We're dipping back into the Potential 2024 Barbarian well this week, not least of all because I haven't really made a new mini in a few weeks.
I tried any number of combinations of possible characters while I was looking for things that spoke to me. Especially any of the races that I hadn't already played with the Friday group... or, you know, haven't played at all.
This particular experiment was looking at the new PHB version of the Orc (because I had played a 2014 iteration, my favourite Big Dumb Boy) and possible the idea of a polearm weapon. I think the Wild Heart subclass came half way through once I'd designed the face and used yellow eyes... I then changed them to the more beasty black sclera and we were off to the races.
And even if I never play any of these experiments, at the bare minimum I have a bunch of prebuilt faces that I can fuck around with later.
Anyway...
This week was... [gestures randomly in all directions].
First up... soup. This week was the Halfling Tomato Soup I've made a few times before... and, honestly, as good as the recipe is, I don't think that it's a good soup for eating all week. Part of the problem was that I didn't buy the right kind of cheese for making toasties with... so I didn't really get to have the whole tomato soup with cheese toastie experience.
Next up, the Mini Media Reviews for this week.
Penny Dreadful has been somewhat on my radar when it came out because of all the naked men, but I didn't really know all that much about it beyond "Victorian London Gothic Detective Story". Holy. Forking. Shirt. Balls. If you have not seen it, absolutely do yourself the literal pleasure. I was hooked from the first episode, and while there were a couple of performances where I went "well, yeah, this wasn't the right choice", overall it was amazing. I'm now waiting with bated breath for Season 2 to arrive at the library.
It's one of those ones where I don't want to get into WHY it's so good, because I went in not really knowing what to expect and was delighted by the suprises, but Sexy Victorian London Gothic Supernatural Detective Story pretty much covers it.
I followed that up with the first season of Wednesday. Now, we've kind of already covered how I feel about most of the adaptations of The Addams Family. Specifically the animated movies I watched a few weeks ago. But, really, the only version that seems to get it are the Barry Sonnenfeld movies from the 90's. Nobody else seems to have really gotten it. And I'm going to give Caroline Thompson and Larry Wilson for the first one, and Paul Rudnick for the sequel their flowers. Because they collectively got it.
Granted the second one is mostly just Rudnick taking the script for the first one and improving on it. But even so.
As for Wednesday, show creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar wrote a serviceable teen mystery show and spectacularly failed to Addams correctly for the majority of the run time. Don't get me wrong, the show is very watchable. As a teen drama it's solid if unremarkable. But as a piece of Addams Family media... it's very possible that the animated movies understood their assignment more.
Jenna Ortega does decently with the material she's given and I would literally watch Gwendoline Christie do just about anything. The thing I cannot get past is the decision to cast Luis Guzmán and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Gomez and Morticia respectively. Absolutely fucking not. I very nearly died of cringe every time they were on screen.
I will also give props to Hunter Doohan as "the love interest" for being in his early 30's and convincingly playing someone in his... late teens. He was very good though.
Moving on.
Yes, the week was that time again. Rental Inspection Time.
So I did my usual trick, cleaned the kitchen on Sunday and then on Monday did a deep clean of the bathroom, moved all the furniture around and did the full floor mopping and whatnot.
Tuesday I headed out to Spotlight to pick up some more yarn for the crochet shrug cardigan thing I'm currently working on, then went to the library at Burnside for a while.
When I got back, I did what has turned into something of a habit of late, and after working on the shrug for a while with the new yarn, I looked at it, decided I hated everything that was going on and frogged the whole thing. I then started again from scratch with the new yarn. I'm basically now at roughly the same point I was when I frogged the whole thing on Tuesday.
And then on Thursday I took one of the two skeins of yarn I bought on Tuesday back, because the red really wasn't the right shade, and I really liked the grey, so I swapped it out for another one of those.
I then ended up having to go to two different Bunnings stores... because I really don't know why I bother with the one in Kent Town...
Also, this is just a general note for me... next time we go looking for clear shower curtains, can you please remember that Bunnings has perfectly serviceable ones for under $10, and just go get another one of those please? Instead of getting one that isn't clear and gives you generalised anxiety and just makes you uncomfortable regardless of which side of it you're currently on.
Thank you, Future Self.
Friday Night DnD was mostly Talking To People About Things. Which I always enjoy. Setting wheels in motion. Getting our ducks in a row. All that good stuff.
That did, of course, mean that we didn't go and do the thing that would allow us to level up... and all the both jiggery and also pokery that I did organising my new leveled up sheets was not immediately necessary. I mean we'll get there... it has just definitely been a minute since we last levelled up.
Anyway...
Today was mostly chill. We did the supermarket thing, and then I wanted to catch up a little on Ma's cardigan and then do what is hopefully a final fitting so I can finish it up this week.
And that was it really.
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