So Now That We've Settled Down On The Memes, I Think We Can All Agree

I Love Joltik!! Is bbgrl!!

You misunderstand, they need him to understand what the fuck to do when they talk to The Residents after the battle.

Papyrus OG turns into an ambassador after the True Paci ending, so of course Blue would be honored to do that for his Fucking Clueless Idiot Gods.

Sure, you can say that Dream has experience from before he was turned to stone, but-

a. In the og tale, he was 6 when he became one with rock. Even if he were closer to an adult-

b. It's been about 500 years since he was anything less than a god, and even THEN-

c. He was still Revered AS A GOD. The Tree of Feelings and the golden apples made the villagers See Him As A God. It doesn't matter if they manipulated him or treated him like the average kid, they saw him as something Other Than Them.

Dream has no legs to stand on.

INK IS SO MUCH WORSE THOUGH. HE HAS NO ARMS TO CRAWL WITH OH GOD.

He Canonically sees everyone as Characters that are Part Of A Story. How are you gonna talk to someone that had their house torn to shreds by Error when they're the equivalent of Mickey God Damned Mouse in your eyes?

Both cannot interact with anything less than a god unless they have their Token Mortal Buddy to tell them that No, people do NOT like it when you take the food they were holding like an offering, and they DESPISE when you explain their dead wife as an "interesting backstory" my friend!!

basically the star sanses' dynamic. you guys are basically fighting the devil. why is jeff from accounting here

like its really cute that youre gonna ✨defeat him with the power of frendship✨ and all, but again, he is the devil. from the bible.

so.

But...what if he isn't small? 🔎

character misses their shot and the villain goes "ha! you missed." and the main character goes "did i?" and then shoots the villain again while they're frantically looking around the room for what the hero could possibly have aiming for instead

I do not do the tumblr very often but I feel like everyone can relate to this emotion I've captured

Happy spooky June!

This pleases me to have come across.

No one ever tell me anything bad about the person who runs this account.

Never knew this, will avoid in the future!

PLEASE BE CAREFUL FOR ANYONE WHO USES “BLUEBUFFALO” FOR THEIR DOGS!!

Grotesque shadow monster in its rebellious phase hanging out with humans

The nerve

honestly the discourse on this site is so bad that I have a new hot take: if you use tumblr at all fuck you

Oh yeah, that Hunter stuff is dumb as fuck.

There's a reason almost nobody ever follows that; even when little Nighty dies. In Im_Sorry_Buddy's fanfic Spilled Ink, it's just corruption overtaking him and not a third party haunting his corpse.

Dream is always more interesting when he combats negative emotions, and Nightmare is always more interesting when he is (at least most of the time) in control of himself. (Passive and Corruption sharing a body is also interesting, but I haven't ever seen Passive with Hunter and For Good Fucking Reason.)

Words cannot describe how much I despise the og dreamtale story, and I'll share why.

if we're speaking purely by the barebones plot, dreamtale can be, on a surface level, considered a well put together story on how there are different ways to feel negative and positive emotions and how feeling negativity towards some things is healthy, but letting it consume you leads to you yourself becoming what you previously hated the most. It also explores how being to positive and not letting yourself feel negative emotion is harmful toward your mental health and wellbeing.

This is where I think Dreamtale fundamentally fails.

Joku decided to write Nightmare (and dream but we'll get there) in a way that actually harms the story its trying to tell.

Passive is an innocent child, bullied for something he cannot control, this is because the people around him associate negative emotion and negativity = Bad, harmful. As the readers, we know this isn't the case, but eventually, passive is pushed over the edge and consumes one of the apples of negativity.

Nightmare is immediately corrupted, but instead of Nightmare being well.... nightmare, passive is apparently dead and nightmare is now a dead, vengeful hunter that had tried to slay Nim (Dream and Nightmares Mother) a soul was trapped in the tree?

This could be Joku trying to convey that sometimes negativity can consume a person so much it fundamentally changes them, but this is much less impactful. We have not grown close to this Nightmare, we just know that he's evil now, and he wants to kill everyone yet also have more negativity? The only motive that makes sense is killing his brother.

I believe that this could have been much more impactful if we cut the hunter out entirely and portray Nightmare as he really was when he transformed; A scared, hurt child.

Nightmare wasn't immediately this imposing, dark, and looming figure of uncertain fate, he was a child whose negative emotions consumed him, and being a young child, he lashed out.

And he would continue lashing out, for many years, many different villages. But as he aged, he also matured and realized that the murder of thousands of people would not help him achieve his main goal: Killing Dream. After this realization, he hid himself away in an abandoned castle, collecting his followers from across the multiverse and preparing for the fights with Dream soon to come.

Dream is a little more complicated to asses, as throughout the story, he is portrayed as an innocent baby who can never do anything wrong.

But Dream is an adult.... and he should be treated as such. we never see any of Dreams flaws and disadvantages explored, only the fact that he loves his brother.

I wish we could've seen Dream struggle with negative emotions and feels as thought he must bottle them up being the guardian of positivity.

I want to see him look back and hate the villagers that hurt his brother, and he has to come and confront the fact that he has hate and negativity in his soul and its okay to feel those emotions.

But this is all just my opinion, share your thoughts/how you think the story could have been handled better.