#rip dino donut...

[heybiji]

boy who is secretly partially responsible for the death of dino donut is forced to wear a dino donut shirt and also has to ask the owner of said shirt for a favor

quick doodle of a scene from the MASKS game i'm running (characters are westley/the delinquent played by jd and adrian/the doomed played by dallie)

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

Random pokemon episodes i got to watch as a kid bc my neighbor had them on VHS and i still vaguely remember them

1.) kid gets lost is adopted by those dino kangaroo pokemon and then his family finds him and ends up in the kangaroo pouch too. found family!!!

2.) this rock is HAUNTED! and STRAIGHT!!! team ash brock misty and the rockets (buy our talismans!) go to a festival (buy our talismans!) near a rock overlooking the sea (buy our talismans!) that has a shrine dedicated to the girl who supposedly (buy our talismans!) turned into the rock while waiting for her lover to (buy our talismans!) return and now she's a GHOST (buy our talismans!) and brock and james get seduced by her (buy our talismans!) but not ash bc he's like 10 and not misty or jessie bc (buy our talismans!) the gastly pretending to be the maiden is sticking to her character traits (buy our talismans) of being straight while using her story (buy our talismans!) to get tourists to buy it's anti-ghost talismans, which the real ghost doesn't mind at all bc they are besties (buy our

3.) ponyta is so cool and rapidash is EVEN COOLER ash tries not to get burned to a crisp alive while riding them during a race

4.) jessie and james pretend our heroes just won a lottery by being the number whatever people to enter a city, james is in drag for this of course, they capture our heroes, get ignored by them via security cameras, and pikachu hurts them. there was probably more to the episode than that but i can't remember what

5.) this is mankey. he likes "jelly donuts" and ash's hat, which ash sent in like a million postcards to win. this is primeape. primeape is gonna kick your ass forever

6.) uhhhh abracadabra this girl is turning people in to dolls, also she's not real, also we need a ghost pokemon for this, also suddenly i feel like im in an indiana jones movie. also. "it's a STAR~" "ARGH!!"

7.) let's go get some ghost pokemon! Ash and Pikachu are dead now. let's cry over their bodies a bit. no wait. they're back

8.) butterfree goes free and im crying, im crying into the sunset as my tears glint in the last light of the sun and our friendship i just found out about bc im not watching this show in order. the music in this scene is very of it's time and also it's killing me, it's ripping my heart out. is the pink butterfee a shiny or just Girl? there are too many air balloons here. brock ships the pokemon

9.) we're back at the girl who makes people into dolls and it turns out she just needed to lighten up and laugh at bit. I think there's a fairytale about that. anyway, congrats on freeing this place from cosmic horrors or whatever, ash has a new badge which is all we care about. on to the next gym!

10.) get in the pokeball psyduck. stop having headaches psyduck. psyduck sucks. psyduck uses ELDRICH BLAST. misty loves her psyduck and wouldn't trade it for the world (now it can do murder) also i think there was some really weird architecture in this one

11.) can we all be nice to ditto....? can we all PLEASSE be nice to ditto and their eternal ._. face they are TRYING THEIR BEST!!!!!

[bright-side-of-the-moon]

to jacks:

OH NO! i laughed way too hard at "is what i wouldve said" forgive me. it happens to the best of us. rip jacks' work.

HI TOAST :D!! DONUT SENDS LIL FROGGY HUGS x

to neeks:

oh yah nico is permanently banned from ever going anywhere near a stove top. the salvaged remains of the cookies didnt even taste good (he tried to add more sugar to make them sweeter but that just threw off the balance and made them dry and crumbly. thank u chemistry)

leo and nico are the now the sole 2 members of the kitchen fire hazard club :) percy is also banned because he somehow managed to get blue food colouring on the ceiling :)

to mike:

how was first week at camp? hope youre settling in alright. i might make some (dino shaped) sandwiches today, do you have any favourite fillings? SHARK BISCUITS >:D

from hilal ^-^

dividers by me lol. be nice i have no idea what im doing XD

UPDATES FOR THE GHOST KING DI ANGELO AND JACKS BLOGS!!!

Jacks:

First to business, the running fanfic is going well. Is what I would've said if I hadn't already completely finished it, forgot to save it online, and post it the day afterwards, and had my beautiful work of art's progress deleted faster than Trophonius cutting off Agamethus' head.

Long story short, I have to restart it, beginning from the very shoddy middle again.

Jacks is very upset that I haven't told the edited version of their life recently.

Toast says Hi :)

Nico:

The Nico di Angelo blog is running smoothly and on rhythm as normal

Keep tagging him in anything and everything that reminds you of him (I really like replying to all of them in my very short, small amount of time I have in the morning (which is around 45 minutes of freetime on a good school day))

Nico and Hazel have decided to feed Arion a golden apple from the three-legged death race. It did not go very well, at all.

Nico is banned from cooking in the Hestia Cabin, due to him burning it halfway down, saying, and I quote, "Make these cookies as fiery as The River Phlegethon."

Mike:

I have decided to do news for all three of my outlets of content creation on Tumblr, on Mr. McDonut's blog over here.

Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss, Girly Go.

Slay, and all that jazz (idk what to do anymore)

Pirate song for today:

Ferryman, By Shayfer James and Will Wood

[krumbine]

Thoughts on 35: Birthdays in the Time of the Pandemic

The pandemic has taken T-Rex Cafe from me on my birthday.

It was a fledgling, two-year-run of a tradition but I honestly don’t give a shit. And not because I was ‘just’ there earlier this year for a much-needed dino/LEGO-themed catch-up with an out-of-town friend.

This would have been the year that the T-Rex Cafe tradition evolved into the Dinosaur World tradition (DID YOU SEE WHAT I JUST DID THERE?!) — Dinosaur World is an extraordinarily out-of-place Florida attraction found in a corner of the Sunshine State that’s closer to Tampa than Orlando. The Plant City (actual city name) location is great, because it might just be far enough outside the bubble of the Plastic City (not the actual city name) that it wouldn’t be suffocated to death by His Holy Mousiness.

Not that any of that matters.Dinosaur World is an open-air attraction with paths that weave through a foliage-dense park. It’s home to a single animatronic set-piece tucked away in a sad-looking museum that’s not winning any awards (the animatronics or the museum).

Please don’t think I’m underselling it. Dinosaur World is glorious.

It’s clear that the animatronics aren’t the star of the attraction — that designation goes to the massive dinosaur sculptures that litter the jurassic park. These dense, solid constructs have been fabricated across decades and it’s a joy going from a modern, somewhat realistic representation of a dinosaur to an older, derpy sculpture that just so happens to be the exact, anantomicaly-incorrect image you conjure when you find yourself thinking the words ‘Dinosaur World’.

Again, I am not bullshitting you even in the slightest: it is glorious.

The best part, by any measure of bestness, is the gift shop — and this is speaking as a dude who lives in Orlando metro, the global epicenter of that other pandemic afflicting the globe: gift shops. It’s so bad here that new strains of gift shops have evolved that no longer require a host attraction. In the Orlando area, you can find gift shops that are located at the exit of other gift shops.

Again, I am not bullshitting you even the slightest: the Dinosaur World gift shop bests all other gift shops with its tiny, useless clappers-not-slappers arms tied behind its back.

Generally speaking, I stand immune to senseless purchases of molded plastic that, generally, serve to only collect dust.

But in the Dinosaur World gift shop? I laugh in the face of budgets.

I’ll take this massive Spinosaurus. And that ill-fitting Dinosaur World cap. And that ridiculously amazing piece of framed lenticular art where the T-Rex foot LITERALLY LEAPS OUT OF THE PICTURE. Oh, and a couple of plush. Okay, sure, a few more plush for the niece and nephew, too.

This gift shop is big, unreasonably so. It has all the staples: dinosaur toys of every stripe, t-shirts, decorations, books, and even jewelry.

It. Is. Glorious.

I’m not going to Dinosaur World or its gift shop for my birthday, but on the other hand, I’m not going anywhere for my birthday. And I honestly don’t give a shit.

I’m personally in Week 4 of The Great American Quarantine but Florida as a whole only officially went into lockdown last Friday. This has created a fascinating dichotomy in the state — people like me who are old hats at this thing (yes, I know others have been in quarantine for long) and those who are just now experiencing life-stuck-at-home.

Here’s the thing: I’ve never felt stuck. I bought my house for a reason and I’m more than happy to work from it and avoid leaving it. Don’t get me wrong, my new-to-quarantiners, there IS an adjustment period. And depending on your life and who you are, maybe you never get out of the adjustment period.

Me, I usually take about two-to-three weeks to adjust to anything.

So as newcomers reach ‘peak quarantine’, I find my emotional self mostly equalized to pre-pandemic levels of dyspeptic misery and abject hopelessness, occasionally sidelined by the pure undiluted joy of creating a cool video or losing myself in a cathartic piece of writing.

I am not a ‘happy person’ and the mere notion abhors me. Not in respect to your own happiness, of course — you should be whatever flavor of happy you want, rock your-goddamn-happy socks off and go nuts. But me? That’s not my baseline and never was in 35 years. 

Life can be a miserable shit show and some people just needed a pandemic to see it.

Those moments of pure bliss I sometimes get to enjoy? Here’s what comes next: I finish project — which is a postpartum shit show in itself — and then I put that moment of bliss online where, generally speaking, no one seems to care.

Okay, look, I know it sounds like I’m sitting here on my 35th birthday complaining that nobody pays any attention to my creative work, but I’m not. I’m sitting here I’m on my 35th birthday complaining that nobody pays any attention to my creative work AND FOR SOME REASON THIS STILL SENDS ME IN A FUCKING SPIRAL DECADES INTO THIS GAME probably because the spiral was immediately preceded — as mentioned — by that fleeting moment of actual bliss, a genuine happy distraction for the professional unhappy person.

Really, I’m not complaining. Just sharing a little bit the depressed psychosis I call home.

It’s just me, myself, and my abyss. That’s the title to an unfinished song I was writing for the ukulele. I’ll get around to it.

But here’s the point: for me (and all those millions like me — you know who you are) the abyss (*cough* MY abyss) is always there. Always has been. Old buddy, old chum. I’m not always in it and most days it’s not even a passing consideration …. but I know it’s ALWAYS there.

Kinda how the abyss works.

So I don’t know whether to laugh at or feel bad for all those happy people in quarantine who are crashing down and just now getting a good glimpse at the dyspeptic misery and abject hopelessness of the world. 

For a lot of us, this gets worse. Maybe emotionally. Maybe physically. Maybe economically. 

For some of us, it’s always been this bad. Maybe emotionally. Maybe physically. Maybe economically. 

The advice from this professional unhappy person: figure out what brings you bliss, that thing you can lose yourself in, even if briefly, and commit. Be unapologetic. For me, it’s dinosaurs, animation, video editing, technology, and LEGO. If I can combine all those things, that’s a pretty happy distraction from the looming abyss. At least for a little while.

On the other hand, if you still have positivity exploding out of your asshole right now …. um, okay? Good for you? I don’t know if you’re stubbornly blind to reality or if we’re just wired that differently, but whatever. You do you, just don’t expect us unhappy people to get on your level. There aren’t enough spoons in the world for that shit.

A few more bits of advice from your future depressed quarantine avatar: fix your personal relationships and be selfish as shit. I’m 35 and twice-divorced, which means I’m lucky enough to be stuck at home right now with someone who understands every single beat of this post. I’m trapped inside with someone who adds to those moments of creative bliss, as opposed to being indifferent to them or — worse still — detracting from them.

Whatever your relationship issues, rip the fucking bandaid and deal with your shit because if you don’t, well, you’ll be quarantined with it. So sayeth the 35-year-old twice-divorced, professional unhappy Krumbine.

Life’s good. Sometimes. Mostly it’s a shit sandwich. But that’s okay, too. Because dinosaurs. And LEGO. And creating cool shit.

And donuts.

Yes, I think today would be a good day for donuts. 

Stay quarantined, my friends.

Love, Krumbine

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jordan Krumbine is a professional video editor, digital artist, and creative wizard currently quarantined in Kissimmee, Florida. When not producing content for the likes of Visit Orlando, Orlando Sentinel, or AAA National, Jordan is probably yelling at a stubbornly defective Macbook keyboard, tracking creative projects in Trello, and animating quirky videos with LEGO and other various toys.

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[minaland]

Svt as types of customers you've served before.

i love this question so much. instead of just doing types of customers, i’m gonna do specific ones i’ve had because that’s more fun. let’s go.

coups: the guy who made eye contact with me through the front windows as he called to explain that he ordered takeout but couldn’t come inside to get it because he brought a little puppy with him and politely requested that i bring it out to him (he let me play with the puppy for a minute and also tipped me 30%)

jeonghan: that one lady that came back to return her takeout ribs because she didn’t like the free sides that she chose and claimed, “i own a restaurant so i know.”

josh: so this group of 6 teenage boys came in and were super awkward and one of them left a weird little plastic panda charm thing that he probably found on the ground outside as part of the tip. that kid.

jun: the guy who called to place a takeout order and ordered a “choose burger” (our menu has a section where you can order either a burger or chicken sandwich and the heading is “choose burger or bird” and that’s really what this guy thought it was called)

hoshi: the kid who asked me to explain the “burgernut” (a burger on a glazed donut) 3 separate times then got so excited he ordered a second one to take home to his brother

wonwoo: the dude eating by himself and reading a newspaper at the end of the counter who overheard an old white guy mansplaining statistics about dog attacks to me and my female coworker and without looking up from his newspaper quietly said, “that guy was a douche,” as soon as the older guy left

woozi: the guy who showed up to a bbq restaurant, ordered 4 milkshakes, then left right before they were ready because he got tired of waiting

dk: that kid who accidentally locked himself in the bathroom and couldn’t figure out how to get himself out so the manager had to break in to get him

mingyu: the tiny kid who got on all fours to wipe the floor with her napkin while she waited for her food to come out because she thought she was helping

minghao: the couple that only started coming in years ago because they were both cheating on their spouses and had to go to restaurants an hour away from where they lived. they’ve since divorced their partners and married each other but they still drive an hour every couple weeks because we as a staff supported their adulterous behavior bc they were cute together. they bring cheesy bread for us

seungkwan: the lady who got soup with her takeout order and spilled it in her car when she got to her house, then called to complain that the soup “wasn’t properly secured” when she got it, and drove all the way back to get a refund (and a new soup)

vernon: the guy who put the name of the restaurant in his gps because he knew it was on his way to his buddy’s house in the next state, only to realize he’d driven a whole hour to end up at the wrong location and still had another hour and a half drive to go,,, rip

dino: the guy who tipped me a coupon for a free taco at my favorite korean mexican fusion restaurant 

+ bonus because i have to include this guy but nobody in svt fits:

taehyung: the guy who came in for dinner with his family and ordered 3 cups of coffee, a specialty quesadilla that comes with pulled chicken, thick cut bacon, and jalapeno honey sauce, but substituted bleu cheese for the sauce

[spookierswamp]

halloweenie tag meme

ayyy @skurzulls tagged me in this a few days ago so i’m gonna do it b4 i forget again lmao... 🎃 Tag 10 people you want to get to know better. 🎃

uuuh idk who to tag (y’all might have already done this idk) so I figured I’d just go through my messages/activity and tag the first 10/5 mutuals I see? so like.....  @puddingfaceappreciationsociety @yakumtsaki @a-century-of-fakers @lilithpleasant  @questforsims... hey I deleted some of the questions cuz they sounded weird sorry, also cut bc it gets kinda pic-heavy lmao...

👻 Questions

Are you a Tricker or a Treater: I love pranks and stuff so tricker I guess...

What’s your inner demon: literally whatever sinister force compels me to drunkenly overshare with people from work lmao

What monster would you be: oh zero question, a vampire! it fits me so well...like...a  vaguely goth-y pale dude cutting about in the dark, drinking red wine, sleeping all day and whining about his life? mood

Who would you be in a horror movie: this guy right here

Are you easily scared: kinda? it’s not that easy for other people to spook me but BOY HOWDY am I a pro at spooking myself! like even when I was a kid I would ALWAYS try and come up with spooky shit to scare my friends but I’d only end up scaring myself lmao...

What are you afraid of: puppets, people living in the walls, getting old, this guy who sits outside my work in auld highlander clothes and makes the most unsettling death rattle I’ve ever heard, to the point where I’m 800% sure he’s a Twin Peaks-esque malevolent spirit....

What scared you when you were young: just about everything! I was a fearful kid tbh... like off the top of my head, I was scared of the dark, heights, aliens/alien abduction stories, the loft above our house, the old man who lived down the dark alley in my street, satanic cults, goths, spiders, puppets, clowns, that episode of Arthur where anyone who ate broccoli turned into like, a weird-ass leafy zombie, like... the list was endless lmao...

Any near death experience: yea like sometimes a while back we’d have parties at this one kid’s house and for some reason I felt the need to like, hang out of his second-story bedroom window while we drank? also I used to wander out into the road w/ very little regard for traffic lmao it’s actually kinda wild i’m still alive tbh....

Walk in mysterious liquid or mysterious Forest: MYSTERIOUS! 👏🍄 FOREST! 👏🌳 MYSTERIOUS! 👏🦉 FOREST! 👏🌲

You go with your heart or brain: heart cuz I’m dumb as hell lmao...

You like your room dim or bright: dim! I like to keep my room in near-constant mood lighting haha, I used to have rly thick curtains and this sort of soft glowy burnt orange lamp in my old room and I miss them!

Evilest thing you ever done: idk I do a lot of dumb shit I regret lmao...

What did you dress up as last year: can’t find any pictures of me in my legit, like, thrown-together at the last minute five minutes before I left for the club Andy Dwyer/Burt Macklin costume from last year... but the year before I went out as Gene Belcher from Bob’s Burgers!

Anything bad happened to you lately: work suxx but that’s life ayyy

What is your favorite candy or snack: I’ll eat pretty much anything with a dangerous level of sugar lmao but my top tier favorites are hershey bars, redvines, oreo ice cream sandwiches, strawberry fanta, donuts/kolaches & pumpkin pie!

What Villain would you date: 100% earning my place in the weeb hall of fame w/ this but like....

....what’s up you handsome dino-cowboy bastard.... What is your biggest flaw: I’m honestly just like.... so lazy lmao... like I’m a hard worker and I love making fitness plans and working on projects and stuff but it just takes so long for me to do things... rip....

Favorite scary movie/game: haha omg I have a huge list of these! I’ll give y’all the short version though, here goes: MOVIES / Scream, FWWM, The Blair Witch Project, Cabin Fever, The Shining GAMES / Rule of Rose, Silent Hill, Ao Oni, Monster Party, Project Zero What do you find sick: I think kinda like, ppl who enjoy upsetting kids? like freaking them out or telling them messed up stuff is so weird and I know they think they’re super cool and edgy for it but it’s just like... die tbh...

Are you a demon or an angel: 

Random thing about you: so I get told fairly often I look like a boy version of Arya from Game of Thrones and like, idk how to feel about it tbh...

Describe your one or some favorite bloggers as a monster: y’all? one word!

[sawthefaeriequeen]

Superpowered Note Passing!

aka Power Rangers 2017 reaction.

So I wrote all this after seeing the movie a second time a couple weeks ago and it was just laying around on my hard drive so, here. Fangirling preserved in amber, if you will, under the cut

omg this is so many bullet points long. I should be ashamed but I’m not!

1.       So, the opening! Was the dying Yellow rRnger a nod to Thuy Trang passing away? My brother and I had the exact thought at the same time in the theater; we both nudged each other and were like, “Whoa.”

2.       I’d been hearing the Rita as Green Ranger theory batted around for months, and hello, her costume gave it away already. So I wasn’t TOO surprised when she appeared. Zordon as Red was what I didn’t expect...I was like Ooooh, this is gonna be interesting!

3.       I’m still laughing at the transition from the Megazord-y silhouette…to  “MOOOOOOOO.”

4.       A COW, OMG. For serious. A damn cow. And here I thought we’d be introduced to Jason strutting around on a field in jockish glory, which would lead up to his injury.

5.      (I do really like the Jason’s Knee Is Still Busted headcanons I’ve seen, as someone with a bad knee herself.)

6.       Is it just me or does the dude playing Jason’s dad remind me of Austin St. John?

7.       Billy. God, I love him. Everyone loves him. I’m so happy because BILLY!

8.       A+++ character establishing moments for Billy, Jason, and Kimberly in detention. Jason slapping bully Ed Sheeran (who some folks are saying was Skull, but idk) because he wasn’t even worth the fisticuffs! And did my inner 7 y.o. Pink-Ranger-idolizing self do a mental backflip when Kim snips off her hair.

9.       I love love how Jason/Billy easily had the most loving relationship in the movie. Easily. Like, the moment I really knew I was gonna like Jason was when he (nicely!) let Billy down on his offer. And he makes sure Billy knows it’s not because he was ashamed to be seen with him  (which was a move an ~edgier piece of media would’ve pulled) but because of the ankle monitor.

10.   (btw, wtf, was J wearing that ankle monitor the whole time they were becoming Rangers? Because ummm.)

11.   I can’t wait until the DVD comes out so we can have a thousand and one gifs of Jason full-on glomping Billy

12.   Oh, and yes, Billy says the words “I’m on the spectrum,” even clarifies that his brain doesn’t work the way others’ do. And is received with nothing but respect. Others have explained better than me, so I’ll just say that I loved it and kudos to the writers and actor.

13.   I totally dug that the film established Jason and Kimberly as the alphas of the team early on; more on that later. For now I would like to appreciate how it also establishes Kimberly as a Badass who hikes by herself in the mountains and once took a dude’s TOOTH out.

14.   Trini listening to metal + yoga, omg.

15.   The quarry scene and finding the coins! Loved the whole ~aesthetic of that, and how the coins look like gems instead of having the usual embossed dino which I totally did not own and carry around in my pencil case as a kid.

16.   LOL @Billy driving his mom’s van as a getaway LOLOL Zack practically ripping a hole in the van ceiling. Talk about having a Harry Potter-style “cementing your friendship by fighting a mountain troll” moment.

17.   RITA. I love Elizabeth Banks so hard; I knew she’d chew up the scenery as Rita should.

18.   Billy fanclubat their school!!!! Can I join?? I love how he’s so modest and yet proud about knocking down Skull Ed Sheeran.

19.   I wish we’d seen Trini and Zack’s first power-up moments because can you imagine? Super amused though, that one of the first casualties was Kim’s skinny-ass smartphone. Because yeah, no way are those things made to be durable.

20.   The entire cliff-leaping scene is a thing of beauty. How cute is Trini finally cracking a smile when they jump across to her? And all the laughing and the bonding and sfasfd I had no idea how much my Nakama kink would be satisfied by this movie. Oh, and speaking of beauty, the underwater scene with the accompanying music? Wow. It’s all very Crossing the Threshold. I dig it

21.   (the whole movie is VERY much a heroes’ journey story, isn’t it? I think that’s one of the reasons it was so great.)

22.   Non-annoying Alpha! Complicated, cranky dad Zordon! Things I didn’t know I wanted! Also, I thought Zordon having a red glow around his face was cool.  The first time I watched, I wondered why Zordon’s declaration of Jason as leader was so lukewarm…and was pleasantly surprised when there turned out to be A Reason later.

23.   I like how Billy is the first to step on the grid because he’s Billy and he has discovered an unexpected zest for superheroing, then Jason is the last because, to quote Robin Scherbatsky, where’s the poop, Zordon?

24.   TRAINING MONTAGE! With that dang song that’s been stuck in my head since seeing it for the second time, and have I mentioned that I really love the soundtrack? And yes, the note-passing scene, and the donut scene, and Master Billy. Fuckin’ iconic. I also like that we see ‘em getting visible training injuries and that it’s Alpha who shows ‘em the moves and is actually an effective trainer. (Btw, was Alpha always a robot in this universe?)

25.   When Zack takes Mastodon out, I thought for a split second that he was gonna strip it down for parts and sell them or something.  I mean, it’s logical. And anyone notice Alpha doing the classic Ayiyiyi flailing when Mastodon crashes?

26.   Just some things I found notable about the firelight bonding moment  (aside from #1. my 90s heart is reeling with nostalgia because, look it’s Midnight Society! #2 help me, this movie is really committed to tickling my Found Families heartstrings): It’s great that it’s Zack who proposes it cuz he knows he fucked up, and I LOVE that while he does get vulnerable, he does it in his usual sparky Zack way. Hell yes, he loves his mom and he’ll scream it to the horizon! Then there’s the much-publicized Trini scene, which, I like that it wasn’t just about her sexuality (and again, love that it’s Zack who figures whats up ), it was about her being quiet and not fitting in. And I like how it’s the introverted one who poses the question of, are they teammates or are they friends? Basically, “are we really choosing each other?”

27.   (I keep thinking a lesser piece of media like Glee or something would’ve made this scene All About White Boy Leader And His Manpain, which is why when Jason’s turn to talk came, it was kind of refreshing that he says “ehhh, you guys know  who I am” and listens to the others talk instead. Which is way more leader-like then bellyaching about how haaaard it was to be atop  the social ladder or whatever.)

28.   My big complaint about the scene where they take on Rita is that it’s so damn dark. Dark as in, I can’t even see it. I was squinting to see if their makeshift weapons resembled the originals from the show (/nerd) and I couldn’t see a blasted thing. I think we caught a glimpse of Trini’s dagger? A split-second before she buried it in the wall next to Rita’s head, anyway. Oh and there was Zack using an axe in an earlier quarry scene.

29.   Jason’s sword was cool, but I need the rest.

30.   Ah, and yeah...Stand by Me. Freaking Stand by Me. When I heard that they were using that song at a certain affecting moment in the film, I thought it would be a bonding moment. Post-training or something. I half-expected it to come drifting along when they were gathered around the fire, capping off the scene nicely.

31.   BUT NOPE. NOPE. It just had to be used like THAT.  Film, I really hate you. (jk, I love you to death, but ohgodwhy). And we had to watch Kimberly and Jason  (aka basically the rocks of the team) burst into tears and look completely shattered, respectively, and then all of them carrying Billy on their shoulders, BYE.

32.   We should start a band

33.   I legit gasped when I realized Zordon had let Billy live in his place, like

34.   Honestly it would’ve been easy for “I would die for him” to be all schmaltzy but it mainly worked because 1) the actors sold it, 2) It’s Billy, of course they would.

35.   (brb crying for 1000 years over the tight never-let-you-go Billy-Jason hug)

36.   and then

37.   It’s morphin’ time

38.   IT’S MORPHIN TIME

39.   IT’S FLIPPING MORPHIN’ TIME

40.   (I know some were frustrated over “how long it took” to get to morphing, but for me, it was rewarding. There had to be emotional payoff to get to the super-heroing and I think it was the most satisfying thing in the world.)

41.   I’ve read an interview where the director apparently told Dacre Montgomery to have Jason say “it’s morphin’ time” ‘like a prayer’ and yes, yes, that’s the best way to make a cheesy/iconic line work in a reboot like this.

42.   Weigh it with MEANING, ya know? Don’t have it be a throwaway snark quip.

43.   Oh and…the power walk? I saw it in the trailers, I saw versions of it countless times watching the original show when I was seven…and YET. Goosebumps.

44.   Kimberly doing cheerleader moves and lifting her teammates underwater is my favorite thing.

45.   I also love how Zack gets to his Zord first – screams happily while diving for it even. He is way past almost mowing down innocent nuns; it’s time for him to save the world now!

46.   Rita said the line! She said make my monster grow!

47.   GO GO POWER RANGERS theme song playing while the Zords ran  ‘ruining’ the more dignified orchestral score:  aka the movie saying “let me show you my love for the source material” aka “LOL the kid inside of you is tearing up and yelling, don’t even fucking lie” aka yessss.

48.   (and fuck it, you know what I don’t even care if the Zords were CGI? The suits are real. The people are real. The visors slip upwards and SHOW US our kids’ faces while piloting their big robots, and that’s all that matters)

49.   BILLY IS SO DELIGHTED. And *I* am so delighted that he dropped the movie’s only almost-f-bomb!

50.   I love how Trini aka the so-called outcast, runs around saying she has everyone’s back. Her Zord POUNCES, you guys! Oh, and how cute is her calling Jason “Jay” and Kimberly “Kim” mid-battle?

51.   Jason and Trini attacking Goldar simultaneously on both sides is A+

52.   The movie finally answered my long-burning question “how does Triceratops Zord fight with it’s itty bitty arms” and the answer is: it doesn’t, and the arms are useless to the point that Pterodactyl has to lift it. XD

53.   (well…its arms shoot things I think, but let me enjoy the hilarious irony of the gang’s resident slapper having a Zord with teeny tiny arms)

54.   (seriously though, Sam Scott looks like Austin St. John; why didn’t they just get Austin to play him)

55.   The “hold the line” scene ruined my life and walked all over me and I thank it.

56.   My multi-colored children they’re only babies and they were 100% ready to give their lives

57.   Like don’t even talk to me about Trini screaming when Zack passes out or Kim and Jason pressing hands through the glass or Billy’s little thank you, I just

58.   MEGAZORD RISING LIKE A GOD FROM THE DEPTHS DUN DUN DUNNN

59.   Listen, at first I was upset that we didn’t get to see Megazord’s jigsaw-puzzle forming but in hindsight this was even better, so much better. It’s formation was almost, well, spiritual. Baptism by fire and all that.

60.  Literally fire-forged friendship

61.   as in they formed Megazord through the power of friendship!

62.   they really did!

63.   Or wait I think this Megazord is a her, you know, “MAMAZORD!”

64.   (I love you, Billy!)

65.   “This won’t last! What you have!” See, even Rita knows she was defeated through the power of friendship

66.   I don’t know why it delighted me so much to have Megazord tripping on her first try, but it did.

67.   SLAPPED INTO SPACE!

68.   I know it was an echo of the detention slap but it also made me think of the Rangers kicking Ivan Ooze into the comet in the very first movie

·69.   hai, Jason David Frank and Amy Jo Johnson! (if I ever meet Amy Jo Johnson, I will tell her that baby me ragequit Power Rangers not because I Was Getting Too Old but because she left and what even was the point after)

70.   “This team did what my team could not” AW Zordon you secret!wall-softie

71.   And then Zack and Trini join them in detention not even looking like they’re in trouble but like they’ve come home, and it’s all just too much for my sappy ass

72.   OH WAIT, the finishing touch:

73.   More note-passing and we see that Billy has drawn the lightning bolt, THE iconic lightning bolt—

74.   -and it’s no longer gold but in all of their Ranger colors and I die, I just die

75.   (OH HAI, Tommy teaser! Do I get to say I told you so now?)

76.   Okay I was going to put some wrap-up thoughts on each of the characters and their dynamics (I didn’t even get to talk much about Rita!) but that will probably be for another post because this is already really fricking long

77.   But in conclusion: