The Land Of Wind And Ghosts

Yesterday, I very briefly checked out Shadow Unit, which is hard to describe (it's a "Criminal Minds" fanfic inspired on-line collaborative TV-show-without-the-TV hypertextual metafiction, put together by the ilkes of Emma Bull, Sarah Monette, Elizabeth Bear, Will Shetterley and others).

It's not entirely my thing, though it's interesting to see that some of the supporting elements are things I've considered doing (i.e. many of the characters have lj blogs - one thing I've toyed with is writing hypertext neo-Lovecraftian horror using ljs to build up the "is it real?" doubt, Blair Witch style).

But my dreams last night were absolutely and completely obsessed with it, in various twisted and surreal permutations (at one point it actually was a TV show, with Jane Horrocks in it; at another point Dame Judi Dench was auditioning for it and voice modulators made her sound like Terence Stamp).

I suspect mind control lasers.

But anyway, if you're interested in looking at where the web can take creativity, it's worth checking out.