Legend of Nicole?

Had a dream this morning that I was the main character in a near "Zelda" type world. Only difference was that some of the characters around me were Mickey and Minnie (Mouse). I had to find and finish the Book of Seasons and was missing the Winter Chapter, which was actually the story of Mickey's A Christmas Carol. It was being hidden under a large round stone with a key hole in it, and on top of that, a guardian that I had to beat. I had the key, and Minnie was walking with me telling me about it. She warned me that it was very fast, but easily confused, so as long as I moved around all over the place it would probably trip up and I could give the finishing blow to kill it. Then only would I be able to continue on my quest. Mind you, I'm actually sporting a female version of Link's classic green outfit. I'm even sporting a sword and shield. And the entire dream, including me, was all cartoon styled. As soon as I was about to step foot into the clearing my alarm went off to wake me up, but I do remember seeing a suit of armor just standing there on the round stone I needed to get into. So I'm guessing that was the guardian.

Aquarium

So I had a dream last night that I got to work and the store had been completely remodeled. More so the fish dept. I've always liked fish stores where the area with the tanks has no over head lighting, just the lights from the tanks. I think the fish and the tanks look better that way. Specially large tanks. Either way, I get to work the fish dept was remodeled. The ceiling was some how made much higher, there were partial walls across the front to block out the main store's lights, and where the tropical wall usually is was a giant bow front aquarium built up into the wall. This thing had to of been in the thousands of gallons range.There were lots of really big fish swimming around a very awesome looking fresh water set up. Lives plants, huge rocks, tree trunks for drift wood. The rest of the tanks had been made over also. Most of them were just larger, but we still had Oscar Island and Goldfish Island. In the middle of the area was a circular, almost column tank, but it was sectioned off for things like live plants, drift wood, etc. Tropical wall had been moved to the right side of the massive tank, and salts were on the left. But all I did in the dream was stand there in front of the large tank and just stare. People that I don't know, but were wearing petco uniforms were asking me things for customers, and I was answering, but I never took my eyes off the tank. And that's all that happened the entire time, until I got woken up by Mike to let the dog out..

Two new books

So for a V-day gift to myself, I got two new books to stuff onto my book shelf. They were actually on clearance at Barnes and Noble.com so I got them for a pretty good price (and free shipping!).

I keep saying I want to put more "classical" stuff on my book shelf. Stuff that will be around forever, or is just a general staple to have on any book case. I'm amazed I haven't gotten more than what I have now, but I'm a cover nerd. I want my books to look good. I want them to have a cover that actually gives some kind of hint as to whats in the book rather than some plain old black, empty leather cover. These two fit the bill perfectly. Even if you don't know who or what the Odyssey is, or who King Arthur, just by looking at the covers you can go "Oh, that must be about the Greeks" or "Oh, that's about the whole sword in the stone thing and knights and dragons". This is probably why I've yet to get my own copy of the Grimm's Fairy Tales and the like. I just haven't found the right book cover yet.


I really can't wait to start reading these two. I haven't read these since about Jr. High age and remember them very well. Hopefully they'll keep me busy for some time..

Tumblr

So I got a Tumblr account. Mostly so that I can follow updates from some people who don't use facebook. Partly because I want to see how it works for a mini blog. I'm actually not even sure what tumblr is for. I know a lot of artists use it to post up their art. Others use it as sort of a snapshot blog. So I guess I'll have to decide what to do with it, other than just watch people. Hell, if its anything like THIS blog, I'll have zero to no watchers and just as many comments and feed back to anything I post. There is a small section called "Curiosity", where people can leave me questions to answer however I see fit. But I doubt anything will show up there...


If anyone is actually interested in seeing it, or following it, or whatever, its @ Tales of Darklight- The Tumblr Edition

Ball gowns, hot rods and troll-Depps

Normally for a dream post I would use that little key image at the start, but this one needs a few images, so They'll be scattered through out this. This was one of those "wtf" dreams that were also a very.. enjoyable dream I guess. I did not feel stressed out, or angry, or sad, or the like through out this dream. Rather, I felt sort of excited to see where it was going. Like a cool action flick.


Firstly, I need to explain who the main person in this dream was. Gamzee Makara. Yeah, I'm sure that looks like I just slammed a bunch of keys, but its a specific character from a web comic I read. He's a troll. In fact, he's my "patron troll" (that means he wears my zodiac symbol). Sadly, my patron troll creeps the bejeezus out of me, as he's a clown and likes to paint himself in other troll's blood. Blood+clowns does not = a happy Nicole. When he's not killing people and eating their legs, he's pretty much like a stoner hippie. He like's his best friend, and lives in a world all his own where he drinks Faygo and everything is a "mother fuckin' miracle". So now that we're past introductions, I can continue on with this.


The dream starts in front of a huge mansion. I'm talking like hotel huge. Extremely posh, gorgeous place. I'm standing on a stone path way that leads to the giant front doors. I can hear a party going on somewhere inside. I'm wearing a huge, black ball gown and my face is done up in a lot of black, sparkly make up. I head into the house and am greeted by Gamzee. Except he doesn't look like the example up there. He looks more like a human, actually handsome through that clown make up. Actually, take the 2nd example and make him more..... Johnny Depp. There we go.

He leans down and gives me a kiss, which I return. I get that back of my head feeling that in this dream he's my boy friend or lover or something. There's just that weird, familiar feeling about him. We head into the party, which turns out to be a costume gala ball. There's a very short time that we dance around, but its ended by a scream in the background. Everyone stops and there's a woman standing in the door yelling about a murder in the garden. For whatever reason, everyone turns to me and starts yelling that I did it. So Gamzee grabs my hand and drags me from the ball room to a small hall way that no one else seems to be able to find. He tells me I need to get away from there, hands me car keys, and says to go to his bedroom to change into some of his clothes. After that, I'm to go to the parking garage and take his car and go. So I make my way there, change into his classic black tee and grey polka dotted pants, and purple converse. I make my way quietly to the garage, find his car, and notice that it's being guarded. I run up and start begging them, as his best friend, to please let me take his car like he wants. They shake their heads and say that they're very sorry but they have a job to do. One of them gets the phone and calls some guards down. I take off like a shot, crying, trying to think of someplace to hide, when I'm grabbed by the arm and dragged into a stairwell. It's Gamzee. He looks down at me, sad look on his face, and starts trying to wipe the runny black makeup off my cheeks. He tells me to be calm and starts leading me through some back halls. Finally we stop at a door. He opens it, looks outside and pulls me with him. We're in a parking lot behind the mansion. He grins at me and takes another pair of keys out of his pocket saying "You thought I only had one car? This one is even faster". He leads me up to a cherry red sports car and we hop in. 

I remember the sound of the engine roar, but at that point Mike woke me up for breakfast...