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2026-06-03
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2026-06-21
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Animator Intervention

Summary:

On 2011-10-21, Newgrounds.com started glitching, missing assets, broken layouts. Until the entire website kicked the bucket.

A few months later, a subreddit named "r/ripnewgrounds" was formed, with previous Newgrounds users either sharing their investigations, or believing that the site was gone for good.

On April 2023, after the Internet already moved on from the mystery, a post was made on the silent subreddit by a user named "programmer021", with a link that will change everything.

Or: An AU where Outernet was discovered by online users during season 3, will be focusing on events past AVA 13 when we get there. Mostly centered around Mitsi's animator Grace.

Notes:

I think I had this idea for a while, if Yellow can bring Alan's cursor into Outernet, how about bringing an army of them? And after AVA 13, what if TDL gets clobbered by 30+ cursors like some sort of MMORPG server boss?

Also there's zero Grace centric fic so I'm taking the opportunity.

small notes:
1.Smith in this fic refers to shepherd's animator (SmithFamily), not Agent.
2.I did not plan out anything for this fic so it's mostly gonna be me throwing ideas at the wall and see what sticks.

Chapter 1: File (Not) Found

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//𝚃𝚆𝙸𝚃𝚃𝙴𝚁.𝙲𝙾𝙼//

Gracie~ (COMMS CLOSED)
@gracieanimates

guys, i rly gotta share this with u all.

so remember that first animation i made featuring Mitsi? the one that's essentially lost media?

i may have found the animation file (don't ask how) but...

[MEDIA: Mitsi.mp4]

(The video shows the pink "Mitsi" title over the simple landscape background, but after the title disappeared, nothing happens for the rest of the video.)

MITSI, MITSI MY BLORBO WHERE ARE U???

i swear im not making this up, i even redownloaded adobe animate to look at the fla and she's not there!!!

anyways more doodles coming soon because this is eating my brain /hj

1:14 PM • 27 Apr 2023

SheepishSchmitch @smithlikesheep • Apr 27 Replying to @gracieanimates

Gracie finding her decade old flash project while I can't even find my pencil eraser I bought 2 days ago

btw are you sure it's the file for finished project though? not the backup with just background?

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Gracie~ (COMMS CLOSED) @gracieanimates • Apr 27 Replying to @smithlikesheep

idk about that but iirc i added the title halfway through animating so flash is haunted 👻👻👻

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SheepishSchmitch @smithlikesheep • Apr 27 Replying to @gracieanimates

flash with a suspiciously Mitsi shaped throat fr

Row Gravity @rowgravity • Apr 27 Replying to @gracieanimates

maybe the real mitsi got voided with newgrounds and the one we're seeing now was her secret twin sister we never knew about🤔

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SheepishSchmitch @smithlikesheep • Apr 27 Replying to @rowgravity

the lore is expanding

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Row Gravity @rowgravity • Apr 27 Replying to @smithlikesheep

i mean imagine every character was alive or some sort

and when newgrounds died they died too

fun right? :)))

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SheepishSchmitch @smithlikesheep • Apr 27 Replying to @rowgravity

Yikes

Alex @alexcrafter28 • Apr 27 Replying to @gracieanimates

who knows, she could be chewing gum and kicking butt in minecraft bedwars rn

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Sprray @ctrlaltspray • Apr 27 Replying to @alexcrafter28

she will

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Gracie~ (COMMS CLOSED) @gracieanimates • Apr 27 Replying to @alexcrafter28 and @ctrlaltspray

she will

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Alex @alexcrafter28 • Apr 27 Replying to @gracieanimates

...im being serious