#recommended by holiday

[dnf-fic-recs]

What are your best florida fics in wake of this weekend?

hi anonie hope these help build up your hype!! 💪💪

follow what i'm feeling by brokenlikeastitch

The elevator takes too long, and after at least a minute waiting on the bottom floor, George gives up and drags his suitcase to the stairs. It’s hot and stuffy in the garage, Florida summer still in full swing, and George lugs the suitcase up all three flights of stairs with a strength he didn’t know he possesses. When he gets to the third floor he’s dripping sweat, but he’s so close.

The stairwell door sticks, and George practically has to kick it. It flies open, slamming into the wall with a loud bang that echoes through the mostly empty floor. No one else is there except for a figure in a maroon hoodie leaning against a still running car. It has to be Dream. George is frozen in place, several hundred feet away still, staring, and that’s when Dream seems to notice him.

“George!” Dream yells out, waving with one hand, the other still tucked in his hoodie pocket, and it kicks George into action. He lets go of the suitcase handle and takes off, backpack banging into his back over and over.

call me an amenity (even if it's in my dreams) by acatalepsy - Mature

“Act normal!” He glares, leaning in close and jabbing his finger at his reflection. “Be normal, Clay.”

He runs the faucet as cold as it can go, splashes freezing water on his face over and over again. Thinks of his grandma and his dead childhood dog. Fucking thinks of Sapnap in a maid costume. Anything.

“Don’t make it weird. Do not make this weird.”

—

Or: Recently Dream has been having some very interesting, well, dreams about his best friend. Go figure. And then, to make matters worse, Twitter just has to get involved.

14 Days in Quarantine by soyfu

George’s eyes scanned the last few lines of the email again, and again, and again.

His eyes were sore from the bright light emitting from his monitor, and he probably hasn’t blinked in a couple of minutes.

Again, and again, and again.

He reread the email frantically, repeatedly clicking open the attachment to ensure that he was seeing things correctly. The dark letters spelling ‘approved’ didn’t change.

It was 4 in the morning and he’d been awake for just over 22 hours, so he was half expecting this to all just be some fatigue-induced hallucination.

So far, things seemed to be real.

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As George spends his 14 days of government mandated self-isolation alone in a hotel room, long-suppressed feelings start to bubble up, giving him much to think about before finally seeing his best friend's face in person.

the person that sent you this by luckylikeyou

George finally gets the chance to come to Orlando to meet Dream in person. Once he lands, he notices an unassuming TikTok from Dream in his inbox.

"The person that sent you this thinks you're really cute, and if you don't respond to this in the next minute, you have to kiss them."

the spaces between words by effervescentwolf - Explicit

“You should’ve seen him after we finally talked about you moving here.” Sapnap smiles at the memory. “He kissed Patches and he kissed me, on the cheek,” Sapnap adds with a glance in his direction, “and then he immediately called his mom and told her while pacing around the living room, and she knew, you know? Mom instinct.”

“Knew what?” George whispers. Sapnap looks at him for a second.

“He gets touchy,” Sapnap says, but George understands it’s his way of answering his question.

“I once asked him if he had feelings for you.”

-

or George ever so slowly allows himself to be completely and utterly in love with Dream.

suck a dick fallacy by literaphobe - Explicit

Dream has so much he wants to explore about his sexuality, but no one he trusts enough to do it with. Lucky for him, George is finally in Florida. Surely things will be easy enough to figure out between best friends like them.

It ends up spiraling far beyond what either of them could anticipate.

falling into you by effervescentwolf

Dream’s brain is a place full of many wonders and many more excuses, so he opens his mouth and simply says the first thing that comes to his mind, completely seriously.

“I’m in love with you.”

What.

WHAT.

-

or Dream accidentally confesses he's in love with George. The only issue is he isn't. Right?

and alternatively, Dream radiates himbo energy while George takes pity on his massive obliviousness

#dreamnotfound #dnf #dreamnotfound fic recs #dnf fic recs #dnf fics #dreamnotfound fics #asks #anon #recommended by holiday #florida fics

[shimmershy]

Thinking about her….

#The background image is a photo I took! From the first snow of the season for me on Nov. 25th :) it was very beautiful #Also i was listening to a playlist with old christmas songs and a crackling fireplace in the background while I drew this. #It was very nice. 10/10 do recommend #my art #deltarune #noelle #noelle holiday #safeutdr

[hitroow]

#deltarune #kris deltarune #noelle holiday #snowgrave #I've been having soo many thoughts about deltarune snowgrave route and the way it frames the relationship between Kris and Noelle #won't go on a tag rant but i really recommend checking out hellspawnmotels deltarune stuff the way they talk about this is reallyinterestin #g

[mint-chocolate-rooibos]

Finished Noelle's redesigned sprites!!

Feel free to use them if you want to! (with credit ofc)

#deltarune #mint art #noelle ever #deltarune characters #noelle deltarune #noelle holiday #sprite edit #sprite #deltarune redesign #ty kitzels for recommending pixel studio !! much appreciated #i tried to give noelle curly hair but its hard in pixel art xd

[arthistoryanimalia]

Its #BatAppreciationDay so please appreciate this awesome 19th century Japanese kosode decorated with embroidered lucky bats, photographed in 2019 at The Life of Animals in Japanese Art exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in DC:

Kosode with Bats Japan, Edo - Meiji periods, 19th century silk twill, paste-resist dyed, embroidery, 67⅜ × 48⅞ in. National Museum of Japanese History, Chiba Prefecture

“In the West, bats - nocturnal in habit and denizens of dark places tend to be viewed as unlucky, but in China they have long been considered an auspicious motif (one of the characters used to write the word "bat" is a homonym for good fortune). The Kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjüro VII (1791-1859) used bat motifs in his costumes, and the perception of these animals as a chic design element spread rapidly throughout Japan in the nineteenth century. Here a great number of them are arranged in right-left symmetry from the base of the collar to the hem.”

The above info is from the official exhibition catalog - this bat kosode is on p. 124:

The Life of Animals in Japanese Art (2019)

#bat #bats #bats in art #animal holiday #Bat Appreciation Day #International Bat Appreciation Day #The Life of Animals in Japanese Art #exhibition #museum visit #National Gallery of Art DC #book recommendation #Amazon Associates #kosode #historical costume #Japanese costume #Kabuki #Japanese art #East Asian art #Asian art #19th century art #garment #embroidery #auspicious symbol #animal iconography #animals in art

[zeb-z]

Foolish taking the time to consider the power in his hands, thinking over what the consequences will be and who he’s going to accuse. Remembering what Cellbit had said to him in Purgatory - we are not fish - and believing he understood what that implies. Talking briefly with Bad, who’s willing to take the fall. Leaving it up to chaos, returning to the room in Cellbit’s castle and flipping a coin. Saying it wouldn’t have mattered if he had used a coin or marbles or any other method, “destiny arrives all the same.” The coin landing face up, cementing Cellbit’s fate.

The Ordem Paranormal: Calamidade music in the background as he looks at the coin and deliberates: Escolha Errada - Wrong Choice.

#every family needs a bit of drama around the holidays ammirite? #today was fucking crazy for foolish lore I cannot recommend watching the vod if you didn’t catch it #because holy shit man. holy shit. the talk with bad. the monologuing in his office. the chaos room and coin flip. the musiccccccccc #I suppose we’ll see if this is the right move - or if the song choice will really come back around as tragic foreshadowing #the ‘we are all fish’ bit. I’m hoping Cellbit is truly understanding it. that he’s planned on getting caught because he’s certainly been #announcing himself and his kills. but like. we’ll see #mcyt #qsmp #q!foolish #q!cellbit #z speaks

[isbergillustration]

Hey you can get this and many many other paintings as prints or stickers or whatever at like 60% off today on my red bubble

#my art #as usual request if you want one i've not put up #not gonna make a habit of these posts promise but it is december and ive not heard back from any of the jobs ive applied to yet #i recommend “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” as a holiday card if that's the sort of thing you are into

[dragondawdles]

experimenting and drew a noelle! or should I say ex-spearmint-ing? maybe I shouldn't

#deltarune #noelle #noelle holiday #noelle deltarune #dragon doodles #hit another classic braindip but back to arting I think thumbs up emoji #she wasn't even who I meant to draw but she's who I drew and I think it turned out nice :] #listened to christmas music on loop while drawing her I recommend even as a post-thanksgiving is christmas time truther. sufjan stevens... #stay tuned for more art of some variety. not even I can say of what. we have fun here

[sneez]

more of my oc tervis (any pronouns), the creepiest most miserable little weirdo in town. which is saying something [id under cut]

/ ID: four digital drawings.

The first image is a series of drawings of Tervis on a paper-textured background. A heading at the top reads 'Tervis (Humble)'. One is a coloured headshot of Tervis looking to the left; they have a gaunt face, short receding hair, a scar bisecting their lip and right eyebrow, greyish skin, and are wearing a red shawl around their neck. An arrow pointing at their right eye reads 'one blue eye (mostly blind)'; another arrow pointing at their left eye reads 'one brown eye'. They have a serious, hostile expression. The second drawing is an uncoloured full-body sketch of Tervis. Next to this is the same drawing but coloured and with more polished lineart. Tervis is a thin, hunched figure wearing a long, dark brown robe, a greyish bag on their back, and a red shawl around their head and neck. They are barefoot, and are leaning on a walking staff with both hands. An arrow pointing to the walking staff reads 'needed for walking, useful for hitting'. Tied to the belt around their waist are several long scrolls of paper with writing on them. An arrow pointing to the scrolls reads ''blessings' they paste on infected houses'. Tervis is looking warily out at the viewer from beneath their eyebrows. An arrow pointing to their head reads 'scar from getting hit in the face with a brick (also knocked out a tooth)'. Alongside these drawings are a series of bullet points giving information about Tervis. These read:

   indeterminate age, indeterminate gender

   religious fanatic (unclear which religion)

   lives alone somewhere in the steppe

   dislikes everyone but is nicer to children than anyone else

   has every disease

The second image is a fake screenshot from the video game Pathologic. Tervis is looking out at the viewer; the background shows scenery from the steppe. The text on screen reads:

CHANGELING: I still don’t see what you could have done that would make you personally responsible for this plague. TERVIS: Responsible… no, not merely responsible! This is my plague, cast upon my head alone. I am the originator; my sin is at the root of all. I have ventured into the town. I have seen the canker there. No matter how many houses I bless, my sickness sinks deeper. The rotted limb is the death of the body… Surely you understand me. You are a healer, are you not? CHANGELING: What is it that you are asking me to do? TERVIS: Let me be the lamb, worker of miracles! My blood shall wet the earth, and bright flowers shall grow… My putrefaction will provide the soil within which new life will burgeon, pure and free of sin and decay. Let it be done. I am ready. My failing flesh is but little sacrifice; in death my weakness will be my strength. Soon these torments will be at an end.

Below are two dialogue options:

You’re insane!

What makes you so sure your death would solve anything?

The third image is a fake screenshot from the video game Pathologic 2. Tervis is looking out at the viewer, and has been painted in semi-realistic style. The text on screen reads:

Tervis: Why do you force me to live? Damn you! Your cure is poison to me. Now I shall never be blessed. You should have left me to bleed.

Below are three dialogue options:

Don’t be absurd. I wasn’t going to watch you die.

What makes you think you deserve suffering?

I wish I had.

At the bottom of the image is a line of dialogue which Tervis has just spoken:

The air is foul. There is rot in this place. The stench of corruption shall be – what was it? What was it? The stench of corruption shall be… swept aside…

The fourth image is a coloured scene depicting Tervis and Clara. They are central in the composition; around them is the steppe, which has been rendered in a loose, painterly style. Tervis is kneeling, their walking staff cast aside, and are reaching out their hands to Clara in a desperate, pleading gesture. They are crying, their face contorted in an expression of agonised ecstasy. Clara stands beside them, one hand reaching out, the other held above Tervis’s head as though about to touch their brow. She has a solemn, pained expression. Behind her head, a break in the dark clouds gives the impression that she is haloed by sunlight; rays of the same light fall onto Tervis, illuminating their face and red robe. End ID. /

#artwork #pathologic #tervis!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D #sorry i know ive already posted that fake p2 screenshot i just wanted to keep all my tervis images in one place. please forgive me #i am having. So Much Fun. i would explode and die for tervis shes the worst i adore her #making fake screenshots is so enjoyable i love trying to match the fonts and copying all the little ui details it's so fun highly recommend #i have a lot of tervis lore which i am still developing but hopefully these drawings give you some idea of his character #hes just a mess really. hes got every imaginable problem #that last drawing is her getting sacrificed in the humble ending. she is SO happy about it #also if you didnt see my last post tervis was originally a warhammer 40k oc (which he still is ive just made a bonus pathologic tervis now) #but ive tried to keep a lot of 40k stuff in her design like the blessing scrolls and the uh. Posture #that's also my reasoning for why nobody knows what his religion is. the watsonian explanation is they are just spouting incomprehensible #disjointed passages from some obscure scripture which nobody can identify (and who would want to try really. tervis is not good company) #but the doylist explanation is that it's literally just the cult mechanicus. just ignore all the references to the weakness of the flesh and #the glory of the machine it will all be fine nothing weird here at all #anyway :-) i could talk about tervis forever but i will stop now #i hope you are all well my dear friends! i am on holiday now wahoo #i am also aware that i have several messages to answer which i will do very soon i am so sorry for being so slow as usual #i love you all i am giving you individual kisses on your individual heads. mwah

[dnf-fic-recs]

Hello, I'm wondering if there are any fic recommendations were when Dream and George start dating and Dream gets shy when it comes to physical touch, like he's clingy but hesitant to hug George from behind or give him kisses even if only on the cheek, he still does it, but he's nervous about it so George kind of leads the touches most of the time and every time Dream's brain just turns into mush and he melts against him every time like the lovesick fool he is.

To make a long story short Dream is so smitten that he is shy about it when it comes to touch, sorry if this ask is kind of nonsensical.

Have a nice day/evening/night.

i had to make it a little less specific, so i have some clingier george ones for you! i tried to get some of dream being surprised or a little unused to it :)

After all, tails don't lie by Amet_ombes

George, as a cat hybrid, loved the attention; that is in their biology. But showing affection through touch and sometimes even in front of Sapnap was new. People expect such behavior from dog hybrids or canines in general. Dream, in contrast with Sapnap, respected everyone's personal space. Sometimes it would seem as if he is avoiding touch at every cost.

 

George was different.

George is surprisingly a touchy catboy and Dream is ignoring the obvious feelings.

Hold On to Me by crabnap - CW Vomiting

Dream hated how helpless he felt, watching his best friend throw up right in front of him and not knowing if he was allowed to touch him. Did George want him here at all?

He got his answer when George reached for him, blind hands in his shirt, face still in the toilet. “Please.” The word echoed shaky, vulnerable, completely stripped of dignity off the white porcelain.

There was no way Dream was denying him when he asked like that.

George gets sick and Dream does anything he can to make him feel better, all while trying not to expose his ridiculously massive crush. The overworked college student sick fic you've all been waiting for.

i want to love you (but i don't know how) by Shadowlit

"And it’s fine. Really, it’s fine. Dream’s used to it. To the silence when he gets home, to the heavy cold he feels wandering his empty apartment before he logs on and hears his friends’ voices echo from the speakers. It’s uncomfortable, but he’s used to it.

So he buries himself in editing and videos and his friends and Minecraft until he forgets the way it feels to touch and be touched gently, until he forgets the ache and the cold that the Florida heat can’t reach. "

Or: Dream gets a hug and his world shifts on its axis.

androgyne myth by nervouswaltz

“I love you,” Dream whispers below the hum of the city. “I love you, and I want you forever and it is going to kill me one day and I am going to welcome it but right now,” he takes a heaving sigh and exhales into the darkness of the room. “Right now, there are five feet between us, I checked. And a nightstand. And we’re in these two beds and my bed at home is better and you know that, because you’ve slept in it. And I’ve slept in it. But we’ve never slept in it together and I can’t do this anymore.”

The night says nothing back.

Dream and George share a hotel room. Dream goes insane.

myth isnt exactly what ur looking for but it has a similar kind of desire-for-contact and gnf just going K while dre goes crazy

#dreamnotfound #dnf #dreamnotfound fic recs #dnf fic recs #dnf fics #dreamnotfound fics #asks #anon #recommended by holiday #established relationship fics #fluff fics

[lastflunky-draws]

It's the Chick Tract sins but with Lupin III. In 2019 I was in America and saw a Chick Tract with my own two eyes, this was the inspiration for this. You can look at the original under the cut.

#lupin iii #lupin the third #I made this in 2021 but never uploaded this #One of the things I love about this series is how malleable the designs are so I drew each Lupin based on vibes #That holiday to San Francisco was lovely if your ever there I recommend Japan town #I got the caglistro storyboard book there #tag yourself I'm hater of God

[littlesolo]

It's A Wonderful Knife (2023)

After saving her town from a psychotic killer, Winnie Carruthers' life is less than wonderful. When she wishes she'd never been born, she finds herself in a nightmare parallel universe where without her, things could be much, much worse.

It's a holiday slasher movie, but this one is special.

#it's a wonderful knife #movie trailer #movie recommendation #holiday slasher #Youtube

[mermaidandthedrunks]

so i can finally sing your song (Ava/Beatrice)

Title: so i can finally sing your song Fandom: Warrior Nun

Summary:

“You’ve come into contact with a hormone created by Dr. Salvius when she was investigating fertility. It…well it heightens one’s hypothalamic neuron receptors, creating a—”

“Bea,” Ava all but whines. “English, please.”

“It causes extreme sexual arousal.” Ava is quiet for a beat, her body thrumming.

“You’re saying I’ve been dosed with a sex drug?”

or the Ava and Beatrice sex pollen fic.

Rating: E

#warrior nun #avatrice #warrior nun fic #do not recommend reading around family this holiday

[arthistoryanimalia]

#BookRecommendations for #NationalPetDay :

Artists and Their Cats

Medieval Pets

Impressionist Cats and Dogs: Pets in the Painting of Modern Life

#animals in art #animal holiday #pet portrait #pet #pets #pets in art #National Pet Day #dogs #cats #book recommendation #amazon associates

[cleolinda]

Since I just ordered two for my sister as a care package kind of gift—when I had my outpatient back surgery, the only things I took with me were my phone and an almond Hurraw lip balm. (Scroll down, all the products are on one page.) They are really, really good (and vegan, if that’s a plus for you). I’ve tried a ton of them over the last ten years and I always keep one in my pocket; absolute favorites are the vanilla bean and the cherry & lemon. Best texture I’ve ever seen (felt?) in a lip balm, only $4-5 USD.

#recommendations #holiday shopping #basically I just need something distracting to think about

[batarangsoundsdumb]

i am once again asking for book recommendations! i have no idea what to read and if you can make a case for a book you personally like please do!

#last holiday i read so many books that were terrible but i loved it all the same #so if you have a book please do recommend it!! #i gotta load up the e-reader for a 20+ hour car ride