#dreamcache

There was a picture on the wall involving silvery fireworks that I’d been fascinated with, but this time around I remembered (from the previous dream) that it was important and realized it commemorated the destruction of the ship, who sacrificed himself to save me. (It wasn’t fireworks, it was exploding pieces of ship.) I was inconsolable over it and the knowledge that the ship’s destruction was going to happen soon. I didn’t want to go through with it, didn’t want to lose the ship who’d come to mean so much to me, and didn’t want to live with the knowledge of it.

Had an absolutely amazing dream last night. I was watching the new season of Stranger Things, which seemed to focus on some bizarre government experiment that people could sign up for that was... supposed to do something, I’m not sure what (create superheroes,maybe?), but the side effects were getting more pronounced and dangerous. There were a couple of leopard kits sleeping at the bottom of a fish tank because they’d become amphibious. Which sounds cool, but I was still getting bad vibes from the whole thing.

Then my dream switched over to Hopper, who was also signed up for the experiment for reasons that made no sense within canon and I knew it was a terrible idea whatever the reason was. This was all kind of background noise, though, because then Hopper made offhand mention of the fact he was trans. I couldn’t quite believe it and wondered if this was actually something they were going to do or if it was some kind of bullshit “mention it but never ever do anything to confirm it” deal, except in the next scene it was a flashback to Hopper’s early teen years and there was a scrawny, gangly-limbed girl with ridiculous hair (something like this) and it was Hopper! And I was like, holy shit! They actually went there!

I jumped in to add that the writers/producers canonically didn’t care about the story (I’d found some interview with Pablo or something where he said as much) and that they were more concerned with accomplishing set goals per episode than in the overall story and character development. This was why so much felt “off” in Rebels and also in the Sequel Trilogy and other places in general. It was also why fanfic was important, because we could take the templates the creators gave us and create the stories we wanted to see based on how we felt things should develop. And since we were more invested in it and cared more about narrative continuity it meant that sometimes our fics were better than what canon gave us.