Welp!

I am back to work tomorrow, this is my last day of recuperation and I'm feeling a ton better than I was like a week ago, I managed to catch up on a few written sides of work, got to keep a few promises and now I'm feeling maybe a lil more ready to get back in the saddle, so expect to see/hear me more and maybe finally we'll see some output come out of me once again, lol

But yeah, viral infection was going around last week, was pretty nasty and couldn't really go anywhere to get a confirmation, but Jeri's kept her eye on me, prescribed anything with paracetomol, bed rest and fluids

It has not been pretty, but with enough TLC we got there, lol

Snow has been heavy across the town, but once again, my wife's perk of being hospital staff was quick to see public services dig us out if only to make sure they could haul her away to the hospital to help out, so, yeah, on the other side of things, it's been a lil lonely and maybe I wallowed a little in my whole sickness bleh, the worst thing being just how tired it's made me feel of late, but I'm feeling a little more energy in me now, and hopefully I'll follow this up this weekend with my checkup and hopeful cast off date!

Next week's Game Day for Magic after all, I wanna nab me an Ugin Mat! =D

But, that's the future, just now?

I went and put like lil post it notes to myself here, I have no idea what half of these mean in my fever dreams I wrote them, lol, but the ones that are relevant here I guess?

Magic DID pull an epic that some of you here may or may not have already read up on, when last week on Wednesday - the day of the week Magic uses on their website to create short stories that build fiction onto the worlds - they chose to make a story about Alesha, Who Smiles at Death: one of the new cards from the new set, and the ancient Khan of the Mardu clan over a thousand years ago =o

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That's her, she's awesome, small card that can get ridiculous with the right plays and ridiculous combo plays off of things that are LESS THAN 2 POWER

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So, yeah, she's an awesome little card on the mechanical scale already, but then they released the story, "The Truth of Names"

http://magic.wizards.com/en/article.....mes-2015-01-28

Wherein it is revealed that Alesha is Magic's first Trans character, that through the story it's revealed, and it all revolves around the idea of identity, which ties in really nicely with the lore of the Mardu clan, where basically warriors of the clan strive to gain glory in battle and achievements, when they earn the right to give themselves a war name and be recognised by the rest of the clan for such

So, Alesha used the ceremony to take her grandmother's name and there we are =B

It didn't hurt I already preferred Alesha over Zurgo - the 'present day' Khan - like tenfold, but this story really sold her to me, the way her Mardu lets the warriors choose their name, whilst present day Zurgo would run around and slap people with names of his choosing, even telling someone to shut up whilst doing it

Totally need a card for the Nameless Orc in this story too somewhere, I really liked this side of the Mardu, and with Dragons of Tarkir being the set where we go back to the future Tarkir, I hope this side of the Mardu sticks


So, plenty of Magic feels all round, a lot of people have been supportive and think Wizards got this one right, so time'll tell if we see more output like this

But, I also got my feels when I went on a Netflix binge while stuck in bed... TF Prime and MLP:FiM being taken down today had me watching them, but I occasionally watched other things for fun to break up the mix, one such thing was I finally caught the last season of Futurama, including its final episode

And for a show that's been cancelled and brought back how many times now? I really couldn't ask for a better ending I guess, the will-they-won't-they around Fry and Leela really ran around with all giddy circles, seeing their final time together and the unseemly way they got to be together was really nice and touching

I'll always have fond memories of Futurama, but I'd like to think this is where it ends, nice and open-ended, but with a good reassurance of where the future goes

Dunno if it hits my top spot for show finales - of which Batman Brave and the Bold still holds very high rank - but it is hard to think of shows who bowed out really well, something I'd like to look at someday

Kinda kicking myself over my January purchases here and there, what money I've had I've tried to be smart with, but Shonen Jump for instance, I bought myself in for the next year of Subscription at the $26, only a week later to see them put the year subscription to $20 XP

Hi-Fi Cluster was a really short lived series, and wasn't my fave out of the other Jump Starters, but I am sad to see a series finish short in Shonen Jump, makes me wonder if Viz will be that supportive of continuing to follow this trend or not of introducing new series only to see them keep getting cut, twice in a row now this has happened to the English version of the title

But now at least it means we get to follow Hero Academia, and SJW seems to be picking up that there are a buttload of manga treasures we don't have our hands on that English readers would probably like to read all about =o

I can't help but look at the themes that really seem to be pulling out of Shonen Jump lately though, lol, now we have Food Wars we have that and Toriko for cooking manga, and now with Hero Academia and One Punch Man you've got your superhero manga, so it's interesting to see where the trends fall I guess

Welp, enough rambling for now, time to get myself ready for tomorrow! =B