#my dreams are so mundane

[thelalalalatestrevolutionnewsies]

Guys I had a dream that I watched a YouTube video that I’d saved to my watch later. WHY CANT I HAVE INTERESTING DREAMS

#it was one about grease: live #my dreams are so mundane #like I have dreams where I just read a book and it feels so real and then I wake up like ?!?! #also where I just text people and update them on random stuff going on in my life #I ONCE HAD A DREAM ABOUT THE FILTER IN MY CHURCHES WATER FOUNTAIN GETTING REPLACED #IT WAS SO VIVID AND THE WATER TASTED SO GOOD AFTERWARDS #AND THEN I REALIZED IT WAS A DREAM WHEN I WENT TO GET WATER AND I WAS SO SAD

[soupdreamer]

hey brennan what the fuck

#the emotional whiplash of this episode was genuinely insane i think i was about to burst into tears at some point and then they cut to the #fucking commercial. vic michaelis and brennan lee mulligan i ADORE you brennan you did not have to go as hard as you did on this one #this felt like a literal fever dream #like i don't even know if i fully understand it rn the last bit w vic and the radio was a bit open to interpretation #ALL of it felt open to interpretation but like. in an insane way #someone suggested host vic has dreams of/hallucinates these guests to escape from the mundanity of her real job and they try to teach smth #i dont like the dream trope but that would be v interesting #someone also said they were in a time loop which would be. intriguing #anyways i will miss this show so much someone said it was greenlit for s2 too so i'm crossing my fingers thats legit #vip spoilers #very important people spoilers #very important people #dropout #vic michaelis #brennan lee mulligan #vip

[feroluce]

Lucid Dreamer (1/2)

part 2

Gepard notices that it's been. Quiet lately. Like weirdly quiet. TOO quiet. He hasn't seen Sampo Koski in almost a week, which is about the longest he's ever been absent. And he is NOT worried. He's not! So what if they've been getting along more lately! So what if Gepard sometimes looks for him in his favorite hiding places! So what if he's been dreaming about blue hair and green eyes! It's nothing!!

But they're….strange, these dreams. Gepard doesn't usually remember what he's dreamt. It's out of his mind seconds within waking up. But these stick with him, they won't leave him be, they feel different somehow.

He dreams of Sampo bringing food to the frontlines and eating breakfast in his tent with him. Sampo always sneaks him extras. He dreams of chasing Sampo through the alleyways, Sampo sometimes letting himself be caught, Gepard sometimes catching him, and trying to ignore how it feels more like a game now more than anything else. He even dreams that Sampo tags along with him on one of his few civilian days. Sampo runs errands with him, prattles about inane bullshit while Gepard picks out groceries for the week, drags Gepard into some bakery he's never been to but he thinks Serval mentioned once.

And sometimes, it feels so close to reality, that Gepard half expects to see Sampo, shamelessly swaggering into the frontlines with all the guards' breakfast like his wanted poster wasn't only recently taken off the walls of Belobog. He's disappointed when it's always someone else instead. He tells himself his disappointment is ridiculous and if Sampo wants to go prowl around the Snow Plains or wherever he is, then fine. It's not any of his business.

…But it IS his job to investigate any unusual criminal activity relating to the frontlines. And the frontlines are Sampo's usual haunting grounds, and this is unusual activity, and Sampo IS technically a criminal, so it is absolutely part of his duty to look into this - is what Gepard tells himself the entire tram ride down into the Underground.

Natasha tells him he's gone, and Gepard has to steel himself. He knew Sampo made enemies wherever he went, there are a lot of people who would love his head on a platter, but he didn't think-

Natasha corrects him that she means literally gone. As in off-planet. Sampo always leaves her a note before he goes anywhere, so she knows not to expect any supply runs from him. He should be back in exactly two weeks. Thank the Preservation.

Gepard goes back home. He waits.

The uneasiness doesn't leave him.

"Where did you go?" Sampo stops dead in the middle of some story about Seele, and how you'd think someone with as blunt a mouth as her wouldn't have so much trouble asking a woman out, even if that woman IS the Supreme Guardian, and stares at him. He nearly fumbles his cigarette.

"Ahaha, what do you mean, I'm right here?" Sampo smiles at him the same way he always does. Gepard has no idea why he asked. It just popped out. He can never tell when Sampo is lying, anyway.

"I don't know. I feel like I haven't seen you in a long time." Gepard idly mouths at his own cigarette. He almost never smokes, but he wants to ration their stocks of Blizzard Immunity, and it helps with the cold. It's seemed colder lately, for some reason.

Gepard flicks his lighter once, twice, sighs at the third time because a metal prosthetic and thick gloves make the damn things so difficult. Sampo reaches over and wordlessly kisses the end of his cigarette to Gepard's, lighting it. "Thank you."

Nothing happens for almost a full 30 seconds. Something churns behind Gepard's ribcage. Because Sampo never leaves a "thank you" hanging. This is the part where he gives his spiel about how helpful and kind he is and Gepard either brings up how long his rap sheet was before Bronya helped clear his name, or just stares deadpan because seeing Sampo squirm is weirdly satisfying.

"…I'll be back in one more week."

Gepard jolts awake in his cot, mouth dry and eyes bleary.

The hell.

The next dream he has, Sampo looks tired. Sometimes he seems normal. Sometimes he says strange things, like how he wishes he'd gone to some restaurant in Belobog. Ate his favorite food more recently. Brought something with him. Gepard asks why he can't do that now. Where would he bring something? Sampo only shrugs. His rebuttals have less energy.

Gepard doesn't know if he wants to dream more, or less.

He ticks down the days on his calendar. Natasha hasn't told him any different. She promised she would if she got any kind of message. Sampo returns tomorrow, from whatever vacation or seedy business dealings he's been off having. He is not excited about it. He is not looking forward to it. He's not!!

Gepard falls asleep late that night, unable to settle. He dreams again.

He's alone. There are tons of people everywhere, the frontlines are always crowded. But he's alone. They all pass right by him as though he were a ghost. Gepard starts to walk before he realizes his feet are even moving.

He checks the trashcans in the dead end alley. He checks the supply crates that someone always stacks too high because they don't feel like finding more space for them. He pauses to check the soldiers that march past him, watching their footprints in the snow.

He finally finds Sampo on the rooftop along the northernmost wall, the one that looks out over the plains, towards Everwinter Hill, towards where the Stellaron had once been kept. With a full moon and an entire land of white snow, Gepard can almost see clear out to the horizon.

"Found you." Sampo stiffens, and Gepard is almost prepared for him to sprint off the roof. He doesn't. But he doesn't relax either. Gepard sits down next to him and stares out at the wastelands.

"…I fucked up." It wasn't what Gepard had been expecting. Sampo never 'fucks up,' Sampo just gets into incidents that are entirely, supposedly, not his fault and that he just happens to always be within the vicinity of.

"What did you do now?" It must be really bad if Sampo is coming to the Silvermanes for protection.

Instead, Sampo ignores his question completely. "See out over there? Right on the other side of that mountain. There's a safe house that way. It's hidden under a lot of snow and dead trees, but it's there. And in that safe house is a box full of letters. I need you to deliver those letters for me."

Gepard's brow furrows. It's a weird favor to ask. Sampo would never tell anyone where his hidden safehouses were. It defeated the whole purpose of a hidden safe house.

Something is wrong, something is really really wrong.

Gepard turns back to look at him again and startles, all of his questions dying in his throat, because the entire left side of Sampo's head is suddenly matted down, dark and sticky, his skin is dyed red red red-

"In three more months, there's gonna be something big happening." Gepard grabs Sampo's hand and it feels slick and warm against his palm. "I won't be here. So I need you to do my end of things for me." Gepard tries to keep hold, but something is fading, something is slowing, the sun is coming up but the colors are all wrong, everything feels like encroaching fog, Sampo's hand slides right through his. "I was gonna come back with my mask to finish setting the stage, but…" Gepard makes a frantic grab for Sampo's wrist, the air twists, he comes back empty-handed. "They have you. And you're the Iron Wall of Belobog. So it'll be ok."

Gepard finally manages to find his grip, snatches the front of Sampo's dark wet jacket and yanks him forward to hold onto him, and this close up, he can see it better, his colors are bleaching out, leaking outside the lines as if Sampo will become part of the background, as if he's fading into the strange fog that's been closing in on them. His fingers are already starting to feel empty again.

"Wake up."

Gepard jolts awake, uncurls his hands from where they're fisted in the blanket, scrubs the dampness off his face. Breathes. Breathes. Breathes. Today is supposed to be the day.

He throws on his civilian clothes, and he goes down to the shipyard the IPC had built. He finds a spot where he can see every person that returns to Belobog, and he waits.

And he waits and he waits and he waits.

No one he recognizes appears.

#sampard #gepo #hsr gepard #hsr sampo #gepard landau #sampo koski #honkai star rail #hsr #blood #my fics #lucid dreamer #there was more to this but it didn't feel right included here so part 2 tomorrow maybe? #I just think Penacony being the land of dreams presents some FASCINATING possibilities like showing up in other people's dreams #the end of masquerade duet killed me just beat me dead #Sampo going through all this trouble just to protect Belobog... #poor Ray got such an earful that night haha #In the Penacony dreamscape someone can change their appearance however they want but I think in this case where one of the dreamers AREN'T- #-on Penacony it would take more concentration to keep that illusion up #and if someone were say. hurt and badly bleeding. it would start to fall apart eventually as they lost their concentration. #but oh my heart #Sampo being away and missing Belobog so badly he shows up in his friends' dreams just to do the same mundane shit they always do... #He probably showed up to everyone #he sat around and kept Natasha company in her clinic. he pestered Seele until he provoked her into asking Bronya on a date. #he played one last song with Pela and Serval. he told them he'd always kept his old bass guitar. #he took Hook out on one last joyride on his scooter and he even let her sit up front and steer like she'd always wanted. #and he stood around to shoot the shit with Gepard #he got to go do things like run domestic errands together with him. as if they could have been something more than what they were at the en #it was nice to get the chance to do all that #it was nice

[dudeyuri]

anyone else try to casually (lol) rewatch bad buddy only to get completely clobbered over the head by the fantasy sequence in ep 11 answering pat’s question in ep 6: ““Have you ever pictured what it’d be like if our parents didn’t fight?” one of the only fantasy sequences, ie the depiction of something that did not actually happen in canon, in the series? the most strategic delay of the most indulgent and heartbreaking moment that never happened and never will? the reveal that the ultimate shared fantasy between pat and pran is being openly in love and out of the closet and seated specifically at dissaya’s table with her eating the meal she made? the impossible “what if we could change the world?” appended to the tail end of their not-so-neverending honeymoon’s impossible “what if the world could change us?” one last fairytale indulgence before reality clamps down swift around them and they’re staring at each other, pran misty-eyed and tears rolling down pat’s face, in front of the gates of their respective family homes, about to put on their break up routine for their parents???? stronger and harder and braver thanks to their love and “we can’t change the world but the world can’t change us,” after they show us how soft and easy, thanks to their love, they could have been?? (tim robinson voice) has this ever happened to you??

#bad buddy #it really steals my breath away every time i’m out here gasping #it’s so unique it’s almost jarringly out of place #it’s a blip when you put it beside every other bad buddy scene #no filter and shot like any other moment except it’s in an alternate universe #not privy to what they’re saying #pran’s parents have their back to the camera #and the voiceover #the gentlest almost childlike hopeful back-and-forth of pat and pran’s wildest mundane dreams #kicks me when i'm already down!!!

[benbamboozled]

I would actually kind of like the “becomes a doctor and takes over Leslie’s clinic” story…for Damian.

NOT because I think it would be ~ethical~ or idk whatever-the-fuck.

I just really love the concept of Damian having this “I HAVE A BIG IMPORTANT DESTINY” backstory/lineage/bloodline …

…SON OF THE BAT, and all that jazz…

But when he connects with Gotham and the people in it—because Batman should be connected to the people he’s protecting—Damian realizes that he doesn’t actually WANT “his” destiny.

And it’s not about rejecting Batman or his father or his mother or anything like that, but instead about taking what he’s learned and what they’ve given him and shaping it to fit himself.

#Damian Wayne #meta I guess? #obviously no judgment for the people who like Batman!Damian—he’s just not for me. #i mean my dream Damian series is a pretty much entirely ‘mundane’ combo of noir and slice-of-life… #…to contrast his epic background with the regular fucking people that he’s taken on protecting by becoming a Gotham vigilante. #i think also one of the elements would be commenting on the Bats’ (and Bruce in particular) Control Freak tendencies… #and the theme that you really can’t ‘control’ life. #for example: an element of drama could be that Damian checks in with people during patrol/during cases but… #he still has to go to school and do normal life stuff. (or normal for him.) #so during the *day*—maybe one of his ‘people he is friendly with’ has some mundane bad thing happen to them and dies. #like idk maybe an old lady friend has a heart attack and dies. #what do you do when there isn’t an enemy to fight? #just ‘move on’? isn’t the whole reason they do what they do predicated on his father NOT accepting that he should ‘just move on’? #anyway there would also be metacommentary about the nature of comics and that… #…you don’t really have control about what happens after your series or after your run. #or even what happens to a character YOU create.

[sparky-is-spiders]

Jonsasha are soulmates because they would both forget to drink their tea and then reheat it later in the microwave. Send tweet.

#this post is about jonsasha #do not derail with martin or j//mart #anyway they just like me fr #can you imagine them getting caught up in a research binge? #can you imagine jon noticing that sasha's tea has gone cold? #can you imagine them gently taking the mug? giving it 30 seconds in the microwave? #can you imagine them taking it back to her and telling her that they noticed her tea had gone cold so they had reheated it for her? #can you imagine her smiling at them? #god i'm so gone on them #jonsasha #tma #jon sims #jonathan sims #sasha james #the magnus archives #i dream of a universe where sasha survived instead of a Certain Other Assistant (if you know you know) #jon and the sasha in cobbled together out of seven minutes on-screen and duct tape were made for each other #normally my mind goes to the unholy eldritch monster soulmates part of the love story but i think they'd just Click in mundane ways too #the ways they complement each other in ways both ordinary and monstrous... they drive me so fucking insane you have NO idea

[stringcage]

Three normal roommates (they are normal)

#so mundane #noah czerny #gansey #richard campbell gansey the third #ronan lynch #the raven cycle #the raven boys #the dream thieves #blue lily lily blue #the raven king #the raven cycle fanart #my art

[dizzybizz]

mom made fried rice yesterday, it's one of my favorite foods. i had a dream nightmare today that my brothers divided the leftovers between themselves. without me. and i got to the kitchen, saw that there was like a spoonful of rice left and got so upset i walked right back upstairs to my room. that spoonful hurt man. why was it there, to rub it in? that they decided to take all the rice despite knowing that i was looking forward to eat it for lunch? damn they hate me

#AWFUL DREAM #my dreams are never this mundane too #aughh #my rice :( #dizzyoriginals #i cant believe i was so excited to eat fried rice today that i had a dream it was all taken from me #thats so fucked up and funny help

[backseatloversz]

you are not your passing thoughts and you are not your dreams and you are not your subconscious and they cannot hurt you or anyone else. okay

#i dont dream very often and when i do its normally something pretty mundane but theres been some heavy stuff on my mind/coming up in my life #recently and ive had 3 horrifying dreams in the past 4 nights and within the dream last night i cried so hard i almost threw up and its #still Plaguing Me but it was literally. just a dream. but also im like What If Its Not im gonna go insane #cowboy posts

[1pcii]

SHADAHKNKAS saw u in the notes of some kuina posts and that made me realize that there is simply a bond with kuina and tashigi fans, who may even often be the same fan, because AOUGHHH KUINA I CARE HIM SO MUCH episode 19 literally changed me forever. swords + gender struggles are all you need to hook me on a character sometimes Maybe. the whole greatest swordsman promise... sob. also. something about zoro promising his name will reach the heavens and trans kuina. which made me think.. what if kuina and The trans fear of dying then having your deadname on your tombstone that you can't do anything about because you're dead. kuina dying before they even get to figure everything out and all of a sudden he's just known as kuina forever, and then zoro making a name for himself in kuina's honor or something idk (i like zoro's backstory) (KUINA )

THERE ISS. people who theorise that they are secretly related or the same person or direct parallels are so close to getting it but don't imo (no shade to those theories tho, I just personally find them narratively unsatisfying).

like they are parallels in that kuina is symbolic of the sexism people suffer and tashigi is an adult woman who has come out the other end sword swinging but ultimately so unsure of herself as a result. also the (trans)genderisms, we are all hand in hand 🤝.

MAN KUINAS STORY BROKE ME DOWN ON A BASE LEVEL AND REWIRED NY BRAIN. I had to take a break from reading just to let it soak in it's so good, a swordsmans promise indeed, that scene was beautiful, I love zoro the world's first a accidental feminist <3. zoro carrying on her dream with his will never not have me in hysterics.

FUCK YEA THATS SUCH A GOOD IDEA. I have soo many thoughts about baby!zoro and kuina and trangenderism. egg kuina cis zoro, egg kuina STEALTH TRANS ZORO ABSVDJFBKSHDKDN <333.

little baby zoro looking at his grave with the uncontrollable urge to carve out those letters. to carry and rearrange them and make sure they get back to him in the afterlife spelling 'worlds greatest swordsman'.

trans kuina makes me so emotional because ultimately I don't know if they were canonically trans but it's my FAVOURITE 'what if' for them. they never really got to be anyone outside the dojo masters daughter. the failure of a heir and the girl who beat zoro 2001 times. who would they have been if they got to grow up? come to terms with themselves and unlearned all that heavy, painful biases pushed onto them? as a transmasc who's studying into a (cis)male dominated field myself ik, the feelings of 'betrayal' and 'proving misogynists right' and imposter syndrome and inadequacy issues and perfectionism they might've gone through,,, sobbing my eyes out HE MEANS EVERYTHING TO MEE.

zoros backstory is genuinely one of my favourite parts of the manga idc how 'simple' it was it's still beautiful.

#kuina being the greatest swordsman of heaven and zoro being the greatest in hell. and they're besties and everything is good and nice :') #I fucking love him so much it's insane #him and zoro and koushiro are such interesting characters it's kinda a shame all ppl rlly focus on is the mundanity of their death and #how it 'sets a tone' and establishes a sence or mortality for zoro #like those things are important but let's talk about HER TOO!!! #the girl who wanted to be a 'boy' for her dream #who started out in self hatred but could've maybe grown to love of masculinity when exposed to healthy example of it #and I learning the internalized misogyny implanted by his father from within #psii.txt #text #ask #the-neighbours-kid #shimotsuki kuina #<-ooh using the official character tag for organising so if you see this in tag search I have a zero tolerance for ppl calling me or anyone #else a misogynist for having this hc. EPS my fellow transmascs who know what we're talking about #I will just block you #anyway cookie TY FOR SENDING THIS ASK YOU DONT KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE KUINA... SHAKING UR HAND RN THEY ARE SO FUCKING GENDER 🤝🤝🤝 #trans headcanon #trans kuina #trans zoro

[sandsofdteam-moved]

it's just so nice to see even the little things that they've mentioned over the past 3 years finally come to fruition like it's been only a couple of days and they're doing the sushi date, patches immediately endeared herself to george, george got his plane ticket and permanent room, like it's all really happening the wait was so so so worth it

#AND SO MUCH MORE IS GONNA HAPPEN!! #they're all so much happier than I've ever seen them before #filming the mundane posting the absurd like we're going to see so much from them it's going to be so fun #and Dream and that damn snapchat app are going to kill my phone's memory with all the photos that I'm saving #I've been in a constant sappy mood for the past few days it's been so fun doing this w y'all love u guys <3

[uuyuomi]

has anyone ever like thought of lyney/lynette being like velvet/veneer from trolls 3!? like…what if famous idol! lyney and idol! lynette smau? and reader is an underground artist who isn’t as well-known in comparison and isn’t fame-driven. it’d for sure be a enemies to lovers with lyney x reader

imagining you did a cover of one of his and lynette’s songs that got a shit ton of views and recognition than the original and man’s felt threatened. decides to meet you at one of your shows and when he confronts you, you’re just like “who tf are you??” because surprise, you actually had no clue who the artists were behind the song you covered that seemingly blew up. you just saw a comment requesting it in one of your last youtube videos and just went sure why not?

god…putting a pin on this fr. if i ever do decide to try writing it i’ll make an alt blog to post the smau since my main here is more so more for publishing narrative works :P

#— mundanity. #BRAIN IS ROTTING SO HARD RN OMG SOMEONE FEED INTO IT MORE I BEG #yea ik…coming up with this idea just from listening to a remix of sweet dreams x mount rageous from trolls 3 #my creative mind works in weird ways #also also this was partially inspired by the current lyney fic im working on lmao just a modernized version of it

[pineware]

i saw some post where people in the comments were talking about their prophetic dreams tendency and it was the first time i've seen so many people speak about that one specific experience i have and i thought oh thank god i'm normal lol..

#my prophetic dreams are always very mundane but #i already have extremely vivid dreams and remember my dreams each day which recently people have told me is highly unusual?? #not sure if that's actually true but. my dreams are vivid so if one of them is 'prophetic' i totally remember it happening in my dream #and since i remember all of them i also get my dream memories mixed in with my irl memories. which can be annoying honestly🤦‍♂️ #i can obviously distinguish them but sometimes it takes me a moment #ooh also. i am rarely ever myself in my dreams. i'm most often a different person or creature. or sometimes i dream in 3rd pov like a movie #oops sorry for rambling i love talking about dreams it's fun

[aeide-thea]

attempting yet again to rejigger my yet again extremely fucked sleep cycle and. experiencing repercussions

#it truly is SO reliable that if i go to bed early enough my body thinks it’s a nap #i WILL wake up in the dark with my heart beating rapidfire feeling totally discombobulated and‚ like‚ emotionally hung over #having had some sort of disconcertingly vivid dream #anyway now i’m like. Up but in the way where i’m thinking abt how i’ve always felt like an invisible camera instead of a person #which are like. not ordinarily morning thoughts??? #on the bright side i fell asleep in a lot of merino so at least when i woke up frazzled and gasping i wasn’t also sweaty??? #magic wicking temperature-regulating fiber my beloved. some people use it for real things! i just use it to wick my anxiety away. 🤘 #journaling #mundanities

[friendlynaborhooddisapointment]

the dream would be a 15hour week workday at a low stress job not that far from home but not too close it feels intimate to your home, a small mangable appartment that wont fall apartwith furnishings i like,bills that arnt stress inducing in a way that make me think about money all the time, and just chill and do my hobbies when im not doing all the other things people have to do in their adult to not be that sad life like cook and clean and talk to people

#would be cool to publish and stuff #but again dont want to turn my hobbies into somthing more stress inducing then perfecting my craft already does #cant belive the dream is the bere minimum #25 hours a week max #but still its really just the bere minimum #oh to live the bere minimum #life always finds a way to make things difficult #and it would be cool to be able to get rid of some of the more consistent stuff like money stress and work stress #so when there are more difficult things to worry about its not pilled up on the stuff thats day to day #i know some people like having alot to do but that is not me #but yeah feel free to make this your dream too i think its ok to just want to exist stress free enough to properly enjoy the mundane #cuz the mundane is pretty neat #and everyone acts like its this terrible thing but it happens everyday #the sun sets the sun rises but i still get excited when i get a good view #want to enjoy that without worrying about everything i have to work for to become successful #i think we are alowed to not want to work for things we dont care about that much just for the bere minimum of existence #would be totally diffrent if it got u up there but #it doesnt? #but im totally chill if giving like 25%-50% gave me just enough #not saying that would be how much i care just now much energy i give #and honestly alot of work can come out of that much energy #giving your 100% is stupid and uderrated and your 100% will become worse and worse #ofc still fine to do it but all the time is crazy people still gotta use some of that energy to live life outside of the hustle #offical hustle hate post

[depoteka]

my visual imagination isn't the best so my dreams are kind of foggy but sometimes in the middle of the day i remember the vibe of a dream i had months or even years ago and i so desperately want to go back to that dream

#it's usually very random and i couldn't even recall the dream on my own #but i get this feeling out of nowhere and want to be back in the dream #mind you the dreams aren't even crazy fun or anything like that #they're the most mundane dreams like going somewhere by train in the middle of summer #but the vibe is so alluring #maybe it's my body's way of telling me i should start taking naps #well. that's not happening anytime soon