I had the coolest dream last night.<\/p>\n
I dreamed that I was in some kind of a steampunk\/regency universe–basically, everyone dressed up like the Victorian era and fought with fencing sabers.\u00a0 I was contracted to go and fight the phantom of the opera, who for some reason was holed up in the JFSB (except, it wasn’t exactly<\/em> the JFSB, just somewhat analogous). The phantom had a whole bunch of cronies and thugs, and I had to fight them in order to get to him.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I lost, and his thugs disarmed me and took me prisoner.<\/p>\n Just then, my wife (future wife–I’m not married or engaged right now) came in to rescue me.\u00a0 The dream panned out so that I was seeing it from her perspective (previously, it had been a sort of detached 3rd person).\u00a0 She snuck up on the guy guarding the door and stabbed him in the back with a dagger.\u00a0 Leaving him to die, she jumped into the JFSB where I was (you know the part underneath the big glass facade, three stories below the English department, where the spiral stairs are…except there were no spiral stairs in the dream, just some old dirty couches), and started this awesome swordfight.\u00a0 She cut down a couple of guys, then attacked the guard holding me captive–and killed him by thrusting her sword through his throat.<\/em><\/p>\n It was pretty cool. \ud83d\ude1b Totally reminded me of Vin from Mistborn<\/em>.\u00a0 What a woman!<\/p>\n When I woke up from the dream, I wanted to go write some steampunk.\u00a0 If\/whenever I get around to writing a steampunk novel, I definitely want a strong female character who can do that kind of stuff.\u00a0 Through the throat<\/em>.\u00a0 What a way to go!\u00a0 Suffocate on your own blood while your opponent walks away, leaving you to die.\u00a0 It’s bad enough getting stabbed in the stomach, but the throat–that takes style.\u00a0 And improvisation.\u00a0 Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had the coolest dream last night. I dreamed that I was in some kind of a steampunk\/regency universe–basically, everyone dressed up like the Victorian era and fought with fencing sabers.\u00a0 I was contracted to go and fight the phantom of the opera, who for some reason was holed up in the JFSB (except, it… Continue reading Dreaming up steampunkery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[112,191,110,52,117,190],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-character","tag-dreams","tag-steampunk","tag-story-ideas","tag-violence","tag-women","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-8G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}