Opinions on Dream? :^
SO many feelings about him omgg rant under cut please forgive me
okay so i don't really talk or draw him much cause honestly,,,most of the times i just think he's a bit....boring? or more accurately plain? not in a mean way either but just in a 'fades into the background' type of way like don't get me wrong!! he's a really nice friend to his peers, his feelings about his powers and aura making his relationships harder to navigate and trust along with his whole conflict with nightmare and morality about what's good and bad IS very cool!! and i love it whenever they write him to be complex and not on this black and white mentality or when he's just straight up following along his friends with no free will or with a dubious purpose without ever addressing his issues or feelings! it's just unsatisfying to me :')
or when they're making him the 'naive' and oblivious, (sometimes childish?) character being marked as the obstacle and villain along with the other star sanses from the fic's pov, always talking about doing good things while fighting his brother and not hearing him out about the balance, (and for weak reasons most of the time. like it's been so long and you STILL haven't sat down with him when he's, generally, basically begged you to just have a talk? guys please :'( ) or when they go for the victim sad dream always missing the old nightmare, where corrupted nightmare is the incarnation of evil, with no sympathy or emotion except anger and sadistic glee, killing and hurting everyone and dream's just trying to protect the multiverse and dream's always been in the right. such extremes!!!
LIKE!! i hope i'm not the only one that thinks a 500+ year old should have had enough time to idk. learn things? about people and manipulation and deceit? after knowing what the villagers did to night? about the bad things in the world and how there's a lot of grey areas in life and that he maybe reflected on his past enough to process and ask himself if there should to be a convo to settle his differences with nightmare (and you can make nightmare the stubborn one too! or have them BOTH be petty and imperfect and have some things wrong and some right at the same time like why do i always see the good guy vs bad guy cliché with these two when they're the perfect example of why positivity doesn't have meaning without the negativity!! as long as there's a satisfying evolution or growth that doesn't leave me empty i'm good yknow?)
plus i believe dream really isn't as dumb as people view him. i do get some of you saying he probably can't read or write since that's actually a pretty interesting idea to explore! but in general please let him have emotions other than pure sunshiny happiness or endless sadness like he's gotta have more depth than that! let him make mistakes, have flaws that don't just make him the bad guy that's always in the wrong by default, and be angry or suspicious or jealous or bitter or battling his mental health problems/depression or malicious or smart or witty or mischievous and silly or sarcastic or ANYTHING dude i just want him to be put into different scenarios where he can be serious or lighthearted like it doesn't even have to be long or perfect but make him feel real.
it could definitely be that i don't read or see much art about dream or really look for it hard enough but also i just. i feel bad for even saying this fr and i wanna be honest about why i don't enjoy most stories about him cause he always gets the worst treatment along with ink!!! especially ink omg the poor guy has it the worst i think like wow do they mess him up :'(
always one dimensional in non shippy fics, or too plain or easily replaceable by other, more entertaining people in the significant other's life in most of his ships like man. i have read fics out there that made me genuinely FEEL and root for him and love his character so much it restored all hope for me!!! but i can only name one on top of my head and the others? it's been so long i don't even remember their names i just legit feel terrible cause i love him still and i can't find many headcanons that fit my interpretation of him yknow?
not to say people who write him very happy, mislead or sad are ruining him like that's silly- if i see something i don't like i just. move on bro i wouldn't force people to feel or think the same way i do about him cause anyone can have whatever headcanons they want!!! just talking about what i personally look for in him and why i can't exactly find it since most of the stuff out there just isn't my cup of tea :')
hopefully i didn't set anyone off with this rambling opinionated essay i just pulled hhh xD i know i know he's a popular character and i know a lot of people like dream so *sobs* please please recommend me artists and fics about him that you think is good it's been so looong since i've read or seen anything new that makes me attached to this little guy aughg<33333
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While I was watching episode 1066, I kept thinking about one and only thing:
IF ONLY WE HAD THIS ANIMATION DURING DRESSROSA AND LAW'S PAST ARC
*sighs*
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i dreamed about visiting an old castle (idk which one but i'm pretty sure it was one i've actually been to), and when i tried to leave, there was a wall of green fire in the distance that was getting closer fast. the people in the castle garden didn't even try to hide or anything, they were just looking at it in awe. i went back into the building, thinking that centuries old thick stone walls must be fireproof, but when the fire reached us, some stones cracked and fell down, and i was pissed that this stupid fire harmed a historic site :/
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You are the first mcsm and life series/hermitcraft artist i've ever stumbled upon
The moment you posted that limited life art of the bad boys, i freaked out and legitimately did not believe i found someone with the same interest as me :D (both mcsm & hc)
And i'm gonna be honest, i actually came here for the jesskas fanart lol
hell yeah more mcsm and mcyt fans!!!!! you have no idea dude i’ve been watching hermitcraft for years- literally one of my long-term fixations haha
and ik there are more out there who like both!!! i see you guys in the tags!!! y’all make me so happy it’s so nice to see that there’s others who are just as insane as i am
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starting the day low as hell and ending it in the fucking stratosphere we're so fucking back babey !!!
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Sleep 10
Sleep 1 : Sleep 2 : Sleep 3 : Sleep 4 : Sleep 5 : Sleep 6 : Sleep 7 : Sleep 8 : Sleep 9
“She’s not waking up,” Lina cried, panic cracking her voice. “Why isn’t she waking up? She wasn’t shot was she?” She began shifting Reine’s clothes, looking for blood.
“He probably drugged her,” Cyrus pulled Lina away from her sister’s sleeping form. “She didn’t wake up from the gunfire before we even got inside. Calm down.”
Lina pushed away from him, grabbing her sister into a hug. “You’re okay,” she mumbled into Reine’s shoulder, tears wetting the fabric. “You’re alive.”
She sat like that for a long while, crying into her sister’s shoulder as Cyrus sat back against the wall of the van that was speeding away from Koen’s home.
“What…?” Lina slowly pulled away from Reine, glaring at the wet fabric on her shoulder, smudges of bruising showing through. She pulled the neck of Reine’s shirt to the side, revealing the lingering formula’s effects. Reine’s skin was streaked with back lines as if someone had injected ink into her veins, the skin swollen and raw around the marks she had carved into herself during her nightmares.
“What?” Lina repeated, tears rushing to the surface once more. “What… is…?” she turned to Cyrus as he pushed off the van wall, examining the bruises.
“This… she probably did this herself,” he muttered, grazing the ripped and scabbing flesh along her neck. “But…” his eyes slowly moved towards her shoulder. “I’ll have my medic look at her. Hey,” he grabbed Lina’s shoulder, shaking her until she looked away from Reine at him. “She’s alive, okay? She’ll wake up, I-” He stopped as Reine shifted in Lina’s arms groaning.
“Reine?” Lina called hopefully.
Again another groan, louder this time.
“Reine, can you hear me?” she asked.
Reine’s hoarse cry rang out against the van walls, fingers racing up to tear at her throat and stomach once more. Another nightmare, unable to escape.
“Reine!” Lina grabbed her hands, forcing her fingers out of the bleeding holes they had just made, struggling to escape until finally the nightmare passed and she fell still once more.
The two remaining stared at Reine in silence, neither one willing to speak first.
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I talk to many people who say things like "oh I have trauma but I don't have PTSD", but then when I talk to them a little more I realize that they most likely do, they just can't recognize it as such due to how lacking PTSD awareness is, even beyond the whole "it's not just a veteran's disorder" thing.
The main reason they think they don't have PTSD usually has to do with flashbacks and nightmares, either they have one but not the other or have neither. But here's the thing, those are only two symptoms out of the 23-odd recognized symptoms. Flashbacks and nightmares are two of the five symptoms under Criterion B (Intrusion), which you only need one of for a diagnosis. The other three symptoms are unwanted upsetting memories, emotional distress after being reminded of trauma and physical reactivity after being reminded of trauma (i.e. shaking, sweating, heart racing, feeling sick, nauseous or faint, etc). Therefore you can have both flashbacks and nightmares, one but not the other, or neither and still have PTSD.
In fact, a lot of the reasons people give me for why they don't think they have PTSD are literally a part of the diagnostic criteria.
"Oh, I can barely remember most parts of my trauma anyway." Criterion D (Negative Alterations in Cognition and Mood) includes inability to recall key features of the trauma.
"Oh but I don't get upset about my trauma that often because I avoid thinking of it or being around things that remind me of it most of the time." Criterion C (Avoidance) includes avoiding trauma-related thoughts or feelings and avoiding trauma-related external reminders, and you literally cannot get diagnosed if you don't have at least one of those two symptoms.
"Oh I just have trouble getting to sleep or staying asleep, but I don't have nightmares." Criterion E (Alterations in Arousal and Reactivity) includes difficulting sleeping outside of nightmares.
"But I didn't have many/any trauma symptoms until a long time after the trauma happened." There's literally an entire specification for that.
Really it just shows how despite being one of the most well-known mental illnesses, people really don't know much about PTSD. If you have trauma, I ask you to at least look at the criteria before you decide you don't have PTSD. Hell, even if you don't have trauma, look at the criteria anyway because there are so many symptoms in there that just are not talked about.
PTSD awareness is not just about flashbacks and nightmares.
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you guys should join the 'weird stairs' fandom
it is so entertaining
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