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i find the horror of "whats the threshold between human and no-longer-human", and of dehumanization incredibly fascinating, and it really feels like thats the direction the magnus protocol is headed. very excited
#the magnus protocol#tmagp#thats what its felt like at least#like with lady mowbray hunting people for sport#or gwen referring to ink5oul as “it” rather than as human#which could def read as transphobic but considering alice#id say thats less likely#the man becoming a tree#needles in and of himself#the [error] being like this nothing of a person#the voices of people we almost recognize preforming actions that we almost recognize#but not quite being human#i think its all really very interesting#tmagp spoilers#the magnus protocol spoilers
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mommy let you use her ipad, you were barely two
and it did all the things we designed it to do
now look at you, look at you!
(objectober 2024 day 10: internet)
#dandy's doodles#inanimate insanity#ii#ii steve cobs#ii mephone#ii spoilers#ii 16 spoilers#objectober#objectober 2024#okay i'll be honest. the final drawing barely fits the prompt#however! it was inspired by it#'internet' immediately made me think of 'welcome to the internet' by bo burnham#and my mind instantly jumped to 'and it did all the things we designed it to do'#and y'know... steve cobs designed mephone to be able to create things#and so in a way mephone is fulfilling his purpose by creating the contestants#he's fulfilling his purpose by doing what his dad did#and then that made me think of the garden of eden story#where god creates both adam and the tree of knowledge#he tells adam not to eat its fruit and yet adam inevitably does; thus adam gains free will#and one has to wonder if that was god's intention all along - for humans to have free will#whereby adam - through the apparent defiance of god - is able to become exactly what he was created for#and y'know... mephone making his show as a rebellion against cobs...#only for that very show to be a creation borne of his intended purpose#so yeah. my mind jumped from bo burnham to the biblical creation of man#anyway!! very very happy with how this turned out#my favorite part is the charger snakes. i'm so glad i came up with that idea#also cobs' arm! that turned out really well! i referenced my own hand for his!!#in any event... it turns out i really really like biblical imagery and symbolism huh#also yes i did stay up all night like a maniac drawing this. the idea came to me and i just had to see it through :D i'm glad i did
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Prompt 135
Julian has a favorite tree in the woods near his home. Julian was barely old enough to walk when he first hugged his favorite tree in the greenwood. For years he visited, picnicked with, spoke to it, hugged it, and tended it. When he was around 8 years old, an older boy began bullying him for escaping court and lessons to spend time in the woods and sing. Julian sobbed into the embrace he gave his favorite tree. Julian has told his tree for years that he loves music, that he hates being a viscount. He hates it, he hates it, he hates it. When his bully follows him into the woods one day, Julian is afraid. His bully raises a fist to hit him, only for a branch from his favorite tree to fall and bonk the older child on the head. The child ran away crying, and Julian was just fine. The bully never picked on him again. Julian thanked his tree, before growing worried over the dropped branch. Healthy trees don't drop branches, surely- So he makes sure to tend to his favorite tree extra the next few months, make sure it's healthy. No more branches drop, it was just that one on that one day. Julian continues to grow, and Julian continues to rebel. He decides one day as a teenager that he's decided he's going to run away. He climbs his tree, and lounges in the suspiciously comfortable set of branches, and tells his tree the whole plan. He's going to become a bard, and change his name, and travel the continent. "I'll miss you. Terribly. Thank you for being with me all these years." Julian sobs as he hugs his tree. He sleeps in the arms of his tree that night, away from his supposed home. It was his last night in the area for years. Jaskier is on his way to perform for a court, and unfortunately, to get there he must cut through lettenhove. He's sure if he keeps his head down, doesn't play any music, and just rushes through, they'll never even notice he was there. But he can't NOT visit his tree. It's been years. So one night, he creeps into the woods near his father's manor. When he spots the tree, healthy and strong as always, he tears up. "It's me. Julian. I- I'm Jaskier now, but It's still me. I'm so happy to see you. I'm so sorry it's been so long-" He walks closer, going to hug his tree, when he hears a voice clear it's throat, and he spins around in surprise. Fuck. His father. "Julian. I knew you'd end up back here." "...I was just leaving." "No. No, you weren't." And guards reveal themselves, coming out of the woodwork. Jaskier swears there's even extra hired muscle there, as if Jaskier is something to fear. In a fight against men with weapons? No. In a fight via poetry and insults? Yes! Doesn't help here, though. "You are coming home, and you will fulfil your duty." "I don't care about my duty! Just as you've never cared about me!" "And why would I care about such a disrespectful mutt, Julian!?" The guards creep closer, just as his father clenches his fist, and Jaskier is trapped. If he tries to run, they'll catch him. If he climbs, they'll climb too. If he fights, he'll just be hurt as they drag him away. But then the guards freeze, their eyes widening in horror. One drops his weapon and runs. Jaskier is confused. Sure, he raised his lute like a weapon, but it shouldn't be that frightening. I mean the men here had blades! "Back away from him." A deep voice growls, startling Jaskier. Jaskier turns and sees that a man is walking out of his favorite tree. The man is hench, and in armor, and holding two giant swords, and he just came out of Jaskier's tree. Tree man THERE IS A TREE MAN! Jaskier is trying very hard to process this, when he hears his father snap to the guards to fight the man off and capture the viscount by any means necessary. A guard grabs Jaskier's arm hard enough to bruise, and suddenly the man no longer had a hand, as the Man From The Tree slices it cleanly off, and blocks Jaskier from their view with his own body.
After a few minutes of sword clangs and panic, the men all retreat. Jaskier's father spits out one last insult to him before running off with his men.
And then the gorgeous guardian turns back to him and hugs him, tight and warm.
"My tree?" "My Jaskier."
#geraskier#geralt x jaskier#geralt x dandelion#the witcher#the witcher fanfiction#Geralt loves his bard!#witcher fanfiction#fanfiction prompts#fanfic prompts#writing prompts#Clifford grows because Emily Elizabeth loves him so much#Barney becomes real because the kids believe in him so much#Geralt becomes a real man because Jaskier loves him so much#Jaskier is like “Send me an angel the nicest angel you have”#and Geralt crawls out of a tree with bloody fingers and sticks in his hair and a penchant for naming things after fish#Geralt isnt a witcher#Geralt is a tree guardian thing#that came to life out of sheer protectiveness for his favorite human#friends to lovers#technically?
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Is Ulent (Plant dude) still alive my guy?
I miss the tired tree (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥`)
YOU REMEMBER MY OLD ASS SON ULENT?????
GEEEEEZ he’s such an old fard character I am shocked anyone remembers him! Let alone ask for anything about him-
He’s completely fine btw! Still being the ye ol tree man himself Enjoying tea and talking to the trees-
#Not welcome home related btw#My partner and I were talking about him the other day actually- I missed him smhh one of my very first tall ass buff characters LMAOOO#Also to anyone (aka basically everyone) who doesn’t know him- this is Ulent!#He’s a tree but is based off of a old succulent plant I had when I was younger!#He was such a pretty succulent plant too smhh I miss him a lot#He lives on as a very quiet tree man who’s hundreds of years old-#The older he gets the more tree like he becomes#Anyway sorry for the random non fandom related post I really wanted to draw my old boy JDHGDDH
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Making a piece to this song right now..
#it's so gay.. it's SO gay#A bitter wanderer makes a man fall in love with him for fun and falls in love himself.. becomes very possessive#his blossoming tree he wants only to admire for himself#(he sings this song to the man he's charmed)#music
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Some fantasy traveler inventory details (like what they would carry in their bags), based on two of the recent costumes I did.. love finding random little scraps and items and putting them together lol
#it's obvious who's is who's since they match their outfits HOWEVER.. consider if they were switched lol#evil villain looking man carrying around pressed flowers in a cutesy lacy pouch#fantasy costume#what's in my bag#actualyl that would have been funny to make a video. I should make a video#I'm sure someone else has already done this#but like.. lifestyle vlogger type content however I'm dressed in fully costume as some weird elf or something#pulling things out of my bag and showing them to the camera and talking about how they're useful for whatever#but it's all fantasy scenarios and talking like it's very common#'and of course. i know it's a bit cliche#EVERY traveler has one of these. but you know. theyre just useful! thats why everyone has one!' *pulls out a completely unrecognizable item#thats like some weird fantasy world prop and doesn't even explain it because In-world it's normal and wouldnt need to be talked about*#'room tour' video and it's just like 'yeah I sleep on this mat under a bunch of trees uh.. over here by these rocks. at least right now. I#kind of wander around a bit. so'#Like a clothing haul but it's a potions shop haul or something and they ramble about some obscure drama in the potions community and how the#y hard to barter and steal and entire flock of sheep or something just to get one of them. etc. etc.#I could do ones for different characters too like. multiple people from different walks of life showing what they carry around with them.#just like this but more interview sort of vlog format instead of photos#This is where not having much money and not having my own house with land becomes an issue though#I think it would take you out of the illusion if the background was always the same. I can make small sets because there's one blank wall in#a room that it's easy to move all the stuff away from in front of and clear a spot and like hang up fabrics or whatever but still.. hmms#So one of those 'fun idea but dubious about handling the execution' things. also One Of Those Things where without looking it up you're 100%#sure it's already been done and you don't want to look weird since it's vaguely niche. Like if 100 people have done something it's fine but#if only like 3 other people have then you look weird maybe ghhjbj.. or only one other person gods forbid. looks even weirder potentially#Or do people not care about ''copying'' anymore?? idk. I'm not updated with the internet's changing culture. I just have a fear of accidenta#lly doing something like that and then people getting mad even though it's really just that I competely had no idea it had been done because#again.. I live under a rock and am unaware of everything lol. ANYWAY. also would require my face being on video which I don't like. Though I#would be in costume so that helps. I think to be fully comfortable I'd need light modifications to make my face look different. which isn't#hard but is more effort when it has to be translatable in multiple angles. ANYWAY. ghjbhj... Now I think it would be funny actually. maybe#one day. I haven't made any videos (aside from on the gameplay/sims channel) in a long long time actually. hmm'st
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Shhh they’re sleeping
#blind man's bluff#ladyredms#l4d2#these aren't spoilers or actual scenes or anything i just love drawing them sleeping for some reason LMAOOO#but the few scenes so far where they've shared the same bed/couch/tree are sooooo special to me HRGNHH#i become the yes... hahah... yes! sicko like yeeeess cuddle and snooze away guys!!!! yeeees enjoy a few hours of safety and silence!!!!#like them waking up in the hotel room together and chatting & cuddling and being affectionate ARRGHHHH that moment is lodged in my heart!!!#i swear if there's a repeat of that in a future chapter i WILL be only posting gibberish for about a week!!!!!!! god i love them!!!#okay i'm gonna stop talking now or i'll ramble forever hehe
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Forgot to post the blorbos whoops
#dollars trilogy#the good the bad and the ugly#the man with no name#blondie#tuco ramirez#if theres more of those lights he will become the ultimate tree#i need to stop yapping
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massive plot twist that btg aren't the biggest advocates for stp selfshipping like... the two leads were literally the same person. this entire game is just one big complicated selfship. what happened here
#YOU'RE GONNA WRITE THE ROUTE WHERE WE CAN GIVE UP OUR PERSONHOOD TO BECOME A TREE TOGETHER WITH THE PRINCESS#*AND* THE ROUTE WHERE SHE VORES US AS AN INTENTIONAL METAPHOR FOR LOVE#and then shame ME for wanting two princesses to kiss instead of the mean bird man trying to kill them?? /nm /silly#but more seriously idrc lol. unless you're being gross abt it then who cares if the creator has different opinions from you#death of the author babyyyyy those girls and voices and narrators and birds are kissiiiing cos i said so#♡. txt
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#i just think we should film them more during warmups ya know#pretty in red mmmm#but also anytime forsy does the bare minimum that is putting on a hat backwards with a red hoodie#i become a wolf with their tongue lolling out of their mouth while my eyes becomes a casino slot machine#adonis your charm is too much#the way his hoodie stretches across-#i need to be put down like a damn dog man#i cant keep doing this#(bashing my head against a tree) ekky you lucky bastard
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Jojen is Fine, Actually: "Weirwood Paste" is Weirwood Paste.
CW: humanitarian diets, body horror, general blasphemy, mention of grooming (in the context of creepy tree wizards).
Okay so my being a HUGE Jojen (& House Reed in general) fan gives me an Obvious Bias against the idea of Jojen Dying Offscreen.
My being a huge literary nerd & lore geek, however, informs my Metaphor Senses that Jojen is Fine*, Actually.
The "Weirwood Paste" is Weirwood Paste: made of weirwood seeds, locally sourced. Said "Local Weirwood Tree" being. Y'know. Brynden Rivers.
It's Brynden Paste.
(*Fine: chronically ill, majorly depressed, freezing cold, surrounded by creepy tree people, stuck in a zombie wasteland, if he ever goes home he Dies, repeatedly dreaming of his own death... but, at least, Not Dead nor Being Eaten by the Prince of his Dreams? He's "Fine".)
First and foremost: storytelling conventions, even in a series as "deliberately unconventional" as ASOIAF, tend to tell audiences that NO ONE is genuinely "dead" until you see a body. And personally check its pulse. And test for rigor mortis. And maybe stab them in a lethal place, jusr to be Sure. And then burn the body, scatter its ashes, send couriers off in different directions to hide what remains in Remote Places never to be known of by the other couriers. Maybe Silence the couriers if they come back.
Er, you get the picture.
Most subscribers to "Jojenpaste" are in it for the lolz or assume The Worst due to Jojen's non-presence in the latest Bran chapters (aaand Jojen's being Very Permanently Dead in That Dragon Show). It's also an "easy" assumption that Since GRRM Is GRRM, any & all opportunities for Humanitarianism will be fully utilized.
Except... the weirwood paste is ALREADY "made of people" just because it's Weirwood (specifically, weirwood seeds) and the series has consistently described weirwood trees as "[human]".
Weirwood have "bone white" bark; they have Faces carved into them; they "Watch" and "Listen" and "Witness": this is consistent across POV characters, even before Jojen casually brings up "oh they're what Greenseers Become" or any meetings with a Literal Tree Man.
Weirwoods are described in human terms, doing human things, and at least 1 major character has been directly equivicated with Weirwoods for Plot Purposes: Ghost the Direwolf (and wolves, of course, are consistently used to mean "someone of House Stark" and the Starklings especially).
Then there is The Creepy Tree Man in the room: Brynden Rivers, called "Three-Eyed Raven" by Bran and Jojen (for that was how their Dreams interpreted him) or "The Last Greenseer" by the Singers (...despite BRAN very pointedly Being There To Prove Otherwise).
Brynden is also, as mentioned, a Tree Now.
A Weirwood Tree.
Y'know. Like the ones whose seeds make the Paste Bran's been eating.
So, unless the Singers have been sneaking about in Others' Territory to collect seeds from a different weirwood tree... that Paste is made of BRYNDEN.
Bran being fed "Brynden Paste' while Brynden Indoctrinates Teaches Bran to be a Tree Wizard makes far more sense, logistically & thematically, than Jojen getting shanked offscreen to belatedly be revealed to be "part of Bran all along".
For one thing, Meera would gladly set the Cave & everyone in it on fire if anyone so much as looks at her baby brother suspiciously. For another, Brynden is Right There for the eating & is filled with all sorts of Prophecy Juice: he's a Blackwood, he's a Targaryen, he's a Royal Bastard, he was an Infamous Spymaster with "A thousand eyes and one", he's done weird sacrifice BS before, he's a Greenseer (Jojen "only" has Greensight), he's a Living God (as per Singer & First Men Lore), the Cave Cult is trying to turn Bran INTO him...
There is a lot more "logic" to Bran's Magic Lessons featuring his knowingly (subconsciously, at least) eating Brynden than his secretly eating his friend. Human sacrifice tends to require Knowledge of the cost being paid & being Willing to do it anyway: Bran might be too tripped up on Paste to consciously connect the "Weirwood Paste" he eats with "that Human Weirwood Tree i'm sitting next to" but the Singers explicitly tell Bran the Paste is made from Weirwood Seeds. Bran "knows".
Godeating (metaphoric & literal) is a trope that is most commonly found in JRPGs, nowadays, but it has Precedent throughout western mythology: the Titan Kronus ate each of his children as they were born, Zeus alone escaping, in an effort to Dodge Prophecy; Zeus inherited Said Prophecy and, being his Father's Son, ate his first wife. The details of the Titanomachy (the War against the Titans by their reasonably upset kids) are Lost but Zeus, at least, gained all his Wife's Wisdom (& her pregnancy too) after eating her: Athena may or may not have Taken It Back upon breaking out from her Eaten Mother & Dear Old Dad.
Consuming something in order to "become" what is eaten is Fairly Common, if not with that specific phrasing: vampires seldom explain their reproduction as "eat me to become me", whilst the adorable Nintendo character Kirby & his method of Powering Up via Playing Vacuum, is Rephrased out of Sheer Self-Preservation (no one, not even I, likes to admit that The Cute Pink Blob is an Eldritch Abomination). Many JRPGs & works in eastern media use similar themes of "monster eats monster" and "let's eat god" for the purposes of High Stakes Action. Japan & East Asia has a lot less "baggage" when it comes to utilizing themes from Abrahamic verse, meaning that western works using themes of [consuming the divine] and [apotheosis] use Vampire Methodology. Such is the case in the Dragon Age series & its Order of Grey Wardens (who are, From A Certain POV, dragon god vampires).
Within the ASOIAF series itself, Dany's eating a horse heart (raw) has Humanitarian Themes in service of Prophecy and [Divinity]: the horse heart to the Dothraki, a society of horselords, could be what weirwood seeds are to First Men (especially given Jojen's whole "btw, the trees are gods are former greenseers").
Brynden & the Cave's Singers (whom I dearly hope are some long-exiled Cult & not reflective of Singers as a whole) are not particularly subtle in their Intentions for Bran: he is to be their New "Last" Greenseer. Bran is to Become Brynden or Brynden is to Become Bran: either and possibly both are plausible, though how compliant with the Singers' goals Brynden may be has yet to be revealed.
(the Brynden of F&B and D&E strikes me as someone who would gladly bodysnatch some poor kid for his own Agenda: the Singers seem unlikely to support fire-breathing foreigners, not without a Contingency Plan; somewhat likely to want Bran for the purposes of installing a Tree Hivemind Police State; and maybe, possibly... "just" wanting a Second God for their Cult in Bran, who probably Smells Better).
SUMMARY
Weirwoods are Personified in almost every appearance. Weirwood Trees are considered Gods. Jojen (& some Singers) have stated that the Next Evolutionary Phase of a Greenseer is "Weirwood Tree". Brynden "the Last Greenseer" is part of a Weirwood Tree.
Brynden & the Singers are Turning Bran Into A Weirwood Tree.
Bran's current diet is Tree Paste. His magic teacher, Brynden, is Part-Tree. The Nearest Tree to make Paste from is Brynden. The Paste is made of Brynden.
(Let's NOT think too hard on which parts of Brynden: I've only gotten this far in this Meta by using "Hunanitarian" as a pun.)
Eating Gods to Become A God is an existing Trope. Brynden is a God, by Singer & First Men definitions. Bran is being Groomed to Become Brynden, a God. To Become Brynden, Bran must Eat Brynden.
TL;DR
The Weirwood Paste is Weirwood Paste and Brynden is the Weirwood: the Paste is not "Jojen", it's BRYNDEN.
Jojen is Not Paste: Jojen is Alive but Not Well & Very Depressed.
#bran stark meta#valyrianscrolls#jojen reed#brynden rivers#the last greenseer#asoiaf theories#cw cannibalism#methodology of apotheosis#suspiciously remote tree people cultists are suspicious#i think i forgot to add back my theory that meera is overdue for some arson and jaywalking#the title is the last greenseer not three-eyed crow#three-eyed crow is just his default avatar in the minds of telepathic children#jojen doesnt go around calling bran winged wolf and expecting others to know what that means in his dreams#jojen goes around calling bran his prince#because bran could become the literal man of his dreams#i imagine jojen was disappointed to discover his prophetic dreams were emphasis prophetic
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Some person said they’ll eat me.
I said “Okay Aaravos."
#Man this sucks.#I might become be like a devoured tree or fruit or plant or something#Aaravos#plumsaffron
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i am a niclays roos apologist btw like free my man!!! he did do all of that but he was sad :(
#lyz talks#the priory of the orange tree#niclays roos#LISTEN I KNOW HE SUCKS. its ok the council (me) has elected to forgive him#god if u told me like last week that id read a book featuring so many cool women and become an apologist for the sad selfish old man#i wouldve been like lol??? im literally a misandrist???#but like idk he's sad. and miserable. and fucked up. i like that in a man. i like him and his bad decisions!!!#roots of chaos
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kuya is such a particular peepaw princess. my golie. he wears SPF 800, carries a lacey purple parasol, and dons massive UV-blocking sunglasses every time he steps into the sun adn huey is just like
uh. ok. message received. i'll take u to the sunless grimdark automaton country next time
#you are a fox. how are you not ok with nature#maybe kuya is flipping his hair and sayin#ugh. nature. i did my time. i'm past that. it's bonbons and air conditioning time#meanwhile quincy is out there chewing on trees and becoming the Sun from how much solar energy he's absorbing#dichotomy of old forest man#i'll never get that image out of my mind where it's kuya's stacked toiletries cabinet vs. quincy's single bottle of 13 in 1 soap#replies#rusted nation#nu carnival kuya#nu carnival huey
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Anyway guys I got to this part and WUEUEUEUEU😭😭😭 HE SAID MY NAMEE.... I ALREADY GOT SPOILERS ON THE DIALOGUE BUT I STILL FELT SO!!! 😭😭 "Thank you for being there." Boy I purposely didnt save this part so I could replay this battle and dialogue with you 💀💀💀 and it's like a side quest thing so I can keep progressing the main story and save it then do this part again and again without saving it 💀💀 I actually forgot to do this right after Olivia's trial so when I went back my team was overlevelled and I purposely swapped some lower level pkmn from the boxes so the battle would last longer yeah all for you kia/we😭😭👍👍
#kiawren#ohhhgghh man finally playing the game and taking note of all the places we can go on dates and watch the scenery or like items#that i'd collect to give him#will get to battle him again for the battle tree thing when the mc becomes champion YAYAYYY#ouhhh so glad he's video game guy I keep going to wela volcano park and just. stand next to him💀
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Can I say that Jason let's himself be forged into a weapon so he can be can be held
#last blorbo post of the night i prommy. i hauve thoughts about hjm#becoming too lethal and heavy of a weapon that no one wants to use him after making it all that he is#i am so close to shoving appetite of a people pleaser in my jason todd playlist. at first i fully denied. copycat was enough and appetite#is a different branch of that tree#but man. man.#cat standing on hindlegs image#he has to feel useful. hes so used to having to help to take care of to do#and obviously. bruce basically adopting him to be robin. and *gestures vaguely to all of bruce*#i just want him to be allowed to be a child i just want him to be held i just want him to be loved and not having to do anything for it#or feeling like he can only get it if hes Useful somehow#tge modern comics may destroy me i thibk#anyway. good night#honk shoe mimimi or whatever#ive seen posts recently about the parentification of jason (mostly in regards to fanon) and man. man.#they have fully entered my beliefs yeagh#sits on the floor holding cigarette loosly in hand image
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