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[beyonddarkness]

🗡️ Rings of Power Meta Masterpost 💍

(updated)

Hi, I'm Melanie, a random person from Idaho who happens to be obsessed with Payne and McKay's The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. On my blog (Beyond Darkness) I will attempt to peel back the layers of the show, dissecting scenes, characters, Bear McCreary's incredible score, and the great volumes of text that inspired the writers, penned by Tolkien himself.

This is an ongoing (and updated) list of everything I have posted so far on the blog.

"It is difficult to say anything without saying too much: the attempt to say a few words opens a floodgate of excitement. [...] I shall inflict some of this on you; but I will append a mere résumé of its contents: which is (may be) all that you want or will have use or time for." - J.R.R. Tolkien, From a Letter by J.R.R. Tolkien to Milton Waldman, 1951

Galadriel's Obsession Part 1: Chance-meeting

"Before theorizing about anything else in the show, I believe the most important thing is to determine by what means Sauron and Galadriel were brought together. This topic was not simple enough for a single post, so it might take several parts, or an on-going conversation."

Galadriel's Obsession Part 2: Finrod's Death

"Everything already made sense on the surface, but when I looked deeper into the reason for Finrod’s death, I found there was much more than met the eye. From Galadriel’s perspective, the dagger was special because it was Finrod’s, and she viewed it as a symbol of his task—now hers. However, on the boat, we saw a peculiar attachment as she struggled to let it go. The reason behind this is simple. 'The most important truths often are,' said Finrod, but we must learn to discern them for ourselves; J.D. and Patrick will not always be there to speak them to us. First, we must trace this back to the source."

Galadriel's Obsession Part 3: Vengeance

"Thanks to Thingol naming the Silmarils in desire, there is a chance that Sauron noticed a great power being moved from slumber, yet he could not discover their secret 'no matter how much blood he spilt in its pursuit.' Fëanor’s vow loomed over everything, and Beren’s oath was underneath; but Finrod’s was the reason they were there. There was enough information and evidence for Sauron to pass on a story to someone who did not know the truth, even if he did not truly believe it himself: 'The head of this company vowed to seek me out and destroy me. But I found him first.'"

Sauron Unchained: Blood Oath

"'But could Morgoth afford to permanently ban him? Physically enslave him and risk turning Sauron against him?' (liveinfarbe). The risk becomes greater when you consider Sauron's subsequent aversion to Morgoth, implied by the enmity he exhibited each time Morgoth was mentioned in the first season. Of course, we know the end from the beginning, but Morgoth did not. Would he have taken the risk? Would it have even mattered? [...] Let's examine the nature of Sauron's attachment to Morgoth."

—FROM TUMBLR—

Sauron's Conditional Use of Names

Invisible Hand: in which the Boat scene parallels the final Raft scene

Always Watching Pt. 1 & Pt. 2: Sauron's-eye-view

A Shadow of the Past: in which the prologue parallels Sauron's threat

Foe vs. Enemy: Morgoth is the Foe, Sauron is the Enemy

Sauron Unchained: in which we learn of THAT first sunrise

Prince of Cats: Tevildo's characteristics in the Rings of Power

A Solace and A Burden: the origin of the dagger in the Silmarillion

In the Darkness, Bind Them: to the power of Morgoth

My Thoughts on Haladriel/Saurondriel

More on Sauron and Love/Sincerity

Means of Mastery: Sauron's Influence in Off-screen Meetings

Disa's and Bronwyn's Character Arcs

Bronwyn Continued

A Bit About Theo and Arondir

What's the Deal with Gil-galad?

Gil-galad and Celebrimbor at Odds

Sauron Rebuilt: in which we see how exactly Sauron rebuilt his power

[robbie-wallis]

I need to vent about Watcher, endure it if you can

Relax, this isn't a parasocial thing, but it is a long ass post, which suits me as a long ass human.

I need an outlet to discuss the terrible business decision Watcher has made by announcing their plan to leave YouTube, and this long-forgotten Tumblr account reached from its grave to grab at my ankle.

If you didn't see their video, good for you. It's extremely cringe-worthy in its sentimentality and editing, with blurry shots, pensive pauses and obligatory sad piano.

But at least there's no f'ing Ukulele.

Although, I think we might get the Ukulele in a few months.

Even though anyone who reads this is probably familiar with what the "Ghoul Boys" have done, I feel as though I need to add a little history.

WATCHER HISTORY

You can skip this part if you've been obsessively following the shenanigans, this is for the noobs who were never a "shaniac" or a "boogara".

Shane Madej and Ryan Bergara used to work at Buzzfeed. They hosted the successful Buzzfeed Unsolved shows. In 2019 they followed in the footsteps of the Try Guys and Safia Nygaaard and left Buzzfeed to create their own YouTube channel named "Watcher".

They brought along Steven Lim, another Buzzfeed person who is most known for the "Worth It" series. This series followed Lim and his friend/s spending obscene amounts of money on obscenely overpriced and indulgent products.

Think of it as being similar to the $100 V's $10,000 Sidemen content, only without the self-awareness and British "bad lads" humor.

Notably, even the Sidemen seem to have cut back on those adventures, perhaps understanding how bad it looks when so many people are struggling to pay their essential bills.

Steven became the CEO of Watcher while Shane and Ryan continued to create and present for the new channel.

They were wildly successful by YouTube standards. At the time of their self-spanking on Friday they were close to achieving 3 million subscribers, in just 4 years, based on basically only 2 cornerstone shows. If Social Blade is still a reasonably trusted source in everything but estimating income, they were gaining thousands of new subscribers every week.

Their most successful shows were Ghost Files, Puppet History, Too Many Spirits and Mystery Files.

Ghost Files is the only one of these shows which requires heavy investment, travel, a large crew and impressive production costs. These videos are shot on-location and require a lot of work. The rest are basically Good Mythical Morning style, just the two hosts and their banter.

Aside from Ghost Files, their content could be created with 3 cameras, 2 lapel mics and a good editor.

They were massively successful, solely because of Ryan and Shane.

THE DEMISE

So, what did they do on Friday 19th April? They decided to announce the launch of their own subscription platform.

Not a Patreon for extra content, behind-the-scenes, audience interaction etc, (they already had a Patreon with 6,000 paying subscribers earning them at least $50k a month), but a bespoke streaming platform which looks like a clone of Netflix.

The cost is $5.99 a month, or $60 a year.

Comparable to Netflix.

And by that I mean the price is comparable to Netflix while the content is comparable to a 4 year old YouTube channel.

Don't get me wrong, their production quality is incredible. The quantity, however, is not.

From the end of May viewers will have to pay to be a subscriber on their own platform in order to watch their shows.

They'll still be posting their trailers on YouTube, and the first episodes of new shows, but to watch it all you'll have to pay up or miss out.

Edited to add: Variety originally reported the Watcher crew were planning to remove all their existing content from YouTube to monetize it on their own platform. It's since been confirmed they will not be removing their old content. Fans are undecided whether this was a back-track after the announcement or a misunderstanding by Variety. You be the judge.

Of course, they're entitled to do this. They are creating a product and you can either enjoy it or not. No one is entitled to see it, for free, whenever they like.

Why did they do this?

Half of the sombre video gushes about their "humble beginnings" as "struggling young guys in a big harsh world", which comes across as extremely self-indulgent and ego-stroking.

A quarter of it explains how insanely successful they've been on YouTube and how this is all thanks to the fans who stuck with them after Buzzfeed, how it's allowed them to hire 25 people, how it's given them the freedom to create what they enjoy making and what the viewers want to see, and - most importantly - how it's allowed them to increase production quality on Ghost Files.

The final quarter of the video explains that this isn't good enough, the quality isn't high enough, the finish not glossy enough, it's not "TV caliber" enough! They want more, they need more, you have to give them more, mostly (apparently) because their CEO Steven Lim wants to bring back his show where he flies around the world with his bestie sipping Champagne and eating gold-leaf-covered lobster.

In short, they want more money to make even bigger things, even though their audience never asked for that.

WHY IT WILL NOT WORK

Oh my goodness, this is going to be a ride so strap in.

I'm not a YouTube creator so there are a lot of things I do not know. Having said that, I know a little about business.

This ain't Buzzfeed, y'all

Watcher became successful because of Ryan and Shane. It was their friendship, their personalities, and the content we loved to watch featuring them at Buzzfeed, that brought us along for the ride.

The audience they poached from Buzzfeed is there for them and Ghost Files. It's not there for Steven Lim and "Worth It". His show worked under the Buzzfeed umbrella only because they had numerous sub-categories in that community to support it.

The Try Guys left and created their own channel from their Buzzfeed fans.

Safia Nygaard left and created her own channel from her Buzzfeed fans.

Shane and Ryan left and created Watcher from their Buzzfeed fans.

Steven Lim left and became the CEO of Watcher. He didn't take his audience with him.

The audience of Watcher is not the audience of "watch me fly around the word with my pal and spend $100K on hand-reared, Whiskey marinaded, diamond-encrusted Kobe steak".

And... IN THIS ECONOMY?

Steven chose to become a CEO instead of a presenter. He's missed the opportunity to take that Buzzfeed audience with him.

This is made clear by the Watcher channel itself. Their "man eats food" content rarely breaks 500K views while their Ghost Files breaks 2 million consistently.

If a million of their viewers followed them from Buzzfeed to Watcher, the other 2 million have joined them since, based almost entirely on their spoopy content.

Not only did they base their channel on this genre and format, they have distilled their audience further ever since the creation of their channel and no matter how hard they try to diversify into "man eats food" it's just not working.

This ain't Netflix, y'all

As mentioned, the $5.99 charge is comparable to Netflix and just about every other streaming platform. Only Watcher can't give you even 5% of what a competing platform can offer for that price.

Other platforms also tailor their content and their pricing based on geographical location and localized economics.

You're paying far less than $5.99 a month if you live in an economy where the median household income is $300 a month. YouTube has a global audience. Their subscribers don't all live in a stable economy where $5.99 is considered disposable income.

We don't know the numbers, but I would guess only 60% of their subscribers are based in the USA, Canada, and the UK.

Even for those who do live in a stable economy, their audience is predominantly young adults and students. Most young adults are currently facing the reality that they will possibly never own their own home, they're living day-to-day trying to budget.

They've instantly priced-out a large % of their audience.

I confidently predict that diehard fans who can't see anything wrong with this will sign up for $5.99 a month, binge watch for a couple of weeks, realize there's no new spoopy content and cancel.

They'll come back when a full season of Ghost Files has arrived, pay again, binge it and leave.

Steven Lim thinks they're gonna get $5.99 a month, every month, from thousands of subscribers. In reality they're going to get maybe $12 a year, from people signing up to binge watch what they want, then leaving.

This will then decline naturally as attention wanes during the months where there is no spoopy.

This ain't good marketing, y'all

They're going to be posting "trailers and season pilots" on YouTube.

Sure, I bet YouTube is gonna be totes okay with a channel doing nothing but trying to hijack traffic for an external site.

Posting nothing but trailers and season premiers will mean maybe one full video per month during busy seasons. That's not enough to remain relevant for the algorithm.

If 80% of those posts are also just trailers saying "leave YouTube and come here", the channel will be smacked down quicker than a crypto scam using an AI generated Elongated Muskrat.

Their channel was growing steadily, but that was with full content regularly posted. When the schedule drops off, and when most of it is considered spammy by YouTube, it's going to collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

A streaming platform needs a constant flow of new subscribers just to replace the gradual drop-off (maybe ask Rooster Teeth about that). When your global audience at YouTube is gone, where are those new subscribers coming from?

The platform is also an additional overhead. It's going to cost thousands a month to keep the servers going.

This ain't good financial management, y'all

I don't know if they've already spent hundreds of thousands of $s on Lim's "men eat food" gamble, but I suspect they have.

I know they have spent hundreds of thousands of $s on a new season of Ghost Files, flying to the UK to host live events while filming those episodes.

This means they've over-extended their finances just at the moment where they've cratered their opportunities to see a return on investment.

Just that, on its own, is enough to destroy a production company.

They do not need 25 employees any more than I need an editor and proof-reader for this long ass post.

They do not need a production studio in Hollywood any more than I needed an office to write this.

They do not need to spend tens of thousands of $s on glossy graphics that appear on screen for maybe 4 seconds in one episode any more than I needed to add screengrabs to this painfully long essay.

By leaving YouTube they've lost:

Adsense revenue (which might not be much on a per-video basis but adds up with a back catalogue over years of productions)

Sponsorship deals, which allegedly contributes almost 50% of their annual revenue.

Merch sales, which is about to crash if the only people they can promote merch to are already paying per month in their smaller ecosystem.

Patreon. Why would someone pay $5.99 twice, for the same or less content?

And they've abandoned all of this for maybe a few thousand people who will probably end up paying just $12 a year when a new spoopy season arrives for them to binge.

I'm no Will Hunting, but no matter how hard I try to make the numbers work they just don't, and I don't need Robin Williams to tell me it's not my fault.

This ain't nice, y'all

Some of you are feeling like Ned's wife right now, and some of you will have no idea what that's in reference to.

Most of you will hate that I made that reference more than you hated the SNL skit.

I get it.

Maybe the worst part about all of his, from a viewer's perspective, is the dismissive nature of their sign-off.

They didn't mention the Patreon members once, not one single time in the whole video. It's like they consider the Patreon "too YouTube". They're the deformed cousin locked in the attic. They're the relative who wasn't invited to the wedding because they can't afford a Tom Ford suit. They're the colleague who isn't invited to the staff night out because they only work in accounting and no one has anything in common with Janice anyway.

These are diehard fans who were actually paying them extra to support them and enjoy a little bonus behind the scenes, and the boys didn't even consider them worthy of an utterance.

They also finished with "If you don't follow us and pay up it's been real, peace out". I'm paraphrasing, but that's basically what it was.

They spent so much of the video saying how awesome and great it was that the fans and YouTube got them to this point, but they didn't thank their Patreon members, and they ended with a blunt suggestion that if you don't follow them and pay more then you're not a real fan anyway and they don't really need you.

"Thanks for getting us here, sucks to be you, bye now!"

You made them wealthy, you helped them hire 25 people, you helped them increase production value to "TV caliber" even though you didn't ask for that, but your job is done and now you're superfluous. Only the real fans are wanted.

In the words of the great George Carlin - "It's a big club, and you ain't in it".

They're okay losing the vast majority of the people who got them here if a few thousand of those are comfortable enough to be able to pay $60 a year for a YouTube channel.

Can it get worse? Sure!

We've had a weekend to enjoy the constant heat of this bonfire and it's predictably worsened with each hour of silence from the company and its employees.

The fact that they haven't back-tracked, despite almost unanimous agreement that this is badder than the baddest thing that could happen to their company, suggests they're okay with it.

Consensus seems to be that they knew it would be this bad, and they're cool. They predicted 90% of people would scream "Boo to you good sirs! Boo indeed!" and they could still survive on the 10% who don't see a problem here.

The lack of response reinforces the narrative that they're totally fine with discarding almost their entire audience if they can just squeeze the cash they need out of whoever is left.

This ain't fixable, y'all (maybe)

Note: I don't want this to be mean, but it's going to sound a little bitchy no matter how I try to say it.

If they'd brought out the Ukulele on Saturday, or even teased Ukulele's on their socials before putting out a video on Sunday, they probably could have survived this with much hand-wringing and a little groveling.

But now I think they've grilled this Kobe steak for far too long.

They've lost 100K subscribers, and counting. The venom among Patreon members is allegedly worse than the public comments section under the video, which is startling. Dozens of YouTubers are torching them harder than a $100 crème brûlée.

People are scraping their channel content in case it's nuked.

Shane "eat the rich" Madej's sentiments over the last few years look disingenuous, to say the least. To shamelessly steal someone else's comment: "Imagine being all 'eat the rich' right before throwing yourself on the plate". He's silent while his McMansion burns down, at his own hands. "Why not!?" indeed.

Steven "I drive a Tesla" Lim's socials now make him look like a tech-bro try-hard and his use of words like "early adopter" and "soft launch" in the video only compound the belief that this was all his brainchild. He is the CEO, and that comes with responsibility and the associated blame. You can't steer the ship into the Bermuda Triangle and then disappear without looking like the bad guy.

Okay, you can disappear, but that convoluted metaphor is a mystery for someone else to solve.

Ryan "TV caliber" Bergara now sounds like an elitist who thinks YouTube is "too pedestrian" for his big plans, not big enough to meet his artistic vision. You see, he's more James Cameron, while YouTube is more like your student film club. He's grown beyond this pesky platform with billions of daily hits offering exponential growth with almost zero financial risk.

Even if they released a video today admitting they messed up big time it's still going to be hard to get the taste of this Ghost Pepper Warhead out of the collective mouth of their viewers.

This hasn't just burned their shared brand, it's singed their individual reputations among an audience upon which their careers rely.

What they should have done, on Saturday, is release a video (Ukulele or no) confessing their error. They should have announced their new platform will instead just be a bigger and better Patreon, with early access to everything, behind-the-scenes content, extra features, audience interaction etc.

They should have reversed to make clear their YouTube channel will stay the priority, their main source of revenue, but that you could get more on their own platform if you want it.

And, maybe, over time, people will pay for that. If they grow their channel to 6 million subscribers in the next 4 years there will be a couple hundred thousand of them willing and able to pay $5.99 a month for 8 years of shows, 8 years of behind the scenes content, 8 years of community involvement and regular early access to new episodes.

Maybe then they could try out their "privileged guys eat expensive food in expensive places" show and see how it does? Maybe a majority of people won't be living on the cusp of poverty by then and it won't look as tone-deaf as a 13 year old YouTuber trying to cover Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah"? Maybe then they could hire another 50 people and make Bergara's "TV caliber" (I still don't know exactly what that means) game shows and reboots?

The clock has been ticking since they hit that "publish" button on their career ending video, but that clock is about to count down to zero and silence will permeate throughout their previously lively community.

That 1980s basement set needed someone crying in the corner, right?

The problem is, their own platform is not a terrible idea. Really, it's not the worst thing they could do. The badness came in the timing, the switch, the middle finger and the f you. They could have released this as an extra, their own Patreon alternative, waited, developed it over time into something sustainable and established.

They could still try to do that and hope this dark chapter is forgotten.

Maybe I'm wrong? Maybe Lim is a financial genius with more skill than the management of Rooster Teeth and their corporate parent company combined? Maybe this gamble will be wildly successful despite all streaming services down-sizing or just going bankrupt? Maybe they won't be back on YouTube in 3-6 months begging for views after having to lay off 20 of their employees?

I know this... if I were one of those 25 employees blind faith would not be enough to stop me from looking for another job.

I suppose this will, for now, remain... a mystery.

EDIT:

I'm not writing another essay about this, but I'm glad to see they've backtracked and made the right choice to use WatcherTV as any sane creator would - to host early access and exclusive content in addition to their YouTube channel.

Over time, while promoting it in every video, building up that trust and fan base, it can be a secure and long-term financial bonus helping them to expand their business incrementally as finances allow.

Why this wasn't the plan all along is anyone's guess. Gambling everything on this was never the sane decision.

I still think they need to scale back on costs. I still think the food content is not currently a viable source of income while being a serious drain on resources. I still think they need to stop hiring all their friends and they need to hire one person who doesn't have personal relationships with everyone there and can make the tough business decisions.

No one likes firing people, it's ten times worse when it's a friend. But this is a reality of business and just wishing it wasn't so isn't going to make it go away. It would be awesome if we could all run a business where we can hire all our friends and family, never have to rely on any outside funding, make whatever we want, make a great living in one of the most expensive cities in the world and continue to grow.

That's just not the reality.

Their apology was genuine, in my opinion. I just hope they can work out the right financial balance.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

She was destined to be my Gradiva, the one who moves forward, my victory, my wife.

- Salvador Dali on Gala

Dali always maintained that without his wife, Gala, he would never have been the icon of art as he became.

Gala’s real name was Helena Ivanovna Diakonova, a Russian born in Kazan in 1894. She was 10 years older than Dalí and, when they met in 1929, she was married to the poet Paul Éluard and mother to a little girl. She also had a lover, Max Ernst, who painted her in a number of portraits. It was love at first sight.

In his Secret Life, Dalí wrote: “She was destined to be my Gradiva, the one who moves forward, my victory, my wife.” The name Gradiva comes from the title of a novel by W. Jensen, the main character of which was Sigmund Freud. Gradiva was the book’s heroine and it was her who brought psychological healing to the main character.

She immediately became his muse. Gala is a frequent model in Dalí’s work, often in religious roles such as the Blessed Virgin Mary in the painting The Madonna of Port Lligat.

In the early 1930s, Dalí started to sign his paintings with his and her name as “it is mostly with your blood, Gala, that I paint my pictures”. Gala acted as his agent, very aggressively fighting for his rights with gallery owners and buyers. She was also using tarot cards to influence Dalí’s career decisions. According to most accounts, Gala had a strong sex drive and, throughout her life, had numerous extramarital affairs (among them with her former husband Paul Éluard), which Dalí encouraged, since he was a practitioner of candaulism. Also, Salvador Dalí claims to be a virgin and completely impotent as he was afraid of women’s anatomy and Gala publicly assumes her affairs with other men. Still, it seems that their relationship was quite harmonic and lucrative for both sides.

He wrote: “I would polish Gala to make her shine, make her the happiest possible, caring for her more than myself, because without her, it would all end.”

But nothing lasts forever. At the end of the 1960s, their relationship started to fade away, and for the rest of their lives, it was just smouldering pieces of their bygone passion. In 1968, the painter bought Gala a castle in Púbol, Girona, and it was agreed that the painter could not go there without her prior permission. Gala spent much of her time there in the company of young men, for whom she spent a fortune. In his turn, Dali saved himself for the company of attractive young ladies, although he didn’t want anything from them but their beauty. It was said that they held weekly orgies, though, by all accounts, the artist himself didn’t participate except to watch.

In 1980, at the age of 76, Dali was forced to retire due to palsy. The motor disorder left him unable to hold a brush, and as his condition worsened, he became less tolerant of Gala’s continued affairs. Gala was also using income from Dali’s art to lavish money and gifts on her lovers, who were mostly young male artists. One day, the artist had enough. He beat Gala so badly, he broke two of her ribs. To calm him down, Gala gave him large doses of Valium and other sedatives, which made him lethargic. She then allegedly gave him “unknown quantities of one or more types of amphetamine,” which caused “irreversible neural damage.”

Gala Dalí died in Port Lligat, Spain, on June 10, 1982, following a severe case of the flu. She was buried in Púbol, Spain, on the grounds of a castle that was a gift from her husband. At the time of her death, she was involved in an affair with a 22-year-old Jesus Christ Superstar actor named Jeff Fenholt for whom she left Dalí. But when Gala died, Dalí’s life became dull. He stopped eating and scratched his face. He was constantly shouting and crying. He outlived his wife by seven years.

They lived together for 53 years.

[elysiansparadise]

Hello! Firstly, I adore your blog. Secondly, I’d like to ask what do you think about Jupiter and Saturn being in the same house. They don’t conjuct. I have mine in the 11th house in Gemini.

Hello love! Thank you so much for loving my blog. 🩶

I've mentioned it before, I think having both planets in one house creates a certain balance. Not much restriction or limits, nor poorly controlled excesses; Both work together to create a balanced, albeit dual, energy.

Jupiter in the 11th house usually enlarges social groups, but it is thanks to the presence of Saturn that, although there is the desire to connect with others, it knows how to opt for the quality of social circles rather than the quantity, having greater filters before calling someone friend.

Since both planets are social, they are people who know how to exist in society and who tend to be liked. Jupiter gives you a certain warmth and an open approach when it comes to interacting with people, and Saturn gives you morality, the mindset of “treating others how I want to be treated.”

Being a house of finances, more specifically related to the money you make through your work, the fact that both are in the same house favors a large income through work, as well as a salary sufficient to cover your expenses and give you some small luxuries [more if they aspect Venus].

[dangerous-ladies]

Help the Dangerous Ladies Keep Creating!

Hello, it’s been a while! Unfortunately, we’re coming back under less than ideal circumstances.  Our Etsy shop, our main source of income, has been recently suspended due to copyright claims. At the behest of our supporters, we have started a Gofundme to help keep the lights on.

Help Us Out at our GoFundMe

If you don’t know us, we're a small woman owned and operated, LGBT-friendly costuming company that has been cosplaying together for a decade and providing resin kits, patterns, textiles and other accessories to the community since 2013. We’re based in Toronto, Canada.

To date, we have shipped more than 26,000 kits, prints, files and other resources for cosplayers. This business is our livelihood and came to fruition through hard work and effort. Everything we make is from scratch, with our own hands and our own machines, in small quantities, to order. Our digital files are all made in-house, individually, using no official assets. We are not a factory mass-producing wholesale goods, nor do we dropship other people's products. We are a committed little business that has loved being on Etsy, and truly believe we are the very artists that Etsy should want to platform –– our goods are handmade, unique, and often the only resource of their kind! We work hard for our high ratings, but agents operating on behalf of certain companies occasionally send take-downs, and then do not reply to us when we try to work it out with them. It's complicated, but the reality is that we're creating projects in the realm of transformative work and are by no means taking away profit from the creators of these properties, as our cosplay kits are one-of-a-kind creations with no official analogue. We also feel very strongly that cosplay is an incredible form of free advertising for companies producing video games, anime, tv shows and movies. Cosplayers put in a tremendous amount of labour, time and money to make their costumes, which they wear and display all over conventions, the internet and social media. We know from experience that companies enjoy and engage with the fruits of this labour; the very companies that inspire us to create kits sometimes hire us (and other cosplayers) themselves to represent their media after having seen our store! We've had the distinct pleasure of working for media companies large and small, and they know what we make and allow us to keep the rights to our files and associated assets. These companies also regularly post on social media with cosplayers using our work.  However, Etsy does not know who or what companies choose to allow the sale of fan art and goods. To them, a report is a report, even if it is erroneous or mistaken. This has been a crushing blow to us as a small business. We're a very month-to-month, low-profit business after we pay the bills and our team. Currently, Dangerous Ladies employs eight staff members and operates from a rented studio space. Both our staff and our space are an integral part of our business and allow us to be able to operate at our current capacity, providing cosplay resources to creators all around the world.  Without support, we will have to scale back dramatically, if not close entirely. While we work to appeal with Etsy, we realize that there is a chance we may not see our platform flourish there again, so we are working diligently to bring you our new website, and welcome you to visit our Storenvy in the meantime. We started this Gofundme  Although orders are very important to us right now, we understand that some of you may not have the need to order a kit, print, or fabric at the moment, but still wish to support us through this trying time. For this, we want to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Sincerely, the Dangerous Ladies Jenn, Christine, Shazz, Aubree, Nicole, Gabi, Syd, and Jules <3 Can I see more of what you do? Of course! While our Etsy is down, you can visit us on Storenvy or subscribe to our newsletter. You can also find us on Twitter and Instagram!

[talesofsonicasura]

Weretoons

I couldn't help but think of this concept after seeing this post. *Check out @horologiiiumart to see their Pizza Tower AU* Cartoons! We know them from age to style, whether it be classics or modern day. The most unique of them being particular movies like Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, Space Jam and Looney Tunes Back In Action.

What makes these quite special, especially the forner, are the interactions between our world with the cartoon side. Toons live on completely different rules unlike normal people. Any natural laws of the world being replaced with their cartoon version.

Jumping ridiculous heights outta sheer fright, bodies mold and stretch when interacting with certain things or storing objects much stronger than the average pocket easily. It is an easy thing for a toon to understand and do. But what if there's an exception to this rule.

Weretoons are a very unique entity amongst were-beings. A non-toon being who becomes a fully functional Toon under various conditions. The basic being a full or crescent moon on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights. (Days where new episodes for cartoons usually air on said night or incoming morning.)

*Caution must be heeded around Weretoons during the Blood Moon! Their antics have a high probability of not only becoming malicious but can potentially maim normal people! Lunar Eclipses will increase their aggression too.

Solar Eclipses and Blue Moons are the only safest shift alternatives for normal folk. Although it is best to keep an eye on inexperienced Weretoons with the latter. Blue Moons can cause uncontrollable sadness or unhealthy actions related to it.*

Transformations can also be triggered by excessive laughter, vengeful rage, or exposure to certain quantity of ink. Essentially the building blocks for cartoons in simpler terms. (Their purpose, the rules and creation of the popular Rubberhose.)

There is no clue if they occur naturally but these can be created through artificial means. Like any epidemic, it involved a Patient 0 and enough people to get infected for it to be impossible to eradicate. A Weretoon can spread their influence through biting, organ/blood transfusion, or their descendants.

*The percentage of those who become Weretoons through heritage start at 80% before dwindling down to the average 20% further down the bloodline.*

Weretoons don't always share the same species between non-toon and toon forms. A large chunk of individuals gain unrelated features or can become a completely different species upon a shift. EX: One human can become a Cartoon Dragon while another turns into a cartoon version of themselves.

In toon form, the Weretoon doesn't follow all natural laws. A good chunk are instead replaced with the Cartoon Laws of Physics. These new rules mainly focus on motion, objects, matter and gravity. Non-toons can be subjected to them by a Toon in the right moment.

Weretoons are born with a unique type called Tropes. These often determine their abilities and what kind of cartoon shenanigans they can do. Here's a simple list involving the more known ones. Link to a character archetypes for those who want to delve further.

Strongman- A trope that embodies incredible physical prowess such as strength or speed unmatched by many.

Eldritch Horror- A trope which manifests in transformations which range from varying degrees of body horror for intimidation and frights.

Jester- A trope that focuses on crafting mischief onto others on usually dangerous or potentially lethal levels.

Chaos Agent- A trope which embodies sheer mayhem with no care for the immense destruction wrought and anything caught up in the antics. *Most dangerous*

Loser- A trope that manifests as various degrees of misfortune or lackluster skill which can affect more than just the possessor.

Mad Scientist- A trope where anything can be made possible through science but will go wrong at some point and be possibly inhumane.

Magician- A trope which can turn the simplest sleight of hand into actual magic as long as the trick isn't fully interrupted.

Defense against Weretoons often varies upon the respective form. They can be killed like any non-toon equivalent if unable to or haven't shifted. It is highly important to not cause an blood drawing injury when a Weretoon is in mid-shift.

*This video is pretty good at explaining further depths on the concept of dealing with a toon.*

This often leads to a creation of a Clone. Clones are Toons born from this process and can create Weretoons just like their predecessors. The only differences between them being their tropes, appearance but also nature. Most clones tend to be very off-point or malformed versions of their Weretoon creators.

Their intelligence and copied memories usually varies between how close they are in resemblance to the original. All Clones are very clingy which often leads to stalking until taught not to. They tend to be very hostile with those deemed a threat to their Weretoon or said creator if mistreated enough.

It is near impossible to kill/injure a Clone and Weretoon in toon form except for one thing: The Dip. A lethal concoction of turpentine, acetone and benzene that became a real threat upon the popular staple status attained by Who Framed Rodger Rabbit. Weretoons can get hurt by it even if they aren't in toon form. Ink is the only thing that can treat Dip injuries. A fully submerged Weretoon will be severely burned in non-toon form and death can follow if they shift before removing the solution.

The Dip is a popular tool almost a particular group of people known as Cartoon Hunters. A common fear amongst Weretoons and Clones since these individuals will go to any length to kill a confirmed person. Most Cartoon Hunters won't let any moral boundaries like innocence or victims get in their way. Only the death of the Weretoons matter to them.

Dangers such as these led to most living in hiding or secret communities. Weretoons can be considered tall tales and crazy stories due to how elusive their nature has become. That doesn't mean there isn't a chance someone in your neighborhood can be one.

[mariacallous]

A series of Russian drone and missile attacks beginning March 22 has destroyed much of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. The damage, which will cost billions of dollars and many months to repair, has crippled Ukraine’s ability to light and heat itself for the medium term and marks a major escalation in Russia’s ongoing invasion.

The latest wave of Russian airstrikes has been notable for its breadth. Virtually every one of Ukraine’s thermal power plants has been hit along with a series of substations. DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private power company, reports that two of its thermal power plants (TPP) are no longer operational, with repairs expected to take several years. A separate plant in Kharkiv has also been seriously damaged and will take years to repair, according to regional authorities.

The specific condition of additional Ukrainian power plants remains classified, but reports of recent blackouts in multiple major cities have underlined the extent of the threat to Ukraine’s power grid. In a move indicating the scale of the damage caused by recent Russian bombing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ordered an early end to the country’s heating season.

Russian targets in recent days have included the Dnipro Hydroelectric Dam, sparking fears of a possible ecological disaster. The dam itself has not collapsed, but the power plant was partially destroyed and pollutants are now reportedly leaking into the reservoir. Even more worryingly, the nearby Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant lost grid connectivity due to the attack, putting its cooling systems at risk of stopping. Energoatom called the situation “extremely dangerous.”

In a further escalation, Russia has also expanded its air offensive with attacks on Ukraine’s natural gas storage facilities. These facilities, which house large quantities of gas for European customers, had not previously been targeted in earlier Russian bombing campaigns. Although the storage facilities themselves are underground, the pumping stations that allow for the insertion and extraction of gas are not.

On March 24, Russia launched approximately 20 missiles and drones at the Bilche-Volitsko-Ugerskoye storage facility, which represents around half of Ukraine’s total storage capacity. Ukrainian state-owned gas company Naftogaz downplayed the extent of the damage but did acknowledge that repairs would be necessary. Naftogaz officials also sought to reassure European storage customers that all obligations would be met by Ukraine, regardless of the Russian airstrikes.

The recent wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy system comes amid reports that the White House has been pressuring Kyiv to stop attacking Russian oil refineries due to concerns about the possible impact on oil prices ahead of the November 2024 US presidential election. Starting in January, Ukraine began a series of long-range drone strikes on refining facilities inside Russia. These attacks have succeeded in hurting Russia’s energy-dependent economy, with disruption reported to oil and oil product exports, gasoline and other fuel supplies in Russia, military fuel supplies, and Russian income from energy exports.

Global prices for crude oil and diesel, as well as other oil products, have risen in the wake of the Ukrainian attacks. This appears to be making US politicians nervous about the potential impact on their country’s forthcoming elections. Unsurprisingly, many in Kyiv have been outraged by the reported US efforts to effectively protect the Russian energy industry at a time when Moscow is bombing Ukraine’s civilian energy infrastructure and plunging entire cities into darkness. Ukrainian officials have responded by insisting Russian refineries are legitimate targets.

So far, there have been no reports of European leaders seeking to deter Ukraine from attacking Russia’s oil and gas industry, but that could change as the continent faces a range of looming geopolitical and energy market problems. Russia’s gas transit contract with Ukraine is set to expire in December 2024, with the Ukrainian authorities stating they will not seek an extension. With the vulnerability of Ukraine’s gas storage facilities now an issue thanks to recent Russian airstrikes, and with instability in the Middle East making Arabian Gulf LNG both less assured and much more expensive, Europe may soon begin to pressure Ukraine, too.

Each wave of Russian airstrikes makes Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction more challenging while narrowing the options available to the country. Without crucial US military aid that remains held up in Congress, and faced with hypocritical but likely mounting pressure from Western capitals to play nice with Russia on energy infrastructure while Russia decimates Ukraine’s power grid, the path forward is unclear.

Instead of artificial restrictions on their own ability to strike back, Kyiv desperately needs adequate air defense systems so Ukraine can protect its power plants from Russian assaults. In the meantime, the many Ukrainians who are working tirelessly to maintain their country’s battered energy systems have a long road ahead of them.

[stormvanari]

so um.

stuff about the HIE Squad:

Serial Designation H:

This birb brain (affectionate) is empathetic, geeky, talkative (only with someone she is close to), stoic, introverted, and envious.

When she was a maid back on Earth, H was one of the many Workers who were constantly yelled on the auditory system by her human superiors. She endured hell in the manor, such as shielding her face from a utensil thrown on it for not following manor etiquette and getting thrown into the pile of decommissioned Workers for making a mess in a guest room due to being told to clean up a dust bunny when it didn't really matter to H. She now wears a mask to hide the injuries and continues so as a DD to soften incoming damage.

After CYN's massacre, H was sent to Copper 9 as part of a squad composing of I and E to eliminate traces of the Absolute Solver. H's memory of SD-I being the one behind her feathery companion's murder (she let, hid, and observed a "black bird's" activities in the manor like Hunter with Flapjack in TOH) is erased, but she still retains the trauma of losing one of her only two friends on Earth. Due to I's incessant and poor criticisms of his squadmates, H decided to work independently and became perceived as a cold/merciless individual.

(I personally think of H as a harbinger of sorts cause one of her ways to scope prey is perching on high structures, such as a street lamp, and watching Workers' movements intently before diving at them)

Evidently, the caped DD originally enjoyed killing the Workers because she felt envious for them being free from human control while H was not....yet. At some point, she comes to believe that perhaps the Workers did in fact deserve the freedom they got.

Maybe H will fly with them too.

In a lighthearted note, H is very knowledgeable and talkative about birds, especially the "black ones" outside of the manor (although this bothered E since his systems retain the memory of him being pecked to death by those birds while chained to a tree back on Earth). She got into the subject during one of her breaks at the building's library where H was tasked to sort books on their respective shelves and put them in "perfect positions." She also likes collecting stuff, such as animal bones and frozen owl pellets, and took up photography when she became a DD to pass the time between her hunts.

I feel like H does take pictures of her prey's "faces of pain and agony" before killing them as a way to project her feelings of being subjected to abuse back in the manor (her systems still retain that memory as CYN’s weapon against the Solver) through envy.

Serial Designation I:

The boss of H and E's squad is mimetic, playful, insufferably charismatic, deceptive, and impulsive. When he worked as a butler, SD-I tried to blend in with the other humans, only to develop unhealthy habits along the way (ex: as a DD, I consumes large quantities of oil not done by a normal DD like how humans get drunk). Furthermore, he looks down upon his own kind since I was extremely focused on escaping a mundane life as a Worker.

At some point after the separation of his squad due to H finding out about E's "murder" (he gets cloned and sent back to Copper 9 like J, after getting turned into a big eldritch worm) at the local Cabin Labs, a frustrated SD-I sets out to find better and competent Disassembly Drones to eliminate more traces of the Solver. It's driven by the fact he's trying to keep his title as one of JCJ's top-performing squads, so he wasn't really allowed to hunt on his own.

(SD-I was the one that sacrificed E to the Sentinels and H, who was at a different part of the Cabin Labs her other squadmates were in, wasn't aware of this until later on. SD-I committed the act because E failed to do something in the hunt for Absolute Solver material)

However, SD-I gets struck by an identity crisis because what was he truly killing for? Were the branded pens worth it? Did the humans really think of their own creations as waste of trash? SD-I played many roles that he doesn't have one that really defines himself as a Drone.

First, he was a cook for the manor kitchen that studied the knife.

Second, he performed for the humans on stage and got thrown into the pile of decommissioned Worker Drones outside for playing the piano poorly.

Third, he became a squad leader with the intent of leading his "extras" to eliminate traces of the Absolute Solver.

And fourth, they failed to comply with his expectations and he's trying to find someone that is smart enough to work with him (but we know damn well many of the DDs have their personality faults that don't align with SD-I's expectations).

(Also changing I’s voice claim to Specter from Pac-man and the Ghost Adventures cause both characters share similar qualities/traits)

Serial Designation E:

He’s rational, creative, clumsy, impatient, and "kalm" ("Are you tired of being nice? Don't you just want to go apeshit?"; He is very, VERY violent at shredding his prey when he can't take things anymore). He's the third member of a squad composing of H and I.

Back on Earth, E originally served as a repair drone for the manor. However, an accident that led to a traumatizing punishment transferred him to the role of an accountant afterwards: because he is very good at numbers, E was glued to calculating manor costs.

As a Disassembly Drone, E tries to get his squad together to avoid delays in their hunt for Absolute Solver traces. Additionally, he relies on electroshock weapons, such as a taser, hacks technology, and "revives" dead Workers to turn into abominable weapons that would make Sid from Toy Story cackling in joy. He usually works in the backlines, but he hunts for Workers for the sake of surviving until the squad's mission is complete.

During a mission to the Cabin Labs, E failed to catch a Worker infected by the Absolute Solver and a furious I threw his colleague to the Sentinels to maul E, thus abandoning the inventor DD with the other dead DDs. H was not aware of this situation until she got an alarming context clue from I at some point, and the squad separated from there (kind of, cause H and a cloned E work together to stop I despite the inventor DD's discomfort of H's love for birds) with the increasing antagonism between H and I following.

In a light-hearted note, E is a gamer. He found a broken Tintendo Swap and a box full of games compatible with it in an abandoned apartment during one of his hunts. Through cartoon logic, E fixed the device and finds himself enjoying the kaizo(-inspired/like) games. Also, E’s hunts involve him doing “video game moves.”

[aetherspoon]

A not-so-simple relocation, day 0/1.

This month has been the longest year of my life.

I'm typing this from Norway!

ALT: A beautiful sunset from one of my balconies.

Issun and Zoan (my cats) are settling in. There was a lot of concern with Zoan, as he just didn't eat for the first four days and Issun had been heavily bullying him. The bullying part is still present at this point (although less than it was before), at least my cats are all eating now and acting fairly close to normal. But, I'm getting ahead of myself, let's go back to Day 0/1

Day 0/1

Things went better than feared! The Milwaukee airport TSA was staffed by cat lovers, so they immediately volunteered a private searching area for Issun and Zoan.

Things went worse than expected! We had all sorts of issues with our flights and bags. At said airport, all but one of my bags was overweight (even though I weighted them with a luggage scale before), causing some jumbling around of things and one of my friends carrying a large quantity of plates in his bag. This came around to bite him, since it flagged something at the TSA security point when we went through and had an "enhanced" search. That's fine though, another one of my friends didn't realize that I keep All The Electronics (tm) in my carry-on bags and went through FOUR TIMES to search everything. The third of my friends was fine for that part, but he had bunch of screwups with his flight schedule (my fault), but the attempts to make it work cost a crapton of money and still didn't fix it correctly.

On top of that, we also had one flight run late in departure (which caused said friend with the messed up schedule to miss his flight, rebooking him to the one AFTER the rest of us), Zoan threw up in his carrier on the intercontinental flight (poor kitty)... and then there was Oslo.

The sheer chaos of Oslo

For reference, Oslo is the capital of Norway, and also only one of two entry points to the country that have veterinarians on staff to check out paperwork for incoming cats. The other two aren't airports, so this is basically the only city I was allowed to fly into to hit customs for my cats.

We flew in late and had a long line at the passport check. Once through passport check, I called the vet on call to let her know that I was on my way to customs. I asked someone where I should go next, and they told me that I should go to the domestic transfer section, which had me re-go through airport security.

Started putting my things in bins, moving around stuff because I have All The Electronics (tm) in checked bags, prepped my cats, and asked where I should go after this to hit customs for my cats. Turns out, this was the way to go while bypassing customs entirely and I was in the wrong place. Not only would that have meant illegally importing my kitties into Norway (which would be very much illegal), but also completely skipping all forms of customs entirely! Don't worry, that last part comes up again later.

After recombobulating all of my things and finding my way through the inevitable duty-free shop in the airport, I finally reached customs with a poor bored veterinarian waiting for me. She booped both bags and then stated that I was the first person to actually get the paperwork right in "a long time" - apparently she had to send several kitties to quarantine in the past week because of people either royally screwing up paperwork or just not bothering with any at all. Like, what? I had seven or eight different notices about this when I booked my flights with cats, how did someone not notice?

Anyway, that put us in the main Oslo customs line after, for which the vet told me to tell them that we just had the cats scanned and were heading on to Bergen (where I'd hit customs there). They waved us through and we were in the domestic side of the Oslo airport. We had to go back through security again at this point, taking Issun and Zoan out of their carriers to get across, one of my friends getting a few new piercings on his shoulder for carrying Issun, and finally made it to the gate.

Arriving in Bergen, we get brought to the baggage area. Two things are immediately apparent:

We can't reach customs because we were on a domestic flight.

We are missing bags. A lot of bags.

Keep in mind, I had eleven total checked bags across three four people (thanks @kriatyrr, who is over my left shoulder). The number that arrived? Three. All assigned to same person. When we went to the baggage office to report lost bags, the person behind the counter was super nice, went through the paperwork, and left me with the quote of the journey:

"Oslo needs to get their shit together on Sundays."

She pointed to the area around her, which had multiple dozens of bags waiting for couriers. My flight was missing over half of its bags.

Cabbed back to the apartment, laid down, and just took a rest... only to cab back to the airport to pick up the friend with the screwed up schedule (don't worry - he was also missing his assigned bags), bringing him back again.

I opened up what I had, which consisted of one bag (with my suit jacket and a few formal shirts), one monitor box (which was fine), and one box with my desktop in it (which sustained lots of structural damage and managed to bend my heatsink at a 45 degree angle).

Oy.

Previous entry linked below.

[goldenjhobi-blog]

The Grocery Inflation

Aurash Azad: 81969644

Tayeh Ahadi: 46283688

How does inflation affect grocery prices?

Eggs

In the past year, many groceries have seen an increase in prices due to several different factors, such as supply shortages, labor shortages, and natural disasters. In the latter category is eggs, which has had a 138% increase in price in the past year. Before, the average for a dozen Grade A eggs was approximately $1.79, but as of January of this year, the average price has gone up to $4.25. What could be the cause? For the most part, the rising price of eggs can be attributed to the avian bird flu that has swept the nation in the recent months, affecting close to 60 million birds, and as a result, their eggs. The bird flu has not only decreased the supply of eggs to the country, but also increased their overall prices. However, the high price of eggs doesn't detain all Americans, as they are considered a food staple to many, since they are used in a wide range of dishes, such as breakfast foods and baked dishes. The low supply of eggs coupled with their stable consumption means that in many grocery stores across America, eggs are completely sold out. Another source of high prices could be due to price gouging in major egg firms, such as Cal-Maine Foods, which has reported an increase of 600% in quarterly gross profit, though they haven’t had any cases of avian bird flu on their farms. Thus, although the egg industry has seen a decrease in supply due to the avian bird flu, a lot of the price increase is associated with large firms using the flu as an excuse to gouge prices in order to increase their profits, not thinking of the effects they may have on their consumers. In my personal experience, I use eggs frequently in my breakfast as they’re a quick and easy source of nutrition, and they’re versatile in a way that many other foods aren’t. Also, as a college student with very little income, eggs have served as a staple in my fridge since the beginning of university. However, in recent months, I have had to be more frugal in how I spend my grocery budget, and that means less eggs and healthy food options, and more cheap, low-quality food that’ll last me longer. However, even when I plan to buy eggs, they are not always available in my local grocery stores. Just recently, my trip to Trader Joe’s revealed empty rows where eggs used to be, as consumers continue to buy them even as their supply decreases. Eggs, though seemingly inconsequential in day-to-day life, play a significant role in many foods, and their price increase coupled with their supply shortage has resulted in distressing grocery trips all across the country.

Butter

Grocery prices have been on the rise within the past few years. The COVID-19 pandemic that began March 2020 is only one reason to blame the skyrocketing prices, and the shortage of supply in the market. A shortage is when the quantity demanded is disproportionate and larger than the supply available at the market price. After the breakout of the pandemic, many of us would walk into grocery stores to see nothing left on the shelves. There are many different reasons for the rise of prices, and a few important ones that can be seen include shortages within labor as well as supply. According to the Time magazine, the price for one stick of butter has increased more than 31% just within the past year. The average price of butter was set at $3.47, and is now found to be $4.81 on average across most cities in the United States. Besides the COVID-19 pandemic, dairy farmers are blaming the extreme heat, along with the small cow herds, which includes the results of financial combats as the primary reason for the increase in the price for butter. The shortage of butter has caused major concerns in the US, not only for consumers, but for factories and productions as well. One of the main reasons for this is set due to milk production setbacks that occurred within the economy. The demand for butter is increasing, even as the rates for dairy production is lowering, which is causing a lower availability in the supply market. Besides the direct effect it has on the market industry, it affects the lives of individuals as well. For example, butter is an essential ingredient to both chefs as well as bakers, to almost everyone using it in the global economy. Most dishes around the world incorporate butter into their ingredients and are used to help melt or fry, complement, or enhance flavor. The cost of producing dairy products has widely increased and therefore has caused the supply to decrease. How has this affected my personal life? Well, here at UC Irvine it has been difficult living on campus, on a college budget and having to purchase groceries to cook meals. It has become more difficult due to the recent rise in grocery prices, but more specifically butter. Using butter is a crucial ingredient to many different dishes, including eggs, which have also seen inflation within the past few years. With the rise in prices and the decrease in supply available, it has been hard to get access to many basic grocery needs, including butter. Not only do I use butter to cook, but to bake as well. Whether it has been a cookie, cake, or any other dessert, one of the principle ingredients is butter and without it, it makes it very hard to bake or cook. Overall, the rise in grocery prices has caused a worldwide crisis in many households and has put no option but a budget to be imposed in many families that had never thought about having one before. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic emergency slowly coming to an end, along with the combination of farmers beginning to recover from the pandemic and fertilizer costs slowly beginning to decrease, we can anticipate that grocery prices, including the price of butter will begin to decrease once again. 

https://time.com/6250895/grocery-prices-rising-inflation 

https://time.com/6255258/inflation-grocery-prices-rise/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inflation-food-grocery-prices-financial-pain/

[mokhosz-nafo]

As Russian forces continue their advance in the Pokrovsk front, long-standing systemic issues within the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to aid Russians with that. Based on numerous conversations with sergeants, as well as junior, and senior officers in command positions in the Donbas region, I am writing this post the goal of highlighting the most common and consistent problems mentioned by people on the ground, per their request. Unfortunately, the higher command remains largely unresponsive to these concerns when raised internally.

1. Disconnect in Command and Combat Readiness

There is an apparent disconnect between higher command assessment and the actual combat readiness of units. In many cases, units with limited operational capacity are tasked with responsibilities far beyond their capabilities. For example, newly formed brigades with little battlefield experience are assigned to defend critical and high-risk areas of the frontline, where Russian forces have massed sufficient strength for a potential breakthrough. At the same time, more experienced and better-equipped brigades are stationed in less dangerous sectors.

This imbalance has allowed Russian forces to pinpoint weak spots along the frontline and exploit them, especially during unit rotations - something that they can track easily due to their ISR capabilities. The Ukrainian command, in turn, often scrambles to reallocate battalions from other areas to stabilize vulnerable areas that appeared from miscalculations.

While such actions can help to stabilize the line and even prevent a breakthrough, it leaves other parts of the frontline exposed, perpetuating a cycle of vulnerability.

For context, what may appear to higher-ups as “a company with 60% of its personnel ready for deployment” may, in reality, be a fatigued unit with multiple soldiers in their 40s and 50s or people with previous injuries and chronic health problems, as well as newly arrived recruits with minimal training. The true combat readiness may be closer to 30-40%, but on paper, commanders see a combat-ready unit

2. The Lack of Truth and Realistic Reporting

The previously discussed disconnect raises the question: Why don’t officers report their unit’s inability to perform certain missions? The answer is simple: Brigade commanders and senior officers are ultimately responsible for the combat and mobilization readiness of their units per regulations. Admitting that a unit cannot perform a task is often seen as a failure of brigade leadership. As a result, the command’s solution is simple: if a commander cannot ensure the unit’s readiness, someone else will be appointed to do so. But the situation with resources or combat readiness of unit doesn't improve - you just put a person who is going to push under-resourced and under-prepared units to complete a task they are not equipped to handle, leading to failed operations, abandoned positions, failed defenses, and unnecessary casualties - something that people can witness themselves by looking at the Deep State map.

3. Systematic Problems with Recruitment and Training

The quality and quantity of new recruits continue to fall short of expectations. Although some training centers have made improvements, overall readiness remains alarmingly insufficient. Many newly arrived soldiers are not prepared for the realities of frontline combat, forcing brigades to develop and implement their own internal training programs. The situation demands systemic reforms, including the creation of a structure that leverages the expertise of veterans or those recovering from injuries to train and mentor incoming recruits.

4. Little to no Accountability

Three years into the war, Ukraine has yet to fully implement an After Action Review (AAR) process, which hasn't been implemented except in cases where individual officers took the initiative. The tactical level is the highest level where it's used.

The blame for operational failures often falls on mid-level officers, and in some cases, even soldiers on the ground.

[jameswilliam03]

How Liquidity Works in Prop Trading?

Overview:

          In the world of prop trading, the importance of liquidity can’t be overstated. This is because although startups in the trading world have income from other sources like fees, many only rely on it as their main cash cow hence they need large quantities daily so as not to run out before making profits if any at all.

        The goal of this blog post is to clarify how liquidity is used in prop trading and why it matters for these traders.

Understanding Liquidity in Prop Trading:

        The liquidity of an asset or market in prop trading is defined as the degree to which that asset or market can be bought or sold without affecting prices significantly. It is what enables a trader to efficiently open or close positions with minimal effect on markets.

           It is the essence of a trader’s ability to enter or exit positions efficiently and with minimal market impact.

Key Components of Liquidity in Prop Trading

Market Liquidity vs. Asset Liquidity

Market Liquidity: 

        A market with a lot of liquidity means that there are many people willing to buy and sell things all the time, which prevents sudden changes in prices. For example, if you would like to become a prop trader then it would be easier for one to find their way in the forex market where they have high levels of liquidity or trading in the stock market where there is high liquidity.

Asset Liquidity: 

        Asset liquidity is how easy it is to buy or sell a particular financial product in a trading market. In a given market, all assets are not equally liquid. For one to trade well, they need to have an idea about how quickly they can sell any particular asset so as to avoid being wrong-footed.

Measuring Liquidity

Prop traders employ various methods to measure liquidity:

Volume: 

        Liquidity is reflected in trading volume, and traders use it as a means to access entry and exit opportunities that are best.

Bid-Ask Spread: 

          The bid-ask spread is understood as trading setup cost. Whereas narrow spreads are often associated with high liquidity; wider ones may suggest otherwise.

Market Depth: 

          Market depth is designed to show us how many there are who want to sell/buy something at any given time. And finally this concept of deepness includes having many orders for purchase from different points on the chart which obviously indicates high liquidity level because such situations happen frequently in those markets.

Liquidity’s Role in Trading Strategies

Liquidity profoundly influences trading strategies:

 Traders can swiftly execute substantial orders in trading markets where there is high liquidity thereby increasing the chances of profits without affecting prices greatly. This in turn provides an opportunity for scalping as well as day trading strategies.

However, traders should also watch out for less liquid markets or assets without enough buyers and sellers resulting in illiquidity then they should respond appropriately through reducing the traded volumes.

Liquidity has an essential impact on risk management:

          In high volatility periods, liquidity can evaporate quickly, which leads to more slippage and potentially larger losses.

          It is important for you to know that during periods of high volatility, liquidity may disappear so fast causing increased slippage and more likely losses you won’t be able to avoid without efficient risk management in place that could curb down finder fees through stop loss order installation or paying attention while determining size.

The bottom line

          Liquidity understanding and the subsequent utilisation of it are some of the most important skills that traders in the prop sector require. It largely determines trading tactics, precautions as well as the financial outcomes in the long run. Prop traders should be flexible, consistently assessing liquidity in markets and assets, in relation to which they base their decision-making process.        In LaunchFXM ,at our disposal are useful information, modern tools and technology that can improve a prop trader’s decision making as well as make their trade profitable. Keep an eye out for future trading brokers related to prop trading together with the complexities of trading markets.

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The 5 Sustainable Development Goals Relevant to the Cato Manor Community

Since immersing ourselves into the Cato Manor community (CMC), our dreams have centered around an alternate reality where every household has access to clean water by the opening of a tap, or every child skips to school in the morning with a nutritious food-filled belly, and when he enters the classroom, he is met with a cheery-faced teacher who is eager to impart optimal knowledge in each lesson that she conducts, or decent job opportunities to empower those who hang around the streets all day with the title of a ‘skebeng’. 

Sustainable Development Goals was established in 2015 by the United Nations and encompasses 17 goals to address the major challenges faced in the world such as poverty, with the aim of eradicating these challenges by 2030. For these goals to be achievable, every country’s government, NGOs, businesses, educational institutions and the media must collaborate with a common goal and desired outcome. 

In the Cato Manor community, the 5 relevant Sustainable Development Goals that will be of immense benefit are: 

Goal 1: NO POVERTY 

CMC is home to vulnerable, low-income individuals and households. Whilst still feeling the aftermath of apartheid, the community has been stripped off equal access to resources, land ownership, service delivery. Some ways that this goal can be implemented include, 

Gathering resources to uplift the community. 

Policy changes that warrant the opportunity for land ownership. 

Equal service delivery from government organizations. 

Goal 2: ZERO HUNGER 

Although there is an immergence of soup kitchens in the area to provide basic meals to impoverished individuals, these initiatives lack food security and the food which is provided often lacks nutritional value. Whilst this goal aims to ensure that every individual has food security through resilient agricultural practices, community members have yet to gain full benefit from it, with many children still experiencing malnutrition. Some ways in which this goal can be implemented include, 

Investing in infrastructure and agricultural research through plant and livestock banks to enhance agricultural productivity. 

Ensure that food production systems are sustainable despite changes in weather conditions, and land & soil quality. 

Increase the income of small-scale farmers by growing fruits and vegetables locally where possible instead of importing. 

Goal 4: QUALITY EDUCATION 

Quality education encompasses inclusivity and life-long learning from early childhood through to tertiary education. Although the CMC community has schooling opportunities from Grade R to 12, factors such as a large quantity of students per classroom, burnt-out educators, curriculums developed in the English language when the majority speak native African languages, hinder holistic, quality educational opportunities. This poses as a disadvantage due to the lack of skills development that could harbor economic growth in the future. 

Goal 6: CLEAN WATER AND SANITATION 

In CMC, most households lack access to running water and rely on water collection sites which could be hazardous when consumed. Toilets are often found independent of the home without adequate sanitation. Through this goal, 

Drinking water which is safe and affordable must be easily accessible. 

Adequate and accessible sanitation is paramount, particularly for feminine hygiene as unhygienic conditions foster infections. 

Reducing water scarcity through sustainable irrigation practices. 

Goal 8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 

The high unemployment rate coupled with minimal-wage jobs hinders economic growth in communities such as CMC. The goal focuses on fostering economic growth for people in all communities through decent employment opportunities and the protection of labour rights of the workforce through, 

Job creation through entrepreneurial opportunities, by providing financial support. 

Reducing the youth unemployment rate through education and training. 

Protecting labour rights and safe working conditions for all workers. 

The SDGs have been developed with the aim of a more sustainable future through addressing global challenges which leaves no one behind or no stone unturned. Although noticeable changes have been made to achieve these goals by 2030, significant challenges remain. The government, NGOs, businesses and educational institutions must collaborate to drive the agenda of change, with successful implementation of all goals. 

References:

Everything about the Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation | One Drop Foundation. (n.d.). One Drop. https://www.onedrop.org/en/news/everything-about-the-sustainable-development-goal-6-clean-water-and-sanitation/?gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw9cCyBhBzEiwAJTUWNR1Gact8CNQOuzLNG0KOKLwxAs1h_PNvjcW8Y5EYkClEhHni_N_hcRoCBeAQAvD_BwE

The Global Movement for Our Children's Future- World Top 20 Project. (n.d.). Educate Every Child on the Planet: The World Top 20 Project. https://worldtop20.org/global-movement/?gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw9cCyBhBzEiwAJTUWNbD2tJu3l9kZP3g3QCxrA413kCj8GsNNqkyV7ok6_PZsrOJPsVatxxoCDs8QAvD_BwE

Goal 1: No Poverty - The Global Goals. (n.d.). The Global Goals. https://www.globalgoals.org/goals/1-no-poverty/?gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw9cCyBhBzEiwAJTUWNcQ_Ug1nx5etaTJkmSUUVobgsjlyXFRXHrNKac8h-WV-utkGsBCZ7BoC1oIQAvD_BwE

Goal 4: Quality education - The Global Goals. (n.d.). The Global Goals. https://www.globalgoals.org/goals/4-quality-education/

Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. (n.d.). Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth | The United Nations in South Africa. https://southafrica.un.org/en/sdgs/8#:~:text=8-,Decent%20Work%20and%20Economic%20Growth,and%20decent%20work%20for%20all.

Zero Hunger | Close the Gap Foundation. (n.d.). Close the Gap Foundation. https://www.closethegapfoundation.org/glossary/zero-hunger?gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw9cCyBhBzEiwAJTUWNYrlH9U_xJ3s95RG8AooYWKcLrHfkjufu9woudyFzxJUh6V40AOvhxoCSYgQAvD_BwE

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Supply and Demand, Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference, and Externalities

During the pandemic it was extremely hard to find an efficient method to kill the abundance of time I had on. As we all know, leaving the house wasn’t exactly an available option due to the pandemic occurring during my sophomore year of highschool when many did not possess a driver's license yet and overbearing parents constantly nagged about how the virus could kill us. I had always been interested in pc gaming and decided to seize this opportunity to build my own gaming pc. Much to my dismay, many others appeared to have a similar idea and the price of many of the computer parts I had been scouting beforehand had skyrocketed due to increase in demand and a lack of quantity to keep up with this demand. The underproduction of goods was a direct result of a shortage of resources to make parts and difficulties regarding shipment.

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The demand curve has shifted to the right, indicating that demand for computer parts has increased and so has the market equilibrium as indicated by the shift of Q1 to Q2. Meanwhile, the supply curve has shifted to the left due to a lack of resources and this in combination with the increase in demand has resulted in an exorbitant increase in price. Many individuals required a computer in order to work and a large portion of people were in a similar situation as me, searching for a way to kill time. In fact, eight of my friends also decided to purchase their computers around this time which helps to highlight just how popular the lucrative idea of pc gaming was at the time. 

This drastic increase in price was not the only thing hindering me from purchasing a computer. From what I was aware of at the time, graphics cards (the most important and expensive part of a computer) produced by Nvidia were the most logical to purchase. According to the Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference (WARP), if price and income are constant, consumers will typically buy one product over another. In this instance, all gpu prices had skyrocketed meaning prices were consistently astronomical. I believe that at the time there were only three major companies producing graphics cards (Nvidia, AMD, Intel) and I had established a clear hierarchy of which card to buy. The order was as follows: Nvidia > AMD > Intel. The reason for my strong desire for a Nvidia GPU (graphics card) can be explained by opportunity cost, the potential benefits foregone when choosing one option over another. Although more expensive than the alternatives, Nvidia provided very good software which allowed for things like video encoding, faster rendering, and rtx graphics which proved to be significantly more alluring than what the other companies offered. AMD gpu were extremely good at producing raw power and boosting what is known as frames, but it offered little to no support regarding its software. On the other hand, Intel gpu were extremely weak and although I am sure they would be a good option for a work computer, my interest was in gaming which required a powerful gpu. 

When I had finally purchased my computer, I had failed to account for the negative externalities that accompanied this purchase. I was extremely loud and rambunctious and I often woke my family up late at night. As seen in the graph, I would behave as loudly as possible and play as if nobody else was in the house as seen by the MU (marginal utility). My parent’s marginal cost is indicated by the MC (marginal cost) because they absolutely hated me playing video games everyday. However, whenever I was being too loud they would quickly shoosh me and tell me to be quieter. This would usually result in me becoming much quieter and calmer which resulted in the socially optimal output being achieved as shown by the intersecting point of the two curves. 

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Bokhyuzaneht/Bokhyuzan language

Hello = Mordah; answer = Drohme

NO = kendahp, kenta

a b ch d e g h I j k l m n o p r s t u v w y z

past, no word

future keh

present en

passive, u

must, should, have to, beh

would, la

TA. word transformer

1 ura

2 ki

3 chat

4 vah

5 teh

6 hip

7 nahwa

8 kach

9 bus

10 man

100 tagze

about = kata

after = ahk

air, gaz, breeze = los

all, both = ha

almost = eyk

already = veyk

although, though, even though = tok

amount, quantity = upo

ancient, old = to

anger, fury, wrath = nahwa

architeture = abrakaz-sodnah

arrest, capture = pahket

article = kata

athlete = habrikh

.

bank, fund, charity = ev

bathroom, toilet = keta

be = op

be like, similar, seem = uza

before = gu

benefit, profit = och

bentu = bean

berry = liyduk

beverage, drink = luhach

big, great, very large = ahs

bill, check, review = vrahk

bitch, be troubled, pain enjoyer, masoquist = prey

biz = bee

blade, sword, razor = tiz

blind = kendahmto

block(square) = nehw

bottom, butt, behind = wah

boy = kehnve

brain = luv

breakfast = arhi

breeze = los

bring = ahda

brown, mud, skin, tree = lam

brush, rub = wama

bulb(plant root) = kech

business, money, income, rent, salary increase = zas

button(cloth) = chem

.

call = di

candy, sweet = mup

care, care about, take care, listen, hear = ukalda

carpet, clean slipper = same

cat, kitty = vuk

catch, arrest = tak

cause, make happen, induce, motivate, convince = wahm

chase, run after, pursuit = ibez

chair = net

circus = khamig

city, metropolis = yel

clothes, clothing, garment = kaht

come, go, pass, continue, become, get, enter, happen, way, path = el

cloak, camouflage = lamehta

clown = mehtak

comfort, calm, peace, quiet = ehkes

cook = khah

copy, mimick, imitate, repllicate, fold, clone = khol

cough, sneeze = khaza

count = bik

cream, milk = tahldaz

crystal = ovahzi

cultural = kakin

culture = kak

.

danger, risk, hazard = hahm

destroy, explode = nahwarun

die = das

dirt, earth = rehk

disappear, be gone, extinguish = zikhel

dog = datam

doubt = yai

drag, tow, fix = mo

dream, fantasy = dukhyabe

drink = kweh; kut + el

drug, medicine = wu [wo]

.

earring = ve gahk

easy = zo

eat = arhip

economic, economy = pezhun

employer, orange, fruit = zesk

enjoy = wehm

everyone = hato

exactly = kahdriehs

.

face, confront, meet = gon

fall = wel

far away, long (distance) = kig

fat, big = yah

father = Daske

feeling = lehehz

fence, barrier = ema

flight = zehs

florist = chivehk

force, attack group, army = lahz

fold, crumple = tehw

for, in order to = ot

forgive = amindte

friend = otad

fu**, damn = khap

.

gas = los

get, obtain = beh

grandmother = ebyenah

gray = kuno

greed(y) = itig

green, grass, earth, brown, skin, mud, blue = lam

guilty = wenah

guy = sukh

.

hammer, axe = tuldak

hear, listen = wik

help, save = ebyenah

here = opta

history = ho

horn = yem

hundred = tagze

.

imagine, assume = licho

instrument, appliance, device, gadget, equipment = glap

intervention, invasion, invade, break in, = yoh

.

judge = erzikh

justice = zahyda

just = ura

.

kill = ulda

.

lack, spill, spit = waz

language = eht

last = kach

last, final = yi [ye]

later = chagahm

law, rule = kwih

learn, know = rahn

least = ga

leave = drel

lesson, lecture, school = tyak

level, rank, position = dek

lie, liar = vuch

like, admire = gew

line, column, pilaster, pillar, wall = lehz

lip = kut

lipstick = tehlmis kut

list, catalog, column, report, new, registration = wuhz

local = wuh

logical, logic = kin

loss, death, life end, entropy, procrastinate = mukrahez

lounge, couch, sofa = hug

love, admire = dach

.

many, a lot = zeh

map = kehl

market, store = prama

marry, red, apple, blood, rose floor, tongue, heart = hehbi

math = alme

meeting = chuaz

menu = ahda

metro = lep-zama

miserable, nothing, nobody, trash, selfish = chasnah

month = kihe

.

naked = new

name, title = mehdrut

national, public, free = lohdon

north, in front of = nom

notebook (paper) = kilev

notice, realize = chahmi

.

observator, stalker, open = tami

offer, give = bahu

old, late = bah

an/other = cha-

overwhelm = umig-elda

owner, creator = metikh

.

parent(s) = chak

park = wachehngem

party = nikh

per, for each = inek

perfection, dreams = ovah

period, time = gem

person = to

pick, grab, choose, send, bring = lavok

pin, keep = neb

plan = ak

politician = sehmikh

pool, lake = takh

possessive pronouns = tesbehdom

powerful = tuzig

press, squeeze, clutch = hahv

probably, maybe = melohs

prostitute, voluntary = kay

public, free = mahlbahm

purple, wound = lamehbi

.

question = yitehz

.

rate = gahwiz

ray = soduv

ready = ihl

relate, correlate, refer = moghaba

remember = pahz

rest, nap, try = hozver

roast, insult, curse = khez

room = we

ruler = ankwih

.

scissor = ran

screw = chasno

see, look at = ami

several, many, a lot = gi

shelter = yimet

sister = dahpte

sit = zis

skilled, smart = khumig

smell = oplos

space, empty = yezis

speak, say, tell, sound = ita

speed = yoz

spirit = ahkrahezi

staff, co-administrator, co- = net

star, celebrity, famous = pruz

state, government = lahp

stem, root = gehkhas

stop, stall, halt = zah

strange, wierd, peculiar, unsettling = korplis

stubborn = ahvo

student, learner = sah

study = vahl

subject = tesdom

suggest, hint, remind, remember, indicate, imply = deh

surface = lamehs

.

table, bench = ladte

teach, instruct, educate, coach = gwuv

think, consider, guess, analyze, ponder, examine, scrutinize = indte

threat = hikin

tide = yul

time, age = gahm

today = gahma

to them = kahn

to you = bahp

top, lid, cover = pehw

torch = khehz

treatment = ahkahez

trunk (tree), steam = kanti

turn on, be excited = nan

turtle = yoz

twist, distort = nulde

.

under, below, down = wo

unsurance = heruk

up, above = zes

upper class = ubro

.

valley, mountain = zikh

vegetable, leaf = nehp

village = pinzeh

visitor, comer = elto

vocabulary, knowledge, wisdom = tesk

.

want, need = un

water = zi

waterfall = wozikh

watch = gahm bikta

what, how, why = Teh?!

weather, time = tikh

whistle = wikson

whose, whom = kuk

wind, breeze, wave = run

winter = zag

wonder, amaze = khak

.

year, age = se

yellow, sunflower, summer, sun = maleh

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Ah... Essez kag nahel

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I love you ; Se geh dach. Sedacheg

The name of the strongest group in Bokhyuzan is Order of the Dawn

Aryel Bokhyuzan lahz hamal mehdrut..

Seraphin...you will soon face what this world has buried for millennia beneath its excuses and cities

Seravin.. hag se wolameh, kachamindta e yel ghadlam merganeltolah teh kigahm vah kehgon

Ehmehtak khamig geh na-indte

ara kendahbeh zis nan zewladte tyakel

glapendah teh vah na-ita, endahelta

ura undrahto geh, vah indte, itagha

_

tegi-evehlda uza hara gehel

geh hehbita zi khazata, kendrahn

_

geh ara-un, zikhta, zis hehbidta

kwih khya-ahtahlda kag zewladte uza

_

hagam na-otami, nazihkrahni, zewladte nata

nazihkrahni, narahn kwahm, rak ehkhyewzdek

Harunto.. zis teh?

Adahezto Snezhinaya geh.. ite ke vah lavok teh el!

Lehehbi geh ita, kahdriehs kehel...

Ahudach Inazuma.. Vatuwi driehs kehel....

Dezah, se kwihta !!

E vah! Lambehkagto, hase.

Hagam ohtuzig vah

Yo Dlamahdta merganel zis! Tehchi gahma?

U chit wahel

En tehl ta ghadlamahdta khyahdal, muhto rahn

Teh dlam merganel, hentahuka

U khyamiteh! Ahk, mukrahezot u kehahdagha

here we start, a history about a young boy who got powers..

Hey, I told you, don't speak in our first language

I'm sorry

opta chit elahm, tuz behlda kata kehnve..

Hak, bahp ita, gehp eht ural kendahita!

Amindte

Ahlantis mukta, ahopkhak nahel e ghalame yohtoze nahda damindta!

Esotad, gonta lamehta, eslam tah wit behrun.

Wahu kach mehdrut o drel, otak ho runihl.

gwahm urak, gahmak ami; opta geh tami

kendehs opel, gahmel, ghama gontikh

Excuse me, where's the bathroom?

Ke khyita, keta geh el teh?

beghak ke vah dach

ahk yahgahm sezi

Sedacheg

Potehrotayah e hehbetikh...

Geh itagha, zeh do Ghordi Klohnay

Gahmukrahel - Segdachehz

Dozveraihmetes

When your species reach its purpose, you'll see what end tastes like

Gahmet ra yi gahm ahebita gonelda, mukrahez dem kehamiogha

Time flows like a river and return to the distant depth

Uza zilam gahm zehsehlda e kig yahozehs uralda

The hardest language of this world took 45 years to be completed

ghazela yicheht, vateh sez uwahalmehs gambehlda

ghakorplis... opta vah merganahdana?

hen eyk geh ulda zi Aywa behw itahlda

veyk ita! Opta yo kendahel

Queen doesn't need a chair to sit, only horses

Net Ovahtesk kenbehzisot, ura kigeltoh

I'll say we have time to escape

chit zukigel kehita

Gahmet vah wel, ura yigahm el

gahmet chit wagon!

Ot es begik ita

gahm izah

gahmet lam nehp el

teh ghaeht vah rahn?

geh vahl

Gahmet?

Even watch ants is better

zehlambehto geh iyami

What's your name?

Amehdrut teh?

Imagine, you go to another world and they don't speak your language. What'd you do?

Dlicho, chadlam vah el e kach eht kendahita

Tehval

gehp eht yo kendahita indte

I think they don't speak our language

I had a good dream

a dukhyabeh

chadlam Enti Isula udi behlda

- Hayoz!

- Chasnah! Lambehkagtozi

- Ahkrahezi, ke dwik! kagot hen Dlavok

- Teh? Kenta gahma

- Esovahkti... Pagh zikhel

- Amindte, esovahkti.

- Gehplahz Unebit lahp na-umig-elda, ahma azages chit hazikhelun!

- ura Unebit geh mergantuldak, umigehbe uza, uladtekhez ta khindte nahg

- Svahk, gahme gehplahz we geh khyeklevita-

- Unebe! Gahma Entesla bah nakwah.. zis geh tehldaz!

E gahmet tehldaz, kaht e Entesla erzimukagh!

- Teh pagh?

- Svahk, vah ghak?

- Alsiyeh.. urale yimet chit behpto

- Urahn.. zis geh endakhyo-

- Teh ghadlam mak?! melo-. Svahk, agon mergantehel?

- Tehk?! ghabehta Unebe! ? Damingo Alsiyeh.. kelehs zetyak vah kanderu

- Hey, Lambehkagto! Pa hadrahn. Teh..gehpet yo kendrahn.. zis Mukhta chit-

- Alsiyeh, gahmet ghadlam chit rahn, zetyak vah kanderu...

Khadtera! Ta vah nahwarun

yahrun anan. Ahlantis chit behdi

kendahbeh gahm

hato, yimeto deh. hato, yimeto deh

ghel es Ovahtesk

Es Kida, del!

Es Kida, ura dega. Gahm chit kendabeh

Zegat!

Ehkes e kentahami! Es Kida

Ahlantis: uzam brugaht

The dialogue above shows a civilization that sank to the depths of the ocean after an explosion caused by a crystal test

yel ehkes witahlda zes, yohw otakhahs wohziel ahk walvahzi hozve nahwarun uwahmehlda

Mordah, Vahtes

Eltozih geh merganahda

kwih vah rahn, es Kida. Yel eltoz kenbehami

Daske! Ta ghatom lamebyenahlda driehs

Ta yo ebyennah, chit kendahun

Zi Daske ...

Dezah, rehs chit itaya chagahm melohs

kaht ut geh kendtachehlda

optahs wit elda?

lamehs drel indte.

Zi optach wit elda?

hen chit behulda?

Kenta!

Ech mehdrut teh, korpis? Opta dem el teh?

Ahelita korpya geh indte itagha

Ahehbi ghakdahl... 1,000 wahse, hayu vah behulda kahdriehs!

1,000 wahse, arkwihma nan. E unu arikweh yel umuke gehpto kendabehamot.

Utekh yo.

Yo hakendrahn!

Haghak chit.

Umuke natyakta

Un ta yo khyami, gehpwahm Ovahtesk khazata

Kida-

Un ghiruntoze gehpwahm derahn khyedwuz, kurah gehpahkahm chit imet

Chit mergarahn teh yu beh gwuvot

Chit namuk

Chit uwalse

Kida-..

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Forex 101: An Educational Guide for Beginners. Efficient Advantages of Forex Trading Training.

Forex 101: An Educational Guide for Beginners. Efficient Advantages of Forex Trading Training. It's a great time to start! an introducing broker: https://live.4xc.com/signup/FG4aG6qb New in the Forex market? Forex trading is merely trading currencies in the Forex market. Forex is the largest monetary market worldwide. It creates trillions of dollars of currency exchanges every day and it runs 24 hours a day and 7 days a week therefore, likewise making it the most liquid market worldwide. On the planet of Forex, trading in this extremely liquid market is very distinct compared to another financial markets like stocks. Given that the Forex market operates 24 hours a day worldwide, which begins in Sydney and ends in New York, trading is not centralized in one area. You can trade in Forex whenever you desire despite the local time. In the past, Forex trading was just offered to large financial organizations, such as banks. This is because of the exceptionally stringent and large monetary requirements the Forex market enforced. Nevertheless, in the late 90s, Forex was provided to individual traders and small companies. This is due to the advances in the communications innovation. High-speed internet made it possible for people to go into the Forex market and has turned into one of the best generate income for home businesses. Forex trading is getting increasingly more popular each day. Besides, who would not wish to sell the biggest and the most liquid monetary market in the world? Trading in Forex will certainly allow you to earn a lot of money. However, trading in this ever-liquid market also has its dangers. It is a truth that many individuals who sold Forex lost a considerable quantity of cash and some of these individuals are seasoned traders. This is why it is very crucial for you, as a newbie trader in the Forex market, to have the correct knowledge and education on how to trade in the Forex market. To start with, there are hundreds or even countless readily available sites on the internet that use Forex education. Some of these sites offer dummy Forex trading where you can practice trading in the Forex market utilizing dummy cash. These programs will take you closer to in fact trading in Forex. Many specialists say that you'll never actually understand how Forex truly works till you trade in the market. If you want to find out how to trade Forex, you might want to sign up for a dummy account that many Forex trading sites offer. With a dummy account, you can trade Forex by not using genuine money at all. With this program, you can practice your knowledge and skills in trading in the Forex market and not waste money. To get going in trading in this market, all you require is a computer system with a high-speed web connection, a funded Forex account, and a trading system. These 3 basic things suffice to get you started in Forex trading. For you to reduce the risk of losing cash, you require to have some standard understanding of charting before you begin trading. In most Forex trading systems, Forex charts exist to help you with your trades. Forex charts are a graph of the currency exchange rate of currencies. This is where you will mainly base your choices to purchase and sell currencies. You need to learn how to read the various Forex charts for you to effectively trade in the Forex market. Each Forex chart is different although they represent the very same variations. In the daily Forex chart, you can assess market trends in the past 24 hours to help you make choices in the next 24 hours of trading. These are the fundamentals of how to trade in the Forex market. Always keep in mind that aside from the appealing earning potential that you can have in the Forex market, there are likewise underlying dangers that you have to think about. It is therefore a good idea to trade in this market with a proper financial investment plan and strategy. If you are simply starting to sell Forex, think about opening a dummy account to assist you in trading Forex without risking cash. Forex trading is just trading currencies in the Forex market. Some of these sites offer dummy Forex trading where you can practice trading in the Forex market utilizing dummy money. In a lot of Forex trading systems, Forex charts are there to help you with your trades. You have to learn how to check out the various Forex charts for you to effectively trade in the Forex market. If you are just beginning to trade in Forex, think about opening a dummy account to assist you in trading Forex without risking money. 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