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When comparing books and their movie adaptations, books almost always prove to be better. One of the reasons is that a film does not always manage to convey the same imagery as a book in which emotions are blended with visuals. When reading, one can form a completely different image of a place or a character and have entirely another general feeling of a story. 

When creating a film adaptation, the cast is usually chosen according to the characteristics described in a book. However, the looks are not always so precise. With that in mind, one Vietnamese woman (to her followers known as MsBananaAnna) decided to use artificial intelligence to see what Harry Potter characters would look like based on book descriptions.

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Bored Panda got in touch with the author of this idea to learn more about her and this project. The woman revealed that she's a 28-year-old "nerd" living in Melbourne. She has been a huge "Potterhead" since grade school. "I basically grew up with Harry, Ron, and Hermoine and remember waiting in line at midnight for the release of each book."

"I came up with the idea to recreate the characters when I tried to find some fanworks of Hermione. I watched the movies and though I like Emma Watson, I always thought she was too gorgeous to be Hermione. I couldn't find any renditions of her that I thought were accurate so I ended up making her myself. People seemed to enjoy it so much that I decided to make more characters."

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While some characters look similar to the ones one sees in the movies, others look nothing like them. For MsBananaAnna, Sirius was the one she personally liked the most. "I thought that was plucked straight from my head. Artbreeder can be pretty limiting in what you can do and can be a bit twiddly so not all of the characters came out as I wanted, but I thought Sirius came out as I imagined him! Dark and regally handsome."

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sure they give her realistic looking green eyes, while giving Harry those florescent orbs.

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The recreations of Harry Potter characters got a lot of attention on Reddit (here and here) where MsBananaAnna (or, as she calls herself on Reddit, lettuceown) posted them.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Her name though. 🤦‍♀️ When every other girl has a nice / interesting / exotic name the only Asian girl has the worst most stereotypical name going.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Still upset there was not more of him. He works with dragons! Dragons!! He looks handsome in this recreation, too.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Kinda looks like an adult Tom Felton. Which makes sense of course.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Really badly drawn 3D anime Harry who's been bitten by a radioactive snake.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the eyes that's what pissed me off most in the movie!! yess he was allergic to contacts but STILL!!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You'd think they'd find another brand of contacts...or use cgi...considering what an important plot point the green eyes were.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is Harry just before he turns into the Incredible Hulk.

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Vishal Naidu
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What the ... why are his eyes so fking green, like luminescent green? Was he part-cat or something?

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Wend kirk
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well sure, Anyone could have been cast as Harry - such a generic look

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Snakerel
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok those glasses are floating and dont even get me started on those eyes!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Daniel Radcliff was actually meant to wear green contacts for the HP movies but they were really uncomfortable so they let it go

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Zoey Yates
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The eyes should be more like Lily’s. I mean, that’s what the movies and books say, right?

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Jayna Balistrire
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m glad they went with Daniel Radcliffe! He looks so much better

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Jenny Ly
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sooo nobody noticed the hidden beauty mark on the right side under the nose? 😅

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Cindy Price
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nope! This is not Harry. I saw him in my mind a week after the book came out. He needed to look more unloved. Sallow complexion and dark bags under his eyes. Tired. Sadder until he became happy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry to say this, but I don't like this one. Weird shadow under his nose. These fluorescent eyes...

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Alicia Wolfe
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

His eyes are to bright if they're to look like his mothers as it says in the books.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What the actual hell. No. Just no. I know artbreeder is a fun website, but even an AI can't invent "new" faces, which means most of the end results look similar. THIS however... uncanny valley. EW.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

he look's like an lien with those eye's and nobody's talking about them

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9 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It looks like one of my classmates but without the scar n the green eyes

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Maya Freeman
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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Does anyone else notice how the glasses are so photoshopped?

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Ferdinand Humperdinck
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well, now I k ow why voldy wants him gone. Anyone seen that 50ies movie with the village where all children had glowing eyes? Looks like their prototype.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A bit exaggerated with the eyes indeed, but "Strikingly green" none the less. It was a losing battle with film casting. However, I love this. It absolutely fits the wild hair, thin-faced boy description that I have had troubles trying to picture; due to watching the movies first. I love the turn-out, and definitely have something to go by. Well Done!

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Mae Vere
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Those eyes they are supposed to be like his mothers these make him look possessed

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Cora Matley
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

ok, it fine or whatever (minus the glow in the dark eyes) but those glasses are 100% NOT photoshop

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David Moody
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not bad, Daniel Radcliffe has a rounder face, and neater hair than this, and the eyes look more like emeralds than actual eyes; but then, that would give Harry Potter a more magical appearance.

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David Philbeck
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

OK i like this one.. not a bad rendition.. greenest eyes i ever did see..everything is photo shopped on these characters of course..but nicely..

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Sahana Rao
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s the damn over-exaggerated green eyes lookin like they marbles instead. What is this, Twilight??

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

WHY DOES HIS MUM HAVE NICE REALISTIC EYES... AND HE GETS THIS?! disgrace.

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Ashen Brooks
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

IK I was so mad as a 1st grader about his eyes, pissed me off.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Right color irises but he did have normal pupils. These ones look like his eyes are swimming with the ghosts of his past. Lol

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

his eyes are too green and make me feel like there lollies

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Zoe Humpert
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was looking at this and my brother asked me, "what anime are you watching now?"

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Amanda Begley
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

His eyes look like those plastic gems that kids belive are real when you bring them to school in 3rd grade

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

the glasses were just photoshopped and it's bothering me so much

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Perfection. He looks possessed in the eyes but that's kind of the point of his character. What a beautiful boy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Well the book did say he had bright green eyes? 🤷‍♀️ and I think the scar placement was wrong in the films...I think. It's been a long time since I read them. I was in my early 20s! So I don't quite remember, but something keeps telling me that the scar was wrong.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I prefer Daniel radcliffe more than this mainly because the skin is way to smooth and the eyes have no pupils

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It’s a bit sad that in the movies his eyes are blue and not green they can use contacts

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like a girl... And come on. He has WASPy thin a*s lips. Not plump.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’ve never understood the clip art style lightening bolt scar. I mean I get especially early movies it was simple, even younger kids would get it was lightening, it was probably super easy to keep the continuity which would of been super important and focused on with it being on his face and stuff. Outside of that though especially fan art done by older folks who would of had plenty of time to imagine how everyone looked before the films even started out. It’s imagined something much more like the skin markings people will have after being struck by lightning but deeper like scars but with the scars inset sort of like going more down that up and out and to very fine lines at the center so it looks almost like it’s emitting light it or glowing with the very center so white but only the thinnest of lines and fading out from there. Also I always imagined it branching Off a bit more and bigger a tad than just “on his forehead” in one tiny spot

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Several times it was observed that Harry had eyes just like his mother. The eyes here do not match with Lily's. But I do like this Harry version.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mind is forever polluted with the image of Daniel Radcliffe with a thunderbolt etched into his forehead... I did NOT picture Harry to look like him as I read the first three books.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He looks like a kpop/kdrama idol. This is not the Harry I envisioned.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He looks like a kpop/kdrama idol. Definitely not the Harry I envisioned.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm still upset that they didn't just make his eyes the vivid green as expressed multiple times in the books and movies with cgi

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

According to Ginny Weasley, his eyes are supposed to be green as a fresh pickled toad. 😛

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's with the skin? Airbrushed celebrities don't have skin that smooth and flawless. No I don't find this accurate at all, sorry

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Everyone in the books say Harry has Lily's eyes. Refer back to picture of Lily, and Harry's eyes look like a couple of "puree" marbles.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To be fair, they did try to make his eyes green, but Daniel was allergic to the contacts so they couldn’t keep him and the green eyes. And I think he knows that on some level.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They had him wear green contacts in the first movie, but they really messed with his eyes so they stopped. You can see some shots in the movie he has the green contacts in.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh god they used artbreeder for this didn’t they. I would know the little tells anywhere. I can tell by the eyes mostly because if I up the green eyes too much when I use it it looks like this. Idk, maybe they didn’t use artbreeder, it looks like it though.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now this, is what I expected in the movies. Instead, I got grey eyes. GREY!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He doesn’t even look human— he looks too perfect that we are beginning to reach the “uncanny valley”. What’s up with the glowing eyes? Where’s Harry’s messy hair. Why is his skin so smooth he looks like a pórteles android? Sometimes AI makes character features look inhuman.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The eyes are a bit to bright and not that realistic but it’s still good

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have to take exception here, Harry's eyes did not glow green.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What's up with the overly-glowy green eyes??? Tone down the saturation a little and then we'll talk.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why doesn't he have any pupils? This is weird. Yeah, he's supposed to have green eyes, but he's also supposed to be a real person - not a robot.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It always bugged me how neat the movie Harry's hair was... it was supposed to be super messy and never lie flat if I remember correctly.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uh....this looks almost exactly like me, except I have grey eyes and don't where glasses

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you Jesus, you gave him bottle green eyes. This point always annoyed me so much in the movies

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Movies are adaptations. They don't have to be cinematic copies.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the movie his eyes were grey, this is more acurate. But I've only seen one person in real life who has green eyes sooooo.....

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They're green in the books and my aunt has eyes similar to these (more realistic tho)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one really reminds me of an actor or actress. I can't really name it? It's like a mixture of famous people I know but I can't tell them apart. SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I forgot that Petunia was blonde. Odd that they wouldn't just make her wear a wig for her scenes.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why did the AI make wall-eyed? Was that described in the book? Book 6 isn't my fave so I've not read it enough to remember.((people have already pointed out the description that I wasn't recalling. Kinda don't need multiple comments restating the same thing))

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Longer hair. Earring with a fang. More cool, less dorky. Probably got confused with Percy.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

No, sorry, but even before seeing Maggie Smith in that role she was the spitting image for my personal McGonagall.

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Forgive me, but she reminds me of an angry pig for reasons I cannot explain.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Seriously where are everyones cheeks?! No one is fed in the books apparently. Chiseled jawlines and sunken cheeks.

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