I'm on the hunt I'm on the prowl

June

Fics wrote: Distraction/Discovery Part 2
Books read: The Seven Dials Mystery
Games done: -
Podcast: Welcome To Night Vale - A Story About Him, Rerun, Mother Lauren, The Night’s End - The Ballroom, Welcome To Night Vale - Rifts, Father Kevin, Detours, Paid Programming, instructions for folding, The Triangle, The John Peters Imaginary Corn Maze Experience, The Book Of Lost Things, Traffic, Swap Meet, chrysalis, patreon preview - broadcasts from the edge, Bought To You By Flakey O’s, Into The Tardis - The Scream Of Ghosts Part 1, Part 2, part 3, part 4, Wave Of Destruction part 1, part 2
Who audios: Storm Warning, The Rani Elite, Robophobia, Ghost In The Machine
Other Big Finish stuff: -
Comics read: The Umbrella Academy Plan B 1, Exquisite Corpses 1, Rise Of Hellfire 4
Graphic novels read: High Republic Adventures - Saber For Hire

Things watched
Amazon Prime: Deadware
Blu Ray: Better Man
DVD: -
Disney+: Phineas And Ferb - Summer Blockbuster/Cloudy With A Chance Of Mom, Captain America Brave New World, American Horror Story - Dark Cousin, Unholy Night, Phineas And Ferb - Submarine Sandwich Submarine/License To Bust, Dry Another Day/Deconstructing Doof, NCIS Hawaii - The Tourist, Phineas And Ferb - Tropey McTropeface/Biblio-Blast!
Netflix: -
Shudder: Hell Motel - Blood Bath, Night Orchid, Mirror Moves
YouTube: Ghost Files - Ryan & Shane Provoke Civil War Ghosts At Clayton House, James Marriott - Something’s Wrong, Sith Lord Qimir Kills Yord Fandar, 5 Seconds Of Summer - Teeth, Hasbro pulse Star Wars fanstream, Atlas - Anodyne, Donkey Kong Bonanza Direct, The 5 Seconds Of Summer Show - 5Sauce, Ghost Files - Ryan And Shane Hunt Ghosts At The Creepy Maag Family Farmhouse, Set It Off - Rotten
Cinema: Clown In A Cornfield

So it’s time for another monthly round up and I’m doing it the first day of the month instead of… whenever I’ve done it before.

As always some of this stuff has been covered in other things. (Like my thoughts on Deadware and how much I enjoyed Clown In A Cornfield.) I finished another year of Night Vale and it was one of those ‘glad that was over’ finales, mostly cause I detest Lauren but at least she’s seemingly gone.

I’ve also been really enjoying the new Phineas and Ferb, it’s such a fun show and it makes me laugh! Which I think we all need in these trying times. I also enjoyed Saber For Hire which I read last night, despite carrying it around for months. I still need to read through the rest of the free comic book day comics though. Oops.

Most telling is I watched nothing on Netflix, which is again down to the lack of focus from the heat. One day I WILL finish Stranger Things. (And again I’d have finished Dredge’s story if it wasn’t for the heat)

There’s been a few Who audios I’ve listened to both as their own thing and as Into The Tardis eps (mostly due to the heat). So I’m gonna make comments on them

*Storm Warning - This one was really entertaining, it was nice to see how Eight and Charley met and I really liked how they worked together and the story (on an airship which was on a secret mission) was pretty cool.
*The Rani Elite - I wanted to like this, because I’d wanted to hear the Rani audios for awhile but I wasn’t fully sold on it. Six and Peri were really good though as well as some of the concepts. I hope the other Rani audio is a bit better though
*Robophobia - A solo ep for Seven with a guest companion. It having the Robots from Robots of death was a huge draw and it was pretty good in some ways but… I dunno. Maybe it’s cause I’m not much of a Seven fan.
*Ghost In The Machine - this one was really good, I loved how it played with audio (with Jo recording woah at was happening on a tape recorder and rewinding/replaying things) and it was really creepy at times. Kudos to Katy Manning and her voice work being able to play multiple characters and actually sound threatening,
*The Scream Of Ghosts - this was really entertaining! It’s another one with Jo, this time with the third doctor, Benton and the Brigadier! This was the first audio with the Brigadier with someone taking on the role and that could easily have gone badly but they made the right call with Jon Culshaw really pulling his voice off. Also who’d expect the Vardans to show up and be a threat
*Wave Of Destruction - The vardans show up again! This time with four and second Romana, which worked pretty well. My main grip was the one Vardan had a voice that was really grating but other than that it was pretty good.

Now I’m see about going on Dredge, maybe to finish the story. (And despair about politicians being idiots)

Yipee thank you Mikeyway for posting a pic of Ray! (Frank is there too but Frank pics are pretty common so)



Ahhh look at him!

*feels there’ll be Ray content in my future*

Ok that was the main reason to post but I guess I should post other things. Hmm.

I didn’t watch Saltburn on Sunday night cause my eyes went too achy (ugh) but I did watch Better Man.

I wasn’t really sure what to expect with it, I mean the concept of a Robbie Williams biopic isn’t a bad one but him being a monkey is, at first, an odd choice (Especially as his parents are humans) but once you realise it’s more a metaphor for how he sees himself it actually works. (And huge kudos to the effects team for pulling it off so well.)

What I didn’t expect was to get feels for from it. Like I legit got teary because of his grandma because damn that hit hard. And it also surprised me how… unflinching it was? Like it didn’t exactly paint him in a good light in parts but you have to admire the honesty for showing that. Plus there was some musical numbers! Though it was a lil funny that during the take that era there was a Robbie souping not one of theirs. But overall it was pretty good.

Yesterday was kinda uneventful, mostly cause, again, eyes aching which was bleh.

This morning was my last library stint and I spent the time reading Cards On The Table and the last Rise Of Hellfire comic. It is pretty good and it’s more of a character study about Eddie, so Eddie enjoys will really love it (and I loved the dnd sections). It does make me wanna finish Stranger Things though with my eyes being so achy lately…

Tonight’s plan is watch the new Hell Motel and try and poke fic brain. The ideas are there but when it comes to getting them down? It’s not been happening which is so irritating.