#lucid's ramble

[hiemaldesirae]

you knwo what. you know what. i can never fucking escape the game system trope no matter what fandom it is im just gonna play into it now

so actually the original concept for this was isekai where vox ends up getting booted into hell via a universal mishap but i think its funnier like this: where vox dies and since he did technically die for his friends, he ends up ascending to heaven but is greeted by a different angel instead of the seraphims who asks if he'd like a second chance instead

vox says yes thinking he'll just get sent down again and be back w the vees- this does not happen. instead he ends up back at the very first day he fell into hell with a "system" - one that tells him its a "gift" from heaven, no less, thats supposed to guide him through his time in hell to like . minmax his gains + his losses (emotional and material) if that makes sense . so the system walks him through his time in hell but suddenly there seems to be a problem . turns out an unanticipated side effect of the system is that vox has a similar presence to an archangel (the one who Gave him the damn thing) so a lot of people end up assuming hes some kinda fallen angel which makes it like 100% harder for him to go thru life^3

alastor in PARCTICULAR takes a very odd interest in him, wondering and asking if he has wings or if they were "burnt in your fall" meanwhile vox isnt quite sure whether he wants to take the chance to get close to al this time or just leave since deep down he knows itll end badly for him either way. the system makes the choice for him and starts to steer him away from al who in turn becomes even more intrigued by the fallen angel, who for whatever reason he swears feels familiar

[your-dead-european-ancestor]

I love how when you're in small fandoms you follow literally anybody who even mentions something related to said fandom

like,,, it doesn't matter that they're probably 10 or only made posts about characters you hate or has long since moved on from the fandom

idk idk I just find it hilarious how I see the exact 5 people in every notes whenever I check out the tag for the show, movie, book, etc

[intertexts]

oh you wanna think about muse and trickster? yeah? it's been a while since I put a heartbreaking nhw post in your inbox <3 I know u love the prime dehumanization loss of bodily autonomy defenders. << im not even remotely trying to keep the acronym the same anymore. I've lost the plot. ANYWAY

briefly mentioned this before but because I loooove the aesthetic so much I think at least one important muse confrontation should happen in the tricksters city, specifically in the amusement park. make it like a fuckign scooby door episode everything is all abandoned and run down but as the wards are walking down a boardwalk or something all the lights flicker on and some distorted fuckign. carnival music starts playing and they find muse sitting in like. the rebar scaffolding or whatever in the ferris wheel. just like grinning chin in hands kicking his feet watching them. this image is so clear in my mind. some creep shit !!!! also its like when they first go to the spirit world to get tide back from.mal and end up in the amusement park. except ashe isn't with them this time

uhhhhhh also thinking about. downtime. when muse isn't out being destructive and causing chaos for funsies. like... does he have a bedroom????? does he eat does he sleep??? idfk !!!! I would assume he has to or else he'd fucking die but !!!! man the trickster is so far gone I don't think he even realizes his puppets are real people anymore. that's a fun little doll for him to play dressup with. literally never going 2 get the image of him braiding muses hair and like. putting makeup on him and dressing him in fancy little outfits out of my mind. making myself ILL. smile! good evening I'm gently placing the knife box in your in. << as I was going to type inbox I accidentally typed out inventory. yknow what I'm keeping it. knife box directly into your inventory. watch out they're RUSTY

GOD. THANKS FOR THE KNIFE BOX MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! knife box directly in my inventory!!! u know what this means is that now i can use them :3 <- has been drawing wards stuff abt this for the past two hours ^_^

this is so fucking good though yeahhh.... i love creepy carnival shit so much. he trickster probably Knows it's very over the top and horror movie creepy and just a little absurd. he's so fucking fun 2 think abt since he's literally always doing shit simply because it is funny to him. we can swing a trickster justification for anything probably. i bet he fucking saw traps people!! anyway. ashe isn't with them this time. except..... well. he kind of is. :(

I HAVE ALSO BEEN THINKING ABT DOWNTIME. FREQUENTLY. i guess. the answer to this is he lives however the trickster&co does. the image of him coming back in his fancy intricate little outfits to some disgusting nasty bloody industrial warehouse where they're posted up & always being this very jarring contrast to the gore and violence is really good. the image of him having a perfect doll bedroom and going through a fancy little routine half the nights when the trickster is in a good mood or feeling it & just. getting thrown on the bed & the door locked to pass out for a couple hours whenever he forgets or is busy is also really good. literally anything we do to muse makes me feel some kind of way man. i also have had the extremely vivid image of the trickster braiding his hair & chatting about all kinds of horrific things excited sleepover style to muse who is just. Visibly Not There in my head for so long. not even like he has to touch him, he could be making him do all these things for himself! he's literally controlling him! he just does it for fun!!!

anyway i think post-muse ashe should get to freak out very badly in a multitude of ways whenever anybody touches his hair. like i think he's touch-adverse in general (& miserable about it because he's also so touchstarved & his brain simply whites out in distress anytime anyone touches him because. literally the only person doing that was the trickster!!!!) but i think specifically his hair being messed with is a bad trigger for him. makes him freeze up n go nonverbal for hours. dakota knows that he's jumpy about touch but he still wants to do something for him & before the everything he loved them playing with his hair (its so long!! wibby & dakota think its so pretty!! virion's the only one who knows how to braid it because of his mom!! ashe melts into a puddle over it every time because nobody's ever done that for him before!) so he goes to just run fingers through it & ashe just. fullbody locks up and goes weird and still and silent & doesn't protest or fight back when dakota shakes his shoulder or smth and his eyes are distant and sort of dark and empty like virion's were most of the time when they first met him... maybe he wants to cut it a little bit just because he hates that it's been covered in The Ooze and he can't do anything with it without thinking about how the trickster would do the same thing but also he hates the idea of getting rid of the one thing abt himself that he really likes & is a little connection with both of his parents because of the trickster also, when he's already taken so much from him. (it does have to get gross and tangled and matted because he refuses to put it back or do anything to it for a while though. maybe virion helps him sort it out & it's slow and painstaking and miserable for both of them and they both feel better at the end of it.)

[strawhatmisfit]

Okay that last post i added to made me think about it but i wish Sanji could be fucking normal for once because if he and nami had a mutually respectful friendship it would be so FASCINATING

They BOTH suffered immense trauma due to not having access to a resource--Sanji almost starved to death, and Nami saw Bellemere killed for not having enough money. And they handle it so differently!!

Nami hoards money. She keeps it close to her chest and doesnt share it freely--think of her interest rates! Even among friends she rarely is seen giving money away. There are some exceptions--Thriller bark for instance--where she can be generous if youve earned it, but largely she is extremely tight fisted about it. (And yes, part of this is the trauma associated with bellemere, and part of it is the trauma and long term habits of becoming a thief at such a young age).

Sanji, on the other hand, is So Generous. Its one of the first things we see him do, and its what drives Luffy to ask him to join the crew. Feeding Ghin, and convincing him to eat, even though he can't return the favor (and ultimately actually causes damage to sanji and the Baratie). And yes, theres something to be said about food being something thats harder to hoard since it spoils, but this first act of generosity is towards a complete stranger on a restaurant ship. That food wasnt going to be wasted, it took time and effort to prepare, and he still gives his labor away freely.

And these two could have such interesting conversations/debates/realizations with each other if they were allowed to exist normally! If Sanji would see Nami as his equal and crewmate (please oda im begging), watching these two butt heads over when to be generous and when to be frugal would be fascinating! Its one of the reasons i dont often ship Nami/Sanji beyond a friendship, because i think that fundamentally they have extremely different values! Which could lead to some really deep and nuanced interactions! (Not to say this wouldnt also lead to an interesting ship dynamic but thats beside the point)

Again its way too early and im rambling but i love both of these characters and how they contrast each other and would love to hear everyone else's thoughts

[enamoredwithbella]

Things said in my dream that I can’t really get over

Them: i don’t like your attitude!

Me: yeah? Well I don’t like your autism diagnosis

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Me: what are those?

My friend: buffalo Chicken wings *runs off a and I chase her with a bucket of chicken*

-has to put the chicken down to chase her more efficiently-

Me: I had to put your chicken on a table

Her: awwww I wanted those

Me: well why’d you run then?!??

Her: I was scared

Me: ???!?!??

Her: they were gonna touch me *shows me the bucket of chicken that now vaguely resembles boobs*

Me: they’re just titties

Her: 😕

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Things written on a wall by my friend

-“Like Remus puts his head in Sirius’s neck and falling by stars (?) is playing as he falls asleep” >> wolfstar propaganda-

I wish I could remember more they kinda disappeared as I woke up but crazy shit man.

[theveryworstthereeverwas]

(OOC: Using my teeny audience to spread my agenda.

WATCH LUCIDS BY NICOLAS PODANY

what is Lucids, you may ask? The only way I can describe it is: the conglomerate of two TikTok skit(?) series’, and a 6 part YouTube series.

Jasper (originally called Cultish) is the story of an average Joe named Jasper that one day stumbles across a cult formed in the name of a Pampers Ad he did when he was a baby, lead by a man that goes by Jasper Prime. It’s as weird as it sounds.

while this Jasper was running, Nick was also posting The Adventures Benjamin and Oliver which follows Oliver and Benjamin, two old school friends, who wake up in 3rd grade to learn they have dreamt their whole lives. They meet Mrs. Hills, who is training them to become Lucids, people who can “swing between dreamscapes like branches on a tree” to get their lives back.

it all culminates and transfers over to YouTube in the titular Lucids. We learn something about Jasper Prime, and Mrs. Hills sends Benny and Oliver across dreamscapes to find him.

Despite its batshit premise, it is a genuinely heartwarming story about love, friendship, loss, grief, and not letting your trauma define you. One of the best internet series I’ve watched.

and did I mention it was all made by one guy? Nick does all the writing, acting, editing, and scoring, with help from his parents in the voice department. It’s a miracle it works so well.

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!!!???! Go watch it on Nicholas Podany’s YouTube. The two prequel series’ are combined for viewing ease. JUST BE WEARY! It heavily deals with the nature of reality, so if you have issues with that kinda stuff, I maybe wouldn’t watch it

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk lol

[kawareo]

Dont remember exactly what it was but I had a dream that somehow involved Bane until my roommate's alarms went off and i, half asleep still, vividly heard god of Tyranny telling me to go slaughter the jester who dares perform this offensively

Mi'lord i cannot "slaughter upon thine altar" my roommate's phone they need this for school

[densewentz]

guys in an incredibly funny turn of events I am on the cusp of figuring out how to lucid dream and its mostly because since I've gotten into Sandman I dream sometimes feat. Dream of the Endless who I KNOW as the King of Dreams IN-dream. So I'll be sitting there watching this scrunkly guy in my dream going "oh shit that's the Dream King, holy shit am I dreaming?-" and then I usually get yoinked out but. Girl we gettin there. We gettin there in an incredibly ironic way but.

[obstinaterixatrix]

a pal is very skeptical of my ability to turn off being tipsy so next time we go drinking I gotta show them what I mean lmao

[luc1d-dr34m5]

Au time fellas

Its a Bedman Lives au (+Lethargy V. an oc) wjjejw the first one looks messier cuz its just doodles i colored

Au explanation under cut

Okay so for now its not too developed but the basis is

Lethargy manages to save Bedman last minute n they both run away ans the crumbling body left in Bedman's place is a fake, but to make Bedman awake Lethargy had to kinda put a piece Bedman's conciousness in the Bedframe. This action wakes up Delilah last minute but due to circumstances she appeared much later on so they couldnt reunite with her.

Current game timeline of the au is the Strive storyline, Bedman is a professor n Lethargy is also a scientist prof at a sort of University/College of sorts. Bedman doesn't use his name "Romeo" there cuz its personal to him so he just goes by Bedman.(Tbh the GG world has seen their fair share of weird name. Ex. Sol Badguy.) Lethargy on the other hand due to some ties with Ariels(Shes basically their older sister) decides to go by their nickname "Lethe" there.

They're basically living out their new life peacefully. Delilah has no idea Romeo is alive *alive* tho so Strive: Another Story still happens.

Will the bed siblings reunite?? yeah

Will i make that comic??? maybe. depends.

But thats the Au for now, its a recent one so the concept is rough around the edges.

[evangelineshifts]

The movie dream scenario is suspiciously shifting like towards the end with the norio

“Clear your mind. And this is the important step; set an intention for your visitation”

🤨🤨🤨

[dawnofiight]

I’m actually so over people writing/describing Angel as being built like a twig, or scrawny asf- GIVE ME BUFF ANGEL GIVE ME CHUBBY ANGEL 🗣️🗣️🗣️

CHUBBY ANGEL MENTIONED

[putuponpercy]

My 5x1 are so unhinged yet so casual about it like they're on then they're off then they're on again you'd find them wrapped up in each others arms and ask them if they're dating and James will be like "Yeah no I hate this guy 😏"

"Lol yeah we broke up last week"

"Wait we did?"

"Yeah"

"Oh... Fancy going out again?"

"Sure 😊"

[scummy-writes]

Scum my darrrrrling 👉👈

Could I pleeeeeease request 'falling asleep together with Theo? I've been thinking of him a whole lot lately 💕

Hellooo ally- this is short and based on the chapter where Mc tends to his wounds after running into those shitty art fucks (i dont remember their name, its almost 2am im not digging for it HAHA)

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It was difficult, having you take care of him. His life had been difficult, his second chance at it hardly better - so what had he done to deserve that panic in your eyes, the way you gently tended to split skin and bruises.

The hour was late into the night, and you stubbornly refused to let him be. Equal in such a trait, he stayed in the room with you, only answering a few of your inquiries as to what had happened to him. The words came out calloused, cautious, and only served to barely dull that worrying gaze of yours.

And now, you slept curled up beside him, leaning against his shoulder using his coat for warmth. He should have sent you to bed or should have stomped off to his own. But that unfamiliar warmth of care that you gave him caused him to linger, greedily taking what you'd give, despite the way his thorns strove to fight you off.

Theo was...tired. tired of fighting. Of putting up fronts and shields. He was worth nothing in comparison to the rest of the men here, yet he was the one being cared for, being trusted so earnestly. What had he done to deserve that?

He wasn't sure he'd like the answer. It could be from pity, meaning that he wasn't coming off independently enough. Or it could be from a daunting feeling he didn't want to name, not while he was still dedicating himself to revenge, not when he needed to make sure you'd go home to your own time. Surely, with the care you put onto him, it mean there were others from your time missing the same treatment, who needed it more.

As the rain continued to fall outside, gentle taps against the windows lulled his eyelids closed. The sound, mixed in with your sleeping breaths, had the tension ease from his shoulders. Your warmth felt comforting, and Theo supposed that for just tonight, he could allow himself to bask in it to sleep with ease.

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Does this make sense? No. I just thought it was a cute idea that could have happened in his route.

[sardonic-the-writer]

his stupid laugh. castiel you will always be famous to me.

[netscapenavigator-official]

Back when I was younger, I used to just have this ability to stop nightmares, dead in their tracks. It got to a point, where, if I was having a nightmare, I’d just realize “wait a minute, this isn’t something that happens in real life. I bet I’m dreaming,” and I would just try REALLY hard to open my eyes. Like, even if they felt open in the dream, I would try opening them even more, and it usually forced my eyes open irl, which would wake me up from the nightmare. Idk how I ever lost that ability, but sometimes I think about it, and wish I still could.