#alex says stuff

[musicallygt]

conversations with borrowers be like

#alex says stuff #g/t #giant/tiny #hilda #borrowers

[analexthatexists]

Here, take this ball of living anxiety.

This is a mix between my own version of a Dream that was corrupted like Nightmare and a rewriting of Shattered Dreams. Had a lot of fun with this one, so here they are!

I don't have a name for them or their AU, so please suggest stuff. I was thinking maybe Insomniac!Dream/Insomnia, but I don't think that fits them.

Want more than just these drawings? I have a LOT written about this AU and Dream specifically below, so uh, enjoy that if you want to. There is a LOT of text though.

Here’s my attempt at summarizing this AU:

Dream and Nightmare are fighting as usual, but Dream tries to purify Nightmare’s soul by reaching out for it. This seems to to fail, which then leads to Nightmare managing to corrupt Dream’s soul instead, at first thinking this will finally kill him. It doesn’t, and Nightmare accidentally turns Dream into a goop monster like himself, albeit less sadistic and power hungry, more an anxious mess. Nightmare also now has an annoying ghost child screaming about not killing people in the back of his head thanks to Dream messing with his soul.

And here’s the long explanation!

This takes place recently after Dream’s escape from stone and during a fight against Nightmare, similar timing and series of events as the Shattered Dreams AU. In an attempt to get his brother back, Dream gets a hold of Nightmare’s soul, purifying it just the smallest amount before his arm melts. Nightmare obviously didn’t like this, retaliating by pushing Dream down and slamming his fist into his stomach. finally reaching and corrupting his soul. While Dream can’t touch the dark apples else they become gold ones, his soul can still technically be corrupted like them, as Nightmare’s can be purified if gained a hold of by Dream, albeit nearly impossible. Dream’s body leaks a dark liquid as Nightmare finished the corruption, but as Nightmare tries to release him to let him suffer the pain, he finds himself unable to let go of his soul, his hand turning from a dark teal to a burnt orange color that begins spreading up his arm. He has to slice off his own arm to ensure the magic doesn’t spread to the rest of his body as the goop from his detached limb, alongside the goop left on the battlefield from their clashing, begins to creep over to the soul. While his skeleton body is destroyed and melted away, his soul and the rest of the goop reforms into Dream’s new self, a process similar to Nightmare’s death and “return” during the incident. Nightmare, confused as all Hell and upset with himself that he didn’t expect this somehow, flees to rethink things while Dream questions his existence. Nightmare, after fleeing, realizes Dream’s attempt to restore the original Nightmare had worked…kind of. Nightmare has to deal with his original self constantly fighting for control over the body and bossing him around. While he still has primary control over their body, the original’s not willing to back down easily and is constantly annoying him, trying to mentally attack him until he stops doing whatever evil deeds he’s trying to do. Basically, this animatic was their dynamic.

As for The Guardian himself…

Appearance

After the reincarnation, most of his body has become a dark, burnt orange sludge. It appears lighter in color than Nightmare’s due to the corpse being mixed into the mass that makes his body up. The goop fades to a dark orange like his outline at his arms and legs, as well as parts of his torso. In contrast to Nightmare’s right eye, his left eye is now covered by goop. His right eye is neon orange and in the shape of a star, and grows sharp when angered or scared. He swapped his boots for something more fluffy and endurable, and sometimes wears a fluffy jacket that matches the colors of his boots, mostly when he's cold or stressed out. He’s also taken off his crown, at least for now, and has it stored away in a pocket inside his jacket. While he is able to, he usually doesn’t have tentacles out, or does he like using them, favoring actual weapons. When expressing intense emotions like rage or despair, Dream's body will, as seen in the photo above, glow a little orange and increase in saturation. Also, his tears are light orange and float upwards like his goop when he gets angry.

Weapons & Abilities

Aura Warp - He can teleport to AUs that radiate large amounts of negativity or ones Nightmare’s in. The opposite is also an option, but they physically hurt Dream depending on how positive they are. If the AU is overwhelmingly positive, it can start to burn Dream. Weapon Manifestation - He can create his own weapons using the slime that makes up his body. His weapon choices are primarily his bow and arrow, but he can also create sharp ink daggers that can pierce and stab like Nightmare’s tentacles. He refuses to manifest actual tentacles and works with knives/blades better anyways. Empathetic/Apathetic Influence - A fancy set of words that boil down to “He can boost people’s positive and negative feelings when he’s around them.” He usually can’t control this power. Heres how it works; Let’s say Swap Sans is feeling a little nervous about a human arriving to Snowdin and wants to impress them. Dream can turn this small concern into an explosion of panic and fear. Swap will become very self conscious and paranoid about how the human views and thinks of him. These effects will usually wear off once Dream leaves the area. The farther he is, the less effective. Telepathy - If he’s in the AU, Dream can telepathically talk to people by projecting his voice into the minds of others. This is usually how he talks to people, acting as their internal consciousness (or at least acting like that’s what he is) rather than getting up close to people. This is his primary way of helping people without startling them with his physical form. Dream Manifestation - If the person Dream’s physically close enough to is sleeping and dreaming or having a nightmare, Dream can enter their mind and manifest, either as himself or some other form that shares his voice and consciousness, in that person’s dream/nightmare. Upon entering, the dream will turn into a nightmare, or the nightmare will get worse. This is beyond his control, but he can still interact and try to comfort the dreamer until they wake up.

Personality

Dream shares the same mental state and ideals as his post-incident, Pre-Underverse self (When he still had his staff and his original outfit after eating the golden apple). However, after being corrupted there were some changes to his mindset. He’s become more easily scared and paranoid, like a reverse to his character growth in the present/Underverse. He’s also more prone to having breakdowns because of these factors. He’s also become insomniac and is unable to fall asleep easily if at all. He’s very clingy when he meets people that are nice to him, though he scares most people away from him. Sometimes he can become obsessive and forceful when it comes to actions or taking control, but the thing that separates him from Nightmare (And the original Shattered) is that he never gets sadistic or joyful of the pain he causes people, rather he gets very shameful and guilty once he finally settles back down and realizes what he’s done. He’s still determined to do his job spreading positivity and stopping negativity, though it’s proven to become difficult as he scares most people away and his aura gives off negativity. Dream's very scatterbrained and tends to slip up when it comes to doing his job correctly, getting too concerned about making things go bad and usually making things worse by overthinking so.

Likes

Fluffy things (Especially clothing) Hot chocolate Winter weather and forests Nature walks Helping others and successfully doing so The sound of birds chirping Butterflies & moths Small ponds or bodies of water Frogs

Dislikes

Loud noises High temperatures Open or lit fires Watching things like chocolate melt People getting scared of him / mistaking him for Nightmare Spiders, centipedes, most multi-legged or loud insects Pinecones (Irrational Fear)

Trivia

-Randomly considered him sounding like Sad ENA, and now I can't unhear it. Honestly, I think the voice fits him pretty well too. -Dream has not met Cross or Ink, but has bumped into Swap (and accidentally caused him to have a mental breakdown) while uncontrollably jumping across AUs while still getting used to his body. -If this Dream ever met Shattered Dream, he'd probably get too scared of them and run away before much else could occur. However, if he ever met SD's Nightmare, they'd become very clingy and defensive over them, scheming to basically "kidnap" them while trying to explain to him why that's better than putting up with his corrupt brother. -In a sense, Dream is a lot like Pearl, or at least her Season 1 self. Specifically in that over-obsessive “I’ll do anything to keep you safe” nature and getting too lost in helping others to a point they don’t realize the damage their causing to people, which only makes them want to help more until they get called out for good -Originally, Nightmare would have absorbed Dream's corrupted soul only for Dream to then take over his body and be reborn that way, but then I felt like that was a little...weird and nonsensical, so I toned it back and went with my original idea. -While making this AU, I basically told myself "Okay, I need to make this the exact opposite of what Shattered is. I'm going to turn him into a pathetic baby who's one bad social encounter away from exploding", and that's how we got here. -Yes, Nightmare talking to the ghost of his original self is based off the dynamic they had in Shattered Dreams as well. I realized after reading some canon facts about Dreamtale that technically you could have "Corrupt Dream and Two-Nightmares-In-One-Body" in the same story. You can have your gross slime cake and eat it too without worrying too much about it making lore-accurate sense!

#dreamtale #nightmare sans #dream sans #dreamtale au #shattered dream #utmv OC art #DT!Resurrection AU #alex draws stuff #alex says stuff

[domwhoreward]

ok i'm so fucked up emotionally right now because tonight was my last muse show for this tour and i'm going through it

BUT

DOM FUCKING RECOGNIZED ME

after knights, when they came to the catwalk, dom spotted me in the same spot i was standing in toronto

he waved at me, smiled at me, and tossed me a drumstick!!!!

DOM HOWARD NOT ONLY KNOWS I EXIST, HE FUCKING RECOGNIZED ME AND I'M NOT OKAY

#alex says stuff

[dear-alex-chill]

My favorite situational trope is by far the "Are we ready? We have to be" trope.

THERE IS SO MUCH TO UNPACK WITH IT

A. It is always a tragedy or battle or something heated that pushed them to this moment.

B. You can have platonic moment, romantic moment, community moment, exes forced to work together moment, parent-kid moment, ect. There's infinite possibilities for who is talking and their relationships.

C. It's never "if we aren't/don't" in this trope failure is never an option. There's no dichotomy. It's simply "well we have to be" not "i don't know" or "probably not" or "if not we're screwed". Failure is never acknowledged, which just makes it more powerful.

C1. Failure is not an option is way overpowered. There's so much in that phrase and it is so versatile.

D. This trope can be at ANY part of the story. It can be the opening line, it can be in the rising action or the falling action, it can be your resolution. Hell, it can be the climax. There is so much power held in a situation like this that is can be placed anywhere in a plot and it will work.

F. It's an end of story moment. This sounds like it contradicts the previous point but hear me out. This helps move the plot along. You can't just slip this trope into something. It has magnitude. It is important. Whatever happens after is in response to this quote. Often it is very easy to time skip or introduce another subject after this point because there's nothing to be said after it.

G. Artificial tension is so easy here! Creating tension is a struggle in certain stories and circumstances, but here it's practically a given. Someone is looking up to someone else that happens to be more of a leader. There's a pause. The readers/audience and the characters are waiting for a response. There is so much tension alone, without extra information/exposition.

H. THE RAW EMOTION. Similar to the last point, but more about the person asking the question. They are expressing one of their deepest fears. It's expressed they are uncertain despite the preparation. Yet the other person assures them (in a way). The act of asking someone if, as a group, you are prepared beyond just doubting a plan is so emotionally open. In this trope the plan is already in action, it's not hypothetical anymore. And that's why it is so heavy. The looking back doubt, the hindsight, regret, uncertainty. It's all reflected in that question and it's build up.

I. It's risky but those who take the risk can succeed. Yes, sometimes not everyone can pull of a trope. But there's a certain ratio of risk to reward. And in this case, the risk factor is enough to deter those who can't pull it off, resulting in those who can do it having a much more rewarding story. If a trope doesn't work, you don't keep it. So it really only gets used when it should (even though it works in many forms).

In short, we need this trope more in media. It's too perfect to be ignored in favor of 'enemies to lovers' or 'best friends to never talk now'.

#sorry i wrote this at midnight after an 8 hr shift #alex says stuff #alex says things #writing tropes #writing trope #tropes #failure is not an option #media tropes #great example is the final lines of Blankets and Bedding from Come From Away (basically the last 45-60 seconds of the song)

[aromanticbuck]

oh my hot take of the day is that if you block someone it should prevent them from using your gifs and/or you should be able to turn off the ability to find your gifs in the search

#alex says stuff #kit texted me about a post and I’m fuming #because now I’m associated with that and I wanna vomit

[stonedgossard]

hey everyone!

this will most likely be my last post on this blog

i still love pearl jam with all my heart, but i think it's time i move on from this blog

i'm still active on tumblr, though, and if any of you are muse fans, feel free to check out the blog i use now, @domwhoreward!

i love you all so much 💕

#alex says stuff

[guardian-angle22]

Red, White, and Royal Blue (2023)

#red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #rwrb spoilers #rwrbedit #amy gupta #alex claremont diaz #aneesh sheth #taylor zakhar perez #gonna be honest and say i have no idea the proper tags for this fandom lmao #i'm only fandom adjacent but I felt the desire to gif some stuff from the movie so ya know here we are #i loved amy in this so obvs my first gifs from the movie would include her #alex is also a giant puppy himself in this and I love it #my gifs

[aroaceleovaldez]

Here is a link to the Cherokee Nation's official site. Here is the Visit Cherokee Nation youtube channel. Here is a playlist for learning Cherokee (and here's one for learning Ojibwe, as a bonus cause i'm biased). Here is a link to Daybreak Star Radio, which is a radio station based in Seattle dedicated to showcasing international first nations and indigenous music that you can listen to online. Here is a pdf of various recipes, including references to which tribes they originate from. Here is a link to The-aila-test's buy native tag, and here is a link to Beyond Buckskin's buy native list (though some of the links are broken). Here is a link to the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper's official site.

now go take a minute and come back once you've done some research so everybody can stop being weird about Piper.

#pjo #riordanverse #piper mclean #this is directed towards riordanverse fandom but feel free to let this one breach containment #i see so many people draw piper with caricature traits and its like. guys... i thought we left that in 2016... its not hard to not do that! #just. go look at people for ten minutes. just take a minute. just look. at a photo. #also she's cherokee. dont be vague about her being native american. we have specifics. you can say it. #you can put it into a search engine even. and look. and research stuff. #like. Leo? Alex? we dont have specifics. we can make guesses but it's not really specified. Piper is very explicitly specified though. #anyways if i see one more person talk about piper with the phrase ''native enough'' i'm gonna scream #''native enough'' what do you even MEAN that's a WHOLE CONTINENT MY GUY #okay rant over i will retreat into my abyss once more

[willgrahamscock]

Oh my god, you have a TikTok account??? Drop your username

willgrahamsco.ck I don’t ever promote it here because I’m 98% less unhinged there due to it being TikTok. But I like doing the trends! I just wish people were more interactive on there because on tumblr people will like and rb and add funny tags.

Yesterday I posted a possessive hannibal slide so I’d appreciate if you guys went and liked it or interacted with it 🤠✨

#alex answers #comment if you’re from tumblr ❤️ #but yeah TikTok is so different from here I’m always second guessing what I should post #because here I can say unhinged stuff and you guys will be like #yeah that’s just a cock post #there I will get banned 🫡

[cirrus-grey]

How're y'all's "the fears are desires now" theories holding up after this episode?

#i was wondering if the jonny and alex episode would have more lore than the rest and uh #id say yeah #the magnus protocol #tmagp spoilers #6 introductions #magnus protocol speculation/analysis #my magnus protocol stuff #original post #queue cause i'll be at work when the episode airs

[louisapennyfeather2021]

HELLO?!! WAT??? ALEX???

#red white and royal blue #2gether #alex claremont diaz #sarawat guntithanon #sarawat #alex #2gether the series #sam's thoughts #sam says stuff #sam's ranting #sam says shit #sam's club #sam's life #sam's gas can #thought i was dreaming #taylor zakhar perez #bright vachirawit

[musicallygt]

Borrower who gets found by a G/t fan and is at first terrified and starts trying to get away, only to just stand dumbfounded as the human looks so upset, going “this should’ve been me” because they want to be a tiny and not the giant.

#alex says stuff #alex’s thoughts #idk is this anything? #no idea if this is as funny as i thought lol #borrowers #g/t #giant/tiny

[analexthatexists]

Cut part of my rant about Ink Sans involving his “affiliation” with Dream.

I find it interesting that Dream is probably seen as more of a hero throughout the Multiverse for helping people than Ink. Like, Ink doesn’t do what Dream does (and cut ties with him for this exact reason) because he doesn’t want to mess up the script and the timeline in return, while Dream is either unaware or undisturbed in doing so (probably unaware). Not like Ink could explain how any of that works, right? In short, while Ink’s always being blamed or shamed for abandoning people and letting them die, he’s still doing it to make sure nothing else goes bad for the rest of the cast, because what if something worse comes out of them going off-script? And Dream gets seen as a hero for undoing what he’s trying to keep stable? It isn’t all that fair, but Ink probably couldn’t ever explain to Dream why. He couldn’t even stop or kill him, seeing Dream is vital to the balance of positivity and negativity, and Nightmare is the only one who could kill him anyways. So, Ink’s just left to do nothing about Dream unless he decided to convince Nightmare to help deal with him. And could that happen? Maybe. Could actually be a sick AU idea… wait would that just be AccidentalVere?

#dreamtale #nightmare sans #sans au #dream sans #utmv #undertale au #ink sans #character rant #alex says stuff

[domwhoreward]

okay, so like, everyone be honest w me right now

did you first hear muse in guitar hero or twilight??

#the two genders: guitar hero and twilight #no but like fr fr pretty much every muse fan i know discovered them from one or the other #for me it was guitar hero 3 which had knights of cydonia #fucking mind blowing #alex says stuff

[dear-alex-chill]

I feel like this isn't said enough but;

The block button is not restricted to just toxic cyber bullies that harass you.

If someone is making your experience on Tumblr a bad one, if they are making you uncomfortable to the point where them interacting with you makes you dislike being online, you can block them.

If they make content that triggers you and it constantly shows up in your feed, you can filter out the tags.

The block button/filtering area is a personalization tool, it's there to allow you to directly influence what you see. If something/someone is ruining your experience on Tumblr, you can block them or filter the tags out. Blocking is there to allow you to have a better environment on the site.

There's a lot of discussion about how you can block anons and haters and that's valid. But it's not recognized that you can also block people who you don't want interacting with you. You can filter out a tag that is associated with something that dampers your day when you see it. You do not owe Tumblr a hate crime report everytime you block someone. It doesn't have to be only extreme cases. If removing that aspect from your Tumblr experience would improve your Tumblr experience, do it. There is no shame in blocking or filtering tags.

#happy tumblring folks #alex says stuff #alex says things #dont report just block #tumblr filter

[taskmastersource]

#taskmaster #alex horne #taskmasteredit #gif #s16 #16x09 #s16 spoilers #taskmaster spoilers #* #can i just say i love it when the editors do stuff like this