Finally beat 2 again. Very good game. I recommend it. Kururu is fucking amazing. Read her character notes. They're a riot. This help unlock everything in Rhapsody III. I'm out of the fucking forest!!
After 7 months, I finally finished my Sentai mega-marathon: from Gorenger to Go-Busters! Now I’ve watched ALL the 41 Sentai shows (and I’m continuing Lupin/Patranger). Next will be Akibaranger. Here is my personal ranking, from the one I disliked the most to the one I loved the most.
KEEP IN MIND I don’t intend to offend anyone if I consider a specific Sentai to be “bad” while it’s loved by someone else; don’t take it personally (it happened to me last month).
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) is considered the founder of modern Natural History. Along with the collection of worldwide specimens, which were one of the first Wunderkammer, he used to collect drawings of animals hard to find or preserve. Thanks to artists like Agostino Carracci, Teodoro Ghisi, Jacopo Ligozzi, he created an archive of 8000 sheets, from which 3000 planks are still preserved in Bologna.
future headcanon: Nina after graduation started writing her sibuna adventures. They quickly became a children’s book series. (obviously for reasons of privacy she changed the names) the books soon became bestsellers, and then had a film adaptation. The films have also been successful, despite the complaints of book-loving purists, but with hype for the saga, many theories have also been born, including the one in which the events told are real.
A huge bang littered the surrounding area. The crash blew the yard around her. But the girl felt nothing out of the ordinary. Pain was her constant companion in life. All due to her degenerative disease and failing cybernetics. So. Forcing herself up, proved no different than usual. She brushed herself off.
A minor trip from the sun to the moon then to earth hurts. Gravity's quite a pain. Seriously. But hey. Her kingstone devoured to the suit to fix her injuries. Her eighth cousin's previous work handcrafted into cybernetics. Thus created a more appropriate rider form for the Century King, Shadow Moon. Now. She can enjoy the ability to fight evil like the rest of her family.
The formerly frail 6 year old smiled. She felt herself rocketing up into the air as joy filled her body. Her brown hair swaying in the air as she met the sky. Sure her distant cousin, Sumiko, might have a heart attack... but hey. Her cybernetics appeared fixed... well more stable than last time. She could move her arms all the way without feeling any pain now. In fact, the strange parts utilized in fixing her molded well into her body alongside her new cybernetics created by the cannibalized suit, her natural cybernetics and mutation. The mutation inherited from her great grandfather. And she has the new rider form to enjoy. Whatever the man did, fixed her enough to grant her an actual rider form. "Yes!! I'm fixed!! I'm fixed! I'm fixed! I finally have a true blue rider form! YES!!"
In gratitude she turns to the very confused strange brown haired man. His face scrunched up to analyze her. Everything he knew felt challenged by the pale, brown eyed, wavy long brown haired child. There's strange metal in her body along with other non human parts based off grasshoppers, grasshopper like insects and locust. Parts of her look decrepit at best. She never had an Agito seed, yet she had some grongi genetic information along with some lords and other creatures. Her bloodline had definitely had his touch from the time of Amneris. That he definitely could tell. She had access to an imperfect rider form. One she used a stolen suit cobbled together to compensate for. The newcomer bowed in gratitude, while her words reach sonic speed. "Thankyou! Thankyou!! Thankyou!"
He did not respond. But the girl read his thoughts. "I never did properly introduced myself."
"What bad manners you have, Nina." The girl, Nina, berated herself in a strange imitation of a gruff, older man. Possibly one of her relatives, judging by the tone. She bowed. "Good evening. My name is Nina Martin. Please take good care of me."
"... hm..." He almost laughed, but held it in. Out of all of these people, she made a note to introduce herself because she considered it bad manners. Something to berate herself for. Interesting. "I see."
"I... I want to thank you for fixing my body. I honestly thought my degenerative disease would kill my chance to live up to my family." She informed him. He smiled, "You chose to fight despite dying?"
"YES!" She responded bluntly without a second thought. A human willing to sacrifice it all. It painfully reminded him of Kamen Rider Gill. "There's more to you than meets the eye."
"Great granddaughter of Diane Martin. We even share the same middle name!" The young girl gushed on one of her famous relatives. She almost heard Sumiko facepalm. The genius always refrained from mentioning her eighth cousin once removed. Sumiko's third cousin literally helped make the weapons to fight the Unidentified Lifeforms. ... while crushing on Kaoru Ichijo, but hey. Nina didn't complain. The man's success speaks for itself. A model cop if the brunette American ever met one. Sumiko prefers success through her own merits not those of her family. Hence her preference in refraining from mentioning them to others.
The leader of the Lords didn't understand the significance. Another human hero, he assumed. The other cops look at her in shock. They knew who she was. Battle Fever mentioned by one. Another points out a Sokichi Banba, someone their direct commander, Sumiko, really disliked as remarked by the other. He can hear some mild cursing from the ear piece. Nina might been told not to reveal that fact about herself. Humans are fascinating creatures.
The girl twisted herself to the right with her arms, crunching her fists. She places her left arm right with her hand open like she's ready for a karate chop. Then her right arm to the left the same way. She slowly moves her hand clockwise. When it reaches to her shoulders, she swished both hands to her right, her right arm fully extended while her left is forms a capital l in front of her body. She proudly stated the word she wished to say for all her life. "Henshin!"
The power she felt intensified as her kingstone bearing belt bears visible. With a flash her true mutated form appears before her body completely covered by her more bulky armor than the 80s Shadow Moon. Silver in body with blue vest like middle instead of the silver and black of the original. The Gorgom symbol for Shadow Moon plastered on the left side. The black replaced with all Silver instead with blue shorts with blue stretching down to her thighs instead of the black bottom. The rest is silver. Her blue boots remind the cops of the boots worn by bōsōzoku gang members. Her red bug like eyes replace the green eyes. Her helmet also bore bigger eyes while her head matched the original if only the bottom was blue and sharper mouth. The two horns also few centimeters longer. Her grasshopper features matched the original if only more buffed thanks to the extra armor. The sleak, thin silver appendages wrap onto each part of her body. Her hands held blue motocycle gloves like covering over them than her predecessor's more gauntlet like version. Her weapon appeared to be a black, thick metal spear with a large green tip
The third cop's pants filled with water marks. Babbling he's to cute to die as the other two roll their eyes. G3's hand impacted the unit's face when the third cop imitated a headless chicken, cursing, start ranting about killer moons. The gruffer one mumbling harshly under his breath, "I need a pay raise from dealing with these idiots. Kami-sama. I cannot believe I left the army for this."
The man promptly faints in a sea of urine. The Overlord watch the scene before him in pure bafflement. What the hell was that? He turns to the new rider who introduced herself.
"I'm the child of the moon, Kamen Rider Silver!" The new rider exclaimed. The Overlord turned to the other cops confused. The lead cop in Rider Armor notes. "It's like Kamen Rider Black RX only the moon."
"Oh." There's other riders not bound by the Agito seed. He thought as the G3 operator paused. He turned to her. "The moon?"
The girl annoyed, responds sharply. "Yes."
"Why would that be important?" The Overlord asks. He missed alot over the years it seems. Gruffier, muscled one responds equally coldly implying history with figure. "Gorgom's Shadow Moon. Real bastard of a creature. Piece of shit wouldn't go down."
"Uh. Hello. I'm stopping the villains here!! Honestly!" The girl fumed, stopping the ground in anger. The poor leader of the Lords stared as the child finally acts her age. "..."
"Shadow Moon?" The girl looked at the guy calling himself the Overlord. She informed him, "He's dead. Kamen Rider Black too. Lots of history. But both now have proper successors, born on a solar eclipse as expected of them."
Something her distant cousin failed to understand. The Kingstones tend to be peculiar in temperament. There's something charming about it. It really makes each transformation special. The girl thought. Though Sumiko eschews the idea of mysticism especially when it comes to some of her relatives powers alongside cybernetics. Poor Sumiko needs to accept the reality of our family's legacy. Like or not. Cybernetics is part of it.
Nina couldn't understand why the poor cop cannot accept cybernetics. It's part of the family. Besides, she made some that's currently inside her six year old cousin. For my babysitter, Sumiko-san sure knows how to keep a girl happy. Still she needs to accept chan as a suffix. I'm family. She then bowed. "I'm rather new. But prepare yourself."
He flicks his wrist. This send her back. She brushes herself off. She watches as the soldiers fire at him. This allows her to sneak behind him. A quick Rider Punch meeting his fist. He knocks her down despite missing her face by three kilometer. This caused her to demorph as she fell on her butt. He smiled. "Cute."
"Not bad for such a beginner. I can see you have quite a good future my little advocate." He mysteriously told her. She turned her head. "What?"
"You know what I mean. It's in your heart, body, mind, and soul." He left in a flash. The cops surround her. The G3 operator, Mikoto Hikawa, frowned. He felt his heart beat once more. "Do you have any idea what you did?"
"I took pieces of the unfinished G4 unit, the broken G2 unit, the prototype version of G3 before Sumiko-san fixed it to create your version and some of the scapped ideas. Molded it into one armor. Casually went into battle with said untested armor. Got shoved into the sun which bloody hurt by the way. Missed the Earth on my escape and crashed into the moon. That also hurt. Thank everything for cybernetics, huh?"
The man rolled his eyes. No one I know is such an odd duck than Sumiko-san's cousin. Though I feel she's not telling us everything. She happily stood by to take notes on their operations. The sole reason why her family sent her here in the first place to understand police work. But resented not going into the thick of things. The fact she had gun training scared him. Constantly running into things or fiddled with things she thought could help. She even performed communications unprompted to help. Ultimately creating her makeshift, untested armor... which she wore in her rush to fight the Leader of the Lords. How she found him is anyone's guess. Fought valiantly despite everything, but ended up in the sun. This completely vaporized said armor without killing her. Hell. She survived the trip to space without any damage. If she said is true. The impact of her on the moon should have killed her. Yet, it didn't. Invoking the cybernetics as the reason of her survival. Cybernetics, her go to excuse on why she's alive despite everything. He seen her medical records. The girl won't make it past 16 if things continue the way they are. She can't even act her age half the time. The make shift armor showed up in that new form of hers. One invoking the image of that terrorist from the 80s. Hell. She even refers to herself as a child of the moon and mentions that Black and Shadow Moon have heirs. "Born appropriately" on a solar eclipse no less. Yet. Despite her apparent status as Shadow Moon's heir, she's obsessed with doing the right thing and wants to fight Gorgom much like Kamen Rider Black. To the point she's willing to die for it despite her illness. It was nice how she took things seriously despite her preference in writing, history, archeology and egyptology. But her cowboy cop attitude definitely needed curbing. She's lucky she's not dead yet. ... Sumiko-san'll kill us if she died. ... I almost got killed. He pressed his hand to his heart imitating a heart attack a his gruffer partner originally from the army laughed. "You're killing me!"
"I got so much moonlight, it's not even funny. I now have a rider form! I totally can help now!!" She went on. Her Kingstone loved the moonlight. That's probably helped unlock her true rider form. The cobbled up armor helped too. Tony Stark, eat your hurt out. The two blink. The gruffer one looked at her. Slightly bashed her head with a playful tap. "Kid. Nice of you to help. But leave the back up for someone who can at least touch the pedals of a car."
The American born girl stuck her tongue out. She cried out, "Honestly. I want to help!"
"I know, Nina-san. But let's not do it by rushing in. Our boss would kill us if you die out here. Let alone the commander in chief. " Mikoto informed her, rubbing his forehead. He liked her, but man did she prove the adage about Americans at times. Shiro Mizuki laughed. "Your cousin got a mean right hook."
"Well. Duh. Fighting the enemies of justice is a family creed! She learned how to fight like the rest of us." She exclaims pumping a fist in the air. She helps the two place towels all over the yellow lake. The two call in reserves to ... help pick up the unconscious cop.
The brown haired female cop rushes out of the car. Her brown eyes gazing into Nina's brown eyes harshly. Pinching the younger girl's cheeks, she screams, "You dumb brat!! Do you have any idea what nearly happened to you?"
"A moonbath?" Her six year old cousin cheekily. She receives much more force this time. She mumbled an apology. "I. I just wanted to help!"
"Help?! You could have died!!" The other roared. She looked at the poor girl's face. She kneels to get even to her size. "Nina, your six years old! Leave this to the professionals, okay."
"Then what good am I?" The small girl inquires bitterly, tears falling from her face. Sumiko sighed. "Nina. You're not a disgrace."
She rubs the girl's head. Smoothly, she informed her, "You did good trying to distract the guy from the targets. We managed to save some lives. The various Unknown managed to fight off the other Unknown while you distracted their leader. This allowed us to save multiple people."
The cop hugged her cousin. "You're not a failure."
An army officer walks up. She glances at the girl, thinking. Sumiko continues to walk her cousin to the car unaware of the woman's thoughts on future plans.
my friend (who is a cis female) asked me today to stop using the word “girlie” to address her sometimes because she said it made her “ears all crunkly” and so I said no problem obviously
So i just want to take a second to give you a friendly reminder that gender dysphoria is not just experienced by trans/nonbinary/anyone and everyone else under the genderqueer umbrella! Cis people feel gender dysphoria too and thats okay! :)
If you consume fanfic on ao3 and are 18+ and American I need you to lock in and call your senators saying you oppose a federal porn ban. This would effectively ban ao3 and being queer in public, among many other things, due to the intentionally vague language of the bill. I’m counting on queer tumblr and fandom tumblr to help me get the word out that you have to call your senators
If you consume fanfic on ao3 and are 18+ and American I need you to lock in and call your senators saying you oppose a federal porn ban. This would effectively ban ao3 and being queer in public, among many other things, due to the intentionally vague language of the bill. I’m counting on queer tumblr and fandom tumblr to help me get the word out that you have to call your senators
The Isis knot is just as iconic as it is mysterious. It is unclear what this knot is meant to represent exactly: some Egyptologists argue it may have been a very ancient form of menstrual pad, while others believe it had religious or decorative purposes."
The Djed Pillar, representing Osiris' spine, is a powerful amulet used by both the living and the dead. Often made from various materials, it is also depicted in Egyptian art with a pair of hands and a feathered crown topped by the sun, symbolizing Osiris and divine resurrection.
The Ancient Egyptians believed the core of our intelligence and mind was the heart, rather than the brain. They couldn’t determine this latter's purpose, so during the mummification process, they discarded it, pulling it out through the nose with a hook, leaving only the essential vital organs to be preserved for the afterlife. In fact, the heart was regarded as both the source of emotions and feelings, and the seat of one's entire being—no wonder it was shaped like a vase!
Even those unfamiliar with Ancient Egyptian art recognize this iconic symbol. Over time, the Ankh, or 'Key of Life,' became synonymous with Egypt itself and its ancient religion. Some Egyptologists suggest that its shape may have been inspired by a knotted cloth, though its use was primarily decorative.
In some murals, strings of Ankh symbols were used to represent water, as it was the ultimate symbol of life for the Egyptians—everything originated from it, making the Ankh a fitting metaphor.
In other depictions, gods are shown 'spoon-feeding' pharaohs and the dead with an Ankh in their hands, symbolizing the soul being revived by the divine as it begins its journey to the afterlife."
One of the most common artifacts found by archaeologists during excavations, the Scarab is an iconic amulet that served many purposes for both the living and the dead.
In life, it was used as a seal, a protective amulet, or simply as jewelry, often worn as a ring or necklace, typically linked to a golden wire. In death, it was frequently placed around the neck and functioned as a protective charm for the heart, earning the name 'heart scarab.'
The scarab was the sacred animal of the god Khepri and symbolized the sun.
For the Ancient Egyptians, the soul was divided into several parts—nine in total, including the physical body. It was crucial that each of these parts made it to the afterlife, allowing the dead to be reborn in the Duat, the Egyptian underworld. The Ba, which represents our unique personality, was often placed on the mummy's chest so it could rest near the heart, another key component of the soul.
In Ancient Egypt, the papyrus stem was a common decorative element. Temple columns were often shaped to resemble this iconic plant. Its frequent appearance in Egyptian art was partly due to its significant color: green, the color of resurrection, sacred to the god Osiris. By placing a papyrus-shaped amulet around a mummy’s neck, the Egyptians believed it would ensure eternal youth for the soul in the afterlife.
The Eye of Horus, modeled after the left eye of the falcon god of kingship, is one of the most iconic symbols of Ancient Egypt. Found in numerous tombs, it was continuously produced from the late Old Kingdom through to the Roman period. It served both as an amulet to ward off evil and as a decoration on boats and mummies. Representing the moon and the righteous nature of the god, it is also closely connected to other benevolent deities, such as Osiris, Thoth, and Ma'at. Tied to the story of Horus's restored eye, it became a symbol of health and healing.
Used exclusively in funerary contexts, this peculiar amulet depicts the index and middle fingers of a right hand, which were believed to 'heal' the incision made by embalmers to remove the mummy’s organs during the mummification process.
If you're an American with a disability who receives government assistance, you likely qualify for an ABLE account, or you may starting next
Named for the 2014 law that created them, the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act, ABLE accounts have been available since 2016 to individuals identified by a doctor as having a disability before the age of 26. Next year, they’ll become available to those identified before the age of 46, which will increase access to an additional 6 million people, including 1 million veterans, according to Indiana State Treasurer Daniel Elliott, who administers the accounts in his state. An estimated 8 million people nationwide already qualify.
“The fact that it used to be that individuals could only save up to $2,000 or they could lose benefits — that was really restricting a lot of families,” Elliot said. “People were forced into a position where they couldn’t save for their futures. Now we’re seeing average account balances of (ABLE accounts) between $11,000 and $12,000.”
Generally, ABLE accounts may reach totals of $100,000 without affecting Supplemental Security Income. Lifetime balance limits for the various state ABLE accounts can range from around $300,000 to over $500,000. They’re administered by state treasurers, and the vast majority can be set up online via their websites. Some ABLE plans accept paper applications as well.
Anyone can contribute to an ABLE account — including the account owner, friends, family, organizations, nonprofits, and employers — up to $19,000 per year in 2025. If the account owner is able to work and not already contributing to a workplace retirement plan, they can contribute an additional amount equal to their yearly gross income. For 2025, that amount is up to an additional $15,560 to $18,810, depending on the state administering the account.
There are also tax advantages. Investment earnings from ABLE accounts remain untaxed as long as money taken from the account is used for “qualified disability expenses,” such as medical treatment, education, tutoring and job training. Account holders may choose from a number of investment options for the funds in their accounts or hold and save the money without investing it further.
Elliot said raising awareness of the accounts is the biggest challenge for the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST), for which he’s also the secretary treasurer.
“Many people are used to the idea that, ‘If I have a disability or my child has one, it could endanger their benefits to save money,’” he said. “We as a state and as a country need to start reaching out to people and saying, ‘Look, you actually can save money now. You could save towards the purchase of a home.’ The hardest thing right now is getting that message out. We need more people to be aware things have changed.”
According to NAST’s data, just 186,641 ABLE accounts existed at the end of 2024, despite an estimated 8 million people qualifying. When the age limit is raised, the accounts will also become available to people whose disabilities may have been the result of an accident in adulthood or developed later in life, such as after a COVID infection.
Andrew Warren, senior associate for policy and research at the Financial Health Network, who studies the financial circumstances of Americans with disabilities, said that the vast majority of people surveyed for a 2023 report by the organization did not know these accounts existed.
“Less than 1% of eligible individuals have these accounts,” Warren said. “Our research show that one of the major barriers to becoming financially healthy for this vulnerable group is asset limits. But there’s an information disconnect between caseworkers and direct services providers on the ground and (administrators of ABLE accounts).”
Two online resources — ABLE Today and the ABLE National Resource Center — can guide you through questions to determine if you or a friend or family member qualifies.
I kind of really need a post-canon/AU one-shot about RFS realizing that he's outlived both of his children. Maybe even scenes of him visiting their graves?
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