I am NOT OOP, OOP is u/bomblebeeee
Originally posted to relationship_advice + TrueOffMyChest
My (28f) fiance (30m) is ghosting me on our wedding day. How can I calm my anxiety?
Thanks to u/queenlegolas and u/Direct-Caterpillar77 for suggesting this BoRU
Trigger Warnings: abandonment, mentions of mental health issues, emotional abuse and manipulation
My (28f) fiancé (30m) is ghosting me on our wedding day. How can I calm my anxiety?: May 1, 2024
TLDR at the bottom.
(28f) am getting married today to my fiance (30m). It's the legal document signing and our ceremony is on Saturday. I haven't slept in 24 hours I just am feeling so much anxiety.
For reference we were togetheliving together for about 3 years before becoming long distance for one and a half years. I'm back in the country for a week to visit him and family and to have our wedding.
For the last month he has been ghosting me for sometimes even weeks at a time. I know it's because he's going through a mental health crisis, but no matter how much I tell him his actions are causing me pain and straining our communication, he can't change. When he goes through rough times he absolutely shuts down for everyone, especially me. It hurts so much every time knowing that even the person he says is his best friend and future wife, he doesn't trust or respect enough to share or ease his pain.
I thought coming back to the country and the marriage would wake him up from his ghosting tendencies this past month, but it's not. He had a very important meeting at work yesterday that either meant he'd get a raise or be unemployed, and now I don't hear anything from him at all. He's ignoring my calls, he's ignoring my texts (and there are read receipts so I know it's intentionally ignored). It's the morning of, and we are literally set to sign our marriage paperwork in a few hours from now. But I was up all night because I can't shake the anxiety that this isn't what he wants. That hes just doing this to "appease" me despite this being a joint decision.
I still can't even get a hold or reach him. I try so hard to communicate everything with him, but this hurts me deeply, down to my core. Part of me wants to drive over to his apartment and beat his door down and just demand answers as to how he could treat someone he claims he loves this way. But I know he'd just shut down further, say he's sorry, and then bury himself deeper into his guilt and depression.
How can I be supportive through his mental health crisis while also keeping firm on the "this is 500000% some disrespectful and harmful behavior that is absolutely unacceptable" in my opinion. When we were about to be long distance he begged me to try it out because I knew his inability to properly communicate his feelings would be miserable over long distance. But he begged me and promised he would change. I would say he did improve but if this last month has shown me anything it's that I'm about to marry someone who has no qualms and sees no consequence in ghosting your spouse for weeks at a time.
This whole thing gives me so much anxiety I have no idea what to do. Any advice on how to calm my anxiety or maybe try to be more supportive to coax him out of the horrid way his depressive episode is manifesting would be greatly appreciated.
Before I forget, yes of course I've tried to get him to see a therapist or get on medication. For years. There is basically a 0% chance that, if it's coming from me or anyone in my family, he would ever listen to that advice. It's incredibly frustrating and not an option that I can even bring up with him anymore without the conversation devolving and him shutting me out even further.
(I will not be tolerating or responding to any accusations of him cheating or people just saying don't marry him. He is loyal but has a multitude of mental health issues, and I will marry him regardless of what anyone says on the internet. I just want some advice is all.)
TLDR: My fiance keeps ghosting me for weeks at a time and he's doing it again even on the day we are getting married which is causing me insane anxiety.
Edit: I won't be reading anything anymore, and please stop messaging me. If you see a woman who is genuinely struggling with something and clearly has no one else to turn to for advice other than random people on the internet and your response is to ridicule her and call her an idiot.... Then congratulations my last idea of seeking help has failed. Clearly I had no one else to go to, it's my wedding day and I'm on reddit. I don't know why I expected anything less than hate messages and ridicule. Maybe there isn't some magic way to help him through this period of grief, but I didn't think I deserved to be sent all these cruel messages so instantly. To the people messaging me and calling stupid, idiotic, doormat, and that I deserve whatever unhappy life awaits me, you've won.
Relevant Comments
Icy-Original: He’s been ghosting you for the last month and you thought marriage would fix this? You don’t want anyone here to tell you not to marry him when that’s the most logical and smart decision here. You’ve created your own misery and are determined to continue doing so so what do you want from us? We can’t make him unghost you and we can’t make you feel better about this decision you know is dumb as hell. You have a man with mental health problems that refuses to get help, that’s causing severe relationship issues and you’re willingly signing yourself up, aligning yourself legally to have more of these problems till death do you part? When you have kids and he ghost you then what are you going to do? I hope you get what you deserve from this situation. Whatever that entails.

OOP: This marriage has been planned for much longer than just the last month. It wasn't some solution I created by myself. And it isn't no contact for the whole month. Just a week of no contact before he comes back and apologizes for the absence due to unavoidable life events. Then contact for a week before another week of no contact before something else comes up. We spent the whole day together 3 days ago, but because of the meeting yesterday it's now been a day and a half of nothing again. To answer your question of what I'd like, compassion and actual helpful advice was what I was searching for. Not judgement and malice.

 
I was left at the altar yesterday: May 2, 2024
My life was great. My relationship was great. Until yesterday it suddenly wasn't. The last month felt a bit off but I didn't think it would lead to this. I still love him intensely. He still loves me intensely. He wants to stay with me it's just that he says he can't do marriage because he can't untie the trauma he has from the idea of it from his childhood (cult stuff).
My mom says I'll be a pathetic fucking loser if I still stay with him regardless and that he'll never be a part of the family. But I want to stay with him regardless. But I don't know if I can live with the constant fear, anxiety, and insecurites that will come from being with someone who can just leave whenever he feels like it.
My wedding is on Saturday and my family still wants to have it since it's more of a small family gathering already anyways (since his family wasn't invited due to cult stuff). My life as I know it feels completely over. I don't know what to do. The person I turned to for empathy and compassion turned to me screaming that I'm a fucking idiot. I'm only in the country for my wedding, I live abroad. My new job and my fiancee pressured me and reassured me I should already use my new married name professionally. I'm a teacher and all my kids already know me as his name.
Everything sucks and I can't stop sobbing.
Edit: to clarify. He left me while we were about to sign the marriage certificate. It's a symbolic left at the altar since there was never going to be an actual altar anyway.
Update: I told my mom that the way she phrased her advice/opinion was cruel. She told me she's tired of my drama and doesn't need it in her old age. I already had told her she was right and I knew what she said was right, but just that the way she said it was cruel. She said she no longer cares about maintaining a relationship with me and that it isn't worth the drama at her age. I apologized because she's right. I'm a piece of shit who never saw that this situation hurt and humiliated her too. I wanted to just have this be a nice party with friends and just spend time together. I'm going to try my best to keep my negativity inside so it doesn't spoil the mood and maybe there's a hope to salvage it as a good party. But I think once I return abroad that this will be the last time my mom will ever speak to me again. I don't know how I could repay her for all she spent on this wedding, but hopefully removing myself from her life will maybe make her life more peaceful and less stressful, even if it destroys me.
As for him, thank you all so much for your kindness, advice, and perspectives. It truly makes me feel better to read the comments even if they hurt and I deserve it. We will be talking about it tomorrow in person, and I've scheduled an emergency therapy appointment for myself for tomorrow morning. Ive never done therapy before, and I'm scared, but I know it's what I need. I'm so angry at him for ruining my entire life that I don't know if the love I have can salvage this.
Relevant Comments
Geezell: No, hon. You can’t be with someone who cannot effectively communicate their fears and needs and, instead, choose to run. He failed you. He does not get to treat you like that. You deserve better. Your Mom may have let her anger for you make her word things poorly but she is right….that dude does not get to have his cake and eat it too.
Go back home. Go no contact with him. Finish out the teaching contract as it. Then, my recommendation is to find a teaching job in a dream location. Maybe, be a traveling teacher for a few years. Heal. Live big. And, if you wish, find love again.

OOP: I am a travelling teacher already. I'm home right now just for the week so that I could do my wedding. Back to where I live abroad next week to live a life of isolation and loneliness.

thunderchaud: Please elaborate on cult stuff, that could literally be anything

OOP: He's seen marriage used as a way to entrap and oppress women due to the cult culture of his family. He doesn't understand that what he's done is created a tilted power dynamic where he's holding all the power and autonomy and I'm the scared, anxiety riddled one terrified he'll leave at any moment in any possible future we may have now. Which is honestly worse in my opinion.

detikripur: So many questions but at the top of my head is these: why did he agree to “marry” you? Why were you using a name that wasn’t yours for so long that your students know you by that name? Haven’t you talked beforehand with him? Was this relationship one sided?

OOP: He asked me to marry him. My job told me to start using his name because the school year started in April and I would be changing my name in May. I said no it felt like I'd jinx it. I called him and he said stop being such an over thinker and just use my name. I talked with him, he reassured me. It's been 3 weeks that my kids know me as that name. And to be honest yes it does feel one sided. But not in the way you're implying.

 
Update: I was left at the altar yesterday: May 8, 2024
For a brief recap, I was going to the officiant to sign my marriage license with my fiance (who I'd been with for 4 years). He chickened out and said he couldn't marry me and ruptured my image of us. TLDR at bottom.
On to the update. Since I was so brutally humiliated, it really made me think back on all the not great parts of us. He was always very gaslighty whenever I'd claim his actions reflected the opposite of his words (I respect you, I care for you). So I ended up talking to him. I asked him to define what his definition of loving someone, respecting someone, caring for someone, and trusting someone means. Needless to say they were twisted and not healthy at all. I tried to make him see that and he had a few moments of holy shit I think you're right, I don't actually trust or respect you.
Now just because he admitted it didn't mean the crazy selfish actions didn't continue throughout the entirety of the conversation. It was so crazy how I'd never been able to articulate it in a way to where he actually understood before. He actually had the gall to say "Wow we should have had this conversation a long time ago" because of how much he was realizing he was treating me like trash then gaslighting me about it. I was like bitch I've been trying to tell you this for years but you never respected me enough to listen and I was always too emotional to articulate it properly.
Anyways, he wanted to do marriage counseling with the intent to marry at the end. I told him I'd rather break up because the power dynamic is too shifted and I don't feel like it's salvageable. With how he was listening to me and finally acknowledging and understanding me and his own actions I was hopeful for maybe a friendship one day in the distant future. But after a teary, bittersweet goodbye, he absolutely ruined it with yet another selfish action right at the last moment.
I didn't want to be touched or do physical affection for multiple reasons. One of the main reasons being he uses it for comfort when he's feeling sorry for himself. I had just spent 3 hours explaining how he never thinks of me in any of his actions, and maybe it's cruel of me to keep that last kiss or whatever, but it felt selfish and manipulative to me. So after an actually heartfelt goodbye and promise to be better people in the future, we part ways. Only for him to run back to me to try and do some romantic swoop in and kiss me. I recoiled really fast and honestly just stared at him incredulously. Like he had just ignored everything I had just said. That was the moment I went from sadness and grief from losing something so important to me, to just numb and angry about it.
I haven't cried since, I don't even feel sad when I think about him because all I can think about is how angry the whole thing makes me feel. I'm 28 and feel like I wasted my good years on someone who had zero regard for me in any capacity. I developed so many new insecurities, confidence issues, and trauma from 4 years with him and now I have to navigate the dating pool again with all of that (in a foreign country no less!)
TLDR: I broke up with him and I'm just angry now.
Relevant/Top Comments
Libra_8118: How are you and your mom doing? It sounds like you left your home and family for him. Are you thinking of coming back home?

OOP: Both my family and him are in America. I left for me, my dreams, and career. I'm actually thankful that I can go back abroad to be away from him and honestly I need some time away from my mom as well.

Forward-Cockroach945: Bravo I'm so proud of you for finally ending it with him. It's likely he only "understands" you now as a form of gaslighting and trying to placate you . I know it hurts now but with time you will heal and be stronger. Don't worry about dating right now, worry about loving yourself and nurturing yourself. Give yourself all the love support and understanding you normally gave to him. You deserve it. I hope your therapy visits go well and help you build up your self worth and bullshit detector. I'm so glad to hear you took the right steps towards a healthier happier life
 

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So I've been following CASTSTATION for a while now, they're the person who originally animated the whole rabbit hole trend. But recently they put out their first official animated music video, with a lot hidden.
Here's the video: https://youtu.be/19y8YTbvri8?si=fYD9qHurc4ad7tGY As people in the comments of the video have pointed out, there's sign language, hidden messages in the text, Morse code in blinking, subliminal body language and semi disturbing animation in itself. There's certainly a lot missing, but because of the creator's Twitter, I believe there may be more to find.
Here's one tweet. https://twitter.com/_CASTSTATION/status/1787051327492948277 Certain letters are capitalized, spelling "WATCH THIS", but that's in the message of the tweet anyway so I'm not sure it's important.
Here's another, the one that made me think something deeper may be going on: https://twitter.com/_CASTSTATION/status/1789143397292560480 This appears to be instructions on the intended way to view the video, my untrained mind says maybe doing so will show something different? However, as the replies to the tweet point out, if you okay with the brightness and contrast of the image, you can see the words "reverse key", and certain letters are bolded in the original image, spelling "watch this" again. If you keep playing with the image settings, you can see hundreds of smiley faces in the background of the image, and apparently something inside the center symbol, that symbol being a repeated motif throughout the whole thing.
I'm really not sure what to make of all this, but I feel like this sub might be able to help!

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I will post more, and I am also interested in a variety of spiritual traditions, religious texts and themes, as well as discussing these aspects of writing in genres that I am exploring.
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Hello! I’ve been trying to get a partner for a specific rp and that didn’t work so here’s everything that I wouldn’t mind doing.
I would be the male in all of these and we would need to discuss the plot. But I generally like romance and slice of life.
DC: - Batman/Catwoman - Batman/Zatanna - Superman/Lois Lane - Superman/Wonder Woman - Nightwing/Star Fire - Mr Miracle/Big Barda
Marvel: - Spider-Man/Mary Jane (any version of Mary Jane so Spinneret included) - Spider-Man/Black Cat - Logan/Jean Grey - Gambit/Rogue
Invincible: - Invincible/Atom Eve
Star Wars: - Anakin/Padme
ATLA/TLOK: - Zuko/Mai
The ones I want to do the most: - Gambit/Rogue - Batman/Catwoman - Batman/Zatanna - Superman/Wonder Woman
There’s others too but that’s all that I could think of.
About me:

• I have several years of Roleplay experience
• Generally I give Short to Medium responses
• For Narrations I use regular text in third person view
• For Speech I like to put it in quotes
• Anything out of Roleplay I say in parentheses
• I generally also like to match your style so none of my preferences are set in stone
• My time zone is Mountain Time
• For Speech I like to put it in quotes
• Anything out of Roleplay I say in parentheses
• I generally also like to match your style so none of my preferences are set in stone
• I much prefer to Roleplay through here than any other platforms
• My time zone is Mountain Time
• I generally respond whenever I can but if it looks like I won't be able to for a long period of time, I'll send a message saying so
• I also would like to know any triggers for you or any annoyances so I can avoid those to the best of my ability
• Also if there's any problems or issues in what I'm doing please tell me so I can try to fix it or explain why I do what I do

And I think that's it, if there is any questions feel free to ask

Platform(s): PC Flash Game off old Miniclip site
Genre: Exploration/Adventure
Estimated year of release: 2000-2005ish
Graphics/art style: Pixel Art, top down, gritty fallout style
Notable characters: Programmable Mars Rover, lurking alien horror
Notable gameplay mechanics: Program set of commands for a mars type Rover to go out and explore then return to the crashed ship, if you failed to program the robot to return itself to the ship correctly you would lose. Collect parts to upgrade the rovers range and abilities. The only gameplay was setting up the program, linking together commands and executing them
Other details: The game starts topdown from a crashed ship that you send the mars rover out from to uncover the map, I think you are also trying to find parts to fix the ship, the planet was red, there was another ship you needed to reach and retrievable text logs where you discover what happened.
Closest I could find was mars quest, but that looks a lot more cartoony and simplistic than I remember,
the coding portion in the game I am looking for was more complex and a text based system closer to coding rather than the chain of movement symbols they use.

Hello. My name is Bungling-Worm. You may remember me from my highly condemned submissions such as "Socialists-The Moralist Busybodies Preventing You From Beating YOUR Cheating C\nt of a Wife and Annoying Children", "Profit or: Humanity's Raisin Deter (sic).", "Who Really 'Needs' Clean Air and Water Anyway?", "Hayek Was Right! - How Fascism Saved Western Civilization™ From the Bolshevik Menace" and "SWEATSHOPS!-The Greatest Gift to Third-World Youths Since the Polio Vaccine.*"
Today I'd like to address my fellow capitalists. It's no secret that, much like the U.S. military in Iraq circa 2003-2011, we're losing the battle for the hearts and minds of our intended slav..subje...vict...vassa...thral...our fellow men™. For this reason my employer, Generic Right-Wing Think Tank Inc., in partnership with our good friends in the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the U.K. Special Intelligence Service (formerly U.K. Military Intelligence, Section 6), have contacted the eminent propagandist conservative philosopher picnic-boy and gained his gracious permission to make an official Part 2 to his highly acclaimed How to argue in favor of capitalism and against socialism, a helpful guide the table of contents of which is freely available (for a limited time only) here: https://www.reddit.com/CapitalismVSocialism/comments/1cqvdsv/comment/l3wuegi/
Without picnic-boy's pioneering achievements in sophistry this work would not be possible. Now, without further add-do (sic) I give you a sneak peak into the table of contents of How to argue in favor of capitalism and against socialism, a helpful guide: Part 2.

1. State, often and always without evidence (because none exists), that socialists control all mainstream news media, organized religion (especially the Catholic Church, the Jesuit Order, the Hasidic Colleges and every sect of Islam), academia, K-12 public education, the entire U.S. civil service/bureaucracy (from the municipal all the way up to the federal), the FBI, the CIA, the Justice Department, the Democratic Party, the neoconservative wing of the Republican party, the Fraternal Order of Freemasons, Hollywood, all police unions, the AFL-CIO board, the entire federal judiciary, all the major drug cartels and organized crime syndicates, the Federal Reserve System and the governments of literally every single third and second world country, especially the far-right and non-white majority ones. At the exact same time, and this is really important so pay close attention, accuse socialists of being unpopular teenage losers living in their parents' basement who're too lazy to get a job.
2. When socialists remark upon how similar the claims in point 1 are to contemporary Neo-Nazi conspiracy theories and start to question how you feel about Jewish people turn around and accuse them of being "the real anti-semites" for "wanting to take all the Jews' money away ". In no way is this conflation of all Jewish people with rich capitalists a form of economic antisemitism. If someone points out that it is simply cherry pick quotes from Marx's "On the Jewish Question" out of context so that none of the parts where Marx makes it clear he is only critiquing Judaism as a religion while at the same time advocating for the political emancipation of the Jews as people are clear to the reader. After that go on to talk about how much you support Israel and how much happier you think diaspora Jews would be if they permanently immigrated there. Also and for no particular reason talk about the "failure" of the Kibbutzim apropos of nothing and don't elaborate on anything.
3. Always portray struggles of democratic socialists within ML states/the Eastern Bloc as struggles for capitalism. Yes, it is true the people who organized the East German Uprising of 1953, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, the Prague Spring of 1968, and the Polish Solidarity Movement of the 1980's (before the Vatican and CIA hijacked it) all demanded democratic socialism, yes they all said that, but what they "really wanted" was capitalism and don't you let any so-called "historian" tell you otherwise.
4. Pretend that socialists invented the very concept of the state and thus that all state rulers from the Roman Emperors, Egyptian Pharaohs, Greek Archons, etc. to modern Kings, Kaisers, Tsars and Presidents were/are "socialists".
5. Don't forget to liberally pepper your psychotic rants with plenty of freudian slips and accusations in a mirror. For example, make the claim that socialists want to destroy the family so that they can isolate, abuse and indoctrinate women and children while at the same time assert that wives and children are nothing more than an extension of "the individual" who need to be shielded by this individual from an unrealistically hostile and confusing world (literally everything and everyone outside the home).
6. Assert that socialists invented taxation and ignore that the first taxes in recorded history took the form of land-rents set by the first governments (which were councils of militaristic landlords).
7. Defend rent-seeking and landlordism so long as it's done by private individuals. Remember rent-seeking is only bad when the government does it because they spend that money on social parasites and welfare leeches, unlike landlords who spend it on their second families in the next state over.
8. Claim fascism is a form of socialism but also defend the legacies of lesser known fascist regimes, military dictatorships and other totalitarian right-wing governments whose symbols and mottos the people in your country haven't developed a learned fear response to yet the way they have the Swastika and the Fasces.
9. When leftists point out that the main victims of things like the Great Purge and the Chinese Cultural Revolution were socialists, communists, anarchists and other left-wing intellectuals who opposed Stalin and Mao's cults of personality either ignore them and maintain that the "real victims" were the tiny minority of "innocent" religious extremists, ultranationalists (who were "definitely not" fascist collaborators or spies), and grain hoarders or do a complete one hundred and eighty degree pivot and actually defend the Great Purge and Cultural Revolution because "The more left someone is, the more violent/dictatorial they are, therefore anyone to the left of Stalin and Mao would have been more violent than them and it's a good thing they were killed."
10. If you think any of these points are self-contradicting just remember that doublethink is merely a tool and "communists" (Stalinists) shouldn't be the only ones allowed to make use of it.
11. Ignore the mountains of evidence that an anti-Stalinist left exists. Portray these leftists as right-wingers and edit their most famous works to leave out the many mentions of their own support for socialism.
12. Remind your interlocutor(s) that socialism is gay and cringe.
13. Remember that reading is gay but total illiteracy is still kinda cringe (unfortunately). Therefore read as little as humanly possible without going full illiterate. Our recommendation is to only read blurbs from ancap websites, your favorite conspiracy theorist podcasters' social media threads and your fellow "capitalists' " reddit posts and nothing else.
14. In keeping with point 13 let the only things you "know" or "learn" about socialism be things you absorbed through osmosis and half remember from your high school history textbooks assuming you even read them at all. Never look at primary sources, never listen to people trying to explain things to you in detail, always complain that quotes provided to you are "blocks of text" or "unoriginal" and can thus be dismissed without serious engagement on your part.
15. Remember that conformism, unquestioning obedience to authority, an unflinching belief in the correctness of the current socioeconomic status quo and conventional wisdom, and a general Panglossian worldview with a huge heaping of moral nihilism (which is definitely a real philosophical school of thought and not just a rationalization of one's own sociopathic tendencies) are actually somehow radical and that "conservatism is the new punk rock" of the 21st century.
16. Remember that guy begging for spare change you passed on your way to work? Tell everyone that he was a capitalist. Carefully explain to workers why capitalists are actually worse off than everyone else in society as hard to believe as that may seem. Remind them that when it comes to capitalists' they're "cash poor, asset rich" which means all their wealth is tied up in assets like yachts and sports cars and mansions and designer suits/dresses/jewellery and second summer homes and third winter homes and tropical island resorts where "nothing unethical ever happens so shut up about it already"...and talk about how they can't use these assets to buy groceries or clothing or even pay the "exorbitant" property taxes on their assets. "So you see the real unfortunates in our society aren't the homeless or the victims of police brutality or refugees or the working poor, it's capitalists. These brave men and women take (minor) financial risks by using what little cash they have to found businesses, not for their own benefit but for ours, so that they can give us jobs and provide us with products and services and then what do these generous souls get in return for their herculean efforts? Just a whole lot of ingratitude from socialists and a bunch of tacky junk they can't even use to feed and clothe their many, many illegitimate and adoptive children that they're definitely not doing anything questionable with on their tropical islands that aren't even worth that much anymore because of rising sea levels (which have nothing to do with climate change, which is just a Chinese communist plot to make Americans poor don'tcha know?)".

• Lesson video

INTRO

Your server is now running two services: the sshd (Secure Shell Daemon) service that you use to login; and the Apache2 web server. Both of these services are generating logs as you and others access your server - and these are text files which we can analyse using some simple tools.
Plain text files are a key part of "the Unix way" and there are many small "tools" to allow you to easily edit, sort, search and otherwise manipulate them. Today we’ll use grep, cat, more, less, cut, awk and tail to slice and dice your logs.
The grep command is famous for being extremely powerful and handy, but also because its "nerdy" name is typical of Unix/Linux conventions.

YOUR TASKS TODAY

• Dump out the complete contents of a file with cat like this: cat /valog/apache2/access.log
• Use less to open the same file, like this: less /valog/apache2/access.log - and move up and down through the file with your arrow keys, then use “q” to quit.
• Again using less, look at a file, but practice confidently moving around using gg, GG and /, n and N (to go to the top of the file, bottom of the file, to search for something and to hop to the next "hit" or back to the previous one)
• View recent logins and sudo usage by viewing /valog/auth.log with less
• Look at just the tail end of the file with tail /valog/apache2/access.log (yes, there's also a head command!)
• Follow a log in real-time with: tail -f /valog/apache2/access.log (while accessing your server’s web page in a browser)
• You can take the output of one command and "pipe" it in as the input to another by using the (pipe) symbol
• So, dump out a file with cat, but pipe that output to grep with a search term - like this: cat /valog/auth.log grep "authenticating"
• Simplify this to: grep "authenticating" /valog/auth.log
• Piping allows you to narrow your search, e.g. grep "authenticating" /valog/auth.log grep "root"
• Use the cut command to select out most interesting portions of each line by specifying "-d" (delimiter) and "-f" (field) - like: grep "authenticating" /valog/auth.log grep "root" cut -f 10- -d" " (field 10 onwards, where the delimiter between field is the " " character). This approach can be very useful in extracting useful information from log data.
• Use the -v option to invert the selection and find attempts to login with other users: grep "authenticating" /valog/auth.log grep -v "root" cut -f 10- -d" "

The output of any command can be "redirected" to a file with the ">" operator. The command: ls -ltr > listing.txt wouldn't list the directory contents to your screen, but instead redirect into the file "listing.txt" (creating that file if it didn't exist, or overwriting the contents if it did).

WHERE'S MY /VALOG/AUTH.LOG?

If you didn't find the file /valog/auth.log you're probably using a minimal version of Ubuntu (it can be your own local VM or a version in one of the VPS). That minimal image is, well... minimal. It only has the systemd journal available and it didn't come with the old syslog system by default.
But don't worry! To get that back, sudo apt install rsyslog and the file will be created. Just give it a few minutes to populate before working on the lesson.
It also be missing a few of the other programs we use in the challenge, but you can always install them.

POSTING YOUR PROGRESS

Re-run the command to list all the IP's that have unsuccessfully tried to login to your server as root - but this time, use the the ">" operator to redirect it to the file: ~/attackers.txt. You might like to share and compare with others doing the course how heavily you're "under attack"!

EXTENSION

• See if you can extend your filtering of auth.log to select just the IP addresses, then pipe this to sort, and then further to uniq to get a list of all those IP addresses that have been "auditing" your server security for you.
• Investigate the awk and sed commands. When you're having difficulty figuring out how to do something with grep and cut, then you may need to step up to using these. Googling for "linux sed tricks" or "awk one liners" will get you many examples.
• Aim to learn at least one simple useful trick with both awk and sed

RESOURCES

• Text processing commands
• OSTechNix grep tutorial
• Where GREP came from
• SED onliners
• RegExr - a tool to learn, build and test Regular Expressions
• explainshell.com - write down a command-line to see the help text that matches each argument

TROUBLESHOOT AND MAKE A SAD SERVER HAPPY!

Practice what you've learned with some challenges at SadServers.com:

• "Saskatoon": counting IPs.
• "Santiago": Find the secret combination
• "The Command Line Murders"

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So my car needed repairing after an attempted theft and I went to an auto shop my sister recommended. This was a private auto shop who is not in my insurance network. They had my car for 2 weeks fixing it and finally called to say it was ready for pick up.
Ok we agreed I would pick it up Saturday. The day comes I call the guy he does not answer. I show up to the shop regardless to pick up my car because it was time to return the rental and this is what we agreed! His son was there, he didnt answer the son calls either but the son released the car to me. Upon checking my car things in the inside were not fixed and touched at all how they were supposed to be. I have an all white car but black parts were used on it. Plus my airbag symbol came on after driving it home. and when opening my passenger side door the handle fell off!
I immediately took pictures and called the guy AGAIN. He sent me a text a day later saying he apologizes he was sick and in the hospital from diabetes but he’ll have a tow truck come get the car again so he can look at what he didn’t fix as if it isn’t fucking obvious. I call my insurance because I don’t wanna go back to him but now I have to since it was a private shop and they already paid. Ok I get it, I call him again today. He does not answer! But sends a text saying he’ll call me right back. That was HOURS ago! Now I feel like he’s avoiding me, my car isnt fixed properly and my insurance paid him over 6000 to fix!
What do I do at this point?? My insurance is saying it’s out of their hands which I get but come on they took your money and did not fix my car properly! And now he won’t answer any of my calls

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Okay this is not specifically Taylor AND Travis, but I feel this sub would get where I am coming from.
Now I am not one to ever compare one individual's mental health conditions that may be with another person. Everyone has their own struggles and challenges they go through, even if the severity differs. However, in this situation, I would like to put my two cents in on a subject many of us already have started to discuss: Taylor's usage of mental illness, mental institutions, and just overall angst she has been harbouring since TTPD's announcement to present times. As others have pointed out before me, it has never been confirmed if Taylor has any medical condition or has any mental disorder. She did confirm back in 2019 though I believe, she has never gone to therapy as she sees her mom as the only therapist she ever could need (if it has changed since then, please let me know). To be honest, yes, it's not our place to know if she doesn't want to share, about anything involving herself, especially like mental health, as it's a personal subject for many, whether famous or not. Also I truly think therapy while super helpful for some, may not be the right for others in contrast. It genuinely depends on each individual on what they need and what works best for them. Alas, whatever we want to call Taylor is doing for the TTPD era with the usage and imagery of mental illness, personally I'm not only over it but disgusted by it.
For starters, we are led to think all this imagery and wordplay and overall presentation of mental illness and mental institutions and lobonomies etc are solely due to her broken heart over a former love (popular suggestion says it's for Matty Healy but some think it's still Joe and some think it's for other people completely or even other situations). We're left with solely her songs and her choices in words both in songs and in real life, to theorize what they could be alluding to. I have seen many Gaylors suggest these are influenced by the LGBTQIA+ was and have been treated in mainstream society. How, homosexuality was even listed an actual illness not so long ago unfortunately.
But for the sake of calling a spade a spade and being simplistic, I am just going to follow the popular belief that this era is just her choice of showing her reaction and feelings towards some ex-lover and feeling scorned by them, most likely it's Matty. Or least the grand majority of the songs seem to lean in his not so favour. That being said (and as someone who has been there with Taylor since Debut), she could have honestly chose a better direction. Mental illness isn't a joke to make people laugh at parties. It isn't a trend or the latest accessory to buy at the mall. It's not something you can just shake off and pretend it's done by the next album. It's real and it's really affects your every day life. Just as mental institutions are no joke. They're not fun playgrounds to meet potential besties at. It's literally a place that originally people were sent to against their will. Even in present times, some people are still sent to them against their will. Yes, some go now voluntarily, but it isn't always the case. I understand being heartbroken and something like ghosting can make one feel emotionally vulnerable and hurt on a multitude of levels. I just wouldn't justify making chronic word usage of "asylums", "madhouses", phrases like "they sent me away" or referencing coming straight from the hospital if she just meant it "symbolically". I get she could have easily meant Hollywood and stardom especially like she has experienced, is a crazy experience to endure, but in that case, it seems like her previous analogies of a circus works better without offending potential parties or people with actual experiences with mental institutions and/or mental illness. It reminds me of how several people say something like "I always wash my hands, I'm OCD" or "War time flashbacks, I got PTSD from *names a very underwhelming situation that disturb a person slightly*", It's careless and callous wording all around. The fact we have even seen some of Taylor's so-called fans start to make their own medical bracelets to play up this theme is disturbing in my opinion. Again mental illness isn't some necklace to show off like a diamond studded piece.
I'm not saying Taylor couldn't have felt maddened in a way by her experiences that inspired TTPD thus how she chose to display this era and such. In my own personal experience without going too much into it, I had my own ghosting experience a few years back that wasn't fun in any way, and it was with someone, who reassured me for months on end that they were going to stay and we'd always be in each other's lives so obviously my trust and faith were both shaken when I noticed one night, I got blocked from all their social media and they didn't answer any call or text I left. However, I didn't go around not only acting like a tortured Victorian woman, who was imprisoned against her own will in a sanitarium but marketing myself as one and even trying to trademark a term I clearly didn't create. Granted say Taylor hypothetically went through a whole bunch of worst case scenarios: loved ones dying, friends leaving her when she needed them the most, people she care for getting sick, potential bankruptcy, etc then fuck, I get her reason behind using all this theme and the imagery as well. But I am going to take the benefit of the doubt and say she really chose a serious topic and things associated with it, just because something went awry again with her and some person she dated unfortunately. And what makes it even more vulgar in my opinion is it's not even like her first break up. It's much more than her first rodeo at this game yet she chose to display all of her feelings for it this time in perhaps, one of the worst ways. She is being insensitive to the ones who actually have been in mental institutions, whether by choice or not, and/or are suffering from mental illness. Again maybe she has something too, maybe not but regardless, she seems tone-deaf to the bigger picture here, similar to her using soldier terminology despite never been at war or even in service.
Many musicians have used this imagery before as we've established but it doesn't make it any more right. Several artists in comparison have been public with their mental health situations and don't even choose to use this type of imagery for themselves. They'll mention it time from time, but it's definitely not treated like a personality trait from them. It's just an aspect of them but not the whole picture. The fact she's even referring to herself as "The Chairman of The Tortured Poets Department" sounds like the combination of one of the most pretentious and woe is me crock I have ever heard. We don't see Morrissey calling himself, "The Pope of Mope" (yes, the fans do but he doesn't) and I doubt we'd see Robert Smith call himself, "The King of Sad". Yet Taylor who has had what seemed like a well off childhood and many good things happen to her and never seemed to brand herself as anything less than cheery adjectives for more over a decade, it just sounds so off-putting now she's trying to play the tragic role like it's natural or genuine.
I find it important to note, one particular musician named Emilie Autumn, has been inspired by the Victorian era for her whole career and real life "tortured" writers , along with incorporating the whole asylum analogy long before Taylor, but in sheer contrast, it was documented she actually went to a psych ward in a book she published in 2009. In the book itself, she discusses what it was in both a fictional way and factual way of what she went through as well showcasing how women were treated there in present times compared with the 1800s hasn't changed that much. She wanted to write the book to empower women though and to rise above the turmoil and be stronger because of it. She was no victim here (nor trying to just use it "alt points"). She has since (and even before the book) been very open about her experiences with mental illness (she's openly bipolar and the abuse she's endured over the years, as well her songs show she's not afraid to tackle the harder subjects) and what's it really like to be in a psych ward. I feel Emilie Autumn accomplished making mental illness a subject we can understand and even relate to, without it feeling gimmicky or a cash grab until she comes up with another aesthetic. Again I'm not saying Taylor's life story has been nothing but peaches and cream though, I recognize it hasn't been. And again she isn't expected to tell us her entire medical history and every blemish she ever had, but I don't support nor think her going around at her concerts with her dancers dressed as nurses and doctors and her using mental institutions as settings when she has been so mum on the subject of mental health, whether hers or in general, is a good look especially if she's just doing it to songs about how a guy stopped pursuing her and they weren't even together for that long. It comes off disrespectful and even condescending to the ones, who really have mental conditions and we can't just shake it off with a dance number. I'm sorry she got hurt (whether she still is or was is debated), but it doesn't give her a free pass to use something as heavy as this as just an aesthetic and equally turning a blind eye when some of her fans think it's just a lighthearted thing too. I will never get over how so many are now using asylums so loosely, like "OMG this album makes me crazy, send me to an asylum next". That's fucked up to say the least. Ultimately, I just hope this phase changes fast, and hopefully, Taylor can heal from whatever she is or isn't singing about, and more people step in when an idea is just isn't a good one.

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Discovering untapped SEO opportunities can provide numerous benefits for businesses. One of the key benefits is the ability to gain a competitive edge in the online landscape. By identifying keywords and topics that are not yet saturated with competition, businesses can position themselves as leaders in their industry. This can lead to increased visibility, higher rankings on search engine results pages, and ultimately, more organic traffic. Additionally, uncovering untapped SEO opportunities allows businesses to target specific niches and audiences, resulting in more relevant and qualified leads. By leveraging these opportunities, businesses can improve their online presence, attract more customers, and ultimately drive growth. Overall, the benefits of discovering untapped SEO opportunities are invaluable for businesses looking to enhance their online visibility and achieve long-term success.

Identifying High-Potential Keywords

Using SEMrush's keyword research tools

SEMrush's keyword research tools are a powerful resource to discover untapped SEO opportunities. By leveraging these tools, you can gain valuable insights into the keywords that can power your business. With SEMrush, you can analyze keyword search volume, competition, and trends to identify high-potential keywords that can drive organic traffic to your website. Additionally, SEMrush provides comprehensive data on keyword difficulty and related keywords, allowing you to optimize your content strategy and target the right audience. By utilizing SEMrush's keyword research tools, you can stay ahead of the competition and unlock new opportunities for your business.

Analyzing search volume and competition

Analyzing search volume and competition is a crucial step in uncovering untapped SEO opportunities. By understanding the search volume for specific keywords and evaluating the level of competition, marketers can identify areas where they can gain a competitive edge. One such area to explore is the creation of awesome marketing materials. By focusing on this keyword, marketers can develop compelling content and design materials that capture the attention of their target audience. With the right strategy and execution, these marketing materials can drive traffic, increase brand visibility, and ultimately lead to higher conversions.

Identifying long-tail keywords for niche targeting

Identifying long-tail keywords for niche targeting is a crucial step in optimizing your website for search engine optimization (SEO). These keywords are often more specific and less competitive than broader keywords, making them ideal for targeting a specific audience. To identify long-tail keywords, you can use tools like SEMrush to analyze search volume, competition, and relevance. By focusing on these niche keywords, you can improve your website's visibility and attract highly targeted traffic, increasing your chances of conversion and success in the online marketplace.

Analyzing Competitor Strategies

Identifying top competitors in your industry

Identifying top competitors in your industry is crucial for staying ahead in the competitive world of SEO. By analyzing the strategies and tactics of your competitors, you can gain valuable insights and discover untapped opportunities. One effective way to identify your top competitors is by conducting thorough research using tools like SEMrush. With SEMrush, you can analyze their organic and paid search strategies, their backlink profiles, and even their content marketing efforts. By understanding what your competitors are doing well, you can improve your own SEO strategy and uncover new opportunities for growth. So, if you're looking to dominate the search engine rankings and increase your online visibility, make sure to invest time in identifying and studying your top competitors.

Analyzing their organic and paid search strategies

Analyzing their organic and paid search strategies is crucial for uncovering untapped SEO opportunities. By examining how competitors are ranking for keywords related to candidate recruitment, businesses can gain valuable insights into effective strategies and identify areas for improvement. Understanding the organic search tactics employed by competitors can help businesses optimize their own website content and meta tags to improve visibility in search engine results. Similarly, analyzing competitors' paid search strategies can provide insights into the keywords they are targeting and the ad copy they are using, allowing businesses to refine their own paid search campaigns for maximum impact. By leveraging the research from SEMrush, businesses can discover untapped SEO opportunities and stay ahead of the competition in candidate recruitment.

Identifying gaps and opportunities in competitor keywords

Identifying gaps and opportunities in competitor keywords is a crucial step in optimizing your SEO strategy. By analyzing the keywords used by your competitors, you can uncover untapped opportunities and discover new ways to improve your search engine rankings. One such keyword that holds potential is 'healthcare logo'. By focusing on this keyword, you can explore the various aspects of healthcare logo design, including color psychology, typography, and symbolism. This can help you create a strong and visually appealing logo that resonates with your target audience. Additionally, by leveraging the highlights of healthcare logo design, such as the importance of simplicity and versatility, you can enhance your brand identity and establish a memorable presence in the healthcare industry.

Leveraging Content Gaps

Identifying gaps in existing content

Identifying gaps in existing content is a crucial step in optimizing your website's SEO performance. By conducting thorough research using tools like SEMrush, you can uncover untapped opportunities to enhance your online presence. One such opportunity is starting a barbershop on wheels. This innovative concept allows barbers to bring their services directly to customers, providing convenience and flexibility. With the growing demand for mobile services, starting a barbershop on wheels can be a lucrative venture. By targeting relevant keywords and creating high-quality content, you can attract a wide audience and establish your brand as a leader in the industry. Explore the potential of this untapped SEO opportunity and leverage the power of research to drive success.

Creating targeted content to fill those gaps

Creating targeted content to fill those gaps is crucial for boosting your website's visibility and driving organic traffic. One area where you can find untapped SEO opportunities is email marketing tactics. By exploring different email marketing strategies and analyzing the performance of your competitors, you can uncover valuable insights and identify areas where you can outperform them. Implementing effective email marketing tactics such as personalized content, segmentation, and automation can help you engage with your audience and drive conversions. Additionally, optimizing your email campaigns for search engines by incorporating relevant keywords and creating compelling subject lines can improve your email deliverability and increase open rates. With the right email marketing tactics, you can leverage the power of email to attract more visitors to your website and enhance your overall SEO strategy.

Optimizing existing content to target untapped keywords

When it comes to optimizing existing content to target untapped keywords, there are a few key strategies to consider. First, conducting thorough keyword research is essential to identify relevant and high-potential keywords that are currently not being targeted. This can be done using tools like SEMrush, which provides valuable insights into search volume, competition, and related keywords. Once the untapped keywords have been identified, it is important to strategically incorporate them into the existing content. This can be done by updating the title, headings, meta tags, and body text to include the targeted keywords. Additionally, optimizing the content for user intent and providing valuable information can help improve its visibility and ranking in search engine results. Regularly monitoring and analyzing the performance of the optimized content is also crucial to make necessary adjustments and further enhance its effectiveness in targeting untapped keywords.

Exploring Backlink Opportunities

Identifying authoritative websites in your industry

Identifying authoritative websites in your industry is crucial for establishing credibility and gaining valuable backlinks. These websites serve as trusted sources of information and can greatly impact your SEO efforts. When it comes to finding authoritative websites in your industry, one effective strategy is to focus on Texas side hustle. By targeting this specific keyword, you can uncover untapped SEO opportunities and connect with relevant websites that can help boost your online presence. Whether it's a blog, forum, or online community, identifying authoritative websites in the Texas side hustle niche can provide you with valuable insights and networking opportunities. By leveraging these platforms, you can establish yourself as an industry expert and build strong relationships with other professionals in your field. So, don't underestimate the power of identifying authoritative websites in your industry, especially when it comes to Texas side hustle.

Analyzing their backlink profiles

Analyzing their backlink profiles is a crucial step in understanding the SEO landscape of a website. By examining the websites that link to a particular site, we can gain insights into the quality and relevance of those backlinks. In the case of start a bar supply business online, analyzing the backlink profiles can help identify potential opportunities for building high-quality backlinks and improving search engine rankings. By finding websites that already link to similar businesses or relevant industry resources, we can reach out to them and establish mutually beneficial partnerships. This strategic approach can lead to increased online visibility, organic traffic, and ultimately, business growth.

Reaching out for guest posting and collaboration opportunities

When it comes to reaching out for guest posting and collaboration opportunities, content marketing plays a crucial role. Content marketing is a strategic approach to creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience. By leveraging content marketing, businesses can establish themselves as industry leaders, build brand awareness, and drive organic traffic to their websites. To tap into untapped SEO opportunities, it is essential to explore guest posting and collaboration opportunities that align with your content marketing strategy. By collaborating with other industry experts and thought leaders, you can not only expand your reach but also gain valuable insights and enhance your credibility in the market.

Conclusion

The importance of continuous SEO research

Continuous SEO research is crucial for staying ahead in the ever-changing landscape of search engine optimization. By regularly conducting research using tools like SEMrush, businesses can uncover untapped opportunities to improve their website's visibility and rankings. This ongoing research allows businesses to identify new keywords, analyze competitor strategies, and adapt their SEO efforts accordingly. Without continuous research, businesses risk falling behind their competitors and missing out on valuable organic traffic. Therefore, investing time and resources into continuous SEO research is essential for maintaining a strong online presence and maximizing the potential of search engine optimization.

Maximizing the potential of untapped SEO opportunities

Maximizing the potential of untapped SEO opportunities is crucial for any website looking to improve its search engine rankings and increase organic traffic. One such untapped opportunity lies in the home security company industry. By conducting in-depth research using tools like SEMrush, website owners can uncover valuable insights and identify areas where they can gain a competitive advantage. For instance, by analyzing keyword data related to home security companies, website owners can discover high-demand keywords that are currently being underutilized. These keywords can then be incorporated into their content strategy, allowing them to attract more targeted traffic and potentially increase their conversion rates. By capitalizing on untapped SEO opportunities in the home security company industry, website owners can position themselves as leaders in the market and drive significant growth for their business.

SEMrush as a valuable tool for SEO professionals

SEMrush is a valuable tool for SEO professionals. It provides comprehensive insights and data that can help optimize website performance and uncover untapped SEO opportunities. With SEMrush, professionals can analyze keywords, track rankings, and conduct competitor research to gain a competitive edge in the online landscape. Additionally, SEMrush offers a wide range of features, including backlink analysis, site audits, and social media monitoring, making it a versatile tool for all aspects of SEO. Whether you're looking to improve your website's visibility, uncover new keyword opportunities, or stay ahead of the competition, SEMrush is an indispensable resource for SEO professionals.
In conclusion, online marketing can be easy with the right tools and strategies. With Semrush, you can turn the algorithm into your friend and make your business visible online. Our 55+ tools for SEO, PPC, content, social media, and competitive research can help you achieve measurable results. Don't miss out on the opportunity to boost your online presence and drive more traffic to your website. Visit Semrush today and start optimizing your online marketing efforts!

What is SEMrush's SEO Research?

SEMrush's SEO Research is a powerful tool that can greatly enhance your content strategy. By utilizing SEMrush's vast database and comprehensive analysis, you can uncover valuable insights and data that will help you optimize your website for search engines. With SEMrush's SEO Research, you can identify the most effective keywords, analyze your competitors' strategies, and gain a deeper understanding of your target audience. This invaluable information allows you to create high-quality, targeted content that will drive organic traffic to your website and improve your search engine rankings.

Why is SEO Research important for content strategy?

SEO research is crucial for developing an effective content strategy. By conducting thorough research, businesses can gain valuable insights into their target audience, identify relevant keywords, and understand the competitive landscape. This information allows them to create content that is not only optimized for search engines but also resonates with their target market. Additionally, SEO research helps businesses stay up-to-date with industry trends and changes in search engine algorithms, ensuring that their content remains relevant and visible to their target audience. Overall, incorporating SEO research into content strategy is essential for driving organic traffic, increasing visibility, and ultimately achieving business goals.

How can SEMrush's SEO Research help improve content strategy?

SEMrush's SEO Research can greatly contribute to improving content strategy. By utilizing SEMrush's extensive database and powerful tools, content creators can gain valuable insights into the latest trends and best practices in the field of SEO. One area where SEMrush's SEO Research can be particularly helpful is in identifying the newest WordPress themes. With the ability to analyze search volume, competition, and other relevant metrics, content strategists can make informed decisions on which themes to focus on. Additionally, SEMrush's SEO Research provides short highlights that can be turned into hyperlink text, allowing for seamless integration of relevant resources and further enhancing the overall content strategy.

Understanding SEMrush's SEO Research Tools

Keyword Research

Keyword research is an essential step in developing a successful content strategy. By identifying relevant keywords such as 'start bar supply business', content creators can optimize their website for search engines and improve organic traffic. SEMrush's SEO research tools provide valuable insights into keyword popularity, competition, and search volume, enabling businesses to make informed decisions about their content. With SEMrush, content creators can uncover new keyword opportunities, analyze competitor strategies, and track keyword rankings. By leveraging SEMrush's SEO research, businesses can gain a competitive edge and achieve better visibility in search engine results.

Competitor Analysis

Competitor analysis is a crucial step in developing a successful content strategy. By examining the strategies and tactics employed by your competitors, you can gain valuable insights into their strengths and weaknesses. This information can then be used to identify opportunities for differentiation and improvement in your own content. SEMrush's SEO research tools provide a comprehensive platform for conducting competitor analysis, allowing you to analyze their organic and paid search strategies, keyword rankings, backlink profiles, and more. Armed with this knowledge, you can make data-driven decisions to optimize your content and outperform your competitors in the search engine rankings.

Backlink Analysis

Backlink analysis is an essential part of any comprehensive SEO strategy. It involves examining the links that point to a particular website and assessing their quality and relevance. By analyzing backlinks, you can gain valuable insights into the online presence and authority of a website. For screen printing business tips, conducting a thorough backlink analysis can provide valuable information on how other websites in the industry perceive and interact with similar content. This analysis can help you identify potential opportunities for collaboration, guest posting, or building relationships with influential websites in the screen printing niche. By leveraging SEMrush's SEO research tools, you can uncover valuable backlink data and use it to refine your content strategy and improve your website's visibility in search engine results.

Using SEMrush's SEO Research for Content Ideation

Identifying high-performing keywords

When it comes to developing a successful content strategy, one of the key elements is identifying high-performing keywords. These are the keywords that have a high search volume and low competition, making them ideal for driving organic traffic to your website. SEMrush's SEO research tool is a valuable resource for finding these keywords, as it provides data on search volume, competition level, and keyword difficulty. By leveraging SEMrush's SEO research, you can gain insights into which keywords are most likely to generate the best results for your content strategy. This knowledge allows you to optimize your content and target the right audience, ultimately improving your website's visibility and driving more traffic.

Analyzing competitor content

Analyzing competitor content is a crucial step in developing a successful content strategy. By examining the content produced by competitors in your industry, you can gain valuable insights into their tactics and identify opportunities for improvement. This analysis allows you to understand what types of content are resonating with your target audience and how you can differentiate yourself to drive business growth. By leveraging SEMrush's SEO research tools, you can uncover valuable data on your competitors' content performance, keyword rankings, and backlink profiles. Armed with this information, you can make informed decisions about your own content strategy and optimize your efforts for maximum impact.

Discovering content gaps

Discovering content gaps is an essential step in developing a comprehensive content strategy. By identifying areas where your competitors are excelling and where you can fill in the gaps, you can ensure that your content is unique, valuable, and relevant to your target audience. One important content gap to explore is the demand for mobile barbershop services. With the increasing popularity of on-demand services and the convenience they offer, it is crucial for businesses in the grooming industry to tap into this market. By offering mobile barbershop services, you can cater to busy individuals who prefer the convenience of getting a haircut at their desired location. This opens up opportunities for partnerships with hotels, corporate offices, and events, allowing you to reach a wider audience and provide a unique and personalized grooming experience. To stand out in this competitive landscape, it is essential to highlight the key benefits of mobile barbershop services, such as time-saving, flexibility, and personalized attention. By addressing the content gap for mobile barbershop services, you can position your brand as a leader in the industry and attract a loyal customer base.

Optimizing Content with SEMrush's SEO Research

On-page SEO optimization

On-page SEO optimization plays a crucial role in improving the visibility and ranking of a website on search engine result pages. It involves optimizing various elements on a web page to make it more search engine-friendly. One important aspect of on-page SEO optimization is keyword optimization. By strategically incorporating relevant keywords into the content, meta tags, headings, and URLs, website owners can increase their chances of ranking higher for those keywords. When it comes to Canva pricing, on-page SEO optimization can help businesses attract potential customers who are searching for information about Canva's pricing plans. By creating informative and keyword-rich content, businesses can enhance their online visibility and drive more organic traffic to their website. Additionally, including hyperlinks with short highlights that lead to relevant pages about Canva's pricing can further improve the user experience and provide valuable information to the readers.

Creating SEO-friendly meta tags

Creating SEO-friendly meta tags is an essential aspect of optimizing your website for search engines. These meta tags provide search engines with important information about your web pages, helping them understand the content and relevance of your site. One key element of SEO-friendly meta tags is the inclusion of custom website design keywords. By incorporating these keywords into your meta tags, you can improve the visibility of your website in search engine results pages. When users search for custom website design, search engines will recognize the relevance of your site and display it prominently. This can drive more targeted traffic to your website and increase the chances of converting visitors into customers. To maximize the impact of your meta tags, it's important to choose short highlights that can be turned into hyperlink text. By linking these keywords to relevant pages on your site, you can provide users with additional information and encourage them to explore further.

Improving content readability and structure

Improving content readability and structure is crucial for a successful content strategy. One important aspect to consider is optimizing the readability of your content to ensure that it is easily understandable and engaging for your audience. Additionally, structuring your content in a logical and organized manner helps readers navigate through the information effectively. When it comes to gift shop promotions, it is essential to create content that is not only informative but also visually appealing. By incorporating relevant keywords and highlighting them as hyperlinks, you can direct readers to specific sections or pages that provide more information about the promotions you offer. This not only improves the user experience but also increases the chances of conversions and engagement with your content.

Measuring Content Performance with SEMrush's SEO Research

Tracking keyword rankings

Tracking keyword rankings is an essential part of any SEO strategy. It allows you to monitor the performance of your website in search engine results for specific keywords. One important keyword to track is 'home security business'. By tracking the rankings of this keyword, you can gain insights into how well your website is performing in the competitive landscape of the home security industry. Monitoring the keyword rankings also enables you to identify opportunities for improvement and make informed decisions to enhance your content strategy. By leveraging SEMrush's SEO research tools, you can gather valuable data and analyze trends to optimize your website's visibility and attract more organic traffic. With a comprehensive understanding of your keyword rankings, you can refine your content strategy and stay ahead of the competition in the ever-evolving world of SEO.

Monitoring backlink growth

Monitoring backlink growth is a crucial aspect of any successful SEO strategy. By keeping a close eye on the number and quality of backlinks your website receives, you can gain valuable insights into its overall performance and visibility in search engine results. When it comes to nonprofit filing, monitoring backlink growth becomes even more important. Nonprofit organizations rely heavily on online visibility and credibility to attract donors and supporters. By monitoring the growth of backlinks related to nonprofit filing, organizations can ensure that their website is being recognized as a trustworthy source of information in the nonprofit sector. This not only helps improve search engine rankings but also enhances the organization's reputation and credibility in the eyes of potential donors and supporters. To effectively monitor backlink growth for nonprofit filing, it is essential to use tools like SEMrush's SEO Research. With its comprehensive backlink analysis features, SEMrush provides invaluable insights into the quantity and quality of backlinks, helping organizations make data-driven decisions to optimize their content strategy and improve their online visibility.

Analyzing organic traffic

Analyzing organic traffic is a crucial step in developing a successful content strategy. By examining the sources and patterns of organic traffic, businesses can gain valuable insights into their target audience and identify opportunities for growth. One effective way to leverage SEMrush's SEO research is by using it to analyze the keywords that drive organic traffic. In particular, the keywords 'turn side hustle into business' are worth paying attention to. By understanding the search volume and competition level of these keywords, businesses can optimize their content and attract more organic traffic. Moreover, SEMrush's SEO research can provide short highlights for these keywords that can be turned into hyperlinks, enhancing the user experience and improving the website's SEO performance.

Conclusion

Benefits of leveraging SEMrush's SEO Research for content strategy

Leveraging SEMrush's SEO Research for content strategy offers several benefits. Firstly, it provides valuable insights into keyword rankings and search volume, allowing content creators to optimize their website's visibility and attract more organic traffic. Secondly, SEMrush's comprehensive competitor analysis enables businesses to identify their top competitors and understand their strategies, helping them stay ahead in the competitive landscape. Additionally, SEMrush's SEO Research provides data-driven recommendations for improving website performance, such as optimizing meta tags, improving site speed, and enhancing user experience. By implementing these recommendations, businesses can enhance their online presence and drive better results. Overall, leveraging SEMrush's SEO Research is crucial for developing a solid content strategy and achieving success in the digital landscape.

Key takeaways

Staffing solutions are an essential aspect of any successful business. Whether you're a small startup or a large corporation, having the right staff in place is crucial for growth and productivity. With the help of SEMrush's SEO research, you can leverage valuable insights to develop a better content strategy for your staffing solutions. By analyzing keyword data and identifying trends, you can optimize your website and create compelling content that resonates with your target audience. Additionally, SEMrush's tools allow you to track your competitors' strategies and stay ahead of the curve. With the power of SEMrush, you can enhance your staffing solutions and drive success in today's competitive market.

Next steps

After completing the SEMrush SEO research, the next steps involve focusing on step by step gym logo design. Creating a visually appealing logo is crucial for any fitness-related business, as it helps to establish a strong brand identity. By following a systematic approach, you can design a logo that reflects the essence of your gym and resonates with your target audience. Incorporating elements such as fitness equipment, vibrant colors, and motivational symbols can further enhance the logo's impact. To ensure a successful logo design process, consider seeking professional assistance or utilizing online logo design tools that provide customizable templates and easy-to-use features. By investing time and effort into crafting a captivating gym logo, you can attract potential customers and differentiate your fitness business from competitors.
In conclusion, online marketing can be easy and effective with the right tools and strategies. With Semrush, you can turn the algorithm into your friend and make your business visible online. With over 55+ tools for SEO, PPC, content, social media, and competitive research, Semrush provides everything you need to achieve measurable results from your online marketing efforts. Don't miss out on the opportunity to boost your online presence and drive more traffic to your website. Visit Semrush today and start optimizing your online marketing campaigns!

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I met him over the xbox nearly 5 years ago, it’s pretty crazy. We dated for a few months online, and decided it’s better off if we were friends due to long distance (He lives in the USA, i’m from the UK) because he had to stay up late to text me and vice versa!
However, maintained a pretty strong relationship. Until, i got a boyfriend, and he got a girlfriend. I was pretty much the person which cut contact but it was because my boyfriend was pretty mad i had an ex-boyfriend added. Which i get.
(Later after, he breaks up with his GF)
However, i didn’t remove my friend, just had daily streaks and my boyfriend was okay with that.
Until, my birthday! My friend insisted to send me a gift via amazon but i refused because my boyfriend would’ve been fuming about the gesture.
He said, my friend, that it was okay and he’d eventually get me one, one day.
Then, unfortunately, recently, me and my boyfriend got into an argument which put our relationship on hold.
Coincidentally my friend reached out about the gift, he says he saved enough for something small and how i deserve it for being his friend for nearly 5 years. So, i send him a list of my ‘Wish-list’ items and tell him to pick any one as a surprise!
Ranging from £2-£20.
In the meantime, i’ve opened up about mine and my boyfriends situation and he opened up about his. Additionally, talking about me continuously flying out to him and how fast he wants it to happen - i thought it was a bit funny. But in consideration, we’ve been friends for a while.
Eventually, he sends me a screenshot of the parcels (3) sending on the amazon app. And i was angry! ‘’I only said 1.’’ Then he said, ‘’I got 11’’… DUDE.
Out of suspicion i ask what the price was and he said 214 USD. I felt so bad, he works at a burger restaurant! I didn’t expect so much. Soon after, says he’d buy me shoes too!!!
He mentions wanting to make me happy and be the bestest of best people i know, always overthinks if i’m upset and has a pretty built bond with me.
I don’t know why! In a way, i think he likes me. Another side wants to think he’s just a caring friend. I hope he is just being a nice friend, he’s sweet but is not my type an i don’t want to ‘lead him on’ or spend anymore money! Not to mention, i’m in a situationship right now and cannot be loving someone.
He got me; (2) jeans, (1) shirt, (1) shirt bundle, (1) bracelet, (3) stuffed toys, (2) candle packs.
HOW IS THAT 214 DOLLARS.
For context, one of the candles is aromatherapy ‘love sleep candles’ which have ‘sexual’ symbols around the box and RED writing inside which says, ‘French kiss’ and ‘goodnight kisses’. This wasn’t in my Wish list!! is he hinting something?? Am i paranoid.
tl;dr My friend is being a bit too loving.

Disclaimer:
This post has heavy spoilers to the story of the version 2.2 and maybe to something else. Good luck to read all of this. I yap for Ena and maybe repeat myself little too much. Mentioned characters:
Sunday
Robin
Aventurine
Dreammaster
Bronya
Seele
Cocolia
Mentioned Aeons:
Ena
Xipe
Hooh
Long
Oroboros
Qlipoth
Mentioned organisations:
Beyond the Sky Choir
Astral Express
Family
In loving memory: Ena the Order “The one who transcends the many”
In loving memory of Tazzyrronth the Propagation “The Sand king”
In loving memory of the Great Tatalov “The Garbage King”
So, the original intent behind this post was to create a lot of puns about Order and Sunday (for example something like Golden Order Radagon Sunday, “I will have order” with Sunday and a falling train instead, Sunday working in a delivery and saying that someone’s order was cancelled).
But then I started remembering all parts of Penacony storyline that have fascinated me. And one particular part master stroked me. When Sunday used his “tell the truth or die in 24 hours voice magic” he used not the power of Order, but Harmony – the Path he supposedly deliberately left behind and betrayed.
How can I be so sure, that he didn’t use the power of Order, making it look like the power of Harmony? Well, nor Dr. Ratio, nor Aventurine, nor Welt, nor (most importantly) Robin didn’t notice any sign that the Order was used and that the power on display did in fact belong to Harmony. And mind you, all of them are quite clever, experienced and hard to deceive. And in Aventurine’s conversation with Acheron in the Horizon of existence, Acheron (who as Self-Annihilator isn’t affected by the illusions of Order and can see through them) referred to the brand, used on Aventurine as the “brand of Harmony”. And the last proof is that when Sunday uses this power, he makes a call (or if you are a pun enjoyer like me, “an order”) to Xipe, referring to THEM as “Triple-faced soul”.
So, this was a really long and a roundabout way to prove that even with his supposed devotion to Order, Sunday still remains the Pathstrider of Harmony (and the laws of the HSR universe dictate, that you become a Pathstrider by following a philosophy of a particular Path). While being a Pathstrider of two Paths is not called impossible in the game, and Harmony and Order mostly overlap, there are some key differences between them. It means, that Sunday to some extant still believes in a philosophy of Harmony and is not a complete devotee of Order, how some people could have believed.
So, the goal of this post is to delve on the philosophy of Ena and Harmony through Sunday’s story, words, thoughts and actions. And to make some obnoxious theories, but that’s later.
So, let’s begin!
Ⅰ
In his childhood, Sunday alongside Robin, was called by the Dreammaster “two best interpreters of the Great One”. That means, that as a child, Sunday was extremely close to the philosophy of Harmony.
Let’s remember what Harmony embodies as a philosophy:
“Then, they say, O you who have reached the end, enter into the paradise that envelops all! Join this great choir and feast, listen to the beating of billions upon billions of hearts, holding you in THEIR embrace...”
“To battle the brutality of the laws of the universe, intelligent lifeforms must discard their cowardly selfishness and the differences between individuals, fusing into one singular melody — to have the strong help the weak, and to protect life with death.”
That is what Harmony preaches and Sunday was a follower of this ideology. Harmony preaches selfless people not only helping and uplifting each other to build “the paradise” (a prominent theme in Sunday’s thoughts) bit also welcoming every other willing person. Harmony philosophy is about acceptance, forgiveness, cooperation, that no person is beyond redemption, that in every person has inside of them the force that genuinely cares for others and strives for good. Harmony preaches something like this: “Because if it is possible for every person to become a member of Family’s shared paradise, then we should at lest try to welcome them in it.” That’s why Harmonic Strings (Emanators of Xipe) are not people and are actually manifestations materialized as the responses to the Hive Mind’s demands. It is a seemingly naïve and romantic ideal for the sometimes and indifferent brutal universe of HSR that requires great kindness, compassion, understanding, belief in other people, ability to see the better in other people and uplift them. And Sunday-follower of Order reflects on that:
"When I appeared as a child, my speech, mindset, and soul reflected immaturity and innocence."
"As I grew into adulthood, I left behind my childlike side."
Sunday (as shown in the quest) was a person of great understanding, compassion, and love for other living beings, full of desire to protect them (bird, Robin, other people). He was able to embrace even the worst people if they would show even the slightest glimpse of desire to redeem themselves and change for the better, like people who allegedly sold their own children. It is notable that he both acts as a follower of Harmony and an enforcer of Order conspiracy because of these very character traits. The motivation is the same, just the choice how to act based on this motivation is different between him and Robin because of different experiences.
As the ardent believer of Harmony, the seed of doubt in his mind was planted ironically by the very followers of the Harmony -the Family. And the disillusionment about Harmony also began, when his belief in other people was tested. When asking Xipe to clear his doubts, Sunday asks three questions:
“Who can judge the strong when their power hides their crimes?”
“Who can vouch for the weak when they will pay any price to survive?”
“If "the strong defending the weak" is truly the foundation of paradise, then who is responsible for the suffering and anguish in this wretched world?”
The questions display that the preached Harmony doesn’t work as intended. The extremely hard ideal to follow was exactly too demanding for numerous people who couldn’t stand up to the responsibility that came with upholding it. Also, as displayed both in the main quest of Penacony and in numerous events and side quests, flaws and imperfections of Family(note: of the Family on Penacony) are numerous. We have an entire “Ode to Fool” in the Grand Theatre about internal bloodthirsty war between the Family, where two of the seven families of Penacony ceased to exist. When even Family: those who preach the Odes of Harmony don’t act as they preach, are not harmonious, don’t show compassion and forgiveness, it is extremely hard to still believe in its teachings. And from that, the belief in people starts to slowly crumble as the very belief in a possibility of a paradise preached by the Xipe, is tested.
That is what turns him to Order. The feeling that while the paradise of Harmony is theoretically possible, how much suffering must people experience before it actually arrives. And when will it arrive? And IF it will arrive? These doubts in human inherent desire to change for the better leads to the idea: “And what if they don’t change? Then why take the risks? Why not to create something that guarantees their safety, happiness and protection?” His desire for Order is still born from his love for humanity.
Ⅱ
And while the shift in beliefs did in fact happen, it wasn’t completed and some beliefs in Harmony remain, alongside doubts about the philosophy of Order.
To prove that, let’s remember the Grand Theatre part of the quest (“Everything that Rises Must Converge”).
Before that Dreammaster has a particularly interesting conversation with Sunday. Sunday not only changes their plan, taking Robin’s place in the plan and then he asks Dreammaster why Penacony was the chosen planet to bring “paradise” of the Order. If he was completely convinced, why would he pose these questions?
Sunday several times brings the part of 107,336 souls of the Oak Family in his monologues. Why? Because he uses them to give self-validation to his beliefs. It comes not only from his desire to grant “paradise” to everyone (and this guys as stated dreamed about the paradise of Order), but also from his self-perceived responsibility as the Head of the Oak Family to stand up to wishes and desires of his subordinates, to protect them, and as the man with greatest position among them, to fulfil the hardest task. Because if people he is in charge of follow and support his views, not only it gives him more belief in his set of beliefs(ha), but also gives him even greater responsibility to prove that their faith in him, in Order is not misplaced.
In first two acts he displays before us shortcomings of the Harmony, trying to display himself as the ardent believer of the Order:
In the first act “Ode to Prisoner” he says that the freedom was not really achieved in Penacony’s great Independence War, posing a doubt that the ideal of Harmony even existed in Penacony since the very beginning.
In the second act “Ode to Fool” the theme of not so harmonic Harmony remains. Sunday talks about internal civil war between the Family, that eradicated two of the seven families on Penacony. How “harmonic” it is!
But in the last and most important act “Ode to Order” has a surprisingly different theme, hidden in it.
It is supposedly talking about the future of Penacony, but there is something more if you listen to its content once again:
General: “Without a ruler who would protect the weak and fight back against the tyrants?”
Chansellor: “We must assist each other in protecting the weak, just as we must assist each other in opposing the tyrannical.”
This dialogue argues that the very measures Sunday preaches, are not required for the coexistence and unification are also an option. Case of how differently Order and Harmony solve one problem.
Jester: “Without a ruler, who will make the stars follow their paths, the tides rise and fall, and allow life to grow?”
C: “These things did as they will long before the ruler appeared, just as they will continue to do with rulers gone.”
Where the Order requires an all-mighty divine king, controlling the world (like God-Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer), Harmony simply says that actually such beings are not needed.
Minister: “However, now that we have bid farewell to our ruler. Who shall take their place?”
C: “We no longer require a ruler, for we were originally all rulers who stand above all things.”
Once again, order preaches about the ruler on the top of everything, the one who has all of the rights and makes all of decisions. But harmony doesn’t work that way. Harmony preaches that if every person has equal rights to enter its paradise, then they are essentially equal. Where Order differentiates people and treats them differently according to THEIR criteria, harmony does not as THEY are all-embracing.
The choice of the position of Chansellor as the one giving answers is deliberate. It is another innuendo on differences between Harmony and Order. In Order king takes the power and pushes everyone under his control. Chancellor, as the representation of Harmony in this argument, is a position not a person. He is subject to change, unlike king. Unlike king, Chancellor is chosen among the people, by the people. He serves as one man being the voice of many people, for they have chosen him as a Chancellor because their ideals are the same and thus, they have entrusted him to fulfil their ideals in reality in their stead.
Some people were not satisfied that the arguments were not posed against Sunday by the Astral Express. Well, this entire act serves as a counter to his arguments, showing the point of view of Harmony arguing against the necessity of ideals of Order. Most importantly, they don’t disprove hid arguments completely, but rather pose a possible alternative take on things.
The Clockwork doesn’t work on puppets because they are “satisfied”. But what gives satisfaction: Order or Harmony? In my opinion, Harmony. Remember: in THEIR paradise there is “peace bestowed, sorrows and strife released.”
The “king” in the text obviously refers to Ena the Order, and the last talk from the “Future” in the act is about “final rites” to the king, that there is no need to seek THEIR existence, nor remember THEM. It illustrates the final confusion of Sunday: if Ena didn’t fight back while being consumed, if the philosophy of Harmony prevailed in the confrontation among the Paths, why try to restore the Order?
And after that particular act he chose to reveal to us the finale of Ena’s story. That THEY were banished to oblivion by the united will of the people who defied Order. And THEIR death was praised alongside praises for the appearance of Harmony – the ideal that prevailed on Penacony in the end.
And that is what actually 3 is actually about. Puppets(Members of the Beyond the Sky Choir) ask what they and everyone else should do after the “king(Ena)” disappeared.
They feel no safety and out of their comfort zone when the one that controlled everything about their lives suddenly disappeared. And Chancellor’s answers are the representation of the ideology of Harmony, that you don’t need to be controlled to strive in life, for that there is more to universe and that the “king” is not actually required for betterment of society, that society can harmonize and evolve on their own, that the unity of people can replace the “king”. Ironically, “the Ode to Order” doesn’t glorify Order but rather disproves it from being the one and only universal truth.
In this act Sunday actually reveals, intended or not, that he doesn’t disprove Harmony’s ideal, that he subconsciously feels that it can stand on par with the ideal of Order.
Then, Sunday poses between us three questions, each one has different answers depending on your set of believes: order or Harmony. Notice, that Sunday doesn’t give his own answers to the questions.
“Is darkness equal to daylight?”
This question is very metaphorical. Radiance and light, eradicating darkness and giving protection to those under the light are a repeated theme in the ideology of the Order (“I shall ascend to the heavens, becoming the scorching sun. Bathed in my light, my people shall flourish, while all evil shall be eradicated” / “Those who live in the shadows do not bear the right to tread the illuminated stage.” / “I now permit you to gaze into the sun [hardest line in the game btw]”) But radiance is also a term sometimes used to describe Xipe. The greatest difference lies in the fact that what Order will not tolerate (“darkness”), harmony will be able to co-exist with and eventually embrace. So for Order they are different, but for Harmony not at all.
“Are sinners equal to the righteous?”
Order punishes the unjust and uplifts the righteous. For it, they are not equal. But for Harmony they are, mostly because before Xipe the very concept of sinners doesn’t exist. Harmony is all-embracing, for everyone can change for the better and be redeemed.
It is a discourse in philosophy: first question was about whether are you able to tolerate something that goes against you. While Harmony can, Order cannot (Sunday can as literally shown in the quest so he leans more to Harmony in that part). Second question was about whether people can change for the better and be redeemed. Order doesn’t believe in it, Harmony does.
“If you are born weak, which god should you turn for solace?”
It is another question to choose between philosophies because Sunday struggles to choose himself. If you are weak and you bow before someone(“king”) for the protection then this is a choice befitting Order, but if you choose to cooperate with others, uplift one another and “listen beating of billions of hearts holding you on their embrace” then this is the choice of Harmony.
Notice, that Sunday doesn’t consider us as enemies at all. As he says: “I genuinely wish to avoid a violent clash with my esteemed guests from afar.” When Astral Express team asks Sunday why did he invite us to the duel, he responds: “Because our shared goals give equal weight to the beliefs we strive for.” He regards everything happening more like a debate of two equally valid philosophies. Even in the fight with him (second one) he still invites us to join his chorus of Order. And he says “our final talk is concluded” only when he turns into his Embryo of Philosophy form, when literally everyone who could has risen against him. And then he reveals his true emotions:
“If your ‘paradise’ can save more people, sever my path with your hands”
He knows he is not infallible, that his plan can be wrong, that there is a possibility of making better choices, better decisions. And he asks us to prove, that Harmony after all is a stronger concept then that of Order. And his quote before that really makes everything extremely ironic:
“If we had never experienced solitude, how could we embark on different paths?”
Once again, this solitude refers to the times when he still completely followed Harmony. Yet he was the only person on the entire Penacony because of his great compassion, who actually followed what Xipe preached. Yet, in this he was alone. How can you be in Harmony with anyone, if you are alone. The irony is in the fact, that if Robin didn’t leave Penacony, of if he met another genuine believer, he wouldn’t have turn to Order and he would remain under Xipe. With many similarities of Order and Harmony: the epitome of Order is loneliness, being a sole ruler of everything, the epitome of Harmony is a unity of numerous people.
“And thus, my talk about Sunday has concluded. Next part is about Ena.”
Ⅲ
While his monologue about history of Ena can also be interpreted as parts above, it is much more interesting to discuss it when talking about Ena THEMSELVES.
“Let us commence with the dawning of the world… After the Dusk Wars, darkness veiled the sky, and chaos consumed the earth. Ena the Order emerged, destined to restore all existence. That marked the first day.”
The Dusk Wars are one of the most ancient (if not the most) periods of history we know about. Ena emerging at that time, makes THEM one of the oldest Aeons alongside Long, Hooh, Qlipoth and Oroboros.
” THEY gathered nebulae and forged them into picks, thus creating a grand lyre with black and white keys. Strike the white keys, and the sun rose. Strike the black keys moon and the rose. And so the cycle of day and night arose. That marked the second day. “
“THEY transmuted streams of stars into inked nibs, creating symbols to be pronounced and counted. THEY molded stardust into flowing rivers, assigning the righteous upstream and the unjust downstream. Thus, all things were marked and the world learned to discern between good and evil. That marked the third and fourth days. “
“THEY used the planetary rings to establish the law, forging a code of conduct among the masses. A grand lyre with black and white symbols of articulation and numerical notation took the form of musical notes. The downward-flowing river became a melody, and the cannon of law dictated the form. Thus, all mortals found their unique place within this symphony. That marked the fifth and sixth days. “
Ena, as we know was a control freak, at much bigger scale and extent, then Sunday could have ever hoped to become. We know that «Ena's harmonic songs seems to align within a three-dimensional framework, akin to an emperor maintaining hierarchical order among all creatures» Not only people, but the movement of celestial bodies were under THEIR control. THEY wanted to and almost controlled everything in the known cosmos. So, THEY were the only person responsible for everything. And when THEY were consumed, the manager of everything disappeared and the scales of order and discord lost their balance. That is why Hooh intervened and took THEIR responsibilities.
“THEY imbued world with meaning, perfecting all things in the heavens and earth. Then, THEY rested from the labors of creation. Yet, all beings cried to Ena – ‘Under the banner of the Order, you have defined all things in the Cosmos… but this made us realize that we are but puppets in your hands!’ – Thus, on that day, all beings united and cast the Aeon into the abyss of oblivion. That marked the seventh day. “
And this is the most interesting part. We know that Ena was consumed by Xipe, so why does Sunday refer to THEIR death as an action, made by humans?
As we know, Xipe “hails from multiple harmonious celestial words”, “a plural Aeon” and “THEY are the amalgamation of thousands of entities”. Thus, I pose that Xipe ascension was not a process of accension of a one person who somehow become an Aeon, but rather that several beings in a moment of unity (of “harmony”) were ascending as one. Next bit is purely theoretical:
But who could provide such unity before the existence of Harmony? Only the Beyond the Sky Choir – followers of Ena could understand the true extent of Ena’s control over everything and unify to create a change. Thus, mortals ascended into Aeon, befitting their shared beliefs, and from the Beyond the Sky Choir, Xipe arose with a new symphony of Harmony.
ⅠⅤ
Also, some other interesting bits from 2.2. storyline:
The most overlooked part of 2.2 quest for me is that part before boss battle when Sunday says that he doesn’t intend to either resurrect Ena or become a new Aeon of Order. While the actual possibility of such actions remains “enigmatic, we can now speculate that it could be possible to take control of a masterless Path or revive its master. I speculate that when we finally reach strongest Emanators level of poweallies/etc. the enemies we will be facing before actual Aeons will be unique beings like that: fallen Aeons in the process of resurrection or people in the process of becoming a new Aeon of a Path without one.
Another interesting bit of lore about Ena is that while she was “consumed” by Xipe, her Path still lingers in the cosmos masterless. While it was known about Paths of other fallen Aeons it is interesting that even assimilation by a broader concept Aeon isn’t enough to completely eradicate the Path from the face of the cosmos.
Some other connections that I noticed about Sunday while rewatching 2.2 quest were surprising even for me. Name a planet where the ruler intentionally left their subordinates in ignorance about the truth about the events for the sole reason of protecting them? It’s Belobog with Bronya and Seele (I could talk about similarities and differences of Bronya and Sunday but that would make already long post even longer). And this is why Ena was able to persuade Qlipoth. Because Qlipoth shares with THEM that general theme of protection. Because their Paths partly overlap. Because Preservation is about keeping everything dangerous behind the walls (in this case dangerous information about Cocolia), and everything inside the walls is safe, protected, or you could say “in Order”.
Ⅴ
P.S. I feel like in this quest there is still so much more to discuss(and I could write EVEN MORE), but this long wall of text is already too out of character from me as a humble follower of Enigmata.