#rifters

[walterkov]

Lenie Clarke from “Starfish” by Peter Watts

[larissa-the-scribe]

Working on a story about two people stuck in a time loop! One remembers half of every day, and the other doesn't remember anything. Maybe if they can figure out the missing memories, they can figure out what's going on at the center of this mess—or maybe it will just make everything worse.

Urban fantasy and features an... upset sorcerer.

It's with these two losers (affectionate):

I've also been working on giving this story a NAME and have been proverbially smacking my head against a wall about it for AGES, so if anyone has an opinion they want to share, here are the top 9 out of *checks notes* I don't want to count that many but it's at least over 40 of Wildly Varying Quality.

For further information, the tone starts out lighter and gets more serious as things get more dangerous, but it also depends on who is narrating. Also, their "plot goal" from a physical standpoint is to make it to the center of the time loop, since they suspect that's where they'll find answers.

Which Title Sounds the Most Compelling to You?

Tips and Tricks for Surviving a Time Loop

When Tomorrow Doesn't Come

The Epicenter of Today

The Center of Time / Epicenter of Time

This Broken Chronology

Iterations of Today

Treating with Time Loops

So, You've Encountered a Chronological Distortion

Chronological Spirals

Other, including variations on one of the titles above: Please comment

Button for me / the bald vanilla extract lovers in the crowd, dni otherwise (lh)

Voting ended onJan 29

[meadow-roses]

different definitions of "denting" going on here adsfsdf

Benn and Kathryn belong to @larissa-the-scribe!

[katiethedane12]

Artfight attacks on @larissa-the-scribe of her oc Lyn!

[innominaterifter]

I realized that essentially all of my favorite book characters have autistic or ADHD traits. Taylor Hebert (Worm) and she's the same from the funfic "A Wand for Skitter", Murderbot ("The Murderbot Diaries" by Martha Wells; there is also a coincidence in my agenderness and grey/asexuality), Lenie Clarke and Ken Lubin (Peter Watts' rifter book series), Harry Potter and Hermione from HPMOR ("Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky), Miles Vorkosigan ("The Vorkosigan Saga" by Bujold), Ciaphas Cain and his loyal assistant Ferik Jurgen (Warhammer 40,000, Sandy Mitchell).

Overall, this is not surprising given my personal history of ADHD and autism. The funny thing is that I began to reflect on the topic of my own autism precisely after I read the Murderbot Diaries and came across a discussion of the character’s autistic traits. I was undermined from within by the thought, “What if all this bunch of coincidences are not just coincidences?”

Much was the same, but some things were not characteristic of autistic people, but at the same time, they were clearly not characteristic of the majority of people around me. I don’t remember the first time I heard about ADHD, but I immediately recognized some of my traits. When I read that ADHD and autism are often combined, I decided to take tests online first... and got high scores on both topics. Then, the doctor officially confirmed it for me. Bingo.

[masterfuldoodler]

Artfight attack on @larissa-the-scribe

[maxsindiecomics]

[PREVIEW] Rifters #1 (June 12, 2024)

writer(s): Brian Posehn and Joe Trohman | artist [penciller & inker]: Chris Johnson | colorist: Mark Englert | cover artist: Chris Johnson | publishing company: Image Comics

synopsis: Please, Saran-Wrap your ass, because you're about to projectile-shit yourself right into the wild world of RIFTERS, where Time Cop collides with Law & Order, filtered through the Stupid McSmartsalot-Einstein lens of Mr. Show.

Fenton and Geller are a couple of part-time Wisenheimers, full-time vice time-cops who suck at rule-following but excel at busting time-travel crimes. Unfortunately, their daily grind involves tedious police work—like chasing down douchebag influencers hellbent on live-streaming illegal transtemporal trips to 1920s Chicago to steal primo bootleg hooch.

However, in a twist of fate, our heroes find themselves thrust into the heart of an inter-time serial homicide mystery, but not before things change, forcing our pair into the crosshairs of potentially lethal consequences.

The stakes are high, time is of the essence, and Fenton and Geller are about to discover that playing with the time-stream isn't all flappers and jazz hands. Get ready for a high-octane, double-illegal adventure where the only sure thing is that RIFTERS is rewriting the rulebook on time-travel tales!

[callmealeks]