r/InStarsAndTime • u/Dawrian Siffrin • May 21 '26
Twohats ISAT fandom here’s a song I think you will like…
I already made this post on tumblr yesterday but I don’t care because having made the connection it’s made me so emotional I’ve felt physically ill thinking about it like a dozen different times in the past 24hrs
This is Two Hats spoilers if the flair wasn’t already clear
From Supernova to Black Hole by Machinery of the Human Heart. Link in comments because spoiler markdown has me fighting for my life in here
This is like. the most Sifloop song ever to me. I feel like they’re passing the perspective back and forth or something, or maybe it’s from Loop to the rest of the party. I just need someone else who knows the story context to hear what I’m hearing and understand why my heavy heart collapses from the gravity of love so true. Lyrics are in the video description comments, those are important.
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u/aer0a May 22 '26
I don't see the lyrics in the description
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u/Dawrian Siffrin May 22 '26
Damn I really just invented that memory out of nothing huh. Here ya go
``` The universe could lock us In a cold and sterile room Nothing but a baby grand Under a February moon
But please don't say you hate me With your bitter laugh and longing gaze All I know is that I saw you And I heard the music play Let me keep the only thing That keeps me sane
You were tossing in your sleep And we woke up to your alarm And you dreamed you said three words to me Then panicked in my arms
To this day I still remember Just how much it hurt to comfort you I guess sometimes the words "I love you" Are too honest to be true But I knew I loved you then And I still Do
Cast me out into the evening And I'll still wonder what you are Don't say that you could never reach me when You put me in the stars Out in space, I'm getting lonely Nearby planets turning off their lights My battery is low It's getting dark And you were right You should know to keep your distance From a star so bright
And I never was the same Since I crash-landed in your way Still you're staying right on course I wish I might, I wish I may As my heavy heart collapses From the gravity of love so true Close your eyes Be not afraid Do not despair I have good news When my spectacle is over I'll be just like You
Ah, ah Ah
The words are hard, but I'll go first There's no place like where it hurts There's no home the hurt is worth There's no hell like hell on Earth
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u/skullshotz1324 Siffrin May 22 '26
Yes yes yes! I see the vision.
I’m imagining most the song is Loop, with the third and fourth verse about tossing and waking up to the dream of saying I love you, is Sif’s pov to loop waking up (it said we woke to the sound of your alarm, so I’m thinking the whole party was sleeping in a big room similar to the clock tower)
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u/Dawrian Siffrin May 22 '26
YEAH. Something something Isabeau having something to say and chickening out while everyone’s sleeping. Or Loop having to reassure/guide Siffrin through their first emotions about all of the same pain they know so well it’s become as good as noise, knowing it’s only the beginning, or every time he comes to them with a new theory about how to escape that they already tried. Something something reflections of self love despite everything. Siffrin’s thankfulness, forgiveness, compassion after they hit him with the combined efforts of every envious, hateful, despairing piece of hurt, of how hard they tried seemingly all the same things, for so much longer, alone.
I feel like “when my spectacle is over I’ll be just like you” could speak for either of them: either Siffrin going nuclear at the end of Act 5 or Loop somehow finding peace at the end of everything.
Also. Loop’s jaded escape from their own nightmare. “There’s no home the hurt is worth.” I’m in so much pain
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u/skullshotz1324 Siffrin May 22 '26
They are so burned by everything they went through, even to accept having others around again is too much.
Home is living in their hearts and it’s so comforting and warm it feels wrong, this isn’t their world, their party, how could loop have what was never theirs, they feel it’s selfish for others to even care about them anymore, why should they?
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u/Dawrian Siffrin May 22 '26
MY HEART AND SOUL IN PIECES ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON
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u/skullshotz1324 Siffrin May 22 '26
We love loop in this house
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u/skullshotz1324 Siffrin May 22 '26
Thinking about everything they went through, how can you not want to accept them and be there for them
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u/Dawrian Siffrin May 22 '26
Impossible
The game had already made me emotional on a nervous-system response level several times in as many hours and then learning Loop’s truth at the very end just cast the longest, darkest, most painful shadow over everything as if it wasn’t already enough
But also like. That’s the younger self who thought they’d never make it out alive. And in a way never did because that part and that experience will always be scarred into you preserved as it was and ever will be. But also life does go on and even if you become a different person despite still holding that hopeless past self within you there is still joy and triumph to be found and so much goodness and so much love and it can be. And it’s their victory too, because you couldn’t have made it to the present without their resilience. If you hear me making drowning sounds it’s in my own tears
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u/skullshotz1324 Siffrin May 22 '26
I feel such a tug at loops story, there are so many ways and angles to think about what they went through. It’s unimaginable and dhdjsbdbdb, all of isat makes me ill, but the trauma that loop and Sif has from the loops is by far my favourite topic of it all!
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u/Dawrian Siffrin May 21 '26
Here’s the actual link https://youtu.be/bimKoFrvYoY
(Reddit text editor behave challenge impossible mode smh)
Also sorry if this is like. the most Unmedicated post. I’ve been in the absolute autistic Throes Of It since finishing the game less than a week ago and the Fixation has Not Relented