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Chekhov
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This one's about dog DNA! I get asked what breed Wednesday is a lot. (I also misspell Germy Sheppahrerd a lot) #dog #dogcomic
Comic: titled Wednesday the Dog, showing a black pup with pointy ears and a long tail in a smooth coat, with a bit of white on the chest. Text: when I originally posted Wednesday's photos on Instagram and invited people to guess what breed she was, a lot of people were very confident that she was some sort of Shepard. Photos: three photos of the same dog - laying by a window, looking up from under a table, and sadly sitting outside in the rain wearing a Costco dog hoodie Image: a doodle of chekhov wearing a red sweater, holding the dog in their arms. Both are looking up thoughtfully. Text: and I guess I can understand that logic! If you don't know that I live in Japan, or if you're only familiar with western breeds, any dog shaped dog will look like the most popular one near you: for example, the German Shepard. But even though I'm familiar with them, she didn't look like a German Shep to me at all. So out of curiosity and for the sake of keeping tabs on her health... (a big arrow points to a handwritten message with DNA strands) we did a doggo DNA test! (Thank you to Brandy Saltzman for the coupon) And the results are in! She's 100% mutt! Image: chekhov holds up Wednesday simba-style. Wednesday seems happy, and her tongue bleps slightly. Text: or more specifically, a Japanese/Korean Village Dog! It's not really a breed. It just means she's local!
February 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Time heals all wounds and makes all puppies 200% less scared of things. #dogcomics #dog
Comic: The title shows a black dog with pointy ears in a green collar, wagging a long tail next to "Wednesday the dog". The comic is split into right and left sides - the left reads "what we were worried about" and the right "1 month later" The first image is a drawing of a puppy cowering in a crate. "She's so shy..." says someone off to the side. "She may never get fully used to people." Next to it is another image that shows her now: jumping up on the owner excitedly as they say "Hi! I've only been gone for 5 minutes!" Another set shows the left image as the dog hiding behind the door, shaking. "She can't even convince herself to go out the door. Maybe walks are too much..." Right next to it is the dog in her harness on a walk. She is standing in a stream and shaking around a piece of something green violently. "Girl, you've killed the moss, good job," says the owner from off-screen. "Let's go home please..." The last panel reads "What we should have worried about" and shows the dog chewing something eagerly while the owner grabs her and reaches into her mouth. "What's in your mouth!" yells the owner. "Don't chew faster, just give it to me!"
February 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Dog tax (she is about 6-8 months here I think?)
Photo: a shorthaired black dog with a long tail and pointed ears. She's wearing a collar and a bright orange harness, standing beside some rocks and staring at something in the distance.
February 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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More Wednesday comics. She is good at climbing.
Image: a simply drawn comic titled "Wednesday the dog" Panel 1: Text on top reads "What song is (probably) playing on loop in her head during walks" A black dog with pointy ears and a long tail wearing an orange harness pulls someone along on the leash. She has thought bubbles that read like lyrics: "Climb every mountaaaain~ Fooord every streeeeam~ Eat every bug, and follow every dream~" Image: a simply drawn comic panel. A black dog wearing an orange harness is at the top of a hill, looking down and her owner, who is down below, holding the leash in one hand and a poop bag in another. The owner says "okay, congrats, how are you getting down?" Image: a simply drawn comic panel. A black dog in an orange harness is still at the top of the hill, with the owner down below. The dog looks off to the side, clearly thinking about her predicament. Image: a simply drawn comic panel. The black dog sits down at the top of the hill, seemingly resigned to her fate and content to remain where she is.
February 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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This is her at about 4 months! :)
Photo: a black mutt puppy in a green collar. Her ears are half floppy, and she has a triangular white mark on her chest. She is sitting on the wooden floor, looking off to the side.
February 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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I never posted any of these here! This comic is over a year old now, but still! #puppy #dogadoption #shelterdog
IMG: A simply drawn comic. TITLE: So we got a DOG. Panel 1: two people - Chekhov, who's wearing a red sweater, and their partner, who's wearing a blue sweatshirt, standing next to a table with a brown crate between them. They're both looking at the crate in awe. There's a pair of eyes peeking out of the darkness of the crate itself. "My partner and I recently moved, and have decided to adopt a pup! She's a rescue, about 5 months old. I've had dogs before, but she was incredibly distrustful of us and all people in general at first." Panel 2: A crate covered in a grey towel. The door is open and a small black dog face peeks out nervously. "With rescue dogs, there is something called the 3-3-3 rule for decompression: 3 days of hiding/adjusting. 3 weeks to get used to routine. 3 months to fully settle in. I trusted it, but it seemed unlikely that she would ever stop being such a careful and fearful dog. she was scared of us, of the leash, of doors..." IMG: a continuation of the comic "so we got a dog" "She wasn't used to a leash and panicked when it was put on. She hid when we looked at her, and cowered when we touched her. On top of that, despite being a rather skinny puppy, she didn't seem all that food motivated. But she did eat, and she came out when we were far away enough." Panel 1: a doodle of chekhov siting on the ground next to the open crate. The dog, barely visible, is cowering inside of it, watching nervously. Chekhov sets down a bowl of food, saying "I'm gonna leave this here." But boy... the process works. After 3 days, she began to explore more boldly, let us touch her (not picking up yet, but it's a start!) and even barked once! Panel 2: A doodle of a black puppy with half-flopped ears, stretching into the longest possible dog, to sniff at something in the righthand corner labeled as "Unknown object (heater)". The back leg is lifted up off the ground, labeled "one leggy up for max sneak". "We're about to have our hands full with training her, but it looks like despite my initial concerns, she'll settle in fine!" Panel 3: A doodle of a black, lanky puppy. There is a white spot on its chest. It sits up, looking around with black eyes, and wags its tail. A bit of its tongue is sticking out. There are little wiggles coming out of its head, labeled 'yogurt senses'. "So, with that in mind, I'd like to introduce you guys to the puppy who will probably spur many more comics yet to come!" Meet... Wednesday!
February 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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By the way, this was about my dog, Wednesday. She has been with us almost a year now and she is thriving.
A photo of a black smooth haired dog with pointed ears. She's laying on a couch facing the photographer.
February 10, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Hey, thank you for making an account just for me!

I'm ok with translations! I have said this before, and it's actually written in my FAQ on Tumblr.

All I ask is that you link back to the original comic. :) and please send me a link, so I can add it.

www.tumblr.com/ask-whitepea...
March 29, 2024 at 6:07 AM
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I had no time to make this look neat. Is that ironic?
A b&w comic. A person wakes up, looks at their phone in the dark. 7:00, drawn in red. They close their eyes. Wake up, look again. 7:21. The coffee maker turns on. The clock on the wall says 7:52. Its hands are red. The same person picks up the pot and pours a cup as more time passes on the clock. The cup is set next to a muted tv. On it is a weather map, but instead of clouds and rain symbols, there are red alarm clocks and hourglasses. The TV unmutes: "...a fast time front coming in from the south as the trees are blooming even earlier this year," says the reporter. The screen shows a weekly forecast next. "And over the week, we have some fast time as the busy season at work kicks off, followed by a very slow Wednesday night when the results of the election are expected to come in over the course of two hours, which will feel more like six or even eight--" The TV mutes again. The person leans back in the kitchen chair and sips their coffee. There are no visible clocks.
March 15, 2024 at 2:04 AM
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List under: signs I see and chortle to myself about.

For the nice tomorrow... Drug penguin.

Just do it you coward.
Image: a photograph of a sign in an alley. It features a simple drawing of a penguin-like charger with the words: PENGUIN. Underneath it reads: "For the nice tomorrow.... DRUG PENGUIN."
March 9, 2024 at 12:23 PM
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Whatever this is called is my favorite thing. #dungeonmeshi
image: a simple doodle of senshi from dungeon meshi. the top shows him without his helmet, his face shaded and serious, his eyes darkened by furrowed brows. someone's doodled hands are comically holding his helmet above his head. the next image is when the helmet is slammed down onto his noggin. suddenly the intense serious features are gone, and all you can see through the helmet is the nose, the mustache, and the googly eyes.
March 7, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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2023 Year Summary! Here's to another year of comics, hopefully more original stuff too. :)
January 3, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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Growing up on the Ninth. .....ah, childhood. #thelockedtomb #gideontheninth
A digital manga-like comic: 'Growing up on the Ninth' A silhouette of a child comes running from afar towards a tired-looking woman with a buzz cut, wearing simple Ninth facepaint. She wipes her cheek and looks over as the child screams "AI-GEMMY-KNEE!" Gideon Nav rushes to her, grabbing her pant leg. She looks about seven years old, and her front tooth is prominently missing. "Ith 'appenedh!" she yells. "Zhe 'ooth fairy 'took my 'ooth!" Aiglemene quirks an eyebrow. "What are you on about, child? What tooth fairy?" she demands. Gideon pulls something out of her pocket, presenting it proudly. "Thee 'ook my 'ooth justh 'ike 'arrow thaid! And I go'th thome rockth in re'urn!" Aiglamene does not bother to look amused. "...That's not a--" she begins, before cutting herself off, and looking off in another direction thoughtfully. Her gaze strays to the raised balconies of Castle Drearburgh. Hiding between two of the banisters is a barely visible skull-faced little figure robed in black. The scene fades. The panels lapse, as though a bit of time has passed and we see a pair of booted feet in front of a door. The light from the inside illuminates a small figure. "My lady," Aiglamene greets. "Stealing milk teeth is not becoming of the scion of the ninth." Harrowhark is sitting on her knees on the floor, small bones in a semicircle before her, and something else clutched tightly in one tiny fist. She looks to be about six - hair cropped short, and her cloak shrugged off her shoulders. Her dark eyes are large as ever. "I did not steal them, Captain," she replies. "I bargained for their purchase through a metaphor. I am low on resources, and mother says we must use all available materials wisely." "The Reverend Mother and Reverend Father do not want you near Gideon, you know that," says Aiglamene. Harrow looks away."I am working with those parameters in mind," she says calmly. Aiglamene says nothing, looking a bit dampened, and then heaves a tired sigh. Seemingly defeated, Aiglamene looks down at Harrow again. "What are you planning to use them for, if I may ask?" she inquires. Harrow looks up at her, having not relaxed her fist once. "It is... classified," she says. A black bar cuts between this and the next panel. It reads: "Not That Much Later." Next thing we see is a hallway near the castle. Harrow is hiding behind an archway, her little face split into a grin of delight as she peers around it to look at her handiwork. "Stop hitting yourself, Griddle!" she jeers. "Stop hitting yourself!" In the forefront, Gideon wrestles with a skeleton approximately her own size. It has a knee up on her stomach, and is rearing back for a punch, while Gideon kicks her feet and tries to shove it off, her face twisted up in fury. "HRRAARGH!" she hollers. "NONAGETHIMUUUTHHH!!"
November 21, 2023 at 11:51 AM
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Oh yeah, I also did that thing I do and drew Gideon and Harrow as Pokemon trainers. Can anyone tell what that thing behind Harrow is? Hint: It's not a haunted toaster. 😂
A digital illustration of Gideon Nav from the Locked Tomb series as a pokemon trainer, drawn in a close approximate of Ken Sugimori's style. She is tall and muscled, her back to the viewer but looking back at you over her shoulder with a grin. Her skull face paint is minimal, and she has her typical aviator shades on. She also has slung a Honedge over her shoulder. It is longer than usual and has a dark Ninth House piece of cloth hanging from its pommel. A Cubone peeks out from behind her leg. A digital illustration of Harrowhark from the Locked Tomb series as a pokemon trainer, drawn in a close approximate of Ken Sugimori's style. She has her full skeletal garb, but the dark long skirt she wears splits at the hip and trails on the floor behind her, giving her legs more movement. She holds a pokeball in one hand, and in the other she seems to be summoning a Dukull. The Duskull has a little IX roman numeral on its skully forehead. Behind Harrow is another ghost Pokemon that resembles a shiny Phantump... but instead of a tree stump, its head resembles a steel vent, with eerie blue-green gas wafting out of it.
November 19, 2023 at 2:31 AM
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Ninth House! Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, and Ortus Nigenad
A digital portrait of Gideon from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. She has no Ninth House memorabilia, but she is wearing a pair of reflective dark glasses. Her skull face paint is smeared and simple, but she wears a small grin. Her hair is a disheveled mess, a sort of mullet. A part of it is shaved off in a jagged pattern, almost as though someone tried to shave her and failed. Her one visible golden eye is looking back over her shoulder, as though glancing at someone... A digital portrait of Harrow from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. Her hair is short, but elegant, with the front bangs grown out a bit to cover her forehead. She wears a high collar robe which is held up with bones, and decorated with a vertebral column. Her earrings are finger bones hanging from the lobe, though she also has the IX roman numeral earrings on. Her skull face paint is immaculate, and only partially obscured by the translucent dark shawl she has hanging from the crown of her dark head. Her black eyes are peering back over her shoulder, as though looking at something behind her... A digital portrait of Ortus from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing left. He has a thick build, but a very sad face, which droops a bit. His head is shaped, and he wears the traditional skullpaint of his house and the roman numeral IX earring. His dark eyes are downcast.
November 18, 2023 at 1:44 AM
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Eighth House! Silas Octakiseron and Colum Asht
A digital portrait of Silas from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing right. He is a shin, gaunt looking boy with pale skin and equally pale hair. He wears the roman numeral earrings of his house on his cartilage and his lobes. There is no color to his eyes. A simple black cord is worn around his neck. A digital portrait of Colum from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing left. He is an older looking man with a wide face with several scars. His thin, pale hair is pulled back into a small ponytail. He wears a thick, white rope loosely around his collarbone like a necklace. He also has House earrings shaped like the roman numeral VIII.
November 18, 2023 at 1:37 AM
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Seventh House! Dulcie Septimus and Protesilaus Ebdoma
A digital portrait of "Dulcie" from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. Her hair is pleasantly wavy, and pulled back away from her face, which is a bit gaunt. Despite this, she still smiles. She is wearing a nasal cannula, (which the artist has drawn incorrectly, because it's supposed to hook into the ears but it does not). She wears no house number earrings but she does have one rose earring. Her visible eye, a tone of teal, is looking directly into the camera. A digital portrait of Protesilaus from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing left. He had long hair, which is pulled back into a ponytail, and his left side is shaved down, with the outline of a rose visible in the pattern. He wears no House number earrings. He has a pleasant beard and sideburns. His severe face is eerily blank.
November 18, 2023 at 1:33 AM
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Sixth House! Palamedes Sextus and Camilla Hect
A digital portrait of Palamedes from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing right. His glasses have a hexagonal shape. He wears simple looking clothes and a black turtleneck covers his neck. He has no earrings. The beginnings of a bears curl along the edges of his jaw, though it has not filled out. His eyes are pleasantly grey. A digital portrait of Camilla from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing left. Her hair is straight and falls just below her jaw at an angle, and although it obscures most of her ears, she has no earrings either. She looks more severe than Palamedes, failing to smile where he does.
November 18, 2023 at 1:19 AM
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Fifth House! Abigail Pent and Magnus Quinn
A digital portrait of Abigail from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. She looks older than the others, and her hair is neatly collected in a loose bun hanging at her neck. Freckles scatter across her cheeks and nose. There is also a tangled crown adorning her head, which twists into itself and forms a subtle V at the forefront. A digital portrait of Magnus from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing left. He is smiling kindly, and sports the same tangled metal crown as Abigail, though it ends just above his temples instead of fully joining itself into a circle. He has curly dark hair and a roman numeral V cartilage earring.
November 18, 2023 at 1:14 AM
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Fourth House! Isaac Tettares and Jeannemary Chatur
A digital portrait of Isaac from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing right. He is clearly in the awkward teenager stage of growth, with his face a little unproportional, but he recovers through other means including his laurel crown and his collar, which is popped and decorated with leaves. He has a cartilage earring shaped like the roman numeral IV, and a nose piercing. There is a hint of eye-shadow on his upper lid. A digital portrait of Jeannemary from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing left. She is young, with her face still bearing the marks of several zits, but she looks upward with an 'I fuckin' dare you' expression. She has no laurel crown but she does have a nose ring and the same IV earring as Isaac and the same eye-shadow. Her dark hair is streaked with lighter highlights and pulled sharply back into a high ponytail.
November 18, 2023 at 1:10 AM
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Third House! Coronabeth Tridentarius, Ianthe Tridentarius and Naberius Tern
A digital portrait of Corona from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. Her voluminous hair falls in waves from her brow, but sits prettily under the thin crown she wears. Her collar is ridiculously high, but you can still see her earrings, which resemble Saturn and its rings, which form the hoops. She also sports a little star earring higher up. The only thing more dazzlingly confident than her smile are her eyes, which are a lilac color. A digital portrait of Ianthe from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. Her hair falls flat like water, with her three-pronged crown sitting on top. Her earrings, just like her sister's, resemble Saturn and its rings, which form the hoops. Instead of looking straight ahead, Ianthe's eye peers back, almost as if she is trying to look over her shoulder suspiciously. Unlike the rest of the monochrome picture, they are colored a light lilac. A digital portrait of Naberius from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. He is facing right. His expression is neutral, but confident, underlined by the tilt of his chin. His eyes are a dull blue with brown flecks. His hair is perfectly coiffed into a little bouffant on at his forehead, and he wears an elaborate white collar with little heart shaped patterns. There is an earring resembling the roman numeral III in his ear cartilage.
November 18, 2023 at 1:05 AM
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Second House! Judith Deuteros and Marta Dyas
A digital portrait of Judith from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing right. Her skin is dark, and her hair is pulled back in neat braids. She wears a headpiece that hooks behind her ears, where the metal sitting against the temple forms a roman numeral II. Her cohort uniform collar is seen peeking up. Her eyes are sharp, but she looks slightly tired. A digital portrait of Marta from The Locked Tomb series done in black and white with manga tones. She is facing left. She is handsome and dark-skinned. She wears a metallic headpiece that hooks into her ears and the bit that presses against the temples forms a roman numeral II and then extends to keep her hair pulled back. The epithets on her shoulders form a little skull.
November 18, 2023 at 12:57 AM
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art train! Never done one of these before. :)
@zmeess.bsky.social @saturdaysky.bsky.social @triaelf9.bsky.social @samethstarr.bsky.social
An image of a girl standing tall, her dark braids flying in the wind. She's holding an off-white, six-legged dog in her arms, who is wagging his tail. On the girl's face is a wide smile. Both of them are backlit by a bright blue sky, and tumbling white clouds. The lettering above them reads NONA. A digital illustration of Gideon Nav and Harrowhark Nonagesimus from the Locked Tomb series. Harrowhark, a thin woman with short cropped hair in skull-like facepaint, is sitting poised on a throne of bones, with Gideon draped casually halfway across her lap. One of her hands is loosely grasping a sword balanced against Gideon's back, and the other is tucked against Gideon's cheek. Her golden eyes peer directly at the viewer, glowering. Gideon is also looking straight at the viewer, though there's an easy and satisfied smile on her face as she curls up against Harrow's legs. Her eyes are black. A digital comic in purple hues with panels on a black background. In the first panel, light falls upon an old-looking skeleton in the dirt. In the following panels, people in futuristic hazmat-like suits are calling each other over excitedly and removing the fossils and reporting on them. There are lyrics side by side the panels. "One day when they find my bones in the ground, whoever they are will say 'look what we've found'. A relic of time, a historical find. And they'll never attest that I don't know my mind. One day when they find my bones in the earth. They will not equate who I was to what I'm worth." A digital comic in a manga style of the Critical Role Mighty Neintales AU by Chekhov. It depicts a scene of the Mighty Neintales purchasing some rare pokemon from a roadside salesman. Jester purchases an electric puppy and a shiny Furret.
October 20, 2023 at 12:47 PM
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Happiest girl in the world.
A digital illustration of Gideon Nav and Harrowhark Nonagesimus from the Locked Tomb series. Harrowhark, a thin woman with short cropped hair in skull-like facepaint, is sitting poised on a throne of bones, with Gideon draped casually halfway across her lap. One of her hands is loosely grasping a sword balanced against Gideon's back, and the other is tucked against Gideon's cheek. Her golden eyes peer directly at the viewer, glowering. Gideon is also looking straight at the viewer, though there's an easy and satisfied smile on her face as she curls up against Harrow's legs. Her eyes are black.
October 15, 2023 at 10:18 PM
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It's Necromancy Time. :) Fun fact: This was made for a video that is 90% done except I'm dragging my feet..... SOMEDAY!

#thelockedtomb #gideontheninth
A digital triptych of the main types of Necromancy of the Locked Tomb series. The left side is Bone Magic with a darker grey background and a skeleton laid out in a fetal position. From below, an ashy brown hand with dark nails is reaching out to it. The center side depicts Flesh Magic. The background is a saturated red fading into a near magenta. Laid in the same position as the skeleton is a red figure, with muscles stretched across its limbs and ligaments coating the rest. Two hands surround it - one pulling up blood, and another a yellow liquid that looks like fat. The right side is Spirit Magic. The background is an electric blue. The figure, which is in the same pose as the last two, is featureless and blue-white. In the center of its chest is a hole. Its eyes are wide open, looking at the viewer. There is a hand just above the nape of its neck, which is drawing spiritual stringers from the ghost, as though puppetting it.
October 14, 2023 at 1:14 AM