In the dark dark

It’s been a few days without a post oop.

It’s suddenly gone so cold which is so annoying. The past few walks with Naryu (though today has been a bit better) has resulted in my hands feeling like ice which isn’t good. (One day I did have gloves but I think Naryu ran off with them😭) It’s even felt freezing inside the house which isn’t great. We could put the heating on but most of the time the girls are on us and being stubborn and refusing to move so we have to suffer with it. Ugh. I think it’d feel better if we at least had snow but nope. Just cold and wind.

It also hasn’t helped that, on Tuesday, there was roadworks outside. It was so loud that there was no escape from it and it would stop and start. I was trying to do uni reading and whenever I felt it had stopped I’d open the book, start to read only to be met with drilling sounds. Ugh. At least it only lasted a day but it gave me a headache.

It also helped that it’s gone darker as well. Which, again, it wouldn’t be so bad if there was snow or a storm or something (especially cause they’re going around) but no.

That’s why I’ve not done the last snowflake yet, a mix of bad lighting, plus headache, plus cold. Hopefully it’ll be better tomorrow and I can come up with good things to take pics of.

It’s also not helped me with ficcing. I decided to try going back to an older kinktober idea and that seemed to help, but it got too cold to write and it felt I lost the thread. Then yesterday I started something based on a spark from the night before but then stalled cause I got hazy.

Good things though!

I’ve done a little on Jedi Survivor, not much but enough to get to and beat another mini boss which was good.

The next Time Travellers Tales issue arrived today so I hope it’ll be light enough one afternoon to read it and the first issue too.

There’s a few new shows on Netflix I wanna watch (yeah I need to get back to The Umbrella Academy and The Dragon Prince but oop) so I decided to start one. It was between Pokémon Concierge, Star Trek Prodigy or Sonic Prime (causa Shadow) and I went with Prodigy. I watched the first two parter and then one more and it’s really fun so far. I admire that it does something different and I’m curious to learn more about everyone (and the holo Janeway). Also they made a great choice with having a John Noble voicing the main villian.

Eret’s birthday subathon has been fun to watch too, though I did drift off last night cause cold and head. (And Tubbo’s planned subathon sounds fun)

Today I hope to fic more, if I’m not too cold, watch more of the subathon and maybe start Under The Waves tonight. Depending on how tired I get or how achy my eyes are.

It’s now almost a week till the James Marriott gig in Birmingham. I hope it breaks the gig bad luck streak and that I’m able to see a film beforehand (I wanted to see Night Swim, but I think it’ll only have late night showings by then).

Also ahh! New Doctor Who boxset announced! Season 15! Leela looks so awesome in the trailer for it

Snowflake Challenge 2024 - day 6

Challenge #6

In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a show, a specific TV episode, a storyline, a book or series, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. 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 I’m gonna do day 5’s challenge another time (when it’s less cold and dark and so easier to take pics) so this is gonna be out of order. But! I wanna do this cause I have two things.

The first is definitely a case of recency bias, because it is from a thing that got posted almost 8 hours ago but has been making me flail internally ever since.

It’s this.

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Now this is a trailer for the next Doctor Who collection blu ray boxset. They’ve been making these season boxsets for a few years now (at roughly three a year) and they are always awesome, with fun special features. (Seriously if you like Doctor Who these are awesome things to get because they’re so hilarious) so a new one coming out is always a good thing and they now make special little scenes for them with the actors playing their characters.

For this one the scene is with Leela, the companion for season 15. She’s not been on screen since this season was on tv (which is such a shame cause they went back to Gallifrey after this season and she so should’ve been there) and it ends with her staying on Gallifrey. Since then she’s appeared in various audios set on the planet (alas I’ve not heard them) and, with Gallifrey being destroyed in the time war it seemed unlikely she’d ever be back (which is a shame cause she’s one of my fav companions)

Then this scene came and it’s her on Gallifrey in the last moments of the time war (and she looks fantastic in her robes) and the Doctor sends someone to give her a thing to get her off Gallifrey before it’s destroyed. So she lives! And she’s out there and that she makes me so happy! Plus she gets a badass moment against daleks, something she never got to do on screen sadly)


(I was just gonna link the pic but I don’t care she looks too awesome)

I dunno I’m just flailing cause she’s awesome! I know the trailer scenes can be dubious canon at times but I choose to believe this one is and that she’s out there somewhere being awesome and that we get to see her again.

There’s another Star Wars one, from the book Bloodlines which I might have mentioned before but I’m putting it under a cut cause it’s spoilery for the book.

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Anyway! There’s two rambles, I could probably do more if I thought more on it but that’s what I’m gonna go with.