#| * dream a little dream of me. musings.

[deoidesign]

Thinking about vampires, death, life, and the space they occupy in between

[thedaintiestdoll]

Please Lord, make me the prettiest girl he's ever seen let me be his angel so serene

[twistedappletree]

I really want to write a short post-canon story about Jin Ling having nightmares from all of the trauma he’s endured, so Lan Sizhui uses his spiritual energy and their connection to guard his dreams one night and ends up guiding Jin Ling through his sleep.

Meanwhile, everything they see in Jin Ling’s dreamscape is lush and vibrant and fantastical without even a hint of anxiety or darkness, and while Jin Ling assumes the entire dream is shaped by Lan Sizhui’s influence, Lan Sizhui is only blocking out Jin Ling’s intrusive thoughts—the rest is all of the light and wonder Jin Ling’s imagination conjures on its own, a glimpse into what his dreams would be like every night if he hadn’t suffered all that he did.

[jazzy-a]

I love imagining Destiny and Dream interactions because Dream is so stern and prodigious, but Destiny is older and stronger than him and does not give a f*ck lol.

Destiny would absolutely say something that could be taken as condescending, or just straight up, point-blank, call Dream on his bullsh*t at some point.

Dream, in all his indignant glory, would be all, "You dare?"

And Destiny would look straight back, like, "You Dare?"

And Dream would immediately backpedal like a kid who just told their mom to shut up.

[iniziare]

Aesthetically, we're going in order. Guizhong was the first within the HYV fandom, and Kafka was the second. I am also desperate to get that woman's voice to settle, which it still hasn't, so this'll kick me in gear for that. I think I also owe the most from her. So let's start the Kafka era, especially as the update will draw me back into HSR for a short bit.

And in honor of her, I need Abel Korzeniowski to stop giving me perfect instrumentals for her.

[suddencolds]

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[princeofhags]

dear lord do i have a type (evil)

[lover-cook]

Sometimes I forget how evident it is the types of characters I gravitate towards f/o wise like. Romantic, Platonic, Familial, no matter what their are certain characters I tend to feel that connection with that tend to have a visualization or connection to one of four things You've got The Sun/Day - Sun, Gojo, Jackie, Nemona, Astrid, Luffy, Shanks, Wukong, Mari The Moon/Night/Stars - Moondrop, Cassandra, Howl, Stardust Cookie, Moonlight Cookie, Stardust Cookie, Luna, Nebula, Carol, Jim, Arvin, Silver, Giovanni, Mihawk The Fire - Sanji, Red Son, Axel, Capsaicin Cookie, Ember, Mei, Ace, Toriel, Asgore The Neurodiverce - Axel, N, Metal Sonic, Thistle Whistle, Link, Robin, Hifumi, Penny, Tails, Sunny/Omori, Mihawk

Like. I can't complain but it's kind of funny how frequently these kinds of characters are ones I look at and have interest in sknglkndsk

[emmetrain]

OOC;; ALSO SHAKING THE DASH-- There will be a small wedding event for Emmet and Dulse ( shepherd-tothestars  ) held on Discord soon :3c Emmet would invite anyone and everyone, especially his friends but straight-up strangers too, so if we are mutuals, please save the hypothetical date! :D

Emmet will be holding small booths to hand wedding gifts to the guests, and there will be random events that will excite and definitely not worry any muses :3c Details will be coming soon.

[pearlescent-princess]

I had the worst time settling down last night. I don't know why it was so difficult, but I suppose I can guess a few things since I did the equivalent of kicking up magical dirt in my home. I made an anklet last night to help sleep and aid other magic stuff. I think I'll keep using it.

Otherwise, I did have a Strider dream even if he had to help me fall asleep in my restless state. The dream itself is hard to fully recall but I will try.

The beginning is difficult. It gets hard to grasp. But somewhere along the lines I ended up at my default dreamscape of my relative's home. Strider was there and he was watching over this group of kids. I went up to him and told "hey if you needed help, you coulda woke me up. You don't need to guard me by always letting me rest while you do everything." He let out a sigh. I think the dream did an internal mirroring thing it shouldn't have because it acted too much like an artifcially generated image, unstable and too many items in it. We picked up bubble blowers before some ghastly winds came.

The part didn't last long. I ended up with my mom at this antique fair. Something that was in town. One of the shops had these.. paintings. The best I can say is they were in Vetyr's style, but of figures from my othercrowd. I wanted a 100 dollar tapestry of a pink hand touching a purple one (they were almost palm to palm) with a purple planet with a ring disc around it. It had a quote on it that said, "Wherever you are, we're connected." I didn't think much of it as I looked at other items. Small figurines, pins, and trinket trays.

The store on the right side of the building had music going on. It was more antiques. But the song was "Intertwined" by Steam Powered Giraffe. I thought it was odd because I didn't expect to hear that song playing there. I recognized the bass of Zer0 and went "ohh this was the latest album" (latest being relative here). They weren't there as I peeked in. I ended up leaving with my mom and woke.

[prebeat]

Smoking the Bible by Chris Albani

[girlfox]

kaeri pls come back to us

DFSKJGDFSGDSFG ... !! i'm slowly trying to come back ... life is such a struggle ... qq thank you for waiting for me. ;v;

edit: wait i thought this was for my paletterph side blog when i answered it ... me in shock that someone is reaching out to me on ahri ... !!

[alastors-radioshow]

@radicheart​ has made a deal with The Radio Demon

“How do you take your tea, dear? I did not expect you to come a-calling, so I am awfully unprepared, I am afraid~”

[nightmarecountry]

Dream doesn't hesitate as he reaches out to touch the Corinthian, sharpening the angle of its jaw with a whisper of sand in the air and the faintest touch of cold fingertips against the idea of bone under flesh.

It looks... better -- still not quite right, far from it, but masterpieces take time. Dream will get there, as he does with all of his creations. Anything less than perfect is an abomination, fit only to be consigned once more to the sand that makes up the Shores. The Corinthian will be perfect, or Dream will erase it and start again.

He withdraws his hand and arches an eyebrow, gesturing impatiently at the nightmare. "You were saying?"

(don't perceive me. i'm not Officially writing dream but. gesturing vaguely.)

The Corinthian doesn't shy from his hand, but he doesn't lean into it either, doesn't chase the touch like he had in the beginning. Whether he shies or leans in makes no difference: Dream will adjust him to his liking either way. The word for what he's feeling is annoyance, he thinks, with a guilty kind of thrill. Or exasperation. Or why am I not to your liking yet? Or why do you speak to me like you always have somewhere better to be? But he knows the penalty for disobeying Dream, and the Corinthian--above all things, even his hunger and his pride--does not wish to be a disappointment.

So he stays still. He lets Dream change him again (as if he could do anything about it) and hopes it's purely aesthetic, that it's not something he'll miss. He turns over in his head the idea of saying something bitter and petulant, knowing he can't, and stares into Dream's fathomless eyes as his jaw shifts.

Dream always seems to look through him, he thinks.

Then he worries that Dream can see his thoughts, and his teeth snap shut to look away from him.

"You were saying?"

Does it matter? the Corinthian thinks, then feels guilty all over again for thinking it, and then mostly just annoyed at feeling guilty. Maybe he does need to be adjusted, if he's thinking like this--

--but, no. He performs his function just fine, better than fine. He's perfect. Almost.

"I... was going to ask you if I was complete yet," He remembers being made with a smile, a trio of them, and mimics the expression he thinks he's supposed to have. Looking sullen doesn't suit him. "But I suppose I have my answer... lord shaper."

Without really thinking about it, he touches where Dream's fingers had been, then experimentally licks his own fingertips with an ocular tongue.

Nothing. Disappointingly, he only tastes himself.

[theajaheira]

sometimes i have a lot of trouble with the whole "biracial nonbinary lesbian who has a brain that Thinks Different" thing because it can be incredibly horribly isolating, but SOMETIMES (read: especially lately) i get this incredible high from being the specialest girl in the world and knowing with conviction that there is literally no one else on the planet like me. only ONE celia!!!!! can't find celia anywhere else :)

[acrylic-reverie]

💭 + whichhhh of your muses are musically talented? Whether it be playing an instrument or singing? (Hello! ^^)

💭 Musical Talent | Headcanons Meme

Hi! Thank you for the ask, and thank you for reaching out. ♡ The last few days have been busy so sorry for the late reply 🫶 In order of most to least musically talented, here are a couple of headcanons surrounding my characters' relationships/experiences with music! (Headcanons may vary & change in different AUs, but these ones apply to MOST versions of my characters.)

DSMP

George

George is usually the most musically talented of all my characters. They're incredibly experienced on the piano; you could offer them a piece of music that they've never seen before and they'd be able to read and play it with little practice, if any at all. More often than not, they're the display child of their family, hence their many capabilities such as instrumentation -- their piano-playing was just another way to show them off. They may be good at it, but they don't truly enjoy it, and it isn't a talent they like to flaunt when all it does is resurface uncomfortable memories. But the memories play an important part in the way that they play, too. No matter how much they loathe it, when there is such raw and miserable emotion coursing through them when they play, it makes their music sound all the better. They despise the piano.

Though sometimes, it feels freeing. To play out of his own free will instead of being forced into it.

That said, their relationship with music hasn't completely fallen apart! While picking up the drums was supposed to be out of spite, they quickly fell in love with it. George isn't as good on the drums as they are with a keyboard, especially as they have less time to practice what with how busy they've been getting as they've grown, but they certainly enjoy it more. There may be some mistakes here and there and the lack of perfection can be frustrating, but they're learning quickly!

Singing is something that they like to do privately. It's more of a hobby than something they like to properly practice, so they don't like singing in front of other people or even hinting towards the fact that they like to sing. However, working on their breath control led them to finding and testing out their now favourite instrument, the ocarina. It gives way for a lot of creative freedom because it isn't particularly popular, and it's difficult to find sheet music for it. It started George's spiral into writing music for themself (mostly for piece on the ocarina, but sometimes piano, too) and learning how to read music for other instruments that they don't play just for the fun of it!

Karl

Karl is a little all over the place with vir musical interest. Ve's the type of person to seemingly know how to play every instrument you've ever heard of; even the ones you probably haven't heard of. You'd think ve must have some sort of secret, hidden stash of instruments that ve messes with in vir free time, but ve doesn't actually own any other than a keyboard. That won't stop vir from trying to get vir hands on a friend's guitar just to play a song because ve feels like it, nor will it stop vir little remarks of, "*I think I still remember how to play that,*" when happening to spot an unusual or uncommon instrument. It's absent-minded, really, though it may come off as bragging sometimes.

Admittedly, they can only play basic songs with almost all of these instruments that they claim to know how to use. Maybe they can only really play Twinkle Twinkle with a harp, but they're sure it still counts, at least a little bit. They may not be perfect with every instrument, but it's difficult to pick just one to focus on when he impulsively changes his mind at the flip of a switch. Plus, Karl can't read sheet music, so 'learning' how to play instruments typically consists of fucking around until he finds the right notes and memorises it. It makes the process all the longer -- no wonder he gets bored and moves on so quickly.

Sam

Quite some time ago, Sam used to play the violin. It has been a while since then and although it claims to remember how to play it perfectly, it's pretty likely that a few years of separation from its instrument may have taken a toll on how well it plays. The thought of it does happen to discourage it from picking up its violin again, only extending the time it has spent away from playing. Aside from that, Sam is another singer with one of the better voices of all my characters. It has quite the range, and while it can reach notes high enough to be somewhere around the lower end of a Tenor voice type, it sings more comfortably as a Bass. Sam doesn't sing often; it's an unintentional hidden talent. The kind of thing that it'd never speak about unless specifically asked about it. Not even in passing conversation, or if somehow reminded of it. Getting roped into performing on the spot isn't exactly appealing.

Dream

Dream's interest for instruments doesn't run so deep. He's a busy person! He hasn't exactly had the time to sit down and dedicate his already thinning time to learning how to pluck strings the right way, or how to pair the right notes together to make a chord. Once upon a time, he found the idea of playing guitar intriguing and spent a little bit of time trying to learn. Being someone that typically likes to travel and adventure a lot, having a portable instrument seemed like a nice addition at the time. Maybe it was only a fantasy, to think about playing songs around a campfire, or filling a silent forest with plucked strings and strummed chords. Now, xe can only really remember the basics. Maybe a song or two if muscle memory can recall it.

While xe may not have much experience with an instrument, Dream has taken a liking to singing lately. It isn't something xe likes to brag about, although xe isn't shy about it either. There's definitely certain genres and areas that xyr voice fits better, given that xyr pitch range isn't too broad, but seeing as it's almost becoming a hobby... xe might start taking it seriously! The practical aspect, at least, not so much the theory. Ever since discovering his interest in singing, he's also become a little bit of a lyricist. His lyrics are something he considers to be more private, though.

Velvet

Since he was young, Velvet has taken and only recently stopped taking guitar lessons. His guitar and the music he plays with it is extremely meaningful to him; not being particularly well-off meant that he didn't have a lot of opportunities for privileges like playing music. As a child, his parents scrounging up enough to get him into lessons and, eventually, his own guitar almost seemed too good to be true. Ever since, it has been an interest rooted so deeply that he doubts he could ever fall out of love with his instrument. But sometimes, he dreads to think that he isn't very good at it. Something about reading the sheet music doesn't quite compute in his mind and he struggles to read it fluently, but given a little time and dedication, he can manage. Learning how to play new songs takes time, probably more time than it should for most other people, but he wouldn't dare give up something so important just because he's a little slower than everyone else.

Oeca

Oeca has absolutely no musical talent whatsoever. His musical knowledge is so poor that you'd think he's never seen nor handled an instrument in his life, and he doesn't have nearly enough voice control to try singing. It's almost to the point of others being unable to decipher what song he's humming unless you happen to recognise the (slightly off-beat) rhythm. Music has never really interested him. He finds it tedious to learn and memorise the way an instrument works and how to read its music; as I'm sure you can tell, Oeca isn't a patient person. One of the main reasons he finds it so frustrating is because he has no sense of tempo due to his impatience.

He might even be a little tone-deaf. Oeca struggles to differentiate pitches and is pretty much incapable of matching the pitch of a note when he's given one. It's one of the main reasons for his impatience with music; he just doesn't understand what he's doing wrong, when it doesn't sound wrong to him. He's very unaware of the fact that he's tone-deaf and just figures that music is unnecessarily difficult or meant for the naturally gifted. But that doesn't mean he doesn't indulge in listening every now and then. He likes music, he just doesn't like making it.

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Finley

Finley is a bit of a complicated case. Given that he has lived underwater for the majority of his life, he hasn't had access to human instruments -- not that they would work underwater, anyway. Woodwind and brass instruments wouldn't make a very appealing sound as soon as they get clogged with water, while strings and percussions would be dampened by the water. Not that it matters; he isn't interested in human trash that litters the ocean, anyway, even if it's something as interesting as an instrument.

That doesn't mean he has no musical talent whatsoever, though. There are alternatives underwater. It's very likely that Finley took up some sort of instrument created by his people, but after the presumed extinction of his kind, he doesn't like to talk about the past and that includes the culture. Any questions about his musical background will be shut down immediately... which does insinuate that he has something hidden, though he never intends to share it.

Emery

Emery is similar to Karl, in the way that they took it upon themself to learn how to play every instrument within their reach. Indulging in both the common and the unheard of, just to broaden their knowledge for the sake of having options for composition. They've always been enthusiastic about taking to the stage, particularly so at a younger age, and found an interest in the different sounds that instruments can produce because they wanted to create a piece for themself. A themesong, if you will. Some sort of riff or leitmotif that would play whenever they're introduced onto the stage. If people are going to recognise them through a sound cue, they'd prefer it was one of their own! The only instruments that Emery tends to steer away from are woodwind and brass instruments. Their breath control isn't something to brag about and they prefer the sound of strings, anyway.