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LUKE

How do you feel about fancy orchestra galas?

All right, my friends, this one can relate to the Dreams, or just your life here. Commenter's choice! Anonymously, or not anonymously, tell me what song--or songs--is stuck in your head or on repeat on your Spotify playlists. Drop a link, share lyrics, whatever you want. And feel free to provide context, or not. Anything goes. I just want to know what's currently on your soundtrack.

( Delivery to Luke Marlow )

( instagram post! )

I don't usually post publicly about this dream stuff, but I'm just...curious. How many of you find a large amount of similarities between yourself and your dream self, and how many of you find that you're completely different from the person you dream of?

I can't decide which one is worse. I'm...very similar to my person, even things that happened long before I started dreaming of him seem to have an echo in these dreams. tbh sometimes it kind of reminds me of that movie Us, like we're tethered to one another, and what happens to one happens to the other in at least some capacity. Only, luckily neither world is a dark underground bunker and also I don't think my dream-self is capable of murdering me or vice-versa. Anyway. Sometimes it sucks, but then I was also thinking it probably sucks to dream of someone really different, too, especially if they were like...a bad guy, or something.

Anyway. I guess I'm just kind of wondering what other people experience on this front.

It's Monday and I feel as though everyone could use a bit of a boost to their karma or vibes or whatever the heck you want to call it, so here's my wish to you all, stolen from this person that I don't know, but I'm sure is famous somehow: ( Cut for image! )

Feel free to customize that in such ways as to personally fit your life, but just know I'm rooting for you -- because I know everyone out there wants a former New Yorker violinist in their corner. ✌🏻

After this weekend, all I want to do is research and map out my garden for next spring. It's probably a good thing I have work or it's all I'd be doing.

LUKE

Hi. I need some big brother shaped wisdom, if you know one with the time.

WAVERLY

Hey, you. How have you been doing? I feel like I haven't been as attentive a friend as I should be.

I have never regretted working at this radio station before, but hearing that people are planning and scheduling their vacations that I could only bestow on others and never be able to enjoy myself is causing great distress in my wanderlust heart.

PS: I'm a couple days late on this, but happy one year anniversary of getting cheese fries for the first time with the woman that I didn't know at the time was the love of my life.

NIALL

Hi. I need to talk to you about something. I've been avoiding it since you got back from Ireland so I'm being a grown up and talking to you about it here, instead of in person. Baby steps.

( instagram post! )

In case you wanted to see me try desperately not to cry through a performance, the NSO is doing Coco In Concert Live to Film on July 27. Tickets are still available! I'm just going to spend much of my time between now and then watching the movie to try to desensitize myself.

LUKE

What are you doing this next coming weekend?

WHO: Luke Marlow, Kesi Freeman, Bridget Grant
WHEN: July 11, 2019
WHERE: Bridget and Kesi's House
SUMMARY: Kesi and Luke poke at old wounds, and Bridget is caught in the middle.
WARNINGS: Fisticuffs, language.

( Call me later. When he's gone. )

Happy Independence Day, everyone. We fought hard to free this country, to give it a chance to be the best nation it could be. We still have a long way to go, so let's use today to celebrate the opportunities we have to keep striving and fighting for a better future.

TEXT TO BRIDGET

-- I need you.
-- I know that's a lot, but I don't know whom else I could reach out to right now.

I feel really odd doing this, but I'm doing it anyway. I've been thinking about this more or less only this for days and even though I'm not sure if I'm making a good or bad decision here, today is one of those days that I feel a lot of things when it comes to family. I feel as though I have to do something, so this is me doing something.

Hi, I'm Rachel Marlow and I'm dreaming about Andromeda Tonks. If that matters to you at all, I just wanted to [...] throw it out there. If you're not ready to talk about it, that's more than okay. I really and truly understand and I don't want anyone to feel like they should talk about this before they're ready. I just wanted people to know, if you ever do feel that way or need some dream version of family, this is me. Hello.

Hi, friends.

It's been a long while since we've done one of these and, though I no longer need the data for my sociology class, I do think they've been very productive in terms of discussion. So here's another anonymous post for you! Again, you can turn on the anon filter and no one will know who you are, or you can just respond as yourself, whether because you're not ready to reveal who you're dreaming about, or whatever the case may be.

Tonight's question is: If you could say something to someone you knew/know in your dream world that you can't say here for whatever reason, what would it be?

[posted after all her dream nonsense]

Oceana, remember that birthday of yours that fell just after we both finished up at Juilliard and we were broke as can be, barely able to afford that apartment, but determined to do something nice for your birthday? So I bought the cheapest box of cake mix and tub of frosting that I could find, whipped it all up, and then promptly forgot about it in the oven and then nearly burned down that apartment we could barely afford. And then I threw in the towel, borrowed some money from my mom, and took you to the diner for something greasy and wasn't charred chocolate cake.

It feels like that was both a long time ago and yesterday, which I think means we're both getting advanced in age.

Happy birthday to you, my friend. I love you and you deserve only the very best of things. Make sure that boy of yours takes you out for something better than charred chocolate cake.

ELIJAH

I need to talk to

LUKE

I know that you probably have prolonged birthday stuff between yesterday and your sister's today, but if you possibly have some time tonight, even if it's late, would you let me know? I just need [...] It's okay if you don't, so don't make an exception or cut something short, okay?

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First of all: HAPPY NURSES WEEK.

Second, if you are ever having an even remotely muddy brainspace for whatever reason, getting to babysit your niece is a very good way to distract and remind you of all the wonderful you have in your life. If you don't have a niece (or nephew) for whatever reason, here's a picture of mine from when we were making pancakes for dinner. ( Cut for image! )

Yes, her perfection is undeniable. It's true.

ELIJAH

Hey. How are you?

LUKE

What is your favorite breakfast food?

LUKE

Help.

I'm the one talking about Andromeda, for reference. I honestly didn't think they meant anything and it was just stress from having a full time nursing gig and everything being sideways in my personal life but that weirdness aside [...] god. What am I supposed to do with that?