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[tenspontaneite]

SURVIVOR ATTEMPTS PARENTING

(part 1) (part 2 - here)

(n.b. this comic is a retrospective dramatised rendition of my gameplay; I do not need game advice)

[omniv]

This was supposed to be a doodle but it escalated

[orpheus-has-lyreizz]

gen z Telemachus

[sheerakk]

[wild-magic-oops]

It really took all of Rook's self-control not to elaborate lmao

[fleeting-sanity]

They just bombed one of the last hospitals in Gaza and so far 1500 have been confirmed dead.

[phoenixcatch7]

It's always funny to me when in an lu fic the chain is offered bananas and don't accept them. Like, you're offering these high energy adventures free food?? Fruit they'll have never even heard of before??? A ridiculously expensive imported good at best?? AND it boosts your attack?

Not ONE of these idiots would ever turn down something new and interesting to eat at least once. They'd be all over those bananas and immediately get dubbed yiga and I'm honestly surprised no one has used it in a fic yet 🤭

[hisuianserperior]

Headcanon that the reason Luka has never met Lila is that her vibes would be so atrocious and her inner music so terrible that not only would he expose her instantly but it would be actively debilitating for him

[mamawasatesttube]

@ the person in my inbox asking why i blocked your friend. i'm not going to answer your ask publicly so that your and your friend's urls remain private, but. i'm gonna be real! i don't really pay attention that much to people who i block. i see something i don't want to see, i block the account that put it in front of me. that being said, i did go through and block everyone in the likes/reblogs of a post that MAJORLY skeeved me out the other day, so maybe that was it.

also i appreciate you being polite about this, BUT - and this is the part that's the reason i'm saying this publicly - i have to say. asking people why they blocked someone who has like... never once spoken to them? kinda weird. i'm not some kinda public utility people are owed access to. i am just some guy running a blog for my own entertainment, and i block people easily because there are plenty of things that do not contribute to my ability to have fun in my little corner of the internet. it's as simple as that. so in the future, if i get questions about why i've blocked some random stranger, i will be just deleting them.

[shitpostingkats]

My character trait that always has me 0.2 seconds from recieving angry messages on the internet is my genuine belief that you don't have to play/watch/listen/read any series in release order. Literally start with the third entry in the franchise if that's what looks most fun. There are no rules.

[silvereddaye]

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[neptune-scythe]

t*mmy the type of guy to call Eddie himself to "deal with" Buck and whatever he's got going on because he simply cannot be bothered to put any energy into the relationship

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

babysitters au

[intermundia]

there's a very specific kind of impotent despair you feel as an autistic person when you get rejected for yet another job, and find out later that while the hiring committee thought that you gave excellent answers to all their questions, and they believed that you could do the work well, you still weren't hired because you didn't make enough eye contact

[grelleswife]

Astolfo spoke for us all when he designated Gano as Paladin of Cringe.

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

random question: of the heisei era kamen riders which one do you think is the best as an intro to kamen rider?

Yo, yo hi Anon! I left a short reply on Ultra's post too and I second her recommendations, they're really good!(If you are an unrelated party never mind that though!!) Admittedly, my expertise is far lesser than with Sentai so can't really speak to a season that will give someone the best impression of the Kamen Rider series at large, but I hope I can at least recommend something that would be enjoyable.

That being said I encourage the toku crowd that follows me here to reply with any suggestions if there is a particularly good starter season you wanna champion, for my benefit as well perhaps aahaha!

(some synopses and pitches of my own under the cut)

My first two thoughts were Ghost and Build...

Ghost was one of the Rider seasons I started with when I began watching in earnest. I get the impression that it is a less popular series but i hold a lot of positive feelings towards it.

Ghost is a hero that gains his powers from famous deceased historical figures(and also he can walk through walls, disappear, and fly). It is a more gentle season of Rider in my opinion, less gut-wrenching twists, an easy to follow storyline with melancholy leaning themes regarding life and death and loss, and doing what you can while you can, and doing it with feeling, while still being enjoyably silly and bright! Go into this one with love in your heart lol!

It also has the cutest rider design in my opinion(the sole reason i started watching this one haha!), he looks like this:

He has a little hoodie!!

I also love the supporting cast a lot, and there is a crossover movie with the Rider after him where they fight pacman!!!

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Build seems to me to be a really popular series of the late Hesei era and I enjoyed it a lot. It has a really punchy action-science vibe that swings expertly between comedic and tragic tones. Like seriously its SO funny but it also HURTS!! I recommend this one if you're looking for the high-energy emotional whiplash that people like to talk about with KR.

In Build, Japan had been split into three little mini-countries and our heroes have to deal with the politics of that for a good portion of the show all while dealing with their own personal battles, and trying to decide where their allegiances lie(with themselves? their countries? their friends? with who they were in the past?).

our main hero is an amnesiac, self-aggrandizing, scientific genius who has partnered with a big, lovable idiot with rocks for brains and powerful fists, to protect the people! the Primary/Secondary Rider dynamic in this series is an iconic one and for good reason, i think!

Half of that dynamic: Banjou Ryuuga... I love him a lot!

(Their tertiary Kamen Rider Grease is great too, if there was ever a guy who was the power of friendship but also kinda mean about it aahaha!)

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If you like older tv from the early 2000s and a bit of a more grungy vibe(less hyper-color) you may enjoy an early heisei series Like 555(often also spelled Faiz) or Agito.

Faiz is a fascinating sort of character drama with interesting dynamics and a range of very unique personalities. They all really go through it from episode one too, so I was pretty white knuckled through the whole thing, having my emotions battered, but that's what I'm into aahah!

The plot is sort of centered around a battle between a few humans and an organization of evolved people called orphenochs that are working to replace the old humanity as the dominant species. I especially enjoyed the orphenoch roommates, a trio who were varying levels of sympathetic to humanity's struggle in the series.

I enjoyed Faiz himself a lot too, he's pretty ill-mannered and took a lot of coercing to get him to join up, and it was fun to follow the absolutely abysmal relationships he formed with his new friends eventually develop into something meaningful.

There is SO much infighting in this series, and a lot of love-triangle type drama which plays out but I believe that's part of the appeal, it was very interesting!

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I watched Agito on a whim once a while before I'd earnestly gotten into the Kamen Rider series(knee deep in sentai at that point and couldn't be distracted aahah!). I think it was technically my second series(after having seen most of the original) so from personal experience I think it's an easy one to start with.

Its another season with incredibly interesting characters. I've seen Agito himself described as a human Animal Crossing villager and that's incredibly accurate. He's an amnesiac fella that likes to cook, clean and tend to his vegetable garden. He is also occasionally compelled to transform and fight Unknown monsters.

He's a real sweetie, so much so that the horrors of his situation just seem to bounce right off of him aahaha!

Agito also has a fun little cop-drama sort of thing going on over with their secondary rider and his circle who have built their own rider system for the police department. It gives me the vibe of a workplace with a lot of underhanded power maneuvering and that's really fun to watch.

It's just generally a very good monster mystery flavored series with a lot of supernatural elements!

(i don't really have any agito pictures aahaha sorry!)

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The best part about starting Kamen Rider is that you can start almost anywhere if you think a particular season will suit your taste since each is generally self contained save for crossover movies. I hope you land on something you enjoy and have lots of fun!