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At this point, gender nonconformity is about what the person says their experience is.
If a woman with a beard or a man with lipstick and a mustache says they're gender nonconforming, then they are! If a woman with short hair or a man with long hair says they aren't, they aren't! And that's not even getting into the awesome nonbinary, abinary, genderqueer, intersex, and general genderfuckery that may both be and not be conforming.
So much of what is even considered gender conforming or gender nonconforming is based on a world of exclusion. When we start defining one's conformity with whether they fit into white cishetero perisex standards or not, we play into the idea that there's only a very narrow window of what is considered worthy of time and thought.
#gender nonconformity#gnc#queer#like. for instance a native man who keeps long hair might be considered GNC by white standards but for him it's absolutely not nonconformit#there's an aspect of white supremacy that silences everything else while saying that other culture's silence is indicative of whiteness...#...being 'correct' or 'moral' or 'neutral'#and as somebody who's trans and last i checked white i have my own thoughts from my own experiences#like how i don't consider myself to really be a GNC man. i'm just. man+#i'm a weird concoction of weird soup that tastes like a man but if it were Wrong#and i just don't see that as not conforming to manhood like it is seperate. i see it as irrevocably linked TO manhood#it is others who have excluded and exiled me from manhood because of *their* understanding of me and how i 'fit in' in cissexism#while i will never ever say i know what it's like to not be white i will say these conversations that PoC have started have been INVALUABLE#i am forever grateful to have been extended the patience and faith to listen in on the experiences of people...#...who are racialized in terms of gender and how they do/don't 'fit in' with often white supremacist views on gender/dynamics#may have made a post like this years back but. eh. arrest me officer i will not back down#i've been more and more 'gnc' as i go into my transition and i don't see it as nonconformity but as an outlet for my masculinity#which is why i'm not insecure about my crafts and creations. because it is coming from a male whether or not it's considered 'manly'#i have little to *no place* in cissexist society so why should i put any stakes into if they ~accept~ me#made this post while jamming out to skyrim's tavern OST (paused my game to write this)#why the HELL does the skyrim tavern music have to go SO HARD. i NEED to slam down BARRELS of mead while listening to this istg#i don't even LIKE honey so i haven't tried mead but. for skyrim i would.
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Kusakabe, dear, you're too beautiful to be saying that kind of stuff
#jjk spoilers#All the prettiest characters were brought back from apparent death#Nobara was okay and it's true that when I read the lawyer's and Kusakabe's fights against Sukuna I thought it was being kept vague#but to pull a Nobara with all of them... idk#No one stays dead here except for the people who actually care for the kids and by that I mean 'including Yuuji'#kinda lowkey bitter about it#Don't get me wrong I like the characters and also they're super pretty but idk It makes death feel cheap? And the high stakes kinda fake?#Choso Gojo and Nanami actual only characters who died apparently#Well. Poor Itadori#And Kusukabe goes and runs his mouth that way in front of the kid. He is not entirely wrong but also he very much is#And yes he also says 'don't worry it's not for you to feel guilty over anything you're just kids' but also he did very much say that thing#about it all being Gojo's fault for not killing Itadori. In front of Itadori who feels guilty for that precisely#and in front of Megumi who asked Gojo to spare him and also went through the experience of Sukuna using his body as well#So Kusukabe's reassurance about them just being kids and not to feel guilty falls a bit empty#It does feel in character but man it truly makes one appreciate the way Gojo and Nanami dealt with the kids a lot more haha#Ui Ui seems like a dear#Anyway... this chapter felt a bit lame for the most part for me? I like the idea of the characters discussing the could have/would have#and feeling guilt and helplessness over their choices but the way it was done felt a bit lame and without any real emotional punch#It felt more like an explanation to the reader in an awkward way. And there's a lot of empty chat about guilt and grief#without any of the characters really giving off a grieving air about everything and everyone they've lost#And this is precisely what I felt was going to happen with this manga's writing haha#I truly don't understand this kind of writing choices. Contrary to some other shonen writers this author did seem to have the potential#to write this kind of thing well besides the worldbuilding and powers and fight stuff. It's truly a pity. It so breaks my heart#And still this is considered one of the good shonens. Well. WELL haha#I do think shonen can be good! I just think it falls almost always even when there's potential into bery shallow writing#I don't know. Maybe I should read that one Alchemist manga#I've been repeatedly told that one's good and it does seem like it doesn't do... this. But I find the art style so not to my linking#I wish I had never gotten into JJK for real for real. I absolutely adore it. I always end up frustrated. It could be so good. Genuinely good#And yet it's just okay in a sort of forgettable way. What a pity#Everything good ever is present but it never dares do anything to fully explore what it sets. It just does the typical shonen stuff
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Key to writing Dave is that you have to understand that he is just a guy™️. Just a guy who is good at his job and thus is boring.
Is he severely traumatized before the events even begin? Yes but it’s in a way that informs him and his actions more than the actual story itself and there’s… ough
There’s simultaneously so much there and nothing there. He’s just a regular guy— like he’ll go home, make dinner, watch TV and go to bed. He doesn’t exactly have some huge mystical everyday you know? Idk
#//#rambling#I love him you don’t understand#man watches the game and is in bed by 10:30 ok?#me observing men in their 30s in the wild for accuracy’s stake 🧍♂️#ooc#🪐 bowman
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after thoughtful consideration i’ve mapped out a list of the bsd men who are most Mother and i fear kunikida takes the top spot easy (closely followed by chuuya)………..
#i kinda want to say mori ngl but that’ll get me burned at the stake by some of you….#aaaa sigma and ango are up there too!!#you might say well ari where is oda 🤨🤨 and i understand your confusion but even i have to admit that man is Father#love him though mwah#mothered so hard he fathered (geto’s anti-thesis)#ari noises ✩
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guys i have been in a state for days. i am giddy i am gasping for air i am broken inside i am blushing i am sweating i am twirling my hair i am suffering i dont know how to deal with the very real possibility that nandor has loved guillermo for years and has been restraining himself, feigning aloofness, keeping his distance, because all these years he understood that maybe guillermo would never be ready for vampirism - and maybe hes been so depressed in the latest years because hes finally found someone he wants to spend eternity with, and he strongly suspects he will spend eternity missing them instead
#i truly truly truly dont know how to deal#this season recontextualised the whole show for me#if i shipped nandermo before now i am absolutely batshit crazy about them and its all i think about#wwdits#wwdits spoilers#what we do in the shadows#nandermo#this is just speculation but i just - i feel it in my bones#like fuck imagine having been alone for 800 years. fuck. imagine losing lover after lover and being kind of a disaster at romance actually#imagine finding someone you so easily connect with and theyre so amazing you love them so much they can even hold their own against you#and fuck they like you back. and then you understand that they are too fundamentally kind to be a monster.#and its like a fucking stake through the heart its like youre made of glass and youre shattering#i hate this and i swear to god. they need to end up together. not just to end up together#they need to spend the rest of their lives together and ideally eternity tbh#i dont care gizmo you get over the killing hangup and have nandor turn you and spend eternity in#bliss and shenanigans. like man. man. man. i love how this season turned out i really do#but i hope its more of a ‘he had not thought it through and wasn’t ready and also we need to have nandor do it fr’#anyway nandor becoming human is also ok but i really hope that they find a way to navigate guillermos inability to kill#like. nandor killing for him or him robbing blood banks or him only hunting predators etc#or him feeding without killing people#just bc i still really like the concept of them having so much time together and their time together not be limited#i feel like after all those years pining for one another. they deserve that
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*stands at the top of a stage with a megaphone *
LET BATMAN HAVE FRIENDS.
#personal#dc#HE DOESN’T NEED TO BE FRIENDLY#BUT I THINK HE DESERVES PEOPLE WHO WOULD GLADLY SPRAY HIM WITH WATER LIKE A CAT#I love shipping I do I read a lot of ship fics#but good god#just let this man have platonic relationships#he can even fuck them in like a super casual and respectful fwb thing#but the amount of fics where this man is completely isolated from non familial relationships except for that one love interest#low stakes friendships PLEASE#platonic BatLantern is my goddamn bread and butter#especially if they’re romantic they should be friends first and foremost because otherwise it’s just straight up toxic#LET HIM BE FRIENDS WITH HIS LOVE INTERESTS TOO#PLEASE JUST GIVE THIS MAN FRIENDS#IM LOOKING AT ALL YALL FUCKING FANFIC AUTHORS#I’m so tired of romance being the end all be all#what happened to being supportive and understanding of your partners#why do they just fuck and have complicated situationships were chemistry is the only thing holding them together#THIS APPLIES TO ALL CHARACTERS TOO NOT JUST BATMAN#oh my god Bruce Wayne too#let him have friends
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Taylor has officially endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz and denounced Tr*mp's AI posts using her image and promoted voter registration on her Instagram after the end of the debate tonight.
Miss Americana lives.
Thank GOD 😭
#I actually feel very relieved by this you don't understand#my mind was made up long ago I mean there's literally no options this time around there's far too much at stake#and god dammit I hate that man and everything he and his cronies stand for#but it's very reassuring to see this from her nonetheless#especially in light of recent controversies and discourse and everything has has been very conflicting and confusing#on an emotional level as a life long fan and someone who has always believed whole heartedly whether it's naive of me or not#that she is a kind and good hearted person who cares about people and is a source of light and is a safe space for people#I think this is very reassuring to see and will be for a lot of people who care for her as well#but we have to still keep her accountable and hold her to the standards she's set for herself in the past#the same way that we have to hold ourselves and our friends and our families accountable for our and their actions and choices#but this is certainly a step back in the right direction#she just needs to stay the course and I pray she does. I pray we all do.#abby's serious hour#abby after dark#taylor swift
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okay so like genuine question that may just be the dubiously-maybe-arospec in me speaking but how many like. crush confessions in real life mimic those super dramatic ones that happen in fanfics where like the person that confesses starts crying and apologising for the fatal human flaw of Having An Emotion and is all like “oh i understand if i’ve made you uncomfortable and you never want to see my face again blah blah blah i’m going to make a bunch of assumptions about how much you hate me before you’ve even gotten a word in—“
because like. in my personal experience, of both being told and telling other people about romantic feelings it’s always been just. “i kinda have a crush on you” “okay 👍 cool” and then we either do or don’t date for like a week or whatever because this mostly happened in highschool when none of that shit really mattered anyway, at least to me
basically what i’m asking is, does a single person on planet earth actually get that high-strung about revealing a crush or is this just a kind of annoying/off-putting fanfic trope that sprung from nowhere??
#.txt#like i’ve gotten nervous with crushes and stuff before like i get the anxiety around it#it’s just . the dramatics#they immediately take me out of the scene and make me close the tab#i read a fic recently that did it much more casually which i liked !#and then there was these fuckin soliloquies from two characters who would not fucking talk like that#okay maybe one of them would but the other wouldn’t have#idk. i think i’m too like. laid-back about most things to understand the high emotional reaction#to something that’s pretty low stakes like that#like man just chill#then again there’s a lot of fic tropes that i don’t really understand and tend to put me off
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i go back and forth on rin's elemental nature. i really think fire suits her for thematic parallels to sasuke reasons and also i just think fire is cool and suits her whole. perception of her self and being weird about purpose deal. but water is also cool because i think rin deserves to bloodbend. elaine kind of beat symbolism where she controls other people to try and come to terms with how she can't control herself. the way to resolve this is to take the path of "nature can warp under stress or whatever" and let rin's og nature be fire, so she has that in the entire og timeline and also the team 7 sensei au (good because those are the ones where the sasuke parallels are the Strongest) and then in the akatsuki!rin au the whole almost dying thing somehow leads to her nature changing to water. which works well because that's the au where she is the weirdest about control and also masks. 👍
#i am going to write up the timeline for the rin team 7 sensei au at some point i just need. to work out a few kinks#(the kinks are kakashi. in case you were wondering)#i know EXACTLY how rin would work in that situation lmao it's actually really fun because somehow she gets. better ? mental health?#also sasuke FINALLY gets to be a medic. and rin gets to address her complex feelings towards being pushed into a medic role by the system#its soooo good and also i kill off minato <3 man gets drawn and quartered by iwa and he DESERVES it!!! i lvoe him#anyways kakashi does do the whole tsukuyomi gig but i have no idea why. lmao. im figuring it out#it's not that i can't picture him doing harm. it's that i can't picture him dropping the singleminded loyalty#maaaybe i could get him in on a misguided itatchi type beat? but even that doesn't make sense#because like. hold on stick with me. he's danzo.#yaknow the kind of guy who devotes his soul to the village and will go against pollicy if he thinks its necessary but is still 100% loyal#i will have to write the sakumo danzo kakashi essay sometime. because oh baby.#anyways if you've read this far and don't wanna burn me at the stake for weird danzo opinions feel free to chat me up about kakashi#i am. open to aid on my understanding of him. not dead set on much.
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This man.....
#does he understand that my sanity is at stake here?????#like a tiny wise man once said: IM GONA LOOSEEEEEEEEEE ITTTTT#i need him to yeet me into the sun#monsta x#shownu
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Girl like. The reason he said "this is how it should be" and faced death with a smile....is cuz he wanted to die. For 2 years he sat there thinking he was worthless and deserved to die. If he hadn’t be shot, his death would’ve been suicide, he was fully planning to die in a gutter somewhere undetected. When saying "this is how it should be" hes literally saying "don’t cry because I’m dying, my death is a good thing actually because I fucking suck and you are better off without me". I don’t think that’s badass even slightly, it’s actually really sad and really shitty. Shinjiro is so convinced that he deserves to die and hates the idea of anyone giving a shit about him because he literally can’t wrap his mind around the idea that he will be missed when he’s gone, that his death is a bad thing actually. And his last words were meant to be comforting because he fully did not intend for anyone to be there when he died, he intended to die alone, so he says them as a reminder that he’s not worth crying over
Personally, if it were me, if I was holding my dying best friend in my arms who was deeply depressed and suicidal and he said "this is how it should be" uh. I wouldn’t admire him for it??? Like am I losing my mind when I say the way this game handles Shinji is bad or is anyone else seeing this too 😰
#its like okay listen i understand the basic math of any persona game they say things and everything they say is actually#very bad when you think about it for more than 3 seconds#like what theyre intending to do with the death of this character is be like oh no your sad friend dies tragically thats so saddddd#but that doesnt mean you cant live a wonderful life full of meaning you cant let grief consume you life is beautiful awagga#and i guess shinji is a specific character whos used cuz i guess its more tragic that he never realized he was worthy of life and shit#and i guess its also like ‘dont be like this guy who let grief consume him and then died you gotta Be Different’#which i dont. love. that last part cuz if you think about shinji and what led him down this road#its like. of course hes depressed! he accidentally killed a woman with a child when he was 16!#he himself is an orphan and he just made some other kid an orphan as well and it happened cuz his persona went out of control#which very much can translate to ‘this must mean im dangerous and can hurt everyone if im not kept under control’#so of course he isolated himself and believed he was evil and became suicidal like who wouldnt feel that way#like am i supposed to be mad he left sees and took drugs cuz uh while i dont think isolation or Evil Drug is good for his mental health#i dont think him continuing to fight in sees is something he can just easily do again given how he killed someone like he shouldnt have to#be a part of this thing anymore like how would he even safely get castor to not do that??? he cant kill more people on accident!#so yeah like using shinji as an example of bad coping mechanisms is already just. a big fucking oof to me like it just feels like the game#is saying he shouldve gotten over it and simply not be suicidal and stayed on the team. idk if thats the intent but uh it wouldnt faze me#cuz persona games are notoriously awful at writing characters who are traumatized and abused#but what makes everything even worse is how the game kinda like. acts like shinjis death is a stepping stone#like we’re supposed to use it as a wake up call and understand the stakes but keep going on anyways#and akihiko and Ken get. ‘great character development’ according to the game telling you they have now developed#but damn all akihiko is is just repressed he cries for 3 seconds and then is like I SHOULD MAN UP and then neglects a depressed child#shinjis dying words are words to live by now even though they piss me the fuck off like girl am i crazy HES FUCKING#HES TELLING ME NOT TO CRY OVER HIM BECAUSE HE SHOULD BE DEAD ACTUALLY AND THIS IS A GOOD THING ACTUALLY#like if the game wants us to still find meaning in life despite losing someone it just really hurts that shinji has to die for that to work#apparently. cuz the character i see myself in is shinji. not some perfect prettyboy who does everything perfectly and has 4 gfs#his death seems like a punishment for bad behavior. the bad behavior being of course depression and drug use. and im simply supposed to be#better than that if i want to live. and we dont get to form a connection with him cuz thats gayyyyy#and his death is like a NOBLE HEROIC SACRIFICE idk its just such bullshit to me i hate it so bad#how is killing a suicidal guy and then treating it as admirable that he said ‘this is how it should be’ supposed to make me feel#makes me feel sick personally and it ruins the entire game’s theme to me because its fucking shallow and the story is bad and im tired
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It's been... hm. Disappointing to say the least to see accounts I know who correctly called out both people's dismissal of Ukraine and leftists that carried water for Russia's imperialism in the name of being anti American, now all suddenly use the same talking points they once condemned in order to defend Israels colonization. All of a sudden viewing everything through a cynical political lens is justified ("Why does Ukraine have to appease Russia?" You said. Only now you keep implying that Palestinians have the responsibility to keep Israel's war crimes as low as possible and never question why the people living in an open air prison and brutalized daily should have to appease their oppressors).
Accounts who have 10 posts condemning both Hamas and general pro Palestine sentiments for every one post touching on the source of the conflict (and none acknowledging that Hamas exists because Israel deliberately quashed other, less extremist resistance movements) are the same accounts who before were able to rightly call out people for using Azov as a quick way to dismiss all cruelty and brutality Ukrainians are experiencing. The switch from criticizing people who only spoke about Ukraine to condemn Azov to becoming someone who only speaks about Palestine to condemn Hamas is jarring to witness. It's just a massive lack of empathy towards Palestinians in comparison to Ukrainians and it does come as a shock from people I thought had more sense and self awareness. How can you spend months on end breaking down exactly what insidious tactics people used to justify Russia's brutality only to turn around and parrot those same tactics? What is it about Palestine that makes you suddenly so eager to focus on everything but the people fighting for their freedom, whereas before you were straightforward in condemning anyone who did not acknowledge the reality of what Ukraine is dealing with?
It really does come down to Palestinian being the "other" to Israel and Ukraine's "civilized" western-approved states. Disgusting and disappointing, to see that those accounts weren't actually principled against imperialism and oppression, just against anyone who disrupted the western status quo. For all their criticisms of pro Russian leftists choosing campism over having principles and a spine, they're no different in the end.
#vent I guess#idk man I just don't understand how people can be so biased#If you would condemn the same situation if it had a different coat of paint#then why is this specific shiny coat tripping you up so hard?#especially accounts that have no stake in israel whatsoever aside from hearing about it on the news#like I recognize that jewish people with friends and family in Israel are going to have complex thoughts and emotions about this situation#Even if they're staunchly anti Zionist#but for accounts where it's not personal to them in the slightest and yet they still turn that bias on so easily...#Seeing how it's primarily americans and europeans doing this I'm pretty comfortable calling it racism.
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it's good that i already don't like jim as a guardian so i am not affected by wheather jim being homophobic in the previews is accurate or out of context, i do worry for little li ming though 😭
"but vi he's tryin-" no i have ZERO empathy and understanding for any bad guardian/parent. i don't care if you have trauma, i don't care if you're poor, i don't care about how difficult your like is, i don't care how much you love the kid but struggle to show it.
if you have to take care of a kid, you do so with love and affection and care regardless or your circumstances, which jim is not the best at, which automatically makes me dislike him as a character, no greys, only black & white.
yes you make mistakes as a parent, but you can always make it up to them, and it costs literally nothing to be kind. stop projecting your problems on your children
#vi.txt#sometimes shows hit too close to home and it hurts sksksks#thank you p'aof for depicting how frustrating it is to live in households with overbearing caretakers#yes its very real yes i still hate it#i agree with every argument of jim trying his best given his life age circumstances but those aren't reasons to condone his behaviour#just because its understandable doesn't mean its okay#because all that does is set a very dangerous precedent#there are parents who have gone through hell and a lot worse and still end up being a hundred times better and kinder#jim as a gay man should be protective of li ming because of how cruel the world is#instead of showing that same cruelty in his face in the name protection#you know all these things sound good that jim's intensions are good even if the way he conveys them isn't#but how are we forgetting that there's the mental health of a very real child at stake here who is only going to see the actions#moments like these are the ones that break you destroy you#stop making excuses for bad parenting it only makes it worse for children in abusive households to not feel guilty
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lieutenant sunshine.... that's it that's the post
#delete /#i Know i have a thing for the sunshines i realize this that is my overarching muse type i just.. man smth about mickey is so refreshing#like it's not a naive sort of optimism because he Does understand the stakes he understands the risks he was picked out of hundreds of#pilots just like the rest of the team. regardless of the number of missions he's flown he's earned his spot in the roster AND on the#shortlist of people actually picked for the mission itself. i think a lot of the times his energy can get misread as him not taking things#seriously but i think he just has such a strong sense of optimism and he's just.. innately hopeful. as the tensions rise when mav's running#the big 2:15 run right before they go you can Hear him as soon as mav makes the shot; you can hear that hope come back. i just think he's#neat!!!! but also that energy vs when he realizes that his tech is down and like the potential switch when they get back and everything's#over and the adrenaline fades and the weight sets in... yeah i'm very normal tonight i'm so sorry
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thinking of devils in chainsaw man and demons in supernatural
#there's some interesting details there on how different culture handles the topic of supernatural elements like that#and also how religion reflects the way society understand evils and all that#but alas i don't have enough brain cells to do that#and i still didn't finish watching supernatural still#but what i do know is chainsaw man did a pretty good job at establishing devil's existence for such a short time#and because of that these creatures still feels scary even as the story moves on#supernatural however is a lesson on how one should end a story when there's nothing more to be told#because it's been existing for too long the existence of demons and angels become less terrifying and more... banal#especially when they hit the 10th seasons#that's when no matter how much they heightened the stakes there's still no apparent threat to the main characters#because there's no more mysteries to unravel and no more creatures to explore#but i still think the early seasons did a great job at establishing the mystery behind demons and angels#which is why those seasons feels more terrifying compared to the latter ones#tmi tag
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i do actually think assane's choices in s3 like. entirely make sense. whether you agree with them or not. his father died and gave him a decades spanning revenge complex and his mother, as far as he knows, just vanishes out of thin air. of course he drops everything the second she contacts him he's got parental issues larger than the entire country of france. my man has been making decisions that negatively affect people who care about him in the service of his own greater Plot since season 1. it's both 100% in character and 100% understandable given *gestures* all that
#i love assane very much but he has Not been coping healthily. hes seen way too many people die and hes developed a complex about it#and now he models himself after a fictional character from a book his dad gave him before he died. like. Come on. what part of this#insinuates this man will make any sensible decisions. also i am not an assane/ben shipper so i feel s3e4 was less significant for me#it's a) a sign that the stakes are higher b) an entirely understandable manifestation of assane's need to find his mom#of course he's making bad choices. because he has like. flaws#neon has thoughts#unrelated but it's super fun to me that the lupin book was given to him by his father who got it from the pellegrinis. hes entirely tied to#them whether he likes it or not. narrative#anyway sorry for my followers who have no clue what im talking about. i saw like 1 or 2 posts in the tag and thought about it again#lupin
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