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I am taking some sort of class as myself but I am not taking part in one of the activities where my classmates have to do a bunch of soldering and construction to make a bunch of small devices. There's also something potentially about using magic to screw in some screws but it requires finesse to spin each screw individually at the same time instead of spinning the entire group of screws. I watch them from a vantage point, as the classroom is structured like an auditorium. My classmates work where the stage would be and my viewpoint is from an upper platform.

At first I think I am physically not there but then one of my classmates approaches me and asks me about the project and someone else says I'm there for the sake of recording but I'm not actually taking part.

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I am an alternate version of myself who went to art school(?). Rather I am talking to someone who knows of that version of me and is asking me about it and the comics I put out and/or analyzed in 2021. I don't remember this but I remember reading similar comics in my own timeline from the same publisher (this does not exist IRL). The art and covers are pretty Western style, not my usual, but good. One of the covers is of two characters walking, all late afternoon orange colors.

This transitions into a section where I am watching the alternate version of myself in third person. My name is still [IRL name] but "I" am very different. I wear a large black cardigan over a mesh black sleeveless vest and dark pants. "I" am talking to someone which eventually leads to the escape.

This turns into perhaps a half-dream where I am actually the alternate version of myself but due to some sort of trauma or depression I escape through a tunnel in the sea and into an alternate world to no longer be an artist. Still, in this other world I make some zines including one about gender where I explain I am a guy.