Dreams of conquest
Feb. 17th, 2022 05:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowhiveSo last night, and today, I watched the next Who ray ep. Which was Horns Of Nimon.
Ok, it’s clearly not the best ep in a lot of ways. Some of the effects are just… bad (the ‘asteroids’) and the Nimon themselves aren’t the best looking of things. But you know what? I actually enjoyed it. Doing a story that is, essentially, a space based version of the Minotaur is actually a pretty great idea, as is the fact that the labyrinth changing was due to it being a giant computer chip.
And of course, there’s Soldeed, the non-Nimon villain who is just played wonderfully over the top. I had to admit I was looking forward to it because I’d seen the actor in something else (in Waiting For God where he plays a delightfully dotty character) and I just thought that he was great in it. And the costumes were too, even if there was so much shiny.
Plus it was an ep that allowed Romana to take charge which is pretty good to see.
There seems to be a few special features on the disc, but no making of which is odd (though I could have just missed it). Next week sometime will be Shada, though I’m not sure which of the two included versions I’ll watch (I’ll have to double check what the differences are beforehand).
Other than that the past few days have been pretty… odd. I had hoped to get better at going through dreamwidth and such, but nope. My energy levels have been so low I’ve not even been able to read the fics I have open that I wanna read (including the latest chapter to the Ray one I mentioned).
This hasn’t been helped by my feeling funny yesterday morning, accompanied by a massive depression downswing. And it’s also been accompanied by a headache which I think is due to the weather. We’ve not been hit much by the storms, but the wind has been insanely hard and loud which is just… ugh.
I had hoped to fic some more but despite having ideas the aforementioned lack of energy has screwed me up a bit which is annoying. Ugh.
I’m wondering if my energy will still be blah next week, especially since Tuesday was supposed to be the Set It Off gig. There’s still been no announcement of it being rescheduled yet, though the us side of the tour finished last night.
But also ugh, Maxx’s discord went to hell last night. It’s not somewhere I really go on, only really joining to keep updates on streams (which haven’t been happening lately due to tour) but last night the moss @‘d everyone saying they were stepping down and nuked the server (which I think was pretty shitty) because apparently he cheated on his ex. (I say apparently because impressed not wanted to look into it deeply and said ex has deleted what they said about anyway.) And just… ugh. While cheating is bad it just seems so incredibly petty and the way some people are acting you’d think he’d done far worse.
Ugh.
Speaking of gifs the next one is three weeks tomorrow with Kill The Lights and… I still haven’t really listened to them. Oops. I need to definitely listen to them before then. Getting the ticket to see them was far far FAR more impulsive than I usually am with bands.
I had considered going to see Funeral For A Friend but I’d not sorted it and when I checked the date is was the Monday as kill the lights was Friday. I’m not sure I’d want to go to Birmingham twice that close together, so I probably won’t go to it (money is also an issue too but that’s the main thing).
Toe is mostly ok, but it’s been wrapped up for the most part. If it’s touched or presses against something there can be pain but it seems to depend.
A good thing is that a Kickstarter I did last year turned up and they’re so cute! They’re tentacle kitties, with a goth unicorn. One of the kitties is a special Kickstarter wyrvern one and the other is a blind bag. The blind bag ois cute, though a few others were better. But they’re nice and snuggly and soft.
Ok, it’s clearly not the best ep in a lot of ways. Some of the effects are just… bad (the ‘asteroids’) and the Nimon themselves aren’t the best looking of things. But you know what? I actually enjoyed it. Doing a story that is, essentially, a space based version of the Minotaur is actually a pretty great idea, as is the fact that the labyrinth changing was due to it being a giant computer chip.
And of course, there’s Soldeed, the non-Nimon villain who is just played wonderfully over the top. I had to admit I was looking forward to it because I’d seen the actor in something else (in Waiting For God where he plays a delightfully dotty character) and I just thought that he was great in it. And the costumes were too, even if there was so much shiny.
Plus it was an ep that allowed Romana to take charge which is pretty good to see.
There seems to be a few special features on the disc, but no making of which is odd (though I could have just missed it). Next week sometime will be Shada, though I’m not sure which of the two included versions I’ll watch (I’ll have to double check what the differences are beforehand).
Other than that the past few days have been pretty… odd. I had hoped to get better at going through dreamwidth and such, but nope. My energy levels have been so low I’ve not even been able to read the fics I have open that I wanna read (including the latest chapter to the Ray one I mentioned).
This hasn’t been helped by my feeling funny yesterday morning, accompanied by a massive depression downswing. And it’s also been accompanied by a headache which I think is due to the weather. We’ve not been hit much by the storms, but the wind has been insanely hard and loud which is just… ugh.
I had hoped to fic some more but despite having ideas the aforementioned lack of energy has screwed me up a bit which is annoying. Ugh.
I’m wondering if my energy will still be blah next week, especially since Tuesday was supposed to be the Set It Off gig. There’s still been no announcement of it being rescheduled yet, though the us side of the tour finished last night.
But also ugh, Maxx’s discord went to hell last night. It’s not somewhere I really go on, only really joining to keep updates on streams (which haven’t been happening lately due to tour) but last night the moss @‘d everyone saying they were stepping down and nuked the server (which I think was pretty shitty) because apparently he cheated on his ex. (I say apparently because impressed not wanted to look into it deeply and said ex has deleted what they said about anyway.) And just… ugh. While cheating is bad it just seems so incredibly petty and the way some people are acting you’d think he’d done far worse.
Ugh.
Speaking of gifs the next one is three weeks tomorrow with Kill The Lights and… I still haven’t really listened to them. Oops. I need to definitely listen to them before then. Getting the ticket to see them was far far FAR more impulsive than I usually am with bands.
I had considered going to see Funeral For A Friend but I’d not sorted it and when I checked the date is was the Monday as kill the lights was Friday. I’m not sure I’d want to go to Birmingham twice that close together, so I probably won’t go to it (money is also an issue too but that’s the main thing).
Toe is mostly ok, but it’s been wrapped up for the most part. If it’s touched or presses against something there can be pain but it seems to depend.
A good thing is that a Kickstarter I did last year turned up and they’re so cute! They’re tentacle kitties, with a goth unicorn. One of the kitties is a special Kickstarter wyrvern one and the other is a blind bag. The blind bag ois cute, though a few others were better. But they’re nice and snuggly and soft.
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Date: 2022-02-17 06:42 pm (UTC)i'm sorry you've been feeling so down. :( *hugs* i know how it feels. i hope i've been able to keep your mind off of it at least somewhat.
i hope u have a great time at kill the lights! even if u don't know all the songs, just think - u will be in the same room as ur boy jay james!
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Date: 2022-02-17 06:56 pm (UTC)Me too it’s so annoying and bleh. I’ve been back to having naps in the afternoon. Sometimes I do go on my switch to distract but not recently.
I hope so too! I’m gonna try and listen to them before then at some point but yeah that’s my main/sole motivation for going! It’ll be so good to see him playing agian!
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Date: 2022-02-17 10:18 pm (UTC)Lets be honest, you're not going to the Kill The Lights show for the music 🤪🤪
That's a shame about FFAF but I understand! I've got FFAF in Birmingham on the Monday and then Sheffield on the Friday, ha.
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Date: 2022-02-17 11:42 pm (UTC)I can’t even try and deny that! 😁
There’s time time for me to change my mind so I might, we’ll see! Oh wow! How many dates are you going to?
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Date: 2022-02-17 11:52 pm (UTC)Just the two. I had four booked but I can't make two of them. Still need to get a refund for those but I was holding off, just in case they got postponed again, lol. Funnily enough, the two I can't make are the ones I originally booked. I only booked Sheffield and Birmingham as 'bonus' extra shows since (at the time the original dates were announced) the four dates were consecutive.
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Date: 2022-02-18 12:16 am (UTC)Oh that is strange how that has worked out! To be honest that’s another thing in my mind, I don’t wanna get a ticket and then it just gets put back again (as unlikely as it is at this point, unless the storm blows the venue to oz)
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Date: 2022-02-18 04:03 pm (UTC)Sorry you're down though ♥
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Date: 2022-02-18 09:11 pm (UTC)*hugs* thank, it’s so annoying!
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Date: 2022-02-18 07:17 pm (UTC)I wonder which the two Shada versions are. I think there are at least three. One with Tom Baker narrating the non-filmed bits, one sort-of animated with Romana and the Eight Doctor, and the newest one with the new animation and the new recorded voices.
It's sad to hear that you're feeling so down. I'm keeping everything crossed you'll feel more energetic soon *sends lots of good thoughts*
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Date: 2022-02-18 09:16 pm (UTC)There’s two discs for Shada. The first one has a new version which has it as six parts (and is the version that was recently released on blu ray). The second disc has the original blu ray one (released as one long thing) plus Tom’s narration but I’m not sure about the Eighth. That would’ve been cool to see sometime (though maybe it’ll be on the collection version of the movie?)
Awww thank you’re so sweet *hugs*
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Date: 2022-02-19 09:05 pm (UTC)I just remembered that the Eight Doctor version was made for the web so it's only available on a computer. I don't know if the box version has computer-only material but if it does it might be available there.
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Date: 2022-02-20 02:53 pm (UTC)Oh yeah I remember something about that. I wonder why it’s never been put on a disc