#time travel nonsense

[bobwess]

The new chapter for Wait for the Ricochet is about 2/3 done, and has surpassed 5500 words, so she's gonna be a little long. Figured I could spare sharing a preview. Sneak peek at the beginning of Chapter 7. (DRAFT- not complete)

“Garth?”

“Howdy guys.” Garth circled the car, pulling Dean into a hug while he was still frozen with surprise. He quickly switched and met Jody with one right after. 

Jody smiled, pulling back. “It’s been what, five years since those vamps up in Kingsbury?” 

“Almost five exact.” 

“I hear you’re rocking a set of fangs these days.” 

Garth bowed his head. “Yeah, got bit shortly after.” 

“Dean gave me the cliffnotes.” Jody said. “Heard congratulations are in order. That you got hitched.” 

“Guilty.” He dug into his pocket, fishing out his wallet and opening it to a well loved photograph. “Have a daughter, Gertie. Turns four next month.” 

“Gertie.” Jody said, fondly as she looked into the smiling face of the kid in Bess’ arms. 

“What about you?”

Jody turned her smile back at the door. “Yeah, I found myself a family too.” 

“Oh?”

“You’ll meet Claire in a bit.” 

“I’m sorry, what the hell are you doing here?” Dean asked, finding his voice again. 

Garth leaned back against his car. “Same thing as you I reckon. Pack did a drive-by of our town, I’ve been on their tail ever since.” 

Dean closed his eyes, leaning his head back. “Great, just what we need.” 

“Hey, Five heads is better than one, It’d be great to have some back up on this one. Sam inside?”

“First off, my case, you’re the back up.” Dean said, finger up, ignoring Jody rolling her eyes to his left. “And no, Sam’s not here.”

Jody flashed another smile. “And it’ll be six heads.” 

Garth looked at Dean with an expression he didn’t like in the slightest. “Is Castiel with you?”

“Yeah-” Dean said, watching Garth’s eyes widen slightly. “Why?”

Garth straightened up slightly. “I’ve wanted to meet him.” 

“Since when?”

“I came across this set of books… It seemed to be about-”

“Nope.” Dean cut off abruptly, face flushing. “You forget you ever saw them. They don’t exist, you hear me?”

Jody’s brows raised. “Now I have to know.” 

“No you do not.” Dean said firmly, coughing slightly before pivoting as fast as he could. “Garth we’ve got this, you can head back to Bess.” 

“No can do mi amigo.” Garth said, shaking his head. “I made a promise to my pack to protect them, and these guys are drawing too much attention. If the wrong person tracks them back they ain’t gonna be asking questions about cow hearts.” 

Dean groaned. “Fine, but there are things you have to know.”

Garth looked at the door. “It have to do with mysterious number six in there?”

Dean rolled his eyes. “We’re in the middle of a case, ran into a bit of a situation.” 

“Lay it on me.” 

“Time travel fuck-up.” Dean sighed. “It’s me.”

“You? As in you you?”

“Yes, as in me.” 

“Him as in teenager him.” Jody interjected. “Kid is what, fifteen?”

“Sixteen.” Dean admitted.

“Woah.” Garth breathed. “That’s some wacky shit you stepped in.” 

“Tell me about it.” He shook his head. “Be careful what you say around him.” 

“You got it.” Garth said, straightening up and rubbing his hands together. “Should we get to it?”

[brineffxiv]

What will we find in this secret room?

Ah! An echo vision!

The Exarch - as himself? as G'raha Tia? - and Urinager... Oh, I must be about to learn the truth behind their actions, and the plan they had.

Then it is as Emet-Selch proposed? You did all this for me?

Cid! Cid survived the Eighth Calamity!

Goddamn, Cid is brilliant. He figured out time travel. Or at least, a very specific form of travel that might allow someone to arrive in the past.

Oh. You're from the far future. You didn't wake up until long after Cid was dead.

I don't understand how time travel works in this universe... How can G'raha be erased from existence when we avert the calamity without our present selves being erased as well? Thus un-averting the calamity and un-erasing G'raha?

I hate time travel so much it makes my brain hurt.

Ah. Emotions. I feel them keenly, but I find my ability to articulate them is lacking.

Then... these people did all this, for me, even knowing that the very act of doing it would unwrite their existence.

I feel kind of like Urianger: holding my head in my hands and begging for a moment to get my thoughts straight.

That was indeed it then. The lies, the secrecy, all to ensure we wouldn't stop him from killing himself to save me. Urianger didn't have a vision of the future at all, that was made up as well. It feels so simple, and yet, it makes sense.

The Tempest is the ocean? What's left of the ocean? Well, I suppose that explains how it could be dark. I don't know how Emet expected me to come meet him there though. Unless he knows I can breathe underwater...

[ruporas]

feast (ID in alt)

[sysig]

How far did you get? (Patreon)

[thresholdbb]

what's the threshold theory

There was a post about how Tom is the only crew member who isn't really affected by the Borg, and there's a theory that he has so much luck because he saw the past and the future when he crossed the transwarp threshold. He saw the past and the future, all of time and space. There's some subconscious part of him that remembers that experience. In fact, Tom refused to play a part in Chakotay indulging Annorax's temporal incursions, probably because a part of him knew nothing good could come of it.

If we extend that same theory to Janeway, some of her wild luck with time travel and other crack plans starts to make sense. She doesn't verbally hate time travel until after the events of Threshold, since it happens in Time and Again without complaint. Janeway has an uncanny knack for time travel, as evidenced every time she deals with it. She hates time travel, but it might be because part of her knows exactly how to manipulate the timeline. She manages to avoid the "inevitable" temporal explosion in Future's End, saving both Voyager and Braxton. She resets the entire timeline in Year of Hell, and no one else followed her reasoning. She pulled it off flawlessly. In Relativity, she senses the incidents are all related, despite it being just one reading that connects them. By the time she's involved, she has a temporal incursion factor of .0036 and a time travel protocol named after her, even if that may just be Braxton's personal grudge. Then there's Endgame, where she intentionally changes the timeline. Up until this point, she has been dragged into time travel, but for the first time, she jumps in on purpose. How does Admiral Janeway know how to get them home sooner in a way that completely avoids the Temporal Integrity Commission? It's because she has seen all of time, and part of her knows exactly what needs to happen so she can get Voyager home and do it in a way that becomes baked into the prime timeline. Maybe she doesn't consciously remember what happened during her transformation, but the experience lives in her mind somewhere, guiding her decisions.

[duplicitywrites]

harry 'good at picking names' potter

“Woss your name?” Stan persisted. “Neville Longbottom,” said Harry, saying the first name that came into his head. “So—so this bus,” he went on quickly, hoping to distract Stan, “did you say it goes anywhere?”

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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“This is the copy of Advanced Potion-Making that you purchased from Flourish and Blotts?” “Yes,” said Harry firmly. “Then why,” asked Snape, “does it have the name ‘Roonil Wazlib’ written inside the front cover?” Harry’s heart missed a beat. “That’s my nickname,” he said.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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“And your first name?” “I—Vernon. Vernon Dudley.” “Check the list, Scabior,” said Greyback, and Harry heard him move sideways to look down at Ron, instead.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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Harry crouched down so that Albus’s face was slightly above his own. Alone of Harry’s three children, Albus had inherited Lily’s eyes. “Albus Severus,” Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, “you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.”

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

[bilbao-song]

im being subtle today

[pianokantzart]

Having held up pretty well for the past 21 years, old man Leo's long past due for tlc

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

The problem with big fandoms (using "problem" in a very loose sense here) is that it's really hard to stumble across the weird niche undertagged stuff when its being buried in five million coffee shop/royalty/high school/soulmate aus. If there are 150 works in the tag total you can look through very quickly and find anything that appeals to you. When there are over a million it is much harder to do that.

[bobwess]

New Chapter of "Wait for the Ricochet" a time travel nonsense SPN fic

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Dean made eye contact with Cas in the rear view mirror as they pulled up in front of the motel. "You two hop out, I've got a few errands to run."

Young Dean looked up, hand on the door handle. "What?"

"I'll be back in a few hours."

"We can come." Young Dean tried to settle back in his seat.

"I've given Cas permission to tell you how we met. If you want to know, you're going to get out of this car right now."

Young Dean froze. "You-"

"Your choice."

[bisexualbard-writes]

[lurkingshan]

So Jom broke up with Yai just for the drama, I guess?

[gingerly-writing]

Prompt #3307

"Don't make me kill you.”

"That would kill us both-"

"Worth it, to stop you. To stop us."  

[kaus-quietis]

first Sans cleansed us of colonialism by doing absolutely nothing, now Reigen is cleansing us of twitter by doing absolutely nothing......... a series

[blackplaaague]

If I had a time machine I'd go back to 2014 with my knowledge of modern FNaF and make a youtube channel talking about everything I knew from the present of the franchise as vaguely as possible. Eventually, I would slip up and namedrop a game that wasn't out yet and I'd vanish off the face of the earth, returning to my proper time period and leaving nothing but a single video explaining why William Afton is non-binary coded and I can prove it. There would be scenekid artstyle fanart of my persona and Phone Guy.