So after a few stressful posts this is gonna be a more general thing of more fandom/media based stuff.
First off the other day I saw on the rusty quill twitter (who do The Magnus Archives/Protocol) that the last entry in the Rusty Fear contest they did had been posted. It’s a thing where people submit horror short stories (I think they had a selection of themes/prompts to choose from) and then some get made into audios, with a vote when all are released. The writer of the short with the most votes gets to write for an piso de of the podcast which is pretty cool!
I’d missed out on listening to prior contests but decided to this time, so I listened to them in batches of 2 (there were six total). If you want to listen to them the thread with links is
here? Each of them were pretty good in their own ways and each one was very different. When I’d listened to the first four I was sure I’d found the one I thought was best in Hades Bay which was a story told from the point of view of a kind of eldritch entity. However that was narrowly beaten by the last one, The Last One To Speak, which was couldn’t be more different (it was a game show, though the host was definitely not human). If horror short audio stuff interests you go give them a listen and vote for whichever you feel is best.
I also started the second story of Selene. I thought that each story would be self contained in a way, with different characters (though all set in the same city) however from the first two episodes a number of characters have already returned (i think five, plus a peacock) so that did surprise me. Plus from the title ‘the doll hospital’ I got the vibe it’d be creepy but said hospital (at least on the surface) is quite the opposite, a bright cheery place…. And yet with five episodes to go I guess that could definitely change. But then The Black Pond didn’t exactly go the way I expected either.
On Monday night I did decide to get some stuff from that ID at xbox offer. I had some credit so felt I may as well use it, so I got free games that were all the same price: Frog Detective: The Entire Mystery Just Crow Things and Lego Builders Journey. I’ve not had chance to play any (causa stress) but maybe I’ll check one out soon.
Also Monday was the second ep of Stranger Things season 3. I definitely have many thoughts about the first scene with Billy and whatever entity showed itself as a copy of him. (Less a fan of the rat exploding and the mess sliding out of the cage,like nope.) I love that Steve is in the outfit again and I feel it’s what he’s gonna wear most of the season (which I love). I love his scenes with Dustin, they’re so sweet together (and Robin is so funny I love her). And poor Will, I felt so bad for him just wanting to play dnd and getting ignored,
I have a few theories on what’s gonna happen (I know at least 3 people have already seen it so shh). I still think there’ll be some showdown at the mall and I feel that the gifs I’ve seen of Steve beaten in his outfit are gonna be because of Russians (I’m 90% sure I’ve been told that already) and I feel something Bad is gonna happen to Billy. Like he’s already controlled (I did think he was gonna be replaced) by whatever that thing is which is bad enough but I feel he’s not gonna make it. (I base that assumption on that I’ve never seen him in season 4 pics, but of course he could have gone, quite wisely ‘screw this I’m outta here!’)
I might watch another this week, but I’m not sure when.
Tuesday night, before I got too tired to sleep, I watched the second episode of The Rig season 2. It’s clear this time the scope has widened because itsnot just set on the second rig as it’s showing what happens to the people that went to the mainland (and the aftermath of season 1 there). I’m still weighing up if the ceo is telling the truth about wanting to protect the ancestor or if she’s just lying to keep the people on the rig (and people under her are acting against her without her knowledge). I mean she definitely seems suspicious, but the evil ceo trope is also done so often I feel it could be a red herring but I guess we’ll see.
Lastly, like I mentioned in the last post, I finished the first of the read Christie books! Despite getting a boxset of Agatha’s books over a year ago this is the first I’ve actually read. Before that the most I’ve read is a lil short story collection (which was a £1 quick reads so wasn’t very long).
The first one is Five Little Pigs so I’m gonna put thoughts under the cut. (Since I know at least one person is gonna read it soon!)
( Read more... )Now I’m bundling with Midna and then might finish a fic and post the last one on ao3.
How it’s split up
The adaptation
Thoughts
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fleshdolls sent me (so I guess this could be kinda a belated fic gift?) This is the second of the five main things I wanna do before tackling my WIPs/prompt list woo! (I could have made this a prompt fic easily but as I’d already started this before the list it wouldn’t have felt right..) but I think I’m pleased enough with this I might ao3 post again.
