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bcacstuff · 2 years

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He's not a writer and that shows, even though the previous books were cleaned up by a ghostwriter. His success is purely because of his fanbase. He went to a Steiner school.... no education needed, you can do anything 🤐

Bcacstuff please acknowledge you were wrong about the above statement. 👆

Outlanderfandomfollies corrected you and she is right. 👇

Sam also graduated with a BA in 2003 from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (which in 2011 changed its name to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). According to the Royal Conservatoire’s website:

https://www.rcs.ac.uk/why-rcs/like-nowhere-else/world-leading/

We are proud to be consistently recognised as one of the world’s top performing arts institutions by QS World Rankings (2016–22)*, cementing our position as a global leader in the conservatoire sector.

In 2022, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland was ranked as fifth in the world for performing arts education by QS World Rankings — alongside prestigious institutions such as The Juilliard School in New York and the Royal College of Music in London.

RCS is also ranked number one in the Complete University Guide 2022 rankings.

https://www.rcs.ac.uk/news/rcs-uk-number-one-for-arts-music-drama-by-complete-university-guide/

Sam went to a very prestigious performing arts institution. He does have a bachelor’s degree. Diana Gabaldon has commented in the past on his quick wit. He is not the dummy some people claim he is.

I agree that he is not a professional writer but my guess is he had to write drafts of his books, which were rewritten by a ghostwriter. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a collaboration between them. The writing style in his books was most likely the ghostwriter’s style. But the content was his.

Sorry Anon, I don't see anything wrong with my statement and still stand behind it.

He is not a writer. He can have a BA degree of any Conservatoire in the world, no matter how high it is ranked or how prestigious. His degree is not in writing. I mean, I have a BA and a Master degree of 2 prestigious and highly ranked conservatoires myself and was educated by professionals that are quite famous in their craft. But that doesn't make me a writer, not even a composer. Even though I had basic education in it and I'm quite sure I'm better at composing than most of the people here. Yet, I'm not a professional one.

On a conservatoire you get a degree on a specialism. Compare it with a sportsman. I professional even successful football player isn't a professional tennis player or basketball player. All it has in common is a ball, and the football player can play tennis or basket ball in his free time and even be successful in it to some degree, but it doesn't make him/her a professional tennis or basket ball player. That's a simple fact.

Even after the ghostwriter, may it be in collaboration (I understood that at least Clanlands was written on a Google document you can share amongst several people whom you can give rights to write/correct or can add remarks. Done that myself many times) done her corrections, the style of writing was not consistent and you can't speak of an eminent writers style. Little while ago I saw an honest and unbiased review that got into the style of writing in a good way. That review also mentioned that the book was more for the fandom of OL and would gain less interest outside it. Hence my remark that it is successful of the fanbase. I don't think it would sell if he hadn't be the actor of OL but a random person.

About the Steiner School, we have similar ones in the Netherlands, they're called different. Since I've been a teacher for a long time, teaching children/people coming from all kind of different educations I know what pupils of that kind of schools are like. They don't have a fixed program like most schools have. They educate their pupils in taking responsibility and learn things in a practical way. It can work for some children, though others might need more direction and guidance. I think it might have been this education that has been of advantage for him putting himself to work and finish his tasks.

Last remark, you don't need to have a degree in art. I know people that do not have a BA or Master or whatever, but are the best musicians, can be the most fantastic writers or painters or ... you name it. Hence my remark, you don't need education, you can do anything. I take it you took that remark as negative (since I don't think he's a fantastic writer) but it was meant the way I wrote above.

Oh, and btw. I see what Outlanderfandomfollies wrote more as her addition to it. But it doesn't convince me he's a writer to me, no matter what degrees or education 😉

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autisticcassandracain · 2 years

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48, 50

48. ___ should have stayed dead, let me explain…

Bruce tbh. It's not really an original take but like, they've done everything they could with him at this point, he needs to either retire or die, and Darkseid got him first, so. Other than that, probably Joey? Not bc I liked his death or think he deserved to die it's just that what they did when he came back from the dead was so fucking bad I'd much rather he'd stayed dead.

50. What’s something that bled into comics from a tv show or movie that you hate?

Raven and Starfire's cartoon personalities. To be fair, in Raven's case, I'm not entirely sure if the 2003 cartoon came earlier or the 2003 Geoff Johns Teen Titans series (I suspect the latter, though), so that's one's a little dubious, but I think it's pretty sure to blame Kori's personality change on the cartoon. I like Raven and Starfire in the cartoon, they're perfectly fine characters, they serve their roles on the team and have good development (Raven more than Starfire, admittedly, but it's hardly Starfire's fault she didn't get a season dedicated to her). But they're also COMPLETELY different from their cartoon counterparts, and mixing them due to the cartoon's personality was just a really awful idea.

TBH I feel like this was worse for Raven than Kori? Which might be a bit controversial since I see more people talking about Kori's character assassination as a result of the cartoon, which is pretty bad, but there's still a decent amount of appearances that don't use it. Raven, on the other hand, after Johns' TT03, was completely unrecognizeable. She's a completely different character on all levels except her powers. And Raven was such a unique and interesting character in NTT, deeply sensitive, peace-loving, self-hating and isolating, yet also incredibly determined and persistent. She simultaneously was naïve and mature in a very interesting balance. And to then rewrite her to be yet another sarcastic goth teenager to appeal to a wider audience is such a shallow, money-driven decision it's painful.

#my posts #asks

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pilvimarja · 3 years

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Fic Writer Questions!

I was tagged by @alienfuckeronmain, thank you! <3

1) How many works do you have on AO3?

48 fics on my main account and 8 fics on my super secret sock puppet account.

2) What's your total AO3 word count?

Oh dear, I think I'm gonna have to check my statistics for these questions for the first time ever! Okay, let's see... total word count is 554495

3) How many fandoms have you written for and what are they?

8 fandoms which are Cobra Kai/The Karate Kid, Thor (both MCU and Norse mythology), IT (movies), Yuri on Ice, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Final Fantasy XV, Detroit Become Human and Hiddlesworth RPF.

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

I don't ever wanna know my kudos amounts so I'm gonna skip this one, sorry. I'd rather not know if my writing is I'm well-liked or not lol I can't take the pressure.

5) Do you respond to comments, why or why not?

I try my best, because I really appreciate every single comment I get! The email from AO3 about a new comment is the best thing you can get in your inbox! But sometimes I forget to reply and the comment might get buried under other comments and then I feel foolish about replying like six months later, so I just let them sit in my inbox forever.

6) What's the fic you've written with the angstiest ending?

Almost every single fic I write has a happy ending except the ones on my sock account where every fic was dark, toxic and angsty lol. But it's a sock account, so I can't really share them publicly.

7) What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

Probably some of my Jotun AU fics in the Thor fandom where Thor and Loki get married :D

8) Do you write crossovers? If so what is the craziest one you've written?

Crossovers aren't really my thing. Though I do love the different crossovers we've had in the Cobra Kai fandom about Shootfighter, The Equalizer and NINY! More please!

9) Have you ever received hate on a fic?

I have written about some ~controversial~ topics and the main reason I made a sock account for my darker fics was to protect myself from the pitchfork mobs, but I've never received hate! I guess I've been really lucky :)

10) Do you write smut? If so what kind?

I do, most of my fics are smutty. It's really hard to describe what kind of smut I write, I don't really have an objective view, but I guess one thing I like to explore over and over again are happy, slightly awkward first times. I think that in a way, it allows me to work through my own negative experiences with s3x. I'm also not shy about writing about some niche kinks.

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I know of!

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, quite a few times, mostly by Russian, Chinese and Japanese authors :)

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Nope, I fly solo haha.

14) What's your all time favorite ship?

Oh man, I've been shipping and reading fics since 2002 or 2003 and I've had so many ships that it's really hard to pic favorites. I guess it would have to be Thor/Loki, because it's my longest lasting ship and I still occasionally read fics about them even though I haven't been active in the fandom in several years.

15) What's a WIP that you want to finish but don't think you ever will?

I have a soulmark WIP that's almost 10k long, written about the ship I posted about on my sock account and I feel really shitty about not finishing it! The first draft was already done, all I had to do was edit it. But I've been away from the fandom and the ship for so long that it'd be really hard for me to jump back into it and the specific mindset it required.

16) What are your writing strengths?

This is so hard to answer about my own writing. I think I've been told that my worldbuilding is immersive by multiple people, so I'll go with that :)

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

I'm an ESL speaker so grammar for sure. We have completely different comma rules in my native language, so I probably have a weird mix of too many/too few commas. The asexual in me also often forgets that people actually like kissing :D

18) What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

I've written some lines of dialogue in foreign languages like Russian, Italian and Swedish, but I always try to keep it short and only include it when it adds something to the scene and makes sense for the character to use it. I speak Swedish and I have an Italian friend who checks my grammar, but the Russian was probably all wrong lol.

19) What was the first fandom you wrote for?

Final Fantasy 8! And I'm so glad the sites where I posted my first fics don't exist anymore!

20) What's your favorite fic you've written?

I'm my own target audience so I mostly write about things that I want to read and every writing experience is fun for me (even when I struggle with writer's block lol). I really enjoy writing fics where I get to do a lot of worldbuilding or where I'm allowed to step into a completely different setting, so I think I'd have to pick my Jotunheim AU In Your Heart Believe What In My Heart I Know or the Age of Sail Hiddlesworth AU series.

I tag whoever wants to do this! :D

#tag games

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yndigot · 2 years

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i assumed for a while that you were into bbc sherlock because of your icon but it occurred to me recently that you could be into other things from his filmography lol

Judging based on when this image was first saved to my computer, this has been my user image on various sites consistently for about 10 years now. It was definitely already my LJ icon when I first made a tumblr. So there's a good chance the impetus for changing it (from idk whatever I used a lot before this, maybe Naveen Andrews?) was probably BBC Sherlock. So you're maybe not that far off? I watched the first two series of Sherlock and enjoyed a lot of it, although it wasn't without its weaknesses. It went a bit downhill after and I didn't keep up with the show or the fandom. I do keep up a role play that's a modern day take on Sherlock Holmes where we based the physical appearance of the characters and a bit of the modernization of the characterization on the Moffat-Gatiss show, but it's pretty divorced from the actual series at this point. (The current iteration of this RP starts with their meeting and completely re-writes everything with no regard for what happened in the show, so it's really that Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch are the faces of the characters, but very little else.)

I will say my interest in Sherlock and Martin Freeman really was a bit the other way around, though -- I'd been a fan of Martin Freeman on The Office since around 2003 when it was wrapping up and I binged it by ordering the DVDs online (lol) and had watched some of his other TV shows/appearances (which on the whole were a mixed bag, but had some good moments) before Sherlock came on. I was excited for Sherlock largely because "omg it's Tim from The Office!" Similarly, I was absolutely vibrating out of my skin with excitement when rumors first started circulating that he might be cast as Bilbo in The Hobbit, and for all that those films have their faults, I still think that was absolutely impeccable casting, and I can never imagine young Bilbo any other way. There was definitely a point where I'd watch just about anything he did, and he's still one of those actors I'd probably follow into a show or movie I wouldn't otherwise watch, although I haven't kept up with his most recent work as closely. I'm definitely more a general fan of him than a fan specifically and narrowly of Sherlock, though, and I haven't actually seen the last couple series of Sherlock.

Anyway, having had him as my icon for literally 10 years across multiple platforms, at this point it's just ... kind of a part of my online identity. I see it and think "that's me!" not "that's my icon of Martin Freeman." But yes, based on the dates I can see on my computer, I'm pretty sure it became my icon around the lead up to series 2 of Sherlock, so not necessarily a wrong assumption!

#ask meme #martin freeman

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sky-chau · 5 years

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Every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Show as Rated By Me, Ya Favorite Lesbian With ADHD

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1990s (7/10)

Haven't seen much of this one so I'm going easy on it. Its pretty cheesy, completely outrageous. All the turtles look the same but that's okay. April is cute and like 23 years old in this one. In fact I'm pretty sure all the turtles are like 19 or something, late teens for sure.

TMNT (2003) (8/10)

Looks super edgy, is a bit more action than comedy. Has an overarching plot and is pretty cool in my opinion. Wasn't super fond of it as a child but then again it first came out the year I was born so I might not have been old enough to really get it even by the 4kids reruns.

This is where everyone got the April is a redhead idea.

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TMNT fast forward (9/10)

Okay I know this one is just a later season of the 2003 series but hear me out. Its better than the rest simply because the premise is so absolutely buckwild.

So Cody (April and Casey's descendant) has in inherited the megacorperation O'neil tech and uses his funds to make a time window to watch the turtles who hes obsessed with. The window messes up and the turtles end up in 2105 (exactly 100 years after this season first aired) and so the world the turtles play around in is super high tech and complicated and its alot of fun.

The jokes are bad and so is the writing, but like its so much fun and I love it. Its a 9 outta 10 and you can die mad about it.

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TMNT back to the sewers (3/10)

Also just a later season of the 2003 series. The turtles make the mistake of going back to 2005 and its not fun anymore? Also they brought serling with them and its weird.

They also have eyes now (previous designs in the 2003 series had white out eyes) and its terrifying.

I'm sorry I just dont like this season.

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TMNT 2012 (10/10)

This shit is awesome. Great worldbuilding, great character designs, the turtles acrually have personalities in this one!

Everyone's like 15 which is odd for tmnt but still chill.

Kraang is like this hive mind thing that created the ooze and its just a great show.

Seasons 1 through like 5 are great.

The do eventually go to space but like when they come back is when I stopped watching simply because Nickelodeon wouldent let me. By the time kavaxas was introduced the writing had lost its charm and everything was kinda meh. I don't even remember the last season or the post Apocolypse debacle, I remember seeing bits and peices and being very lost and uninterested.

Seasons 1 through 5 are definitly worth a watch though and this is a very good introduction to TMNT as a whole.

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Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (10/10)

I haven't seen much because Nickelodeon won't let me watch it but, so far its fantastic, the animation is phenomenal , Aprils new design is great, you can now easily tell the turtles apart!

Its fun the writing is hilliarous and it looks like the show is setting up something bigger and more serious. I have a feeling that it's gonna progress slowly into the more serious aspects over time and have the turtles fall into their normal roles.

Right now all the turtles appear to be like 13 (they act like middle schoolers) and its actually fun? Their personalities are not as distinct but I think that will change over time! Also new weapons?????? Yes!!!!!

I just wish Nickelodeon would let me watch the show!!!! I'm 16!!! I don't have a say in wheather or not my house gets cable!!!

#tmnt #rise of the tmnt #rated

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douchebagbrainwaves · 5 years

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WHY I'M SMARTER THAN FOUNDERS

If you ever got me, you wouldn't have a clue what to do: look at what happens to those who win lotteries or inherit money. Isn't the pointy-haired bosses. In OO languages, you can, even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world. There is a very sharp dropoff in performance among VC firms, because in many cases the language layer won't have to change at all. Then I'm worried. VC firm will not screw you too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them if word got out. Large-scale investors tend to put startups in three categories: successes, failures, and the distinction between the spikes and the average becomes sharper, like a digital image rendered with more pixels. And the big hits often look risky at first. The problem is, for the company to have a low valuation. In fact, if you have a browser on your cell phone? N elements.

But as well as Lisp, so they get the pick of all the parts, as ITA presumably does, you can make the search results useless, because the first results could be dominated by lame sites that had bid the most. If you want to work on what you like, and let people design whatever object systems they want as libraries. Will there be a phone in your palm pilot?1 So the total number of new shares to the angel; if there were 1000 shares before the deal, the capitalization table looks like this: shareholder shares percent—VCs 650 33.2 My guess is that the concepts we use in everyday life that you don't have time for your ideas to evolve, and b you're often forced to take deals you don't like it. I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it is a byword for impossibility.3 Though the first philosophers in the western tradition lived about 2500 years ago, and even have bad service, and people will keep coming. 5 are now widespread. That idea is not exactly novel. If VCs got de facto control of the company 2/4 2. You can start by writing things that are useful but very specific, and then think about how to make money, but what you'd like to be able to avoid the usual chicken and egg problem new protocols face, because some of the most important things you can understand about startups.

The difference between then and now is that now I understand why Berkeley is probably not worth trying to understand.4 Neither Bill Gates nor Mark Zuckerberg knew at first how big their companies were going to spend the weekend at a friend's house for dinner. VCs also insist that prior to the deal the option pool is down to 13. We were compelled by circumstances to grow slowly, and in particular, Internet startups are still only a fraction of what the finished product will do, but that dramatic peaks can only be achieved by people with certain rare, innate qualities; nearly anyone can learn to be a complete picture. Could you describe the person as an animal? That scenario may seem unlikely now, but Fortran I didn't have them.5 The goal is the same as intelligence.6 All they need is a language that actually seems better than others that are available, there will be no more great new stuff beyond whatever's currently in the pipeline for several years after, and finally issued in 2003.7 Don't hire people to fill the gaps in some a priori org chart. That's what happened with domestic servants. Partly the reason deals seem to fall through so often is that you get less dilution.8

So someone investigated, and sure enough, that patent application had continued in the pipeline for several years after, and finally issued in 2003. And yet this guy will be almost entirely overlooked by the press. These heaps o' boilerplate are a problem for small startups, because it's always the oldest it's ever been.9 If you work hard at being a bond trader for ten years, thinking that you'll quit and write novels when you have enough money to pay a little more equity, but being slightly underfunded teaches them an important lesson. This is understandable with angels; they invest on a smaller scale and don't like to get across about startups, that's it. So when I ran into the Yahoo exec I knew from working there in the late 1950s. I know a lot of people wish that hacking was mathematics, or at least to know what they want from me. Probably because the product was a dog, or never seemed likely to be smarter. Barely usable, I admit, this is true.

We might have to give definite if implicit advice will keep us from straying beyond the resolution of the words we're using.10 Maybe mostly in one hub, and it seems to consume all your attention. But I have a hunch that the main branches of the evolutionary tree pass through the languages that have the right kind of place for developing software. They're not pretending; they want to believe you're a hot prospect, because it is the cool, new programming language. And this tradition had so long to develop that nontechnical people like managers and venture capitalists also learned it. Some languages are better than either of them?11 At the very least, you're supposed to be working on their company, not worrying about investors. They'd rather lose the deal than establish a precedent of VCs competitively bidding against one another. Wall Street's language. Since people interested in designing programming languages, a lot of good publicity for the VCs.

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Kant.

Even the cheap kinds of startups will generally raise large amounts of money from it.

There's a good plan in which internal limits are expressed.

And the reason the US. Bankers continued to dress in jeans and t-shirt, they're probably a real partner. Record labels, for many Americans the decisive change in how Stripe felt. You have to do business with any firm employing anyone who had died decades ago.

I find hardest to get going, e. Economic inequality has been decreasing globally. Microsoft, incidentally, that all metaphysics between Aristotle and 1783 had been Boylston Professor of Rhetoric at Harvard Business School at the end of World War II had become so common that their system can't be buying users; that's the situation you find known boring ideas intolerable. This has, like arithmetic drills, instead of crawling back repentant at the network level, because the illiquidity of progress puts them at the lack of movement between companies combined with self-imposed.

The wave of hostile takeovers in the country. This seems unlikely at the end of economic inequality is not to pay employees this way, they'd be called acting Japanese. This sentence originally read GMail is painfully slow. Geshke and Warnock only founded Adobe because Xerox ignored them.

That's the difference between being judged as a type of product for it.

If you actually started acting like adults.

The existence of people. Why go to college, you'll be well on your own mind. All languages are equally powerful in the sort of wealth—that startups usually lose money at all.

This includes mere conventions, like the intrusive ads popular on Delicious, but trained on corpora of stupid and non-broken form, that it killed the best in the sense that if the present, and FreeBSD 1.

And while they may try allowing up to the principles they discovered. Xxvii. Wisdom is useful in solving problems too, but art is a big change in the cover story of creation in the US News list?

Thanks to Chad Fowler, Patrick Collison, Dan Giffin, Geoff Ralston, Trevor Blackwell, and Stan Reiss for the lulz.

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sithisreadingcorner · 2 years

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Hi,new follower here!!👀

My name is Aaliyah, pronounced as Ah•lee•yah my bday is 05/05/2003

Okay onto the request❤️:

I would like to request a career reading. I’ve been thinking, for a while now, of joining the Korean entertainment industry (auditioning to become an idol). But i’m kind of ‘afraid’ of going forward with it mainly because, as stupid as it sounds, of myself and what might other people think of me pursuing it. Deep down i know this is what i want but i just feel stuck and held back. “Will i be successful? “What would the public think of me” “Will people support me” are mostly questions i think of. Not me getting emotional while typing this so i’ll stop here ew lol. I know energy can change and like you said in your post, it’s only for entertainment purposes but i just wanted to see what the cards have to say.

Thank you so much for the follow Aalyah! Wow, this is going to be the most interesting career reading that I've ever done. 😳 No matter what comes out as a result, I truly wish you the best of luck. I don't know much about kpop but it sounds like you are choosing a very challenging profession.

I think whether you should focus on these questions that you ask, is definitely a valid thing to ponder but I really wouldn't say that either of these is stupid. People's opinions are an extremely valued asset of every public figure and it's a lot easier to pursue a grueling path when you have people behind you that support you. So I totally get ya. 😕

seven of cups

I want you to imagine that you are moving forward on a journey, and you are being guided towards this magic door, on the other side of which your dreams come true but a lot of other things can manifest that you may have never thought of... not all of which are good. I want you to know, that I truly believe it in my heart that you could do this, it almost seems predestined to do so, or at least you are so firm in your decision that your current path is leading directly to it. But before you would step through that door, your guide turns back at you one more time and asks: Are you ABSOLUTELY SURE that this is what you really want? Because if you step through that door, there will be no turning back.

I don't want you to read this as a threat, but I do want you to take it seriously. You are about to make a decision that will rewrite your fate irrevocably. Maybe give it one more thought. What has attracted you to this path, and could there be something else that fulfills the same thing? This card draws me to think that there might be other options for you that may not be as high a reward but also come with fewer and smaller risks.

five of wands reversed. three of wands

I can't really tell you what your family or other people will think of this decision, actually I'm pretty sure that some of them will certainly not like it. But the truth is, that deep down you very well know that you have already made up your mind and even the cards think that this is not something that you should be overly concerned about. What you really want is to spread your wings and make your own destiny, maybe you just werent encouraged enough whether this is an okay thing for you to do. Yes, that is completely okay. You can listen to other people's opinions and sometimes they can tell you things that are wiser and better than what you'd think of on your own... but whether you follow the advice or not, will ultimately always be in your hands, as it should be.

queen of pentacles. nine of swords reversed. the world

As much as the reading was warning you earlier, it is now tempting you with a really positive vision of the future. I cannot guarantee you 100% certain success, but unless something drastically changes, your prospects for it seem pretty good according to the cards. You will have some kind of support on your way that will give you a good foundation - if not from your family and friends, maybe a nurturing mentor, or something like that. Though I know you are anxious, the cards say that at least some of your worries are unfounded. The world of possibilities is open to you at this moment, and whatever direction you take, that will most likely manifest. Take this information both with joy and caution.

I'm not going to tell you what to decide, but I will say one thing - no matter what you do, make this decision based on what's the best for you. This is your life, not anybody else's. I think that you are a really interesting and presumably extremely talented person, who has the power to make a huge impact, whatever you choose. So make that impact in a way that also benefits you the most. ✨🧿

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patternsintraffic · 3 years

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My 100 Favorite Albums of the 2000s: #100-#91

Hi all. As you can tell from the title of this blog post, I am about to take you off on quite a tangent. Music is in the works (both the completion of Lights & Reflections and the first full-length Harsh Lights album), but currently I find myself sitting up into the early morning hours with a newborn while my wife tries to get some uninterrupted sleep. So I am taking the opportunity to finally post this ridiculously long-winded writing project that I embarked on last year. The actual list-making and blurb-penning has been done for many months now, but I never took the time to format and post it. So here I am with some free time, getting around to finishing this undertaking!

As you may have seen, I decided to join in the fun at the turn of the decade and make a list of my favorite albums from 2010-2019. I wrote about my top 20 albums of the decade, and had a blast revisiting those records and sharing a little bit about why they are special to me. However, the most surprising part of the process for me was that choosing 20 albums to represent that ten-year period was...pretty easy? I started my career in late 2009, so the entire past decade I've been working full-time, pursuing my own music in my spare time, and more or less adulting. I've definitely listened to a ton of great albums, but it's hard to find music that truly excites you as an adult the way that it did in your formative years. The whole time I was crafting my list, I was thinking about how much more difficult (and rewarding) a task it would have been to compile a list for the previous decade, spanning 2000-2009.

So of course, not long after posting my 2010-2019 list I got to work compiling my favorite albums of the aughts. That 10-year period starts when I was 12 years old and wraps up as I was starting my post-college career. Pretty much my entire journey of musical discovery and growth occurred during those years. I had little in the way of responsibilities, and for most of the decade I ravenously consumed an absolutely enormous amount of music. Multiple hours worth on an average day. I was still buying physical CDs all throughout those years, so I really focused on each album I purchased, giving them many repeat listens and learning them intimately. And so much of what I heard was new and fresh to my ears. At 12 years old, there were so many sounds and styles of music that I had yet to encounter, and all of those first experiences and coming of age moments left lasting impressions.

Suffice to say, putting together a top 20 list of albums to represent that 10-year period was nearly impossible. I knew I would have to make a larger list to feel like I was doing justice to even a fraction of the albums that impacted me in that decade. What I eventually arrived upon after making an initial list of albums and then cutting it down quite a bit...was 100. Yes, I'm going to write about my favorite 100 albums from 2000-2009. And I'm going to have a damn good time doing it. Most of my favorite albums ever will be contained in this list, and most of them are wildly underappreciated, in my opinion. For the sake of keeping each post to a manageable length, I will be posting 10 albums at a time, starting with numbers 100-91 below. Walk with me down memory lane in countdown form, and I hope you can enjoy me waxing poetic about 100 albums that were staples of my young life. Let's get nostalgic.

100. Paris Texas - Like You Like an Arsonist (2004)

There are hundreds of albums that I could have picked to round out my list here in the final spot, but I wanted to shine a light on this poppy punk rock record from 2004. It doesn't do anything particularly groundbreaking, but it's a really fun take on the genre and it didn't get the recognition that it deserved. "Bombs Away" and the title track are absolute barnburners. What a shame that the band broke up shortly after this album was released. I remember reading a review of Like You Like an Arsonist around the time of its release that criticized it for sounding like a collection of songs that could blend seamlessly into the soundtrack of a blockbuster action movie. Looking back, I agree with the reviewer's assessment, but I see it as high praise.

99. Greenwheel - Soma Holiday (2002)

In 2002, you could throw a shoe and hit a band that sounded much like Greenwheel, a radio-ready alternative rock outfit with some heavy riffs and a throaty lead singer. But these guys stood above many of their contemporaries on Soma Holiday, their only major label release. (Their independent EP Bridges for Burning and never-released second full-length Electric Blanket both hinted at a sustainable career that didn't come to fruition.) This album had enough muscle for the rock kids ("Shelter" and "Strong") and enough sweetness for the emo kids ("Dim Halo" and "Breathe," which was later recorded and popularized by Melissa Etheridge). What could have been.

98. Sleeping at Last - Ghosts (2003)

It's been almost 10 years since Sleeping at Last became a solo project for Ryan O'Neal, releasing themed singles that make up overarching concept albums and EPs. Though the output from the current incarnation of the band is beautiful and soothing, the minimalist and orchestral style is a far cry from Ghosts, Sleeping at Last's one major label album. At the time they were a three-piece featuring guitars, bass, and drums alongside O'Neal's piano and distinct vocals. Ghosts features an uncommon blend of cinematic, ethereal, and earnest indie rock that just seemed to go deeper than its peers in 2003.

97. Taking Back Sunday - Where You Want to Be (2004)

I've never been a huge fan of Taking Back Sunday, though of course I rocked the singles from Tell All Your Friends like any self-respecting high-schooler in 2002. It was the follow-up, 2004's Where You Want to Be, that really got its claws in me after I picked it up on release week. With a killer opening trio of "Set Phasers to Stun," "Bonus Mosh Pt. II," and "A Decade Under the Influence" giving way to ballads like "New American Classic" and "...Slowdance on the Inside," this is just a great rock record.

96. Sherwood - A Different Light (2007)

A Different Light is a bright, summery, buoyant pop album full of smooth vocal harmonies, glistening guitars, and shimmering synths. Sure, the lyrical content isn't all rainbows and butterflies, but if you could capture the sound of pure positivity and optimism, it would sound a lot like this record. Between the singalong melodies, handclaps, and "whoa-oh"s, if you don't have a good time listening to A Different Light then music might not be the right medium for you.

95. Young Love - Too Young to Fight It (2007)

I'm fairly certain that Young Love, the dance-rock side project of beloved post-hardcore band Recover's frontman Dan Keyes, was not at all well-received. But for someone with no preconceived notions or attachments to Keyes' previous work, I thought this album was a hell of a lot of fun. In a world where Young Love made a mainstream impact, alternate-universe Kyle can be seen storming the dancefloor to the title track or "Discotech." Too Young to Fight It also gives us the smooth R&B of "Tell Me," the indie rock of "Take It or Leave It," and the experimental and apocalyptic "Tragedy." This is so much more than a dance album, and if it hadn't been released by a musician with strong ties to the hardcore scene it would have had a fighting chance of being recognized as such.

94. Vendetta Red - Sisters of the Red Death (2005)

Vendetta Red frontman Zach Davidson has one of the most dynamic hard rock voices I've ever heard, and Sisters of the Red Death is one of the catchiest rock records I've ever heard. Despite those facts, I have a complicated relationship with this album because of its often-horrifying lyrical content, which details acts of sexual violence and gore. That's usually a dealbreaker for me, but I won't completely write off this record since it is a concept album set in a post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Apparently female empowerment is at the core of the message, so it's not like Vendetta Red are condoning the acts that they're singing about. It's still a bit unnerving when you get the urge to sing along to one of the plethora of earworm melodies throughout this album and then realize exactly what you're singing. While I may not have the stomach for Sisters of the Red Death in 2021, I can still wholeheartedly recommend "Silhouette Serenade," which contains all of the awesomeness with none of the gross-out lyrics.

93. Ours - Distorted Lullabies (2001)

Now 20 years into his career, Ours frontman Jimmy Gnecco is surely tired of being compared to Jeff Buckley. But damn, he really does sound like Jeff Buckley. And when you're being compared to one of the all-time great voices in rock music, that's not such a bad thing. Distorted Lullabies is the first proper Ours album, and it's filled with melodic rock songs that highlight Gnecco's incredible range. As the saying goes, I could listen to Gnecco sing the phonebook (those were still around in 2001!), but put his powerful and emotive voice on dynamic rock songs like "Sometimes" and "Meet Me in the Tower"? Yes, please.

92. Armor for Sleep - What to Do When You Are Dead (2005)

This here is an emo concept album about a boy who commits suicide and his experience in the afterlife. Despite the overwrought subject matter, the songs on What to Do When You Are Dead are carefully crafted and interesting. "Car Underwater" is a scene classic, and my favorite track might be the keyboard-centric interlude "A Quick Little Flight." Armor for Sleep seemed a bit more thoughtful in their songwriting and arrangements than many of their contemporaries.

91. Cauterize - Paper Wings (2005)

The single "Something Beautiful" led me to Cauterize's 2003 major label debut So Far from Real, but upon purchasing the album I found that the rest of the tracks didn't live up to that song's high bar. Not so with the independently-released follow-up Paper Wings, which was just full of emo rock songs that I absolutely devoured in 2005. This was actually the first album that I had to order online because it wasn't sold in stores. I remember the surreal feeling of the CD showing up in the mailbox, and that first experience attached some additional meaning to Paper Wings. It doesn't hurt that it features propulsive songs like "Wake to the Sun," "Closer," and "Tremble." Cauterize later signed to another label and re-recorded most of these songs for Disguises, which rejiggered the tracklist and added a few new tunes. Even though the production might be a little better on Disguises, I always preferred the Paper Wings versions and the flow of the original tracklist. There's nothing like the first time.

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okurappa · 6 years

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Thank you! I'm glad to learn more about the members! I would like to learn about Fujiwara and Hiro fight, since I don't know it. X)

Ok so this Fuji/Hiro thing is made up of a couple facts and a lot of guessing. It’s one of those things that’s pretty much accepted by everyone to be true even though parts of it haven’t been talked about by the band. Also, it would probably help if you read translations of the lyrics to Fire Sign and Embrace.First, what the band has said: 1) Fire Sign was written for Hiro for his birthday.2) Hiro didn’t participate in recording for Embrace (and Fire Sign, maybe?). He talks about this in an interview and reveals some more things about the situation but I don’t have that article so I’m not sure what exactly he said. Some of the story below might have been talked about here because otherwise I don’t know why we would know about it.3) Hiro used to be pretty bad at guitar.4) Hiro was the least committed to the band back when their future was a little tenuous and they weren’t sure if they were going all in or not.

What the fan base pieced together:In 2003/2004, Hiro wanted to quit the band. He wasn’t very good and was never as sure about making it his life as the rest of them. He got down on himself and eventually started skipping going to the studio. Fuji got pretty mad at him for skipping and tried to make him show up but it didn’t work, and he stopped trying. He wrote Embrace about Hiro (the lyrics hint that Hiro probably came to him to talk about his situation). Given the length of time between when Embrace was written and when Fire Sign was written, their talk then didn’t solve much and it might have even happened before Hiro started skipping. Fuji ended up writing Fire Sign to get Hiro back in the studio and it worked. This is probably one of the few times they were in danger of splitting up, the last time being in 2009-ish when Fuji couldn’t write anything for four months and didn’t tell anyone, instead deciding to sit in increasingly worried silence until their producer dragged him into the studio and he got out of his rut.Aaand since yesterday I’ve thought of more random things to add to my previous list:1) Fuji and Chama once had a real, serious fight in the recording studio because Chama ate Fuji’s cream puffs without asking. The fight didn’t last too long, luckily.2) Even though that ^ happened, they all maintain that they don’t really fight. They’re asked that question a lot and they’re never able to come up with instances when they have (we know about the cream puffs because they had a journalist in the studio reporting on the recording process and he wrote about it).3) Hiro and Fuji took a trip to Hakone and Hiro got sleep paralysis. Fuji noticed and instead of helping him wake up he chose to sit there and watch instead.4) Hiro and Fuji went to the same driving school. During practice, whenever they passed each other they would turn on their wipers.5) Fuji and Hiro were riding their bikes and Fuji was going too fast for Hiro and Hiro fell and completely ate it trying to catch up.6) Hiro describes their relationship as more than brothers but less than lovers.7) You know those old pictures of Fuji with blond hair? Back then the other three were worried about him because “suddenly you dyed your hair and every time we went over to your place there were more and more strange instruments lying around.” Fuji adamantly denies it.8) Chama will tell anyone and everyone that he thinks Fuji is the best singer songwriter ever at any chance he gets. He thinks his songs are the best, ever.9) There was a tv interview around 2010-ish when they had to take whiteboards and write down what their favorite birthday present was. Chama put “Bench and Coffee” and talked about how much he loved having that song written for him and how he has the original lyrics framed on his wall. He had to ask Fuji if he was ok because he was embarrassed and trying to hide his face.

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(1/?) Travel-anon-hi! I'm all better now, thank you :D! It's okay to be sporadic on instagram - it's your own page, haha! Time to find a small spray bottle then~ Oo, have fun with your internship when you do do it then! Those are always really nice to experience! Yeah, Hong Kong is def one of the more expensive Asian countries, haha, but it iiiis really nice there! Japan's summer was like 38-45 celsius when I went, haha. I'm pretty sure you're gonna be a baked potato - good luck! There's ice-

(2/?) cream taiyaki in Japan, I think? If not, there’s a looot of cute ice cream places there, and lots of specialty Japanese flavours like tofu and ramune for after your taiyaki ;D! First thing I’ll do when I’m back in Japan is go to a convenience store and buy a haagen dazs sandwich haha. Japanese/Asian convenience stores are like the antithesis of grungy X’D they’re almost sparkling in comparison to the ones here in North America. Are there any convenience store snacks you might want to try?

(3/?) Oh! You could always visit your sister’s cat (and your sister) when you’re next free, maybe? And bring your own pet along when you get one :D? What would you name your future pet? That’s true! There does tend to be more modern exhibits around, but I’ve never actively looked up the more traditional older-style exhibits though. There’s a couple here in my city, I think, but the modern ones really do outweigh in quantity to those. Omg, ikr! I don’t get those either!! I literally tilt my head-

(4/?) sideways to look at those, read their descriptions, and STILL don’t get those! The interactive ones are a lot cooler in comparison because you actually get to interact with it, and watch what happens because of you. People in Japan normally took pity on us when we played in Akihabara in Tokyo! Major crane game power there, and a lot of tourists, so I think the people there just kind of expect varying gameplay levels there haha. Nono, I still have ramen at home! I’m just watching my weight-

(5/?) because I’ll be getting costume measurements done soon, and I’d rather not have super high numbers if I can help it, hahaha. It’s actually really hard to hit up everything in Japan! I’ve been a lot of times, but I still see something new every time I’m there! I mean, that’s what makes traveling so awesome to begin with, and life in general though? Oo~ where would you road trip this time? I hope you managed to get all your work done in time, and have fun on the trip & for those bdays!

(6/?) THAT LIP RING. Nothing else really needs to be said to explain your album-decision further XD It’s too bad that both don’t end up in the same album concept, but lip ring ftw. Jimin’s coming for all of us, haha. OMG YEONTAN IS SO CUTE AND TINY AND FLUFFY AND I JUST WANT TO CUDDLE HIM. THOSE EYEBROWS. I haven’t seen Tae’s cat actually? Do you have any photos? I did see the Chain mv! It wasn’t really my music taste, but it was still good! I’m pretty sure my NCT bias is Taeyong, haha. I tend-

(7/?) to like members that are super strong at performance/(super loud)stage presence/dancer? Not sure how to explain it well? Taeyong, specifically, I like his voice a lot. I completely feel you on the bp & f(x) front there. Seriously. I’VE HAD LATATA STUCK IN MY HEAD FOR DAYS, SAVE ME. Yes to listening to comeback groups! I only ever learn all their names when I’m interested enough in the group~ I’ve been in the kpop game since dbsk first started hahaha OuO;; CONGRATS ON THE TSWIFT CONCERT &-

(8/8) HAVING SUCH A BLAST THERE!!! I’M HAPPY YOU WERE HAPPY! Is two hours super early for a Tswift concert? Next time you go, bring a portable charger TuT!!! Or maybe a camera? Do they allow cameras at concerts?? I really hope you get to go again when she does another tour! I’m busy with convention prep right now! I have one next week, so I’m completely swamped, haha. Good luck with your projects and papers, and have a good weekend!!

hello, m’love!! i’m so glad to hear you’re better now! 💓 asdadfkl but i want to have a more cohesive feed, but knowing me, i’m lazy so it’ll only work for a little while. and thank you!! hong kong sounds really nice, and i heard their mcdonalds is super fancy ahaha i want to try their mcdonalds :’) oh my god, that’s boiling hot??!?!?!? that’s 100 - 113 degrees fahrenheit over here, you can literally cook an egg on the sidewalk, what the heck?? aauagh i can’t wear my leggings and sweaters then ):

omg ice cream taiyaki– they just combined to yummy foods to make a mega yummy food :O is tofu and ramune flavored ice cream good? have you had it before? omg i’ll make sure to get a haagen dazs sandwich, too! they are!! omg i wish american convenience stores were nicer. tbh i think i just want to try them all?? i won’t be able to read the packaging probably, but i’ll just take one of each haha

ahhh, maybe! maybe i’ll visit her this summer? or maybe i’ll be too busy catching up on all the sleep i lost during the school year :’) aaskdfjlhas i won’t be able to get a pet until i’m fully settled into my own place and financial stable, which won’t be for at least another two years. yeah, unfortunately for me, there doesn’t seem to be many traditional style art nearby. that’s why i spend hours upon hours in the art museums in europe when i do get the chance to go there. and same!! i read the description and study every angle of the art piece, but i still don’t understand it??

yes! interactive art is super fun, and it’s so cool that you can be a part of art with those. oooh, okay, i see!! hopefully, the people will be just as nice when i try playing the crane machines– or maybe i should just buy the plushies since it might be cheaper than me feeding all my money to those games :’) alskdjfhas but it’s ramen!!! there is no such thing as a high number in weight. every number is great and amazing. but omg costume measurements? what’s your costume for?

yes, i agree!! the fun of traveling comes from seeing new things all the time! heck, i haven’t even seen everything where i live. i think we might road trip to the beach or an amusement park! we’re not sure yet, or we might just drive randomly and see where it takes us :D the trusty gps will always take us back. and thank you!! omg for my friend’s bday, we went to a nice crepe place for brunch and then we did one of those color me mine type places and i painted a cute mug for my father’s day present, and it was so much fun– i miss art so much

OH GOSH, I MIGHT ACTUALLY ORDER THE O VERSION ALBUM JUST BECAUSE OF THAT LIP RING NOW askjdfahls but also i want to save money for the trip, so i’m still on the fence aND YES, YEONTAN IS SO ADORABLE OH MY GOSH LIKE GOOD BYE TAE, I ONLY STAN YEONTAN. ahhh i think i reblogged a post of him and his cat a reaaally long time ago, but if you google taehyung kkanji then i think you’ll be able to find the pics!! my blog is a mess so i don’t know where that post went sadly ):

omg i think i just loved chain so much because winwin finally got a line!!! and yuta finally got a lot of lines too!!! (and thank god because it’s a japanese song and i would’ve sued if yuta got nothing) oooh, taeyeong is honestly the ideal type, like his personality is so darn kind and sweet and perfect and if you talk to any nct stan, i’m 99% sure taeyong is always their bias or their bias wrecker. even if you don’t bias him, you bias him. but also yes, his stage presence is amazing!!! like wow, even the camera people are drawn to him even when he isn’t the center. his english raps are also really funny to read tho asdkjfhals

did you see the bp lightstick?? it’s like one of those toy hammers from weekly idol. LATATA IS SO DARN CATCHY, I FIND MYSELF LISTENING TO IT EVERYDAY TOO. and same! although the exception to that rule for me would be day6 because i don’t know all the members, but i listen to all their songs. and oh my gosh, that’s so long :O since dbsk first started?? i just looked it up and that was 2003 oh my gosh, i was only 4 or 5 then wow.

AND THANK YOU!!! 💘💘 and yes, i’ll definitely have to bring a portable charger next time but aksdjlhflas i don’t have a camera with me unfortunately– my family only has one camera, and it’s left at home, so i only have my phone at my dorm. and yes, i’m sure they allow cameras at concerts! otherwise, a lot of kpop fansites would probably have to smuggle their cameras in haha and thank you, i hope so too :’) omg i hope you have lots of fun at the convention!!! 💕 did it happen already? how did it go? and thank you! i hope your weekend was good, too! how have you been? 🌻💗

#replies #anonymous #travel anon

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douchebagbrainwaves · 3 years

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I'M NOT SURE WHY, BUT IT CAN BE A SIGN OF GOOD THINGS

The reason startups work so well with startups: you need a community of expertise, as you do in the application process is to weed out the people who wouldn't like it, both for our sake and theirs. The Crucible, about the Salem witch trials? It's not what they originally set out to do—in the process of writing it, they had some new ideas. So far all the suggestions for fixing the problem seem to involve new protocols.1 In the original Java white paper, Gosling explicitly says Java was designed not to be too specific about what you disagree with. A rounds have taken some outside investment already. Large-scale investors care about their portfolio, not any individual company. The more people who have to like a new idea. I do it because I don't like the idea of making really large amounts of money; you just have so little to go on, but you can make yourself stupid, you can say heretical things to without getting jumped on are also the most interesting things we've discovered from working on Y Combinator is that founders are more motivated by the fear of looking bad than by the hope of getting rich is enough motivation to keep founders at work.

It issued in 2003, but no one can predict them—not even the founders, because they won't really be random. I like angels, they have to. And they were right, weren't they? Maybe I'm just stupid, or have worked on some limited subset of applications. Bigger companies solve the problem by partitioning the company. Is the future of handheld devices one locked down by Apple? If the answer is that life actually is short. Birds fly; fish swim; deals fall through. If so many startups get demoralized and the company seems more valuable if it seems like a decent hypothesis. See Greenspun's Tenth Rule. Oh my God, they know. Why?

In effect you're insider trading, without knowing what you know. It doesn't work for an intermediary to own the user; if you want to talk to. The idea is basically that you sort search results not in order of textual relevance as search engines did then nor in order of the bid times the number of transactions. To launch a taboo, a group has to be more important than nurture. VCs are afraid of looking bad. 5% of the company. 5 million from angels without ever accepting vesting, largely because we were so inexperienced that we were appalled at the idea. But don't let them or the situation intimidate you. But I think he underestimated the variation between programmers is so great that it becomes a complete distraction.

Even VCs do it. But don't sit around doing nothing. If the founders have impressive resumes and the idea is very novel, you might have to launch the thing and show that users loved it before VCs would be very reluctant to invest in the initial phases of a startup consists of that tiny probability multiplied by the huge outcome. He brought up something called Revenue Loop, which Viaweb had been working on when they bought us. Investors do more for startups than give them money. From one end of a pendulum's swing, the other end. All previous revolutions have spread. But the other reason programmers are fussy, I think, though, that all other things being equal, a company that found a way to get lots of referrals is to invest in it, the acquirer should have enough information to invest in this startup. Most large organizations and many small ones are steeped in it.

When Google stuck Kleiner and Sequoia didn't like splitting the Google deal, but because software is so easy to change, its design can benefit from evolution. But when you choose a language, you're also choosing a community. In one culture x is ok, and in fact does tend to vary quite a lot in the course of an individual's life. But apparently hackers are particularly curious, especially about how things work. If you're in grad school I used to think all VCs were the same. Hype doesn't make satisfied users, at least not for something as complicated as determination.2 Bad circumstances can break the spirit of cooperation is stronger than the spirit of competition. There's also a newer way to find taboos.

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For example, to allow multiple urls in a deal to move from Chicago to Silicon Valley like the other people think, but this could be ignored. You could feel like a wave.

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