character saturday: captain aeariel

Welcome to the second DnD Disney Character Colouring Book entry that got overhauled once I decided to change them all to different races.

And of course Ariel became Captain Aeariel (meaning sea daughter), a Sea Elf sailor. She also didn't change that much in concept from her previous version. Because of course the character who literally signs an agreement with the Sea Witch is a Warlock. And a Fathomless Warlock at that. I did mention last time the idea about potentially making her a Sea Elf, and it does come with the ability to communicate with any creature that has a swim speed. So that just makes sense.

The outfit is based on my favourite movie outfit, the "going to town/Kiss the Girl" ensemble. And yes, her Fathomless ability still shows up as Ursula-style tentacles, but given that she's a 2024 Warlock, she may have both Pact of the Blade and Pact of the Chain familiar.

Anyway....

We've reached the semi-annual period of time where my back just plays up in a way that requires a secondary visit to see my Chiro. And I didn't even do anything other than perhaps playing a bit too much Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Urgh.

It's still somehow soup weather. Even if I did chose to have cold soup on day this week because I didn't want anything hot. It was Chicken, Tomato and Rice soup... with brown rice and a healthy wack of Greek Seasoning.

The Mini Media Reviews for this week goeth thusly...

Batman Ninja. The idea of getting a bunch of anime artists and voice actors to do an animated Batman movie is a good one. The result is... boring and lazy. And often kinda ugly. It is trying to do too many things and not doing any of them well. And the designs of the Batfamily/Robins is... terrible. They did my boy Nightwing dirty. Hell, they did Damian incredibly dirty. The best designs are Batman and the Joker. But why they thought a movie set in ancient Japan needed to end with giant robot buildings, I will never know.

Babette's Feast. I've seen this once before, and it's quite lovely. Very slow... it takes a good half hour to even Babette properly, and the food porn is perhaps not as food porny as other movies. It's also very focused on religion, but it's still incredibly sweet.

Lesbian Space Princess. This was a little bit m'eh. I didn't mind the animation style, the humor really isn't my thing though. I also don't know if I actually knew that it was a South Australian production going in.

Saturday Night At The Baths. I'm not gunna lie... I very nearly noped out of this one. A lot of the acting is slightly questionable. There was a whole thing with the main character being homophobic, that was definitely intentional, but wasn't something I really wanted to watch. I stuck it out though, and it was worth the effort. The best, or most natural, actor of the bunch is Don Scotti. Which is odd because this was the only thing he ever acted in. It's also interesting how differently they film the straight sex scene at the start and the gay sex scene at the end. Also, seeing what the entertainment at The Continental Baths was back in the mid 70's was fascinating. I've heard tales of what went on, but seeing it is different. The 70's was wild man.

Belle. I did start this once before and just wasn't feeling it. What I didn't realise is that it's mostly an adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. There is a whole secondary story that... honestly, just doesn't work at the end. It makes literally no logical sense. Especially since it's a serious real world issue that's treated like... something that can be solved without involving the authorities. The animation is lovely though.

The Wrong Man. My review for this already exists on the blog, and I stand by 95% of it. It is often funny the particular things that 20-years-ago me has to say about things. And the fact that I made comments to Fluffy while watching this about the production design that my review absolutely agrees with.

And yes, that does mean that there was no DnD this week. So Fluffy and I did Movie Night, which did involve a lot of talking about things that he's both reading and watching that I recommended at various times. 

Anyway...

Today was... hard work. Just because you forget how hard it is to do literally everything when your back is playing up. Sleep last night was hard, because my body didn't wanna let me lay on my left side. Then doing everything at the supermarket was harder work than it should have been.

Urgh... somebody just shoot me.