#time loop posting

[substitious-bastard]

stuck in the time loop but i just use it as a free day off. im not even trying to get out. i am teaching myself to knit. i am crocheting. i am cooking. not even doing anything crazy. just escaping capitalism for a week. day 375 and im not sure what lesson it's trying to teach but i've taught myself to handmake lace so all is well

[queer-asinfuckyou]

Time loops bring up interesting questions because like, where is the line on everything resetting? And how does that affect the way the time loop affects you? You can't make progress on projects (or start new ones) because they'll just reset the next day. If your hair isn't growing, your nails aren't getting longer, than your body isn't changing either. Which means that what you can do in the time loop becomes incredibly limited. You can't increase your physical health. Can't gain muscle mass, improve your heart, increase your lung capacity, anything. You also can't learn new hobbies because you can't develop the muscle memory for them. You'll always be just as slow and shaky as the first time you picked it up.

There's not NOTHING to do, you can always learn languages or educate yourself on a variety of topics, but it's all mental. It has to be, because that's the torture of the time loop. That the only think you retain are your memories. You can't be changing from day to day because then you would be changing from the day before and that's noticeable to someone else. No one else notices. You're trapped in here, alone.

[affricative-collective]

January 9th.

You slept unusually well today. That's a good sign, right?

"Good morning, love! Your breakfast's already done, don't worry! I wouldn't want you to get tired before going to work…"

The food's good too. How nice of them.

…

"So, mx. Thompson, about your promotion… The higher-ups must really like you, because you've got it!"

You can't believe what you're hearing, this might be the best day of your life so far!

…

Tired yet happy, you come back home. As you fall asleep, you can't help but wonder what more the future holds for you…

January… 9th?

"Good morning, love! Your breakfast's already done, don't worry! I wouldn't want you to get tired before going to work…"

Odd. You feel like you've heard them say it before.

…

"So, mx. Thompson, about your promotion…"

Oh, yeah! You were really lucky to get it, weren't you?

"You… already knew? I told Sam to keep it a secret!"

Something is definitely wrong.

…January 9th.

"Good morning, love! Your breakfast's already done, don't worry! I wouldn't want you to get tired before going to work…"

You've definitely heard this before. Is someone messing with you?

…

"So, mx. Thompson, about your promotion…"

Okay, no. This has to be a prank. Where are the cameras?

"Cameras…? What are you talking about?"

She's recording you, isn't she? This isn't funny anymore.

"Is- is everything okay? …Here, just go home. I'll tell the boss."

January 9th.

Okay. Deep breaths. How do you exit the loop?

January 9th.

It didn't work.

January 9th.

It didn't WORK.

January 9th.

WHY ISN'T IT WORKING?

January 9th.

…fine. let's see if it stops by itself, then.

January 9th. January 9th. January 9th. January 9th.

It won't work. But there has to be SOME way to exit, right?

January 9th. January 9th. January 9th. January 9th.

Maybe there is no exit. Maybe… maybe the only way out is…

"WHAT THE FUCK‽"

"DID THEY JUST JUMP OUT? WHAT DO WE DO?"

January 9th.

That wasn't it either. Of course it wasn't.

"Good morning, love! Your—"

Breakfast. Right.

January 9th.

"How did you know?"

January 9th.

"Why did you do that?"

January 9th.

"Good morning, love!"

January 9th.

Interesting, isn't it?

January 9th.

Every time you roll a dice, the same numbers come up.

January 9th.

Every time someone talks to you, they say the same thing.

January 9th.

Like computer programs. You put in an input, and get out an output.

January 9th.

You just gotta figure out what the right output is.

January 9th… January 9th… January 9th… January 9th…

"Good morning, love!"

Your breakfast's already done, don't worry. They wouldn't want you to get tired before you go to work.

January 9th… January 9th… January 9th… January 9th…

"So, mx. Thompson, about your promotion…"

The higher ups must really like you, because you've got it.

January 9th.

How much time would it have been? Years, decades?

It doesn't really matter.

January 9th.

Why are you doing this again…? Just to see what will happen?

January 9th.

No. It's to find an exit.

January 9th.

But there is no exit.

January 9th.

There are only loops, after loops, after loops…

January 9th, January 9th, January 9th, January 9th.

January 9th, January 9th, January 9th, January 9th.

January 9th, January 9th, January 9th, January 9th.

January 9th, January 9th, January 9th, January 9th.

January 9th, January 9th, January 9th, January 9th.

…something changed.

January 10th 9TH.

"Honey… Why were you acting like that yesterday?"

"Good morning, love! Your breakfast's already done, don't worry!"

"Hey, are you listening to me? Don't walk away like that!"

"I wouldn't want you to get tired before going to work…"

January 13th 9TH!

"I'm just… really worried about them."

"Good morning, love! Your breakfast's already done, don't worry!"

January 16th 9TH!!

…This loop is a lost cause. You should skip to the next one.

Good thing the window's open. All it takes is one jump…

January 17th.

there is no next one.

[rottendenpawitch]

if i were stuck in a time loop i would simply intuit my situation and spend each cycle enjoying infinite time having fun with my friends forever

[wadinginthevelvet]

hey guys! so as much as I’ve been enjoying it what’s up with the recent influx of time loop posts. every day all day on here just time loop time loop time loop. why are we all thinking about this so hard. is it just because of Groundhog Day or is there some deeper psychology behind this

[chemicalmagecraft]

I just thought of something… awful. Imagine being stuck in a time loop the day before a dnd session that you’ve been looking forward to for like a while. Maybe you just leveled up and got some feature you’ve been itching to unload on some poor schmuck goblin or you’re about to do something that the dm has been building up to for a while so you’re doing everything you can to get out of this damn time loop so you can finally play dnd with your online friends again

Only when you finally get out of the time loop and it’s tomorrow the dm has to rain check the session because something came up.

[skevethefool]

Wednesday is objectively the worst day to be stuck in a time loop. I will not be taking any questions.

[speedruntechnically]

(Trying to flirt) if we were in a time loop together I would try to save you every time even if I knew it was futile. I would go insane for you

[orcboxer]

those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what's about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn't coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death -- hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. "it won't reset anymore," you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you're still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them

[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.

[yonch]

EVERYONE'S FAVORITE COSMIC JOKE

[doydoune]

maybe we were never meant to be older than nine

caption from there is time to kill today legit one of the best aa fics out there please please go read it

version with text + close up

[itsnicsalad]

rainy sun🌧️☀️

[asukachii]

Jujutsu Kaisen 2 ED 1 | AKARI

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Reasons to play In Stars and Time: Canon Pronoun Warfare.