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when the horrors catch up and you take an evening off to batch-process
#obi-wan kenobi#anakin skywalker#ahsoka tano#maybe obi-wan just read the outline for the next wip#why do i love to torture him so#one of my fav fanfic genres has to be meta fic horror#just imagine. how deeply disturbing it must be to find out you're a fictional character#somebody has *intentionally* written all those horrors onto you#and it wasn't even the guy who created you#he did his part. but the ppl who love it most to ruin your life and see you suffer are your fans#it's not enough that there's prob a lot of jedi rpf around in the gffa already. scarred obi-wan for life#lmao drawing anakin like this gave me so many flashbacks to my old ocs where almost every male character had that hair#also i have a job interview in one hour dsdsfhjgj#my art#prahacat draws
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forgot to post this the other day but i gave myself a little nameless ghoul :3
#ramble#the band ghost#ghost bc#tattoo apprentice things#couldn't pull a line to save my life that day#i had to do SO much fixing#i'm going to say it was just a really awkward placement to do on yourself bc it's right under the knee when you cross your legs#the line weight and the shading saved it and the more i look at it the less i hate it#like if you're not LOOKING for imperfections it's fine. and considering it's the 3rd one i've done on real skin#and it's a lot bigger than the others. it's FINE#i know if i got this from someone else i would NOT think 'this is a terrible tattoo'#it's not perfect but it's not bad#my mentor has said i'm being too hard on myself and she's right akdhdhfh#i might go back once it's healed and even out the thick outlines but right now it doesn't need fixing at all
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experimentation is forever and ever and emmet is guinea pig
#still working with colors. I need to eat a ball of light#MAGMA SAVE ME. SAVE ME PERSONAL MAGMA CANVAS#I find magma a lot less stressful to try stuff on tbh. it's probbaly because of how their brushes feel#I TECHNICALLY can somewhat emulate it in my main drawing program. but magma just has such a nice feel#anyways. shrug. I like emmet a loADUGHSADO TAGS CANCELLED I HGAVE THE HICCUPS. GOD HATES ME#GOD WANTS ME DEAD. THIS IS TRHE WORST. WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT HTE FUCK MAN. STOP HICCUPING. STOPPPP#AOOAUAUUUAGUUAUHHUHUHAUUGUAHHUAUHHHGHHUHUGUUHAG#glances around. are you okay now. did you stop hiccuping.#OKAY I THINK WE"RE GOOD. thank god#spenxer lou art#submas#pokemon submas#submas emmet#subway boss emmet#subway master emmet#subway bosses#btw the main stuff I've been working now is color gradients and saturation in shading / the affect colored outlines have. shrug#basically I stared at bluebellowls art too long and got mad enough to give myself a stomach ache <- can't make this shit up#uhmm. rubs brain. ???? I don't know what else to say. I've been improving sooooooo much but my hunger is insatiable. me want more
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current fallen london fandom experience feels like im standing at the corner of a party holding a sippy cup going. i thought firmament has been pretty fun and intriguing so far
#it wasn't THAT hard to understand what was going on#obtuse and chaotic and full of weird backwards imagery? yes but honestly at this point it's a feature#pretty much the only chapter so far where i didnt have at least a vague mental outline of the ongoing plot is chapter 1#and honestly that's probably owed to the fact it hits you with lots of shit right off the bat that doesnt really. like#Become Clearer until i'd say just now when chapter 3 has released#but like. there's a clear plotted course from A to B here? LOTS of bewildering stuff sandwiched between it all#but the core plot has been pretty concrete. there's a weird fire dream. we're following it. fanfiction writers are fucking with us.#there's a divorced angel now.#not like it's any more or less batshit than usual FL lore offerings#yin-thoughts#fallen london#idk maybe im just delusional#fallen london spoilers#firmament spoilers
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blood of the covenant/water of the womb
The Black sisters are so tragic.
I mean, imagine:
As kids, Narcissa is the baby sister that the elder two dote on, while both Narcissa and Andromeda look up to Bellatrix, the proud, beautiful, powerful, accomplished, perfect eldest sister, who has always known who she is and where she's going, but especially Andromeda, since they look so alike she's always been encouraged to act like her too but since Narcissa doesn't have the stereotypical Black looks and her parents didn't follow the Black naming scheme she's encouraged to be her own person a little bit more.
At Hogwarts they're all Sorted into the same House, Slytherin, which only increases their bond. Bella does really well at school, probably the top of her class, which makes Andy, who's only a year or two behind hyperaware of where the bar is. She walks, talks, and dresses like Bella.
Until
Andy follows in Bella's footsteps (who's probably Head Girl by now) and becomes a prefect, but she gets assigned to do rounds with a Muggle-born Hufflepuff. And despite everything she'd been taught, everything she knows to be true, she finds herself falling for him and the worst part is she can't tell anyone, even Bella, the one she has always been able to confide in, always reassured her and set her on the right path.
Meanwhile Druella and Cygnus are arranging Bellatrix's marriage to Roldophus, someone she doesn't even like never mind attracted to but because she's the perfect Black and the perfect daughter she has to do it. And Andromeda sees and fears how she could get trapped, too, how there's another Lestrange boy in her year.
Meanwhile a strange foreign Dark Lord comes to dinner and he's so different to Roldophus and all those other men who think because she's a woman she must be weak and she's just a vessel for their pureblood children. And despite the way she shouldn't feel this way, Bella doesn't care. He listens to Bella's opinions and he takes her seriously and he sees her magical talent and her thirst to prove herself and he's not scared of her in the way others say that she's 'too intense.' And when he offers to train her, and adds that he never does this, she says, one better, I'll follow you.
Andromeda and Narcissa watch this strange man burn the Dark Mark into their sister's arm and they don't know what to think. Narcissa's scared Bella will put herself in danger, that she'll do too much, give too much of herself because she doesn't know when to pull back. And Andy's scared Bella's going down a path she cannot follow, because deep down she can't say she believes in blood supremacy, can't say she hates Ted and she can't figure out a way through so she leaves.
It's like part of Bella's heart has been ripped out. They were all close, the Blacks, but Andy and Bella had a certain je ne sais quoi, they were thick as thieves and inseparable. Bellatrix is the one who burns Andromeda off the tapestry, crying while she does it, the scorned love for her sister, the anger and shame that Andy chose that Mudblood over her turning that love to bottomless hate.
Meanwhile Narcissa, the lucky one, watches it all. Narcissa is the one that gets it all, she's the only one who's able to marry for love and stay with her family but there's also this Andromeda-shaped hole in her and there's a Slytherin resentfulness of being Bellatrix's supporting act.
Every night that Bella is on a mission, Narcissa stays up, even while pregnant with Draco, until she knows her sister is safe.
That fateful Halloween she waits and waits and waits but Bellatrix never comes home. When she finds out her last remaining sister is serving life she completely breaks down. Won't sleep, won't eat. The thought of leaving Draco without a mother is the only thing that helps her hold on. Regulus, Andromeda and Sirius are dead/burned off the tapestry/imprisoned; she and Draco are the last Blacks, that makes their bond even stronger, makes her scared of losing him like she did her sisters. She curses Voldemort for putting her in danger, aware of her feelings for him and that Bella would do anything for them, swears she'll never let that happen to her son.
All the while Andy raises her daughter, who hates the name she gave her in the same way Andy know she would hate the Blacks. Narcissa and Andy watch each other from across crowds; Tonks and Draco are never at school together, never know more than scattered off-hand mentions of a cousin on their mother's side. But both Narcissa and Andy fantasize of a reconcilation, of Tonks babysitting Draco while they rekindle their bond. Neither bridges the gap. That burn, that rift cannot be healed. But they still ache for each other.
When Voldemort returns that fear for Draco grows, but it's tempered with the joy of having Bella back after mourning her for 14 years -- Bella, traumatized, starved, jagged and torn up at the edges, different, but alive.
And just like knowing he was innocent kept Sirius sane, Bella's love and trust of Voldemort is what made her able to hang on. Yes, they're both drastically different physically (the snake face and the emaciation) and mentally (both shaken, less confident), but everything else can be the same. Maybe better.
But everyone is scared. It's not the same world, where the Death Eaters have control and are undefeated. Voldemort is scared of that boy, Narcissa is scared for Draco. It's clear things are not the same, things are not normal. Far from it. Fear makes Voldemort angry, and cold, and distant and nothing she does feels good enough.
And that boy -- lying hateful filthy boy -- he dares suggest that her Voldemort's filthy-blooded like him. No, he must just be taunting her, scaring her. But there are things Voldemort's said, things he's done -- she would notice, the way she hangs on every word he speaks and plays their conversations in her head over and over again in Azkaban -- Bellatrix just does her best to silence it and block it out, all these confusing things, she's a great Occlumens after all.
She'll make things certain, make things right, trim off the weakness, cut out the sickness. Like Sirius. Like that young woman with Andromeda's face and Andromeda's laugh, that filthy half-blood Andy left her to create.
Narcissa can't keep Draco safe like she, the baby sister, couldn't keep Bellatrix safe. When Voldemort burns the Dark Mark into his skin she sees her son emaciated and dead-eyed.
To assuage Narcissa's fears Bellatrix trains Draco like Voldemort trained her; but he's not the same, he's weak, he's moralistic, he looks at her with wide scared eyes and he's a failure. The glory of the Blacks is gone.
All the while, Narcissa's fear grows, when Lucius is imprisoned, when Voldemort's ire turns on her family, on her son, sets him an impossible task. The despair she feels, she hasn't felt for nearly sixteen years -- Bellatrix more interested in eking out morsels of approval from Voldemort and turning her frustration on Draco, and Narcissa by extension.
All the while, Andromeda's fear for her daughter grows, of the danger she puts herself in as an Auror and a member of the Order, and she's reminded of Bellatrix, of how she gives everything of herself and how Nymphadora does too, begging, begging her to hold back.
She's not good enough for him, not with the sickness, the weakness still clinging to her. Bellatrix very much wants to kill the woman with Andy's face. She's always been perfect. It's everyone else around her that's wrong, everyone else who has to go. She'll do better. Try harder.
And when the Snatchers catch that filthy boy, and he slides out of her grasp like a buttered eel, Bellatrix hits the bottom rung of the ladder of despair. She doesn't know who she is, anymore.
Voldemort's retaliation and rejection breaks Bellatrix's heart, but it hardens Narcissa's.
Bellatrix will do anything to make him happy. She finally kills the witch with Andy's face -- do you see -- do you love me now -- but he's still cold, still frightened, still different, and she despairs, but it will be all over when Harry Potter is dead and he can breathe again. They've won. It will be alright. It will go back to normal. She can have it all again -- Voldemort and Narcissa and her perfect, pruned family.
Narcissa will do anything to keep him safe. And so she chooses Draco's life, she lies, her heart in her throat, in front of her beloved sister, to the Dark Lord, with unshed tears in her eyes and Harry Potter's 'corpse' before her.
Bellatrix's death is something Narcissa knew was coming, deep down She mourned her sister sixteen years ago and she mourns her now, but it will all be worth it if Draco survives this ordeal; Potter must win, he must live, Voldemort must die. And Bellatrix will never allow this.
She wishes she could tell Andy that she understands.
#the black sisters#bellatrix lestrange#andromeda tonks#narcissa malfoy#bellatrix black#andromeda black#narcissa black#bellamort#tedromeda#andromeda has middle child syndrome i don't make the rules#been brainrotting about the black sisters a lot while writing these next few chapters#hp meta#long post#fic outline??#maybe? can i handle other wip?#voldemort doesn't say i love you like a normal person he turns up at bellatrix's front door with the corpse of someone who insulted her#like a cat with a dead mouse#it's okay she knows what he means#sk1 rambles#this is why i have a rambling tag
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Echo and the Cadet Batch Chapter 7: Meeting the Vode (Part Two)
Art by @shyranno
Chapter Summary: Objective “Get the Cadets to the Barracks” has been accomplished and Hardcase is now aware that the four 99s are not quite as he remembers them. Rex has to find Cody and leaves Echo, Hardcase, and Jesse to occupy their little brothers and deal with some interesting conversations. Once Cody arrives at the barracks, he gets the shock of his life.
I'm looking at a tag list for posts for this fic... if you'd like to be on it, say hi below! ❤️
#the bad batch#star wars#sw tbb#tbb hunter#tbb echo#tbb wrecker#tbb crosshair#tbb tech#captain rex#commander cody#cadet hunter#cadet wrecker#cadet tech#cadet crosshair#cadet bad batch#clone cadets#they're so cute y'all i can't#This fic is going to be a lot longer than my outline said it would be#Hunter has been mainly tamed now Echo's working on Crosshair#The feral little sniper gremlin wants to defend his honor at every turn and he's just a smol baby#wrecker is a cinnamon roll#tech is an ipad baby but he can't help it#Jesse and Hardcase make friends and find out they really like babysitting these four terrors#Cody may or may not pass out in Chapter 9#he's going to kill Rex
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No matter how many times it happens, I'm always shocked by how reliably all my problems with any given story are solved by making it shorter. If I go into a story with the idea that it'll be long, that I should use as much detail as I want to craft a full-length and fully-fleshed-out story instead of a short one, it always turns into this rambling, meandering, soulless thing that's no fun to read, and I get tangled up in so many flimsy, sprawling layers of character and worldbuilding that the plot becomes unworkable.
The minute I tell myself, "Let's make this as short as possible," the problems fall away, I find the heart of the story again, the pacing is brisk, scenes get multiple purposes, the world feels deeper because I'm implying things that spark the reader's imagination rather than trying to put every threadbare, boring detail on the page. Every time. You'd think I'd have learned by now.
#adventures in writing#yes this is about the arateph rapunzel retelling#the drafts of that one are *so* bad#thin and rambling with no plot progression#but then writing that rubber duck outline made everything fall into place#for instance: the drafts included subplots about zemma struggling with wanting to connect with her family while also doing her work#there were entire scenes just to introduce her mother#her family was going to get a whole subplot#camreth had a family full of brothers he mourned#and then writing the rubber duck explanation i realized that *none of that mattered* to the story i wanted to tell#cut away her family and i don't have to worry about how they could be harmed by her decision to marry a fugitive#and i can focus on her relationship with camreth rather than this tangled web that includes her mentor and her family#cut away his siblings and auren becomes much more important and it's relevant to his arc rather than an easter-egg add-on#i had struggled with the double point of view when i was given full rein#putting in lots of filler scenes because i feel like i need to give a full picture of both their lives#the 'keep it short!' mindset makes the two povs easy#just pick the scenes that are directly relevant to the plot then choose which pov is best for it#it's absolutely astounding but also horrifying because i've had this story for years#and this has worked with other stories before#i should have figured this out long before now
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Seeing as I drew Anton fairly recently, I felt that it was only appropriate to also draw his cranked-out coworker Dynamite Annie, and it looks as though she has something very important to say... 💚🏳️⚧️✨
#⭐ Star's Art ⭐#ANTONBLAST#Dynamite Annie#Annie Antonblast#Annie Bell#Trans Rights#Aseprite#Coolness#Fun Fact: Annie Bell gives me massive gender envy.#Where I drew Anton in my own style... I decided to try out the messy lineart style from the release date trailer's cinematics for Annie#It was actually a lot tougher than I was expecting it to be. But for my first go I don't think I did half bad!#If anything I'll probably stick with my usual style when I draw her or Anton in the future#That or I could try the key art style with the deep blue outlines. It's very pretty#Anyways... back on track!#I don't know how popular of a headcanon this is... but personally?#I headcanon that Annie is a trans woman. She just has that vibe to her (Totally not projecting)#And with that headcanon came the idea of drawing her repping her trans girl swag!#She's really fun to draw too. Y'know what else is fun? The ANTONBLAST demo!#If you haven't already... go give it a whirl! It's a blast! 💙🏳️⚧️✨
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"Despair never goes away. Dreams never go away. As long as there is despair, dreams will continue to shine brightly."
#this is a queued post 😇#i wanted to make a gifset using only outlines i'm not sure if it came out well but after remaking it dozens of times i finally like it 😊#precure#go princess precure#cure flora#haruno haruka#twilight#akagi towa#dyspear#close#mygifs#go princess has a lot of amazing imagery one of the most beautiful precure seasons the art direction was incredible#**
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Silly rabbit??
Happy spooky month! Here's my obligatory Halloween profile picture. I'm a few days late, as usual. But I'll have the actual Halloween drawing(s) done in time... I hope.
Extra doodles and sketches of an alternative costume under the cut.
Originally I wanted to draw Galacta Knight as a witch, with little eensy Meta here as his familiar. However I wasn't able to work out a witch design I was happy with, and that wasn't agonizing to draw with his horns. Still a fun little concept!! Maybe for a future Halloween...
I still wanted to do something magic related, and from that I got magician. It doesn't match the spooky vibe, but I think it's Halloween-ey enough!! It's the shitty costume bought the day before the Halloween party, how does it get more Halloween than that? And it still allowed me to have Meta as a stupid little creature, so really, I think I still won.
As a bonus, concept doodles of the magician ft. the inexplicably skimpily dressed assistant!
#kirby#kirby series#meta knight#galacta knight#galactabro#my art#my doodles#i'm still not tagging the cat#days without posting gk: 0#what a handsome man he is. I can't help drawing him#and the autism creature that is his brother#gk and dragato in the bonus doodles is the most galacta knight yaoi you'll get out of me. ever#what they've got going on is entirely platonic. they're just kind of gay about it#there's not much else to say about this. it's nothing spectacular. i leaned into the sticker-ish aspect everyone says my art has though#me and my white outlines#oh wait i know#did you know i had to size up mk because he was literally too tiny to look like. Interesting. in the drawing otherwise#or like be visible at all#he (and baby orbs in general) are just That small#I never draw halloween stuff and i just. wanted to!!#I have more planned!! though a whole lot of it is oc related (with sprinkling of canon characters they're related to)#that is. Nerve wracking. but it's about time i post my ocs here even if it's absolutely terrifying#something to look forward to i suppose
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Hi. I AM VERY MUCH ALIVE.
I know I promised to pick up my fics but then I disappeared again. A lot has been happening in my life. I do apologize for that, I didn't mean to suddenly go quiet, I'll try my best to get back in the groove of writing.
Please be patient ✨️
#mint.txt#when i say a lot of stuff has happened i mean A LOT#I got a new job too#i dont wanna get anyones hopes up but maybe next week I'll finally update BoaE#the chapter has been sitting on my docs for months#it's not complete but i have the outline done#i just gotta write it#again sorry for disappearing 😭#I'll answer the questions in my inbox when i get the chance
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I need to see more character designs that don't treat wearing makeup as the default for women I'm so freaking tired of it. why do female characters always have to have eyeliner or mascara or lipstick or eye shadow or some combo or all of the above. why is wearing makeup so expected that in cartoons you can tell if a character's supposed to be female by whether they have lips or not
#bambi's rambling#i'm Having a Moment here#as someone who doesnt wear makeup this aspect of character design has been bugging me lately#like i saw the inside out sequel recently and like. even though riley doesnt wear makeup sadness joy and disgust all clearly do#they have lips and outlined eyes when the male characters dont (disgust even has eyelashes when no one else does)#and its just. one instance of many#its so ingrained into the way we think about characters (especially cartoons) that a lot of people dont even question it
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you're oddly familiar!
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#art#my art#artists on tumblr#digital art#oc#pink space#timelapse#YIPPEEEEEEEEe#i'm tired but i'm alIVEEEEE AHHAHGHSGHHF[coughs my lungs out]#//i finally made an armor design for aura the other night and YEsss ehhgehg YESS#//i ended up spending more time on that background image than the front one LMfvshjfha [laying on the ground]#barely able to type rn either i swear every physical thing that could go haywire today Did kfshghf#//also lmao i just realized but does clip not record the undo actions because that's funny#there should be a lot more marked uncertainty in this video. sir my undo actions [holding my plate out expectantly]#//anyway yea. i wanna put them in an aquarium 👍#as the fish of course. no other way to have them there kfhvsf#[<- currently forgetting the chapter outline it has]#anywhoodle doo :3 my brain is so tired it's incredible lmfvsh#not the Most tired it's ever been but ouhhrhgh brother what a day am i right lol [<- elbowing the air]#okay i'm gonna skepoop now. deskoop. dibildy doop. toodles :))#//also every day i miss the yellow text option more <///3 okay Now bye kfhsvhg .w.
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my hyperfixation right now is violently going back and forth between gravity falls and arcane and i'm also working on my original story so i just. MY FOCUS RIGHT NOW IS JUST SOUP THERE IS NO FOCUS I CAN'T DECIDE WHAT TO DRAW ASDHFOASDIH HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DRAW THINGS IN THIS ECONOMY LMAO
(anyway hi i'm trying to get back into drawing lmao i want to draw more original stuff again and i'm kind offfffff working on a design update to my oc trevor so yippee)
#mason rambles#to kind of explain#i'm like listening to an arcane song and imagining stuff with bill and then i imagine stuff with my ocs#theoretically i could combine them because bill has interacted with my ocs before#but i also don't want to draw bill and my ocs interacting (i wanna draw bill and my sona interacting)#but i kind of just get decision paralysis instead lmao#like oH NO WHICH ONE DO I DRAW FUCK LOL#and then i draw nothing#and i write a long worldbuilding document or 20th outline for my story instead#that being said i'm having a lot of fun working on the bill charm designs#i lowkey want to make a bill and sona charm design#and i want to make an illustration with my oc trevor lmao#oN ANOTHER NOTE I LOVE TREVOR IN THE REWRITE I'M DOING#HOLY SHIT HE'S SO NEAT AND INTERESTING AHHHH#i also want to make a fic with bill and my sona but i just have bits and pieces of a plot and i'm trying to figure out the logistics asdhfa#idea right now is sona manages to get bill out of the theraprism either with his statue or with the book of bill#but then the theraprism guards are trying to find bill and it turns into some sort of interdimensional adventure adshfoaidsh
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@hetalia-rarepairweek day 4: assassin
HRGHHHHHH I LOVE THESE TWO SMMMMM their outfits look more like spy outfits than Bollywood flash mob tbh
#aph india#aph prussia#hws india#hws prussia#rare pair week 2023#hetalia world stars#hetalia#my art#… okay lessgo#indpru#pruind#idk . I like indpru more#anyways them fr they were my first and are still my favourite ship <33333#they may have interacted once but it’s enough for me I can make my own content with the power of art#ALSO I LOVE PURPLE / ORANGE COLOR COMBOS I LOVE THAT THEY MADE THEM MATCH#BUT WITH COMPLIMENTARY COLORS IN THE ANIME TYYYYY#💜🧡💜🧡💜🧡#I will single-handedly revive the ships tag in due course when I have time (never has time)#still having lots of fun w the outline pen#ok sorry for the rants in the tags I just care about them so much
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next // previous
august 24, 2021 1:00 p.m. rainbow bowling
✨ now playing: orange, you're not a joke to me! - stella jang 🍊
#ts4#the sims 4#sims 4#sims 4 story#sims 4 storytelling#simblr#hlcn: everything the stars promised#once again i know a lot of this update has been slow and just the two of them hanging out but you know!! grant deserves that!!#he deserves a break before the *checks my outline* next few events in his life...#holocene.docx#holocene.png#hlcn: grant#hlcn: henry
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