(Bi)Weekly Bundate 7-13-25

13 Jul, 2025

Hey y'all. Wish I were more consistent with this, but I'm beholden to no one here, which is always dangerous.

Binkies (Gags, goofs, other positive notes from the week/fortnight)

saw Weird Al, like I mentioned. It was cool except that we got fucking drowned. I was miserable heading home, but it was overall, pretty fun.
We started an Archipelago world in Mint's server and this is great. Super fun and interesting way to play these games. ~~Do feel a little bad that everyone is drowning in beans.~~
Played Commander this weekend with a guy who hadn't played before and while his deck popped off and got me a little salted early on (he put me in THE FUCKING MOON), it was good game, overall. I got to play Kefka, Dancing Mad, so that was awesome.

I see why people recommend Jeanne d'Arc. It's really good. Mechanically, a lot of fun and the story is buckwild. It's anime Joan of Arc with furries and the furries angle somehow like, the most mundane thing in the game.
Dissidia Duodecim is just as cool as I remember. Idk if I'll beat it because it's more of a time waste game for me. Not sure what I wanna do, I'll boot it up and start goin' wild.
Playing Legend of Zelda: ~~Blue Version~~ Oracle of Ages and managed to get past the part that always tripped me up as a kid (save states are a godsend). Wish I hadn't thrown out the guide I had when I played these on my GBC back in the day. Was hoping to have beaten it by now but, uh, ya know, it's been A Week.

Finished rewatching Scrubs--had an oddly difficult time finding the final episode, but damn, that ending hits for me every time. Again, I think that there's some stuff that needs some reconsidering, but eh, it's an old comfort show for me, so sue me.
back on King of the Hill, this show really was good as hell. They're not all perfect, but hey, nobody bats 1000. I like it so much, I'm keeping notes on which episodes are my favorites.
Watched Remembering Gene Wilder, cool to learn more about the man and hear what a cool guy he was. Like, in preparation for See No Evil, Hear No Evil, he wanted to be sure to portray a deaf person in a way that was accurate and not offensive, so he talked to a woman for the New York League of the Hard for Hearing and learned lip reading. You also get some discussion of his first meeting with Mel Brooks which was the beginning of something great.
- related: watched See No Evil, Hear No Evil. I enjoyed it, though I can see how it wasn't super popular. I think Pryor and Wilder are really good in it. The plot is a little gonzo, overall. Also, Kevin Spacey is there for some reason?
Also watched A Futile and Stupid Gesture about one of the guys behind National Lampoon and it was a good time. Insane cast. Most fun part for me was watching Joel McHale play Chevy Chase--whoever made that call is my hero.
if you're in mint's discord or forum, you'll know I watched Robin Hood (2018) and had some thoughts

Read Real Hero Shit book 1 and damn, that was fun. By the time I post this, they'll have closed crowdfunding for the 2nd book, which I'm excited for. Also, god, jealous of Eugene cause he gets to sleep with Ani: godiwishthatwereme.jpg
"I'm not ignoring your message - I'm Overwhelmed by the tyranny of always being reachable" Alyaza shared this one on mint's forum and I've been thinking about it a lot. I do think that always being reachable or perceived as always reachable is troublesome. I'm incredibly forgetful and constantly craving approbation from the people around me, so if I don't reply right away, I will forget and then realize that and immediately feel like a bad person. I'm working on it. A few weeks ago, my phone fell in the toilet, so it was off all weekend and I'm kind of considering just, like, doing that as a thing. No phone for the weekend. Idk, idea I've had.
I have not been reading enough lately. Gotta get back to it.

Gonna try jotting these down here more for myself, but like, lmk if this is something you like seeing/wanna see more of

"Folkloric Analysis King Arthur and Robin Hood within British Myth" - mostly useful for source list, not a ton of real interesting analysis going on.
"Always the Outlaw : Potential for Subversion of the Metanarrative in Retellings of Robin Hood" - Think I've read this before; kind of interesting but kind of a shotgun spread of recent (at the time) Robin Hood novels.
"'I Wyll Be Thy True Servaunte And Trewly Serve Thee' Guildhall Minstrelsy in the ‘Gest of Robyn Hode" - kind of a reread. Intriguing, but unsure how useful it is to my own project
"Azeem and the Witch; Race, Disability, and Medievalisms in Robin Hood-Prince of Thieves" - great article overall, love the general readings, though the author at times annoys me with nitpicks that irrelevant to reading the movie, they're just like Cinema Sins-type bullshit. Also reminds me how fucked this country is; you know the Americans with Disabilities Act was only signed into law in the 1990s and with significant social pressure?

On Altschmerz - I wrote about this weird feeling of being tired of your same old anxieties
been rough week this week, dunno if it was that way for y'all, but sure was for me and it feels like it has been for some of the homies.

hey, if ya like what I post, you can toss a few buck here. I don't like shaking the change jar, but it's hard out here, y'all.