#sif says

[liichkiing]

I think a lot about Chris Fleming's relationship with gender. I wish I could be that simultaneously carefree and fucking insane about my gender. Or anything tbh. Nothing but respect for any person who definitely gets asked about their gender like every day and can take it in stride like that. The Am I A Man video is still so ballsy. I love people who don't really label their deal in an acceptable way. What a legend honestly.

#sif says #chris fleming

[lucabyte]

Taking pride in One's own appearance.

#you people are becoming my guinea pigs for my finally learning how to communicate information via comics. a thing ive needed to practice at #also BLEGH. YUCK. andrew hussie was right candy makes you sick. this is a little too saccharine for me. yeesh. let me get back to the meat. #isat #isat spoilers #in stars and time #in stars and time spoilers #isat fanart #in stars and time fanart #isat siffrin #isat loop #sifloop #doodlebyte #'let me get back to the meat' i say eyeing something similarly sickly in my sketches. at least it's mildly tormented as a counterbalance... #you people have no idea how much im having to stay my own hand. oh i can draw miserable nudity but the most basic of fluff? visceral #anyway i dont know the logistics of picking up a glass eye or where loop got money (besides pilfering from siffrin) & ive previously drawn #sif with a vague blank middle-grey eye as either being scarred over or a blank occular prosthesis put in quickly at the nearest town #i dont know that they'd have a glass eye during the game but considering prosthesis are reccomended to keep the skull etc from deforming #id imagine it would probably come up postgame as something to do now theyre not on a time limit trying to save the country #plus i assume that having it gouged at by a sadness wasnt exactly a clean wound by any measure #all this to say. idk i just wanted to get some information across in comic form to Test my Abilities #and we're far enough down now to say my absolute most wretchingly sweet fluff headcanon that actually inspired this #which is that i think siffrin gets into the habit of not wearing the eyepatch around loop so they kinda match. #and as a signifier to the other that they're letting their guard down around them. vulnerability etc. #just kinda wearing it around their neck so they don't lose it

[sodapopbuoy]

having a normal one

#THIS GAME RULES AAHHH #love sif so much one of the characters of all time #also went back to my roots for this one! drew it in sai instead of clip :] #in stars and time #isat #siffrin #isat siffrin #isat spoilers #i guess!! #nathan art

[yonch]

obligatory hand headcanons (handcanons if you will) for the isats

#in stars and time #isat #siffrin #loop #mirabelle #isabeau #odile #bonnie #my drawings #guys i didn’t say anytjkmg in the tags because i was busy talking about something in a call but i need to speak my truth #i’m really fucked up.over the hand size difference that sif has with evrrubody #but i’m looking really hard at isa especially #im reallg not in a good mindset about it. i think i might be sick #why is he small #why the fuck is he small #why are they so small why are their hands literally in canon almost the same size as bonnie’s #why are they fucking small i’m gonna kill mhself #this is so bad for me dude like it’s actually so bad i might die #*holding my head in my hands* he’s so fuckign small

[tawnysoup]

don't you want to spend time with the little scrungly??? be a lil guy just gettin by just a normal lil guy with no secret baggage whatsoever? who's definitely not hiding anything from their very very wonderful friends??? who feels oKAY INSIDE? AND NORMAL? DONT U WANNA SPEND TIME WITH SIFFRIN????

👉👈 well.... ykno.... u could....

#im in act 3. its. a time. but i am also... full of so much love... #and i am so scared #physically hurts to watch sif refuse to say anything but like. my heart yearns so much. #i cant stop thinking about this game even when im trying to fall asleep at night. i have not been so smitten by someone's writing in so lon #isat #in stars and time

[beheworthy]

#thor #thor odinson #sif #jane foster #thor x jane #thor the dark world #chris hemsworth #jamie alexander #marvel #marveledit #thoredit #chemsedit #dailyavengers #dailymarvelstudios #marveladdicts #fyeahmovies #moviegifs #i miss you :( #how could chris say that for you

[insertdisc5]

does isabeau have a confirmed lgbt identity or he's just queer like odile?

i love to say he's gay but realistically i see him being able to fall in love with anyone, so probably pansexual would be more correct. i do want to say that those words do not exist in Vaugarde, people just Are, there are no labels over there

#ask tag #in stars and time #hence why sif and mira are very much ace but i never say the word in the game #also no labels is for better or worse. for some people its a blessing. for others (MIRABELLE) its like. who am i

[pixellangel]

made a thing. enjoy

slightly spoilery bonus thing under the cut

#pixell.png #isat #in stars and time #isat king #isat the king #isat odile #odile #meme #funny #textpost #siffrin #isat siffrin #isat spoilers #yall know that one line where odile looks at sif when the king says traveler? #this is based on that asdsfsgcjkjlj

[the-final-sif]

It's genuinely hilarious that Quackity is now trying to pull the whole "oh I don't own the company anymore" as a method of sparing himself from legal liability because Alex Jones also literally tried this exact shit and it failed because that doesn't actually work when you do it this poorly.

#quackity #neg #qsmp #not to say they're on the same level of harm or anything #it's just very funny to see someone trying the same shit #sif speaks #discourse

[basilpaste]

oh i never shared this one, did i? more loop and isa interaction because writing the two of them is like candy to me. its so fun.

"Hey Loop?" You ask, "Question!"

"Answer!" They reply.

That's… something you've heard before! They seem to register what they just said — and their eyes widen just a fraction. Everything about their expression goes a little more fake. Oh. Uh! Recover, Isabeau!! C'mon!

"… You call me Fighter, mostly."

"I do, yes!"

You take a breath, "But… not always."

"Right again!" They sing-song, "My, how clever you are, Fighter!~"

"So. Um. When you don't call me Fighter… you call me Sunlight," you trail off, a little bit flustered, "and I don't mind! I-I just — I guess I was wondering why?"

They look away from you, eyes snapping shut in that familiar fake smile of theirs.

"Hm! Why Sunlight or… why something other than Fighter?"

"Oh! Um…" You hadn't really thought about that second question at all! "Either, I guess? Both?"

"Well you only get one!" They laugh, dramatic and strained.

And then they sober, some. Their hand falls in place just below their shoulder, squeezing.

"… I suppose I hadn't thought much of the why. Perhaps it's just that… you're hard to look at. And harder to look away from."

Your heart sinks to the bottom of your stomach. Oh. Oh.

"Because you just won't get out of my hair, teehee!" They add abruptly. There's something just shy of desperation in their voice.

…

You'll play along this time.

You gasp in mock-offense, holding a hand to your chest. "Hey!"

#basil writes #in stars and time #isat #isat fanfic #isat spoilers #in stars and time spoilers #is this. spoilers? i mean. kinda so. #loop isat #isabeau isat #of stitches in sequence #i feel like it goes without saying but this is a mirror of when sif asks why loop calls them stardust. #i wanted to dig for a similar gut punch to their answer there </3

[applejuicehq]

fuck u. pokemons ur timelooper. furrys ur timelooper. leaves

extra lil thang

#i had . a lot of tags but they were eaten w the first version of this post n i dont have the energy to do all of that again #just know. i have plans that i shant yet say 👍 #isat #in stars and time #isat siffrin #siffrin isat #pokemon #pkmn #pmd #this is pmd au sif btw .. tho this may not be a final design for them .. unsure.. #i havent drawn furries or anthros since my sonic artist days on miiverse . this was fun :3 #getting the hang of drawing sif i think.. and their hat

[liichkiing]

I was lying in the grass near an intersection yesterday because I was light headed and didn't feel comfortable walking. Two different pairs of people stopped to talk to me.

Two young, be-suited gentlemen saw me lying there and called out to me. I assumed that they were asking if I was okay and asked them to repeat what they said. It was, in fact, "Would you like to hear a word about God?" I told them that I did not, and they continued on their way.

Two young women in traffic control vests who hadn't been there earlier and had presumably just shown up because it was a particularly busy time at a particularly busy intersection with no lights, saw me there and came up to me and gently asked if I was okay. I told them that I was just light-headed and resting for a bit. They asked if I needed anything and seemed still a bit concerned as they went to go control traffic.

Dunno. Something about the religious fellows not bothering to see if i was okay bothered me. Hypocrisy isn't the word I'm looking for but it's not far off.

#sif says #idk.

[lucabyte]

you dream of devouring your friends whole

#the 'it' and 'that' sif is referring to is the act 3 loop hangout but i enjoy being vague in dialogue it feels natural. tee hee. #serious time means everyone gets noses btw. sorry about the slow metamorphasis back into my usual style from my mimicry #in stars and time #isat #isat spoilers #isat loop #isat act 5 spoilers #isat act 6 spoilers #isat siffrin #in stars and time fanart #isat fanart #sifloop #YES IM TAGGING THE SHIP. THUMBS UP. READ INTO THAT HOW YOU WILL BECAUSE IT WAS ON MY MIND WHEN DRAWING IT AT THE LEAST #aaaaaanyway. my personal reading of loop is. how do you say... flowey-esque. to invoke a fellow antagonistic timelooper. since imo #they do seem even fuuurther gone than sasasap sif was when we saw them. and BOY DOES LATEGAME ISAT SIF HAVE SOME INTRUSTIVE THOUGHTS #so uh. who's to say what happened in there. since we know start again isnt quite congruent as loop never beat the king. #i wouldn't blame them for going maybe a little mad. just a lil #it is important to me that loop is. perhaps a bit haunted. AND THAT THEY GET THROUGH IT!!! but they are haunted #lucabyteart #anyway uhhh. probably should put a cw for implied cannibalism?? #cannibalism mention

[siliconforbrains]

Okay, it's like 10pm on a work night and I haven't had any coffee today so my thoughts are a little scrambled BUT. I WAS THINKING.

(About In Stars and Time of course I'm always thinking about that game)

A couple of years ago, at the height of Steddie -my sister was big into it and recced me some fics okay- I read this fic about Steve dealing with time loops ("The one in which a time loop is fucking exhausting" by badpancake) and there was this specific detail about the epilogue that stuck with me.

It was the idea that, once the time loops were done and over with, people would slowly start to remember bits and pieces of what happened in earlier loops. After being fractured for so long across dozens of timelines and experiences and outcomes, time was finally healing, and broken shards of lost memories would find their way back into people's minds.

And that got me thinking about a post-game what-if scenario where the same happens to the gang as they travel through Vaugarde.

Like they still don't remember everything -just bits and pieces. Experiences so emotionally charged that they found a way to cross the sands of time and reach them again.

The question is, what would those memories be? The first answer that comes to mind is some of Siffrin's deaths, of course. I can't imagine watching your friend get pancake-d by a boulder would be pleasant, nor witnessing them turning their own dagger to themselves. Or offering him a slice of your favorite snack only for him to go into anaphylactic shock in front of your very eyes, for that matter!

But there would be other instances too, wouldn't they? Death is not the only thing that shook them to their core. What about their first death to the King? Or Bonnie's fate at the end of Act 3? What about basking in the blissful feeling of victory against the tormentor of your land only to turn to look at your friend and know something is very, very wrong?

What about fighting through the House with a party of 4 instead of 5, bloodied, confused, staring in the face of the King knowing you're about to die and wondering why your friend left you all when you needed them most?

I honestly have no idea where I'm going with this, but I've been rotating this concept in my head since this morning and thought I'd get it out on here so y'all can suffer with me tehee

#maxisrambling #isat #isat spoilers #in stars and time #isat siffrin #i genuinely don't know if i'd ever write a fic about this concept #esp bc i already have like 3 wips im working on and i don't need another #but if i ever were to it would be like. a post-game fic where the party realizes just how bad the loops were #how they affected siffrin and how they mightve affected /them/ #(bc love this found family to death but siffrin probably downplays a lot of the loops stuff until confronted /lh) #and meanwhile sif has to deal with the knowledge that his family is remembering things he never wanted them to remember #seeing things they never shouldve seen #and is probably filled with a fuckton of guilt about that bc even now that the loops are broken they're hurting them #they all need a hug oh my god #OFC it would have a happy hopeful ending but NSDJKVNDJKFV angst hurt/comfort <3 #okay im done rambling hopefully this makes sense #im gonna go pass out now id say sorry but I'm not lmao xoxo

[worstloki]

Tom Hiddleston once suggested Sif's actress Jaime Alexander could have played Loki instead of him.

Do you think your feelings about Thor 1 and 2 would change in any way if Loki were cast as a woman? (if the plot stays exactly the same or minor differences)

I feel like it absolutely would change my thoughts about Thor 1 and 2 but hear me out because the gender change in the context of what I understand of Asgardian society would mean Loki starts out as a younger sister thanklessly expected to mediate Thor’s violent tendencies and by the end of the movie she’s turned into what is basically Hela

#I think throwing Loki under the bus by making her a woman but not changing the plot would have a lot of implications #like as a man/prince in asgardian society there was the whole warrior life thing going on as an expectation #and idk if that pressure would be more or less if Loki was a girl? #I’d assume the pressure is less but if Loki is still struggling to be loved/respected it’s like. of course she’s trying to be a warrior too #Loki would 🤝 with Sif a lot more directly in terms of situation #Sif having no solidarity for that would be wild but could make sense I suppose #if magic use was frowned upon even if Loki is a woman it would be ‘oh of course she should be allowed to she needs to make up for lacking X’ #competing with Thor would be so much more savage fr #like you’ve told a stolen/fostered daughter that she’s got the same shot for the throne as your son. in a patriarchal warrior society #in a place where men and women have different cultural expectations and the person on the throne should always be ready for war #like. bruh #also Odin saying he wants to forge peace between their realms obv means the possibility of Odin wanting to marry Thor and her at some point #unfortunate

[yellowocaballero]

Been a fan of your fics for YEARS. I was just telling my friend how despite how much I read fics I never actually love them, with some of your fics (especially TMA) as the exception. Felt the need to reread some of them and saw you reblogged some ISAT fanart. So. Any thoughts on ISAT you'd like to share?

Hope you have a wonderful day!! So happy I found your fics again!!

I avoided answering this for a while because I was trying to think of a way to cohesively and coherently vocalize my thoughts on In Stars and Time. I have given up because I don't want to hold everybody here all day and I have accepted that my thoughts are just pterodactyl screeching.

I love it so much. I have so much to say on it. It drove me bonkers for like a week straight. I have AUs. It's absolute Megbait. They're just a little Snufkin and they're having the worst experience of anybody's life. Ludonarratives my fucking beloved.

I am going to talk about the prologue.

The prologue is such a fascinating experience. You crack open the game and immediately begin checking off all of the little genre boxes: mage, warrior, researcher, you're the rogue...some little kid who's there for some reason...alright, you know the score. You're in yet another indie Earthbound RPG, these are your generic characters, let's get the ball rolling.

Except then you realize that these characters are people. You feel instantly how you've entered the game at its last dungeon, at the end of the adventure. They have their own in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They get along well and they're obviously close, but not in a twee or unrealistic way. They have so much chemistry and spirit and life. I fell in love with them so quickly.

But Sif doesn't. Sif kind of hates them, because they will not stop saying the same damn thing. They walk the same paths, do the same things, make the same jokes, expect Sif to say the same lines. They keep referencing a Sif we do not see, with jokes we never see him make and heroic personality he never shows - they reference a Sif who is dead - and Sif can't handle that, so he kills them too.

They become only an exercise in tedious frustration. Sif button mashes through their dialogue, Sif mindlessly clicks the same dialogue options, Sif skips through the tutorial, Sif blows through the puzzles. Sif turns their world into a video game. Sif is playing a generic RPG. Sif forgets their names. They are no longer people with in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They're the mage, the warrior, the researcher, and...some random kid.

I did not understand the Kid's presence at first. I had no idea what they contributed to the game. They didn't do anything. As a party member in a video game, they're a bit useless. Why is the Kid there?

Because Sif's life isn't a video game. Because the kid isn't 'the kid'. They're Bonnie. Bonnie, who the party loves. Why is Bonnie there? Because they love them. There is no room for Bonnie in the boring RPG that Sif is playing. And then you realize that Sif is wrong, and that they've lost something extremely important, and that they'll never escape without it.

Watching the prologue before watching ISAT gave ISAT the most unique air of dread and horror, because you crack open ISAT and you see the person Sif used to be. You realize that Sif used to be a person. Sif used to be the person who made jokes, who gave real smiles, who interacted with the world as if they are a part of it. And you know you are sitting down to watch Sif lose everything that made them a person, to lose everything that made them a member of this world, and turn them into a character in a video game who doesn't understand the point of Bonnie at all.

At the climax of the game, when the others realize that something is deeply wrong and that Sif physically cannot tell them, they realize that there is nothing they can do. So Bonnie declares snacktime. And for the first time they have snacktime.

What is snacktime? Classic JRPGs don't have snacktime. There's literally no point to a snacktime - not in a video game, and not in Sif's terrible life. It's not fixing this, because nothing can fix this. But Bonnie gives Sif a cookie and Sif eats it.

It's meaningless. It's a cutscene. It didn't save Sif and it didn't change a thing. It will make no difference in the end.

But it did make the difference. It made all of the difference in the world. Bonnie is a character who you really don't understand the point of before you realize that Bonnie was the entire point.

ISAT is about comfort media. Why do we play the same video games over and over again? Why do we avoid watching the finale of our favorite shows? What is truly comforting: a story with no conflict, or a story where you always know what is about to happen? Do you want to live in a scary, uncontrollable world, or do you want to play Stardew Valley? Do you want a person or a character?

When I beat Earthbound for the first time (and if you don't know, the prologue/ISAT battle system is just Mother) and watched the ending cutscene where the characters part ways and say goodbye...I felt a little bit sad. I wanted them to be together forever. But that's something only characters could ever be.

#these aren't deep or unique thoughts they're just the specific aspect of ISAT that made it one of the most interesting gaming experiences #i actually like the prologue much more than ISAT for just this reason #its honestly a video game art piece that's created to give the player a very specific experience #that makes them an aspect of the narrative that is told #it's. incredible. #in stars and time #start again start again start again #start again: a prologue #isat #god and there is so so so so much more to say here #what a rich and complex and fascinating game that made me cry like a baby #i dont even kin sif. we arent similar at all. #i cant imagine how devastating this game would have been if i did #but I do have a deep relationship with escapsim #and i write about it a lot #and video games about being video games are wonderful #as are stories about being stories #and why we consume stories. how we use them. how they save us and hurt us. #never played a video game that used its medium so well #i bet undertales also pretty good at that but this is more so i think #stories about stories have to be about why we love stories #and im not an artsy person and i roll my eyes a bit when people talk about the spiritual neccesity of art #i think people need stories because the world is sad and hard and boring and we want to think about something else for a while. #some people need to be anywhere but here #and sometimes if you're Lil Depressed-Ass Snufkin that looks like being here forever #baby cringe-ass snufkin big hat idiot