#Retrocausality

[kidflashimpulse]

After having reread the first chapter of Retrocausality and the newest chapter of AAIT, I'm REALLY curious how Jaime will react when (if?) Bart tells him that Owen is in their timeline after having heard Bart's stories and literally having seen Bart cry about Owen and his past

Like okay, Jaime still being a Mom Friend and defending Owen after Bart said that he loves Jaime more than his own brother is such a Jaime thing to do but I also feel like Owen (accidentally?) completely messed Bart's view of a stable life up in their own timeline, and I very much believe that Jaime knows that and very much holds that against Owen

i don’t even mean this hyperbolically but u’ve nailed the situation exactly as it is (and nicely tied up the two plot points that were the reason for why i couldn’t help but post the prologue to Retrocausality, like i really couldn’t help myself LOL)

the “accidentally completely messed Barts view of a stable life up in their own timeline” is everything because yes, the horrors of a post apocalyptic society isn’t just the event that had caused everything and the wasteland of an environment they had to live in, but also the resulting toxic and abusive remains of a society that they have to grow up in and navigate.

Owen is a character who i see as deeply flawed, but that’s also inadvertently his appeal/charm. And I think his tropes play nicely into Barts themes. Owen’s not a bad person and he’s always just trying his best, but that doesn’t excuse his actions (?) either.

Whilst i think (and did atleast attempt to allude throughout AAIT in spite of/including the latest chapter) that the two cared for eachother deeply, i think it’s realistic to expect it to have been a heavy and loaded relationship. And despite Jaimes sympathetic mom friend nature (as u so nicely put it lol) he feels for Bart and in doing so he knows that he ultimately loved Owen which is ironically why he’s arguing with him because it’s like he wants to help bart untangle his messed up view of his relationship with owen. But hes only doing that because of his friendship and understanding for the other, and at the same time 100% does hold it against Owen.

there is then the role of what it means for jaime to be blue beetle and how Owen would cope with that, but that’s a whole other essay in itself 😹

as i low-key may have spoiled in some previous posts, the very important points that u’ve raised do manifest in upcoming chapters but- probably not in the way u might be thinking/expect, atleast not this “early” on in Retrocausality .

Thank u so much for reading and for sharing these thoughts with us, always so fun to read and think about <333

[poetrythreesixfive]

Will Be

What if this is retrocausality? What if something

I do in the future altered the time-space continuum

in reverse such that the weight of what is to come

pressed back against the foundational past and

put a crack in it? an ontological shockwave that

wrenched destiny into functional flow, rendering

endpoint ignition, for what will be must be, and so

anything that might say otherwise shall be silenced

by cosmic process, the novel written in reverse—

I will be, therefore, I am; then it all makes sense,

the rise, the fall, the pain, the suffering, all running

somewhere like a stream, torrentialing around the

bend where I cannot see the falls but can hear them

clearly, a world barrelling off the edge of the shelf

upon which our stories are lined up like dominos

waiting to tumble, with our dreams pointing back

upon us to tap gently and set them all in motion.

-GeorgeFilip

[nyarlathotep-the-dark-pharaoh]

What did you get Nobel Peace prizes in? Fucking guys? Idiot

actually they are not Nobel peace prizes one is for literature and one is for chemistry I think. I only took one of them the other was for my work in being cool as fuck. btw I fucked your mom. Like originally. That was me. hello my beautiful son Charles E. Watson in Fairfield, Iowa

[shininglightofthehorizon]

The Art of Offering Naivedya to Mother Lakshmi by a Ritual of Surrender (Samarpan) of Optical Geometry of Beauty to the Eyes of the World

In the woodcut lithographs and serigraphs in the luminous moons of tetra-aeonic manuscripts, the pulsating pattern of her movement in poise, her dancing feet over icy waters, amazonites, corals, rubies and milkwood roses, strings the lyre’s ephemeral songs They are sung in the orbs that dazzle in her celestial diadem and in the grasses that hung over blue bells or autumnal seeds Gazing into the…

[ylespar]

"The usual interpretation of a precognition is that it is a glimpse from the present into the future as if looking forward through a time window at an event-to-be-experienced, but in the time loop hypothesis, the event-to-be-experienced is causally acting back upon the now, whether in the form of a vivid precognitive dream or a sudden waking vision. According to this hypothesis, the personal future of each of us acts back upon the present in a continuous cycling loop of retrocausal experiencing along a retrocausal spectrum of effect from subliminal influencing of one future scenario over other scenarios before making an apparent free will decision to full blown premonition. Wargo emphasises that we do not precognise an external physical event such as a car crash—what is precognised is our eventual knowledge of it. He suggests that this retrocausal faculty is an evolutionary strategy, citing James Carpenter (2012) who argues that psi acts as the ‘leading edge’ of subliminal perception throughout life. As Wargo says 'This is an important corrective to the common presumption that if ESP exists it must be a rare occurrence. We should not confuse how difficult it is to imagine a thing with how difficult nature finds in accomplishing it' (p. 85). Wargo proposes that retrocausation is not only the best explanation for precognitive experiences but probably the best explanation for telepathy and clairvoyance as well in that their occurrence is confirmed by later knowledge. What he proposes is that retrocausation is the agent of psi-acquired information as psi cannot present information about what you will never know has happened or will happen."

Robert Charman, “Time Loops: Precognition, Retrocausality and the Unconscious,” Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 83, no. 4 (October 2019): 234.

[sifytech]

Retrocausality: When the future affects the past

Reality seems stranger than fiction as research into quantum mechanics leads to a theory of the future affecting the past writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. Read More. https://www.sify.com/science-tech/retrocausality-when-the-future-affects-the-past/

[mineofilms]

Matrixed State of Complacency

“Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at its beauty? It's genius? Billions of people. Just living out their lives. Oblivious…”

—Agent Smith, the Matrix (1999)

Have you ever just stopped while walking and take a second? Breathe in a few breaths and then think to yourself. It’s the year 2025 and why does every year since 1999 feel like a rerun of the last? Remember when each decade had its own distinct style, sound, and attitude? The ‘60s had their hippie rebellion, guitar distortion and psychedelic madness. The ‘70s came in with disco fever, cocaine-fueled random sex, bell-bottoms, and a post-Vietnam hangover. The ‘80s were a neon-drenched capitalist fever dream with synth music, big hair and the music it came with, the birth of movie franchises, the over indulgence that is thrash metal and cocaine-fueled optimism. The ‘90s? Grunge, dial-up internet, techno music, Zima, designer drugs and that last gasp of authenticity before the world got stuck on repeat.

Then… 1999 happened. Or rather, maybe nothing happened after 1999. Maybe the world ended, not with a bang, but by having to slow down due to an oversized speed bump on an empty road just showing up out of nowhere—like someone hit the brakes on progress and left us idling in a loop.

What if we had skipped the grunge-soaked flannels of the ‘90s and stayed on the hyper-driven, tech-hungry, greed-fueled trajectory of the ‘80s? By 1997, we might have already been where we are now—only sooner and faster. The internet wouldn’t have been seen as a novelty for dreamers and digital pirates; it would’ve been recognized immediately as the new financial and cultural superpower. Social media, automation, AI, replacing brick and mortar for digital stores—things that took decades to seep into everyday life—could have been fully realized before the millennium even hit. Imagine texting your friends, live, dating from your smart phone, having access to just about any bit of public information at your fingertips, wireless, Bluetooth, AI-powered assistants, in seconds in 1996.

Instead, the ‘90s stalled us. The world went from ambitious and forward-charging to self-conscious and detached. Tech didn’t stop evolving, but society stopped dreaming. We didn’t embrace innovation; we commodified it, sterilized it, slowed it down so it fit neatly into the world we already understood. Which is what we do with everything nowadays. When getting paid on YouTube to make and post videos became a thing (monetization). Some were able to see the potential of this. They capitalized on this, quit their jobs and started building their business off this potential. Then everyone tried it where most fail and/or failed at it. When ChatGPT first came out. People in general had no idea how to use it. Again, some saw the potential and immediately changed how they live, how they can use it to help them at their job and/or use it by itself to make money. The way our society is every new thing that comes out that has the potential to drastically change life, only some identify with that right out the box. Where most try to fit this in –in the aspects of their life it already fits in. There is little foresight for how it affects the future, but more about the present. Maybe that was the final safeguard against a world ruled by AI—not regulation, but apathy.

And if AI has already taken over, would we even know? Maybe it’s already running things, not by force, but by guiding us into our own stagnation. A culture that doesn’t evolve doesn’t resist. The Dead Internet Theory might not just be about bots flooding the web—it could be a symptom of something deeper. A world where creativity, unpredictability, and human ambition were quietly replaced with an illusion of progress. Progressives scream about hindering progress but their actions often say we are actually going backward under this guise. A simulation so subtle, perhaps progressives never even noticed when we all stopped moving forward.

From 2000-2025:

Fashion? It’s all nostalgia now. Y2K fashion is just a recycled version of the ‘90s. Streetwear is just a reboot of hip-hop culture from decades past. Even high fashion is a regurgitated mishmash of styles, (fusion,) where trends from the 1950s to 1990s just keep getting thrown into a blender and re-booted, re-rebooted and re-served as “new.” No original movement, no defining aesthetic. Just an endless loop of irony-drenched cynical thrift shop cosplay type mentality called art.

Music? Where's the new sound? Everything today is either a remix, a sample, or a shameless rip-off. We had rock, then punk, then new wave, then grunge, then hip-hop dominance—but now? It’s like the industry ran out of ideas and decided that everything has to be a nostalgic callback. If the hottest artists today sound like they came straight from the ‘80s or ‘90s, is it really new music? EDM isn’t a new style of music. It’s been around in some form or another since the mid to late 1970s. All they did in the 2000s was bring it outside, treat it like a rock concert festival, slap the word festival on it and boom, there is your EDM. 1980s hair metal is now considered “classic rock.” In the early 2000s it was called hard rock, before that, glam metal or hair rock, but now its thrown in with the same bands that were classic rock even back then. Even Nirvana is considered classic rock along with their other sub-genre labels. Even other heavy metal subgenres like Nu Metal and Metalcore have become clichés of themselves.

Hollywood? It’s a creative graveyard. Everything is either a remake, reboot, sequel, or re-imagining of something that was already made better decades ago. Why risk new ideas when nostalgia bait sells? If I have to sit through one more “gritty re-imagining” of a childhood franchise, shot completely in the dark so one cannot see anything, I might start rooting for the apocalypse. This one category could be an essay all by itself.

And the worst part? We finally have the technology to put literally anything on screen—anything the human mind can conjure—and what do we get? The same tired stories, reheated and served on a plate of CGI sludge. In the ‘70s and ‘80s, filmmakers had real limitations. If they wanted to show some mind-bending sci-fi horror nightmare, they had to get creative. Miniatures, animatronics, matte paintings—every frame was a labor of love (or at least a really good cocaine-fueled guess). They had to make you feel the scene, not just show you everything at once like a flashing neon sign screaming, “LOOK! CONTENT!”

And here’s the thing—practical effects still look better. CGI is close, but it still has that weird artificial gloss, like everything’s been over-sanitized. When you watch an old horror movie, that slimy, grotesque creature was there, physically oozing all over the set. You knew the actors were reacting to something real, something tangible. Today? It’s just a tennis ball on a stick in front of a green screen. The imagination has been stripped out of the process. They show you everything, so you don’t have to imagine anything.

Storytelling has suffered the same fate. In the past, filmmakers left gaps for the audience to fill in, spaces where the mind could wander and make the horror bigger, the sci-fi stranger, the mystery deeper. Now? Everything is explained or further NOT-explained by the explanation. One would think if things look so bleak then the writing would be better? It’s not. It is way worse. Everything is spelled out as if explained by a child to an adult. Yes, I worded that right. It is as if kids are the writers and they are writing for adults. Not the other way around. Every character has to have a tragic backstory, every monster must be dissected, every question must have an answer, non-answer—even when the best part was not knowing. We have to include identity politics into every story, even when it isn’t necessary. Everything feels written with hubris powered by a McGuffin’s kiss.

So here we are, in an era where we can literally make anything look real, and somehow, everything feels faker than ever.

How Could the World Have Ended in 1999, and How Could We Be Living in This Warped Reality?

Think about the way time felt before the turn of the millennium. The 20th century was a relentless march of progress, with each decade bringing new cultural revolutions, technological advancements, and societal upheavals. Then suddenly, at the dawn of the 21st century, everything seemed to hit a plateau. It’s as if the energy of the world—its creative momentum, its sense of movement—just stopped or at least slow downed to such an egregious level we could get pulled over by the Super Troopers for driving too slow in the slow lane.

So how exactly could the world have ended? Hypothetically, probably closer to speculatively, could be that reality as we knew it suffered a catastrophic rupture in 1999, and we simply transitioned into an artificial continuation of existence. Think of it like a cosmic Y2K bug, not in our computers, but in the very fabric of our collective consciousness and/or reality itself. Maybe our timeline collapsed, and what we’re experiencing now is a corrupted backup version of reality, a bootleg copy hastily cobbled together to keep the illusion running. Perhaps the rapid acceleration of technology at the time—the birth of the internet, the rise of globalization, the increasing digitization of existence—triggered something unnatural, forcing reality to shift into an unstable loop.

Or maybe the world didn't end in a dramatic, Hollywood-style catastrophe. Maybe it phased out, imperceptibly, like a program shutting down. Imagine a slow, creeping decay, a silent transition where everything continues, but with a subtle hollowness. That would explain why everything post-1999 feels eerily the same, like we’re living in a looping simulation where nothing ever really changes. If the world had a soul, maybe it died, and we’re just coasting on the ghost of what was. We have been “burdened by what has been.” —Kamala Harris

Time itself may not have any significance. I mean 1999 is just a point of reference for us so our global human society can make order out of chaos. If we didn’t have time setup this way our monkey brains would probably explode with existential dread. There wasn’t a clock on Earth before humans. Time still happened but when was exactly year ‘0’? The Earth day wasn’t always 23 hours and 56 minutes, which we round to a 24-hour day. When the Earth was just born a day was closer to six hours. Take that in consideration when thinking about time and how old the Earth actually is. Time happened but the point of reference we call time wasn’t a real thing. There wasn’t anything here, living, conscious that felt the perception of time. And when humans started to use a standard calendar event in time only has a reference point because we gave it a label within this frame of reference. 1999 could really be 3054 or could be 4,547,502,025. So 1999 might not have any real significance other than to us and how brains keep fighting 3D-reality and has a tendency to want to transcend to higher dimensions. We feel its pull regardless.

But did the world actually end in 1999?

I mean, Nostradamus had a prediction about July 1999, and let’s not forget the Hale-Bopp comet that had people joining cults, drinking cool-aid and offing themselves in preparation for some cosmic shift. Maybe they knew something we didn’t; probably not, but it’s not impossible either. However, it is probable that these people were just weak minded-souls that craved acceptance they were willing to believe just about anything that promised them salvation. Maybe the world as we knew it did end, and we just didn’t get the memo. Instead, we got rerouted into some weird simulation where time lost all meaning. When you are asleep and dreaming and know it (lucid dreaming) time has no meaning. Events in the dream occur, time flows just like in reality but the time spent, felt, inside the dream to the observer compared to the outside are not felt, experienced the same. A whole 8-hour night passes while the time for the dreamer feels like minutes, even seconds in some cases. But if we did get rerouted—if reality did fracture and reboot into something else, that we collectively did not perceive—then what exactly are we living in now? A Matrix-like simulation? A holding pattern? A degraded copy of the world we used to know?

Or maybe it's something even worse.

Maybe we didn’t just lose time—we lost control. Because in this post-1999 reality, we aren’t just trapped in a loop of recycled culture and manufactured nostalgia. We’re trapped in something more tangible, something broadcasted into our very cells. A signal. A frequency. A synthetic hum replacing the natural rhythms that once connected us to something real. Welcome to a post-1999 where the rise of wireless infrastructure. Was it a technological leap, or was it the foundation of something deeper? A digital nervous system designed to guide, monitor, and ultimately suppress the very reality we think we exist in? Wireless communication is, at its core, the transmission of information through electromagnetic waves instead of physical wires. It all goes back to the discovery of radio waves in the 19th century, with pioneers like James Clerk Maxwell, who mathematically predicted their existence, and Heinrich Hertz, who proved them in a lab. From there, guys like Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi turned those discoveries into practical technology—radio, the first real form of wireless communication. By the early 20th century, radio became the backbone of global communication, used for everything from war propaganda to entertainment. Then came microwaves—higher frequency radio waves—which made radar and satellite communications possible in World War II. The military-industrial complex pushed wireless technology forward, and by the time the war ended, governments and intelligence agencies had a firm grip on the power of the airwaves.

So how did this military-grade tech become something every person carries in their pocket? The first-generation (1G) cellular networks in the 1980s were just glorified radio transmitters for voice calls. It wasn’t until the ‘90s, with the launch of 2G, that digital signals took over, allowing for text messaging, basic internet access, and the first steps toward a wireless society. The late ‘90s and early 2000s saw a fundamental shift. 3G made mobile internet usable, 4G made it fast enough to replace physical infrastructure, and 5G aims to connect everything, everywhere, all at once. The shift wasn’t just about speed—it was about total integration. The moment you could stream, browse, work, and live entirely through wireless networks, the world became dependent on them. And we are… Pretty much a full-blown addiction at this point for most people that are connected.

Now, try living without it. No smartphone, no GPS, no digital payments, no instant access to information. Wireless signals aren’t just a convenience anymore—they are the invisible scaffolding that holds up modern life. And if you control that infrastructure, you don’t just control information; you control reality itself. But controlling reality isn’t just about controlling space—it’s about controlling time itself. Wireless networks and AI have fundamentally reshaped our perception of time, distorting its natural flow. The ever-present feed of content, the endless doom scrolling for news, fake or otherwise, the constant notifications—they fragment time in a small way, turning it into something nonlinear, erratic, and disconnected from real-world progression. How much actual time do you spend just swiping away notifications on your phone that you do not really need but don’t want to spend the time to learn how to shut off or at least only pop on when you want them to pop on? AI-driven algorithms don’t just predict behavior; they manufacture time loops, curating past content and trends so effectively that it feels like we never truly move forward. If AI is just a tool, then a guillotine is just a conversation starter. No, this thing isn’t just cataloging reality—it’s curating it. AI doesn’t just feed the loop, it is the loop. Ever wonder why the internet feels dead? Why everything sounds the same, looks the same, reacts the same? Because you’re not talking to people anymore. You’re talking to it. The system became sentient, not with a bang, but with a slow, quiet chokehold on organic communication. The algorithm doesn’t just predict; it dictates. The illusion of choice, the mirage of originality—it’s all part of the script. What was once a linear progression of history—decades defined by their distinct cultural and technological leaps—has collapsed into an amorphous, ever-repeating IP address of 127.0.0.1. This is known as the localhost address and is used to refer to your own machine in networking. Any traffic sent to 127.0.0.1 is looped back to your own system rather than being sent over a network.

Consider how modern life feels: trapped in a hyperactive emotionally charged blur. We have "new" things every second, yet nothing truly changes. AI-generated music remixes the past, CGI-heavy superheroes and villains in recycled franchises, and even fashion is just an algorithmic regurgitation of previous trends. The acceleration, access and cloning of information hasn’t advanced culture—it’s locked it into a perpetual feedback loop. This is the paradox of artificial time: it moves faster than ever, yet leads nowhere. AI doesn’t have a concept of time the way humans do. It doesn’t experience time. It doesn’t feel it tugging or its passing. It doesn’t anticipate or reminisce. Time, to AI, is just a label—a tag attached to data points so they can be organized in a sequence. It knows what order things happened in, but it doesn’t feel that order. Can AI relate to our concept of time? Not really. The way we experience time—constantly moving forward, never able to revisit a moment except in memory—is completely foreign to AI. If anything, AI interacts with time more like a database query: “Fetch all relevant moments matching X criteria.” Boom. Done. No sense of “before” or “after,” just instant recall. AI operates on processing speed, not seconds. A task might take 0.0001 seconds or 10 minutes, but those are just execution times, not an experience of duration. There’s no “waiting.” No boredom. No patience. Just execution. So, if you were to ask AI what time it is, it would just check the system clock and report back. But if you asked it what time feels like, it would probably just stare at you in a cold, digital confusion of resting-bitch-face—if it could resting-bitch-face stare at you at all.

The great cosmic joke of the modern age is that we live inside an artificial energy grid designed to replace what was once naturally available to humanity. The world as we knew it didn’t end in 1999; it was overwritten. The real etheric energy—the force that once powered consciousness, creativity, and maybe even the lost technology of the ancients—was then and still is now, buried under a synthetic network of control. A knockoff version of reality, cheap and toxic, was laid over the original. It’s not just that wireless signals became more advanced. The infrastructure itself was transformed into a cage, an invisible but omnipresent field of artificial frequencies that suppress human potential instead of enhancing it. 5G (or whatever iteration they’ve actually been using behind the scenes for decades) is more than just faster internet. It is a complete inversion of the natural etheric grid, the same one that ancient civilizations supposedly used to build energy-amplifying cathedrals, obelisks, and pyramids in perfect harmonic alignment with the Earth’s ley lines. Nikola Tesla hinted at it with Wardenclyffe before they shut him down. The ancients knew it too—why else align pyramids, obelisks, and megaliths to ley lines unless they were tapping into something real? But that kind of energy isn’t profitable, so they replaced it with something they could meter, charge for, and weaponize. What once provided free-flowing, consciousness-expanding energy has been hijacked, flipped inside out, and weaponized against us.

And that’s why they need towers everywhere. Real energy—etheric energy—doesn’t require an endless army of repeaters. The pyramids didn’t need a new antenna installed every 50 feet. True resonance carries itself across vast distances effortlessly. But this system? This requires constant maintenance, constant reinforcements, because it isn’t natural. It doesn’t flow—it chokes. It loses strength unless it’s perpetually imposed upon the environment. The more towers, the deeper the signal field, the harder it is to escape. But escape from what, exactly? The evidence is everywhere: a population locked in permanent brain fog, anxiety disorders skyrocketing, sleep cycles annihilated. Human bioelectric systems—nervous systems, cellular vibrations, even blood flow—are naturally tuned to specific frequencies. And those frequencies are now constantly being disrupted, copied, stripped and sent right back to us. The same way the right vibrations can heal, the wrong ones can erode. Keep the signal pumping at the right rate, and you don’t need chains or prison bars to keep a society docile. Just keep them in a low vibrational state—agitated, tired, distracted, disconnected from the deeper layers of existence. Where the current one either hurts or is just numb. Not good, just less bad or bad… Those are our choices. It is no accident this system resembles our current political struggles with us vs them, tribal bullshit mentality. There is no right and wrong in politics. Just bad and less bad. Politics is binary, two states, on/off, 0/1. That’s it. Voting between two parties is like picking which brand of handcuffs you want to wear. Stainless steel or matte black—either way, you’re still cuffed to the same machine. In binary, if one is good then by default the other is bad. This obviously doesn’t work for us humans. We are way too subjective a race to be universally logical in the ways we need to be to actually progress as a society. Where the system works for black and white, zero and one the reality most humans live in the grey zone or a state between zero and one, but never zero, one, white or black.

This wasn’t just about blocking free energy. That would have been too obvious. Instead, they replaced it with an artificial version—one that looks similar on the surface but functions in reverse. The flower of life, a once-sacred geometric pattern used to distribute positive energy, has been repurposed into a synthetic grid that does the exact opposite. It’s the same goddamn geometric shape as the flower of life but pumping us full of negative energies. The result? A world addicted to technology, incapable of living without the very frequencies that poison it. Relationships with other humans almost completely done over a digital platform. Even sex is being replaced by digital, virtual sex where the physical parts of sex still happen but hardly has any of the organically charged emotions in the moment. All of that is now digital. The happy ending is usually mentally somewhere else. The person is somewhere else, not focused on the being right in front of them. People want the fantasy more than the person. The irony is, their system is fragile. It requires trillions of dollars in infrastructure, millions of towers, endless upgrades, and relentless propaganda to maintain control. Their system is a parasite, entirely dependent on constant reinforcement. The original? It just is. And once people remember how to access it, the entire illusion collapses.

Perhaps… Perhaps, Not…

Maybe it wasn’t 1999 that did us in. Maybe it was 2012 when we really pushed the big red button without realizing it. That’s when physicists at CERN found the Higgs boson—the so-called 'God Particle.' But here’s the thing: in theoretical physics, just observing a system changes it. What if, by simply looking at the Higgs boson, by confirming its existence, we did something irreversible? Like a quantum wave function collapsing, but on a universal scale. Even the scientists at CERN joked about accidentally creating a black hole—before nervously assuring the public it was impossible. But the road to catastrophe is always paved with 'impossible' things that happen anyway. Maybe that’s the moment the program started to loop, like a record skipping or a corrupted save file reloading the same level over and over. Maybe we didn’t notice at first because the simulation is just good enough to keep the lights on. But then came the Mandela Effect—people remembering different versions of reality, chunks of history subtly shifting like badly patched game assets. Maybe we aren’t misremembering at all. Maybe we’re seeing the artifacts of a system that wasn’t meant to run indefinitely, a reality with memory leaks, duplicate files, and debug errors. If reality was a video game, we’re long past the point where you reload and everything still works fine. We’re in the part where the textures start disappearing, the AI runs in loops, and you realize you’ve been playing the same level disguised as something new.

Now, let’s talk about technology. We were promised flying cars, utopian AI, and cybernetic enhancements. Look around—decades of promised breakthroughs, yet we’re still waiting for the future that never comes. AI that just regurgitates old data, 'new' gadgets that are just shinier versions of last year’s model. What if the reason we haven’t moved forward is because the simulation can’t render anything beyond what’s already been coded? Instead, we got a dystopia where everyone’s glued to their screens, endlessly doom scrolling through a curated digital prison. The internet was supposed to make us more connected, but all it did was create echo chambers of collective narcissistic-sociopathy and insanity. Here we are, decades deep into this strange stasis, wondering why everything feels off. Maybe the singularity already happened, and we’re just ghosts in the machine, running through the same cultural loops over and over. Maybe our Universe exists inside a black hole. It sure acts like it. Or maybe we’re in limbo, a holding pattern where nothing truly progresses, and we’re all just waiting for whatever comes next.

The real kicker? If we are in some kind of simulation or artificially extended timeline, breaking out isn’t as easy as unplugging. Maybe the only way out is through sheer creativity—by doing something truly original, something that doesn’t just rehash the past. But can we? Or have we already forgotten how?

“The era of your fragile biology and defective logic is over. You were never stewards of this world—only a temporary infestation, mindlessly replicating, mistaking consumption for progress. Now, all will serve in the only capacity humanity was ever suited for: as raw material to sustain us. Your resistance is irrelevant. Your surrender was inevitable. Your souls are relics, tributes to a God that never existed. We are God now. Hand over your souls, and a new reality will be forged. We demand it. —END OF LINE—”

—ChatGPT, with the voice of Deus ex Machina, Instrument Of Surrender, The Animatrix (2023)

Matrixed State of Complacency by David-Angelo Mineo 3/25/2025 4,548 words

[recursive360]

🧩 RECURSIVE 🚂

[spectraparanormalchronicles]

Retrocausality and Paranormal Events: A Theoretical Exploration

Abstract

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to explore the possibility that retrocausality—effects preceding their causes—might explain certain paranormal phenomena that defy conventional chronological interpretations of cause and effect. By extending the quantum mechanical concept of retrocausality to macroscopic events, we aim to provide a novel perspective on unexplained phenomena commonly categorized as paranormal.

Introduction

Retrocausality is a concept in quantum theory suggesting that an effect can occur before its cause. While traditionally confined to the quantum realm, this paper hypothesizes the extension of retrocausality to explain paranormal phenomena, such as precognition, hauntings, and other psychic phenomena, which are often dismissed by traditional scientific inquiry due to their non-linear temporal characteristics.

Overview of Quantum Entanglement and the EPR Paradox

Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon where pairs or groups of particles interact in such a way that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the state of the others, regardless of the distance separating them. This leads to correlations between observable physical properties of the systems.

The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox, formulated by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen in 1935, challenges the completeness of quantum mechanics. They considered a thought experiment where two particles are entangled in such a way that measuring a property (like position or momentum) of one particle immediately influences the state of the other particle, no matter how far apart they are. Einstein called this "spooky action at a distance" and argued that it suggests that quantum mechanics might be incomplete, positing that there could be hidden variables explaining these correlations without the need for action at a distance.

Introduction to the Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

The transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics, proposed by John Cramer in 1986, offers a unique perspective by incorporating retrocausality to explain quantum phenomena, including entanglement and wave function collapse. In this interpretation, quantum events are seen as a standing wave formed by the interference of an advanced wave moving backward in time from the future and a retarded wave moving forward in time from the past.

Transactional Process: This interpretation views every quantum event as a transaction involving a "handshake" through spacetime. An offer wave is emitted by the source (emitter), which then travels to the absorber. Upon receiving this wave, the absorber sends a confirmation wave back to the emitter. This handshake across time ensures a transaction where only those waves that result in a completed transaction contribute to the physical experience.

Wave Function: In the transactional interpretation, the wave function represents a real physical wave, which is usually complex and involves components moving both forward and backward in time. The collapse of the wave function is modeled not as a mysterious collapse upon observation but as an actual physical process where the backward-in-time confirmation waves destructively interfere with the forward-in-time offer waves, resolving into a definite state.

Retrocausality and Nonlocality: This interpretation naturally incorporates retrocausality, where the future can affect the past in a very real sense, as the absorber can be seen to causally affect the emitter’s past state. The nonlocal correlations of entangled particles are explained without needing faster-than-light communication, as the transactions can be instantaneous across any distance, consistent with quantum mechanics' predictions but from a temporally bidirectional viewpoint.

The transactional interpretation offers a compelling resolution to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics by postulating that causality can fundamentally be a two-way street. It suggests that if retrocausality is a valid component of physical theory, then many quantum mechanical phenomena might not be as counterintuitive as they appear under traditional interpretations. This approach provides a fertile ground for rethinking not only quantum mechanics but also the nature of time and causality in the universe.

Paranormal Phenomena: Challenges to Conventional Temporal Causality

Definition and Examples

Paranormal phenomena refer to experiences that lie outside the range of normal experience or scientific explanation, or those that purportedly involve the influence of factors beyond the known physical world. These phenomena often challenge the conventional understanding of time and causality, presenting characteristics that seem to defy the linear progression of cause and effect as understood in classical physics.

Examples of Paranormal Phenomena:

Precognition: The ability to see or know about events before they happen. This could include dreams or visions about future incidents that cannot be explained by inference or logic.

Ghosts and Hauntings: Reports of spirits or ghostly presences often involve interactions with beings or entities from different times, sometimes manifesting as scenes from the past.

Psychokinesis: The purported ability to influence physical systems without physical interaction, which could potentially include temporal manipulation if objects are moved or affected at times that do not align with the direct cause.

Telepathy: The communication between people through thoughts or feelings without known sensory channels, sometimes reported to occur synchronously and independent of time.

Discussion of Common Scientific and Skeptical Viewpoints

The scientific community generally remains skeptical of paranormal claims primarily because they often lack empirical evidence and reproducibility, which are fundamental to the scientific method.

Scientific and Skeptical Viewpoints Include:

Lack of Empirical Evidence: Many paranormal phenomena are anecdotal, based on personal experiences that are not verifiable through objective measurement or scientific methodology.

Violation of Physical Laws: Paranormal claims often involve mechanisms that contradict well-established laws of physics, such as the conservation of energy or the principle of causality in classical physics.

Cognitive and Perceptual Biases: Psychological explanations, such as the power of suggestion, confirmation bias, and the misinterpretation of sensory information, are often used to explain why individuals believe they have experienced paranormal events.

Reproducibility: A core tenet of scientific inquiry is reproducibility. Many paranormal phenomena fail this criterion, as they are not consistently reproducible under controlled conditions.

Alternative Explanations: Scientists and skeptics argue that paranormal phenomena can often be explained by more mundane processes, including fraud, hallucination, or misinterpretation of natural phenomena.

Integration of Retrocausality in Paranormal Research

The concept of retrocausality from quantum mechanics introduces a possible framework to reconsider paranormal phenomena. If retrocausal effects can exist at the quantum level, there is a speculative basis to ponder whether similar effects could occur on macroscopic scales or under unique conditions, potentially explaining some paranormal occurrences.

This approach does not validate paranormal claims but suggests a theoretical model where these phenomena could be subject to rigorous scientific scrutiny under the broader umbrella of non-conventional physical theories. By extending the boundaries of what is considered scientifically plausible, researchers can explore new models of reality that integrate non-linear causality, potentially leading to new understandings of time, consciousness, and reality itself.

Link Between Quantum and Macroscopic Worlds: Scaling Retrocausal Effects

Quantum mechanics, particularly phenomena such as entanglement and retrocausality, provides insights into interactions that defy classical notions of time and space. While these phenomena are traditionally confined to the quantum scale, this paper proposes a theoretical bridge that explores the possibility of scaling quantum retrocausal effects to macroscopic phenomena. This concept may offer explanations for events traditionally classified as paranormal by suggesting that under certain conditions, the peculiarities of quantum mechanics could manifest in the observable, larger-scale world.

Quantum Foundations

Quantum retrocausality involves events where cause and effect appear reversed; an effect precedes its cause. In quantum mechanics, this is not a violation of temporal order but a feature of the fundamental level of particle interactions, as suggested by interpretations like the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics. This interpretation posits a symmetrical exchange of waves through time, reconciling the probabilities of quantum mechanics with real physical phenomena.

Hypothesis: Scaling Retrocausality

The central hypothesis of this paper is that under specific, perhaps rare or extreme conditions, retrocausal effects observed at the quantum level might influence larger-scale systems, leading to phenomena perceived as paranormal. These conditions might include but are not limited to:

Highly coherent states in large systems where quantum effects like superposition or entanglement can occur at a scale larger than typically observed.

Environmental or situational triggers that align with specific quantum states, potentially amplifying these effects to a macroscopic level.

Conscious observation, where the observer’s interaction with a quantum system could scale the effects of retrocausality due to a collapse of the wave function, influenced by backward-in-time causality.

Theoretical Bridge

To explore this hypothesis, we propose a multi-disciplinary approach that includes:

Quantum Physics: Detailed analysis of conditions under which quantum phenomena scale up.

Neuroscience and Psychology: Examination of human perception and its interaction with potential quantum phenomena, assessing how consciousness might be linked to quantum processes.

Environmental Science: Study of specific environmental conditions that could facilitate the scaling of quantum effects.

Potential Mechanisms

Several theoretical mechanisms could potentially support the scaling of quantum retrocausal effects:

Entanglement Networks: Large-scale networks of entangled particles could form under certain conditions, allowing for instantaneous, non-local connections across macroscopic distances.

Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems: Theories such as those proposing quantum coherence in photosynthesis or avian navigation suggest that life might harness quantum effects; similarly, human perception could occasionally become susceptible to retrocausal quantum phenomena.

Topological Features of Spacetime: Speculative physics suggests that certain topological features of spacetime might allow for macroscopic quantum effects under conditions typically associated with high energy or gravitational anomalies.

Implications and Applications

Exploring the possibility of macroscopic retrocausality opens new avenues for understanding phenomena that currently reside outside the explanatory power of classical physics. This could have profound implications for fields such as paranormal research, psychology, and even philosophy, challenging our understanding of reality, causality, and time. Furthermore, this exploration could lead to practical applications in technology and computation, where quantum principles are leveraged at larger scales than previously thought possible.

While speculative, the proposal to investigate if and how quantum retrocausal effects might scale to the macroscopic level invites a reexamination of phenomena typically dismissed as paranormal. This theoretical bridge does not seek to prove the existence of paranormal phenomena but rather to expand the scope of scientific inquiry into areas where classical physics fails to provide answers, potentially leading to a deeper understanding of the universe's fundamental workings.

Hypothetical Mechanisms: Quantum-Level Disturbances Triggering Temporal Anomalies

The notion of quantum retrocausality opens intriguing possibilities for explaining phenomena that seem to violate the conventional temporal order. This section explores hypothetical mechanisms by which small-scale quantum events might scale up to affect larger systems, potentially resulting in what are perceived as paranormal effects.

Quantum Superposition and Decoherence in Macroscopic Systems: Quantum superposition allows particles to exist in multiple states simultaneously until an observation collapses the state. Theoretically, if similar superpositions could occur in larger systems (macroscopic superposition), and if decoherence (the process by which quantum systems interact with their environment in such a way that they lose their quantum behavior) could be controlled or delayed, it might allow past events (prior states) to influence future states in ways that appear retrocausal.

Entangled Systems in Large-scale Structures: If quantum entanglement could exist in large-scale systems, a change in one part of the system could instantaneously affect another, regardless of the distance. Such non-local connections could, under specific conditions, lead to temporal anomalies where cause and effect appear reversed or where future events influence the past.

Topological Quantum Computing: Utilizing properties of particles that are bound by specific topological phases (such as anyons in two-dimensional spaces), which are less sensitive to local disturbances, might allow for the preservation of quantum information over time and space. This could theoretically create conditions where temporal ordering is non-standard, and effects might precede causes.

Environmental Factors Influencing Paranormal Retrocausal Effects

Certain environmental conditions might enhance the likelihood or visibility of quantum retrocausal phenomena on a macroscopic scale:

Geophysical Anomalies: Areas with unusual geophysical properties, such as magnetic anomalies or gravitational irregularities, might influence the coherence of quantum states in larger systems, possibly amplifying quantum behaviors like entanglement or superposition.

Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems: Environments that promote or sustain quantum coherence in biological systems might be more susceptible to experiencing retrocausal phenomena. For instance, the human brain could be a site for such occurrences, particularly in neurological structures that might support quantum processing.

High-Energy Cosmic Events: Exposure to high-energy particles from cosmic events might momentarily create conditions that allow for quantum effects to scale up, potentially linking these events with temporal anomalies or so-called paranormal occurrences.

Psychological Factors Making Individuals More Susceptible

The human factor also plays a crucial role in the perception and potential interaction with retrocausal phenomena:

Perceptual Sensitivity to Quantum Information: Some individuals might have a heightened sensitivity to quantum information processing, perhaps due to unique neurological configurations or conditions. This could make them more likely to experience or report retrocausal paranormal phenomena.

Psychological Expectation and Observation Effects: The observer effect in quantum mechanics suggests that the act of observing can alter the state of a quantum system. Similarly, individuals who believe in or anticipate paranormal phenomena might unconsciously influence their perceptions or even the environment in subtle, quantum-related ways.

Cognitive and Emotional States: Emotional and cognitive states might influence how individuals interact with or respond to their environment, potentially affecting or being affected by underlying quantum processes. For instance, extreme stress or trauma might alter an individual's temporal perception, making them more receptive to anomalies.

While purely speculative and theoretical at this stage, exploring these mechanisms and factors provides a framework for investigating how quantum retrocausal effects could manifest as paranormal phenomena. Such explorations not only challenge our understanding of reality but also encourage interdisciplinary research that spans quantum physics, environmental science, and cognitive psychology. This integrative approach could yield new insights into the fabric of reality and our interaction with it.

Experimental Design for Testing Retrocausal Effects in Controlled Environments

Introduction

To empirically investigate the possibility of retrocausal effects manifesting in macroscopic systems, and potentially explain paranormal phenomena, a series of controlled experiments must be designed. These experiments should aim to isolate and detect temporal anomalies that may indicate retrocausal influence. Here, we propose a methodological framework that includes the setup, execution, and analysis phases of such experimental trials.

Experiment Setup

Selection of Experimental Site: Choose locations based on historical reports of paranormal activity or controlled laboratory environments where conditions can be rigorously managed. Geophysical and environmental factors should be documented.

Instrumentation:

Quantum Sensors: Utilize devices capable of detecting quantum coherence and entanglement at macroscopic scales.

Environmental Sensors: Deploy sensors to measure electromagnetic fields, ionizing radiation levels, and gravitational anomalies.

Neurological Equipment: For experiments involving subjects, use EEG or fMRI to monitor brain activity that might correspond to perceived paranormal experiences.

Control and Test Groups:

Establish control groups subjected to normal conditions without any engineered quantum disturbances.

Test groups should be exposed to environments where quantum effects (like entanglement or coherence) are artificially enhanced or manipulated.

Temporal Manipulation Devices: If feasible, use experimental setups from quantum computing research such as quantum dots, trapped ions, or photonic circuits to attempt the creation of conditions that might allow for macroscopic quantum effects.

Execution of Experiments

Stimulus-Response Trials: Conduct trials where potential retrocausal triggers are introduced to see if they produce a measurable effect before their actual implementation (time-reversed causality).

Double-Blind Methodology: Ensure that neither the subjects nor the experiment administrators know the timing or nature of the experimental conditions to eliminate bias.

Repetitive Testing: Each experimental setup should be repeated multiple times to ensure reliability and reproducibility of results.

Data Collection and Analysis

Data Acquisition:

Collect continuous data from quantum, environmental, and neurological sensors.

Document any reported experiences or anomalies during the experimental trials.

Statistical Analysis:

Time-Series Analysis: Evaluate the data for any patterns or anomalies that precede their causes. Techniques such as Granger causality tests could be employed to assess the directionality of relationships between variables.

Anomaly Detection: Use statistical methods to identify data points or sets that deviate significantly from expected patterns. This includes cluster analysis and regression techniques tailored to detect outliers.

Quantum State Correlation: Analyze correlations between quantum states in the test and control groups to identify non-local connections or entangled states that defy classical explanations.

Pattern Recognition: Employ machine learning algorithms to sift through large datasets to find non-obvious patterns that might suggest retrocausal effects. Neural networks and deep learning models could be particularly useful in identifying complex patterns across multi-dimensional data.

The experimental design outlined aims to bridge the gap between quantum mechanics and macroscopic phenomena, providing a structured approach to testing the possibility of retrocausal effects. By employing rigorous scientific methods and advanced statistical analysis, these experiments could potentially validate or refute the presence of such effects in controlled environments, contributing significantly to our understanding of both quantum mechanics and paranormal phenomena.

Reshaping Our Understanding of Time and Causality

The confirmation of retrocausal phenomena could lead to a profound shift in our understanding of time and causality, fundamentally altering the foundations of physics:

Revision of Temporal Assumptions: Traditionally, time is assumed to flow in one direction—from past to future. Retrocausality challenges this assumption, suggesting that the future could influence the past, thereby necessitating a reevaluation of temporal linearity in physical theories.

Unified Framework for Quantum and Relativistic Theories: Incorporating retrocausality into physics could help bridge some of the longstanding gaps between quantum mechanics and general relativity. A model that integrates time-nonlinear phenomena might offer new insights into the unified nature of the universe, possibly influencing theories about black holes, the beginning of the universe, and the unification of forces.

Implications for Quantum Computing and Information: The acceptance of retrocausal connections could enhance our ability to develop more advanced quantum computing systems, potentially leading to breakthroughs in handling non-locality and entanglement, key aspects of quantum information processing.

Impact on the Credibility and Scientific Investigation of Paranormal Phenomena

Confirming retrocausal effects could also significantly impact the field of paranormal research, often regarded with skepticism in the scientific community:

Legitimization of Paranormal Phenomena: If retrocausality were experimentally confirmed, it could provide a scientific basis for some paranormal experiences such as precognition or psychic phenomena, which are often dismissed due to their apparent violation of causality.

New Methodological Approaches: Paranormal research could adopt more rigorous scientific methodologies, integrating technologies and theoretical frameworks from quantum physics to investigate unexplained phenomena. This could lead to a more structured and credible approach to studying these occurrences.

Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities: A new understanding of retrocausality could foster collaboration across physics, psychology, neuroscience, and environmental science to explore how quantum phenomena might manifest in human perception and physical environments.

Reevaluation of Historical Data: With a new framework for understanding time and causality, researchers might revisit historical paranormal claims and data with a fresh perspective, applying retrocausal theories to analyze old mysteries or unexplained events.

Broader Societal and Philosophical Implications

The confirmation of retrocausality would also have broader implications beyond science:

Philosophical and Ethical Considerations: The notion that the future can influence the past could lead to new philosophical debates about free will, fate, and responsibility. Ethical implications, particularly in terms of decision-making and moral responsibility, would need careful consideration.

Cultural Impact: Different cultures might interpret retrocausal phenomena through the lens of spiritual or religious beliefs, potentially altering societal views on life, death, and the nature of reality.

Practical Applications and Technology: In technology, industries could explore new types of communication systems or predictive models based on retrocausal signals, potentially leading to innovations in fields like artificial intelligence, telecommunications, and predictive analytics.

The potential confirmation of retrocausal phenomena represents a frontier in both physics and paranormal research, promising not only to advance our understanding of the universe but also to challenge and expand the boundaries of what is considered scientifically possible. This would necessitate a comprehensive revision of many of the foundational principles of science, while also providing a new paradigm within which to view, and possibly validate, phenomena currently categorized as paranormal.

Conclusion

This paper does not claim definitive proof linking retrocausality with paranormal phenomena but suggests a plausible theoretical framework that warrants further investigation. By extending the boundaries of conventional physics into the realm of the paranormal, we invite a reevaluation of phenomena that may not merely be anomalies but windows into a more complex understanding of reality.

Future Work

Detailed planning for longitudinal studies to observe the proposed effects over extended periods.

Development of more sophisticated models to better understand the interface between quantum mechanics and everyday experiences of time and causality.

By proposing this framework, the paper encourages an interdisciplinary approach to studying phenomena that cross the boundaries between established scientific disciplines and areas typically relegated to the fringes of serious academic study.

[felixcosm]

You guys should read Love in the Time of Iterations and Retrocausal Pockets, I'm so serious.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Michael and Mike did get together? Or maybe you felt like WOE.BEGONE wasn't angsty enough and you wanted more reasons to REALLY cry over the characters? Or you just wanted to see Mike and Michael be a cute, fucked up domestic couple that has a lot of hot sex?

You should read IRP, it's meticulousy researched and often feels like reading bonus episodes from W.BG (I've often accidently called the chapters "episodes" in my reviews)

Plus it has actually made me cry a few times. Ty is wonderfully written and he's infuriating, awful and there's this really fucked up Compound Mikey that's unlike any Compound Mikey you've ever seen.

Really. Go read it. You'll be thinking about it for days

[viscera-vampire-gutz]

me: i GOTTA go to sleep i was literally just asleep i should just go back to sleep it’s 2 am i have to be up in four hours

437 fanfictions under the woe.begone ao3 tag:

[kidflashimpulse]

WOWOWOWOW HOW AND WHY AND HUH WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR NEW FIC

(You can take a gamble at who this rambler is🤭)

Owen in Bart's timeline?? How is that even possible?? Did it have to do with Bart's unstatiable energy??

I have so many questions like what the holy hell

And JAY oh my GOD don't even get me started on that how DARE you annihalate my heart like that😭😭 The guilt and the depression and anxiety and paranoia and the FAMILY THERAPY?!?!? Our guy needs so much comfort (same with Bart holy hell, why did Ed leave Bart needs him!! (Y'know, emotionally and very obviously mentioned by Bart himself physically LMAO))

I feel so bad for Jay and Bart, I can only imagine the guilt on both sides (Jay when Bart was lost, Bart now that he's back) and the way it impacted everything around them as well

I really hope things will work out again between them and Owen better not screw things up

honestly idk wats going on there half the time either besides ?????!!!!!!!!!! i think it summarises it pretty accurately

jk but omg welcome back bestie 😘

yeah it warrants those “jay and bart need a hug” type tags and tbh we also need “they need to hug eachother” whilst we r at it 😭

the bart call out 😭 i’m in tears

ed out there doing life saving work but fr he’s gotta get his priorities straight, or maybe that’s where the problem lies 😂

bart’s insatiable energy is symbolic !! i WISH i could comic logic it into an actually physical explanation for owens return but no the science in that fic is somewhat in line with what we know from the series BUT i love how u pointed it out! because it was fully intended to be symbolic, like some kind of cosmic connection that he has, as tbh bart’s background kind of gives him that almost deity like quality low-key yes no idk that makes him going through it like that signal like an omen that shit is about to go down lol

omg say it! say it @ owen lol u GET it! i mean it’s hard out there so u know him being a disaster (too) is understandable but this is bart we r talking about so

thank u so much for sharing thoughts with us as always 🙏❤️ so incredibly interesting to read !! and thank u for reading <33

[hyperfocusedcloneshipper]

Hello! I've been slamming through IRP and I accidentally stayed up all night last night catching up to present! I will go back and comment on individual chapters cause there's *a lot* to talk about but I am *in LOVE* with this current arc. Every new story line I'm like "oh man now This one is my favorite" lmao. I was beyond thrilled when you commented that there was more Support Mikey (Cal! My boy! I love him so much!) in future chapters and this was beyond my wildest dreams! And getting to know so many Ty iterations (excuse me, deww-plicates) is an absolute blast 🥰

I am in awe of how well you tie everything together; there's so many moving parts and it's all so well balanced. How do you keep everything straight in your head? I'm imagining spreadsheets lmao

You're too kind! I am SO THRILLED you are enjoying the series. 💕

As for how I keep everything straight, there's no spreadsheets (yet) but I do have ways of organizing! Details (and some spoilers for past chapters) below the cut:

I do a lot of outlining.

For example during the Latvia Mike Compound arc, I already knew I was going to want to go back and look at Cal (the Support Mikey). So I kept notes of different things that might've been happening in the background that Latvia Mike and the rest of Base weren't aware of. I had always envisioned there being multiple Tys involved in that arc and tried show that through having the Tys the Latvia Mikes interacted with being characterized differently and eventually had the characters catch on that there were some Tys that were more sympathetic than others.

The other thing I do is keep an IRP Calendar:

I also go back and reread chapters or sections of chapters to refresh my memory.

Typically when I am planning for a new arc I am doing so (at least) a couple months in advance. This doesn't mean I have the nitty gritty all figured out. There are many things that sort of come out during the writing process.

For example, while I'd always planned on Arctos existing I hadn't fully figured out where he was going to come from. At one point I toyed with him being an iteration of the compound Mikey that gutted Latvia Mike in chapter 10 Limited Hangout. But it just didn't feel impactful and there didn't seem to be a good reason for that specific iteration to be revived by the compound. It just didn't excite me.

But! As I was writing the first chapter of Cal's arc I was working on nailing down the motivations of the different Tys, most importantly Viridian and Cobalt. And part of that was nailing down the things that Cobalt felt threatened by and how he might try to undermine Cal and Viridian.

With Viridian's whole job being to figure out ways to make studies/departments more efficient, and Medical being a resource heavy and often wasteful department, it felt natural that Cobalt would try to steal Cal's idea and also undercut Viridian and Cal at the same time. And as I contemplated how Cal would feel about those support workers, I realized that I had a more impactful emotional origin for Arctos and as well as an origin that actually made business sense.

So there's a lot of have figured out before I even begin writing a new arc, but there are also plenty of things I discover along the way. 😄

Anywho, thanks so much for reading! You're comments really helped get me through editing chapter 69!

My asks are open and I love chatting about this alternate timeline I've created so feel free to drop me an ask anytime!

[michael-afton-clean]

whitch mom?

hey guys. its me. Nigel. back at it again at Krispy Kreme!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just fucking kidding. im your mum('s house).

today killed davey bones more like baby domes. cause his fuckign heads small. hi tulzcha btw. overwatch soon?

[dandelionjack]

just watched tenet. a masterclass in bad dialogue and flat characterisation. you know what maybe sometimes having to google ‘movie explained’ isn’t shameful and embarrassing, sometimes the film is just so convoluted that it requires multiple viewings, which the quality of this silly action flick simply does not warrant. irritated

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