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"You can't go around judging people on first impressions. That's how mistakes get made."
- Yokomizo Seishi, The Honjin Murders
"The police investigate footprints and look for fingerprints. I take the results of these investigations and by piecing together all the available information logically, I am able to reach a conclusion. Those are my methods of deduction."
- Yokomizo Seishi, The Honjin Murders
"The Killer had submitted the problem of a locked room murder and dared us to solve it. It was going to be a battle of wits. Perfect. Challenge accepted! If it was brains and logic and wit that were required, I was ready to do battle."
- Yokomizo Seishi, The Honjin Murders
"In our world there are some things so dreadful, so terrifying that you would scarcely believe they existed. They are things that common sense and accepted practice would dictate are impossible, but they do exist. Out of reason... that's right. It's a mad state of affairs."
- Yokomizo Seishi, Death on Gokumon Island
"Yet, while his unchanging gratitude and devotion to the priest's family were certainly commendable, Sahei failed to realize that everything - even gratitude - has a limit that should not be exceeded, and that his excessive gratitude toward the Nonomiya family would embroil his own kin in a series of bloody murders after his death."
- Yokomizo Seishi, The Inugami Curse
"Thirty years can weave strange patterns in the tapestry of life."
- Yokomizo Seishi, The Inugami Curse
"With the blind spot that had been hindering his thought process finally removed, everything had fallen into place for him with great speed. All day yesterday, he had been stacking building blocks of deductive reasoning in his mind, with the result that now he had reproduced the entire complex structure of the mystery."
- Yokomizo Seishi, The Inugami Curse
"Were it not for the events that I am about to relate, doubtless my life would have continued in that impoverished, humdrum vein. But one day a spot of red was suddenly split on the grey of my life: I embarked on an adventure of dazzling mystery and stepped into a world of blood-chilling terror."
- Yokomizo Seishi, The Village of Eight Graves
"Nothing is more frightening in this world than ignorance and stupidity."
- Yokomizo Seishi, The Village of Eight Graves
"The events I am about to describe are filled with such darkness and sadness, are so cursed and hate-filled, that not a word I write can possibly offer the faintest glimmer of hope or relief. Even as the author, I cannot predict what the final sentence will be, but I fear that the relentless dread and darkness that precede it may end up overcoming the readers and crush their very spirits in its grasp."
- Yokomizo Seishi, The Devil's Flute Murders
"Everyone here is a bit twisted somehow. All they feel for each other is suspicion, resentment and fear. I couldn't tell you why that is. It's as if they're all just waiting for their chance to stick the knife in. As if they think that if they don't, then they'll be on the other end of the blade."
- Yokomizo Seishi, The Devil's Flute Murders
Yokomizo Seishi has also been added to the BSD-Bibliophile Online Library!
You can find more information about Yokomizo-sensei on the following pages:
List of Books in English
Quotes and Facts Collection
Fun Facts
Author Connections
#yokomizo seishi#seishi yokomizo#japanese literature#quotes#the honjin murders#death on gokumon island#the village of eight graves#the inugami curse#the devil's flute murders#bsd#bungo stray dogs#bungou stray dogs#book recs
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book recommendations masterlist
disability books
Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer
Understanding Disability: From Theory to Practice by Michael Oliver
The Right To Maim by J.K Puar
Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited by Tom Shakespeare
Crip Negativity by J. Logan Smilges
Cripping Intersex by Celeste Orr
The Disability Studies Reader, 4th edition edited by L.J Davis
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability by Susan Wendell
other non-fiction
Summoned: Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighbourhood by Iddo Tavory
State of Subsistence: The Politics of Bread in Contemporary Jordan by Jose Martinez
Abductive Analysis by Tavory and Timmermans
Among Wolves: Ethnography and the Immersive Study of Power by Timothy Pachirat
fiction
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde
Outside Looking In by C.T Boyle
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#tlt#the locked tomb#reddit#tamsyn muir#gideon the ninth#harrow the ninth#gideon nav#harrowhark nonagesimus#book recs
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In case you're looking for more reading materials on Sudan, here is a google doc compiled by Razan Idris (and under the hashtag Sudan Syllabus).
I sourced it via X here
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Hello Tumblr!
Do you like bookstores? Do you like unions? Do you like bookstores having unions?
Answer yes to any of those questions, and boy howdy, do I have a call to action for you.
Half Price Books employees at several locations across the country have organized and, after months of being dehumanized by corporate lawyers, have finally reached the financial part of their contract! Hurray!
Except not hurray, because they are refusing to even budge on giving anything more than a pathetic 1% increase. And what’s worse, is the offer is actually a thinly veiled 6-7% pay cut, due to taking away quarterly bonuses that make up so much of the employees’ income.
There’s thankfully something you can do about it though! The unionized workers are partnered with UFCW, and they have made a website that has made it super easy to tell Half Price Books that you think their employees deserve a living wage.
The company has proven that it cares a great deal about its image, so any public support can give the bargaining employees a lot more power over their contracts. It only takes a couple minutes to fill out and any and all help is greatly appreciated.
#labor unions#booklr#books#union solidarity#support unions#union#literature#book recs#half price books
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The Ultimate Dark Academia Book Recommendation Guide Ever
The title of this post is clickbait. I, unfortunately, have not read every book ever. Not all of these books are particularly “dark” either. However, these are my recommendations for your dark academia fix. The quality of each of these books varies. I have limited this list to books that are directly linked to the world of academia and/or which have a vaguely academic setting.
Dark Academia staples:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum
Vita Nostra by Maryna Dyachenko
Dark academia litfic or contemporary:
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
White Ivy by Susie Yang
The Cloisters by Katy Hays
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Black Chalk by Christopher J. Yates
Attribution by Linda Moore
Dark academia thrillers or horror:
In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Ghosts of Harvard by Francesca Serritella
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
They Never Learn by Layne Fargo
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Dark academia fantasy/sci-fi:
Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Vicious by V.E. Schwab
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
The Betrayals by Bridget Collins
Dark academia romance:
Gothikana by RuNyx
Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake
Dark academia YA or MG:
Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Crave by Tracy Wolff
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
Dark academia miscellaneous:
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Alphabet of Thorn by Patricia A. McKillip
#dark academia#dark academia books#dark academia aesthetic#poc dark academia#light academia#chaotic academia#books and literature#book blog#ya books#books#book recs#book recommendations#the secret history#if we were villains#babel an arcane history#the atlas six#ninth house#legendborn#dead poets society#bookblr#bookstagram#academia#academic#bookish#vicious ve schwab#the maidens#the raven boys#vita nostra
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Contemporary weird fiction reading list
A chart of New Weird books and other bizarre, unsettling, and uncanny literature published in the last 30 years or so. This is a follow-up to my previous chart of classic weird fiction and another selection from my list of over 200 works of weird literature.
#book recs#book recommendations#book reccs#reading list#book list#literature#weird fiction#weird tales#weird books#the weird#new weird#jeff vandermeer#china mieville#haruki murakami#house of leaves#thomas ligotti#michael cisco#laird barron
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🍉 Queer Palestinian Books 🍉
🇵🇸 The algorithm is going to keep silencing my posts, but they're not going to silence me. I grew up with little to no books that made me feel seen as a queer/bisexual Palestinian Arab American. Today, it's still not easy enough to find those books online, even though we have thousands of lists, posts, and directories to guide us. To make your search a little easier, here are a few queer Palestinian books to add to your TBR. Please help me spread this by reblogging. Consider adding these to your least for Read Palestine Week (click for resources)! 💜
🍉 The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher
🇵🇸 A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar
🍉 Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam
🇵🇸 To All the Yellow Flowers by Raya Tuffaha
🍉 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat
🇵🇸 The Specimen's Apology by George Abraham
🍉 Birthright by George Abraham
🇵🇸 Nayra and the Djinn by Iasmin Omar Ata
🍉 Where Black Stars Rise by Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger
🇵🇸 The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan
🍉 Guapa by Saleem Haddad
🇵🇸 From Whole Cloth: An Asexual Romance by Sonia Sulaiman
🍉 The Philistine by Leila Marshy
🇵🇸 Love Is an Ex-Country by Randa Jarrar
🍉 Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi
🇵🇸 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa'ed Atshan
🍉 Belladonna by Anbara Salam
🇵🇸 Confetti Realms by Nadia Shammas, Karnessa, Hackto Oshiro
🍉 Blood Orange by Yaffa As
🇵🇸 The ordeal of being known by Malia Rose
🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine by Walaa Alqaisiya
🇵🇸 Are You This? Or Are You This?: A Story of Identity and Worth by Madian Al Jazerah, Ellen Georgiou
🍉 This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
🇵🇸 My Mama's Magic by Amina Awad
#queer books#queer fiction#queer#books#queer book recs#book recs#book recommendation#free palestine#save palestine#books to read#book blog#book lovers#booklr#bookstagram#batty about books#battyaboutbooks#sapphic books#sapphic romance
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"rn I feel like reading about someone's quiet daily life, maybe a diary or letters, set in a place or context I don't know much about, without turmoil or tragedy" oh! do you have any recommendations for books like this?
This is one of my favourite types of books! Here are 30(ish) recs...
May Sarton's The House by the Sea or Plant Dreaming Deep
Gyrðir Elíasson's Suðurglugginn / La fenêtre au sud (not translated into English unfortunately!), also Bergsveinn Birgisson's Landslag er aldrei asnalegt / Du temps qu'il fait (exists in German too)
Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, which iirc was originally written as journal entries and letters before being adapted into a book
Kenneth White's House of Tides: Letters from Brittany and Other Lands of the West
Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book
The Diary of a Provincial Lady, E. M. Delafield
Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim (do not read if you don't like flowers)
The Road Through Miyama by Leila Philip (I've mentioned it before, it feels like this gif)
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, I keep recommending this one but it's so nice and I love snails
Epicurean Simplicity, Stephanie Mills
The Light in the Dark: A winter journal by Horatio Clare
The Letters of Rachel Henning
The letters of Tove Jansson, also The Summer Book and Fair Play
The diary of Sylvia Townsend Warner—here's an entry where she describes some big cats at the zoo. "Frank and forthcoming, flirtatious carnivores, [...] guttersnipishly loveable"
The Letters of Rachel Carson & Dorothy Freeman were very sweet and a little bit gay. I mostly remember from this long book I read years ago that Rachel Carson once described herself as "retiring into her shell like a periwinkle at low tide" and once apologised to Dorothy because she had run out of apple-themed stationery.
Jane Austen's letters (quoting the synopsis, "Wiser than her critics, who were disappointed that her correspondence dwelt on gossip and the minutiae of everyday living, Austen understood the importance of "Little Matters," of the emotional and material details of individual lives shared with friends and family")
Madame de Sévigné's letters because obviously, and from the same time period, the letters of the Princess Palatine, Louis XIV's sister-in-law. I read them a long time ago and mostly I remember that I enjoyed her priorities. There's a letter where she complains that she hasn't received the sausages she was promised, and then in the next paragraph, mentions the plot to assassinate the King of England and also, the Tartars are walking on Vienna currently.
Wait I found it:
R.C. Sherriff's The Fortnight in September (quoting the author, "I wanted to write about simple, uncomplicated people doing normal things")
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Pond, Claire-Louise Bennett
Rules for Visiting, Jessica Francis Kane
The following aren't or aren't yet available in English, though some have already been translated in 5-6 languages:
ツバキ文具店 / La papeterie Tsubaki by ito Ogawa
半島へ / La péninsule aux 24 saisons by Mayumi Inaba
Giù la piazza non c'è nessuno, Dolores Prato (for a slightly more conceptual take on the "someone's everyday life" theme—I remember it as quite Proustian in its meticulousness, a bit like Nous les filles by Marie Rouanet which is much shorter and more lighthearted but shows the same extreme attention to childhood details)
Journal d'un homme heureux, Philippe Delerm, my favourite thing about this book is that the goodreads commenter who gave it the lowest rating complained that Delerm misidentified a wine as a grenache when actually it's a cabernet sauvignon. Important review!
Un automne à Kyôto, Corinne Atlan (I find her writing style so lovely)
oh and 西の魔女が死んだ / L’été de la sorcière by Kaho Nashiki —such a little Ghibli film of a book. There's a goodreads review that points out that Japanese slice-of-life films and books have "a certain way of describing small, everyday actions in a soothing, flawless manner that can either wear you out, or make you look at the world with a temporary glaze of calm contentment and introspective understanding [...]"
I'd be happy to get recommendations in this 'genre' as well :)
#book recs#i should have posted this ages ago but i was waiting to finish the book i was reading to see if it#should be added to the list#but in the end it wasn't worthy#sorry for the delay!
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This year some of my favourite books I read were written by indigenous American authors and I just wanted to shout out a couple that I fell in love with
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Horror being my second most read genre, I did not think books could still get under my skin the way this one did lol. It follows four Blackfoot men who are seemingly being hunted by a vengeful... something... years after a fateful hunting trip that happened just before they went their separate ways. The horror, the dread, the something... pure nightmare fuel 10/10
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
An apocalyptic novel following an isolated Anishinaabe community in the far north who lose contact with the outside world. When two of their young men return from their college with dire news, they set about planning on how to survive the winter, but when outsiders follow, lines are drawn in the community that might doom them all. This book is all dread all the time, the use of dreams and the inevitability of conflict weighs heavy til the very end. An excellent apocalypse story if you're into that kind of thing.
My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
This book follows Jade, a deeply troubled mixed race teenager with a shitty homelife who's *obsessed* with slasher movies. When she finds evidence that there's a killer running about her soon-to-be gentrified small town, she weaponises that knowledge to predict what's going to happen next. I don't think this book will work for most people, it's a little stream of consciousness, Jade's head is frequently a very difficult place to be in, but by the last page I had so much love for her as a character and the emotional rollercoaster she's on that I had to mention it here.
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Taking a bit of a left turn but this charming YA murder mystery really stuck with me this year. Elatsoe is a teenage girl living in an America where myths, monsters, and magic are all real every day occurrences. When her cousin dies mysteriously with no witnesses, she decides to do whatever she can, including using her ability to raise the spirits of dead animals, to solve the case. The worldbuilding was just really fun in this one, but the Native American myths and influence were the shining star for me, and the asexual rep was refreshing to see in a YA book too tbh
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
The audiobook, the audiobook, the audiobook!!!! Also the physical book because formatting and illustrations, but the audiobook!!! Tanya Tagaq is an Inuit throat singer, and this novel is a genre blending of 20 years worth of the authors journal entries, poetry, and short stories, that culminates in a truly unique story about a young girl surviving her teenage years in a small tundra town in the 70s. It is sad and beautiful and hard but an experience like nothing else I read this year.
#the only good indians#my heart is a chainsaw#stephen graham jones#moon of the crusted snow#waubgeshig rice#elatsoe#darcie little badger#split tooth#tanya tagaq#indigenous authors#2022 reads#book recs#books#booklr
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i saw your tags, and i wanna ask what books "punched you in the gut" (i wanna get punched too)?
SO glad you asked anon omg
Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist
i am lewy, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc
Antigone, Jean Anouilh
Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki
"The Condemned", Stig Dagerman
The Snake, Stig Dagerman
A Moth to a Flame, Stig Dagerman
Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
From A to X, John Berger
The Plague, Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus: Essays, Albert Camus
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, Saša Stanišić
Posession, A.S. Byatt
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride
"The Husband Stitch", Carmen Maria Machado
The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong
An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky
The Need for Roots, Simone Weil
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, Svetlana Alexievich
Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky
Agua Viva, Clarice Lispector
Broken Vessels: Essays, Andre Dubus
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
A Field Guide for Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
Books Burn Badly, Manuel Rivas
The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
Uzumaki, Junji Ito
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
For Two Thousand Years, Mihail Sebastian
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Thinking of Anthony Bourdain, five years on 🥡
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Lit Hub has published a list of 40 Books to Understand Palestine put together by "several dozen Palestinian and Palestinian-American authors, as well as a number of other writers whose work and advocacy has focused on Palestine". Please consider reading and supporting Palestinian literature <3
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💚👁️🕸️ In honour of The Magnus Protocol releasing today, here are some book recommendations based on The Magnus Archives Fears!! 🕸️👁️💚
Detailed list of books below the cut!
For more book recommendations, especially queer horror, check out my Bookstagram @hauntedstacks
The Buried ⚰️
- Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman
- Stuck by Ben Young
- The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
- The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Corruption 🦠
- What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
- Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris
- The Honeys by Ryan La Sala
- She Is A Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
The Dark 🌑
- Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
- Nightfall by Jake Halpern & Peter Kujawinski
- No Power by Todd Kirby
- The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
The Desolation 🔥
- Firestarter by Stephen King
- Burner by Robert Ford
- Those Who Wish Me Dead by Michael Koryta
- Burn the House Down by Kenna Jenkins
The End 💀
- Funeral Girl by Emma K. Ohland
- Pet Sematary by Stephen King
- Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
- This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno
The Extinction 🦴
- Lost Signals by Max Booth III
- Bride of the Tornado by James Kennedy
- No Safety in Numbers by Dayna Lorentz
- The Rules of the Road by C.B. Jones
The Eye 👁️
- Video Palace by Maynard Wills
- Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
- A History of Fear by Luke Dumas
- The Watchers by A.M. Shine
The Flesh 🦷
- You’ve Lost A Lot of Blood by Eric LaRocca
- Carnivore by Justin Boote
- A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers
- Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Hunt 🏹
- Hunt by Alexandra Nisneru
- The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins
- Survive the Night by Danielle Vega
- The Hunger by Alma Katsu
The Lonely ☁️
- Red River Seven by A.J. Ryan
- Solitude by Michael Penning
- Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Slaughter 🥩
- Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin
- Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- The Summer I Died by Ryan C. Thomas
The Spiral 🌀
- That Darkened Doorstep by Catherine Jordan
- Mind the Mirrors by Amanda Leanne
- Grey Noise by Marcus Hawke
- Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starling
The Stranger🕴️
- It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames
- My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
- The Deep by Alma Katsu
- The Outside by Stephen King
The Vast 🪂
- From Below by Darcy Coates
- Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
- Floating Staircase by Ronald Mafi
- Nightmare Sky by Red Lagoe
The Web 🕸️
- The Taking of Jake Livingston
- The Fervor by Alma Katsu
- The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
- Come Closer by Sarah Gran
If You Like The Magnus Archives 💚
- Thirteen Stories by Jonathan Sims
- Family Business by Jonathan Sims
- Gas Station by Jack Townsend
- Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
#the magnus archives#the magnus protocol#tma#tmp#Jonathan sims#rusty quill#martin blackwood#jonmartin#booklr#bookstagram#books#horror books#queer books#horror book recs#book recs#mine
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Creators at Hiveworks always deliver when it comes to slow burn! This February, dive into ✨these webcomics ✨
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Sleepless Domain by @cubewatermelon
Barbarous by @aidosaur & @ananthhirsh
Namesake by @secondlinaa & @savvyliterate
Kochab by @erysiumum
Tigress Queen by @allidrawscomics
This is not Fiction by @tinfcomic
In Blood We Rise @vikingmera
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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