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Posted: **Wed Aug 06, 2025 4:05 pm**

Note that I'm using a VPN and as far as that site knows I'm in the EU, that can't possibly be kosher under the GDPR

Posted: **Thu Aug 07, 2025 4:29 am**

My fun purchase for this month was a miniature waffle-maker with exchangeable griddle and grill plates, which I plan on mostly using to make croissanwiches. It was due to arrive today, so yesterday I arranged a grocery delivery of croissants and bacon, to make said croissanwiches, and I scheduled it for kind of early but not very. Then, of course, Cats and Insomnia kept me up later than would let me get enough sleep before the delivery, and while I did tick the 'leave at the door' box I didn't want to leave bacon sitting around outside, so I was up until it got delivered and then I was up until it was time to pill Oz.

Slept through the afternoon and woke up again around five, and shortly after that the maker got delivered! So I went out to get that and look at it all. It's a pretty hefty little thing!

Tonight was a fend-for-ourselves night which gave me an opportunity to test it out. I originally planned on just using it for the eggs and using a toaster and frying pan for the croissants and the bacon, so that everything would be getting hot at once, but ultimately decided to try doing as much of it on the maker as I could, and putting a pan lid over the ingredients to help keep them warm. It would, I think, be possible to cook on the lower half of the maker while it's open and rest the croissant against the top plate to toast it, but it takes quite a bit longer for things to cook with it open like that and I don't know if it would be bad for the machine at all, so I probably will just toss the croissants into the toaster in future (this time I just had them untoasted). But it did the bacon fine and the eggs fine, took, looks like half an hour to do all of the prep and waiting and cooking for two sandwiches which I think is pretty comparable to doing it on the stove and makes less dishes.

So I ate my sandwiches and watched some Price is Right, and then ash and I hung out and watched a Drew Gooden and then an Interview with a Vampire. We have two episodes left before we have to wait for the next season to get made, and this finale seems interesting. The vampires are,,,,, not healthy! They have bad relationships

Now ash and I have gone to our respective bedwards. I'm going to watch a game grumps, and I might try out making a couple waffles. Naturally since I was up so late and slept so little, I'll be going to bed pretty early, but I have to be up at least until it's late enough to pill Oz again.

Posted: **Fri Aug 08, 2025 8:05 pm**

Alright sitting down to watch the new Sandman episodes

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Incredibly slow start to the season and I don't think it was a wise move. I get wanting to introduce all the new characters, but this pacing just doesn't work in video as well as it works in comics. Same with the way the dialogue is written

Also all the Endless just sound and look so human and I'm going to have to get used to it again.

I'm really iffy on Despair. I get not wanting to make the fat character gross, on the one hand, but on the other she's just too put-together to be Despair, you know? Despair being gross wasn't a 'fat people are gross', it was a 'you've been depressed for months and can't see the point in showering or cleaning, you barely bother to get out of bed, why would you put your hair up, who are you making yourself presentable for'. I wish there was a way to convey that that wouldn't feed into 'fat people are slobs', but there isn't, so I get it, but it does pull me out of it

(Like obviously the way you do that is to not make her fat, but I wouldn't want them to take a Powerful, Nebulously-Heroic Fat Person and make them skinny, obviously)

They keep having Destiny pull his hood down and that's also weird

Also god Destiny would be insufferable to have as a sibling. 'I know you're not going to walk out of this meeting because it has been written that you will stay' fuck you

All of the Endless would be insufferable, really, but Destiny especially

Desire's corset or whatever it is looks cheap. Maybe that's intentional but it more just feels like they couldn't be fucked to make the 'man in a dress' (ugh) look good

'Nada (the queen of the first people) realised her dreams of a kingdom without politics' is very funny, and just gets funnier as the scene goes on and she talks about her Subjects and shit

Also man this 'Dream appears differently to different people' thing would work a lot better if he had Endless eyes

This narration has turned this entire scene into an As You Know Bob because apparently Dream is telling this entire story to Death and like, she knows. Of course she knows, your entire family already knows this business, that's why they just had a big ol' argument about it

Wow Nada's change of heart comes out of nowhere, as does Dream's ultimatum

This entire plotline feels like it comes out of nowhere, honestly

"Walk any path in Destiny's garden" [shot of Destiny in a fucking house]

Alright, not a particularly strong start to the season, a lot of exposition to get out of the way right off the bat. I've been having some thoughts about how they're going to have to cram seven graphic novels in to one season, whereas the first season adapted two. Even if they're claiming that was the plan all along (and like, when you get picked up by netflix I guess you just plan on only having two seasons, so like, I believe them), and granting that there's a lot of stuff that happens in the comics that isn't crucial to the main plot... It's just a lot to do in that small a space, you know

And given that it feels weird for the first episode to have been so, plodding in its pacing. And there was a lot cut from it, I think, to end up just keeping the bits that they did. I remember a sequence of Nada running from Dream, that I bet they wrote, possibly filmed, and ended up cutting for time which is why the whole 'I would leave you even if it meant I would be damned for eternity' thing came out of nowhere, because they cut the part of Dream actually giving Nada the ultimatum.

Also there are a number of actors in this who seem to think that the way you play a Serious Character in a Serious Show is to, not emote at all. I'm very tired of that kind of grim, quiet, Serious acting

Alright, moving on to episode two, hopefully it picks up!

Posted: **Fri Aug 08, 2025 9:04 pm**

Episode 2

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Posted: **Sat Aug 09, 2025 9:51 am**

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Posted: **Sat Aug 09, 2025 10:22 am**

It got up to 105F today, and I've only just got my room back down below 80, so sleep tonight is gonna suck. Luckily I have not gotten enough sleep the past couple of nights so I'm sure that will help!

Tomorrow ash and I plan on going out to a thrift store so ideally I will be awake for that.

Posted: **Sun Aug 10, 2025 7:34 am**

Someone's gotta make a fleshlight that's the alien from Alien but you put your penis in the back so the head comes out the alien's mouth

I'm not gonna go looking for it but it's got to exist

Posted: **Sun Aug 10, 2025 7:52 am**

So yeah thrift store happened! I got two shirts, a photo album, a clock that I hoped wasn't battery powered but turned out to be battery powered, and a roll of toilet paper with sudoku puzzles on it that I got for my dad (he is the kind of person who does crosswords on the toilet). It was fun to go out but also it got up to 106 today, so that part in particular sucked

Hung out on the internet for a while after we got home -- ash and I are talking about starting another RP thread -- and then ash and I ate dinner and watched youtubes until bed. We only have one more Interview with a Vampire to watch, but we weren't feeling anything plot-heavy tonight, so we'll get to that tomorrow probably

I dug out my switch when @erikavonkaiser mentioned playing Animal Crossing on hers, to make sure we had already at some point exchanged friend codes (we have), and so I have been playing mario kart again. So this evening has been alternatively internet and youtube and dinner and mario kart, and now it's going on 1 AM so I should start heading toward bed. I wonder if there's a new Knowledge Fight for me to listen to -- I don't think there will be but I would really like if there were, they're going through the recent Epstein shit that's been going down in MAGA circles and it's been great, the next episode should get to Trump calling his voter base idiots and the hosts have been hinting that Alex Jones does not respond to that in a particularly healthy manner

Posted: **Sun Aug 10, 2025 6:28 pm**

Woke up a few times this morning twisted into extremely weird positions, thought it was probably ten or eleven but it turned out to only be 7 AM, and also it was 54% humidity so I found it impossible to get back to sleep. It's 11:30 and I'm finally winding down enough to get some more sleep in, I think. My joints hurt from sleeping so weird, I hope I don't wake up a pretzel again

Posted: **Sun Aug 10, 2025 8:52 pm**

belated re: Animal Crossing, do you ever "time travel" to move progress faster? I haven't, yet, and am sometimes tempted but it feels like the "wrong" way to play so I haven't decided

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