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I watched Star Trek on my birthday. It was pretty awesome. I liked Sulu the fencer. And Spock. Kirk was kind of a jackass, but he was all right in the end. Overall I really liked it, and am currently suppressing the desire to track down episodes or the older movies. Those are in a different timeline now anyway. That part was sad.
Still like Star Wars better, though. Trek just didn't seem as epic - yeah, planets destroyed, big enemy ship, but the scale seemed a little smaller overall. Plus, Trek didn't have anyone quite like Luke, and I love that farmboy torn between the longing to leave and do great things and his duty to stay. Angry rebellious people don't have so much appeal to me.
So now I'm twenty. Just as predicted, it's not like hopping over a fence into a different world. The difference is all in my head. Twenty. Wow.
...I'll keep not thinking about that. Instead, I'll exposit about a dream I had a week or so back.
I'd been watching a Let's Play of Earthbound 2, and I'd finished watching, which meant getting to the end boss. Giygas.
Eeek. He's that image here on Nightmare Fuel. That's the background. It changes. He has some unbelievably creepy lines. For various reasons, he's highly unsettling, and so naturally I started dreaming stuff visually related to that. Lots of bloody distended jaws and so on.
I was sort of half aware that I was dreaming, decided that I didn't like where the dream was going, and applied the trick I developed for those times when I'm awake, it's dark, and my imagination is going "Monsters!". This trick is "Have Captain America show up at the same time as the monsters." ...And it worked, he showed up and hit something with his shield, and then went through the usual protecting-a-civilian sctick, turning the dream from nightmare to merely kind of tense.
Also, at a couple points I worried that Cap would go all nightmarish, until Wedge Antilles showed up too. I don't know why. I had some flimsy reason for why he was in the immediate vicinity - his X-Wing had crashed and he'd ejected - but not why a pilot from Star Wars was in the same dream as a Marvel superhero. I suppose because I heart them both. He did seem confused about whether he was Wedge or Carth from KotOR - he sometimes had two blaster pistols, sometimes just one.
So that was interesting.
Dragons.
Still like Star Wars better, though. Trek just didn't seem as epic - yeah, planets destroyed, big enemy ship, but the scale seemed a little smaller overall. Plus, Trek didn't have anyone quite like Luke, and I love that farmboy torn between the longing to leave and do great things and his duty to stay. Angry rebellious people don't have so much appeal to me.
So now I'm twenty. Just as predicted, it's not like hopping over a fence into a different world. The difference is all in my head. Twenty. Wow.
...I'll keep not thinking about that. Instead, I'll exposit about a dream I had a week or so back.
I'd been watching a Let's Play of Earthbound 2, and I'd finished watching, which meant getting to the end boss. Giygas.
Eeek. He's that image here on Nightmare Fuel. That's the background. It changes. He has some unbelievably creepy lines. For various reasons, he's highly unsettling, and so naturally I started dreaming stuff visually related to that. Lots of bloody distended jaws and so on.
I was sort of half aware that I was dreaming, decided that I didn't like where the dream was going, and applied the trick I developed for those times when I'm awake, it's dark, and my imagination is going "Monsters!". This trick is "Have Captain America show up at the same time as the monsters." ...And it worked, he showed up and hit something with his shield, and then went through the usual protecting-a-civilian sctick, turning the dream from nightmare to merely kind of tense.
Also, at a couple points I worried that Cap would go all nightmarish, until Wedge Antilles showed up too. I don't know why. I had some flimsy reason for why he was in the immediate vicinity - his X-Wing had crashed and he'd ejected - but not why a pilot from Star Wars was in the same dream as a Marvel superhero. I suppose because I heart them both. He did seem confused about whether he was Wedge or Carth from KotOR - he sometimes had two blaster pistols, sometimes just one.
So that was interesting.
Dragons.