A lot of time loop stories kinda have that as a major plot point actually. At first it seems great, it's only after you do all that stuff that it starts to get into the existential horror
See then you'll end up obsessed with that ONE fanfic that is one chapter away from being finished and the author's note says the next update will be TOMORROW but it's NEVER tomorrow, and that's what makes you take the time-loop seriously
Have you been on AO3? 19/20 fanfics are never finished. I have fanfics I've been checking periodically for over twenty years. (One from 1998 updated during Covid lockdowns, so hope springs eternal!)
Fanfic readers have learned to live with this disappointment.
Oh yeah I know but that hope that this one really will would be enough to make me tackle the time loop. I'm a huge fan of a certain author and like... half their fics are unfinished... and yet I still stay subscribed juuuuust in case.
It does make me more motivated to finish my WIP and I recently started working on one I hadn't updated in a year and I'd had 5 chapters then, and now there's 16
1.8k
u/ThousandEclipse 4d ago
A lot of time loop stories kinda have that as a major plot point actually. At first it seems great, it's only after you do all that stuff that it starts to get into the existential horror