& South is not Down

happy groundhog day rachel and i are curating a new concept: the outsider pov time loop fic, which is where someone who is not the main character and has zero actual plot relevance somehow gets caught up in the actual protagonist's time loop situation, sort of like a pigeon hopping into a tube carriage and getting transported halfway across london with no idea what's happening. initially they think, as you would if you ended up in a time loop, "ah fuck, i've got to figure out how to break the loop through my own actions", but every time they notice like, their one coworker doing increasingly insane shit in the background until they're like ah. so this isn't about me