6 Things I Did That Won't Get Their Own Blog Post

 Hello There!

I try to keep this blog pretty positive. So, if I watch or read something I either dislike or I just can't come up with a lot of good things to say about it, no blog post for it. But, negativity sells. Or something. Mostly I just like to share my thoughts, even though no one really wants that. And I will be clumping them together because I don't have enough thoughts about these things to fill out a whole blog post.

Now, let us begin.

Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die 

by R.L. Stine

This book wasn't bad, really. Quite good for what it is. What it is being a horror story for kids. I just didn't want to focus an entire blog post to it. I mean... It's a story about kids going into an abandoned spooky house and stealing a camera. Then bad things start happening. Sorry kids, but you brought this on yourselves.

Goosebumps: How to Kill a Monster 

by R.L. Stine

Again, not a bad book. Quite good horror story for kids. I was just annoyed by the kids for most of the book and I sort of hope they got eaten in the end. Dog was okay though. And those grandparents, what the fuck? Oh, by the way, the book is about two kids who have to stay at their grandparents house while their parents go... off on a business trip? I can't remember. Grandparents tell the kids to stay out of a certain room. Which, of course the kids go into. And find a monster. And then the grandparents just kind of ditch the kids in the house with the monster.

Return to Salem's Lot

I watched Salem's Lot and figured I should watch this "sequel" as well. Nope. Just don't. It is bad. So bad. The main characters were... Some... Guy... And his son... I cannot remember their names. Let's just call them Asshole and Dipshit. Dipshit is in trouble so his mom sends him to live with his dad, Asshole. Or something. And... They go to Salem's Lot... For some reason? The whole thing was just bad. And not hilariously bad. Just bad.

The Way of the House Husband

I watched the anime. And fucking loved it. The basic plot is a retired gangster decides to become a househusband. And he takes his new job very seriously. I watched the entire anime twice in one day. Episodes are short and fun. Highly recommend if you like humorous anime with no real plot.

Stephen King's Rose Red

I love this movie... mini-series? Whichever. Anyway, basic plot is this: There is a haunted house, Rose Red. A college professor takes a group of psychics to try and get proof of... ghosts I guess? There is an autistic character in this, but I am not sure how good the representation is. I prefer haunted house horror movies to any other kind and this is a fun haunted house movie. It gives me Winchester House vibes. It's not a cinematic masterpiece, but a fun haunted house movie. Also, for some reason my brain thought the asshole professor and the asshole journalist student guy were having a secret affair. I think I've been reading too much fan-fiction...

Good Eats

I used to watch this show all the time when it was on Food Network. I'd just be channel surfing, see it was on and be like "Oh, let's see what Alton's cooking". It is a good show. I probably will never use any of his recipes, but he gives some good cooking tips. And he does it in a fun way. Totally recommend this show to people.

Well, that's all for this one. Go watch The Way of the House Husband. Don't watch Return to Salem's Lot. 

This Week I...

Another Saturday, which means another post about shit I did this week. 

Wrote

A whole story! Well, it's not a long story, but I wrote something!

Also wrote bits on other stories.

And some on blog posts.

Read

A book on the history of Kingwood, WV. 

A bunch of fan-fiction.

The Way of the House Husband

Watched

Good Eats

How to Become a Cult Leader

How to Become a Tyrant

The Way of the House Husband - I watched a bit of the live action thing... But, while not bad, I wasn't enjoying it as much. I'll watch the whole thing one day. But I went back and watched the anime. Again. Twice. I just can't stop.

Stuff on YouTube.

Played

Nothing. I didn't even play games on my phone this week.

Posted

My ramblings about Star Wars: The Clone Wars

A Witcher fan-fic. (need an AO3 account to view that, by the way)

Anything Else?

Nothing much.

Kiddo finished up their required reading for the school year. Which is awesome.

Well, that's all for this one. Wednesday's post should be a round up of various things.

For now I must go. Cat demands attention. 

Stephy Watched Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)

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Today I will be rambling about The Clone Wars. Movie, not show... Nor the actual war... 

Warning, there might be spoilers ahead?

You're reckless, little one. You never would have made it as Obi-Wan's Padawan... but you might make it as mine.

-Anakin Skywalker

 About/Summary

Jabba the Hutt's son is kidnapped and (for some fucking reason) he contacts the Republic to ask (demand...) for Jedi help. Oh, and Anakin gets a Padawan.

Okay, so, this takes place after Attack of the Clones, and I've always treated it as an opening for the show. But... It might take place during the first season of the show? I am not 100% sure. If you want to watch everything in chronological order I would suggest looking up some lists for that. I know they exist. I am not that dedicated so I watched this before starting up the show. 

Content/Trigger Warnings

Death (a lot of unnamed clones die)

Child endangerment (baby Hutt is in danger, Ahsoka is still a child, and those clones are only, like, ten years old)

Tropes

Here is a list of tropes. Now, let me ramble about some.

Bait-and-Switch - The bit when it looks like maybe Threepio is kicking ass and not taking names and then it's revealed that it was a group of clones (which is obvious, really) made me laugh.

By Wall That is Holey - this is some silent movie shit and I am here for it.

Characters/Casting

Characters are fantastic. And I really liked the voice acting.

Writing

Writing is pretty good. It was written by Henry Gilroy, Steven Melching, and Scott Murphy. I feel like they got the Star Wars vibe pretty good. I would say it's a bit more light-hearted, but... Like, 15 clones die in the first few minutes. 

Plot

The plot is pretty good. The main plot is Anakin and Ahsoka rescuing the baby Hutt and returning him to Jabba. Obi-Wan is off doing something else. And Padme is trying to help, I think? 

Animation

I don't like this animation style. I'm sorry to everyone who did the animation for this, but I do not like the style. I don't think it's bad or anything, I'm just not a fan.

 

Costuming

I suppose... Is costuming a thing in an animated thing? Fuck it, I'm gonna talk about it. Costuming was fine. Padme's one outfit looks like one she wore in Attack of the Clones, but it can't be the same one since that one got damaged and turned into a nice little crop top. So, I suspect Padme has multiple copies of that white outfit and it is her "action" outfit.

How diverse is it?

Not very. I mean, most of the characters look identical.

I think I'm funny.

Overall Thoughts

Overall I enjoyed this movie. I do still question the logic of making Anakin responsible for another sentient being, but Jedi Order be like that. 

The movie is pretty good. And I do recommend checking it out and the series to any Star Wars fan that hasn't watched it. Or, ya know, be confused about so much in the new shows. Whatever you want. I don't control you.

That's all for this one. 

If y'all wanna toss some money my way via Ko-Fi, that would be awsome (disclaimer: All money received from now until January 1st will be used to buy my kid nerdy shit for Christmas and their birthday)

See y'all on Saturday to see what nonsense I got up to this week.

Oh yeah, and if you wanna yell about Star Wars, leave a comment, we can yell together.

This Week I...

 Hello there.

Saturday again. So let's see what I did this week.

Wrote

Mostly blog posts. Wrote bits on some story ideas but nothing major. Since I broke my external hard drive, I gotta re-do my Writing Challenge document cause that's all I had saved on there.  Thankfully I have a spreadsheet that has most of what was on that doc. Cause all I really had was some basic ideas. So I've been copying and pasting those basic ideas onto a document all week. Cause I have way too many basic ideas and nothing written for them... 

Read

Bits on my Now Reading stack of books. And fan-fiction. Oh, I also started reading the Way of the House Husband manga. It is just so good. Gonna watch the live-action show soon too. I need all of it.

Watched

Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Only watched a few episodes of the show. Which that show is even more depressing after reading fan-fictions where the clones live long and happy lives. 

Murder, She Wrote

Stuff on YouTube

Played

Played a bit of Resident Evil 5. Need to get back to that... I was enjoying it.

Posted

Book Review

Monthly Plans

Anything Else?

Ummm... Not really. 

Now, if you'll excuse me. My cat needs attention.

Plans for November

Another month is upon us. And, while no one is asking, I will be answering the question of what I plan on doing for the month.

 

In November I'm wanna...

Write

fucking something. Been in a major writing rut lately. Just wanna get something written.

Read

The Stand. I am going to finish that book, I fucking swear.

Watch

Second season of Good Omens.

Red, White, and Royal Blue movie.

Star Wars stuff.

Play

Resident Evil 5. I started it up a couple of days ago and I really wanna stay focused and keep playing it. I would like to actually finish a Resident Evil game.

Anything Else?

I plan on spend the entire month panicking about getting stuff for my kid for Christmas and their birthday.

And those are my plans for the month. Yeah, this one is short. But the first of the month kind of snuck up on me.

Stephy Read A Quick Bite by Lynsay Sands

 Hello There!

First. I would like to formally apologize to Ryan for finishing this before finishing The Stand. As always when I read Stephen King, I needed something fluffy to break up the OH MY FUCKING GODS THIS IS HORRIBLE moments of terror. And I made a mistake. For the first two or three chapters of this book, I was switching off with The Stand. I would read a chapter of it, then a chapter of this. And then... This book sucked me in and it was all I read until I finished it... I am sorry. I will go back to the Stand now. 

“Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.”

About/Summary

A Quick Bite is a paranormal romance written by Lynsay Sands. It was first published in 2005. And is the first in the Argeneau series of books. 

Lissiana Argeneau faints at the sight of blood. Which wouldn't be a problem, but she's a vampire. To help her with this, her mother kidnaps a psychologist. As one does.

Content/Trigger Warnings

Kidnapping

Sexual Content

Attempted murder

Blood

Mentions of mental abuse (not to or by the two main characters)

Characters

The main characters are Lissiana and Greg. And they are great. But the best character is Thomas. Love that boy. But this isn't Thomas's story, so I will refrain from gushing about how much I love him.

Lissianna is a vampire (or immortal). She has hemaphobia, and faints at the sight of blood. Vampires in this series drink from bagged blood, so that is quite the problem. She gets a job at a homeless shelter thinking she could feed from the people at the shelter, but that proves to be a bad idea. 

Greg is a psychologist who does a lot of work dealing with phobias. He is a workaholic whose family keeps trying to set him up with various women.

They were both solid characters. I really liked them.

A lot of characters that continue to show up throughout the series were introduced in this book. Most of them stick around for the entire book, a couple just show up for a chapter and then disappear. There are a few mortals in this book. Do not expect to ever see or hear from them again. They are unimportant.

Atmosphere/Setting

The book takes place in Canada. Toronto I wanna say... *looks at notes* Yep. Toronto. I did not have this in my notes. I looked on GoodReads.

Oh, and according to the first page, it takes place in November of 2000. Helpful. 

I didn't get much for either atmosphere or setting. 

Writing

I absolutely adore Lynsay Sands's writing. She puts, in my opinion, the right amount of humor in her books. I like a bit of humor in whatever I'm reading or watching. 

I do have one issue though... The phrase "she had curves in all the right places". I don't know why, but over the years I have grown to hate that phrase. It was used once in this book so I could roll my eyes and carry on. But gods, that phrase...

Plot

The plot is fun. Main plot is the romance. Or is the main plot the one with the attempted murder 🤔 Either way, fun plot. Well done with no plot holes. Though... What did happen to those dudes that tried to commit that murder... 🤔 Eh, I'm sure they're fine.

Romance

The romance is great. The series explains the instant love thing by saying all vampires have a Life Mate, someone they can't read or control. Which is cool. 

How diverse is it?

Not very. Just a bunch of straight, white Canadians really.

Overall Thoughts

This series is one of my favorite (if not my top favorite) series of books. This series is for sure my favorite romance books. I love these books. They are fun, easy reads with happy endings. I love how vampires were made in this series. It's different and interesting. I basically love everything about this book and the rest of the series. 

Don't pick this up expecting some masterpiece of literature. It's a fun romance novel. If you like fun romance novels with a good amount of humor, I highly recommend checking this book out.

I think that's all for this one.