#agent kaolin vellum

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[ID: a shaded digital ink drawing of Merim Felspar and Kaolin Vellum from three of hearts, in bed together, shirtless from the chest up.]

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One thread of the infinite network of coexistant and conflicting head cannons that exist in my brain says Spar's a cis dude (gasp I know) who's gnc as fuck, but you wouldn't know, because masc fashion is genuinely more practical, and so dresses and skirts and stuff end up being exclusively for when he's chillin' and relaxin'....which is almost never.

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[ID: a colored digital sketch of merim Felspar and Kaolin vellum. They both sit on the floor, vellum with his arms wrapped around Felspar's neck. Felspar has a hand in Vellum's hair.

Beside it is a very rough doodle of Felspar iN booty shorts. End ID]

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I just...I just came here to do a design and then my...hand slipped?

[ID: Digital sketches of Agent Merriam Felspar from two of hearts, a dark-skinned Hispanic man with short, black, curly hair, this eyebrows, slightly pointed ears and a scar across both his lips. The first two sketches are a neck-up portrait, with one more detailed than the last. The more detailed one has border collie ears doodled, floating about Meriam's head. The last sketch is of Meriam and Agent Kaolin Vellum, an asian-american man with shoulder length hair, both seen from the waist up. Meriam is in a button up shit and vest, his tie lays across his shoulders undone. In one hand, he grips Kaolin's tie, and in the other cups Kaolin's jaw. He is smiling down at Kaolin, with his mouth open as though speaking. Kaolin wears a similar button up, but no vest, and suspenders. He's seen leaning far across a desk, with his hands planted on the surface, making eye contact with Meriam. There are notes all over the image, and one nearby this last sketch reads, "that's...that's gay, I'm pretty sure." The image below is the last sketch, just shown bigger. End ID]

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I've finally had success getting some full-bodied & front facial angles of spar! And also drew Jakub. These all came from jokes and/or requests in the Many of Hearts discord

[Drawings of characters from the Three of Heart podcast. The first is A black and white sketch of Spar, a Hispanic man sitting casually. He wears professional slacks and no shirt, and has a sword strapped to his back. The second is a drawing of Vellum, a tall, Asian man holding a cane, and Spar. Here, Spar is wounded, with a bloody nose and bruised eye and cheek. His skirt is loosely unbuttoned to show a bandage on his stomach. He's smiling, and muttering affectionately to vellum, who help support his weight and is carrying the harness of Spar's sword. Vellum says, "Spar, please stop trying to flirt with me I think you have a concussion."

The third and Last image is Jakub, a pale skin, blonde catboy in his boxers. He's posed halfway through being startled as he looks down at a large, crudely drawn dildo (In the style of a graffitid penis). All his hair stands on end. End ID.]

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Spoons low time for Vellum playlist thoughts

This might be hard because I love Anya and Spar on a "I want to pin you to a table and direct you like a bug" kind of way, but I like vellum in a "I want to attend you lecture series and day dream about asking you out to coffee but I'm too intimidated to" kind of way, like emotionally yk?

We've gone super in depth about Spar's relationships because of the show being set in cloven heart, and it's amazing! On the contrary, a lot of Vellum's big interpersonal beats (that aren't with spar) are being hunted at but haven't taken center stage yet. So I have vibes for him but like I gotta understand what he's packing before I attempt a full dissection, if that makes sense.

The challenge is that Vellum, besides being an actual composer just has suuuuuuuch classical music vibes. I don't know that much classical music. I'm also being drawn towards Motown and Fitzgerald? Though Motown is 60s.

Anyways I have a few albums in mind:

Prelude to cora by ambrose akinmusire

Where the river goes by Wolfgang muthspeil

Can't we be friends? By Ella Fitzgerald and Louis armstrong

Bleed out by the mountain goats (??? I don't know. I'll see)

Another blue by cross legged

New long leg by dry cleaning

Look up by the altogether

I also need to go through my yearning playlists (yes plural. We're queer and I have a fuck ton of playlists) also Fleet foxes albums we're not familiar with, Motown hits cause we don't know the studio well. I'm looking for crooning and trying to avoid the pop-y feel like the plague. Pop is great. It's just not Vellum. He feels like a well placed accidental sounds.

But like. Vellum is strange, because he FEELS like a yearner but like...evolved. he feels like a man who's yearned and missed his shot (maybe it's his history with magic giving me this vibe) and has gotten used to saying "fuck it" in responce. And like. Feels like the kind of person who, maybe like Spar but in a...in a different way, would take a rejection and avoidance "in stride" as in "this deeply affects me but I respect you enough to continue to act like things are chill and normal and chill" (some of this has happened. Low spoons & low memory accesses means I can't cite my sources as well rn) but for Spar and Vellum normal looks very different. Spar's normal is energetic, and so when that's being faked it feels fundamentally different than Vellum's purposefully maintained normal which I would call not faked but forced? Anyways the distinction is crucial to the vibes of the instrumentation, cause Spar can have super upbeat bops with lyrics that are more serious, but I feel like Vellum's song are gonna be more emotionally congestive instead of presenting a contrast, and also mellow in a groovy way but not funky way.

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Five times Spar noticed Vellum's style + one time Vellum noticed him back

Because if I wanna have mindless fluffy shit to read, first I gotta write it.

Read on AO3 or below, except on Tumblr I can't be damned to worry about formatting or notes. Tws in tags.

Chapter 1: Pins

It feels different to be back at S.U.I.T.S again, like slipping into a pair of shoes Spar hadn’t worn for a while and remembering, in a moment of pleasant surprise, that he’d already broken them in. The bustle of too-early risers follows Spar off the street and through the antechamber. In the lobby, sunlight leaps through rows and rows of square windows, hitting the floor tiles at just the right angle to shower the room in warm iridescence. A smile reached Spars lips without his thinking. Things feel right.

“Agent Spar!” A voice calls. Naomi, his favorite security guard, an insectile altered. “How was Cloven Heart? I hear you had quite the time.”

“I couldn't complain about the company, at least. Visiting family was nice.," Spars says. "Though I’m glad to be back.” He accepts a firm clap on the shoulder, and gestures Naomi on hir way.

But si doesn’t move, letting hir hand linger as she stares at him with a knowing set of compound eyes. Si takes a long sip of hir coffee. “The company, huh?”

Spar hesitates, long enough that a human carrying a tower of file boxes has to swerve suddenly to get out of their way. Spar only just manages to catch the top box when it slips, and tuck it under his arm. The human slips away, oblivious.

“I, uh, don’t know what to tell you,” He lies. “My aunts are sweet, I’m gonna miss Hilde’s cooking every day ‘til I head back.”

“Some of us can see in infrared, you know." Naomi points a spindly finger at hir eye. "Even if most folks can’t tell, you’re blushing.” With a wink, si finally, mercifully gets on hir way.

Spar watches hir go, and only when he’s absolutely sure si’s turned a corner does he allow his grin to shrink to something small and private. There is someone he’s looking forward to seeing, today.

But Agent Vellum is nowhere to be found among the swarm of field agents that ambush him when Spar steps off the elevator. There's only a split second of peace for his eyes to rake through the crowd before Spar feels a familiar grip on his waist. He pulls up his knees just in time to avoid kicking anyone as Xbala lifts him overhead, to much applause. Someone grabs the file box from his hands, and Soare shrugs it off.

Xbala's hollering something that shifts rapidly between aggrandiosities, wordless, excited sounds and the chorus "that's my partner!" And Spar is laughing without being entirely sure why. He shakes any hand that grabs his and responds to the statements he can't quite hear over the din with a "thank you, thank you," and a few well placed winks. Someone hands him a shot glass of clear liquid, to which he says, "What time is it?" And hands it to the person calling something like "if you won't-" He endures bumps, and shoulder rubs, and one brave soul ruining the perfect coif of his hair — he barely spares a thought to the knowledge it'll dry all wrong. Spars with his people again, one group of them, anyway. And things feel right.

Eventually Agent's trickle away, and Xbala sets Spar back on his feet. He gives her a glare, the bite of which is probably dulled by the aforementioned bad hair.

She shrugs, "Wasn't my plan."

"Yeah, and Mayor Governor Thorne's alive and well," Spar gripes light-heartedly, following her back to their adjoined desks. "Who else could it be?"

Xbala's incredulous look is enough to suggest an answer, but the presence of two travel cups on his desk confirm it. Spar snatches one at random and holds it close. Close enough to his face to the infrared appearance of his cheeks. Underneath — those he's distracted momentarily by the incredible smell of oolong — is a note.

Sorry, I'm not very big on crowds, but I know you are. We did good. Welcome back. Let's talk soon. X

-V

Spar keeps the tea near his face while he slips his coffee, and only puts it down to take a closer look at the note, reading it over a few times, and checking the back.

Only then, when he looks up, does Spar notice Vellum. He stands with his back toward the room, head bent far down in that way that can only mean he's speaking to Jack, who's hidden from this angle. As if on cue, Vellum glances over his shoulder. He's smiling around a cup, identical to the two on Spar's desk. He blinks, once, slowly, in greeting. He looks…nice.

A moment too late to be smooth, Spar holds up the note.

Vellum closes his eyes, and shakes his head fondly.

Spar takes a half step forward, and Vellum glances at Jack.

It's pointed — not just yet.

So Spar nods, and stares, and feels his cheeks start to ache with the force of his face's determination to make him look like a lovesick idiot first thing in the morning. As Vellum turns away, with the briefest expression of regret, Spar is struck by the slight curl of his hair, how it falls freely behind his ears and sways when he moves. It's not moussed back, he realizes, Vellum uses pins. He always used pins, before pieces of their luggage disappeared in the train incident.

Vellum is back at S.U.I.T.S, back in Vassa Natura. He looks comfortable. He looks like himself. He looks right.

There's something about the mental image of it — Vellum holding his hair back, lips curled carefully around the delicate metal, placing each pin with that expression of absolute focus Spar finds so adorable. Spar can't help but imagine the scene in his apartment's bathroom, Vellum making eye contact in the mirror, keeping his lips pressed tight together while his eyes narrow in a smile. Maybe Spar would brush his hair. Help somehow. Heck, learning to give a Sorel braided pigtails without yanking her out of his lap had been a challenge, braids on Vellum would be easy. It would give him a reason to run his fingers through the salt and pepper strands, to feel Vellum lean into his palms, his shoulders going slack with a sigh that filled Spar's chest with an infinite sense of warmth.

Spar forces himself to look anywhere else in the room, sinking into his chair with a long-suffering exhale. Xbala is staring over her spectacles when he gathers the wherewithal to notice.

Spar raises an eyebrow, but she only goes back to reading her report, letting out an amused huff.

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blasting mitski, drawing the blorbos, what a night @threeheartscast

[ID: digital sketches of Anya and Vellum from Three of Hearts, all with an assortment of notes and commentary. The first is a bust sketch of Anya, a fat dark-skinned woman with afro textured hair and an undercut, pointed ears with piercings, and no nose or eyes. The next sketch of of Anya, standing feet apart with her arms behind her head, smiling and leaning back. The next drawing is a copy of that post, except Anya is wearing a long red dress with slits at the waist, and gold necklaces.

The sketches of vellum are all the same neck up portrait, slowly becoming more rendered. Notably it the writing that says "how did...how did I go for spar and get vellum?" The last one is rendered, and shows Vellum, an Asian American man with salt and pepper hair. He looks to one side with a smile on his face. End ID.]

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Pov you are a problematic zoologist:

A three of hearts doodle from episode 2 of vellum and Spar seated together in a train booth wearing dunce-cap-shaped hats that, together, say "Special boy with special job"

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I'm so incredibly proud of this tattoo design for vellum. We love our nerdy-ass greaser

ID in alt and under read more for your convenience

[ID: a front and back view of a tattoo design for a person with top surgery. Over their top surgery scars are swirling shapes made to represent magic, which comes for a point in the center of their chest, and make an 8 pointed star, with more, smaller swirls radiating from it. On the back, is an open book, pages down and spread out. The book is angled to make the covers look vaguely lung-shaped. They have a bronchiole design and the spine is being woven together with a needle and thread, the needle pointing up the person's neck. Emerging from the pages is two symmetrical hands with a cog in their center. Many parallel lines (reminiscent of an art-deco style) radiate from the cog. Swirling around behind the shoulders and curling both arms is a single-lined score of music, between the score, on one forearm, geometric, scale-like lantern has lines drawn through the center of each "scale" making each look like and eye. End ID.]

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I've had the autistic vellum head cannon for like...an hour. Here's some thoughts/fic ideas

No real spoilers!! For friends in the early'sodes

At some point, Vellum gets overstimulated (the hands-on-your-ears kind, I imagine the irritable kinda is ...normal. because the world is loud as shit) and Spar is really helpful cause he assumes Vellum is getting a migraine on and takes him somewhere quieter and dark & it's really sweet :)

Iris and Vellum being ND buds has already kinda come up in my fic (post-edits) but I'm saying it again. Two techs who together know 90% of the random facts that exist in the world. Iris coming into Vellum's office like "sit down. I NEED to tell you about the lastest theories on Ignacio" and Vellum's into magic so ofc he's so down. They're FRIENDS your honor! Or they become friends!

Vellum gets bored/understimulated and plays with destiny until she goes and just takes a nap. And spar is like "you tuckered her out, huh?" And Vellums like "I am a persistence predator, she is an ambush predatory. Of course I did" and spar's just kinda like ??????

Spar having that moment a lot in general. The "I have no fucking clue what you're talking about but I love you"

Vellum really liking the texture of Spar's turquoise tie and fiddling with it whenever Spar let's him because Sorel was right it IS soft

Just. All of the deep pressure therapy hugs. Get that Marvelous Attorney Woo shit in here because that one scene made me CRY it was so good & so cute

Vellum trying to be a Good Partner™ further into his and Spar's relationship and making all kinds of plans until Spar (professional investigator) is like "not that I mind? But why do you do exactly one gesture per week?" And Vellums like "ah—" (Spar tries to show him he can be spontaneous and it partially works and helps vellum chill but also sometimes a bitch likes to plan and that's ok!!)

Vellum has memorized The Rules™

Spar fixating on something (am I making this ADHD/autism? Idk. You decide, whatever.) To like an unhealthy degree. I case or whatever. And come like 4pm Vellum's like "you haven't had lunch. We're going to have lunch. I'm going to keep bothering you until you have lunch" cause Spar usually eats three meals a day and often physically exerts himself, and he NEEDS to stay nourished. Those are The Rules™

Vellum usually asking Grey about The Rules™ when he's not certain about them but he's trying to figure out when and how to introduce spar as his partner (romo edition) and he can't ask Grey and so he's just like ughhhhhhhhh

I just wanna see Spar's reaction if Vellum every walks him through Morality Math™ outloud and like the end result it good but some of the justifications in the middle sounds mildly-to-incredibly fucked up. like, Vellum has made up his mind about the trolley problem in MANY variations

STIMMY VELLUM. CAUSE ITS CUTE AS SHIT. Maybe a stim where he twirls his cane when he's sitting. And the classic hand flaps because those are always wonderful.

This plays into a fic idea I have but Vellum being cautious around the folks in Clovenheart because he knows he's a normie and The Rules™ say he should be extra courteous and he tries not to overstep. But when He becomes spar's Partner (romo) Brunhilde keeps trying to treat him like a son and Vellum keeps accidentally being too polite until she's just like "Look kid, when you walk in would you mind giving me a hug? Do you not like hugs?" And he's like "no I like hugs I'll do that" and they have a sit down to hash out The Rules (Son in Law edition)™

Vellum being really confused/upset as to why someone reacted a certain way and unsure about how to navigate it and Anya using her ability to walk him through it

Anya using her ability to understand Vellum when he can't communicate as well too!

Anya and Vellum bonding over law because those!!!! Those are a lot of rules? And spar is in the corner outwardly like "oh my godddd" and inwardly like "my friends are having fun together and I am hanging out watching them talk this is nice :)"

Vellum being a picky eater but in a sensory seeking way. He grew up on super bougie food and has a hard time eating bland stuff

Spar being all blank-faced Intimidating while Vellum's using him to stim (tapping on him, playing with his hand, etc.)

Spar having a moment when something bad that happens gets to him so much he just breaks down and Vellum steps in in to make sure they're safe and Spar has a place to decompress and all that. And the next day Vellum start's to feel guilty for being OK in the face of what happened and Spar talks him through that <3<3 ah, homosexuality

Bonus that DOES have spoilers for maybe episode 20? 22? Idk:

Vellum doing research on how to be a good big brother and Spar sitting down with him to talk about his experience as a sibling and just just hold Vellum as he talks about how scared he is of fucking it up, wahhhhhhh

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Episode 22 3o❤️s

I've just been sitting here rotating them in my mind so I'm gonna do another episode

What I love about podcasts is how they make me permanently associated a certain feeling with this opening music in a pure Pavlovian response. The absolute adrenaline hit I got from the Desperado opening music was craaazya an now three of Hearts makes me 🥰🥰🥰

Essay's ability to repeat the word "crystallis's" is astounding.

Namesake AND relative. Okay. Okay okay okay I'm normal I'm so normal!

Diamond agreeing with the plan or not is the difference between consensual kidnapping and uhhhh kidnapping.

"If diamond doesn't trust queer creeper we might be able to get away with just heisting diamond, we don't need diamonds cooperation" HFODGSODGKZVSZ THATS JUST KIDNAPPING BUT OKAY!!!

"we can kidnap diamond consensually or by force" 😂😂😂😂 okay I get this as like a witness protection thing but damn

"a find my phone but for the people you've adopted" VDODHKSBSKD. I love this podcast about vellum, spar, and their strange child who is their age

Loving this strange shadowy room that definitely has nothing lurking in the corner

"STANDING IN THE CORNER IS A PERSONS OUTLINE" BECAUSE OF COURSE

Bxksgskdgs he says EXCUSE ME

NOT THE STEALTH CHECK JOKER IM DEAD

A HILARIOUS introduction to voracity

Ipswitch is such a nerd... WHEEEEW GETTING CAUGHT IN THAT WAS NAAAARROWLY AVOIDED

I get this nagging feeling that no matter what diamond is not gonna be with the agents by the time shit shakes out.

"diamond has a method of circumventing free will" is diamond altered? This was definitely mentioned in just not sure. But that means they mind controlled Kurt or something, right? I wonder if voracity can suck people's alterations out of them or something.

Ooooh locate person spell yeah...

Spar just *goes*...yeah. yeah that's spar. Go get 'er!

"if something happens and spar gets murdered, whatever" NOT WHATEVER. I WILL CRY

Here I am like oh, I love this little fight it is so cute and harmless and really shows off who they are as people so nicely and then—

"are you saying I'm not a good enough fields agent?"

"yes. I am" spar noooo

VELLUM PUNCHES HIM? OKAY KING MAYBE NOT THE APPROPRIATE RESPONSE EMOTIONALLY BUT IM SO HERE FOR THIS. THE DRAMA. TAKE NO INSULTS!

TWO SUCCESS TO PUNCH. TWO TO RESTRAIN. OH MY GOD.

"and kaolin vellum can't throw a fucking punch" okay part is me is SO MAD right now but the larger part is me is eating up all this info about spar, I didn't know he got like this

JAKUB THIS IS NOT GREAT TIMING IM FUCKING DEAAAAD.

'if you're gonna be dead can I at least uhhhh do my job?'

"This is what I'm for" ugh. Ugh. OUCH.

"I care too much about you for you to get hurt, you know that right?"

"SPAR DID NOT KNOW THAT"

... "HE DOESNT WANNA HAVE TO TELL ANY OF THE OTHER FELSPARS THAT SOMETHING HAPPENED TO SPAR WHEN HE WASNT THERE" OH IM SHAKING.

I was warned about this episode but I was not warned

"You got it kid. Sir" that's cute.

Wow I have so many emotions in my body right now.

HE CHECKS HIS TIE AND DIEBDKDBSKDBDISVS

"be careful"

"I always am"

"that's a lie—DAMMIT SPAR"

But the cheek kiss. Oh my god the cheek kiss. I feel like people get so wrapped up in mouth-kisses that they sometimes forget the simple shit like hugs and kisses on the cheek can be just as emotionally impactful if not more in context. The cupping his face. This. mmmmmmmmmmMMMM!!!!!!!

God I love them. I love them. I love them so much.

Spar and Xbala's friendship is so precious. Everyone is so precious. I'm gonna cry. but SPAR STOP DUCKING JOKING ABOUT THE IDEA THAT YOU'RE LOVED! GODDAMN!

I'm still loving the groove, this time I am bopping and weeping.

Okay but thinking about a last name in a hypothetical marriage that they hypothetically decide to want they'd probably keep theirs??? For work reasons?? But idk. I was just thinking that "Velspar" is a cool shit name. Kaoliam. Merlin. Maybe not merlin fksgsksgdjdgs

[spar bakes tiny pixie sized cakes for Sorel as he organizes her birthday yearly, doesn't org. His own lets someone else. He's confident in his cakes but otherwise can't really cook]

Ipswitch is a mood, I also love tasks.

Maybe my volume is slightly higher than normal but this end of midtro music seemed extra groovy

It just hit me that there was no heavy content warning at the start of this episode so spar's fine at least for now. I'm not feeling particularly anxious today but knowing that would definitely help a lot of j was :D

"she's not gonna blow up the car" awhhhh

I know he's fine and I'm still worried, but like, in an exciting way

He cuts the radio station in half <3.

I'm imagining Anya giving the guards bad legal advice because I think it's funny. Anya is a "vengeance is best served cold" kinda gal

I love spar saying he wants to pick Anya up because I know she is the size of maybe 2 footballs (exaggeration)

I LOVE THAT THEY KIDNAPPED CARNATION ALSO LMAO. sorry you got muzzled tho bestie that makes me sad....

How are we transporting carnation in the sedan? Or maybe carnation is just really fucking fast because pigs are fucking scary. And then this one has ANTLERS oh my god. I also need to draw carnation

Eughhhh I don't like where this incoming car is going

There are animatics in my head of all the fight scenes that I will never be able to make but know that they are VERY cool.

I WAS SO FUCKING SCARED ABOUT VORACITY BUT THE FUCKING BEARTRAP LMAOOOOOOO

This does imply voracity has some sort of physical ability maybe.

>:( the hosts need to stop being funny they keep making jokes before I can make the jokes. But still "playing whatever card game is the gayest" is SO much fun.

The :0 face..... IPSWITCH!!!! ASK FOR AN ALTERNATIVE DATE OR SOMETHING OH MY GOD

the suits manual (which I know exists but I maintain does not exist exactly because it is funny) — "MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR GODDEX" FFFFUCK.

One success has ME making peace with my goddex.

IMAGING GETTING A BEAR TRAP THROWN AT YOU

"IF NEEDED SPAR WILL FASTBALL SPECIAL ANYA TO THE CAR" 😂😂😂😂

SPAR SPAR SPAR SPAR SPAR STOP FUCKING BEING SELF SACRIFICIAL THAT IS A BLOOD SUCKING VAMPIRE MY MAN WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK SPAR WHAT THE FUCK

JORDAN THE MINUS ONE FLIP WHAT THE FUCK JORDAN WHAAAAAA

Oh shit cool sword shit I love cool sword shit.

THEIR BLOOOOOD TURNS TO STONE? THATS SO FUCKING COOL.

Spar I love you but your hubris —TWO JOKERS. The deck said "fuck you. The timeline."

Ooooh it won't kill a Felspar........SO HE'S GONNA FUCKING SHOOT THEM? VELLUM DEFINATELY DIDNT FUCKING AUTHORIZED THIS BUT I IMAGINE ITS ASSUMED—NO SUCCESSES

HHHHHOLLLLLY FUCK.

VORACITY KNOWS—FUCK YOU VORACITY STOP TALKING ABOUT HIS PARENTS FUCK YOU. CHRIST. GOD. THIS. HUPEHDLJM?

Xbala's gotta be fucking flooring it.

Wheeeeeeew. What a fucking episode. Fuck. Wow. Fuck.

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