Abstract Metaphysicians are typically quite fond of the idea that, ultimately, how things fundamentally are is not irreducibly relative to anything, that whether things are a certain way or not is ultimately an absolute matter. Realists about tense are no exception to this. Indeed, the overwhelming majority of realists endorse, even if only tacitly sometimes, some version of the thesis that the tensed facts they take to fundamentally constitute reality fix the way things are simpliciter, or absolutely speaking. Many even go on record stating that some such absolutist thesis is definitional of the kind of view they mean to defend. To cite but one example, consider the following passage by Dean Zimmerman (2005, p. 431).