thinking about an au where the institute and the powers don't exist and jon is just a researcher who's in a band as a side hobby and bar tender martin who works at a place they regularly have gigs at....
the first night they perform, martin is enamored with the band singer at first glance and his voice caresses the ache inside martins chest
working on a night when they have a gig makes his shift 1000x more bearable, and he's often smiling while bartending and stuff
sometimes jon himself will come over to the bar and order drinks for him and the band- but you know jonny, absolutely zero social skills whatsoever
he probably ends up coming off rude and standoffish to the really soft looking bartender with fluffy hair and glasses
I don’t think I could talk about The Sandman on here because, like, Neil Gaiman is here, just hanging out.
I’d be like “Oh, I like how they visualized this one scene, it was different from the comics but I don’t think they original comics visualizations would have worked in live action “ or whatever
And then Neil Gaiman might appear like “Yeah, we were having trouble figuring out how to do that scene until one of our production designers had a vivid hallucination while eating a 3AM Gyro purchased from an all-night food truck outside the Bass Pro Shop pyramid” and I don’t think I’m ready for that experience.
Alternatively, I could say “Dream is a little too scrungly to be a classic Tumblr Sexyman, but he is prime meow-meow blorbo material” and Neil Gaiman might appear and say “Yeah, we were having trouble figuring out the exact ratio of Sexyman, poor little meow meow, and Blorbo, but the final characterization appeared to Tom Sturridge in a vivid hallucination while eating a 3AM Gyro purchased from an all-night food truck outside the Bass Pro Shop pyramid” and I don’t think I’m ready for THAT either.
Matthew thinking that Hob is one of Dream's futur raven >:( vs Hob who thinks that Matthew is Dream's futur boyfriend
Like Matthew heard a lot about that random guy (not even a raven yet 🙄) how LoYaL he is towards his boss ("but did he even go to hell with the boss? I DON'T THINK SO BOSS-LADY 😤😤😤" *flies away and doesn't listen to what Lucienne was going to say*) how much his boss LiKeS him 🙄🙄🙄
So, Matthew decide to talk about this to a very kind immortal that ain't going to die because he is a GOOD GUY unlike that ASSHOLE that will become Dream's SECOND 🥈 raven when he will die 🙄😒😒
Meanwhile Hob heard a lot about that Matthew :( His stranger's friend that he had know for only 6 months (MONTHS he tooks CENTURIES to Hob to be able to see his friend more than once every 100 years) and the worst thing? Hob suspect that they are living together :(( His stranger said multiple times "I'm needed at home, my friend", "I don't want to make Matthew wait too long. Goodbye", "Matthew and I went there" or "thank you, I don't eat muffin but I think Matthew would like it''
So, Hob decided to talk about his pining to his very weird friend of a talking raven 😔😔
Basically their meetings are like that :
Matthew, eating muffins : you should really ditch your stranger MY boss is wayyyy better, SINGLE, loyal, good listener AND can give you immortality too 😤 he can even make you his king consort!!!!
Hob, not eating the muffins (because he suddenly hates them for no reason at all ahahah... Fuck you Shakespeare, Fuck the muffins): no, no, dude, YOUR boss SUCKS my stranger would NEVER replace you with an other raven 😤😤
You have no idea how much I want this mass migration to tumblr to be real. I would love it if there was an entire ecosystem on tumblr of tiktokers who don't know or don't want to reblog anything, so they are functionally incapable of interacting with the rest of this website. Nothing is funnier to me
God, I can't tell you how much the "there's not enough enrichment in my enclosure" joke has helped my mental health. Because, for some reason I can't comprehend, pretending that I'm a zoo keeper caring for an animal (which is also me) just makes everything easier to comprehend. Like "Your head gets screwey when you're apartment is messy" just doesn't carry as much resonance as "The tiger becomes agitated when its enclosure is cluttered" because then I'll be like, no shit? The tiger? I've gotta keep things nice and clean for the tiger.
Mindfulness can be useful for literally E V E R Y O N E, but I found it particularly helpful for anxiety– this exercise got me out of the house and functioning again.
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