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watmalik · 2 months
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American politics as a reality show
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doodles-with-noodles · 2 months
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I was talking with my family about wanting to become an astronaut and my dad said I could even go to the US to NASA and I told him that you need American citizenship for that so I first need a green card and stuff and he told me that it probably wouldn’t be too difficult. And yeah, NASA is cool but then I had to think about America and politics and honestly. MAYBE America could have me if they didn’t have their head so far up their asses
But ngl I don’t want to fly for my country either because they’re kind of dicks about trans ppl. Like the official “neutral” television of the country made a documentary with an anti trans group
You know what I think I’d rather fly for America y’all are better ready for my trans ass in space than my own country
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snekdood · 1 year
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the problem with vaush’s anti theist argument is he assumes that people just blindly follow whatever a book or religious leader tells us the gods want rather than ever thinking on our own also he’s heavily relying on an argument that religious ppl think their gods word isn’t anything you can go against ever so if they tell you to rape and murder people then its fine to do so but like.... i really dont think any religious person is like this?????? i dont even think rapey serial killer religious people are like this??? like religion is always a front or a justification for their actions i dont think they genuinely believe god came down and told them it was fine i think they know they twisted what they heard/read to their benefit. the problem is with manipulative ppl who are able to take leadership of some sort over a group of people and twist the narrative to their benefit for whatever they’re gathering for, which can obviously happen in literally any kind of setting
#i really find it hard to believe that ppl who do immoral shit actually believe thats what their god wants or asked for.#like i think cases like that are far and few between#they *know* deep in their heart they're reaching for justifications to abuse other ppl and thats rly it#abusers do this. ppl do this in political spaces. ppl do this with science. ppl do this with conspiracy theories. ppl can decide to crazy#shit from literally nothing i swear its not unique to religion.#and it can be just as hard to rationalize with someone if they're just a stubborn prick who never thinks theyre wrong science or religion#it has a lot more to do with emotions and maturity and peoples pride than it does with religion broadly. imo.#ppl not willing to be swayed by arguments for why their actions are immoral inspite of being taught religiously its fine are 100% doing it#out of pride and an unwillingness to be wrong or see flaws in their actions. which is purely an emotional reaction. not some irrational m#agic woowoo one.#it almost seems like he thinks religious ppl are all robots being fed information with no autonomy of their own like dawg lol#wat#or like they're all dumb and reject science and can never ever think of things from a 'rational' or 'grounded' standpoint#i kinda think he believes religious/spiritual ppl are like. a disease the way he talks about it#or like an addiction ppl just need to 'heal' and essentially get over#like im sorry but theres no way you're gonna be able to exclude religious/spiritual ppl and not hurt them#theres so many cultures and practices and beliefs that have fought so hard to stay alive from colonization n shit and idk.#its just kinda insulting to hear imo when thats the case. cant imagine actually being from a barely surviving religion n hearing that shit#also he kinda seems to have a really christianity informed view that like everyones gods are something above you that has ultimate power#over you or else but like. ive come to the conclusion that my gods are all inside of me in a way? i dont really have this dualistic view of#it nor is it really all that worshippy. all of my actions towards my gods are based on emotions and what feels right outside of their-#interests. i dont see my gods as being so black and white my way or the highway like that?#for me i personally have the philosophy of only 'wroshipping' a god if i genuinely feel some sort of connection or i like them somehow#i do actually see them as my friends sometimes bc i also practice bhakti. i dont do whatever for them out of obligation just like#'this would make my friend happy' and also. idk. in hinduism the gods kinda worship eachother too#because they're friends and they respect eachother and like eachother so they do that sorta thing for eachother.#thats kinda the way i see it. i offer my food bc im sharing my food. etc. i also dont believe people have to directly worship them to gain#their blessings. i think ppl who dont know shit abt them can recieve their blessings. i sure as fuck did i feel.#general gratitiude goes a long way in my experience.
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allegedly-human-uwu · 6 months
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Het kabinet torpederen om een handjevol extra asielzoekers te kunnen weigeren (en vervolgens achterover leunen (aka campagne voeren) want “jamaar demissionair”) maar als het goede pr oplevert dan komt het demissionaire kabinet in actie*
*mits je het nederig genoeg vraagt verzoekt
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fondwand · 1 year
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catch me in the corner of every house party telling the cis white man who desperately wants to get away from me that ACTUALLY violence can be the answer sometimes and that it benefits the bourgeoisie to brainwash the masses into believing that exerting their power is, without nuance, morally wrong
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gooppoo · 1 year
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Neteyam fingering reader while she's pregnant? 🤭 (AGED UP)
oooo yum yum
how many fingers?
Requests Closed!!
mdni.
warnings: fingering ofc, aged up neteyam duh, making out, Neteyam doing his thangggg
His hand rested on your plump belly.
"Open up for me gorgeous." He cooed into your ear, lips caressing your softly rounded jaw. Since being with Neteyam's child, you've noticeably grown softer in areas you used to be rigid.
Your thighs were squishy, an adorable double-chin forming when you'd look down, even your cheeks were round and rosey. Above all - you were vibrant. Vibrant in the way your skin was dewy and an almost visible ring of gold followed you everywhere you went. Pregnancy treated you like a princess, and so did your marvelous husband - Neteyam.
Giggling at his tickling fingers crawling toward your center, he scooped your lips up in his to swallow all your laughter. He didn't hesitate to get lost in your lips for a few more minutes than he needed.
"Mmm come on mama, let me touch you." he purred between damp kisses.
Obediently, your legs separated enough for his hand to slither underneath your loincloth. Just to tease you (and toy with your new plush muscles) he pinched and caressed the steamy skin on your inner thigh. Through this, his kisses grew with a certain kind of soft lust that always lured you into begging for more. The careful, calculated swirl of his tongue against yours, even crossing your bottom lip as it retreated before sharing a wet embrace. Neteyam would hum and chuckle into your kisses, his tail lazily swaying behind him in lovesick fashion.
Not breaking away from his kisses, you reached for Neteyam's wrist to politely inform him the teasing wasn't necessary. That you were growing hot and slippery with the minimal contact you had. You guided him to your slick folds where he traced two fingers toward your clit. When he reached your growing nub, you hummed into his lips. He circled his fingers delicately, and your voice strummed.
"Let me see what I can get out of you." Neteyam murmured between intensifying kisses.
First he was slow, calculated. He let you ease into the feeling of being pleasurably stimulated and having a warm, honey-like goodness tickle beneath your bloated belly button. To egg you along, he'd spread your essence to your inner thighs and even to your lower stomach so you'd feel how desperate you were for him, and as a reminder to him how capable he was.
When your breath became quick to leave your chest you let your head rest back. Neteyam opted for the next best thing to attach his lips to: your neck and chest. Shamelessly, he'd groan into your neck before nipping or sucking at the skin, like you were covered in an addictive substance and he was a fiend. When he would regain a particularly sweet pattern on your clit you'd gasp softly, reaffirming his actions.
"Oh...the noises you make for me." Neteyam half-jokingly breathed against your skin, "What do you sound like when I do this-"
The tip of one of his slender digits teased your entrance before barely sliding into your sopping core. He was right to think this is where your moaning began. Pure, euphoric, provocative moaning. Another perk of your pregnancy-you avoided the added stress of biting back your bliss, you accepted the responses your body wanted to endure.
Neteyam smiled satisfied, "Just like that baby, you already know." There was a dangerous passion to his rumbling tone.
Sure to take his time, knowing the trick to adjusting to anything of this nature was slow and steady. Neteyam let his finger slide in and out of you, only prodding at the spot you both knew needed to be massaged for any real results. You relayed this not with words, but the rolling of your rounded hips.
"Ooo...take it easy beautiful. I hear you. I see you." Your mate reassured, using his free hand to settles your hips.
Now he realized that the build up had come to an end. This was the time to use his fingers and wrist muscles so he could watch the unfolding of your orgasm. Knowingly this required two digits to massage the textured sensitivity inside of you, he let another finger dive in and promptly work so you couldn't spend time being surprised by the new stretch.
Veins protruded along his forearm and trickled down to his wrist and hand that pistoned up-into you. Neteyam wasn't growing vigorous with his motions, but kept a steady pace that allowed him to focus on quality over quantity - keeping his thumb on your clit. This made your moans become a sensual mixture of sighing and groaning and whimpering. All of which excited Neteyam enough to have his hardening baby maker making itself known against your waist. Enough to have him licking along your collar bones and toward your sensitive, swollen boobs.
"Faster, please faster."
Neteyam complied wordlessly. One hand running laps across your thigh and under the garment dangling across your chest, the other nearing you toward your climax. You chanted for him to go faster and harder, please; but he replied worrisomely, "Don't want to disturb the baby, angel."
"Neteyam please!" Oh you were so damn close!
With a false, exhausted sigh, he obeyed, "I want to hear what I can do to you." His voice was mischievous.
How could he expect anything less than wonderful? Anything less than a perfect curve in your spine and a moan so arrogantly different from the others that anyone who listened knew you were cumming all over Neteyam's amazing fingers? He should've known you'd be coating his appendages down the the knuckle with a sugary, intoxicating wetness that was your cum for him to lick clean from himself and then you.
And once he was done doing his mandatory maintenance work, he spent time at your stomach, rubbing the roundness like a fruitful, hearty melon. Further up he had swept away a few luscious strands and granted kisses on either one of your full cheeks watching the high of your orgasm fade into admiration.
"Can I tell you a secret, my love?" Neteyam traced silly pattens against your stomach.
You hummed affirmatively, tucking a braid or two behind his ear, "Of course."
For a beat he let his words form in his mind, then chuckled lightly, "You taste like magic when you are pregnant."
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visualtaehyun · 2 months
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MY GIRLS ARE FINALLY ON AIR
Disclaimer: not a native Thai speaker, still learning 🙏
Ongsa and Sun
At first, Ongsa wrongly assumes that Sun is older so she calls her พี่ /phi/, speaks respectfully and wais her:
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ขอโทษค่ะพี่ /khaaw thoht kha, phi/
Then they settle into these pronouns:
☀ Sun: เรา /rao/ -> Ongsa (calls her เธอ /ter/ once when she asks her name)
🌐 Ongsa: เรา /rao/ -> Sun
-> เรา /rao/ is an informal 1st pers. pronoun that pretty much all the students in Ongsa's class seem to use
Later, when they're texting, it takes Ongsa entirely too long to catch onto the fact that Sun thinks Earth is a guy because-
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คุยกันมาตั้งนาน เรายังไม่รู้เลยว่านายชื่ออะไร /khui gan maa dtang naan. rao yang mai ruu loei waa naai cheuu a rai/ -> นาย /naai/ is a male 2nd pers. pronoun
While we're talking about their texts, the subs have this weirdly mixed up:
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1 - ฝันดีนะ /fan dee na/ = lit. dream well/good dreams, 'Sweet dreams' 2 - ราตรีสวัสดิ์ /raa dtree sa wat/ = formal, 'Good night' 3 - Similarly, Sun's มอนิ่งนะ /morning na/ is a more informal 'Good morning' compared to formal อรุณสวัสดิ์ /a roon sa wat/ or polite สวัสดีตอนเช้า /sa wat dee dtaawn chaao/
When Ongsa isn't gay-panic hiccupping, she's actually really clever and witty! I'll get to her ig posts in a second but there's also this moment:
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ยังสวยอยู่เลย /yang suay yuu loei/ สวยจะ หมายถึง ซวยอ่ะ /suay ja- maai theung- suay a/
The difference in pronunciation between these two words is just the tone - สวย /suay/ (rising tone) means pretty vs. ซวย /suay/ (middle tone) means unlucky
from.the.earth__
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ถ่ายรูป ด่วน สี-ขาวดำ /thaai ruup duaan see khaao dam/ = urgent/express black-and-white photography caption: ยกกล้องมาถ่ายแทบไม่ทัน /yohk glaawng maa thaai thaaep mai than/ = almost didn't raise the camera in time to snap this
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caption: เงา-เหงา /ngao-ngao/ = shadow-lonely -> เงา ๆ /ngao ngao/ is an expression that means indistinctly, faintly
The difference in pronunciation is, again, in the tones - เงา /ngao/ (middle tone) means shadow vs. เหงา /ngao/ (rising tone) means lonely
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caption: ว้าว! ปลาทับใจจัง /wow! bplaa thap jai jang/
I love this SO much omg It's a pun on ประทับใจ /bpra thap jai/ = impressed, but also a visual pun!!
ปลา /bplaa/ = fish + ทับ /thap/ = placed on top of + ใจ /jai/ = heart
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caption: สู้ ๆ นะ เป็นกำลังใจให้ /su su na. bpen gam lang jai hai/ = Fighting! Rooting for/encouraging [you]!
Another visual pun! This one's only funny if you know what peaches are called in Thai: peach = ลูกท้อ /luuk thaaw/ - but the word ท้อ /thaaw/ in there? It means discouraged!
Alpha, Aylin, and Luna
🔝 Alpha is Ongsa's older sister: พี่ /phi/ (used as a 1st pers. pronoun) -> แก /gae/ (informal 2nd pers. pronoun)
👽 Aylin is their cousin, in the same grade as Ongsa, and speaks pretty curtly, almost like someone would on two-way radio: she doesn't use any pronouns apart from this once-
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แกกำลังบุกรุกที่ของฉัน /gae gam lang book rook thee khaawng chan/
Omitting pronouns is possible and not uncommon in Thai but doing so constantly, combined with her monotone speech pattern, low voice, and mostly a lack of ending particles, it does stick out! It doesn't really come across in the subs tbh (apart from including the way she refers to people as humans = มนุษย์ /ma noot/):
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ไม่ต้องแคร์ใคร /mai dtaawng care khrai/ = Don't need to care about anyone.
🌙 Luna, Alpha, the two bullies, and Mawin all seem to be in the same grade because all of them use the impolite pronouns กู/มึง /guu, meung/ (=I/you) amongst each other - how very fun to finally hear some GMMTV girls talk like this :D
I love Alpha and Luna teaming up to beat up scold these two dipshits:
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Alpha: พวกมึงสองคนแกล้งน้องกูออ /phuuak meung saawng khohn glaaeng nong guu aaw/ Mawin, trying to defuse: พวกเธอใจเย็นก่อน /phuuak ter jai yen gaawn/
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While the girls are furious, the guys are clearly fearing for their lives, wai'ing endlessly 😂
Lastly-
Sarah Salola
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I gasped when I saw her name in the credits!! She's this handsome singer-songwriter with a lovely voice who's queer herself - she's talked about her sexuality and style before (interview is in Thai) but this Valentine's she revealed her partner :)
Here's a cover of Nont Tanont's รักแรก (First Love) she did with Jan 💕
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Needless to say, I can't wait for her OST and the accompanying MV that's surely gonna be super cute!
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libraryraccoon · 2 months
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So I got this idea of an Idia Reader who is an overlord (making some high tech prosthetic or another things that Vox himself can’t make easily) and forced to go attend an overlord meeting and imagine the panic attack he would have if Alastor or worse Valentino interacted with them.
Probably locks themselves in a their room for three months after the meeting.
Gender : GN
Pronouns : None
Message of Raccoon : I can just imagine Vox and Idia!Reader being two bestfriends that have rivalry for fun.
Info : Idia!Reader being an overlord in the Vees.
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General Headcanon
You were one of the Overlords of the Vees.
But compared to the others, you didn't like the attention.
The recluse of the Vees, that's who you were.
You hated leaving your room, preferring to use your tablet to see/talk with others.
But one day, you were forced to show up at one of the Overlords meetings. Irl.
When you entered the room, all the overlords asked you who you were.
"Who are you ?" -Carmilla.
"The one who almost doxxed all of you. Idia!Reader." -you, already wanting to go back to your room.
It was the first time they saw you, like really saw you. Not through a tablet, but irl.
You sat between Rosie and Alastor, a mistake.
The two kept talking and adding you into the conversation. You wanted to die again.
They were nice and polite, yes, but you didn't like socializing. You preferred solitude and calm to having to socialize.
You regretted having taken this place instead of putting yourself next to Zestial, who is calm and silent.
"Oh ! Did you hear about what Jack did ?" -Rosie.
“No, what did he do ?”-Alastor.
"He fucked his wife's sister, then ate the said sister. His wife found him and then ate Jack." -Idia!Reader.
If there was tea, it would have been perfect.
Carmilla give you a look that can be translated as "Good luck, we're not together."
You will doxx her later as punishment for not helping you.
The meeting was pretty good, except for the moment you had to talk and socialize.
Your social anxiety suffered greatly during this meeting.
When you entered the Vees tower, you wanted to go to your room but the others Vees stopped you.
Valentino and Velvette congratulated you for coming out of your shithole room.
But you know what was the worst ? When Vox saw you, he asked why you had placed yourself next to his enemy, Alastor.
Vox gave you an hour-long lecture on why what you did was wrong.
You just wanted to stay cooped up in your room for the rest of the eternity.
But you couldn't.
Why ? Because Rosie and Alastor have come for you.
Apparently you have become their friends, without your consent.
Once a week you had to go out and spend time with Alastor and/or Rosie.
And you couldn't even run away because the two always know where to find you.
You are gossip friends. I will not accept otherwise.
You have the pass to touch Alastor. You use it to touch his ears because DEER EAR !!
You do the same with his tail, because DEER TAIL !!! (He tries to hide his tail from you)
I headcanon that you have a picture with you, Rosie and Alastor on it.
Let's pretend you were there during the meeting about the angel.
Carmilla paid you $3000 (or whatever the money is in hell) for not talking about her killing an angel.
You took the money before telling to Rosie and Alastor everything.
If she ever finds out, you're dead, but don't worry, it was worth it.
I headcanon that your hair (or at least a part of your hair) is made of fire, and that the Vees, Alastor and Rosie want to touch it.
Alastor and Rosie love seeing your hair changing its colors depending on your emotions, it always betrays you and they find it amusing.
Alastor using the Aromantic charm on you to see you get frustrated and see your hair changing its color is canon.
Alastor has already brought you to the Hazbin Hotel..
When I say that you said what you thought out loud and you were brutal with your words, I don't think you realize how much that was-
You were banned from the hotel by Vaggie while Alastor was just watching and laughing.
You felt hurt, betrayed by your friend.
“Oh yeah, that’s how it is now, every man for himself.”
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Danny bit back a sigh from his place on the throne as two young vigilantes fell from a portal in his throneroom. He peered at him through his long white veil as he straitened himself. He knew what to do. He had done this song and dance sixty-two times now and he was about to do it again.
He watched them bicker from the cold floor of his ice castle, something he made from his own ice so that the observants couldn't see or hear what was happening inside or pop in without his explicit permission. Something that angered the nosey creeps to no end. Ah, he's getting lost in his thoughts again. Its time to start the test.
"Why have you come to my Realms mortals?" He felt almost silly calling them that, but it worked in getting the two to stop arguing and pay attention to him. Ah, the younger one has a sword. Cool. Won't help him here, but he gets points for ascetic if nothing else.
"State your names."
"I am Robin!" The smaller one yelled, fierceness of his voice to match the fire in his soul.
The older seemed more hesitant, taking a moment to assess the situation before answering, "I'm Red Robin. Sorry for dropping in so suddenly-"
The younger cut in, needlessly destroying his partners attempt at deescalating the situation, "We were not at fault! A portal opened underneath us and we were transported here!"
Danny knows that. Thats why he was testing them, "Are you saying that fate brought you here?"
Robin looked pleased before confirming.
"Then you shall stay here, as those who enter the Lands of Lazarus are never allowed to leave."
They both bulked, one trying to argue and the other trying to reason with him. Danny tapped his fingers on the armrest of his throne, pretending to think. "I will be merciful and allow one of you to leave. I will allow you a moment to make your choice." Danny barely got his words out before the older one declared that he would stay behind, putting himself between the king and his companion. Good. He passed the test.
He turned his attention back to the younger, "And you are fine with this?" This is the part where the companion adamantly refuses and offers themselves as sacrifice and the two bicker about who will get to sacrifice themselves for the other. The king becomes "moved by thier bond" or whatever and sends them both back to the land of the living.
"Of course! He's useless anyway."
...wat.
The older one made a wounded sound that made his core ache with the need to care and protect. This was not how things were supposed to go. Were ten year olds supposed to be this cruel? At that moment he made an admittedly impulsive decision and sent the child back, keeping the older of the two in the spirit would with him.
Leaving the comfort of his throne he walked down the steps towards the young man, his snowy robes fanning out majestically as his crown of stars bobbed around at his movements, some even going so far as to float around him as if showing off.
"I've made a decision. For this day forth you are my royal advisor." He stated before grabbing the other guys hand and pulling him along down the hall, "You're going to help me rebuild my kingdom from the thousands of years of war and political neglect it has faced. You will aid me in political endeavors as well as help the people in any way you see fit." He paused long enough to open the kitchen door and sit him down at the counter,
"But first, what do you want for lunch?"
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avelera · 1 year
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"Nice is Different than Good" Character Interpretation: Hob Gadling as Kind of a Bastard
Ok, slightly controversial take on Hob Gadling Is Kind of a Bastard that I've been toying with. It runs counter to some wonderful let me be clear, amazing fanon I've seen in some fics, so this is much more me going, "Hey, here's a way to do it different that might work better in different stories fan writers might want to tell," and not to invalidate other takes or even to put forth that I think this is necessarily true of Hob in a meta sense, it's just shining a light on the text from a different direction, y'know?
Hob as Neutral Evil (credit to Winter on the big dreamling server for this concept!)
I'm obsessed with the idea that Hob is neutral evil on ye olde D&D alignment chart because it makes so much sense if the axis for evil is primarily based on selfishness.
Primary evidence? How casually he talks in 1489 about having done a bit of soldiering and banditry. Those jobs are about killing people. Maybe not all the time as a bandit, ideally, but even then it's about taking their stuff. There is absolutely zero remorse in Hob's tone about being a soldier and a bandit just because he's at his most wide-eyed innocent and has since picked up a trade.
Hob as Politically Conservative until at least 1789 but possibly until 1989
Hob as far as I can tell is a model of the white male middle class existence in England throughout what we define as more or less the "modern era". As far as I can tell, there's no indication at any point prior to 1789 that Hob rocked the boat or was at all out of step with the Powers That Be.
In general, I kind of see Hob as always just this side of the "wrong side of history" and I personally find it more interesting when that's where we find him. And not in a grand sense but in a "middle of the road" sense of just going along with the day to day accepted levels of harm and evil caused by societal momentum. Generally speaking, only a very small percentage of the population takes active part in moving the needle towards good at any given time on a variety causes, and I tend to see Hob is generally speaking outside of all those minorities of do-gooders, except when it comes to taking care of his immediate friends and family. Which is a pretty average place to be.
Indeed, when it comes to the Wat Tyler rebellion, it's my personal headcanon that Hob was more likely on the side of the soldiers putting DOWN the rebellion on behalf of the local lords, and unlikely to have been interested in or part of the cause of greater equality in England. The fact he's a soldier drinking with his mates openly in a tavern when people around him are talking about Wat Tyler and he's blithely ignoring the discussion is where I get that sense.
Indeed, I believe (though I don't know where to cite it, even in the English Civil Wars, Hob was canonically on the side of the monarchy. So jot that down as Hob being pro-monarchy.
While, yes, I believe post 1789 he learned to be less of a piece of shit about taking active part if horrific industrial-level cruelty, I don't see evidence he became a superhero after that. The one bit of "on the page"altruism we see from him is him flipping a coin to Lushing Lou and telling an obvious alcoholic to go get a drink so she stops pestering his friend by offering herself to him as a prostitute, something Hob seems entirely comfortable with.
In 1989 when Hob gets out of his sleek convertible, dressed like a stock trader, he uses the Financial Times to shield himself from the rain, a periodical that apparently was just lying around in his car. As tempting as it would be to say it's to somehow show off to Dream, he has no reason to believe Dream would come back to his car so more likely, it's just something for himself.
All of these put together show me on the page that Hob stayed pretty fixated on making money even after deciding and coming to regret being part of the "shipping business".
And to be clear, we don't actually know when Hob quit the shipping business. Personally, I like to think he did it right after Dream asked, but that's a romantic take and deliberately so. Hob having the opinion by 1889 that slavery is wrong is not necessarily a progressive take by then. Regardless, even if in 1789 he learned it was wrong, that still puts him just slightly ahead of the curve, philosophically speaking.
If we pull in comic canon we do know Hob was ahead of the curve on feminism by 1912 in Hob's Leviathan but again, women would get the right to vote by 1918/1928 in England after the issue had been discussed for at least a century (keep in mind, male Catholics couldn't vote in England until the early 1800s) so again this puts him as palatable to modern readers but not necessary terribly ahead of the curve.
Now, let me also be clear, where Hob is at in 2022 is anyone's guess. Personally I think Dream not showing up in 1989 was a second wakeup call for Hob. If he'd drifted back towards selfish hedonism by 1989, as his whole vibe suggests, he might very well have looked in the mirror and thought, "What if this is why my stranger stayed away?"
We know he becomes a teacher. That probably would go a long way towards changing his politics. We know he's a history teacher, so now he's got the long view. He's spending time in academia, which tends to lean left. My point is, Hob in 2022 is anyone guess and I think there's a lot of evidence and word of god evidence that he's become a Good Person by then, but I also think it's the 1989 meeting that jumpstarted him being Good and not just Nice. Because I do think Hob throughout all these periods of being morally a bastard was always good to the people close to him in his life. I think he was a good friend and a good husband and would have been a good friend to Dream had he allowed it. And that's what I enjoy most, that he could be both of those things, Nice and Not Good.
Hob as non-religious
I admit, this one is very near and dear to my heart for personal reasons of identifying as an atheist when it comes to Christianity and being a lifelong skeptic of Catholicism for the brief time I was technically a member of that organization (all of which while I was a minor). To be clear there is just as much evidence to say Hob is any number of religious alignments as there is that he has none. It's a totally personal choice by any author, I'm just outlining my evidence for why I write him as effectively an atheist.
The Black Death is considered the period that broke the spine of the Catholic church as a monolith in Europe. All the good priests who did their duty taking care of people and giving last rites died leaving only the ones who fled or were young, with tons of money given to the church because of all the rampant death.
Hob would have been born into an era that was particularly rife with both fanaticism and anti-church sentiment. There was a lot of evidence abounding that being a good Christian just got you killed.
Given Hob is a soldier drinking with his mates 1389, I don't see much evidence of him being particularly devout there. No less so in 1489, by the way. Not saying there's evidence against it, just that there's no evidence for it and indeed, societally there's justification for him to not be devout given the century he was born.
1589 I'd say we've got some evidence Hob isn't devout: he seems unperturbed by King Henry's ransacking of the monasteries. Politically speaking, if Hob is a New Man, he might have even benefited from that ransacking personally. In my personal view, Hob is an opportunist and most likely converted to Church of England at the earliest possible opportunity to curry favor with the Powers that Be. I don't personally see him as someone who would bother pretending to be Protestant while continuing to practice Catholicism, because:
Why would Hob bother to be faithful at all? He can't die. The #1 reason to be devout is to avoid Hell or get into Heaven. Hob has clearly chosen the secular world as the only Heaven he cares about. He says that his current life is what, "He once thought Heaven would be like" and it's a very secular vision of good food and safe streets. He does not appear to be pining at all for any spiritual version of Heaven and indeed, speaks of Heaven as a dream only in the past tense.
Personally, by 1689, I think Hob has plenty of reasons to hate God after what he's suffered and the fact he's still not interested in dying to me seems a pretty strong indication that he does not hold romantic views of the afterlife.
Finally, for 1789 to the present, there was absolutely a class of gentleman who were progress minded, obsessed with technology and the Age of Reason. Many American Founding Fathers were self-proclaimed deists, basically a safe form of atheism that said eh, yes God exists and is out there and we owe him some deference, but he doesn't impact day to day life and we can safely ignore him most of the time. Personally, and this is pure headcanon, I put Hob in that group cheerfully ignoring religion and never looking back because he's more interested in the new technologies of the day and not the crusty old church.
We also know, canonically, that at least in 1789, Hob does not consider himself Jewish.
And of course, we can't forget: Hob has evidence that the Christian cosmology is wrong, somehow, given his stranger and his own immortality.
Frankly, given that Hob appears on the page to be a hedonist with no fear of dying, it's interesting to speculate on what his moral boundaries would be at all coming from a world where Heaven and Hell were the primary means of moral social control. It is possible to speculate that Hob could have gone completely off the rails as far as worrying about his soul for a bit there, other than thinking he's already sold it, which could go either way as far as trying to redeem himself but again, he speaks casually of being a soldier and a bandit, so it doesn't sound like if he worried about his soul being sold already, he thought there was anything that could be done to redeem it.
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quitealotofsodapop · 2 months
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Hi! It's me again :3, I don't know (and remember) if anyone has asked this before but I would like to know:
How did OG!MK feel when he found out that SW is his father in another dimension (I feel like Mei would say something like "See? I told you he was your dad" or something)
If it happens before S4, I feel like Mk would be a little jealous of his other self seeing that he doesn't have the problem of not knowing who his biological parents.
(The idea occurred to me when I remembered a tiktok that said MK used any type of editing app to get an idea of ​​what his parents would look like 🥲)
omg if you have that tiktok I'd love a link XD
Think i did do a post like that ages ago, but only with an earlier draft of TMKATI and canon. Now I have like three more verses to torment MK with >:)
When the Canon verse and the other verses collide, the quickest thing the MKs would notice is their appearances.
OG!MK: "Whoa!! These me's are monkey demons!" TMKATI!MK: "And you guys are... human???" SlowBoiled!MK: "Yeah, why wouldn't him- I mean me be?" CenturyEgg!MK: "I don't know about you guys - but my parents are monkey demons. Then again my gūtā [dad's gender neutral older sibling] is human, I think???" JTTWEgg!MK: "My parents are monkey demons! The coolest monkey demons ever I may brag." TMKATI!MK: "Oh no way! My parents are monkey demons too! i have a bunch of adopted siblings though. Does your dad work with Bóbo[dad's older brother] Pigsy too?" CenturyEgg!MK: "No cus Uncle Pigsy and Tang lives in the city. We all live on Flower Fruit Mountain - but we visit as often as possible! Uncle Sandy ferries us across all the time." :3 OG!MK: "Wow!! You two live on the mountain!? What's it like?" JTTWEgg!MK, shrugging: "It's cool." CenturyEgg!MK: "Sometimes feel pressured by my role as Heir to the Stone Throne - but I wouldn't trade it for the world. I really don't like having to visit the Celestial Realm though. The nobles are kinda mean about my dad cus he caused a bunch of havoc a long time ago." The Other MKs: "wut" OG!MK: "Uh... Please explain who your parents are?" CenturyEgg!MK, confused by their confusion: "Sun Wukong the Monkey King, and Liu'er Mihou the Sage of Wind??? I thought you guys were too???" JTTWEgg!MK: "Yeah, mine are too. I thought you guys knew??" SlowBoiled!MK: "No- well kind- it's complicated! Ok!?" TMKATI!MK: "Not me. My parents are normal monkey demons, dude." OG!MK: "Oh my gods the Monkey King *is* our dad in another universe! Mei is never gonna let me forget this!" CenturyEgg!MK: "Well techinically he's my mom too so..." The Other MKs: "lol wat?" JTTWEgg!MK: "lol same."
The different MKs collaborate to tell stories about themselves (and get a solid PSA on Stone Eggs) while their respective Meis are snapping photos with eachother.
The different monkeys watch on nervously. The different monkey kings are sitting politely as their Macaques hiss at eachother from across the room.
OG!SWK: "So uh... did you tell him yet?" Other Monkeys: "Tell him what?" SlowBoiled!SWK: "About him being made by Nuwa, or the fact that we were forced to abandon him?" The CenturyEgg and TMKATI monkeys: "What." TMKATI!SWK, laughing nervously: "What? Oh gods no. I thought you guys meant telling him who we are!" The Other Monkeys: "Wut" CenturyEgg!SWK: "Your MK doesn't know that you guys are... Us?" TMKATI!LEM: "Nah, we've sorta been off-the-grid ever since genius here [thumb-points at his SWK] got me pregnant with our MK." The Stone Egg au SWKs: "Hah!" "Uno reverse card, plums!" Stone Egg LEMs: *all three have varying looks of horror, indignance, and bashfulness* SlowBoiled!LEM: "I said I was sorry!" OG!LEM: "Wait... what do you mean by sorry?" SlowBoiled!LEM, looking uncomfortable: "Cus of our uh... fight under the Mountain, and me not returning to feed him, I sorta caused Wukong's body to create a Stone Egg... and then I sorta died before I found out so..." JTTWEgg!LEM: "Ooof. Glad I learned early then." CenturyEgg!SWK, to his SlowBoiled counterpart: "Oh bummer, you got left with Stone Egg all the way back then? I started up the process willingly after I had to seal away DBK. When was the little guy born?" SlowBoiled!SWK: "Little lady actually. Yuebei was born about six months ago. Our MK was crafted by Nuwa - then again I did raise him the first year until I became too weak to care for him..." *looks sad* TMKATI and CenturyEgg monkeys: "Oh no..." :( "Stone eggs are super dangerous to the people around them. I don't blame you." JTTWEgg!SWK: "Odd. I got an Egg from the mountain too - but mine was born shortly after I completed the Journey. And mine was our MK. Did losing Mihou make the process longer??" OG Monkeys: "What?" "How many of you have MK as your kid!?" (*Cue them having to make a Venn Diagram of Whos' MK is What to Whom*) OG!SWK: "Ok so! Mine and the guy with the super-adorbs baby got our MKs dumped on us." SlowBoiled Monkeys: *proudly showing photos of their Yuebei* OG!LEM: "The me in sweatpants had him cus of a comet /slash/ stone egg soul mishap." TMKATI!LEM: "Oh, my Wukong was still responsible there. He sealed the Harbringer's soul inside me after using a sealing spell. TMKATI!SWK: "I panicked, ok!" OG!SWK, pointing at the remaining universes: "Annnd you two literally birthed him yourselves." CenturyEgg and JttwEgg SWKs: "Yup." "Stone shell and all." OG!SWK: "...is there anything else I'm missing?" The other universes: (*scratching their chins in thought*) SlowBoiled!LEM, slyly: "So are you guys back together yet, or what?" OG Monkeys: "What!?" "As if!"
Laughter just erupts around the room as the canon shadowpeach pairing realises that they're the odd ones out as *not* being together.
Complete and utter chaos reigns when the parent and MK groups reunite, and they recognise some sort of connection...
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rarepears · 1 year
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Concubine Shen Jiu AU
I just really really want to read a time traveling AU where Shen Jiu decides that he’s going to be a concubine instead of going (back) to Cang Qiong and how better to hide than being a concubine of some rich lord who’s not allowed out of the house without being covered and guarded by a dozen guards?
It’s turns out that he really enjoys this kind of lifestyle. The rich lord he's caught himself for as a husband spoils and pampers him very well and he’s the only concubine in the estate. It also helps that he’s the only lover of the rich lord period. He doesn't have to content with any officials wives and his husband's parents are surprisingly open minded, like him, and seem to have no plans on pushing proper ladies onto his husband to marry??
Turns out that the husband he's caught himself? Well, husband's father is the younger brother of the reigning emperor... ahahaha so that's how Shen Jiu never realized or recognized his husband's true status. He just thought he married a rich, somewhat lazy, nobleman with just enough influence and power in the imperial government to make any cultivator hesitate to annoy. You know, just in case anyone else also time traveled and really want to drag him back to Cang Qiong cough Yue Qingyuan.
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As delighted as Shen Yuan had been about his transmigration journey so far - such as the fact that he more or less kept his name. Well, mostly kept his name since it's now officially Long Shenyuan - which is cheesy as fuck that the Long surname represents the heavenly dragon. But! He can insist on all his friends and family to just call him Shenyuan. (In Chinese, to call someone by only their first name is a very intimate thing.)
He has no plans on marrying a proper lady because the emperor - his fucking paranoid son of a bitch of an uncle - still has no sons, only dozens of daughters, so just in case, it's better that he and his father avoid having children any time soon least people start having wrong ideas about overthrowing the current emperor for another branch of the family... especially one that already has sons.
Luckily, his parents are on the same page - they were the ones to push him to get a male concubine or two and project the image of a cutsleeve. His father once had two concubines but both concubines died in the plague that rocked through the imperial city a decade ago; no children or born from either concubines. Shen Yuan's mother, his father's official wife.
Shenyuan's mom: You should pretend to be an idiot who thinks with your dick and falls for a male beauty. Shen Yuan: Sure can do. Better to pretend to be gay than end up getting executed for trumped up charges of trying to usurp the throne.
Shen Yuan: picks up a beautiful male literally off the streets because he looks kind of like the Shen Qingqiu merch he had in his previous life Shen Yuan: starts sticking like a burr to his new concubine Shenyuan's mom: NOT LIKE THAT Shen Yuan: wat- Shenyuan's mom: wait, actually I like this guy. He's got more brains and political acumen than my son
And that's the meet-cute story of how future emperor Long Shenyuan picked up his future political advisor and male Empress.
[More in the #Shen Jiu time travels and decides to hide from cang qiong by becoming a concubine AU]
Edit: now up on AO3
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daze4all · 6 months
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Yandere Neuvillette & Yandere Wriothesly Concepts for x Witness!Reader Series
For they Were Justice! Series
Warnings: Tied Up at Court and silenced. Kidnapping past and present? Implied Amnesiac! Reader. Yanderes.
Series Synopsis: A key witness & victim of treasure hoarder human trafficking is saved by Wriothesley and sheltered by the chief justice, Neuvillette under a witness protection program.
Witness! Reader is recovering your memory from experimentations to stand trial. However, what happens when you remember you have a home, but they won’t let you go?
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Type of Yandere Drabble Concepts
Neuvillette: Delusional. Draconic, Self-righteous Yandere
Neuvillette a gentleman is colder strict and formal.
The cop who you do not want to cross when rules are broken.
 A bit of hypocrite though as he creates rules for his benefit to keep you with him so legally, he does nothing wrong.
Approach: Subtle Mental & Political Manipulation
More subtle turning court judgement in his favor and mentally manipulate you and subtle influence into wanting to stay.  
Spoils you rotten. Gets anything to be comfortable in his nest and like dressing you up as a lady.
Strict on etiquette obeying rules and judges while Wrio enforces.
Thinks you love him from you for relying on him to take care of you.
Crying:  Sad you don’t wat to stay, he feels guilty but use it to gaslight you to feel guilty or forgive him for what he does.
Doesn’t want to hurt you and often patches you up or heals you like he does himself.
However as his ability can take away health in exchange for power and you do love him….well see how it goes in desperate situation. Probably a last resort
 
Sadistic: Always with justification that this is in your best interests to protect you and for justices’ sake.
At his lowest, may be upset he is breaking the rules for you and may take it out on you for making him this way mostly though its him falling to his draconic instincts.
Confinement and handcuffs: He is okay with as he sees he is carrying out justice.
Draconic Instincts:  Make him want to mark you as his treasure, his hoard his mate to keep safe in his nest as that’s what is best for you. Draconic bite or marks but not as much as wrio.
Masochistic: If he goes too far would let himself get hurt to assuage his own guilt and get you to pity him. Sees it as taking responsibility for his behavior. Probably by wrio…
Touch: Keener on consent but touch starved. Polite despite any liberties he might take. Ask but does it anyway or teases so it’s wanted if pushed by wrio in his delusions that reader wants this.
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Wriothesley: Shameless. Ruthless, Tyrant Yandere.
Wriothesley more a playboy who is chill, casual, and passionate and has roguish charm.
He is willing to bend rules and resort to violence as a former criminal to get work done as warden & to keep you with them.
Approach: Direct Physical Persuasion
More direct and physically manipulative. He will take physical action: such as handcuffing and confinement.
As warden is well versed in taking down prisoners & Hurting others when necessary and maybe marking you as last resort but more intimidation or threat of pain than the act.
The number of times feral dog is used to describe this man…
Consent: He knows it is wrong but embraces & accepts the sadistic criminal and masochistic side in him as dog of the meripode.
Lovesick Dog: Know you may not like him but this makes him love and want you even more and for you to reciprocate that love. Like a lovesick dog.
Even if you are a bit broken in the process or ideally others are broken for him to have you.
Touch:  More shameless and will take liberties to get you to love him .
Bad touch boi. Dirty talk. physically teasing you until you cannot take it anymore.
Hand where it shouldn’t be inching closer type
 
How it works with Neuvolette x Reader x Wriothestly  3p situation:
Wrio Let’s Nuevo order him about for that thrill
Wrio Goads Neuvo into falling for his more draconic instincts and that this is right and for your safety while knowing that’s not the case.
Neuvo orders wrios so lets him be more feral
Neuvo came up with the trap but Wrio sprung it
Wrio came with the idea to go after but lets nuevo be in charge of ordering.
Wrio coaxs Neuvo into pushing it further than Nuevo would go and possibley vice versa
 An illusion of control situation
AKA a bad cycle of S & M
Wrio is giving the permission for Neuvo and vice versa Nuevo allowing wrio to do things to the reader
that the reader isn’t giving permission to be done…
expect in your head cuz why else are readers reading this fic so dubious consent….
I get to embarrassed writing nsfw ….so good luck to anyone taking this to write smut.  
Sometimes, I feel like Wrio & Neuvo be mansplaining over witness!reader as she never gets a word in edgewise. Mostly b/c I find Wrio & Neuvo dynamic is just so interesting to write.
I also kinda cannot see either as bottoms although nuevo is soft boi…so that’s why they need reader in between?
Also, who else likes hot guys fighting over them in the worst ways possible?
It’s ironic, as a lot of my other oc based reader inserts are so chatty I cannot get them to shut up and stop spilling their whole stories
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devildomwriter · 11 months
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How They React to You Watching Pimple-Popping Videos
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Lucifer
• He stands there with a very confused look—scrunched brow and all—as he tries to figure out what is happening
• He sees you appear very happy with what you’re watching and assumes it’s either a challenge or aesthetics deal, but doesn’t really get it
• If you ask him to watch with you he will politely decline and become even more confused
Mammon
• “Eww what the—“
• Nearly vomits, he had no idea why you wanted to show him a video but he trusted you and now regrets it
• “Turn it off, what’s wrong with ya!?”
• Mammon has unlocked a new fear
Leviathan
• Thought you’d be watching something anime or really cute. Nearly vomits instead
• “You actually like this!?”
• He doesn’t get the appeal and avoids the topic at all costs but if he starts getting video recommendations related to pimple popping then he’s not letting you on his computer again
Satan
• Had never seen it before and watched with you curiously
• Found it oddly satisfying and ended up watching more
• He now wants to curse “someone” with pimples and secretly film them popping
• You try to warn him but it doesn’t get through to him. There’s now a pimple popping ban in the house
Asmodeus
• He thinks his pimples are gross enough, he nearly fainted seeing one burst open on your screen
• Dry heaving and trying to collect himself
• “W-What!?”
• “Hey, next time you get a pimple—“ “Absolutely not!”
Beelzebub
• Thought it was a good video but is still confused about what he just watched
• Doesn’t really care about the puss and blood and will watch with you again
• If the doctor compares the drainage or puss to foods it makes him a little uneasy eating those foods after—he definitely won’t look at them the same way
• If his brother finds him eyeing the icing weirdly and asks about it he’ll say it looks like puss and they’ll be very concerned and disgusted
Belphegor
• Gazes at the phone in confusion in a sleepy stupor as usual
• Thinks it’s neat and it doesn’t really bother him
• He now watches them with you and thinks it’s funny when there’s a lot of blood
Solomon
• “Oh! Hahaha you like these videos too?”
• Solomon loves this sort of thing as long as it’s real
• Will sit down and watch Dr Pimple Popper with you among other shows
• “If you want I could conjure one on Asmo; he’ll come crying to us and then we could pop it.”
Simeon
• Temporarily frozen in shock, just stands there trying to form words
• “W-well, it’s good to know you can find joy in even the grossest things my father created…”
• Gets nauseous easily and asks you warn him next time
Luke
• “Ah!”
• Immediately freaks out and starts gagging
• “What is that!? What are you doing!?”
• “Lools kind of like frosting right?” “NOOO!”
• He’s mildly traumatized and gives you a weird look whenever he sees you open up YouTube
Raphael
• Doesn’t say anything because he has no idea how to respond to this new insight on you
• He just watches the video from behind you with a confused look and walks away
• He never asks you about it but he does ask Michael and Michael is just as confused
Thirteen
• She thinks it’s hilarious
• “Nice that was a big one!”
• She thinks it’s gross but she finds it weirdly satisfying so now you get videos from her every once in a while of new ones she’s found
Mephistopheles
• Got curious about what you were watching and doesn’t know how to feel about the results
• “Okay then…”
• He knew humans were weird to begin with but now he has even more to figure out
• “Wanna wat—“ “NO.”
Barbatos
• “Oh my…that’s rather….”
• He doesn’t know how to react to this. No amount of blood bothers him, puss and uncleanliness however….
• He turns his head away and walks off, pretending he has something he needs to do
• He’s trying to find a way this could be useful but hasn’t come up with anything yet
Diavolo
• At first he’s really weirded out but just laughs as usual
• But then he looks into it and now he’s hooked
• He’s also concerned he’ll develop a cyst himself and has Barbatos take preventive measures
• Asks you for similar recommendations
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