#timefuckery

[ohmerricat]

i believe that bootstrap paradoxes / stable time loops are inherently religious. if something exists as an effect without cause, if something has been there because it has always been there, if any surrounding events would shift around it to accomodate its always-being-there, if something sprung into existence out of the void because it always had to have sprung into existence, if something exists for no reason and with no apparent explanation once you begin to unravel the chain of events that supposedly lead to its arrival, then that something can be understood as none other than the work of God. God the writer; God that inserts a self-balancing perpetual motion engine into the narrative to resolve a plot hole. a bridge strung over the chasm of impossibility. it came to be because God-the-author decreed it so. because without it the story would grind to a halt, and that's the sound of the universe collapsing

nobody tell the doctor. they'd never get over it.

[earlymorningfoxhunt]

I really like how John proclaims himself as "Hastur, King, He Who Is Not To Be Named, Lord of Carcosa" the exact wording Kayne used in The King. my brains been reviewing the series is a different light now that time tomfuckery has been revealed and this line is feeding it. because we get to ask what came first Kayne saying it and it sticking in John's mind, or John proclaiming it in the 1300s and Kayne reciting scripture? either way it makes the entire series flow like poetry in the repetition and I am here for it.

[chai-en-kaadhale]

orveople should read room of swords on webtoon methinks

[hiveswap]

oh theyre self aware about it now

[lintwizardlyart]

Knight, Princess, Dragon

Felt like animating again so I jazzed up some portraits for these three.

Reblogs appreciated ♡

[coern]

yesh bonnie I bet the nostalgie smells sugary doesn't it. fuck my life

[anneapocalypse]

Still laughing about "Urianger is 1500 years old and saw the last Calamity." The Garlean propaganda was so successful.

[robyn-goodfellowe]

uh oh. youll never guess what just happened

[beronicalongcon]

FUCK reverse time capsule!!! time capsule sent backwards instead of forwards in time or rather...time capsule existing independent of time!!! time castle which pins character archetypes and plot points in place like buttlerflies to a corkboard!! archie has been 16 for over 50 years........

[banannabethchase]

hello I am knocking on your door and asking for some timefuckery sneak peeks.

Okay well if you insist my dear!

~

The guy laughs, head thrown back. The pink hair flies around his head. “Jesus, dude, you’re in the wrong place if you think we have enough money to build a real space for gorilla.”

Adam stares at him. “It’s Ring of Honor. What are you talking about?”

“This is HWA,” the guy says. “What the fuck are YOU talking about?”

Adam pulls off his hat and runs his hand through his hair. “I don’t – where even am I?”

”Ohio.”

“Ew.”

[ohmerricat]

this website really be advertising anybody . happy 300th birthday “stella star” bit of a redundant name but i suppose it works. the real question is why mid 20th century only. come on bestie branch out a little

[fusionbolts]

Honestly shoutout to discord for making my muse for adair punch me right in the face. God I love this man.

[slugghee]

Welcome to my lengthy and disorganized attempts at analyzing Quarters 14 from the Felt I guess

(Well, "analyzing" is quite generous. It's more like me digging myself into a deeper and deeper rabbit hole for 30 minutes.)

Quarters's power is so incredibly weird to me. Every other leprechaun with an object juju directly uses those jujus by themselves. Yet Quarters's quarters must be distributed across at least 7 other people in order to function. Like... what's even the point of them being his? (Not a dig at Quarters, I find this rlly interesting even if it probably isnt meant to mean anything).

The nature of the power itself is also strangely convoluted. The quarters can switch individuals of ostensiblble thematic connection between timelines, sure okay. That fits in with the rest of the Felt's timefuckery. But then they added a luck and doom element to it. Only by flipping your coin counterpart's side can you summon then. If you flip your own side you die. Not to mention the choices of pairings. Every other Felt member's powers are pretty simple to understand, so why does Quarters of all people have so many details and caveats to his?

Then the pairing decisions themselves are quite confusing, having less to do with the actual relationship between the members of that pairing and more to do with connections between their defining character traits. For example, Itchy starts fires via his reckless speed/Matchsticks puts them out, Die has a death doll and Stitch has a lifey one -> (https://homestuck.net/official/formspring/)

But then Hussie says that some of the pairings just "don't make much sense." So is it just arbitrary? Based on the numbers they happened to be assigned and nothing more? All and any connections between character traits are just coincidences?

(Snowman, of course, gets her own special pairing with herself. Is the fact that she cannot be replaced with a different individual a commentary on her increased relevance as a character? Or just smthing to do with her space/timeline powers? And what does that mean for Quarters's power???)

The practical use for Quarters's quarters seems tailored for oddly specific situations. I guess they could be used as a last resort — at the cost of potentially ending your life, you bring in someone else to deal with your sticky situation, whether they're better qualified for it or not, in hopes that they will either resolve it or take the fall for you. It's shifting responsibility, tying someone to your situation rather than facing it head-on. That, or knowing you yourself have no use in this situation, and for the sake of the team, you bet on your life to bring in someone who's more qualified for the job. In which case it's more like a brave, quasi-heroic sacrifice (given that if the sacrifice actually happened, you'd fail to bring the replacement anyhow.)

Landing on your coin partner's side could refer to characters replacing each other's function in the narrative once one becomes defunct (for the situation at hand). (Supplantation? Being interchangeable? Or being succeeded?) Meanwhile, landing on your own side could refer to characters being treated as irreplaceable — leaving behind a space that cannot be filled and consequences that can't be ignored, letting the narrative situation fester or resolve itself without them. And whether or not either happens is a 50/50 apparently. Purely based on luck... or probably just the illusion of it.

In this interpretation I have no idea what the luck element means. Is the coin flipping heads/tails thing just there to show that there are two potential outcomes? Does the luck part not actually matter? Realistically, if a writer were to make the decision to "replace" a character in this way it would not be a random, 50/50 choice. Is this a commentary on the divide between the characters' understanding of fate and the writer's hand in it? AM I LOOKING TOO MUCH INTO THIS?? (yes)

The most important coin pairing (and the only coin we ever actually see iirc) is the one between Quarters and Clover. Clover can utilize the boons of this power without any drawbacks for himself. Despite being a pretty unimportant character in the grand scheme of Homestuck, Clover's luck is integral to his funny gimmick in the Felt (who in its entirety is majorly defined by being a funny gimmick), and thus must be sated at all times. He can call Quarters to take his place in any situation he's too lazy to handle. Though this still has the effect of ripping Quarters out of whatever he's currently doing to deal with a potentially fatal situation. Can't imagine he'd appreciate that.

The significance of Clover/Quarters's coin pairing is most likely just an logical extension of their powers and not meant to have any broader meaning. Just thought it was worth mentioning. (Though if I could figure out the significance of luck in Quarters's power, maybe I could come up with something. Unfortunately I'm pretty stumped.)

Back to Quarters (the character.) His power is not using these coins. Anyone with a coin can do that. His power is just... existing to have them, I guess. And perhaps distributing them once. (We never actually see anyone other than him and Clover use their coin so it's technically possible he's just keeping the rest to himself). Perhaps being the most knowledgeable about how they work, given he's the one that gave his own coin to Clover for tactical reasons.

Also interesting that Quarters flipped his own quarter so nonchalantly that one time. Like... did he just not know what his juju did at the time? Does he trust in fate? Was this his first time flipping one of his coins at all? Did he want so badly to get away from socially interacting with Cans and Caliborn that he flipped the coin for the chance of getting away from them, even at the potential cost of his life? (I'm going with that last one actually that's rlly funny)

Unfortunately, we don't get to see all that much of Quarters. He almost kills Spades Slick that one time I guess. His character is defined a bit more in TIDOMS, where he's a man of few words who looks perpetually grumpy, but even then he gets less screentime than most of the others. We get a quick non-explanation for his power and welp time to move on guys! (He's not even in any of the background wall paintings like come on!!)

Finally, Quarters's design stands out to me. Almost every other Felt member has a clear philosophy behind their design. Doze is hunched over and slow, Die has 6s for eyes, Stitch has stitches, etc. Meanwhile, Quarters resembles... a bird? A lizard? A skull, perhaps? I really do wonder if there's an reason behind the quirks of his character design, if at all. It's not like there's no other leprechauns with unique animalistic mouths but they usually have a clear reason for it (and Sawbuck has other elements of his design that more obviously align with his power.) In addition, the other Felt members are often seen with their portable object juju if they have one, such as Eggs with his timer or Biscuits with his oven. Even in Matchsticks's case, though he doesn't have an object juju, he constantly carries around an item related to his power (a fire extinguisher). However, Quarters is most iconicly seen with a minigun. Unlike basically every other member of the Felt who shoves their power into your face every chance they get, Quarters feels quite divorced from his own power. He's a badass with a minigun first and foremost. And I don't know if there's a thematically significant reason why but it sure tickles my brain.

In conclusion, Quarters is THE weirdest felt member. Thanks for reading this far 👍

(Also its been like 5 years since I've actually read any homestuck lol so srry if I missed anything)

[nowwheresmynut]

My only contact with Professor Layton was through plvspwaa but it has been brought to my attention that Layton is around 39yo during his games. And through that discovery, i also found out that he was born in 1923?? Which only raises MORE questions wrt to that game. Especially since Luke and Inspector whatshisname are also there.

I posit that England exists in a time bubble in the AA-PL world and events happening in Britain all take place some time in the past. And i'm blaming Layton's timefuckery for that, because I hear that's something he does(?).

But also that means Nick could maybe meet the TGAA kids while in the UK.

[dgalerab]

dropping in to say your tua work wish upon a star fucks and i still think of the au every now and then and how you handled the timefuckery that is five

thank youuuuu i feel like canon is just like well he's an old man now but in a child's body, it's ~weird~ and like no shade to them but i was simply haunted by the duality of like. your missing brother is back just the same as he was when you last saw him but you're different and he's different and he lost his childhood but you all lost your childhood anyway. like you can't go back but he did go back but he's still so far forward.

anyway so i was like what if he was a child and the same age and an old man all at once.

[timetobeaghost]

Stranger Things 5 predictions

I think it's time, before the spoilers hit.

Things I am sure about:

Byler endgame!!!

Elmike drama/breakup/friendship arc very integral to the plot

Will has powers, duh.

Jopper endgame

Happy ending

which necessarily means Jonathan surviving!

and OG party surviving + El

VH1 dying, duh

Things I am pretty sure about:

Mike gets vecna'd

Will is like Henry, not like the lab kids, an OG power kid (his parents are Joyce and Lonnie)

Max survives, cause happy ending, dammit

Steve and Robin and Erica survive. Happy ending.

Lumax endgame!!

Rockie endgame

Things I predict, because I can:

Mike meets Max in the deeper mind lair or something, gets her out, has to stay/doesn't make it out with her

Vesna outs Mike in front of Max, cause another character being there makes it more interesting

Willel teamwork to go get Mike, no simple piggybacking possible because deeper mind lair - different ... time? (wth do I know?)

Flickegate - It doesn't have to be a kiss but timefuckery explaining the flickering with connection to Byler. I SEE THE VISION

Jancy not endgame, I think. Definitely no other Nancy ship tho!

I COULD see Nancy dying. I know I'm the only one, but I'm gonna predict it, It could be devastating without being show ruiningly devastating. It would fit thematically (when Steve for example would just be random cruelty so someone dies)I just have this feeling. Still, she might live and it's a happy ending sweep. If someone important dies, I say her.

Things I wish for:

Argyle

For my beloved Mike/Max plot, I'll add Lucas thinking they are in love now (because Mileven breakup and Max obsessing about that Mike saved her and they need to get him out) and then being so relieved he is gay. Come on, there is always time for romantic hijinks and it would be such a fun thing for Lucas character. He would be all sad and saintly about it, so good.

In the last ep there is a moment that makes the painting prophetic. Mike leading Will and Lucas and Dustin into battle against the big bad.

I do want a moment of darkness from El, a fitting development from that time in S2 when she attacked Max - I do not mean attacking Max again, but maybe attacking Mike or ... something dark and the she has to actively choose the light again.

Kali comes back, proving that she wasn't for nothing.

10 appears! And somehow he is Eddie? 😂

STEVE/KALI the only Steve ship that truly slaps for some reason

Hopefully it will be the best "This only worked out because of everyone's actions" finale ever. Or at least second best since ST1.