A Late Monday
May. 2nd, 2022 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickGetting distracted by stuff here and there while I finish up with my to-dos and socializing and all that. But here's the list, for your edification:
Work – Busy Monday – GL wasn’t too bad, but there were a couple of credit card calls, one of which gave me some real trouble because of course I had to do the workaround that takes ages. . .plus going through all the stuff that hasn’t been fixed yet and e-mailing them about it again, and figuring out where I wanted to go from there. . . *sigh* We’ll see how the week goes from here!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another evening on the bike, another half-hour of the Oxventure Stream “Elf Hazard!” We picked it back up with Merilwen talking to the dryads who were so annoyed about Dob just sticking his feet in their lake – as it turned out, it wasn’t precisely sacred to them or anything (despite being magical as fuck, as confirmed by Prudence), they just had very strong feelings about it being their lake. Dob – after testing out if he’d gotten any magical powers from dipping his feet in the lake (he had not) – did apologize, via exaggerated hand gestures and Merilwen translating; Corazon, meanwhile, decided to try and smooth things over with more singing. What worked on the average woodland creatures did NOT work on the dryads, though, who were like “okay, we forgive Dob, just get THAT ONE to SHUT UP.” Corazon wouldn’t take a hint from his friends, and so the chief dryad ended up charming a deer to bite him. XD Which STILL didn’t stop him, so they attempted to get the deer to kick him in the head, only for him to pirouette smoothly out of the way thanks to a good roll. XD Fortunately, around the time that Dob tried slinging the Sleep spell at him, he realized he didn’t have an appreciative audience and shut up. The dryads had the deer escort the gang out of their territory, and Merilwen was like “can you stop for five minutes?” XD
Anyway, from there they made it to Merilwen’s elf village, strung with rope bridges and full of fancy little cottages and whatnot. The other elves greeted the awkward Merilwen cheerfully, along with her friends, and the Elder Elf – Erabor, I think? Again, this is one of those where I’m not sure how it’s spelled, but it SOUNDS like Erabor to me, so we’ll go with that – was very cheerfully condescending to them all, serving tiny acorn cups of wine and making some weird comments about how glad he is that Merilwen’s come back, in a way that made it sound like she wasn’t going to be allowed to leave again. The others asked him about the naming ceremony (throwing around some of the names they suggested earlier, like “Celebrimor” and “Scrimbleshanks”), and Erabor said that Merilwen was allowed to choose her own, or ask her friends – or, if neither she nor her companions could come up with a good name, they had a thing called a “tombola” to pick a name out of it! Prudence was amused and said she loves a tombola –
And Erabor immediately commented that he didn’t know tieflings could be cultured.
WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED. No, seriously, one of the things that the Oxventure team does indeed take seriously is racism, particularly tiefling racism. Yes, fine, Prudence personally is indeed an evil warlock in service to Cthulhu, but that is no reason to make comments like that! So yeah, everyone immediately decided they didn’t like this guy. He swanned off, leaving them in the company of Merilwen’s old friend/cousin, Lily/Adarel, who tried to be welcoming but was really just awkward as fuck. XD Merilwen tried to explain that she liked her name and she didn’t want to change it, but Adarel said that refusing to change it would lead to her being expelled from the community – she’d have to leave and never come back. The others felt that this was a bit rude, and Egbert suggested that maybe they should sabotage the tombola to be full of slips with Merilwen’s current name so she doesn’t technically have to change it, prompting Merilwen to praise him for having a good idea (and Corazon to start wondering if Egbert was an impostor, and Adarel to mention that at least the lizard guy was hot). Merilwen also asked if Adarel was allowed to leave, referencing Erabor’s creepy comments about Merilwen coming home to stay, and she admitted she’d never really thought about it – she’s happy enough in the forest. Which, the others DID agree it was nice, which led to some very awkward moments where they were talking about getting name changes to stay around and everything Adarel said to tell them they couldn’t sounded racist. XD To be fair, she did apologize to Prudence for Erabor’s comment, and tried to stop Dob from taking his fake Elven jewels off – she’s not nasty, just incredibly awkward. Merilwen said it’s kind of an elf thing. XD
Anyway, once she’d gone back to help with the party prep, Prudence asked Merilwen frankly if she felt like something was up, because she doesn’t want her friend to end up a prisoner in her own home. Merilwen admitted that Erabor worked his way up to becoming village elder, but he was more “career” than “community”-driven, and that she does not remember reading about being banished forever if she doesn’t take the name change. Plans are being made to figure out if something more is going on with Erabor, while also doing Egbert’s tombola sabotage as a back-up. Prudence is on the verge of getting to use her new Clairvoyance spell, yay~ Should be fun!
2. Start writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check! The fic is officially go, with Alice startled to see a certain cab driver from the end of the last story has indeed appeared the next night to ferry her Downtown. But she did need transportation, and so she is being carted off toward Venture Tower, while discussing her current state of affairs with her usual hangers-on. I also took a moment to look up how long it should take to get between Santa Monica and Downtown L.A. – Google Maps suggested about an hour, so that’s what I’m going with. Good to know as I figure out just how much crap Alice can cram into a night!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – two in the Subs themselves, plus a bonus –
A) Started with Call Me Kevin and “How To Ruin The Narrator's Life In The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe!” Yes, The Stanley Parable recently got an “Ultra Deluxe” remake/remaster/update, and Kevin was all-in on exploring the new content and making the Narrator’s life hell. Like going into the broom closet to stare at the duct tape! Insisting on riding an elevator up and down to eternity – or at least until he became shockingly famous for it! Activating dog mode and refusing to go into the right door because he's "colorblind!" Finding The Jump Circle and jumping as many times as the game allowed! Deliberately seeking out terrible Steam reviews of the game in the back areas! Pressing the “skip” button until the entire office collapsed and he was forced to wander out into the desert! Becoming best friends with a bucket! And completing the main storyline – with the bucket. Not that the Narrator couldn’t get his own back – like introducing a special button to say the player’s name that only says Jim. . .and then, suddenly talking about Jim making his own cult. . . (Even better, the comments suggest that while everyone gets the “Jim” bit, the part that made it sound like the Narrator was talking specifically about Kevin’s Sim Jim Pickens might be a special Easter Egg in his version of the game.) Basically, this is a weird game, Kevin is a weird person, match made in heaven!
B) And then we had GrayStillPlays and “I became a doctor that belongs in prison,” playing Master Doctor! This is one of those goofy “puzzle” games that you usually get on smartphones, themed around treating people’s ailments – in sometimes unusual ways. XD Like, the very first level is actually spraying a bug with bug killer WHILE IT’S STILL ON THE PERSON’S LEG. And then giving them a band-aid for the bite. XD We also had the ability to blind a concussion patient with a flashlight, laser off a guy’s tattoo, laser the Minecraft emeralds out of a woman’s tonsils, shave a person’s leg and suck the grape jelly out of their veins, stick a thermometer in a feverish woman’s eyes before choking her with vitamin gummies, and clean out the world’s dirtiest ears. Gray was very pleased by the fact his medical career in this game proved to be very, very stupid. XD
C) And then, because I spotted it in my Recommendeds, and it references a mod I’ve been thinking about getting, I ended on The English Simmer and a video she actually uploaded on my birthday last year: “This mod gives you sims 2 hobbies but in sims 4!” Yes, it’s a quick overview of MissyHissy’s “Hobbies Mod,” which adds ten “hobby” preferences (called “Interests” in-game) of the same categories that were in The Sims 2: Freetime – stuff like “Arts & Crafts,” “Film & Literature,” “Tinkering,” stuff like that. English Simmer was extremely pleased by it, especially the way it interacted with Missy’s “Custom Whims” mod and gave your Sims actual desires to do stuff based on their hobbies. She’d like it to be a little more fleshed out – for example, for Missy to implement their hope of adding hobby enthusiasm to the mod – but it works well enough for her and helps give her Sims a little more personality! I’m all for that – though currently Missy’s mods are in “we don’t know if they’re good for the latest patch” status, so I’ll have to wait a bit on picking it up, I’m afraid. Ah well.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got through my tags and added a few more fandom things to my Victor Luvs Alice drafts, and updated a post I’m working on with Not Actually Incorrect Valicer quotes, because they’re things I actually see them saying. (Notably includes Alice saying she and Smiler are “friends with benefits,” then referring to Victor as “benefits.” XD) Actually up to two pages worth of drafts now, which I suppose is a good thing – means I have options for a few weeks!
Well, not too bad for the evening, but I'm worried it's gonna be another stressful week at work. :( We'll see how it goes, of course, but things are not looking promising right now. Doesn't help that it's supposed to be at least somewhat rainy and blah most of the week. . . *shrug* What can you do? Besides go to bed because you're up too late. :p Night all!
Work – Busy Monday – GL wasn’t too bad, but there were a couple of credit card calls, one of which gave me some real trouble because of course I had to do the workaround that takes ages. . .plus going through all the stuff that hasn’t been fixed yet and e-mailing them about it again, and figuring out where I wanted to go from there. . . *sigh* We’ll see how the week goes from here!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another evening on the bike, another half-hour of the Oxventure Stream “Elf Hazard!” We picked it back up with Merilwen talking to the dryads who were so annoyed about Dob just sticking his feet in their lake – as it turned out, it wasn’t precisely sacred to them or anything (despite being magical as fuck, as confirmed by Prudence), they just had very strong feelings about it being their lake. Dob – after testing out if he’d gotten any magical powers from dipping his feet in the lake (he had not) – did apologize, via exaggerated hand gestures and Merilwen translating; Corazon, meanwhile, decided to try and smooth things over with more singing. What worked on the average woodland creatures did NOT work on the dryads, though, who were like “okay, we forgive Dob, just get THAT ONE to SHUT UP.” Corazon wouldn’t take a hint from his friends, and so the chief dryad ended up charming a deer to bite him. XD Which STILL didn’t stop him, so they attempted to get the deer to kick him in the head, only for him to pirouette smoothly out of the way thanks to a good roll. XD Fortunately, around the time that Dob tried slinging the Sleep spell at him, he realized he didn’t have an appreciative audience and shut up. The dryads had the deer escort the gang out of their territory, and Merilwen was like “can you stop for five minutes?” XD
Anyway, from there they made it to Merilwen’s elf village, strung with rope bridges and full of fancy little cottages and whatnot. The other elves greeted the awkward Merilwen cheerfully, along with her friends, and the Elder Elf – Erabor, I think? Again, this is one of those where I’m not sure how it’s spelled, but it SOUNDS like Erabor to me, so we’ll go with that – was very cheerfully condescending to them all, serving tiny acorn cups of wine and making some weird comments about how glad he is that Merilwen’s come back, in a way that made it sound like she wasn’t going to be allowed to leave again. The others asked him about the naming ceremony (throwing around some of the names they suggested earlier, like “Celebrimor” and “Scrimbleshanks”), and Erabor said that Merilwen was allowed to choose her own, or ask her friends – or, if neither she nor her companions could come up with a good name, they had a thing called a “tombola” to pick a name out of it! Prudence was amused and said she loves a tombola –
And Erabor immediately commented that he didn’t know tieflings could be cultured.
WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED. No, seriously, one of the things that the Oxventure team does indeed take seriously is racism, particularly tiefling racism. Yes, fine, Prudence personally is indeed an evil warlock in service to Cthulhu, but that is no reason to make comments like that! So yeah, everyone immediately decided they didn’t like this guy. He swanned off, leaving them in the company of Merilwen’s old friend/cousin, Lily/Adarel, who tried to be welcoming but was really just awkward as fuck. XD Merilwen tried to explain that she liked her name and she didn’t want to change it, but Adarel said that refusing to change it would lead to her being expelled from the community – she’d have to leave and never come back. The others felt that this was a bit rude, and Egbert suggested that maybe they should sabotage the tombola to be full of slips with Merilwen’s current name so she doesn’t technically have to change it, prompting Merilwen to praise him for having a good idea (and Corazon to start wondering if Egbert was an impostor, and Adarel to mention that at least the lizard guy was hot). Merilwen also asked if Adarel was allowed to leave, referencing Erabor’s creepy comments about Merilwen coming home to stay, and she admitted she’d never really thought about it – she’s happy enough in the forest. Which, the others DID agree it was nice, which led to some very awkward moments where they were talking about getting name changes to stay around and everything Adarel said to tell them they couldn’t sounded racist. XD To be fair, she did apologize to Prudence for Erabor’s comment, and tried to stop Dob from taking his fake Elven jewels off – she’s not nasty, just incredibly awkward. Merilwen said it’s kind of an elf thing. XD
Anyway, once she’d gone back to help with the party prep, Prudence asked Merilwen frankly if she felt like something was up, because she doesn’t want her friend to end up a prisoner in her own home. Merilwen admitted that Erabor worked his way up to becoming village elder, but he was more “career” than “community”-driven, and that she does not remember reading about being banished forever if she doesn’t take the name change. Plans are being made to figure out if something more is going on with Erabor, while also doing Egbert’s tombola sabotage as a back-up. Prudence is on the verge of getting to use her new Clairvoyance spell, yay~ Should be fun!
2. Start writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check! The fic is officially go, with Alice startled to see a certain cab driver from the end of the last story has indeed appeared the next night to ferry her Downtown. But she did need transportation, and so she is being carted off toward Venture Tower, while discussing her current state of affairs with her usual hangers-on. I also took a moment to look up how long it should take to get between Santa Monica and Downtown L.A. – Google Maps suggested about an hour, so that’s what I’m going with. Good to know as I figure out just how much crap Alice can cram into a night!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – two in the Subs themselves, plus a bonus –
A) Started with Call Me Kevin and “How To Ruin The Narrator's Life In The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe!” Yes, The Stanley Parable recently got an “Ultra Deluxe” remake/remaster/update, and Kevin was all-in on exploring the new content and making the Narrator’s life hell. Like going into the broom closet to stare at the duct tape! Insisting on riding an elevator up and down to eternity – or at least until he became shockingly famous for it! Activating dog mode and refusing to go into the right door because he's "colorblind!" Finding The Jump Circle and jumping as many times as the game allowed! Deliberately seeking out terrible Steam reviews of the game in the back areas! Pressing the “skip” button until the entire office collapsed and he was forced to wander out into the desert! Becoming best friends with a bucket! And completing the main storyline – with the bucket. Not that the Narrator couldn’t get his own back – like introducing a special button to say the player’s name that only says Jim. . .and then, suddenly talking about Jim making his own cult. . . (Even better, the comments suggest that while everyone gets the “Jim” bit, the part that made it sound like the Narrator was talking specifically about Kevin’s Sim Jim Pickens might be a special Easter Egg in his version of the game.) Basically, this is a weird game, Kevin is a weird person, match made in heaven!
B) And then we had GrayStillPlays and “I became a doctor that belongs in prison,” playing Master Doctor! This is one of those goofy “puzzle” games that you usually get on smartphones, themed around treating people’s ailments – in sometimes unusual ways. XD Like, the very first level is actually spraying a bug with bug killer WHILE IT’S STILL ON THE PERSON’S LEG. And then giving them a band-aid for the bite. XD We also had the ability to blind a concussion patient with a flashlight, laser off a guy’s tattoo, laser the Minecraft emeralds out of a woman’s tonsils, shave a person’s leg and suck the grape jelly out of their veins, stick a thermometer in a feverish woman’s eyes before choking her with vitamin gummies, and clean out the world’s dirtiest ears. Gray was very pleased by the fact his medical career in this game proved to be very, very stupid. XD
C) And then, because I spotted it in my Recommendeds, and it references a mod I’ve been thinking about getting, I ended on The English Simmer and a video she actually uploaded on my birthday last year: “This mod gives you sims 2 hobbies but in sims 4!” Yes, it’s a quick overview of MissyHissy’s “Hobbies Mod,” which adds ten “hobby” preferences (called “Interests” in-game) of the same categories that were in The Sims 2: Freetime – stuff like “Arts & Crafts,” “Film & Literature,” “Tinkering,” stuff like that. English Simmer was extremely pleased by it, especially the way it interacted with Missy’s “Custom Whims” mod and gave your Sims actual desires to do stuff based on their hobbies. She’d like it to be a little more fleshed out – for example, for Missy to implement their hope of adding hobby enthusiasm to the mod – but it works well enough for her and helps give her Sims a little more personality! I’m all for that – though currently Missy’s mods are in “we don’t know if they’re good for the latest patch” status, so I’ll have to wait a bit on picking it up, I’m afraid. Ah well.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got through my tags and added a few more fandom things to my Victor Luvs Alice drafts, and updated a post I’m working on with Not Actually Incorrect Valicer quotes, because they’re things I actually see them saying. (Notably includes Alice saying she and Smiler are “friends with benefits,” then referring to Victor as “benefits.” XD) Actually up to two pages worth of drafts now, which I suppose is a good thing – means I have options for a few weeks!
Well, not too bad for the evening, but I'm worried it's gonna be another stressful week at work. :( We'll see how it goes, of course, but things are not looking promising right now. Doesn't help that it's supposed to be at least somewhat rainy and blah most of the week. . . *shrug* What can you do? Besides go to bed because you're up too late. :p Night all!
