Once again this time of year has proven to be stressful and/or annoying.

We were due to go to the co-op on Saturday morning, because we had got a leaflet through the door with money off (£5 off £20, £6 off £30) though annoyingly it was only at the one that was by the station not up the road. Alas we had to go later than planned, cause we’d ordered a new tree stand and it came in the morning.

That does mean the tree is up, though it is bare currently (bar a Bulbasaur bauble I got from town) but at least it’s up.

We did go down to the co-op, closer to lunch than I hoped, and used one of the vouchers (we had to get cat food and stuff anyway so I figured may as well use it). We did get some party food to try but there wasn’t the selection I’d hoped for (and the seluction box wasn’t as tasty as I hoped) but at least they had the hash brown stars they had last year, hopefully they’re nice as I rememebr, and jalapeño things too.

Monday was a trip to pick up the last of mum’s present (a clothes order from sainsburys) but that was tiring as mum wanted some other things (and on the way back I ran into her and Naryu and knew she’d not walk with her unless I stayed with them). On the plus side I did get the new Stranger Things sticker album! If anyone sees the boxes for it (or multipack stickers) please let me know which store you see them in. The site that does the stickers sold out before the release which is crazy

Tuesday I was at the library cause mums friend had issues so had to leave early. It meant I did read but not as much as I hope (reviews in the new sfx, which finally arrived a few days ago and one chapter of Halloween Party).

Then in the night we had a call from her and, ugh more stress. She does a Christmas food order at M and S and we tack a few things onto her order, but apparently there’s been some issue and a lot of the stuff (including our stuff) is not coming. That means that stuff for we’d planned to have next week isn’t gonna be there which… it’s annoying but some of the stuff does feel pricey. On the plus side it means not being up at 6am on Christmas Eve to pick it up, but she’s offered to take us down Monday to try and get alternative stuff which… ugh. At least that’s in the afternoon.

But yeah that’s a stress we didn’t need and it got to mum (which this’ll got to me) and it didn’t help the call came through as we were sorting food.

And all of that has led to me being drained again.

But good things.

Aside from the aforementioned SFX magazine there was also a delivery of a silly Coelacanth plush I got preordered ages ago, which is both big and soft and ahh he has a cute silly face (if anyone has seen ditto faces stuff it’s like that). There was also the stranger things qwertee that I ordered and I’d also done a random tee, which was also Stranger things. Random tees are usually older ones but this was one of the others from the same day so it was an Eddie tee!

I got sent a Funko code with 20% and I spent the weekend debating back and forth on if I should use it. It is a big discount to have but the timing for it is so bad. I did cave though and I used it on some of the new stranger things stuff (including two exclusives that probably won’t come down). Alas they had no Will but no one seems to.

Saturday night was strictly and I’m so glad that George got through to the final! And Karen too, I hope one of them win.

I saw on the tv listings that The Batman was on so I finally decided to watch it. I’d heard good things about it and damn. Robert Pattinson was sold to me as Batman in the first few minutes. It was really good, I loved the detective vibes and making the riddler into a more serious threat actually worked really well. If it hard a flaw it was around the end, which felt a bit rushed and long at the same time (but maybe that could’ve been just tiredness).

Sunday night was the next War Between episodes. The first was the best of the two managing to nail tension in the descent down into the depths. But ughhhh. Mum caught that the globe could be a bomb before I did and I’d really hoped that it wouldn’t be. Alas it was and it just… ugh. It pissed me off seeing the aquakind and diplomatic delegation (who we’d got to know on the trip) get blown up.

It did lean to a good thing in the next ep with Tide appearing and calling humans insane for it, which is true. It is insane for us to blow up our own people, just like it’s insane for us to pollute the oceans and screw things up just for rich people to make profits.

Other than that the second ep did feel off, I think mostly due to Salt acting so different. Like yeah she is her own person and would be different when not playing the role of diplomat, but even so it did feel strange for her to suddenly abandon her people/cause to go on the run.

I also dunno how they can resolve everything in just one ep to go. It’s called ‘the end of the war’ so it must resolve things but the whole series has felt a misnomer (but in a good way I like that there’s actually been diplomacy as a solution rather than shooting first). I guess we’ll see. (The end credits did have a thing name checking The Underwater Menace which makes me wonder if we’ll see the remains of atlantis)

I also watched the recut Sea Devils too which was really good, unlike other recuts it didn’t feel like it lost anything (it still had the Clangers scene, the master and the doctor’s sword fight, the politicians being idiots) so it was a good choice.

Lastly, and less of a good thing I’m not seeing The Shining at the cinema. I wasn’t 100% on going in the first place but for some reason the afternoon showing for it got taken off (leaving only ones at night) so that, combined with money took off my will to go. So it looks like I won’t be going to the cinema again until the new year (for Anaconda, and maybe The Housemaid or something else).

Now though I’m gonna sort food, then hopefully poke my fic brain into writing (I had a burst the other night before sleeping) and maybe watch something.

Last night was the game awards and, as always, it was more about upcoming games and trailers than the actual awards. It always bothers me that some of the awards are spedran, without even the chance for the winners to come onstage. (Plus it’s so long, it started 12:30 and lasted until about 4am here)

For those that didn’t see it here are a bunch of things that happened:

*Sleep Token played in the overview trailer!
*Hades II, Hollow Knight Silksong and Donkey Kong Bananza all ran one award each (Best Action game, best Action/adventure game and best family game)
*Clair Obscure Expedition 33 win pretty much everything they were up for
*The whole Clair Obscure team were there, all of them wearing Berets
*There was a warframe video, Werner Herzog voiced and was in it
*Miss Piggy was there and was hilarious, it was also heavily implied she and the presenter of the awards spent the night together and had sex
*She also did a song with Rolf (I think that’s his name) which name checked everything from kingdom hearts to discord
*Maggie Roberson (tall vampire lady from Resident Evil) did a skit about a survival training session which was so funny
*Her and Neil Newborn presented the best voice acting award and were so funny
*There was a cut sheep herding cgame
*There was a trailer for a game that featured a man getting burned alive in a wicker man type thing, while there was an orgy going on. This wasn’t warned for and was in the first hour of the show (it’s also by the studio that did Baldurs Gate III, it’s called Divinity)
*There’s a new Tomb Raider game, as well as a remake. The latter looks bonkers and features dinosaurs
*Theres not one but two Star Wars games! The first I suspected would be a franchise game cause of how the trailer was cut (long shots, not showing characters) but I suspected it was Star Wars cause of the hiss of smoke when the boarding ramp went down, then the lightsaber sound confirmed it
*the other one is Galactic racer and is a dancing game, like the podracer games but with other ships too. It looks so cool and has Sebulba coming back!
*Resident Evil Requiem revealled that Leon is coming back! (Which everyone guessed but it was nice to confirm)
*Evanesence performed the song they did for Devil May Cry (I need to watch it)
*A new Megaman game is coming, but not till 2027
*There was a clip from Street Fighter and the cast came onstage
*There was a cool game called Ontos by the people that made Soma (and the voice of Stellan Skarsgård)
*There was an awesome onstage announcement/trailer for a new control game and it’s so cool I’m glad I’m playing the first game.
*The Game Awards orchestra was so great, plus the flute guy kept changing is flute which was fun

I’m sure there was other stuff too that I’ve missed from it, cause there was a lot, but yeah. As you can see there was a lot of wild stuff.

I am a bit annoyed that the Hades II and Silksong devs didn’t get a chance to get onstage for their awards, they both deserved more love. (And honestly, it feels like a fluke that they didn’t but Expedition 33 was just… a powerhouse)

I am so hyped for the Star Wars games, especially racer and Resident Evil (I need to get back to 4). I’d say those three, Control Resonant, Ontos and Tomb Raider are the ones I’m most curious about, but I am kinda curious about a divinity. I mean that trailer was absolutely insane it was certainly memorable.

But ugh the whole thing was tiring and it has made me drained today.

Now to see if my brain will work on other things and then… I dunno. Maybe I’ll go on Control later

Today has been a busy day but first.

As I mentioned in the last post the library stint yesterday was quiet and I mentioned to mum about getting the tree sorted. I was saying it in the sense of ‘we’ll do it Saturday’ but mum took it to mean ‘we’ll get it down yesterday’. Cue me lugging the thing down after the food shop came, opening the box and getting it out… only to find the stand for it is nowhere to be seen.

I think we’d boxed it last year, forgot to add the stand and it got put with other things but do I know where they are? Nope. So we have the tree box where it would go cause I didn’t have the energy to mess with it. (Mums genius idea? Sort it while food was cooking and obviously that went wrong)

Sigh.

Today started with sorting out an order for mum (the gingerbread Lego that’s meant to be for Xmas, but it’s on back order, but at least doing it now got a freebie) then mums friend came, ostensibly to bring Xmas stuff but of course she wanted stuff ordering too ugh.

Mail came today too, the new Stranger Things annual (which I got under half price!) which looks really good on my flick through! There was also God Is A Bullet, the blu ray with hot Garrett Wareing (which I was told to expect by Jan 22) so I hope it’s good (and works!). Then when I came back Doctor Who books were here (I got some 2 for £5 deals from zavvi, which are mostly hardbacks so oop sorry mum that you had to move them).

Today I went to town, the town part was pretty short. I looked in smiths for the new stranger things stickers but they’re not out yet, but I did get a Stranger Things thing from b and m (the box that I lost when I lost my bag the other month) but they didn’t have the snack pack or bag alas.

I went into Smyths but alas they didn’t have the stranger things funkos I was looking for (even Vecna which was listed on the site, but I guess he was on the high shelves hidden) but I did get the Lego happy plants though (look how cute!). I also got the Frankenstein art/making off book which was a real bargain from Asda (less than half off!). I had a little flick through and it looks beautiful.

None of the trailers were interesting so I will just jump right into the film talk. (Unlike the last film thoughts these will be more spoilery. So let’s get onto thoughts of Pillion and Five Nights At Freddy’s 2

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That might be it for cinema adventures this month. I might see The Shining on one of it’s showings though but I’m not sure yet (it depends on mood, energy and weather) and I do wanna see Anaconda but that likely won’t be till early January cause it comes out just after Xmas.

Now though I’m gonna bundle up, watch stuff and might fic some.

Next days are low energy I might watch stuff (and the game awards is tomorrow) and I might go back to home bargains to get more Star Wars doorables (they’re so cute! And this set has some of my favs) but who knows if I’ll feel up to it. I also wanna make peanut butter booped cause I found recipes.

And there was something else but it’s gone out of my brain completely.

Tuesday was another library stint which ended up being tiring. Not cause of the library itself but mum. Last minute, after saying we’d not bring her, mum decided to bring Naryu as the ‘library dog’ which is fine, usually but Naryu got messy right before we got there so I had to take her back home (and she fought me every step cause it was me alone). So instead of walking there and resting I had to make the trip three times (and a fourth coming back) which just… ugh.

I did read the Stranger Things SFX article (just the main part, not the sections with the boys yet) which ahhh. I hadn’t intended to hold back reading it till after the season but any time I read the magazine (when travelling or at the hospital) I just read the short sections on other things. I’m so excite for the rest of the series. I also read another chapter of Halloween Party and it threw me off with the talk of computers and how they can cause bigger issues than people can. That was so surprising but so true.

Yesterday was the planned town trip, which was mostly to the cinema to see Wake Up Dead Man and Zootropolis 2. In between them (cause there was a gap) I went round town. I got the Hellfire Christmas sweater from Primark (it was on sale and I wasn’t sure if it was for Black Friday, but it’s not so yay! (here is what it looks like.) I also got the WQSK sweater, a hellfire bag (actually 2 by mistake, damnit), some nail polish and the stranger things body butter they have. I also went in bm and got two stranger things blind boxes (I am a bit annoyed pricing wasn’t on the shelves so they were more than I thought they would be) but I got Will and Vecna, and the Vecna seems to be special cause he’s clear red plastic instead of the image on the checklist.

But main thing was cinema.

I’m not gonna go over all the trailers, but there was something called the magic faraway tree which looks pretty good (though it has Andrew Garfield as a dad of children which feels wrong even though he’s probably old enough). There was also Moana and… I don’t get why making life action versions of animated stuff is so necessary but having said that it does, look really nice and I’ll probably see it.

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When I got home mum had, as she tends to do, messed around with stuff. I swear she does this because she’s left unattended so no one can stop her. It wouldn’t be so bad but the things she does are often things that are acknowledged to require two people and yet she does them alone (even when we agree to do things together she’ll start them when I’m doing uni stuff). And it’s just so… ugh. But I was too tired to be anything but annoyed.

(And we also had a repeat of the record player fixation, as The Mousetrap is coming to Birmingham so mum insisted on getting the tickets to it right away which just felt like a rush, especially since we’ve not got the Death On The Nile ones yet)

The new Doctor Who magazine had arrived while I was gone and I’ve not read it yet but it does have free art cards from the new show which look nice as well as an audio freebie (a download of Seas Of Titan, a ninth Doctor sea devil story I’ve wanted for awhile). A quick flick through shows it’s got a lot of Sea Devil/Silurian stuff which I’m excite to dive into. The War Between The Land And The Sea starts Sunday and my optimism about it has been pretty low (mostly cause of how the last season of Who ended up) so I feel it’ll either be awesome, will be good but then end badly or just irritate me. Which sucks, cause I love sea devils so you’d think I’d be excite to see them back in such a big way but… (I’m also not hyped by how the main one’s face is so… human. One of the whole point of the Silurians/sea devils was that they didn’t look human)

I also saw a game I’d been really interested in, called Viewfinder, had came to switch and with a huge launch discounted do I had to get it. I love perspective games like this so I’m glad I can play at some point.

Unfortunately I completely crashed. It was a mix tiredness due to the long day, depression which has been coming in waves lately and my weaker eye just aching like crazy to the point of annoyance. Ugh. The latter is still aching a bit this morning so hopefully it’s not an all day issue.

(November round up post is coming though… at some point.)

Edit: Ahh! The next Doctor Who boxset has been revelled! Season 21! So that’s the last of the fifth Doctor eps with loads of fun/cool looking special features.