#less than 10y

[apas-95]

Hello ! This humble suitor have a question : i keep seeing the take that "the usa empire is crumbling (so the US bourgeoisie is doing x and y)", but its never really shown how/proof it is crumbling. Is it really ? How is it in a worst state that like 10y ago ? Im not from usa but from afar the rich there are richer than ever, they dont have any less control or less countries, they still have as many markets...i want to believe but id like proof the empire is indeed crumbling :0 ty anyway !

The US is, indeed, losing influence on many countries. It's not flashy, as with the wave of revolutionary civil wars in the previous century (that part comes later!), but with the gradual weakening and undermining of the US's position as global hegemon.

The increasing wealth inequality in the USA, far from signifiying its prosperity, speaks more to the increased pressure the capitalist class is putting to squeeze out increasingly-scarce profit. During the US's most prosperous period, the immediate aftermath of the second world war, its immense wealth (extracted from the nations destroyed and damaged by the war, and its newly-acquired colonies) provided even its working class access to single-family housing, easy employment, and so on.

The US is falling behind technologically, diplomatically, etc. Even if it still holds an objectively superior position in many respects, its relative position, its movement, is clearly negative - and this aspect is the one which communists focus on. The US is still incredibly strong, incredibly powerful, and immensely wealthy - but it is less so each and every day, and the clear future we should be working and preparing for is one in which it is significantly weakened and desperate. This is a reality that is emergent in every decision and issue we see.

In essence, the two points are this - first, while the US may still hold an objectively strong position, it is no longer (as it was in the previous century) increasing in strength and gaining ground; nor is it (as it was during 'the end of history' and war on terror) maintaining its position; it is becoming weaker, and taking losses, and being forced to choose smaller losses over bigger ones. Second, the more important aspect to focus on is the direction, the movement, the change; not the current position.

[silkieluv]

Tumblr, do your thing.

What crimes do you think each ninja would commit? (Season 6)

“Murder” let me rephrase. What crimes do you think Nadakhan did as the ninja in season 6?

They were all sent to prison, but only Zane and Jay’s crimes were seen.

I’ve been trying to think and I went for

Cole: Identify theft & assault

Kai: Arson & Attempted murder

Lloyd: Robbery

But the jail time is more than 25y and a 30k fine for Cole, 5-15+10y for Kai and 5y for Lloyd while Jay and Zane’s canon crimes are only less than a year and Zane needs to pay a 500h fine

I came with vandalism for Nya too, but I’m thinking of changing it to boating under the influence because the sentence is around a year and since she’s a minor it’ll be like less because the country needs to go easy on her

BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHERS

WHAT CRIMES WOULD NADAKHAN DO AS THE NINJAS??

[angel-egg-egl]

i would love to see the cost breakdown for producing a handmade item!

well if you insist (infodump voice)

so it does depend a lot on the item itself-- at least in my case. Tiered skirts use up more fabric than a standard gathered skirt. in my case, the body fabrics i buy usually have a width of around 100cm (give or take 5cm-10cm), and so i can do easier math. if i wanted to do a basic 50cm long skirt, that would take about 120cm of fabric or so. something like the dear rose skirt with a double tier and tucks (note: tucks can use up a lot of fabric!) is more like 350cm. a lot of print fabrics i buy are sold by the metre, but most of the solids (and laces) i use are actually sold by the yard (~90cm), so that's also something to keep in mind.

another thing to keep in mind is wholesale vs consumer pricing-- for small brands like mine, you can't always get wholesale pricing or justify purchasing the minimum lot size of a fabric, so fabric can end up more expensive than if you were a brand producing larger product runs. for example, the burberry fabric i use is around $17/y, but is $4/m if i purchased wholesale (50m or so), but then I would have to count on being able to sell that many items and store the extra fabric while i made them. the my dear rose fabric is about $10/m (not counting fees, shipping, and customs) consumer level, but wholesale it's $5-$7USD (under current conversion rates) depending on the lot size i buy (6m minimum, up to 18m). some fabrics are more expensive (gobelin, velveteen, silk, and corduroy, as well as discontinued fabrics i purchase secondhand) can run $20-$35/m, while the lawn fabric i buy is extra wide (150cm) and runs as low as $5/y for 5y(for reference, i can get 6-7 liners out of each 5y pack).

so you'd be looking at around $25 in fabric for something simple (ie, a Burberry Basics skirt, which i'm using as my baseline for a cheap to produce item), but as much as $105 for a tiered velveteen or discontinued print skirt. for something like my (as yet unreleased) rose petal tiered skirt (the red velveteen one with cotton lace in my first post, which i'm using as an example of my most expensive to produce item), which uses more like 6m of fabric, it can get up to $180 for the body fabric alone (i did make a version out of inexpensive linen for ~$60 though)

this is just the body material though. (liners come out to, say, about $5 each?)

trims are where things get really complicated and at times really pricy! a lot of laces I get come out to something like $1-$4/y (and come of packs of 10y to 50m) but that can get pricy quick when you're using a lot of it-- i need at least 200cm of lace for an ungathered lace hem on a standard skirt, but sometimes as much as 400-800 if I wanted to add lace to the hem of a tiered skirt (my record is 16m of lace on one item). i won't get into braids and ribbon trims right now because they're not used as often and the prices are way more wildly variable.

so you're probably looking at anywhere from $15 of lace (200cm x 3 rows = 600cm or just under 7 yards) for something like the burberry basics skirts, or as much as $30 in lace for something like the aforementioned rose skirt.

elastic is negligible, thank god-- i get 20m rolls for around $10 which adds up to less than a dollar per skirt. i also won't include thread, since I can't really calculate how far a spool goes.

so to recap, that adds up to around

$45 in raw materials for a burberry basics

but more like $215 in raw materials for the rose tiered skirt (velveteen version).

so depending on your fabric and lace choices, you end up either saving a pretty good amount of money, or getting to where you understand why Burando is so expensive (lol)

but this is all before labour! (note: cost of labour is kind of only relevant if you're selling your work-- if it's for yourself, there's no need to bother with this step)

if i go for quick and dirty techniques (result looks fine, but won't be machine washable and will need touch ups on the future) i can get a basic skirt pumped out in 2 hours if I'm in the zone, but 4-8 hours is often more realistic if i'm doing french seams and rolled hems, a ton of gathering (ie, tiers), or adding a ton of trims, tucks, or other special details. some items like OPs may take me several "workdays" to get through.

the min wage in my area is $16, but most jobs start at $20. since i consider myself an amateur, i use that as my starting rate, and go up if I'm doing anything especially fancy. so that's as little as $40 in labour, or as much as $160. $80 is about average. (I do sometimes lowball my own labour costs, though, because I would prefer to keep items relatively affordable and this is all extra disposable income for me rather than smth i do to survive.)

which brings us to $125 or so for a burberry basics (materials + labour-- though I'm currently selling them for $100 because in the future I should be able to buy the fabric at wholesale amounts, which will reduce the cost of production by quite a bit-- but for the average person $125 is more realistic) or as much as $375 for my most complex design. ofc, for a person hand making something at home, the cost of labour isn't actually money you pay, you're just paying your own time-- i just added cost of labour for posterity here. factories and production lines can probably cause this number to vary, because professionally trained seamstresses or groups doing different levels of assembly may be able to work faster than I, one person doing every step myself, can, and likely don't follow californian minimum wage laws.

that's not to say handmade is INHERENTLY expensive-- the cheapest option I covered here is still cheaper than a branded item, and there are cheaper ways to go about things (for example, if you found a fabric you liked on sale, that $45 material cost could go down a bit-- or like I mentioned, the material cost for the rose skirt going down from 180 to 60 by simply swapping the fabric type. likewise, if wholesale fabric is an option, prices can be reduced even further).

These are all for main pieces, too. accessories can be made on the cheap (i can usually get 2-3 rectangle headdresses out of 1/4 yard of fabric, ie like $5 a pop. wrist cuffs are even cheaper to produce).

all this to say:

but also if you just want to make something for yourself and not like, producing items for commercial sale, it's definitely more affordable than big name brand, and i honestly recommend trying it at least once, bc then you get to decide things like fabric quality, construction type, and sizing all for yourself AND you get the massive dopamine hit of making something yourself.

as an aside to close on: yes i do have plans to post some of my original patterns for public use. and yes i am willing to share sources for some of my materials if they're available on a consumer level.

i hope everyone got something out of this because it was kind of fun to write about!

[il3x]

What's the Kenzie Reboot thing? I was going to reblog asking for clarification, but the post stopped existing.

oops! It's a crossover I rotate in my head sometimes, dumping pre-canon or early-canon Kenzie in the world of cyberpunk dystopian podcast REBOOT.EXE.

My first and latest attempt at a blurb is:

After the interdimensional carnage of Gold Morning, ten-year-old Kenzie Martin finds herself mistakenly portalled into a very different time and place. Melbourne, 2090. A divergent Earth untouched by Scion, where technological ingenuity, rather than alien superpowers, pushes the envelope of ‘humanity’ - and drives the world into conflict. To find a team and make herself useful, Kenzie first has to survive. But the Venn is a tough place to land, especially when her Tinker power paints a target on her back for slum gangs and City elites alike. It’s sheer luck that she finds allies.  A friendly medical drone, who Kenzie’s sure she can upgrade! A hacker on the run from the worst of humanity - she knows the perfect countersurveillance. A wealthy academic, who seems to be searching for something… The perfect team! She’s indispensable!  Kenzie’s determined it won’t be only luck that keeps them.

but this is kind of misleading, because it looks like the story is about Kenzie's clinginess, and even 9-10y/o Kenzie is only slightly more messed up than everyone else in the Reboot main cast.

She befriends a sentient robot with baby-fever psychosis. The team's hacker becomes her role model the instant he starts doing cocaine and becoming a cyborg to Sleep Less And Hack More. She gets in an intense info-warfare nemesis-ship with one minor antagonist, a bioengineered kid with an eidetic memory. She also slips him invisible cameras under the guise of bugging him and hints real hard that he should use them to blackmail his abusive parents. She also cyborgs herself almost immediately. Good times!

[rakkikuroba]

Minthara can’t be Yvonnel’s daughter because each of Yvonnel’s 15 daughters were high priestesses and Minthara wasn’t a high priestess.

Also in 1484DR, Quenthel and Sos’Umptu are her last alive daughters so it eliminates everyone. But Quenthel’s first daughter is only around 70 when the events of the game occurred and Sos’Umptu feels like the less realistic choice (because the description of her mom doesn’t fit with Sos’Umptu less ambitious personality).

And Minthara can’t be one of Yvonnel’s son´s daughter because the drow society is a matriarchal society so the man get their wife’s last name so Minthara wouldn’t have been a Baenre if it had been the case.

Also. The Baenre had a Mindflayer advisor. Why would the Absolute want to put his hands on Menzoberranzan if they already had an Illithid advising in the city?? (I mean yes by 1484 bro is crazy but still)

My theory is that Larian forgot about the timeline (again) and that they didn’t really think about that. You know, like the fact that 10 years before the game you have Returning Day happening where you had a Slayer wreaking havoc in the streets of BG. But theoretically, that doesn’t make sense if the Durge or even Orin for that matter, were alive at that time period. Because Durge is supposed to be the favorite for probably more than 10y therefore they’re the one granted the Slayer form but there can’t be two Bhaalspawn with the form, that’s why Orin only has it if you refuse it and she doesn’t if you get it!

Also like isn’t Sarevok supposed to be dead?

And don’t tell me but they maybe don’t see the book as canon or smtg because they mention Drizzt multiple times, Jarlaxle is mentioned twice !!

[hehecham]

two separate things from today: 1. this evening i was thinking about my goals for the next 10y or so and id like to buy some land + buy one (or two) tiny houses to go on it (maybe off grid but at current time id vastly prefer mains/water connections - i just havent done any research so unsure what's feasible)

think the "tiny house" movement specifically is overhyped and overpriced but if you look at insulated garden buildings you get a lot of similar options for half the price

would like to buy some acres in northern rural wales, but the highlands of scotland would also do me fine. (this next bit is extremely pie-in-the-sky hoping) would like to have a large amount of land so we could host friends or family who wanted to come and hang or camp or build their own tiny house nearby on our land

ben likes this idea a lot and would probably be on board financially, could possibly shake my parents down if i had a well-evidenced plan of action + offered them staycations free of charge etc

i dont want to live in a tiny house permanently (i actually like my life here in worcs) but i think it would be great to have the option of a nearby retreat, esp bc i dont own any part of this house + owning something of my own would be v helpful if this all went tits up somehow

2. i am going to apply for the next UK BJD con - i wanted to do last year's, not sure if i said here, probably did lets be honest, but i didnt in the end bc i was stillr eally anxious about covid (and honestly i probably will still be next year but we move) but ive done enough reading now that i am convinced it's much less of a threat than it was

i think selling wigs on the con circuit would be really lucrative and hopefully by next year i'll have my eye processes a lot better as well and they'll be sellable too

[takesuhigher]

Looks like Y

Ten of them.

10Y

Ugh. Ten years. Yes. It’s been awhile.

But for you, I suppose it’s been less than three weeks.

10x25= 250

YYYYYYYYYY

3x10

20 and 10

20-10

I mean 2010.

Let’s have a higher score than that! Make it FUN. But I do like the double point situation. Let’s keep the gap large lol

It is large. Two whole years.

[ethernalium]

But the thing is if honkai ends, we will def get the offline version since hoyo already have saved data bank for like more than 10y I think, differently than dffoo, square couldn't care less about it, maybe they erased because of mistakes, but seriously these mistakes could easily be fixed, everything can be fixed, and mistakes happens, it's crazy they have lots of games with deep meaning and they can't even follow one path bYE

[ja-khajay]

today I was riding home from school to get a package and I got stopped in the street by a kid who was also using a scooter because he wanted directions to a clothing store... I'm used to kids/teens being mean at me but that guy was so nice n polite, I stopped to look up his store on my phone n he was asking me if I liked to ride my scooter and in formal tense the whole time :') lovely encounter in general tho it felt weird to be called a "vous" for that long...godspeed my fellow scooter ginger

[prankprincess123]

Anyone up to ramble about Arthurian mythology, specifically Morgan Le Fay with me? Cause I've been doing research for a paper for my Medieval Literature class, and keep getting sidetracked by this character.

Like even in most modern retellings everyone knows her as this crazy witch whose goal in life is to torment the Knights of the Round Table and make their lives harder. But that characterization didn't start until later medieval legends and retellings! And additionally alot of people get her mixed up with her oldest sister Morgause (who is the mother of Mordred and Gawain and usually 3 other knights but sometimes more or less) and/or don't even realize that the legends have an average of 3 but sometimes upto 9 sisters (though only Morgause and Morgan and their sons are important characters) of whom Morgan is the youngest, which further complicates her character. And though her villianization in later works was totally due to misogynistic writers trying to make Merlin (who's actually super sketchy) look better, it actually kinda works as a story arc, if you ignore some of the more WTH things in certain later retellings.

Listen, Morgan Le Fay was having visions of walking through a battlefield seeing the corpses of her son and nephews, and then finding her little brother and holding him while he's dying, all as a result of her sister-in-law being a slut, from the time she was a child with only older sisters. And then in the span of mere weeks: her father is killed, her mother raped by and forced to marry his killer, her sisters are married off to foreign kings, and she is sent to a nunnery until she's old enough to do the same (which only meant 12yo in the time the story takes place!) And then the setup for her visions starts; her brother is born, and her nephews and son follow suit (including a nephew twice over, and how on earth do you react to that?!?!) And at some point she finds out that her husband cheated on her and named his illegitimate son after theirs so he wouldn't get caught if he mixed them up. And then her brother is king and marrying the girl whose cheating is gonna start a war that will kill 90% of their family, and not listening to her when she's telling him that Guinevere is bad news (and ok fine if you're going to marry her at least dont be best friends with Lancelot too, and keep her away from your accidental incest son who has alot of mommy issues cause that could only end badly even without everything else!) Meanwhile all of her brother’s other friends - including the creepy old wizard that kidnapped him as a baby - are constantly at least hitting on and at worst sexually harassing her. She is definitely totally justified in going a little crazy, making a magical island specially to hide from creepy men, and plotting a couple strategic murders designed to protect or avenge her family.

Like she's a young woman who is very clearly traumatized by alot of things, and has magic powers that few even semi understand. Given that she was married off before Uther died when Arthur was 2, but not immediately like Morgause and Elaine were, we can presume she's about 10y older than Arthur. (And if Uther's death soon after her forced wedding at 12yo was suspicious, would you really blame her?) And based on the fact that most of the Knights of the Round Table are portrayed as peers despite the familial generations between them - and specifically that her son Ywain is closest friends with Gawain who is the oldest of Arthur's nephew-knights - we can presume that she had him VERY young. And given that Arthur takes the throne while still a young boy, and all of his nephew-knights are squires when introduced, she would still only be like mid/late 20's in the earlier parts of the story! And even the end of the story when Mordred is grown, is still only another 20ish years down the line, so she's like 50yo at absolute maximum.

In the earliest recorded/surviving Arthurian legends she's just a healer, not even related to Arthur or the Knights but exasperatedly healing them after every quest nonetheless. Combine that with the familial structure and characterization from about 1100's and on, and earlier legends are basically her sitting there in her 20's & 30's, separated from her husband, constantly patching up her already 'adult' teenage son, brother and nephews after their inane quest of the week, while trying to get/keep cheating SIL out of the picture and avoid over zealous 'sutors', and desperately hoping that this battle isn't the one everyone dies in. She deserves to go a little crazy as she does in the later stories, and do things like her Green Knight 'prank'/attempt at literally scaring Guinevere to death. Heck even her attempted coup against her brother makes sense in the context that he and Lancelot and/or Mordred can't start the war(s) over Guinevere that she knows will kill 90% of her family if they don't have armies anymore! Some of her scemes definitely majorly backfire and speed up exactly what she's trying to prevent, but they make sense! Not always rational rightminded sense but storyline sense at least.

And at the end of the day, her visions come to pass, and she walks the battlefields where her family lays dead and dying. First three nephews Agravain, Gaheris, and Gareth killed by Lancelot and his men for exposing the affair, before the final battle. And then Camlann: Her son Ywain killed by her nephew Mordred, one of the last knights to fall defending his uncle/King, Gawain dead or dying beside him from the same. Mordred dead at Arthur's hand, and Arthur dying beside him of their mutually inflicted wounds. And she sobs, and holds them, and takes her dying brother (and when he's not dead yet, still surviving nephew) with her to the magic relam she created, designed to be a place where nothing can ever hurt them again, to try and use her healing magic to change at least one aspect of the horrible visions that have plagued her entire life.

[mbti-notes]

Anon wrote: It would be helpful to hear your perspective on this. I’m a 20y INFP female. I’m single and I’ve always been single and i fear relationship for various reasons. Anyway this is not the issue. I feel like i have social anxiety and i don’t have friends. And that’s also not the issue. Few weeks ago I decided to try to meet new people and leave my comfort zone. It was difficult but worth it to an extent, i feel more brave and made some new friends. This is not the issue too.

The issue that’s bothering me is, in this experiment i developed a crush in a very short time on a guy i met just because he called me a princess and flirted sweetly. I feel pathetic a bit but I really like being called a sweet things. However one time I refused to do something he wanted me to do and he got really dry and gave me the silent treatment. I’m aware that the sweet things he say and the “princess” are probably manipulation. But now I’m attached and i feel eww.

I realised that i have a pattern of CRAVING VERBAL validation, it’s not just him. I fly high whenever someone compliments me. They say give yourself the love you want, i really love myself, but what can i do here? Do i call myself a princess? I really love myself but i want to be loved by someone else and want to be called sweet things. On the other hand, nothing bothers me as much as criticism does, any type or amount of it, it pisses me off and it’s one of the reasons I push people away.

For more context, i have an unstable relationship with my parents. My mum is nice but she’s very critical, she always finds something negative to comment on or suggestion for improvement. With my dad it’s more complicated, we used to be very close, he used to spend time with me and chat with me he even wrote love letters for me.

One day he changed, forever, he and mum separated and me and him got so distant (around 10y). And he got worse when i was a teenager, he start to be angry at me and the only kind of conversation we have is fights. I miss the loving version of him but it’s gone forever. I don’t know what to do.

I feel like i want love, acceptance and being called a princess, but I don’t know how to get these things, not from myself to myself, and not from others. I’m confused too because sometimes i hate when people do nice things to me it’s not satisfying i only want words and I DON’T FUCKING KNOW WHY

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The problem with being neglected or deprived in childhood is that it's easy for children to jump to the conclusion that the pittance of love they received is all they deserve, so they go through life with extremely low expectations. They keep unconsciously replaying the unhealthy parental dynamic with their romantic partners, always settling for less, because they'd rather have a little than risk losing everything by daring to ask for more. Does this apply to you? What kind of "love" do you believe you deserve?

Children are innocent and shouldn't be blamed for the sins of their parents. It's not a crime to want love, especially when you feel as though you were shortchanged in childhood. When you're a child, your well-being is largely in the hands of adults. You have little control over whether they help you or hurt you. As an adult, though, you get to make a decision about what kind of person you want to be. Do you want to keep being that helpless child forever, always at the mercy of others, always stuck in wishful thinking, always depriving yourself of love in the same way your parents did? Or do you want to be an independent person, in charge of your own fate, taking the necessary action to live a good life through maintaining your integrity, fulfilling your needs, and promoting your well-being?

The human need for love is legitimate, i.e., love is a necessary ingredient for living a full and meaningful life. As a general rule, when people neglect or repress their psychological needs for too long, their thinking and emotions about them become more and more distorted as time goes by. Unfulfilled needs, stuck churning around in the background of the mind, can slowly turn uglier and uglier, e.g., from a naive preoccupation, to a desperate longing, to a visceral craving, to an obsession, to a compulsion, to an addiction, to a mental disorder. It sounds like your need for love has gone unaddressed for too long and now your thoughts about love (e.g. what it is, how to get it, etc) have become distorted and misguided.

Addictive tendencies in INFPs are often a sign of Fi-Si loop. Healthy Ne grants a person optimism, confidence, and adaptability, which are all necessary for bravely confronting life's problems. With underdeveloped Ne, immature INFPs allow life's problems to linger, fester, and accumulate, eventually resulting in a slew of insecurities. In a helpless state, they grasp for things that feel good or have felt good to them before, as a way to self-soothe or create a distraction from their insecurities. However, this means that the insecurities only get worse over time. And constantly feeling triggered turns the grasping for feel-good moments into a reflexive/repetitive habit.

For example, it feels good to get verbal validation when you've felt so starved of it, right? When you're basking in that high, it doesn't matter to you in the least whether the words are true or false. The feeling is all that matters to you. And that's how you know that Fi has entered dangerously extreme territory.

Losing all control of yourself and even willing to sacrifice your integrity by rejecting the truth, how can you have healthy self-esteem and feel proud of who you are? When you're willing to do anything for a fleeting feeling that only crudely resembles "love" but you know isn't really love, you've got an addiction. And when you aren't getting that "high", you suffer "withdrawal". The high always dissipates, and then up comes the dull ache of emptiness, an emptiness that was forged through years of denying yourself opportunities to love.

Emptiness is a real problem. But what's the best solution? When you aren't psychologically healthy, you have too much emotional baggage and old pain lingering in the unconscious and influencing your decision-making from a dark place, so you aren't able to use your functions in a healthy way. When Ne is unhealthy, you can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, so you can easily convince yourself that temporary quick-fixes are enough. Then, life becomes an endless cycle of chasing highs that never last.

When Ne is healthy, it tells you that there are always better ways and better possibilities, and you should pursue them with everything you've got. This experimentation you feel compelled to carry out is likely about Ne development. The question is: Why have you waited until now to do it? The auxiliary function should ideally develop throughout adolescence. If you resisted development, it's now up to you to make up for it by developing Ne properly, see the Type Dev Guide. Remember that "experimentation" is about running multiple trials so that you can observe a very wide range of results and get a fuller understanding of things, the bigger picture. Settling for the first result you get is a sign of desperation, of thinking so little of yourself that you don't believe you can do better.

Are you going to listen to Fi when it tells you the difference between right and wrong and then make good decisions? Are you going to listen to Ne when it tells you that life is full of opportunity? Are you going to disrupt the Fi-Si loop of instant gratification and, instead, put in the hard work to find the right people and use the right methods of building healthy and loving relationships? Or are you going to keep settling for scraps from terrible people until the pain of your unfulfilled need for love becomes so unbearable that you drown in misery and self-loathing? To finally grow up into an adult is to realize that you have a duty to yourself to make the right choices.

[chaoticgearz]

Servamp AU: Hell 10y!Tsuna probably had to see 10y!Reborn waste away from the Trin-Sette Radiation before he died, probably making his death hit even harder since he was powerless to stop it. And imagine 10y!Lal explaining to the present, past(?), whatever cast that the sole reason their in the Future is because 10y!Tsuna is in no state of mind to be leading a war against Byakuran, much less even attacking him because his mental state is so fragile at the moment, and he almost went insane after 10y!Reborn's death. That might actually make Reborn protective of Tsuna since who knows what might happen if someone where to try and use Tsuna's mental state against him, or hell what if someone where to try and kill him tk send Tsuna over the edge! That might actually force Reborn to become a lot more careful in a fight to avoid something like that happening!

Reborn is definitely more protective of Tsuna after what he found out in the future. Especially when he finds some recordings that were stashed away of Tsuna who was locked in his room, clutching onto his fedora like it would disappear at any moment.

It gets worse since apparently Natsu had merged memories with 10y!Natsu and he was surprised when the Black Patchwork Rabbit hugged his leg and told him to not leave Tsuna again.

"Ignatius's mind became more scarier than usual. Natsu was really scared. Even the Sky Lantern couldn't make me feel better."

[viria]

hello viria~ i really admire your art, it's so amazing! if you just answer me a "hi", i will be so happy lol ok, let's start it for the begin. I am 12 years old. I draw since 10y, and my art really improved. I can draw really better in the paper, with the pencil and things like this. You do your draws with digital art? And how long did it take for you to get accustomed, or succeed? that's it, thanks! (i love your nico)

Hello!:”) First of all, thank you!

As for digital art - yes, I pretty much only ever work through digital media. I feel like i got so accustomed to it, my traditional works really...lack, compared to digital ones, I can never get a piece as decent with traditional media as I can with digital. 

I have been drawing traditionally only at the very start of my art journey, and it’s been so long! I probably drew on paper for the first couple of years, and to be honest I don’t remember as well the actual process of getting used to it, but I do remember that for me it wasn’t too hard. I really wanted to learn how to do digital art so I feel like all the struggles were kinda lost because digital art was (and still is) so fun for me?

I guess it everyone has their own journey with it, like it can take so little for one person to adjust, and then someone else can’t get used to it for a while. But, we can get used to absolutely everything! It’s like riding one bicycle for years, and then getting a new one. First it feels weird and kind of off, but over time you can’t really ride anything else, so same thing is going to be here:3

I can’t quite say whether or not it’s going to be quick and easy for you, but I can  say with certainty that it is totally possible:”) Especially considering you’ve only been drawing for two years, it can take you less to adjust to a new media than to say for someone with 10 years of experience, simply because you’re a bit less used to it all and still have so much ahead of you.

As for success part...I always feel like I am not enough. I feel like this burning unsatisfaction is what keeps us going and striving for more, and the more you strive for improvement - the more you improve, and you keep it up. So hard work really pays off, and I wish you all the best<33 

[hehecham]

anyway in other news

today was pretty decent - ben got a case of the sads at about 9pm but actually recovered p fast and without any crying that i saw but he was in the bath for a bunch of the evening so i cannot verify this. the sad attacks are definitely getting more spread out + (i think from an outsider perspective) less intense. i genuinely think as well that we hadn't had sex in ages (ofc the week ana was away my period started so we didnt really bother) which made us both kind of :(

we had sex :) + read to each other. ben asked if we could do more reading out loud to each other at bedtime bc he really liked our matsuo basho reading. i liked it as well - i think i focused much better on teh words than i usually do - so ben picked a shortlist of books to read next (i haven't read a book in like 10y so there's no point me picking one) + i picked one from that + anyway we're reading "this is how you lose the time war" and im reading all of red's bits + he's doing blue. ill be honest... not fully sure about teh writing style... ben used the word florid as a compliment + i would use the same word, but as an insult lol. (very very representative of our characters i think) some of the sentences i really like but so far i cant feel much of a difference btwn red + blue - like if one of them wrote very floridly + one of them wrote very starkly i feel i'd appreciate that more bc you would be getting some insight into the characters but as it stands, the entire thing feels a bit like a creative writing exercise to me. we're not that far in tho so maybe it will capture me more as we go i should send ben some of my fanfic (look it's just a hobby) + see what he thinks lol

we played chess next to each other in bed :) he's been making some tentative little steps into learning / playing the game :)

i had intended on doing more work than i ended up doing but i think sometimes just spending hours and hours with your partner doing not much is the best way to spend a saturday

ana is back now! i forgot to say yesterday but they are back :) i did miss them a lot! whenever we're apart i yearn and pine

god, also! i forgot to say the other day but i needed something to watch while i cleaned my alpaca the other day + settled on red white and royal b lue + it was the tropiest shit ive ever seen in my life. i dont know if it's bc the author (it's an adaptation) comes from fanfic or bc the fanfic style has become indistinguishable from YA style more generally these days but it was kind of nuts to me how much the film could have just been a collection of AO3 tags?? im not even bashing fanfic bc i ahve written it since i was a kid and some fanfic is better than some published work and it's all a rich tapestry. HOWEVER this film was just crazy in its ... nothingness?? it was a perfectly fine watch i guess if you're looking for a princess diaries-y gay romance + god knows there are enough sugary romance films about straight people and those cut from the rainbow cloth also deserve their fair share of merry dross but yeah i was just surprised!! idk

[stumpyjoepete]

"$10-12 is in the right ballpark for the price for a contract that entitles you to $1 every year forever." I don't think this is right--that sounds like saying the risk-free rate is 8-10%, but that's way higher than reliable bond rates. It's closer to the S&P growth rate. So I think the 10X is mostly a risk premium for money put at "usual business risk", but it doesn't seem crazy that popular songs could be less risky than that.

This is re: https://stumpyjoepete.tumblr.com/post/190206783523/the-man-whos-spending-1-billion-to-own-every-pop

What do you know, my warning that I might be wrong has been borne out. Redoing the calculation w/the 10y bond rates, looks like we’d get... 55? So I guess we can conclude that royalties are not well modeled as risk-free perpetuities :)

As you imply, the risk associated with this payment stream means that buyers can command a discount. Doing the calculation backwards, I guess it’s like royalties are being treated by most buyers as equivalent to a perpetuity with the equivalent risk of default as other investments that pay 10% interest, which I guess you’re saying is like investing in the S&P? Although I guess it’s silly to treat these as perpetuities, since the payments vary over years, and presumably buyers and sellers try and model that in some non-dumb way. Whatever. I'm not decreasing my likelihood of saying incorrect things by continuing to talk finance.

Getting back to the difference between this guy vs the other buyers. The article did not seem to imply that this guy was valuing the mechanical royalties and performance royalties higher than other prospective buyers. Instead, it was saying that he is hoping to get more than others in terms of other royalties (e.g., sync royalties for being in commercials).

So the mental model I took away was that royalties for a song can be broken into a passive component (that works like a somewhat random perpetual stream of payments) and active component (whose payments depend entirely on what deals you can make). Most buyers value them together at 10x, while this guy is willing to pay 20x, on the belief that through his own deal-making prowess, he can get vastly more out of the active stream.

It’s not inherently crazy to believe you can do a better job at doing deals than your competitors, but the markup this guy’s paying seems really extreme. If you think you’re so great, why not just pay 11x (or whatever is just enough to edge out others)? If you turn out to be bad it this, you fail and move on to a different idea. If you turn out to be good, you can pocket more of the returns, and it’s now easier to get people to sell to you and to invest in you.

The reason I said it feels very SoftBank-vision-fund-y is that this guy seems to be taking the approach of throwing vast quantities of investor money at the problem, trying to grow as fast as possible, and... presumably hoping that there are some economies of scale at the other end? (What would these economies of scale be?) Seems like a line of business where you as an investor would like to be very sure that the “growth” you’re paying for is not just buying dollar bills for a markup.

[st3-restomods]

Moto-Master Halo brake discs (113155) on a 3,5x17“ PVM 10Y forged aluminium rim with six M8x20 titanium screws.

As intended, the clean „see through“ aesthetics of the previously mounted PVM brake disc setup is maintained with these Moto-Master discs, which even come with a German TÜV KBA number.

The inner ring is somewhat less elegantly styled than that of the sleek custom-made PVM discs and the total setup is now about 470 gr heavier than before, but the 5,5 mm thickness of the discs is race spec and should provide more than enough thermal capacity for the intended (ab-)use on the local backroads.