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So much for that pl

Not back in the area even 24 hours, and already a new set of Dreams. Thanks for the welcome back, Orange County. Thanks.

That said, it's been about two and a half years since I left. So - new bookstores, cafes, and/or waffle places I should know about.

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You know your dating life is going bad when the kids try to set you up with their tutor.

Actually I'm pretty sure they were trying to punish me for something, or are just really bored.

Ya think anyone would notice if a certain 'journalist' suddenly turned up dead in an alleyway someplace? I ain't felt this homicidal in a long, long time.

[Michael Glass]

What the hell's she talking about, retirement?

Hello. I'm Barriss Offee. I'll be direct, I'm here to make friends. Or try to. Success would be preferable. I was directed to this network as a possible resource for making friends. If this interests you, please respond.

But, please no dick pics. They will not be welcomed.

I like challenges, I really do. But when you want a full bridal party outfitted in leather dresses, maybe give me more than 2 months notice.

My hands are likely going to be an utter mess by December. On the other hand, I really like the ideas this bride has and her colour scheme. I just really hope I can get enough leather to work with.

At this rate I'll be renting an office space somewhere.

I figured it was about time to clear out the last of Sam's stuff from the attic since I'm going to be doing some remodeling on the house here pretty soon. Finishing up the process of making it mine. Putting in new windows on the backside of the house to keep some of the sun out while not obstructing the ocean view that I'm never getting tired of. I got off topic I know - anyway while I was going through the boxes I found some old Christmas decorations that he'd held onto for who knows what reason since he never decorated this place and one of them was something called the Christmas Pickle which from what I found online is a tradition that gives the person who finds it a very special Christmas present. I still haven't decided if that's creepy or sweet. What I do know is that damn ornament is going to be out of my house before I go to bed tonight.

Only heard about Flemish giants from Eren a little while back, but they're so cool! They're rabbits the size of medium sized dogs.

( Let's just pretend he totally spammed tons of Flemish giant bunnies here )

Gotta go to work. Later!

So this turned up outside of my place. I think this is part of the whole dream shit that everybody is always talking about.

Looks like I'm going to have to locate some sort of storage or parking spot for it.

Definitely not complaining though.

Ya know, my dreams have been done for like, over three years now so I didn't think this was ever gonna be a problem that I'd ever face, but what the hell are you supposed to do when one of your best friends from your dreams shows up and they really fucking hate you here?

Follow up, anyone figure out how to stop 'em from starting the dreams? Because our dreams are fucked.

Lucky the library is already open. Anyone know a website for jobs? I've been putting out physical applications, and now have to apply for a lot of places online. A lot of stuff is done online these days, huh? Haven't really been out here since 2014, and now this.

Online's really not my thing. But gotta get a job. I'd appreciate help.

[Edited 7:35am.]

My name is Setsuna Mudou, btw. Call me Mudou.

So I just had the weirdest dream. And in that dream everyone was calling me Jughead. What the hell kind of name is Jughead? But I mean, it was definitely me. I was writing a book, a novel actually, about a kid who got murdered in a small town, and there's a lot of mystery around it. I don't know. Maybe Jughead was my pseudonym? It felt right, though. When people called me that. It felt like my actual name.

So I have a question for all the dreamers out there. Okay wow that sounded like some really crappy thing a radio DJ would say but hey go with the flow.

How do you generally deal with stuff from the dreams turning up here? Like actual things? Things that were not there before you went to sleep?

I have a special treat for you this Saturday. You will not want to miss it. An auction will be held at Lux at midnight to win a date with yours truly. One night only. Dinner and a show…the definition of a show could be I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. So save your pennies, darlings. Bidding begins at midnight and ends when the gavel falls. And oh yes, the proceeds will go to a charity of your choice.

Alright. It looks like some of your dreams have just stopped? But how did you know they were done?

I haven't had a new one in months, but it felt like mine were just getting started.

A weird thing about this whole multi-verse with all kinds of spider-themed superheroes in my dreams is how many of them are version of my ... friend. The one that, you know, died.

And in a lot of them, I'm the dead one. So not only do I see his face, I know he understands exactly how I feel.

And I don't know how I feel about that.

It’s with a heavy heart that I must inform you all of the passing of Peep and Peep. I went downstairs today to get my guitar and they were laying on the floor of their Peeptat. There will be no funeral services for them.

That damn porg in my hot tub better not have clogged anything.

You ever look back at old posts you made as a teenager and get the overwhelming urge to punch yourself in the mouth?

... Speaking of mouths, I'm pretty sure I need this beautiful disaster for all them fine dining occasions I obviously go to where they'd judge me for talking with my mouth full.

Well, it seems like I've gotten a new arm. Again. How many times am I going to lose my arm in these Dreams? Because losing it twice has been more than enough to deal with. Though at least this metal arm wasn't made by Hydra assholes.

[Jemma]

That said, would you like to help attach this new arm? T'Challa gave it to me, so I'm assuming his sister and other scientists in Wakanda built it. You may be interested in seeing what their technology is like.

OKay...

But why not just buy the donut truck?

My dreams are enough to drive me to drink.

I woke up this morning and the last patches of my skin tone were gone, I am completely a shade of blue, and it is sometimes... a struggle to feel most things strongly.

The only thing I feel in my dreams is the pleasure of the kill.


Ange

Do you remember Captain Amari? I think... Widowmaker killed her.

In all the excitement of getting off my...house arrest I forgot to check in on here for the last few weeks. I've been out there actually getting to enjoy the beach right behind my house and going to the grocery store. Just all the little errands and things that I couldn't do for the past year. I still can't do much during the day but that's what all night markets are for. I never thought I'd actually be grateful to Amelie for something in the Dreams.

Ladies and gents! May I have your attention, please!


( Coming Summer 2019 )

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I used to think my favorite ice cream was bubble gum... but I'm thinking about changing it to mint chip.

So, I have to poll my Valarnet people on this. What do you guys think? Favorite ice cream flavor?

Second time this month I've had someone throw a brick through my window. I'm not sure why people think that'd scare me. It just pisses me off that I have to keep replacing my window.

Ya know, I ain't normally into AI mumbojumbo or whatever. I figure learning about that stuff is for nerds or whatever and I'll just deal with it when it comes.

But I just found this website here where you can try drawing stuff and the AI will try to correct your drawing based on what it guessed you wanna draw. If it's wrong, you can just shake the screen. I think 'cause of that it probably works better on you phone.

Pretty damn cool.

[In the right community this time whoops.]

I heard about this network last night and figured I’d check it out. I guess he was right, I wasn’t expecting it to be a forum about dreams.

So on that note. Name’s Caleb and my dreams usually consist of video games or naked women.

It's always weird when family moves away. Now, I know how Izzy felt when I left. Of course, I wish her the best on her business endeavors and know this will be good for her. It's not like we can't visit her, either.

Still, there's a hint of sadness cause she won't be so close by.

Pretty sure my dreams have come to an end. At least it feels that way right now.... But on that note, is there any sort of procedure or something in case disarmed bombs that really would have been useful a few weeks ago show up for safety measures or whatever?

Remember the holidays when you were a kid? Getting all anxious and excited about if you were good enough to get that ONE toy you really, really, REALLY wanted. Waking up on Christmas morning really early and tiptoeing downstairs to see that he brought you...watching cartoons in your PJs while mum made breakfast. (Or maybe you guys had different traditions)

And now holidays are here and gone in a flash. They're stressful and chaotic and you don't really get to enjoy it like you did.

I feel like Christmas JUST ended and I'm able to catch my breath. Between flying back home to see mum and then coming back here to jump right back into work and get back into my California groove, I don't really know what month we're in. It's almost February, isn't it?!

Apparently Eliot and I are the worst when it comes to relationships because neither of us can think of anything to do for Valentine's Day. We've been talking about going somewhere, but can't decide on a place at such short notice. Any suggestions would be really bloody helpful. One thing we don't want is snow. That's the one thing we can agree on.

The weirdest thing about these dreams, for sure, has to be waking up with the feeling that something's missing. They feel so real and there's just this ache for what was.

Not that it's all sunshine and rainbows, not at all. I've always been grateful for how my childhood turned out, but I think these dreams are just really highlighting how shit things could've been. And then it just seems to take even longer to get things back on track.

Thank god I don't need to deal with similarities in the waking and dreaming worlds now.

So I was having to do some research on my home state of Washington for a class, and came across a little tidbit: the states lack of a bestiality law for about 30 years. Apparently they took it off the books in the 70s to update it and then nobody noticed it never got put back in. Fast forward to the 2000s and a dude is dropped off anonymously at a local Emergency Room with internal injuries - including a perforated colon - that nobody can figure out how he sustained them until they manage to review the footage and identify the car that dropped them off. Great. Mystery solved. Unfortunately.

Police found out that the injuries were a result of the guy having sexual intercourse with a horse - and I’m not going into details about that but think about the injuries and you can figure it out - while his friends video taped it. So the dude who got hurt died and the police are going to charge the friends with bestiality on top of the other shit with just abandoning them which is when it was discovered that due to the oversight in the 70s - they technically hadn’t broken any law while having sex with the horses.

My home state rivals Orange County for weirdness in some respects I think.

Oh man, some people are hilarious. I was driving to work today, and switched lanes with tons of room, only to get honked at by the guy who was speeding along behind me.

Naturally, I slowed down to the speed limit because fuck that guy, and the person driving beside me was also driving the speed limit so buddy couldn't pass me. When the other person finally turned off and buddy passed me, he flipped me off. Because of course, driving the actual speed limit is obviously some sort of heinous offense.

I haven't laughed this hard in a while.

I must admit that it’s nice to be back home. Although, spending the last two weeks in NYC was pretty great.

Although, I wasn’t expecting to come home and find a stripper pole set up in my bedroom. Looks like my boyfriend’s family is pretty open-minded. No, I’m not complaining about this addition.

Guess who's finally 21, bitches. Gotta admit, I never thought I'd make it this long, but I'm still mostly alive and kicking so I guess that's a plus.

And I guess I can finally toss out that fake ID of mine. It's served me well these last few years but I probably ain't gonna be needing it no more.

Hey so my name is Gwen and I'm new here, but I'm hoping someone could help me out with a couple of things. Namely rent is expensive and if anyone could help a girl out as a roommate that would be great.

I'm also a drummer in need of a band if anyone wants to hit me up.

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.

Every year, we get snow in December like clockwork.

Just two days and we'll find out if we break the streak or not.



Agency Lock

How do you all feel about being trained on our nuclear submarine?

Okay, middle of the night question time! What are the strange or random things that you look up on Youtube? For me, I like watching urban explorer videos. Especially when it's about abandoned malls or amusement parks. It's always so fascinating to see what these places become. It's also always interesting to see the complete lack of originality in the graffiti that is always covering these places. Can't people be a little more creative than bloody pot leafs or penises?

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.

This ball python clears out this room in literally less then 10 seconds. I'm impressed.

You know what? I can deal with all this other fuckery this place throws at me, but do you know what I can't deal with?

My fucking arm occasionally attempting to strangle me or punching me in the goddamn face when I'm trying to sleep.

And here I thought babysitting my sisters kid was a royal pain in the ass. At least I'm never stuck with that one for more than a couple of hours at a time. Probably because her husband still hates my guts.

I really hope that wasn't tied to no ones dreams, because if it was, dude, I feel sorry for you.

If my dreams could stop killing me and my friends, that'd be fucking great. However, what I woke up to this morning almost makes up for it. Eliot, Quentin, Alice and I became Kings and Queens of Fillory so when I woke up this morning, my crown was on my dresser. I want to wear this all the time. It feels so natural. I may have to wear this for Halloween.

Holy shit, apparently it's been a long fucking while since the last time I posted on this thing.

But after spending an afternoon in jail, I'm pretty sure I needta start coming up with better ways to spend my time when this place isn't deciding to throw a fit.

The fuck do you all do for fun around here?

If anybody on here can't get to Baxter’s and doesn't feel safe staying at home - if you can, get to my place. I've got plenty of room. And these... whatever the hell they are can’t get in here. Looks like my Dreams decided to give me something kind of cool when they trapped me in here.

[Private to Katou]
You okay?

OHMYGOSH. I'm at 44,995 subscribers!! I just need 5 more to hit 50k! This is so exciting!

It's Frosty time. From Wendy's. I can't decide if I want the chocolate or the vanilla. I'm taking a poll. Thoughts?

Well we’ve found a fourth roommate. Or potential one. Some girl from the local college who’s had the shit beat out of her by somebody. At first I don’t want to let her stay with us because she’s clearly not 18, and since Shane and I are we have to be really careful what gets said about us. But then she starts telling me that she got attacked at school by a bunch of girls and they threatened to have worse done to her after dark - and when I ask her more questions turns out that I know most of them and that they’re Protected.

I’m not willing to let her move in permanently but she can stay a couple days until she finds a place. A month at the most, but she has to buy groceries at least once during the month because it’s only fair and she sure as hell better not get us in trouble. I don’t think dreamMichael needs to be so worried about people getting him in trouble. He’s going to get himself in enough trouble trying to look after everyone.