This dream was set up like an anime and the entire dream was the pilot. The anime was about of group of artists and writers who hang out online but had never met in person before. What brought them all together was the fact that they were nerds all tied to a single series and were in the fandom since the beginning. This was LITERALLY MLPG the anime. None of the characters were people I knew or recognized from the fandom they were all random but that didn’t matter at the time. The anime was stylized to be extremely simple and purposely mediocre in most scenes but with excellent animation and finite attention to detail in more emotional scenes.
The pilot was interesting. 10 people within the fandom were selected to meet with the creator of their show, Lauren Faust (Yes. For whatever reason she was still involved with the show in this dream) to suggest ideas for the newer seasons and possibly be hired. When you meet the cast they are all exceedingly different and strange but all have different reasons to why they are attached to the show and/or fandom. They get to know each other before they are called in to meet with the infamous creator. They are sat in a meeting room until a woman comes to interview them. I remember this scene specifically because the protag leaned into another asking “Hey…can I tell you a secret” whispering as low as he could while laying down and scooting up to his partner. But his secret was intercepted as the receiver answered “I don’t think that’s Lauren Faust.” to which the protag agreed saying that’s exactly what he was about to say. Apparently the studio wanted to make sure the gang was presentable before meeting the esteemed creator and I knew this was a dream because immediately after, the dream changed into a different anime about an obviously tsundere twintails and a college alumni guy who was just in between leaving college and finding work. He asked what she was doing in his house and she got flustered saying she only came in because she smelled smoke and they noticed the kitchen oven was on and burning everything. After that it got random and I don’t remember the rest.
But holy shit. Like that previous anime even had a theme song and I hummed it as soon as I woke up so I wouldn’t forget.
