Sunshine revival 2025 - 1

Challenge #1

Journaling Prompt: Light up your journal with activity this month. Talk about your goals for July or for the second half of 2025.
Creative Prompt: Shine a light on your own creativity. Create anything you want (an image, an icon, a story, a poem, or a craft) and share it with your community.. 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 the first challenge of the sunshine revival so I’m gonna try and do it (and I hope it goes well!)

But damn it’s July already? That’s crazy honestly.

So what’re my goals/plans for this month? Well here’s some things I wanna do.

*Look into sorting out Uni
*Continue watching Hell Motel (there’s 5 more eps this month)
*Finish Dredge’s main story
*Finish reading Cards On The Table and hopefully started Crooked House (and maybe read something else)
*Cinema: Jurassic World Rebirth, Fantastic Four First Steps
*Finish Stranger Things season 4
*Finish reading the Acolyte visual guide
*Finish a fic (unsure which one, I have so many WIPs and keep adding more)
*Get back to the American Horror Story Asylum run
*Watch the rest of the new Phineas And Ferb eps
*Maybe start Ironheart and/or Wednesday

I feel I am missing something really obvious (though I always do feel that way)

There’s no real plans for the rest of the year really. There’s a James Marriott gig in November and Pokémon ZA in October but I think that’s all that’s definite.

As for creative vibes I’ve been too drained from this heatwave to do anything creative (though I did make two Clown In A Cornfield icons the other day, one I’ve used for this post. It’s too bad I’ve not found a good pic of the big damnn kiss from it though).

I did have to head out to get car food (it thankfully cooled down enough to venture outside) and I popped in the charity shop and got these.



I saw the Egyptian picture when we went past it the other week (it was closed at the time) and I had meant to go back but couldn’t due to the heat. Then I went inside and saw there was a Sophie Hannah Poirot book I’d not read (and an Agatha Raisin book). The whole lot was £2 which feels like a crazy bargain, especially since one of the books was a hardcover.

I end with this pic of my kitty Midna who is as very much done with this heat as I am.

Monthly roundup - June 2025

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)