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I can't believe there's only two months left of 2024 😵‍💫 I don't really remember October at all?? Hopefully November will be a nice month 🤞

Onwards to the summary:

I've gotta start off by rambling about Ultraman Arc!

Ultraman Connection caught up with Ishido's diary translations by combining episodes 14 & 15 together in one post here. Lotta good stuff here. I love seeing Ishido's point of view on everything.

Anyway, this week's episode (16) was SO GOOD!! I don't want to spoil it but I was thrilled to see a character I really love appear here. Also, it was just a really great character episode for Ishido. I love how these episodes manage to pack so much character work into such a short time.

My other thought on Arc episode 16 is that this show makes it IMPOSSIBLE for me not to ship Yuma and Ishido. They're too cute, oh my god.

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Speaking of shipping, I wrote a cute pre-relationship Yuma/Ishido fic this week for Halloween! It's the pumpkin carving fic I mentioned last week. You can read it here

This fic put me past 800k words on ao3 🥳 which I think is really cool! I wonder how long it'll take me to get to 900k 😅

I also put together my monthly writing goals post for November. Gonna take it easy this month and see what happens.

I didn't mention this in my goals post, but I did sign up for

tokuholidayspecials! I'm very excited about it, and that'll probably be what I focus on this month. I'm ready to write more toku!!

linky's Tokusatsu Ficathon wrapped up this week (tho you can still write fills, so I probably will do that eventually for a couple of prompts I was eyeing). There's a nice masterpost of fills here. It was lots of fun to participate!

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As you can tell, I'm deep in the tokusatsu rabbit hole right now. Especially because I've unfortunately lost interest in my previous fandom. (I'm sure I'll circle back around to it later, but right now I'm just not feeling it, and I'm definitely not gonna force it)

I finished watching Kamen Rider Ryuki this morning! It was so good 🥹 I may have even cried a tiny bit. I thoroughly enjoyed the series!

I will have to write one more post to cover the last stretch of episodes, so hopefully I'll get to that soon. My post last week covered episodes 29-39.

Now I've gotta decide what to watch next. My source for Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon and Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger has been temporarily unavailable for the past few weeks 😭 so that's on hold for now. I will probably pick another Sentai series on Tubi to watch instead.

Or I'll end up rewatching something 🤔

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Music stuff!!

Actually have a few things to share.

YouTube rec'd me a new Blue Encount song that's being used apparently as the theme to a new drama (Wingman. Which is also coincidentally toku-related, I hear). Anyway, I like Blue Encount, and chang[e] is a nice song.

HSJ released a music video for a song from their upcoming album. And, I gotta be honest, I've been a fan of this group for 14 years now, and there are periods where I don't particularly enjoy their songs. And this seems to be another one of those times. Donkey Gongs is like the STUPIDEST name for a song, and this is autotuned to hell and back so much that I don't even recognize half their voices.

Aesthetically, I like the visuals in the video though. They look like they probably had a lot of fun filming it. And I did really enjoy the 7 seconds of Takaki and Hikaru dancing their hearts out together in that ferris wheel. (It starts at 1:30)

But otherwise, this whole thing gets a skip from me.

Finally, I have a new Garnidelia video to share for the first time in ages. The song, however, is not new. They just finally made a music video for it. (Previously, Maria had an odorite video for it instead. I personally like that video better)

Anyway, that's it for this week's summary! I'm gonna binge-read a bunch of Ryuki fics for the rest of the day 😅

Wishing everyone a wonderful week ahead!