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dykevillanelle · 3 years

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{ yearly booklist: 2020 }

books read: 107 pages read: 30,689

top 5: 1 (best). the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home (joseph fink & jeffrey cranor) 2. the faggots and their friends between revolutions (larry mitchell & ned asta) 3. a little life (hanya yanagihara) 4. the summer we got free (mia mckenzie) 5. there there (tommy orange)

bottom 5: 5. pleasure activism (ed. adrienne maree brown) 4. the immortalists (chloe benjamin) 3. where the crawdads sing (delia owens) 2. the difference between you and me (madeleine george) 1 (worst). sugar land (tammy lynne stoner)

full list under the cut [in order read, *starred* are recommended]:

*bluets (maggie nelson)* pleasure activism (ed. adrienne maree brown) as lie is to grin (simeon marsalis) *the mythic dream (ed. dominic parisien & navah wolfe)* what is the what (dave eggers) *if beale street could talk (james baldwin)* *the stonewall reader (ed. new york public library)* *the water dancer (ta-nehisi coates)* *no name in the street (james baldwin)* honeysuckle (robin gow) where the crawdads sing (delia owens) a tale for the time being (ruth ozeki) *going to meet the man (james baldwin)* *dangerous families (mattilda bernstein sycamore)* *junk (tommy pico)* call down the hawk (maggie stiefvater) answered prayers (truman capote) veils, nudity, and tattoos: the new feminine aesthetics (thorston botz-bernstein) *jacob's room (virginia woolf)* *sag harbor (colson whitehead)* so many ways to sleep badly (mattilda bernstein sycamore) the red parts: autobiography of a trial (maggie nelson) *the cancer journals (audre lorde)* the truth (terry pratchett) sweets: a history of candy *a little life (hanya yanagihara)* *tomboy survivial guide (ivan coyote)* *feed (tommy pico)* *red, white & royal blue (casey mcquiston)* *are prisons obsolete? (angela y. davis)* girl walking backwards (bett williams) the end of san francisco (mattilda bernstein sycamore) guapa (saleem haddad) *tell me how long the train's been gone (james baldwin)* pulling taffy (mattilda bernstein sycamore) love & lies: marisol's story (ellen wittlinger) the difference between you and me (madeleine george) *the body keeps the score (bessel van der kolk)* nimona (noelle stevenson) *priestdaddy (patricia lockwood)* *why are faggots so afraid of faggots?: flaming challenges to masculinity, objectification, and the desire to conform (ed. mattilda bernstein sycamore)* the city we became (n.k. jemisin) over the top (jonathan van ness) huntress (malinda lo) patience & sarah (isabel miller) *the art of cruelty (maggie nelson)* tricks and treats: sex workers write about their clients (ed. mattilda bernstein sycamore) *the end of imagination (arundhati roy)* the evidence of things not seen (james baldwin) *on earth we're briefly gorgeous (ocean vuong)* *dark days (james baldwin)* trail of broken wings (sejal badani) the lady's guide to petticoats and piracy (mackenzi lee) peculiar institution: america's death penalty in an age of abolition (david garland) *alice isn't dead (joseph fink)* three parts dead (max gladstone) when brooklyn was queer (hugh ryan) *the faggots and their friends between revolutions (larry mitchell & ned asta)* the immortalists (chloe benjamin) *semi queer: inside the world of gay, trans, and black truck drivers (anne balay)* three guineas (virginia woolf) *the glass hotel (emily st. john mandel)* the girl who lived twice (david lagercrantz) *chokehold: policing black men (paul butler)* codename villanelle (luke jennings) no tomorrow (luke jennings) die for me (luke jennings) *just above my head (james baldwin)* *sketchtasy (mattilda bernstein sycamore)* *angry white men: american masculinity at the end of an era (michael kimmel)* *how to be an anti-racist (ibram x. kendi)* white fragility: why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism (robin diangelo) *there there (tommy orange)* *toward an intellectual history of black women (ed. mia bay et. al.)* jonah's gourd vine (zora neale hurston) *the faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home (joseph fink & jeffrey cranor) animal dreams (barbara kingsolver) *the adventure zone: petals to the metal (clint mcelroy, carey pietsch, griffin mcelroy, justin mcelroy, travis mcelroy)* *from black power to hip hop: racism, nationalism, and feminism (patricia hill collins)* sugar land (tammy lynne stoner) *nature poem (tommy pico)* *prisoners of politics: breaking the cycle of mass incarceration (rachel elise barkow)* *all the bad apples (moïra fowley-doyle)* body horror: capitalism, fear, misogyny, jokes (anne elizabeth moore) *the summer we got free (mia mckenzie)* john henry days (colson whitehead) the memory of blood (christopher fowler) the last smile in sunder city (luke arnold) *the death of vivek oji (akwaeke emezi)* *dust tracks on a road (zora neale hurston)* *an unkindness of ghosts (rivers solomon)* *thick: and other essays (tressie mcmillan cottom)* first test (tamora pierce) the noble hustle: poker, beef jerky, and death (colson whitehead) page (tamora pierce) *patron saints of nothing (randy ribay)* squire (tamora pierce) *this is how it always is (laurie frankel)* hidden (helen frost) jimmy's blues and other poems (james baldwin) 96 words for love (rachel roy & ava dash) *the colossus of new york (colson whitehead)* *heavy (kiese laymon)* *tell my horse: voodoo and life in haiti and jamaica (zora neale hurston)* lady knight (tamora pierce) *nobody knows my name (james baldwin)* *apex hides the hurt (colson whitehead)*

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idlecreature · 4 years

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*sidles up to you* hey man, want a Magnus Archives rarepair? I’ve got one right here you can have for free. It’s Mordechai Lukas/Hezekiah Wakely. Here’s my sales pitch:

Mordechai Lukas is only forty years old, but he’s in very poor health. Granted, he’s been on death’s door for several decades, having never fully recovered from the excision of a thyroid tumour - a surgery that scarred his throat significantly, making it hurt to speak. But this isn’t his usual moaning about feeling cold and depressed all the time. This is the doctor listening to the slow gurgle of his heart and telling him “you shouldn’t be alive. your days are numbered”.

(cut for length)

And Mordechai’s honestly fine with dying. A little.... too enthusiastic, even. On his trip to Italy he forwent normal accommodation to break into and sleep in mausoleums, and he might have returned from the continent a little... haunted. He’s designed and redesigned the family mausoleum a dozen times, and he’s had his own funeral planned for years much to the chagrin of his friends. “What flowers should adorn my funerary wreath?” he writes to Jonah Magnus. “Can we please change the subject?” Jonah replies. “And I swear to the one above if you send me a memento mori I am throwing it in the fireplace.”

Mordechai’s fulfilled his life’s requirements -- he’s married into the wealthy mercantile class, fathered children, and spends most of his time either in a graveyard or wandering like a ghost through Moorland house. His wife, Charlotte, really only wanted a man’s name on her letterheads and spends most of her time on a ship somewhere between London and India. She’s only interested in her possessions, her wealth, in ensuring the books are balancing. Her family made their money in opium prospecting and she’s pressuring Mordechai to open the lands surrounding Moorland for coal mining after a few test bores unearthed rich black seams. Mordechai’s essentially like, “over my dead body,” and Charlotte’s like, “so any day now! :))))” and Mordechai’s sole reason for stubbornly clinging to life is to protect his family’s ancestral lands.

Mordechai has to occasionally rub shoulders with Charlotte’s friends in the East India Shipping Company. Among them are the Beale brothers, Daniel and Thomas. They have a younger brother, rich but temperamentally unsuited for their family’s line of work. His name is Nathaniel Beale, and, oh boy, he is a treat. He’s awfully similar to Barnabas Bennett, shy and closeted and yearning. Nathaniel tells Mordechai all about his good friend Hezekiah, who he’s so, so worried about, who makes poor Nathaniel ache with hunger and longing and shame all the same. Finally, some delicious fucking food thinks Mordechai Lukas.

But if this man really is like Barnabas, Mordechai wants to enjoy his demise. So he obtains Hezekiah’s address with a mind to murdering Hezekiah and relishing Nathaniel’s grief and loneliness. It might be Mordechai’s last communion with his god.

And that’s how Mordechai ends up in a quiet countryside graveyard, staring at the man in a dead sleep at the bottom of an open grave.

And hot damn Hezekiah Wakely is a sleeping beauty. Muscular, square, with hands big enough to circle both of Mordechai’s wrists if he were to pin Mordechai down. (And Mordechai would very much like someone to pin him down.) He almost feels sympathy for poor, repressed Nathaniel but nonetheless summons the fog of The Lonely and it swallows Hezekiah whole.

But the crawling fog parts around the sleeping man. There is a certain solidness about him, the weight of someone touched by another power. Mordechai sighs in annoyance but keeps watching Hezekiah. Slipping away once the man blinks awake, stretches his long, tanned limbs.

Mordechai keeps close company with the Beales after that. Nathaniel passes away in January of 1839. Mordechai finds his grave in yet another lonely graveyard and is absolutely delighted that many of Nathaniel’s sparse acquaintances have forgotten him already.

Hezekiah is curled up on the freshly turned earth. “I should hang for it,” Hezekiah says.

“How about a new job?” Mordechai says.

“I’m a murderer,” Hezekiah says.

“Hold my beer,” Mordechai says.

Mordechai convinces Hezekiah to work as Moorland house’s groundskeeper. By the time the pair of them make it back to Kent, Hezekiah knows about The Buried, The Lonely, the whole wretched Lot.

“You have a lovely mausoleum, sir,” Hezekiah says.

“Shame no-one’s christened it yet,” Mordechai replies. (He plans to be the first.)

Time passes.

And Thomas Beale passes away in 1841.

The Magnus Institute opens its London branch in 1841.

Daniel Beale passes away in 1842.

By 1843, the world has forgotten Nathaniel even existed. Except, of course, for Mordechai, who keeps Nathaniel and Hezekiah’s correspondence.

Mordechai’s now spending 90% of his time watching Hezekiah. When one of Mordechai’s many faceless relatives dies, he sits on the steps of the family chapel as Hezekiah digs. He lets Hezekiah sleep in the grave before the burial. He likes how peaceful the man looks, even when the grave dirt falls in his eyes. He even thinks about burying Hezekiah himself, how that would be another kind of embrace.

Hezekiah more often than not sleeps outside, on the moor, and when the weather drives him inside he sleeps fitfully in his room in the cellar.

(Hezekiah sings when it rains, bitten-off, wordless, self-soothing melodies that sound like oncoming earthquakes through the thick walls of Moorland House.)

(Mordechai listens to him sing and tries to harmonize, and, although the knot of scar tissue in his throat makes his voice sound like grinding metal, isn’t that something?)

The next time Mordechai catches Hezekiah dourly shuffling to the basement for a restless night he snags the larger man’s wrist.

“You might sleep better in my bed,” Mordechai says.

“???” Hezekiah says.

“Come to bed with me,” Mordechai repeats.

“!!!!!” Hezekiah says.

And, well, Hezekiah likes the pressure of Mordechai lying on top of him. Hezekiah is warm, and soft, like peat, and if Hezekiah’s hands snake up to circle Mordechai while he sleeps, then what about it? In Mordechai’s world, they can’t be together in any way that matters. It’s just another thing that isolates him from polite society.

"The groundskeeper? The man who smells like a bog?” Charlotte says, but she’s relieved it’s not a mistress who might want to live more ambitiously, that they might have to keep a London townhouse for because Charlotte’s the one who’d be saddled with the fiscal responsibility. She’s already writing monthly cheques to buy the discretion of a certain J. Magnus.

And Charlotte has an idea. “Dear husband :)” she says. “If you don’t let me open a colliery I might expose your little affair and you’ll get thrown in jail and I don’t think you’d last very long, dear, with your poor heart :) and when you die I’ll do it anyway :) so how about it?”

Charlotte never makes empty threats. But at the same time, Mordechai is connected to the lands around Moorland house in a very real way.

He doesn’t really have a choice.

Charlotte opens a mine on Lukas land.

They have their first grandchild, a boy, and Mordechai names him Nathaniel. Hezekiah just smiles at the baby, warmly. (His smiles are so warm.) (Mordechai is spending more and more time at his bedroom window, watching his groundskeeper. Surrounded by bottles of medicine that never make him feel any better.)

“Are you going to die?” Hezekiah says.

“It’s likely,” Mordechai says. For no reason he can name, the prospect of his funeral no longer delights him.

Hezekiah is silent. “I hope the Lord forgives me,” he says, eventually, and a tremor runs through the entire house, and Mordechai hears, far-off in the distance, the desperate peal of a ringing bell.

An accident in the colliery, they call it. A mineshaft cave-in, trapping 26 men and boys 150 feet under the earth, running out of breathable air, scraping at the cold, unforgiving rock until their fingers and lungs bleed. Crushed and choking and feared enough to paint the walls with it. There’s a thin plume of black smoke. (Mordechai can hear them crying and begging.)

The mine closes. There’s a lengthy investigation. It will cost a considerable amount of money to sink another pit. Echoing, cloying silence wraps around the abandoned worksite. Mordechai can leave his bedroom for the first time in months.

He sits on the chapel steps and watches the muscles of Hezekiah’s back work under his sweat-slick blouse. “Do you think...” Mordechai starts.

There’s something in Mordechai’s voice that makes Hezekiah straighten up.

“Do you think, when I die, you might cut a hole in the side of my coffin?” Mordechai says. “So, when you die, if there’s a hole in your coffin, our coffins could. Lie together. And. We might be able to hold hands under the earth.”

It’s the most he’s said at once in decades, and his throat is raw for it.

“I could do that,” Hezekiah says. “When are you going to die?”

Mordechai sighs. “You’ve bought me a little time. Soon.”

“I’ll make you a Coffin,” Hezekiah says, his voice oddly constricted, as if he’s speaking through silt. He drops his shovel and walks off, towards Moorland house.

Later, from his windowsill, Mordechai watches Hezekiah cut down a whitebeam, feels the heft of it in his large hands. He’s too far away to gauge his expression accurately, but he seems to appraise the wood and finds it passable. He hauls it inside.

The mere act of watching has left Mordechai feeling bone-tired, and he sleeps.

And sleeps.

(In between the sleeping, Mordechai finds himself cradled in long arms, sunburned by the late summer sun. The press of a spoon to his lips as he’s fed a soup that tastes like dirt and tannins.)

And sleeps.

(When he chokes a little on fluid-filled lungs, he feels warm hands rubbing his back and the choking eases.)

Moorland house is awfully quiet.

A hand scraping softly on his collarbone shifts Mordechai blearily into consciousness. “It’s done,” Hezekiah says. “Would you like to see it?”

Mordechai nods. His limbs are oddly discombobulated, his heart feels heavy and dragging, and he looks up at Hezekiah. The man scoops him up like he weighs nothing and carries him, bridal-style, down the cold, empty hallway.

The gate to the mausoleum opens on well-oiled hinges. It’s no longer empty; a single coffin now sits in the marbled room. It’s simple - rough, even - the whitebeam a pale, unvarnished yellow. But there’s undeniably a presence to it, an undercurrent that draws you towards it. Hezekiah approaches close enough that Mordechai can run his hand down its flank.

“I’m not an artist,” Hezekiah says. “It’s even a bit simple-looking, in this grand place.”

“It’s perfect,” Mordechai says. “Would it be too morbid for me to give it a christening? Try it on for size?”

“Pot and kettle,” Hezekiah says.

“True,” Mordechai says.

“Mordechai...” Hezekiah shuffles on his feet. “I would like to embrace you. Under the earth. It has to be deep enough that nothing can live there, where it is quiet and cold and the dirt clings like damp to your skin and dark enough that our touch can hide in secret, that’s the place we can be together. I think if I stayed here when you were buried the pressure of the world would be so much more than the pressure of the dirt and I don’t think I could bear it. I would like to hold you, under there, and you would have space from the choke and I would not be alone. I think I would like to do that forever, or, at least, until our bodies are less human than they are water and earth.”

“I would like that too,” Mordechai says. “It’s like a marriage.”

“It’s more than a marriage,” Hezekiah replies.

“Yes,” Mordechai says, and lets his head sink down against Hezekiah’s chest, measures Hezekiah’s strong heartbeat against his own, thready and uneven. It’s so much more than he deserves.

Hezekiah opens the coffin. It makes a comically sharp scraping noise like it’s the door to a vampire’s crypt in an opera, like thousands of paper bats will fly out of it and fill the room.

It is silent, and cold, instead.

Mordechai never gets his funeral.

Most of Mordechai’s papers get passed along to the Magnus Institute.

And two hundred years later, Jonathan Sims reads some letters.

#the magnus archives #mordechai lukas #hezekiah wakely #jonah magnus #m....monsters in love #this was supposed to be a bullet point list and it turned into improv fanfic halfway through #how the Coffin dovetails the Lonely and the Buried.... very interesting #tw terminal illness #tw death #ask to tag #tma blogging

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artisticlegshake · 4 years

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RADIX NATIONALS LIVE 2020 RESULTS

JUNIOR FEMALE CP TOP 11:

Ali Ogle - LARKIN

Daniela SanGiacomo - STARS

Izzy Howard - THE ROCK

Rachel Loiselle - CLUB

Harlow Ganz - SUMMIT

Laci Stoico - PROJECT 21

Savannah Kristich - THE ROCK

Caroline Quiner - HUNTERDON HILLS

Gracyn French- PROJECT 21

Kiera Redpath - LARKIN

Sofia Andrus - MLDA

JUNIOR FEMALE CP TOP 20:

Avery Cashen - DANCE GRAPHICS

Ciana Ciulla - NOR CAL

Giselle Gandarilla - STARS

Kate Roman - CDC

Sophia Sands - DANCEOLOGY

Maliah Howard - MLDA

Sophie Garcia - STARS

Kaitlyn Tran - TDZ

Natalie Bumgarner - THE ROYAL

JUNIOR MALE CP TOP 12:

Gavin Miele - STUDIO L

Ian Stegeman - WOODBURY

Lucas Cardona - BRICKHOUSE

Henry Ruginis - ELEVATE

Jayden Diaz - STAGELITE

TJ Beal - CENTERSTAGE

Jonah Daquigan - DANCEZONE

Felix Fulton - PAA OF MARIN

Caleb Abea - LARKIN

Coltrane Vodicka - EVOKE

Timothy Zvifel - VLAD’S

Canaan Blansit - TIFFANY’S

#radix nationals

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holyshit · 3 years

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top 10 kisses from movies or tv shows😌

ahhhh interesting! thank you! this is in no particular order and the first 10 that came to mind that made my heart flutter

this one shane/carmen from the l word scene

michael/alex from roswell nm pilot kiss

cris/joana “perdoname” scene from skam espana

that time jennifer beals cried unscripted in a bette/tina kiss scene in the l word

mindy and danny’s first kiss

this one jane and michael kiss

this intense brian/justin kiss from qaf

amy/jonah’s first real kiss in superstore

that whole ending s2 montage of emily/sue

kala/wolfgang in the season 1 finale

#ask games #i'm most definitely forgetting a bunch of great ones but what can ya do #anonymous

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doomonfilm · 4 years

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Memories : The Best Films of the 2010s

Only a few years into my tenure as a film blogger, and I’ve been tasked with a monumental undertaking : ranking the top films of the last decade. Reflecting year by year is a journey in its own right, and with things like recency bias to take into account, plus the dice roll of blessing and curse that perspective and time bring to older films, I knew that this would be memorable at best, and stressful at worst.

That being said, I don’t claim to have seen every movie, so I know that there are some ‘glaring’ omissions. I am always open to recommendations for films I should watch (for the purpose of blogging on them or otherwise), but DOOMonFILM has always been about my personal experience as a film fan, first and foremost. Discussion is welcome, and constructive criticism will always be considered, but this is one man’s opinion.

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THOUGHTS ON THE DECADE

The 2010s, despite moments of controversy in terms of diversity, turned out to be surprisingly forward-thinking in hindsight. On more than one occasion in the decade, the film of the year (in terms of awards or in terms of critical/public reception), as well as highlight films of each year, were made by foreign directors. Women and minorities also managed to be recognized in front of and behind the camera at what seemed like a higher rate. Newer technologies were embraced, such as pushes forward in new cameras or directors opting to shoot on devices as small as iPhones, leaps forward in special effects, and a multitude of movies given the iMax treatment. A handful of directors happened to put out multiple movies throughout the decade, and a few of those in that handful managed to make multiple award-winning and widely accepted films. Marvel left such an impact on Hollywood, and the worldwide movie industry, that DC was forced to try and follow suit, and mergers with Sony and Disney were top tier news for months on end. Actors like Scarlett Johanson, Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Leonardo DiCaprio, among others, solidified themselves as box-office legends, while actors on both sides of their career (first-timers and those in the twilight of their career) found success throughout the decade. All in all, it was a decade that continued to make me happy to be a movie fan, and as hard as it was to do, I managed to find 100 films throughout the decade to rank.

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100. It Comes at Night (dir. Trey Edward Shults, 2017) 99. Kick-Ass (dir. Matthew Vaughn, 2010) 98. The Peanuts Movie (dir. Steve Martino, Andy Beall and Frank Molieri, 2015) 97. Everybody Wants Some!! (dir. Richard Linklater, 2016) 96. Upstream Color (dir. Shane Carruth, 2013) 95. Avengers : Age of Ultron (dir. Joss Whedon, 2015) 94. John Dies at the End (dir. Don Coscarelli, 2013) 93. Doctor Strange (dir. Scott Derrickson, 2016) 92. Keanu (dir. Peter Atencio, 2016) 91. Free Fire (dir. Ben Wheatley, 2017) 90. Upgrade (dir. Leigh Whannell, 2018) 89. Chappie (dir. Neill Blomkamp, 2015) 88. American Ultra (dir. Nima Nourizadeh, 2015) 87. I, Tonya (dir. Craig Gillespie, 2017) 86. Boyhood (dir. Richard Linklater, 2014) 85. The Grand Budapest Hotel (dir. Wes Anderson, 2014) 84. La La Land (dir. Damien Chazelle, 2016) 83. Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland, 2015) 82. Nightcrawler (dir. Dan Gilroy, 2014) 81. Sicario (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2015) 80. Looper (dir. Rian Johnson, 2012) 79. The Killer Inside Me (dir. Michal Winterbottom, 2010) 78. Hell or High Water (dir. David Mackenzie, 2016) 77. End of Watch (dir. David Ayer, 2012) 76. Django Unchained (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2012) 75. Thoroughbreds (dir. Cory Finley, 2018) 74. Chronicle (dir. Josh Trank, 2012) 73. Melancholia (dir. Lars von Trier, 2011) 72. Black Mirror : Bandersnatch (dir. David Slade, 2018) 71. Detroit (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 2017) 70. BlacKkKlansman (dir. Spike Lee, 2018) 69. Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler, 2018) 68. I Am Not Your Negro (dir. Raoul Peck, 2017) 67. Straight Outta Compton (dir. F. Gary Gray, 2015) 66. Kubo and the Two Strings (dir. Travis Knight, 2016) 65. It Follows (dir. David Robert Mitchell, 2014) 64. Logan Lucky (dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2017) 63. Get Out (dir. Jordan Peele, 2017) 62. Booksmart (dir. Olivia Wilde, 2019) 61. Beats, Rhymes & Life : The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest (dir. Michael Rapaport, 2011) 60. Lady Bird (dir. Greta Gerwig, 2017) 59. Moonrise Kingdom (dir. Wes Anderson, 2012) 58. The Cabin in the Woods (dir. Drew Goddard, 2012) 57. Black Swan (dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2010) 56. Captain America : The Winter Soldier (dir. Joe Russo, 2014) 55. If Beale Street Could Talk (dir. Barry Jenkins, 2018) 54. Avengers : Infinity War (dir. Anthony Russo, 2018) 53. True Grit (dir. Ethan and Joel Cohen, 2010) 52. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (dir. Martin McDonagh, 2017) 51. Whiplash (dir. Damien Chazelle, 2014) 50. Midsommar (dir. Ari Aster, 2019) 49. Journey to the West : Conquering the Demons (dir. Stephen Chow and Derek Kwok, 2013) 48. Sorry To Bother You (dir. Boots Riley, 2018) 47. Mid90s (dir. Jonah Hill, 2018) 46. Logan (dir. James Mangold, 2017) 45. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017) 44. Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) 43. The Hateful Eight (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2015) 42. Exit Through the Gift Shop (dir. Banksy, 2010) 41. The Irishman (dir. Martin Scorsese, 2019) 40. Suspiria (dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2018) 39. The VVitch (dir. Robert Eggers, 2016) 38. Dogtooth (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2010) 37. The Lighthouse (dir. Robert Eggers, 2019) 36. Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland, 2018) 35. Drive (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011) 34. Beyond the Black Rainbow (dir. Panos Cosmatos, 2012) 33. The Favourite (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018) 32. Searching (dir. Aneesh Chaganty, 2018) 31. Tangerine (dir. Sean Baker, 2015) 30. Snowpiercer (dir. Bong Joon-ho, 2014) 29. Under the Skin (dir. Jonathan Glazer, 2013) 28. Dunkirk (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2017) 27. Blade Runner 2049 (dir. Denis Villeneuve, 2017) 26. Baby Driver (dir. Edgar Wright, 2017) 25. Joker (dir. Todd Phillips, 2019) 24. The Neon Demon (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016) 23. Spider-Man : Into the Spider-Verse (dir. Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti and Rodney Rothman, 2018) 22. The Shape of Water (dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2017) 21. The Social Network (dir. David Fincher, 2010) 20. Frances Ha (dir. Noah Baumbach, 2013) 19. Under the Silver Lake (dir. David Robert Mitchell, 2019) 18. Mad Max : Fury Road (dir. George Miller, 2015) 17. Good Time (dir. Josh and Benny Safdie, 2017) 16. Mandy (dir. Panos Cosmatos, 2018) 15. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2019) 14. Her (dir. Spike Jonze, 2013) 13. The Lobster (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015) 12. Inherent Vice (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2014) 11. The Master (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)

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10. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (dir. Joe Talbot, 2019)

I saw this film as the decade was winding to a close, but it made easily one of the starkest impressions on me of any film-going experience I can recall. The movie looks amazing, the score and soundtrack are powerful, the acting is rich and dynamic, San Francisco is as beautiful on film as it is in real life, and the thoughts that arise from the narrative presented are the kind that hang around and result in personal changes that matter. A shining achievement from a stellar year of film.

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9. Inception (dir. Christopher Nolan, 2010)

If Christopher Nolan wasn’t already considered top tier prior to Inception, any doubters were left floored at the close of this masterpiece. For a story that could have easily been way too convoluted for standard audiences, the visuals, direction and pacing guide us through the madness perfectly. For anyone interested in dream depictions on cinema, for fans of stellar action, and for the smart people who know the quality that comes with the Nolan name, this one was a no-brainer.

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8. mother! (dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2017)

After being a bit on the nose with Noah, in terms of a film on religion, most directors would take that as a sign to move on from the topic. For a director like Darren Aronofsky, however, the next step was to seemingly go back to your mind-scrambling roots, dig deeper symbolically, narratively and metaphorically, and come back to the table with one of the most divisive and controversial films of the decade. mother! will clearly be a film ripe for analysis for years to come, and for as subjective and deep an experience as the film is, this reflection is welcome, as it serves to enrich future viewing experiences.

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7. Uncut Gems (dir. Josh and Benny Safdie, 2019)

How long does a film have to be out to be considered one of the best of the decade? In the case of Uncut Gems, I will allow recency bias, as it is clearly evident at the beginning of the closing credits that the film is special and will resonate for years to come. The Safdie brothers already had a classic under their belt with Good Time, and throwing that Sandler magic into the mix only amplifies their heightened and immersive style.

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6. The Florida Project (dir. Sean Baker, 2017)

There are a small fraternity of directors that put out their first films and follow-up films in the 2010s, and while examples of possible award snubs can be found for these directors, there was one clear-cut case of oversight : the 2017 lack of recognition for Sean Baker’s immaculate, beautiful and moving The Florida Project. While Tangerine was certainly the loudest of warning shots a first time director could provide, the amount of growth, nuance and confidence found in this follow-up deserved multiple awards, not just an acting nod for Willem Dafoe. Perhaps Baker’s next film will bring him the recognition he deserves in terms of awards, but he’s already made a clear cut name for himself.

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5. Hereditary (dir. Ari Aster, 2018)

I rediscovered a love for horror films in the 2010s, and a key reason would be the emergence of director Ari Aster. Upon seeing trailers for Hereditary, I knew that it would probably scare the life out of me, but the taste of the story given was so gripping I had to see it. The fact that the trailer was so powerful, only for the movie to unfold in ways that I never would have imagined or discerned from the trailer, was one of the most rewarding film experiences of the decade. Toni Collette also gave a performance for the ages.

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4. You Were Never Really Here (dir. Lynne Ramsay, 2018)

It’s arguable that Joaquin Phoenix may have had the strongest decade of any actor, and for my money’s worth, he was at his best in You Were Never Really Here. Much of the angst presented was previously explored in The Master, and as great as Joker is, it’s essentially the DCEU version of You Were Never Really Here, tonally and in terms of specific elements. Nobody short of the Safdie brothers are making movies that look, sound and feel like this one, and the unfortunate practice of human trafficking hitting the news forefront makes this film as timely as it is sad.

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3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (dir. Edgar Wright, 2010)

Hands down the coolest film of the decade. Not since Who Framed Roger Rabbit? had so many elements that I loved from other properties managed to find their way into the same movie, and the way that the gumbo was prepared and served was pitch perfect. As my friend Erin stated after we viewed the film, ‘If you watch this movie and don’t like it, I don’t think we can be friends’. Some of my favorite sequences of any film are in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and this is the EXACT kind of film I look forward to one day sharing with my children.

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2. Parasite (dir. Bong Joon-ho, 2019)

Another recent film that made an instant impact. In terms of topics like honesty, entitlement, and family dynamics, nothing I can think of in recent memory is touching Parasite. The parallels between the two families presented are perfect both visually and in the performances, and with each new bit of information presented, much of what you were previously presented is immediately recontextualized and put into question. This film, from front to back, is one of the most gripping journeys a filmgoer can take.

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1. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2014)

Easily my favorite film of the decade. This is the closest thing to a song-poem that I’ve ever seen presented on film, and it’s heartbreakingly beautiful. Nothing else released in the decade looked or sounded like this film, and the way it meta-reflects on Hollywood, Broadway, superhero films and the importance of actors is equal parts hilarious, thought-provoking and wonderfully frustrating. The film answers enough questions it posits so as to not completely confound the viewer, but it leaves enough open-ended so that repeat viewings are rewarding. A true achievement of film, regardless of decade.

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I went into my other main account that has all of the Afterburn work in it and saw this near the top of the list, so I polished it up for publication. If you don't like to read about rape or attempted rape, then skip it. But if you like sweet revenge shorts, then don't. I made a promise to myself at the beginning of the year to always be producing creatively despite whatever cuntery is happening with the upstairs Cat Lady (still no message back, by the way...it's been four fucking days). I know my fans are still waiting for Afterburn 8 to see how things turn out, but it's going to come, just a little bit later than expected. I'm always working on something, always falling asleep with my phone in my hands.

Anyway.

#wednesday #wednesday addams #jonah #jonah beale #pilgrim world #satisfying afterburn #satisfying afterburn deleted scenes #deleted scene #1000 words #1000 word drabble #drabble #netflix wednesday #wednesday netflix #jenna ortega #morgan beale #tw: rape #tw: noncon

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MOBILE MUSES !

movies / musicals

ELLA ENCHANTED: prince charmont, ella of frell

PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER: patrick

THE GREATEST SHOWMAN: pt barnum, anne wheeler, phillip carlyle

THE ADDAMS FAMILY: morticia addams, gomez addams, debbie jillinksky

BURLESQUE: tess, sean, ali rose, jack, nikki

MAMMA MIA: sam carmichael, donna sheridan, tanya, bill anderson, harry bright, sophie sheridan, ruby sheridan

MEAN GIRLS: regina george, janis ian

REPO THE GENETIC OPERA: nathan

MOULIN ROUGE: christian, satine

BEETLEJUICE: lydia deetz, barbara maitland

DEAR EVAN HANSEN: connor murphy, evan hansen, larry murphy

BABY DRIVER: darling, buddy

BRING IT ON: missy pantone, cliff pantone

BRING IT ON AGAIN: tina

BRING IT ON: ALL OR NOTHING: britney allen

BRING IT ON: IN IT TO WIN IT: carson

BRING IT ON: WORLDWIDE #CHEERSMACK: destiny

HEATHERS: veronica sawyer, jason dean, heather chandler

PITCH PERFECT: jesse swanson, beca mitchell, chloe beale, aubrey posen

JENNIFERS BODY: jennifer check, nikolai

THE PRINCESS BRIDE: westley, inigo montoya

THE PRINCESS DIARIES 1 & 2: nicholas devereaux, mia thermopolis, charisse renaldi, joe

RENT: mark cohen, maureen johnsen, mimi marquez, roger davis

SCOOBY DOO: daphne blake, sibella dracula, fred jones

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: sharpay evans, troy bolton, ryan evans

SKY HIGH: warren peace

SPIDERMAN: peter parker, harry osborn

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: mantis, drax, peter quill

HOCUS POCUS: thackery binx, max dennison, sarah sanderson

MALEFICENT: maleficent

TWILIGHT: jasper hale, rosalie hale, carlisle cullen, emmett cullen

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: max carrigan, jude, sadie

HARRY POTTER: draco malfoy, sirius black, hermione granger, andromeda tonks. bill weasley, charlie weasley, fleur delacour

HAIRSPRAY: link larkin, penny pingleton, amber von tussle, velma von tussle

ANOTHER CINDERELLA STORY: mary santiago, joey parker

tv shows

THE MAGICIANS: eliot waugh on his own blog, margo hanson

GLEE: santana lopez on her own blog, hunter clarington on his own blog, jesse st james on his own blog, quinn fabray, blaine anderson, kurt hummel, sam evans/evan evans, rachel berry, jean baptiste

DYNASTY: fallon carrington, sammy jo flores/carrington, kirby anders

RIVERDALE: veronica lodge, cheryl blossom

SHAMELESS: ian gallagher, mandy milkovich, veronica fisher, kevin ball, mickey milkovich, colin mikovich

TEEN WOLF: isaac lahey, jackson whittemore, lydia martin, stiles stilinski, peter hale

LOST: james ford, charlie pace, claire littleton, desmond hume, boone carlyle

YOU: joe goldberg on his own blog, love quinn, forty quinn

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES/THE ORIGINALS: caroline forbes, bonnie bennett, lorenzo st. john, niklaus mikaelson

LEGACIES: lizzie saltzman, alaric saltzman, josie saltzman, hope mikaelson, kaleb hawkins

IMPOSTERS: maddie johnson

SKINS: effy stonem, tony stonem on his own blog, mini mcguinness, chris miles

PRETTY LITTLE LIARS: spencer hastings

CRIMINAL MINDS: penelope garcia, spencer reid, derek morgan

EUPHORIA: cassie howard, maddie perez, nate jacobs

THE POLITICIAN: astrid sloan, river barkley

SEX EDUCATION: eric effiong, aimee gibbs, adam broff, maeve wiley, jackson marchetti

BROOKLYN 99: jake peralta, gina linetti, amy santiago, terry jeffords

NEW GIRL: cece parekh, winston schmidt

THE OFFICE: jim halpert, pam beesley, dwight schrute, angela martin, andy bernard

COMMUNITY: annie edison, troy barnes, abed nadir

SCHITTS CREEK: david rose, alexis rose

PSYCH: shawn spencer, carlton lassiter, pierre despereaux, juliet o'hara, henry spencer

PARKS & RECREATION: april ludgate, chris traeger, donna meagle, jean ralphio saperstein, mona lisa saperstein

SCREAM: brooke maddox, noah foster

ONCE UPON A TIME: rumpelstiltskin/gold, killian jones, belle french, regina mills, robin hood, neal cassidy

DEGRASSI NEXT GENERATION: eli goldsworthy, marco del rossi, fiona coyne, manuella santos, craig manning, gavin mason, jay hogart, paige michalchuk, jane vaughn, ellie nash, mia jones

DEGRASSI NEXT CLASS: miles hollingsworth, lola pacini, jonah haak, zoe rivas

DEXTER: dexter morgan

FAKING IT: shane harvey, liam booker, lauren cooper

THE FLASH: barry allen, iris west, caitlin snow, harrison wells (earth 2)

SUPERGIRL: kara danvers, cat grant, mon-el, lena luthor

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER: spike, buffy summers, rupert giles

IN THE FLESH: simon monroe

BATES MOTEL: dylan massett, gunner

STRANGER THINGS: steve harrington, jim hopper

MERLIN: arthur pendragon, morgana pendragon, gwaine

GALAVANT: galavant, king richard

THAT 70’S SHOW: jackie burkhart, steven hyde

GOSSIP GIRL: blair waldorf, chuck bass

HEMLOCK GROVE: roman godfrey

DRACULA: lucy westenra

THE FOSTERS: mariana adams-foster, jesus adams-foster, mat tan

A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS: count olaf, uncle monty

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: madison montgomery, tate langdon, oliver thredson, maggie esmerelda, the countess elizabeth, tristan duffy, donovan, jimmy darling

SCREAM QUEENS: chanel oberlin, chad radwell

THE NANNY: fran fine

VICTORIOUS: jade west, beck oliver

SUITE LIFE OF ZACK & CODY: cody martin, zack martin, london tipton

WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE: alex russo, mason greyback, juliet van heusen

LIV & MADDIE: liv rooney, holden dippledorf

cartoons & anime

HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE: howl jenkins pendragon

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER: iroh, zuko, mai, sokka

STEVEN UNIVERSE: pearl, greg universe, lapis lazuli, steven universe, peridot, sourcream

BEAUTY & THE BEAST: belle, adam, gaston

FROZEN: elsa, hans

TANGLED: rapunzel, flynn ryder

MOANA: maui

THE INCREDIBLES 1 & 2: violet parr, tony rydinger

KIM POSSIBLE: shego, drakken

ANASTASIA: dimitri

BARBIE: LIFE IN THE DREAM HOUSE: barbie roberts, ryan, raquelle

BARBIE: PRINCESS & THE PAUPER: anneliese, julian, dominic

DANNY PHANTOM: danny fenton, sam manson, vlad masters, paulina

TEEN TITANS: raven, terra

6TEEN: jonesy garcia, wyatt williams, nikki wong

OURAN HIGH SCHOOL HOST CLUB: hikaru hitachiin

FRUITS BASKET: haru sohma, kyo sohma, shigure sohma

video games

MYSTIC MESSENGER: jumin han, jihyun kim ( v ), ryu hyun ( zen )

ARCANA: julian, azra

webcomics

LORE OLYMPUS: eros, hades, persephone, hera

CASTLE SWIMMER: siren

EDITH: edith, phillip

#mobile muses #hope this helps ! for future reference #lmao this took so long #i am happy to have it though #made me realize a few mistakes on my page #ᴍʏ ᴀɴxɪᴇᴛʏ ʜᴀs ᴋᴇᴘᴛ ᴍᴇ ᴜᴘ ғᴏʀ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ₅₀ ʜᴏᴜʀs ( ooc )

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Another preview for tonight’s episode

#EastEnders #Phil Mitchell #Zack Hudson #Sam Mitchell #Jonah Tyler #Ben Mitchell #Ritchie Scott #Peter Beale

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Favorite films of 2018 (updated)

Madeline’s Madeline (Josephine Decker) The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos) Capernaum (Nadine Labaki) Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Burning (Lee Chang-dong) Climax (Gaspar Noé) Vox Lux (Brady Corbet) A Vigilante (Sarah Daggar-Nickson) Transit (Christian Petzold) Thoroughbreds (Cory Finley) Beast (Michael Pearce) Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda) Piercing (Nicolas Pesce) Revenge (Coralie Fargeat) Lizzie (Craig Macneill) Grans / Border (Ali Abbasi) Night Comes On (Jordana Spiro) Eighth Grade (Bo Burnham) Leave No Trace (Debra Granik) All About Nina (Eva Vives) The Rider (Chloé Zhao) If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) Girl (Lukas Dhont) Mid90s (Jonah Hill) Roma (Alfonso Cuarón) Nancy (Christina Choe) Beatriz at Dinner (Miguel Arteta) A Ciambra (Jonas Carpignano) High Life (Claire Denis) Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley) Wildlife (Paul Dano) Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee) Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski) At Eternity's Gate (Julian Schnabel) Patti Cake$ (Geremy Jasper) Gemini (Aaron Katz) First Reformed (Paul Schrader) Annihilation (Alex Garland) Shirkers (Sandi Tan) McQueen (Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui) Jane (Brett Morgen)

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People, November 26

Cover: Michelle Obama, you are so missed

Page 2: Chatter -- Lady Gaga, Robin Roberts, Mindy Kaling, John Legend, Mandy Moore, Michael B. Jordan

Page 4: 5 Things We’re Talking About -- Breaking Bad movie, SNL apologizes to Dan Crenshaw, sugar cookie milk, a bride-to-be’s manicured cousin saves the day, Emma Stone took her name from Baby Spice, A Chat With Alfonso Ribeiro

Page 6: Contents

Page 8: StarTracks -- Royals -- Prince William and Duchess Kate, Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan, Queen Elizabeth

Page 10: Famous Kids All Grown Up -- Kate Hudson and Kurt Russell and Ryder Robinson and Danny Fujikawa, Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest and Michael Consuelos, Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollard and kids Schuyler and Aquinnah and Sam and Esme

Page 11: Jessica Alba and Cash Warren, Jenna Dewan and Rachel Zoe, Eva Longoria and son Santiago, Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes

Page 12: Ariana Grande and Victoria Monet and Tayla Parx, Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton, Michael Douglas and Cameron Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones and Kirk Douglas

Page 13: Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show -- Bella Hadid, Winnie Harlow and Wiz Khalifa, Kelsea Ballerini, Yolanda Hadid and The Weeknd

Page 14: Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum, Emma Watson and Tom Felton in a Harry Potter reunion, StyleTracks -- Polka Dots -- Ashlee Simpson, Zoe Kravitz, Emily Blunt, Nina Dobrev, Thandie Newton

Page 17: Meg Ryan and John Mellencamp engaged

Page 18: Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade welcome a daughter via surrogate

Page 21: Heart Monitor -- Jennifer Garner and John Miller going strong, Kate Beckinsale and Jack Whitehall new couple, Kathy Griffin and Randy Bick split, chef Donatella Arpaia twins at 47

Page 22: Chip and Joanna Gaines getting their own network

Page 25: Eddie Redmayne, Cheryl Ladd

Page 26: Bruce Willis’ sprawling Idaho ranch sold, Rose Byrne -- Being a Mother Changes Everything

Page 29: Stories to make you smile

Page 31: Passages, Stan Lee

Page 33: People Picks -- Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali in Green Book

Page 34: Dogs, Jinn, Mumford & Sons, Q&A -- Ron Howard’s Mars

Page 35: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Escape at Dannemora

Page 36: My Brilliant Friend, The Little Drummer Girl, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, King Kong

Page 37: Books

Page 38: Fatal Fires in Calfornia -- Gerard Butler

Page 40: Michelle Obama’s next chapter

Page 48: Thousand Oaks shooting

Page 52: Backstreet Boys are now Family Men -- Nick Carter, A.J. McLean, Howie Dorough, Kevin Richardson and Brian Littrell

Page 56: Prince Charles at 70 -- the man who will be king

Page 60: What happened to Mikelle Biggs?

Page 62: Inside Cameron Underwood’s life-changing face transplant

Page 66: Heroes Among Us -- Schinnell Leake

Page 69: Holiday Movie Preview -- Mary Poppins Returns

Page 70: Aquaman, Creed II, Vox Lux, Second Act

Page 71: Mary Queen of Scots, The Favourite, Vice, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Bird Box

Page 73: On the Basis of Sex, Destroyer, Roma, If Beale Street Could Talk, Ben Is Back, Also Playing

Page 75: Style -- Kerry Washington

Page 77: The 7 Products Sarah Jessica Parker Can’t Live Without

Page 79: Food -- Please try a plant-based diet

Page 82: What I Eat in a Day -- Carly Steel

Page 84: Home Tour -- Constance Zimmer

Page 87: Second Look -- Noah Centineo

Page 88: One Last Thing -- Colin Farrell

#tabloids #Michelle Obama #Emma Watson #Hermione Granger #Tom Felton #Draco Malfoy #Harry Potter #Viggo Mortensen #Mahershala Ali #Green Book #Colin Farrell

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