So, I have to half blame this week's DnD Character Colouring Book on the book I'm currently not really all that interested in reading (and will definitely pull the plug on, probably later today), Queer as Folklore. I mean, as a book, it's fine, it's just a little blah... but this isn't where we review the books.
One of the upcoming chapters is called Demon Twinks... which, naturally enough, got me thinking about a potential new tiefling character. Because, honestly, I haven't designed anything new in a hot minute.
It was also one of those character where the choices I made in the outfit definitely changed some of the rough ideas I had. The base model is Moist, the once mentioned "NPC", but given that we have the Body Modifier now, I made a number of tweaks in order to get him to be closer to late teenage skinny twink rather than mid-20's skinny.
And the overalls just segued him from potential Fiend Patron Fancy Twink into Celestial Patron Country Twink. Also, the synergy between having a sphinx patron and a Sphinx of Wonder familiar just worked for me.
Does it make a huge amount of sense that a farmboy is wearing three inch heeled boots? Probably not, no. And I feel like if I was actually making this character, I might go with the overall top that has both straps fastened, it just looks a little cleaner. Because there just seems to be too much empty space on the right side of his shirt. I just kinda liked his vibes though.
Anyway...
This week's soup was... Tuna Mornay. What is amusing is that I've only recently realised that technically to be a true "mornay", there's supposed to be cheese added to the sauce. And I always forget. Except this time. Where I just grated half a block of cheese that had been sitting in the fridge for a while straight into the pot. I don't know that you could overly taste it in the final product, but I did it anyway.
Likewise, I got the rice thing right this time, because I cooked a couple of cups of rice and threw it in the bottom of the casserole dish, then mixed it through with everything else. It was a good call. I probably could have gone harder to be honest.
Mini Media Reviews... firstly, Hundreds of Beavers is a movie that both exists and that I have watched. I'll be honest, it would make a good 15 minute short. I'm not sure it needed to be a 108 minute movie. I don't know that I'd say it was bad, but I did start to doze off at a certain point.
The other thing I watched this week was the first season of the Murderbot show. Now, I adore the books, and they were amongst the top books I read in 2023. I have thoughts on the show though. Now it's been a hot minute, and I need to reread the first book, because some of my opinion is definitely coloured by what happens in the series later.
But the flaw in the show is mainly the humans. My memory of the book is that the human characters are much more in the background and we're mostly focused on Murderbot and care about them. Which is harder to do in a TV show, where you can't just employ six actors and have them stand around in the background doing nothing. But there is just a high level of awkward and cringe to all those characters that I wasn't really a fan of. And in some ways, I feel like it works against the general awkward vibe of the Murderbot character. Likewise, there's a point where a character is acting incredibly suspect and awkward and cringe, but nobody picks up on them being clearly a problem because everyone else is acting suspect and awkward. Also, that character isn't in the book.
The production design, set design, wardrobe and effects are exceptional though. As is Alexander Skarsgård as the aforementioned Murderbot.
And I would watch a second season.
Friday Night DnD happened. And was DnD. And involved entirely too much quoting of song lyrics. And much wandering through a dungeon. Not a literal one. But essentially.
Anyway.
Today was something of a weird shopping adventure. Because I swear based on what we had that the total should have been much higher than it was. So, don't get me wrong, it's a good problem to have, it's just slightly odd.
Then we just went to take a wander around Spotlight. Not for any real reason, just because we haven't gone anywhere the last few weeks and the intent was just to do a lap. But we did go later than we usually do...
Only to find... the carpark was full, so we had to break out Ma's pass to park in the handicap spot, then the elevator wasn't working, but we just took it slow and took up all the space, only to discover that, for some reason (Book Week? The fact that it was after 12? Some other reason?) the place was full of people. So we mostly just did a lap, looked at the Halloween decor, looked at the yarn, looked at the mostly ugly bedding on sale, and then called it a day.
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