shadowhive

Time for a post, cause it’s been awhile and the last one was mostly squeeing over getting my Set It Off ticket

First off last week, during Owen’s birthday stream, he did a contest using marbles on stream races and somehow I won! So I’m getting a set of his pins which is cool! (I think they’re the new ones he’s revealing tomorrow.) I didn’t think I’d win despite coming first in one race and fourth in another (cause I didn’t place in the others) but somehow I did. It was funny though, I got hit by an ad just as the races ended so I was very confused as to why people were saying my name in chat until they ended!

(Now I’ll see which come first these Owen badges or the Seapeekay ones I’ve been owed for months!)

The weather these past days has been so annoying and changeable, one day it’ll be ok the next it’ll be stormy and then yesterday and today it’s been really hot. Ugh that heat has been draining.

It was even worse yesterday cause we had to pick mums meds up and ended up getting a bunch of things which was tiring and weighed us down. (I didn’t get anything too exciting just the regular Lego magazines and two Pokémon mega sets, plus some chilli mango thing to try).

Monday had mum’s friend come, which I expected to mean I’d be sent out but I wasn’t. Though ugh I had to cover something she wanted that she decided on just before she left which was annoying. Tuesday was a library trip which was last minute foisted on me, but it meant I read my book some more so…

Also Tuesday was the Nintendo direct which was pretty good, though my main highlight from it is the new Zelda game which looks pretty cool. It’s gonna be interesting playing as Zelda this time and I’m curious about the echos she can make, I guess they’ll be a proper direct focussed on it before release.

Tuesday night Deep Space nine started (taking over from Stargate Universe that finished Monday though ugh it ended so inconclusively which isn’t a surprise cause it was cancelled between season so they had no warning) and I was debating watching but decided I should cause it’s deep space nine and it’s awesome. (Kira and Jadzia are my favs, though honestly everyone is so amazing in it).

Thoughts on other things are gonna be under the cut now. These are gonna be, in rough order, American Horror Story: Murder House, Doctor Who (The Legend Of Ruby Sunday, Pyramids Of Mars), The Umbrella Academy (cause I finally watched another ep), Still Wakes The deep, The Acolyte.

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Anyway now I’m gonna bundle up, watch the Isle Of Wight Festival coverage (I’m hoping they’ll show some of James Marriott’s set though I dunno) and maybe work on something, though my mind has been annoyingly scattered lately

Now it’s time for a collection of other things, that didn’t fit in the gig post.

First off, I’ve finally started to watch American Horror Story. It’s been one of those things on my to watch list forever but I’ve never gotten around to it. Last week my friend mentioned they were going to start watching it so we decided to watch it together.

And damn. I’ve only gotten to Halloween part 2 so far (which I watched Friday night) but already it’s so so fucking good. I have so many thoughts and questions and theories, which I’m source will be proven right or wrong when we get back to it. My favourite character so far is definitely Tate. But damn there are so many red flags about this house (as pretty as it is) that the family must be colour blind to wanna stay. (And why does Vivien not question the sudden gazebo?? And why is Moria the only ghost so far that has two forms??)

I’m hoping to get back to it later, though it really depends on my energy cause it’s took a nose dive (put a pin in that, we’ll come back to that later).

Also on Friday the QSMP had a finale event which maybe canon? Maybe not? The horror elements of it was a pretty cool concept though it ran much longer than expected.

But damn it ending made me so sad. It’s been so sad to see the qsmp take such a nose dive these past months. I really think purgatory started to kill interest on the creators side, cause it killed off so much lore the creators made and then most never recovered. Then the server reset did more damage. Then it came out so many people behind the scenes were being screwed over in various ways (seriously the egg actors should have been better treated and paid from the start and it’s fucked they weren’t, especially the hours they worked).

On the other hand despite the qsmp’s failures it was also a success in what it set out to do. It connected communities and made friendships between people that would otherwise never have met. I’ve certainly learned of a lot of people from it and I really hope there’s a follow up to Cellbit's Quarentena that he did with other members.

But damn it has been so sad.

Anyway onto Who since I watched the newest ep this morning (thoughts under the cut).

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Also today was the reveal that there’s a Lego Zelda set! For months it had been rumoured that it was coming and I did think it was strange to set with the deku tree of all things, but damn the execution of it. Like there’s lil deku babas, the deku sprout, link’s house! The ocarina of time! Koroks! Hestu! And there’s three Links and a Zelda. And the pics have hints to so many other things too!

It’s a two in one set, which is again an interesting choice, so you can have either the Ocarina Of Time Great Deku Tree or the Breath Of The Wild version. On the one hand the OOT one looks nice, especially from a nostalgia standpoint. However the Breath Of The Wild one does look more asethitically pleasing (and the Koroks!). So I’ll probably go with the BOTW one.

I was so excited by the announcement I decided that it’d be the ‘big set’ I’d get for my birthday/Christmas and then mum decided to be so bitchy it killed my excitement completely (and drained me) that I think I’ll just get it for myself.

(The bitchiness in question is behind the second cut because ugh).

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