#timey wimey stuff for the hero of time

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Febuwhump Day 11 - Time Loop

Based on this art and idea from @twilight-linkess! Your art is always so great, I haven't had a chance to reblog it much lately but by heaven I will!

This new era was strange. Not because anything in particular really stuck out, but because it felt eerily familiar while also quite foreign. Both Time and Twilight observed similarities, the former sensing fairy magic as if he were in the Lost Woods while the latter recognized some architecture. Neither could pinpoint enough to really definitively say it was their era, and a nearby village had no recollection of anyone named Link.

So they were between heroes, then.

Despite this knowledge, Twilight felt... uneasy, for lack of a better word. He found himself looking over his shoulder often. Time hovered close to him, worry coating his features and setting his shoulders stiffly. It was still too close to Twilight's injury, and his elder was clearly letting his misgivings about the place channel into worry over his descendant.

As for Twilight... well. He'd been having disturbing dreams and visions lately. He swore it was just because he wasn't really sleeping well, because this place made him feel off. But some days, when he was laughing with Time, the way his armo glinted would dull, like it was rusting over before his very eyes. Or, worse, his armor would shine too bright, reflecting a red eye glowing in a skull that wasn't--couldn't be there.

By the time a week had passed, Twilight was ready to lose his mind. Every time he looked at his elder he had to do a double take to make sure he was real. Every time he saw the man's reflection it looked ghostly.

It's fine, he tried to reassure himself. You're just sleep deprived. It's not like he's going to vanish into thin air. He's fine.

But every night he shivered, no matter how many blankets he wrapped himself in. Every night he saw bony fingers reach out to him. Every night Time lay dead on the ground.

When he finally found he'd had enough, he patrolled the woods in his wolf form. A golden light caught his attention, heartbreakingly familiar but impossibly so. He followed it with haste, heart racing, but no matter how fast he ran, it always moved faster.

High, high above the Hero of Twilight, the Hero's Shade watched, sadness hanging over him. He ached to see his pup and talk to him, to almost have a conversation where both would have equal knowledge of the other for once, but... no. He couldn't interfere with the timeline any more than he already had.

Go on, little pup, he bade with all the love his aching heart could muster. Stay safe with your brothers.

#I suppose this isn't necessarily a time loop but oh well #timey wimey stuff for the hero of time #love you art linkess! #writing #febuwhump #linkeduniverse #linked universe #lu time #lu twilight #hero's shade #is there a lu shade tag? #lu shade #eh #whatevs #skye time travels through the queue

[lokisprettygirl]

Under his influence (Post Avengers! Loki x female reader)

Read chapter 36 here/ Series Masterlist

Chapter 37

Summary : Loki reminds you of the time you were made to forget.

Warning: 18+, Smut HUGE Canon divergence (Just me making shit up), timey wimey stuff topics dealing with cheating and falling out of love, infertility, discussion of pregnancy

Since you met Loki things have been strange to say the least, turns out Stephen hadn't invited him to his birthday party for no reason, there was a threat looming over everything in the name of a mad Titan named Thanos but they fixed it, Avengers did, and Loki was one of them now. His popularity had increased since then, he was a hero, he was the one who knew all about Thanos and helped Avengers come up with a plan, he finally had his chance at redemption and you had a feeling he'd forget all about you slowly once he realizes what earth had to offer to him but he didn't.

After the war with Thanos had ended, he was there at your door bruised and hurt, his eyes were teary, for a moment you thought he'd kiss you but he didn't. You had no idea how hard it was for him to resist.

After tending to his wounds-even though he didn't need it, you grabbed a towel and passed it to him and you had no idea why his eyes welled up when you ruffled his hair and asked him to wash his hair. Maybe he didn't like it when you told him that he looked like a pine tree.

The more time you spent with him the more he felt like a dream come true, he was soft and precious but he was also protective and fierce everytime he was in public with you, he wasn't afraid to be seen with you, he treated you as if you belonged to him in every possible way and you didn't know how to feel about that.

He was famous now and you didn't understand why he'd choose you of all people but the way he looked at you at times made you feel as if you were loved so deeply by him but why would he love you that way? It has merely been two months since he knew you.

There was a celebration at the Avengers tower and he wanted to take you with him, you weren't his girlfriend, not yet, so you felt really nervous about it, however you didn't deny the offer, you just wanted to be around him as much as you could, you wanted to cross all the lines of decency and devour him but something held you back, maybe it was fear, you feared that he'd lose his interest in you once he had you in that way.

You had been in the same situation a plenty of times before and you didn't want to ruin this friendship you had built with him so you stayed quiet and kept your feelings to yourself.

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Loki knew he had to tell you the truth sooner or later but he wanted to wait for the right moment, he wanted to gain your trust, your forgotten memories would feel too much at once and he didn't want to scare you away from him or make you feel as if he'd harm you or manipulate you in any ways.

That night at the tower as you accompanied him to the celebration he took you to his room, the room you both had been in countless times in other realities but you didn't remember, that's when he showed you his real self, his jotun form.

He just wanted to see how you'd react when you weren't really in love with him in the way you were before but the moment you hugged his giant blue body so tightly and showed no sign of discomfort, whatever miniscule amount of insecurity he had vanished as well.

You were made for him, just for him and he'd never let you go again.

"Happy birthday darling" you smiled as you heard his voice on the phone, so deep and raspy, his voice was one of the many countless reasons you were awake at night these days with your fingers playing with yourself.

"Thank you mister..you said you'd come see me but I don't see you here" you mumbled softly, you were in the kitchen making a cup of tea for yourself, you weren't really enthusiastic about turning 37 but having a new friend in life, a friend that actually cared about you was nice, you had no idea how you'd get over him if someday he'd leave you as well.

"You'd see me if you come to the door" as soon as he said that you leaped towards the door and there he was, in a fancy suit while you looked your usual homeless self. That was another thing you didn't quite understand, he never made you feel as if you had to pretend to be something you were not in front of him.

"What's the occasion?" You asked him as you looked at his fancy self so he smiled and walked closer to you to kiss your forehead.

"It's your birthday and I want to take you somewhere"

"I have to get ready?" you groaned so he cupped your cheeks and kissed the top of your head this time, his soft little kisses always made you yearn for more.

"You can come with me just the way you are love, you look beautiful" he mumbled in your ears as he kissed your cheek, you felt your skin tingling, one of these days you were going to cross all those boundaries you had confined yourself in.

"I'm not going out like this lo" he chuckled as you said that, you asked him to sit down on the couch as you went to the bedroom to change.

He liked this new place you had now but he didn't like it as much as he liked your old tiny apartment. He missed that place and if he was going to tell you the truth, it would be right there. That's where he had ended up the first time, that's when he had seen the prettiest girl in all of existence.

The place that had changed the course of his life should also be the one to change yours.

Once you got ready he teleported you both to your old place, just outside the door.

"Are we here to see Mrs Geller?" You chuckled as you asked him so he shook his head and took out a key to open the apartment you used to live in for what felt like ages ago.

"Why do you have the key?" There was a look of confusion on your face so he smiled to assure you, he hoped he wasn't coming across as a deranged killer.

"I own it now"

"You do?"

"Yes sweetheart"

As you entered the apartment you couldn't believe your eyes, you had left this place when you got married to Stephen, other tenants arrived and left in the meantime so you were surprised to see it look the same way you used to keep it, the furniture and by furniture you meant that ugly little sofa was still there, it even had the tiny little bed you had bought for yourself which surprised you because you had a feeling the other tenant had replaced it..

"I used to live here"

You turned around to look at him so he smiled,

"I know..do you trust me?" he asked you as he approached you so you nodded almost immediately. You trusted him with all your heart.

"What's going on lo?" You asked him softly, you did feel a bit apprehensive of the situation but it wasn't because of him, deep down in your heart you knew he'd never hurt you.

He hesitated before speaking, trying to find the right words to convey what he needed to say. "I need to tell you something important," he finally began. "It may be a lot to take in, and I know it's not easy, but it's something that happened to us, to me and you"

He looked at you with a mix of nervousness and excitement , not wanting to overwhelm you

"What do you mean? I don't understand" He cupped your cheeks and placed his forehead down on yours, his thumbs grazed over your cheekbones gently,

"Have you ever felt as if you were missing something, a part of your life that you couldn't remember?" He asked you softly and he could see the conflicting look in your eye,

"I did..all my life but more since I got older..i ..what's going on lo?" You asked him, suddenly feeling extremely anxious about what was to come..

"This is going to feel a lot at once my darling, but I need you to put your faith in me" Before you could say something else his fingers grazed over your temples and you finally recalled everything you had forgotten. Was it really forgotten or you never ever lived it at all? You couldn't figure it out just yet, he wasn't wrong it did feel overwhelming.

You saw it all, you went back to 2012 and you were here in the kitchen threatening him with a knife and then you remembered everything that had happened between you two after that. The friendship that bloomed, falling in love with each other..visit from Stephen and other Loki, reversing the timeline and then losing him again and then again, you suddenly had all those memories including the life you had lived in the past few years.

Your head was threatening to explode so you took a step away from him, he could tell that you felt scared of the situation and were trying to rationalize it, that's why he had to remember you because this would have been so much more difficult if he didn't.

"Princess"

You broke down into a fit of cry as he addressed you like that, the memories hit you like a wave in that moment and you weren't sure if you wanted to hold on or get swept away in it. It was like being pulled in two directions at once - you wanted to hold on to the memories and not forget, but at the same time, the pain and heartbreak that came with those memories was almost too much to bear. You weren't sure if you wanted to cling to the past or let it go, but either way, you knew that this moment would change everything.

"What is going on" you gulped as you questioned him, voice choked on your own tears, that was all you could manage to say to him.

Seven years you had been separated from him, for seven years you had to suffer just so the world could go on and be the way it was destined to be.

"I know it's a lot to take in sweetheart"

"You bet it is..i ..I don't...Oh god" you felt dizzy and he was immediately by your side to grab a hold of you, he'd never let you fall again "How did i…how could I forget you like that? Lokiii ..how couldn't i remember you..whyy didn't i remember you?" you whimpered as you looked up at him.

If you loved him so deeply then how did you forget?

"Because that's how it was supposed to be my love.. none of this was your fault" he placed his forehead down on yours and allowed you to cry because he knew after this he'd never ever make you cry like this again.

When you didn't remember him you felt so hollow and it all made sense now but now that you did remember him you couldn't fathom how you had gone seven years without him. It felt impossible.

"Please tell me we are going to be okay now, please I can't..I can't do this again baby" the pet name rolled off your lips so naturally that it didn't even make you flinch, all of a sudden you felt as if the life you had been living in the past seven years was an alternate reality that has never happened to you,

"I'm never ever leaving you again..I gave you my word didn't i? I'd tear apart the multiverse if it means I'd get to have you by my side"

He assured you and as he felt your arms around him everything was back to how it was supposed to be. He picked you up in his arms and walked towards the bed to lay you down on it, your face looked swollen from all the crying and he found it so adorable, as he took his jacket off you thought he was going to make love to you but as soon as he laid down next to you and snuggled himself against you, you knew he just needed to hold you in his arms. And you needed it desperately too.

That's how you both stayed there for what felt like hours even though it's barely been minutes..

"Lo?"

"Mmm"

"Who made you remember? Did she come?" You asked him so he looked at you and his eyes were filled with tears,

"She didn't have to make me remember" he propped himself on his elbows as he rubbed his face with his hand,

"What do you mean?"

"My memories weren't erased, i wanted to remember" you sat up on the bed as he said that, he had a feeling this would make you upset.

"Why? Why did you remember?" You asked him, you were shocked to say the least,

"So I could make you remember me when the right time would come..i didn't want to live without your memories.. didn't want to take a risk . I wanted to make sure I'd end up here with you" your eyes teared up so you crawled towards him and hugged him tightly,

"You remembered? How did you..god lo" you couldn't understand how he went seven years this way, waiting for the right moment to come back to you, you don't think you'd have been so strong and able to do the same and maybe that's why you had to forget him.

As you pulled away you kissed him as lovingly as you could and he pressed his head between the crook of your neck to suck on the soft exposed skin, your eyes fixated at the kitchen area and it felt surreal.

Time had come full circle.

Being here with him in the apartment where you had seen him the first time felt unreal, it felt like a dream but it was your reality, a beautiful reality that you'd get to live now.

"Do you want to do this?" He asked softly, always needing your consent even though his fingers were already fiddling with the zipper of your dress, instead of answering him with words you took his shirt off and that was all he needed.

He laid you down on the bed and he didn't even need to do much, you were already dripping wet for him so he waved his fingers and there was a condom in his hand,

"It's old..I sure hope it won't rip sweetheart"

You chuckled as he said that before your eyes teared up as you remembered something.

"It's ok..I can't..ummm I'm not really fertile" you gulped as you told him that but instead of a frown or worry there was a smile on his face,

"You are perfectly fertile my love"

"No you don't understand – with Stephen ..we tried ..i–" he placed his finger on your lips as you began to stutter.

"Shhhhh don't remind me of the fact that he got to touch you like that"

"I'm sorry..I'm sorry..did you ummm..did you sleep with other people?"

"Nooooo.."

"You haven't had sex in seven years?" Your eyes widened in surprise as you questioned him, sure he remembered you but he was a man, with needs, how did he not give into the temptations?

"You really think I'd betray you like that princess?"

"Lokiii..i wouldn't..god i love you" you wrapped your arms around his neck as you pulled him closer to you to kiss him, a gasp escaped your lips as he slipped his cock inside you at the same time, building up a slow rhythm he kept his eyes on you, reeling in every second of this glorious moment..

"Haven't you noticed something?" He asked you so you looked at him intently,

"What?'

"You haven't aged a day since you turned thirty?"

"I have..I'm older now lo" you giggled and norns he had missed all of this so badly he still felt as if he was in a dream.

"You feel that way but you don't look so" your eyes flickered in confusion as he said that, "That last day..the last time we fucked against your wardrobe, I did something to you.. without your permission and I'd apologise but I'm not even apologetic about it"

"What do you mean?" You smiled as you questioned, nothing he said would faze you anymore he had figured but he needed to come clean.

"I didn't use contraception that night, you remember?"

"Mmm" you mumbled as you tucked his hair behind his ears,

"I took you as my mate, not just as a god but as a Jotunn. We are a different species altogether, destined to have one partner for life, one to wed and mate with until death do us part. I planted my seed within you, it's waiting to be flourished whenever you'd become ready to be the mum, and from that moment on, you became my chosen one, unable to have another man's children"

Your mouth stayed open as you processed the information, that's why you weren't able to get pregnant even though your body was completely healthy "I'm sorry I made that decision for you, you can choose to leave yourself out whenever you desire princess, I'd never ever force you to be with me"

"Shutup ..lo" you flipped him underneath you as he said that, your hips rolled back and forth as you began to ride him slowly. Was this supposed to make you upset? You didn't know, Maybe you'd have felt so if it was some other man but you knew loki would never ever do anything to hurt you "You could have just told me lo"

"You wouldn't have remembered"

"I know..did you do it to stop me from aging? Holy shit am I immortal now?"

"Not immortal..you'd just age the same way I do"

"Thousands of years…together?" Your eyes teared up as you looked at him so he cupped your cheeks and as his thumb grazed over your lips you sucked on his digit and an indecent moan escaped his throat,

"Forever my love, you'd be mine forever..that's not why I did it though" you looked at him confused as he said that, "It was atrocious enough that I had to watch you belong to another man for those years, there's no way I'd have allowed him to breed you in such a way"

You smiled as he said that, he was so possessive and you loved that. As you made love to him all night, you still felt as if you were in a fever dream where everything was going your way and you were living the life you had always desired but for once life was on your side. For once time was your friend.

It all made sense now, you were destined to be his forever, that's why you had felt so lonely all your life, feeling as if you were missing a part of your existence, now you knew he always had it with him.

"I dated Mark Johnson" your eyes widened as you remembered that, before you married Strange you dated this other doctor for a while, he was nice but he wasn't the love of your life, none of them were.

Everything made sense now, you gave Loki the fake name in the first timeline because you were supposed to date a man with the same name in the future, the future Loki you met in the first reality one was this same Loki that was underneath you at the moment who went to the alternate reality to warn him of his own future.

"Marry me darling..I can't take it no more..I need to tell the world you belong to me" he asked you as he pulled out a ring out of nowhere, you remembered the ring, it was the same one he had given you before, but this time you knew he belonged to you the way you belonged to him, he had waited and he was only yours for seven years.

All the fears, the trauma, the insecurities you had vanished in that moment. You knew you'd marry him for the reasons this time.

You remembered what Loki had told you, your loki, this loki, he knew.

"So will we really get married in the future?"

"In six months of meeting each other"

It all made sense now.

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Note: Just one more chapter left/ more like an epilogue.

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[thankssteveditko]

About Marvel's timeline

Here's something else important to keep in mind as I made my way through these comics: the way Marvel handles its timeline.

Marvel's comics have always been set in a fictionalized version of the present day real world that just so happens to also have superheroes and aliens and magic and whatnot. They've never been shy about referencing real world events or pop culture to ground the comics in our reality. The first ever Spider-Man story mentioned that he should go on The Ed Sullivan Show. Iron Man's classic origin story involves the Vietnam War. In the far, far future, I'm gonna have to cover the infamous 9/11 issue of Spider-Man where Marvel's heroes AND villains mourn at Ground Zero.

Marvel's main universe has also never had a true full-on reboot. They'll do their big dumb crossover events that Change Everything Forever™, sure. (God, I am not looking forward to having to worry about crossover events.) But, like... the stuff that came before still happened, for the most part.

So, combine these two facts, and you've got 60+ years of comics referencing then-current events that are basically all still in continuity... but the characters haven't aged 60 years. Things operate on a floating timeline - or a "sliding timescale," as Marvel seems to prefer. But unlike, say, The Simpsons, where the characters never age, some time HAS passed for Marvel's cast! Spider-Man isn't 17 forever, he's grown up over the course of the series. There's of course some timey-wimey nonsense that was invented decades later to explain this bizarre chronology, but basically, the characters get a year older about once every four real world years.

So, long story short: those 60+ years of comics get compressed to about, say, 15 years of in-universe history.

What of all the topical references, then? Just... don't think about it too hard. Marvel continuity supernerds will tell you those aren't supposed to be literal, and most get retconned out with enough time. (A few years back they invented a fictional all-purpose southeast Asian war that can perpetually be pulled forward with the sliding timescale, to replace outdated references to the Vietnam War and the Korean War.) If you go on the Marvel wiki and try to edit references to real world history into a character's biography they'll bust your fuckin' kneecaps.

On the other hand: it's funnier if you take them literally. So as we go through these early Spider-Man comics where characters reference things like twist music, just remember that - at the time of writing this in 2023 - the events of those comics are now considered to be set in about 2008 or 2009.

#tsd post

[inconveniently-discorporated]

Crack theory inspired by book of life theory.

So I'm sitting here thinking about all of these little things--

"All of us vs all of them"

Heaven & Hell seem to be hell (and heaven) bent on fighting each other and reducing the Earth down to a puddle of goo.

The Them, Newt & Anathema, Agnes Nutter.

Further Nice & Accurate Prophecies -- namely, The Big Story

The Book of Life, and past-meddling being teased -- at least maybe some wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff might be afoot.

What if it's not the Metatron messing with things? What if it's Aziraphale? In an attempt to save the Earth from Heaven and Hell. But maybe not to the extent of the actual book of life theory.

So this whole time post-S1, I've assumed that the two sides teamed up maybe because they were mad at the humans for averting the war. But I think "all of us vs all of them" might actually be humanity trying to avert another apocalypse (on a much bigger scale), whilst both demons and angels are taking an ACTIVE part in making the second coming happen (instead of everyone assuming these two idiots on Earth have it handled).

And I'm thinking about Aziraphale. I'm feeling like he's not going to want to immediately go against everything, and out himself as (still) a traitor. I think he's going to put a lot of work into undermining it, while not being obvious about it.

LIKE, MAYBE, SAY, BEING THE ONE TO SEND AGNES NUTTER VISIONS OF THE FUTURE SO EVERYTHING CAN BE WRITTEN DOWN AND HUMANITY HAS A BLUEPRINT FOR AVERTING THE APOCALYPSE? TWICE??

I feel like maybe we're going to see that Aziraphale really DOES need to be in Heaven and wield that power so he can actually work against it, but I also think that he's going to need Crowley's help earthside to coordinate all of that.

I'm NOT sure what to think about Muriel being in charge of the bookshop so far. They were installed by the Metatron, there are Heavenly ulterior motives. But I DO think it's going to end up being a critical miscalculation on the Metatron's part -- underestimating the power of "the dim one". I really think Muriel is going to help humanity in the end.

Although it would be funny if the Metatron was actually not a bad dude after all. Pretty classic for characters to be set up to be obvious villains, only for them to have secret plans that make them heroes after all. Maybe he really DID need to separate the two so they could work together but on separate pieces, but couldn't be obvious about it so he doesn't get Angel Revolution'd by the archangels who want war. Maybe he HAD to say what he did to Aziraphale about not avoiding the war because it was a test from God to see what he would do.

Like, why Aziraphale? If it's to get him out of the way, why NOT let Michael write him out of the book of life? Why bet on a wild card who's in love with a joker? I am now suspicious of the Metatron not as a villain, but as a secret hero. HMMM!

And just as an added bonus, I found it particularly powerful when Muriel said that books were like portable little people. That honestly feels like it's going to mean something at some point.

#good omens #gos3 theories #crack theories

[booksandabeer]

Hi. First of all, you’re amazing and you’re doing God’s work for us. Second, could you please recommend me some time-travel fics? I think I already read a few well known ones, and was wondering if there’s more? Also, it’s usually both or Bucky who time-travels, is there fics where Steve goes alone instead?

Hello Stranger!

Thanks for the ask and your very kind words. I live to serve! 😉

Now. The first thing I need to do here, is to point you towards this excellent rec list by @voylitscope There are a lot of very good fics on it and I strongly recommend you check it out.

I also want to apologize again for the long wait. I had a busy week and when I finally sat down to put together this list, I realized fairly quickly that almost 90% of it was comprised of some sort of EG-Fix-It fics. Just the idea of writing up my thoughts on all of them felt exhausting and saddening to me, so I scrapped the whole thing and started over. So without further ado, here are 7 fics featuring timey-wimey stuff that I have read and very much enjoyed and 3 more that I've yet to read, but can't wait to get to because they look amazing:

sun peeking through the sky series by dontcallmebree | M, 16K (2 Parts)

Author's summary: Steve clears his throat, curling his hands into fists to hide them. “Alright, say I believe you. Hell, you’re here. So what?”

Scott pins him with an unshakable stare, alive and unyielding. He never realized Scott could be so intense. Sam was the one who knew Scott better, but then again, Sam was always the better one of the two of them. “Look, the place I was in—the quantum realm—it messes with time, it lets you go back.”

Steve wants to throw him out.

A post-IW, twice-over canon divergent series. In the first part, Scott and the Ant Fam (or what's left of it post-Snap) burst into a heavily depressed Steve's existence and slowly turn it into something resembling a life again, and together they hatch a plan to save the world. What that plan entails? I'm not going to spoil it here, but let's just say it's much more clever and original, not to mention more logical and emotionally satisfying than anything that happened in EG. It's a quietly humorous, suspenseful, heartbreaking, and at times brutally tender series about finding and accepting second chances when you least expect them.

To Live It Again Is Past All Endeavor by trinityofone | T, 21 K

Author's summary: Time travel bodyswap! Present-day Steve and Bucky wake up back in their old bodies in 1938, while past Steve and Bucky wake in a future where they're both built like comic book heroes and Bucky's got what he thinks is a swell future robot arm. Adventures are had, and the ethics of time travel are debated. Also, everyone trash talks Willem de Kooning.

A story that really drives home some hard emotional truths while never entirely losing its light touch. Accompany Steve and Bucky as they travel into the future AND the past, and discover their once and future selves. I call this fic "the clairvoyant one" because it features Steve and Bucky contemplating staying in the past and a subsequent discussion of the ethics and purpose of time travel that had me frantically scroll back up and check that, yes, this fic was indeed written all the way back in 2014. I then proceeded to lose my mind a little bit because it is such an eerily specific and accurate rebuttal to Steve's EG ending that I'm more than half convinced the author has clairvoyant abilities.

Where All Roads Lead by DrowningByDegrees | E, 46K

Author's summary: When Steve Rogers inadvertently touches a relic in the course of a mission gone sideways during WWII, he’s catapulted seventy years into the future. Before he's even sure where he's ended up, his search for help puts him in contact with Bucky Barnes, a historian and college professor who has built a career around studying Captain America. With Bucky's help, Steve means to find out how exactly he ended up in 2017, and solve the bigger mystery of how to get home. There's just one problem. The closer they get to their goal, the less certain Steve is that he wants to go home.

A Shrunkyclunks AU where Steve accidentally time travels straight from WW2 to the 21st Century. It's funny and heartbreaking, well-written and cleverly plotted. Also features beautiful art by alby_mangroves that not only beautifully augments the story, but actually is a part of it, too.

The Restoration Artist by superheroresin | E, 109K

Author's summary: As a conservator of rare oil paintings for The Met, Steve Rogers thinks of himself part scientist, part archaeologist, but hardly an artist in his own right. Only when he’s faced with the daunting task of restoring a frozen painting from a recently unearthed Nazi art hoard does he start to feel his passion for the craft return. Before he has a chance to understand what that means, Steve is transported to the 1940’s, where he meets both The Winter Soldier himself, and his own destiny.

A Shrinkyclinks AU in which art conservator Steve travels through time to save Bucky... who has been trapped in a painting...? Mystery! Romance! Art Talk! I practically inhaled this thing in one go, despite the length. This is a really lovely story, full of clever ideas and twist and turns that will keep you guessing. And on top of that you'll learn a whole lot about art restoration! What's not to love?

the world on fire by burlesquecomposer | M, 62K

Author’s summary: Steve loves old vinyl records, doodles on his files, and cannot remember a time that he didn't serve the TVA. And that suits him just fine—that is, until stray variant Bucky Barnes, fresh out of HYDRA's grasp, drops into his time theater and makes Steve question everything he believes in.

A really well written fic that has time travel and variants and alternate timelines and parallel universes and... you get it. A whole lot of timey wimey stuff, but the author keeps track of it all and ties up everything beautifully in the end. A super fun premise, clever plotting, wonderful characterizations, and a firm grasp on the SteveBucky dynamic in every incarnation/iteration/variation. It's a really lovely fic and I think it deserves a lot more love and attention.

On the Cover of Dawn by adeepeningdig | T, 6K

Author's summary: “Listen,” Bucky says again, and pads to Steve, book still in hand. “I’d sell my soul for that/fawn/of a boy night walker/to sound of the ‘ud & flute playing/who saw the glass in my hand said/“drink the wine from between my lips.” He kisses Steve then, insistent, tongue sweeping into his mouth, body to body. Steve buckles beneath it. Two stories. One poem.

I'm cheating a little with this one... maybe. To be perfectly honest, I don't really know what's going on here even after I read this several times. Is it time travel? An alternate universe? Reincarnation? None of it at all? The thing is, I'm not sure the reader is meant to definitively know or understand what exactly is happening, and ultimately, it doesn't really matter. What does matter is the poignancy, the beautiful, at times lyrical language, and the reassurance that Steve and Bucky will find and love each other in every possible universe and incarnation. Also features one of my favorite George Barnes scenes ever.

From Tralfamadore, With Love by newsbypostcard | E, 106K | Part 1 in From Tralfamadore series

Author's summary: In 2018, Steve, Sam, and Bucky embark on a mission to explore a Hydra-owned warehouse when a kid with mutant powers sends Steve 18 years into the future. Steve's just as in love with Bucky as he was when he left, but for Bucky it's been a long 18 years. As he gets used to life in 2036 and the flaws in Bucky's idyllic life expose themselves, Steve also has to manage a suspiciously ubiquitous security force, a Brotherhood of Mutants, and old competing loyalties among his aged friends. There's a Bucky in 2018 waiting for him to come home, but if he does that, it means leaving this Bucky behind for a third, unforgivable time. How can he choose?

Yes yes, I recced this not too long ago, I know. But there is simply no way in hell that I'm going to put together a time travel rec list and NOT include this fic. The summary is pretty self-explanatory, and I really don't want to reveal anymore than that. Much of the tension and emotional drama in this fic comes from not knowing what's going to happen, and from desperately guessing at how on earth the author is going to solve Steve's impossible dilemma. I loved the way the author explored the relationship of a Steve and a Bucky who have been separated for two seconds and 18 years, respectively. Also, possibly the best use of a Fleetwood Mac song in fanfic ever.

🕰 +3 To Reads:

Savage God by PottersPink | M, 36K

Author's summary: Past, present, future, Steve knows Bucky Barnes. It’s why he recognized him when he found him in that alley in April of 1942, even though Bucky was older, stronger, wearier; he called himself The Asset, and had a metal fucking arm. The Asset was only with Steve in 1942 for a few days, but it’s enough to change the course of Steve’s life forever.

Seventy years later, Steve wakes up in the twenty-first century, and he doesn’t know whether to be heartbroken or hopeful when some of the things Bucky revealed to him in 1942 start falling into place.

Every You, Every Me by Starshot | E, 48K

Author's summary: Desperate to follow when Bucky ships out to war in 1943, Steve volunteers for Project Rebirth, an experimental program meant to turn him into the world’s first super-soldier. Instead it fails, leaving him with a condition dubbed “Chrono-Impairment” which sees him travelling uncontrollably through time, to random points in both his and Bucky’s lives.

But with Bucky brainwashed into working for HYDRA, and Steve living life on the run, torn between his own time and Bucky’s, will they ever find the happy ending they so desperately desire? (AKA the Stucky AU based on the book, "The Time Traveler’s Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger)

a day in the life by powerfulowl (StuckyFlangst) E, 20K

Author's summary: Steve wakes to the sound of someone moving about in the kitchen below him. He lies for a few moments, trying to recall—a dream?

He looks over at the nightstand and there is a piece of card propped up there. He reaches out to take it.

You are Captain America. You are Steve Rogers. It is 1956. You are married to Peggy Rogers, nee Carter. You live in New Jersey. Sometimes you have trouble remembering.

Steve Rogers wakes up on Tuesday October 30 1956, and doesn't seem to remember his life that well. Why does every day feel so familiar? And why does he keep getting visited by tall, dark, handsome men who remind him of Bucky?

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[redtippedfox]

Timey Wimey…Uh Oh: OFFICIAL DESIGN: Mistress Tigress

Mistress Tigress, alternatively known as Juleka Couffaine, is at least 21 years old, being a part of the old Miraculous Team: as Purple Tigress for close to two years before Shadow Moth got ahold of all the miraculouses. She is experienced with the use of the Tiger Miraculous and has a bond with the kwami known as Roarr. Before corruption Juleka was a sweet, shy and had grown very confident over the years thanks to her friends and Marinette. Over the years, her relationship with Marinette and her friends turn into a family bond and the feeling Juleka gets when near Marinette is close to an older sister. After Monarch has all the Miraculous, Juleka and the rest of her friends notice Marinette’s state as she falls into a depression. This becomes a stepping stone for Mistress Tigress corruption.

She has the powers of the Tiger Miraculous but boosted. The corrupted Akuma mixed with the Miraculous allows her the ability to use Clout but it is 2x powerful which makes it more dangerous. She has the ability to control how powerful her clout is. Her second power is sorrow, just like clout, if she hits a person or her target with sorrow they get a sudden wave of sadness and sorrow. She’ll use this power to try to manipulate her victims into joining her side and will sometimes succeed. She’s very manipulative and is the opposite of Juleka. She’s an unstable person and will attack anyone on sight. She has a painful bite that will cause you to fall into a depression and eventually become her slave. She has the animal tendencies of a feral tiger. She has two powers, Clout, and Sorrow.

Her relationship with her team is close to a family bond and the reason she fights so hard to corrupt Marinette is so she can enjoy having her family whole again. Though she is still Juleka, her miraculous is corrupted meaning Juleka is also corrupted. If she wishes to, Mistress Tigress can detransform back into Juleka though the Akuma has merged with the Miraculous.

Her attitude is snarky, manipulative, cruel, and just plain mean. Though she does not act this way towards Marinette(Ladybug) or her team.

The reason why the corrupted miraculous hero’s prefer to stay transformed is because when they are not transformed the Akumas hold is weaker and some times their old selves come to light but the corrupted kwamis like to remind their holders why they are doing this as the kwamis also have the same goal; corrupt Marinette so they can have their family whole again as the corrupted kwamis miss their guardian and Tikki. The corrupted kwamis are manipulative and their words are like poison venom that their holders feed off of. They are always successful at getting their holders back on track. Though the team does detransform sometimes so they can hang out with their kwamis as they missed them over the years that Monarch had them.

Mistress Tigress likes to use peoples stuff as a scratching post, and can purr like a cat. She likes sunbathing and destroying things. She will go feral randomly and attack anyone near due to her heightened emotions.

Because Monarch melted down the ancient Miraculouses of the very first miracle box that ever existed. The Miraculous feel incomplete, no longer whole or able to support the Kwami that inhabits the Miraculous. The rings feel wrong to the ancient magic that was used to create and protect the Miraculous and the Miraculous is trying to fix itself whenever it can with the kwami's powers. But due to Monarch using them mainly for transferring the power of the Miraculous over to the Akuma, the Miraculous no longer has the power to fix itself.

So when Monarch had the stupid idea to kidnap all of Ladybug's team and force the rings on them and then akumatize the rings. The Miraculous used the Akuma to fix itself while using the Akumas magic to make itself complete all while corrupting the Kwamis and the users. The Miraculous begins to use the Akuma and suck the Akuma of all of its magic, so it's a never ending cycle of the miraculous stealing magic from the Akuma and the Akuma stealing magic from the butterfly miraculous that it's being powered by, the Miraculouses start to become corrupted because the Akuma is giving them the wrong kind of magic to fix the Miraculous and make it complete.

The miraculous, the Akuma, and the holder merge into one with their soul, and that's how it's corrupted because the miraculous is feeding off of the Akuma and the body that's attached to the miraculous is feeding off the magic of the corrupted miraculous to get strength and be powerful.

The moment the tiger ring was forced onto Juleka’s finger and akumatized it transformed back into it’s original form and began to corrupt Juleka, unlike the other Akumas Juleka has become, she fought it until the corrupted kwami; Roarr, began to rule her emotions, reminding her of all the times Hawkmoth had turned her into a victim, the old feeling of happiness that she felt while being Purple Tigress only for Hawkmoth to rip it away. And lastly revealing that Marinette was Ladybug. Roarr reveals deep secrets about Marinette, how she cried every night since she became Guardian, how lonely she felt, her never ending nightmares, the wight of her duty, her hidden depression, how she wished for a happy life full of love, her dreams of living with all the kwamis in a world where people like Hawkmoth never existed. Juleka realizes Lila had been lying and Marinette had been protecting them even though they hadn’t believed her. Her anger at the lying wench deepens the corruptions hold.

The corruption takes a deeper hold, going through Juleka’s memories of seeing Ladybug fight all of Monarchs powerful Akumas, seeing the danger Marinette was put in over the years and eventually remembering that one Akuma battle Ladybug had been murdered and Scarabella had taken her place realizing it was Marinette who had died, it was Marinette who the media was slandering, it was her friend Marinette who would do anything for her friends and family that was dying and fighting on the never ending battle field of Monarch and it’s just one little question that Roarr asks that tips her over the edge.

“I can help you make our family whole again, just like how it used to be. We can make a new world Juleka, one where people like Hawkmoth don’t exist, all you have to do is help me and my friends corrupt our beloved Guardian and we can finally have our happily ever after. But my power comes with a cost.”

“Are you willing to take that cost?”

Juleka looks down at her miraculous, the image of Marinette in the butterfly garden, the place she would secretly go to after school, sobbing as she blames herself, as she tells herself she doesn’t deserve her happy end. As her mask of false happiness falls and shatters, Juleka can only remember the warmth that Ladybug would give off when it was their turn to patrol, the feeling of safety and comfort gone as the girl who was Ladybug yelled at herself and slipped into a deep depression filled her mind.

Monarch had taken their sun, Monarch had taken their hope, Monarch had taken Marinette.

So Juleka was going to take Monarch down, thus the corruption completes and Juleka gives in.

Monarch is glad that his masterpieces are complete and orders them to kill Marinette, to bring him her miraculous.

They kill him instead, he is too weak and pathetic to be their leader…they need their everyday Ladybug..yes…she will be the perfect leader

Their perfect Alpha, their sun, their guardian, their ladybug, they just have to catch her and akumatize her.

Then they can be a family again.

#miraculous ladybug #my art #miraculous tales of ladybug and chat noir #miraculous au #kwami #roarr #juleka couffaine #akumatized juleka #Mistress Tigress #akumatized miraculous #Timey Wimey..Uh Oh AU #Timey Wimey…uh oh #tiger miraculous #lore #corrupted miraculous heros #akumatized kwamis

[mysterycharacterbracket]

Poll #26

Character 76: He's an evil version of the protagonist who has gone through a time loop and become super evil from the despair of knowing what he would become. What he doesn't realize is that thanks to wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff he actually diverged from the 'prime' version, who is now ready to stop him.

Character 77: He's a hopeless romantic. He draws his crushes during class. He gets turned into a supervillain and all he wants is to take his crush on a date. He ends up flirting with a guy later who likes his art, and his friends try to wingman them together. Misunderstandings happen, but he helps the heroes save the day by tying up one of them to a kite and putting a blindfold on them. Yes, it was wild. It's pretty much his awakening to liking boys. After the dust settles, he ends up working on an original project with the guy who likes him. They're almost always seen by each other's side after that. His partner drags him to gym class despite him hating sports and working with groups. He makes up a lame excuse and uses puppy dog eyes, and they somehow work. He's a mess but his partner finds it endearing.

Character 78: This Barbie is hated by her boyfriends parents, a trans girl with XXXY chromosomes, not allowed to step foot in houston texas ever again, a victim of a smear campaign ran by grown ass adults, a disgrace to her old christian private school district, a cancer survivor, the middle child out of 5 siblings, a taurus, a Bratz girl, driving down to the airport in the middle of the night and thinking bout the fact she wasnt able to say goodbye to those who wanted her to die, jewish and cuban, she cant remember her statistics though...but she does know shes israeli because her family and her speak hebrew fluently, like a rockstar princess stuck in a middle schoolers body(according to her boyfriend), soooooo weird(according to some lululemon bitch from her class), a texan turned los angelean, Tumblr royalty.

#mystery character bracket #polls #round 1 #batch 3

[redtwomuch]

So I had this idea awhile ago but I didn't post it. I've only read a few comics (RHATO s1 & s2 (right up until we learn Roy is dead from bruce) And some of Jason's early Redhood days. And a nice amount of Damian stuff (until the titans Slade Wally thing.) So most of my knowledge is from Tumblr & AO3.

So I've heard about rebirth "everything happened" and I had my own idea (I don't think this is what actually happened in comics but I could be wrong)

So instead of "every happened" it's more like everything happened but some of it's gone but people think everything they don't remember was wiped. Until it starts comming back.

Maybe Wally was in a different dimension like cannon. Came back and everything was gone. Everything was different. The timeline was all messed up. Things that happened 20 years ago to him happened 10 years to everyone else if they happened at all.

He mourns his kids and wife. Maybe takes some time off. Everyone else is learning about their past that are gone (maybe they get magic memories like cannon maybe they just learn from Wally)

Maybe Wally goes on a mission to fix things. And starts finding out that he can't. That the things that are gone are gone. The only thing that was wiped that can come back is memories. He fights that. Keeps trying. New or old Big Bads.

Others are mourning too. Either the things they don't remember or the things they do but can't get back. They can't believe they forgot.

Then things. People start showing up. Heroes that "weren't in this timeline" young or old with a new backstory. Or maybe just a slight (major) change of other heroes not part of their story in this timeline.

They realize that while they knew the timeline was messed up. Things starting and ending at the wrong times. It was still happening. The old timeline unraveling.

Now my favorite part. It could be a standalone or part of a long story.

Lian in Gotham. ((I think I saw something before. A comic from preNew52 universe that was written right before 52 or at the time it was beginning. Roy fought a Demon in Gotham and brought Lian back))

So right as that's happening the "Cosmic Event" timey wimey F'd up all over the place.

Lian is in Gotham with little to no memories. 5 years old. With nobody she knows in sight.

((Many possibilities right there. I'd like a lot of fanfics with same-to-similar circumstances. Maybe not the entire buildup. Just the amount of ideas that could come from Lian revived but everything went wrong.

(Jason could find her. She could find Jason. She could find any Bat. She could head to New York or Star City. She could stay in Gotham until everyone gets their memories back)))

((I wish I had the patience to read more comics. There's just so many. If I ever get on another reading comics kick I think I'll try Roy right after he gets Lian. Or Titans/Young Justice 1980s onward.))

So back to it.

Once Lian is found in this timeline (she'd be 5-9 debating or fanfic timeline. Start of new52 she's 5. Wally comes back in Titans 7or8.) Wally searches for Linda.

Personally I prefer Irey&Jai still being young. Linda was suddenly a single mom to two babies. She doesn't remember who the father is. She just knows she loves her babies. They were wanted.

But now they are 3 or 4 years old. They have powers. Whenever they started showing their powers she wondered it she had a one night stand with the Flash. How do you even bring that up. Wasn't there a few Speedster villains. (Wasn't there a time in comics where a lot of people suddenly got super speed)

Just everything unraveling. How do they even find out what when where how why.

#lian harper #roy harper #jason todd #jayroy #wally west #irey west #jai west #linda park #new 52 #dc comics rebirth #RedTwoMuch

[illumiera]

WIP Not-Wednesday

I was tagged by @jirowrites (thank you! 💖) to share a little piece of a WIP, and since it's been a while since my last update, here's a chunk of chapter six of i fear no fate (for you are my fate) full of timey-wimey dream stuff for you all:

Had she not been too alight with fury to think, she might have guessed he’d bring her to a throne room in full splendour, or a dazzling temple sanctum, or perhaps a hall to rival that of Shor himself. Not a turret bearing the clawed-out marks of countless flights and landings, opening out to a diamond cloak of stars thrown across the sky. Beyond the edge of the battlement, so far down that her moon-spun wings shiver with wild delight, is Solstheim. Miraak’s Solstheim. He stands at her side, pointing out features of the landscape and giving them the names of his era: the patchwork tundra of the Isinfier Plains sprawling all around them, the snow-dusted Hirstaang Forest swaying to the south, and from the north-west rise the Moesring Mountains, where the Snow Prince was slain—or will be slain—atop his winter-white steed. Tiny moving flames no larger to her than fireflies draw her eye when he bids her look down to the settlement surrounding the temple grounds. With an odd little jolt, she realises that they’re torches, each one held aloft by a guard or a servant or an ordinary person oblivious to their silent audience of a dreamer and a woman out of time. In this form, her senses are sharpened twofold. Focusing her hearing, willing herself to empty of thought and just listen, she catches owls hooting, cows lowing, dogs barking, the distant tinkling of bells, and stolen fragments of conversations in Dovahzul and what cannot be anything other than rapid-fire Atmoran. In four thousand years, all of this will be gone. It’s real now, so real that, dream or not, she can run her fingertips along the stone embrasures and feel the wind whipping at her hair and the hem of her nightgown, but to wake will be to erase it forever. Come morning, every single one of the people she’s watching will be either draugr or dust. The snow and tundra for miles around will be scattered with the skeletons of so many dragons, she’ll never truly be able to imagine how it would feel to absorb all of those souls in such a short space of time. Like you could bring down the heavens with the merest whisper, she can’t help but think. Like you’ve torn off your fragile mortal skin and exposed a god blazing beneath. And she could warn him if she wanted, turn to him with the future on her tongue like a bitter aftertaste, but what good would it do? If he refused to bargain with Mora, or hid his rebellion better, or threw his lot in with the three Nord heroes who once asked for his aid, would it unmake the version of him she so painstakingly won from death and Oblivion both? Would it unmake her, since if Alduin were defeated in the Merethic Era, there’d be no need for a Last Dragonborn in the Fourth?

there, that ought to motivate me to get cracking (we're on 7.5k words and I usually write about 10k per chapter, so I don't anticipate it being too long before the update)! I tag @bostoniangirl21, @bougainvillea-and-saltwater, @kiir-do-faal-rahhe (no pressure, of course!) and anyone else who's got a WIP, whether art or writing, they'd like to show! ✨

#tag game #wip wednesday #miraak #oc: elentari #my fics #otp: i fear no fate (for you are my fate) #i fear no fate (for you are my fate) #writing #merethic era dragon priest miraak: hi pretty lady. this is my brooding tower :) #fourth era ellie visiting him in a dream: wonderful thank you

[ariminiria]

Okay, as promised, here is the theory:

I have reason to believe that Engineer Mark is NOT the Actor. I have no solid proof for who he is, other than some wild guesses, but my theory of who he isn’t stems from this amazing theory by @oswinunknown​ that suggests that ISWM is a choose-your-own that has been designed by Darkiplier rather than the Actor. You should definitely go read it, because this theory is the basis of what I’m about to propose, and actually touches on it in Section 1.3!

This post will contain spoilers for all of In Space With Markiplier. You have been warned!

Working off of this theory that Dark is indeed in charge of ISWM, the pieces begin to fall into place.

Timeline

The timeline of the choose-your-owns can definitely get confusing at times. My personal preferred order is:

WKM -> WMW -> Damien -> Markiplier TV -> AHWM -> ADWM

You may be asking, “Where does Space fall on this list? (And what does this have to do with Engineer’s identity?)” Just bear with me for now.

I believe that ISWM is after ADWM in this lineup.

“But Ari, Warfstache just made our interview appointment! That means AHWM is up next in the timeline!”

Allow me to focus on the minutiae of it all for just a moment and I’ll clarify.

If you’ll notice, Wil also tells us not to focus so much on when said interview is happening... could be in the past, could be in the future!

Now you say, “Okay, but that could still be in the future, Wil technically didn’t clarify...”

Which is true, BUT... Allow me to present this:

We recognize Yancy. Not just the other way around.

Just look at our accusatory point! That’s clearly a “You! Yancy! It’s you!” gesture.

This means that we have been through AHWM and know who Yancy is. Therefore, although Warfstache hasn’t done the interview yet, we’ve already been through it. Timey wimey stuff! It’s a Doctor/River Song situation.

Now, I’m gonna shift gears here, but bear with me, and remember this for later!

The Actor

We know who the Actor is. He stole poor Damien’s body and led to the creation of Darkiplier (and our subsequent removal from our own body). He’s the one who led us through Date and Heist. He also popped up in Damien, to taunt said title character with the fact that he needs a villain.

Why?

Because he wants to be the hero of his story. Simple as that.

And we see this consistently throughout Heist and Date. Yes, we make the decisions, but ultimately, we are guided along by Mark or an Ego at our side the whole way. He has a compulsive need to be involved in the story. He is in the spotlight and we are the sidekick along for the ride.

But in ISWM... we’re the hero. And we lose Mark. A LOT. We even spend some time fighting against him. But it’s odd that we’re left alone by him at all, when you think about it.

Another thing - think about Actor’s ego (not the character kind). I personally do not believe that that man would ever apologize or take responsibility for anything. Mark, real YouTuber Mark, has said before that Actor doesn’t even think he’s done anything wrong.

That feeds into why he comes to Damien to ask him to be the villain. He really thinks that Damien will just go along with it, because of course he will! Actor is giving him the chance to be apart of something, why wouldn’t he be ecstatic?!

Now, see here the moment of realization, when the Engineer suddenly understands that it was his fault all along:

This is the face of a man who is capable of recognizing his actions and their impacts on others, and regretting what he has done - aka, not the Actor.

There is a case to be made that perhaps spending an eternity playing the “hero” role actually got to him and made him care, but I don’t see the Actor being so dedicated to the role - especially a role that involves selflessly saving others instead of just his own skin - that he would continue to go through all of that pain just for a part.

So who is he? Again, I don’t know for certain. I just have theories. But, I have a feeling I know where he came from. Which brings us to...

Darkiplier

Every time we’ve encountered Darkiplier, there has been a recurring theme: The lack of choice.

At the very beginning, he used the images of Celine and Damien to trick us into letting him in. Of course, we had a choice, Celine reassured us. But, of course, we only had one way to get back to the world of the living. Not really much of a choice, huh?

We next see Dark in Heist, going by my order from earlier. He appears to us and talks at us the whole time, never giving us an opportunity to even talk back. Then, instead of giving us a choice at all, he boots us back to the beginning to do it all over again.

Finally, he crashes our date.

Now here, he claims he’s going to give us four whole choices! More than Actor ever gave to us... But only one of those choices can actually propel the story forward, the others are false ends. Not to mention, the original plan, according to YouTuber Mark, was to have all four links be to the same video.

Now, Dark says he is “tired of giving people a choice”. Then comes the scene in the real world where we pick one to shoot and go on to an ice cream ending. But that leads us to ISWM. Remember, our earlier deducing places ISWM next in the lineup.

And think about it - ISWM was no real choice. We all went into Part 1 expecting the same thing we got from Date and Heist, but what we got was a single ending. Again, Part 2 rebooted the universe and we expected to finally find some numbered endings! But no... there’s just one ending. The choices are a bottleneck that lead to the same place in the end.

Remember, this is Dark’s puppet show, and he is tired of giving people a choice, so just like in Date, he gives us the illusion that we have all these options, all these possibilities, but really... there’s only one path that we can ever go down.

Now, finally... The end credit scene.

The crystal on the ground. The tip of Dark’s shoe. The hand. The ring. The IMPRESSIVELY controlled aura.

“So much trouble... all for something so small.”

An echo of the line from Heist. Perhaps trying to point us to the fact that the box also had a warp crystal, but I think it has a deeper meaning.

The trouble he refers to is the whole of ISWM as a choose-your-own. It was a lot of trouble for Dark to have to step into the storyteller mantle, the puppet master role that Actor usually fills... all so he could get that crystal. Why? Who knows. Maybe it will be answered in the next project. But it’s clear that Dark served as the operator of this adventure, and he didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as Actor does.

Engineer

So that leaves us with the lad this whole theory is about. Dark is in charge of ISWM, as we’ve established, and he wouldn’t want Actor messing up his plans - so there’s no way he would let him in as a character.

So, my theories on the possible identity?

Engineer could either be what Dark thinks we want from Actor Mark (as shown in Date, where he passed as Mark by acting far more sympathetic to us in the Chocolate Ending), or what Dark himself wishes Actor could be - perhaps a shred of memory from Damien and Celine of the friend they used to know, before the House twisted him. In either of these options, I see this as Dark, or some piece of him being apart of the adventure in the same way that Actor usually is.

Or... Perhaps Engineer is an Ego made by Darkiplier, which interestingly, puts Dark into a similar playing field as Actor. If Actor is guilty of creating and abandoning Egos like toys, well... now Dark is guilty of the same thing. Although, an argument could be made that at least Dark gives Egos (both Mark’s and his own) happy endings - Yancy is up to apply for parole, whereas the Actor made him never want to be free, and Engineer, Dark’s Ego, gets to be saved from his own mistakes and start a new life on the planet with us.

Conclusion?

Maybe I’m right, maybe I’m wrong. To me, the evidence says that Engineer is not Actor, but maybe Mark (actual Mark lol) will completely blast this theory to smithereens in the livestream on Sunday and I’ll look silly for putting in this much thought and effort lol.

If you made it this far, thank you for reading this whole thing! Keep at it, Lore Hunters, let’s see what we can find.

#iswm #iswm theory #iswm 2 #in space with markiplier #in space with markiplier theory #markiplier #markiplier theory

[krissiefox]

Adventures of Sonic the hedgehog-Prehistoric Sonic (Screenshots & Review)

And now it's time for the finale!

Sonic and Tails are at the beach again, and it seems that Sonic has finally hit it off with some ladies, as a group of literal beach bunnies are playing volleyball - with Sonic as the ball! Professor Caninestein hurried onto the scene to tell Sonic that he's found out where the final emerald is - in the prehistoric times.

Tails is not impressed....

Professor Caninestein frolics onto the scene!

When our heroes catch up with the baddies in the prehistoric time period, the baddies have already managed to piss off some sort of local "teddy bear" tribe, and are making their way up a volcano because the Chaos Emerald of Life is located near its mouth. As they arrive, they meet a volcano god, who won't let Robotnik have the emerald unless he sacrifices "something of great value", so of course he decides to toss poor Scratch and Grounder in, being the jerk that he is. Robotnik is then granted the Emerald and we finally get some context as to what the Chaos Emerald of Life actually does - whomever yields it has the power to transform inanimate objects into living beings, and said beings seem to be automatically obedient to whomever brings them life, as well. Just as Sonic and Tails catch up with him, he demonstrates by creating some lava monsters, and thankfully, lava in this show doesn't function at all like it does in our world, seeming to be completely harmless to touch or be around.

Grounder hugs the teddy cave-bear king...but he doesn't appear to be into it. No hugs without consent, Grounder!

Nonetheless, the lava monsters are able to incapacitate Sonic and Tails long enough for Robotnik to escape with the emerald as well as scratch and Grounder, whom were thankfully unharmed by the weak-ass "lava". What follows next is a chase sequence through time where Robotnik is jumping quickly to each point that he had previously acquired the emeralds, using his newfound knowledge of the people and places he'd previously visited to quickly adapt to the problems he'd faced before and escape with each emerald. When they revisit the Mobegyptian tomb, Sonic just up and murders Robotnikhotep - which, while dark, is more an assisted suicide considering what he did in his own episode. This ends in managing to trap Sonic inside a fake treasure chest where the Emerald of Invisibility was - the chest turning out to actually be a Crabmeat robot! In another uncomfortably sexist/hetereonormative scene, Tails tricks the Crabmeat into flirting with a girl crab which distracts it long enough for Sonic to escape, and then the girl crab chases him with…a rolling pin. Get it? Because she's a woman? oh, 90s cartoons…stay classy.

Now that Robotnik has all 4 Emeralds, he attaches them all to a single necklace and holy shit - he turns into a fucking beefcake giant! He didn't mention THAT would happen in the beginning of this mini-series! When Sonic and Tails arrive in the present, Robotnik sends them all the way back to the big bang (which, if I saw this one as a kid, probably made me mad, because I was a little christian asshole). I found it cute that the big bang was represented by a giant stick of dynamite with a lit fuse. Thankfully, Sonic and Tails escape before the Big bang actually occurs, and are inspired to try going back to recruiting themselves from the times they previously visited. "We've got a date with ourselves!" as Sonic puts it. Gathering a small army of blue pincushions and fuzzball foxes, our heroes are all able to wear the big bad Robotnik down, snatch the emeralds and save the day. The other instances of Sonic and Tails return the emeralds to their original time periods, then destroy the time machine. Timey-wimey stuff is always weird with things like this - do the other instances of them just stay in different time periods? do they all stay in the same ones? do they have to live their lives in hiding so as to not cause time anomalies? It's a good thing the Twilight Sparkle from the badly written MLP show isn't around, because we've seen that her solution to multiple anomalous instances of the same individual is to just fuckin' murder them!

"We've got a date with ourselves!"

In the Sonic says segment, Tails seems to be showing some of that technical genius as he is working on the time hoverboard he and Sonic got from professor Caninestein - but he's apparently not quite there yet, being a 4 year old and all. Sonic warns him that it's very dangerous to try to perform modifications to electronic devices, and that a professional should take care of that for him. Robotnik shows up to conveniently demonstrate, stealing the hover board and getting himself electrocuted!

This was a fun little conclusion to this fun little mini series. A segment of this episode is dedicated to just quickly revisited past scenes from the other episodes, but they're still entertaining enough. Scratch and Grounder are pretty cute in the prehistoric setting, and the big fight with giant uber-buff Robotnik was neat, too. Next time, we'll be returning to episodes that I presume will be one-off stories again - but hopefully still just as fun. Til next time, be safe and be cool, folks!

#Aosth #adventures of sonic the hedgehog #Sonic #sonic the hedgehog #Tails #Miles Prower #Robotnik #Dr. Robotnik #Crabmeat #Scratch #Grounder #Aosth Scratch #Prehistoric Sonic #Professor Caninestein #Volcano god

[theomnicode]

Blast and his connections with cosmic powers

An important thought popped to my head.

How is Blast and crew going to react to Saitama when he and Garou come back?

Does Blast realise the true source of the divine power that nearly exploded the earth was Saitama? I feel like it's a bit too early to reveal that but who knows. Saitama does not know the source of his insane punches that can level earth, he just knows he could do it cognizantly. He punches something aggressively, it explodes and dies, that's all there is to. Blast would rightfully assume the energy is all Garou, but he can definitely tell something is off with Saitama. He's going to keep an eye on things at minimum.

But Blast and crew have both experience against Avatars of God and means to contain them when reasoning fails. Blast first tried to reason with Garou, then teleported him to different dimension for containment or dealing with him. Ergo, he was confident he could have contained Garou's divine powers on its own, but Garou is a far trickier opponent than that, as he has his own powers too. Martial arts.

Blast can apparently also contain the power of Serious Punch squared, at least momentarily. But Saitama is limitless, so he would be able to overpower any kinds of containments of his power if he puts enough effort.

So what I can gather is that Blast and crew have means to deal with beings of Garou's current level. And contain them efficiently. Maybe even kill or strip them of their powers if reasoning fails because they're the galaxy protection crew, it's their job to protect Earth and other intelligent beings from God's influence and destructive powers.

Blast can also take a beating from these people. Not just from Garou, but other possible avatars of god and beings of that level.

Who in the world is this gigachad who managed to make Space Dad Blast bleed from his leg and face?

After he teleported out 3 people from time distorted place? Now that we know that he can easily duel with Garou.

Either one of god's avatars or god itself. Honestly, the slashing pattern on his suit seems to indicate it's the same thing he fights, over and over again.

Ofc, it could just be the Beast King lookalike teammate of his and they're just sparring, but it would be a weird time to spar with teammates when he got concerned he allowed God to almost come into contact with Tatsu. Maybe time distortion from the cube has something to do with it, so when the teleported out, he got pulled back into real timeline during his sparring session or something and had to immediately leave to save Tatsu. Timey wimey stuff. But I'm going off tangent.

It still begs the question: how will they react to Saitama if they figure out he was a source of Divine power?

Would they become hostile? Would they attempt to contain him? What if they deem Saitama too dangerous because he showed to Blast he was volatile enough with the proper trigger to try and blow up the entire planet? All very possible choices.

So far, the story has painted Saitama as morally good. But accidentally destroying Earth is not a morally sound choice. So the narrative direction that Saitama could prove dangerous to mankind if he so wished is now out there. A fairly intentional and big shift if you ask me.

Instead of a hero to be revered for his virtues... the end result might be a being that has to be feared for his powers. Because he's still human being and imperfect, but humans fear what they do not understand.

Would Blast crew and Sai come to blows? Would they leave Saitama alone because he's still a person? Would Hero association try to use Saitama if they realised the full extent of his powers? I bet they would, they're not below trying to force the c-class to use drugs and body enhancements. Not that they could but they would try lol. Good luck on that. But being treated as a weapon for Hero association would suck.

So Saitama being relatively unknown to people serves another thing: he's left alone and out of machinations of more corrupted people and people who have the moral obligations to deal with beings who have godly powers.

Blast is not stupid nor unempathetic, so he will probably at the end, make the right choices when it concerns Saitama, the humane choices, but we'll probably only see that happen at the end of the series. Saitama is still a hero at his core too.

Saitama also has friends now who would sprung to his defence. Like certain cyborg who unflinchingly supports and defends Saitama even if he does not need a personal guard dog, Genos will do it anyway.

In a worst case scenario, Blast crew versus Saitama crew is an actual possibility.

But we could also throw more curveballs at Saitama and someone actually reveals his own divine powers to him. And casually points out that yea he almost destroyed the earth just fyi.

Someone like...God.

#opm #one punch man #opm spoilers #Blast #opm meta #divine power #cosmic power #opm god #blast crew #opm manga panels #text

[ao3tageverything]

Night Watch - AO3 tagged

Rating Teen And Up Audiences Warnings Minor Character Death Fandoms Discworld Categories General

Characters Samuel Vimes, Fred Colon, Nobby Nobbs, Carrot Ironfoundersson, Carcer, Rosie Palm, Dr. John “Mossy” Lawn, Lu-Tze, Samuel Vimes (young version), Findthee Swing, Lady Roberta Meserole, Havelock Vetinari, Qu, Ned Coates

Additional Tags lilac, cop killer, commemoration day, visiting graves, mad murderer, storm, magical accident, time travel, Monks of History, mulitverse theory, wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff, impersonation, curfew, meeting your former self, secret police, craniometry, fledgling revolution, riots, booby traps, bamf!Vimes, the art of deescalation, build-up to big events, Sam Vimes whump, barricades, item connecting you with reality, changing history, torture chambers, torture victims, coup de grâce/mercy kill, arson, improvised weapon, The People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road, hero worship, soldiers’ song, civil war, malicious use of ginger in body orifices, assassination, terror-induced heart attack, coup d'état, death by grapnel, violating amnesty, surprise attack, police-confiscated vehicle, improvised plumes, delayed major injury reaction, mêlée, berserk moment, the Glorious 25th of May, back to the future, disregarding one’s nudeness, difficult childbirth, beyond exhaustion, ... (spoilers after the jump)

not changing history (much) after all, resisting the beast inside, by-the-book arrest

#Discworld #AO3 tags #Night Watch #Glorious 25th of May

[tobiasdrake]

Honestly, I'm looking forward to Ahsoka season two. Mainly because, now that the obligatory plot on loan from a different show is done, maybe the show will finally do something.

The entire first season feels like simultaneous cleanup work and setup work. Cleanup for Rebels and setup for the big Thrawn crossover event that they've been hyping for years.

Like. The reason the show exists is fairly obvious. Rebels promised a story to bring Ezra and Thrawn back from "Wherever they fucking went". Which is the sort of thing that has enough substance to fuel a season premiere of the cartoon but not nearly enough substance for eight hour-long episodes of a miniseries. But that was the only idea they had so they had to stre-e-e-e-etch it.

So we have Star Wars's favorite idea: A treasure hunt to find the ancient lost secret map to Wherever Thrawn Went, which is a thing that exists for some reason. Makes as much sense as the Secret Map to Wherever Luke Went or the Puzzle Quest to Wherever Palpatine Is. Star Wars creatives play a lot of video games.

We have Ahsoka training Sabine which is a cool idea, but before that we have both of them being distant and pissy over absolutely nothing. They have no grudge between them; During Sabine's training, Ahsoka abruptly decided apropos of nothing that she wanted to drive a wedge between them for drama. Both of them already want to reconcile from the moment we meet them because there is no conflict here; Just vague gesturing at what interpersonal conflict looks like. But we gotta pad the runtime so they're going to be obstinate about it for a while.

We have your typical "New Republic is obstructive because Star Wars hates democracy only slightly less than it hates fascism" stuff. As usually, this allows the heroes to be rogue actors sticking it to the man even when "the man" in question is supposed to be the good guys that we've been trying to establish this whole time.

We have Ahsoka inexplicably teleporting into the Timey-Wimey Realm so she can have the version of her confrontation with Anakin that Filoni probably would have liked to have written if the movies' Official Vader Plot hadn't forbidden him from doing so. One where she finally surpasses Anakin, defeats him, and transcends into being her own master.

(Which is honestly a lot cooler than "Anakin killed her but then Ezra time-traveled her back to life". But, much like the Boba Fett and Cad Bane showdown in Book of Boba Fett, it feels weirdly out-of-place to be doing this here and now, and winds up feeling awkwardly forced in.)

And we have the most incredibly nobody villains in Star Wars history. Like. Who the fuck are Baylan and Shin? Baylan is Something Something Ex-Jedi and Shin is some rando Baylan started training. There's a point where Baylan's fighting Ashoka and he starts talking about "Anakin told me this and that" and I'm like, "Okay? WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?"

The answer to which seems to be a commercial for next season. Baylan signed on because he wanted to go to the other galaxy because he can feel through the Force that the plot for season two is there, and also he separates from Shin because he only brought her along to put her where season two will need her to be: Separate from him and doing a different Villain Thing entirely.

Even the answer to where Ezra and Thrawn ended up is "Dathomir Zero. Yeah, there's just more Original Star Wars Galaxy stuff in the New Star Wars Galaxy. It's exactly the same. But hey, at least I unwrote the shortsighted genocide of the Nightsisters so Star Wars can have Dark Side witches again."

I appreciate that. Dark Side witches are a cool idea and their extermination made the universe smaller. But it's still a demonstration of how few ideas this season had beyond "Finally do the thing."

But now The Thing is done. They actually have to do something else now. So maybe season two will be better? I don't know.

#star wars #ahsoka series

[juiceboxman]

Batman/Catwoman

I actually quite liked Tom King’s Batman/Catwoman run. Thought it was an interesting insight into the relationship, and kinda made it a bit more realistic. I know a lot of fans took issue with how poorly the relationship was presented- but given everything about who the characters are and how they were presented in King’s stories- it makes sense that they’d be super toxic.

Like straight up Bruce is just like “please stop hanging out with the Joker, he’s literlly a domestic terrorist” and all Selina has to say is “don’t tell me what to do” like thats some straight up crazy shit. The run’s biggest issue was just the delays- like the art is pretty (although the women are drawn a little weird/creepy for my liking- similar issue I had with Heroes in Crisis- but thats a bigger comic book issue at large) but there’s nothing about this series that tells me it HAD to take two years to come out.

King is a good writer but he needs to stop doing this whacky, experimental writing he’s been at with the non linear timelines. He straight up killed his run on the main Batman title because his editor couldn’t just tell him “hey, your weird pacing stuff is gonna alienate literally everyone” and it did! 

I am a King apologist, like you look at his early Batman stories- “I am Gotham” and “I am Suicide” hell I’d argue “The War of Jokes and Riddles” is one of the best Batman stories to come out in the past two decades- but he just needs to get pver whatever whacky timey wimey stuff he’s on. Its what made Batman- Killing Time virtually unreadable.

But yeah, I thought Batman/Catwoman was interesting- albeit for the Kingisms

#batman batman/catwoman tomking dccomics

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Anyway, I’m glad that the Buffy and Angel fandoms never shipped Connor (Angel’s son) and Dawn (Buffy’s little sister) together (who are about the same age?)... at least that I’ve seen.

I mean, I guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuess people could, if you choose to believe Buffy and Angel never ended up together or whatever. But I still think it would be super awkward.

And I don’t know why people would choose a crack pairing (because the two never met in the shows. And I dunno if they do in the comics or not. But Dawn is with Xander there) over the very much canon Buffy and Angel relationship, but I know shippers sometimes do weird things.

#random thought

Edit: Just kidding. People have shipped this, I guess.

#though Connor's only roughly the same age as dawn because of timey-wimey stuff. initially he was an infant and younger than her #but then he was kidnapped to a hell dimension where time moves faster and then came back a teenager #though I guess technically dawn's weird too... because for the longest time she didn't exist. at least not as dawn #she's actually a key for the goddess glory to unlock her power (that these monks did NOT want) #so they then turned the key into a human... and made her the slayer's sister--out of the slayer's blood--because they knew she'd protect #her #and then they gave everyone fake memories about her and stuff. and eventually they learn their fake but still love and accept her anyway #but dawn was pretty much 'born' at fourteen/as a fourteen-year-old. much like our heroes' nobodies in kingdom hearts