shadowhive

So the last few days have been eventful so it’s time, again, for a general post.

So on Sunday I started watching The Residence. I saw a trailer for it on twitter about a month or so ago and I was instantly intrigued. It’s a murder mystery and someone has gotten killed at a large house while a party is going on downstairs. Which yeah, sounds like dozens of other murder mysteries, except this is no ordinary large house: it’s the white house.

I watched the first two episodes and, so far, it’s really great so far! I love the detective as she’s so quirky and has absolutely no respect for any of the guys trying to tell her what to do (or what not to do). The cast is also wild as there’s been a lot of people I’ve recognised (The FBI agent from Ant Man and Wandavision, Tilly from Star Trek Discovery, Jane Curtain from 3rd Rock from the sun, one of the guys from OG Charmed, hughJackman and Kylie Minogue! Oh and the guy that plays Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian is in it too.) I really love it and wanna watch more cause I wanna know what happened!

The rest of Sunday was kinda low energy but I did end up starting a game pass game, Planet Of Lana. It came to gamepass last year and I wanted to play it cause it looks so pretty but alas I got sidetracked. It really is so pretty though and there’s a cute lil guy called Mui who is like a lil black cat thing. It’s pretty good so far, though some parts are tricky.

I found out on insta that there’s gonna be an indie horror short film thing at a cinema in Birmingham (here’s the list) and I’m kinda tempted to check it out even though I dunno exactly where the cinema is and it’s on a library day. We’ll see if I do it (they’re also doing full showings of Twin Peaks which is kinda cool but they’re on Sundays)

There wasn’t gonna be any plans Monday, but then when I was looking at the tv guide I saw there was a film I’d wanted to see for awhile on. It was The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes and I’d heard of it cause there’s a section at Loch Ness (which resulted in a prop being lost to the loch only to be found again a few years back). And honestly? It was a wild ride. It had Christopher Lee as Mycroft an opening story mostly unconnected to the rest (with Sherlock implying to someone that he was gay and Watson was his lover), a finale at Loch Ness and a closing scene that was so sad. (It’s on Sky Arts again Saturday afternoon.j I’m so glad I spottted the listing, though also so sad when I looked up later that there was intended to be more scenes to it but they got cut.

Since money, finally, turned up I decided to go to sainsburys this morning to look for eggs. As I posted on insta I did find some, in sainsburys and Aldi, but there really weren’t many options and it was mainly more expensive eggs left. M and S’s food also didn’t have anything which was a shame as I wanted to try some of their hot cross buns. I did get a lil Lego Yoshi and the new radio times from sainsburys though.

(Also Pets at home had the cutest lil Guinea pigs they were so adorable😭)

I did manage to get a Lindt eggfor mum though as thanks for all the issues, though the box could easily have been half the size it was. We also had dominos, which was good though I’m sure the price has gone up since we last had some.

Also today Elder Scrolls Oblivion has been remastered and was out today! It’s on game pass too so I might try it sometime but it’s 120GB thst means I have to figure out a way to make space (damn xbox and memory card things being so small)

Also today the local cinema put up the Episode III showing times and it looks like it’s only from Friday-Sunday which is a bit annoying. It’s also annoying it’s only one showing, 3:45 which means I can get there on bus, but have to walk back if I go. I’ll see what the weather is like, but I know Saturday is out cause of Doctor Who.

Anyway! I think that’s everything but I’m probably missing something super obvious.

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.

So slightly more upbeat post time.

So between the last post and now I have watched the next Stranger Things ep so I’m gonna mention that first.

I was right that Nancy and Robin went to see Creel (Robin coming in clutch again both to get them access and figure things out). But damn, they got Robert Englund in as Creel, like I knew I recognised him from somewhere but the eyes being sewn up threw me off until I saw his name in the credits.

But damn the sudden gunfight was so unexpected. Those military guys (assuming they’re military) really didn’t care to find out if Eleven was even there they just started blasting (typical Americans). And I felt so bad for Joyce and Hopper cause they got screwed over big time, but at the same time? I had a feeling something might go wrong.

But of course it was Max’s episode and now I get why Running Up That Hill was a huge thing when it came out. Like damn that was impress (and it even got enough play because of it to give Kate Bush a number 1??) but damn Vecna was really screwing Max over first pretending to be her mum then Billy (damn he looked good though) and just… damn I felt so bad for her and she needs hugs.

Next ep might be tonight, if not it might not be till Monday. (After all I was meant to watch weekly and I’ve just… doubled up sometimes.)

Other than that I started a game pass game called Have A Nice Death which is one of those games (in a vein like Hades and Cult Of The Lamb), where you do runs beating up enemies until you get to a boss. Unlike them this is a sidescroller though. It’s pretty fun and the character dialogue and text is very funny, but that first boss seems to be really hard. I’ve done at least 8 runs now and had no luck beating him which is annoying.

I’ve also been doing Elder Scrolls Online cause there’s another event already and I’ve ended up getting absorbed in the Necrom questline. Why are Daedric Princes working together to get into Apocrypha! What hidden knowledge are they after so badly they’d co-operate? I’m so curious.

Another good thing some doozer pins I ordered came! They were blind bags which is a shame but I did get one of the ones I really liked the look of! I might put them on my bag.

Also been reading ABC Murders some more and it was so funny seeing Sevenoaks and Llandudno get name dropped. I’m now about halfway through with it so I might finish it the next few days

I’ve had no luck finding the Henry funko as yet (I’m sure it’s been moved with my Xenk one but I’ve no idea where they are) and now I have to find the phone cause it’s awol too. Ugh. Trouble is the only time I can really search is night and I get sidetracked and I’ve had no luck so far. But I did find I Want That Twink Obliterated and the Sleep Token magazines I took to the library so that’s something.

Also I just got back from walking the pup and picking some things up and came up with a half baked idea but I need wisdom. Does anyone if the dice that appear around valentines have a name? They’re two D6’s (the ‘regular’ dice) only instead of having numbers they have words. One has actions (ie lick) while one has body parts (ie mouth). Does anyone know if they have a name? Or, if you happen to have one, what’s on each of the 6 sides of each.

Now though I’m gonna bundle up, finish noms then watch Father Brown, do some reading, make a call for mum (ugh), do some Fortnite and watch tonight’s tv. And hopefully fic and maybe work on the prompt table.

So to start the post, as is tradition now, a health update.

So the thing on my back is gone, but the place where it was is still sore and occasionally hurts. I have to still be careful stretching to grab things and sometimes have to lay on my side, but at least it’s less than the thing was. Alas though I’ve had headaches instead, which is likely bought on by the recent bad weather (including a thunderstorm on Saturday) which is annoying.

But anyway, onto other things.

A few days ago I had a delivery, which turned out to be the kickstarter book I backed: I Want That Twink Olbliterated. It’s a sci fi anthology about twinks in various kinds of trouble so I’m looking forward to checking it out over October. I now have a total of three recent books to read after Rogue (alas my focus was off). Other than this there’s Shredded, another horror anthology by the same person that did one I read before and liked, as well as Death In The Stars a Doctor book written by Bonnie Langford herself which sounds intriguing. I might do the anthologies first, reading one a day but we’ll see.

I don’t think I’ll be doing kinktober this year. I still have some holdovers from last year I’ve not finished which I want to. But the bigger issue has been my focus being off and having a major lacking of creativity lately. It’s super annoying but.. ugh. I had considered doing spook me, but again the lack of focus/creativity (plus pain) meant I never did. I might do something along those lines though (likely based on the latest Set It Off song, though annoyingly it has no video). I’m hoping to have something done before the week is out but it depends on my focus.

Last week Agatha All Along started, so I decided to watch and it’s really great so far! The first ep plays out like a Wandavision ep (being a spoof of a detective story for a large part) but damn that ending. That Rio and Agatha fight was one of the most homoerotic fights I’ve seen in awhile! (And I love ‘teen’ too, though I don’t get why they’re concealing his name so much when it’s obvious who he is). The second ep was fun with Agatha getting the coven together and I’m really looking forward to tomorrows ep. But already I feel it’ll be my fav Marvel show.

I’ve also managed to finish season one of the Magnus protocol and damn, that ending left me with so many questions (though was so good). I wonder when we’ll find out what the protocol actually is though.

Speaking of finishing things I finished the Ju-On boxset. Ju-On: The Grudge 2 felt like a more cohesive story than the prior entries, though it also had three things that were less scary more ridiculous which took me out a bit. White Ghost and Black Ghost were each also self contained things, being completely new curses which I think worked really well for the most part. (Though the white ghost wasn’t so much scary as… I dunno the face looked so wrong). Like with watching the Ring box set it’s made me wanna watch the remake ones so I might have to do that at some point.

Because of Outlaws I ended up watching Solo on Sunday and it’s still so fun. I really do love it and think it’s a shame we didn’t get more young Han and especially young Lando (please sort the promised film/series Lucasfilm).

Speaking of Outlaws I played it a bunch lately and completed the questline with Qi’ra, got immense feels for ND-5 and then somehow got to last story quest so I did that. I could kinda see some of the end coming but not completely so was still surprised by some of the twists. But damn I really did love it. It was a lot of fun and I’ve come to really love Kay. Towards the end I couldn’t help but think of Qi’ra’s quote about Han, that she knew who he was and that he was ‘the good guy’ and that really applies to Kay too. The way she was just determined to help save her friends at the end, yeah that shows who she is. I hope we see more of her (there’s at least two dlcs at least) and I hope there’s merch too.

Today I finally, finally, got back to Tears Of The Kingdom after months of saying that I would. I ended up achieving a fair bit already today: I beat Master Kohga three times (including what seems to be the last time), healed the Deku tree, retrieved the master sword and I ended by landing at Hyrule castle. The new game is coming tomorrow but I’m not gonna start it until finishing Tears and I feel close to. (I fully expect Hyrule castle to be the first part of the end game, followed by whatever is in the depths beneath it).

Then tonight I finally started my VHS run with the first film. As the film went on the segments improved, with the last one being my fav (due to how effective the haunted house/possession was). But some parts were a lil rough. The guys in the wrap around were so unlikeable from the start and there was so many instances of guys just being dicks. Im looking forward to watching the others though (I’m hoping to watch 2 tomorrow and viral Friday) cause I know it does improve as it goes on. But I guess we’ll see.

VHS overall ratings
Wrap around: 4/10
Segment 1: 6/10
Segment 2: 6.5/10
Segment 3: 7.5/10
Segment 4: 7.5/10
Segment 5: 8/10

But I’ve rambled a bit so I’m gonna head off and flop.

So dreamersdare is doing an august posting thing so I’m gonna try it too. It’s probably not gonna be the same sorta stuff (certainly today’s is more of a random stream of conscious kinda deal). But first a general update.

I feel the past few days have been draining. The heat has returned so it’s made it hard to focus which is so incredibly annoying. I’ve also had trouble settling to sleep which is… ugh.

It also feels I’ve had bad luck with a few things. A few of the in-line games I use have been disconnecting a lot. My tumblr is gone (and I’m not getting any answers as to why despite sending support messages). It really sucks cause I had so many memories there and was finally getting back to using it again. Ugh, hopefully they sort it.

I started a technic mini set, lost a cog for it, got stabbed maybe something while rooting for it (after losing it again) and then lost half of the build. Which is more of annoyance than the rest but I’ve had to wear a plaster since then.

Bleh.

But anyway, onto fandom things instead.

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I picked up some things from the summer sale. I did an order with arrow video, which was gonna be just ju on in the sale but I added a few other things cause you could get a few gift when you spent so much. Those things are on their way (while ju on is on back order) and I also ordered the J Rising boxset (mpwhich might be a belated birthday present) and Trick R Treat.

The things that are coming from that are Audition and Lifeforce (both of which I’ve seen but not for a long long time), something called Hiruko The Goblin (never seen but sounds interesting) and The Sacred Spirit (which was the freebie which also sounds interesting).

From the Bethesda sale I eventually decided to get the Ebonheart pact dice set (yeha I have a problem) but also a tee and a hat.

I also had to use my game points before the reward card ended. I was gonna get vbucks, but they had to be delivered so I just got Xbox credit instead. (Cause the saving wouldn’t even cover the shipping.) I thought I might use it on the Xbox summer sale (I’d a few things in the basket to consider) but I decided none of them interested me enough.

Sunday I ended up watching The Turning because it was on tv and I was curious about. For the most part it was creepy in an unsettling way. And Finn Wolfhard was the standout part in it. Unfortunately the final scene of the whole film was very… unsatisfying because of how unclear it was?

Speaking of watching stuff Futurama was back on Monday and it was so good to see it back. I really liked the Aztec themed robots and I hope we see more of them at some point.

Gaming wise I finished the MCC event stuff and have the cape (yipee) though I’m a bit sad it’ll be over soon cause I like Seapeekay’s npc. (Speaking of him he’s also gonna be in a film! So I’m super curious what he’s gonna be in it cause he says it’s a speaking role and that it’s gonna be shown at Cannes which is wild).

Bloomburrow is also live in Magic arena, which looks so cute with all the animals! I feel I’m gonna end up making a bat deck soon.

Star Wars Hunters first season wrapped up and the season 2 Hunter is an imperial droid (like K-2SO) and the whole pass is empire themed which… eh. I’m not an empire boy so it’s a bit blah, though there are a few nice outfits (the death trooper, sunset and carmine outfits). Plus one of the other characters has a Zam Wesell themed outfit for in game currency so I’ll definitely pick that up.

Speaking of Star Wars we finally have a date for Skeleton Crew, the next Star Wars series. It sounds really fun from the description and I like that it sounds like it’s gonna be something different. I think it’s really sweet how the director said Jude Law (who is the main character) was with the child actors he’s working with. I am a bit worried the toxic parts of the fanbase will harass them but I hope I’m wrong (but then people suck).

I had a feeling I was gonna say something else but my brain is just… empty.

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

The past few week has been pretty annoying, I think I counted at least 6 things that went wrong all at once last week which ended up being so incredibly exhausting. And then just as I get better from the mental aspects of it I’ve felt sick. Ugh. I dunno if the sickness part is due to something I ate or new meds but…. Ugh.

I’m not gonna dwell on the bad stuff though, apart from one of the more minor ones. When we walked Naryu last week my glasses slipped off my head and one of the arms came off. So I spent a few days having to wear my Parx hat to keep them on.

It took until Monday for me to be able to head down to get them sorted, but they thankfully were able to quickly which was a relief.

Friday we had to go to town for the first of mum’s tests, which went fine and everything seemed ok. The market was on in town which I don’t get to see often so I got two blu rays and some pretty stones. Then we had to stop off to get compost on the way home, so I popped in game and got one of the other Lego animal crossing sets. The best part of it (even more than the figures) is the lil hermit crab which is so adorable!

A game I played the beta of, Multiversus, came out of beta this week. I didn’t realise until I saw Connor stream it so I decided to go back to it. I hadn’t thought too much of it during the beta, it’s basically a smash bros style game with a very random bunch of characters, but I feel it’s definitely better now. I’m enjoying the PVE rift things which are fun. Also it’s wild having Jason from Friday the 13th as a new character, as well as the banana guard from Adventure Time (especially so cause he’s the third character in it which feels strange!).

Saturday was new Doctor Who and today was The Acolyte (thoughts on both under the cut for spoilers).

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So my mindset is starting to get a letter better, which feels good.

Slime story plushies that I ordered during slimes charity stream came fast, I did them after midnight Thursday and they arrived Saturday which was so surprising. They’re so cute and the moss slime is so soft and snuggly.

Speaking of soft and snuggly Midna has continued to be snuggly in the day (and night, she’s currently curled up against my leg) while Leia has been snuggly when I go to bed. Maybe Leia sensed my mindset and decided to be snuggly (Midna’s been consistently snuggly for awhile)

I have been watching and also playing things so under the cut is gonna be my thoughts on a few things. (TUA season 3 ep 1, Primeval, Talk To Me).

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As well as watching things I’ve gamed a little. I’ve been on goat sim 3 on game pass, which is so funny and unserious. There’s been some wild stuff so far, like weird invading aliens (or robots), a giant tentacle creature and a quest from a hobbit house (called dilbo’s quest)

I finally went back on Zelda on Sunday too and… I have not continued any of the quests at all. I’ve just been exploring the depths and doing lightroots. I did intend on doing the main questline but I just got distracted by doing that and for what? I did save at lookout landing so next time i go on I will continue the quest… or get distracted again.

Then tonight I started Prince Of Persia The Lost Crown, doing the first level. And damn, why’s Sargon (the player character) hot? And was the prince flirting with him? Im gonna go on it more sometime but I dunno when.

But I’ve also got sidetracked by raid shadow legends cause of Seapeekay doing a sponsorship so I’ve been trying to do the quests for it (at least the ones that are doable for free) and I’m at level 32 after a week. Damnit.

Anyway here ends the post. I might try and fic some more before bed but we’ll see. Then who knows what this week holds? I’ve gotta pick up mums meds but it depends on the weather which I has been pretty dicey. But other than that? I dunno.

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.

Time for another post, that’s gonna be all over the place as is often. The case.

The uni assessment has been such an annoyance. My brain has struggled with it, which hasn’t been helped by the uni site being slow, or the laptop deciding it must update right now (twice!). I finally got a handle on one of the main questions for it today and then it decided the second of the updates was today. I say second,nits actually the third time the laptop has updated in the past week which was an annoyance. (The third time was just after dnd which was probably why it acted up a bit.)

Seapeekay has had a HelloFresh promo code thing on the past few streams so I decided to use it last week and the first box arrived Friday (despite it ending up at the wrong house again). We did one of the recipes then and it turned out pretty good, so we will try the other two this week (though do wish I’d looked more at one as it says to use a frying pan which we can’t use). I’ve not got another coming for awhile causa Christmas and new year meaning there wouldn’t be the space so we’ll see.

But! I do have a promo code that they sent if anyone wants to use it: HS-U9TUNBUG4. That’s a general one and there’s also a few one time use ones as well. So if anyone wants to try it or anything.

I did more Devil In Me cause I knew Ranboo was wanting to do it on the subathon. I thought they were gonna do the other dark pictures games first though, but they just did that one so it ended up being a bit of a rush. However I loved it, I think it’s easily my fav of season 1. They nailed the horror movie atmosphere and the whole thing was just… I got chills. And I loved so many of the ideas (and there was a dog which lived!). Most of the crew survived (only one died in a trap that was hard to figure out and seemed doomed to kill one) so I did pretty well. The next one is set in space! And looks so cool though there’s no dates or anything.

Speaking of the Ranboo subathons I’ve been watching it on and off and parts have been good but parts I lost focus on (especially the first night and Omori, which I was tired and I feel is a game you need more focus to get). However my fav day was easily Friday, with the one shot they did with Slimecicle, Cellbit and Aimsey which was a wild mystery on a train. It was Ranboo’s first time dming and they threw it together pretty quick but they did such a great job with it. They’ve mentioned doing one a month next year so I hope they do cause it was fun!

Saturday we ended up heading out and it ended up being so tiring. We only went to get a few bits and cheese and it feels like we overspent and I’m not sure on what. I did get something I wanted from TK Maxx, a green shell light and also a giant axolotl which is cute too.but yeah it was draining and tiring which felt like a thing I didn’t need.

I didn’t really watch strictly as a result, but I was surprised Layton didn’t win. Then I ended up watching the next The Lost tapes (which had a double elimination) and was pretty fun though my focus wasn’t there. Then I watched some of Hasan’s stream which felt like a hallucination cause him and Blau were pole dancing. Blau was so good with the spins that I know I have to do something with it.

Yesterday I watched Poirot, so there’s only one left, then there was Dungeons And Dodongos which was fun. It was a side quest ranch episode which was low stakes (finding cuccos) but so fun. Ahno got to ride a horse (and did pretty well) and got a nat 20 in combat (a first I think) and there was also some hilarious cucco worshippers! It’s a shame there’s not more for awhile cause it has been fun.

Also yesterday was episode 2 of a documentary about Arthur Conan Doyle called Killing Sherlock and it was a bit wild cause part of it was about events here! In fact some was even filmed at the church I used to pass on the way to school, which I didn’t know happened. It was a bit surreal seeing somewhere here on tv.

This weeks plans are to:
*send the cards (which yeah, late oop)
*finish uni
*sort mums presents
*do monthly round up and updated streamer post/twitchcon one
*go through Radio times and sort what we’ve gonna watch
*watch some of purgatory to see how Seapeekay does
*disc switch to Jedi survivor and try and go on that
*go on Dead By Daylight and Dreamlight valley’s Christmas events
*fic some more

I’m sure I’m missing something but… ah well.