So... overall, this year's Hero Forge Advent Calendar, highly underwhelming. Here we are in Week 4 and we haven't seen a single pair of pants or any shoes outside of the Christmas Day collection. As usual, while I only included one piece from the 25th, that was two full outfits, a bunch of decals and a dog. Dumb, overly crapped up outfits. But outfits non-the-less.
Everything else this week, other than maybe the staff, was craptastic. And the longer I look at the staff, the more it has a weird phallic/sandworm/sex toy vibe to the top section and the less I like it.
I'm not holding my breath for the last four days.
Anyway...
This week, like most years, was something of a complete mess. Just because it's a lot of build up and then it's All Over Red Rover (and did I stop and Google "Red Rover" just to make sure it didn't have racist origins... thankfully, from what I can tell, it did not). I made a quiche, and probably could have stumbled through the first couple of days this week without it, because now I just have a fridge full of food.
Mini Media Reviews this week were Wonka, which absolutely should not have worked at all, and yet managed to be mostly inoffensive and somewhat charming. I mean, the songs are all god-awful, and if you'd asked me to pick a young male actor for the role of Wonka, I would not have suggested Timothée Chalamet, even though I'm very fond of him. He somehow works though.
I followed that up with the anime Suzume, which is really good. It kind of rides that line where, with a couple of small story tweaks to recentre the story slightly more towards the power of friendship and slightly less towards a romance, because it's so very nearly there. I will say that a movie that manages to make a chair emote without giving it a face could have easily done that. I did still thoroughly enjoy it though.
Then I tried the TV show Grimm. Wow. Grimm is fucking TERRIBLE. I made it through the first two episodes before I decided that watching a group of mostly charmless actors incoherently spout vaguely German sounding names for things was enough for me. And that was after watching three shirtless twunks basically enact The Three Bears.
There are levels of trash I am willing to accept, this was not at any of those levels.
I also watched Bubble, an alt-future/parkour scifi anime version of The Little Mermaid that, even with that description, made the cardinal sin of being boring. Also, call me crazy, but I don't find the "girl who is functionally 'a child' mentally but still falls in love with boy who falls in love back" trope in any way hot. Yes, I realise she was heavily Little Mermaid coded, but it's still just not sexy. It just feels icky.
It is a pretty movie though. But the main story just didn't work for me.
Then Christmas happened.
And because I'd functionally been on my feet for most of the day, when we got to Boxing Day, I wanted to do absolutely nothing. And did. I made up some leftovers from Christmas lunch for Boxing Day lunch, and that was it really.
Friday Night DnD was (finally) the big dragon fight that we've been working towards for a little while. And we got there with a little help from our giant ally friends. We also were playing until nearly 1:30am, but other than some wrap up stuff, and the epilogue, we're done.
Anyway...
The weather this week has been rude. Cool weather Monday and most of Tuesday, very hot on Christmas Day followed by an immediate cool change on Boxing Day... and today... rain. And cool enough temperatures that I'm wearing full pants. Just rude.
Today's supermarket trip was fairly chill, after the insanity of the last couple of weeks, and between things left over from Christmas and today's shopping, my fridge is fairly full.
Due to the aforementioned rain, which started just after we got back, we didn't end up doing much of anything before I sent Ma home.
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