Mage: The Ascension Action Figures! (not really)

Mage: The Ascension group photo led to ST making fake toys with computer... and then spending hours making the packs match and the accessories scale together.

Yes I want the whole set.

And the followup Halloween Formal fashion dolls.

Set 1, based on the photoshoot

Didi comes with different hair and higher heeled boots because I couldn't think of anything.

Didi's mischievous / evil smile fits the group photo but not the figure set, so a variant with a more neutral expression. Still adorably life-ruining but maybe 30% less obvious about it.

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Set 2: Halloween Formal

And like many real toy lines the accessories aren't 100% episode accurate. Nobody used the weapons included - Cara had to fight wrathful spirits with a hairpin - but we did use the wraps and purses and Simon definitely looked in a book.

Sunset City photoshoot

Mage: The Ascension: Sunset City

The visual references for the player characters from Mage: The Ascension - Sunset City
Michael (Luke Grimes), Didi (Ksenia Solo), Cara (Holland Roden), Alissa (Paris Berelc) and Simon (Rupert Evans)
together by the power of photomanipulation

My background-selecting hand hurts

And the Halloween formal last season. Should have thought "hey, don't have a background that matches somebody's hair"...

And for the Goth gig 4.19

Bloodhunt

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt was a great looking fun game that I played on and off and never came close to winning a match. Sad that it shut down, but a free game that ran for four years is pretty impressive.

New Bremen

20/4/2000

When I was

a young geek

White Wolf dot com

took me into the city

to see Godzilla fight

Josie And The Pussycats!

Happy 25th anniversary to the best movie ever

To the Moon and back

Artemis II crew back safe!

Easter

Happy day of eggs and bunnies and that as applicable!

8/5

Big egg opened because why not

11/5

Complete

J: I believe in you

Artemis II

Fly true Artemis II.

April

Have a safe Internet Bullshit Day!

Funny VTM AP?

Funny VTM AP? Eh.

16/4

Have now seen the first minute. That was plenty.

Ready Or Not (2) Here I Come

Ready Or Not (2) Here I Come is pretty fun, though it makes a big retcon its emotional core and can't match the "wait, what?" original. And one scene that really made me wince, intercut with a funny one. But it has Sarah Michelle Gellar as a surprisingly un-comedic villain along with some funny ones.

Buffy

Hulu turned down the Buffy revival series.

Hurts.

Snow Art Art

"My local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels"

Alysa Liu

Gaga monsters REPRESENT

Mage: The Ascension - Sunset City 4

OH YES

Mage: The Ascension - Sunset City 4

Sunset City 1 (not yet called that)

Sunset City 2

Sunset City 3

The further adventures of a circle of mages in San Francisco

Cara Lawson, Akashayana

She is beauty, she is grace, she will stab you in the face

Simon Donovan, Hermetic

The token like a wizard type

Alissa Kwan, Ecstatic

She can dance if she wants to, she can leave your friends behind

Michael Lang, Verbena

Into weird old magic with sticks and stuff

And last but definitely least:

Didi Duvall, Hollow One

Hell-o boys

4.01: Nightmares

2/1

It's been a quiet summer -

Simon banishing a spirit, Cara fighting a pack of ghouls, Michael investigating a spooky old mine, Alissa leading a tai chi class, Didi cheering at a gig

- but now people around the city are having strange dreams...

Happy New Year as and when it comes, if applicable.

Did an in town thing for the day, which was nice. (Bands and choirs and shows and things.)

2025

Okay, I think the Old Year is leaving, everybody make sure the exits are clear and - OH SHIT HE'S GOT A SCYTHE

Happy holidays if applicable, a good and safe day to all.

At mum's. Chicken, roast potatoes, soup, chocolate pudding and some Jaffa Cakes eaten, Fantastic Four DVD confirmed to work, book of winter ghost stories confirmed to have words in, charming Aardman animated special and charmless Amazon Santa movie watched, meeting people I didn't see before to exchange gifts organised for next week. And so to bed.

My Chemical Romance, All I Want For Christmas Is You

Stonehenge midwinter black cat

Her name is Moon

Maybe we'll be okay after all

The Force Awakens at ten

And despite how that ended, it's still pretty fun.