#DreamStrider

[dreamstriderart]

There is something funny about BG3 fanfictions that I’ve seen of Tav sketching out Astarion, and Astarion not realizing that it is him.

Because Gale is like right there and can no doubt make an illusory image of Astarion. He made one of Mystra, there’s no way he can’t do it for someone in camp.

That being said, I like to think that he is keeping it to himself because frankly Astarion gets on his nerves.

[motivate4k]

Unleash Your Inner Champion 💪

[bladxbornx]

"Still amazed at last night's haul."

He says, though the bandages covering some minor cuts and scratches tells a different story.

"Well I'm still amazed how reckless you can be, Mister 'I have a contingency plan for almost everyone in Gensokyo'."

"How do you think I can afford to be reckless in the first place."

[ghoulsbeard]

I always forget sharp knuckles does not like wizards.. why is she making an exception for erandur you may well ask…well she didnt realize he was wizardy until she was helping him &then it was too late… she stews around in dawnstar grumbling over the fact that she’s accidentally befriended a wizard. but if you ask her she will insist he’s a priest and then pretend she doesn’t hear anything else you’re saying on the subject

[badarchitectrecords]

Check out this pleasant groove  and music video by Jack Wakeman & The Dreamstriders. Love: The Twilight Zone - JW&TD (Brookwood footage)

[septicskeever]

I've been meaning to give 'Casimir' a design for the longest time but ya boy hates not having a cannon thing to roll off of 😭 I will get to it though because I simply have to.

[warcraftconceptart]

Ryn Dreamstrider Artist: James Brady World of Warcraft TCG: Heroes of Azeroth (2006)

[flycasual]

This week Sujamma wants to hear all about your big ideas. What’s a new story idea or OC idea you have? Maybe you haven’t fleshed it out yet - this is a great opportunity!

Thank you @sulphuricgrin for the tag!

no pressure tags: @critter-in-skyrim @crynwr-drwg @eatthatsweetroll

Not a new idea, but a roleplay plan I've returned to fleshing out before we actually get to it, and a lot of it is going to be memories replaying so I've been pre-writing them (or re-writing the ones that are from ESO years ago and structuring them better for Not MMO RP)

Scene 1

The Dreamstride opened and spread before them. Expansive. Empty, yet filled with a thick haze that made one feel crowded. Claustrophobic. As their focus adjusted and oriented itself to Oblivion that haze began to shift and swirl, pulling into little twisters that spun around them and prepared to set the scene. The landscape of nothing shifted around them, rushed toward them, until they were surrounded by an after image of what appeared to be a dingy little shack in what could only have been the slums of Wayrest. In the corner on the floor of the single room was a bed, if it could be called such, and on it the hazy twisters began to take on shape. Form. Shades. Echoes of what once was. 

Across the moth-eaten mattress lay the shade of a woman, dulling at the edges. Weak and sick. Fading. Curled up in her arms and half laying across her chest was the shape of a young girl, no more than six years old. “My girl...” The woman smoothed her hand over the child’s head, but the motion was brief. She lacked the energy for much more. “My little girl. L-look at me… Phora…”

The girl lifted her head from her mother’s chest, and the woman let her hand slide to cup her cheek. She smiled, weakly. “You have to… stay safe, hmm?” The mother’s voice was soft, barely above a whisper, yet it echoed around them. “Survive. For me… Promise me–” Her voice cracked, and the girl, Phora, nodded, sniffling. Her mother, hand trembling, brushed her hair back from her face. “I’ll always… be with–” she wheezed, breath ragged and rattling in her chest. “I lo–” she swallowed, and tried to catch her breath. She just needed to catch her breath. “I-I love…” her voice trailed off into silence and, slowly, her hand slipped from Phora’s little face. “Momma?” The tiny voice, so young, finally rang out around them. Her mother did not reply, only went slack on the mattress, head lolling to the side. She breathed no more. Did not again look at her child. Little Phora’s breath hitched and her tiny body, curled back over her mother’s chest, shook with sobs.

Scene 2 - TW for suicidal ideation

Phora stood, dejected, before a glowering Altmer woman in armor. The halls in which they stood were grand, tall, and unfamiliar: The manor that she had once been spirited away to. A hostile environment she had tried so hard to twist herself to fit, to find use for. “If you are so useful,” the elven figure demanded, “why are half of my brothers and sisters either butchered, or gone? Why are you still alive?” She asked venomously. “I don’t know.” Phora answered, staring blankly at the floor. “You caused all of this. You alone. You should make amends. Perhaps by leaving the same way your cultist friend did. Or you could hurl yourself from the tallest tower here.” The woman spat. “She didn’t want me to leave.” Phora argued hollowly. “I wasn’t allowed to.” “Then surely you ought to take your own life.” The elf’s icy tone dripped with cold hatred. “No one would care. No one.” She spun on her heel and marched away, leaving Phora where she stood. The girl sank and curled in on herself, tucking her knees to her chest, then the scene shifted.

Not inside the grand manor, but out along the walls. A tower. The tallest one there. The shade in Phora’s shape inched toward the edge, leaned forward to peek down at the long drop below. She stood for a long while, crept forward until her toes hung over the side and a twitch might have sent her hurtling to her death. She took a deep, shuddering breath, whispered, “I want to go home…” and carefully backed away.

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I have muuuultiple more like this that I'm working on and I'm trying to figure out like what precisely I want them to have to do to rescue Phora, cause she got her dumb ass stuck in Nightmare Hell. A couple more scenes from old RP I'm going to re-write for this, and at least one more from her very young childhood I need to create. Probably going to make Forvyth fight an Omen that's disguised itself as his wife lmao

[felmire-echo]

Soulbound Dreamstriders

A Valentine's Day drawing for @princessehistoire of the boys who started everything. The redhead, Aidan, belongs to her. Akira is mine.

[dangorabbit08]

A MuNezu thought in my KokuAoi fic? *le gasp*

Special thanks to dreamstrider on twt for this idea!

Link to their tweet:

https://x.com/Midnightshade/status/1894474590216216717

Anyway there is MuNezu in my fic but its a case of: its background and not realized until a LOT later

But basically using this idea: when Nezuko is captured and taken to a house there's a massive fight. Nezuko thought it was a normal fight. Muzan took it well before as a courting ritual. Thus two different reasons for the fight

Nezuko is fighting to get away

Muzan is fighting to claim Nezuko

It was a bloody conflict. Nezuko not healing because of her focus on the fight to escape. Muzan to honor demonic courting rituals. He knew he would win in the end though. It was nothing to him, he even held back

By the end of course Muzan wins and essentially claims Nezuko. He does so by quintessentially crushing her head. She heals of course and concedes as shes in too much pain. She didn't become aware of what was going on until Muzan pried Nezuko's clothes off her

More to be expanded upon but yeah this is an idea for sure!

Have a good day/night!

[morttodea]

I like to think Rethzalan gives titles to peeps in her fog or peeps she's on good terms with

Onna = dreamstrider Une = acrid-inferno Dossi = snowy-strid Barbor = charred corpse (it sounds derogatory but it isn't… at times)

it usually makes up two of their elements into one title

[dreamstriderart]

I find it incredibly funny that most of the Tav BG3 art that I have seen have Tav vibing or being lovey-dovey with some of the game characters.

Meanwhile, I exist with my Tav, Elias, throwing hands with both most the party; holds Astarion at knife point and fully believing that Gale is some sort of con man. (This is early act1 mind you)

[bladxbornx]

"Hm...yeah, just like I thought..."

The results of multiple tests are strewn over the table, a mix of the medical and biological sciences as well as esoteric spiritual and arcane methods and their results. And they're all pointing to one fact...

"So we really have been aging more slowly."

"Makes sense, really. Our 'wuxia lite' lifestyle would naturally have us cultivating our chi to some extent. It'd be unusual to not see some of the same effects."

"But what do we do now? And later when our time is supposed to be up? I doubt the yama wants more earthbound hermits running around."

"Do what we do best, Holly."

"You haven't thought this through at all, have you."

"Give me a break, it's not every day I have to come up with a solid plan decades in advance. So many things can change in that time."

[moonlit-grove]

Regarding the last update about Aurene. I'm pondering it in Dragon of Time. It does prove that there is a difference between Aurene's foresight and Nykai's though. Hers was tied to the dragon cycle. His is just part of his abilities as a dragon of time.

I'm also pretty sure that Vlast agrees to watch over his sister while she rests. She is the filter, that is still her purpose. But Vlast and Nykai... they were never planned for. They are Elder Dragons, but they weren't part of the plan. They have to figure out their place in the world on their own.

On the bright side, while Aurene rests, Nykai and Vlast are awake. They're able to help and guide things. And they can delve into a dreamstride to speak with Aurene. So she's never too far... Cor can still speak with her, at least through a messenger.

[programgamer]

Fact 1: Nocturnal, the Daedric prince of darkness and of the night, is the most attuned to the dreamstride and her appearance remains unknown

Fact 2: Princess Luna, co-ruler of Equestria, has dominion over the night and can enter her subjects’ dreams at will

Synthesis: It is entirely plausible that Nocturnal’s true appearance is that of Princess Luna from MLP:FiM

[etrangersvoyageant]

A.L.I.S.O.N - Dreamstride

French chillwave (remember when that tag surfaced? feels like a century) to advance into sunnier days and hopefully calmer nights.