Can you imagine the crisis of faith that Hob Gadling must’ve had when the reality of his immortality fully sunk in? He’s Catholic; everyone in England in the 1300’s is and even if he’s not fully devout, it’s at least the religion he was raised with, it’s the religion his neighbors and friends practice, it’s deeply rooted in who he is because religion is hard to shake. He definitely thought Dream was the Devil or perhaps even an angel, he probably thought his soul was damned, he might’ve thought he was the second coming of Christ or some kind of prophet of God. And then, once he got over all of that, can you imagine the Catholic guilt ™ that ate at his soul when he realized that he was in love with Dream, who he didn’t fully understand and definitely wasn’t Holy, or maybe he was, but definitely not of the same Divinity that Hob had been raised to worship. Can you imagine his fevered prayers to an Almighty he might not believe in anymore for forgiveness, for absolution for straying so far?
And then, can you imagine a modern-day using that same level of devotion to worship the Lord of Dreams, who has replaced the Lord Almighty in Hob’s mind, in Hob’s prayers, in Hob’s single-minded loyalty
I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.
Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.
So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.
guy who's stuck in a timeloop for so long he stops wanting to leave it. guy who started out trying to escape but slowly grew used to and became comforted by the familiarity of the repeating day. guy who is no longer who he was before the timeloop. guy who is offered a way out and violently refuses it because he can't leave, doesn't want to leave. guy who escapes the timeloop by chance or force or accident and doesn't know how to live anymore. guy who keeps going through motions that don't match the situation and keeps having conversations that aren't actually occurring. guy who panics every time he realizes he can't predict the next instant. guy who left the timeloop but still lives with it.
this literally never stops being funny like dog they made starship troopers with the Baby's First Satire cranked up to 11 and these people are still fucking dumbfounded that the creators don't share their politics
au where everything is the same except mabel and dipper have been going to gravity falls every year before the show takes place since like kindergarten.
its a pretty simple premise that derives mostly from my desire to explore interpersonal relationships and the ways a place and people can change from a young child’s point of view. it doesn’t change canon that much either, admittedly, i just wanted to draw childhood friends stuff LOL. ill call it uhhhhhhhh every summer au.