character saturday: breezy boy

The other half of the NPCs turned PCs from last week. And this one I honestly had more of a take on creating. Plus I was very pleased by the results.

To tell the truth, this is just a tweak of Havoc. Because I have so many nicely posed and detailed characters that it just makes sense to use those as a starting point for new characters. Especially when the character probably won't otherwise see the light of day.

The result of this though was that this character just spoke to Fluffy (even if he missed some of the details)... which I was pleased by since I also made up the character sheet mostly out of nothing.

Anyway...

Lasagne soup this week... and a very good version of same.

This week's Mini Media Reviews...

I started with the miniseries The Line Of Beauty, based on the book of the same name by Alan Hollinghurst. Now I've never read the book, but I have read The Swimming Pool Library, a couple of times I think. And the issue generally with Hollinghurst that while he's writing about a specific time, place and social group in gay British history, his books are often very fucking depressing mixed with some fairly graphic sex scenes. This was very much that. A lot of horrible people being horrible to each other and the occasional sex scene. Kinda hard to watch, especially at the end when everything goes to hell. 

Next up on the Hard To Watch scale, the second season of In The Flesh. Still very good. Still a very clear queer allegory. But also an allegory to the general rise of conservatism. Kinda sad that they never got the third season that they were setting up for, because there's a whole secondary plotline in this season that really goes nowhere without it.

Lastly, Lovecraft Country. Which was fascinating, but I will fully admit, is a full 80% less Lovecraftian than I was perhaps expecting. It's also very Racism is Bad M'kay... again, not a bad thing, it's just occasionally a little heavy handed with the 1950's of it all. Narratively it is a little bit of a mess, it's based on what is essentially a book of interconnected short stories, so the story does swing around wildly from one thing to another. I also don't particularly like how it treated the small amount of queer content, based on the time period and the character involved.

I've reached that point in Red Dead Redemption 2 where the rollercoaster has started the long descent into terror and grief and badness. And it's kind of amazing. The disconnect between the actual story beats and the open world stuff is still staggering to me though. Major story events will happen and nobody around you really seems to react all that much.

I will say that some of the best side story missions are happening currently. Ones that have an actual emotional impact. Whereas I really don't want to do the main story quests at the moment. Especially because the game likes to mark a certain NPC as the one to talk to and they don't get a whole sentence out before somebody else comes up to talk to you and gives you a whole different mission. It gets annoying.

I also supposedly still have 30% of the game left to play.

Speaking of rollercoasters... This is your TMI warning... feel free to skip over this next bit.

I'm going through a very slutty phase right now hehe. I'm basically had more gentleman callers since Mother's Day than I've had for like several months previous. Admittedly, I didn't really have many callers before that. But I did host a very sexy straight boy who was half my age last Saturday night. And yesterday I finally got to hook up with a guy I've been lusting after for a very long time (I don't even want to say how long honestly). We've chatted back and forth several times, but he's about half an hour away from me, so it just never came together. Until yesterday. Damn but he was worth the wait and the slightly terrifying drive on the freeway. 

Interestingly a couple of the other guys who came to play have expressed an interest in a return visit. So, fingers crossed.

Thus endeth the TMI.

There was no Friday Night DnD this week... for reasons. I was a little wiped out after the fun morning honestly, so an early night didn't hurt. 

Anyway...

Not much to report from today. Just the supermarket really.