Wow. I think I fell in a hole or something. That was… unexpected.
Hello all again. This is not the post I planned to upload nearly two months ago. Actually, I had promised myself I wouldn’t upload a “whoops I totally didn’t die” post for at least six months. That was the plan, anyway.
The past two months have been trying to say the least. My dear uncle has been dealing with some health issues, and those have caused delays and aggravation all around. On top of that, it’s just been very stressful every day, with the world still on fire and no real change in sight until November (if you’re US-based, please vote!).
I myself had to step away from everything. I have scarcely read my towering stack of books, nor have I played another Lego game since beating Dimensions at the end of August. I’ve watched The Old Guard a few more times, and a couple of other things, but noting really substantial.
I think I just really needed a media break. Or really a life break. I went mostly silent of Twitter, loaded up my Tumblr queue with posts, and just stepped back. I did watch some of Gamescom and the PS5 announcement. I watched and cheered through SGDQ Online. I danced though RTX at Home last week.
But I really just checked out.
Up until last week, I just didn’t care. I just got overwhelmed.
But now I’m actually feeling more like myself. I started the FX show Trust, which is based on the abduction of John Paul Getty III. Not normally something I would watch, but Donald Sutherland and Hilary Swank star, with Luca Marinelli (Nicky from The Old Guard) playing the kidnapper in an amazing role. I also watched Far From the Madding Crowd, starring Matthias Schoenaerts (Booker from The Old Guard, noticing a theme yet?), which was actually great. I may just read the original novel, which is a major departure for me.
I finally started playing Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but I’m not on the frantic pace I had originally set for myself. Since the next Lego game has been delayed until Spring 2021, I don’t feel the need to push myself to hit my original goal of October 20th. Instead I’m also playing though some of my more neglected games, including Concrete Genie, Marvel’s The Avengers, and Final Fantasy XV. All games I have wanted to play, all games I ended up just pushing off. I may also finish my playthrough of Persona 5, but I feel like I have to restart again (but that’s a story for another time).
Actually, as proof that I started feeling better, I wrote something! Just a little thing, but I wanted to help push the amount of The Old Guard fics over 3000 on Archive of Our Own, which we did on September 18, just over two months after the film debuted on Netflix. I really need to explain my hyperfixation for this film one of these days.
I’m going to cut off here, mostly because it’s late and I want to get this scheduled and posted. I have a lot I plan to do this coming week, and getting this started was item number one on that list. Hopefully the week runs semi-smoothly, and all goes well.
Until next time!
