rest stops on highways

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

the lighting section of home depot

A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.

The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease. 

I didn't realize that first video was just a first look 😭 HOLY SHIT, we got so many Easter eggs—WE EVEN HAVE HIM DANCING! Fresh Zemo content in the year of our Lord 2026 was not on my bingo card, but Christ, is it keeping me alive. Thank you for the fan service, Magic Cards!

They’re all accomplished players and yet they flock to him. No matter what they say all of them would kill and die for him if he so much as batted his eyes at them. No one is allowed to speak ill of him or even look at him wrong because otherwise they’ll experience hell on earth.