Author: Jean Cabot

World of Warcraft

Realized I had enough misc. Darkmoon tickets on various characters to acquire the Noble(wo)man cosmetic set from Darkmoon Faire.

I learned something important while doing this – while the time for a cosmetic set’s ‘sell back’ cooldown is now real time, not game time, you need to log back into the character holding the cosmetic set once the trade-in has expired before it’ll be added to your transmog options. Had a bit of a startle there!

I dressed up my guild bank toon, Keeton, as he is a mage of leisure these days:

World of Warcraft character in the Darkmoon Nobleman cosmetic set facing the camera
Iiiit’s Keeton! Isn’t he handsome?
World of Warcraft character in the Darkmoon Nobleman cosmetic set facing the camera
It’s Keeton from the side!

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 15a and 15b

15a: Mind Meld

A classic plot of ‘smart character makes other characters smart, regrets it and changes them back’ which was very by the numbers except the brothers weren’t actually doing anything except ignoring Donatello that required them to be turned back and the macguffin was that they were rescuing stolen equipment from the Purple Dragons to… keep for themselves. Ah, the fucking around levels are off the chart in this series. I appreciated these aspects of the episode, but otherwise I think I was more focused on the apple I was eating. Which is a shame because you’d think I’d be more excited about a Donatello episode. I DID like how he kept complimenting everything they were doing instead of them being destructive forces while he was freaking out.

15b: Nothing But Truffle

Todd is confirmed as capybara. Mikey episode. Meat Sweats episode. …were-tree episode?

“You ditched me? I thought you were kidnapped!”

Todd gave me the creeps previously but he was really funny in this episode. And I’m really enjoying a TMNT where I don’t keep going ‘ugh’ at Mikey’s very existence*.

 

*I don’t like wacky/zany characters. I used to like them well enough, but Pinkie Pie was so awful she retroactively poisoned me on the character type. I can’t even look at Wakko Warner now. And I think I’d use a shoe on the other Pinky.

Planet Zoo Session 3

Turns out the solution to my problem with the keepers was ‘turn it off and on again’ which meant it was fixed when I turned the game back on the other night. Yaaay. Also turns out the ‘hard shelter’ was NOT the size of the exhibit but actual shelters which for some reason didn’t show up the first time I searched for what the tortoise needed in its exhibit but appeared the next time I looked?

Well I guess the point s my tortoises keep fucking like maniacs and I have so many tortoises now. So it’s good I expanded the exhibit anyway!

I also added two sets of wolves, timber and arctic. For some reason TWO of my timber wolves arrived injured! Someone is targeting my wolves.

I found out other players could come visit my zoo. I hope they liked my bear exhibit, aka ‘the one that looks good’.

I released my first aardvark to the wild, thus preserving the species for generations to come. No, don’t thank me, I do it because it’s the right thing.

I found out there’s more than one species of tortoise so I think when I finally begin my file name ‘baby’s second zoo’, I’ll make an all terrapin zoo. Party city. Party city.

Next thing I need to do: Fix the fence at the arctic wolves habitat, as I accidentally put the one-sided side of the mirror on… the wrong side.

World of Warcraft – Maldraxxus and Makeovers

Well, it’s uhhh some time into the new expansion and I took a little break early on to have a teensy weensy nervous breakdown about other unrelated stuff and so I’m finally starting actively playing again besides the two hours I do each week with my guild where we fuck around in old content (Currently doing Draenor’s Shadowmoon Valley! WHERE ARE THE SPOREGGONS?) and it’s interesting! It’s hard on my eyes, unlike Bastion, everything in Maldraxxus is basically kinda the same colour and I keep being surprised when there’s another npc there that I just couldn’t see before.

The voice actors for the House of Plagues is great, by the way. And I love the design of their Margrave. And I got a cute lil’ plagueborn slime pet for helping this nice zombie who thinks I’m his apprentice and I’m sure that isn’t a sign of something to come.

There’s a chest near the questing area and I can’t figure out how to get to it (Plaguefallen Chest) and it SEEMED like I climb the giant spinal cord? Anyway after two tries I said ‘not today, Satan’ and went to go kill a lich which is concrete action.

I ended the night on collecting images of the makeovers of my dwarf rogue Hildsgarde and my human paladin Pennielope.

World of Warcraft dwarf rogue poses for the camera with a floating ghost skull behind her
The skull behind Hildsgarde is named Malcolm: She says he’s the spirit of her first kill who torments her for her crimes but that’s just to sound goth. Actually she was fucking around in a cave practicing her sweet backflips and one-liners and she tripped over a skeleton that was haunted and now the angry ghost follows her around

 

World of Warcraft human paladin stands in class hall
This is Pennielope Tillerman aka Pennie the Pally! She’s the granddaughter of my mage Grizellia Tillerman and started out as the squire in the Wrath of the Lich King content. Now she is tol. She’d be a Kul Tiran if they’d been able to be rolled as paladins! But they weren’t. So she remains regular flavour. But I think of her as taller and beefier.

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Episode 14a and 14b

So before I started watching this (the other actually, all of today’s posts are a bit behind) I went to look up what the majority of the fic for the fandom was on Ao3 because I was curious and I will break it down for you:

30% Reader fic

30% ‘People who ship the turtles do not interact with this/TCEST DNI’ mixed with actual physical threats*

30% Leonardo/Donatello

10% ‘Oh hey this is about April, neat!’

Okay, onto the episodes:

14a Late Fee:

They seem to be moving from Shredder being the worst parent except for the fact that just him offering a hug made those turtles move heaven and earth to accomplish their goal. A lot of the humour comes from also knowing how dvd rental actually works, re: their final goal. The wizard was weird.

14b Bullhop:

CANADA CANADA CANADA CANADA.

The rest was fine. Mikey is a gem.

“Good news, guys! I totally punted!” – Leo

 

 

*Please stop being weird, fandom. It’s just fic. Don’t threaten people.

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates – Fingers

This started out a little unexpectedly with a chopped off finger being sent to someone’s parents. On the other hand, the one preceding this involved an hour long torture of some poor hard of hearing dude so. You know.

I did have a moment of ‘oh great, Italy and a mafia plot’ but there was a TWEEST and an entire scene with that europop stuff pumping in the background and enjoyable graffiti bits and well, overall it was a good episode.

I could have done without Robert comforting a stressed out person with ‘well, keep your pecker up!’

The hair on the victim’s sister was gorgeous:

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates screencap of the character Gianetta showing off her hair
I mean look at Gianetta’s hair. Damn. DAMN.

Music! Bastille, P!nk, Paramore, plus more Flight Rising

I don’t listen to a lot of music deliberately because I like to focus on it and that means that I can’t be doing a lot of other tasks, but I was doing some grinding in Flight Rising for Strange Chests, I thought ‘hey! I could do it to albums!’ so musical time came. Also, I had 30 chests to sell in the end.

All right.

Bastille – Bad Blood

I like Bastille. They sound pleasant and there’s a bit of pretentiousness in the lyrics that appeal to me in a ‘oh that’s clever!’ way. I particularly like Pompeii, Icarus, and Things We Lost In The Fire.

Paramore – After Laughter

It was pleasant enough to listen to, but I couldn’t tell you a single lyric from this album except the fake happy one and that one song kept ending its lyrics before the last word of the sentence which drove me nuts. But overall a good album for grinding in a videogame!

P!nk – The Truth About Love

This was FULL of bops. God, she’s got a pair of pipes on her. Tons of good songs on here. I have no particular favourite but I would happily listen to this whole album again.

P!nk – Hurts 2b Human

Again taken away by how powerful a singer she is, but at this album I started developing bystander anxiety over the constant relationship issues. She seemed to be in a permanent breakup/fretting about the relationships in the songs and I have no idea if that comes from real life but after a while all that started to kind of bleed into my own brain. I would probably not listen to this one again.

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: “The Evil League of Mutants”

The plot episode I was expecting! Baron Draxum sings! Things move forward! We find out what the big deal about Lou Jitsu is (mostly), and the turtles give Splinter a big speech about how he’s their father which was something I was sort of on the fence about. I usually like Splinter as a story about adoption but they kind of went to a weird place with him in this series.

A very very weird place.

I kept thinking that those crab people reminded me of evil versions of the PSA guys from this animation by SmallBu. I think it was the posing.

I figured Todd was a villain after the ‘milking puppies’ thing. I was right.

Midsomer Murders: Wild Harvest

When a wealthy farmer is covered in truffle oil and mauled to death by a wild boar, Barnaby and Nelson’s investigation leads them to a tyrannical celebrity chef.

There was apparently an extremely gory death )the boar thing) in this episode they completely did not show. Just the face. I feel cheated, usually Midsomer is never coy.

Murder was pretty satisfying. Actor playing Nick Ivers was very handsome. Good Sykes subplot. An entire family was wiped out by just being adjacent to the actual target which was delightfully over-murderous.

Also Ruth Cameron’s actress had the best accent. Loved hearing all her lines.

Not a period piece so I have nothing to say about the clothes, but I point out Midsomer Murders has been going on so long that the first season does technically count as a period piece. Watching the evolution of the cellphone through the eyes of Midsomer has been quite the thing.

My grandmother was all about Murder, She Wrote, but my grandpa is all about Midsomer which means I can enjoy the same show as him while he’s still around to talk about it. I had to watch Murder, She Wrote after the fact to get to know my grandma better.

It’s nice to be in the episodes with the second Barnaby so I can understand why we kept using different names for the lead…