shadowhive

So the stream ended yesterday exceeding its target which was pretty awesome. It was a little quiet though. I was there for the whole thing but most of the time it was just me in the chat (until the last hourish when a load of people showed up). It felt like it was a bit weaker compared to previous years too. There weren’t any indie games showed off (apart from a bit of awesome pea which looks so hard) and there wasn’t the usual hour of getting Bobby doing a horror game which was a shame. They also, oddly, didn’t show off any of the games they had on offer despite saying Saturday they would. But despite that it was pretty entertaining. I got a good collection of games for my donations (mostly indie ones, including some that I had been wanting). I had an issue with one of the codes not working, so they switched it to one double the value and towards the end when they doubled donation amounts they said I could have an extra game for free since I’d donated so much so yay!

As for the games, I’ve been on a few of them to try. Road to Ballhalla is the one I’ve been on most. It’s a puzzle game where you control a ball, rolling it along a course to the end. It’s quite good, though the difficulty spikes once the levels lose walls. Monster Slayers was something I was interested in and as soon as I played it it made me think of Vertical drop heroes (no surprise as it’s by the same developers). It’s quite tricky and easy to die, which I guess is kinda the point. I had a hard time figuring out treadnauts, since trying to get cpus playing seems to be a nuisance. Daggerhood is quite good, with short levels that I’ve died often on But it has a strong ‘one more time feeling’. Access denied is a nice little puzzler, with you figuring out how to unlock boxes which is oddly relaxing.

I’ve got a few others that I haven’t tried yet. Conarium, Hellblade, Talos Principle, Genesis Alpha One and a few others. I put them in a group on my Xbox so I can find them easier, so I’ll have a go on them over the course of the week (and I wanna go on The Council Episode 2).

So after giving a few games a go, I decided last night that I should watch a film. I didn’t feel like going on Shudder (mostly because so many of the films on my list are subtitled and I wasn’t in the mood). So I decided to go on Netflix and watch Velvet Buzzsaw. The trailer for it gave off a Layers of fear vibe so I was intrigued enough to give it a look. Unfortunately it’s one of those films where most of the best parts are shown off in the trailers. (Seriously, watching the trailer and you’ve seen the best of the film.) Those parts are really good (as are the final scenes of the film) but mostly it’s nothing too special.

This weekend mum’s ended up being a bit of a pain. She’s acted like me being upstairs watching this whole stream was a surprise, even though she’d known it was coming for weeks. (And really, it’s just two days she can survive that without me around surely). And then she is still grumpy because she hasn’t had that bag, I’m sick of it. Every time it gets bought up, we talk it over and agree it’s not worth it (or I look into ways she could only for them not to work out). I don’t get what the fixation with it is. It doesn’t look special and I know she’d not use the damn thing anyway (and, knowing her, she’d want to send it back the moment it came). It’s just so frustrating

Speaking of frustrating. I did some uni reading today. That’s not frustrating in and of itself (in fact this week’s seems straightforward and there’s not much to do this week, though there is some videos to watch for the assessment). No what is frustrating is first trying to listen to audio while mum decided to hoover and second, the tutor not getting back to me about the project. I’d sent an email to her almost two weeks ago with a rough idea to make sure it was ok and some questions but... nothing. I’m gonna have to send her another one this week sometime, because I can’t really go forward with it until I get an ok.

On a more positive note I got an ao3 kudos email and it is pretty insane. Usually I get one or two odd ones which makes me happy enough, but for the last few days I’ve got so many they take up the screen. It’s so crazy, but so awesome as well. And I’m thrilled that it means one of my otps is finally getting some love.

Speaking of The Umbrella Academy I’m gonna start a rewatch soon. It won’t be a binge this time but a more slower paced watch (I say that now...). It’ll be the first time I’ve rewatched any series this close together (and I probably shouldn’t considering I’ve got all the things to watch) but still.

umbrellakink has had more prompts (maybe because I mentioned it on ao3?) but mine is the only fill so far. Hopefully they’ll be more soon!

The weather has been nice so far today with the sun out, so much so I didn’t need my jacket on while walking Naryu. We also got to see Casper again, the big white poodle that’s almost as old as Danny was. He’s lovely and so friendly. He always comes up to us for a cuddle and a fuss.

At the start of the month I started doing a Febuary love meme but at the month went on I kinda lost track. I meant to catch up on it but I never did and then I just failed. So here’s a bunch of things I love.

*Star Wars
*BB-8
*Star Wars Bloodline (seriously, it’s the best of the new canon novels that I’ve read so far)
*Resident Evil (films)
*Ringu (I need to do a rewatch)
*Lego (specifically Lego Star Wars)
*The Umbrella Academy
*Klaus Hargreeves
*QI
*Unicorns
*The Good Place
*Brooklyn 99
*Jay James, ex-bassist of Bullet for My Valentine
*Ray Toro
*My cats Leia and Midna and my dog Naryu

I think that’s enough, possibly. Also I’ll add King Falls, which I started Saturday night and it’s pretty good so far! Funny and strange in a similar way to Night Vale but in a completely different way (I think having two regular voices really helps it).

Lastly, I’m gonna include a few pics under the cut.

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Now I’m gonna sort out the food shop and then I’ll read, possibly Canto Bight. Maybe I’ll read some outside if it stays nice.

Signups are up now for no_tags with prompts going up Saturday (at about 5 uk time according to google. Go sign up! This’ll be my first year and if there’s good prompts I might do both



The subject is from Resident Evil Apocalypse which i should really watch again some time cause I think it’s my favourite of the Resident Evil films.

Last night I watched another Nightflyers ep and damn, it was so delightfully twisted. To those that have seen it was with the other spaceship. Just... wow.

I had some luck too, I won a code for Hello Neighbour on twitter so that’s something to try soon even though it’s meant to be hard.

Today I managed to do most of question 2 for uni but it took awhile for me to get going, ugh.

Febuary love meme

7: Today is gonna be a song, which I first heard last night. It’s Objectifantastic by Red Room Therapy. They’re a band I’ve meant to listen to for awhile (their singer followed by on twitter awhile back and I was interested cause Welsh and liking Zelda). I finally gave them a listen last night, cause they had a single out in Welsh which, yes!

Their album is in English not welsh and I gave it a proper listen this morning. This is my favourite track from it, mostly because the lyrics are so pervy. Which, yes! I always love pervy song lyrics (‘You look so beautiful down on your knees’ from bullet, ‘so shut your mouth before I fuck it’ by Motionless and pretty much the whole of Papa Roach’s I Almost Told You That I Loved you, and the same for Funeral Shake’s Soap).

After the post last night I ended up watching tv and finishing fic. I dunno why but this series of Vera just hasn’t grabbed me at all. I’ve not paid attention to a single ep of this series and I dunno why. Similar thing happened with Death In Paradise too (till the last one anyway).

I finished freeing an island on Assassins Creed from the dagger after it and then I watched a Nightflyers some more. It seems the first ep was slightly longer as the second was 45 minutes (while the first was an hour). It was a bit less intense so I think I’ll watch an ep a night until it’s done. I do wanna find out what’s going on after all.

I then watched another ep of Carmen Sandiego. It was pretty fun, but after the opening two parter it’s showing more of the original series educational side (not that I saw it).

I ended up dozing downstairs, but then headed up to bed.

In the morning I did some uni reading, watched the Stargate ep I missed Friday (I’m glad I did since Daniel returned and Star Wars references 💜). Naryu did steal my glasses though, boo. After walking Naryu and having noms, I did more on AC (to kill the traitor spartan king) and then dozed. I added a few icons to the icon meme post too

So now I’m watching the usual tv. Later I’m gonna watch Nightflyers and game some (maybe doing ESO or Just Cause 4 some more). I still need to listen to Dreamboy some point too. And to work on the tentacle fic some more

So onto today’s entry for the Febuary love meme

4: Its proving tricky coming up with these. I wanna post things I’ve not posted before, yet it feels like I posted a lot of the things I liked during Snowflake. So I don’t wanna repeat them just yet (though I no doubt will at some point or other).



So here is today’s random thing! Porgs! I love porgs so much, ever since I first saw one in the behind the scenes trailer thing. They’re just so cute and mischievous. I’ve got a lot of porg merch, plushies, funkos (all but the sad eyes one) even the big Lego one at Christmas.

For my birthday before The Last Jedi mums friend gave me money and I used it to get a porg, which I love. Sadly my plushies are all upstairs in a bag out of the way of someone.

When I went to the midnight showing of The Last Jedi I took one of my porg plushies with me and hugged it while watching it (especially at parts like Leia using the force).

So raveninthewind is doing a February love meme thing so I figured I’d give it a go as well. For tonight I’m going to cover two things (since I forgot about it earlier) but for the rest of the time they’ll just be incorporated into regular posts.

1: So deciding on the first thing proved to be rather tricky, mainly because I wanted it to be something I’d not talked about before. I went through a few things, considering reccing fic or food or something random. Instead I settled on a song.

That song is Red Sky by Thrice

Now, there’s a story behind how I first listened to this song which I’ll share now. So ages ago, during The Black Parade record cycle, MCR did a cd for Kerrang. They each chose a few songs that they liked (and in the magazine they discussed them). Now, I can’t really remember what the other songs were. But Red Sky was definitely my favourite. I’d not heard Thrice before and there’s something about the song I love. Even now it’s perhaps my favourite song (I do love Burn The Fleet and Digital Sea from Alchemy Index though). It’s a fairly slow song as songs go and it surprised me that it was Bob that chose it. (He also chose the other one I really liked but it’s gone out my head)

So yeah, it’s a nice, unexpected song and I just... love it. Give it a listen.

2: So in a similar vein to that, my second pic is also an MCR thing.

For The Black Parade Is Dead they did a box set with a day of the dead mask painted by members of the band. At the time there was just the masks, without saying who did them and there was huge speculation as to who had done what.

Now I didn’t get a mask in the box set, but they did do random ones later so I managed to get one and I was so glad because it was the one I liked the most.

Here is a pic that was released later of the masks, revealing who did what.



Now at the time everyone thought Bob had done the simplest one and Gerard had done the most intricate. So I was as surprised as anyone that the most detailed one of the lot was done by Bob Bryar. It’s the one I have and it’s proper up on the fireplace, where it’s been since I got it. I just think it’s so beautiful and it shows an unexpected side to Bob, that he can be so artistic and creative. He could easily have been an artist himself with skills like that.

I wonder if he’s ever done any other art?

Did anyone else get one of the masks, if so whose?

So yeah, that’s my first two entries. I hope you enjoyed reading about them. I hope to do more over the course of the month so I’m gonna try and be random with them. (Hopefully covering things I’ve not mentioned before though i’m sure some will come up anyway.)