Weirdly, if you'd asked me, I would have said that I absolutely already posted this do-over. And yet, it doesn't seem to be anywhere on the blog. I know there was a different version before I swapped over the hair, and maybe that one was on the docket. I have no idea.
The only version of Oceanus that I can find is from back in 2020 when I was doing janky Photoshop colouring. But pulling his bio from when he appeared in the header image for a while...
Oceanus (Oh-see-ann-us... not any other variation of how you might pronounce that particular name, thank you very much) is Southern. My accept repertoire isn't enormous... I can do a decent accent from the American south though. And by decent, I mean often terrible, but a bad real world accent makes for a workable DnD accent. It also makes him often more laid back than I might otherwise play characters. He's also had a little bit of Big Dad Energy. I didn't want to play him that way, but maybe because I play him mostly with people roughly two decades younger than me, it's just what happens.
Yep, that about sums him up. He is also absolutely a character that, if I was going to update him for the 2024 rules, would become a Circle of the Sea Druid. Because that is perfectly his vibe.
Also, screw you "new" version of the Water Genasi that gives them Acid Splash as their racial cantrip instead of Shape Water. It makes literally zero sense. Grrr.
Hero Forge really does need to do a new version of a pirate coat though. Because the current one suffers from the "everything's too bulky" that a lot of the older pieces do. Hence the switch to the slimmer fit coat.
I am really proud of his new face though. Oh, and Photoshopping an existing item to turn into his focus on his belt.
Anyway.
This week has been something of a ride.
Sunday the power just randomly went out in the neighbourhood for a little over two hours. No idea why. The storms/rain the previous couple of days most likely.
Next up, the issue that has plagued me on and off for a long time has raised it's head again. Some combination of otitis externa and ear wax means that my right ear has been dicey for a while, but finally gave up the ghost and got blocked last Friday.
And knowing that last time I went to my GP about this, he sent me off to a ENT doctor who charged a ridiculous amount of money (which, weirdly, I don't know that I complained about at the time on the blog)... and so I went looking for a different solution.
Long story, mostly dull, after a 20 minute car ride, a set of fortunate happenstances, including but not limited to the choice of direction of that car ride, a young Asian doctor who was in the right place at the right time and me just being lucky, I have an appointment with what seems like a lovely ENT doctor at the beginning of the week just up the road from my previous apartment.
Which is possibly the only thing that kept me somewhat sane the rest of the week. Then of course the weird air pressure bubble in my ear popped on it's own on Friday while I yawned on my walk. Because naturally. The ear is still definitely an issue though, but at least it's slightly more comfortable now.
Good times.
This week's soup. Lasagne. It's always a banger. No notes.
Mini Media Reviews for this week... first up, Flow. Flow won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film in 2025. Against The Wild Robot. Which, if I didn't already know that the Oscars were 100% cooked, this would totally confirm it.
It's not bad. But at the same time it looks like an extended cut scene from a video game from 2010. And it doesn't really bother to tell a story that goes anywhere or has a satisfying ending. Bits of it are lovely. I don't have an issue with there being no dialogue. It was made by a very small crew and is primarily the passion project of one guy, and that should be commended.
That doesn't make it good unfortunately.
But this is absolutely one of those movies that people are going to be pretentious about the meaning of for some time to come.
Next up was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. A movie that would be significantly better if the majority of the cast were 10% better actors than they are. And the boys were about 35% hotter. Not you, Douglas Booth, you're going the Lord's work, carry on. But Elizabeth and Darcy specifically... they're just not at the level to make this the camp masterpiece it could have been. Especially if the IMDB trivia that says that Natalie Portman was originally attached to the project is true.
It wasn't terrible, bits of it were quite good, it just was a very, very solid C when it could have been at least a B+.
That was the majority of the week honestly. Everything else was attempting to not to lose my mind due the aforementioned ear.
Friday was not, in fact, Friday Night DnD. It was a return to the land of Hero Quest due to a birthday. And you know what sucks... going back to the beginning of that game without all the cool shit we had previously. LOL
Seriously though, it was fun. It was an expansion pack, and we only did the first map, so it wasn't too strenuous.
Anyway...
Nothing much to report of interest for today. We went, we shopped, we came back, we poke YouTube for a bit, I sent Ma home.
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