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As much as I adore conlangs, I really like how the Imperial Radch books handle language. The book is entirely in English but you're constantly aware that you're reading a "translation," both of the Radchaai language Breq speaks as default, and also the various other languages she encounters. We don't hear the words but we hear her fretting about terms of address (the beloathed gendering on Nilt) and concepts that do or don't translate (Awn switching out of Radchaai when she needs a language where "citizen," "civilized," and "Radchaai person" aren't all the same word) and noting people's registers and accents. The snatches of lyrics we hear don't scan or rhyme--even, and this is what sells it to me, the real-world songs with English lyrics, which get the same "literal translation" style as everything else--because we aren't hearing the actual words, we're hearing Breq's understanding of what they mean. I think it's a cool way to acknowledge linguistic complexity and some of the difficulties of multilingual/multicultural communication, which of course becomes a larger theme when we get to the plot with the Presgar Translators.
#imperial radch#also a great example of the 'you don't have to be Tolkien' phenomenon#if you want to think about linguistic differences by building all the languages in your setting#and being able to explain what those differences are through actual texts in the language in question#that's AWESOME#but it's not the only way to do it#it's also interesting because of course this style only works in book form#everyone's speaking different languages but in a written account they're all 'translated' for you#but of course if it was a TV series they would all have to be speaking a language the audience understands#(or you *would* have to go wild with conlangs)#and i think that's really cool as well--#how for a series where song is so central we don't actually hear any of the actual in-universe words or any of the music#it's all been filtered#and again you know this is happening but seeing the examples of how real songs--the shape hymns and 'L'homme Arme'--are presented#makes you a lot more viscerally aware of how limited your perspective is#it's good#ann leckie i love you
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It's maid day! *maid-fication beam*
#svsss#scum villian self saving system#ren zha fanpai zijiu xitong#shang qinghua#shen qingqiu#myart#cumplane#but like platonically?#eeeeh don't take it too seriously they're hanging out for the photo let's say#also let's just pretend it's still maid day and not 1am#I like victorian maids outfits and I think they fit perfectly with sqq's vibe I want to see him in more of those#sqh deserves me trying to make up a design mixing qipao elements and maid dress... idk what I'm doing#I originally had an awesome comic idea for maid day but I didn't take the time to draw it in time so for another day maybe
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i forgot what his ingame name was and had to scrub thru a bunch of videos looking for him like a cryptid and i think that's incredibly joe hills of him
#hermitaday#joe hills fanart#joe hills#hermitcraft fanart#hermitblr#my art#I love puppets btw idk i felt like i should let you guys know i adore puppets#they're such charming little guys.. funky little creatures....#i know next to nothing about like. actual puppetry i do know a lot more goes into it than people think#but like im just a puppet fan you know. you show me a cool puppet im like whoa!!#kermit the frog is like. such a handsome little gentleman. yknow.#i love seeing puppets behind the scenes too on their little hangers#they're like. little pet animals. to me.#and creepy puppets are really awesome too. when they're a bit uncanny on purpose#there's this one music video. evil by interpol. the puppet guy in that got abandoned and then they found him and restored him aughh my hear#big fan of puppets. big puppet enjoyer. casual puppet fan.#all that being said joe hills is like a puppet to me yeah even without juppet he just has those vibes#charming little fella. little guy who only goes up to cleo's kneecaps.
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"It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission."
LOCAL VEGETARIAN RESORTS TO CANNIBALISM BECAUSE DINNER IS LATE
In case you can't read my handwriting or see the video, have it in writing! I added a line in too haha! Happy birthday to everyone who interacts with this, I'm so tired <3
"You should stay away from me, Jon," Damian's voice is still, if not a touch softer than usual, "I'm dangerous." His face flushes, eyes casting away, as he continues, "I bite." The air is still for a moment, and Damian's eyes sweep back toward his partner. Jon stands, incredulous, for a few moments, and then quickly shoves his jacket's sleeve up past his elbow in order to show Damian's teethmarks, printed there only 30 minutes prior. "I know?!" He huffs, amazed he still comes over to have dinner with this nasty boy after all the weird, freaky things he does with no warning whatsoever, "You're impossible, dude!" Damian had just been so hungry, waiting for their food to arrive, annoyed that he hadn't chosen to just cook on his own, too late to change his mind and cancel the order. But how was he to know Jon would be so overdramatic about his attempt to self-soothe! Didn't he see that he needed to chew on something before he exploded? And it's not his fault he didn't cool off until after the food arrived, either. He's saying sorry now, after all..
I just think these two are so SILLYYYYYYYY I got the idea like 3 hours ago and scribbled this immediately. It's almost 6am now. I'm not even that mad. Tired though.
I think Damian can be the kind of person who bites people affectionately. It's something my friends dislike about me but sometimes I get zoomieeee I gotta chew something!
#art#sketch#video#digital art#jondami#damijon#supersons#fanart#screentone#comic#does it count as a comic even tho I just prefer to do it videostyle RIP#batfam#superfam#jon kent#damian wayne#jonathan kent#dc#I hope this makes someone out there laugh#it made ME laugh#i mean obviously it did because I drew it but...#you know#it was a very funny concept to me! there was almost a serious ending but it's not what the supersons need#they need to be allowed the funni#also excuse me putting him in the glove sleeve things I just think they're cool HAHAHAHA I would wear them if I was a martial artist#they're also my fav aspect of genshin chongyun's outfit HAHA oh what if I made them outfit swap just for me..... my two little guys...#that'd have a TINY target audience#just me#but awesome#writing#since I added a written version in I have to tag it
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thinking abt cran revival.... Ya
#scribbles#dsmp#dsmp fanart#dream smp#dream smp fanart#cranboo#ranboo fanart#i'm not totally sure about permanently altering cran's colors but the blue is SO FUN :(#but i'd miss the ourple/orange... much to think on#in my mind cran DOES come back ok . take my hand. OUR dsmp ending now i can do what i want forever :heart:#also not on the topic of cran but i think the leaves in tubbo's hair are eucalyptus. uncertain if they're just In There or if like#there's a laurel??? shrug ^_^ i'm keeping that element Forever it looks so awesome#sigh i’m so inconsistent about what side the rings are on it’s ok❤️❤️ i don’t care about that bit too much b
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shirahama-sensei reminded me she has a thing for the teacher from pokemon s/v so i randomly went off on an au where qifrey is the professor. etc
#witch hat tag#orufrey#the first image is qifrey dressed as that guy. i'm glad she has an inexplicable attachment to some dorky pokemon man like i do#someone was like 'wouldn't it make more sense for deanreldea to be the champion' .... well no. not in my world .#it maps onto magic skill. champions aren't like the Rulers of the land they're just the most skilled at this thing#oru as a burnt out champion who's gently encouraging a kid like coco to reach him one day means a lot to me. i like pokemon narratives#agott went shiny hunting for the same thing coco had but cooler - just to impress her. she really is a pokemon rival type girl#pushing myself to the limit to prove my worth to you - to get to the summit first so i'm waiting for you..#and then realising it wasn't just to be strong - i realised i started wanting to see your smile. i wanted you to have fun.#i think coco would defeat agott at the end of victory road and then defeat oru & i'll probably draw one last thing abt that at least..#the image is very cinematic..the dialogue and music in my mind..I WANT TO FACE ORU!!!!!!!!!!#the super cool insanely powerful awesome champion is the spouse of my professor and he gave me advice at the beginning...no way....#btw the elite four would be the sages which is perfect (and maybe easthies as the first guy?) evil Team Brimhats#coustas as their renegade gladion-type figure. the gym leaders would be like sun/moon and s/v combined#travelling around facing the best students from different classes - so jujy and eunie etc.#i've barely thought about 'teams' or anything bc i care amore about the narrative side of things always lol#but idk. tetia with a swirlix - eunie would be ghost type boy - riche with small things but also a ceruledge or a steelix something massiv#and brushbug would have a final form which is really long like an eastern dragon- fluffy and with wings like a fairy. It's beautiful to me#well anyway *tries to move on to the rest of life now the brief obsession has passed*#obviously oru would be fire-type tho and qifrey would be water-type and they set off together and traded their starters etc.....it goes on
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Hey so, funny thing happened
hey what if I cried
#omg my post has been waterlogged this is awesome#Joel would never say or probably even think this in this type of wording but hey what if I cried anyway#that still applies to Jimmy so much. to me. I want to love you in front of people who didn't...#Joel being part of the ecosystem in which Jimmy's at the bottom of the food chain and treated as such. Even if they're long time friends#And then he realizes one day hey that's not cool. What they're doing to Jimmy is not cool. And that that includes him too#And he's not sure how to do better but he wants to. And he's not sure about his feelings when he wants to get closer but he does#sorry I hate it here#blabber
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Vflower drawing for yet another FB group collab (shout out to curiloid once again)
#vflower#vocaloid fanart#vocaloid#digital art#fanart#do you guys like the pins on her backpack#i think they're cool and awesome and-
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"What do you remember of being human, Echo?" The question is out of the blue and unexpected. But Sora offers a patient smile and tilts her head in curiosity, just enough that one of her ears flops over. It's endearing, if anything.
But Echo wishes she hadn't asked.
"Not much. Distinct memories are cloudy." A tired tone says softly, a pained recollection in her eyes and an acrid haze in her soul that endures, endures, and endures, "But I remember the discomfort more than anything. My body always did feel wrong back then. Misshapen. Condensed. Like it was too small for everything buried underneath, and that ache went so deeply some days that it would make my skin crawl. I hated that part the most."
At that, Sora's expression falls. She looks inexplicably sad, as if she'd hoped for a different response, a gentler one despite knowing the harsh truth about the dark future and the struggles Echo must have suffered. "But you had Grovyle, right? I'm sure he took care of you."
"He did, Sora, of course he did." A sigh, a flick of an ear and claws clenched tightly into the churned earth pressed under her paws. "I doubt I deserved his attention, though. I was too busy being angry at the world to give any care back."
In my lore, Echo does not look fully human during their time in the dark future. Since they were Darkrai before becoming human, and as a result of Palkia's reckless shattering of the Dimensional Portal which distorted both time and space, Echo's transformation was broken and accidental. They ended up looking pretty messed up and definitely (not) human. A lot of their characteristics as Darkrai carried over but rather morphed into something else.
And Grovyle, growing up in a world where humans have been extinct for longer than any living pokémon has been alive, has no concept of what a "true" human looks like. The only thing he knows is descriptions of humans from glyphs and texts in old ruins. Thus, he mistakes Echo for an actual human. And Echo, not knowing what a human looks like themselves due to amnesia, accepts this identification with nothing better to use.
#Grovyle: Hmm. Bipedal and powerless. Five-fingered hands. Wears clothing. Has... hair?? This thing must be a human like from the old texts!!#Echo: Sure I guess. Let's go with that.#Frankly I'm much more interested in Echo being some sort of pokemon cryptid than a plain ol' human tbh gimme claws and a spiteful aura#Gimme a severely messed up creature with amnesia and unhinged monster vibes and SO MUCH APATHY#Just the idea of Darkrai being shoved into a pseudo-human body and not remembering who they are but feeling SUPER dysphoric about it#And Echo basically being the most unpleasant person in the universe during their time as a pseudo-human; literally the worst vibes#But despite that a little Treecko stumbles upon Echo and thinks they're cool and awesome cause “wow you're a human!!”#Like cmon you're telling me glyph reading; ruin exploring; treasure stealing; world-fixing idealist Grovyle wouldn't be a fanboy about it#Thus begins their Found Family Arc(TM) and Echo is trapped#Does Grovyle's optimism eventually rub off onto Echo? Yes.#Anyway do you guys want any lore on Echo? Pls lemme know cause I could start sharing it a bit#I have some notes I could post or maybe more art?#kudos to Scribz for causing me to hyperfixate on my emo girl so much (this is your fault)#echo/human#echo/umbreon#pmd ocs#pmd2#pmd eos#explorers of sky#my art
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WAOT WERE U THE ONE TSUKASA COSPLAYER AT MIKUEXPO GIVING OUT MIKU STICKERS TO THE PJSK FANS
THATS ME!!!!! i didn't mean to just give them to pjsk fans help but i severely underestimated how many i should've made and cut out .. so i just ended up giving them to cosplayers or people who said hi to me .... T_T
THERE'S ALSO THIS SUPER CUTE BRACELET SOMEBODY RAN UP TO ME AND GAVE ME AND I TREASURE IT SO I NEED TO ADD IT TO THE POST AND SHOW IT OFF .. WAH!!!! ITS SO CUTE LOOK!!!!!!
#again WAS NOT MY BIRTHDAY. MIKUEXPO TORONTO FELL ON TSUKASAS BIRTHDAY IN JAPAN TIME. SORRY TO EVERYONE WHO SAID HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME.#i love your icon cause i saw a garf miku cosplayer at mikuexpo toronto too IT WAS SO AWESOME#i saw snother tsukasa cosplayer in hid school outfit and they had cute star glasses i Need some.#in the future n for cons i think i'll just order stickers to hand out .. cutting them out by hand was so much .....#especially when i did the whole pjsk cast. 10 or so of each of them. my best friend helped and it still took like 2 hours#<- I DID THAT FOR ANIME NORTH I MEAN i think i forgot to post about it here. anyways#i dont plan on tabling at cons or snything cause i just like attending them so much. but#In the future i think i'll just pay to get Nice little prints or stickers made and shipped to me to hand out ...#Sorry they arent actual stickers they're just laminated with tape i did them the night before while crunching for the con the week after.#alliellama#ask#sorry to go on but mikuexpo really was such a good time#when we first got there i was in the merch line w my friends and skmeone came up and said can you do the tsukasa laugh right here right now#but everything we said echo and i was like T_T no im shy ...#and then 2 hours later i heard there was a saki cosplayer there and started running around the venue shouting SAKI. SAKIII. SAKI.#WE FOUND HER IT TOOK ME LIKE 20 MINS which is impressive because there were a lot of people. by god.#it was so fun. we had such a good time i could go on. everyone was so FREAKING NICE. AND GAVE SO MANY FREEBIES. AND COMPLIMENTS.#but i literally only had like ..30 mikus. to hand out. i felt SO BAD. CONSERVING THEM.
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everything in ghost trick is the fault of a judicial system that relies on making cops desperate for approval and distinction even if that means punishing innocents
#6 months later he was proven innocent!#ghost trick#i think the fandom's obsession with spoilers is super sweet since the game came out over a decade ago#i went in knowing next to nothing and it was awesome though so i mean that in a fun way#source: teddybearsandlightningstorms#i don't think this is a spoiler necessarily?#i still like the person i'm referring to btw they're fun and i enjoy them and they spent so much time doing that thing for that reason
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Ariadne Oliver and Hercule Poirot, detective duo
Mrs Oliver is detective novelist and Poirot's friend. She accompanies Poirot on several of his most famous cases, providing her own unique perspective on each of the crimes they encounter. She is feisty, quick to jump to conclusions (sometimes right, sometimes wrong), and strongly believes that Scotland Yard would be better run by a woman. Ariadne Oliver is, in many ways, a vehicle for Agatha Christie's own voice, particularly in relation to writing and the public. In a 1956 interview with John Bull magazine, Agatha Christie dismissed the idea that any of her characters are truly derived from real life, although she did admit that Mrs Oliver has "a strong dash" of herself. Christie always took a somewhat tongue in cheek approach to her supposed fictional alter ego, who she credited with writing a novel called The Body in the Library, a title she would use herself in 1942.
A HAUNTING IN VENICE (2023), dir. Kenneth Branagh
#a haunting in venice#poirot#hercule poirot#agatha christie#kenneth branagh#tina fey#perioddramaedit#filmedit#ahauntinginveniceedit#*edit#tina's portrayal looks amazing <3#she's going to be an awesome madame oliver#her connection with poirot is already felt#in various clips and promos we've got#it would be quite the twist if they had#romantic undertones in this version!#canonically they're dear friends#and i'm fine with either choice <3#i don't think it'll be outright stated#but i do feel there are certain shots in the clips#where she's always looking at him#and like she's looking out FOR him#that make it an interesting romantic AU :)#where she's a widow maybe?
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the persona 3 protagonist 25th anniversary nui in food appliances!
#lizzy speaks#persona 3#minato arisato#makoto yuki#guys friendly reminder that this is what adulthood is about dont listen to anyone who calls you cringe#hence why im putting these in the main tags. i mean they're not incorrect for what the photos are about. lmao#anyway this was a very fun birthday!!! i feel very loved and supported by so many people and i got to do very fun things (like this)...#i think... birthday is like thanksgiving to me. in the gratitude respect.#a reminder of all the lovely people that i have gotten a chance to meet and how i've learned from them#it makes me very happy to have been born... i think every day is a great day to celebrate life's grandeur + brilliance + magnificence#it's just a very poignant and strong feeling that i have that i'm happy to have met so many wonderful people#and while there are some people i've only known for brief periods of time or people who i havent really been good at keeping in contact wit#i do cherish it! im so grateful. so happy that there are people who cheer my silly shenanigans on#while there are ways in which aging makes me go “oh hmm” i think overall i'm happy that i get to keep on living and learning#i have so much fondness for humanity and people... like even if i dont get to talk to ppl directly i just get very emotional yknow#like wow.. you exist.. thats so fucking awesome... i hope you have an awesome day... im glad our paths could cross#if you have read up to this point of my tags.. thank you for reading and being part of my life#i will keep on being the silliest guy ive ever known! cheers to more shenyanigans and self-discovery :3
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So i was looking into the canon romworld lore and, learning that spaceships cant do any warp speed travel bc they never developed it immediately had me thinking of mechi and his sister :(. Like, i'm just imagining the angst of mechi going home with kwahu, thinking its only been like 10 years and its actually been 100 or something bc cryosleep.... could definately be a reason why the two would go for the ideology or anomoly ending
Yeah, it would make for a very heartbreaking story if Yamka wasn't every bit as stubborn and reckless as her brother. She followed him all the way to the Rim and dragged their parents along as well. They're on the planet somewhere, but as Mechi and Kwahu aren't particularly inclined to build hotels for interaction with other factions, it may take us a long time to encounter them (if we ever do).
I'm sure Mechi imagines that their reunion will begin with a long-awaited hug, but Yamka is absolutely going to punch him first. She was not happy that he decided to go galavanting about the galaxy without her, and she'll probably be torn between yelling and crying when (if) they do meet again. Mechi will be suitably chastened, I'm sure. Maybe Kwahu, too, even though he technically never did anything wrong.
#asks#rimworld#gracie plays#A Mechanitor's Message#art#my art#traditional art#rimworld art#unpolished art#Yamka has her dad wrapped around her little finger#That's one thing Mechi and Lapu have in common I suppose#They'd both do whatever Yamka asked without question#Mechi is a mama's boy though#he gets along with Squashbug much better than with Lapu#But yes I think Mechi was just blind with annoyance at other people getting in his way#so he left on a trip that would take centuries without really thinking about it#and he hasn't paused to consider his actions since then#one day it'll hit him I'm sure#and (because he doesn't know Yamka and his parents are on the planet with him) he'll assume they're dead#and it'll break his heart#hmmmm#I wonder if I can find a way to make that work story-wise?#it could be fun to draw...#thanks for the ask!!#have an awesome day <3 <3
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Hi GT,
Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I absolutely love the recs you've given (you've introduced me to tomione, and I love it!) and I was wondering if it's possible to give you some recs in return? There are some books and fics that definitely have dramione / got vibes, and I was wondering if I could share them with you!
So glad you've enjoyed them! Feel free to rec me anything you want. I've read most of the classic recs in terms of fic and adjacent content (Cruel Prince et al), but I'll try anything that's well-written. My tastes run towards weird and/or audaciously creative stuff, and I can forgive a lot of weaknesses in plot on the grounds of (1) ambition or (2) character work. My turnoffs are instalove, protagonists who can't fail, and most Y/A (I'm not a hater, I swear, I just need characters who can say "fuck" when their leg gets chopped off.)
I'm also a fan of weird and fucked-up dynamics.(Wuthering Heights was my favorite book for a while, and as a teenager I wrote an AU in which the book ends on a long sex scene where Heathcliff fucks Cathy's ghost and then immediately gets murdered by Catherine 2.) Obviously, I am very normal.
#greenteacup asks#my beef with Y/A is mostly expressed in a dissonance between tone and content#LOVE the content. dystopia fantasy horror sex and blood — awesome. but question. why are they all saying 'darn'?#like in the vampire diaries where they'll watch people get eaten and then 2 episodes later be like 'omg SCHOOL DANCE'#(EDIT: actually in fairness. on the vampire diaries. it was mostly just caroline that did that. unfair example my apologies)#& i distinguish this critique from a common bitch-and-moan complaint about tv shows being interested in 'girly' things#like relationships and social standing. that is not my complaint. that shit is delicious. i will chomp that shit for days#my issue is that when the stakes oscillate wildly from episode to episode and i can't tell what the main thing is#like sorry. a story with murder in it is always going to be about murder. you can't make it not about murder#unfortunately! many have tried.#and in general i have difficulty reading about teenagers bc—#(she says having written 600k words about them OKAY I KNOW. i contain multitudes.)#because they're either mini-adults (preferred flavor. jude in the cruel prince nails this) or like leetol babies to me#and unless it's something like the hunger games where the Leetol Baby thing is part of the story#i'm like. hang on. you're 12 what are you doing here#percy jackson was hard for me to re-read as an adult for this reason#which is why they're enjoyable for teenagers! because as a teenager you DO feel like an adult#and you like reading books that treat you like one! nothing wrong with that! healthy even!#only then you get past the teenage years (mashallah) and you get stuff like twilight#where of COURSE bella doesn't think twice about 117 year old man falling in love with her#because he looks like a rich mysterious 17-year-old hottie#but you reread it later and it's like um well. that. could be explored a little more maybe.#i'm not even necessarily opposed to it. candidly. still team edward. i just think the dynamic should be more fucked up and juicy.#which Y/A authors are often reluctant to do. like. COWARDS! face the nasty consequences of your narrative decisions!#anyhow. you didn't ask for any of this. please give me your recs lovely person you seem very nice.
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I don’t know what’s been happening with the Alan Wake tv show AMC is supposed to be developing, but if it ever does move forward, they should absolutely keep David Harewood as Mr. Door. I’m of the opinion that the games and whatever this tv show will be should be two separate entities, but having Mr. Door as the only constant between both universes just feels right.
#“a door that stands between two rooms is in both” it writes itself!!#like i don't mind how interconnected the games are. like that's kinda the draw for a lot of people. myself included#and i feel like the games do a good job at adding connections and easter eggs without being too in your face about it you know?#i just don't want this show to turn into an mcu show. i don't want people to feel like they HAVE to play these games#just to undertstand the story. like people should absolutely play these games. because they're fucking awesome games#but not as homework. if the show is good they'll want to play the games anyway#and i feel like david's mr. door being there is more than enough of a connection for gamers to know what's up.#that this is just one of many worlds in the remedyverse.#plus david harewood is just freaking awesome i want more of him in everythingsakjf#“what about an ilkka cameo? a melanie cameo?” and if i don't want to share? WHAT THEN#gkskd;sorry i was drinking a margarita and then i got to thinking about alan wake (as you do) and now im here#anyway alan wake tv show WHEN#alan wake#lucy rants#really living up to that tag with this one boys
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