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#Ncuti Gatwa#Black excellence#Hollywood diversity#racial bias#industry standards#white mediocrity#representation#cultural background#acting career#systemic racism#inclusion in media#breaking barriers#casting diversity#societal expectations#love and acceptance#shifting status quo#racial inequality#acting industry#pressure to excel#cultural representation#diversity in media#Hollywood inclusion#racial double standards#minority representation#Black actors#media stereotypes#equal opportunity#racial bias in casting#breaking stereotypes#cultural authenticity
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I really love that Anne gave Lestat a romantic interest that didn't fall within the conventional 1990s westernized standard of beauty, like his description of a forty-year-old Gretchen in TotBT is just so refreshing to me — even today!
I thought again how like the Grecian women of Picasso she was, large and fair. Her eyebrows were dark brown and her eyes light-almost a pale green-which gave her face a look of dedication and innocence. She was not young, this woman, and that, too, enhanced her beauty very much for me.
Large and not young! What a visionary, truly.
*I will not be talking about Gabrielle here because a) she's Lestat's mother and he loves her so he is already predisposed to want to see beauty in her and b) Lestat describes Gabrielle as being slender with features that were "too kittenish" which "made her look like a girl"; I feel that that is obviously a different type of beauty altogether.
#i think fandom tends to hyperfixate on louis and nicki and ignore the fact that lestat actually has quite a diverse range of lovers!#(most controversial statement of my entire career)#vc#the vampire chronicles#lestat de lioncourt#gretchen#quotes
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Le sigh. I want to move to Canada one day so bad. Even perhaps to just go live in the backwoods (though Vancouver is really amazing). I recently reconnected with my nice lesbian auntie and she said she would help me research ways I could potentially immigrate sooner than later (and she's very good at those sort of things)... waa... thank you, nice lesbian auntie. I'm counting on you.
I think my goal is to get up there in the next five to ten years •̀.̫•́✧ and my first step to accomplishing that is.... Moving to Washington! >:D
Please cheer me on or I'll send maggots to your brains! <3
#I'll take my time getting nice and comfy in Washington but#before I even think about immigration I'd have to tackle the question of my career path lol#Vancouver is expensive. too expensive for a wageslave like me.#So I'll have to explore my options a little more and consider what it is I want to do.... hmm hmm hmm....#I'm hoping the more I venture out of my shell and explore the world#especially when I end up visiting Van more frequently (which seems to be an artsy & diverse city)#that it might become more apparent what it is I want to do with my life#:3
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Donald Sutherland guest stars as the appropriately named Philip Guest, a less appropriately unbalanced kidnapper, in Gideon's Way: The Millionaire's Daughter (1.21, ITC, 1966)
#donald sutherland#fave spotting#gideon's way#the millionaire's daughter#1966#itc#classic tv#:(#I've had this rattling around in my drafts‚ with a whole heap of other Gideon's Way posts‚ for months now#just waiting for me to get around to tagging them and getting a few final quotes etc (moving abroad did not help in that regard)#a sad reason to be dragging this out from drafts but it felt fitting somehow to mark Don's passing with one of his earliest and#most obscure roles. anyone who has followed my fave spottings at all (follow the tag for more early Sutherland) will know i have always#championed Donald's status as surely the most successful rentayank on the scene; they were an (unofficial) group of actors‚ mostly from#Australia or (like Don) Canada‚ who'd moved to the UK for work and found themselves filling just about any American role on classic tv or#in minor Brit films. Don was far from the most prolific‚ spending just a few years in the uk where others (eg Paul Maxwell‚ Shane Rimmer#Charles Tingwell and more) ended up staying for most of their long careers. but Don did the rounds‚ turning up in shows like this and#The Avengers‚ The Saint and The Champions. he even managed to fit in a couple of films‚ including Hammer's Die Die My#Darling (aka Fanatic) and the wonderful Dr Terror's House of Horrors for Amicus. then it was on to bigger and better things...#i can't think of many legitimate Hollywood leading men (and he absolutely was that) to show such incredible range#to work so diversely across genre and across style and to jump so readily from trashy blockbuster fare to genuine art film#in many ways he was a jobbing character actor somehow caught in the career of a full blown movie star; those films were all the better#for that fact and for his sheer dedication to his craft‚ to having fun‚ to doing the kind of stuff he wanted to do#truly a one off. we don't get many Donald Sutherlands. we should cherish the ones that we do#rip
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Okay, so I was re-reading your Slider one-shot for like the twentieth time, and what really struck me (beyond the brilliance of your writing, and the way you’ve presented the disillusionment of growing up, expecting the world to be a certain way, only to realize that life doesn’t quite work out the way you think it will, when you’re seventeen), is the casual sexism just tossed ‘round by our main characters!! :o We have canonical evidence of both Ice and Mav being pretty sexist (what with “the plaque for the alternates is in the ladies’ room” and the downright stalker-ish behavior exhibited by Mav at the O-club…), but it still surprised me a lil’ when twenty-y/o Ice was just like: “The Soviet Union did the impossible and taught women to drive” —and I realized that ah, he truly was born in 1959, or something. There’s little scenes throughout your story where I find myself wondering, which one of them is better, in this sense: When Ice tells Mav that Sarah isn’t talking to him ‘cause of his combat kills, justifies it by saying: “You know how women are”, and Mav tells him all women aren’t the same… I thought that maybe, it was Mav; but then later, Ice shows a distinctive amount of empathy for Juno, sees and respects her for the skilled pilot that she is… and I thought that maybe, it’s Ice after all—he does seem to be more progressive and accepting than Mav, in general? It also made me wonder, that if either of them had been a woman, would they even have respected the other person enough to consider them to be a rival??—or would it have a been a mildly-amusing circus side show for them, to have a female pilot at TOPGUN?
Ty for the ask anon!! ice is more socially progressive than mav yes.
But—maybe this is my experience growing up in one of the bluest counties in Commiefornia and then going to one of the most leftist-coded colleges in one of the most leftist-coded cities in The World; uhh, even if a white man votes D all the time & has professional respect for women/minorities to their faces etc, get him in a room with a bunch of other white men, especially in a masculine and competitive environment like the gym or the navy, and uh. progressive or not, what you get is a lot of “The Soviet Union did the impossible & taught women to drive.”
And it was the 1980s. (As a reminder, in top gun’s 1986, less than 45% of Americans even approved of interracial marriage.) It sucks to say it, but if Ice was making fun of Cougar for quitting the navy cause of his psych issues such as they may be, and openly calling bullshit on Maverick’s MiG story in front of everyone, I am quite confident in saying he Would Not respect a female pilot to her face—if they were the same rank. At the same rank, it’s a competition. All weaknesses, even perceived biological ones, are to be exploited and called to attention. —But, once he’s advanced in rank, proven his own superiority, he’s more inclined to favor a meritocratic “sex doesn’t matter just fly good” attitude, ergo his relationship w/ “Juno” (she’s just a literary symbol to show that Ice may have respect for other minorities in the Navy “your career speaks for itself” but NOT FOR HIMSELF as a closeted man). This “who cares about gender/race just fly good” attitude is probably where 50s+ Maverick lands too, which is why no issues with Phoenix.
but jesus GOD maverick is a sexist in the original Top Gun. That’s why I wrote the prologue to WWGATTAI—a part of me definitely believes both he and Ice are definitively queer, but a part of me also wonders, are they just also conditioned to dismiss women as intellectual/societal equals because of their time in the 1980s male-dominated Navy? CAN they really only have a truly equal relationship with another man? I have no idea what my Ice’s sexual orientation is for exactly this reason. Yes, he’s functionally gay by the end of it, and that’s what I keep calling him—but sexuality is fluid & complicated. It’s definitely more-than possible he’s mostly straight and it’s just the circumstances of his wildly intense trauma-bond relationship with Maverick that led to their relationship as I wrote it. If you don’t LIKE/understand/respect women, and only feel at home/excited by committing acts of male-typified violence with the few men you respect, how does that bend your definition of the word straight? ...its still straight, but only straight-ish!
not to take it a step further, but WHY ELSE is canon maverick single in TGM? he canonically can’t make it work with women until he retires from the navy!!! he doesnt know how!!! His military environment is not conducive to normal long-term relationships with civilian women!!!
#and it’s well well documented that career military service does this to you!#Jesus look at cops. 40% etc.#yeah mil/LEO relationships with women are historically quite bad.#if you only respect men & then a man comes onto you—might be easier to sustain that relationship than with a woman you do not respect#I forget where i read it but this is the element of the homosocial vs the homosexual. i want to say Foucault but I think thats incorrect#EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK. from her 'between men: English literature & male homosocial desire.' I think she's the preeminent homosocial scholar#if ur interested in 'further reading' not to sound like a geek#fellas is it gay to like women#after all…women kiss men…so if u kiss a woman ur kissing something that’s kissed another man…gay#ice (mid-makeout): well mavericks kissed women before so really this is the most heterosexual thing i could do#anyway#pete maverick mitchell#tom iceman kazansky#top gun#top gun maverick#icemav#asks#edts notes#mav is a social libertarian live & let live & keep the govt out of my bedroom (except for my marriage license uwu)#ice is a social moderate liberal. donates to actblue firmly believes diversity is the militarys greatest strength etc.#(i hope this isn’t too provocative to say but) look at ices outfit in tgm. libcoded. those gay little round glasses? solid lib.#the interracial marriage stat is from Gallup btw; 94% in 2021. weve come a long way. a lot has changed since 1986.#but our fav characters are FROM 1986 too so... we still cant forget that
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Can Looking Weird at Work Be Good for Your Career?
I work in a large technology company. Like all technology companies, it has a diversity problem in its high-level, high-visibility roles. Most of their leaders are straight white men over the age of forty.
It’s something they’re acutely aware of, and desperately trying to address. They’re terrified of not addressing it. And they have good reason to be.
This generation is more racially and ethnically diverse than ever before. Its women are more educated and command more purchasing power. We’re less religious than any other generation. We embrace LGBT people so hard we damn near pop their little gay heads off. We aren’t getting married, having children, buying houses, or spending money in a way to which companies can easily adapt. Diversity is a core part of who we are as a generation.
And yet despite that, many of the crucial industries that drive our economy fail to reflect this new normal.
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Renee Montoya is like. The Gay of Gotham City. More specifically she’s the Gay Ex of Gotham City. In every comic? She’s Kate’s ex. CW Batwoman? She’s Poison Ivy’s ex. Gotham show? She’s goddamn Barbara Gordon’s mother’s ex. Most bicycleable lesbian in New Jersey.
#renee montoya#diversity win! this gay is on her fifth divorce!#batwoman#gotham#leo says shit#local woman just can’t stop committing toxic yuri. worried this may affect her career as gritty noir detective.
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i have never really wanted to touch an animal but i really believe i belong in this field
#not because im grossed!! im just scared because a dog bit my butts when i was smol!#i love being here this is the best#its so fucking diverse i can have at least 50 different careers from here
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I wanna make a Conky ref and lore sheet/bio, I'm really growing attached to that goober
#I'm giving him exaggerated versions of my own percieved flaws and yet he remains lovable#which feels good tbh like if this guy with cranked-up versions of my physical mental and social flaws is lovable then#there's nothing wrong with me! Putting my “worst” traits (most of which are morally neutral) into a homunculus and saying “ily”#he's hairier and has a fluctuating belly-heavy weight and is cartoonishly gullible and naiive and forgetful#he trusts people he probably shouldn't and comes across as clingy/overly-enthusiastic and smells weird and neglects his hygeine at times#he's fruity and doesn't really know it#he's annoying and has poorly-kempt facial and head hair and his room is a mess and he has weird eating habits that concern onlookers#he struggles with social cues and never shuts up and lays around too much and dresses in baggy tattered t-shirts and pants#he cries easy from emotional causes yet has a pain tolerance too high for his own good and takes abuse with a smile because he's so naiive#regardless of his current ever-fluctuating weight his belly always sticks out at least a little and he lacks muscle so looks like a...#...hairy marshmallow even when technically “thin” (I believe the term for being “light” yet having almost all “mass” be fat is “skinnyfat”)#AAAAAND he's probably wretched with diverse and gross-looking scars under that shirt (I struggle w that real bad)#BUT I LOVE HIM!! He's everything I dislike about myself distilled and yet I LOVE HIM!!#I now understand why people say being a career clown is great for self-esteem lol#when you can be your “worst self” and be loved then... well that must mean your normal self is lovable as fuck!#conky lore#conky#my sona#sona#sonas#conkycore
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10/10 🌅🌆
#after a whole year my girls delivered (as expected) 💯#another great album (mini… I want a full one so badly but I know how busy they’ve been)#they truly have such an amazing diverse discography already#their music has been incredibly well produced since debut and really highlights their vocals well#I love how they are 10 years into their careers but still constantly trying new things and showing artistic growth#you can tell how much they love what they do#SinB’s rap in Cliché I was gagged that’s a whole new tone for her I love it#I NEED to see Cliché’s choreo it’s so powerful and cunty… hopefully they pull an Untie with this one!#but Shhh! was the right choice for title track it’s so catchy and danceable#Full Moon could be my number 1 and one of my favorite VIVIZ songs ever & songs this year but it’s criminally short and missing a bridge :(#still LOVE it!! Cosmic girls VIVIZ 🙌🏼 again something they’ve never tried before#I really like Hypnotize! I love their jazzy rnb tracks so much (like Overflow) suits their voice so much#this one also has a cosmic/ spacey vibe 🌌 fits with the Voyage (so many French titles I’m proud) concept 🚀#Love & Tears is so special & emotional (written AND composed by our Umji 🥹) tho it’s not something I would listen to often I still#appreciate it a lot (the production and their vocals are so good once again)#very very very proud of these girls 🥰🥰🥰#viviz#voyage#kpop#girl groups#ggs#EP#album#mini#2024#music#eunha#SinB#Umji
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district 4 female tribute of the 74th hunger games ♡ cecaelia
#i feel strongly about more diversity in the hg cast and the girl who played nora in the wilds is perfect for d4 girl#also i don't even remember the original movies but i think the actress cast for d4f wasn't white#however there are white people in these other pics - i don't control that lol i did a 5 minute search on pinterest#but yeah careers of color my beloved <33#it's part of the reason i will never even think of fancasting a white woman/any other actress tbh for eno#especially because meta golding is literally the perfect person for eno#district 4 female tribute#thg#the hunger games#**mine#mineaesthetic
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have y’all seen that tweet that’s like “i’m probably nonbinary but i have a job so idrc about that rn.” that is so heavily kakyoin coded
#/ tbd#i don’t mean to insinuate that nonbinary people over 40 don’t exist because ofc they do and i know some of them lol#but i will say that if kak had been born 10-20 years later he would definitely identify that way jdhshehdvdn and that’s just bc#growing up in the 70s-80s in japan there just was not a lot of information available about gender diversity and kak was already#going thru it realizing he is gay and like. while he was never ashamed of being gay it was def smth he didn’t like#openly talk about until he was in his 20s & just stopped giving a fuck#and once he learned about nonbinary people he was kind of misguided in thinking like . oh that’s only for people who#have dysphoria/don’t identify with their assigned gender at all#like he probably didn’t realize it’s actually a spectrum until he was already married and had a child and a stable career#and by that point he was just like idk whatever JTHSHSVSVSDWFWGQS#being nonbinary myself and not really realizing it until i was already in my mid twenties and also working in education#i’m kind of in the same boat in that like . i kind of just let people misgender me because it’s just too much work to frequently defend#my identity and also i’m like not super mad when people she/her or ‘miss’ me even though it does make me a lil uncomfortable lol#ultimately my portrayal of kak is a cis man and identifies as one but like . also he might be nonbinary actually . idk it’s hard to explain
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MLK Celebration Gala pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and his writings on “the goal of true education”
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MLK Celebration Gala pays tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and his writings on “the goal of true education”
After a week of festivities around campus, members of the MIT community gathered Saturday evening in the Boston Marriott Kendall Square ballroom to celebrate the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Marking 50 years of this annual celebration at MIT, the gala event’s program was loosely organized around a line in King’s essay, “The Purpose of Education,” which he penned as an undergraduate at Morehouse College:
“We must remember that intelligence is not enough,” King wrote. “Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.”
Senior Myles Noel was the master of ceremonies for the evening and welcomed one and all. Minister DiOnetta Jones Crayton, former director of the Office of Minority Education and associate dean of minority education, delivered the invocation, exhorting the audience to embrace “the fiery urgency of now.” Next, MIT President Sally Kornbluth shared her remarks.
She acknowledged that at many institutions, diversity and inclusion efforts are eroding. Kornbluth reiterated her commitment to these efforts, saying, “I want to be clear about how important I believe it is to keep such efforts strong — and to make them the best they can be. The truth is, by any measure, MIT has never been more diverse, and it has never been more excellent. And we intend to keep it that way.”
Kornbluth also recognized the late Paul Parravano, co-director of MIT’s Office of Government and Community Relations, who was a staff member at MIT for 33 years as well as the longest-serving member on the MLK Celebration Committee. Parravano’s “long and distinguished devotion to the values and goals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspires us all,” Kornbluth said, presenting his family with the 50th Anniversary Lifetime Achievement Award.
Next, students and staff shared personal reflections. Zina Queen, office manager in the Department of Political Science, noted that her family has been a part of the MIT community for generations. Her grandmother, Rita, her mother, Wanda, and her daughter have all worked or are currently working at the Institute. Queen pointed out that her family epitomizes another of King’s oft-repeated quotes, “Every man is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth.”
Senior Tamea Cobb noted that MIT graduates have a particular power in the world that they must use strategically and with intention. “Education and service go hand and hand,” she said, adding that she intends “every one of my technical abilities will be used to pursue a career that is fulfilling, expansive, impactful, and good.”
Graduate student Austin K. Cole ’24 addressed the Israel-Hamas conflict and the MIT administration. As he spoke, some attendees left their seats to stand with Cole at the podium. Cole closed his remarks with a plea to resist state and structural violence, and instead focus on relationship and mutuality.
After dinner, incoming vice president for equity and inclusion Karl Reid ’84, SM ’85 honored Adjunct Professor Emeritus Clarence Williams for his distinguished service to the Institute. Williams was an assistant to three MIT presidents, served as director of the Office of Minority Education, taught in the Department of Urban Planning, initiated the MIT Black History Project, and mentored hundreds of students. Reid was one of those students, and he shared a few of his mentor’s oft repeated phrases:
“Do the work and let the talking take care of itself.”
“Bad ideas kill themselves; great ideas flourish.”
In closing, Reid exhorted the audience to create more leaders who, like Williams, embody excellence and mutual respect for others.
The keynote address was given by civil rights activist Janet Moses, a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s; a physician who worked for a time as a pediatrician at MIT Health; a longtime resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and a co-founder, with her husband, Robert Moses, of the Algebra Project, a pioneering program grounded in the belief “that in the 21st century every child has a civil right to secure math literacy — the ability to read, write, and reason with the symbol systems of mathematics.”
A striking image of a huge new building planned for New York City appeared on the screen behind Moses during her address. It was a rendering of a new jail being built at an estimated cost of $3 billion. Against this background, she described the trajectory of the “carceral state,” which began in 1771 with the Mansfield Judgement in England. At the time, “not even South Africa had a set of race laws as detailed as those in the U.S.,” Moses observed.
Today, the carceral state uses all levels of government to maintain a racial caste system that is deeply entrenched, Moses argued, drawing a connection between the purported need for a new prison complex and a statistic that Black people in New York state are three times more likely than whites to be convicted for a crime.
She referenced a McKinsey study that it will take Black people over three centuries to achieve a quality of life on parity with whites. Despite the enormity of this challenge, Moses encouraged the audience to “rock the boat and churn the waters of the status quo.” She also pointed out that “there is joy in the struggle.”
Symbols of joy were also on display at the Gala in the forms of original visual art and poetry, and a quilt whose squares were contributed by MIT staff, students, and alumni, hailing from across the Institute.
Quilts are a physical manifestation of the legacy of the enslaved in America and their descendants — the ability to take scraps and leftovers to create something both practical and beautiful. The 50th anniversary quilt also incorporated a line from King’s highly influential “I Have a Dream Speech”:
“One day, all God’s children will have the riches of freedom and the security of justice.”
#Administration#Africa#America#anniversary#Art#background#billion#Building#career#challenge#Children#civil rights#college#Community#Conflict#crime#Department of Political Science#display#diversity#Diversity and Inclusion#education#equity#Faculty#Featured#Forms#generations#Government#hand#Health#History
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Beyond the Boardroom: Mixing Business with Pleasure
Mixing business and pleasure is not a fleeting trend but a comprehensive strategy that can lead to productivity and improved well-being.
In the modern business landscape, the age-old adage of “never mix business with pleasure” seems to be undergoing a significant transformation. As the lines between professional and personal lives increasingly blur, a new paradigm emerges, advocating for a harmonious blend of business activities with leisure pursuits. This approach, often encapsulated in the phrase “mixing business and pleasure,”…
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#adaptive work cultures#balance in professional settings#boundary setting#business and leisure integration#business innovation#career advancement#collaboration techniques#corporate culture evolution#corporate retreats#creative inspiration#cultivating professional friendships#digital nomad lifestyle#diversity and inclusion#effective communication#employee well-being#engaging work experiences#enhancing team cohesion#entrepreneurial lifestyle#flexible work arrangements#fostering creativity in the workplace#hybrid work models#inclusivity in the workplace#innovative business practices#job satisfaction enhancement#leisure activities in business#leisure-driven productivity#modern workplace dynamics#navigating professional landscapes#networking strategies#personal and professional growth
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Thank you Yale thank you Harvard thank you UC Berkley thank you Stanford. <3
#especially props to yale for doing the right thing and leading this because they were actually ranked 1 and benefited from the old system#quite a bit#and still brought up the disparate impact this was having against schools that prioritized#public service careers and socioeconmic diversity#my school got screwed by the rankings even though it was voted best in other reports for elevating the economic status of it's incoming#students#and has the best environmental law program in the country#and has a bar passage rate slightly above the state average#and ny has the 2nd hardest bar exam
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Books of 2023: THE ECHO WIFE by Sarah Gailey. I don’t recall intending to hop on the Acquire-All-Things-Gailey train, but at some point I did?? And I have No Regrets?? This one was actually a gift, which was delightful!
#books#books of 2023#book photography#the echo wife#sarah gailey#honestly i suspect gailey might be approaching Writer Goals(TM)#writes in a variety of genres and has wildly varied Aesthetics but definitely a Writerly Brand#i'm here for the genre hopping with recurrent themes and wild spread of ideas honestly#cat valente is the other author i side eye and go.....hm. Maybe You.#at some point i heard an agent say 'think about which currently published writers whose careers you'd like to have'#so i percolate on that intermittently haha#but gailey has some (one) YA and then writes the spread of spec fic#and i think i'm here for it tbh#valente is similiar in my brainpan#(i appreciate valente's length diversity too)#not me pining after authorial careers on a monday night or anything....
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