#*happy clappy hands*
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Major, I told you I'd draw you a little something like, 2 weeks ago when you were sick. I'm so sorry I'm late!
Have sky and Wind hugging tho🥺
You're precious and I hope tonight was cozy for you!
OMA
OMG
FOR ME?!?!?!
My face when I just get out of bed and see this ^
THEY LOOK SO HAPPY. :D These two are so adorable I love them so much thank you so so so much. You are so talented! I love how the sailcloth curls around them, and winds just so happy to see him! (To be honest, I completely forgot about it so this was a lovely surprise for my inbox this morning! Consider yourself right on time :D)
Last night was very cosy, the hot chocolate was great, and I low-key made a blanket fort. It was great.
You are also precious Kikker! Absolute beloved! (/pl) :D
Can I make this my phone background? I love it so much they bring me so much joy!
#OMG I LOVE THEM#OMA THANK YOU#Kikker beloved#/pl#linked universe#lu sky#linkeduniverse#lu wind#hugs!#Oh this gave me great joy#*happy clappy hands*#Blorbo!#Sky my beloved!#He looks so happy :D#This picture has made my day immediately#Look at themmmm#everyone look at them#SKKKKKKKKKKKKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY#BLORBO
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Sufjan Stevens | All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands
And I heard, from the trees
A great parade
And I heard, from the hills
A band was made
And will I be invited to the sound?
And will I be a part of what you've made?
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This makes me incredibly angry.
[ID: Screenshots of a Facebook post from user Advocatus Peregrini, which reads:
I was conversing with a fully-grown adult a few days ago, born and educated in the USA, who let this little gem drop:
"Well, it's like Shakespeare said, "Love conquers all!""
I pointed out that Shakespeare never said that, Virgil did, (Eclogues X) and Chaucer after him (Canterbury Tales.)
She said, "Oh I'm sure Shakespeare said that. In Romeo and Juliet!"
I sighed. I've been in that play several times, in different roles, and even directed it. That text does not occur in it.
But the real grind-my-teeth moment here was that if Romeo and Juliet can be said to have a message, it is most certainly not "Love conquers all," seeing as the lovers die by their own hands with a trail of their friends and relations' corpses in their wake.
Neither this fact, nor the fact that I knew the play, nor my explanation that Virgil and Chaucer used the phrase long before Shakespeare's birth dented her determination that "Love conquers all" came from Shakespeare.
"You don't know ALL the versions!" she protested.
All the versions?
Alternative Bard?
With every instinct screaming at me to let the matter drop, warning me that some horror that will not soon be absent from my nightmares waited around the next corner of this conversation. I pressed on.
It was a decision I was soon to regret.
I asked when she had first read "Romeo and Juliet." She said she had only read it once, when she was in Junior High. In the version she was taught, Romeo and Juliet survive, are reconciled with their parents, and are married in the church with their friends Mercutio and Tybalt arm in arm in the wedding party.
"Help me into some house, Benvolio, or I shall faint."
It turned out that her school had their own "version" of Romeo and Juliet, with an "uplifting" ending. This was printed and distributed by a religious education publisher. And it was the only version of the story that she had ever read. Of course she had HEARD other people say that the story was a tragedy, but she just assumed they were wrong.
And she did not see why MY version of Shakespeare should be considered better than HER Shakespeare, which, after all, had a much more wholesome ending.
I explained, in vain, that "my" version is definitive because Shakespeare actually wrote it (quiet, you Oxfordians. Don't make me stop this car) and the message of the play - that when adult stubbornness meets youthful impulsiveness tragedy ensues - is lost in the ersatz, happy-clappy ending.
She said the ending that had been Frankensteined onto Shakespeare's play by the "Christian Education" publisher was better than the original ending, "if the ending is as sad as you say it is."
At this point, I concluded that this was a person who deserved to go through the rest of her life "...safest in shame! being fool'd, by foolery thrive!" I bid her adieu.
After the conversation, I wondered, darkly, if that was to be the fate of Shakespeare, and all other literature if the happy-clappy people get their way - as harmless and "uplifiting" as a cheerleader's chant.
I wondered what these bowdlerizers would do with "Hamlet?" or worse, "Titus Andronicus" or "MacB-" Nothing wholesome, I'm sure. Oh, that's right, what they can't appropriate, they ban. Or burn.
In trying to protect children, we leave them undefended from "...the slings and arrows" that life will no doubt throw their way. Shakespeare raises the issues of tragedy - the fatal flaw, the last turning, the role of fate, as well or better than any author before or since. He is a gentle tutor, much to be preferred over that stern and dangerous teacher, Experientia Inopinatum.
But, as ever, it really isn't about the children. It's about the adults, and their desire to avoid answering difficult questions from agile young minds, who know no fear and swarm like eager flies around questions that have been boggling our best minds for millenia. To answer the questions that literature raises, you have to have thought deeply about them yourself. And that is something that few dare to do.] end id
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Unknowingly A Meta AU? owo ? Tim with a Dream Manipulation power he doesn't know he has? Because it can effect HIS dreams. And no one ever mentions it.
His parents? Wearing all sorts of gifts and old jewelry from various sites. They are gucci. Completely untouchable. So the few times Baby Tim DOES show up in there dreams as a kid, when they are in house, they write off as "weird but pleasant".
After all? Who doesn't like to dream about playing with your kid? Going to a fantastical theme park or something? Having a family picnic? It's JUST a nice dream, right?
But! Not everyone has such protections.
And Baby Tim? Gets fixated. Curious. Falls asleep wanting to KNOW. Perhaps, thinking about one member of the Wayne family or another. And since his range is growing? Wayne Manor is juuuuust close enough. Barely, at first. Then easily.
And it's innocent at first. Of course it is. He's just a small child, full of questions. Was Mr. Batman like him as a child? Where did Mr. Pennyworth come from? What was living in the circus like? And so? They dream.
Bruce, playing with a child his age, on the lawn as his parents watch on fondly. Alfred, back too his youth, full of mischief as he runs the streets of his little English town along side friends long dead. Made young once more. Dick, laughing, underfoot, as he and his new friend run roughshod all across the setup site. His parents fond but exasperated.
Such meaningful dreams.
Private, though.
No need to mention them. Or realize the whole household is getting such dreams all at the same time.
And the dreams persist. Tim forever having questions. Or just wondering. Not thinking much on WHY he seems to have such vivid dreams. He's always had them. Surely everyone does. Storybooks certainly seem to suggest that.
Dick leaves. Jason comes.
Dick notices he's started having... nightmares. Chaotic, dark, brooding dreams. Of failure and lose. He doesn't connect things... yet.
Jason doesn't fuckin TRUST these happy clappy, golden sunshine n puppies dreams. The fuck is this? The fuck are YOU? Tim doesn't see a reason to lie. It's just a dream, right?
Uh huh.
Riiiight. Say, Timbits, you ever been tested for that Meta gene thingy? Asks Jason, who has clocked what's happening here, basically night one.
No, why? Asks the clueless neighbor kid.
Before Jason can think of a... polite...ish... way to call him thick and his parents dense as bricks, he wakes up. Gets to spend the whole day looking into the Drake's. Finds out the kid is basicly isolated in that great big house of his. Decides he's... NOT gonna be saying anything.
Welcome to dream land, you little weirdo. Just don't scramble his brains or touch stuff he says not too.
Then? Dick visits. Tim is thrilled. And Dick? Gets his first GOOD dream in weeks. No "what if's", no haunting seconds too late, just? Good moments. Everything languid and lit by golden light. Untouchable.
Perfect.
Him and Kori, between missions, exploring each other. Everything pleasure and light. Grinding. Gasping. Groaning in pleasure as they found just the right angle, sweat catching the light like diamonds. She was beautiful. HE never felt more desirable.
But something niggles in his brain. A sense of being watched, that hadn't been there then. Fascinated little eyes. Blue. Not Jason. Poorly hidden in the corner of the room. He... he should be alarmed. Focus. This isn't for little eyes. Should kick him out. But Kori's here. And everything is soft and so GOOD. He keeps getting lost in that instead.
Is aware, so aware, of little eyes that trail his body like eager hands.
It shouldn't make everything better.
But it does.
And NOW? Now Tim has NEW questions. As puberty closes in fast and without mercy.
And Bruce's dreams certainly have answers. His every desire and fantasy laid bare. Past loves, current lovers, fantasies about coworkers. Being watched. A curiosity. An amusement, perhaps? His brain struggles to pull free of the pleasure and focus.
But eventually, his iron will allows it. He HAS trained for this, after all.
He gets the jump on the... imp? Fae? Youthful looking creature. But touching them just pulls him back under. So he kisses them instead. Strips them. Hands finding places that make them squirm. He's not sure HOW he finds himself fucking them, but he never wants to stop.
And after that? Neither does Tim. He'd never imagined THAT was an option! It felt AMAZING. Which leads to all manner of wet dreams. For every Heroic guest Bruce has. During the day? Prim and proper, everything above board. But in SLEEP? They are pounding their new brother/son incoherent.
Just? Imagine them trying to trigger wet dreams? Trying to get attention in the evenings, so he'll think about THEM before bed. Pouting when their dreams were pleasant nothing instead of Tim Time. The guilty PANIC of guests who TOTALLY boned Timmy drooling and fucked stupid in the Dream Space, now having to sit across Batman, and pretend they didn't do that. Not realizing he totally let them.
Can't get caught, if it's not physical! Dream Sex!
-🐼🐼🐼
and they're completely guilt free because its a dream😌😌😌
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imagine going to mcdonald's and he gives you your food and says "hey QT you forgot your clappy meal, if yknow what i mean 😩😏" while handing you a happy meal box that's a bit too heavy, what you doin? 🤨
(should i write a fanfic about this?)
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SENTENCE MEME ⟶ THE WOMBATS / B - Z Sides ( PART ONE )
always feel free to tweak the sentence to fit your muse.
"When I first held your hand, things felt right and in place."
"Why am I so afraid?"
"Remember when I first saw you?"
"If it's alright with you, I think I'll leave soon."
"I think I'll miss you."
"I think I'll love you."
"You were so hard to find."
"What took us so long?"
"The ceiling never looked so interesting."
"Say something to fill the void."
"This window never looked so small."
"My face never looked this disenchanted."
"You made me feel like Brad Pitt."
"I'm black and blue."
"There's no time for me to catch my breath."
"I'm in a cage."
"I think I'm out the game."
"I drink too much because there's not enough of you there."
"There's not enough of you anywhere."
"I've had enough."
"I think too much."
"I've given up on life and death."
"I like it when you're rude."
"I'll try, but I know there's no point."
"I'm not confident enough to play the field like those guys."
"I'm not secure enough to fool around like those guys."
"I've been knocked down."
"My head's in the clouds."
"I just forgot to breathe."
"I'm so scared about that stuff."
"If you've got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all."
"She might turn me away."
"Today, I'm gonna make a change."
"The world loves hypocrisy."
"You wreck my mind more and more with each passing day."
"I think you're crazy."
"I think you're rude."
"We don't mean that much."
"I don't need much to make me happy."
"This is love."
"I think I'll go down just to get away."
"In the back of my mind I'm waiting for this to just end up in tears."
"I've just had the craziest week."
"I don't know why I want to voice this out loud."
"It's therapeutic somehow."
"We're not the same."
"I put one foot forward and ended up thirty yards back."
"Am I losing touch or am I just completely off the track."
"Are you gonna screw my head up?"
"You're pretty weird but you're not a psycho."
"I never got so many texts as I did from you last night."
"Is it such a big waste of time?"
"You and I could be so happily screwed."
"You've got selective hearing."
"I'm frankly bored now of your attitude."
"When we speak your eyes are everywhere."
"It's all or nothing for you."
"Take that cigarette out of your mouth."
"Don't you think it's time that we should move on?"
"Everything that meant anything is gone."
"Take my credit cards far away from me."
"I'm not mature enough to keep one little eye on anything."
"You don't call the shots."
"Why am I lacing every single night with doubt."
"I'm Mr. Jealous Man today."
"Don't wanna feel sorry for myself now."
"Let's not get lost in ourselves today."
"I can never be the good guy."
"My car broke down and mirrored both our lives."
"Politics make it so hard for us."
"This war's between two men and four million puppy dogs."
"They don't know it yet, but we both know they're coming between us."
"I can bury my head in the sand just as fast as the next man."
"They say that our strengths should have been growing over time."
"You've gotta see there's something wrong."
"We trudged through winter and spring for this."
"You're pretty desperate to get out of this town."
"Sundays and I are not meant to be."
"It doesn't affect you like it does me."
"I'd be a couch potato all my life."
"Why have you got an array of board games under your arm?"
"What's the point of going somewhere else if you're only going to do exactly what you would be doing at home?"
"Looks like we're both in checkmate now."
"Board games have a double meaning."
"That's your automatic response when everything is going wrong."
"What a happy, clappy fun day."
"This ghost train will derail and crash."
"I got a spot of bad news."
"There's not much you can do if you've got the theme park blues."
"It's just that everything is upside down."
"I'm the one who has the frown."
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News About The Lady Sheriff Series
I have some exciting news! Not one, but TWO Lady Sheriff Series stories sold this week.
“Of Two Minds” sold to Starlite Pulp Review for their Issue #2. This will be my first time collaborating with Starlite. I’m really looking forward to it. ::clappy hands::
“Family Ties” sold to Mystery Magazine. This is my second time working with MM. They published “Night Without End” waaaay back in July 2021 and made it their cover feature. Still can’t get over that.
Just so happy. The Lady Sheriff Series is actually a series now. I mean, before I only had two stories in print. This will make it four! The series, the protagonist, the whole premise is close to my heart.
You may want to read the first two previous stories. You can learn more about them here, or you can check under this tag Lady Sheriff Series if you want to read my ramblings about the whole series.
Will update as I learn more.
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feed us lara x oli scenarios.. please…
babies
courting is extremely different on lara’s home planet, and oliver read about it extensively before asking her out in order to be as accurate as possible. he was way too over the top and horrible but she thought it was cute and said yes anyway
he took her to a bee farm for her birthday once and they had the time of their lives. he got some bee stings tho, but he’s just happy to see her happy
lara does these flappy-clappy hands whenever she gets happy and he thinks its so cute and wants to get her to do it all the time
they’re constantly watching nature docs together and hog the living room tv
they mostly spend time in her room because its way more cozy and lived in. you can barely see them through the blankets
she’s definitely sewn little patches onto his mission suit before. nothing dangerous or damaging but like a cute little nod. like a tiny little bee patch where he got stung before
she’s very affectionate and he does not mind it at all. he’s just happy to show off his weird little gf to the world
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songs i love that remind me of nadja and laszlo (and why)
dreamer's ball- queen
although the song is a bit about being apart, and they're nearly always together, the lyrics fit them so well. it just gives me such erotic vibes and they're highly erotic vampires who are into highly erotic things. "you're gonna love me when you see me, i won't have to worry." "take me, take me, take me, i'm your plaything now."
fly me to the moon- frank sinatra
i mean, come on, if you know why this song is here, you know why this song is here, and you've definitely seen the entire show so far. laszlo sitting down at his piano and singing this to nadja when he finds out she likes frank sinatra, and it leaving her in happy tears and SHE DOES THAT LITTLE CLAPPY THINGS WITH HER HANDS. "fill my heart with song, and let me sing forever more.” “you are all i long for, all i worship and adore."
something- the beatles
passionate, raw, almost transcendent. so... probably a lot like their sex. anyways, it's so hard for me to pinpoint specific lyrics for this one, because it's just all so good. one of my top favorite love songs of all time and i would cry if someone ever felt that way toward me. “i don't wanna leave her now, y'know i believe in how." "something in the way she knows, and all i have to do is think of her."
lay all your love on me- abba
another one of nadja's favorites! the title says it all. this song is very much about the physical aspect of a relationship on the surface, but when two beings really love each other, it just hits different. especially when you make the connection that laszlo doesn't necessarily care if nadja is intimate with other people, but she's his girl. his good lady wife. nobody else can love her like him. not on his schedule. "it was like shooting a sitting duck. a little small talk, a smile, and baby, i was stuck." "i've had a few little love affairs. they didn't last very long and they've been pretty scarce."
daydream- luna luna
such a sweet, loving song. a particularly toxic ex introduced it to me, but i love it so much and i think it fits nadja and laszlo perfectly. it’s sweet, sensual, and warm. it sounds like what i imagine laszlo felt when nadja crawled to his window for the first time. “i only want a taste, your taste.” “love that we uncovered, love that’s in the night.”
november rain- gnr
i mean??? have you heard this song? literally just??? laszlo singing this at his piano, and then nadja comes in with the harmony and- “when i look into your eyes, i can see a love restrained, but darlin’ when i hold you, don’t you know i feel the same?” “well, if you wanna love me, then darlin’ don’t refrain, or i’ll just end up walking in the cold november rain.”
#nadja of antipaxos#laszlo cravensworth#nandor the relentless#what we do in the shadows#what we do in the shadows fx#colin robinson#baby colin robinson#the guide#sean rinaldi#charmaine rinaldi#guillermo de la cruz#natasia demetriou#kayvan novak#harvey guillén#matt berry#mark proksch#kristen schaal
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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who liked or reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers ⭐️
funny socks
my cats
thinking
hand clappy
funny voices
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Here have a sky doodle! :D
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I LOVE HIMMMMMMM
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
THANK YOU!!!
@arecaceae175 ITS HE!!!!! :D
#I LOVE HE#EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE#HE#EEEEEEEEEEEEE#CNDJKLSGLFKJABF;DSBAF#linked universe#lu sky#linkeduniverse#i love him#he#corner answers with major#The happy hands are uncontained#*happy clappy hands*#*kicky feet*#This instils great joy in me#Thank you sm#sleepy beloved#sleepy the absolute beloved#I've just about gotten my hands to let me type this out ngl#I love it sm#He is so happpy#and sleepy#at the same timeeeeee#good art#blorbo#BLORBO#BLORBO BLORBO BLORBO#I am ✨normal✨ about him#sleepy art#:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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After seeing one too many happy-clappy-high-on-life 2023 highlights reel on IG I decided to just be my true authentic self and come here to vent - cos that's what tumblrdotcom is for.
And I'm still shadowbanned so it's not like anyone's gonna see this anyway. Thanks tumblr, that's so very 2023 of you. 🥲
2023 was a shit year for me. An exhausting godawful trainwreck of a year that somehow kept getting worse and worse. Twelve months of heartbreak and failure and loneliness and tears and 10000+ worries that kept (and will continue to keep) me up at night. If I'm still alive and kicking this time next year and haven't lost any of my nearest and dearest, I'll count 2024 as a huge win. But only if I have a puppy! No puppy, no win.
There's your goddamn highlight reel.
There were - thank god - three positives that got me to the end of the year:
I still have the best dad in the world. Fact.
I get to see my loved ones happy, and that brings me an enormous amount of joy and comfort.
Music. I finally got into kpop and discovered new songs and artists, and tbh all that got me through a lot. Never underestimate how much music can do for you - find something you love, cling to it with both hands, and it will carry you through the darkest of times (this isn't my first rodeo, so just trust me on this one).
Now, I'm not prophesizing anything for 2024. Not a thing. Don't wanna curse it. (Wait, did I kinda do that already? Sounds very on-brand for me.) So anyway, I'm wishing all of you a happy new year in the most neutral way possible!
#no I don't have any plans for tonight#I didn't even think about it cos I used to stay home with my dog on new year's eve#because of those damn fireworks which I HATE with every fibre of my being how the fuck are they even legal#it's literal hell for animals - especially wildlife#just think about that - are pretty lights in the sky really worth it???#btw if you answered “yes” just know that I despise you on a very personal level so happy 2024 to everyone but you#...ANYWAY I haven't watched the lotr extended editions in a long time so maybe I'll do that#sounds wild doesn't it#jo:unscripted
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Glitter Or Horns?
I tried to find a new Krampus tree topper- but at the end of the day I don’t want to replace this one. He’s just perfect.
amm
Photo A.M. Moscoso November 2022
Photo A.M. Moscoso December 2021
My Christmas Cards- I hand Krampus cards out every year and every once and awhile I send out happy clappy ones just because I imagine people opening up one little corner of the envelope open to see if they…
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Doctor Who: Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords
I rewatched this three part serial on 3 July 2023. The first time I watched this three-parter I watched them out of order: Utopia, Last of the Time Lords and then The Sound of Drums. I recall preferring it that way. Let’s see how the actual order holds up…
The pre-credit sequence for Utopia is busy. Nice to see Cardiff again, and Captain Jack running toward the TARDIS and grabbing a lift. We learn loads in the catch up the Doctor gives to Martha about Rose, Captain Jack’s immortality, the Doctor’s hand… We are at another version of the end of time with outposts for humans. The clever thing is the revelation of who Professor Yana really is, harking back to the device used earlier in this season for the Doctor to become human to hide from the Family of Blood.
The second story in this serial begins with our heroes arriving in a Britain that’s just elected Harold Saxon as Prime Minister… and it does seem as though he’s been elected directly rather than the actual way governments are elected. Then again in this Dr Who universe there’s been a different type of political chaos to allow it. Watching this now and I’m struck by how much Saxon reminds me of a weird Blair/Trump/Cameron mashup. Weirdly charismatic and evil.
The third story resolves everything in a bit of a happy-clappy way. Unfair, I suppose, since there are plenty of earlier stories that kind of do something similar. I just don’t think it works all that well. And sadly Martha’s farewell is tacked on, or seems to be. Interestingly, there are elements of this serial that turn up to much greater effect in RTD’s other dystopic political series like Years and Years, as well as in future Dr Who.
Part of the problem is that I don’t really like the Master as a character. That’s despite some terrific actors playing the role over the decades. I think it’s because the Master sort of renders the show into a simplistic good v evil whereas it’s a bit more complicated than that.
#doctor who#utopía#the sound of drums#last of the time lords#the master#captain jack harkness#martha jones
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For my book two called “escaping heaven” I’m like… 36k in and we are Just getting to the actual escape lol
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You must have a very good sharp eye sight if you can see the rfa members through the blurry CG. All I see is blurry blobs
Also when I saw the plane ticket my mind went “Saeran is that you”?
Can’t wait til the month is over to see the new title screen CG
Looks at my prescription strength. "Yeah, I've got good eyes. Those are totally crystal clear, and I wouldn't confuse a raccoon with a cat from a few feet away."
Haha, anyways. I'm just focusing on the color of the blobs to be able to gauge what I'm seeing. Because the hair color is the most striking feature on most of the RFA. Those are either very bright or very dark and it's easy to guess once you know that's what you need to look for in the group shots.
I saw that plane ticket and I threw my phone across the phone, turned my laptop back on, and started to write like a heathen to get all of my feelings out.
#anon#ask#mod kait#title screen#i couldn't stop clappy hands#that's my go to reaction to happy things so i#just deadass looked like ray's gif react for a long few minutes
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