#Mr. Blackwood

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Mr. Blackwood Edits after Ep.200

Mr. Blackwood edits after I finished listening to the finale.

Ok. whoo. Still emotionally coping.

1. Martin Blackwood Travels back in time after killing Jon. It’s technically dimensional travel. Basira, Melanie and Georgie are still functioning in the other world, but Martin gets sent years back to an archive staff back in season 1.

or 2 or 3 or 4. Any would be interesting. But let’s say, for now, it’s season 1.

2. He’s not expecting Jon to come back. Not really. He’s so mad, because they were supposed to stay together, to die or go to the same dimension. It hurts. It hurts that Jon broke the last promise to him. There’s a little part of him that hopes, but its very small and he ignores.

3.He wants to die, he’s a displaced man from a lost world that he’s not sure he helped. He stabbed his own boyfriend to save it and he doesn’t even get the satisfaction of knowing if it helped.

4a. Now there’s two universes that can occur from this. 1. Before the actions of the group, this world never had evil monsters. Elias is not possessed by Jonah magnus. He’s just a rich prick who got the job because his father had connections. This timeline’s Martin has a job there as Gertrude’s caregiver. There are no cults or avatars  But monsters start appearing and no one is ready to deal with them, because he’s the only one who knows.

4b. There are monsters there. There are entities there. There always were. Which means Jon’s little gambit to destroy them back in their world wouldn’t have worked. Monsters exist in other dimensions. He put both of them through that for nothing.

For ease I’m working with 4b, even if f 4a is worth exploring.

5. So he stays, because this world is EXACTLY the same as his old one. Which means its on the same track And he can’t let it happen again.

6.He actually considers for a few seconds just killing Jon again before deciding doing that once was enough. He can’t do it again. And this Jon is innocent if a twit.

7. But he did make a promise to Melanie, (when you kill him, make it hurt) and he never got to fulfill that promise.

8, He ends up gouging his eyes out. It does end up releasing “Elias Classic.”

9. It doesn’t kill the assistants, even if it does hurt, and a new “pupil” is chosen.

10. He is planning to blow up the archives, and maybe himself with it. Poetic, appropriate end. It’s where he should have died.

.11. When Jon does show up. It’s not, as friendly. They have some talking to do

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Mr. Blackwood Extras

So as I slowly consume season 5, I get more perfectly valid Mr. Blackwood content. I would lie to share it.

-#1 Mr. Blackwood is down for the murder in a way that none of the season 5 cast is ready for. He describes the monsters to them, and then brings up the concept to them when they’re still overwhelmed and processing.

Sasha: It’s rather overwhelming that you’re saying there’s god-like fear entities ready to destroy us.

Tim: suspiciously silent.

Martin: I mean, what are we even supposed to do against something that powerful?

Blackwood: Eh- A little kerosene and some c4 works wonders for most of them. Except the desolation... though I’ve heard decapitation kind of works.

Jon: Didn’t you say a lot of these avatars used to people?

Blackwood: Bad people. Better off dead people.

Martin: wait wait wait. No! Murder is wrong!

Blackwood: Yes but they’re killing people and eating off their fears. The world would be better off without them.

Archive staff: ....

Blackwood: Look, I’m sorry, you’re still processing this and I shouldn’t have expected you to be ready for it. But we’re coming back to this.

Tim [After he’s left]: Are we sure that’s Martin?

Martin: He’s most definitely not! I would never-

#2-Oliver

Alright, so the archive staff notice that Mr. Blackwood has certain reactions to the “The End” being mentioned. He gets shifty. He doesn’t want to talk about it. There’s always an extra bite in his voice when he talks about the end. Because of all the dramatic stuff he’s described to them, they assume that “The End” attempted a world ending event like the Stranger and The Corruption did. It did something dramatic, like, killed a lot of his friends and he doesn’t want to talk about.

Maybe they even suspect “The End” was the entity that finally caused Armageddon.

They are bowled over when Mr. Sims starts laughing and reveals that the reason Mr. Blackwood doesn’t like the end is because of petty jealousy over who woke Jon up from his coma.

Mr. Blackwood is not amused and mumbles that his reaction's were perfectly justified.

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The Season 1 Villain: Mr. Blackwood Part 2

Summary:[After Bullying Martin and Jon into getting together Mr. Blackwood takes down Elias Bouchard with the aid of allies from the sketchiest of places]

A loose structure of ides for an AU of the fanfic  Yesterday is Here by CirrusGrey

-Mr. Blackwood tries to wait for Mr. Sims, he really does. He’s done this before. When Jon was in a coma and he thought he was gone for good Blackwood threw himself in the Lonely and an alliance with Peter Lukas. He’s trying not to assume that Jon is dead. He’s trying not to make drastic decisions without him again.

-But Elias is noticing that Mr. Blackwood is preventing his archivist from reading statements. Elias proceeds to try and get rid of Mr. Blackwood, and influence the archive staff to not trust him.

-At a point where Elias tries to get Blackwood arrested (for either impersonating an employee or for some crime he pins on him) Martin vanishes.

-This is the first the Archive Staff of Mr. Blackwood’s spooky powers, and it doesn’t help the trust.

-Elias uses the opportunity to convince them that the rituals they should be worried about are the one of the Corruption and the Stranger. He also convinces them that Mr. Blackwood is allied with the Lonely and was simply trying to attempt his own ritual behind their backs. He adds that keeping the Archivist powerless was part of that plan, and that the Archivist’s job is to prevent rituals, citing Gertrude Robinson as evidence.

-In this circumstance Blackwood decides to take out Elias on his own. He’s not quite giving up on Mr. Sims coming back, but he’s not relying on him returning either. And he determined to stop the Watcher’s Crown before Elias can kill him.

-Knowing that the Archive Staff no longer trusts him, Blackwood starts using invisibility to grab old Gertrude tapes from the police station and Elias’s office and leave them in convienient places for the staff to find. Instil a healthy suspicion of Elias in them. He’s trying to find the Gertrude Tape for Sasha.

-They don’t suspect him because he’d made it clear to them before that he doesn’t trust the tapes. He hadn’t let Jon record on them.

-He’d actually thrown them out the window only for them to appear in a drawer a few minutes later. An action which helped the archival staff believe the tapes were supernatural. Jon remained skeptical only for Blackwood to repeat the action two more times only for the same effect.

-Meanwhile Blackwood starts transposing his knowledge of what his Mr. Sims couldn’t see to Elias’s blind spots. Assuming that what his Mr.Sims couldn’t see, Elias can’t either.

- He knows his Jon couldn’t see in the tunnels, the dark, or in the doors of the Spiral.

-So he talks to Michael and Leitner to get to the panopticon and puts C-4 in the tower.

-Then he makes a deal with Either Michael to remove Jonathan’s eyes

- Specifically he tells him that at 17:00 (when he’s planning to kill Jonah Magnus) that the Archivists and his assistants will probably start screaming in pain. If they don’t, leave them alone. If they do, stab Jon’s eye’s out. If they look like they’re still dying, stab out the eyes of the archival assistants. They’ll be blind but they’ll be alive, seperated from the beholder.

-Sometime around 14:00 or 15:00  Mr. Sims shows up [SEES ALL] and is confused that he can seem to find his Mr. Blackwood or the present day Archival assistants.(One is in the tunnels, the others are kidnapped by the Spiral) He is concerned.

-Luckily the Archival assistants, due to the machinations of both Elias and Mr. Blackwood are paranoid of everyone that is not eachother. Tim, Sasha, Jon and Martin trust eachother and no one else. Unbeknownst to Elias or Blackwood they raided artifact storage for things that might help them against supernatural threats, researching correlating statements in order to use them. Tim’s research on Smirke told them about places they could use around the city that would hide them from the eye, the tunnels included.

-His connection to the Lonely may be affecting him. He’s fully accepted they’ll hate him. He’ll even let Michael tell them Blackwood sent him.

-They manage to escape the spiral long enough for Mr. Sims to SEE them.

-Sims blackmails a taxi driver to get to their location, saying he’ll reveal his affair unless he gives him a ride.

-Mr. Sims gets to them in time to get Michael to go away. They’ve all escaped his doors by this point. He’s just there to make Michael stop trying to stab their eyes out.

(”You shouldn’t be attacking me here archivist. I’m here to help.”

“I fail to see how trying to kill my younger self and my friends helps me.

“I wasn’t here to kill them, just take their eyes. Your Blackwood was very specific on that point. But if you’re going to cause me this much trouble, I won’t do it. I’m happy as long as the Eye is stopped.”

“Martin?- Oh no.”

“But if you wish for them to die with your archive, go ahead, take them. Your funeral. Your Misfortune”)

- Being saved by an older, scarred version of Jon, with glowing green eyes smattered on his skin and hovering over his head like a crown was a plot twist that the archival staff was not ready for.

-They’re shouting questions at him left and right as he’s trying to drag them toward the Archive to Prevent Blackwood from killing them all.

-Sasha has to pay for the uber. The archival staff are crammed in the back while the scarred scarecrow that is Jonathan Sims tries to answer questions from the passenger seat. The driver stares straight ahead and pretends he doesn’t understand english while hoping these crazy people will get out of his car soon.

-(Sasha: Where should I tell him to go?

Sims: To the Archive, we need to prevent Martin from killing Elias.

Tim: Blackwood. This is Martin.

Sims: Excuse Me?

Martin: So is Elias the good guy? Was he right about the Archivist stopping the apocalypse-s?

Sims: No Elias is decidedly not the good guy, and he’s trying to start the apocalypse using the Archivist. He already did in my timeline, that’s why Martin and I came here. Speaking of which, younger me, you should really avoid recording the statements.

Tim: Blackwood!

Sims: Is this really the time, Tim?

Sasha: So why didn’t Blackwood just kill Jon when he got here?

Sims: Because Martin- Blackwood, wouldn’t enjoy killing a younger version of me, or any of you. That’s why he was trying to have your eyes removed. Removing your eyes would remove your connection to archive allowing him to kill Elias without killing you. Which I will still try to do if we don’t get there in time.

Jon: Why couldn’t he just tell us that?

Sims: I DON’T KNOW! I assume it’s because he thought Elias would find out his plans, which I understand. But after all the lectures he gave me about not being paranoid and trusting people this is rather hypocritical of him.

Sasha: Is it possible that Blackwood is attempting a ritual for the Lonely?

Sims: “What- no. Is he using his powers of the Lonely again? That’s- oh. Oh that explains some things.

Sims proceeds to put his face in his hands.

Tim: So do you really eat people’s trauma?)

-Mr. Blackwood goes to Mr. Bouchard’s office. Just to see the fear on his face. Just to see his reaction to soft little Martin being his killer. It’s an indulgence. Its his revenge for tricking Mr. Sims into the apocalypse.

He also came with a gun, just in case blowing up the panoptican doesn’t kill him.

It takes him a moment for Elias tries to talk him out of it, he even tries to use the image of Blackwood’s Mother against him.

(Mr. Blackwood winced, but it didn’t stop him from looking Elias directly in the eyes.

“I’ve already seen it, Jonah.”)

-It’s then that Elias tries to tell him that the archive staff escaped, that they’ll die. (small price for the survival of the world) That his Jon is back, that he can see them. That you don’t have to do a last desperate act for a man that is still alive. Martin at first thinks that Jonah is lying and is ready to set off the bomb.

-But Mr. Sims does dramatically burst in, archive staff nervously behind him.

-He then proceeds to snog Mr. Blackwood for an obnoxiously long time.

-Sasha is stuck standing there wondering if this is really the time. Elias is at first a combination of grateful and disgusted that ranges into incredulous as they just keep going. Tim is impressed.

-Jon and Martin are shocked that anyone could like Mr. Blackwood so intensely. They then realize they’ve been staring at a version of their future counterparts make out for a very long time and look pointedly at a corner of the wall and the carpet respectively.

-When Elias tries to talk to them, saying that he was glad Blackwood could see sense, Jon proceeds to threaten him using all of his spooky archivist powers, not only getting the company credit card, but also getting the archival staff a good two weeks off to cope with their trauma. 

-(”And if you attempt the Watchers Crown again I’ll turn the Eye to look upon you so that you may feel every pain, every terror you ever caused and watch it shrivel you for the inside out. I will drink your fear of the end as you disintegrate into a half-forgotten memory.”)

-Things de-escalate from there. The archive staff attempt to go to their separate homes before they jump at the shadows and slowly congregate. Sasha calls Tim. Martin calls Sasha. Jon calls Martin. They end up congregating at Tim’s, Staying awake watching lifetime movies until they can’t keep their eyes open.

-Sims and Blackwood reorganize the power structure of the archive while the archive staff heals. They also eliminate Jane Prentiss as Blackwood catches Sims up on what happened.

-Sims does find it funny that Blackwood  managed to bully their past counterparts into getting together. He also cannot help finding it hilarious that he got to be the Straightforward and trustworthy MR. SIMS while Blackwood was a cryptic bastard.

-It still hurts. Jon didn’t mean to die on Martin again. He didn’t want to hurt him like that ever again.

-When the archival staff return, Sims goes out to lunch with them and slowly builds up trust with them. He eventually takes Blackwood with him to a lunch with Tim and Sasha, where Blackwood apologizes and explain himself. Martin and Jon aren’t ready.

-Tim excitedly checks about 15 points off his list of “accurately guessed anti-Jon” list.

-Sasha insists he can’t include the one-sided relationship one, “I know he’s besotted Tim, but It’s clearly not one sided and that’s barely an anti-Jon trait anymore.”

-Tim also notices, that with Mr. Sims by his side, Blackwood is a lot more relaxed and friendly. He fusses over him and acts, well, a lot like Martin.

-Tim comes back from the meeting declaring to Martin and Jon that, for the safety of everyone, Jon cannot be separated from Martin.

(Sasha points out this is ridiculous. 

“It’s classic transitive property Sasha. If Blackwood can become Martin with a Sims, Martin can become a Blackwood without one.

“It’s not just Sims, Tim. They also defeated their big evil, and according to both of them we died in their timeline. It’s more like... if  we died and Jon and Martin end up being the only ones left, Jon is not allowed to leave him.

“You heard her Martin, none of us are allowed to leave you for fear of you turning into a scary. dark, evil-mirror version of yourself.”

“We’re not allowed to die or get replaced by evil clones. Speaking of which, I’m going to go put a spooky table in cement with our local apocalypse couple. Want to come with?”

-Things settle, Monsters are killed, trust is rebuilt And the future continues unstopped by an apocalypse.

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Trying to Remember a Recipe.

For years I shot with film; mostly 120 chrome which I had cross-processed as well as black & white. I've always had an eye for black & white, possibly due to growing up as an aspiring illustrator with pens, pencils and charcoals. Color, though I really liked it, was a different animal for me to wrestle with since the compositions I'd envision were never really true-to-life color. Cross-processing allowed for that "other-reality" color more like I envisioned.

  Then I started to shoot with digital and all of a sudden I had to work another language to get what I was seeing in my head. I struggled with that for quite some time. Eventually I did come across a post-production method that got me something I was happy with. I set some actions in PS to automate them and tweaked them a bit so that everything didn't look exactly the same.

  Then I moved up to full-time photography and my computer was no longer cutting it for my workflow. I wiped the software from my old machine, bought a new computer for my post-production work and went at it. My automated processes were lost. All I had were the pictures as a sort of working record of what I'd done. Occasionally, I'd have people comment on the old photos and what they liked about them but I was much more into the new things I was learning.

  Until about a week or so ago. Someone saw that old work and I don't know what it was… something in her compliment made me really want to go figure out what I did. I was racking my brain to get to it and was hitting a wall. Until tonight. Like, ten minutes ago. I remember now. It's fucking fun. Kind of like making a dish that you always loved but forgot the proportions of the ingredients and suddenly getting it perfect.

  Anyhow, it might not mean much to most out there on tumblr. I'll probably rehash some recent work based on my newly remember processing recipe for kicks.