Quiz and Dream
So, first, a fun little quiz that was sent to me....
Your result for The Steampunk Archetype Test...
The Aetherist Bodger
0 SwashEng, 1 CCTin, 1 CharNob, 2 RogPir, -1 MechFian and 6 AetherBodg!
The aether carries the information, the aether is information. You are one of the few who know the ins and outs of Aether Terminals. You can access information across the Aethersphere, tapping into the Aetherpipes of anyone you want and stealing the information stored in their datatanks. Some think of you as a myth, a legend created to scare people. You are no myth or legend, you are quite real and you are currently reading the Queen’s AetherMissives.
Take The Steampunk Archetype Test at HelloQuizzy
And secondly, a wacky dream that I had the other night, starring everybody's favorite dinosaur-obsessed, Hawaiian-shirt-wearing, jokester pilot-playing Alan Tudyk.
So,
ambrosemcgrath and I wandered into a grocery store, and he went off to the attached sandwich shop while I went into the store itself, looking for something that I no longer remember. I'm wandering the aisles and I notice there's this guy who's in a wheelchair with a blonde woman, and the guy looks vaguely familiar, but I'm seeing him from the side and far away so I can't place him. The woman has great hair that I'm really jealous of, and she is clearly the healthy type- though more physical therapist than aerobics instructor. We're wandering the same grocery store, though, so after awhile we end up in the same aisle, and I'm behind him and the woman, and I notice he has a barbed-wire tattoo around his upper left arm, a little bluish, you know, and somehow that makes me recognize him as Alan Tudyk. Which is weird, as I'm fairly sure he doesn't have that tattoo in real life. At this point I should explain, for reasons that will become obvious in a minute, that he has all of his limbs. He's also clearly frustrated about something.
Anyways, I turn and run flat out into the sandwich shop, because I know full well that
ambrosemcgrath will likely become violent if I don't tell him about this in time for him to also meet Mr. Tudyk. I find him with
leojules87 and a couple other people who I vaguely know, and he's wedged into a booth seat behind a table, a la the old days at Steak and Shake, and when I tell him who's in the store, he drops everything and ducks under the table, very nearly knocking a couple people over, and we run back into the store.
When we arrive back in the store, for some reason we've been joined by a guy I knew from summer camp many eons ago, and we find that Mr. Tudyk has been left in the space between the store's automatic sliding doors by the blonde woman, who was apparently decided to take the wheelchair out to the car before him. He's also, for reasons I've yet to discover, missing his arms and legs. (Not in a "It's only a flesh wound!" kind of way- they've been amputated and healed up.) And he's been left on the floor. No, I don't know why. Anyways, he's clearly in an uncomfortable position, so the boys shift him around a bit (though without asking him first, which meant I had to resist the urge to smack them) and we say hi. He is clearly confused and ticked off at being manhandled.
So time shifts in that way that it will in dreams, and suddenly we're in an open space inside the grocery store, he's back in the wheelchair and now only missing his legs, and a small crowd has gathered (and I think the summer camp guy had disappeared by that point). Mr. Tudyk is now clearly angry, and also clearly has some issues about his ever-changing disability. Basically he's talking about how back before the accident that caused him to lose his legs, he was a real person, but now he's not. Only he's so ticked off that he's not speaking clearly, and he winds up saying, "Back when I used to be a real woman- I mean man..." and he did a bit of a facepalm. The crowd was a bit too tense to laugh at that, but I instantly piped up with, "Gee, there's an episode of Firefly I don't remember!" And he laughed! As did the crowd, and the tension was broken.
At this point I added something about the pedophile he played in an episode of CSI- don't remember what. And Mr. Tudyk asked the crowd, "Okay, so what is this about, do you want autographs or what?" And we explained that we just wanted to say we loved his work, and he told us about how he was doing okay because the blonde woman (who wandered through at this point) who's name was apparently Abby McNabb (have no idea where that came from) was taking good care of him (so she was a physical therapist!) and also they were apparently in love and very happy. Then time slipped again and it was a few minutes later. At this point, not only did he have his legs back but he didn't need the wheelchair, and he was letting us get a group picture with him (which
ambrosemcgrath was kind enough to take... I think he had a camera-phone.) And then I woke up. So, weird.
Your result for The Steampunk Archetype Test...
The Aetherist Bodger
0 SwashEng, 1 CCTin, 1 CharNob, 2 RogPir, -1 MechFian and 6 AetherBodg!
The aether carries the information, the aether is information. You are one of the few who know the ins and outs of Aether Terminals. You can access information across the Aethersphere, tapping into the Aetherpipes of anyone you want and stealing the information stored in their datatanks. Some think of you as a myth, a legend created to scare people. You are no myth or legend, you are quite real and you are currently reading the Queen’s AetherMissives.
Take The Steampunk Archetype Test at HelloQuizzy
And secondly, a wacky dream that I had the other night, starring everybody's favorite dinosaur-obsessed, Hawaiian-shirt-wearing, jokester pilot-playing Alan Tudyk.
So,
ambrosemcgrath and I wandered into a grocery store, and he went off to the attached sandwich shop while I went into the store itself, looking for something that I no longer remember. I'm wandering the aisles and I notice there's this guy who's in a wheelchair with a blonde woman, and the guy looks vaguely familiar, but I'm seeing him from the side and far away so I can't place him. The woman has great hair that I'm really jealous of, and she is clearly the healthy type- though more physical therapist than aerobics instructor. We're wandering the same grocery store, though, so after awhile we end up in the same aisle, and I'm behind him and the woman, and I notice he has a barbed-wire tattoo around his upper left arm, a little bluish, you know, and somehow that makes me recognize him as Alan Tudyk. Which is weird, as I'm fairly sure he doesn't have that tattoo in real life. At this point I should explain, for reasons that will become obvious in a minute, that he has all of his limbs. He's also clearly frustrated about something.
Anyways, I turn and run flat out into the sandwich shop, because I know full well that
ambrosemcgrath will likely become violent if I don't tell him about this in time for him to also meet Mr. Tudyk. I find him with
leojules87 and a couple other people who I vaguely know, and he's wedged into a booth seat behind a table, a la the old days at Steak and Shake, and when I tell him who's in the store, he drops everything and ducks under the table, very nearly knocking a couple people over, and we run back into the store.
When we arrive back in the store, for some reason we've been joined by a guy I knew from summer camp many eons ago, and we find that Mr. Tudyk has been left in the space between the store's automatic sliding doors by the blonde woman, who was apparently decided to take the wheelchair out to the car before him. He's also, for reasons I've yet to discover, missing his arms and legs. (Not in a "It's only a flesh wound!" kind of way- they've been amputated and healed up.) And he's been left on the floor. No, I don't know why. Anyways, he's clearly in an uncomfortable position, so the boys shift him around a bit (though without asking him first, which meant I had to resist the urge to smack them) and we say hi. He is clearly confused and ticked off at being manhandled.
So time shifts in that way that it will in dreams, and suddenly we're in an open space inside the grocery store, he's back in the wheelchair and now only missing his legs, and a small crowd has gathered (and I think the summer camp guy had disappeared by that point). Mr. Tudyk is now clearly angry, and also clearly has some issues about his ever-changing disability. Basically he's talking about how back before the accident that caused him to lose his legs, he was a real person, but now he's not. Only he's so ticked off that he's not speaking clearly, and he winds up saying, "Back when I used to be a real woman- I mean man..." and he did a bit of a facepalm. The crowd was a bit too tense to laugh at that, but I instantly piped up with, "Gee, there's an episode of Firefly I don't remember!" And he laughed! As did the crowd, and the tension was broken.
At this point I added something about the pedophile he played in an episode of CSI- don't remember what. And Mr. Tudyk asked the crowd, "Okay, so what is this about, do you want autographs or what?" And we explained that we just wanted to say we loved his work, and he told us about how he was doing okay because the blonde woman (who wandered through at this point) who's name was apparently Abby McNabb (have no idea where that came from) was taking good care of him (so she was a physical therapist!) and also they were apparently in love and very happy. Then time slipped again and it was a few minutes later. At this point, not only did he have his legs back but he didn't need the wheelchair, and he was letting us get a group picture with him (which
ambrosemcgrath was kind enough to take... I think he had a camera-phone.) And then I woke up. So, weird.