#5 sad truths

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Get Their Ass.

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[opheliasam]

god he (dean) used to be so different my chest hurts

[coffeeworldsasaki]

How dare Sanderson make me emotional ABOUT ADOLIN'S DEAD HORSE 4 BOOKS AFTER ARE THOSE HORSES RADIANTS 😭😭😭😭

[sillylittleguyinatrenchcoat]

geto meme batch bc i love one man <3 + this week’s episode broke me like a sad flimsy piñata

[sh5]

got a light?

[augustatheghost]

i don’t know what you guys are all complaining about i love that svu has vaporized olivia from woman on the verge to lady cragen

[gallery-art]

[megaclubdiolis]

柄本 佑 || 「光る君へ」 (2024) · 第四十四回 「望月の夜」 ​​​

[spotaus]

Hmm. Tauverse concept post? Perhaps?

So, like, I don't remember if I talked a ton about Dream or the Stars in the original post for this, but Dream is my Special little guy that I project onto. Uh. Often. So here's a quick look at how he feels about his situation with Nightmare!

Dream, like in the og, was turned to stone when he absorbed the final golden apple. He was not conscious for ANYTHING after that point. Complete deep sleep style out of it.

So, when he wakes up finally? It's when Ink and Error are fighting in Dreamtale. (<- Error was planning on destroying a stagnant universe/piece of code, aka Dreamtale, while Ink was trying to keep that from happening because. Well. It's a story yet to be finished!) So when he wakes up and breaks out of the stone, these two adults who look like him (loosely) are fighting eachother. The universe is falling apart. Nim is dead and there's no sign of Nightmare anywhere. He's confused, and scared, and rushes back to Nim's stump best he can. And he watches, as Ink and Error fight it out. The villagers hurt his brother, hurt him, he doesn't want to get involved in this fight.

It's only as Ink realizes he's fighting a losing battle that he seems to field a retreat. Just. Uh. During the fight, Dream picked up on how Ink was trying to keep this place alive and decided he must be the one to trust. So when he goes to leave? Dream rushes to grip his scarf and gets pulled out of his universe, into the doodlesphere.

Ink was surprised to find Dream there when they landed, and normally he'd go back and drop Dream off at his universe again, but. Error got to it already. So, next best thing was to drop Dream through another portal into the omega timeline. (<- Ink was not exactly soft or kind with this 6 y/o, kinda just went ??? I didn't mean to take you with??? And then ditched him in an unfamiliar place.) Luckily in the omega timeline there were plenty of 0eople willing to help him. He was wary at first of how welcoming they were (he's actually extremely close with a Fell!Paps because he told little Dream to stay away and Dream did not listen a bit, because he preferred someone being openly mean to him over fake nice) but eventually he grew used to the community. There were a lot of monsters and humans willing to help him learn his magic and place in the multiverse.

As he grew up, he was under the impression that Nightmare was dead. That thing that tried to attack him *wasn't* Nightmare. That his twin had been destroyed along with his universe. And, he's right. The thing that carries Nightmare's name isn't his twin, or brother, or family. It's a different being entirely, not quite a monster. But, he didn't know it had escaped the universe. Not until he was older.

He had taken up helping Core Frisk manage new monsters (this is also how he met Color, Lust, and Outer) and get them used to the omegaverse. Some monsters who came through spoke of a monster, and several others, who were tormenting their universe before Error came through and destroyed it for good. It took quite a few different stories for the descriptions to strike a chord in Dream's gut. What they were talking about sounded Just Like that thing from his au.

His suspicions were proven true when he encountered it once. In a peaceful au he'd been visiting, Nightmare had appeared with his first Killer and Dust in tow. The three of them had caused havoc, and the aura alone sent Dream into fight or flight. Nightmare didn't pay him any mind, until he shot an arrow. This drew his attention. And Nightmare called him by name. Surprised he'd grown up. Surprised he escaped the universe. Surprised he had the gall to fight *now*. Taunting him. And Dream had to flee.

After that encounter, feeling the pain from the Killer and Dust, hating the new Nightmare? He swore he'd work to stop them. Restore balance.

He gathered some friends and created the star sans' with the intention of putting an end to this, capturing Nightmare, freeing his pawns.

Of course, Dream started off very zealous. He asked Ink, and his good friends Blue, Color, and Bird to join. They all agreed, and after several successful rescue missions, Dream brought on Lust and Outer from his old group to help as well.

It only started to go downhill when Dream and the others noticed Nightmare was killing his pawns. He'd added a horror, who was the first to fall and inevitably be replaced. Then the Killer went. Then the Dust. They cycled, and everyone involved felt desperate. They hadn't helped any of them. Hadn't been able to. Then the 2nd Killer, Color managed to get through to him over the course of a year. Slowly but surely talking to him in battles as the others ran interference. Proof that the monsters under Nightmare still had a chance! They could survive! But. Well. Nightmare slipped away from Dream once. He'd noticed the change long ago, buy waited for just the right moment. Just when they were going to escape. He killed Killer and Color, one easy swoop while they were distracted. He reiterated very clearly that his pawns were replaceable. Clearly, Dream must feel the same to bring in so many pieces for him to break.

They had to retreat, and everyone was impacted. Dream was nearly inconsolable, but even worse off was Bird. He and Color had been close, and seeing him dusted like that? He couldn't take it, instead of depression, he was filled with rage. The next time they went our, which wasn't long at all, because if they didn't go now then Color died in vain, Bird was reckless. He fought as though it was the battle in the Judgement Hall, taking on the new Killer which had been so quickly instated, and lost his life to a sneak-attack from the 2nd Horror. With one less body, it left them open to attack from behind.

Again, they retreated. After that, it was hard for Dream to get back on his feet. He refused to take any more recruits, offered the remaining the chance to leave. None of them took it, but it was there. And that leaves the stars at the 3 in the story. They still want to save Nightmare's pawns, but not at the cost of their own.

(Cross is a special case. Ink brings him in and while Dream doesn't want to make him a Star, he asks he stays with Lust and Outer, and doesn't let him out of his sight. At this point he'd still have Chara, and he'd be looking for a way to get rid of them, so he needs the help.)

I think Dream has trinkets a lot like Night does. He sees the items as marks of his failure to protect people who looked up to him. Nightmare, Color, Bird. For a while there Cross too, but Cross was 100% alive lmao. I just think he mourns stupid-style and needs the objects as reminders to like. Channel his guilt? If that makes sense? Sadness doesn't come naturally to him, like Happiness didn't come naturally to Night, so when he experiences it, it must be intense and burning. His downturns sockets are part of his character because! Well! He's making himself a friend to misery. Just like Nightmare is making himself a friend to kindness.

[eastofedean]

I've done a lot of reflecting lately and man...

[sinnettini]

🏓✈️🏖️!

thank you maya 💞

🏓 are you superstitious when it comes to tennis?

you know, i thought i was, but then i read some of you guys' answers and maybe not that much LMAO i mean honestly with sports in general my main superstitious thing is that i NEVER say my team/favorite player is going to win or they WILL lose. i'll often go all the way to saying they're going to lose. but i don't really have pre- or during matches rituals or clothes i wear to watch my favorite players' matches or anything like that

✈️ if you could go to a tournament, which one would it be?

well, rome, but i'm hoping to go this year! i just need to find someone to go with me 😭😭 other than that i'd love to go to wimbledon, that'd be my number one choice

🏖️ would you watch tennis if your favorite player was not playing?

yeah, absolutely. i mean, for most of the time i've been watching tennis my favorite player was roger (he's still my fave but yknow) and then he retired and life as a tennis watcher went on skdnsnj honestly i love tennis way too much for it to be tied to one or even a few single players. i love to watch the sport regardless of who's playing and sure, there's some players i like watching more than others naturally, but i think i can say i could watch tennis my entire life even if my favorite players retired one after the other, and then i got other faves and after some time they also retired and so on and so forth

[nguyetdahuong]

How to stop feeling suck 101

Step 1: Open your phone, go to media platform #1

Step 2: Move to media platform #2 for a change

Step 3: Give yourself a break with a mobile game

Step 4: Give yourself another break with media platform #3

Step 5: Stop and checking email to fuse yourself with a sense of responsibility

> Proceed and repeat until you stop feeling shit and start being numb instead 😍👍

[no-one-hears-me]

I've spent too much time on the verge of suicide to be here today

[trial3]

funnily enough i think moreso than distasteful jokes or willful misinterpretations what really bothers me when it comes to representations of Her are people not picking up on the fact that shes a freak alt girl

[antifragi1e]

am i allowed to be upset

[yourbleedingh3art]