#deep vacation

[eannpatterson]

Happy Holidays!

Photo by Sarah Best wishes during the holiday season to all my readers.  I’m in digital detox over the Christmas and New Year holidays.  So no post today.  If you’re having withdrawal symptoms or want to know more about digital detox then read ‘Digital detox with a deep vacation‘ posted on August 10th, 2016.  Otherwise switch off and do something utterly absorbing, such as deep reading or…

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#deep vacation #digital detox #holiday #mind-wandering #slowness

[wordsinhaled]

more domestic vacation 'verse because it's apparently all i can think about now

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It has been... good, being here. Quieter. Easier. The clamor of billions of visitors to the Dreaming is muffled, in Hob's flat. The things that dream here are calm things. Thriving things. Old and cherished things.

Loved things.

Here, Morpheus too has felt like something that could perhaps be loved.

In the mornings, after Hob has left for work, Morpheus draws himself soundlessly up from the bed and pads on bare feet to the record rack that stands overfull with vinyls in the corner of Hob's living room. He touches each record there carefully, the faint visions of musicians and composers flitting ephemeral beneath his fingertips. He selects his musical accompaniment for the day by intuition alone.

This morning, he finds a little yellow note stuck to Hob's copy of The Cure's Disintegration:

"You'll like this one. Promise. —H"

Morpheus listens to it five times through in its entirety with a cathartic sort of anguish. Afterwards he perches on the couch wrapped up in the blanket Hob has slept beneath each night these two weeks. The cedar and vanilla notes in Hob's soap still linger in the fabric, like traces of an embrace Hob Gadling has never given him.

He has especially enjoyed sitting on the floor by the window in the warmest patch of sun, holding court with Hob's houseplants. A marble queen pothos hangs there, suspended near the ceiling, its cascading vines of happy heart-shaped leaves long enough to trail down around Morpheus' shoulders. A row of succulents and a purplish-red bromeliad in a brightly enameled pot live lined up on the sill.

Morpheus gathers them all in his awareness, greets their leaves gently with the backs of his knuckles, speaks to them the way he speaks to all growing things. They whisper their daydreams to him in return, telling him tales of jungle and desert, and of the loving voice that sings songs to them each time they are watered.

Morpheus wonders what Hob Gadling sings, what he hums under his breath.

I would be sung to thus, he thinks. But would you sing to me, my friend?

He sits for long hours in the companionable silence. Lulled by the rhythm of verdant stories, he relishes the sun-warmth banking in the soft black cotton of his shirt, and feels some unnamed tension deep within himself begin to unravel.

Morpheus had not expected this from his stay with Hob. This comfort. This easiness between them.

How it has sunk into him and become something he could, in some version of the universe, come to require.

So, when on the eve of his fourteenth day Hob says, "I don't want you to go," Morpheus is surprised to find that the wistful note Hob cannot quite keep out of his voice finds a sympathetic echo in his own thoughts.

"I—" Morpheus begins.

It is rare that he does not find the ending of a sentence already laid out for him. Yet what is its proper conclusion? I also do not wish to go away from you is futile. An impossibility. He has a kingdom. A realm. A responsibility.

"You feel it too," Hob says. "Don't you?"

Morpheus does not need to breathe in the waking world. He does not need a heartbeat. These are paltry mortal necessities; mortal vulnerabilities. And yet he knows, suddenly, the kick of the heart against the ribs and the catch of a gasp in the lungs of his recalcitrant body. It pinions him to the moment.

"Hob," he manages to say. For a brief second, he is unmade and remade again by the hope in Hob Gadling's face.

"Dream. My dearest friend. I've been wrong before." Hob's eyes are wide and earnest. His voice is honey-soft and strong. He is wiser than Morpheus can aspire to be. "If I'm wrong about this, tell me, please."

"You were not wrong before," Morpheus says. "And you are not wrong now."

#the sandman #dreamling #THEY NEED TO KISS THEY NEED TO KISS #AND THEN HOB'S BED BECOMES 'THEIR' BED LIKE HOB DREAMED OK OK OK #i'm normal asdlkfhgl #one word from you will silence me forever etc. etc. #i know this 'verse is fluff ok they just gotta...... get it together #THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN I LISTEN TO 'THE SAME DEEP WATER AS YOU' WHILE WRITING fuck #dreamling domestic vacation

[sirbird]

Redraw of my very first piece of Miguel and of A Fortunate Mistake :)

#my art #atsv miguel #miguel o'hara #atsv #miguel o hara fanart #a fortunate mistake #the fact that it has been months is insane #I still love this angsty man #I would give him a million for head kisses #also if feels like I haven’t posted in a while but it’s only been 6 days 😅 #I finally took vacations days from work so hopefully I can work on a lot of my WIPs #those now include merman Miguel 👁👁 #I read a book called whispers of the deep and lemme tell you I wanna design Miguel like arges #he is so fine #you can bet I’m already drawing merman smut 🤭 #love y’all

[dumblr]

#sea #ocean #deep blue #aesthetics #beach #sealife #ocean view #clear water #crystal clear #underwater #travel #vacation #blue theme #blue #water #ocean waves #blue sky #dumblr

[specialagentartemis]

Sarah Sisko’s whole deal is so horrifying and messed up and DS9 just kinda. Glosses over it

#Imagine you are just a random Australian woman on Earth. Living your life minding your business #and then you get possessed by an alien force who have a Destiny they need to enact #And so controls you to go to New Orleans and hook up with a guy you’ve never met and you marry him and live with him for three years #And give birth to a son #And evidently that was what the alien wanted because once you have had a son the alien possession vacates your body #And you are in control of yourself again for the first time in three years #Married to a guy you didn’t seek out with a son you didn’t have a choice in #And the man is sweet and kind and in live with you! And thought you lived him! But you can’t bear it #So you leave him and leave the kid and hightail it back to Australia because what else can you do?? #And eventually commit suicide because you can’t handle this. Your life was upended in an impossible horrifying way for three years #You disappeared from your life with no warning for three years and then showed up again to people who think you just left #It’s the Star Trek universe—‘I was mind controlled by an alien force’ is well known #But that’s not supposed to happen to you. You aren’t a starfleet adventurer you live on Earth. Why You? #I feel like. Sarah your life was so horrifying/tragic and it wasn’t even about you #And even DS9 just brings this up practically in passing and then never dwells on it ever #perpetual perpetual ladies night #Star Trek #Deep Space 9 #ST:DS9

[astersugar]

loid doesnt know how to look like he's havign fun... im sick

#help me help me #franky telling him this after how he acted during his vacation at the cruise arc im sick im full of illness for him #how deep does him repressing his emotions go im gonna cry #i need to write about this jm gonna go crazy help me #spy x family #loid forger #spy x family spoilers #KINDA?

[youwillfindilluminating]

seeing jamie blossom and being SO HAPPY in amsterdam is really cementing the (fanon) idea that roy should have asked him to go to marbella with him when keeley wouldn’t

#roy x jamie #royjamie #jamie tartt #roy kent #roy x jamie x keeley #Let Jamie Be Happy On All The Vacations!!!! #seeing him happy is like a drug straight into my veins #I need it to survive I think #can you tell I'm in too deep?

[bleue-flora]

Welp, I think it’s time for some brain rot don’t you?

So, I noticed in my rewatching, I think awhile ago but I kinda forgot about it until recently, something interesting. After prison, most notably right after with Punz, Dream mentions an island -

[5:35] Dream: “I would have had us go to the island to be fair but I just thought it’s a little too far so…”

And like, what? What island? Do they have a secret island? Is that where the lab is? Is that where Dream’s house is? Has anyone else picked up on this line, like am I crazy or did he just mention a staged duo hideout?!

Then in Daedalus he mentions going to an island again, this time saying ‘metaphorically’ -

[12:30] Dream: “I was you know on an island you could say.”

Sam: “On an island?”

Dream: “Well yeah just you know—metaphorically”

Sam: “What—what? What island were you on?”

Dream: “I wasn’t actually on an island. I was just metaphorically I was on an island but.”

Which… what does that even mean? And why would he tell Sam that?… Unless he didn’t mean to answer Sam but did out of ya know… habit and then had to cover up by saying it’s metaphorical so Sam doesn’t go out looking for the island. I mean like, otherwise why mention a metaphorical island in the first place and then fail to go into it any further?… like… Dream, what island?!

#I have so many questions… so so many… #and the picture of Dream sitting on the beach with his crooked toes and scarred feet deep in the sand as he sunbathes at the beach #gives me so much brain rot…. your welcome ;D #The Island aka his vacation home XD #lol staged duo and all their secret lore we never got… cries #dishing up lore #dreblr #c!dream #dsmp #c!stagedduo #dream smp #c!punz #dsmp dream #dsmp lore #staged duo #c!sam and c!dream #daedalus arc #c!sam #look I’m not gonna say I’m the only one who’s picked up on this but I haven’t seen anything about it… #🏝️ #ok also in the blueberry prison break video at the 40:46 mark - the way Dream says “Phil’s helping?” with a such surprise breaks me : #:’( oh it hurts. #anyways… in light of things I thought I could provide a fun distraction and topic… hope it helped :)

[magnificent-winged-beast]

Misha quick guide of “how to hold the mic”.

[↓Link to the original and complete version at the source of this post]

#Misha Collins #holding the mic #spntor #spn toronto #spntor 2022 #THE OVERLORD #you have to know him #to love every silly thing he does #YOU JUST CAN PUT IT ON MUTE TOO... #and thing he is talking about his recent vacation with jackles... LMAO #cockles but not really #deep in the trash

[eannpatterson]

Reflecting on the future of RealizeEngineering

My recent summer vacation [see ‘Entropy and junkies‘ on August 2nd, 2023] was a period of relaxation, recuperation and reflection.  One of my reflections was on the future of this blog.  It has become more of a commentary from an engineer than the ‘engineering commentary’ referred to in the tagline in its masthead.  Perhaps this was inevitable when I have been writing a weekly post for more than…

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#blogging #creativity #deep vacation #uncertainty #writing

[lordgolden]

motivation so nonexistent this Monday that I’m not even working from home I’m working from bed

#gotta do what you gotta do #my back is so sore from my massage and all the knots still there bc they were too deep for my masseuse to get to 😭 #work is killing me im def burnt out I need to use the rest of my vacation to just do nothing #should’ve called out today but I feel like I use a sick day every other week

[runefactorynonsense]

Cozytober - Day 26 - Catnap

#Cozytober #Margot's RF Art #rune factory #rf1 #rf #This sketch was actually done back on June 6th of this year. I was knee deep in my Seattle vacation planning/stress and never finished it-- #I think I'd just found Home Run Derby tickets finally?? Or not long after that. And I was still scared to death I was making a mistake. #Silly past Margot! It was the best day of your life! #So I remember I did this sketch as just general human pose practice after someone else did the 'tree nap' pose of their OCs. #And so I grabbed it for today's prompt because!! I still liked how the anatomy turned out! #Context my brain goes with; #if I subscribe to the 'Raguna on the run from the Empire' theory then I strongly lean toward the Lynette pairing. #Safe life in Kardia- doesn't feel like the right context most of the time. Not bad. Just. Not as interesting a story. #On the run- This feels like just... a smart choice. Group up once those Empire targeting efforts escalate. #Perhaps he has to deal with the painful compromise and necessity of her lethality because he might be more likely to survive #And he WANTS to survive #AKA- if you can escape. Escape. He's good at it. But if the situation comes down to it.... Lynette can make sure who walks out. #And to reverse the pov- maybe a bit of atonement on her part? All the blood is only on her hands. She'll keep it that way. Let her do that. #He shouldn't have to. It's all her fault anyway. #Also please laugh at me as it took me half an hour to remember the word COMPROMISE. I was so mad. #Rune Factory Raguna #RF Raguna #Rune Factory Lynette #RF Lynette #another ship tag to fill #Raguna x Lynette

[balsa-margarita]

I probably should have tagged that one post about the resurgence of company towns as a Deep Rock post given that you do live in a company-owned space rig and one of the in-game currencies is called scrip, but after some consideration Deep Rock Galactic is probably a better employer than Amazon. They have an actual union.

#balsa says #drgposting #deep rock galactic #I also don't know if the DRG space rig qualifies as a company town because people also live on say oil rigs #so there's no indication that the dwarves don't just go home when they retire or are on vacation

[aamood]

Can’t we stay like this forever ?

#long vacation #1996 #kimura takuya #tomoko yamaguchi #japanese drama #endless love #endless summer #feelings #nostalgia #deep feelings #dreamy

[missinoe]

OH MY GOD WHAT WHAT THE FUCK HAHAHAHA

I DID NOT WATCH WATERS OF MARS BEFORE BECAUSE I NEVER FOUND IT ON THE INTERNET AND WOW

incredible. go off king way to self-destruct love to see it

#time lord victorious #doctor who #dw #waters of mars #tenth doctor #this rewatch is fucking me up #but seriously WHAT #hey doctor maybe chill a little #or maybe not let's see how far can you go #damn you really shoudn't be left alone huh #that's what all those tragedies do to you #doctor should take a vacation for a while. cry a little. take deep breaths

[titsthedamnseason]

it’s not funny anymore. i need xander and spencer’s book

#like it’s serious. #how did they become my vacation couple?! #like i’m on vacation imagining what fictional characters would be doing in this scenario AND THEY ARE MY BRAIN’S GO TO?! #i can’t remember the last time i was this invested in a couple before their book even came out #mine #like us series #i guess technically not? but i don’t have anything else to call it rn #and also i can’t remember if i ever brought this up here but it seems obvious that we’re getting easton / vada and im here for it? #like we don’t know super much about either of them but i obviously like easton due to his friendship with xander #and vada is gillow’s child which automatically qualifies her for national treasure status #and i think it was clever of them to pair them off that way #bc otherwise even though easton is well liked he wouldn’t really qualify for a book as just a side character #(not that they didn’t do that for oscar / jack and are obviously angling for a frog / quinn book) #and vada needs someone trustworthy from outside the families #anyway. THEY ARE ALL I THINK ABOUT #YOURE TELLING ME I HAVE TO GET THROUGH ALL THE COBALT BOYS BEFORE THIS?? WHEN THE NLU SET UP WAS THAT PERFECT #like as happy as i am to get ben’s book in my life it just feels wrong that his and xander’s books won’t be back to back idk #🏆 this is for anyone that actually read this deep into the tags you are a warrior