this time the dream's on me

( Dream 1: Talk of menstruation! This is sometimes TMI/squicky for some people...? )

Yesterday I was back at my parents' house and going through/throwing away stuff I left in my old room. I ended up going through a lot of Sailor Moon cards and toys and other novelty items and boy, does it bring back memories. I (still) have SO MUCH Sailor Moon memorabilia; and I still want to keep a lot of it. I'm not completely prepared to let go of the stuff that got me into anime in the first place. I also put my six carebears into the donation pile. It's hard to let them go; they're just so adorable!!! But they're not originals or anything, and it's not like I've done anything with them or even looked at them for the last 3 years. And while I like my share of cute stuffed animal-type toys, I need to keep myself to a strict maximum because there's really no reason I should have them cluttering up my house.

Dream 2: Visit to Japan

Anyway, it's not much a surprise, then, that my dream was that I was in Japan again... but it was some sort of school trip? Angelica was there, and Yoshi, and Will ("and you and you and you... and you were there") -- that is, all of us who'd gone to visit Yoshi in Japan twice were reunited. It was an odd dream wherein the four of us where in a school cafeteria of some kind, eating lunch among the students. A few of us went out to a spot on the roof (god, this sounds just like a freaking manga) with some of the Japanese students. Will was speaking in Japanese to some of them -- the cooler looking ones, who had bleached-brown hair and left their uniforms somewhat unbuttoned (clearly I can't even dream outside of manga stereotypes) -- who ignored him at first but then ended up talking to him. I was mostly sitting and trying to catch phrases here and there, mostly unsuccessful as they were speaking in that really masculine slang with that thug-like accent (and which is super hot... AND OMG I'D LOVE TO HEAR KEN WATANABE TALK IN THAT THUGGY ACCENT, YES PLS) and looking up at the clear blue sky.

I went back downstairs -- I think I was going to watch a play or something? -- and ended up running into Angelica again in a maze of crisscrossing staircases. (PENROSE STAIRS, MAYBE? HAHAHAH, WHAT IS MY LIFE?)

I seem to be doing these random, unofficial fic recs/requests...

your name on my lips and my knife at your throat by stungunbilly is a little thing, full of filth and denial, with an unexpected little helping of jealousy like a treat for dessert.

And now all of a sudden I'm dying for some jealous!Arthur fic. Even better, something where he gets unexpectedly physical in reaction to the focus of Eames' flirting. Anyone have any recs for me?

holiday card exchange?

Please to be leaving your address here if you'd like to exchange holiday cards!

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First Lines music meme

taken from gyzym

The hard part is that there's no guideline with which to pick 10 songs. Sorry, jeez, I think my song picks are all over the place, not quite representative of anything, and possibly not so easy to identify?

1. Just when everything was making sense.
   You took away all my self-confidence.
   [That's What I Get by NIN] - ralphiere
   
   
2. when passion's lost and all the trust is gone,
   way too far, for way too long
   [World So Cold by Mudvayne] - badmomma64
   
   
3. you saw me standing by the old
   corner of the main street
   [Save a Prayer by Duran Duran] - windbourne
   
   
4. when he was young you'd not find him doing well in school
   his mind would turn unto the waters
   
   
5. funny how secrets travel,
   i'd start to believe if I were to bleed
   
   
6. welcome to where time stands still
   no one leaves and no one will
   [Sanitarium (Welcome Home) by Metallica] - sharona1x2
   
   
7. tell your children not to walk my way
   tell your children not to hear my words
   [Mother by Danzig] - morganwolf
   
   
8. i am alone but adored
   by a hundred thousand more
   [You Were the Last High by The Dandy Warhols] - surya74
   
   
9. you gave me this
   made me give
   [Mouth by Bush] - badmomma64
   
   
10. let's go back to your house
    and finish off the gin

ETA: Okay, so I cheated a little for #7 because the first line (just one word) would give away the whole song.