I hope everyone has had a nice christmas/holidays.

Xmas Eve my feed was flooded by the Heated Rivalry guys reading thirst tweets. I vaguely knew about it as a concept (a gay hockey show) so was kinda curious and I’m glad now tv are getting it next month so it’s an excuse to keep it once I’ve finished Welcome To Derry. But damn seeing those clips, I’m so enamoured by them. That doesn’t feel like the right word when one of them (Hudson) is saying the most unhinged things (which gets beeped a lot) while the other (Connor) is like ‘where’s the love, where’s the caressing’ and it’s just so funny. (Especially Hudson’s follow up) I need to watch the full thirst tweet vid but those clips alone made me need this show.

(Also it’s based on a book? Which is on kindle unlimited so I’ve got the to read)

After walking the pup we watched Muppet Christmas Carol which will always be a classic. I’m so sad they didn’t do more muppet adaptions of books (other than treasure island which I need to see again cause it’s so fun). But ahh the muppet show is coming back and so is rizzo the rat!

On the afternoon I watched Across The Spiderverse which I’d not seen before, despite getting the blu ray on sale last year. And damn, the animation for it is really so beautiful and the first they made every world a different art style too is so incredible. I’m excite for the next one especially as it’s a more direct follow up.

In the night time I managed to finally finish ficcing something, woo! Hopefully this means I can get back to writing (either tackling the WIPs of doom or the ideas in my head but I do wanna do gift fic then I have concepts)

It did mean I didn’t have the full focus for the ghost story for Christmas which is a bit of a shame so I might have to rewatch, but it was nice (and unexpected) to see Nancy Carroll (Lady Felicia from Father Brown) in it.

Xmas day was spent not doing too much. Gift wise I got the two Lego gift sets, a cute gingerbread train and a badnik crabmeat from sonic, along with Hellfire headphones (and the charm) and two hardcover books from mums friend (Murder On The Orient Express and Evil Under The Sun which, like Halloween Party are shiny). The big thing was the record player so that’s all set up now. I’ve only listened to two things (one side of James Marriott’s Bitter Tongues, to test it, and one side of the first disc of Sleep Token’s Even In Arcadia) but it does sound really nice.

However I have been hit by the neurodivergent need to know. Like how does a vinyl work? I know it’s to do with groves but how does that even work? How’s the sound get put on there like that? How does it translate? I’m gonna have to find if there’s a video or documentary about it.

The rest of the day was spent watching stuff, like the excellent Vengeance Most Fowl which is just an incredible film (Feathers McGraw is a generational villain) and then White Christmas before sticking it on bbc1 and tuning out a bit. Alas mum was sick from something (we think the wine cause it was the only thing she had that I didn’t, bar the chicken which the girls had and they were fine) so that sucked for her. Thankfully she seems better now which is good.

Also as an annoyance, my Xbox has decided it wants to throw a fit. Last night it didn’t recognise the expansion card (that has been plugged in since it came and was working fine yesterday) which would be enough to annoy me on its own but I’ve gone through fix attempts before bed and now it won’t even come on properly, ugh. (Edit: at least thay part is sorted)

I had considered watching Stranger Things but I knew Iw as too wiped so now the plan is tomorrow (unless I’m not tired tonight) so we’ll see. I’m also debating seeing Anaconda either tomorrow or next week but again, we’ll see.

Today is gonna be watching the new Puss In Boots, then the festive repair shop, pottery throw down and quiz of the year. And hopefully ficcing a bit or something too.