Approach the year with caution

Happy new year! Here’s hoping that 2024 is better than last year, but who knows? I hope everyone had a good new years night.

This will probably be the first of two posts today (three if fic inspiration goes well) with the other being todays snowflake challenge (which at time of starting this isn’t live yet).

The past week has felt very odd, but then the week between Christmas and new year always is isn’t it? I’ve not done too much during it. I did a bit of gaming but not as much as I hoped and it was mostly spent watching whatever random stuff was on tv. (Well bar Thursday when my eyes decided to ache really badly which was annoying).

The weekend started pretty well with Shoto posting this vid. He was doing a mini subathon and one of the goals was to crush a watermelon with his thighs which is what the vid is (it’s so impressive, though kinda nsfw causa the noises he’s making). It makes me wish I was a watermelon. Though he mentioned on stream the other day that the vid makes his thighs look smaller than they are which ?? (Just do a vid of someone’s head there then or something)

Anyway, Saturday I was waiting for the sorry boys merch, the book club tee and poster, to arrive but of course they got delivered to the wrong house so I had to pick them up. My Xbox uk coin was there too so at least I got that, but ugh! It’s so annoying stuff gets sent there when they should know better.

(Also annoyances, I missed out on the square one magazine with set it off and as it is cause I hesitated and I also lost out on a Amazon prime video credit that I forgot I had but expired before I decided to use it)

I did manage to finish one goal on Saturday, which was to finish the Poirot eps with Curtain. It’s such a sad one to end on really, but it was nice to see him and Hastings together one last time.

That night The Empty Man was on film 4 so I was able to see it fully which was good. I liked it, but I’m not going to say much about it because it feels like a film best to see going in blind. What I will say is that there’s about three or four concepts/ideas in it that could easily have worked as films on their own and yet they manage to work together. One of those parts made me think of Ringu/The Ring and now I’m wondering if there’s any other ‘investigation’ type horror like that that I’ve not seen.

Anyway! Yesterday I watched the new adaption of The Famous Five and I thought it was pretty good. I remember reading the books as a kid (I have them somewhere) but it’s been so long that I forgot the details so was essentially going in blind. But I thought it was really good and I’m looking forward to seeing what they do with the others. They said one is coming but not when. The only thing that felt like an odd choice was the music, which felt a little out of place being electronicy (especially since it’s set in the 40’s) and the titles were similarly odd but other than that.

The rest of yesterday wasn’t too exciting, I did some dead by daylight, watched some of Shoto’s stream, then watched the New Year’s Eve concerts. (Why is Charlie from Busted so hot again? He was on Masked Singer too and looks so damn good) and then I watched Marry Me which I didn’t expect to get into but I did.

I then had some booze during new year which we shared between us but damn did it fuck me up. It made me a bit dizzy and headache and when I tried to sleep I was just hit by a wave of depression which, ugh. Great way to start the year huh?

Now I’m watching the new year’s concert on the iplayer then will watch Moana and other stuff. I hope to fic, do the snowflake challenge and maybe start the other Lego set I got (I know it’s been a week and it’s still not started).

I hope to use this week to also do a few things. (I was hoping of doing Baldur’s Gate 3 but apparently the Xbox save but isn’t sorted so it’s best not to) So this week I wanna game (back in Jedi Survivor, Super Mario Wonder and Tears Of The Kingdom once the Dead By Daylight event is done), watch some stuff (I wanna finally watch interview with a vampire, and the dungeons and dragons movie again) and work on fic. But we’ll see. And I wanna get Jago’s merch, please don’t sell out insanely quick despite it being limited (damnit Jago!)

Snowflake challenge 2024 - Day 1

Challenge #1

In your own space, update your fandom information. 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 it’s time for snowflake again already which seems strange because last year feels like not long ago (and also forever ago at the same time?). So happy new year snowflake people!

This post is now gonna be the new sticky post replacing the one from two years ago (why didn’t I replace it last year? Who knows!)

I’m Stuie, I’m 37 (which is very much what the fuck) and I live in the Uk. Currently I’m a student with the Open University, studying Renewable Energy which should be the last course of my degree (probably won’t be I don’t feel I’m doing well). I have anxiety and depression and probably other things, but we’ll see if I’m able to get better diagnosis and meds this year.

Anyway! Fandom things. I love Star Wars, The Legend Of Zelda and Doctor Who. The latter of which I post about whenever I watch episodes (be it new eps on tv or whenever I watch the collection boxsets, which are awesome).

I also game a lot, currently I’m working on Super Mario Wonder, Tears Of The Kingdom and I’ve recently started Jedi Survivor and Baldur’s Gate 3. Though I also play a bunch of other stuff too, Dead By Daylight, Dreamlight Valley, Elder Scrolls and a bunch of pad games (including Star Trek Timelines, Hello Kitty Island Adventure, Cats Are Cute and Pokémon Masters).

However one thing I’ve ended up getting into are watching streamers. I watch QSMP streamers from time to time but I also often watch James Marriott (and his drummer Jago), Seapeekay, Shoto and a bunch of other generally unhinged and pretty streamer guys. (And I need to do an updated posted on them for people)

I used to like bandom stuff, though because of the various fandoms being awful it left a sour taste. I still like a variety of bands, currently that’s a mix of James Marriott, Set It Off, Sleep Token, Weathers, Lovejoy and Waterparks among others. And Atreyu, which is a rabbit hole I’ve very much fell down.

In general I post random nonsense, but I also do posts about Doctor Who and other things I watch (who is the main one I get into detail on though I wanna do more posts on other things).

I post fic, mostly on here, which mostly rpf nsfw (usually with streamers or bands) though I really need to get back to posting on ao3. I’ve kept meaning to but I’ve generally failed.

I’m very sure that I’ve missed something, but who knows.

Feel free to add me if any of that seems interesting, one thing I like about snowflake is making new connections so I hope to make some again this year. I try and be nice and friendly with people as best I can.

Hope you’re all having a nice new year.

I end with two pictures of my cat, because cats are cute (and she’s curled on my snoring now

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