Ha! Take that, sad lack of productivity!

Or, y'know, something. I should, perhaps, be spending more energy on finding employment and clearing up the mess with my previous employment than clearing out my collection of unposted drafts on Blogger. But. This entire year has been shit for my creativity, and that's frustrating. I mean, I didn't even post at all during April, and my average posts-per-month this year has been five. Even last year, I managed more than that, though things went to shit in the latter parts of the year, when my computer died.

I've gotten more writing finished this month than I have in nearly a year, which is a nice feeling. Granted, most of what I've posted was stuff I'd started nearly a year ago, but a few of those pieces are new. The dream fragments are, at any rate, though I doubt they'll go anywhere.

The Technotist dream was quite awful, though the Technotists themselves remind me a bit of Dreamscape's Rat Trappers. People capable of hacking the electrical signals in the brain, usually to the end of creating mass hallucinations. Some of them just do it for the hell of it, because they can; some of them are hired by marketing agencies. Others are anarchists, causing trouble where they can. Most are criminals. Many are gang members. In the dream, Chris and the others just got caught where they shouldn't have been- in the middle of a Technotist war.

The Capellae reminded me of the Stella Matin dream, when Theron first appeared in my head and turned an endive into a bird of paradise. Callum is a charmsmith in training; Penny is a girl with more charmskill than most. Money is made out of chips of charmstone- gaea are small currency, made of spent or flawed charmstone. Capellae are large currency, and very rarely seen outside of major cities. The quality of the charmstone and the crafting of the capella determine its value; the one Callum found for Penny was probably worth hundreds, if not thousands of gaea, though he didn't know that at the time.

There was more to the dream- something to do with elementals and earth and water being corrupted, and Penny being able to fix things, or at the very least, exercising a great mastery over fire and air. In that respect, she's a bit like Radrezyne, which is kind of funny. Nowhere near as crazy, though. She's just a nice girl, and Callum is a nice boy, and the two of them can pull of some remarkable charmwork together. Standard derivative fantasty dreck, for the most part, as opposed to Technotist's standard deriviative cyberpunk dreck.

Been having other dreams lately, too, but none of them as interesting or as good.