#and it's like the censor only just nixed it so the actors are getting scripts that have 'rape' blacked out in crude black marker

[ioannemos]

man, i wish my brain would be this plot-y about stories that i'm writing

uhhh tl;dr, trio of rapists/murderers* were caught by yours truly

(*i don't think they actually raped or killed anyone in the dream itself. the brain censor said "we're not doing that" again. but there was def anxiety about it and if this had taken place anywhere else... yeah)

(i used to call this the difference between the writer and the director, but director and censor makes more sense. also it allows me to picture an avant-garde shithead in all black going "~what if~" before being interrupted by a bored no-nonsense old guy (think mike in breaking bad) saying a firm and very flat "no." into one of those old-school cone bullhorns, which is very funny)

things i remember:

there were three of them, and they were like. brothers? oldest was the ringleader, middle was the meanest and creepiest, youngest was pretending to be mentally disabled and was hiding inside my family. why they were targeting us idk

the "plot" kicked off when the oldest came by, pretending to be there for like... some kind of house project, i think? "examining to see if the roof needs repairs" kind of thing. gave me the heebie-jeebies and i said to mom (not my actual mom this time. i don't think...) that i thought he was up to no good and we should get rid of him. she dithered, didn't want to be mean, and i was like "you want me to get rid of him? bc i can do that" and when she still dithered i basically walked up to him and said like "we do not need you here. Get Out. Now." and he left

(side note: this is the kind of direct confrontation that i hate doing but also think i could be real good at bc of how often i want to be that direct. hmm.)

something something, attacked in the night (director: rape 😃 / censor: Absolutely Not / director: 😒), they stole a backpack amongst other crimes

something something, the youngest guy is being asked by the oldest why he didn't report that i would be there ruining everything

youngest guy: i... didn't run into her before

oldest: 😑 you didn't run into her before?

(this was the shocking scene where the audience finds out the youngest isn't actually disabled and is in fact a spy!!! the obvious follow-up question of why they would be spying on this family, esp to the extent they need a freakin spy at all, is never explained)

something something, my moment of revelation comes: they're operating in threes! they "attacked" me (how is left unanswered and i swear i put verbal quotes around the word 'attacked' in the dream), stole the backpack, and. and then when they came back, they attacked someone else, returned the backpack with [something i don't remember] in it, and. surely you see the pattern!

my brain could not come up with that third thing, just knew that threes were better then twos, esp since there were three brothers. i agree in principle but good lord it's so funny that it was like. "there are three things!" "there's only two on this list?" "oops. welp. we'll work on it but first! the revelation scene!"

uhh something something they were caught, for some reason they were still around us afterward like we were in charge of them. there was an edge of like 'ooh, are they gonna be able to get away??' but the dream ended before they could try

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