Welcome to the challenge of August, which is going to be all about Time; mostly fiction dealing with Time Travel, but also other topics to do with Time, and the manipulation thereof.
While a lot of time travel stories are about altering history, just as many* reveal that time travel is what shaped OG history as we know it – the so called closed causal loop, where people doing the time travel knowingly or unknowingly did things that lead to their present or future. Sometimes its a neat curio, sometimes its a commentary on the immovability of fate, and todays prompt is, what are your favorite cases of Closed Time Loop Stories? Best and worst cases of “Ohhhh so THAT thing leads to THAT thing”?
*math may not be accurate
Bonus Prompt: Best and worst cases of franchises retroactively using closed time travel loops to explain character backstories and whatnot?
Extra Bonus Prompt: What “closed loops” hold the least up to scrutiny?
Paradox Bonus Prompt: What thing in your life/in general was secretly set up by a time traveller?