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He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Long ago, there lived a woman named Oneira, who was a talented and imaginative storyteller. Her stories would never fail to put any child to a deep and pleasant sleep.

Oneira's talent drew the envy and ire of Calliope, the muse of epic poetry. And so Calliope schemed to bring her down.

At first she called on Aletheia, the goddess of truth, and told her of Oneira's "lies and fabrications". But when Aletheia came to confront Oneira, Oneira told her a story so beautiful that Aletheia couldn't help to see the profound truths it conveyed, despite being fiction.

Frustrated, next Calliope tricked Oneira into drinking from a pond which was the favorite hunting spot of the goddess of the hunt, Artemis. Upset, Artemis asked her brother Apollo to steal Oneira's voice, so she won't be able to tell her stories.

After the deed was done, Apolli realized he was used. He made it up to Oneira by teaching her how to write, so that she may still express her imagination to the masses.

Foiled once more, Calliope tried one last scheme. She approached a mortal man named Amathos. He was a skilled orator with a beautiful voice, but lacked imagination. She told him of Oneira's plight, and suggested that he should help her by reading Oneira's tales aloud. Amathos took off to meet Oneira, and the two quickly became collaborators and later lovers. They became famous throughout the land for their performances. And Amathos' voice was so powerful it reached Olympus.

One night, Calliope cursed Amathos with insomnia. As he woke, she told him that he owed her a debt, and all he has to do to repay it is get Oneira to write a specific story. A story about a world where the gods did not exist. Oneira was suspicious when her unimaginative husband told her he had an idea for a story. But out of love, she agreed to write it.

Once the story was ready, it was time to perform it before a crowd. And when Amathos read it aloud, the god Zeus heard it and became mad, thinking that the two lovers were trying to turn humanity against him. He went down to the Earth and cursed Oneira and Amathos.

Oneira was turned to sand, and Amathos was punished by having to carry her in a large sack on his back for all eternity.

Now every night, Amathos, still stricken with insomnia, must place a single grain of Oneira into each eye of every child, putting them to sleep. Only when the sack is empty, will Oneira's soul be free. But every time Amathos himself gives in to exhaustion and falls asleep, the pieces of Oneira magically return to the sack, ensuring that his task is never complete.

The sand, still carrying the pieces of Oneira's soul, continue to imagine fantastical stories and show them to the children in their sleep. This is what we call dreams.

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Why people wished they stayed platonic:

Natasha Romanov and Bruce Banner

oh no our last two main characters that don't have any romance in their lives :( what can they connect on hmm? oh! Neither of us can have kids : ') sure that'll work

No chemistry and both of them had better, more interesting love interests (especially Nat)

Lance McClain and Princess Allura

After getting with Lance in the show, Allura's character was completely butchered, and Lance should've been with Keith

spoilers for the end of VLD Season 8

The "romance arc" between them was dropped in season 1 and from that we were given such better dynamics and opportunities for both of them!

Allura became more focused on her mission as a princess and the complexities of Diplomacy- as well as deal with the horrors diplomacy could not fix

Lance was able to grow from a dumb lover boy into a fleshed out character who missed his home and learned to be a genuine part of the team- so much as to become second in command OF said team

Forcing them back together in the end of season 8 completely demolished what development they had and ruined the storyline for both of them

Sick of seeing powerful women reduced to a sacrifice

Sick of seeing a man of color reduced to a goddamn farmer in the name of grief.

They deserved better than eachother and what came of it.

Why. Whyyyy. The whole series Allura clearly sees Lance as, like, an annoying sibling or smth then suddenly she likes him back and they kiss and then she dies. Fuck this series was a shitshow

This pairing came out of the left field. Where are the themes? The parallels?? Shared passions. Anything. Why these two?

lance's entire character arc was built around him moving on from his shallow obsession with allura, only to very suddenly enter a relationship with her at the very end of the show. it is heavily speculated/well known that this last-minute change in plot and endgame ships only occurred because the show's intended gay rep/relationship(s) were red-lighted by dreamworks.

That ending has so many other problems regarding how both of them were treated but suddenly having Allura fall for the guy she's had 0 interest in (thats's pretty much accepted and gotten over her atp), LITERALLY DIE, and then have him spend the rest of his life as a farmer grieving her completely obliterated any semblance of development EITHER of them had up til that point. And for what?! Both deserved so much better than to be shoved into a last minute relationship and pull a full 180, especially when it gets 0 actual development before one of them literally dies! What was the point of this?!

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