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[oasis-wasteland]

RIP HUNTER WEEK 2021

Day 5: Time Changes, People Don't

Someone needs to be responsible for protecting the timeline. Who better than a former Time Master? And any of you who'd like to join me.

[kalinara]

It’s Rip Hunter appreciation week!   

I admit, I thought about skipping it.  I’m not much of a fic writer (one a year has been my average) and there’s only so much meta you can write when you haven’t watched a show for three years or so.

But what the heck.  People do more with less.

So today’s prompt is “Time Wants to Happen.”

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I know that Legends of Tomorrow is a time travel show, but I’ve always been disappointed at how disorganized they are in terms of portraying the effects of time travel and changes in the timeline.

Rip killing George Washington was a big deal.  But the team killing a Tokugawa Shogun ten years early (during the height of anti-Western exclusionism no less) had no effect at all!

A part of me assumes it’s just because the majority of the showrunners don’t give a shit about Japanese history.  But that’s the kind of thing that should change things.

Amaya’s village being saved brought Mallus forth (and wiped out the entirety of the Vixen tv show and I’m not completely okay with that), but apparently they killed of Spartacus recently and nothing happened?!

I’m not entirely certain about the latter part, because as mentioned, I haven’t been watching.

But it does remind me how one of my hopes for the Time Bureau, before it became a cardboard cut out obstacle for Sara and Ava’s grand romance, was that it might address some of these contradictions.

There are folks who STILL, to this day, refer to the Time Bureau as some kind of “betrayal” of the Legends.  This is infuriating for so many reasons, not the least of which being that the Legends were actually trapped at the end of Aruba/beginning of Aruba-con in a collapsed time anomaly, and only got out because Rip had created the Time Bureau and got them out.

The idea that Rip might have created an organization to handle the day to day management of time in a structured, orderly and most importantly ACCOUNTABLE fashion was a good one.  And if the show had thought about it, it would have been the perfect way to explain how the Legends can go around careening from event to event, fucking up history, without wiping themselves or civilization out entirely.

Tokugawa Iemitsu dies ten years early.  Oops.  But what if there’s someone who could recruit/hire a shapeshifter, or an android, or something like that to take the guy’s place so that history could stay on course for the next ten years.  Easy fix.

Heck, it could make the whole “I am Spartacus” idea darkly hilarious if they ended up replacing the prematurely dead guy with a duplicate.

There are so many ways that the show could have used the Time Bureau without interfering in the Legends’ unique mayhem.  

And there’s room for conflict, because sometimes bad shit happens.  And sometimes the Time Bureau will have to facilitate that because that’s how history is.  But sometimes there’s wiggle room.  This was something I thought the show did really well with Zari’s origin and the Helen of Troy episode.  I could imagine Rip, and other like minded individuals, working to find places where the timeline could bend or be nudged to allow more people to be saved, or more catastrophes to be avoided.  And perhaps sending in the Legends to bash it all into submission while keeping plausible deniability.

Missed opportunities, I guess.

But I suppose in the end, I think that’s what Rip’s probably doing now.  There’s no time bureau anymore, but Rip’s still out there.  (Comic Book Rule #1: no body, no death).  He had those pellets in Return of the Mack, so maybe he sets off the drive, freezes time with a pellet, slips out in Eobard Thawne’s old time sphere, and goes off to create a bunker in Arizona with a shit ton of chalkboards.

Every time the team does something like let Spartacus die much too early, I’m going to assume history doesn’t implode because Rip fixed it afterward.  It works for me.

[ripappreciationweek]

Rip Hunter Appreciation Week 2021

28th June to 4th July

We’re proud to announce the themes for this year’s Rip Hunter Appreciation Week, and we’re looking forwards to lots of great creativity and Rip content.

We welcome all kinds of fanworks: fiction, art, gifs, moodboards, videos or anything else you can think of.

This year we’re giving you quote prompts that you can use or the theme the quotes suggest. It’s up to you decide how you want to use them, or even just incorporate the quote in what you’re doing. But don’t worry if you want to make something that doesn’t fit with one of the themes, we’re still pleased to have your work.

Day 1: “Time wants to happen” – Time travel is what Legends is all about, but it’s moved away from that lately. What historical or futuristic adventures should Rip have had?

Day 2: “Have you two considered couples counselling?” – Who should Rip be with and do they need counselling to stay together? Or it’s not romantic help he needs but a different kind of counselling. Over to you.

Day 3: “I’ve seen darker days.” – Terrible things have happened to Rip throughout the show, but as fans we’re good at thinking up more. It’s Whump Day!

Day 4: “One person acting alone can’t save the world.” – This is all about the team and Rip’s relationship to it, maybe it’s the one Rip built, but it could be an entirely different one, or just the people he’s met along the way.

Day 5: “Time changes, people don’t” – Everyone is the same, but the setting is different, or possibly this is just a comment on the nature of being a Time Master.

Day 6: “Live the next day” – Rip is still out there, so how does he re-join Gideon? Perhaps he’s got something up his sleeve that he’s working on.

Day 7: Free Day – You're free to give us anything you like, so let your imagination run wild.

Don’t forget to tag your post #RipWeek with the day they’re for.

[theadrogna]

Rip Hunter Appreciation Week - Day 7: Free Day

Legends of Lego - Tertiary Phase (Part 1)

(Part 2)(Part 3)

[following-the-drum]

Rip Hunter Appreciation Week - Day 3 - “I’ve seen darker days.”

There is a day that will come and he knows when it is and how it will happen there is little to be done to stop it or slow it's ever approaching yet so very distant moment. A moment every child knows in their heart, when the one whom he has left to call home, the one who made the best mince pies, and taught him to be who he is the real him underneath that mask for the world will not be there for him. Luckily she will also still be there in the past where he can find her should the need ever arise, but it haunts him...

[slothsareeverything]

I didn’t really know what to do for day five so I wrote a short fic, my first one in years

The dark sky was full of stars that twinkled softly, Rip lay on the soft grass and simply looked at them. His mother had taught him all of the constellations but after he left the refugee he had never taken time to relax and do such a simple thing as watch the stars and try to spot Ursa Major or something similar. But tonight he felt utterly exhausted, even his bones seemed tired which made him ponder on how old he really was these days. It was hard to keep track of when you travelled through time. Rip could ask Gideon but deep inside he didn’t want to know how long he had done the same thing; he had been told that being a time master was a blessing but nobody had mentioned how it could also be a curse. He had been all over the world, travelled all across the past and present and traversed space. The only thing that changed over these millions of years was time, but people never did, wherever he landed things never really changed. People rushed to work, cried over heartbreaks, achieved a huge goal they had, fell in love, stressed over the bills, and tried to live their best lives. There was always crimes, murder and atrocities committed and sometimes Rip had to make sure an innocent person wasn’t saved. The more he corrected the timeline the less heroic he felt and some days he couldn’t feel anything but numb, even on the best of missions where he got to stop pirates or save somebody there was always a darkness lurking behind the light. Today it was a kid that Rip had spotted stealing purses, the time masters wouldn’t rescue because one day he would invent something he couldn’t remember. He only remembers the haunted look in the kid’s eyes that he himself used to have. Tomorrow it would be something else, there would always be something because people never changed, time moved and they didn’t. “Captain we shouldn’t linger here much longer”, Gideons soft voice interrupted Rip’s gloomy thoughts and he smiled softly, her presence in his life would never change but that he was grateful for. She was the one person he hoped would never change no matter how much time did. “Yes Gideon I am on my way back, start the engines and set course for the next destination”. In the end he had to do his work and ignore the downsides of it.

[riphuntertimemasterlegend]

Rip Hunter Appreciation Week 2021 Day 7 - Free day

Here are some pictures of the awesome Arthur Darvill as Rip Hunter.

[g0dyuki]

RIPWEEK 2021

Day 7 | Free Day

Oh boy.... What a awesome week I had. I’ve joined a great community of Rip Hunter lovers and they do an amazing job to appreciate this awesome character. At the moment I’m not quite good in writing FFs in english, so I decided to make an FMV like the good old times. How I missed them. 

I guess it went pretty well. Hope you’ll enjoy watching it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyzFDY5BxNs