So... it's weird. I was certain that I'd done an updated, post Face Customiser version of Nightingale. Turns out, no, I had not. And I know this version has been around for a while, because the bustier is from the 2023 Advent Calendar, and there's a version of her in a different top from before that. The jacket is from March though, so that might be when this particular version was finished.
I did, of course, need to update her with the new nails.
But this is another one of those where you compare the old Photoshop coloured version with this version and just go... well, clearly that version that I thought was pretty good was actually just hot garbage.
I also added a Flaming Fist badge from Inky's waistcoat... because, honestly, those badges have all been the gift that keeps on giving, and I've reused them on numerous other models. Does it makes sense that the post campaign version of Nightingale would be wearing it, even though we definitely had badges at an early point in the campaign. Not really. But I like to think that maybe she did some additional work with them as an Outside Contractor. Or maybe she just wore it as an accessory and to remind the Flaming Fist guards she encountered not to piss her off.
The second one feels much more Nightingale, honestly.
I do also wish that maybe Hero Forge would see their way to updating some of the more basic instruments with other basic versions... and not ones all crapped up with skulls and demon wings. Because I could do with a nicer, less chunky violin. It's also somewhat weird to me that her violin became so integral to who she was... and that I kind of stumbled into the idea of plucking or pizzicato without specifically knowing it was a thing. And she definitely did that a lot.
Anyway...
I think this week marked the last week of Soup Season. We're in November now and the weather is definitely leaning away from soup being an option. But as a last entry, this week's soup was basically chicken and vegetables, and pretty good. I think that a shot of paprika does help any slightly generic soup though.
I have also continued to mainline Teen Wolf. I finished Season 4 and Season 5, although I did have a little break between the two. I also have little to no actual memory of most of Season 5. I was pretty convinced that I'd only seen the first three or four episodes, but I was just doing a little poking around in the blog archives... and found this from the beginning of July 2016...
And I mainlined the entire fifth season of Teen Wolf between Sunday and Wednesday.
Given the context of the rest of that post, I 100% understand why I do not remember any of it beyond the first couple of episodes. But it's weird. There have been things in other seasons that I didn't completely remember, but there were also things I definitely did. There was nothing beyond the first couple of eps. No elements pinged any memories of any kind. Which is weird, because it's actually one of the best seasons. Definitely on par with the third, which I have long touted as being the best.
And I didn't get Season 6 on DVD until Christmas 2018... so I think given that there was such a gap, I was just waiting to rewatch the whole series before diving into the final season.
But that's basically where we are now. And I definitely haven't seen any of 6... I don't believe.
Also, this was the first kind of complete fail I had regarding library DVDs. I got two DVDs in this week, one a series, the other a movie. But it turned out that the disc the series was on was completely busted and I couldn't play it. And the movie was the final Resident Evil movie. Which I was sure I hadn't seen... got it in from the library, though to myself "I might just check what the last one I own is, watch that one first maybe"... turns out, I own the last Resident Evil movie. I got it Christmas 2017. And according to my records, I watched it in August 2019. No fucking memory of it.
The other thing I've been doing a lot of this week is crochet. Well, and crochet related things. Because I got a slight bee in my bonnet early in the week about the fact that I still had a bunch of yarn in a sports bag by my bed, and space in the big plastic tub. So I lost a good chunk of time winding skeins into cakes and untangling skeins that got tangled in the process so I could keep winding them. I didn't manage to completely empty the bag, but I at least managed to get all the large cakes of yarn into the same place, and shoved everything that was leftover in the bag.
I also continued on my Is It A Shrug Cardigan Or Is It A Rug. Because, honestly, a couple of people have asked me "what is it" about the current project, and my default answer is "yes". It's gunna be something. If I can make it a cardigan, it'll be that, if not, lap rug.
But I've switched from the very pretty jewel tone yarn to white yarn, which was part of the plan given the amount of the jewel tone stuff I had and the general size this thing needs to be, but I'm just enjoying making what, right now, is just a big old rectangle.
What I do want to do next is also a little thing for me... I wanna make a little snek. For no specific reason... but also, it's just a tube essentially. And now that I have sorted out my yarn and can see exactly what I have, it might be a nice stashbusting project. Of course the other issue is going from "I have a lot of yarn in this nice neat box" to "I have now made a thing and need to put it somewhere". But fuck it. Some of that issue is solved by giving the thing to somebody else.
Friday was Chiro Day... I also stopped by Dymocks intending to pick up the new D&D Players Handbook... but because things are stupid, the literal books made by Wizards of the Coast are classified as "games" not books, and they come from a completely different distributor, and the very nice woman I spoke to couldn't a) order me a book in or b) tell me literally anything about when it would be available. And yes, I could have walked down the Mall, gone into my Friendly Local Games Store and picked up a copy. But I have a perfectly good gift certificate with money still on it at Dymocks that I want to use.
Urgh. Irritating. But I will bug the hell out of them until they can actually tell me something. Because it makes literally no sense they wouldn't get at least some copies in. But it's also not going anywhere and if it turns out that they're not getting it in, I can, as I said, literally walk down the Mall and get it.
It's just needlessly dumb and annoying.
Friday Night D&D was good... still wrapping up the end of our downtime. But we're back out in the world now and headed straight into my character's backstory. Which, as I said to Fluffy on the way there last night, it's been interesting to play a character who has so little backstory and so little high stakes, emotive backstory at that.
It's nice.
Anyway...
Today was warm... but windy. So, less unbearable than days that are warm but not windy. I haven't given up and put the aircon on anyway, at least not yet.
But otherwise, we did the usual supermarket thing, I bought things to make quiche and potato salad this week... so basically returning to the Summer Menu here at Casa Yani.
We didn't do anything after, because of the aforementioned potential for warm weather, I sent Ma home relatively early.
So, that was it really.
