The first of which I’m especially excited about and will be ongoing; it’s an aLBoP Glossary, aka aLBoPGloss!  So that when you want to read up on any specific tool or concept on aLBoP, you can go read its individualized page for a brief (ish, I mean c’mon, this is still aLBoP we’re talking about ) summary of it.  There will also be related links to other pages, so you can know where to go to learn more about that, or similar topics.

Finding information in the very lengthy posts on aLBoP has still been one of our weaker points, so I hope this will help in a fun and informative way.  There’s just a few posts up there so far, but they’re bite-sized enough for me that I hope to have fun posting more, often.

Here’s a link to the Glossary homepage.  I may be super proud of learning to make those snazzy “spoiler” drop downs.  So far I’ve only posted The Importance of Definitions, Cognition, and The Power of First Steps.  That last one is my favorite.  I wrote it today in the bathtub.  If you or anyone you know wants to understand how cognition and aLBoP’s approach to it can have practical applicability in your life, check out that glossary post.

But I have also been making infographics on the Four Types of Information that I just wasn’t able to write up pages for in time, so those should be coming soon.

I’m considering having aLBoP Patrons vote on which glossary posts you’d like to see sooner.  So Patreonees, tell me if you think that’d be fun, and be thinking of glossary pages you’d find useful.  They don’t have to be limited to the list already on the aLBoPGloss page.

Which brings me to the other treat.  (I’m playing on the whole Halloween “Trick or Treat” thing if that was unclear.  Sooooo witty, I know ) Well, it’s a fairly apologetic treat.  Sorry if anyone is allergic to apologies.

But while my aim, starting last month, was 3 wallpapers a month, unsurprisingly that didn’t happen this month.  I’m a perfectionist and an idiot.  I spent an entire evening on the one wallpaper I made and will share with you in a sec here, and never found time to make two more.  So the whole “3 a month” thing might have to be rethought?  I don’t know.  I’m rolling with it month-to-month and at the moment I’m just glad I made one and I think it’s really pretty.

Here’s the link to the open-to-everyone Patreon post with the download links

Therefore, I’m making it free for all, because colors and I think this quote from Type Specializations is one everyone could use.  I hope that’s okay, Patreon ppls.  I don’t expect anyone to have a problem with me sharing the Patreon $5-and-up reward with everyone, but technically you have a right to have a problem with it, so thanks for being cool and understanding.

I assume if I’m only able to put out one a month, after this I’ll just give them to the $5-and-up people.  But Patreon rewards need a revamp anyway so…

BUT NOT TODAY!  For today is Halloween and you have glossary pages to check out!

Thank you for your wonderfulness, my lovelies!

Much love as always,

<3 Calise

OH, ps:  I struggled to convert both this month and last months’ wallpapers for phone, because I couldn’t find a clear answer online about phone wallpaper dimensions.  If you guys want to tell me the sizes of other wallpapers you use, or sizes you’d like, etc., let me know and I’ll be happy to convert them for phone!

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Here’s a preview of September’s free wallpaper!  This one was an idea from the amazing Mariana, who said basically “There’s one pic of Gwen and Phil looking bad a**.” so I added a couple of modifications to the original picture, and here they are!

I would like to imagine this is aLBoP’s tagline: Making definitions look good.  Although I’m pretty sure Gwen and Phil are cooler than me. I’m kind of okay with this.

Get the full-size versions here, in two sizes, again totally free and you don’t have to sign in or anything.

For our $5+ patrons, there are two more!  Quotes from The Four Types of Love and The People of Stranger Things.  Here are the watermarked versions:

The badly repeated aLBoP logo won’t be on the actual ones lol, I just wanted you guys to be able to see the overall preview.  Here’s the $5+ patron-only link for those.  So fancy!

I’m hoping in the months coming to get all our rewards in shape and update them to what you guys want, so if you were considering becoming an aLBoP supporter, it’s a good time.

Let me know what wallpapers you guys want next!  Quotes, stick figures, weird pics of me and Justin, whatever you guys want!  As always, if I use your idea, you’ll receive that wallpaper, even if you’re not Patreon-ing atm, so let me know what you’d like to have as your background!

Oh and let me know if you guys would use phone backgrounds!  I was going to do it for this month, but they’re a little more effort, sizing-wise and everything, so I didn’t want to bother unless I know you guys actually want them.

And as another Patreon housekeeping thing, on our next Thank You vid, I’m planning on adding the list of patrons to the end of the video, but if you’re a patron and you don’t want your first name listed, let me know privately the pseudonym you want, or if you just don’t want to be listed at all.  I want to give due credit, but not if you don’t want me to!

Okay, I think that’s it for now.  If you use a wallpaper, send me screenies!  I’d love to see!! Thank you for all you guys do, especially if you are or have Patreon-ed, but even if you haven’t or can’t.  Support in general means the world to us and I never know what I’d do without you guys.

Much love,
<3 Calise

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All this led to the complex set of algorithms which is Google Search to be very confused as to what was important on aLBoP.  When you Googled aLBoP or A Little Bit of Personality, suddenly it was trying to give search results of random image links and obscure posts, instead of things people really wanted to find, such as Type Specializations, the Super Simple Series or Type Heroes.

It also didn’t help that we were working on other aspects of aLBoP and life in general, so posting has been a slow game all year.  As I understand it, Google prioritizes frequent posting, as well as Google+ shares (nepotism ? lol), neither of which were in our favor anymore.

But this also meant that non-aLBoP links, especially from popular sites, suddenly came up much earlier in search results.  One in particular, with the most click-bait-y subject line ever, notably rose to the first page of search results right away: a forum thread with the subject line “A Little Bit of Personality Blog: Is it a scam or did I overreact?”

Well if the promise of a scam won’t get people to listen to you, I don’t know what will.  Talk about the most buzzwordy word possible lol.

Ha, which just now when I Googled to be sure I was quoting the name of the thread correctly, I saw something relieving which I didn’t know, but I’ll talk about that in a minute here.

So I have never clicked on this link, I’m pretty sure. As soon as we were live again on WordPress, I was trying to make sure that Google had our sitemap, working on our SEO, etc., so I believe I saw that link there as early as January 2017.  And seeing it there immediately upset me, not gonna lie.  But I wanted to listen to the immortal words of Taylor Swift and shake it off.  Plus I had way too many other things to worry about, not the least of which was continuing to be sure my links went where they said.  And I also knew that reading people lying about me would just upset me and keep me from getting things done.  So I went on with life and working on content like INTJ – The Dragon, which came out in February.

But apparently a lot of my aLBoP friends, (people who we’ve met through their long-time reading and loving of the site, but have become so very much more than just readers, as so many of you have ?) had seen this link too, and several of them were even more upset than I was about it.  They checked it out on their own and then came and told me about who had posted on the “scam” thread and what they had said.

As soon as Justin and I heard what the original poster of the thread had said, we were immediately like “Oh, him.” ?

Now before I go briefly into what this guy’s “grievances” were, let me tell you what I was relieved to see this afternoon while writing.  When I Googled “a little bit of personality” and saw this link there, not actually clicking on it (it’s gross enough to smell a pile of poop, I don’t want to put my hand in it), it says under the link:

“Oct 2, 2015 – 10 posts – 4 authors” [emphasis added]

*Whew* when my friends were describing what was on there to me, I thought it was like pages and pages of all these people saying how much I suck! ?  To know that it’s just four people, two of which I know who they are and knew that they were like that before they even had anything to complain about, is incredibly relieving.

Okay, so four people. I don’t know who two of them are because I haven’t actually read the thread, although it’s likely I would know them too.

Most of the people who get really angry about aLBoP are ones who liked us at first, often even people who vied heavily for our attention initially, until we say something that offends them, or more often their worldview, and then they hate us with the burning passion of suns and must tell anyone who will listen.  Although I don’t think there is a single one of those people who we didn’t get a red flag in our minds at their first email, “watch out, this is one of those kinds of people” no matter how positive they were toward us at first.  Observing people is our job, after all.

Person 1

So with this particular guy, the one who started the “scam” thread, *sigh* I knew from his first email “ah, one of those.”

He bought a typing + personal chat package from the store, sometime around then in 2015.  We don’t actually carry personal chat time anymore, because it was taking way too much time and we were getting behind. We actually *still* have some out that we sold but haven’t done.  We will either go ahead and do those ones at some point, or refund their money.  But I know there were several really cool people who ordered them near the end, so I would really like to fulfill those at some point here, rather than refunding them.

Anyway, we don’t carry them anymore because they had gotten really stressful and after we had a forum, which we’ll talk more about later, we thought people can get their questions answered there anyway, answer each other’s questions, etc.

We’ve never been especially timely with Typings, but we do always get to them.  I don’t remember how timely we were fulfilling this guy’s order. We do them in big batches, usually, where we sit down and type a bunch of people at once, oldest order first.  So if we took a while to get back to him it wasn’t at all because he was a less pleasant customer, because the time we take has nothing to do with that.  So if you have to wait a while for your Typing, it’s not because we don’t like you, lol <3 (If we’re ever taking too long, you *can* send us a polite email and ask if we can go ahead and get on it.  But we always do get to it and we always feel really bad making people wait.)

Oddly, I vaguely remember doing this guy’s really fast anyway, so I don’t think that was part of the problem. We may have been like “this guy is a live wire, we shouldn’t let his sit too long.”  We do occasionally do that.

Anyway, if I understand correctly, his main reasoning in calling us a “scam” is that the following happened:

1)  He ordered a typing + a video chat.

2)  We felt immediately “eh” about him, but fulfilled his typing order in a normal and polite fashion.

• I think it was his condescending attitude toward people in general in his first email that seemed like #badsign to me.

3)  He was displeased with the type we gave him.  We have a post about this.

• No matter how consistent and repeatable the results are, no matter how many people are over the moon about our typing of them, no matter how many people are repeat typing-customers because they see how it all lines up over and over again in real life; there are so many people who are set on the type or set of types they want to be a part of, and therefore who dislike the type we give them.  But the way we Facial Type is a science, with consistent data-sets that have proven universally consistent thousands of times, holding up over time and experience.  We can’t go changing the answer because somebody gets his panties in a wad.
• There are also plenty of people who are personally threatened by the idea of Facial Typing at all, or just very uncomfortable about it.  You are welcome to feel however you want on the topic.  But I don’t understand why people order from us if they feel that way.
• It’s like someone coming across town to tell you he thinks your house is ugly.  I feel like “… Okay, thanks?  Then don’t look at it and get off my lawn.”  The internet is a big place and no one is making you stay here.  Honestly there’s probably a more fitting analogy with someone who hates seafood yelling at Red Lobster or someone buying an orange and getting mad that it’s not an apple, but eh, I like the lawn one.

4)  We don’t give refunds on Typings we have fulfilled.  We never have, and say so very clearly on the Type Me page, which has all the instructions. That page didn’t exist in its current version at the time, but we have always listed that on pages describing the Typing process.

• The effort and our typing results are what is being paid for, and people who get snotty about their results take far *more* effort than people who are happy with them.  That’s not to say you are required to be happy, but that even if you are not, our time and our results have still been given to you, so we can’t just refund that.  If you don’t trust our scientific process and our definitions, then that is completely your prerogative.  But if that’s the case, then please don’t order a typing and waste our time, as well as yours.

5)  He also applied to the, at the time, brand new Phase 2, via a separate self-invite system.

• Okay, the thing to know about all our websites is that they are 100% free, always are, always have been, always will be.  We currently have—*counts*—4 websites.  They all have free admission and no subscription fees or anything of that nature.  The only things we charge money for as part of aLBoP are specific services and merchandise. That used to include video chats, which as I said we don’t offer anymore, and now includes Personalized Typings and, hopefully in the future, merchandise such as t-shirts (you can buy t-shirts here, but I really want to make more designs and figure out a better system for producing them), patches or whatever other physical or digital items you guys might want to buy.  We do not have any premium content, if the definition of “premium” is content you pay for.
• All other funds from aLBoP come to us via Patreon where people can support our content, which helps us produce more of it, or via Love for aLBoP, one-time donations in the aLBoP shop.  (Everyone has been remarkably patient as I haven’t been great at giving out everyone’s Patreon rewards, such as the monthly desktop wallpaper for $5+ people, etc. But I really am excited to do that and plan to do it sooooon.  Not one person has said anything about it yet, I just feel really bad because your support means so much to me. <3)
• HOWEVER, we do have content that is restricted to people we have given access. Like I said, we have 4 websites, of which this is the first; Phase 1 as we call it. Yes, this is a blatant reference to S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Phase 2 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Why, yes, we are giant nerds.  Here, have a picture of stick figure Phil Coulson with his gun from Avengers, if you haven’t seen it on the Phase 2 Intro site.

• But while we do gate these websites–the Phase 2 Intro behind a self-invite you can use right now if you want (it’ll open up in a new tab so you don’t have to lose your spot here <3), and Phase 2 gated behind applying and us getting to know you—ALL of them are free.  Let me repeat that: none of our websites cost any money.  (The fourth site only has a few people on it so far and it’s still under construction anyway, but it’ll have a similar kind of gating.)  These websites are provided free of charge, including our time spent on the Phase 2 forum, where we give lots of personal help and advice.  We don’t even have ADS on any of the websites!!!! (Although we are considering adding them to our videos, because we find that less invasive.)

6)  Where was I?  Oh yeah, he had applied for Phase 2, but then we were busy and hadn’t gotten to adding people to the new Phase 2, back before the process was automated.

7)  He sent an annoying displeased email.  I could pull up said email now to remember the details (I never delete aLBoP emails from anyone, which is why my Gmail storage is exploding), but I really really don’t want to.

• But I recall that he was firstly, really whiny about his typing.  I don’t remember if he actually said he couldn’t be an F, like we had typed him, or if that was just the impression we got from his email, which is a very common tale, especially with people who hold onto the internet’s definition of Feeler.  Men typed as Fs and women typed as Ts have been trends in our grumpiest clientele, because people believe that Feeler means soft like mush and Thinker means Vulcan, and people equate those to feminine and masculine traits, respectively, which is frankly pretty dumb.  Although I can only blame people so much for wanting certain types, when the internet deems some types so wildly more worthwhile than others.  However, how people react when they’re disappointed says a lot about them.
• The second thing that really got our eyes rolling about his email was his attitude that because he had given us money, he owned our time.  Money seemed like his main card to play, which makes all the more sense why he made money the focus of his thread title, calling us a scam.  Anyway, it was a very “but you have to do what I say, I paid you,” attitude.
• But if you’re not sure on my character judgment of him, go ahead and look at the thread.  I haven’t read it, but if he doesn’t come off whiny and like someone who feels like money makes him entitled, then I will eat my hat. Well, I won’t, but it’s the only idiom I could think of.  But if you don’t agree then you won’t agree, and that’ll be the end of it, but at least I will have left the opinion up to you.

8)  So we saw from his email, which wasn’t a surprise from his original email, that we didn’t want to waste time and energy having a personal chat with him.  We also didn’t want him on the brand new forum, which as a private, free forum was our prerogative.

9)  So I sent him an email telling him that we would refund the chat money because we didn’t want to talk to him more and that he was the first person banned from the forum, which was true.

• I think we only actually banned… 2.5 people ever.  I say 2.5 because we officially banned 2 people from ever entering the original site, and were close to banning another, but he quit before we could fire him, so to speak.
• Was I especially nice in this email reply?  No. I wasn’t trying to be.  I wanted to really let him know why we didn’t want to deal with him anymore, and frankly he was a buttmunch.  Again, you can go look at the thread if you want to verify his buttmunch-itude.

10)  WE REFUNDED HIS VIDEO CHAT.

• Again, like I said in point 5… No… 4, we don’t give out refunds for typings. We had fulfilled that part of the deal, so we kept our $15 dollars (I know, huge quantities of money being exchanged ), but refunded him the $10 for the video chat we didn’t give him.  He was our first refund; we had to figure out how to do it on the website.

11)  I think he probably replied again, angrily, but I was super done with it.

12)  Shortly after (we launched Phase 2 on September 15 and he wasn’t in the first several batches of applications, so he probably rage posted pretty quickly), he started that thread.

• Apparently his reading comprehension was limited enough that he thought paying for a video chat was paying for Phase 2…I guess… Even though you would have to read the Phase 2 announcement page from the time to even apply… idk. I’ll give him the limited benefit of the doubt that he was more stupid than flat-out lying… Stupid isn’t a nice word, it implies mental limitations and implies that if other people missed information, I think they’re stupid too, which I don’t.  “Making the decision to be willfully idiotic” is a much more fitting term.  I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he was being willfully idiotic, rather than flat-out lying.

13)  I thankfully haven’t heard from him since and hope he finds happiness despite his buttmunchiness. Totally a word.

Anyway, you can have any opinion you want about my choices in responding to him, but since he had no purchase that wasn’t either fulfilled or refunded, he has zero claim to a scam.  Although, you know, I’m really rolling in his fifteen bucks.  *Evil laugh*

Person 2

The other person who I know wrote on the “scam” thread, got upset in the very earliest days of the forum. It was a lot of drama in a short period of time that happened… ? two years ago today! [At time of writing, which was the middle of September.]  Holy crap, I didn’t know that when I started writing.  Happy anniversary to drama ?.

There was a lot of drama in those early days of the forum as we were attempting to establish an atmosphere different than so many forums and so much of the internet.  This other person wasn’t the only one involved at the time, but since other people didn’t feel the need to run my name through the mud, I don’t feel the need to address their personal issues with aLBoP.

This woman was INFP and I’m referring to her by her type since I have no intention to be petty enough to share her name.  That doesn’t mean I think all INFPs are that way *obviously,* it’s just easier than saying “woman” on repeat, because that’s weird.

But, as I’m sure she talked about on the thread in question, she thought we were harsh and mean on our forum in a way that she deemed “never called for.”  She was referring to one particular forum post of mine.  Here’s what happened, from my perspective:

If you are unfamiliar with cognitive typing, you will need to know that ESTPs like to poke for reactions.  It’s how they interact with the world, which is a good thing.  And because motives and character judgment is their primary Type of Information, it really really matters to them what people are really like. They hate fakeness, perhaps most of all the EPs, and attempt to cut through the crap of pretension (wow I had no idea that was spelled with an s instead of a t, interesting), or fake nicety, by catching people off guard and seeing how they react.  Reactions are an EP’s bread and butter, after all.

So since very early aLBoP, there was this ESTP.  Great way to start a story lol. And he had been all over the internet and in real life, and had seen people being crappy on repeat, so he was used to that as the norm rather than the exception. We can all relate with that.

So when he found aLBoP he immediately began his routine “poking for legitimacy” like a 19th century miner biting a gold coin lol.  But because of the crappy he had experienced, he was used to having to poke oftenly and fairly hard to see what was really inside someone.

But when he first began poking at aLBoP, I didn’t know this backstory.  I just saw that the same guy was commenting on *every* new post, and giving me pokie lip on each one lol.  He would comment things on each post, trying to get a reaction, commenting about how I said this or that, or on what he’d read elsewhere that disagreed.  And at first I was just like “>:( leave me aloooone! If you don’t like the posts, why are you here??”

But that was the thing, he kept staying around.  I didn’t get it.  I felt like his comments meant he didn’t like the posts, so why didn’t he just move on?  And the comments were getting more positive over time, usually just with something pokie at the end or something.  And he ordered a typing from us and I was like “What???  Well, I guess he does trust us some… Huh…”  That was before Facial Typing, but when I realized his type it just made all the sense.  (I have obviously since seen his face and it was spot on what we predicted, for the record.  Take that people who try and pretend this isn’t a science ?.  When it can accurately predict what people will look like before we see their faces.)  And he had really been open about himself in his typing emails (of which there were several, telling us about himself, which is so adorably ESTP lol ? <3), and I was already liking him a lot more already.  And then he posted pokie comments on the Spartan, being skeptical and I’d feel grumpy about him again, but as much as I wasn’t a fan of the way he was poking, feeling like “how many times are you going to have to poke me before you’ll believe I’m legit? :P”, I did still really like him and care about him, and was starting to appreciate his bold, frank, poking sense of humor.

But this back and forth dance of poking and a surprising growing loyalty we saw from him about aLBoP, was at an interesting place right before we launched Phase 2.  I remember he had left a really sweet comment on SS:P2 (which isn’t there anymore because we moved, remember?) and I was feeling really supported and happy about him.  And yet because of this history, and the fact that I was aware the poking was still strong with him, lol, Justin and I were nervous about him as we came up to launching Phase 2.  I remember three individuals that we were worried about with it and this ESTP was one of them. But like I said, we liked him too, so Justin and I had high hopes about the whole situation as we launched.

Now, if you haven’t read what is now the Phase 2 Intro, and don’t know about what kind of content we have over there, it’s not only more in depth than what we have here on Phase 1, it’s about understanding yourself in a very core way, even deeper inside than cognition even, which is why we didn’t want it to be drive-by internet bait.  It’s not secret, but we think it’s pretty special, and we wanted to foster an environment of reading-comprehension and self-examination, for this information that is intended to help individuals grow, for people who want to do that. Like I said, it’s pretty special to us, and we’ve had immensely special experiences seeing it work in the lives of others as well as ourselves <3.

But because of the crap he’d experienced, and because most of the time Motives aren’t treated as a valid Type of Information, even after all the times he’d poked us, this ESTP felt very wary as he came onto Phase 2 and began reading the new information.  It was all new stuff and lifted the ceiling on his own potential, making him worried he was going to be judged unfairly for things he didn’t know yet (I hope that’s a fair assessment of his feelings at the time).  And so he sort of acted out about it.  From what he said later, he skimmed the Intro, feeling grumpy about it from the very beginning of the information, and went to the fresh new forum even more wary than he had started.

He read the forum rules, which we had written purposely open-ended, talking about attitudes that weren’t acceptable on the aLBoP forum, and referenced content from the Intro in showing how those attitudes would be identified.  Having been treated unfairly other places for doing the “wrong” action (his last step and mine), and I think feeling grumpy about the new information being referenced again, like he was expected to know everything right away or, like I said, be judged unfairly, our ESTP’s first forum post was a criticism of the forum rules, saying they were too open ended and wouldn’t work.  I remember in one of his posts in this conversation, he said that other forums’ rules were better and said it would be better to be like every other forum, which was the opposite of what we were aiming for.

Justin replied very nicely to him, explaining that he wasn’t expected to know everything yet, and to just relax and settle in, trying to encourage him to get comfortable and let us worry about whether or not we could reasonably make it better than other forums.

(I swear, I don’t know why people consistently treat Justin like he’s going to be the intense, harsh one. 9 times out of 10 *I* play bad cop, not him.  Which people don’t expect from me because I’m adorable and smiley, lol, and the unsuspected nature of it works in my favor.)

But our ESTP (running out of ways to say that) was still feeling upset from the Intro, and didn’t want to be soothed about the topic, still arguing about it being unfair.  I think some others might have talked too at that point?  Don’t remember.  But it was a particular “won’t let this go” thing iirc.

And we were working so hard on the atmosphere of this baby forum.  Justin and I were getting about 2 hrs of sleep a night, trying to help the forum feel like a safe place where people could actually talk about things, and this was the last thing it needed.  And I was so done with this ESTP’s mood and attitude at that moment.  He was being so stubborn (which I lovingly joke ST stands for sometimes, lol <3) and obstinate, and I decided “no more!”

I sat down and wrote a reply post that was intended to smack him upside the head, hard, and say “Stop it!  I think you can be better than this!  Are you going to prove me wrong?!”  It was an intense post, not gonna lie. I actually remember very little about it besides my calculated fury and the fact that I quoted XKCD.  And I said he wasn’t allowed to say “I didn’t do any specific actions wrong, you can’t call me on my bad attitude and intentions.”  Oh and I may have said he was acting like a “dick” at some point ?… Yeah, apologies, that is a phrase I use, not actually on Phase 1 before this point.  It’s just so concise and jerk is just not strong enough sometimes!!  Is it bad that it’s a little bit funny looking back at how intense I got, since it’s been very resolved on that front since?  Like I’m kind of embarrassed that I am that intense of a person.  You know, as if someone took a picture of my battle face and I’m looking back at it now like ? “That’s what I look like angry, huh?”

Which isn’t to say that I rage posted.  I don’t rage post.  Case in point, how the thread that sparked this whole post is now over two years old, and I began writing this post over a month ago.  I am meticulous and thorough and attempt to predict the reactions my words and choices will evoke, as is my one-true-mental-love as an ENTP.

I stayed up all night writing that post, trying to imagine how he would reply to different parts and trying not to let him wiggle out of it, and yet wanting to give him the opportunity to do better if he wanted to.

I am a very passionate person, I’ll give you that for sure.  People and things mean more to me than I can ever say, often against my will.  But that means while I get really truly incensed about plenty of topics, I will never write an angry message to someone if I have no hope of getting through to them.  Like this post for example; there’s a reason it isn’t addressed to the people over on that thread.  I have hopes of actually communicating with very many of *you,* however I won’t try and communicate with them.  I don’t have any hope that that would do squat.

Ask Justin’s brother, also ETP, sometime about the intense face-slap email I sent him, ? he’s definitely never forgotten it.  But I would never have sent it if I didn’t respect him and his ability to apply things and desire to grow.  (He replied epically to it, btw.)  If I ever get truly angry with you, and let you know it, know that I respect you enough to believe it’ll make a difference to address the issue with you.

ETPs need to be poked as much as poke (saying that is going to get me into trouble with people lovingly poking me, heh), and I wanted to poke this ESTP hard enough to get a reaction of change, and I poked as hard as I felt he personally needed, based on knowing him personally and knowing his cognition.

But the INFP woman in question immediately replied informing us that you never ever ever (need a bunch more evers) speak to someone that way!  She said we were mean and rash and harsh and she would have no part in it!  And for the record, she was definitely not the only one concerned.

The post I wrote *was* in fact harsh, but it was not a knee-jerk reaction.  It was a calculated move decided upon, based on love for the person I was talking to, and the hope that snapping him out of the way he was acting would induce him to be *more*, which I hoped he could be.

And if you consider “lovingly harsh” to be an oxymoron—if you believe that there could never be a situation where harshness would be the appropriate reaction in order to get through to someone you care about—then this may not be the place for you, especially the later Phases of aLBoP.  aLBoP is a place for adults to come of age, and attitudes that say “you always deal with people this way or that way” are, frankly, childish and therefore wouldn’t fit in with the atmosphere of aLBoP’s later Phases.

We deal with people on a case by case basis, not by one-size-fits-all rules, and this was actually what I thought would be most effective.  And to be honest, it worked.  He immediately stopped in his tracks and said “I’m sorry, what can I do differently?”  Honestly, his reaction was much more epic and adult than I expected it to be, but I did anticipate that the best way to handle an ESTP acting that way, was to shock him to get his attention, and stop him in his tracks.

But this INFP woman didn’t care whether or not it worked.  She was all too pleased to be indignant.  She told the forum (if I remember correctly) that she was leaving, and also emailed to chastise us again, and to tell us she was leaving.  We emailed her a short but polite “sorry you feel that way” email, but tbh were pretty pleased to see her go.  (Now when I say “polite,” I actually mean polite.  I don’t consider my harsh post in question to be polite, for example, but it wasn’t intended to be polite.)

She was actually one that we *did* have a video chat with before we even launched Phase 2 (you guys see why I didn’t want to carry them in the store anymore?), after we had typed her.  And while we made it very pleasant and answered all the questions she had, to her stated satisfaction, Justin and I both could tell there was something about aLBoP that made her very uncomfortable.  He and I discussed afterward, “that was good… right?” “yeah, but we had to make it good.”  I could go into the ins and outs of what made her uncomfortable, things having to do with her Type Angst, blah blah blah, but that just seems petty at this point.  Interestingly, I talked about her in What if I’m not the Type I Thought I Was and referred to her as a “cool INFP.”

I was being nice.

I will say, disappointingly, that there has definitely been an FP trend among the people who have been the least cool about aLBoP.  I mean, I know soooo many cool FPs, and I suspect we get more of them, quantity-wise, since their Type Specs are all about the meaning that they can get out of Individuals and Situations <3 and I think and hope that aLBoP is right down that alley.  But when an unhealthy FP feels like we’re a threat to their own personal meaning, ? watch out!  We’ve especially had a lot of ESFP and ENFP guys (more often guys than girls, interestingly) who have approached us as “nice guys” with obvious warning signs, that when they ended up showing their true colors were anything but nice.  I won’t go into tales of the one who wouldn’t stop emailing me in all-caps not-so-nice words, or the one who spammed comments about how ENTPs didn’t have feelings.  I don’t make character judgments flippantly, especially negative ones.  And unfortunately, my spotting of warning signs has proved depressingly accurate, as individuals have demonstrated with later actions.

But in a twist of couldn’t-get-more-ironic, the reason I decided to write this post was because Justin was chatting with the very ESTP she had said I was abominably too hard on.  He’s been one of our biggest supporters ever since, both in having our backs with emotional support and sharing aLBoP, and he’s been ridiculously generous on Patreon (I hope it’s okay to share that, I never know what is couth when it comes to talking about money and donations ).

Lol, when he found out about people discussing him on that thread he was like “Hey, they’re talking about me!  That’s pretty cool.” ? ROFL, could he *be* any more ESTP?!  Idec, I love you, you are seriously amazing and I can learn a lot from how you let stuff roll off of you!! <3

But he had a friend whom he’d been telling about aLBoP, and the friend saw the “scam” link and got wary, so I felt like it was finally time to address this.  I have better things to do than tell people on the internet that they’re wrong, but when it’s deterring other people who are looking for aLBoP, then that’s something I need to try and fix.

*Whew* sorry this has been so long!

But I don’t want you guys to worry that this has delayed posting at all.  The only major posts this year have been The Dragon, like I said, and the Four Types of Love, both of which I am ridiculously proud of, although I have been worried sick about not posting more, especially since you guys have earned it with Patreon all year; don’t think I’ve forgotten it!!

But the reasons we have been gone so much are somewhat other aspects of aLBoP, working on later “Phase” stuff, especially training people who want to help us help all of you guys more, but also working on our own personal situation as well.

In June I was offered a part-time job by an INTJ friend of mine that I really respect, at his business, and I felt like it was the perfect time.  (For the record, he doesn’t know I’ve typed him shhh ?)  And while I’m really enjoying it and I think it’s benefitting aLBoP, I felt fairly overwhelmed and anxious the first few weeks, so that took a lot of my attention at first.  But really, there’s been plenty of other aspects going on with us working things out to establish ourselves for the long haul.

Which, for the record, the part-time job is in financial planning, so I had to have a background check for it, which I passed, so I guess the FBI doesn’t believe I’m a danger to people’s money if that helps with the whole “scam” thing lol… Unless that’s a ruse and they’re watching me *right now.* O_O  Considering that I’m writing this from the bathtub, that would be super pervy.

However, apparently I have very little fingerprints left, I guess from my skin condition, so I am considering a life of crime.  If anyone has any suggestions, please leave them in the comments below.

Anyway, I have two short Super Simple posts almost done, working on a new format for shorter posts and faster posting, so I hope to get those out to you guys ASAP.  I will make up for all the months I’ve missed, I swear!!  Thank you guys for your patience as always.  And for your trust of us as a source.  I can’t tell you how much it means to me those times when people are impugning our character (which thankfully seems to be happening less and less these days), to know you beloved readers are out there; knowing that you know us, love us and have our backs.  I couldn’t ask for a better audience or better friends. <3

My hope in clearing this up is to just soothe people’s worries and hopefully overcome misleading search results so that new people can find aLBoP every day, and hopefully feel like who they are and the way they think naturally is worthwhile and wanted.

Much love,
<3 Calise

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aLBoP on Patreon.

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And it only took… -_- okay it took a long time.  Way longer than I anticipated.  But it seems we had way outgrown Blogger… like two years ago.  We were trying to make a blog format, intended for family vacation pics and pictures of people’s dogs, viable as a full-fledged website format.  Not that blogs can’t be professional.  But I had done an insane amount of jury-rigging to make the COGs, etc. look like professional pages on our poor little outdated Blogger aLBoP.

So when I used the Blogger importer thingy for WordPress, it did save me tons of effort.  Well, compared to retyping the posts myself  But every link had to be updated and 90% of the posts were FUGLY!  *Scream!*  It was so terrifying and overwhelming (and some of the less visited posts might still be nasty looking, I make no promises.)  But we did it!

Between Justin combing every single post and making sure every link was updated (there are 84 posts, FYI, and if anyone needs a bulk URL updater for WordPress, we have one to recommend, because going live would have been literally impossible without it!), and me going through all the major posts *and* 192 COG pages one by one to be sure they were pretty and not full of nasty spacing and picture issues, we finally did it, but we’re pretty well wiped. *tired face*

But… I love it!!!  I love how the new start page looks!  I love how the new contact page looks!  I love the new pics I made for the Type Me! page (all of those today, as a matter of fact :P)!  I love the header and the fact that I figured out all by myself how to change the html so that there aren’t little grey boxes around all the images.  I love the new sidebar blurb and I *really* love the drop down menu at the top!  *Melt*  I love it all!  And even though it took way longer than I anticipated, I really am so proud and I really do feel like it was worth it. <3

Okay, so going forward!  I’m gonna bullet-point these…

• If you’re waiting on a Typing you already ordered, thank you so much for being patient!  I feel like it would be foolhardy to promise when we’re going to get all caught up, because of the holidays, but we haven’t forgotten and it’s at the top of my aLBoP to-do list!  That’s why it’s the first bullet-point lol
• “Guaranteed Major Posts” for November, December and January, that you guys earned as a group through your Patreon contributions, will all be coming in January (is the plan anyway).  Feedback from you guys said it was okay to count web versions of the COGs as October’s, which I much appreciate, but I’m very excited for the new stuff we have planned for the new year.  One of the first ones planned is actually Super Simple 1.5 (to go between Part 1 and Part 2… obviously lol) as a more thorough look at the Four Types of Information and differentiating them from each other.  Actually, if you have unresolved questions about the 4Toi, please go leave them on SS:P1, and I’ll try and incorporate them into SS:P1.5 if I can!  Also, we’re really really excited for a new intro to aLBoP video we have planned that we’d love to make one of the January posts, if you guys are cool with that.  It should be a really cool way to introduce new people to aLBoP!
• Phase 2:  Like we said in the last thank you video, we’re moving Phase 2 and the Forum to WordPress as well, and actually separating it into two parts.  There will be a Phase 2 Intro site and Intro Forum, that has a similar self-invite system to the one we already had in place, for people to read the Phase 2 Intro, get their bearings and ask questions, etc.  But then there will also be a separate main Phase 2 site and Phase 2 Forum for people who are ready for more content after the Intro and other intro-ish posts.  We’re really excited for this, and think it’ll help everyone get the content and attention they need for where they are in the learning process.  We’re also using it as an opportunity to delegate to people we really trust to handle a lot of people’s initial questions about the intro, so Justin and I can spend our efforts on producing new content, rather than answering FAQs on what’s already there.
• So, because of all this ^, we’re a) not extending new invites to Phase 2 atm and b) going to be working hard on getting the new Phase 2 and Phase 2 Intro sites live.  But with all the time and effort that getting “Phase 1″—as we call this, main aLBoP website lol—live, I am absurdly behind on my Christmas preparations.  Like seriously, I have a ton of DIYs I haven’t even *started* yet! :O  So you might not be able to expect any of that stuff until we get a chance to work on stuff after the holidays.  I mean, we tend to work on stuff on weekends and holidays anyway lol, but we would like to get the chance to spend time with family and, you know, sleep once in awhile.

But seriously guys, I feel like aLBoP is mine again, in a way that I haven’t in a really long time.  I mean aLBoP and all its phases has been the most fulfilling project of my lifetime, but over time I felt like I spent so much time defending everything that aLBoP is, that I wasn’t able to just stretch out and play in the party that is humanity, anymore, which to me is what aLBoP is really all about.  I feel like I can make it about that again, finally. <3

As the holidays and end of the year are approaching, I want to take this opportunity to tell you guys that even when I don’t get to say it, *you* are what make aLBoP a joy to me.  aLBoP has given me many of the most precious relationships I have.  I can’t tell you guys how much I’ve missed everyone on the Forum lately, and how often I think of you all.  I would say individual names but I don’t want to embarrass anyone on the internet lol  Besides, there are so many more of you than I could count anyway!  And I’m sure more of you than I know personally.  But know that your love and support has bolstered me through every hard (and insanely tedious, the past month :P) time, and that I could never do any of this without you guys!  I only hope that I can lift and strengthen you guys as much as you have lifted and strengthened me!

That’s my goal for 2017(:O!), to spend it working on things that will help as many of you as possible, reach new heights and new happiness by understanding yourself and your own potential, more than ever before!  #SquadGoals!  Can I pull that phrase off?  Doubtful. ;P Ah well.

Enjoy the new site organization!  OH!!!  And don’t forget to update your Pins/bookmarks, etc!  Eventually I’ll change all my Pinterest urls, but that is a project for another day.  And leave me new comments if you’re so inclined!  Bittersweetly, all the old ones were lost in the move although I still have *all* of them saved in my email, because that’s how I roll <3

Merry Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanza, Life Day, or whate’re you celebrate!

Love you guys a bazillion!

<3 Calise

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Uh, pretend this was uploaded on Halloween  We filmed it on the 31st, but weren’t able to get it all edited until the 1st  Don’t forget to leave your favorite aLBoP quote and a video suggestion in the comments, please!!

Much love,
<3 Calise and Justin

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Click here to learn more about becoming an aLBoP Patron.  Click here for more on Anakin Angst.  And don’t forget to give us more video suggestions and desktop wallpaper suggestions!!!

Much love,

<3 Calise and Justin

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Even $1 a month helps contribute to the bigger picture of aLBoP and shows us you care! <3 <3  And even if it’s not a good time for you to be an aLBoP Patron at all right now, if you encourage your friends to support aLBoP, you still get the posts and content!  Win-win!

We love you guys!!  Thank you for all that you do!  We can’t wait to bring you all the things you love about aLBoP… faster, stronger, better!  Yay technology!!!

Much love,
<3 Calise

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I’m feeling very happy and sometimes I feel like I’m always starting posts by rolling my eyes or saying something to the effect of “how many times do I have to say this?”, but today I feel contented and like everything is going in a good direction.  Did I mention that we’ve had lots of great emails and conversations with you guys lately?  That may be a super-large contributing factor!   Also my birthday is on Sunday (Golden birthday!  26 on the 26^th!) and everyone was super sweet when I updated my profile picture on Facebook.  It’s been a good week.

And so this post isn’t about telling you guys you’re doing something wrong or about trying to ask you to do more; it’s about saying “Thank You” for the things you’ve already done and asking you for feedback so that we can give you more content, get more of your questions answered and help you further on your way to being the most *you* version of you ever!  Basically, we want to get feedback from you on how to give you more of everything that drew you to aLBoP in the first place.

And so I will ask you to *comment*!!!  Please tell us in the comments (or in an email if you’re not comfortable commenting… or have too much to say   These are both common reasons for our full inbox! :D) how we can improve, especially in the areas I’m going to ask about in this post!  Just like how we’re constantly refining our understanding of cognition, like I talked about in the last post, we’re constantly refining how we convey all that information to you and our systems for communicating with you.  Finding new ways to do things just makes everything easier!  And while we might not implement every suggestion, or implement it right away anyway, due to time constraints, etc., we do want to hear all your thoughts and feedback and it may lead us to find new solutions we never would have thought of without you guys!

Here are some things I specifically want feedback about:

Site Organization

Heh, there are a lot of words on aLBoP.   This is due to a combination of *so* much complex information to communicate… and a weirdo content author who types like she thinks.  Justin, my INFJ, often has to comb through my posts and fix really strange sentence structure where I’ll be trying to fit 18 thoughts into one super run-on sentence.  Long story short, (proving my point), it’s sometimes hard to find the content you’re looking for on aLBoP.  In blatant honesty, I don’t know what to do about this and it’s one of my least favorite aspects of working on aLBoP.

Between Justin and me, we are aLBoP’s two-man-band.  We’re the Research and Development team, the most behind-the-scenes, unseen job of figuring out, hypothesizing and experimenting on cognition… and researching faces until my brain literally hurts and everyone’s face looks like a squidgy incomprehensible mess.  We serve as content development and communications directors, keeping track of if we’re staying on-message and how to best get that message across.  We’re writers, perhaps the most obvious part of the process, which can make it nerve-racking, but is also one of my favorite parts (except also being editing and grammar… I make Justin do that!).  We’re the advertising department, in charge of all social media outlets and trying to hook people into coming to aLBoP in the first place.  Not one of my favorite jobs :P.  We’re customer service, in charge of handling and responding to all emails, comments, etc. left on all said social media outlets.  That often turns into serving as life coaches or counselors, which is one of our favorite jobs, but means that an email takes *so* much more thought and effort than if we were just running an entertainment, fashion or DIY site.  (Which is one reason we’ve recently put a stand-alone chat option in the aLBoP Shop   Real-time chats are *so* much faster and more communicative than email!!  Especially when it comes to applying these things to your individual lives.)  And then there’s other roles like film crew, film “talent” (lol!), hair, makeup and costuming (important to me!), film editing (tediousity :P), graphic design/art (one of my favorite things!  Even if the stick figures take a lot longer than they look ;)), CEOs, store managers, and of course People-Who-Type-You-When-You-Order-a-Personalized-Typing (I was trying to think of a title for that job and I couldn’t lol).  It is soooo awesome that with the internet, suddenly these roles that used to require a big team of a ton of people can theoretically be done now by a two-member team wearing pajama pants at side-by-side computers!  But… time is still a factor and often my highly tedious jobs of webmaster and tech support fall to the wayside.

I enjoy setting up systems, like the “Browse by” pages, but when maintaining them is a drag and I fall behind, they’ve grown a little unkempt.  Feedback on how *you* browse the site and how to make it easier for you would be quite welcome, because I’ve grown a little unhealthily apathetic about how easy it is to find things on aLBoP, which I know probably shows.

Patreon

If you’re not familiar with Patreon, it’s a fantastic crowdfunding website similar in concept to Kickstarter, but for ongoing instead of one-time projects.  Crowdfunding is an awesome thing, again made possible by the internet, of having lots of people contribute smaller amounts of money to fund a project they care about, rather than having to have a single venture capitalist, grant, producer or employer front the cost themselves.  In other words, spreading the cost of an idea, invention, production, etc. across many people in little chunks instead of needing a large upfront sum.  This has enabled so many cool projects to be accomplished that would never have gotten going without the internet!!  And the consumer can get the product they want instead of waiting for a big company, foundation, etc. to give it to them!  Cool, no?

And in return, the contributing consumers get rewards for backing the project, both on a personal and group scale.  The more a backer contributes to a project, the bigger rewards they receive, and the more backing a project has overall, the more rewards the group as a whole receives—such as a better version of a product, more features or more content, etc.

Patreon specifically is for ongoing projects that don’t have an end date, for people like YouTubers, musicians, bloggers, web comic artists, etc. who are continually putting out new content that their audience is going to continually enjoy and want more of, rather than a product that once finished is finished, and doesn’t need more upfront capital (which is more what Kickstarter funds).  “Patrons” of a project can decide how much they want to contribute on a monthly basis (which, as I understand it, is usually set up to be automatic, but can be canceled at any time) for different tiers of personal rewards, while knowing they’re also contributing to the bigger picture of the project and receiving more, better content for their efforts!

Anyhue, it’s the perfect way to help you guys get the content that you want, faster!  It has the benefit of both personal rewards, similar to how our current Support aLBoP system gives, and group rewards like *POSTS!!!* lol  But tell me what you guys want for rewards!  I need your input!

Even if you can’t be an aLBoP Patron at the moment (and we totally understand if you can’t!  Though remember, even $1 makes a big difference to us!  And contributes to the group goals), I want your ideas and input anyway!  Maybe you’ll be in a position to back aLBoP down the road, or maybe your ideas will get other people to want to contribute which will get you posts faster too!   Crowdfunding is a win-win.

Here are some of the group rewards we were thinking so far:

A Monthly Patreon Thank You Video

Yes, I know we only did one thank you video.  Yes, I know I promised them in February.  Yes, I know lots of you supported aLBoP a *year* ago and we still haven’t made them.  Yes, I feel like I deserve to have rocks thrown at my head. :C  I may *always* be behind on things—it’s the hard combination of learning how to handle specific action when it doesn’t come naturally for me… and working with the fact that we’re a two-person company trying to do a much larger job—but I *never* stop appreciating you guys and the wonderful feedback and support you give to us!  I may not be prompt, but I *will* show you guys I care and appreciate what you’ve done!!

Ahem.  Anyway, this will be a fun, little video of us doing something silly, that anyone supporting our Patreon campaign can help vote on, even if you’re just contributing $1 a month!  This will probably be the lowest reward tier that we’ll do pretty much if anyone supports us on Patreon at all.

Guaranteed Big Posts Every Month

*Guaranteed* big posts every month, like thorough letter comparisons (“How do Judgers and Perceivers Use Action Differently, but Equally?”), Type Heroes (and the crowd goes wild), the “Super Simple” Series (straightforward explanations anyone can use, with no previous psychological background or reading, that should make everything make more sense), and before too long, Facial Typing Posts (don’t even get me started on how excited we are for you guys to be able to use this system for yourselves!!)!

Character Spotlights!

Giving our insights on how certain characters tick and our typing process.  You guys have already requested so many great characters to type, or our reasons behind typing the ones we’ve already typed, and it’ll be fun to talk about how characters apply to real life and real people’s cognition.  Also, it’s crossover heaven!

Q&A Quickies

You guys ask amazing questions!!  So. Many. Of. Them.  Lol  No guilt tripping, seriously, I’m so glad you guys ask us questions and give us feedback because that’s how we learn to communicate these principles more effectively!  But I also feel the tremendous weight of over 18 months of backlogged questions riding on me.  This will hopefully give us the chance to remedy that problem.  Regular Q&A videos will give us the opportunity to answer questions for the whole class so you guys can get answers once and for all!  (We’re also *unbelievably* excited for the forum on Phase 2, where you guys can get together and answer each other’s questions too!)

aLBoP Meet-Up Trips

As a stretch-goal, one that we’ll let build up over months, we hope to come and visit you guys in your natural habitats!  We want to make special trips (starting domestically of course, international flights are pricy ;)) to come meet up with you guys, spend time with you, help you in person, hold aLBoP workshops, and just get to be closer friends!  Honestly, we’ve had an absurdly large amount of aLBoP excitement from the Pacific Northwest (Washington and Oregon) so that would probably be our first destination, but since we live in North Georgia and would be traveling by car, there are plenty of places we could hit along the way if you’d like us to swing by and grab lunch and a selfie together (I think that is the first time I have *ever* typed the word selfie…).

As for personal rewards, I would extra love to get your input there, because I’m not sure what you guys would especially want.  I want to give you rewards that you’ll be excited to receive monthly, not just one-time.  That’s been an odd thing with the current Support aLBoP system, the rewards if you donate more than once aren’t especially “stackable.”  I don’t want to give you a bazillion of the same type’s wallpapers, for example.   I also need to make the rewards reasonable to deliver to you without getting in the way of writing posts, etc., while still being exciting enough for you guys!

Digital things are pretty easy (*really* easy if I can give the same thing to many people).  I’ve considered rewards like a new aLBoP desktop wallpaper each month (with stick figures, etc.) or backer requested stick figures of your favorite characters, such as stick-Avengers, stick-Star-Wars or stick-Fellowship-of-the-Ring.  But I don’t know how much that kind of thing means to you guys or what you might like better… so let me know!!

I’m hoping to have our Patreon page up and running by early August so that it can fund September’s posts!    Oh, and if you’ve donated to aLBoP in the last few months and I haven’t given you your rewards yet (my bad), I’ll add the amount you gave to our August group total, and you can have the new version of the personal rewards if you want!  (If I haven’t given you everything from a long time ago, you can still have the new personal rewards instead if you want, but I may not be able to count your contribution toward the group total.  You guys understand.)  That way you don’t need to feel like if you had just waited a little while to donate, it could have gone toward posts, etc.  We really appreciate those of you who gave earlier!!!

And now that we’ve better streamlined our Personalized Typing system with the COGs, and as we’ve been talking to so many more of you lately, especially in live chats (which, remember, have a stand-alone option now!  Ooooo), we are getting *soooo* excited to release aLBoP Phase 2 and the Forum!!!  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I announced it here.  We have so much more to share with you on Phase 2, ways to help you more fully implement what we give you here on Phase 1.  And the forum…!  The massive percentage of you who email and chat with us, and are so awesome and have so much to contribute to the world… but feel alone.  We hope for the aLBoP Forum to be a way for you to meet together digitally, share your ideas on anything—aLBoP related or not—and just hang out and get to know each other.  It’s like when you have two friends from totally different parts of your life, that both mean so much to you, and you want to introduce them so they can be friends with each other too!  That’s how we feel about all of you!!  And all our recent conversations with you guys have made us want to get there even faster!

Aaand… I think that’s all I specifically wanted to bring up at the moment… Oh, wait!!  We’ve added two new pages to the beginning of the COGs in order to dispel the immediate myths and misconceptions that come to mind when you hear about each type, so check those out!  Also we now have a deal on Personalized Typings, that if you buy 3 at a time, you now get an additional Personalized Typing, free!  We wanted to make that bundle option available so it gives you a discount if you want to type a whole bunch of friends, family, etc.!  (We had requests   Don’t feel bad if you don’t want to type everyone you know right away!)  It applies to any price tier, though we only have one each of the $5 and $7 “Love Me Anyway” versions at a time until they get fulfilled and then we replenish them, just FYI.  But you could get like one $25 chat option and two $15 base price and then use the chat to talk to us about all four typings, for example.  You just have to email us pics of each of the four people you want typed, from multiple angles, blah blah blah.  I hope that makes sense.  The discount will apply automatically in your cart… supposedly–this is our first promo so let us know if it doesn’t work for some reason!

lol I think I’m done now!  So go, my pretties!!  Fly to the comments and write your thoughts and feedback!  Nicely though, please.  It is almost my birthday.

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