Time to emerge
Mar. 17th, 2025 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowhiveThe last few days have ended up being low energy again which has been annoying, as there’s been intent to do certain things but the will has gone.
First a follow up to the last post. The books did arrive (along with tees from zavvi and dungeons and dragons adventurer) though instead of between 8:45-12:45 they arrived at…. Just before 6pm which was crazy.
My cousin did call the other day and seemed to have realised he’d needlessly caused panic (I’m guessing he’d talked to a doctor/specialist in between) so has offered to have us round this weekend which… I don’t think either of us particularly want (I know I dont’t.) so it remains to be seen what’ll happen there. The whole thing is just… baffling. Why wait so long after we got tested to get tested themselves? And why the sudden care for me when they sure as hell never have before?
Mum said she’d handle the call Friday which I assumed meant she’d cancel it but nope. I still had to deal with it and I didn’t have the focus to bring up things I intended to. But even if I had needed testing it felt pointless cause all she said was ‘oh if you’d need it you’d have to go through them (the people that tested mum) not us’ so the whole thing would have been pointless.
Saturday was a lil tabletop thing up the road so we went up and ended up spending £2 on 7 books (including two veggie cookbooks, one about ancient Egypt, The Iliad and two Stephen kings) and a £2 boxset of parks and recreation season 1-3.
When we got back I watched the next of the Who ray eps which was The Silurians. I usually watch the eps at night but I think for the longer ones (The Silurians is 7 parts long) daytime watching might be better.
Silurians are probably one of my fav races because the concept, an intelligent race that inhabited earth before humans, is just such an interesting one. (I will always maintain we need episodes set in the future with Silurians and humans working together.)
This first ep with them takes awhile for them to show up, but I think that works in their favour and it gives a chance to set up the nuclear facility as a setting as well as the people there. It also sets a few lines going as there’s power drains and things going wrong, along with an evidence of a saboteur but there’s also something in the caves.
When the Silurians do show up (and the doctor asks one point blank if they are a Silurian which they respond with a nod) it introduces the central dilemma of the whole thing. Silurians see themselves as the ‘rightful rulers’ of the planet and humans as pesky apes. Whereas humans see the Silurians either as a threat or something to exploit for their knowledge. The Doctor tries to broker peace and almost succeeds until one of the Silurians turns on his leader, launches a plague and kills him. And then it ends on such a sad note…
As an ep it gives everyone stuff to do, Liz gets to do some more science, the doctor goes off exploring and the brigadier… is the brigadier. Plus Bessie is introduced!
I feel it does suffer, as all of the longer parted stories, with being too long. The plague is introduced in part 5 and feels clearly there to extend the story (I’ve not watched the special features yet, maybe tonight but that seems to be the case). On the one hand at least it’s not padding in how other eps were (which tends to be getting captured, escaping, getting captured again) and it does resonate more now after the pandemic with how people recklessly broke qua native and pretended it wasn’t happening despite having visual symptoms.
However on the other hand it’s something that feels like it deserved its own thing. I mean this plague gets to London, it’s mentioned of getting outside the country, you see people collapsing from it at train stations. And yet it feels it’s both resolved too quickly and forgotten about. Like yes the doctor is able to find the cure and it does get relayed to be distributed but even so it does feel like the damage is done by that point.
Next time is the Ambassadors Of Death which, as I’ve mentioned before, I’ve pretty much forgotten. Is that good or bad? Stay tuned to find out.
Yesterday was a mix of watching various things. There was the finale of Towards Zero which felt the best of the three parts, probably because it was the resolution of the whole thing. It’s not a spoiler to say that the whole thing is about how much of a prick Neville is (that’s clear from the opening ep) but damn he just gets worse every time.
Then there was High Potential which is good and seems to be pushing along the mystery of Morgan’s missing ex as well as the ep’s own murder. Then there was a War Of The Worlds thing about life on Mars which was pretty interesting. The show is coming to Bidrmingham but damn th tickets are so much. It’s a shame cause the war machine they have for it looks so damn impressive.
In the night there was the next No dice and while my focus was off towards the start it ended with Owen playing an unsettling Naga that the party had stumbled on. Plus I love that Zee and Martin seem to have a thing going on. Did they more than just sleep together a few nights prior? Only Zee knows for sure.(even the audience don’t as Owen dm’d it to Krow instead of saying it). But the image of an Aasamir and a goblin is so…
Other things the past few days.
*I read more Three Act Tragedy though didn’t on the weekend cause of other things and lack of focus.
*I started the Wendigoon cryptid iceberg (my first vid with him) and damn I just love cryptids so much. I’ve watched the first two and might watch a third tonight.
*One of my games, Star Wars hunters, announced its ending and I’m so sad cause it was so fun and different and it’s just frustrating.
*Found out there’s a Sumerian records spring blow out so may get some stuff from that
Plans this week
*See what the Sleep Token Rock Sound thing is
*Silurians special features (and maybe Ambassadors Of Death)
*Tubbathon - No Dice, Twitchmaster (at least)
*new tv stuff (new series of the Marlowe Murder Club and Madame blanc mysteries)
*Read more Three Act Tragedy
*We’re meant to have a town/Iceland trip tomorrow which I’m not too keen on but…
*Fic, I am determined to finish something this week which I always say but
*finish watching the Wendigoon cryptid iceberg stuff
I’m 100% sure I’m missing something (and something obivious too) but I can’t think what it is.
First a follow up to the last post. The books did arrive (along with tees from zavvi and dungeons and dragons adventurer) though instead of between 8:45-12:45 they arrived at…. Just before 6pm which was crazy.
My cousin did call the other day and seemed to have realised he’d needlessly caused panic (I’m guessing he’d talked to a doctor/specialist in between) so has offered to have us round this weekend which… I don’t think either of us particularly want (I know I dont’t.) so it remains to be seen what’ll happen there. The whole thing is just… baffling. Why wait so long after we got tested to get tested themselves? And why the sudden care for me when they sure as hell never have before?
Mum said she’d handle the call Friday which I assumed meant she’d cancel it but nope. I still had to deal with it and I didn’t have the focus to bring up things I intended to. But even if I had needed testing it felt pointless cause all she said was ‘oh if you’d need it you’d have to go through them (the people that tested mum) not us’ so the whole thing would have been pointless.
Saturday was a lil tabletop thing up the road so we went up and ended up spending £2 on 7 books (including two veggie cookbooks, one about ancient Egypt, The Iliad and two Stephen kings) and a £2 boxset of parks and recreation season 1-3.
When we got back I watched the next of the Who ray eps which was The Silurians. I usually watch the eps at night but I think for the longer ones (The Silurians is 7 parts long) daytime watching might be better.
Silurians are probably one of my fav races because the concept, an intelligent race that inhabited earth before humans, is just such an interesting one. (I will always maintain we need episodes set in the future with Silurians and humans working together.)
This first ep with them takes awhile for them to show up, but I think that works in their favour and it gives a chance to set up the nuclear facility as a setting as well as the people there. It also sets a few lines going as there’s power drains and things going wrong, along with an evidence of a saboteur but there’s also something in the caves.
When the Silurians do show up (and the doctor asks one point blank if they are a Silurian which they respond with a nod) it introduces the central dilemma of the whole thing. Silurians see themselves as the ‘rightful rulers’ of the planet and humans as pesky apes. Whereas humans see the Silurians either as a threat or something to exploit for their knowledge. The Doctor tries to broker peace and almost succeeds until one of the Silurians turns on his leader, launches a plague and kills him. And then it ends on such a sad note…
As an ep it gives everyone stuff to do, Liz gets to do some more science, the doctor goes off exploring and the brigadier… is the brigadier. Plus Bessie is introduced!
I feel it does suffer, as all of the longer parted stories, with being too long. The plague is introduced in part 5 and feels clearly there to extend the story (I’ve not watched the special features yet, maybe tonight but that seems to be the case). On the one hand at least it’s not padding in how other eps were (which tends to be getting captured, escaping, getting captured again) and it does resonate more now after the pandemic with how people recklessly broke qua native and pretended it wasn’t happening despite having visual symptoms.
However on the other hand it’s something that feels like it deserved its own thing. I mean this plague gets to London, it’s mentioned of getting outside the country, you see people collapsing from it at train stations. And yet it feels it’s both resolved too quickly and forgotten about. Like yes the doctor is able to find the cure and it does get relayed to be distributed but even so it does feel like the damage is done by that point.
Next time is the Ambassadors Of Death which, as I’ve mentioned before, I’ve pretty much forgotten. Is that good or bad? Stay tuned to find out.
Yesterday was a mix of watching various things. There was the finale of Towards Zero which felt the best of the three parts, probably because it was the resolution of the whole thing. It’s not a spoiler to say that the whole thing is about how much of a prick Neville is (that’s clear from the opening ep) but damn he just gets worse every time.
Then there was High Potential which is good and seems to be pushing along the mystery of Morgan’s missing ex as well as the ep’s own murder. Then there was a War Of The Worlds thing about life on Mars which was pretty interesting. The show is coming to Bidrmingham but damn th tickets are so much. It’s a shame cause the war machine they have for it looks so damn impressive.
In the night there was the next No dice and while my focus was off towards the start it ended with Owen playing an unsettling Naga that the party had stumbled on. Plus I love that Zee and Martin seem to have a thing going on. Did they more than just sleep together a few nights prior? Only Zee knows for sure.(even the audience don’t as Owen dm’d it to Krow instead of saying it). But the image of an Aasamir and a goblin is so…
Other things the past few days.
*I read more Three Act Tragedy though didn’t on the weekend cause of other things and lack of focus.
*I started the Wendigoon cryptid iceberg (my first vid with him) and damn I just love cryptids so much. I’ve watched the first two and might watch a third tonight.
*One of my games, Star Wars hunters, announced its ending and I’m so sad cause it was so fun and different and it’s just frustrating.
*Found out there’s a Sumerian records spring blow out so may get some stuff from that
Plans this week
*See what the Sleep Token Rock Sound thing is
*Silurians special features (and maybe Ambassadors Of Death)
*Tubbathon - No Dice, Twitchmaster (at least)
*new tv stuff (new series of the Marlowe Murder Club and Madame blanc mysteries)
*Read more Three Act Tragedy
*We’re meant to have a town/Iceland trip tomorrow which I’m not too keen on but…
*Fic, I am determined to finish something this week which I always say but
*finish watching the Wendigoon cryptid iceberg stuff
I’m 100% sure I’m missing something (and something obivious too) but I can’t think what it is.
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Date: 2025-03-17 06:13 pm (UTC)Deliveries are so chaotic. That's so wildly not in the delivery timeframe, lol. Was it Royal Mail? They do that to us often, too.
I'm sorry that your cousin caused such a panic, and that you had to deal with that call.
Ooh The Iliad! You got a great haul of books.
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Date: 2025-03-17 07:58 pm (UTC)Yeah! On Wednesday it said the time was that then Thursday it went so vague I thought ‘they’re not coming today at all’. It was! I’ve not known them deliver so late here so it was so puzzling
Yeah it was so stressful
Yeah! I saw it and was so curious (which led to me hunting others cause it was in a 5 for £1 thing) but it looks in good icondition, I’ll have to get a pic later