#it was very fancy to get to interact with taylor lol like. offering moral support

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fairly extensive billions dream scene surely influenced by 6x01 b/c there kept being similar contexts

taylor was going around in a place like if a mall food court had a bar and was trying to do some groundwork for a potential new strategy to pursue by asking people if they had News about [subject], namely, printed information. they mentioned to this one older guy that they knew earlier he had been like “oh i’m never gonna talk to you again” out of being pissed off about axe’s Losing and taylor’s role in it, but that guy was now like, still grumpy but less mad at them in particular lol like aw i was just lashing out....i in this scenario was like, a nameless tmc employee, and had the True To Waking Life thought like “is this how someone thinking about a financial strat in billions would go about collecting news, really?? going around asking for publically available info they and anyone could just pursue directly anyways?” but the point is even unconsciously i cannot be bothered to come up with more billions accurate scenarios with any details i guess lol, so it was like, okay, there’s taylor with a stack of papers seeking more of that printed info just by going up and asking people if they have any. at one point they were just standing there with that stack and generally asking like Papers? and i went “is this just like newsies?”

through the magic of insider It’s My Dream knowledge, i got the notion that taylor was considering getting Directly into fracking? through the magic of “and i still have some of the kinds of billions reflections i’d have if i were awake,” i was a bit confused by this like, it’s been a while and now of all times it seems weird that this is what taylor’s looking into, but okay. i, with that generic unnamed tmc employee role, found a newspaper with a headline with an article that seemed to be relevant, and was like, again surely a printed newspaper where this is on the front page isn’t gonna be the cutting edge knowledge that they hinge any decisions on, but hey. i offered them the newspaper like, this is relevant to what you’re looking for right? i will only tell other tmc employees and ask them not to tell anyone else in turn, don’t worry. except f for me, because then i realized like oh wait this is a completely irrelevant headline about a casual like local piece about queer people’s favorite rock music and similar genres to tune into on the radio. like well :/ sorry taylor maybe it’s a fun read anyways

in the midst of this there was like, a Cut to a winston scene wherein he was also doing some Consideration Of The Future apparently in that he had like a dating site open in one tab and a search for “single at 34″ open in another, the latter of which i again had the True To Wakefulness reflection of “uh unexpected implied age specification when we’re pretty sure he’d be a Twentysomething in a range of maybe +/- 2 yrs re: taylor’s also imprecise twentysomethingness. but ok” and the former of which i was like “oh he likes rian but guess he’s looking less for Will We Won’t We rn and pursuing something that can become more We Will, Presently” and i was also like “oh, so he’s lonely :/ :(” and furthermore naturally he was doing this at work and someone comes up with a “hmm i’m critically assessing you at any time” energy such that winston was simultaneously a bit flustered about having these things up on his computer and also somewhat put out about Not having impressive work things in front of him, and whatever else the person was talking to him about re: work things