The stars are singing
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shadowhiveSo to start the post, as is tradition now, a health update.
So the thing on my back is gone, but the place where it was is still sore and occasionally hurts. I have to still be careful stretching to grab things and sometimes have to lay on my side, but at least it’s less than the thing was. Alas though I’ve had headaches instead, which is likely bought on by the recent bad weather (including a thunderstorm on Saturday) which is annoying.
But anyway, onto other things.
A few days ago I had a delivery, which turned out to be the kickstarter book I backed: I Want That Twink Olbliterated. It’s a sci fi anthology about twinks in various kinds of trouble so I’m looking forward to checking it out over October. I now have a total of three recent books to read after Rogue (alas my focus was off). Other than this there’s Shredded, another horror anthology by the same person that did one I read before and liked, as well as Death In The Stars a Doctor book written by Bonnie Langford herself which sounds intriguing. I might do the anthologies first, reading one a day but we’ll see.
I don’t think I’ll be doing kinktober this year. I still have some holdovers from last year I’ve not finished which I want to. But the bigger issue has been my focus being off and having a major lacking of creativity lately. It’s super annoying but.. ugh. I had considered doing spook me, but again the lack of focus/creativity (plus pain) meant I never did. I might do something along those lines though (likely based on the latest Set It Off song, though annoyingly it has no video). I’m hoping to have something done before the week is out but it depends on my focus.
Last week Agatha All Along started, so I decided to watch and it’s really great so far! The first ep plays out like a Wandavision ep (being a spoof of a detective story for a large part) but damn that ending. That Rio and Agatha fight was one of the most homoerotic fights I’ve seen in awhile! (And I love ‘teen’ too, though I don’t get why they’re concealing his name so much when it’s obvious who he is). The second ep was fun with Agatha getting the coven together and I’m really looking forward to tomorrows ep. But already I feel it’ll be my fav Marvel show.
I’ve also managed to finish season one of the Magnus protocol and damn, that ending left me with so many questions (though was so good). I wonder when we’ll find out what the protocol actually is though.
Speaking of finishing things I finished the Ju-On boxset. Ju-On: The Grudge 2 felt like a more cohesive story than the prior entries, though it also had three things that were less scary more ridiculous which took me out a bit. White Ghost and Black Ghost were each also self contained things, being completely new curses which I think worked really well for the most part. (Though the white ghost wasn’t so much scary as… I dunno the face looked so wrong). Like with watching the Ring box set it’s made me wanna watch the remake ones so I might have to do that at some point.
Because of Outlaws I ended up watching Solo on Sunday and it’s still so fun. I really do love it and think it’s a shame we didn’t get more young Han and especially young Lando (please sort the promised film/series Lucasfilm).
Speaking of Outlaws I played it a bunch lately and completed the questline with Qi’ra, got immense feels for ND-5 and then somehow got to last story quest so I did that. I could kinda see some of the end coming but not completely so was still surprised by some of the twists. But damn I really did love it. It was a lot of fun and I’ve come to really love Kay. Towards the end I couldn’t help but think of Qi’ra’s quote about Han, that she knew who he was and that he was ‘the good guy’ and that really applies to Kay too. The way she was just determined to help save her friends at the end, yeah that shows who she is. I hope we see more of her (there’s at least two dlcs at least) and I hope there’s merch too.
Today I finally, finally, got back to Tears Of The Kingdom after months of saying that I would. I ended up achieving a fair bit already today: I beat Master Kohga three times (including what seems to be the last time), healed the Deku tree, retrieved the master sword and I ended by landing at Hyrule castle. The new game is coming tomorrow but I’m not gonna start it until finishing Tears and I feel close to. (I fully expect Hyrule castle to be the first part of the end game, followed by whatever is in the depths beneath it).
Then tonight I finally started my VHS run with the first film. As the film went on the segments improved, with the last one being my fav (due to how effective the haunted house/possession was). But some parts were a lil rough. The guys in the wrap around were so unlikeable from the start and there was so many instances of guys just being dicks. Im looking forward to watching the others though (I’m hoping to watch 2 tomorrow and viral Friday) cause I know it does improve as it goes on. But I guess we’ll see.
VHS overall ratings
Wrap around: 4/10
Segment 1: 6/10
Segment 2: 6.5/10
Segment 3: 7.5/10
Segment 4: 7.5/10
Segment 5: 8/10
But I’ve rambled a bit so I’m gonna head off and flop.
So the thing on my back is gone, but the place where it was is still sore and occasionally hurts. I have to still be careful stretching to grab things and sometimes have to lay on my side, but at least it’s less than the thing was. Alas though I’ve had headaches instead, which is likely bought on by the recent bad weather (including a thunderstorm on Saturday) which is annoying.
But anyway, onto other things.
A few days ago I had a delivery, which turned out to be the kickstarter book I backed: I Want That Twink Olbliterated. It’s a sci fi anthology about twinks in various kinds of trouble so I’m looking forward to checking it out over October. I now have a total of three recent books to read after Rogue (alas my focus was off). Other than this there’s Shredded, another horror anthology by the same person that did one I read before and liked, as well as Death In The Stars a Doctor book written by Bonnie Langford herself which sounds intriguing. I might do the anthologies first, reading one a day but we’ll see.
I don’t think I’ll be doing kinktober this year. I still have some holdovers from last year I’ve not finished which I want to. But the bigger issue has been my focus being off and having a major lacking of creativity lately. It’s super annoying but.. ugh. I had considered doing spook me, but again the lack of focus/creativity (plus pain) meant I never did. I might do something along those lines though (likely based on the latest Set It Off song, though annoyingly it has no video). I’m hoping to have something done before the week is out but it depends on my focus.
Last week Agatha All Along started, so I decided to watch and it’s really great so far! The first ep plays out like a Wandavision ep (being a spoof of a detective story for a large part) but damn that ending. That Rio and Agatha fight was one of the most homoerotic fights I’ve seen in awhile! (And I love ‘teen’ too, though I don’t get why they’re concealing his name so much when it’s obvious who he is). The second ep was fun with Agatha getting the coven together and I’m really looking forward to tomorrows ep. But already I feel it’ll be my fav Marvel show.
I’ve also managed to finish season one of the Magnus protocol and damn, that ending left me with so many questions (though was so good). I wonder when we’ll find out what the protocol actually is though.
Speaking of finishing things I finished the Ju-On boxset. Ju-On: The Grudge 2 felt like a more cohesive story than the prior entries, though it also had three things that were less scary more ridiculous which took me out a bit. White Ghost and Black Ghost were each also self contained things, being completely new curses which I think worked really well for the most part. (Though the white ghost wasn’t so much scary as… I dunno the face looked so wrong). Like with watching the Ring box set it’s made me wanna watch the remake ones so I might have to do that at some point.
Because of Outlaws I ended up watching Solo on Sunday and it’s still so fun. I really do love it and think it’s a shame we didn’t get more young Han and especially young Lando (please sort the promised film/series Lucasfilm).
Speaking of Outlaws I played it a bunch lately and completed the questline with Qi’ra, got immense feels for ND-5 and then somehow got to last story quest so I did that. I could kinda see some of the end coming but not completely so was still surprised by some of the twists. But damn I really did love it. It was a lot of fun and I’ve come to really love Kay. Towards the end I couldn’t help but think of Qi’ra’s quote about Han, that she knew who he was and that he was ‘the good guy’ and that really applies to Kay too. The way she was just determined to help save her friends at the end, yeah that shows who she is. I hope we see more of her (there’s at least two dlcs at least) and I hope there’s merch too.
Today I finally, finally, got back to Tears Of The Kingdom after months of saying that I would. I ended up achieving a fair bit already today: I beat Master Kohga three times (including what seems to be the last time), healed the Deku tree, retrieved the master sword and I ended by landing at Hyrule castle. The new game is coming tomorrow but I’m not gonna start it until finishing Tears and I feel close to. (I fully expect Hyrule castle to be the first part of the end game, followed by whatever is in the depths beneath it).
Then tonight I finally started my VHS run with the first film. As the film went on the segments improved, with the last one being my fav (due to how effective the haunted house/possession was). But some parts were a lil rough. The guys in the wrap around were so unlikeable from the start and there was so many instances of guys just being dicks. Im looking forward to watching the others though (I’m hoping to watch 2 tomorrow and viral Friday) cause I know it does improve as it goes on. But I guess we’ll see.
VHS overall ratings
Wrap around: 4/10
Segment 1: 6/10
Segment 2: 6.5/10
Segment 3: 7.5/10
Segment 4: 7.5/10
Segment 5: 8/10
But I’ve rambled a bit so I’m gonna head off and flop.
