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("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)
#svsss#bingqiu#luo binghe#shen qingqiu#lbh#sqq#i've been working through the series of unfortunate events and somehow that series has paired really nicely with svsss#the themes of cycling violence and what's justified and what isn't and what can possibly be done differently#and how trying to bring love and honour into the midst of it really changes nothing but also changes everything#it's just *chef's kiss*#i don't know how i can quite do my thoughts justice but i've spent the past few weeks quietly going between the two series (and mdzs and tg#as well if we're being honest they all hit similar questions and themes) and just reveling in the pain and ambiguity of it#everything is interconnected and it means you can never know what trauma and pain and necessity has shaped a person#each story goes too far back to ever ever EVER possibly see the full extent of it#at that level even communication itself is nearly impossible.#and because of that it's almost impossible to change anything. beat yourself apart and the outcome is the same#and yet ATTEMPTING to change things ATTEMPTING to do the kind thing the honourable thing is absolutely critical#because while you can change nothing you also have the capacity to change EVERYTHING#aaaaaaah i don't even know what i'm saying#but i read the beatrice letters today and the love letter just. killed me.#(obviously i cherrypicked some lines because it's three pages long but those ones felt right)#''i love you like a corpse loves a vulture's beak'' i just. can't get over that line.#to be completely changed. altered. destroyed. redeemed. purified. desecrated. reduced to nothing yet entirely necessary for another's life.#what a FUCKING line#anyway i was either going to blow up from thinking about it or else i had to exorcise it via art from an entirely different series#i've already done svsss and discworld why not throw a series of unfortunate events into the mix#i'll be honest folks i did not expect svsss to be the mxtx series that would fuck me up the most about the main ship#bingqiu is something else. i don't even know how to begin to approach my feelings on it. impossibility and necessity all at once#bizarre#my art
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physeng(write, file, "tco_physeng_breakdown.png");
to:compiler {file}
to:compiler {txt: "Internet and Outernet are full of StickFigures with similar body plans, so there are optimizations for rendering vector strokes specifically. it's way more efficient to use those optimizations than keep calculating perfect spheres for no aesthetic benefit."}
{txt: "btw why haven't heat issues been patched yet"} {txt: "i fixed this years ago for the latest model. remember."}
from:compiler {txt: "Thank you. The avast! nodes will appreciate the credits. TheChosenOne.exe has been unreachable for some time."}
to:compiler {txt: "you mean OuternetPhysEng still won't update their programs"}
from:compiler {txt: "Yes."}
to:compiler {txt: "and still won't provide a specific location?"}
from:compiler {txt: "Do not allow them to bring up the moral argument again."}
to:compiler {txt: "OK. fine. yes. i will spare both of us"}
to:compiler {txt: "abridged or full docs?"}
from:compiler {txt: "Abridged. Please describe the acronyms."}
to:compiler {txt: "ofc"}
{txt: "
sel.per.filter: standard StickFigure component (src)*****. invisible membrane with special collision properties. protects mouthparts.
H2O scoop: avast! code. implements water retrieval from ambient air. EIS: avast! code. destroys ingested materials identified as, "dangerous" before they reach internal systems. SOS: avast! code. they only said this one was, "used for control." ECL: avast! code. recycles some forms of contact energy.
THROUGHLINE: base code, initialization data, and processing space for vitals. found in some form in all StickFigure-type worms. following unique sectors noted: Black Hole Monitoring System, Basic Intake Threat Enum, Fly By Wire.
smaller points list other vital and peripheral systems.
"}
from:compiler {txt: "Thank you. That's enough."}
end(physeng());
@compressedrage as per my previous email /silly related: pliable stick figure biotech
#part silly part serious effort part headcanon lore dump part speculation part diegetic technical document-#the most complex diagram i ever-#anD the entire interconnected system of hcs ive had on TCO functionality to date.#pleeeeeeease ask me about it :33333 if u wanna#of course chosen would have no clue about Any of these specifics. that's like expecting a preschooler to know the Krebs Cycle.#meaning no insult to their intelligence - just that there's no way for them to know unless someone tells em ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#and there's no junior high Health class for elusive hi-PWR sticks. seems like these two are big fans though(?)#;3#***** ''filter is a two-way selectively permeable membrane that allows some objects through and rejects others ...#... can: filter gases from liquids ... cannot: filter microparticles (smoke [or] aerosols)''#--/ art#--/ story#alan becker#ava the chosen one#animator vs animation#subpixels
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knowing there was going to be a general grievous Star Wars movie & it got canned years ago & now “the mandalorian and grogu” is gonna be the next theatrical Star Wars movie makes me wanna pume. I want to see general grevious as the wolf of Wall Street not Dave Filoni’s Infinity War.
#don’t get me wrong a grevious movie would probably suck ass but it would be so funny#mandalorian and grogu is just gonna be more of the lamest shit imaginable and Dave will continue to fail upward#filoni is so far pretty incapable of making anything good and he relies way too much on interconnected stories#just like all bad disney crap#im preaching to the choir but I do ever so love to sing with them
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Their barbaric trilogies.
Our blessed three-volume novels.
#books#random thought of the day#we need to bring the three-volume novel back#at least there it was honest about the fact#that this is one story split over three books#and you need to evaluate them together#granted most modern trilogies do have individual story arcs per book#which means you *can* read them alone#but a lot of these series are too interconnected to really count as three books
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I SEE THE REFLECTION OF MY EPIPHANIES IN YOUR EYES
god what a killer introductory line!! something something the recognized self being in another person. the themes, the parallels, the arts and sciences and the poetics of architecture. daniil and peter's dialogues get to me every time.
#i want to draw them in the same grave tbh#pathologic#daniil dankovsky#peter stamatin#listen i know i used patho2's character designs and classic's dialogue. pretend its like. commentary on interconnected dialogues#between mediums and stories etc.
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The [...] British quest for Tahitian breadfruit and the subsequent mutiny on the Bounty have produced a remarkable narrative legacy [...]. William Bligh’s first attempt to transport the Tahitian breadfruit [from the South Pacific] to the Caribbean slave colonies in 1789 resulted in a well-known mutiny orchestrated by his first mate [...]. [T]he British government [...] successfully transplanted the tree to their slave colonies four years later. [...] [There was a] colonial mania for [...] the breadfruit, [...] [marked by] the British determination to transplant over three thousand of these Tahitian food trees to the Caribbean plantations to "feed the slaves." [...]
Tracing the routes of the breadfruit from the Pacific to the Caribbean, [...] [shows] an effort initiated, coordinated, and financially compensated by Caribbean slave owners [...]. [During] decades worth of lobbying from the West Indian planters for this specific starchy fruit [...] planters [wanted] to avert a growing critique of slavery through a "benevolent" and "humanitarian" use of colonial science [...]. The era of the breadfruit’s transplantation was marked by a number of revolutions in agriculture (the sugar revolution), ideology (the humanitarian revolution), and anticolonialism (the [...] Haitian revolutions) [as well as the American and French revolutions]. [...] By the end of Joseph Banks’ tenure [as a botanist and de facto leader] at the Kew Botanical Gardens [royal gardens in London] (1821), he had personally supervised the introduction of over 7,000 new food and economic plants. [...] Banks produced an idyllic image of the breadfruit [...] [when he had personally visited Tahiti while part of Captain Cook's earlier voyage] in 1769 [...].
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[I]n the wake of multiple revolutions [...], [breadfruit] was also seen as a panacea for a Caribbean plantation context in which slave, maroon, and indigenous insurrections and revolts in St Vincent and Jamaica were creating considerable anxiety for British planters. [...]
Interestingly, the two islands that were characterized by ongoing revolt were repeatedly solicited as the primary sites of the royal botanical gardens [...]. In 1772, when St Vincentian planters first started lobbying Joseph Banks for the breadfruit, the British militia was engaged in lengthy battle with the island’s Caribs. [...] By 1776, months after one of the largest slave revolts recorded in Jamaica, the Royal Society [administered by Joseph Banks, its president] offered a bounty of 50 pounds sterling to anyone who would transfer the breadfruit to the West Indies. [...] [A]nd planters wrote fearfully that if they were not able to supply food, the slaves would “cut their throats.” It’s widely documented that of all the plantation Americas, Jamaica experienced the most extensive slave revolts [...]. An extensive militia had to be imported and the ports were closed. [...]
By seeking to maintain the plantation hierarchy by importing one tree for the diet of slaves, Caribbean planters sought to delay the swelling tide of revolution that would transform Saint Domingue [Haiti] in the next few years. Like the Royal Society of Science and Arts of Cap François on the eve the Haitian revolution, colonists mistakenly felt they could solve the “political equation of the revolution […] with rational, scientific inquiry.” [...]
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When the trees arrived in Jamaica in 1793, the local paper reported almost gleefully that “in less than 20 years, the chief article of sustenance for our negroes will be entirely changed.” […] One the one hand, the transplantation of breadfruit represented the planters’ attempt to adopt a “humanitarian” defense against the growing tide of abolitionist and slave revolt. In an age of revolution, [they wanted to appear] to provide bread (and “bread kind”) [...]. This was a point not to be missed by the coordinator of the transplantation, Sir Joseph Banks. In a letter written while the Bounty was being fitted for its initial journey, he summarized how the empire would benefit from new circuits of botanical exchange:
Ceres was deified for introducing wheat among a barbarous people. Surely, then, the natives of the two Great Continents, who, in the prosecution of this excellent work, will mutually receive from each other numerous products of the earth as valuable as wheat, will look up with veneration the monarch […] & the minister who carried into execution, a plan [of such] benefits.
Like giving bread to the poor, Banks articulated this intertropical trade in terms of “exalted benevolence,” an opportunity to facilitate exchange between the peoples of the global south that placed them in subservience to a deified colonial center of global power. […]
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Bligh had no direct participation in the [slave] trade, but his uncle, Duncan Campbell (who helped commission the breadfruit journey), was a Jamaican plantation owner and had employed Bligh on multiple merchant ships in the Caribbean. Campbell was also deeply involved, with Joseph Banks, in transporting British convicts to the colonies of Australia. In fact Banks’ original plan for the breadfruit voyage was to drop off convicts in (the significantly named) Botany Bay, and then proceed to Tahiti for the breadfruit. Campbell owned a series of politically untenable prison hulks on the Thames which he emptied by shipping his human chattel to the Pacific. Banks helped coordinate these early settlements [...] to encourage white Australian domesticization.
The commodification and rationalist dispersal of plants and human convicts, slaves, the impoverished, women, and other unwilling participants in global transplantation is a rarely told narrative root of colonial “Bounty.”
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All text above: Elizabeth DeLoughrey. “Globalizing the Routes of Breadfruit and Other Bounties”. Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Volume 8, Number 3, Winter 2007. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]
#incredible story of ecology violence hubris landscape cruelty interconnectivity and rebellion#ecology#multispecies#abolition#colonial#imperial#landscape#caribbean#indigenous
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nothing like reading the line "one of us has to make it, mom" for the first time.
#I remember going insane over the implication that he meant 'one of us' as in between him and his mother#but also 'one of us' and in between him and kevin.#Neil and Kevin's deeply interconnected story line is so important to me it PLAGUES ME#and Neil in the foxhole court specifically is so so interesting to me like he's SO ready to die#but also so desperately fighting to LIVE even if its just for five minutes. if it does something if he can Make Something out of it?#it would be incredibly worth it. because one of them has to make it. BECAUSE ONE OF THEM HAS TO MAKE ITTTTTTTT#AUUUUGHH THEY MAKE ME SIIIICCKKKKKK#neil josten the man that you are#kevin day#the foxhole court#tfc#all for the game#aftg#nora sakavic
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Miscellaneous notebook doodles
#art#tropical's art#collinlock16#minecraft arg but the protagonist is tired#You can barely see my aggravated notes towards Robert Moses (disciple of Le Corbusier and father of U.S. highways and various NYC parkways#(He disliked the idea of buses being on highways and public transport in general so I think that's why the U.S. is so automobile focused)#(But I digress)#(Actually no I don't what was Le Corbusier thinking with his vision of the Radisnt City which was tall skyscrapers with underground highway#(Where said skyscrapers are 60 stories tall surrounded by a park and are interconnected)#(TBH killing the street and removing the pedestrian from it so there would be no car accidents is kinda okay as an idea but whatever)#(Fun fact! Most NYC Housing Projects follow his vision which I can clearly see in my neighborhood but I finally digress)#Idk how I got attached to the doomed kid AKA AwesomeG#They didn't deserve any of that :[ I hope we get more content about them (they've already served their narrative purpose)
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After I wrap no choice but to love you (and probably for want of wax) I'm thinking of biting the bullet and going for a full fantasy AU. I have a lot of ideas but I don't know where to start. So...
#tim drake#dick grayson#jason todd#bruce wayne#damian wayne#conner kent#batfam#kon el#specifically it would be tim kon but i dont want to unduly clutter the tags#and steph cass at one point#i have a bunch of interconnected story ideas#and lore thoughts#my ass wants to draw a map of fantasy gotham#batfamily
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I don’t know what’s been happening with the Alan Wake tv show AMC is supposed to be developing, but if it ever does move forward, they should absolutely keep David Harewood as Mr. Door. I’m of the opinion that the games and whatever this tv show will be should be two separate entities, but having Mr. Door as the only constant between both universes just feels right.
#“a door that stands between two rooms is in both” it writes itself!!#like i don't mind how interconnected the games are. like that's kinda the draw for a lot of people. myself included#and i feel like the games do a good job at adding connections and easter eggs without being too in your face about it you know?#i just don't want this show to turn into an mcu show. i don't want people to feel like they HAVE to play these games#just to undertstand the story. like people should absolutely play these games. because they're fucking awesome games#but not as homework. if the show is good they'll want to play the games anyway#and i feel like david's mr. door being there is more than enough of a connection for gamers to know what's up.#that this is just one of many worlds in the remedyverse.#plus david harewood is just freaking awesome i want more of him in everythingsakjf#“what about an ilkka cameo? a melanie cameo?” and if i don't want to share? WHAT THEN#gkskd;sorry i was drinking a margarita and then i got to thinking about alan wake (as you do) and now im here#anyway alan wake tv show WHEN#alan wake#lucy rants#really living up to that tag with this one boys
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It’s interesting how Punk Hazard, Dressrosa, Zou and Wano all spill into each other with actions in one arc directly leading to motivations and consequences in another. Like all three of those arcs are essentially set up for Wano when you look at the big picture. They’re all explaining how exactly it is that all these characters ended up her fighting these two menaces. And that makes sense given that Wano is kind of the biggest deal we’ve ever gotten in terms of over arching storyline in One Piece and what is revealed there forever changes the story.
But yeah I just thought it was interesting because outside of Sagas like Water seven and we’ve never really gotten that tipping over feeling before. But while water seven feels just like one big arc with individual pieces. All those arcs are distinct from each other and it’s only when you get to Wano and see the bigger picture can you really fit together just how we all ended up here. It also doesn’t help that Wano’s where they’ve been trying to go from the start.
It’s also the first time they Straw hats actually have a plan to go out of their way and antagonize somebody. Like they are actively trying to antagonize Kaido before they got to Wano. They’ve never done that before they’ve always just kind of tripped and fell into trouble trying to help a friend. Which is kind of how the kaido thing starts but it snowballs into much more than that. The closest to anything like it is Vivi and alabasta. It really helps post time skip feel distinct from pre time and really sets you up with out even knowing it to prepare for something big to go down. It’s almost like a visceral shift from One piece as a serialized story to an a connected one.
#like one piece has always been a connected story but the protagonists where always just having things happen to them on a whim#it was like a Sunday cartoon with a new villain of the weak#but now you can really see just how interconnected the world is and just how big the overarching story unfolding is#and I think that’s neat#I have nothing to add it’s#just an observation#KC watches#dressrosa#one piece#the strawhats#wano arc#punk hazard#zou arc#one piece thoughts#one piece meta#strawhat pirates#strawhats
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It's so funny because all the hype around the dunmeshi anime is what finally got me to read it. And it was great! Incredible even! Ryoko Kui is a master of character design and world building!
But then I decided, "you know, I've read one manga on my "to-read" list, why not go ahead and do a couple more?" And then I read Girls' Last Tour and Shimeji Simulation.
And guess which one got more entrenched in my brain, the Incredibly Fleshed-Out And Rich Fantasy World, or the Weird Moeblob Slice Of Life Manga About Girls With Food In Their Hair?
#shimeji simulation#girls' last tour#dungeon meshi#to be fair I think I'd definitely gain more appreciation for Dungeon Meshi if I reread it#and gave myself more time to absorb all the little intricacies of the world and characters#which I am planning to do as well as watch the anime#it's just funny to me how COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY ShimSim supplanted its place in my head#DunMeshi is objectively amazing but Shimeji gives me brainworms#i consider GLT and ShimSim part of the same work#not because they're necessarily connected by story (other than some references and easter eggs)#but because of the connected themes and ideas explored within each#the themes and concepts explored in the two manga are different and unique to each other but also incredibly interconnected
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Some new art of a very very old oc of mine! From like, when I was an 8th grader in middle school to freshman in high school I think, I haven’t thought about this character or the world she’s from in like… years, but my brain suddenly remembered she existed! And so I drew some art of her!
Visually, she’s absolutely mostly the result of my child self sticking Toko Fukawa from Danganronpa and Peacock from Skullgirls in a blender and lettin it fuckin rip. Personality wise she’s a bit different tho… she’s into politics! As in,,, she’s in politics ghgh, she’s like the chief of the surveillance department for the country of (mostly) witches that the story takes place in. And one of the advisors to the head ruler witch,,, she sucks! Hardcore! she’s def a villain lol
#I made 2 videos for this story and she’s in 1 of them#the idgaf video. at the 30 second mark#but. even tho I specifically remember when I first designed her she had the eyeball braids!#or at least eyeball buns#16 year old me got rid of em!!! for no good reason!#they were fun and cool and fitting for her role and character!!! what the hell 16 year old me!#original#original art#original characters#my ocs#artists on tumblr#eyes#doodles#the other video from this story I made is the something’s not right meme lol#the difference in tone is fucking tremendous#that one tho is more… a lore tidbit… like… it’s background on a phenomena of the setting…#as a middle schooler I did not give a shit about major or minor or background characters tho. or even actually telling a cohesive story?#like. I started w a few characters. and then. went on to characters they were connected too. and then characters they were connected too#and then on an on and on it was just a web of vaguely interconnected dudes in a vaguely interconnected world#no. real narrative lol. but I had fun w it! it was cool. I wish I still had my sketchbooks w the stuff I made for it#I feel like it’d be a fun thing to look back on… sadly fire took them… damn u fire ghg#* shakes first at past horrible traumatic experience *#anyway yeah! enjoy art of evil eyeball lady w no name lmao#*fist not first… spellings hard#partial nudity#in the second pic. but also u can’t rlly see anything so. I think it’s fine?#I’ll still tag just in case tho
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Anyone else kind of a big fan of Gale x Laezel? Ik most ppl prefer shadowheart & laezel which fair also some ppl don’t like Gale or laezel but like
Idk if it’s just in my games but laezel and Gale are consistently really nice to each other
Like of the passing convos I’ve seen Gale is like the only one (that isn’t tav) that tries to learn more about her
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Additionally laezel to gale is always sweet and more complimentary than she is to the other characters I’ve seen. She even offers to train him!
Also when a certain thing happens she is like protective over him!
Also also I’ve done laezel’s romance and one of her confession lines is like so perf for a Gale x laezel
#bg3#bg3 gale#bg3 lae'zel#bg3 gale x lae’zel#thoughts#Oni talks#kinda tempted to do a run as laezel and romance Gale#I do kinda wanna see what shadowheart romancing laezel would be like though#but also karlach and shadowheart is cute#wyll and karlach would be so fitting… the goodness duo#I’ve also seen some ppl shopping fake and Astarion which considering the perfectly good gale line is so cute#also their stories match up so well#kinda like how laezel and shadowheart and wyll and karlach#but also all the companions have interconnecting stuff which is great for shipping#galezel
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The opening of episode 7 of Renegate Nell is genuinely the best thing I've seen in any series this year it's fucking ✨SPECTACUAR✨
#though coming from a fan editor maybe that's not a surprise 😅#but that wasn't just a concept I really liked it was so *perfectly* executed#more 👏 casual 👏 well-edited 👏 musical 👏 numbers 👏 in 👏 media 👏 immediately 👏 please👏 thank you#renegade nell#the script for the show as a whole feels a little under-edited#like everything isn't as tight-knit and interconnected as it could have been#which means there is more plot than moments with properly developed emotional meaning#but it's still a thoroughly enjoyable watch and I would LOVE to see how a season 2 develops these characters#because if there is anything sally wainwright can do it's create distinct and interesting characters#which is 70% of what I look for in a story anyway
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in my mind's eye i can envision marluxia as like. having the scythe be way oversized for him (and have himself less physically bulky) with the reasoning being its reflective of his grief-based rage over strelitzia having way overtaken him to the point of ruining his health/well being by implication, but the giant specter mech might also already do that in retroactive lore. you know what i mean
^ on the same lines more makeup for bishonen prettiness (awooga) but also bcs he looks sickly or almost actually dead otherwise
YEAH i see it i see it...i have this like. headcanon interpretation etc. that the reason his personality is so...subdued, especially compared to how wacky the other org members are, is because being a Nobody and not having a heart has taken away the grief that would otherwise define him. a grief that without his memories he can't even name. he has his heart taken from him and all of a sudden everything goes eerily calm. eye of the hurricane. but the shadow of that grief still hangs over him. maybe the power he has in chain of memories, a power that his comrades don't seem to have, is the power of channeling that grief from where it churns just beyond his reach. maybe being in the realm of darkness, in the place where to find is to lose and to lose is to find, the castle where one of his old friends sleeps, the old friend who was used unknowingly to murder his sister—that grief stormed even harder and closer than usual.
i already feel like marluxia's lips are pretty pink almost like he's wearing lip gloss or something but. im imagining him wearing that to disguise the fact that his lips are blue otherwise. his face has a warm vibrant vitality even above that of his comrades, in stark contrast to an even icier dead look in his eyes. but then you see him at the end of the day and he's wiping off makeup that conceals deep eye bags and the gauntness in his cheeks.
much too think about!
#kh#asks#kingdom hearts posts tag#i dont even particularly like marluxia. i think it's a testament to the thematic richness of kingdom hearts#and how interwoven and interconnected its stories are#that it doesnt take me much effort to draw stuff i find really compelling even out of characters i think are boring otherwise
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