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The Lego Mandalorian starfighter arrived yesterday, so I spent the morning building it (more on that later). I ended up watching the last of the Who ray special features, which was the Sylvester McCoy interview and it was pretty interesting. I had no idea his name was a stage name, or that Peter Jackson has one of his outfits.

I found out Buzzcocks was on the talk talk player so decided to watch it and it was pretty funny. The opening was amusing (if a tad long) but Noel was fun to see again on it and Daisy made a pretty good team captain. And Yungblud was cute in the second one, though his voice so doesn’t match.

The afternoon I ended up heading up for a bit cause it was chilly (and there was some rain) so I bundled up, read a fic someone did for me (which again, sweet to do, not sweet in content) and then read the evil of the daleks booklet thing.

I watched the next Fringe out of Bake Off and I really am enjoying it. It makes me gasp in ways that I don’t think anything has for awhile.

Maxx did a stream and looked pretty even in black and white. I was gonna game some but got so tired which was annoying.

Today it’s been a bit wet, but I had some stuff come, including the thing from Amazon which is right now yay!

I’m curious cause there’s been a new travelling Doctor Who exhibit announced but there’s no locations or dates yet. Hopefully there’ll be a Birmingham one.

I might try and write some soon though i’m not sure what yet. I’m gonna read some of the Bone Gate once I’ve done this post and then ???

I’ve not done a pic post in awhile so figured this would be an appropriate time to do one. (Including furfaces!)

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Now for bonus of two prettys, including skin.

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A few things since the last post before the love meme.

*I ordered some Black Series figures, specifically Captain Cardinal, DJ R-3X and R5-P8 which are all from the Galaxy’s Edge line. I’d ordered them cause they were half off, which was a surprise as they’re pretty new, and they all came today yay! I need to get Hondo
*Uni assessment is finished and sent, despite all the issues with it (including one site associated with it being down and my net acting up) so that’s done and I can rest a bit
*I got the new Lego Star Wars magazine which has a nice lil Mandalorian (and a proper blaster not those dumb stud shooters) next month is a Palpatine
*I managed to order the Elder Scrolls loot crate, woo! I considered getting a welcome crate but that would’ve doubled shipping ugh. I’m curious what I’ll get because the past crates look awesome



The next love meme is about incest ships with Good Charlotte, Madina Lake, My Chemical Romance, Palaye Royale, The Umbrella Academy and a Tokio Hotel.

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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.