Weird Dreams No. 5
Jan. 17th, 2009 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maychorianI dreamed that somebody made my first novel, which I wrote when I was thirteen and fourteen (a rather awful fantasy thing that ripped off every fantasy novel I loved), into an animated movie without my permission, and I found it on TV. It was in much the same style as the animated Hobbit movie from way back when, and just as bastardized. My wood-dwelling elf tribes had turned into these sort of savage folks who spoke in pidgin, the character Arim had a talking pet mouse the size of an apple, my main character was no longer the main but completely sidelined (probably because she was a girl, and you can't have girls as main characters in movies, now, can you?), and there were awful, awful musical numbers, which I never wrote.
And my dear Lenny, who was such a serious character in the book, when they came to the large mechanical, booby-trapped door which he figured out in the book, said: "This is a Dancing Door, and so I shall dance all over it." And then he did this awful Alvin-and-the-Chipmunks kind of dance all over the door. ::shudders:: Poor Lenny. Did not fit his character at ALL. That would be more of a Ralph thing to do.
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Yes, I had characters named Lenny and Ralph. And they were kids.
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Shut up.
And my dear Lenny, who was such a serious character in the book, when they came to the large mechanical, booby-trapped door which he figured out in the book, said: "This is a Dancing Door, and so I shall dance all over it." And then he did this awful Alvin-and-the-Chipmunks kind of dance all over the door. ::shudders:: Poor Lenny. Did not fit his character at ALL. That would be more of a Ralph thing to do.
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Yes, I had characters named Lenny and Ralph. And they were kids.
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Shut up.
