character saturday: crazy eyes

You know what's weird... in all this time I've never even made a model of this character. I've made models of other characters from this group, but never her. I get why... 

This is Masika's boo-thing. And literal psycho. And also not my character.

She seemed perfectly reasonable until the first major combat we ever did, when afterwards she went around and collected eyes from the dead bodies. Which none of us saw thanks to a sandstorm.

She became Masika's boo-thing almost by accident. It's a long story, but Masika warned her not to get in her way... because that's who Masika is. If you cross her, it's gunna go bad for you. But our girl chose to smile and kiss Maskia on the cheek. And it slightly rewired Masika's brain a little bit.

So there was a session that we both missed. I don't know why, it was a thousand years ago. But I had a conversation with the other player about whether or not the two of them were hooking up while the others were away. To which, of course, the answer was yes.

The two of us didn't tell the others, we just would occasionally add in details hinting that we were hooking up, generally when most folks weren't paying attention. It did eventually come out though, but after a much longer period of time than I expected.

And from that point on, they were just together. Masika was something of an anchor to stop her from floating off into really weird spaces. But eventually the phrase "make good choices" became the default saying between them. Their relationship was... complicated and often dramatic. As you would expect from the two most dramatic people at the table.

I did realise when I came to fill out the details of this that I have either forgotten the details or else never knew the details of her character. Which would make sense given the player.

Anyway...

It's been a weird week. I'mma just say that. It will cover a multitude of sins.

This week was Beef Soup. Basically what it says on the tin. A very broth forward soup with some beef. It was good. I do like a very brothy soup every now and then.

The Mini Media Reviews for this week goeth thusly.

Sometimes you watch a thing you know you know is going to be questionable, because it's going to be questionable. And, honestly, it's not that bad.

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is a Very Guy Ritchie Movie. It's Arthur as a gangster. It's Arthur raised by sex workers in London. It's also a movie where the first ten minutes are literally a fucking Lord of the Dreams Fever Dream that does not in any way match up with the rest of the movie.

It was amusing to me to see Charlie Hunnam and Aiden Gillan on screen together again. Since they haven't been on screen together since the original UK version of Queer As Folk.

The rest of the week was basically the second season of Versaille. Which is still very good. Very twisty and turny. And I know it's not going to happen, because monarchy... but sometimes I just want the king to get over himself.

Due to lack of Friday, I watched Gods of Egypt on Friday night. And yes, I did watch a YouTube video about "Shitty Mythology Movies" recently and that explains a lot about a number of my movie choices of late. 

As I said to Fluffy after I was done...

Welp... that was... not anywhere near as much of a dumpster fire as I was expecting... 

It's very "standard 80's fantasy movie" bad

Because it really is. It's trying something, it does that thing mostly successfully. However that thing is not to be culturally sensitive or have a movie that takes place in an actual historical setting. This is another planet... a planet called Egypt. And yes, some of the CGI is m'eh... but a lot of it is just fine. Also, the likelihood that there is an extensive amount of Rule 34 content about interactions between Horus and the human thief Bek is... essentially 100%. Because giant god, tiny human porn literally has to exist. Especially considering the Brenton Thwaites of it all.

I can now officially announce that I have finished Red Dead Redemption 2. I mean, I've completed 100% of the story. There's still game there. So I'm not necessarily going anywhere immediately. And I might work on an overall review in the background for a bit... because I have many thoughts about the game generally. But I was still surprised to find myself getting emotionally effected during the final mission.

As I said earlier, no Friday Night DnD this week.

Anyway...

Ma wasn't feeling well this week, so she called this morning and asked me to go up to her place to do the shopping. So that wasn't how I expected the morning to go.

Also there's nothing weirder than walking around a different branch of the same supermarket you always go to and discovering that 90% of the stuff is just in a completely different place for no well explained reason.

So a short morning overall... because I just did the things I needed to do and then came home.