#not remembering the loops

[flowerflamestars]

So, I was rereading No Grave Can Hold My Body Down (again 💕) and I became fascinated by the idea of Ch1 from Nesta’s pov. Her first few loops were pretty short she quickly starts planning, taking notes, and befriending gods. Nesta doesn’t know Lucien very well so I picture her scratching her head, staring at her flowcharts where Lucien’s name is circled with “???” written after it because he’s so much less predictable then everyone else. Why is Lucien, of all people, the only one who seems to change independent of her own actions? If she has to listen to Feyre whine about one of disappearing acts ONE MORE TIME she might hunt him down and strangle him herself. And then she’s moping next to him at the bar at Feyre’s Awful wedding and “she never really loves him either”

Also, WHEN exactly did Elain get a pet HELLHOUND?

PS I love that the loops after Hybern wins Lucien’s just like “fuck this shit. MURDER” and then “fuck this shit I WANT MY MOM”

oh that is so fun a thought!

A few things: while Nesta might present herself, by the time Lucien catches up several centuries in, as having an established pedagogy of time magic bullshit churning away, she fully spent the first few loops going completely insane.

The loops only end with death, or the timeline reset- they don't end when each other dies. So, for example, Loop 4- Lucien kills Tamlin, and he gets thrown into Loop 5. Nesta lives out six years of Loop 4 before straight up murdering Cassian, and getting reset on her way to do the same to Rhysand.

Experientially Lucien, in equal parts due to genuine wonder if ANY of this is real and the fact that being carrying along by a greater, shitty force is a very specific misery he can't seem to escape, lets the timeline happen to him, unless he really can't stand it.

Nesta goes in the Cauldron, or Nesta dies, and the Cauldron thinks this whole thing is the best amusement to exist in millennia.

So Nesta 1)knows everything happening is real, 2) keeps making even small butterfly wing changes that keep having bizarrely huge consequences, and 3) has already spent so long telling herself not to look at Lucien Vanserra he's functionally her own sexy blind spot.

Lucien being singular just seems SO MUCH LIKE LUCIEN to Nesta that it's infuriating but not incriminating.

She's not sure when she says it. She's interested- more now than centuries earlier- he's never fit but finding out why bowls her over. Convinces her that maybe, maybe, Nesta selfish, Nesta wanting really had started the loop in the first place, what she's been afraid of for years.

Lucien never thinks he started it, but he does start wishing it would never end.

As for Daisy, our beloved murder pup- SPOILERS FOR THE TIME LOOP BABES- that's the thing, isn't it? That's the real first unaltered timeline, with Nesta's suicide attempt and Lucien's slow moving collapse and Elain deciding to burn the world down rather than lose her sister. Loop 0.

Like the Cauldron, or Mezo, or other creatures, Daisy isn't quite touching time the same way. Elain is the Seer, and Eris has seer blood. He means to give her a gift to help make the impossible thing they want to do easier and succeeds in making a constant in the timeline. It's seamless. Lucien just expects it, Nesta's used to it- of course Elain and Eris keep being drawn together, of course Elain adopts a primordial Autumn creature, they're timeloops. the same sorts of things will always happen.

Won't they?

[captainkirkk]

I know time loop stories are often about characters going on an emotional journey and/or learning a lesson but if I was stuck in a time loop I would very quickly stop caring about consequences

Who cares if I spend all my money if the purchase wouldn't have even happened the next day? Who cares if I finally flip someone at work off? If I got angry and wanted to throw my phone at the wall, I could without needing to buy a new one.

Coming out of a time loop must be incredibly difficult. You'd have to relearn small petty consequences the way an astronaut relearns gravity after returning to earth. You have to relearn how to live like the next day actually matters.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The musical episode.

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[jq37]

Knowing your chaotic dumbass friends so well that you feel confident in ordering a special vulture dimension set and custom graphic for an episode that has exactly zero to do with vultures is a love language unto itself.

[kiwibrain]

i finished reading dungeon meshi, i needed to make a silly crossover :)

ill probably make a continuation with the dish description

EDIT: Part 2 here ✨

[lucabyte]

thinking about travelling-with-the-party loop doing things habitually without realising how deeply suspicious they are

[rongzhi]

Reviewing tactile paving in Wudaokou, Beijing

[video ID: A video from douyin that shows a first-person POV of a walk along an uncrowded granite city sidewalk. The camera is pointed at a downward angle, showing a silver walking stick sweeping back and forth over vertical block tactile paving, with white shoes stepping in and out of the bottom of the frame. A woman speaks in Mandarin Chinese as Simplified Chinese and English captions appear over the video. At one point, the woman encounters a pair of feet belonging to someone standing stationary at the edge of the tactile paving, but otherwise the path is unobstructed. The English captions read as follows: Okay, begin. I’m showing everyone this blind path. I was just walking on it and thought that it was especially distinct. Plus it’s very wide. This width is very wide. I feel like this is my ideal blind path. And then, just like… Sorry. When I walk on it, there’s also no particular obstructions. Like, there’s no trees boxes or anything super nearby. Uh, of course, I also don’t know if that’s true. In any case, I haven’t bumped into anything. I feel like this is the type of blind path that actually guarantees our safety. I really hope, like, that we can have more blind paths like this. /End ID]

English added by me :)

[ghosttoastx]

DUDE I FORGOT ABOUT THIS FROM LIKE 2 MONTHS AGO

You can see my efforts slowly decaying in some spots lol

[buppkizz]

a very small engiespy moment...

[villowrose]

a little bit of an unfinished short comic about a conversation between flowey and frisk, talking about them both struggling to heal and move on from their past in a post-pacifist route.

[lilmsmurderr]

Your love has become obsession.

Are you ready to become the one thing you hate to have what you want?

Concept art (a bit messy but that’s okay)

[old-desert]

I can't remember, or can I?

A lyrics comic on the song Amnesia was her name

[give-soup-please]

Holy SHIT guys I commissioned Kevan Brighting to say some comforting things as the narrator and it’s giving me LIFE. He did such an incredible job. Please give this a listen. AAAAAAAAAA

[tomaturtles]

The meaning of my destiny can be changed for your love.

Kawoshin Week Day 5: Rebuild + Time loop! 💜💙

[yesokayiknow]

do you ever think about how one of doctor who's most famous time loop episodes (heaven sent) isn't a time loop. like the fact that time is passing normally is a huge plot point

[lucabyte]

I don't know how everyone isn't also always constantly thinking about how burial rites seem to be potentially one of the few things Siffrin instinctively remembers about their culture. But rest assured. I am in fact always thinking about it.

Textless version where they're just hanging out. It's fine!