#the spotify wrapped thing

[ginoeh]

Number 13 for the Spotify fic thingy 🖤!!

Thank you for the ask! You have a good eye for numbers 😂 This one is my much beloved Tamino with Persephone. I had about 158 story ideas for this one already (give or take a few) and decided on a 🌟 new 🌟 one instead (yay!).

I'm staying very close to the song's lyrics here instead of the of more general lore of the myth for this challenge. Please enjoy 'dramatic-idiot-in-love' with a dash of 'unstoppable-force-meets-immovable-object'. We start with Dream's pov. Because drama.

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It goes like this: Morpheus is enamoured, bewitched, by Hob's radiance, his faith and warmth and the care for humanity he has learned to cultivate over painstaking centuries. He knows what effort this costs Hob, knows it in every controlled instinct and careful look, in every forsaken opportunity for personal gain, how Hob yearns to remain good and light. So when night falls over the warm glow of the New Inn's evening, Morpheus stays and stays and stays and drinks it all in.

Morpheus feels like a moth drawn to the flame. Hob is the day to his night, the warmth of spring and summer to his own wintery darkness. He should let Hob live his life away from him, keep him at a distance as he has for so long now. He's much more selfish than that, though, greedy in his affection as he's been accused of so many times.

Unwilling to leave, he instead lets Hob choose: they can go back to their centennial meetings or, as Morpheus offers, they could trade - an apology for the missed centennial; one meeting in the Waking for one meeting in the Dreaming, each month a different setting. He might not let Hob go, if he acquiesces to this, Morpheus warns (“Those that live too long in dreams might be consumed by them even in waking hours. It's in their nature.” And therefore in his, he doesn't add.)

Hob laughs, bright and daring with that edge of sparkling hope, and takes the second offer (“What's a little bit of lost time between friends? I'd love to come and visit your realm.”) Morpheus has known how Hob would choose, of course he has. Has seen the daydreams of golden friendship, shared tales and maybe even, love. There really wasn’t a choice at all.

The months slip by, pleasant and warm - no, no it's more than pleasant, it's- Morpheus knows when he's in love, can’t not know it when the Dreaming is in the full bloom of spring, with sweet winds and sunshine accompanying them wherever they go in his realm. When their hands and hearts are entangled as much as their limbs and tongues.

It's sweet as honey.

It will not last.

He’s mired in the never-beens and wishes, the dark and the forbidden and the nearly-forgotten - and while Hob might love him as many people love their dreams, as soon as they get too close Morpheus will invariably break his heart. Be it through disappointment and ennui or when Morpheus’ flights of fancy will have Hob's grip slipping, see him falling out of love towards the awakening, and shatter.

And yet, Morpheus wants.

There is the inevitable end looming, Morpheus knows, because love always ends in his sister's arms. Even more, there is the other end, the one he lets loom on the horizon unseen and felt only in the chill between Hob's visits. He does not let himself think of much of anything then. For now though, he takes Hob's love of life and light and warmth and lets it guide him, lets it be his hearth and home. It's deceiving, but Hob is Morpheus' dream and he wants to hold onto it until he has to face the realities of his fate.

Soon Hob will realize that there is another life waiting for him in the Waking, he will not want to remain bound to one such as he. In the light, Morpheus and his world of dreams will be small and unimportant to Hob, easily forgotten, as dreams are wont to be forgotten in the Waking. It will be Hob who'll try to cancel their accord.

Still, for now the deal keeps them circling each other, keeps them close. Maybe closer than Morpheus is confortable with. Maybe close enough that Hob can see thing Morpheus would want to stay hidden.

Because in Hob's eyes, Dream sees love and devotion but sometimes, there is something else. Morpheus knows it well, has seen it in Nada's eyes before the end. It's fear; desperation and fear. And Hob is right to fear him, he’s right to fear the calamities he might bring upon him, to fear the inevitable end, the fall and the shattering. Hob loves him, Hob fears him, it's inextricable - two sides of the same coin.

Because ultimately, Morpheus will be Hob's fall.

Together, they can learn to fly.

Hob though, is the maker of his own fate; refuses to give up agency over his own destiny. It's in his nature, after all. What Hob fears isn't his own fall. If he falls, he does so because he chooses to risk it. He'll accept the consequences, like he always has.

What he fears, then, is Morpheus’ fall. Because Hob can clearly see him standing on a precipice and he'll go to the ends of all universes and battle the fates themselves if only he can make his love step back and turn around - this isn't a Orpheus and Euridice situation after all, or a retelling of Hades and Persephone.

No one was stolen, and no one has died.

Quite the contrary really. This is live and this is love. It's what hope is made of and Hob won't stop trying to get Morpheus to see it. To see as well, that Hob doesn’t need Morpheus to stay aloft, that he is perfectly capable of carrying his own weight and helping Morpheus along at the same time. If only Morpheus would give in to Hob calling him back to life and turn the fuck around!

This story is theirs alone and Hob will make damned sure they never get an ending and only a happily ever after. Morpheus just needs to take his hand and dare the first step.

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Okay, that’s a wrap then. I also have at least one AU that involves a more dramatic and fantastical reason for Hob having to spend half of his time in the Dreaming. Then, there’s the idea of a fairytale AU. There's one of Hob getting fed up and be the one to propose a Persephone-like deal if Dream insists on treating this like a effing story (im partial to that one lol). And a slew of other ideas. They don't stay as close to the song lyrics as this here, though.

#dream of the endless #hob gadling #dreamling #the sandman fanfiction #the spotify wrapped thing #ginoeh writes

[lookninjas]

Anyway, because I'm already seeing conspiracy theories going around, Spotify Wrapped dropped today because it's Wednesday. Last year it dropped Nov. 30th. A Wednesday. December 1st 2021? A Wednesday. That's why it was the 29th this year. They drop it on Wednesday. You're welcome.

#spotify wrapped #people believe the damndest things

[rosekasa]

i think what i adore about ladynoir beyond high school age (18 and over) is the opportunity it leaves for some of the most DELICIOUS best friends to lovers scenarios. because, like, two people who've been fighting side by side for years? who've known each other long enough to make jokes about it, haha remember when we were fourteen and you-- we AGREED to never speak of it!!!! who've spent so long learning each other inside out, even, in chat noir's case, getting over feelings, that the idea of anything romantic between them is so far off the radar that they don't feel the need for certain boundaries, because why would it matter if they made jokes about how attractive they find each other, about getting married, about how they could totally mess with the rest of the miracle team by pretending they're hooking up because it's so far out of the realm of possibility.

but then there would be that imperceptible shift. the moment where one of them makes a joke and it feels just a bit more loaded than it should. gazes lingering where they never lingered and playful smiles turning curious. the sudden awareness that, while maybe they were cuddling on a rooftop with their best friend, they were also wrapped up in the arms of someone they trust with their lives, and is extremely attractive, and, wait, if the only reason it was platonic before was because there were no feelings, what does THIS mean?

THE TENSION. THE PINING. THE INHERENT MESS OF BEING IN YOUR TWENTIES. PLEASEEEE

#as i go through more things in life i ache for ladynoir to experience it too #i want them to be at a grocery store and for him to reach out to tickle her and she turns around and makes a joke but their gazes linger way #too knowingly #i want them to sit down and have a 'okay like this is so tmi but isnt the concept of sex so weird??' conversation #i want them to joke about starting a podcast together #make impulsive amazon purchases that make no sense #find a song that one of them hate and then continuously play it on loop #compare spotify profiles and one of them steals the other's login to sabotage their spotify wrapped for the year #do you know i am so normal about ladynoir #♡alizeh talks♡ #tagged:ladynoir

[willgrahamscock]

okay but who up listening to yaoi?

#alex says things #spotify wrapped #literally CRYING did not know that this was a thing #wrapped

[petewentzisblack1312]

fall out boy is so fascinating because anyone who doesnt know anything about fall out boy thinks theyre only relevant to millenials who had intense emo phases while anyone who is a huge fall out boy fan is aware of the fact that every single album they release has gotten them a wave of new young fans. and actually thats not even true because every album second album cycle the fans from the one before the last one are like what do you mean you became a fan during the last album cycle i didnt think anyone was still onboarding. and this is going to go on forever until they retire probably.

edit: i must assume you like fall out boy. consider: fall out boy pins.

buy my art.

#dils declares #sorry theres this guy thats been doing a what your spotify wrapped says about you series #and his thing for fob was 'millenials. you were born before 1998' #and thats just false! theres 14 year old fob fans right now! #whos first song they ever heard of theirs was love from the other side! #and obviously theres me. hi. but like it seems like itd be the case #but its not.

[andromedism]

the gang’s spotify wrapped

#i’ve been at work all day itching to make this #iasip #iasip shitpost #it’s always sunny #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #mac macdonald #charlie kelly #dennis reynolds #dee reynolds #frank reynolds #the song choices are a combo of: #the gang’s canon faves #things that made me laugh while i was making this #ok love u bye #spotify wrapped #spotify

[runningupthatvecna]

#spotify wrapped is here and it feels like christmas #eddie munson #meme #i mean am i right or am i right #stranger things #stranger things 4 #god i need help #hyperfixating since 2022 #see you in a year eddie #my pookie #bean #i neeeeeed him

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

#i do not control the fixations #barbie #barbie 2023 #im sorry i cant quit posting about it i have so many meme ideas and THIS SONG IS AN EARWORM #im just ken #greta gerwig #margot robbie #ryan gosling #ken #and ken #just ken #kenough #running up that hill #spotify wrapped #stranger things

[thelovethatyouhad]

Scrolling through my top 100 and thinking about how lucky we are to live in a time where we can listen to any and all music that we want, whenever we want, every day, wherever we go, privately in our own ears, and there’s so much music to choose from that you could go a lifetime without hearing all of it??? Imagine giving Spotify access to someone 100 years ago. Or even 25 years ago.

#all these songs that meant so much to me #movie soundtracks and musical theater #songs that I related to and made me feel less alone #it was in MY lifetime that streaming music became a thing #I remember a time when if you heard a song that you liked you just had to hope they played it on the radio again so you could tape it #me #music #Spotify wrapped

[solarishashernoseinabook]

Autism wrapped!

You developed two new hyperfixations this year! That's one more than last year!

You spent 24 648 minutes stimming! You're in the top 5% of hand flappers!

You rotated your blorbo in your brain for 18 126 minutes! Overall, you spent 1.15 times as long thinking about your blorbo compared to last year!

You survived 476 conversations this year! Good job!

You were baffled by allistics 4718 times! Wow!

Here's to being even more autistic in 2024!

#autism #autistic things #actually autistic #spotify wrapped parodies

[ginoeh]

Hey @tj-dragonblade thank you so much for your Spotify Wrapped ask! Sadly, it got eaten and spat up scrambled by tumblr so we're doing it this way...

You asked for #58 which is 'Where the Heart is' by Haevn:

This song has a carrying, uplifting and kind of yearning tone. It sweeps through you and leaves behind hope, anticipation, a bit of fear and the prospect of endless possibilities at the horizon. The text is kinda next level. Please check it out lol.

This would be the story: Dream learns to lay down his burdens - a leap of faith.

Dream has struggled for millenia, an endless climb along the towering and mired boughs of the duty he calls his own. His imprisonment has only shown him the deepest of the shadows he is laboring in.

And then there is the meeting with Hob. It's like climbing out of the shade - breaching the canopy of a cursed forest and realizing that there is still fresh air and life; wind and change. Propelled by the heady feeling he admits that Hob was right, he is lonely, he has missed Hob during his years in imprisonment.

They start to meet more often; Dream knows this is not advisable but he can't help himself. When he follows Hob's life in the Waking - still so mired in dreams and hopes for the future - he feels free of his duty for however long he dares to lay aside his mantle.

It cannot go on forever, though. Below him, in the dark, there are still the burdens and sorrows of his function. He cannot fathom the freedom Hob has.

“What would you do, then? If you were fully and completely human? Nothing more than that, no duty, no function, only endless time and possibilities?” It's a moot question, Dream thinks and doesn't give Hob an answer, because what is he if not his function? Is he anything at all without it? It's the same question he had asked of his sister, all those months ago - and Hob's answer is intrinsically different than hers had been. Still, the question echoes in his vast consciousness long after Hob as psoed it.

Their outings change in tone; where before, Hob has taken Dream along, Dream finally does what his sister had bid him for many many centuries now: he learns what humanity is made of when not asleep and dreaming.

He finds that he loves it, because of and despite its many failings. Or maybe, he remembers something he has always known. Is his love of the world Hob shows him (and maybe his growing love for Hob) worth trying? There is a precipice that he's walking towards. He knows but hasn't made himself acknowledge it yet. There is his function below and behind, and there is the oblivion of endless night and his sisters wings above. He needs to choose - change or die?

Hob notices the shift in Dream's bearing, how he goes from aloof amusement in whatever Hob chooses to show him to honest and intense focus. Watching Dream turn his full interest onto the world is a beautiful thing to see. Maybe Hob wishes his friend would turn that interest onto him - because it's becoming increasingly harder to keep up the pretense of normalcy when everything he wants is to make Dream the center of his universe. But there's something his friend seems to be working towards, some decision that he's on the cusp of making, and Hob knows, intrinsically, that if he interferes, disaster might descend.

Dream, as is his very nature, isn't one to rationally and openly plan things through. And yet, after a fading night of watching the painted skies of the northern lights, drinking a too hot and too bitter coffee from a thermos, wrapped in blankets on the backseat of a borrowed car and pretending not to hear how Hob's teeth chatter, he thinks that he needs to talk with his older sister - and with the Prodigal.

He takes Hob along on a journey, featuring an awkward reacquaintance of Hob and Delirium who seem to know each other, a heartbreaking and enlightening conversation with his son, an unexpectedly enthusiastic offer of help from Destruction - and finally, a stilted confession and plea to Death.

In the end, when everything is set up and said and done, when lives have been ended and changed and the furies have come and gone, Dream takes a leap - takes the hands of his closest siblings and goes where his heart is, where light might still be found and where there is the possibility of a story that isn't lonely but entwined with Hob's who is ready to wait for him.

(Spoiler: they fall in love, after. In increments and ever deeper, sometimes to the ruin of those around them, sometimes to their gain. They are watched, always, but Death and Delirium are the only ones that ever visit.)

#im incapable of leaving out the orpheus storyline #its about the pivotal point for any story about Dream and change #dream of the endless #hob gadling #the sandman fanfiction #ginoeh writes #the spotify wrapped thing #dreamling

[hamoodmood]

My Spotify wrapped

#spotify #spotify wrapped #spotify wrap 2023 #real #relatable #shitpost #shitposting #text post #text #girlblogging #girlblogger #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #girly things #female hysteria #whisper girl #actually bpd #bpd vent #bpd problems #mentally drained #the other woman #feelings #a blog for the heartbroken #just girly things #tumblr girl #mentally unstable #unlovable #j

[ecoamerica]

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[avalencias]

unguarded, I surrender to the softer side

you can thank @kienava for this one 😌

#rwby #bumbleby #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #my things #yes this is my kitchen yes those are my gideon posters #if I have to suffer thru a background then by god am I going to make it as easy as possible for me #anyway #in honor of worthy being número uno on my spotify wrapped I guess

[chironshorseass]

i will forever stand by the lightning thief musical being the best pjo adaptation by a loooong shot. i’ve seen more than a few people critiquing the show for making these kids be way too serious for what they are—kids—and i’m just thinking abt how well the tlt musical writers understood the assignment!!! (and also the actors!) they’re adults playing 12 year-olds and u really forget that while watching the musical, by how well it’s written and interpreted by the actors. also the way the writers Understood the characters and their dynamics to a T…man, i still think about the good kid reprise when luke paralleled percy 😭😭😭😭 and how annabeth’s cleverness is never doubted and displayed, yet she’s also a silly girl! same with grover and percy! for example percy’s anger showing up in so many parts of the musical yet he’s always trying his best (which is why the good kid reprise works so well!) and then grover having his tree on the hill moment😭😭

back to annabeth: it really irks me how so many people fail to understand her? even her creator ???!!! truly outstanding how in the movie she’s watered down to just being the love interest who says she’s smart and the daughter of wisdom and blah blah blah yet does little to make the audience believe that, and then in the show she’s too smart, almost too perfect in everything she does. (none of the scenes have yet to show her making mistakes, like in the book). i love love love tlt musical annabeth bc she’s a girl looking for others to notice her! she wants to be seen! she wants to make her mark! she says she always has a plan yet sometimes she doesn’t! she’s still 12! she’s petty and makes mistakes and hasn’t seen the world! just goes to show which one is the superior adaptation.

anyway, tlt musical stans RISE!!!!

#tlt musical #pjo adaptation #pjo tv show #this was inspired by all the posts i’m seeing with show crit #u know i’m not gonna comment too much on the show bc i’ve begun to compare it to the musical and it doesn’t hold a candle to the musical lol #i could go on and on about the musical like it had 16 year old me in a chokeholdddd #i remember a few years back a lot of the soundtrack was in my spotify wrapped😭😭😭 #so i’m just gonna treat the show as a form of media inspired by pjo but saying it’s own thing without necessarily bringing the same #narrative as the books. this is the big difference between the show and the musical i think

[nicostiel]

#so true bestie

#spotify #spotify wrapped #spotify wrapped 2022 #stranger things #eddie munson #joseph quinn #*mypost #*myedits

[laracrofted]

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐑𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐃 | Create your own Spotify Wrapped for your characters. This is best used in Canva (Proxima Nova Bold is the best dupe I've found for the Spotify font), but Instagram works in a pinch. Asks are open for questions!

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#nora my beloved #i'm using her as an example because i couldn't commit to a wrapped for one of the boys #spotify wrapped #character wrapped #TGM Wrapped #(sort of but not really) #ames makes things