Smarter Than the Average Squirrel

 thesecondbatgirl requested a post about color theory. 

( Ho boy, time to open the can )Tomorrow's post will be on why Rocky is awesome and Rocky-related headcanon as requested by rivulet027 . And for Day 10, punkpinkpower asked that I post about a favorite story or song from childhood and what it means to me now. 

So, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers hit the airwaves for the first time today. If you're reading this, you're most likely already well aware of all my feels about this show and how it's affected my life over the past 20 years. While I kind of wish the show's powers-that-be had lived up to all the #PR20 hype done more to honor the actual date, that hasn't stopped me from doing some low-key celebrating on various forms of social media while wearing an MMPR shirt and watching some episodes on Netflix.

I won't offer ficlets this time because I can't let myself get distracted so close to the Femslash Ficathon deadline <strike>and because I'm bad at responding to prompts anyway</strike>, but I'm more than happy to chat about any headcanon/fanon/meta stuff people may want to hear about. 

Also, here's a random list of some of my top PR-related memories over the past 20 years. 

- Reading an article about the show in Disney Adventures Magazine and deciding that this was relevant to my interests
- Waking up at 8:30 in the morning on Saturdays to watch when new episodes were on
- Taping the show on VHS and watching them over and over and over...
- Being in awe of the Command Center playset in the toystore, only to be told by my parents that it was too expensive ~_~
- MMPR:TM being released on my 11th birthday, getting nothing but movie merch for presents, and listening to the soundtrack over and over and over...
- Making my dad quiz me on PR trivia because I was convinced I knew EVERYTHING
- The massive brainbreak that accompanied the end of MMPR and the advent of Zeo. (I can still see those promos clear as day. "You gotta see it! It's coming!")
- Getting onto the internet in my dad's office and checking out all of the fansites
- Reading - and subsequently writing - my first fanfic
- Crying in front of my television at Countdown to Destruction
- Re-discovering the show in college, watching DT with my ex
- Re-RE-discovering the show in 2009, when I saw an ad for a PR-centric RPG on InsaneJournal. Wrote my character application on the plane home from Japan, joined, and thereby met rivulet027 , who proceeded to drag me back into the fandom full-stop. 
- Meeting my husband for the first time and realizing he was The One when he invoked the name of my favorite fandom with no provocation whatsoever from me and told me he had PR action figures in his cubicle at work. 
- Flying across the country for the sole purpose of PMC2 and getting to meet Riv, thesecondbatgirl , and so many other awesome people face to face for the first time. 
- Meeting, having my headcanon affirmed by, doing the ugly cry in front of, and ultimately hugging my all-time hero David Yost at NPS Live. 
- Giving directions to Johnny Yong Bosch at Genericon
- Having my best friends from the fandom attend my wedding...and, naturally, morphing with them in the photobooth. 
- Couchcon 2013, complete with the Gokaiger marathon, the Porner, and the questionable but tasty Skittles vodka. 

...And many more to come, I'm sure. :)

Happy Rangerversary, everybody!