So, I kind of backed myself into a corner with the Bard in the 2024 PHB Character Colouring Book. Because, honestly, while I like the College of Dance Bard, I'm still not really here for Bards. Plus because of the way I'd assigned the other species and done a distribution of gender, I was slightly stuck with "female Aasimar noble" as my starting position.
I mean, nobody but me is making these rules, and I could ignore them, or I could have made a non-binary character or something... but I feel like if I was doing this for real, it would be a world away from that as an idea. And I did already do a trial run of that concept with Micah. There's also a non zero amount of Micah DNA in Oriel's design.
But Oriel is the third iteration of the idea. Not counting Micah. Because I'd also gotten it into my brain that she needed a shaved head. Which was nice, but kind of walled me into a mental cul-de-sac as far as design went.
Have I done this outfit combo before? Not 100% specifically... but Countess used the same jacket and top. And I've used the jacket a lot, including last week on Nightingale. Plus there are some characters who haven't seen the light of day that definitely use a similar combo.
The new nails, the bracelets and the choices I made with the face did make this the one that I finally considered good enough though.
Anyway.
I delved back into the world of quiche and potato salad this week. I am considering leaning into a whole pasta salad vibe as an alternate, because honestly, just iterating on the same thing gets kind boring.
The first dip back into the pool was still tasty tho.
So, this week's Mini Media Review (because I'm still flipping between movies and TV), is the end of Teen Wolf. More on that in a second.
Well, technically I did try to watch Violet Evergarden, but it was absolutely not my thing. I was mostly bored to the point where I half fell asleep during the last episode I watched, and when I was awake I was somewhat icked out by whole "is this woman who make be a robot or some weird genetically engineered slave supposed to be 12 or 37?". Honestly the only part of the story I was vaguely interesting in was what the hell Violet actually was, but the show was interested in something that definitely wasn't that. And I know that there's a lot of technical aspects behind the look of the show that make it "important", but, honestly... m'eh. It wasn't ugly, but there wasn't ever a single moment when I stopped and went "wow, that's gorgeous".
So, yeah, we're filing that squarely in the "not for me" category.
The final season of Teen Wolf on the other hand. Holy fucking shit.
Technically speaking, there are "eight" seasons in Teen Wolf. But seasons 3 and 6 are both divided into A and B parts that each take up half the season and that were aired about six months apart. Seasons 1, 2, 3A and 3B are all 12 episodes long. Seasons 4, 6a and 6B are all 10 episodes long, and Season 5 is the only "long season" that has a single storyline that lasts for all 20 episodes.
But I'm talking about both Seasons 6A and 6B here. They're both amazing. 6A might be the best Teen Wolf season though. And if I had to rank the whole show... it may well be 6A, 3B, 5, 6B, 3A... and then 1, 2 and 4 is some random interchangeable order. If I'm counting the two split seasons as a whole, then I think the ranking is 6, 5, 3, 2, 1, 4 maybe. Again, the last three are a little switchable.
Season 6 as a whole is very, very strong though. I will freely admit that I cried or teared up in pretty much every single episode of 6A at one point or another. And if it wasn't every episode, it was pretty damn close. I love the choices, both the ones the production made and the ones caused by circumstances that they had to adapt to, I love everything about it. Is it incredibly silly at times? Absolutely, but that's Teen Wolf. It's basically a Supernatural Soap Opera, of course it has silly moments. I still fucking love it.
And then we come to 6B. Don't get me wrong, it's excellent. It's just, intentionally, hard to move through. Both halves of the season deal with the same theme, they just come at it from opposite ends. I will also say that given where the world (specifically the US) was in 2016/2017 when this was produced/aired, 6B makes perfect sense.
Are there parts of 6B that I found it hard to watch? Yes. Are there also parts that made me clap my hands like a demented clockwork monkey? Also yes. And as I said to Fluffy earlier in the week as he still lags behind me by a couple of seasons, there are a couple of ways you can end a series like this. One of those ways is the Buffy route, where you just drop the entire location of the show in a giant hole in the ground and leave it at that. Or you can go the Angel route and proudly proclaim that this is probably the end of the world and then never resolve that.
Or, you can do what Teen Wolf did. Life keeps going. We're not going to be watching it on a weekly basis anymore (or, you know, binge watching it over the course of a couple of days on DVD, whatever the case may be), but the characters pick themselves up, dust themselves off and carry on. And it's a fitting way to round out the season and the series.
The movie will be on the radar at some point, but Fluffy made me promise we'd watch it together. So fully expect that to show up in the Christmas/New Year slots at some point if we don't get to it before then.
I also managed to finish my crochet project. I wasn't tracking the length of time it took, which I possibly should have been. I know that it was many, many hours of both Teen Wolf and watching people play video games though. And I did turn it into the cardigan/shrug, which mostly works. If I knew when I restarted it what I know now, would I have made different decisions? Sure. But I gave it a test run last night and it works and it serves it's purpose, and I once again mostly just made it up as I was going along (if making a rectangle and then attaching two parts of it is "making it up").
It was also designed as something the throw on when I was just a little cold, or on DnD nights when I need a little something for the drive home. Because it's not a full on Winter clothing item... it doesn't have any real arms... but it will be useful for just sitting around home at certain points.
And I like how it looks.
It does mean that I am "in search of a new project" at present. I have a few ideas... but I need to get past the "how the fuck do I start this" of it all first though.
Friday Night DnD was... not exactly chaos... but more "expectation of doing A, however B happening instead". Which has happened a few times this campaign and is totally fine. I'd just set my brain to A already.
Anyway...
Today was basically just the supermarket. Nothing much to report other than that.
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