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Happy Groundhog's Day!! If y'all'ren't fighting against six more weeks of winter then you're complicit in six more weeks of winter.
TIME LOOP POLL ASSUMPTIONS:
You have a few days warning and can do some reasonable prep before the loop starts.
You can start the loop on any day of the week, any time in the year.
You're going to be in the time loop for about a hundred years from your point of view, regardless of how long or short the loop is.
Randomness is minimized, so while there's some butterfly effect stuff for the most part everything will happen the same way every time even on a longer loop.
You may suffer some mental effects over time due to a time loop being a very strange thing to go through, but the loop resetting magically helps you recover from trauma (may take multiple loops). So if you die a bunch it won't leave you with a pile of phobias and stuff, but dying is still traumatic in the short term so killing yourself to reset isn't a thing you would want to do often.
The longest option on the poll is the longest you can do, otherwise choose the closest one to what you would want.
What is the ideal time loop length?
Less than a day (?!?!)
One day (Classic)
Two or three days (Endless weekend)
Four or five days
About a week
Ten days (Two weekends?)
Two weeks
Three weeks
About a month
A month and a half
Two months
Three months
Benefit of shorter loops: Makes it easier to plan, means that the prep you do ahead of time can guarantee you're set up well for the whole loop. If you mess up and end up badly injured or in jail you don't have to tough it out for long. You can actually do the classic time loop thing of learning when little things will happen around town. If you want to do something crazy that will take multiple tries, you can pull it off easier. If you have a menstrual cycle you can make sure that just doesn't come up while in the loop. Never have to do laundry (or some other chores) again. Put off shit you don't want to deal with until just after the loop and you'll never have to deal with it.
Benefits of longer loops: Less repetition means better mental health probably. Work on larger projects. Make plans with people. Travel further before getting reset. Include a holiday or event without immediately getting sick of it. More time to build relationships, although that could also be bad in some ways since it would be worse when the reset hit. I think the longer loop has fewer benefits but they're bigger benefits - the travel one alone could be huge.
Happy Groundhog's Day!
Again!
Oh! I forgot to say that this morning's radio alarm clock woke us up with - once again - Eye Of The Tiger. Husband growled at it as he hit snooze. The second alarm was Carry On My Wayward Son.
I sat upright and said "Oh fuck you, Supernatural writers."
"Groundhog's Day 2025"
digital collage & digital painting by Mick Mather
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The Outsider's Gift [Dishonored fanfic]
Chapter 14: The Empress's Daughter
Teaser:
I jerked back into my body, the light suddenly harsh and blazing around me after the thick darkness of death. Daud caught me, steadying me.
“I guess that’s how,” Daud said.
“What?” my voice came out strained and froggy.
“You died didn’t you?”
We were back on the roof above the courtyard. I looked around, getting oriented again, and nodded. “Yeah, it’s no big deal.”
Daud grabbed me as I tried to get up. “Bullshit,” he growled. “What happened?”
“Ran into someone I didn’t expect. It’s okay. I can handle it.”
Daud wrenched me back down again. “You died,” Daud said, biting out the words. “Like hell you can handle it.”
adults aren’t supposed to believe in Santa Claus or the tooth fairy but we expect a groundhog to predict the weather? that’s far-fetched and boring, Phil should break into houses and give us stuff
I thought Resetti would be bigger
