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Jay Lake
Date: 2011-09-23 05:38
Subject: [personal] Dream log again
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Tags:dreams, funny, personal

Last night I dreamt that [info]seanan_mcguire and I had a little girl together. The dream largely consisted of ordinary life images — me taking our daughter to the park, the three of us making lunch, being inside Seanan’s palatial and baroque apartments getting ready to go to a party.

(Note: Although Seanan is a dear friend IRL, I have never been to her home, and have no idea how palatial and baroque her residence is. My house definitely is of the suburbia variety, right down to the brown curtains and wall-to-wall carpeting, neither palatial nor baroque. [Well, except for the human body parts leftover from my surgeries and the oddball antiques like my Dahomean tribal throne in the basement.])

Symbolism? Not much beyond the very obvious. Anxiety cues? None whatsoever. Entertaining? Absolutely.

Sometimes a dream is just a dream. And sometimes Seanan McGuire is just Seanan McGuire.

Originally published at jlake.com. You can comment here or there.

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A wandering fellow on the long road
User: tsarina
Date: 2011-09-23 12:45 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
I love dreams that involve elaborate, palatial living spaces.
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it's a great life, if you don't weaken
User: matociquala
Date: 2011-09-23 13:42 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
In that alternate universe, that little girl grows up to be the Dark Queen, terrible and beautiful as the sunrise, and all shall love her and despair.
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Jay Lake: funny-do_not_hump
User: jaylake
Date: 2011-09-23 14:00 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Keyword:funny-do_not_hump
:: laughing proverbial ass off ::

:: sitting on real ass, which is shaking with mirth ::
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User: joycemocha
Date: 2011-09-23 14:02 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Oooooh. Sweet.
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it's a great life, if you don't weaken
User: matociquala
Date: 2011-09-23 17:43 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
It all begins when mommy gives her My First Bacteriology Kit for her fourth birthday...
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Jay Lake: signs-worms
User: jaylake
Date: 2011-09-23 17:52 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Keyword:signs-worms
Wouldn't that be parasitology in Seanan's case?

(Note LJ icon, suddenly amazingly appropriate after lurking in my icon list for years.)
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it's a great life, if you don't weaken: comics invisibles king mob
User: matociquala
Date: 2011-09-23 18:09 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Keyword:comics invisibles king mob
Parasitology is age 7 and up.
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User: joycemocha
Date: 2011-09-23 18:54 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
And for her sixth birthday, it was My First Plutonium Separator...

(would have been sooner because she was cognitively ready, but she had some issues with Fine Motor Control that precluded it before then...)
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Seanan McGuire: me
User: seanan_mcguire
Date: 2011-09-23 14:07 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Keyword:me
Well, YEAH.
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biomekanic
User: biomekanic
Date: 2011-09-23 17:27 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
I LOL'd, that's awesome.
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Allison Lonsdale: evil grin
User: caprine
Date: 2011-09-23 21:01 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Keyword:evil grin
Entire thread made of win. A++, would LOL again.
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mlerules
User: mlerules
Date: 2011-09-23 14:42 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
LOL!
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When life gives you lemmings...: Laughter
User: danjite
Date: 2011-09-23 15:55 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Keyword:Laughter
...and sometime Seanan_McGuire is a dweam-wiffin-a-dweaem!
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desperance
User: desperance
Date: 2011-09-23 16:44 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Note: Although Seanan is a dear friend IRL, I have never been to her home, and have no idea how palatial and baroque her residence is.

As it happens, I have been to her home: and am delighted to confirm palatialness and baroquery. And ponies, My Little, stabled everywhere. Also, cats.
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Jay Lake
User: jaylake
Date: 2011-09-23 16:50 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
I have one lonely My Little Pony. Maybe I should send it to Seanan's house so it won't be lonely.
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desperance
User: desperance
Date: 2011-09-23 16:59 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
That ... would certainly work. On the other hand, the poor wee thing might suddenly find itself a clone with many doppelgangerin: lord knows what that would do to its tender plastic psyche.
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Jay Lake: writing-Mainspring
User: jaylake
Date: 2011-09-23 17:04 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Keyword:writing-Mainspring
Oh, this one's unique. A modded MLP, Mainspring fan art I bought off eBay.

Yes, it's a steampunk angel My Little Pony.
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desperance
User: desperance
Date: 2011-09-23 17:07 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Well, yay. In that case you obviously need to keep it - but you should certainly introduce it to Seanan. She'd be thrilled.

(I once spent a day helping a friend make thousands of little black plastic nodding poodles for an art installation; my Xmas present that year was a modded one, given a coat of glitter and pipecleaner reindeer horns. Unique, and utterly useless, and I still treasure it.)
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cathshaffer
User: cathshaffer
Date: 2011-09-23 17:17 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Hmmm...my brain is coming up with dystopian world ideas where the government attempts to breed writers with each other to create the ultimate writer.
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Allison Lonsdale: evil grin
User: caprine
Date: 2011-09-23 20:52 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
Keyword:evil grin
*applause*
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martianmooncrab
User: martianmooncrab
Date: 2011-09-23 19:12 (UTC)
Subject: (no subject)
My last dream included the info that a lot of demons are orange, and ergo, the folks with the spray tan that are orange are really demons trying to pass for human in this world.

Which actually makes a lot of sense, come to think of it...
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