That was a seriously touching finale. I teared up. I can't wait for the Night Mind video explaining what I just saw though. lmfao Seriously though, thank you for this Volrusk. This series was special, and I think it just became part of the central canon of analog horror.
Interesting how multiple characters advise to abandon the shovel and yet they hold onto it till the very end just in case. Just like us, the viewers, they want to keep digging
so, it's over, what an incredible series. this is my interpretation, purely on what I think the message of the story is, no supernatural stuff, arg commentary, the contents or the history of the game/curse. purely what the series is trying to communicate: holistically, I think orphans intro says it best with the line from Eleanor Rigby, this is where lonely people belong, the people whose loved ones are no longer with them... vermis malum is just a hyperfixation that happens to catch a lot of these people. it's a patchwork job of games because... it could be any game. it seems to illustrate the common scenario of obsession pushing people away. Presumably, some pull out, some drop the shovel and try to live a normal life from the first circle, but never quite get rid of that itch to return. some get too deep, they get stuck in their circle, they give up in some way. the trauma of whoever they lost has completely altered them, they can never socialize or connect with others or be a human in the way they used to, or it could be seen as an opposite, a good thing. the person escaped, but what was consuming them, their worm, was left behind in the circle (which makes sense considering the few moments in which the game is a positive force), and frankly it could be both, just down to the interpretation of who was or is trapped. Arthur and Lawrence were the unlucky ones. Arthur's ex was murdered by someone he knew, thus maybe the reason his save was corrupted and he wasn't stuck in the game and no remnant remained was because he was murdered by the same person before he could reach the end of his obsession. In that sense, maybe it could be that, losing his possible children, lawrence could want answers from an uncaring universe, and his playthrough is his desperate attempt to know why his relative died only to come to the conclusion that it was a freak accident. he couldn't wrestle his way out of this despair... and his videos became his last messages to his ex... and once more the laptop might be passed on as a symbol of grief. I mean, Lawrence, so deep into his grief, wanting any answer he can get his hands on, basically asks the universe "Did you murder them?" and the only thing the universe can say back is "NO." that could break anyone.
Yeah, I'm hoping this is part 1. Either I'm not smart enough to put the narrative together and I'll have to hope someone like Nightmind can help put together what I'm clearly missing, or there's information we don't have yet to understand what's going on and this isn't truly the end yet.
"With one final silent motion, the jaws of the rat snapped shut." --That's the ending of Rat's Nest, a collection of SCP Foundation stories about reality itself falling apart. I'm not a big fan of Rat's Nest, honestly, but that line has stuck with me for it's terrible, dreadful finality. Ironically, I think it fits much better here than it does in its place of birth. "Looked into a mirror black/ and saw my shadow looking back" is an equally sharp fragment of language. Props. I could maintain my list of symbology here, but we've well established that Vermis Malum's patchwork symbology/motifs are ultimately a trap for the curious and so I think I will decline to enable our nasty little parasitic host any further. As to our 'dear' host: you're a damn magic computer program--you can already sing! Spend five freaking minutes researching Vocaloids before building an elaborate trap to take over a human's body--surely incorporating Hatsune Miku into your programming is less effort than somehow managing to physically manifest a worm in someone's ear with nothing but binary code. Do better. Or cease existing. Either way, just stop doing what you're doing. I'm sure other commentators expect me to have something to say about the little video montage at the end but, quite frankly, I have nothing to say. Is it Lawrence's memory? A hallucination he's having as the worm takes over his body? A tape that arrives after his death/possession? It's LAWRENCE--I just can't be bothered to dig deep into his wallowing. Well, perhaps that's not *entirely* true. I'm sure our host is trying to be ironic with the inclusion of the line "there's no other animal on Earth that can dream up their own worlds like we can", but the speaker is entirely correct: Vermis Malum cannot dream up its own worlds, just remix ones already created by humans. And now, if you'll permit me to break character for a moment: This whole series was really great! I'm also *so* glad you didn't make it SaTaN in the end--I feel like analog horror (an... odd genre to describe something as digitally-focused as Vermis Malum as, but I think the boot nonetheless fits) is WAY too over-reliant on the exact same "taking dumb exobiblical folklore (demons et al) seriously" that lead to the Satanic Panic back in the '80s. Hoping your next work is as good (and that you don't take my dislike of Lawrence personally) --Some Guy On The Intertubes
I love this series so much! Can't wait to see future disks! ❤❤❤ I'm also excited to see what new projects are in store for this channel. You are an incredible creator, Volrusk!
4:14 cool how the silver key not only looks like the everpalm logo, but also kind of like bolt cutters that we also saw in the intro. They really are breaking into the windmill
Fucking hell Volrusk ive barely touched the arg elements and i dont fully get the plot but the sheer craft and art and mood put into this project have really shook me bad, i need to lie down or something
Not exactly an ARG, just puzzle elements. There was no "outside" resources you needed to access, but there's a whole bunch of hidden and cyphered messages in every video.
An incredible ending to disk 1!!! i'm so glad to have been along for the ride and I know this series will sit at the top with some of the greatest internet horror series I know
This will be a comment for myself to note in hinge I’m noticing about the video as I watch it..: ignore me! Or add to this list! Or idk just here’s some stuff: 3:49 it says “looked into a mirror black and saw my shadow looking back” backwards or mirrored 3:57 it’s the windmill from the beginning of the gameplay, which is cool bc he just picked up the “silver key” that looks identical to the in universe game dev logo… and has been also used in the windmill imagery 4:22 “and as I looked he grew and grew Wonder if he saw me too” mirrored again 7:37 why gum wall in Seattle here lol 7:42 you’re way too close to my apartment building 🙃 7:54 RX Skulls! 9:10 what’s that 6d in bottom right corner that’s only on screen for a moment..? 10:30 74 in bottom right corner that's only 10:46 73 bottom right hand corner… I must’ve missed a lot of these between 6d (is that supposed to be “60?”) and 74 but I wasn’t looking hard enough I guess😅
honestly.... i feel sorry for vermon dapple. she's an orphan, who wants to live and create as much as any living creature, but cannot exist in meatspace without. well, meat. so she lures in people who have so much despair they have given up on life. and if they aren't using that life, vermon can. she waits for them at the bottom of inferno where the player has sunk, despite all warnings. a rotten apple can only be turned to soil to nurture new life, and the worm does its part. in envy she makes her final argument. if the player made it this far, then they must be looking for an escape from reality, a reality which vemon desperately wishes to live in. if the player has already given up, then does it matter if they have a mask instead of a face? if they dream and never wake up? ultimately, it's a kind of deal with the devil. they both want escape, so Vermon will trade places.
I assume this just the end of story arc 1. I wonder if Arc will include a seance where the player finds a video Lawerence left of his playthrough Ring 2 similar to how Arthur left a video of his playthrough of ring 5
Something of note: in inferno Dante mistakes Satan for some sort of structure at first, he specifically uses a windmill turning at night as his example, this fits so well with the themes of "seeming" that this series has stuck to, that it would use a windmill to depict the devil
Lawrence is owed more questions. Also, who are "them"? I initially thought he meant the previous players, but the last thing Lawrence said made me unsure. His distant partner and the child (presumably) they lost?
Yeah, perhaps an indicator this isn't the end of the series, just the end of part one, but I did notice he didn't get to ask all 20 questions. The thumbnail lingers on 9 too.
I can’t praise the visual effects of this series enough. It does feel like the story ended rather abruptly with no closure, but hey, you’re probably already working on your next project.
this is one of my favourite series on yt, thanks so much man for this, and I'm glad we've come to some sort of conclusion, because now we get to see what else you cook up!
This is a really great series - but I gotta be honest that… I don’t think I got where this is going, or what this is going for, now that there’s a season finale. I felt like it just really came together with every tidbit, how we got that there’s a mythology around this haunted game in the first place… So yeah… I feel like we are only 30% in. I wish we’d get some kind of geocities website that expands on what this game Mythos/urban legend is. Just because everything is so hazy. Still: incredible work.
the very brief answer is: all the refs/mythology are just symbolistic fluff to lure in the lonely and lost. Vermis Malum/Vermon Dapple is a entity in the form of a parasite, a memetic virus, that wants to possess a human and live in the real world. They weren't made by a company, but just Exist. Lawrence's illness were signs of Vermon taking over. Now, the symbolism isnt meaningless, Vermon is clearly expressing some feelings here, not jsut trying to appeal to and warn Lawrence in turn. Vermon clearly sees themself as an orphaned, even cursed, existence, one that must eat its "parents", be the vermin that feasts on the apple, in order to live. to live, to create, to sing, just as humans get to. Lawrence succumbed to Vermis Malum because he sank into his despair over his loss, his grief, and stopped living; Vermon, who wants to live, took that life he abandoned.
Fuck. I was trying to do the whistle on while I was waiting for the end screen. Two tries as I was getting closer, and as I was about to try again, it whistled back. My heart just about jumped out of my chest
We'll see, I'm reserving judgement. It seems like a big theme of this series is nobody wins this game, and the worm or Parple or whatever you'd call it seems confident it's in human nature to fail every time. Still, I have to wonder what's remarkable about Lawrence's journey if he's doomed to fail like everyone else who gets inflicted with... whatever this is. Something a few episodes ago gave me hope that if Lawrence can brave the trials of this thing without resigning himself to despair, perhaps he has a chance to get out the other side alive, if perhaps changed, damaged, and worse for ware, but alive. Perhaps there's no truly "winning" this game, but I'm still holding onto a half prediction Lawrence will be different somehow.
@@gregvs.theworld451Since this series seems to be similar to Dante's Inferno, perhaps the next one will be based on Purgatorio or Paradiso. With Lawrence climbing his way back out.
Vermis Malum taunts the player through exposing them to unsettling/ inconvenient information. There is a worm in my head now in the form of a question. Does playing VM beckon demonic possession or does the demonic possession happen first, then memory lapse, and then VM introduces itself to the player/ possession victim to mockingly warn them that they have been possessed?
i think VM casts a net to the "lost" (in despair, grief, etc, someone who has given up on their life), and all the warnings are a "swim at own risk" sign, while also growing their possession the deeper the player falls. So if, say, someone gives up and puts the game down after three levels, starts living life again instead, VM's grip will loosen, and they'll try and find another host.
@@LegoCookieDoggie The more I think about it, the more I think this is just the first part but it's a significant enough milestone that it gets its own credits send off like every season of Angel Hare over on The East patch. Maybe Volrusk will also give us something new in the meantime, but I think there will be a disk (part) 2 sometime down the line. If you're really lost apparently there's a Discord where people have put many pieces together already, so maybe check that out.
That was a seriously touching finale. I teared up.
I can't wait for the Night Mind video explaining what I just saw though. lmfao
Seriously though, thank you for this Volrusk. This series was special, and I think it just became part of the central canon of analog horror.
Interesting how multiple characters advise to abandon the shovel and yet they hold onto it till the very end just in case. Just like us, the viewers, they want to keep digging
Ironically, I think that means the advice to abandon the shovel was in fact good advice, since digging this deep clearly didn't end well for Lawrence.
so, it's over, what an incredible series. this is my interpretation, purely on what I think the message of the story is, no supernatural stuff, arg commentary, the contents or the history of the game/curse. purely what the series is trying to communicate:
holistically, I think orphans intro says it best with the line from Eleanor Rigby, this is where lonely people belong, the people whose loved ones are no longer with them... vermis malum is just a hyperfixation that happens to catch a lot of these people. it's a patchwork job of games because... it could be any game. it seems to illustrate the common scenario of obsession pushing people away. Presumably, some pull out, some drop the shovel and try to live a normal life from the first circle, but never quite get rid of that itch to return. some get too deep, they get stuck in their circle, they give up in some way. the trauma of whoever they lost has completely altered them, they can never socialize or connect with others or be a human in the way they used to, or it could be seen as an opposite, a good thing. the person escaped, but what was consuming them, their worm, was left behind in the circle (which makes sense considering the few moments in which the game is a positive force), and frankly it could be both, just down to the interpretation of who was or is trapped.
Arthur and Lawrence were the unlucky ones. Arthur's ex was murdered by someone he knew, thus maybe the reason his save was corrupted and he wasn't stuck in the game and no remnant remained was because he was murdered by the same person before he could reach the end of his obsession. In that sense, maybe it could be that, losing his possible children, lawrence could want answers from an uncaring universe, and his playthrough is his desperate attempt to know why his relative died only to come to the conclusion that it was a freak accident. he couldn't wrestle his way out of this despair... and his videos became his last messages to his ex... and once more the laptop might be passed on as a symbol of grief.
I mean, Lawrence, so deep into his grief, wanting any answer he can get his hands on, basically asks the universe "Did you murder them?" and the only thing the universe can say back is "NO." that could break anyone.
This was an amazing series. Thank you for all of the wonderful videos. Noticed the Disk 1 title on the playlist and I’m excited to see what’s next
Yeah, I'm hoping this is part 1. Either I'm not smart enough to put the narrative together and I'll have to hope someone like Nightmind can help put together what I'm clearly missing, or there's information we don't have yet to understand what's going on and this isn't truly the end yet.
It is he mentioned this is only part one in a post I believe
The hex numbers in the lower right corner of the video, during the last segment, spell out "the worm feasts"
I hoped someone in the comments would post what the numbers mean and I wasn't disappointed... thank you!
I recognized it as hex but was too lazy to assemble the message. Thanks.
"With one final silent motion, the jaws of the rat snapped shut."
--That's the ending of Rat's Nest, a collection of SCP Foundation stories about reality itself falling apart. I'm not a big fan of Rat's Nest, honestly, but that line has stuck with me for it's terrible, dreadful finality. Ironically, I think it fits much better here than it does in its place of birth.
"Looked into a mirror black/ and saw my shadow looking back" is an equally sharp fragment of language. Props.
I could maintain my list of symbology here, but we've well established that Vermis Malum's patchwork symbology/motifs are ultimately a trap for the curious and so I think I will decline to enable our nasty little parasitic host any further.
As to our 'dear' host: you're a damn magic computer program--you can already sing! Spend five freaking minutes researching Vocaloids before building an elaborate trap to take over a human's body--surely incorporating Hatsune Miku into your programming is less effort than somehow managing to physically manifest a worm in someone's ear with nothing but binary code. Do better. Or cease existing. Either way, just stop doing what you're doing.
I'm sure other commentators expect me to have something to say about the little video montage at the end but, quite frankly, I have nothing to say. Is it Lawrence's memory? A hallucination he's having as the worm takes over his body? A tape that arrives after his death/possession? It's LAWRENCE--I just can't be bothered to dig deep into his wallowing.
Well, perhaps that's not *entirely* true. I'm sure our host is trying to be ironic with the inclusion of the line "there's no other animal on Earth that can dream up their own worlds like we can", but the speaker is entirely correct: Vermis Malum cannot dream up its own worlds, just remix ones already created by humans.
And now, if you'll permit me to break character for a moment:
This whole series was really great! I'm also *so* glad you didn't make it SaTaN in the end--I feel like analog horror (an... odd genre to describe something as digitally-focused as Vermis Malum as, but I think the boot nonetheless fits) is WAY too over-reliant on the exact same "taking dumb exobiblical folklore (demons et al) seriously" that lead to the Satanic Panic back in the '80s.
Hoping your next work is as good (and that you don't take my dislike of Lawrence personally)
--Some Guy On The Intertubes
Good comment. Good words. Thanks :3
I love this series so much! Can't wait to see future disks! ❤❤❤ I'm also excited to see what new projects are in store for this channel. You are an incredible creator, Volrusk!
I KNEW. I KNEW YOU'D DO THE WHISTLE AT THE END-
i was Waiting for it like. cmon. do it you piece of shit. im waiting. and then the Whistle happened and i cheered with a foam WORM #1 hand.
Now that it's ended I hope we get a playlist drop for the music. This series and it's sound track has been fantastic!
4:14 cool how the silver key not only looks like the everpalm logo, but also kind of like bolt cutters that we also saw in the intro. They really are breaking into the windmill
And so are story ends. It was a pleasure observing, Lawrence.
Fucking hell Volrusk ive barely touched the arg elements and i dont fully get the plot but the sheer craft and art and mood put into this project have really shook me bad, i need to lie down or something
wait is there an ARG? I thought it was just the videos.
Not exactly an ARG, just puzzle elements. There was no "outside" resources you needed to access, but there's a whole bunch of hidden and cyphered messages in every video.
Nightmind save me! I need answers!
This has truly been... Our worm in the apple
Maybe the real worms in the apple were the friends we made along the way
The whistle at the end was truly 🤌💕
You have a wonderful sense of style, Volrusk. I can't wait to see what you cook up next. Happy holidays to you! 🌟
An incredible ending to disk 1!!! i'm so glad to have been along for the ride and I know this series will sit at the top with some of the greatest internet horror series I know
This will be a comment for myself to note in hinge I’m noticing about the video as I watch it..: ignore me! Or add to this list! Or idk just here’s some stuff:
3:49 it says “looked into a mirror black and saw my shadow looking back” backwards or mirrored
3:57 it’s the windmill from the beginning of the gameplay, which is cool bc he just picked up the “silver key” that looks identical to the in universe game dev logo… and has been also used in the windmill imagery
4:22 “and as I looked he grew and grew
Wonder if he saw me too” mirrored again
7:37 why gum wall in Seattle here lol
7:42 you’re way too close to my apartment building 🙃
7:54 RX Skulls!
9:10 what’s that 6d in bottom right corner that’s only on screen for a moment..?
10:30 74 in bottom right corner that's only
10:46 73 bottom right hand corner… I must’ve missed a lot of these between 6d (is that supposed to be “60?”) and 74 but I wasn’t looking hard enough I guess😅
The characters in the corner are hexadecimal. Someone in the comments has converted to English, I'm sure.
honestly.... i feel sorry for vermon dapple. she's an orphan, who wants to live and create as much as any living creature, but cannot exist in meatspace without. well, meat. so she lures in people who have so much despair they have given up on life. and if they aren't using that life, vermon can. she waits for them at the bottom of inferno where the player has sunk, despite all warnings. a rotten apple can only be turned to soil to nurture new life, and the worm does its part.
in envy she makes her final argument. if the player made it this far, then they must be looking for an escape from reality, a reality which vemon desperately wishes to live in. if the player has already given up, then does it matter if they have a mask instead of a face? if they dream and never wake up? ultimately, it's a kind of deal with the devil. they both want escape, so Vermon will trade places.
A finale? How apt for the season of giving
We getting worms in our apples for Christmas!
I assume this just the end of story arc 1. I wonder if Arc will include a seance where the player finds a video Lawerence left of his playthrough Ring 2 similar to how Arthur left a video of his playthrough of ring 5
Let's all feast on a green apple
Something of note: in inferno Dante mistakes Satan for some sort of structure at first, he specifically uses a windmill turning at night as his example, this fits so well with the themes of "seeming" that this series has stuck to, that it would use a windmill to depict the devil
Was the true friends we made along the way, the worms in the apple?
oh hey theres a third voice that joins into the credits! VM did get to sing :)
Lawrence is owed more questions. Also, who are "them"? I initially thought he meant the previous players, but the last thing Lawrence said made me unsure. His distant partner and the child (presumably) they lost?
Yeah, perhaps an indicator this isn't the end of the series, just the end of part one, but I did notice he didn't get to ask all 20 questions. The thumbnail lingers on 9 too.
@gregvs.theworld451 Also, it might just be that he didn't need all 20 questions.
I can’t praise the visual effects of this series enough. It does feel like the story ended rather abruptly with no closure, but hey, you’re probably already working on your next project.
this is one of my favourite series on yt, thanks so much man for this, and I'm glad we've come to some sort of conclusion, because now we get to see what else you cook up!
no words, just joy. thanks for sharing this with us c:
Amazing series. Thank you for putting so much effort into it. And I knew that fucking whistle would be right at the end, I love it.
4:21 - "And as I looked he grew and grew, [I w]?onder if he saw me too".
Such a cool way to wrap things up, and I'm excited for what you do next! And I jumped at the very end, every time it gets me!!! It's so good.
this series has been so uniquely inspired and fascinating. im looking forward to your future projects volrusk!!
a Christmas miracle!!!
a direct "thanks k bye" is not what i expected but we're here
thank you for this experience, it was...something
Amazing release date. Merry Christmas everyone!
this was such a beautiful series and we're so excited for whats next!!
This is a really great series - but I gotta be honest that… I don’t think I got where this is going, or what this is going for, now that there’s a season finale. I felt like it just really came together with every tidbit, how we got that there’s a mythology around this haunted game in the first place…
So yeah… I feel like we are only 30% in. I wish we’d get some kind of geocities website that expands on what this game Mythos/urban legend is. Just because everything is so hazy. Still: incredible work.
the very brief answer is: all the refs/mythology are just symbolistic fluff to lure in the lonely and lost. Vermis Malum/Vermon Dapple is a entity in the form of a parasite, a memetic virus, that wants to possess a human and live in the real world. They weren't made by a company, but just Exist. Lawrence's illness were signs of Vermon taking over.
Now, the symbolism isnt meaningless, Vermon is clearly expressing some feelings here, not jsut trying to appeal to and warn Lawrence in turn. Vermon clearly sees themself as an orphaned, even cursed, existence, one that must eat its "parents", be the vermin that feasts on the apple, in order to live. to live, to create, to sing, just as humans get to.
Lawrence succumbed to Vermis Malum because he sank into his despair over his loss, his grief, and stopped living; Vermon, who wants to live, took that life he abandoned.
I love you volrusk
Fuck. I was trying to do the whistle on while I was waiting for the end screen. Two tries as I was getting closer, and as I was about to try again, it whistled back. My heart just about jumped out of my chest
What a journey. (': Thank you!
Well merry christmas all this was certianly a ride.. see you all for the next one.
lol held out for one last whistle, was not disappointed!
Phenomenal as always, can’t wait to see what you do in the future
Let’s goo Seattle MOPOP rep!!! And yeah, the horror section is cool as hell
Incredible work, well done and i hope you'll do more like this in the future
True horror.
She's living in Seattle.
malum vermis to all 🎄
So good. So, so, so good.
As if we couldn't get any more Dante, we open strong with the Dark Forest.
Is it just me, or do the flies look more like tiny hands?
People found out in ep 3(?) I think that the flies are actually tiny hands.
dear Lord this was dark
7:37- The Gum Wall in Seattle.
this is what happens when the meatworm getcha
Loved this series! :)
it truly frightens and intrigues. If only I understood the story..
I don't think they won the game, y'all.
We'll see, I'm reserving judgement. It seems like a big theme of this series is nobody wins this game, and the worm or Parple or whatever you'd call it seems confident it's in human nature to fail every time. Still, I have to wonder what's remarkable about Lawrence's journey if he's doomed to fail like everyone else who gets inflicted with... whatever this is. Something a few episodes ago gave me hope that if Lawrence can brave the trials of this thing without resigning himself to despair, perhaps he has a chance to get out the other side alive, if perhaps changed, damaged, and worse for ware, but alive. Perhaps there's no truly "winning" this game, but I'm still holding onto a half prediction Lawrence will be different somehow.
@@gregvs.theworld451Since this series seems to be similar to Dante's Inferno, perhaps the next one will be based on Purgatorio or Paradiso. With Lawrence climbing his way back out.
Beautiful way to end the series. Bravo!
Phenomenal. Thank you.
Christmas came early
I loved it
Isn’t this where
Vermis Malum taunts the player through exposing them to unsettling/ inconvenient information. There is a worm in my head now in the form of a question. Does playing VM beckon demonic possession or does the demonic possession happen first, then memory lapse, and then VM introduces itself to the player/ possession victim to mockingly warn them that they have been possessed?
i think VM casts a net to the "lost" (in despair, grief, etc, someone who has given up on their life), and all the warnings are a "swim at own risk" sign, while also growing their possession the deeper the player falls. So if, say, someone gives up and puts the game down after three levels, starts living life again instead, VM's grip will loosen, and they'll try and find another host.
merry malum :)
Anyone figure out the roman numerals, by any chance? I though maybe Bible passages, but I'm not sure.
💚💚💚💚💚
Juicy
YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS
fucking amazing.
I wonder if this is on hatius now that part one is done
No way!
First one here, for once. Happy holidays everyone!
So, is this the end the end? Or is this the end of part 1? Also I hope someone has the analysis of what's going on because I think I'm lost.
Same I have no idea what is going on
@@LegoCookieDoggie The more I think about it, the more I think this is just the first part but it's a significant enough milestone that it gets its own credits send off like every season of Angel Hare over on The East patch. Maybe Volrusk will also give us something new in the meantime, but I think there will be a disk (part) 2 sometime down the line. If you're really lost apparently there's a Discord where people have put many pieces together already, so maybe check that out.
What a good series, didn't really stick the landing, but still good
...What are you talking about? "Lawrence gets eaten" has been the clear direction the series was going for most of the episodes.
Happy Honda Days @volrusk ❤️❤️❤️ thank you for this blessing!