"Once, our industry defined our consumers in a limited way, focusing only on those people who were already actively involved as gamers. Now, it's different. Maybe you've noticed a woman on a plane playing the Nintendo DS system, or your uncle calling you for tips on how to beat his buddies in Mario Kart."

"Maybe you've noticed a woman on a plane playing the Nintendo DS system,"

"a woman on a plane playing the Nintendo DS system,"

"a woman"

so i wrote some porn.

posting it here out of a desire for concrit and feedback, and also i haven't posted my writing publicly for years so i want to know how i'm doing.

it's part of a larger project so there's no real character background in this; i'll...get around to that eventually, or something.


( fun with a camcorder )

i had a dream, and i feel i have to write it down before i forget, because it was, in some way, exceptional. it wasn't the most frightening dream i've ever had and it wasn't the most absurd but i feel that i have to record it nonetheless.

at the beginning it involved the surroundings of my house morphing. there was my driveway and the road and first row of houses surrounding it, but beyond that it was just a large, layered, snow-covered mountain, and each layer had three or four small black cottages scattered across it, and at the very top was a huge, gothic castle; the mountain was far too tall for me to climb but still small enough for me to be able to see the very top in clarity. this transformation of the landscape happened in a dreamlike way where i was aware i was aware of the change and that there had been something different there before, but i really thought nothing of it, as though it was perfectly normal.

secondly, there was a dragon.

it seemed to be dead in the middle of the road, but after a few hours it turned out to be neither dead nor sleeping, merely waiting, and it stood up and began to walk around, not really causing any harm but also not really going anywhere; it more or less was walking in circles. i was aware, to a small extent, of the oddity of it, but the thing i was most fascinated by was that it was identical to a charizard.

at this time was when i saw the first signs of a certain omnipotent being that was present and central to the rest of the dream. at this point, it was male, and his appearance was similar to most classical western interpretations of the christian god, but he was wearing a large, regal crown. i never saw him, but i was aware of his appearance somehow. the very first time i encountered this being was when i "overheard" (i can't recall if it was from him personally, or one of his subordinates - perhaps both; my dreams tend to work like that) that not only had he placed the dragon in the road, but it was placed there to stop me, personally. it was large enough that it took up most of the road, so that (except on one occasion where it was passed by a school bus; i believe the dragon let it pass on purpose simply because i was not on it) if i tried to drive down that road i could not. basically, it was there waiting for when i would have to go to school, and since i would not be able to drive past it (this was the main, shortest route), i would be forced to take the other, longer way - which was around the back of the mountain. i'm not sure exactly what was behind the mountain; i believe it would have been central to the conclusion that i never reached.

authorities arrived, however, before i would actually deal with the thing myself. a gigantic bulldozer as tall as the mountain itself appeared and literally crushed the dragon, and proceeded in disposing of it behind the mountain. the bulldozer and police that accompanied it seemed unwilling to actually go to the back of the mountain, so they put it in a bag at the end of a long, sturdy rope attached to the neck of the bulldozer, and swung it around, giving it enough momentum that when it was detached from the bulldozer it would simply fly over the mountain on its own. they failed at least once before succeeding.

the whole part about the dragon is really sort of insignificant; it only acts as foreshadowing for the rest of the dream in the introduction of the 'god' character and that s/he had something against me, personally. also the theme of something foreboding being behind the mountain (the authorities tried to dispose of the dragon back there without going there themselves), but this wasn't really touched upon in the rest of the dream, though i believe it would have been important if i'd stayed asleep a little longer.

but here is where the central part of the dream begins. my family and i have, somehow, been introduced to a certain community game. it is like a cross between a scavenger hunt and a very elaborate haunted house. a group of people (there was no limit on how many; usually i would see a group of at least four, and i suppose it would have been possible to try it alone, though considering that many of the events were impossible to get through without some sort of cooperation...) would register their team and then they'd proceed onto the playing ground, which was a large area that looked as though it once housed a neighbourhood, but none of the houses were in one piece - sometimes it would be as small as a hole torn in the roof or wall and other times there was nothing left standing but the foundation. it was not necessary to enter all of them for the game's purposes, so most of them were just for show. i should also note before i forget that the many parts of the game took place in what should have been daylight hours, but it always appeared to be night or dusk or early dawn. the game consisted of a series of short and terrifying events (though the game's administration assured everyone that they were absolutely safe, that it was all for fun and we could quit any time we wanted if we felt uncomfortable), and was three days long (only consisting of the daylight hours; in the night we were free to go home).

my team varied, since my imagination can't seem to keep its facts straight. at all times the team had myself, my dad, and my three younger siblings, but occasionally my mother would be a part of the team, or heather; at one point even my grandmother was there. the rest of my team was participating because it looked like fun, and i was participating because the at the root of the game was 'god' - who had, at this point, changed to a giant female serpent. at the end of the game, the teams would have to battle her. it was completely possible to win - it wasn't a complete death trap and i saw many people playing for the second or third time (though i believe the serpent was losing on purpose) - but if you lost, you were dead. i was playing because i wanted to be a hero and kill her. (have i ever mentioned that the me in my dreams is much more courageous, confident, and all-around badass than i am in real life?) i think she knew this.

the first event took place soon after we registered. my team and i settled in a small house without walls, and sat against a corner. we got the message "first event" - whether it was over a speaker or it merely appeared in front of us i don't know. we had only seconds after this message to prepare when a huge, wild dog bounded out of nowhere, barking with its fangs bared, and proceeded to attack my legs.

i screamed, of course. i tried to fight the thing off but it absolutely wouldn't budge. somehow i was given instructions on how to deal with it - pull its hair, and call its name. the name wasn't given, so i had to guess. i tried "derek" first (i can't quite recall what significance the name derek had, though i know it was somehow), and after it didn't stop, i tried "aaron". i don't know how i knew its name, especially since i think most human names sound silly on animals, but it worked; the dog just stepped back and looked at me meekly.

after this was a long series of events; unfortunately my memory of the dream is quickly dissolving since it has taken me so long to get to this point. the only other event i recall was one where we had to help a family evacuate themselves and all their precious belongings from their home, as it would literally be flattened in a certain time limit due to a case of mistaken identity. now that i think about it, i'm not actually sure if this had anything to do with the game or not. eventually we were at the end of the second day, and we were given instructions on a certain ritual to perform. it was a short and exceedingly simple dance, and it would have prevented the serpent from listening in as we planned that night (in retrospect, this is very silly). at this point, i had discovered that the serpent was not at all objected to my revealing her existence, but revealing the fact that she was observing us - i tried to tell my team this, but my voice seemed to suddenly stop working, and i turned around and saw the lower half of the serpent draped over the wall. (no one else could see her, which further proves that she was out to get me personally). audrey volunteered to learn the dance, so that none of the rest of us would have to bother. that night as we were driving home i felt i needed to inform my family of what the serpent was, and what i was planning to do. audrey (of course) absolutely refused to do the dance. i begged her to the point of tears and she just kept repeating "why bother?"

this is where i woke up. the third day of the game would have held some sort of revelation and a satisfying conclusion to the rest of the dream, but alas. (it should also be noted that this isn't the entire dream, just the end of it - the first half was much more pleasant but proportionally less interesting. it involved me getting my hands on a very nice little america/canada doujinshi with shota and sex in a lake. ...wow, i'm even creepy in my dreams.)