character saturday: war mama

I was going to go in a different direction for today's DnD Character Colouring Book...because a new book with a collection of new subclasses just dropped, and there are a couple of ideas brewing around in my back brain. But it only dropped yesterday, so the ideas are still percolating.

Instead I went back to one of the very short lived (literally) characters, who I really wish I'd had more time with. So we have the revised version of the revised Littlefoot. Not gunna lie, we still need an updated version of that helmet though.

I do like the updated sword and shield though. And the fact that I can actually make it look like her nose is broken.

Anyway...

Soup this week was a return to Lasagne Soup. Always a good plan.

Mini Media Review is all four seasons (aka 11 movie length episodes) of Vienna Blood. It reminded me very much of Paris Police 1900 (and also Paris Police 1905). Which makes perfect sense, because it's another detective series set in the same time period (1900-1910) and in Vienna this time instead of Europe. Vienna Blood has more of a "screened on TV" vibe vs Paris Police, which always felt like a streaming show.

But I was fully obsessed with Juergen Maurer and Matthew Beard, who played our police detective and psychologist respectively. Slightly more so with Beard and his wonderfully narrow shoulders in the 1900's menswear. Obsessed.

Sadly, the character that they decided would be his love interest throughout the series I absolutely loathed. I don't know if it's the actress, Luise von Finckh, or the way the character is written, but their relationship was completely toxic and I wanted them to run in opposite directions from each other. It's also very frustrating because Beard's other love interest not only undergoes a change in actress (the first version, Jessica De Gouw, is the clear standout), but then just vanishes at the end of the second series. 

But I thoroughly enjoyed it even with that.

Friday was Chiro Day. And I basically did the same loop I always do afterwards.

But, also, guess what... Friday Night was actually Friday Night DnD. For the first time in a whole month.

Did my character both learn that he could understand a language he didn't know he knew? Yes. I mean, I've known this the whole time, but an opportunity came up last night where I actually understood a word we'd heard a few times was actually in another language. So I took the opportunity to lean into the idea and have a little bit of a moment out of that. And did my character have a little bit of an emotional breakdown over the death of an NPC? Oh hell yeah. That one I didn't expect. Although I did fully expect that people we'd spent a lot of time with would be targeted once I understood what was going on... I just didn't expect that particular moment.

That good good roleplay juice. Gotta love it.

Anyway...

Today was a slightly odd supermarket wander. Nothing majorly exciting, just one of those things where I assume it's going to be a light week when we're 80% of the way through the store, and then the last 20% just goes a little nuts.

Afterwards we took 20 minutes to do what should have been a five minute job, but it was something to do.