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beccaelizabethI dreamed I was a dragon. A big green dragon. So I was flat in front and huge in the rear from all the leaping muscles, with great big bat wings at the shoulders in addition to relatively tiny arms. I think the arms stayed the same size, just coated with scales, and the rest of me got bigger than two elephants.
Maybe I was this dragon
http://fightingfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Titan_-_The_Fighting_Fantasy_World
I used to have that book. I think I left it in my locker at school though, it got lost at some point.
That's not the perfectly perfect me dragon though. I was a nicer green. But I could only see like my hands and stuff, I couldn't see me, so I'm mostly guessing.
Now I will spend all day on the dragon generators making my perfect me dragon. I wouldn't of guessed I was green, though, I'd have thought I was red, but apparently not.
I found out because, in the dream, the soon to be King Arthur wanted to date me, but was having some difficulty finding some quiet time to get my opinion on the idea. We would get as far as the library to choose a DVD for the evening, his friends would all turn up assuming they were invited, I would get distracted by the more interesting corners of his collection and Merlin would sit in the corner rolling his eyes at the lot of us. (It was a very interesting collection though. Books, manga and DVDs were all shelved together. I remember there was one Batman manga xover with a Kurosawa film that I pulled to read later.) So Arthur's brilliant solution was to arrange a diplomatic mission and only take me along.
He accepted an invitation from Margolees - who turned out to be Miriam Margolyes, not a country at all. They were trying to gather allies in a dispute with a ruler who jilted her. So we got there and it was late and they gave us rooms, and we got really sleepy as soon as it was dusk, and when I woke up I was a dragon and Arthur couldn't be woken at all. Also all the servants seemed to have turned into snakes.
So I went out looking for help, and found the country she was in dispute with. Turned out they were ruled by the Wizard of Oz, who looked like Rupert Giles, and had decided not to marry Margolees because he fell in love with another man. Who also looked like Rupert Giles, in a nicer gown with a very blonde wig and crown.
... my subconscious is a very, very strange place.
So they told me that Margolees had once been the Wicked Witch, but mostly they just ignored her now. I said she hadn't seemed very wicked when I was there. They became even less pleased to see me. ... I was a really giant dragon who had just dropped in unannounced, and also woken everyone up; pleased to see me was not really an option. They sent me on my way. On the way back I flew lower (because I'd actually noticed I had wings and started thinking about them, and it's a lot tricker than it looks, so I was mostly proceeding in kangaroo hops with a bit of gliding in the middle). I found the lands were connected by tunnels of trees, and when I reached a large clearing at the exact center of the journey, I found the paths had archways with age ratings above them. Also there was a help desk. Manned by another Rupert Giles.
I looked down my nose at him until he printed me out the guide book.
Dragons have a lot of nose to look down, and when they do it tends to be for targeting purposes, so it's an expression that gets results.
I took the guide book and looked around. I was sleepy tired, since the whole thing had started when we needed to get some sleep, so I saw the 'ages 2-4' area and thought there'd probably be a good place for a nap. The Giles made a hmmmm sound so I asked if it had gone feral like the other two places I'd been, and he took off his glasses to polish them. So that's a yes. So I looked at the 15 rated world, which smelled interesting. The tunnel to get in there wasn't dragon sized though, so without really thinking about it I shrank down to human size again. I was still green and scaly though, I probably looked like a Silurian. So I went down that tunnel, and I found myself in a deli run by Spike and Xander. Spike kept catching on fire. He didn't seem particularly fussed about it though, he'd finish serving that customer and put himself out again.
... did I mention my subconscious is really strange?
So the guide book was difficult to understand, or to carry in dragon form, and I'd had a bit of a look and maybe scorched it a little around the edges. So I gave it to Xander to give to actual Rupert Giles, so he could read it and get back to me later. Then I turned around and headed back to Margolees again.
Once there I made a lot of noise until the 'witch' turned up. Arthur was still asleep and there were still snakes everywhere. They all hissed at me so I hissed at them. It was fun. I was biggest! And with wings! And an excellent shiny shade of green! So the witch was all 'what are you making a fuss about'. So I settled down into cat loaf shape and pondered. It was getting on toward dawn and Arthur woke up, looking dozy. At first I just spoke, and he complained about my being so loud first thing in the morning but he recognised me. Actually, he said, there was something he'd been meaning to talk to me about... so he's having his half of an attempted romantic conversation without noticing his beloved is in fact giant and green and scaly. He just wants us to be together! So sweet!
So I turn to glare at the witch. Was this transformation her idea of a 'be careful what you wish for'? Because he's a knight and I'm a dragon. Traditionally we'd now be together for the rest of one of our lives...
So she grinned. But, she said, no - she hadn't turned me into a dragon at all. Rather, between sunset and sunrise, all the spells around here wear off.
... I'm a dragon! Big green beautiful scales wings claws and fire! A really proper dragon! Who just forgot and was human shaped a long while. No wonder I've never quite got the hang of being human.
So I pondered that, and my recent visit to the Wizard of Oz, and the patterns in stories, and the rule that is clearly going to be 'it was always in you all along'. And I decided to be human shaped again. At least for a while.
So Arthur was glad to welcome me back and we went back to his home together. ... I didn't check the age rating on the way in, but I suspect it had much to do with his romantic difficulties. But with nobody maintaining the system in a very long while, such things could be worked around. Or we could always go visiting.
The local Giles lookalike was of course furious. Uther would not be best pleased with any romantic partner for his son. Someone descended from a farm labourer who had been teaching Arthur about democracy was a new depth of displeasing. And he didn't even know about the dragon thing. He just insisted that Kings married nobles, to get allies for the kingdom. So, I asked, how many allies? He named a number, and I said, logically, if I brought in that many allies, I should be eligible for the position.
So then I was engaged to Arthur - without having actually kissed him yet - on the proviso that I had to bring at least one kingdom full of knights and nobles and merchants and all that into lifelong alliance with Camelot inside of a year.
I had some interesting places to start...
Maybe I was this dragon
http://fightingfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Titan_-_The_Fighting_Fantasy_World
I used to have that book. I think I left it in my locker at school though, it got lost at some point.
That's not the perfectly perfect me dragon though. I was a nicer green. But I could only see like my hands and stuff, I couldn't see me, so I'm mostly guessing.
Now I will spend all day on the dragon generators making my perfect me dragon. I wouldn't of guessed I was green, though, I'd have thought I was red, but apparently not.
I found out because, in the dream, the soon to be King Arthur wanted to date me, but was having some difficulty finding some quiet time to get my opinion on the idea. We would get as far as the library to choose a DVD for the evening, his friends would all turn up assuming they were invited, I would get distracted by the more interesting corners of his collection and Merlin would sit in the corner rolling his eyes at the lot of us. (It was a very interesting collection though. Books, manga and DVDs were all shelved together. I remember there was one Batman manga xover with a Kurosawa film that I pulled to read later.) So Arthur's brilliant solution was to arrange a diplomatic mission and only take me along.
He accepted an invitation from Margolees - who turned out to be Miriam Margolyes, not a country at all. They were trying to gather allies in a dispute with a ruler who jilted her. So we got there and it was late and they gave us rooms, and we got really sleepy as soon as it was dusk, and when I woke up I was a dragon and Arthur couldn't be woken at all. Also all the servants seemed to have turned into snakes.
So I went out looking for help, and found the country she was in dispute with. Turned out they were ruled by the Wizard of Oz, who looked like Rupert Giles, and had decided not to marry Margolees because he fell in love with another man. Who also looked like Rupert Giles, in a nicer gown with a very blonde wig and crown.
... my subconscious is a very, very strange place.
So they told me that Margolees had once been the Wicked Witch, but mostly they just ignored her now. I said she hadn't seemed very wicked when I was there. They became even less pleased to see me. ... I was a really giant dragon who had just dropped in unannounced, and also woken everyone up; pleased to see me was not really an option. They sent me on my way. On the way back I flew lower (because I'd actually noticed I had wings and started thinking about them, and it's a lot tricker than it looks, so I was mostly proceeding in kangaroo hops with a bit of gliding in the middle). I found the lands were connected by tunnels of trees, and when I reached a large clearing at the exact center of the journey, I found the paths had archways with age ratings above them. Also there was a help desk. Manned by another Rupert Giles.
I looked down my nose at him until he printed me out the guide book.
Dragons have a lot of nose to look down, and when they do it tends to be for targeting purposes, so it's an expression that gets results.
I took the guide book and looked around. I was sleepy tired, since the whole thing had started when we needed to get some sleep, so I saw the 'ages 2-4' area and thought there'd probably be a good place for a nap. The Giles made a hmmmm sound so I asked if it had gone feral like the other two places I'd been, and he took off his glasses to polish them. So that's a yes. So I looked at the 15 rated world, which smelled interesting. The tunnel to get in there wasn't dragon sized though, so without really thinking about it I shrank down to human size again. I was still green and scaly though, I probably looked like a Silurian. So I went down that tunnel, and I found myself in a deli run by Spike and Xander. Spike kept catching on fire. He didn't seem particularly fussed about it though, he'd finish serving that customer and put himself out again.
... did I mention my subconscious is really strange?
So the guide book was difficult to understand, or to carry in dragon form, and I'd had a bit of a look and maybe scorched it a little around the edges. So I gave it to Xander to give to actual Rupert Giles, so he could read it and get back to me later. Then I turned around and headed back to Margolees again.
Once there I made a lot of noise until the 'witch' turned up. Arthur was still asleep and there were still snakes everywhere. They all hissed at me so I hissed at them. It was fun. I was biggest! And with wings! And an excellent shiny shade of green! So the witch was all 'what are you making a fuss about'. So I settled down into cat loaf shape and pondered. It was getting on toward dawn and Arthur woke up, looking dozy. At first I just spoke, and he complained about my being so loud first thing in the morning but he recognised me. Actually, he said, there was something he'd been meaning to talk to me about... so he's having his half of an attempted romantic conversation without noticing his beloved is in fact giant and green and scaly. He just wants us to be together! So sweet!
So I turn to glare at the witch. Was this transformation her idea of a 'be careful what you wish for'? Because he's a knight and I'm a dragon. Traditionally we'd now be together for the rest of one of our lives...
So she grinned. But, she said, no - she hadn't turned me into a dragon at all. Rather, between sunset and sunrise, all the spells around here wear off.
... I'm a dragon! Big green beautiful scales wings claws and fire! A really proper dragon! Who just forgot and was human shaped a long while. No wonder I've never quite got the hang of being human.
So I pondered that, and my recent visit to the Wizard of Oz, and the patterns in stories, and the rule that is clearly going to be 'it was always in you all along'. And I decided to be human shaped again. At least for a while.
So Arthur was glad to welcome me back and we went back to his home together. ... I didn't check the age rating on the way in, but I suspect it had much to do with his romantic difficulties. But with nobody maintaining the system in a very long while, such things could be worked around. Or we could always go visiting.
The local Giles lookalike was of course furious. Uther would not be best pleased with any romantic partner for his son. Someone descended from a farm labourer who had been teaching Arthur about democracy was a new depth of displeasing. And he didn't even know about the dragon thing. He just insisted that Kings married nobles, to get allies for the kingdom. So, I asked, how many allies? He named a number, and I said, logically, if I brought in that many allies, I should be eligible for the position.
So then I was engaged to Arthur - without having actually kissed him yet - on the proviso that I had to bring at least one kingdom full of knights and nobles and merchants and all that into lifelong alliance with Camelot inside of a year.
I had some interesting places to start...
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Date: 2014-01-12 09:43 pm (UTC)