#Cass will shared the video footage later

[atiyasnake]

Part 3 with fluff :p

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The world felt muffled when Danny woke up. His eyes were heavy and there was a haze to everything. But not enough to erase the fact that he could tell he was in a bed that did not belong to him. Too big. Too soft. Too grand. He could see the wooden frame and walls that were nothing like his bedroom walls with dents and posters. 

Too fancy, too grand. A room all too much like Vlad, but the man was known for redecorating for better rooms and not every room of his was a shrine to the Packers. 

Where was Vlad? He wouldn’t want to miss Danny waking up and taunting him with the unease he felt. Danny tried to make his eyes look around and move his head, there was a dull ache. He saw some machinery to his side, white. White didn’t mean anything good. 

Vlad…Vlad was near and so was…Dani-or was it Dami? Danny frowned as the thoughts themselves felt like cotton. Light from the window made him want to scrunch up and hide, the ache in his head wasn’t the only one he felt. There was pain in other parts of his body, he could feel the familiar sensation of bandages. 

Vlad was good at hurting him (a trait he shared with Danny parents). 

Vlad knew very well how to hurt Dami. Danny tried to sit up, pushing past the discomfort and how things still felt muffled. He needed to find Dami.

The room was empty, there was other medical equipment around. Maybe Vlad decided on another spot in his mansion for medical. Maybe to trick him considering Danny never reacted well in the too-cold, too-clinical area down below. 

Where was Dami?

He slipped out of bed, wincing at the movement, and stood there trying to think. His head made him want to close his eyes and but there was something insistent in him. He needed to find Dami, there was a tug inside of him and he looked at the door. 

Danny was quiet as he slipped out. On guard for any small ghostly guards or security measures  Vlad might have decided to put in his house. He followed the tug from within his chest. Everything was telling him to find Dami and to leave. To go somewhere safe. The fancy carpets and wood banister only made that more insistent. 

There is a chill in his throat as he crept down one hall and when he looked and saw a baby ghost hiding in the shadows. She was very good at it, the shadows welcomed her in their hold. 

Vlad shouldn't have baby ghosts but then Danny remembered that Dami found baby ghosts last time. He’d make sure they’d get somewhere safer too. 

He went up to her and when he got close enough she turned her head and looked his way. It was good that she was an observant baby ghost. That would keep her safe. She should be in the ghost zone though. He reached out a hand for her and she eyed it. Tilting her head, but there was a sound coming from the hall. He insisted, there was some relief once she placed her hand in his hold and he pulled her back. 

He still had to find Dami, and he was sure there was one more baby ghost too. 

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Cass watched Danny as made his way around the manor. His hand was gentle but firm holding hers and pulling her along. 

He had been scared but insistent when she noticed him coming up to her. Even more when a noise came from the direction where Dick and Alfred were. She didn’t want him to disappear again like at the mall so she took his hand, and saw how relieved he was at the action before pulling her away. 

It was interesting to see Danny able to sneak around. His feet didn’t make a sound just as she learned how not to do that when she was young. He moved with the shadows and quickly. Not at all faltering despite the worry she could see he carried along with pain. The other interesting thing she noted was that he was mindful and protective of her, keeping her back and positioning his body in a way that he would be the one to face any threat should they come across one. 

He probably shouldn't have been moving but she didn’t think it would be good if she tried to stop him. He seemed to be looking for something and she had a clue as to what 

It was only confirmed when she saw the way his shoulders untensed and he seemed to become lighter once Damian was in their view. 

As they came closer, Damian of course noted their presence and he was surprised (his eyebrows had raised slightly for a small moment). Cass simply put her finger to her mouth before he could say anything and instead Damian was watchful as Danny finally came close. 

With the same gentleness, Danny extended his hand but instead of waiting he grabbed Damian’s. There was a familiarity in the movement that wasn’t there when he did it with her. Not waiting for a moment before pulling the two of them along, clearly expecting the two of them to follow. Both Damian and Cass didn’t resist, more than capable of going with him but Cass saw the question Damian sent her way. 

Cass only gestured her head to Danny. Damian stared at her for a moment more before giving in and looking at Danny. She was sure that he’d be able to see what she had done. 

It was amusing to see Damian’s small reactions to the way Danny maneuvered, never once leaving a sign of his presence and somehow avoiding running into anyone. It was so different from the sluggish playfulness at the mall and panicked demeanor that she heard Danny had when he was brought home. 

Here was a strange teenage boy moving with such practice and ease that belonged to well-trained assassins around the home of Batman. It would have been concerning if she could not see that Danny meant no harm and only had concern for her and Damian. 

Eventually, they made their way into the family wing of the manor. Danny still didn’t pause as he moved like someone on a mission. Not even pausing as he pushed through one of the doors and into Jason’s room. 

Cass hadn’t been in Jason’s room too often. The room used to be frozen in time according to Dick after Jason had died years ago. That had changed over the years. Now, there was life in it. Jason still stayed somewhere else a bit seeing as Crime Alley always had something going on. But more and more Jason was at the manor and slowly breathed life into his room.  

Still, he was private and not exactly known for inviting anyone inside. Not that Danny knew that. 

He still held their hands gently as he finally came to a stop in the middle of Jason’s room. His head swiveled around before looking back at her and Damian. He looked over the faces and was pensive. Thinking something over and she wondered what it was. 

She could tell that Damian was itching to ask something, to say one word but he remained silent.  They would continue to watch and hope that Danny’s actions would give them an answer. 

Though as Danny let go of their hands and went over to Jason’s bed, pulling off the blankets and pillows before heading inside Jason’s closet, the answer wasn’t clear. Especially not how he came out and once again grabbed hold of their hands before pulling them into the darkness of the closet either. 

With the care that was unexpected from anyone else but came so easily from Danny, he pulled them into a makeshift cushion. Flitting about moving pillows and blankets until Cass and Damian were as Tim would say ‘cozy’. Only then did Cass see Danny relax. 

Finally, with cushions pushing from his sides even a blanket disrupting his hair Damian frowned at her. “Explain,” he said lowly. 

Cass shuffled herself to be deeper among the cushions, a small smile tugging at her lips. 

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Jason had managed to sneak some of the baked goods Alfred had baked without running into a much too energized Dick. He had stayed up late the night before and any sleep he got was plagued with unkind thoughts about what exactly had happened to Danny. He thought back to the different odd comments Danny had made that time at the mall. How easily he had laughed and said “I’m me” as if him just being him was enough to garner being shot at and being hurt. There was no hesitation or break in resolve when Danny offered himself in exchange for Damian’s safety. 

But Danny was there now and being treated. He was safe.

Jason spent some time in the library with a book after eating. It was quiet in the manor. Eventually, though he needed to get going and he started to go to his room to grab some of his things before heading out. He’d make sure to ask for updates in the family group chat about Danny. Maybe he’d even drop by where Duke was during his daytime vigilante activities.

When he went to his room he paused at the odd feeling, it felt like walking into a room where a cooler or refrigerator was left open. Something felt off and only more so when he saw that his bed was stripped of various comfortable blankets and pillows. 

The others knew to not come in as they pleased, room were something that was typically respected. All rules went out the window if you were found snooping or messing with the others' things in their room. 

Other than his bed, nothing else showed signs of being messed with, but something kept drawing his eye to his closet. It only grew stronger as he walked over to it. 

He reached out and opened it. 

The sight made him pause. 

There on the floor among blankets and pillows were his two assassin siblings and Danny who should be resting. Who he hadn't even heard had woken or was missing from the room they placed him in. Who was playing with Damian’s hair as he did at the mall months ago. 

Danny was looking at him, his eyes a bit showing that he wasn't all there. That along with the look on his face and soft voice as he said “The last baby!”

Jason looked at Cass who was snuggled up in one of his weighted blankets and then at Damian who was glaring at him despite his hair being played with.

“Join us, Todd,” Damian said with a tone that promised a threat if he didn’t do as said. 

“Now why would I do that?” Jason asked, cocking his hip to the side. 

Damian looked to where Cass was and they shared a look. 

Not missing it Jason started to protest but was cut off by the quick and effective movement from both of the little brats. In no time since there was no use in resisting, they had pulled him down. Cass specifically positioned him on a pillow that rested on Danny’s lap. Then she was grabbing Danny's hands and placed them in his hair. Effectively switching out Damian with Jason. 

“You little shi-”

A shiver ran through Jason as Danny’s fingers began to move and play with his hair. He could feel little tugs and at some moments, his fingers softly touching his scalp before backing off. He couldn’t help but take a deep breath and for some reason, he felt as if he was going to cry. 

He looked at Cass who was softly smiling and looking at him with ease. He watched as she moved and sat next to Danny. Danny let out a sigh of relief at the contact and continued to play with his hair. He looked happy from the action, at least from what Jason saw from his position. 

Jason looked at Damian who was watching him carefully, a small furrow in his eyebrows. 

“Was-was this how you felt at the mall?” Jason asked remembering how Damian had looked so confused but comfortable with Danny’s treatment when they first met him. 

Damian looked at Danny before back to him. “I do not know to which level you are feeling, but yes it made me feel comforted and…”

“Safe,” Jason finished for him only for Damian to nod slowly in agreement. With that, Jason looked away and tried to hold back that choked-up feeling in his throat and took a few more deep breaths. He tried to ignore how it felt like he had been finally able to breathe after all these years. 

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It was much later when Jason wasn’t even sure if he was still awake that there was a pause in the fingers moving in his hair and he heard a whisper from Danny. 

“This isn’t Vlad’s house is it?”

Danny’s voice was soft and hesitant. Jason could hear the fear behind it, whoever Vlad was wasn't good. 

“No it isn’t, we’re in Bruce’s house,” Jason said remembering how Danny had seemed relieved when he realized it was Bruce before. “We’re in my room or my closet specifically.”

“Good…that’s good.” Slowly the fingers started to resume their soothing movement in his hair. “Who are you?” Danny asked. 

Jasons snorted at the fact that despite him being a stranger, Danny didn’t seem at all concerned that he was playing with his hair. “Name’s Jason, girl to your side is Cass and the other brat is Damian.” Jason looked and saw Danny looking at Cass and then at Damian. His eyes looked a bit more lucid than before but still heavy with whatever was going on in Danny’s mind. 

“Babies.” The word came out of Danny’s mouth. 

Jason screwed up his face in confusion and shifted to get a better look at Danny. “Why are we babies?” he asked. “You keep calling us that, and I don’t know if you noticed but we’re not exactly baby sized.”

Jason didn’t exactly get an answer to his question. Instead, he suddenly found his face slightly squished in Danny’s hands. It was a gentle hold and Jason flicked his eyes to Cass who holding up her phone, God knows when she took the damn thing out. He moved his eyes back to Danny who was smiling at him softly. 

“Baby,” Danny whispered before he leaned to press a kiss to Jason’s forehead, right under his tuft of white hair. When Danny leaned back he looked to his side to where Cass was before giving a kiss on her forehead as well. He then turned his head to Damian who was watching with wide eyes clearly unsure, but with one look from Cass, Damian didn’t pull away as Danny leaned to give him a kiss on his forehead either. 

Seemingly more content than before, Danny returned to paying with Jason’s hair. 

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Was there an idea where Danny mistakes Bruce’s as Jack and get like different reactions depending on the au.

Running away? Panics and either runs with terror in his eyes or starts begging that “dad it’s me, pls dad, it still me!” and will make Bruce invested in this small hurt child because his adoption alarm is ringing.

Normal everyday? He will just walk by his side thinking Bruce is his dad while Bruce would think it’s a commonly known sleep deprived Tim and let him be before they both make eye contact and think “wait a minute…”

Personal it be funny if Bruce is actively avoiding Danny to try and not adopt him because he already had enough teasing from his children as it is, unfortunately, Danny also had to have a tragic backstory that only makes him want to keep him even more.

[storyshark2005]

Fic Update - Ch 7, [the gap between crack and thunder] - short! A flashback to 1999

Notes and References Below:

- An article on Jamie's red card against Carlton in 1999.

- The chapter summary quote is from an Athletic article 'The Premier League’s Forgotten Kids' by Daniel Taylor. It's a great article on dropped academy kids. If you can't access it at the link, comment or DM me on tumblr and I'll share my copy!

- Jamie gives a tour of Melwood! This video looks to be from about 2018/19 to me. The Men's team left Melwood in late 2020, and is now the home for LFC's women's team.

- Cass and Carra both attended Lilleshall from 1992-1994, age 14-16. They were roommates. Lilleshall was the FA's School of Excellence, basically only the top sixteen 14yr olds in the country were accepted into each class. So at that time, Cass and Carra were absolutley seen as footballing's brightest future stars. Steven Gerrard did NOT make the cut his year, neither did David Beckham or many other great players. Michael Owen attended a couple of years after Carra and Cass.

- Thommo is from Birkenhead across the River Mersey, Cass from Walton right next to Goodison Park. All three boys played against eachother on opposite youth teams (Wirral, Liverpool, Bootle) and Sunday League (Jamie for Merton Villa, Cass for Pacific, not sure on Thommo).

- There are a couple of articles from the Athletic about Cass and Thommo both. They're behind the paywall, but you can 12ft ladder them, or I've copied them into google docs that I can share with you.

- 1996 LFC feature of midfielder David Thompson . Thommo became dissatisfied with his playing time at Liverpool under Houlier, and ended up transferring to Coventry in the Summer of 2000. Just three years later a knee injury ended his career at age 25. In his own words, he was "ashamed" "terrified" and basically shattered. I'll talk more about Cass in a future chapter.

- Youtube video footage FULL CLIP of the first leg of the 1996 FA Youth Cup final. Featuring baby Rio Ferdinand and baby Frank Lampard playing for West Ham! No Michael Owen for this first leg, he was in Austria with the England Juniors. There's some good footage of Cass around 1h08m30s. Carra's #5, Thommo's #8, and Cass is #11.

- Youtube video of the second leg of the FA Youth Cup final. Mo is here scoring goals in this leg! Jamie was playing at centre-back, which was a recent position for him. Their usual CB Eddie Turkington was went off in the second leg of the semi-final, so Carra took his place. He did well there, obviously, which helped him find a home in the Liverpool squad.

[collectivefandomstuff]

It starts one evening when Bruce is off-world and Alfred has invited (ordered) everyone to the manor for a cup of tea. Predictably, this soon devolves into bickering which somehow morphs into all the kids sharing stories about their time in the manor, trying to out-do each other. Here, Alfred starts telling them stories about the people who have lived in this house before; generations of Waynes long gone. One in particular, he tells them, a young woman called Catherine, suffered terribly through her life and died at the hands of a scorned lover in this very house. Sometimes, Alfred claims, you can hear her ghost wandering through the halls, singing sorrowfully or weeping.  

Damian scoffs at this and says that it’s “clearly nonsense”.

And that’s when it truly starts, with one of the kids having the idea that “a few weird noises here, a fluttering curtain there... it should be doable to convince my pseudo-siblings that there’s a ghost.” Except this is the batfamily who are all complete trolls so it’s not one of the kids. It’s all of them. Even Damian figures that “Drake is gullible” and it would be worth the trouble to scare the shit out of Tim.

And so the great ghost-campaign of 2012 begins. Tim and Steph quickly pair up for maximum effect; with Tim putting speakers in the vents that plays a track he found online called “ethereal crying” and Steph taking on the role as “Catherine”, sweeping down the halls in a wig and a floaty gown and fake crying into a handkerchief.

Damian, being tiny, crawls through the vents, playing recordings of a woman crying near wherever Tim is at the moment (doing this he actually manages to break one of Tim’s speakers. He doesn’t notice). When Tim is caught without airpods and actually hears Damian’s recording, he thinks Steph must really be working overtime on the ghost thing.

Dick spends hours crouched on top of beams and chandeliers making sniffling noises, and leaves silk gloves with the initials “C.W.” embroidered on them on everyone’s pillows. Damian is the only one who notices, since only he and Tim actually sleep at the Manor and Tim is always way too sleep-deprived to either take note of or care about what’s on his pillow.

Damian decides that Tim’s the one who left the glove and vows to double his efforts. Tim remains oblivious to the crusade against him.

Jason sneaks into the Manor at night to leave fake blood on the floor outside the west wing. Cass finds him and convinces him that fake blood won’t cut it and they both get way too involved and end up “donating” their own blood to the cause. The blood is mopped up by Alfred before any other sibling can find it.

Damian places portable air-conditioners on the coldest setting over Tim’s favorite spots in the Cave and Library. Tim starts wearing scarfs.

Dick dresses up as a Victorian Lady and stalks the halls of the manor, lamenting “her” fate. In the dark, a been-awake-for-48-hours and high-on-caffeine Tim mistakes him for Stephanie and greets him way too loudly with “diD You GeT A nEW DResS?” This freaks Dick out entirely and he falls out of the open window he had been sadly mourning his death in front of.

Jason and Cass get really stuck on the whole blood thing and leaves a torn-up, bloodied white dress on a hook in the library. Stephanie takes one look at it and thinks that someone has stolen HER dress and ruined it, and takes it as proof for a later date.

Damian, slightly departing from the “ghost persona” in favour of torturing Tim, starts leaving thorny roses where Tim will step on them with bare feet, which is mostly in the shower.

Tim starts questioning his sleeping-schedule and resolves to maybe dial back on energy drinks. He also puts everyones shoes in the freezer when they come over and return them to the hall before they leave, so they’ll think a cold chill has just passed along the floor.

On the whole, they’re all too busy to actually notice what everyone else is up to -or get frightened by it. Bruce however, is not.

Newly returned from off-world, he starts noticing things. Voices in the vents, drafts in the cave, blood on the floor outside the west wing (that he has Alfred mop up). All the kids are fine, but obviously someone is breaking into his house. Obviously.

This leads him to scour the cctv footage where he sees a strange, crying woman meandering through the halls at night. When he investigates the blood, the camera shows him a shadowy figure standing right where the blood was (Cass, geared up because both she and Jason takes this way, way, too seriously). 

His paranoia now fully woken from its (very light) slumber, he tries to find the hole in the Manor’s defenses. Late one evening, when he’s coming back from patrolling the grounds, he sees a victorian woman fall from a second story window with a scream and land in a heap of skirts. When he gets there, she’s gone (Dick made himself scarce, not wanting to be discovered by Tim), but a few days later, he thinks he sees a bloodied, ripped dress on one of the cameras in the library. When he gets there, it’s gone. Meanwhile, Titus keeps bringing him silk gloves with strange initals on them and he hears sniffling cries and singing everywhere. Finally, he reaches a logical explanation.

“I have seen stranger things” he tries to comfort himself, even as he’s putting up fifty new cctv cameras and lines the corridors with salt for good measure. “aliens. demons. the Court of Owls.” He researches ghost-prevention techniques and contemplates whether martial arts would have an effect on a non-entity. He buys iron and re-watches Ghost Busters. Finally, he believes himself both well-equipped enough to handle the threat, and well-informed enough to accurately decide what it is exactly (a ghost born of tradegy, not vengeful but possibly dangerous if crossed).

Confident that he now has the situation back under control, Bruce holds a briefing with all the kids to explain and assign roles for the mission to get rid of the ghost. For years after the fact he vehemently denies this meeting ever taking place and tries (unsuccessfully) to track down all copies of the photos and videos his children took during the six hours of ghosthunting he led them on before one of them (Dick) finally lost it enough for Bruce to notice.

[0nemoresoul2thecall]

i promised you that i would share some of the information that dr. calder shared with me and here i am coming through on that promise, admittedly months later than expected. one of the most illuminating pieces that came up was his explanation for some of the things that had happened back when we were still in florida, things that i still had no answers for. 

for instance, he shed some light on the night-time visitor that we had in “the shadow”.

and then the traveler enjoying house of leaves who showed up when cass was home alone - in the video “home alone”.

not to mention the seeming version of me that was in a straightjacket in “a little night company”. 

as well as finally gave me an insight into how i captured what seemed to be a nightmare on film, in “nightmare”.

and, finally, how there was footage of what seemed to be another version of me and cass, not to mention a familiar masked figure being fought off in a pool in “dopplegangland?”.

you see, it appears that all of these have one, so very simple explanation - there’s been bleed through in realities from the beginning. i honestly thought the shit just started when charlie gave me the watch and i started losing time all over the place. i still don’t understand what it means or where we go from here. but it’s a few steps closer to where we’re headed and a few steps farther from where we’ve been in limbo.

there are of course more pieces as well, ones that i’m not going to share in public, at least as of now, but this felt like a relevant piece of information and one that was safe enough to share with all of you. 

[daleisgreat]

WrestleMania 35

As of this writing, WrestleMania 36 is set to air in two days, and due to the fallout from the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, will be airing taped from an empty arena a couple weeks prior, and over two nights. I have been advocating for two night ‘Manias since the WWE Network era of PPVs have caused WrestleManias having bloated cards and lasting nearly SEVEN hours when factoring in the pre-show matches. Since it is WrestleMania week, I am here to continue my annual tradition of watching the previous year’s installment on BluRay and break it all down here. I broke up watching the nine-ish hours of BluRay content over a few days, which lead for a more non-overkill experience, and I ended up enjoying the overall show exponentially more this way as you will soon read on. Now even though the BluRay has around nine hours of content on the disc, the cumulative total of content the BluRay unlocked for me was about 12 hours by including a digital copy of not only the PPV, but also a digital only copy of the Hall of Fame ceremony that preceded WrestleMania a couple days prior. For the second straight WrestleMania BluRay, the Hall of Fame is not included on the disc, and is instead replaced with the following night’s RAW in its entirety, which here is just over two hours when taking out all the ad breaks.

The Hall of Fame ceremony this year saw Jerry Lawler replaced as the host with Corey Graves & Renee Young, complete with grimace-caliber jokes of the stereotypical award show variety. The 2019 ceremony also saw a different setup with a ring in the center of the arena where all the speeches were delivered, and while it provided a nice visual, it also made it easier for an overzealous fan to run in and attack cancer and stroke survivor, Bret Hart during his speech. I recall getting the faintest look at the guy before cameras cut away and at first thinking because of the goofy hair that it was Enzo again up to shenanigans a few months after dancing in the front rows of the crowd at Survivor Series, but was then further perplexed to find out minutes later that Enzo and Cass did a worked shoot run-in at the G1 Supercard concurrently taking place. It turned out it was a fan with mental health issues, and obviously WWE cut out the run-in on the final Hall of Fame video cut, and the only thing apparent of something happening is that after a cut to the crowd, Bret Hart’s hair is suddenly tangled up. If you have not witnessed that brazen fan run-in, click or press here for fan-phone footage of proceeding to get pounced by countless wrestlers almost instantly. Bizarre fan attack aside, it was a much brisker ceremony (only three and a half hours!) thanks in part to no Hillbilly Jim speech this year (which was deservingly poked at this year), and a couple inductees not having inductions either, and the ones that did must have had strict time limits because I do not recall an inductor going longer than five minutes. Honkey Tonk Man set the stage with the fun-gimmick from the Rock ‘n Wrestling years, with a groovy entrance and exit, complete by singing his song on the way out and doing a noticeably better performance than Double J the year prior. Torrie Wilson’s speech felt more of a Ted Talk, but still heartwarming and inspirational and I will give her all the benefit of the doubt considering her father and former on-screen talent and Dawn Marie love interest, Al Wilson passed away two days prior. Also pleasant was seeing Stacy Kiebler break her 13-year WWE absence by inducting her.

The legacy class of 2019 had another ten inductees with brief 20-30 second video pieces on each. Most of them are more classic pre-cable TV era wrestlers, but some are more recently noteworthy and remembered like SD Jones, Bruiser Brody and Luna Vachon and in my opinion more deserving of traditional inductions. I hope if WWE keeps this up they will at least have a family member do a separate video induction and include it on their website for a more proper way to remember these legacy stars. The Hart Foundation was the next inductee, with Natalya accepting for her father, The Anvil. Bret and Naddie gave the successful Rock ‘n Wrestling era tag team a fitting induction, filled with classic stories from their days in one of the most successful periods of tag teams in WWE history. Brutus Beefcake gave a surprisingly good speech for his induction, as did the Hulkster for inducting him as he laid out how he broke Brutus into the business. Kind of surprising it happened considering the recent disparaging comments between the two with Brutus’s tell-all biography from a couple years earlier, but maybe it ‘was all a work brother!’ Props to Brutus for giving the Doctors who saved him from his terrible parasailing accident their kudos, and for calling out Shawn Michaels for still owing him for his barbershop window! The Warrior Award went to Sue Ajtheson, a backstage WWE official who is largely responsible for their Make-a-Wish efforts. Dana Warrior and John Cena gave heartfelt, genuine inductions for her, and Sue was a gem enlightening us about her philanthropic accomplishments.

Harlem Heat got inducted next, and after Booker T gave his brother Stevie Ray an outstanding tribute, it was then time for Stevie Ray sharing several stories of the trials of Harlem Heat breaking in before they finally found success in WCW. D-Generation X headlined the Hall of Fame, and as expected it was lengthy with X-Pac, Road Dogg, Billy Gunn, Shawn Michaels and Triple H all giving speeches. They unleashed some vintage DX humor to start off with. Other highlights include giving Chyna her proper acknowledgement, Billy Gunn getting razzed for being with the new competition in AEW, X-Pac getting super jittery in his sea of notes and all of them busting out Super Soakers and dousing their colleagues in the crowd, especially Baron Corbin. Now onto the 16 match WrestleMania 35 card (guys….I am sorry, thank you so much for sticking with me!). If you have yet to watch WrestleMania 35 then before reading this recap, I recommend breaking it up into a two part watch, and give this strong recommendation of preferred matches for each night to make for a better experience that I guarantee you will not struggle to stay awake through: WrestleMania 35 – Day 1 Watch Order: Tony Nese vs Buddy Murphy, WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal, Seth Rollins vs. Brock Lesnar, SmackDown Tag Titles Fatal Four Way, Miz vs. Shane McMahon, Triple H vs. Batista, Elias/John Cena ‘Concert’, Finn Balor vs. Bobby Lashley, Kofi Kingston vs. Daniel Bryan WrestleMania 35 – Day 2 Watch Order: Zack Ryder & Curt Hawkins vs. Revival, Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, AJ Styles vs. Randy Orton, Women’s Tag Titles Fatal Four Way, Roman Reigns vs. Drew McIntyre, Samoa Joe vs. Rey Mysterio, Kurt Angle vs. Baron Corbin, Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair vs. Becky Lynch Four of those matches were on the pre-show and are included on the BluRay as extras. In a rare move, WWE had the local have a feel good moment with Tony Nese winning the Cruiserweight Title from Buddy Murphy in a nice hybrid of strong style and high-flying that got the crowd hot by the end. In the WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal, Carmella played the surprise last second sneak-in card to eliminate Sarah Logan and win the ‘prestigious’ hip/leg trophy. In a surprising second feel good hometown hero story, Curt Hawkins snapped his 269 match losing streak when him and his fellow bro-ski, Zack Ryder won the RAW tag titles from The Revival when Hawkins got the surprise inside cradle for the electric pop! In the final pre-show match, Braun Strowman won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal by eliminating celebrity entrants, SNL’s Colin Jost & Michael Che. A lot of hype on RAW built up the SNL stars, but the two hid under the ring until the end of the match in their failed efforts to surprise eliminate Braun.

In the official WrestleMania opener, Seth Rollins won the Universal Title from Brock Lesnar. Their follow-up match at SummerSlam is leagues better, because all there is to this is Brock getting an early attack on Seth and brutalizing him outside the ring for a few minutes, and then only a couple minutes into the actual match Seth low blows Brock and hits a few stomps for the victory. Last few years something about Randy Orton has made his stock rise higher for me. I appreciate his ring IQ and psychology that allows matches to breathe, and Orton’s skills blended perfectly with AJ Styles with some convincing sequences before Styles hit a Phenomenal Forearm for the win. The first of two four way tag title matches occurred next with the Usos, The Bar, Rusev & Shinske Nakamura and Aleistar Black & Ricochet vying for the SmackDown straps. All four teams brought it, and did not appear they were there for an easy payday with the creative spots they unleashed with an innovative tower of doom spot and Cesaro’s countless swings to the crowd’s approval until the Usos hit their double top turnbuckle splash on Sheamus for the W. I loved the buildup for The Miz and Shane McMahon’s Falls Count Anywhere match. Miz gradually won over Shane’s trust all in the name to win his dad’s precious approval, only to then see Shane turn on Miz and attack Miz’s dad! I was not disappointed with how they got Miz’s dad involved in the match with Shane shaming Miz’s dad’s ability to fight. The two had a pretty solid brawl all over the arena that ultimately saw Miz deliver a suplex from the tech area scaffolding onto a crash pad, but saw Shane conveniently laid out barely over Miz to nudge out a three count for the fluke upset. The newly established Women’s tag titles were on the line with Sasha Banks & Bayley defending against the Iconics, Nia Jax & Tamina and Natalya & Beth Phoenix. A lot of controversy was reported on the champs throwing a tantrum backstage hearing they were losing the titles, which happened when Billie Kay stole a pin with a blind tag on Beth Phoenix after she hit a top rope Glam Slam. Minus a handful of moments, Sasha and Bayley’s main roster runs have been beyond disastrous compared to their rise up the ranks in NXT.

‘KofiMania’ emerged when Kofi Kingston vanquished that vile do-gooder, Daniel Bryan to become the first full blooded African American to win the WWE title in its near 60 year history. There were a couple of extended hold sequences in the front half that overstayed their welcome, but the back half amped up big time with some creative reversals, near-falls and clever use of the New Day and Erik Rowan on the outside. I was just as happy as the WWE locker room shown celebrating for Kofi after he hit the Trouble in Paradise to win the championship. He had a killer half year run as champ….until Brock Lesnar waffled him in seven seconds for the gold and Kofi immediately went right back to the midcard in his happy-go-lucky pancake thrower days of yore and acted like his championship run never happened. Samoa Joe finally got his overdue WrestleMania debut match against a recently returned Rey Mysterio. I presumed the two had an epic match lined up, but Rey got hurt the RAW before and was only capable of performing for about a minute before Joe locked in his trademark Kokina Clutch for the submission victory. Roman Reigns was up next in his first singles match coming back after overcoming a second bout of Leukemia for the heartwarming win against Drew McIntyre. I recall dreading the buildup for this because Drew had a variety of ‘you may have conquered cancer…’ type promos and hyped himself up as deadlier than cancer, when naturally everyone knew Roman was going to win, and that is exactly what we got in a formula Roman match. The read in the ardent fan crowd throughout the match was readily apparent, they were no longer booing Roman out of the building like they normally would, because what kind of person can boo a cancer survivor (please do not answer that)? However, there was no overwhelming crowd going wild reaction either, but more of a tempered, altruistic applause instead. That has primarily been Roman’s reception for coming back since, and that is kind of how I feel too.

Elias performed a one man ‘concert’ next complete with other hologram Elias projections playing in conjunction with him until John Cena interrupted. John came out in throwback Dr. Thugganomics form and laid down some rhymes before hitting a F-U to the crowd’s approval. The presumption going in by most was that Undertaker would make his requisite WrestleMania appearance here, but 2019 marked the first time since 2000 that Undertaker did not appear or wrestle in any form on a WrestleMania. Strangely enough, Undertaker did interrupt another Elias performance the next day on RAW. Triple H and Batista squared off in a No Holds Barred brawl next, and I recall being burnt out by this point in the card and nodding off throughout it. Match held up incredibly better on second viewing with the two busting out a wide variety of weaponry in too many gruesome spots to dissect, other than that grotesque nose ring spot that reverberated throughout everyone in the crowd. The finish saw Triple H hitting probably the slickest looking sledgehammer shot ever with some added trajectory by leaping off the stairs, and following it up with the Pedigree for the pin. Kurt Angle hit the end of the line in a few months of ‘farewell tour’ matches against Baron Corbin here. I was worried for Angle as his previous few matches saw him struggling to go through the motions, but a few weeks of added rest benefitted him here with him looking remarkably better and capable of several of his vintage suplexes and throws, and even busting out an impressive moonsault….that missed and lead him walking into an End of Days that netted Corbin the pinfall. Finn Balor faced Bobby Lashley in the penultimate match of the night, and the two delivered a short, but high energy match to help inject some energy into the understandably deflated crown by this point. Balor hit his Coup de Gras for the pin.

The 16th and final match of the night saw the women headline WrestleMania for the first time ever with the Women’s titles for both RAW and SmackDown on the line in a triple threat between Ronda Rousey, Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch. All three laid it in strong style in easily one of the hardest hitting women matches I have ever seen. All three were decorated with battle scars, especially Ronda’s leg! However, one significant botch tarnished the match, and unfortunately it happened right at the finish when Lynch countered Rousey’s Piper’s Pit slam with a crucifix for the pin. Rousey inadvertently popped her shoulder up during the pin, and the ref did not restart his count and continued with the controversial three count. Even the announcers did not turn a blind eye to it and questioned the ref’s call, and it turned out the ref was later fined for blowing the call. I am not going to recap the following night’s RAW, but I did watch it and will give a couple key takeaways since the RAW after WrestleManias are notorious for returns, and unpredictable fan reactions suffering from wrestling burnout. Rollins and Kofi teased a winner takes all title match, but it quickly morphed into a tag match after The Bar interfered to the crowd’s rightful disgust! The controversial Lars Sullivan debuted on the main roster, Sami Zayn returned and turned heel after nearly a year away from double rotator cuff surgery. Dana Brooke and Mojo Rawley both deliver bizarre backstage promos. There was the aforementioned Undertaker attack on Elias and finally Dean Ambrose’s final televised WWE match that did not officially get started because he brawled outside the ring with Bobby Lashley before getting sent through a table. There is one last BluRay bonus that has footage from after RAW went off the air, where Rollins called out Roman and Dean and brought them to the ring for one last curtain call from The Shield.

That puts a wrap on the yearly monstrous WrestleMania recap. Once again I give my heartfelt gratitude for sticking with me the whole way through this. It was a chore to get through the whole show live in one shot, but it definitely helped spacing it over a few days this second time around. Again, if there is any upside with WWE having to switch up their WrestleMania plans with the global pandemic currently happening, it is that them having WrestleMania transpire over two days will make it vastly more watchable, and decrease the burnout of trying to watch wrestling for seven hours straight. Throw in the wild cards of the empty arena and undisclosed filming locations for the gimmick matches, and well….check back with me here next year to see how it all played out.

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[impeccablebackside]

How do the queens feel about filming themselves alone or with a partner?

Now this is a unique ask anon. I legitimately have never even thought about it in any sense.

I have to say that I do not necessarily see filming being something that is even really an option in their world, and I also do not see anyone having a 'collection' of videos for viewing. Anyway, let me quash those opinions so that I can answer your inquiry.

Here is the list by queen, and it is presented below:

Victoria is much too private of a person to have any leering eyes, fake or not, watch her at her most vulnerable. Her solitary time is an opportunity for her to float away and be one with the pleasure. With someone else, the immediacy and love of it is too special to sully with a recording. The one time she filmed a quick show for Plato, she was awkward, and did not enjoy it. Plato did though. He likes her shy side.

Rumple does not really need to film, she will show off in the flesh. Her solo time is usually pretty quick, so it does not warrant being filmed anyway. The whole idea is the release and pleasure reserved only for her. With a partner, it does not add anything to it, and she certainly favours the ability to go again if someone needs a rerun. Even though she is a huge tease, it is much more rewarding in person.

Tanto, even though she is a very private personcat, will record herself both alone and with another person (with consent), but she does not share it with anyone. Her solo material is a method for her to gain confidence in herself and her beautiful body. She also uses it to practice her dirty talk and explore things like that. It also works for her to get a metaphysical charge of excitement of watching herself get off. Having lived through it and then living vicariously again. With a partner, it acts as a form of research in a way. She keeps tabs on ways she could improve her own techniques and tricks, and also what someone else did that electrified her.

Cass films herself, but not jilling it. She will film something where she acts as sort of an instructor, commanding the viewer to do things to themselves. She would make videos of herself degrading you if you are into it. Even thirst videos where she is just naked and posing. She takes requests too. Otherwise, there are a few 'tapes' around that show her hatefucking a tom with her strap. It adds to her mystique.

Deme will film herself for Munk when he is too busy to take time for himself / her. Teasing him, whispering his name on her lips while she puts on a private show. Stroking her highs before fingering herself and moaning to the pleasure. Spreading her legs, bending over, or standing up, she gives him the full experience. It has made him request that she do the same thing in person while he watches. He gets flustered and turned on seeing her sultry and confident like that.

Bomba is not adverse to being filmed, but it does not appeal to her that much. She hams it up without an (unperceived) audience, so the camera would not add anything to it. When she is fucking, it is for her more than it is for others.

Jenny also films as a sort of instructor, but more in the 'educational' vein where she shows how to properly use whips and restraints without injuring yourself or others. As you cannot do that completely alone, she has a willing helper who does not mind being punished and humiliated a bit. No one who has seen the tape knows really who it is though, they are wearing a hood (and are totally not a silver tabby who finally got his shot at her). Safe sex is important.

Jelly has been filmed, but it made her self-conscious before realizing that it could be utilized to tease her. Now she consents to be filmed on the premise that she can be denied later on. She will be 'forced' to watch videos of her being fucked to climax, all while being teased by her lover and not given that release again. Otherwise, somewhere exists footage of one of her first times dressed as Griddle being absolutely (nicely, but roughly) ravaged, railed, and rammed. She was manhandled really good. There are things on that tapes she has not even done since. It since has attained a mythical legacy amongst those who have seen it, as the identity of the exotic amore remains a tightly held secret.

[its-the-fifth-horseman]

Chapter 1: Welcome to Acordia Petra

12:41 PM,

Saturday,

20th Oct 2007,

Goldwing Airport,

Maysteirn City,

Maysteirn, Acordia Petra

“Like a true nature's child...we were born, born to be wild...we can climb so high...I never wanna die...born to be wild...born to be wild...”

Niko was banging his head slightly while doodling on his drawing pad.

“Born to be wild..”

When he was satisfied with his work, he took off his headphone before taking a peek at the small circular window beside his seat. Small gray rectangular shapes can be seen in a distance. He took another glance at his sketching before putting it back in his knapsack. Instinctively, he turned towards his left. A young girl with a long purple dyed hair, wearing a white mini-tee and a red short skirt was staring at him. Their eyes met and locked for awhile. He can only guess that she might have been staring at him for quite sometime during the flight.

“Ladies and gentlemen, please return to your seats, put your seats upright and fasten your seat belts. We will be landing shortly...”

“Finally..” thought Niko. He was finally there.

A couple of minutes later, the aircraft began to descend slowly before its tires finally hit the runaway.

[Loud blowing sound]

Nicholas “Niko” Bailey, a 25 year old online celebrity, flew all the way from Novus Stellar to Acordia Petra to meet up with his ghost-hunting buddies he befriended from the “Ghosts R Us” online forum. His interest in the search for the supernatural began all the way back from when he was a teenager, back before online video-sharing was even a thing. He had tonnes of footage that fueled his channel on the “WatchMe” video-sharing website. That garnered him no less than 1 million subscribers, thanks to his never-ending curiosity in exploring abandoned structures and supposedly haunted sites. The aircraft finally came to a halt.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we have landed on Goldwing Airport. Thank you for flying with Zephyr Airways and we hope to see you again. Have a nice day.”

Niko was about to get up after unfastening his seatbelt but before he had a chance to do so, the girl that was sitting across the aisle suddenly bumped into him.

“I'm sorry..[Giggling]..”

“It's ok..no harm done..” said Niko while smiling back at her.

Something fell from her hand and onto his lap when she was moving forward towards the exit. It was a piece of folded paper. Niko immediately grabs it.

“Miss!”

By then the girl was already way ahead of him amongst the other passengers that was exiting the aircraft. He then unfolds the paper.

“corny_stony89@letsmeetup.com”

Niko smiled to himself.

[Moments later in the baggage reclaim area]

The glass door slides open as he exited the baggage reclaim area. He immediately looks for his ride amongst the crowd where dozens of placards were being held up in the air.

“Where the hell are they..”

Seeing how they agreed to make their first meeting more interesting, none of them knows what Niko looks like and vice versa. The only form of identification would be his name, written on a placard and hopefully with 3 people waiting for him. He was dragging his single luggage and almost reached the end of the line when suddenly, he heard a chanting.

“Niko..Niko..Niko..Niko..Niko..”

He saw a placard being raised, coming from the direction of the sound but it was not until he was close enough that he was able to read was written on it.

“WE WANT NIKO!”

“Oh my God..seriously?..[Chuckling]..”

“Niko..Niko..Niko..Niko..Niko..”

Two guys and a girl was chanting his name while looking over him, somewhat oblivious to the fact that he was already standing right in front of them. The guy wearing an orange t-shirt and a pair of sunglasses was the closest to him and was at least an inch taller than him. Niko cleared his throat.

“Ahem..”

“Niko..Niko..Niko..Niko..Niko..”

“What the fuck..”

“AHEM!”

“Niko..Niko..Niko..Niko..Niko..”

“Guys..guys..it's me..I'm Niko..”

“Niko..Niko..Niko..Niko..Niko..”

“Hey! It's me..I'm Niko..you can stop now..”

“Niko..Niko..Niko..Niko..Niko..”

“This is unbelievable..”

Either he was invisible or they just simply choose to ignore him. Running low on patience, Niko did something else. Without warning, he jumps and grabs the placard that was being held by the tall guy. That definitely got their attention. Everyone went silent. All of them exchanged awkward stares for a moment. The tall guy then walked towards him before checking him out from head to toe. His action was somewhat intimidating.

“The hell is he looking at..”

The guy then took off his sunglasses.

“Hmm..”

He took a quick look at his friends before looking at Niko again. Suddenly, he raises his hand and started “measuring” Niko's height by hovering his palm above his head.

“What are you doing?” asked Niko.

The guy paused momentarily.

[Laughing sound]

His laughter was followed by his friends.

“[Laughing]..I thought you'd be taller..are all Novatians this short?”

Niko can see what was going on.

“That depends, are all Petravians this annoying?”

They stopped laughing. The look on the guy's face suddenly changes.

[Laughing sound]

Niko can't help but feel like he's in a very bad circus show.

“[Laughing]..I'm..I mean..[Laughing]..We're sorry, mate..it's just..[Laughing]..it's just a friendly fire..that is all..[Chuckling]..We already saw you but..you know..since we thought you would be taller..we just wanna be sure..[Chuckling]..”

Niko stood silent.

“[Chuckling]..Sorry..[Chuckling]..Sorry bout' that mate..anyway..glad to finally meet you..I'm..”

“Vader, right?”

“Yeah..yeah..that’s right..or you can just call me by my nickname which is Vernon Masterson..[Chuckling]”

“No kidding..you're just as 'hilarious' as you are in the forum.” said Niko while maintaining his expression.

“Really..ok..hehe..hey..no hard feels eh?..We're all friends now..and your nickname would be?”

Niko took a moment to “forget” Vader's bad joke.

“[Clearing throat]..I'm Nicholas..Nicholas Bailey..”

Both of them then shook hands.

“Wow..that is your real name..no kidding..” said Vader, looking for another joke to crack.

The blond girl wearing a white sleeveless top with black stripes then went forward towards them.

“Hi..We're sorry about that..Vernon can be such an asshole sometimes..I'm Cassandra..Cassandra Yates..”

“CutiePieCass..of course..” It was no secret that she was Vader's girlfriend.

“Yeah..well..it's just Cass if you don't mind..” smiled Cass.

The big black guy wearing a silver-purple basketball jersey with a cap that matches the color then joined in.

“And you must be JayBird..” said Niko before Jay can say anything.

“Right on, fam..Jermaine Colster..at your service..” said Jay while shaking his hand.

“That accent..you a Vynaerian?..”

“Guilty as charged, fam..[Laughing]..”

All of them laughed for a short while before heading towards a big white van that was parked nearby.

[Sliding sound]

“This is a sweet ride you got here, bro..” said Niko as he shut the back door closed.

“You can't have a sweet ass of you don't have a sweet ride, ain't that right, love?” said Vader while looking at Cass who was sitting next to him. She then smacks him on the shoulder.

“Nevermind him, Niko..you'll get used to it..” said Cass.

“Do I have a choice?” All of them laughs again.

“So, Niko, you got a girl back home?” asked Cass. The question was even more awkward than Vader's bad jokes.

“Uh..not really..hehe..why do you ask?”

“See..told ya' he's a virgin..[Laughing]..” said Vader as he started to maneuver the car out of the parking lot.

“What? How would you know? I'm just single!”

“They said that virgins have this certain look and smell..[Laughing]..” replied Jay.

The laughter continues.

“Alright..alright..enough jokes..let's get you to safety first..” said Vader as they finally made it out into the highway.

“So..are we gonna start talking about the house or..”

“No..no..mate..mate..come on..it's been a long ride..let's just get you back to the hotel first, yeah? And hopefully some action for the night..[Laughing]..” Cass smacks her boyfriend's arm again.

“[Wincing]..Love!..Dear!..It was for him!..God knows he needs it!..[Laughing]..”

The van continues to move along the highway. In a distant, a tall metallic cylindrical building can be seen coming up on the horizon.