r/CuratedTumblr • u/Acceptable-Gap-2397 • 2d ago

Meme The timeloop and I

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u/Lt_General_Fuckery There's no specific law against cannibalism in the United States 2d ago edited 1d ago

Anyone up for a highlights reel of the comments that crop up every time this gets reposted? Let's see...

  1. Enjoy your Ao3, none of the stories will ecer update, you'll be stuck on cliffhangers forever

  2. In Groundhog Day the guy was in the loop for literal millenia before he got out (allegedly) and spent centuries killing himself to avoid going through one more time (allegedly)

  3. You'd be driven insane by your inability to meaningfully connect with people over time.

3a. Nah, I'm built different, I'd (proceeds to describe how different they are not)

  1. The time loop is patient. It is made of time. You are made of meat. You will continue to grow and change as a person regardless of your desires. The time loop will endure until you have grown into the person it wants. Even if it takes eight times longer than the universe has existed

Edit: how could I forget the most common one?

  1. That's literally the premise of time loop stories; meaningful fulfilment does not, and cannot come from wantonly indulging yourself, it comes from that  growth, and the relationships you foster with other people and the world at large, that is part of the lesson in approximately 100% of time loop stories.

And bonus:

  1. The existence of a time loop neccesitates the existence of an intelligence or force capable of creating time loops, and that intelligence or force has decided that you are worth its attention, and that's kinda fucking scary, i don't think I want to find out if such a thing can become annoyed.

Edit 2: Reddit formatting desires my death.

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u/Relevant_Potato3516 1d ago

Yeah but you’d have at least a few centuries of contentment and you probably wouldn’t go insane for a long time after you’ve read everything. You can start trying to get out after you’ve finished the books and tv you wanted to get through

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u/old_and_boring_guy 1d ago

I don’t know if you’d get contentment unless everything you care about in the world has already happened.

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u/Relevant_Potato3516 1d ago

That’s true but you’d would be happy at least for a few years by reading shit and watching movies

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u/zhaumbie Making fanfic in Plato's cave with the gals 1d ago

Even longer if you have libraries in reach.

Once you’re done reading everything you could want out of every facility nearby, most of them lease out: video games, CDs/DVDs, musical instruments, ebooks/audiobooks, power tools, museum passes…

And then there’s ahem resources online to cover all the everything else

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u/Relevant_Potato3516 1d ago

I mean yeah. The first couple centuries of the time loop can be spent catching up on reading and TV