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Apparently I've been more affected than I thought over the kerfuffle about renaming The Dark is Rising to The Seeker (because, basically, nothing of the book remained in the movie). Last night I dreamed I was a screenwriter on the set of a live-action version of The Black Cauldron and I walked off the set because they kept mispronouncing "Fflewder Fflam" (in Welsh "ff" is a soft, aspirated "f" while "f" is hard, more like "v") like the Disney movie did. I told them it was symptomatic of the lack of respect they held to the original story. And then I obtained the film rights to some YA fantasy that my brain couldn't decide if it was named "The Iron Butterfly" or "The Steel Butterfly" although it was sure that the butterfly in question did transform from iron to steel over the course of the story. Don't remember much else about it - there was some sort of wicked witch in it, and horseback chases over fields, and someone jumping off a giant spool of rope.

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Hee. :D *puts on list* I'm actually right at this moment slapping down the outline my brain came up with last night before I fell asleep for one of the fandoms I offered for

yuletide, so I don't forget it in case that's the one picked. XD So even if that's not one I get assigned to write, it'll probably show up at some point. *not saying what it is* XD

The dream was maddeningly vague on details of the butterfly story - the witch had a son who may or may not be evil, and there was something about following rabbit trails through a field of grain that look now, when I'm awake, a lot more like deer trails. Maybe there are really big rabbits in this world. XD

Maybe they're giant, sentient rabbits. >.> <.< o.o

And, there's a quest...?

:)

Dunno if there's a quest, although there usually is in this sort of story, wot? And I have no idea where the giant spool of rope comes into it. XD

Deer are really just extra-big bunnies with long legs. I've looked closely at our guys' heads, and their faces are really just like compacted deer or maybe wild goat faces.

Maybe you were going to get onto a ship? Sailing ships need lots and lots of rope, so a dockside would be a logical place to find them.

Than again, dream logic isn't really the same as waking logic.

The spool of rope was sitting on dirt, and there were trees in the background. There may ahve been a big drop-off behind the area the rope was, too. There seemed to be a lot of drop-offs in the dream.

Which segued into something about the three good fairies from Disney's Sleeping Beauty, and then something about how I was trying to write this dream down but they keyboard was in the refrigerator.

>> the keyboard was in the refrigerator. <<

Maybe because you're trying to preserve the dream! (Although it could also be a joke about writer's block ... .)

I was just thinking of those three goofball fairies - Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather! - myself because the Young Lady is reading Godchild, and the hero's little half sister is named Mary Weather (like, Mary Frances or Mary Jane), and I was thinking that Kaori Yuki must have been brainwashed by the Disney Sleeping Beauty at some early age.

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