Valerie Raith

So gorgeous.

Reason number 6548 why I love my wife: She knew everything would be packed next week, so she said "Let's have our showing of Iron Lung be our Valentine's Day date!"

Great. Another issue I can't afford to fix on my own.
To avoid hitting a car that stopped short, I drove up into a snowbank. I'm okay, but the front bumper on my car is all the way off.

Pair it with a lovely vintage of "Restoring A Sense of Joy" and it is perfect.

I did that with Fourze at one point. Wound up with Gentaro as a Pokemon trainer, Gentaro as a Blue Lantern, Gentaro as an urban fantasy detective, and Gentaro as an orc paladin from a JRPG.

Mood.

Rest now, Super Sentai. Recover your strength, old friend. No matter how old I get, I will be there to watch you and buy your toys. You matter to me, as you matter to other people, and I will never forget you.

But all in all, there's far more high points than low points in Super Sentai, and far more good memories for me than bad.
May Super Sentai come back from this hiatus with a decent season, and may the writing and action climb from there. That is my hope.

I don't think Gozyuger was a great series to give Super Sentai a sendoff. It was serviceable. It was somewhat entertaining. But I knew what Super Sentai could be because I had seen it at its best.
The series was done in by terrible corporate decisions on both sides of the ocean.

Gozyuger was supposed to be a celebration of five decades of Sentai history, and there was a concerted effort to treat that history better than Zenkaiger did, but then it was marred by studio decisions, the announced cancellation and hiatus, and the treatment of Maya Imamori.

I knew that as Q said in TNG "All good things must come to an end." But I didn't want to lose this part of me. So even after being burned by Zenkaiger, I watched the weirdness of Donbrothers. I climbed to the absolute peak of Sentai with Kingohger, then plunged into a flat valley with Boonboomger.

Her first two series were Zyuohger and Kyuranger, and she loved those freakish found families and wanted more.
Once again, Super Sentai had caught the interest of someone important to me, and I shared it with her whenever I could.

Even at a time when most of the original IRL circle of friends drifted away from toku to Kpop, I stayed aboard. I cheered when the Gobusters won. I danced with the Kyoryugers. And then a few years later, the woman who became my wife got into these shows because of me.

They brought me into the fold of toku roleplaying on tumblr, and there I met my biggest circle of online friends. A group who watched every Super Sentai series and found something to enjoy in every series, barring Zenkaiger. Let us not go to Zenkaiger. 'Tis a stupid place.

My second time through college, I had brought my laptop and hard drive with toku shows to a communal area and plugged in. I found four friends who sailed aboard the Gokai Galleon with me. I have had those friends for over fifteen years, in part because of our shared love of super sentai.

I watched the Kakurangers strike from the shadows, flew with the Jetmen. I tapped into my guts with the Abarangers, stood by the Dekarangers as they kept us safe.
But these were shows that I mostly watched alone. Nobody else was interested until...

With the super sentai Hiatus, it's time for me to put my thoughts out there.
First and foremost, I was a Power Rangers girlie. When I got into Super Sentai properly, the first season I watched all the way through was Dairanger.

This is a perfect plotline for a Magi-Knights Awakening book.

I am obligated by my own code of posting to repost the skant.

Statement rated: True.

Morning.

#KamenRiderZeztz thoughts:
Yes, Nox is a villain. But I really hate Five and I hope he gets comeuppance.
Seven failed in Episode 3, and now that comes to the forefront.
Three saying "Mission Failed" makes me wonder which parts of the CODE ethos he agrees with.

This is the sport that up until recently banned women because the IOC thought it would make their reproductive organs fall out

“Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill.”
- Blade (1998)

This is a reminder to not be that motherfucker.

JD Vance strikes me as the kind of White Guy who thinks black pepper is spicy.

If the Twilight Saga took place in Massachusetts, Bella would have wandered into the Bridgewater Triangle and neither vampire nor wolf would find her.

My players: Ok, so we're only fighting a group of rogues, right?
Me, the DM: *looking at her sheet where the word "Flash" is covered by tape* Yuuup.

Precisely. And even if you're doing something like a quest to bring stolen codestones back to Mystery Island, it would be better to use a system with a Hope/Fear mechanic.

Gonna level here: trying to make a Neopets TTRPG off of 5E seems like a terrible use of the IP.
(My wife backed it, not me)
Neopets is supposed to be fun and simple. You could achieve a much more elegant system if you were to use Modiphius' 2D20, PbtA or Daggerheart.

Step 4: Create a spear in your mind and slay your embarrassment like this: youtu.be/dEE6xUwqNGI?...