Astra Random <3

Astra Random <3

@astra-random.bsky.social

Enjoyer of Warhammer 40k Doctor Who (especially classic era) Pokemon, and like the yugioh animes, magic the gathering and whatever my interest of the month is

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I've been finding it interestingly harder to enjoy or do anything 40k related recently, whether it's building models, painting them, or listening to my audio books like it just hasn't been helping my interestingly depressed mood with everything going on

Growing up I was never really into traditional girls stuff, nor did I ever really have the option due to parents and just being interested in other stuff, some of which became lifelong hobbies, so I think now I'm allowed a girly interest as a treat, like these dolls from a terrible tv show

On a related note, it does make me smile walking into a fandom and just seeing people enjoying it and making fan art and talking about stuff, and just missing any negativity cause I'm just not delving too deep into it

Nothing like a new hyperfixation to get you through an existential crisis. It's not even something that great that's caught my attention this time, but I love it anyway, and there's some good ideas I might steal for dnd

Lotarra is probably my favourite human character, nay just actual favourite character from the Horus Heresy, despite being a resin questionable human model I'm 100% painting her, and maybe be apart of a Jackal unit

I bought my friends Deathwatch army after he decided to go back to Templars when he squatted the Deathwatch, and I just want to show off how much of a talented painter he is, my bad photography does not do these gorgeous models justice

He's also why I decided to make a customised Ultramarines army because I wanted my own army of this quality, even some of the bits used here are ones I use on my own armies, and vice versa I showed him the Ultramarines and Templar shields used which I got for my own armies

Everything kinda just sucks right now, January was honestly kinda really bad in general and personally. I try my best to focus on the good, positive things and to not dwell on the well *vague hand gesture at world* lest everything overwhelms me

Building a Canadian Highlander deck and I could build a deck that was decent, back in like 2018 before a half decades worth of power crept magic cards I just avoided as I found other hobbies and kinda didn't play much magic or bought cards, idk maybe boomer jund will work fine against my friends

I don't think many of the people seeing this may know what magic the gathering is unless it's mainstream enough now, especially the format that is predominantly played not where I exist, but that won't stop me yapping about stuff I like

2025 is really starting to look like the year I just quit using any social media app, there's just no escaping the endless amounts of shit and I'm already just perpetually stress without the world going downhill

In 2023 I painted 33 minis* and a small amount of terrain *Angron was 95% done In 2024 I painted 58 minis, so overall I painted more in 2024 though I did get very much burnt out halfway through the year. So yeah that's my goal for 2025, paint some more and not burn out.

With such projects as finishing my 40k Ultramarines, getting a large enough chunk of Blood Angels done, my small group of Sons of Horus, some Grey Knights, and maybe if I feel like it have a decent enough World Eaters force, and potentially I've a couple other small projects I'd like to start.

I enjoyed the War Games in Colour, my only negative is that I'm still not a big fan of how it's edited but a bit less so than Daleks in Colour, music choices were better and less jarring, so the War Chiefs theme was sus, and the regeneration with all the easter eggs is very fanservicey but I like it

Carrying on going through 60s Doctor Who and there's a sweet scene in episode 3 of Tomb of the Cybermen, where the Doctor is talking to Victoria about her father and she asks about his family and it's just so wholesome but got me in the feels too because it's dealing with the loss of loved ones

Someone must've unloaded there entire classic doctor who dvd collection at my local second hand nerd store, as I've picked up all of this to add to my dvd collection, which now brings me to having just about over the surviving classic who stories on dvd

That's about as much as I can be bothered to paint for this lil heresy space wolf, sure I could tidy up the armour or better do the space but its a good attenpt and they are generally a messy bunch, the base is supposed to be icy wintry sludge themed #WarhammerCommunity #HorusHeresy

You think twitter is bad? My Facebook feed is 3/4s recommended slop, alt right memes, ai generated trash, Instagram reels and ads, almost none of which relevant to anything I follow, just a dead unusable site now

I have a £10 games workshop voucher that expires this weekend, they are out of stock of everything I want, but I could get lil Horus Aximand, and then get some guys to paint as Sons of Horus with some conversion, ignoring my box of heresy guys for Ultramarines and my other army projects

Also a running theme at least of what I've seen of season 2 of Classic Who is that everyone gets split up and get into shenanigans before all meeting up in the last episode, happened in Dalek Invasion of Earth, and seems like it's happening in the Romans