#that loops back again at the end

[ministarfruit]

bad ending

#vtuber #holostars #holotempus #regis altare #and the rest of the guild but I shan't tag them #I consumed too much horror content lately #it tickles my brain #alas that filters straight back into tempus #because I am but a little lamb to my hyperfixation #I DO THINK ELYSIUM BEING A DIGITAL WORLD #MEANS THAT THEY CAN RESET THOUGH #why am I enabling time loop regis altare. as if he doesn't have enough to deal with #I mean it's TECHNICALLY time loop but it's also not #because the time itself isn't resetting #it's just the memories that everyone has #so the corruption gets worse and worse and altare keeps trying to put his guild back together again #it feeds back into the fact that all of VG are corrupted #I DO THINK THERE IS A HAPPY END #it's just not this one #I actually think 'time loop but not really' works for them because #flayon. for one. will always remember due to being an anomaly #and magni. for two. will always remember due to being a clone that has memories stored separately #and BETTEL. for three. due to whatever the hell he has going on with phantom. might also remember #SO THE LORE YOU SEE- (I am dragged off stage) #I'm literally writing all these layers of nonsense in my brain like people know what I'm talking about #those three are particularly interesting because neither mag or betsy actually want to be heroes #and flayon is already baseline upset that altare is trying to save a world that didn't want to save itself until he stepped up

[son1c]

i sketched a boscage maze shadow to complete my set. this version of shadow takes several... creative liberties... with boscage maze, but i think it works? maybe? let me explain.

so, i like the idea that boscage maze is the result of a science experiment catastrophe. the fallout of the accident mutated all life on earth, creating mega fauna (such as thorn rose’s giant flicky), and killer plants. i’m talking humongous venus flytraps that capture and consume people, vines with minds of their own, etc. obviously, this made earth extremely hostile to regular humans... so they left.

the survivors of the catastrophe boarded the ark and left for space. they had plans to return-- but at the current time, it was simply too dangerous to do so. and they needed to make something that would be able to combat the violent mega fauna. enter... shadow. aka halcyon, as he’s called in this au. halcyon has the ability to drain shard energy, thus un-mutating the corrupted plants and animals, and returning them to their natural state.

unfortunately, the people on the ark thought that the world was still too dangerous for him to return to shortly after his creation, so they put him on ice, waiting for a better time to start their restoration project. before that, though, halcyon grew up hearing all kinds of stories about the way earth used to be... a beautiful paradise, a safe haven in a vast, uncaring universe. his best friend on the ark, maria, also instilled in him one wish: save earth. so that’s what he intends to do.

his bitter enemy is thorn rose, whose goal is to protect the horrible mega fauna. but she just doesn’t understand the harm it’s doing to what was once a peaceful planet. and how could she? she never knew what it used to be.

#sonic #sonic the hedgehog #sth #shadow the hedgehog #sonic prime #sonic au #just a doodle lmao i had to get this out got bless. i will probably not draw him again but #for my own sake i wanted to tie up this loose end #scribbles #halcyon #his name <3 btw <3 #and also the knuckles of this universe being a conspiracy nut loops back around to halcyon being AN ALIEN and i think that's #really funny tbh. #edit: omg i forgot his earring nooo i just fixed it </3 #AND MY SIGNATURE? oh my god i've never done THAT before LMFAO

[mlobsters]

supernatural s1e16 shadow (w. eric kripke)

aka the first time i had a full-tilt meltdown over this show.

#supernatural #eric kripke #spn 1x16 #sam and dean #sam winchester #dean winchester #mygifs #spngifs #sam and dean mush #how to feel about your brother #like watching soon to be exes-the relationship is clearly over and one flaying themselves open showing their squishy insides #trying to make it work but the other is gently shutting them down and saying it's over #wholly lost my shit about this. late enough in s1 where we know this is A LOT of (too much?) emotional vulnerabilty for dean #but also way too early in any show's run to expect this level of emotional vulnerability and guts being strewn about #truly threw me for a loop. but it certainly set the stage for where they would go with sam and dean over the years #Dean's little eyebrow raise to the “I'd do anything for you” and sad half smile “could be” just punch me in the gut #and that sweet open expression talking about being together and a family again. ugh. such a rarity to see that on him #and Sam's “i don't want them to be” absolutely crushing. in the kindest manner. #but by the end dean's got his walls back up. oh my heart.

[otaku553]

I am bored and sad about schoolwork so I want to interact a little bit,,, please send me some asks!

Can’t promise any fancy pieces but if you want a small doodle of a character (preferably not ocs please) feel free to send in a request as well!

#I didn’t realize that this problem set was due Friday and I am going insane over it because #the last problem set that they said was supposed to be easy and take only a few hours took me like 20 hours #and I have things due tomorrow so I can’t work on the thing due Friday until I finish these and it’s just gonna be this endless loop of wor #work* #until the 10 weeks of term are over and I get a 2 week break and then go back to classes yet again #when will it end #never. #hghhh

[bugsbenefit]

i know we talk about Mike and Will and how important they are for the plot of s5 here all the time. but can we talk about how Insanely set apart the two of them are from everyone else by the end of s4? because yes, we already know they'll be important, s5 is going to be Will's coming of age and the kids have Always been the main focus of the show. hell they're literally the center of the ending shot of the entire season can't get more obvious than that:

everyone else had their shot at ending things already and failed, s5 would just be a repeat of s4 if it weren't for Will, Mike, Jonathan, Hopper, and Joyce being back in town for the rodeo this time around. this will be what makes s5 have a different outcome than s4 did.

but what really fucking gets me is that it's not just visually or thematically made clear how central Will and Mike will be to taking down Vecna. it's in the way the last moments of the season were written from a fundamental writing perspective because:

Mike and Will are the only central characters to never get confronted with Vecna for the entirety of the season. however. s4 ends with Mike and Will being the ONLY characters to know Vecna is still alive.

literally the only fucking ones.

i think that aspect gets lost sometimes. We know Vecna is still there because we just watched them have this conversation. the other characters DON'T know that. on that hill and in the entire town, right now, Mike and Will are the only one's with a concrete idea of why spores could suddenly start falling from the sky despite them having 'won'. they're not questioning what's going wrong because they already Know. they already came to the conclusion that they would have to kill Vecna for real. they're already over the initial shock and horror at finding out it was all in vein. they're literally ahead of everyone else.

from a character perspective this doesn't make much of a difference. s5 is supposed to pick up right where s4 left off and it's obvious that they'll fill everyone in on that immediately. they're not keeping that info from everyone they just didn't get the chance to share it yet. BUT. that is a conscious writing decision. it would have been a 30 second extension to have them quickly tell this crucial information to everyone outside the cabin or have maybe El overhear the end of their conversation in the cabin, she was only a room over after all. but they didn't do that. so we end the season with Mike and Will being the only one's on the same page as the audience.

Mike and Will being back in town is going to be pivotal to Vecna's end and we're being told on a thematic, visual, and writing choice level

#literally insane how much they stand out by the end of the season #for being away from the Vecna plot the whole season they sure get emphasis on being in the know about the Future Vecna plot #we talk all the time about how them being framed as the central two people in that shot is insane #and it is #but the fact that they're also the only one's to even fully know that they'll have to kill Vecna 'again' is just #it's a lot #the whole plot of the show started when Will went missing in s1 and Mike dragged everyone out to look for him (finding El in the process) #with Will's coming of age happening the plot is going to loop back around to them and make them End the supernatural plot as well #got to love horseshoe narratives and circular plots thanks stranger things #byler #byler analysis #mike wheeler #will byers #st s5 #st analysis #stranger things

[leonsrightarm]

me: i'll keep working after one ror2 run

the ror2 run:

#ror2 #i don't have negative money i have so much money that the game can't process it any more #if you get enough you can loop back around to having a positive balance again #i got colonel droneman in like the second level and daddy's credit card in the third and i was like. #well. this run is over when i say it's over. #but i got bored and went to greet my grandson mithrix after this #hilariously i ended up getting a third dio's best friend from a supply drop on the moon

[sea-weed-420]

francesca by hozier is so percabeth coded

#idk what to tell you it’s the truth #sobbing my eyes out #if someone asked me at the end/ id tell them put me back in it #if i could hold you for a minute/darlin id go through it again #hozier #francesca #annabeth chase #percy jackson #percabeth #percy jackson disney+ #this song will forever be on loop in my mind

[impatentpending]

[awakens from my thousand year slumber] pseudo-tangled au inspired by Crowley insisting Gabriel can't go outside — Beelzebub, knowing that Gabriel is somewhere in the bookshop, goes to scope things out before Shax's invasion, and runs into Jim, Aziraphale's clueless, idiotic, cute human (?) assistant.

Jim, wanting to see The Outside, but scared from Crowley and Aziraphale's warnings, promises Beez that he'll help them find Gabriel (he probably thinks Gabriel is a type of book, especially since Beelzebub never seems to hear him when he tells them people call him Gabriel) if they can safely show him The Outside.

After eluding a frantic Crowley and Aziraphale, running from the police (how was Jim supposed to know he couldn't just walk out of places with Shiny Things??), seeing the strange and wonderful things The Outside has to offer, dancing at a Human Music Festival, getting Jim better clothes, and Jim somehow saving Beelzebub from being tracked down by heaven, Beelzebub finds themself reluctantly charmed by the silly, strange human (??)

Especially since something about him seems so familiar...

#outside?? is it big?? can i see the #outside?? #good omens #ineffable bureaucracy #beelzebub #archangel gabriel #this is so incoherent but i was looping go s2 in background and reached the part where gabriel is like and crowley shut him down #plus those scenes of jim gazing out his window at the street below #crowley as mother gothel lmao #obviously not the villain of the fic just exasperated while zira Flips Out #beez for sure takes him to a dive bar to see him be scared but jim has no self preservation bless #a whole i have a dream scene occurs #beez can't admit their dream is to see gabriel again so they say something about retiring #foreshadowing when they and gabriel escape and go to alpha centauri or wherever they ended up after they fade out #“but elena where is the fly” #uhh it accidentally gets shut inside the bookstore as they leave so when azira and crowley find jim and drag him back #that is when gabriel's memories can be restored in the dramatic finale #and beelzebub gets to tell him how ze fell in love with him twice over #i would love you in whatever form you take; in whatever scrap of yourself you give me; i would love you in another world and i would #love you in this one for as long as you shall have me #type beat #meanwhile jim/gabriel is just staring at beez #having queer thoughts and he doesn't even what queer thoughts are #“demon.... handsome..” #if we want extra seasoning beez can angst over possibly having feelings for jim while they're in love with gabriel #the dramatic finale happens when azira and crowley find them and drag jim back because they're scared beelzebub will hurt him #but beez is like “no you were keeping him inside constantly what the fuck??” #and they try to 'rescue' him and gabriel at the same time #maybe they get themself trapped inside zira's prayer circle thing whatever to give jim a chance to escape #and they tell him to grab gabriel and run to freedom

[hannahwashington]

okay yeah im gonna start being abnormal again. have you guys heard that i am fucking obsessed with time loops

#the fact that ive only written ONE fic w it... i should do an until dawn time loop. #wish i knew more movies that utilised them too i only know FOUR and one is a SEQUEL #(groundhog day. day after tomorrow. happy death day + 2u) #which is to say if you have recs lmk #ANYWAYS. THEYRE SO. OOUUGGAAAHHHHHH. THEYRE SUCH A DELECTABLE CONCEPT. #SUCH A DELICIOUS STORYTELLING DEVICE #guys when they see someone endure the same horrors over and over and over again trying so hard to break free in vain #whether those horrors are being stuck in an average town you couldnt care less for or a killer stalking your every move #but in the end they learn. they grow. they come to love the mundane. learn the name and life of every person in that town. #come to find love in an unexpected place. a softness you would have rejected before it all started. #and it is through this growth that the curse is broken. through love. IT ALL CIRCLES BACK TO LOVE BABY FFFUCKING HELL #yeah im very normal about them :) #EDIT WAIT FUCK NO ITS EDGE OF TOMORROW. THOSE ARE VERY SIMILAR MOVIE NAMES OKAY

[cube-cumb3r]

cube cube i saw clips of the doctor who special ending what do you think about it uoure one of the doctor who guys on my dash

Okay so I think the bi-regeneration thing is so absurd and so stupid and I could fume about it all day long but objectively did I win? Yes. Doctor Who is not a competition but if it was I would be winning and I would be winning harder than anyones ever won

#happy tenndonna ending at the cost of everything ever #whatever. its stupid but its fun #i think the only thing is like. ok now im just gonna be saying Words as if they mean Anything to you #but like i think the implication is that there isnt actually 2 of them its just one looping back on itself #sicne 15 seems to have all the memorys and expeirence of 14 even ones 14 hasnt had yet #and i feel like thats much nicer than there actually being 2 of them. so 15 has already had his happy ending arc w the nobles #whatever ITS SUCH AN ODD DECISION but again. i am objectively winning harder than anyones ever won ever #ask #nookscorner #doctor who #doctor who spoilers

[lohstandfound]

bmc death game timeloop au /j

#lohst.txt #lara isnt that the minecraft life series smp? #yes. but consider: i like putting the bmc characters in Situations and an eternal death loop is a good concept for a Situation #something about signing up for something you think is all fun and games until the moment of the first death #but its okay because they came back #but then you die a second time #and you are filled with this bloodlust #and someone dies a third time #and this time they dont come back #and then theres only one left #one way or another they are taken from that world only to wake in a new one #and everyone is smiling and hapoy and excited. just like the beginning of the first game #but they dont seem to remember #no one seems to remember but the winner #there are new changes. new challenges #but it always ends the same #a new winner. a new game #and the cycle starts again #from the void

[zincbot]

HM. MIRABELLE?

#in stars and time #in stars and time spoilers #(in the tags) #so after loop told me not to bother with giving mira the bow again i was like: okay i shld give her the bow again #i spent a loop checking every single rollback spot and it was really interesting #but scarily i was in a dead-end checking that paper where you tell a story about running away from home #but there was a rollback. and *i* forgot what i was talking about. and everyone kind of laughed it off but... that's really concerning #okay so basically after all that happened i reset to town and gave mirabelle the bow again. and instead of being able to move on #past the skip. she kind of became aware that something was wrong? and her expressions oh my gof #pointing out the bow she already had made her slot back into normalcy but. aack #i'm concerned and very excited to see what's going on. hopefully i'll be able to cut through the third floor on my next loop #( know abt the 2nd floor key now) #and then we'll see what happens when i fight the king if he's what's up there #i Really wanna know what isa has to say to me (gay heart praying for a confession-) #odile noticed smth strange too once. i'm wondering maybe if there's a way for her to pick up on what's going on frm within the loop #(she's very very smart + i love her)

[jacksintention]

Still unwell about Rilke and PH

I love the dark hours of my being.

My mind deepens into them.

There I can find, as in old letters,

the days of my life, already lived,

and held like a legend, and understood.

Then the knowing comes: I can open

to another life that's wide and timeless.

So I am sometimes like a tree

rustling over a gravesite

and making real the dream

of the one its living roots

embrace:

a dream once lost

among sorrows and songs.

#There's in Rilke and especially in this particular book a lot about the world‚ created in the beholding and loving it‚ #and one existing to love the world. There's so much about the world being created by that loving and knowing the world of one individual #person that loves and knows it. A kind of feedback loop of existing and being by love and knowledge that is all a participation #on the act of creation. The person coming to exist to love and know the world‚ and creating the world by loving and beholding it #This is also present on Juan Ramón Jiménez‚ among others‚ but 5 yo me was obsessed with those poems. ANYWAY #This topic made me think of Lacie a lot but in this particular poem that topic + the 'I'm sorry' scene + the figure of Lacie beyond Lacie‚ #a Lacie that's legend and real‚ a Lacie always sitting under a tree‚ life ending and life expanding so to speak‚... #That kind of knowing it all in a glimpse that is knowing in an instant and eternal (which again reminds me of Kierkegaard‚ #fitting I'd say with Rilke). I'm explaining myself terribly but I don't want to talk too much haha But yeah it all seemed very fitting #There was another poem about spiralling so to speak around god that I also thought was very Lacie but very PH in general #('I live my life in widening circles / that reach out across the world. / I may not complete this last one / but I give myself to it / #I circle around God‚ around the primordial tower. / I've been circling for thousands of years / and I still don't know: am I a falcon‚ / #a storm or a great song?'). The spiralling around god in what is still some sort of emanence or reflection of it while being also #different iterations of the self which all reflect it also reminded me a lot of Cantor's transfinite numbers #Which again is quite fitting and coherent with the other authors and PH imo‚ but I may be biased. Anyway yes. This reminded me of Lacie #I didn't plan on drawing anything at first and now I have to flinch to read the poem #I hope I'll recognise enough of what I've written when I eventually come back to this #I talk too much #I should probably delete this later #mine*

[canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit]

did I use the dagger and then feel so bad about it went back to before I used it? maaaaaybe

#also i had done it to travel to the king and it was such a DIFFERENT reaction i got scared it was the end of the loop #so i wanted to go back and have my best day ever again just in case #personal #isat #in stars and time

[sysig]

It’s me, Stanley, I’m the Bucket, speaking to you inside your brain, listen to me, Stanley, leave your wife, we don’t need her! Come with me and play my games, you need me, Stanley, your free will is an illusio- (Patreon)

He’s just jealous

Tell me this isn’t exactly the PS5 meme tho

#Doodles #The Stanley Parable #TSP #Questionably SFW #Sorry lol #We can be honest this is an open space - both Stanley and the Narrator were Uncomfortably Interested in the Bucket #But can your PS5 do this #I finally get this meme it's the Bucket's meme I understand now #Or the alternate version where it tells him to leave the Narrator instead lol #Both are applicable! #I think it fits slightly better with Mannequin Wife since y'know - she doesn't have any opions that she expresses on the Bucket #And we already know what Narra thinks of it lol #Honestly I just think Stanley's attractions to Weird Individuals - a mannequin - a bucket - an omnipresent disembodied voice #You can't even call him an objectophile! The Narrator is very much a full person - as much as Stanley is anyway! #I dunno just don't read too deeply into it - it loops back on itself in from multiple directions and that's by design lol #I'm just here for the silliness #Not me going to the different endings with the Mannequin Wife just to take screenshots to study from lol #Oh Stanley - the Narrator was just taunting you #He makes the best of a bad situation haha #And then the Bucket - sorry again lol - it's just - what else could that ending have possibly been hinting at #The only thing it needed was rose petals! Pffft #Anyway

[manchineel-mistress]

in honor of our favorite 33 to 100000+ year old unemployed terrorist’s birthday (korean time), i present to you: puzzleshipping time loop au where yami yuugi gets worse instead of better from s0.

ok so we all know that the Gang(TM) got through some shit throughout the story, where they are pretty close to dying. a lot.

how consider, instead of making it through barely, they dont. (gets shot multiple times-)

ok but more specifically yuugi dies from the strain of shadow games and stress or a mishap in those games. and yami PANICS HE PANICS SO HARD PRAYING TO EVERY GOD THAT YUUGI DIDNT DIE AND THEN THE MAGIC OF THE PUZZLE ACTIVATES AND YAMI IS BACK IN TIME AND SAVES YUUGI and everyone gets out safe and sounds and sane :)

Except It Keeps Happening. Yuugi Keeps Dying. Yami Keeps Turning Back Time.

he can get it right if he just had another chance. he wont let yuugi die again. that wont happen and they would make it to the end of their journey this time-

Yuugi Dies To A Bully. (one more chance. please. i can make this right-)

Yuugi Dies To Silfer. (no please i not like this hes my partner i cant go on without him-)

Yuugi Dies To Marik. (NO NO THIS CANNOT STAND I WONT LET IT REMAIN THIS WAY-)

yami gets more desperate, protective, and unhinged as the cast makes it through their journey. he gets jumpy, withdrawn, and snaps at anything that might seem like a threat. his already tense relationship with kaiba because more testy as he loses trust in those around him other than yuugi’s close friends. hes also more violent and harsh, not really giving up penalty games like he does in the transition to duel monsters.

yuugi is scared of yami. he never quite got over it even with his friends’ acceptance of yami. but he also knows yami is scared and he cant pinpoint why exactly other than its related to protecting him. but hes also scared to ask because what if yami snaps at him. he doesnt want yami to hurt anymore but also doesnt want him to hurt anyone else.

eventually, the continuous use of extremely taxing magic starts eroding away at both of their souls. cracks form in yami’s soul room first. stair start crumbling and doors are barely holding on. yami slowly starts losing himself and he knows it, but he also cant let yuugi die. the cracks reach yuugi’s soul room after a while. a few of the toys start showing wear, board games losing pieces, cracks in the walls. thats when yami comes clean.

its a terrifying and heartwrenching experience for both the yuugis and the rest of their friends. Yuugi has been dying. These games are dangerous and they haven’t been making it through them like they thought. the only reason why yami kept going and pursuing his memories? because yuugi keeps encouraging him to find himself and he thinks he can protect yuugi better next time. and because he thinks that once hes gone, yuugi will be safe again.

they figure it out though. they make sure yuugi stays safe. why do they keep going? because yami deserves to know who he is, and yuugi is willing to risk his life to get there. as he already had, but this time it will actually be different.

and yami learns an important lesson on friendship, learning when to ask for help, and communication. and then we have the rest of  normal canon just with yami’s major ptsd and a slower to warm yami who is still willing to burn someone to the ground in like season 4.

how does this relate to orv? idk man i just think time loop and go “omg yjh vibes fr fr” i think it would be an interesting parallel between yami and yjh, they just match in my brain for some reason. doesnt quite follow yjh’s character arc tho LOL

anyway i like angsty time loop aus as much as i like silly time loop aus. they just have so much potential. here i just wanted yami to suffer :)

anyway back to silly au ideas

#yugioh #yami yuugi #yugioh au #puzzleshipping #ok yall need to understand that orv was like pivotal to my life literally changed my brain chemistry #yugioh might be my childhood but i think about orv so much #idek how a yugioh orv crossover would happen because i feel like orv fusions or crossovers just dont end well often #so we have this instead #also read omniscient reader #its really really good #yes i have Issues as my friends like to say #i feel like i could have expressed the emotions i imagine yami and yuugi feeling better but i also lack the writing skills for that #pls read past my shitty writing and feel the inherent horror and tragedy that i was trying to go for #i like time loops :) #and the feeling that nothing changes even if you go back in time to change it again and again and again and again- #link click vibes fr fr but that isnt related to this