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[biomic]

Out of curiosity, what do you think are some of the most iconic or memorable individual quotes from Sentai? Not so much catchphrases as individual moments, like Liveman's "Why have you sold your souls to the devil?" or Magiranger's "Oh, man, it's our idiot". I've been thinking on the topic for a piece of fiction I'm writing

ahh my mind always blanks when it comes to questions like this, which is why i didn't answer this right away. i can obviously think of a ton of iconic moments from just about every season, but thinking of specific quotes that stand out to me was a little tricky. my memory has been and always will be a bit shit, but ultimately, these were the ones that sprung to mind after thinking on it for awhile

kid of the week episodes are a dime a dozen in this franchise and by that same token, sports episodes don't usually leave much of an impression beyond "that was fun!", but there's something so earnest about ninnin 21 that it's always stuck with me. kinji helping this kid not to give up on his passion stands above a lot of similar plots due to just how endearing hideya tawada is in the role, and "people with dreams are hard to beat!" is such a quintessential children's hero line, it's simple but perfect. always makes me smile

timeranger's core theme coming to a head with the reveal of tatsuya's identity in his first major confrontation with his father. i think the screenshots speak for themselves enough, but in the context of the series up to this point it hits even harder. probably my favorite "broken helmet" scene in toku, which is saying a lot since they're all pretty good!

this one is so tied up in shurikenger's Lore™ and hurricaneger's endgame that im hesitant to really go into detail about it, but it's a direction i wasn't expecting the show to go in and it made for a really beautiful lead-in to the final episodes. there's a reason i love this guy beyond just the memes

do i even need to say anything. toshiki inoue i am in your walls.

and of course, we must never forget the actual greatest line in super sentai history

(i had to.)

[demilypyro]

My friend @sophibeans plays a really scary Potemkin. This was the only match in like 20 that I won. Still proud of that one command grab I did tho

[chromaji]

GREAT QUESTION‼️ @sophibeans I guess my best answer is overall "it depends on what you're in the market for" (i'll go over that in a second), but if there was just one to choose, i'd go with the humble One Final Burial. Recency bias aside, this is the game I've put the most work into so far, so it's like my pride n joy. I've got a lotta love for this game and the duo of Trip & Erakhos.

For "what you're (maybe) in the market for"... to start, I've got a list of each game, a summary of them, how long they take, and whether they've been completed or not [here]. So say you look at this list & go "damn i don't wanna play any demos", then don't play Grand Core Release/Call of the Overseer/The Null Slumber. I cant make promises on any of them ever getting completed or anything so yanno. Another example, if you want to play a short and complete game, then Tower of the Starblessed is for you. Stuff like that!

Though even my two longest games (OFB and J:USTICE) have a story mode where you can instantly win battles (every battle for J:USTICE).

Also none of my games are connected except Tower of the Starblessed and Seeking J:USTICE, and even then they're not connected enough that you juat have to play one before the other (tho J:USTICE is a sequel to TotS timeline-wise). It's more like cameo connections.

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Favourite colour: intense, vivid green. I don't know how to describe it properly, but if you imagine the glow of radioactive waste in a cartoon, that's about it. Purple, orange, red, and black also suit me well.

Favourite flavour(s): My palate is unfortunately rather unsophisticated thanks to having almost zero sense of smell until age 27 (thank you estrogen for my life), so my sense of taste hasn't historically had a lot of room for variation. That said, there is nothing in this world quite like top-notch cheesy garlic bread.

Favourite music: indie rock writ broadly. This ranges from folky stuff like The Mountain Goats to metal-adjacent prog like Polyphia to the vast soundscapes of Sigur Rós. Also enjoy quite a bit of rap, electronic music, and folk.

Favourite movie: Attack the Block, always and forever. It's the perfect mix of horror, teenage shenanigans, comedy, and genuine emotion. This is also John Boyega's first starring role. I genuinely cannot believe he pulled off this kind of leading man energy as a teenager: watching this movie in 2012 lets me sincerely say I was into him before it was cool.

Favourite book: Two-way tie for first. Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe might be the smartest book I've ever read. Not that it makes the reader feel smart - I have rarely felt dumber than when I'm trying to understand what Severian is leaving out of a story - but that there's so much going on and every reread enhances how much you can extract from it. The Sisters of Dorley by Alyson Greaves helped give me the courage to finally acknowledge I was a woman and is also just a stupendous psychological drama filled with women who have so, so many things wrong with them. Honorary mention to The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, which is still up there but no longer quite in the top spot.

Favourite series: Revolutionary Girl Utena. I did not know TV could ever be this good. I do not expect any TV show to astound me this much again. Watching Utena, I could feel my brain physically reshape itself. The show is unexpectedly blunt about rape and child abuse considering it's shojo, so watch out for that, but if you can handle it, watch this show.

Last song: "Sun Bleached Flies" by Ethel Cain. The perfect song for a certain mood when you need to reckon with not being Christian anymore. The first time I heard her sing "God loves you, but not enough to save you" was like a revelation.

Last series: Afraid I don't watch enough TV to remember this.

Last movie: The Boy and the Heron. Miyazaki near the peak of his powers, which I never expected to see again. The big screen added a lot to this one. Even by the usual high standards Ghibli sets, it's incredibly gorgeous.

Currently reading: Beowulf (as translated by Maria Dahvana Headley). I'm a sucker for Old English literature. Took two courses on Old English in undergrad and they were some of my favourites of the degree until the person who taught me turned out to be profoundly racist. Headley's take is bizarre and therefore compelling to me: I'm always interested in seeing how weird someone can get with the source material.

Currently watching: Nothing. I weeded and organised my bookshelves for the first time in the 2020s and am taking advantage of this to read my TBR list at a ferocious pace.

Currently working on: Nothing in particular. I'm not all that creatively inclined and what little writing projects I did have were pushed aside by all the real-life nonsense I'm juggling. Tarot reading has been a joy to learn, though; attempting to interpret real-world events through knotty tangles of symbolism is exactly the sort of thing my brain likes. Shoutout to The Tarot Restless by Winslow Dumaine, which dared to ask "What if I made up my own Dark Souls cosmology and put it in a deck of cards?"

Tagged by @tobermoriansass, which I find terribly considerate given how hard it is to drag him away from his elves these days. Tagging @sophibeans @stackslip @licoricefern @deadciv @catgirltoes @loki-zen and whoever else would like to join in!

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jacobean-matrix -> Sophibeans

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@sophibeans breaking open a chocolate piñata at lunch! (at Uncle Julio's-Orlando)

[demilypyro]

@sophibeans is a really scary Zangief.

[demilypyro]

I really have to play my heart out to get rounds off @sophibeans when she plays a grappler, she's scary

[demilypyro]

Practicing Cammy v Manon with @sophibeans

[biomic]

your posts got me to watch kuuga and it's really good. ended up making this after the first watch session.

thank you for your time

hell yeah!! so glad you're enjoying it! :)