#the last dream of my soul

[ghostvalleylibrary]

Author: Tchell1

Pairing: WenZhou

Setting: Canon-Divergent, Wuxia

Genre: Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort

Warnings: Mentioned Character Death, Canon-Typical Violence

Rating: M

Wordcount: 26,346

Summary:

Zhou Zishu, the leader of the Window of Heaven, finds himself exchanging letters with a mysterious Philantropist Wen. Nothing the man writes make any sense at all.

There is more in this world than you are aware of, Lord Zhou. There are magical keys and fantastic mirrors and greedy spirits and a desolate future. Now, I’m not one to always look for the bright side, but sometimes, even in desolation, there are interesting things., Philantropist Wen writes.

Amid outrageous flirtations and detailed descriptions of the future, Zhou Zishu began to suspect there is more to Philantropist Wen than he had first thought.

S’s Notes:

This was such an imaginative au! The pen pals turned lovers was so fun, and the wuxia fantasy elements were incredibly fun and engaging. A fun read!

#fic rec #wenzhou #word of honor #canon divergent #angst with a happy ending #rated m #15 to 50k #chaptered #complete #tchell1 #the last dream of my soul

[mayasaura]

I think the best possible time travel fic would be to slingshot Harrow from the end of Harrow the Ninth back to the beginning of Gideon the Ninth. Highest hilarity potential, highest angst potential, highest pining potential

Things Harrow knows now that she didn't before:

Who Alecto was

The names of God and his lyctors

The secret of lyctorhood

That the lyctor trials are a death trap

Gideon could be easily persuaded to die for her

Gideon dying for her is the worst thing possible

She would do almost anything to prevent Gideon from dying

Gideon's sword is haunted by a very angry and oddly familiar-looking woman who bears a remarkable resemblance to Gideon

Things Harrow still doesn't know:

What Alecto is

Gideon's parentage

Jackshit about BOE

Mercy and Augustine are both traitors

Things Harrow knew then and still knows now:

Gideon—this Gideon here and now—hates her

She owes a debt of two hundred lives and a future to the Ninth

The survival of the Ninth depends on her becoming a lyctor

#like. what does she DO?? #Gideon isn't going to listen to her without some MAJOR legwork to win her trust #she doesn't even know how she did it last time and she can't afford to wait until canaan house to replicate the successful scenarios #should she even bring Gideon with her this time? #what are her alternatives? #let Gideon go to join the Cohort and die gloriously for the empire? #leave her here on the Ninth alone with Crux who wants her dead and has killed before? #should she even go herself? #stupid question she owes it to Pent and Quinn and the Sixth and everyone who risked their souls for her #most of all tho #I really really wanna make pre-canaan house Gideon have to deal with Harrow in her 'first flower of my House' 'saving the last dance' era #like. harrow basically got snatched by a pod-person who cares about strangers and looks at Gideon like a dream she expects to dissolve #gideon would lose her MIND #the locked tomb #gideon nav #harrow nonagesimus #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #htn spoilers #time travel #peggy sue fic #op

[the-mighty-het-speaks]

august 3rd, 1963, downey, california, usa

#hi old man. (i can call you that now.....) #just wanted to say that i love you. dearly. and am so fortunate to have you in my life. #on this day last year i said that i couldn't wait to live the dream. i knew that it was fast approaching #16 shows lay before me. 99 days until the first. #and now... a new quiver.... 72..... your heart and soul bare on your sleeve. #what an honor to share that with you. what an honor to feel the love and power that the record has. #it has put into words my greatest hopes and my deepest fears. i hope to be set free from this room of mirrors. acknowledge my inamorata. #to go home...... #thank you for sharing your gift. i promise to give my heart and soul when i ride that rail. sing back every word with every ounce i have. #may you be moved by the souls you have moved yourself. long live the faith. long live the craft. long live what it feels to be alive. #i love you. #james hetfield

[olivergarden0]

TW FOR STRANGULATION AS WELL AS SPOILERS FOR THE FIC LIVE THE DREAM CHAPTER 10

AUUUUUGH

#chonny jash #chonnys charming chaos compendium #cccc #cj soul #cj whole #mineimator #minecraft art #live the dream is one of my favs #sorry whole lasted less than a day before dying #he will be okay

[jorvikzelda]

right but like . i'm not the only one who dreams about sso.. right...

#last night I had a dream I was the fifth soul rider lmao #pretty sure I was wearing Zelda's outfit... but like with my own green favourite sweater over except it had braids on the cuffs ? #and the cuffs were like. fraying off #fripp was there and Worse (human sized. looked like a guy in a poorly made matted fursuit. looked almost like a bad taxidermy job tbh.) #z talks #we were at a castle? i think #also i had a crush on one of the NPCs (who was just their in game 3d model lmfao) #GOD DAMN I HAVE TO SLEEP im getting up early tomorrow. n going swimming >:) #and feeding my SOURDOUGH STARTERRRRRR

[valeriianz]

|| Endless is headlining their first tour! Debut album, summer tour this year! Tickets on sale now! ||

So... this was an idea that snuck up on me last week, and after bothering the immaculate, super talented @issylra, asking if she'd create a mock-up tour poster for my fictional fucking band AU, she not only said yes, but churned this out in a day??

Thank you SO much, Beth! Your skills are unmatched and I hope you enjoy that coffee lol

For my fic, Bolt in the Blue. The slice of life, slow burn Dream x Hob AU that has taken over my life (but I'm not complaining haha).

Special thanks also to @sutoribenda for the title of the tour! Overture-- of course!

Bonus option number 2 featuring the ACTUAL BAND MEMBERS:

#im still geeking out over this AHHHH #dreamling #the endless #the sandman #bitb art #THANK YOU SO MUCH BETH YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS #HOW I WANT TO PRINT IT OUT AND HANG IT IN MY ROOM LIKE A TEENAGER #AND DRAW HEARTS ALL OVER DREAM'S FACE LOL #please know i fought with myself until the last SECOND over which poster should be front and center #i love that photoshoot one so. god damn much. #if anyone recognizes my fancast for Delirium #you have my heart and soul #fic: bolt in the blue #<3 <3 <3

[waitineedaname]

had several fma dreams last night, one where hohenheim was having to fight father like a video game boss and he got ling's help because ling had played a bunch of dark souls, and another where people were fighting bradley and someone made a comment about bradley being the kind of guy to memorize floorplans for fun

#fma posting #idk what was going on with my subconscious last night i was having WILD dreams #i guess hiking for five hours will do that to you #anyway i love the idea of ling playing dark souls #they were like. streaming the fight and everything

[todayisafridaynight]

so magical that yakuza 1 and shadow the hedgehog came out the same year........ 2005 the best year for sega honestly.....

#snap chats #AND DAYS APART TOO IN JAPAN (rgg1 dec. 8 while shadow was dec. 15) #the gap is significantly wider for US releases but thats not important..... #japanese kids were winning on christmas i swear #'snap why are you bringing this up' isnt it obvious. i am playing shadow the hedgedhog #and i keep thinking about daigo playing shadow and then later down the line just talking to mine bout it cause he can be a lil sillay #i hope he had dreams where he and shadow got to be besties. and by Him And Shadow i mean he dreams himself as sonic #because obligatory Same VA Joke Is Obligatory IF WE CAN GET ONE (1) W FROM RCS VOICING DAIGO. LET IT BE THAT AT LEAST. #for me..... let it slide for me..... yes ik it was jason griffith voicing sonic (and shadow) back then but let it slide this once.. #i refuse to acknowledge modern shadow. unless it's from that one uhhh fuck what was the cartoon called #its on netflix Point Is the one time shadow was actually like his old self girl i sobbed. too bad sonic was a dipshit though #a soul for a soul ig.... i think its ok just this once.... #im getting so off topic but this is how i inflict my other interests upon you lot #i trap you into reading a post vaguely about rgg and then i make it about something else :) #look at my pfp you fool. i legally have to talk about shadow the hedgehog like once a month ok let me have this #while im here. like /i/ know this game is nine years long but sometimes i forget HOW long #326 endings and for what. because they love me thats why. #fym 'revenge at last' is only ending 11 that seems like the third route or so you'd take (only black doom missions) #ok ive talked long enough. anyway bye im gonna uhhhh god idk.... i keep getting distracted #i started watching kagerou while my sister was playing mysims the other day but i got too engrossed by her playing to continue #mysims was like. A White Whale of sorts in my house for a while since it was one of like five games my sis actually played #and it was her fave but one day 1.) we lost it 2.) our wii stopped working. since that day she's blamed me for losing it #WELL then i found it and i got the wii u working SO all that can stop now 👁️👁️ ok ive fr gone on too long #unfortunately i cant talk about EVERYTHING i want to lest i just turn this into a general games blog. but i wont i prommy #for now. bye fr i think my sis just got home actually LMAO

[spicasystem]

Soul: Are you seeing this shit?

Heart: No.

#cccc #chonny’s charming chaos compendium #cj heart #cj soul #i dont know how to tag this #this is my first actual tumblr post #i had a dream about this last night #this has probably been done before

[hiding-in-the-vault]

I am nnnooottttt fully registering the fact that im going to Vegas tomorrow

#i was tlaking to an irl the other day about twitchcon #and she asked if dream would be there (shes normal pilled) #and i said yes but i wish he wasnt cuz itll make me NERVOUS #and she did not understand and asked if he would recognize me from last year LOLLL #im not gonna see him outside of panels i need to accept this in my heart and soul so i dont explode from nerves #even tho i ran into him in a hallway last year..... #he knows better now hashtag TRUST #uughghghghgh #UUGGHGH #<-normal

[oh-hush-its-perfect]

My fatal flaw is going "man this anime would have been so good if not for all the rampant sexism, racism, homophobia, and weird philosophy."

#had a dream last night that had the first 7ds theme song in it #and my dream self was convinced the melody was actually a traditional jewish song the showhad appropriated #im like 95% sure it's not #no. 6 im not talking about you sweetie <3 (mostly) #no. 6 is bad because of the pacing and dialogue #it's also a little sexist but it definitely isnt in your face. there's probably some racism in there too #seven deadly sins #death note #blue exorcist #my hero academia #anime at large really #OH and ofc Soul Eater

[ibuprofriendz]

#had a dream last night Crona was living with me n my family for some reason and they were like a younger sibling to me. #i miss them now #archive #soul eater #crona soul eater #Youtube

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"I wish you to know you have been the last dream of my soul."

~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

#the way this quote entered into my heart and imprinted itself there #i wish you to know you have been the last dream of my soul #charles dickens #a tale of two cities #quotes #literature #literature quotes #lit quotes #literary quotes #quotation #literary quotations #classic lit #classic literature #classic lit quotes #classic literature quotes #english lit #english literature #british lit #british literature #victorian literature #19th century literature #19th century lit #love quotes #true love #quotes on love

[vanillajunmyeon]

Thank you @kimjunnoodle for tagging me it's been a while since I've last done one of those!!!!

1. Last Song: Breakin' Dishes - Rihanna (full on flashback to my youth I suppose)

2. Favorite Color: Purple! It's never not been purple and it has to be specific shades of purple (usually with more blue in it - blue that is overwhelmingly present in my life)

3. Last Film/Last Show: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire Humaniste Cherche Suicidaire Consentant) - it was honestly a very good watch!

4. Sweet or Savory or Spicy: usually savory, I grow tired of sweet very fast, and I get spicy cravings but not as often

5. Last Thing I Googled: the title of the aforementioned French Canadian movie because I didn't remember the full name

6. Relationship Status: single!

7. Current Obsession: Final Fantasy VII, Love and Deepspace, the logical follow-up of that train of thought is "twinks that look like Cloud Strife (like Xavier from lnd)", cleaning my room which I will do more of today hopefully, that modern merthur fic i started yesterday like it's 2013 again, dungeon meshi

tagging @commander-yinello, @chickenshashlek, @acreepychan, @cheeseandcrackships, @starfishvo, @ohmygoshwhatascream if you guys wanna do it!!!

#thank you againnn!! it reminds me of ye old days on tumblr #racontage de vie #about me #the actual obsession is cloud strife and xavier but we don't talk about that #mind you last night i dreamed i was cosplaying tifa and dating an aerith cosplayer. living the dream i see #also do not talk to me about the feature lnd teased today. i do not want to see or know (i looked and i know) #and yes i have been having a soul consuming need to clean stuff in my apartment. i am so bad at it

[smaller-comfort]

Okay, so. Take a man and stretch him out to absolutely ridiculous proportions. Like 'what does anyone need that much arm for what the fuck' kind of proportions. Now give him the smallest instrument imaginable. Got it? Okay, great. Now he's going to play a bluegrass cover of Brittney Spears' Toxic.

Enjoy.

#music #nickel creek #i'm basically the Yelling Girl meme at all times about this band #DID YOU KNOW THAT IN THE EARLY 2000S WHEN ALLISON KRAUSE PRODUCED THEIR EPONYMOUSLY TITLED ALBUM THEY CHANGED THE FACE OF BLUEGRASS FOLK/PO #so anyway im still processing seeing them live for the first time in 20 years #the first time i saw them live i was 17 #and they played a cover of 80s hit “Don't Dream It's Over” by Crowded House #which had a great deal of Symbolic Importance to me as a child #this was legitimately something equivalent to experiencing religious ecstacy to me at the time #anyway last night healed some part of my soul i didn't even realize was wounded so i'm gonna be fixated on this for a while #nattering

[lonely--seeker]

I keep having weird dreams and Will Wood keeps appearing on them

#i don't think I've ever dreamed of someone or something that much if you don't count irl familiars or friends #it's okay thought because his presence kind of distracts me from the rest of the horrors in there #idk if it's bc my brain is using him as distraction or because i might've as well sold my soul to him by how much i used to listen his music #anyways yeah #what's funny is that so far because he's there the dream has to be in english #but i think the last one was in spanish idk #i barely remember anything after i wake up #Luckily