#Defensive stocks

[priyashareindia9]

Defensive stocks are a prudent investment choice and provide stability and portfolio diversification. These stocks, offered by companies with a steady consumer demand, maintain their value even during market fluctuations. In this blog, we will discuss the relevance of defensive stocks to Indian investors and why they should consider them for their portfolios.

[superdorkcat]

Upcoming Magical Girl Projects

Magical girl fans are finally eating good after years of starvation. So good, in fact, that I decided to make a list of magical girl projects in development.

The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Used to Be Archenemies - The most imminent of these projects, since it's premiering only in a few days. It's the story of the forbidden romance between the magical girl Byakuya Mimori and Mira, a high-ranking official of an army trying to take over the world.

Mermaid Magic - In a new western magical girl show from the same studio as Winx Club, Princess Merlinda, with her friends Sasha and Nerissa in tow, ventures to the human world in order to find a way to save her homeland of Mertropia from the ghost pirate Barbarossa and his monster horde. Dropping on Netflix next month.

Acro Trip - One of several new magical girl series coming out in the Fall 2024 anime season, Acro Trip follows Chizuko Date as her efforts to increase appreciation for her idol, local magical girl Berry Blossom, takes her down a "dark path filled with strange folks."

Magilumiere Magical Girls Inc. - Kana Sakuragi is having a hard time finding work, botching over 15 different job interviews. However, her luck changes when a series of events lands her a job at the magical girl company Magilumiere.

The Story of the Girl Who Couldn't Become a Wizard - The third of the magical girl anime coming out in October, MahoNare for short tells the story of Kurumi Mirai as she tries to become a wizard anyways after failing to get into her school's magic division.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie - Walpurgisnacht Rising - The fourth PMMM movie, which will pick up where Rebellion's massive cliffhanger left off. It's currently set to come out sometime later this year.

Cute High Earth Defense Club Eternal Love! - The magical boy series is getting a new movie in winter 2025 as part of the celebrations for its 10th anniversary. While the movie will "consist entirely of new scenes that will be newly drawn," exact plot details are unknown. (Added August 7, 2024)

Mahou Tsukai Precure: Mirai Days - A new installment in the Precure franchise, Mirai Days will serve as a sequel to Mahou Tsukai, the thirteenth season. Even though it's premiering early next year, specific plot details are currently unknown.

Princess Session Orchestra - A TV original coming next year, Princess Session Orchestra is based on a concept by Akifumi Kaneko, one of Symphogear's co-creators. The land of Alicepia's peace is destroyed when monsters called Jammerwocks attack, prompting a trio of young girls to step up the plate to protect the realm.

Winx Club - The western magical girl classic is getting a CGI reboot. While comments by Iginio Straffi imply that certain characters who were introduced later in the original series (such as Roxy and Nabu) will appear earlier, no specific plot details have been revealed so far. The series is coming to Netflix late next year.

New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt - Panty & Stocking is getting a second season after over a decade that's coming out sometime next year with no specific plot details revealed yet. (Added August 7, 2024)

Project Symphogear Next - A new Symphogear movie was announced late last year. However, no further details have been revealed.

Hua Xianzi: Zhi Mofa Xiang Dui Lun - A co-production between Tencent Video and Toei Animation's Shanghai branch, this anime is being billed as a "remake" of Lunlun the Flower Fairy. That being said, promises of "a fresh story and characters" make it sound more like a reboot.

Studio Pierrot's new anime - Studio Pierrot, which has made a variety of magical girl anime from Creamy Mami to Tokyo Mew Mew, has announced that they're creating a new TV original magical girl anime. No specific details have been disclosed, but the caption for the teaser image ("I want you to sing once more...") implies that it'll be a magical idol anime.

Lolirock season three - After Lolirock's second season ended with a cliffhanger all the way back in 2017, it seemed like the story would never get a proper conclusion. However, the series's creator and director, Jean-Louis Vandestoc, announced on his Instagram in 2023 that creative meetings for a third season have begun.

Magic Knight Rayearth revival - TMS Entertainment is making a new Magic Knight Rayearth anime in honor of the franchise's 30th anniversary. Unfortunately, it's currently unknown what the format will be.

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card season two - The sequel to the magical girl classic is getting a second season that will adapt the rest of the manga.

Magical Girl holoWitches - A multimedia project starring six VTubers as fictionalized versions of themselves who work as both streamers and magical girls who save people when they get trapped in the magical Holocas World. There was a four minute extended trailer in May, but the anime's proper premiere date is unknown.

Ojamajo Doremi 16-20's - An adaptation of Ojamajo Doremi's light novel sequel series, which follows the girls as they grow from being in their mid-teens to early 20s. Interestingly, the format for the adaptation (TV show, movie, or streaming series) will be based on the reception of a music video featuring the girls as adults.

[elbiotipo]

this phrase of "bombing them back to the stone age" is frankly bloothirsty, completely genocidal and appaling and I never heard someone use it unironically outside of a comedy movie general

But then I thought, did I really never heard it before? No, it isn't the first I heard it, it sounded like a very Usamerican stock phrase, so I looked it up...

Explains a few things.

[artzee534]

Doodle request

Sonic chasing tails after he ate the last chili dog

[tendie-defender]

My tism is pleased with gunshow finds. Now the question is….. which vibe shall I choose for my main rifle.

[daily-slugplush]

NOO SLUGPLUSH BLOG TOO BROKE TO BUY SLUGPLUSHIES.....

i will spread the news tho chat the downpour plushies are back in stock

except spearmaster apparently ?

[greyias]

I should be a sleep right now, but I would be remiss if I did not share this before I forget.

@nayci, another friendo, and I started a new BG3 playthrough tonight. I forgot to take many photos of our pretty babies, but here's two of the three of our precious little gamebreakers.

I was originally going to play a monk, but we needed more support and heals in the party (AND BOY DID WE), so I've got a beautiful little dwarf bard lady. I think she's become the party mom somehow.

Anyway, our beautiful rogue elf here accidentally split the party and got eaten by some wandering brains (but she got better), I somehow broke the game and the internet at the same time and lost the ability to load up the menu screen at all. This of course happened with Lae'zel's cage scene (that damn scene is cursed), but despite all of that, we were overall very successful in our adventures and only died and/or got set on fire a few times (outside of the unfortunate carnivorous brain incident).

Anyway, we decided to go visit Grandpa Withers, went through the fight, talked to skellie grampy, and then decided to leave his house through the back exit. So, I go and click and climb the ladder like normal.

But the rest of the party doesn't follow. I'm very confused and suddenly I'm overwhelmed with two wildly contradictory statements.

"What--I can't climb the ladder! It says I'm not allowed to climb the ladder!"

"Please tell me you guys see what Withers is doing?????"

Baffled, I climb back down the ladder, that works perfectly fine for me, but is still giving everyone trouble, and go running back as fast as my little legs can carry me to find our third party member to see what he's going on about with Withers.

I look and... on my screen Withers is just walking around like he usually does. On @nayci's screen, he is also doing that (although she's still mysteriously banned from using ladders). So, we get on a screen share session to see exactly what's happening and----

Grandpa's got his groove back!!!

And somehow in doing that he broke 2/3 of the party's ability to climb ladders. We eventually just fast traveled back out of the chapel after Withers realized we were all watching him bust a move and started grumbling to himself and walking around like normal again.

[stick-by-me]

Lots of stories to tell!

New follower sticker for: @konbinistory!

[m1d-45]

hi i have more idea (　･ิω･ิ)

i am writing this at 4am so apologies for the holes but anyway

so i've seen a few fics where the creator grants someone's wish or cures someone's illness or something as proof of their divinity

what if we flipped it around though? it is often expressed in fiction that divine intervention offsets the natural order of the universe. thus, i bring you this:

creator!reader arriving in teyvat first and being recognized and placed on the throne.

however, as much as it pains you to do it, you must strictly abide by one single rule: god must not meddle in the affairs of mortals.

prayers go unheard, pleas unanswered.

one day, a being who bears a striking resemblance to the creator emerges from seemingly out of nowhere, granting wishes left and right.

suddenly farmers are seeing healthier crops, clinics finding themselves empty.

you're skeptical. suspicious. not just anyone is capable of such a feat. just who is this person—no, entity?

the divine call it an abuse of power. mortals call it a miracle.

people begin to question the validity of your identity. why is it that this mysterious being who, unfortunately for you, happens to look exactly like you holds so much power that they've never seen you demonstrate?

naturally, people's faith in you begin to waver.

for all they know, you could be a fake. masquerading as their god to gain their adoration and devotion.

and eventually your very own people begin to turn on you.

- death loop anon

ohhh, that’s interesting!

gods don’t intervene with mortal affairs, after all, and the idea of reader being like “you want them? fine.” and then promptly fucking off to like sumeru to play w the aranara is hilarious.

after all, their creator is a benevolent god, right? they should heal the ill and cure disease, not just sit there, right?

(they would have died anyway, your healing would have just prolonged the inevitable. better to die naturally than be suspended by the divine, less human than you were before.)

and this new ‘god,’ they fit the bill so much better! deeply intertwined with the people of teyvat (can’t you see it’s manipulation?) and (seemingly) emotionally invested, outright hostile towards you for your callousness and aloof nature.

(they’ll find out. they’ll know eventually. those they’ve cured are alive by corruption, taking a poison as a cure.)

but what do you know, right? you’re just the god of all, just the one that created the disease your people suffer from. what do you know of medicine or society, you who have crafted those very concepts by hand? what do you know of empathy or compassion, you who gifted humans with this ability eons ago?

what do you know, you who leaves in exile, you who hardly puts up a fight—and surely never cared at all?

the archons beg you to stay, not to leave them under the jurisdiction of whatever that is that’s wearing your face, but you wave them off with a smile.

“i’ll return,” you promise, hand twitching slightly as yet another of your beloved creations falls to the fraud’s toxins. “they are unsustainable.”

“then why not stop them now? why not prove your point and make your move first, why let the world suffer?”

“isn’t this what they wanted? who am i, to say what they need, hm? i am no dictator. i am not both judge and jury, nor executioner. if the people cry for a slow death, then i will not deny them.”

“please, divine one… you know as well as us that they are misguided. give us time-“

“to do what, barbatos? we have tried to convince the people of the truth. if they turn a blind eye to the long-term in favor of short moments of bliss, then… well, then i suppose that’s a fault in my design.”

“do not blame yourself for their fallacies-“

“i’m not. i’m just a bit disappointed they haven’t put it together yet. humans are bright people, and yet so… is egotistic the word?”

“selfish?”

“no, not selfish… ah, no matter. this will be resolved within a millennium, of this you have my word.”

“…and if it isn’t?”

“then i will intervene myself. you have nothing to fear.”

“my god…”

“all will be well in the end, kusanali. i will not forget this promise. if the imposter isn’t driven out of the people’s accord, then i shall do so myself.”

[mugwot]

me:

okay, so there are no real bounds to what the established magic system can do, because there is no system. and would feel weird to put limitations , So. i have been thinking of putting a curse on that guy. for balancing reasons

my very patient friend: 🤨

me: so i think a funny, but good one would be, what if can only ever complete half of the things he starts?

my very patient friend: did you just give him adhd

me, head in hands: it’s magical adhd, okay

[hellishradio]

Would you adopt a random starving child, give it food and leave, or just ignore it.

"Haha! Perhaps I'd ignore speaking realistically."

[bitchapalooza]

Sweden makes fun of Denmark constantly because half his income goes to hair care products, and then turns around and does the exact same. Wow. They truly are brothers.

[dreamcast-official]

ur never gonna guess who just made an impulsive purchase <3

[nando161mando]

WaPo's Big Brain advice for student protests: Buy U.S. defense contractor stocks then change them from the inside!

[tankshaw]

i think david shaw would be appalled at the state of my pantry….

[cherryblossomshadow]

You Aren't Overreacting. It Really Is That Bad.

by The Speech Prof

Transcript:

You can't ban guns or bump stocks. Banning things never solves anything. I mean, you could ban books … and definitely ban abortion … but guns? Guns? No no

Bump stocks don't kill people. People kill people.

What are you going to do? Ban people? You can't ban people … I mean, unless they're unhoused. Definitely make that illegal and ban them

But that's a crime, right? We have decided that they are committing the crime of not having a home

No, nobody is above the law. Okay well, unless you're the President, right? The president is above the law. But we look at the president as an expert, right? And you trust experts.

You- you always trust experts … unless they are in charge of things like food, safety, and education. Or the environment. And you know other inconsequential things

But don't- don't trust THOSE experts. That's when you trust judges.

Judges appointed by the ultimate expert, right? The President.

The President is the expert to trust, and if you don't like that, then vote!

YOU have the ultimate power as a voter … unless of course you live in a Republican state that's been gerrymandered to an absurd level right?

That's okay, though. cuz your vote doesn't matter as much as the other ones

America