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Aug. 10th, 2025 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missizzyIt seems the number of things that are out of stock on the Giant website are on the increase. We managed to deal with it this weekend without my having to make another run to Wegmans, but that's likely only going to get worse with the tariffs coming in. (I think. We don't really order anything from Giant that isn't from the U.S., but I'm still not quite sure how those things work...)
With this weekend still being cooler than next week is going to be, I also made a run to the local small bookshop yesterday and finally got myself a copy of Tusk Love. I found it among the books recommended by the staff, complete with an assurance you don't have to have seen Critical Role to enjoy it. It still feels like this piece of defictionalization has escaped containment with how successful it's been.
I also played a lot of Sims 4 this weekend. I got Cassandra Goth married to Travis Scott, and the stress of real life weddings is certainly reflected in how difficult it can be to get a wedding ceremony to work remotely the way it's supposed to in that game. I left off today having successfully pulled off the ceremony activities, but there's no timer and it's not ending and I'm now thinking I'm going to have a real problem whenever I resume.
With this weekend still being cooler than next week is going to be, I also made a run to the local small bookshop yesterday and finally got myself a copy of Tusk Love. I found it among the books recommended by the staff, complete with an assurance you don't have to have seen Critical Role to enjoy it. It still feels like this piece of defictionalization has escaped containment with how successful it's been.
I also played a lot of Sims 4 this weekend. I got Cassandra Goth married to Travis Scott, and the stress of real life weddings is certainly reflected in how difficult it can be to get a wedding ceremony to work remotely the way it's supposed to in that game. I left off today having successfully pulled off the ceremony activities, but there's no timer and it's not ending and I'm now thinking I'm going to have a real problem whenever I resume.
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Aug. 6th, 2025 05:04 pmgwynI don't think I've mentioned before (well, because I never post, so how could I have) that I'm going to WorldCon this month, because it's in Seattle and I figure this is the only chance I'd ever have to do that. I don't have any particular interest in the Hugos or things like that, but I've been going to SF cons since attending my first Norwescon back in 1983, I think, although that definitely tapered off after I discovered what we used to define as "media fandom" back in the day. It was a way to separate SF cons, which were primarily literature based in the olden dayes, from the kind of fandom as we know it now, which encompasses a much wider array of stuff, especially TV/movies. I'm so old, I remember the sneering way the gatekeeper wannabes talked about people who were at cons for Star Wars and Trek or even Road Warrior or whatever. Kind of ridiculous, when you think about it.
ANYway, I'm actually pretty nervous about it. I'm only going on Friday and Saturday, and of course it looks like a lot of the panels I want to see are in the late afternoon/evening (especiallywickedwords ' fanfic panels). So that means I'll be basically without any place to rest or relax (I don't know, maybe they'll be better than Emerald City Comic Con, but there was literally no place to sit and rest if you were less than perfectly abled, or even sit and eat most of the time, and there will be a couple thousand more people at WorldCon than ECCC) except on a floor or what have you, and since I live here, I'm just going to take a lyft in or maybe the water taxi. And my fatigue has been through the roof lately; I've been trying a new drug and it's making things actually worse, plus this month is turning out to be just bananas crowded for me. I just need time to regroup but there isn't any.
I thought about getting a hotel nearby, but I'm not sure it'd be much better; when I hurt, I hurt. The room blocks are all sold out, too, so anything would be pretty pricey, plus I'd have to wait to check in, and then check out, when I'd be doing con stuff, so it seems fairly pointless.
I do wish I could go to some of the other days' events, sincemarthawells is the GoH this year, but, well, cancer always has other ideas. WorldCon does seem kind of different in that they don't frontload all their best stuff on Fridays and Saturdays; it's a long con, and I would love to go to a couple other days, but that's not in the cards. I also wish so much I could go to nighttime events, especially because I love masquerade contests, but I know my limitations. I will have to look into whether having a day pass for Friday will allow me to see the streaming masquerade event...
I'm hoping to seemecurtin, and I think a few other fellow fans here on DW are going, so if you might want to meet up at some point (I honestly don't know what to expect about going through reg on Friday, I had a horrendous experience with Sakura Con years ago, where I was trapped in line for six fucking hours and it left my body broken in a way I've never recovered from, but WorldCon does have an accessible line so fingers crossed), I would love to see people, just because I'm afraid of being lonesome--and also, being able to see people will help with the stamina part, I think. And of course, if you want someone to roam the dealer's room, I will definitely be looking to do that.
ANYway, I'm actually pretty nervous about it. I'm only going on Friday and Saturday, and of course it looks like a lot of the panels I want to see are in the late afternoon/evening (especially
wickedwords ' fanfic panels). So that means I'll be basically without any place to rest or relax (I don't know, maybe they'll be better than Emerald City Comic Con, but there was literally no place to sit and rest if you were less than perfectly abled, or even sit and eat most of the time, and there will be a couple thousand more people at WorldCon than ECCC) except on a floor or what have you, and since I live here, I'm just going to take a lyft in or maybe the water taxi. And my fatigue has been through the roof lately; I've been trying a new drug and it's making things actually worse, plus this month is turning out to be just bananas crowded for me. I just need time to regroup but there isn't any.I thought about getting a hotel nearby, but I'm not sure it'd be much better; when I hurt, I hurt. The room blocks are all sold out, too, so anything would be pretty pricey, plus I'd have to wait to check in, and then check out, when I'd be doing con stuff, so it seems fairly pointless.
I do wish I could go to some of the other days' events, since
marthawells is the GoH this year, but, well, cancer always has other ideas. WorldCon does seem kind of different in that they don't frontload all their best stuff on Fridays and Saturdays; it's a long con, and I would love to go to a couple other days, but that's not in the cards. I also wish so much I could go to nighttime events, especially because I love masquerade contests, but I know my limitations. I will have to look into whether having a day pass for Friday will allow me to see the streaming masquerade event...I'm hoping to see
mecurtin, and I think a few other fellow fans here on DW are going, so if you might want to meet up at some point (I honestly don't know what to expect about going through reg on Friday, I had a horrendous experience with Sakura Con years ago, where I was trapped in line for six fucking hours and it left my body broken in a way I've never recovered from, but WorldCon does have an accessible line so fingers crossed), I would love to see people, just because I'm afraid of being lonesome--and also, being able to see people will help with the stamina part, I think. And of course, if you want someone to roam the dealer's room, I will definitely be looking to do that.
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Aug. 3rd, 2025 04:28 pmmissizzyI think when I go to the movies from here on in will largely be determined by when the temperature outside is okay for a walk. Also when I end up needing to get something from the Wegman's nearby. Both were the case today, and so I went to see Fantastic Four. It was very much a standard Marvel movie, but it was a pretty well-done one, with a quartet of characters at the center with the kind of endearing family dynamic we all spent years wanting the Avengers to have, and Pedro Pascal carrying a significant part of it by the strength of his performance. I had also heard Michael Giachinno talk about scoring it a little in San Diego (the composers panel was in the Indigo Ballroom right before the Critical Role one), so I paid special attention to that, and it kind of carried it as well.
Unfortunately, I think seeing it on the Hoffman's so-called IMAX screen (not a real IMAX screen; it's just a bigger screen than usual) left me with headache. It's been throbbing on and off since the credits started rolling.
Unfortunately, I think seeing it on the Hoffman's so-called IMAX screen (not a real IMAX screen; it's just a bigger screen than usual) left me with headache. It's been throbbing on and off since the credits started rolling.
Woah
Aug. 2nd, 2025 08:00 pmmissizzySo, having learned about the existence of a Weird Kids playlist on Spotify earlier this week, I decided it was time I went back to my old hobby of recreating Critical Role's playlists on YouTube, for those that prefer to watch them there. I went through all the old ones and put back in all the songs that had been deleted and then put back on YouTube since last I checked for them, put together the new playlist as well, and then made a masterlist post on Tumblr linking to all of them. I finished in time to watch the backstage stream, but I admit by the time I went to dinner, I'd forgotten about the big announcement supposedly happening, until the Beacon notification popped up on my mobile devices. Although I ended up watching the announcement on YouTube, since of course Beacon was not loading at that moment...
I honestly didn't even think they were going to announce Campagin 4, let alone that they were going to do everything they did with it. I think we all figured that if there was a major change, it was going to be them switching to Daggerheart. But to do what they're doing instead, to have Brennan Lee Mulligan running the game, set in a completely different world, with other changes to the cast...this is more than a new campaign. This is them being a completely different show than what they've been.
And I don't think that's a bad thing. Watching the end of the campaign three, I think it must be admitted that things were getting a little stagnant, and weaker in many ways, even as the sheer scale of the ending would've made it hard to top if they'd tried another full campaign in Exandria. It might be better to leave that world to the side-shows and one-shots (and the animation) at least for a little while. Hopefully the quality and feeling of play around the table will remain intact, because that still remains their greatest strength. Also, by having Brennan Lee Mulligan with his unabashed leftism running things, in this day and age, that's also taking a position, and maybe one they need to take.
The backstage video got me really looking forward to seeing the one-shot as well. Though I'll have to wait until it hits Beacon for that.
I honestly didn't even think they were going to announce Campagin 4, let alone that they were going to do everything they did with it. I think we all figured that if there was a major change, it was going to be them switching to Daggerheart. But to do what they're doing instead, to have Brennan Lee Mulligan running the game, set in a completely different world, with other changes to the cast...this is more than a new campaign. This is them being a completely different show than what they've been.
And I don't think that's a bad thing. Watching the end of the campaign three, I think it must be admitted that things were getting a little stagnant, and weaker in many ways, even as the sheer scale of the ending would've made it hard to top if they'd tried another full campaign in Exandria. It might be better to leave that world to the side-shows and one-shots (and the animation) at least for a little while. Hopefully the quality and feeling of play around the table will remain intact, because that still remains their greatest strength. Also, by having Brennan Lee Mulligan with his unabashed leftism running things, in this day and age, that's also taking a position, and maybe one they need to take.
The backstage video got me really looking forward to seeing the one-shot as well. Though I'll have to wait until it hits Beacon for that.