So there's something of the "the idea works in my head" about this week's entry in the DnD Character Colouring Book.
Firstly we have the Frog Princess herself, Tiana... and in my head, at some point, Tiana takes over from Mama Odie as guardian/druid of the swamp, which is why her look is more reminiscent of Odie rather than anything Tiana ever wore. But with some armour, because Tiana's nobody's fool. And of course she has the Chef feat, and of course she's part of the Cooks and Baker's Guild. Weirdly, I thought I'd made her a Circle of the Land (Swamp) druid... because that makes sense. But looks like I settled on Circle of Dreams... which I guess makes more sense thinking about the movie as a whole. Honestly, Circle of Shepherds would also work. Talking animals and such.
Likewise, I can't remember whether this is an idea I had on my own or if I was it referenced somewhere... I think very probably the latter. But Rapunzel is and always has been a Light Domain Cleric... I don't make the rules, facts are facts. And being cooped up in that tower working on her skills gives her the Skilled Feat. Technically the Cloistered Scholar background isn't a perfect fit... but for some reason I tend to think of "cloistered" in the sense of "kept away from the outside world" rather than "being part of a convent or monastery". And in that sense it fits. You also have to imagine her hair being longer... there isn't a very long hair option in HeroForge that doesn't look like a disaster.
Also, at some point I kinda wanna play a version of this Rapunzel cleric... because I haven't ever played a Light Cleric.
Anyway...
I made what is possibly the best beef stew/soup of my life this week. I don't know whether it was because I put extra beef stock in or due to the big spoonful of Vegemite I added or what... but it was thick and hearty and delicious.
What was Wednesday DnD is now Officially Thursday night DnD... so there's that. And we started our new "campaign"... by which I mean a new set of characters doing an ongoing series of adventures.
And it's the first time in a while I've played instead of run with this group... so that's... an adjustment. But we're all feeling our way with new characters. And the "how do we all know each other" stuff worked out fairly well overall. I mean, not going to lie, I've thrown half of my original relationships out the window and just kept the bits I liked. And then proceeded to do what I wanted to anyway, which was let my character forge the relationship foundations I wanted based on the characters present.
So there's that.
Speaking of DnD character relationships... the trauma I was having last week I solved in one 20 minute Discord video call. Yay to having adult conversations about pretend people.
We didn't do Friday DnD this week... people were unwell and we just called it off. Which again, adult decisions and stuff. But I wasn't really in the mood for more of my own company, so I asked Fluffy if he wanted to come over anyway, help me eat the loaf of bread that was already underway and we'd just watch a movie.
Which was a good call... from the perspective of his company and just hanging out. I will take my revenge on him at some point though for the fact he made me watch Frozen 2 because a) he wanted to see my reaction to it and b) it is the only modern animated Disney movie I haven't seen.
Put a pin in that... I'm coming back to it.
Through circumstances too wordy to go into, we had discovered earlier that day that the movie Flesh Gordon exists in the world. And yes, it's about as bad as it sounds... however, the visual effects/stop motion effects were done by a bunch of very talented people who went on to be titans of the industry. So all of those parts, while being super horny, are also so fucking good. And for the most part, shaped like a cock.
Sadly, the only version I could find online had someone "doing comedy" (and, admittedly trivia) over the top of it, so that was annoying.
But special effects A+, acting F. Is F- a thing... because I think it should be in this case. And, because it's a sexy movie from the 1970's they let just about anybody take their clothes off... so... yeah. I mean, don't get me wrong, don't watch it, under no circumstances watch it, it's a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck. But if you happened to look up the explicit trailer online... I mean, I'm not the boss of you.
Remove pin... I'm not doing a full review post on F2, because it was... acceptable. And a full movie, with something of a plot, even if the last ten minutes just handwaves a bunch of stuff or rushes through it in a way that shows they clearly didn't give a shit. Which was also very, very, very pretty. But I realised how little I care about those characters, how much the fucking snowman gets on my tits and I wish he would just melt... and how much there's always one song that just rubs me the wrong way.
In the original it was That Number Everyone Knows for being a massive oversimplification of mental health and in this one it's "The Next Right Thing" for... well, actually... for being pretty much the same thing and/or a song about co-dependency. Doubly so, having just looked at Wikipedia, to discover that it's the song writers mining the tragedy of one the directors having lost a child. Yes, I'm sure they were fine with it, but once again, it leaves the bad taste in my mouth.
Otherwise the songs are COMPLETELY forgettable... in fact, I had to look up the name of the song in the previous paragraph. And I remember exactly none of the songs right now, even though I saw it less than 24 hours ago. I mean at least from the first one there was the "it's everywhere" number and D'yawannabildasnoman. This one is, musically speaking... blah.
But the fire lizard was super cute, Kristoff should ditch Anna and totally fuck the Reindeer Boy from the woods, and the amount of actual lesbian subtext in this movie is less than one quarter of one half of one percent. And no power on earth will make me watch a third outing if there is one. Unless they subtitle it "Olaf dies in the first minute"... then probably not, but, you know, maybe.
Quick plot prediction for the third one though... Kristoff gets turned to ice.
So that was our evening. 1970's sexploitation and a Disney movie. Because we're grown ass adults and can do whatever we like, thank you very much.
Moving on.
Today... well, today I bought way too much stuff in preparation for making various things from the DnD cookbook, Heroes' Feast. Yes, that is a thing that exists in the world. And there are a number of cool recipes in it. So we'll try some of those out this week I think. Specifically some halfling recipes, because we all know how I feel about halflings.
Also, some of it was stuff that I kinda needed anyway and will definitely use for other things. So that's good.
But we did the supermarket, did the YubTubs (well, mostly I just played things for Ma while I was putting Things Into Jars... which is what I do often after the supermarket, because jars are great and look way nicer than plastic containers/bags), and called it a day there really. Because we're boring.
So, yeah, that was this week.
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