Opinions on Dream? :^
SO many feelings about him omgg rant under cut please forgive me
okay so i don't really talk or draw him much cause honestly,,,most of the times i just think he's a bit....boring? or more accurately plain? not in a mean way either but just in a 'fades into the background' type of way like don't get me wrong!! he's a really nice friend to his peers, his feelings about his powers and aura making his relationships harder to navigate and trust along with his whole conflict with nightmare and morality about what's good and bad IS very cool!! and i love it whenever they write him to be complex and not on this black and white mentality or when he's just straight up following along his friends with no free will or with a dubious purpose without ever addressing his issues or feelings! it's just unsatisfying to me :')
or when they're making him the 'naive' and oblivious, (sometimes childish?) character being marked as the obstacle and villain along with the other star sanses from the fic's pov, always talking about doing good things while fighting his brother and not hearing him out about the balance, (and for weak reasons most of the time. like it's been so long and you STILL haven't sat down with him when he's, generally, basically begged you to just have a talk? guys please :'( ) or when they go for the victim sad dream always missing the old nightmare, where corrupted nightmare is the incarnation of evil, with no sympathy or emotion except anger and sadistic glee, killing and hurting everyone and dream's just trying to protect the multiverse and dream's always been in the right. such extremes!!!
LIKE!! i hope i'm not the only one that thinks a 500+ year old should have had enough time to idk. learn things? about people and manipulation and deceit? after knowing what the villagers did to night? about the bad things in the world and how there's a lot of grey areas in life and that he maybe reflected on his past enough to process and ask himself if there should to be a convo to settle his differences with nightmare (and you can make nightmare the stubborn one too! or have them BOTH be petty and imperfect and have some things wrong and some right at the same time like why do i always see the good guy vs bad guy cliché with these two when they're the perfect example of why positivity doesn't have meaning without the negativity!! as long as there's a satisfying evolution or growth that doesn't leave me empty i'm good yknow?)
plus i believe dream really isn't as dumb as people view him. i do get some of you saying he probably can't read or write since that's actually a pretty interesting idea to explore! but in general please let him have emotions other than pure sunshiny happiness or endless sadness like he's gotta have more depth than that! let him make mistakes, have flaws that don't just make him the bad guy that's always in the wrong by default, and be angry or suspicious or jealous or bitter or battling his mental health problems/depression or malicious or smart or witty or mischievous and silly or sarcastic or ANYTHING dude i just want him to be put into different scenarios where he can be serious or lighthearted like it doesn't even have to be long or perfect but make him feel real.
it could definitely be that i don't read or see much art about dream or really look for it hard enough but also i just. i feel bad for even saying this fr and i wanna be honest about why i don't enjoy most stories about him cause he always gets the worst treatment along with ink!!! especially ink omg the poor guy has it the worst i think like wow do they mess him up :'(
always one dimensional in non shippy fics, or too plain or easily replaceable by other, more entertaining people in the significant other's life in most of his ships like man. i have read fics out there that made me genuinely FEEL and root for him and love his character so much it restored all hope for me!!! but i can only name one on top of my head and the others? it's been so long i don't even remember their names i just legit feel terrible cause i love him still and i can't find many headcanons that fit my interpretation of him yknow?
not to say people who write him very happy, mislead or sad are ruining him like that's silly- if i see something i don't like i just. move on bro i wouldn't force people to feel or think the same way i do about him cause anyone can have whatever headcanons they want!!! just talking about what i personally look for in him and why i can't exactly find it since most of the stuff out there just isn't my cup of tea :')
hopefully i didn't set anyone off with this rambling opinionated essay i just pulled hhh xD i know i know he's a popular character and i know a lot of people like dream so *sobs* please please recommend me artists and fics about him that you think is good it's been so looong since i've read or seen anything new that makes me attached to this little guy aughg<33333
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a little bit of a rant below
but for baby tyrant
the character of emili, she just got introduced and now we're at the ball
tell me why people think she's a horrible person already?????? she's literally like SEVEN. SEVEN. Its been PROVEN her father is a piece of shit through his interactions with enrique (beating him, degrading/insulting him), and her father wants to use his kids to gain mabel's favor and have an advantage. LITERALLY PROVEN. And shes SEVEN. what is up with the comments section that they would even let it cross their mind that she's and irredeemably horrible person?????????
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lol ignore this 🙃
i can't stop crying at work because everything in my life is going wrong and this stupid shit with my stupid cousin and family is upsetting me so much and it shouldn't be and i feel so fucking stupid for being bothered by this bc it's what i wanted!!! but no i'm wrong again and this time they're just all fully cutting me off and i'm working non fucking stop and still can't afford anything bc the world is going to absolute fucking shit and i'm just so sick of feeling like i can't do anything right ever and i've been feeling suicidal every fucking day for an entire fucking MONTH because of everything and my cousin was who i always reached out to when things got bad and i fucking can't because SHES NOT TALKING TO ME and i'm going to cry AGAIN FUCK
i'm so sick of this
i'm so sick of falling apart because of my family
i'm so sick of never being good enough
i'm so sick of feeling like this
i'm so fucking tired
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i can’t help but feel like a bad friend right now even though i know it’s not my fault. but my best friend is studying abroad right now and sent me the sweetest message about how she finds it hard to be herself around the girls she’s there with and misses me and really values our friendship. but when i studied abroad last year i truly consider it the best part of my college experience and felt the exact opposite because i wasn’t closeted on that trip. even though my best friend knows im gay, she’s straight and doesn’t understand a lot of my struggle with my sexuality on an everyday basis, we barely talk about it because neither one of us really knows how. even though she’s definitely supportive it’s a bit of a barrier between us at times because of that disconnect. and it’s not that i didn’t miss her while i was away, but i felt so free on that trip and was able to be myself with my group + roommates in a way that i can’t even do with her. she’s my best friend first and foremost (i hardly talk to anyone from my study abroad now that we’re back at school actually, so it wasn’t ever that we were better friends. just easier friends?) and i feel so guilty that our experiences were so opposite and i don’t know how to talk about it or comfort her now that she isn’t having the best time
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being a lesbian who craves male validation is so hard. the guy helping me at pt was close to my age and told me it's ok i'm not going to college LITERALLY THAT'S IT and now i'm at home thinking "well... i mean... yeah i like girls but if it really came down to it, and i really cared about someone, maybe gender wouldn't matter" LIKE!!! WHAT ARE YOU ON ABOUT 😭 i literally go through this with every teen boy i meet. literally every single one, no matter what they look like or what their personality is. it's been like this with every boy the same age as me as far back as i can remember: i get attached and flustered bc i'm not used to others being nice to me, especially people my age because i'm homeschooled and get little social interaction; especially men since there's mostly just women in my life. then i think i have a crush on the guy because of it. then i'm like "...but i literally don't want to date him. like i'm trying to picture it and i cannot picture that happening. i also really don't find him physically attractive" and i realize, oh. i'm just being really really compulsively heterosexual. i'm assuming that caring about the opposite sex must be romantic by default, because my mom directly inserted that belief into my life when i was young. the religious upbringing definitely didn't help, either. it's just me being glad i have a positive male figure in my life, and once i realize that, i'm immediately able to be normal around the guy again, and i completely forget i ever thought i had a crush on them. then repeat cycle with the next guy. am i crazy for this
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I really wish we had more fics/content exploring Y'shtola's blindness, especially because aside from a few scenes, it goes so unmentioned in the game. Like, do you think that she forgets what her friends' smiles look like, eventually? Do you think she forgets the sky, or the forest, or the colorful cityscape? She can see with aether, but it's all just the same shades of blue, monotonous, blending into each other. Like a big mass of magic and she just has to guess what that's supposed to mean. If someone's aether is shaking weirdly she has to guess that they're crying. She can't see expressions, or colors, or anything besides featureless blue. She just has to infer what she can't see based off of sound and experience, and even worse, she knows that using aether sight like this is killing her slowly. I really wish the game had her linger on her blindness longer than "oops, well, that's a thing now". There are so many cool scenarios that could be explored...
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