Not gunna lie... I think that this might by my favourite amongst this D&D Disney Character Colouring Book collection. Ella "Cinders" Ashpuddle. The gnomish Cinderella Bard. Because gnomes love to collect names, and also turning Ashputtle, the original German name for the story, into a gnomic name appealed to me greatly.
Originally I leaned towards Entertainer, because Bard, but then realised that Charlatan makes some amount of sense since she is pretending to be somebody else in this moment at the ball. Like I said last week, there is some element of "DnD Characters doing Disney cosplay" about all of these, so it only needs to make as much sense as works for me.
I definitely reused a lot of the elements from the previous time I tried this. Same class, because I want her to be able to make her own dress and her own pumpkin coach, but also the exact same outfit top too. Weirdly, I definitely pushed this towards the silver again, because her dress in the movie is definitely silver and not blue, it always comes out as a blue toned silver. And it's hard to see, but the heels are definitely "glass", it's just Hero Forge's lighting interacts with their "crystal" paint in very specific ways.
I just like the pose too. Especially the face. All the little details come together nicely.
Anyway...
I did, in fact, return to soup this week. And experimented with some curry powder... which wasn't a bad choice... it did just make everything a very uniform colour of yellowy brown. Except the carrot.
The Mini Media Reviews for this week...
The Court Jester. I've seen it before. Of course I have. Honestly, there are chunks of this where the movie makes no fucking sense. Like the fact that the fake king is holding onto power when he's both elderly and doesn't have a male heir. I mean, at worst, that king would just raise the real heir and hang onto power as long as possible. Was watching this directly after watching a lot of The Last Kingdom problematic for my suspension of disbelief? Oh hell yes. It's definitely a movie that just skips over large chunks of logic and reason. A lot of silly fun though.
A Letter To Momo. Turns out that I've seen this before. I have basically no memory of it. Which is the whole thing about this movie, it's inoffensive and pleasant. It just doesn't really stick in my memory.
The Once Upon A Time In China trilogy. I've seen the first one before, but not for like 14 years. All three of these are set in the same "Western countries interfering in China" time frame. And also do that thing that a lot of Chinese martial arts/historical movies do where they get very... fervent and jingoistic. While also doing slapstick humor. The second one is the most aggressive in both directions honestly, because they mix in real world historical figures to the story. And the third one has is definitely the most campy of the three. Not stellar overall... but pleasant.
Blow Dry. I can thank an SBS Instagram reel for this one. It showed me a snippet from the end of this movie enough to peak my interest. Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy and Rachel Griffiths was enough to get me through the door. The inherent camp of a 2000 hairdressing completion and the terrible haircuts thereof was enough to keep me interested. The decision to allow Josh Hartnett to do a Yorkshire accent was a questionable one, and it did throw me out of most of his scenes, but overall it was a good movie in the general vein of Kinky Boots, The Full Monty... that one about the band with Ewen McGregor that I haven't actually seen. It's definitely not at the top of the list, but it was enjoyable and definitely did some things in 2000 that made me go "oh, okay movie, go off".
In related news, I started Assassin's Creed Odyssey this week. I have thoughts. The problem mostly is that they game is trying to do things that aren't an AC game. And it's not giving me reasons for some of the things that it is trying to do.
Case in point. Your character was raised as a Spartan. Things happen, she grows up as an orphan and becomes a mercenary. The first zone after Tutorial Island requires you to work with the Spartans. So you think to yourself... okay, so I'm with the Spartans and against the Athenians, gotcha. But then the second zone you go to is controlled by Spartans, so in order to "win" that area, you have to work against the Spartans. And the game hasn't given you a "everybody is a Templar really" story motivation. So I basically threw away logic and just did what I do in every game, sneaking around murdering everybody.
Friday Night DnD... We started with the B Team... my boy nearly fell down a crevasse, we got chased by a Mind Flayer and now Team A and Team B have teamed up... so I'm currently going to be running three characters and a familiar. This is going to end in chaos.
Anyway...
Not a huge amount to comment on this week. Really just the usual supermarket stuff.
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