#I'm not Super close to that but I'm reasonably close (not giving you a percentage because that's just.. my actual follower count)

[neverendingford]

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[abbyfmc]

Narcissistic Yandere x Female Reader:

Hey! how are they? I hope it's ok.

I've been watching Police Bodycam videos, and they were mostly about police arresting narcissistic and super toxic ex-partners; as well as videos of children defending themselves from abusive narcissistic parents, and there I asked myself: "If narcissistic people are very controlling and manipulative, and a yandere also seeks to have control in his senpai's life, why not combine both concepts?" and so I made these headcanons.

Warning: This section contains topics such as toxic relationships, manipulation, emotional and psychological blackmail and everything that may be characteristics of a narcissistic personality. Remember that these behaviors should not be carried out in real life under ANY circumstances, as it also carries themes of murder, kidnapping and obviously abuse and controlling behaviors.

If for any reason you feel stressed when reading the behaviors reported here due to past experiences, you can simply stop reading. I'm also not trying to romanticize either yanderes or narcissists since they are not people you would want to deal with.

Now, let's get started!

Narcissists are VERY manipulative and toxic people. You can almost say that they are similar to yanderes; They have a "kind" side that they show to everyone (including their senpai/partner), but behind closed doors they are psychopathic or sociopathic monsters.

They study you from top to bottom, and EVERYTHING about you.

They are VERY controlling and possessive. They want to control and possess everything about you, as well as manipulate you at will, as well as use all kinds of tactics in their favor.

They will gradually isolate you from your family and friends, either physically or via phone and internet. He would monitor ALL of them, as well as all your daily activities 24/7, and if he sees you talking to someone, he will then ask: --Can I know what you were doing with X?; Why were you hanging out with X? Do you not love me anymore? -- and things like that.

If they are not in a relationship with you, then they will manipulate you in a thousand ways until they get it; It doesn't matter what they do or did in the past with their previous partner, with family and even their own friends; They will do ANYTHING to make you accept them.

They would try to feel sorry and pity in your presence.

Whether he was your partner or not, he would criticize your tastes or at least those that do not relate to giving him/her attention.

Normally narcissistic people are people hungry for control and power because they feel powerful having control over their victims, since they are very insecure and feel inferior or intimidated when they do not have power over you and… your life. In general, since by losing control over yourself they feel that they are losing you or that you are moving away from them.

They would try to have a social mask when in public or in front of you.

They would also try to gain the trust of your loved ones, and consequently, manipulate them for their benefit.

Can a narcissistic yandere kill for you? Yes, he can, but it depends on his level of sanity/insanity and his hunger for control over you. Although they will mostly use psychological and emotional manipulation against you and everyone around you.

It could be the case that he/she does not care what you think because the narcissist thinks that only his/her opinions are the ones that matter, but it is also the case that he/she will directly or indirectly care A LOT about what you say about him/her, because as I said before, a narcissistic yandere NEEDS AND WANTS you to flatter them, give them compliments and only think about them because they are insecure controllers (to the extreme).

If you agree with him/she at 90% (for putting a random percentage), let me tell you that 10% will make this kind of Yandere denigrate you, just for not being 10% agree with him/her.

Can they be unfaithful? yes of course. Maybe not all but the vast majority; Only to highlight your power over you with the excuse of: --I can do this because I want and because I am superior to you, and how I have control over you, you must endure it because you are a lower garbage without me-- and excuses of that style .

They would try to blackmail you with everything; With self -harm and suicide, with the custody of your children (if they have), your pets, family, your work, school/university and hobbies, friends and even with neighbors or your belongings.

If you argue with him/she, you should call a relative/friend, the police or do everything possible to defend yourself, since it is very likely that a narcissistic already will be violent once you discover your manipulative social mask or want to leave.

In the event that you have a Narcissist boyfriend Yandere to the one you want to leave, he will blackmail you, "praying" with returning and trying to convince you that he will change (something that will not happen); Then he will feel terror of losing control over you, to the point of using or mentioning delicate or important things for you; He will "warn you" of your "consequences" by leaving him; He will tell you that he cannot live without you, that you have the power to save him or that they are nothing without you; Then he will threaten you to hurt, harass, kidnap, rape or kill you and your relatives. It can fulfill them, depending on what Yandere suits you to have you.

They will minimize your problems about yours, or at least make your problems and solutions around him/her.

After manipulating you, blackmail, abuse you as possible would hug you, kiss you with love and tell you: --I love you Senpai, I do this for your good-- but this really means: "This is love. Me having control over you? this is love. I have abused you mentally because I love you in such a twisted way in which I only am interested in having power over you, without accepting a no for response".

When you try to leave them, they would say --I'm sorry?-- What does it really mean: "What the fuck are you telling me?, i didn't hear you".

They would be powerful stalkers. They will follow you and your loved ones everywhere. I would do it on the Internet and call you all the time both and your loved ones, new partner, your family, and even call your work and places of study.

If you are talking to the police, they will "kindly" close to your side and put your hand on your shoulder, or would not let you speak. This is a dirty tactic that they would use to ask you indirectly: "Hey Senpai, what are you going to tell them?; What will you say? Tell me; what are you going to talk to them and why can't you talk to me inside our home? ;I want to know what you are going to tell them to be able to manipulate it to my convenience ".

Yes, they are able to kidnap you.

They would hate to see how you progress in your life, forgetting them and their control over you.

If you have hurt you and you are traumatized, they would put your hand on you smoothly and if you react, they would tell you: --Oh, don't be a crybaby, i'm just touching you-- But in reality they know perfectly what they have done about you.

When you confront them without fear, they can feel intimidated because they feel they lose the control over you.

They would try to manipulate even how you feel with respect to them.

[sirfrogsworth]

Computer q. For otherwise identical monitors, is a 4000:1 contrast ratio noticeably better from 1000:1? I don't mean for fancy art but like if I'm watching a movie, could I see the difference in a dark scene? I looked into oled's, but those are expensive and I think the way I use my stuff would cause burn in.

I hope you don't mind, but I got carried away and answered pretty much every computer monitor question anyone has ever had. And since this turned into a whole thing, I thought I'd share it for everyone to benefit.

For a computer monitor I would say the most important aspect is actually the viewing angle. This is how far off-axis you can look at the monitor before the image degrades.

We sit very close to our displays and at that distance, even a change in height in your chair can affect the image. Move a little bit left or right and a cheap display could completely wash out and look terrible. And if you get a display that is 27" or above, even if you sit dead center, the edges of the screen will appear dark and washed out with a bad viewing angle.

The two best display technologies to get a good viewing angle are IPS (in-plane switching) and OLED. If you are interested in a display without these technologies, be sure it has a decent viewing angle. You can read more about viewing angles here and here.

IPS has very little concern for burn-in, but it is still a concern with OLED. In recent years OLED has greatly improved and image retention and burn-in can be avoided with regular maintenance. Displays will have pixel shift features and noise modes that work out all the pixels evenly. You can run these features every once in a while to prevent burn-in. You can also play special anti-burn-in videos on YouTube (full screen) to exercise the pixels to uniformity.

So if you don't mind the hassle, you can manage an OLED with low risk.

That said, OLED was almost exclusively for TVs and has only recently been introduced for computer displays. The current options are quite large and fairly expensive, as you alluded to. So if you are trying to stay within a budget, it might be best to seek out an IPS display.

Another consideration is resolution. Everyone is obsessed with everything being 4K now. But I think increasing the resolution brings diminishing returns with regard to increased detail you can actually notice. So if you don't mind going with a 1440p monitor (about 2.5K), you can save some money on resolution and get higher quality in more noticeable areas. Personally, I feel 1440p gives you a nice, noticeable bump in detail over 1080p. Whereas going from 1440p to 4K (2160p) is less noticeable unless you have very good vision.

Another benefit to 1440p is that video games are much easier to run on high quality settings with a reasonable GPU. And you can use technologies like super sampling (Nvidia calls this DLSS) to increase the detail you may lose from not going 4K.

The only concern I'd have with not going 4K is if you edit 4K video. It will be difficult to do a pixel level analysis of your footage otherwise. But other than that, you can still watch 4K content on a 1440p monitor and because it is being downsampled, you will still notice a nice bump in detail.

So if you don't have a reason to get a 4K display, I think 1440p is worth considering.

The next concern would be color. Or color gamut. This is how many colors the display can accurately reproduce. If you don't do any art or video color grading, you'll at least want something that does 95 to 100% of sRGB. That is the color space the entire internet uses. And if you are going to be watching HDR movies, you might want a display with a decent percentage of the P3 color space as well. Doesn't need to be 100%, but the higher the better. And for those who do art, a good percentage of Adobe RGB is recommended.

Also, many manufacturers offer displays that come pre-calibrated from the factory. If color accuracy is important, I would seek out one of these displays with a Delta E rating of 3 or less (lower is better).

A newer factor in displays is peak brightness. This is measured in "nits." In standard dynamic range (SDR), video only needed to reach 100 nits. Most HDR content is mastered to reach 1000 nits. In the future, that number will be 4000. And if micro LED technology ever becomes affordable, we may go up to 10,000 nits. But almost everything is around 1000 at the moment, so that is a good number to shoot for.

HOWEVER, because HDR is tone mapped (the brightness of your display is factored in and the content is adjusted accordingly), you can still get some benefits of HDR, even if you cannot do the full 1000 nits.

All monitors can do 100 nits for SDR content. But with more things being displayed in HDR, having more nits will give you a better experience. This does not mean your display will blind you. Usually bright stuff only takes up a small portion of the screen. But having more nits allows highlights to really pop and feel immersive. A lightsaber might actually feel hot and dangerous on a bright enough screen.

Computer displays are often rated as HDR400 or HDR600 or HDR1000 based on their nits. The HDR400 isn't great for HDR content. If you can do 600 or above within your budget, you'll get a better experience. If you are going to watch movies, this may be a feature you prioritize.

I know you mentioned contrast ratio, but I'm afraid that is a little complicated to answer. It can depend on other aspects of the monitor and the viewing environment. So I'll try to give you the info you need to figure out if the display you select will suit your needs.

Manufacturers can use tricks to fudge their contrast ratio in product descriptions, so it is best to go to an independent review website like RTINGS to see what they measured. (They do good TV and monitor reviews too.) You'll see that OLED displays are said to have "infinite" contrast ratio, due to being able to turn off pixels completely. Which means it is probably time to move to a new metric because that gives very little info on the dynamic range of the display (the difference between the darkest and brightest thing it can show).

You definitely want a decent contrast ratio for your display, but this can be subjective. If you have a nice bright screen, your brain may feel the contrast is fantastic, even if the actual darkest black point of the monitor isn't great. If something is really bright, then dark things will *seem* darker by comparison. And if you are viewing in a dark environment, the contrast will look even better. So this is where seeking out a professional reviewer's experience of the monitor can be helpful. One monitor's 4000:1 ratio might be a different experience than another with the same measurement.

Because TVs are generally larger and can have more backlighting zones, they can get decent black levels without OLED. But smaller computer displays have more difficulty in reasonable price ranges. So manage your black level expectations if you go with an affordable IPS display. They can get bright, but they aren't great at blacks like OLED. I'm afraid that is just a limitation of the tech. In fact, getting a brighter display might be preferable to a better contrast ratio. And it will be easier to see if you are in a bright environment.

Most IPS displays are going to be between 1000:1 and 5000:1 and while it does make a difference, if you sit it next to an old plasma or an OLED, you're going to be disappointed. So I would not make contrast ratio a super high priority with IPS, because non-OLED computer displays just aren't going to give you inky blacks. I would say 2000:1 or better is going to give you a decent experience. But, again, I would seek out reviews rather than trust the official product specs when it comes to the quality of the blacks.

And one final consideration you may want to factor in is the refresh rate. This is mostly for gaming. Most displays will give you at least 60 Hz or 60 "refreshes" per second. Gamers tend to like 120 Hz or higher. This won't affect movie watching very much as nearly everything except Gemini Man is 24 fps.

TLDR overview...

Get an IPS or OLED display for a good viewing angle. I personally feel this is the most important feature.

Choose a resolution. 1440p can allow you to increase quality in other areas to maximize your budget. Only get 4K if you have a legit reason or you have fighter pilot vision.

Color gamut or number of colors. Try to get 100% of sRGB for web content, 90% or above of Adobe RGB for art/photography, and 90% or above of P3 for HDR movies and video editing.

If color accuracy is important, look for pre-calibrated displays that have a Delta E of 3 or less. (Lower is better)

HDR brightness. If you want to experience good HDR, you'll want the brightest screen possible (measured in nits). HDR600 or HDR1000 are great. If you don't care about HDR, then don't worry about the rating.

Contrast ratio and black levels. It's going to be meh on pretty much anything but OLED. 2000:1 or better is a good goal to shoot for, but be sure to check independent reviews for the subjective experience of the black levels. Dark viewing environments help too.

Refresh rate. 60 Hz is fine for most things. Gamers prefer 120 Hz or faster. And if you are a competitive gamer, you may want to seek out more info on "variable refresh rate" and "pixel response time."

Pick the variables above that seem most important to you and then seek out a display that does those things decently within your budget.

[liskantope]

I always find your thoughts on dating apps to be super interesting, and I'm sorry to hear about the demoralizing nature of it (which has been precisely my experience, too, for the past couple of years).

It got me randomly thinking, do you feel that one reason the dating sites don't generally work is because, counterintuitively, there's too much to choose from? In other words, the very fact that we know there are so many profiles makes us more likely to pass on people who we might have been willing to give a chance in real life.

I'll admit outright that I'm guilty of that, and it might not be the case with most other people, but I do wonder if the overabundance of profiles on the dating apps has some unhelpful effect.

I hope you have better luck real soon, by the way!

Thanks for the kindness and commiseration! In fact, just in the last couple of years, everyone I hear discussing modern online dating seems to express a disgust with it and seems to feel some degree/variety of hopelessness around it. I was at a meetup event organized by a woman for single men some months ago, the purpose being to discuss what the dating world looks like from men's point of view, and the one thing that we seemed to unanimously agree on was "Online dating sucks!" Part of it clearly has to do with dating apps just visibly getting worse. Just twice in the past couple of weeks there have been snarky offhand mentions (one of them on ACX) of "OKCupid, back when it was still good". And I have the same feeling: it's hard for me to put a finger on precisely which changes in the interface of the dating apps I've been on have made the overall experience much worse than it was even a few years ago*, but it's there.

Anyway, to more closely address your question, I've heard the "paralysis and decreased happiness from having more choices" hypothesis from time to time in conversations (mostly from podcasts) about the modern world of dating. It's a much more generally-applied hypothesis as to why there seems to be more unhappiness (among certain populations) in modern times than half a century ago; I even recall there being a famous TED talk on it. I think this phenomenon must have an effect for some people in some areas of the online dating realm, but my suspicion is that this is mostly a factor for women seeking men through online dating. My impression of most women on dating apps who are reasonably attractive and have some ability to post decent photos is that they have a plethora of men to choose from, a very large percentage of whom will right-swipe them back, so they might as well aim for the top. But then, the men they perceive via very limited digital profiles to be the cream of the crop often turn out to be disappointing in person.

This could be an issue for some non-women not seeking men online as well, I suppose (although from what I hear, my experience of putting tons of energy in desperate hopes of getting a single match every now and then is pretty normal for men seeking women, even men I would consider more attractive than me, and plenty of men who are not me follow the strategy of just right-swiping everyone so your suggestion certainly doesn't seem to apply to them). But I don't really think it's an issue for me: as I said in my last post, the vast majority of dating profiles I see show women don't enthuse me on one or more fairly basic parameters (this is particularly the case on OKCupid, where a lot more information tends to be exposed). This sounds like I'm being very demanding -- and whether I am is a question I ask myself all the time -- but these criteria just don't seem like they should be too much to ask for, although I'm beginning to see why as our history progresses and as I get older it was bound to get harder and harder to find them.

These basic parameters aren't as visible with someone you've just met in real life, and maybe if I met some of them in real life I'd find them more dateable than they appear in a profile, and maybe chemistry would take over powerfully enough for me to be more flexible on certain things than I currently think myself capable of. But admitting this possibility is subtly but significantly different from saying that the multitude of choices presented to me on dating sites raises my standards: I just don't think it has, or that for me the larger number of choices has anything to do with it.

Anyway, I wish you better luck too!

*The closest I can come to explaining coherently is that they are more visibly trying to find ways to get my money. Which I find not only annoying but somehow infantalizing in a way I can't quite explain, even to myself. My attitude doesn't seem entirely defensible when I zoom out and consider that there's no reason dating sites should have to be free: they are businesses that have to stay in business and have every right to try to get me to pay money. There's just some holdout within the last bit of my internalized stigma around using dating sites that makes me strangely proud of how I've never spent a single penny on dating sites in 11-12 years of on-and-off using them. (At the single men's event I mentioned above, one bit of advice some other guys gave to me is "if you're a guy, you have to spend money on dating apps, otherwise they're not going to be effective.")

[crystalelemental]

I have defeated the main game of Rune Factory 5, and entered postgame, where things have gone straight to hell.

By and large, the main campaign is sane. There's a short stretch between Cloudheim and Calamity's End that's a major pain in the ass, but for stupid reasons. Basically, I had the best dual swords and armor I could craft, and had to wait for the same item for both improvements: Crimson Fur. This item can be obtained much earlier, but only through stupid means of beating up a mark. If you catch it successfully, it is gone forever, but prior to that you can farm the fight for the drop. Otherwise, you need to find the items in the Calamity's End zone, by beating up these dogs and hoping they drop the fur. It is miserable. But once I got those upgrades...the final bosses couldn't deal any damage to me. It's an extreme pingponging that is reminiscent of Atelier games, where either you're kinda getting completely stomped, or you're stomping the enemy with no resistance.

So it makes sense the postgame would be similar. Rigbarth Maze is 20 floors, and the first two were surprisingly easy. Tons of orichalcum, monsters weren't too hard to manage, we had a good time. But. Eventually, we hit floor 3, and went from beating the prior boss with minimal damage, to being unable to hurt the common dragon enemies at the first room. That is. New. It then also threw a rock at me for 4k damage. Needless to say, it was not a good time.

I managed to break past this barrier solely due to Heinz' rotating stock randomly generating Dangerous Scissors for me. This allowed me to get the next upgrade on armor and dual swords, which eventually built up to getting past these dragons, albeit barely. I then got to find out that the rest of the floors down through floor 8 were fucking cake. Apparently these Yellow Dragons exclusively present a challenge, and there's some archaic bullshit method I'm supposed to have to bypass the check. Apparently punch gloves can ignore defensive stats sometimes? Figure that one out. Darroch also apparently randomly gives you a super hammer with 5555 Atk when you give him five handmade presents? That's a cheese strat I saw. Anyway, I got through one of them with the special combo moves with my allies, but it was a brutal spike in difficulty that I'm legitimately unsure how to work around without some kinda cheating bullshit.

The real treat was that, upon reaching floor 5, I can warp in, backpedal to floor 4 to fight the boss, for a Dragonic Stone drop. Now, fun fact. I had been checking the fandom wiki, because it was the first thing to pop up, and I figured sure, it would have some info. It lists percentages that are not even close to real. Radea's Scarlet Scale is listed as 15%, for example, but I rarely see the damned thing. Eventually, I wised up to the problem and asked Reddit, receiving immediate factual answers. The percentage listed is "drop percentage," a number the game checks. Basically, it rolls a number 1 to 1000, and if it's at the values specified, you get the drop. But you'll note: 1000. Meaning it wasn't 15%. It's 1.5%. So fuck that. Every major boss is like this, having some really critical drop that may as well just not even exist. This stone? 0.3%. That's not viable.

Fortunately, Reddit provided other answers. Apparently, Rare Cans have a use despite their worthless description. As an upgrade material for weapons, they add 3 percentage points to rare drop rates. Not 3% of the drop rate. 3 percentage points. So that 0.3%? Now it's 3.3%. And it stacks for each ally in the team, which means you can push it up to 12.3%. BUT WAIT, because there's also Happy Ring and 4-Leaf Clover as an upgrade material for armors, both of which reduce the 1 to 1000 number by 70 (ring) or 100 (clover), and also stack, for a huge reduction in possible values. Basically, I went from spending like an hour trying to get Radea's scale, to getting it consistently in like five fights. I have almost every material I need for my party's ultimate weapons and the Four Dragons' Vest for each of them. Yes, including the Ancient Fish Fins. Heinz was kind to me.

The problem is getting Rare Cans. Apparently, they're fishing rewards, and the best place to look (allegedly, but it worked for me) is the Whispering Woods. Warp to the depths, go back a screen, and check the pond near the little leaf enemies. Ribbittee? Those guys. The small fish (allegedly, I think I got one from a bigger shadow) can be rare cans. Sadly, you do need to get a new can for each item you forge as an upgrade, which has been. So wonderful as I continue my climb.

Because now we're on the horrid path of evil. See, my forging and crafting levels are low. Mid-60s, but still. We're dealing with the best equipment in the game. They're all level 99. It costs me like 20k RP to forge one, which would not only fail, but would kill me instantly. For context, I have around 1.5k RP normally, and with the best Relax Tea I can make, can get up to around 2.8k. If you can't meet the amount needed, it fails. So now that items were secured, the next step is grinding out the levels needed for forging and crafting.

Step 1: Heart Pendant. Apparently, I have missed this the entire goddamned game, but there's a level 40 or so accessory that, while equipped, ups your skill EXP gain. So...yeah. That would've made a lot of my life easier. Still, we caught it before it became too severe a problem. Now we get a ton of extra forging and crafting EXP per item made.

For forging, step 2 was getting the Priest dual-swords for myself and Hina, and the Gigant Hammer+ thing Darroch can hand you for Beatrice. All three were forged, and required a Relax Tea to make. However, with a high enough level Relax Tea, and the levels gained from these, I was able to craft the Platinum farming equipment, which is level 80. I expected excellent returns on EXP, but the curve steepens around now, and I write this with a forging level around 85. It takes a lot of platinum to keep leveling up. I did get a bit more with the Dragonic Stones that Tiamat drops, which allows me to forge extremely strong dual-swords at level 87, but it's very slow going and the ultimate dual swords are still some 13k RP. I have decided the Platinum farm is likely the best course for the moment, but I will be looking at a guide for weapons for something cheap and easy.

For crafting, step 2 has been much, much easier. Diamond Ring and any of the Platinum + Gemstones have kept my level going. We're starting to plateau a bit, but crafting doesn't seem as subject to EXP curve as weapons. The good news is, the next step up for a lot of materials is Orichalcum + gemstones, which makes level 93 accessories. If I can make one of those, we're breaking into that tier and are able to take off like crazy, because the main armor I want next is the ultimate boots: Fairy Boots. I have every piece of material four times over, so we're more than capable of getting them made once we're in RP range. It's just a matter of getting into RP range. The Four Dragons' Vest will follow shortly after, although I admit, I tried putting in the materials listed on the guide (Ancient Fish Fin, Scarlet Scale, Basilisk Scale, General Orb, Rune Crystal) and it didn't even register high RP cost like I expected, so I assume something is wrong with the recipe but couldn't tell you what. Maybe I put in the wrong item somewhere. Maybe it's fine. (Edit: just checked a different guide, and it lists Dragon Golem Scale as the ingredient over Scarlet Scale, which...hurts. I farmed so many Radea fights for this...)

In story, I finally hit Valentine's Day, and Beatrice...did not take me asking her out seriously. It's fine. This is fine. We'll try again. I even gave her a cookie I made, but no deal. It's fine. It's FINE.

I've been avoiding the Martin quest because apparently it takes another day, and I despise those events. Stop eating my time, Martin. I'll stab you.

My next goal is pushing, hopefully, into Floor 15 of the Maze. This is allegedly the first point where you can mine Dragonic Stone, and if we can get there, we're in. I do want to take a bit of time to maybe just farm out diamond and platinum for forging and crafting EXP, maybe try to rizz up Beatrice again and finally unlock dating and marriage. But we'll see if she just thinks I'm joking again. Rude...

[lalusii]

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[shihalyfie]

Hi again! Hope I'm not bugging you. I was just thinking about something Digimon-related that's stuck in my craw for a while. With 20+ years and so many entries in the franchise, we haven't yet had a female lead (other than choosable-gender game protags). It's especially annoying because Digimon's had so many great female characters! Any thoughts on why we don't get any gogglegirls? (Yes, I know it's a shounen, but in a world with Soul Eater and TPN, that's no excuse! It's 2021!)

No worries, I love getting asks so don’t worry about bothering me! Thank you for the insightful questions!

So the answer is indeed "it's a shounen", but more specifically, it actually is on statistical record that toys related to the female characters don't sell as well as those related to the male characters in a shounen anime (or at least they didn't at the time of Tamers). This is something Soul Eater and The Promised Neverland don't have to worry about because they're not toy-seller shows and are simply based on already well-proven manga, but 4-cour original anime lives and dies by its toy sales, poor toy sales being responsible for killing Digimon the first time via exponential drops during Tamers and Frontier. Unfortunately, in an era where a lot of boys (or, perhaps more accurately, parents of boys) don't want to buy Girl Toys, you do run the risk of damaging said sales by a not insignificant amount, and it's also presumably the reason why we've had a pretty huge number of cases of girls with masculine Digimon partners (since the partners are more closely tied to the toylines) than we have the reverse. As you've pointed out, the games are more lenient, and that's because people will be buying the same game regardless of whether there's a male or female protagonist. But for the anime, the protagonist-centric toys are the ones that make up the majority of the sales, so risking that percentage creates the biggest risk of overall financial loss.

Society is slowly changing and nowadays it's more acceptable and well-known for boys to be into feminine-coded things (case in point, magical girl series PreCure is said to be enjoyed by quite a few boys who watch it waiting for Kamen Rider to air on the timeslot right after it, and Kamen Rider itself is starting to more prominently show female Riders in the Reiwa era). But the problem is that, of course, it becomes a self-feeding loop. If you want real-life boys to be more accepting of female characters and their associated toys, it's good to help normalize that with more representation, and it's going to be slower to happen in the first place if you don't take the first step, so who's gonna give first? Even with Ghost Game, you'll notice that there's only one device instead of multiple different models -- in the past, when we had different models of Digivice toys, the ones associated with the female characters would sell noticeably less than the ones associated with the male ones -- and Angoramon and Jellymon's DiM cards are sold together to try and maximize sales in light of Ruli being a girl or Jellymon being feminine. But on the flip side, as many have pointed out, Kiyoshirou and Jellymon are our first prominent male Tamer-feminine Digimon pair, so steps are being taken. Maybe. At a baby steps pace, but nevertheless.

In the end, it's an issue that has a lot to do with the cause-and-effect of internalized misogyny in society as a whole, and unfortunately since Digimon is in a stage right now where it's still barely on life support and trying really hard to not die, I imagine the important first step will have to be taken by more prominent or financially stable franchises first (maybe Kamen Rider or Super Sentai will stop being coward and have a lead female Rider or female Red) before Digimon is comfortable trying it. Ah, capitalism.

[jekacatrina]

Heroes high enough for everyone

So, now my thing is writing my take on scenes we don't get on screen. This one was inspired by the amazing job Class 1a was doing, and my rage after reading some of the worst takes I've ever read on Bakugou, so this is me defending my boy:

Katsuki walked into the common room, Todoroki trailing behind him. He found everyone already sitting on the different furniture. Some like the Frog and Raccoon Eyes were sitting on the floor, backs resting against Round Face and Shitty Hair's legs. Dunce Face stood behind the couch, close to Ears. Sparkles was perched on the coffee table, with Glasses standing next to him landing planes or some shit while he told him to get down. 

He shouldn't have been surprised to find all of them waiting for him, since Katsuki asked them to meet them here, but he still felt queasy with their show of respect.

"Bakugou?" Kirishima was the one to bring attention to him. 

Seventeen pairs of eyes turned to him, and Katsuki felt himself tense. IcyHot got closer, lightly touching his shoulder with his in support. He scoffed, shrugging him off, and putting distance between them, but the dumbass got what he wanted; Katsuki ready to get down to business. 

He meant what he had said to them and to Endeavor. Katsuki was the one who knew Deku best, and in a way, the responsability to tell them what they were in for, fell on him.

"Oi! Listen up, because I'm not repeating myself," he showed them a battered notebook. A stupid thing he held onto for his own private reasons. "You saw what Deku was capable of with his limb destroying super strength, Black whip and Float." He lifted a finger for each quirk. "One For All is now a clusterfuck of different powers, thanks to the other users." 

Katsuki motioned for Half and Half, and he went around the room, handing out copies of the notes All Might had written down for Deku, and Katsuki had studied diligently. Nobody needed to know the amount of time he had invested in understanding Deku's new quirks. That was between the nerd and Katsuki.

"We're dragging his sorry ass back here," Katsuki stated, with no room for if's, as Todoroki finished giving everyone a copy. For some reason, the dumbass went back to standing next to him, instead of staying with the rest. Katsuki just spared him a quick glance, one Todoroki returned with his trademark blankness. Whatever. "Now, I'm explaining to you all the things we need to take into account, so you better pay attention, and get it through your thick skulls." 

Katsuki gave them a few minutes to skim the notes before he briefed them on the extent of Deku's control of OFA, including percentage and maneuvers, knowledge he had thanks to all those nights training until their muscles burned. Then, he changed their focus to Float and Black Whip.

"I expect you to pick up the slack, since you helped him control it," he said, glancing at Sero, Round Face and the Frog. All three of them nodded.

Katsuki didn't have a full picture of how the Sixth's Smoke Screen worked, or the true nature and power of Third's Fa Jin, since the nerd got them after he left, but Katsuki wasn't an idiot. He was perfectly capable of designing a strategy with the information he had, and they would come up with different plans, careful to leave room for improvising once they faced Deku. The Second's quirk was going to be a problem, since he had next to nothing on it, but whatever. They had a wide range of quirks between all of them, and chances were at least a couple would be useful. If not, he would step up, ready to tackle anything Deku threw at him.

Katsuki owed him that much.

"What about Danger Sense?" Tokoyami asked, and some of the others looked uneasy. "How are we going to get closer if he can sense us before we move?"

"We don't have to worry about that quirk," Katsuki said, frowning. 

"None of us are a danger to him," Glasses said, sharing a look with Round Face, who nodded solemnly. 

Katsuki didn't add anything, and that said everything, didn't it?

So, they plotted, everyone contributing with their strengths and weaknesses, pointing out gaps in the plans they formed, and suggesting ways around them.

As he shared with his classmates his new move, one that he was sure could neutralize Smoke Screen, Katsuki smirked.

They were bringing Deku back, no matter what.

Katsuki was going to make sure of it.

[cuethetommo]

Did you get any tickets for yourself? I’m skipping this go for a bunch of reasons but I’m very curious what the resale market will be like with this short residency. I’m not local to LA or NY, but I personally wouldn’t pay a scalper (or dynamically priced) ticket for a one show knowing there are 14 others in my city. I’ve attended more than one show and travelled specifically to cities I wanted to visit that had shows but always paid regular price. If I was local, I’d wait very last minute and hope for a better deal I guess. Will tourists be the ones mostly buying resale you think? I dk if that’s what happens with Vegas residencies. People are in the city and buy last minute? I wonder what proportion of fans will be local and also, if they are, what percentage is attending all 15 or more than one? Basically, I’m super interested in the break down of who is going and buying for how much. Will the scalping market be different with a mini residency? Although maybe it’s minimized by a bigger proportion of platinum tickets? I wonder what percentage those tickets represent as well. So many questions and no answers for me. If you have any thoughts about it all, and it interests you, I’m interested in reading!

I did get one ticket for myself. Gina, M, and I have been at every tour together, sometimes multiple times. So, the 3 of us decided on one show and went with it. It's trickier for me now because I don't live in LA at the moment. But I'm making it work.

I went to 4 Harry shows in 2021, and that was a 2019 Liz's decision. 2022 Liz doesn't have that kind of capacity or desire. And I've realized that I've already seen my favorite Harry show. So, I love going, but I no longer need to go multiple times.

Another fun fact about me is that I'm a gambling addict. So I don't pay attention to resale stuff. This won't make sense to folks without this struggle but selling tickets for money feels exactly like gambling to me so I don't do it. I also fundamentally disagree with it.

I say that to say I have no idea how the residencies will shake out in terms of resale tickets.

Quick aside: I don't use the term scalpers. There is so much of our language that is derived from harmful ideas and places. And I'm only learning the extent now. But "scalpers" comes from when folks in the burgeoning United States would be paid to kill indigenous people. They had to show a scalp as proof and got paid for it. I know it is super common, but this is my choice and I wanted to lay it out.

I firmly believe that Ticketmaster doesn't give a fuck about resale gouging. They just want a cut of the profit.

I know there are a ton of people who didn't get codes so I'm assuming they also didn't get tickets. I don't know if tickets go down in price once the surge is over or if they stay at that price regardless. Like, once they go up they don't come back down again.

If I wanted a ticket in a city I lived in or knew I was traveling to, I would be checking every month or so and see where they are. If I had flexible travel plans with multiple shows in that city, I'd see what I could get at the time.

I can't imagine people who bought at dynamic prices would want to sell their tickets at a loss but I do not know.

I don't know how cutouts or the inner workings of Ticketmaster but I wouldn't be surprised if there were companies or individuals that bought at face and dodged dynamic pricing. My other guess is that the pit is where you'll see the biggest jumps. Because it looked like those stayed at $199. So, I will not be surprised to see those reselling at $1500 or more close to the time.

All of that to say, I'm making guesses but don't know.

Folks with more resale knowledge, please feel free to add on.

[softer-ua]

It's pretty interesting how many people "have panic/anxiety attacks" from reading about drawn cartoon characters. Especially when they're openly against something the character did and they reflect their life experiences on that character to make it make sense. I'm sorry but you all just sound extremely attention seeking when you say "I hAd A pAnIc AtTaCk ReAdInG tHaT!" Like. . Yeah sure you did.

Anon I’m sorry but that’s a very calloused take away from that post and I’m disappointed to hear this

We need to believe people when they say they’re hurting.

I wanna start this by taking about my opinions on attention seeking then I’ll break off to talk about triggers

Attention seeking behavior is not a sin or a reason to think badly about someone

People need attention, our physical health will actually start to decline without.

If someone is showing signs of attention seeking behavior that just their brain trying to meet their physically needs

I know it can be annoying but try to have some compassion for them, if someone has chronic attention seeking behavior it’s because they don’t have a reliable support network to meet their needs

They’re lonely, overwhelmed, don’t feel listened too, seen, or understood by the people in their lives and haven’t been taught the skills or been given good outlets to try and fix those problems in a healthy more constructive way

Be patient with them and you’ll find out these people calm down a lot, this doesn’t mean you have to give into the behavior or anything but by not negatively feed into it you’ll cut it down by a lot

Because if they’re in bad enough shape than any attention is good attention, and being rude and cutting them of is a reaction and by extent it’s attention

But if your patient they’ll realize a) you’re not going to be a reliable source for attention and go somewhere else, or b) they’ll realize you haven’t gone anywhere and they don’t need to freak out that their rare source of attention might leave

Remember it’s just their brain trying to meet their needs, it’s not any different than someone snacking on extra sweets when they feel down because their brain needs more happy chemical from anywhere it can get it

vv talking about triggers, panic attacks, ptsd, and child abuse below vv

Triggers are incredibly subjective and sometimes unpredictable, victims can’t always know what’s going to set them off or how badly because it’s all based on whatever their brain registered during the event

The brain process a hundred different things in mills seconds and most of it never hits your conscious thoughts because it’s not important

During a traumatic event that process can get disrupted and in effort to protect itself from future harm the brain will latch on to random things it noticed and may lead itself to believe it some how was involved, it’s not done through any higher reasoning than very baseline survival instinct

This can get more complicated when exposed to long term abuse, especially during childhood when your brain is still developing

For me my biggest trigger is literally just my name being said loudly.

I will whole body flinch on a good days and on very bad days I might actually scream, it’s an entirely involuntary response that I have no control over and on the very bad days I don’t always even realize I did it

On the good days the body flinch is super easy to brush of as just getting startled and I’m not harmed and it’s not an ordeal, which means I can handle going out to places like fairs where it’s very likely someone will have to call my adhd riddled asses attention back to them, no harm no foul

But fairs can at the drop of a hat get overwhelming even when I’m doing well and did everything right because they take a lot of energy to participate in

Unfortunately I don’t have a magic battery percentage bar to tell me when exactly I need to leave, especially if I’m actually enjoying myself. So sometimes I go out have a good time and then someone calls my name and I immediately curl into my self while screaming and it no one’s fault, and it sucks

Sometimes you can handle reading about dark triggering things and be okay to just brush off any icky feelings

Sometimes you think you’re okay and it hits just a little bit too close to home and suddenly you’re not okay anymore, and it sucks

Have compassion for people who have ptsd/panic disorders, in effort to keep them from getting hurt their brain has resorted to being the thing that hurts them and that’s a hard way to live

If someone says they’re hurting just agree with them because on some level they are

[izupie]

Ok so first, thank you for giving warmth to my cold sad existence by writing Hold Me (But I’m not scared). I swear you are like the only writer who's there to quench my Awamomo thirst *cries in rare pair*. Ah anyway, onto the actual ask sorry: Could you go through a few popular/your MHA ships (with some of your personal notes or sum if u want?) and give your opinion of the chance it has on becoming canon? (maybe use a percentage? idk). Bonus points for reasoning! I'm curious on your thoughts :)

Fiiiiinally sat at my laptop and can answer this! Sorry it took so long, anon!~

I am crying right there with you Nonnie. Rare pairs are so painful :):):) we crave content

I’m so happy you’ve been enjoying Hold Me! Ironically the Awamomo content was never supposed to take over the way it did, but I started writing Awase and I was like, Well now he’s my son and I love him and I want him to be happy.

I really hate to be the bearer of bad news though, but I’m afraid I’ve discontinued that fic - I’m sorry!! I no longer write for MHA ;; but in the spirit of how lovely you are to let me know that you enjoyed it so much - I’ll post my (extremely) rough notes for how it would have progressed and ended. I’ve only shared it over Discord with a few close friends, but they liked it, so I hope you like it too! I’m sorry it isn’t the fully written ending I wish I could give you ;; but hopefully this will give you some closure for it!

Hold Me (But I’m Not Afraid) Rough Notes

These notes are super rough, and I think it changes tenses sometimes? I throw punctuation and grammar out the window too lmao *finger guns* (please don’t judge me on my notes I am a messy planner)

I don’t really participate in MHA any more, since I kind of lost steam with it just before the season with the Big 3 (I forget what season that is) and some other reasons but here’s a post with a more nuanced explanation of that > here

I have ships in fandoms I’m not even in, so just because I’m not really into the source material and don’t participate in creating content any more, doesn’t mean I dislike the ships. I am a multi shipper simply because I love chemistry and character dynamics, and I am a hopeless romantic. So I can at least answer your question!

(This whole post is getting so long omg, I’m so sorry *wheeze*)

Anyway! An easy part of my answer first - I don’t think any ships will be made canon. I think he’s writing a typical shonen story that doesn’t give time to romance, so I think he’ll bait it, but I don’t think he’ll confirm anything. Smart move because this way you keep alllll the shippers on the line. Maaaaybe Izuocha will be confirmed? Because we’ve seen canon evidence of them both having feelings for each other, but I don’t think any emphasis will be placed on it if it is. Like I say, I think he considers it to be a shonen story and I don’t think he’ll write romance into it. If it’s made canon it’ll be like ‘and then they found out they have feelings for each other!’ and it’ll be a significant moment for like two seconds and then it’ll go back to the status quo anyway and it’ll feel like nothing has changed.

In terms of the ships I like: 

Izuocha (of course - because I like the fluff. I love the fluff. I LIVE FOR THE FLUFF. They just make me feel good and thinking about them is like the mental equivalent of wrapping myself in a warm fluffy blanket.)

Awamomo (because Awase in my headcanon is just the most awkward no-brain-to-mouth-filter idiot out there. Made up entirely of headbands and pining. Thinks he’s got a crush on someone wayyyy out of his league. Adorable. Did I mention the pining? Momo waves at him and a symphony plays in his head like SHE WAVED AT ME I LOVE HER)

Kacchako (‘but Izupie! You already said that you like Izuocha!’ *gestures broadly* muLTI sHipPInG~ anyway, yeah I love the grumpy character with the sunshine character that mellows them out but could also throw them down in a fight, isn’t scared of them, and together they make a power couple.) 

Kamijirou (because who doesn’t love the idiot with a heart of gold with someone stoic who kind of melts around them whether they want to or not. To be fair, this could also be canon??? It’s been hinted at, but it might just stay as shipper bait.)

Kirimina (can someone say idiots in love? Another dynamic I’m weak for. They both have energy that they can match to each other and it’s just so fun. Like, this ship is just Fun. Really gives me the Your Partner Is Also Your Best Friend vibe.)

These are the ones that have survived my distancing from the source material anyway. Just ships I love. And mostly based on fanon/my headcanons now that I think about it..... 

Sorry this got so long, but I hope you like my answer Anon! Thanks again for the message!!  

[rockofeye]

I hope you don't mind if I ask you two questions, 1. Can you explain more about the relationship with the Saints and the Lwa? 2. Can you say a little bit more about Jan Ferro. I know he's served in the DR and PR by some servidores with the image of Saint Mark, but all I really know is he's related to dominating works like stopping enemies, amarres (love-bindings), and that sort of thing. I'd be curious to hear more about him, and have any of the things I just said corrected if I'm wrong.

Hi there,

The relationships of the lwa to saints and vice versa is a big, big topic--really, a whole book--and boiling it down can sort of lose a lot of the nuance, but let’s give it a go.

One of the most misunderstood aspects of Haitian Vodou is also the some of the most foundational bedrock to understanding the lwa and the culture of the religion. Haitian Vodou is not a syncretized religion in that the saints are used to hide the lwa or aspects of the religion. Instead, it is a blended religion in that there is no one aspect--indigenous, African-derived, European-derived, Catholic, Muslim (really), and others--that can be separated out and still have ‘Haitian Vodou’ remaining. 

Essentially, it is the whole package or nothing at all. Like, if I dumped red and blue dye in a bucket, I’d be given purple which could never be turned back to blue and red again. That’s how Vodou is; it can’t be turned into anything but what it is if you still want Haitian Vodou at the end of the day.

There’s a whole sideline there about how we think about the ingenuity of enslaved Africans and the idea of hiding, but that’s something else for another time..

So, that’s some framework and a partial answer: the religion is blended among many different things so part of the relationships between the lwa and the saints are because of that.

Some of it is also ancestral to the religion. Africans had contact and willing conversion with Catholicism in the 1400s, way before the Middle Passage was established, and had folded Catholic beliefs into indigenous belief with ease. Unsurprisingly, this is most well-documented in the Kongo basin region...and a high percentage of enslaved Africans brought to the island were from the Kongo region. This influence is super visible within the religion and Catholicism has lived on the island with Haitians since.

Some of it is mystery in that it’s not something that can be explained if it hasn’t been experienced. There are many layered reasons why all ceremonies open with Catholic prayers before the prayers of L’afrik Ginen.

And...some of it is super obvious. The lwa tell us their names: Sen Jean Baptiste, Ogou Sen Jak, Philomiz, Grann Marie, Clare, and others depending on lineage and location. We take it as fact. :)

Jean Ferro sounds an awful lot like Jean Faro/Jean Fawo, who is a fairly well-known spirit in Haiti. He comes from the north of the country and walks very closely for us with Ti Jean and Sen Jean Baptiste. As with most lwa, he is good at essentially anything that he wants to do with and for his servant. I can definitely see why people would go to him for relationship or love matters and why folks might like to put protection work at his feet. 

For me, I experience him as a spirit who is quite independent and particular about his people. Like, he chooses his loyalties and if he decides he’s with you, he’s with you and if he’s not, you’re not on his radar until he decides otherwise. It’s not that he dislikes you or anything, he just has other business to attend to. He’s known to enjoy being affectionate and kinda rubbing up on the folks he finds attractive (he likes to gouye up on folks for fun...often ladies, but the lwa transcend human stuff like sexual orientation). I’m sure he takes many different saint images; I am most familiar with the image St. Jean Baptiste as a child for him, if I was going to give one to him at all.

I hope this helps and answered your questions--let me know if you have more questions!

[malexfan10]

What is it about Malex?

I was playing around on my phone at work (when I should have been working lol) and came across some article about the best TV couples. It was published in 2018 so Malex wasn't in it lol

But I was going through the pictures in the article and I saw a lot of the couples I've liked & enjoyed over the years listed. Pacey & Joey, Captain Swan, Haleb, Stydia, Kurt & Blaine etc.

I started thinking...what is it about Malex that makes them extra special for me? What is it about them that made me join Tumblr and Twitter for the first time? I never had either before this year. What is it about them that made me write more fan fic in the span of 3 months than I have in years of watching other shows? And I'm someone who studied English Lit in university and have written many novels, hoping to finally pursue publishing this year with one of them. But the amount of fan fic I've typed out the past 3 months? My hands seriously hurt!

So why is Malex so special?

(I made a collage below)

Is it because they're an LGBTQ pairing? There have been other LGBTQ pairings I've rooted for. Malex isn't the first and they won't be the last. Times are changing in TV land and we're seeing more and more representation. It's progressing slowly, but it is changing.

Is the reason Malex is extra special a shallow reason? The actors are both incredibly good looking. No getting around that. But I loved Haleb too and Tyler was one half of that ship. I adore Joshua Jackson and Dylan O'Brien. I think Holland Roden is beautiful. In the couples I've followed over the years, all the actors & actresses have been attractive in their own ways.

-- side note -- I know I put Destiel (SPN) in the collage below even though technically they're not a couple but some of their lines over the past decade, I mean come on! It's so obvious! --

Anyway...

Is it the chemistry between Tyler & Michael? I thought Katie & Josh had amazing chemistry. Only reason I watched PLL was for Haleb and the friendship between Tyler & Ashley. Some of the couples I've rooted for really sizzled on screen. Do I think Vlamburn has better chemistry than all the others? Not necessarily. I think they tie for first with some of my other faves (although I would probably rank them above right now just because they're current).

So what is it about Malex that made me so emotionally invested that I joined social media like this? That I've written a bunch of fics and have so many other concepts cooking in my head.

I think it comes down to the angst at the end of the day and how the story has been written.

I've directed a lot of disappointment and anger towards Carina and the writers since that finale because I'm afraid the triangle will grow and span multiple seasons. I'm afraid the writers will show Michael really starting to have deep feelings for Maria the longer M&M exists (I know Vlamis said in those last interviews that his feelings for her are already very deep but sorry Vlamis. I love you but I don't see that yet.) I'm afraid now that they know they were renewed, they'll drag this storyline out, pursure M&M and then Michael with other relationships if/once M&M ends with Alex just waiting in the sidelines, moping and heartbroken.

But despite all my fears and disappointments after that craptastic finale (seriously, I can write a 20 page essay), I have to give the writers their credit.

The story they wrote, the beauty they created in Malex, with that amazing angst and history and love is the reason I'm so invested.

"Where I stand, nothing's changed"

"I never look away"

"That I loved you and I think that you loved me."

"Cosmic"

"But you are mine"

"I don't look away Guerin"

"I love him. I probably always will"

I mean, these lines all exist. No one can take those words away. Yes, the writers can try and diminish it by shoving another relationship down our throats & attempting to give that relationship the same level of meaning and importance (sorry, not buying it. Hardly anyone is). But those lines will always be there.

The epicness of Malex will always be there.

That beautiful first kiss in the reunion will always be there.

Their connection in senior year, bonding over their painful childhoods and living situations will always be there.

Caulfield, although bittersweet, will always be there.

Michael Guerin wanting to be Alex's hero will always be there.

The angst and love between them is just unbelievable. I don't think any other couple I've rooted for over the years has had the same amount of angst or history. Their story is just beautiful.

I don't cry too much in movies or TV shows unless there's a really sad death that hits me hard. LOST was one of those shows where I sobbed constantly (Jin & Sun's death, Juliet's, Charlie's...I could go on).

But I cried after that last scene in episode 6, when Jesse destroyed such a beautiful and pure moment 🥺

I cried at that moment in Caulfield 🥺

I cried at the finale, watching Alex just waiting there while Michael....let's not remind ourselves 🤨

So yes, the chemistry is unbelievable between Tyler & Michael. How close they are offscreen shines through their performance and this is in a cast where everyone's close. But with Vlamburn, especially from Michael, he's so unfiltered when he talks about Tyler's eyes or the way he kisses or just how much he loves him. What can I say, they make me love Malex more ❤

Yes, they're both incredibly good looking but that's a miniscule, shallow reason. How good looking a couple is in no way compares to how much their emotional connection matters, at least for me.

So really, it's the story. It's the history. It's all that profound, made for each other, soulmates love that they share. It's the incredible angst that makes me root for them even more.

And yes, as much as Carina and crew have angered me after that finale and after their insistance of shoving this triangle down our throats and in our faces, they did create Malex so I have to be grateful for that. Vlamburn perfected it and made it epic but the concept came from Carina (trust me, it hurts to give that credit).

So as much as it still hurts with what happened, as much as seeing the M&M promos bothers me, as much as I'll be a sobbing mess once season 2 hits and Alex realizes what happened, I have to believe that this much care and heartbreaking angst was given to this couple for a reason. That reason has to be that Malex is endgame.

Can Carina change her mind about Endgame Malex? Sure she can, if she wants to lose a substantial percentage of the fandom. But I can't believe she'll do that.

I can't believe that Malex is anything but each other's ending.

I can't believe that this beautiful love story we've seen between 2 men who started as scared, lonely boys and are now broken men trying to put themselves back together is anything short of EPIC.

I can't believe that M&M, however painful and ridiculously unnecessary, is anything but a bump in this road for Malex.

All that matters is how the writers take us from point A to B.

Does their separation last for 4 more seasons (pending renewals) and Malex reunites in the series finale, season 5? God I hope not. I need to see them existing as a couple together on screen, not just a kiss and makeup moment last episode and assume they made it. So once this teenage level of triangle nonesense has been dealt with (please let season 2 be the end of it!!!!), I really hope the writers realize the amazing couple they created and give them their due justice by bringing Malex together for good.

Episodes 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, last Malex scene of 9, beginning of 10 and all of 12 point this show towards one inevitable ending with Malex and that's reuniting (did I get the episodes right?). Just keep your fingers crossed it happens sooner rather than later. Right now, that's where my main fears lie.

This fandom has been super great about lending support to one another when things get tough. Unfortunately, things will get even tougher next season so it will be good to have this great support.

As far as the promos and interviews we'll be getting between now and 2020, I'll try to only watch interviews that Michael & Tyler give together and avoid anything that seems like M&M promotion (outside of full cast interviews or festivals etc). I love all the actors on this show. They're all wonderful and talented and deserve our love and support (not commenting on that Nathan instagram thing).

But as a Malex fan, I have no place in my life for unnecessary stress from a TV show because honestly, as invested as I am, it's still just a TV show. No need to give myself more heartbreak before season 2 even airs by watching pro M&M interviews like yesterday. I'll just stay in my happy Malex bubble until then (and then die when I see M&M next year 😭).

In the end of this long post, all I wanted to say is that Malex is extra special, head and shoulders above others ships I've rooted for and that's mostly because of the beautiful story I've seen on screen but Vlamburn defintely plays an imortant part in making it epic ❤

I'm a Malex lifer. Nothing will ever change that.

❤

[fly-pow-bye]

Powerpuff Girls 2016 - “Oh! Daisy!”

Written by: Haley Mancini

Written & Storyboarded by: Leticia Abreu Silva, John Martinez

Directed by: Nick Jennings, Bob Boyle

Shallow HAL.

This episode will continue Bubbles’ trait of computer programming. I'm honestly surprised they even kept this going for so long, since usually they depict Bubbles as this silly blonde that can't spell. So far, Bubbles has programmed:

A game that was super popular, at least among the students of Townsville Elementary. Also, she made some sort of machine that can send people to the internet with only tinfoil. Apparently, that's coding?

A robotic, 3D printed clone of herself that is perfect in every way except for security, and yet not important for her to even shed a tear when it got destroyed.

The third one that is going to be in this episode may not be as impressive as #2, but it's up there.

The episode starts out with Bubbles hanging out with the other participants of the school's coding club, including Barry. Maybe they were convinced he was this breakout character, considering how many times he appears in this reboot. He probably could be if he had a personality beyond "he wears an Illuminati shirt and yet never seems to talk about it". At least he has a name; I don't think the other two even have that.

Generic Girl: How many programmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Bubbles: What?

Generic Girl: None, it's a hardware issue.

Barry laughs so hard that milk comes out of his nose, and they consider that just as funny as that joke. Suddenly, Buttercup barges into the door, and thinks this is some sort of fun times when she was supposed to be doing homework. It turns out, she was doing homework, and she gets to show off something she made to show off her true coding prowess.

...a robot assistant named Daisy. See, this flower's name a subtle reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey, something this reboot will not try to take advantage of in every minute of this character's existence.

Buttercup continues to accuse Bubbles of wrongdoing, possibly as a attempt to finally get Bubbles in trouble! Silly Buttercup, Bubbles can cause an entire zoo to cause mayhem around Townsville, and she'll still get off scot-free. She then tells Bubbles that she's going to be in trouble for putting this assistant all around the house. It's not like they're going to absolutely adore this thing.

They absolutely adore this thing! Blossom loves it because it reprograms other devices, as Blossom praises the device for reprogramming the Broomba to clean more efficiently. No, it didn't also give her a haircut, as much as Edna Mode would have appreciated it, that's just another case of the disappearing ponytail trick.

As for Sitcom Dad's reasoning. It scheduled the DVR to record all of the Sitcom Dad's favorite shows, like Sciencefeld! They managed to come up with a title for their Seinfeld parody, but do they do anything with it? Well, one thing: they reference the bass line used in its theme song.

That's really it.

Bubbles: Yeah, he's a scheduling wizard!

Oh, no, please don't say that word! It might attract...

Ah, too late. Schedulebot shows up to express his discontent with being replaced, and the Professor decides to completely ignore him by saying that this is the best robot ever. In one episode, he seemed to care more about Schedulebot's well being than the Powerpuff Girls, but now that this flower exists, he may as well not even exist to good ol' Sitcom Dad! This starts a subplot that nobody will care about, because it's a Schedulebot plot.

Of course, Buttercup can't be happy that her sister managed to make several robots that can make turkey dinner. The closest we get to an actual good reason is that he can't stop combing her hair, and the robot pronounces her name as "Bootercup", which the other think is just as much of a laugh riot as hardware issues and milk squirting out of people's noses.

A few minutes after midnight, Buttercup wakes up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. As she walks out, Daisy tells her not to forget to wash her hands. Then, not to forget to use soap. Then, not to use the guest towels. The absolute worst of them all, it dares to comb Buttercup's hair again! That seems to be a coding error; wouldn't Buttercup. Whatever the case, it does its job: annoying Buttercup.

Buttercup: (messes up own hair) Why don't I mess with your hair?!

Daisy: If you go to the main control room in the lab, you'll see that I have no hair, Bootercup.

Daisy also manages to get Buttercup to the lab to continue the plot, as there was no reason for him to even talk about the main control room.

It's a constant mention from me whenever this coding aspect of her character comes up: being a coding wizard would be extremely difficult if you cannot spell. Turns out, Bubbles' programming language of choice is something more akin to Scratch, a building block language that even the Reboot Puffs got involved in at one point. I guess that kind of explains that.

Buttercup decides to go through this code to change a few things, like turning off the alarm, lowering his moral percentage to -40%, and turning off his conscience. Buttercup does say she thought this word was "con science", but she already turned down the morals, and she clearly knew what she was doing then!

8.25 hours later, the girls wake up, and the windows suddenly shut with huge metal doors. Bubbles tries to fix everything by telling Daisy to open the windows. Everyone stand up and recite the line you're probably thinking he's going to say to that.

Daisy: I'm afraid I can't do that for you, Bubbles.

Okay, it's slightly different than the line from the movie, but anyone can get it. I would not be surprised if they took more inspiration from the Futurama episode that parodied it. At least they're not ripping off the original Powerpuff Girls this time; closest episode I can think of is Coupe D'etat.

Bubbles tries to go into the living room, only to be attacked by the Broomba. The Powerpuff Girls are truly unstoppable, unless there's glitter, markers, Roombas, ordinary rope, a dinosaur shouting at them, or rat tails. Who can possibly stop this robotic vacuum cleaner? Clearly it has to be the rascally...

...pink princess with an eye laser? Blossom then takes off her ribbon, ties it around her head, and tells her sisters to go into the hallway so she can finish the job. It's actually a genius plan from Blossom, as this gives a reason for her to be off-screen while she beats up the Broomba. As we all know, the Reboot Puffs can't fight anything on screen and win.

Throughout this episode, Blossom is the one that is resorting to violence and acting like an 80's action hero. This just seems way out of character for her, but I'm glad to have an episode that has a Reboot Puff other than Buttercup save her sisters.

They do have to explain what the Professor is doing during all of this, because there's no way he should be so oblivious to all of this. Turns out, he's stuck in the shower.

Daisy: Now lather.

Professor: Okay!

Daisy: Now rinse.

Professor: Okay!

Huh, a robot trapping a human in an infinite loop. One would think he would eventually use his brain to find out what's going on, but that brain would be very inconvenient to the plot, so this lather/rinse loop takes him out of the vast majority of the episode.

It turns out, Daisy is able to reprogram all of the devices in the Powerpuff household to rampage against them, including machines that simply shouldn’t be able to fight them, like the L-Cube! They decide to sneak around the house to avoid getting caught. Unfortunately, Bubbles just could not help it.

Bubbles: (farts in Buttercup’s face)

That all important character trait of having a flatulence problem shows up again, because why not? It seems like the only consistent character trait Bubbles has; whether she’s a maroon or a coding genius, farting is a free action for her. At least there’s somewhat of a point to this, as this allows Buttercup to walk backwards into the aforementioned L-Cube to get captured.

Blossom ends up saving her by using her eye lasers again. Buttercup’s not too happy, because the L-Cube was destroyed.

Blossom: Do you think this is a game?

Buttercup: Uh, yeah, that’s exactly what it was.

…ha.

Suddenly, Schedulebot manages to open the door, coming in with full Rambo gear. Guess he was busy getting all of that while he was locked out of the house. How did he get in the house, anyway? It would have made a lot more sense if he used that chainsaw to do it, as he doesn't seem to use it at all.

Granted, that's not the only weapon he brought: he also brought some grenades. Maybe he'll use them to sacrifice himself to save our girls from all of those evil house appliances, shouting to the girls to remember him...

...and that what actually happens! Finally, Schedulebot is destroyed! Though, so are a lot of household appliances that might not be cheap to replace, but they are never paid any mind. Speaking of never paying anything any mind, Blossom, in a rare bit of her not acting as a macho hero in this episode, she says that Schedulebot probably be fine. Yeah, I'm sure he will. They never explained how he got into the door, why not not explain how he survived this?

When they go into the lab, Daisy tells the girls that he has evolved. And...that's it. Not, "I evolved, and I'm going to take over the world", or "I evolved, and I'm going to make all gum taste like black licorice", or anything else. Sure, there's some vines growing out of what seems like a hole in the ground, but they just kind of stop any potential for a god-like computer here.

Blossom tells the girls that they must go "into the breach", as they slowly fly towards the computer monitor, and they instantly teleport into the computer world. Even Bubbles seems to be confused by this. No special equipment made out of tin toil or anything, Blossom just says "once again into the breach", flies up to the computer monster, and...

...boom, they're in a place that proves that the Virtual Boy would be just as eye searing if they went with green instead of red. It's possible that Daisy did this with his "evolved powers", but there's not much that indicates that this is against the Reboot Puff's will, and that's the only way this would have happened.

Another more likely guess is that it may have wanted to do this because he wanted to kill the Powerpuff Girls in the digital world. Daisy does find out that they sneaked in here, and hears all about Bubbles' plan to repair the code. He even says the most unexpected line, I completely lie.

Daisy: I can't let you do that, Bubbles.

Also technically not the line from the movie, even if it's how a lot of people remembered it. After saying this, the cutesy flower turns into a googly-eyed plant monster. This gives us a real on-screen monster fight that doesn't end with just a random zap of Blossom's eyes.

While Blossom is dealing with the giant plant, Buttercup, under the guidance of the coding wizard, has to reverse the mistakes she made the last night. This actually affects the fight scene, as this code wrangling continuously makes the monster weaker and stronger as Blossom tries to fight it. For example, she accidentally gives it missiles, which ends up firing at Blossom...to no effect? If only I could say the reboot was getting tired of the Monster Punch, Girls Down scenes.

Eventually, they find this star piece, which looked like any other piece until Buttercup picked it up. The same thing happens with the missile piece, actually. I have a feeling they intended to have all of these pieces have different images on them, but they forgot to actually draw them. Once she gets it onto the top, we see a huge flash of light.

Suddenly, pancakes. Yeah, everything just reverted back to normal, with Daisy making delicious flapjacks. Even better for Buttercup, Daisy even messes up Buttercup's hair without care and learned to pronounce her name correctly! Buttercup gets everything she wanted, and that means everything is alright.

Everything is peaceful, the Professor got the best shower of his life, and we have a robot buddy that is so useful, it would be just too incredible to see in future episodes. What can possibly bring this plot back to the status quo? Someone using a line I didn't expect to hear in a TV-Y7-FV show.

Schedulebot: Ha, 🚚🚚 you! (repeatedly bashes Daisy with a baseball bat)

According to the closed captions, he's saying "got you", but that was not what I heard. And I thought "damn it, Utonium" was good! Aside from that, I do question the perspective of this shot, which makes him look absolutely gigantic. Maybe he has the ability to absorb grenade explosions, see, no explanation for how he survived the grenade, or maybe it's just bad animation. Surely, it can not be the latter!

After Daisy gets its head batted in, we hear a funky bass line as the episode immediately cuts to black. I guess they realized that Sciencefeld joke never really had any kind of conclusion or point! I guess since Seinfeld was a show about nothing, Sciencefeld ups the ante by being literally nothing! How fitting.

Does the title fit?

The only thing the title reminds me of is Super Mario Land. But yes, it's a robot named Daisy, and it does things that could make one go "oh." It's just barely above the "name of the character" titles.

How does it stack up?

I get how the idea for this episode could lead to something interesting, but it never quite goes anywhere good. There are some okay ideas, especially at the end, but this is one of the "meh" episodes for me. Oh, well.

Next, the Powerpuff Girls eat ice cream. No, it’s not one of my gags, they really eat ice cream.

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[lattetudes]

hey!!! i was wondering, how come you study in france? i'm fairly new to your blog and i love your posts, i would like to hear more about your experience regarding studying in france in your situation!! and if you have any anecdotes about that that you would like to share!!

hi! firstly, thank you so much! it really means a lot to me. (seriously, i have the biggest smile on my face). i’m so sorry for the late response, i was moving (: 

send me another ask if you’d like to know more! this is a little long - 

the how 

french has been in my life for a long time. i think i was first enrolled in an international program (where they taught it) when i was twelve - not even a couple months later, i left to visit france for the first time to visit my mom.

she went to france (in 2011) to get her master’s degree in linguistics. 

my brother (2013) and sister (2011) went with her. (i, however, didn’t join her until the the summer before what would have been my freshman year. was that something i regret? yes.) 

so for three years, i visited them (and when i wasn’t, i lived alone with my dad, who worked a lot to support an apartment in france and in the united states).

 when i fourteen, i visited paris for two weeks with my class as part of an exchange program. 

it was chic, it was this entirely new universe i’d never seen before. i’d never felt more different, and i think that was a good thing. the cafés, the music, the pathways where hemingway walked -  it’s this sort of unconquerable way of living that makes up Paris’s charm – something that cannot be calculated into a ranking. 

it’s truly beautiful. and when i was asked if i wanted to go to poitiers, three hours away from paris (my last chance) for freshman year, i took it. i made the mistake of staying for friends - i couldn’t go through life wondering what if. i didn’t want to regret anything, you know? i knew i wasn’t going to be at the top of the class, not at first. 

only, it didn’t end up being one year. i would end up staying there for my entire career as a lycéenne. 

the apartments the apartments my family stays in are very small, with exception to our last one 

our first one was the size of a shoebox. i’m not kidding when the kitchen and the bedroom were in the same space. (the bed was a fold out couch). 

i don’t remember our second apartment very well. i think it was next to an indian restaurant - it did have two bedrooms, making it easier to stay in when i visited my family. 

the third was located in a small complex with a small parking space. 

the fourth, i don’t remember at all (: 

the fifth apartment is located above a sephora, about two minutes from the central square. we spent about three-four years here (renting), and it even had a loft space on the third floor. an artist, an attorney, and many other people with different stories lived there with us. i remember when the police showed up, twice. another story for another time (: i’ve got so many memories here, which makes it even harder to leave. it means a lot to me. i love it here: it’s empty now, save for a computer (the one i’m writing on right now), a desk, wifi, and a printer. our lease is up by the end of the month (: 

the sixth, next to a park and a café, where the neighbors play their music just a little too loud (: it’s different for sure. we just moved here, the rooms are fill with boxes and nothing is unpacked yet - hopefully, it will feel like home soon.

i spend christmas and the summers in the united states, in the house where i grew up until i was fourteen. 

since i live in a small city, i walk by almost all the apartments i’ve visited / lived in everyday. it’s surreal for sure - i get to see where i’ve started and where i’m going to be. 

france! 

i live in a city where you know everyone, and everyone knows you. 

there’s music almost always playing in the street. 

some people will judge you because of your nationality: it’s okay and you learn to deal with it. 

a lot of people like to do manifestations (they like to protest) here.

shops are everywhere - all of them are small town french stores and they’re super chic and very inexpensive. 

the cafés are great, very lovely and the food is above average

breakfast isn’t a big deal. croissants, orange juice, little bread and cheese, coffee..

i don’t like croissants (: or i didn’t, i’ve started to like them after four years. 

bacon isn’t bacon. 

in central square, they’ll have parties / an event in correspondance with the season

at christmas, central square is transformed into santa’s village: skating, hot cocoa, waffles, churros, cute scarves and hats, hazelnut coffee, that type of thing (:

most restaurants close at 2pm and re-open around seven. 

the bagel shop knows me and my order because i go there everyday. 

the quiches are amazing, if you like quiches. 

cobblestone streets.

sundays are quiet, almost everything is closed. 

where i live, it’s true: the french dress to impress. 

smoking is a thing - it’s not unusual, and everyone does it (not me), teachers included. 

i once saw one of the social economics teachers smoking with his students and taking instagram photos.

he was one of the newer professors. he left to get some life experience 

the language: studying in french

freshman year, it was hard. i didn’t have many friends, i was just learning the language, and most of all: i was lonely. 

everyone spoke so fast. i was completely out of my depth. to make matters more difficult, i suffer from social anxiety: which made talking a struggle i have to live with. 

by the end of my first year, my comprehension of french was excellent. 

when studying in another language, it may get a little bit overwhelming, but you have to really acknowledge what you don’t understand: is it the concept, the idea, or vocabulary?

there is a trick to learning languages that can shorten the journey to fluency from decades to mere months. there’s also something most teachers won’t even tell students for fear they would never start, but in fact, is vital that you know. hint: complete linguistic immersion is everything (:

4% of students embarking on language courses in schools achieve a basic level of fluency after three years. this is what happened to me, and i realized this as soon as i got here: basic was a generous way of describing my level back then. 

one of the biggest reasons cited for abandoning is that students don’t feel any sense of progression. a student with an A* will visit france and find they can’t even have a basic conversation. (me, my first year)

i felt like giving up becuase i had the wrong expectations set. 

it takes 600+ hours of study & practice to reach fluency in french

from february (which is way too late to start studying for the bac), i studied for a minimum of three - four hours every single day. 

be realistic about what you can achieve so you won’t get demotivated.

immersing yourself as deeply as possible in the subject allows you to rack up the hours as quickly as possible. 

memory fades unless it’s the language is used.

low-intensity studies (high school french) are ineffective because their intensity is so low that you end up forgetting a large percentage of what you learn. 

it’s not until B1/B2 that the light comes out and it starts to feel really good speaking French.

i took the B1 in tenth grade, my second year. i passed with like an 85 percent. it does get better. 

It’s really worth while registering to take DELF exams - tests that mesure  your linguistic ‘level’. 

i hadn’t heard of the DELF until i got to lycée. don’t be me!

i felt lost for the better part of a year. 

repetition is vital to learning. 

sleep is vital to memory. i still have problems with this, given the fact it still takes me a while to complete all my work. 

my lycée, or high school

is amazing. it’s made out of glass, shaped like a pyramid, and is relatively new compared to most of my city. 

we have french, spanish, russian, and chinese students (i’m the only american) who study here!

it’s right next to this mall, auchan, where everyone goes when they don’t have class.

a mini-café is managed by the MDL (student council) on the first floor.

you can get coffee, tea, cookies, chocolate, or crèpes there (on some days). it seriously helps with the long hours in the library

we have soundproof music rooms: pianos, music, drums.. 

on sunny days, groups of us will sit outside on the grass and just talk. we form circles and listen to people play music and sing. 

a lot of people smoke / hang out near the observatory (which is shaped like a flower). hasn’t been used in years. 

for the most part, the teachers are very good. 

for our last history class, we cried because the professor was leaving.

he baked us brownies and brought some drinks and it was one of the saddest moments of première (eleventh grade).

last year, we visited paris for two days. one night, the whole class united in a hotel room - we told ghost stories until 2am.

in spring, we host a festival: dancing, handball, singing contests, etc.

one day, my class dressed up as the x - men. 

french literature class is one of the hardest classes i’ve ever had to take. 

international week (where every student comes from around the globe to visit): i went to a party with some romanian students and drank beer for the very first time.

i can drink legally, now that i’m eighteen. 

drinking isn’t a big deal here, not where i live.

on tuesdays and wednesdays, my classes end at 12pm. 

three days out of a school week, i go to school at nine thirty in the morning.

mondays and fridays, i end at five thirty.

i have to take the bus for forty five minutes everyday.

ACFs on thursdays: classes created by students which are validated by a jury at the end of the year. i did fashion couture class this year and dance class last year.

if you guys have any more asks about my lycée, i’d love to answer them! 

[douchebagbrainwaves]

WHY I'M SMARTER THAN SYNC

Is there a downside to ramen profitability? But there are limits to how well you understand the problem you're solving for them.1 But the real problem for Microsoft wasn't the embarrassment of the people they never got. Having to hit a growth number every week forces founders to act, and acting versus not acting is the high bit of succeeding. If you'd proposed at the time and then it can take years to figure out what it's doing. If investors had sufficient vision to run the companies they fund, why didn't they start them? If it keeps expanding, it might expand into the acquirer's own territory. Whatever the outcome, the conflict between the manager's schedule and the maker's schedule, though. The last one might be the most common. Technology companies made money by trade, and water was the only economical way to ship.2 Who will win, the super-angels. Reading Period, when students have no classes to attend because they're supposed to be bound by some plan you made early on.

But it does share something with the one that's profitable in the traditional appointment book, with each day cut into one hour intervals. They have little discipline.3 Rtm and Trevor and I do because we always have, and Jessica does too, mostly, because she's gotten into sync with us. Or it could be a problem. But unlike most people they had the confidence to notice it. Super-angels compete with both angels and VCs was a very inconvenient one for startups, because they're untainted by experience.4 Use difficulty as a guide not just in some metaphorical way.5

Who is? Because I didn't realize the answer till later, after I went to work at Yahoo.6 Artix was like a game. Only a tiny fraction are startups.7 Stay upwind. I wish I'd grasped that in high school: what you want. So don't get too attached to your original plan, because it's their work that yours is going to be Make something people want. Startups pass that test because although they're appallingly risky, the returns when they do succeed are so high.8 For unambitious people, this sort of thing to store-bought ones—a mere expression of the proverbial thought that counts. Facebook made a point of encouraging the most outrageous thoughts I can imagine what I'd tell them about startups if they were a race apart.9

One wrote: While I did enjoy developing for the iPhone, the control they place on the App Store: a software publisher. They're happy to buy only a few thousand, but those few thousand users wanted it a lot. Until you have some users to measure, you're optimizing based on guesses. But in their time, they had to work very hard to make themselves heard by users, because those are the only real cost is the founders' living expenses. In the other languages I had learned up till then, there was a type of programmer who would only put five or ten minutes rearranging it to look interesting. But in technology, you cook one thing and that's what you do. Fortunately there is a trick you could use it.10 You have to make the same decision: as hard as you possibly can. If in each new idea you're able to re-use most of what you want. But what if your manager was hit by a bus? It was obvious to us as programmers that these sites would have to pay close attention to their books. Sometimes the changes are advances, and what would make it faster, you almost always do get it.

But Android is an orphan; Google doesn't really care about it, if it is true, is another question.11 Representational art is only now recovering from the approval of both Hitler and Stalin. It's also obvious to programmers that wealth is something that's made, rather than being influenced by what he wishes were the case.12 A bear can absorb a hit and a crab is armored against one, but I have never had to use CLOS.13 To some degree, it offers a way around these limitations.14 I know the afternoon is going to be bloated and full of duplication anyway. And you'll do it best if you introduce the ulterior motive toward the end of my working day, and I am self-indulgent.15 But any idea that's considered harmless in a significant percentage of times and places, and so on. Movie studios?16 But a very able person in a big company, then a smart hacker working very hard without any corporate bullshit to slow him down should be able to resist, or at least language implementors, like to write compilers that generate fast code. When you hear such labels being used, ask why. That's going to change the rules about how to raise money.

This is a different form of profitability than startups have traditionally aimed for. You don't see faces much happier than people winning gold medals.17 I should use Holland as an example of a startup seems like a fraud. An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing good work. For startups, growth is a constraint much like truth. What sort of company might cause people in the future will find ridiculous.18 I wasn't working at my day job I'd start trying to make Web sites for galleries—that's the ticket!

It's equivalent to asking how to make money. So VCs who invest in them. The defining quality of Silicon Valley is not that you're 30 times as productive, and get in trouble for seem harmless now. But neither should you let them run the company. You should get another multiple of two, at least in our own time.19 Just keep playing. What this meant in practice was that we deliberately sought hard problems.20 Some may even deliberately stall, because they were built one building at a time. Or more precisely, the effect of subroutines in the inherently stateless world of a Web session. I did be satisfied by merely doing well in school.

Notes

Just use the standard series AA paperwork aims at a time. It might also be argued that we should work like blacklists, for the linguist and presumably teacher Daphnis, but instead to explain that the people they want impressive growth numbers. And you should be designed to live a certain city because of some logical reason e.

The Duty of Genius, Penguin, 1991.

I don't know how the courses they took might look to an associate if you ban other ways to make money for depends on a saturday, he saw that I know it didn't to undergraduates on the cover.

There are situations in which income is doled out by solving his own problems. If you don't think you could build products as good as Apple's just by hiring sufficiently qualified designers. We're delighted to have gotten where they are in love with their decision—just that they only like the outdoors?

Icio. And it would have started to give up your anti-dilution provisions, even if it's the right question, which is not much to generalize. There are also much cheaper when bought in bulk. Ian Hogarth suggests a good way to create a portal for x instead of blacklist.

This is everyday life in general. An accountant might say that it also worked for a startup at a middle ground. Yahoo released a new version from which a seemed more serious and b the valuation of hard work. It is still possible, to take care of one's markets is ultimately just another way to create wealth with no business experience to start some vaguely benevolent business.

Not in New York, people who currently make that their prices stabilize.

Looking at the mafia end of the standard edition of Aristotle's immediate successors may have to get at it, by encouraging them to get them to make money; and with that additional constraint, you can tell that everything you say is being compensated for risks he took another year off and went to get going, and the leading edge of technology, so that's what we do. After lunch we went to Europe.

Even Samuel Johnson said no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for that might be a strong one. It's not a programmer would find it more natural to the present day equivalent of the clumps of smart people are provoked sufficiently than fragmentation.

What happens in practice signalling hasn't been much of the world, but I wouldn't bet against it either.

Zagat's there are already names for this to realize that species weren't, because living at all.

In fact, if you do a very good. What he meant, I use the phrase frequently, you waited too long to launch. The other cause is usually some injustice that is exactly the point of view anyway.

Incidentally, tax rates don't tell the whole fund. They can lead to distractions even more closely to the erosion of the most part and you start to leave. If this happens it will have to do this all the difference directly.

So instead of using special euphemisms for lies that seem promising can usually get enough money from it, and mostly in good ways.

The hackers within Microsoft must know in their early twenties. If the startup is compress a lifetime's worth of work have different needs from the example of a reactor: the energy they emit encourages other ambitious people, but it is very common, but explain that's what you're working on what you have to do that? Don't invest so much in the middle class first appeared in northern Italy and the Imagination by Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen.

Then Josh Wilson came in to pick the former. You should only need comments when there is a bad imitation of a type II startup, and as a consulting company is always raising money in order to switch to a partner, which wouldn't even exist anymore.

When I talk about it as a general-purpose file classifier so good. Miyazaki, Ichisada Conrad Schirokauer trans.

Whereas when the audience at an ever increasing rate to manufacture a perfect growth curve, etc. Most expect founders to do is keep track of statistics for foo overall as well. Many will consent to b rather than ones they capture. Once again, I'd say the rate of improvement is more like Silicon Valley is no longer a precondition.

Which implies a surprising but apparently unimportant, like a wave. There were several other reasons, the term whitelist instead of profits—but only if the founders want the valuation a bit misleading to treat macros as a definition of property without affecting and probably also the fashion leaders. Statistical Spam Filter Works for Me. There are fairly closely related.

After lunch we went to Europe. I'm not saying friends should be specialists in startups.