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feroluce · 16 days

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Lucid Dreamer (1/2)

part 2

Gepard notices that it's been. Quiet lately. Like weirdly quiet. TOO quiet. He hasn't seen Sampo Koski in almost a week, which is about the longest he's ever been absent. And he is NOT worried. He's not! So what if they've been getting along more lately! So what if Gepard sometimes looks for him in his favorite hiding places! So what if he's been dreaming about blue hair and green eyes! It's nothing!!

But they're….strange, these dreams. Gepard doesn't usually remember what he's dreamt. It's out of his mind seconds within waking up. But these stick with him, they won't leave him be, they feel different somehow.

He dreams of Sampo bringing food to the frontlines and eating breakfast in his tent with him. Sampo always sneaks him extras. He dreams of chasing Sampo through the alleyways, Sampo sometimes letting himself be caught, Gepard sometimes catching him, and trying to ignore how it feels more like a game now more than anything else. He even dreams that Sampo tags along with him on one of his few civilian days. Sampo runs errands with him, prattles about inane bullshit while Gepard picks out groceries for the week, drags Gepard into some bakery he's never been to but he thinks Serval mentioned once.

And sometimes, it feels so close to reality, that Gepard half expects to see Sampo, shamelessly swaggering into the frontlines with all the guards' breakfast like his wanted poster wasn't only recently taken off the walls of Belobog. He's disappointed when it's always someone else instead. He tells himself his disappointment is ridiculous and if Sampo wants to go prowl around the Snow Plains or wherever he is, then fine. It's not any of his business.

…But it IS his job to investigate any unusual criminal activity relating to the frontlines. And the frontlines are Sampo's usual haunting grounds, and this is unusual activity, and Sampo IS technically a criminal, so it is absolutely part of his duty to look into this - is what Gepard tells himself the entire tram ride down into the Underground.

Natasha tells him he's gone, and Gepard has to steel himself. He knew Sampo made enemies wherever he went, there are a lot of people who would love his head on a platter, but he didn't think-

Natasha corrects him that she means literally gone. As in off-planet. Sampo always leaves her a note before he goes anywhere, so she knows not to expect any supply runs from him. He should be back in exactly two weeks. Thank the Preservation.

Gepard goes back home. He waits.

The uneasiness doesn't leave him.

"Where did you go?" Sampo stops dead in the middle of some story about Seele, and how you'd think someone with as blunt a mouth as her wouldn't have so much trouble asking a woman out, even if that woman IS the Supreme Guardian, and stares at him. He nearly fumbles his cigarette.

"Ahaha, what do you mean, I'm right here?" Sampo smiles at him the same way he always does. Gepard has no idea why he asked. It just popped out. He can never tell when Sampo is lying, anyway.

"I don't know. I feel like I haven't seen you in a long time." Gepard idly mouths at his own cigarette. He almost never smokes, but he wants to ration their stocks of Blizzard Immunity, and it helps with the cold. It's seemed colder lately, for some reason.

Gepard flicks his lighter once, twice, sighs at the third time because a metal prosthetic and thick gloves make the damn things so difficult. Sampo reaches over and wordlessly kisses the end of his cigarette to Gepard's, lighting it. "Thank you."

Nothing happens for almost a full 30 seconds. Something churns behind Gepard's ribcage. Because Sampo never leaves a "thank you" hanging. This is the part where he gives his spiel about how helpful and kind he is and Gepard either brings up how long his rap sheet was before Bronya helped clear his name, or just stares deadpan because seeing Sampo squirm is weirdly satisfying.

"…I'll be back in one more week."

Gepard jolts awake in his cot, mouth dry and eyes bleary.

The hell.

The next dream he has, Sampo looks tired. Sometimes he seems normal. Sometimes he says strange things, like how he wishes he'd gone to some restaurant in Belobog. Ate his favorite food more recently. Brought something with him. Gepard asks why he can't do that now. Where would he bring something? Sampo only shrugs. His rebuttals have less energy.

Gepard doesn't know if he wants to dream more, or less.

He ticks down the days on his calendar. Natasha hasn't told him any different. She promised she would if she got any kind of message. Sampo returns tomorrow, from whatever vacation or seedy business dealings he's been off having. He is not excited about it. He is not looking forward to it. He's not!!

Gepard falls asleep late that night, unable to settle. He dreams again.

He's alone. There are tons of people everywhere, the frontlines are always crowded. But he's alone. They all pass right by him as though he were a ghost. Gepard starts to walk before he realizes his feet are even moving.

He checks the trashcans in the dead end alley. He checks the supply crates that someone always stacks too high because they don't feel like finding more space for them. He pauses to check the soldiers that march past him, watching their footprints in the snow.

He finally finds Sampo on the rooftop along the northernmost wall, the one that looks out over the plains, towards Everwinter Hill, towards where the Stellaron had once been kept. With a full moon and an entire land of white snow, Gepard can almost see clear out to the horizon.

"Found you." Sampo stiffens, and Gepard is almost prepared for him to sprint off the roof. He doesn't. But he doesn't relax either. Gepard sits down next to him and stares out at the wastelands.

"…I fucked up." It wasn't what Gepard had been expecting. Sampo never 'fucks up,' Sampo just gets into incidents that are entirely, supposedly, not his fault and that he just happens to always be within the vicinity of.

"What did you do now?" It must be really bad if Sampo is coming to the Silvermanes for protection.

Instead, Sampo ignores his question completely. "See out over there? Right on the other side of that mountain. There's a safe house that way. It's hidden under a lot of snow and dead trees, but it's there. And in that safe house is a box full of letters. I need you to deliver those letters for me."

Gepard's brow furrows. It's a weird favor to ask. Sampo would never tell anyone where his hidden safehouses were. It defeated the whole purpose of a hidden safe house.

Something is wrong, something is really really wrong.

Gepard turns back to look at him again and startles, all of his questions dying in his throat, because the entire left side of Sampo's head is suddenly matted down, dark and sticky, his skin is dyed red red red-

"In three more months, there's gonna be something big happening." Gepard grabs Sampo's hand and it feels slick and warm against his palm. "I won't be here. So I need you to do my end of things for me." Gepard tries to keep hold, but something is fading, something is slowing, the sun is coming up but the colors are all wrong, everything feels like encroaching fog, Sampo's hand slides right through his. "I was gonna come back with my mask to finish setting the stage, but…" Gepard makes a frantic grab for Sampo's wrist, the air twists, he comes back empty-handed. "They have you. And you're the Iron Wall of Belobog. So it'll be ok."

Gepard finally manages to find his grip, snatches the front of Sampo's dark wet jacket and yanks him forward to hold onto him, and this close up, he can see it better, his colors are bleaching out, leaking outside the lines as if Sampo will become part of the background, as if he's fading into the strange fog that's been closing in on them. His fingers are already starting to feel empty again.

"Wake up."

Gepard jolts awake, uncurls his hands from where they're fisted in the blanket, scrubs the dampness off his face. Breathes. Breathes. Breathes. Today is supposed to be the day.

He throws on his civilian clothes, and he goes down to the shipyard the IPC had built. He finds a spot where he can see every person that returns to Belobog, and he waits.

And he waits and he waits and he waits.

No one he recognizes appears.

#sampard #gepo #hsr gepard #hsr sampo #gepard landau #sampo koski #honkai star rail #hsr #blood #my fics #lucid dreamer #there was more to this but it didn't feel right included here so part 2 tomorrow maybe?#I just think Penacony being the land of dreams presents some FASCINATING possibilities like showing up in other people's dreams #the end of masquerade duet killed me just beat me dead #Sampo going through all this trouble just to protect Belobog...#poor Ray got such an earful that night haha #In the Penacony dreamscape someone can change their appearance however they want but I think in this case where one of the dreamers AREN'T-#-on Penacony it would take more concentration to keep that illusion up #and if someone were say. hurt and badly bleeding. it would start to fall apart eventually as they lost their concentration.#but oh my heart #Sampo being away and missing Belobog so badly he shows up in his friends' dreams just to do the same mundane shit they always do...#He probably showed up to everyone #he sat around and kept Natasha company in her clinic. he pestered Seele until he provoked her into asking Bronya on a date.#he played one last song with Pela and Serval. he told them he'd always kept his old bass guitar.#he took Hook out on one last joyride on his scooter and he even let her sit up front and steer like she'd always wanted.#and he stood around to shoot the shit with Gepard #he got to go do things like run domestic errands together with him. as if they could have been something more than what they were at the en #it was nice to get the chance to do all that #it was nice

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emiko-matsui · 2 months

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songs that remind you of ragh barkrock, GO

#the bro duet + fall of the star high school running back. yr turn now #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high #ragh barkrock #fhjy #fhsy #fhfy #d20 fh

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chronicsyd · 4 months

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I was watching a video of someone breaking down the lyrics of Wish and why fundamentally they don’t work; but the whole thing angers me because it Could have worked if they just went with their original idea to Begin with. I’ve mentioned before that they should have gone with Star Boy but the songs in Wish REALLY emphasize WHY that sentiment rings true. Because “At All Costs” was SUPPOSED to be a duet between Asha and Star Boy because the whole thing sounds like a lovers lullaby and him wanting to love Asha “as a human does” per say. But now it’s just Asha and Magnifico singing to a bunch of crystal balls which loses most of the emphasis that song was trying to portray in the First place (not to mention how Stupid it is that the wishes are just crystal balls like this is where the 2d animation would have stood out).

Now, “I’m a Star!” Just needs to be entirely scrapped and reworked cause they could have used the song to show how Star Boy thinks and feels about things upon his initial introduction cause I’d presume that Star Boy would probably be someone very upbeat and excitable, but incredibly naïve about how the world works at the same time.

And “This is the Thanks I Get?!” COULD have really worked if they went with this plan as well cause Magnifico is supposed to be feeling unappreciated and disrespected and if Asha were his daughter and going against him cause of her feelings for Star Boy and how Magnifico was handling the wishes then That makes sense. But in the film we got, the town already seems to respect him and he doesn’t really have a reason for the way he acts which is why his switch to villain seems so abrupt.

Also the lyrics, rhythm and cadence would need a Drastic change but that would probably be Disney needing to just fire Julia Michaels and going with someone who’s Profession is making lyrics for Musical Theater instead of pop songs cause all these lyrics are just “ohh wishes!” “Ohhh stars!” And whatnot instead of building up Anything narratively. (Cause even though Lin Manuel Miranda has kinda become a meme at this point he still Knows how lyrics should build a story. Except for the Scuttlebutt but that’s just a one off thing that was truly Terrible). But hey, this is just me ranting on something that I should be letting go at this point but whatever 🤷‍♀️

(Also it bothers me that Disney was like “oh we can’t have Asha have a romantic interest in 2023 how can we show she’s a strong lead in 2023 if there’s a love interest!” Even though there’s Plenty of ways to do that with the two building off each other in a natural way and the fact that Asha doesn’t really have a character arc Anyways and her being Magnifico’s daughter would have made this work as well cause she’d have to choose between her feelings for Star Boy and going against her parents wishes just UHG I’m so pressed can someone make a Wish fixed fanfic so I can read that instead please?! Thank you.)

#Wish #Disney wish #the lyrics don’t work #they should have gone with their og idea #Star boy #princess asha #king magnifico #I’m still going on about this #I should let it go #they’re too many words in a verse #why?!#just why #this wish #this is the thanks I get?!#i’m a star #ramblings #at all costs #love duet

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somewhatsentientspellbook · 1 year

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Loquatius Seelie, despite his tendency to milk attention from the citizens of Avalir by parading around in public, often spends time hiding from the masses, pretending to be someone else. There are afternoons when he clears his schedule and just walks around the city admiring his home, free from the hassle of pretending to be grand. He'll pass by the places his ex-wife frequents to see if she's doing well, though always in secret.

Laerryn Coramar-Seelie, who is always on the move? Who needs to get ahead of the schedule she's already ahead of? Every so often she'll spot him enjoying the peace and quiet. She was the only person who ever knew it was him - even in the middle of a crowded street. Just by the way that young girl held herself, or that elderly man stared at the spell kites. She was always keenly aware of when the stranger secretly admiring her handiwork was her ex-husband.

And there's a little bit of guilt from both of them. Because when they were together, they always felt too busy to take those strolls through the city. But now? All they could do was steal glances at each other from afar and find peace in that solitude.

#if exu calamity were a musical these two would be tearing our hearts apart with a tragic duet #can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars #critical role #critical role theory #cr headcanons #exu #exu calamity #ring of brass #laerryn x loquatius #laerryn coramar seelie #loquatius seelie #aabria iyengar #sam riegel

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tinderbox210 · 9 months

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La’an Noonien-Singh and Spock + making music in their quarters

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: s02e01 - The Broken Circle Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: s02e09 - Subspace Rhapsody

#star trek #star trek: strange new worlds #star trek snw #la'an x spock #spock x la'an #spocklaan #la'an noonien singh #spock #spocklaanparts #spocklaanedit #snwedit #trekedit #my gif #inspired by that epic meshup of their songs #but also my dumb idea of #their quarters laying next to the other so that they can hear each other through the wall #and they sort of do a duet through the walls #La'an said she'll miss the singing so I can see her continue to sing in the privacy of her quarters #and Spock will maybe not keep singing but definitely keep playing the lute

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somekindabumblebear · 2 months

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Showing DS9 to my housemate's mum for the first time. We're starting with "Duet".

She just said "they're so morally correct aren't they, the Captains 😍" my sweet summer child idk WHAT to tell you

Live updates to follow.

#star trek ds9 #star trek #ds9 #deep space 9 #DS9 duet #ben sisko

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canonically47 · 1 month

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sending the request for a review in now so you have time to prepare!

OUGHGHGHGHGHGHGHGHHG GUYS...

DCAS episode 6 spoilers!!! (but you knew that)

i surprisingly don't have much to say about this episode despite being a musical nerd but.

never expected to... genuinely care about connor, but he's a good guy. i really wanted yul gone, but i know his arc isn't quite finished yet.

the yellow team's number was surprisingly underwhelming, i think my favorite was cyan team's, IT ATE SO HARDDD

i love that aiden is chill about the kiss like "anyone can tell it was just acting lol" and it cuts to jake like "I FUCKING KNEW IT."

also. wh. why did this episode have me actually caring about jam again. like. i want them back. wh. what is happening to me

FORGET JAM OH MY GOD GABELLIE. GABELLIE I FUCKING LOVE YOU THEY SLAYED SO HARD THEY LOOKED SO CUTE AND IN LOVE AND. AURURURUGHGGHGHGH GABELLIE <333

jake and ally ate. idrk guys. also marcus and nina. fuck yeah. fiore's outfit was underwhelming but going full glam on a child must be hard so i get it. ashley on the other hand had no reason to not eat

conalec vision is getting to me and of fucking course it also happens to be connor's elimination episode. ourhg

kinda sad that the episode had to be premiered early, but i ultimately don't regret staying up for it. now excuse me as i pass out (it's almost midnight)

#my thoughts might not be too coherent #the episode was good but it was just singing so like. not much to say #the outfits fucked. the first two songs too #alec with a mohawk kinda goes hard #but the yellow team's song is mehhh #aiden's va was hyped up for a good reason #gabby and ellie's duet was so fucking sweet #tom and aiden work surprisingly well #and uh i want tom and jake to kiss #asks #my asks #disventure camp #disventure camp all stars #dcas #disventure camp spoilers

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ciotogdemon · 1 month

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#wish #wish disney #disney wish #king magnifico #queen amaya #villain #evil king magnifico #wish movie #wish asha #wish star #tumblr polls #Personally I like villain power couple #We get romance + evil 😁#And we can include an evil Queen plot twist #And a musical duet!!!#Please Disney #we need these two to have their bad guy romance tango #Preferably in front of a captured and very confused Asha

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lightscamerabitchsmileee · 4 months

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Vote for your fave, reblog & share your thoughts and other faves (even outside of this list) in the tags I would love to hear it 😊😊

Check out my masterpost for the other artist polls 😊😊 thank you and have fun 😊😊

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moonmacabre01 · 6 days

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Imagine a young Susie and her father singing Daisy bell together.

Imagine Susie, separated and alone, singing that song for comfort.

Imagine the now Secretary Susie, singing herself to sleep with that song, a promise to herself things will be okay.

Imagine a sunny day, and Susie teaching Kirby the lyrics to Daisy Bell. He's not a very good singer, but it's okay, he's doing his best. And in Susie's opinion, it's a song better as a duet.

. . .

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do I'm half crazy, all for the love of you It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet apon the seat Of a bicycle built for two~

#I am incapable of being normal sorry #but I just heard that duet of Miku and the first computer to sing #and I. my heart TvT #susie haltmann #susie kirby #kirby #kirby of the stars #text post

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animentality · 6 months

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I saw "Duet" when I was ten, ok, and that shit fucked me up.

And in the best way.

The way where I knew I wanted to tell stories like that.

Dark, personal, haunted, but hopeful too.

That's when I fell for star trek.

It bothers me when people say ds9 was the pointlessly edgy trek.

Duet wasn't pointlessly edgy.

It was very, very dark, but that's why it was so satisfying at the end.

It had to be dark, in order for redemption and forgiveness to feel real and deserved.

Now I wish he hadn't been stabbed by a crazy man in the end, but...I also understand that it was a very important moment for Kira's character.

So I'll give it a pass.

#star trek #ds9 #duet #kira nerys

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meraki-yao · 4 months

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I'm such a song fic person 🤣

so I just watch this beautiful, beautiful animatic of "At All Wish (Demo)" which I'm mad at Disney for ditching beautiful concept for something mediocre, thank goodness for talented fans

youtube

And listening to the lyrics my brain immediately went to fic writer mode

Now I just need to figure out if it's more Malec or Firstprince 😅

Update: Fuck it I'm doing both

#wish 2023 #wish movie #at all costs demo #asha x star #this is tbh something I really wanna watch #while i really wasn't into the actual movie #but yeah this song as a love duet works so well #which one of my two favourite ships works better that is a question #personal #Youtube

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druid-in-hiding · 9 months

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Uncommon Duet

Okay... okay okay... So, Subspace Rhapsody. We know Federation ships on the subspace network were affected and some Klingon ships. But consider this...

Logic dictates that the Vulcans likely has a division of agents monitoring subspace covertly, spying on allies and enemies alike to discern out any potential threats to Vulcan (first) and the Federation (second).

Equally believable is that the Romulans are doing the same thing. Well... more enemies than allies in this case, but there's no way the Romulans wouldn't be monitoring the Federation, the Vulcans, and the Klingons. At least their subspace frequencies.

Which is where the funny comes in.

See, it's now canon that Vulcans and Romulans are extremely emotional, vastly more than humans. Vulcans have developed a mental switch to shut off those emotions. Romulans have vast social traditions (and Romulan ale) to basically yank their emotions under control. Spock's issue is that he has two competing systems (human and Vulcan), which is why he wrestles with keeping his emotions (human-weak or Vulcan-strong) in check.

Fine, fine, fine, but what does this have to do with Subspace Rhapsody?

Well... the temporary musical reality demanded that people who get emotional sing. And people struck with that with no context as to why it's happening...

Somewhere out there, a Vulcan spy, who realized a volatile subspace anomaly might really hurt things, felt the briefest pang of fear which then, instead of being controlled, forced them to burst into song.

Somewhere else, a Romulan spy--who tried stopping singing with Romulan ale--ended up singing more.

And that's why, recorded but unheard by most except those spies who have the highest access to secrets, is an amazing sensual, spirited Vulcan/Romulan duet.

I soooo want to hear it...

#star trek #star trek strange new worlds #subspace rhapsody #vulcans #romulans #romantic duets #enemies to lovers #quantum loving #original

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