#Maze dream

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Hypnagogia - Maze Dream

[wytch-of-the-east]

WERE YOU THERE? IN MY NIGHTMARE..

The maze stretched endlessly, its walls shifting as a group of us moved through it. Every level brought new challenges—boundaries we couldn’t cross, puzzles we had to solve. One floor had a broken elevator, a dead end in our escape, while something sinister followed close behind—a winged creature, always lurking. We soon realized we weren’t alone.

A group of beings were watching us from an observatory, rigging the maze with new traps as we advanced.

In our group, someone had hurt our doctor—a betrayal that cracked our fragile unity. The lower levels of the maze later revealed the truth: a prison beneath the maze. One of us had escaped it, and the chaos followed

We descended into the next level, a town hidden deep in the maze. It seemed like a safe haven, familiar and calm. We moved cautiously through its streets, eyes scanning for threats, but nothing appeared out of place. Desperate for safety, we sought refuge in the church. Its doors were heavy, the interior dim and quiet, offering us a brief sense of peace.But it didn’t last.As we huddled inside, a noise echoed from above. The winged creature, its dark form unfolding from the rafters, had been waiting. The church wasn’t sanctuary—it was a trap. Everything went south from there. We scrambled, but the walls of the town twisted around us, locking us in with the nightmare.

We soon passed into another maze, this time lined with endless doors, none of which promised an exit. Every choice felt like a trap each door opening into yet another puzzle.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Ao3 had an annual fundraiser that was just a giant maze. This year’s was an endless haunted house designed to trap you forever that you entered through a ballpit. Admission was five dollars.

[little-pup-pip]

Pumpkin Patch Trip!!

[gazumirei]

I've been seeing alot of hear me out cakes so I've decided to make my own

[daniluvsyou]

i swear on EVERYTHING mister bunny man tried to kiss me anyways i’m literally in love w him now

[ryssbelle]

Had a silly dream where mine and some of my friends Zelda au characters met up and it was very silly kind of like dnd and in the background there was a baking competition going on lmao

Aus included @linked-maze @hazethestrange @limited-hero

[aroaceleovaldez]

in your most recent tyson post, you said something about leo being distinctly autistic-coded and I was wondering if you could elaborate on that? it sounds really interesting (sorry if you've already posted something on this, I couldn't find anything though)

Of course! I do have a specific tag for talking about Leo's autistic-coding/traits - [here], and [one for Nico as well].

The main aspects with Leo being autistic-coded actually have a lot to do with Nico being autistic-coded, because it's the comparisons between the two that most clearly indicate Leo is autistic-coded rather than it just being his ADHD or etc.

So with Nico being autistic-coded, it's very clear in the Titan's Curse that he's intended to be autistic. First, the first series has a repeating pattern of secondary characters being very distinctly neurodivergent-coded in different ways (Annabeth's adhd/dyslexia, Tyson's down syndrome-coding, Nico's autism-coding). With Nico's introduction, he's pretty stereotypically autistic and we're given a lot of descriptors about him that are notably not attributed to him being ADHD, like it would be for other demigod characters. He doesn't register social cues such as people getting annoyed at him, he's asking/making inappropriate or impolite questions/comments, he gets particularly upset about change (such as Bianca joining the Hunt) and generally gets emotional, and one of his most notable traits he's introduced with is the fact that he has a special interest (MythoMagic) - and we're shown that this special interest particularly colors how Nico navigates the world. While ADHD has hyperfixations, we don't really get much acknowledgement of hyperfixations with demigods usually - Annabeth gets a little, but most others don't and it's not nearly as focused-in on as Nico's is.

Then as the series continues we see these traits stick with him and him start to show or voice more traits that similarly indicate he's autistic: He regularly mentions how he doesn't understand living people and prefers the company of the dead (social issues). He has more notable stims than other demigods (twisting his ring, fiddling with bones, etc). He's indicated to have strong sensory preferences (usually wearing mostly black/aversion to bright colors, usually wearing layers/his coat, multiple times he's described as wearing loose/baggy clothing or clothes too big for him). He has specific comfort items (his ring, likely his jacket(s) as well). We later get even more information about his special interests (Mythomagic/mythology/history and an older interest in pirates - the latter he specifically notes likely heavily influenced his feelings towards Percy). He struggles with emotions and facial expressions and tone. He struggles particularly with ostracism and feeling like he doesn't fit in and has something distinctly different about him from the people around him (who notably, all have ADHD, which indicates it isn't the ADHD that's making him feel that way), and other characters regularly describe him as being off-putting because of his strange behaviors - again, different from specific ADHD traits they recognize. And that last point is kind of notable because we have Hazel and Bianca for comparison - we know people are off-put by both Nico and Hazel because of being children of Hades/Pluto and their powers/aura, but other characters get past that general feeling of discomfort way faster with Hazel. And even after characters get past the death stuff with Nico, there's a second thing that they aren't moving past that isn't a factor with Hazel (Nico's autism).

So that brings us to Leo - Leo is paralleled to Nico a lot. And there's some very specific traits about him that we know are autistic-coding because of how they're used with Nico: He similarly struggles with social cues/etc, and in a very similar parallel to Nico describes how he prefers the company of machines to people because machines make more sense to him. He has similar types of clothing/sensory preferences (again some stuff with layers but also - pockets! He likes having pockets and things to put stuff in! He's even introduced as having a jacket with lots of pockets), and he has a distinct special interest (machinery) that we specifically know heavily influences how he views and navigates the world (constantly comparing things to machinery, describing things with machinery metaphors/terminology, etc etc). He even describes his entire general worldview to Hazel and it's a machine metaphor. He also similarly struggles with ostracization like Nico does, the only difference being that Leo specifically puts on a persona to compensate for areas he knows he's lacking in and very explicitly describes it as a means to make people like him, because without it he normally struggles to fit in (He's masking!). We also see notes of characters describing that similar discomfort with Leo's behaviors that they do with Nico, except without the aura of death this time. And when we're in Leo's POVs we see a very stark difference between his masking and his actual personality/behaviors such as his internal dialogues or how he behaves when he's alone. Also, like Nico, he stims more than other demigods, though for Leo it's more attributed to his ADHD. Leo also, more often than most, similarly struggles with tone and reading the room, such as making misplaced jokes/comments or etc.

But yeah! It's really interesting. Also it's just a fun thing that ADHD/dyslexia and autism have comorbidity, so it makes sense that we see demigods who are also autistic. It's also really fun to look at how other characters are coded in the series, what coding looks like in the riordanverse specifically (usually it's tied into the mythological stuff - like Chiron being in a wheelchair but he's actually a centaur, Grover being introduced as having a muscular disease but he's actually a satyr, demigods having adhd/dyslexia, Tyson being coded as having down syndrome but he's a cyclops, etc etc - it's a lot of specific metaphor stuff that I've talked about a bit before), and to look at how characters are compared to one another.

[theokapuco]

Some goofy ahh sketches

[kroosluvr]

quick cele nahobino before i go get lunch

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Just went to a maze filled with wooden doors and this polite guy wearing a red shirt (apparently his name is Mark) kept following me with a huge smile on his face. Took me around 20 doors before I remembered I got separated from my older sister.

[22ratonthestreet]

5th elephant + That Bitch in one of the lore-accurate illustration outfits

[emixunn]

I dream a lot about the Maze Runner books. It’s often that I’m one of the characters and something happens. Some are weird and some are really cool.

I’ve had like ten in the last couple months.

[madieflaw]

Minho: what’s your dream?

Thomas: to be loved the same way I love someone else

Thomas: what about you?

Minho: to eat without getting fat

Thomas: …

[bigmack2go]

Where are my fellow people of faith???? I need smn to talk to. Doesn’t matter what faith it is. I just really really want more friends of faith because i have nonnnnneeee. I just wanna talk to someone who won’t tell me “ActUaLlY SieEcnE🤓”

(Tagging this with a bunch of fandoms so people see it hehe. Sorry for spaming the tag)