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Not a perfect end to the week, but not a horrible one either --

Work – Happy to report that it was a decent enough Friday at the office today – I ended my work week by:

A) Doing the GL (which wasn’t VERY big but still had enough going on to keep me occupied for about an hour)

B) Going through the failed credit cards and contacting a few people to let them know their payments had failed – and three of them actually got back to me the same day, yay~ Updated two people’s pledges and did a final Capital Campaign payment for the third

C) Going through the people who had overpayments to try and contact a bunch of THEM one last time – so far no responses; I also moved one overpayment to the next Appeal year

D) Finishing my time going through all the people named a particular thing so I could finally finish the obituaries from Tuesday (it was a very common name in our system, and all the duplicates and deceased guys needed cleaning up! That being said, the person who was in the obits wasn’t even in our system in the end – figures XD)

E) ...completing my daily calendar puzzle page and the last few answers of a crossword because it wasn’t THAT busy

So yeah, that was all pretty good. And the traffic going in and coming home was SOMEWHAT better – the main drag was absolutely choked with cars tonight on the ride back, but what can you do. At least now it is the weekend – gonna Halloween the place up during my time off. :)

To-Do List –

1. Get in a workout: Check – last night on the bike, last night with Who Framed Roger Rabbit! And my final ride of the week saw me get through:

A) The end of the movie, naturally – including:

I. Eddie’s adventures in Toontown (wrecking his car on the gag pile-up; getting abused during an elevator ride by Droopy Dog; thinking he’d found Jessica – only to become the subject of one Lena Hyena’s attentions; nearly falling to his doom after discovering the men’s room he was hiding was no more – and getting screwed over by Tweety Bird AND Bugs Bunny along the way; getting caught by Lena and finally managing to get her to run into a wall; venturing down a dark alley and thinking he was about to get shot by Jessica – only for her to save his life by shooting at Doom, sneaking up behind him with his gun; and the pair of them taking Benny out of Toontown to escape the weasels – only for poor Benny to get his tires dipped by Doom and wreck, allowing Doom to capture both Eddie and Jessica)

II. Doom taking them to the Acme factory and revealing his grand plan to Dip all of Toontown and erase it from the map to make way for a “freeway” (outing himself as the sole shareholder of Cloverleaf and waxing poetic about how beautiful all the terrible highway sprawl will be)

III. Roger getting to the factory with the help of Benny and ALMOST saving the day – only for one of the weasels to drop a ton of bricks on him, allowing Doom to have him and Jessica tied up in front of his awful Dipmobile to get sprayed

IV. Eddie realizing he can get the weasels to laugh themselves to death and doing a very elaborate and awesome comic song-and-dance and pratfall routine; cue the leader getting Dipped after getting kicked into the vat by Eddie, and the others cracking up and passing on

V. Eddie and Doom having their big fight, with Roger and Jessica getting regularly menaced by the Dip cannon – complete with the reveal that Doom was not only a Toon, but the very Toon that killed Eddie’s brother (and giving kids all over the country nightmares with his creepy animated eyes)

VI. Eddie taking out Doom via judicious application of boxing-glove-loaded mallet, dousing him in Dip, and the Dipmobile itself being taken out by a passing train when it crashed through the back wall on the way to Toontown

VII. The reappearance of Marvin Acme’s will, which he’d previously entrusted to Jessica – turns out the gagmeister wrote it in disappearing/reappearing ink, and it reappeared on the paper Roger had used to write Jessica a love letter

VIII. And Roger getting Eddie with a hand buzzer, and Eddie briefly looking like he was ready to turn Roger into soup – before picking him up and kissing him to show he still had a sense of humor XD

And then everyone heading off into the sunset, before Porky Pig and Tinkerbell closed things out. :p Great stuff – this movie is a classic for a reason, after all.

B) The “Before & After” featurette, which showed off what Eddie’s time in Toontown – specifically everything between him crashing into the “Overused Gags” pile-up and finally getting Lena Hyena to run into a wall – looked like before all the actual Toon stuff was edited in! As you might expect, it was mostly a lot of Bob Hoskins acting against a blue screen and emoting at sticks held up to show him where to look. Gotta say, the dude was a real professional – he acted against absolutely nothing really well! I was especially impressed with him miming opening the “Spare” bag Bugs gives him during the fall and pulling out the spare tire – I thought they’d given him a real bag to open that they’d then animate over, but nope! Dude just pretended to open thin air. Nice work, Bob!

C) And the “Toon Stand-Ins” featurette, which was all about how they used rubber puppets to stand in for the Toons while shooting so the animators would get an idea of what the lighting and perspective should be on all the animated characters as they moved around and got dragged about and all that. The footage featured was Roger getting caught by Doom in the bar and nearly getting Dipped – and honestly, I have no idea how the actors kept from ruining take after take by laughing at the puppets wiggling around. (I mean, maybe they did and we just don’t have those outtakes, who knows. :P) Christopher Lloyd pretending to try and force a rubber Roger into a closed barrel of dip would have made ME laugh on set! As would one rubber Roger’s head coming off in the backroom after being manipulated just one too many times. XD It’s fun to see behind the scenes with these kinds of movies!

And that’s another movie in the can! Next week – might be Addams Family, might be something else. We’ll find out!

2. Continue editing “The Van Dort Vacancy”: Check – got a good chunk done on Chapter 1 today, covering:

A) Smiler asking again why Victor’s not going to accept Elder Gutknecht’s Whisper training, and Victor thinking to himself about how much he really does want to become a Whisper, and be special and powerful and finally get a handle on that ‘ghost mind’ of his...and then thinking about how his parents would never stand for it, his mother in particular, because it would make him “weird” :(

B) Victor thus claiming that he just wants to leave it all behind and go back to a normal life – and Smiler not buying it, pointing out just how powerful Victor’s ghost sense is, and how they know being accused of murdering a Spirit Warden wasn’t fun, but they were sure they had some good times regardless, and how they saw Victor eyeing those books in Elder Gutknecht’s library… Alice had to firmly remind them that it was Victor’s choice not to pursue the training. And that she couldn’t blame him for wanting to go back to a life of comfort and ease after everything they’d been through – Victor winced at that and explained it was more he had a duty to Van Dort Fish

C) And Smiler very reluctantly accepting this (though still not convinced Victor really didn’t want to become a Whisper) and asking if Victor at least still intended to Victor – and Victor being like “of COURSE” and assuring them and Alice that he’d be by as often as he could. So they could argue more about his parents. XD That broke the tension very well.

So yeah – poor Victor is still a slave to his feeling of familial obligation, you see (plus he doesn’t want to get yelled at by his mother). Fortunately the rest of the fic will focus around curing of him of that affliction! As it stands, though, we only have a page to go on this chapter, so I think I will finish off my edits tomorrow and maybe see if I can get this up for general consumption next week!

3. Watch something on FreeTube/Invidious: No check – Game Night ran a little long again (Parcheesi this time – we each won a game, which was nice), and between that and my write-ups, it was either “work on ‘The Van Dort Vacancy’” or “watch something on Invidious,” and my writing won. As it well should, of course. *shrug* I should have some time tomorrow to continue catching up on all the videos I want to watch! Be nice to get a little further on all the OXBoxtra list videos, at least...

4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Substitution check and regular check, for a change –

Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Had a little spike of activity over here tonight, consisting of:

A) Going to regicidalheart’s (aka Brynlee Marie) blog to leave a comment on her wedding post, because she messaged me the other day about how she recently got some congrats from another Alice RPer we used to talk to back in the day over on the Instagram version, and I was like “oh shit I missed her saying she got married” O.O Fortunately I was only a day late with my compliments about how pretty her dress was and how I liked the arty black-and-white shot of her playing the piano (and of course I said “congrats” in my reply message too), but still. Gotta keep on top of this stuff better!

B) And reblogging two things I saw over on gaydragonwizard’s (aka Squid) blog that felt important –

I. A post by dduane linking an article about how to turn off AI features in things ranging from Google searches to Windows computers, apparently inspired by Windows 11 forcing some new AI shit on people – I want very much to know how to turn off all the AI bullshit in anything I might use!

II. And a thread started by maeamian about how important the No Kings Rally tomorrow (10/18) is and how you should go if you have the chance, with followups by kereeachan about the importance of keeping it peaceful and staying hydrated, sunscreened, and prepared for the weather; prismatic-bell about how Portland (where a lot of ICE protests are happening) is encouraging people to show up in fun animal costumes to make it harder for the current administration to demonize the protestors, so turn up in an inflatable costume or a onesie if you can – or maybe wear something with the American Flag on it to make sure the assholes don’t take it from us; dancinbutterfly linking a site, Operation Inflation, that’s apparently dedicated to taking donations so they can buy and send inflatable costumes to protestors, saying that if you can’t get to the protest, maybe you could send some money their way; and mikkeneko ending things off on an amusing note with “I admit, that's not entirely what I would expect from a website named Operation Inflation.” XD I’m going to the protest myself, so I wanted to spread the word and maybe convince a few people to join in last-minute. We’ll see what happens tomorrow!

*nods* All very important things to do, I’m sure you’ll agree.

Valice Multiverse – And over here, I actually had an ask to drop into the queue! From an anon who chose to tell me and my muses all about the “Auld Alliance” (an alliance between Scotland and France that lasted from roughly 1295 to 1560) in 17 seconds! It boiled down to “Scotland asks why they should give a shit about France given the troubles in their own country; France says ‘we will help you kill some of the English;’ Scotland is like ‘now you have our attention.’” XD I had Inevitable High School Smiler and Alice respond – Smiler to praise the anon’s delivery (“Now that is how you teach some history!”), Alice to add that it’s more entertaining, and likely more accurate – than what their actual history teacher teaches them. Remember, they go to the most bizarre and poorly-run high school in the universe (consequence of it being run by Cave Johnson) – this anon’s super-simplistic summary of the alliance probably IS better than what they’d actually learn in school!

Other: My Halloween costume arrived today! :D Well, okay, my parents are pretty sure it arrived yesterday and they didn’t notice it on the porch until this morning, but still. It’s the classic 1984 version of the Ghostbusters jumpsuit – Mom was going to take the orange stripes off the 2016 version that I no longer fit and put them on this one, but I decided that wasn’t necessary – I like both the 80s movies and the 2016 one, so I can rock either. :) We are going to have to make some adjustments, though – this new one is a little big for me, meaning the legs at least are going to have to be hemmed up. Still, I’d rather have a little too big than a little too small! Means I can still go with the costume I really wanted this year.

*nods approvingly* I'd say that's a pretty solid Friday, all things considered! And now it's time for me to head to bed. Tomorrow -- well, obviously most of the day is going to be spent at a certain protest, but I do hope to decorate the house for Halloween (though that may have to wait until Sunday, we'll see), finish the final page of edits on Chapter 1 of "The Van Dort Vacancy," and watch some stuff over on Invidious (more OXBoxtra lists, or perhaps a Proxy Gate Tactician video). We'll see how the day goes! Night all!

Yeah, it was quite breezy today -- and chilly, being another day where it didn't get out of the 50s. Again, very glad the heat's now on in my office! *nods* Anyway, not much to report, so let's get straight to the write-up:

Work – Well, the ride into work wasn’t a horrible mess of traffic today (just the usual mess of traffic), so things definitely started off better than they did yesterday! And the day itself wasn’t bad – not particularly GOOD either, mind you, but not a total pain in the ass. I spent most of it working on cleaning up entries of a particular common name in our system – merging together duplicates and marking anyone who’d passed on as “Deceased.” Along the way we had a couple of phone calls, though only one of them was actually for us –

A) One guy was directed to our office by mistake when he should have been sent to Fiscal (I transferred him to the correct department)

B) Another guy called asking if a dead friend’s wife could have him cremated and scatter the ashes (I gave him the number for the front desk so he could be directed appropriately)

C) And a third lady called about a reception my bosses are giving this weekend for big donors, saying she’d RSVPed yes but something had come up and she could no longer attend (my coworker took care of that one)

So yeah. That, the duplicates/deceased, and a crossword kept me occupied for the day. And then I got out and discovered that, today, the commute home was going to be the shit one, as both the highway and the main drag were all backed up to hell. *shakehead* I mean, it didn’t take me TOO much longer to make it to my house, but it was still pretty annoying. Ah well – just gotta get through Friday now!

To-Do List –

1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Who Framed Roger Rabbit! Tonight’s pedal-session got me through:

A) Eddie finding Roger in his office/apartment, and Roger explaining that he didn’t kill Marvin Acme – his response to the pictures was to go to Jessica’s dressing room at the club and write her a love letter

B) Roger handcuffing himself to Eddie – just in time for the weasels to show up, forcing Eddie to hide him in the sink as he pretended to do his laundry

C) Eddie taking Roger to the bar his love interest Dolores works at to hide him – and getting extremely annoyed when Roger proved he could take his arm out of the handcuff whenever he wanted (or, at least, when it was funny)

D) Jessica coming to see Eddie to try and get his help finding Roger and explaining that he’d been set up to take the pictures of her “cheating,” as Maroon was looking to blackmail Acme for some reason

E) Dolores catching them together and getting snippy, before explaining to Eddie that the person looking to buy Toontown isn’t Maroon like he thought, but Cloverleaf

F) The pair discovering Roger entertaining the bar’s patrons, and Eddie dragging him into the back shortly before the arrival of Judge Doom

G) Roger getting vindicated in his belief that making people laugh makes them your friends when the bar’s patrons don’t give him up – only to end up getting drawn out anyway by Doom knocking the beat for “shave and a haircut” out around the bar

H) Eddie saving Roger from the dip by exploiting his somewhat-explosive reaction to drinking alcohol

I) Eddie and Roger escaping Doom’s weasels after springing Roger’s cab friend Benny from the back of their car

J) Eddie and Roger hiding out in the movie theater and Eddie telling Roger about the death of his brother

K) Eddie seeing the news clip about Maroon selling his studio to Cloverleaf and heading over there to confront him, leaving Roger to watch the car – only for Jessica to knock Roger unconscious

L) Eddie and Maroon getting into a brief scuffle, and Maroon explaining that Cloverleaf would only buy his studio if they got Toontown, but Acme wouldn’t sell – hence blackmailing him with the pictures of Jessica, and that he was trying to prevent the toons from getting destroyed

M) Maroon getting shot, and Eddie seeing Jessica running through the parking lot and – when he got down there – driving away in a yellow car; cue him pursuing her to the tunnel to Toontown

N) And Eddie arriving at the tunnel and finally getting the gumption to go back through, pulling out the old cartoon gun and bullets he got from Yosemite Sam and pouring out his bottle of booze before shooting it with the Native American bullet

*whew* Quite a bit of movie! And I’ve still got plenty more to go – I left off with Eddie accidentally wrecking his car in Toontown, and thinking he sees Jessica in a window of a nearby building. Tomorrow, we should be able to wrap this movie up with the grand climax!

2. Continue editing “The Van Dort Vacancy”: Check – it was back to my beloved Valicer In The Dark universe today to work some more on the first chapter of the third story in the series – specifically, editing the second flashback sequence, with Victor remembering the trio adding themselves to Elder Gutknecht’s warding ritual back in his library a few days ago! Which involved:

A) Elder Guknecht reassuring a nervous Victor that they’d only have to give up a tiny bit of blood to add themselves to the wards – just enough to trace the sigils at each point of the triangle inked on the floor – before having to admit to Alice that the ritual would only hide them from prying mortal eyes, as he learned it from a devil whose price was immunity to the wards for him and his. Fortunately the devil was the kind that mainly sought knowledge, and so far just knowing where Elder Gutknecht’s house is has been enough for him, so he has yet to visit. Gutknecht promised to warn the trio should that ever change!

B) Alice pricking her finger with her knife and tracing the first sigil with her blood (as she still wanted to be hidden from the very mortal eyes of the law) – and Victor getting a little shock as he felt the magic thrum through the air in response (with Alice similarly being like “well that felt odd”)

C) Gutknecht asking Victor if he was all right as Alice went on to the next sigil; Victor saying he just wasn’t expecting that and asking if all magic felt like that; Gutknecht replying that it wasn’t always exactly like that, but you can always feel it when the magic takes, yes...and then offering to show Victor some of the other rituals he’s collected over the years, and tell him how they feel to cast. And Victor feeling the thrum of the ritual again as Alice completed another sigil...and deciding that yes, yes he would.

Fun, huh? :) Just more proof that Victor truly does want to become a Whisper! A shame that, tomorrow, he’s going to once again insist he doesn’t...and we’ll get into why he thinks he can’t. Familial obligation is a heavy burden...

3. Watch something on FreeTube/Invidious: Check – I got on Invidious fairly late, but I still had time to watch a short OXtra video from a month ago, happily – “7 Games DELAYED to Avoid Silksong!” Because when Silksong dropped its release date trailer announcing it would be out on September 4th, a lot of other indie games releasing in the same time period looked at that and went “oh HELL no.” XD Some settled for releasing a week or two later (Baby Steps, delayed to September 23rd; Cloverpit, delayed to September 26th; and Little Witch In The Woods, delayed to September 15th (the bravest of them all!)); another decided to wait a few months (Demonschool, delayed to November 19th – though the developers did point out this allowed them to properly develop some content they were planning to cut); one decided to wait until next freaking year (Aeterna Lucis, delayed to an unknown point in 2026 – the developers intend to take advantage of the wait to make sure they can release on every platform possible, including the Switch 2); and two haven’t yet announced their new release dates (Stomp And The Sword of Miracles, which was supposed to release a demo AND launch a Kickstarter, poor thing; and Faeland, which may at least still have its Early Access form available, as the release date was for the Official version). Baby Steps wins by having the best “hey, we’re delaying the game” announcement, though – a new release date trailer featuring their main character toddling along the needle of a giant Hornet statue in a desert before falling off, followed by “Baby Steps Now September 23.” XD Lot more fun than the standard “white text on black background” text-based jpeg most video game companies settle for!

4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Substitution check – still nothing going on over on Valice Multiverse, and – as previously stated – I had no queue stuff to work on over on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler). So instead I just continued my conversation with thesatiricaldemon in the replies of my “Valicer In The Dark Meets Baldur’s Gate III post about the Kuo-Toa and their ability to make their gods real through the strength of their belief! The “silliest part of their lore,” according to Satirical. XD Tonight’s exchange of messages consisted of:

A) Him telling me their patron goddess, Blibdoolpoolp was likely the result of the Kuo-Toa slapping some crustacean arms on a human statue and then worshiping it until it gained real divinity; that, if he recalled correctly, BOOOAL was their name for Bhaal, the actual god of murder; and that even if you didn’t become a god, having fish people at your beck-and-call would be handy – just look at the Deep Ones from Lovecraft XD

B) Me being gobsmacked that Blibdoolpoolp was NOT something Johnny made up for Oxventure back in the day (when the original Guild was tasked by Cthulhu, Prudence’s patron, to stop some Kuo-Toa worshiping her in one of his old temples); misinterpreting what he meant about BOOOAL and going “wait, that wasn’t made up for BG3? Damn, I am not up on my Kuo-Toa lore;” declaring that I liked the silly “worship a thing until it’s really a god” lore because it was fun; and agreeing that having fish people to help you out would be a good thing, noting that Tav!Smiler is going to need all the allies they can get for the final boss fight

C) Him letting me know that the “BOOOAL” thing WAS made up for BG3, but that they’ve called other gods/related entities ridiculous names in the past (the Demogorgon gets to be “Leemooggoogoon” XD), so yeah; and that good old Blibdoolpoolp has been around since the 90s

D) And me going “oh, okay, I misunderstood the bit about BOOOAL – and you were right when you said it was their name for Bhaal, one of the dialogue options when you first meet them allows you to correct them;” getting amused with the ridiculous names they come up with for their gods (and noting that “Tav gets off light with Mahkloompah!” XD); and just still being stunned over Blibdoolpoolp being a fucking real goddess outside Oxventure. Who would have thunk? XD

Fun times~

Not too shabby! And now I should head to bed, as I do have one more day of work tomorrow. Night all!

Yeah, the weather was far from great, but I did get a good chunk of stuff done, at least -- as the daily write-up shall show:

Work – Well, it wasn’t a great day in the office – not because it was busy, but because it was COLD. The high today was 58F, and I swear it was colder in the building. And they haven’t yet turned the heat on in said building, so – yeah. I spent most of the day freezing until my coworker lent me her little space heater for a couple of hours in the afternoon. *grumbles* I wish they’d just turn the heat on at the beginning of October and let us decide if we need it or not – if it’s a warm day, we can just not run it! But I don’t know how the heating system in the building works, so…

Anyway – apart from being freezing, it was also a pretty quiet day:

A) I caught up on my e-mail, deposited the checks for the GL, and did the usual morning reports

B) I took a couple of phone calls – one in the morning from someone checking on her pledge balance, and one in the afternoon from someone making a payment on his pledge with his bank account

C) I wrote off a bunch of Capital Campaign pledges from people who had passed on (our old assistant supervisor insisted we keep the pledges open in case the families paid them or something – never happened)

D) And the rest of the time I was working on the latest set of obituaries and doing the roster maintenance that results from looking up those names

*shrug* As you can see, nothing too exciting! And I don’t expect it to get any more exciting anytime soon – though hopefully it will at least get WARMER. Fingers crossed!

To-Do List –

1. Get in a workout: Check – and tonight’s ride on the stationary bike saw me finish off my time with my Clue DVD! Which involved:

A) Me watching the end of the movie itself – or, rather, the ends, as Clue rather famously has three of them. XD I picked up right before Wadsworth’s famous summation/recreation of the entire film (up to the point where the singing telegram girl gets murdered, anyway) – and to my relief, when you start the movie from any point after the beginning using Scene Select, it automatically shunts you into the “home video” version of the film, where all three endings – “Miss Scarlet and Yvette killed them all – before Miss Scarlet killed Yvette,” “Mrs. Peacock killed everybody,” and “everybody ended up killing somebody” – play one after the other. So I didn’t have to worry about missing out on any! (The DVD has the option to watch the film with a randomized ending, like how it was shown in theaters, so I was a little worried I’d have to select each ending individually. But no, there’s only the three-stitched-together ending in the Scene Select menu. ...that being said, there probably should be scene selects for each ending, in case you DON’T want to watch all three at once. Ah well!)

B) Me watching the theatrical trailer after the credits finished rolling, which interestingly has some bits that aren’t in the film (such as Professor Plum openly leering at Yvette’s breasts, and Colonel Mustard slapping Mr. Green to stop HIM screaming at one point)

C) And – because I had some time to kill, no other special features to watch, and was curious – me rewatching the scenes where everyone goes to investigate Yvette’s screaming after the initial “murder” of Mr. Boddy, and later goes to the kitchen to find the murdered cook. Why? To see if the accusations leveled in the various endings of the film – namely, that Mrs. Peacock wasn’t present when they went to investigate Yvette, and Professor Plum wasn’t present when they found the dead cook – were accurate. And I’m pleased to say they were – Mrs. Peacock genuinely is NOT present when the gang finds Yvette screaming in the billiard room, having been at the back of the crowd and wandered off while they were trying to get into the room! And while Professor Plum DOES enter the kitchen with the others, he lingers by the door while the others proceed in – and once the cook falls out of the ice box and onto Mr. Green, he disappears! As do Mrs. Peacock and Yvette! I know that this isn’t intended to be a film you can actually SOLVE, given the whole “multiple endings” schtick, but it is nice to see that they made sure to make all three endings plausible!

So yeah, that was fun. :) Though now I have to figure out what I’m watching for the next three days, hmmm...I kinda wanna save my Addams Family double feature for next week, so we’ll have to see what else will fit...

2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – I picked things back up in Chapter 6 with poor Alice nearly getting bowled over by a terrified Simon Milligan as he fled the abandoned hospital – not that she knows that’s his name yet. He was rather too busy screaming at her for help and telling her that “it” was coming for him to introduce himself. XD Alice managed to get him to calm down a little – just enough to tell her that he was part of the (bullshit) paranormal-hunting show “Haunted LA,” and that he and his crew had been filming an episode about a nurse ghost in the hospital when weird shit started happening and his crew started disappearing, and that he’d gone looking for them, only to encounter these eyes that made him flee the premises – but he kept jumping at every little sound, and ended up fleeing in a total panic when Alice said she’d go inside and try to find his friends. Which, uh, Alice was of two minds about, because on the one hand she didn’t want him to get got by whatever got his crew –

And on the other, she’d already clocked him as a serious Masquerade risk, and she didn’t need him telling everyone about whatever he’d found and getting her in trouble with LaCroix. *grimace* As there were people in danger, though, she elected to go into the hospital and hunt the mysterious Milligan down later (with Cheshire assuring her that his “scent” lingers in the building) – tomorrow, we start her crawl through this creepy dungeon, with yet more murders to traumatize her! Yay! :D

3. Watch something on FreeTube/Invidious: Check – went back to Invidious tonight to – as I hinted I might yesterday – track down the original video OXtra made on the Guess The Game screenshot-guessing game! Which, as you might expect, was called “Guess the Game!” XD The original was posted in July 2024 (can’t believe it took them a year to make a follow up), and featured Ellen, Jane, and Andy going through the first 25 entries, trying to figure out games from their screenshots. With such iconic moments as:

A) Everyone, in particular Jane, taking a look at the first screenshot of the first game and going “oh, this is easy, it’s Mass Effect 2” – and then discovering that, while they’d gotten the franchise right, they’d gotten the installment wrong – took them three tries to realize it was Mass Effect 3 instead. XD Jane was like “My hubris!” XD

B) Andy absolutely nailing The Secret of Monkey Island from the very first screenshot – he actually did very well overall guessing the games, figuring out a lot of them for the team

C) The gang managing to recognize one screenshot as a Forza game, but struggling to pin down which one – Jane openly bemoaned the lack of Mike, who probably could have identified it in a heartbeat (and then, of course, the minute they get him in for the follow-up, suddenly there’s no games with cars in them at all)

D) The gang struggling with a few games, but only outright failing to identify two – one an indie game called Furi (which is apparently a combination of a hack-and-slash and a bullet hell?), and – Persona 5. Which I fucking recognized, despite having never played a Persona game. I will allow that it took me until the last screenshot with the protagonist in it to nail it down, but I’m surprised that they didn’t get it! (I think it was the release date of 2016 that threw them – they seemed convinced Persona 5 hadn’t come out THAT long ago. Get wrecked by the passage of time, OX!)

E) And the gang ending on a nice win by getting Super Mario 64 from its first screenshot, which was very impressive given it was just a green ring, more or less. XD

Fun times! And having seen both videos now, I do hope they make a third one at one point. It’s a fun game, and it’s fun to watch them puzzle things out!

4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – nothing happening on Valice Multiverse once again, but I was able to completely fill out my queue for the rest of the week on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler)! We have:

A) The “Valicer In The Dark Meets Baldur's Gate III Not-Incorrect Quotes/Shitpost Collection Volume 2” post for Wednesday (I finished it, and I want to POST it, damn it)

B) Some fanart of regular synth Nick Valentine and someone’s ghoul version of the original human Nick from Fallout 4 by badlydrawnfallout (which is actually drawn quite well, and is a VERY interesting concept, given synth!Nick’s canonical identity issues) for Thursday

C) Some fanart of the Voerman sisters from VTMB, their images stitched together, by feyspeaker for Friday (it’s a gorgeous piece and perfect for the growing Halloween mood)

D) And an Instagram video, posted by rvllybllply2014, featuring “thesugarcoatedsisters” singing a parody of “Ra Ra Rasputin” (you know, “ra ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen”) focusing on an Irish witch named Alice who was sentenced to be burned at the stake after people thought she’d poisoned her husbands, only to disappear the night before her execution, for Song Saturday (it’s a fun song that perfectly fits the chosen tune – you can tell they worked hard to make sure the lyrics scanned – AND features some excellent dancing from the sisters! Plus it’s just perfect Halloween vibes :D)

So I’m all set queue-wise for the rest of this week, yay~ Good to have that out of the way!

*nods* You know what, I'll take that for a Tuesday after a long weekend. Though, again, I REALLY hope it does warm up as the week goes on...either that or they finally turn the damn heat on. Fingers crossed, folks! Night all!