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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian

@djvampyrian.bsky.social
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🦇Spooky Nerd 👻👽🎃 🦇Writer/blogger 📝☠️🚀 🦇DJ 👻🎵 🦇Bass Player The Waning Moon 🎸🎼🎵 linktr.ee/vampdaddy

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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
🌕 Purgatory Setlist Recap 🌕 Thank you Providence and Nokturnal Productions for an incredible night! From darkwave classics to modern post-punk, the energy was unmatched. Check out the full tracklist breakdown from the June 17th set here: 🔗 linktr.ee/djvampyrian #goth #darkwave #postpunk
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DJ Arcanus @djarcanus.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I'm at Crypt for the summer on Wednesdays starting tomorrow! I have an excellent roster of DJs spinning with most me. First up in June is @djvampyrian.bsky.social ! #djarcanus #djvampyrian #manrayclub #manrayclubcrypt #gothicmusic #industrialmusic #djing
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
CHAMBER: Eldritch Garden is up now. Recorded live at Midway Cafe in Boston, this set moves through ritual goth, darkwave, industrial, EBM, freestyle, and late-night synthpop featuring Fields of the Nephilim, She Past Away, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, and more. 🔗 www.mixcloud.com/VampDaddy/ch...
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Chamber - Eldritch Garden: Live In Boston, Ma (May 18, 2026)
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The Twilight Tone @thetwilighttone.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
A live set from Resurrection in Manchester, NH is up now. ⚙️🦇 Goth, industrial, EBM, and darker club energy from the dancefloor up. Streaming now via The Twilight Tone + Mixcloud. thetwilighttone.com/2026/05/14/r...
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Steel, sweat, and the pulse of the dancefloor in Manchester.
This set was recorded live at Resurrection at Jewel Music Venue, and it captures a darker, club-driven stretch of the night, moving through goth, industrial, EBM, and body-moving late-night energy.…
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
May into June is looking dark. Four nights. Different rooms. Same energy. Come dance 🖤🦇🖤
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The Twilight Tone @thetwilighttone.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
a shift happening in goth spaces. Not in the music. In how people show up. Why masc-presenting looks are fading into the background, and why intention still matters. New piece on The Twilight Tone. 🔗 Thetwilighttone.com/goth-masculinity-style-visibility
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Goth, Masculinity, and the Art of Showing Up
An invitation to rethink visibility, expression, and what it means to show up in goth spaces today. There’s a subtlety to it at first, until you start paying attention. At many dark alternative eve…
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
My set from The Casket: Bloody Valentine Goth Night is up on Mixcloud now. Classic goth, darkwave, and late-night floor energy. www.mixcloud.com/VampDaddy/ca...
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The Casket - Bloody Valentine: LIVE in Portland, ME (February 27, 2026)
Recorded live at The Casket. Portland, Maine's monthly goth night for February was themed around blood and romance for a Bloody Valentine's celebration. This blend of classic and new goth rock, darkwa...
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Setlist from Resurrection in Manchester, NH. This one leaned more electro / EBM / industrial than my usual Vampyrian set, and I had a great time taking it in that direction. Thanks to DJs Sawtooth and Pet for having me, and to DJ Daddy for sharing the night. Full tracklist’s in the graphic.
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The Twilight Tone @thetwilighttone.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Wrote a new piece about why tabletop RPGs still matter to me. Not for rules or stats, but for shared storytelling and the kind of connection you only get when people are in the same room building a story together. thetwilighttone.com/2026/01/26/t...
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Rolling Dice, Telling Stories, and Why I Miss Sitting at the Table
Why tabletop RPGs are about more than dice and character sheets, and how shared storytelling creates connection in a world dominated by screens.
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The Twilight Tone @thetwilighttone.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Stranger Things felt less like nostalgia and more like shared memory when it began. I wrote a long reflection on why the series mattered, where it drifted, and what it lost by refusing to let childhood end. 🔗 thetwilighttone.com/2026/01/17/o...
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Outliving the Illusion of Childhood: Why Stranger Things Took Too Long to Say Goodbye
Stranger Things gradually shifted from a deeply resonant exploration of childhood and nostalgia to a spectacle-driven narrative, losing emotional stakes and authenticity. While earlier seasons capt…
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The Twilight Tone @thetwilighttone.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Goth keeps getting flattened into an identity badge online, when it’s always functioned more like a shared cultural space. This piece looks at how algorithms, aesthetics, and monocultural thinking collide with real-world scenes. Goth is a house, not a hashtag. thetwilighttone.com/goth-is-a-ho...
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Goth Is a House, Not a Hashtag
The goth scene faces challenges as online definitions clash with real-world experiences. While social media compresses subcultures into strict categories, goth thrives on ambiguity and atmosphere. …
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The Twilight Tone @thetwilighttone.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Clout chasing is loud. Cool is quiet. New on The Twilight Tone: on geek fandom, goth, and why authenticity still matters. 💀 Cool Without Clout thetwilighttone.com/2025/10/16/c... Be the signal, not the noise.
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Cool Without Clout: Why Authenticity Beats Algorithms
The text critiques clout chasing in contemporary subcultures, highlighting the tension between authenticity and performance. It discusses how both goth and geek scenes face gatekeeping and superfic…
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The Twilight Tone @thetwilighttone.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Wednesday Season 2, Part II is a gothic feast that forgot its recipe — stunning to look at, uneven to taste. Full review up now on The Twilight Tone. 🦇 Read: thetwilighttone.com/2025/10/05/w... 💭 Thoughts: Has Wednesday’s world lost its bite or just its focus?
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Wednesday Season 2, Part II: A Fever Dream That Lost Its Way
Wednesday Season 2, Part II offers visually captivating imagery but struggles with a convoluted narrative and pacing issues. While standout performances from Gwendoline Christie and Evie Templeton …
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
🕯️⚰️ CRYPT: Live at ManRay 🕯️⚰️ Recorded September 3rd in Cambridge, MA — a night of goth, post-punk, darkwave & industrial. Now streaming on Mixcloud → www.mixcloud.com/VampDaddy/www/ Thanks again to ManRay and DJ Arcanus for opening the crypt once again. 🖤
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
She Past Away under blood-red lights. We suffered gladly. 🦇 Forever Grey and @pilgrimsband.bsky.social set the stage — perfect night at the Middle East in Cambridge, MA.
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The Twilight Tone @thetwilighttone.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Goth isn’t neutral, and never has been. From Bauhaus to Alien Sex Fiend to today’s festivals, politics are woven into the subculture’s sound. New on The Twilight Tone: Is Goth Political? Why the Subculture Has Never Been Neutral 🔗 thetwilighttone.com/is-goth-poli...
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Is Goth Political? Why the Subculture Has Never Been Neutral
Online debates may argue otherwise, but in the clubs and at festivals, goth still gathers as it always has — loud, visible, and alive. It has never been neutral, and it never will be.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Late night post turned into a Saturday morning read: my review of Wednesday Season 2, Part 1. Gothic vibes? Spot on. The writing? Less so. Full review 👉 thetwilighttone.com/2025/08/16/w... 🦇
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Wednesday Season 2, Part 1 Review: Goth Atmosphere, Netflix Bloat
Wednesday Season 2, Part 1 dazzles with Tim Burton’s gothic aesthetic but falters in narrative focus, becoming cluttered with side quests. Jenna Ortega’s performance stands out, yet rem…
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🦇 Tonight — Dead Beats Broadcast from the Crypt Darkwave • Goth • Post-Punk 🎧 9 PM EST 📡 twitch.tv/vampdaddy See you in the fog.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Ghost Signal Pt. II – Blood in the Reverb New mix now streaming: heavy goth rock, death rock, and post-punk. 🎧 Full mix + tracklist: www.mixcloud.com/VampDaddy/pop/ #TheTwilightTone #GothRock #deathrock #DeadBeats #GothDJ #PostPunk
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The Twilight Tone: Ghost Signal Pt. II – A Reawakening in Fog & Static
The pulse intensifies. Ghost Signal Pt. II is the second transmission in The Twilight Tone: Broadcast series—recorded live on Dead Beats and now resurrected through Mixcloud. This chapter leans harde...
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Goth isn’t a look. It’s a sound. Wrote about what still connects this subculture across time and continents—bands, basslines, and the beat that haunts the club floor. Curious? thetwilighttone.com/2025/08/02/g... What’s in your headphones lately? #goth #darkwave
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Goth Is a Feeling: Why It’s the Sound, Not the Look, That Defines the Subculture
Goth is a subculture with a reputation. It’s the black eyeliner, the cemetery photo shoots, the dramatic fashion. It’s the Halloween memes, the TikToks, the endless “goth aesthetic” Pinterest board…
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Black Mirror didn’t invent dystopia, it inherited it. New post up now on The Twilight Tone exploring how anthology TV went from Twilight Zone to tech terror. 🖤 Read it here: thetwilighttone.com/black-mirror... #BlackMirror #TwilightZone #DigitalDread
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Through the Screen, Darkly: Black Mirror and the Anthology Tradition
From The Twilight Zone to Tales from the Crypt, TV anthologies have explored cultural fears. Black Mirror carries that torch into our digital age—offering not just allegory, but autopsy.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The signal pulses again. Ghost Signal Pt. I is now up on The Twilight Tone with 45 minutes of darkwave and goth rock, archived from a live Twitch set. 🎧 Listen + explore: thetwilighttone.com/soundtrack-t... #TheTwilightTone #VampDaddy #GhostSignal #DeadBeats #Darkwave
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Soundtrack the Void.
The Twilight Tone’s audio arm offers curated mixes and soundtracks catering to shadow dwellers, cosmic romantics, and nocturnal ravers. Handcrafted by Vamp Daddy, these audio experiences range from…
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
After you read about Black Mirror, come soundtrack your own tech-fueled dystopia—I'm spinning goth/darkwave/post-punk on Twitch tonight. 🦇 9 PM ET. Dead Beats begins. 📺 twitch.tv/vampdaddy
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"Edward Scissorhands" hit different when you were the weird kid in a pastel suburb. Wrote about how that movie mirrored my teen years and shaped goth culture. Scars, softness, and scissors: www.thetwilighttone.com/edward #EdwardScissorhands #GothCulture #TimBurton #AltCinema
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How Edward Scissorhands Defines the Outsider Experience
Edward Scissorhands wasn’t just a movie I loved as a teenager—it was a mirror. A strange, gothic reflection of everything I felt but couldn’t say. In this personal essay, I explore how Tim Burton’s…
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Dead Beats Goth. Post Punk. Darkwave. New Wave. Streaming live on Twitch at 8PM EST. Dress code: virtual mesh, eyeliner, and bad intentions. 📡 twitch.tv/djvampdaddy #NowPlaying #GothOnTheNet #VampDaddyLive
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
New post on The Twilight Tone: 10 Goth Albums That Could Totally Score a Sci-Fi Film From haunted synths to post-punk atmospheres. For sad robots and lost transmissions. thetwilighttone.com #goth #scifi #musicblog #darkwave
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Strange stories. Dark sounds. One tone.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Twilight Tone is now officially launched. Two posts up: 🦇 Welcome to the Twilight Tone 🦇 Growing Up Goth in a Small Town If you like dark music, weird essays, haunted space stations, eyeliner in fluorescent hallways... you'll feel at home. Tap the link in my bio. Come join the transmission.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Had a wonderful time spinning for the Bestial Mouths show hosted by @darkspringboston.bsky.social . Here's what I played between bands.
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Angela Benedict @angelabenedict.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
In like 75 years, ghosts are gonna be insane. Your kid running in your room at 2am screaming that a man in a red baseball cap zoomed through his room drinking a beer on a riding scooter and disappeared through the wall.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I've studied history & I've kept up with current global affairs. Never in my life did I think I would see a display on the world stage like today's meeting between Zelensky & Trump. Board room negotiating does NOT work in geo-political scenarios.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Elon Wormtongue
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Spinning in Providence, RI last week was a great temprorary escape from everything happening in the world. Here's what I spun at Procession.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Picking up more new follows and friends. Hope you're ready for my weirdness.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Welcome to the plutokleptokakistocracy! Where the ultra wealthy steal from you and run the country in the most insanely inept way imaginable.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Absolutely loved Star Wars "Skeleton Crew" up until the ending. Like, what was that?
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Watching the new DCU's "Creature Commandos" over breakfast has been giving me the same joy and giddiness as watching "The Superfriends" back when I was 8 years old.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I keep forgetting to post here. There's been too many social media options and frankly, it's a bit overwhelming. I guess the easiest route is to choose the one not controlled by oligarchs for their own self serving agendas.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year from Mrs. Vamp Daddy and me! 🎉
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Four albums that dropped when you were in high school and warped your mind forever Siouxsie & The Banshees - Superstition Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine The Cure - Disintegration Depeche Mode - Violator
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge Pulling a triple play here Day 5, 6, 7
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C Z A R I N A @czarinaofficial.com · 30/11/2024
This holiday instead of buying from mall and high street brands, consider supporting small businesses, the local ABC (Artisan, Bespoke, Craftsman), merch from artists and musicians. Often they’re the most unique gifts, and you are helping them keep the lights on, as well as keeping art alive.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Encountered a wild turkey on the side of the road today. We made awkward eye contact. Then it glared it at me. It knew what I had done on Thursday.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge Day 4
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge Day 2
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge Day 1
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Follow up to my 'Dune: Prophecy' post. Second episode is better. I still wish these space witches looked like the David Lynch version.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I still say this ALL the time.
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Ian Joseph 🦇 DJ Vampyrian @djvampyrian.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Not even going to attempt my giant setlist from @darkspringboston.bsky.social night with ACTORS, @pilgrimsband.bsky.social , and Llynks. Hopefully you can read the text. It was fun getting to play so many genres I love and share with a receptive audience!
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