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Writing period dramas in the discord, lads

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How I see Laios' gender

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Bánh mì thịt nướng sả chay (Vietnamese sandwich with lemongrass seitan)

Strictly speaking, "bánh mì," literally meaning "wheat-based loaf," is a type of bread that can be dressed in many different ways: with margarine and sugar, with jam, with eggs, or with various sandwich fillings. The addition of ingredients such as butter, cold cuts or grilled meat, fresh vegetables, pickles, and savory sauce to one of these loaves creates a "bánh mì Sài Gòn" ("Saigon banh mi"), often simply called "bahn mi" in English.

Bánh mì sandwiches may also be referred to more specifically by the type of filling they contain, as with bánh mì thịt (bánh mì with meat), bánh mì thịt nướng (with grilled meat), bánh mì thịt nguội (with cold meat), bánh mì chay (with vegetables), and so on. These sandwiches are eaten as breakfast and snack foods in Vietnam, and in places with large Vietnamese diasporic populations.

This recipe is for a vegetarian (chay) bánh mì sandwich. Seitan is fried in an aromatic sauce made with shallot, lemongrass, galangal, and turmeric root for a delicate, complex, earthy flavor. A tart, creamy mayonnaise-based spread, hot chili peppers, fresh vegetables, and soy sauce complete the five-way balance between sweet, spicy, sour, bitter, and salty.

From France to Saigon

Like the bánh mì rolls themselves, some of the typical fillings in the bánh mì Sài Gòn were introduced to southern Vietnam by French colonizers in the 1860s, and were then ‘Vietnamized’ with local ingredients and techniques.

Take pâté for example. Food scholar Vu Hong Lien writes that it started as a novelty food in Vietnam: it was sold in restaurants owned by French colonists, but was too expense for most Vietnamese people to afford. Vietnamese experimentation and innovation created the ba tê that "soon became daily fare" in the south: in essence, it was pâté modified according to Vietnamese taste. While French pâté had a base of ground liver, ba tê generally used pork and pork fat; ba tê added garlic, fish sauce (nước mắm), and sometimes Chinese five-spice (ngũ vị hương) to the black pepper, nutmeg, and herbs typically used in pâté; ba tê was usually steamed, where pâté was baked.

Similar transformations occured with French sausage ("saucisson") and ham ("jambon"; Vietnamese "giấm bỗng"). The Vietnamese already had experience in sausage-making as a result of Chinese culinary influence. Ham, however, "was not an easy food to re-create locally, because the meat had first to be cured," which was not possible in Vietnam's climate (Lien). Vietnamese cooks instead created thịt nguội (cold meat) by marinating, pan-roasting, and thinly slicing pork shoulder or belly. The resulting cold cut "took off spectacularly and became the dominant feature of all Vietnamese sandwiches" (ibid.).

By the early 20th century, stalls in Hồ Chí Minh city were cutting French-style baguettes into smaller lengths, splitting them open, and filling them with pâté, cucumber, đồ chua (pickled daikon and carrot), and thịt nguội or saucisson, to form a convenient sandwich called "bánh mì Sài Gòn" (after its birthplace, then Saigon). "Posher" versions of the sandwich—made on specially baked oval rolls, then filled with sốt bơ trứng, roast chicken or giấm bỗng, lettuce, tomato, and scallion—were being sold in shops by the 1950s. Bánh mì stalls, in order to compete with the shop sandwiches, added mayonnaise and ba tê to their offerings, as well as cilantro (coriander), red chili, and light soy sauce (Lien).

Other available fillings included meatballs or tinned sardines in tomato sauce; Laughing Cow spreadable cheese; and, as of 1954, cheddar cheese. The cheddar bánh mì, or bánh mì phô mai (from the French "fromage," meaning "cheese"), was inexpensive, but took a while to catch on.

The story of this cheddar cheese has to do with the partiton of Vietnam. The United States had been providing funding and personnel for French military ambitions in "Indochina" in fear of the communist threat represented by the Việt Minh since 1950, but it was not enough. By 1954, France, depleted of military personnel and money, could not continue surpressing the Việt Minh's struggle for independence. The Geneva Conference dealt with the division of the French empire and the transfer of power in the wake of the First Indochina War: one of the consequences was that Vietnam was divided into northern and southern nations, with the socialist Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) to the north, and the Western Bloc-aligned Việt Nam Cộng hòa to the south.

Several waves of migration then occurred, as northerners including Catholics and counter-revolutionaries, fearing religious persecution or reprisal from the DRV's government, moved south, and thousands of Vietnamese in the south, including Việt Minh guerrilla fighters, moved north. The northerners who had moved south received French food aid in the form of powdered milk, tinned meat—and cheddar cheese. The cheese, however, was unfamiliar and undesirable, and many refugees ended in selling it cheaply, or giving it away. Enterprising bánh mì stall owners began incorporating the cheese into their offerings.

A New Cuisine in New Orleans

U.S. military intervention in Vietnam continued during the Second Indochina War (also known as the Vietnam War). After U.S. withdrawal in 1973, and the North Vietnamese capture of Saigon in 1975, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese emigrated to places including the United States, Canada, Australia, and France. Bánh mì were popular amongst Vietnamese populations almost everywhere they went, due to the simplicity of their preparation and the broad availability of their ingredients.

The U.S, under Presidents Ford and Carter, moved over a hundred thousand Vietnamese refugees into temporary camps, from which some thousands settled, initially or secondarily, in cities that became Vietnamese "ethnic centers." New Orleans was particularly attractive to many refugees, due to its familiar climate, proximity to wetlands, and "French cultural history" (McCulla).

Theresa McCulla argues that Vietnamese refugees "entered New Orleans's cultural world through food." But unlike the city's Sicilian population, who "controlled the public narrative of their ethnic revival project," Vietnamese immigrants did not play an active role in shaping public perception of themselves, their culture, or their cuisine in the years immediately following 1975. Instead, they were portrayed by newspapers as exotic and "profoundly foreign," isolated in surburban areas whose restaurants, vegetable gardens, and food markets could be penetrated by sufficiently adventurous culinary explorers. This foreign-but-approachable characterization bolstered the perception of New Orleans as a "creolizing" society, a sort of "gumbo pot" in which various populations could assimilate while remaining "authentic."

Many elements of the bánh mì Sài Gòn were familiar to New Orlesians already, which aided in the culinary rapprochement. New Orleans was no stranger to the French baguette (see Mizell-Nelson), pâté, or saucisson. Nor was the concept of a meat or seafood sandwich on French bread novel: the "poor boy" sandwich had existed and been so called since at least 1931 (Mizell-Nelson, p. 52); before that, The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book had described an oyster loaf in 1901; and, still earlier, an oyster loaf was described in the 1824 cookbook The Virginia Housewife.

Using seeds brought from Vietnam, or cuttings obtained from family and friends, Vietnamese immigrants created market gardens that grew almost everything essential to a traditional Vietnamese diet: whatever the gardeners did not use was sold to other individuals, to grocery stores, or to restaurants. The lemongrass (sả), galangal (riềng), turmeric (nghệ), and daikon (củ cải) necessary for bánh mì were recorded in Vietnamese market gardens as of the 1990s. Though nobody can agree on who was the first to sell them, bánh mì—marketed as "Vietnamese po' boys"—were amongst the offerings in Vietnamese-owned restaurants in the suburbs of New Orleans by the 1980s. The city's reception of the sandwich was enthusiastic: travel writers were describing the sales pitches of competing "Vietnamese 'po boy'" vendors in their exotifying, ethnographic-style accounts of Vietnamese produce markets before the millennium had turned.

McCulla points out, however, that the New Orleans creolization formula of (conditional) acceptance upon "bringing delicious food to the table" did not work for everyone. Even as Vietnamese arrivals offered "a convenient opportunity for many to proclaim American multiculturalism in action," the political and culinary-cultural situation of poor Black New Orleasians was very different. They faced housing discrimination, or were priced out of buildings they had long lived in (thanks to federal housing assistance, Vietnamese immigrants could pay higher rents), even as their cuisine was more likely to be portrayed as "threatening or burdensome" than as "intriguing." I would add a third pole to the reception of African or Black American influence on "New Orleans" or "Creole" cuisine: namely, that of rewriting and erasure. Anything too central to New Orleans culinary culture to be ignored or dismissed has commonly been attributed to French influence.

The Bánh Mì of the Present

Today, bánh mì stalls are a common sight throughout Vietnam, even in the north of the country. Indoor bánh mì shops, more expensive and seemingly modern than the stalls, still offer young and upwardly-mobile Vietnamese something like a status symbol.

Elsewhere, the popularity, availability, and diversity of bánh mì sandwiches have continued to increase into the 21st century. By 2009, Robert Peyton could write that bánh mì (or "Vietnamese hoagies," or "Saigon subs") had been "making something of a splash" nationwide—some made with "unorthodox" ingredients such as brisket and kielbasa. In New Orleans, one fusion restaurant combines fried gulf shrimp and bò kho (Vietnamese beef stew) with cilantro, cucumber, and đồ chua.

These recipes understand "bánh mì" less as a set of pre-determined ingredients, and more as an ethos. The crispy roll is non-negotiable: but the ingredients that fulfill the roles of moist spread, savory filling, fresh vegetables, spicy chilies, funky pickles, and salty sauce can be swapped out at will, as long as balance is maintained. This raises interesting questions about the multiplex genealogies of various regional cuisines, and when a particular dish is or is not still "itself." What is certain is that the variability of the bánh mì has been a core aspect of its popularity in various geographic settings and economic conditions, and that it is likely to continue so.

Recipe under the cut!

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This sandwich can be made with any meat substitute you like, including tofu, storebought seitan, and Vietnamese soy-based meat replacements. I made seitan using the recipe below. If you're using a different meat substitute, skip to the ingredients for the marinade.

Ingredients:

For the seitan:

3/4 cup (90g) vital wheat gluten

2 Tbsp chickpea flour (besan)

2 Tbsp nutritional yeast

1 tsp Vietnamese vegetarian pork broth concentrate (gia vị heo súp ăn liền), or vegetarian chicken bouillon

1 tsp garlic powder

1 tsp onion powder

2 tsp MSG (optional)

3/4 cup (177mL) water

Vietnamese vegetarian broth concentrates can be found in an Asian grocery store from brands such as Por Kwan and Penta. You can also use anything savory, such as a bouillon cube, mushroom powder, etc.

For the seitan marinade:

1 recipe (250g) seitan, or Vietnamese vegetarian ("chay") pork

1 1/2-inch chunk (15g) fresh galangal root

1 stalk fresh lemongrass

2 slices (3g) fresh turmeric root

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 shallot, minced

1 tsp Vietnamese vegetarian seasoning powder (bột nem chay)

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp ground black pepper

1/2 tsp granulated sugar

1/4 tsp Chinese five-spice (bột ngũ vị hương)

1/4 tsp annatto powder (bột điều) (optional)

1 Tbsp vegetarian fish sauce

3 Tbsp vegetable oil, to fry

1 tsp tapioca starch, mixed into 2 Tbsp cool water

Toasted sesame oil, to drizzle

To construct the sandwich:

4 bánh mì rolls

Sốt bơ trứng, margarine, or mayonnaise

Đồ chua

Sliced cucumber

Red bird's-eye chilies (ớt hiểm), thinly sliced; or red Fresno, for less heat

Cilantro leaves, stems removed

Shallots, sliced and fried until crispy (optional)

Maggi sauce, or Vietnamese soy sauce

Instructions:

For the seitan:

1. Mix all ingredients and knead gently for about 3 minutes.

2. Tear apart into bite-sized pieces. Place on a piece of parchment paper or an oiled, metal steamer tray and steam for 15 minutes, until firm and only slightly tacky to the touch.

If you don't have a steamer, you can use a wok: place a small bowl upside-down in the center, put a plate of seitan pieces on top, then add about a cup of water into the bottom of the wok. Bring to a simmer, then cover with a convex lid, or a flat lid with a kitchen towel wrapped around it (to prevent water from falling back onto the seitan).

For the marinade:

1. Remove any tough outer layers from the lemongrass. Cut off the upper green portion and reserve for boiling in soups or stocks. Thinly slice and then finely mince the tender yellow portion.

2. Scrub the outer skin of the turmeric and galangal and mince. Crush lemongrass, turmeric, galangal, garlic, and shalott in a mortar and pestle, or with the flat of a knife, into a rough paste.

3. Combine aromatic paste, salt, and spices in a large bowl. Add steamed seitan (or other uncooked meat substitute) and stir to coat.

4. Heat vegetable oil on medium in a large pan or wok. Add seitan and fry, stirring occasionally, until browned and fragrant.

5. Add tapioca slurry and cook until slurry is translucent and seitan is well-coated with sauce. Remove from heat and drizzle with sesame oil.

To construct the sandwich:

1. Cut open bánh mì and spread with sốt bơ trứng.

2. Add seitan, cucumber, cilantro, chilies, and đồ chua. Top with fried shallots and a thin drizzle of Maggi sauce or soy sauce.

Bibliography

Theresa McCulla. "Fava Beans and Bánh Mì: Ethnic Revival and the New Orleans Gumbo." Quaderni storici 51.151 (April 2016), pp. 71-102.

Vu Hong Lien. Rice and Baguette: A History of Food in Vietnam (London: Reaktion Books, 2016).

Michael Mizell-Nelson, "French Bread." In New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories, ed. Susan Tucker. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2009. pp. 38-53.

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so I was looking at pics of Team Skull’s base, HQ, whatever it is.

It looks pretty cool. You can see Guzma’s got a lot of bottles and shit, and he has some serious talent as an interior designer, and– wait… 

what is…?

omg…

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[Image description taken from alt: kris from deltarune as an uma named "beating pulse". they are wearing an outfit similar to the umas form umamusume based on their dark world outfit. the soul is doodled next to them with an arrow pointing to it that says "trainer lmao". End description.]

school has been kicking my ass so bad but i have been wanting to draw this ever since i saw this randomly generated horse name when i was playing umamusume pftt

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as much as I love every defense attorney in aa having their own rival, I would love more cases with different prosecutor & defense attorney combos. Like think of Athena vs Klavier or Apollo vs Miles or either of them vs Franziska? Flashback case where Kristoph faces off against either of the von Karma siblings and there’s just so much passive aggressive energy in the air? Sebastian vs Apollo I can imagine as being so funny. Mia vs any of our prosecutors would be fascinating to watch (especially her vs 14 year old Franziska after going up with Bratworth and then meeting his whip-happy little sister and being like “this child is Maya’s age?!”). Klavier and Phoenix finally having a redemptive trial where they can work together to find the truth?

anyway I feel that we as a fandom have been missing out on making so many defense attorney-prosecutor combos that would be fascinating

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an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc

and I'm like....... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but I KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean

and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere

horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.

and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader

I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he'd be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon'''' loses horsepower throughout the fight

language is amazing

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he had it coming.

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The name "Jane" is a female version of "John", and if Wikipedia is to be believed it developed not out of "John" directly but as a more novel and upper-class version of the then-commonplace "Joan", also a female version of "John", in the manner of the Kayleighs of today.

But "Joan" is still weird, because it's like that for no clear reason -- the original masculine/feminine pair here is like Johannes/Johanna, which explains nothing! It ends up in German as Johann and Johanna, and stress changes can induce vowel changes, but you'd expect that to work the other way round, with the unstressed O becoming shorter, so it seems to just be that "John" and "Joan" appeared at different times and the need to distinguish them kept the latter from drifting as far as the former. You can see the same general thing happening with "Steve" and "Steph", with the opposite gender/vowel length relationship.

So this isn't very systematic, obviously, and it hardly ever happens. But isn't it tempting to imagine us adopting a convention of gendering names by ablaut?

Bill (m.) -> Beele (f.)

Jeff (m.) -> Jafe (f.)

Bob (m.) -> Bobe (f.)

Dan (m.) -> Dane (f.)

Mike (m.) -> Make (f.)

Greg (m.) -> Graygue (f.)

Keith (m.) -> Kayth (f.)

Scott (m.) -> Scote (f.)

James (m.) -> Jymes (f.)

and so forth

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[Image description: Two digital drawings of Minazuki from Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. The first shows him crouching down, looking at a firey globe above his hand and smiling at it. "For the sake of 'his' world" is written on top in a grungy font, with "his" in red. In the upper left corner is a hole with light shining through, the surrounding area is cracked, with the light being refacted and causing the cracks to glow in different colors. The overall effect is somewhat reminiscent of light on a cracked CD.

The second shows Minazuki sitting on a red pillar, grinning at a globe in blue flame floating above his hand. He's drawn in more detail than the first image. "For the sake of 'his' world" is written again, except that it's in a more computer-y/digital font. 'His' is in red again, except now it's also struck out and has a slight glitch effect applied to it. The background is the color test bars for TVs. End description.]

[Plain text: 2021 VS 2025. End plain text.]

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2021 VS 2025

Redraw of m Old Minazuki Fanart "For the sake of HIS world". I think I got better :P

2025 Ver without writing below:

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[Image description: Image 1: Tweet by that reads: @/6xKxf:

友達の彼氏好きになっちゃたって凄いよね。友達の彼氏とか全員嫌いだもん。俺のダチ返せよ translated from Japanese by Google It's amazing that people fall in love with their friend's boyfriends. I hate all my friends' boyfriends. Give back my friend.

Image 2: tags that read: translation degree coming in handy 07, if i may rant about it, first sentence is standard speak, a bit feminine but overall harmless casual conversation, second sentence gets slightly more vulgar. like a bit ruder but not violent. yet. last sentence… oh boy, use of hypermasculine slash rude as fuck pronoun, -seyo ending is extremely forceful, the use of 'dachi' instead of 'tomodachi' coupled with the katakana makes it sound so so so casual and rough, like you would NOT use this sentence in basically ANY irl context except a fight or talking with your close male friend if you're also male, it's insane tonal whiplash". End description]

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[Image description: Various social media posts, drawings, etc on the topic of surviving 1: gabe k-s: There must be something like the opposite of suicide, whereby a person radically and abruptly decides to start living, or rescue their own life from destruction/ obscurity

2: aridante: get in loser we're living past the end of our myth

3: orivu: youve died a thousand times before who caaares just climb out of this grave again & again &agaian & agaian & again & again & aga

4: buzzkillgirls: so. bad news. we have to keep going tomorrow. good news is that l'll keep going with you

5: Doodle of a sneaky-looking cat with a lantern and green cloak. Text in all caps: I'm getting out of here. By God, I am going to make my way out of here.

6: The cat is now smiling and giving a thumbs-up. Text: you got out! by god, you got out of there!

7: Noshi (@noshiepic) tweets: "my suffering isnt beautiful." Richard Siken replies, "But your survival is"

8: cemeterything: oh and that gap in my resume is when i was digging my own grave

the dirt under my nails is - yeah. it won't wash out. although that's actually from when i dug myself out again. i suppose success and defeat can look the same in a mirror.

9: Moomin standing in a pool of water. They says, "I guess I had better drown myself… It's a pity I swim so well."

10: disenchanted-killjoy: don't care didn't ask plus this hole you put me in wasn't deep enough and i'm climbing out right now

11: Text: Gone are the birds Close are the tears A house full of love Space for your fears

My hand's still shakin', my mind's still racin' My heart's still breakin in two I'm still changin', my friends stay patient My mother still calls for the news

12: claire (@prettytheyswag): bro you have to keep going. You care too much. Your kindness too overwhelming. Your cheerfulness is too upbeat. they need you

13: @coletyumuch: The bravest thing l ever did was continue my life when I wanted to die, and nobody really knows.

14: Drawing of a Skeleton dressed in rock musician attire and playing a guitar with a skull on it. Text reads "Today fucking sucks. Tomorrow might not. Only one way to find out… be there. 1-900-273-8255. SuicidePreventionLifeline.org"

15: Photo of red curtains over a window with the text: the sun is on my back. i smile because i thought i would be cold forever.

16: Highlighted text: And then the miracle happens. The sun comes up again.

17: Two screenshots from Undertale. The first shows the player character standing in front of a mirror in a yellow hallway, with reeds in a vase next to them. Narration: "* It's you!" The second shows them in front of a mirror in an idential hallway, except that it is gray and the vase has yellow flowers. Narration: "* Despite everything, it's still you."

18: strawberrycircuits sometimes the moral of the story really is just "you cannot go back and what happened to you is going to be with you for the rest of your life. but it's still going to be okay" huh End description.]

[Plain text: on survival

-// @aridante // @orivu // @buzzkillgirls // ? // ? // richard siken// @cemeterything // moomin, tove jansson// @disenchanted-killjoy // isn't that enough, shawn mendes// @ prettytheyswag on twitter// @ coletyumuch on twitter// ? // ? // bird by bird, anne lamott// undertale// @strawberrycircuits

#we are all going forward. None of us are going back. End plain text.]

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on survival

-// @aridante // @orivu // @buzzkillgirls // ? // ? // richard siken// @cemeterything // moomin, tove jansson// @disenchanted-killjoy // isn't that enough, shawn mendes// @ prettytheyswag on twitter// @ coletyumuch on twitter// ? // ? // bird by bird, anne lamott// undertale// @strawberrycircuits

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READ THIS IF YOU PLAN TO BOYCOTT YOUTUBE LONG-TERM

get an invidious account. it is an alternative front-end to youtube, allowing you to make an account, subscribe to channels, make playlists, and all the other things you use youtube for; all without giving the company a single cent. swearing off youtube long-term is a tall ask, so you can use this to still follow the creators you want to keep up with while continuing the youtube boycott. it has a built-in adblock and anti-tracker, meaning that you can really keep fucking them over.

it doesnt interact with the API at all, it scrapes the metadata to make sure they get as little as possible.

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wanted to share this here, thought weird al fits lux

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[Image description: Digital drawing of Futaba, Ann, and Makoto from Persona 5, all wearing different outfits of Goro's. Makoto is wearing Goro's detective prince outfit: white collared shirt, black and white tie, tan coat, black pants, black gloves. She's smiling and holding up one hand by her face, with the other holding Goro's briefcase.

Ann is behind Makoto, and she's wearing Goro's casual outfit: white collared shirt, white and blue sweater vest, and tan skirt. She's grinning and winking, and posing with her hand resting on her chin.

Futaba is leaning out behind Ann, smirking. She's wearing Goro's winter outfit: red and white plaid scarf, white shirt, and green sweater vest. The background is red. End description.]

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