spoke

Three pinch hits remain! These must be filled in order for the collection to open on Halloween. Thank you to everyone helping out!

These are due October 30, 23:59 UTC. (8 pm EDT)

To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 name and the number or name of the pinch hit you would like. Comments are screened. Pinch hits are first-come, first-serve, and if you're the first to claim, you'll receive the assignment to your email.

You don't have to be signed up to Trick or Treat to claim a pinch hit.

PH #13 (plicate):

Head On (1998), Set It Off (1996), Succession (TV 2018)

https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/plicate

PH #29 (Audrelite):

Teen Titans (Animated Series), Metal Family (Cartoon), Subarashiki Kono Sekai | The World Ends With You (Video Games), ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 | JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, 氷属性男子とクールな同僚女子 | Koori Zokusei Danshi to Cool na Douryou Joshi (Anime), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series), Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Depois do Universo | Beyond the Universe (2022)

https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/Audrelite

CLAIMED ~~PH #41 (merle_p):~~

~~Downton Abbey, The Pitt (TV), Mid-Century Modern (TV), Nicked - M. T. Anderson, Crossover Fandom, Olympo (TV)~~

~~https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/merle_p~~

ysobel

Found an article with suggestions and am noting for future checking-out. This isn't my personal recommendation, but if any of y'all have used these, feel free to comment.

* Drops ("Language Learning Games: Drops"). Mostly vocabulary rather than full sentences. Free accounts limited to 5min/day. Paid upgrade available. Company also has apps for specific languages incl Korean, Tagalog, and others

* Busuu. No time limits for free accounts, at least. Paid upgrades available.

* Memrise. Free plan is more vocab than full sentences. Grammar lessons require paid.

* Babbel. Exclusively paid r/th freemium. Mostly just European languages.

* LingoDeer. Has Asian and European languages - there is also a games app for Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Chinese and German. Mostly paid.

yuletidemods posting in

yuletide_admin

All Yuletide requests are now visible:
-at karanguni's app
-at the Yuletide 2025 collection on AO3
-in a spreadsheet
-in a text doc

Please check back later for pinch hitter prompts.

Enjoy!

Both the main Yuletide 2025 collection and the Yuletide Madness 2025 collection are open for posting works. Before posting your assignment, or posting a treat to either collection, please read the notes below.

( Posting, and to Which Collection )

Bonus!! Decoy questions/author questions

A few weeks ago, we made a post about the questions we send to recipients when authors need to clarify something about their recipients' preferences.

As a result of that poll, in a situation where an author has a fandom-specific question, we will now send questions for at least 3 fandoms in a person's requests, but will not generally make up extra/decoy questions for their full set of fandoms.

You suggested that curious authors could make up (some of) their own extra questions. While that could be helpful - if you want to - we ask you to keep the following things in mind.

Clear questions are the best questions. Several times in the past we've received extremely confusing questions and it turned out a participant thought they needed to disguise what they were asking from the mods. Please do not.

Avoid excessive detail, especially about plots you don't plan to write. Don't ask your recipient "Would you be interested in a story where they time-travel to meet five different generations of their ancestors, and also there are capybara zombies?" unless you are contemplating such a plot (and maybe not even then) - because you may make your recipient hopeful about something that won't arrive.

Avoid being disingenuous about things that are actually clear to you. Try to ask about points of reasonable ambiguity. If you ask your recipient things like "You said you don't want any mention of hospitals, but is it okay if a character has a headache?" you could stress them out by making them wonder if they need to re-write their DNWs, or by making them wonder if you have wildly misinterpreted other parts of their requests. Decoy questions require a little creativity… but not too much. Save most of your creativity for the actual writing.

And again - you are not obliged to provide decoy questions! If you need to ask your recipient something, all we need from you is: 1) what information you need, and 2) who you are. That's great! We can take care of the rest.

ailelie

My nephew is turning 19 on Halloween. I've bought him a couple books on adulthood. One book lays out 12 steps. After reading through them, I thought about my own reflections on the topic after being alive 40 & 3/4-ish years.

To me, it boils down to this: decide who you are and be them.

For me, that has meant exploring my core values and what those values mean for my daily life. It also means owning my strengths and struggles. Etc.

Thoughts?

ysobel

I'm up to s2 e3 in my rewatch.

...and ok. In e1, the TARDIS, with those inside, accidentally shrinks. The Doctor and companions are the size of an inch. They go outside, where they realize that instead of a planet with anaconda-sized earthworms, they're on normal Earth as tiny creatures. Shenanigans ensue.

At the end of the serial, they -- of course -- get back to the TARDIS and get everything back to normal. And as part of this, the (mini) Doctor grabs a (full size) seed of wheat, which he brings inside as a way of measuring progress: as the TARDIS returns to normal, the grain of wheat shrinks from apparently huge to, well, the appropriate size for a grain of wheat.

Except that /doesn't fucking make sense/.

When the TARDIS first shrank, so did everything inside. People, their clothes, everything. Presumably embiggening works the same. So why is the seed excepted? By the logic of the miniaturization, the seed should have remained the same relative size, becoming a huge-ass seed.

*blinks in confusion*

naraht

Via

foxmoth, this is a brilliant meme but also a challenging one! With a certain degree of "oh well, I guess that one does fit..."

Lust, books I want to read for their cover:
- Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere (OK I have read it but I would have picked it up just for the cover, UK edn)
- Andrew Porter, The Imagined Life
- Benjamin Wood, Seascraper

Pride, challenging books I've finished:
- Uwe Johnson, Anniversaries
- Laszlo Krasnahorkai, War and War
- JRR Tolkien, Hobbitinn (The Hobbit in Icelandic)

Gluttony, books I've read more than once:
- Alaistair Reynolds, Redemption Ark
- Sergei and Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra
- Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air (I like reading this on airplanes, God help me)

Sloth, books on my to-read list the longest:
- David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite
- Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars
- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Greed, books I own multiple editions of:
- Mary Renault, Return to Night
- (...plus various books in multiple languages but I think that's the only one with multiple editions in English)

Wrath, books I despised:
- RF Huang, Babel
- Don DeLillo, Underworld (I want so much to like this but I don't)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Envy, books I want to live in:
- My own

yuletidemods posting in

yuletide_admin

Assignments are out! You can find your assignment:

at your assignments page: https://archiveofourown.org/users/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE/assignments

at the sidebar of the collection

in your email.

You must write for one of your recipient's requests, including all of the characters they specified in that request (but see below). It doesn't have to be the fandom you offered.

Some recipients have selected several characters, but given permission for writers not to include them all using the Additional Tags checkboxes (the ones that start "My gift must…"). These tags are recent and we're still experimenting with their use, so please check through mods if you're not completely sure what your recipient means. You always have the option of including all the characters your recipient selected.

Your assignment is due at 9pm UTC on December 17. Note that this is an earlier deadline for 2025 as compared to the last few years and may be one calendar day earlier in your timezone.

Please click on that link right now! The date and time it shows may surprise you. Better to be surprised now than at the deadline!

Our reveals are earlier this year as well.

No Peeking (Or Squeaking) Until December 24th!
This is a secret exchange. Please don’t announce or hint what your assignment is. Don't say what you offered. Don’t reveal to your recipient who you are or what you plan to write for them. In fact, please don’t contact your recipient at all! You can send questions through the mods at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.

I have questions!!
Right! Send us an email at yuletideadmin@gmail.com, or, if your question won't give away what you offered or who you're writing for, you're welcome to comment here. We get tonnes of questions at this time, so please bear with us - it may take us a few days to reply.

Based on our survey about author questions and some internal discussion, this year we plan to include a questions for a few fandoms each time we contact a recipient, but we won’t necessarily include decoy questions for every single fandom. This may give the recipient a clue as to which fandoms they’re more likely to receive but should preserve some of the suspense!

Please don't ask us to poke your recipient to update a locked or placeholder letter until at least October 29.

When you send us a question about your assignment, please include your assignment link, which looks like: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2025/assignments/#######

Some of your questions may be answered by our next post when we reveal all requests. Please keep an eye on our admin community!

Pinch hits and all requests
The first batch of pinch hits will go out in the next day. In the next following days, after those pinch hits are claimed, we will make all requests visible and open the Yuletide Madness collection.

Check out the pinch hit community,

yuletide_pinch_hits, and sign up through Discord, a feed, or the Google groups mailing list to get immediate alerts for pinch hits. You don't have to be signed up to this year's round of Yuletide to claim a pinch hit.

The New Year's Resolutions 2025 collection is now closed.

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ailelie

Today I wrote about 750 words of a fight scene and then a conversation for my just-for-fun project.

The conversation was fun to write. In it, the second-born prince, Conrad, is trying to convince his friend/rival, Joelle, to attend a masquerade with him. The conversation ends with him certain she's promised and her having done no such thing. I'll probably run over it again to highlight how Jo is deliberately using manners to irritate Conrad.

I have a terrible habit of using royalty in stories due to genre expectations and then doing very little to treat them like royalty. They get all the responsibilities, but I don't really do a lot in terms of deference. My royal characters end up surrounded by people who care very little that they're royal. And, those who care a lot about status are inevitably my villains or, at the very least, antagonistic side characters.

On another project of mine, a crit reader responded to a scene asking how and why someone would have said what they said given one person is royal and the other isn't.

I've got a similar issue with my primary project. No royalty involved, but the main character is in a position of power. And my crit reader wants to know why people push back against them, why they don't just follow orders. And I'm like, these are their friends. Yeah, they aren't equal in the overall hierarchy, but that doesn't matter. They've got history. Yes, the main character can pull rank (and I do give that option at times), but it is generally understood that they won't.

I just have zero interest in power dynamics. However, I like writing characters with power because I am interested in responsibility, influence, and access to resources and information.

It probably isn't too surprising that when I ran teams at my previous job, I asked my team members about their interests related to the work and strove to find or make opportunities for them to pursue those interests and build their desired expertises.

I love being in control and making decisions. Even when disaster strikes, I prefer to be the captain than a sailor or, worse, passenger. However, control you have to actively wield and bend people toward is just, well, boring. If you have to constantly remind people you're in charge, then what's the point? Just be in charge, and don't get hung up over status or whatever. Either the work, with all its benefits and burdens, is yours, or it isn't.

Anyway. I'm not sure how much this will affect people's suspension of disbelief when they read my stories.

pumpkinkingmod posting in

trickortreatex

Thank you to all the pinch hitters hard at work! We have eight pinch hits left at this post, if you missed it!

And thank you to shadow for running our official treat sheet! Find your next treat recipient here.

The spreadsheet includes participants with one or zero current gifts, who completed their assignments, and did not opt out of extra gifts. The last-updated timestamp is at the top of the sheet.

Our tiers for Community Challenge success are:

33.33% success: 150 remaining
66.66% success: 75 remaining
100% success: 0 remaining

Happy trick or treating!

ailelie

Watch on YouTube

This song lives in my head. If I have a song stuck in my head, 80% of the time, it is this one.

You’re more than stained glass
You’re the light that comes through [x]

How can you not love those lyrics?

I also love, though, that this song introduced me to an amazing art project I had no idea existed. Basically, it was an international game of telephone. Artists of all kinds would receive 1-3 artworks which they would use as inspiration for their own. Art included songs, videos, paintings, sculptures, dances, poetry, and more. Check it out.

The above song was inspired by this gorgeous image.

The breadth of the telephone project amazes me. I love seeing how people understand and interpret art into their own mediums and context. Absolutely beautiful.

mark posting in

dw_maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

ailelie

Not going outside the past couple days and burying myself in fanfic, I have become somewhat divorced from the rhythms of life. I'm turning nocturnal. The only times that matter are Awake, Asleep, and Hungry.

Luckily, I have workers coming over in the morning, plans on Sunday, and a morning dentist appointment on Monday. Obligations really are the shepherds of normalcy.

patrokla posting in

yuletide

Hello from this year's primary mod, Helen! Kat and Livi have largely stepped away this year, but are very kindly helping with some behind the scenes stuff. Most posts and emails will be from me :) This will be my first time doing a lot of the swaps process, so if you notice anything seriously awry, please let me know!

( 2025 schedule, links, and more! )

Questions? Check out the current FAQ. (Which will be updated this weekend to reflect international shipping issues!) If that doesn't help, feel free to comment here or email us at yuleswaps at gmail dot com!

Current Mood: determined
Current Location: under attack by hungry cats

pumpkinkingmod posting in

trickortreatex

The deadline has passed! Which means you may peruse our lineup of eepy creepy pinch hits below!

To claim, please comment on this post with your AO3 name and the number or name of the pinch hit you would like. Comments are screened. Pinch hits are first-come, first-serve, and if you're the first to claim, you'll receive the assignment to your email.

You don't have to be signed up to Trick or Treat to claim a pinch hit.

These are due October 28, 23:59 UTC.

For claims on October 28 or later, these are due on October 29, 23:59 UTC

Thank you!

PH #13 (plicate):

Head On (1998), Set It Off (1996), Succession (TV 2018)

https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/trickortreatex2025/user/plicate

( Already claimed )

yuletidemods posting in

yuletide_admin

Sign-ups for this year's event are now closed, with 1224 sign-ups. Welcome to everyone who's joined us for Yuletide 2025!

The Avoid Matching request form will remain open for another three hours for last-minute edits to your requests.

What will mods do now?
- Run matching.
- Contact participants who have no possible recipients, or where there's another matter to discuss.
- Update you on when assignments are likely to go out.

If we need to contact you, we'll use the email account associated with your AO3 account. (You can find it at Preferences -> Edit Profile -> Change Email.) We may also use this account later in Yuletide - for example, if your author has a question for you. Please check that you can access this email!

What should you do now?

Check and edit any letter you may have linked in your sign-up (please ensure it's complete by end of October 29th AT THE VERY LATEST, and consider adding it to the app and to the comments at the letters post). (If you didn't link your letter in your sign-up, it's too late now. Trust in your author!)

Please check your letter is accessible - log out of the platform where you have posted it and check that you can still view it, or ask a friend to. Tumblr in particular may cause issues with this and may require you to change your settings.

Keep quiet about what you've offered: Yuletide is anonymous until reveals.

Check that you can access your AO3-linked email.

Check out the pinch hit community, yuletide_pinch_hits, and sign up through Discord, a feed, or the Google groups mailing list to get immediate alerts for pinch hits. You don't have to be signed up to this year's round of Yuletide to claim a pinch hit.

Browse the promo post or even add a promotion.

Check that you're happy with your AO3 settings for treats / unassigned gifts - see an older post for more information. If your account is new, treats may be disabled.

Look forward to your assignments!

Congratulations to everyone who posted a story to the 2025 New Year's Resolutions collection, either as requested by mods or just because you wanted to fill a prompt. The collection will be open for roughly one more day, until we send out assignments - if you're planning to post, post soon! The NYR 2026 collection will open on January 1.

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evil_plotbunny

I don't think I'm hard to write for, but my letters have been hit or miss so I'm trying to do better. Apologies for the essays. When you're a fan of 100 year old series, that no one knows, you tend to ramble a bit in the hopes someone will pick them up.

First for the housekeeping/general stuff

I like canon and backstory/future fic (especially the weird obscure bits, as you can tell by my requests), unexpected crossovers, snark and witty banter, capers and proper adventures and characterization pieces. Feel free to take advantage of this. I'm not particularly fond of AUs or modernizing older fandoms unless the fandom canon is "timeless".

DNW Section: Anything above PG-13 (horror or smut). I don't mind shipping (het/femslash/slash are all fine, incestuous pairings not so much). Racism (including the period-typical stuff found in the original stories) without consequences/pushback. Current events (politics/COVID). Character death. When in doubt, keep your fic about the same level as the source material and you'll be fine.

( Pennington Wise Mysteries - Carolyn Wells )

( The Girl Scouts Series - Margaret Vandercook )

( The Four Corners Series - Amy Ella Blanchard )

( The Brooklyn Dodgers Series - John R. Tunis )

( Hall Family Chronicles - Jane Langton )

( The Callendar Family Series - John Verney )

Current Mood: energetic
Current Location: Work

steelneko

Dear Yuletide writer,

Hi! It seems like the mysterious Yuletide matching algorithms have chosen to pair us up this year. I hope I haven't terrified you with my requests. You have fabulous taste if you offered to write one of the things on my list. :D This is my 14th? 15th? year doing Yuletide and always impressed by what kind of stories people write for it. I am open to accepting treats!

Because of things in RL, I don't have a lot of publicly available content. I can link you to the stories I've written on AO3, but I don't know how much use those will be to you. I've decided to use this letter to try to explain what the things I've requested are, why I like them, and some more details about the requests I wrote, in hopes of helping you out in your giftee stalking. If you have any questions about anything at all, please send me a note via the Yuletide mods, and I will try my best to answer them.

( General Preferences )

This year's theme for my Yuletide requests seems to be comedy musicals with corpses! Corpses/things that should be laid to rest were a weirdly common theme in the 2024-25 Broadway season and all of these involve a character dying (Elmer, Glyndwr, Phil, the Bus??) and their story continuing to go on. Like Welcome to Night Vale says: death is only the end if you think the story is about you. (And if we matched with Dimension 20: On A Bus, I hope you can also open your heart to not get scared off by some musical theatre nominations:) )

I don't live anywhere near New York, so while I've Seen all the musicals I've requested, I haven't Been to them, ifyougetwhatI'msaying. Assume I'm very familiar with the shows, and if you want to see them too there are Ways of doing that.

So, in alphabetical order, these are the fandoms I picked this year:

( Dead Outlaw )

( Dimension 20: On A Bus )

( Groundhog Day )

( Operation Mincemeat )

Despite all this, know that Optional Details are Optional. If any of this helps you with your story, that's wonderful. If there's something entirely different that you think I may love and you really want to write, go for it! Yuletide should be fun for both of us.

Again, if there's anything that's confusing or you want to know, feel free to ask me via the mods. Know that I think you're awesome, and I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing what you write.

Wishing you happy writing and much Yuletide joy,

Steelneko ♥

Current Mood: hopeful

the_afterlight

Hello, friendly Yuletide author!

Back at it once again, and with the late sign-up! But, hey, I didn't completely miss sign-ups again this year, so that's a plus. ;) This is my... seventeenth? straight Yuletide. Well, gay Yuletide. Queer Yuletide? ... My seventeenth Yuletide in a row, or thereabouts.

... ... No. I just did the math and this is my nineteenth Yuletide. Even with the one where I missed sign-ups, I still managed two pinch hits that year. Next year marks two decades of Yuletide for me.

Existential crisis about the passage of time aside... I say this, or a variation of it, in pretty much every Yuletide letter: I am generally pretty easy to write for, and have not once been disappointed by the fic I wake up on Christmas morning. While I like to include some prompts for each fandom, please, please write something that you enjoy writing. (Traditional Yuletide Panic notwithstanding, of course. That's just required!) Basically: it's only fun if everyone's having fun! So please, y'know, have fun.

In terms of general things I love, in pretty much all fandoms: found family, touch as both comfort and communication (especially platonically and queerplatonically, and puppy piles are a particular favourite), and what I like to call "complex power dynamics in consensual relationships," i.e. making a relationship work when business/professional lives have a defined, hierarchical power dynamic, such as teacher/(adult) student, team leader/team member, or supervisor/employee.

My general DNW list is: any kind of mpreg; non-con; abuse of power dynamic, i.e. when business/professional lives have a defined, hierarchical power dynamic and it's, uh, not working or healthy (romantic or otherwise).

For the most part, I'm generally looking for happy-in-tone fics out of Yuletide. That's not to say that no one can be upset or anything at any point, but, as much as I appreciate a good sadfic or darkfic, it's not what I'm looking for out of Yuletide. Please note that this is not a strict DNW, but, if this is where your heart takes you, I ask that you try to include an undercurrent of hope in the resolution.

While I'm not usually looking for anything porn-y out of Yuletide, I am not opposed to it if that is where your heart leads!

Overall: DNWs aside, this is all suggested guidelines; write what you like, and if one of my optional details prompts a story, all the better.

Onto the fandoms!

( Young Wizards - Diane Duane | Ronan Nolan, Carmela Rodriguez, Kit Rodriguez, Nita Callahan )
( Sky High (2005) | Will Stronghold, Layla Williams, Warren Peace )
( Power Rangers Cosmic Fury | Amelia Jones, Billy Cranston )
( Emelan - Tamora Pierce | Briar Moss, Dedicate Lark )
( Critical Role: Aramán | Occtis Tachonis )

kindness_says posting in

yuletide

[Update: Sign-ups are now live! New post here.]

Hello! A few people have been wondering in the Yuletide Discord whether we would have swaps this year... tl;dr it was dicey, but YES!

You may thank

morbane (even more than usual ;)) for following up on everyone's behalf; Livi and I had been having an extremely slow/distracted convo about it since early September, but as always, knowing people are waiting on us motivated me LOL. But neither of us will be your primary mod this year! It will be the lovely Helen (

patrokla), who started helping out last year. <3

Here is the lil statement I made in Discord, very slightly modified for DW:

Hi everyone! Official announcement (and thank you, Morbane, for playing go-between while we worked things out behind the scenes :)) -- yuleswaps WILL go forward this year, we hope, and we're sorry for the delay!

Indeed I (Kat/Kindness on AO3/kindness_says) had some commitments in Sept/Oct and did not think I'd be able to prioritize swaps this year, and Liviania/anialove is also pretty busy irl atm -- but Helen/patrokla (a great longtime swapper who joined our team last year) is stepping up to give it a shot in spite of their own busyness! We're meeting tomorrow in hopes of getting sign-ups open by the end of this weekend and matches out in early November so as to stay roughly on the usual timeline. Perhaps ambitious, but we will try!

If anybody else was interested in running swaps, Morbane absolutely was speaking for me that we're not offended, and please feel free to ~~DM me~~ comment or email (yuleswaps at gmail) if you're interested in helping out. ESPECIALLY if you are at all code-savvy/great at answering emails efficiently/bursting with ideas for future improvement. <3

You might hear from me again, or you might not! I will def be helping on the backend, for at least this year/as long as I can, and we really appreciate your patience if we're a little slow or clunky this year as we try to sustain/transition. I also apologize to anyone who didn't get fully covered after January (haven't done 2024 cleanup yet... will try if there's time)!

I have LOVED running swaps, well mostly I have anyway ;) for the past 15 (!!) years. Back in the day I did not read coal but was always charmed when friends occasionally sent me screenshots of anons thrilled about swaps, and I similarly really enjoyed skimming like...1-2 years' worth of this discord not long after Morbane emailed me (was very tempted to answer some super old questions but refrained lol). Your enthusiasm has absolutely been the thing to make all the time and headaches worth it.

<3 <3 <3

So that's that!

Love/candy/books/drinks always,
Kat

P.S. For any newer Yuletiders who are interested (or just confused as to what Yuleswaps is), ~~here is last year's sign-ups post, which links to our FAQ, etc. This year's sign-ups post will come soon, if all goes to plan!~~ here is this year's sign-ups post, which links to our FAQ (soon to be updated)!

Current Mood: fond
Current Location: now exiting limbo

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Please check the additional tag you've selected makes sense for the characters you've selected. For example, "One or more characters (giver's choice)" doesn't make sense if you select several characters and you really want at least two to interact.

Please check you can access the email associated with your AO3 account. Mods may use this to reach out to you with questions.

If you are open to treats, feel free to say so - it isn't greedy! It's just letting people know that you haven't disabled the treat setting.

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