#this is the start of a time loop

[nuttersincorporated]

Once More With Feeling

Summary: In the Black and White, Pokey (The Singular Voice) is happy after the events of TGWDLM. Tinky (The Bastard of Time and Space) decides to have some fun at his younger brother’s expense.

Word Count: 766

Auther’s Note: This is a short fic that gives an in-universe explanation for why TGWDLM is getting a revival.

AO3 link

Once More With Feeling

T'noy Karaxis watched as Pokotho made a universe sing. Pokotho almost looked a contented for a moment as something like satisfaction flickered across his face.

“Congratulations, Pokey!” Tinky giggled. “You’ve finally won one.”

Pokey’s calm shattered instantly as Tinky’s voice reminded him that he wasn’t alone.

“Shut up,” Pokey snarled in a million/billion/single voices. He glared at Tinky, his face a mask of pure hatred.

“Temper, temper, little brother,” Tinky said smiling. He wagged his finger condescendingly, deliberately annoying Pokey further.

Pokey screamed/sang/poured eternal silence over Tinky.

Tinky winced and put his metaphorical hands over his metaphorical ears. Pokey’s pure voice would have shattered a lesser being. It gave Tinky a bit of a headache.

When the ringing had stopped, Pokey had scuttled off to a quiet corner of the Black and White. He was singing to another universe.

Tinky shook his head. Pokey was always so dramatic. It was almost funny but it came across as more pathetic than anything else.

There was no love lost between any of the Lords in Black. The five of them could work together if they needed to but it rarely lasted very long. Yes, they were technically family but so was their stuck-up, human loving, bitch of a sister and they’d all have gladly snuffed her out, if they could.

Wiggly was fun. He was Tinky’s favourite brother. He would even go so far as to say that Wiggly was an acquaintance he would sort of miss if Wiggly stopped existing (it was the closest thing to friendship or love that Tinky ever felt).

Wiggly was a little chaotic for Tinky’s taste but, he had to admit, there was never dull moment when his sadistic chaos monster of an older brother was around.

Tinky also got on well enough with Blinky. Tinky thought of himself as more of a craftsman than Blinky but they both enjoyed a good show.

Nibby wasn’t particularly complicated but he didn’t need to be. He would have gladly eaten them all, if he thought he could get away with it. Tinky could respect that.

Then there was Pokey. Humans would probably have referred to him as the black sheep of the brothers but they all loved black. He was probably the weakest of them all and his shtick wasn’t even that entertaining.

Pokey’s whole thing was that he hated everyone and everything that wasn’t himself. He had no goal other than making everyone into himself. It got old quickly. Apart from the small amount of entertainment that Tinky got from annoying Pokey – by reminding him he wasn’t the only being in existence – he wasn’t exactly fun to be around.

Tinky reached into his own chest and pulled out the box that was his heart. He staired into it, twisting it from side to side, round and round, and through itself in ways that should have been impossible. He looked into its depths and saw an endless fractal of splintered potential futures. There were infinite possible futures, just as there were infinite universes.

Tinky narrowed his eyes and focused in on the possible futures of the Black and White. There were far fewer of those because there was only one Black and White. It was much more real than any of the universes that the Lords in Black played with, bartered for, swapped and broke. At least Tinky thought so and really, who else’s opinion mattered?

Deep in the box, Tinky saw something that made him blink in surprise. There was a possible future where Pokey won enough universes that he could actually threaten the rest of them. In that future he would try to make them sing.

It was such an unlikely future that even Tinky couldn’t see how it would end. That was interesting in and of itself. Tinky suspected that – if they ever reached that future – Pokey would fail miserably but he wasn’t sure.

Tinky was half tempted to let Pokey try, just to see what would happen. It would be fun to watch his little brother attempt to move against them all. However, Tinky thought he should probably be responsible for once – yuck – and make sure Pokey never got the chance to try.

Tinky looked at Pokey’s hard-won little universe and felt a grin start to spread across his skull.

“Once more with feeling, I think,” he said to himself. He lifted his box to the humming orb, fiddled slightly with it and the box and said, “Reset.”

In a distant corner of the Black and White, Pokey sang a discordant note before starting to scream.

[moodlemcdoodle]

Dug up some isat art from back when it first came out!!! With a bonus bird boy from stp too lmao

[mazojo]

Truly what the past days have felt like

[starmagnets]

catharsis.

[malk-with-tea]

Duet

[random-cockroach]

[nidbaesenpai]

i fear an ISAT rhythm game would dig its claws into me and never let go

[ryllen]

[ surely, it is something insignificant... if i can't remember..., no ?]

[lucabyte]

some thoughts on Claude

alt title: diversity win! this Butch Nun is crafting bombs in an unventilated room in her convent while actively courting Mother Superior! Do Not Give Them Access To Unlimited Power No Matter How Nice They Are

+ bonus

[buttercupshands]

if listening to some specific tracks make you draw Loop in canon artstyle then I'm all in

[bunchofcorvidsinatrenchcoat]

Round and round it goes!

[ginumo]

kay hang on heres another thing GEFJSBFWJFBWD

im pretty sure someone out there has done this specific edit already but i wanted to give it a try myself HEHE. go my hamburger

[daftaiyo]

Got a bit silly and made Loop model in blockbench

[hetfhjfc]

First (and probably last) post on tumblr EVER! Just thought my drawing was cute and wanted to share

Inspired by

[yonch]

EVERYONE'S FAVORITE COSMIC JOKE

[lembowe]

It's put Loop through the ringer time :)