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mkstrigidae · 2 days

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APWH preview snippet!

Since I'm actively trying to work on getting the next few chapters out, I thought I'd share a little future scene with some hints of Jonsa with all you lovely people! This bit is from like, a few chapters in the future bc it's the in-between that's giving me fits right now :) (Fair warning: this is unedited and subject to change! That being said, it's such a fun scene that I can't imagine ever nixing it :D)

“Does he even know that they have to avoid the press?”

“For the last time-“ Sam sighed, sounding completely exasperated, “Dickon knows what they can and can’t do- he’s got enough practice not being photographed from when our dad was the secretary. Not to mention spending time around you when that exposé on your crazy grandfather came out two years ago.”

“I just-“ Jon sighed, blowing a stray curl out of his face. “You didn’t see how freaked out she was when the press caught us at that performance in White Harbor. I thought she was going to have a full-blown panic attack.”

He was immediately derailed by Gilly plopping little Sam down in his lap and shoving a bottle into his hands.

“What’s this all about?” he raised a brow, adjusting the baby on his lap, allowing him to latch onto the cuff of his flannel shirt and start gnawing at the fabric. “You going somewhere?”

Gilly shot him a withering look, but he saw the amusement in her eyes.

“I-“ she gestured, imperiously, “Have not had time by myself to shower all week-“

“Sorry, love.” Sam winced, looking up from his pile of paperwork. “I can take a break from these-“

“Not your fault, Sam.” she waved him off. “You warned me about this conference at the beginning of the summer.” a grin played at the corners of her mouth. “Besides, it works out well- Jon needs a distraction right now from the fact that Sansa’s on a date with your extremely hot and conventionally attractive brother.”

“Hey!” Sam looked wounded, and Gilly rolled her eyes, pressing a kiss to his forehead.

“You know you’re my favorite Tarly.” she wrinkled her nose. “How long have you been working on this presentation? You smell like the baby spit up on you.”

“Guess I’m next in line for showers.” Sam said, mournfully. “Unless-“

“Nope- I need my own time right now, Samwell. Did you even hear what I said about why Jon’s bent out of shape?”

Jon had known Gilly since Sam and she had met up north while the two of them were in college. Sometimes, it was hard to reconcile the timid, scared girl she had been with the woman who was currently devoting all of her remaining energy to busting his balls.

“Don’t tell me you’re worried about Sansa with my brother.” Sam snorted, shotgunning another cup of coffee next to him the way Jon was used to seeing undergrads do with jaeger shots. “I mean, this is Dickon we’re talking about. Used to bring wounded animals home to take care of them Dickon? The same guy who cried when we had movie night and Gilly and Rhae wanted to go see ‘Love, Simon’?” He shook his head. “Look, as far as guys she could be out on a date with right now go, Dickon’s kind of the best case scenario. She’ll have a nice time, and he’ll be a perfect gentleman.”

Jon blinked at him, silently turning to look up at Gilly, who rolled her eyes and sighed.

“You’re hopeless, sweetie.” she kissed him on the forehead again, wrinkling her nose. “He’s not worried that things will go wrong- he’s worried they’ll go a little too well.”

“You’ve been spending way too much time around my sister.” Jon muttered, narrowly avoiding little Sam’s grasping reach for his glasses, managing to get the baby to latch onto the bottle before he destroyed any more of Jon’s eyewear. “You even sounded like her just then.”

Sam blinked for a second, his head whipping between Jon and Gilly.“You’re jealous?” He asked, incredulously. “Of Dickon? Wait- you like Sansa?”

“Got there in the end.” Gilly sighed, affectionately patting him on the shoulder before going to shower, leaving Jon and Sam behind with four cups of coffee, one baby, and approximately five brain cells total between the two of them.

“You like her.” Sam repeated, like it was a giant revelation.

“What are we- in middle school?” Jon hissed, immediately turning his head down to smile and make faces at little Sam while he fed him, before glaring up at big Sam again. “I don’t- I mean-“

Sam was just shaking his head.“Of course you do.” he laughed. “Should have guessed- red hair and a damsel in distress? You were doomed from the outset.”

“Shut up.” Jon muttered, flushing. “It’s not like that.”

“Then why are you worrying about Dickon for fu-“ Sam glanced nervously at the baby, “-god’s sake? When Gill was meeting my family for the first time, I remember you told her not to worry- that my brother was ‘one of the best guys you know’ and ‘practically a golden retriever’.”

Jon could tell that Sam, who could not raise one eyebrow without the other, was desperately trying to do just that.

“I don’t know.” He muttered, moving little Sam to his shoulder to start burping him. “Look- I’m attracted to her, alright? It’s a fu- er, a giant disaster that I’m gonna ignore for the rest of my life.”

“Seriously?”

“Stop trying to do that with your eyebrows.” Jon complained. “It’s giving me motion sickness. And yes, seriously. I’m not even going to consider that- it’s just a stupid crush. Besides,” he sighed, rubbing little Sam’s back comfortingly, “Robb’s already dealing with enough right now with this whole Sansa situation- can’t imagine telling him I think his sister’s attractive while he’s being forced to suddenly confront all of his guilt and self loathing every time he looks at her.”

“That whole bro code thing of never dating your friend’s sisters never really made sense to me.” Sam shook his head, gulping down more coffee. “I mean, I’d be thrilled if you decided to date Talla, because I know you’d be good to her.”

“Yeah, don't think she'd quite go for that, mate.” Jon snorted, standing to bounce little Sam around gently. He was just grateful Sam hadn’t said anything else about Robb.

“Eh, wouldn’t count you out completely.” Sam shrugged, smirking. “With that hair, you’re pretty enough to be a girl- maybe that’d be enough for her.”

“You are so lucky i’m holding the baby.” Jon muttered, still bouncing little Sam, who picked that moment to spit up spectacularly down Jon’s back.

“Well, that’s three of us who’re gonna need showers now.” Sam grinned, looking thrilled as all get out that it hadn’t been him. “Wow- his aim is getting better.”

“I’m going to remind him of this when he’s a sulky teenager.” Jon grumbled, wiping spit-up off his shoulder as best he could. “Look- no gossiping with Rhae about this, please. She thinks she’s such a good clandestine agent that she doesn’t always realize that Robb is better at sniffing out her plots than she thinks.”

“Alright-“ Sam sighed, looking back down at the massive stack of paperwork in front of him. “I make no promises for Gill, though.”

“Gilly could give some of my Uncle’s colleagues at the WIA a run for their money when it comes to withstanding interrogation.” Jon snorted.

“Probably true.”

“Where did your brother take Sansa?” Still holding onto a now much happier baby with one hand, he reached down the other to take a gulp of his own coffee.

“He said something about going out towards the Tyrell Estate.” Sam shrugged. “They probably drove out there to see the gardens- he’s said it’s a good road to take his bike out on.”

Jon promptly spat out his entire sip of coffee, staining the front of his shirt as well as the back, and frightening little Sam enough that he started to cry.

“He took her on his motorcycle?”

Gilly picked that moment to reappear, completely clean and with wet hair, blinking at the scene in front of her.

Sam, who couldn’t seem to stop laughing, was desperately trying to calm down the baby, who had started wailing, while Jon’s entire front was covered in coffee and his entire back was covered in baby vomit. Not that he seemed to notice, as his face was white and he was making a series of angry looking hand gestures at her husband.

“I really can’t leave you three alone for five minutes, can I?” she sighed. “Do I even want to know?”

#my writing #my wips #writing wips #just APWH things #jonsa #fanfiction wip #God bless Gilly like for real #YES Sansa is on a date with someone else here #muscleman golden retriever McAttractiveness #Aka dickon tarly #unsurprisingly jon is not having a great time about it!#in fairness to sansa the plotline directly preceding this and kicking off her doing some traveling was pretty rough on her #so our poor girl really deserves a giant muscley golden retriever with a motorcycle #and to just have a good time with someone who isn't wrapped up in all the stark drama/disaster/mess etc.#jon can deal with it rn bc it's really a 'you snooze you lose' kind of situation #sam's usually quicker on the draw but he's very sleep deprived here #and working on some stuff for a pathology conference #not at all going to be relevant nope no sir #writing sam and jon interacting vs jon and robb is so fascinating #they're both jon's besties but there's a very different dynamic to the two relationships #in fairness Robb has like SO much complex childhood trauma and is kind of seriously going through it right now #but his scenes with jon always have this sort of darker edge to them #like an 'i've known you my entire life and know everything about you for better or worse' type deal- deeper but darker #it's more akin to a sibling relationship? but also not? they are both going thru it #my headcanon is that anytime jon starts getting too gloomy and angsty gilly just straight up shoves the baby at him #and then waits like twenty minutes #Gilly: 'it's free babysitting!'#generally it works pretty well #jon's like '404 error does not compute' as soon as sam says the word 'motorcycle'#also when sam says 'the secretary' he means randyll tarly was the secretary of defense

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ladyriot · 1 year

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Thinking about Ava Coleman today and how the Fundraiser episode recontenxtualizes her being at Abbott for me. It's so easy to read Ava as a little bit manipulative and self-serving, but really she's just never had anything given to her and had to get resourceful to survive. And so even though she got into Abbott by manipulation, she's just doing what she's always done, exploiting weaknesses in systems and people with more advantages and social power than she has as survival. And so yes, Ava has a little bit of an ego and disregards rules and seems like a "bad principal" who may not fit there. [I wonder how much of this is posturing?] But really she just has intimate knowledge of how systems are broken and works outside of them to give herself and others the best life they can get. Like having those extra trousers for the financially disadvantaged student. And oh my god, is Ava Coleman actually an excellent principal who does it the way she does not out of laziness but knowledge that it works and provides much more to students than working within underfunded and biased systems. Like is she actually better for the job than the theoretically perfect Gregory who knows all the rules of that system, but doesn't know how to do things like persuade a kid's parent to bring their kid on time?!

I am in love with the way this story has just been carefully unwrapping Ava piece by very soft piece and revealing that the characteristics we've been shown make her "bad at her job" are really just manifestations of her humanity and the depth of the care she has for those neglected! Her grandmother! Henry! I'm obsessed. The way she treats children/the elderly, you know she's endlessly compassionate. But like, she's doing the job? She isn't doing it "right" but she's doing right for the kids. I just think she's like secretly also now doing paperwork to get grants and allowances and however else school systems work because of these other rule followers instead of only swindling her way into getting her kids extracurricular opportunities and access.

P.S. maybe she just has so much free time to watch TV and run side hustles to earn money because working outside the system works faster. Not so many bureaucratic hoops to jump through (that she may or may not only pretend to dismiss while actually trying very hard to get those ways to work too)

P.P.S. Now also thinking of the trauma of having to find ways to provide for yourself from young and how that probably contributes to Ava's need for some constant grind with some project or another on the side of the job she already has. What if she's preparing for the stability to be ripped out from under her rather than being frivolous and bougie and wanting to amass things for the thrill of it? What if she doesn't know how not to put all of her value in the way she creatively finds ways to provide for her and her family?

#abbott elementary #ava coleman #abbott elementary spoilers #i love when characters seem one way and are actually just entirely disingenuous #ava might literally be an actually great principal because the 'values' she embodies with her words and surface actions aren't true to her #i would also accept any variation of a gregory & ava principal/vice-principal dynamic #Writing this post because I'd be watching the episode rn if there were one this week

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atthebell · 5 months

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I think Pixlriffs on the QSMP would kill me. The odds of that happening are close to zero, but sometimes I think about it and giggle like a madman. I'm a Pixlriffs fan first and a human second

personally i think if you're looking at people from empires sausage would be an INCREDIBLE addition 1. his name is literally sausage need i say more 2. he's cuban & speaks spanish we need more cuban rep 3. The Way That He Is. perfect for queersmp seriously 4. HE WOULD BE ON ALL THE TIME we would finally have another spanish speaker who actually logs on frequently can you imagine

#asks #anons #i love sausage so much actually i remember menace and i talking about this like WAYYYYY back #he would be so great #no shade to pix i just think sausage makes more sense considering the entire dynamic of the server #and the desperate need for more active spanish speakers

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olympiansally · 1 year

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I promise you will lose your minds

#buddy daddies #i’m going to singlehandedly make everyone watch idc idc #I have no excuse other than I watched it and I literally looked like this the entire time 🤩#it’s off to such a great start it’s really going to be everything #anyway #go watch buddy daddies rn rn rn #it’s really sweet and funny and it’s got the dynamic of all time #just it the one #yk the depressed emo + sunshine sweetheart #and I really love how they did it too

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yashley · 1 year

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But my head rolls with the multiple layers of orym's intent in asking fearne “are you with me?” And then upon fearne validating that outreach, immediately putting it to fearne that she’s “going to be the one who has to… do the thing”. god knows orym trusts fearne but I honestly do believe that he knows enough, not judgmentally at all, to know fearne and know that as much as kindness can be in her nature, her nature is chaos. And it can’t be lost on orym with his perception to have caught those moments when imogen tests how brazen she can go, that fearne doesn’t oppose it at all but instead blithely joins in those moments. Yes, orym’s entire motivation is stopping the people who killed his family, stopping the end from swallowing all of the people he still cherishes in his world, his motivation and intensity is absolutely justified in its desperation, that he has the humility to acknowledge that he can support but he can’t be the only one jumping into the position of most danger for once. that orym tells fearne “YOU HAVE to be THE ONE” and assigns that severity of responsibility to an irresponsible (affectionate) fey creature of nonchalant chaos and blasé violence, it’s so much more than just a sudden “it’s on you”. he’s not just tapping fearne on the shoulder to have them suit up to stop imogen together if it comes to that, the way orym watches fearne, and watches. fearne. WANT. to dismiss his level of concern and plea to her; it’s like orym testing fearne, testing her reaction, testing her resolve, and while I believe he sincerely wants to trust her and he does trust his connection with her, orym wouldn’t love fearne completely if he didn’t also love her nature. In all its dangers. And I just love that if it wasn’t just a simple “we’re gonna do this, and YOU have to do THIS”, there’s like a splintering of more love orym has for his best friend because it’s like “I am asking you to be something other than who you are, but I will love you though my heart will break for you even if you can’t”. like this conversation was less about orym devising a contingency plan to keep imogen out of initiative and more so genuinely and so orym-ly confronting fearne about how much he needs her on his side, even if that breaks his heart to put that clearly unbearable task specifically on her shoulders, explicitly telling her “I am RELYING on YOU to potentially take out someone who appeals to your nature, a friend”, it’s like orym can be better prepared if he also needs to consider the depths of how much fearne’s nature silently aligns with her desires in the upcoming altercation. And it’s like this degree of discomfort he deliberately (though not lightly) puts on fearne actually could help her in making whatever decision she’s going to make and not make it as lightly as she might have before. orym, who was there when fearne first started to feel experiences so deeply, who has been through everything of sincerity and companionship, looking her in the eyes and pleading her to willingly choose the harder path. even though he knows just how painful it’s going to be.

#critical role #That being said the true depths of conflict and development that could happen if fearne does go over and then experiences her most agonizing #moment of regret #Like is it predictable so therefore unlikely fearne would ever join the Wrong side?#I mean the entire point of exu prime was that Power is Power and morality is something else #The entire point of a great many great stories is that no bad guy thinks they’re the bad guy #Do I think fearne would consciously betray orym absolutely not. But the distinction without a difference of it all has me #Like yes yes fearne won’t go over obviously but youre telling me that Ashley and Liam wouldn’t Kill that development in their pcs dynamic of #What Next #Prayer circle for the ruicrew to seriously also try to get fearne over but yeah I don’t think she’s a priority to them unlike imogen #Literally obsessed fearne Can’t tell orym yes she’ll do it #and literally obsessed with the orym way orym lets her know he really loves her - how else could he trust her that much #listen I just think of all the missed opportunities for liam/ashs pcs dynamics to dive into the trenches together for them to Kill conflict #also I love italics can you tell

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cvsette · 7 months

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REALLY wish I could recommend Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle because there is a lot of good and interesting and fun stuff there but man...that ending... :/

#its not BAD its just. to me. underwhelming and confusing #ive read the entire series at least 3 times and i still am not completely sure what was going on #the time loop i get but like why was...no i wont even try to get into it #but theres so much good stuff!!#Fai and Kurogane are great original characters #the group dynamic #the different worlds and all the interesting side adventures #i wish they had spent more time traveling around to different worlds and less time getting caught up in the time space paradox. basically.#reading cardcaptor sakura clear card after this is going to be like clamp how could you #poor sakura and syaoran...#tsubasa reservoir chronicle #txt

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gorgynei · 1 year

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ill never forgive the ONE singular wolf study that came up with the alpha/beta/omega hierarchy for causing such terrible and irreparable damage on everything wolf related forever. i have a personal grudge against rudolph schenkel.

#wolf packs are not an ''alpha'' male/female and a bunch of betas and omegas. that entire idea is based on a failure of a study #its a fucking family. not like a military regiment or something crazy. its just a family #the mating pair lead because theyre the parents and their children make up the rest of the pack #occasionally other wolves or other packs will combine into one so its not always just blood family #theres a hierarchy yeah but its like every family has a hierarchy. its not so rigid and competitive as they try to make it in shows #but its. rrrghhh. everyone whos writing abt wolves/werewolves should be forced to stop and go #''hmm. is this real wolf behavior? or is this completely fake?'' whenever they do anything with pack dynamics #okay rant over. wolfblood is pissing me off a little their wolves were great in s1 but theyre veering into irritating territory #i knew it was coming though. i can cope #ramblings

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mad-hunts · 12 days

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11. what would your muse consider their worst failing?

hello, @absensia, and happy sunday! thank you so much for the ask :D i just want y'all know that i appreciate every single one of these!! but alright, well... to tell you why barton views this particular thing as being his worst failing, i'm going to have to give you some backstory first. so please bear with me while i explain! so, as you may or may not know, barton currently has four kids. two of which are biologically related to him and the other two being adopted. though, back whenever he was first starting off as the dollmaker, barton actually had five kids. and this fifth child he had was named julien.

julien was different from the rest of his siblings, like jack is, in the way that he seemed to have experienced some form of trauma before barton had even adopted him that caused him to be very sensitive in relation to other people's emotions and actually made him act a bit jumpy. but this didn't change the fact that julien was kind of affectionately regarded as ' the best of all of them ' by barton's other kids whenever he was still around; and that was because julien would often try to protect his siblings, even in situations where he could get severely hurt, and he seemed to have this sort - of mellowing affect on barton because of just how likeable of a person he was.

the best way that i could describe what made him so special is that he was SUCH a good listener and had a way of making people feel welcome around him, which may be a bit surprising to hear considering the often dark + terribly gory reputation of the mathis family, but julien also really didn't like what he had to do while he was a part of their family sometimes. so you can imagine that whenever barton lost him to someone as sadistic as the joker... he was beyond devastated. not only because julien was like a figure of light in a family that could be the epitome of overwhelming despair, but because barton was the one who told him to go assist the joker with one of his ' schemes, ' as the man had contracted his help to do a rather grisly act to him — which would be to cut off his face — and julien had never come back from that meeting with him.

and although one could make the argument that barton couldn't have possibly known that that would happen, especially considering that he didn't know the full extent of just how bad the joker was at the time, he still very much blames himself for it. because barton believed that he should've known better in the end and gone there himself instead of treating this job like it'd be like any other one that they'd done, when it really wasn't. now just to give you some more context before i go on; if there's one thing you should know about barton, it's that his relationship with his children are probably his most complicated, so i do believe he does hold some kind of genuine love for them... but it's not a love that anyone can easily understand and one that likely isn't healthy at least half the time either.

but he felt legitimately torn up inside about it even a year later, and today, it's still isn't something that he likes to talk about. it was by far his greatest failure both as a father and as a person in his eyes. plus, knowing the fact that julien died alone and probably in a lot of pain, too? it was so painful for him that barton would swear up and down that it felt akin to someone shooting him right through the heart. so, if you were to ask him what he would do if he could go back in time and change one thing about his past, barton's answer wouldn't be that he would save himself from the cruelty of having to grow up under wesley's roof, or to make it so that his mom didn't have to leave him and he'd actually get to know her, or even to spend more a little more time with marcy... though, trust me, he has thought about all of those things.

it would be that he'd save julien. because he deserved so much better, in his eyes, than to be killed at the age of seventeen whenever he still had his whole life ahead of him and to have his comments about him being scared to go confront the joker completely dismissed. and this is also something that barton hates himself for. how to feels to have your feelings disregarded is something that barton is shocking familiar with, after all, and it's not a good feeling at all. but the fact remains that he can't do anything about his death now. all barton can do is grieve him at night, whenever he has no choice but to be alone with his thoughts, and he looks at past photographs of their entire family that have long since faded. of julien.

#YOUR NEED GREW TEETH: character study.#ANGER'S HELPED ME STAY ALIVE: headcanons.#uhh okay... who put the onion slices in here y'all ;;#i honestly don't know whether this one or the past one was more sad but i suppose it isn't a competition JSJSJ #i just love torturing poor ol' barton don't i? / j nahhh nah he's anything but poor.#though i do feel like barton's story can be somewhat sympathetic sometimes. from how he had to deal with having a c*nnibalistic serial-#killer for a father + having his mom be forced to leave him as well as julien dying and barton feeling an IMMENSE amount of guilt bc of it.#and i feel like that might not even be all but i don't wanna bum anyone here out any further so JSJSJ let's just put a pen in it for now #i hope you liked my response though and that you're having a great day!!#tw: mentions of a child's death.#tw: guilt.#tw: mentions of unhealthy family dynamics.#and i thought that i should add that that of course doesn’t EXCUSE his horrific actions... i just want to explain the way in which barton-#demonstrates his humanity ( or what's left of it at least (': ) and how things may be more complicated than they appear on the surface.#because barton is not entirely evil but he's also VERY MUCH not a good person. so yeahhh

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dennisboobs · 9 months

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im actually getting so heated but i’d love to know your opinion on how annoyed people are getting about dennis “successfully monitoring his blood pressure” and actually being in control of his body. like??? huh??

I dunno, I don't really get why it's an issue for so many people personally speaking shsjnfnkhfjd this is like, pretty well established stuff, he's just gotten better at it and is using kratom to achieve it now. I'm jazzed that we're going to get (and have been getting) the Not Just Angry dennis that glenn wanted to play.

#ask ada #im happy for him i wanted a change in dennis and this is a really really great way of going about it imo #like it doesnt change the dynamic with the gang it just sort of #cleanly pushes dennis to be a little more chill with them all while also developing our understanding of him #its a character study ep!#i dont think sunny NEEDS to be bleak and depressing and have them miserable all the time #thats why i dislike a lot of the more recent seasons #i think dennis needed a personal victory #even if its delusional #he can control his rage now. like. good. glenn's sick of going into that headspace hdsjhfjfjf #also like. yeah charlie lost his dad and sobbed in the rain but. s15 ended on a hopeful note and it was BETTER for it #because the gang came together to support him #so like. what is the problem #idk i got everything i wanted and more and i have no complaints #he had to compromise the entire episode and work with the hand he was dealt #its not... dennis having control over his body. its dennis coming to terms with the fact that he needs to step back and relinquish control #he realizes he CAN'T control shit. he can't control his body aging and he can't control other people #and then. he accepts it. and calms the hell down

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maslows-pyramid-scheme · 6 months

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You really are right about radblr (and radblr orbiters/adjacents, before anyone gets mad) not being able to read. I’m gonna add in: they’re not able to remember their own arguments or apply their own logic across the board. They pick and choose who and where they want to apply it to, just like gendies (and everyone else for that matter).

Either people can be privileged and marginalized along the same class lines simultaneously or they can’t. Either a woman’s sexual behavior gains her meaningful social power or it doesn’t. Either a woman’s value is determined by her proximity to men or it’s not.* The radblr+ community wanting to have it both ways depending on the class of women or individual woman they’re talking about in any particular moment shows me their critical thinking skills aren’t too hot either. They’re more interested in winning arguments than being ideologically consistent.

*Not an exhaustive list of examples.

#this is such a great comment and i don't want to ruin it - i totally agree!#the inconsistency really captures the problem with the axis of oppression/identity politics framework #the axis offers a simple way of broadly understanding class dynamics (which social prejudices exist?)#but it can't really be used to understand the nuances of any given situation (how do people navigate social prejudice?)#(and i'm not taking a gendie approach and saying we should ditch class analysis entirely - i just think there are nuances)#(i think the axis works best for things immediately obvious like one's sex race disability and class)#anon #radblr

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raspberryjellybrains · 1 year

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hey there! saw your tags on a post about dream being bad at communication where you said in the tags that dreamling has the vibe of ADHD vs Autism Showdown except instead of fighting they make out. would love to see all ur thoughts on this 👀👀

Hi!!! I would love to share them!!!

It is relatively immediately obvious upon looking at my blog that I definitely see Dream as being Very Autistic. This is for... a variety of reasons which I can explain if u want!! Hob is a little less obvious, but I think talking for hours (?) about the minutae of experience all of the joy it brings is a very ADHD thing to do. ADHD brains essentially work on hyperdrive, meaning that every emotion is going to be experienced with greater speed and intensity than if a neurotypical person were experiencing, which would explain the genuine exhilaration in Hob at seemingly simple things. He tends to hop around subjects when we see him in a variety of contexts, with so much more happening in his head than he speaks aloud in a way that confuses people. This is also a very ADHD experience.

This exists in a balanced opposite to Dream, who seems relatively dulled to emotion and sensory input, experience a hypo- to Hob's hyper-, so to speak. You would think it would create a point of contention for them, but it doesn't because each genuinely want to know what the other knows. Dream wants to know what it's like to look at everything with wonder, and Hob is frankly excited to share that with someone who actually wants to hear all about it. Hob, in turn, has a better clue of what goes on with Dream when he may breach social etiquette because of his own unrealized neurodivergence and is perfectly happy to breeze over as a result. This mutual understanding they have reached is a common one between people with ADHD and ASD, allowing them to bridge the gap in details that would otherwise cause issues to form a more solid bond. Hence, instead of fighting they make out.

I hope this makes any sense whatsoever <3

#when i saw this i went YIPPEE BOY DO I and kissed my screen #thank you for this ask it made my day <333 #i dont see them as entirely romantic or platonic but if you see them as solidly either thats totally cool! to each their own.#i say all of this with experience btw #its nice to talk without ceasing or worrying that other person is upset bc they just dont want to talk and find it nice to not have to #a mutual agreement #i think left out that dream seems more hypoverbal so hed honestly probably be happy to not have to carry the convo lol #also being in a half romantic qpr with exactly this dynamic is awesome. we take turns chatting its great!#i have experience 😎#hob gadling #dream of the endless #the sandman

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