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Yipee thank you Mikeyway for posting a pic of Ray! (Frank is there too but Frank pics are pretty common so)



Ahhh look at him!

*feels there’ll be Ray content in my future*

Ok that was the main reason to post but I guess I should post other things. Hmm.

I didn’t watch Saltburn on Sunday night cause my eyes went too achy (ugh) but I did watch Better Man.

I wasn’t really sure what to expect with it, I mean the concept of a Robbie Williams biopic isn’t a bad one but him being a monkey is, at first, an odd choice (Especially as his parents are humans) but once you realise it’s more a metaphor for how he sees himself it actually works. (And huge kudos to the effects team for pulling it off so well.)

What I didn’t expect was to get feels for from it. Like I legit got teary because of his grandma because damn that hit hard. And it also surprised me how… unflinching it was? Like it didn’t exactly paint him in a good light in parts but you have to admire the honesty for showing that. Plus there was some musical numbers! Though it was a lil funny that during the take that era there was a Robbie souping not one of theirs. But overall it was pretty good.

Yesterday was kinda uneventful, mostly cause, again, eyes aching which was bleh.

This morning was my last library stint and I spent the time reading Cards On The Table and the last Rise Of Hellfire comic. It is pretty good and it’s more of a character study about Eddie, so Eddie enjoys will really love it (and I loved the dnd sections). It does make me wanna finish Stranger Things though with my eyes being so achy lately…

Tonight’s plan is watch the new Hell Motel and try and poke fic brain. The ideas are there but when it comes to getting them down? It’s not been happening which is so irritating.

So it’s post time again!

The past few days have been pretty eventful, mostly cause Thursday was a big delivery which meant I had to stay in all day. The delivery was for two things. First The Acolyte visual guide that I preordered as soon as it was announced. I’m excited to dive in to it and give it a proper read (I’ve not yet sadly). I do wonder if it’ll make me wanna do a rewatch of the show, even though it only came out last year (but Yord and Qimir are so hot so…)

The second thing was the Switch 2, which I was only able to get cause mum offered to help with it. It didn’t arrive until late in the day and then setting it up took awhile (updating it, transferring stuff from the original switch, installing Mario kart) but I’ve been able to go on it some.

Thoughts so far?
*Mario Kart World is so beautiful. Like really it looks so great!
*The Cow racer is unlocked from the start, I feel this is important to share
*Other character unlocks are a bit more random. You get some for doing Grand Prix (and costumes unlocked from food) but so many of them are only unlocked by getting your racer transformed mid race which is… a choice)
*Free roam could definitely use a quest tracker
*Fortnite is noticeably improved. Like I only went on it to get the emote first day and I could see the difference just from the main screen and it plays much better too (no more dealing with things loading funny!)
*It would be nice to get demos to other games

I would like a single player game to play but I’m not sure what. I thought Donkey Kong was next week but it’s not till next month and I’m considering Civilization (cd keys has it with 20%) so I might find a review and see if it’s worth it.

And speaking of Fortnite the Star Wars season ended (boo) but the last event was so cool! You had to sneak on the Death Star and help disabled some stuff (and fight Palpatine!) which was cool. I did get everything in the pass too (I did wish it had another page or two though) though I am annoyed I just missed out on the last party up reward (at least it wasn’t Star Wars themed). Now the new season is super hero themed which is pretty cool.

Speaking of super heroes I watched Captain America Brave New World on Saturday and it was pretty good. It definitely had similar vibes to Winter Soldier, with Sam investigating a conspiracy which seems to be the vibe Cap films go, though I like that. What did surprise me is how it’s a sequel to Eternals with the celestial thing appearing at the end of that being a major plot point, and also the hulk film which is a wild choice cause it was forever ago and I think I only saw it once. But I did enjoy it and I love Joaquin so much he’s a lil cutie.

At night I watched a film called Deadware, which I spotted on Amazon prime. For the description I was instantly interested (two friends are playing an online game on video call and it turns out to be haunted). I loved the retro vibes of it and it’s very minimalistically done it’s basically a desktop screen with the game in a window with two ‘webcam’ videos. It’s a similar vibe to Host in that respect, though not as well done but it was still pretty good especially in the short found footage still shots during the game.

It’s the time of games showcases. Friday had the Summer game fest and there was a lot of stuff there but not much that stood out to me. There was a few games that had a+ designs but I could just tell I’d not have fun with them. Sonic racing did announce new characters outside of sonic including Minecraft and Hatsune Miku (I dunno which is more surprising). And there was Resident Evil 9 as a reveal at the end! It amuses me that some of Racoon city is still standing cause wasn’t it meant to be destroyed?

Then yesterday was the Xbox showcase which was pretty good though most of the ones that interested me were smaller games. There was At Fate’s End (done by the spiritfarer devs so I was instantly curious), No Ghosts At The Grand looks intruiging (and spooky) and it’s vibes very all of the place in a good way (it started with you fixing a hotel then there was sigil sand talk of a conspiracy and portals?), there’s planet of Lana II which looks pretty and a game called Keeper with a walking Lighthouse. Oh and something called Resonance with the Minotaur. (And Outer Wilds II looks pretty good and Clockwork Revolution though I feel the latter might be a game to watch not play)

There’s also a portable xbox confirmed to be coming and… it looks pretty much like a switch.mi dread to think how much it’ll be.

Energy has also been pretty all over the place, being low raptor times with my focus being off which is so irritating, especially when I wanna do things (fic has pretty much stalled despite me wanting to) and then yesterday my stomach also went funny which ugh.

Mum was on eBay the other day and found a copy of The Moustrap and we were both shocked cause it was buy it now for £2 (usually they’re £20+) so I snapped it up (with Lord Edgeware Dies) and they came this morning. Both look in such good condition and I’m still surprised by the bargain we got.

Now though I’m gonna flop, hopefully rest and do some marvel snap and magic arena (the latter has a final fantasy update tomorrow). I’m also refreshing the. Cinemas to check for next week listings glut they’re not up yet alas. The odeon in Birmingham has just one showing of one film next Monday (28 weeks later) which is crazy.

And Next week is the James signing and ahhh!

It’s that time again for a post and the last few days have been pretty busy.

(And once again I will refrain on commenting on politics but just know I’m absolutely fuming about how this Labour government keeps managing to get worse. Like it feels there’s no bottom for them and feels their promised change is a change for the worse. Ugh)

Friday was the release of new Sleep Token with Even In Arcadia. It’s really good and my favs are, other than Emergence, Look To Windward and Dangerous. (I now also picture Mon Mothma during a section of Caramel for some reason.)

Also band stuff it is funny Matt Tuck of Bullet has apparently pushed his ego too far and fucked up the joint Trivium they were doing. It’s funny seeing the scathing stuff about him but damn I do feel bad for my boy Jay.

Saturday I woke up and… my glasses were broken. The frame around one of the lenses is broken which means the lens is loose and liable to pop out. I must’ve rolled onto them in the night or something. I’ve used tape to hold it together which does work but ugh, I’m gonna see if I can get superglue today. I could get them fixed but I fear the expense and also feel I’m due an eye test this year so it’d be pointless.

Mum’s friend didn’t need anything when she came which was good and, after some consideration I ended up going to town anyway under my own steam. I didn’t do too much, just getting a few things mum wanted (and a cute lil Lego set with Guinea pigs that was reduced).

However the main reason I went was to see Thunderbolts* so thoughts under the cut.

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That night was also new Who and my focus was a little off so I don’t think I enjoyed it was much as I could have (I blame going out and the annoying heat!) though it was good to see the fugitive doctor briefly (thoughI wish it hadn’t been spoiled for me😒 I hate it going to iplayer in the morning instead of on the showing). And I did love how it was showing the doctor relating to his new blackness (and his lil moment with Belinda understanding was so sweet).

It did feel though that it relied too much on things that we didn’t see before. Like there were multiple references to things the doctor did in offscreen adventures which did feel a lil much. But other than that it was good. I have liked that this season has been a wild variety of things though it does make me sad it’s almost over (though yay this week is the Interstellar Song Contest!)

Speaking of it does feel odd that Eurovision feels a bit… I dunno subdued kinda? Like if it wasn’t for Doctor Who having that ep the same day I feel I wouldn’t have known it was so close. (It’s only in the past few days I’ve even seen ads for it.)

But circling back to who I also listened to a Who audio with the Empire Of Racnoss andit was… it was ok, but I just don’t like the Racnoss in general so it is what it is. But it was funny the empress was voiced by the actress who plays Martha’s mum.

(Also I have been listening to Night Vale and damn I’m hoping the university of what it is people fuck off soon cause ugh.)

Sunday I watched the second half of Tales Of The Underworld and the tone is so different to the first half. It feels the Cad Bane half tells a more complete story but at the same time it’s kinda… eh? I definitely preferred the Ventress half.

Yesterday I finished the Secret Of Chimneys. I’ve been chipping away at it doing a chapter or two at a time but I ended up locking in yesterday and read half. I definitely didn’t see the ending coming and there were a lot of twists and red herrings so it was really good.

But damn there were still so many issues and typos with this printing. (And it makes me wonder if, at the time, they sent out redone ones). Like it didn’t really stop me enjoying it, though did take me out when punctuation was wrong, but in one of the last chapters a page was printed twice. I’m really hoping it’s a one off issue with this book and not something that plagued the collection cause I’ve got a load of the books now (this was just the first one I read)

And now the gaming portion of the post.
*I finished Planet of Lana before it left Game Pass, yay! It is a very pretty though it is pretty open to interpretation. Still it was good and mui is so adorable
*I went on Lego Star Wars and finished the events on the planets (Coruscant was the last planet I needed to do) so that was two more achievements ticked off. I still need to play through the levels on free play (despite it being years old only Episode I is 100%) so maybe I’ll do that? But I do wanna do other SW games too
*I did a free days on Blue Prince, I still feel I’ve not got anywhere really but I unlocked the foundation, gemstone cave, grotto and got the boiler working
*I finally went back on Alan Wake 2 and finished the Casey chapter so maybe I’ll do some more
*I also used my Xbox credit to get the Dredge expansions, cause a pass for them was on sale (and I had xbox credit) and I’ve still not been on it.

I had been hoping to watch Sinners last night, but the cinema inexplicably had no showings of anything (I’m sure it had listening Saturday but when I checked yesterday afternoon there were none). The listings has been updated to how Thursday is the last showing so I’m hoping to see it tomorrow so fingers crossed!

Next few days the plan is this
*Sinners
*Work on (and hopefully finish) fic
*Do some gaming, maybe Alan Wake 2, maybe Star Wars
*Stranger Things (I still need to watch those last two eps)
*watch something spooky
*Finish the Who ray special features
*Grievous quests on Fortnite (when they’re live later in the week)
*icon organise

I’m sure I’m missing something super obvious too.

But for now I’m gonna zoom down to home bargains in search of super glue (I didn’t see any in town) and then wait on the food shop,

On Saturday night my focus was too off to watch anything or fic so I decided to put on a Who audio I got from the Easter sale. I decided to start the Classic Doctors New Monsters set I got, which is the second volume of the series. As the name implies the series has classic doctors up against new enemies so this one has the Vashta Nerada, Racnoss and Carionites.

The first audio, which I’d already heard cause it was a promo with the who magazine awhile back, was Night Of The Vashta Nerada. It’s a solid story with the fourth doctor alone helping a team find out why workers at on an amusement park suddenly went missing. The team is a pretty good one (there is one really unlikeable one but that’s absolutely intentional) but I think what lets it down is the fact the Vashta are a very visual enemy (have to count the shadows to see if they’re around) and that’s a thing that doesn’t really translate to audio.

Sunday I watched the next two eps of The Residence (so eps 3+4) and I continue to really enjoy it. I’m still not sure who actually did it as there’s been a few red herrings so far. But damn I really do not like that social lady.

Then in the night I decided to watch a film on Amazon and settled on The Last Voyage Of The Demeter. It was a pretty good film, though of course I was sad about the poor dog. Of course the central thing of it did feel like a problem. So dracula charters a boat to take him to England, he has one person he had bought along to drink from but then starts killing the crew when they find her. He does realise that a ship needs a crew to function right? Like they could have abandoned the ship in daylight (which, apparently, no one even things to do) or he could have killed so many that the ship could just end up drifting of course and then he’d be utterly fucked.

Today I finished the last two eps of the first arc of Andor and, yep, those rebels Andor ended with are in total morons. Like they had no clue what they were doing, started shooting each other, had a game of Star Wras rock paper scissors and then got attacked by a creature which meant Andor could escape.

Huge kudos though for the design team for the Chandrillian wedding because damn. All the sets, the costumes, coming up with an entire culture and customs. That’s super impressive. The last ep was such mood whiplash though going between the wedding, Dedra meeting Syril’s mum and then imperials acting like utter assholes (including the assault scene).

Then I was finally able to finish up on Echoes Of Wisdom. Turns out the fight I thought was the last wasn’t the last (it was an echo Zelda) but this time I was able to beat it, go into Null’s body (a level that could’ve been a lil longer I thought) and then beat Null which I managed to do in one try, yipee! So now that’s done but ahh the end was sad with Tri going away but at least it seems, from the credits, that Conde’s brother is coming home.

Now I’m gonna bundle up a bit cause this is the busy week. There’s mums birthday tomorrow, voting on Thursday, then Star Wars fortnite on Friday, Free comic book day/sea life on Saturday and Star Wars day and dnd Sunday. So busy week, lots going on so I’m thinking next week I can do things I’d hoped to do, namely finish Stranger Things and get back to American Horror Story.
Echoes of

So after the post yesterday I did end up watching Inferno, to finish season 7 of Doctor Who (which I wanted to do before the new series started).

Inferno is the last ep of season 7 and its main story is about a drilling project that brings up a mysterious green goo. This ooze turns anyone that comes into contact with it into monsters called primords (though that name isn’t actually uttered) who attack others to kill and spread it. The lead scientist of the project wants to keep drilling regardless of the warnings before eventually being infected himself.

About halfway through a secondary story comes in. The doctor ends up in an alternate version of the earth where the project is further along so he sees what happens if the drilling isn’t stop (the end of the world!). But also this world is also populated by alternate versions of everyone. The Brigadier (here Brigade Leader), Liz, Benton and the guest cast are all part of a fascist regime. It’s basically like the Star Trek mirror universe (the Brigade Leader even has an eye patch!).

That second thread is an interesting concept because we often see situations where the doctor is like ‘you have to stop doing this thing because x bad thing will happen’ whereas here we get to actually see it. It’s an interesting concept but, much like the Silurian plague thread in the Silurians, feels like it’s there to bulk out the story. (Which, from the making of, is exactly what it was)

That being said it’s a pretty good ep, especially when the other universe side gets going. It’s clear everyone enjoyed getting a chance to play bad guys.as well as their usual selves. The guest cast also clearly had fun doing double duty too. It’s just a shame the primords are a bit… eh. Like at the start it’s just people that are green and then by the end they look more like werewolves. But others it’s pretty good, though like the rest it’s length is what makes it suffer

Overall though I think season 7 was a good season, but its main flaw lies in 3 of the 4 stories being 7 parts long. I think it’s especially noticeable how much of a problem the lengths are after Spearhead was 4 parts and was well told. Like if those other eps were just a little shorter there could have been a whole other 4 part story there.

(And it’s especially a shame there’s only one season with Liz and that he last ep doesn’t even have her leaving.)

I am wondering what the next boxset will be. Will it be one of the last two fourth Doctor ones or the last fifth Doctor one?

After that I watched something with mum though I wasn’t focussed on it, then I watched the special features on the Inferno disc (a making of and behind the sofa). I have disc switched to watch the Inferno second disc’s special features so might do that tonight depending on energy.

I’m hoping that my social battery and creative energy is gonna be better over the coming days (and energy in general).

Today I managed to watch Moana 2 on Disney+. I had been a bit worried cause if what people said, how it was meant to be a series and had been truncated down to a film. It isn’t quite as noticeable as I expected. There are a few scenes that you can tell would be ‘end of episode scenes’ and some of the new characters (Moana’s journey this time has a crew) clearly would behave got development if it was a show. But it was pretty good overall.

It does seem that there’s gonna be a follow up (some things don’t get resolved and there’s a sequel hook in the credits) so I just hope that the next one is just developed as a show or film instead of switching party way through.

My energy has still been a but drained after Monday, so I’ve not been doing much at nights like I’ve hoped, mostly cause my eyes were too achy to watch stuff/game. So the other night I ended up just listening to audios (catching up on Magnus Protocol and a Who audio. The later was Tales From The Vault which was a really good concept, set at a UNIT vault that holds various artefacts and including recordings from prior companions. It was a neat idea and feels a shame they didn’t expand on it to more follow ups.

Continuing the Nintendo switch 2 thoughts there was day 1 of a treehouse stream yesterday and I watched it so you don’t have to (it was 4+ hours!). I did end up flagging a bit cause of the length though. Mostly it was playing through sections of the various games (and both Mario Kart and Donkey Kong got 2 sections)

*Mario Kart - Looks really pretty and it does look like it’ll be really fun. Someone did the sums and there’s (assuming every page of characters has 12 characters) 84 playable characters which seems crazy. No word on if you have to unlock them (I guess that’ll be in the direct) though I’m assuming stuff like free roam will include that
*Donkey Kong - Again it looks really pretty and some of the mechanics do look clever. Im not fully sold on it cause it seems to be destroying things a lot. BUT there is a cute lil rock guy friend
*Metroid - Looks really great, the opening cutscene especially looks suitably epic. I’ve not really played Metroid before but I feel I’d be tempted
*Welcome Tour - It looks interesting and there some cute mini game things… but it really feels like something that should be included on the system for free. I don’t see anyone paying for this
*Drag X Drive - I love the concept and the controls are original, but I’m curious if there’s any form of customisation cause all the players looked the same. Also I feel this is one game where you’d need a demo to see if the control system works for you
*Zelda upgrades - They showed some of BOTW side by side with switch versions and you could see the difference, especially in loading times. They also went over some of the Zelda notes features and some do look cool, especially being able to share things you’ve made as well as items. The many draw will be the new voice acted memories, though I’m not fond of them being tied to an app instead of just being in game

Day 2’s stream has started now so I’ll either post later or maybe edit here (first is Mario party).

Last night I’did end up feeling up to watching a thing, which was Hostile Dimensions. It’s a new found footage film on shudder which just came on the uk version (I dunno if it’s elsewhere) and I’d not heard it before but the description was interesting.

Synopsis time: While filming in an abandoned building a pair of documentary filmmakers find a mysterious door. After one goes missing the footage is found online and two more documentary filmmakers decide to find what happened.

Thoughts under the cut.

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All in all it feels like a solid little film, I’d probably give it a 7.5/10 (though I’m never good at rating things). Solid concept, pretty great execution. Would watch again.

Now I’m gonna watch treehouse some more, snuggle Midna and then… I dunno.

Last night I ended up watching The Masked Singer final which was pretty good. Danny from Mcfly was the guest judge and he was pretty fun. Me and mum were right that dressed crab was Gregory Porter (she guessed him a few weeks back and I agreed). Continuing the music theme I watched a thing on bbc with music inspired by movies which was pretty good, I loved how utterly random it was. There was Madonna, Ella Fitzgerald, Lady Gaga, Bannanarama and a few others I wasn’t familiar with.

Speaking of music my recently played songs are Running Up That Hill (which I know I’m not alone with after that Stranger Things ep) and fields Of Elation which is a Sleep Token song from their first ep which I’d not heard until last week (which is here on Spotify). Fields Of Elation is just… I dunno, but you can just feel the despair in Vessel’s voice. I dunno what it says about me that I’ve been listening to it so much but it just makes me… feel.

On the other hand Running Up That Hill… I kinda was under the impression it was about exchanging places with someone that had died you know? And then I read something on tv tropes and then listened to the lyrics and it’s very much… not.

Anyway last night I kinda went drained and didn’t watch anything or game. Then this morning I woke up in a bad mood again which, ugh. I wish my brain wasn’t like this. It evened out a little over the sad, mostly morphing fro annoyance to the vague sadness that’s plagued the past days. Which ugh.

I did watch Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, which I picked up when we went to Birmingham a few weeks back. I’d wanted to get it after seeing Afterlife over Christmas so thoughts under the cut.

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Today I also built a lil Lego set I got before I was sick. It’s a valentines set, with two lil hedgehogs and it’s pretty cute. The base of it and the mushroom are both shaped like hearts which is a cute feature.

Then I finally went back to Echoes Of Wisdom and I ended up doing the Holy Mount Lanayru temple. But man I felt so hard for poor Condè I hope his brother comes back (either as a side quest or in the end credits). I did like how the temple was a mix of hot and cold, that was pretty clever. Next destination is to the ‘eternal forest’ which I suspect may then lead to the final boss (or give something to beat them) but I guess we’ll see.

Tonight’s plan is… I dunno, it depends on my energy which feels a bit low. I do wanna do ficcing, 59 look for the phone, or some on ESO abut honestly? I dunno.

Tomorrow (or Tuesday) is likely Stranger Things, though which day depends, again, on my energy and mindset.

So this past weekend has been very *flops uselessly*

Right after I did the round up post we went to go and pick up mums meds. We were only gonna go there and sainsburys but we went into TK Maxx and I’m glad we did! I picked up a few books, a haunted house book called Hellhouse, a nice hardcover of Sherlock Holmes and another one. If you have ever been into TK a you know the books are random and disorganised so I always look through everything in case there’s something relevant to my interests (I’ve found some really good Star Wars books that way) and to my surprise there was a Stranger Things book! And then I pulled it out to see which it was and it was Flight Of Icarus, the Eddie one! So of course I had to nab it. I dunno when I’ll read but I’ll definitely try to soon.

In Sainsburys mum got some clothes she’d wanted in the sale, then I got a cute lil Lego set with hedgehogs and the two Lego magazines I get. But ugh it was tiring.

That meant my focus was a bit off Saturday night, Seapeekay had an event but I only half paid attention and then I ended up just flopping after it.

I did put a Steve funko in my watchlist that night and woke to an offer of 20% off so off course I nabbed it. And the flayed Billy funko arrived too.👀 I also put two Eddie ones into my watchlist Sunday, saying I’d not get one till I’d seen him… cut to today and I’ve ordered one oops.i di really need to find the Henry one I picked up, it’s gone awol (likely cause mum moved it)

(I have a problem I even changed my Netflix icon from Diego to Steve.)

Fortnite also has the Stranger Things stuff back in and I’m puzzled again how they have Steve’s bat and Eddie’s spear but neither Steve or Eddie.

Sunday I ended up watching the last of the ITV Marple series and… it was ok. It was a bit slow and the actual murder didn’t happen until about two thirds in and it did pick up a bit after that. The thing is it’s like a few of the Marple eps, Marple herself isn’t really properly intergrated (she just keeps turning up! Even when the main guy we follow is on his honeymoon in Italy) so it wasn’t a surprise when I saw it’s one of the stories the series adapted that didn’t even have Marple in. I guess that’s why Poirot was so well done, the series adapted only all of the stories he was in without randomly inserting him into others.

I dunno what the Sunday thing will be now though, I guess we’ll see. Maybe I’ll get back to The Umbrella Academy or something else entirely.

I did indeed to watch Spree on Saturday, but cause I didn’t have the focus I switched it to Sunday. It is pretty good! It’s a solid concept and Joe Keery is really good as the main character (and yeah looks good in tone two scenes he’s bloody) and it’s so funny to see the actress that played Jen in Agatha All Along in another role. But damn most of the people Kurt killed on his spree (at least to start with) were really dicks.

I did look on ao3 to see if there was any fics from it and damn, so many are Stranger Things crossovers which isn’t a surprise really and I’ve added some into my marked for later cause it was 3 am.

Today was meant to be the phone appointment so we went out with Naryu and then waited.

And waited.

And waited.

The call was meant to be at 2:30, but there was no sign of anything. Mum eventually decided to chase it up and apparently they cancelled it and tried to call Thursday. Yeah the first day i was out all day since the biopsy. I checked the phone and they called twice in the morning but didn’t leave a clear message, so why didn’t they call again on the Friday? I dunno, but it’s another example of their uselessness.

They’re gonna call again tomorrow at 5 but it seems just to be a chance up and not any real answers but I’m not too surprised.

The plan tonight is to do some gaming and start Stranger Things season 4, though it depends on my focus and energy. My gaming is meant to be Elder Scrolls Online and Dreamlight valley both of which have events ending soon which I need to speedrun to finish which is annoying.

And speaking of gaming it’s so sad that Multiversus is ending soon. It was really fun and had such potentional but they fumbled it.

The hope for this week is:
*Go through the prompt lists d maybe add things
*The next ep of the rig
*Read more ABC Murders
*Find the Henry funko
*organise and add to icons
*hopefully Indiana Jones or Alan Wake

(Again I’m sure I’m missing something obvious)

So this post is gonna be a follow up to the nonsense in this one about the boiler nonsense.

So since we heard nothing Thursday we figured we would Friday, but alas we heard nothing. Mum was gonna call this morning (Saturday) but after her usual Friday call with her friend she decided to chase it up.

It took three calls, a lot of it on hold, to finally find out what the issue was. For some reason, despite the thermostat being an essential part of the heating system, they won’t cover it. To me that’s baffling, what’s the point of emergency cover if it wont cover one specific part, especially when said part is necessary for the boiler to function.

Naturally mum was both frustrated and furious at them, and she’s decided that we need to cancel the insurance and find someone else to cover it.

Other than cancelling the insurance I wasn’t sure what was going to happen Friday night.

This morning (so Saturday) she came up out of nowhere and quizzed me about money which I wasn’t in the mindset for. Turns out she’d called the person that serviced the boiler and he’ll come and sort it out for £200 which isn’t something we can exactly cover. Apparently he said he’d give us a month to pay which is better than having to find op it out of nowhere I suppose. I didn’t appreciate either that it was happening Tuesday which is gonna be a shopping day and she knows that but… eh, me saying anything doesn’t matter.

We had words while out with Naryu, about that, about the meter replacement happening Monday, about sorting the insurance (I won’t to wait to sort a new one once he next money was in she, instead, wants it sorted this coming week) and just… ugh. The whole thing is just extra stress.

It hasn’t helped that the stress, combined with the back pain and lack of sleep lately, has combined to make my mood really low and I hate that. It’s also trashed my focus (in part due to having to be alert for calls) and just… ugh. I hate the whole thing.

Mum had a call from my cousin and she bought up the situation and he said her brother would give money towards it though I’m doubtful because that’s doesn’t sound like my uncle, unless he’s had a personality transplant while in hospital.

But ugh. I hate the whole situation. I’m glad tomorrows gonna be a day if…nothing before three days of stress (Monday with the meter being replaced, Tuesday with food shop and thermostat and then Wednesday mum wants to sort the damn insurance).

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Other things though and… there’s not a lot honestly. I’ve mostly just been watching the Realmathon and reading some of my book, plus doing games on the switch. Nothing big, just Fortnite/Fall Guys/Star Wars Hunters. Oh and James Marriott posted a new photoshoot where he looks really good, I wonder if the photoshoots related to the music vid (if there is one) cause there’s a new song in a week or two.

The Realmathon ends Monday and, despite all the disruption that’ll be exhausting, hopefully that will mean my time will be more my own so I can return to Stranger Things and The Rig cause I wanna know what happens damnit. And I still need to watch Tarot.

I did watch the second Escape Room film last night, Tournament Of Champions I dunno if it was causal my focus but it didn’t feel as good as the first one. I think it didn’t help that it kinda felt a bit… contrived. Like in the first one all the people were invited to participate whereas this time the organisation managed to (somehow!) get prior winners all on the same train. And not just a regular train, but a subway train. With no other people on it. In New York.

Some of the rooms were nice, but a lot felt kinda unfair and then the ending was a bit ??? What’s strange though is that there’s another cut of the film (included on dvds and blu rays) and I’m really curious about it. Apparently the start and end is different and one character isn’t in it at all (and at least two new ones are in it) so I might be tempted to look for it and see.

Today has been a low energy day though I ended up listening to two of the Rusty Quill Rusty Fears things they’ve done (it’s a contest and there’s 6 stories total, with a pool to decide the best) and I just have two more left which I might listen to tomorrow.

But anyway I’m gonna try and rest. I’ve been hoping to fic but my brain has been a bit bleh and I’ve not had the focus to even look properly. But eh I guess we’ll see.

Last post of the year, (unless I finish a fic between now and midnight) so I hope everyone has a nice and safe new year night.

Sunday was a pretty good day, I watched Witness For The Prosecution and then there was Dungeons And Dodongos which is always a fun time. (Especially since Shad was back yay! 🖤)

Then in the night Taskmaster was on which was pretty fun. There wasn’t any details on whoever on whoever is in the next series though, which they do sometimes reveal.

Then I watched Gosford Park which the tv guide billed as a whodunit but damn. It was just so… slow and I completely lost interest and got bored. It didn’t help that the ‘victim’ wasn’t found until 1 hour 20 mins in (in a 2 hour 15 film) and it was just a bit… bleh.

Thankfully that was followed by the Quackity lore stream which was chaotic and very scuffed (it ended up having issues a few times). But it was fun, if tragic. I might try and get one of the merch hoodies for it (though damn why is the chip only in bundles?) but I half expect them to sell out first.

Yesterday was also a slow day. I watched Abominable which was fun, then The Incredibles 2 which I’d not seen before but it was pretty good. (I had my suspicions about who was working for the villain which turned out to be sorta right).

But also the Cult Of The Lamb graphic novel came! With cool physical versions of the games cards. I hope to read it soon.

That night I watched Cunk On Life, I’d not seen any of her stuff before but now I want to cause it was so funny and silly.

Then today was the day of the biopsy which… honestly I half expected either a cancellation call or to arrive and find there was an issue, thankfully it went ok. Though ugh. I told mum not to cause issues cause of all trouble and she promised she wouldn’t… so what happens the second I’m in the treatment room? She embarrassingly goes on about it. Which threw me off cause I wanted to ask questions and such but they went out my head.

The doctor shown what they were gonna do on a piece of paper. What they did is like an eye with the former wound being the middle. I dunno if they dug in further than that or anything, but I just lay down, got injected and then they went to work. I didn’t feel anything and had my eyes closed the whole time.

With the stitches I can’t bend down, or stretch really so I have to be careful for awhile. Now I have to wait 6 to 8 weeks to see if I actually get answers though I’m not optimistic with the time frame.

Mum mentioned wanting to get cat food so I suggested we get it when we got home, cause I knew we’d be tired when we got back. After getting stuff in the co-op… I found my wallet wasn’t there. This time it was the other one and I assumed I’d left it at home only nope, it was back in the car again. So that was stressful time which I didn’t need ugh.

The rest of the day I watched The famous Five (which was set at a hotel and pretty good), then Seapeekay’s stream and then the lottery new year bash (which going on Star Wars Hunters). Mum said we could have domino’s cause of the stress so we had that so at least some will be for tomorrow.

Now I’m trying to get comfortable, its hard to find a position that doesn’t catch the stitches, and watch Black Panther cause it’s on tv.