huh. haven't read the book or seen the film but i had a ready player one kind of dream, only it was more "piloting a real world thing from a computer somewhere else" deal and wasn't all that virtual and it was a soldier job many people aspired to-
just remembered another part- crossing the bridge over the menagerie there was a giant moat that a family of raccoons were swimming over. one had already drowned but its friend was dragging him along anyway and was tying to wake him up on the shore. symbolic of something? :////


She/her.