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ash-rabbit · 3 years ago

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What are all of Elias' names for the entities? They're very good

A very good question! Embarrassingly enough, I had to skim ABitC for this. And honestly, most of them were just tongue and cheek placeholders that I was too fond of too remove. I haven’t been feeling particularly whimsical lately, and I must confess to not having thought about those I haven’t covered. So as an apology for taking so long, and not being prepared, have my breakdown of how I imagine the categories to be determined. Elias’ names are bolded.

A couple entities will be overdiversified, conflated or unnamed since some of them wouldn’t be well represented among the Artefacts. I’ll use a couple examples to clarify below, so this might be a bit long..

1. The Web -- N/A (The Web overlaps too much to have a distinct category to someone uninitiated in Smirke’s teachings.)

The actual fear aspect can be reduced down to Control, but that can be conflated with aspects of the Eye/Buried, and Spiders with Corruption. So the way the show conceptualizes the Web doesn’t work particularly well for Artefacts. In regards to the Web table, it draws people in which has aspects of the Spiral, especially as webs are fractals, and the capture aspect could be Buried. The Web lighter operates similar to the Spiral as it manipulates the owners perception and distorts lines of thought. And Mr. Spider carries notes of the Eye and Spiral again, the inability to stop reading paired with doors that cause permanent disappearances.

2. Slaughter + Hunt -- “Homicidal Urges”

The distinction would only be apparent in sentients I think. A knife that coaxes you to stalk and kill would just be a spicier version of a knife that fuels your bloodlust. At the end of the day, the Hunt will be satisfied by a kill, and murder is murder, regardless of what evil thoughts are fueling it.

3. Stranger + Spiral -- Uncanny Valley

Canonically the Distortion and the Spiral in general are more or less faults in perception. What you see, it is not what it is, “It is Lies”. This would be further broken into multiple categories not related to the Uncanny Valley, what with doors that lead elsewhere, gaslighting vases, and various paraphernalia that sends its user on an LSD trip, or something. So the Spiral would fall mostly under Fairy Tale Logic as it can relate to books like Narnia and Alice in Wonderland.

The Stranger is literally the Uncanny Valley, and goes hard on those aesthetics. The Calliope is the primary Stranger artefact I can recall, the second being the Gorilla skin. The Calliope plays circus music, and maybe acts as a beacon? I don’t think the Stranger has many artefacts on the principle that it’s about looking the left of human, taking on the more sentient inanimate object route. But evil dolls are an actual thing in real life, so I would slot them here as something that would be a popular donation to Artefact Storage.

4. Beholding + Buried -- Cursed Knowledge, and Exposure

Beholding preys on the need to know, and swiftly destroys any satisfaction with the knowledge that whatever was learnt, cannot be unlearnt and will only lead to repercussions. Which leads to needing to learn more as a protective measure and creates a whole unhealthy cycle that strangles the affected. I used the monocle for Cursed Knowledge in particular. For Exposure the stick pin and pen both dealt in that, as the weight of judgement can be crushing. A lot of Beholding artefact effects is just suffocating under the press of eyes or knowledge.

5.Corruption -- Decay/Bugs

The two come hand in hand, and what isn’t literal rot/decay would be a mental decay. The only Artefact I can really think of for this is the “Tale of a Field Hospital” Leitner, with the deadly papercuts. Spiders get conflated here because if you don’t know better, you’re not going to distinguish between the two.

6. Lonely/Forsaken -- Depression Inducers

This one is self-explanatory. But in fic example is the Lighter and Case enforcing isolation upon it’s users, and isolation tends to lead to depression.

7.Dark -- Dark

I think this one is fairly simple, and doesn’t require variation. But dark spots tend to be locations, under the bed, closets, etc. I can’t recall an artefact for this one, maybe the Camera? I suppose something in the vein of a Deluminator wouldn’t be out of place.

8. Flesh -- Flesh

Flesh is Flesh, and if you want to be spicy, there’s cannibalism. IRL example would be the Segato tables, anything by Segato actually. Guy was whack, wish there were more articles on him and his work.

9. Desolation -- Yikes! Fire

We’ve only seen the desolation manifest as fire which is fine. I think conceptually there’s a lot more biopolitics to it, but that doesn’t apply well to Artefacts, unless there’s some Leitner’d copy of prejudiced legislation floating about.

10. Vast -- N/A

Outside of Leitners, the Vast doesn’t feel like it would appreciate being a small object. And it seems a bit much. I suppose we could go with vertigo as an induced effect, but then it would just be dubbed Vertigo.

11. Buried -- Buried

The coffin has little crossover unless we take the singing to be an influence of the Corruption. But Dig, the Leitner, was very straightforward, as was the Coffin. Anything particularly witty would overlap with the End, in the vein of “Six feet under”, “Digging your own Grave” and the like.

12. The End -- N/A /Death

Any Death Artefact would fall under Fairy Tale Logic/Cursed, I can’t recall any outside the Leitner’s, but Death would be a common side effect for most artefacts, I doubt there would be a specific category for it.

#answered ask #abitc

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theslightlyaggressiveaffirmer · 5 years ago

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Are you OK? I am worried about you.

Oh yes! I am very good, thankyou!

I have been very busy, and quite stressed because a VERY IMPORTANT event is coming soon and we are SO SO not prepared for it, but tbh I kinda thrive under those conditions! And fortunately no stage fright for me, so I’ll be grand.

Christmas was a nice time, and now I have a shiny lightbox and a tripod so there might be photos of smol objects incoming.

Also, I’m working on some writing, and playing a lot of Stardew Valley. Like A LOT. I have two children and a substantial jam, cloth, coffee, wine, berry and flower farm. I might have overdiversified, if I’m honest. There’s never enough hours in the day.

And Australia is HOT. AS. FUCK. And also, very on fire. I need an asthma inhaler because there’s so much smoke around, even though I do not have asthma. But at least I’m safe from the actual fires. It has been very bad for a lot of people.

Don’t be worried, Anon. I’m doing pretty alright. I’ll feel better when this conference is over! (Although back to school! That’ll be a bit of a shock!)

I hope you are doing OK too, friend. Thanks for checking on me.

(PS. I complained to my mum about the constructive critique thing and she says I’m EXACTLY that fragile and easily offended. BETRAYED, y’all. By my own mother. Ouch!)

#daily happenings #check in with your friends #and even random bloggers!#Anonymous

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financebrokerages-blog · 4 years ago

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How to Avoid a Complex Portfolio

Sometimes, investors find themselves in too complicated portfolios, making it difficult for them to manage and handle. Here are some key insights you should take note in order to avoid a portfolio that’s difficult to understand.

Number of Advisors

It’s not rare for some investors to have two or more advisors as well as managing part of the overall portfolio themselves.

This follows the adage that two heads are better than one. Basically, each advisor can give a different perspective with different investing ideas and such a thing leads to multi-advisor accounts.

Without an overall investment strategy to provide the required discipline, having more than one advisor might just complicate the portfolio without really adding to the performance or contributing to risk reduction. And this usually what happens with two advisors that have the same investing mandate.

You can split responsibilities among advisors if you have more than one. That means each of them should have a specific asset class for which they can be responsible.

Number of Accounts

Without much difficulty, a couple may have several investment accounts. In some cases, the minimum number of accounts between a husband and wife is at least 7.

Now, if some of the accounts are split between different institutions as well as managed by the couple themselves, it’s not uncommon for them the end up with more than a dozen different accounts.

Every account at a different institution will have a different reporting standard, which contributes to the complexity. Keeping a close watch on your investments and determining what investments are put into each account only adds to the administrative burden.

Number of Securities

Each individual security in a portfolio requires some attention. There is somehow mistaken belief by some investors that if investing in one mutual fund is good, investing in maybe 5 will be better.

The goal is to achieve proper diversification with a minimum number of securities instead of just adding more.

Complicated Products

A simple mutual fund investing in one asset class, like a large cap equity, fixed income, foreign equities, etc., is relatively direct and straightforward.

A balanced fund that invests across various asset classes or funds of funds add another level of complexity. Many products like hedge funds and PPNs with their embedded options or variable annuities with ther embedded insurance contracts are very difficult to understand by themselves.

The tools and expertise required to effectively understand and manage the risk associated with many of these product is often beyond the reach of the individual investor.

Complex Portfolio Problems

A good balanced fund, particularly one that is balanced internationally, may be a good choice if your portfolio has just one to two funds. However, a portfolio that contains six to 10 balanced funds rarely makes for good investment.

This is because these additional funds just add complexity without further diminishing risk or enhancing performance.

Diversification to a point is always a good attribute, but over diversification should be avoided. Portfolios that are overdiversified with too many mutual funds will usually underperform after the fees are deducted.

You should consider the individual characteristic of an individual security as well as the potential impact on the overall portfolio.

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