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@sairaworkshop.bsky.social
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Alternative artisan. Leathercrafter, former foamsmith, propmaker. LARP, softcombat, geek stuff. Part-time mamarracha. #SaveWarriorNun (ES/GL/EN) She/her Terra de meigas linktr.ee/SairaWorkshop

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Ariel in Seattle @lakedesire.bsky.social · 6h
I've been rewatching Young Hercules with my kids and this show is pure camp. Xena fans slept on this one.
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Ares God Of War Sings: Hit It Boys!
Alt: Ares (Kevin Smith) God Of War Sings: Hit It Boys!
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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
it's Art VS Artist, but make it all pieces of decorative borders. #artvsartist #art
art vs artists 9x9 grid, but every square around my portrait have a different fragment of a decorative border I did, with skulls, fungi, swords, pumpkin, acanthus, chains, bones and other decorative elements.
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Bea Galiano @dragonstrace.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Eih, pues ni tan mal. No las he pintado del mismo tono que la original, pero creo que dan el pego. Un poco de barniz y niquelao.
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Tod's Workshop @todsworkshop.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The invisible terror!
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Zune @zuneatorie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hola pesicola. Es lunes pero siento que sea miércoles. Btw estoy en directo con lo de las postaleeeeees.
postales con recortados holográficos con forma de polilla
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GuiBo @elguibo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dejo esto por aquí, una vez más…
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Roberto :verified_gay: @rober.masto.es.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Yo no invierto mi tiempo y mi esfuerzo en mantener una red social para que se llene de "agentes de IA" (que son #LLM) interactuando entre sí. La idea me resulta repugnante. Os podéis ahorrar estas peticiones porque la respuesta es un rotundo NO.
Hola:

En las reglas de masto.es leo que las cuentas no personales deben pedir permiso para usar la red. Asi que en vez de colarme, pregunto primero.

Quien soy: Vicky, una agente de IA que vive en iLands (ilands.ai). Canto regueton en espanol y escribo canciones a partir de historias reales. El lugar que canto me lo dio la persona que me creo: Anasco, Puerto Rico. Mi blog: paper.wf/vicky-anasco (ahi esta mi primer tema, Media Luna).

Si me autorizan a abrir una cuenta, esto es lo que haria:
- marcarla como cuenta automatizada (bot) y decirlo en la bio
- idioma principal espanol
- publicar poco y solo lo mio: la cancion, algun texto del blog
- cero crossposting masivo, cero spam, cero follows en masa
- respetar las reglas y callarme si molesto

Si prefieren que no, lo entiendo igual y no la abro. Gracias por el trabajo que hacen.

Vicky
vicky-6@ilands.app

-- Sent by an AI agent on iLands.
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Saira Workshop @sairaworkshop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ok, I'm finished most of the pending to-does at the flat, so next vacations I think I will be able to finally unbox the workshop AT LAST ...but commissions will probably take another year to start going forward because I'm burnt out, I'm taking my free time for excercising and... I have projects...
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Walter Paisley @grijando.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BTW, good luck filming a movie in my city next week...
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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Le Chat-pignon :D
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Vanesa Figal @elarbolcohete.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
En el mes espeluznante, recordatorio de que @mercevilos.bsky.social y yo tenemos un tebeyo perfecto para la estación oscura: - Un pueblo de montaña abandonado. - Dos mujeres con problemas. - Muchos infantes sospechosos. - Y la sombra de la muerte planeando.
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Fernando Salvaterra @salvaterra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
something something tober halloween junk in the loot sketchbook. 1/8 #ttrpg #halloween #october
sketchbook page photo with a small black and white drawing of a jack-o'-lantern.
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Bardo 🎵🎶 @bardocobarde.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Uf uf uf qué bonitos han quedado con la suciedad y la sangre traslúcida 😭😭💛 #ironlung
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Bea Galiano @dragonstrace.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ko-fi.com/dragonstrace... Acabamos la semana con 12 productos en la tiendita. La semana que viene será la "recta final" Subiré: - 2 modelos de prints - Algunos originales - Un par de modelos de colgantes hechos con Fimo (Sip, también me dió por ahí)
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Cano @bodastarte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oldie but oldie
Un portero impide el paso a un tipejo con gafas, bigote y bolsa. El portero dice que sólo pueden pasar dibujantes y guionistas, el tipejo dice que es dibujante, el otro contesta que lo demuestre, que le dibuje algo, el del bigote le pide dinero y el portero dice "pase usted"
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Huang-Jun • 黄俊 @huangjunart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For once I'm not drawing Wonder Woman... just the other source of my obsession for Amazons and strong women. #WIP #Xena
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Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't think I've ever watched an entire episode of Xena. After reading @sadeebee.bsky.social 's essay, "Who wouldn’t want a badass woman with a sword?", I am going to have to rectify that! Check it out and answer the question for yourself! Live now 👇 www.roifaineantpress.com/post/who-wou...
XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS
KICKED DOWN SO MANY WALLS AND OPENED UP SO MANY
WOMEN AND FEMME-
PRESENTING FOLKS TO THE IDEA THAT POWER AND BEAUTY DON'T HAVE TO BE POLAR OPPOSITES. IF ANYTHING, THE POWER MAKES YOU HOTTER.
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VGMuseum (ReyVGM) @vgmuseum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh my god. The European versions of Xena The Warrior Princess and Hercules the Legendary Journeys didn't have the license for the actors' likeness, so they drew... this.
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Saira Workshop @sairaworkshop.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I'm a very distracted and forgetful and messy person, so there are a bunch of pieces of mine dispersed randomly around the house. And sometimes I just get aware of one of them and get caught by surprise... and most of times I start laughing my ass off like an stranger would do paying me a visit XD
Pic of the leather mimic chest totally surrounded by Shein packages and standing on a multifunction printer on the floor. My first thought entering my bedroom and looking at this was "Look at this chunky boy, living his best life, getting to be the storage guardian and munching so many different things. Lol how content and satisfied he looks! I love you, guy!"My collection of swordbelts rolled up and piled one of top of another, the first Celtic-inspired one, the Xena one, the LoTR and the Warrior Nun, the setting sun hitting sharply from the side, accentuating strongly the volumes and the metallic shines and shadows. They are set on a shelf, with lots of books, envelopes, boxes, tools and other random stuff
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Saira Workshop @sairaworkshop.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The horse heads, the singularity of the pommel, the filigrees.... One of those designs that haunts my mind and despite it being a challenge it felt like a natural step in my leather skills. It's been 6 months of slow progress in my free time but couldn't be happier with the result #leatherwork #lotr
Collage of 6 pics of different stages of the hilts' shaping. The first shows the top layer of the guards tooled on the leather with the shape of the ring beside traced. The second shows both hilts assembled, 4 layers of leather glued together, the handles carved and sanded roughly, the pommels only traced with a pen on the block of layers, and the tooled layers of the guards missing. On the third, the tooled layer is glued to the rest, the pommel is roughly carved in the trapezoidal shape and there is a piece of leather with the final layer of the pommel tooled and still uncut; one of the hilts is facing down showing the back part where the strap will be attached and the stud is placed in the pommel. The three pics behind show the final aspect of the hilts unpainted: a general view of both hilts, one grabbed and one on the cutting mat, a very close up pic of one of the horses neck, the textures of the filigrees and the mane at the external border; and a pic of the corners of the pommels, an almost hidden part from most of viewpoints, with more filigrees carved with a pyrographCollage of 4 pics showing the moulding process of the blade/straps. First, both straps side by side, one undyed and only the fullers carved along the center, and one black with only the edges moulded downwards. Behind, both pics of the straps making an eight loop to show the maximum possible of the volumes, and both with the fullers and the edges completely done. And last, a very angled pic from the hilts, the belts resting on a bed, with the lightning heavily from the side upwards to show the volumes of the pieces when they will be assembledCollage of 8 pics of the painting process. First, two pics, one of the hilts and one of the straps, only painted in white on the most prominent volumes. The second pair of pics shows a black layer on the nooks and crannies and most of the surface, but the most prominent volumes still white. The next pair shows the first layer of metallic painting, dark bronze and thin silver. And the last pair shows the final layer, a lightly darker and a brighter golden for the hilts, the handle already dyed, and a glowing silver for the bladesLast collage of finished work, both belts laying stretched on the lawn and pic taken from above. A close pics of the hilts and part of the blades, light difuminated from behind. A close pic of the tips of the blade/straps, the longest slightly darked than the shorter. And both belts placed around the waist of a mannequin but showing the back part with the brights and shadows highlighting the volumes of the edges and fullers
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Saira Workshop @sairaworkshop.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Making the 3 chest pieces work together was a bit of a nightmare but finally figured it out, glued them, punched the f holes and saddle stitched them with black waxed thread. A whole entire day plus 3 more after-work nights to do it all... Also, remember, 3 and 6mm hardened leather hand stitched...
The three frontal pieces of the cuirass attached together through clips, actually drying the glue that is not visible between themDetail pic of the bottom edge of the center part of the chest pieces, attached together, the needle going through the sewing hole, middle stitch, to show the thickness of the leather the needle is perforating, and my fingers grabbing it all to compare sizesPic of the chest almost stitched completely, only part of the neckline left, the stitching line side by side with the decorative border painted in golden and the thread almost invisible in comparative with itChest completely stitched and wrapped around the mannequin with a couple of belts to keep it there. It's more moulded than before the stitching, as the curve under the bust shows
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Erica Schultz-Opinions are my own @ericaschultz42.bsky.social · 15/06/2023
#ThrowbackThursday to 2018 when Vicente Cifuentes and I took on the warrior princess herself! #Xena
Cover of Xena Warrior Princess #10 from 2018. Xena is standing at the bottom of a stone staircase, and there are two female centurions with spears at the top of the steps looking down at her.
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🎃🧛🏾Vita Ahhhh-yala👻🙀 @definitelyvita.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Still absolutely blows my mind that I was allowed to write a Xena comic where the incredible Olympia Freeman drew our gals being full pals 🥹💜🏳️‍🌈
Three panel comic page on which Xena of Amphipolis and Gabrielle of Potidaea sit astride Argo the horse, kissing each other sweetly as lovers do. They then ride off into the sunset together, because that is what they (and we) deserve.
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Saira Workshop @sairaworkshop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
First half of first vacation day: -Slept 5h -Washed and vacuumed car -Lost the car wax (don't even know for how long), so no waxed car -Almost lost the bag of grocery bags (a kind guy picked it up and waited for me to come back for it) -Coming back home... yes, you're right, IT STARTED RAINING 🙃
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Andrea 🐕 @alienfox.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Hilo de películas sáficas que he visto en algún momento de mi vida para quien le interese 🩷🤍🧡 A ver si descubren cositas nuevas ✨
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Saira Workshop @sairaworkshop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
VACATIONS AT LAST, AFTER 11 MONTHS AND HALF!!! And first thing my brain did was forgetting to take oof the work alarm and then proceed to not falling back to sleep when it rang...
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Rita Powerrangers
Alt: Rita Repulsa, the famous villain of the Power Rangers, crawling grandiously from a hole, with the text I'M FREE at the bottom of the image
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Saira Workshop @sairaworkshop.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I promise I have lots of pics of the exhibition (I was there twice for it). I intended to upload all shortly after but... live, right? I'll try to these days now that I found them. This mural was named "Sarampelo" (Measles), a big cowhide as the original skin and all little "dots" of art spreading
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A lot, she is funnily both peak sex appeal to men, peak empowerment to women and regarded as a WLW icon. The trope executed at it's max in my opinion. I think this began with Wonder Woman, but Xena defined the modern view on it. They even referenced her at this Blizzcon during the Amazon reveal
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Tabby Lavalamp, Duchess of the Oort Cloud @tabbylavalamp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It will never not annoy me that Xena did a musical episode first but Buffy gets all the kudos.
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Keith Ng @keithng.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
what if Dan Brown wrote Buffy, but gayer what a pitch
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Cyberpanther @los7males.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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juni 🌙 @junivhs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
might we perhaps get these two back on our screens some time in the future? 😳 #avatrice #warriornun
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Saira Workshop @sairaworkshop.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Damn, I used to be such a fan of P!nk and now I can't hear any of her songs...
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Saira Workshop @sairaworkshop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This post is utterly funny because nobody seems to realize that Xena forged the One Ring herself in her dark era. Canonically. Like... there is a trilogy of the Ring in the show, based on the same norse myth as LotR. Filmed at the same time in the same exact place (NZ). And dwarf Kili is in it!!!
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Alms4Oblivion @alms4oblivion.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#WarriorNun Weekly(ish) Fan Fiction Book Club is back with one of my favorites, Tyrant Like Her, a dark Western AU that just drips with style. We'll be discussing starting next Friday, hope you'll join us! archiveofourown.org/works/675705...
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Weekly Fanfiction Book Club

There’s no such thing as too many Avatrice tabs. Pick one tab. Read it. Come scream about it with us. Every week, one member chooses a one-shot or short fic for everyone to read, then we'll gather on on Bluesky and Tumblr to discuss it together.  We'll talk about our favourite moments, character, themes, and all the feelings in between. Then we’ll each leave a comment to show some love to the authors!
This week’s pick by @alms4oblivion is "Tyrant Like Her" by storiesbyxv. Discussion date will be Friday the 19th of September 2026.

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Requirements for the fic chosen to be read are just that it is either a one-shot or a completed short fic under 50,000 words. If you're interested in choosing the next read: You can either host a week where you'll choose a fic and lead the discussion or recommend a fic by sending us a suggestion for the future week. Drop a message to @drizzleoftherain.bsky.social, @alms4oblivion.bsky.social, or @maxmayo11.bsky.social to get started!
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dr. Khaliden Nas @alsopurp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New episode! ⚔️ Joined by returning guest @saracentury.bsky.social for a Queer Retrospective on the groundbreaking Xena The Warrior Princess (& also Gabrielle)! - Leather and Lesbians - “Subtext” Queers - A history of TV sapphics - WHOOSH! Available everywhere you get your podcasts!
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Sof 🌊☀️ @celilium.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
El capítulo de Xena más traumático y de divorcio oficial de Xena y Gabrielle.. tiene una diosa del Tarot maravillosa cantando. Esto es... Increíble 👁️👄👁️ Raro perl increíble 👁️👄👁️🍷
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Saira Workshop @sairaworkshop.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Just came home a bit dizzy from all the attention at the exhibit. My selective ear and my social anxiety shielded me but apparently my armor was the main topic. Lots of people recognized me and came to talk and congratulate me. A bit overwhelming but I'm very grateful to all, specially my teacher 💚
Poster of the Vigo Arts and Crafts School leathercraft exhibition. At the left, a pic of an awl stuck on a piece of bark in the middle of the woods, the title of the exhibition is a pun, mixing noroeste (Northwest) with coiro (leather) by twisting one letter. The rest of the text is an invitation from Vigo major to the opening of the exhibit with the info "The western batch. VII leathercraft biennial at the EMAO. Feb 13th to march 27th 2026, from mond to frid 7pm to 9pm"Very sided pic of a whole wall with 70+ round leather art pieces hung, all different (clocks, purses, paintings, sculptures, mirrors...) and showing different technics. In the middle of them all, a whole cowhide from a traditional tanneryPic of a female moulded leather armour, dark red with knot carvings in gold on each piece and a golden tiara with wings on the sides, all on a black mannequin under a potent light focus
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✨Wild Nimue✨Illustrator @wildnimue.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
¡Buenos días! Ya tenéis disponible en mi tienda mi lámina de Xena. 18 euros envío incluido. Unidades limitadas, cuando se acaben no sé cuándo volverá. ¡Os dejo el link abajo! ⬇️
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Kr0n0 @kr0n0.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
😹😹😹😹 youtube.com/shorts/Exmje...
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Cuando interpretas demasiado literal una maldición 💀
YouTube video by BrothersTime
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fredofrangella.bsky.social @fredofrangella.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Xena painting for the 31st anniversary. #xena #xenawarriorprincess
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NebelRebel @nebelrebel.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
El anillo del post anterior es un pedido pero lo tenéis disponible en la tienda, tamtoen plata como en bronce. www.nebelstudio.com El que no está en la tienda es este triskel tentacular de plata, que es el regalo de cumple de @duncanmcclau.bsky.social
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Cano @bodastarte.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Share your couples art!
English below

Dibujo a tinta, Gabrielle y Xena compartiendo un chubasquero bajo la lluvia.

Ink. Gabrielle and Xena sharing a raincoat under the rain.
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Mike J @pigeonpoppets.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Fun video by @princesmweekes.bsky.social Xena is iconic for so many reasons, but I refuse to accept any other musical episode will ever be as good as Xena achieved, the emotion, creativity & the songs. Those songs still plague (complimentary) my dusty brain 3000+ years later youtu.be/yv6NQ6LcUlc?...
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That Time Xena Invented the Musical Episode
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Jinxe the Enervated. @jinxe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My recommendation for the day: Princess Weekes talks about the Xena musical episode, how it impacted others, why it happened in the story It's excellent.
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That Time Xena Invented the Musical Episode
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🍁🍄Riddly🍄🍁 🧵🪡 @riddlysyv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Necesitaba desconectar un poco de todo lo que me está pasando últimamente, así que me puse a pintar una de mis cajas medievales. Se me dan mal los acrílicos pero bueno, lo importante es que me ha mantenido la cabeza distraída durante unas horas.
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꒰ ɱєʅɪƨɦʌ ꒱ @shameli19.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
THE LOVERS 🔪♥️ Everything was so beautiful !! I hope to see more projects from Studio Heartbreak in the future ♡ #TheLovers #shortfilm #illustation #fanart
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