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So apparently one of my amazon orders was roll on butter. Yes, now apparently drunk me thought it'd be easier to roll my butter on in stick form rather than just...cutting or using spreadable butter. Drunk me wanted to shove butter into a tube and roll it on..


I'm also disappointed in Taco Bell chips. I expected more of you, Taco Bell.

.....Iiiii don't even remember ordering anything from Amazon, but a good twenty packages showed up?

It's definitely been a Mondayish Monday. Only good thing about it is it's nearly over.

I like this bar. I keep being bought fruity drinks. Nobodies judging my fruity drink choices. Never been to a Pride event, and yet here we are. I like it.

..On a trend of dreams that suck, my real life before all this imitates dream one pretty closely. Got to feel what it would be like to actually lose my brother. I don't...well, this was a good weekend.

Woah...I think I just got Inceptioned. A vision from a dream in reality?...freaky. It's like a Hitchcock movie in my head right now. It can stop any time. Dead birds from the sky. I really hope that isn't a thing here.

But hey we stopped the invasion of metas?

The day is nearly over and I haven't bothered to get out of bed. I've got a place to be in an hour and there's no literal way that's happening.

Had more Dreams, Central City is apparently experiencing Metapocalypse. Hundreds of metas at a time attacking us. Our former friend Zoom is behind it. Trying to overrun the place. We never seem to catch a break of any kind.

Here I was kind of hoping the Dreams were done with me, but of course not.

I forgot about Mother’s Day..but in a strange turn of events she didn’t yell or curse at me or anything for once. She showed up today and hugged me. We ended up actually talking for the first time in almost a year without my brother around to interrupt and twist my words and you know what? it wasn’t awful.

[Friends filter]
Quite possibly my least favorite person on the planet has shown up. Leonard Snart, AKA Captain Cold is now network aware and active. Apparently fresh out of jail too.

Goodie.

[Kitty]
Can you do me a favor and check to see that the Cold gun is still where it says it is on my GPS in the safe?

[Jemma]
The guy that I made the cold gun for showed up. From the dreams. I..don't think he recognizes me yet, but he's not exactly an upstanding citizen and is apparently fresh out of jail according to police records.

Awesome, another project prototype for the scrap heap. That metal wasn't easy to work with either. If just one damn thing would go right today, that'd be great.

[Rescue team + Jemma]
...I'm not sure what to say, but thanks or sorry maybe. I don't know.
[Iris]
Sorry I wasn't much help.
[Kitty]
I have a few new ideas for security. You mind me poking around?

As opposed to the last round of visions...this one wasn't as bad. I braced for bad, but it only set me back a couple days this time. I'm actually able to go back to work today just like I would be anyway.

And hey, I didn't end up someplace random this time? I'd call it a win.

... Fire in the sky? Why did I see..?

Is it on fire or..?


Something bad is coming. Something bad. My head has that not so fun splitting feeling.
It's different this time. Dragons?

These dreams really know how to make me feel completely unnecessary.


[Barry]
Are you busy tonight?

There's no reason to wake up before noon. Unless it's for breakfast cake. I endorse breakfast cake. It's been a good weekend. Space ice cream, friends, breakfast cake. I'm a very healthy human clearly. Don't you judge me, I see you over there with your muffin that's basically cake anyway.

Thank you all for spending it with me. I guess birthdays aren't satan after all.

I forgot my own birthday was yesterday. Mom actually remembered, bothered to send me a card. It's the only actual reason I remembered. I don't know what to think about this.

I just visibly flinched at a Planet of the Apes 4 trailer. And not just because it looks terrible, stupid Dreams.

[Siltes]
You busy?

[Jemma]
I've had some more dreams, about my powers..

Kids should not have to beg their parents for insulin. Your fucking essential oils are not life saving medicine.

What's wrong with people?.. Granted that question alone is probably a can of worms. But dios Mio. His parents told him to take his "God's Insulin" and he died and now I'm just sad and angry. His parents should go to jail for neglect but nothing is happening to them.

It's not even noon and I think I'm done with the internet today.

Meet Sonic. Curious little bugger has discovered all of the things to crawl in. Maybe I won't have to make him a extensive habitat at this point. Just put a bunch of mugs in his cage and he's a happy little dude.

( Not filtered, just cut to save space )

Scientists have found a new moon orbiting Neptune, and it's name is pretty damn adorable. Hippocamp after a sea creature from Greek mythology.


It's so tiny even Hubble missed it. Graphs!

It could enable the discovery of other moons and 'exoplanets' outside the solar system - some of which could harbour life.


That would be so cool. By the by did Oppy ever get rescued?

Thank god that invisible bungee cord is gone. FREEDOM! I hope it never happens again.

[Cisco]
Are you free from your invisible chain? We have things to catch up on. :D

I've been forced to think about light versus dark as a metaphor for good versus evil for the last infinite number of weeks.

And you know what? That metaphor is bullshit.

You know what lasers are made of? Fucking light, that's what.

You know what would destroy everything on earth if it wasn't for the ozone layer? Fucking light from the sun, that's what!

Light is not inherently synonymous with happy good friend feelings. I hate this metaphor.

Another complaint for thought.

Got my freedom back on a Monday...so now it's back to work anyway. Unsure how to feel about this. I like my job, but it feels like it'll be a long week.

That was the opposite of a fun Dream. Nearly died a second time.

[Barry]
Know what's weird?

Since neither of us are in relationships and had anything else to do last night, Alex and I decided to do some baking and we got a little carried away. We have more cookies than either of us can eat. So, does anyone want some chocolate chip or sugar cookies? We have a tendency to do this.

I don't know how to talk to them, they're like my Dream bestie people and they're here but I'm so fucking awkward I don't know the right words. Any time my brain could cut the crap would be greeeeat.

I'm kind of amused and annoyed. The dreams literally gave me a shirt. I've been dreaming for weeks and all I got was Was this shirt?

I just finished watching that documentary on Netflix, Abducted in Plain Sight. I don't even know what to think of that. I just can't wrap my mind around it. That girl's parents have boggled my mind. How these people just continued to fall for that man's lies and continued to keep him in their lives in one way or another is just insane.

Has anyone else watched it?

This is absolutely shameful. Teenagers should not have to get vaccinations in secret because their parents don't grasp basic science. Or fact check them about vaccines.

My brother attempted to call me. I don't know what he wanted. It's...going to remain that way. I didn't pick up and don't intend to call back. I've had enough. It ends now.

Over all a pretty good weekend. Even if I am getting 'Dreams' every night still, I think I'm kind of getting used to it? At least less physical pain involved. Small miracles.

Figures, dream me gets a girl and that girlfriend has a soulmate that dates back 4,000 years. She ends up being an Egyptian Priestess and I end up alone, again. Now there are magic weapons and ancient badevils from Egypt Past and I feel like I'm watching an Indiana Jones movie. Except I'm not going to get the cool perks. Literally the whole team that includes mine and Oliver Queen's is pushing her to get her wings, I don't even think a single one of them realizes I'm the one who loses either way in the end. I was trying to protect her and just get told I'm holding her back. Always fun to hear.

This feels like a special kind of never ending hangover. Any time it wants to stop would be great.

Never going to watch the Walking Dead the same way again.


[Noah/Stiles]
Sorry if I worried you, I don't..even remember leaving. Last thing I remember doing was sleeping.

[Agency]
Missed the check in, sorry. I'm alive. Feel like hell itself but alive

Ya know... Just when I thought my dreams were finally done... No, I get a new one. Least it's just one... And it seems my dreams wanted to remind me of my fucking attack, thanks for that by the way. So picking up with me in the hospital I woke up to go shower, and suddenly my hair starts falling out and when I look to the drain it's covered in water and hair and when I reach down, a fucking hand reaches out to grab me. Obviously, I scream and apparently I took off for two days.

When Stiles and the Sheriff found me, I was walking dazed and confused int he woods... Naked mind you. Went back to school that following day just to have all the school hear about what happened to me and stare at me. It's okay, I walked in like a boss, head held high and went about my merry way.

Still, that just means that I woke up in the actual fucking woods with my throat hurting from screaming I guess.

So not only did I get an unexpected promotion recently, but I had a new dream finally and coincidentally, I got a promotion there too. So now I'm not a personal assistant in the dream world or the waking world, which is kind of funny.

A lot actually happened in this one dream aside from being promoted to reporter. J'onn and I found a crashed pod with a guy inside of it. We brought him back to the DEO and started doing tests on him. Then I was going on a date with James when something went wrong with the launch of The Venture, which was the first commercial spacecraft launch so I had to go save the day. Clark showed up to help, which was awesome cause I'd always wanted to team up with him. We found out that Lena Luthor was supposed to be on the flight, but wasn't so of course she was a suspect so we went to talk to her and with her help we found out that her brother, Lex, had hired someone to try and kill her. When the guy he hired tried again, we stopped him or course, with Clark and Alex's help. Lena was actually the one who stopped him, by shooting him.

Afterwards, the told Cat that I wanted to be a reporter and then told James that we were better off as friends, which is a little frustrating since my previous dreams were all about how much I liked him. I guess I can't have everything in these dreams, right? I do wonder who this mysterious pod guy is though.

Ah yes, a little rewiring of my work station is exactly what I needed to distract from yet more dreams. Copper wiring is best wiring. Love, thy name is advanced engineering and Lady Gaga. Sorry not sorry work friends. This is your soundtrack tonight, embrace it. Love it.

Just when we thought we got rid of the face that betrayed us, he has another Earth-2 counterpart. So now I get to look at the face of the man responsible for my nightmares and killing me again but can't do anything about it. We apparently have to work with him because he knows something about Zoom that we don't.

Every night now it seems like I'm getting dreams. Now there's a new meta in town from another Earth calling herself Dr. Light. Our other baddie Zoom is forcing her to create havoc on our Earth because of the breach between our worlds. Got a bad feeling this is going to be a trend.

The Dreams just keep getting weirder and weirder..Now we have a metahuman called FireStorm who is this old professor who was caught up in the blast of the particle accelerator..again my bad, who needs to find a willing young person to "merge" with to survive and occasionally burst into flame due to his abilities. I'm pretty sure I live in a comic book. Only less fun. Basically we narrowed down participants and pitched becoming a super hero. One guy actually didn't want to. Who doesn't want to? I mean aside from me but

Anyway, I think this is the first time in an age I've been happy to see Monday. I'm ready to get back to work.

[Agency]
What'd I miss?

[Natasha]
Any chance I can increase hours I'm at the agency?

[Jemma]
Any projects you've got? I miss projects.

My nameless nightmare villain is no longer nameless. Apparently he has one after all and it's Zoom, and he's speedster from another world. There's a breech in our world apparently that allowed him through. So that'll be fun, I'm sure it won't end well for us. There's a third speedster trying to help us claiming he's from his world, but we've been burned so many times now by people "trying to help" it's hard to trust anyone anymore. We always thought my friend was the only speedster. But we also didn't realize the multiverse theory was not jut a theory.

My Christmas hangover feels better finally so small miracles. Never again. Ow. I think all of Christmas day was basically me sleeping in the shower, sorry Noah. Thanks for making sure I didn't die.

Turns out Christmas isn't so bad when 90% of your family is on the other side of the country.

Getting real tired of watching people I care about die in these Dreams, yet Dream me seems unphased..I think we just keep going so fast, nothing's kicked in...We saved the city, but my friend and colleague died a second time in the process.. the hero I work for decided to break up the team because we lost a couple teammates when a singularity opened above our city threatening to tear it apart. A freak black hole and he blames himself for it. My friend The Flash I mean. A super hero.

In the mean time I've become a scientific advisory for the police department, and I gotta admit that's..kinda cool. I do all this work for the department, but the captain still won't give me a badge. Stingy.

The Mayor apparently wanted to throw a Flash Day in appreciation and give Barry the key to the city, but he won't even return my calls. You know, every time someone tries to throw one of these 'X Hero days' something always goes wrong, didn't we learn anything from Spider-Man? Right on que it gets attacked, my friend rushes off to save it on his own and gets his ass handed to him. Turns out he blames himself for the city practically being torn apart, but we all take that blame. We were all apart of it. The city will fix itself, Central City is resilient. It's what we do, we rebuild and move on. It's all we can do.

[Jemma]
Wells confirmed that I was affected along with the other metas in my city the night that the Particle Accelerator blew and gave everyone powers..I don't get him, he tells me not to be afraid but then tells me they're a curse? In the dreams I mean..we caught on and now he's living out the rest of his days in containment. So I guess something came of it.

Okay, I've reached a point I can't not yell about this anymore.

*( I get it now )

*[OOC: cut for swearing and length]

So I had a thought with the snowmen piling up outside my building. What if we could amplify the thoughts of the city into melting them faster? If we amplify the natural vibration of human thought from a really small singular thing into a really big thing we might be able to minimize them at least to keep people from getting too hurt. We can relay that vibration from the satellites down at the snowmen and boom, should have an instant slushie. It may not stop them all, but a high enough vibration and maybe melt a few of these suckers before anyone gets seriously injured.

I've never been so damn cold. It's pretty, but also so much cold. My short sleeved self was very unprepared. I didn't realize this was a thing at this elevation?...wait. This is an O.C. thing isn't it?

Hey, so my name is Ethan. Not really sure what I'm supposed to do here, but I felt compelled to join when I found it. So what kind of message board is this exactly? Doesn't really have too much information about it, does it? This won't turn out to be some shady black market thing, will it? Would anyone even tell me if it was? Guess I'll just have to wait and find out if this was a huge mistake or not.

Everything is awesome right now. Best day ever.

Soon(tm)

I love science

You know, I may not have spent thanksgiving with my blood family but friendsgiving is just as good. If not better actually, for once I didn't leave both places feeling like actual trash. I'll call that a success. And Stiles, the rest of that one pound bag of star stickers we didn't use is yours. To the rest of his people: I regret nothing. Sorry not sorry.

Hey, buuuuuuddddddy. How are you doing?

Okay so... Clearly dream me is a bitch and the guy I'm with is a fucking asshole... With that said, Stiles, Scott sorry.

Also, seriously WTF?! Beacon Hills is crazy and everyone seems to be oblivious to what's going on...

I wish I'd put more of a buffer zone between me and my family when I moved to Orange County from L.A. I don't really have a good excuse not to show up for Dia De Los Muertos dinner tonight. What a crappy way to end the week.

These dreams have suddenly become less fun. Less about my best friend and I saving the city with his super powers and my tech. Turns out being a super hero team is not all that fun. The man we might have been trusting all this time with our lives, the man who's been building us up all this time to be better, the man who called me his son.. is a snake in disguise. He might be a fraud. The facts don't add up when I'm with him. I don't want to believe it.. He had a hand in the murder of my best friends mother, and now I'm not sure what to believe.

It's so damn complicated not feeling these things.