#it was time loops all along!

[chimerafeathers]

i love that isafrin can be the most straightforwardly romancey, wholesome pairing on a surface level and then you go one (1) level deeper and run into siffrin’s seething guilt and convoluted feelings around touch and intimacy and the extent to which they want or don’t want those things in a specifically romantic way or if he was trying to seek connection and love in any way he could once he knew that Isabeau wanted those things from him in that context, and the combined power trip/self disgust at “manipulating” Isabeau’s desires without his knowledge to make themself feel wanted and in control. and then you keep going and there’s also Isabeau’s own warped self image (still, in spite of all his changes, fearing that he’s someone that would be shameful to know), his “emotionally stable pillar” role and self-taught therapy talk masking his deep fears of real confrontation (struggling loop after loop to confess, not wanting Odile to confront Siffrin about their weird behavior in the sus quest bathroom talk) and how Siffrin’s fear of vulnerability and Isabeau’s fear of Pushing Too Hard allow both of their issues to fester unspoken long after it’s clear that the problems exist.

all this to say. duality of isafrin. makes my heart full and warm and happy to see the sweet, fluffy, silly love and connection between them (mutually romantic or otherwise). and then also. the delicious, delicious complications. gnawing on them like a dog with a beloved bone

[jaggybot3000]

getting along?

[lucabyte]

i burned the bridges thoroughly but still everyone's trusting me again and i should be relieved but it happened so suddenly (and i know in my heart i haven't earned this, but everyone acts like my concern isn't a problem like nothing is wrong with my very involvement)

but i know how the song ends (x)

[the-bitter-ocean]

(ACT 5 SPOILERS) Ageswap MDP Moments (RUH ROH)

[zephyrine-gale]

Hello, dear zephyrine! I really love your art and style, thank you for existing (つ･･)つ

I wanted to know if you are familiar with the musical Epic?"

omg?? you've activated a sleeper agent bc epic the musical was my most played playlist on spotify last year im so normal for epic

I have a whole playlist of favorite animatics... and circe and thunder saga are my favs!

[seepingfrommyskin]

rip your heart out.

[luifaro]

uhhh ok so some loop and universe thoughts i've had... that i've been storing in my noggin... i just have a couple of things... (loop experts know you can legally kill me if i'm Wrong about them please don't hesitate)

so like. in my mind the universe is a genuinely caring entity yk? like it obviously is not without flaws that would be idk too idealistic and idk it weirds me out too much to do bc it would make me feel all weird and like i'm demonizing loop by making the universe some perfect angel when they hate it so much. it's not that deep but still i think it's just i don't like the trope of innocent well-intentioned person who hurt someone is portrayed as completely in the right and person who holds fairly justified grudge portrayed as actual monster because the person who hurt them didn't mean to :cccc... plus it's fun!!! i likeit bc it's fun to explore! it wants to help but it's also hurting them by helping! it really did try and it had a reason for putting loop through all of this. it wanted loop (and siffrin) to learn that their friends care about them at all costs because it's Very Important to them that they learn this.

but that's kind of offtopic from what i'm ACTUALLY here to ramble about, which is how i feel loop would react to the idea of like a genuinely kind universe. which is to say i think they would honestly greatly dislike it if not outright hate because. You Know How to be decent and yet. and yet you did this to me. you did this knowing you would ruin me, you had to know and yet you did it anyway even though you care about me. even though you love me you destroyed me and permanently Changed me and i didn't want this i never wanted this i never wanted this to happen to me why didn't you see that i never wanted this? do you even care about what i want? why can't you just leave me alone? why do you have to do this? why?

they'd hate the fact that they have to watch out, to think carefully to speak carefully. or else it will try to "help" them when they don't want this. they just want to left alone they just want to live. they're tired of it trying to help them they don't want help they just want it to leave them alone more than anything they can't stand that it loves them so much that if it physically could it would leave them alone. why them? why them??? why did it have to be them? why did they have to be the universe's favorite toy why why why why???? why???? why do they have to live this way when no one else does? why can't it understand that the only way it could make them happy is by never intervening again? by shutting up forever? by just stopping?

it cares too much and they can't stand that.

^ also secretly because i don't think they'd think feel like they deserve a loving god that cares about them too! this star can fit so much angst in them!!

[itsalongwaytotipperary]

character who is stuck in a time loop and keeps trying to break out of it until eventually they realize that to break the loop means to lose the one they love. so they resolve to keep the time loop running so they can stay with the one they love, but at that point someone else in the time loop is aware of it and is trying to break it so the character's goal becomes to stop that person and 'save' the one they love (if to save means to set in resin and keep forever the same)

[shypitaya]

Telling me I'm loved is not enough. I need to be hugged by all of my loved ones so hard they would squeeze the anxiety out of me and I would cry while they told me they would never leave me and they would always love me

And then I would fight myself to accept this love and care and hopefully I would win

[clumsypuppy]

AND I MET THE CHANGE GOD TOO. OKAY. COOL OKAY

[thatfriendlyanon]

i think part of my problem is i lived with my best friend for two years of my life and have been searching for the same feeling of joy & acceptance & support ever since

[criticalbeauregard]

3.5 hours (over the last week or so) into this ghost agatha x skull face rio piece and it is killing me a million times

[cubbihue]

this au feels like it's been around forever I just went to the first post to try and revisit the lore before askin smth and I was like aww wow <3 the first itty bitties post. How far we've come. And it's been 18 days. 2.5 weeks. just over half a month.

ITS ONLY BEEN 18 DAYS????

[glowingghosty]

guy wakes up in a place he recognizes but doesn't know why or how he got there. he's a bit confused but he lives out the next few hours just like he normally would, just a bit dazed. but once he goes to sleep, it immediately restarts back to where he woke up.

he realizes this is a time loop... but something is different about it.

he realizes pretty quickly that this is some sort of dreamscape. it's a time loop, but for some reason, things around him do change, and he can pretty easily change things too just by thinking of them, like a lucid dream. but he always wakes up in media res once it gets to some sort of end point, and no one else around him remembers previous loops.

as he's trying to figure out what the goal is to end the loop, he's suddenly thrown for a loop when he's attacked and killed by someone he's never seen before. he wakes back up, shaken, but at least it was something new and out of his control.

he starts to go about as he had been but is killed again. faster and faster, sooner and sooner after he wakes up, he's killed by increasingly horrifying ways, all because of this other dude. finally, it stops when he manages to get a word in to the other guy before he's killed. turns out this guy is also in the time loop, and our guy was the first thing he saw that was different. thinking he was the test, or had something to do with it, he attacked him. his time was reset, so he knew he was onto something, hence the repeat killings. he was obviously taking this a lot harder than the first guy.

they decided to work together and figure out a way to stop the loop. they could both affect things with their lucidity and they tested what they could do. they could do a lot, though none of it seemed to matter. if one of them died, or got to some sort of "end point," they'd both reset. they slowly stopped really trying to get out and started just enjoying their time. they imagined things they'd always wanted to experience or see, and it would happen. it was fun.

eventually, they started noticing a certain girl was around more than any other person. she didn't seem to also be in a time loop, but she wouldnt completely forget who they were with each reset, either. they decided to befriend her and bring her along because it was nice to have company after all this time. she enjoyed the experiences they were conjuring but didn't find it incredibly impossible like a real life person would at seeing what was essentially magic. typical dream-based character acceptance behavior.

at one point, they're sitting on the pavement of a parking lot watching the sunset they thought up of, just talking casually. guy one notices that the sunset starts moving backward and forward in time, rhythmically, preventing the sun from setting. things would "escape" their control sometimes, but he realized the sun was going up and down at the same rhythm that the girl was rocking back and forth. she simply looked upon it in calm awe, not acknowledging that she may be influencing it. before guy one could say anything, guy two reached past him and shot her in the head.

time did not reset.

things went on, as much as it does in a dreamscape time loop, and they had settled into some kind of pattern of normalcy. most days they didn't even talk about trying to get out of there. they were able to carve some comfort out of their situation.

eventually, guy two runs up to guy one with the girl. he's excited and says he's thought of another thing to try to get them out. he says they just need to get into a truck and drive backwards really fast. confused, guy one asks why he thinks this would work at all. guy two says he has no idea. he just knows it'll work. he has a feeling.

so they go to an open nature area with a long road and conjure up a pickup truck. guy two is driving, with guy one in the passenger seat and the girl in the small backseat. guy two revs up and barrels backwards, whooping and celebrating the stunt, saying they're getting out of here.

guy one sees the trees whip by. they go over a bridge crossing a lake. the sky is bright with sun. he looks at guy two. his eyes are wild, his mouth in a gruesome open smile as he hollers. the girl in the backseat simply looked on in ignorant bliss.

guy one knew then.

he opened his door and jumped out, tucking and rolling. as he did, he thought about the truck barreling backwards off a cliff. when he stopped and got up, he saw just that. time slowed as the truck lost traction with the road and started to soar. guy two's face fell as he saw guy one standing there, looking down at them from the edge, face solemn. a look of shocked realization spread across his face as he descended towards the ground below.

then i woke up with a splitting headache. so. i guess i escaped the time loop???

[darkvolley]

Excuse the YouTuber in the corner I'm too lazy to switch to a different video but, it's probably a pretty easy conclusion to come to that KH might function off a somewhat stable time loop but nothing has really made it feel blatantly obvious than realizing that actually, since Ansem SoD sent Young Xehanort to Scala, that would mean there would have to be a starting timeline where the first SoD went back to start the loop, meaning there has to be a timeline where Xehanort never left Destiny Islands MEANING there has to be a timeline where SoD never existed, and as such neither did Xemnas and Terranort never happened along with basically everything else. So are we in fact confirming that KH does indeed function off a stable timeloop that never truly "started" somewhere and has just always been this way, or what in the world could have happened to still lead Xehanort to Scala without interference? Cuz now I have to wonder, if we're going by stable timeloop, then either Sora creates the tear in time every loop effectively creating endless ones over and over which could lead to a bigger problem(or not a problem at all if it's supposed to happen??) OR this is somehow the first deviation, which doesn't feel likely considering obviously Quadratum and Srelitizia being there seems to be decidedly factored into the equation here, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it hasn't been. Or maybe the problem is that Sora's genuinely not supposed to be there. Idk where I'm going anymore, but basically if time started somewhere and it hasn't always been a loop, how did we get HERE to the point in the screenshot where SoD/practically everything was able to exist to "create itself" essentially??? And I don't think that's possible without outside intervention, so it's gotta be a stable timeloop!

[maddieandangel]

Had a weird Hollow Knight-related dream a couple days ago, so I decided to draw a major scene I remembered from it dgsgshf

More context will be in the tags, for those interested!