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Happy Irish Diaspora Day!

Enjoy yer night everyone  🍀

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*record scratch*

*freeze frame*

Yup. That’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.

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Dragon gods: Heh heh heh, any last words for the crimson dragon king, lover boy?

Hak: Yeah actually *casually proposes marriage, battered bruised and covered in blood, mind you*

Dragon gods:

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Those assholes really looked at hak and said ‘any last words?’

And this man, broken and bleeding and held in the clutches of a nightmare given flesh, looked them dead in the eye and went ‘bet’

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Before your 30s you strive for the perfect life, after your 30s you realize that no such thing exists and everyone’s just sort of winging it

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Yona of the Dawn | Akatsuki no Yona – Chapter 225 ☉ Breathe Out  

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screaming. crying. throwing up. fuckin love this.

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hak & yona moments

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I could write so much about the differences between Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus one as different sides of a political story.

Shin was a political satire at points about the ineffectiveness of Japanese Beauracracy in the face of immediate crisis and how a solution can only be found once the government is pared back to a leaner, more agile and less bound by red tape core of problem solvers. I talks about competence and creativity and radical ideas in the face of insurmountable odds once freed from constraint. The protagonists are young, scrappy and ambitious and the idea that you can make a difference, can step up and save everyone if only you were free to do so.

Minus One is about humans struggling to deal with a crisis in the face of a LACK of government, with almost no military after the trauma of a war they were forced into by their government and then lost badly. It's about picking up the pieces and then having those pieces kicked over again because of the actions of others and possibly, the inaction of one of the protagonists in the past. It's about regret and shame and heartbreak and the feeling you are not worthy of happiness so denying it when it presents itself to you.

And while Shin deals with the constraints placed on Japan by the treaty that ended World War II and whether or not they can deploy their self-defense forces to try and stop Godzilla before it is too late, Minus one deals with the lack of support from the US Occupying Forces who seem to not care if Japan gets absolutely destroyed again. You can almost feel a kind of callous disdain in the non-presence of the Americans as if they are ok with Japan being destroyed as long as it doesn't lead to conflict with the USSR. Or maybe they are just using that as an excuse to further humiliate a defeated enemy that once threatened them.

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He's a little confused, but he got the spirit!

(He's trying his best, leave him alone!)

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Sitting down to watch godzilla minus 1: aw fuck yeah, super awesome giant monster

Godzilla minus 1: Your past burdens aren't yours to bear alone. Leaning on the help of others is what allows you to move forward. You don't have to sacrifice yourself for the future, the future is something we all build together.

Me, quietly sobbing: what t he fuck

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Toho: We're returning Godzilla back to his original roots with a sci-fi horror narrative set in post war Japan than examines the nature of man when met with consequences of war and nuclear power.

Warner Bros: We got Godzilla going Kaio-ken and King Kong with an Infinity Gauntlet kicking the shit out of giant orangutans, WHOOP WHOOP!

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Saw Godzilla Minus One and it reminded me a lot of that tumblr post where someone was trying to watch Shin Godzilla but accidentally saw the wrong film, a romantic drama or something with people getting divorced, and every time something happened they were like "man, poor characters, AND they have to deal with Godzilla later" - Godzilla Minus One actually has this energy and rolls with it. This guy is a disgraced kamikazi pilot, and suddenly is looking after a homeless woman and an orphan baby, and has to rebuild his house, and has to work a dangerous job destroying sea mines, AND he has to deal with Godzilla later.

As the plot progresses through the 1940s and you see this guy's homelife grow from desperate to domestic, every time Godzilla shows up you're like NO. GET BACK IN THE OCEAN. THE LITTLE GIRL HAS A PLUSHIE NOW YOU CAN'T DESTROY THIS HOUSE. THIS GUY HAD TO SAVE UP FOR AGES TO BUY HIS MOTORBIKE. STOP DESTROYING THE CITY GODZILLA!!!! and I think of all the Godzilla films I've seen, Godzilla Minus One was the best at 'oh man it would SUCK if Godzilla showed up right now', bravo!!!! <3

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“tumblr is full of misinformation” this “everybody lies on tumblr” that. you dare insult the wiccans who published the instructions for cocaine protection circles? for free? no moneys?

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The Thraxus Boorman show

Just kidding

Willow (2022)