November

Fics wrote: -
Books read: -
Games done: -
Podcast: Sheeple Chase - Coke-Conspirators, [Unreleased] Magnus Opus, Welcome To Night Vale - Locked Library Mystery, [Redacted] - False Start (part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3), post-mortem: false start, Skin, Welcome To Night Vale - How To Solve A Murder, [Redacted] - post-mortem: Skin, Shoeless Man
Who audios: -
Other Big Finish stuff: -
Comics read: Fantastic 4 5
Graphic novels read: -

Things watched
Amazon Prime: Perfect
Blu Ray: Doctor Who - Planet Of Evil, IT, Doctor Who - Pyramids Of Mars, The Android Invasion, Thanksgiving, Sonic The Hedgehog 3
DVD: -
Disney+: High Potential - The One That Got Away, The Simpsons - Treehouse Of Horror X, Futurama - Murderoni, Hocus Pocus, Futurama - Crab Splatter, The Trouble With Truffles, The White Hole, The Simpsons - Treehouse Of Horror XI, Fantastic Four: First Steps, The Simpsons - Treehouse Of Horror XII, Treehouse Of Horror XIII, Treehouse Of Horror XIV, Treehouse Of Horror XV, Treehouse Of Horror XVI
Netflix: Wednesday - Woe Thyself, Stranger Things - The Piggyback, Wednesday - Woe Me The Money, This Means Woe, Glass Onion, Stranger Things - The Crawl, The Vanishing Of Holly Wheeler, The Turnbow Trap, Sorcerer
Now tv: IT Welcome To Derry - Now You See It, The Great Swirling Apparatus Of Our Planet’s Function, 29 Neibolt Street
Shudder: Horror’s Greatest - Animal Attacks
YouTube: Nintendo - The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct, Pokopia extended trailer, Spy films - Eyedrop
Cinema: Frankenstein, Shelby Oaks, Keeper, Predator Badlands

So this is a late one, oops. I blame things being stressful/distracting. Which is also why there’s some things here that aren’t done.

But yeah November ended up being stressful so I lacked focus to read or fic which was irritating. (And this month is similar).

But having said that I did manage to finish some shows! The new Futurama season, season 2 of Wednesday and vol 1 of Stranger Things season 5. The last two have given me so many thoughts and Futurama is always fun to watch.

I need to get back to the Doctor Who run of season 13, I still have Brain Of Morbius and Seeds Of Doom to watch, both of which I’m looking forward to. And I’m glad to finally watch the Sonic 3 blu ray and finally seeing It (and Thanksgiving too).

And, of course, Frankenstein was a cinema highlight (if you haven’t go see it! It son Netflix now) and I also loved Predator Badlands so many.

With Shudder I started the second season of Horror’s Greatest, though honestly I’m not a fan of animal attack stuff. I guess it’s cause I’m an animal love I just don’t vibe with it. Having said that I think the wildest one was something about worms attacking people that looked so wild cause ??

And speaking of roundups…

Month 5: November 20th - December 20th
3: Wake Up Dead Man, Zootropolis 2
10: Five Nights At Freddie’s 2, Pillion

Month 5 of the cinema pass has just been two trips, but back to doubling up with them. I think my order of them is Zootropolis 2, Five Nights At Freddie’s 2, Wake Up Dead Man and Pillion. Though they are pretty close. (And Wake Up is technically the better film, but I’m more likely to rewatch Freddie’s)

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Last night I had hoped to do stuff, but after watching some things with mum and doing a little on ControlI ended up just getting absurdly tired. I think having mulled wine didn’t help, as it made my head a little hazy.

But right now I’m sat getting Midna cuddles which is good, then I can hopefully fic and do stuff later. (And it’s winterfest on Fortnite so hopefully the freebies this year are nice)

Last night was the game awards and, as always, it was more about upcoming games and trailers than the actual awards. It always bothers me that some of the awards are spedran, without even the chance for the winners to come onstage. (Plus it’s so long, it started 12:30 and lasted until about 4am here)

For those that didn’t see it here are a bunch of things that happened:

*Sleep Token played in the overview trailer!
*Hades II, Hollow Knight Silksong and Donkey Kong Bananza all ran one award each (Best Action game, best Action/adventure game and best family game)
*Clair Obscure Expedition 33 win pretty much everything they were up for
*The whole Clair Obscure team were there, all of them wearing Berets
*There was a warframe video, Werner Herzog voiced and was in it
*Miss Piggy was there and was hilarious, it was also heavily implied she and the presenter of the awards spent the night together and had sex
*She also did a song with Rolf (I think that’s his name) which name checked everything from kingdom hearts to discord
*Maggie Roberson (tall vampire lady from Resident Evil) did a skit about a survival training session which was so funny
*Her and Neil Newborn presented the best voice acting award and were so funny
*There was a cut sheep herding cgame
*There was a trailer for a game that featured a man getting burned alive in a wicker man type thing, while there was an orgy going on. This wasn’t warned for and was in the first hour of the show (it’s also by the studio that did Baldurs Gate III, it’s called Divinity)
*There’s a new Tomb Raider game, as well as a remake. The latter looks bonkers and features dinosaurs
*Theres not one but two Star Wars games! The first I suspected would be a franchise game cause of how the trailer was cut (long shots, not showing characters) but I suspected it was Star Wars cause of the hiss of smoke when the boarding ramp went down, then the lightsaber sound confirmed it
*the other one is Galactic racer and is a dancing game, like the podracer games but with other ships too. It looks so cool and has Sebulba coming back!
*Resident Evil Requiem revealled that Leon is coming back! (Which everyone guessed but it was nice to confirm)
*Evanesence performed the song they did for Devil May Cry (I need to watch it)
*A new Megaman game is coming, but not till 2027
*There was a clip from Street Fighter and the cast came onstage
*There was a cool game called Ontos by the people that made Soma (and the voice of Stellan Skarsgård)
*There was an awesome onstage announcement/trailer for a new control game and it’s so cool I’m glad I’m playing the first game.
*The Game Awards orchestra was so great, plus the flute guy kept changing is flute which was fun

I’m sure there was other stuff too that I’ve missed from it, cause there was a lot, but yeah. As you can see there was a lot of wild stuff.

I am a bit annoyed that the Hades II and Silksong devs didn’t get a chance to get onstage for their awards, they both deserved more love. (And honestly, it feels like a fluke that they didn’t but Expedition 33 was just… a powerhouse)

I am so hyped for the Star Wars games, especially racer and Resident Evil (I need to get back to 4). I’d say those three, Control Resonant, Ontos and Tomb Raider are the ones I’m most curious about, but I am kinda curious about a divinity. I mean that trailer was absolutely insane it was certainly memorable.

But ugh the whole thing was tiring and it has made me drained today.

Now to see if my brain will work on other things and then… I dunno. Maybe I’ll go on Control later

The past days have, once again been stressful and, once again induced by mum deciding that, yep, what I need is her being difficult. Bleh. But this post isn’t gonna be about that.

This weekend I ended up starting a game called Control. It’s by the people that made Alan Wake and I got it forever ago when it was on a sale but I just never started it. I had me heard that a console update with some fixes was coming a few months back.but eventually came in October (or early November? Time isn’t real) and so I’d added it higher on my gaming list. I decided to try it this weekend and I’ve ended up being hooked. I e gone on it about an hour or so a night and I’m currently at a furnace.

The whole thing is such a ‘me’ thing too, a shady government agency works to contain ‘paranatural’ things a secret. It feels a bit like warehouse 13 or the librarians in that regard, only instead of a small team there’s whole departments. Only now there is a mystery entity (or entities, though it’s implied to be a hive mind) and the player (Jesse) shouldn't be there but somehow is and has somehow inherited the directorship. (Cause of a weapon that chose her?) it’s really good so far and I feel I’m gonna do it more in nights and Pokémon ZA in the day (I need to finish it so many)

On Sunday there was the War Between The Land And The Sea. As I said before I was kinda worried it might be not great. Thankfully the first eps were pretty incredible so let’s (pun intended) dive in on my thoughts

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Yesterday was Naryu’s jab which went well enough. I went into the new M and S (the food store has moved to a bigger space). I didn’t have time to look properly but it is overwhelming. There’s a ‘sushi bar’ though that definitely feels like an overstatement as it’s just a small counter, but it is so much bigger than it was (at least 4 times, likely more).

From the sainsburys I got some strnager things stuff, a cool looking jewellery set (a hellfire/Eddie themed charm bracelet and earrings but I’m not pierced anymore), a hellfire mug and d20 keyring. But that’s all I got really. I did get copious amounts of cheese (mostly from Aldi but also there) and some of the other party food .

(Speaking of Stranger Things does anyone know places with the new funkos? People seem to be going crazy with merch and so things seem harder to find)

But they also had the Christmas radio times early! There’s at least one thing on every day which is good (ranging from Festive Pottery Throw Down, Midsummer Murders, the Christmas lectures and other Christmas specials).

When I got back I was flop but ugh had a call, but I dozed after. In the night I watched civilisation which was good and then Welcome To Derry (I’ve slipped behind a tad) and I’m shocked a theory I had was right but also where’s Taniel but also WTF? But also oh no!

Today was a library stint and, while I didn’t read any of Halloween Party like I hoped I did finally read the first two event horizon comics which… damn they’re already so brutal. I really need to find the other issues, I’m so made it wasn’t in stock when I went to town.

Weather depending I should be seeing Pillion and FNAF 2 tomorrow (though I have a last chance option on Thursday, why is Pillion just one week??) and then… I sense things will be quiet. I’m also hoping I can get fic done today/tomorrow.

So this is the ‘everything else I wanna ramble about but didn’t fit cause the Stranger Things ramble was rambly’ post.

First off before I get into the things I wanna talk about: what the actual fuck? How is it December already? It’s honestly felt that November has just… gone.

My energy this past week has been non existent which is so annoying. It’s a mix of the stress of the hospital last week and then. Uni assessment which has been nothing but stressful. In part because, well assessments always are, but also because ugh. The laptop kept needing updates which made things slower (I lost two mornings due to that) and just.. ugh. But it’s been submitted now, I know I’ve not done one part but I just… can’t figure that out (and another requires hand drawing something and I just,,l can’t find anything to do that with)

Plus there has been another issue. About a month ago I had an email from HMV with some of the Stranger Things stuff coming, I mentioned to mum (just in passing) that there was a Stranger Things record player coming. For whatever reason that triggered something in her brain, and it became a fixation. She decided that’s the thing I had to have for Christmas, over the stuff that we’d talked about. I guess cause I got some vinyls this year she’s decided it’d be good to have something to play them on I guess?

Some of her money went in last week so it was ordered and it came Friday (late afternoon after us waiting all day). I set it to one side, assuming mum would want it took up at some point. On Saturday I came down and she’d cleared space, put the box up and then wanted me to take it down and open it. I thought she wanted the outer box opening, she wanted it set up and I just thought it baffling. It’s meant to be a Christmas thing why set it up almost a month early? (And then She started an argument and moved the box back to where it was so I just…) I dunno

(And having mentioned Stranger Things and vinyls, I’m so annoyed that places in America get exclusives that never make it over here. There’s a book in one, but there’s also a wsqk vinyl and just arghhh)

Anyway, better things. Or, well, other things.

Last week I finally watched Thanksgiving. I got the blu ray of it last year and intended to watch it then and just… didn’t. So it’s been sat there for a year. I didn’t watch it on Thanksgiving (although I finished it after midnight so I guess I technically did. It was pretty good and the killer’s fit is so unsettling it’s creepier than I expected. (And I laughed so hard when he said ‘this thanksgiving there will be no leftovers!’) and damn that oven scene was so…

Saturday was the fortnite event to end the simpsons season and it was so fun. I was Will from Stranger a things for it and the whole thing was so fun. There was the bride from Kill bill, a star destroyer, a giant Homer, hatsune miku riding atop Godzilla, the girls from k-pop demon hunters. It was wild. The new season does seem pretty fun, I already got two wins on the first day which was cool.

Yesterday I watched Sonic 3, after having the blu ray since release. I dunno why it took so long to watch cause it was so great to watch it again! Shadow is awesome and I love how he’s like… a dark mirror of sonic with his past. And I love that Stone got to do some cool stuff this time. Honestly best of the series I’m so excite for 4.

Damn Strictly was so sad, cause Alex went out (how is Belvinder surviving constantly) and I feel so bad for her. Even worse cause she was just on it takes two and said her focus was off due to an injury.

Yesterday night I watched Perfect, because I wanted to watch a thing on prime and it was between Darkest Miriam (Joshua Odjick is listed as ‘beautiful man’) and Perfect (which had Garrett Wareing). I went with Perfect cause Garrett’s the main character. But… yeah

I know it was gonna be a ‘what the fuck did I just watch movie’ from the trailer and it was very much like that. At the end I just had questions cause it was so… odd and had no answers. Some of the parts were good, especially the aesthetics and Garrett did the best he could (and was shirtless and moaned so there was that) but yeah. Oddness

This weeks plans are:
*It Welcome To Derry (tonight)
*lock in enough to finish fic
*library stint, reading stuff
*finish Pokemon Za’s main story
*Cinema trip (Zootropolis 2, Wake Up Dead Man) [and look to see what Stranger Things stuff is in town]
*Watch Five Nights At Freddy’s and It Chapter 2

I was gonna see FNAF 2 Friday but it’s being moved till next Wednesday. Not cause of FNAF itself but I wanna see Pillion and it’s got an afternoon showing then so👀

But yeah end of rambles, I’m gonna flop for a bit now.

The past days have been pretty tiring, though that’s pretty much as expected.

Mums friend came Monday and, as expected, I went to town to put money in for her to get stuff. Which ugh. But at the same time it meant I could get some stuff. I managed to find the Lego Star Wars magazine I missed out on in home bargains (they have older issues for some reason which is useful and this was the last one). It comes with a lil droideka which is so cool so I’m glad I got it. Plus I also got the new Fantastic 4 comic though I’ve not read yet.

I also got some frozen stuff from Iceland so there’s some of the newer party food to try. But ugh. I dunno what it is, going to town for these trips is always tiring even more so than going out other times.

In the night I finished the Android Invasion special features (I watched some Sunday night) and then watched Welcome to Derry which was such a wild ep and I’m so glad there was so much Taniel even though he got himself into a situation and might well be doomed.

Speaking of The Long Walk actors (since Taniel is played by Collie’s actor) I found out about a film called God Is A Bullet which features Garrett Wareing (Stebbins actor) covered in tattoos, wearing make up and is apparently in a skirt and a cult? Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to have a uk release or is on streaming but I did find it on eBay. I put one on watch list, but it was from Canada (though cost less than getting it from here) and then yesterday I had an offer for it with an extra £2 off so I snapped it up. Sure it’s not coming for a bit but… I’m curious.

Yesterday I’d hoped to do uni stuff but it felt like I was cursed. The laptop did its usual thing when I wanna use it, go slow, decide it needs to update and so I couldn’t do anything with it. I’d hoped that meant today I could do something but nope! It needed to be restarted again (twice!) so I couldn’t do much.

I did manage to start it but I’m so annoyed by it already. The first question is about comparing two datasets and one is fine, it’s already saved in file excel could read. The other? I needed to manually input the entries. All 284 of them so that took up all my time this morning. Ugh.

But yeah yesterday ended up being so low energy and tiring, I even zoned out a bit during the Pokémon stream. I think it’s part due to Monday but also it was the food shop day (and yay we had the mini tacos! I love those things and hate they’re only around now)

I’m thinking of delaying the cinema trip I had planned until next week. Partly because of uni stuff being slower than I hoped and the weather app says a storm is due Friday. Plus going next week will mean I have extra money to work with. (I hate there’s not really anything available now)so yeah next week might have two cinema trips (depending on Pillion’s dates)

Waterparks have announced a tour so I’m hoping it doesn’t sellout before next week. (It’s the worst timing!) There’s vip which feels like a lot (one is over £40 just for early entry, a signed poster and a laminate which just feels like a lot) so I’ll likely just get a ticket. It’s at the same place I’ve been for James and Coheed, so hopefully it’ll be like their shows and not overheat like crazy.

I know there’s something else I was gonna say, but it has completely escaped me. Ah well.

I think you can guess how today ended up going from the post title.

The day started off pretty bad. I wasn’t able to settle and woke up early, to the sound of rain. I just stayed bundled in bed for awhile, put on the new Redacted ep before coming down.

The first bus was a disaster. First we got on and found that it didn’t go direct to the hospital (despite being like that weekdays. It didn’t even take us to anywhere we could change burs either. Of course I found out only after getting the daysaver which ugh so we got off, then I had a panic about losing the wallet (but found it again) but I did somehow lose the ticket.

The second bus, half hour later, was better, we could head to town and change a bus there (thankfully someone in front of us told us where to pick it up and it was right next to us). At the hospital it was… ugh. I saw a grand total of four people and kept being shifted around. Multiple tests were done and it’s clear from the first one how bad the right eye is (even with glasses I could only read the first 3 lines on the chart, with the other I could read almost seven). I was in the hospital for over two hours and most of the last hour was waiting for the last person. Which… ugh.

He did a test that had been done earlier in the day and then said I’d need to come back in 4-6 weeks for more tests, scans and a check of my glasses. Which ??? It feels like overkill and makes me wonder if they had saw something that needed checking. So ugh that’s more stress, but also I don’t see it happening that soon (with christmas and new year). But ugh. Plus I had to have drops which stung my eyes.

I did take things to do but couldn’t do much because of waiting to be called for various things. I did read one chapter of Halloween Party on the way and some articles in the Empire magazine, including one for Kwaidan which I found out is currently on Amazon prime! Hopefully I can see it.

We went into town and it was busy cause of lights being turned on. We did find where the Forbidden Planet was moved to and I got Exquisite Corpses 6+7, both of which had the cards which was nice (oddly though one was more than the other but I got my student discount). Alas they didn’t have Event Horizon 3 which is apparently a big seller. Which I love, cause Event Horizon is awesome and is cool it’s getting love, but it’s annoying I couldn’t get it.

I did get Until Dawn from the hmv Black Friday sale, so I will have to watch that sometime. I have been curious since I saw the trailer though I didn’t see it in the cinema alas. I also got Clown In A Cornfield at last (thanks hmv assistant for helping me, you were awesome!) which I’m looking forward to see again sometime. (Though I do wish it had special features but maybe they’re just not listed) if I’d had more I might have got weapons too but alas. Damnit why’re sales at bad times?

After going in a few other places we came home so now I’m flop. It does feel like it was a bit of a waste of time and now I have some more stress worrying about more tests (and not looking forward to going back, though should at least have free travel).

Now I’m gonna flop, watch strictly later and maybe watch the Wildhood special features, but maybe will just snuggle with Midna.

A brief post before I watch Welcome To Derry and bundle up.

Yesterday after we got back from walking the pup the phone rang and mum said it was for me. I was puzzled cause… well it’s a Sunday, who rings on a Sunday? Turns out it was the hospital about my eye referral and it’s on Saturday.

Now when the optician said he was referring me he said it would take months to hear a thing and it’d be nothing to worry about so I kinda didn’t think much about it. But the speed that it’s happened (a matter of weeks) feels concerning. Is it the anxiety making me paranoid? Maybe but it just feels… I dunno wrong somehow.

(Also it gives me flashbacks to last year when I was bleeding all the time and they still took months for things to get done, so this happening so fast is…odd to say the least)

So now we have an annoying unexpected trip on Saturday which is just gonna make me anxious and probably be all for nothing. (At least we might go into town and find where the Wolverhampton forbidden planet is so that’s something)

And then today the internet has been terrible. The router cable has been acting up for the past weeks but usually just for a minute or two. This morning it kept going down repeatedly before going off for over an hour. Luckily I’d gotten fed up and ordered a cable last night though that took ages to arrive (it was meant to come between 12-3 it didn’t come until almost 6). But I just switched it over so I hope that’s the end of it. Otherwise it’s the socket acting up again which… ugh

Tomorrow is the library stint and then I might chase up the student finance stuff and then Wednesday is out all day (the jacket is there to be picked up though so that’s good news)

So yesterday I was off to Birmingham for the James Marriott gig.

Honestly if it wasn’t for the stranger things cafe and checking stuff I’d have gone much later, but alas. Train trips for gigs now are pretty eh. I mean the journey was fine, but my phone is useless and it’s not as if I can take anything to do or read.

And of course the ticket machine at the station was closed, there was no one on the train and even the fares to pay thing at the Birmingham station was closed so that was annoying.

But anyway. Mum had the ‘smart’ idea that I should check to see if the Hellfire jacket was at Primark and wear it to the gig. At the very least I was hoping to try one (the stock check before I left said there was some albeit low stock) so I went there first. But there was none in any size (I even asked someone to check, in case they were somewhere else since the one in Telford, and apparently elsewhere, has stuff spread out). Alas there wasn’t any, which was fine by me. (And probably for the best)

Since the cafe was open I did have the pizza twist thing and it was nice (other than the tough ends) but it also looks like this which is certainly… a thing. I had to have a drink cause it was warm but damn. A can of 7up was £2 which feels crazy to me.

After that I wandered round Birmingham a bit. The christmas market is on already so everything is annoyingly bright, but they have churros now! I didn’t get any but the smell was so nice. Annoyingly both the game outlet and forbidden planet had discounted figures, which I likely would’ve got if I’d been able (damn gigs being bitchy).

After wandering round the bullring (which was uneventful) I went to the venue and the queue was quite long, much longer than Coheed. After waiting around till doors open it was time to head inside, security felt a tad absurd checking my hat. Like what did he expect to find in there?

Inside the first support was on and he sounded pretty good, though I only heard two songs (and one was a cover of Chappell Roan) but I just went to merch. I’d seen some of the tees were nice looking so I got the grapes one cause Grapes is one my favs, though the dogs playing cards was so cute (I hope he adds it to his site later)

The second support were just ok, I couldn’t really make out what any of them were saying even when they were talking.

Then there was James’ set. For the supports I’d noticed there were these strange banner things up, so I just assumed they were some sort of decoration, but no! They were these really cool light things that changed colours over the course of the set which was good and pretty. I wasn’t a fan of the general lighting of the opening song though which was just every light flashing so I had to spend the song with my eyes closed for the most part.

But the set was really great! He played Car Lights which is always a fav and then Grapes was the last song which was an awesome one to end on. I was surprised Him was on the set list and there was the new California Rain song which has only been played this tour. Also we got Limbs which apparently isn’t one played often?

But James is one of those natural showmen, he interacted with the crowd constantly, did a roll and just looked so great too. Apparently our date was the biggest show they’ve played at so far, especially since it was sold out! (Which was a worry last sold out show I had at this venue people were passing out like crazy, thankfully that wasn’t the case this time but it was still so warm).

Apparently he does small sets after the gig outside but I didn’t know where it would be and didn’t wanna hang around (apparently it was right by the entrance which was annoying to find out! Though I dunno if I missed much).

I grabbed a poster from outside, then a drink from a store by the station cause I was parched and I just flopped on a seat at the station. Though I did get veggie sushi from a place at the station, though I wish I could more than one cause it was half off and didn’t know till I paid.

Everything then was just waiting around and then the train was delayed, then on time, then delayed but it was on time at the end. Once I got off the station and was walking home that was when I had an issue. I was about half way home and got my phone out to use the torch, then saw my tee had gone. I panicked and then had to ring it was gone) but I managed to find it. It was just across from the station laying on some leaves and I dunno how it got there. It was stuffed in the bag pretty good (or so I thought) and it had lasted the whole gig just fine so.., ugh. At least i got it.

At home I just flopped. I looked into getting the jacket on click and collect (I was gonna today but had to sort something for mum) so that should be in town by the time I go in for Predator Badlands/Keeper. plus I ordered the Lego Star Wars advent calendar cause Amazon had it for £14 off.

I did see the new Mario trailer before heading up and it looks pretty fun and very pretty.

In a bit I’m off for the other opticians appointment, then seeing the new Pokopia vid and tonight is the Taskmaster final which should be fun.

So this is gonna be one of those posts about a bunch of stuff.

First off, good news. So about three weeks ago there was an issue when I went to see Tron Ares/Zoopcalypse, with ticket inspectors being assholes. Short version: the ticket machine wasn’t working and instead of helping people they were being assholes, including not believing people and slapping them with penalty fares. Well it took a few attempts, including having to quote the penalty dar act back to them, but the thing got withdrawn so that’s a stress gone. Also I heard back from the train company when I complained and they also admitted that they were in the wrong and would be reprimanded. So woo!

On Wednesday night I decided to get back to the Doctor Who run, with Planet Of Evil. The ep itself was ok. Like I watched and it was a decent enough story but it’s not one that exactly lingers you know? Also the name is a total misnomer cause the planet isn’t evil.

While the story didn’t feel special the same can’t be said about the sets. The spaceship has a nice model and interiors were nice. But the standout was the jungle of the planet which looks fantastic. The designers did such an incredible job (and even the bbc at the time acknowledged it, the behind the scenes mentions it was included inan in house film about goood design) and it really manages to be such a strange and alien landscape.

Yesterday was the trip out to Telford, which was a place I’d not been to before. It meant an early stuff which is annoying (especially after having one for the prior day) but we got there in good time. (And it was so beautiful seeing all the trees on the way in oranges and yellows) The place overall was… it was fine, but the stores just felt so much smaller than I expected, especially the hmv.

Primark didn’t have the hellfire jacket I wanted (which wasn’t a surprise it seems only bigger stores do) but I got a lil coin purse and a Hellfire tee. The tee is a new design and I can’t help but wonder if that’s significant. (I can’t imagine Dustin changing the design, so I feel it has to mean something? But what I dunno) But cause they didn’t have the jacket mum fixated on it, like making me wanna decide what to do about it. (She kept asking, ‘what’re you gonna do? Are you gonna order it? Are you going to ask your cousin to look for it?’ And I’m like ??? I can’t do any of those things now why can’t you wait till we’re home)

We went in a few places after that. Game didn’t have much, m and s had the new party food so I looked at it but it felt really expensive. (Ie they have mini tacos this year and they’re over twice the price that they were in sainsburys). Then in Pandora they had the Stranger Things charms so I could finally see them (I’ve wanted to see them for about a year but this is the first store that’s had them) and I got the one I always liked. I dunno if mums putting it up for Christmas or if I’m giving the money for it next week.

Then when we got to entertainer and b and m mum just got more agitated about the time so we didn’t do much in either. I got the stranger things tin and glass from b and m though which is nice and I saw the cute new Steve plushie in the entertainer, though I wish I’d picked him up.

HMV was really small and didn’t have stuff I was looking for. I did get two CDs from the 2 for £16, DJO and Twenty One Pilots (mostly to see what the fuss is about with the latter, I do wonder if I should’ve checked for Biffy’s new album instead. As I went to the till I also picked up a Young Frankenstein blu ray which was meant to have 20% (though when I checked the receipt email later didn’t) and an impulse purpose from ‘the discount with purchase’of chainsaw man season 1.(will I regret that? Who knows)

Then we had noms before heading home and aww Midna was so sweeet she just climbed straight into my lap the moment I sat down.

When we got back we were tired, though it seems the tiredness hit mum more. She completed zonked out half way through Art Detectives and didn’t wake for almost two hours. As a result I didn’t see Celebrity Traitors until this lunchtime. I knew there’d been some spoilers so I had avoided them yesterday… but this morning I saw one quickly and mum heard on the radio who won.

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Before that (and I know I’m going backwards but shh) this morning magazines came. I had hoped they’d come yesterday so I could read them in the car but oh well (not that I had reading focus anyway). I’ve not had chance to look at either, but I had a flick through of Sfx. It’s a Stranger Things one and I got a Dustin cover (other options are Will, Mike and Lucas) which is nice, plus there’s a poster, stickers and art card. Next month’s one is also Strnager Things so I’m curious if that’ll have more freebies or covers. Hopefully I’ll be able to read some of it, and the Doctor Who one, tomorrow.

(Also there’s gonna be Stranger Things coming back to Fortnite, I’m hoping for a Steve or Eddie skin. The game only has a Demogorgon, Hopper and Eleven so far)

Also this morning (and again I’m going back) I listened to the new Set It Off album, but just once before walking Naryu. It’s a strange one cause 8 of the 12 songs have already been released which is definitely an odd choice. It’s hard to judge after one full listen of the thing, I feel I definitely like some of the unreleased stuff but I don’t care much about Pathological (the opener and last single) and Ithink it’s an odd choice to have a redone version of an old song take up one slot.

It’s also the release of the new Hyrule Warriors but I’ve not got it yet. Usually I preorder Zelda stuff, but the timing has been so bad. I’m hoping to get it next week (I want it as a download but that means getting an sd card for it which ugh) I do wanna finish Pokémon ZA beforehand though, so I hope to go back on it more this weekend. The thing with ZA is it’s hard to know how far I’m into it. With Pokémon games it’s usually easy, you can track how far you are by how many of 8 badges you have, but with this there’s no clear indicator and I’ve not really wanted to look into it to find out (cause I don’t wanna spoil myself) I guess we’ll see though.

Tonight’s plan is to watch Beyond Paradise, Sister Boniface and hopefully to fic some after noms. This weekend I might watch a film with mum but I dunno what, maybe Hocus Pocus, Fantastic 4 First Steps or both. Or neither if I get too sidetracked, who knows.

So this is gonna be one of those rambly posts about watching stuff. First, Wednesday which I watched Sunday (specifically the ep Woe Thyself).

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Second is Frankenstein which I finally saw yesterday, yipee!

Before getting into that the trailers:
The Bride! - This felt appropriate since the titular bride is a bride for Frankenstein’s creature. It looks like one of those films that could either be fun or terrible and I’m not sure which it’ll be.
Silent Night Deadly Night - I saw this before for Black Phone 2 and my thoughts of it are mostly eh. It’s something I might see if it’s on tv or streaming but I don’t feel I’ll see it
The Housemaid - gotta admit I’m kinda curious about this one, even though I can’t tell the tone exactly from they trailer, but it has Amanda Seyfried from Mamma Mia in (and apparently it’s based on a book)
Wake Up Dead Man - The next follow up to Knives Out and it looks pretty good, I love a murder mystery. I really need to watch Glass Onion before it’s out though. (I do feel bad that it’s called ‘a knives out mystery’ instead of a Benoit Blanc one though)

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Lastly, and even more finally, is the last ep of Stranger Things.

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