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c!rivals honestly have such an amazing dynamic.

you have two of the strongest people, one called into help with a war waged on the other's land. they meet on a mountain where techno is given gifts and dream remembers this exact spot over a year later, when his memories are fading.

they fought with each other and against each other and then dream gave a warning and a map that saved techno from losing his only life.

they tease each other, they lean into each other's jokes. they stand each other down with weapons in their hands.

then they team up together for doomsday and techno says that dream is one of the few people that hasn't betrayed him, they say that they're not friends, merely people who respect each other and understand this is mutually beneficial.

but, but.

dream refuses to write a note to lure techno, even when threatened by the man torturing him. techno walks into a trap because he needed to check on dream, he writes this in his will, it's that important to him to note. dream begs him to stop, to go back.

and techno with his one life is wiling to die to protect dream and dream is willing to die because he doesn't want techno to go through dying and when techno vanishes from the prison and sam finds dream hiding in that tiny space, dream doesn't let him break the bell. there's no reason for this. but dream refuses to let his abuser and the one who facilitated his torture, break this stupid little bell.

he's sentimental, techno says when he goes to the location where the blue prints are hidden. and that's why the bell is still there.

so techno returns to break dream out, break out his friends, and dream with his ender pearls and netherite armor doesn't leave techno, he goes back and stays until they both leave.

and it's easy to think, after techno turns dream away, that he didn't mean it when he said dream was one of his best friends, but techno rarely lies and his actions show that dream means something to him. techno, who is one of two people to consistently bring up dream's torture as something bad. while dream just, consistently speaks about techno.

rivals because they're powerful and people can't imagine they wouldn't be rivals, because they've fought once, despite siding with each other more. and they've both been hurt and betrayed and they're cautious and wary and sentimental and reckless. it's so fascinating to see this dance they do, partly for the benefit of others, partly because they don't know how much they can trust each other, but they care about each other. rivals who just. are friends.

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rb if ur a c!dream freak !

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GRGBRLGRG??

okay so the smp = the maze we’ve figured this out, the trying to get it right and technically getting through but not making it out representing the cycle of violence that wrecks their world so they end up doing it over and over again.

but c!dream being tossed into the actual maze and being the only one who knows to look for a way out, for the pieces that don’t make sense, for that last branch on the tree to jump to the top and leave.

and maybe in the end, he falls back down and through the tunnel until he’s just standing there, watching the screen roll the scene all over again. but maybe in the end, he’s found a crack, and he slips through, leading his group after him until they find themselves in a land where they can settle and not have to repeat the same damnable cycle.

#tftsmp #dsmp

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I am asking you to endure it.

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yall in this fuvking fandom dont know what an animatic is huh

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a compilation

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So I am just sitting here unkissed and uncuddled, the audacity of life

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au where sally wasn't a salmon but a long furby that wilbur slept with. whenever someone asks fundy if he's a furry it's extra offensive to him bc he's actually a furby. he got his mother's eyes UwU

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guess u could say he’s bent 

im obsessed with this photo. karl is hunched over sm just so sap can out his arm over his shoulders. someone tell sapnap to put his arm around karl’s waist and karl to put his around sapnap’s shoulders . this cannot be a comfortable nor natural position

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nd culture is the crushing reality that hyperfixations dont last forever

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Was thinking about DXD taking cDream’s appearance, but liek what if they just literally stole his face (as in physically took it from him) and that’s why cDream wears a mask, like under the mask there are just some horrors instead of a normal face

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just wanna hold dream's hand and maybe lean my head against his shoulder

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Btw id prefer you people treat me like the stranger that I am and not elevate me to pseudo-friend just because you overhear my e-conversations and see my e-diary entries. Mutuals however are allowed to attack and kill me in multiple different manners, if they can catch me

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i wanna give dream one of those subtle kisses. like you just brush your lips where the kiss just feels like a whisper y’know

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stole this from an incorrect quotes generator

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oh to hold dreamwastaken’s face and kiss him on the nose

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every time i listen to “you’re a mean one mr. grinch” i can’t help but sit there and think “what did the grinch do to hurt you?” because dude just stands there for 2 minutes and 58 seconds and drags the grinch into the dirt