#if hell existed it would be giffing zoom videos

[papa-evershed]

Rob James-Collier ACT ON THIS June 27, 2024

[ireallyamabear]

okay i thought about it and here is what i would do if I was put in charge of Lucasfilm: first i would wonder how i came to be in this position, but i do have some memory issues so I just go with it. then i cancel all upcoming star wars properties, not only the shows and movies but all the books and comics, videogames and even the lego star wars shorts. i beef up the Lucasfilm legal division, pulling the most promising young lawyers from all over the world who never watched star wars ever. their goal: draft up a legal document that will make it impossible to produce any star wars content ever again. meanwhile the internet is wondering what my next move will be, as i’m a total newcomer to the world of media. then I’ll announce the only project we will be doing that year: a 20 minute black and white short prequel about skeen in an imperial prison. ebon moss-bachrach doesn’t want to do it at first but I pay him 360 million dollars. in the meantime, the team of lawyers is working 35 hour weeks (i’m a good employer) towards my secret goal.

reddit twitter and tumblr are united for the first time in wanting to boycott the skeen movie (that’s the title btw), but when it releases everyone is so starved for sw content they watch it anyway. it is massively controversial because it depicts prisoners eating each other out of desperation, but the ones that are eaten aren’t humans so it’s unclear if it’s cannibalism. i can’t even watch it because i forgot this squicks me out a lot. i gave the creative team total freedom, which might have been a mistake.

during all of this my home life is shit, but let’s not talk about that. i do 12 hour zoom calls everyday because I refused to relocate to california, but then my home address gets doxxed and i have to move to an undisclosed location in the middle of the night (there are a lot of threats against me). people are absolutely hating me, asking for mando season 4, asking for andor season 2 (i have seen the screeners and it is good, btw). dave filoni and jon favreau write an open letter to ask me to reconsider the pause on star wars production but i respond in the only way i know how - with the mariah carey “i don’t even know her” gif. after a while, favreau moves on to develop a vr based immersive series about ultimate fighting about his character in friends. by all accounts, he’s happy.

one of the lawyers betrays me and leaks my plans to the world. fans are in outrage. it’s clear now that i’m planning to ban any sw related media, deep fakes, adaptations, hell, even re-releases of the old stuff. why? i’m not available for comment. from now on, star wars will only exist in your memory, the only place it has ever been good.

there’s an outpouring of fan creativity in the wake of that bombshell leak. people begin to make fan films that are so good and creative that a new wave of avant garde scifi film making is ushered in. a person who worked on the andor set gets massively famous with their spoken word rendition of the scenes they can remember. i go after them with everything Lucasfilm has. this makes the video of their performance even more popular and it becomes the 2nd ever most viewed clip on Vimeo.

other streaming services green-light a mass of scifi and fantasy shows just in case they have the next sw on their hands - entertainment abhors a vacuum. There are so many good new properties, it’s an embarrassment of riches. my favourite of them all gets cancelled after one season though - I will never be sure if it’s because of my bad karma or because someone blabbed about my preferences and this was retaliation. i can’t trust anybody in my inner circle. All over the world, people still are wondering why I did it, but in the end, they are much happier now. sometimes little kids see a star wars toy - one of the few ones that didn’t get destroyed in the five waves of merchandise burnings I had ordered over the years - and asks their parents about it. “It’s nothing.” the skeen movie gets a throwback oscar for special effects twenty years later.

Anyway, what would you do.

[btsandvmin]

How much do we really know?

I really don't understand how any BTS shippers can be confident enough in their ships to turn into “supporters/believers” that believe their ship is real 100%. For any ship. Like even deep diving into some theories or getting literally 100+ reasons from various believers own mouths for why some ships have to be real, nothing has been big enough to count as proof in my opinion. (Of course this includes Vmin.)

Like... They all have questionable moments. Some more than others, sure. But proof of more than very strong and unusually intimate friendships? No.

You could argue some things seem “gay” or has possible LGBTQ+ connections. Like GCF having a LGBT+ song, or 4 o'clock including a reference to a gay movie, or Vmin's literal gay drama whatever that was. But most of it is just fans zooming in on various things and adding their own meaning to it. Like it has to mean something becaues it is connected to your ship. (But only for your ship.) Sometimes, a lot of times, it’s not even directly connected to the ship... It’s just assumed to be connected to them. It’s a guess or a theory, not a fact.

I get questions from Vminies not knowing things about Vmin all the time, and I myself know I’ll never be able to remember or even see everything that is out there with Vmin. And that’s just from the content we are able to consume to begin with. Beyond that is a lot of guessing and assumption based on the fraction of moments we get. But if some Vminies might not even know where the soulmate label comes from, or that 4 o’clock was written with Jimin in mind or that Vmin seem to casually sleep together in private (if we take Tae’s words for it in the Billboard vlive) it’s clear that something I might see as obvious and common knowledge isn’t. Even further it’s clear that other shippers will know even less about Vmin. 

And how can you dismiss something you don’t even know about?

We all focus on, remember or look for/get exposed to our biases or favorite ships the most. Even if we consume the original content we will likely zoom in and see things for our own ship simply because we look for it. And there is nothing wrong with that, it’s natural. But we need to realize it means we will miss things when it comes to other ships, and need to be aware that we know more and end up in echo chambers of both facts and interpretations for our own ships.

It’s so blatantly obvious to me that many non-vminies have no clue about even some of the biggest moments between Vmin. And again, it’s nothing really odd or bad about that... Until you start to act superior even when you lack a lot of knowledge. So much misinformation is spread this way too...

That’s why even though I personally think I know more about other ships than perhaps the regular person, I still won’t preach or explain too much about other ships. Because just as I know others don’t seem to know or notice a lot about Vmin, I know I work the same in regards to other ships. I can’t possibly even remember everything when it comes to Vmin, so how can I with all other ships too?

If I get questions about tae/kook or ji/kook or any dynamic in BTS I might be able to answer it... But I might also lack the full context or might not even have noticed some things to begin with. Coming to me with questions about other ships will give you a very different view than if you ask a shipper focused on that ship directly. I try to be unbiased, but I can’t. I try to be informed but I can’t remember or notice everything. So even if I feel I know a lot, I might never know enough to get the full context of any situation regarding BTS. 

Of course trying to remember to watch unbiased content is very important and helps to keep a better balance. Or as in my case where I actively looked up other ship theories and felt “I know enough to see there are weird things and I can’t dismiss everything since we don’t know the truth of what it might mean”. Just as I feel a lot of things about Vmin shouldn’t be dismissed. Many other shippers also came to me and talked long and detailed about why their ship is real and my isn’t. Many times I lacked knowledge about specific situations about other ships, but so did they about Vmin. I don’t think you can dismiss something if you don’t even know about it to begin with, and there is a big gap of knowledge between the shipping communities.

I mean, the way hyung x maknae line ships have so many great moments and you barely see them outside of the actual content. At this point all ships in BTS are big and get attention, but they don’t seem to register the same way in people’s minds, with the focus  always being on the three youngest together.

This is the thing about worrying about “rival ships” too... They only matter if there is a moment between the ones you already see as “competition”. Does anyone worry or cry about Vmin or Ji/kook when Ji/hope or Hope/kook get very intimate and sweet moments? No, because they don’t seem to register at all. 

I wasn’t even able to find a gif of this ji/hope moment from Run recently... (And I can’t add twitter videos from desktop)

Yoon/min holding hands and joking about breaking up.

Meanwhile if Tae/kook have fun together or if Ji/kook does something cute all hell breaks lose. We have been tainted by the narratives from shippers. The more we see and hear about other ships the bigger “impact” they will have on us.

If moments like this between other members doesn’t make me feel insecure about Vmin, then why would any similar moment from Ji/kook or Tae/kook? People need to stop hyper focusing on both skinship and “rival ship” moments in general and stop adding importance to them, especially when they don’t even do it equally with all ships.

It’s not that one is good:

One is neutral:

And one is bad:

They all happen and exist and we need to realize that’s how it always has been and likely always will be. Any interpretations of these moments shouldn’t change how you view them when nothing is even confirmed. They all happen so we should all accept that and be happy the members have close and intimate relationships with each other.

I really don’t think people understand my stance on all of this. I literally don’t mind if another ship turns out to be real (even if any ship being real is probably not that likely), because I trust in Vmin’s relationship after having watched it for 5 years. But since nothing is confirmed I still remain of the opinion that Vmin’s relationship and behavior is weirder than other ships IN MY VIEW, based on MY INTERPRETATIONS. But I am totally ok with being proven wrong, because it doesn’t matter what kind of relationship Vmin have as long as I can trust that the love they express for each other is real. Thus I also don’t have to downplay moments between other ships. They are there and that’s nice.

We lack a lot of information for many reasons even though we do get to see a lot. But even knowing all the things we know, I still don’t think it’s enough for any ship moments to count as “proof”. For example with Vmin, they were denied to sing a song because it was essentially “ too gay” and Taehyung complained about it, but that doesn't mean they have to be a couple and is forced apart by Big Hit.

We put weight into things because we have our biases and guesses and we find things because we look for them. Here are just some things that fans of various communities says have to mean something but to me really doesn't have to mean anything even if proven:

Physical intimacy Emotional intimacy Jealousy Screen time Fanservice “Sexual tension” Heart eyes or any looks in general Joking about being a couple Showering together Sleeping together Being alone together Living together Writing songs about each other Secret signs Hidden messages to fans Hiding in rooms

And so on...

But even If you do want to count these things to mean something, at least acknowledge how many of those things other ships have too. Vmin literally have several of these confirmed as well. Many of these moments either have happened or gets speculated to happen between many ships. You might find your ship isn’t as uniqe as you feel it is if you actually start diving deeper. If you did and it makes you doubt your own ships superiority, that’s good. Being sure won’t lead to any good for anyone.

Also if you wanna go there.... If other shipper say these have to mean something they are either ignoring Vmin or more likely doesn’t know or say it doesn’t mean the same if they do it.

Fine if hand holding and cuddling doesn’t make you wonder about Vmin, that’s totally legit. In fact you don’t have to wonder about Vmin unless you want to. But using excuses for why something doesn’t mean something you don’t want it to mean or downplaying moments or automatically calling them platonic and “not the same” doesn’t mean you can’t be wrong about those assumptions. Especially when you might not know the full context of it. Again, it should go both ways and include moments from all relationships.

I am legit curious how ji/kookers and tae/kookers are able to be so confident about their ship being real with Tae doing the things he does towards Jimin.... Like... They mean to tell me Tae and Jimin being soulmates, Tae wanting to sing a romantic Christmas song with Jimin, Tae writing 4 o'clock, Tae having Sweet night and telling us it's a personal song while he keeps calling Jimin his only best friend doesn't even have a possibility to mean something non platonic? 😗

Soulmates + Friends lyrics + "how could I know one day I would wake up feeling more" + "are you my best friend?" + "sweet night is a personal song" + "Of course Jimin is my only friend" + 4 o'clock/dumpling fight + the not allowed Christmas song + "Jimin-ah I like you the most" + "I told him to come sleep next to me as I was too lazy to go to him" + “we told our candid stories as honestly as possible” + “Oppa, why are you still awake? I’m dreaming of Jiminie” = Vmin is probably the best known guess to what relationship Tae might be talking about in Sweet Night.

Is it confirmed though? Can I call it proof? NO! Because while it fits in theory, we don’t know and we don’t have all the information to know. But I can make a damn good case for it and that’s the whole point. I can do that because I look for material, see things and add them together with a narrative. Just as other shippers do with their ships. In the end it’s all just narratives though, not proof.

Getting all these asks recently just confirms that the people who worry, or who says other ships are real, haven’t read even a fraction of my posts or they just don’t understand them. Or let alone noticed major moments between all BTS members that should show that their belief is not as “obvious” as they might think.

I am tired of insecurities when it shouldn’t even matter. If any ship in BTS is real, let’s support them and be happy. It doesn’t change the dynamics and relationships between the other members if some of them happen to be a couple. What we see is still there. The “worst” that can happen is that our ideas and theories prove to be wrong. 

But let’s at least try to be aware of how little we see and know, and especially about ships that aren’t our own. I am writing about Vmin because there is a lot to see, but me focusing on Vmin also gives me a knowledge about them I can’t compare with other ships. Which is why I won’t sit and write essays about other ships, and which is why Vminies coming to me for information about other ships is going to lack the depth I can provide for Vmin. All shippers are biased and all shippers lack information.

If you want to ship do it, if you want to speculate go right ahead. But be aware that there is a big difference between facts and knowledge and narratives and speculation.

I hope you found this an interesting read. And if you are considering sending me asks worried about Vmin because of interactions between other members or you want to send “statments” or explenations about other ships being real, just know you are barking up the wrong tree.

[the-lost-media-blog]

Deleted scenes and all that jazz!

Today, I’ll going over scenes that were cut from movies/shows/even comic for reasons and if they’ve been found or not. This won’t be as detailed as my Saki post was, mainly because there’s a lot of ground to cover, but I still hope that you enjoy!

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‘Land Before Time’ & ‘All Dogs Go To Heaven’

I placed these two together because: A) both are made by Don Bluth and B) the main reason for why most of them were cut was for being ‘dark’.

Let’s start will ‘All Dogs Go To Heaven’, as that list is shorter than ‘Land Before Time’s list.

‘All Dogs Go To Heaven’ has one found scene while the other is still lost. 

The found scene is Charlie (the main lead, German Shepherd) having a Nightmare of him in Hell! With the devil, little demons biting at Charlie, and a river of straight up blood!

Any ways, the scene was originally slightly longer than what ended up in the theatrical cut of the film, but it got the cut to avoid getting PG rating (back when it meant something) and stick with a G.  This scene has been found, and has been edited with clips from the theatrical scene into one clip, and the link to that scene is below, though the added in sections are of lower quality as they were recorded on something else:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr7khtV7GAs

The completely lost scene is a scene of Charlie getting RUN OVER WITH A CAR. (insert failing gif I entered above here).

The original scene showed the action happening, as opposed to just showing the aftermath. People thought it was found back in August of 2020, but that was found to be a hoax in October of the same year. 

Don Bluth is the only one with the extended cut of the film, and it’s on him on whether or not it gets shown to the public eye.

Now ‘Land Before Time’ has a ton of scenes cut! One of which could have been Little Foot (main character, dinosaur)’s dying, the extension of the fight scene is cut though. Fun Fact with that, they had to get Child Psychologists to watch that scene as to what they should do with it, and that screening is what lead to the narrator and the character named Rooter to be added.

The actual cut scenes include an extended chase scene with the Sharptooth, an extended intro to Spike, dinos not sharing their food with the young heroes, an added scene, a travel montage, and a lot more but there’s a ton!

The studio was responsible for the reason why 11 whole minutes were cut from the film. They were so worried about scaring/traumatizing the children who would watch the film with their parents. 

At this moment, only the cells of the scenes have been found which is a shame because some people got all up in arms about making children scared. But in my humble opinion, fuck them kids. Make your movie the way you want to!

CURRENT STATUS:  ‘All Dogs’; Partially found ‘Land Before Time’; Mostly lost

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‘A Death In The Family’- Robin Lives ending

Some context for this is, back in the late 80′s there was a Robin named Jason Todd whom was hated by some fans, he did have his own, but not as much as Dick. I’m not sure of the exact reasons, maybe it’s because Jason wasn’t the much beloved Dick Grayson.

Regardless of the reasons why Jason was so hated, DC made the move to set up two call numbers for fans to call in and vote. One number for Jason to live, the other number to let him die; end of the day it was a publicity stunt that ended with Jason being sweet, sweet worm food. There also a rumor or something that someone called multiple times just to kill Jason. But in the words of John Mulaney: 

Before the call-in poll ended DC wrote up the endings, and the ‘Robin Lives’ ending got some-what done before the ‘Jason Dies’ ending won by 72 votes. Only one page got finished (from what I can find) meanwhile the others are uncompleted, but here’s a look at what could’ve been:

CURRENT STAUTS: Partially found

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Admittedly, there’s a lot that could go wrong when it comes to Television. Lost Episodes, Missing Pilots, lost audio and dubs. But, this is on Deleted Scenes, so lets just go with SpongeBob as the little yellow guy has a fair amount.

SpongeBob SquarePants deleted scenes

There are some edits made that cut lines and scenes. But I’ll go over 5 here today, one of which is a fake ‘deleted scene’.

An example is that on the first airing of the episode ‘Shanghaied’ there was a poll done to show which character (Squidward, SpongeBob, and Patrick) gets a wish from the Flying Dutchman. The first airing showed the endings that lost before the one that won; now when that episode airs it just displays the winning ending. But you can find that segment on YouTube to see the other endings.

‘Just One Bite’ had a scene where Squidward breaks into the Krusty Krab for a krabby patty, but at the front door there’s a bucket of gasoline which falls and then gets lit by a match causing a fire; in 2002 that bit was cut and you just get a zoom-in on the krabby patty vault. Now there’s a rumor that the scene was cut due to 9/11 (even though the episode was aired on October 5th), but the real reason is so kids don’t get the idea to mix gasoline and matches, you know like idiots! Here’s some screen shots of the scene and a link to the video I got these from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1Bu6yp-aaA

But those all examples of confirmed edits, here’s a list of unconfirmed edits. 

In ‘Clams’ the name of the lipstick SpongeBob wore was changed slightly to say  "Actually, it's Coral Blue Lipstick number 3" instead of  "Actually, it's Coral Blue Lipstick number 4". Why this was changed I have no clue.

In ‘The Fry Cook Games’ the end shot was changed from them holding hand to them holding shoulders, the reason I found was to remove hint of homosexuality to avoid controversy. Which is odd, because that’s not the worse thing that could be shown on TV, because ‘Shanghaied’ was aired earlier that year (both versions) in March, and that episode ends with the thought that the Flying Dutchman was going to eat the characters, also handholding is something that is normal for people to do, especially friends. 

There’s rumors that ‘I Was A Teenage Gary’ had a transformation scene with Squidward near the end before the cut to the fence moonlight meowing ending. The reason this rumor exists is because the transition is a simple wipe effect without the traditional bubble wipe. Some say that it could be seen in a different country, that I forgot the name of, unaltered. But it’s been debunked by someone uploading the premiere of that episode onto YouTube and there was no transformation.

CURRENT STATUS  Partially found

[midnightblaine]

Breaking Open - Klaine Advent 2018

Notes:  Trying to catch up with longer chapters. You guys, all the reblogs and likes, kudos, comments, they are so encouraging and heart warming, I appreciate every single one of them <3

Day 4: Paper

AO3

Blaine had died. He had literally died, gone to heaven and was granted his perfect personal version of paradise. He thought he had been a good enough person, had done his fair share of good deeds, had never broken the law or a school rule. It was reasonable enough that when he died he would get to spend the rest of his existence in heaven, because it had to be heaven.

There was no other explanation as to why Kurt Hummel was talking to him.

*

His morning had started eventful enough. He woke up to dozens of notifications from the NYADA blogs, all of them flailing about this college band that was making a comeback. One Three Hill had every blog posting gifs and all caps text posts about how amazing the band was, and how hot the members were, how excited everyone was about this concert they were throwing.

Blaine had to scroll down in confusion, trying to piece all the information together about who these people were, where had they come from, what had everyone so thrilled. Then he found it. It. A picture of the band members lined up, with perfectly gleeful smiles and all holding microphones. A picture that had Kurt Hummel standing front and center.

All trace of sleep had left him at once, he zoomed in to check that it was the Kurt Hummel, NYADA’s Kurt Hummel, singing next to tattooed, rockstar like people, a boy and a girl with colorful hair and heavily lined eyes.

He found more and more pictures, some that ended up saved in his gallery with just a little hint of embarrassment in his cheeks. No one needed to know. Then the videos started coming up, old performances taped on crappy camera phones where Kurt still looked and sang perfectly, covering Madonna songs, rock songs, musical theatre songs, always accompanied of the other guy named Elliot or the girl, Dani. They all sounded pretty much Grammy worthy and their dynamic was splendid, funny and playful, even if Kurt and that Elliot guy seemed to be standing very close to one another in some performances.

He understood the hype.    

But then he had gotten to school and all the internet enthusiasm had been transported to the school’s lobby. Every student was talking about it. Even the ballerinas had been looking at the concert posters scattered all over the place. It was madness.

“You know, I’m so going to this concert,” a guy close to him ranted to his friend. “Everyone’s gonna be there. It’s been a while since Hummel's sung in public”.

“I know! It’s at Callbacks though, I doubt more than 30 people while fit in there”, responded his enthusiastic friend, they didn’t seem to notice Blaine at all.

“We’ll arrive early. I’m not missing any of it, Hummel and Starchild together on stage? I’ll die of second-hand UST”.

“They’re literally so hot…”

Both guys walked past Blaine, not paying him any mind. He didn’t know why this Starchild guy was so famous, he wasn’t even a NYADA student from what he had gathered, but it seemed like there was something between him and Kurt. He could see it though, they were both talented and pretty.

He walked into the stage combat classroom, still scrolling through the band’s Twitter. He found Alessia easily, surprised to see her reading about One Three Hill as well on her phone, it didn’t seem like her kind of music.

“Hey,” he called to her.

She lifted his gaze to look at him, a little bit alarmed, a few red spots appearing on her tanned cheeks. If he didn’t know any better he would have thought she was embarrassed.

“You heard about One Three Hill too?”

She nodded, biting his lip. He noticed that she had a picture of Dani open on the screen. He was about to ask her about it, gently of course, when he felt a tap on his shoulder followed by a determined, “excuse me,” before he turned around.

He got face to face with Kurt Hummel and his mind went blank.

*

He had to admit that in all his daydreaming he had never actually considered the possibility of Kurt Hummel ever talking to him. Now he was rendered speechless, taking way too long to give any kind of response to the boy standing in front of him.

"Blaine?"

And he looked so good. Why did he have to look so good? And how did he even know his name? Kurt was still talking, to him, at class, in real life, and Blaine couldn’t hear a word.

Blaine was definitely dead.

"I mean, you don't have to go if you don't want to?" Kurt freaking Hummel trailed, his face now uncertain, miles away from the enthusiastic certainty he had approached them with.

Blaine could only gape openly. He didn't know how to respond. Had he been able of forming words and sounds with his mouth before? It seemed like an impossible task just to nod, to blink, to breathe. His heart was beating wildly inside his ribcage. He was sure he was about to cry. He had been wrong, God hated him and had sent him to hell.

"We'd love to go," Alessia came to his rescue, grabbing his hand. The contact felt like a balm to his fried brain. He felt grounded and real and he could finally summon the power to nod at the boy he had been crushing for a whole month, all thirty days accounted for.

Kurt exhaled, relaxing at last though his expression still held some uncertain quality to it. Still, some of his enthusiasm started creeping back to his voice.

"Great, it will be so good to see you there, guys. We are hoping for a full house but if you can’t get in then text me. I’ll make sure you get some seats there.”

He extended a slip of paper with his name and a ten-digit number on it. Obviously, Blaine couldn’t move a muscle so Alessia took it for him with a warm thank you. Kurt was winning her over.

He left with one last lingering glance, eyes gleaming. Blaine could feel air slowly returning to his lungs only after Kurt had joined his friends and turned his back to them.

Blaine had survived.

"Blaine, are you okay?" Alessia asked, eyes searching, worried.

"I'm..." he wasn't sure. Was he okay? The most wonderful guy had approached them to extend an invitation to his band's concert, all friendly smiles and dreamy eyes. Blaine had made a fool of himself, obviously. He needed to sit down.

"I will be, I think."

Alessia looked at him skeptically.

“You do have something to wear to go the show right?”

Blaine may have survived his first encounter with Kurt Hummel but he didn’t think himself capable of surviving one whole night of hearing him sing like the angel he was.

[floatingpetals]

Vanish in the Dark Pt 6

Pairings: None at the moment(I think I got something.)

Warnings: Language, reference to dead guy

Word Count: 2200+

Summary: Assassin’s Creed AU and Marvel AU crossover.  The Brotherhood has spent years hiding in the shadows keeping the Templars in line as the years pass on. When the Templars company Abstergo Industries strikes up a deal with Hydra, things have to change. The Brotherhood decides to step out of the shadows, reaching out for the help of the Avengers. What could go wrong?

A/N: Ugh, this weekend sucked. I got like maybe 6 hours of sleep in total. I tried to get this part done sooner, but my brain just wasn’t working right. I think I got it working now. Kind of. Anyways, it’s a bit of filler this part. I like sneaky sneak assassins. They’re little shits. Enjoy lovelies!  ❤️

Once again, the gif is not mine, credit to the owner. (it does, but doesn’t fit the chapter. Just roll with it.)

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Steve stared down at the collection of items on the coffee table, rage carefully concealed behind a calm mask. He had to keep a level head, despite wanting to give in to his frustration. He was getting really tired of how easily they managed to manipulate them. While he was busy keeping his anger in check, Tony was doing the complete opposite.

“Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” He spat, reciting the eloquent cursive. “What the hell does that even mean?”

Before anyone could even think to answer, Tony spun around from where he was pacing at the window and grabbed the tablet from off the table before returning back to his pacing. “F.R.I.D.A.Y. Pull up all cameras of the surrounding areas. Start off finding each interaction we had when we’re sitting outside, and narrow it down from there.” He spun around and glared at the packet of gum that sat amongst the collection. “I’m getting sick and tired of this bullshit.”

“Of course, Sir.” The AI responded.

Natasha picked up the mint tin, turning it over in her hand. She too had found a carefully placed token in her room, sitting on the pillows of her bed along with a decorative bookmark underneath. Tony had found his token sitting atop his duffel bag, earplugs still in its sealed bad next to it. He all but exploded when he says the black spearmint package. Natasha glanced over to Sam, who sat staring at the dark-framed glasses. His was placed on his bedside table as well, a blank white sheet of paper save for the dark red lipstick stain on the corner sitting under the frames. It was as if they were taunting them. Once again, the assassins had managed to hoodwink them.

“I gotta ask them to teach me their secrets,” Sam muttered, leaning back into the couch. All eyes turned to glare at him, but he simply shrugged unfazed. “Clearly they got their shit together. If they managed to slip past two super-soldiers, a highly trained not to mention dangerous spy, a mind reader who didn’t catch a single thought from any of them, and a man in a tin suit with a super-intelligent computer system, then they know what they’re doing.” Sam paused for a moment and snorted. “They even got me repeating myself and wishing they’d teach me.”

Despite their frustration, everyone knew he was right. This group had to be one of a kind to succeed in what all they’ve done. Natasha felt a sting in her pride, absolutely foolish she missed something so simple. Bucky was kicking himself for falling so easily. He was trained to read people, and as much as he hated that training, it was something he prided himself in. In the end, they were so convincing it was astonishing.

“Sir.” The AI spoke up, pulling everyone out of their thoughts. F.R.I.D.A.Y. delayed for a moment before resuming. “I have the videos you requested.”

“I’m not liking how you’re hesitating F.R.I.D.A.Y.” The AI didn’t respond, simply pulling up the various video feeds from the surrounding areas on the hologram from the tablet in his hands. Tony set it down and let the various videos play though.

There were a number of angles from different buildings, security systems and even a few phones feeds. They watched the feeds, eyes flickering through the different angles, as a slow realization settled through them.

“All the angles-" Natasha sat taller, her heart dropping in her chest.

“They were in blind spots the entire time,” Steve spoke quietly, the rage flaring up again. Once more, the Brotherhood thought of everything.

“Wait a minute.” Wanda sat up, flicking the hologram aside to pull up one that caught her eye. It was the surveillance of the main courtyard from the hotel across the street, giving them a perfect view of the whole area. They could see where Natasha and Wanda sat, where Sam leaned against the pillar and where Tony sat in the crowd of onlookers.

“This is the only video feed that shows all but the woman at the café. The umbrellas from the tables hide all her features from us.” F.R.I.D.A.Y. spoke, pulling up the feed as proof. Tony waved it off and turned back to the feed of the courtyard. As the video went through everything, they watched with bated breath.

“There.” Sam stepped forward, tapping the video to pause it. The blonde woman’s face was angled away from the camera, but it was undoubtedly her. He scrubbed through the video until she walked away. Her face was turned down, glancing slightly over to the right towards Natasha and Wanda. Right when they figured to give up, the woman looked right into the camera from across the courtyard, smirking at the lens. The group recoiled, momentarily startled.

The process was similar with the two men, their faces angled away from the camera until the last second where both smirked into the camera. The woman with the chewing gum problems had done exactly as the others. Her face angled away from the camera lens, carefully tipped away from view. Even when she got up and left, she never tilted her head towards the camera. Her head was down, even when she placed a call. The woman looked over into a shadowed area nodding slightly. It was until she turned to walk across the street did she glance at the camera, winking at the camera. The Brotherhood knew where all the cameras were, and knew just how to position themselves so that nothing would catch them.

“Zoom in on the area she was looking at.”

It was faint, but the team could just make out a figure, standing still in the corner.

“I’ve already started a facial recognition scan of the ones I could identify. I will have results momentarily.” F.R.I.D.A.Y. said as the video feed zoomed out once more.

The video sped forward, passing through the painful twenty-five minutes of the press conference, turning back to the regular speed moments before the gas took over the courtyard. Tony ducked to check under the seat, shooting up when the small tendrils of gas came from the bottom of the chair. In an instant, they watched the gas exploded from nothing and the crowd dropping like flies. However, their interest wasn’t the collapsed people, but the figure that walked out from the corner.

The unknown person stepped forward, a black and silver hood covering the face of whoever it was as they stepped into the smoke confidently. It was only a few short seconds later did the person emerge from the vapors, only on the opposite end of the courtyard. They watched stunned as the person could be made out walking through the clouds of gas with ease, passing by Natasha and Wanda still laid in a crumpled pile on the ground. The person moved around Steve and Bucky as they stumbled through the quickly dissipating gas across the street. The individual stopped right along the bottom of the screen, their back to the camera as they watched the gas disappear completely. 

The figure stood until the others recovered until the scream of horror alerted the crowd of the dead body. As the Hydra sponsor began to scream and fight, the figure turned with a hand going up to push the hood back from their face. Steve and Bucky gasped, gaping at the face of the woman that sat a few feet from them, who was staring up at the camera. The woman smiled widely before ducking off-screen.

The video went black, and the five smiling faces of the Brotherhood members pulled up on the screen. Just like their actions from the past 24 hours, they were smug in knowing they once again slipped past the world’s mightiest heroes with ease. The smiles only reminded the Avengers that they could have slipped away without even giving them a hint at who they were. No, instead they gave them a perfect view of their faces, and something told Steve they would find nothing on the five. Not a trace of them would be pulled up; No ATM feeds, no intersections feeds, nothing.

“Sir.” The computer sounded hesitant again, and Steve’s stomach dropped. He was right.

“You didn’t find anything on them, did you?” Tony asked, his eyes never leaving the faces. He had to have them memorized, down to every last detail. He wasn’t going to be played like this again.

“I’m afraid not Sir. Whoever these people are, they do not exist in any database.” Tony’s jaw clenched.

“What about the feed for our hotel and the area?”

“It was all shut off during the time of the break-in. There’s no footage for nearly twenty minutes before and after. They made sure to cover their tracks. Even intersections cameras were shut off. No doubt they blended into the crowds, which will only make it nearly impossible finding them.”

In the distance, they heard the doorbell ring and Sam moving to answer the door. No one said a word while he grabbed the boxes of pizza and returned to the tense living room. Silently, he placed the boxes on the table, a bag of paper plates on the crook of his elbow.

“Might as well eat. If we can’t find anything now, I doubt we will anytime soon.” Sam spoke as he pulled out the plates and popped open the lid to a box. They each made a noise of agreement and grabbed a few slices quietly.

“I will keep searching, Sir, and inform you of any changes.”

Tony nodded and waved the hologram of the faces away, the tablet going dark. The group sat around the couches, eating quietly amongst themselves as they processed everything. It wasn’t until they finished the boxes of pizza half an hour later, and having digested just enough that F.R.I.D.A.Y. found a lead.

“Sir.” She urged, lighting up the tablet. 

Another video feed pulled up, the time stamp in the top corner showing the current time and date. The video showed down an empty dead-end alley, the occasional trash can and pile of trash being the only noticeable thing at first. Further down the alley, tucked away in the shadows was a familiar figure. As if she knew they were watching, and at this point, they were all assuming she did, she stepped forward with her hood pulled over her face, the smile from before still in place. She stood at the end, standing completely still before pushing the hood back. The grin was still in place, only this time she waved to the camera before the feed cut to black.

The group was moving in an instant, rushing to grab their gears in their rooms. They each changed into their suits as quickly as they could, while Tony looked up the coordinates. He let out a string of curses when a convenient file popped up on the screen, the exact coordinates typed out for them along with a smiley at the end of the memo.

“I’m officially done with these people.” He bit out to Steve as the made their way to the elevator. Steve gave him a look in agreement, stopping for a moment to consider a thought.

“You not going to fly out there first?” Tony shook his head and pulled out his keys as they moved quickly through the garage, bypassing the valet.

“They managed to hack into my system, they knew we were watching. They’d probably expect that. I’m pissed, but not angry enough to do something stupid. Yet.” They all piled into one SUV, decided it was best to simply stick together, despite the discomfort. Tony jumped into the driver’s seat, repeating to F.R.I.D.A.Y. the coordinates to lead them to. The SUV peeled off out of the garage and into the streets of New York.

A figure stepped out of the shadows, grinning at the car’s quick take off. They tapped the com in their ear as they walked out of the exit to the sidewalk to the city.

“They on their way, Heath?”

“They’re so strung out they completely missed me in the corner.” He laughed, shaking his head. He would miss messing with the Avengers. But after this meeting with their team leader, he knew this would most likely be the last time he could get away with this. Breaking into their hotel room was too easy, and he could only wish he saw the reactions when they found the gifts he planted. Maybe if he asked nicely, Y/N would let him do that again. Just for fun, of course.

“Good. Head back to the room and get a drink. Clark should be camped out binging through Harry Potter.” He could hear Y/N smiling through the com, just as excited as he was things were coming together. He made an excited hum of agreement and headed back towards the hotel they were staying at, a slight skip in his step. 

“Good luck!”

Y/N snorted but thanked him before clicking off the com. She leaned against the back wall of the alley, tracing a finger through the symbol carved into the brick. She glanced back at the entrance, a smile on her face. She knew this was going to be an interesting meeting, she was honestly a bit nervous about how it would go. She could only hope they didn’t do anything stupid before they listened. If they were willing to.

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Another Darkiplier theory?  HELL YEAH another Darkiplier theory!…well, sort of another Darkiplier theory.  More like an extra addition on a previous theory I came up with.  Basically this one in particular.  TL;DR: Darkiplier doesn’t run on what we know as physics, but more akin to something we’d consider as “video physics”, ie. traveling via jump cuts, realm is only as big as we see, ability to rewind time like a video.

So let’s go back to the quote that I used to start that theory.

“Darkiplier is an entirely different person from me. But, much like Warfstache, doesn’t obey the laws of physics.  He exists in another world entirely and bleeds through into this one. ”

Today, we’re going to look into the other statement: existing in another world that bleeds into ours.  I believe that with the recent video that Markiplier released, Don’t Play This Game, we have a pretty good visualization on just HOW his realm bleeds into ours, in terms of video visualization~

So this is the official “beginning” of the Darkiplier cameo.

Have we seen something like this before?

They’re very much the same from each other.  One reality suddenly zooming out, revealing thousands of other versions of that realm, all while under the sound of high pitched ringing and what I could only consider to be the sound of something going UP.  Like an elevator or something.

But…you know…this visualization reminds me of those collages of a huge picture made out of all those small little pictures related to that big picture.  You know, something like this:

(I kind of wanted a smaller picture, but this big picture is a good way to show what I’m talking about, I guess?)

Couple that with the first GIF that showed Dark with his separation of colors as they zoom farther and farther away from us, and it only confirmed one big thing for me: this is definitely something video related.

Darkiplier can totally observe our world no matter where he is.  This is why Markiplier is so powerless against him, because Dark is at a realm even higher than we are.  So high that we technically would not be able to process it.  Because, to him, our realm is literally a pixel on a TV screen.

But then, why is his realm so dark and black and hard to see anything in it, when our realm seems to be so bright and colorful?  Honestly, I think it’s just for a visual aesthetic aiming toward something a bit more horror related than something tied to Darkiplier’s lore himself.  Because what do you get when you have a completely dark room with the only thing lighting it up is a few thousand pixels?

Ladies and gentlemen, I propose that this is how Darkiplier sees our world.

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… I love him.

That is all

Rob James-Collier ACT ON THIS June 27, 2024