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chalkrub · 8 months

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(probably) final batch of doodles! and they're actually doodles this time

garrot for @celestriakle

panny for @falling-hand-in-unlovable-hand

celeste for @grox-empire

teo for @boymosss

margolia for @shanghai-ohmy

sage for microchipt who tumblr will not let me tag!

funney aminals in hats for @pookabagi @nixie-noo and @babayanska

had to do a lot of headshots towards the end but I hope you all enjoy nonetheless :^)

#my art #i'm going away for a couple days but maybe i'll do some more when i get back #and i will for REAL for real make my sketch blog then too #watched the shittest film known to man today with a friend it was called silent house #we always try to watch horror films on whatever streaming apps we can scrounge from and they're always bad #silent house ranks below the film we watched about an underwater spooky house but still above a film called strays #which was truly TRULY upsettingly bad #not to be an utter snob but thank god for elevated horror or whatever the fuck they call it #anyway. wish me luck i'm going to london for the first time in years and the train is like £50 (VERY cool and VERY affordable.)

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burningvelvet · 11 months

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Here are two of the most hilariously scalding letters from the 1800s that I have ever read. One is by the famous writer Lord Byron, and the other is by his daughter Ada Lovelace, the famous mathematician. Both are written to their respective business partners: Byron to his publisher John Murray, and Lovelace to her colleague Charles Babbage. It’s interesting to note how strikingly similar these letters are despite the fact that Ada and her father never knew each other, as her parents separated shortly after her birth and he died abroad when she was eight. Both were rebellious, fond of gambling, prone to tumultuous affairs, and both hated Lady Byron. These similarities may help to explain why her final wish was to be buried next to him instead of her family.

Lord Byron in a Letter to his publisher John Murray about the printing of his magnum opus, the poem Don Juan:

“Ra. August 31st. 1821.

Dear Sir

I have received the Juans – which are printed so carelessly especially the 5th. Canto – as to be disgraceful to me — & not creditable to you.

It really must be gone over again with the Manuscript – the errors are so gross – words added – changed – so as to make cacophony & nonsense. — You have been careless of this poem because some of your Synod don’t approve of it – but I tell you – it will be long before you see any thing half so good as poetry or writing. — Upon what principle have you omitted the note on Bacon & Voltaire? and one of the concluding stanzas sent as an addition? because it ended I suppose – with –

‘And do not link two virtuous souls for life Into that moral Centaur man & wife?’

Now I must say once for all – that I will not permit any human being to take such liberties with my writings – because I am absent. —

I desire the omissions to be replaced (except the stanza on Semiramis) particularly the stanza upon the Turkish marriages – and I request that the whole be carefully gone over with the M.S.S. –

I never saw such stuff as is printed – Gulleyaz – instead of Gulbeyaz &c. Are you aware that Gulbeyaz is a real name – and the other nonsense? – I copied the Cantos out carefully – so that there is no excuse – as the Printer reads or at least prints the M.S.S. of the plays without error. —

If you have no feeling for your own reputation pray have some little for mine. — I have read over the poem carefully – and I tell you it is poetry – Your little envious knot of parson-poets may say what they please — time will show that I am not in this instance mistaken. — Desire my friend Hobhouse to correct the press especially of the last Canto from the Manuscript – as it is – it is enough to drive one out of one’s senses – to see the infernal torture of words from the original. – For instance the line

‘And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves’

Is printed

‘and praise their rhymes &c. –

also ‘precarious’ for ‘precocious’ – and this line. stanza 133.

‘And this strong extreme effect – to tire no longer’

Now do turn to the Manuscript – & see – if I ever made such a line – it is not verse. —

No wonder the poem should fail – (which however it wont you will see) with such things allowed to creep about it. – – Replace what is omitted – – & correct what is so shamefully misprinted, – and let the poem have fair play – – and I fear nothing. — I see in the last two Numbers of the Quarterly – a strong itching to assail me (see the review of the “Etonian”) let it – and see if they shan’t have enough of it. – – I don’t allude to Gifford – who has always been my friend – & whom I do not consider as responsible for the articles written by others. – But if I do not give Mr. Milman – Mr. Southey – & others of the crew something that shall occupy their dream! I am not what I was – that is all

I have not begun with the Quarterers – but let them look to it. – As for Milman (you well know I have not been unfair to his poetry ever) but I have lately had some information of his critical proceedings in the Quarterly which may bring that on him which he will be sorry for. – I happen to know that of him – Which would annihilate him – when he pretends to preach morality – not that he is immoral – because he isn’t – having in early life been once too much so. – And dares he set up for a preacher? let him go and be priest to Cybele. – why let

You will publish the plays – when ready — I am in such a humour about this printing of D.J. so inaccurately – that I must close this.

yrs. [scrawl]

P.S. I presume that you have not lost the stanza to which I allude? it was sent afterwards look over my letters – & find it. The Notes you can’t have lost – you acknowledged them – they included eight or little corrections of Bacon’s mistakes in the apothegms. – And now I ask once more if such liberties taken in a man’s absence – are fair or praise-worthy? – As for you you have no opinions of your own – & never had – but are blown about by the last thing said to you no matter by whom.”

[Separate page]

“Dear Sir

The enclosed letter is written in bad humour – but not without provocation. -

However – let it (that is the bad humour) go for little – but I must request your serious attention to the abuses of the printer which ought never to have been permitted. – You forget that all the fools in London (the chief purchasers of your publications) will condemn in me the stupidity of your printer. — For instance in the Notes to Canto fifth – ‘the Adriatic shore of the Bosphorus – instead of the Asiatic!! – All this may seem little to you – so fine a gentleman with your ministerial connections – but it is serious to me – who am thousands of miles off & have no opportunity of not proving myself the fool yr. printer makes me – except your pleasure & leisure forsooth.

The Gods prosper you — & forgive you, for I wont.

B.”

Ada Lovelace in a letter to her work partner Charles Babbage, who she helped invent the computer with:

“Tuesday Afternoon [1 August 1843] Ockham

. . . Note B has plagued me to death; altho' I have made but little alteration in it. Such alterations as there are however, happen to have been very tiresome & to have demanded minute consideration & very nice adjustments.

It is a very excellent Note.

I wish you were as accurate, & as much to be relied on, as I am myself. You might often save me much trouble, if you were; whereas you in reality add to my trouble not infrequently; and there is at any rate always the anxiety of doubting if you will not get me into a scrape; even when you don't.

By the way, I hope you do not take upon yourself to alter any of my corrections.

I must beg you not. They all have some very sufficient reason. And you have made a pretty mess & confusion in one or two places (which I will show you sometime), where you have ventured in my M.S's, to insert or alter a phrase or word; & have utterly muddled the sense.

I could not conceive at first in one or two places what had happened to my sentences; tho' I soon saw they were patchwork & not my own; and found it so, on referring to the M.S. I fear you will think this a very cross letter. Never mind. I am a good little thing, after all. Yours ever

A. A. L.

Later. P. S. It is impossible to send you anything but Notes B and C; (& this partly owing to some wrong references & blunderations of your own). — Do not be afraid, for I will work like the Devil early tomorrow morning. —“

[Separate Page]

“Wednesday, 4 o'clock [2 August 1843] Ockham

After working almost incessantly, since 7 o'clock this morning, until I am forced to give in from sheer inability to apply longer, I find only the sheet I enclose is quite completed. I shall however send a servant up tomorrow morning by a ten o' clock train, to take you all the rest; so that you will have it almost as soon as this letter.

You cannot conceive the trouble I have had with the trigonometrical Note E. — In fact no one but me, I really believe, would have doggedly stuck to it, as I have been doing, in all wearing minutiae.

I am very uneasy at not hearing from you, as I have expected to do both yesterday & today; & fear some disaster or other. I hope all of Note G is forthcoming; & I also hope you have received all my communications safely.

I think you had better do the second revise of the translation for me. If you will compare it carefully with my first revise, it can hardly be necessary I think for me to go over it again.

I suppose I ought to take it for granted that no news is good news; but I am in a sad fidget. — Yours ever

A. L.”

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twelverriver · 2 months

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ok imagine you're an mi6 agent who's been on an undercover mission for the last 2 years and then you're meant to interrogate some guy but instead you free him and you have a moment and then you meet again in vienna when you're both sent there to kill someone but you both have the same strategy of wounding not killing and then you give him something to make he finds you again because you have to leave soon and when he finds you again in your safe house you notice that he has drawn you and he's smart and keeps up with you and you go on a mission together and you have to revive him after he died and saved his life again and then you have to betray him and THEN he follows you into the mountains on a motorcycle but rather hurts himself than hurting you when given the choice and when you meet again after that whole thing you ask him to come away with you and he says nothing and he pretty much rejects you. how do you deal with that. also after that your evil boss says that you have to kill him and his friend so you can keep the trust of your evil boss and your even eviler boss :)) bc something similar happened to my friend ilsa faust.

#jana.txt #ilsa faust #ilsa x ethan #mission impossible #sorry rogue nation makes me go. what the fuck. oh my god #for the sake of everyone around me i wish i could be less obsessed with this movie but for me personally?? never stopping babyyyy #ANYWAY LIKE. THE MOUNTAINS SCENE TO LONDON KINGS CROSS SCENE MAKES ME GO !!!!#my girl truly said okay im offering myself up here im being vulnerable do you want to run away with me #i just wouldve died tbh

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muckety-mucks-i-s-goin-delux · 1 year

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Not to freak you out but did someone said high quiality KONY, becasue here it is!

Video is not mine btw

#kony #DID SOMEONE SAID NEWSIES IN HD?#god i wish i could get my hands on the bootleg #newsies #uksies #west endsies #newsies london #newsies uk #endsies #newsies king of new york

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amelia-friend · 9 months

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Kamilla Fernandes, Mireia Mambo and Lillie-Pearl Wildman are all gonna be in a new show together from September!!!

#god i wish i lived closer to london #newsies uk #uksies #sunset boulevard musical #brooklyn girlsies

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ladyofthelake · 1 month

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Just got cameos from basically everyone in my fave band The Struts and just received the lead singer Luke (its like 4am hfsfbshdfbs) AND HE WAS SO SWEET AND GRACIOUS AND IM SO

#IM LITERALLY GOING TO DIE #the struts #man I need to save for their concert now hfkfbwhfbewhfdvq #never seen them live #but they're coming back to the uk soon so aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah #luke spiller #HAHA THERES NO WAY IM GETTING ANYTHING REMOTELY RELATED TO SLEEP TONIGHT #god cameo is the best #like I can't afford cons even in the uk because of travel hotel etc #let alone the price of photo ops and autos #and this way I get the time to say everything I want to the people I love #Im so so grateful #wish Bradley had one #Im glad that colin doesn't do social media though he's a wise rare breed lol #Id still love to meet him one day but at least I have his auto and my experiences at the globe and london #but man MAN I mean I love so much music and many artists but these guys are my fave band #and its happened to me now like I never had a fave band in my life #I just love loads of stuff #but in the last year or so these guys have just become my band and I feel like a teenager #andIm going fucking insane again #THEY ALL SAID MY NAME AND KNOW I EXIST #HELPERMFGWERGHWERBGWER

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yellow-faerie · 9 months

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Wow, I have a fic description and a fic title before I've even established a proper fic plot

(this is probably because I'm very excited about this fic and it's potential...)

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Here are my tags because I started explaining the plot and want it actually in the post rather than just the tags lol:

#Aziraphale gets removed from the book of life is like...the main plot #and - through various means - it is Crowley remembering him and bringing him back #(with guest star appearances from Adam and the Them on a school trip to yo London; Warlock #running away from his parents for the third time; Muriel who is cheerily *not* realising that they used to be a very powerful angel before #a mind wipe; Maggie and Nina dancing around the fact that Nina might very well be ready for that next step; Beelzebub and Gabriel both #visiting Crowley separately for couple's counselling (although *why* he cannot fathom; and the second coming of Christ #although she is not at all what heaven was planning - in fact #heaven didn't know she existed yet)#but it is also Crowley being miserable and lonely and kind of not knowing why #but being reminded of something until things start to fall into place #and then history is a bit weird until they defeat Metatron (fuck 'im) and put Aziraphale's name back #(this fic *really* makes me wish I could draw because a big part of it is that Eve #- the second coming of Christ - keeps getting visions of the past as it was when Aziraphale still existed #since she's technically God and i think God is probably the only one to whom edits to the book of life don't affect #and Crowley finds it #and I think it would be so cool to have like pages of notebook and sketches in between the fic writing)#GO2 #Good Omens Season 2 #Good Omens #Ineffable Husbands #because I wrote an essay in the tags of my own post instead of in the main body (like a fool)#Fae Rambles Into The Void #How To Make A Nightingale Sing #<- the current working title

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dmumt · 2 months

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train was suddenly terminated as we pulled into a station so we all had to get off and find another train towards london except all those trains are also cancelled and delayed so why don’t we all just kill ourselves

#it was already delayed by over an hour because of the signal failure but they were like don’t worry we’re taking a diverted route #so we’re still gonna get to kgx just late . and then as we were pulling into peterborough they suddenly said oh we’re not going any further #sorry xoxo like hello??? u couldn’t have said this a few minutes earlier??? so the whole train had to quickly get off and now everyone is #packed onto one thameslink service to london . thank god i have a seat #and i also managed to get a snack in between the trains because i am hungry 😭#but fml seriously i was supposed to be home by now #british train system i wish you a serious die honestly why does this always happen #real jjong singing oh it’s a little bit funny . no it’s not . nothing to laugh about in my life #will i get my money back is the real question . how do i even process this refund is it a cancellation or a delay im killing myself #.txt

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gatofresaaa · 2 months

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ohhhhh everyone on this fucking cast is SO HOT. i’m going CRAZY. OH MY GOD. jordan’s actors are making me go insane. hhhhhhhhhhhh i love them. london thor and derek luh if you need a dog i can bark (what is wrong with me) 🤞‼️

#I’M FEELING SO BISEXUAL RIGHT NOW #good god what am i doing #i’m sorry #i also love the bigender rep if anyone cares #genuinely wish i could turn into a guy whenever i wanted ugh #jordan i envy you so bad #gen v #gen v cast #derek luh #london thor #vinnie.txt

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redcallisto · 1 year

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on another note i’m still so sad Starset is doing a world tour for their latest album and isn’t coming to my country or neighboring 😭 😭 😭 never forgive nor forget. i’m too scared to solo travel far dfvgdfg

#ruby rambles #i see their tours currently in london and i.#god i wish that were me #i've never been to a concert ever 😭#starset please ur the only band i like.........#that one world tour meme continues to be valid

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rustbeltjessie · 1 year

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1, 15, and 37?

1. 3 things you wish for

a reliable source of income

more time to write

a new tattoo

15. 3 quotes that have a special place in your life

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. —Jack London

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I don’t want to give up. I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing. And until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all. —Jack Kerouac

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The future is unwritten and good, the kids are alright, adventure is proven to release anti-oxidants into your blood which halts aging and promotes clear skin, there are friends of yours thinking about you in far away places, love is real and never forget the struggle, never forget the streets. —Jack Terricloth

37. 3 languages you would love to learn

Gaeilge (am currently in the process of learning it, but would love to really know it)

German

Spanish

#asks #3 things #replies #endreal #wishes #language learning #quotations #there are so so so many quotes that mean so much to me #so in order to narrow it down #i went with three of my fave quotes from my holy trinity of jacks #jack london #jack kerouac #and #jack terricloth #also god i hate the new text editor SO MUCH

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aristide-bruant · 10 months

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Bringing back one of my favorite photos in honor of the pink TARDIS

#barbie #doctor who #god I wish I was in London so I could take a photo with it

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nomaishuttle · 7 months

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there waz that post ages ago i believe pre my sweeneytoddification beam (watched the movie on a whim and then immediately made my sibling and 💀💀💀 watch it with me (seperately (i watched it 3 times within 2 days (im fairly snti movie now its like.. whateverrr its kind lame. also ewww to the lead actor who shall not be named)))) that post tyat was like Whats the unreleased project/song/movie/game/whatever that youre modt sad abt... And i didnt ha e an answer at the tjme but oh my god dude its literally the restnof the 2012 london cast recording I WANNA HEAR THE REST OF THE SONGSSS

#ik they didnt cut at least most of them they may have a bit theres a boot on yt that i watched and it had some that werent on the album #(pirelli. (no actually taking this out of parenthesis rq))-> The fact pirelli is not in any of the songs. in the 2012 cast recording. bc #they judt didnt upload any of the songs he was in. to the vast recording. ITS SICKENINGGGG i judt know theirnoirellis wouldve slapped i #just know their the contest wouldve slapped. UGH. AND NO GREEN FINCH AND LINNET BIRD??? DIABOLICAL.#sighh. i wish there was a proshit butterlass. the boot that i watched was pretty low quality which sucks bc from what i could see (not much #at all) the swt design was so cool...#also i say in this post in anti movie. dreadful secret. for the songs that arent on the 2012 beautiful london cast ..i do sometimes turn to #the movie over the 1980s.. and obvi over 2005 be serious. im likee #idk. helena bonham carters lovett is. fine. she has anice voice. However its like an entirely different character likee. why is she young #and sexy. Hashtag not my lovett. but its like. whateverr different interpretations whatever #i can accept different interpretations of the characters *looks at 2005* ... to an extent #but yaaa basicslly. the movies Whatever. it is also missing a lot of the songs oh my god and also . the fact . that they cut god thats good #or no. it wasnt cut they just removed everything that made it good right. So lame. and swapping its place eith johanna (?#am i misremembering...)... Incredibly bizarre decision 2 me. ehatever though

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katarafirelady · 2 years

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ok it is also cool that pansexual merman's little sister uses a prosthetic tail

and that they didnt completely typecast each mermaid based on her hair/tail colour to an element. Green mermaid is water instead of earth, pink mermaid is earth instead of fire, and some rando who has 1 speaking line in the entire film is air :)))))

the problem is really the plot. it doesnt feel creative or exciting. we dont even KNOW the stakes. some woman who we dont know just says "the fate of our world depends on it ." but she doesnt seem at all concerned or worries or anything. and its like in what way? how will the world be changed if this doesnt go to plan? nobody knows. probably not even the writers.

i think what i really miss is when barbie and her friends had to be clever/creative/industrious in some way to solve their problems. Like Annalise finding that purple geode and using it to revitalize her kingdoms economy. Or even corrine in princess academy who had to figure out that she was the lost princess, and her friend who was a music genius helped fighre out that the Beep beep BEEP Beep of the door code could be deciphered. Now its all just "barbie is kind and a friend to everyone. that (+ magic) solves all her problems the end." but the truth is that being kind to a bully/abuser wont always make them stop being mean? (in fact i would say that a lot of the time it wont work!) barbie rapunzel and barbie nutcracker stood up against the evil people and defeated them.

also the music is bad and the backgrounds/animation in general arent as pretty as they were in video game hero or starlight adventure. They look more on par with backgrounds from princess and the pauper, but without the really loveable characters + compelling plot + amazing music to make up for it. also backgrounds rendered entirely in 3d just dont look as nice as the old more painted style ones.

final criticism is that the conservation of oceans message was really shoehorned in and even then it was pretty shallow bc if a bunch of mermaids can just zap the great pacific garbage pile into nonexistance, they can do it again right? like thats a bad way to show that garbage hurts sea creatures. They should have actually had a seaturtle try to swallow a plastic bag, or had fish get stuck in those 6 pack can connector things, and had barbie and co actually put in some WORK to help, rather than just do a <2 minute "battle" against the garbage and then immediately have a dance party?

ok compliment sandwich i guess their hair looked nice. Very shiny. made me want to look up hair care routines

#barbie mermaid power #barbie #honestly i just wish they would go back to telling classic ballets/fairytales with barbie #like there are a MILLION more ballets out there #that was where the barbie movies were at their peak #also did i mention that the music in this one SUCKED #like it had none of the heart that the old music did #it was just synthetic pop sounds after the second one i just listened to the first 15 seconds or so #and then skipped to the last 15 seconds or so of each song #none of them were even CATCHY synthetic pop #:(#pls barbie make good movies again i am begging on my hands and knees #also introduce more Barbie Robertses #have a san fran barbie and a vancouver barbie and a denver barbie and a London barbie and a paris barbie #make an army of cool diverse women all named barbie roberts #and have them all just call each other by their cities to avoid confusion #and for gods sake give them diverse interests too!#like the two barbies we have are into... music and vlogging and... kindness ig?#i know we have skipper and stacy and chelsea #but make the other new barbies like her friends from life in the dreamhouse #have some who are into various sciences and arts and sports #and for gods sake make one of them a BALLERINA

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eels-eels-eelsrobot · 1 year

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How Call of the Wild gets you feeling about a dog named "Dave".

#fuck man #call of the wild #god damn you Jack London you're a really good and emapathic author i wish you weren't also a huge racist in real life

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innielove · 1 year

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casual friday night chill: crocheting while listening to palaye royale

#this is so funny to me #working on a beanie rn while watching a recording of their 2022 march london concert #god i really wanna see these freaks live but no way im going to a concert like theirs alone lmao #there are tickets still available too like 😭😭 i wish i was a different person and could go to places alone lmao #shut up vivien no one cares

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