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Had a weird dream last night. I don't remember most of it. It was already fading as I woke up, as most of my dreams do. But I did manage to jot down the oddest bits.

Seems there were some beings from the land of Faerie. Elves of some sort, perhaps. In my dream, I was writing a story about them, I think. They'd come to our world for the first time, landing in medieval times (I think). They were terrified of pigs because there was no such creature in their world. To them, a pig was as much an alien monster as a beast of Faerie would be to a random human who'd made the jump to their world. Also, I think the presence of the pig interfered with their magic - although I'm not sure if that was because a farm pig was so mundane a creature (or perhaps so much a creature of the earth) as to be anti-magical, because of some psychological thing (their fear of it interfering with their command of magic), or because there was something special about the pig.

I do remember, however, that there was a creature, I think of Faerie. A monster. The closest they knew to a pig. It was big, perhaps the size of a bear. It was covered in gray fur. It had a piggish snout, pointy ears on top of its head, sharp teeth, claws, wings on its back, and a malevolent magical aura. It was a WomBatPig - a monster which appeared to be a magical cross between a wombat, a bat, and a pig.

I don't know. No idea where any of it came from (besides Faerie, of course). But none of it seems very kosher.

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Realized when I woke up this morning that there was a possible origin for yesterday's unusual dream.

There's a webcomic called Axe Cop. Started a little over a year ago. A then-five-year-old boy was playing around with his older brother around Christmas time, and he came up with this character. Big brother decided to draw it to share with the family. Then others saw it. And it became a huge hit. And now it's being turned into a published comic book series.

The plot comes from the kid. He just comes up with crazy stuff that sounds awesome and/or amusing to him and which works by magical kid logic. Big brother asks questions to elicit further details, fits things together into a more-or-less cohesive story, and then draws it as a comic. It's brilliant. As unabashedly ludicrous as only a kid can be. Where else are you going to find Vampire Wizard Ninja Brothers From The Moon (one of whom also happens to be a werewolf)? Check out this strip - it's in the middle of a storyline, but it probably wouldn't make too much more sense if you came in at the beginning.

Anyway, one of the more recent stories (from this past November) introduced a new superhero - Bat Warthog Man. A man wanted to become a superhero, so he went into the forest looking for mystical animals. A mystical bat and a mystical warthog found him, smacked into each other, merged into a Bat Warthog, and then bit and tusked him.

It's been a couple of months since I read that, but I have a feeling it contributed to the magical WomBatPig from yesterday. Dreams inspired by a six year old's wild imaginings. There are worse things. :)