#i am full of unhinged feelings

[mollymagician]

So I went and made a retired!Dream playlist because my brain is literally consumed

aaaaaand here, have a drabble to go with it—

Hob Gadling talked to himself, sometimes. When he was alone.

It was a habit, he’d say in the rare times he’d been caught at it. Silly habit. Just ignore me. Hashing things out with my own self. A white lie. Himself wasn’t who he was hashing anything out with. Hob spoke to his Stranger, sometimes. When he was alone.

There was never enough time in their brief meetings, was there, to package a hundred years worth of the world into words. The great story arcs made the cut, but in between the little stories got told anyway. In any quiet part of the day when he found himself alone, Hob would catch some of the details spilling out of him. He practiced sometimes, the particulars of a good tale he was afraid he wouldn’t remember. He couldn’t keep it all, but maybe, he thought, his Stranger could hear him. Sometimes.

A centuries-long habit, one he had despaired of ever breaking, until he’d realized all at once that he wasn’t doing it anymore.

Because the thing was, when hob spoke to him aloud-spoke to the idea, the wish of him-over all those centuries, it was always as though he hovered just over his shoulder. A quiet aside to an imagined presence that could in truth be anywhere, but somehow lived in his mind and heart just behind and to the left of him, only just out of sight.

It takes him a little time to realize that this is where Dream so often stands, now— when he follows Hob up the stairs from the pub in the evenings after they’ve had too much to drink, laughing, a steadying hand planted between Hob’s shoulders— when he followed him, all newly human, into Situations and Experiences that Hob was determined he try—when he pads up silently beside him in the dim early morning kitchen, to wrap his arms around Hob’s middle. Like today.

He seems to have found that spot, a patch of reality worn threadbare by hundreds of years of quiet longing, and slipped into it unknowing.

“How did you know that was there, hm?” Hob murmurs drowsily on this particular morning, tea kettle in one hand and eyes barely open. “That spot was just for you.”

Dream rested his chin on one warm shoulder and hummed. They swayed a bit, half-asleep.

Dreams breath puffed against his ear (Real. Real now) and murmured, “Thank you for saving me a place.”

[moonchild-in-blue]

Okay I know I said I was going to stay offline for a while because headache, but I just had the most horrible thought and have to share.

You know the piano on Drag Me Under? The rhythm at which the keys are pressed? Is it just me, or it sounds eerily like a heartbeat? HEAR ME OUT.

I'm not saying it's supposed to sound like that, and I'm aware the tempo is slightly off from the normal/usual heartbeat rate BUT. What if it is? What if you look at it from that perspective?

In the lyrics, Vessel says that they are lying down together. What if this is his/his lover's heartbeat, like when you rest your head on someone's chest and can feel it echo in you?

If he is indeed being dragged down, maybe this is the final moment before the descent? Into Them or down under, I'm not sure. "To merely behold you" - what if this is him remembering their last encounter before They abandoned him? Before Atlantic took place? Since they can't be together? Since the rhythm bleeds nicely into Blood Sport, their parting song? The one before the Big Sad? Does this make sense or am I crazy??

[mummer]

still sorting out how to feel about it but fuck ncuti was just insantly beyond all expectations. King

[legendaryrooftopscene]

Ignorance is bliss. I found out about the TGCF live action adaptation that’s stuck in censorship hell just like a week ago and I’m checking MDL daily, weeping and begging for a release date.

[liesonthefloordramatically]

just dropped all my lesson plans (minus a couple because I switched out readings) for my survey course into my WIP lesson plans doc and. *closes eyes* there's 100k of text in here

[crossbackpoke-check]

You have excellent tag thoughts, especially about Key & Laf!!!!

thank you!!!! i wish i had a better description than just 🥹🦋😭💕🥰 to explain my reaction to you saying nice things about my tags but please trust that this ask just made my day!!!

[cellophobia]

holy fuck i was in so much despair for so long and it feels like a fog has been lifted in my brain. i enjoy things again. I ENJOY THINGS AGAIN!!! i feel EMOTIONS again!!! i am taking care of myself, i'm working, i'm doing chores around the house. and it's all coming so easily to me now?

[rawliverandgoronspice]

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[tiredtriedfailures]

im so unwell im wearing the ring my friend got me. for emotional support. like a corny movie protagonist with his dead wife.

[cptnghoulowl]

Welp, recap episode huh?

I suppose now that we've all gotten a little better since last episode (the ANGST UGH), poll time is BACK!!!!

SOOOO

Voting, COMMENCE!!!

[musical-chick-13]

Oh...oh people didn't realize this song was sardonically complaining about going to the Club™. And thought it was a Club Song™. Oh no.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[catdemontraphouse]

If I manage to live to old age I’m going to be bat fucking crazy and not in a good way

[thecoolerliauditore]

screaming cus I love rendog i love rendog i love rendog i love rendog. ouppy. deserves all the love in the world.

[blurglesmurfklaine]

girl help I’m thinking about a newsies/glee crossover

[loregoddess]

the things I will do for theorycrafting