For reasons that will become clear later... we're trying out a 2024 Dragonborn character for today's DnD Character Colouring Book.
Because Hero Forge does slightly struggle with making more interesting dragonborns. At least the way I like to make them. Not least of all because the dragonborn face hasn't gone through the Customiser process yet.
Ontrix happened when I was playing with potential ideas around fighters. And I quite like her overall vibe, even if I'm not 100% sure about Eldritch Knight as a subclass. It's also not often that I go for a dual wielder type character, in this case the short sword/dagger combo, and I like that particular weapon set quite a lot.
At any rate, any dragonborn character just sits in the archive so that I can potentially use them as a base for something else later on.
Anyway...
First up, this week was Lasagne Soup. It's a good soup. I mean, it's basically just slightly runny pasta sauce with noodles already in it. But I like it regardless.
In crochet news... I finished another scarf, potentially as a gift for someone, but if that never ends up happening, it's one I'd probably be happy keeping for myself.
I also decided that my scarves need names... rather than just descriptions.
And more so that I remember later, we have Ketchup... the red scarf I made for myself last winter with the cosy thick yarn that I got for my 50th birthday... and Mustard... the dupe that I made for Fluffy with yarn he bought for that purpose.
Then we have the two I showed off last week... the pastel one I'm calling Nefler By The Pool (if you know, you know) and the other one I think is Sugar Snap, given that it was for Fluffy's Ma, using yarn from Fluffy's blanket, and he just started playing a goblin character of the same name on Friday night.
And mostly that was all because the one I made this week, using verigated black, white and grey yarn intersperced with stripes of a different verigated yarn that's officially called Jewel (think sapphire, emerald, ruby, amethyst and gold), that I'm calling Test Pattern. Because it's giving a non-zero amount of this.
I also did it in the same Moss Stitch as Sugar Snap, but vertically rather than horizontally. And not gunna lie... making a scarf vertically feels like much harder work. Not least of all because I changed yarn between the two a LOT. There might be a photo of Test Pattern when I'm done, because I have to weave all the ends in first.
This week's Mini Media Reviews...
Firstly... Fuck Little Women. Specifically fuck the 2019 version. To be fair, while I was aware of other versions (the 1933 and 1994 versions respectively), I was never actually interested enough in the story to bother with it.
And I was just fucking bored. Mostly with Saoirse Ronan as Jo. But slightly more with Jo in general. I also don't think the flicking back and forth in the timeline actually works. Because I was just fucking confused for the first ten minutes until I realised what was happening, and then the absolute flaw in possibly all of the adaptations was made worse because instead of just having to buy that these women in their 20's are supposed to be playing girls who are between like 13 and 20 at best. And then flicking back to them playing closer to their actual ages... it just... doesn't quite work.
Because when your movie doesn't make me like Florence Pugh, you're doing a movie wrong. I mean, I liked the grown up version, not the kid version.
The standouts were absolutely Pugh and Timothée Chalamet, and not just because I wanted to break Laurie in half in a good way.
Also, the movie trying to have it's 1868 cake AND it's 2019 cake... just doesn't work. You wanna fuck around with the idea that Jo doesn't need a man, don't give Jo a man. Don't force in the real life experience of the author and pass it off as the character. The movie absolutely can't afford to cash the "Jo loves this man" cheque that it's trying to. So by the end of it I was mostly just making snide comments to Fluffy over Discord and begging for it to be over.
I knew going in that Little Women wasn't really My Vibes. But it absolutely proved itself to be true very, very quickly.
Conversely, I finished Penny Dreadful this week.
Goddamn that's an amazing show. I absolutely wish they'd been given a fourth season, but at the same time, they managed to wrap the main storyline up in a satisfying way. It's very clear that they were leaving enough plot threads in the wind in order to make another season if they should be called on to do so, but, honestly, I kind of prefer when a series doesn't feel like it has to wrap up every single thread. Because you can imagine then that the characters go off on their own and have their own adventures.
But I absolutely cried more than once in the later half of the season, and got emotional over characters I never thought that I would back in Season One.
That show is exactly my dark and fucked up vibes from top to toe.
No Friday Night DnD this week. Which also meant no kitten cuddles.
Anyway...
Today we had A Plan. Granted it was a plan that I thought was going to morph into a slightly different plan, but ended up as the original plan.
We started with shopping, then, given that we got back to my place early enough, we skipped a few of the general steps we might do on a Saturday morning and instead headed off to the movies to watch the new live action version of How To Train Your Dragon. More on that later.
Did I want to murder the little coven of alternagoth teen girls who came as a pack, two of whom were carrying Toothless plushies from, I assume, Build A Bear? I mean, yes, they talked too much, had to go to the bathroom in pairs (possible the same two twice... I'm not sure) and were sitting directly across the aisle from us. But I shushed them once and that was mostly enough.
Afterwards we had a little bit of lunch and a wander and then called it a day.
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