character saturday: muscle mommy

Today's DnD Character Colouring Book is from the "Let's explore 9000 different variations of Barbarian" playbook. I believe what I was roughly aiming for was the idea of Muscle Mommy Karlach vibes from Baldurs Gate 3. A game, I will add, in which I find every single companion character deeply unattractive. Admittedly, I also haven't played the game, but going purely off the game art and vibes... no, absolutely not, you're all terrible, get in the bin.

However, this was out starting point. I think the scar and the tattoo kind of came as a package deal, but I do know that the hair was blonde for a good chunk of time until I was looking for something that pushed it a little bit more interesting. And I realised that the whole pink/green combo was working overall. 

Zahri was also one of those characters where I realised I do often make a slightly masculine female character. Not always, and some of it is what works for the character, or the specific look of some of the facial elements in Hero Forge.

I'm not 100% convinced that the Berserker subclass fits her. But, you know, it'll do till something better comes along.

Anyway...

So, chicken soup with alphabet noodles and just enough cayenne pepper to make it interesting. It's just simple and clean and tasty. I'm a fan.

In Mini Media Review news... sometimes just randomly grabbing something off the shelf at the library just because it's there and none of the things you ordered had come in actually works. Like, unbelievably well.

First up was Mickey 17. I don't know that I knew it was by Bong Joon Ho going in. I did know it had Robert Pattinson, but honestly, beyond that I really didn't know anything. And it was absolutely amazing. Big, big fan. It's very, very dark black dystopian humour. But damn it's incredibly well done. No notes.

I followed that up with The Dead Don't Die. Again, I had literally no idea what I was getting into, except for the fact that the cast list for it was ridiculous and it was clearly about zombies. I was a little concerned when the name Jim Jarmusch popped up as the director. The only experience I'd had with Jarmusch movies was Dead Man back in the 90's, and I absolutely hated that.

However Dead Don't Die is just the right kind of unhinged. I mean, it gets a little bit "Old Man Yells At Cloud" at the end, because Jarmusch clearly has some Very Specific Opinions About Capitalism. And you know, it does kind of end with a whimper rather than a bang. But I was never bored or not completely entertained by the level of ridiculousness.

I've been slightly dragging my feet on the crochet cardigan... partially because I'm just not feeling it. And also today I realised that I'd been decreasing too much on the second sleeve, because I just randomly did it on the first one, and I got a little too focused on doing it. So that got frogged and I restarted that bit.

We got to actually do Friday Night DnD this week. Which was good. Also, Fuck you Fluffy. You know why. With your replacement character and your fucking backstory clues. And me being entirely concerned with the literal wrong parts of said clues [sigh]. Fuck you.

This was also definitely one of our "come back to town, do random conversations with people" episodes.

The drive up there and the drive back were... challenging. Because it had been raining pretty much all day, we were up in the hills with either fog or very low cloud, depending on your opinion I guess, and a car with no working windshield demister. Good times. We only nearly died like three times. Not really, but kind of.

Anyway...

Not a exciting day today.

Basically we did the usual supermarket circuit. Not really anything else to report.