So... it's that time of year again when the Hero Forge Advent Calendar begins and I make weird fucked up guys for the next month.
This particular WFUG is clearly some kind of cat-themed, time travelling barbarian.
There's also lion themed pauldrons to go with the helm, but that literally felt like putting a hat on a hat... or in this case, a tinier lion under a larger lion.
Overall, I feel like the only things I might actually use the cat and the lion hat, with the possibility of the skirt in very specific circumstances. But that's much the way with this advent calendar, there end up being only about half the items I ever end up using, and then only about a quarter to a fifth that I end up using with any regularity.
Honestly, give me a month's worth of hair and clothes and I'll be a happy little camper.
Also, weirdly, they didn't do their using "silhouette/spoiler" image this year. Granted in previous years that has meant that some days were incredibly easy to guess and others were very difficult. But they didn't do anything at all this year, just dropping Day 1 with no previous fanfare.
Anyway...
This week's Tuna Noodle Doo was... somewhat disappointing. Which is entirely on me because I forgot to buy more tuna, used a different canned soup as the base and picked the wrong kind of noodles. Which I knew were wrong, but picked them anyway for some reason. It was fine, but underwhelming.
This week's Mini Media Review is firstly for the sequel to The Three Musketeers movie from a couple of weeks ago, The Three Musketeers: Milady. I'll be honest, I like the first part better. Admittedly this one focuses more on the character of Milady, and for whatever reason, I didn't like her as much as I generally do in adaptations. I think possibly because they tried to humanise her or make her sympathetic or relatable or whatever, and, honestly, I much prefer my villains villainous. It was still good, but, yeah, the first half was stronger.
They also left the potential door open to either do something like The Man In The Iron Mask, or the sequel, which I didn't know existed, Twenty Years After. Because clearly Dumas gave literally no fucks about naming things.
Also, this is your yearly reminder... or, you know, completely new information for you, that Dumas was part French and part African. Because I regularly forget that. And if I'm reading his wiki page correctly, technically he was only a quarter French.
The second review is for Borderlands. And, firstly, I have literally zero connection to the video game, I went in knowing that Claptrap was a thing, Tiny Tina was a thing and that was basically it. Also, you know, guns.
So, to crib from my post movie review to Fluffy...
Thoroughly enjoyable while at no point and by no measure being what anyone would define as actually "good".
It's like if you took a script and put the opposite of jokes into it... not bad jokes... the fundamental opposition to jokes... that cancel out jokes.
But Cate was fantastic.
I was never bored. But the whole movie is painfully obvious, some of the supporting cast is not quite on Cate's level, but it's mostly quite pretty. And I was never bored.
And if that's not faint praise, I don't know what is.
Lastly we have The Glassworker, a movie that is, for all intents and purposes, a Ghibli movie without being made by anybody even remotely connected to Studio Ghibli. It is made by a small Pakistani team. And it's very clearly a love letter to Ghibli and anime in general. While also being incredibly beautiful. I don't know that it always completely sticks the landing, but it's heart is in the right place and they mostly succeeded in what they were trying to do.
Friday was Chiro Day. Also Briefly Wandering Around Town Day.
Friday Night DnD was... slightly more chaotic and less heroic than I was perhaps hoping for. But before the game Fluffy and I played the first game of chess I've played in... at least 25 years. And, as always seems to be the cast, I lost.
Anyway...
Not much to report for today. We did the supermarket... and either we did the thing I said that we shouldn't do a couple of weeks ago (to Ma, I don't think I specifically mentioned it here) and not go as nuts buying groceries in the lead up to Christmas that we really don't need... or they've just jacked the prices of everything up a bunch because it's Christmas... or, you know, both. Probably both.
And that was it really.
