If you'd asked me, I would have sworn up and down that this week's DnD Character Colouring Book was a character I'd posted before. She's definitely a character that's been around since the days of Nightingale. Or at least the days when our characters were in the Nine Hells. But after a couple of different searches through the blog, I could not find the previous version of her.
I don't remember exactly how Fluffy and I got to "Mrs Doubtfire, but a tiefling/devil"... but I know that's basically where we ended up. Hence, Mrs Hellfire, the tiefling dwarf, was born.
And Hero Forge dropped some new umbrellas this week, so I basically rebuilt the character from scratch.
Would I play her? I mean, I've never had an overwhelming desire to play a Fiend Warlock... but I do like an old lady character. Even so, probably not.
Anyway...
Soup this week was a slightly spicy chicken noodle soup. Essentially, regular chicken noodle soup (except for the fact that I used spaghetti as the noodles) but with some cayenne pepper.
In crochet news... I finished two whole projects this week.
One of which was Ma's cardigan which looks like the Easter Bunny threw up. I mean, she loves it, which is the main thing. One of the issues with just making up a pattern from inside your own head is that you get to the end of it and go... "well, what I SHOULD have done was X, Y, Z". And thus happened with this project also.
I should probably have done narrower stripes, although I was using a fixed quantity of yarn, and a couple of the colours I only had a single ball of. But even potentially making the strikes five rows instead of six would have allowed me to get the second apricot colour onto the front of the cardigan. That would probably have meant that the stripe up the back would have been white, but that also would have worked.
Overall though, I'm please with it. Especially the ribbing, since I absolutely failed to do black on black ribbing for the cardigan I made for myself last year. I have done so much ribbing since that this was actually simple, albeit time consuming.
And, as I said, Ma likes it, which is the main thing.
However, I also finished the shrug cardigan thing I was making for myself. And it fits, it does what I was expecting it to do. And I absolutely want to unpick the entire thing and maybe have a third go at it. Because it just doesn't work in the way I wanted it to. Part of that I think is that the very lovely grey yarn I bought to finish it off with is... possibly a little too thick. And because the sleeves are all one width, the cuffs are too wide for my delicate little wrists...
I'm absolutely going to deconstruct the thing this week... even though I don't specifically know what I'm going to do instead.
[extended break while idly Googling variations on "crochet cardigan pattern" without any definitively useful results]
This week's Mini Media Reviews... (which I totally didn't forget and totally didn't have to come back and add in four hours later). First up, Kraven the Hunter. Which was... well, as I described it to Fluffy last night... "Had it not been for Aaron Taylor-Johnson's abs, I would have called it a complete disaster". Because, honestly, that man's acting chops and his body-ody-ody were the only things worth watching. Well, I'll also give some kudos to Fred Hechinger as Kraven's brother. Likewise the two boys playing their younger selves. But everybody else is pretty much drowning under the weight of the shitshow being piled upon them. The effects are questionable at best, the script is awful, I have no idea what direction was given to Alessandro Nivola as this movie's version of The Rhino... but all of it was bad.
Whether or not it's a result of it being a Sony movie rather than a Marvel one, I have no idea.
Next up was the unrequited gay love story that is X-Men: Apocalypse. Because if you try to tell me that any of these Fassbender/McAvoy movies are not the story of Xavier trying to get Magneto into bed, I will call you a liar straight to your face. Regardless of how much they dangle Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique between them. It was okay. It's not great. But the X-Kids are decently cast and do well with what they're given. Oscar Isaacs is doing his level best pushing shit up hill as Apolcalypse, but it's not a terrible movie.
Friday Night DnD was... well, on the drive home we christened the session "Kittens, Cookies and Family Drama". And only one of those things actually happened inside the game. Mr and Mrs just got two new kittens, so there was much squeeing and playing with adorable kittens. And then Mrs made cookies, warm, chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven, yes please. And then Fluffy's character had existential family drama, that I got to deliver. Good times. And because of that we honestly didn't get a whole lot else done in game.
Anyway...
The usual supermarket things, followed by a trip to Big W for, very excitingly, new socks for me and then to Kmart mostly for looking at things.