#duckland

[chaos-ducks]

I have somehow convinced a gaggle of kindergarteners that I am the shapeshifting duck queen of Duckland and as I continue being unable to transform into a duck they grow wearier over my identity. I must find a way to keep up the act-

[duckland777]

You can’t tell me that’s not true ✈️😌😒😷😆🥲

[roguelov]

Are you mean to kill me? You dare come to my house and try to tell me that you, YOU, one of the best writers of smut -and stuff- I have ever read in my whole life of reading any sort of stuff with words on it, YOU have had any doubt about your godsgiven craft??? Im crushing my car under your window.

IM SORRY PLEASE FORGIVE ME!!! I’ll never say anything bad again I swear 😭

[so-i-grudgingly-joined-this-site]

A sudden out of nowhere ThoTh came to me an hour ago, what if... what if they change the gender for the character of Thessaly?? First I thought, ok, fine, we get rid of the terf to have just a regular bigot wizard.. but then I realized, The Implications.. would Morpheus being attracted to them? Would we get to see him being dumped and moping all over?? You might even think "ok but that's not really that important if you leave that out in the series" but then you remember that looking for her was his motivation to go around with Delirium in the first place.. setting everything in movement for the fucking grand slalom downhill up to the Kindly Ones... but what If they do that, what if they change the gender... I think it would be cool enough to watch, right? What do you think?

I'm not sure if swapping Thessaly's gender would make it "better" in the sense that the character would still be a bigot. Actually, I wonder if from a fandom-meta perspective, I worry it might make it worse. Unfortunately, even with all else being the same except gender, I think the fans might actually LIKE guy-Thessaly, since in general they seem more willing to forgive male characters for being assholes than female ones, even if they're equally terrible characters. Especially if the actor they choose looks attractive. (For example, the amount of angry messages in my inbox whenever I suggest Dream might be less than perfect shows how insistent fans are that their favorite guy can do no wrong, even when him canonically doing wrong is a major part of the plot...) Is it bad that fandom probably agrees on hating Thessaly because she's female more than the fact that she's a TERF? Yeah, but at least there's the base level agreement that she does suck.

As for whether Morpheus would be attracted to guy-Thessaly? While comics-canon Morpheus seems pretty insistently attracted to women, I don't see why Neil wouldn't consider a male love interest for the show. The fact that The Corinthian is pan now shows he's open to expanding a character's options, as it were. Not sure about the implication of having Morpheus's worst love interest simultaneously being the male one, though. Especially if we go with the interpretation that his dating Thessaly was an intentional act of self-sabotage/self-destruction--framing his first onscreen gay romance as an act of self harm could be taken negatively. But I don't see any reason why it wouldn't happen based on gender alone.

If Morpheus is still straight though and Thessaly is gender swapped, then that WOULD be a big change, since that would change the entire sequence of events leading into the finale.

I am very open to just about any change to the later arcs! Those are the ones that, to me, seem the most "of their time"/aged poorly without historical context (and also insufferably edgelord-y), and I feel cautiously optimistic that just about any change Neil does to them would be an improvement. A change to the Thessaly relationship could potentially have a massive cascading effect, since it really is the start of the big downhill slide.

If Thessaly is a man and they change nothing else about the character or their interactions with the other characters, then I don't think there'd be much change to the resulting events--other than perhaps a greater fandom desire to "redeem" Thessaly if she's a hot guy. BUT if there's a more substantial change--like Dream not dating the asshole bigot (regardless of their gender), THEN I'd be super hyped to see what happens next and what changes are in store!

TLDR: Gender-swapping Thessaly alone wouldn't be a substantial change, unless it's also accompanied by other changes in how Dream and others interact with the character. And I am all for changes to the later arcs!

[ursulaismymiddlename]

Kati... Kati, your icon.. Kati that's just.. oof

you have @laurelwen and @captainpoopweinersoldier to thank for it haha

we both know what we wanna do to that neck heehee

Here were the other choices I was considering:

[stroebe2]

[wizardofgoodfortune]

Alex, keep improving your url and icons the way you're doing it and I will ask you to marry me (derogative)

*casts spell of good dreams upon ye* may morpheus visit ur dreams frequently and lovingly

[thedorkasaurus]

It seems like this week is going to kill you. But dont worry, It wont. Really, you'll be fine. Sure is tough, nobody said otherwise, but you'll make it. You have to low down a little bit your rendiment, say, just get things done, doesnt matter if they're not perfect, really. You'll be fine. I wont forget the long nights in front of the computer trying to finish lots of assigns that were the 60 or 70% of the total. In.just.one.night. a whole ass assigment from a book i didn't have the time to read or a class I couldn't attend cause I was, too, working. Ive been working all my life and I managed to get my journalism degree. I managed to deal with a newborn on my own at the lockdown with no help and some weeks I thought I couldn't make it. Again, is tough but you just need to get things finished, no matter if that book was never fully read, if the dishes are not clean. One day at the time and take time to rest as much as you can, it will get better eventually, you'll see. It will pass. And you'll be proud of yourself because you survived decently when you thought that'd kill you, because you're stronger than you think and braver than much much many out there. Just get things done, somehow, get your little pockets of rest and get things done. Cause bitches get things done. You can do this. Lots of love. Ánimo y fuerza!

Thank you 🥺

This message means so much to me! I stayed up late working on an assignment and I had to go in to work early. I got a 100 on the assignment and the instructors feedback was a motivation as well!

You amaze me and you were able to do all that alone!! You’re so strong and you’re such a beautiful soul 💕

Del fondo de mi alma, gracias por tus palabras!

Ánimo y fuerza! I’ll always remember that 🤍