This is a super super gentle reminder not to put your favorite authors on a pedestal. We're real people living average lives and not trying to be influencers. We criticize ourselves enough and we don't want to be held to an invisible standard (we start to worry we fail to exceed our own selves) or compared to other writers (we are not competing) or tailor our craft to cater to a wider audience (the right people will find you).
as a guy who is soso normal about time loops, i have to wonder if the dream smp’s loop had constants. set points in time that would happen no matter what. and i don’t even mean the big events, like lmanberg’s destruction or the disc conflict. i mean the smaller, less narratively impactful things that just hammer home the humanity of it all.
foolish will always lose his mind over a chandelier. the bank will never be finished in time before the loop begins anew. love will always be found. an among us bunker will always be built. michael will always be adopted. the church of prime will always be founded. wilbur will always fuck a fish. love will always be found. niki will always open a bakery. michael will always host a radio show. you </3 little penis will always appear in the sky, in one way or another. love will always be found.