#scarred dreams

[mossyspringart]

The enbian couple ever

Humanized warrior cats ocs!

Snowstep (small one) - They/Them

Pearlshadow (big one) - He/She/They/It

[captainkirkk]

Concept: Veils are more widely worn in the ATLA universe for a variety of reasons

Zuko and Toph enjoy travelling together and their favourite disguise in the earth kingdom is: Strong earthbending noble escorting her shy, reclusive older brother.

People thought the Bei Fongs had one (1) daughter who was tiny, blind and fragile - until suddenly she was the avatar's earth bending master, so the public have accept that they know nothing about the Bei Fongs. Who's the say they DIDNT have another child that they carefully hid away? Especially considering THIS child is dressed in neutral browns and muted golds with a veil obscuring his face. And sometimes people catch a glimpse of gold eyes or scar tissue through the gauzy fabric. It makes sense that the Bei Fongs would hide away a child born of an affair with a firebender.

Toph loves playing the part of escort. She gets to boss him about, and drag him all around the best restaurants, and order an outrageous amount of food for him. It's nice having people default to speaking to HER as the authority figure, after spending so much time in the presence of the Avatar and the Fire Lord.

And Zuko gets to be anonymous. He's not the Fire Lord when he puts that veil on, he's a reclusive and fragile noble who no one looks to to make decisions. He gets to switch his brain off and let Toph drag him around and speak for him. It's freeing.

Also: please imagine the look on the Bei Fongs faces when they hear that everyone thinks they have a secret hidden firebending son who's galavanting around with their run away daughter. They'd be HORRIFIED. Toph knows this and RELISHES in it.

[linktoo-doodles]

what's that supposed to mean

Aggie stream with my FAF friends (Beck, Katie, Soma, and Yammy!!)

[mossyspringart]

Hi guys its my birthday!1!1!1!1!1!!!

Shitty art <3

[swamp-chicken]

ummmmmmmmm x I think your subconscious is telling you something

[brbarou]

more bee and beloved...

[hiding-in-the-vault]

More Power Trio AU!!! Final part of whatever this is.

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

Sapnap would then proceed to say he did believe Dream (or else he wouldn't have tagged along on this adventure), but didn't realize how bad it was :)

[mossyspringart]

2021 me made Cherrystar red and then a few months later by complete accident I gave her a girlfriend who was pink and white

The most lesbian couple ever they literally form the flag

[oakyadair]

SKIZZY?? I've never heard scar call him that please be a new nickname

transcript:

skizz: "where are you" (pause) "oh!! not good dude!! oh no!!"

scar: "oh shoot oh shoot.. I'm getting real frosty, I'm getting real frosty man."

skizz: "he's frosty dude.. NOOOOO!!!"

scar: "just run, just run skizzy, just run"

[mossyspringart]

Since I posted Lakewind art I got really invested in making sure their buddy and important cat, Tunnelie is redesigned since I hated it's old design!

So yeah, both alive and dead vers here. Not a lot will be said abt alive vers except 1. They're a lot more expressive than dead vers and the flower is a black rose. Dead vers has forget-me-nots and barely changes expression.

Anyways MistClan (dead cats) have a note how they died and apparently Tunnelstar seemed to have drowned! It has 0 memory of its life <3

[bleue-flora]

To be honest, something I see a lot in fanfiction is the reasoning for Dream’s mask being about how Dream can’t control his facial expressions well and is too readable, making him vulnerable to people knowing exactly what he’s thinking and feels. Personally though, especially now that we can reasonably say that Dream is autistic, I think it’s actually the opposite.

At least in my experience, with myself and with other autistic people, often the trouble is making the appropriate facial expression with the proper enthusiasm. Like telling a joke and people not know if you are kidding or not because you say it with such a straight face. Something I really struggle with is emoting excitement and joy so I have to be extra conscious of making sure my face is portraying how I feel so people don’t get the wrong idea.

The other thing I have to be aware of facially is eye contact, making sure to do the proper amount and/or don’t look somewhere else that makes it seem like you aren’t paying attention. (This is something I’ve realized since diagnosis that I am good at but hate, which is why I plan socializing around activities so I can focus on that instead of looking at the person.)

These are just a couple of the things on my mind when having a conversation (along with body language, tone of voice, what I’m saying…etc), that can really change how people perceive you. When not executed well people can really get the wrong impression of you, even thinking that you’re super intense, serious, a bitch, cold because your facial expressions are so stern and neutral, when in reality you could be feeling a lot of things (many people in high school didn’t talk to me and when asked later they said they were intimidated by me, and I think this might be one of the reasons why).

So, because of this, personally, I think Dream wears a mask not because he’s too open, but because he doesn’t emote properly or just doesn’t want to bother to try and emote properly, and dislikes eye contact. To not have to focus on making proper eye contact and facial expressions takes away that factor of misunderstanding and just makes conversing a lot less work and more comfortable. With a mask on, he doesn’t have to work on that part of his social masking (;D lol), now he can look where he wants and just have a resting bitch face if he wants to without worrying about how it comes across. That’s what I think is more likely the reason Dream wears a mask because he is actually naturally less expressive.

Furthermore, perhaps if he lost his mask in prison then maybe that’s a reason people in the prison are generally more cold to him and see him as less human because his expressions are so blank, giving people the perception that he’s very cold. Therefore making it easier for Sam and Quackity and even Tommy to hurt and dehumanize Dream in prison because subconsciously they are put off by his lack of emoting, which only further adds to the idea that Dream is some embodiment of evil…