Saturday, 15 October 2022

Vamptober 2022 15: Remorse

Vamptober 2022 15: Remorse

“Who was that?”
“I don’t know. But he seemed so sorry he might have scared me...”

Friday, 14 October 2022

Huntober 2022 14: Descent Into The Darkness

Huntober 2022 14: Descent Into The Darkness

Carry the light with you.


(Inspired by The Esoterrorists.)

Vamptober 2022 14: The Curse Of My Blood

Vamptober 2022 14: The Curse Of My Blood

“It would be so much easier if I was just a monster. Not to remember what it was like. Not to feel it. Every time.”

Robbie Coltrane

Robbie Coltrane was, among other things, a musical star, a comic adaptation hero, a Bond not-quite-villain.

Thursday, 13 October 2022

Huntober 2022 13: I Smell Magic In Here

Huntober 2022 13: I Smell Magic In Here

That door chime really does warn the magic store owner when certain types of customers come in.

Vamptober 2022 13: We Gather Here Tonight

Vamptober 2022 13: We Gather Here Tonight

“My Seneschal, Keeper and I are pleased to announce that your Accounting is now concluded, and you are henceforth to be considered one of the city’s Kindred.”
“I am certain you will make your sire proud.”
“And I hope you can forgive him.”

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law 1.09: Whose Show Is This?

Marvel’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
1.09: Whose Show Is This?

I liked the format-bending (though I miss the format) and it certainly runs with the promise of the style choice taken from the comics.

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

Huntober 2022 12: The Weird Find

Huntober 2022 12: The Weird Find

A keyring. A lucky charm. But this one doesn’t look like it would bring good luck.

Vamptober 2022 12: Humanity Lost

Vamptober 2022 12: Humanity Lost

“Rcch. Careless of me. Nearly got some in my eye.”


Star Wars: Andor 1.06: The Eye

Star Wars: Andor
1.06: The Eye

Part three of the second three-parter. More my kind of thing than 1-3, but more on the Rogue One level than the kind of Star Wars I’d make.

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Huntober 2022 11: Paranormal Activity

Huntober 2022 11: Paranormal Activity

Angels say “Be not afraid” because it is only natural to be afraid.

Vamptober 2022 11: My Safe Haven

Vamptober 2022 11: My Safe Haven

Many bathrooms have minimal indirect lighting and locks on doors, and the bath itself is often a sturdy metal construct.


Yes the perspective is terrible I know.

Monday, 10 October 2022

Huntober 2022 10: Werewolf Country

Huntober 2022 10: We Can’t Stop Here, This Is Werewolf Country

“Last seen wearing a blue all-weather jacket and black ski hat, heading into Dalton Woods on foot...”

Vamptober 2022 10: Where Bloodsuckers Dance

Vamptober 2022 10: Where Bloodsuckers Dance

Vampires having nightclubs is a common enough thing to earn a TV Tropes page. Of course - night is in the name. And of course they rarely come just to enjoy themselves.


Saturday, 8 October 2022

Revisiting Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Following The Focre Awakens comes the network premiere of Rian Johnson’s Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi, the uneven but innovative oddity in the middle of the sequel trilogy before J.J. Abrams changed his mind and undid a bunch of it.

Johnson looked back himself with Empire after five years.

Watching with my mum again...

(The island)
These look like monastic beehives from medieval times. They look like individual monastic cells on Iona, made by dry stane dyking methods.
(And she’s quite right, the Skellig Michael 6th-8th century monastery is built in a similar manner.)

Huntober 2022 8: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Huntober 2022 8: Something Wicked This Way Comes

(With apologies to the poster artists for The Dark Knight)

“Is this your card?”

Vamptober 2022 8: Memoriam

Vamptober 2022 8: Memoriam

“Portrait of... oh, is he an ancestor?”
“Something like that.”