The Legend of Vox Machina
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settiai( Spoilers for 4x01 under the cut. )
( Spoilers for 4x02 under the cut. )
( Spoilers for 4x03 under the cut. )
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POLL: favourite releases of February 2026
Jun. 3rd, 2026 10:40 pmparadisedinermod posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
paradisedinerWhat are your favourite releases of February 2026?
ASC2NT - Still Rose
1 (8.3%)
Ateez - Adrenaline
4 (33.3%)
AtHeart - Shut Up
0 (0.0%)
Blackpink - Go
1 (8.3%)
Chaser - Invincible
0 (0.0%)
ChoCo Family - Gimme / Frenzy
0 (0.0%)
Chungha - Save Me
0 (0.0%)
Cortis - Mention Me
0 (0.0%)
Daily:Direction - Roomba Doomba
0 (0.0%)
Hearts2Hearts - Rude
2 (16.7%)
Hori7on - Lunod
1 (8.3%)
IVE - Bang Bang / Blackhole
4 (33.3%)
Jinsol - Eternal Light
0 (0.0%)
Jiwoo - Home Sweet Home
1 (8.3%)
Kim Doyul - Moreday
0 (0.0%)
Kim Sung Kyu - Over It
1 (8.3%)
Lee Jiham - Too Late
0 (0.0%)
Lee Young Ji - Robot
0 (0.0%)
MADEIN - Super Obvious
0 (0.0%)
Minho - Flawless / Sunkissed
1 (8.3%)
Navillera - No Limit
0 (0.0%)
NCT JNJM - Both Sides
1 (8.3%)
One Pact - Sane
0 (0.0%)
QQQ - Uncool
1 (8.3%)
RIIZE - All of You
0 (0.0%)
Skinz - Why U Mad
0 (0.0%)
Sorn - Call it what you want
0 (0.0%)
StayC - Mwuah
3 (25.0%)
Sungmin - Godsaeng / Dancing Under the Stars
0 (0.0%)
Sya - Stay
0 (0.0%)
Trendz - Kart Racer
0 (0.0%)
TWS - Nice to See You Again
0 (0.0%)
WJSN - Bloom Hour
3 (25.0%)
Woodz - Cinema
2 (16.7%)
X:In - Dazzle Flash
0 (0.0%)
Yang Yoseop - Fade Away
0 (0.0%)
Zerobaseone - Lovepocalypse
0 (0.0%)
Critical Role
Jun. 2nd, 2026 06:40 pmsettiaiOn Monday and Tuesday evenings, by the time I make it home from work, my brain is done for the day so watching something new-to-me is off the table. Then I have D&D on Wednesdays and Fridays, so watching anything longer than an hour or two isn't possible. Which means Thursday is my only real day to watch things after work, but it's also usually my day to run errands so... yeah.
Theoretically, I should have time on the weekends, but I've been using them to catch up on sleep lately.
Luckily, things seem to be calming down at work again as the big rush from May grads is dying down, so I'm hoping that I'll get to the point where I can start watching an episode or two throughout the day when I'm working from home and not on phone calls. I'm not holding my breath it will get to that point this week, but hey. Anything's possible.
Legacy media
Jun. 2nd, 2026 03:35 pmchina_shopI have
a pile/jumble or one or more boxes of audio cassettes
15 (27.8%)
a carefully curated selection of audio cassettes I don't want to part with yet (even if some of them have stretched)
14 (25.9%)
access to a tape deck
19 (35.2%)
a pile/jumble or one or more boxes of VHS tapes
10 (18.5%)
a carefully curated selection of VHS tapes I don't want to part with yet
19 (35.2%)
access to a VCR
20 (37.0%)
a lot of DVDs
44 (81.5%)
access to a DVD or Blu-ray player
44 (81.5%)
Super8, MiniDV, etc. tapes
2 (3.7%)
access to a camera or other way of playing them
0 (0.0%)
vinyl
17 (31.5%)
access to a record player
12 (22.2%)
a ridiculous number of CD-ROMs
29 (53.7%)
other
6 (11.1%)
a storage system I'm satisfied with
9 (16.7%)
at this point, it's just a lot of old stuff, help!
17 (31.5%)
ticky-box
29 (53.7%)
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New Music Monday - 1 June 2026
Jun. 1st, 2026 08:21 pmparadisedinermod posting in paradisedinerShinee - Atmos
tripleS - Baby Flower
Treasure - If I
Fifty Fifty - Like a Bubble
Meovv - Ddi Ro Ri
Renjun - Echoes Between Us (China)
Xia - Gravity
N.Flying - In Between Seasons
Mamamoo - 4Ward
New MVs are also added to an ongoing Youtube playlist.
Last week's MVs: 25 May
Feel free to add new comments in the replies for songs/MVs we missed.
Monthly General Chat - June 2026
Jun. 1st, 2026 08:11 pmparadisedinermod posting in paradisedinerOptional discussion question: what's your emotional support song/mv/variety show when you're down?
The Legend of Vox Machina
Jun. 1st, 2026 12:38 amsettiai(Yes, it's only a little past midnight for me. It still counts.)
On a related note, Season 4 of The Legend of Vox Machina starts airing this week, so I did a marathon of the first three seasons while I was working on various things around the apartment this weekend. I made it through the first two seasons on Saturday, and then I picked up with the third season late this afternoon and just finished up a bit before midnight.
It's been ages since I watched the entire series back-to-back like that, and it really made it stand out just how much the characters have grown and evolved over the course of those three seasons. As much as I love Campaign 1 of Critical Role, the animated series really does a better job at telling the story of Vox Machina in a lot of ways. Which makes sense, as the D&D series was essentially the rough draft of the story while the show is the version that's been cleaned up and edited.
Now I just have to wait for Season 4 to get here.
I have zero focus (biking and looking at art)
Jun. 1st, 2026 04:31 pmchina_shopI just spent an hour or more on Duolingo, which was a wrist-centric mistake after two hours' biking yesterday, so I've ordered a stylus in the hopes that'll make all the character-tracing easier. (Also, maybe faster for the timed sprint challenges?)
On Saturday we went to the NZ Art Show, which was uh, mostly crowded. It's hard to appreciate individual pieces in a very busy environment, with everything all crammed in together. The bright/garish pieces stand out, but anything quieter disappears. As always, my favourites were very children's-book-illustration-esque. We went round the whole place at a fair clip and were out in an hour.
And yesterday (Sunday), we biked Te Ara Tupua, the new separated cycleway/pedestrian-way to Pito-one (formerly, there was just the shoulder of the motorway). We continued along the foreshore and up the side of the river into Lower Hutt, had lunch at the Dowse Art Museum and a look around there, and came home again. The whole ride was about 43km. I bought some storage cubes (flat packed) which fit fine in our panniers and some cube packs. Still not really sure how to organise my stuff, but I have options.
Te Ara Tupua, which only opened a couple of weeks ago, was teeming with pedestrians and cyclists -- adults, kids, groups, etc. It felt like the city had been set free. I don't think I've seen so many smiles in my ten years of biking as an adult! It felt like a mix of seasoned cyclists, families with kids, and people who'd decided to take their bikes out of the garage, dust them off and give it a go. Really great. It took half an hour from Wellington railway station to Pito-one, and slightly longer back just because of the busyness of the path. :-)