Well The Wait Is Over
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crossover_chickAfter many, many false alarms over the past few days, my period FINALLY started tonight, right before I took my shower. Meaning I caught it before it could ruin any of my clothing, hooray! But yeah -- sucky as my period is, I'm happy to finally be out of the endless PMSy waiting for it to arrive. Now I just gotta get through the next week or so with it, and I'll be free from its evil brain-sapping influence for a little while again...
Anyway -- enough about the old "shark week," as my friend Squid calls it. Here's how the rest of my day went:
Work – Busy-but-not-overwhelming first day back at work, I am relieved to report – while I had a fair bit to catch up on, I lucked out in that there was only one phone call late this afternoon (lady looking for help with IRA stuff), so I was able to concentrate on what needed to get done first and get that sorted. Most of my day was accordingly spent catching up on the GLs (the Friday one taking up pretty much my entire morning as our credit card people uploaded a LOT of stuff that day), then reviewing a pledge billing QC file for our database company and answering a few questions from our main contact there. Also found the time to fix a few payments that went on wrong and take a quick look at the mail, but didn’t find the time to put on any new gifts. *shrug* Tomorrow’s project!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with “Oxventure D&D: Wyrdwood | Chapter 8: Friends & Falsehoods - Part 2 (Season Finale)!” The second chunklet of the big finale featured:
A) The gang finishing up combat against The Superior, the mysterious leader of the cult that was very clearly not human while behind her the other members of the cult prepared to sacrifice someone in a giant iron cage, which involved –
I. Lug, having activated his passive-aggressive rage, trying to smash The Superior with his hammer, because he’s a barbarian, that’s what he does – his first attack missed, but the second one hit her solidly in the ribs and sent her FLYING
II. Willowfine stabbing her with the awesome spear of light, then attempting to use Hold Person on her – unfortunately, The Superior made her saving throw, and it was declared that she couldn’t be held because she was still skidding across the ground from Lug’s blow XD
III. Morven using Toll The Dead to inflict necrotic damage on her very brain, which Johnny described as her head essentially catching on fire
IV. And Cressida ending things with a nat-20 Witchbolt, electrocuting the woman so hard that her skeleton lit up cartoon-style before all her bones shattered. O.O Most of the others were horrified; Morven gave Cressida a nod, one murder craftsman to another XD
B) The gang seeing the cultists getting ready to do their sacrifice and getting into a brief argument about whether or not they should bother saving the person – with Happen and Morven voting for getting out of dodge, as they had the amulet, and Lug insisting they should save the person. Morven decided to try and get a look at the sacrifice to see if they looked innocent –
Cue Johnny saying, in essence, “well, it’s gotten pretty dark now, so all you can really tell is she’s emitting a shimmering light.” :O Yup, guess which river spirit the cultists had and were preparing to kill! Willowfine was like “and you wanted to leave” to Happen and Morven. :p Anyway, the gang quickly set up a rescue operation, which involved –
I. Happen fired an arrow at the man preparing to spear the poor Shimmering Lady in her iron cage, reducing him to a mere 1 HP and buying them all a few precious seconds before someone else picked up the weapon
II. Morven sprinting close enough to cast Calm Emotions, heightened by her last sorcery point, making all the cultists indifferent to the Shimmering Lady (or, at least, indifferent to killing her) for two whole minutes
III. Happen distracting the cultists and getting them to come after him by illuminating himself with Faerie Fire, then he, Lug, and Willowfine bolting into the forest and splitting up to draw the cultist’s attention three ways (this was NEARLY ruined by Willowfine rolling a 1 on the Strength/Athletics roll to get past the treeline, but fortunately Lug and Happen rolled well enough to help her up without too much issue, just taking a few nicks from some thrown sickles; it was also revealed that Happen just CANNOT shout to save his life XD)
IV. Morven and Cressida, meanwhile, going invisible and getting the poor Shimmering Lady out of the iron cage! She was pretty damn grateful to be rescued, as you might expect. Morven cast Mage Armor on her to help protect her should they run into any further trouble –
Aaand, having expended all of her magic, promptly lost consciousness, allowing Robin to return to the party! He was naturally extremely confused to find himself in a strange location with a wet lady hanging off him and Cressida’s voice next to him (as, of course, Morven’s Invisibility ended the minute she swapped – fortunately, Ellen confirmed Mage Armor isn’t a concentration spell like Invisibility, so the Shimmering Lady still had that). Cressida sort of explained what was going on to him, then encouraged him to get moving so they could get out of the creepy cult headquarters, which he was only too happy to do, hoisting the probably-DEEPLY-confused Shimmering Lady over his shoulder and following Cressida’s voice out the south gate.
C) The group meeting up after Robin and Cressida managed to escape the compound with the Shimmering Lady, and the other three managing to escape pursuit (Lug semi-competently climbed a tree; Willowfine attempted to find a hiding place in nature but, on an eight, just ended up hugging a tree pretending to be lichen – a couple of cultists actually did find her, but upon seeing this, just turned and walked away XD; and Happen did the most useful thing by climbing a different tree and shooting a fire arrow at one of the thatched roofs in the compound, forcing the cultists to hurry back to put out the flames), and Happen mentioning that he was surprised Beatrice took up with that lot. The others were like “who’s Beatrice” –
Cue Happen revealing she was his fiancee. O.O For a time, anyway – as it turns out, courting in Happen’s order involves the two people who wish to marry cohabiting for a year to see if they’re well-suited. If, at the end of the year, they still wish to wed, a coin is flipped – heads, they get married; tails, they’re forbidden from ever marrying. Beatrice and Happen’s coin came up tails, and while Happen was willing to accept that, Beatrice wasn’t, and ended up leaving the order. Everyone was kind of stunned, being like “why didn’t you go with the person you loved?” Happen tried to explain he was taught to just accept these things by his order and it was all Cadence’s will, but nobody was really having it. Especially not Robin, who was like “there’s a difference between being able to throw a bucket over your house and being in love!” XD (A callback to Robin mentioning a friend of his got the ability to throw that bucket from his god, or so he said. :P) Happen was like “you really need to meet the elders of my order, they can explain it better than me, I constantly feel like I’m getting it wrong.” You know, what, Happen, I DO hope this group meets those elders, because I feel it would be quite interesting…
D) The Poor Man reappearing during this conversation, quite amused by Happen’s story – Happen handed over the amulet, which the Poor Man was VERY excited to see. Robin also put the Shimmering Lady down, as she was clearly trying to see what the hell was going on – she took one look at the Poor Man and was like “ugh.” (Lug: “Yeah, that’s how I feel whenever I see him too.”) She asked if he was still “awake inside that thing,” which he confirmed he was – Robin wondered if they’d been in love at one point too, but hadn’t been able to get married, which the Poor Man laughingly confirmed they had NOT. Cressida told the Shimmering Lady about the amulet they’d given him with the sign on it and asked if that had been a bad idea – the Shimmering Lady confirmed it wasn’t their best idea, anyway. Willowfine, however, argued that they knew the worst thing to do when dealing with the Wildfolk was to break a deal, and they’d made a deal with the Poor Man to get him that amulet, so… Robin agreed, telling them all about the time his friend apparently made a deal with the Fey that involved him giving them Robin’s shoes, which he’d been sad about, but a bargain was a bargain, so… Cressida was like “didn’t a dog steal your shoes?” and Robin explained that had been the NEXT pair. The Shimmering Lady took all this in, and was promptly like “thanks for your help, but I think I can get back to the river on my own using the tree roots.” XD Happen asked if she’d tell them how she was captured in the first place – she just said “bound in iron,” and – when he expressed his hopes it wouldn’t happen again – smiled ruefully and said that she didn’t think they’d be the last. :( Then she melted into the tree roots and headed off, back toward the river, curing the trees as she went. So, if nothing else went right, at least that went right. :)
E) The story portion of the episode ending with Cressida getting snippy with The Poor Man after confirming he probably knew North Team was already dead and had given them largely-pointless information, complaining it was an unfair bargain (the Poor Man pointed out that they’d never said anything about making a FAIR bargain, and Cressida protested that SHE was the one who was supposed to be making the unfair bargains); The Poor Man EATING the amulet and exploding in a blast of blood – only to reappear in a tree above them and declare “we’ll see each other again” before vanishing properly; Robin learning from Willowfine that the others did not get any honey during their time in the Hive, having another one of his simple dreams shattered; and the camera pulling out on the five standing around the pile of gore the Poor Man left behind...watched by a mysterious someone using a crystalline orb, who told someone else to “fetch the Inquisitors” (oh dear)…
F) And the episode itself ending with the familiar Rolling Rite – and Andy rolling below his debt number (to be fair, Morven cast a LOT of magic in the finale). Interestingly, Johnny did NOT have him take an envelope to hold onto until Season 2 – instead, he just said that he’d have something interesting planned for Robin/Morven when the new season rolled around…
So yeah – with a little last-minute post-supper finishing-up, that’s season one of Wyrdwood done, yay~ Now I have to figure out what I’m watching the rest of the week, because everything else I need to catch up on on this channel is too long to fit into the remaining three days...
2. Continue writing “The Van Dort Vacancy”: Check – with Victor having successfully ordered Slugs back to his cupboard yesterday, today’s page was all about finding the final hallway trap – a second near-invisible tripwire! Which was not in the same place as the last one (aka right in front of the door), as that would be silly. :p So, after assuring Kasimir that there were no more hulls or anything like that to be found (and apologizing for not mentioning Slugs earlier), Victor got down on his hands and knees to find it. Smiler quickly joined in the search, as did Alice after mentioning that they didn’t know how much time they had until discovery (though Smiler was able to assure her that the guards would be out for a good few hours yet); Barnaby, of course, absolutely refused, and got put on “listening out for trouble” duty by Alice instead. He was cross about it for five seconds before admitting, “yeah, I don’t really care what you think about me, I’m too rich for it to matter.” XD Kasimir, meanwhile, pulled out a smoke bomb Edvard had made them and offered it as a potential help, thinking the wire might stand out more against the smoke – Alice and Victor were pretty certain would just make the tripwire LESS visible, and Barnaby did NOT want Kasimir setting that off anywhere NEAR him, so back in Kasimir’s pocket it went. :P Next time I work on this, Alice gets to be the one to find the tripwire (as she hasn’t had much to do in the actual score yet beyond snark at Barnaby), and the gang moves onto the door – and has to deal with a final bit of protection they hadn’t even thought of...
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – I went looking for the latest list video from OXtra today, and instead found another “reaction” video from OXBox in my Recommendeds – “WEIRDEST Fighting Game Finishers | WE REACT!” Mike subjecting Ellen, Jane, and Andy to various bizarre fighting game “finishing moves,” as you might have guessed from the title – Andy, as the resident fighting game expert, was familiar with at least some of them, but there were plenty that made all of them go “huh?” XD Some highlights were:
A) The Primal Rage ape urinating acid on its opponent (Jane predicted this before it happened, and was very pleased with herself)
B) Dr. Faust from Guilty Gear performing a plastic surgery makeover on his opponent, giving them giant anime eyes (Ellen cracked up at that one)
C) A weird robot dude called Painbringer from something called Pray For Death defeating his opponent (a woman with giant spiked wings) – and then growing a cistern out of his back and pulling the chain, causing her to shrink and drop into a sudden toilet (everyone was very confused)
D) Dmitri the vampire (from the SNK series) fighting Guile (from the Street Fighter series) in SVC Chaos and choosing to feed on him...but because Dmitri can only feed on women, he had to turn Guile into a woman first (everyone was like “rather ‘gay panic’ of you, sir, but Guile’s female form actually looks pretty cool”)
E) And a running gag of Mike showing clips of the unreleased weirdness of Tattoo Assassins featuring the figure-skater character doing various fatalities (such as turning a dude into the Mona Lisa, stripping off a guy’s clothes, and running someone over with a tiny DeLorean), all while Andy kept insisting she had some sort of fart-based one – and then finally ending on her pooping out a bunch of plates of what might have been roast turkey, and might have been...something else XD
Yeaaah, it was a weird video. XD But very entertaining, so I can’t complain. I’m glad these “reaction” videos are becoming a thing – they have very good reactions to stuff!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check and check, I’m happy to say –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I popped three posts into my queue for the next three days:
A) My “just realized my favorite Discworld character, Moist von Lipwig, probably at least partially inspired the personality of my Smiler Alton OC” post for Wednesday
B) That fanart by thestuffedalligator of Moist running in the golden suit out of a cloud of smoke, holding a letter, for Thursday
C) And that post by joaniam about how important Going Postal is in terms of the themes it deals with and the characters it portrays for Friday
So that’s all good – just gotta figure out the old Song Saturday now, and I am set!
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I had another entry from thecovenwars on the “Seth looking for his brother Richard” Forgotten Vows Verse thread that keeps occasionally popping up! With Richard telling Victor that “they” (the voices he hears) like to make him feel like a ghost, and Seth telling Victor that Richard hears voices and asking him not to tell anyone. I wrote up a reply featuring Victor sympathizing with Richard, saying he was sorry to hear that and it sounded unpleasant, then assuring Seth that his lips were sealed, with Alice adding that Victor knows what it’s like to live with someone who hears voices – she’s had her own fair share of bad days, after all, then stuck it in the queue for tomorrow. Easy peasy lemon squeezy! (Though it would have been easier peasier lemon squeezier if my ability to concentrate wasn’t being fucked over by the red curse...)
And that is that! And I should really head to bed, because I have to do it all again tomorrow. Except the YouTube, because I saw something on tumblr about staying off it for at least tomorrow to protest the stupid age-verification AI shit they're rolling out, so I'll have to find an alternative for that. Already have an idea regarding what I'd like to do for my workout, at least, since the DVD/BluRay player now lives down there...night all!
Anyway -- enough about the old "shark week," as my friend Squid calls it. Here's how the rest of my day went:
Work – Busy-but-not-overwhelming first day back at work, I am relieved to report – while I had a fair bit to catch up on, I lucked out in that there was only one phone call late this afternoon (lady looking for help with IRA stuff), so I was able to concentrate on what needed to get done first and get that sorted. Most of my day was accordingly spent catching up on the GLs (the Friday one taking up pretty much my entire morning as our credit card people uploaded a LOT of stuff that day), then reviewing a pledge billing QC file for our database company and answering a few questions from our main contact there. Also found the time to fix a few payments that went on wrong and take a quick look at the mail, but didn’t find the time to put on any new gifts. *shrug* Tomorrow’s project!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with “Oxventure D&D: Wyrdwood | Chapter 8: Friends & Falsehoods - Part 2 (Season Finale)!” The second chunklet of the big finale featured:
A) The gang finishing up combat against The Superior, the mysterious leader of the cult that was very clearly not human while behind her the other members of the cult prepared to sacrifice someone in a giant iron cage, which involved –
I. Lug, having activated his passive-aggressive rage, trying to smash The Superior with his hammer, because he’s a barbarian, that’s what he does – his first attack missed, but the second one hit her solidly in the ribs and sent her FLYING
II. Willowfine stabbing her with the awesome spear of light, then attempting to use Hold Person on her – unfortunately, The Superior made her saving throw, and it was declared that she couldn’t be held because she was still skidding across the ground from Lug’s blow XD
III. Morven using Toll The Dead to inflict necrotic damage on her very brain, which Johnny described as her head essentially catching on fire
IV. And Cressida ending things with a nat-20 Witchbolt, electrocuting the woman so hard that her skeleton lit up cartoon-style before all her bones shattered. O.O Most of the others were horrified; Morven gave Cressida a nod, one murder craftsman to another XD
B) The gang seeing the cultists getting ready to do their sacrifice and getting into a brief argument about whether or not they should bother saving the person – with Happen and Morven voting for getting out of dodge, as they had the amulet, and Lug insisting they should save the person. Morven decided to try and get a look at the sacrifice to see if they looked innocent –
Cue Johnny saying, in essence, “well, it’s gotten pretty dark now, so all you can really tell is she’s emitting a shimmering light.” :O Yup, guess which river spirit the cultists had and were preparing to kill! Willowfine was like “and you wanted to leave” to Happen and Morven. :p Anyway, the gang quickly set up a rescue operation, which involved –
I. Happen fired an arrow at the man preparing to spear the poor Shimmering Lady in her iron cage, reducing him to a mere 1 HP and buying them all a few precious seconds before someone else picked up the weapon
II. Morven sprinting close enough to cast Calm Emotions, heightened by her last sorcery point, making all the cultists indifferent to the Shimmering Lady (or, at least, indifferent to killing her) for two whole minutes
III. Happen distracting the cultists and getting them to come after him by illuminating himself with Faerie Fire, then he, Lug, and Willowfine bolting into the forest and splitting up to draw the cultist’s attention three ways (this was NEARLY ruined by Willowfine rolling a 1 on the Strength/Athletics roll to get past the treeline, but fortunately Lug and Happen rolled well enough to help her up without too much issue, just taking a few nicks from some thrown sickles; it was also revealed that Happen just CANNOT shout to save his life XD)
IV. Morven and Cressida, meanwhile, going invisible and getting the poor Shimmering Lady out of the iron cage! She was pretty damn grateful to be rescued, as you might expect. Morven cast Mage Armor on her to help protect her should they run into any further trouble –
Aaand, having expended all of her magic, promptly lost consciousness, allowing Robin to return to the party! He was naturally extremely confused to find himself in a strange location with a wet lady hanging off him and Cressida’s voice next to him (as, of course, Morven’s Invisibility ended the minute she swapped – fortunately, Ellen confirmed Mage Armor isn’t a concentration spell like Invisibility, so the Shimmering Lady still had that). Cressida sort of explained what was going on to him, then encouraged him to get moving so they could get out of the creepy cult headquarters, which he was only too happy to do, hoisting the probably-DEEPLY-confused Shimmering Lady over his shoulder and following Cressida’s voice out the south gate.
C) The group meeting up after Robin and Cressida managed to escape the compound with the Shimmering Lady, and the other three managing to escape pursuit (Lug semi-competently climbed a tree; Willowfine attempted to find a hiding place in nature but, on an eight, just ended up hugging a tree pretending to be lichen – a couple of cultists actually did find her, but upon seeing this, just turned and walked away XD; and Happen did the most useful thing by climbing a different tree and shooting a fire arrow at one of the thatched roofs in the compound, forcing the cultists to hurry back to put out the flames), and Happen mentioning that he was surprised Beatrice took up with that lot. The others were like “who’s Beatrice” –
Cue Happen revealing she was his fiancee. O.O For a time, anyway – as it turns out, courting in Happen’s order involves the two people who wish to marry cohabiting for a year to see if they’re well-suited. If, at the end of the year, they still wish to wed, a coin is flipped – heads, they get married; tails, they’re forbidden from ever marrying. Beatrice and Happen’s coin came up tails, and while Happen was willing to accept that, Beatrice wasn’t, and ended up leaving the order. Everyone was kind of stunned, being like “why didn’t you go with the person you loved?” Happen tried to explain he was taught to just accept these things by his order and it was all Cadence’s will, but nobody was really having it. Especially not Robin, who was like “there’s a difference between being able to throw a bucket over your house and being in love!” XD (A callback to Robin mentioning a friend of his got the ability to throw that bucket from his god, or so he said. :P) Happen was like “you really need to meet the elders of my order, they can explain it better than me, I constantly feel like I’m getting it wrong.” You know, what, Happen, I DO hope this group meets those elders, because I feel it would be quite interesting…
D) The Poor Man reappearing during this conversation, quite amused by Happen’s story – Happen handed over the amulet, which the Poor Man was VERY excited to see. Robin also put the Shimmering Lady down, as she was clearly trying to see what the hell was going on – she took one look at the Poor Man and was like “ugh.” (Lug: “Yeah, that’s how I feel whenever I see him too.”) She asked if he was still “awake inside that thing,” which he confirmed he was – Robin wondered if they’d been in love at one point too, but hadn’t been able to get married, which the Poor Man laughingly confirmed they had NOT. Cressida told the Shimmering Lady about the amulet they’d given him with the sign on it and asked if that had been a bad idea – the Shimmering Lady confirmed it wasn’t their best idea, anyway. Willowfine, however, argued that they knew the worst thing to do when dealing with the Wildfolk was to break a deal, and they’d made a deal with the Poor Man to get him that amulet, so… Robin agreed, telling them all about the time his friend apparently made a deal with the Fey that involved him giving them Robin’s shoes, which he’d been sad about, but a bargain was a bargain, so… Cressida was like “didn’t a dog steal your shoes?” and Robin explained that had been the NEXT pair. The Shimmering Lady took all this in, and was promptly like “thanks for your help, but I think I can get back to the river on my own using the tree roots.” XD Happen asked if she’d tell them how she was captured in the first place – she just said “bound in iron,” and – when he expressed his hopes it wouldn’t happen again – smiled ruefully and said that she didn’t think they’d be the last. :( Then she melted into the tree roots and headed off, back toward the river, curing the trees as she went. So, if nothing else went right, at least that went right. :)
E) The story portion of the episode ending with Cressida getting snippy with The Poor Man after confirming he probably knew North Team was already dead and had given them largely-pointless information, complaining it was an unfair bargain (the Poor Man pointed out that they’d never said anything about making a FAIR bargain, and Cressida protested that SHE was the one who was supposed to be making the unfair bargains); The Poor Man EATING the amulet and exploding in a blast of blood – only to reappear in a tree above them and declare “we’ll see each other again” before vanishing properly; Robin learning from Willowfine that the others did not get any honey during their time in the Hive, having another one of his simple dreams shattered; and the camera pulling out on the five standing around the pile of gore the Poor Man left behind...watched by a mysterious someone using a crystalline orb, who told someone else to “fetch the Inquisitors” (oh dear)…
F) And the episode itself ending with the familiar Rolling Rite – and Andy rolling below his debt number (to be fair, Morven cast a LOT of magic in the finale). Interestingly, Johnny did NOT have him take an envelope to hold onto until Season 2 – instead, he just said that he’d have something interesting planned for Robin/Morven when the new season rolled around…
So yeah – with a little last-minute post-supper finishing-up, that’s season one of Wyrdwood done, yay~ Now I have to figure out what I’m watching the rest of the week, because everything else I need to catch up on on this channel is too long to fit into the remaining three days...
2. Continue writing “The Van Dort Vacancy”: Check – with Victor having successfully ordered Slugs back to his cupboard yesterday, today’s page was all about finding the final hallway trap – a second near-invisible tripwire! Which was not in the same place as the last one (aka right in front of the door), as that would be silly. :p So, after assuring Kasimir that there were no more hulls or anything like that to be found (and apologizing for not mentioning Slugs earlier), Victor got down on his hands and knees to find it. Smiler quickly joined in the search, as did Alice after mentioning that they didn’t know how much time they had until discovery (though Smiler was able to assure her that the guards would be out for a good few hours yet); Barnaby, of course, absolutely refused, and got put on “listening out for trouble” duty by Alice instead. He was cross about it for five seconds before admitting, “yeah, I don’t really care what you think about me, I’m too rich for it to matter.” XD Kasimir, meanwhile, pulled out a smoke bomb Edvard had made them and offered it as a potential help, thinking the wire might stand out more against the smoke – Alice and Victor were pretty certain would just make the tripwire LESS visible, and Barnaby did NOT want Kasimir setting that off anywhere NEAR him, so back in Kasimir’s pocket it went. :P Next time I work on this, Alice gets to be the one to find the tripwire (as she hasn’t had much to do in the actual score yet beyond snark at Barnaby), and the gang moves onto the door – and has to deal with a final bit of protection they hadn’t even thought of...
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – I went looking for the latest list video from OXtra today, and instead found another “reaction” video from OXBox in my Recommendeds – “WEIRDEST Fighting Game Finishers | WE REACT!” Mike subjecting Ellen, Jane, and Andy to various bizarre fighting game “finishing moves,” as you might have guessed from the title – Andy, as the resident fighting game expert, was familiar with at least some of them, but there were plenty that made all of them go “huh?” XD Some highlights were:
A) The Primal Rage ape urinating acid on its opponent (Jane predicted this before it happened, and was very pleased with herself)
B) Dr. Faust from Guilty Gear performing a plastic surgery makeover on his opponent, giving them giant anime eyes (Ellen cracked up at that one)
C) A weird robot dude called Painbringer from something called Pray For Death defeating his opponent (a woman with giant spiked wings) – and then growing a cistern out of his back and pulling the chain, causing her to shrink and drop into a sudden toilet (everyone was very confused)
D) Dmitri the vampire (from the SNK series) fighting Guile (from the Street Fighter series) in SVC Chaos and choosing to feed on him...but because Dmitri can only feed on women, he had to turn Guile into a woman first (everyone was like “rather ‘gay panic’ of you, sir, but Guile’s female form actually looks pretty cool”)
E) And a running gag of Mike showing clips of the unreleased weirdness of Tattoo Assassins featuring the figure-skater character doing various fatalities (such as turning a dude into the Mona Lisa, stripping off a guy’s clothes, and running someone over with a tiny DeLorean), all while Andy kept insisting she had some sort of fart-based one – and then finally ending on her pooping out a bunch of plates of what might have been roast turkey, and might have been...something else XD
Yeaaah, it was a weird video. XD But very entertaining, so I can’t complain. I’m glad these “reaction” videos are becoming a thing – they have very good reactions to stuff!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check and check, I’m happy to say –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I popped three posts into my queue for the next three days:
A) My “just realized my favorite Discworld character, Moist von Lipwig, probably at least partially inspired the personality of my Smiler Alton OC” post for Wednesday
B) That fanart by thestuffedalligator of Moist running in the golden suit out of a cloud of smoke, holding a letter, for Thursday
C) And that post by joaniam about how important Going Postal is in terms of the themes it deals with and the characters it portrays for Friday
So that’s all good – just gotta figure out the old Song Saturday now, and I am set!
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I had another entry from thecovenwars on the “Seth looking for his brother Richard” Forgotten Vows Verse thread that keeps occasionally popping up! With Richard telling Victor that “they” (the voices he hears) like to make him feel like a ghost, and Seth telling Victor that Richard hears voices and asking him not to tell anyone. I wrote up a reply featuring Victor sympathizing with Richard, saying he was sorry to hear that and it sounded unpleasant, then assuring Seth that his lips were sealed, with Alice adding that Victor knows what it’s like to live with someone who hears voices – she’s had her own fair share of bad days, after all, then stuck it in the queue for tomorrow. Easy peasy lemon squeezy! (Though it would have been easier peasier lemon squeezier if my ability to concentrate wasn’t being fucked over by the red curse...)
And that is that! And I should really head to bed, because I have to do it all again tomorrow. Except the YouTube, because I saw something on tumblr about staying off it for at least tomorrow to protest the stupid age-verification AI shit they're rolling out, so I'll have to find an alternative for that. Already have an idea regarding what I'd like to do for my workout, at least, since the DVD/BluRay player now lives down there...night all!
