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psychic-waffles · 8 months

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Top 5...................?

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Costumes from tv or movies?

COSTUMES FROM MOVIES LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

i am gonna keep it just to movies or i'll be sitting here all day just trying to decide, this is something i am EXTREMELY passionate about (sorry)

Edith's Nightdress (Crimson Peak - Kate Hawley):

I'm a HUGE fan of all of the costumes in crimson peak, especially how edith and lucille's costumes run with the butterfly/moth motif in the movie, but my absolute favourite is edith's nightgown (sorry yellow dress, you were a close second)

as with all of edith's dresses, THE SLEEVES!! THE DETAIL!! THE DRAPE OF THE FABRIC!!! the amount of hours that must have gone into each of these costumes jut blows my mind. like jsut look closely at the stitching holding all of the pleating in place!!! the size of the buttons!! it's just utterly beautiful

but the nightdress just makes her look so young, and so fragile, especially when she's wearing the dressing gown as well she's just swamped in fabric.

and then the visual storytelling of the red of the clay and the blood creeping up from the hem when she's running around at the end, it's BEAUTIFUL.

Elizabeth Swann's 'Pirate King' outfit (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - Penny Rose)

if i had to name one film that got me interested in how films were made more than any other it would be at world's end, i watched the behind the scenes features HUNDREDS of times. every single costume told a story, and the amount of thought gone into aging and weathering them just blew me away. it was so hard to pick just one costume, even just one of elizabeth's costumes (sorry black pearl nightgown) but honestly i wish i had a deeper reason for picking this one specifically but mostly i just think she looks cool as hell during the final battle.

and also i just will forever be heart eyes over the goldwork

Evelyn's wedding gown (The Fall - Eiko Ishioka)

Eiko Ishioka is a genius, the fall is quite honestly a visual masterpiece, and the costumes are a HUGE part of that. if you haven't seen it, half of the film is a little girl being told a story, and how she's picturing it in her imagination.

Because of this each costume is a totally unique look, and the fact that they're all so different to each other makes them pop even more. Everything is in bold shapes and colours, with distinct silhouettes, but the details are just as beautiful.

The costume I've actually picked is a evelyn's wedding gown, just because i think of all of them it's (by a narrow margin) the most visually striking. mostly due to that headpiece.

It's a moment in the film where all eyes are supposed to be focussed on evelyn (to distract from other things going on), so if they were going to put her in a showstopping costume this was the moment.

It's obviouslly just stunning all round, and such a genuinely interesting design, like no one else could have EVER come up with this other than eiko ishioka. I don't know how else to explain that other than go and look at the costumes for the fall (2006) and bram stoker's dracula (1992) next to each other and you'll get what i mean.

but it's the little details as well, that seem so unneccesary to the overall look but are still beautiful, like the change in bead on the end of the veil, the trim around the neck and on the headpiece, the slight pattern on the fabric. and then there's just the overall construction of it, which is just flawless!!

Truly i would sell my soul to see the design process behind any single costume in this film.

Queen Ravenna's 'Beetle' dress (Snow White and the Huntsman - Colleen Atwood)

i'm not going to try to defend it, this was a bad movie, HOWEVER the costumes were absolutely stunning, and ESPECIALLY the costumes they gave to charlize theron.

And despite being in the film for only a moment i will never ever be able to stop thinking about this dress.

the structured shoulders!! the colours!! the trailing layers!! the contrasting textures!! the way they've shredded the fabric to give it EVEN MORE texture!! and of course, most importantly, the hundreds of individually attached beetle shells

i just think it's a work of art

Aragorn's 'Strider' outfit (The Fellowship of the Ring - Ngila Dickson):

So i've always adored the lord of the rings costuming, it all feels very believable and cohesive as a world, whilst also having distinct looks for each race/location, and has set a bit of a blueprint that not a lot of high fantasy has strayed very far from since (which is a shame, but also speaks to how effective it is).

However my absolute favourite costume is Aragorn's first costume, or rather the version of this costume that he arrives at by the end of the Fellowship of the Ring. It's both an incredibly practical costume, whilst also having hints that Aragorn is more than just some random ranger. My favourite of which being the beautiful smocking detail on the sleeves.

I also am a HUGE fan of the fact that nothing on his costume is actually black - it's greens and blues and browns, and then it's all beautifully aged over the top of that, and there are parts that are ripped and sewn back together, it looks like something actually lived in (cue aragorn never showers joke). i just think it does a brilliant job of telling aragorns story visually. and of course it's kind of ""completed"" when he adds boromir's bracers to it 😭

#i am so sorry for this full on essay sdhfgjhkjglk #-special interest: activated-#long post #once again i am sorry #costume design #asks

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3vocatio · 1 year

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suddenly i forgive the devs for how they botched the dialogue for solomon's last birthday event because this made my jaw drop the floor and made me sob because. this scene is so beautiful. although no one was there by his side, he made sure to make his moments worthwhile.

#obey me shall we date #omswd #obey me swd #obey me solomon #solomon obey me #obey me spoilers #solomon birthday 2022 #guys im so sorry for spamming you with these solomon birthday posts i cant help myself #if you wanna block me please feel free to bc this is the only thing ill be talking about for a long time #once again i am Sorry

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mixmioart · 2 years

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What exactly happened in New England during the 19th century?

Time for some real life vampire folklore time!!

(Sorry this is gonna be an unnecessary long rant)

The YouTube channel Ask A Mortician has a video about it, was a while since I saw it but I remember it as great!

I’m a bit rusty in all the exact details so sorry if I get some stuff wrong, but there was a tuberculosis epidemic (an illness that renders you weak, pale, anemic and hollow-eyed, perhaps even coughing blood! Which has become part of vampire victim canon in pop culture!) which killed a lot of people. Entire families died en masse, and it was obviously horrifying for everyone. Often, one family member would become sick, and then, one by one the rest would become weak and die.

This lead to rumours being spread that it was actually the dead that was leeching off the energy of their living relatives, slowly draining them. Which led to people, in a few cases, digging up their dead and in some cases burning their hearts/removing heads, etc. Sometimes sick family members were made to breath in/consume the ashes from the burning. But basically. Classic vampire exhumations.

Even at the time this was considered strange, ‘barbaric’ and unscientific! People were sceptical! Especially outsiders, but even the people doing it! In one family, a father dug up his daughter, even though he didn’t personally believe it. But the science about tuberculosis was pretty new and offered no hope nor cure + the rest of the community wanted him to +and his last living child was terribly ill so like.... would he be able to live with himself knowing he hadn’t done every possible thing??

From the book “Food for the Dead” by Micheal E. Bell who is probs the main expert on the topic:

And:

But since then these town has been overrun with ghost hunters/vampire fanatics who are all super interested in finding the truth (!!!) about the vampires or communicating with the ghosts or whatever.

Whereas the takeaway is rather that this wasn’t really any occult encounter with the supernatural. It was a sincere attempt at folk medicine. The term “vampire” was hardly used by the people doing it. And the story is honestly kinda misrepresented as an “uhhhhh scary vampires” or “dumb villagers” when in reality it was just people doing their best at a fucking horrifying illness. Which might be is a boring conclusion but from a plain human perspective is very compelling, and honestly more interesting!

I did all this research bc I wanted to make a comic based on the vampire tale until I read enough about it that I didn’t really want to, at least not without making it a way more elaborate thing than I initially thought about:)

TLDR: tuberculosis caused people to believe that exhumating their dead relatives would save them. Got spun into epic vampire tale when in reality, it was just trying to save your community from an epidemic.

#once again I am sorry #haven’t finished Bells book entirely yet either but #it’s very interesting #also talks about the folklorist relationship with their subjects etc #a lot about how myths spread etc #!! read it!!#mio talks #long post #thank you for the ask!!

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ecopportunityx · 1 year

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whenever i see people say theyre not caught up on the comic i get so relieved. like thank god theres still some people not affected by my unending artists/writers block

#ONCE AGAIN I AM SORRY

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shai-manahan · 2 years

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Helloo!!

❛ i wish i met you sooner. ❜for e Alonzo?

Hi Anon! Your wish is my command! I also got this prompt request from discord so :’)

“i wish i met you sooner.” for Alonzo (I really thought I couldn’t write anything worse than the last one)

It's raining.

The showers sprinkle against the window nearby, the sound heavy to your ears. Yet, it is not what causes the tension on your shoulders. It is not what distracts you from doing what you should—the papers carelessly spread on the desk you have completely abandoned.

For those, you can blame Alonzo, lying on the bed just as you are, their eyes staring into yours with deep sadness behind them. This is why they're such a bad liar, you think.

Their eyes are vivid mirrors of their mind.

Roy had once said it's a fatal weakness of theirs, susceptible to being used, but for you, it's a whole lot more.

You brush your knuckles against their cheek as you ponder on those times: the first time you met, back at the prison, with the look of utter hatred in their eyes; the moment they showed you what you've unknowingly done, with the shocked expression at how you gave your response; the day they revealed everything, every tiny detail shattering your reality, every inch of them pleading, oh so much pleading it still breaks your heart;

And the brief longing stare they gave you, when they found out you were alive.

These are eyes you would know even in the darkness. In death.

You stare at them once more, committing every aspect to memory, basking yourself in their soulful gaze.

You may no longer see them, after tonight. After you leave them on this bed, this room, this house. You may no longer see them when the sun finally rises.

"Do you really have to go?" Alonzo asks in a hushed whisper.

"It's our only chance."

They let out a shaky sigh, their nose now touching yours. "I need you alive. I— You can't tell me to keep going while you—"

You press a finger against their lips, and despite the fear that seems to overwhelm your mind, despite the tears that are starting to well up in your eyes, you smile. You smile at them, hoping that's the only thing they'll see. Not the quivering of your lips. Not the rapid beating of your heart.

"Let me go." You can see the conflict budding in their movements. They know they have to, but if there's one thing you know about this person staring at you like you're their most precious, it is that they will always fight against the inevitable, no matter how absurd it may be. "You have to let me go."

There is regret bubbling up in your chest as you repeat the words, as Alonzo bites their lower lip and reaches out for you, hands heavy with desperation. The sad, longing look in their eyes intensify as your lips meet, and there is emptiness in it that accurately reflects the bleakness of your situation.

Two people who have fought. Hurt.

Loved.

Two weary people saying goodbye to each other.

And as they pull away, as the softness of their touch disappears, Alonzo closes their eyes, gritting their teeth before breathing in an unsteady breath. "I wish I met you sooner. Before… Before all this shit happened."

Before the bitterness.

You want to say you agree, that meeting them earlier than you have would’ve made this all better, but grief is not a concept Alonzo deals with very well, and saying those words of affirmation will certainly make the process much harder.

So instead, you tell them what is both a truth and a lie, with the hopes that one day, Alonzo will believe them.

"I don't regret every second."

#e alonzo #hollowed minds prompts #interactive fiction #hollowed minds series #hollowed minds #wip #writing #choicescript #if game #ask #anon #once again i am sorry #I don't know why I write like this

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aroundtheworldwithphillyfogg · 2 years

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Maybe it would be good idea to have a link for the first part in the second (or third) part for the days with more than one entry? I ended up reading the second part first, and I think I wasn't the only one...

Hi! And thank you for the suggestion, I'm sorry about that, I have fixed today's posts and will make the links for any others in the future (though there aren't many, thankfully).

#ask #anonymous #once again I am sorry #will be fixed in the future

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zaimta · 10 months

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Request Black Clover William x Reader au bomb devil (She lives like Reese and performs missions like in Chainsaw Man.)

sorry man i tried to itch my brain to get this done but i got nothin bc i haven’t seen chainsaw man i tried googling the character but it didn’t feel like bc i didn’t know what they were like🧍🏾‍♀️

if you wanna send me sumn else for william i’ll gladly write it for you anon!!

#-this is zai speaking #once again i am sorry #it just wouldn’t feel write tryna half ass it bc then i wouldn’t really like it either

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secretagentspydetectiveninja · 25 days

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posting this with absolutely no context

#am i a cryptid now? i log on like once in a blue moon to post cringe and then leave again #ace attorney #apollo justice #tikki #random stuff #my stuff #ooookay okay okay okay. anyone reading the tags can have a LITTLE context‚ as a treat #so. sitting on my ao3 currently is an unfinished fic with exactly this premise #i want to finish it so bad. it haunts me every day. people leave such nice comments and everything #but i just have no motivation. trust me i've tried #i thought that perhaps drawing it might finally kick my brain back into gear #i'm so sorry readers i'm sorry i WILL finish it i promise it's not abandoned #it was so much fuuuuun #tikki are you seeing this. cringefail author who keeps playing video games instead of writing lmao #anyway goodbye friends i am gone again. logging off once more

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civetside · 2 months

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if they if they like played dnd or something am i right

ive never played dnd

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #tlt shitposting #harrowhark nonagesimus #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #fantasy AU i guess #comic #i am once again drawing in a funny new art style for another funny au you just gotta deal with it #im reusing huge bone fist as the punchline sorry

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vagueconfusion · 1 month

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Feeling real ridiculous for not having realized that Baron's "stark father" was the Nightmare King until now

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy spoilers #also #love cassandra's gender situation going on here tbh #hell of an episode. i am totally normal about it (they are in fact. not normal about it at all.)#am willing to explain my thought process here if need be #there is a slight temptation to write something about the possible relation between cassandra and baron now though #did cassandra know that was where baron was like she could always summon kalina?#the creator and creation (the thing you made at your worst)#father and son (you can barely sustain yourself. let alone others)#you were once a god and then you weren't and you made this being and now you are a god again and it still exists #hmmmm #hm!#things to think. thoughts to ponder.#sorry i keep adding tags. i keep having Thoughts

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day-colors · 1 month

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#i am once again attracted to rose quartz #sorry the colorings meh i think im burnt out #steven universe #steven universe fanart #rose quartz #art stuff

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egophiliac · 3 months

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BIRD SSR????????????

NOOOO I wasted all my keys on Platinum Malleus, HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO ME

(I do kinda love that this is officially "Raven Jacket" Crowley though) (does this open up the possibility of a selection of future Crowley fashion cards)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #eyestrain #(my knowledge of rave attire is very limited i am so sorry)#(to be fair i don't believe crowley knows anything about raving either)#(he's there in a misguided attempt to chaperone/make sure students don't do anything he might be legally liable for)#petition for an ssr of crowley's beach shorts and fedora #anyway i saw the banner and immediately assumed it was going to be another absolutely unhinged no-context episode 7 story card drop #and lost my MIND #and then i scrolled down and...oh it's an event whoops #alas another month without more main story #does this mean more staff cards in the future though? HEY TWST DOES THIS MEAN MORE STAFF CARDS 👀👀👀#are they going to have stories. do we get to see crowley try once again to convince the school board not to fire him. yes PLEASE #god i have NO keys what am i going to DO #i thought i had time to save for sebek's birthday!#but...but our terrible birddad...

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fictionadventurer · 9 months

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I have to talk about Chester Arthur. His story makes me go crazy. A mediocre president from the 1880s who's completely forgotten today has one of the best redemption stories I've ever heard and I need to make people understand just how cool his story is.

So, like, he starts out as this idealist, okay? He's the son of an abolitionist minister and becomes famous as a New York lawyer who defends the North's version of Rosa Parks whose story desegregates New York City's trolley system.

Then he starts getting pulled into politics and becomes one of the grimiest pieces of the political machine. He wants money, power, prestige, and he gets it. He becomes the right-hand man of Roscoe Conkling, the most feared political boss in the nation, a guy who will throw his weight around and do the most ruthless things imaginable to keep his friends in power and destroy his enemies.

Because Arthur's this guy's top lackey, he gets to be Controller of the Port of New York--the best-paying political appointment in the country, because that port brings in, like, 70% of the federal government's funds in tariffs. He gets a huge salary plus a percentage of all the fines they levy on lawbreakers, and because he's not afraid to make up infractions to fine people over, he is absolutely raking in the dough. Making the rough equivalent of $1.3 million a year--absolutely insane amounts of money for a government position. He's spending ridiculous sums on clothes, buying huge amounts of alcohol and cigars to share with people as part of his job recruiting supporters to the party, going out nearly every night to wine and dine people as part of his work in the political machine. He's living the high life. Even when President Hayes pulls him from his position on suspicions of fraud, he's still living a great life of wealth, power, and prestige.

Then in 1880, his beloved wife dies. While he's out of town working for a political campaign. And he can't get back in time to say goodbye before she dies. Because he's a guy who has big emotions, it absolutely tears him up inside, especially because Nell resented how much his political work kept him away from home. He has huge regrets, but he just moves in with Roscoe Conkling and keeps working for the political machine.

And then he gets a chance to be vice president. The Republican Party has nominated James Garfield, a dark horse candidate who wants to reform the spoils system that has given Conking his power and gave Arthur his position as Port Controller. Conkling is pissed, and he controls New York, and since the party's not going to win the election without New York, they think that appointing Conkling's top lackey as vice-president will pacify him.

They're wrong--Conkling orders Arthur to refuse--but Arthur thinks this sounds like a great opportunity. The only political position he's ever held is Port Controller--a job he wasn't elected to and that he was pulled from in disgrace. Vice President is way more than he could ever have hoped for. It's a position with a lot of political pull and zero actual responsibilities. He'll get to spend four years living in up in Washington high society. It's the perfect job! Of course he accepts, and Conkling comes around when he figures out that he can use this to his advantage.

When Garfield becomes president, Arthur does everything he can to undermine him. He uses every dirty political trick he can think of to block everything that Garfield wants to do. He refuses to let the Senate elect a president pro tempore so he can stay there and influence every bill that comes through. He all but openly boasts of buying votes in the election. He's so much Conkling's lackey that he may as well be the henchman of a cartoon supervillain. On Conkling's orders, he drags one of Garfield's Cabinet members out of bed in the middle of the night--while the guy is ill--to drag him to Conkling's house so he can be forced to resign. He's just absolutely a thorn in the president's side, a henchman doing everything he can to maintain the corrupt spoils system.

Then in July 1881, when Arthur's in New York helping Conkling's campaign, the president gets shot. By a guy who shouts, "Now Arthur will be president!" just after he fires the gun. Arthur has just spent the past four months fighting the president tooth and nail. Everyone thinks he's behind the assassination. There are lynch mobs looking to take out him and Conkling. The papers are tearing him apart.

Arthur is absolutely distraught. He rushes to Washington to speak with the president and assure him of his innocence, but the doctors won't let him in the room. He gets choked up when talking to the First Lady. Reporters find him weeping in his house in Washington. Once again, death has torn his world apart and he's not getting a chance to make amends.

Arthur goes to New York while the president is getting medical treatment, and he refuses to come to Washington and take charge because he doesn't dare to give the impression that he's looking to take over. No one wants Arthur to be president and he doesn't want to be president, and the possibility that this corrupt political lackey is about to ascend to the highest office in the land is absolutely terrifying to everyone.

Then in August, when it's becoming clear that the president is unlikely to recover, he gets a letter. From a 31-year-old invalid from New York named Julia Sand. A woman from a very politically-minded family who has been following Arthur's career for years. And she writes him this astounding letter that takes him to task for his corrupt, conniving ways, and the obsession with worldly power and prestige that has brought him wealth and fame at the cost of his own soul--and she tells him that he can do better. In the midst of a nationwide press that's tearing him apart, this one woman writes to tell him that she believes he has the capacity to be a good president and a good man if he changes his ways.

And then he does. After Garfield dies, people come to Arthur's house and find servants who tell them that Arthur is in his room weeping like a child (I told you he had big emotions), but he takes the oath of office and ascends to the presidency. And he becomes a completely different man. His first speech as president mentions that one of his top priorities is reforming the spoils system so that people will be appointed based on merit rather than getting appointed as political favors with each change in the administration. Even though this system made him president. When Conkling comes to Arthur's office telling him to appoint his people to important government positions, Arthur calls his demands outrageous, throws him out, and keeps Garfield's appointees in the positions. "He's not Chet Arthur anymore," one of his former political friends laments. "He's the president."

He loses all his former political friends. He's never trusted by the other side. Yet he sticks to his guns and continues to support spoils system reform. He prosecutes a postal service corruption case that everyone thought he would drop. He's the one who signs into law the first civil service reform bill, even though presidents have been trying to do this for more than ten years, and he's the person who's gained all his power through the spoils system. He immediately takes action to enforce this bill when he could have just dropped it. He becomes a champion of this issue even though it's the last thing anyone would have expected of him.

He oversees naval reform. He oversees a renovation of the White House. He still prefers the social duties of the presidency, but he's respectable in a way that no one expected. Possibly because Julia Sand keeps sending him letters of encouragement and advice over the next two years. But also because he's dying.

Not long after ascending to the presidency, he learns he's suffering from a terminal kidney disease. And he tells no one. He keeps going about his daily life, fulfilling his duties as president, and keeps his health problems hidden. Once again, death is upending his life, and this time it's his own death. He's lived a life he's ashamed of, and he doesn't have much time left to change. He enters the presidency as an example of the absolute worst of the political system, and leaves it as a respectable man.

He makes a token effort to seek re-election, but because of his health problems, he doesn't mind at all when someone else gets the nomination. He dies a couple of years after leaving office. The day before his death, he orders most of his papers burned, because he's ashamed of his old life--but among the things that are saved are the letters from Julia Sand, the woman who encouraged him to change his ways.

This is an astounding story full of so many twists and turns and dramatic moments. A man who falls from idealism into the worst kind of corruption and then claws his way back up to decency because of a series of devastating personal losses and unexpected opportunities to do more than he could have ever hoped to do. I just go crazy thinking about it and I need you all to understand just how amazing this story is.

#history is awesome #presidential talk #i thought about his story again this morning #and was once again struck by the desire to chase people down and make them understand just how amazing this story is #and instead of harassing random strangers i decided to inflict it on tumblr again #my original essay was rather too long and dry and tangled up in too many other details #and didn't quite capture the 'i want to chase you down and look you in the eye and make you freak out about this with me' vibe of this stor #this still doesn't quite capture it but at least it's shorter #and prevents me from rambling to unsuspecting family members #sorry for inflicting this on you again but what else am i supposed to do?

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