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lady_ragnell) wrote2026-03-30 11:12 am
lady_ragnell) wrote2026-03-30 11:12 am
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2026 Media Catchall Post, First Quarter
Here we are again! Normally I would do this tomorrow, but tomorrow is looking like a busy day, so here we are!
Music
Movies
TV Shows
Other
D&D
Creative Projects
Things I'm Looking Forward To
And that's all for now! What should I watch to replace Elementary when I finish that? I like to have a show with a decent amount of episodes to default to when nothing else is new or interesting. I do have a couple seasons of Murder She Wrote sitting around, at least, but I'm feeling uninspired about it. Usually I'm doing those default-y shows with my mother, and our tastes don't overlap on much but murder mysteries and Leverage, but if you've got a genius idea, lay it on me!
Music
Keeping up with my weekly song recs with my sister! "It Gets Funkier" by Vulfpeck has been on my brain a lot, as well as "Caledonia" as sung by the New York Vocal Collective. Plus, thanks to a "guess the musical theater song" blog on tumblr, "Du maste finnas" as sung by Helen Sjoholm.
Movies
I watched part of one singular movie, the 2003 live action Cat in the Hat. Mike Myers was absolutely dreadful, attempting to be Robin Williams and failing utterly at having his charm. Painful to view. I was guiltily glad when my babysitting evening ended before we could get more than halfway. But yeah, there are movies I want to watch but my brain hasn't been doing them. Someday!
TV Shows
Much longer list! Keeping up with The Pitt, 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Nashville, Animal Control, and High Potential. Watched the rest of season one of Farscape but haven't continued it, for no good reason, my brain just hasn't gone for it. Only eight episodes from finishing Elementary. I watched season one of Heated Rivalry (enjoyed it but am slightly baffled what people are writing so much fic about when it felt like a really complete story to me), season four of Bridgerton (much better than s3, which I think was the weakest outing so far), season six of All Creatures Great and Small, and Seven Dials on Netflix because I love a Christie adaptation. Oh, and I've watched two episodes of Pluribus, which is amazingly well done but A Lot, which is why I've only seen two episodes. Phew! Lots of shows!
ETA right before posting: Antiques Roadshow!!! How could I forget?
ETA right before posting: Antiques Roadshow!!! How could I forget?
Other
Not a ton here! Keeping up with Make Some Noise on Dropout but haven't done much of their other programming lately (I'd love to have the brain to watch some of the Dimension 20 I desperately want to watch, but those episodes are So Long). Keeping up with the usual YouTube channels but not a ton of nw ones. Playing a bunch of internet games, which I don't think I've talked about in this section before? But at this point I've picked up an impressive roster of puzzles that I play most days: Wordle, Quordle, Octordle, Connections, Squaredle, Raddle, and recently cluesbysam. Got to keep my brain busy through the horrors, I guess!
I also saw two pieces of theater over the past couple of months! I saw the National Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa, which was fun and bright and colorful and fast-paced and a bit overacted for my taste in a lot of places (it was fun! They were doing it on purpose! It was a directorial choice and they played it to perfection! Just not the choices I would have made), but the Aunt Augusta was PERFECT. I will say that I always forget the brother reveal at the end and it sure does make queering this show awkward, at least they leaned more on the women for that. The other was a local production of a lesser-known play (not going to say what it is, sorry, no idea how many places put this show on in a given year and don't really want to doxx myself), which was a really fun night and a deeper show than I expected it to be from the summary! Some really cool staging and a fun set in a black-box-esque theater, and a show that tried to say some things and succeeded like 75-80% on it.
I also saw two pieces of theater over the past couple of months! I saw the National Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest with Ncuti Gatwa, which was fun and bright and colorful and fast-paced and a bit overacted for my taste in a lot of places (it was fun! They were doing it on purpose! It was a directorial choice and they played it to perfection! Just not the choices I would have made), but the Aunt Augusta was PERFECT. I will say that I always forget the brother reveal at the end and it sure does make queering this show awkward, at least they leaned more on the women for that. The other was a local production of a lesser-known play (not going to say what it is, sorry, no idea how many places put this show on in a given year and don't really want to doxx myself), which was a really fun night and a deeper show than I expected it to be from the summary! Some really cool staging and a fun set in a black-box-esque theater, and a show that tried to say some things and succeeded like 75-80% on it.
D&D
God, what was I even up to in D&D three months ago. Wait, I can answer this! I literally posted a recap like two weeks ago! Our paladin got some gender-affirming care, that happened early on. And our warlock decoded a language that implies people are living on the Ethereal Plane, which was previously considered sterile. Then we did another hell, which was Bad Thing On Bad Thing (investigating a weird abandoned cult town! Preventing new gods from being created by the cult town's energy! Fighting a scary extraplanar creature! Finding a baby on a mountainside! Relationship struggles!). Following that, there was some courtship and some quicker things and the discovery that a guy they've met before in fact is one of the people from the Ethereal Plane.
And then they went to the Underdark, and with my players' full consent, I violated one of the strictest and most beloved rules of D&D and I scripted a bunch of scenes! They were going to visit the party's boyfriend's family, and he has a large and complicated family and they really wanted to lean into the drama so I just ... wrote a play? And we all took a few characters and acted it out and had a marvelous time! And then back in improv-land they had to find a missing teenager who was being preyed upon by monsters that force you to listen to your deepest insecurities, so it was very fun to throw that emotions bomb onto the players, we're still dealing with some fallout from that.
And then they went to the Underdark, and with my players' full consent, I violated one of the strictest and most beloved rules of D&D and I scripted a bunch of scenes! They were going to visit the party's boyfriend's family, and he has a large and complicated family and they really wanted to lean into the drama so I just ... wrote a play? And we all took a few characters and acted it out and had a marvelous time! And then back in improv-land they had to find a missing teenager who was being preyed upon by monsters that force you to listen to your deepest insecurities, so it was very fun to throw that emotions bomb onto the players, we're still dealing with some fallout from that.
Creative Projects
I have been doing very well with writing and medium well with other things!
Writing: I started off my year with an edit of one of my original works. You know, if you follow these posts, that I spent a good chunk of last year, and a bit of the year before if I recall correctly, absolutely miserably struggling with an edit that didn't want to happen. And then I got to this one and it practically edited itself in six weeks into a much stronger book. I don't know what possessed me but I would fucking LOVE for it to happen again, holy shit. Then once that was done I had a D&D play to write, see above, and I've done a bit of fic since then (D&D summary, accidentally wrote a 9-1-1 episode tag, currently writing some D&D porn). Overall, feeling consistent and good about my writing so far this year!
Crafting: Less consistent on this so far, since I've been sinking all my attention into D&D and an edit. However, the big news is that I finally finished the Tortall map! I'm really pleased with how it came out, I'm not always the most precise of stitchers but I'm really glad I put the time and energy into this. Now I'm in the slow process of mocking up a new dress pattern, and I need to move into higher gear for that because the past few years I've had a new me-made dress for me to wear for my birthday in early May and I would LOVE to make that happen. Right now the bust is giving me conniption fits, got to figure out how to fit that better. Also, I'm missing having an embroidery project on the go! Got to think about what to do next.
Writing: I started off my year with an edit of one of my original works. You know, if you follow these posts, that I spent a good chunk of last year, and a bit of the year before if I recall correctly, absolutely miserably struggling with an edit that didn't want to happen. And then I got to this one and it practically edited itself in six weeks into a much stronger book. I don't know what possessed me but I would fucking LOVE for it to happen again, holy shit. Then once that was done I had a D&D play to write, see above, and I've done a bit of fic since then (D&D summary, accidentally wrote a 9-1-1 episode tag, currently writing some D&D porn). Overall, feeling consistent and good about my writing so far this year!
Crafting: Less consistent on this so far, since I've been sinking all my attention into D&D and an edit. However, the big news is that I finally finished the Tortall map! I'm really pleased with how it came out, I'm not always the most precise of stitchers but I'm really glad I put the time and energy into this. Now I'm in the slow process of mocking up a new dress pattern, and I need to move into higher gear for that because the past few years I've had a new me-made dress for me to wear for my birthday in early May and I would LOVE to make that happen. Right now the bust is giving me conniption fits, got to figure out how to fit that better. Also, I'm missing having an embroidery project on the go! Got to think about what to do next.
Things I'm Looking Forward To
Media-wise, I'm looking forward to the ends of the seasons of the shows I'm watching, for sure, including Pluribus when I'm feeling brave! I really want to have some movie energy, I want to watch last year's Superman movie and The Testament of Ann Lee seems really interesting and stranger and I want to watch it VERY badly.
For creativity, I've got two Fandom Trumps Hate fics to write and I'm looking forward to getting to those (well, the first one, second person hasn't prompted me yet), and then I'll see where the wind takes me! More D&D porn, probably, but still interested in more Tortall and 9-1-1 fics, and the first edit this year went so well that I'm looking ahead in the series ...
For creativity, I've got two Fandom Trumps Hate fics to write and I'm looking forward to getting to those (well, the first one, second person hasn't prompted me yet), and then I'll see where the wind takes me! More D&D porn, probably, but still interested in more Tortall and 9-1-1 fics, and the first edit this year went so well that I'm looking ahead in the series ...
And that's all for now! What should I watch to replace Elementary when I finish that? I like to have a show with a decent amount of episodes to default to when nothing else is new or interesting. I do have a couple seasons of Murder She Wrote sitting around, at least, but I'm feeling uninspired about it. Usually I'm doing those default-y shows with my mother, and our tastes don't overlap on much but murder mysteries and Leverage, but if you've got a genius idea, lay it on me!
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