#fragmented futures

[nordictwin]

A list of my IWATEX AUs and fanfics.

Since a lot of people have found me through IWATEX, I figured I should probably make an actual list of my AUs and fanfiction, just to have them all in one place.

Fragmented Futures - aka. the Everyone Knows AU

Probably the one most of you are here for, since it's the one I've posted about the most, but written the least for in terms of actual fic. An AU in which all of the Stratos-Helios kids suddenly become aware, that they're stuck in a timeloop... all except Sol. Or so the others think.

A story full of kids being friends, learning new stuff about themselves, and a generous dash of eldritch shenanigans.

Currently in the works for this AU: an as of yet "non-canon" vent-fic, in which I subject Sol to something a little more realistic than my usual treatment of them. Not sure if it'll be incorporated into the fic proper, but as of this point in writing, it's just meant to be a little side-thing set in the same universe.

The Tragedy of the Exocolony on Vertumna IV

The AU/fanfiction that has me in a chokehold at the moment, TOTEOV is an eldritch horror story that takes all my love for Sym and the Overseer, flips it upside-down, and turns it into a toxic mess of good intentions gone horrifically wrong. Oh, and Rex and Vace are forced to work together.

A story that draws heavily on the tropes of children stolen away by the supernatural, such as The Pied Piper of Hamelin and other fae tales.

Heed the tags. Seriously.

The Solution AU

An AU I've never really mentioned here except once, nor written a single word for. Ironically, this is actually the origin AU of TOTEOV.

The basic premise is that Sol, after many trips around the loop, decides to look for a permanent solution. They eventually decide that the best way to do so, is for them to become a Gardener from the very beginning and create an entirely new timeline from scratch. In collaboration with the Overseer, they turn the clock back to just before the Verma's departure and get implanted in the system as a seed to sprout in the future.

The issue is that this means Solanaceae won't ever have existed amongst the humans. And they're fine with paying this price, if it means a more harmonious future overall.

So aboard the Stratospheric, when that time comes, there is no child born to Flulu and Geranium, no cheerful Sol amongst the kids. Instead, when Besk dies, the twins are adopted by the cultivators and grow up... not quite the same as in the original timeline, but also not too different from how we know them.

And on Vertumna, Sol welcomes humanity to guide their gradual integration into the ecosystem. Looking from afar, forgotten by everyone they love except the Gardeners.

......except this is one of my AUs, so of course nothing is as it seems, and Sol will re-learn just how strong the power of love is.

The Person You'll Grow to Be - completed, canon-compliant fanfic.

My first fanfic for this fandom. Aka the Flulu Loves Her Kid So Much fic.

A story going from Flulu learning of her pregnancy all the way to her death during the famine. An tale of her love for Sol and how she felt about a lot of things.

#nordictwin fanfiction #i was a teenage exocolonist #iwatex #exocolonist #the tragedy of the exocolony on vertumna iv #everyone knows au #fragmented futures

[argetcross]

No one tells you this about writing a long fic, but you spend SO MUCH TIME getting distracted reading your own fic.

#arget rambles #it's terrible because i have like 50 disconnected fragments that take place in the future #and i read them and then i'm reading all of them and two hours pass

[the-habitat-sysblog]

it's quite frustrating when you work up the courage to tell someone you have DID, but they hit you with "well, *i've* never noticed you switch" or "to me you're always the same person".

i think those statements are so misinformed to how DID (most often) presents. there are some things to note when observing DID from the outside:

not all cases of DID are overt. overt refers to your symptoms, switches & differences between alters being obvious to people from the outside. overt DID is less common than its counterpart *covert* (more secretive) DID. in covert DID, symptoms may be less noticeable from the outside, & that may lead to difficulty being diagnosed.

masking. masking is the ability some people possess to pretend to be someone/something that they are not. in DID, alters who are not the host part may mask as the host part to feel safe, undetectable, or simply out of instinct. before discovery of the system, this may be a subconscious effort; after discovery of the system, this may be purposeful in order to hide alter differences from others, for any reason.

complexity of identity. let us imagine that the host in a system is an ambivert - not quite introverted, & not quite extroverted. this host switches out, in front of their friend group, & a social part or other extroverted & friendly alter takes their place. their friends assume that they are just in a "friendlier mood", while in reality this person has switched. meanwhile this alter has a completely different set of interests, identity, & such, but since it is not brought up in conversation, the friend group does not suspect their friend has switched between separated self-states. identity is complex, & alters are (often, not always) able to feel & express a large range of emotions, depending in their mood. this can make it harder to tell the difference between an alter being in a strange mood, & a whole new part fronting!

so, next time you meet someone with DID, believe them. not all of our experiences are visible! edit: "DID" here can also be replaced with OSDD1, P-DID or UDD, but i just used DID because that's my specific experience.

#i also have a fourth point about high fragment counts + multiple people fronting but i'm out of energy #this has been bothering me recently! #i'll be making more posts about DID etiquette in the future #much love to those with overt DID as well! #it has its own challenges & stigmas #but i can't speak on that experience myself #blurry❔.txt #; #💬 #[ #did #polyfrag did #did system #traumagenic system #actually traumagenic #cdd #sysblr #system #cdd community #system stuff #endos dni #did etiquette #]

[tanadrin]

i would enjoy the civ series a lot more if it didn't have, like, a paper-thin pseudo-historical skin on it. i guess i'm no fun, but george washington fighting the aztecs doesn't feel like a game about history. it feels like weird nonsense mad libs.

the crazy thing is that SMAC showed a reskin of the basic civ concept was a terrific delivery mechanism for lore and a fun new setting. not just far-future science fiction either. you could do something with fantasy like Lords of Magic, or a postapocalyptic setting, or a more focused historical setting. but the cartoony theme park version of world history just doesn't engage me in the same way.

i think this is also why i find the civ scenarios a lot of fun. they're much more focused and structured in terms of narrative. they scratch that 4X gameplay itch without ripping all the signifiers from their historical context in a way that leaves them meaningless and empty.

#this is a strength of stellaris too #a far future science fiction setting that is free to create its own narrative #instead of remixing fragments of other narratives

[arcanespillo]

The sheep or the horse, numb as the moon, need God to be sung unto them. The dog needs it too. He is sick of dead bodies.

The Saints Come Marching In, Anne Sexton\Dream a Little Dream of Me script\How to Be a Dog, Andrew Kane\Angel of Hope and Calendars, Anne Sexton

#small dog motif thingy #i realized i didnt have enough stuff to put here #i will be making another one in the future for sure #also i didnt want to put the usual things yes im talking about that saint bernard song #dean winchester #dog motif #webweaving #supernatural #brute poems #dream a little dream of me #spn scripts #how to be a dog #andrew kane #angel of hope and calendars #anne sexton #poem #poetry #fragments #jensen ackles #parallels #comparatives #the saints come marching in

[front-facing-pokemon]

#nosepass #never been a huge fan of this guy but y'know. iiii've never seen anyone who is. i don'tknow if it's this one or probopass that has the like #compass functionality where they're always facing north for some reason. but i think this thing is like a fucking steel-type which is insane #ok. i was like. wrong about all of that. this one is a ROCK-type #and it is also the one that always faces north. probopass must be where it gains a steel-typing (and i think that's also a retrofit evo?) #(in liiike gen 4?) i dunno y'all pokémon is so fragmented #i looked it up and it said something about people of hisui figuring out that it always faces north and i'm wondering if that wasn't canon #until. legends arceus. but i don't think that's true?? if it actually wasn't until like gen 9 and i remember it as a long-standing fact then #that's. a little bit funny. lemme look up its older pokédex entries #ok no cool we've been saying that since gen 3 awesome. hi it's me from not the future but actually the present. i just edited shiftry's tags #to cut out a lot of the bullshit cleanup that i had in these tags. wow! see you in natdex 300 #↑ this is a reference to the uh. tags that i cut out. a reference only i will get………

[arthdoesart]

Posting my old SUF art here from IG 💎🌸

#steven universe #steven universe future #jasper #su fanart #fragments #su jasper #pink steven #pink diamond #my fanart #remember being proud of this one

[ceephorsshitshow]

Spicy take I just realized while drawing my comic:

He covered it in breaking points

#steven universe #su spoilers #spoilers #fragments #steven universe future #this show still finds ways to sucker punch me at random years after the fact

[artsycooky13]

Can I just say that your adult Steven design is one of the best interpretations I've ever seen of him as an adult and he makes me go shajwhekskeuehsndndkdkejejsj

thank you kindly! I love the big ol boy too!

#hes like fragments steven but without the murder :D #pony tail for extra points #steven universe #my art #steven universe future

[nordictwin]

Fragmented Futures - an Everyone Knows AU fic.

Well, here we go. The prologue to the Everyone Knows AU is up! Please enjoy Fragmented Futures - New Game.

I say it in the notes on AO3, but when I first posted about this idea, I seriously had no idea it'd be as welcomed as it is. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, to all of you IWATEX fans who keep finding and sharing the AU - it means the world to me!

Full transparency, I don't know when or if a new part will be up. I have other things I want to work on + a rather hectic life in the background, but this was fun to work on.

(I also did not expect the slight hint of eldritch!Sol at the end. This is supposed to be half-comedy, damn it, but I do love a little cosmic horror.)

I hope you all like it 😊

#nordictwin fanfiction #i was a teenage exocolonist #iwatex #everyone knows au #exocolonist #fragmented futures

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: March 20…

After crashing Greg’s van at the end of the previous episode, rather than accepting help from Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst, Steven decides to head off into the woods to get help from a certain someone on how to maintain his powers. “Fragments” premiered on this day, 3 Years Ago.

#Day in Fandom History #3 Years Ago #Steven Universe #Steven Universe Future #Episode 16 #Fragments #Cartoon #Animation

[dan9a-00]

I need more posts about how similar kim dokja and aventurine are oughhh I'm gonna explodeeeee

#Aventurine is also a kdj fragment #I need some fucked up crossover fanfic where they interact #They'll probably try to kill eachother lol #Just like kdj with knw and aventurine with his future self #Just what is wrong with my type of men #Ratio is also like yjh now that i think about it #They're both stoic and act serious but on the inside they're caring freaks #Wait there's also topaz and hsy #I have nothing to say but they give off the same vibe #Conclusion is that both aventurine and kdj make me mentally ill #Thank you #Aventurine #hsr aventurine #Hsr #Honkai star rail #Kim dokja #Orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint

[sfsolstice]

exurb1a, from "Mum" in Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too

#lit #literature #typo #typography #fragments #light academia #dark academia #oops typo! #exburb1a #poetry #poem #quotes #aesthetic #this part of the poem set in me the deepest need to record my parents' stories #bc me being me and having adhd #it's difficult for me to remember anything at all if i don't write it down or record it #i don't want to forget my parents #besides what else am i supposed to tell future generations about them? #all the bad stuff that happened between us? #i refuse simply because there has been so much good too #240304

[scatterbrainedbot]

hey so uh question for u guys. hypothetically, if approached by the dying soul of ur future self, are u morally obligated to give up part of yours to save him? ......guys pls respond hes coming closer

(inspired of course by peepaw leos current situation in @/somerandomdudelmao 's cass apocalypse series)

#my art #cass apocalypse series #rottmnt #rise leo #future leo #real happy w the coloring on this one! #idk just #thinking bout how future leos soul keeps trying to leave #because hes scared and lost and confused of course #but what if he got away (hed die probably before he got anywhere near the old lair BUT) #just thinking about fragmented things seeking out something familiar #and if present leo would recognize him #for what he is #and the choice between helping someone and healing yourself #how strange the question becomes when its a version of you on both sides of it #hm

[satoshi-mochida]

Some indie game recommendations from ones I’ve played or know enough about them to suggest them to others(mostly in no particular order), Part 5.

Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9

Chained Echoes

Stray

A Short Hike

Unpacking

SUPERHOT

Dead Cells

House Flipper

Sifu

CrossCode

Advent Crossroad

Spooky’s Jumpscare Mansion

SEASON: A letter to the future

Coffee Talk

Heart Fragment

Donut County

World of Horror

Freedom Planet

OFF

Aragami

Cuphead

Evil Tonight

Vigil: The Longest Night

Find Love or Die Trying

Potionomics

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure

Rise of the Third Power

Dark Nights

False Skies

ASTLIBRA Revision

Rain World

Queen Beast(despite how it’s listed on Steam, it doesn’t seem to be that type of VN, according to it’s VNDB page’s contents)

LiEat

Noel the Mortal Fate

Katana Zero

Jenny LeClue - Detectivu

Mythic Ocean

Vengeful Heart

#Indie Games #long post #Chained Echoes #Stray Game #A Short Hike #Unpacking Game #Super Hot #Dead Cells #House Flipper #Sifu #CrossCode #Advent Crossroad #Spooky’s Jump Scare Mansion #Season: A Letter to the Future #Coffee Talk #Heart Fragment #Donut County #WORLD OF HORROR #Freedom Planet #OFF Game #Aragami #Cuphead #Evil Tonight #Vigil: The Longest Night #Find Love or Die Trying #Potionomics #Alba: a Wildlife Adventure #Rise of the Third Power #Dark Nights #False Skies

[fictionadventurer]

Rewatching The Muppet Christmas Carol after rereading the book has me wishing we could have seen Michael Caine play Scrooge in a more detailed and book-accurate version of the story. He's got the perfect face and demeanor for Scrooge as Dickens wrote him. There's a fierceness on the surface, and an underlying good nature that's just waiting to be let out. You can believe he was the young clerk who delighted in a good Christmas party, and believe that he's become the cold, hard, grasping miser who won't even spend money to give himself a good fire, and whose humor comes out in cruel witticisms. He would totally be the Scrooge who gets caught up in the the childish delight of watching past Christmas parties and playing along with the games at the present one.

Unfortunately, the condensed story takes the angle of "Scrooge has never liked Christmas". It makes young Scrooge someone who's worrying over what his employer spends to throw a Christmas party (rather than delighting in a simple affair that only costs a few pounds). Caine's Scrooge shows moments of childish delight, but he doesn't really understand the spirit of Christmas until the very end of his time with the Ghost of Christmas Present. And it's fine. Turning a Victorian book into a ninety-minute Muppet musical for children is going to involve significant changes. Caine did excellently with the material he had. I just wish he'd had the chance to do more.

#a christmas carol #the muppet christmas carol #it seems like there's a mystique that's built up around this movie on tumblr #pitching it as a shockingly book-accurate version (plus muppets) #when it's really not (even if we leave aside the muppet parts) #there are fragments of direct prose quotes #but usually amid other sentences that have been heavily altered #a lot of events are altered or condensed #the most direct book stuff comes in the future christmas segments #scrooge clutching at the spirit's robes turning into scrooge clutching his own bed clothes was perfection #and again it's fine #it's a fun muppet christmas movie that does get a lot right #(they even leave in some of the religious references!) #but caine would be so good at book scrooge that i wish we could have had more of it