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My leadership qualities consist of being an effective communicator and being so pathetic they have no choice but to feel sorry for me and follow me into battle
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There are a lot of really dog shit things in the world of tech that can be solved with a bit of time, some stubborn googling and maybe some special hardware and piracy is only the tip of the iceberg.
Printers are notorious for claiming they’re out of ink when they haven’t come close to the suggested number of prints, and their cartridges literally still have ink in them. So after a bit of googling I found out how to ‘reset’ a cartridges automatic stopping system (its literally 1 physical wheel on the cartridge that you gotta turn back). The only downside is that I don’t get a digital ink monitor, but since it told me it was empty when still half full, I don’t mind.
Like, you can just jiggle with some shit and solve one of the biggest money making scams in the post-industrial world and I don’t think people realise its that easy.
Or, like, repairing your own technology. A few months ago, I swapped out my sister’s laptop screen. Did it myself, I removed maybe 4 screws, no vital parts were exposed and it cost me $40. I even got a choice of matte or glossy.
My point is, any walls that capitalist technology presents you with will be a false one. And one already broken by a dedicated community of interesting people working hard for free to break down that wall.
kids these days will be all “be gay do crime” and dont even know how to watch a cartoon without paying for it smh
IN FAIRNESS
piracy was definitely leagues easier a decade or so ago when thepiratebay was functional, megaupload was still running, and YouTube and Google made only the most cursory attempts to block copyright content. like let’s not pretend that the internet hasn’t got a lot more corporatised in the past decade or so. piracy is still possible and you can and should do it but it’s a LOT harder to do safely and reliably than it was.
^thank u
Sorry, this is all wrong.
1) ThePirateBay is still functional. (It’s not the same pirate bay that it was back in the day, but let’s not get into Theseus’ ship territory. It’s still here and it still works, that’s all that matters.) There are plenty of torrent sites around, more than there were 10 years ago – although overall traffic has plummeted. Now as then, it’s a whack-a-mole game.
2) Why was it “leagues easier” a decade ago? Some countries, not all (not north America, for example), now mandate ISP blocking of torrent sites, but this new complication can be bypassed with one (1) step: a google duckduckgo search for proxies. No government agency or ISP can possibly keep up with proxies, it’s yet another whack-a-mole game. So yes, it was technically easier before, but I don’t see “leagues” anywhere.
3) It was safer before? Are you shitting me? Have you lot forgotten that the legal departments of MPAA and RIAA sued torrent sharers (not even uploaders) and asked for millions of dollars for damages? AND GOT THEM? (By which I mean they didn’t actually get millions since the people they sued didn’t have any, but said people were convicted and ruined and that was the goal in the first place. It was a deeply amoral and cynical scare tactic.) Well they stopped doing that at some point, and focused on hunting P2P and torrent sites. Running a site is certainly less safe today. Using one, though? Depending on where you are, the ISP may be allowed to block you after repeated instances, and that’s it. You’re not getting in trouble with the law or into crippling debt. And either way there’s only a minuscule chance that any of this will come to pass, which becomes zero (0) with a VPN. (Safety of course depends on the country, and in some cases piracy is the least of your concerns. Let’s not get into that.)
4) Ten years ago there was no Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis was in its infancy. If today it’s harder to find PDFs on google, it is orders of magnitude easier and more reliable to find them elsewhere. People just have to unstick their minds from the notion that stuff is either on google or doesn’t exist at all. Geez.
5) P2P still exists. IRC (the sharing channels in particular, #bookz and the like) still exists. Torrenting functions like it always did. All these methods are exactly as easy to use as before, i.e. not necessarily a piece of cake, there’s a learning curve. But it’s the same learning curve it was 10 years ago.
6) So what have we lost? Only YouTube (meh, the film/tv quality was appalling anyway, and music is still there) and direct downloads (at least the permanent ones: there are plenty of them still around, but files expire and you need to keep track of what goes up when. So this goes beyond knowhow, it’s about internet communities. Let’s not get into that either, it’s a huge subject.) It’s a loss, sure, but I wouldn’t call it a terrible blow.
7) And in exchange for that loss, we got streaming sites. This is piracy, too, and it’s much much easier than torrents, and tons of people do it. Any “piracy has declined” narrative either implies that we’re excluding streaming from the discussion for some reason, or is flat out wrong. Ten years ago, grandpa couldn’t possibly torrent a film, and it’s debatable if he even knew how to open the file you helpfully sent him. Now, as long as someone has set up kodi or similar, grandpa can watch it on his tv and it just feels like cable.
8) On why torrents in particular have declined in recent years, see here. It’s a big subject and I didn’t cover all of it, but the main reason is that people had access to easier methods to get what they wanted (some legal and affordable, some illegal and free), so they didn’t need to learn how to torrent. Ergo, they never did. There’s more of course, and there’s definitely a cultural shift too, but that’s a very long story so let’s not get into it. The linked post also includes some thoughts on why torrents aren’t dead and doomed just yet, and ooh, I forgot a very important one: you can’t stream photoshop.
To summarise, internet piracy is NOT more difficult, unreliable, and unsafe today than it was 10 or 20 years ago. For reasons why people (young or otherwise) seem less versed in it, please look elsewhere. I have thoughts on that too, but this is already a very long post, so I’ll just leave you with the best kind of thought. I’ll leave you with a doubt:
ARE people less versed in piracy? Are they really? Or is it simply that 20 years ago, internet users were computer geeks by definition, whereas now everyone’s online? Perhaps the percentage of skilled pirates in the general population remains more or less the same, and the only thing that’s dropped is the percentage of skilled pirates to total internet users. I can’t be sure without statistical evidence, but it’s a possibility.
You can literally google “watch _____ free online” and find most movies but the third result just download Adblock or popup blocker and you’re golden it truly couldn’t be easier
I’ve been meaning to make a piracy masterpost for awhile and what better time than now?
Materpost: A curated Githup tutorial of links to more torrent sites, software, VPNs, uBlock origin filters, ect. Basically everything you could ever want starting out. Do be warned though it doesn’t appear to have been updated in awhile so a few of the links are dead.
GAMES:
Vimm’s Roms: NES era->ps3 era roms and emulators to play them. Has user ratings on games. Cons: slow download speeds.
NxBrew: Switch roms/game updates/dlc
nsw2u: More switch roms. Check here if nxbrew doesn’t have the game you’re looking for.
Hshop: 3ds games/updates/dlc. Very well organized and sorted by console region. Bonus ability to generate QR codes to scan with homebrew to begin download directly on your console.
Oldgamesdownload: Old 90’s-2000’s PC games and some gamecube games. Technically, all of the games here are abandon ware, meaning the original company/creator doesn’t sell nor make money from the games anymore period. If you’re into that.
Fitgirl repacks: Heavily compressed PC games, and other various consoles. Small downloads and faster speeds for the size of the games. Somewhat limited game selection.
Steam unlocked: Steam games with easy-to-use installers. Check here if fitgirl doesn’t have what you’re looking for.
Steam Underground: A user forum for piracy support, usually about installing cracked games. Does have some scattered PC game downloads.
Google doc of Skyrim SE creation club content.
Amiibo life: Amiibo bins, can be loaded with some homebrew to load in games without any external source, or, if you buy writable NFC cards, you can make your own free amiibos.
Books:
Library Genesis: a good all-in-one ebook finder. Has books, magazines, scientific papers, ect. Well organized and able to sort by Author, Genre, ect ect. Almost all books in .epub format
Calibre: Not piracy but a free software for reading said .epub files, and other ebook formats. Good for sorting your books.
Sci-Hub: Research papers, academic books, pdfs, ect. Helpful for collage students.
IT ebook: eBooks about learning programming languages.
audiobookbay: Audiobook downloads.
Booksonic: Audiobook streaming.
5e.tools: Dnd player’s manual, guide, ect.
Books on learning various languages.
Mangadex: Manga, Doujinshi.
Headspace sleep audio.
Various books and manuals.
Streaming:
ustvgo: Free streaming of live tv, has most US cable tv channels.
tutturu: Spiritual successor to Rabbit, allows you to stream your screen with friends.
Yes movies: Movies
Kimcartoon: Cartoons/animated movies
aniwatcher: Anime
animedao: Anime
Computer software:
getintopc: Wide selection of pc (mostly windows) software of all sorts, and different versions. Can personally vouch for the site, I’ve gotten Photoshop, Maya, and Sony Vegas from here over the years.
Other:
the eye: An archive of old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect. Cons: No search function and slightly hard to navigate.
1337x.to: Torrent site for movies, shows, games, comics, ect.
ThePirateBay: The classic.
Recorded broadway musicals. Verying quality.
Finally someone actually posted links instead of just bitching or saying “it’s easy”
Ok just want to plug the eye a bit more considering I lost a few hours in their yesterday.
the eye has been up since 2017 and in the last four years have accumulated 140TB of data (according to their own reports). Part of their growth is just their own work, part of it is absorbing other archives/open directories that were having issues: I know rpg.rem.uz used to be its own archive - gave way to The Trove, which is having its own issues right now unfortunately… - but now most-all of their content can also just be found on the eye. Same with a few dozen other archives.
And they have ‘old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect’, but massively more than you might think just based off how this sounds. Like…
They have it all.
If you want to try and homebrew alcohol, go check their stuff. If you want to try and read books that are out of print or otherwise in public domain (and some that aren’t yet in public domain), go check their stuff. If you want to run a campaign and can’t pay for expensive print tabletop books, go check their stuff. If you want to fuck off into the woods to live off the land (or research how that would work for a writing project), go check their stuff. If you’re trying to learn shit about drugs - any drugs, almost - go check their stuff.
Hell, if you want to go read what looks like literally every research paper on coronaviruses from 1968 up to Feb 2020, you can do that too!
As chickenmcnuggies said its a mess and a half to navigate through their collections, partially with how large it is and the fact quite a few folders were once whole other archives since absorbed by the eye…
But goddamn you can lose an afternoon just going through all the stuff they have.
The subreddit r/freemediaheckyeah is a great resource and their index: https://fmhy.net/ has A LOT of stuff with a pretty straightforward UI. Its got free resources for pretty much anything you could want on the internet, both fully legal and dubiously legal.
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FINALLY!!!!!!!! TMAGP LENT ANIMATION HAS BEEN FREED FROM PROCRASTINATION HELL!!!!!!!!
This took way too long bc the malevolent brainrot got in the way so,,,,,, yeah I hope y’all enjoy!!! started this I mid-march so that’s why this has more first half of s1 vibes :))
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a feel like the new generation of fanfic readers NEED to understand that clicking on a fic (interaction) does nothing. ao3 has no algorithm. your private discord discussions of fic do not reach the authors. if you do not actively engage with writers they will stop posting. this isn’t social media this is community.

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There are a lot of really dog shit things in the world of tech that can be solved with a bit of time, some stubborn googling and maybe some special hardware and piracy is only the tip of the iceberg.
Printers are notorious for claiming they’re out of ink when they haven’t come close to the suggested number of prints, and their cartridges literally still have ink in them. So after a bit of googling I found out how to ‘reset’ a cartridges automatic stopping system (its literally 1 physical wheel on the cartridge that you gotta turn back). The only downside is that I don’t get a digital ink monitor, but since it told me it was empty when still half full, I don’t mind.
Like, you can just jiggle with some shit and solve one of the biggest money making scams in the post-industrial world and I don’t think people realise its that easy.
Or, like, repairing your own technology. A few months ago, I swapped out my sister’s laptop screen. Did it myself, I removed maybe 4 screws, no vital parts were exposed and it cost me $40. I even got a choice of matte or glossy.
My point is, any walls that capitalist technology presents you with will be a false one. And one already broken by a dedicated community of interesting people working hard for free to break down that wall.
kids these days will be all “be gay do crime” and dont even know how to watch a cartoon without paying for it smh
IN FAIRNESS
piracy was definitely leagues easier a decade or so ago when thepiratebay was functional, megaupload was still running, and YouTube and Google made only the most cursory attempts to block copyright content. like let’s not pretend that the internet hasn’t got a lot more corporatised in the past decade or so. piracy is still possible and you can and should do it but it’s a LOT harder to do safely and reliably than it was.
^thank u
Sorry, this is all wrong.
1) ThePirateBay is still functional. (It’s not the same pirate bay that it was back in the day, but let’s not get into Theseus’ ship territory. It’s still here and it still works, that’s all that matters.) There are plenty of torrent sites around, more than there were 10 years ago – although overall traffic has plummeted. Now as then, it’s a whack-a-mole game.
2) Why was it “leagues easier” a decade ago? Some countries, not all (not north America, for example), now mandate ISP blocking of torrent sites, but this new complication can be bypassed with one (1) step: a google duckduckgo search for proxies. No government agency or ISP can possibly keep up with proxies, it’s yet another whack-a-mole game. So yes, it was technically easier before, but I don’t see “leagues” anywhere.
3) It was safer before? Are you shitting me? Have you lot forgotten that the legal departments of MPAA and RIAA sued torrent sharers (not even uploaders) and asked for millions of dollars for damages? AND GOT THEM? (By which I mean they didn’t actually get millions since the people they sued didn’t have any, but said people were convicted and ruined and that was the goal in the first place. It was a deeply amoral and cynical scare tactic.) Well they stopped doing that at some point, and focused on hunting P2P and torrent sites. Running a site is certainly less safe today. Using one, though? Depending on where you are, the ISP may be allowed to block you after repeated instances, and that’s it. You’re not getting in trouble with the law or into crippling debt. And either way there’s only a minuscule chance that any of this will come to pass, which becomes zero (0) with a VPN. (Safety of course depends on the country, and in some cases piracy is the least of your concerns. Let’s not get into that.)
4) Ten years ago there was no Sci-Hub, and Library Genesis was in its infancy. If today it’s harder to find PDFs on google, it is orders of magnitude easier and more reliable to find them elsewhere. People just have to unstick their minds from the notion that stuff is either on google or doesn’t exist at all. Geez.
5) P2P still exists. IRC (the sharing channels in particular, #bookz and the like) still exists. Torrenting functions like it always did. All these methods are exactly as easy to use as before, i.e. not necessarily a piece of cake, there’s a learning curve. But it’s the same learning curve it was 10 years ago.
6) So what have we lost? Only YouTube (meh, the film/tv quality was appalling anyway, and music is still there) and direct downloads (at least the permanent ones: there are plenty of them still around, but files expire and you need to keep track of what goes up when. So this goes beyond knowhow, it’s about internet communities. Let’s not get into that either, it’s a huge subject.) It’s a loss, sure, but I wouldn’t call it a terrible blow.
7) And in exchange for that loss, we got streaming sites. This is piracy, too, and it’s much much easier than torrents, and tons of people do it. Any “piracy has declined” narrative either implies that we’re excluding streaming from the discussion for some reason, or is flat out wrong. Ten years ago, grandpa couldn’t possibly torrent a film, and it’s debatable if he even knew how to open the file you helpfully sent him. Now, as long as someone has set up kodi or similar, grandpa can watch it on his tv and it just feels like cable.
8) On why torrents in particular have declined in recent years, see here. It’s a big subject and I didn’t cover all of it, but the main reason is that people had access to easier methods to get what they wanted (some legal and affordable, some illegal and free), so they didn’t need to learn how to torrent. Ergo, they never did. There’s more of course, and there’s definitely a cultural shift too, but that’s a very long story so let’s not get into it. The linked post also includes some thoughts on why torrents aren’t dead and doomed just yet, and ooh, I forgot a very important one: you can’t stream photoshop.
To summarise, internet piracy is NOT more difficult, unreliable, and unsafe today than it was 10 or 20 years ago. For reasons why people (young or otherwise) seem less versed in it, please look elsewhere. I have thoughts on that too, but this is already a very long post, so I’ll just leave you with the best kind of thought. I’ll leave you with a doubt:
ARE people less versed in piracy? Are they really? Or is it simply that 20 years ago, internet users were computer geeks by definition, whereas now everyone’s online? Perhaps the percentage of skilled pirates in the general population remains more or less the same, and the only thing that’s dropped is the percentage of skilled pirates to total internet users. I can’t be sure without statistical evidence, but it’s a possibility.
You can literally google “watch _____ free online” and find most movies but the third result just download Adblock or popup blocker and you’re golden it truly couldn’t be easier
I’ve been meaning to make a piracy masterpost for awhile and what better time than now?
Materpost: A curated Githup tutorial of links to more torrent sites, software, VPNs, uBlock origin filters, ect. Basically everything you could ever want starting out. Do be warned though it doesn’t appear to have been updated in awhile so a few of the links are dead.
GAMES:
Vimm’s Roms: NES era->ps3 era roms and emulators to play them. Has user ratings on games. Cons: slow download speeds.
NxBrew: Switch roms/game updates/dlc
nsw2u: More switch roms. Check here if nxbrew doesn’t have the game you’re looking for.
Hshop: 3ds games/updates/dlc. Very well organized and sorted by console region. Bonus ability to generate QR codes to scan with homebrew to begin download directly on your console.
Oldgamesdownload: Old 90’s-2000’s PC games and some gamecube games. Technically, all of the games here are abandon ware, meaning the original company/creator doesn’t sell nor make money from the games anymore period. If you’re into that.
Fitgirl repacks: Heavily compressed PC games, and other various consoles. Small downloads and faster speeds for the size of the games. Somewhat limited game selection.
Steam unlocked: Steam games with easy-to-use installers. Check here if fitgirl doesn’t have what you’re looking for.
Steam Underground: A user forum for piracy support, usually about installing cracked games. Does have some scattered PC game downloads.
Google doc of Skyrim SE creation club content.
Amiibo life: Amiibo bins, can be loaded with some homebrew to load in games without any external source, or, if you buy writable NFC cards, you can make your own free amiibos.
Books:
Library Genesis: a good all-in-one ebook finder. Has books, magazines, scientific papers, ect. Well organized and able to sort by Author, Genre, ect ect. Almost all books in .epub format
Calibre: Not piracy but a free software for reading said .epub files, and other ebook formats. Good for sorting your books.
Sci-Hub: Research papers, academic books, pdfs, ect. Helpful for collage students.
IT ebook: eBooks about learning programming languages.
audiobookbay: Audiobook downloads.
Booksonic: Audiobook streaming.
5e.tools: Dnd player’s manual, guide, ect.
Books on learning various languages.
Mangadex: Manga, Doujinshi.
Headspace sleep audio.
Various books and manuals.
Streaming:
ustvgo: Free streaming of live tv, has most US cable tv channels.
tutturu: Spiritual successor to Rabbit, allows you to stream your screen with friends.
Yes movies: Movies
Kimcartoon: Cartoons/animated movies
aniwatcher: Anime
animedao: Anime
Computer software:
getintopc: Wide selection of pc (mostly windows) software of all sorts, and different versions. Can personally vouch for the site, I’ve gotten Photoshop, Maya, and Sony Vegas from here over the years.
Other:
the eye: An archive of old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect. Cons: No search function and slightly hard to navigate.
1337x.to: Torrent site for movies, shows, games, comics, ect.
ThePirateBay: The classic.
Recorded broadway musicals. Verying quality.
Finally someone actually posted links instead of just bitching or saying “it’s easy”
Ok just want to plug the eye a bit more considering I lost a few hours in their yesterday.
the eye has been up since 2017 and in the last four years have accumulated 140TB of data (according to their own reports). Part of their growth is just their own work, part of it is absorbing other archives/open directories that were having issues: I know rpg.rem.uz used to be its own archive - gave way to The Trove, which is having its own issues right now unfortunately… - but now most-all of their content can also just be found on the eye. Same with a few dozen other archives.
And they have ‘old roms, OS systems, roms (non nintendo), comics, books, ect, ect’, but massively more than you might think just based off how this sounds. Like…
They have it all.
If you want to try and homebrew alcohol, go check their stuff. If you want to try and read books that are out of print or otherwise in public domain (and some that aren’t yet in public domain), go check their stuff. If you want to run a campaign and can’t pay for expensive print tabletop books, go check their stuff. If you want to fuck off into the woods to live off the land (or research how that would work for a writing project), go check their stuff. If you’re trying to learn shit about drugs - any drugs, almost - go check their stuff.
Hell, if you want to go read what looks like literally every research paper on coronaviruses from 1968 up to Feb 2020, you can do that too!
As chickenmcnuggies said its a mess and a half to navigate through their collections, partially with how large it is and the fact quite a few folders were once whole other archives since absorbed by the eye…
But goddamn you can lose an afternoon just going through all the stuff they have.
The subreddit r/freemediaheckyeah is a great resource and their index: https://fmhy.net/ has A LOT of stuff with a pretty straightforward UI. Its got free resources for pretty much anything you could want on the internet, both fully legal and dubiously legal.
The largest collection of free stuff on the internet!
Guys, my sibling tried to convince me you can round in English. For example, acronyms like lol are rounded.
NO
You abbreviate in English
Round in Math
And approximate or estimate in Science
I will not be taking questions at this time.
panp
An evil creature. Look at him plotting.
Ok, but like, what if there was an AU where Stan died when Ford shot him with the memory gun. Maybe deleting his entire mind caused fatal brain damage and he died. But he still doesn't remember anything. His spirit has no memory of who he is or about anything. So the Axolotl picked him up, a brave and lost soul, and made him the spirit guardian of Gravity Falls, making sure he keeps evil away from the town. For some reason he's very attached to that cabin just outside of the small town and the people and the kids who regularly go there, especially to the old man who looks almost exactly like him, save from the extra fingers.
Maybe the Mystery Shack still runs under Soos' care, because that's something Stan worked for his whole life. Closing it and basically ruining everything Stan worked for for 30 years... Didn't sit right with anyone. Maybe Ford goes on boat sailing alone, on the Stan o' War II, as a way of honoring Stan and their equally dead dream to sail the world together. That's why everything happened in the first place, didn't it? The kids when they go back home have to explain to their family, to their parents and grandpa Shermie, that "Grunkle Stan had a stroke and died" (this came out funnier than intended).
Maybe next summer happens. To spend time together and create happy memories. Because that's what Stan would want. They all go to visit Stan's grave, and Stan stares at them. Because he knows them, he knows he knows them, but he can't remember how or when.
Anyway, @babyblankyerror I think you'll like it. :)
Oh no now youve got me started. You know what’s WORSE?
If Ford doesn't leave to sail around the world alone. If, when Dipper and Mabel go back to California, dead eyed and changed, in a way children aren't usually, they're parents ask them "How was your Great Uncle Stanford?"
And they kids say he was fine. They had fun. They'd like to do it again next summer.
Because Stanley is dead. Has been dead for thirty years.
They buried a dead man. A twice dead man. That summer, all they did was finally put to rest the body whose name is carved on that gravestone, in that sequestered, forgotten cemetery.
Because it was Stanley who is dead. Stanford has been living in Gravity Falls for years now, right?
The townfolk are a little confused, when Stan retires abruptly from the Mystery Shack business. The Shack is still running, but now it's Soos who dons the suit, and an old, beat up fez.
They don't see Stan all that often anymore.
And Ford? Didn't he get everything he wanted? His house back, his name back? He's back in his home dimension, Bill has been defeated, the kids are safe, is this not everything he wanted?
Or does he want more? Did he realize, just for a moment, that he could have had a brother.
Stanford Pines sits on the couch on his own back porch and stares at the memory gun in his hands. It doesn't work anymore, he's made sure of it, but still he holds it. He wonders, in those last few moments when Ford was a twin, instead of just a man, he wonders if his brother ever saw him raise the gun at all.
He wonders, as he spins the vial that contains the memories of a life erased in his six fingers.
Ford having Stan's memory vial is actually genius, pure potent angst potential in a single bottle, he can look at anything and everything about Stan's life. Maybe at first he doesnt out of respect for his brother, but that man is a curious motherfucker so ofc he watches it anyway He has fun watching the niblings' summer antics through his eyes, and the sleepless nights he spent working on the portal trying to get him back. He learns about the brutal time he spent on the street, starving, cold, and stripped of all his dignity, all the shit he had to go through just to survive another day. And then he finally sees the truth of the Science fair incident himself. Suddenly, his life after that moment seemed so pointless. He spent his years trying to make history, cementing his existence beyond his six-finger defect, when he already had unconditional love at the palm of his hands, and he took it for granted, threw it away and smashed it to bits.
Oh man. What i am about to type is completely your fault. Get ready.
It takes Ford a long time to look through Stan's memories.
It's after the world has been torn apart, reshaped, and tied back together with a piece missing. It's after the summer, the funeral-this time with a couple more people in attendance, and two less- the kids have gone home, loaded back onto the bus with emptier eyes and shoulders dragged further to the earth. It's a solemn couple of months, but Ford does what he's always done.
The portal has prepared him for this. He keeps going.
He doesn't ask himself what he keeps going for.
It takes a long time for him to decide to watch Stan's memories. At first, the idea itself disgusts him. The invasion of privacy, but worse, the lingering sense that he doesn't deserve to know.
He never asked. He had days, weeks between the time when he was back, and when the sky tore itself apart, weeks to actually ask. But he didn't. And now all Ford has left is a glass vial, smooth and cool under his fingers, uncomforting and distant as his brother was.
Ford slots the vial into the machine, and sits.
He's invited no one else to watch these with him. He feels bad about that fact for a moment, until the video actually starts playing.
The memories are in reverse, and the first thing Ford sees, the last thing Stan ever saw, was Bill.
Cackling, grinning, and moving towards him and even in the memory Ford can hear the alarmed, scared noise his brother made.
Ford shuts the video off there, 10 seconds in, and has to go outside to breathe again.
He gets through it. He keeps going, like he was prepared to.
The last memories of Stan fly by. The machine doesn't seem to capture everything, sometimes the video stops and stutters and jumps like an old VCR because there's simply too many memories crammed into that little vial. There's a life in there, and its never how the gun was supposed to be used.
Mcgucket had dozens of vials. Labeled and dated (ever the scientist, even out of his mind he would label things) but for Stanley, there is only one.
There's no need to label it. Ford would never set it down.
The memories jump, cut around like a stuttering movie. The end of the world is a clear progression, the memory itself sharp and crystal, but as the memories go backwards, everything gets fuzzier.
Ford sees the children during the summer, and every once in a while he sees himself, and isn't that a strange feeling? To see his own silhouette, to see the shape of his out face, the scowl that was clear as day everytime he looked at his brother.
One of the memories jumped over is that of his actual return. He knows it happened, at some point, but suddenly the memories show the kids coming off the bus for the first time and Ford realizes that he didn't notice. He doesn't know exactly, from this jump cut, when it was that he returned.
These memories, from before the children came for the summer, before Ford returned, feel invasive, but still Ford watches.
These memories are faster, the jumps in between longer, and it gets Ford that he'll never actually know everything. He will watch what he can, but he'll never get the full picture of Stan's life, because he wasn't in it.
Ford sees thirty years blink by in less than an hour.
At some point in the rewind, the quality of the video takes the sharpest decrease yet. When no amount of toying with the screen, or the vial works, Ford is forced to simply watch through the memories the way they are, fuzzy and a little blurrier than is tolerable.
It takes Ford an embarrassingly long time to realize that the memories have gotten fuzzier not because of distortion of the vial or screen, but because at this point, Stanley didn't have glasses.
He didn't have glasses. He couldn't see all that well.
Ford doesn't take a break, determined to see the whole thing through, but his voice does fill with saliva like he's going to throw up, the realization heavy and rotting in his gut.
The rest of the memories are blurry, but still Ford watches them.
There is a jumble of quick, fleeting stuttering glances of memories. They are too fast to see individually, unless one pauses the tape, which Ford does.
They are Stan at 31, 30, younger and simultaneously older than Ford ever got to see, an age after the portal, not long after.
These memories are of sleepless nights. Cold stone and cement of the basement, the portal, looming and terrifying and broken, as as the time reverses, as the tapes play, Ford wishes he could pull his brother back upstairs, board up the lab completely, because this, this is desperation.
It's hard to watch. All of it is, but the moments where Stan is plagued by infection, then fever, and then, finally, Ford knows what it was that caused it. The brand.
He has to swallow back bile. He'd forgotten about it.
He watches still. The thirty years blink by in less than an hour, and soon the memories flutter back to something Ford remembers.
In contrast, despite the fuzzy screen, this memory is clear.
That day Stan had arrived in Gravity Falls. The day Ford fell into the portal.
Without his input, Ford stands a little closer to the screen.
Watching the moment again, seeing himself when he opened that door, scares him. He doesn't look like himself-didn't. With a crossbow and a manic look, Ford doesn't remember the things he even said.
Stanley does, and Ford sits back on his haunches stunned and silent, as he hears the words spit out of his own mouth thirty years ago.
The words are clear, even if his own face in these memories is blurry. Stan really couldn't see all that well.
For a moment, Ford wishes, desperately, that this time, Stan will take the journal and leave. Get back into his car and go, far away, back to wherever it was that he was staying before Ford called him and live, get away from the dangers Ford brought to him.
But Stan doesn't, and they fight, and the scream that Stan lets out as he gets branded is a reminder Ford doesn't need, doesn't want. But its one he deserves.
Ford is lifted up, into the portal, screaming and terrified, and the light goes out.
Its so dark that for a moment, Ford is gripped by fear, terrified that the memories have stopped completely, that the memory gun has recorded no more.
There is a flutter, and the memories roll on.
This time they are faster, and each one flits by shorter and shorter. They are the years before, when Ford was getting his degrees and excited for new discoveries.
Ford reaches to pause the tape, so he can get a glimpse of whatever is happening, before there is a loud Crack from the screen. It's within a memory.
Someone has just broken Stanley's kneecap.
It's a memory from the ten years, and someone has just broken Stanley's kneecap. With a crowbar, it looks like.
Horror is not the right word to describe the emotion that hits Ford like a sledgehammer. Horror is not right. This is terror, plain and simple, and sickness.
The memories flick by. This time, what is clear, what is preserved by this vial, is pain. Fights, injuries, times when the word "fight" doesn't apply, because all that actually happened was Stan being attacked. Drugs and alcohol flicker across the screen, gambling, winning money and losing it, good deals morphing into bad ones-and isn't that familiar, except Stanley didn't have a brother to save him from his bad mistakes- sleeping on motel beds, sleeping in his car, Stan, sleeping curled up on a freezing sidewalk, back to the car again. Years, a decade of this, flickers by in a moment and Ford cannot move.
It ends, finally, with a door. A familiar one, shut in Stanley's face, and Ford knows this door, grew up opening it, because it was never closed to him, not like this.
Ford pauses the memories.
He is shaky, when he stands.
It's been hours since he started watching, but he knows, without a doubt, that he will not be able to sleep without finishing all of the memories, even so.
Ford walks into the mystery shack, and lets his eyes rest on meaningless, meaningful trinkets and bobbles and little things that Stan had. Ford makes himself travel, like a ghost, through the house that Stan truly made, and remind himself that in the end, Stan made it to a place where he was, at the very least, safe.
Ford doesn't go into Stan's bedroom. The room feels sacred, and small, and Ford simply stares at the bed, crumpled blankets and orthopedic back pillow and all, and tries to remind himself that, at least for some time, Stan slept in a place that was warm.
It isn't much comfort, but Ford clings to it anyway.
He walks back to the memories like a zombie, sits in front of the screen, and presses play.
He watches Stanley get kicked out again.
He watches his father lift him by his shirt, yelling and shaking and blurry, and watches Stan get thrown backwards onto hard cement.
He flinches when he sees his own face. Tear streaked and forlorn and angry, as he shuts the curtains.
The person-the child, they were both children, didn't know what Stan was going to do. Going to live through, but even still Ford can't stand to see his own face.
The memories roll back.
The science fair.
Ford would be lying, to himself most of all, if he said that part of him was not still hurt by what happened at the science fair.
He remembers it himself, the pride turned to humiliation, the hurt spiraling into rage. There are lots of things he would change, even more added on with knowledge of what was to come, but even still, the science fair hurts. Continues to linger. A betrayal.
As he watches Stan, young and naive and a child, still a child, hit the table, and then frantically try to put it all back together again, Ford stops.
He has to lunge, quickly and savagely like an animal, to reach a trash can in time.
He doesn't vomit, because he's eaten nothing but nutrient pills for months now, but he does dry heave into the can, sick and with his insides rolling.
It was an accident.
Ford watches from where he fell, as the memories continue to roll, the terrified mumbling Stan makes as he frantically shambles the project back together, terrified and guilty. He watches Stan plug everything back, and then has to heave again when everything works, when the machine moves again and Stan lets out a small, punched out breath of relief.
Stan leaves the autotorium, and the perpetual motion machine swings and rotates and does all the things it was supposed to.
It's hear, kneeling over his trash can and weak limbed, that Ford starts to cry.
Tears bubble up uncontrollably, loud sobbing and still, again the dry heaving until Ford is a horrible mess on the ground.
It was an accident, it wasn't a betrayal.
He had believed, rationalized, that Stan had broken the machine on purpose, covered it up, and allowed him to go to the science fair unaware, let him be humiliated, all in-what? Revenge for being better? To keep him in New Jersey with him?
It all didn't make sense. Never, made sense, if Ford had ever truly thought about it.
But he believed, Sweet Moses he had believed, for years, for his entire life, that Stanley had done it all on purpose. That Stanley had a moment of hatred for him, for what he was becoming, and that, although he regretted it later, Stan had truly broken Ford's project on purpose, aware of every consequence.
That's not what happened.
It was an accident. And suddenly, it makes sense. The guilty nature, the frantic, pleading eyes weren't a disguise, weren't a ruse, that wasn't a lie. Stan wasn't trying to weasel his way out of punishment, he had genuinely believed that the machine was working, and it was.
The machine was working when he left it.
Another wave of rotting despair rolls through Ford.
It'd been an accident. Stanley had never done it on purpose. He'd made a mistake, a bad one, and he should have told Ford, should have, but it was never a purposeful thing. He tried, Stan tried, and its like the wedge that was forced, that Ford had forced to rationalize why his brother would do such a thing has been completely burned away.
His brother had always tried. Even in the time that Ford had thought was an exception, Stanley's true nature shining through, that had been an accident.
Ford looks up, slowly, at the tape of memories still rolling.
The light is bright, and warm, and while it's fuzzy, and from a distance, he can still make out the quiet, soft memory that's playing.
It's the two of them, on the Stan O War. Young and smiling and together, laughing and playing without a care in the world.
The sun is shining in that memory, and Ford can hear himself, the youngest version of himself, shouting back. Come on Stanley! He says. And Stan follows.
The reel of videos ends there. The vial shown all that it has to show, the memories spoken bare out into the silence of the room. The screen goes dark, a life lived in reverse.
And Ford sobs.

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