Conceptualizations

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Most of us ponies view time as linear, always moving forward, with only the strongest of us able to generate the magical force needed to jump backwards in time for a few simple moments. But I know time in another light, a much darker view. What if I told you that everything that is going to happen, has already happened, and is happening, is all just a loop. An infinite unending spiral of the same events over and over. Equestria is trapped in a cycle of time around four-thousand years in length. Now when I say the same events, I don't mean the strictly second by second identical happenings of the world, but that key events, large pieces of time, keep happening over and over, leading to the same conclusion, and the beginning of the loop. We never can remember this loop and therefore end up repeating it over and over. My name is Timeline the Relative, a unicorn in what I believe to be the beginning of the loop. I know about this loop because I have received a message, through time, from myself in the future at the end of the loop, sent to whenever I would be born in this iteration of these events. It is my job to ensure that this cycle of events fails to occur, and therefore, that the loop is broken, and the paradox shattered. I have already followed my previous/future counterparts instructions and have sent a message to myself in the next time, explaining that this is the second time a message like this has been sent and that I would send another one to arrive just a few seconds after the first one detailing mistakes I have made along the way, as well as how to perform the spell needed to send said message to those in the next iteration of the loop. Provided I fail this should occur. However if I succeed, the message will instead be sent to Celestia explaining about the loop as well as instead of showing her the message intended for me, another message detailing what not to do in the future as to prevent this cycle of events from ever occurring again. I only hope I only need one try.