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insaneladybug) wrote2018-01-17 07:03 pm
insaneladybug) wrote2018-01-17 07:03 pm
Entry tags:
- books,
- borders,
- dreams,
- fanfiction,
- me,
- nancy drew,
- pokemon,
- talespin
Had a really weird dream today....
But nice enough that I wanted to document it.
I was organizing my books, and in the dream I seemed to have more bookcases for them than I do in real-life, and more books too. They were in a big, well-lit room, with bookcase rows and a couple of tables for reading or crafting. It was probably the haunted mansion we usually live in within the dream world. And we'd bought up tons of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books years ago when Borders closed (which we didn't in reality) and I found our stock of them, which we'd been keeping at the bottom of one of the bookcases and planned to mostly use for presents for people. (Heh, in reality we'd only put presents for people up high, not down low! It kind of looked like Barnes and Noble's displays for clearance/bargain books, though, so it wasn't super low to the floor.) I was going to use one for a belated birthday gift for a friend of mine on FF.net. I also wondered where most of my Star Wars books were, because I only found a few on the shelf and I knew there were more.
I also ran into some children's books, including TaleSpin storybooks. The weirdest one was written in 1908 and also included Darkwing Duck characters. LOL. But eh. Made me wish I had the other TaleSpin DVDs....
Then there was this weird object that I could use to wish on and it would create a temporary fantasy world of my wish. It was a nice escape from the real-world (and maybe an indication that I've watched the third Pokemon movie too much lately). One wish was to perform on a TV show. I also talked with someone I apparently knew within the fantasy, and I'm not sure if they were part of the fantasy or someone from real-life in the fantasy with me. The latter, I think. It seemed to be a guy character, yet it seemed like Mom was playing him, so it was like a role-play thing. I used the object more than once, and that was the last fantasy. I can't recall the others.
I dream about books a lot, either at bookstores or libraries, or sometimes with us having more books than we do. I often dream about Nancy Drew books that don't really exist. And I dream a lot about Borders as though it was still here. I heard that Circuit City is making a comeback, first with the website and then with new stores. I wish with all my heart that Borders would come back, but I know that's highly unlikely. A tech store coming back could happen easier in this day and age than a bookstore, although Borders was much more than just books. They had music and DVDs and toys and a cafe, like Barnes and Noble, but the prices were better.
I miss Borders so much.... I don't think I cried about it leaving or has as hard a time adjusting as I did with K-Mart, but that could be because I had plenty of time to get used to the idea as things got worse and worse. I really knew that eventually all Borders would close once they started having so much trouble. The fact that I dream about it so much shows that I miss it badly even though I don't consciously show it as much. And it really hurt when we had to go out to a funeral right across the street from where it used to be. We got there early and I just stared out the window at the shopping center. Dad didn't even seem to remember that the drive was the path we'd taken so often to Borders, but I sure did. I guided him right to the place when he was having trouble with the address.
And I think I've tentatively figured out how things work in my Pokemon verse. They're clearly not traveling in Johto for most of it, since they tend to hug the East Coast, but some Johto events are referenced, so I think it's more of an alternate season 6 than 3. I think I've figured it that Johto did happen, but not exactly the same way. The things I liked happened. The things I didn't like either didn't happen at all or happened in a different way. Ash did get the Johto Pokemon, but after leaving Johto, he must have put them with Professor Oak and reunited with the original team. Same with Misty and Brock, and they didn't leave. (Hmm, maybe they left some of their Pokemon with their families. Misty had to get Starmie back from her sisters.) They don't seem to have a new region to visit at the moment, so they're hanging around Kanto again and sometimes traveling North of it to New York City. Maybe it's kind of an alternate Battle Frontier, since I hear that was back in Kanto.
I also have a new plunnie after watching the first movie on the official website. I always love the trope of being summoned to a mysterious mansion or castle by a strange person, and there being odd servants and such. I want to do something where Ash-tachi and Team Rocket all get summoned to one. And this time it's a mad scientist and he probably wants to experiment on Pikachu and Team Rocket because of all their clashes. Creepy! And the mansion will have a ton of secret tunnels, of course. I think I'll try working on this plunnie next.
I was organizing my books, and in the dream I seemed to have more bookcases for them than I do in real-life, and more books too. They were in a big, well-lit room, with bookcase rows and a couple of tables for reading or crafting. It was probably the haunted mansion we usually live in within the dream world. And we'd bought up tons of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books years ago when Borders closed (which we didn't in reality) and I found our stock of them, which we'd been keeping at the bottom of one of the bookcases and planned to mostly use for presents for people. (Heh, in reality we'd only put presents for people up high, not down low! It kind of looked like Barnes and Noble's displays for clearance/bargain books, though, so it wasn't super low to the floor.) I was going to use one for a belated birthday gift for a friend of mine on FF.net. I also wondered where most of my Star Wars books were, because I only found a few on the shelf and I knew there were more.
I also ran into some children's books, including TaleSpin storybooks. The weirdest one was written in 1908 and also included Darkwing Duck characters. LOL. But eh. Made me wish I had the other TaleSpin DVDs....
Then there was this weird object that I could use to wish on and it would create a temporary fantasy world of my wish. It was a nice escape from the real-world (and maybe an indication that I've watched the third Pokemon movie too much lately). One wish was to perform on a TV show. I also talked with someone I apparently knew within the fantasy, and I'm not sure if they were part of the fantasy or someone from real-life in the fantasy with me. The latter, I think. It seemed to be a guy character, yet it seemed like Mom was playing him, so it was like a role-play thing. I used the object more than once, and that was the last fantasy. I can't recall the others.
I dream about books a lot, either at bookstores or libraries, or sometimes with us having more books than we do. I often dream about Nancy Drew books that don't really exist. And I dream a lot about Borders as though it was still here. I heard that Circuit City is making a comeback, first with the website and then with new stores. I wish with all my heart that Borders would come back, but I know that's highly unlikely. A tech store coming back could happen easier in this day and age than a bookstore, although Borders was much more than just books. They had music and DVDs and toys and a cafe, like Barnes and Noble, but the prices were better.
I miss Borders so much.... I don't think I cried about it leaving or has as hard a time adjusting as I did with K-Mart, but that could be because I had plenty of time to get used to the idea as things got worse and worse. I really knew that eventually all Borders would close once they started having so much trouble. The fact that I dream about it so much shows that I miss it badly even though I don't consciously show it as much. And it really hurt when we had to go out to a funeral right across the street from where it used to be. We got there early and I just stared out the window at the shopping center. Dad didn't even seem to remember that the drive was the path we'd taken so often to Borders, but I sure did. I guided him right to the place when he was having trouble with the address.
And I think I've tentatively figured out how things work in my Pokemon verse. They're clearly not traveling in Johto for most of it, since they tend to hug the East Coast, but some Johto events are referenced, so I think it's more of an alternate season 6 than 3. I think I've figured it that Johto did happen, but not exactly the same way. The things I liked happened. The things I didn't like either didn't happen at all or happened in a different way. Ash did get the Johto Pokemon, but after leaving Johto, he must have put them with Professor Oak and reunited with the original team. Same with Misty and Brock, and they didn't leave. (Hmm, maybe they left some of their Pokemon with their families. Misty had to get Starmie back from her sisters.) They don't seem to have a new region to visit at the moment, so they're hanging around Kanto again and sometimes traveling North of it to New York City. Maybe it's kind of an alternate Battle Frontier, since I hear that was back in Kanto.
I also have a new plunnie after watching the first movie on the official website. I always love the trope of being summoned to a mysterious mansion or castle by a strange person, and there being odd servants and such. I want to do something where Ash-tachi and Team Rocket all get summoned to one. And this time it's a mad scientist and he probably wants to experiment on Pikachu and Team Rocket because of all their clashes. Creepy! And the mansion will have a ton of secret tunnels, of course. I think I'll try working on this plunnie next.