#shrek: once upon a time

[hikarry]

I am very normal and I dunnot have every single thing David Tennant appeared on on my TVTime list. Absolutely not

[goosin-around]

anytime Belle or Regina get mad at Rumple they hide pictures of Rumplestiltskin from shrek around the shop for him to find with little notes that say things like "took a picture of you yesterday xoxo"

[artoatsblog]

Cursed "edgy" reboot idea #1: A "Once upon a Time" style show but instead of classic fairy tail/Disney characters it's done with DreamWorks characters.

The main character is Shrek (now named Sean) who has been transformed into a human living in a rural town.

He one day gets visited by The boy sitting on the moon in the DreamWorks logo who's basically the god of every single DreamWorks movie who reminds Shrek of his previous life.

The moon boy also reveals he has an evil sun themed rival who wants to take over the DreamWorks universes.

Shrek has to go on a quest to find the other DreamWorks characters from different movies to save his world and there's.

The main cast (aside from Shrek/Sean himself of course) include

-Danny, Sean's cheerful and over exuberant best friend

-Flora, a woman from a rich family who has a budding relationship with Sean

And

-Pila, an adventurous man who is suspicious of Sean's new nature

If the show is made in live action all the characters are played by actors who look vaguely like the conventionally attractive versions of the celebrities who voiced them, but if the show is animated all the characters are stylized the way they were in their og films (with new human designs for the characters who weren't human in the originals) but the with the occasional thirst trap moment for the adult characters.

[fairytale-poll]

ROUND 4D, MATCH 1 OUT OF 2!

Propaganda Under the Cut:

Cinders:

She spent decades searching every moon and planet trying to find her wife (Rose), who was kidnapped on their wedding day. Eventually, she found Rose, and they embraced, only for Rose to die in Cinder's arms. And so Cinder killed the king who had kidnapped Rose by punching through his chest and into his heart.

And then Cinder got a somewhat happy ending, in which she met Rose's clone who had Rose's memories.

What if Cinderella was a Sci-Fi lesbian? Well here she is. She has a whole love song about searching the stars for her girlfriend after their wedding was interrupted and she was taken away. She spends years searching only to when she finally finds and embraces her watch her be shot. Cinders is so devastated by this that she plunges her wedding ring into the heart of the man who shot her love killing him.

Lesbian space princess who elopes with the terrifying soldier who was previously conquering her planet and spends decades searching for her when they're separated. Listen to her song https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6w9V-gMgBF4

I think the way she punches the evil king through the heart as revenge for her wife is pretty neat.

She’s a revolutionary married to a woman, what’s not to love? From Cinders’ Song: “ When I was a little girl, my mother always told me / "Someday your prince will come, my love" / But as I grew, I knew it was a princess who would hold me”.

her girlfriend got cloned and most of said clones were brutally slaughtered in war and she searched for her girlfriend all throughout the galaxy and when they were finally reunited on the battlefield her girlfriend died. and a clone of her girlfriend who due to technical errors retained her memories, so does that count as the same girlfriend? theseus's girlfriend? anyway vote for cinders she's been through hell

Lesbian!! Has to search for her lost love Rose with her glass wedding ring that changes color when its near its partner!! Gets to embrace Rose once again for one final moment before the villain kills Rose right in front of her!! So Cinders kills him in return!! And she's left as (almost) the only surviving main character from her own album but!! She is eventually reunited with a clone of Rose, and while they cannot have a truly 'happy ever after' together they are the ones graced with the closest thing to it

SPACE LESBIANS (she's in love with Rose Red, who gets kidnapped on their wedding day and Cinders searches the galaxy to find her, waiting for her white ring to turn crimson, indicating that its twin was near) She took her name from the ashes of her burning planet <3 She also killed Old King Cole >:)

shes a tragic lesbian and killed a violent dictator shes literally the best

shes gay shes traumatized she dates both rose red and sleeping beauty. badass space wanderer looking for her wife

Her wife Rose gets kidnapped on their wedding day and Cinders spend the next thirty years looking for her. She finds her (:D) and then Rose dies (D:) and then Cinders kills the guy who killed Rose (girlboss).

shes a lesbian. she lost her wife, Rose (yes, as in sleeping beauty) the day they got married bc she was kidnapped. she spent 20 YEARS looking for her. as soon as she found her wife, Rose DIED IN HER ARMS. Cinders has gone through Too Much to lose this poll

(Her info from the wiki) the Princess of a planet burnt by King Cole's army, after it is ceded by her stepmother. She is imprisoned, meets Rose and plans to marry her. She is released by her godmother for the wedding, then flees when the attack happens, spending thirty years looking for Rose. Her half of the wedding ring will light up when she finds Rose.

"When I was a little girl, my mother always told me 'Someday your prince will come, my love' But as I grew, I knew it was a princess who would hold me I looked to the stars for you, my love" She's lesbian Cinderella IN SPACE. She fell in love with her wife in prison and they ran away to have a secret marriage but the empire kidnapped Rose on their wedding night and Cinders had to leave her behind. She searches for Rose for decades with the glass ring that guides her to its twin on her wife's finger. She finally reunites with her love after Rose rips three supersoldiers to pieces with her bare hands (hot) but then then the evil king kills Rose so Cinders fucking punches through his heart. And then a clone of Rose (who is also lesbian Sleeping Beauty IN SPACE) finds her cradling her wife's body and they have a happy reunion(?) and maybe they didn't have a happy ending BUT WHAT IF THEY HAD EACH OTHER? HUH? AAAAAH

she’s everything. she’s a princess from a long since conquered planet. she was imprisoned to make a statement of the brutal reign of old king cole. she met her wife while she was in prison, a beautiful brutal soldier covered in scars from battles. cinders and rose fell in love, so cinders’ godmother in white broke her out of jail so rose and cinders could be together. they were going to be married, except that OLD KING COLE intervened and kidnapped rose to make her the genetic base of his unholy army. so cinders spends THIRTY YEARS searching the galaxies for her love (and sings a really cool song about it called “Cinders’ Song”) until finally she arrives during the final battle just in time to see old king cole SHOOT ROSE DEAD. so cinders punches the king so hard (with her wedding ring) that he just Crumples Into Dust. the end! (no we do not talk about the fiction.)

lesbian, for one, and for two i don't really care i just think it'd be cool if she got in/if she made it past the first round

no one seems to have linked cinder’s song yet, so here [Link]

better yet, listen to the whole album too, for context and also what comes after. it slaps and also tragedy it's such a good album suhc a good band too

Someone already sent the song as propaganda, so I will provide SPOILER propaganda. [Click link to see spoilers.]

[Link]

Shrek:

She's part of the badass princess prison break troupe who kick ass to 80s rock music and also soooo stressed about cleanliness. She deserves a win 😩

Bachelorette number 1 is a mentally abused shut-in from a kingdom far, far away. She likes sushi and hot tubbing anytime! Her hobbies include cooking and cleaning for her 2 evil sisters. Please welcome... Cinderella!

[teen--marvel]

so... my kids are watching shrek 4, the one with rumplestiltskin in it... and for some reason, it's making me want to rewatch once upon a time...

should i?

[ladywatereton]

✨20 years Shrek 2✨

🎥 Shrek 2 (2004).

🎶 Holding Out For A Hero, Jennifer Saunders.

[frie-ice]

Day five theme of Belle x Sulley week is Alternate Universes. At first I was going to have the moodboard focus on a Keyblade AU to reference their Kingdom Hearts counterparts or a Car Racing AU to reference their Disney Speedstorm counterparts, but other AU ideas popped into my head and this is what I got.

Avengers AU, as I can see myself and other people portraying them as Marvel characters. Like Black Widow and Hulk.

Keyblade AU, as to reference their KH counterparts and have them wielding the keyblades of their home worlds.

Car Racing AU, to reference their Speedstorm counterparts.

Once Upon a Time AU, as Belle is part of the series and thought it would be interesting to see Sulley in it as well. Since Merida is a Pixar character who has her own OUAT counterpart, why not give Sulley one to.

Monster High AU, since Sulley is a monster and @twisting-echo has featured in the two her college AU, why not present Belle as a monster and have both of them as students at MH.

Dancing AU, thought it would be fun to feature them in a dancing AU. The Breakdancing AU from the Miraculous Ladybug fandom gave me the idea.

Shrek AU, the main couple of the DreamWorks film has a similar energy to the one of Beauty and the Beast and some people have Sulley take Adam's place as Belle's beast.

Role Swap, the two swapping roles and films. Thanks to the Disney item and location emojis, they allowed me to reference the films they swapped as they play one another's parts.

Tag: @frie-ice @twisting-echo

[kon-konk]

I ordered a couple of Blu-rays through Crunchyroll & saw they had "blind box bargains" & was intrigued. The ratings are all like 2.5 and lower, but all the reviews I read through were things like "I got a Blu-ray for an anime I don't even watch" and "I got a DVD, they're obsolete!"

So I bought one of each price point

1) my Blu-ray player plays all region DVDs (also I'm like the only person I know that gets Blu-ray? Everyone else I know uses DVD because they're cheaper to buy or doesn't collect physical media? What is that person's life like that DVDs are obsolete? I am fascinated by that review)

2) I fucking love getting stuff I've never watched or read through this method. Like those shitty ratings are basically telling me this is right up my alley.

[depressedstressedlemonzest]

Like onions.

You rumple, you're the mystery.

He looks so THOUGHTFUL at her words.

Like there's a spark of a chance.

"I could never give my heart-"

He hasnt had this much hope since he talked to that dickbag old man about taking the dark ones powers.

She knows what she said.

She knows the point she made.

She knows the meaning behind her words.

You've got some idea rolling around in their rumple, get it out of your head.

There's a spark of an idea there.

A test.

He can give her a test.

[trans-man-named-marc]

(Choose either Shrek or Once Upon a Time)

[cattapz037]

I just watched Shrek 4 and in this one scene Rumplestiltskin rolled the r in his name and I had to stop for a second ‘cause

[angiesmileempty]

laicille maquiavelicos & shrek 2 feat accidentally in love

we were once upon a time in love

we're accidentally in loveeeeeeeee

estos son mis delirios a las 4 am

[tinderbox210]

Fairytale AU (or the KOTPOTA/Tangled/Shrek mashup AU no one asked for)

Once upon a time, in a far away land, the Eagle Clan gets abducted by the evil Proximus Ceasar. To save his clan, the young ape Noa strikes a deal with Proximus and sets out on a journey with his tutor Raka to rescue a "magical" human princess to be Proximus' bride.

The bride-to-be turns out to be a girl named Mae with "magically" long hair and who's been entrapped in a remote high tower for years as one of few humans still able to speak. She agrees to leave with Noa, provided that he would take her to an old observatory for her to see the stars that she always dreamed of seeing. To escape from the beast guarding the tower, they cut of Mae's hair and flee on horses.

On the way back towards Proximus' camp, Noa and Mae grow reluctantly closer with them finding that they have more in common with each other than expected, and when the time comes to hand Mae over to Proximus, Noa can't bring himself to do it.

Together, Noa and Mae fight to save Noa's clan and gain Mae's freedom.

[blueishspace]

Some ideas for a:

Mcyt x Fairy tales/myths/animated movies au

Every fairy tale myth and animated movie lives in the same world. Think Once Upon A Time or Shrek.

Mcyt will be at times multiple characters in multiple stories. Think... Once Upon A Time.

Scott is the evil queen but also Cassandra and to a certain level Demeter.

Scott used to be a farmer but became prince consort of Sanctuary after the king killed Scott's lover and took him by force.

Scott followed a Witchcraft!Scott storyline learning curses and poisons and acquiring his magic mirror.

Scott murders the king of Sanctuary becoming the new king. The king's son, Sausage, becomes next in line but also becomes the new focus for Scott's contempt.

Scott, trying to find a way to live forever, discovers Jimmy stuck in a tower (thanks to the mirror) and launches a "rescue mission".

Scott promises Jimmy great freedom as well as safety in his kingdom in exchange of researching Jimmy's healing and regenerative magic.

The two discover the story of the sundrop and moonstone and start the quest for it, Scott ends up taking the moonstone with Jimmy's consent and gains his blue hair.

All is well until Jimmy is kidnapped by the god of the underworld and vanishes, Scott taken by grief and anger uses the moonstone to envelop the world in ice until he returns.

Jimmy is Rapunzel but also Persephone.

Jimmy has golden wings and golden hair that when the canary song is sung glow bright and are able to heal and reverse aging.

He is rescued from the tower by Scott in exchange of letting him study his magic power.

Becomes friends with prince Sausage and ends up placing himself as a mediator between the two.

Is kidnapped by Tango but falls in love with him. He ends up agreeing to spend half of the year with Scott in the overworld and half of the year with Tango in the underworld.

Is not enthused when Tango tries kidnap a baby and possibly free some ancient chaos god. (The story of Disney Hercules)

Tango is Hades if it wasn't obvious... He is also the enchantress.

The underworld is Decked Out with each layer descending being for worse and worse people.

Kidnapped Jimmy after he discovers Jimmy's ability to not only heal but also drain life. (Hurt incantation)

*Insert myth of Hades and Persephone*

Tried to kidnap baby Hermes as a favour to Scott.

Why? Cause Sausage ate a poisoned apple and was saved by Joel, the king of the gods, the two had Hermes but Joel believed Scott to have been the one that poisoned the apple and refused to let the two meet and Scott was very offended.

... Tango knows though that Scott did have something to do with the apple. He's not going to tell that to Jimmy though.

At one point in the past he took the form of an old man and asked for refuge in the mansion of a noble called Ren. When he was refused he punished him by turning him into an horrible beast.

Sausage takes the role of Snow White and of Hercules' mortal parent. Though Hercules is replaced by Hermes...you get it hopefully.

He lost his mom, his father remarried and then died.

His stepfather hates him for some reason he doesn't know.

And then his stepfather gets married with this guy who has wings and can heal people but then the new guy is kidnapped by the ruler of the afterlife???

And he doesn't even get to deal with all this stuff cause he's poisoned by ana apple and almost dies????

He is rescued by the literal king god and now he had a child with him and that child was also kidnapped??

It all works out in the end but Sausage in this world can't seem to get a break.

[hannyoontify]

little stars - kwon soonyoung

member | non-idol!hoshi x illustrator!reader

genre | fluff, newly est. relationship

word count | 2k with some change

synopsis | soonyoung sees you without makeup for the first time, and he notices something he’s never seen before

warnings | reader wears makeup, reader has freckles on their face, reader is implied to have insomnia but it’s not prevalent to the plot, reader is ticklish, soonyoung has an extensive vocabulary of terms of endearment that borderline make me wanna hurl if they were used unironically, soonyoung makes a shrek reference

notes | i have freckles on the back of my hands and have always been insecure of them but i remembered how my ex used to kiss them and say they were beautiful

Soonyoung’s not a criminal. He knows that. The last time he committed a serious crime was back when he was seven years old when he stole a new pack of crayons from his sister’s friends’ house after a play date.

(Two seconds after leaving said friend's house and he could no longer handle the overwhelming and crushing guilt and ended up running to his mom and crying, calling himself a “tiger thief.”)

So when Soonyoung urgently texts your best friend to ask for the password to your apartment, he can’t help but feel a dull pang of guilt in his chest as he inputs the numbers he sees into the digital keypad. His hands are shaking as the door unlocks and he fumbles through the doorway and upon your quiet and dark apartment.

It’s well past noon now and yet, there wasn’t a single hint of you in the living room and kitchen. The sink was still empty, the drying rack was full, the throw pillows on the couch looked too pristine, and the curtains were still closed. Fearing the worst, Soonyoung quietly made his way to your closed bedroom door, his sock-covered feet padding along the floor. 

He softly knocks once. Then twice. “[Name]?” No response. 

“[Name]? Baby? Are you awake?” When he doesn’t get a response, Soonyoung pushes the door slightly open. “I’m coming in…” 

In the dark room, all Soonyoung could perceive was a lump amidst the lush pile of stuffed animals and blankets, your sleeping form slowly rising and falling. “Baby…” He pushed the door wider, letting the minimal light from the living room stream past your doorway, shedding light into your dark room.

The lump under the big fluffy duvet stirred, squirming around as Soonyoung approached the side of your bed. He turned on the mushroom lamp you had on your bedside table and you let out a loud groan. 

While you stirred in your sheets, Soonyoung glanced around your room. He’d only been to your apartment a couple times in the past few months but he was already familiar to the layout of your bedroom. In the corner, next to the window was your desk with your extensive, impressive PC set-up. Sheets of half-drawn and unfinished pencil drawings were strewn across your drawing board and your desk was a flurry of paper, reference photos, and pencils.

Soonyoung felt a pang in his chest at the realization that you had probably stayed up until ungodly hours trying to finish your illustrations. You were an artiste and you had a bad habit of working until you practically dropped dead when you were struck by a lightning of inspiration.

“[Name], love, it’s time to wake up. It’s already past 3 in the afternoon. Sleeping is for the nighttime.” You poked your head out of the blanket, the edge of the fluffy duvet resting right below your eyes and covering the rest of your face. 

You stared at him blankly with bloodshot eyes and Soonyoung swore he saw—and heard—the gears turning in your head. It took you a couple seconds to recognize your boyfriend. “Soonie?” You croaked out, your voice still hoarse having woken up just seconds before.

Soonyoung smiled at the nickname and affectionately patted your head. “Time to wake up, sleepy head. Don’t wanna ruin your sleep schedule. Late night, huh?”

You nodded and rubbed an eye. “Deadline was…” You yawned. “Last night. Couldn’t sleep either.”

Soonyoung nodded sympathetically. 

“What- what time is it?” You blinked at him with the blanket still covering the rest of your face. Your hair was a tussled mess that was fanned out on the pillow behind you.

“3 pm, baby. C’mon. Let’s get you out of bed.” Soonyoung gently pulled the blanket away, revealing the rest of your face and your matching tiger pajamas. Your boyfriend stared at your clothes, an ambiguous look in his eyes that made you unsure of whether he found your pajamas adorable, or if he simply coveted your clothes and hence boosting you up to top 3 on his rob list, next to his model friend, Joshua and his tiger striped patterned button-up.

(That button-up wasn’t even his, it was something his stylist had just put on him for one of his magazine photo shoots.)

Meanwhile, reality had finally begun to settle in for you as you just realized that your new, hot boyfriend was standing in your bedroom, fluffy hair galore. He was standing over you with a twinkling look in his eyes, clad in a pair of black sweatpants and a white tank top, his muscles flexing and rolling as he tugged the blanket off of you.

You then suddenly became painfully aware of your appearance. You were in your embarrassing tiger character pajamas and your face was painstakingly bare. Your hands flew up to your hands and you flipped over, burying your face into your pillow with a loud groan. 

“Soonie, can you wait outside for me?” Your voice was muffled by the fabric of your pillow. 

Soonyoung reached out for your shoulder and his eyebrows scrunched up with worry. “Why? What’s wrong? Are you okay?”

With your hands still covering your face, you rolled back and peeked at your boyfriend through your fingers. “I’mmph mmm wmmph any mammphup.”

Soonyoung chuckled and gently grabbed your wrists. “Baby, I can’t understand what you’re saying.” 

“I’m not wearing any makeup,” you whined. “You’ve never seen me barefaced before, I’m embarrassed.”

“Nooooo, baby, lemme see your hot and sexy face,” When you wouldn’t budge, Soonyoung sighed in fake exasperation. “Then you leave me no choice.”

He crawled into the empty spot next to you in bed and wrapped his big arms around you, prying your hands away from your face. 

You giggled and wriggled away from Soonyoung, using everything within you to try and hide from your boyfriend who was now currently pinning you to the mattress jiu-jitsu style. You shrieked when Soonyoung’s cold fingers dug into your sides, causing you to writhe around under him, like a fish without water. You gasped for air as Soonyoung tickled you but your hands still firmly covered your face.

“Baby, babe, pookie bear, my sweet sugar plum, my snookum bear, honey bunch, sweet cheeks, pooh bear, pudding pie, my cutie patootie, snuggle bear,” Soonyoung gently grabbed your wrists again. ��I don’t care if you’re the pretty princess version of Fiona or the ogre version. I’ll be the Shrek to whichever version you are, because,” Soonyoung placed a hand over his chest and spoke after a dramatic pause. “It’s the heart that truly matters.”

You snorted. 

“Are you laughing at me and my Shrek analogy? You know it took me a long time to think of that.” Soonyoung seemed to deflate and he pouted.

“Of course not baby. I think your Shrek analogy is genius,” You peeked through your fingers, just in time to see his chest swell again with pride–you had complimented his Shrek analogy! “But I’m still not showing you my face.”

“BABY NOOOOO,” Soonyoung dramatically threw himself against you, his fingers seeking refuge in your armpits this time, causing you to erupt into a fit of giggles. “LEMME SEE YO FACEEEEE.”

“Nooooo,” you whined. Despite your protests, you couldn’t help but giggle as Soonyoung tried different combinations of kissing and tickling to try and get you to open up.

Thanks to his stubbornness and his iron grip, he was finally able to pry your hands off your face and pinned them against the pillow next to you. In the midst of wrestling you, Soonyoung had ended up on top of you, his legs straddling your waist and he looked down at you with a triumphant grin. “Gotcha.”

His eyes were roaming around your face, evidently studying you as you tried to avoid eye contact. Your giggles slowly subsided, and you heard Soonyoung trying to catch his own breath. When he finally managed to lock his eyes with your own, there was a softness in his eyes in the way he looked at you that you had never seen before.

Breathless, Soonyoung spoke softly, his voice barely above a whisper. “You… have freckles…”

“H-huh?” You felt your cheeks burning as your boyfriend timidly brought a hand up to your face. His fingertips softly grazed your skin, his touch so light and gentle, you would’ve thought it was just a light gust of wind if you hadn’t been paying attention. Soonyoung’s eyes stayed trained on your cheeks, his eyes examining each and every individual freckle with a gentleness you had never seen from him before.

You’ve always been aware of the freckles on your face, but they’ve never received this much attention from someone before. It felt awkward, but it also felt… intimate. It felt nice for your beauty marks to be appreciated, and your heart swelled with affection at the sweet gesture from your boyfriend. 

Soonyoung continued to study the freckles, his fingers lightly tracing your skin with a feather-like touch. As if he was trying to commit every single detail of you to memory. Finally, his eyes meet yours and the corner of his lip tugs up, hinting a smile. “You’re beautiful.”

You feel the heat on your cheeks spreading across your face to the tip of your ears and you become unsure of how to respond. Sure, you’ve received compliments before, but not like this. No compliment you’ve ever received has ever been this intimate or vulnerable. The way Soonyoung said those two words made it sound like a secret. A secret that he uttered quietly into the void, whispering it into existence, just for you to hear. A secret only the two of you would know.

You thought your heart was about to burst. 

Soonyoung cupped your face with both his hands and his thumbs rubbed gently against the soft skin on your cheekbones. You blinked up at him, watching his big, dark eyes roam around your face. The light of your mushroom lamp reflected in his eyes, sparkling and shining with a child-like wonder. 

Your room was dimly lit, the muted colors in your room solely provided by the small lamp on your bedside table. It had begun to rain at some point, the dull pitter-patter of the rain against your window replicating the beating of your heart. 

After what seems like forever, you finally speak up. “Soonie?”

Soonyoung begrudgingly tears his eyes away from your freckles and looks into your own, shining eyes. “Yes, baby?”

“I–” you faltered, unsure of what to say. You pursed your lips and stared at your boyfriend who gave you a soft, loving smile. “Are my freckles that interesting?”

Soonyoung’s grin grew into a boy-ish one and he reached over and pressed a soft kiss to your cheek. “Yes, honey. I want to commit every part of you to memory. I want to learn the story behind every freckle and scar. I want to learn all of you.” 

You felt an unfamiliar warmth stir in your heart, that soon spread throughout the rest of your body, through your fingertips and every cell of your being. Your heart fluttered. Was this what poets and lyricists meant when they wrote of love

“They’re like… I mean, I’m not a poet but-” Soonyoung fumbles as he searches for the right words to describe the immeasurable admiration and love he felt for you. 

Your freckles were strikingly beautiful and Soonyoung felt the wind getting knocked out of him when he first saw the sweet brown sugar sprinkled on your nose and cheekbones. They were like April rain showers that sprinkle the green grass with yellow flowers and Soonyoung thought your face mimicked the night sky, your freckles glinting and gleaming like countless stars. 

“Your freckles… they remind me of beautiful constellations. They can create illustrations in the night sky by connecting the dots and they tell stories, your stories.” Soonyoung paused. “And I love them.”

Your breath catches in your throat. Was he-?

“I love you.”

Soonyoung gazed down at you with an uncertain look, his eyes searching your own for some kind of response. His heart hammered against his chest as he wondered if you felt the same way yet. 

You did. 

“I love you too, Soonyoung. And baby?”

“Hm?”

“That was so much better than your Shrek analogy.”

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