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It’s the last AMA which, like the last day, is from

sourgreen

in a zombie apocalypse, what/who would you want with you?

It’s ironic I’m answering this now right as I’m watching the Xbox uk stream Dead Island 2 which, as the name suggests, is a game that has zombies. (I’m not sure if it’s an global apocalypse or if it’s local but it still applies).

I don’t think I’d be too useful in a zombie apocalypse. I’m not fast or strong, I have no useful skills, I can’t drive and have no weapons. I think if one happened I’d just hide with the pets until we ran out of food.

So I think I’d need to be with people that would be combat trained. This I’m currently playing Resident Evil 4 I’m gonna go with Leon, he can handle weapons, he’s strong, he has combat skills plus he’s pretty. And he’s actually survived a zombie incident.

I think we’d also need someone has food or farming knowledge. However no one specific that has those skills is coming to mind. There’s probably someone really obvious.

I’m trying to think what other skills that would be necessary to survive but I can’t really think of anything. So I think we’d need other things as well. I think we’d need someone like Slimecicle to keep spirts up cause he’s funny, Foolish is also fun (plus pretty, plus buff) and I think Ray or one of the ways would have absorbed some skills from zombie films. And obviously the people I cared about irl cause I want them safe.

But honestly my brain is going a bit blank and, again, I know I’m missing someone super super obvious So I might edit some in if they come to mind.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Xbox uk stream

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.

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: ReefGames stream

Another two AMA, I meant to do the one on its own then got too sidetracked and decided it was best to double up

14: What's your favourite kind of weather, and what do you like to do on days like that?

yarnofariadne

So this I have two main answers and it all depends on one thing: if I have to be outside in it.

See I love stormy weather (despite it giving me headaches sometimes) I love going to bed and hearing the heavy rain come down against the windows. I do like playing something spooky too while there’s rain (or watching a horror thing) cause it adds to it. However a storm is not good weather to be outside in, especially if you’re far from home.

So if I’m outside I like there to be nice weather, so sunny but not… warm. (See last summer when it was absurdly hot and I couldn’t do anything). In that weather it’s nice to walk Naryu and we tend to take her a bit further (we haven’t recently due to bad weather and mum’s ankle still aching sometimes).

I also like snow,as it’s good weather to be out in as well as watch. Though it often means here that there’s ice under it which makes walking treachous. Though our old pup loved the snow so much he’d go crazy and roll in it so much he’d look like a sheep, which was always cute.

17: What is your favourite food?

turlough

There’s a few foods that I really like. I love veggie sushi, and blue Doritos are my snack of choice when watching stuff at home alone. (I need to get more I dunno why they’re becoming harder to get)

I also love chilli cheese things though they can be subjective. Sometimes they overdo the chilli, other times they underdo it. I’ve had times when, from the same packet, they have been both extremes and the inconsistency can be so annoying,

Something I’ve not had for awhile, but really love is having a Pizza Hut buffet deal where you pay so much and can just have as much as you can. Yeah it’s random and it depends on the selection and how busy It is but if you get the right time? It’s so good.

And there’s also taffy, which I love but it’s so hard to find here. I did find a uk place one time but didn’t have the money to make an order at the time and I dunno if I saved the link. (And jelly beans are nice too!j

I’m sure I’ve missed something obvious as well,

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Yesterday my head was so annoying because I woke and it went haywire which ended up being so draining and bleh. There was a minor version this morning mouth much much less. Ugh

Wilbur made his return to the QSMP at his weekend and, after being dismissive about the eggs he found that there was another hidden away in the adoption center, a lone egg left alone in an attic (and surviving on dirt) and despite protests he pretty much got attached instantly. Tallulah is so sweet and so adorable, she has a little flute and plays music and does the cutest little signs and is just so adorable.

Already Wilbur is so attached, enough to stream two nights in a row (and possibly more!) although yesterday he was also so unhinged, horny for quackity and asking if Philza was a bottom.

There is another QSMP event tonight, a funeral for the lost eggs, which feels like it could either be super super emotional or a a complete disaster because of Quackity. I guess we’ll see (especially since Slime and Maxo are trying to bring their eggs back)

If there is an issue with the qsmp it’s that I’ve become so involved with the streams that it’s become hard to like, plan out other things. I’d hoped to do more gaming, or watch stuff (maybe even the list of the Chai things to watch together and I’ve also got Who stuff to watch) but with the streams it’s hard to actually do it because I get distracted by them (especially when slime did his attempted roaring rampage of revenge which failed entirely.)

And since I mentioned unhinged things, Tommy posted a new vlog which was absolutely insane because Tubbo went off the rails and it was kinda… especially with James tied up and the gun. It honestly felt like a fever dream.

There’s also art of Ray shirtless that I saw that threatens to pull me back in to the Ray fixation because damnn

We walked today Naryu and went to see the ducks and, just before we came back, I saw that there were ducklings! There were about 4, though there might have been more (they were near the reeds)

Anyway I’m gonna rest now, I might go on Pokémon but we’ll see.

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: seapeekay stardew stream

So it’s just after midnight and here’s two AMA (I expected to do this in the morning but my heads a bit fuzzy and I hope this will distract some). The first is from

yarnofariadne and the second is from

turlough

7: What's the story behind your dearest possession?

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10: What place have you always dreamed of visiting and why?

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Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Kai Vokals - Squip

So today’s AMA is, again, from

turps. I had marked it down as being for the second but as I was tired (and it was for any day) I moved it here instead. So the question is this

Do you have an all time favourite film you could watch over and over?

I’m sure people will probably expect me to say the Star Wars films and, while I do love them they’re not ones I regularly watch (in fact I’ve not done a full 11 film watch in quite awhile and probably should sometime this year). However the Star Wars films do give me feels, I still remember seeing the special editions with mum and one of my lasting memories of my grandad is him yelling when we saw The Phantom Menace. (And of course Revenge Of The Sith being the films I’ve seen most at the cinema and others being my first midnight showing films). I’m still having trouble deciding which of the newer films is my fav (i have favs from the OT a and PT and I think they’re obvious)

Probably my fav film to watch is Mamma Mia. It’s just so fun and the songs get stuck in my head for days after (and it inspired one of the fav fics I’ve ever done). I just think it’s such a fun good time and it makes me smile. The sequel is a bit less so for me, because yeah it’s still fun but there’s some contradictions with the first one that bug me a bit, but I still enjoy it. I’ll have to watch them again soon.

Another fav is the Guardians Of The Galaxy films which are my favourite of the MCU ones. They’re just so fun and combine my love of sci-fi stuff with some great music and so much fun. We’re gonna be doing a watch of them before the new one comes out (I probably won’t add in infinity war/endgame and I’m still kinda sad we don’t get a full film of the guardians with Thor)

Of Disney films I think my fav one has become Moana, which is so bright and pretty, thoughI also like Frozen (I’m less so about 2, because like with the Mamma Mia sequel isn’t feels like there’s contradictions). Apparently they’re working on a live action Moana which feels strange, especially when the animated one is so fun.

Lastly there’s Trick R Treat, which is a film that I watch every Halloween. It’s the perfect Halloween film and the best example of an anthology film I’ve ever seen. This is because each of the stories happens on the same night in the same places and if you watch closely you can see things that show how they weave together, which make it feel more cohesive then other anthologies tend to be.

I could probably think of a few others if I put my mind to it, I’m definitely sure I’m missing something but I’ll leave it there for now.

Anyone commenting, what’s your fav films?

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Yesterday ended up being ok, my stomach did settle though I ended up being tired from the food shop coming late. And also there’s something mum said that lingered with me (I might go into that in a locked post later) and it definitely rattled me,

I did, however manage to finish Contrast last night so yay that’s a game done! It is the sort of game that I do like, the puzzles were pretty clever (the central mechanic is that you can shift into illuminated surfaces as a shadow), although some parts did feel a tad overlong. However it is pretty short and it did give me feels, so I enjoyed it.

I went up to bed after finishing it (and tucking Midna in) so I dozed off after that and missed Foolish’s qsmp stream, though I did watch clips this morning and he was cute.

Annoyingly this morning the net has flickered again (at least three times in the space of an hour). Talktalk are looking into it but, who knows what they’ll find,

At least it stayed active for The Mandalorian, which was actually pretty fun. The whole ep did feel like a side quest but it was entertaining and I loved the investigation part of it. And also it has both Jack Black and Christopher Lloyd as guest stars, which I had to do a double take for.

Now I’m gonna watch the Xbox uk stream in a bit and maybe fic some (since I did some more this morning)

Current Mood: geeky
Current Music: Tv

Since it’s after midnight and I’m busy tomorrow…

Fics wrote: Surprise
Books read: Some of Lesser Known Monsters The Torn Earth
Games done: The Quarry, Sonic Frontiers
Podcast:
Who audios: The War Doctor: Eye Of Harmony, The War Doctor: Pretty Lies

Things watched
Amazon Prime: Picard: Seventeen Seconds, Picard: No Win Scenario, Picard: Imposters, Picard: The Bounty, Picard: Dominion
Blu Ray: The Chase, The Time Meddler, Scream (2022), Day Of The Daleks (special Edition), The Curse Of Peladon,
Disney+: The Mandalorian s3: E1: Chapter 17: The Apostate, The Mandalorian Chapter 18: The Mines Of Mandalore, Bob’s Burgers: Family Fracas, The Kids Run The Restaurant, The Mandalorian Chapter 19: The Convert, The Mandalorian Chapter 20: The Foundling, The Mandalorian Chapter 21: The Pirate
Netflix: Voyager: Lifesigns, Voyager: Resolutions
Shudder:
YouTube: Very sorry: Day 1 of sorry, Will and James follow a Gordon Ramsey cooking tutorial, Watcher Too Many Spirits, Sam and Colby haunted lighthouse, Misfits when Karl met Austin, Sorry Boys We Went To Prison, Very Sorry Sorry Goes To Prison, Sorry We Robbed A Bank, Shoto Does NOT Know Hos Animals, foolish I SCREAM at Ranboo because of a chandelier, Sam And Colby: The Most Haunted City In America (with Karl and Foolish), The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom Gameplay Demonstration

So there’s something for most of these other than two which is pretty good. The podcasts fell off cause Hyacinth Disaster was pretty depressing (and Night Vale seemed to be going the same). I had considered going back to the Penumbra podcast, but got distracted.

I was gonna watch Willy’s Wonderland on shudder but got sidetracked (I was going to this week but between tiredness and zoning out I didn’t, damnit.)

Plus QSMP has been kinda a distraction.

But hey, I managed a fic!

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The April AMA starts now with the first question from

turps which was this appropriate question: Do you like April Fools Day?

April fools day is a day I don’t really ‘get’ because it’s a day where you spend it tricking people and you can’t believe anything you see. I’ve not been particularly good at it and kinda feel it gets mean spirited.

Plus I’ve never been good at coming up with such tricks anyway, so I’ve never seen the appeal really.

I think it doesn’t really help in the current climate where people are prone to lying and feeling cruel anyway. I just feel that it’s not needed

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I had hoped to do things today but I didn’t really, oops. Though I did start two games for an achievement (I can see myself going back to both, especially the second, Contrast which seems to be short and clever puzzling).

I think my mind has been partially distracted by Hasan’s bloody photoshoot which is hot for no reason (even though I wouldn’t call myself a Hasan guy)

There was James Marriott’s stream early which was a smash or pass which can get so cursed. What I didn’t expect is his response to someone sending in Hannibal to become extremely cannibalistic (unexpectedly followed up with Death from Puss In Boots) and it’s just… the most unhinged I’ve seen him (and that’s saying something). It’ll be stuck in my head a long time (and of course there’s no clips, bah).

It would seem Lost In Time has been ‘sorted’ when I had a quick shower. I saw ‘sorted’ as it’s got to where I was in the main game…. But it didn’t restore some things I won from events. And it also reset my progress so far in this current event (especially annoying due to being out tomorrow). So it’s fixed something but caused issues, ugh.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Foolish stream

So as I mentioned a few posts back,

yarnofariadne did this AMA post last month, for March (which I’m gonna catch up on soon) and I thought it was a good idea but didn’t do at the time so I’m doing it now for April

On how to play: You ask me a question (or more, if you feel like it), pick a day of the month of April and I will answer the question on the corresponding day. Easy as that :) Oh and don't feel shy or like you are being too inquisitive - as long as it's not completely creepy, I am very open, and if anything is off limits, I will tell you so :)

So go ahead and ask away! ♥

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The only day marked off is the 29th, being mum’s birthday so I’m not sure how much I’ll be around (there might be another day marked off we’ll see)

Comments are screened if you wanna be anon (or not! Just say in the comment) and feel free o suggest things for multiple days as long as they’re not taken.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Pottery Throw Down final