#serious dreamers

[dreamsteddie]

Companion piece to my Stobin childhood friends au post because try as I might to resist it, the Steddie brain rot will take over.

Robin and Steve are thick as thieves from that first day of preschool. Their matching friendship bracelets don't fit anymore and have found homes in their "secret friendship treasure chest" which is a shoe box covered in construction paper decorations that lives under Robin's bed so Steve's parents don't throw away any of his "trash" again. They've started a tradition of making a new one for each other at the start of every year so everyone remembers they're best friends, though.

Halfway through first grade (Robin got to start school a year early like the Buckleys hoped) things are going great for Robin. She gets to bring books home from the library and their teacher complimented her drawing of a robin and she helped Steve pass his spelling test last week, so as far as she's concerned this is the best year ever.

Right up until Eddie Munson transfers to their school.

At first, Robin doesn't know that Eddie will be her arch-nemesis. When he's introduced to the class, all she really thinks about him is that he looks a little funny but seems nice. He's got really big eyes and he's taller than most of the other kids with long, gangly limbs. His hair is shaved down to his head, but there are other boys in class who are the same. He gets placed at the table group to the left of them in the chair closest to Steve's.

She very quickly forgets about him as the day continues as normal. Robin thinks math block is boring, she'd much rather read her books or play with Steve at recess but her parents said knowing your shapes is important, so she pays extra special attention. That's why she doesn't catch the little wave Steve, ever the social butterfly, gives to the boy across the way or the way Eddie's eyes go even bigger and a soft blush steals across his cheeks.

What she does notice is when Eddie comes up to them in the last few precious minutes of recess slightly sweaty and out of breath holding a little white daisy.

"Hi! I'm Eddie, I'm new!" he says, shouting really, looking directly at Steve.

"Oh, hi Eddie! I'm Steve, this is my bestest friend, Robin." Steve replies.

"Like the bird?" Eddie asks.

"Yeah! They're orange."

"And I hate orange!" Robin buts in, not willing to be left out of the conversation

"Yeah, it's really sad. They should be blue, that's Robin's favorite color." Steve says, real disappointment creeping into his voice. "Who's that for?" he asks, pointing to the forgotten daisy.

"Oh! It's for you! I was out all recess looking for the best one in the field. They kind of match your shirt!' Eddie says proudly, referencing Steve's polo with the yellow body and white sleeves. It's one of his favorites.

"Really? That's so nice, thank you!" Steve exclaims as he takes the little flower into his hands.

Robin's mom says that sometimes when you want to be someone's friend, it's good to start by giving them something nice. Robin's mom says that she should try and make more friends, maybe some girls instead of just Steve, but when Robin tries to talk to the other girls in class, she gets nervous and clams up. She thinks she might be allergic to them. Plus, why would she need more friends when she has Steve, who is worth at least three normal friends.

Steve gets along with everyone, he lends people erasers and pencils and shares his blocks with the other kids when he's allowed to bring them out of his cubby, but no one is his best friend like Robin is.

No one has ever given Steve flowers before, though. That feels like an extra special kind of gift that someone would give if they wanted to be really good friends, and Robin doesn't want that. Steve is her best friend, he doesn't need another one.

"Steve, we gotta go get in line before all the other kids! We don't want to be last!" she blurts out, grabbing Steve by the hand and dragging him across the asphalt to where the teachers are getting ready to call everyone to get in line before Eddie can catch up.

Once they've got their places, she looks back at Steve behind her to see he's turned around. She peaks her head around him and sees him smiling wide at an equally smiley Eddie who's about 5 kids behind them, each of them waving happily at each other.

Oh yeah, Robin is going to have to keep an eye on him.

[pvrrhadve]

maggie stiefvater may struggle to coherently wrap up a plot but one thing she really excels at is writing straight couples who are gay. few people have ever managed to do this no matter how hard they try but she did it twice

[seaemberthesecond]

The thing you need to understand about the Lynch Brothers is that Matthew is Declan's right hand arm man. Declan is Matthew's confidante, his best friend. His silly little rabbit even. Ronan is just There.

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

The Hedge Knight graphic novel - could it work as a roadmap for HBO's A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms?

So, per reports, HBO's Dunk & Egg show is going to be 6 episodes. I've seen several people saying that's too long, it should be 4 episodes at most, a 2 hour movie at most, there will be too much filler, blah blah blah. Well let me tell you, that's not true!

In 2003, The Hedge Knight was adapted as a 6 issue comic book (later collected as a graphic novel), and I think its script, each issue ending in a cliffhanger or dun-dun-dunnn moment, would work perfectly for the show, and is very probably how they'll do it.

Potential spoilers under the cut, but first - is this not perfect casting and costuming? It so is.

Like I said, I think each issue could be the plot of each episode. So I'm just going to summarize these issues, I hope you've read the GN or the novella. (If not, go read it, go read all of Dunk & Egg, it's so good.)

#1 - Dunk buries Ser Arlan, decides to go to Ashford for the tourney, meets Egg and a weird drunk guy at an inn on the way, gets to Ashford, sets up camp in the forest (bathes naked in a stream), goes to the tourney field and sees Tanselle performing her puppet show, gets measured for armor he can't quite afford, gets back to his camp to find the weird little bald kid making dinner.

#2 - Dunk agrees Egg can be his squire, that night he sees the falling star, next morning goes to Ashford castle and gets told he needs to prove he's a knight to enter the tourney (or that Arlan was, since he says Arlan knighted him), meets Aerion (badly) but also the Kingsguard, sells his horse for armor money, talks to Tanselle and meets the Fossoways, then meets up with the young Dondarrion lord whose dad Arlan worked for and relates the House Dondarrion origin story (imagine them telling that via puppet imagery, ooh), gets told "yeah knowing that is no proof you're a knight, sucks to be you".

#3 - Dunk goes back to the castle, stumbles into Baelor and Maekar arguing about M's missing kids, Baelor remembers his epic joust with Arlan so yay Dunk can be in the tourney, Dunk and Egg talk to Tanselle about painting him a shield, they watch the opening of the tourney (lots of jousting and pageantry including Lyonel "the Laughing Storm" Baratheon), and the first day ends after Aerion deliberately kills that horse.

#4 - Dunk argues with Egg over how much of a douche Aerion is, more flirting with Tanselle, gossip with Raymun Fossoway about the Targaryens, Egg runs in to say Aerion's hurting Tanselle, Dunk beats up Aerion and almost gets murdered by Aerion's goons, Egg reveals himself to save Dunk, Dunk in prison, talks to Egg and Baelor, Baelor tells him he can be mutilated for striking a prince or ask for trial by combat, so "how good a knight are you, truly?"

#5 - Aerion says sure, trial by combat, but only a trial of seven, Dunk has to find 6 guys, talks to Raymun and Steffon Fossoway, Daeron apologizes and tells Dunk his dragon dream, shield reveal, next morning the smallfolk are all "a knight who remembered his vows", various guys show up to help Dunk and Raymun gets knighted, but Steffon Fossoway goes to Aerion's side so they're still missing a guy, "are there no true knights among you?", wait is that Valarr??? no it's Baelor in Valarr's armor omg

#6 - The trial of seven. You know how this ends. 😭 Then talking to Maekar, and Dunk and Egg ride off into the sunset together.

I hope that's convincing enough for the doubters! I can see a few points where something might be shifted from the end of one to the beginning of the other -- but on the whole I think the comic is an excellent roadmap for the show, and I hope this is the way they lay it out. Also ftr, the Sworn Sword graphic novel was also originally 6 issues so possibly season 2 ditto (unless they add an episode for the in between THK-TSS Dorne and Oldtown adventures that didn't actually appear in the novellas, idk). But the Mystery Knight was only released as one book, so who knows, they might go for more episodes when they get to that season.

Also, re taking inspiration from the comic, I really hope they adapt the Kingsguards' gold codpieces. Just because.

[all-that-glitters-is-goldfish]

It is our fate, I think, to crave what is given to another. If one possesses a thing, the other will take it away.

Helaena had a prophecy of the Tyland/Jaehaerys beef

[keepingupwiththeboltons]

Imagine asking someone to go to war—AFTER THEIR BELOVED CRICKET STOPPED SINGING!?!?!

[polaroid-petals]

Martyr!Stranger experiences the effects of original sin and learns to be careful what he wishes for

Stripped of the clothes that once belonged to Basil because those are not for Stranger to wear.

For my neutral ending Stranger

Live Omori reaction to this (he endlessly torments Stranger and loves to see him suffer)

Alternative design

[bloogers-boogers]

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[fashionbugster]

animal crossing x fashion dreamer | ruby

you can always take the red-eye.

[quillkiller]

the french new waveification of death eater culture is so amusing to watch

[valleys-lily]

Ok so. I'm reading cdth for the first time now, and it's going quite well for now (although it's not as good as trc for me) but now. I am at the point where Hennessy tells Ronan about her dream, and the tension is built and her nightmare is described as the worst nightmare ever and then she finally says what her nightmare ist and she calls it lace.

Like.

The Lace? Of all words that could possibly be used to name something, with all the creepy things out there, it is named Lace?

I'm not angry about it I just dont know how to deal with the greatest horror beyond imagination being described like lace

[endawn]

can’t believe i forgot to bring over the fact pax has a history of seizures tied into him being a dreamer and slipping into quamire, vaermina’s realm of oblivion. the taking his memories of his time in her realm being the root cause of them.

[apricusapollo]

look I'm not saying that France, Britain and America deserved to have their treaty of versailles blown up in their faces in 1939, but that's exactly what I'm saying.

[ottohomo]

i saw some bizarre tweets about pynch and a complete lack of understanding and basic understanding of their relationship, and it made me really sad and thoughtful, like it's ok not to like them as a couple, not everyone has the ability to understand complex relationships and not- perfect and misfits that adjust at certain points, but always have friction, this is really an audacious and interesting way for maggie to have made their relationship because it borders on the division of opinions about it. but in the tweets there were so many absurdities and things without the slightest sense that it becomes sick, complete stupidity, one of the points was the fact that the relationship was based on sex (like WHAT??????) as if adam liked ronan just for that, completely shallow this perception is illusory.

the person claims that they has read everything up to the dreamers trilogy, this kind of hatred and hallucinations created due to this is not normal.

[cgfreddy]

hello there! take your time coming to this ask, I understand life can suck and other people may need you more, but:

what am I if I don't fit agere nor agedre?

like, I do all the things like the pacis and the colors and the cartoons and I still wish I hadn't let Dad intimidate me into throwing away my bottles... but I never enter any kind of headspace often even described with agedre

so I guess the point of coming and asking anything is to ask 1. is there a label for this or am I having a brain fart? and 2. should I leave the agere/agedre community alone bc I might harm somebody?

if I am not told to leave you may see me again and it will likely be something lighter, sorry

In my opinion, what you're describing sounds like Agedre/Age Dreaming, but if that's not what you wanna call it then it's just littlespace/being little.

Agere/Age Regression is the one with a headspace, but everyone defines things differently. You call it what you wanna call it, and just keep being you!

More under the cut!

My definitions;

Age Regression - Mentally falling into a young headspace, often either to cope or feel safer. Also sometimes an involuntary trauma response

Age Dreaming - Acting like a child or enjoying childish things, often to cope or experience being a kid again, or just to be comfy.

Age Regressor - Someone who often uses Age Regression in order to heal, Voluntarily or Involuntarily

Age Dreamer - Someone who partakes in age dreaming as a form of self comfort or happiness

Those are the only labels I am aware of, if another blog is willing to add on that would be great!

You do not need to leave the agere/agedre community, as long as it isn't sexual it isn't gonna hurt anyone. You are just as valid as everyone else! Keep being you!

NSFW DNI, DDLG DNI, ABDL DNI, PROSHIP DNI, HOMOPHOBIC/TRANSPHOBIC DNI, KINK DNI, RACIST DNI, WHITEWASHERS/BLACKWASHERS DNI, DEMO SYSTEMS DNI, ANTI-AGERE DNI

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