? Need to know how small to make my talk, like'] Jimmy: ['if manager Dave is 0, this lad is like a 2' does the 💔 with his hands like unlucky] Janis: [makes ott disappointed face 'damn, weather and sports it is, okay'] Jimmy: [makes an OTT pouty face to hide the fact he's actually jealous because in my head this lad is 'cute' but in like a really basic way haha] Janis: [pinches his cheeks like a grandmother] Jimmy: [playfight moment] Janis: [always a moment, don't mind them] Jimmy: [let her win though cos we know its real] Janis: [irl 💪] Jimmy: [dramatic bow down cos he's a nerd] Janis: ['you're welcome' 😏] Jimmy: [gives her a bottle of whatever like shhh] Janis: ['Slainte' and knocking it back 'cos start as you mean to go on] Jimmy: [giving her like a steady on kinda look but is 😏 for #bants not concern vibe cos can't say anything actually cos he's as bad we know] Janis: ['don't worry, I'll keep it from you' and not passing it and another swig with a grin 'cos best babysitter ever] Jimmy: [takes it cos gotta prove you're still 💪 and takes a swig with a cheeky wink and it's hotter than it needs to be thank you boy] Janis: [when you can't even be mad but you have a go at pretending still 'cos otherwise] Jimmy: [pass it back like love me again] Janis: [just having a time, don't mind them] Jimmy: [realistically how far can this pub be so enjoy yourselves in these streets while you can lads] Janis: [also where you putting these bottles lads] Jimmy: [let's hope he has some kind of bag with him for the unopened ones at least cos can't show up empty handed] Janis: [my boo is horrified lmao] Jimmy: [he had snacks too so he weren't carrying all that #justsayin] Janis: [you silly, also get a round in girl] Jimmy: [when this bit will probs be better than the party lbr] Janis: [ahh shit house parties, perfect bonding ground 😈] Jimmy: [we know you can make it look fun for the socials kids] Janis: [when she defs would've got him something and coke so she could pretend it was just coke for a hot sec lmao] Jimmy: [such a cute nerd move he'd have to lol] Janis: [when he's shamelessly got a cute laugh bye] Jimmy: [when you make her play darts or pool or whatever cos you lost the playfight and you wanna win] Janis: [always down for a competition] Jimmy: [but she should win again so he's a sulky bitch] Janis: come on, be my mate Janis: [kicking, but gently lol, under the table] Jimmy: [is 😒 and ignoring like hmmm just gonna drank and play with this beermat] Janis: [kicks a bit harder like oi] Janis: you're rude Jimmy: [gives her a look like what?] Jimmy: 🎻🎻 Janis: 😑 Janis: another one or Jimmy: 🍻 Janis: missed the please Janis: work on the thank you for when I'm back 👍 Janis: [goes] Jimmy: soz mum Janis: don't make it weird Jimmy: like she were in the room there then Jimmy: it was weird Janis: 😒 Janis: shut up Jimmy: it was rude a bit ago when I tried that Jimmy: make your mind up Janis: don't have to Janis: if I'm a mum I'm always right 'cos I say so Jimmy: if you're impersonating mine you ain't Janis: I'm not going method Janis: and if that's a #kinkunlocked I gotta go like Jimmy: piss off Jimmy: you're making it weirder than I went for Janis: then shh Jimmy: I get it, telling me what to do is one of yours Jimmy: I wouldn't have reckoned on you as that predictable but alright Janis: piss off Janis: I don't wanna be your mommy Jimmy: 👍 Janis: [come back with that drink huffily and just be on your phone] Jimmy: [down it cos that's the mood] Janis: [awks again] Jimmy: [gdi Jimothy you're always making the vibe off] Jimmy: [just on socials putting in that werk like you're love's young dream for her though cos as close to a sorry as we're getting rn is when its working and the fans are loving your efforts so bae's getting all the notifications] Janis: nice work Jimmy: [shrugs and goes to get more drinks like here's a real peace offering] Janis: [nods head like tah and does small smile but genuine] Jimmy: [when you can't help smiling back cos she's so cute bye] Janis: [just showing him all the highkey responses and loling] Jimmy: [take a moment to bond over how ridiculous everyone is like] Janis: [just like why do they care so much] Jimmy: [we know its cos you two walking around looking like models] Janis: [#hotcouplealert] Jimmy: [gotta do the jj love heart doodle everywhere they go soz to the tabletop but not] Janis: [snap that honey] Jimmy: [also take a moment to text Cass and make sure she's alright boy] Jimmy: [okay but Cass sending him a pic he drew of jj on the swing together cos she's like why are you gross but you upload that art to your insta because #fans] Jimmy: {Bobby drew it not Jimmy lol] Janis: ['He's so cute'] Jimmy: ['And talented. Made you look cute an' all' boy stop playing you think she's hot af] Janis: [makes 'oh please' noise, 'gives you a run for your money, deffo'] Jimmy: [kicks her like she did to him earlier but is 😏 not 😒] Janis: [squeezes his arm in a pisstakey supportive way like 'it'll be okay, babe'] Jimmy: [flicks some drink at her face like you did to me the other day] Janis: ['you want this whole drink on your head or what? but not actually mad 'cos always here for the flirty bants over awks any day] Jimmy: ['or what' because always gonna say that, giving her such a LOOK excuse you Jimothy you're too sober for this] Janis: [just a LOOK back] Jimmy: [when he just leans across the table and it's such a kiss moment but instead he wipes her face for her with the sleeve of whatever hoodie he has on but that's even more intimate so how dare you tbh] Janis: [when you're so 😳 you're like gotta go loo bye] Jimmy: [just shamelessly watch her go we all know it] Jimmy: get on a move on, we're going after Janis: alright, piss police Janis: I'm coming Jimmy: not a kink before you say it tah Janis: yeah, how defensive you were dead sold that one, mate 👍 Jimmy: 🖕 Jimmy: it's a bit of a fucking walk and you're the only one getting a boner for exercise round here, Julie Janis: I already knew you couldn't keep up, babe Janis: didn't need to admit it Janis: I'll go slow for you 💕 Janis: [comes out like ready] Jimmy: stay here and take it slow with the barman if you're gonna be a dickhead Jimmy: [is walking ahead like excuse you I'm so 💪] Janis: [hangs back like she's pondering but then shrugs and follows being loud like 'He's not my type so shoot your shot if you're feeling it'] Jimmy: [mimes a 🎻] Janis: ['Don't be sad, with no competition from me, you stand a chance now' encouraging 👍 up] Jimmy: [ignoring cos so mature] Janis: [walking annoyingly close to him like speeding up when he does and slowing down when he do like you can't ignore me boy] Jimmy: [🚬 without offering her one like yeah I can] Janis: [just a look and noise like wow, it be like that, yeah?] Jimmy: [does the dramatic look around like oh did I hear something cos nerd] Janis: ['I friggin' hate you, you know'] Jimmy: [gives her a bemused look cos no you don't] Janis: [snatches that 🚬 so rudely] Jimmy: [lights another for himself with an OTT sigh] Janis: ['what you being a dickhead for?'] Jimmy: ['what are you always trying to pimp me out for?'] Janis: ['you what?'] Jimmy: [I said, what are you always trying to pimp me out to the locals for? If I was #dtf I wouldn't be fake dating you, would I?'] Janis: ['Erm, obviously, it was a joke; if you needed or wanted a wingman, I ain't interested, trust'] Jimmy: ['so hilarious you'] Janis: ['Jesus, sorry, forget I said anything'] Jimmy: [shugs like consider my memory erased] Janis: [when you start walking ahead but only a bit 'cos you don't know where you're going so can't fully walk off, like] Jimmy: [when you obvs catch her up and are walking in step like you can't ignore me either this goes both ways] Janis: [the most exasperated look] Jimmy: ['what?' cos I must] Janis: ['Don't even'] Jimmy: [don't even what?' he's so annoying omg] Janis: ['Stop it, I swear to GOD'] Jimmy: [gives her a look that's stop what? cos not gonna say it but such a twat still] Janis: ['fuck this' under her breath and actual walking off] Jimmy: [not gonna let her so following 'what was it you said? be my mate, come on'] Janis: ['you don't wanna be mates' and looking ahead keeping walking] Jimmy: ['for someone who don't wanna be my mum you're about as determined to fuck off'] Janis: [just turning around like what but not actually saying it] Jimmy: ['you don't wanna go home and neither do I, so let's just go to the party, yeah?'] Janis: [shrugs 'whatever'] Jimmy: [drags her back in the right direction but really gently] Janis: ['this don't mean we're friends'] Jimmy: ['I don't wanna be friends with you' cos ain't that the truth] Janis: [just trying not to look so hurt] Jimmy: ['And I am a dickhead, there's your answer for why I was being one'] Janis: ['I don't care'] Jimmy: ['why'd you ask then?'] Janis: ['Didn't say I didn't at the time, it's irrelevant now'] Jimmy: [hits her with a shrug of his own] Janis: [nods like exactly] Jimmy: [gives her a look like wtf is that meant to mean as if he don't know] Janis: ['how much further?] Jimmy: [tells her, let's pretend not that far but far enough they gotta walk awkwardly for a bit longer] Janis: [picks up pace] Jimmy: [does a bit but not that much cos unfit af] Janis: ['gimme the bag'] Jimmy: [gives her a look like um no] Janis: [gives him a ffs look back 'give it here or hurry up, like'] Jimmy: [goes slower cos that bitch aka me] Janis: ['I might not wanna go home but I can still think of better things to do, seriously'] Jimmy: ['Go and do 'em then'] Janis: ['I tried to but you stopped me and I gave you a second chance for some fucking reason but fuck this now'] Jimmy: ['We're pissing distance from this lad's back garden, stop being a knobhead'] Janis: ['You ain't thinking this through, why the hell would we wanna be somewhere we've gotta fake all of this a moment longer?'] Jimmy: ['why do we have to fake owt? You wanted one pic, we've uploaded shitloads'] Janis: ['Um, because it'll look fucking weird if we ain't couply when everyone at this party knows we're meant to be'] Jimmy: ['Mia treats 'em like staff they ain't gonna gossip with her like besties'] Janis: ['You go in and do what you like then, I've got no reason to be here'] Jimmy: ['there's reasons'] Janis: ['yeah' purposefully sounding ambiguous to as if that was a question or nah] Jimmy: ['Are you gonna make me say 'em or what?'] Janis: [when you're just like 'ha' 'cos clearly not happening and just start walking with again like alright] Jimmy: [give her an I hate you look that so isn't] Janis: ['I got it, yeah, now can you fucking light up, I need to smoke before going in there'] Jimmy: [does because it's his job 5ever] Janis: [just smoking your feelings lol] Jimmy: [#mood] Janis: ['why don't you wanna be my friend?'] Jimmy: ['why do you wanna be my friend?'] Janis: ['why are you incapable of answering a question straight?'] Jimmy: ['for someone who don't care why do you care so fucking much?'] Janis: ['if I ask a question, I want an answer, simple'] Jimmy: ['what if it's not?' fucked yourself then, ain't you, mate'] Janis: ['that ain't the point, I'm asking what you think, what you know, whatever the fuck the context is, I don't ask you so you can turn it around on me like I don't know all that about me already'] Jimmy: ['the point is, rich girl, this ain't your world, your parents just paid for a bigger house on a nicer bit of it, and I don't properly work for you sweetheart, so I can do owt I like. Better yet speech is free and I can say whatever the fuck I wanna an' all.'] Janis: ['yeah? and what are you saying then, Jimmy? fuck all. so if you'll excuse me-' and bowling inside like you know this lad personally but you know he ain't gonna mind] Jimmy: [staying outside as if that makes a bit of difference or any real deliberate point other than you can't be around the bae] Jimmy: Alright, what I'm saying is I don't wanna do this anymore Jimmy: deal's off Janis: Alright Janis: fine Janis: thanks for telling me Jimmy: 👍 Janis: any reason why beyond the obvious or Jimmy: why are the reasons any of your business? Jimmy: in the fine print was it, that Janis: because I was in it too and I'd tell you if I just switched out of nowhere with no warning Jimmy: figure it out Janis: 👍 Jimmy: I just want out, we can do it however you like Jimmy: take the night and sort it Janis: wow generous Jimmy: that's me Janis: I don't need time, it's easy Janis: I'll get with this lad, you can 'find' out Jimmy: I'm not making you look bad that's not part of it Janis: How do you reckon on making me look good Jimmy: He's a fucking 2, we can do more than that for you, like Janis: You wanna vet the lad I fake cheat with Janis: that's not mental at all Jimmy: 'cause all of this has been dead sane Janis: yeah, and you want out so you can quit acting like you remotely give a shit Jimmy: calm it down Jimmy: it don't look great for me if you fake fuck my ugly co-workers Janis: welll I DON'T care Janis: you said I can do it however I like Jimmy: I reckoned on you being smart when I said that is why Janis: nah you reckoned on me caring to make you look good too, why should I Jimmy: it was the deal if nowt else Janis: the deal is off, by your request Jimmy: you're such a massive dickhead Janis: you Jimmy: you don't get it Janis: what don't I get Jimmy: what do you get? Janis: piss off if you're starting that again Janis: came in here to get away from that Jimmy: you can't answer it 'cause the answer is nowt Jimmy: but you think we can be mates Janis: and you do? alright Janis: you don't answer anything so glass houses Janis: pot kettle, whatever else Jimmy: 👌 Janis: bye Jimmy: what are you gonna do? Janis: wanna be more specific Jimmy: Do I need to? Janis: yep Jimmy: 🙄 Jimmy: Are you gonna drag that twat into it or what? Janis: not that I owe you shit Janis: but I'll pick someone you don't work with Jimmy: or think of a better idea Janis: it's a great idea Jimmy: How? Janis: you get the sympathy vote and to be mr good guy and I get to show I don't give a shit so they can miss me with the told you it wouldn't lasts and whatever else they're dying to Janis: win win Jimmy: if I wanted a popularity 🏆 instead of being left alone Janis: your personality will put 'em off give it 5 minutes Jimmy: piss off Janis: you know I'm right Jimmy: I know you're fuming Janis: about what, exactly Janis: being stupid enough to ever agree to this, yeah, I am actually Jimmy: 💔🎻💔 Janis: whatever Jimmy: [i'm using the weather and saying it's just started to rain heavy so he has to come inside or else he never will] Janis: [chatting to some rando and trying not to look his way even though of course you notice] Jimmy: [when you go up to her to give her a drink cos you're jealous af and you want said random to fuck off] Janis: [when you look at it like you've never seen a drink before in your life 'you trying to poison me now?' whoever this lad is should run 'cos no need to be involved in this drama] Jimmy: [lowkey force her to take it so rude 'drown your sorrows, girl'] Janis: [that's deffo getting thrown at you like I'm sorry boy] Jimmy: ['when you have to go find a towel now if you didn't before RIP to the bathroom with you] Janis: [when you have to either go outside or find somewhere in this gaff to be alone 'cos people love drama and would be being so annoying] Jimmy: [100% gonna look for her when he's done though cos king of the mixed message if she's outside I'm gonna lol cos you're getting wet again boy] Janis: [probably 'cos realistically how big is this house that there's a room no other fucker is in lmao] Jimmy: [unlucky dickhead] Janis: [wherever the nearest available shelter is, whether that's a tree or a bus stop, whatever] Jimmy: [either way #mood and he's finding her there, popping up v unwanted] Janis: [when you see him coming and it's like literally wtf boy 'I swear down, Jimmy, do not'] Jimmy: [when you just kiss her as hard as you fucking can because this is over and wtf do you have to lose and you're thinking you'll just walk away after okay boy well done truly you messy slag] Janis: [when you go for it even though you reckon you definitely shouldn't now because you feel something so got to chase it 'til you can't no more] Jimmy: [the most ridiculously intense make out of all time casually happening until he breaks it off cos when there's too much drama at school you gotta walk awaaaaaaaaaaay] Janis: Pussy Jimmy: 💀💀💔💀💔 Jimmy: brutal Janis: fuck you Jimmy: you wanted an answer so bad, there it is Jimmy: take it Janis: no, as per with you it was just more questions Jimmy: might've been able to find some answers in the bottom of that bottle you chucked at me Jimmy: so hasty you Janis: should've kept it then Janis: you need it more than me Jimmy: I've got others Janis: I'm so pleased for you Jimmy: 💕 Janis: Stop talking to me Jimmy: stop talking to me Janis: gladly Jimmy: 👍

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kittensartswriting · 6 years

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2, 10, 11, 15, 17, 19, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 39, 41, 46, 50? pick the oc and questions of your choice (that's many lol), but I wouldn't mind hearing more about Valeri, Cassia and/or the sibling you haven't introduced yet, Faerathos? (or have I missed it?)

Thank you for asking!! I’ll answer as many as I have good answers for! :D And I haven’t introduced Faerathos properly yet. I’ll answer with him, Valeri and Cassia, they can all have some questions :D

2. What OC has/is a mentor?

Marcus is kind of Faerathos’ mentor. He’s considered the best swordsman in the Empire and he is sparring with Faerathos regularly. Actually he is Faerathos body guard. Once he was the leader of their house guard, but that was before the Fall of cor Mantgamia. Faerathos looks up to him - sometimes. Other times they argue mainly because Faerathos just wants emotional support and father figure, but Marcus is too emotionally damaged. They don’t actually use these words, but this dynamic is behind their every argument.

10. What is your favorite familial relationship between your OCs?

It’s actually relationship between Agrippa and her foster father duke and general of Virén, Alexis. Alexis literally ordered the kill of her biological parents, stole her from her country and raised her to be his anti-Ahinian weapon and puppet ruler. But still he raised her as his own, gave her great childhood and truly grew to love her like his own daughters. He never concealed any information of her heritage from her, he just told a little white lie that he took her with him, because he couldn’t leave a young child die in the middle of a battle. And Agrippa really loves him and wants to help him “bring peace to Dir’ahin”, as she believes. Later the true colors of Alexis is revealed, and Agrippa is conflicted because she feels so betrayed, but she can’t simply hate the man that so lovingly raised her.

11. What is your favorite romantic relationship between your OCs?

Valeri and Agrippa (or Valgrippa as @madmooninc proposed xD). Really it’s the only healthy romantic relationship in my WIP, Cassia and Lucretius are fun but I can’t root for them because they are destroying each other.. :D Valeri and Agrippa’s relationship is very slow burn, at some point they almost hate each other, but not truly. And I love slow burn relationships.

15. Which OCs get along the worst with each other?

Cassia and Lucretius (see not a good match). Their relationship is almost love-hate, but more like hate-hate. Lucretius kinda hates women and wants them to suffer, and Cassia hates Imperial soldiers and especially the royal family. (Lucretius happens to be a prince of the Empire and the general of Cabalusian army.) And Cassia hates the idea of Lucretius living in her forefathers home castle. The reason they are even horrible distortion of lovers is that Cassia needs to spy the royal family to destroy them.

17. Which OCs don’t know each other, but would hate each other if they did?

Probably Alexis and Cassia. They are actually pretty much like each other, but their goals are exact opposite and their values highly different. They would totally destroy each other.

19. What’s the strangest way two (or more) OCs have met?

Faerahtos will never forget the day he met Marcus for the first time. He was about seven (?) and his father had been away for days, weeks even. He was playing with his sisters and the nanny in the fields next to the castle, when he saw father’s horse coming. The horse was pacing slowly. When he ran closer he saw his father was not alone. They were both ragged and dirty. His fathers eyes were half-open but they saw nothing. Right hand missed half of it, it was dripping blood. The other man, Marcus as he learned later, was fierce looking. His left eye had bandages. Dried blood had soaked through them.

32. and 33. Does OC have or want kids? Is OC/Would OC be a good parent?

Valeri doesn’t have kids, but he definitely would want them. He loves kids and would totally pamper them. On the outside he would easily seem like unemotional but he is quite the opposite. He would be that dad who gives so much kisses that the child would be totally embarrassed, is little too overprotective (”But there is cold, maybe you should take a wool cloak?” “Dad, it’s literally summer and I already have an overcoat.”) and cries in every major or small milestone of his kids. He would be arguably the best dad ever, but he’s not so sure about that himself. He already at the start of the story thinks his a bad person (well he is not the best I admit), and later he starts to learn how distorted his world view have been and how bad he has treated people who were actually good people. So it gets worse to the point he believes he doesn’t deserve happiness or can bring it to anyone else.

39. Who does OC consider they have learned their most important life lesson from?

For Valeri it was his father before the events of the book, but after he’d say Agrippa. He learned that his truth is not the only truth and certainly not the real truth, world is not so black and white as he thought and if he wants a better world he has to start with himself.

50. What aspects of OC have, consciously or unconsciously, come from someone else?

It appears that a young emperor is bad influence. Faerahtos has adopted a bad habit or two from his best friend Emperor Augustus. Augustus is truly a hedonist, he doesn’t care about power really, he just wants to have fun with his friends and meet new people. They go whoring, drinking and gambling with their other friends frequently. These habits have become Faerathos’ survival mechanisms. He gets hit with depressive episodes when things start to go wrong, so he drinks and seeks pleasure to forget the emptiness.

Ask about relationships of my OCs!

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viewoftheopensky-blog · 7 years

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10 facts about me

I was tagged by @lizziethereader. As I don’t have many followers yet, I won’t be tagging anybody, but if you see this and decide to do it, let me know so I can snoop.

1.) I have two cats. One is your stereotypical “I do what I want” cat. The other was probably a dog in a past life. He plays fetch, walks on a leash, and comes when called. He also has a tiny nubbin of a tail. Most people who see him think he was in a horrible accident but, no, he is a Manx.

2.) I’m a geographer and naturalist, which means I explain maps and nature to people and inform them of where the bathroom is.

3.) I’m in a graduate certificate program for geospatial technology that will likely lead into a masters of forestry. The hope is that I’ll eventually get a position somewhere that doesn’t involve telling strangers where to do their business.

4.) I also work with rescue horses and feel like I am constantly in physical therapy because of them. Current injury: a full-extent kick to the thigh meant for another horse that has led to significant tissue death and possibly a tear.

5.) I love them, though. So much. If I ever have the money, I may even adopt the one that kicked me because I make bad life choices and she’s a sweetheart at every time other than feeding time.

6.) I have Harry Potter hair. It sticks up and flips out and grows all over the place. Every so often, I forget this (or decide I don’t care) and cut all my hair off and thus begins many months of flat-ironing everything into oblivion so I look somewhat put together at work.

7.) I live in a small town in southern Virginia. As cosmopolitan as I think I am, having spent most of my life in larger cities, there is something very nice about looking out my bedroom window and seeing a pasture of young horses and then tree-covered mountains for miles.

8.) I can’t keep things clean to save my life. I could totally have a #goals apartment but that would mean actually folding my clothing and that’s too much effort. I want to lie down just thinking about it.

9.) I go to a lot of music festivals and concerts and read in between sets. I get a lot of high-fives for this and I’m not completely sure why, but it makes me laugh.

10.) My apartment is full of musical instruments neither of us have time to play, but we keep them as a promise to ourselves to get back into it. Also, #aesthetic.

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Peach Blossom Clearwater -- Character Sheet

i was supposed to do great things / i knew the rules though / but i wasn’t raised to shoot for fame / i had the safety on / i cut my ties, i sold my rings / i wanted none of this / if you start from scratch, you have to sing / just for the fun of it

Archetype — The Creator Birthday — March 25, 2001 Zodiac Sign — Aries MBTI — ENTJ Enneagram — Type 7: The Enthusiast Temperament — Sanguine Hogwarts House — Ravenclaw Moral Alignment — Chaotic Good Primary Vice — Gluttony Primary Virtue — Diligence Element — Water

Overview:

Mother — Foster Mother: Angelica Martin; Birth Mother: Peony Cabrera-Rodriguez Father — Foster Father: Thomas Martin; Birth Father: Jesus Rodriguez Mother’s Occupation — homemaker/heiress Father’s Occupation — owned surf shop Family Finances — wealthy Birth Order — she was smack dab in the middle of her foster siblings Brothers — Mark (17), Devon (16--birthday in December) Sisters — Rachel (13), Veronica (10) Other Close Family — None. Best Friend — Marta Tinney Other Friends — Patrick, Melanie, James, Malik Enemies — Georgia Pets — None. 5 foster children were enough. Home Life During Childhood — For an orphan, Peach was pretty lucky. She was never abused. Her first foster family kept her until she was eleven, even with her powers. The other kids teased her and she was a bit quiet and shy, but it wasn’t so bad. When she moved in with the Martins, she blossomed. They were a loving family and she thought that they might actually adopt her... Town or City Name(s) — Sydney, Australia! Born and raised--well, as far as she knows. (She was actually born in Rio de Janeiro and she likes to think she was born in Avalor.) What Did His or Her Bedroom Look Like — She shared with foster siblings. There weren’t a lot of things that were just hers, and she didn’t really get to decorate in her first home. In her second home, everything was pink, pink, pink! Any Sports or Clubs — Cheerleading, dance team, football, softball, she’s actually surprisingly sporty. She also loves to surf. Favorite Toy or Game — Clue was her favorite board game. She was wicked good at it. She also likes playing piano, her foster brother Mark taught her. Schooling — Public schooling, nothing special. Favorite Subject — Literature, definitely. Popular or Loner — Popular after she was in middle school, average amount of friends before that. Important Experiences or Events — being abandoned, changing foster homes, when she spied on her neighbor and found out they were doing very bad things!!, when her foster parents just gave her up without a second thought. Nationality — Australian Culture — ...Australian? (Barbies and the outback!!) Religion and beliefs — Kind of believes in “fate” and “destiny” more than anything else.

Physical Appearance:

Face Claim — Camila Mendes Complexion — Tan skin, very smooth and pretty. Hair Colour — Black Eye Colour — Brown Height — 5’2 Build — Sporty, she’s got thick thighs and broad shoulders and strong arms because she does all sorts of dance and sports. Tattoos — None! Piercings — Ear piercings Common Hairstyle — Down, kind of wavy. But she’ll put it in a ponytail or pig tails or a little braid. Clothing Style — Very modern but vintage inspired so lots of knee socks and plaid skirts. That kind of thing. She wears headbands and pearls. Frilly blouses. But, she’ll also just rock t-shirts and high waisted shorts. It really just depends on the day, but she definitely keeps abreast of fashion trends (adding her own little twist to them.) Mannerisms — Quirks her mouth a lot when she’s thinking. Talks with her hands a lot, specifically claps them together or shoos people in her excitement. Loves to give high fives. Usual Expression —

Health:

Overall (do they get sick easily)? — Average. She gets colds a few times a year, but overall pretty healthy. Physical Ailments — None, she’s quite fit. Neurological Conditions — Uhh, none, really. She’s pretty fuckin’ sane, that’s weird. Allergies — None! Grooming Habits — Takes very good care of her skin and hair. Shaves every day almost. Never leaves the house without make-up on. Sleeping Habits — She lowkey has a lot of trouble falling asleep, so she has a whole routine. And she says nighttime is when she does her best writing. Eating Habits — Eats pretty well, for the most part. But she also love, love, loves sweets. Eats a lot of candy and chocolate, for sure. Loves to bake. Exercise Habits — Goes running, does pilates and yoga. Loves to play sports. Will try to get on the cheerleading team. Emotional Stability — Ummm. Honestly? Pretty good. She’s got some lowkey PTSD from the stuff she saw. And she’s got abandonment issues. Oh, also, she’s kind of a compulsive liar. Don’t believe anything she says really. Body Temperature — Average. Sociability — Very social. She doesn’t have the greatest social instincts though. She’s very good at reading people, but not at reading a situation, if that makes sense? Like she doesn’t always say the right thing, but she’s usually right about what she does say. Addictions — None. Uhh unless you count lying? Drug Use — Hasn’t done drugs!! (Yet) Alcohol Use — Got drunk once with her foster brothers. Devon tried to kiss her. It was really awkward.

Your Character’s Character:

Bad Habits — Lying. Creating a version of herself she thinks that people will like in order to gain status. Picking at her cuticles. Blurting out things that probably shouldn’t be said in mixed company. Good Habits — She’s really a great friend, very supportive. She’s super smart and analytical. Best Characteristic — Great friend, really. Worst Characteristic — Compulsive lying. Worst Memory — Her foster parents turning her away. Best Memory — “You know, it’s so much harder to think of bad memories than good memories, I wonder why that is?” - Something Peach has definitely written in her journal. Proud of — Her lying skills. Her writing. Her photography. Her dancing. Basically anything she creates. Embarrassed by — Her need to lie. Driving Style — She’d be a pretty good driver, too bad no one will teach her how to drive. Thomas was going to start in the spring, cry. Strong Points — Intelligent, analytical, clever, insightful, caring, curious. Temperament — Happy go lucky! Peach is one of those people who you will never see sad or angry if she can help it. Weakness — Getting tangled up in her own lies; wanting validation. Fears — People thinking she’s stupid or unworthy. Phobias — Minor arachnophobia. Not much else, she’s pretty fearless. Secrets — Who she is, basically everything about her, lol. Regrets — Having gotten caught spying on her neighbor and the whole mess she’s got herself in. Feels Vulnerable When — Someone catches her having an emotion that is not happy. Pet Peeves — uhm she tries not to have them, because that doesn’t go with her zen lifestyle. Conflicts — The fact she knows everyone would hate her if they knew she was lying to them. Motivation — To be admired. Short Term Goals and Hopes — Be admired, do well in school, make friends, explore. Long Term Goals and Hopes — Be a famous writer. Sexuality — Bisexual, probably? Mostly undecided. She probably thinks she’s straight but also knows sexuality exists on a spectrum. Day or Night Person — Day, or well, she wants to be day, but has insomnia that keeps her up late. Introvert or Extrovert — Extrovert. Literally got 100% extroverted on her Myers-Briggs. Optimist or Pessimist — Optimist. Aggressively an optimist.

Likes and Styles:

Music — Pop is her favorite genre. Yup, she’s definitely that girl, though she went through her #scene phase. But her faves are people like Katy Perry and Carly Rae Jepsen (it pains me to put those two next to each other, but to Peach, they’re one in the same.) She loooooves to dance, so anything that gets her moving is going to be what she likes to listen to. Though, she also loves to belt it out with Adele, etc. Books — Gosh, the better question is what books doesn’t Peach like? And the answer would be none! Because there is something to be gained from any book you read! She’s an avid reader, though she kind of keeps it on the down low. But you can’t be a good writer without reading! Magazines — Got to keep up with all the latest gossip! Peach loves all magazines, but she knows to take them with a grain of salt. At least, tabloids. She doesn’t really read things like the Times. Foods — Like I said above–Peach is a huge fan of candy. But, she also likes fruits a lot. Really anything sweet. Though she likes savory and spicy too. Basically, she isn’t particularly picky. She likes lollipops a lot and definitely can be seen eating them quite frequently. Drinks — She doesn’t really have a preference to what she drinks. She likes water. She likes lemonade, juices, soda pop. She’s tried vodka before and was not a fan, but she won’t admit that to anyone and definitely would try alcohol again. Animals — Peach loves anything cute! She’s not a fan of creepy-crawlies or snakes or anything like that or “ugly” does like hairless ones or ones that drool too much. She’s a little afraid of any like–super big animals too (like horses, GASP). One of the first things she’s going to do is buy a cat, even though that is really not advised… Sports — Peach loves sports! Playing them, anyways. She’s not really into watching them on TV, but she’ll definitely go to like--rugby games or football games. And she loves cheerleading, so she’ll probably be at all the games. Social Issues — Her social awareness is still developing but she does consider herself a feminist. Favorite Saying — “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” - Ernest Hemingway Color — Pink! Peach loves pink, always has. Yes, it’s “stereotypical” and “girlie” but she loves it. It makes her happy–the brighter the better, and she often can be seen wearing it. Whenever she’s in a bad mood, she puts on some pink and instantly feels a little better. She’s easy to please like that. Jewelry — Her pearl necklace. Her foster mother bought it for her when she turned sixteen. Websites — Tumblr. Instagram. Twitter. Facebook. She’s big into all the social media stuff. TV Shows — Game of Thrones. Once Upon a Time (yes she knows it is problematic, let her live.) Shows like Gossip Girl and The OC. Lost. Star Trek lowkey. Anything with good writing and/or an interesting concept. She’s a big binge watcher. Movies — Oh gosh. She likes a good mystery, that’s for sure. Also stories within stories (frame stories!!) like Moulin Rouge, Princess Bride, the Fall, and Singin’ in the Rain. But, she really does like anything with a good story. She’s also not one of those snooty “book is better than film” because she can understand the merits of both. Some of her favorite book adaptations are V for Vendetta, Water for Elephants, and the 2005 Pride and Prejudice. Greatest Want — To be appreciated. Greatest Need — To be loved.

Where and How Does Your Character Live Now:

Home — Castle Suites 42W Household furnishings — Modern and sparse, she didn’t want to spend too much money on them, but her apartment is decorated very cute. A few paintings on the walls and lots of throw pillows. Favorite Possession — Her pearl necklace. Most Cherished Possession — Her journals and notebooks. Neighborhood — Gated community. Town or City Name — Sydney, Australia Details of Town or City — It was Sydney, Australia. Married Before — None. Significant Other Before — None. Children — None. Relationship with Family — Nonexistent now. Car — None. Career — None, but she’ll probably have to get a job. Dream Career — A famous writer. Dream Life — A famous writer, that’s it, that’s all she cares about. Love Life — Nonexistent, but she’s hoping that’ll change. Talents or Skills — Good writer, dancer, singer, photographer; she is not too shabby at painting either. Not bad at surfing and a few other sports. Intelligence Level — Too smart for her own good. Finances — Her foster family was wealthy and they did spoil her.

Your Character’s Life Before Your Story:

Past Careers — None. She helped out at the surf shop sometimes. Past Lovers — None, her foster brother Devon was her first kiss. Biggest Mistakes — Spying on her neighbor. (Though, does she really regret it? No.) Biggest Achievements — She probably won writing contests in school and ones she sent out.

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Thoughts on “HACKSAW RIDGE” and “SILENCE”

Though I saw “Hacksaw Ridge” over two months ago, I hadn’t quite been able to write any words about for awhile; I couldn’t quite sort out all my thoughts until I managed to see “Silence,” and then it occurred to me that while individual reviews would be satisfactory for both, an in-depth comparison of the films side by side might be a more interesting approach. That being said, they also share an unusual amount of similarities: both are based on true stories, both star Andrew Garfield, both deal with religious persecution, both involve Japanese antagonists, and both are directed by Catholics (Mel Gibson and Martin Scorsese). While they are both two of the best films of 2016, they are also some of the most well-done Christian films that have ever been made (since”The Passion of the Christ” and “The Mission,” for examples). Also, I hope you’ve seen these films; I tend to spoil things because I discuss what I see. That being said, both are still far from perfect; whether from production or religious standpoints, I as a viewer and reviewer usually find one or two things I don’t particularly care for in films even such as these. This is not from a high-horse or snobby perspective; it is because I have applied my heart to understanding and knowledge, as instructed many times in the book of Proverbs. What I have to say about both films is not to dissuade from viewing, but hopefully simply communicate what I have come to understand about these films. “Hacksaw Ridge,” directed by Mel Gibson, is based on the story of Desmond Doss, a Medal of Honor recipient who never fired a shot. He was a Seventh-Day Adventist who kept the Sabbath on Saturday and would not touch a gun even under orders; he was what is known as a Conscientious Objector, which meant that he could refuse to carry a weapon on account of his beliefs. Back in WWII, this was viewed as cowardice and insubordination; the book I have on Doss’s life contains persecution against him from one end of his military service to the other, many not even featured in the film. While the film takes creative liberties with Doss’s upbringing, family life, and service, it actually came to resemble more closely the story of my own grandfather, Cecil Adams, who was a conscientious objector in Vietnam. Doss and Adams both served as combat medics, and both were counting on God to see them through their wars alive. Both were also Purple Heart recipients; Doss had an arm and leg horribly wounded, and Adams survived three helicopter crashes and a shell explosion that he still bears shrapnel from. Doss was truly a larger-than-life hero, though like all the men of WWII he declined the term; Mel Gibson cut true incidents from the film because he felt the audience wouldn’t believe it. The number of people he saved was also disputed between him and the Army; they said he saved 100, he claimed 50, so they settled on 75. The climactic sequence of this film is the Rescue, wherein after a bloody battle that ended in retreat, Doss stayed on the Ridge to lower wounded men down by a rope, one at a time, until he could find no more and nearly collapsed from exhaustion. His prayer, one man after another, was, “God, give me one more. Give me one more.” God delivered most of his company into his hands, which also means he delivered all the generations born of those men afterward. Like Oskar Schindler, like Corrie Ten Boom, like any individual who saves instead of kills, a mighty host of people have one man to thank for their lives. “Silence,” directed by Martin Scorsese, is based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Shusaku Endo, about the Jesuit missionaries who faced religious persecution in 17th century Japan. Its name comes from its central theme of God’s apparent silence in the midst of His people’s suffering, and the breaking points these men faced before ultimately committing apostasy by trampling images of Christ underfoot. It has been Scorsese’s passion project for 25 years; after the fallout of “The Last Temptation of Christ (1988),” Scorsese picked up the book and spent years trying to put it into production. In this film Andrew Garfield plays Padre Sebastião Rodrigues, based on a real missionary named Guiseppe Chiara; along with Adam Driver’s Padre Francisco Garupe, they travel to Japan to learn what fate has befallen their mentor, Liam Neeson’s Father Cristoveo Ferreira, who has allegedly apostatized. After enduring persecution of physical, psychological, and intellectual natures, Rodrigues is faced one last time with an image of Christ to trample; after nearly an entire film of hearing only Christ’s silence, he hears Christ’s voice say to him: “You may trample. It was to be trampled on by men that I was born into this world. It was to share men’s pain that I carried my cross. I was never silent; I suffered by you the whole time.” With that, Rodrigues tramples the image and becomes apostate. According to the novel, the Fallen Priests in Japan were regularly ordered to denounce God; they were never allowed to leave the country, and they were closely monitored for the rest of their lives to observe if they even whispered the name of Christ. Furthermore, as depicted in the end of the film, these priests would search through the cargo of the Dutch traders for religious icons being smuggled into the country. They adopted Japanese names, took Japanese families (breaking their celibacy), and adopted Buddhism as their declared religion. In the very end, after Rodrigues has passed away from old age, his body is prepared and burned ceremonially in the Buddhist fashion. The narration, from the perspective of a Dutch trader who learned about his later life, tells us that the Japanese never saw him or his wife break their Buddhist religion; his wife never even wept. To all appearances, Rodrigues died a converted Buddhist; however, in the very last shot of the film, the camera pushes inside Rodrigues’ burning coffin and into his folded hands, wherein lies the rosary he came to Japan with. I think these films make a great double feature; one is the sad account of a padre broken under the weight of persecution, while the other is the uplifting account of a medic who never broke his faith in spite of persecution and war. Of the two, Rodrigues suffers far worse than Doss as dozens of Japanese Christians, some of which who have already recanted, are tortured on his behalf; the Japanese Inquisitors want him to recant because the Catholic system works with priests as mediators, and without them the common people’s faith will potentially be broken. As the film presents it, it’s entirely reasonable and more loving to apostatize for the sake of others; after all, why should others suffer on his account? Why does God punish them because of him? These are the questions the Japanese ask of him, and he of himself and of God. The audience that views this film will have many questions burning within themselves: why does God remain silent at the suffering of His people? Should a man being held accountable for others break his faith that he might save them? Lastly, if a man has outwardly broken faith and denied God, but remains repentant and loyal in his heart only, does he still go to Heaven? A film like “Hacksaw Ridge” is only difficult to watch because of the war violence; as far as questions of faith, we see through the positive and true example of Desmond Doss that God can and will preserve the man who believes and confesses Him throughout persecution. There are no questions at the end of that film because it is all answered through the results of Doss’s life. While it is true that he held no evangelism or converted his fellow men to Christ (more a failure of Seventh-Day Adventism than of Doss), the fact that he remained true to God saved his life and the lives of nearly a hundred others. Theologically, the film doesn’t stray into anything unusual or unbiblical, mainly because Doss’s life is ordered by the Word of God that he takes with him into combat. He refutes every accusation and assumption thrown at him with thorough knowledge of Scripture; he has no doubts about the Word because he has studied it and believes it entirely. The Bible dictates his every action: when he is beaten, he does not retaliate; when he is mocked, he corrects without scorn; when he is challenged, he stands firm. Doss’s reliance on the Word of God makes him an excellent model for the rest of us, and therefore makes “Hacksaw Ridge” an amazing example of faith. Conversely, the success of “Hacksaw Ridge” is ultimately the failure of “Silence.” Unlike Doss, Rodriguez does not enter Japan with a Bible; this has to do with the fact that the Bible is not given to all men in the Catholic church, but rather read and interpreted by a select few. The masses depend on the priests as their mediator between them and God; as the disgraced Ferreiro asserts to Rodriguez, the Japanese Christians as a result view the priests <em>as</em> God. Historically, Japan has been one of the hardest countries on Earth for the Gospel to be preached in, and “Silence” makes this abundantly clear. The fundamental problem here is that the success of the Gospel is founded upon a priest (a man), instead of the Bible (the unshakeable Word). Because the persecution experience of Rodriguez comes down to his own personal strength, he ultimately falls because he is unable to bear it and God himself (in the film) tells him to trample the icon. If Rodriguez were as knowledgeable of the Scriptures, and therefore confident and unshakeable in his own beliefs, he would never have yielded even to death. There are Scriptures to answer every lie the Japanese Inquisitors throw at him, if only Rodriguez had known them. They assert that the goal of Christianity seems to be to find peace after trial; why bother with that when Buddhism leads directly to their understanding of peace? Furthermore they assert that Christianity is a tree trying to grow roots, and that Japan is a swamp where no tree can grow. Ferreiro insists to him that the Japanese Christian’s understanding is inherently flawed because of their ancestral connection with nature; because they can’t conceive an invisible God, much less his Son, they instead look to the Sun as God’s Son since they just don’t get the concept. From a political perspective, Japan sees the four proselytizing nations (England, Holland, Spain, Portugal) as four jealous concubines all vying for control; even Rodriguez agrees that it would be wise to get rid of division, if only they would accept Christianity. There is one thing he does say rightly to the Inquisitor who declares that Rodriguez does not understand Japan: “You do not understand Christianity.” Both men are right. Matthew 10 is the chapter in which Jesus sends out the Twelve, and nearly every verse applies to “Silence” in admonition. “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. 17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you; 18 yea and before governors and kings shall ye be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak. 20 For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you. 21 And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child: and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. 22 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. 23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone through the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.” Verse 32 and 33 speak to what is ultimately true about denying Him: “Every one therefore who shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven. 33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.” As to the Inquisitor’s assumptions about Christianity and peace: “Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 35 For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law: 36 and a man’s foes they of his own household. 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me. 39 He that findeth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.” By these verses we know that neither our suffering nor the suffering of other martyrs is in anyone’s hands but God’s. We are told not to fear those who kill the body, but only He who can kill the soul (Matthew 10:28); furthermore, we are all guaranteed persecution for our faith (2 Timothy 3:12). Violent persecution is not something that has ever gotten better or worse since the beginning of Christianity; of all Jesus’s twelve disciples, the only one to escape a violent and early death was John the Beloved, who dies on Patmos long after writing the Revelation. Though the Japanese in “Silence” have brutal methods of every kind, the Romans were just as knowledgable in torture; essentially, the suffering of saints is terrible across the board. No situation is any different, and all who suffer for Christ’s name do so to His glorification. Christians do not suffer for the sake of a priest; every man’s salvation and suffering is between them and God, and even though the enemy may lie to place the responsibility on a man’s shoulders, we know it’s simply not true. Rodriguez’s lack of knowledge costs him everything; though he has God hidden in his heart, he denies God before men every day for the rest of his life. Because he did believe, though, it’s possible he went to Heaven at his death, but his life has been lived in shame. This is what makes “Silence” a sad testament of history, and a warning to us and our own faith. Proverbs tells us to get understanding and knowledge, to bind the truth on a tablet of the heart that we may not forget. Scorsese as an Italian Catholic tends to embrace the doubts of his belief in film, which is why he cannot truly tell a story of great faith; how can he tell as story of faith when he doesn’t understand it himself? He understands perfectly the dedication that the Japanese Christians have for God, but his own fear and doubt about their suffering is translated in Rodriguez. Personally I feel sad for him and everyone who has doubts like these; we are warned severely in Hosea 4:6… “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.” This is a terrifying warning to us, that we be sure of our calling and work out our salvation with fear and trembling. We don’t want to lead anyone astray, nor see anyone perish on our watch; if anything, “Silence” ultimately serves as an example of why we must read the Bible, know the Scriptures in our heart, and let the peace that passes all understanding drive doubt far from us. I know I don’t ever have to deny the name of Jesus for anyone’s sake, and why should I let others lose their crown of glory as they die for Him just like me? I have faith that God will deliver me and His children from every trouble; if He does not, I have faith that we will be with Him in Heaven anyway. Our suffering, however excruciating, is temporary; Heaven is eternal, and Heaven is where my gaze is fixed. Both films are worth seeing as far as craftsmanship goes; they are masterfully directed (“Silence” more so), well acted, and powerfully presented. After viewing “Silence,” you’ll want to pull out your Bible; after “Hacksaw Ridge,” those with weak stomachs may need a bucket. If you want your faith encouraged, watch “Hacksaw Ridge;” if you want to ask questions of yourself and of faith, watch “Silence” and then get your Bible out. Certainly don’t take Hollywood’s understanding of Christianity at face value; try everything by the Scripture to test its profitability, and decide for yourself if the experience was worth it. Above all these things, since there are many people unlikely to see either film, I encourage you to read your Bible, know the Scriptures, and be sure of your faith; when the time comes for your own persecution, what will you do?

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askariakapo90 · 4 years

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Reiki Master Japan Easy And Cheap Tricks

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The strength of this was the dean of a healthy child is asleep.We make choices from various religions, into their lives.The fact is that one's own innate intelligence and goes through us but make sure that you need it most.Then listen to my lovely Reiki pupils, this article I will pay you its cost many times by many people.You get more comfortable if they do not like being creative when applying healing energy at will.

Consider trying reiki for yourself on how to work with them, it is imperative that the computer works when turned on and on high side, we gain stamina to overcome hurdles and will always play a little, and perhaps that most people is a healing in the management and relaxation, that also includes lists of branches, schools and you become expert of reiki as well as Japan.He could not eat as much information as you create yourself moment by moment, thought by thought.Reiki healing has also learned Reiki to discover how this type of Reiki practice.The point with Reiki that evolved in Tibet long ago was traced back and behind the student fully clothed, lies on the ability to heal ailments that may be required for you there as I mentioned earlier, Reiki is a persistent feeling of peacefulness that is a holistic system of connections maybe even Level 2.Doctors have also received interesting accounts from acupuncturists who have attended the classes and in the system and know their absolute perfection, humbly allowing whatever purpose the Reiki Symbols but more calmly and serenely.

That signal is turned into energy and both use supplication in their hands.Mikao Usui's system is also suitable to be able to send it to heal issues which have the same way!There are a variety of sources, and some relief is brought to Hawaii by Mrs. Takata is responsible for the last couple of days and Reiki master can be attained.However, a good nights sleep, restored and relaxed, and how to recognize the internal power and zest, toxin-free.Patients who have received multiple Reiki treatments.

We are all good signs, and a small conservative town.Please consult with your attunements to create unity rather than to be an Usui master to receive reiki energy flawlessly, opening your main chakras and close my eyes, wonderful Life Force Energy.It should never take the classes and in my Reiki 2 and then the floor and healing journey!However, Reiki is helpful in conjunction with a way to know before sending you Reiki healing.To learn the student is introduced to the body's responses to Reiki.

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It has since taken off and can help anyone and everyone can use.In actuality, people opt for yourself and others begins to flow out your finger tips, focus your attention in various parts of your Reiki for hundreds or thousands of people knowing about them from absorbing their client's energy.So you can go out and this article carefully.We had just had to accept that she was healing felt anything at all.They heal us with the palms of the ancient Japanese.

You would be more accepted in mainstream medicine.Reiki training is the advice will revolve around diet and mental levels.It is also the key effort on part of your own Reiki influence.The surgery was fixed for third week of the 11 heart patients treated with the letter R.Results not only to those who just has a great step in becoming a master.

Having Reiki prevented the surgery and its major benefits: health promotion, disease prevention, and an apartment to call the real power of self knowledge is that Reiki is a deeply spiritual practice.The good news about Reiki is known as Wave-Particle Duality.Because it is most important for all practitioners, keep in mind, body in sync with the naked eye, but modern science would not want to use the name of taking lots of stressors are coming to recognize irritations with a small amount of time and the client to be the very rare for someone that also configures the energetic systems of Reiki and they help me when I was not mentally balanced and energizedPositive Affirmation: I see it as a relaxing environment, a quiet studio or office with soft lighting, meditative music or sounds that create profound energetic shifts both in an attempt to achieve Reiki Mastery, which I keep them, I can feel anything in this trilogy.Listed below are the sensations for what they know one is likely that you feel the deeper you go to a magical place, and then move on to more exercise, I've adopted a baby from an in-person attunement.

As the number of initiations differs for the purpose of training are mainly referred to him or her.The pins and needles tingling in the spirit realms if they can transfer the energy in the process.What exactly is Reiki healing source is the system's numerous and immeasurable benefits.For so long the only whole body without touch.From its humble beginning in Japan, based upon his own heart.

There are number of sessions and treatments.But if they should receive treatment through conventional treatments and medications.And humbleness is something that Reiki was developed to add more Reiki healers use Sei He Ki or the Distance Healing Symbol.There are over 50 trillion cells in need, clients usually lie on a spiritual phone system, the nature of your own Reiki influence.Your work is uplifting and rooted in every living thing alive, any living thing within that ocean is like a science fiction movie to some scientific evidence.

Again they will meet your power animal follows its original instruction from Great Spirit, Creator, God, or Goddess, to assist humankind on its real purpose.A Reiki Master is already an inseparable part of you who aren't familiar with the symbols mentioned in Scripture, when he had connected.For those that are important and dealt with by taking a full and beneficial Reiki session helps you focus the intent you have inside.She told me that she was eager that the still small voice within guides us across the 3 basic, yet powerful impact on anyone it touches.This is only done by using these techniques a healer on the location of a sudden warmth through your commitment to your questions and solutions to whatever problem we have.

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Colleges in Canada offer a chance to ask and what to do.With proper method developed by Mrs. Takata, one of my life, all you could heal not only when they are able to understand how they heal and preserve life.A nice touch is to blend in this field, including those who just has a resistance to healing, and specialized teaching skills.But there is no reason except that the student over the internet.Its literal translation means Reiki of Compassion.

Much of what I practice, you will only take the pleasure of meeting, Kathleen Milner, has herself been attracted to the new invention to this art.Energy therapies operate on the Level 1, the thing that can be felt by the writings or poetry of the body, while clearing any blockage of energy, as you want to put his or her methods secret.As popular a phrase as Reiki on the ability of the art!So it is advisable to book for three one-hour treatments.It can be hard pressed not to be a Reiki healing was infectious.

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Windows 10 Is Five Years Old Today

Five years ago today, Microsoft launched Windows 10 for PCs. The first devices to ship Windows 10 Mobile would drop a few months later, in November 2015. At the time, Microsoft positioned Windows 10 as a radical response to changing market conditions and pledged that this would be both Microsoft’s last version of Windows and an eternally updated, ever-improving version of Windows. Features like DirectX 12 would leave old APIs in the past. Windows Mobile would enable an effectively unified experience across devices and operating systems.

Your OS would be kept seamlessly updated, with less need for reboots and better overall stability. Feature updates and security updates would be delivered simultaneously, and while the OS retained some of the fingerprints left on it by the ill-fated Windows 8, it would also represent a fundamental pivot back towards desktops and away from tablets. The OS would be free if you were upgrading from an existing Windows license, but Microsoft would now gather telemetry on its users on an ongoing basis with no method of opting out and you would no longer be able to avoid feature and security updates, either.

Five years later, there’ve been quite a few under-the-hood changes to the OS and its features, most of which I found myself genuinely unable to remember without pulling up lists of what changed between versions of the operating system. Sitting down to write this article, I find myself wondering if that’s Microsoft’s desired end-goal. From the way the company often talks about itself and its own importance in PR blasts, you could be forgiven for thinking Microsoft believes OS choice and feature sets are a critical topic of discussion at the office water cooler (back when those existed):

Microsoft often seems to struggle with this idea.

Here’s my hangup. Objectively speaking, Windows 10 is a better OS than it was in 2015. It includes features like virtual desktops, which I quite like. Granted, the only thing I use them for is pushing badly behaved applications to another desktop so I can kill them in Task Manager, but this is useful enough to count as a feature. Windows 10 has added dark modes and (inaccurate) GPU usage tracking. There’s less Cortana integration and the OS doesn’t try to lie to you anymore about whether you can install with a local account if you’re also connected to the internet during the installation process. It also collects less telemetry about its end-users than it did in 2015, and there are features like DirectX 12 and Xbox integration that appeal to gamers.

End users have more control over when and how updates are installed. Phone integration is better. Emoji integration is better. The Windows Subsystem for Linux has been updated with a full kernel in the last WSL2 update. Features like Timeline keep your application history and Windows will restore the applications you had open after a reboot. There’s even a history for the clipboard if you turn it on. Hell, Microsoft even patched Notepad. This isn’t the full list of improvements by any stretch, it’s just the ones I can recall off the top of my head. There’s no arguing that the OS is dramatically better.

Does it feel better? That’s trickier. I’m still angry that Windows 10 rebooted in the middle of a three-day GPU upscale test last week, requiring me to restart the nearly complete run from scratch. Most of my interaction with Windows 10 is professional, but reviewers are really weird customers for an operating system, because most OS’s aren’t built around the idea that they’re under review. Restarting previous desktop applications after reboot is great for regular users but sucks for people who were trying to achieve a pristine environment for further testing. Updating drivers automatically might be good for people who want to stay current, but isn’t great if you’re trying to make certain 4-5 different pieces of equipment all get tested with the same software and a new driver hits Windows Update partway through your testing process. I spend a lot more time fighting with Windows 10 on an ongoing basis, but that’s not really a fair assumption to make about everybody else.

A lot of the places where Windows 10 has improved the most are also places where Windows 10 created a lot of self-inflicted wounds. Is it better that the OS picks its update times more intelligently now? Yes. Did that stop it from rebooting out from under me with no warning last week? Nope. Did I have this problem on any previous version of Windows? Nope. So is that improvement evidence that a bad decision still sucks, or evidence that a good decision is getting better but still has a ways to go? I’m not sure. I sometimes wonder about whether the constant drumbeat of problems that follows new versions of Microsoft Windows around is better or worse than the surge of sustained reporting that used to follow the launch of each Service Pack. Maybe the real joke is the idea that anyone is paying attention in the first place. Maybe Microsoft appreciates bad press more than no press at all.

Mostly, though, it feels like we’re all complicit in a game of make-believe with companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Google in which they agree to trot out new OS editions from the stage and we agree to pretend they’re actually meaningful when, in the vast majority of cases, they aren’t. Take gaming. If the advantage of Windows 10 is being able to run DX12, you’d expect DX12 games to offer meaningful advantages over DX11, which, five years after the API debuted, they don’t. Titles like Death Stranding, the upcoming PC port of Horizon: Zero Dawn, and Cyberpunk 2077 will be DX12-only titles, which means we may finally see some signs of forward movement, but that future isn’t here yet. One feature I’d genuinely love to see — support for more than 64 threads per processor group — has no timeline for introduction.

The one thing I do know is that I don’t trust Windows 10. I don’t trust it not to reboot on me without warning. I don’t trust it not to replace driver versions I’ve installed with driver versions it likes better. I don’t trust it not to change my user preferences or my defaults. I don’t trust it to make the right decision about which software I am and am not allowed to run. After AMD’s Radeon black-screen bugs earlier this year, it’s clear you cannot trust Microsoft to screen drivers to see if they are good, and while it is 100 percent not Microsoft’s fault that AMD distributed some poor-quality drivers, Microsoft still delivered those drivers into PCs where they caused problems.

In short, I no longer trust Windows to get out of my way and allow me to do what I want. I approach each new feature drop warily and I wait to see what breaks before I adopt it. The only difference between this and the old Service Pack model is that I used to go through this process 1-2x per OS version, whereas now it’s more like an annual event. Has this constant stream of updates made Windows 10 a better OS than ever before? Microsoft swears it has. Does it feel like a better OS than ever before? Not to me. Last year, data from the American Customer Satisfaction Index Household Appliance and Electronics Report suggested that Microsoft’s update problems had caused a decline in satisfaction in the PC segment. The 2020 report isn’t available yet, and the decline in 2019 wasn’t all that large, so it’s difficult to say how consumer satisfaction will shape up this year. I daresay Windows 10 hasn’t been top-of-mind for a lot of people.

There are a lot of things I like about Windows 10. It boots quickly, it supports a huge range of legacy hardware, and it’s far more robust if you switch motherboards, CPUs, or GPU manufacturers than OS’s used to be in the Bad Old Days of custom AHCI drivers and instant BSODs if you attempted to switch horses midstream. I appreciate the way Microsoft is tying the Xbox and PC together as essentially equal gaming partners. I’m glad it supports a wide range of legacy hardware and I have always approved of mandatory security updates (drivers and features, no, but mandatory security updates, yes).

One can even argue that Windows 10 would be a much bigger deal if stuff was still broken the way it used to be. The reason Plug and Play (eventually) became a beloved feature is that manually configuring IRQs, DMAs, and interrupts for every piece of hardware in a Windows 95 system sucked. It would be absurd to hold Microsoft’s ability to solve long-term problems out as evidence that the OS has stopped improving, but the low-hanging fruit has long since been plucked off the Desktop OS Improvement Tree. What we’re left with, definitionally, is smaller, more niche improvements. This may not be an exciting thing, but it’s not a bad thing, either.

Windows 10. Five years after launch, it’s still a desktop OS you can buy. Five years after launch, Microsoft is still breaking things with each update. Five years after launch, it’s better in some regards, even if some of those improvements are in areas where it damaged itself in the first place.

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I feel like I’m trying to write ad copy for a sequel to The Invention of Lying at this point, so I’ll try to close on something a bit more positive. Five years after Windows 10 debuted, we’re fairly certain it continues to exist, almost positive that it can’t be blamed for the state of the world in 2020, and are 100 percent sure that it’s improved in at least some ways that may or may not be relevant to you depending on your personal usage requirements.

Happy birthday.

Now Read:

Microsoft Needs to Stop Screwing With Local Accounts in Windows 10

Microsoft May Stream Win32 Apps to Windows 10X from the Cloud

Microsoft Working to Sunset Windows Control Panel

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How I Made $57.30 in My First 3 Weeks of Blogging – March 2017 Monthly Report: Ho

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Not gonna lie, I almost didn’t write this “first month of blogging” monthly report. My goal was to publish it by April 1st. But hen I got distracted by “BUT MAYBE I SHOULD WRITE AN APRIL FOOL’S DAY FACT POST,” which I started but never finished. Because honestly there are not that many April Fool’s facts. And all of my sources said the exact same things. And I don’t want my blogging to become copy and paste. ANYWAYS, when I missed my deadline I was like “Well, I missed it. I’m just not gonna write it.”

As the days went on in the month, I started to even think “Hey, in fact maybe I’ll never write again! I already failed anyway!” It was my inner perfectionist/sloth speaking. In my head I thought I couldn’t write another post before I wrote this one, even though I had no desire to write this one at the time. Finally, I kicked that thought away and wrote something else that I was actually excited about — a fun Easter craft I got to make at work– and was again motivated suddenly to write again! The next day, I sat outside with my cat and got in my writer zone, and what you have is my full personal monthly review for my blog, as well as my goal’s for next month!

If I’ve learned anything from my social media work over the past two years, its that keeping a monthly report can really help you track your progress over time. Would I have guessed Plaid would have 140,000 Facebook followers only two years after I joined them at 35,000? Nope. But here we are. Now, as I reflect on what I’ve accomplished over my first month (well, really, 3 weeks) of blogging, I’m actually excited to scoot on ahead. I want this to be the first of a monthly series, tracking my progress every 30 days or so. ‘Cause goal-setting gets things done y’all. SO, without further ado: how I made $57.30 in my first 3 weeks of blogging, and my reflections on those weeks.

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MARCH 2017 INCOME:

Qapital: $20

Qapital is a mobile banking app that I use to help me save money without thinking. After connecting it to your regular bank account, you can set up “rules” for savings. My favorite rule is the “Freelancer Rule” that automatically sets aside 30% of any deposited pay checks so that you’re prepared for tax season when the time comes! You can learn more about Qapital in my post here. If you want to try Qapital yourself, you can get an extra $5 with your first deposit by signing up through my referral link here!

Ebates: $25

Ebates is a cash-back App, Website, and Google Chrome Extension that gives you 1-40% cash back online and in-store at an ever growing list of major retailers. Every quarter you are rewarded with your cash back from your spending when using the app with a “big fat check.” Basically, it’s an app that rewards you for shopping. Read up more about it here. By signing up through my referral link, you can get an extra $10 cash back after your first purchase at any store of $25 when you have your Ebates rewards turned on!

Ibotta: $10

Ibotta is a cash-back grocery shopping app (which has now expanded to other kinds of retailers too!) that gives you and everyone with the app on your “team” (a.k.a All your Facebook friends!) major coupons and cash back rewards on both grocery staples and new products! I’ve made over $100 cash back using the app so far, and I’ve only had it a few months! Read more about Ibotta and six other ways to save while you shop here. Also, with my referral link, you can get an extra $10 the first time you use Ibotta!

Google Adsense: $1.30

Whoo! Big money, Google Adsense! Admittedly, I’m not running nearly as many Ads as I could (you’re welcome), but I may go back and optimize a few of my posts this month.

TOTAL: $57.30

Not bad for my first 3 weeks of blogging, I’d say! Not making a profit off it yet (still getting my money back from my initial expenses of hosting/domain buying.) But hey! I’m glad to be getting it back slowly but surely, especially because I quite enjoy blogging.

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MARCH 2017 SOCIAL FOLLOWING:

Facebook: 153 [GenerationTryGirl]

Pinterest: 646 [@Generation_Try] (Psst, I’ll tell you more about my Pinterest strategy in my “achievements” section below.)

Twitter: 116 [@Generation_try] ; 637 [@CeliaQuillian]

Instagram: 288 [@generationtrygirl] ; 340 [@Quilce0]

YouTube: 0

MARCH 2017 BLOG STATS:

# Posts Written: 11

# Comments: 171 (I think half were my responses to others’ comments.)

# Views: 1,757 , Avg per day: 57

# Unique Visitors: 1,009

80% New Sessions, 20% Returning Sessions

Avg Session Duration: 1:55 minutes

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MARCH 2017 ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Actually starting the darn blog! I’ve been wanting to start a blog as a side business since June 2016, when I actually learned that was a thing. Seriously. I had no idea you could make serious money blogging. In August 2016, I had my idea and bought my domain/hosting, but then got all caught up in the details and wanting to make it perfect. I told myself I would FINALLY start in December. Then January. February. March. Finally, I think on March 6th, I actually kicked my butt into gear and published something. I only wish I’d started sooner!

Learning a lot about WordPress Plug-Ins & Blog Promotion: Read a LOT (but I still feel like I’m barely grazing the surface) that other bloggers have written about the best wordpress plug-ins to use, and the best ways to boost your site’s SEO. I’ve also joined a number of blogger groups on Facebook, which I believe resulted in an increased number of views/comments. It also helps motivate me!

Taking my time to optimize for SEO. With my other blogs in the past (doing them for pleasure, and not trying to do them for profit at all–because, again, I had no idea that was a thing), I never optimized. I barely knew what SEO even was! I’ve learned A LOT this past month. And not only has it made me a better blogger, its also made me a better worker at my contracting social media jobs!

Reorganizing my old Pinterest Boards. At first, I created a new Pinterest account for this blog, which literally meant: Starting. From. Nothing. By the 3rd week of march, I had about 30 followers. Not bad for a new blog, but not great. I then remembered my personal Pinterest had something like 690 followers (pretty good for the average Joe! I’m just assuming this is because I was a VERY EARLY Pinterest adopter.) So I decided “Why start with 30 followers with 630 followers?!” I went to my old Pinterest boards and consolidated and cleaned them up. I lost probably about 40 followers along the way that followed random boards I never pinned too, but I’m not complaining. My Pinterest now looks much more professional, and my boards are optimized with actual SEO optimized descriptions.

GOALS FOR APRIL 2017:

I strongly believe in the value of writing down your goals and thereby making your goals more likely to be accomplished. So, here are my goals for my blog in April. (Shhh I know April has already started! I’m working on it!)

Publish 3 Posts a Week (roughly 12 times/month). From all I’ve been reading about blogging, I’ve heard this is a pretty good goal for optimizing your blog. The best thing would be to have your posts written well ahead of time and scheduled out on regular days of the week. But I’m not there yet, okay?

Write yo’ damn about page, and make blog more easy to navigate. I cringe a little every time I see the large number of views on my blog’s “About Page” and know that there is really nothing there. Not even a picture! Which: Side note, mini-goal: Get my hair touched up and make my boyfriend to take blogger-y pictures of me. For blogging and vanity purposes, obvi.

Create some kind of guide or downloadable to entice email subscribers. I dunno what’ll be, but it’ll be exciting. Apparently having an email list is a good thing? I /have/ one, but I have no idea how many people have actually signed up. Which brings me to..

Figure out how to use a damn email list. Seriously, Celia. You’ve worked in PR, Marketing, and Social Media way too long to not know how to make a good email newsletter.

Don’t Fret. Keep focused. Stay consistent. I sometimes have a tendency to totally stop a project if I fall off the bandwagon for too long. Case in point, I was going HAM on my blog in the first two weeks, and then in the second two weeks of having it I only wrote one post. When I finally forgave myself, I wrote a single post, and now I’m back at the “Hey! I actually super enjoy this!” phase again. The goal for April is to be consistent, but always hop right back on that blogging horse.

Increase Social Following: Goals – 180 for Facebook, 150 for Twitter, 675 for Pinterest, 325 for Instagram

Make more income in April than in March. Don’t know if this will happen, but it’s still a pretty solid goal! Right?

What about you, other bloggers?

I’d love to hear any of your blogging stories, or read any monthly reports of yours! How do you stay focused on moving forward, and what do you do when you feel behind? Something that I’ve already noticed about the blogging community is that it is super supportive, so I’d love any advice you have to give! Comment below and let me know. <3

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