[Kamen Rider Die]

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Originally Posted by LeviathanBlossom

Haha, the first toku thing I did this year was come to the boards and then watch this ep of Kabuto to follow the discussion, which - yes, this feels like a pretty great choice Especially with how hard it's been over the past several months to feel connected to people, watching an episode reaffirming how important it is to value friendship just hits different this time around.

....but the actual first thing I did this year was take the dog to the dog park to run around in the snow at dawn, wearing multiple hoodies because it's cold and she's tiny

Firstly, please post pictures of your dog somewhere on the forums because she sounds adorable thank you.

Secondly, man, I can't say enough about how much better 25 came off retroactively due to the work 26 does. Like, the whole story is about how necessary it is to depend on each other, how the size of the obstacles the the characters are facing isn't something they can handle alone. But the the first part of the story, where everyone's just doing it themselves, thinking they're unstoppable, that shit is played with zero judgment. There's nothing in 25 that says we're watching a story about Tendou and Kagami needing to be more humble about their capabilities, or inclusive of others. It's actually the opposite?

Which makes 26 so good for revealing itself to be the punishment for those boys thinking they could do it all alone. And all without a single speech highlighting the lesson!

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Let's just say there's a reason Hiyori bad-mouthing her own art was such a relatable beat early on. Not that I want to turn this thread into a support group for people writing way too much about Kamen Rider on forums.

...Unless you guys are cool with that, in which case we could keep going like this for a while

No Mods Or Kings In 2021! We talk about what we want, when we want, where we want.

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but getting to know a lot of creative people in my life, and seeing how ridiculous their psychology is, led me to create this distillation of how artists view their art:

THE NEWEST STUFF: Ugh, it could've been so much better. So many missed opportunities.
THE OLDER STUFF: Yikes. Abysmal. No one should judge me by this. Needs to be dropped in the ocean, where no one can find it.
THE RECENT STUFF THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY NEW: I can't believe those ingrates didn't see how genius this was.

Like, for every post I finish where I'm like Don't Sweat It You'll Get 'Em Next Time, I'll occasionally need to look through an old thread of mine for something, and I'll be like Holy Shit I Can't Believe I Came Up With That. There's something about the process that makes appreciating something you've created so difficult. It's all the phrases that are too rough, or the connections that you feel are too strained. Every line has the echo of the work it took to get there, and you can see every crack and stress in it. But once you've forgotten the work, blanked on the process, it's just the creation, which can be appreciated on its own.

...until eventually it's been replaced by more assured work, in which case it needs to be obliterated.