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dream weirdly
Sep. 16th, 2014 11:12 amslept until 1030 today, later than I have been. woke up all weirdly twisted around like some kind of escher girl comics thing. Also breathing weirdly shallow. Possibly was strangling self just by having head in one corner and body twisted all the other way.
so that's a nice thing to worry about.
dream was incoherent and not plotty, which for me is weird. Lots of running and running and finding people that needed help and trying to carry them back to the help.
It featured ( Read more... )
And then we met a big boss. Or someone strutting about how we'd fallen into their trap, which was near enough.
They started to tell us exactly how they'd defeated us, but they stopped for a moment to call for a cup of water, and Watson took over the telling. The enemy had been ignoring Watson, which was a mistake, because here magic was tied to narrative and a good storyteller could rewrite the real world's ending. And Watson, at least in a Watsonian sense, is a superb storyteller, writing stories about Sherlock that last through ages. So he took the story and ran with it, and talked us right out of the magic trap, without the hazards I'd fallen into.
Storytelling does take over your life, though, and the way he acquired stories does tend to involve risking everything. Perhaps only a slower hazard than magic, then...
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That's too many parts for a story. No through line, no plot.
I suppose initially I'm married to a medic and I can magically hear when people call for help, and then we run into danger to do helping. And then a different medic does the helping and I carry stuff.
That's the bones of an adventure plan, with added soap opera layers.
And maybe I have a very small magic to start with, but a very grand old wizard needed the help and my talent got opened up to much more dangerous things. That's got whole 'power corrupts' levels. And add that to the choosing between blokes part and you've got a power that would drag you away from social relationships and you could pour your whole life into pretty rapidly, in ways that would stop you helping again later.
It could be about work/life balance in life saving careers and not burning yourself out trying to save everyone.
Only with magic and demons and so forth.
... other people can probably get on with their day without pausing to impose a proper plot and narrative structure on their dreams...
so that's a nice thing to worry about.
dream was incoherent and not plotty, which for me is weird. Lots of running and running and finding people that needed help and trying to carry them back to the help.
It featured ( Read more... )
And then we met a big boss. Or someone strutting about how we'd fallen into their trap, which was near enough.
They started to tell us exactly how they'd defeated us, but they stopped for a moment to call for a cup of water, and Watson took over the telling. The enemy had been ignoring Watson, which was a mistake, because here magic was tied to narrative and a good storyteller could rewrite the real world's ending. And Watson, at least in a Watsonian sense, is a superb storyteller, writing stories about Sherlock that last through ages. So he took the story and ran with it, and talked us right out of the magic trap, without the hazards I'd fallen into.
Storytelling does take over your life, though, and the way he acquired stories does tend to involve risking everything. Perhaps only a slower hazard than magic, then...
And then ( Read more... )
That's too many parts for a story. No through line, no plot.
I suppose initially I'm married to a medic and I can magically hear when people call for help, and then we run into danger to do helping. And then a different medic does the helping and I carry stuff.
That's the bones of an adventure plan, with added soap opera layers.
And maybe I have a very small magic to start with, but a very grand old wizard needed the help and my talent got opened up to much more dangerous things. That's got whole 'power corrupts' levels. And add that to the choosing between blokes part and you've got a power that would drag you away from social relationships and you could pour your whole life into pretty rapidly, in ways that would stop you helping again later.
It could be about work/life balance in life saving careers and not burning yourself out trying to save everyone.
Only with magic and demons and so forth.
... other people can probably get on with their day without pausing to impose a proper plot and narrative structure on their dreams...