i think easily one of the more notable things that made me feel safe w dream would bs how he makes me feel seen as a muslim, a fan and a queer person. i was there for the drodcast where he was trying so hard to pronounce "eid mubarak" to wish us all properly and that straight up made me cry bc while i havent had outright islamophobia directed at me, there also has never been someone like that who just genuinely tried sm to wish us eid mubarak. and when dream came out as unlabelled/ambiguous that actually rly put my mind at is bc i was struggling to "assign a label" to myself before i saw his tweet and reddit post and was like "tf im doing? its literally a spectrum, im still queer at the end of the day". tldr his small actions like those rly made me feel seen and has helped me grow more comfy w different aspects of my identity^-^ i owe a lot to him, honestly

i don’t really have much of a story, more just me being grateful for this fandom. if it hadn’t been for this community, i would never have met my best online friends. we’re thinking of meeting up this summer for the first time after three years of distant friendship :) both of them mean so much to me and i wouldn’t be the person i am today had it not been for both of them. so infinity thankful to the dteam for fostering this little corner of the internet, and i hope others find as much joy and sense of connection from this as i and my two friends have.

I found the Dream team when Dream face revealed, so i’m late to the fandom, I know. But I find some irony in the colors. Short and simple, I lost my dad in March of 2022 to multiple organ failure and acute liver disease. To combat the empty feeling of him not being here, I used colors to bring him with me. Can you guess the colors? Green and Blue. Blue was my dads favorite color and Green was the awareness color for liver disease. So I wear them both, mainly in bracelets, all the time to make me feel like my dads with me! So imagine my surprise when i’m going through a tough time and I find myself walking, talking and living versions of these colors? It’s ironic to me because like the colors make me feel in general, Dream and George make me happy. And of course the same goes for Sapnap, but the colors I see all over the fandom due to dnf just make me smile lol. 💚💙🧡

In school I was never really opened about liking Dream bc after the face reveal a lot of people (especially in my class) were making fun of him and made me sad hearing that stuff. Tho I met this one friend during that time who didn’t watch dream or his friends like at all. But they allowed me to have safe space with them to talk about dream team and their friends in general. They even send me related tiktok about dream cuz they know I enjoy him. They let me rant and talk about random dream related stuff and have conversations about it. After a while I now have a group of friends that I am able to talk about these thing without being judge. It’s sad that people do get bullied for have an interest but even with those people, there will forever be more people who have kindness in their heart. These friends are possibly some of the best friends I have had in a while :].

For Halloween, while giving out candy to the trick or treaters, I dressed up as Dream. Even if there was a pair of young boys that mocked me for it, after they walked away from my home, it didn’t bother me at all. Because the rest of the night was filled with children who smiled and were excited when they recognized me, calling out his name and asking for candy. Most important was the smile on my kid brother’s face when he came home and saw me dressed up as one of our favorite Minecraft creators.

He is loved, more than anything else. Hatred and shame and all else that is leveled against you to make you hurt, it is always outnumbered and overwhelmed by your love.