#Deja Vu All over Again

[halloawhatisthis]

[killervelveteenrabbit]

Scenario: America has the chance to elect its first female president, and everyone's excited about it. But despite having strong qualifications, a likable VP choice, and the lead in the polls for most of her campaign… she still loses to a fascist hatemonger who ruins everything he touches, all because many of the people who said they'd vote for her, didn't because they assumed she'd win anyway.

Sound familiar? 2024 could be 2016 all over again if we get complacent. Polls aren't votes. Make sure you're registered, and don't take some fly-by-night website's word for it: check with your local election commission, and then plan how you'll get to your local polling place to vote for Harris/Walz.

This election really is for all the marbles… and we're the marbles. The worst thing you could do this November is warm the couch assuming other people will do the work of democracy for you.

[terapsina]

THE POLLS 2 & 3 OF TIME LOOP EPISODES FOUND HERE (also where in a week I'll put the winners into a separate ultimate poll).

[girl4music]

Yep. They actually did this.

What we now know as “And they were roommates” was “And they were soulmates”

And at this point in the show, there was absolutely no denying that Xena and Gabrielle were a couple.

I remember Renee talking about this scene in her commentary for it as the director of the episode and she said the reason they did this was because they knew while Xena was reincarnated into Joxer’s body, they could absolutely get away with the kiss even though it meant that it was Xena kissing Gabrielle.

Apparently the studio censors didn’t really care about the context of the scene, so long as it didn’t look like a woman was kissing another woman. So they did it. Again - because the cast/crew wanted it. Not because it was a way that they could ‘bait’ a queer audience.

[snowbellewells]

CS Fic Rec Monday: "Deja Vu All Over Again" by: @msgenevieve447

This fic diverging from "Operation Mongoose Part Two" is just so incredibly lovely!!! I always love to return to that point in canon because I loved deckhand!Killian. Plus, in this story the angst and affection Emma feels for him while missing “her” Killian is so well done. It just grabs you by the heart and you want every second of it. This is a wonderful longer one shot you can really sink into, and if you haven’t read it, or even if it has been a while and it’s time to read it again, don’t miss this one! 💕

(I also attempted some cover art for it @msgenevieve447 - hope you’ll like it!)

"Deja Vu All Over Again" by: @msgenevieve447

[longliverockback]

John Fogerty Deja Vu All over Again 2004 Geffen ————————————————— Tracks: 01. Deja Vu (All over Again) 02. Sugar-Sugar (in My Life) 03. She’s Got Baggage 04. Radar 05. Honey Do 06. Nobody’s Here Anymore 07. I Will Walk with You 08. Rhubarb Pie 09. Wicked Old Witch 10. In the Garden —————————————————

Alex Acuña 

Kenny Aronoff

John O’Brian

Bob Britt 

Paul Bushnell

John Fogerty

Viktor Krauss

Dean Parks 

Aaron Plunkett 

David Santos

Benmont Tench

* Long Live Rock Archive

[takeonmetakemeon]

chinese company threatens the us auto industry by making cars americans want for a price they can afford

if you're going to abandon entire market segments...

[theknightlywolfe]

When your favourite song comes back on the radio.

It's just one of those interesting days, isn't it!

(oh, and Nadine Dorries resigned as well. Two by-elections, coming right up...)

[hitchell-mope]

The first of many end of season telekinetic door closes.

[halloawhatisthis]

Elementary playing the long game with Odker (part 1):

1x18 Déjà Vu All Over Again 1x21 A Landmark Story 2x03 We Are Everyone 2x04 The Poison Pen 2x11 Internal Audit 2x13 All In The Family 2x15 Corpse De Ballet 2x16 The One Percent Solution 2x17 Ears To You 2x23 Art In The Blood 2x24 The Grand Experiment

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#I Just Got Deja Vu

[lunarharp]

being attached to that moment qifrey held a baby one time and my ideas for the future :)

[thosewildcharms]

not to over-indulge in my own tags and this extremely hyperspecific au but walk with me for a minute. it's this scene from the series finale of LOST except make it rick and michonne. and instead of it being them reuniting in the afterlife it's them reuniting after the poof! no apocalypse timeline reset and they're getting flashbacks of the original zombie apocalypse timeline. do you see my vision.

[starculler]

strap in for this week's fic flavor: the failsafe episode of season one of the young justice cartoon except the simulation just won't. fuckin. end.

(fics that inspired this at the end)

If I ever did sit down to make my own fic, I'd split it in 3 parts:

The Simulation: bits and pieces of the 40 years Dick lives after most everyone he knows has died

The Return: the immediate aftermath and healing from the trauma of having not-quite-actually lived a whole life only to wake up and find out it was all fake. nothing traumatizing about that whatsoever.

The Unintended Consequence: aka the twist I'd love to add and would hint to in the second part - finding out the simulation, through martian mind fuckery, pulled from the real world (and in many cases, from real minds). Dick meets a bunch of people he didn't think were real outside the confines of his simulated life. A bunch of rowdy, heroism-inclined teens across the years get to meet the sibling/friend/mentor figure they all dreamed up one night.

(actual idea snippets under the cut)

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Dick Grayson is 14 and most of the world's heroes have died. He planned a suicide mission that left him the sole survivor of a doomed team he helped found. The invasion may have been stopped, but is this really the price he wanted to pay?

The first face he sees in the infirmary is Roy's, and he has to close his eyes and just breathe for a few minutes because for one painful moment he'd thought it was Wally. But this isn't the world where his best friend miraculously survived alongside him. This is the one where he got his best friend killed and didn't even give him the courtesy of following behind him. Behind them.

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Dick Grayson is 27 and has lived longer without Bruce than with him. The invasion's anniversary is always a tough day for him, but that morning seems especially harrowing. He'll get shit for it later, but can't resist stepping out onto the balcony of the manor's master bedroom (Bruce's old bedroom) for a smoke -- his first since he'd promised to quit if Jason, just 15 then, did too.

"Bad habits tend to pile up," he'd said, a rueful quirk to his tired grin. He'd tapped the cigarette twice on the railing and added, lower, "and this one's especially nasty, huh."

He inhales, watches the sun creep across the horizon, and lets acrid smoke burn through his lungs for a long moment before blowing it out in a small cloud. His eyes water, but he doesn't cough. It tastes just as bad as it did the first time he smoked one, not even a year after the invasion and treading water as Robin proved insufficient.

There hadn't been enough heroes to go around then, and Dick had been trained by one of the best. It hadn't been fair, but it had been his plan that had ultimately stopped the invasion. His shoulders everyone's expectations fell on.

He takes another drag, then smudges the lit end against the rail he's leaned on when he hears a boot scuff purposefully against the roofing above him.

"Todd and Pennyworth will be upset with you."

He doesn't turn around. Damian doesn't jump down to join him.

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Dick Grayson is 54 and wakes up in a room full of ghosts. He hears his long-dead father-figure tell his long-dead team about a simulation they weren't meant to win. A training exercise gone wrong and only half a day spent under their mentors' careful, if slightly panicked, supervision.

He looks at his hands, watching the way his gloves crease when he flexes them in and out of tight fists. He looks at his team, their eyes a little haunted but shoulders slumped with relief even as they grumble. Batman's heavy, gloved hand settles on his shoulder and the weight of it is a nauseating mix of foreign-familiar.

He opens his mouth. Closes it.

Tears prick his eyes behind his domino mask, and he tells himself the suffocating, acidic void building in his chest is just some leftover side effect of the ordeal and not the grief-guilt of outliving yet another family (no matter that they hadn't been real in the end).

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Dick Grayson is 16-going-on-56 and well used to the coincidences piling up between his simulated life and the real thing. Some of it -- missions and villains he remembers cropping up -- he's marked for Bruce to review and sort as he pleases. Some -- security for the cave, team building anecdotes, and training regimens -- he's shared with the team. And some he keeps only for himself.

Tim is one of those. He knows it's not fair to the kid (so much smaller now than he ever was when Dick lived his simulated life), but he can't help being selfish just for this. Tim is the one kid he's sure he didn't make up, and if Dick's taken to babysitting the kid just to be near at least one member of the family he built for himself in the wake of the worst days of his life .... Well, anyone who says shit about it can happily stand in line to have their teeth kicked in.

Despite this, it still catches him off-guard when he sees a familiar face pop up in one of Bruce's reports.

Jason Todd, caught boosting tires off the batmobile, is nearly the same age now as he was when Dick met him. He stares at the words, but none of them really sink in beyond the kid's name and address. He's moving before he's even made the decision.

He's used to the world kicking him when he's down - lived it for 40 frustrating years. But he has Bruce again. And things with Tim have been so good. And he's always been selfish when it comes to family. If he could just see Jason. If he could just meet him. If he could talk to him.

If if if if if--

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Inspirations:

Circles in Shattered Mirrors by InfinityIllusion

Fine (But Not Okay) by CharlotteDaBookworm

Verisimilitude by mutemelody

[lost-carcosa]

"History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme." ~ Mark Twain (attributed)

[littleguypumpkinsheep]

This was something I was thinking about a While ago but I just remembered it again. I think the reason I relate so heavily to Sans is because to me he reads as a character with depression and chronic fatigue and pain. And an accurate representation, at that. Having the lowest hp out of every monster can’t feel good, physically, I mean. He’s just running on the absolute bare minimum to keep him alive. And asides from his knowledge about the whole timeline thing, I think he’s just depressed in general from his illnesses. And he’s tired. Both physically and mentally. He jokes about not picking up The Sock, but his brother mentioning it so often probably does eat away at him. (Not saying Papyrus is at fault!)