Time loop stories are always looping on a human-scale level of time, like one day. That’s a suspiciously perfect amount of time to figure out you’re looping and do something about it. I would go so far as to suggest that loop durations like a single day are an anthropocentric capitulation to the parameters of human storytelling. Time doesn’t care about our needs. There should be a more time loop stories where the loop is, say, just a couple femtoseconds long. It would suck to be in one of those, but it’s more realistic.
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Oh wow, thank you for the recommendation, this was such a dark and intense time loop, I'm reeling
Timeloop that's 285 years long so the MC only experiences it when they've spent 5/6ths of their existence in the afterlife
timeloop that's thirty seconds long so that you just barely have enough time write a comment about a timeloop that's thirty seconds long so that you just barely have enough time write a comment about a timeloop that's thirty seconds long so that you just barely have enough time write a comment about a timeloop that's thirty seconds long so that you just barely have enough time write a comment about a timeloop that's thirty seconds long so that you just barely have enooOOOOoooh thank heavens i learned a lesson about the power of love and friendship
There’s a great IF called “Stay?” which goes in the other direction (though not outside the bounds of “human-scale”) and sticks you in a years-long time loop: https://ejadelomax.itch.io/stay
The Endless (2017) plays with inflicting time loops of different durations. Here's a video of the shortest one: https://youtu.be/IHeTvKNvATM
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