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It's been a practical lifetime since we updated this blog but rest assured there are big plans for future Danville's Moms episodes, mainly putting the pieces of Maggie's arc, that Vlad guy from 'Project Charlene' and those Susan and Debbie ladies. It will all be worth the wait.

Until then, someone please play Sudoku with Linda. She's been left to starve on this blog and she's threatening to force feed me sour croute if we don't give this series attention! Please don't hurt me!

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Finally the reference art for my OCs have arrived (Disregard Cedric, he was Vlad's former design repurposed as an OC for another fanfic series on my main).

From top left to bottom right. We have Maddie and Jackie Newell, Debbie Yu (as seen in 'Meryl'), Ben and Karen Selway (as seen in 'Project Charlene'), Vladim Newell (also debuted in 'Project Charlene' with his spouses) and Emily and Caitlin Lazenby. You'll learn more about the last couple in due time.

For now though, here is the profile on the Newells and Yu's.

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video ghidaj File de Arhivă Queer

Un ghidaj video in expozitia „File de Arhivă Queer”, din TIMISOARA 2023 - European Capital of Culture, cu Adrian Newell Paun si Vlad Levente Viski

with Cosmin Nasui, istoric de arta si Cristi Farcas, videograf

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From IPOs to trading cards, market euphoria is everywhere

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From IPOs to trading cards, market euphoria is everywhere

What’s happening: The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite finished Thursday at new record highs. Bitcoin prices hit an all-time high of $48,975, while more tech founders and athletes are looking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars via special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs.

More traditional fundraising methods also continue to generate huge interest from investors looking for places to park their money. Dating app Bumble, which started trading on Thursday, priced shares at $43 apiece, above its expected range. Its stock surged immediately upon opening and closed at $70.31, a 64% increase.

In a piece just published, I report on how Wall Street, flush with cash, is piling into an even more obscure corner of markets: sports trading cards.

Industry insiders told me that the price of popular cards is soaring as sophisticated investors as well as small traders transform the world of sports collectibles from a fusty hobby into a major investment market.

One example: Earlier this month, a Michael Jordan rookie basketball card in pristine condition sold for a record $738,000 at an auction. It went for nearly $215,000 just weeks before.

“There’s never been a time like this in the history of the business,” Ken Goldin, whose company ran the auction, told Appradab Business. “I would bet that for every person who wanted a Michael Jordan rookie card in 2019, there’s 100 [now].”

Professionals like Goldin — who’s fielding calls from interested hedge funds — acknowledge that factors such as rock-bottom interest rates, which have encouraged investors to hunt for returns in creative places, are benefiting their business. But they think the enthusiasm will hold.

“This is now part of our culture,” Goldin said. “I wouldn’t go anywhere near the word bubble.”

Watch this space: It’s not just big money getting into the game. Fractional trading has also reshaped the trading card industry, allowing everyday buyers to purchase a small stake in a LeBron James or Patrick Mahomes card that would have otherwise been too costly.

“We realized the potential fractional ownership could have to break down a massive barrier to entry,” said Ezra Levine, the CEO of Collectable, which buys sports cards and converts them into tradable assets registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Other hobbyists are gathering on social media as they rip open new packs of cards, hoping they’ll contain younger talent that can later be sold for a huge profit on eBay. Some are making even bigger bets and bragging about their gains on TikTok. Read the full story here.

Disney is still getting hammered by the pandemic

The pandemic continues to slam Disney’s theme parks and movie business. But its streaming service, Disney+, is shining.

The latest: Disney’s revenue came in at $16.2 billion during its most recent quarter, down 22% compared to the previous year, the company said Thursday. Yet Disney+ is growing, and Wall Street is still loving it.

The streaming service now has nearly 95 million subscribers, up from the 86 million it had in December. The news sent shares up 1% in premarket trading. They closed Thursday at a record high, despite the massive hit from Covid-19.

Disney (DIS) is banking that huge investments in content like its Marvel “WandaVision” series will pay off in an increasingly crowded space, as it faces off against competitors including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Appradab parent WarnerMedia’s HBO Max.

Still, CEO Bob Chapek made clear on a call with analysts that Disney doesn’t plan to abandon movie theaters altogether, my Appradab Business colleague Frank Pallotta reports.

The company faces questions about what it will do with “Black Widow,” its latest Marvel film due to open in theaters on May 7. Could Disney put a film from the biggest blockbuster brand in the industry on Disney+, as it did with “Mulan” last year?

Doesn’t look like it. At least, not yet, per Chapek.

“We are still intending it to be a theatrical release,” he said Thursday.

Bumble’s IPO is a milestone for female founders

Bumble’s Wall Street debut isn’t just a win for its investors. It’s also a milestone for female founders.

See here: At 31, Bumble chief Whitney Wolfe Herd has become one of the youngest female CEOs in tech to take her company public, my Appradab Business colleague Sara Ashley O’Brien reports.

“You don’t have to be one type of person to find success in the business world or in the tech industry,” Wolfe Herd told Appradab Business in an interview Thursday. “I’ve truly just always tried to build what I wish existed, what I wish could help make lives better for the women I care about and the people I love, and I think it doesn’t always have to follow the same path.”

Wolfe Herd, who is based in Austin, Texas, started her career at another dating service, Tinder. She initially set out to create a women-focused social network before landing on the concept of a female-focused dating app. Bumble requires women searching for heterosexual matches to make the first move, a feature meant to boost women’s empowerment.

Sarah Kunst, managing director of early-stage venture capital firm Cleo Capital and a former senior adviser to Bumble, told Appradab Business that Wolfe Herd’s IPO sets a meaningful example to other founders who don’t fit the mold of what a “tech entrepreneur” typically looks like.

Wolfe Herd’s success story bucks the notion that “you can only start a company credibly if you have multiple prestigious degrees [and] all the right experience,” Kunst said. “She played this game on her own terms.”

Up next

MSG Entertainment (MSG) and Newell Brands (NWL) report results before US markets open. The University of Michigan releases its consumer sentiment survey for February at 10 a.m. ET.

Coming next week: The House Financial Services Committee holds a hearing on the GameStop (GME) frenzy. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is expected to testify.

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So small head canon, Maddie's several careers before her and Jack's current position as Danville Beach's lifeguard, consist of her working for that photo company in the Dexter's Laboratory episode 'Photo Finish', so yeah with Maggie being her sister, she technically fought her nephew that episode. She only saw Dexter in very sporadic occasions.

Later on, she quit upon realising the company's true intent (something about one big privacy invasion scheme), gained some weight and developed some great skill in violin playing, which got her a position in Danville Symphony Orchestra.

And of course, while in this orchestra, she started loosing weight, growing taller than even her sister, as tall as Jack and Vlad, and became a lifeguard.

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Charlene's job at Boulevardez Construction has been really rewarding, and now her managers have given her a promotion, but she's not sure if she's ready for it. Meanwhile Trudy's friends Maddie, Jack and Karen bicker over how prepared well they could live out in the wild.

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Here are some full character profiles for Maddie and Jack Fenton, and Susan Long, or more accurately, Maddeline Jaquine Cindy Newell, Jack Magnus Newell and Susan Yu because they've basically had this treatment given we haven't properly watched their shows:

Anyway first off,

Maddie

Like her sister Maggie, she grew up in Galway, Ireland and was the one trusted to work the tills at their family corner shop. Upon reaching adulthood, she helped her sibling assigned male at birth, Maggie, by paying for her top surgery. Upon doing this, their parents found out and Craig O’Reilley kicked them out of the house for good, but this didn’t stop Maddie from robbing some money from their bank account for herself and Maggie. While the latter went to a college in America, she went to study at Cambridge University where she made friends with Vlad and Jack, Anglo-Latino and American men respectively who both are currently married to her in their own seaside home on Danville’s coast.

Once completing her studies, she moved to America to live with Jack and Vlad, stopping midway to join The Dandelions on their European tour. It was on the stretch through Spain where the three got married. Shortly afterwards the Newells left the party to spend a honeymoon in Oregon where they decided to take up permanent residence in America.

Maddie’s first job here was working for Starco, a photo developer which was established secretly to invade people’s privacy, something that Dexter inadvertently had a part in shutting down, when he fought the aunt he didn’t know worked for them at the time. He didn’t even recognise her. She then moved on to being a violinist for the Danville Symphony Orchestra with Jack who was a harpist and guitarist. After that she lost the massive ton of weight she gained the previous five years and the two became lifeguards.

Maddie also sometimes spends time with Jack, Maggie and Bob Parr watching some of the superhero shows she didn’t get the chance to watch as children due to her parents encouraging her to intensely study.

Jack

As for Jack, he was always a Danville man at heart. His early life was spent training for the Navy with his cousin Colonel Curtis Contraction, who he was very close with. He enjoyed fresh water swimming with Maddie and Vlad during their honeymoon. This lead to months worth of lifeguard training.

Susan

Susan is the worrier of the cast. Being scared of almost anything there is to be scared and being the first one to be concerned for her friends when they do something potentially dangerous. This concern has also helped when her friends didn’t know they needed it, for example back when Maggie and Debbie still had their children at home, Susan was the first one to bring up the possibility of the children getting themselves into trouble when they were out of their parents’ sight frequently. She is the first person to give good advice when someone is questioning their moral compass and is the most passionate about her interest in anime which she has ample time to share with fellow otakus Maggie and Debbie, which they’ve been doing for 20 years and counting.

This doesn’t mean that she hasn’t also been the first one to receive the short straw at pretty much most things in life. Seemingly for no reason she gets involved in more overworked days, trips over curbs, dilemmas looking after children and random accidents than she knows what to do with. Her close friends however are always there to look after her and help her mentally through it all, especially her closest friend (and possibly more) Debbie Brammeier.