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  1. Public Bookmark 60

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    You can’t entirely believe this is happening in front of you, like you’re ready for some stranger to come in and shout, “And scene!”

    It never comes. Time moves forward unabated.


    Before they can make their fateful wish at the Favor Tree, a mysterious voice pops into Siffrin’s head and says, “Don’t do it. Just tell them how you feel.” This seems like the best of both worlds — keeping his found family without subjecting himself to time loop torture. But the problems they faced before don’t just disappear, and sometimes a fella has to make their own mistakes.

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    24 Sep 2025

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    show this to new writers who are worried about scene transitions

  2. Public Bookmark 55

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    Uiscefhuaraithe (noun): the quality of coldness imparted by water; that is, the trait of having been made cold by water.

    After having fallen asleep in one of Southern Vaugarde's emergency shelters, Loop wakes up to the sound of a deafening crash. Suddenly, horribly, they have a lot of time to think about their Stardust, and the perfect life he'd won--the life they wish they could have had.

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    18 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 98

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    You only needed to pretend to be human when you thought you had a family. But now you don’t. Now there’s nothing left to pretend for.

    The four people you died for over and over again wish you were never born.

    You don’t need to do anything ever again.

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    (Or: Siffrin never makes it to the king in act 5. They loop again, and again, and again, until they realize they don't need to go into the House at all.)

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    07 Jun 2025

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    It starts with the stage, as it always does. A boulder, and a slapstick comedian missing his cue.

    It gets much worse from there.

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    13 Feb 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 9

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    [LOOP XXXXX]
    you don’t know how long it’s been. you don’t know half the lines that leave your mouth. they’ve long since lost meaning, like reading the same word again and again and again until it becomes gibberish. all you know is the stage and your cues. you go around in circles upon circles upon circles, a gear in the clockwork mechanism built around yourself.

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    08 Feb 2025