#so im just gonna grind gems

[reirei404]

Holding the URGE to do a ten pull and get Ruggie's new year card.... I really wanna save for Cater's birthday cuz his SSRs are NEVER kind to me. At all....

Good thing Cater and Vil came home in one 10 pull <3

THE WAY CATER CAME HOME TWICE AUGHHH only his SRs love me.... 😔😔😔

#when i get u cater cater wHEN I GET U #got like two 10 pull keys and 14 single pull keys so liek #ack #missed idia's bday to get the ten keys ueueueue #so im just gonna grind gems #twst #cater diamond #vil schoenheit #reirei speaks

[solemntitty]

hey

12 hours until venti

#jamie has made a statement #im gonna go absolutely ham tonight grinding primos if i dont get him with the gems ive saved #i am willing to spend. $10 for him #but only if i cannot grind enough in time!!! #tbt me spending $40 for kazuha like a dumbass (but was worth it) #genshit blogging #other than him ive never spent for one character #just the welkin pass but mine expired so now im back to the f2p me

[sunspinecity]

i havent wanted to comment on the sandsurge drama bc i think it's insane but like. anyone who says that staff "isn't very communicative" has never played another petsite in their life. Turn back time spend 3 years on neopets and then we'll talk about communication bro..

like there is literally an entire Dev Status Sidebar that shows you what they're saying about whats going on that they update pretty regularly and they do dev updates + stay in contact with their playerbase and closely watch their reactions to updates to see where they messed up and what can be improved on. Like what on planet earth are you talking about. genuinely

the only agreement i will give to communication issue is that the wording on aeq's post regarding the fact that it would be a gem breed took me 7 tries and i still dont get it bc it reads to me as "2nd breed will be treasure, 3rd will be gems"?? which is obv not true. I genuinely can't see what ppl mean by this being a confirmation. but thats not a communication issue it is a Confusing Wording issue. don't complain about communication unless you've played literally any other petsite bc i guarantee you this level of transparency and care you will find in very few other places.

#and before anyone thinks im sucking up to staff. i dont like staff. i will never let myself have anything more than #respect for people i dont know on a day to day basis. they run a company. not my friends. esp not after how the eye genes were treated #fr #flight rising #chimechatter #this is the only thing ill be saying on this or reblogging btw i just got irritated<3 #my only opinions on every other issue ppl have is 1. i think modern gem breeds should be 1200 and ancients should be 600g #i cant put apparel on them why thr hell am i paying yhat much. i have to pay 1kg and then a shitton for a skin if i want one and then pay fo #r gem genes too can you get real with me. but its fine i can grind bc if im not gonna pay up im gonna god damn do it right #its literally fine. and 2. was initially disappointed we didnt get at least an egg bc i love getting eggs but w/e ill jus grind. 2 weeks of #g&g gets u a breed change scroll lmao its whatecer #they gotta make money. it is what it is. i use adblocker because the changing ads are distracting n give me a headache #so i better either put my money where my mouth is or grind it out yk. Whateval #such a nothing burger drama honestly

[blondieeu]

resentment. connie s.

connie who’s been fluent in spanish his whole life, his first language actually decides to teach you the language because regardless if you’re just two collage kids in love, when you get married he wants your kids first language to be spanish too.

so he takes the time out his day to really sit with you in the lonely campus library and explain it with love because it’s something he really really wants with you.

“tú eres means you are, yo soy is i am. you get it? so let me give you an example, tú eres muy artística y bonita. you understand?”

“mmhm”

“why can’t you pay attention mama what’s wrong?”

you nod in a daze, barely even all the way there with the back of your pen almost stuck between your lips, eyes on his pretty brown ones. honestly, constance springer was the hottest man alive when he spoke spanish.

connie snapped an impatient finger in your face as he tried to read your expression, pulling you closer to him on the library booth chair so he could understand you better.

“nun, jus can’t focus well connie”

he smacked his teeth and looked at you with an eyebrow up, the one that he had slit. constance kinda had a stink expression.

“you know what i’m sayin’ when im doggin’ yo shit inna nother language, so what’s the difference?”

you felt yourself get quiet and your body get a little hotter while you sat next to him, starting to fan yourself with your acrylics.

“¿eso es lo que te ayudará a concentrarte, bebé?” (is that what’s gonna help you focus baby?)

he whispered, pulling your body effortlessly onto him with tattooed arms and hands to put you into a straddle form. he let your hips rock back and forth over his pants, a slow but noticeable motion that definitely displayed how you felt in the moment.

“you wan’ do this here, really?”

you rubbed on his shoulders, feeling that damn compression shirt get in the way of gazing at your man’s tatted chest, so you slid your hands down to the hem of said shirt and worked it up his stomach.

“mmm, that’s not true connie..i can focus.”

connie smiled a wicked smile, tooth gems sparkling in the dim light. and he pushed all your hair to the side so he could whisper into your ear better.

“si eso no es cierto?” (yea that’s not true?)

connie left wet kisses on your neck. his hands rubbed at your ass before sliding under your shirt and up your back, touching at your bra strap like he was bout to take it off.

“ s’ not connie. don’t be mean..”

he chuckled wrapping his arms around your waist to feel you grind down on him a little harder, groaning a bit and silently grateful the nobody really used the library on campus.. and it was pretty late so nobody was gonna come.

“you realize that was in spanish right mama?”

blondieeu xx

#blondieeu #smut #connie x black reader #connie springer smut #connie springer #eren aot #aot fanart #levi aot #aot #aot smut #aot x reader #levi ackerman #attack on titan #attack on titan fanart #shingeki no kyojin #eren yeager #eren yaeger x reader #eren yaegar #eren yaeger imagine #eren yaeger smut #mikasa aot #mikasa ackerman #mikasa x levi #mikasa x reader #mikasa x eren #aot official art #eren #armin #snk official art #armin x reader

[homosexualmother]

ANDDDD IM FINALLY DONE. WOW that only took about 5 hours out of my life ! But finally done with drifting kelp’s reference oh my god I’m gonna explode

quick lore under cut!

her lore is basically that she is a subspecies apex predator kind of mermaid that got brought into tearcrown after a few soldiers found her tanged in some kelp in the outskirts of tearcrown . She was promptly brought in and given a home within tearcrown despite her… non-conventional looks. She is entirely blind and her eyes are sensitive to what little light she can see, so she wears a blindfold made from kelp to regulate herself. During her prime she worked as a mailman for tearcrown, announcing important news and mailing gifts that sorta thing . She also had a thing for mystic opal cookie, and she also served specifically as the gem mermaid’s maid. (They’re just pining lesbians leave them be)

however, when white pearl becomes black pearl and the duskgloom sea is formed, drifting kelp cannot keep up with the other mermaids and is left behind in the duskgloom sea. She had to adapt to the now eerily quiet waters along with the threat of black pearl, so drifting kelp has changed quite a lot since her time in what was tearcrown

Nowadays, she scavenges whatever black pearl remains of her meals and hides at the bottom of the sea, searching for remnants of her life and perhaps something to eat thats alive for once

I DO have a post-tearcrown design for her but I haven’t had the time to draw it at all :( I’ll try to draw it at some point though since I’m a bit on a drifting kelp grind rn

#Cookie run #cookie run kingdom #cookie run oc #Cookie run kingdom oc #original character #Oc #drifting kelp cookie #My art #chris's silly shenangians

[gemwolfz]

good morning chat (<- it's 12:30 pm) its time for a GEM FROG WATCHPOST (instead of putting it in the bg while i draw because ive accepted i cant draw and read at the same time)

btw my very legal straming site doesnt have episode descriptions and no way im remembering an episode thats been mentioned by number so i have no idea what im getting into. also im setting a timer to truly see how long my autistic ass can stretch a 15 minute episode. ok lets get started :)

okay first of all intro i havent seen yet lets GOOOO. PURURU SIGHTING IN THERE HEY GIRL!! i actually need to watch some eps with pururu in em btw. like hey show her to me. anyway good intro lots of guys spotted :)

^ CATEGORY 5 DORORO EVENT HI. experiencing the horrors as usual i see

i see so this is what we're doing today huh. do you intend to rip my heart out.

im sorry they have a fucking invasion planning chore wheel? thats really funny

OH IT'S THIS ONE HUH. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING HUH (lovingly)

wcdonalds btw. sorry sorry wcdonalds cracks me up every time in any show

^^ his ass did NOT process what was just said!!!

he had it right the first several times cmon man.

hes taking this in stride huh. even in category 5 THE LORE situations the silly grind doesnt stop

why is zeroro resonance so fucking stupid btw. sorry man.

screenshot that speaks for itself man

somehow i dont think "my alien ninja partner is in serious trouble i need to leave immediately" will be counted as an excused absence by your teachers but after scaling a building in a single leap i dont think anybodys gonna question you. i love you koyuki

[this image set broke in the editor but it included keroro and tamama calling zeroro SO MEAN for not explaining his plan to them] frankly i respect keroros unwillingness to treat situations with the proper gravity because i do the same thing king

his ass does not care

he changed his mind something is terribly wrong

okay lets be real here the platoon would NOT have found him there. if he hadn't been able to contact koyuki he'd have been fucked. badly. something something being saved again by the person who showed you the warmth and beauty the planet has to offer

literally yeah the fate of the planet is held by natsumi being able to throw frogs like splat balls. pov youre giroro and the number one person standing between you guys and invasion is decidedly the girl who is constantly personally stopping you from blowing shit up. this is a personal attack

important and relevant but also im sorry "brat" is incredibly funny word choice coming from tamama

no reaction i can put into words. btw this episode is labelled as a filler episode. just so you know. i just think thats funny. haha so silly

aye.......................................... i would be using more reaction images but i have to prioritize screenshots. anyway god.

they were holding their fucking BREATH. his ass could have died!! badly!!! their deep sigh of relief is not as visible as i'd have hoped but you know. you feel me.

there are reactions i am making that are sound effects i cannot put into words sorry. im better at posting silly nonsense im sure you understand. hell, post horse staring at the ocean MAN again

he goes "i'm sorry about that, everyone!" as if it was fucking nothing. DUDE. This is why you caught that trauma-eating brain parasite because you just act like shit was NOTHING DUDE...

........yea...........................

NO EYECATCH OR ANYTHING? YOURE JUST GONNA TAKE US TO THE NEXT EPISODE? OKAY. OKAY THATS FINE. THAT'S FINE.

gem conclusion:

anyway i spent an hour watching this ten minute episode. sorry for maybe a weak reaction post i need to stir this episode in my head like a soup. thank you plates for your recommendation. join me in the rbs later as i may watch episode B and experience whatever tonal whiplash this episode came with

#sgt frog #keroro gunso #liveblogging #Youtube

[dreamwinged]

soooo today i have to erm. sit through this history class, then go to the sanrio store to hopefully pick up smth from the sakura merch line (almost skipped my class bc im scared it’s gonna sell out since i think todays the first day the location near my school got it and all my friends are talking about it LMFAO but i didn’t skip!!!! hashtag responsible), thennnn im gonna go get some pasta bc Yummy Pasta also ive been having trouble eating lately so im just taking it easy w myself and trying not to backslide . then i have my 5-7pm class which i might skip bc i’m tired we’ll see but then i go home and GRIND GENSHIN bc i m super behind and i need primer gem🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD DAY I HOPEI CAN REMEMBER ALL THIS‼️‼️‼️💯💯💯

#.mei’s chatter ˚༘⋆ ๋࣭ ࣪ ˖ #.unrelated ˚༘⋆ ๋࣭ ࣪ ˖

[jbt7493]

yknow what'd be cute? (dwarf fortress feature) if different... okay this is like my minecraft opinions. Uh if the game had like, ideal cuts for different types of gems so that it knew like, okay, an emerald cut emerald is gonna be better than a tapered baguette cut emerald but a brilliant diamond is better than a table cut diamond.

but first off like the basis you'd use for that is subjective anyway and secondly you dont have control over what type of cut you get so either you'd just be slightly changing the average value of the gemcutting job and adding more variance to it (frustrating if you get the "wrong" cut repeatedly on your expensive gems), you'd make higher skill gemcutters more likely to randomly pick the "right" cut (this would be the reason to do it, since cut gems don't have a quality level so gemcutter skill isnt super meaningful, but then you'd end up with ONLY emerald cut emeralds and it'd make it less fun), or you'd get the ability to pick and then it'd be just as much a case of it being boring that all emeralds are emerald cut instead of having variety with zero upside

it might be neat if in history scholars/gemcutters could discover/invent new gem cuts. i was thinking about how like, scholardwarves can for instance discover the germ theory of disease. but it doesnt seem to have any mechanical impact. it'd be neat if civilizations and scholars discovering new things gradually changed the technology level available to you. but that would be... a whole nother game on top of what is already a hell of a fuckin game. does seem a little silly that a civilization can be largely identical for a thousand years though. i mean its not like human civilization didnt have stagnation periods but in dwarf fortress you can achieve all the criteria that should be necessary to get some technological progress from pretty much any model of history but especially the correct one - enough food that everyone comfortably eats 3 meals a day and the stockpile only grows, big booms in population, people are able to spend time on labor other than engaging in food production and construction, and plenty of incentive for a new technological leap - and you can get scholars discovering new things. but you can't use them. well, obviously its just not a developed feature. but it does seem like the sort of thing that they should want to do eventually; im not sure they do, since i know there's a specifically desired tech level that they see themselves at in terms of development. i mean i guess it's just preferable to keep things available as you add new features instead of adding new features that you need to fuckin grind to get access to.

would also make it annoying to make a new world if you dont enjoy having to not only make a new fort but get the fort to an affluent level and then get a bunch of scholars to jerk off for a while for a *chance* at unlocking the feature you want to use. so yeah this is also a bad feature.

damn, two features thought of in one post and both suck ass i am not good at this

[anony-mouse-writer]

Down With The King!

I will be watching everyone’s povs for this cuz why not. spoilers for the king’s vault on hermitcraft season 9

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- the king issued a challenge to the server. if they managed to beat his impossible vault, he would return the diamonds and resign as king. if they failed, he would be king of the server forever more

- ren: welcome to the vault!

everyone else: booo

ren + co, who have spent a week doing massive grind making this vault: wow such enthusiasm

everyone else: woo

- everyone takes off all their gear. this does mean dwarfpulse is beardless the whole time, which is cursed

- the knights of the square table all watch from little tinted glass tunnels the whole time its fantastic

room one was cub’s parkour and a mob fight. everyone fails the double slime jump

- jevin (dare sticked to be useless) pulls a midnight black cats but the hoglins were all weirdly passive so its fine

- a brief aside with bdubs versus about half the server in pvp

- after bdubs was skain, joe, in chat is all ‘oh no, cleo we better prepare for trouble’ and im so so sad no one made a team rocket joke back

room two was cleo’s explosive game of red light green light.

- doc and etho just fucking cheat at the end and no one stops them

- cleo threw a lever just for fun and jevin got in a huff ‘fine you wanna cheat? we can cheat!’ and then immediately dies and ends up at fucking spawn

- redstone door fails and joe manually has to set it off. this feels right somehow.

- another aside with a worse-for-wear bdubs vs half the server pvp part 2. he’s got a black eye and a missing tooth

room three is scar’s pay to win parkour

- grian, having 3rd life flashbacks: scar put your shirt on

- for a bunch of people bitching sbout being broke they sure are quick to pay to win loll

room four grian: ready for top ten anime betrayals?

- everyone choosing to just skip grian’s room while he tries to convince them that its a bad idea by explaining his fae-ass logic

- grian is so sad that no one trusts him

- everyone goes to fight the king and gets fucking wrecked in a kill box, its incredible

- grian got like half the room out on the first two questions lolll

- ‘if its not lit up, its not scar safe’

- grian: ren had no supervision over my loot table >:)

the final fight was against the knights of the round table in increasingly powerful armor lol

- my first thought was cub was in netherite, but no it was enchanted leather lol. i wonder if it was as good as zed’s

- joe didnt even know he was gonna fight loll

- bdubs was in full diamond fighting a small army in full diamond and this ended exactly as well as you’d expect

- rip doc monster who i think was the only one to actually die in the one on one fights

- bdubs’s vault is may have had a puzzle, but everyone just flipped levers until it opened

results: the diamonds are missing. i saw someone say mumbo stole them and yeah. ill incorporate that into my world view.

- they reskinned snowballs into tomatoes to throw at ren in his cage and im cackling

- everyone: booo hiss

ren: :(

everyone: uhh. sorry

- team effort to take down the afk banner my beloved

- grian asks to take the crastle loll

miscellaneous:

- i was wondering where all the cursed ren heads came from and apparently joe killed him a bunch (source: gem 19)

- soup group’s training montage my beloved. impulse’s mcc audition tape?

#hermitcraft #hermitcraft spoilers #hc9 #i adore this so much #i cant even express that properly #mcyt #op

[loafbud]

OK SO I SLEPT FOR THE REST OF THE DAY BUT IT'S THE HOMIE'S BIRTHDAY TODAY AND I WANT TO DRAW SOME IDIAS FOR TODAY + A BIRTHDAY PIC BUT NOT A LOT COZ I FEEL A CERTAIN TYPE OF WAY LIKE HE BETRAYED ME OR SMTHN COZ HE'S THE ONLY TWST CHARACTER I CARE ABOUT AND YET HE DIDN'T WANNA SHOW UP FOR ME ON HIS BIRTHDAY AFTER 26 PULLS INCLUDING THE TENFOLD KEYS THAT CAME WITH THE BDAY LOGIN BONUS SO I HAVE THE WORST LUCK AND I KNEW THIS WAS GONNA BE A REPEAT OF THE STRUGGLE I HAD WITH GETTING IDIA'S SUITOR SUIT AFTER 64 PULLS WITH 50 OF THOSE PULLS BEING FROM FREE GEMS THRU GRINDING ON MISSIONS BUT THAT'S IN THE PAST BUT NOT COZ IT'S JUST HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF I LOVE IDIA BUT I GUESS IM ONE OF THE ONES THAT'S GOTTA WORK HARD TO ACHIEVE THIS INSTANT-BUT-NOT-SO-INSTANT GRATIFICATION TO SATISFY MY EGO

ok I'll spend the last remaining hours of today to draw this guy 🥺🥺💙

#loafbud struggles™

[llondonfog]

(muffled screaming into my pillow) LILIAAA

After using all 5 10 keys and 300 stones and still not getting his adorable band card I'm gonna cut my losses or else I'll be so screwed for Sebek and Silver's birthdays 😭😭

By Sebek I know I'll have 3 10 keys (Azul, Sebek, monthly reset) and I'll grind gems until then

By Silver, assuming I use all 3, I'll have regained 4 10 keys from birthdays and an additional 2 from the shop (6 total) plus gem grinds

IM JUST SO NERVOUS FOR THEM!! knowing we'll have double pulls for both birthday cards is going to wreck me BUT IT'S NOT AN OPTION TO NOT GET SILVERS BDAY WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT LILIA TAKING CARE OF HIM WHEN HE RAN AWAY

#lettie plays twst #consoling myself miserably over tea #he saw the angst I was writing last night and deliberately decided not to come #djjdskks fair

[jasdiary]

OOOOOOOOOHHHH MY FUCKING GOOOOODDDDDDDDDDD

OHHHHGHGHHH MY GODDDDDDD HOLY SHITTTTTTTTT?:!:!292!39;!4@2$2!:!:$,8:!:&:!;&,!;&;$$:$:$:$:! I OPEN TWST SHAKING AND I CLICK ON ONE OF THE NOTIFS LIKE ISTG IF ITS DEUCE AND HIS FUCKIGN FACE POPS UP IM GONNA CRY REAL TEARS I JUST WANTED TO SLEEEPPPPP,,,,,,I JUST WANT TO GO TO SLEEP,,,,,I NEED HIM I NEED DEUCE SPADE YOU GUYS IT ISNT FUNNY ANYMORE IM TYPING SO FAST MY PHONE IS LAGGING😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 HES JUST SO,,,bsbskdndosbkdHES SO SO CUTE HE LOOKS SO HANDSOME WHAT A HAPPY LITTLE GUY HE IS I WANNA KISS HIM

with my twst luck, i’m not gonna get him :( school had be so stressed i couldn’t grind for gems and keys like last year so if i don’t get him i will shed tears i promise u

#caps #twisted wonderland #twst #deuce spade #DEUCE BRAINROTTTT

[kagender]

actually im just gonna ramble abt my animal jam rare shenanigans that i experienced as a kid because i cant get them off my mind now:

back when i was active and had a membership i would grind the forgotten desert like. every fucking day. usually i would just form parties with random ppl and one fateful day i and a bunch of strangers actually won a black long from it. probably the craziest day of my life

i ended up trading it for a bunch of good longs sometime later though (maybe even on the same day?) one of which i gave to my friend, and another i traded away for some bads/mediums (i specifically wanted a green long iirc. that was MY color even back in the day)

but i still kept one of them to myself. it was a red long iirc. and one fateful day there was a supposed newbie walking around the jaama central asking about rares and how to get them, so i invited them to my den and explained how u could get rares from adventures and rare mondays and in the end i was like. well i have one for u :) and i traded them the fucking long. they instantly did a 180 and revealed themselves to be a burner account of some guy who pretty much just scammed me. but i tried not to be upset n i just thought about how it probably made their day etc. like heh they mustve enjoyed it!

another time some random user barged into my den accussing me of scamming their black long. and it genuinely stressed me out so bad and i didnt know how to get rid of them. i even wrote my friend a jammagram in a panic and bc of that they too came into my den and witnessed the whole thing. i felt defeated enough to just give the user my green long wristbrand (my most prized possession at the time btw..... i refused to trade it away until that moment) and they just. left after that. fucked off completly. and after that my friend and i had a talk bc they wanted to know if i actually scammed that guy.

and my goofiest story is probably when i had the same 2 "buddies" of mine come into my den whenever we were active at the same time just so that they could beg me for my pets. i straight up had to play a bunch of minigames while they were sitting in my den and begging just so i could spend every single gem i got from the games to buy them more pets. it was very stressful and fucking annoying.

and they were never satisfied with what i gave them. in fact i had this one fancy pet that i got from buying membership (it was from a valentines day bundle iirc? a bug or bird or something) and its what they wanted the most. they were always like but ummmmm can i have that pet🥺 and i was actually strong enough to not give in this time. i just got horribly fed up one day so i unbuddied and blocked them. what a relief it was.

moral of the story is that i was pretty fucking stupid...... but thats ok cuz i still am.

#its 3 am and i have classes at 8 but meh #fucking!!!!! ANIMAL JAM.

[twildflower]

Yeahhh i love gambling my savings

Silver wont come so im gonna just guarantee him tmr or smth after i grind enough gems

[chemicalbrew]

I can't believe that Hades is only just now truly running out of steam

#i need crack Ares/Nyx fanfics like yesterday #best long distance relationship in existence /s #that is to say i believe That line has concluded and i am not gonna see any more big-ish storylines #even the ! mark dialogues seem to be repeating though i did get one gem about than's past lol #i do aim to unlock as much stuff as possible but since there's no morsels of characterization to look out for it's just zzz #+ i realised that if i want to unlock the whole sound test (which is really excessive) i will probably have to clear every single bounty #which?? i can do it i just really really don't have to #the titan blood is still useful of course but there's no special dialogue behind it either #other than that and the ONE prophecy i have left there's literally nothing of true substance left #missing that prophecy hurts my inner perfectionist so i guess I'll get it and grind 3k gems at least so the prophecy doesn't go to waste lo #but yeah. it's been ... something #i thought the gem grind would piss me off a little more than it actually does but it's still FUCKING BONKERS #and the funny thing is i can't imagine how much purely situational dialogue i never got to see #i wish i could rummage through the code just for kicks #AND there's also the codex but man. i think all im missing there is the full Erebus/onion entry and one fish i never caught at Chaos #ironically it's the one with the worst rarity... but yeah i think trying to complete it is pointless #zero.txt #hades #i kind of dont want to let go cause its been a great way to just turn your brain off for a while lol and i still love this game in general #but *screams*

[enderwalk]

i may not be in Dream Team Tumblr but i am an average dteam enjoyer speak ur roleswap truth !!!

ANON okay im Going to go insane hold on. I'm spending so long summarizing this so it makes Sense, and you can also send asks to @narcolepticelf too bc this is both of our au <3 And if we're lucky, he's gonna post some art of his GeorgeHD design he drew. BUT this is a long explanation/summary so it'll be under the cut.

TL;DR we swapped George and Dream's lore, so instead of there being DreamXD, we have GeorgeHD. XD is still in this au, along with XE (who is Sapnap’s counterpart god). XD, HD, and XE are guardians of the End, Overworld, and Nether respectively. It's the most self indulgent AU with a loving, obsessive god and his beloved human, but there's also healthy doses of angst sprinkled in so it's not all sweet.

In this AU, George is the power-hungry one who summons what he assumes is just some deity to possess him and grant him with the power to sort of take over. George becomes the vessel for the god of the Overworld, and HD gets to go dormant and sleep while George is granted with the power to do whatever he pleases. HD has no idea what destruction and trauma George causes, and is expelled when George is locked in the prison.

Funny thing, the expulsion causes HD to be weakened and injured - and if the god of the Overworld is injured from it, god help George. HD is sent to the main spawn area and since he’s wildly powered down and hurt, he wanders around until he finds the lights of the castle, and ends up in the Community House, where Dream had been staying since most people don’t bother to hang around there anymore after it got remodeled, which means Dream should be able to have peace and quiet, since he’s stopped involving himself with wars and whatever is happening with L’Manburg/Manberg/NLM at this point - all he knows is that these countries corrupted his friend.

HD walks into the Community House and starts going through chests for anything he can use to heal himself. Dream thinks that HD is George at first, since they look nearly identical. HD manages to sweet-talk Dream into helping him. Whether Dream and George were something, or Dream had feelings for George before all of this is left ambiguous, but it should be noted that Dream slips and calls HD George, and doesn’t exactly consider him his own separate person. And, well, he’s definitely attracted to HD from the get-go. You probably would be, too, if you had an eight foot god calling you moonlight and being all sweet on you.

All HD knows is that Dream is fun to fluster, and he vaguely reminds him of XD. He has no idea how far the similarities run until a few weeks later when he finally convinces Dream to take off his mask.

Dream has two intersecting scars across his face that form an X. XD has two golden scars that match. That's when we get this gem of a scene that Damien wrote:

Gods,he was. He was perfect. Too perfect. The scars intersecting on Dreams face,the mess of freckles framing striking green eyes. It had HD frozen in his tracks. Like he'd seen a ghost. And it was really like he had,reminded all at once of Him. How loving and vibrant and bright and alive he'd been. It hurt worse than anything he could've experienced. Even death would be kinder than to give him this spitting image. Like grinding salt into an open wound after tearing it back open.     

It was like the god physically stopped glowing. The added light from his aura dimming the room as it faded. His eyes went from sparkling bright blue to a darker shade,heartbreak and confusion swirling in his stomach.

"No. You're…perfect. Too perfect."    

At that,a sick twist filled the god's chest, constricting his airways and squeezing his heart. He felt like he was going to explode with emotion,gritting his jaw. This was a joke, wasn't it? XD was playing a joke on him. HDs voice came out strained,taking a step back from Dream. Like he'd been betrayed.

"You-all this time and you were right here? Do you even know- do you know how long I looked? How badly it hurt? Every corner of this realm and the next and you were here? Doing what? Hiding from me? Do you even understand what I would have done for you? The stars I would have hung? The mountains I would have moved? Do you understand this-this heartbreak!? And you've been here this entire time. to what?! Make a mockery of me? Just like always? To isolate and hurt me and- how dare you- how DARE you!"     

The gods voice bounced off the walls as his hurt grew. Consequently he grew taller,stepping towards Dream again with a fury like no other. But when he grabbed his hoodie,tears burning in his eyes,it dawned on him. Not a single trace of God in the man's body. Not an ounce. Just like the realm they were in. Nothing. Like always. But it still hurt,and he couldn't help the tears welling in his eyes.

"You-you-...gods you…"   

HDs grip loosened,the god's fury shrinking along with his height. He came back to a normal size,sinking down to his knees in the process. It would've been a sight to see. His hands trailing meekly down to Dreams pants legs,gripping the clothing as silver tears streamed down his cheeks. He was a mess of emotion,all at once. Overwhelmed and at the man's mercy,slumped into a pathetic little ball at his feet. He was shaking and crying-true genuine raw heartbreak wracking his form.

"You look-exactly like him and I'm- I-"    

HD new what the revolution meant. It meant while XD wasn't here to toy with his heart, it was just further confirmation that he really was gone. And now the mortal he'd grown to love alongside him would probably want him gone too. And even if he didnt,maybe he would stick around till the earth claimed him. And it was something he could hardly stand the thought of. HD hiccuped through his tears,trying to speak.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."

We've written 25k words so far in about a week, and we haven't even introduced XE into the story. It also took 22k words before these idiots even kiss.

And if anyone has any questions, feel free to ask me or @narcolepticelf, because we're both brainrotting over this AU. There's art and playlists to come, and maybe a fic if enough people are interested!

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