shadowhive | Entries tagged with spooky season

Fun thing to wake up to today. The clinic that’s been treated me called and want to call me in the morning. I dunno why they couldn’t just tell me this morning (mum took the call) so now I have a call in the morning. I’m sure it’s gonna be nothing serious but still.

Ugh.

Anyway! This post is mostly gonna be about spooky stuff I watched yesterday.

I was gonna watch Hocus Pocus 2 in the afternoon, but I saw that the Corpse Bride was on itv 2 so I decided to watch that instead (I blame the Christopher Lee documentary reminding me he was in it). Before it was also two Halloween shorts, scared Shrekless (which is always fun, I love the duloc music box thing) and then there was the legend of smurfy hollow which was funny too.

I’d seen the Corpse Bride before and it was good, the stop motion is well done and I like the land of the dead (certainly it’s more fun than the human world).

After that I had Shoto’s spooky stream on, though my focus wasn’t fully there. (I did finally join his patreon cause I had a code for 30% off a first month so👀)

Then the night there was a few spooky things on BBC4. There was a documentary on MR James presented by Mark Gatiss, and his horror documentary stuff is always very good cause you can tell he has a genuine interest and love of it. Following that was two shorts, but neither of them really caught my focus.

Following them, though, was the main thing I was looking forward to a reading of Frankenstein by Alex Kingston.

I’d saw it mentioned on an ad during proms, so had been keeping an eye out for it. I’m glad I spotted it in the tv listings cause it was really good! Although it was a reading (and probably truncated a bit to fit an hour) she really gave it her all and sold it the whole time.

It’s amazing what Mary Shelley came up with at so young an age, but it’s also amazing how many things associated with Frankenstein aren’t from the story.

If you think of Frankenstein so many of the things aren’t there. The creature’s creation wasn’t done in a castle, Frankenstein wasn’t a doctor and he didn’t have an assistant. And, while the spark of life for the creature is commonly portrayed as being a result of lighting, that isn’t stated here. (In fact the process isn’t really described, mainly cause it’s told from Frankensteins pov and he doesn’t want people to do it).

However what surprised me most was the creature. He’s not just some lumbering brute, he’s intelligent, articulate. And, while he does kill, it’s not random. What also surprised me is he wanted a companion, mostly because I kinda pictured that ‘the bride’ of frankenstein was a concept came up with in adaptions wanting a follow up. Here he wants Frankenstein to make him a companion, pressuring him to do it until his creator destroys it instead of giving it life.

Which, of course, goes as well as you’d expect.

I might have to pick up the book to give it a read because I’m really curious about it now. And I’m also curious if there has been an actual faithful adaption (with an intelligent creature and scenes at the arctic, which again surprised me). Does anyone know if there’s one out there? There’s gotta be right?

But yeah it was so well done and I hope they get Alex back to do another reading. (It’s on iplayerhere if anyone is interested)

(I’m fully sure I had other thoughts about it but of course they deserted me as soon as I typed this post)

Tonight I’m gonna bundle up and hopefully start j-horror rising (unless a stream distracts me?).

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Tv

So I thought about making a post after Smile 2, since I am gonna try and see it tomorrow, but I figure I should make a general post tonight beforehand first.

The past few nights have been a bit random really. I got possessed by inspiration to do a fic and then my focus has been a bit more off.

It hasn’t helped that mum is making my anxiety peak again. The doctor said she was sending intro on what the thing on the back was, but it hasn’t arrived yet so mum is getting worked up about that, as well as a call from the hospital about whatever the meeting was. I’m trying to be less worried, but of course her getting worked up isn’t helping and is impacting me. Knowing my luck something will come when I’m out tomorrow, but at least I won’t be around to hear it.

However! Good news the stuff I preordered from Arrow came. First there is a new 4K blu ray of Trick R Treat, which is the first 4k of anything I’ve had. I’m looking forward to watching it on Halloween (as usual) as well as reading the included comic and watching the special features. The second thing is the J-Horror Rising boxset which I’m so looking forward to checking out. There’s a bunch of art cards with it, as well as a booklet of things which I’ll check out soon. I was gonna try and watch the first films these past nights, but, alas, I’ve not had the focus for subtitles which is so annoying. Hopefully I can make a start this weekend.

And speaking of Trick R Treat there’s a new kickstarter for a graphic novel by the guy that made it so I’m gonna back it soon (it’s here

Also annoyingly the net went down Wednesday (mostly annoying cause I missed a Seapeekay stream) but I got it fixed by changing the wires but ugh.

I did got on Zelda Echoes Of Wisdom and ahhh! I got the cat outfit from an amiibo and I love talking to all the cats, they’re so cute and sweet and adorable and funny.

And now I’m on to spooky things (again like last post I’m using

rhoda_rants style.

Wednesday - Stranger Things - The Pollywog

Since inspiration struck Tuesday I switched Stranger Things to Wednesday. This one made me think awww Dustin cause he was cute looking into the thing he found. Though also keeping that thing felt like such a bad idea. Like it’s harmless so far but it feels it won’t be for long.

Also damn Billy why were you shirtless in gym and so close to Steve huh? I know what you are.

Because of that, and the Halloween event, I went on Dead By Daylight and did a few rounds as Steve. And. After saying I might get some idea with him in it I started a thing tonight. Oop.

Thursday -Agatha All Along/Dracula Prince Of Darkness

Agatha All Along continues to be such a great show and this was such a good ep. It was told in such a strange way with all the skips, yet it worked. And also they used real fucking swords that fell from the ceiling??

That night there was a Christopher Lee documentary which I watched, which was interesting but also a little sad. He led an amazing life, seeing the last death by guillotine in France, being a nazi hunter during the war and that’s before you go into all the films he was in. And it’s so sweet how obviously proud he was to be both in Lord Of The Rings and Star Wars, so he’d be remembered in those roles.

Following on from it was on of the Dracula films he did. I’d never seen any of them so thought it’d be interesting to watch, but… It’s an interesting concept, Dracula has already been defeated and the locals are still Ray about his castle, pretending it doiesnt exist and not going near it. Turns out that’s for good reason as travellers, who get stranded by a suspicious local, end up going there and be manipulated, with one being killed to bring him back.

All of that is pretty good, the locals and travellers are all pretty well played, as is the creepy butler. Then Dracula is revived and… he doesn’t say a single word throughout, he just hisses and it feels like a waste. According to tv tropes he had lines, but he refused to say them which… I guess means they were terrible. So yeah it was a bit of a shame?

Friday

I did intend to watch something (either more Stranger Things, start J-Horror Rising, or get back to American Horror story but my focus started to fade during Ghost Files which is a shame. So all I did that’s spooky is watch Ghost Files and do some more Dead By Daylight (why does the Xenomorph just grab people by the throat and carry them like that?)

I did listen to Into The Tardis: Primord part 2 which is starting to get interesting. It’s well acted though you can’t help but be a little sad how many actors have had to be recast for it (it’s third Doctor era, so the Brigadier, Liz and the third doctor are all new people).

Tomorrow I’m hoping to see Smile 2 as well as get things so I’ll do a post on thoughts then.

I have a bunch of spooky things that I meant to watch and do over October though between being sick, the anxiety over medical issues and lack of focus I’ve not done many so I’m gonna do them in November.nthings I intend to watch soon are

Blu Rays
*J-Horror Rising
*Saw
*Five Nights At Freddy’s
*Lifeforce
*The Sacred Spirit
*Audition
*Trick R Treat (on Halloween)

Disney+
*Agatha All Along series finale eps (on Halloween)
*Hocus Pocus 2
*Nightmare Before Christmas (probably Wednesday)
*American Horror Story (hopefully, I’m hoping my friend is up to watching again)

Netflix
*Cabinet Of Curiosities (finishing the last half)
*Smile

Prime
*Spree
*Gods Of The Deep

Shudder
*Uzumaki
*Terrifier (maybe?)
*VHS 85
*The Mortuary Collection (I dunno why but I wanna rewatch)

Games
*Song Of Horror (get back to it)
*Dredge

I’m sure I’m missing a bunch of things for every one of those, but those are the main ones I can think of.

Anyway now I’m gonna snuggle and hopefully sleep if Leia lets me.

Current Mood: tired

It feels like the world has tried to be very… much again. Between the tories being (again) asses and the incident a few days ago that very nearly could have triggered a war… (and, of course, Musk being a complete and utter cunt to the twitter workers). Everything feels exhausting.

I’ve managed, largely, to avoid thinking about it but ugh… can’t things be calm for once? I’d like not to leave through historic events thanks.

I ended up submitting the uni assessment Monday even though a decent chunk I couldn’t figure out. I know the results there but I’ve not checked it yet. Mostly I’ve tried to have a few days of just being.. off (other than uni reading, which is pretty interesting)

I had been semi watching I’m a celebrity, if only to see Matt get tortured in the trials, but ugh, it became a bit patronising. Mostly because he’s acting like he’s on this to be humanised, which no. You’re doing it for the money. Don’t pretend like you care for your constituents when you’re being paid thousands to be in a jungle instead of at your post.

There’s been a few deliveries recently which is nice. There was surprise purple sparkly socks from

turlough, a Christmas Qwertee hoodie (mostly cause the cat looked like GNF), the hoodie

sourgreen ordered for me (which looks pretty and I’m gonna wear it today), Pokémon Violet (more on that later) and the R2 tamagotchi (which I got half off from Black Friday).

I missed James’ stream the other day (and I should probably start qualifying it’s James Marriott since two of you have hubbies called James) and apparently there was a mention of a tour? So now I’m wondering if it’ll include a date in Birmingham which would be so awesome! I just hope it’s not a sudden announcement of dates/goes insanely quick (though I don’t think he’s as big as Lovejoy but…)

I managed to finish Once Upon A Jester on Thursday which was cute and funny and fun. I’m gonna have the songs stuck in my head for so long (Wendy The Wendigo is stuck in my head a lot lately) and it was so cool seeing the boys in the credits. I think I’ll get the Jan tee at some point. (The developers are wise to do merch for Jan and the ice creams) I’d definitely say it’s one of my indie games of the year (just behind cult of the lamb)

Yesterday Pokémon Violet came, yay! There was a bit of annoyance because of the switch’s cap limit (it’s so dumb and it doesn’t tell you it’s full until it’s too late) so I had to copy stuff to the laptop yesterday, which of course needed an update. Ugh. But anyway I spent a decent chunk of time on Pokémon yesterday and I chose Quaxly, because he’s Quackity coded (though all the starters are so cute).

Thoughts so far? The early routes are pretty cracked on the variety of Pokémon and types that there are. My team now is all new Pokémon (apart from Paldean Wooper but that counts) and, although I’ve been on it for… however long, I’ve still not got to a gym yet which feels like a record. The region is very obviously Spanish themed, which is pretty cool. (And, like always with Pokémon games, the appearance of meat in food is… questionable). And the school part feels kinda… unnecessary? But there are pretty guys and cute Pokémon so yay!

Last night I decided to watch Ghostwatch. I think it was pretty good and you can definitely tell how people watching it at the time would have bought it as being real. It’s held up pretty well, though obviously you can tell it’s from the early 90’s (by the tech and the style of the doctor lady). The studio section had a very much vibe of Most Haunted live and there’s so many found footage type tropes, which is pretty impressive for the time. It makes me wonder how many people that watched it thought it was real (apparently it did cause some people to have trauma and a suicide, hence why it’s never been repeated or anything) and if the number on the screen led anywhere. (I do wanna read the included short story soon).

One thing that did take me out a bit though was the use of term glory hole for a cupboard under the stairs which… obviously hasn’t aged well. Apparently it was a slang term for them at the time, but… well.

I might check out some of the special features, maybe tonight. (I had meant to watch the event horizon stuff recently but the big one is as long as the film! Or maybe longer!)

This weekend I dunno what my plans are other than Pokémon (and watching Brokenwood today). I might fic some and I do wanna try and get back on Destiny 2 (even though I won the edition with season passes when I’ve been on it it felt like it wasn’t levelling the pass up) and I still need levels for the fortnite bonus battle pass (and rocket league event).

But for now I think we’re gonna walk the pup soon.

(Also is anyone near a smiths or something? I completely forgot to look for the palaye Kerr any when I was last out and likely won’t again)

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Bonte Avond - Once Upon A Jester (Campfire version)

So I’ve not made a proper post in a few days, so here it is.

On Wednesday, after making the last post, we had a call from my uncle. (Who has never bothered checking in on us during everything and has genuninely been useless as always.) what did he want? Not to see if we were ok or needed anything, but to use our freezer because he was doing his own out.

Now when we do it with ours (which mum did Friday) we just put our stuff in a basket with a coat on and do it quickly. In fact when we did it it took less than an hour. So why he wanted to pack the stuff in his car, drive it here and then keep it in our freezer is just... (and he didn’t even come back for it till late Thursday). The whole thing baffles me,

Other than that nothing too exciting happened. I did end up watching The Crow on Friday, since a few people were, so I’ll add thoughts on that at the end.

I hope everyone had a good Halloween. I putting on the latest Magnus Archives in the morning, so I’m all caught up, and then watching Nightmare Before a Christmas before working the pup. When I got back I sorted the pumpkin and had soup which was nice.

I also did Animal Crossing Halloween, which was cute. The spooky carriage is so massive though. I need to sort a proper place for it.

Well, we’re entering another lockdown on Thursday. I didn’t catch the announcement (although i know it was delayed a few times which says a lot). Although it’s meant to be another four week lockdown,.. schools and unis are still being kept open (despite the latter being a know hotspot). What the hell is wrong with them? Universal basic income is gaining more support, so I hope that comes through because this is all a mess. Ugh.

The main thing I did on Halloween, though, was Shudderfest. It’s an event that got announced last week (by the Shudder app) and it was a series of pre recorded panels. (There was some technical issues but otherwise it went smoothly). The horror royalty one that opened it was pretty good though could have easily been longer (and Lin Shaye is adorable and I wanted more of her). I also enjoyed the Host and Mortuary Collection panels (I hope the lattter gets a sequel!) and the vampire one was funny, even though I missed the start.

It ended with a film premier which I’ll get too later. Trick R Treat didn’t arrive so I didn’t watch it, but that was ok in the end. It should be here tomorrow.

Ok film thoughts under the cut now,

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All in all spooky seasons has been good for watching stuff, though mostly on streaming stuff. (I barely touched the dvd/blu ray lists). I’m gonna extend it a bit because time has no meaning (and Maxx isn’t doing streams for awhile so that should help).

I’m gonna be hopefully watching some online gigs this month, Madina Lake and Set It Off (which just got announced the other day). And I wanna read Leaser Known Monsters which came out yesterday.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Tv

So it’s been a few days now since my last proper post so here’s what’s been going on.

I started the new Pokemon expansion, the Crown Tundra. I haven’t got too far into it yet but already it seems.... short. The extra map only has one town which is at least better than Isle Of Armor just having the Dojo but even so. I feel like I could easily finish the bulk of it if I spent enough few hours on it which feels like a shame. I do enjoy the Dynamax adventure though, cause I do like stuff where you have to rent Pokemon on other games. (Although it’s odd there seems to be no pokedex entries for the legendaries you get)

Saturday wasn’t too eventful. I watched Coco (since mum wanted a film on and it was Halloweeny) which is pretty good. I like how bright and colourful the afterlife is, though when I watch stuff like that I wonder what caused the Mexican culture to represent the afterlife like that (after all Gucamelee and Book of Life are also like that). Maybe I should look into that.

Strictly was pretty good, and Nicola is great! I’m so gonna vote for her and Bill when the voting goes live Saturday. (Hopefully this’ll lead to more same sex couples going forward.)

Over the weekend I tried to start Man Of Medan but... couldn’t get anywhere with it. At the opening you have to pick up a tile which has a fish symbol on it. You have to examine it using the right stick before you can move on and just... I can get it to turn around most of the way, enough to show the fish, but apparently that’s p not enough for the game to register it. I dunno what’s wrong with it but I tried a few times (even going back to it the next day) but got nowhere which is... sad and frustrating.

I went on Monster Prom which worked much better. I did one term and it was so funny, though I didn’t get to go with Liam to the prom which is sad. I might do another run at some point, maybe trying to go for Damien.

I decided to get one of the sims 4 expansions from the sims sale that there was on Xbox (cats and dogs) I thought about getting another but decided not to. Since I did I got it I decided to go back on it to do Batuu some more. The aspiration issue is still there, but I had a workaround by doing a resistance mission (although to do so lost all my first order progress, ugh) so I’m gonna do missions periodically. The problem is, of course, that the missions are pretty tedious (or they require you to switch areas with long loading screens) so it feels annoying. The best part are the space ones, but there’s an issue there with the text size. (And the first order district for some reason lacks amenities.) even so I’m determined to finish all three faction missions before doing more on the game, that way I’m done with it. It’s just such a shame really.

I’ve decided to do kinktober and got one fic posted already. I’m working on one of the abandoned fics for day 2 (omega Ray since there isn’t any) and we’ll see when I finish it. Maybe today or tomorrow. It’s also Kliego week now and I’ve just... not worked on anything for it. Which sucks, but maybe I can try and do a late thing.

Monday was mum’s call from Universal credit which seems to have gone ok. There wasn’t going to be money for almost a month but managed to get a loan of it sorted and done quick which is a relief.

There was also a reveal of Mandalorian stuff for Mando Monday’s and some looks cool some looks blah. There’s a new Black series Mandalorian which is annoying because it looks just like the one I got just under a month ago... and he comes with extra stuff, including the child and his hover pram ugh!

Yesterday there was an incident where mum was feeling for something... and then got a sewing needle through her finger. She’s got it bathed and wrapped up but it was still a bit of a shock. Hopefully it won’t get infected or anything.

Autumnwatch started yesterday and it was nice to see all the animals, especially the lil squirrel eating mushrooms. It’s odd that I knew it was coming but didn’t know it was on until the day.

Shudder has announced an event called Shudderfest which I may try and watch some of. It largely depends on the timings, which should go up soon (causa the time change it makes everything even odder to work out). Hopefully the exclusive film will be on at a watchable time cause I’m curious.

There’s been mail, a qwertee Lucky tee and preorder goodies from a book I’ve ordered (Lesser Known Monsters out in a few days! Queer horror yay!)

I still haven’t found Trick R Treat which is annoying. I almost got a dvd of it on eBay yesterday but it’s gone now damnit. It’ll be sad to have a Halloween without it.

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Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Tv

When I finished the Great Muppet Caper Tuesday, I ended up watching Ring 2. I’d not watched it in awhile and only remembered vague things (and my timeline of it in my head was all wrong). It’s not quite as memorable as the first and it does raise more questions than answers (like Sadako being in that well for years, and why didn’t anyone open the well up before building over it?).

I spent a fair amount of time on Mario 64. I’ve got 50 stars now and ugh some of the levels and missions are so hard now (and I need to do 20 more! Ugh)

Wednesday was pretty uneventful. Other than a new washer being delivered.

Thursday I had mail in the form of the latest Klaus comic, though I’ve not read it yet, and the new Lego magazine which has a cute lil robot. The day proved annoying though as the Wii u game pad isn’t charging. I’m not sure what’s up with it but I spent the day trying to sort it. It wouldn’t be so bad (I’ve not been on the Wii U in awhile) but I use it as the tv remote. I’ve ended up ordering a replacement remote.

My mood went odd last night which was annoying. I ended up watching the latest Carmen sandiego season though and watched 4/5 eps.

Today is the release of the new Pokemon expansion but I’ve not been on it yet. Mums friend came so, of course, meant I had to go to then to take money in cause she wanted to order things. I ended up getting books from Poundland and the works, though they still lack the ones I wanted.

Tonight I’m gonna watch bake off extra slice and finish Carmen sandiego (and start a new thing in drama). I want to try and do monster prom and man of Medan this weekend, and still need to find trick r treat.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Tv

The past few days have been mostly uneventful although my body has been irritating. I had a dizzy spell one morning which meant when I walked the pup I took the walking stick just to be on the safe side. My head’s also a bit achy too. I’m not sure what it is. Is it the depression/anxiety being a pain, stress or something else? Who knows anymore.

Stress side probably comes from mum getting a call last week about changing her over to universal credit. I obviously have heard all the nightmarish stories about it over the years, but she talked to the job center person Wednesday (and her friend from the library) and apparently she’ll get more money so... that’s been enough to convince her to sign up. I’m not convinced but... what can you do. She thinks cause of her age and the virus that nothing will change from how things are now but...

Eh.

(And, of course, there’s the general incompetence of the government which is infuriating)

I’ve not done as much gaming as I hoped to do, because of feeling even more tired which was annoying. I’ve done some ESO causa ESO plus being free and will try and do one of the group dungeons later. I did some Overwatch causa Halloween event but it just reminded me how bad I was at it.

Speaking of gaming there’s a sims 4 expansion sale on Xbox and I’m thinking of getting some. Cats and dogs is cheaper than it is on cd keys, as is eco lifestyles (but I’ve heard that’s still buggy). There was a patch the other week but I’m not sure if it’s sorted the Batuu issue so I might have to see.

My creativity is still bleh though I did start something so...

I’ve ended up watching two spooky films, one Tuesday, one last night. Tuesday’s on was Ring, the Japanese version. I’d not watched it in awhile and had forgotten just how good it was (even though the video is much tamer compared to the us one). It was the first Japanese film I remember watching years ago. Watching it made me wanna watch the others too. Ring 2 is on shudder so I can watch that there so I grabbed Ring 0, Spiral and The Ring Virus which I’ll watch soonish.

The other was the Mortuary Collection which was came to shudder the Thursday. It’s an anthology film and it was pretty good. All of the parts were solid (though the third one was sad) and it included tentacles, mpreg and a serial killer. Plus Clancy Brown was great as the main guy telling the stories.

There’s a few days left till my birthday now and my excitement is so low. I miss when I had someone to write me fic and that makes me sad. And birthdays always make me miss my grandparents so... eh.

I’m heading off to walk the pup now then the plan is strictly and discovery (I meant to watch it last night but we had a call so...)

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Absolute Radio

Saturday wasn’t terribly eventful, to the point where I can’t remember all that much of what happened during the daytime part. I know I watched Murder She Wrote, as well as the Time Lord Victorious panel (which had a clip from the new Daleks animation which looks pretty cool), but other than that?

Night time however was different. I ended up watching the Hot Topic Mental Notes stream. Although Mikey was listed as hosting it he hardly appeared, perhaps for 5 minutes maybe more. He popped up at the start, end and both sides of a break partway through. He looked good though, with his neck exposed, and his voice is endearing. He appeared in the chat a few times too.

The gig itself was a bit random. There was no schedule at all and it was a bit haphazard. I was sure that BVB would be at the end but they were about midway through instead. All but the first two artists played two songs (the first two played one) and one played three. Most were unfamiliar though the new ones I heard were, mostly, pretty good and I’ve added them to Spotify. Kill The Lights didn’t have Moose but I wasn’t surprised. But yeah it was pretty good.

Because of that I didn’t watch anything that night and got pretty tired so.

Sunday was pretty much the same. We walked the pup and mum did some of the Galaxy brownies so that was good, though ugh she still does too much for Sunday’s. I didn’t watch any of the Sunday panels, though I did watch the Animaniacs one later. I hope we get to see it because I loved that show (and yay pinky and the brain!)

There was a Doctor Who panel about games that I didn’t watch but it turns out two are coming. The first is mobile which I was disappointed about at first cause I thought it might a: be like Pokemon go and need constant internet/walking and b might take up space, but it’s coming to switch so that makes it doable. The second is for consoles and has the 13th and 10th doctors, yay!

I managed to get the Taskmaster radio times which I was worried might be gone. I’ll have to read soon. On the way back I saw there was a light on in one of the neighbors so picked up the package we missed Friday when we were out with the pup.

On the night there was some minor twitter weirdness. I was followed by someone that listed their age as being 19 and had a Waycest pic as their first post, so I followed them back. Minutes later they changed their age down to 17 and removed the pic so I unfollowed them. Minors are just... annoying.

I ended up watching Agatha and the midnight murders on catch up but it wasn’t as good as I’d hoped it would be alas. Then I ended up watching Maxx’s stream for spooky Saturday (after sky at night which was pretty cool cause it showed things that were made for blind people). The spooky stream was for a ds game but damn it looked a bit frustrating, mostly because there was so much dialogue. But still it was fun to watch.

I considered going to bed cause I felt a bit tired, but ended up watching Ouija on channel 4. You can guess from the name what it was about, but it was better than I expected (and anything with Lin Shaye in tends to be good so I was surprised she popped up towards the end). But yeah it’s one of those films that makes you think ‘have these people never seen a horror film?!’ Oddly it made me wanna watch Ringu so I might tomorrow.

Today I did uni reading and mail came, so I have a build a bear Eevee and Pikachu as well as funko party Poison. Mum was not happy about the build a bears cause they were second hand so thought they might be infected but I’m sure she’s paranoid. (Although with the way things are going now we might be in another full lockdown soon and it’d be better if we did)

I ended up reading my book some this afternoon. It’s finally gotten to the events of Episode I, even though it’s what the synopsis of it focussed on. It’s gonna be the last third of the novel tops and already it’s breezing through it. I should be finished with it tomorrow though so will switch to something else soon. Maybe the Poe novel.

I watched something about Armadillo‘s this afternoon and they’re so cute! Making burrows that other creatures then move into when they move on. Plus there was a baby one! So cute!

Tonight I’m gonna snuggle and most likely watch Maxx’s stream and game some. I wanna go on Destiny 2 and Man of Medan this week but we’ll see.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Music: Star Trek Deep Space Nine

So as you may have noticed, I actually finished a fic Wednesday. Yay. It’s short and it took ages but it’s done. Hopefully that’ll spark something new but we’ll see.

I have considered doing kinktober and spreading it out over a longer period of time but we’ll see. The thing is I’m still kinda wary about doing more bandom fic, despite having started one (the one with Maxx a few weeks ago) and I know I’d wanna use Ray’s thighs for a prompt if I did kinktober. We’ll see though. It’s possible the creative spark won’t come back enough for that.

After making the post Wednesday my mood plummeted and I’m not wholly sure why. But as always with these things, my mind decided to play the usual things on a loop which... ugh. It meant Thursday was a pretty slow day, at least for the daytime part which was annoying.

I did manage to win a build a bear Eevee from eBay though. I’m pretty sure it does have sound (boo) but at least it has one of the outfits.

It’s New York comic con currently and, because of everything, it’s being held online. Which is good cause that means I can watch things. I’ve seen two panels, both about Star Wars books. Nothing much was revealed that was new, but they all sound pretty interesting. A big thing got announced from a panel I wasn’t watching though. I didn’t watch the Trek one (because Lower Decks was gonna he discussed and I’ve seen none) but a new series got announced, Star Trek prodigy. It’s gonna be CG animation, apparently kid focussed and it features the return of Janeway! Yay!

Part of the comic con scheduling was a film premier so I stayed up to watch that Thursday night. It was called Books Of Blood and apparently it’ll be on Hulu (though like the rest of comic con was on YouTube). It was an anthology film which I’m always interested in, even though some of the recent ones I’ve watched haven’t been the best.

The film had three stories (and a five minute intro opening) and they were of varying length and quality. The first one was, in my opinion, overly long (it had to be about half of the film’s total). It didn’t help that the protagonist wasn’t terribly interesting (and there was a reveal at the end of the film that made any sympathy I had for her vanish). The second one was much better and went in a few unexpected ways, even though it was a little puzzling at times with time jumps in it, but it was the best of the three. The third one was pretty spooky and it tied together the opening and other two stories, but it was pretty short. (The film’s ending was unrelated to that story and was more a conclusion to the first one, including the bit that made me unsympathetic to the protagonist).

Today was a bit of a lazish day. I had to get cat food while we walked the pup and it was so busy in there (and people were wearing masks wrong) so that whole thing made me antsy.

I thought about reading some of my book, which I’ve not done this week at all, but didn’t. I ended up just snuggled and doing the usual stuff. I did game in the night, going on ESO a bit as well as Squadrons (I’m still pretty useless at it though).

One good thing though, my amazon voucher came through, so I’m debating what to use it on. I’m considering two things: a Star Wars book that came out awhile back called Scum and Villiany or a Nendoroid of Link from Majora’s Mask, which comes with a bunch of masks and looks cute. I’m not sure yet, though I’ll try and decide before the money goes in next.

I’m debating watching the Hot Topic gig tomorrow that Mikey is presenting. There’s three bands I want to see (As It Is, Black Veil Brides and, surprisingly, Kill The Lights, Moose’s new band), but I’m not sure on the time difference and how long the whole thing is gonna be.

I’m also debating watching a film from Grimmfest, which is a uk horror thing that’s online. One of the films sounds interesting, The Deep Ones and from the synopsis, it’s definitely something I could use as a basis for the fic I have in mind about Ben. But I’m not sure cause it’s like £5 and I only have this weekend to decide.

Ugh I wish I was more decisive. Maybe I will be in the morning.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: The Used - The Lighthouse

Yesterday turned out to be a bit better weather wise than Monday. We managed to walk the pup (despite rain starting meaning it got cut short) and the food shop came ok. It seems I have most of the Lego cards from sainsburys since the parks from Monday and yesterday hardly gave me anything.

The librarians finale was yesterday and it’s sad it ended when it did. It didn’t seem... final. But then I dunno how much notice they got that it was ending. I guess they could always bring it back, even though the actress that played Eve is gonna be busy with the new Star Trek.

Bake Off always makes me wish I could try the bakes, though it was sad Rowan left. He was one of my favs so it’s a shame.

Build a bear are doing a sale which I’d annoying cause Eevee isn’t discounted much. I ended up going on eBay and I’m watching some, though they don’t come with all the bells and whistles alas. I did win a Pikachu today which at least came with a hoodie (and wasn’t much) so bulbasaur will have a pal.

I started uni reading yesterday which was mostly intro stuff, though today’s reading was about a fire in Yellowstone that I had no idea about.

Today’s been oki, mostly watching stuff. I watched DS9 early cause there was a nintendo treehouse showing off some more Hyrule Warriors which looks pretty cool. I also watched an All creatures great and small and there’s a Trek thing on Blaze later.

I’m a bit annoyed both at my head and tumblr cause it’s not letting me see an artist I was following. I’m not sure if it’s tumblr being a bitch or being blocked but I suspect the latter which is a shame.

The cast list for a new Resident Evil film got announced today and, surprisingly, Tom Hooper is gonna be in it! He’s gonna be Albert Wesker which, if no one knows, is one of the series main villains. It’ll be interesting to see how he does.

It’s now under two weeks till my birthday. I’m not excited but I’m getting Mario so... and my Party Poison funko is on the way.

For Spooky season I’ve watched two more films so thoughts ahoy.

First is Scary Stories To Tell in the dark which is on amazon prime. Once it got going (the opening with a bunch of jock bullies being assholes was annoying) it was pretty good and certainly creepy. I had to look away at one point because of the scene involving spiders which was just... eww.

Second was Mon-Mon-Mon-Monsters which I watched on Shudder. It’s in Chinese with subtitles, and I’ve not seen a subtitled film in awhile but I figured I should since there was no Maxx stream or anything. It was strange at first because the opening had no subtitles which threw me, but they kicked in later. I felt so sorry for the main guy since he was being bullied by these assholes and the teacher was worse than useless. It was pretty gory in places, especially in stuff like the bus scene (and classroom one). It was pretty good and shows, again, that humans are the real monsters.

I also finished the main quest on Greymoor Monday which I was right, it was the final confrontation. Though there are definitely questions left hanging which will get answered in the upcoming dlc in Markath (hopefully).

I might not watch anything tonight though, but we’ll see.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Tv

The past few days haven’t been terribly eventful, but spooky season has started. I’ve managed to do something spooky every day so far which is good.

Every day I’ve done some Elder Scrolls Online, which qualifies as spooky because I’m still doing Greymoor which is all about the spooky. I mean the place I’m at now is a gothic castle in the back of a cave that’s filled with vampires. I was right on my earlier thought, Svanna’s father, the high king, is involved in it. I think the current quest is one of the last of the main quest line, as it definitely feels like a final showdown is coming.

Other than that I watched Maxx’s spooky stream last night and I’ve watched two films (I thought of watching a third last night but I knew I was heading out today). So thoughts on the films ahoy.

First film was Scare Me which is new on Shudder. I’d seen the trailer on their twitter and was curious. The premise is it’s two people telling each other scare stories during a power cut. It’s... ok. The stories aren’t too special really and most of it could be treated as purely an audio thing. The ending also seems pretty rushed.

The second one was In The Tall Grass on Netflix. People get lost in tall grass (I’m not sure if I’d call it grass though, it looks more like corn stalks but what do I know). It’s pretty grim and ends up being timey wimey and so can be confusing (and I lost interest kinda) which is a shame because there’s not enough plant based horror.

I’m planning on watching a scary Stories to tell in the dark tonight on amazon. (And I’m glad colour out of space is coming to it later in the month!) I might watch something subtitled tomorrow night since there’s no Maxx stream. We’ll see.

I watched two non-horror films too. I watched Onward on Saturday which was pretty fun and I could so easily see Gerard and Mikey as the brothers. (And speaking of I have a new bandom related follower so, hi?) yesterday I watched Murder On The Orient Express which was on tv.

I’ve still don’t no writing though I was thinking of it. Maybe a I will soon. Also my depression has been... okish. It comes and goes, which always leads to overthinking and dwelling on things which is irritating as fuck.

Star Wars Squadrons came out Friday, though I’ve not done much on it yet. I’ve only done the opening prologue and one random fight. That was mostly due to my frustration with the Controls which seem kinda sluggish. This is especially clear in the end of the imperial side of the prologue, where you have to go down a tunnel and just... I could not turn fast enough. I must have crashed over 10 times which is so annoying. The rebel side was much easier with the only issue being accidentally leaving the map and the final attack run. Maybe with practice I’ll get better but we’ll see.

Other gaming things was getting pumpkins on Animal Crossing, yay! Being annoyed by Sims 4 (there’s some bug with the journey to batuu aspirations that needs a patch) and the new smash person is Steve from minecraft.

Today we went to get mum’s meds, which was ok although we got caught in the rain and I got soaked. I got some Halloween stuff in sainsburys though, most of which must have just got put out. I got a light up pumpkin, Lego book, a platter and a nightmare before Christmas shopping bag. I might go just after Halloween to see if any stuff gets discounted,

Now to snuggle, build Lego and doze.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Tv