shadowhive

Challenge #2

Tunnel of Love
Journaling: The romance of summer! What do you love? Write about anything you feel sentimental about or that gets your heart pumping.
Creative: Write a love poem to anyone or anything you like

Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

So when I had the notification for this earlier (cause I did set up notifications for the account cause otherwise my braincell would miss them) I wasn’t sure what I was gonna do. I thought I was gonna do something random related, cause I do love a bunch of stuff but I wasn’t sure which one I’d go for.

Of course I could do multiple things, but then I’d be sure my brain would ramble like crazy. (And I’d not be able to trust my brain if Who came up cause I still have strong Thoughts And Feelings.) But instead I’ve decided to talk about my babygirl. Maybe I’ll do a fannish version of this later (and I’ll add a link to it) but for now… I hope you like cat pics.

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There ends the Sunshine revival portion of the post.

I don’t have much else to see in general (other than weather has thankfully cooled a lot, yipee!) however last night I did watch something I’d been meaning to for a looooong time so here’s some thoughts on it. (It being the film Uzumaki.

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Anyway! Now I’m gonna finish watching the DJO glastonbury set (I’ve only heard his one song on Fortnite festival before this), watch Marple on BBC4 and then… who knows?

June

Fics wrote: Distraction/Discovery Part 2
Books read: The Seven Dials Mystery
Games done: -
Podcast: Welcome To Night Vale - A Story About Him, Rerun, Mother Lauren, The Night’s End - The Ballroom, Welcome To Night Vale - Rifts, Father Kevin, Detours, Paid Programming, instructions for folding, The Triangle, The John Peters Imaginary Corn Maze Experience, The Book Of Lost Things, Traffic, Swap Meet, chrysalis, patreon preview - broadcasts from the edge, Bought To You By Flakey O’s, Into The Tardis - The Scream Of Ghosts Part 1, Part 2, part 3, part 4, Wave Of Destruction part 1, part 2
Who audios: Storm Warning, The Rani Elite, Robophobia, Ghost In The Machine
Other Big Finish stuff: -
Comics read: The Umbrella Academy Plan B 1, Exquisite Corpses 1, Rise Of Hellfire 4
Graphic novels read: High Republic Adventures - Saber For Hire

Things watched
Amazon Prime: Deadware
Blu Ray: Better Man
DVD: -
Disney+: Phineas And Ferb - Summer Blockbuster/Cloudy With A Chance Of Mom, Captain America Brave New World, American Horror Story - Dark Cousin, Unholy Night, Phineas And Ferb - Submarine Sandwich Submarine/License To Bust, Dry Another Day/Deconstructing Doof, NCIS Hawaii - The Tourist, Phineas And Ferb - Tropey McTropeface/Biblio-Blast!
Netflix: -
Shudder: Hell Motel - Blood Bath, Night Orchid, Mirror Moves
YouTube: Ghost Files - Ryan & Shane Provoke Civil War Ghosts At Clayton House, James Marriott - Something’s Wrong, Sith Lord Qimir Kills Yord Fandar, 5 Seconds Of Summer - Teeth, Hasbro pulse Star Wars fanstream, Atlas - Anodyne, Donkey Kong Bonanza Direct, The 5 Seconds Of Summer Show - 5Sauce, Ghost Files - Ryan And Shane Hunt Ghosts At The Creepy Maag Family Farmhouse, Set It Off - Rotten
Cinema: Clown In A Cornfield

So it’s time for another monthly round up and I’m doing it the first day of the month instead of… whenever I’ve done it before.

As always some of this stuff has been covered in other things. (Like my thoughts on Deadware and how much I enjoyed Clown In A Cornfield.) I finished another year of Night Vale and it was one of those ‘glad that was over’ finales, mostly cause I detest Lauren but at least she’s seemingly gone.

I’ve also been really enjoying the new Phineas and Ferb, it’s such a fun show and it makes me laugh! Which I think we all need in these trying times. I also enjoyed Saber For Hire which I read last night, despite carrying it around for months. I still need to read through the rest of the free comic book day comics though. Oops.

Most telling is I watched nothing on Netflix, which is again down to the lack of focus from the heat. One day I WILL finish Stranger Things. (And again I’d have finished Dredge’s story if it wasn’t for the heat)

There’s been a few Who audios I’ve listened to both as their own thing and as Into The Tardis eps (mostly due to the heat). So I’m gonna make comments on them

*Storm Warning - This one was really entertaining, it was nice to see how Eight and Charley met and I really liked how they worked together and the story (on an airship which was on a secret mission) was pretty cool.
*The Rani Elite - I wanted to like this, because I’d wanted to hear the Rani audios for awhile but I wasn’t fully sold on it. Six and Peri were really good though as well as some of the concepts. I hope the other Rani audio is a bit better though
*Robophobia - A solo ep for Seven with a guest companion. It having the Robots from Robots of death was a huge draw and it was pretty good in some ways but… I dunno. Maybe it’s cause I’m not much of a Seven fan.
*Ghost In The Machine - this one was really good, I loved how it played with audio (with Jo recording woah at was happening on a tape recorder and rewinding/replaying things) and it was really creepy at times. Kudos to Katy Manning and her voice work being able to play multiple characters and actually sound threatening,
*The Scream Of Ghosts - this was really entertaining! It’s another one with Jo, this time with the third doctor, Benton and the Brigadier! This was the first audio with the Brigadier with someone taking on the role and that could easily have gone badly but they made the right call with Jon Culshaw really pulling his voice off. Also who’d expect the Vardans to show up and be a threat
*Wave Of Destruction - The vardans show up again! This time with four and second Romana, which worked pretty well. My main grip was the one Vardan had a voice that was really grating but other than that it was pretty good.

Now I’m see about going on Dredge, maybe to finish the story. (And despair about politicians being idiots)

The past few days have been so… ugh.

The heat has kept up and on Thursday night it made my head feel even worse than before. It meant I couldn’t sleep until about 4 that night and the next few days have been largely restless. I’ve spent much of my time up in bed, zoning in and out and not having much focus or will to do anything at all. I just hate it I wish this weather would go away.

But it’s not just the weather there’s also been some issue with my mouth that I can’t quite figure out. There’s been a slight swelling (which has gone done) and an annoying slight pain above my front teeth but I can’t figure out what’s causing it. Bleh.

Other than that? I dunno. Cause my focus has been so off I’ve not done much of anything. I did listen to some audio things when I could manage it (laying down with my eyes closed mostly) but that’s about it really

(I am annoyed at the timing cause I’m close to finishing the Dredge main story but ugh my focus and eyes.)

Thankfully the bad feelings started to ease yesterday and I was able to get a better sleep but ugh. I just hate this.

I’m gonna just flop uselessly and wish the weather would shoo.

The weather continues to be irritating. It’s so hard to focus or do much of, well, anything. Between lack of focus and being drained the last few days have been a bit eh. And it’s been really annoying cause, as mentioned before I can’t even do much at night cause my eyes or head aches which ugh.

And I can’t even listen to audio stuff half the time without losing my focus and having to pause and rewind.

Bleh it’s so annoying.

It feels it could be shifting cause there’s been rain but at the same time it doesn’t feel enough.

But anyway onto things the last few days.

Tuesday was the library stint where I started Cards On The Table (which seems pretty good so far) and I also read one of my comics, Exquisite Corpses. The premise is pretty intriguing, every four years an American town is cut off from the world and the 13 richest families send killers in there and the family withkiller that survives gets to rule for the next four years. Being a first ep it’s mostly introducing the concept, the killers and some people of the town (who are no doubt gonna have a terrible not good time caught in the crossfire). I am tempted to get the other issues, but I’ve got conflicting info about how long it’s gonna be so I need to find that out.

That night we watched Hell Motel on shudder which was pretty great so far. I dunno if anyone else is thinking of watching but you should! The first two eps were really good and I have no idea of where it’s gonna go. (Well other than more people are going die, but that’s a given)

Unfortunately that night was probably the night I did the most cause every other night was draining or achy cause of this damn heat. Bleh I did do Dredge some more in bits and pieces. I finished the third area, the one in the swamp, so I’ve got one area left of the main game (though I have the dlc stuff and started fixing the rig). I do wanna get the ship’s hull expanded before going and see if there’s side quest stuff to do first but we’ll see.

I got a mail saying there was £10 off a £40 shop at the co-op so after debating (cause of the heat and cause it’s at the co-op by the station) we decided to go Friday which probably was the best day to do it. Of course doing that was pretty tiring too but, well £10 off is £10 off.

After debating I did end up getting Civilization vii from cdkeys so I played two games and damn I forgot how long they could be. First game was as Hatshepsut and ended in a lose but I blame having two ai people near me who constantly picked fights with me at the same time. Second game was Harriet Tubman and that was more peaceful (two ai’s picked fights with each other and tried to get me involved but I was like nah) but it still ended up in a loss, though I was close to a scientific victory. I dunno when I’ll do another game cause it is a massive timesink.

Today we might watch Better Man (I picked it up for mum) and finish an ESO event thing (though ugh it seems the new season isn’t included in the eso+ for some irritating reason) and then maybe Saltburn tonight cause it’s on tv. Though I sense I’ll mostly flop and have no focus again.

But speaking of films I did use the Amazon credit I got on I Know What You Did Last Summer (cause most of the things I thought of weren’t there and the trailer for the new one made me wanna watch) so I’ll watch before the new one, whenever that is.

And also yay! James Marriott’s album is number 1!

The past few days have been, again, pretty low energy which is annoying. I blame the weather because it’s both warm and heavy which is a bad combination. We’ve meant to have a storm for the last few days and there has been dark clouds sometimes but they don’t last. I hope we get one sometime, just not today.

Cause the food shop messed up last week we had to go to home bargains on Friday which didn’t help, not least cause mum insisted on getting compost (at least it was by the door so we didn’t carry it around the whole store). But yeah, carrying a load of stuff back in the heat was not it.

I had been debating getting another game for the switch 2 when my money went in and I narrowed it down to Sonic x Shadow Generations and Civilization VII which are vastly different games. While we were down at Home Bargains I did pop in game to take a look at things but it’s so weird cause 80% of the stuff has no pricing and it just felt off. (I went in for the Final Fantasy MTG starter and they didn’t have that either)

I’m still undecided on one of those (and I know there’s another too but it’s gone out my head) but I did get another game instead. Seapeekay played Lost In Random - The Eternal Die and it looked pretty good, plus there was a 15% launch discount so I picked it up. It’s very much a similar style of Hades (you do runs beating enemies in hopes of getting stuff to upgrade and do other runs better) and I am really enjoying it. It does have the thing of ‘one more run’ so I do multiple ones in a row oops. I did manage to beat the first bosses yesterday but only just.

Speaking of gaming I finally started Dredge this weekend. It’s funny I’ve had it for months and only started now it’s on game pass. In a similar vein to Eternal Die it has a ‘one more day’ but it did take a bit of getting used to at the start. I’ve just got to the cliffs so I’m gonna explore round there when I’m next on. But I do love the lil boat and sailing round. The only issue is sometimes it’s tricky to read the text (especially when it’s purple) so I kinda wish I had it on the switch but that feels a small issue.

Yesterday was DND which was really fun and I’m so looking forward to the next sessions (cause there’s a reverse heist and acdemics cluelessly in love). But ugh I got hit by the curse again. Like why does my laptop decide to either mess around or demand an update right before a session? This time it decided that it was going to just stop detecting the internet which I knew was fine cause I was in my pad but ugh. I wish it would behave. (I am fine with joining the sessions on the pad it’s just the webcam in it makes it awkward)

I found out yesterday that Warped tour was doing a stream and I looked at the listings for it and the only band I had any possible interest in was Asking Alexandria. I checked the time and it was around 2am here and since I was still awake I decided to watch.

The thing is though, I had low expectations for it. I’d heard such bad things about the recent tour that my expectation was pretty much on the floor and yet I watched it anyway. It was better than I expected though only slightly. Danny was still wearing his absurd get up. Like I love an aesthetic where you can’t see a person’s face but it really doesn’t suit him at all and you can tell it’s not an aesthetic thing but only there for one reason: To hide him not singing. At times you can’t blatantly hear it’s a backing track (sometimes his mic is no where near his face!) whereas other times he is actually singing so the whole thing is very weird. I’m glad I didn’t pay to see them cause you can tell that they either need to get rid of him outright or just get someone (Paul) back to support him (and you have to wonder why they haven’t already). I mean they played one of my fav songs of theirs and it was just… not great which does suck.

Though it was funny seeing comments badmouthing him (and get deleted) before their set even started.

I also found out yesterday that there’s an adaption of The Seven Dials Mystery that has been filmed which sounds cool but I had to laugh cause I looked it up and who is playing Superintendant Battle? Martin Freeman. I dunno who I’d have pictured in the role but him? I’d not have thought that in a million years.

Today I’m off to Birmingham though I have woke with a funny tummy though I’m hoping that’s just nerves. Fingers crossed it settles some.

Distraction/Discovery
Pairing: Anthony Martinez/Lucas Woodland
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: rubber verse, bdsm
Notes: So I intended to finish this close to the first part and then my brain decided nope, no words. So I stalled for *checks* several weeks now fuck. The intent was for this to just be two parts and I feel that this could be where it ends, yet at the same time I also feel there’s a part 3 and I’m undecided on that so… we’ll see. Maybe I’ll work on something else first

Part 1

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So it’s post time again!

The past few days have been pretty eventful, mostly cause Thursday was a big delivery which meant I had to stay in all day. The delivery was for two things. First The Acolyte visual guide that I preordered as soon as it was announced. I’m excited to dive in to it and give it a proper read (I’ve not yet sadly). I do wonder if it’ll make me wanna do a rewatch of the show, even though it only came out last year (but Yord and Qimir are so hot so…)

The second thing was the Switch 2, which I was only able to get cause mum offered to help with it. It didn’t arrive until late in the day and then setting it up took awhile (updating it, transferring stuff from the original switch, installing Mario kart) but I’ve been able to go on it some.

Thoughts so far?
*Mario Kart World is so beautiful. Like really it looks so great!
*The Cow racer is unlocked from the start, I feel this is important to share
*Other character unlocks are a bit more random. You get some for doing Grand Prix (and costumes unlocked from food) but so many of them are only unlocked by getting your racer transformed mid race which is… a choice)
*Free roam could definitely use a quest tracker
*Fortnite is noticeably improved. Like I only went on it to get the emote first day and I could see the difference just from the main screen and it plays much better too (no more dealing with things loading funny!)
*It would be nice to get demos to other games

I would like a single player game to play but I’m not sure what. I thought Donkey Kong was next week but it’s not till next month and I’m considering Civilization (cd keys has it with 20%) so I might find a review and see if it’s worth it.

And speaking of Fortnite the Star Wars season ended (boo) but the last event was so cool! You had to sneak on the Death Star and help disabled some stuff (and fight Palpatine!) which was cool. I did get everything in the pass too (I did wish it had another page or two though) though I am annoyed I just missed out on the last party up reward (at least it wasn’t Star Wars themed). Now the new season is super hero themed which is pretty cool.

Speaking of super heroes I watched Captain America Brave New World on Saturday and it was pretty good. It definitely had similar vibes to Winter Soldier, with Sam investigating a conspiracy which seems to be the vibe Cap films go, though I like that. What did surprise me is how it’s a sequel to Eternals with the celestial thing appearing at the end of that being a major plot point, and also the hulk film which is a wild choice cause it was forever ago and I think I only saw it once. But I did enjoy it and I love Joaquin so much he’s a lil cutie.

At night I watched a film called Deadware, which I spotted on Amazon prime. For the description I was instantly interested (two friends are playing an online game on video call and it turns out to be haunted). I loved the retro vibes of it and it’s very minimalistically done it’s basically a desktop screen with the game in a window with two ‘webcam’ videos. It’s a similar vibe to Host in that respect, though not as well done but it was still pretty good especially in the short found footage still shots during the game.

It’s the time of games showcases. Friday had the Summer game fest and there was a lot of stuff there but not much that stood out to me. There was a few games that had a+ designs but I could just tell I’d not have fun with them. Sonic racing did announce new characters outside of sonic including Minecraft and Hatsune Miku (I dunno which is more surprising). And there was Resident Evil 9 as a reveal at the end! It amuses me that some of Racoon city is still standing cause wasn’t it meant to be destroyed?

Then yesterday was the Xbox showcase which was pretty good though most of the ones that interested me were smaller games. There was At Fate’s End (done by the spiritfarer devs so I was instantly curious), No Ghosts At The Grand looks intruiging (and spooky) and it’s vibes very all of the place in a good way (it started with you fixing a hotel then there was sigil sand talk of a conspiracy and portals?), there’s planet of Lana II which looks pretty and a game called Keeper with a walking Lighthouse. Oh and something called Resonance with the Minotaur. (And Outer Wilds II looks pretty good and Clockwork Revolution though I feel the latter might be a game to watch not play)

There’s also a portable xbox confirmed to be coming and… it looks pretty much like a switch.mi dread to think how much it’ll be.

Energy has also been pretty all over the place, being low raptor times with my focus being off which is so irritating, especially when I wanna do things (fic has pretty much stalled despite me wanting to) and then yesterday my stomach also went funny which ugh.

Mum was on eBay the other day and found a copy of The Moustrap and we were both shocked cause it was buy it now for £2 (usually they’re £20+) so I snapped it up (with Lord Edgeware Dies) and they came this morning. Both look in such good condition and I’m still surprised by the bargain we got.

Now though I’m gonna flop, hopefully rest and do some marvel snap and magic arena (the latter has a final fantasy update tomorrow). I’m also refreshing the. Cinemas to check for next week listings glut they’re not up yet alas. The odeon in Birmingham has just one showing of one film next Monday (28 weeks later) which is crazy.

And Next week is the James signing and ahhh!

Well it’s now June, so happy pride month!

(Monthly round up for May coming later or tomorrow)

My first day of the month ended up being… ughhhhh.

First off I’m still thinking about Doctor Who and how much of a disaster that finale was (and if you engage me on it be warmpned you’ll get an unskippable cut scene about it). Like it genuinely bothers me so much. I 5ink the last time I was bothered anywhere this close was Episode IX and this had SO many more issues (I made a list and stopped at 13 because fuck)

(Although now I’ve mentioned Episode IX I’m thinking of all those flaws too damnit)

But anyway back to yesterday. I had a restless night so that didn’t improve my mood and I just wanted to walk the pup and get some air. But nope, that wasn’t on the cards because mum was moody too, then she went and did things I explicitly told her not to (her hip has been playing up again and she messed around with stuff unattended, complained I didn’t help her despite not telling me she was doing anything and just generally riling me up). So that fucked my mood more.

Then as we, finally, went left the to walk the pup the router lead got caught and completely ripped out of the socket. So when I came back I had to try and find a replacement, I was sure I’d gotten a backup router lead when we last had issues but could I find it? Nope. So instead I had to use an old one instead…

Then when I came upstairs after food (earlier than usually but I just couldn’t be bothered)mum had a call from her friend (up the one from Saturday) and she wanted ANOTHER bag she’d seen.p while she was here out of nowhere and expected us to do it. And of course it wasn’t something on a store but eBay o it couldn’t wait for the money and had to be done right then and just.l. Argh why is she like this? Thankfully I’d checked mums money and there was enough to cover it but fucking hell.

And then as soon as I did that the router lead, which had seemed fine, started acting up and died. This was like 10 minutes before dnd so I had to find another one to replace it (having bad luck with the first) and waiting to see if the connection would hold before rep lately joining.

There were some good things about yesterday, the aforementioned DND and Death Valley was really good, as was the penultimate ep of Code Of Silence, but ugh.

Oh and there was the Frankenstein trailer with Ossac Isaac that looks SO good too.

Here’s hoping that this week will be a blank slate to be better though who knows?

So I found out the other day that is was pride in Birmingham last weekend. I swear every year I only find out that it’s happening either on the day or the days after (then say I’ll go next year and the cycle repeats). Not that I could have gone this time anyway cause the time anyway but still…

The last few days my focus has been off again and I blame the weather. It’s switched from being warm and sunny (like the recent weeks) to now being rainy and yet muggy. It’s made my head and eyes a bit achy which has been annoying.

That’s not been helped either cause I had a major downswing last week and while it’s mostly faded the depression vibes still comes back in brief waves.

But anyway, better things. Tuesday I listened to a Who audio, The Chimes of Midnight which I expected to be a spooky murder mystery from the description but it was actually a very strange timey wimey thing. It was funny that one of the clues something was wrong was someone mention the Seven Dials Mystery (which is the book I’m reading and I read some earlier)

Speaking of Agatha on last nights thing about her travels, the one with David Suchet, he was reading from her second book and it was from the collection I’ve been getting. It was recognisable cause of the cover and I even looked it up on player to confirm it. It makes me glad I’ve got that one too so I’ll have to read it soon.

Mum had a call yesterday and, ugh her friend is coming again. She called last week to come on Saturday and didn’t say why she wanted to come with little notice, but cancelled causa being sick. Now she’s coming again this week but, again didn’t say why.

That makes me think she expects us to order something for her which is always stressful and means I have to rush to the bank, up which I don’t particularly want to do generally but especially this week.

And here I was thinking we’d have a quiet weekend. Ugh.

Anyway gonna watch the second Horne Section tv show, then watch Horrors Greatest then probably snuggle.mand try and fic (and I am considering adding more prompts to the prompt table because of course I am).

Distraction/Discovery
Pairing: Anthony Martinez/Lucas Woodland
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: rubber verse (although there’s no actual rubber in this one, funnily
Notes: Companion to the Black Is The New Black, this was meant to be one part but it kinda got away from me, oops!
(I really need icons of them oop)
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