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What are the best 1990s period piece movies? (I.e., made after 1999, set in 90s)

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underhanded canary tattoo
  05/27/25
Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1...
Talented Sanctuary
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Who even watches these anymore?
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I still watch Film
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but yet you know nothing of it
Soul-stirring messiness mood
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Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure ...
Cruel-hearted Chestnut Kitty
  05/28/25
mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo
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True Detective season one
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Best answer so far
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The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after ...
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heady depressive heaven
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Alpha Dog pops into mind first
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(Nick Cassavetes) (JT)
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There are not a lot - certainly no great films. Add The F...
underhanded canary tattoo
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How to train your dragon
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social network.
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Wolf of Wall Street
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Mostly an 80s movie though.
underhanded canary tattoo
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Speed
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I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP&rsquo...
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Nigger Feet
Adventurous hissy fit
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"period" is a gross word.
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The Diaper
Curious french persian
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I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about ...
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The Queen (2006) The Fighter (2010) Erin Brocovich (2000) ...
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Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers
underhanded canary tattoo
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Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 9...
Multi-colored institution
  05/27/25
Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their t...
underhanded canary tattoo
  05/28/25
I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthe...
underhanded canary tattoo
  05/28/25
Same for Napoleon dynamite Technically set in 2003 but ru...
mustard gas station
  05/28/25
Good one
underhanded canary tattoo
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lilo and stitch for the same reason
Peach Love Of Her Life
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marvelous fantasy-prone brethren office
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Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly ...
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Road Trip
aggressive bespoke pit
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this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our me...
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nofapping medicated den
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Pain & Gain Mid90s The Informant!
diverse space reading party
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Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT
black school
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Im a Curator
diverse space reading party
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Three Kings
heady depressive heaven
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1999
diverse space reading party
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One Day (2011) Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Provocative Scarlet Plaza
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Black Hawk Down
Violent stubborn famous landscape painting
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this
Mischievous up-to-no-good lodge round eye
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Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia
underhanded canary tattoo
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I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera ar...
Cruel-hearted Chestnut Kitty
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the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux ca...
embarrassed to the bone racy hall boltzmann
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I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discu...
underhanded canary tattoo
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Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the ...
Mischievous up-to-no-good lodge round eye
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No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using...
aggressive bespoke pit
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tyvmft
Mischievous up-to-no-good lodge round eye
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The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Cr...
Charismatic ape haunted graveyard
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Harry Potter
Godawful locus
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The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - t...
honey-headed rehab candlestick maker
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Good one
underhanded canary tattoo
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black school
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tv show but derry girls. wife insisted i watch it. i tho...
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It’s criminally underrated
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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:15 AM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:30 AM
Author: Talented Sanctuary

Big Lebowski almost qualifies, released in 1998 but set in 1991.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Adventurous hissy fit

Who even watches these anymore?

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:31 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted Chestnut Kitty

I still watch Film

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Curious french persian



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:29 PM
Author: Soul-stirring messiness mood

but yet you know nothing of it

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:33 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted Chestnut Kitty

Sir, I attended the Werner Herzog Film Seminar, pretty sure I know about Film.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:32 AM
Author: mustard gas station

mean girls was released in 2004 but feels older imo

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:34 AM
Author: coral maniacal principal's office

True Detective season one



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:22 PM
Author: nofapping medicated den



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:02 PM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

Best answer so far

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:48 AM
Author: Mischievous up-to-no-good lodge round eye



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:23 PM
Author: navy corn cake state



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:28 PM
Author: Curious french persian

tp

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: nofapping medicated den



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

The segways are the second biggest unresolved mystery after the lawnmower

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:34 AM
Author: heady depressive heaven



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:38 AM
Author: buff spot

Alpha Dog pops into mind first

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:44 AM
Author: Hideous Contagious Dingle Berry

(Nick Cassavetes)

(JT)

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:19 PM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

There are not a lot - certainly no great films.

Add The Fighter and Spring Breakers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: Adventurous hissy fit

How to train your dragon

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:23 PM
Author: brilliant parlour goyim

social network.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: galvanic well-lubricated stag film potus

Wolf of Wall Street

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:23 PM
Author: Aromatic adulterous legend



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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: nofapping medicated den



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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:58 PM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

Mostly an 80s movie though.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: aggressive bespoke pit

Speed

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

I don’t think 1994’s Speed meets one of OP’s criteria.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 1:24 PM
Author: nofapping medicated den

Autoadmit.com

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Adventurous hissy fit

Nigger Feet

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: wine mental disorder station

"period" is a gross word.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 9:59 PM
Author: Curious french persian

The Diaper

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:39 PM
Author: nofapping medicated den



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

I think this has to do with Klosterman’s theory about the vanishing future. The internet has made it so the 90s never left. There’s no clear break with the past like Nirvana ending the 80s. So the era continues to live on in the culture (e.g. Friends and Seinfeld still Top 5 tv shows by hours watched) preventing us from developing a collective Nostalgia for the 1990s.

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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:01 PM
Author: Curious french persian



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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: nofapping medicated den



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Aromatic adulterous legend



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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:49 AM
Author: nofapping medicated den



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Date: May 27th, 2025 10:18 PM
Author: mildly autistic telephone

The Queen (2006)

The Fighter (2010)

Erin Brocovich (2000)

I, Tonya (2017)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:50 AM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

Thanks for asking Chat to give you answers

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Date: May 27th, 2025 11:03 PM
Author: Multi-colored institution

Doesn't qualify with your parameters but Clerks is classic 90s.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:52 AM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

Yes, but not a period piece. Lots of movies reflect their times (Clerks is great), but the 90s are massively underexplored by people from another, later time reflecting on the historical era and what it MEANS now that culture has some distance.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5730305&forum_id=2],#48966871)



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Date: May 28th, 2025 6:54 AM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

I think Superbad is set in the 2000s but it has a 90s aesthetic and is based on Rogen and Stone’s high school years.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 7:05 AM
Author: mustard gas station

Same for Napoleon dynamite

Technically set in 2003 but rural Idaho was still in 1990

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

Good one

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:52 AM
Author: Peach Love Of Her Life

lilo and stitch for the same reason

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:55 AM
Author: nofapping medicated den



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:43 AM
Author: marvelous fantasy-prone brethren office



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Date: June 14th, 2025 10:02 AM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

Those tankard bracelets and Deb’s hair are incredibly 90s

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Date: May 28th, 2025 9:59 AM
Author: aggressive bespoke pit

Road Trip

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:04 AM
Author: Territorial Hospital Pocket Flask

this is difficult imo because 9/11 really wiped clean our memories of problems in teh 90s. the late 90s movies (office space, american beauty, fight club) were all about the purposelessness of american life and culture.

kind of hard to reset a 90s film knowing what is going to happen

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: nofapping medicated den



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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: diverse space reading party

Pain & Gain

Mid90s

The Informant!

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:23 AM
Author: black school

Pain & Gain is probably the best answer ITT

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:11 AM
Author: diverse space reading party

Im a Curator

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: heady depressive heaven

Three Kings

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: diverse space reading party

1999

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Date: May 28th, 2025 10:44 AM
Author: Provocative Scarlet Plaza

One Day (2011)

Love and Other Drugs (2010)

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:48 PM
Author: Violent stubborn famous landscape painting

Black Hawk Down

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:13 AM
Author: Mischievous up-to-no-good lodge round eye

this

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Date: May 29th, 2025 7:49 AM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

Lot of nostalgia for 1993 Somalia

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Date: May 29th, 2025 8:44 AM
Author: Cruel-hearted Chestnut Kitty

I remember playing netdoom in an internet cafe in Berbera around then, it was 180.

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Date: May 28th, 2025 8:54 PM
Author: embarrassed to the bone racy hall boltzmann

the belgian crime drama 'Maldoror' about the marc dutroux case.

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Date: May 29th, 2025 4:08 AM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

I feel like that’s too well known to even bother discussing

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:14 AM
Author: Mischievous up-to-no-good lodge round eye

Is The Departed set in the 1990s? Seemed to be based on the tech used

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: aggressive bespoke pit

No. They were clearly using early 2000s era phones and using the number pad for texting. Also Alec Baldwins character mentions the Patriot Act

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Date: May 29th, 2025 6:44 AM
Author: Mischievous up-to-no-good lodge round eye

tyvmft

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Date: May 29th, 2025 5:25 AM
Author: Charismatic ape haunted graveyard

The Creek, the in-universe remake of Season 1 of Dawson's Creek.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 1:22 AM
Author: Godawful locus

Harry Potter

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 3:07 AM
Author: honey-headed rehab candlestick maker

The OJ Simpson miniseries that was on FX a few years ago - the drama with Cuba Gooding Jr. as OJ, not the documentary one.

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 10:09 AM
Author: underhanded canary tattoo

Good one

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Date: June 3rd, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: black school



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Date: June 7th, 2025 4:39 AM
Author: flesh slimy library blood rage

tv show but derry girls.

wife insisted i watch it. i thought it would suck but it’s 180

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Date: June 8th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: Godawful locus

It’s criminally underrated

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Date: June 9th, 2025 11:12 AM
Author: flesh slimy library blood rage



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