#troped TIMELOOP

[probably-voldemort]

whiskey in a teacup

a clarke x murphy fic - rated T

Murphy was going to die. Any day now it was going to happen. He hadn't really come to terms with dying in a creepy lighthouse basement. He's always thought he'd have a more exciting death. But he had an unlimited amount of whiskey and a stomach that hadn't tasted even a crumb in days, so it wasn't like he was really sober enough to put too much thought into how he was going to die.

And then he starts hallucinating Clarke, who is convinced she's the one hallucinating him, and suddenly dying drunk in a lighthouse bunker isn't as boring a way to go as it had once seemed.

Written for Round 1 of @troped-fanfic-challenge's Troped Timeloop event! Shoutout to @thelittlefanpire and @dylanobrienisbatman for hosting! Always a super fun time!

[link in reblog]

#the 100 fanfiction #the 100 fanfic #the 100 fic #clurphy #clarke griffin #john murphy #clarke x murphy #troped #troped timeloop

[troped-fanfic-challenge]

TROPED TIMELOOP

Welcome to TROPED TIMELOOP, a special TROPED Multifandom Fanfiction Challenge!!! This will be a traditional four-round, but with a timeloop-y twist! Every round will have a theme and four tropes, but with the added requirement that you must include the Time Loop Trope! Let’s see if you’re up to the challenge and join us for this special event!

How It Works:

This is a Multi-Fandom Event & No Sign-Ups are Required! If you would like to participate, we’d love to have you! Just take a look at our prompts when they are released right here on the TROPED tumblr, and get to writing! You will submit your fics to an AO3 Collection that is linked in our reblog!

The Writing Periods will be on a rolling basis, with new TIMELOOP prompts dropping between the Summer Solstice and Autumn Equinox! If you are inspired for a round later in the event, you can still submit a fic to be included! We will simply drop the next prompt, but nothing will officially close or end until the end of the full Writing Period, on September 23rd! Fics will be accepted into the official collection for the entirety of the event! **You will write four or more (4+) separate fanfics inspired by each round, but you do not have to participate in each and every round.**

Read and Review! Once you’ve submitted your own fic, take a look at the others in the competition! Please try to read as many as you can! Take some notes, and leave some kudos/comments for the authors! This is not a requirement for participation, but it is highly encouraged and helps make TROPED build a strong community!

Voting! For this challenge, we have decided to host a more objective voting-style for you. We will have the Longest Fic, the Shortest Fic, the Most Timeloops, and other Objective ‘Challenge’ Winners for each round and for the event overall.

TIMELINE:

Writing Period Dates: June 21st - September 23rd!

Round One Prompt Released: Wednesday, June 21st at 12:00am

Round Two Prompt Released: Saturday, July 15th at 12:00am

Round Three Prompt Released: Tuesday, August 8th at 12:00am

Round Four Prompt Released: Thursday, August 31st at 12:00am

End of TIMELOOP Writing Period: SATURDAY, September 23rd at 11:59PM PST / SUNDAY, September 24th at 2:59AM EST

Winners Announced: September 24th!

*All times are in Eastern Standard Time (EST) unless otherwise specified!

Rules:

If you are a veteran to our TROPED Challenges, the rules below are mostly the same as before, but any newbies joining the fun should definitely take a look below!

This competition was created to get creative and put out different fics into the world, and to create a fun, positive fandom experience for everyone! In order to ensure that we achieve that goal of a positive experience, here are a few rules and guidelines that must be followed! The requirements for the fics entered into the competition will be:

Must include Characters from your specific chosen Fandom

Must fit the Theme of each round! While this event is all about the time loop trope, each round will have a clear cut theme for you to use in your fics!

Must use ALL of the tropes selected for each round! We have selected four tropes to go with the time loop trope. Explanations for these tropes will be released in a Google Doc for you. Don’t forget: Part of the fun of TROPED is taking the prompts and turning them on their head! Our definitions are baselines for what the trope or theme MUST include, but it’s just a starting point! If you have an idea for a trope or theme, and you aren’t sure if it fits, please message us!

There is NO Word Count Requirement. You may write as much or as little as you like as long as you incorporate the prompts, including the time loop trope!

All ratings G through E are welcome! Please be aware that some fics may not be everyone’s thing! Write what you like, but the challenge is public so just keep that in mind! Since we are requiring Smut in one of the rounds, please be sure to follow the TROPED rules that pertain to romantic/sexual relationships in your fic. (No rape. No incest. No underage. No negativity. No plagiarism.)

Links for this event can be found in the reblog!

#troped: timeloop #troped timeloop #troped: mulitfandom #trope: time loop #trope: groundhog day #time loop au #fanfic challenge #fanfic event #multi fandom fanfiction #fanfic #ff

[sleepless-in-starbucks]

guy who's stuck in a timeloop for so long he stops wanting to leave it. guy who started out trying to escape but slowly grew used to and became comforted by the familiarity of the repeating day. guy who is no longer who he was before the timeloop. guy who is offered a way out and violently refuses it because he can't leave, doesn't want to leave. guy who escapes the timeloop by chance or force or accident and doesn't know how to live anymore. guy who keeps going through motions that don't match the situation and keeps having conversations that aren't actually occurring. guy who panics every time he realizes he can't predict the next instant. guy who left the timeloop but still lives with it.

#the cryptid speaks #time loop #ik there's been talk of the trope '[x] never left the timeloop' but what about [x] who never Wanted to leave the timeloop #like astronauts who come back to earth and keep trying to let go of things midair #former timelooper who is still expecting to know your next sentence; to predict the next major event; to survive everything

[khaoray]

I will. I will bring you back. And we will see each other again. I promise.

@asiandramanet april bingo: tropes & lgbtq+ rep

#triage the series #triage #tintol #thaidrama #thdrama #bl drama #asiandramasource #asiandramanet #userdramas #lextag #*gifs #*bingos #idk how to encapsulate the entire timeloop trope but i live breathe and die for it love me a tragic timeloop!!!!!

[chimerahyperfix]

RECIPE OF THE DAY

[OR: This was the most upsetting alternate looper option]

Long post because i have been cooking this in my brain for like, two months, and it's all-consuming. Also I'm not in the Discord yet because Anxiety so my ramblings had to go somewhere, and what better than one big fucking post yknow. I cast spell of fuck you mind blast on the tag/lh /j

TLDR for below: Siffrin words his wish differently, Bonnie gets trapped in a time-loop, and despite saying they're in a timeloop repeatedly nothing works and no one can help them. The normal ISAT absolute horrors ensue.

CONTENT WARNINGS: the normal ISAT tags [death, violence and trauma, suicide, self harm and unreality], Notable Pin on child endangerment and death, poisoning.

most of these get discussed ^ even if shortly

SO. THIS AU.

This is it this is my big one. Ignore me pushing the literal 12 other isat aus I have into a pile pls this is THE big one. I’m looking at the note I’ve stored all this lore in on my notes app,and it’s like. 35 fucking pages?

I've looked at a ton of alternate looper aus [that's part of the hyperfixation babeyyyy I need to consume ALL content forever and ever and ever] and I was like “oohhhh I wanna do that!!” So I literally just listened to music until I caught an idea and yikes. Looking at the AUs playlist now [it’s about 100 songs! Oops!] and I’m like [cartoony image of me laying face first on the floor]

This is a bit scattered because I wrote it over 3 days instead of working on the fic I’m supposed to be writing ooopsieeeee. Ramblings belowvvvvvvvvvv

It begins as simply as the game does. No one knows how to wish properly; so Siffrin wishes, because they know how to. The same folded leaf, repeated three times wish. Close to what is said in canon; different enough for the Universe to read it differently. No longer does Siffrin loop, because the wish isn’t about him, it’s about Bonnie and their sister. Siffrin’s wish is construed as “I wish Bonnie’s wish would come true,” and even if the Universe can’t hold onto Bonnie’s wish as they did it wrong, it CAN hold onto Siffrin’s.

And that’s the base point: EVERY LOOP, Siffrin wishes, because he wishes after he talks to them and that's where they loop back to, and its wish craft goes to Bonnie. A recipe for disaster with how much time they have!

They loop back when Siffrin gets crushed by the rock, because they can’t win while being down a party member. When they touch a tear, or when the sadnesses get the jump on the party and they all go down, or when they use the dagger equivalent [a poisoned snack], or when they get to the King. They Never Beat The King. Think SASASAaP but ISAT.

Bonnie doesn’t fight with craft, but rather craft-infused weapons. The wok and their pan for rock, a pair of kitchen shears for scissors and a cookbook for paper. Snacks for healing and buffs. And they have a cool friend that lives in the favor tree! [they get in fistfights like every five loops. Maybe it would be funny, someone just as willing to spar with them instead of trying to find the right words they can’t find because they’re a kid, if their friend wasn’t ALSO another version of themself, which bonnie clocks pretty late.] They pick up little quirks from their friends, like biting their nails like Belle, and puffing up to look bigger like Isa and stealing Dile's curses and closing an eye to match Frin's in focus. And maybe they start forgetting a little bit, just a little! The same thing over and over will get to you.

So everything essentially boils down to this. Bonnie specifically needs to be strong enough to beat the King, as the rest of the party doesn’t keep experience through loops. For a good chunk of the loops, they take advantage of Siffrin asking them if they need help and drag him into a training lesson that slowly goes from a whole emotional conversation to them quietly listening to Siffrin’s every word. [Siffrin fills this silence with random star facts that pop into their mind. This Is Important It WILL Be On The Test] Eventually the training becomes too tedious, so they start sneaking off to go fight sadnesses— and eventually just punch trees, which busts their knuckles— to get stronger faster! Everything goes downhill from there, with them forgetting to make food to them sneaking out at night to fight more to them getting reckless and uncaring; it snowballs down into “oh this could be considered suicidal confidence”.

Every loop, you say "hey, I'm trapped in a time loop", and EVERY time it is a big emotional thing that exhausts you to the point of going to bed immediately after, and everyone gets antsy and worried, and in the end the anxiety and trouble NEVER ends up mattering because the King still flattens the party every time. [And (shuffling through the sea of my notes for the au), imagine this from their situation for a second; Today, you tell your friends you are trapped in a time loop. They drag you into a long, uncomfortable conversation that makes you cry, and you go to bed with a full stomach and the knowledge they will protect you, and you will protect them. You make sure he doesn't get squashed by a boulder, you make sure they find the key, you make sure they don't die. Tomorrow, you will tell your friends you are trapped in a time loop. They will drag you into a long, uncomfortable conversation that will make you cry, and you will go to bed with a full stomach and the knowledge they've failed to protect you, but they're trying this loop, and you'll still protect them anyway.]

And then the King fight. He grabs them and he kills them and it fucks them up. [it fucks them up, until it too happens again and again, and eventually it simply is just another obstacle you must pass, because the second his stupid hand wraps around you like a ragdoll it’s over, so you just spit in his face to make him press the trigger immediately and not drag it out for forever- imagine the most traumatic event in your entire life, repeated over and over, until it looses all meaning. It’s still traumatic, it’s sewn into your brain forever you will never forget this.]

They tell the party ‘hey, I just got murdered’, and if this au was ISAT, it would go from having a memory that gave everyone a defense buff to a memory that literally stops you from winning, randomly attaching to a party member. You couldn’t get rid of it. They’d take every hit for you, and you’d have to loop back, because you couldn’t win with an unremovable memory like that. and that’s why they stop saying things, because if the people you loved would die to protect you, something you don’t want and have the ability to stop, would you stop them?

And so everything collapses, and from that point [the start of act 4] it collapses fast.

WHICH LEADS US TO ENDLESS MY FAVORITE LITTLE THANG

if this is transparent or not I don’t fucking know and honestly. After 2 hours of fighting ibisPaint X to make it transparent I stopped caring. o7

Slight design notes tangent: the fucking. Wispy things around their limbs just kinda move around them- yknow because black holes pull things in and they are one. Their like,,,, face spike design??? Question mark on what 2 call it? It’s designed to look like their hair lol. The little star-dot things on their knuckles are important smile. Eventually I’ll post a full thing 4 them (I have like 2 pages of random doodles of them it’s craaazy)

Endless (or Ness, later on) is Bonnie’s loop-alike. They’re a little angry hater and I based them on the song Black Hole Sun [therefore they double-dip in the space theming, the little scoundrel! Imagine being both a black hole and a partial eclipse!! Damn why you taking all the space theming for!!] which was the song the whole AU was based on! Woah! Damn you carrying ALL the out of AU lore in you! They’re anger over fear while Bonnie is fear over anger.

They make me SO fucking upset. Like. I’m not being funny anymore. This is THE most upsetting character I’ve ever written. They make me cry. My entire schtik is making horror and this little creature is the most upset I've ever been at a creation of mine.

Endless is a Bonnie who, without exaggerating, literally imploded from having too much wish craft in them— hence the black hole theme. They went through an unreasonable amount of loops [i think I noted down 400??? Probably not that many, but hey, leveling is slow when half the time you rely on a scripted event that has like 3 enemies. Never really pinned anything down, but it’s a CRAZY upsetting amount.] and just couldn’t win,, and they eventually broke, and begged for it to stop— and, well, with so much wish craft in them, even without the proper rituals the Universe just couldn’t ignore ALL this wish craft, overflowing, in one spot. They asked for help and it killed them.

And then they were at the tree! And they’re helping a DIFFERENT Bonnie, who they’re upset at because what. What why is this happening? They asked for it to stop, not for a whole NEW Bonnie to exist and to do it all over again, what is this what, stop stop it. And they have to keep watching Siffrin wish, and doom them to their endless loop, and they have to tell Bonnie no, the party can’t help them like they want the party to do because the party never could help them, and it’s just going to bring them distress and heartache. Bonnie does it anyways, until the very beginning of act 4: it goes downhill from there, until they’re worried This Bonnie will end up like THEM.

They’re not the most self-confident type. They give themself the most un-nicknameable name [Bonnie still finds one that fits— Ness. They reluctantly accept it.] [Endless vc: Ness? Like? From Earthbound???] they can think of because nicknames are a love language and they speak it, and they don't think they deserve it anymore because they've Changed, and trade out the nicknames they have for the party for things they learned from Siffrin in their own many many training loops: The Sun, The Moon, The Star, The Sky, and Bonnie is Supernova, because its cool as hell and Siffrin told them that’s what happens when a star dies, and they died. Open foreshadowing. They take to closing the same eye they made Siffrin the Star loose, because if he doesn’t get to see anymore neither should they— even if that eventually becomes a natural thing, something they do now to focus. They talk about a sister they have— had, because their world is gone and she never got unfrozen, they never learned if she was alive under all that icy craft or not, and they’re not Bonnie anymore. Ness is Bonnie, but Bonnie is not Ness.

And so, when act 5 hits, they’re desperate. They can’t see it happen again, because it erased them as a person and it was terrifying enough why would you want to see it happen again? they prepare to storm the house, bevause theyre strong enough to tear it apart themself, get stopped by the party, and essentially they’ve replaced Bonnie for a loop; which would be okay, if failing didn’t mean there would probably be Two Endlesses and No Bonnie’s. By the end of the au, Bonnie, lvl 99, is like bringing a brick to a stare down. Endless, in comparison, is like bringing a bazooka to a fistfight. They can’t face the King, they can’t, it would probably mess something up [the party has them pinned as being a kid by this point— wether they realise Ness acts a lot like Bonnie or not, who knows] so they panic and wave the party off into the King’s room and fights off the remaining sadnesses to calm down.

And the Party brings Bonnie down, and they fight a fake version of their sister [who they win against, even if barely, because Nille is their sister and damnit, Nille would never hurt them, not after giving up her life for them] and they have a breakdown, and then there's two of them. There's Bonnie and there's Ness. Bonnie confronts them and they get in ANOTHER fistfight, bveause how else would two angry ultra-powerful preteens settle things, and Bonnie convinces them to come along, because their identity has been found out and damnit Nille really won't care, Ness is her sibling too.

[Nille approaches the situation carefully, but Bonnie is right: Nille sees the two of them and immediately decides she has two siblings and she wants to protect them. Both of them went through so, so much, and they saved the country and damnit it would be monstrous to throw Ness out to the wolves because they Changed. Aka I was physically incapable of letting Ness dissapear or have a bad ending they deserve the world too.]

I just I jsutt. Auguhghghghhh. au too big in my brain spill it out on the floor it goes everywhere. When you hyperfix on your own au

#isat #in stars and time #isat au #isat bonnie #<- this is abt them. uh oh. #recipe of the day #anyways the au title is based on a shitty joke I made once #also “”’hey chef what’s for dinner? slop! slime!’ #something something the recipe of the day is timeloop soup. yknow. a timeloop au. and soup……. #who let me in the kitchen. someone take me out before I burn the place down #I have. so many thoughts about this au #most of which boil down to me screaming and crying #I know there are multiple other AUs where Bonnie loops but counterpoint #has an alt looper au ever not had the looper wish? #[pushing divine intervention behind me. no that does not exist in this question] #I really like twisting au tropes on their heads :) #‘I don’t want to tread on other ppls ideas’ handshake ‘three month au hyperfix lets fucking go let’s yap’ #they can and will coexist heart emoji. #I think about this au a lot. I’m cooking so much art #(yknow. aside from being the worlds slowest artist. oop) #I’ll prob post abt it every now and then (aka when I finish the fucking art) #but for now. laying my au cards down #endless is my favorite little being ever rn they’re such a little hater

[cap-sweet-and-salty-sadness]

Listen, I know current Marvel isn't what it used to be, but the Loki TV show is probably the best show they've made so far in the MCU. Loki's redemption arc is beautiful to witness. I find it even more impactful as someone who's been following his journey since 2011. He truly was burdened with glorious purpose, only much more grandiose than he first expected.

I absolutely loved that the callbacks were all connected in the end, this was great writing, on top of the cast's beautiful performance.

#loki #loki spoilers #i love a good redemption arc #this one was great #marvel #mcu #also they served us a timeloop trope on a platter

[banesberry-anomoly]

Archie gets hit by a coffee pot and fucking dies, 2024 colourized

#Banesberry art #altoclef.exe #Have a goofy mini comic of them fucking killing each other to recover from the angst art I made lmao #Archies had coffee pots thrown at him at least 6 different times #In the timeloop before this Archie fucked up Allens coffee press #So it was deserved #Allen Roseanne #Archibald Amar #One of my favourite tropes will forever be the text on a hat/nametag/whatever changing to fit the situation its fucking hilarious #Where the Echos Meet

[idontdrinkgatorade]

i guess ‘guy (gn) makes a time loop to try and save the love of their life from their inevitable death’ is just a trope that i keep on accidentally running across in my fav media

#witch’s heart (noel with claire) and link click (lu guang with cheng xiaoshi) so far #i haven’t finished madoka magica but i think that homura makes a timeloop for madoka?? idk #people in the link click tag keep referencing evangelion which i haven’t watched the rebuilds but ik there’s kinda a parallel universe thin #since the anime (both endings) and the manga and the rebuilds are three separate canons?? i think?? idk #not really a timeloop for eva but like shinji and kaworu still have that weird thing going on so i think it counts #and according to what i’ve seen in the munou na nana tags abt the chapter 89 raws #it’s definitely going to turn into a short time loop where The Gang TM tries to keep nana from dying (and prob nanao by extension) #although the timeloop thing wouldn’t last long since i think shizuka can only make like 5 #i don’t even like time loop tropes that much i just love tragedy. and what’s more tragic than trying and failing to save the person you lov #over and over and over and over and over again #to have the same thing happen every time because it’s set in stone

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

save me timeloops….. save me ………………

#reading niku’s timeloop fic rn 😵‍💫😵‍💫 i feel like. a feral dog #my favorite trope of alllllll time and when it’s done well?????? when it’s done amazing even???????????? #my brain is releasing so many endorphins i can’t keep up #AND IT’S A GOJO FIC…… ty for my life <33 #hehe i have a bunch of fics i gotta rb today :33 excited excited !!! #ari noises ✩

[epitome-of-an-openbook]

quite frankly, it's ridiculous that no one has ever spent a year in a time loop, living the same horrible day over and over so that they could save me from a horrible fate, all the while they're falling in love with me as each loop goes by and they learn more about me every time but they feel weird about it because every day when the loop resets i go back to either only knowing who they were before this all began or not knowing them at all.

#time loop #timeloop #time loops #timeloops #ao3 tropes #fanfic tropes #fic tropes #tropes

[villruu]

being a freak is so fun! Chaos and Love on planet earth!!!!!!

#vrill talks #losing it over marble hornets!!! having the time of my life writing in code love poems in character of brian @ tim!!!!! #watching mh ''sequels'' for the barest hint of my boys!!!! absolutely deranged!!!!!!!!! #reviving my neocities to build a e-shrine to mh!!!! #writing fanfics abt hoody n tim!!! abt jess n skully!!!! abt skully and tim!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #timeloops... pining.... soulmate..... the tropes are never ending and i stay silly!!!!!!!!! #sorry im in a mania episode lmao feel free to come back when posting has gone back to normal kekw

[simcardiac-arrested]

yes yes yes yes YES YES YES YES

#I NEED TO GO TO THE TIME LOOP !!! YAY !!!! YIPPEEEE !!!!!!!!!!!!! #i’m like that one blog who’s obsessed with the possession trope but instead it’s timeloops for me #EEEHEHEEH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET ME INTO THE TIMELOOP PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE #(autistically spinning in place) #crammerposting

[troped-fanfic-challenge]

TROPED TIMELOOP — ROUND TWO!

It’s time for the Second Round of TROPED TIMELOOP! All of the prompts for this event will feature the Time Loop Trope! The Writing Period for Round Two starts NOW, and will be on a rolling basis, with a new TIMELOOP Prompt dropping about every twenty-three (23) days! While the OFFICIAL writing period for Round One is over and Round Two goes for three weeks, you can submit a fic based on these prompts until the end of the event in September and they will still be included in voting! Be sure to include the theme, tropes, and timeloops into your fic.

For Round Two, please write a fic that includes:

Theme: Holiday

Trope 1: Fake Dating

Trope 2: Murder Mystery AU

Trope 3: Multiple Perspectives

Trope 4: One Character is an Author

Event Trope: Time Loop AU!

In depth definitions of the tropes and the theme will be linked under the cut! Please take a look at this Google Doc, as there will be extra information you NEED to know regarding how to use the tropes, and if you have questions don’t hesitate to ask!

There is NO Word Count Limit! You may write as much or as little as you like as long as you fully incorporate the prompt!

All Fandoms are welcome to participate!

Don't forget to follow our rules (no incest, no rape/abuse, no underage, etc), and to have fun!!! Please submit all fics to our AO3 collection linked in below the cut, and the name of the collection that should be entered when submitting your fic is ‘TROPED_TIMELOOP’! If you need a tutorial on how to add a fic to an AO3 collection, one can be found below!

TIMELINE:

Round 2 Writing Period Begins: NOW!!!

Writing Period Ends: SATURDAY, September 23rd at 11:59PM PST / SUNDAY, September 24th at 2:59AM EST

Good luck and happy writing!

Links for this event & Round Two can be found under the cut!

Round 2 Prompt Definitions and Guidlines: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SjQJwVsmGpoNSzg2td4_dVY_VWltDg286HT3vESbqGk/edit

AO3 Collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/TROPED_TIMELOOP

Tutorial: https://troped-fanfic-challenge.tumblr.com/post/648540929960132608/if-i-write-a-fic-for-one-of-the-rounds-how-do-i-go

TROPED TIMELOOP INFO POST: https://www.tumblr.com/troped-fanfic-challenge/720467832679399424/troped-timeloop

TIMELOOP ROUND ONE (1) POST: https://www.tumblr.con/troped-fanfic-challenge/720707425334870016/troped-timeloop-round-one

If you have any questions about this event, prompts, fandoms or pairings, or any other concerns please send them to our Ask Box: https://troped-fanfic-challenge.tumblr.com/ask

#troped timeloop #troped: timeloop #round 2: holiday #troped timeloop: round two #theme: holiday #troped: mulitfandom

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

TIME LOOP FIC????

yea it's about one of the Batfam characters, Steph/Spoiler, getting trapped in a timeloop where every loop, Batman dies and she has to make it so that Doesn't Happen in order to break the loop. she uh... doesn't have the best of times akskdjdkfhsk I have most of this one outlined and it includes some very fun interactions such as "slightly unhinged texting conversations between teenagers," "pulling the Dad Card," "psychosomatic symptoms due to repeating the same day over and over ("kill me now my throat hurts")," and "protective instincts EVERYWHERE". hopefully I'll finish it someday 😂

#actually the thing about this fic is that it DOES get kinda dark at one point #i saw a tag on a totally separate timeloop fic that was like ''trope typical suicide'' and like... it's a Thought for a hot minute??? #but of course that's why this story includes ✨f r i e n d s h i p✨ so that said friends can smack sense into steph #when she gets really screwed up towards the climax #but at the same time!!! it's actually a pretty cheerful fic?? just bc steph herself copes by joking around #and employs a bit of a fake it til you make it kinda thing. she forcibly keeps her spirits up for the most part #until towards the end when she starts to lose hope and the aforementioned friends (and kinda family) have to help pull her #out of a spiral #Everyone In This Family (and family friends) Has An Overdeveloped Sense Of Responsibility(TM) #Lu rambles #asks

[worldsokayestbabysitter]

finally read the lathe by palmviolet

#steddie #steddie fandom has made the timeloop trope one of my favorites #i’ve seen at LEAST three time loop fics #idk who started it but i eat it up #also the lathe… OUCH #sobbing into my lemonade

[floralb0t]

miragehound timeloop fic. setup: the games are a sort of VR, and Mirage took some sort of nasty head wound while inside. Nobody is quite sure what happened, but it appeared that the system was repeating itself indefinetly till it just ... stopped and he was kicked out. the glitches that trapped him also made playback impossible

From bloodhound's perspective, he's been acting strange since then. A little too active in conversations where he would normally meander around to his point. A little too "happy to help" if by that you meant, claiming all the work load for himself and doing it with the practiced ease of someone who doesn't care too much about the outcome. And most of all; staying closer than usual to Bloodhound through it all.

While not a bad thing, they come to find they like his company actually; it's incredibly odd. And it must lead back to that little timeloop he suffered, right? Hound attempts to use their newfound friendship with the man to pry what happened out of him. He only says that his brain was stuck on a particular thought and once he acknowledged it, he was free. They start making guesses, until they, out of options ask "Be honest, did you kill me in the timeloop?" and he gets upset. and finally admits that he confessed he'd fallen in love with them instead.

#idk where it would go after that #but i was thinking about the be honest did you kill me in the timeloop #and like ... what if a timeloop functioned as a digital version of the hanahaki disease #i think that's how it's spelt #anyways the confess or die trope from old ficdom. what if you were stuck in the timeloop till you confessed instead ? #but it turned out the person you were confessing to wasn't actually stuck in it #and also it was from the other person's perspective ? #writing.txt #text.txt #miragehound