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The golden tigers are still nibbling at my brain something fierce, along with a half dozen other shifter-related things because they're my faves, but until I actually get anything grown from these seedlets, here's something that I wrote while writing SUE VS SUE and then forgot to post. It's a bit of backstory from the past of Lucretia and Ruthven, back before the latter gained that name and still carried his human moniker of Richard Thorne.

The Great Inferno is a canon event in AB-verse history. Dottie has pointed out why it doesn't really make much sense history-wise in terms of "all countries in Europe totally cooperated!" and stuff, so I decided to *make* it make sense in my headcanon by explaining it as ultimately being engineered by Mr. Oliver (meaning that mind-control by his vampire agents against the people in charge of all those countries can account for them doing things they ordinarily wouldn't). Why? The same reason he wanted to make vampires illegal again in CotD---there's getting to be too many and that causes numerous problems (riff raff in the ranks, consuming resources, etc.) So what better way to purge the unworthy predators than turn their prey on them?

This isn't mentioned in the fic itself, though, which is why I'm saying it here (though I'd like to explore this sort of thing further later, since I figure it's neither the first nor last time Oliver has stepped in to kill his people in order to save them---I see that sort of as his "role" in the Council) and the focus is instead on the aftermath concerning Lucretia's reaction to it. I wanted to get into how her mind works, since she's supposed to think in very non-human ways, and that's of course difficult for me to work out, being a human myself and all. What I pretty much get is that she approves utterly of Oliver's decision, if she feels anything at all, but at the same time, humans killed her brood and therefore must also be punished for it. Both are right. Both are just. This is contradictory to us because Oliver's decision is the same thing as what she's punishing (innocent) humans for, but to her it makes sense. The predators have to be reminded to stay in their place and neither over-populate nor grow stupid, and once the prey have weeded out those that deserved it, they must too be reminded not to get outside their own place

That's what I figure, anyway. You draw your own conclusions. Also, this was inspired by "Jeannette, Isabella" by Tori Amos. Because Christmas carols somehow translate into "flaming death and baby-eating vampires" for me, I guess.

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- More focus on characters. The sheer abundance of them combined with the fast-paced plot made it difficult just to keep up with them, let alone have the individual little sub-plots for each like I originally wanted. Much like LKH, I was forced to just dump everything I'd wanted to happen, especially the romantic pairings, into the epilogue without ever having really developed it whatsoever in the actual story itself. (Of course, that makes it more authentically-AB, but that's obviously not really a good thing)

- More focus on Lucretia being really creepy and unnerving to others just by existing, her Uncanny Valleyness, as well as more ambiguity/suggestion as to just what she really is. Rowan sees her as a fellow fey, albeit one made a vampire, but that's meant to be only one of a few options, the others being that she's something else entirely or just a very weird/old human vampire. There's meant to be an almost Lovecraftian feel about her, and, in the context of SvS specifically, there's also meant to be the implication that she either is a breed of SUE herself or something that hunts/kills them.

- She's also the creator of a vampire called Ruthven, and though it doesn't come up in this fic, Ruthven can call swans and enslaved all the swanmanes of England. Several member's of Sig's flock are refugees/rebels who escaped from this, and I wish there could have been a moment of them realizing this. Ended up being undoable since most of the Flock stayed in NYC till the very end, plus there was so much other shit going on.

- More emphasis in general on why swanmanes in particular have a reason to fight Anita. The issue of the mass rape was brought up, but their history with Ruthven also gives them reason to not want a tyrant ruling over all the therians. Which also would give them reason to not like Maureen and Lucille taking over, and on that note, originally the rebels were supposed to turn against the SUEs once they saw they'd only exchanged one monster for two, but the nature of SUEs enforces complacently and adoration, so that didn't happen.

- I wanted Asher to be able to confront Jean-Claude, and make it clear he was through with his shit and why, possibly attempt to offer him away out of this even so, and Jean-Claude's ultimate decision that he values power more, and examination into why that is.

- More on Lucille's past, since the fact it's Tragic Cliche Dead Mother Abusive Father Sue Angst past that she...doesn't angst about, or at least not for the seasons one might first expect, and how it influenced how she turned out but with the emphasis that her being awful is still her own choice (as well as establishing that being a terrible person is not part of being a SUE, but that it's easier for them to be one, as with Anita and Lucille, because they never face any consequences for it)

- I wanted Cornelius to get a chance to use his faith in Voodoo against other vampires, namely in breaking a bottle of white rum over JC's head (white rum with goat peppers in it is the favorite drink of Ghede loa and a common offering to them, so in the hands of Cornelius it's a holy item) as well as getting to show off his acrobatic AND hacking abilities more (AND TAUNT JC DIRECTLY WITH HIS STOLEN OUTFIT). I also really wanted a scene where he, Max, and maybe some others hijack the stage at Guilty Pleasures and do an absolutely ridiculous strip routine to something by The Village People, probably Macho Man

- Having it pointed out to Richard by Sylvie, Jamil or Shang-Da that Marcus was like him, that he thought of werewolves as humans first, and, like him, was corrupted by his rapist girlfriend--"You know why Raina hasn't shown up in Anita lately, Richard? Because she doesn't have to anymore! Anita does everything she would do anyway, just she isn't honest about it like Raina at least was!" If Richard hadn't have died, I'd have had him step down to make way for Sylvie, at which point it would be pointed out that it doesn't work like that and the previous leader has to be eaten by the new one, at which point Sylvie would just go "Who says?"

- Narci also confronting Anita, and having it revealed that Anita hates him because he's really just like she is. Anita would accuse him of raping JC in the past, and Narci would be like yes I did what of it, then point out that Anita's entire empire built is on rape, rattle off names of her victims, and point out that it was like that before she even got here, what with Raina and Gabriel, Nikolaos pimping Jean-Claude out to him, and that JC uses rape alongside Anita because he knows this too. "This is how it works. This is how power is gained and how power is held, and I learned that long ago, just like Jean-Claude did." (Basically, hinting he's been subject to similar like JC has; not to excuse him but as a criticism of the system LKH has created and how it relies on this shit, as well as pointing out how some rapists like Narcissus are reviled, as they should be, while some are adored like JC, and how that's basically based around who Anita thinks is sexy and the gross hypocrisy of that)

- So much more Melanie/Narcissus joyousness with Edgar, Rowan, Lucille and Maureen all joining in as well. SHOES!

As you know, many of the characters in SvS were donated by writtenelision, who is a fabulous writer and great fun to roleplay with. She wrote these two shorts concerning her characters in scenes that happened during SvS, but were not written by me in the larger story. Imagine this basically as the bonus scenes on a DVD. The first is Pryderi "Fidget" Smith confronting Rowan about secretly being a fey rather than a werefox like they pretend, and the second is Sig (who belongs to Cygnusrex) and Odette discussing her role as Herald (and just what that entails) before the final battle.

Enjoy! I did!
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This is it, folks! The last segment of SUE VS SUE! I would like to thank everyone for reading and commenting and following it thus far, as well as the creation of so many donated characters for its used. For this section in particular, credit must be given to writtenelision; without going into spoilers, everything that Lucretia reveals to Lucille and Maureen was writtenelision's idea.

Odile (" the tiny brunette holding the battle-axe...screaming a Norse battle-cry"), Odette, Hank, Fidget, Victoria, Emily, Maureen, Simon, and Rowan also belong to writtenelision
Edgar/Aggie, Sig, Tom Sallow, and Astrid belong to cygnusrex
Cefyn belongs to wickedgrayson
Sadhya belongs to Phoenixofborg
Wander and Ghislaine belong to wandering worlds
Tung belongs to Tungsten monk
Mitria belongs to mitrian
Ufa belongs to uf_addict
Nan belongs to nanoquill
Anyone else who isn't AB canon belongs to me

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This installment uses some terminology in regards to the weretigers that was made up during RP. It's not canon, but it makes sense and makes things less confusing, so I'm including it.

In the books, a tiger "clan" can refer either to a group of tigers in the same way pack does for the wolves or rodere from the rats, but can also mean what color they come from--Cynric, for example is from the blue clan in the sense of his lineage but is a member of Anita's clan in terms of group affiliation. Changs rule the clans in terms of color lineage, so Bibiana rules the entire white clan aka all the white weretigers in the USA, but may not rule the smaller clan that a particular tiger of their color belongs to in terms of group affiliation.

Obviously, that's confusing as fuck, so this is the system we use:

Clan - The color they originate from. White Clan, Red Clan, and so on. As seen in the books, most members of a clan will live in a mass commune in one place made up only or almost exclusively of members of that clan color (the White Clan in Vegas, Red clan in Seattle, etc.) where they are ruled by the Chang, who is the ruler of that Clan.

Streak - Some, however, will live elsewhere in the country rather than the HQ of their clan, and, if they are not the only solitary tigers in the area (as is probably usually the case) will group together in a Streak. Unlike the Clans, these Streaks are much smaller, not huge communes, and much more like other minority-therian societies in terms of size and structure. They are usually of mixed-colors rather than all one, and while each tiger owes their ultimate loyalty to his Clan Chang, they are more immediately ruled over by the Sahiba of the Streak. Basically, the Chang is President, the Sahiba is the mayor. Streaks may also be called Little Clans, since the Sahiba is usually a Little Queen.

Little Queen - A female with enough power to leave her own clan and establish a Streak of her own.

Sahiba - A Little Queen or other female tiger who has actually done so. She may have founded the Streak, or taken or inherited it from another Sahiba, or the Streak formed itself and she came to them later. Who gets to be Sahiba depends a lot on what kind of weretigers make up the Streak; a Streak of mostly Clan tigers will probably never accept an orange survivor as their Sahiba no matter how powerful she is, whereas a Streak of mostly orange tigers probably isn't going to care about whether their Sahiba has 'pure' breeding, and a Streak made up of mostly white clan tigers might demand that their Sahiba only be a white clan tiger as well. It all varies.

So, Klaus belongs to the White Clan and thus owes his loyalty to them and Bibi first, but he's a member of a Streak headed by a Sahiba called Sandhya, whom he is loyal to second, and Sandhya is of the Red Clan and thus answers to Cho rather than Bibi, hence the conflict of interest Klaus will be having in this installment that is 'addressed' by Lucille.

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Hey guys, did you see the previous SvS update? Because you won't understand this one if you didn't
http://a-sporking-rat.livejournal.com/53873.html
I ask because, well, comments are the only way I can tell people have read it, so when there are none I'm not sure...and I feel like a shit for saying this because it sounds like a passive-aggressive demand for comments and I SWEAR THAT'S NOT IT I just want to be sure people don't miss it so this one makes sense...although it might not make sense anyway. IT BARELY MAKES SENSE TO ME AT THIS POINT.

I've got to say, this has been an incredible experience so far in what I think LKH's writing process is. Because firstly, this is a first draft. I am posting this as I write it. And I have no idea where the shit I'm going. I know who is going to win and have some notes about things I want to happen, but I have no plans on when or how to pull it all together. Which is usually how my first drafts are, but then I straighten them out and clean them up in the following drafts. This? This has become such a clusterfuck. There will doubtless be dangling plot threads galore when I finish this (and so instead of actually wrapping them up in the story itself I'll just do one of LKH's un-satisfying sum-up epilogues!) But there's also the constant introduction of new stuff, forgetting old stuff, and having ALL THESE CHARACTERS to not only keep track of but also try to give attention to in general. But it's impossible to focus on them all and not bog down the action and pace, so I wind up with these great characters in my head not really getting any screen-time at all and me just TELLING you what they're like with no showing---case in point, the bit about Cleo in this update.

This is how LKH does it, guys. My fic is the most meta-authentic imitation of hers and that is why it is a MESS.

Of course, I wanted it that way on purpose for said LKH-experience and meta-level imitation, what's her excuse?

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Yet another update in which few of the donated characters feature D: Sorry everyone, I really want to get back to them too! Since I have LITERALLY NO IDEA what is gonna happen next though, that means the range is wide open for me to work them in!

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I AM GETTING A BABY HAMSTER FROM THE SHELTER! HER NAME IS OATMEAL AND I AM BRINGING HER HOME TOMORROW!

In other news I haven't been able to make a new spork this week, I'm busy and not feeling well, but since I've had this character-post ready to go for a few days, please enjoy it until I get a new spork up, which should be by Friday or the weekend. Presenting...the star of Sue vs Sue herself, Lucille van Pelt!

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This one focuses almost entirely on Lucille and Anita, and there's little to nothing of all the lovely donated characters save for Maureen, but I hope you'll still enjoy it! It's also a bit shorter than previous updates, I think, but hopefully packs no less punch for it!

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ATTENTION: This is the LATTER half of the latest SvS installment. It was too large for one LJ post, so I posted it in halves. Please see the post BELOW this one for the FIRST half of this installment, then read this one!

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At long last, it is here! And, as promised, sporkings of Kiss the Dead will begin on Friday!

This update is too large for a single LJ update, so I'll be posting it in halves, so look to the post above this one for the next half of this installemtn!

I wanted Thea and the others to all be on Anita's side so she'd have some aid against Lucille, as things are so stacked against her right now, but logically it just seemed like most of their motivations should be to wash their hands of her. And unfortunately that also means most of them, save Bibi and Reba, won't be included in the fic beyond this like I'd wanted. I was hoping for all these different factions siding with Anita for reasons of their own, etc., but oh well, things are enough of a clusterfuck as it is...and besides, there will start being other divisions of factions reeeeal soon in the next few updates of...

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Just a little story from back when Gaspard was still just a kid named Marion. In case you don't follow the My AB OCs posts, the characters are thus

Ruthven Strongmore - Vampire who can call swans and has enslaved all the Flocks in England. Lives in an old manor out on a vast moor.
Gaspard Glass - Androgynous swanmane who will grow up to lead rebellion against Ruthven; still a child in this story and thus still going by female pronouns and birth name of Marion to everyone else (though has picked out secret name of Gaspard for self) and hence is mostly referred to as she/her in the story because he hadn't started using alternating pronouns yet
Lucretia - Maker of Ruthven. Very old, very mysterious, very nice, very terrifying.

I wanted it to be a creepy little tale, though Lucretia, in typical AB vampire fashion, does not actually *do* anything in it. Unlike AB vampires though, it's actually my *aim* to give Lucretia a lot of buildup and eeriness and mystery and even occasional indications she might just be a harmless Morticia Addams ooky-but-sweet type before something actually *does* come of all the buildup. ideally that something would be awesome and horrifying and really really worth it, but I am not yet at the level I think I can pull that off. Still, I'm trying! In the meantime, enjoy her introduction =D

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I've been wanting to write some more with Anthony Blake ever since I posted about him here. I wondered why, since I could just write about Anita instead. After all, they're basically the same, right? At first I worried that maybe I'm more into bashing a male character than a female, but that didn't seem to be it (especially given how much I *love* bashing Anita!), nor did any other gender-related reasons I pondered. Then I remembered that a few commenters had said Anthony is less scary to them than Anita because he's pretty clearly not meant to be taken seriously or as a hero, whereas Anita is intended to be both. Even when I treat her as an idiot and a villain in fanfiction, the fact remains that the person who came up with her still writes her doing horrible things while 100% unaware of how horrible they are and in fact portraying them as good, and that's MORE scary than the deeds themselves. Anthony, on the other hand, was created and written from the start by someone (moi) who considered him to be nothing more than a mirror-image of the world's biggest fictional asshole, and is never going to be presented as anything else. Thus, he's always going to be less scary than Anita and more comfortable to write/read about, at least to me.

But that's good, because it means you can laugh at him, whereas with Anita there's a lot you can't laugh it. And me, I write this for laughs. Plus, it would be a shame to come up with all those gender-swap names and then never use 'em!

If you're wondering about the nipples thing...the first time that Anita sees Melanie in her true form, she happens to be topless. The first thing Anita notices and describes to us is not the fact that HER BOTTOM HALF IS A GIANT SNAKE but that her nipples are reddish. Because priorities!
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Firstly, I would like to deeply apologize for my terrible portrayal of Cockney with Wander that you're about to endure. I'm so, so crappy with accents and regional slang.

Secondly, someone once suggested that back in the day, Dragon looked like Xena, and that today she looks more like Joan Jett. That has forever been my headcanon since, just thought I'd throw that out there.

Thirdly, credits:
Wander and Ghislaine belong to wanderingworlds
Nan belongs to nanoquill
Cefyn belongs to evilgrayson
Astrid, Edgar, and Sig all belong to cygnusrex
Tung belongs to tungsten monk
Fell belongs to ladyfellshot
Mitria belongs to mitrian
Hank belongs to writtenelision
All other non-canon characters mentioned in this segment belong to me

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Today Dad and I went kayaking! We went right into a big pod of dolphins that were hanging out by an anchored fishing boat. It was awesome! We saw lots of them up close (a few I could have reached out and touched with the oar!) and lots of babies with their moms and adolescents goofing around together. Totally thrilling! Mom and my sister were in the other kayak, and they stayed away from it all. My sister was afraid of the dolphins, and mom has a phobia of birds (which were of course also all around the boat) so they just headed back early. My dad and I stayed for a good long while though. I could totally have watched them all day.

I am happy to announce that Sue versus Sue has gotten fanfiction! Commenter writtenelision, who contributed several characters to SvS, has been making wonderful little drabbles about those in her cast who joined the cause and what they're up to behind and between the SvS scenes! Check 'em out!

Maureen and Simon are hers, Thomas and Delilah are mine, and they are all being cute!
http://writtenelision.livejournal.com/1883.html
Pryderi the werefox contemplating just what he'd like to do to the Circus
http://writtenelision.livejournal.com/2412.html
Odile, sister of the swanmane Odette, hasn't entered the story or St. Louis yet, but when she does, it's gonna be a bloodbath
http://writtenelision.livejournal.com/2588.html
Her original creation, a Kiss of little girl vampires, don't actually appear in SvS (though Valentina will probably join them at the end) but they're still in that universe and they miss her in NYC!
http://writtenelision.livejournal.com/1638.html

As for the titular subject of this post...this was something I wrote between the previous installment of Sue vs Sue and the installment before that one. It was done basically to get inspiration back, and it served its purpose, so I might not continue it to completion. However, what I got of it was amusing enough that I think it can stand on its own and that you'd enjoy it enough to hold you over before normal sporkings resume.

It's supposed to take place alongside/at the same time as Sue vs Sue, but don't fret about it lining up perfectly with the continuity or canon, because I didn't.

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Hello folks! Greetings from Tybee Island! I mentioned I'd still be posting little bits and bobs, so here some are. Firstly, can we talk about Anita's height? I know I've mentioned before that, last time I checked, the average height in the USA for women is 5'4, putting 5'3 Anita one inch below average. Now, it's absurd that this makes her among the tiniest of women in the world as LKH thinks, but could her claims to her supposed super-shortness be at least TECHNICALLY right, since there is that one inch?

Actually, no. Because one inch below average does not mean one inch below normal. Remember how we all learned about mean, median, and mode in school? This is the context that average is in, not a synonym for regular, common, etc. You could have a group of women of all different heights, none of which is 5'3, and still get that the 'average' height mathematically in the group is 5'3. The fact that the *average* female height in the USA is 5'4 indicates that the *normal* female height is most likely in the 5'2 to 5'6 range. So no, Anita is NOT short, not even by an inch.

Which makes it extra offensive that at one point she compared herself to Mr. Oliver, whom she says is of a height that typically indicates dwarfism, and claims solidarity with him over it: "He was small, but he didn’t think it was a defect. I liked that. I felt the same way." Anita. As a woman of perfectly normally height, you have NO IDEA the difficulties that someone like Mr.Oliver would face in day to day life, from the looks he probably gets to actual functional difficulties with getting around in a world where everything is designed for people at least a foot or two taller than him. If you don't quite get what is so drippingly offensive about her sentence, think of it like this: "He had depression, but he didn't let it stop him. I feel sad sometimes, but I don't let it get me down either!"

And on a totally unrelated note, here's a jot list I made in the car of some vampire characters that I would like to see in fiction, or to write myself at some point:

- A Native American vampire. More than one, actually. One from the days when white people had only just gotten here and were starting to actively wipe them out, another from the 1980s. Because Native Americans actually do exist outside the context of old west movies, which I notice people tend to forget. (Shockingly, LKH actually does this well with Bernardo, though she still handles mixed-race issues shit

- Black vampires from just all over in terms of place and time, from American slaves to African royalty.

- An array of vampires from different classes, races, genders, and sexualities, all from the American South before, during and just a generation or two after the Civil War. Hey, vampires are a staple of Gothic literature, why shouldn't that also apply to the Southern Gothic? Yes, I am entirely biased towards this genre and the study of Southern cultures and Southern histories, but you can't say there wouldn't be some amazing stories there! Bonus points if they're from Georgia like me =D

- A vampire who was a cowboy! Especially if they are black or Mexican, because it is a pet peeve of mine how cowboys are ALWAYS considered white when in fact a significant chunk were black or Mexican.

- I've wanted to see a Thuggee vampire for awhile. Of course, there's debate on whether or not the Thuggee cult were real or something that Imperialists came up with, but that could just make it extra interesting with the vampire claiming he was Thuggee, some other character noting this, and it never being confirmed or denied one way or the other.

- I'd especially like someone who filled multiple categories. Like starting out African royalty, becoming a slave in the American South, becoming a cowboy, etc

- Vampires that come from European nations that are less-often-used (French, Ye Olde England, and Ancient Rome or Ancient Greece are what I've seen the most in fiction and roleplay) but have no less interesting histories for it. Especially if their own regional vampire lore is incorporated! Many countries had very different beliefs about vampires that the typical type in media, and they could be quite interesting.

And these are some villains I'd like to see in the ABverse:

- An animator villain who resurrects the corpses of therians and uses them for evil. I notice that raising dead therians is never brought up, whether they could still shift, etc. I am going to go with "yes, they can" so as to be scarier villains.

- A cannibal that wants to sample every type of supernatural flesh (each therian type, each vampire line, each tiger color, etc.)

- No more sexual predators or sexually twisted baddies of any type, please. I'm usually all about the really sick sex crimes, I watch SVU, etc. but I am burned-out on sexually-evil AB villains, I really am.

And speaking of sexually evil...may I present to you something I found that I think I scribbled up last year.

( My name is Anthony Blake )

If you're reading this, you obviously have an appreciation for AB spitefics. On that basis, please allow me to point you in the direction of this delicious little gem:
http://eternaleve.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/the-other-blake/

Besides that, the only thing I can think to mention before we get rolling is that there is a "Dev" referred to as being in Anita's harem. We learn in Bullet after Anita screws Mephistopheles (sorry, but you knew that was coming, right?) that his nickname is Devil. I guess 'Dev' at least sounds more normal than 'Meph'? Because I'd totally think the guy was being called 'Meth' and wonder what the story was there...

Anyway. Without further ado...
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For those wondering who Envy is, she is one of the golden weretigers who appears in Bullet. She got zero characterization, so I hope to find room in the fic somewhere for expanding on her...unfortunately she barely gets to speak in this installment of....

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First, some vampire author drama
http://sf-drama.livejournal.com/3418742.html
And some very bizarre past drama from the same author that I was not aware of but is definitely worth a read even if it's not recent
http://www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank/1132356.html

And now...SUE VS SUE!
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