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Spooky season day 3: dreamlight valley star path, VHS Halloween (thoughts here

Friday’s main spooky thing was VHS Halloween, but there was also a new Star Path on Dreamlight Valley. It’s for Halloween so I’m counting it and this one’s Witchful Thinking. As the name implies it’s mostly witchy stuff, drawing inspiration from Hocus Pocus. None of the tasks so far are especially spooky but since the stuff is I’m counting it.

Spooky season day 4: Ghost Files, Sheeple Chase, Doctor Who Audio Forty Five

Saturday was mostly a lazy day watching Murder she wrote and spooky stuff only really came in later. I guess you could count Nine Bodies In A Mexican Morgue (cause someone else did die under suspicious circumstances). I’m still not sure who it is, but I knew the one guy’s luggage was going to be his luchador fit and that’s why he was so protective. I am wondering if it might pull a double bluff. The assume is that the one body not in said morgue is the killer right? But what if it’s not? It could be that the killer is one of the bodies, beaten by one of the others who flees into the jungle. (But that’s just a theory)

More definitely spooky was new ghost files, not that anything spooky happened in this one still it was. A nice location. Less definitely spooky was Sheeple Chase, which is a spin off from Magnus Archives about conspiracy theories, with this ep being about dead singer replacements.

Lastly was a Doctor audio. Forty Five, like Demons Of Red Lodge, is a set of four one part stories and I listened to the first. I did enjoy it, though it was A Lot happening. But it was set in Egypt and had Benedict Cumberbatch doing a voice (the tardis wiki says during a lunch break recording he auditioned for Sherlock which is crazy)

None spooky stuff yesterday, my Black Series Qimir came! He was due to come on my birthday, then when I checked my money a few days ago I saw the money for him had been taken out so I knew he was coming early. And ahh he looks so cool! I’m so glad that they did him and it feels like they went all out. He has a poncho, soft goods for his robes, his lightsaber and the lil one, plus two heads. (Which makes me tempted to get another so I can display him with his helmet on and off but I doubt I will) I need to take pics of him and with Yord.

Also there was Strictly and I love La Voix and Alex, but damn George’s dance was my fav (and his fit!). And thank fuck Tom was the one to leave tonight, I bet everyone was glad he was in the bottom two.

Today I watched High Potential to catch up and damn it’s such a great show Morgan is so awesome. Then I watched a Futurama ep which was fun and a lil silly, with people floating into the sky.

Then I watched Wednesday since Dnd got postponed. This was the camping trip ep and was pretty good though it did have Morticia and Gomez in it together and I just… do not buy the romance there at all. It’s really bizarre. I am curious how the mystery of the season is gonna pan out and I love Eugene and Pugsley together. (And Thing! Lego have done a set of the apartment Enid made and it’s so cute)

Tonight I put on A Haunting In Venice cause I’d not seen it since I saw in the cinema. Mum drifted off as I suspected, but I still think it’s the best of the Branagh Poirot films. Like I’m still not sold on him as Poirot but at least with this one it’s somewhere different and I love the haunted house setting. It is meant to be an adaption of Halloween Party but I feel like it’s one of those adaptions that uses character names and little else (I mean it’s set in Venice instead of England for some reason?) but I still love the whole spooky vibe it has going for it. Plus I do like Tina Frey’s Ariadne, it’s a shame she probably won’t be in another cause I liked how they worked together.

And so another week ends. Next week is a little hazy on plans, with Monday being the only concrete day. Mum’s friend is coming in the morning (alas, which means I can’t start uni reading until Tuesday) and in the late afternoon/night is the cinema trip (for Him and the mystery film).

On Tuesday I’ll firm up what my plans are because there’s three things.
*There’s seeing The Long Walk (which may be Wednesday or Thursday)
*There’s a store opening in Birmingham on Friday so I’m thinking of going (they’re giving out goodie bags which I’m curious about cause the store has Sanrio and Pokémon stuff). If I do this I wouldn’t stay in Birmingham long, basically looking in the Lego store at new stuff, popping in hmv and Forbidden Planets, then heading to town to the cinema (for Tron Ares and maybe something else)
*Saturday (and Sunday) is the Birmingham Horror Film Festival. I’m feeling I won’t go to it though. If it was in Birmingham itself I might have but as it’s a second train away I’m doubting it’s worth it. Plus it’d be a long day, there’s no guarantee of their being good food and it might just be A Lot in general. (Can you tell I did a pro/con list?) If someone I’d wanna see is announced I might change my mind but that feels doubtful.

Other than that, it’s starting uni, seeing what’s in prime day (hoping for a micro sad, or some other stuff), poke my fic brain and maybe watch K Pop Demon Hunters finally. (I blame strictly and Fortnite) plus getting back to Hades II. We’ll see if I do any of that though.

Spooky season day 2: Curse Of Frankenstein, Pokémon Stream - Chills And Thrills

So in the last post I covered Curse Of Frankenstein so I’m not gonna do that again. But after the post I watched the Pokémon stream. On Tuesdays and Thursdays they stream Pokémon the series and lately Thursdays have been Johto (aka Gold and Silver) and I’ve been enjoying that cause that’s roughly as far as I saw in the original run.

However instead last night they posted a theme night, ‘Chills and Thrills’. In reality that just meant a bunch of episodes with ghost Pokémon. Only a handful were genuinely spooky, with a bunch of them about Ash’s battle with a ghost gym leader. As such it felt a bit odd, especially since some of them had ghost Pokémon just for one or two scenes.

Today has been a lazy day really. We’d heard a we were gonna get some of a storm and, sure enough, that happened today. So it’s been mostly bundled up, getting Midna cuddles and doing Fortnite, since there’s a bunch of new quests.

Though of course Leia decided to go out in the storm and so we had to chase her around the house to dry her which was… a lot.

I also went down a rabbit hole and now I wanna hunt down a film called Wildhood. I’m gonna track the blu ray down once money goes in cause I wanna see the hot guy from The Long Walk make out with a guy (and maybe more).

But then tonight was also the new VHS, VHS Halloween. Thoughts are under the cut (along with triggers at the start.)

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Now it’s almost 4 oop. Tomorrow I’m gonna be watching Murder She Wrote, Strictly and Nine Bodies In Th Mexican Morgue. I’m not sure what tomorrow’s spooky thing might be. Maybe it’ll be something lighter, or just reading the Fantastic Four comic.

It’s time!

Spooky month is here! Rejoice! (Along with dozens of -tober month things, why is October the month for those?)

This spooky season I’ll be posting what I do spooky season.

Day 1: Welcome To Night Vale - Date Night, Fall Guys done Fall-o-ween Frights, ESO

First there was the new Welcome To Night Vale which, despite the name was spooky via the presence of the citizen eating town founder crashing the date night. As usually it was a fun ep (I giggled at the ai comments) and it was funny that though they did puzzle the founder so much was happening they didn’t know what it was. Also the restaurant was a mix of cute (awww bee petting!) and horrific.

Fall Guys had two Halloween events start and I completely the first one, which had rewards including a costume that looked like a robot jack o lantern. Elder Scrolls Online was more obviously spooky, with a quest to pet daedric princes causing trouble. (I’m also way behind on ESO cause this was an Apocrypha quest and there’s since been two story areas since then).

I did consider watching a treehouse of horror ep, but Disney+ didn’t have the Halloween section up and I didn’t have focus.

At the end of the last post I mentioned there not being Frankenstein dates, well today I checked the cinema site and there is some! Strangely Netflix said it would be one day only, on the 17th. However my cinema has at least a week of showings! So from the 24th-30th(at least!) and what’s more there’s not one but three showings per day! I was so worried I’d miss it on the 17th so that’s much better. My thought is to see it on the Wednesday, cause that’s when the Halloween art event at the art gallery is.

Speaking of cinema today was a cinema day. I had hoped to go see two things (my plan was to see The Roses) but my stomach had felt funny last night and so I didn’t feel like seeing it. Thankfully my stomach was ok today so I did go.

Before I did I had a delivery of t-shirts from qwertee, a silksong and an alien earth one. (And yesterday my tubbo cargo pants came!) And mum did some messing today in her room and found loads of things I’d been missing, including the Ranboo tee I won, the Hellfire Club tee I got and the Sorry Boys Book Club tee which I never wore before it was squirrelled away.

In town I picked up the new fantastic 4 comic, then some Halloween bunting and hello kitty Halloween tattoo things then went to the cinema. The Black Phone 2 display was set up and looked cool, plus I had a compliment from the guy that scanned my ticket for my Silksong tee which was nice.

The trailers were a strange mix. There was Corpse Bride and Paranorman, which are both getting seasonal re-releases. Then there was one for Battleship Potemkin (cause they’re getting silent film re-releases, this one with a musical score) and lastly was I Swear. This was the strangest choice to me. Cause the film was rated 12A the trailer was cut to hell to remove the swearing which just made it play out so oddly.

Curse Of Frankenstein was in one of the back screens, it might even have been the same one as Jaws, so it was one of the smaller screening rooms. There was a quite a few people there though which was nice.

I had been wanting to watch more Hammer Horror films since seeing a documentary on sky arts about it awhile back so I’m glad that the cinema had this one since it was so well done. It did surprise me a bit that most of it was focussed on Victor’s experiments, including reviving a dog (where did it go?) and then getting body parts. (Which, again, surprised me that it was 12A) And the creature only appearing in the last third (ish) of the film.

(It also makes me wonder if this is the film that put in the public imagination that the creature is a mindless lumbering monster. Hopefully the new film dispels that a bit)

I was surprised that Frankenstein’s mentor survived honestly. A few times it felt like Frankenstein would kill him but he didn’t. It did feel a little strange that Frankenstein went from reviving the dog to… make a man, like it felt he was making a leap there between the two instead of just taking the win. But like I said it was all well done and the vibes were pretty great. It probably wasn’t a faithful adaption but what it was still done well. (Apparently it had a limited budget which meant it was filmed largely in one location and they did use it so well despite that)

(It does feel a bit that words have failed me alas)

Next cinema trip is Monday which is gonna be Him and the mystery film. I’m 70% sure it’s Black Phone 2, 30% sure it’s Good Boy. Either is a good option, as it would be an earlier showing than the other Good Boy ones and I am wanting to see Black Phone 2.

Now though I’m gonna snuggle with Midna and watch the Pokémon stream jn a bit.

September

Fics wrote: -
Books read: -
Games done: Donkey Kong Bananza
Podcast: Welcome To Night Vale - Horror Recs, The Magnus Protocol - Deep Trouble, Unlicensed - Bought To You By Frendi, Welcome To Night Vale - The HOA, Unlicensed - Castles In The Air, $780000, The Hands Of The Farmer, Mother Hawk, Coach’s Orders, What To Bring Into A Fire Zone, Dig Your Own Well
Who audios: Jago And Litefoot - The Spirit Trap, The Similarity Engine, Demons Of Red Lodge - The Demons Of Red Lodge, The Entropy Composition, Doing Time, Special Features
Other Big Finish stuff:-
Comics read: Fantastic Four 3
Graphic novels read: -

Things watched
Amazon Prime: Buzzfeed Unsolved - The Mysterious Death Of The Somerton Man/the Horrifying Unsiolved Slaughter At Hinterkaifeck farm
Blu Ray: The Savages
DVD: -
Disney+: Alien Earth - In Space No One…, Futurama - Destroy Tall Monsters, The World Is Hot Enough, High Potential - Pawns, Futurama - Fifty Shades Of Green, Rebuild The Galaxy Pieces Of The Past - Part 1, Part 2, part 3, part 4, Futurama - The Numberland Gap, Alien Earth - The Fly, Emergence, Futurama - Scared Screenless, High Potential - Checkmate, Alien Earth - The Real Monsters
Netflix: Wednesday - If You Don’t Woe Me By Now, A Murder Of Woes, The Conjuring, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, Wednesday - Here We Woe Again, The Devil You Woe
Shudder: Hell Motel - Cat And Mouse, Grand Guignol, House On Eden
YouTube: Mystery Files - The Strange Case Of The Blue Family In Kentucky, Is Bigfoot real?, Honey Don’t trailer, Pokémon - My Friend Malamar, Mystery Files - The Outrageous Plot To Steal The Millenium Star Diamond, Nintendo Direct, Ghost Files - We Go Ghost Hunting With A Psychic, The Mandalorian and Grogu Trailer, Mystery Files -The Disturbing Disappearance Of The Princes In The Tower, Ghost Files Debrief - Shane Argues With A Ghost
Cinema: Honey Don’t, Jaws, The Bad Guys 2, Thunderbirds

I had hoped to do some ficcing and had started things, but again, completely stalled. And my focus has been too off to read anything either.

On the plus side watching stuff has gone better. I largely enjoyed Alien Earth and what I’ve seen of Futurama and Wednesday so far. Plus, yay! Finishing Hell Motel!

The cinema only had two trips, but I did love Honey Don’t so much (as well as Bad Guys2/Thunderbirds).

Also in audios I finished some pretty good stuff (I loved Demons Of Red Lodges mix of one episode stuff, which were all pretty good) and I finished Unlicensed. It’s by the guys that do Night Vale, but it is very different, being much more grounded and about two private detectives, but it was really great.

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As you can see I didn’t watch Stranger Things as planned Monday, cause mum decided to wake me up by being bitchy (which, of course, she denies), then I spent yesterday in bed with a bad head/achy eyes. So neither was ideal and it’s kinda stalled my week and plans for today.

Tomorrow is a coin flip. It largely depends how I feel when I wake up. If I feel too headachey/woozy I’ll stay home. If not I’ll go to the cinema to see Curse Of Frankenstein. (And speaking of the new Frankenstein trailer looks so good I hope the cinema gets it!)