The 'Getting to Know You' Meme
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So, f-list, answer me these things. Or point me to the place you've already answered them. My own statement before the Spanish Inquisition is here.
1. Age, location, vocation?
2. Describe a bad habit of yours.
3. What's one place you really want to visit before you die?
4. If you should pick only one, what's your favorite HP fic?
5. Share a dorky story about yourself.
6. What was your favorite toy at age 3?
7. At age 7?
8. What's your favorite lj community?
9. Link me to an entry on your journal you'd like me to read/comment on.
10. What are your spiritual beliefs?
11. What is your favorite HP artwork?
12. Say something nice about another LJ user (not me).
13. What do you eat for breakfast?
14. What's something weird you enjoy that gets you odd looks from other people?
atrata)So, f-list, answer me these things. Or point me to the place you've already answered them. My own statement before the Spanish Inquisition is here.
1. Age, location, vocation?
2. Describe a bad habit of yours.
3. What's one place you really want to visit before you die?
4. If you should pick only one, what's your favorite HP fic?
5. Share a dorky story about yourself.
6. What was your favorite toy at age 3?
7. At age 7?
8. What's your favorite lj community?
9. Link me to an entry on your journal you'd like me to read/comment on.
10. What are your spiritual beliefs?
11. What is your favorite HP artwork?
12. Say something nice about another LJ user (not me).
13. What do you eat for breakfast?
14. What's something weird you enjoy that gets you odd looks from other people?
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Date: 2005-07-29 11:23 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-29 12:37 pm (UTC)42, Scotland, teaching.
2. Describe a bad habit of yours.
Twiddling with my hair.
3. What's one place you really want to visit before you die?
Petra.
4. If you should pick only one, what's your favorite HP fic?
If You Are Prepared, by
5. Share a dorky story about yourself.
In a moment of post-PhD euphoria, I declared that I could learn anything in a week. I have never been allowed to forget this, and so far have failed to learn Ancient Sumerian, String Theory and Boiler Engineering, along with lots of other things that people haven't got around to challenging me with yet.
6. What was your favorite toy at age 3?
A brown rabbit called Easter. At least, I knew it was a rabbit, but to the untrained eye it looked like a brown pancake with ears. I used to sleep on it.
7. At age 7?
Probably my rocking horse.
8. What's your favorite lj community?
9. Link me to an entry on your journal you'd like me to read/comment on.
Hmm. How about my holiday photos, here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/seventines/13849.html)? Though not if they will take hours to load.
10. What are your spiritual beliefs?
I'm one of those psychologists who believes that God is simply an artefact of human brain wiring.
11. What is your favorite HP artwork?
Anything by
12. Say something nice about another LJ user (not me).
13. What do you eat for breakfast?
Porridge. Well, I do live in Scotland, but I eat it with lots of berries and fruit on it, not salt or sugar.
14. What's something weird you enjoy that gets you odd looks from other people?
See No. 13 ;-)
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Date: 2005-07-29 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-29 02:21 pm (UTC)I'm intrigued by the parsley, btw.
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Date: 2005-07-29 04:50 pm (UTC)I can eat it like salad, by the bundle. Close friends give me bouquets of parsley for my birthday instead of flowers :).
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Date: 2005-07-29 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-29 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-29 12:58 pm (UTC)I am fifteen, a week and a day from being sixteen. I live in Connecticut, U.S.A. I'm a student... no time for anything else.
2. Describe a bad habit of yours.
Er... I tend to eat stuff for no reason. Even when I'm not hungry. ::shrugs::
3. What's one place you really want to visit before you die?
That I haven't already? :) Australia
4. If you should pick only one, what's your favorite HP fic?
Hmm... I love funny fics, so "Draco Malfoy, the Amazing, Bouncing... Rat?" by Maya has been my favorite since I read it back when I was a n00b.
5. Share a dorky story about yourself.
Er... when I was younger, my friends on the bus and I pretended to be the daughters of Harry, Ron, and Hermione. My name was Charry, because we were shipping H/Cho in that game. Meh. ::blushes::
6. What was your favorite toy at age 3?
Um... ::thinks:: The only picture of myself with a toy that I have shows me holding a plastic Bart Simpson.
7. At age 7?
Hmm. My bunches of dolls. :)
8. What's your favorite lj community?
I dunno. I'll say
9. Link me to an entry on your journal you'd like me to read/comment on.
Do I have to? Pick any one.
10. What are your spiritual beliefs?
::coughs:: None.
11. What is your favorite HP artwork?
I have no idea. :D
12. Say something nice about another LJ user (not me).
Eh... who should I pick? I'll pick
13. What do you eat for breakfast?
Um... stuff. Just... random. :)
14. What's something weird you enjoy that gets you odd looks from other people?
Harry Potter. Joking. Ooh... I know. Fries/Chips dipped in mashed potatoes and gravy. Everyone kind of looks at me and is like, "Yeah..."
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Date: 2005-07-29 08:59 pm (UTC)The dorky stories emerging from this meme are sure fun! Though we played children of Darth Vader and various Imperial and Rebel officers in my time, so there's no grounds for snickering, really :).
And 'Draco Malfoy... Rat' is certainly one of the best fics out there!
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Date: 2005-07-29 01:40 pm (UTC)1. Age, location, vocation? 28, Missouri USA, and I direct a volunteer network of alums at a private college.
2. Describe a bad habit of yours. Procrastination
3. What's one place you really want to visit before you die? Greek
4. If you should pick only one, what's your favorite HP fic? Because it's the fic that got me into fandom, even if it is slightly AU and abandoned:
5. Share a dorky story about yourself. I sleep with a stuffed baby penguin named Downy. I brought it on my honeymoon.
6. What was your favorite toy at age 3? Happy Apple.
7. At age 7? Susie, my stuffed dog. I still have her :)
8. What's your favorite lj community?
9. Link me to an entry on your journal you'd like me to read/comment on. And We Burned Like Stars, a fic I wrote.
10. What are your spiritual beliefs? I'm a Satanist. Really. And no, I'm not evil nor do I do awful things to babies/goats/other fuzzy creatures. *loves fuzzy creatures*
11. What is your favorite HP artwork? Ooo, don't know! I love humorous artwork and also this one picture of Lucius and Narcissa, Bellatrix and Rodolphus and I think Rabastan and Snape at the Three Broomsticks having a nice butterbeer and dressed in Slytherin school outfits. I *loved* it.
12. Say something nice about another LJ user (not me).
13. What do you eat for breakfast? A Diet Coke
14. What's something weird you enjoy that gets you odd looks from other people? HP Fanfiction!! *giggles* Er, S&M? I try not to "do" that though in front of other people that get it. Heh.
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Date: 2005-07-29 01:42 pm (UTC)*it's early*
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Date: 2005-07-29 02:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-29 09:03 pm (UTC)And... procrastination! Must be the fanficcers No. 1 Sin... Sure is mine!
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Date: 2005-07-29 02:34 pm (UTC)2. I'm never sure if I've done things right, and spend a lot of time going back to check if I have.
3. Iceland - it looks beautiful.
4. Ooooh, that's very difficult. Um, I'd probably go for
5. Erm, I once got my fingers trapped in my (then) boss' letterbox at six-thirty in the morning and had to get him to release me. That's about as dorky as I want to share. *g*
6. Alicia, a dolly with a nice dress.
7. Lego, I built loads of tombs for some reason. I was an odd child.
8.
9. Erm... well, this piece Hag-Ridden has been on my mind recently as, up until a day or so ago, it was the only het I'd written in this fandom. It's Draco/Bella with immense warnings.
10. I'm an eclectic pagan, but it's all quite messy. :/
11. Uh, I'm not sure I have one. Nothing springs to mind I'm afraid.
12.
13. Two slices of bread with honey.
14. Gay porn. :)
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Date: 2005-07-30 08:31 pm (UTC)*happily nods along to question 14*
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Date: 2005-07-29 02:39 pm (UTC)1. 30, Norway, unemployed
2. Bad habit...? Smoking.
3. Russia, across the country on the transsibirian railway
4. Don't really have one favourite, as I prefer one shots and have read too many good ones
5. When I was six, a man from the local paper came to interview me and a couple of other kids. We all thought it was terribly exciting, of course. But as he was going to talk with me, I saw a lady who was out walking her dog - a very friendly lady who let me hold the leash - so I ran off to talk with her instead. Who cares about the papers when there are animals around? I've pretty much continued like this.
6 & 7. I never bothered much with toys.
8.
9. Nope. If you're interested, I assume you'll read/comment, if not, what's the point?
10. Agnostic with a personal grudge against God. Reincarnation, simply because I find the idea appealing (sometimes). Convinced Darwinist, and find those who oppose the idea entertaining. (Don't see any conflict between the idea of deities and evolusion.)
11. I don't have any interest in fanart.
12.
13. I don't eat breakfast.
14. My love for animals, I guess. Have four cats, am about to get a dog... Most people don't understand that as they see animals as a burden, not for the souls they are.
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Date: 2005-07-30 08:34 pm (UTC)Love your icon, btw :). And the spirit behind it!
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Date: 2005-07-29 03:15 pm (UTC)22, Canada, Office clerk at the moment, but not my vocation, really, thank God. I plan to teach eventually.
2. Describe a bad habit of yours.
I bite my nails when I'm nervous.
3. What's one place you really want to visit before you die?
England, for a number of reasons. And I will. So, on the more exotic end of things, I'd really, really like to see Egypt before I dide.
4. If you should pick only one, what's your favorite HP fic?
I keep coming back to Tess's classic Ghosts I Keep.
5. Share a dorky story about yourself.
Once upon a time when I was seventeen I took all the press releases from the office of the leader of the opposition while I was dorkily strolling around the legislature. It was one of those "Will anyone stop me?" moments. "No? Oh. Wow. I'm being *rebellious*."
6. What was your favorite toy at age 3?
A doll.
7. At age 7?
The same doll. I was a maternal child, even if I tortured dolls sometimes.
8. What's your favorite lj community?
9. Link me to an entry on your journal you'd like me to read/comment on.
If you haven't seen it already, I think you'll findmy midnight release pictures amusing.
10. What are your spiritual beliefs?
I'm Roman Catholic, and very deeply so. You know how people say, "I'm spiritual, but not religious?" If anything, I'm the opposite. Religion in general fascinates me, even though I have my own firmly held beliefs. Rituals, traditions, pilgrimages, devotions etc.
If I weren't Catholic, I think I'd be a wise woman in the woods with lots of potions and charms and amulets. I like to joke that I have the second sight, as my dreams can be uncannily prophetic.
11. What is your favorite HP artwork?
That's really hard to say. I've quite a few absolutely astounding favourites.
I think I'll have to go with Dear Tom
12. Say something nice about another LJ user (not me).
13. What do you eat for breakfast?
Generally, I skip breakfast.
14. What's something weird you enjoy that gets you odd looks from other people?
Steeleye Span. People run when I put on their CDs.
NM
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Date: 2005-07-30 08:40 pm (UTC)I like to joke that I have the second sight, as my dreams can be uncannily prophetic.
I had a few months of that in puberty when it's quite normal, and it spooked me silly because I had no idea what was going on ;). And later on, when I could have appreciated it, it was gone for good :(.
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Date: 2005-07-29 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-30 08:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-29 04:11 pm (UTC)23, Germany, student
2. Describe a bad habit of yours.
Falling in love with fictional characters. ;-)
3. What's one place you really want to visit before you die?
Only one? Hmmm... Scotland.
4. If you should pick only one, what's your favorite HP fic?
Again, only one? There are so many awesome fics, I couldn't possibly pick only one! I really love All Debts Must Be Paid by Cas, but it's really just a random pick.
5. Share a dorky story about yourself.
Uhm... I keep hitting my leg on my bedposts. At least once a week. In broad daylight.
6. What was your favorite toy at age 3?
No clue!
7. At age 7?
Again, no clue!
8. What's your favorite lj community?
9. Link me to an entry on your journal you'd like me to read/comment on.
Hmmm... Apparently shameless self-plugs are allowed now, so I'm now linking my initial post about the Blogathon in the hopes that I might get another sponsor or two! No commenting needed.
10. What are your spiritual beliefs?
I'm a Christian
11. What is your favorite HP artwork?
Strangely enough, I haven't cared much for HP fanart, even though I draw it myself... I really like drawings by L M Rourke, not sure if she has a link somewhere.
12. Say something nice about another LJ user (not me).
13. What do you eat for breakfast?
Either cereal or bread. Nothing special.
14. What's something weird you enjoy that gets you odd looks from other people?
H/C fanfic! And "All your base are belong to us". :-D
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Date: 2005-07-30 09:01 pm (UTC)Yes, that I can sympathise with... fictional or historical, bad habit either way (then again, it saves contraceptives...)
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Date: 2005-07-31 09:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-07-29 04:16 pm (UTC)43, Ilford, historian
2. Describe a bad habit of yours.
Starting too many projects and getting discouraged.
3. What's one place you really want to visit before you die?
I'd love to make a serious road trip through North America. And another through Europe.
4. If you should pick only one, what's your favorite HP fic?
Can't answer. A few faves: SECRET KEEPERS, VECTOR'S CHALLENGE, A HOPE (Antosha), LOST (DoubleEdgedSword), THE SLAYER AND THE SQUIB, THE BOOK. but I'm sure I've been unfair to a lot of others.
5. Share a dorky story about yourself.
I often spend hours discussing the minutiae of superhero lore.
6. What was your favorite toy at age 3?
I don't know.
7. At age 7?
I think anything to do with building - toy farms and car races, railway sets, lego, etc.
8. What's your favorite lj community?
Probably indo_european and brucefans, because they concern themselves with things in which I have a strong interest. After an appalling experience with a so-called Christian community, I tend to avoid communities in general - I prefer to select the people I talk with.
9. Link me to an entry on your journal you'd like me to read/comment on.
As I am feeling mischievous.... http://www.livejournal.com/users/fpb/106455.html
10. What are your spiritual beliefs?
Does that need answering?
11. What is your favorite HP artwork?
I have not yet seen enough to have a "favourite". There is only one artist (
12. Say something nice about another LJ user (not me).
I love my whole f-list, but
13. What do you eat for breakfast?
Orange marmalade on toast, often. Or whatever comes along.
14. What's something weird you enjoy that gets you odd looks from other people?
I am fond of mozzarella cheese, but I like even more the fresh salty whey it comes in, which people mostly throw away
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Date: 2005-07-30 09:39 pm (UTC)That reminds me very much of one of my favourite C&H cartoon on 'Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty" ;).
And you're so right - [info]caladan_dd's DoM battle scene is beyond glorious. Lucius in particular (but I would say that...).
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Date: 2005-07-30 10:03 pm (UTC)End of this particular rant.
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Date: 2005-07-30 02:49 am (UTC)2. Staying up all night reading LJ
3. England, repeatedly
4. Resonance by GreenGecko
5. I was coming out of a stall in a public restroom, when a woman I didn't know said, "Alicia, wash your hands before you leave." I headed straight for the sink before hearing a 7 year old girl say, "Oh,Mom....."
6. Toy telephone
7. A Ginny doll
8. snape_potter
9. http://www.livejournal.com/users/aliciajd/10891.html#cutid1
10. Mostly lapsed Methodist, I believe in God, Just don't believe in organized religion.
11. anything by glockgal
12. Leni Jess keeps me thinking and interested
13. leftovers from the night before and fruit
14. The whole HP fandom thing, my real life friends and relatives just don't get it.
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Date: 2005-07-30 04:14 am (UTC)1. Age, location, vocation?
19, Madison, Wisconsin (subject to change), soon-to-be college student.
2. Describe a bad habit of yours.
Reading. Seriously, I have been addicted -- and not in a joking way -- to reading since forever. I read instead of sleeping, doing any homework, paying attention in class, having a life . . . People say there's no such thing as reading too much. Sorry, there is.
3. What's one place you really want to visit before you die?
Um -- I really don't know. Right now I'm feeling a bit "there's no place like home" as in Alaska, but I grew up there and it's more of a feeling of going back to live there.
4. If you should pick only one, what's your favorite HP fic?
Aack! *Agonizes* Right now, I'm enthralled with rereading and obsessing over the Bittersweet Potion series, but that's subject to change . . . long-term might be different.
5. Share a dorky story about yourself.
Heh. There was this one long car ride with family, oh, shortly after OotP came out, and we were doing car games and ended up playing that game where one person names something and the next has to name something starting with the last letter of the first name. It can be done with animals, locations, proper names -- but we were doing it with Harry Potter characters, remembering all the obscure ones -- Petunia's friend Yvonne, Bulgarian Quidditch player Ivanova, old Archie in his nightgown, Mrs. Figg's cats Tibbles, Snowflake, and Mr. Paws . . . we didn't even have the books in the car with us, but we played that for a long time. Then when it finally petered out, I sat there counting alliterative names, and particularly P ones. There were a lot. *g*
6. What was your favorite toy at age 3?
Not at all sure I had one, unless one counts bedtime stories. The bedtime ritual consisted of PJs, brush teeth and all that, and then Dad would read one story and do bedsitting. He was always threatening to not do either or both if I didn't hurry up, but he told me later that although he could (and did) take away bedsitting, he only ever took away storytime once, and after the tantrum I threw he didn't quite dare try it again. (Um, yes, I did say I'd been addicted to reading since forever.)
7. At age 7?
Haha, still can't pick one.
8. What's your favorite lj community?
9. Link me to an entry on your journal you'd like me to read/comment on.
10. What are your spiritual beliefs?
I'm a pantheist. (Not to be confused with a polytheist believing in a pantheon of gods -- it's totally different.) I don't currently identify as Christian, although I was raised in a Congregational Church and may someday get around to reading large enough portions of the Bible and credible associated texts that I would feel comfortable embracing that religion. But I don't feel like I, personally, can be half-assed about it.
Pantheist is actually quite a simple concept -- it's not a religion like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism so much as a descriptive word, like atheist, agnostic, polytheist, monotheist, or Deist. Basically it comes from Greek pan, all, and theos, God and means all is God. God and the Universe are one and the same. Everything is divine.
This past year I've been trying out my maternal grandparents' religion, which is Unitarian Universalism, but I don't quite identify myself with that religion either, at least not yet. I have my spiritual beliefs mostly worked out, but I have yet to make up my mind about organized religion.
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Date: 2005-07-30 04:16 am (UTC)11. What is your favorite HP artwork?
I don't really go after artwork all that much. Probably something by Seviet (marta) or Lunulet.
12. Say something nice about another LJ user (not me).
Go check out
13. What do you eat for breakfast?
Ha. Cold cereal, a lot. Mom always fed us oatmeal three days of the week and cream'o'wheat another two, and we all hated it but had to eat it anyway. Occasionally pancakes or waffles, when someone else makes them.
14. What's something weird you enjoy that gets you odd looks from other people?
Besides wandering around with my nose in a book? I was one of those children who are always climbing everything in sight. I still do, especially on a sugar-high. *g*
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Date: 2005-07-30 09:10 pm (UTC)I kind of agree, being cut from the same cloth, but then... it still isn't ;). I mean I *did* wonder if I had my priorities straight when I considered breaking up with a boyfriend way back because he cut into my reading time, but then I realised I *would* rather read, and broke off anyway... Probably qualifies for yet another dorky story...
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Date: 2005-08-01 07:53 pm (UTC)2. Describe a bad habit of yours. My tendency to ignore things that I need to do because I don't want to/it scares me/I simply can't be bothered.
3. What's one place you really want to visit before you die? Hm ... I'm not sure. I like home a lot although I would love to see some places. New Zealand I think. It looks so pretty.
4. If you should pick only one, what's your favorite HP fic? A World Not So Black Nor White by
5. Share a dorky story about yourself. When I first read LotR I misread it so badly that I thought that Aragorn and Strider were seperate people and that Strider was a werewolf. My excuse for this is that I was in hospital at the time.
6. What was your favorite toy at age 3? Toy? No idea, I don't remember.
7. At age 7? Playmobil, no contest. That stuff ROCKS.
8. What's your favorite lj community?
9. Link me to an entry on your journal you'd like me to read/comment on. Can't think of one.
10. What are your spiritual beliefs? I believe in God but not in any sort of organised religion. I believe in "Heaven" although it doesn't match most people's views of it and I don't believe in Hell. I can go on about this for ages so I shall curtail.
11. What is your favorite HP artwork? Everything on Blood, Sugar, Sex and Magik
12. Say something nice about another LJ user (not me).
13. What do you eat for breakfast? If I have breakfast? Jaffa cakes. Four jaffa cakes. (a type of soft cakey-buiscuit thing with a round orange bit in the middle and covered with a light cover of dark chocolate)
14. What's something weird you enjoy that gets you odd looks from other people? Doing the Badger song. With dance moves.
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Date: 2005-08-01 08:30 pm (UTC)2: Saying things I've said before over and over.
3: England.
4: The only one I've read. :p (It was one of yours.)
5: Did I tell you about the "You said don't say anything" thing?
6: Don't remember.
7: This little plane thing I used to drag around.
8:
9: http://www.livejournal.com/users/werewolf_song/53255.html (It's a PR post and I know you won't know what I'm talking about, but it's the kind of rant you frequently do and I think you'd get a giggle or two out of it.)
10: I'm a Christian but have some ideas that don't go with traditional thinking. While having a lot of the same thoughts and experiences that lead most people to conclude that organized religion is 100% evil (I don't think you're saying that... but many do.) I still find that there are things about God that other people have experienced and I have not. I'm not ready to cast the ability to learn from them to the winds because religion, like everything else in life, has its problems.
11: N/A
12: So many I could say so much about! Well, I think you'd like
13: Whatever I can grab if I have time.
14: Everything I enjoy gets odd looks...
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Date: 2005-08-03 12:31 pm (UTC)no subject
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