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June

Fics wrote: Distraction/Discovery Part 2
Books read: The Seven Dials Mystery
Games done: -
Podcast: Welcome To Night Vale - A Story About Him, Rerun, Mother Lauren, The Night’s End - The Ballroom, Welcome To Night Vale - Rifts, Father Kevin, Detours, Paid Programming, instructions for folding, The Triangle, The John Peters Imaginary Corn Maze Experience, The Book Of Lost Things, Traffic, Swap Meet, chrysalis, patreon preview - broadcasts from the edge, Bought To You By Flakey O’s, Into The Tardis - The Scream Of Ghosts Part 1, Part 2, part 3, part 4, Wave Of Destruction part 1, part 2
Who audios: Storm Warning, The Rani Elite, Robophobia, Ghost In The Machine
Other Big Finish stuff: -
Comics read: The Umbrella Academy Plan B 1, Exquisite Corpses 1, Rise Of Hellfire 4
Graphic novels read: High Republic Adventures - Saber For Hire

Things watched
Amazon Prime: Deadware
Blu Ray: Better Man
DVD: -
Disney+: Phineas And Ferb - Summer Blockbuster/Cloudy With A Chance Of Mom, Captain America Brave New World, American Horror Story - Dark Cousin, Unholy Night, Phineas And Ferb - Submarine Sandwich Submarine/License To Bust, Dry Another Day/Deconstructing Doof, NCIS Hawaii - The Tourist, Phineas And Ferb - Tropey McTropeface/Biblio-Blast!
Netflix: -
Shudder: Hell Motel - Blood Bath, Night Orchid, Mirror Moves
YouTube: Ghost Files - Ryan & Shane Provoke Civil War Ghosts At Clayton House, James Marriott - Something’s Wrong, Sith Lord Qimir Kills Yord Fandar, 5 Seconds Of Summer - Teeth, Hasbro pulse Star Wars fanstream, Atlas - Anodyne, Donkey Kong Bonanza Direct, The 5 Seconds Of Summer Show - 5Sauce, Ghost Files - Ryan And Shane Hunt Ghosts At The Creepy Maag Family Farmhouse, Set It Off - Rotten
Cinema: Clown In A Cornfield

So it’s time for another monthly round up and I’m doing it the first day of the month instead of… whenever I’ve done it before.

As always some of this stuff has been covered in other things. (Like my thoughts on Deadware and how much I enjoyed Clown In A Cornfield.) I finished another year of Night Vale and it was one of those ‘glad that was over’ finales, mostly cause I detest Lauren but at least she’s seemingly gone.

I’ve also been really enjoying the new Phineas and Ferb, it’s such a fun show and it makes me laugh! Which I think we all need in these trying times. I also enjoyed Saber For Hire which I read last night, despite carrying it around for months. I still need to read through the rest of the free comic book day comics though. Oops.

Most telling is I watched nothing on Netflix, which is again down to the lack of focus from the heat. One day I WILL finish Stranger Things. (And again I’d have finished Dredge’s story if it wasn’t for the heat)

There’s been a few Who audios I’ve listened to both as their own thing and as Into The Tardis eps (mostly due to the heat). So I’m gonna make comments on them

*Storm Warning - This one was really entertaining, it was nice to see how Eight and Charley met and I really liked how they worked together and the story (on an airship which was on a secret mission) was pretty cool.
*The Rani Elite - I wanted to like this, because I’d wanted to hear the Rani audios for awhile but I wasn’t fully sold on it. Six and Peri were really good though as well as some of the concepts. I hope the other Rani audio is a bit better though
*Robophobia - A solo ep for Seven with a guest companion. It having the Robots from Robots of death was a huge draw and it was pretty good in some ways but… I dunno. Maybe it’s cause I’m not much of a Seven fan.
*Ghost In The Machine - this one was really good, I loved how it played with audio (with Jo recording woah at was happening on a tape recorder and rewinding/replaying things) and it was really creepy at times. Kudos to Katy Manning and her voice work being able to play multiple characters and actually sound threatening,
*The Scream Of Ghosts - this was really entertaining! It’s another one with Jo, this time with the third doctor, Benton and the Brigadier! This was the first audio with the Brigadier with someone taking on the role and that could easily have gone badly but they made the right call with Jon Culshaw really pulling his voice off. Also who’d expect the Vardans to show up and be a threat
*Wave Of Destruction - The vardans show up again! This time with four and second Romana, which worked pretty well. My main grip was the one Vardan had a voice that was really grating but other than that it was pretty good.

Now I’m see about going on Dredge, maybe to finish the story. (And despair about politicians being idiots)

Post time! Mostly Who related cause oh boy that was a lot.

Friday night I finished the second Classic Doctors New Monsters 2 with Day Of The Vashta Nerada which may be my fav of the four stories. It’s an Eighth Doctor story and the audios of him always make me sad he never got a full televised series. But this was such a great story obviously it’s inspired by Jurassic park (one of the guys even has a name similar to Nedry).

Also yesterday I finished the year of Night Vale I was listening too and damn, I’m so glad that the university of what it is arc is over cause I hated Doctor Lubelle (even more so in those last ep) but damn her fate felt so fitting and so satisfying.

The rest of the day was spent distracting myself by watching Murder She Wrote and playing fortnite and generally avoiding the internet causa spoilers cause we get major warnings that something was going down.

Thoughts on the Doctor Who ep, The Interstellar Song contest which despite the name is not the fun camp ep you might expect. (And there’s gonna be major spoilers cause it’s an ep that, again surprisingly, has some)

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After that I watched the actual song contest and, like before it was good but felt… I dunno. And then there was the end were Isreal somehow came second and it’s obvious that it’s down to Zionists just voting en masse and rigging the system. Thankfully they didn’t win and Austria did but it’s still disappointing both they were there and people were giving then 12’s.

Bleh.

Today I watched Rogue One which I wanted to do after Andor, as many others have cause it’s the number 1 film on Disney+ right now. And damn the whole thing is so good but I’m surprised how many things just.l. Gave me extra feels this time. It wasn’t just the scenes with Cassian (especially the last one), it was Galen’s message, it was the sense that so much was sacrificed to get to this point. And also that Krennic had a very bad not good few days with leaks and how he ended up screwed over just like Dedra did. (And damn him saying ‘Who are you?’ too)

Now it’s time to poke the laptop before dnd and then… who knows?

So the past few days have been a big drain between stress, headache and depression/anxiety which all feels like it’s feeding into each other which is exhausting. So I haven’t got round to finishing snowflake or done much of anything.

However turps posted about this meme so I’m gonna do so it’s a drive by thing of good recent things cause who knows if I’ll have focus again to talk about these things individually.



You could say technically the first post for this was the recent song Saturday but I didn’t think to include it oop.



First is something I mentioned in a recent post, the new Magic Arena set came out. It’s a game I love and I feel it works best doing it digitally (so you don’t have to worry about finding people in real life and cause it does all the things automatically/prompts you for things you’d forget). I’d say the only downside has been it skipped the recent Doctor Who stuff but I hope they come cause they look awesome.

Anyway the new set is called Murders At Karlov Manor and it’s a murder mystery type deal. They’re been doing a special Claudio set based on ti which is cool. I’m liking the new mechanics and stuff, though as with all new stuff it’s a bit tricky to get used to. But look! The set mastery thing has a lil mile friend! They’re so cute! And I love how some of the cards are mystery tropes too (there’s even a card called Red Herring).



I probably shoulda posted this in the recent post, but ahh! Sleep Token ticket confirmation! It’s still wild that I’m seeing them (their last album, Take Me Back To Eden, is so awesome) though I admit nerves are setting in since it’s my first arena gig in years and I know it’ll be crazy and expensive and peoplely ugh. But it’ll hopefully be worth it.



There is an advantage to my eyes aching and that’s that it means I listen to audio stuff more. First off over past few days (well just over a week) I’ve listened to this. Eighth Of March is a boxset that was done for International Women’s Day a few years back. The four audios are naturally focussed on female characters, though the only connection is that they’re set on Eighth Of March but in various times and places.

Since there’s nothing connecting them, they’re all very different but I found I enjoyed them all and it’s tricky to pick which one was my favourite. The first story, Emancipation, has River and Leela together which somehow works really well. I’ve not listened to any of the River Song audios (despite having some from Humble Bundle and a previous freebie) but that makes me curious. The second, The Big Blue Book, has Benny and Ace. Beeny’s an audio only character and I’d not heard her before but, again, this has made me curious. They really bounced off each other really well.

Third is Inside Every Warrior, which was with The Paternoster Gang of Jenny, Strax and Vastra. Apparently it was the first one done with the three of them which was a surprise but they work so well together as always. Though again it makes me sad they’ve not been on screen in so long. Lastly was Narcissus which was a UNIT story, with Kate and the Osgoods which I think worked really well too. It was the first one I’ve heard that’s featured the double Osgood too so it makes me curious about the audio UNIT’s timeline. (I’ve tried to keep thoughts general so I don’t reveal plot spoilers for the eps in case anyone wants to listen)



I also finished The Tenth Doctor Volume 3 at last, I think it took me so long to listen to the last one, The Creeping Death, cause it was the least interesting from the description but actually I really enjoyed it and one of the last scenes was crazy. I love how easily the Doctor and Donna are with each other, they really are so great together. And also it’s wild that the setting was a thing that happened. Like what do you mean there was a smog cloud so sever in London it killed people?



Speaking of finishing things, I finished Super Mario Wonder at last. I got it for my birthday (cause it came out the same day)and it was a lot of fun! Though cause of various things it’s took me awhile. When I came back to it the other week I realised I only had two main worlds to do and Bowser’s castle so I’ve took this week to do them all. I didn’t expect to do Bowser’s castle yesterday but I ended up doing that thing of ‘one more level’ about three times and then finished it. So all I have left is a few levels I missed and the bonus world.

Over all though? I really enjoyed it! It’s definitely a lot of fun. And if you’ve enjoyed 2D Mario before I think you’ll like this. I loved that this was in a completely new and different place as well, outside the mushroom kingdom and the poplin natives are so cute.

The game also has a new gimmick where each level has a wonder seed, which changes the way the level is played. I was a bit dubious about it at first, but actually they’re really fun! And you never know what you’re gonna get with them. One world can have a wonder seed which makes all the enemies sing (which is so cut!) another can change the level to a top down view, another can turn you into an enemy or a spiked ball. They’re all pretty inventive and they are really fun. I think the only thing I’ve not liked so much is the badge challenge stages cause some of them can feel needlessly hard.

I was gonna do a few more little things but I think that’s enough for now and my head is getting more achy again so I’m gonna end it there and maybe do those last things another day.

December

Fics wrote: Kuopio Needs Drummers part 1 + 2, We Stand Up part 1 +2+3, The Best Present, The Gift
Books read: read some Quest For Planet X
Games done: The Dark Pictures Anthology: House Of Ashes, The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me
Podcast: -
Who audios: The Ninth Doctor Adventures Ravers: Cataclysm, Food Fight, The Isos network part 1-4, The Paternoster Gang: Family Matters, Whatever Remains, 10th Doctor Adventures: No Place, The Paternoster Gang: Truth And Bone, 10th Doctor Adventures: One Mile Down
Comics read: -
Graphic novels read: -

Things watched
Amazon Prime: -
Blu Ray: -
Crunchyroll: -
Disney+: Muppet Treasure Island, Muppet Christmas Carol, The Emperor’s New Grove
Netflix: The Big Nailed It Baking Challenge episode 1 +2 +3 +4
Shudder: -
YouTube: Bricks by mind: nether ambush review, unboxing, shadow the hedgehog review, animal sanctuary review, a bit more Willne: James and Will Review Celebrity Products, I spent $1000 on Facebook marketplace, Will and James Christmas Cook Off, Atreyu: Baptize, Devolver Public Access Holiday Special 2023, Atreyu: Warrior, Becoming The Bull, Long Live
Cinema: -

A few weeks late but here’s December’s monthly round up. As I with a lot of months there’s so many gaps, mostly due to stress/depression making focus bad. But! I did finish the Dark Pictures Anthology which I do absolutely recommend, especially Devil In Me. I’m super excited for the next one whenever it’s coming.

And I also finished another Heritage set of The Paternoster Gang (and finished the last one this month) which were pretty good for the most part. It makes me so sad that they’ve not had a series, or appeared on Who in general, but maybe that will change soon?

The other Who audios were on BBC sounds. The ninth doctor one was very timey wimey, so bare that in mind though. The tenth Doctor ones were ones I got for Christmas and the Tenth Doctor and Donna are so great together

But yeah a lot of gaps, I do hope that this year there’ll be less gaps.

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Last few days have been semi productive. I finished a fic and hoped that would spark doing more, but alas it hasn’t. Mostly that’s due to it being really cold and also because of yesterday. (I had hoped to do one of the shorter wips cause I suspect tomorrow I’ll wanna do a James thing)

But yeah it has bygone really cold, it just feels freezing inside the house and it’s made my fingers so cold. The main issue is that, because Midna and Naryu curl up on us, we can’t shift to turn the heating or heater on (as they are dead weights and refuse to move alone). When outside it’s been so cold and I shrill can’t find my gloves so I might have to find some. Apparently it’s meant to snow soon which? Ugh

Yesterday we ended up going to Sainsburys to see if they had cat litter. I wasn’t keen on going since it meant walking in the cold and I thought it’d be a wasted trip. But they did have some though it was exhausting getting back. As mentioned in the last one I also got a Lego bond car, which I made up last night and looks pretty cool though doesn’t have any features other than changing number plates (of which there’s eight).

Yesterday afternoon mum went with my cousin to see my uncle cause he’s had some infection due to his treatment but… eh I find it hard to care. Nor do I care about the gossip mum got about my cousins either. They didn’t care about us or my grandparents when we needed to so why should I now? Eh.

This week I have been watching Seapeekay’s subathon stream, which I’ve dipped in and out of but it’s been mostly fun, especially since he’s been playing Cult Of The Lamb (meaning he’s the third streamer to do so along with Foolish and Eret) and it’s impressive how far he’s got in it on the new save. (When I left last night he’d unlocked sin) he’s gonna do a horror game tonight but I dunno what it is yet.

Tonight’s the xbox showcase thing which I’m curious about watching because there’s Indiana Jones and ESO info, though it’ll just remind me how far behind I am on ESO. I still haven’t finished up on High Isle/Firesong stuff and haven’t started Necrom despite having it since release. Damnit. Another thing for the list.

Also what is it with stuff today? Cause the Magnus Archives follow up has just gone live though I dunno when I’ll get to listen.

Tomorrow is the gig in Birmingham, which on the one hand I’m looking forward to on the other. Ugh there’s already issues. The minor one is I’d hoped to make it a day and see a film, but all the ones I’d have wanted to see either have ended (Night Swim/Aquaman) or had their times too late (The Boy And The Heron). Not only the but the train back is a bus replacement partway which is always an annoying. I’m not looking forward to that cause buses tend to be so much colder than trains.

But on the other hand, the game in Birmingham has the Shadow set in stock so I should be able to get it and James posted merch pics so I have some idea what to get (though he does say he has a extra ‘surprise’ thing which ??). I’m not gonna head to the venue though until about an hour before doors open because fuck waiting in the freezing cold like an idiot. (Though I hope the time on the venues site is right cause it means I should be able to see Jago at merch)

Now though I’m gonna watch the last The Upper Hand ep, maybe fic and watch the Xbox thing.

It’s the Friday before christmas and I dunno if anyone else feels like this, but it doesn’t feel like christmas at all. Like, it feels like there should be at least another or something before it not that it’s in a few days.

I know for me it might be due to the anxiety and uni stress. But I dunno, is it a general feeling?

The past few days my head ahas been a bit achy which has made my eyes feel funny in the nights which has been so irritating. I’ve wanted to work on stuff and game but my head’s not had the best focus which has been annoying. Bleh.

On the plus side it’s emant I listened to some Who audios. I listened to the Isos Network on bbc sounds which was the first second Doctor audio I’ve heard. I was so surprised by how good the person voicing the second Doctor was, and was surprised when I saw the cast list that it was Frazer Hines (who was also voicing Jamie) which was such a surprise. It was also a little strange as him and Wendy Padbury (the voice of Zoe) also did narration which I’ve not heard in other ones. I’m not sure what I feel about that, cause it does set scenes but took a bit of getting used to.

I also listened to one of the Paternoster Gang audios last night and I felt so hard for Madame Vastra. Her commentary on the human race and how it deals with those that are different, was sadly spot on and feels even more true now. Sadly. I might put on the next one later.

I did manage to game some yesterday. Baldur’s Gate downloaded but a patch came out yesterday so I couldn’t play right away. So in the afternoon I ended up finally going back in Jedi Survivor. I didn’t do much but I did get off Coruscant (the last thing I did was landing on Koboh) so I’m excited to get back.

I did manage to do some on Baldur’s Gate last night and I spent half an hour on character creation making my character, a Drow Bard called Callum (my in game names are often a sign of whatever fixation I have so make of of that what you will). He looks so cool and I’m excited to do more. He even has vicious mockery which I remember Maxx using when he did dnd! I did a bit of the game on the ship, and I ended just after waking Shadowheart.

(I just got an Astarion tee from qwertee, despite not meeting him yet oop)

Today I had a delivery, missing parts from the advent calendar and the dungeons and dragons magazine thing I got from the Black Friday offer. So now I have doubles of the first two issues and the dice. Oop.

I also did some iconning but then the laptop needed yet another update (thats four now!) which ugh! Is anyone good at getting screencaps though? I need to get some for icons but I’m hopeless.

Tomorrow I’m gonna be going out insanely early to pick up a food order and do a food shop which I know is gonna be exhausting and stressful. Ugh. I hope I’ll be able to rest when I get back and work on stuff but ughh. I fully expect I’ll just flop, eat my veggie sushi and watch the dickens stuff on sky arts.

I hope everyone has a nice christmas/yule/new year (and any other celebrations too) I hope everyone has a nice time and gets to rest.

I’m ending this post with Eret pics, because I can and because she looks hot.

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Time for another random update post.

After the last post I ended up listening to the 10th Doctor Who audios I had, which were from the first 10th Doctor boxset. As such the three of them all featured Donna and damn, hearing them together was so great. Their chemistry is still there and they’re so fun together, they really made the three audios. I think the first one was the best of the three, with the third a close second and the middle one was still good but not as good as I thought it’d be from the description. Still it was great hearing them again! Next of the Humblebundle I’m gonna try is the New Earth one but I dunno when I’ll get around to it.

Last week mum bought an Agatha Christie quick reads from the library that had came in so I ended up reading it (so she can give it to her colleague Tuesday). It was four short stories so I read them this week. Of the four three of them I recognised as episodes of the show so I knew roughly how they’d play out. It was interesting how the series expanded them to fit the run time but they worked well as little mysteries. It was funny that I got the big boxset at Christmas and yet…. This is the first Christie thing I’ve read. Oop.

A few days ago I was woken by mum crying out from downstairs. The last time this happened I found her on the floor from a fall so i left my glasses and came down as fast as I could. This time she hadn’t fallen, but while moving some cat little she somehow hurt her leg. We can’t figure out exactly how she’s done it. She didn’t fall and it’s not as if she hit herself with the litter. Regardless of the cause it’s meant she’s been unable to to do much, so Naryu hasn’t been walked further than the square outside (she keeps pulling back whenever I try to take her further). It does seem to be doing a bit better now as she can walk a bit better but still. I told her when it happened she should call the doctor only for her to say not to, in part because of the walk (she was in pain at that point and walking up the hill was a hard prospect) and she doesn’t know where the number is which is…

I’ve been doing a bit more on Ghost Trick the last few nights and I’m gonna try to finish it tonight. The puzzles are so clever and I’m so curious to see how it all plays out.

Twitter has decided to rebrand as X which just might be the stupidest rebrand in history. Seriously you’ve gone from twitter to… that. I’ve had to stop automatic app updates because I don’t want to lose the cute twitter icon and see it replaced by the horrible x. Honestly Elon is such an idiot for this, but then again it’s been pretty clear what an idiotic, moronic fool he is since he took over. Who wants to bet they’ll backtrack soon?

Of course the problem with twitter decaying over the past months is, like with LJ and tumblr before, people have scattered to the wind and I’ve… no kept up. I know there’s blue sky and threads and miss key but I’m just…. I dunno which one is good and who has gone where and I just feel so… lost. Fuck Elon and his stupidity.

I’ve been watching the proms on tv and yesterday was the Bollywood one. I wasn’t sure what to expect because I’ve never watched one. But it was fun! The main singer, Palak, had such a pretty dress and she had such a great voice. Maybe I should see if there’s one to watch at some point but I have no idea where to start and I’ve been so bad at having focus for subtitled tuff in general lately.

Unfortunately the internet has started to be bitchy again. It was only a few times the last few days and I wrote it off at first because there’s some construction going on outside. However today it went terrible again, cutting out near constantly earlier and I just… when it calmed I contacted talktalk and they’re gonna send someone to check the line (again!) and just… ugh. I hope it’s sorted soon and doesn’t get worse tomorrow. (I’d change but if it is an issue on the line than changing providers wouldn’t help)

Yesterday I managed to finish a ficlet so maybe the block is gone (I’m not sure about that though). Maybe I’ll get back to a wip, although I kinda wanna do a tentacle thing.

Also one of my fav fic series got a surprise update last night (woo!) and the prompt I left in the bandom thing has been claimed so hopefully there’ll be something there soon.

I was trying to sort out the Apple Arcade earlier and it was giving me such issues with Apple Pay. I’m not sure why, maybe it was the net issues, but I managed to sort it. So Hello Kitty Island Adventure is ready to go!

I’m gonna finish watching the new Brokenwood ep now, then maybe start Island Adventure, watch a stream and ghost trick. And cross my fingers that net will behave.

The past few days have ended up being low energy, because even though my stomach is (mostly) settled it has left me drained and my people battery is severely depleted. As such my energy has been pretty… mid to low.

One good thing about having the laptop open Sunday for Dodongos was that I could look through some of the Who audio folder. I’d got a bunch from various humble bundles but I’ve not really listened to them, hence I’d decided to add Who audios to the monthly round up this year. By going through humble bundle I also found I’d got a third folder of stuff that I’d not got on the laptop so now I have even more to go through oop. (Thankfully it seems none are in the offer from the recent Who magazine, so I’m still pondering on those before month’s end)

While going through them I spotted that one of the things was a UNIT boxset so decided I’d try and listen to it this week. I listened to first story Tuesday and the second one today. They’re each part of an overarching story of the boxset so they’re not standalones in the slightest (the first is mostly set up) but it is pretty good so far. The concept introduced in the first one is an absolute genius idea that I could totally see in an ep of the show (involving Nestenes, autons and 3D printers). I might listen to the next ones in the coming mornings too (id have listened to more Tuesday but of course the laptop decided it needed a system update)

Tuesday afternoon was spent watching Shoto’s stream while building up the dragonite I got from the prime day sale. The dragonite is so adorable and friend shaped, although I think I’ve messed up the mechanism because the wings (which are supposed to flap when you turn a knob) don’t move smoothly.

Also about Pokémon I watched the twitch episode stream only it wasn’t a continuation of the eps from last week. Instead it was a bunch of random episodes loosely connected by the concept of diving. As such they had nothing to do with each other and we’re all over the place (though it amused me that first five, despite all being different regions, all featured Brock). They were still entertaining and most I’d not seen before which was good (and I especially liked seeing mimikyu) but it was still odd. Tonight’s should be continuing from last week which is good.

And again about Pokémon, the Pokémon sleep app is out which I downloaded and used that same night. Cute Pokémon sleeping is always nice! I hope we get Bulbasaur.

I missed out on the final game pass reward on fall guys (the bonus one that needed an absurd amount of levels) but the new one is out now. I had enough show bucks from the last one so it’s essentially free, and I love the capybara outfit you get from unlocking it.

There’s new Lego Star Wars reveals from Comic con (which feels like it’ll be a bit quieter because of the, extremely valid, strikes going on) and the new Ahsoka ones all look cool. I might get the two pack of fighters for Christmas, though it depends what the interiors of the others look like (I suspect the Ahsoka shuttle isn’t gonna have one which is disappointing).

The Doctor Who magazine came yesterday which looks nice because it has David Tennant and Catherine Tate on the front. I’ve not read their interview yet, but I might later. Nor is there a date for the season 20 boxset alas. I did read the anniversary poll results for the tenth and eleventh doctor episodes and some of them are… puzzling. Like, how is Human Nature/Family of Blood at 2nd for 10? And how is Army Of Ghosts/Doomsday not top 10? People are strange

I did end up getting one of those things I had my eye on (I’m still debating on the other) though it’s not coming until late August and needs something else, though i can sort that when it’s here.

The Xbox summer sale started last week but there’s nothing too much (Jedi Survivor is still too much). I might pick up a few of the indie games on my wish list that are down to a couple of quid. Other than that there’s Age Of Empires 2 dlc (though it’s hard to find exact info on which is the best one), Dredge (which looks cool but I want the disc version because it has physical bonus stuff) and the Dark Pictures Anthology (which seems to be a good deal for the set even though I mostly want the last one). There’s usually an article on the sites I go on about which are good deals/games to get but there hasn’t been yet. (Has anyone played/watched the anthology and have thoughts?)

(My indecisiveness lately has been incredibly strong)

I was hoping to go on Ghost Trick some more but I’ve been too tired for much of gaming. I have set up the Switch again so I should be able to get back on Zelda soon though, again, it’s about energy.

Now thought I’m gonna eat and then? Who knows.

Yesterday sure ended up being A Day.

Shortly after making the last post I had an email about my Disney package. After two days of (apparently) intense searching the package didn’t turn up and they said to contact Disney directly. I did just that and they said it was an ‘urgent matter’ and they’d reply within 48 hours. Which was good but also stressful (keep that in mind).

Lovejoy’s ep came in the post which was good but I think I scared the postman by opening the door. I’ve not put it on the laptop yet but the art is nice. Oddly it doesn’t have a booklet which is a shame.

While waiting for Zelda I went on Pokémon and got to the bottom of Area Zero. Something definitely felt off about the professor but I was getting close to Selda’s delivery time so didn’t go further with it (I could’ve gone further)

Zelda was supposed to come between 7:09 and 11:09, but it didn’t arrive until after 12 alas. The box is nice, Nintendo did a special Zelda design inside the packaging and the extras are nice (though I still wish I had the collectors one).

I started it after walking the pup and food. I guess they don’t have horror movies in hyrule because going into secret forbidden tunnels instantly seemed like a bad idea and, predictably, something was buried down there. But at least we got Link shirtless and a new kinda hot ghost guy.

I spent most of my playtime yesterday on the first island and I’ve done three of the shrines before my eyes got too achy (from the stress, tiredness or having to use these old glasses. Or some mix of the three. Bleh. I love the steward constructs though they’re cute and yay koroks! I’m gonna go back on soon.

Before the third shrine I paused for a bit and watched the big Eurovision party on bbc 3. It was shown awhile back but I’m glad it was on again because it was fun (and poignant with the section with the Ukrainian acts). It’s worth it alone for the Subwoolfer performance so catch it on iplayer if you can!

I was gonna watch the two Eurovision shows after it but did the third shrine on Zelda instead and then my eyes went achy. Instead I put on a Who audio I’d got with one of the magazines, Night Of The Vashta Nerada which was spooky (of course) and also sad (and featured a idiot corporate executive: as well as Pam Ferris who sounded like she was having fun as a pest control person). I had to pause it last night and finish it this morning though.

I hoped today would be a nice day, with Zelda followed by Eurovision but alas there has been more stress.

Remember the Disney package that Evri had lost? Well it turned up today but ugh there’s more annoyance. I only knew it arrived because I saw an email notification pop up saying it had been ‘delivered and signed for’ whoever I hadn’t heard mum go to the door so assumed it had been left at the other house with the same number. But nope! It was left right outside the door where anyone could see it (or it could get damaged from the rain if there had been any). Secondly the tape wasn’t secure and then when I opened it the Loth Cat and Wampa galaxy’s edge creatures weren’t in the boxes they should have been. And the mystery box was missing too despite being in stock when I made the order. Ugh. So I’ve had to reply to Disney’s email ugh that info (apparently Evri have fucked up next door’s order in the same way as mine so I’m not sure if that’s a relief or a worry).

Secondly I had a letter which, ugh gave me more stress. I’m meant to have an appointment next month which is over the phone (which is stressful and ugh) only this letter says it’s in person (which is worse) so now I have to call up Monday to find out which it is and why which is something I don’t particularly want or need. Ugh.

Then when we go to walk Naryu mum decides to stress me out over other things too which isn’t great as my head is a bundle of stress (over package, over glasses, over that appointment, over general depression/anxiety things) which.. ugh

I’m gonna watch a Young Jedi Adventures now (with my Nubs plush from the package, which is so cute!) and then hope on Zelda and maybe have a nap before Eurovision.

Close to the end of the AMA posts now with two questions left it’s from sourgreen (here’s the post if you wanna ask anything)

what is your favourite fruits? (like top 5 maybe)

There’s a saying that came to mind when I saw this today about the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

So in that sense there’s two ways of answering.

The knowledge way has peppers, tomato’s avocado and cucumber as favs, all of which I enjoy having in stuff like salads and sushi (and stuffed peppers too, but not the green ones green ones are bitter and bleh).

The wisdom ones are grapes (unironically), bananas, mangos, peaches and pineapple. Which are all nice. I do like most fruits in general (though I’m not a fan of oranges). I also like lime flavoured things but limes aren’t good things to eat alone like those things are. Also I don’t care pineapple on pizza is great!

I’m absolutely sure I’m forgetting an obvious things, as always with these things (I thought of some things for the food one after posting it for example)

Funnily I went on Microsoft rewards this morning and the poll was what’s your favourite fruit between mango and banana. I went with mango.

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The past few days I’ve felt kinda eh which has been a mix of low energy (in part, I think from my head being chaotic Sunday) but also it’s been mentally low too (culminating in yesterday when my mindset crashed). I’m not sure if it’s a general depression/anxiety thing (though it feels like anxiety) but my eyes have been achy so it might be something else too. I did feel woozy this morning too so I am wondering if it’s some sort of sickness but I’m not sure.

Bleh.

Because of the aforementioned eyes aching I did put on the last the war Doctor audio on bbc sounds The Enigma Dimension. I did relate to Leela feeling (seemingly random) sadness though I don’t thing they used her too well in these stories. (Which I don’t think was helped by her being not herself in both). It’s also a bit sad because it’s the last one John Hurt did before he passed which is a shame. It was a good enough ep but I dunno. I think an issue with the war Doctor stuff is that they’re pretty depressing but not only that there’s the daleks constantly doing all these evil insane things during the war which are only barely stopped by the Doctor and time lords… so why haven’t the post time war daleks done this stuff? (And also the war doctor doesn’t want to be called doctor but he doesn’t provide an alternate name so people just call him it anyway)

A few days ago I saw Seapeekay mention playing marvel snap and enjoying it so I decided to try it and… it is, damnit. It’s actually quite good and I’ve been on it a fair bit these past days. Damnit

Magic arena had a new update with the new set and I had luck with the first of the free packs giving me a planeswalker. Unfortunately it’s Chandra, who is red and the rest of the packs I’ve had seem to be hardly giving me red stuff (or white for the Elspeth planeswalker I got too). Maybe I’ll do another draft to attempt to get a red/white deck (I’m kinda kicking myself not getting the red praetor in the other one I did). Maybe I’ll do that later

Qsmp has been cute and wild, Quackity decided to start a school for the eggs which felt like it would be nefarious but ended up being sweet with little tallulah and eggs doing adorable art. (I think whatever grief based revenge he was planning is gonna die) And then Wilbur went live yesterday at 2am which I missed so watched the vod this morning and awww Tallulah is the cutest bundle of sunshine and her little flute and awww! And of course Quackity comes and bes both a menace and horny. And Roier being so sweet.

But damn Quackity coming up with those eggs has been just a genius idea because everyone is so so attached (perhaps to an unhealthy degree) which is so sweet. I suspect they might be kept in the server longer than planned. But I guess we’ll see because there’s definitely something strange having too.

The las Nevadas merch is also finally on the way though tracking stopped a week ago in London (why would it need to take an internal flight instead of being driven?)

Again as mentioned above yesterday my mindset went weird all day and odd which was so annoying. Though there were some good things.

The Mandalorian finale was yesterday and after all the theorising and assuming something bad/heartbreaking would happen it was actually a great episode, resolving a bunch of things and also setting out how next season will go.

I also finally started Resident Evil 4 (deciding to do it instead of waiting to finished Resident Evil 2). The villain Leon outfit is so hot (and has glowy red eyes!) and I managed over two sessions (in the afternoon and night) to get to the end of chapter one and finding Luis gagged. Also it has a photo mode which’ll be useful for getting screencaps as long as I rememebr it (which I haven’t at times Oop).. so expect a Leon or Luis icon soon.

There was alsoIndie world showing off some new upcoming indie games for the switch,most of which sound interesting. I think the one I’ll definitely get is Oxenfree 2 (I remember enjoying the first one) while other ones I want more info on. Also cult of the lamb’s new update goes leave next week! Woo! I need to get back on it. here’s the full announcement list

Today my mindset seems a little better but as mentioned I feels woozy (and my stomach feels funny) so I hope lunch will help settle it but if not? I dunno.

Zelda is in three weeks now and I’ve not done anything to any of the three things I wanna do before it comes out: finish reading Lesser Known Monsters, do more/finish Pokémon Biolet (which I’ve not been back on in so long Oop) and finish fic (which even looked at in a few days annoyingly). I wanna get all three done by then but hopefully I can do at least one before Zelda takes over my focus.

The past few days have been a bit off. My head’s felt a bit headachy and off, which I think is down to the storms that have rolled in the past few nights. It’s meant I’ve neither got back to Resident Evil 2 or watched anything on shudder like I was going to (the latter especially last night when I ended up zoning out instead)

Sigh.

There has been some Who related stuff though. On Wednesday (unexpectedly early) the new Doctor Who magazine came. I’ve not had much chance to look through it yet (just the review of season 9) but I might do it soon. I am annoyed that I was holding off on doing the 3rd and 4th Doctor ranking thing cause of season 9 cause that’s closed now and it’s now 5th and 6th, which is annoying cause there really needs to be a 5th Doctor boxset soon.

One of the past nights I also put in one of the Who audios that was on BBC sounds lately, which is the the first part of the last War Doctor set with John Hurt before he passed. But fuck was it so depressing, with the start and end having the daleks being cunts and just… ugh. It was depressing. I’m hoping the other two stories are better, because they have Leela.

I also heard back from Lost In Time’s support and they say they’re gonna look into it so maybe I can get my progress back? But I’m not hopefully. The new event also seems kinda strange too, though kudos for them trying something different I guess.

Since mum’s kindle acted up and she didn’t wanna take it to get fixed she got a new one (luckily the Amazon sale crossed over with her money going in) and it came yesterday, just after we ate. It’s odd though, because as soon as I opened it all I did was select language and country…. And somehow it had access to the account and wi-fi without me putting in the info for either. How did it do that? Did it somehow sync with the old one or maybe the tv? Either way it’s… odd.

That’s it really I haven’t done much else (ep other than Fortnite event stuff). I did try and go back to the thing I started ficcing Monday but I can’t seem to word it right for some reason. Maybe I’ll look at something else later.

Brief Picard thoughts ahoy.

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Tomorrow it’s the trip to the cinema to see Dungeons And Dragons, because it looks so fun. (I am jealous of people in America AMC seems to have d20 popcorn buckets and tankards which looks so cool!) the plan is to go in a few places too, maybe have McDonald’s as well and make it a nice day. As long as it’s not terrible weather again

It’s also the first day of April (already??) so hopefully I’ll post the first AMA and the monthly round up before I go in the morning. And then at night there’s MCC which I’ll likely end up watching Ranboo.

I’m sure I was gonna say something else but it’s gone out my head.