shadowhive

So yesterday was my birthday and this post is gonna be mostly about that (first of all thanks for all the birthday wishes, I need to answer all the Facebook ones in a bit) but it’ll also be about a few other things because… fuck.

So a few days ago I decided to run a twitter poll for what I’d watch on my birthday. I thought I’d have a two hour gap (between Halloween Wars, which I just found out the other day was on food network) and taskmaster. The gote was three options: The Umbrella Academy, The Sandman or one ep of each. It became pretty clear that The Umbrella Academy was gonna win so I fully intended on watching that yesterday.

So on Wednesday, after Andor (and getting the update of Dreamlight Valley downloading) I decided to watch the first Sandman ep and I’m pretty intrigued by it all and hoping to watch more soon (maybe later).

Of course Badboyhalo decides he’s gonna do a big announcement stream during the time slot on my birthday so… yeah I ended up not watching it (again!) but! I’ll put it on later today. Maybe. Hopefully. We’ll see.

But back to my birthday day. I didn’t do uni stuff cause birthday (and my energy was a bit off) and I fully intended to come down a bit earlier to walk the pup (cause I knew a package would be coming). Alas I didn’t cause mum was yelling (not about anything me or the pets did, but about her teeth breaking again) so I decided to stay up instead. Plus it was pretty wet anyway.

I spent the morning while waiting building my birthday present, a Lego set of the droid BD-1. I ended up building two bags before going to town and a third when we got back (of a total of six) and so far that’s his legos and lower body done. (He’s a droid from Fallen Order which I really, really need to get back to at some point).

Town trip was a bit of a bust, I didn’t need to go, I could’ve stayed home and built more, but I went mostly to see if Smiths had the new Doctor Who magazine special (alas they didn’t, but I got a penguin instead), to see what Halloween stuff Poundland had (I mostly got sweets and some reduced Lego vidiyo blind boxes, but alas there wasn’t the cool shark) and went to Asda (I got the pumpkin I hoped for but alas they didn’t have any of the avocado and halloumi things).

It’s here I make a slight interlude. On Wednesday the beleaguered prime minister said she was a fighter, implying she’d not go without a fight. Over the course of the day she lost her Home Secretary (a truly, utterly vile woman who shouldn’t have been anywhere near power), and then that night there was a vote to ban fracking which should have been the easiest thing in the world, but tories made it into a thing. There was harassment, bullying and a whole load of nonsense.

So cut to yesterday, I’m in Poundland just looking at the Halloween stuff to see if there’s anything new and I overhear someone on the phone. The PM has resigned. Some fighter she is. So now we have a week of more Tory nonsense as they try and decide who best to take the job (would anyone want it? It’s surely a poisoned chalice) which will surely mean a general election because people are fed up.

At least Truss will be remembered as the shortest serving PM (beating one who died in office).

Well shortest one so far.

But anyway, back to yesterday. So we came back, I built some Lego, had some noms then cake (and went on Animal Crossing for the birthday thing) and then I watched Bad’s stream. It was an announcement on upcoming lore streams (and some awesome merch!) there’s a big thing on Sunday (please don’t be on the same time as doctor who please!) which has a lot of people involved. I’m glad Bad got Eryn and Seapeekay involved cause it’ll be their first major thing (especially Eryn), followed by Bad doing one next Saturday (and inspired by Quackity it’s pre recorded and a big thing). So that all sounds really cool and it means I’ll have to (finally) watch Red Banquet soon because I wanna see (and from the animatics Bad is kinda hot during it?).

But yeah that ate up the time till Taskmaster, which was pretty fun. Then there was a short gap before the Resident Evil Showcase stream. It was pretty much only about two things, the dlc for Village (and RE:Verse which is coming soon too and is included with it) but there was also info and some gameplay from Resident Evil 4, which looks so awesome! I’m not sure I’m quite sold on the new look for Luis yet though. But damn, do they go hard on the bonus Leon outfits in the dlc. There’s four alternate costumes and some are really, really hot and for why? I need Leon/Leon (and Leon/Ranboo) fic stat! (Although why is it only for Xbox series x and not one, especially when PlayStation 4 is getting it)

The Resident Evil stream was the third of three gaming streams this week and I think it was definitely the best of the three. The Sims one Tuesday wasn’t that great and the Silent Hill one was… off somehow? Despite some interesting reveals it just seemed… I dunno.

Anyway, last birthday thing was watching VHS99 with Chai (who is so sweet!)k which came to shudder yesterday. For those that don’t know what VHS is, it’s a horror film series that’s essentially a found footage anthology film. The one that came to shudder last year, vhs94, was really really strong with only the last segment being eh (because of the content/setting really) so I had hopes this one would be good too.

Alas it wasn’t. There was a few things of it that stood out and I think there was only one really good segment. (The first one had a real pretty guy, well two, but the characters were obnoxious, the second had spiders eww, the third was the best of the bunch, the fourth was another bunch of obnoxious people though I liked the end and the last one was pretty good.) but yeah that was kinda a shame.

Today I’m hoping to finish BD-1, maybe watch stuff (Ranboo has a dinner stream which no one knows what it means) and hopefully fic more, but we’ll see. And hopefully the who magazine will come cause it’s over a week late, though I’m thinking there’s a distribution issue cause smiths didn’t have it either.