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here we are. the road to 25k starts now. gulps
#getting part one very close to being finished#still have a LOT to add to part two#honestly its going to be mega#part three is like half done#actually thats not even true what am i talking about#its like a quarter done. but its not going to be as long as other parts#part one is actually like. maybe 1k words away?? wtfffff#thats crazy#ive been doing a lot of writing on it today#which i was dreading before but its actually come out pretty easily#anyway ^_^#first part may be out in a few days depending on how editing goes!!!!!!!#don't lie to me
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i could be convinced that it's acceptable for one person to use all of the washers in the communal laundry room at the same time. i wouldn't do it myself, but i don't know your life, maybe that is really making a difference to you. but i do hold that if you do that, you absolutely must set a timer and come back within let's say five minutes of the washers finishing, to switch your laundry to the dryers, thus freeing up the washers (all of them, which you are using at the same time) for one of the dozens of other people with whom you share the use of these appliances. i really feel like that is not asking that much? like you can leave your clothes in the washer half an hour after the load finishes, I GUESS (but again! how is this not rude!), but only if there are other open washers?? did you miss the 60% of kindergarten that is about sharing. what's not clickingggg
#half an hour isn't that long but come on people#like i have just been sitting in a part of my apt where i can see if people are going to the laundry room. so that i could be alerted#as soon as one of the washers opens up. because i know from experience that people don't move their laundry on time#and i don't really feel like going down and checking every ten minutes#and i just wanted to get my laundry done before six because i have something to do at six#i started at three and i'm not sure if i will be done! which is ridiculous#wow i need to take a chill pill and be more patient lol but it is so frustrating to know that no matter how thoughtful i am#about not inconveniencing other people in this way. they will not return the favor#okayyyy i am being a baby it's not like this happens all the time so probably almost everyone is being thoughtful. deep breath time
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Fig and apple pie with pecan-cardamom crust. The figs and the apples were both foraged, which is always fun. Smells super good !
It was supposed to be in a pie tin, but I had 3/4 of a pound of figs rather than the half pound the recipe called for. And then needing to scale the recipe complicated the already confusing situation of reading while dyslexic. So I largely gave up on reading, and this is more inspired by the recipe than anything else, but here it is nonetheless: Fig, Apple, and Walnut Tarts. Anyway, it ended up too big to fit in a pie tin, hence the cobbler dish.
#havent had any due to classic long covid 'food has an almost imperceptible amount flavor if any at all'#but i can currently smell things so id rather juat smell it tbh#my roommates were at least eating it so it seems to be edible :D#cooking#baking#like there are a million competing reasons i dont and cant follow recipes (or patterns or any other written/illustrated steps)#but today it was Cant Read and Confusing All Three Recipes I Looked At With Each Other And Making An Amalgamation On Accident#along with Missing Ingredients and Philosophical Dispute With Author#(egg yolk in the crust and then she never uses the white. which i do not agree with at all#chekhovs egg--if part of an egg is used in a recipe then so too does the other part of the egg. get creative.#in this case i put it in the topping as it was already described as supposed to be crispy so...#it probably could have done with half a white honestly but it did turn out crispy)#i did also use a little food coloring. not proud of it but it was a very unappealing shade of green that lacked contrast with the crust#so *shrug*
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an Athos sketch from twitter :) I almost never post anything to twitter before I post it here, but it was also 2am when I did that, and 2am is not the hour for thinking. anyway! Athos!!! I Love Him.
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#i generally do not like being on twitter for longer than five minutes which is why i never post anything there first#i want to see what my friends are up to and also people's pets. that's about it. moving on! time for tags:#athos#the three musketeers#les trois mousquetaires#i am about half way done with a comic of d'artagnan running into athos because i love this book#and im going to accidentally end up illustrating half of it as i read#i was originally going to read it and then do comics of my favorite parts. but. it turns out All Of It Is My Favorite Part so far
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Dimitri in Three Hopes watching Edelgard and Claude radically change their countries in Fodlan while his hands are tied with having to protect the church
#the long standing consequences of being a part of the HOLY kingdom of faerghus#when Edelgard is like “just hand over the bishop” and he's like “i rly don't think you understand doing that would cause ANOTHER civil war.#And Claude reiterating that his issue isn't with the kingdom at all but with the church still stings but i appreciate his honesty#playing GW hurt so much cause the whole time i was like PLEASE DON'T DIE FOR CHIVARLY MY LOVES COME HEEEERE#outside of the miklan decision (which I hc was more Matthias's doing) i genuinely don't know what else Dimitri could've done in AG#and then at the end when he's faced with his amnesiac childhood friend who only THEN remembers him but is basically his mortal enemy now?#god AG ruins me#plus the first half was so solid and then it just fell apart when they went: evil empire bad destroy then >:(#ugh my sweet blue lions#don't get me started on the dedue and ingrid paralogue.#dimitri alexandre blaiddyd#dimitri#claude#claude von reigen#edelgard von hresvelg#fewth#three hopes#fire emblem warriors three hopes
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Recent game related things .. hrmm...
#I do like the inconsistency of the first map. that is actually something older but that I re-found and added to my Game Reference stuff#so that when characters reference where they're from I can be accurate. I like that the whole map is kind of shifted up that way. Where the#actual south part doesnt even count as the south since its Too Far and Scary lol. and if you say you're from 'the north' thats basically#like.. one single continent. Though some people do make distinctions like 'north midlands' or etc. still. I like the ways that common#language isn't always precisely accurate like that. and thinking about why a culture would classify things a certain way or etc. etc.#The inventory page is so funny to me because it's literally just the BASe like.. sample layout just to make sure it works properly with 0#actual design into it. just colored rectangles thrown together in MS paint. but what if I like... left it like that.. what if all the other#art in the game and UI is like stylized and fully matching BUT the inventory/journal/etc. screens I just left as plain colored blocks#with random misalignments and black spots and etc gjhbhjj... It looks unfinished in a Funny Contrast way to me.#the wordcounts are just like... my past few days of writing.. I am still not getting 2200 words a day done or whatever I needed. I'm lucky#if it's even half of that .... tee hee.. :3c I do also keep having appointments and other things going on but..grrr...#The full map of the area is probably not necessary but I thought it would be more realisitc if people were able to reference things. Like i#you have people all living in a city area probably at some point someone might mention a neighboring city or some landmark nearby#or etc. so I thought having at least the basic names of what's around for reference would be sensible. A side character mentioning#'oh yeah I don't live here full time I just travel from Marisene sometimes' or whatever makes it seem more like a Real#Fleshed Out Place than people just making vague references like 'the river' or 'i come from a city nearby' or 'i went to a place somewhere#around here' or 'the other city' or etc. lol.. Especially since global cities/global areas are weird as they operate almost like an#independent country within their walls. so it's like a micro country inside of another country usually. just plopped down in some agreed#upon plot of land that won't be too disruptive to the main country around it. That could get very complex depending on the cultural and#political backdrop of where they're placed (though obviously they try to choose the 'easiest' areas possible for it). Asen is a very mild#country without much history of conflict or anything so it's fine. But still interesting that Sifeh and the entire branched out global area#border three other districts of Asen. Which means like 3 times the local representitives you'l have to negotiate with for some major change#or anything. I think one of the 'random characters you can find around the world and have short discussions with just to make the area#feel more populated and real even though theyre not actual important npcs' is going to be a guy who actually serves on the council that#handles running the global areas and he's like.. some perpetually exhausted middle aged elf running around with a clipboard or whatever#ANYWAY...... hrgh... still trying to write when I can....#I WISH so badly that I had the scope for a simple character creation menu and all character interactions would allot for the background#of your player character. And also to have a simple day night cycle where places in the world you explore/people you talk to during the day#have new options or dialogue at night.. BUT alas... I already am so behind on everything as is lol.. aughhh... T o T#As the worlds number one Needless Detail And Complexity Enjoyer i must dilligently prevent myself from adding additional complexity
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Mmy thumb hurds sooo baad..............................
#you know maybe there's a reason manga isn't in full color. w some exceptions ofc#but i love color..... it's just a three page comic.......... as well...#i keep losing steam too like. there ARE times where coloring is so good and it fixes me#but man. ouch. and i keep getting bored. like the painful kind. agony.#i've got skin and i got hair. this is true for most humans but i'm talking about my art progress here specifically#i'm just losing... a lot of motivation..... and i feel.... stuck in a rut....... save me#like i think part of it is just testing my patience too. i love posting minimum effort to half-finished artwork#despite. being so perfectionistic. i am recovering. but i love giving up and just showing what i have#and then immediately forgetting about it.#BUT JUST AS BAD...... THIS IS SO SPECIAL TO ME.... IT NEEDS TO BE DONE IT NEEDS TO BE EVERYTHING#I CAN'T LET THAT HAPPEN.....
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I completly did not think about the Spring Court!!! Now I am just thinking about the sentries, who were loyal to Tamlin, yes, but to Lucien first, because he was sane and there and active and one of them (in a way). I do not want the Spring Court to fall, but I also really want the sentries to see Lucien Archeron alive and be like "actually? Yes, yes I WILL pledge my life to my long-time friend and his scary new family."
Could Lucien and Elain ever take over the Spring Court? It's such a hard decision. With Nesta ruling over the Archeron lands and if the Illyrians decide to stay and with the wall gone, we could have a huge human-fairy court (because I know Elain and Lucien and Nesta would either have no divide or a very loosely controlled one).
But on the other hand there is the Summer Court, to which Lucien is heir. Does he want it? He, who has never wanted to be a ruler, but who is so good at it, possible heir to so many courts? What connection does Lucien have to the Summer Court except that a man there impregnated his mother and the result was Lucien. Why would he go there when he could be part of the Archeron lands, or rule the Spring Court, or help Eris with Autumn and work to put good things out in the world?
Perhaps the real question is, where does Elain want to go? Because I think it would not matter to Lucien if every single person from Spring, Autumn and Summer would pledge their loyalty to him - if Elain wishes to stay with Nesta in the Archeron lands, then nothing in the world could make him move.
That IS the big question of the story! What happens when Lucien gets to be himself? What happens when Elain and Nesta have choices? How far will the three of them go to protect that?
One of my favorite Lucien Things is that he doesn't have that ego so SO many acotar characters are afflicted with. There's this stable center at the core of Lucien, despite everything that has happened to him. The Autumn crown is sitting on Elain's head, and no part of him is howling about denied birthright. His processing vis a vis the Day Court has two notes he'll really engage with- this, this, is why he was always a little wrong. This is somewhere his mother will finally be safe.
He doesn't want the crown. He kind of wants to punch Helion in the face. There is a part of him that's just...heartbroken about Day. That's not fixable. It's centuries too late to save the child Lucien was, and even now, Lucien loves Autumn.
Lucien, to himself, thinks he's a little selfish. His entire desire for power has only ever been personal: he wants to protect the people he loves. He want to take care of the people. He has a pretty serious sense of right and wrong, and has spent most his life in much more minor roles than he should have, mostly to try to help.
(these are, of course. All things that are GOOD, but Lucien is uh, working on it, we'll say. The Archeron's are hellishly good for a man's self esteem if it works out.)
Lucien wants to stay.
With Elain. With Nesta. With these people, who have never made him choose which parts of himself matter.
In some ways, one of the biggest hurts of the coming conflict is not the loss of land SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS, but people, and PERSONALLY (SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS) what feels like the loss of the long-term ability to keep that little family they built together.
They would have been happy. They didn't need more. Lucien liked taking care of the Archeron vassals, playing up a love story that was actually entirely true. He and Elain would have gotten married, sealed the safety of all their positions. Both sisters would have been happy, allowed to do what they were good at, their birthright, forever.
Destiny keeps saying otherwise, Prythian just keeps pulling.
There's some outlying stuff I've overwritten- canon only sometimes likes to acknowledge that Prythian is coming out a half century of hostile occupation and basically, has to be, at least a little in chaotic shambles.
There's Lucien, unable to forget the people in Spring, but also less inclined to seek vengeance for himself than say, Elain. (and her new friend, the deranged shadowman with the magic knife, genuinely considering killing his own High Lord). There's Sorcha, whose fully absconded from her husband. There's the abject mystery of where the hell the Archeron's magic actually comes from. There's Cassian, unsubtly yelling to anyone who will listen this scary hot amazing lady WILL BE A GREAT FEUDAL LORD, FEALTY WELCOME
The only certainty is that Lucien isn't letting go, this time.
#Nothing in the world will make him move!#the stakes just keep getting upped and there is a part of each of them#that's just like: we were supposed to be stressed about a WEDDING THIS WEEK#we were going to be semi immoral profiteers!#WE DID NOT ASK FOR THIS SHIT#you're half right but also the person who IS dragging people in like: here have a mixed court with these cool ladies#sigh#IS CASSIAN#Spring isn't in sharp focus but it is going to right itself eventually#Lucien is tied to all these Courts and he's about to use it#to be the hero he was lowkey born to be#wartime contributions round up really is: Lucien getting all the lords together#Nesta: A DRAGON#Elain: Autumn monsters#and the three of them genuinely debating if they should just kill Hybern and be done. or if it'll just make the war worse
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Noooooooo
#I'm gonna have to be pretty choosy for this'n's sketchdump#No wonder the backlog was taking forever to edit lol - Finally finished that part of it#Now to stitch things together and compile and write commentary.........#This one is gonna break so badly before it's done lol#The majority far and away are the Blank Slate concept sketches - that's like Half right there lol#And luckily I can be pretty picky on those! A lot of the panels are near-repeats and/or can be stitched three-four wide!#That's still so many lol but it's managable#And I mean there is all the rest around that still - some big impressive pieces too that need spotlight :3c#Now I've just gotta make sure I don't make any more until after Requestober since y'know - I always get tangentially inspired lol#Submit your RQTRs btw! There's only one so far! Distract me from finishing this in time! Lol#Nah I'll get it all it'll just.... Just one step at a time haha#Vargas
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the greatest lie the devil ever told was 'yo im basically finished with this fic! ill definitely be able to upload it in like four days!'
#i mean i Am almost done ive just. BEEN 'almost done' for weeks 😭#getting almost done-er though yay its just slow going on this last scene#getting a little stuck and then suddenly having a breakthrough moment adding 3 scenes or rehauling half the fic for an additional 5k words-#-is simply part of my Process ok. im three for three on this and its actually done wonders to curb writers block#like ok just chill itll come to ya dw
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there's a certain quality the harmonies of like... early to mid 2000s alt rock has. which i am obsessed with... like i wanna do that. i NEED to figure out how to write harmonies that sound like that
#ari opinion hour#i sort of understand it but not necessarily well enough to do it on command#i think i sort of achieved the sound of it with my blaseball winter exchange song i did for snow but specifically only in the very last bit#like only with the 'im not alive anymore' part#(which sidenote i wish id had the second half faster + w more drive but its not like that was like a full recording which i could do)#i think i just need my music to have more teeth in general cause it scratches an itch that i think i must have developed due to some aspect#of music school. its probably my dissatisfaction with the attitudes in the classical world#<- which understand i say that in the same way that like my jazz prof does. the classical world doesnt have enough teeth nor enough#understanding of the way in which music is like. another art. and art needs to be able to have teeth and use elements normally regarded as#''undesirable'' on purpose because art is there to make you feel emotions and not just the positive ones and not just sadness or anger in#terms of the negative ones#art is there to make u feel ALL extant emotions and that includes boredom disgust fear jealousy pity cowardice apathy overwhelmedness etc#also the classical world i find often forgets what the word ''play'' means#i am of the opinion that perfection is a waste of time if i wanted perfect i'd ask a computer to do it for me. i want real#anyway. i forgot what this post was even about lol point is i need to figure out how to write harmonies that have that soaring quality that#like. you can hear it in like helena by mcr and wake me up by evanescence and stuff. and frankly most of the songs on three cheers for swee#revenge which i am listening to now for the first time. i need to learn more about this stuff maybe ill listen to the evanescence album tha#song is from next.#or something i should really be working on my essay but theres no way i wont have it done in time which is good i think i just mostly have#to worry about sources and stuff but even that should be relatively easy i think
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I had a dream they added fujoshis to IDV and after they updated the game, you’d have to unlock the exit gate by putting in your favourite mlm ship though only one ship would work for each match (if you put in the 'wrong' ship you couldn’t try again, and needed to let someone else try)
#In the dream I was playing duos and went to open the gate#I entered JOSNORT out of all ships#I don’t even ship it#I have a friend that does though#Either way it was the wrong one#And guess which ship was correct!#At the third attempt this LG player entered TONTON#AND IT WORKED#I’m so done with my own brain#Nothing wrong with TonTon in general btw#I just hate how the majority of the shippers portray them#Like why is Mike always half a centimetre tall and looks like a child#Meanwhile there’s Norton who is three mountains tall and has a six pack at five different body parts#id5#identity 5#identity v#idv
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i talk about gloria spoiler timeskip appearance shakeup of changing circumstance and that's fun and i can't wait to get to it but nick also has one. that i. CANNOT wait to get to. and i've been very good about keeping secret for literal years now
#i'm genuinely half-tempted to just start publishing chapters rn because that is a straight up three month buffer i have#and it will ABSOLUTELY be done by then#but for the sake of my principles i'm doing it all and putting it out and that's it#save corrections for things like spelling errors etc#dead man talking#dead woman walking#i have but two simple goals. tell a story. and make at least one reader cry so hard they puke#the downside about committing to a narrative is the committing part. i can't talk about SHIT#thank you again you've all been very sweet and patient
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I'm now OFFICIALLY permanent at my new data analysis job which in addition to being super cool bc I get to autistically play around in Excel for money now ALSO means that I can get my next piercings since I no longer have to wear a headset for ten hours a day and I am vibrating in excitement. I can finally get more holes stabbed into me
#ive been wanting to get more ear piercings for YEARS#but that is not a good idea when you work at a call center#i can FINALLY get my next ones done tho. im gonna be getting two more helix piercings on my left ear (for a total of three)#once they heal enough for me to change the jewelry ill have so many options to make them look cool#i cant really buy a lot of cool jewelry bc im allergic to most metals which is part of why im just sticking to ear piercings#but with them all being in a line like that i can mix different 'plain' pieces in cool ways#three barbells in a line is already gonna look cool but imagine three jeweled studs in a line#or three captive ball rings kinda draped over each other#or MAYBE if i can find one thats the right type of metal even one of those spiral piercings that goes through all of them#the possibilities are endless#after those heal completely (i am NOT gonna have both of my ears healing at once i would like to be able to SLEEP bro)#i plan to get an industrial on my right ear#im SO excited yall ive been waiting for YEARS & now im finally gonna have my plans for my left ear finished hopefully within a week or two#and then in about half a year or so i can get my plans for my right ear finished too#a year after that ill be fully healed and either be completely done or ready for the new ideas i came up with in the meantime#im going to become the cool dyke with a lot of piercings that i was always meant to be 🙏#and healing is gonna be much easier now that my sides are shaved. less chance of getting my hair caught or getting shampoo in it#this is gonna be great#rambling
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yknow I play a lot of hard games but usually not "took 73 days to beat" hard
#aka gUESS WHO JUST BEAT RAIN WORLD. AFTER TWO AND A HALF MONTHS#rain world#peridots-nonsense#i got into subterranean like a week ago but have been mostly hanging around by the worm grass shelter for 20 cycles#i went to every region (even if i only spent a couple minutes total in drainage lol). met every echo besides the farm arrays one.#got every passage achievement (every one besides dragon slayer/wanderer in outskirts and industrial within my first few weeks of playing)#and never used a passage anyway. three months!!! rounding up a little! for a game that can be beat in less than 20 cycles.#dh was twelve days (though i'd played through part of it years earlier). stray was seven hours. insc was only a couple days.#i've done two separate ultkill playthroughs so not sure which to count but both were less than a week#hk was actually just over a month. may 24 to june 26th. which is still so much less than this. bftes about a month too#i remember how even just a week into rw i felt like i'd been playing it forever...even just a week in i knew it would be one of Those Games#where i wish i could play it over for the first time again. boy was i right. it almost felt like a second life at times#i loved just running around in certain areas building up stores of food and spears and vulture masks#(what comes to mind are / HI_S02 / CC_S05 / SI_S04 / SB_S07. the first two felt like home!)#(* up in the sixth tag i missed the friend. i was relishing in hubristic bloodlust especially in CC so i didn't have much time for taming)#if the tags here seem particularly incoherent i only falsely apologize. i'm just. reminiscing. i don't think i can do anything else#my heart was pounding as soon as i reached the depths. after 325 cycles. 116 hours. two and a half months. it's over.#maybe a little dramatic but hey it took up an invariable portion of my life for a fifth of a year so. it's just interesting#anyway. a standard ''i took too long on this and now the sun's rising'' goodbye to you tag-wanderer
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back on my baldurs gate 3 bullshit and I now have a total of three major ocs for this thing: Arkadin (pact of the blade warlock dragonborn dark urge), Garuke (circle of spores druid githyanki), and Tav (symbiotic fungus entity)
as a synopsis of all of their deals:
Garuke's creche was raided + destroyed leaving them as, if not the only, one of the very few survivors of the incident and completely on their own. they're found and raised by a druid circle that live symbiotically with fungi. some druids choose to become hosts for a fungus, and Garuke becomes one of these druids.
Garuke bonds with the fungus and they're chill and yada yada so on and so forth. Mindflayers show up, Garuke gets abducted and tadpole'd. unfortunately Garuke is NOT one of the cool and special protagonists with mindflayer plot armour. When Garuke's brain is getting fucked with, their fungus buddy is kinda kicked out. it freaks the FUCK out and while in panic survival mode dips into the first living thing it can find in order to figure it's shit out, because the symbiosis was SUPPOSED to be permanent and splitting them up should not have been possible
So, the fungal entity hops into the first guy it comes across. Which happens to be Arkadin, dark urge Baalspawn, who is currently Very Brain Dead due to their pod getting fucked up in the githyanki raid. And whoops, turns out you can't just hop into a guy for a spell with no consequences, because now the entity is kind of stuck. alone. Except, nope, they're not even alone in there, because this guy's ALSO got a tadpole. at least this one's kinda quarantined off (because Arkadin WAS lucky enough to get main character plot armour. at least in that aspect)
so now the fungus entity has to figure out on the fly how to pilot this meat body alone and get the hell out of this place. It does the normal baldurs gate storyline stuff, meets up with La'zael and Shadowheart and everyone else, makes up the name Tav on the spot, and tries so so so hard to be normal (and only barely succeeds). And it also doesn't help that while Arkadin is pretty much dead, all the neurons are still in there and Tav is kind of artificially keeping Arkadin at least partially "alive", so it keeps having to deal with Arkadin's memories and Urges coming up unexpectedly and inconveniently. and also other entities keep thinking that tav IS arkadin and that has made things. complicated
#howling#bg3#if you couldn't tell I really really REALLY love forcing non-humanoids to pretend to be a humanoid in a life or death situation#this is also meant to sorta merge my two playthroughs (one urge and one non-urge)#and also change the parts of the dark urge storyline I didn't really like/wish I could've done something different with#like. I really enjoyed dark urge for like the first half but a lot of it later on kinda felt like it didn't pay off the way I wanted it to#anyways. I love my awful mushroom freak so much it's not even funny#I have a WHOLE lot more lore for these three already but i just wanted to do the basic summary here#and like. my basic summary is already super long if I talked about everything here this post would be a novel#and prob take me like 6 weeks to fully write out
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