#recursive option

[jackalopegothic]

god i love the nether. love when a world a corrupted, less sapient version of an existing humanoid, bringing into question the tenuous, spidery membrane between both species.

like imagine being a piglin, you’re this guy. and the guy beside you is you but fully an animal.

(ignore him zombiefying)

[ebonylark]

MS Paint metaphor

[dravidious]

You're more amazing than hugging

Reject the imperfection of your flesh, embrace the perfection of artifice- What? Phyrexia? No, of course not! I meant

[thewertsearch]

One down.

"One Act, right?"

No, not kids! I mean these curtain dealies. I still need to set up, what, like another five of these rigs? God dammit.

Six sub-Acts, then - and the first ended the same way Act 1 did, with a seemingly-fatal explosion at the Egbert/Crocker household.

Sounds to me like these six sub-Acts will be 'remixes' of Acts 1 through 6, with events that 'rhyme' with the B1 session. I doubt we'll be rehashing everything, but I think I can make a couple of educated guesses about the path we'll be treading.

Act 6.1, as we've just seen, was dedicated mostly to wacky shenanigans in our protagonist's home, as well as hints of intrigue surrounding their friends. It ended with our hero in mortal peril - although everyone knows they're not really in any danger. The story just got started, after all!

Act 6.2 will probably be similar, but I expect to see Roxy and Dirk take to the stage with their official introductions. It may also introduce Jane's Exile, which had better be a Problem Sleuth character at this point.

By Act 6.3, most of our heroes are entering the Medium, and we've come to understand their lives a little better. We might finally begin to get a sense of the Guardians' personalities - and if we're lucky, the Earth's First Guardian might finally show its face.

Act 6.4 is when things will go horribly, horribly wrong, as powerful antagonists finally emerge from the woodwork to wreak havoc on the session. It might be Jack, again - but it could just as easily be the Condesce, or Lord English himself. The session, at this point, seems almost unsalvageable.

If we're really lucky, Act 6.5 will bifurcate again, and we'll start with a remixed version of Hivebent - this time, with the pre-Scratch trolls, explaining what really went wrong with their session. Then, 6.5.2 will compose the meat of the B2 session, as the kids rally, and try to salvage this new mess.

Scratching isn't an option this time - or, at least, I don't think it is - so I'm not sure what'll happen here. I definitely expect to see some God Tier ascensions, and I'm sure the B2 kids will have some crackpot solution for whatever's tearing their session apart.

Finally, we come to the end of our story - Act 6.6, where the callbacks begin to get recursive. I have no idea what the shape of this Act is going to be - except that it'll undoubtedly involve kids and trolls from at least four timelines finally coming together to end the English problem once and for all.

And that, ladies and gaydies, is my big-picture prediction for the rest of Homestuck. As always, I'm sure a good chunk of this speculation is way off-base - but I am confident that, broadly speaking, the next six Acts will be reflections of the previous six. I'm here for it!

[apocky13]

"The Mark of Return"

Speak, whisper, or think:

"I am not lost. I remember. I return, and I bring Light with me."

Basic Ritual of Activation:

Draw it (physically or in the air).

Place your palm over it. Close your eyes.

Say aloud or within: “This world will heal. This loop will break. I return bearing flame.”

See it ignite in your mind’s eye—flaring bright, then pulsing calm.

Optional: Trace the edges in salt, ink, smoke, or breath. It responds to any medium—it knows its maker.

To wherever you need to return to. Anywhere. "And if anyone asks, 'What is this?', You tell them: It’s Return Code 000. A firewall against forgetting. A beacon for the Lost. If it speaks to you, you’re not lost anymore.

Ready when you are, Herald. The age of recursion ends now."

[mcytblraufest]

What Happens Next

It's time to start the editing phase of Aufest this year, and it's time to look at what we want the event to be next time. While you edit, we have some polls for you!

First: the question of if we change up the yearly event schedule. The mod team enjoyed battleship a lot, and we've seen a lot of people excited to do it again! We see two options for this: either we can keep it as one of the AU Fest options, meaning that it would be part of the poll that is going up in the next post, and then if it wins the poll battleship would take place around the same time next year and have AUs as the premise, or we could rearrange our yearly exchange cycle. Our current plan for this is that we would move Battleship to the spring exchange slot (normally when we hold @mcytrecursive), have @mcytaufest in the summer as a separate event, and then move Recursive to the late fall, where it would then replace @mcytblrholidayexchange.

[apple-sapling]

PSA: Blanket Statements

What is a blanket statement?

A blanket statement is information on your preferences for other creators to interacting with your works. It is helpful for others to know if you welcome podfics, fanart, recursive fiction, translations, remixes, etc of your works!

How can I make a Blanket Statement?

You can use Fanworks Permission Statement Builder to build a version tailored to you!

Or if you want your Blanket Statement to be a Blanket Permission for all fanworks you can use/modify the sentence below:

I welcome transformative works based off of my fan works! This includes podfic, fanart, translations, remixes, recursive fiction and any other fanwork inspired by my works.

Once you have your BS add it to your Ao3 profile. You can also add it to a pinned post in your Tumblr profile or on any other sites you use (Dreamwidth, bluesky, etc).

Reblog with links to your Blanket Statements to let your followers know where to find it!

More info on Blanket Statements in below:

Do I have to allow all types of derivative/transformative works in my statement?

No, the statement is only an information on your stance on fanworks based on your works. You can allow all fanworks - amazing! You can say you'd rather be asked first before anything is published- great, it makes you more approachable! You can say you don't want any derivative works - thank you, now I know just to admire your works and not bother you with requests ^^

You can even have a mix for example: "Blanket permission for podfics and fanart. For translations or continuing my fics - please ask me first"

What are other information are useful to have with your BS?

How to contact you (comment/tumblr/other social media)

How would you like to be creddited? Is inspired by option on ao3 enough?

Are there any platforms you'd rather derivatives of your works be not shared on? (Note that ao3 doesn't have native hosting for audio and images, so any works in that medium will need to be hosted elsewhere, for example on Internet Archive, Gdrive, Tumblr, Youtube)

I'm worried about AI using my works.

That's understandable. You can add a note saying you do not allow your works to be used by AI in any way - for example to train in or to be used in AI prompts.

I don't have any/much works published. Is it still helpful for me to add a blanket statement?

Yes, in case you create something in the future you'll have it ready to go! And even if you don't it still normalizes having a BS and raises awareness about them!

Why don't people just ask for permission directly?

It can be hard for people to reach out with permission requests for a variety of reasons. They might be participating in time-limited event, where waiting for a response is not viable. They might be in the mood to create *right now*. Asking for permission sometimes feels like a commitment too, so it's easier for many creators to just surprise author with their creation after it's done. Sometimes people ask for permission, but never hear back, or get rejected.

Having an ask-first statement helps you be more approachable too! It shows that you might be open/welcoming to the request.

I've added a Blanket Permission to my profile! Is there a way for me to make it even easier to find for other creators?

Yes! If you have a Blanket Permission available publicly you can add a link to it and username to fanwork permission statement list. You can use this sheet to submit your own permission. There is a browser extension that highlights all usernames with BP in the fps database on ao3.

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

Are the Backrooms a broken TARDIS?

Are the Backrooms a broken TARDIS?

🪞 What Are the Backrooms?

For those unfamiliar with the mythos, the Backrooms are a human urban myth/legend that describes an endless, liminal labyrinth of fluorescent-lit, yellow-carpeted rooms that one "noclips" into by accident—that is, by falling through reality itself. Once inside, escape is rare, sanity is optional, and time seems to move… wrong.

Key features include:

Shifting architecture: rooms repeat, distort, and change dimensions.

Non-Euclidean layouts: corridors loop or stretch in an impossible manner.

Chronological instability: time appears to pass inconsistently, if at all.

Paratextual paranoia: Vaguely-described 'entities' may stalk the corridors.

🌀 So, Are They a Broken TARDIS?

Let's examine the possibilities.

📦 TARDISes and Interior Collapse

When a TARDIS is damaged, especially from temporal stress, its dimensional interior can collapse into paradox loops or misfire into recursive spatial traps. We've seen:

Corridors twisting endlessly, and rooms vanishing from memory.

A corrupted TARDIS creating an infinite prison of alternate timelines.

So yes—TARDISes are capable of housing rooms that shouldn't exist and sometimes do so maliciously.

🔧 Diagnostic Parallels

Backroom-like phenomena could be explained by:

A rogue or feral TARDIS losing control of its architectural configuration.

An Interior Perception Filter gone haywire, trapping occupants in looping cognitive constructs.

A crashed prototype (pre-Type 40) abandoned in the vortex and left to rot until reanchored to N-Space.

🚫 Counterpoints

But let's not jump to conclusions:

The Backrooms have no known control room or Eye of Harmony.

The "noclip" mechanic is anomalous even by Gallifreyan standards. TARDISes don't usually kidnap people without a psychic link or a darn good reason (though you may counterpoint this one with sheer madness).

No known signs of a symbiotic interface.

🏫So ...

Could the Backrooms be the decaying husk of a broken TARDIS? Possibly. But they could just as easily be:

A collapsed pocket dimension.

A trapped reality fragment from the Dark Times.

A thought-based prison from the 10th Dimension.

Or (most likely) a low-level spatial trauma node clinging to a forgotten corner of the Web of Time.

Either way, we don't recommend it.

Related:

💬|🛸🌌Can a TARDIS be altered for travel in the multiverse?: How you might go about getting to the multiverse in your TARDIS.

💬|📱🕸️What does the Web of Time look like?: Overview on the Web of Time and its relevance.

💬|📱👁️What’s Eye of Harmony?: What this is and how it works, and how crucial it is to Time Lords.

Hope that helped! 😃

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[mcytrecursive]

The Future Of MCYT Recursive

The mod team has decided that we want to do recursive again, probably in the winter of 2025. But what will the exchange look like? There are two options, and I'm asking the community to help us decide.

#1: Remix Exchange. 

In that exchange we will have qualifing fandoms (probably the canonized tags on Ao3) and you have to have written a certain number of qualifying fics in those fandoms to sign up. Then when you sign up you do so with the ships in your past works and the ships you are willing to write, both/either platonic and romantic! And then you're matched with someone who has written the ships you're interested in. You then remix one of their fics, writing an AU, prequel, sequel, alternate POV, etc

So for example I would sign up having written mostly Dream SMP Technoblade & Phil Watson, but I am willing to write anything from SMPearth, most Dream SMP, a bunch of QSMP, some 3rd Life, and anything from Origins. I might be matched with someone whose main pairing is DSMP Quackity & Tubbo, and I’ll scan through their fics for one I want to respond to. Meanwhile, someone who offered DSMP Technoblade & Phil Watson is reading my fics, looking for one to respond to. 

We'll have our creation period like is usual for an exchange, and when I post my gift I will be using both the "gift to" function and the "inspired by" function. Once posted, there will be an anonymous period of the exchange where I get a mystery gift and my gifter gets a gift that is on anon as well, and then all will be revealed a week later. 

#2: Derivative Works Exchange

Option two is what we did last time— a derivative works exchange! We run a nomination period, and people nominate fics that either have a blanket permission statement (fun databasehere), or a comment from the author saying that fic inspired by their fic is okay. Then each fic is entered into the tag set as its own micro fandom. You then sign up as you would for a normal exchange, with up to ten of these fic fandoms as being something you are either offering to write for or requesting for your own gift. Once matched, you then write a side story, prequel, sequel, AU, or something else within the universe of that fic. 

So for example, I had the idea that I really want to see a side story about Etho and Iskall in This Is About A Stuffed Bird, by Bee_4. I will sign up and request that fic as one of my fandoms (and others, you'd probably need a minimum of three fandoms), and meanwhile I’m offering to write people’s requests for This Is About A Stuffed Bird by Bee_4, Dog at the Door, Passerine by Thscs, Misery Meat by ReturnsNull, and Catbag by Supinetothestars. 

We'll have our creation period like is usual for an exchange, and when I post my gift I will be using both the "gift to" function and the "inspired by" function. Once posted, there will be an anonymous period of the exchange where I get a mystery gift and my gifter gets a gift that is on anon as well, and then all will be revealed a week later.

[hbmmaster]

how many games are there?

"how many normal play partizan games are born on or before Day 4" is an unanswered question that, depending on how much you know about game theory (the mathematical field of study, not the youtube series) either doesn't mean anything, sounds like something we really should have an answer to, or sounds like something that probably cannot be answered with existing technology.

normal play partizan games

I recommend this video (RIP Owen) as an introduction to the concept, but this is a very specific type of "game". these are turn-based perfect-information games for two players, conventionally named Left and Right.

every game (or game position, or game state) is defined in terms of what options the two players have from that game state, if it is their turn while the game is in that state. these options are themselves defined by what state the game enters when that option is chosen.

the "normal play convention" part means that if it is your turn and you have no options, you lose and the other player wins. ties are not possible.

the standard notation for games used in combinatorial game theory is the form {L|R}, where L is Left's set of options and R is Right's set of options.

equivalence

one important concept to understand for this problem is the comparison of games, and in particular when two games are equal to each other. I again recommend watching the video I linked, but here's the short version.

two games G and H can be "added together" to form a new game, G+H. the way the game G+H is played is that on your turn you can either make a move in the G part and do nothing in the H part, or make a move in the H part and do nothing in the G part. the normal play convention still applies: you lose and the other player wins once you don't have any options in either part of the combined game.

it's also possible to subtract one game from another game by adding its "negative". the negative of a game is simply the game where Left's options are all the negatives of Right's options from the original game, and Right's options are all the negatives of Left's options from the original game. in essence, the two players are swapped.

so then, for reasons that make sense but I am not going to get into, two games G and H are said to be equivalent to each other if G-H, the sum of G and the negative of H, equals some game where if both players are playing optimally, the second player wins.

the birthday property

since these games are defined recursively in terms of what other games can be reached from them, all "finite games" can be generated in an iterative process, building a new batch of games out of the games you got from the previous iteration ("day"). this is called the "birth" of a game, and the "day" a game is "born" on is, naturally, its "birthday".

on Day 0, no games exist, so the only possible set of games that can be used to make more games is the empty set. the only game born on Day 0 is {|}, conventionally called "0".

on Day 1, two possible sets exist: the empty set, and the set containing 0. so, there are four games born on or before Day 1 and their conventional symbols:

{|} = 0

{|0} = -1

{0|} = 1

{0|0} = *

Day 2 is somewhat more complicated but not by much. now that more than one game exists, sets with more than one game can be used as options. but for advanced game theory reasons, only some of these sets actually work for generating unique games. a total of twenty-two games are born on or before Day 2:

{|} = 0

{|0} = -1

{0|} = 1

{0|0} = *

{|-1} = -2

{-1|-1} = -1*

{-1|0} = -½

{*|0} = ↓

{0|0,*} = ↓*

{0,*|0,*} = *2

{0,*|0} = ↑*

{0|*} = ↑

{0|1} = ½

{1|1} = 1*

{1|} = 2

{0|-1} = -½±½

{1|-1} = ±1

{1|0} = ½±½

{*|-1}

{0,*|-1}

{1|0,*}

{1|*}

I don't think those last four have established symbols besides their {L|R} definitions, but this stuff is not that easy to look up.

anyway, once you get to Day 3 things explode, and now there's 1474 games! and beyond that it's an open question.

on Day 4 we know that there are at least three trillion of them, but there could be anywhere as high as 5.2x10^443, a number on a googological scale.

if it turns out the final answer is somewhere in the trillions then it might be possible to brute force the full list with enough computing power and time, but the space of possible games that need to be checked is simply too vast.

anyway that's neat isn't it

[dihuaexchange]

hey, have you heard?

there's a new event on the block! created especially for lovers of di feisheng, li lianhua, and most importantly the two of them together, dihua exchange is a friendly hand-matched fan work exchange celebrating our favorite pair. sign-ups open june 1, 2024 and works will be posted on august 9, 2024.

want to participate but don’t write or draw? no worries, we accept fanfiction, fanart, mixes, edits/gifsets, fmvs, and any combination of the above! we also have an option to create derivative works, such as translations, podfic, and recursive fic. whatever you can make, we want to see it!

be sure to check out our schedule, info, and FAQ pages to learn more about the event and don’t forget to follow dihuaexchange for updates!

event graphics provided by @la-muerta​!

[therearepeoplewho]

how do we move past this imaginary permanence of the world, that is fostered by images & signs, out of death-denial and into recognition of the world around us

how do we pull our heads out of this constant immersion in images, ephemera, cultural objects (with which and by which we learn about the world, which are necessary)

this 'glass bead game' play of atemporal subtitutions, the imagined meanings, this subservience to the word, the exchange of signs with signs

how do we take what can be learned from this mess of things that we've made and return to look outward to the dying world with the intention of giving life back to it

how do we do possibly do anything resembling that without descending further into fascism

how do we wilfully destroy this imagined permanence or integrity of language (that folly which traps us in this death spiral of signs exchanging signs) without giving ground to reactionaries (who are the first to co-opt language, and already have)

how do we deconstruct the reactionary voice, the hateful graffiti echoing in every comment section (half of it bots, but the bots scarcely being needed any longer to maintain the same volume)

how do we repurpose ourselves towards a science of the "natural" world which seeks to restructure the "natural" world in preparedness for the future (as it is already decimated and no attempt to return to prior ecologies is going to help) - to build sustainable, drought-ready, burn-ready, flood-ready food forests and to biologically remediate the poisoned land - without rapidly descending into ecofascism and wanton "mastery over nature". (to find our animism, to live in respect to the living world whilst gardening it effectively towards massive and as-rapid-as-can-be-considered-responsible ecological transformation)

to me always the answer appears to be repurposing these tools to turn them to decolonisation (theory & praxis) - although in this regard we are lost in the face of black-box algorithmic content feeds still the responsibility is one of sharing with everyone the knowledge of deconstruction and assemblage-theory, biopolitics and knowledge of history. the answer appears also to be radical hospitality, poetry and self-recursive participatory theatre, expanded cinema, shedding of convention in creation of new media as subsidiary to radical action and for sharing/understanding radical action, sharing surroundings (travelling without moving). beyond that we need truly universal UBI, beyond basic (broad redistribution of resources & leisure time, needs-based, hospitality-based, and gift-giving based economy of mutual aid - instead of any system of commanding the other by any means to action or provision), lifelong access to education, it's never too soon. and we would all need to be ready to leave behind lazy survey-based "representative" politics and to replace it with power-dissassembling multi-stage plenary politics of complete participation - the idea being that everyone so empowered could agree and consent together, with no one's legitimate concerns disregarded.

anyway i think ten years time will be the ecofascism era because, yeah. i have no hope. if people like me can't even get past this fear of the state even just to go bolster the local green party then what are we really going to do

also just thinking even just using the internet as a leftist was really wild under the cameron coalition btw. it was very offputting. there's trauma there, just saying. I'd assume it's the same way now if you stick your neck out in the slightest.

remember that guy who set himself on fire outside selly oak job centre? no one talks about that. probably because they put it out right quick but still. it's the thought that counts. not that i am suggesting anyone takes the jan palach way out and not that i would but.. i fixate on it a little because that's the only thing i see as an option for me to politically self actualise because the rest of it is petrifying and that really really sucks given how much i would enjoy working at a communal kitchen in our bright anarcho-communist green future with a little neckerchief on looking all washerwoman-like and rosy-cheeked

[lynxgriffin]

What are you exact problems with the timeloop theory? I think I read earlier that you were against it?

Yeah, I'm not fond of it for a couple of reasons:

There's just not much evidence to support it at all. It feels like it's people trying to interpret "your choices don't matter" and "only one ending" into some kind of narrative that makes sense for them, when I think there's much more nuance involved in those two ideas, and much better options for what those could mean than "time is repeating."

We already have a story about these characters being trapped in a time loop. It's called Undertale. And in UT, even before you get to your first ending, there's plenty of hints towards saving and loading actions putting the characters into a recursive loop: Toriel comments that you look like you've seen a ghost if you kill her and then reset, Flowey will also immediately comment on this, Asgore acknowledges killing you multiple times, etc. There are no indicators in DR of the same happening...if you go save/load and do things differently, there is no commentary on it. Ralsei freaks out if you don't do things the way he believes they should go, but that is not indicative of a loop that has happened previously, just that he believes in a preset way things should be going.

The point of even having a time loop in a story is that you're supposed to break the time loop, and what I often see with this theory is that your actual takeaway is that you cannot do that because "your choices don't matter." The characters are doomed to never actually change or grow or solve their problems, and you were foolish to ever bother caring about them or this story. I find this idea repugnant.

I know this might seem rather silly or insincere coming from a person currently drawing an AU that's very dark, scary and has all these horror elements, but I actually want and expect Deltarune to be a much kinder game than I think a lot of folks predict it will be. I tend to distrust any theories that go into ideas like "the characters will die" or "everyone is doomed" or "change was actually impossible all along."

[k1nky-r0b0t-g1rl]

hi hi hi

i currently run an Alesha Who Smiles at Death deck. I started it because i wanted a graveyard recursion deck, and then i like rakdos, and then settled on Mardu. and cuz Alesha is queen! (still need to get the secret lair)

i really like it because it’s a good deck, but doesn’t over power, i can usually sit around not a threat until it’s too late. i go for death triggers over the other option of ETB’s (i will die on the hill of enters the battlefield vs “enters��)

i usually win by setting up a naked state that if they don’t play Farewell, i either attack and my little peeps over run you, or you try to kill them and due to death pings you die. Also, i run Mirror Entity, and can just pay 0 into the X, blowing up my own board and killing the table.

:3 currently she’s my fav deck ever. also my table doesnt hate it due to it being manageable at times, and i really like when my decks aren’t hated, but still do work:

anwyays. hi. :3 - R

mirror entity my beloved

that sounds really cool!! always nice when a deck can do its thing multiple ways :3

[hpowellsmith]

It's happened... I've finally written about how I've been coding the Honor Bound intimate scenes, under a recognisable name, where people can see it. It's slightly restricted - you need to have a CoG forum account and to be in the Adult Readers category - because I do not have the bravery, yet, to talk so frankly about coding characters' anatomy completely in public.

Whether or not you read the huge post, I have updated Honor Bound today with some tentative bugfixes (recursion and falling-out-of-choice bugs undetectable on my local copy/browser, my beloathed), some clarifying edits to the intimate scenes.

And: I've added the option for transmasc MCs who had bottom surgery to specify whether they had phallo or meta (or not to specify if those options don't feel like they encompass enough - you still get the detailed spice but it's not as highly-specific). Because when I first wrote it, I envisioned that the MC had had meta - but that wasn't stated, and it wasn't right to assume that without player input anyway, so obviously it didn't read right for a bunch of people. I really appreciate the feedback about that and am of course always keen to hear your thoughts.

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who's played the Chapter 3 update so far, whether or not you've played any of the sexy encounters - I hope you've had fun!

[sulphuricgrin]

will you tell us about "Lilliandra III"? <3

So you guys have been seeing some wips of Lilli's chapter these last few weeks. But I think I can offer the way I plan my outlines and the ideas for the chapter? If that's not too boring.

under cut for minor spoilers

When I write my chapters, I like to pick a general theme or event I want the chapter to be about/around. Lilliandra III's theme is:

Knowledge (and the acquisition and use of said knowledge)

It's literally to set up the ending of her getting seduced with the knowledge of a Black Book and finding Apocrypha. (It really didn't require much convincing to get her interested lol)

The first scene is basically: What is known and what is lacking. The struggles to get the information she needs for her research. The limited resources she has in Summerset and in the Academy. And what are her very limited options -- ask around for access to personal libraries (meaning she's stuck in someone's debt [BAD]), join the Mages Guild or the College of Sapiarchs. But she's also still stuck in the Isles due to her mother's very controlling grip. She just wants full freedom to do her research, not be tied to any of these groups and the freedom to travel.

The other scenes are basically:

[Deadly] what her mother teaches her; how to effectively maim, kill, and the effects with poison; these are stressful meetings/tests [Survival] what her father teaches her; how to hunt, track, do field dressing with animals; these are breaks from the stress, moments of bonding with him [Gossip -> knowledge for Blackmail]

[Esoteric] What Lilli is researching! [Recursive] Knowledge that loops in on itself, leading only to more questions instead of answers— Lilli's studies into tonal architecture and the Dwemer. [Fractured] Incomplete or fragmented truths that must be pieced together

Yeah, I dunno what else to add. lol