So, this week's DnD Character Colouring Book is another one that is classified as "fan art". And yes, this is also the second time that I've done a similar off-centre pose for a character involved with the Phandelver Above and Below campaign we're playing on Friday night.
This is also very much my interpretation of the character based solely on vibes and after a makeover. I am also fairly sure that the background and subclass I've picked here are wrong. But again, based purely on vibes.
And I'll explain exactly where this Little Guy fits into out adventures when we get to Friday's DnD roundup.
Anyway...
This week was yet another incarnation of my minestrone soup, using the leftover tomato soup from a couple of weeks before as a base, because I had one left and shoved it in the freezer. It was a good call honestly. A very tomato-ey and rich minestrone.
In, "I'm clearly a witch" news... on Saturday, while talking about a set of boyfriend twins we saw leaving the supermarket (I've seen them before, I'm fairly certain it's a gay couple that just looks entirely too similar to each other, but there's also a non-zero possibility they could just be siblings), I said a name out loud that I probably haven't specifically said so that the universe can hear me in... a while.
And thusly, because, as previously mentioned, I am clearly a witch, that person messaged me after having spoken to them/seen them for 12 years. Yes, J has appeared from out of the ether after over a decade. And it definitely has to be that long, because they still remembered me living on Childers Street, and I moved out of there in the beginning of 2014.
Getting a text out of the blue was definitely a surprise, but we set up a call for later that evening, which was just long enough for my brain to run through the usual "panic later" routine... and honestly, my brain eventually just came back with 404 File Not Found. Which was actually nice.
I did, however, remember part way through the phone call that J is both A Lot Of Work, and that I think he's something of a pathological exaggerator. Not a liar, you understand, I just feel like he embellishes his stories. Which circles back into being A Lot Of Work.
It was a pleasant enough phone call though, and at some point I'm sure we'll do a dinner, but it absolutely feels like a lot of water has passed under the proverbial bridge since then. And, honestly, the place in my brain that used to hold space of J now basically holds space for Fluffy. Which sounds terrible, I fully understand, but doesn't make it any less true.
In crochet news... I undid/frogged the entire shrug cardigan I mentioned last week... and started making a second thing, which was essentially just a big granny square. That I then gave up on by the end of the week and also frogged. Because that will happen when you try and make a square using different weights of yarn and the corners end up bowing out slightly. I very much liked the way the colours looked, but by the end it was just not sitting the way I wanted it to. So I pulled the whole thing apart and will ponder my next step while doing some other projects this week.
This week's Mini Media Reviews are the last of the X-Men movies and the second season on Penny Dreadful.
Now, I absolutely don't understand why all of the reviews for X-Men: Dark Phoenix are terrible. Truly I don't. Because it's better than the last time they tried this storyline in The Last Stand. It's certainly infinitely better than Apocalypse. I do get that it very much feels like a massive left turn for where the previous movie was pointing the characters. But it also makes sense. So, yeah, I liked it a lot.
The second season of Penny Dreadful was both better than the first one and also just fully leaning into Gothic tragedy. I'm just hoping that it manages to stick the landing in the third season, given that the series was cancelled. But I'm also not expecting anybody to get a happy ending, the series being what it is.
It is absolutely my vibe and beautifully made though.
Which brings us to Friday Night DnD...
Firstly, more kitten cuddles which is lovely.
And then, because Fluffy's character had disappeared off into the night at the end the last game, he just ended up sitting there for most of the game while Mrs and I did some bits and pieces, mostly just housekeeping stuff because we all knew is was going to be a short session.
Right up until the point where my character went out during the night for a little bit of light B and E to gather some information. And on the way back happened to come across a certain shadowy figure doing it's own bit of breaking and entering at one of the stores in town. So, as a good, civic minded citizen, my boy absolutely stuck his nose in with the intent of stopping the robbery. Yeah, the hypocrisy was breathtaking.
I'll be honest, I was assuming I might run into Fluffy's character on my way back, and I did... except it was the wrong character. Fluffy took great delight in taking the unopened folder in front of him and swapping it out for a completely different folder. And debuting Sugar Snap, the goblin rogue, who will be with us until we break his former character out of the lair of some nasty goblins we were intending to head towards anyway.
I haven't bothered asking the why... because this is absolutely a Fluffy Plan, rather than potentially a thing that the DM did. Or, at the very least, it's some bullshit the two of them cooked up together. And I understand the timing to some degree. It just feels a little dumb because we were fully in the middle of a story dump for his previous character... so I guess I just don't get swapping characters in the middle of that.
But it is what it is.
And it will serve him right if we end up liking the new character more than the old character, even if he wants to change back to the old character. It would also have served him right if I'd just murdered his character in the middle of the night.
Anyway...
Today was Ma's birthday... which, I will fully admit, I absolutely forgot about until I happened to check my phone after she got here. But also, I gave her her present last week.
But we did the usual supermarket thing, and Ma had decided she wanted to do lunch at the same place we went for my birthday, The Republic Norwood. And this time I had the schnitzel I should have had last time. Because it was pretty much excellent. Maybe more so because it had been raining heavily on and off all morning.
And that was it really.
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