*yawn*

My sleep was interrupted by very disturbing but curiously narrative dreams. The first was your general worst-case-scenario dream, where you're horrible at your job, everyone hates you, you're fired (and not just fired but fired with glee, and everyone laughing at you), and you finally decide to vent and tell them all what you think of them. It was curiously purgative.

The other dream was a whole lot stranger. It was a sci-fi dream, and I was a tentacle monster. Or rather, a large, not really humanoid alien with lots of tentacles. I was also male (sort of. Functional hermaphrodite who seemed to self-identify as male), and had several adventures (shipwreck, war, etc.), with each segment skipping forward a few hundred years. Eventually, I took a proto-human male guard as my 'wife' (for some reason, my culture was very specific about the difference between a wife and a husband, but it had nothing to do with sex, but rather what the other was wearing when they met...or, among my own species, what color the mate's skin was at the time of meeting), and was unusually faithful for his lifespan, then took about a dozen wives and husbands over a thousand years. Somehow, this ended up spawning the human race as we know it. It eventually ended up skipping ahead to one of his descendents as she went in search of 'Adam' and found this huge, inhuman creature dozing in the underground.

No, I have no idea, either.

Crazy Thoughts

I have a confession to make: I've always been fascinated by Rapture/Tribulation imagery. It plays into my whole interest in apocalyptic scenarios, of course, but there's something especially compelling about the whole Anti-Christ and seals of blood sort of thing. So, of course, I read the Slacktivist Left Behind series, and wince at it being so /badly/.

And then I wonder. I have the urge to try and do it 'right', even within the restrictions of the worldview. Not so painfully literal on every point, perhaps, but with the assumptions of the 'good, true Christians (and little kids)' getting swooped up into the sky abruptly, the chaos and fear, the emergance of an Anti-Christ, etc. etc. It could be fun. Maybe as blog posts.

What would be really fun is if a whole bunch of people did it at the same time. Like 'Rapture Day' on the internets. :P

Horror!

Stephen King's 'N', an original flash video series. It is teh free.