#a png and calls it valid

[dream-sans-mogai]

You know what? I'm not done.

The fact y'all white mogais fought tooth and nail to not have to put white in your bios or somewhere readily available was actually insane and confirms my already existing theory that some of you think once you have a certain amount of kins, f/os, irls, mental illnesses, xenogenders, orientation modifiers, alters and neopronouns, you lose white privilege and it absolutely shows that you do not lose that privilege exclusively because y'all have become pretty consistent white saviors lmao

Like y'all literally cried about it being too identifiable about you and being the same as doxxing like you weren't already sharing with everyone the exact percentages of your orientation attraction, age, state you live in, public name, like... I have to wonder hard how many of y'all participate in anti-racism activism to be an ally, actually understand why certain things are actually racist and help POC and how many of you exclusively do it to look better to other (white) activists and ease your white guilt.

Now y'all aren't even including byi/stance pages on top of a total lack of dni and wonder why radqueer beliefs are seeping in and every new term is basically transabled under a different name. I called it when I first saw this new batch pop up and I'm saying it now, they have their radqueer blogs with their radqueer content that you have blocked and they have their other blog named something like prxncxss-of-nxght or something with $50 worth of custom lazy caard graphic edits with needy streamer girl and 17 titles but no public stances for all their normal xenogender content. You didn't fight it so there they are. They ain't saying shit. Hell, no one said shit when ra/diomo/gai litterally reblogged a word for word transabled term. "Internal self" you realize that's just flowery language right? Like the creator themselves already said that it applied "to the soul and not the physical form". Please read a room. "#disability"? Are you actually fucking kidding me? No one batted an eye?

I don't think the community is dead because I don't follow a lot of big names anymore or because a lot of big names have deactivated, y'all just stopped caring and moved on despite all these beliefs you said you cared about. I don't really care, I've pretty much known from day one that a majority of the community is literally just full of shit about all these 8 paragraph basic feminism posts and vents crying about racism from fully white people.

I'm not someone to rip someone apart publicly for being what they say they are, then there's no need, but lieing about it? Damn, at least be shitty honestly.

Don't harass me, the creator of that term or ra/diom/og/ai over this. Just block and move on, I'm not having some public drama back and forth over a clearly transabled term.

[sobredunia]

FINALLY. AFTER A WHOLE YEAR OF WORKING ON THIS. I HAVE MADE (almost) AN ENTIRE MINUTE OF THE PINK ANIMATION. MY COMPUTER IS DYING. SEND HELP

MASSIVE TAGLIST UNDER THE CUT BECAUSE I PUT SO MUCH EFFORT ON THIS I REFUSE TO LET IT GET ONLY LIKE 20 NOTES

@rotkad @sansxfuckyou @blackfright @beetroot-merchant @ashingtonkisihita @h3xt0r @bree-sae @helloidkwhatimdoing-0 @zecrisketch

aight that was the art taglist now the extras

@dr-mothman @akuma-tenshi @sunset-of-the-void @astro-inthestars @zephyrnine @wist-eri @scivious @choccymilllk @ask-nonny-anything @radioroxx @hiveswap @valid-name @specklx @kami-kun1003 @wackpedion @highoncatfood @georgeharrisonsboywife @chaoticangelsbeatupgod @sleepy-mushr00m @thatoneluckybee @floataaaa @therealcallmekd @noodle-persom @magodangretsus @j-axis @personalshredder

also if you've actually clicked under the readmore. surprise! here are the backgrounds / a gif. from newest to oldest

(had to divide this in two so i could put Yora in the middle and make it seem like a reflection)

(THE TREES TOOK ME SO FUCKING LONG DUDE THERE WERE LIKE 5 LAYERS OF THEM. for some reason this gif looks better in discord than it does on my computer's file player??)

(heho totally normal vending machine go brr. bit of a shame you only ever see the first half of the background F)

(house baybeyy. for some reason i vividly and explicitly remember watching a video shitting on a children's book written and drawn by ai as i was doing the windows around the door)

(fun fact the lil animation tidbits of yora showering were part of the background itself. in the animation this background is actually 4 pngs that rapidly change. same with the scrolling down shot actually. but for that i had to do some mindfuckery tricks to slowly move each png down at a steady pace. for some reason i just remembered that as i was doing that i was watching a video documentary about the development of this old japanese game called swamp or smth?? what)

(the room!! i did the blanket on a sepparate layer so it's not here. literally whenever i had to pause animating itself to go do a background to add in the shot my work on this project would grind to a halt bc i did NOT like doing backgrounds and kinda dreaded them)

also another fun fact. i began working on this animation before kenikari's demo was even out, on january. i wanted to post the full two days before i released the demo, to build up hype. oh, young me. foolish young me. you idiot. you baby dumbass. you bufoon

[bleedingmochi]

I was wondering why there was an uptick of trans!Cross art, not that I was bothered by that but I heard there was a recent situation related to it and had no idea what people were referring to.

Then I found the posts in question.

A summary of what basically happened: Jakei commented on the transcoded parallel of the Cross and Papyrus scene with the line “You are valid 🏳️‍⚧️💜”, in a post with fun facts about Underverse 0.8 Pt.1. People got excited the creator acknowledged the parallel, some people probably got confused and thought Jakei confirmed he was actually transgender, other people got confused why there was a connection at all. One post in particular came under Jakei’s radar that she felt the need to call the person out for their bad takes and clarify she only made Cross transcoded. Fans reacted with their own reactions. Any attempt to defend and explain the transcoded narrative does not get through to OP who remains confused and mad.

Whether Cross is a well-written trans-coded character wasn’t really what was being argued about, but the fact a connection to transgender experience was being made at all and that was enough to spark the current trend and hype going around for trans!Cross.

As I understood it, the context people are drawing from was subtext apparently put there intentionally by the creator. An allegory about changing and accepting new identity that’s maybe not unique to only trans people but one Jakei tried to tell. Also note that Jakei only said Cross is trans-coded, but doesn’t care if people see him as outright trans, and most people do understand headcanon and coding doesn’t equal canon lore.

I also love the character but don’t connect to or interpret him in that way, but to get so angry over other’s different interpretations and throw around colorful wording like “strange/ cringe/ harmful/ stupid/ disgusting/ idiots/ bitch” in response to people’s different opinions… of a fictional character… how do people have the energy for that? Is it a parasocial thing?

People don’t have to like or agree with everything an author or other fans create, but if the only harm being done is cringe headcanons and cringe fanon overshadowing the correct canon interpretation (welcome to tumblr btw), then…

Anyways congrats to everyone for making the oreo an unofficial trans-coded icon. 

Your prize is a png of smol Cross.

(๑•̀ ᴗ•́)૭✧

[teaveetamer]

Regarding the last rb: I think most of us can recognize how patently ridiculous it is to just blanket accuse someone of misogyny or queerphobia for, idk, thinking that starting a war is bad. It's an annoying and unfounded accusation, but it's ultimately something most of us can shrug off.

But like... I really don't think the people making these accusations are aware of how badly that plays when the criticism you're trying to defend against is calling out bigotry.

Now, let me elaborate.

A few days ago I was on Twitter and happened to see that Edelgard was trending. So I figured I'd go see what that's about because it was probably a shitshow (since there hasn't really been anything official lately that would explain it, e.g. a FEH alt or a figma or something. So, obviously, drama was afoot).

Color me surprised to see there was a lot of criticism about Edelgard's treatment of Petra in canon (primarily, how she keeps Brigid a vassal state and holds that over Petra's head the entire war, instead of immediately granting Brigid independence when she obtained the power to do so). In sum, just discussing the racism inherent to the writing (for tiptoeing around that and definitely not condemning it like it should have) and often inherent to the fanbase (for justifying everything Edelgard does, including this)

And I was seeing two main "rebuttals" to this point.

It's not her fault because she was just a poor wittle girly who is just soooo powerless (nevermind the fact that she spends five years in a position of absolute power over the nation that is currently holding Brigid hostage. And, also, she's a grown ass woman for the entire time skip and events of the war phase), and even if she did it it's not her fault because society just raised her like that (nevermind the fact that people can grow and learn and you aren't stuck with the values your society forced on you when you were a child).

Accusing the people raising these points of misogyny and queerphobia

We could debate exactly how to approach this criticism (a mark against the character? The writers? Both? Was it intentionally written to be racist? Is it a product of social conditioning and unexamined biases on the part of the writers? Some combination?).

But you know what you probably should NOT do in, like, any circumstance? Deflect responsibility for the actions because "she was just a poor little girl who doesn't know better" and accuse the people raising these concerns of misogyny and queerphobia.

This is the kind of shit people are talking about when they say the FE fandom has a lot of unexamined racism. Your first response to someone bringing up racism is to basically say "Okay, but the reputation of the White Girl PNG I Like is more important than your feelings about racist writing/handling of PoC characters. So it's not her fault, and even if it was, you're just a bigot so you're wrong"

And just, like, there's this implicit elevation of the struggles of (white) women and (white) queer folk as more important, valid, or worthy of being defended than the struggles of people marginalized on the basis of race. Let's not even get into the fact that many of the people raising these criticisms were queer women themselves, and it's entirely possible to be a queer woman and also be prejudiced (it happens ALL THE TIME. The queer community and the feminist movements have a LONG history of explicitly excluding people who are not white. E.g. the whitewashing of Stonewall and white feminists excising black feminists from the movement to try and make feminism "more palatable" to racist white men).

Not to mention the double standard here. They'll be so quick to call out racism if it's a character they don't like, but the second it's their fave? Crickets.

Hate to break it to you, but if you only care about pointing out potential racism when it involves a character you don't like, then you're not an ally. You're an opportunist leech co-opting the struggles of real people to win petty internet arguments.

Inb4 someone accuses me of having a double standard for the Dimitri/Dedue relationship, as if Dedue following Dimitri completely of his own free will because he cares about him and believes he can help rebuild Duscur is in any way comparable to Petra being a literal hostage who risks the annihilation of her entire country if she steps out of line (and she knows it). There's definitely racist elements to Dedue's writing (I've even talked about some of them) but specifically his relationship with Dimitri/Faerghus is NOTHING like Petra's with Edelgard/Adrestia.

[agentoffangirling]

so here's the thing, your post didn't describe fiction affecting reality but manipulation from others or even grooming

you should know this: all ships are valid. Your 13 year old self did nothing wrong. Being manipulated / groomed into saying "I was wrong for liking a ship" is extremely worrying. Grooming also doesn't have to be sexual, it is essentially someone with power taking advantage of a vulnerable person (you) by posing themselves as their protector/mentor/whatever

other red flags to look out for are things like being told you "deserved to be mistreated because you gave into sin" and being praised if you "have given up that sin and thus changed for the better" because this is the kind of manipulation tactic you find in religious cults.

Here are some sources on how to spot grooming and the difference between an adult who means well and a predator

https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/health/what-is-grooming

https://safekidsthrive.org/the-report/introduction/other-warning-signs/

https://www.splcenter.org/peril-guide-online-youth-radicalization

and here is a safety PSA to spot grooming in fandom communities

http://web.archive.org/web/20240815114926/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTtAK2qWwAApG8c?format=png&name=4096x4096

If you are still friends with these kind of people, I suggest you take a long look at them and ask yourself if your relationship is healthy. Pro-tip: if they still control what you are/aren't allowed to like, if they tell you that you are a bad person because of your past/present fictional interests, then the relationship is unhealthy and these people can and will drop you the moment you don't act in the way they want you to

be safe

I made a quiz about my favorite ships. One of those was that proship. I had a comment one time that was like:

"totally agree with all of these except blank"

"oh why not?"

"well, they're brothers"

"not by blood, but okay"

And my day went on. Another time I went over to a friend's house (who is of the same age as me) to chat with her, and she didn't know anything about this media at all, so it was mostly just me gushing my love about it. She did however, know these two characters were siblings, and brought up concerns that it was weird to ship them. Again, I claimed it wasn't, we went on with our days

I started to realize that I was in the wrong when not only did I think about these two experiences, but I started watching more of the media itself, which clearly put them as brothers. That's not grooming, that's called growing from a kid bc kids often don't know what is right or wrong. They learn from it. It's natural to ship problematic things when you're younger bc you don't know it's problematic, and it's only through interacting with the media and other fans do you start learning. From what I've seen, most pro-shippers are never told no and are given content that reinforces their beliefs. They usually don't interact with the fandom or distance themselves from the piece until later. This makes them think that the ship is perfectly okay. Telling someone no is not grooming

Not all ships are valid if they reinforce toxic behaviors and/or mirror real-life problems. To be told that shipping siblings is bad is not grooming and I am astounded you actually think that. What the actual fuck

[sirenium]

If you ever feel invalidated by an exclusionist, please remember this post because I can assure you they don't know what they're talking about💀

⚠️trigger warning for of course exclusionist dumbassery, also this gets rant-y⚠️

I swear exclusionists have the most incoherent thought processes known to man dude cuz what is this shit

[ID: purple header text reading he/him lesboy flag/ hesboy flag! Under this text is plain black text reading based on these two flags: •reclaimed lesboy •he/him lesbian. Under this, red, bold text reads DNI, followed by rad inclus, terfs/transmeds, anti he/him lesbians & she/her gays, male/men "lesbians" in black plain text. End ID]

'Lesboy flag' and 'no man lesbians' in the same post... my brain is melting. Also... these people 'reclaimed' the term lesboy? Just to exclude a group of people who are lesboys? You do know that lesbians who also consider themselves men are also included in the lesboy term? Apparently not to these people. Butches who also consider themselves men? Sorry, not lesbians anymore. Multigender man lesbians? Nah sorry you're men so you can't be lesbians./sarc

[ID: blue header text reading Demiboy lesbian flag! Beneath this, quote text (at least I think that's what it's called) reads I couldn't decide on which ones to choose, so I'm posting all of them! Beneath this, much like the previous image, OP starts off their DNI with a bold red DNI, followed by black plain text. This text reads mspec "lesbians", radinclus, terfs/transmeds, radfems, men/male "lesbians", anti he/him lesbians and she/her gays. End ID]

Is that,, not excluding demiboy lesbians? Oh my bad, it's fine cuz they're only 'partially male' and therefore aren't ACTUALLY icky men invading lesbian spaces!/sarc

Also can I just say how fucking entitled it is to be all like 'mspec "lesbians"' with the quotes and shit? Like oh my god get over yourself, you aren't the leader of the lesbians™️ [trademark]. Bro thinks they're part of the lesbian council or some shit. 💀

Besides that, this has got to be one of the funniest examples of exclusionist stupidity I've ever seen. I can't get over it bro: 'demiboy lesbian flag!' 'Fuck off icky man lesbians!' In the SAME. POST. BAHAHA–

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It's rare that I feel the need to take screenshots and talk about them on my blog, but these are so poetically idiotic that I had to make a whole post dedicated to them. So yeah, sorry about your braincells lmao. But just know you're valid regardless of how you identify as a lesbian, and these are the types of people who think otherwise. Needless to say, they aren't really that credible.

[ID: a DNI banner with a purple background with lighter purple text reading DNI: system/queer exlusionists, TERFs/SWERFs, truscum/transmeds, anti recovery for harmful paraphilia, anti otherkin, anti self dx, pro cringe culture, pro-lifers, anti xenogender. A more detailed DNI is in my pinned post. A transparent png of Shadow The Hedgehog can be seen on the right, beside the text. He's holding his hand to his chest, his body facing the text and his eyes looking off to the distance. End ID]

[miss-saytr]

“Making art just for yourself has a deep, personal flavor and different meaning to it.”

As I was thinking of a low time in my life, I thought of this quote and picked up the pen and drew. Despite being a happier person, I do have my healthy sad moments. I’ve realized that a lot of my work I make for the intention, at least a little bit, to show to other people.

Don’t get me wrong, many artists have the intention to show their work to the world. It’s something that comes naturally for a lot of us. The need to share because we are social creatures overtakes us no matter if it’s to strangers or your only close friend. It’s just this quote made me think about making something for myself and myself only. Despite that, there’s always this thought in the back of my head going,

“What if an audience sees this?”

Is my vent art cliche? Cringey? Edgy? Bad? Something a young teenager would make? Something an older art critique png YouTuber would put in his awful art compilation? Something you could compare to Deviantart? Is it because that I’m Gen-Z so my vent art can not compare to older generations who drew about war, politics, and genocide? Is it only valid when the art is venting about something that affects a lot of people? Then is it something valid as commentary about world events, and not something very personal? Is it more valid painted with oil on canvas than it is digital with a trending art program?

And I think to myself, I know how the audience would react. If this vent art is about an existing character you can relate to, what will fans of that character and or series think? “It’s too edgy, it’s out of character, she would never do that, why her?” And if it’s your own self or own character, it’s too personal to have anyone care about it. “Who is that? Is that you? Do I need to call someone? Why do you look like that?”

What if I just feel like drawing something? What if it just comes to me? What if it’s my own self expression? I don’t need to think about an audience seeing this. My overthinking brain comes up with this scenario about how a large group of people will accidentally see it somehow. And I think that’s the main reason I barely make vent art at all. It adds to this weird urge to explain why I draw everything so someone doesn’t see it negatively or in a way I don’t want it to be seen.

So I took all my anxieties and future worries away and drew what I wanted.

And I felt stronger.

[saintmeghanmarkle]

[NSFW] Full video of the 'Bye Bitch' mum from the Harlem school visit in 2021 calling out Meghan who claimed to be a princess and for recording children without parental permission by u/Negative_Difference4

[NSFW] Full video of the 'Bye Bitch' mum from the Harlem school visit in 2021 calling out Meghan who claimed to be a princess and for recording children without parental permission This video is the full video that went viral on the internet and has now been scrubbed from the internet. Watch with caution. I dont condone this video and neither do the modshttps://reddit.com/link/171blda/video/2f8hhlrnsksb1/playerVideo is from 24th October 2021. Credit Sophie LunaRelated sub post at the time-> https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/qf0c1r/deleted_by_user/​The video was going around YT at the time and it was then shared on the sub. Some of you watching the video may be horrified by the mum's actions . I dont condone or would not act like this myself. But then again, I didnt have a low level royal turn up to my childs school in the middle of a pandemic. So I can empathise with her outrage over this.Here is the mod commentary that I made at the timeThe video is of a very pissed mum from the Harlem school. We contemplated not posting the video as it’s very DISTURBING and it’s authenticity couldn’t be verified. The woman is very pissed by the antics of Ginge and Whinge. This is understandable Further it came from a brand new account and we couldn’t verify the authenticity of the video. There’s been much chatter in Twitter of this video. Her comment was also posted on lipstick alley… I will post all related snapshots to back up her claims shortly which led us to reverse our decision… and you be the judge.​Video description on YouTubehttps://preview.redd.it/m3v8c2udvksb1.png?width=1125&format=png&auto=webp&s=e1504699b0f530aaed8632b895557f4c9e31164cComment about the original video taken down and YT channels deleted. who has the power and track record to do such things?https://preview.redd.it/wtrvbb3ovksb1.png?width=1125&format=png&auto=webp&s=97d43d2aa28f6d00cdf2127fa0fe65d934462c66​Comment about the rotten wholefoods tomatoes and the school asking for donationshttps://preview.redd.it/z726tpgrvksb1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=7259db981ddeb3c9e09a56bbe60e960ce3b486d0https://preview.redd.it/mjljwp5xvksb1.png?width=1125&format=png&auto=webp&s=5c846fbea6cd97cd01e80f1aa3a7cfe60d4f07df​Sugars try to attack the validity and quickly backtrackhttps://preview.redd.it/t0wd1za1wksb1.png?width=1125&format=png&auto=webp&s=4504a1ba17674ebb9f160ab6a176894528643b8chttps://preview.redd.it/pzunak33wksb1.png?width=855&format=png&auto=webp&s=0f5d58179f7b3a6aaf47ba7e242a4ed07a642fe8But obviously I dont know who this person is and cannot authenticate her claims… therefore it’s marked as NSFW and conspiracy.As mods, we want to make it clear that we as a sub don’t agree with the tone and nature of this video. post link: https://ift.tt/UX7q6zZ author: Negative_Difference4 submitted: October 06, 2023 at 02:55PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

[hellsvestibule]

I’m sorry, The real reason I’m so fucked up and Britomart is my hard fav and who I really made that post about is bc one time I stared at a faint violet light which burned through my entire being; it was like a distant star yet it enveloped and destroyed my body, burning through me leaving nothing left of myself but the hollow husk I am now, but then I saw my unceasing ever expanding reflection which I now understand is a part of a vague undefinable collective called “tumblr” (death) and within that all encompassing crushing plurality I become Nothing and also Everything. And then there’s the fucking void butterfly haunting my FUCKING nightmares (shakes my fist) (growling and snarling bc my inner beast has been awakened) I’ll get you one day, void butterfly! , but yeah since then I haven’t properly known or understood myself or others my essence is NOT valid and everything I say is a negation of what i say and untrustworthy , maybe that’s why I’m so touchy man everything’s mostly been a hollow simulacrum of what once was and yet has ceased to be yet appears to me only within this dream of a dream I have yet to experience or remember. But. everyone’s having that same dream because of the Fucking void butterfly, and yet they say I am the one bullying them by trapping them in -my- nightmare realm, omgggg I’m w en though I’m Im just -sniffs- I’m just a shambling corpsedoll interchangeable with everyone else at certain angles. but also I recognize I do have a very distinct purple(? Am I purple?) visage. but yeah the rest of you kinda do just look like a mass of writhing chaos to me sorry haha don’t be mad I’m searching for meaning and identity through expressing my opinions on these png anime characters too bc you see one day instead of fighting I listened to the non void butterflies (my mutuals who are an extension of my hive mind of simps with bad taste in anime women. Um, I guess, on some plane of conscious reality they’re probably maybe alive and real?) Anyway all the bugs who are my mutuals said my taste in anime is final bc im gods strongest warrior, specialist prince-princess, and most pitiful wet kitten, and that’s all it takes to be a hero to THEM

[aequitasindia]

The Secret Sauce for Multibagger returns: The Untold Story

The Milestone

On 3rd August 2023, our AIF – Aequitas Equity Scheme 1, reached a significant milestone of $100 Million AUM. While AUM building has never been a forefront agenda, it’s a positive feat reassuring the faith our investors have shown in us. The contrarian, as we boastfully like to call ourselves, we continue to take the road less travelled, focusing 1-on-1 relationship with our investors, without taking the distributor and empanelment route to market ourselves.

Embarking on our AIF Journey in March 2019, with a fund corpus of $6 million and, in 4 years, commanding a fund AUM of $100 million, validates the robustness of our investment philosophy, which has helped us navigate turbulent market cycles over the years

As amazing as this sounds, it is only half the truth.

The Journey

Aequitas started building wealth for investors in 2013, when we launched our first product, Portfolio Management Services (PMS). After delivering consistent returns for our PMS, a bespoke portfolio service which today stands at 37% CAGR over 10 years, we felt the market’s need for an equally good investment option with lower ticket size, but the same investment philosophy at core.

And thus, 18 March 2019 we launched Aequitas Equity Scheme 1, our AIF, with a portfolio value of

$6 Million and 16 stocks – all the AIF stocks were also part of the PMS stock set.

While 2019 was a memorable year for us as our new champion was out in the battlefield, 2020 was equally memorable for all the wrong reasons – as we were hit by the unknown, pandemic COVID-19. It affected every household across the globe, and that proportionally reflected on the stock market that fell into panic selling. “It was a rough and challenging period!!” Siddhartha says further, “Global economies were falling apart to a challenge which no superpower in the world was prepared for”.

18 March 2020, exactly on 1 year anniversary of our AIF – Aequitas Equity Scheme 1, was in negative. Many would have crumbled under this pressure and drawn curtains given such a disheartening start.

What did we do?

Nothing! There was nothing to be done in terms of our portfolio strategy. We entered our initial holdings not because of some momentum or popularity, which had turned upside down. We have a

strong & proven Multibagger investment philosophy which focuses on three pillars – Growth, Contrarian & Value.

https://www.aequitasindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2.png

Growth: We identify companies whose numbers are fundamentally strong and show great growth potential for 3-5 years. The markets reward a higher PE multiple for growth companies.

Contrarian: Contrarian approach does not mean doing the opposite of others, rather, it means doing things differently. Buying the popular names will not provide Multibagger returns. This gives us the necessary edge over others as when our stocks get the long due attention, we are mostly done reaping all the benefits already.

Value: We enter the stock at a very reasonable valuation. This is critical as there has to be scope for potential re-rating. A combination of EPS growth and PE re-rating leads to Multibagger returns.

As nothing had impacted the philosophy pillars, we DID NOT QUIT even a single holding out of our original 16 AIF stocks. And we had the trust and backing of our investors too as we witnessed 0% churn rate during this tough period, i.e., none of our initial investors part ways. Do you think they knew it is just a phase and what the future truly holds? Maybe. Maybe not. But we knew for sure!

How were we so sure?

Well, we had our Skin in the Game. All our Aequitas employees were (and continue to be) investors in the AIF. We firmly believed that it is the best wealth generating machinery available in the Indian equity market. And ‘hell yeah!’ we were right about it.

Also, we had a promise to our investors, an unsaid promise to build wealth for them – more than the market indices. If they have shown their trust by putting in their hard-earned money, it is our job to fulfil their expectation of building wealth – and so we reciprocated by taking the bold call of not charging any fee till we have justified our proposition.

So, for 18 months since inception, we charged Zero fees to our investors. We stood by their faith in us.

A year later, on the 2nd Anniversary of our AIF, March 2021 we made positive returns on our initial investment – as we bounced back from our lowest position during the period. But our first

milestone was still a few miles away – building true wealth for our investors, more than the market average.

So, we Did Not Charge Performance Fees, till we delivered on our unsaid promise in April 2022. 

What is the secret sauce?

As you would have figured too by now, the only secret is ignoring the noise around and backing the basics. There are many small market correction cycles that have occurred since pandemic, and it will continue to (maybe there is one as you are reading it) – that is the nature of stock market. The one thing that is rooted is the fundamentals of the companies invested in, backed by a thorough investment philosophy of Aequitas. While our cumulative results stand astonishingly positive, we feel proud to say that it is because of multiple individual stocks and not just one crazy Multibagger.

We held onto the fundamentally strong 16 stocks that aligned with our investment philosophy and as result, 10 out of 16 stocks emerged as MULTIBAGGER over the period.

https://www.aequitasindia.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/4.png

We are the contrarians, who do not get moved due to market shifts, corrections. We come from the Mr. Peter Lynch school of thoughts and as he says, “The real key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.”

[codehunter]

Type error on calling validate in wtforms

I have TypeError in line where I call 'validate()' on my form.

The error is:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flask/app.py", line 1836, in __call__ return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flask/app.py", line 1820, in wsgi_app response = self.make_response(self.handle_exception(e)) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flask/app.py", line 1403, in handle_exception reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flask/app.py", line 1817, in wsgi_app response = self.full_dispatch_request() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flask/app.py", line 1477, in full_dispatch_request rv = self.handle_user_exception(e) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flask/app.py", line 1381, in handle_user_exception reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flask/app.py", line 1475, in full_dispatch_request rv = self.dispatch_request() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/flask/app.py", line 1461, in dispatch_request return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args) File "/home/valery/projects/easy_booking/easy_booking/controllers/users.py", line 110, in process_field if filled_form.validate(): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wtforms/form.py", line 265, in validate return super(Form, self).validate(extra) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wtforms/form.py", line 130, in validate if not field.validate(self, extra): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wtforms/fields/core.py", line 176, in validate stop_validation = self._run_validation_chain(form, chain) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wtforms/fields/core.py", line 196, in _run_validation_chain validator(form, self)TypeError: __init__() takes at most 2 arguments (3 given)

My code:

@app.route("/process_field", methods=['POST'])def process_field(): file = request.files['upload'] filled_form = FieldFootball(request.form) if filled_form.validate(): filename = secure_filename(file.filename) file.save(os.path.join(app.config['UPLOADS_FOLDER'], filename)) doc = {"organization": filled_form.org_name.data, "address": filled_form.address.data, "filename": filename, "price": filled_form.price.data, "phone": filled_form.phone.data, "phone1": filled_form.phone1.data, "phone2": filled_form.phone2.data, "user_id": current_user.dic['_id']} field = Field(doc) field.save() return redirect(url_for('field_profile', id=field.id)) else: return render_template("add_field.html", form=filled_form)class FieldFootball(Form): org_name = TextField(u'Название организации', [validators.Required]) address = TextAreaField(u'Полный адрес футбольного поля',[validators.Required]) upload = FileField(u'Фотографии футбольного поля', validators=[ FileRequired(), FileAllowed(['jpg', 'png'], u'Только фотографии!') ]) price = TextField(u'Цена', [validators.Required, validators.NumberRange]) phone = TextField(u'Телефоны', [validators.Required]) phone1 = TextField(u'') phone2 = TextField(u'') my_choices = [('1', u'Трава'), ('2', u'Крытый'), ('3', u'Трибуны')] list_tags = MultiCheckboxField(choices = my_choices)

It is a bit weird because I used it in previous controller, and it goes without any argument.

Please help me solve it.

https://codehunter.cc/a/flask/type-error-on-calling-validate-in-wtforms

[a-girl-called-bob]

particularly, "file" is supposed to support an argument called "--extension", which (according to the manual) is supposed to give a list of valid extensions for the real type of a file. Sometimes you get something that's just named wrong - a music file ending in .png, for example - and "file" uses other signatures than the name to figure out what a file really is.

Unfortunately:

it doesn't fucking work

and searching "file command extension argument ???" in 100 different permutations is not helping me at all.

the downside to linux using simple, memorable names for a lot of commands is that it's fucking impossible to get any information about the "file" command

[havvki]

so i was playing a cute visual novel with a romantic tone and i forgot that i bought the dlc with a voiced name pack so out of the blue i heard this sweet little boy say my name into my headphones and i just--

[tree-mans-fifth-branch]

[bitchassbucky]

.raw

Word count: 1.3k

Warning/s: this chapter is pretty tame ngl. very toxic relationship dynamics, bit spicy, references to sex, dark!bucky x dark! reader, obsessive/manipulative tendencies, cyber and irl stalking (usage of tracking device), food and eating were mentioned several times

A/N: thank you @unsaltedalmonds for the idea of IT!Bucky wearing this shirt lmfao

follow the CTRL series:

i - .exe

ii - .avi

iii - .raw

iv - .png

v - .zip

CTRL playlist CTRL moodboard

The lunch rush is starting to pick up when you came into the restaurant Bucky had told you. The chitter-chatter of the patrons along with the live acoustic band drones on as you sit by the bar waiting for him.

It’s nice. The mood is casual and the atmosphere is light. Maybe if the al-fresco dining area isn’t too crowded, you’d pick a sunny spot.

Catching your reflection on a glassy surface, you fix your appearance, hoping that it isn’t too much or too little.

“You look great, don’t worry.” A voice behind you perks up and you turn—Bucky.

A genuine smile finds itself on your lips, “thanks, Bucky. How long have you been here?” You let your eyes gaze upon his form. Black bomber jacket, zipped up all the way, tight skinny jeans, and scruffy boots. He swapped his dress shirt with something casual and it’s somehow driving you nuts already.

He gestures backward to a free table a few feet away, “long enough to get a seat for us.”

Bucky then sees your eyes flick outside by the restaurant’s patio, “unless you wanna go al-fresco?”

“Oh my gosh,” you almost even give yourself an eye roll for that, “no—no, it’s okay. We can stay here.”

“C’mon, it’s okay. I’m sure someone would be willing to switch with us.”

Before you could protest further, Bucky already flagged down the hostess. Giving his best smile and a minuscule head tilt, he speaks, “Do you think we could get a seat out there? I think fresh air would do us good.”

Like any other woman—hell, even men—wouldn’t be able to resist Bucky and his charm, “yeah! Of course, anything for you and your girlfriend.” The hostess looks at you and beams, prompting you to smile back.

Do you even try to dismiss that claim when you caught how Bucky reacted?

—

Peals of laughter slip past your lips as Bucky unzips his jacket, revealing a tasteful shirt underneath, “Bucky, oh my god!”

He throws an apologetic look around as you keep laughing, your hands hitting the table repeatedly.

“Can you keep it down?” Even he was chuckling a bunch, “in my defense, I need to do my laundry.”

You calmed yourself down only to laugh again, happy tears springing to the sides of your eyes.

Bucky wants to relive this is forever. Making you laugh and cry from laughing too much.

Is this what love feels like?

Your presence to him is like ecstasy.

He never wants to leave your light.

Everything about you is addicting.

And the way you didn’t even try to dismiss when the hostess called you his girlfriend—you want him as much as he wants you.

—

Lunch turned into afternoon snacks and snacks turned to dinner.

You and Bucky almost went and turned every food place upside down, the waistbands of your pants getting snug as the sun sets by the avenue.

“I’m so full, oh my god.” You jokingly rubbed your tummy, sipping boba as you walked side by side.

“Says the person drinking boba tea?” Bucky smirks, his hair fashioned into a low bun, showing off his side profile, much to the delight of people passing by.

He’s a walking Greek statue and you’re with him.

Bucky makes you feel loved. Enough. Seen. Validated.

Is this what love feels like?

You in his presence feel like a warm hug.

Bucky changed you forever.

A rather rushing pedestrian knocked shoulders with Bucky, causing him to stumble back and you to hold him steady, “you good?”

He seemed pissed, the crease between his eyebrows prominent, “yeah. Sorry, I’m okay.”

And then there it was: the tug of something unknown yet strangely familiar. The sound of the traffic ceases as you and Bucky both gaze upon each other’s eyes, only drifting to the other’s lips.

The moment has never been this perfect. Fuck all your romantic comedies starring Kate Hudson, this is your story now.

“Can I kiss you?” Bucky asks tenderly. His hand brushing your hair away from your face.

“Yes.”

Without a moment’s notice, your lips met.

—

Hand in hand, you walked the streets feeling like you’re on the clouds. Sweet smiles, bashful giggles. Normally, you would protest against stealing kisses but not when it’s him.

“This is my place,” Bucky says, pointing towards a mid-rise apartment complex. The neighborhood wasn’t new to you; you often find yourself walking these very streets early in the mornings.

You haven’t had the moment to appreciate his art pieces when Bucky suddenly pinned you against the door, shutting it roughly as soon as you stepped into his apartment threshold.

His lips finding yours, nibbling. The kiss was anything but sweet—all teeth and tongues.

“You have no idea how much I’ve waited to do that.”

“Like a month?” You quipped, tugging the collar of his tee. Your arms draping past his shoulders as his hands rest on your hips.

“Yeah, sure, let’s say a month.”

Having you in his studio apartment was meant to be. You in his space was written in the stars. He can almost see you waking up on his bed with him cooking you breakfast. Making you a cup of coffee now that he knows how you like it: with cream and two sugars.

You took a seat on his large office chair and a vision of you riding him suddenly floods his brain. Hey, now’s not the time.

Him shaking his head into resetting sent the wrong message, “oh. I can’t sit there, or…?” You pull yourself up, metaphorically hitting yourself in the head for making such a presumption.

Maybe he’s that kind of person who doesn’t like someone all up in their space. Then why would he take you here?

“No, no, it’s fine. I just—don’t you think it’s a bit late?” Bucky forces a smile, rubbing his palm across his nape. The warm feeling was suddenly pulled out of him. Now he’s just standing in his house with an acquaintance.

You suddenly felt small, minuscule, and very, very stupid. “Oh. Yeah, uh, I should probably get going.”

“What about a drink?” Bucky’s internally panicking now, he didn’t mean to insinuate the intent of leaving.

You shook your head, straightening your posture as you gathered your thoughts. “I can call a ride, it’s no worries. Got tons of stuff to do anyway.”

“I’m sorry.” Is all Bucky said. He wasn’t really sure why he’s apologizing or what it is for.

—

The door clicked closed and Bucky bolts to his workspace, closing down the applications that will implicate him.

He closes all applications but one, a tracking dot. He installed one on your work phone just in case you needed his help and can’t reach out. You’d never know who’s a sick fuck in these days.

Bucky shoots you a text but instead, he got a phone call.

Hey.

Hey.

The sound of the road was muffled on your end, but nonetheless, the car was moving in the right direction.

I’m so sorry for earlier. I didn’t mean to...intrude. I just—I really like you, Bucky. I’m sorry I was too forward.

I… Bucky tries to play with time as he chooses his next words carefully, I like you too but I think we’re going too fast.

Your end was quiet, save from the ambient noises.

I guess so. Let’s keep things professional and friendly first, okay?

Okay.

I gotta go, I’m at my place.

The line went dead without as much as a goodbye.

Liar. Why would you lie to him? You have at least fifteen minutes more to go.

Why would you lie to him? Didn't you just say that you liked him? The way you said it was so casual—like it didn’t bother you that you were lying to him. Raised like a liar, die like a thief.

[aismallard]

See, this is why I don't like the way Windows does file extensions.

File extensions are descriptive, not prescriptive. If I have a JPEG that's called foo.png and if I open it in my image viewer, it displays fine. Why? Because, while opening the file, it determines what kind of image it is by its content.

On UNIX-like systems there is a library called libmagic (command-line utility name is file) while, given some arbitrary file, makes its best guess of what type it is. And guess what! Standard file formats like JPEG have "magic bytes" at the beginning which make it pretty easy to tell what kind of file it's meant to be. For instance, if it doesn't start with hex 04034b50, it's not a valid ZIP file! So if I feed my image viewer something ending in ".png" it sees right through it and uses the JPEG decoder, because libmagic tells it that it's a JPEG. In fact I can give it a file with no file extension at all and it does the same.

File extensions are for the human. They are so that, at a glance, you can look at a file and be like "oh that's a WEBP", "oh that's a .tar.gz", etc. They are descriptive, meaning that they help you tell what it contains. An incorrect file extension is meant to be like naming your file "asdf", it's not about wrongness really, it's about being unhelpful. Is that your school essay, family vacation photos, or game files? Who knows, you named it "asdf".

However, Windows uses them prescriptively. The definition of a JPEG is, apparently, a file ending with .jpg or .jpeg. Never mind that there's a standard format specification and tools like magic which can identify a file for you. If you rename a PNG to .jpg, then it will be unable to process it because it's prescriptive, the thing that makes a file a PNG is the extension.

But okay, that's not a fatal flaw, that's a difference in philosophy. The idea is people should have properly-set file extensions, and then that information is used to allow users to say "I want this file to be treated like this". Fine, makes sense. After all, I might have a Markdown file which is composed of essentially plaintext, libmagic would describe it as "ASCII text" even if it's really "UTF-8 markdown (with no formatting)". (Not that editors would treat them that differently but you know.)

The issue to me is that Windows hides file extensions by default. So this convention in file naming, created to tell humans what type a file is? And used by Windows prescriptively to designate what type of file this is canonically is? It's hidden. So you don't know why this file called "foo" is a JPEG and this other one called "foo" is a text document, and why those names don't collide but two "foo" JPEGs do.

Then people worry like, well what if the file type is some hidden property, something I'm not supposed to edit? Then there's valid concerns like the one brought up by the OP because now like, how do you know file types aren't a thing in the registry? You shouldn't go poking around in there for fun, of course.

That worry should not exist. File extensions exist to serve human need and visibility, and the progressive change in making it "easier" is just hiding complexity, not reducing it. The leaky abstraction is still there. So people get confused about when they can change it, how they can interpret it, why some names are valid and others not, etc. And if you're saying "well it hides some unhelpful information", people still see file extensions online anyways so it's not like they're even fully hidden. (e.g. if you visit a website and see example.com/files/mypicture.png). Like I said, hiding complexity ≠ reducing complexity.

quastion

how

do I make a new file type and is it hard