"Punishment Works!!!" We're Drowning In Three To Four Generations Of People So Pants-shittingly Terrified

Dream: I feel so burnt out. Punz: Don’t worry, it'll be over soon. Dream: Are you gonna... assassinate me? Punz: Well not if you’re expecting it.

I love the thought of c!Dream being deeply unsettling. There's something off about him, something you can't put your finger on, that makes you dread being alone in a room together. Even when he's trapped in a prison cell, it feels like he's the one with the power. I love the thought of that being intentional—when he has no weapons, he can make his own. He still has his mind. He still has his voice.

Obviously that's not who c!Dream is By Default, but it's interesting how well he can play the character when he chooses to. When he decides it can work to his benefit.

i'm erasing myself from the narrative

jokes about the prison arc are all well and good but they also tend evince a very telling discomfort with the source material.

I know the prison arc has done its job well when people who take exile dead serious are forced to laugh and make uncomfortable jokes to avoid facing the tone of the prison arc head-on

strongly agree / agree / ambivalent / disagree / strongly disagree / don’t care whatsoever

REAL AS HELL !!! it's really interesting especially for the group of people as u mention, considering that honestly most of the prison arc is played Completely straight with the only possible exception of like, prison podcast, which really didn't do anything to make the prison a joke as much as it was just c!techno being c!techno. compared to exile, where like, anywhere from 80-90% of the discduo interactions were literally just fooling around bookended by srs rp (exploding tommy's stuff and an ominous statement before c!dream dipped for the day, basically.)

it's not that jokes about either or taking either serious are wrong, but it's kind of interesting to see how the prison is treated by certain groups of fans as unpalatable Unless it's a joke. the torture can't be anything but a meme. it's perfectly fine and dandy to look at the canonical torture and say "hey what if c!quackity was just doing [x inconsequential action] to piss c!dream off" when there's bloodstains on the prime path, but somehow Wrong and going Against The Spirit Of The Server if you take the torture in the opposite direction by taking it to its logical extreme of what could have been allowed in the literal explicit torture sessions of daily torture. and yeah, it all goes to show how well the prison arc did its job, because sometimes it feels like people can't quite look at it head on. which is fascinating.

ugly lore sketch dump 

Hot take, but cis people have gender identities. They aren't the gender they identify as because of their genitalia or what their birth certificate says. They're only cis because they identify with a gender and it happens to match their government documentation. Cis men aren't men because they're "obviously" men for having a penis. They're men because they identify as men. It's the self-identification that dictates this, not any other factor, even for cis folks. And we should be framing it this way. A cis man identifies as a man and a cis woman identifies as a woman. There is no automatic or inherent gender.

Streets are saying dream is finally defending himself

I HAVE BEEN WAITING SINCE 2020

c!dream but drog.. c!drog

see the THING IS I don't feel like I ever worked hard enough to have "earned" the burnout, which is. probably how we got here.

"if tumblr dies you can find me on bluesky" "if tumblr dies you can find me on Instagram" if tumblr dies you cannot find me. It's over. I'm free.