- Tue, 14:29: According to Hebrew and Biblical scholars, the passage translated as being about lying with a man as a woman was actually about ...
- Tue, 14:31: ... was actually about having sex in some lady's bed while the lady's also there. You gotta wonder, what happened they needed THAT rule?
- Tue, 14:32: I see in the original Jesus and the centurion story, the word now translated "slave" meant "love slave". Jesus healed the solder's boytoy.
- Tue, 14:37: Getting back to the 3Faces sketch I was going to draw last night.
- Tue, 14:38: Also trying MSPaint7 again.
- Tue, 14:42: Tryna figure out how to get the sketch I was gonna do meet the unannounced theme 3Faces is running right now.
- Tue, 14:45: RT @bakafox: @Karnythia @comcastcares My friends in the UK and bits of Europe kinda pity us US folks with the shite we get/put up with for services
- Tue, 15:04: oh god the waiting room tv is showing dr phil
- Tue, 15:12: oh god we moved to another office and still dr phil
- Tue, 17:35: What I really want now is a Gulliver's Build Your Own Omellet
- Tue, 17:36: Also to know how to spell omellet
- Tue, 19:44: Today was @howardtayler's 5000th consecutive daily webcomic update. That coulda been me, in 1439 days.
- Tue, 19:51: Hero of Three Faces sketch: #mash http://t.co/yJloHLni6B
- Tue, 20:43: Is it bad that, whenever I don't have new tv on the DVR I want to watch on boy's night in, I put on Day Of The Doctor again?
- Tue, 22:44: Angry birds. Angry Whoppers. Agry orchards.
- Wed, 01:02: Tonight post nasal drip insomnia started even before sleep. Also running at the other end.
- Wed, 01:55: perhaps I can get to sleep now
- Wed, 03:51: Up again, coughing and also sneezing. Emailed to call off of work.
- Wed, 04:07: tryna doze in my chair, since lying down to sleep isn't working well
- Wed, 04:10: took the last Mucinex
- Wed, 11:38: Stayed home from work sick. Reflexively thought, "I can draw!" Wised up. Scrolled back on Tumblr to where I left off second insomnia.
- Wed, 11:41: Overheard: Amazon headcanon - Outsider: So what do you do with the boys? Amazon: The what? Outsider: The... http://t.co/MvsAMAWRpP
- Wed, 11:54: Didn't read the article but the passage quoted by the poster rings true. One only differs with the Mormon grandma o… http://t.co/IuHHb7krUX
- Sun, 12:58: sherlockisgay: okay to those who don’t believe that johnlock is endgame: why would they be drawing all of... http://t.co/XnJZ9wYhhp
- Sun, 15:56: aiffe: meganphntmgrl: I’m starting to think that instead of vampires as a metaphor for oppressed people, we... http://t.co/lQb5OgNexf
- Sun, 16:01: #fringe #btvs #buffythevampireslayer http://t.co/17vjVH3NJO
- Sun, 20:34: Firing up MSPaint07 to try and start acclimating. Prolly a day coming when MSPaintXP won't run on current OSs any more.
- Sun, 20:59: RT @tinytempest: Ever notice how all the people in the @ancestry commercials are white? I guess tracing ancestry isn't fun for everyone.
- Mon, 08:01: On this laptop, Home and End are two-button, two-hand operations. Guessin that’s one of the things that... http://t.co/CBXadhJTQB
- Mon, 08:10: #MSPaint07 I wonder whether you can turn the antialiasing off.
- Thu, 16:01: Always been pround of this #X-Files gag. http://t.co/eH5uvNEG1v
- Thu, 16:10: Until or unless we learn otherwise, we must assume the Hurt Doctor's companion is Allison Cheney.
- Fri, 00:04: #AKOTAS update: yeah I said once seasonal theme gags are cheating, what of it? http://t.co/ixZ7qxLuX6 #webcomics #kingarthur
- Fri, 00:04: Hero of Three Faces update: learn from the best. http://t.co/57tUG8TXDx #buffythevampireslayer #sleepyhollow
- Fri, 00:14: Even when everything else is done in MSPaintXP, MSPaintVista's still better for Creative Process. (doesn't need the palette, needs the zoom)
- Fri, 05:12: Creative Process update: yoyo. http://t.co/fUPGA0Io4p #webcomics #CreativeProcess
- Fri, 07:38: What isn't clear from today's Creative Process is that @horseyparalegal has been in the hospital since Sunday evening.
- Fri, 07:45: Meanwhile I'm taking a decongestant to prevent post nasal drip/cough insomnia. Been working but last night I guess it was just too heavy.
- Fri, 07:46: This morning I'm just a little queasy and I dunno whether my stomach's empty or full of snot.
- Tue, 14:48: "So if you – the oppressed – hurt someone’s feelings, you’re just like the oppressor, right? Wrong...." http://t.co/a7nhGKy4a1
- Tue, 16:01: #doctorwho #year50 http://t.co/wLFOtPZefy
- Tue, 20:00: #AKOTAS update: easily fixed? http://t.co/H3lkum21Cv #webcomics #kingarthur
- Tue, 20:18: Sweatpants were laundry day pants last week. This week, jeans' turn.
- Tue, 21:16: Whenever I go back to MSPaintXP from MSPaintVista (in order to not have to recreate my palette all the time) all I really miss is the zoom.
- Tue, 21:16: RT @rozlem: I wish people would stop saying "being an entrepreneur is hard". Getting up at 4am to work in a meat factory is hard.
- Tue, 22:06: Hero of Three Faces update: the good and the bad. http://t.co/IbGuFxo32G #sleepyhollow
- Tue, 22:50: RT @rstevens: Watteron grant me the wisdom to write standalone jokes as my peers slog into endless continuity
- Sat, 12:38: I don't mind the unseasonal snow but I could do with the end of pothole season.
- Sat, 13:51: My music player just went from the mindmeld music from The Search For Spock to the mindmenld music from 2009. Ouch.
- Sat, 14:35: Just loaded a 3Faces into my Tumblr queue for the first time in three days. It'll fire in ninety minutes but it's the principle.
- Sat, 15:46: The gag I want to draw today needed either me to still be doing line drawing or to be on software that does transparency (i.e. not MSPaint).
- Sat, 15:47: Oh wait - this can be done in animation!
- Sat, 20:16: #AKOTAS update: consequences of climate change. http://t.co/uVYYPCZ5mc #webcomics #kingarthur
- Fri, 12:42: Back from the oncologist. Port issue cleared up by itself, so can't've been a real bruise. May not miss #scifichat after all.
- Fri, 13:01: Hello #scfichat
- Fri, 13:10: Now sure what I can contribute to today's #scifichat topic. Don't read or watch Twilight or Vampire Diaries or ...
- Fri, 13:15: I'd like to do a teen supernatural romance triangle thread in my webcomic but I don't know the tropes. #scifichat
- Fri, 13:30: RT @scifichat: 30 min. to #SciFiChat. Topic: #Fantasy #Romance. Guest: Amalia Dillin @AmaliaTD. #scifi #love #books #tv #movies @HarlequinBooks #fairytales
- Fri, 13:59: I get up to make my wife a sandwich and look what happens. #scifichat
- Fri, 14:44: @AmaliaTd What's the most obscure mythology/religion you use? #scifichat
- Fri, 15:00: #scifichat It's 15:00 CDT and I promised to run an errand. See you guys next week!
- Fri, 16:01: #firefly http://t.co/Ic1eQbRHWK
- Fri, 20:02: I either need to take the tablet and its malfunctioning cable to the table where it'd be stable, or think of another way to draw AKOTAS.
- Fri, 20:14: Doing an entire AKOTAS on the laptop touchpad with the MSPaint curved line tool.
- Fri, 21:53: #AKOTAS update: cheese and crackers. http://t.co/2qrv7QXfLy #webcomics #kingarthur
- Fri, 22:35: This afternoon I wrote my spreadsheet formula for the new stardate format. LJ entry to follow, prolly tomorrow. #math
- Fri, 23:31: An indifferent week of AKOTAS gags. Yet, while I came up with three 3Faces gags, I drew only one. Not a model week for anything.
- Sat, 11:50: First weekend in three I don't have to work. So we're taking @horseyparalegal's kidney stone to the ER.
- Fri, 12:29: My year old Wacom Bamboo tablet retains only one of its four little rubber feet.
- Fri, 12:36: RT @scifichat: #SciFiChat is today, 3pm ET. Topic: Asteroids. Social hour starts in 30 minutes. #scifi #fantasy #space #asteroid
- Fri, 12:49: Weird: Last night I couldn't get Windows Media Player to behave for nothing. I thought it was an Updates issue, but today it's fine.
- Fri, 13:16: RT @BarackObama: RT if you agree: It's time for Congress to work with the President and ensure that hard work leads to a decent living for every American.
- Fri, 13:24: You know, in Lucifer's Hammer they thought the asteroid was going to miss us. #scifichat
- Fri, 13:30: RT @xeni: “The asteroid has now been here & done that.” #Asteroid #2012DA14 just got closest to Earth ever, 17,500mi above Indonesia. You are alive.
- Fri, 13:44: Well, that's tomorrow's AKOTAS written. #asteroid
- Fri, 14:00: RT @WilliamShatner: “@runalongwomble: @WilliamShatner Asteroid missed us. You involved in that?” There are reports it deflected off my enormous ego. ;-)
- Fri, 14:11: #SciFiChat: A2 In time to divert them? MT @scifichat Q2: What's the latest we should know about asteroids?
- Fri, 14:50: Must remember next week to #scifichat from the library with comfortable chairs.
- Fri, 18:34: Every once in awhile the ability to zoom out isn't enough, and the MSPaintVista must be put away for the MSPaintXP.
- Fri, 20:00: RT @BoingBoing: Holmes scholar files suit to put Sherlock unambiguously into the public domain http://t.co/wNeRuR0J
- Fri, 20:46: #AKOTAS update: maybe we need to get on that. http://t.co/9vhnBLTy #webcomics #kingarthur
- Fri, 21:11: For some reason I don't like to upload and announce new AKOTAS and 3Faces at the same time, dunno why.
- Fri, 21:37: Hero of Three Faces update: if @dduane's #StarTrek novel Doctor's Orders was a #DoctorWho crossover. http://t.co/2OQMgtF1
- Fri, 22:43: RT @jhameia: 74yo fandom participant speaks out against straight fans' fetishization of gay ships http://t.co/I3vGfSEe
- Fri, 22:55: 74 year old gay fan calls out fetishization of homosexuality by slashers: http://t.co/dYDbluHX
- Sat, 10:41: Red used to mean "communist", now it means "Republican". @horseyparalegal says there oughta be "Better dead than red" tshirts.
- Sat, 10:59: shutthefuckupstraightpeople: shutthefuckupstraightpeople: The main issue I’m finding with all this attention... http://t.co/lIbTckbN
- Sat, 11:41: right upper eyelid
- Sat, 11:43: Tomorrow's AKOTAS scripted and lettered. Took what was going to be a sketch Sunday info dump and made an actual strip of it, yay.
- Tue, 16:53: Entropy increases.
- Tue, 17:42: In the future when MSPaint7 is the oldest MSPaint that'll run on current computers, I'll enjoy using the text box while zoomed.
- Tue, 18:29: Eggs and toast for dinner, I think.
- Tue, 19:00: That was good. Maybe I'll have another.
- Tue, 19:09: #1ReasonWhy http://t.co/fjfL7ydb
- Tue, 20:10: #AKOTAS update: obvious from the start. Too obvious. http://t.co/GmozhY9J #webcomics #kingarthur
- Tue, 21:25: RT @AfterMASHseasn3: After a protracted discussion over the course of a week, Father Mulcahy accidentally converts Hot Lips.
- Tue, 23:03: Hero of Three Faces update: beware. http://t.co/ci3Ls423 #startrek
significant tweets
Jan. 30th, 2012 01:32 pm- RT@TheOnlyTrout Original US copyright law was FUN. You got it for seven years after it was written. It was intended to force authors to make MORE.
- If the first thing Smaug says to Bilbo is, "You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive," I'm walkin out.
- @TheOnlyTrout You don't understand. The purpose of a new MicroSoft product version is to remove features the users liked.
- The proper response to conservative complaints about Muppets liberal propaganda is, "Duhhh." http://www.theferrett.com/ferrettworks/2012/01/why-the-muppets-are-propaganda/
- Coming up with tomorrow's script improves the whole day
- I learned to write with fanfiction. I don't do background. RT@blambot For chrissakes, webcomickers, draw the backgrounds. JEEEEzus.
- .@TheOnlyTrout Re backgrounds: I was influenced at an early age by Bill Mauldin's discussion of Johnny Hart, and "rivet men". (more)
- .@TheOnlyTrout Mauldin said a "rivet man" draws every rivet on a pot. "So what if the hero is offcenter in the panel? (more)
- .@TheOnlyTrout "Put in a computer with lots of dials, or a tree with every leaf. Nothing wows the reader like a tree with every leaf. (more)
- .@TheOnlyTrout "But you place two unwashed cavemen against a line that might be the top of a horizon or the bottom of an ovecast, (more)
- .@TheOnlyTrout "And you'd better place them RIGHT."
- Newly waxing moon low on the western horizon. That's a big rock.
- @TheOnlyTrout When I've done that, I've drawn the notes but not the staff. No one's ever come out and said they recognized the tune.
- @TheOnlyTrout Unless I actually copied out a few bars from an actual score, because that was the joke.
- @TheOnlyTrout I once drew two guys whistling Rhapsody In Blue for three panels.
- @scifichat #scifichat A2 The epitome of the machines-don't-belong-in-charge-of-people trope is the STAR TREK episode The Apple, ...
- @scifichat #scifichat ...which was deconstructed in my fanfiction story Half A Worm, ...
- @scifichat #scifichat ...which was adapted and serialized in my webcomic Arthur, King of Time and Space. (Links available on request.)
- I wonder if many The Big Bang Theory viewers see the salute to sitcom history in the protoganists' names.
- It's too bad that there's only one Peter Bishop. We could call the second one Repete. #fringe
- @heldaction He thinks he's not home because no one here knows him. But in the season finale everyone at home forgot him. #fringe
- My god. Hutton is so good. Nate Ford is drunk off his ass.
- @choochoobear I know how you feel. No one but me seems to have noticed that humans raised by Moties suffer from jump shock like Moties.
- MSPaintVista has some advantages but I think it's MSPaintXP most of the time for me from now on. (7 is right out.)
- Ср, 16:25: Just figured out how to make certain I can cut an object without its background in MSPaint7. Even though I don't get the rules.
- Ср, 16:47: @wilw I don't see how either.
- Ср, 19:06: Half of the fix is in for the malfunctioning scanner: My Christmas present from my wife, a Wacom tablet, is arrived and installed.
- Ср, 19:07: The second part will be ordering a new scanner/printer/fax/copier by the good graces of a reader who sent me a Tiger Direct gift card.
- Ср, 19:17: Now to execute two more installments of buffer. If I can contrive a punchline for the second script.
- Ср, 20:18: #AKOTAS update: foreshadowing much? http://t.co/dboGurMZ #webcomics #kingarthur
- Ср, 20:19: (The first tablet drawn AKOTAS will be tomorrow.) (Actually only the second panel.)
- Ср, 22:21: Hero of Three Faces update: sketches with the new tablet, line and triangle. http://t.co/jeyy00wG
- Ср, 22:29: RT @wilw Just uploaded my latest story to the Houdini/Robert Lincoln slash website #ScandalizeWilWithFakeRetweets
- Чт, 11:45: @spastasmagoria Perhaps someone that prone to subsume themselves would have found something else if not that.
- Вт, 14:21: RT @jimbronyaur: There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. — W. Somerset Maugham
- Вт, 14:38: Of course, once the Doctor's inside, he discovers there are four places set.
- Вт, 15:09: Helen Mirren recently stated she wants to play the Doctor. http://t.co/qoLFjv4G
- Вт, 18:49: RT @dduane: Eek. RT @garrytan: GoDaddy almost arbitrarily shuts off a domain used by millions: A glimpse of Internet under #SOPA http://david.weebly.com/1/post/2011/12/godaddy-a-glimpse-of-the-internet-under-sopa.html
- Вт, 18:51: @stratosmacca Lots of people think Peri mouthed that. I don't think that's what it looks like, but it's still what she meant.
- Вт, 18:52: @TheOnlyTrout I dialog first, then arrange each panel's art behind the balloons.
- Вт, 18:53: @TheOnlyTrout Since I work in MSPaint and can't really scale art once it's scanned, that can make things interesting.
- Вт, 21:20: #AKOTAS update: definite maybe. http://t.co/7WRlc7oL #webcomics #kingarthur
- Вт, 21:24: Drew two cartoons today, I think for the first time since the sketch hiatus ended. Got my one day buffer back. Exhausted.
- Ср, 06:12: Both #MissionImpossible and #StarTrek: @simonpegg is the @TheRealNimoy of the 21st century
- Ср, 08:56: What's beginning to make me cranky about LJ is the Twitter mirror feature. Not that it doesn't work, but that it doesn't work SOMETIMES.
- Ср, 09:50: RT @allyngibson: Can't really add anything to the headline -- Via @nprnews: Congress Really Is As Bad As You Think, Scholars Say http://www.npr.org/2011/12/27/144319863/congress-really-is-as-bad-as-you-think-scholars-say?sc=tw&cc=share
- Ср, 11:58: @TheOnlyTrout Real other indie comics or fake other indie comics?
- Ср, 12:11: Two scanner failures this morning. Two fixes for that in hand, not counting yesterday's buffer creation.
- Ср, 12:37: Despite the fixes in progress, the scanner troubles are making my hindbrain nudge me to give up linedrawing and just do triangles forever
- Ср, 12:37: Got a brand new stressor in my life but when we have an attorney 'll probably advise us not to discuss it in public
- Ср, 20:44: #AKOTAS update: never give up. http://t.co/gNn98MCz #webcomics #kingarthur
- Чт, 07:02: @radiantbaby He didn't say that to Astrid because that was before what happened to Astrid.
- Чт, 07:03: @radiantbaby By the way, thanks for reminding us that there IS an Eccleston Christmas special.
- Чт, 07:59: RT @stoplookingup: NewTrek/Holocaust parallels. Interesting. No, really. It is. SHUT UP. http://t.co/EOYV54s1
- Чт, 11:55: Getting a feel for MSPaint7, so I can draw triangles on work break
- Чт, 12:00: Am I wrong or, now that I don't have a job that makes me unhappy, am I twitting less about work and more about cartooning?
- Wed, 12:07: @dantheshive Yeah, for the last ten years.
- Wed, 14:08: MSPaint7 doesn't have the brush I use FOR CHARACTERS' EYES.
- Wed, 14:13: There go my plans for lunch break. And, possibly, for posting a 3Faces today.
- Wed, 15:43: MSPaint7 anti-aliases. I don't know whether I want that.
- Wed, 21:26: #AKOTAS sketch: http://t.co/R9KRrzKx #webcomics #kingarthur
- Thu, 06:45: Hero of Three Faces update: governments should fear people. http://t.co/LngYc258
- Thu, 09:23: RT @estellevw: “If only they enforced bank regulations like they do park rules, we wouldn’t be in this mess.” #OWS
- Thu, 12:01: RT @jeremy6d: Best slogan ever: "In capitalist America, bank robs you." #ows #occupyrichmond
- Fri, 20:17: Whoops. Remember I twitted the other day that MSPaint Vista anti-aliases PNGs? No. That was (cont)
- Fri, 20:18: (cont) JPEG artifacting because I didn't realize I'd changed the filetype.
- Fri, 20:51: @TheOnlyTrout @dantheshive If the drill is books you pretended to read in high school, I oughta do Moby Dick.
- Fri, 21:16: Well, that's that guest strip done. At the last minute (take note, @TheOnlyTrout).
- Fri, 22:07: @TheOnlyTrout I won't be doing Moby Dick after all. I've just decided what I will be doing. I even have a coupla gag setups in mind already.
- Sat, 08:22: RT @TheOnlyTrout: That's right, real men draw comics on weekends.
- Sat, 08:37: I signed up to mirror at LJ and so post there more often. So, to blog. RT @jaythenerdkid Question! What do you use Twitter for the most?
- Sat, 10:37: I don't think I've watched a #DoctorWho twice since after Let's Kill Hitler. Say, there's laundry to be folded.
- Sat, 17:02: It's slower than I've ever known it. What's so special today? owait RT @stoplookingup It should be called, MegaWON'TLoad.
From Twitter 01-04-2011
Jan. 5th, 2011 02:05 am- 09:51:29: #AKOTAS updated: twleve hours and I can't think of a slugline for this one. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2420.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
- 15:40:53: What is it about Tuesdays that they drag?
- 21:37:46: The whole point of Paint is it COMES WITH THE COMPUTER. RT @TheOnlyTrout I need to use Windows Paint tonight. Do I even HAVE Windows Paint?
- 22:16:24: M*A* #lessambitiousmovies
- 23:00:54: Goddammit. Cox DVR programmers didn't mark tonight's #Caprica airings as firstruns, and the DVR missed them all. Goddammit.
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From Twitter 11-12-2010
Nov. 13th, 2010 02:04 am- 00:37:48: MSPaint Vista on the laptop connected to the tv has the old palette. Why not on mine?
- 00:51:49: What I'm most nervous about is if I can't access that computer there's lots of stuff I have only one copy of.
- 08:07:52: This morning keyboard input is back. I've had to recover touchpad by rebooting before, and keyboard once I think, but ...
- 08:08:02: ... but never more than once and never waiting overnight before. Perhaps the poor thing overheated while I was on my walk.
- 09:58:06: Is it normal with music players to have to recharge after less than four hours of use?
- 20:14:17: Only wrote & drew one AKOTAS today, but averaged two a day the rest of the workweek. That's nine dailies in a week.
- 23:10:52: #AKOTAS updated: he was less distracted in the sources. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2368.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
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From Twitter 10-31-2010
Nov. 1st, 2010 03:04 am- 07:28:11: Kitten can't just run off when she's swatted, has to knock something over and run off.
- 09:22:05: I wonder if there's a way to import the default pallette from MSPaint XP into MSPaint Vista.
- 10:46:32: Waiting for the church service to start, drawing the music director in my head. As a triangle.
- 12:04:14: After church we're tossing pumpkins with a trebuchet. Local tv news is here.
- 12:48:20: Campbell's Chunky Sirloin Cheeseburger soup for lunch. There's a blast from the past.
- 16:22:19: She's not a alien, she's you. RT @allyngibson What's this I hear about a UFO at @ChristineOD's rally? Did the Grays come to take her away?
- 19:03:38: Just saw Nikita for the first time.
qtrhorserider is intrigued but for me it's not different and/or better enough than the first series. - 19:17:52: @TheOnlyTrout It's only a few months old. Give it its chance.
- 19:23:13: #AKOTAS updated: so what's Arthur been doing for three weeks? http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2356.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
- 20:27:13: @TheOnlyTrout When my daily webcomic featuring King Arthur was seven months old I was getting about 100 unique visitors a day and (cont)
- 20:27:24: @TheOnlyTrout (cont) about a thousand a month. 71 months later it gets about six hundred a day and about five thousand a month. (cont)
- 20:27:40: @TheOnlyTrout (cont) And I don't do any marketing. (Well, one paid ad at Comixpedia the first year.) For what it's worth.
- 20:46:34: Hero of Three Faces updated: the sketch I twitted about from church. http://tinyurl.com/3f4c3s/aatv.htm #3faces #irl
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From Twitter 10-13-2010
Oct. 14th, 2010 03:05 am- 05:59:21: If I could have one thing I wanted right now, it wouldn't be MSPaint Vista not going to default directory all the time. But six things...
- 12:18:38: I just assisted a customer in his 50s whose first name is Bilbo. And he's district attourney of a city in the South.
- 20:02:18: Fascinating RT @Omorka @AKOTAS Bilbo is the last name of what used to be a very politically prominent family in MS. Stone-cold racists, too.
- 20:06:20: #AKOTAS updated: but don't call me... http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2338.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
- 21:45:21: Playing in my spreadsheet in hopes of inspiring a 3faces gag
- 21:53:30: I wrote a 3faces gag earlier today that's kinda weak, but I'll use it if I have to.
- 22:06:54: Ehhh just goin with the weak gag
- 22:13:03: Hero of Three Faces updated: sibling rivalry. http://tinyurl.com/3f4c3s/aatl.htm #3faces #fanfiction #akotas
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