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Hi everybody! I’ve been lurking all the way back since the Chapo subreddit and never made an account there or here. I don’t know why not or what changed in my weird brain to make me decide to finally do it last night, but I did and then the site almost immediately went down lmao, so sorry about that.

(Btw, does anyone know how to clear the second set of pronouns on your profile? I don’t know how to deselect it. Not that I don’t consider myself a comrade, it just looks a little redundant having double thems there.)

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Welcome and glad to have you on board!!!

Random question: What’s the weirdest dream you’ve ever had?

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Thanks! It’s odd, I can usually remember dreams with pretty good detail but only for like, an hour max after I wake up so most don’t stick with me. Off the top of my head, I had one like 15 years ago that I still can remember parts of where I was some kind of soldier/guerilla in some desert kind of seaside city with a lot of arches and white sandstone buildings with ornate roofs. The whole dream had a really washed out/desaturated kind of look with cyan kinda tint to all the light. I can really clearly remember this imposing looking really big flagpole and the really striking design on the flag, it was like a blend of the gruppetto musical symbol and a swastika with some dots on each side. Something about it stuck in my head like how kids used to all draw that one S. I’ve thought about using it as some kind of emblem for album art or a faction in a game or something but never got around to it. (Well, that and it looks pretty fashy and wouldn’t want people to get the wrong idea of something I’d be involved in haha.) I remember seeing the barrel of a tank peek around the corner, it drove forward into the center of the intersection, the turret rotated to face me, and I woke up with my heart racing like

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