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Last night’s dream was another repeat. I was trapped on some kind of spaceship and couldn’t escape. The ship’s AI insisted I was supposed to be there and was the captain and I had the nagging sense he might have been right. I started developing a sense of deja vu and remembering snippets of my earlier life. At some point I either remembered or made the ship tell me everything, but apparently “before” I’d been a really awful, selfish person, obsessed with my own comfort and nothing else, not even my duties as a captain. I was... incredibly devastated by this discovery and wasn’t sure I wanted to know more because I hated whoever I’d been and hated myself for having been like that.

There was a picture on the wall involving silvery fireworks that I’d been fascinated with, but this time around I remembered (from the previous dream) that it was important and realized it commemorated the destruction of the ship, who sacrificed himself to save me. (It wasn’t fireworks, it was exploding pieces of ship.) I was inconsolable over it and the knowledge that the ship’s destruction was going to happen soon. I didn’t want to go through with it, didn’t want to lose the ship who’d come to mean so much to me, and didn’t want to live with the knowledge of it.

There was something about asking the ship to take my memory away (again) so I wouldn’t have to remember losing him. But that would have kept us stuck in the time loop we were apparently in and I was also trying to think of a way to save us both and change things. I want to say my lack of memory was part of what caused the problem in the first place, but the specifics were not very specific.

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New headcanon

Had an absolutely amazing dream last night. I was watching the new season of Stranger Things, which seemed to focus on some bizarre government experiment that people could sign up for that was... supposed to do something, I’m not sure what (create superheroes,maybe?), but the side effects were getting more pronounced and dangerous. There were a couple of leopard kits sleeping at the bottom of a fish tank because they’d become amphibious. Which sounds cool, but I was still getting bad vibes from the whole thing.

Then my dream switched over to Hopper, who was also signed up for the experiment for reasons that made no sense within canon and I knew it was a terrible idea whatever the reason was. This was all kind of background noise, though, because then Hopper made offhand mention of the fact he was trans. I couldn’t quite believe it and wondered if this was actually something they were going to do or if it was some kind of bullshit “mention it but never ever do anything to confirm it” deal, except in the next scene it was a flashback to Hopper’s early teen years and there was a scrawny, gangly-limbed girl with ridiculous hair (something like this) and it was Hopper! And I was like, holy shit! They actually went there!

I was so hyped I had to pause the show to go online to see if any of my friends had gotten to that point yet. And then, alas, I woke up. Not sure why my brain went there and I know having a cis actor play a trans character is bad, but dang, for an in-universe kinda thing I like it. Might have to keep this one. ;)

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I had a weirdly specific dream about Ellen deGeneres last night. In it she ran a little segment (I want to say singing and dancing was involved) about falling leaves. It was meant to tie into a children’s book about a young autistic girl (toddler age) who absolutely loved the Fall and playing with the leaves that fell off the trees. It was based on a real girl and the proceeds were to benefit autism research. Ellen’s segment was cute and funny, but for some reason some conservative news station (I’m not saying it was FOX but it was probably FOX) raked her over the coals for it and accused her of trying to steal the thunder from a young autistic girl. It was totally off base and not at all what her point had been (especially since I’m pretty sure she donated millions to the charity, herself, and encouraged others to donate what they could). Ellen answered the allegations with another little song and dance that started off like it was going to be an apology but them morphed into a big “fuck you” as she tore the news org apart and called out all their hypocrisy, skewed reporting, and general scamminess. It was awesome.

#dreamcache #I can practically picture the cover of the book #and there was this whole thing #with people sending leaves to the girl for her collection

I had a dream last night about tumblr. There was a post making the rounds from... I think it was primarily Star Wars Rebels fans who were complaining about the direction things were going and how OOC it felt and that it was really frustrating to watch when they themselves could come up with better ideas. That, of course, led to a discussion about fanfic and its purpose in a narrative.

I jumped in to add that the writers/producers canonically didn’t care about the story (I’d found some interview with Pablo or something where he said as much) and that they were more concerned with accomplishing set goals per episode than in the overall story and character development. This was why so much felt “off” in Rebels and also in the Sequel Trilogy and other places in general. It was also why fanfic was important, because we could take the templates the creators gave us and create the stories we wanted to see based on how we felt things should develop. And since we were more invested in it and cared more about narrative continuity it meant that sometimes our fics were better than what canon gave us.

The whole thread sounded really good and I woke up wishing it actually existed. ;)

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