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leqclerc · 3 months

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i’m glad i’m not the only one worried here. great for the team and all, but this feels like chaos waiting to happen. i thought we finally had it. even if we didn’t get a wdc, they couldn’t even bother to try and prioritize charles for once.

You're not alone in feeling like this! Being worried and not immediately jumping for joy and accepting every decision the team makes isn't any less valid. Because this is weird, this is unusual, this is something I never thought would happen. It's a lot to process. I've cycled through all five stages of grief today, from "oh lol funny memes" to "alright what the fuck does this mean for Charles?"

I get that a lot of people are super hyped about this, especially if you've always supported both drivers, I get that it must feel like a dream come true.

I'm so conflicted because on one hand, okay, maybe our concerns are unwarranted, maybe this will be the best thing ever, just what the team/Charles needs, massive success all around. But unfortunately I'm a chronic overthinker with pessimistic tendencies so of course I worry 🧍🏻‍♀️

But also, like you said, I thought Ferrari were done with bringing in world champions in favour of making world champions, you know? This just feels like it's going to complicate something that's already very volatile and complicated all on its own (see: plethora of issues that usually held Charles back, whether it be mismanagement or poor strategy, etc.) It already felt like everything needed to come together perfectly for him to maximise his chance of winning and now they throw this massive curveball and I really don't know what to think. Especially given the "multi year" deal (2+1 is I think the version journalists have settled on.)

It kind of just feels like the issues that already existed with Sainz will be magnified, you know? The media machine around Lewis is huge, so that's going to be ten times as intense (Sky is already putting down Charles and it's just going to get so much worse), the fan wars ten times as intense... It just feels like he can't win in any scenario, like all the work he's put in so far to get Ferrari back to their winning ways will be overshadowed by the new big star signing. If they create a competitive package and start winning when Lewis enters the team (even if Charles did the heavy lifting in terms of feedback and development) he will be credited for the team's success. I mean, just look at the way this misleading narrative of Carlos "single-handedly saving the strategy" stuck. Oftentimes people don't care about the facts, if a narrative appeals to them they will perpetuate it.

Plus, there will be so much pressure on Ferrari to "get Lewis that 8th title!!!" Mercedes's inability to do so soured a lot of fans' relationship with the team. If Ferrari really puts team interests above driver interests, then I'm sure they'd see the value in being the team that makes that happen. History book worthy stuff. Kind of concerned that in the midst of that Charles and his ambitions and goals might fall by the wayside. And he's got way more to lose in this situation—no matter how Lewis's time at Ferrari goes, he's a multiple WDC, no one's ever going to take that away from him. Same with Fernando, same with Seb. Charles has never even had a proper chance to go for one title with the team yet.

Like, if you think about it, you have clear "eras", right? Someone says Red Bull, you immediately associate them with Max and/or Seb. Lewis will, I think understandably, be associated with Mercedes due to his long stint and all the success he's enjoyed at the team. I guess I imagined that Ferrari was finally gearing up to be that with Charles going forward. But this shakes things up massively and while winning a championship with Ferrari was already a tall order, now it's, like, full on a herculean task.

#replies #anonymous #discussions and predictions #and again like??? this isn't me discrediting charles or not believing in him or whatever like ok i get it he's down for the challenge #but also like we all knew he's the better driver between him and carlos; that he'd beat him in terms of speed and talent #didn't stop ferrari from absolutely fumbling his chances in the races though and creating these bizarre comparisons and narratives #also having sat through peak brocedes championship fight era.. it was exhausting. and this was before f1twt was in its prime #it's probably going to be Not Nice especially if the car really is competitive #the british bias and british media powerhouse can be super super brutal especially against The Other (aka non british threat)#and like okay it's lovely to imagine lewis just going along for one last adventure and passing the baton to charles as the new gen #urghhh but if the car really is fire and there's a real possibility of him going for a title... do we really think he wouldn't?#of course he would why wouldnt he #my lived experience (traumatic) from 2014-16 is giving me hives. if both want something so badly and it's on the table it can get nasty #idk idk this feels like a fever dream

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dordey · 4 months

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#decided to last night begin rereading the virgin suicides #& first of all. Yikes #there is......a Lot of questionable writing / description in there #but also some v beautiful sentences / passages #secondly i have a playlist from my prev reread w the songs mentioned in the book + similar vibes & it's So nice to read & have it playing #Third #the entire experience is making me? pine? for like #2011 - 2015 rookie mag tavi gevinson tumblr #hazy nostalgia for something i never experienced but consumed through media #like the virgin suicides movie / twin peaks / ghost world / early wes anderson movies / wet hot american summer etc #petra collins photoshoots #miss it very much omg #can count on one hand the number of times i've experienced like? THAT kind of feeling irl

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comfreyhollywings · 6 months

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nobody, absolutely nobody:

gojou: let's play with discarded rice balls while discussing the separation of church and state!!!! and then!! let's post a video of it and troll people!!!!

#the peak experience of watching jujutsu kaisen everybody #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu gojo #man's a revolutionary #and i respect that #im 100% betting gojou has like 9.k followers on his social media tbh #like you can't look at this man and NOT tell me he would have that much influence #i mean technically it's canon given how famous he is???#but like #tbh.#this is giving me social media au brainrot and now im CURIOUS #does he post most satirical political content?#does he make jokes to purposefully piss off both normies and the elites?#does he make fun of the US law system??#AND SIMULATENOUSLY make fun of japan's laws as well??#god i have to know now #he'd probably be like. an unpopular social media personality #but god his charisma would be UP there

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kelvingemstone · 1 year

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they should let me log bojack horseman's nice while it lasted on letterboxd so i can write a very emotional thousand word long piece about todd's thought on art's inherent meaning, get 2 likes, and feel accomplished

#bojack horseman #need to rewatch!!! saw a clip of that ep and it tore at me so bad #also love letterboxd literally peak social media experience

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unproduciblesmackdown · 1 year

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kompenscovery was such a blessed secret entrance to a Whole Deal (winnie n tay. & i guess billions) when like. having the most specific, correct opinions, and being me, = the ideal is [nobody else try to talk to me about winston billions] and that’s just where we’re at. this is an exclusive experience

#talking to myself / making the wisdom Available by nailing my text posts (and drawings) to the church doors but then i walk away #meanwhile also of course the hero who permits [my monologuing abt winston all the more behind the scenes] w/o being sick of it after 9000hrs #i think probably other people talk abt winston but not in ways i'm interested in. Except absolute rando twitter billions viewers #this like 60 or 70 yr old lady from twitter who Loves winston. and presumably through the will roland angle lol she went to bway bmc....#just other one off tweets abt ppl like yeah he's one of my / the fave. um hell yes my scholar #or no wait lmfao like again i'd talk about this w/beth roland in theory lmfao. maybe even also hero & scholar & relevant party william #the niche on niche on niche like. looking into deh As Jared Kleinman Lore. liking an actor's je ne sais quoi & scrambling when finding out #that his upcoming bway role is Thee Lead thank you very much....the dramatic fateful saga that was [ending up watching the then available #clips from billions which was up to kompenso]....finding the peak specific peak titrated peak Exact Enrichment gift lol #beyond that i don't see [media enjoyment / takes] as much of like a springboard for Broader Socializing or anything. it Can be ig but.#that's not the goal & not the expectation. at this point reflecting on Myself & My Experiences & My Heart's Truth lmfao i'm like #beyond [i don't think i'd enjoy A Friend Group in actuality] to [i don't think i'm that interested in Friends] series or concept lol #open to whatever & flexible or whatever but eh. already i like Impersonal & Parallel activity & doing my own thing perhaps amongst others #i like impersonal but amicable spontaneous; fleeting exchanges. doing xyz ''alone'' amongst other people.#i like Not having to people please & i'm autistic so i'm generally gonna be considered [unlikable / impersonable / too much / etc] adhd too #although it's not that specific like it goes for Anything. i don't want ppl to talk to me abt [xyz] lol #request a mini monologue / short essay sure but other than that #this isn't a forum....here's the posts left on the door. one can try the anchorite window or sending a letter. doing my own thing yknow #the secret here is ''i mean i like to talk to people but; i actually in practice tend to not like to talk to people'' lmfao #one can check back when many things are more on my own terms / suited to me but. buffering wheel / flipping hourglass mode

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sevenswansinatrenchcoat · 2 years

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I'm really enjoying my housemate going through their old tumblr posts and complimenting themself on them. Like, "yes, I am the peak of comedy."

#Peak social media experience is just seeing how funny I am so I do relate #realised that unlike twitter i can exit posts so i dont need to reblog to add tags lol

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alteredphoenix · 7 months

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Every time I see people say "X is Good/the Best/Peak Fiction/GOAT", I'm always reminded of the time years ago where I asked in a Stephen King Fan Page on Facebook if I should try reading the complete and uncut edition of The Stand and being immediately bombarded with people telling me yes, I should, it's the best in his bibliography, only for me to read it and find Part Three (the last half of the book) crash and burn any decency Part One and the first half of Part Two had.

#this isn't meant to be a knock on anything #but every time i see ppl go on about the dichotomy of what's 'peak' i just scoff #IMO usually when ppl say something's trash it makes me want to experience it for myself #so i can form my own opinion #obviously not a new thing #but. i happen to be drawn to media that the fandom at large regards as being awful #(looks at old fandom)

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ohcorny · 1 month

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In your view/experience. is the rate of "incompleteness" among webcomics more or less the nature of online personal projects as a whole? Or is there something specific to webcomics like laboriousness, audience expectations, relative medium infancy or whatnot?

well for one thing webcomics has changed significantly in the last ten years. it used to have a much lower barrier for entry, just get a smackjeeves account or set up a website with a wordpress plugin. starting a webcomic when i started my webcomic vs starting a webcomic now are totally different experiences.

so i can only speak to people who started their webcomics roughly ten years ago. and roughly ten years ago a lot of us were a whole lot younger with a lot more time and energy to spend on a comic for free. this part is probably still somewhat true for new artists.

but then you get older. your ideas change. your skill develops and the old stuff isn't as good. or you don't have as much time, you got a day job. unless you're one of like five people on earth your webcomic is not paying your rent. you need to make money. your shoulder hurts. you're 30 now. you're struggling to make updates on time between whatever else makes you happy and what else you need to do to live. you wrote this story when you were 21, you don't relate to it anymore, you have different ideas, you've grown up, your audience has noticeably dropped off from the peak, social media managing is hard, you have to go to work, you're so tired, all the time.

it's a lot of things.

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the-chosen-half-of-one · 2 years

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Achievement unlocked: discovered piece of media at exact right time in your life to experience maximum peak emotional impact and infatuation

#tv shows #movies #this is about me watching buffy as a teenager #and absolutely sobbing #fandom #relatable #textpost #love seeing the media people tag this as it’s nice #also person who tagged Megamind realest response I watched that movie 21 times in a row as a kid #oh god my new piece of media was not what I expected oh no oh god will not be saying its name

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doctormage · 1 year

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hi! this is my own reading, but a lot of disco elysium's more joking at the union and those joke commie answers are both to do with 1) harry is a cop, and whatever he is now he has perpetuated that system even though the cops in the game are different than we know and 2) estonia's experience with communism. while the creators are communist, they also are super aware of the their country's history and it's ramifications. the way I generally read it is the game is making fun of it in order to both maintain balance between all their critique of every system, and saying "hey idealism often isn't enough for actual change, and being vigilant to corruption like in the union is paramount." that was my own reading though and I can absolutely see where you're coming from! I can assure you though that if you choose the morally reprehensible options the game and your companion outright despise you for it, while a communist Harry is treated like he's a bit odd but like a dreamer.

hi bestie didn’t mean to leave u hanging I just wanted to reply w Full Brain Power lol 🫠 anyway thank u for sending this! since I’m further in the game I’m seeing what yall are saying more, esp now that I’m taking everything w a larger grain of salt. I came into this game almost blind (but definitely no knowledge abt the creators or their backgrounds) so that is helpful context too

also I finally got to the communist book club part last night and that little plot line seemed closer to what I was expecting - playful teasing that still touches on actual issues (“complaining about other communists is one of the most important parts of being a communist!”) lmao

I am still really enjoying it a lot tho, it will NOT release its iron grip on me lol I was just surprised / confused is all!

#peak perceiving a media thru tumblr experience #a la every time they convinced me something had like actual for real explicitly stated wlw rep and it. did not. lmao #I’ve been here long enough that I should’ve known better but alas. I’ve been stuck in dragon age hell for an eternity #de playthrough #(not that I’m comparing yall to 2014 era users who fell victim to queerbaiting. yall know what I mean)

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essential-npc · 1 year

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five-star review of 'homestuck made this world', but on tumblr bc i don't use itunes

i've only gone to one convention in my life thus far, I was 14, and the friends I went with declared that if I went as Jade Harley I would not be allowed in the car. I caught up to the live comic somewhere before [s] game over (not sure when), so there's no surprise that I'd discover this podcast relatively close to the end of its timeline, either (as i'm writing this, i've just started 6.4, and 10.2 was posted last week). As much as I've sometimes been overtaken with the urge to reread, it's a daunting hill to climb, and the Voxus episodes have only gotten so far. So rereading by proxy through the voices of Ranged Touch is a great peek under the hood of a piece of media that, like it or not, has clung onto me for the better part of a decade.

listen here if you're curious.

@homestuckmadethisfanart

#wishing i still had my old blog just so i could link some of my favorite posts i made from the endgame period #god i got so excited when i'd break 100 notes on one of those. peak tumblr popularity era personally #i made some during the epilogues too. epilogues my beloathed.#i marathoned that thing in one sitting freshmen year of college and got so mad i almost forgot to eat dinner #but seriously homestuck was such a formative media experience for me and hearing it dissected like actual academic material #is really affirming??? like so much of the public discussion makes it out to be a joke #so hearing it be taken seriously (with skepticism) is really sweet. plus i started reading it so late that i missed a lot of #the original public discussion about theories and connections due to age and timing so hearing it discussed historically #is like reading notes in an old book and seeing people fight in the margins. i love the collective experience of media!!! <3

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neil-gaiman · 12 days

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Hi Neil.

I know you are flooded with asks and this somehow became extremely long. Too long. “Why am I suddenly telling this poor man my life story?” too long. “I think I’d rather he work on the GO3 script than read this wild beast” too long. “He’s going to think you’re criminally dangerously insane” too long. If you never get to it, I’m good with never seeing a response from you. Maybe it’s better that way? Maybe an anon would have been nice here. But, it’s 2024, so I say “we ball.” It’s a privilege to be able to send this to you at all. You get a lot to this effect and I hope they give you good feels, so maybe what’s the harm, yeah? Because this is not an ask. This is a thank you letter.

First, thanks for reblogging my therapist post, I hope it amused you. I nearly sent you “How am i supposed to explain this to my therapist?!” But refrained. At that time.

So, therapy. What is therapy really? Well…

Things have been really rotten for as long as I can remember. Bad health, bad doctors, bad relationships, bad coping mechanisms, bad all kinds of things. (Yeah, bad is a weak and unhelpful word, my therapist reminds me, but we’re doing this.)

Well, things got even more really really rotten and BAD these last few years. Health declined further, coping mechanisms declined further and more intensely, packed up my life, applied for disability, moved back in with my parents across the country.

Then 4 years ago last week I watched my fiance die of a sudden heart attack. I was 29. Two years later my best friend died. Then last summer I sauntered vaguely into a cancer scare. Not long before an operation my cat who has been my companion through so much garbage died as well. I’m not entirely in the clear on the cancer scare front. All my attempts at going back to work, volunteering, going to grad school - they collapsed on me because I couldn’t get through this STUFF.

(Sometimes when I talk about this, when I tell people, I think “they are going to think you are a raging pathological liar.” Because I’m not sure I would believe someone if they told me all of this happened to them. In such a short time period. All before they were 35. And hell if that hasn’t been isolating. You know how it sounds? Lonely. And it is.)

I did the hypervigilant and sensation/experience chasing stage of PTSD. It got me in a lot of trouble in all kinds of ways. I had to do a lot of medical and psych advocating because things kept getting worse. That was exhausting. Then that peaked. I went into the thick of the “I feel absolutely nothing” stage for a long time. I didn’t feel fatigue or hunger or thirst. Not people, feelings, a reason. Not hope.

But of course, like seems be for a lot of us, I somehow found Good Omens at just the right time. I was a very “I’m so cool and intellectual I mostly consume non-fiction media” person for too long. Like, what? How is that even a real thing? And it wasn’t real. It was just part of this curated autism mask that I don’t think anyone really bought anyway.

I think I got to a point where I’d just had too much reality. I needed fantasy. I didn’t realize I always needed it. But I denied myself for too many odd and painful reasons. Maybe I thought it was an escape I didn’t deserve.

But as it turns out, it wasn’t an escape. I watched both seasons last fall, and then this light came on. I watched it again and again.

I came to tumblr because I needed more. I found this fandom. I stepped into this beautiful world of fanart and fanfiction and brain flexing meta writing and a sense of community and wonder that you and Terry created - that everyone involved in the show inflated - exploded in the right way - like fireworks if fireworks were some kind of autocatalytic reaction - a self perpetuating force.

It’s not a “saved my life” feeling. Not a “getting my life back” feeling. It’s been a “maybe it’s time for you to have the life you’ve always been denied - that you’ve denied yourself” feeling.

I’m creating. I’m not “great” yet. Not terribly “good” at all. Maybe “behind” as far as the “proper” timeline for starting. I know there isn’t one, not really, but boy does that society machine make ya feel like there is. And sure, I started and stopped a lot in the past. But the second it got hard I always gave up. I felt like if I didn’t get it “right” to begin with, then I just didn’t have it in me at all. But for once I’m really in it. I’m writing and trying to draw things that look less like fever dream five year old drawings. (Not that there’s anything wrong with those, is there? 🙃) I’m eating better. I’m sleeping better. I reach out to old friends more. I’ve made new friends who share this love of Good Omens.

My therapist has been floored by the change in me. After that first funny mini flop, he has been so encouraging about it. I saw him this week and I said “Maybe this is helping me get prepared to start living again. Maybe it’s a springboard.” And he honest to god said “But You ARE living. This is YOU LIVING. Why does it have to be a springboard? Why do you have to turn this into ‘work?’ Just let yourself have this for once in your life.”

But there were two more added elements that made it all work. And I can’t help but think this whole brainrot thing wouldn’t have happened without them. So many things just happened all at just the right time - a proper coincidence.

In all of the madness of the last few years I finally got the memo that I'm autistic. i figured I was for a while. But it finally sunk in for me and my docs and my people. So I’d been working on unpacking that. Grieving the life that could have been entirely different, shedding the mask. I let myself hyperfixate openly instead of hiding it and hating myself for “spiralling” or “obsessing” like others -!like ‘I’ always punished myself for before we knew that it was a trait and not a personality flaw.

Then over the last few months my therapist and I started trying this new exercise. One session he stopped me and said “in the last 20 minutes you have responded to what I’ve said with 9 ‘I knows.’” My response to that? “Ugh, I know.” So we started this “I know” swear jar type situation. Really, I’ve been afraid of not knowing. I couldn’t let myself “not know.” Because it meant I was “dumb.” I was just drowning for so long in guilt and self loathing for the “I knew better and screwed up anyway.” Or “I should’ve known better - I should know that by now.”

As it turns out, there’s a lot of things I don’t know. That I didn’t know. Things I will never know. And refusing to admit all of that kept me from learning a damn thing. Kept me from asking questions. Kept me from trying new things because it was scary to do something new - something unknown - and I "knew" how it would all turn out anyway. Kept me from connecting with people because it was painful or embarrassing when they knew things I didn’t and it seemed like I already should have. Kept me from getting better at making art, music, writing. Kept me from forgiving myself. Kept me from growing. And kept me from moving forward. Maybe not on. I don’t know if we ever “move on” from things. But we can move forward as we carry them. And as we do, the weight gets less. We’re able to carry it better. But only if we can admit that we don’t know how. Only if we don’t treat ourselves like this is something we do know or should know and we’re just failing because we’re less than. Not good enough. Not strong enough. Not deserving. We have to be able to say “I don’t know how to do this.” And then we can start looking for the answers. We can ask. We can learn.

I thought about the apple. Being able to tell the difference between good and evil. Aziraphale’s years and years of watching what he “knows” to be true be proven wrong. Crowley’s need to ask questions…

The simple and enormous gift of “Knowledge.” The “Knowledge” of the difference between Good and Evil. The “Knowledge” that can only be gained by realizing, accepting, admitting that there are things we don’t know. Asking the questions. Sometimes we get answers we don’t like. Sometimes the consequences of asking hurt us. And unless you want to stay in that painful place that painful knowledge got you, well, you’ve got to let yourself learn how to get out.

So all of this good? I never expected this. I never thought I deserved it. Joy and belonging and this sense that “Yeah, maybe things can get better. Maybe things can be good.” Because I said those things, not truly believing them, to the people I thought needed to hear it. But it couldn’t save them. It was hollow. The proof for us wasn’t really in our orbit or on our radar at the time. And now they’re gone.

People always say “it’s never too late.”

One of the people I lost said “it’s later than you think.”

I jokingly would respond “it’s already too late.”

It was for him in the end. For them. For some people I guess it really is. But maybe a lot of the “too late” people are there because they think “they know” that things will never be good for them. So they stop looking, they stop asking, stop finding. And eventually they just stop.

Then there came Crowley’s “It’s always too late.” The first time I heard it I thought “For sure, Crowley-cakes, I KNOW.”

But then…I just needed to rewatch the whole thing. And lines like that…familiar things…familiar themes…I was suddenly identifying with these characters. I suddenly saw myself. And the realization hit - I connected with something! Something new. And I FELT THAT. And that tiny little crack that made in the wall was just enough to start breaking it down. Yeah, when you start letting yourself feel after not feeling for so long, opening up to the good feelings means opening up to feelings and then the bad ones come out too. But when there IS good … it helps you balance. You can deal with the bad a little better because you’ve got the good thing to lean against when it gets too much. And now you’ve got feelings. You’ve got good and bad. You’ve got sticky foggy grey. You’ve got life.

Whew.

So, TLDR, thank you. From the bottom of my slowly healing heart, thank you.

And to sign off with some shits and giggles… I couldn’t find this in existence as a sticker so I had to custom order. Perhaps this will spread misery and panic among the humans of my city - or at least a malignant and creepy sense of unease.

Or maybe they’ll say “wtf” and go home and google it and they’ll fall into the Good Omens hole they never knew they needed too.

Thank you for this. I never quite know what to say to messages like this apart from I am really glad that it helps. (It becomes the weird extra piece that I worry about when writing season 3 -- hoping that it will be that thing again. Not just a story, but something that helps people feel and helps with healing and helps with love.)

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