r/Shirtaloon

Hey there, figured I'd put this out into the community before I hunt down the contact email of the author. I have had moderate success running an etsy shop selling Dungeon Crawler Carl fan merch (lightboxes, bookmarks, 3D signs, etc.) within the parameters that Matt Dinniman has set, and I'd like to branch out into other LitRPG fandoms as I begin to discover more of their works. This is a design that my friend and I are collaborating on, and before I went too far down into the weeds I wanted to figure out how to obtain licensing.

Does anyone know if Travis has a licensing program in place? I'm only interested in doing this the legit way and not, ya know, being a dick. Any guidance here would be super appreciated!

This gods be damned series has seeped way too far into my life. I came across this on a post and immediately something from HWFWM popped into my head. It happens too much

I'm new here and to reddit (mostly). I typically don't like this website. I used it a decade ago but left. That being said, I've been reading this series and have gotten to the end of the audio and read some of book 13 through the free website and then on Patreon (I'm on chapter 1009 or so not having completed it entirely), and wanted to discuss some of my ideas. I made this account and joined this sub for the soul purpose of doing that because it seemed like one of the only places to do that.

I was thinking over a few things and perhaps this has been rehashed elsewhere or said by others, but I think I figured out the ending and how the whole series is put together. This will be some HUGE SPOILERS so don't read unless you've finished the audio and even most of the latest written stuff through patreon or royalroad.

If Shirtaloon happens to see this. PLEASE PLEASE don't pull a Robert Jordan and change anything here if I got it right. There is an infamous case of Jordan Changing things because fans predicted it. IMO it did hurt the series when he chose to do that. The thing is, most fans wouldn't have cared or even known about the predictions. Jordan was better off leaving it alone and just going with it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WoT/comments/9d8i19/spoilers_all_did_changing_the_mazrim_taim_story/

What Jordan forgot (IMO) Is that those posting online were just a tiny fraction of his fanbase, less than 5% I'd guess. So in short, we don't matter, especially me who actually hopes most people won't read this far. But because online is just about the only litmus test authors have, they get it in their head that we do matter. Well, we don't. It's not about us. The vast vast majority of people will never read this or care. So please stay true to your story regardless of what you read in these online communities. Please don't change anything whatsoever, because the tapestry you've woven is quite the undertaking, and to change it at this point would be very unproductive, and destroy that tapestry.

With no further ado, here's my predictions with nearly zero explanations which will come at the end:

1. Jason initiates the time-loop. He realizes too late that he cannot live with what Knowledge has done. Possibly because his Prime Avatar is caught in some kind of bind, some hell he can never escape, he tries to hold out, but forever is a long time, and he creates the time loop to escape.

2. Jason becomes the mysterious dark figure that creates all the portals in the Astral space where he finds Shade in the early books at Iron Rank.

3. Jason initiates the Cult of the Reaper, and teaches them his fighting style (time loop). Somehow through the time-loop he's able to 'resunder' the throne. Or maybe by going back in time he is able to reverse everything and allow himself another chance at redoing things. This was also the source of all the holy war's in the centuries before Jason's Arrival. He started them, trying to create a means to destroy the power of the God's before he ever arrives.

3a. He leaves Shade there, forcing him to serve in the proto space, and then severing his link to his familiar, who as it turns out, was working for Knowledge the whole time. This was the main betrayal. Shade was put in Jason's path by Knowledge and became his familiar to steer him to defeat. Shade was always a shady character. 3b. Something about Shades 'brother' is involved here. 3c. Something to do with his deal with Death is also involved. I'm unsure on these threads, but I can see them as potentials.

Thats the gist of it. We start over from there, Save scumming because this whole thing was a 'video game' to begin with in many ways.

The biggest reason I think this is the case is because central to the very Title, 'He who fights with monsters', is the philosophy of Nietzsche right there. One little known (outside of philosophy circles) aspect of Nietzsche was that he was a proponent of the idea called 'The Eternal Return'. I think you can see why I believe this will also be a big part of the series. The whole thing will be 'redone' eternally. It might even be that because of his connection to the Astral throne, All of reality Everywhere gets a redo. I'm not sure on how big this will go. But the Eternal Return as a concept can go very big indeed.

https://thenewplatonicacademy.substack.com/p/metempsychosis-eternal-return-and

My amazing husband reserved my copy a couple of days ago for me to pick up today, and thank the gods he did because it was sold out! My copy on hold was the last one! It makes me so happy that it’s doing so well!!

I’m definitely going to get to page 100 by the end of the night 😆

“I’m the Daryl,” he said disconsolately. 💀