#trashtaste

Had a crazy awesome weird dream. It started with me and a ton of friends (none of which I recognized) in some kind of contest or working on some project where we were supposed to make a certain length video for a comedy YouTube channel. We separated into sub-groups each meant to provide a certain chunk of time to the video. We were all in some large alleyway, and in the lore of the dream it’s common knowledge that we have funny memories with a boiler out in the alley so no one chooses to do any jokes with it because we all expect the others to. So my group is stuck with filling a missing 3-4 mins. for the video, and I suggest we do improv sketches at one of the ends of the alley. I have some bad ideas, and I scrap them before sharing what want to do with the group. We start and then mid-bit the dream morphs to show a bunch of weird cartoon/anime-lookin humanoid things and they have this squishy gummy quality. (The dream has shifted from Live Action to Animation now). They’re all lined up on their backs side to side shoulder to shoulder with each wearing a jumpsuit having a main color of R, O, Y, G, B, Cyan, or I (No Violet for some reason) and white as the second color for all of them. Then they turn on their sides, but not like on their own. They turn like they’re being turned. The 2D animation was actually really smooth. This reveals each of them had a line of previously unseen giant red dots going straight down their side. Then in First-Person I jump on them and they squash and stretch then the red dots shoot up like spikes. It’s like they’re being stretched into the night sky. (Side Note: Holy shit I’m remembering right now that the dream started in the middle of the day and time was actually passing!) I’m not skewered by them as they fly up, and the bodies are 100% unaffected by the physics of this. Then there’s a fade or a cut to all the bodies standing upright facing the same direction on my right and an identical set that’s smaller on my left facing them, but they reversed order so the red one is the closest one to me. There are no red dots anymore. (we’re still in the alley btw) The Trash Taste Podcast starts and I hear Garnt ask “So what did you think of the Eva remake? Did they make the fuckin’ new squishy western animation work?”

Connor “Did it work? No! Of course it didn’t fuckin’ work. It’s fuckin’ shit, man!”

Garnt and Joey laugh

Joey through the laughter “Oh what you didn’t like tiny Shinji running around on older Shinji?”

At this point Rexplosion from Invincible pops out and he’s the size of Ant-man as he walks around on the red suit humanoid to my right which I guess means he’s playing Shinji in my dream and these things are Evas? And also the ones to my right reversed order so the red one is the closest to me like the ones on the left.

Connor “It’s so fuckin’ stupid, man.”

Garnt “Didn’t they have, like, an incredible 3D model there?”

Connor “Yeah. One thing I’ll say I liked was the cell shaded animated tiny Shinji looked fuckin’ beautiful, man. It was so smooth it was like watching the smoothest 2D animation.”

This is true. All of this is being said as I watch Rex run around on “Older Shinji’s” shoulders and the cell shaded animation is amazing. I think in the lore of my dream it’s implied that the story of this Eva movie they’re talking about is about a new generation of Eva pilots being mentored by the original cast while they’re older. So maybe Joey was calling Rex “Tiny Shinji” Because this movie wrote him as a successor to the actual Shinji. Idunno. Although, I will say, while I have yet to watch a single episode of Eva or even a review for fear of spoilers, this movie my dream crafted is probably the worst of the worst things someone could do with this series. The most in depth takes I’ve gotten ever about the series were offhand remarks in videos on other anime, random comments on YouTube, exactly 2 episodes of Game Grumps, and Trash Taste Podcast episode #66.

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