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thesweetnessofspring · 14 hours
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Some person lying on the internet with thousands of retweets/reblogs and no source: Gale was going to be Katniss's cousin!! The publisher FORCED our brilliant Suzanne Collins to add in the stupid love triangle!!! It was against her will!!! 😩
David Levithan, editor of The Hunger Games series, in an interview with EW: "But really she [Suzanne Collins] stuck to her vision pretty, pretty well....A lot of the process was more filling in blanks, it wasn't really changing the arc of the story at all. I can't think of a single instance where the arc of the story was changed as we were working on it."
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swiftieblyth · 2 days
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Blyth Family: A little Something
warnings- fluff, pregnancy, morning sickness
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You were laying bed with a massive headache and the worst cramp in your abdomen. You were hoping it just meant that you started your period, but you didn’t want to get up and check. Tom was taking Lady on a walk to let you get some rest. You’ve been having this same problem for a few mornings now but never this bad.
All of a sudden you felt your stomach flip and you rushed to the bathroom. You opened the toilet and started throwing up.
You stopped and leaned against the wall as you heard the door open.
“Honey, we’re home!” Tom called. You were about to respond when you started throwing up again. “Love?” Tom called, walking into your room. He heard you throwing up and came running to your side. “Darling!” He asked, crouching down next to you, rubbing your back.
You stopped throwing up and flushed the toilet. Tom carefully pulled you back to lean on him. You sighed as you press your back against your chest.
“What’s wrong my love? Are you sick? Should I call the doctor?”
“I don’t know,” you let out, tears coming to your face.
“What all doesn’t feel good?” He asked, rubbing your stomach.
“My stomach, head, everything hurts. And my boobs, gosh my boobs hurt, Tommy! But I don’t know why I still haven’t started my period.”
“Darling, when was the last time you had your period?”
“Before our anniversary.” You let out. The realization hit you and you looked up at him and gasped. “Tommy, do you think?”
“I think so, my love,” he smiled, baby blues shining brighter than ever.
“I love you so much!” You cried, hugging him. Just then Lady came running in and climbed up on Tom’s lap. “Lady,” you smiled, scooping her up. “You might be an older sister pretty soon!”
“I think we should make you an appointment my love.”
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You had your appointment and sure enough, you were pregnant! Little Baby Blyth is five weeks in the making!
Tom was driving you home as you closed your eyes, trying not to throw up.
“You okay, love?” He asked, grabbing your hand.
“Besides trying not to throw up I’m great! We’re gonna have a little kid in about 35 weeks!”
“I know my love! I can’t wait.”
“When do you think we should start telling people? I’ve already gained some wait, and with the premier coming up, I don’t think we’ll be able to hid it for long.”
“Do you think we should start telling loved ones now?”
“Maybe tomorrow. I kinda want to go to bed once we get home.”
“That’s perfectly fine my love. Do you want me and Lady to join you?”
“Would you?” You gasped, tears coming to your eyes.
“Of course my love! We can all cuddle together, the four of us.”
“All four,” You smiled, putting a hand to your stomach, looking at Tom with tears in your eyes.
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“Tommy?” You mumbled laying in bed half asleep.
“What is it my love?” Tom asked, spooning you, hands rubbing your flat stomach, as Lady cuddled into your chest.
“When do you think we should make a public announcement? It’s not something we can really hide. At least not with the tour going on.”
“Are you sure you can still do the tour?”
“The doctor said I could until about 20 weeks.”
“But do you want to?”
“I want to at least do some.” You explain. “I don’t know how far we’ll get, but I want to try. But Tommy…”
“What is it my love?”
“Once I’m done with the tour, I’m going to be taking a brake until some point after our baby comes.”
“I think that’s perfectly fine my love. I’ll do my best to make sure I don’t have to travel.”
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You and Tom had been spending the day (after your morning sickness) calling your loved ones and telling them the amazing news. All you had left was Rachel and Josh, and Taylor and Travis.
“How should we go about it?” You asked, fear lacing your voice as you looked at Tom.
“Hey, it’s okay. You don’t need to be scared,” Tom explained, rubbing your arms. “They’re going to be so excited, yeah?”
“Yeah,” you nodded as a tear escaped.
“I’m going to be right here with you my love,” he cooed, wiping the tear away. “Just call them when you’re ready, we don’t have to rush.”
“I’m ready.” You breathed, calling Rachel.
“Hello?” Rachel asked, on the other end of the phone.
“Hey! You smiled! Is now a bad time?”
“No, Josh, Lenny, and I are just watching some tv.”
“Okay, cool.” You looked up at Tom fear in your eyes, as he mouthed that it will be okay. “Hey, me and Tom want to talk to you two, can we FaceTime?”
“Sure, just a sec.” Rachel said as she FaceTimed you.
“Hey, Y/N/N, hey Tom!” Josh smiled.
“Hey,” you and Tom smiled.
“What did you two want to talk about?” Rachel asked.
“While, we have something we need to tell you.” Tom started.
“And we wanted to see your faces.” You cut in. I’m gonna send you a picture.”
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“Did you get it?” You asked, grabbing Tom’s hand.
“Yeah, we’re gonna look at it.”
You watched as their faces became confused as they opened the message, then how they softened and their mouths fell open.
“What?” Josh let out.
“Are you pregnant?” Rachel asked, tears coming to her eyes.
“Yes!” You smiled as you started to tear up.
“Oh my gosh!” Rachel screamed. “You’re gonna have a baby! I’m gonna be an aunt!”
“We’re gonna have a baby!” You yelled.
“How far along are you?” Josh asked.
“Five weeks,” Tom proudly answered. “Size of peppercorn.”
“You two are going to be amazing parents!” Rachel smiled. Gosh, I can’t wait to see you!”
“I can’t either!” You smiled. “Both of you!”
“Who else knows?” Josh asked.
“We’re keeping it inside family and close friends for now.” Tom explained, hugging your waist, rubbing your stomach (you think it’s his favorite thing to do right now) “However we’re probably going to say something at the red carpet.”
“We only have to tell Taylor and Travis now, and we’ll do that when we’re done.” You cut in.
“This is amazing! You’re going to be parents!”
“And we’re hoping you two would be the god parents,” you let out.
“What?” Rachel yelled. “Us?”
“Of course,” Tom smiled. “You two are our best friends.”
“There’s no one I would trust more with my baby.”
“Thank you guys.” Josh smiled. “We will gladly be the god parents.”
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“You ready to call Trav, and Taylor?” Tom asked, once you got off the phone with Rachel and Josh.
“Yeah.” You breathed, calling Taylor.
“Hey, honey!”
“Hi Tay!” You smiled. Hey, are you by any chance with Trav right now?”
“Yeah, why? Do you need me to go to another room so we can talk?”
“No! This is great! Can we face time? Tom and I want to tell you guys something.”
You entered the face time and saw both of them.
“Hey, Trav!” You smiled.
“Hey baby girl. Hey Tom.”
“Hey, Trav.” Tom smiled.
“Is everything okay?” Taylor asked.
“Yeah,” you smiled. “everything is great. I’m going to send you a picture.”
“OH MY GOSH!” Taylor yelled, gasping and covering her mouth.
“No way,” Travis smiled.
“This isn’t a choke is it?”
“It’s not,” you shook your head.
“You’re actually pregnant?” Taylor asked.
“I am!”
“Five weeks in,” Tom smiled.
“You guys, this is amazing. My little girl is gonna be a mom!”
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therealladylucifer · 19 hours
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suzanne collins is god's strongest soldier because if i wrote a dystopian series that was as bastardized and misinterpreted (by hollywood, no less) as the hunger games i would turn into the joker.
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I've been thinking about how things would be in Panem after the revolution. But I mean like 30 years or so in the future, when there's a new generation of children that have been born and raised without the existence of the games. I think about how the themes of memory and rebuilding would unfold. How would the relationship between the districts and the Capitol evolve? And the relationship between the districts? How would they organize themselves? What about the tension between people from the Capitol and people of the districts? And that's without mentioning what would have been of Katniss' and Peeta's lives, and all of the other characters of the series. How would their kids react after learning about everything they had to go through? What would their world view be like? I guess we'll never know. But lately I've been unable to stop thinking about it.
I read somewhere that Suzanne Collins said she only writes when she has something to say. And I mean, we used to think she wouldn't write another book after the trilogy ended, but then the ballad came out and (at least in my opinion) it was a great adition to the universe. Not only it added plenty of layers to the original story, it also introduced new themes and concepts to explore which are just as relevant as the original's were at the time.
What I'm trying to get at is that if she were to write a new book (or series) related to this universe, I think it would be interesting to see the future. I know some people want to know more about Finnick's or Haymitch's games, but there's always fanfiction and fanmade content that can explore those in deep. I'm aware of the discourse regarding this topic, and I agree that the games for the sake of the games (as merely enternainment) goes against the premise of the series. I won't dwell on that because it's been explained before, but I did mention it for a reason: would people be interested in a new story set in a future without any games? One about the rebuilding of a nation, the small steps towards a presumable better world and the awareness of the mistakes of the past?
I don't know, I got caught up in that idea and I wanted to get it out of my mind. I mean, we do get a little hint when Plutarch mentions how stupid humans are and how quickly we forget, at the end of Mockingjay. And then, if a story like that was written, what would be the culmination? Certainly not a utopia, but that's what life's about, right? Constantly trying to do better than yesterday, or at least not as bad? Maybe? Hopefuly??
Anyway, I just needed to rant for a bit, I'm not even sure if anyone will read this. May the void receive my thoughts with open arms, I guess.
(Btw, english is not my first language, just in case some parts are indecipherable)
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booksandpaperss · 4 months
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Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one
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animentality · 1 year
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ringtoned · 1 year
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suzanne collins is such a genius... the cultural phenomenon of her series leading to the hanging tree house remixes, mockingjay being milked for two (bad) movies, the capitol-inspired makeup palettes, the halloween costumes, the explosion of the market for dystopia, the butchering of her characters and removal of disabilities, disfiguration, and racial tension + representation to sell more tickets, the extra gale scenes to fuel discourse, and the audience showing up to cinemas to watch what was pretty honestly marketed to them (the jacob vs edwardification of the symbolic love story and also to watch children fight to the death) it's just so ridiculously ironic i would say you can't write this shit, but she did write about it... in The Hunger Games published 2008
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there was a moment when the people in the movie theatre and the capitol audience in the stands were laughing at the same things, having the same reactions to the games, to the deaths, to flickermans jokes, to the doctor's announcement...i wonder aren't we watching it for entertainment too
suzanne collins' books may exist in popular culture as "dystopian", but they have always been a meticulous and startlingly close social critique of our world. at what point does our own idolization of the movies and the books repeat that story? we watch just as the capitol audience does.
all dystopia eventually crosses a line from realistic futurism to current relevancy. how long will it take us to realize we've already crossed that line with these books? and the very people who need to realize this are the ones in that audience...real or fake, we're the same: consuming and consuming.
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fromevertonow · 4 months
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Suzanne Collins is one of the few contemporary writers who realizes the importance of names in her stories and the significance they bear. They add so many layers to the story, additional meanings that otherwise would not have existed.
The original trilogy:
Katniss: named after a plant of which you can eat the roots. Her father taught her where to find it and told her that “as long as you can find yourself, you’ll survive” (quote may be a little bit off, but it’s from one of the early chapters in THG). Additionally, the leaves are in the shape of an arrowhead, referencing her skills with the bow which her father also taught her how to use.
Peeta: literally bread lmao. But bread is one of the basic nutritions humans need, a little bit goes a long way to keep you alive. Peeta’s presence in Katniss’s life also kept her alive, literally and figuratively—the burned bread he threw her in the flashback and their complicated relationship.
Primrose: a plant with medicinal purposes, even more significant in light of her work as a medic in Mockingjay.
Gale: literally means “strong wind” and considering that in every encounter with Katniss he’s caused some reaction, he pulls her into directions she maybe initially doesn’t want to go in. Additionally, his name also represents his determination and steadfastness in his beliefs.
TBOSAS
Lucy Gray: named after William Wordsworth’s poem “Lucy Gray” which is about the titular character of the poem who got lost during a blizzard. She literally got lost in snow. Rachel Zegler sang this poem in two parts on the original soundtrack of the movie. When Snow asked who the girl in the song is, Lucy answers that she’s a mystery, just like her.
Snow: aside from the obvious snow references, I think his name is most significant in relation to Lucy and the poem. The only one who knows what caused her disappearance is Snow. He is the reason that Lucy is gone. But her traces in the snow are still visible. He will always remember her because the memory of Lucy has manifested itself in every part of his life.
Coriolanus: named after the Roman general (and also the titular character of Shakespeare’s play), Coriolanus wanted to attack Rome and become its ruler. He was scorned and celebrated by the people, only to be later exiled from the city by them. In TBOSAS, Coriolanus is the star pupil at the Capitol’s academy but sent into exile to the districts after he won the Games with Lucy through cheating.
Volumnia: Coriolanus mother who played a part in his ascent to power. In TBOSAS, she almost serves like a mentor to Coriolanus, teaching him how to think in terms of power.
(Edit) Sejanus: a roman soldier who was betrayed by the roman emperor Tiberius, just like the future president betrayed him.
(Edit) Plinth: got this info from here, but it was too good not to include here. A plinth is a base for a statue or vase to stand on. After Sejanus’s death, all of the Plinth fortune was given to Snow for being such a good to friend him. It was this money that skyrocketed the Snow family from poverty to filthy rich. The Plinth money was the foundation upon which Snow built his power.
There are so many other names that have historical (mostly Roman and Greek) connotations��Plutarch, Seneca, Cinna—but also regular names like Trinket and Beetee bear meanings that represent the character beautifully.
Names are important. For any lover of literature or (aspiring) writers, please look closely at them. They can shape your story into something unique.
Feel free to correct me if I’ve said something wrong. I know there are many names missing, but I can only add so many examples ✊🏻😔
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ruthless-to-a-fault · 4 months
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Suzanne Collins has me deranged.
We know from the Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes that many of the features of the modern Hunger Games are Snow's invention, including those that motivate the districts, like prizes. It's fair to assume he likely came up with the idea for tesserae, it's an easy way to keep the districts well fed while encouraging/forcing participation and general involvement in the games. It's a great reminder, even the food you eat is linked to the games themselves. Tesserae is a type of tile work commonly associated with Romans which Collins draws a lot of inspiration from in her depiction of the Capital. It has also in the past been used as a token. In this case, you take the token of food in exchange for extra names in the bowl. Now that's fucking excellent on it's own, real neat bit of linguistic worldbuilding.
BUT what really gets me, what truly fucks me up is that Snow didn't name it that because he's like a language nerd. Tigris had to use tile buttons, tesserae buttons on his shirt during songbirds because they couldn't afford anything else. Snow inherently associates that material with poverty, specifically with the lack of food he had during that time. As a result tesserae represents poverty starvation and desperation to everyone in the districts. Snow is so god dam self obsessed he imbedded ,intentionally or not , personal fucking references to himself within the districts.
AND THAT is why Collins is so crazy to me that detail is tiny, you truly would not notice and in the grand scheme it's not that important but that's woman is on her shit and she's fucking thinking her thoughts and its genius. HER MIND UGH. truly has me messed.
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fictionadventurer · 4 months
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Personally, it's always a bit wild to me to see commentators interact with the Hunger Games franchise as if Collins were writing science fiction stories instead of essays with faces. She's just not that interested in fleshing out side characters or digging into the details of the worldbuilding. These characters are concepts and symbols before they're people. There's an almost mathematical precision to who and what she explores and how deeply she does it. This is a step or two away from pure allegory. If she were writing a couple of centuries ago, she'd have named her characters things like Innocence and Anger and Watch-Carefully-Your-Soul-Lest-Ye-Be-Damned, but since she's writing for modern audiences, she has to settle for puns and allusions. If she has another essay to write, she'll assign some faces to it; she's not going to look into backstories or other eras just for the sake of storytelling, and it's not a failing as a writer that she doesn't.
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Another Survivor/Hunger Games parallel--in more recent seasons, the contestants are lifetime fans of the show and many of them straight-up train for it. Working out, lighting fires, studying previous seasons for strategies. One guy currently on the show built a Survivor training camp in his backyard with puzzles and obstacles and whatnot.
Suzanne predicted Careers in Survivor way back in 2008 when the contestants still got mad at each other for betrayals and took everything so personally.
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relaxnotshaveeyebrows · 5 months
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ballad of songbirds and snakes so far is just suzanne going “seems you missed the point the first time. let me fucking spell it out for you: reaping day is on the fourth of july.”
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daisybrekker · 4 months
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Friendly Reminder of Snow's inner monologue in the book:
He thought of people putting a price on her. With her long, pointed nose and skinny body, Tigris was no great beauty, but she had a sweetness, a vulnerability that invited abuse.
What was Sejanus up to? Was he trying to outdo him and steal the day’s thunder? To take his idea of coming to the zoo and then dress it up in a way Coriolanus could never compete with, because he could never afford to?
His filly in a race, his dog in a fight. The more he had treated her as something special, the more she’d become human.
Lucy Gray was one thing belonging to Coriolanus that he would never, ever get.
The thought of blackmailing old Strabo Plinth had definite appeal.
Someone suggested that he cared for her like a sister, and although he’d done nothing of the sort, he allowed it. No need to disrespect the dead.
Even his encouragement to sing for sponsors was an attempt to prolong the attention she brought him.
His girl. His. Here in the Capitol, it was a given that Lucy Gray belonged to him, as if she’d had no life before her name was called out at the reaping.
Even if Lucy Gray was confused on the issue, in the eyes of the Capitol, she belonged to him. What point would there be in crediting a district tribute?
If no one else seemed to be bothered by her questionable past, why should he be? (Questionable past being the fact that she had a love life before him)
A second-class citizen. Human, but bestial. Smart, perhaps, but not evolved. Part of a shapeless mass of unfortunate, barbaric creatures that hovered on the periphery of his consciousness. (Thinking about Lucy Gray)
“Sejanus Plinth,” said Coriolanus. Not that they were actually friends, but that wasn’t any of Dean Highbottom’s business.
Mrs. Plinth shook her head. “No. No. Your cousin’s his only friend.” How sad, thought Coriolanus. To have no friends.
Coriolanus couldn’t help feeling embarrassed for her. If you ever needed proof of the districts’ backwardness, there you had it. Primitive people with their primitive customs.
“Oh, yes?” said Coriolanus, only to be polite. Honestly, who cared? His entire future was on the line because of her wayward son.
But playing on that might be the way to manipulate him.
Coryo was a nickname for old friends. For family. For people Coriolanus loved. And this was the moment Sejanus decided to try it out? If he’d had the energy, Coriolanus would have reached over and strangled him.
“Superb,” he said. “Like everything you cook, Mrs. Plinth.” It wasn’t an exaggeration. Ma might be pathetic, but she was something of an artist in the kitchen.
The conversation wasn’t going the way Coriolanus had imagined. Where was the talk of reward money?
...but the point was, he got to keep her. And he wanted to keep her. Safe and close at hand.
Perhaps there was a way out of his predicament after all? Another path to influence and power?
He’d been broke most of his life, but the Snows had always worked hard to maintain decency. These people had given up, and some part of him blamed them for their plight. (Thinking about District 12 people)
“No escaping that.” He leaned over and kissed her, flushed with happiness, because although he did not believe in celestial writings, she did, and that would be enough to guarantee her loyalty.
In some ways, it had been better to have her locked up in the Capitol, where he always had a general idea of what she was doing.
Oh, a ghost story. Ugh. Boo. So ridiculous. Well, he’d try hard to love it when he saw the Covey tomorrow.
“Guns? Not that I know of. How would he get guns?” Coriolanus was beginning to enjoy himself a bit. (During the interrogation after Sejanus' execution)
She wouldn’t be thrilled, obviously, when he told her there’d been a change of plans. That he was returning to the Peacekeepers and heading to District 2 tomorrow at dawn, essentially leaving her to her fate. (As soon as he realised that he wouldn't get caught, he immediately thought of going back to District 2 with no concern for Lucy Gray)
As good as the movie was, I do think that it's at fault for so many people falling for the idea that Snow wasn't always bad. He was, but it wasn't so obvious at first. As you can see, he always thought of himself and how things would benefit him. He looked down on Sejanus and his ma even though they were nothing but kind to him. He saw Lucy Gray as his possession. He was greedy and selfish, always trying to come up with ways to manipulate whatever situation he was in to his advantage. I really wish the movie showed that more.
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"Not all men" you're absolutely right, Sejanus Plinth would never treat me like this
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xplore-the-unknwn · 4 months
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"Who needed wealth and success and power when they had love? Didn't it conquer all?" -Coriolanus Snow
Yup. That's it. That's the end of their story. No need to turn the other pages that's the end of the book. Coriolanus Snow finally learned all the right lessons. They lived happily ever after. (in denial)
After watching this franchise and reading the books- I just love that Katniss and Peeta at the last scene of the series are in the meadow living their lives peacefully, the very SAME meadow where Snow once considered "Didn't Love conquer all?".
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It did.
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