So this is gonna be one of those posts about a bunch of stuff.

First off, good news. So about three weeks ago there was an issue when I went to see Tron Ares/Zoopcalypse, with ticket inspectors being assholes. Short version: the ticket machine wasn’t working and instead of helping people they were being assholes, including not believing people and slapping them with penalty fares. Well it took a few attempts, including having to quote the penalty dar act back to them, but the thing got withdrawn so that’s a stress gone. Also I heard back from the train company when I complained and they also admitted that they were in the wrong and would be reprimanded. So woo!

On Wednesday night I decided to get back to the Doctor Who run, with Planet Of Evil. The ep itself was ok. Like I watched and it was a decent enough story but it’s not one that exactly lingers you know? Also the name is a total misnomer cause the planet isn’t evil.

While the story didn’t feel special the same can’t be said about the sets. The spaceship has a nice model and interiors were nice. But the standout was the jungle of the planet which looks fantastic. The designers did such an incredible job (and even the bbc at the time acknowledged it, the behind the scenes mentions it was included inan in house film about goood design) and it really manages to be such a strange and alien landscape.

Yesterday was the trip out to Telford, which was a place I’d not been to before. It meant an early stuff which is annoying (especially after having one for the prior day) but we got there in good time. (And it was so beautiful seeing all the trees on the way in oranges and yellows) The place overall was… it was fine, but the stores just felt so much smaller than I expected, especially the hmv.

Primark didn’t have the hellfire jacket I wanted (which wasn’t a surprise it seems only bigger stores do) but I got a lil coin purse and a Hellfire tee. The tee is a new design and I can’t help but wonder if that’s significant. (I can’t imagine Dustin changing the design, so I feel it has to mean something? But what I dunno) But cause they didn’t have the jacket mum fixated on it, like making me wanna decide what to do about it. (She kept asking, ‘what’re you gonna do? Are you gonna order it? Are you going to ask your cousin to look for it?’ And I’m like ??? I can’t do any of those things now why can’t you wait till we’re home)

We went in a few places after that. Game didn’t have much, m and s had the new party food so I looked at it but it felt really expensive. (Ie they have mini tacos this year and they’re over twice the price that they were in sainsburys). Then in Pandora they had the Stranger Things charms so I could finally see them (I’ve wanted to see them for about a year but this is the first store that’s had them) and I got the one I always liked. I dunno if mums putting it up for Christmas or if I’m giving the money for it next week.

Then when we got to entertainer and b and m mum just got more agitated about the time so we didn’t do much in either. I got the stranger things tin and glass from b and m though which is nice and I saw the cute new Steve plushie in the entertainer, though I wish I’d picked him up.

HMV was really small and didn’t have stuff I was looking for. I did get two CDs from the 2 for £16, DJO and Twenty One Pilots (mostly to see what the fuss is about with the latter, I do wonder if I should’ve checked for Biffy’s new album instead. As I went to the till I also picked up a Young Frankenstein blu ray which was meant to have 20% (though when I checked the receipt email later didn’t) and an impulse purpose from ‘the discount with purchase’of chainsaw man season 1.(will I regret that? Who knows)

Then we had noms before heading home and aww Midna was so sweeet she just climbed straight into my lap the moment I sat down.

When we got back we were tired, though it seems the tiredness hit mum more. She completed zonked out half way through Art Detectives and didn’t wake for almost two hours. As a result I didn’t see Celebrity Traitors until this lunchtime. I knew there’d been some spoilers so I had avoided them yesterday… but this morning I saw one quickly and mum heard on the radio who won.

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Before that (and I know I’m going backwards but shh) this morning magazines came. I had hoped they’d come yesterday so I could read them in the car but oh well (not that I had reading focus anyway). I’ve not had chance to look at either, but I had a flick through of Sfx. It’s a Stranger Things one and I got a Dustin cover (other options are Will, Mike and Lucas) which is nice, plus there’s a poster, stickers and art card. Next month’s one is also Strnager Things so I’m curious if that’ll have more freebies or covers. Hopefully I’ll be able to read some of it, and the Doctor Who one, tomorrow.

(Also there’s gonna be Stranger Things coming back to Fortnite, I’m hoping for a Steve or Eddie skin. The game only has a Demogorgon, Hopper and Eleven so far)

Also this morning (and again I’m going back) I listened to the new Set It Off album, but just once before walking Naryu. It’s a strange one cause 8 of the 12 songs have already been released which is definitely an odd choice. It’s hard to judge after one full listen of the thing, I feel I definitely like some of the unreleased stuff but I don’t care much about Pathological (the opener and last single) and Ithink it’s an odd choice to have a redone version of an old song take up one slot.

It’s also the release of the new Hyrule Warriors but I’ve not got it yet. Usually I preorder Zelda stuff, but the timing has been so bad. I’m hoping to get it next week (I want it as a download but that means getting an sd card for it which ugh) I do wanna finish Pokémon ZA beforehand though, so I hope to go back on it more this weekend. The thing with ZA is it’s hard to know how far I’m into it. With Pokémon games it’s usually easy, you can track how far you are by how many of 8 badges you have, but with this there’s no clear indicator and I’ve not really wanted to look into it to find out (cause I don’t wanna spoil myself) I guess we’ll see though.

Tonight’s plan is to watch Beyond Paradise, Sister Boniface and hopefully to fic some after noms. This weekend I might watch a film with mum but I dunno what, maybe Hocus Pocus, Fantastic 4 First Steps or both. Or neither if I get too sidetracked, who knows.