shadowhive

Well since it’s snowflake I usually end up posting a lot so... here’s another one, even though it’s not snowflake related.

I usually don’t do resolutions, or forget them. My mind is usually a mess at the best of times. However this time I have three.

Read more I have a load of books I’ve got to read. I have virtually all the new canon Star Wars books (bar the battlefront ones which I still need to find) and there’s many I’ve not read. (the Poe one, all of the Thrawn ones, the Alphabet Squadron ones among others) so I want to actually get through them. I’m currently reading From A Certain Point Of View Empire Strikes Back and I want to be reading one of the short stories each week day,

Non Star Wars books I have to read is Thirteen Stories, by Jonathan Sims of The Magnus Archives and the I Am The Master short story collection (I need to get the Time Lord Victorious books too).

So yeah, I’m hoping to book read more. (And yeah, fic read too, but this is mostly book reading,

Watch more stuff I have to watch lists on Netflix, Shudder and Amazon, plus I have piles of blu rays and DVDs that I need to get through. I want to watch at least one thing a week, hopefully more. (Priority things are Discovery and Julie And The Phantoms)

I also wanna continue my Clone Wars rewatch that I started last year but failed.

(In a similar vein I wanna get through some of my games on Xbox and Switch, which I’ve failed at).

Not dwell on things This is a bit more serious, and it’s mostly because of how my depression works. More people abandoned me last year and I want to try and not think too much on them. They left me and they’re not coming back (as much as I may like some too). That means I’ve gotta resist urges to think on them or look at their stuff.

So yeah. I did think about including top five lists of things from last year in this post too, but honestly? My mind gets blank on some things.

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After the post yesterday I watched The High Republic stream from Monday and it definitely all sounds interesting. There’s definitely a lot of collaboration gone into it and I do want to read all the things that are part of it. (Even though the IDW comics are, for some reason, hard to find here as is Insider.) I’m still a little unclear on what the great disaster is, other than it involving Hyperspace, but I guess we’ll see.

I’m most looking forward to Into The Dark, since it sounds the most interesting and it’s also by Claudia Gray who did my favourite of the new canon books that I’ve read. If there’s one criticism from the things announced so far it’s that everything is Jedi focussed. While these new jedi do sound cool, it’s called the high republic era and it’s be nice to see Republic people (instead of just being relegated to the stories being put out in insider).

I reinstalled Valhalla, but it didn’t solve the Yule festival issue which is... so annoying. I’m hoping that they figure out what’s happened and not just patch it but give an extra week for the people that have had issues (and it seems that there’s been a lot of people that have had them). I just did a few random things last night, unlocking high points (though one was... annoying, thanks saur for helping). But good things! You can pet dogs! and get a cat as part of your crew!

I might do the next alliance quest, but with gamerscore rewards thing going on I might go through some quick games instead.

So last night I ended up watching The Grudge, which is the new version that came out last year. Before I start, though, here is a bit of the description of it from tv tropes:

Detective Muldoon (Andrea Riseborough) is contacted by Peter Spencer (John Cho) about an encounter while visiting a house for sale.

This is, quite frankly, wrong. Not only do these two characters never meet (or interact in any way), Peter doesn’t even interact with any of the other detectives in the film. So yeah, that’s a little odd that that’s in their description.

Like most Grudge films it’s set over different time periods (although for this one it makes it clear that’s the case) which are woven together over the course of the film. The focus, however, is on the detective (which surprised me as I thought the focus was on John’s character) who gets drawn into the mysterious happenings that occur.

Now, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen the other Grudge films, but they were mostly related to one location in Japan. This one moves things to America (bar the opening at the original house) so it’s mostly all new things. Admittedly it did make me jump a few times and there are a few good characters and ideas. But there’s a few things from the deleted scenes that should’ve been in there (an extended version of a scene towards The end would have been better than what we got). So yeah it was good, but I dunno if I’ll watch it again any time soon.

The tree has been taking down and put up which has made me achy, and it’s kinda sad seeing the empty space. I’m gonna bring down the box thing over the next few days, so that Naryu can get back on it and look out the window.

Other than that I’m gonna hope to read soon and then drop off my prescription up the road.