#just want sumone 2 see this

[kitty-kitty-boomba]

I did a thing

Hey...Hey???

idk, i got bored [nd a lil horny] and I'm making a fic of Sevika x Grayson[aka Amalda].

WARNING!! Extramly rough draft. I mean ruff-ruff type of draft. Y'all lucky I love u nd don't want you to suffer the way I do once I write.

Hope u like? Probs won't finish it, but here's to hoping! Blip is under the cut!

18+! MDNI!!!

Amalda's lips caressed her neck, marking skin that just finished healing from the last territorial mark.

"The factory. Were you…?"

Sevika shuddered with every butterfly that took flight in her stomach, and slowly, she shook her head no.

"I was with Vander when it happened. Just some Piltovian brats pissed off because no one would give them the drugs they can't pay for."

She felt a smile stretch atop the nape of her neck, but it was hard to focus when that hand kept fondling with her underwear band. Leather fingers all too happy to wiggle and tickle wherever they feel.

Damn her.

"How many times must I punish you, Ms. Lanes? Hmm?"

And finally, jeans were slipped far lower than they were sewn for, and the itchy lace was toyed side-to side before joining the toughened piece of denim.

"But you must like this…"

"This" earned her a nip on her hickeyed breast, and leather fingers to stop their onslaught and focus on massaging their way oh so close.

But too fucking far.

"Don't you?"

[matrixonvhsanddvd]

Here's my set up!

In England most ppl do use roll ups. U tend to find that ppl who only smoke straights (pre rolled) are older ppl, ppl who have more money and ppl who don't smoke often enuff to bother. A packet of straights can last a really long time and will keep better than a packet of baccy (loose tobacco) as there's less to dry out.

I use a rolling tin because i cant roll freehand for shit no matter what (and im a handy person, its just too fiddly for me), it's easier to do while walking and i have physical difficulties. It's rare that i see anyone else use a tin, i only started because my bff did! It's not uncommon for ppl to use a rolling machine tho, which is like a tin that's been reduced to just the liner and..rolling pins?

Tins are no more expensive than a good rolling machine and tend to last longer. I prefer to change the liner when it dies rather than but a new one tho. They can be annoying to clean if u care about that but they're useful in that they can hold ur supplies! And put stickers on :3

A packet of tobacco is usually about 30g for £12-17 (tho average is about £14) now from a regular supermarket. It did used to be less before the recent inflation :( a 20 pack of pre rolls is about the same price. To give u an idea of how much more cost effective roll ups are than straights; a 20 pack currently would last me 2-4 days (IV had to cut down coz i have no money lol but this is numbers only, not counting factors like poverty) and 30gs of baccy would last me 2-3 weeks.

It's still common to see empty cigarette packets littering places and u will occasionally see a tobacco packet. They're all decorated now with warnings and warning images due to the law, all packets. They have different warnings and related pictures they get used but I'm not sure how often new ones are added? This one is my favourite atm for sure:

It's also useful to at least have the ability and resources to make a roll up if ur ever desperate/smoke drugs. Old fags on the floor can be picked up and u can squeeze any unsmoked baccy out into a bag to use for a Frankenstein roll up. I tend to find certain brands of straight cigarettes only get half smoked ?? Very good pickings if ur bottom of the food chain.

Its also easier to roll a spliff if u can...roll lol (spliff as i know it to be is a regular fag sized roll up with a blend of baccy and weed) and any other combo of smoking materials (other drugs, herbs etc).

On community culture (i promise this is the last bit), rolling sumone a fag is way more intimate and thotful than just handing em a straight (tho depending on ur Poverty Status™ it may be difficult to accept a straight due to their higher value). There's also the act of passing on the rest of ur fag to another person, usually towards the end of its life. Here that's called, 'twos'. So itd be, 'can i have 2s?' or, 'u can have 2s if u want?' which is a fun word for it i think!

Sorry to ramble but i figured ud be interested and i enjoy teaching ppl about menial things like this lol

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Holy fuck thank you so much for detailing all this to me, I was honestly really happy reading all of this because it interested me so much. It's funny to me still how the demographic for rolling cigs here is usually the polar opposite lol, it seems its always people who are a lot older who enjoy rolling them up more than just buying a pack of straight cigs.

Also I absolutely love the pack you showed off of course, I'm always a sucker for the ones with "gore" on them, but also I've just never seen a tobacco pack before so that's really sick, thank you!

I guess if someday I'm ever down in England for some reason, I will be very caught up on smoking culture at least. Thank you again for sharing lol

[minzart]

fairy tale boys but THEY'RE the one who breaks a table. they get transported to og twst land and now they have to figure out stuff with yuu.

Ohhhh boy-

They crashed in the dorm meeting, the new dorm leaders recognized some of them, the famous ones at least, Crowley was sumoned immediately and soon after, Yuu, who had returned to their world by the mirror to finaly rest, is sumoned before their shift as the NRC therapist, to only be meet with familiar² faces

Now FT boys are Yuu's roommates until they can assemble the right ingredients to go back "we swear we weren't planing to stay for too long"

Now remember, all of them came from a world where there is no technology, so on top of being the therapist, yuu is also the mediator AND TECHNICIAN

Ft Malleus broke so many tech, I swear he makes normal Malleus look like a wizard geek, boy looked at the microwave and it exploded, he just wanted pop corn poor man ;_;

FT Idia is absolutely transfixed, WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE CHARONS USE ARMOR?! GIVE ME THE BLUE PRINTS THIS WOULD BE SO FUCKING USEFUL INSTEAD OF SKELETONS- .... what's anime? Please drag him away from the TV and computer he's worse than twst Idia

Ft Vil will use gems to pay Yuu later HOWEVER HE NEED TO KNOW THE CHEMICAL FORMULA OF THOSE MAKEUP/HYGIENE THINGS PLEASE, HE NEEDS THEM BACK AT fary tale universe PLEASEE-

FT Jamil is very interested in the worlds differences what they mean for his universe, let's just say that he an Yuu brainstorm a lot together

FT Azul is mesmerized by all the knowledge in business he can gather around the modern day, he probably annoys twst Azul a lot about it too

Ft Leona is intrigued by magishif and the new curses the modern days have, he's mostly seen napping or reading around the Ramshackle dorm and if you are lucky he might even ask for a spare so he can see what this new curse does

Ft Riddle is fascinated by all the new stuff there is here, from books to teas he's having a good time, and finaly doing things fir himself... like learning how to cook, he isn't allowed alone in the kitchen anymore

Please introduce FT Grim to Grim slowly, let them get used to each other on opposite sides of the dorm, they can and will fight, specialy for Yuus attention

ATENTION EVERYONE!

Asks for the AUs are still closed

This is a very old ask that I was working since my block for the AUs beggin since last 2 years I think

If you send me an ask for any of the AUs I will throw it in the trash

So yeah, if you sent me an ask before I closed them, before the big fucking READ ME in my pined post, so there's a big probability that I will answer them

But if you send the ask recently about the AUs? Sorry, it's going out of the window

[mcnuggyy]

Any advice on long distance relationships? My bf and I are moving away from each other for a year :(

this is probably stuff you’ve heard before but it really is true Jaja

1) constant communication, try and talk every day, even if it’s just a quick check up or good morning text or a night recap of your day, try and talk to them as much as you would if they were really there! All you have now is your words and communication, so use it!!! <3

2) video chat or call as much as you can too!! Being able to see them and hear them when you’re missing them so much really means a lot and can really help scratch that intimacy itch you’ll be having constantly, it’s especially nice if you can set up video call dates where you make food together or work on something together or sleep together, or just chill yknow!

3) dates in general!! You can grab lunch at the same place and then have a date in the car where u both eat ur Starbucks together or something lmao, or watch a movie together, or play a video game together, etc etc. My personal favorite dates are when me and my partner play minecraft together and then wind down with some YouTube cooking videos <3

4) if physical sexual intimacy is something both you and your partner are comfortable with and want then also try and schedule some of that as well! I know it’s weird to “schedule” something like that but when it comes to long distance you really have to communicate your day to day especially with time differences and jobs and family and life!! Don’t be shy about your wants and needs! It’ll be a bit awkward at first trying to figure out what works for the both of you, but again communication is your biggest and sometimes your only tool 😔👆

5) CUTE COUPLE APPS!!!! Okay okay so this is a personal favorite thing of mine that me and my partner do…. We’ve gone through quite a wide range of “couples” apps but my favorites have been Between and Sumone!!!! Soooo cute!!! Between is a nice way to keep in touch, it keeps your anniversary in mind, you can send each other little video edits and create albums and stuff! It’s pretty cool! SUMONE THO HAS BEEN GREAT OH MY GOD!!! You basically get daily questions for you and ur partner to answer along w a little egg to hatch and then the more u answer the more the egg grows!!! No clue what’s inside it yet but our egg is almost done hatching lol <3 you can then by furniture for your eggs house, and memos to send to your partner, and it’s just really really cute <33 sadly one of my other favorites is no longer available in the App Store, but there are quite a few out there to try so have fun w them!! And feel free to let me know if u find any cool ones <3

6) know exactly how your partner likes to express love and receive love!!!! HUGE!!! if ur partner likes gifts, try and get them gifts! If they like quality time, be sure to really try and spend time with them even more than you think, if it’s words of affirmation!! Do it do it do it!!! I know it seems kind of obvious but when ur in a ldr it can become so easy to forget the basics and it’s a big test of how well you really know how to connect w your person yknow? But yeah! Don’t be afraid to ask them what makes them feel loved and let them know what they can do to help you feel loved back too <3

But yeah!!! Hope this helps anon <3 good luck!! If I’ve been able to survive almost 6 years in a ldr, you’ll be absolutely fine w a year :-] it’ll go by soooo fast I promise!!!

[holistic-fandoms]

the Dream SMP as stupid shit me and my friends say

Dream, sending a video of a "cum demon" aka a clip of someone making a massive Coke & mint pilar: Us when we meet up

Sapnap: Are we the cum demon or the ones summoning the cum demon?

George: Uh, I assumed we’d want to sumon the cum demon, but if the cum demon is already here, then would you like to come forward about it?

Wilbur: No we all collectively make up the cum demon. We fuse together to make the cum demon.

Fundy: I hate this conversation and I need you guys to know that

Dream: Why don't you want to fuse to become the cum demon?

Fundy: I don't want to make the cum demon!

Dream: WHY NOT

Fundy: I FEEL PEER PRESSURED

Wilbur: It's not peer pressure, what you feel is the calling from within to become the cum demon

Sapnap: Wait. if we make up the cum demon, then how does it look?

Dream: It looks like a white blob of cum but with a strange, jello like texture. It has all of our eyes at the front and all of our mouths together which make a horrifying smile

Dream: I regret starting this

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Techno: Everytime I get bullied for eating cucumbers like apples I will eat another cucumber like an apple

Tubbo: I've never had a cucumber :(

Tommy: The only invalid thing about that is that cucumbers are a boring fucking vegetable and they are like 90% water and they have no flavor and suck

Dream: Fuck you, cucumbers are tasty. I bet you like green beans, talk about a terrible vegetable

Tubbo: Cucumbers are baby cacti :)

Tommy: Jokes on you, I don't like any vegetables.

Wilbur: He's lying, he likes lots of vegetables

Sapnap: I don't like any green vegetables. Not by choice, that's just the way I am. Spinach kinda slaps though.

Bad: Spinach is tasty! Spinach ravioli.

Quackity: I eat that spinach shit like uh. Fuck. I just eat raw spinach ok?

Tubbo: Popeye?

Tommy: Popeye ate canned spinach, research your fucking Popeye lore.

Tubbo: Raw popeye

Dream: That's what I'm trying to do, my friend. that's what I'm trying to do.

George: And that's my queue to leave!

Tommy: I only spell queue like q because the 4 extra letters are stupid.

Sapnap: Are we brushing over the fact that Dream is trying to raw popeye?

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Warning! This segment contains slurs, all of which me and my friends can reclaim. If it makes you uncomforable, please just scroll past it, and I will be replacing the slurs we said with [x slur]

Eret: Creepypasta- I went to Chuck E Cheese for my son's birthday and the rat called me a [f slur]

Niki: That's just my lore

George: Niki deep lore?

Fundy: But that's just a theory, a Game Theory

Niki: Creepypasta- I met MatPat and tried to give him a hug and all he said is “my game theory is that you’re a [d slur]”

Dream: creepypasta- MatPat was dressed as Charles Entertainment Cheese and he called me a [k slur]

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Fundy: I publicly gave a username and password so a bunch of people could join an account and immediately they posted someone's nudes and then blocked me out of my own account

Tommy: okay but why the fuck would you do that

Fundy: It seemed like a good idea at the time!

Tommy: when will you learn. WHEN WILL YOU LEARN. T H A T Y O U R A C T I O N S H A V E C O N S E Q U E N C E S.

Fundy: stop yelling at me I'm baby!

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Dream: There's 2 things in life I like more than anything: Respecting women and kissing men. And there's no women here.

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Tubbo, upon seeing a butterfly: Bird!

Wilbur: this is the exact opposite of the "is this a pidgeon" meme

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Schlatt at 4am: There's 5 hot horny men in my area, but only one can become America's Next Top Model

Tommy: what the fuck are you talking about

Fundy: no. let him finish.

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Dream: Hey so if one drop of holy water makes the entire body of water holy, I could add a drop of holy water to the ocean and because of the water cycle it would eventually get all over the world, and then demons wouldn't be able to do shit because if it rained or someone spilled water on them they'd die. I've essentially foiled Judgement Day, so you can thank me later.

George: What... are you talking about.

Dream: I have no idea I'm not Christian

(sorry if this is kinda ooc or if I forgot anyone my brain is the size of an avocdo pit and just as smooth)

[therapy-ghost]

Why am i here?

Twisted wonderland x persona

Chapter 3- aesthetic talk

chapter 2

1st pov (Ghost)

A new voice came into the room, pulling everyones attention to it, the boy was a bit shorter then me, he had a hood over his head, so it was a bit hard to see what he looked like, all i ould really see was a pair of red eyes looking around the room.

"No matter, who ever was assigned to house diasomnia, come with me, i just hope he wont sulk about it" the boy said, before everyone left with their house warden, leaving me and Dire Crowley, in the large empty room.

"So um... what are you going to do now, like about me?" i ask, trying to get a answer as to my sutiation, Crowley then turned to me.

"Dont worry, we'll get you home, besides, non magic users arent alowed in this school, now, step up to the gate and visualixe where you came from" Crowley replied, making me turn to the mirror, i then closed my eyes i started to think of my home.

'Finally, this dream will be over, and ill go home to my familly' i sighed in my head, smiling softly at the thought of being able to see my friends and familly.

"Dark miror, Return this soul from once she came from" Crowley demanded, only for the miror to stay quiet, Crowley cleared his voice, trying again, "Oh Dark Mirror, Return this soul-" Crowley was then interupted by the mirror.

"There is no such place" the Drak Miror said, confusing and surprising both Dire Crowley and Ghost.

"What?" Both Crowley and I questioned, tilting their head to the side, not fully understanding the situation.

"There is no place where this soul belongs" the Mirror said, its deep voice speaking the results i didnt want to hear.

"Th-this is impossible, events like this should never happen" Crowley paniced, gripping his head in agony, not sure what to do with me, as i jsut stood there, confused as to how fricking Canada isnt one even one map they have.

Crowley walked off, i wasnt fully sure what to do, but i followed, and we ended up in a giant library.

it had books flying around and the shelves were so big, im really going to like this place.

" your homeland is not listed on any map at any point in history, are you sure its real? are you lying?" Crowley asked, a squinted my eyes at him.

"it is the second largest contry in the world, what do you mean 'are you sure its real'? im not lying" i said, getting kinda pissed with the scenario.

"well, im not sure what to say, if anything, your probebly from a different planet, or you were sumoned from another dimension, or planet" Crowley shrugged, i took a step back, confused.

"Ok please, why would i be from another planet or dimension, thats weird, besides, i dont even look like i would" I added, trying to prove my point.

"Do you posibly have an Identifaction card, or a phone on you, even a shoe will work" Crowley said, stretching out his hand, waiting for me to hand him anything, but i noticed something.

"Come to think of it, i dont have my phone or wallet on me, and these are my shoes" i explained, sifting through my pokets then lifting up the ends of the robe a had on, to reveal i had no foot coverige.

"well, i cant have a non magic user in my campus, but as a educator, i can not just expel a young person without any idea who they are or any ability to contact her guardian?" Crowley questioned himself, before i though of something.

"Dont you have some sort of old dorm or apartement on the school campus where i can stay till we find a way to get me home?" i questioned, putting my hands on my sides, turning to crowley with the sugestion, making him perk up.

”Actually, yes, I do have a place you could stay, come with me” Crowley dashed off, leaving me confused before I ran off to catch up, finding out that he can move a lot faster.

As we walked down the halls of the campus of Night Ravens College, Crowley broke the silence.

"Might you explain how you did that?" he asked with out context, i just turned too him, squiting me eyes at him.

"The fuck do you mean?" i asked, tilting my head to the left while stairing at the older man, who stopped in his tracks and turned to me swiftly.

"I mean you not having a single scratch from the flame you got to your face, the is definetly not normal, especially humans" Crowley explained, even with me not being able to see his face fully, i could tell he had a look of agony and confusion.

"Im not fulling sure, i dont remember being able to do that back home so its either one of 3 situations, i was brought to this world and on my way here i got weird abilities, Grims magic was having a issue, or im dead, the third one seems a bit more realistic but im keeping my opitions open" i anwsered, staring at Crowley who thought for a moment before continueing walking to where ever we heading.

After about 16 more minutes of awkward silence, we were at the place i was going to stay.

It looked like a old dorm that was used but was then left to fall, there was multiple cracks in the windows and there was a few spider webs, just think of the inside, "There You Go, Isnt it wonderful?" Crowley was a little over excited about this place, but it was nice.

"Yeah, i like it, i mean, it does need work but i think its a good canvas to start with, and besides, the location is seculded and judging by the condition of the dorm, its been empty for 7 to 10 years" I shrugged, walking up to the door of the dorm, opening it, and i was right, it was alot worst on the inside.

There were holes in the roof, spider webs and boxs every where, and most of the floor boards and curtains were torn up, a lot of the wallpapers were pealling and most if not all of the furnature was broken.

"well this is you new place, and dont let me catch you around campus, ta ta!" Crowley left, slaming the door shut behind him, leaving me along in the dark, just me and my thoughts.

I then tried to find the power, which didnt take long but it did surprise me that this place still had it.

"Well... i should start with this whole situation, I have no clue how long im going to be staying here” I explained to myself, stepping out side to see the gloomy skies as it started to rain.

I walked back inside only to he a voice complain, a voice i never wanted to here again.

"GWAAH! Its Pouring Out Side" Grim said, i turned swiftly to look a him and he walked into the lounge where i was stationed at the moment, with out his collar.

"What are you doing here you little pesk?" I said pointing at him while glaring, he made eye contact with me before stopping.

"Its You!" He shouted, also pointing at me, his large blue eyes staring in a stunned matter into my sage green eyes, "Yeah its me, now answer my gosh damn question" i crossed my arms, still glaring at grim.

"You really think i wouldnt break back on to campus once im out of prying eyes" he smirked, i only looked at him in confusion as to why he would want to go to school so bad?

"Why are you so kine on going to school, none the less a school that seems extremely fancy that you might as well call harvard at this point with how fancy it is" I hummed, wanting a answer from Grim.

"Are you joking! I was born to go here, Im a Magical prodigy and will become one of the greatest Mages to ever live" He yelled with pride laced in his voice, 100% not realizing what he did a few minutes ago.

"Let me guess, you have been 'waiting for the day your chance would come and let you shine'?" i said, sitting down on one of the old arm chairs.

Grim got excited, nodding his head rapidly, "Exactly! Ive been waiting for so long, you and i must be on the same boat, huh?" grim explained, making me shake my head in disaggrement.

"Nope, i was just straight up draged here by the Black carrage"

Im so sorry for taking so long to write this, ive been very busy with school and ive been so tiered and unmotivated, but im back, please also check out my other post for this series like my incorrect quotes, and please make request for more content, bye

[stalksbyakuyatogami]

Thank you for doing my 'summoning ancestor' request for the V3 cast, they were great. Could you do one for the girls of sdr2, please? If you don't want to do another one, then I completely understand and I'm sorry for bothering you.

Summoning An Ancestor With Goodbye Despair Girls!

No problem, anon. I enjoy making them, even though it takes hours xD

Akane Owari

•She thinks summoning an ancestor sound really cool! Do you have to offer food? She'll have to ask Teruteru then. An excuse so she can eat even just half of it. Nonetheless, very excited to do it with you.

•She suggested that you do it on the shore so it's wide open. But it was too wide open and very bright, so you performed it in the building beside Mirai Hotel.

•The event hall was quiet. Looks like you were the only people there. She then asks how you'd do this ritual and you presented her with all of the tools. "Aren't these too dangerous to have around?" Nevertheless, she helped you and did what she can.

•She got bored of waiting for 8 seconds. She walked away, picking her ears and saying something about having Teru cook her food. That is until something ascended from where you performed your ritual. She quickly posed in a defensive way, emphasizing her "claws" and all that. She was ready.

•She stood there standing. She was curiously eyeing the spirit. She's a bit bored though, so she'd pick her ears every so often. She was mostly quiet the whole time. She wanted to take your time and she doesn't want to disturb you. Escaping this killing game was the top priority.

•When you finished, she helped you gather all the things you used. She was talking about how it was pretty enjoyable, and she won't hesitate to join you again if there is a next time. For now, though, you should eat. The whole session was tiring!

Chiaki Nanami

•Summoning an ancestor? Well, that's new. What for? She's pretty chill about it. She actually likes to see how it would play out. It was intriguing but a bit creepy at the same time. But given the number of games she played, she's probably already used to this.

•And as expected, she blabbered about similar experiences in games. Does the ritual even come close to those of the games? When you arrived, she was low-key surprised by the tools you had. Sure, there were familiar ones, but also tools that she didn't know about. But still, she helped you on how to properly handle those things and how to do the ritual properly.

•She wondered why the spirit hadn't shown up yet. Did you use something wrong? Did you mess the order up? She approached where the spirit is supposed to pop up. But then stopped when the spirit really did appear. Shock. She slowly backed up and positioned herself just a bit behind you. No, she wasn't afraid.

•She joined the conversation between you and your ancestor. She helped you ask important questions. The spirit wasn't bothered at all, it's actually curious. And thanks to her, you got a lot more than expected.

•Tells you that you did a great job and that she would join yoi again if there's a next time. For now, though, she needs to rest. So why don't you join her and cuddle? Hm?

Ibuki Mioda

•Eh?! A summoning?! Sounds kinda scary... But I guess it'll totally rock! Still doubting whether she should join you. But if it's her S/O and one of their special moments in life, she won't hesitate to join. The ghost part is still a bit creepy though.

•She was anxious, asking you all the things you'd do while you were on your way to the summoning area. She thinks the tools are quite bizarre and she's a little bit freaked out. She tries her best to help you though.

•She was actually relieved and ready to go out when suddenly your ancestor's spirit appeared. She immediately hid behind your back, eyes still on the spirit.

•She was fiddling with her fingers the whole time you tried to communicate. If she did have something to ask, she'd whisper it to your ear. Too afraid to ask the spirit directly. And plus! It's your ancestor, how can she meddle?

•By the end of the session, she took a relieved sigh, thankful that the event was over. She had to admit, the experience was terrifying. But maybe she'd get used to it the next time you do it again.

Mahiru Koizumi

•She thinks it's too dangerous, but worth it at the same time. You could get information about this supposed killing game and end this as soon as possible. It took time for her to think about it, and finally, she agreed.

•She is always watchful of you handling all the tools. She's ready whenever you're injured or something. And she does her best in helping you too!

•She was patient enough to wait for the spirit. This is probably the first time she's seen one since fear and anxiety were evident on her face. Still, she fought the urge to run away. And instead, firmly stood by your side. This is important in solving this killing game, after all.

•She was the most questions asked. She eventually got accustomed to it. And honestly, the ghost had no complaints. It thought that Mahiru was entertaining.

•When it finally disappeared, she sighed in relief. Damn, that was nerve-wracking! She probably got carried away by adrenaline, but she did such a beautiful job, you just had to hug and thank her. She said that she can accompany you again, but she won't go overboard next time.

Mikan Tsumiki

•Poor girl was actually terrified. But if it's for her S/O she guesses that she can't back off. Maybe it'll be like talking to people you've known for the first time. Except that it wasn't a person, but a ghost. An ancestor.

•Mikan was Science all the way, so she really hoped that doesn't happen later. Rather it would happen when she's finally mentally prepared. The tools you had all laid out reminded her of the tools she used. But of course, it was very different from the ones she maneuvers. She helped you as much as she can. She made little mess-ups but it's all fine, you assure her.

•She was ready to tell you to leave now. Until the spirit appeared anyway. She squeaked at the sight of it. Impossible... She felt like she could faint, but she tried her best not to.

•She was standing beside you the whole time, timid and making herself small. She was once again startled when the spirit called her. She swore to God that she won't commit anything sinful next time just don't let this phantom murder her. /j

•It was quite a frightful experience. She tells you that you did a good job. And that she'll do her very best the next time you do this.

Peko Pekoyama

•She sweatdropped at the statement. Sumonning an ancestor? Isn't it dangerous and a bit odd? Maybe you shouldn't do it... Oh, it's for the killing game? I'll accompany you and do what I can.

•She wanted to know all the details about this so that she knows what to do. She knows that she can't attack a translucent creature, but who knows what'll happen, right? She's impressed with the items you had. She warns you that those are dangerous but you assure her that it's all fine. No need to worry.

•She stood there, patiently waiting for your so-called ancestor to come out. Once it did, she didn't feel any fear. But she was indeed alarmed. His hand shot up to her sword on her back, attempting to grasp defense. But before she can grab it, the phantom warned her that it meant no harm. No need for hostility. She calmed down.

•She was beside you, arms crossed and eyes intently at the ghost. Never letting her guard down. She would slip in questions randomly which was a big help. And the ancestor didn't hesitate to answer truthfully.

•She's thankful that no trouble appeared while you were doing the session. She had to thank the ghost for that at least. You got a lot of information, so she hopes that this happens again.

Sonia Nevermind

•You thought she would never in a million years, but she's actually excited! She can't stop talking about it to others. Thinks of potential scenarios that could happen. It's a bit odd, but it's a new experience, so why not?

•She talked about what she knew about summonings from the books she read. It was helpful to have someone know a lot about this. But unfortunately, among the tools you had laid out, only 2 of them were familiar to her. You presented her with the book you had. No wonder she doesn't know how to use the others, she hadn't read this yet! Helped in every way she could though.

•She panicked at the first appearance of your ancestor. It was more frightening and menacing than she expected. She hid behind you for a short time and only came out when she gathered enough courage to.

•She asked relevant questions too, but some of them are the origin of the spirit. The phantom was weirded out but answered nonetheless. You had to apologize for her.

•She obviously enjoyed the whole session; she had fun. She had to admit, it was quite scary, but what an experience! Wouldn't hesitate to join you again next time.

Eeeeeeee sorry this took so long, anon!! I hope you like it though, thank you for requesting!

-Mod Toko

[skrony33worldhealthsolution]

10 Ways Natural Health Tips To Keep Your Body Healthy Exercises

Health tips about Exercise knowingly - natural healthy tipsAll work has some rules and regulations. If they are followed, there is very little chance of disaster. Accidents can happen again with a little irregularity. Regular exercise is a good habit to keep the body fit. Exercise also has some rules but many of us do not know them properly. Even if I know it again, I don't accept it. But if you want to keep yourself healthy and normal, you have to know the rules of exercise well and try to follow them. Here are some tips to help you get started: 1. Do not exercise at all on a full stomach. However, if you are very hungry, it will be difficult. So before the start you can eat something light like two toasts or an apple.2. It is not advisable to exercise after wearing too tight or tight clothing. Wearing tight clothing can interfere with your posture. As a result, you will not get the full benefits of exercise.3. You must wear good training shoes before walking hard, jogging or doing heavy exercises that will put pressure on your feet. Otherwise, the joints of the legs or the pressure on the cells will hurt, as well as the back may hurt.4. Try to breathe normally while exercising. Never breathe too hard. Exercise in such a way that you can breathe well. However, the style of breathing during asana or yoga is definitely different. In this case, you have to follow the rules of the seat completely.5. Do not do too much heavy exercise for too long in the beginning. First, do light exercise for a short time. Increase it little by little every day.. Stop exercising only when you have physical pain while exercising. Consult an expert or instructor if necessary.. If you exercise for an hour, do light and slow rhythm exercises for the first four to five minutes. The last two or three minutes are the same.. No matter what exercise you do, do a little stretching and warm up at the beginning. Otherwise, there is a possibility of injury to muscles and ligaments. Knowing these things, you must have understood how to do the right exercise. So don't delay, start exercising from today to make yourself more attractive and eye-catching beauty. natural healthy concepts When to exercise? -Exercise can be done after waking up in the morning. Exercise in the morning after a long sleep can keep you relaxed throughout the day. In addition, the afternoon before the evening is also a good time to exercise. Since the body sweats when you exercise, it is better to exercise in mild weather. Exercising in the afternoon or in hot weather can easily make you feel tired. So it is better not to exercise at this time. Many people can't get up all day because they are busy, they exercise at night. There is no problem. Those who stay at home all day, they can exercise at any time if they want. It is not okay to eat too much food during exercise. Eating light foods, such as a banana or biscuit, can help you exercise. Many people go home to exercise in the morning and return home after the exercise. There is no benefit to exercise. Those who exercise regularly should keep an eye on food when they spend more time leisurely or go for a walk. If you plan to stay for a long time while walking, you can do some exercises if you have the opportunity. It is not advisable to drink too much water before or after exercising. You can take a little rest after exercise and then drink water. It is better to exclude sweet, soft drinks, fast food etc. from the food menu as much as possible. Because, eating these foods will make your exercise useless. There is no need to exercise if you are sick. No exercise should be done without the advice of a doctor, especially during pregnancy. Talk to your doctor about any type of exercise or diet plan. vitamin stores Stay fit easily by walking -For a disease-free body and a vibrant mind, some kind of exercise is required. Regular walking and exercise keep the human body healthy and fresh. Exercise and well-planned diet are the key to longevity and keeping the body and mind fresh. It is also important to maintain the ideal weight. In addition, there is no pair of exercises to cut laziness. Therefore, the easiest and safest exercise is walking. This is an exercise that is suitable for less work, which applies to people of all ages. According to researchers, regular walking keeps the body healthy and prolongs life. If you want to live a long day, walk at least two and a half hours a week. You will see that your life expectancy can be increased by seven years. Moreover, walking, jogging and running bring equal benefits for the health of the heart and blood vessels. Walking for two and a half hours in seven days increases life expectancy by seven years. Walking also has a positive effect on obese people. Exercise and walking should never be underestimated. Even a small amount of walking has a positive effect. In fact, for some, walking is a much better exercise. Because walking does not put pressure on the body. Many times when running, there is pain in the joints of the bones, the muscles are injured. It is quite risky for older people. Walking is the name of simple and effective exercise Walking is an easy exercise. There is no need to wear special clothes. Physical exercise trainer Sumon Ghosh said, ‘30 minutes of brisk walking six days a week is enough. Strict exercise like jogging forces the heart to pump blood harder. And it is beneficial. However, since muscles work so hard, they need a lot of oxygen. Lactic acid is made in exercise. Lactic acid accumulates in the body and the muscles become stiff and sore. But walking is not so. When walking, the heart pumps loudly, increasing blood flow. However, it does not have such a severe effect on the muscles. Lactic acid is not made in the body. So it helps in stimulating the circulatory system by applying less pressure on the body. Accumulated body fat is released. However, in addition to walking exercises, stretching, abdominal exercises, etc. should be done. In that case it is better to warm up first. Then do the stretching. Do abdominal exercises at the end of it all. Because walking is just cardio exercise. Stretching, abdominal exercises etc. should be done to get the benefits of walking. Then your body will be slim and beautiful. At the same time good health will be maintained. In that case, make a routine in advance of what kind of exercise you will do with walking one day. 'The benefits of walking-# Helps to increase blood circulation in the body, it reduces the risk of brain and heart attack.# 80% of high blood pressure patients lose weight through walking and exercise to control their blood pressure without medication.# Heart stays good and heart cannot be blocked.# Walking for 1 hour every day helps in dissolving excess body fat, thus reducing the risk of heart disease and preventing obesity in the body.# 84% of people who walk regularly do not have a risk of stroke.# All types of chest pain and palpitations are good and the heart stops beating 20,000-30,000 times a day. As a result, the extra workload on the heart is reduced.# Studies have shown that people who walk regularly every day have a longer life expectancy.# Diabetes cannot be a disease and if it is a disease it is under control.# Increases digestive energy and increases appetite.# Very good sleep.Follow the steps below to get fit in four weeks:The first weekFirst warm-up with a simple 5 minute simple exercise. Keep walking slowly at first. Slowly increase the speed. Take a brisk walk for 1 minute. Walk slowly for the next 1 minute. Absolutely stop to reduce walking speed.Second weekFirst warm up for 5 minutes. Start walking at a moderate pace. Walk at the same speed for 5 minutes. Slowly reduce the speed. Exercise cool down.Third weekWarm up for 5 minutes at the beginning. Start walking at a moderate pace and gradually increase the speed. Walk at the same pace for 2-3 minutes. Keep walking slowly. Absolutely stop to slow down slowly.Fourth weekWarm up for 5 minutes. Gradually increase the speed by walking slowly. Walk loudly for 5 minutes. Do cool down exercises after walking. Free Hand Exercise - Some Important Tips Before Starting:Get a full body medical check-up before you start exercising. This is a must have, for any Affiliate, promoting any program.Make changes in diet. Eat less fatty foods. Stay away from soft drinks or synthetic juices. If you have a habit of drinking regularly, quit if you can, at least reduce it.Start exercising with a measure of how much weight and inches you will lose. Check every 15 days how much has been reduced.Rest as much as you can. Don't worry unnecessarily and look for the right sleep at night.Just do abdominal and waist exercises, but it will not work. Want full body exercise. Certain exercises will make your abdominal and waist muscles strong, flexible and beautiful; Will help to stay disease free.Get ready to start exercising.          You See Natural Health Tips To Keep Your Body Healthy Here are some simple exercises:1) Stand with both hands on the side of the body straight. Raise both hands over your head to catch your breath. Exhale and lower your hands to the side of your body. Do it 10 times. Doing so will relax the muscles and nerves.2) Stand straight with your legs apart. Raise both hands over the head. Leaning forward with your breath, melt your hands between your legs and go as far as you can. Be careful not to break the knee. Now exhale with both hands on the back of the head Take it. Bend the upper part of the body from the waist as far as you can. Try to go as far as possible. Do this 10 times once down and 10 times up. This exercise strengthens the spine. Reduces excess fat. 3) Stand with your legs apart and your hands on your hips. Rotate the upper body to the right from the waist to the head to inhale. Make sure that the knees are not bent and the feet are in the same position. Now turn left with the breath. Exhale again and go back to the previous state. Practice this way 5 times a day and 10 times on both sides. This will keep the waist muscles active and fresh.Bhujangasana - Lie on your back. Now fold both hands from the elbows and place them on both sides of the chest directly on the shoulders. Keep the palms of the hands straight. Now lift the upper part of the body from the navel with the weight on the palm of the hand. Keep the legs straight and straight. Bend the neck a little and lift the neck and look upwards. Leave 10 seconds and go back to the previous state. Practice 5-6 times. And when you raise your head, take a deep breath and when you take off, take a deep breath.Triangulation - Stand up straight with your legs apart. Now place both hands straight in front of the shoulders. Bend the upper part of the body from the waist to the right and touch the right leg with the right hand and keep the left hand straight on the shoulder and look at the left hand. Thus go back to the previous state from 10 seconds. Lower your hands and place them next to your body. Do the same in the opposite direction. Do it 3 times a day. Rest for 1 minute in a row.Benefits - Practicing this posture increases blood flow to the spine and makes the spine flexible. Helps reduce excess fat on both sides of the body.Crescent Moon - Stand up straight with your legs together. Straighten both hands towards the front. Now bend the upper part of the body backwards with the hands. The hands should be on the side of the head and ears. Return to this state as long as possible. Do it 3 times and rest for 1 minute. Ardhasalavasana - This seat is called Ardhasalavasana because it is done on one leg. Lie on your back with your face down on the ground. Place both hands on the floor of the Thai. Now keep the body stretched and lift any one leg backwards. Make sure that the knee does not break. Leave this position for 20 seconds. Now do the same with the other leg. Practice 5 times. Benefits - Strengthens the muscles of the lower abdomen and buttocks. The shape of the buttocks is beautiful. Pawan Muktasana  - Lie on your back and breathe. First bend the right leg at the knees and bring it close to the chest and press the knees on the chest with both hands. Keep both feet outwards. Leave it for 20 seconds and straighten your legs. Now do the same with the left leg. Leave it for 20 seconds and rest your legs straight. This time do the two legs together in the same manner for 20 seconds. Take a 1 minute breath break. Do this seat 5 times a day. Benefits - Strengthens the abdominal muscles. Makes the middle part of the body flexible. Lifestyle Change -Make it a habit to stay in the office to help you lose weight fast. Go up and down the stairs. Sit or stand while doing some leg exercises in between work. Avoid outside food and junk food completely at lunch. Avoid cigarettes and alcohol to lose weight and stay healthy. Some alcohol or cigarettes are not directly responsible for weight gain but weight loss will be more difficult if you are not physically healthy. That's why we need to think about fitness to lose weight and make good habits. In the busiest life, those who work for hours sitting in one place in the office do not have any physical work. Many people eat extra food to get out of this stress. Take 5 minutes walk every 2 hours between office work and you will see it will be good. People who stay at home often gain weight very quickly. Exercise every day to lose fat and become beautiful within a certain period of time. Use less machines for housework. Instead, you will benefit if you do these things with a little effort. Walking to and from school to pick up and drop off children will help you lose weight. Exercise 4 days a week and follow the diet chart and you will get a lean body very soon.

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[dvlphine]

me watching pouring rain outside : delphine angy !

n e ways HEWWO 🥺 it is i , ellie , ur local cryptid , n here is my newest luvie delphine , or delphi , etc. ....... whatever u fancy !

OVERVIEW ♡

°✧｡× :  (  roh jisun  +  cis female  +  she/her  )  ───  oh, look, i’m pretty sure that’s DELPHINE SUH !  you know, the TWENTY-ONE year old harvest sprite ? they’re a WATER SPRITE, by the look of them. a bunch of them were helping to welcome new residents, and i’m pretty sure i heard that one say they might also work part - time as a LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER, but i could have heard wrong. well, regardless of that, i’m almost certain that they ARE NOT loyal to the harvest goddess, which explains why they’re so UNINHIBITED and RESILIENT, but can also be a bit MISCHIEVOUS and EGOCENTRIC. whether they want to revive the goddess or not, if you need them i’m pretty sure you can find them at ROSE PEAK most often ! murky water concealing what’s underneath, a pretty grin capable of striking fear into one’s soul, unrepeatable whispers floating through the quiet ! ✧  ( ellie , 20 , she/her , est )

STATS ♡

full name: delphine suh age: 21 birthday: may 20 star sign: taurus gender: cis female sexual orientation: bisexual hair color: brown to teal ombre height: 5′2″

HISTORY ♡

so ofc , delphine is born out of pure love and devotion , as all sprites are , but that love & devotion doesn’t last ..........

her mom’s a sun sprite & her dad a water sprite ....... despite taking after her dad element-wise, delphine takes after her mom in some other ways which i’ll expand on ! mfkdmsk

so during her younger years, delphine’s parents were always quarreling , whether it was about small things like the weather or big things like the harvest goddess ! when delphi was born , her mom was loyal to the goddess , but after a few years of being settled down in roselake and raising a family , she realized she wanted more .. she wanted to travel & live like a normal human did

ofc her dad was like ‘no!! our duty is 2 stay here’ but her dad was quite a timid character compared to her mom’s outspoken-ness n so when delphi’s 15 her mom leaves the island for the first time .......

she’s gone for just a little bit & she comes back & is visibly happier & delphine naively thinks that maybe things can work out this way , with her mom coming & going occasionally but everything remaining the same other than that

... it doesn’t . her mom comes back one day & says she’s leaving for good .. she’s gonna become a human & everything

once it’s all done delphine goes back to their cottage w/ her dad still processing ...... but the minute she’s done she explodes at her dad , asking him why he didn’t get her to stay .. she leaves , & 6 months later she hasn’t been back since

PERSONALITY + TIDBITS ♡

p new at being a lighthouse keeper ...... keeper-in-training if u will ....... she didn’t start spending all her time at rose peak until after her mom left so after a couple months of spending all her time sulking there she was like might as well do SOMETHING productive .. but i’m still gnna sulk . MFKSDM

luvs the aura the lighthouse gives off esp. when it rains/storms ( she’s like bleh the sun ....... MFKDSM ) .. loves jus traipsing around there n the shore like the mysterious emo she is

lil bit nocturnal bc of her job .. she’ll like invite people over during the night but try 2 scare them when they arrive 😔 doesn’t get much sleep n so i’d say u can find her during the day half the time .. the other half u’ll have 2 drag her out of bed n she’ll spend the rest of the day looking like a sleepy bby !

loves using ( abusing ? ) her powers but isn’t loyal to the harvest goddess ..... jus doesn’t think she’s All That u kno she Also blames her for her mom & is like ‘if everywhere else is doing just fine w/out the goddess ....... why do we need her .........’

so yea i wanted 2 make her .. fallen angel-esque but she hasn’t y’know received consequences for her actions just yet .. although her powers are def not where they used to be ( partly jus due to the goddess dying ) but don’t bring it up to her or she’ll drench u with water :/

it’s uhh kinda good that her powers r weak atm bc she’s a lil power-hungry :/ n control ? what’s that she asks ? she loves 2 lose it but at the same time she doesn’t want anyone else 2 hav control over her .. if she gives it 2 u for even a short bit consider urself v special ......

her empathy ..... deeply hidden but its There

still has a Lot of unresolved feelings revolving around her parents so sometimes she can jus be a lil ball of angst n anger bc of that .... she doesn’t wanna be like her mom bc she hates her ....... but maybe she does wanna be like her ? she’s jus confused , doesn’t know how to cope

thrives on chaos ........... she loves the distraction so will do whatever to create more , whether it’s manipulating the weather or jus creating rumors to tell about people ! MFKDSM

that bi who’s soft around any + all girls but likes 2 mess with/boss around men .. plot ideas ! MFKDSM

[nsfw] typically tops but open 2 switching if u ask ...... she’s a brat as a bottom though :/ MFKDSM

probs more but i’ll end it there for now 🥺

CONNECTIONS ♡

friends ! some people who have gotten past her mysterious creepy exterior ....... she’s actually v motherly/caring over the ppl she likes ..... maybe has a bff that knows everything abt her .. maybe a friend she’s like siblings w/ .. maybe a childhood friend that it’s awkward w/ now .. not Super cuddly but will play with hair or hold a hand .. 🥺 MFKDSM

fwbs ! i imagine she’d have at least a couple since she’s not rlly for the idea of settling down w/ sumone .......... like at all actually ......... MSDJKLJLS but the variety we cld have ... mayb there r feelings n jealousy ...... mayb they’re chill n actually wholesome friends ..... up 2 our muses !

exes ! a couple she had back in the day .... ended on good terms or bad terms !

enemies ! i could see this possibly going towards a loyal sprite who jus can’t believe what she’s doing .. or maybe she told a lie about someone to cause a ruckus & now they dislike her for valid reasons ! MKMSDKM also enemies w/ benefits ? hell o

+ more ! that will be thought up during plotting FMDKSM

feel free to message me on discord if u like or i’ll put up a plotting call ! but if neither of those are your fancy u can simply like this n ill im u ♡

[missjackil]

Glad I Came When I Did...

I came to Tumblr in July of last year, I had only been watching SPN since the March before, but I had watched everything from the beginning and was all caught up, and well into my rewatches when I got here, and I am so thankful that was the case. When I got here, and saw what many of you say about the show, characters, writers and show runners, I wondered what show you all are watching.  For one thing, the show wasnt “better” in the Kripke era, it was just different for the first 3 seasons, but that was just laying the foundation for what the show was building up to. Sure, it was nice to have just Sam and Dean in every episode and not muddied down with side characters, but this show literally being an epic, needed to get bigger. It wouldnt have lasted 13 years and counting,if it just stayed Sam and Dean hunting shifters and vampires. Season 4 changed everything, and keep in mind this was Kripke, not Gamble or Carver, we got Cas and other angels, it got darker and more personal when Dean went to Hell and was tortured and ended up breaking the first seal, and Sam was drinking demon blood and became addicted, and ultimately raising Lucifer, we learned that that the brothers were part of a big Heavenly plan, and even had Gospels written about them. The great battle of Armageddon would be fought by them! Had the story not exploded like that, the show never would have gotten a 6th season. So many of you just said “It never should have gotten a 6th season anyway” but youd sit there and whine for the next 2 years about how badly it ended. Sam sacrifces himself to save the world and ends up alone in the dark? Dean ends up with a chick he hardly knows? How does this make a good ending to such a great story?  Next, Dean is not an abusive masogynist, and Sam is not the pseudo-female that bends to Dean’s every whim. I’ll agree that Dean hit Sam too much in the early seasons (remember? back with it was “so much better”?) but Sam is a big guy and it was always a fair fight whenever he faught back, he just chose not to fight sometimes. Not because he’s afraid of Dean, but because its Sam’s nature to just not want to fight, Those of you who treat Sam like a battered wife from the 50s, or Stockholm syndrom gone wild, are just really projecting your political agenda on a show that wishes to not take part in ANY political agenda.  Sam and Dean fight. In any drama with brothers, they fight. Since early S7, Dean hasnt hit Sam without being under a supernatural influence, and no one seems to want to accept that that part of Dean has changed. Why? Because youre putting Sam in the battered wife position, where you would tell a battered wife, that the abusive husband wont ever change. Not where he SHOULD be, as a big, strong man, fully capable of kicking Dean’s ass if he wants to, but he doesnt because he loves Dean, and knows Dean loves him, even if he hasnt always known the right way to show it. 

On that same topic, Sam is not the female architype of this story, though sometimes a male/female formula is used. Normally however, Sam and Dean are Butch and Sundance or Luke Skywalker and Han Solo the way Kripke created these characters. Sam has feminine qualities, and so does Dean, but all men do, and all women have some masculine qualities.... thats just being realitic. I am just as tired of hearing about Dean’s “Toxic masculity” as I am about hearing that Sam is a woman with a penis... well, we’ve never been shown he has one, so a woman with facial hair? I dont know.... but feminize either of them in your fan fic if thats what youre into, but don’t write it into the show, when that’s not what the show is telling us.  Neither Sam nor Dean are bisexual, and I dont care if Sam has never said he’s straight, or if he sumonned a male crossroads demon, or Dean and Cas breathed the same air, or Dean made a mix tape. After 12 yrs, if neither of these boys have canonically dated a man, we can safely assume they never will. Even if Wincest was canon, it wouldnt mean they have any interest in men aside from each other.  Sam gets blamed for a lot, he does, but not everything all the time and Dean never blamed Sam for anything (after S4) that he didnt blame himself for too. in S5 Fallen Idols, Dean reminds Sam that he broke the first seal, and tells Sam he couldnt have known killing Lilith was a bad thing, In S8 when Dean tells Sam what things he could confess, he isnt throwing blame on him, but acknowledging that these werent good things, and may need confessing.... ignorance is no excuse for the law right? And Dean puts blame on them both for releasing the Darkness. In my time of watching this show, free from Tumblr, never once did Sam come off as stupid, evil, or less important than Dean. Either in the show or where the writing was concerned.  Dean may asstert himself as the boss or the leader, and most of the time, he is the leader, and thats alright, theyre a team, it doesnt minimize Sam at all, he has said basically he prefers to follow because it’s easier than leading, but he certainly can lead when necessary. Dean is the infantry and Sam is the tank. Thats not making one greater than the other, thats stratagy. But as far as being Sam’s boss, look again.... Dean barks orders at Sam sometimes, but Sam gives orders subtly, he tells Dean to stop, he stops, he gives him a bitch face, he stops, he puts his hand out, Dean doesnt get cake, he says “dont kill him” Dean doesnt kill him, Sam flashes puppydog eyes and gets basically whatever he wants. Sometimes Dean defies Sam, and sometimes Sam defies Dean... see that? The narative does not favor Dean over Sam. Again, I state that Sam has never looked weak or stupid or habitually wrong in my time of watching. A few times Dean says “Im always right” but that doesnt mean he is written to be always right. Its just a Dean thing. Dean is not the “fav” of the writers because he has more speaking lines either. Sam is a quiet character, and since Jared isnt comfortable with long monologues, that works out pretty good. Sam has more personafications than Dean, more pain and affliciton... this isnt “HEY WE HATE SAM SO LETS MAKE HIM SUFFER!! HAHAHAHA!!” This is showcasing how well Jared acts pain, or takes on a different personality. This doesnt put Dean/Jensen down, his strong points are comedic parts, making long dialogue not sound boring, and showing full emotion while still being able to speak clearly. Put these exceptional talents together and it makes for 2 awesome main characters that are defined individuals and not mirrors of each other, and yet they stay similar enough to be believable brothers, best friends, and soulmates. I dont begrudge anyones opinion on anything It’s yours, you have it, and I respect it, but it appears that a lot of you are wasting your time on a show you hate, that goes against everything you stand for, and treats your favorite actor/character like a meaningless extra, and sadly, some are following you and theyre not having their own experience, they’re living yours. I cant tell you how often I hear someone hasnt watched a certain episode, or a certain season because Tumblr people hated it, so they thought it not worth it. and I have to explain that Tumblr people hate everything, and mostly wont ever be happy with the show unless whatever ship they ship becomes canon, which none of them will. So may I suggest, lighten up. take the show at face value, dont sit there, arms crossed, phone in hand waiting to meta on something you want to be there that isnt, and just laugh and love and cry with the rest of us :)

[milas-imaginarium]

I would like to add something which, in my opinion, is really important. Let's remember when we are at Diavolo's castle and we end up in the labyrinth (I don't remember what chapter it's) some important things happened back there:

1) Solomon lend us a little bit of his power and gave us the words to sumon a demon, he said that's basically for curiosity... But Solomon being Solomon... Mmm, isn't that suspicious doing that just for fun?

Maybe we knows o he can sense something in MC, he wants to test them. It's canon he knows something that we don't, if you don't believe me check the last chat we have with him, in chapter 20.

2) We ended up being chased by Henry 1.0, and the freaking huge snake is going to kill us, none of the brothers could do something to stop it or to find a way out of the labyrinth.

Here the spicy part, MC decides to summon Asmodeus using Solomon's power, MC succeed, Asmo aperaed in the labyrinth thinking Solomon summoned him but after that he notices it was MC, and he tell them that he nevel felt SO MUCH power coming from a human, NOT EVEN SOLOMON. MC' summoning was incredibly powerful, Solomon's magic was just a little push.

Why is this important? Well, it could be a bad idea to have a powerful human with pacts with 5 of the 7 most powerful demons, living in the Devildom ( this before the pact with Belphie and Lucifer) isn't it?

Does Diavolo sees MC as a threat? That's why he needed to test her with all that useless time travel thing? Perhaps the moment MC was chosen to be part of the exchange program Barbatos saw the future, the options and it was not good at least for Diavolo, who knows?

BONUS:

In chapter 16 or 17 hard mode (I don't remember) you can have access to a scene where the brothers of timeline 1 ARE WAITING FOR MC, Belphie is in prision and Lucifer about to have a heart attack because of all the situation.

The say MC is taking too much time and they show concern. Maybe we're over thinking this or maybe not, but this are too.. Shady to not to!

conspiracy theory: the Plot, like my Gravy, Thickens pt. 3

original post | pt. 1 | pt. 2

BONUS:

again we see this devil-may-care (excuse the pun) attitude from Barbatos that we see in Diavolo who has always made it abundantly clear he knows more than he lets on

if knowing everything that’s going to happen is so boring, why not gosh i dunno mUcK aRoUnD and WaRp HiStOrY by adding the human descendant of an angel whose siblings can be considered as threats to the Devildom? and if not the Devildom, then the peace which Diavolo wishes to achieve between the 3 realms

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[thepallas]

I have a need to talk about Pallas in Hunter AU and no one’s gonna stop me. (2/?)

The crucial ritual (The pact with The Demons)

   One of the main events is the special pact renewal ritual which happens once a year/every couple years (tbh haven’t decided how often it is). The essence of it is to offer sacrifices and a bit of the leader’s soul to the demons for protection in return. The ritual requires a long preparation - weeks of training, meditation, drinking special herbal mixtures that the priests prepare - using all of the possible ways to strengthen him.

   On the day of the ritual people gather to the main field, the shamans prepare the surroundings and the altar. Sharp on time the leader appears from his tent, dressed in layered ritualistic clothing, adorned with protective jewellery. The shamans start chanting a mantra until he reached the centre, kneels and responds to them indicating that he’s ready. One of the priests lights a bundle of herbs circling around Pallas, then making him breathe it in, sending him into a state of trance. Now the summoning can begin. The shamans recite incantations of protective spells to protect the others and summon the demon. It’s guided Pallas’s way, colouring his eyes black, taking over his body. It contorts, groans and hisses getting used to the body. It had broken Pallas’s bones several first times. It looks around, smelling delicious souls of the young girls. It would try to have it’s way, yet the incantations and sheer physical and mental strength the leader holds it back, keeps it in control. It’s guided to the altar where animal sacrifices are prepared and ready for it to devour. It claims the souls, plays with the meat and drowns in blood. It gets gruesome, but the tribe’s people are there. Some kneeling, some looking away, some calm, some holding each other. They must be there to witness and honour the sacrifice their leader is making for them and to prove their devotion and trust that Pallas will contain the demon and keep them safe. Only the children, pregnant women and those who can’t get up can stay at home.

   After the demon is done it accepts the deal and is exercised out of Pallas, yet not without consuming a bit of his soul. Pallas stumbles to the ground, unconscious. Sometimes he’s unconscious for a couple days, sometimes just for several hours. Despite all of the preparations he’s weak and it takes a while to get back on track. The sumoned demon along with the others go back to scouting around the perimeter around the village, protective against those who mean harm to Pallas’s people. With the pact they agree not to touch the tribe people and fight on their side in case of the attack. Such a relationship between the two powers has been prevalent for centuries. It’s a constant cycle that makes sure that the tribe is safe - right after the ritual the demons are strong and make sure that no one gets through, and after a while as the ‘demonic protective shield’ weakens, Pallas is at his strongest, ready to join his fighters and protect the land.  You need to find a very specific timing in case you’d want to attack them.

   Speaking more of Pallas it really takes a toll on him, but he’s strong and proud, tries to hide how much it affects him. After he’s carried out from the altar, Pallas does not show himself in the public until he looks presentable and “presentable” in his mind is perfect. Only his personal healers and shamans see him recovering and they must not speak of it at any circumstances.

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(AngelList Radio)

In the second episode of AngelList Radio, we interview Sumon Sadhu and learn how to improve as an angel investor and why he thinks “national empires” are good investment opportunities.

Sumon explains why he’s excited about investing in international startups like Mobius Motors (an African car company), Chaldal (a Bangladeshi delivery company), and ClearTax (a Indian electronic tax filing company).

Here are a few of my favorite lessons from this interview:

Now is the time to build big international startups. Billions of people are entering the middle class or coming online for the first time. New startups that serve their local communities can build important companies, especially in large countries like India and China. Sumon discusses examples like Alibaba, and talks in depth about his investments in ClearTax (India) and Chaldal (Bangladesh).

Academic research can help you predict technology trends. Academic publications show us what is becoming technically possible. If you combine that with new behaviours you see in the world, you can use research that is five years old to predict new trends.

Be a signal. As a contrarian, Sumon often has to convince other investors to consider companies that they normally wouldn’t. Fast forward to 31:00 to hear how Sumon did this with Chaldal.

Share your favorite part by leaving a comment on Soundcloud.

Learn more about Sumon’s investments on AngelList, follow him on Twitter and read his blog.

Read on for the full transcript of the interview.

Tyler Willis: Hi, everybody. I’m Tyler Willis. I am an entrepreneur and an angel investor. This year I’m your host for season one of “AngelList Radio.”

[0:17] In our first season we’re interviewing different investors. We’re learning how they invest and what’s made them successful.

[0:23] Today I’m joined by Sumon Sadhu, the co-founder of Snaptalent and the first employee of Quid, which had raised $49 million from top investors. Most recently he co-founded Muse.

[0:32] Sumon is also an angel investor. In talking with him, I’ve really enjoyed how defined, well reasoned, and unique his thought process is. In a business where it pays to be contrarian and right, this is usually a signal worth paying attention to. I’m excited to hear what he has to say today.

[0:47] Sumon, thanks for joining us.

Sumon Sadhu: [0:48] Thank you, Tyler, for having me.

Tyler: [0:50] Before we get started and dive into it, give us an overview of what your career has been like today. How do you find yourself here?

Sumon: [0:58] I’m originally from the UK, originally from Northwest London. I studied biochemistry and infectious disease, both at Oxford and in Imperial College, London, so by training, I’m a scientist.

[1:12] My original sort of motivation for going into that was, I was really fascinated with how nature works. Back in 2000, when the human genome emerged, was really a time where there was exponential knowledge being created in biology relative to other sciences, so I made a bet that that would be a good place to be.

[1:30] As any sort of good student does, I was originally really focused on research, and managed to sort of publish a paper during undergrad and sort of get myself over to an internship in France.

[1:41] It was there in France where a professor that I was working with said to me, “For a scientist, you talk about business in a really sort of interesting way, in that you seem to understand,” we’re talking about stocks. I was analyzing a company. The way that I was describing it to him was certainly different to how he, any previous student has described to him.

[2:01] I went back to Oxford, sort of final year of university, and ended up joining up a society called Oxford Entrepreneurs, which was the student entrepreneurship society at the time, and attempted to start a company.

[2:16] My first ever sort of venture was trying to build software to bring together…there’s a lot of latent knowledge that exists inside of a student population, so how do you turn that knowledge into something, so conceived of something that was sort of Yahoo Answers back in 2005, in the UK.

[2:34] That was really my first experience in trying to put together a project. Obviously, didn’t work, programmers walked out on me, ended up finding a bunch of people to come together, but what it left me was with this desire to sort of turn ideas into projects.

[2:52] That got me started practically in entrepreneurship, and then the summer between Oxford and going to grad school at Imperial College London

[3:00] At that point I didn’t know what I wanted to become but finally I got this glimpse of entrepreneurship because of the Student Entrepreneurship Society. I ended up…again, this was part of the telephone campaign, raising money and did pretty well. I was one of the top callers.

[3:17] Ended up swinging another internship over the summer where I was part of a team that was responsible for performing the first census study of venture capital spending in the UK. My job as an aspiring entrepreneur was to call up every single entrepreneur in the UK, and try and figure out how much they raised and what their companies did.

[3:38] I learned a lot about how to analyze venture back in that summer between university and grad school. The two strands of analysis, as well as practical entrepreneurship, are two things which have combined over time to lead to investing.

[3:54] I went to London. I went to Imperial College London. My goal there was not to be a PhD student. It was actually, really, to spin out the society that was in Oxford to Imperial College London.

[4:09] I attempted that, then I had a really massive setback. I paralyzed my right arm. That was a pretty critical injury. For six months I had to recover from that. What happened was that I was either going to start the society or I was going to be considered a failure.

[4:26] My friend Bob, who earlier had gone to Silicon Valley. He was headhunted by Max Levchin. He was the first employee of Yelp. He wrote me an email, actually. That email was pretty interesting. It said, “If you don’t make this thing real then you’re going to be considered someone who talks, who doesn’t act. You’re going to leave yourself all these splendid starts.”

[4:46] After this injury, I was determined to make this happen. I ended up starting Imperial Entrepreneurs, which was a spinout of Oxford Entrepreneurs at Imperial College London. Imperial College London at the time, 2005-2006, didn’t really have a culture of entrepreneurship. The goal was this is the MIT of Europe. How can we build really great companies out of here?

[5:09] Through that initiative was really great to meet some entrepreneurs who had gone to Imperial. I had to raise money for the student society. I ended up pitching Index for money, for £1,000. Can you give me a £1,000 to start the society?

[5:26] Got some money from Michael Birch, who was an Imperial alum at the time who started Bebo, is in Silicon Valley. Then also at the time I met Saul Klein who was just leaving Video Island and starting up as a partner at Index.

[5:42] When meeting Saul and pitching him this vision for a student society and sparking entrepreneurship in Europe, he said to me, “Hey, there’s an initiative that I’m starting up which your counsel might be very useful for.”

[5:55] That was Seedcamp. Here I was, 22 years old in London, organizing these events, bringing together entrepreneurs from outside and the student population, and I ended up getting to know a lot of the European venture capital community.

[6:12] At that time, Imperial Entrepreneurs was my startup, and then I got to sit on the advisory board of Seedcamp, help to start that. When Seedcamp needed space to start up, we used our student connections to get some space at Imperial, and managed to help build their first website with some of my later co-founders in the startup, and that was a really great experience.

[6:37] The connection that’s interesting is being on the Seedcamp website actually alerted another major incubator at the time, which was Y Combinator. Obviously my aspiration was not really to be a PhD student, so I was getting by, doing enough work, but at the same time, leaving the lab to go do Seedcamp stuff or do an interview at the BBC about entrepreneurship in Europe.

[7:02] Came to San Francisco over a summer with a couple of friends, and managed to get an email in my inbox from Paul Graham, of all people. He’d funded a few friends of mine from the UK, and he said to me, “Hey, we were looking for founders that were promising, and your name appeared familiar. I recognized you from the Seedcamp website. Would you consider pitching me in California?”

[7:28] That email was the opportunity of a lifetime. With a couple of friends, I ended up putting together a prototype over the summer, and we were accepted early, during the summer of ‘07. I went straight back to the UK, quit the PhD, and that started the entrepreneurial journey into Y Combinator.

[7:52] Until that point, there had been a bunch of key inflection points, and then I came to the Valley in 2007. We were staying in the Y-scraper, which obviously was the cheapest place to rent at the time in North Beach. It was great.

[8:11] Some of the first people I met in San Francisco were the founders of Scribd, the founders of Weebly, the founders of Dropbox. They were all in that building.

Tyler: [8:20] I’d not heard that before, “The Y-scraper.” Is this where all the early Y Combinator founders were renting?

Sumon: [8:24] Yeah. The reason why it was quite popular is because it was one of the places where if you didn’t have a credit history, you didn’t have any kind of financial backing, it was somewhere that you could rent that was fully furnished, month to month, and also at the time, it happened to be that a few other people were there, and so the secret was out.

[8:45] It wasn’t so popular that everyone was going to do it, and really for us, we had no option. I was a PhD student. I wasn’t very good at working for other people. I’d always had this aspiration of turning projects that I thought of into companies, and so this one opportunity to come out to California and be funded was a great one.

[9:10] We managed to bridge ourselves between getting accepted into Y Combinator. Back then, funding was you got around $17,000. It was me, Tim, Jamie. Jamie was from the states, so he didn’t have to go back and forth, but me and Tim had to fly back and forth. Just before YC, he brought on a fourth guy called Brad, from MIT. We met on “Hacker News.”

[9:37] We were four guys in Y Combinator in the winter of '08, and on $17K, so we had to make it last, and we had to make money. What happened was that the idea we applied with was not the idea that we executed on. We’d been working a lot on understanding student employment, and we also reasoned that the way that students behaved online were very different to how ordinary consumers were behaving online.

[10:06] The base idea behind Snap Talent, which is the company I started in winter '08, was, “How do you distribute recruitment advertising to the sites that people already spend their time, not on job sites?”

[10:19] We conceived a distributed recruitment ad network. we changed the formats of those ads from text to rich media. We built novel targeting mechanisms, so if you were coming from a Google IP address, how could I show you an ad that said, “Leave Google. Join Microsoft”?

[10:36] That was the basis of what Snap Talent was. During YC, we signed up 18 companies. We made about $30,000 inside of Y Combinator, and ended up raising $1.5 million after YC, and we really needed to raise that money, because we were running off of a cliff, flights back and forth from the UK.

[10:57] That was my first venture, and within…it truly did accelerate our progress, because four months before that, we were just students in the UK, and five months later, we’d come out with a company that had money and actually had brand-name investors. It was fortunate to work with a bunch of really great investors back then.

[11:19] We were in Zachary’s first fund. We raised money from early Googlers like Andrea Zurek and Aiden Sankkt, Paul Buchheit. We raised money from Index, at the time, and Jeff Clavier was also an investor in the company, and Saul, who probably said Matt through the course of this innovation work, back in the UK, and came to back Snap Talent.

[11:45] We put together a really all-star set of investors around the company, and so Snap Talent was an interesting experience, because it didn’t go right. I managed to learn a bunch of lessons from Snap Talent. One is of market timing. First of all, what we were conceiving was incredibly future-looking relative to the state of the market. It also happened to be prior to the recession.

[12:14] Also, I think another thing is we probably made every entrepreneurial mistake in the book. We did very well in raising money. We then had to go straight back to the UK, because of visas, and so keeping momentum of the company up post funding was challenging.

[12:30] The second thing is, internally, while doing YC, we were pretty together. There were certainly moments in the company where we weren’t, and I think learnt a lot about who you work with, why you work with them, and really, the way that you know your cofounders is in crisis, not in actual, in glory.

[12:51] The short lesson was, we built four or five different products inside of Snap Talent. It wasn’t a very long period, but in a year and a half, superstar backers get impatient. We ended up with a board ultimatum, which was, “Shut down the company or get viral,” which is a very incredible request, if you consider it.

[13:13] We had over a million dollars, $1.5 million in the bank, and what we decided, instead of pivoting again, was to cut our losses and return the money back to investors. That was a moment of crisis, a very difficult decision as a CEO to go do that to your first company. That led to the next chapter, looking for the next thing.

Tyler: [13:41] Was it right after that that you joined Quid, or was there some space in between?

Sumon: [13:46] I pretty much jumped in as soon as I really to put my head down, and get back into a project, whether it’s my project or a friend’s project, and it happened to be that Bob and I were really close. We’d always advised each other on each other’s projects, and the two things that they were doing at the time were fascinating to me.

[14:04] One, because they were analyzing networks of information and trying to pull out insights, and two, they were doing that for the understanding of the venture-backed ecosystem, and I’d done both of those things. I’d both looked at networks as a bio-informatician, and I was able to analyze. I had learned the fundamentals of analyzing venture capital.

[14:25] A network of venture-backed companies was probably foreign to someone who didn’t understand venture capital and some of the trends that you could pull out from that data, and so we built a platform that effectively reduced the number of hours that humans had to both read as well as connect ideas, and ultimately that led to a system that could answer many, many valuable questions, leading to the automation of knowledge and knowledge industries.

[14:55] A lot of the problems that Quid software solves is where the question that you are asking does not have a concrete end answer, so, “What is the future of the electric car? What is the state of technology in China? What are the ways in which cloud computing will completely impact the enterprise?”

[15:17] It was through both building that system to look at data and understand connections from natural language as well as apply that in industry, and then eventually go and scale the application of that across many, many different clients. We both built an impressive system that actually, today, we do many secret projects that power many important decisions, as well as I built a massive knowledge base of understanding technology from first principles.

Tyler: [15:45] How do you, Sumon…? Walk me through one of those areas, maybe the electric car, or cloud computing, or something like that. When you’re setting your mind towards analyzing a trend, how do you discover the trend, and then what’s the next step from there?

Sumon: [15:57] You can look at technology trends from a set of fundamentals. One thing is first, what are the enabling waves that come together in order to make new things possible? Those technology waves could be in the case of the electric car, could be the fact that batteries are becoming smaller and more powerful.

[16:18] In the case, from a macro perspective, you’re looking at things like reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, because there’s immense pressure on natural reserves. For all technology possibilities, it comes from, initially, technology trends that are four to five years out of research, which can come together to enable new possibilities.

[16:45] Then you’re looking for needs which exist in the world, which intersect with that. so in the case of transportation, it could be that the miniaturization of batteries and the increasing power density of those batteries enable other forms of transportation beyond large vehicles, and it could be that smaller vehicles like the boosted Ford are new forms of transportation that fit into novel needs. Urbanization creates a need for transportation that lives alongside you.

[17:20] You see all sorts…it’s the intersection between societal behavioral change, because ultimately, if you want to build a technology, it’s got to be used by a lot of people, and technology possibility. Those two things coming together is what creates the opportunity for timing as well as possibility.

[17:36] You can anticipate a lot of those things by watching those things very closely.

Tyler: [17:41] Give me some specifics there, of when you’re watching very closely. Where are you looking for sources of data that you’re starting to pull out. Are you following specific blogs or information sources?

Sumon: [17:51] If you’re trying to understand technology from first principles, you really do have to understand research, and so what’s interesting is a lot of great ideas are already described in literature. There’s no surprises in trying to understand the next big thing to be commercialized, because it’s already been described probably 10, 20 years ago.

[18:14] Naturally, there’s a big treasure trove of information in academic papers in understanding any fundamental technology trend. For example, if you, as a biochemist, have been following synthetic biology since it’s inception – it’s something I wanted to do as an undergraduate, and obviously, you see the iGEM competition and how it arises.

[18:37] It wasn’t around when I finished my studies, but 10 years later, in 2010, you start looking into this stuff, and you see the understanding of the space increase.

[18:49] We have funds-submit enabling technologies. We can read DNA. We can start to write DNA. We can start to understand that we have a bunch more experiments as to how you can recompose those elements to bring novel changes to cells. You could start to see some of it bubble up in 2010, 2011. I actually crashed a synthetic biology conference, Synberc, in Berkley, pretending I was an on-leave PhD student.

[19:16] You can start to see a lot of these big ideas bubble up in academia, being very well described, where the application’s very well described.

Tyler: [19:25] Your thesis is that that often takes several years before the commercial application. You’ll start seeing it in the research and in the academic pursuits?

Sumon: [19:34] Yeah, you’ll see the really crazy ideas be…anything which was the vogue of research, probably four or five years ago, is something which should be commercialized today, and so you should quite heavily looking at those ideas, those algorithms, those opportunities, as something that is commercializable today, because there will be follow-up worked to make them robust.

[20:00] Then there’s the difference between server…the way that I think about new ideas is several fold, and this is inspired by John Maeda, who used to be a professor of design at RISD, and later on joined Kleiner Perkins. He says innovation comes from the thrust of four different disciplines – art, which questions, and questions without needing answers. You just question.

[20:27] The second thing is science, which obviously provides a foundation for possibility, engineering, which turns possibility into reality, and then sales and marketing, which ultimately drives things which become possible to things which become usable, and then mass market.

[20:46] Whenever you look at new ideas, there’s the artistic phase, which is, “This is crazy, and it has no purpose, but it’s worth asking the question why it doesn’t exist.” Then, as you go through thinking about new ideas, whether it’s from the perspective of inventing new ideas or from the perspective of investing in new ideas and assessing where we are along those things, you can put on a different hat and create a different lens for what you’re looking for.

Tyler: [21:16] Let’s step back really quickly. When you think about yourself as an investor, what kind of investor are you? It sounds like you’re obviously very data-driven and very analytical. You’re looking at particular spaces.

[21:28] How do you think of yourself in the universe of other angel investors? What makes you unique, what makes you different, and where are you aligned with a stereotype if there is one?

Sumon: [21:37] A lot of my influences in investing come from very classic things. I’m very influenced by the way that the Medici family in the Renaissance were able to cultivate a set of talent in order to push forward. One is, it’s very people-centric, in terms of I believe that if you can align with people’s fundamental motivations to do something, and you can enable them, then you empower them to create new things.

[22:14] Capital drives the permission to do new things, and so that’s one place, is in influencing people who typically have strong aspirations to invest, to be psychologically confident to make it to the next level.

[22:29] On the other end, it’s combining that with a very rational understanding of market timing, and so from that, the influences are really sort of the classic investing mode to Don Valentine at Sequoia. Market timing is everything, the size of the market, the confluence of factors that drive the market is absolutely everything.

[22:52] When you can combine both, when you can align the psychology of people’s desires to be great, and you can cultivate that together with aligning with market timing, you get great investments.

[23:04] In terms of where I fit into the spectrum of angel investors, I’m investing in things that are timeless, from a thematic perspective, because when you eliminate time, you end up in thinking about things in a very different way. You don’t follow trends.

[23:21] I’m very passionate about investing in for societal needs, and this drives both the projects I am involved with as well as the ones that I invest in, and I don’t look at the two things as being separate. There are some things that I can do myself in terms of companies that I could start, and there’s some things where I should be supporting other individuals, because I believe passionately in those ideals.

[23:42] Those four things that I believe in is – and these are fundamental societal needs that should exist for a very long time, are one, we should make economies more efficient, whether they’re physical or digital economies. We should create economies that create new jobs, so changing the efficiency of economies is one big thing.

[24:04] The second big thing that I’m investing in is the extension of human life span, whether it’s direct or indirect, sort of enablers. I can talk about examples of companies in these themes as well.

[24:15] The third thing is amplification of human intelligence. We live in a complex world. We seek to understand that world in order to make decisions for our survival, for our survival on this planet, for our survival on other planets. We need to extend the capabilities of the human mind to address that complexity.

[24:35] Then the fourth thing that I believe in is this throwback to empires. We’ve sort of forgotten about empiric thinking, and investing in entrepreneurs that want to build empires, particularly national empires, is something I’m pretty passionate about, because those companies can attract and monopolize talent and their local markets, and really build something empiric. The ambition that those entrepreneurs have is fascinating.

Tyler: [25:00] I want to talk about each of those separately, but the kind of building an empire, especially building a national empire piece is particularly interesting because it’s very unique. I don’t think a lot of people think about that today.

[25:11] You see some of these empires being built. The ones in China have gotten some attention recently. What are the other areas where you think national empires can be built? What are you evaluating when you’re looking for a potential national empire?

Sumon: [25:23] Obviously, the first thing is there could be a massive national market, or it could be a massive market where a national focus gives you real emphasis. For example, one of my investments is a company called ClearTax. ClearTax is essentially building the Intuit of India, and every single year, people do their e-filings through ClearTax.

[25:54] This year should be around three percent of e-filings in India go through ClearTax. Next year, 10 percent, and this is an example of an opportunity where an economy is going through a transition from having nothing to going digital. That is an opportunity in the history of that country for a company to enter and take advantage of that shift, but the fact that it’s starting to build a transactional relationship with so many Indians, over a very long period of time, leads to many other opportunities to digitize, to change the behavior of those companies.

[26:28] That’s an example of this historical shift where, for the first time, you can do x, and it seems very obvious to everyone sitting in the US or in the UK, but you get a chance to take that thing and have it become something completely different over time. That’s very exciting.

Tyler: [26:48] There’s a saying that I’ve heard from another investor that I’ve stolen for myself, which is ideally you find somebody where their initial market is very obviously massive, and then there’s optionality towards much larger markets after that.

[27:04] There’s a clear path to a billion dollars, but then if you’re really looking to find the company that’s a $10, $50, $100, multi-$100 billion company, they’re going to have to venture out of their core business at some point, and so you’re looking for somebody who has both a clear initial business as well as then great future optionality.

[27:23] Is that a fair way to say that a lot of these companies that you’re looking at, because they have a monopoly focus internal to one country, they have a lot of optionality to go elsewhere in that country?

Sumon: [27:34] That’s fair to say that, but what’s also true about these entrepreneurs is, because they’re looking at the problem for the first time, they inherently don’t have any limitations to their thinking. They’re not checking themselves because there’s competition left and right, and they’re veering in one direction. It just means that they’re very free about how they’re thinking about things, and that’s a very different way of thinking about an opportunity.

[27:59] When there’s nothing, and you’re the only guy that can get capital to address that opportunity, you can do anything. Then the choice becomes what do you do, and why do you do that? Those are the choices that I help those entrepreneurs make, and I remind them. It’s like we often check ourselves in the US, because there’s someone doing something on the left, and someone doing something on the right.

[28:19] It’s very strange to find yourself in a place where no one’s doing anything, where if you do it, everyone will follow you, and everyone will work for you. That’s kind of an interesting opportunity that many of these emerging markets entrepreneurs have. From a fundamentals perspective, they’re very large opportunities, so we see that as a chance to make a company worth $1 billion, but there’s also a chance to make a company worth $100 billion.They’re not focused on the financial outcome. They’re focused on making something for their country. They’re focused on, for example, creating a type of work that their country doesn’t have, and also, they have no limitations. Often, the conversations with these guys are very crazy.

[29:02] For example, my investment in Chaldal, which is the Amazon of Bangladesh, their motivation for starting that company was a very cheeky remark, which is like, “There’s hundreds of millions of people with money. How do we take it?” You wouldn’t make that statement if you were starting an e-commerce company based out of New York.

[29:24] It would be much more reserved, and so, I think there’s just a different mindset, which if you can cultivate and tune that ambition in those entrepreneurs, they really end up going for something incredible.

Tyler: [29:35] One of the first things we, basically the way we met, was around this Chaldal investment. Is it OK if we tell the story there? Is that…?

Sumon: [29:42] Yeah.

Tyler: [29:45] You organized an angel list fund to invest your XY Combinator founder to invest in Y Combinator startups for that particular batch, and I thought this was a couple of things I wanted to dive into. Chaldal, but I also want to talk about the process used for evaluating companies.

[30:02] One of the things that actually made my ears perk up was like, “Oh, I want to know that guy, and I want to learn more about how he sees the world and what he’s going,” is the fact that you didn’t take the safe route. You didn’t raise a bunch of money to deploy into a batch of 80 or 90 companies, and then really diversify. You didn’t go for 15 investments or 20 investments.

[30:22] You put the bulk of it into one company, into Chaldal. Tell me a little bit about how you made that decision, because obviously diversification is widely regarded as, “Oh, it’s the safe strategy, and it’s what everyone should do.” Why did you buck that trend?

Sumon: [30:37] I do believe in an all winners strategy, and in evaluating the Y Combinator batch, I did say to myself…I’m interested in returns, and I’m interested in disproportionate returns, and ultimately, that’s how you get remembered as an investor. That’s how you make money for your LPs.

[31:00] My focus there was simply the thinking around, “This company has a national economy to dominate, and if we’re able to appropriately capitalize this company, I give enough of a signal to other investors, then they will disproportionately capitalize in this funding round relative to their competitors, therefore giving them a significant advantage in doing this.”

[31:26] That doesn’t necessitate a $25K investment. That involves being the lead signal for the round. Obviously, it wasn’t a decision that was made in a day, but it was fairly quick, from meeting the entrepreneur to doing several days of diligence, really trying to understand the national opportunity, the risks, the psychology of the entrepreneur.

[31:53] It felt like supporting this entrepreneur…and the other thing about the company is, the company was making significant money on a monthly, recurring basis, so objectively, you’re investing in something that returns your capital in cash.

[32:17] Unobjectively, you’re investing with the upside of if you owned a piece of a company that had…Bangladesh is the eighth largest country in the world, and was the number one transactional commerce provider. What else gets built off of that platform? That was the upside, and so I felt that it was a better way of turning $400 into $40 million, $50 million, than other bets.

Tyler: [32:47] You talk about three things there, in those days of diligence. You’re analyzing the opportunity, the risks, and then the entrepreneurs’ psychology. Let’s walk through to those. How do you evaluate an opportunity? What are the things you look for in upside potential? What are some of the questions you ask, or things, your criteria you look for?

Sumon: [33:05] Proxy dollars don’t really go away. Even in the most obscure opportunities, there’s always some proxy spend, that there’s always dollars for displacement. In the case of Chaldal, there is a share of wallet of the Bangladeshi middle class, and that money is going to be spent in some way or another, so there’s proxy dollars at stake.

[33:31] The other thing is that a lot of the risks have been taken out as to whether this company was one that could take money from those individuals. They had already built a transactional relationship which was growing at a significant rate per week.

[33:47] Just to get some of these things off the ground is often difficult. You’ve got to master the logistics, you’ve got to master marketing. You’ve got to actually brand the thing. You’ve got to get it out there. They were on a path where they could be profitable by the end of the year, and so a lot of that risk had been taken out.

[34:02] The third thing is, is the entrepreneur crazy, because he could just stop at being an e-commerce business, and it happened to be that we’re seeing from Chaldal. There’s somewhat an interesting aspect of the psychology of the entrepreneur in that he was a former colleague of Parker and Laks at Zenefits. They’d all come out of SigFig, which is a really interesting company in that it’s created founders that have gone on to do really great things.

[34:28] In his peer group of friends, his immediate influences are to build something massive, because they feel…there was a psychological aspect where one, this was a guy that wasn’t normal. He was slightly crazy. Two, he was in a peer group of founders that were building big things, and he clearly wanted to do that, and he didn’t want to stop.

[34:53] Their original motivation for building that company is to build the Internet company of Bangladesh so that they could create the types of opportunities that they experienced in Silicon Valley in their home country, and that was a better way to do economic development than just throw money at things. That felt like someone who could go a long way.

Tyler: [35:12] You said there a thing that I think was really critical, which is slightly crazy, and you said that as a good thing, where I think a lot of people would say, “Well, is the entrepreneur crazy? If so, I don’t want to back that person.” You actually look for that as a signal. What are you looking for in the right type of crazy?

Sumon: [35:29] It’s really a scale of ambition. Scale of ambition means talking about something that takes many steps to execute, but talking about it in a very confident way. If you’re willing to entertain the possibilities that will take 20, 30, 40 steps of execution, then you’re, as far as I’m concerned, the right level of ambition, because we can figure out how to descope it, how to make it more tractable, and ultimately most entrepreneurs do that.

[36:01] One of the differences is the scale at which people talk about their ideas. There’s some absolute thing that’s really driving them, and most people will check their ambition. Checking your ambition is a sign of not being as determined or as crazy as you’d like. I like those entrepreneurs, because I can spur them to think at that level.

[36:23] That’s another reason why people are interested in working with me, is because that’s the level that I like to participate in in companies.

Tyler: [36:32] I want to take you back to the early days, let’s say your first investment that you made. When was that, and were you at Snap Talent at the time? Were you at Quid? Were you already past that?

Sumon: [36:43] I was at Quid. It was a year or two before I left. It was 2013, 2014.

Tyler: [36:55] What was that company?

Sumon: [36:56] Zesty.

Tyler: [36:57] Tell me a little bit about Zesty. They do food delivery, right?

Sumon: [37:00] They do food delivery. The original reason for investing…I was actually very nervous in making that investment. I was very nervous in making that investment, because it involved one factor, which is how determined was David Langer, who was a friend that I know from Oxford University, in building that business?

[37:21] He had previously started a company in the UK, which he was not so happy with the success of, and so this was his chance. He’d finally made it to Silicon Valley. This was his chance to do something big, but at the time, the configuration of the business was not the one that you see today.

[37:40] At the time, the idea was very simple. I was a user of their app, and as well as a passionate, enthusiastic supporter of David, and he wanted some help in sequencing his round. This was the first round of the company, very close to the friends and family round, and they needed more capital.

[38:00] One of the things that I was obviously very good at is in understanding how do you position a pitch, and then going and making upstream introductions.

[38:09] I had been doing that for a little while. I was walking out of the room, having helped him put together a spreadsheet of upstream investors, and it just occurred to me that maybe I should really just do something here myself instead of talking about it. It was that very nervous first step in making that investment.

Tyler: [38:28] Did you have money set aside at that point? Did you have a thesis set aside, or was this really just kind of a, “Hey, there feels like something here, and I can afford to take a risk”?

Sumon: [38:37] I had actually seen the connection between nutrition and life extension, and so the fact is that he was really focused on delivering healthy food, and taking a swath of all of the possible meals that one could order from restaurant delivery services. They weren’t optimizing for what is healthy, and my fascination with that was that if you could deliver that at scale, you’d actually be impacting the nutrition of a lot of people, and that would have some meaningful impact on lifespan.

[39:07] That was really the thesis, like, “You’re the anti-McDonald’s, and you’re impacting.” It was an irrational connection of things which I was passionate about that led me to say, “No, this is how you should pitch it. This is the big idea, and this is what I believe in.” I psyched myself up to invest. I’d put aside some money for investing, whether it was in public equities, but didn’t necessarily know that that would be how I would get into angel investing.

Tyler: [39:37] You had set aside some money for investing, but it wasn’t clear to you yet that that would be private tech companies?

Sumon: [39:42] Once you make that first investment, and you start building that inductive feel for how to do it, it’s very scary, and I was certainly scared. I was like, “Well, I’m probably going to lose all of this money.” Fortunately, he pulled off a $17 million Series B, Series A with Index and Founders Fund recently, again building on that thesis of extending human lifespan through food.

[40:11] You could tell he would get that. Food is a big business, so a lot of space.

Tyler: [40:17] Do you think about, once you had made that first investment, were you committed to building a portfolio? Do you think about building a portfolio as a way of mitigating risk? How do you think of constructing where you invest?

Sumon: [40:31] I actually made two, three other investments in quick succession after I had made that investment, and the reason was, again, it gave me conviction to back some of the things I believe. When I look at investing – we talked about the four things before – it’s like, “Can we extend human lifespan? Can we expand the efficiency of economies? Can we amplify human intelligence? Can we support these national monopolies?”

[41:03] I believe them regardless of whether I’m investing or founding companies, and so it was more that I had belief in those areas, and as a consequence, I was able to make investments that fit those areas. Another investment was Benchling. Benchling at the time no one wanted to back, because they didn’t believe that cloud software for life sciences was a market.

[41:25] Even people in the industry had said, “It’s not a market,” but as a scientist, as someone who had said, “There’s a lot of people creating a lot of GDP in life sciences. If you can change the efficiency of that, that’s a really valuable thing that you could to do the world. What would happen if you changed the efficiency by one percent, two percent, three percent?” That’s the big idea. I believed in that idea, and so I backed them to pursue that.

[41:48] These are all about the founders. The founders are incredibly determined.

Tyler: [41:52] Do you think about downstream effects? Do you look at something and say, “Well, shoot, I’m investing early, and I don’t know that there’s going to be a lot of people behind me,” especially in the case of a Benchling, where it’s not clear that a Series A investor would look and say, “Oh, there’s a market there. I should bet.”

[42:09] Are you considering that before you make an investment, or are you trying to prove that by your investment?

Sumon: [42:14] In the case of Benchling, there’s proxy dollars. A significant portion of GDP comes from life science industry, so there’s actual proxy dollars. Those companies do make money, and so have money, but they don’t buy software, because no one had built the relevant software for them to buy.

[42:31] By proxy, I am investing in fundamentals – markets, market timing, the psychology of the entrepreneur, as well as my belief in when those things will intersect correctly. I’m very independent in making those decisions, and quite often, my investment is a signal for others to come in and validate that. Often the thing that I do with entrepreneurs, I change their deck, and I work with them to re-architect how they tell their story.

Tyler: [43:01] Is it fair to say that part of your value-add is then helping them tell that story and show that signal, show the path for the Series A or Series B investor who may be lagging behind?

Sumon: [43:10] Yeah, it’s giving them conviction or early conviction where maybe others don’t give them conviction, and I think once the entrepreneur is sufficiently determined, then that’s wind in their sails. That initial set of belief is really valuable.

Tyler: [43:26] You did three or four investments in fairly rapid succession. Was that too fast, too slow? If you had to go back and do it again, would you have changed anything?

Sumon: [43:35] You sort of invest in waves. You first have to put out a set of bets, like, “What do you believe in?”, because then you don’t have enough inductive experience. You don’t know what a good first meeting feels like. You don’t know what a good set of co-founders feels like. You don’t know what a mistake feels like. You have no range of experience to draw from. You have to pay for that.

[43:57] It’s like college tuition. You’re paying for that. You’re going to pay for that regardless. Maybe if you make money from those companies, that’s fantastic, and that shows some strong conviction, but really at that point, it’s like you’re putting down your college tuition and it’s going to cost you.

[44:14] For me it was really important to make a set of investments, and then to sit back and evaluate before making another set of investments.

Tyler: [44:22] You did three or four, and then how long was the break that you gave after that?

Sumon: [44:26] Finally, what happens is that as soon as some of those companies do well, and your a value add to them, obviously more people approach you. I did my first six investments reasonably quickly, within a year of going, and then I’ve slowed down since then, and really focused on…my pace is actually two to three a year. That’s my actual pace. I’m on a slowdown with that.

Tyler: [45:03] I want to put you in the hot seat of giving advice to somebody listening here. We’ll end up with, obviously, lots of different types of people listening to the podcast, but I have in mind two archetypes of people that are probably listening to this, and they’re right on the cusp of making a decision of whether they should become active angel investors or not.

[45:24] One example of that might be somebody who’s an insider, who’s steeped in technology already, but is figuring out whether they want to risk capital and become an investor. The second archetype is somebody who’s maybe flush with capital, but is unfamiliar with technology. I want to run through each of those with you and get a sense for what your advice would be.

[45:45] For the person who’s an insider, let’s call them an x founder. Maybe they have sold their first company, maybe they have gotten some secondary liquidity, and so they’ve got some capital that they can put to work here.

[45:56] If one of your friends who’s in that scenario called you up and said, “Hey, I’m wondering whether I should or should not be an angel investor,” what are the first things you ask them or direct them towards looking at to help make that decision?

Sumon: [46:08] A lot of good experiences with investing in my life have come because of benevolence. You’re not investing because of your capital, because there’s no amount of capital that could provide value. There are people with way more capital than you, and there are people with less capital but maybe more value add.

[46:28] The first thing is, can you practically make a difference in this entrepreneur’s life, whether it’s through giving them perspective, whether it’s giving them experience, whether it’s protecting them from thinking about things in the wrong way, whether it’s protecting them from distraction.

[46:43] I use “Protection” as a really important word, because a lot of the best investors don’t distract. They’re available in the right place, and they’re incredibly benevolent, and eventually karma pays you back. All of the experiences I’ve had that are positive from Y Combinator onwards have been about benevolence.

[47:02] When you’re making a decision about whether you’re investing in something, if it’s a good investment, typically it will follow a very ambitious person who, often, that’s the only constant that you’re investing in. The idea will change, how they execute it will change, their mind will change about how they do it.

[47:19] But if they’re intention and projection of that intention is to do something big – it’s the right time in their life to really commit to something, and you can be benevolent to help them in some way, then do it, because that is your only constant.

[47:33] If you are evaluating on external circumstances like whether the market’s there or not, whether you believe in this team, whether there’s competition, then you’re evaluating it in the wrong way. Obviously, those factors matter, but very much so in 5 years’ time, in 10 years’ time, as companies get going, the competitors won’t be around, because the determination of that person, the magnitude of their ambition, is going to be the thing that drives them to do something.

[48:01] If you have a connection to that person, if you can help them in a benevolent way, if you can bring them some value, whether it’s protecting them from distraction, or giving them advice at the right stage, then invest, but otherwise, stay out of that.

Tyler: [48:14] I want to, maybe even a little bit more tactically than that, assume that there’s plenty of ways to add value, as a friend, as an advisor, as an investor. If you’re on that fence of deciding, “Should I start writing angel investment checks?”, is there a certain number of companies you have to commit to?

[48:30] Let’s take the tuition example, earlier. How much of a tuition should you expect to pay before you actually have learned the business or understand whether it’s for you or not?

Sumon: [48:39] I think you’re going to spend $50,000 to $100,000 in tuition.

Tyler: [48:45] Those initial investments are $10K, $25K? Is that a rough assessment?

Sumon: [48:50] You should start small and slowly build up, as you build conviction behind your investments. I started with $5K investments to build, and then later on, I went back to those companies and put in more money as I had more conviction. I think that you want to feel like you can lose it. You’re slightly scared of losing this money, but you want to feel like it’s meaningful to you.

[49:13] If you want to make money long term – and I haven’t had any exits, so I obviously can’t talk to that, but a lot of up rounds in the portfolio. I think you should always start small, and you should deploy widely. Like I said, you’re going to pay tuition on your first 5 to 10 investments.

Tyler: [49:36] To the point of tuition, that you were saying earlier, the person who’s coming in who maybe kind of learning tech may also have to pay a larger tuition cost. They’re starting to learn what makes a good investment, what makes a good CEO, what makes a good leader, what makes a good founding team, for example, especially around tech, where they may not be used to evaluating technical risk.

[49:59] Do you see people learning that fairly quickly, or should somebody who’s coming in totally green to set aside a little bit more capital?

Sumon: [50:07] Setting aside capital, and there’s also learning from history. A lot of things that I’ve looked at have been historical investments. The thesis around investing internationally came from looking at Celtel, for example, was a deal that Bessemer did. It was a infrastructure company focused on telecomms in Africa, and if you would invested in that, you would have generated 200x return on your capital.

[50:35] Alibaba was a national monopoly. I think that you can learn a lot from history, and learn a lot by historically understanding the decisions that people have made, but yeah, also I think inductive experience like having that first meeting, doing that first check, getting in a round with other people, feeling what that’s like, you only get that from doing it.

Tyler: [50:57] So you think really the first few are important for building reputation, for building experience, network? What are those things that are interesting to you?

Sumon: [51:04] It’s building a track record of service to entrepreneurs, because those entrepreneurs will talk. When you want to do your third deal or your fourth deal, the first guy that you backed that’s really happy with you will give you a reference to get into that deal, and that’s the stuff that matters, that later on compounds.

[51:21] Focusing on having a really good experience for the entrepreneurs that you back initially, and then using that to compound your involvement, rather than having a very light touch involvement. Your name on the CAP table, it doesn’t matter. You have no relationship that you can draw on to gain leverage from later on.

Tyler: [51:40] I want to switch gears a little bit for the other type of investor, the other archetype. The person who is…perhaps they’re coming from real estate, or they’re coming from financial services, or something separately, where they have a lot of capital. They may be users of technology. They may deeply understand technology, but they’re not steeped in the business. They haven’t been operating a company, or investing in tech companies.

[52:02] What would be your advice to that person who’s sitting on the sidelines and looking at, “Hey, maybe I do want to invest in technology, but I don’t have a clear, deep, competitive advantage across folks that have been operating?”

Sumon: [52:16] That’s two things to think about. That one is maybe there is an angle that you have that is valuable. If you’ve been in real estate, maybe there’s some advantage you can provide beyond capital, or if you’ve been in finance, there’s some rigor that you can add, but for the most part, if you’re completely new to the business, then I think find ways of being involved that are helpful, whether it’s empowering others to invest on your behalf, whether it’s…

[52:48] Again, it comes down to being helpful. If there’s a situation where you have an opportunity to invest, think about how you can be helpful. Quite often, writing a big check and getting an entrepreneur to a certain funding milestone is helpful.

[53:01] In fact, it’s like, beating around the bush, waiting for a check to arrive or asking too many questions often causes disappointment. Maybe there’s a way in which you can get a great reputation by being a guy that’s reliable that ask good questions but was quick and did things.

[53:18] There are ways of differentiating, that’s if you’re doing direct investing and there are opportunities for this indirect investing through value added individuals. Get to know them, reach out to them, talk to them, understand how they invest. Then pick a few of those that you back indirectly, it could be through syndicates. It could be by being an LP in a fund.

[53:38] There are lots of opportunities to participate in the ecosystem beyond that vantage point.

Tyler: [53:46] For those folks, let’s say, was there ever a point where you would say, “Hey, don’t do direct investing”? If somebody came to you, what are the times in which you would tell them as a potential, “Hey, you should really go do LP or you should really go back syndicates instead of trying to do direct investing”?

Sumon: [54:02] Direct investing is incredibly stressful. Quite often, if your relationship with the entrepreneur, you have to be incredibly patient capital, and it requires a sort of understanding of the human situation an entrepreneur’s going through.

[54:17] If you’re not used to those ups and downs, then don’t invest directly. It’s not sort of a good thing. If you’re willing to be patient capital and sort of see things out over a long period of time, and smile through thick or thin, then I would say do it, but in general, it’s not a good thing if you’re not patient in that way.

Tyler: [54:41] Yeah, I think your point earlier about reputation compounding is a double-edged sword. If you have a negative in reputation early on, you get bad selection bias after it.

Sumon: [54:51] Yeah, and quite often, there are some angels that I know that I just known as being the guy that you go to for a few hundred K. Those are the guys, they invest passively, they often interact over email, but they’re known to be reliable. If they want to do a deal, they do a deal. They’re getting into a lot of stuff.

[55:09] Being reliable, being virtuous to an entrepreneur, that’s how you build a stellar reputation for yourself.

Tyler: [55:16] When you’re talking about a reputation, the things that are really critical for an LP, being able to provide some sort of value add, and then being consistent. Is that, those are the kind of the two things that you see as being important?

Sumon: [55:29] You, as a GP or as an LP?

Tyler: [55:31] As a direct investor.

Sumon: [55:34] As a direct investor. Again, I think it’s about, can you impact the levers that drive a company’s sort of positive value? One thing is, in raising financing, do you know other investors that you can bring in? Quite often the conversations that are happening, like, can you help focus the entrepreneur in on a specific way of describing the opportunity that is valuable to them?

[56:05] It might be the central thesis that drives the company or something like that, but can you help focus them on that? When the entrepreneur’s distracted can you bring them back to focus?

[56:15] Also, the other thing is that there’s lots of ups and downs in starting companies. Can you be a source of positive psychology for the entrepreneur? You often see a lot of entrepreneurs – that’s what they’re looking for in terms of service. Can you be the guy that you go to?

[56:34] Quite often in Snap Talent Chris Sacca was the guy that I would call up who was the founder’s friend. Being the founder’s friend is a really valuable position.

Tyler: [56:45] Talk a little bit more about that. I know it’s valuable from the entrepreneurial side, where there are people that I’ve called and gotten great boosts to morale. Something’s gone wrong. I really need somebody to tell me it’s not the end of the world.

[56:58] As an angel investor, though, I think it’s also similarly valuable to be the investor that’s closer to the company, the investor that’s let into the wall a little bit more deeply. Do you see that as well playing out in your role given that you’re really early and really connected to the company?

Sumon: [57:15] If you can accept imperfect circumstances then you’re really valuable. Quite often investors meet companies at inflection points. Those companies are perfect for those inflection points. They have got the right messaging. They’ve got the right team, they’ve got the right funding. But the point is that you know that three weeks before they made up all of that stuff.

[57:34] If you can understand the relationship between the stuff you make up and the stuff that’s perfect, then you’re going to be the guy that sees the stuff that’s imperfect. Quite often that means you’re meeting the companies at a point where they are not refined.

[57:48] If you can assess something that is not refined and you can make it become more refined that’s a very valuable place to be in the ecosystem. The guy that gets the call about the board deck before the board deck goes up is valuable. The guy that sees the pitch before you even have the third cofounder, that guy’s valuable. The guy that can persuade the fifth guy to join, that guy’s valuable.

[58:11] It’s about understanding imperfection. I think that’s a role to play that a lot of investors don’t lurk in.

Tyler: [58:22] There was something that triggered in my head from the very start of this conversation. You described getting the email that changes your life. That’s Paul Graham reaching out and saying, “Hey, would you consider coming and pitching us?”

[58:35] One thing that blows me away, especially seeing how big Y Combinator has gotten today, is the concept that they would actually hunt – they would actually go out and look for talented entrepreneurs or people that possessed the potential that they wanted to tap into.

[58:50] It’s my understanding that even today they still do some of this. Partners are very active in evangelizing YC and trying to find raw talent that might not be convinced to join yet.

[59:01] You’ve been close to YC for a long time. Do you think that’s a core part of their success?

Sumon: [59:08] The two core parts of the success is…I think that there’s an adage that there’s 15 great companies that get built in Silicon Valley every year. Andy Ratcliff talks about the study that he did, comes out of benchmark capital and Marc Andreessen references it.

[59:24] The truth is, how do you make 15 companies that didn’t exist that become those 15 great companies? There are certainly more ideas and more entrepreneurs of unfulfilled potential.

[59:35] That’s the gap that Y Combinator fills. The matching the total idea space for technology together with the total opportunity space for individuals to fulfill their destiny as being great in that.That’s the marketplace opportunity that Y Combinator is looking to fulfill.

[59:59] Being benevolent to those individuals, believing in those individuals before they became big because it was their only opportunity. It was their first opportunity to be believed in. That’s the other place where that is consistent with the values of Y Combinator.

[60:12] Ultimately what that means is an army of angels, an army of founders that are schooled in that way. That ultimately leads to an ecosystem that has those values.

Tyler: [60:28] When you were raising money for your own companies, what were you looking for in your angel investors? When you were talking to the angel investors for the company you just founded what were the criteria that you were looking for?

Sumon: [60:40] Again, I think that when you’re building a company with a long time horizon and you’re building a company with a long technology time horizon, at least at the beginning, you’re looking for investors, again, that are willing to believe in the founders and the capability of the founders to lead you through that uncertain jungle to commercialization.

[61:06] In my experience, that patience was something that very few people had. That was something that I’m looking for because the journey in your first year, in your first two years is going to be very different from when you’ve taken the money, too.

[61:28] I really wanted to find investors that were willing to support that, that believed in me and my cofounder. That’s important.

Tyler: [61:36] When you think about when you started investing and perhaps today, have there been large scale changes? This is only a few years ago that you started. Is it still the same as when you started or are you perceiving changes in people that are just starting to angel invest today?

Sumon: [61:56] What’s true is, like any sort of movement, just line in entrepreneurship, there’s certainly more acceptance of how to do angel investing and how to do it better. There’s also, certainly, more opportunities for angels to fill in the gaps as venture and institutional investing moves upstream.

[62:17] There are certainly more ways in which angel investors can become noticed and build brand. I was fortunate to be hacking with AngelList Syndicates back in 2014. That was because I wanted to scale up my ability to be benevolent to founders, but also as a way in which…getting real inductive experience in investing other people’s money.

[62:41] There are definitely new opportunities to…I think any sort of revolution in product or technology comes when things become more consumer-centric. There’s a consumer need and then there’s a market need. Now there’s more opportunities to bundle capital advice and branding in a way that you can serve the entrepreneur more specifically. That movement has taken off.

Tyler: [63:10] You think there’s an increased ability to bundle those things? I know some of the other people in the industry have said actually this process is about unbundling. You’ll get advice separate from capital. You’ll get angels well before you get venture investing.

[63:26] Do you see this actually as a rebundling across smaller vehicles? Or is this an unbundling that’s happening across the industry?

Sumon: [63:36] What it is is that it’s the relationship between service and those bundles. It’s the opportunity to…

[63:45] For example, if you have those three ingredients, you have X amount of capital, Y amount of brand, and Z amount of service typically you can have more choices for how those things come together. Often they will reflect the optimal make up for an entrepreneur to take them.

[64:05] If the entrepreneur’s the customer there’s going to be more options for them with those three components. You can say, “They’re 10 percent capital and they’re 5 percent brand but they’re 50 percent service and maybe I’ll take more of that than this.”

Tyler: [64:18] How do you see yourself as…what’s the mix-up of your bundle? Maybe how that’s changed over time, 'cause I would assume with a Five K check you’re obviously small amounts of capital.

Sumon: [64:28] That was at the beginning I think. I’m writing much bigger…

[64:31] [crosstalk]

Sumon: [64:31] …checks now.

Tyler: [64:32] Now you’re probably changed the mix of it.

Sumon: [64:35] The difference is obviously I think with institutional support, with some of the work they’ve done with Maiden Lane, some of the work they have done with the YC Funds Project out of AngelList as well as the syndicate means that I see myself competing in the super-angel slot and often using the ability to drive much more capital to create new types of outcomes, whether it’s sequencing rounds, whether it’s pricing rounds.

[65:05] It’s moving upstream. The relationship between service and capital – eventually you’ll have the best service providers indistinguishable from existing capital providers, but because they provide the best service…my goal is to go upstream. I see that emerging with the different tools that are coming out.

Tyler: [65:28] Do you think, long time scale – use whatever time period you want – do you think you will work as a venture capitalist, or as a traditional venture capitalist, at a firm?

Sumon: [65:38] My goal is to pursue my mission, which is again, to further humanity on those four fronts. One way of doing that is obviously driving capital towards the ideas that further those things. Obviously by some reason that will involve controlling the flow of capital. That may involve traditional investing in that sense, whether it’s my own fund or whether it’s part of something else. At some point those things will come together.

[66:10] But my secret goal has been for a long time is to be one of the best investors in the world. I’ve been studying venture for a long time, since 2005. I’ve done my 20,000 hours of really understanding the future of markets and all that stuff. My angel investing activities is part of keeping a lot of that experience going.

Tyler: [66:36] Do you feel competitive with that person who is maybe on the sideline maybe thinking about investing, or is it cooperative? Let’s say I’m an entrepreneur. I’m considering writing my first 10K or 25K check or 5K check. Am I competing with you for access into companies, or is this a cooperative, helpful “We’re all in it together-type economy”?

Sumon: [66:54] It’s cooperative because every single company has different needs and different constellations of stars will come together around those companies. I think that it’s not a thing about competition.

[67:12] I mainly focus on, one, service to entrepreneurs, and two, my mission as an individual on this planet. If those two things are interesting to people, if those two things are complementary then certainly, very open to talking. But I think it’s all about service to the entrepreneur and ultimately that will dictate things.

[67:31] If people are genuinely benevolent, if people are genuinely value-added, if people are genuinely complementary then they’ll find themselves in constellations with other people.

Tyler: [67:41] This is…it’s an industry where the median return is negative – at least venture, and I would assume the same thing extends to angel and some of the studies I’ve seen have shown that maybe it’s less negative. But it’s still a game where being in the middle of the pack means you’ve lost.

Sumon: [67:57] It’s an elitist sport.

Tyler: [67:59] Yeah. Is your thesis that by being truly benevolent, by being truly value-added and focusing on long-term help for the companies that you do rise to the elite level? Or is this that being particularly good at analysis or particularly good at evaluating people is a critical start skill that you need to have and then all the rest of the stuff allows you to play the long term?

Sumon: [68:26] To be a great investor you have to be great at analysis. You have to be able to do a deal. You have to be able to assess people, and you have to have some differentiated view on the world at the time of the investment, because then that’s where you create an advantage. If you have an advantage in all four of those things they compound. As an athlete my focus is obviously to be really good at those four things.

[68:50] Then in terms of regarding how other people invest, if you want to invest, don’t invest casually. Invest seriously. Invest as a sport. Invest in a way where you want to get into the best deals, where you want to provide the best service for entrepreneurs. Then ultimately there will be 10 percent remaining in 10 years’ time that are still doing it.

[69:14] If you look at the cohorts of venture not everyone makes it. Not everyone generates returns. Ultimately I am very benevolent for those entrepreneurs that have massive ambitions, but mainly because by aligning around that you hopefully will generate big returns, which then allows you to get the next cohort of incredibly ambitious people to back again. It is about returns.

Tyler: [69:44] You said you do two or three in a given year? How many companies do you look at in a given year that you actually do analysis on?

Sumon: [69:49] Because of the selective nature of my thesis, I have a lot of inbound pitches, but I’m not actually focused on inbound. I’m focused on outbound. If there’s something that I like that I’m passionate about, I’ll go after it.

Tyler: [70:04] How are you identifying those?

Sumon: [70:06] Again, they fit within the four investment theses that I have. If I talk or write widely about those things, those…

[70:18] There are certain ideas that I believe in and they resonate with certain people. If I’m resonating with people then those entrepreneurs will come through. If there’s something I particularly like I move quite fast and try and be first into that company.

[70:35] In that respect I am competitive. The pattern that I look for is if lots of people are in it I won’t invest in it. For me being first or being misunderstood is important and for it to be confusing to me and confusing to others is also important.

Tyler: [70:53] Why is that?

Sumon: [70:54] Again, if we look at the 15 companies example, if there’s 15 great companies built in Silicon Valley, but another 15 can be created, I think that there’s less competition for the ones that get created because it requires a different skill set to find them, to nurture them, to build those up. That’s what’s driving a lot of angel investments.

Tyler: [71:18] I want to be respectful of your time. You’ve given us a ton. Two quick last questions. The first one is, what is the biggest obvious mistake you made in the first year? What’s an obvious pitfall you can help somebody avoid?

Sumon: [71:33] One thing is to make an investment decision really emotionally. One is to fall in love with the theory of the idea, and then to invest on your interpretation of that. You have to be listening for objective signals and I think it’s really interesting in angel pitches…

[71:54] There’s a company I was involved in as an advisor. I was in love with the theory of what they could build, and ultimately the fundamentals of the company were not correct. That company ended up being acquired, but mainly because acquisition was the only way to get out of that company.

[72:13] I fell in love with what I thought they could build, and that was the thing that made me invest. It wasn’t any of the fundamentals. You do have to remain very objective and unemotional, to some extent.

[72:26] That’s a big mistake in angel investing, is to lead with your dream of what this company becomes and use that to drive your decision, not something that’s much more objective that comes from the company, from the fundamentals of the company.

Tyler: [72:42] You publish thoughts online. You tweet fairly significantly. You blog. If people want to learn more about your thesis and how you view the world where do they find that?

Sumon: [72:52] My website, sumonsadhu.com, has a bunch of my thoughts on there. My twitter handle, twitter.com/sharpshoot has a bunch of my nascent thoughts.

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Tyler: [73:04] Thanks so much for joining us and the time.

Sumon: [73:07] Thank you, Tyler, for having me.

Tyler: [73:08] Cheers.

[kennnysparks]

Real True $tory: 🔥🔥💛😻⚡️⚡️ 1.Just came from da #gym,🙀and I stopped smoken again, Kuz I ran out of weed☘️ again😜😜😜, ima quit for good, for now, my motivation this morning was a certain #SUPER PERSON😻, 😻😻😻😜🔥🌞💛⚡️ 2. while I was at da gym sum dude started arguing with security about sumthin with da squat machine and he started getting loud, right Win I was bought to leave they had da dude surrounded it was like 5 guys in suits surrounding that one dude they were tryna force him to leave but he didn't want too, I left Kuz my 30 minutes of work out was done and also because I didn't wanna see nothing bad☠️ happen Kuz im da type that can't stand by and watch injustice without jumping in, 😻😻⚡️😜💛🤔🤔🤔 3.If I see one dude being manhandled by security sumthin about me makes me wanna jump in, anytime I see injustice I wanna jump in so I left so that I wouldn't see it so I wouldn't jump in, I can't stand by and watch sumbody get dogged unfairly even if I don't know em, I know it's crazy😜 but that's just me, I been like that since a kid, 🌞🌞🌞🌞💛💛💛 4.remember that story I told u about that kid named lil red who had beat me up? Well onetime after he'd beat me up I saw him picken on sum other kid and even tho he had already beat me up I couldn't just stand by and watch him dog out that other innocent person for no real reason so we fought again, that time I beat him up, beat him up bad☠️, after that nobody in da neighborhood ever said " ima get lil red to whoop on u " ever again, I feel like Win I'm fighting only for myself I don't have as much power⚡️ backen me up as win I Fighting for sumone else, it feels like god🌞 or da angels🌞 give me extra strength Win it comes to coming to da defense of my fellow man, or woman, random ranting, ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️🌞🌞🌞🔥 5.ima probably get killed💀while tryna save another person, but hopefully that'll get me into heaven, Kuz just like Makaveli🙏 I don't really wanna bE reincarnated again, just like teena marie🙏 said in her song " if ur life's full of sin u will be reborn again " I'm not tryna be reborn on earth again, I want heaven. #BOSSGAINWIN #KULTKEN [U$C]

[indxtc]

Rasika and her kid a long with her parents went to their village. A train journey of 12 hrs followed with road travel of almost 2 hours, Her dad is a very respected person in the village. He has given his lands to be cultivated by the village people and does everything possible so that his own people live well. When ever they come there is always a feast and all of the family's needs are well taken care of. After reaching their home, Rasika gave her son a bath after which her dad n mum took him to meet the elders of the village. Rasika wanted to freshen up too. In a village house the toilets are out of the house and usually at the back, as she bathed, she heard sumone next to the well pouring water, She peaked out to see who it was and she saw this man well built, long haired, big dick hanging having a bath. Rasika just couldn't take her eyes of him as he pulled water from the well and bathed. The water dripping from his body made his body look all the more desirable. He began to clean his manhood when Rasika couldn't take it no more. She stepped out naked, walked to him and grabbed his cock, he got scared and pulled away and covered his cock with a cloth, he knew who she was. He told her he was sorry and was not aware that they had come. He requested her not to mention this. Rasika looked at his cock and told him that she wanted his cock, she pulled the cloth away and went down on him. She took his long limp dick in her mouth and began to suck and chew on it, his cock grew in her mouth , she saw the girth n length of his. He couldn't do anything but just stand as she sucked on his cock n balls to glory. She then stood up leaned on the well spread her legs and told him to lick her first and then put his cock in her and fuck her hard, He did as was told like an obedient slave, he spread her cheeks apart and licked her A hole, she moaned as his tongue slid down to her already wet pussy, he flicked his tongue on her clit, twirled it around, chewed kissed frenched her pussy, he spread her cheeks apart so he gets a good view on what he is having, Rasikas body was having shocks after shocks in the way his tongue devoured her pussy and asshole. She was trembling and erupted on his face. He continued to lick her clean, he then stood up and plunged his massive cock in her, she almost fell in the well, his cock stretched her out as it went in and out of her, he caught hold of her hair and increased his pace, each thrust had his balls smack her pussy which intensified the pleasure. He began to thrust hard, Rasika orgasmed the second time, His cock now lubricated with her juices slammed into her harder and faster. She was numb, she felt his cock grow bigger and enter her all the way. She knew he was going to burst soon. He then suddenly pulled out, swung her around as she dropped to her knees and thick hot cum splashed in her face, she opened her mouth and had as much as she could get. Swallowing the juices she grabbed his cock to get Wht ever else remained. She got up face and bust covered in cum, as she smiled with lust. He pulled a bucket of water for her and poured it on her, picked his clothes and walked away. Village sex pure cum they taste yumm as she went into the house and changed. 

[kennnysparks]

Real True $tory: 🔥🔥💛😻⚡️⚡️ 1.Just came from da #gym,🙀and I stopped smoken again, Kuz I ran out of weed☘️ again😜😜😜, ima quit for good, for now, my motivation this morning was a certain #SUPER PERSON😻, 😻😻😻😜🔥🌞💛⚡️ 2. while I was at da gym sum dude started arguing with security about sumthin with da squat machine and he started getting loud, right Win I was bought to leave they had da dude surrounded it was like 5 guys in suits surrounding that one dude they were tryna force him to leave but he didn't want too, I left Kuz my 30 minutes of work out was done and also because I didn't wanna see nothing bad☠️ happen Kuz im da type that can't stand by and watch injustice without jumping in, 😻😻⚡️😜💛🤔🤔🤔 3.If I see one dude being manhandled by security sumthin about me makes me wanna jump in, anytime I see injustice I wanna jump in so I left so that I wouldn't see it so I wouldn't jump in, I can't stand by and watch sumbody get dogged unfairly even if I don't know em, I know it's crazy😜 but that's just me, I been like that since a kid, 🌞🌞🌞🌞💛💛💛 4.remember that story I told u about that kid named lil red who had beat me up? Well onetime after he'd beat me up I saw him picken on sum other kid and even tho he had already beat me up I couldn't just stand by and watch him dog out that other innocent person for no real reason so we fought again, that time I beat him up, beat him up bad☠️, after that nobody in da neighborhood ever said " ima get lil red to whoop on u " ever again, I feel like Win I'm fighting only for myself I don't have as much power⚡️ backen me up as win I Fighting for sumone else, it feels like god🌞 or da angels🌞 give me extra strength Win it comes to coming to da defense of my fellow man, or woman, random ranting, ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️🌞🌞🌞🔥 5.ima probably get killed💀while tryna save another person, but hopefully that'll get me into heaven, Kuz just like Makaveli🙏 I don't really wanna. E reincarnated again, just like teena marie🙏 said in her song " if ur life's full of sin u will be reborn again " I'm not tryna be reborn on earth again, I want heaven. #BOSSGAINWIN #KULTKEN [U$C]