#techno offers for Dream to make a nest in his house

[rat-rosemary]

Sorry. Thinking about him more (pigeon C!dream)

Techno takes his hand when he's healed enough and they walk all the way to the community house (Dream could walk back blind) and then Dream just... stands there. Looking at it. He wants to go to bed, but his nest is no longer there. It hasn't been in a long time.

[rainbowtransform]

Hey Rainbow! :D Here is a small ‘gift’ for you <3

/rp /dsmp

He was finally out. Out of that nightmarish place, stumbling along the last portion of obsidian and blackstone, with Techno right beside him.

He was too weak to walk by himself. But in just a few seconds he would reconnect with this server! He would feel whole again!

He stepped on to the grass and reached out.

Nothing.

No connection.

No comforting words carried with the wind.

Just a robotic voice in his mind ‘Administrator status changed successfully. Admin: Awesamdude’.

He screams.

Techno scrambles backward, and if the server didn’t—wasn’t—it’s not here. If Dream wasn’t screaming, he’d have noticed how Techno’s arms wrapped around him and how he was hauling him toward the portal.

If he was looking more closely, he’d have seen the other DSMP members watching them. Sapnap is in front, and his face is entirely white and his weapon shakes in his hand.

But Dream doesn’t look, doesn’t stare. He keeps screaming and he almost doesn’t hear Techno apologizing before his world goes black.

***

When Dream wakes up, he’s in a bed wrapped in bandages and Techno’s at his side. The world feels gray, and muted as he stares.

“Hey Dream,” Techno says, quietly. “How are you feeling?”

Dream reaches for the server again, trying to find it and there’s nothing. He’s alone.

Again.

Alone, alone, alone.

“Dream?” Techno says, and then offers him water. “Do you think you can eat anything?”

Dream doesn’t reply. He stares at the ceiling, and then—he doesn’t cry.

Why doesn’t he cry?

***

Niki visits. She stands tall, her armor gleaming. She gives him a plate of cookies and then watches as he doesn’t eat them.

“Okay,” Niki says. “Let’s get right to it. I don’t forgive you.”

And Dream expected nothing less from her.

“I don’t forgive you. I think it’ll be a long time before I do. But I do know that you didn’t deserve that.”

Dream sets the plate besides him, and Niki sighs. “Techno trusts that you won’t betray us. But if you do,” and here her eyes gleam, and Dream’s breath catches in his throat.

“I don’t know what I’d do.”

***

Ranboo visits him, when he’s sleeping. He sits on the corner of the bed, rambling and swearing up down and sideways that Michael really did ask for his godfather.

He doesn’t have to do it. Dream knows he felt the connection sever, the thread gone. But Ranboo smiles at him.

“You’re my Admin,” he says. “And the world knows it too. It just can’t… get back. Sam and Quackity did something and it just messed the entire thing up. And unless Sam transfers it back to you, the world really can’t do anything.”

Ranboo leans his head against Dream’s shoulder. “We’ll bring them back,” he promises.

“Just don’t do anything stupid.”

***

Phil is the only one who seems to understand. When he changes the bandages, he talks. Talks about how he’d lost his first Hardcore world; and how his second one was forcibly taken from him.

Dream wouldn’t say anything but Philza kept talking. He talked about the wife that he has, how she protects him and how the Void gifted him wings so he can see her every once in a while.

When he finishes, Phil pats Dream’s back. “I know, mate,” he says, softer than ever. “I know.”

(Dream waits until he leaves to cry.)

***

When he grows stronger, he doesn’t leave the house. There’s no point. Not when his server is gone, and he’s alone. He used to play with the dolphins before he got locked up; used to be able to create things out of thin air and would hear his server’s soft croons and wordless love.

He hears nothing. He used to be able to grow flowers from the earth, hold stars in his hands, and feel how it breathed and was alive.

He used to hear the baby birds in their nests, tweeting and the owls hooting at night; heard the cats meowing and purring while parrots chirped. He’d feel the trees just growing underneath him, and feel where wolves were.

He’s sitting in the attic’s window, Techno made it up for him when he didn’t want to sleep downstairs. He glances up at the sky, from where he’s sitting. Phantoms circle Techno, and Phil is quick to dispatch them. They say something to each other, and Phil looks up at Dream. He waves, but Dream keeps watching.

Techno squints up at him, and then leans down and picks up a cat. He shows it off to him and then nods.

“She’s yours,” he says when he dumps her onto his lap.

Dream looks at her, and she looks back. She purrs, loudly, and then curls closer into his lap.

Dream doesn’t touch her.

***

Sapnap comes, because he always does. The Syndicate stand in front of the house. Techno and Sapnap argue, but Dream’s window is shut so he can’t hear them. Just watches as Sapnap’s eyes grow redder and he almost glows, and watches Techno’s cool composure.

Sapnap screams something, and Techno snaps back, low and unafraid. And Sapnap steps back. He looks hurt. Niki steps in front of Techno, then, and takes out her weapon. She holds it to Sapnap’s throat, and orders something of him.

Sapnap walks away, but Dream locks eyes with him.

He’s suppose to kill me. Dream thinks. Let him.

***

The cat in his lap has no name. She burrows closer into his lap but Dream never pets her. She doesn’t mind, though.

Techno tells him stories, sometimes. When he can’t sleep and Techno’s nightmares are too much, he climbs the ladder and tells him Greek stories.

“Harpocrates,” Techno jokes with him. “I mean, after all that is who you are.”

I still have that chair? Dream signs, lips twitching in a smile.

“Duh,” Techno says. “You’re my left hand man.”

My chairs on the right

“The left.”

The right.

“Bruh. I go to the meetings.”

Techno picks at the floor.

“Sapnap came by,” he says quietly. “He wanted to talk with you. I didn’t let him.”

He promised to kill me, Dream says.

“I won’t let that happen.” Techno says, then. “He’s not touching you.”

Dream shrugs. Techno swallows, and then climbs back down the ladder. Dream goes back to watching the sun light up the horizon.

***

And Sam, of course, puts him back in Pandora. It’s predicable, really. He fixes up Pandora, makes it Techno-proof, and then teleport Dream back to his cell.

Sam and Quackity both look over at him, and Dream doesn’t even say anything. Sam straightens up, and says “Prisoner, as Admin I sentence you to stay in this cell until further notice.”

And the world does what it does best: it gives. There are barrier blocks all around the cell, and Dream knows without a shadow of a doubt that there will be no help coming.

Dream can’t even feel the code of the obsidian under his own feet. The Warden walks away, replacing blocks and he wipes his hands like he’s finished.

Dream doesn’t even stand up. He lays down, and watches as the obsidian drips.

He thinks he will never feel whole again.

(The world underneath him cries for its Admin, frightful of the one who holds them. He does not connect with the server, he expects things to be finished and not one thing out of place.

The New Admin demolished a mountain. The New Admin created materials and gave it out; the New Admin wants to open the End.

The world does not want to die.)

[newyorktheater]

Broadway is busy with the Tony Awards on June 9th, but June is bustin’ out all over with new shows on other New York stages. A good number of the openings mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and the birth of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement.

Fairview, at Theatre for a New Audience

Smiley at Repertorio Espanol

“Life Sucks”

Aenid Moloney in “Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom”

Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise

Several acclaimed plays are getting encore productions in other theaters, including  the Pulitzer-winning “Fairview.” Two different one-woman shows adapting the character Molly Bloom from James Joyce’s Ulysses for the stage. The Shed is offering a new Kung Fu musical, and the Atlantic a musical adapted from The Secret Life of Bees.

Below is a list of openings in June, 2019, organized chronologically by opening date, with each title linked to a relevant website. Color key of theaters: Broadway: Red. Off Broadway: Black, Blue, or Purple. Off Off Broadway: Green. Theater festival: Orange.  Immersive: Magenta. Shows marking Stonewall and those on gay themes will include the Stonewall 50 logo:

Many of the gay plays take place in non-traditional venues, and are of limited runs, often just a single performance. They and the theater festival offerings often don’t have official opening nights, so I list them by first public performance.

June 1

Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova at Greenwich House)

An encore presentation of the award-winning play inspired by an actual game that co-creator Scott Sheppard was forced to play in fifth grade, when his school re-enacted a bizarre version of the Civil War.

My review

Zen A.M. (Theatre for the New City)

After years of struggling, Bruno finally books a once in a lifetime project, only to develop major misgivings about participating and completing his painting

  June 2

 Pridetable (Storycourse)

Five courses.  Five personal stories from a diverse and intergenerational team of LGBTQ+ chefs.  A month long pop-up theatrical dining experience

  June 3

Dying City (Second Stage)

Revival of Christopher Shinn’s 2007 play, set in a spare Manhattan apartment, where a young widow receives an unexpected visit from the twin brother of her deceased husband. The play explores the human fallout of global events

Nomad Motel (Atlantic)

A play by Carla Ching, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, about kids raising themselves and making something out of nothing in the land of plenty.

Everything that happened and would happen (Park Ave Armory)

Artist and composer Heiner Goebbels reenacts 100 years of history to show a world in strife through performance, sound, movement, and moving image

Ant Fest (Ars Nova)

The 12th annual month-long festival begins with A People’s History of Silicon Valley, described as “a synth-pop send-up of techno-utopianism and startup bros.”

June 4

Long Lost (MTC at City Center)

A play by Donald Margulies (Dinner with Friends) directed by Daniel Sullivan. “When troubled Billy appears out-of-the-blue in his estranged brother David’s Wall Street office, he soon tries to re-insert himself into the comfortable life David has built with his philanthropist wife and college-age son. What does Billy really want?”

  Little Women (Primary at Cherry Lane)

Kate Hamill’s take on Louise May Alcott’s novel

June 5

“The Bear.Mozart, Salieri and The Bear (West End Theater)

A double bill of short Russian plays: Pushkin’s little tragedy “Mozart and Salieri” challenges the question of who murdered Mozart.  It is partnered with Chekhov’s vaudeville,ieri-the-bear”>

  June 6

Global Gay (La Mama)

Dramatizes the plight of queer people around the world

Part of LaMama’s Stonewall 50 celebration

You Never Touched The Dirt (Clubbed Thumb @ Wild Project)

A play about economic transformation, the dreams it enables, and those it crushes. “The Lis, the Zhaos, the ghosts and the animals engage in a land feud.”

Public Servant (TBTB at Theatre Row)

Theater Breaking Through Barriers kicks off its 40th Anniversary season with this world premiere drama by Bekah Brunstetter (“This Is Us”) about a county commissioner and a woman who needs his help.

June 11

Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park)

Kenny Leon directs an all-black staging of Shakespeare’s comedy of romantic retribution and miscommunication

June 12

Handbagged (59E59)

The Iron Lady. The Queen. Born six months apart, each woman had a destiny that would change the world. But when the stiff upper lip softened and the gloves came off, which one had the upper hand?

June 13

The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic)

A musical adaptation of Sue Monk Kidd’s beloved novel, with music by Duncan Sheik and book by Lynn Nottage, about two runaways in 1960s South Carolina, taken in by beekeeping sisters.

  Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom (Irish Rep)

Aedín Moloney performs as Molly Bloom in a stage adaptation of the Penelope chapter of Ulysses written by James Joyce

Molly Bloom (Fusion at Theater 244)

Irish actress Eilin O’Dea performs her one woman show as Molly Bloom from the Penelope chapter of James Joyce’s “Ulysses”

Convention (Irondale) 

Using an ensemble of 40 actors, the play tells the true story of the 1944 Democratic National Convention; when the people’s favorite, progressive incumbent Vice President Henry Wallace, was denied nomination as FDR’s running mate in favor of the moderate Senator Harry Truman.

13 Fruitcakes (La MaMa)

13 staged musical vignettes about 13 significant LGBTQ figures (e.g. Leonardo daVinci) along with a song cycle based on poems by queer poets such as Wilde, Whitman and Lorca

Part of Stonewall 50 at La MaMa

June 14

Smiley (Repertorio Espanol)

Alex and Bruno’s differences seem insurmountable but they fall in love

  June 15

Veil Widow Conspiracy (Next door at NYTW)

This play by Gordon Dahlquist offers nested versions of a story that begins as a political murder mystery in 1922 China; then 2010 Hollywood; winding up in dystopian Brooklyn of the future.

June 16

Fairview (Theatre for a New Audience)

An encore presentation of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Pulitzer prize-winning play about race and identity

Life Sucks (Wheelhouse at Theatre Row)

Aaron Posner’s acclaimed reimagining of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya” is re-opening Off-Broadway

June 17

A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons) Michael R. Jackson’s musical about a black, gay writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical: a piece about a black, gay writer, working a day job he hates while writing his original musical

Ode to Juneteenth (National Black Theatre)

Emancipation Jones tells us the true story of “Juneteenth”, the day two an a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation when Union Soldiers finally rode into Texas to announce the end of slavery.

Mel Brooks (Lunt Fontanne)

The first of two performances as part of the so-called In Residence on Broadway series.

June 18

Dropping Gumballs on Luke Wilson (A.R.T. NY)

A play written by Rob Ackerman and directed by Theresa Rebeck based on a true story about the making of a TV commercial in which a film director puts a movie star’s life in the hands of a very jittery props guy.

Leap and the Net Will Appear (New Georges at Flea)

What happens when Margie (raised to be a good girl; wants to be a lion) leaves home: twenty years whiz by like a moving train

June 19

Imminently Yours (Negro Ensemble Company at Theatre 80)

Descendants of American slaves resist expropriation of their inherited properties.

Out of Line: No Agenda Genda (High Line) Antonio Ramos presents a sci-fi piece of interactive dance theater dedicated to the legacy and memory of queer icons and movement-maker

  SheNYC (Connelly)

The festival begins with The Shoebox, in which four high school best friends write letters to their future selves — and then open them ten years later.

June 20

Toni Stone (Roundabout’s Laura Pels)

A play by Lydia Diamond directed by Pam McKinnon, based on a true story about the first woman to go pro in the Negro Leagues,

Pride Plays (Rattlestick)

More than a dozen play readings from celebrated LBTQIA voices, including Paula Vogel, Terrence McNally and the Five Lesbian Brothers, will be presented from June 20th through 24th

Contradict This! (LaMama)

The Bearded Ladies Cabaret presents a spectacle that is part trial, part birthday, part funeral, featuring original music performed by a host of misfits, drag artists, queers, and a local choir. Part of Stonewall 50 at La MaMa

June 21

Stonewall (NYC Opera)

A new American opera by Iain Bell and Mark Campbell “that captures the rage, grit, humor and, finally, hope of the LGBTQ community’s uprising in a Greenwich Village dance club on one hot night in June 1969. The work is divided into three parts and follows a diverse group of characters whose lives collide at that pivotal moment in history when the police push them too far and they find the courage to fight back.”

June 22

King Phillip’s Head is Still on That Pike Just Down the Road (Clubbed Thumb @ The Wild Project) The councilmen of Plymouth Colony determine how to be Good in the New World.

The Stonewall 50 Plays (Queens Museum)

The One-Minute Play Festival has organized 50 new Queer One-Minute Plays, which will be presented from 2 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

    June 23

Quilt  (Judson Memorial Church)

A musical celebration of those who died of AIDS and those who survived.

  June 26

Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise (The Shed)

The story of a secret sect in Flushing, Queens, that possesses the magical power to extend human life, and the twin brother and sister caught in the struggle to control it. Directed by Chen Shi-Zheng and written by the creators of the Kung Fu Panda movies, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger.

Working (Encores Off Center)

This concert version of Nina Faso and Stephen Schwartz’s 1978 musical based on Stud Terkels est-selling book feaures a cast that includes, Helen Hunt, Christopher Jackson, Javier Muñoz and Andréa Burns

Outside of Eden (New Ohio)

The Ice Factory Festival begins with this mix of opera and theater about the Byzantine Empresses.

  June 27

In The Green (Lincoln Center’s LCT3)

Grace McLean’s new musical tells the origin story of one of Medieval history’s most powerful and creative women: Hildegard von Bingen. Before she became a healer, a composer, an exorcist, and finally a saint, she was a little girl locked in a cell with her mentor, Jutta.

June 2019 New York Theater Openings: Stonewall 50 On Stage! Fairview Returns! Broadway is busy with the Tony Awards on June 9th, but June is bustin' out all over with new shows on other New York stages.