#beyond time and space

[bachelorisland]

[dollydemigod]

Context: In Sam and Max Beyond Time and Space Episode 4, you go to the future to meet your future selfs, and Max gets 1000 braincells, and Sam has point and click protagonist syndrome

[sawsquared]

chariots of the dogs

def my favorite episode in beyond time and space

[lunardreams54]

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

                                                      i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

E. E. Cummings

*saying something without words*

[thehauntedrocket]

Vintage Paperback - Beyond Time And Space by August Derleth

Berkley (c.1950)

[frank3nfr0ggi3]

Spoilers for Devil’s Playhouse ig but 🤷

Devils playhouse actually traumatized me/j. But tbh it is my least favorite game. Just felt so oddly serious compared to the previous games but I’m excited for the remaster still!

[klugpuuo]

anyone else with beyond time and space and/or save the world who've checked the files of either game? there's some test animations + a literal shitpost in each i think and im wondering if those were part of the original games or added in for fun during the remaster

[yors-truly]

Some doodles of Hue I made today to destress :)

Can't seem to focus on my writing these days (and when I do, it drains me so so fast) and it's really starting to get to me

But I love my characters so much, I couldn't leave them hanging ::

These outfits of hers reference the first episode of Beyond Time and Space btw! Congrats! You get a peek at some concept stuff today :D

[furresquid]

i may have a migraine but sam and max waits for no one, especially when time and space is at risk

[lotus-btas]

Hue Shipley

"This needs more TLC. Maybe that's why it's so brutal." - Hue's perspective on the world

An aspiring storyteller in many forms, Hue Aster Shipley is a young girl with big dreams. She comes off as pretty shy, but once you get to know her, she's the most loyal and fun friend you could ever have (though, that doesn't come easy, in most cases). Her consistent bad luck in the world has given her a small fear of it that still has yet to be conqured, and as a result has made straying from her comfort zone (her head) tough. She feels the most like herself when being creative and working towards her aspirations. She's a huge fan of all things purple, glowing, and robotic.

SURFACE LEVEL INFO:

Name: Hue Aster Shipley

Nickname(s): Huester (combo of "Hue" and "Aster")

Species: Human

Gender: Female

Orientation: Aromantic

Pronouns: she/her

Age: 16

Birthday: July 20th

Height: 163 cm (5'4 ft)

TRIVIA:

Hue's birthday (July 20th) is the same day Tru, the creator of Beyond Time and Space, was diagnosed with social anxiety (July 20th, 2022)

the name "Hue" means "heart," spirit," and/or "lily flower"; the plant aster conveys purity and innocence, and both asters and lily flowers - specifically daylilies - are perennial flowers

The character Hue herself was created back in 2019, with her name being used instead for one of Tru's personas; her full name was "Hue Ships" around this time

^ The persona in question started out as an anthropomorphic animal hybrid between a chameleon and a shiba-inu, who was theoretically genderfluid, before making the drastic - admittedly boring change to a human girl; the chameleon's ability to change color is what gave Hue her name, with her last name tying to that of an older persona with the last name "star," becoming a play on the word "starships"

Hue's nickname (Huester) is utilized on Tru's main blog as a way to organize posts via tags (huesterfaves, huestersvoid, etc.)

[sleuth-hounds]

BANANG! But it's in 4k.

[wiiroms]

(via Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space)

[sacrednoetic]

I'm drawn to the moon! It's everlasting beauty never changes.

[tanzanite-zircon]

IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!

[kucka-g]

i love this image you never realize how fucked up the old model of child sam looks until it's placed right next to the new one

he was forced to eat concrete when he was six

[rig-biped-complicated]

FIgure I'll give the text part of this another shot. First time my browser timed out, second time tumblr gave me a "sorry we had an error" then twice I accidentally deleted it trying to edit it then thinking I posted it twice. Did I mention I'm still new to Tumblr and have little clue as to what I'm doing? Anyway the spheal revolves around an over-analytical theory or headcannon regarding TDPH ending that was keeping me up at night until I wrote it out. Possible copium regarding how Max went super oof but its not without its own logic related to time travel, and especially not without over-analysis of the timeline, and most definitely of all, not without its blatant flaws. After coming up with all this I felt like a schizoid trying to explain all this which is what inspired the pic above. "Based on Future Sam's Senile Miss America Electoral Filibuster"

The time travel elevator is part of the THEM spaceship, which was destroyed by the end of 204, where it was sent to beginning of the time on a self destruct sequence which had the effect of creating the universe. By logic of time travel gambits, this was not changing the past but creating the past. Its a canon paradox. Events in the future created events in the past through the use of time travel.

So. "Past Max" returns to Sam following the credits and reunites with Present Sam. Max had at some point destroyed a giant Monster version of Past Sam. First thing you should notice is Sam did not disappear or fade into a temporal paradox like Bosco did in Season 2. More on that later. In Season 2, then-present Sam and Max, whom I'll refer to as S2 Sam & Max, travel back to Season 1 to arbitrarily obtain the recording contract S1 Sam & Max needed to get onto the Myra! show. (In retrospect they could have swiped it from them after entering the Myra show where it was no longer useful to prevent another paradox) From there, S1 Sam & Max drop what they're doing and play with the time machine, while S2 Sam & Max are left behind and forced to repurpetrate the ENTIRETY of Season 2 again. One must now ask if you're controlling S1 or S2 Sam & Max in Season 1. This happens off screen and with the wave of a hand but we can assume S1 Sam & Max had been playing with the time travelling elevator for quite some time before S2 Sam & Max catch up to S1 Sam & Max on the time elevator. One is now forced to question whether 102 happened at all, considering one linchpin of getting on the Myra! show was removed, unless S2 Sam & Max, now trapped in Season 1 and forced to retrace their steps, managed to procure a different source of the contract, further (but less consequentially) altering the timeline. The non-temporal instance of the time travelling elevator is presumably destroyed at the end of Season 2 where it travels back to explode and set off the Big Bang. Therefore any time travelling involving S1 Sam & Max will have had to take place between the start and end of 204. That's not to say the temporal instance of the elevator won't still reach its destination forward or back in time. In Season 2, S2 Sam & Max also travel forwards in time, to meet their future selves. Of note, both Sam and Max are both there, meaning they appear to inevitably survive whatever happens in Season 2 and 3. However one caveat is how subtly the future changes based on changes performed. First time the future is visited, Girl Stinky owns everything and built an adhesive empire based on Grandpa Stinky's tarcake. When S2 Sam & Max then return to the past to prevent Grandpa Stinky from being able to patent the recipe, the future reflects this instantaneously and subtly. The question then comes to whether the future presented in the time travel is dynamic or static; an inevitable future or a dynamically changing future based on every little butterfly effect perpetrated from the past --- and with the advent of time travel ---- future, for that matter.

So first, the implications of Past Max at the end of TDPH really being S1 Max. First and foremost, if S1 Max travelled to the end of Season 3 it would undo the events of Season 1 and 2 because S1 Max would not exist past 102, and therefore would not be there on the THEM spaceship to participate in time travel. It could also imply that Past Sam also died in that duration, meaning Sam could not be there in Season 2 or 3, unless assuming the events told by "Past Max" happened in the future, precluding an intervention by Past or Future Sam & Max. My proposition is that S1 Sam & Max traveled haphazardly to the future (press all the buttons!), possibly to the climax of Season 3 to witness S3 Max go boom, went earlier in time to prevent it but wound up with Sam getting turned into a monster instead, resulting in similar but altered consequences. Lacking the guidance, S1 Max returned to the time machine went to just after the events of his own future death, to conscript the aid of a begreived S3 Sam to go back in time and prevent THAT, returning Sam to the timeline. Sam wouldn't leave without saving his little buddy so they go pluck Max just before he fell from the sky, ensuring Max is alive, and Charlie Hotep and the toys are gone from the main timeline. I wouldn't be surprised if Max snagged some psychic toys from the past and brought them back to the present. The Adventuring ending has them both return to the time machine. Then during S1 Max and S3 Sam's proceeding time travelling adventures past the screen fading to black, they rescue S3 Max, then go back to rescue S1 Sam in the timeline, where S1 and S3 Max wind up "blowing him up". The temporal instance time machine remaining functional for being tethered to Season 2 Episode 4 in time, and thier destinations continually cloning instances of itself in the timestream. Finally depositing Season 3 Max, from just before his monsterification atop the Statue of Liberty, to Season 3 Sam after the credits in time for the Crimefighting ending where they abandon the time machine and head down the street, now undestroyed because Max never became a monster in the first place in the blink of an eye, like the corkboard in Future Sam & Max's office. This all happens without us knowing in-game, and only Sam remembers, and they didn't remember much of this back in Seasons 1 or 2 because of when Superball shined his Man-in-black light at them back in 204 before sending them to their proper time.

Catastrophic Temporal Anomaly detected, Jackass.

In conclusion..... I think the butler did it.

As for the Samulacra, who's to say they weren't all commanded to jump into Momma Bosco's dimentional destabilizer as minions for Yog Soggoth if and when they finally got him home? What of Skunkape and Girl Stinky or Sal who all wouldn't have gone poof yet? Dunno, I'm sure they wound up somewhere. Sybil? Use your imagination. Okay now stop.

Anyway that's my pitch for Season 4 starting with a cosmic retcon from just before 305, paradoxically starting after 305.

Am I full of shit? Probably.

Future Sam trying to figure out what happened with all that time travel.

I had a book worth of text written out on the purpose of this pic but after difficulties getting it posted, I say skip it.