Things I Love Thursday

- Having the internet back….  we were switching ISP’s and had no end of issues for nearly 2 weeks., but it’s all back up…

-Gaming, I’m starting a Primetime Adventures Game soon AND plotting to GM a Monster Of The Week game. one is Sci-Fi and the other Urban Fantasy… WOOT!

-Matte Nail Polish I’ve been addicted to it lately… love the look, so flat and so neat.

-LARPing I have one tomorrow that includes contacts that I’m having the hardest time getting into my eyes….

-finally this song lately has been stuck in my head…

honorable mentions:

-Comics (Kill Shakespeare is a personal Favorite I discovered)

-Glee

-Dexter

-Getting to watch buffy, supernatural, xfiles, etc for research.

-My hair being longer than I realize which is exciting!

I Love Creative People

OR Why I would Suck at being a Critic.

I have recently been volunteering at Bats Theatre here in wellington. Bats is an amazing theatre, I have a special fondness for black box theatres. Some of my greatest moments both in the stage and in the audience have been in black box theatres. Add in that at any given moment Bats is staffed by half of my friends makes it even more special and amazing for me. Then of course is all the amazing theatre that happens at Bats.

The benefit of volunteering is that I get to see heaps of plays now. Which is awesome, I could probably see three plays a night for the rest of my life and still wish I could see more! All the plays I’ve seen recently are wonderful independent NZ written shows on topics from Armageddon, to Robert Muldoon. I love these independent NZ plays cause you would never have seen them anywhere else. Some of them this might be the only time they get run. I just Love them.

At a recent play though that while it was very funny and entertaining I found one aspect of it deeply unsettling and semi homophobic. I have struggled to say anything about it since then. Not because I’m not capable of being outspoken. You all know I am! No my trouble is with the fact that these creative people put so much work into, so much love, how can I just dump on that? I don’t want to appear to be mean. I’m Creative, I put things out there all the time and I know how it feels to be heavily critisized.

I could never be a critic for this reason. I’ve always thought critics have an easy job sit there and point out flaws. I know now that it must be harder. I wonder if they sit there wondering if what they said is too harsh? Or just want to sit down and praise how amazing the writers are just for having written something and put it out in the world to be judged? I would be a wreck with the guilt and torn at the two wars within me. It’s easy when something is just rubbish, the hard part is when something is good, or has potential, if only this fatal flaw was pulled from it’s side.

Tonight thankfully I have no plays on just Rugby to attend. That is something I’m happy to criticize.

Things I Like Thursday

Things I Like Thursday

To start off things I don’t like: Accidently deleting two posts from existence by forgetting to check how recent my database backup was when upgrading my database.

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My new blog theme thanks Sam of Rooster Tails for the cool graphics. I’m probably not done yet… I’ll still be doing a few tweaks here and there.  Also there are a few bits of content that I really need to add to the pages…

Web comics… I mean they are comics and I read them on the internet… for free!!

My top 5 are(in no particular order):

  • PVP Player vs. Player is as very nerdy comic mostly aimed at gamers.
  • XKCD how do you explain this comic to those who don’t know about it… All I can say is when me and my husband talk about it we never seem to get the letter right we have called it XFCE XKFC and XKFD among many other things….
  • Rooster Tails an awesome New Zealand trans/queer comic written by a talented trans comic artist
  • The Knit Princess really funny knitting comic, probably only funny to knitters and maybe those close to knitters.
  • Oglaf NSFW enchanted sperm, naughty stories, and irreverent humour
  • and as a bonus Khaos Komix more Trans/Queer comics, this one tells several stories from lots of viewpoints, not so much funny like Rooster Tails, and more heartbreaking in bits.

 

Audible.com how I love thee… I love to read I read probably about 20 hours a week maybe more, which has always meant that my reading competes with my other hobbies(which I seem to have a lot of) meaning that I can either read or knit, read or embroider, read or cook dinner(okay not so much a hobby). You get the picture… About a two and a half years ago, after hearing on every single one of Brenda Dayne‘s podcasts about audible, I decided to give it a go and get a free audio book… Well I never had an audio device it worked with so I cancelled it.  Fast Forward 6 months I got an android phone , and guess what it had an audible app which meant I could download the books directly to my phone. Now I use audible constantly… I still read actual books but my reading time has increased massively cause I can read and do other things like knitting and cooking.

cover image of Syren by Angie Sage

Related: The Septimus Heap books… I’m halfway through book 5 and I absolutely love this series… They are like Harry Potter but yet not at all like Harry Potter. They are well written engaging and amazing to read.

Honourable Mentions:

Getting a postcard from Jenni… I love mail that’s not bills.

Larping (of course)

The Guild (they are back yay!!!)

Things I Like Thursday

Things I Like Thursday

Okay I really meant to post in this blog before now… but anyway here we are a week later.

Things I like:

Slut Walk: The march was awesome, getting up and speaking in front of such a large amount of amazing people was terrifying but worth it. Seeing everyone cry as I read my speech was heart breaking, and heart warming all at once. I feel bad that I had to leave so soon afterward. It’s also great to hear that so many people appreciated my speech… ( I have since this posted  my speech up here)

The Reason I had to hop off so soon after slut walk was so I could get ready for the Midea High School Prom LARP being held by The VUW Roleplaying and Games Club which was a blast! I completed all of my character goals and got into my secret society! YUS!!!!!!! It was a lot of fun. and I got to wear one of my Victorian gowns! (it was a Victorian masquerade themed prom).

And THEN the next day I had my Dragonlance table top game! so a very VERY geeky weekend.

This week has from then been filled with Game of Thrones, I’m almost done… I rather like Cersei, but also rather adore Daenerys…

While watching GoT I have been busily sketching costume ideas for my Teonn character…  which is useful, I love designing for medievalesque fantasy, you can pick and choose the best from everything really…  I love a lot of what Cersei wears, and this am drawing a lot of inspiration from her.

Knitting wise I’m working on the Dino Hat for a friend of mine!

Things I Love Thursday

I’m totally stealing this awesome idea from Jenni who does it regularly…  Now I’m hoping this won’t be my ONLY blog post. but I fear there will be times that this will be. Oh well. On to it I should go.

Homemade Gluten free Peanut Butter cookies

Spoonflower fabrics esp Doctor Who fabric!

Madman in a Blue Box

 

Keyka Lou Patterns – I love these and have made several of them… I need more cute fabric to make more cute things for more fabulous people. (I really must blog about the things I’ve made)

Teaching fabulous friends new crafts, like knitting and sewing!!!

and finally the latest episode of Urban Numina

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