#camp magnus au

[campmagnus]

introductions

hello! i'm sophie, a fan fiction author across many fandom atp. my main tma blog is @autistictaxidermyman which is where i put my general tma and jonathan sims related ramblings and sometimes talk about the umbrella academy. this blog, however, is specifically for an au i've been planning since before i finished the podcast!

this is where I'll put information about the au, sneak peeks to the fics in this universe (there's an origin story fic and a longform multi-chaptered fic planned as of now), and answer questions anyone might have! i'm real excited to finally be working on this universe

the base concept of this universe is that in addition to the archives, The Magnus Institute has a sister organization called Camp Magnus. This is a place where people who gave statements to the archives might go and is advertised as a therapy camp/a safe place to go for people effected by the horrors except it is NOT that simple. the main timeline is in the early 2000s and stars teenage-aged versions of the characters we know and love who, instead of working in the archives, are campers and counsellors and such scattered across the camp

every entity has it's own cabin and half of them hate each other, there's a bunch of camp traditions, and oh! jonathan sims is the head counsellor for the beholding cabin and the camp archivist who grew up at the camp after the tragic death of his grandmother via spider and evil children's book?

this and more at camp magnus, coming soon to an ao3 page (RamblingsOfATeenageFangirl) near you hjsiaksja. follow if you're interested

[habken]

my aus have aus, it's like a big tree and all the little branches are the slightly different situations I've put my favourite little guys in

[museofthepyre]

Assigning the CHNT cast TMA entity alignments… add on if you wish/ have any differing ideas! I have yet to assign some ppl still.

Sydney: The Corruption

(Connection to concepts of decay, mushrooms worms, bugs n decomposition, illness and deterioration, consumptive/ unhealthy attachment style, self-destructive desperation for love/ “always wanted to be killed by something that loves me”- that whole squash monologue captures my point pretty well.)

Jedidiah: The Web/ The End

(He’s hyper-aware of the string pulling us all along to our inevitable fate, serenaded by the unstoppable ticking of a clock. He tries to know, control, and change that. He tries to pull the strings and turn back the clock hands. He manipulates/ hides things from Sydney, who’s all wrapped up in the web he strung. Themes of fate, inevitability, death, and the cheating of it!)

Elijah: The Distortion

Infectious hysteria! His presence is accompanied by confusion, (what’s regarded as) delusional religious beliefs, and just a general aura of dreamlike surrealism. He’s cryptid-like. Those who look at him are overtaken with his religious fervor. Sydney worries that he’s a hallucination for a while. Themes of madness, unreality, and not trusting one’s own mind (manipulation falls under that category).

Adam: The Flesh

Yeah. Next. (Takes on other people’s appearances! Cannibalism! Blood! Mutilation! He knows how human brains function and he uses that understanding to toy with them, that could be interpreted as taking advantage of the fallible nature of flesh. So easily destroyed!)

Ok short spitfire round for some of the counsellors/ others that I can think of atm

Rowan: The Extinction

Juniper: The Distortion

Lucille: The Web

Soren: The End

[shy-sapphic-ace]

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing good!

I'm looking for new queer fiction podcasts to obsess about! So far I've listened to:

The Adventure Zone (that was a while ago, and I'm still not caught up on Steeplechase and everything after that)

Welcome To Night Vale

The Penumbra Podcast (Juno Steel and Second Citadel now!)

Wolf 359 (that was supposed to be my HAPPY COMFORT PODCAST jeez)

King Falls AM (Also was supposed to be my comfort podcast...)

Kaleidotrope (This one's really a comfort podcast)

Dragon Shanty (Thanks for the rec!)

Dark Ages

The Lavender Tavern

The Two Princes

Second Star To The Left

RADIO: Outcast

The Bright Sessions

Vega

The Magnus Archives

The Strange Case of Starship Iris

Stellar Firma

Me And AU

Trice Forgotten

Maxine Miles

Light Hearts

Wooden Overcoats

Faux & Stallion

Camp Here And There

Malevolent

The Night Shift

The White Vault

Old Gods of Appalachia!

Archive 81

So if there are any suggestions, I'd love to have new stuff to check out! (Finished podcasts would be great but if it isn't that's fine)

Edit: Wow! Thanks for all the recommendations! Now my to-watch list is much, much longer than it was before!

[octobergrover]

i like the riordanverse. i like moominvalley...

the urge to make riordanverse characters into moominvalley species and to make moominvalley characters into demigods.... the urggeeeeee

[p1nk-pallas]

seeing TMA fans making a mermaid au... it's making me wanna do a CHNT version...

[thebugautistic]

thinking about the wtnv-tma-chnt crossover au I made. I should make stuff about that

[bats4sophie]

A thing I wrote. Where instead of Elijah, it's Jane Prentiss. Uh. I dunno it's quick and I don't know if it makes sense but it seemed cool at the time. I might add more later.

*there's a click, and a ding like a bell over the speakers of the camp, as Sydney begins the announcements. The instrumental version of the song "Your body, my temple" plays quietly and slowly in the back, and Sydney speaks in an unusually flat, monotone voice* The trees wish to claim me. The gravity pushes against me, sagging the skin, heavy and rotting, from my bones and from my joints. The ground wishes to claim me back. *After a slight pause, his tone is cheery and loud as usual* Good morning campers! You little dust mites probably can't see it from the mess hall as you eat your delicious breakfast, but the campfire is burning a strange and exciting colour of green! And it's giving me horrible visions of death and destruction! Wow! *Don't go near the campfire, kids.* It's currently 9:78, and for breakfast, you kids will be having a lovely concoction of green eggs, brown eggs, purple eggs, and frog legs held together with a lovely handful of the goop that has mysteriously been showing up in the cabins. Vegans get leaves. Exciting! This morning's activities are... Team building activities. Yikes. Good luck from me kids, and uh... Don't tell anyone I told you, but if you ever get hungry in the day, I have restocked my secret candy draw in my office. *He giggles, and end the announcement*

*In the hours of lunch, as the kids march their way once more back to the mess hall for their - no doubt - delicious lunch meals, once more, the announcements click on over the camp wide speakers, and the little ding of the bell, signifying the beginning of the announcements* Hey ho, campers! I hope you had a swell time with your team building activities, and are now truly enlightened to the possibilities of working together as a team! The time is currently 12:65, and... This afternoon's announcements are going to be slightly different from usual. *Once more, music plays in the background, slow and quiet, except this time, it's The Rumba of Death* Multiple reports have stated sightings of a lady, with long, scraggly, black hair, in a torn and beaten red dress, her movements jerky, her skin covered in tiny holes and rashes, often seen crawling with tiny, squirming insects, skulking around the edges of the forest... I don't want to alarm you, kids, but please, please be careful today. We don't know what she wants, or if she's dangerous, so steer clear, and if you spot her, please report her to the nearest councilor immediately... *The music comes to a stop, and after a pause, he again speaks in a cheery tone as usual* For this afternoon's lunch, we have goop stew! Matthew says there really is a lot of goop. Afternoon activities areee...*movement of paper* lessons on self defense against pixies, with Yvonne. Have fun kids! *The announcements ends*

[transingthoseformers]

Oh this is fun

Now, iicr i 100% got an ask a bit back involving baby snatching and was instantly reminded of that, and this is a cool integration of the lore surrounding blacksmiths.

But also whoooo boy did I expect the religion aspect. I can see why they'd rail against the creation of carried newlings, they'd lose their precious control over Cybertron's reproduction. The part about "Primus's Vision" makes me wonder what path exactly that refers to, because it seems like some mecha have a very specific image of how their world should be like in regards to this.

Also W roddie

[0rosenstern0]

My master list of hashtag in case i can't find them

[dexterkronos]

Alternative Idea;

Heads of Institutes/Key Eye Avatars: Owls

Archivists/Assistants: Moths

Unaffiliated: Cats..? (Idk I read cats can represent curiosity), Ravens..? (Odin's key bird that represents insight)

Also Alternate Idea;

CatMoth John. I have no reason why in particular but it's funny to me.

Further, more like canonical idea;

Its a subconscious determination and not so much a role decided.

John chose a moth because (insert Points for MothJohn regarding episodes).

Jonah probably would have picked an owl because anything vaguely insinuating a gods involvement sounds about right to him.

If Gerry were alive and had a choice/wanted to I see him picking a Raven probably. Or an Owl. Or nothing.

Rosie as a cat feels pretty cute but realistically I think she'd be a moth just cause of her feelings on being trapped by Elias/Jonah

Albert Von Closen I don't care much for your monster form so I won't bother

Serapeum Archivist should be a Sphinx or an Owl Harpy because of how corrupted they are. Moth would work but uh... idk I like the Serapeum Archivist too much.

Gertrude is stuck as a moth and she'd hate it (reasonably I see her refusing a monster form)

Amy Patel you're an Owl now because of your w a t c h i n g

Why MothJohn when OwlJohn?

Okay so like being serious here; what's with everyone assigning Monster Johnathan Sims into being a Moth? Why can't he be an owl?

This has bugged me an inordinate amount and in true Eye Lady fashion, I'm gonna try to prove my propaganda ideation has merit (and also unravel this bloody mess).

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Please help me unravel this with your own theories/responses/knowledge this is critical for my AO3 Magnus x (OwnSeries) AU

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Points for OwlJohn:

Owl symbolism in the Magnus Institute's logo

Owls (mainly the Little Owl) are associated with the Greek Goddess Athena (Goddess of Wisdom, Warfare and Handicrafts), and the Eye is a Wisdom-based Entity fragment.

Being an Owl (Athena) puts them at odds with Spider (Arachne), thus being reflective of the Eye (Watching) and Web (Acting) mindsets.

Harpy John! Like, hello???? Bird wings??? Being a big floofy owl creature like Eda Clawthorne from The Owl House????

Owls blink super quickly so like, metaphor for not being able to close eyes?

Points for MothJohn (so far)

Mentions of a 'chrysalis' in MAG 162

Death's-head Hawkmoths are apparently tied to supernatural/evil things?????? [Source: Wikipedia..? (i cant remember)]

Moths apparently represent transformation and rebirth??? [Source: some website labelled the "Tarrant Country College" idk i took a cursory glance]

Quote about being between a moth and a pilgrim [MAG 164..?] (Courtesy of @cirrus-grey )

Moths can have eyes on their wings to scare off predators (Courtesy of @nonbinarytoast)

If I've missed anything, please tell me because I'm genuinely curious for the sake of the Magnus-(Own Series) AU I'm cooking on AO3.

Might even try cooking a MothJohn vs OwlJohn propo image, or use one of my Archivist OCs for the Magnus-(OwnSeries) AU. Or both. Or all three.

(Also yes I know about Sphinx!Jonn and Dragon!John variations but there's no. bloody. owls.)

[potato-lord-but-not]

ok humor me here- chnt au where mostly everything is the same except it takes place in the magnus archives universe ?? and yk I’m open to community speculation and yall adding on to this because I need more opinions !!!! unhinged ramblings under read more :^)

ok ok so camp here & there is a site that’s run by The Spiral, everything outside of that is practically normal, but the camp makes everyone believe that the events that go on here are actually not that weird. It could also be a place where the bridge between the fear entities and earth is thin, so that’s why there’s a lot of activity from several different entities.

At least once a counselor mentioned “why do we keep working here every year?” And Soren was never actually fired, which just adds fuel to the fire tbh.

Most of the counselors there are just marked by the spiral, but others are marked by different entities. Some might not be full on avatars yet, but still posses supernatural qualities (like Oliver Banks until his death). Rowan is an Eye avatar, and although it’s made a point that the eye can’t really see the future, that just makes Rowan’s situation that much more worrying. Soren, ofc, is an avatar of The End. Self explanatory. Jedidiah mighhhttt be Web aligned, or even The Lonely (now that I think about it he most definitely is the lonely in someway) but I’m not entirely sure what to do with him yet. Adam is a Flesh avatar, and maybe one of the only ones who actually knows he’s an avatar (besides maybe Soren and Lucille). Elijah seems like an End avatar, with him being overly obsessed with making sure Sydney stays asleep for the greater good of humanity. His trying to sacrifice Sydney was an attempted End ritual, and would’ve most likely failed w/o intervention bc Sydney hasn’t been marked by all the fears yet.

Sydney is this au’s Jon, he’s being led into the position of the antichrist by Lucille, who is The spiral avatar. So far Sydney has been marked by the spiral (working at chnt), the end (Soren, the gravediggress, and the mold), the hunt (… the hunt), the flesh (Adam), the corruption (the hive incident), the eye (the bonfire, Rowan), the lonely or the web depending of which Jed aligns with more, andddd I’m sure others that are slipping my mind rn.

Jed (more than likely on accident) cemented Sydney as an Avatar after he killed and reanimated him, and Sydney is able to stay fit at the camp bc he feeds off the unhinged Spiral energy it creates. I also think Sydney was marked by The End at an early age, and that’s why he was chosen to be the sacrifice by Elijah (even if he doesn’t realize it) and why he’s very into death and decay.

The Magnus Institute DOES exist in this au, and they (Jon n the gang) find out about this camp due to a tired looking young man who convinced his slightly unhinged boyfriend to make a statement with him about the strange place they work at over the summer (ps Juniper is Very spiral aligned, more so than the rest of them, thinks that the camp is actually pretty normal and doesn’t know what Rowan is going on about, and seems to live in a place that Jon later finds out doesn’t exist at all)

ummmm I think that’s it for now, let me know if you have anything to add or silly thoughts about it ??

[ikari-600]

Shattered Glass AU

I had already designed an SG Bumblebee in different colors because I was bored. I also drew Blitzwing, but I don't consider it part of an AU. However, yesterday I had a burst of inspiration along with a story idea, so I think this will be my first AU. I've started writing the story; it will be only five chapters long because I have another story I'm working on.

Here are some details about this "Bee": he is more reserved, prefers to work alone, and the fewer mechs that get in his way, the better. He is skilled with daggers and knives, and while he sometimes uses a sniper rifle, he finds it more exciting to dive directly into the enemy. His colors give him a great advantage for exploring and camouflaging, allowing him to catch more than one mech off guard. He is very good at what he does, which is why his superiors occasionally "forgive" him when he disobeys and goes on a solo mission.

There is only one mech who would think twice before stabbing him in the back, and that is Bulkhead. They didn't get along too badly in training camp, and Bulkhead also showed great talent in engineering. It was clear he was going to go far, and if that was the case, Bee preferred to keep a friendly relationship with him to have some leverage. With any luck, he might even get to meet Ultra Magnus.

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Ya había diseñado un Bumblebee de la serie SG en diferentes colores porque me aburría. También hice un dibujo de Blitzwing, pero no lo considero parte de una AU. Sin embargo, ayer tuve un ráfaga de inspiración junto con una idea para una historia, así que creo que este será mi primer AU. He empezado a escribir la historia; constará de solo cinco capítulos porque tengo otra historia en la que estoy trabajando.

Aquí algunos detalles sobre este "Bee": es más reservado, prefiere trabajar en solitario y cuanto menos interfieran otros mech, mejor. Es experto en el uso de dagas y cuchillos, y aunque a veces usa un rifle francotirador, encuentra más emocionante lanzarse directamente sobre el enemigo. Sus colores le proporcionan una gran ventaja para explorar y camuflarse, permitiéndole sorprender a más de un mech. Es muy hábil en lo que hace, por lo que sus superiores tienden a "perdonarle" de vez en cuando cuando desobedece y se embarca en una misión en solitario.

Hay solo un mech que pensaría dos veces antes de apuñalarlo por la espalda, y ese es Bulkhead. No se llevaban mal durante el campo de entrenamiento, y Bulkhead también demostró un gran talento en ingeniería. Era evidente que iba a llegar lejos, y si ese era el caso, Bee prefería mantener una relación amistosa con él para tener cierta influencia. Con suerte, incluso podría llegar a conocer a Magnus.

[driftsart]

Wait so, where does the story for the au take place, exactly? Are the Autobots and Cons still on Cybertron? Are they on Earth? When does it take place? :3

Autobots

The Autobots are divided up to look for Decepticons.

- Team Prime is Sentinel's group that changes location every now and then. Sometimes they're in autobot base (on earth) and sometimes they're on cybertron.

-Ultra Magnus' group of Autobot travel from Cybertron to Earth and back to carry messages, sometimes other autobots from one place to another, etc.

- The Earth Autobots are the autobots who have settled on Earth. Some of these include: Jazz, Prowl, Rung, Drift, etc. They live in autobot base and work alongside humans, except for Drift, who doesn't like to stick around near other autobots for long.

- Other autobots: Many autobots are allowed to travel between the two planets, others are on Cybertron, capturing all the decepticons there and others are on Earth trying to find the remaining decepticons there.

Decepticons

The decepticons are mostly scattered across earth and Cybertron, in hiding.

- Megatron's group, are in hiding since they first landed on Earth. With spare parts from their escape pods, they created a ship-like home, well hidden with Earth's nature. It's somewhere on a very very tiny island, not even found on maps.

- Tarn's group (Tarn, Arachnid, etc.), (Are Decepticons who are against autobots but against Megatron too. They see Megatron as weak and pathetic and they think the decepticons will lose because of his gentleness. They believe Megatron should be replaced) Is on Cybertron, because they refused to cower and escape Cybertron like Megatron.

- Captive Decepticons: Captive Decepticons are those who were unlucky and got caught by autobot soldiers. They're almost always sent to autobot prisons on Cybertron, where they're treated terribly (they're kinda like Concentration camps). Blitzwing's one of them.

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Important Time Periods:

These time periods were the ones with most important parts that are important to the story.

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WW1

- WW1 was when the Decepticons arrived on Earth. It's when humans first made contact with Cybertronians.

WW2

- WW2 was when the autobots first landed on Earth. Sentinel was the first to arrive alongside Optimus. While Optimus was distracted with humans and trying to become their allies, Sentinel made some bad deals with the wrong allies.

- Blitzwing and many other decepticons were also captured by both autobots with the help of Sentinel's human allies (the axis 😬). Some were given to the axis for experiments while others were taken back to Cybertron to prisons.

Present

- The younger autobots start to become suspicious of Sentinel and begin doing their own research alongside their younger human allies. Some even start talking to some decepticons that are held captive.

- Tensions between the autobots rise and the younger ones refuse to follow orders more than usual.

- The Autobots are getting closer to finding Megatron's group.

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[angelcqre]

CoD TMA AU

ARCHIVIST

Statement of [Name Redacted], regarding her camping trip in The Grampian Mountains. Original statement given January Fifteenth, Two Thousand and Fifteen. Audio recording by Jonathan Sims, Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London.

Statement begins.

ARCHIVIST (STATEMENT)

Now, before you say anything, I know how I sound. I know that it was stupid to go out into the middle of uncharted wilderness and get piss drunk. Believe me, I'm not interested, the park ranger gave me an earful when he found me and the cops did the same. Especially now. But.. something happened, something bad, and if I don't - if I don't say it, I don't know. I'll explode.

So…

I'm not really an outdoors type. I'm an inside cat, I like to curl up with a good book and a cup of tea and my cat, but Farah insisted for her birthday that we go camping. She's always been like that - hiking, caving, camping, it's her thing, and when Farah wants something, she's set on it. Doesn't let it go, especially because she knows how to cash in favors.

So - we went. I didn't want to go, but we went. Me, Farah, her boyfriend, Alex, and her boyfriend's friend. John. I didn't really know him, but he seemed nice enough. We were supposed to spend a long weekend roughing it, three days and three nights for the holiday. We packed plenty of booze, plenty of food, all the proper first aid crap.. and we spent four hours hiking to what John said was the perfect spot.

He was strange from the get-go. A little too touchy-feely, a little too in your space, but he seemed… enthusiastic, I don't know. Eager. He was obviously passionate about it, kept stopping me to show me edible plants, poisonous mushrooms, whatever caught his eye. If it was notable, you'd best believe he was stopping to point it out. It was almost kind of cute, if it wasn't so.. feverish. [VOICE DROPS, ASSUMING SCOTTISH ACCENT.]

"Look, bonnie, look here," and he kept saying it, over and over. It felt like he was trying to prove something - like that he could take care of me, maybe? I don't know.

He just.. didn't stop. He had so much energy, kept moving, expression bright and eyes wild, kept insisting I call him Johnny. It wasn't.. flirting - I don't know what it was. Too familiar. He was so big, just this huge guy, looming over me, smiling with these insanely white teeth that..

Is it crazy to say they looked sharper than.. normal? I know, cliche, but they looked.. sharp. Like fangs. Whatever.

So we settle down on the first night, and of course we all start drinking, set some sausages over the fire, the whole deal. Farah is a clingy drunk, so she disappears with Alex into the woods as soon as she's got some booze in her, and then it's just me and John - Johnny. He hasn't drank a sip the whole time we've been there, just clutching the same beer bottle, nursing it for hours, just.. watching us, and his gaze is so intense. Like he's sizing us up.

At some point, he gets up. Says something about it being "about time", offers me this wink, and then he's strolling off into the woods, whistling to himself.

A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go…

He doesn't come back for naarly an hour. They don't come back for nearly an hour, and I start to get a little worried. I mean, look at me, I would not be able to, like, fight a bear if it came down to it, you know? I just keep feeding the fire, getting jumpier and jumpier, but eventually, he comes back, and..

At first, I don't know what it is. He just looks.. dark. His mohawk looks wet, and his clothes are stuck to him, outlining every muscle, but he doesn't step out into the firelight, stays in the shadows, so only his eyes and his teeth are visible, reflecting the light, and it feels wrong, feels sick.

He asks me, point blank, if I'm tired, and angles his head towards one of the two tents, and I tell him no, not yet, I'm waiting for Farah to get back, and he, uh.. he tells me she's not coming back.

When he steps into the firelight, it's like he's prowling, stalking more than walking, you know? He's moving like… like a predator, all smooth and uncanny, and now that I can see him, I can see that the wetness is.. blood, and he's covered in it, like, head to toe. It's worse at his mouth, his teeth are totally stained, like he was just.. ripping into something, I don't know. Biting. And his teeth are too sharp, and with the way he's moving, and the blood, and.. the look on his face, I just.. bolt.

And he laughs.

I can hear it echoing through the woods, bouncing off of every tree, but I don't hear him running after me. No, he just.. starts walking, and that scares me more, because he's so casual about it. Like he knows I won't get away.

But I run, and as I run, I can hear it, bouncing off of every tree, and it's December, right, so there aren't any leaves to block the moon or muffle the sound. I can hear him whistling as he walks, always seeming to be too close to me, no matter how fast I run, just out of sight, and eventually, I get to a clearing.

Everything feels too still. No nightlife - and there hasn't been any wildlife, no birds, no squirrels, nothing, and I'm realizing how bad that is.

And of course, I trip. My foot gets stuck in a gopher hole, of all fucking things, and then I'm dropping down, and he's on me.

His hand on my wrist, leaning down, and he's -

I don't know.

His eyes are blown out, manic, his teeth so large, ears.. pointed? I don't know, but he's drooling as he ruts against me, all but frothing at the mouth, mumbling about mates and calling me his little bunny, telling me that I had my fun, but that he's ready to have his prize, and-

And I have my bear mace still.

Because I can't fight bears.

He starts fidgeting with my clothes, and I just.. I pull it out, spray him, and he's so big, so unnaturally big, his muscles all.. I don't know, tense, wrong, and I spray him until he's howling and then I run.

I don't think the park ranger was happy to see me, but I was sure as shit happy to see her.

The thing is.. and why I came to you guys..

I keep.. getting this feeling.

Like I'm being watched. Hunted.

Like I never really escaped him.

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Statement ends. We attempted to contact Miss [REDACTED] following a similar statement we'd received months ago, regarding a man fitting the same description, but when Martin spoke to her, she informed him that all was fine, and that she was happy now.

That she was expecting pups.

Knowing Martin, he likely misheard her. I'm likely to dismiss this as a hallucination; with the mushrooms she discussed, perhaps she ingested some. The police seemed to think the same, and administered a drug test upon her statement, which came back... clean.

There isn't much more we can do here. If Miss- er, Mrs. MacTavish, doesn't wish to aid in further investigation, we, unfortunately, are stuck at a standstill.

Recording ends.

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