Dream about a vampire dating sim

The dream itself was like a very mild nightmare, not because of the vampires but because I was playing the game in the dream and OTHER PEOPLE KEPT TALKING OVER IT AND BLOCKING THE SCREEN (they all thought I was a bit cringe for caring but I just wanted to see the end). Also the game controls were confusing, and I kept accidentally dying and having to restart etc. So I saw a bunch of inconsistent variants of the story, and was thinking about how I'd do it differently as I played. The post below is me collecting the interesting parts.

It was not a sexy game, in fact I kept thinking "this is surprisingly unsexy for a vampire dating game, but I guess that makes it less embarrassing to play in this communal game playing club I have apparently joined". Which also makes it less embarrassing to describe in a post, so, thanks subconscious! I guess! No thanks for the annoying hecklers, though.
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Thinking about writing a transmigration story, and what I like in the genre

I keep getting vaguely inspired to write a transmigration story but then the idea peters out before it goes anywhere. I was complaining about this to flamebyrd and she suggested I write down the kinds of things I'd want, so here I am!

A typical transmigration story: the main character, an ordinary person from our world, suddenly has their consciousness end up inside a fictional character inside a fictional story (often a cliched book they were reading). They have to work around being stuck as this character, who is often a villain or otherwise doomed. They make things better for the ill-fated character whose role they've been put into, and generally change the narrative to something more satisfying for both them and the reader.
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