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strideofpride · 2 years
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*chants softly while progressively getting louder* dairfair in Paris, dairfair in Paris, dairfair in Paris, dairfair in Paris, dairfair in Paris, dairFAIR IN PARIS, DAIRFAIR IN PARIS!!!!
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vanderwoodlings · 2 years
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4, 14, 23?
4. total number of words you wrote this year:
Okay, so going by the words counts on fics published this year—though there’s one i was working on for longer, and though there are wips i’m ignoring, because that would make this annoyingly complicated—61663 words. Which is a lot. Go me!
14. a fic you didn’t expect to write:
“who’s looking at you, kid?” I hadn’t even started s5 at that point, I was just feeling really weird and messed up about the ben stuff, and i couldn’t find anyone else’s fics about it, so i ended up writing that in like… a couple hours? honestly, writing or publishing fic for something before i’ve familiarized myself with the whole source material (with the LARGE exception of comics) is really not my style, but i just kind of said screw it about that one
23. fics you wanted to write but didn’t:
Hm… i definitely think that the sequels to the jenny-in-hudson and the dair-as-single-parents fics go in this category—i really just haven’t gotten around to or had the inspiration for the jenny-in-london fic, and the dair-as-single-parents sequel has been shelved if not permanently, then for a good while, just because of some irl stuff.
(Very much in the cards, but technically fitting in this category is the second half of the gay thoughts series)
I also did kind of want to write dairena getting together as a “dair are together and enter serena” situation, which is my usual hc for them, and i do wish i’d written more blairena. And i wanted to do some post-series stuff for nate and for serena about them getting much more genuine happy endings, but i really couldn’t find the words to explain it
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peacedelicate · 2 years
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It takes all that I got
Not to fuck this up
So won’t you let me know
If I'm not alone?
And I like what we got
But I'm scared of what it's not
So won't you let me know
If I'm not alone?
Leaning on you
HAIM - Leaning on you
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mrs-nate-humphrey · 2 years
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I know you’ve mentioned before that you don’t like Nate getting into politics, and I totally agree with you! I even remember watching the finale when I was 12 and finding out that he was running for mayor and I was like, that’s not right...
But I literally have no idea what I would want him to do??? Like, at all???? So, I was wondering if you had any thoughts on that, cause your gg opinions are literally always on point.
I also to this day can’t decide what I think about the Spectator arc. I mean, journalism def feels better than politics, but that whole thing was also started with William and Diana thing, which was... yikes. But in the end he DID break away from them, and I feel like that piece he wrote after William tried to use the Spectator to further Tripp’s career was a real high point for his character. Can you see may dilemma here? What do you think?
Idk, Nate’s just my favourite character (out of the mains who stick around through the whole show), and I very much relate to him on like a neurodivergent level... I just need to replace canon with something better in my head.
hi, sorry about taking a while to come to this! i've been kind of unwell, RIP, and wanted to answer when my brain was like, more present & all that. nate being mayor sucks, because it has such a vibe of him giving up what he wants for whatever his family wants from him ("darthmouth, law school, blair, that was the plan nathaniel," etc etc).
i also don't like the spectator arc for nate at all? like it was so opposed to what nate was actually passionate about, it just didn't make any sense. if he really wanted to break free from his family and do something for himself, why would he choose journalism? from whatever we've seen of nate in the show, i think it's safe to say that'd actually be a really unfulfilling career path for him. he could've chosen to break free from his family by getting a job that's more aligned with things he likes, or at least, things he doesn't vehemently dislike. imagine how much fun it would've been if he'd decided to try his hand at becoming a professional chef! or something new and unexplored, for him, like that.
& your point re: the spectator arc/nate's family.. while i get what you're saying about him trying to break away, it didn't feel like that to me, tbh. it felt so much like he wanted a fresh start, but his grandfather did everything he could to control nate & get nate where he wanted him to be, if that makes sense. and yes, in the situation nate tried to make the best of things, but to me it feels tragic as fuck. and kind of horrible - the sense that no matter what nate tries to do, no matter how far away he tries to get from his family, they're right there, breathing down his neck. they just won't let him be his own person. it makes me wonder what happened to nate during those 5 years of fast-forwarding before the derena wedding & finale... did he try and escape his family more times before realising there was no way he could get out of their grasp, and is that why he succumbed to running for mayor? dammit, i'm sad now.
anyway! i skipped the first question so that i could come to it last, and i've put it under the cut here. so... potential careers for nate that i actually really like, under the cut, here you go:
i like the idea of him being a physical education teacher in high school, like, a lot. i think he'd be really good at it, and unlike some of the absolute garbage instructors i've seen, he would like... be mindful & considerate of kids' feelings and not comment on their bodies or fitness levels in disrespectful ways? you know what i mean.
he could also become a professional athlete? dude was the captain of three different sports teams in high school, come on natie, join a sports team as an adult for REALZ
horseboy!nate is very close to my heart so. i love to think of him doing some job that involves that. riding instructor who works in the stables? racehorse trainer? i don't know, i'm very much not a horseboy. but. yeah.
kindergarten teacher natie!!!! this one is really beloved to me. i am gonna write milofic with date endgame about it someday... milo's in kindergarten, nate's his teacher, dan's the hot single dad, you see where this is headed....
i like the idea of nate running vlogs, like "how to" vlogs, for people who are new to adulting, or whatever? i think he'd find it satisfying AND he'd be good at it. stuff like "how to cook if you're living alone," "how to file your own taxes," "how to assemble furniture from ikea" (bonus video: "how not to assemble furniture from ikea"), & i think he'd have a really good brand of like. humour & sincerity? like he would have "how to cook" videos but he would also have "i burnt breakfast again" kind of videos. idk, i just like natie being able to leave the sheltered bubble that is the van der bilt hivemind & do his own thing - and find joy doing his own thing! and share that joy!!
in that line - an arc i LOVE for nate is nate deliberately working jobs like customer service/retail & all that just so that he gets that experience and learns what that is like. cashier natie my beloved... i'm actually writing that one into a fic, lol. but just stuff like that.
nate & vanessa working in a coffee shop together.......
flight attendant nate...
okay, this one is a favourite: tour guide nate!!! like, one of those guides who escorts a group of tourists around a city and tells them about the history and monuments and shows them the sights. i mean, he canonically did do this with raina, but of course, as a tour guide, there'd be... less romance in his job, LOL.
im suddenly thinking of nate being a cab driver and i'm really into it, idk what to tell you.
mechanic nate! but mostly just for the potential datefic. dan's car breaks down and nate's there to fix it and dan can't stop staring at nate's arms, good lord,,
jokes aside, there's something really good about nate specialising in repairs of some sort. any sort! hardware repair, clock fixing, plumbing.... it doesn't matter whatever it is, i love the idea of nate making broken objects better.
nate would be really good at being an actor or a model i feel, but i think those jobs would make him miserable, so unless we're looking at angsty/whumpy fic premises for him, that's not what i wanna see him doing
i know that both S & liz have mentioned social worker nate at some point, and while i personally don't really see it, i do think he has the right skillset for it & that it's a cool headcanon!
someone - i don't remember whom, i think it was leila but i could be totally mistaken - said something about nate being one of those counsellors who work in school & yeah, he's definitely got the right skillset for that.
i definitely forgot some, & if my mutuals want to reblog + add please go ahead!
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terrainofheartfelt · 2 years
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I think I finally found a girl as cool as you:). Enjoyed your fics and tumblr. Wish you the best
Aw thanks! Good for you, I'm rootin for ya, buddy.
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magicinmyhand · 2 years
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Pam’s 3k+ followers celebration
🎄 this or that? Clueless or Bridget Jones’s Diary requested by @mymindseessongs
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mysteriesofloves · 2 years
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5, 9, 14, and 24?
5. most popular fic this year
plum season! (which makes sense, since it was posted on the first of january lol) but sweet comic valentine is a close second, with less hits but the same amount of kudos
9. longest wip of the year
write this down, which is currently at 18.3k
14. a fic you didn’t expect to write
all the portraits in the world! i have no idea how the idea even came to me, but i wrote it in two sittings with lykke li blasting, and it made her my third top artist of the year, lol
24. favorite fic you read this year
god, i feel like i read a lot of fic this year that i loved but is now slipping my mind. for gossip girl, a few that were posted this year and that i’ve reread multiple times since: an utter lack of self-preservation instincts by @nevertothethird, truth be told by @vanderwoodlings, and a heart in port by @mymindseessongs
year in review asks
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strideofpride · 2 years
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omg S so I'm listening to a podcast and they're talking about the Jeremy Strong profile and the host just said something like "I see it as Jeremy Strong is like the Little J to Daniel Day Lewis' Blair Waldorf" and as a scholar of the Gossip Girl, idk if that is an entirely accurate analogy but it made me shriek with laughter and you are the only person I know who would appreciate this comparison ok that's all for now love you bye
omg and they're talking about the Al Pacino at Yale thing too: "the wacky madcap part of the episode...I can see it as a Gossip Girl episode. It's like: you're part of the Yale drama program, you're nearly bankrupting it, but it all works out in the end sort of for you, in a way. and the audience learns a lesson about ambition and what you shouldn't be doing." S it's so funny I can't
I have to assume this is the HBO after show podcast because only Hunter Harris would say something so deranged lol. But I totally see where she’s coming from. I think maybe that analogy works for very early season 1 blenny but not after that. And yes, nearly bankrupting the Yale drama program to get one of her favorite actors IS a Blair Waldorf move rip
Correction from Liz: it was Ira Madison III!
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strideofpride · 2 years
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S, love, you’ve probs already talked about this elsewhere but what do YOU think TBD Hart-Kinsella’s name actually became?
Also if you have any further HoD kids hcs I would love to hear them.
Oh there is no doubt in my mind that they named that baby Jack after Wade's mother, I refuse to accept anything else lol. And of course I do lol!
I put this in my fic, but George and AB accidentally have four kids in very quick succession, three boys and a girl, Will, Henry, Simon, and Jane (Jane for Jane Austen, the boys' names because they are both British in origin - let's not forget AB is a canon anglophile! - and basic enough for George lol)
Also I said this before, but Jane grows up to be a lesbian firefighter like Jaysene lmaooo
Lemon and Lavon have two kids, a boy and a girl, the girl named after a flower of course
I go back and forth on whether or not Zoe and Wade ever have more kids tbh, so I don't have a definitive headcanon on that but I do really love the idea of Zoe, Wade, and Jack being this tight cute little family trio living in the carriage house forever lol
And I sent those to you already, but I am obsessed with the headcanons another blog came up with about Wade having a feminine son and Lemon having a butch daughter, and them helping the other deal with that, it's just *chef's kiss* I love to think of the characters still being challenged post canon
I don't think Crickett and Jaysense would have kids tbh (Crickett was married to Stanley for 10 years, if she really wanted kids she probably already would've had them) but you just know that they are the favorite aunties of all those kids cause they spoil them rotten lol
(Also let's not forget that Tom and Wanda's baby is only a couple months older than Jack - Wade and Tom are TOTALLY dad friends lol and one year Zoe and Wanda compete to the death to be room mom rip)
The kids all grow up really close in age - Jack, the oldest, and Jane, the youngest are only 8 years apart with the rest of the kids somewhere in the middle there (I think with previous headcanons I have Lemon & Lavon's first kid being born about two years after Jack, and then AB & George's first kid being born about 6 months after that kid lol)
But anyway so lots of family brunches and events and holidays spent together as well as one awful group vacay lol. Pictures before school dances, picking each other's kids up from school, Jack and Lemon & Lavon's kids basically growing up in the same house together...yeah. It's about the found family!
On the one hand, they would be practically raised like sisters, but on the other...imagine Lemon & AB's daughters dating...Blairena energy (okay wait also Derena energy tho rip)
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strideofpride · 2 years
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Hart of Dixie obvi.
And Gilmore Girls.
And OUAT.
gimme the comfort tv round robin 😘
Hart of Dixie
otp: George/AB my beloveds
favourite canon pairing: George/AB, Lemon/Lavon, Zoe/Wade, Zoe/Joel (sorry haters)
worst pairing ever: I really hated Lemon and Meatball lol, it just did not compute in my brain that even at her lowest and most lost Lemon would ever hook up with him lmao
guilty pleasure pairing: Zoe/Joel/Wade *smiles evilly*
a pairing you want to see more: Zoe/Jonah sorry lol, that was just messy in a good way for me
that pairing everyone likes but you’re like “lol no”: I don't dislike the pairings themselves, but I truly don't understand people who wanted endgame Lemon/George and Lavon/AB. Lavon clearly had unresolved feelings for Lemon the whole series, and while Lemon/George fascinate me, they clearly had grown out of each other long before the series even started!!
favorite non-romantic pair: Lemon/Wade and Zoe/Lavon! Also Brick and his collective of surrogate children
Gilmore Girls
otp: Luke/Lorelai ofc
favourite canon pairing: Luke/Lorelai, Lane/Dave (Adam Brody just had to go get cast in the OC huh), Emily/Richard
worst pairing ever: Lane/becoming a wife and mom at 22 (it's not even about Zach, it's about Lane not getting to have a life outside of Stars Hollow :/ )
guilty pleasure pairing: Rory/Marty rip me
a pairing you want to see more: Rory/Paris!!!!! god. Them.
that pairing everyone likes but you’re like “lol no”: honestly Rory and all three of her boyfriends. None of them should've been endgame imo, they were all the boyfriends Rory needed at that point in her life but...
favorite non-romantic pair: I mean idk how anyone says anything but Lorelai/Rory here (but also Luke/Jess, the Gilmore family, Rory/Lane...)
OUAT
otp: Outlaw Queen!
favourite canon pairing: Outlaw Queen, Snowing, I guess Captain Swan too - also I remember one of the only things I liked in the later seasons was Jasmine/Aladdin!
worst pairing ever: Why oh why was Swanfire even a thing, Neal is just the woooooorst (oh and Rumple and Zelena was so fucked up considering he had a whole thing with her mother didn't he????)
guilty pleasure pairing: Snow and Hercules were mad cute
a pairing you want to see more: Belle/Hook could've been cute lowkey - but I did love their friendship too. Also Emma and Elsa!!! (other than Elizabeth Mitchell's acting, the only good thing to come out of the Frozen arc)
that pairing everyone likes but you’re like “lol no”: Swan Queen I'm sorry. Don't get me wrong, they both should've been bi but like...Regina was basically Emma's step-grandmother?? And like, yeah, Regina and Emma didn't meet until Emma was an adult, but Regina was an active step-mother to Snow...And also she was so unimaginably awful to Emma in s1, idk how they could ever have a non-toxic relationship. Oh and Rumbelle! God they actually started out pretty promising but then...
favorite non-romantic pair: Charming Family my beloved (but also Snow and Regina & Regina and Henry)
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strideofpride · 2 years
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Dair + fleece
Lily buys Dan an LL Bean fleece for Christmas one year and he is just like "wow, I know I'm wasp-adjacent now but this is just way too much" and never wears it. But then one night Blair gets really cold and all his flannels are in the wash and Dan's fleece suddenly becomes Blair's fleece.
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strideofpride · 2 years
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But to get into the GG of it all specifically...I’ve finally started reading sudsnewsletter’s analyses in full (like, I read your post digests but now I’m reading the whole things and OMG they’re so good), and anyway, she makes this point in her Jenny essay, about GG falling into and perpetuating the fixation on sexual purity that was so prevalent in the 00s. Maybe it still is? Idk I’m not a teenager anymore (thank fuck), and I don’t really pay attention (thank fuck) (1/6)
I mean, one of the most definitive pieces of media from the era was created by a Mormon housewife who wrote 3 novels full of repressed judgement before marrying off her 18-yr-old heroine so that she could finally have sex! Gossip Girl really is such a time capsule of a show, in so many respects, and especially how it acted surrounding all of this. So, taking what I know about living through the 00’s, and what I know about GG, and Chrisinda’s absolutely god tier analysis…(2/6)
I think the fixation on sexual purity has a lot to do with how the GG writers/production behaved in regards to its cast members’ relationships, almost as if the real-life relationships gave more validity to the relationships that appear onscreen? Like, it’s okay to yank Serena & Dan around by the collar in their relationships, because look! And, in the case where the relationship came first, it’s almost the inverse, like GG was giving its benevolent blessing which is just *shudders* (3/6)
It’s like they had to keep the story and the behind-the-scenes parallel to create an appearance of monogamy? If that makes sense? Like, all the promiscuity and scandal on the show is justified or absolved if they brought it back to this, to the beginning, which ties into Dan being fated for Serena and Blair being fated for chip, bc hey, that’s who they made their debut with. Which, the show's fiction on virginity just makes me want to punch a wall. (4/6)
And of course, we can’t separate this from the fact that it’s really only the sexual purity of the women characters that GG is interested in perpetuating, or preserving, or punishing for the loss of it. Lively I think is the one you quote most, and for Serena, they seemed to do all three. Gossip Girl is not a documentary, nor an instructional text, it’s fiction, and that’s all it should be.(5/6)
This compulsion though, that the story that plays out on the screen also has to play out in reality is a juvenile one, and the fact that the production team of people in their 30s and 40s pushed this to hold the interest of their teen audience who didn’t know better onto their cast of 20-something emerging artists who didn’t have the power to demand better, is pretty gross. And letting this PR fixation lead the story rather than the characters…*whispers*~it’s bad writing~ (6/6)
(Full disclosure, I did not catch the Twilight reference the first time I read these lmao)
And yeah! Very interesting to tie the purity culture present in the show to the BTS relationships, I never thought of it that way, but that's certainly an interesting perspective. And yes, re: derena and chair, I definitely think that was the narrative, particularly with chair, although even when Dan is single and sleeping around in season 6, one could argue that the show is judging him for that/connecting it to him being morally bankrupt now.
And yeah, the reason I keep quoting Blake is because she is by far the most willing to be interviewed in that Vanity Fair article, and I do wonder if it's because at that time of that article (2017) she was the one who had most broken away from her character, and therefore she didn't have to worry about still being overly connected to Gossip Girl like the rest of them.
Like it must be so frustrating for the cast (now all in their mid-30s) to never put behind these roles you got when you were 20. People referring to Joe Goldberg as Dan Humphrey gone off the deep end, Chace being on SNL and still being identified as being from Gossip Girl instead of the show he's currently on (and yeah it was a joke, but the best jokes are always based in truth as they say), when Ed made his tiktok (which...don't even get me started on the gross fan reaction to a man who has been accused of SA by multiple women in real life) and everybody was commenting "Where's Leighton? She needs to duet!"....
And I know that's just part of the game of being on a popular show, especially a popular teen drama, this phenomenon is not unique to Gossip Girl. And I know people take this attitude of "how dare [x] actor be ungrateful for the role that launched their career!" and yeah I get that, but also it can't feel good to be pigeon-holed like that for the rest of your life either and that's certainly something worth thinking about from the actor's perspective. Idk.
But anyway, re: your last point, there is no reason they had to run their show the way they did. There are hundreds of successful TV shows that did just fine without capitalizing off the stars' personal lives (and even when the stars' personal lives became just as big as the show, i.e. Friends, the push came from the media, not the show's producers themselves?? Like wtf. Can you imagine if your boss (cause that's what a showrunner is, your boss) was exploiting your personal life like that? That's what we're talking about here). Gossip Girl didn't have to be like that. That was a choice made by the show's producers, and a very toxic one at that.
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strideofpride · 2 years
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Zoe/Wade + mornings
Despite the frequent late shifts, Wade's still the morning person of the two. Meanwhile, Zoe is the "sleep through ten alarms in the morning" kind of person, but eventually she does actually have to get up for work, so she'll always be rushing to get ready (Wade always mocks how he showered a good two hours ago "the day's already over, Doc!") before they head over together to eat breakfast at Lavon's.
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strideofpride · 2 years
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#6 & the Gilmore Girls: Emily, Lorelai, and Rory (can you tell I'm on break from work rn? <333)
go clothes shopping with: Lorelai cause she would definitely know what looks best on me
go to Ikea with: Rory simply by virtue of being the one I'd be least likely to argue with
go grocery shopping with: Emily just for the entertainment factor lmao
put three names & a number in my ask
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strideofpride · 2 years
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🗣 & 🤝 & 🎬
🗣 Share your favorite dialogue exchange.
From The Nanny AU:
“It’s fine, really, Mrs. – uh…”
“Ms. Waldorf. Blair Waldorf,” she finishes for him.
“Mom kept her own name even after she married daddy. Are you threatened by strong women, Dan?” Madeline asks menacingly.
Dan raises an eyebrow, but to his credit doesn’t flinch. “You’re a spitfire, aren’t you? You remind me of my little sister a bit actually.”
Madeline pouts. “Your hair is a disaster,” she says out of spite.
“If you’re trying to get under my skin and scare me off, you’ll have to try much harder than that.” Madeline rolls her eyes but doesn’t say anything more. Blair’s almost impressed.
🤝 Share a line that introduces a character.
Also from The Nanny AU:
Graham, the youngest, forever the baby of the family despite already being eight (and that causes a pain in Blair’s stomach for an entirely different reason), runs over to him then, practically climbing into Humphrey’s lap as he settles his hands on his cheeks. “Your face is scratchy! I like it.”
🎬 Share the last line you’ve written.
Damn, well this is really gonna give away the game of my [redacted] fic but fair is fair:
Blair’s in a watery haze, but at some point, Serena must’ve disappeared since she comes back in with clean silk pajamas and underwear for Blair to put on once she’s dry, and when Blair heads back into the bedroom, the bloody sheets have disappeared, the bed made up in fresh linens.
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strideofpride · 2 years
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Rufly + travel
They had traveled half of Europe together before even going on their first official date. Finally, in Paris of course, Rufus takes Lily out properly to a little bistro where he can't pronounce any of the words and ends up ordering carp by mistake. Lily just laughs and takes him to a place that makes pain au chocolats exactly how she likes them.
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