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Why doesn't the justice league know about Amity Park?
Okay so it's been a bit sonce I watched the show but one of the things in DpxDC is the anti-ecto acts, which I love, but correct me if I'm wrong, I THINK ??? they only show up in reality trip? SO: What if Danny, when using the gauntlet to undo everything, also got rid of the Anti-Ecto acts? but this is babys first time editing reality so he uh Fucks Up A Lil'. As a result when Danny used the reality gauntlet to wipe the AEA from existence he accidentally wiped Amity Park from perception. A big 'nothing matters over here' jedi mind trick, and now no ones looking at Amity. So, the Justice League actually WERE looking into and monitoring the situation in Amity, but when the perception filter closed them off, all of that suddenly went ignored.
This is noticed when someone (Alfred, Dick, Tim, literally anyone) realises theres just. A BIG dusty pile of case files semi abandoned somewhere in the cave when going through a (time period)ly cave cleaning.
They put it down because it's Not Important.
They come back to finish the cleaning the next day and do the exact same thing, but there's nothing to actually distract them this time and it pings as weird. Because why would case files be not important? They are by definition important, because only things flagged as important go into case files.
They try to get someone else to read it, because as long as they don't read the information in the file, they don't put it down.
That person goes to read it, gets a line in and then says something like 'that isn't important' and goes to leave. Person A pushes it and person B ALSO catches on.
Que the Batfam trying to figure out hey, what the fuck actually?
Meanwhile, how is Amity fairing? Canon compliant everything's going alright? Or have knock on effects to No One Look Here started to show?
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fatehbaz · 1 month ago
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patience being tested. being forced by a bizarre unfortunate situation to adhere to university requirement technicality by taking this simple basic elementary "introduction to environmental history" class.
this class is from facilitators/program which do, like, "history of the American frontier" or "history of fishing and hunting" and still basically subscribe to that old-school twentieth-century idealization and celebration of characters like Teddy Roosevelt and reverence for a mythical arc-of-history-bent-towards-justice narrative of the often-clumsy but ultimately-benevolent US federal government and its mission to "save nature" through the miracle of "sustained yield," while heroic federal land management agencies and "heritage" institutions lead to way, staffed by exceptional individuals (appeals to nostalgia for the frontier and an imagined landscape of the American West; ego-stroking appeals to flattering self-image that center the environmentalist or academic). where they invoke, y'know, ideas like "ecology is important because don't you enjoy cross-country skiing in The Woods with your niece and nephew? don't you like hunting and fishing?" which makes it feel like a time capsule of appeals and discourses from the 1970s. and it invokes concept of "untouched wilderness" (while eliding scale of historical Indigenous environmental relationships and current ongoing colonial violence/extractivism). but just ever-so-slightly updated with a little bit of chic twenty-first-century flair like a superficial land acknowledgement or a reference to "labor histories" or "history from below," which is extra aggravating when the old ideologies/institutions are still in power but they're muddying the water and diluting the language/frameworks (it's been strange, watching words like "multispecies" and "Anthropocene" over the years slowly but surely show-up on the posters, fliers, course descriptions, by now even appearing adjacent to the agri-business and resource extraction feeder programs, like a recuperation or appropriation.) even from a humanities angle, it's still, they're talking at me like "You probably didn't know this, but environmental history is actually pretty entangled with political and social events. In fact, we can synthesize sources and glean environmental info from wacky places like workers' rolls in factories, ship's logs, and poetry from the era." and i'm nodding like YEP.
the first homework assignment is respond to this: "Define and describe 'the Anthropocene'. Do you think 'the Anthropocene' is a useful concept? Why or why not?" Respond in 300 words.
so for fun, right now in class, going to see how fast i can pull up discussion of Anthropocene-as-concept solely from my old posts on this microblogging site.
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I think that the danger in any universal narrative or epoch or principle is exactly that it can itself become a colonizing force. [...] I’m suspicious of the Anthropocene as concept for the very reason that it subsumes so many peoples, nations, histories, geographies, political orders. For that reason, I think ideas like the Anthropocene can be a useful short-hand for a cluster of tangible things going on with the Earth at the moment, but we have to be very careful about how fluid and dynamic ideas become concretized into hegemonic principles in the hands of researchers, policymakers, and politicians. There’s so much diversity in histories and experiences and environmental realities even between relatively linked geographies here in Canada [...]. Imagine what happens when we try to do that on a global scale - and a lot of euro-western Anthropocene, climate change and resilience research risks doing that - eliding local specificities and appropriating knowledge to serve a broader euro-western narrative without attending to the inherent colonial and imperial realities of science and policy processes, or even attending to the ways that colonial capitalist expansion has created these environmental crises to begin with. While we, as a collective humanity, are struggling with the realities of the Anthropocene, it is dangerous to erase the specific histories, power-relations, political orders that created the crisis to begin with. So, I’m glad that a robust critique of the Anthropocene as a concept is emerging.
Text by: Words of Zoe Todd, as interviewed and transcribed by Caroline Picard. “The Future is Elastic (But it Depends): An Interview with Zoe Todd.” 23 August 2016.
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The Great Acceleration is the latest in a series of human-driven planetary changes that constitute what a rising chorus of scientists, social scientists, and humanists have labeled the Anthropocene - a new Age of Humans. [...] But what the Anthropocene label masks, and what the litany of graphs documenting the Great Acceleration hide, is a history of racial oppression and violence, along with wealth inequality, that has built and sustained engines of economic growth and consumption over the last four centuries. [...] The plantation, Sidney Mintz long ago observed, was a “synthesis of field and factory,” an agro-industrial system of enterprise [...]. Plantation legacies, along with accompanying strategies of survival and resistance, dwell in the racialized geographies of the United States’ and Brazil’s prison systems. They surface in the inequitable toxic burdens experienced by impoverished communities of color in places like Cancer Alley, an industrial corridor of petrochemical plants running along the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where cotton was once king. And they appear in patterns of foreign direct investment and debt servitude that structure many land deals in the Caribbean, Brazil, and sub-Saharan Africa [...]. [C]limatologists and global change scientists from the University of London, propose instead 1610 as a date for the golden spike of the Anthropocene. The date marked a detectable global dip in carbon dioxide concentrations, precipitated, they argue, by the death of nearly 50 million indigenous human inhabitants [...]. The degradation of soils in the tobacco and cotton-growing regions in the American South, or in the sugarcane growing fields of many Caribbean islands, for example, was a consequence of an economic and social system that inflicted violence upon the land and the people enslaved to work it. Such violent histories are not so readily evident in genealogies that date the Anthropocene’s emergence to the Neolithic Revolution 12,000 years ago, the onset of Europe’s industrial revolution circa 1800, or the Trinity nuclear test of 1945. Sugarcane plantations were already prevalent throughout the Mediterranean basin during the late middle ages. But it was during the early modern era, and specifically in the Caribbean, where the intersection of emerging proto-capitalist economic models based on migratory forced labor (first indentured servitude, and later slavery), intensive land usage, globalized commerce, and colonial regimes sustained on the basis of relentless racialized violence, gave rise to the transformative models of plantations that reshaped the lives and livelihoods of human and non-human beings on a planetary scale. [...] We might, following the lead of science studies scholar Donna Haraway and anthropologist Anna Tsing, more aptly designate this era the Plantationocene. [...] It is also an invitation to see, in the words of geographer Laura Pulido, “the Anthropocene as a racial process,” one that has and will continue to produce “racially uneven vulnerability and death." [...] And how have such material transformations sustained global flows of knowledge and capital that continue to reproduce the plantation in enduring ways?
Text by: Sophie Sapp Moore, Monique Allewaert, Pablo F. Gomez, and Gregg Mitman. "Plantation Legacies." Edge Effects. 22 January 2019. Updated 15 May 2021. [Bold emphasis added by me.]
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Geologists and other scientists will fight over [the definition of the beginning start-date of the Anthropocene] in scientific language, seeking traces of carbon dioxide that index the worst offenses of European empire which rent and violated the flesh, bodies, and governance structures of Indigenous and other sovereign peoples in the name of gold, lumber, trade, land, and power. [...] The stories we tell about the origins of the Anthropocene implicate how we understand the relations we have with our surrounds. In other words, the naming of the Anthropocene epoch and its start date have implications not just for how we understand the world, but this understanding will have material consequences, consequences that affect body and land.
Text by: Heather Davis and Zoe Todd. On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene. ACME An International Journal for Critical Geographies. December 2017. [Bold emphasis added by me.]
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From Aime and Suzanne Cesaire, C. L. R. James, Claudia Jones, Eduoard Glissant, through Sylvia Wynter, Christina Sharpe, and so many others, critical anticolonial and race theory has been written from the specific histories that marked the Black Atlantic. [...] Glissant also reminds us, secondly, of how cunning the absorptive powers of [...] liberal capitalism are - how quickly specific relations are remade as relations-erasing universal abstractions. [...] This absorptive, relations-erasing universalism is especially apparent in some contemporary discourses of […] liberalism and climate collapse - what some call the Anthropocene - especially those that anchor the crisis in a general Human calamity which, as Sylvia Wynter has noted, is merely the name of an overdetermined and specific [White] European man. […] [T]he condition of creating this new common European world was the destruction of a multitude of existing black and brown worlds. The tsunami of colonialism was not seen as affecting humanity, but [...] these specific people. They were specific - what happened to them may have been necessary, regrettable, intentional, accidental - but it is always them. It is only when these ancestral histories became present for some, for those who had long benefitted from the dispossession [...], that suddenly the problem is all of us, as human catastrophe.
Text by: Elizabeth Povinelli. “The Ancestral Present of Oceanic Illusions: Connected and Differentiated in Late Toxic Liberalism.” e-flux Journal Issue #112. October 2020.
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The narrative arc [of White "liberal humanism"] [...] is often told as a kind of European coming-of-age story. […] The Anthropocene discourse follows the same coming-of-age [...] script, searching for a material origin story that would explain the newly identified trajectory of the Anthropos […]. Sylvia Wynter, W.E.B. DuBois, and Achille Mbembe all showed how that genealogy of [White subjecthood] was [...] articulated through sixteenth- through nineteenth-century [historiographies and discourses] in the context of colonialism, [...] as well as forming the material praxis of their rearrangement (through mining, ecological rearrangements and extractions, and forms of geologic displacements such as plantations, dams, fertilizers, crops, and introduction of “alien” animals). […] As Wynter (2000) commented, “The degradation of concrete humans, that was/is the price of empire, of the kind of [Eurocentric epistemology] that underlies it” (154).
Text by: Kathryn Yusoff. “The Inhumanities.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Volume 11, Issue 3. November 2020.
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As Yarimar Bonilla suggests in regard to post-Irma-and-Maria Puerto Rico, “vulnerability is not simply a product of natural conditions; it is a political state and a colonial condition.” Many in the Caribbean therefore speak about the coloniality of disaster, and the unnaturalness of these “natural” disasters [...]. Others describe this temporality by shifting [...] toward an idea of the Plantationocene [...]. As Moore and her colleagues write, “Plantation worlds, both past and present, offer a powerful reminder that environmental problems cannot be decoupled from histories of colonialism, capitalism, and racism that have made some human beings more vulnerable [...].” [W]e see that contemporary uneven socioecologies associated with the rise of the industrial world ["the Anthropocene"] are based [...] also on the racialized denial and foreshortening of life for the sacrificial majority of black, brown, and Indigenous people and their relegation to the “sacrifice zones” of extractive industry. [...] [A]ny appropriate response to the contemporary climate emergency must first appreciate its foundations in the past history of the violent, coercive, transatlantic system of plantation slavery; in the present global uneven development, antiblackness, and border regimes that shape human vulnerability [...] that continues to influence who has access to resources, safety, and preferable ecologies [...] and who will be relegated to the “plantation archipelagoes” (as Sylvia Wynter called them) [...].
Text by: Mimi Sheller. “Thinking Beyond Coloniality: Toward Radical Caribbean Futures.” Small Axe (2021), 25 (2 (65)), pages 169-170. Published 1 July 2021. [Bold emphasis added by me.]
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Indigenous genocide and removal from land and enslavement are prerequisites for power becoming operationalized in premodernity [...]; it was/is a means to operationalize extraction (therefore race should be considered as foundational rather than as periphery to the production of those structures and of global space). [...] Wynter suggests that we […] consider 1452 as the beginning of the New World, as African slaves are put to work on the first plantations on the Portuguese island of Madeira, initiating the “sugar-slave” complex - a massive replantation of ecologies and forced relocation of people […]. Wynter argues that the invention of the figure of Man in 1492 as the Portuguese [and Spanish] travel to the Americas instigates at the same time “a refiguring of humanness” in the idea of race. [...] The natal moment of the 1800 Industrial Revolution, […] [apparently] locates Anthropocene origination in […] the "new" metabolisms of technology and matter enabled by the combination of fossil fuels, new engines, and the world as market. […] The racialization of epistemologies of life and nonlife is important to note here […]. While [this industrialization in the nineteenth century] […] undoubtedly transformed the atmosphere with […] coal, the creation of another kind of weather had already established its salient forms in the mine and on the plantation. Paying attention to the prehistory of capital and its bodily labor, both within coal cultures and on plantations that literally put “sugar in the bowl” (as Nina Simone sings) […]. The new modes of material accumulation and production in the Industrial Revolution are relational to and dependent on their preproductive forms in slavery […]. In 1833, Parliament finally abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, and the taxpayer payout of £20 million in “compensation” [paid by the government to slave owners for their lost "property"] built the material, geophysical (railways, mines, factories), and imperial infrastructures of Britain and its colonial enterprises and empire. [...] A significant proportion of funds were invested in the railway system connecting London and Birmingham (home of cotton production and […] manufacturing for plantations), Cambridge and Oxford, and Wales and the Midlands (for coal). Insurance companies flourished [...]. The slave-sugar-coal nexus both substantially enriched Britain and made it possible for it to transition into a colonial industrialized power […]. The slave trade […] fashioned the economic conditions (and institutions, such as the insurance and finance industries) for industrialization.
Text by: Kathryn Yusoff. "White Utopia/Black Inferno: Life on a Geologic Spike". e-flux Journal Issue #97. February 2019. [Bold emphasis added by me.]
#sorry for being mean#instructor makes podcasts about cowboys HELP ME#and he recently won a New Business award for his startup magazine covering Democrat party politics in local area HELP#so hes constantly performing this like dance between new hip beerfest winebar coolness and oldfashioned masculinity#but hes in charge of the certificate program so i have to just shut up and keep my head down for approximately one year#his email address is almost identical to mine and invokes enviro history terms but i made mine long before when i was ten years old#so i could log in to fieldherpforum dot com to talk about enviro history of distribution range changes in local reptiles and amphibians#sir if you read my blog then i apologize ive had a long year#and i cant do anything to escape i am disabled i am constantly sick im working fulltime i have NO family i have NO resources#i took all of this schools graduate level enviro history courses and seminars years ago and ran the geography and enviro hist club#but then left in final semester because sudden hospitalization and crippled and disabled which led to homelessness#which means that as far as any profession or school is concerned im nobody im a retail employee#i was doing conference paper revisions while sleeping on concrete vomiting walking around on my cane to find outdoor wifi#and im not kidding the MONTH i got back into a house and was like ok going back to finish the semester the school had#put my whole degree program and department in moratorium from lack of funding#and so required starting some stuff from scratch and now feel like a hostage with debt or worsening health that could pounce any moment#to even get back in current program i was working sixteen hours a day to pay old library fines and had to delicately back out of workplace#where manager was straight up violently physically abusive to her vulnerable employees and threatened retaliation#like an emotional torturer the likes of which i thought existed only in cartoons#and the week i filed for student aid a massive storm had knocked out electricity for days and i was clearing fallen tree debris#and then sitting in the dark in my room between job shifts no music no phone no food with my fingers crossed and i consider it a miracle#sorry dont mean to dramatize or draw attention to myself#so actually im happy you and i are alive
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write-it-motherfuckers · 2 years ago
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Taking the train today to pick up both the cats from the vet and get a proper rundown of everything. I'm still really anxious and overwhelmed about all of this right now, so please bear with me while I sort everything out.
Thank you for the continued patience and understanding Darling ones, I really do appreciate it.
Please stay safe and take care of yourselves 🖤
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izzy-b-hands · 3 months ago
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I will be forever grateful i can be on this new med. it's one a lot of folks also need and can struggle to have access to! It's important i be on it, especially if i start doing any vid collabs
(some of which, really, all of which, i unfortunately actually need to cancel that were in the preplanning stages, bc the election results have me wanting to wait and see how the general atmosphere of the country is before i agree to meet up with anyone. I feel bad for cancelling, but also i just can't know for sure how safe things are/might be going forward and I'd rather avoid the potential of. ya know. various not great things that could happen at a meet up, tho i would certainly hope they wouldn't. i don't feel like actually addressing them rn, u guys know what i mean)
That said, if the truvada initial side effects could fuck off asap would be so lovely. three weeks at worst, then they should be gone/much better or so i am told. really hope that's true bc losing my mornings to being dizzy and nauseous is Not Working for me lmao. im on week two, and now understand why my new doc said to call if i needed any 'cheerleading' and support to get thru the side effects, bc apparently she's done that for several ppl to make sure they actually make it thru the three weeks and keep on it (lovely of her!!)
#text post#not going to get into the other painful smack of this morning#suffice to say that medicaid does not in fact fully cover vocal therapy/training for trans ppl#even if ur docs feel incredibly certain it is#if i was making a decent bit over minimum wage at consistent hours and already had my current debts paid off mostly#then I'd happily consider paying the chunk Medicaid won't cover but as of now#it would literally be basically two paychecks if not three to cover the estimate for this first visit#and that's only if the poll would have us polling every week like we did before the election#otherwise we're guesstimating it would be upwards of 4 paychecks to cover it#I'm actually gonna get into in here bc nobody reads all my tag essays (fair valid and correct)#im really sad abt this. my voice gets me clocked a lot and while i can mostly handle like. visually being clocked#my voice giving me away genuinely makes me feel a pain in my chest. i can't get my customer service voice to go lower yet#and even if it's my usual voice I've made minimal progress on my own self done vocal study stuff#so like. no one knows how high it was compared to how it is now tho so no one actually hears it as anything near deep#which it isn't but like. there's been a slightly barely there drop of it per at least a couple ppl in my life#i was probably going to be able to learn how to sing again and find my new range. I'd fix my customer service voice#even if it would only ever be a teeny bit lower than how it is now. it would be lovely#im not gonna get too down tho bc someday hopefully I'll be able to make it happen/afford it#and for now...im doing the bad thing of not cancelling the appt yet#i will bc they're booking out for months and it isn't right of me to take a spot i know i can't keep#but. let me pretend i can for another day or two. maybe until monday. then I'll call or msg them on mychart#and let them know i just don't have the funds rn tho i do deeply appreciate that Medicaid at least pays part of it#im just not at a point where i can cover the rest but that I'll reschedule/have a new referral sent whenever that changes#...and hopefully things in this country will be of such a state that such care is still available to ppl like me.#but that's all we're saying on that bc im already having a pathetic little cry over this#(im fine the med side effects have me crying over everything lol i see a sad commercial and Instant Tears like someone died lmaooo)
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golvio · 1 year ago
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I’m naively wishing we’ll find some kind of miraculous energy source that Big Oil won’t suppress the knowledge of. It won’t undo the harm we’ve already caused to the region or bring back the dead, but it’d remove the excuses our stupid government is making for supporting genocide and get us to leave the Middle East the hell alone.
Like, I already thought this when I found out we helped Iran get taken over by a repressive theocratic regime, but even moreso now I really don’t give a shit if switching to new types of transportation is inconvenient for me and everyone else so long as we stop forcing the places with oil to pay for our comfort and convenience with human lives.
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youredreamingofroo · 9 months ago
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mfs be like "ur such a loser for living with ur parents" and they're talking to an 18-21 year old
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r0semultiverse · 2 years ago
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There should be an anime about trans gay burnt out ex-gifted kids who are in their mid to late 20s, 30s, 40s+ who are magical theys and are all in a polycule together and fighting some antagonist monster force while trying to manage how the fuck to pay rent and bills and things.
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llatimeria · 2 years ago
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i wish earning money was as easy in real life as it is in video games. like "bank account's kinda low. guess i'll sell the kitchen table"
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runthepockets · 2 years ago
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I really can't cope with doomers / nihilists / misanthropes. Like how do you have knowledge of the fact that the 1%, not the general public, are the cause of most of our problems and that the general public actually sympathizes more with radical sentiment / motivations than not (affordable housing, universal healthcare, an end to war overseas, families to not be seperated by bogus deportation laws, causes that help the environment, etc) and are systemically being barred from making their desires a reality and still come to the conclusion "well we're fucked cus everyone is too stupid and worthless to give a shit about anyone else and I guess I'll just cower in fear alone forever" like dude you're giving the fascists exactly what they want. Grow the fuck up.
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helicoprinus · 1 year ago
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i wish vacationing to another flight didn't come with a 1500g price tag. i'm partially considering switching flights but i don't want to go through the whole deal only to find out i don't like the new one and want to go back but have to wait 6 months And scrounge up *1500* gems on top
(tags of this post veer into a personal vent about my first time being a sheet attendant, just a head's up)
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6ebe · 2 years ago
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bharatkhabarnama · 7 days ago
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Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrests ex-Sarpanch and Lambardar for embezzling Rs 20 lakh in flood relief compensation
Chandigarh, February 15, 2025 (Bharat Khabarnama Bureau) The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB), as part of its ongoing anti-corruption drive, has arrested Harjit Singh, ex- Sarpanch of village Kalia, and Manjit Singh, Lambardar of village Sakatra in Tarn Taran district for committing embezzlement of Rs 20 lakh from compensation funds meant for farmers and others affected by floods. Disclosing this…
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insurance-patner · 16 days ago
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Mid Cap Funds: A Comprehensive Guide to Investing in Growth Potential
Investors are constantly on the lookout for opportunities that balance risk and reward. Among the various types of mutual funds available, mid cap funds have gained popularity for their potential to offer a mix of stability and growth. These funds invest in mid-sized companies, providing an opportunity for investors to benefit from the growth phase of these businesses. In this blog, we will explore what mid cap funds are, their benefits, risks, and how they compare with large-cap and small-cap funds, helping you make an informed investment decision.
What are Mid Cap Funds?
Mid cap funds are equity mutual funds that invest primarily in mid-sized companies. According to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), mid cap companies are those that rank between 101st and 250th in terms of market capitalization. These companies typically have a market capitalization between INR 5,000 crore and INR 20,000 crore.
Mid cap companies are often in the growth phase of their business cycle. They are relatively more established than small-cap companies but still have the potential to grow faster than large-cap companies. As a result, mid cap funds offer an attractive opportunity for investors looking for growth but with a slightly higher risk profile compared to large-cap funds.
Benefits of Investing in Mid Cap Funds
High Growth Potential: Mid cap companies are often in the expansion phase, and their stock prices can grow rapidly as their businesses mature. This offers investors the potential for significant capital appreciation.
Diversification: Mid cap funds provide diversification benefits by investing in a range of companies from different sectors. This reduces the risk associated with investing in a single company or sector.
Balance of Stability and Growth: Mid cap companies are usually more stable than small-cap companies but still offer higher growth potential than large-cap companies. This balance makes mid cap funds suitable for investors looking for moderate risk with a chance of higher returns.
Professional Management: Like all mutual funds, mid cap funds are managed by professional fund managers who actively select stocks based on research and analysis. This can help investors who lack the time or expertise to manage individual stock investments.
Potential for Long-Term Wealth Creation: For investors with a long-term investment horizon, mid cap funds can be a good option to build wealth. Over a period of time, the growth potential of mid cap stocks can result in substantial returns.
Risks Associated with Mid Cap Funds
While mid cap funds offer attractive growth potential, they also come with certain risks that investors should be aware of:
Market Volatility: Mid cap stocks are more volatile than large-cap stocks. In times of market downturns, mid cap stocks can experience sharper price declines, which can affect the performance of mid cap funds.
Liquidity Risk: Mid cap companies may not be as liquid as large-cap companies, meaning their shares may not be as easily traded on the stock market. This can lead to higher price fluctuations, especially in times of economic uncertainty.
Business Risk: Mid cap companies are still in their growth phase and may face challenges in scaling up their operations, managing competition, or navigating economic downturns. This can affect their stock performance and, in turn, the returns from mid cap funds.
Sector-Specific Risks: Mid cap funds often have sectoral exposure, meaning they invest in companies from specific industries. If a particular sector faces headwinds, the performance of the fund could be negatively impacted.
Who Should Invest in Mid Cap Funds?
Mid cap funds are suitable for investors who:
Have a higher risk tolerance and are willing to endure short-term volatility for the potential of higher long-term returns.
Have a long-term investment horizon, ideally five years or more, to allow the mid cap stocks enough time to grow and deliver returns.
Are looking to diversify their portfolio beyond large-cap or small-cap funds.
Want to participate in the growth potential of mid-sized companies without directly investing in individual stocks.
Mid Cap Funds vs. Large Cap and Small Cap Funds
To better understand where mid cap funds fit into your investment strategy, it's important to compare them with large-cap and small-cap funds:
Growth Potential: Large-cap funds invest in well-established companies that are leaders in their industries. While they offer stability and lower risk, their growth potential is generally lower than mid-cap funds. Small-cap funds, on the other hand, invest in smaller companies with higher growth potential but come with significantly higher risk. Mid cap funds strike a balance, offering higher growth potential than large-cap funds but with lower risk than small-cap funds.
Risk: Large-cap funds are the least risky, as they invest in blue-chip companies with a stable track record. Small-cap funds carry the highest risk due to the volatile nature of smaller companies. Mid cap funds fall in the middle, with moderate risk and the potential for higher returns than large-cap funds.
Volatility: Large-cap funds are typically less volatile, making them suitable for conservative investors. Small-cap funds can be extremely volatile, making them suitable only for aggressive investors. Mid cap funds offer a moderate level of volatility, which may appeal to investors who are comfortable with some market fluctuations in exchange for growth opportunities.
How to Choose the Right Mid Cap Fund
When selecting a mid cap fund, consider the following factors:
Fund Performance: Look at the historical performance of the fund over different time periods, such as 1 year, 3 years, and 5 years. Compare the returns with the benchmark index and other similar funds.
Expense Ratio: The expense ratio represents the annual fee charged by the fund for managing your investments. A lower expense ratio means more of your money is working for you.
Fund Manager’s Track Record: The experience and track record of the fund manager can have a significant impact on the performance of the mid cap fund. Look for a fund with a manager who has a proven ability to navigate market cycles and generate consistent returns.
Investment Horizon: Ensure that your investment horizon aligns with the nature of mid cap funds. Since these funds can be volatile in the short term, they are best suited for long-term investors.
Conclusion
Mid cap funds offer a compelling investment option for those looking to balance growth potential and risk. By investing in companies that are in their growth phase, these funds provide the opportunity for significant capital appreciation over time. However, they also come with higher volatility and risks compared to large-cap funds, making them more suitable for investors with a long-term investment horizon and a higher risk tolerance. With proper research and a clear understanding of your financial goals, mid cap funds can be an excellent addition to a diversified portfolio.
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wellthatsclever · 5 months ago
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ryanthedemiboy · 2 years ago
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An aborted fetus can also be considered something that was alive without it being a moral issue to end its life. Many things are alive that are harmful to some but not to others.
An embryo can be considered alive and still be aborted without calling it murder.
You can consider it just as alive as a child you are raising after giving birth to it. And that doesn't make abortion a moral failing!
You don't have to jump through hoops to consider it not alive in order for you to get an abortion, or think access to it is important.
Abortion is the death of something once alive, but that doesn't make it evil.
It's okay. However you view it, whatever you decide to do or not do, please just be as safe as you can, take care of your health if you can, and know that I love you and trust your decisions. And you should, too.
"aborted fetuses are not technically lives and it's harmful and not medically accurate to refer to them that way" and "people who have early miscarriages of wanted pregnancies are still allowed to grieve and consider them their child" are two statements that can and should coexist
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‏Vetted Gaza Evacuation Fundrais‼️💔🍉🍉🍉
Farah is #310 on the Vetted Fundraisers List‼️
‏Right now, donated money is being used to help us survive this war. Food is very expensive and my family has to pay rent for the land that our tent is on. However, I want to save up enough money to evacuate my family to a safer place where we can rebuild our lives. I dream of returning to university to finish my computer science degree. I want to provide a better life for my family than is possible in Gaza. My family and I have many dreams we would like to fulfill after this war. We are grateful to everyone who donated and helps us during this time of suffering. Thank you for reading
‏https://gofund.me/73d4b003
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