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It’s a return to doing song Saturday! I mean to to do this for the last few weeks but then things happened and I got sidetracked and… well, here we are.

So from the subject this is gonna be not one, not two but three things.

So first Is Dark Divine - Make Me Disappear



So here is a new fixation which is Dark Divine and I fully blame Anthony (the singer) cause look at him. I have binged a few of their vids so could probably do a post of just them but…

This is their las test song and it’s one of those cases where I prefer the song to the video. Like I adore the song and the video does have a nice aesthetic with the atmosphere (and Anthony does look hot). But it’s also a performance vid so it’s not to exciting. There is a few shots of a giant hand so the vibe is it’s controlling Anthony like a puppet but the thing is it doesn’t work cause there’s only a handful of shots (like yes I’d like to see Anthony chained like a puppet why are you denying me this)

Second song is Micheal Clifford + Waterparks - Give Me A Break



So this was described as a ‘love letter to fanfiction’ by Micheal which sounded like an odd thing but you can see what he meant. Cause it’s a girl writing different scenarios and the boys playing them out. The vibe isn’t very serious and it is funny how every scenario (a classroom, coffee shop, doctors room, bathroom) has both romantic vibes and then Awsten killing Micheal various ways

(There is captions and I really need to read through them but I get distracted by what’s happening)

It is wild and funny at the same time. You can tell they had a good time making it. (And I love Awstens line about living freaking out).

But also damn that last scene of Awsten and Micheal kissing. Which yup, that’s definitely launched a bunch of fanfic. (And I wonder how many takes they had cause they’re clearly into it) And you know what’s wild? They’ve teamed with Wattpad to do a fic contest. I am absolutely being serious

Lastly there’s James Marriott - Something’s Wrong



So partly this is here because I’m seeing him on Monday (which is a crazy sentence) but also it’s just a crazy video. Like Something’s Wrong is my fav of the new album singles and then the video is just.

When there was pics of James and Will in cowboy get up (I’ve no idea why but I love it) people called them Brokeback Brighton which is crazy. They’re rivals in this and the rivalry between them takes over James’ focus from the person he came with (girlfriend?) and it definitely felt a few times it was going to end up going from rivals to lovers. Like there’s a few shots that has the vibe of sexual tension but they don’t even kiss (missed opportunity obviously but maybe give me a break spoiled me there). But yeah the vibes are so… I love it.

Distraction/Discovery
Pairing: Anthony Martinez/Lucas Woodland
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: rubber verse, bdsm
Notes: So I intended to finish this close to the first part and then my brain decided nope, no words. So I stalled for *checks* several weeks now fuck. The intent was for this to just be two parts and I feel that this could be where it ends, yet at the same time I also feel there’s a part 3 and I’m undecided on that so… we’ll see. Maybe I’ll work on something else first

Part 1

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So it’s post time again!

The past few days have been pretty eventful, mostly cause Thursday was a big delivery which meant I had to stay in all day. The delivery was for two things. First The Acolyte visual guide that I preordered as soon as it was announced. I’m excited to dive in to it and give it a proper read (I’ve not yet sadly). I do wonder if it’ll make me wanna do a rewatch of the show, even though it only came out last year (but Yord and Qimir are so hot so…)

The second thing was the Switch 2, which I was only able to get cause mum offered to help with it. It didn’t arrive until late in the day and then setting it up took awhile (updating it, transferring stuff from the original switch, installing Mario kart) but I’ve been able to go on it some.

Thoughts so far?
*Mario Kart World is so beautiful. Like really it looks so great!
*The Cow racer is unlocked from the start, I feel this is important to share
*Other character unlocks are a bit more random. You get some for doing Grand Prix (and costumes unlocked from food) but so many of them are only unlocked by getting your racer transformed mid race which is… a choice)
*Free roam could definitely use a quest tracker
*Fortnite is noticeably improved. Like I only went on it to get the emote first day and I could see the difference just from the main screen and it plays much better too (no more dealing with things loading funny!)
*It would be nice to get demos to other games

I would like a single player game to play but I’m not sure what. I thought Donkey Kong was next week but it’s not till next month and I’m considering Civilization (cd keys has it with 20%) so I might find a review and see if it’s worth it.

And speaking of Fortnite the Star Wars season ended (boo) but the last event was so cool! You had to sneak on the Death Star and help disabled some stuff (and fight Palpatine!) which was cool. I did get everything in the pass too (I did wish it had another page or two though) though I am annoyed I just missed out on the last party up reward (at least it wasn’t Star Wars themed). Now the new season is super hero themed which is pretty cool.

Speaking of super heroes I watched Captain America Brave New World on Saturday and it was pretty good. It definitely had similar vibes to Winter Soldier, with Sam investigating a conspiracy which seems to be the vibe Cap films go, though I like that. What did surprise me is how it’s a sequel to Eternals with the celestial thing appearing at the end of that being a major plot point, and also the hulk film which is a wild choice cause it was forever ago and I think I only saw it once. But I did enjoy it and I love Joaquin so much he’s a lil cutie.

At night I watched a film called Deadware, which I spotted on Amazon prime. For the description I was instantly interested (two friends are playing an online game on video call and it turns out to be haunted). I loved the retro vibes of it and it’s very minimalistically done it’s basically a desktop screen with the game in a window with two ‘webcam’ videos. It’s a similar vibe to Host in that respect, though not as well done but it was still pretty good especially in the short found footage still shots during the game.

It’s the time of games showcases. Friday had the Summer game fest and there was a lot of stuff there but not much that stood out to me. There was a few games that had a+ designs but I could just tell I’d not have fun with them. Sonic racing did announce new characters outside of sonic including Minecraft and Hatsune Miku (I dunno which is more surprising). And there was Resident Evil 9 as a reveal at the end! It amuses me that some of Racoon city is still standing cause wasn’t it meant to be destroyed?

Then yesterday was the Xbox showcase which was pretty good though most of the ones that interested me were smaller games. There was At Fate’s End (done by the spiritfarer devs so I was instantly curious), No Ghosts At The Grand looks intruiging (and spooky) and it’s vibes very all of the place in a good way (it started with you fixing a hotel then there was sigil sand talk of a conspiracy and portals?), there’s planet of Lana II which looks pretty and a game called Keeper with a walking Lighthouse. Oh and something called Resonance with the Minotaur. (And Outer Wilds II looks pretty good and Clockwork Revolution though I feel the latter might be a game to watch not play)

There’s also a portable xbox confirmed to be coming and… it looks pretty much like a switch.mi dread to think how much it’ll be.

Energy has also been pretty all over the place, being low raptor times with my focus being off which is so irritating, especially when I wanna do things (fic has pretty much stalled despite me wanting to) and then yesterday my stomach also went funny which ugh.

Mum was on eBay the other day and found a copy of The Moustrap and we were both shocked cause it was buy it now for £2 (usually they’re £20+) so I snapped it up (with Lord Edgeware Dies) and they came this morning. Both look in such good condition and I’m still surprised by the bargain we got.

Now though I’m gonna flop, hopefully rest and do some marvel snap and magic arena (the latter has a final fantasy update tomorrow). I’m also refreshing the. Cinemas to check for next week listings glut they’re not up yet alas. The odeon in Birmingham has just one showing of one film next Monday (28 weeks later) which is crazy.

And Next week is the James signing and ahhh!

May

Fics wrote: Black Is The New Black, Distraction/Discovery part 1
Books read: The Secret Of Chimneys
Games done: Planet Of Lana,
Podcast: Magnus Protocol - Public Image, Welcome To Night Vale - Liminal Spaces, Renegotiations, Creditors, A Word With Dr Jones, Diplomacy, The Accused, Carlos Explained, patreon bonus: Holiday, Haunting Of Night Vale Excerpt, The Terminal, A Car Crash On Buellton Avenue, Citizen Spotlight: The Vampire Of Lombardi Street, The Boy, Patreon Preview: Behind the scenes (September 2023), Book Club, Truck Touchers, Frown Night, The Big Dig, Sister Cities: Vermillion Falls, He Is Holding A Knife, bonus episode preview - Riddle Guy, He Is Still Holding A Knife, The New Branch, Lost And Found, A Multiplicity Of Kevin, Fridge-worthy
Who audios: Empire Of The Racnoss, The Carrionite Curse, Day Of The Vashta Nerada, The Chimes Of Midnight
Other big finish stuff: -
Comics read: FCBD 2025 - Star Wars,
Graphic novels read: -

Things watched
Amazon Prime: The Quatermass Experiment (1956)
Blu Ray: -
DVD: -
Disney+: Andor - Ever Been To Ghorman?, I Have Friends Everywhere, What A Festive Evening, Tales Of The Underworld - A Way Forward, Friends, One Warrior To Another, Andor - Messenger, Who Are You?, Welcome To The Rebellion, Death And Other Details - Rare, Tales Of The Underworld - The Good Life, A Good Turn, One Good Deed, NCIS Hawaii - Pilot, Boom, Recruiter, Paniolo, Andor - Make It Stop, Who Else Knows?, Jedha Kyber Erso, Rogue One, NCIS Hawaii - Gaijin,
Netflix: Residence - The Third Man, The Adventure Of The Engineer’s Thumb, The Mystery Of The Yellow Room, Star Trek Prodigy - Time Amok, Stranger Things - Papa
Shudder: Horror’s Greatest - Stephen King Adaptions
YouTube: Hasbro - Star Wars day fanstream, Mystery Files - The Vampiric Attacks of the beast of bladenboro, Ghost Files - We Make Contact With A Child Ghost At The Basin Park Hotel, Brymir - Voices In The Sky, Micheal Clifford - Give Me A Break, Dark Divine - Make Me Disappear, I Prevail - Violent Nature, 5 seconds of summer - Easier, Rock Sound - Funeral For A Friend Download 2024, Dark Divine - Drown, Cold, Paper Crown, Burn The Witch, Digital Numb (visualiser), Your Ghost, Halloweentown, Run Away, Circles, The Fear, Dancing Dead, No Escape, Paul Bartolome - Evil, Pintglass, 13 Reasons Why 2 - Zack and Alex battle
Cinema: Thunderbolts*, Sinners

It’s that time again, time for another monthly round up.

May felt like a weird month cause in some ways it was busy and some ways it wasn’t.

I got back into Night Valr in a big way, listening to a lot of it and it’s really funny how the end bits with Meg have gone, like you can hear the moment twitter started to get worse when it’s mentioned. The next eps I fear may end up being stalled though cause ugh Lauren is back. Bu the Vermillion Falls ep was really good I hope we hear from that place again.

Also there was the last eps of Andor and, again, it was honestly some of the best stuff I’ve seen. I definitely recommend it, even if you don’t know much Star Wars because it was just… so good.

As was The Residence albeit the tone of that is the other end of the scale. I feel those will be the best two series I’ll see this year. i also finally got back to Stranger Things so now there’s just the finale which I keep putting back cause my energy and eyes get so achy it’s annoying.

That lack of energy/eyes aching also meant I didn’t finish the last of the Who ray special features so I could disc switch to other things. There’s like 3 things left but they’re all over an hour.

Once again with Free Comic Book Day I intend to read all of them and only magnate one which sucks. Hopefully I can take a day and just do a read through. (I did find past comic book day issues too which I’ve also not read oop). Same with graphic novels, I intend to read the one I picked up but nope.

I feel that’s the main things I wanna mention though, but obvious there’s a lot of other stuff I’ve done and not mentioned (like binge watching the Dark Divine videos one morning when I woke early from the weather).

Plans for stuff this month
*Finish at least one fic
*Finish Stranger Things
*Start Wednesday
*Finally get back to American Horror Story
*Finish Who ray special features
*Watch one of the Arrow blu rays, possibly Lifeforce

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Other things! Coheed And Cambria have announced a tour, a few days before my birthday so I’m considering trying to go and then I checked the tickets on the presale and… damn. Why’re they £45? I hate how tickets are so much now. Hopefully they won’t sell out before I can get one.

I had an email saying there’s a follow-up to I Want That Twink Obliterated titled Wrath month so I might back that kickstarter, despite not reading that cause I’m a fail. I know someone had got Obliterated that’s here but I’m hopeless and can’t recall who.

Odeon has Clown In A Cornfield from Friday but damn. It’s release week just has onemlate night showing so I doubt it’ll be there when I’m in Birmingham like I hoped. Damnit.

The router lead has been a real pain today, cutting out for most of the morning which has been so irritating, the replacement should hopefully arrive tomorrow and I’ll be glad for that.

Now though gonna sort noms, then hopefully fic and watch stuff. Maybe I’ll watch something tonight but again, it depends on energy and my eyes (the sooner I get an eye test notification the better). And then tomorrow it’s waiting on mail.