#kaijuposting

[kaliido-s]

Don’t believe the “radioactive lizard” propaganda, this guy is a mammal. a kitty if you will.

[kaiger-the-kaiju-loser]

Been watching Generator Rex with pookie and

[bethanythebogwitch]

Mothra and Gamera would be best friends, but alas they are forced to be in separate franchises

[kingg-ghidorahh]

Been thinking about my human (/anthro?) designs for the Kaiju/titans for AWHILE but finally I've been trying to draw them again.

I wanna clean up the main squad but for now here's a Meg :]

[junoniadoesart]

Meet Kligekylk!

He’s an original kaiju I’ll be using in a story idea I’m working on (Placeholder name: Kaijuwatching. It has influences from the early MonsterVerse, The Kaiju Preservation Society, Pacific Rim, Godzilla (2000) and Cloverfield. It’s based off of a concept called kaijuwatching, which functions as being similar to a combo of birdwatching and storm chasing).

As for Kligekylk, he’s the main antagonist kaiju. Since kaiju in this story will be of ambiguous sentience, it’s not sure why he’s rampaging, but it’s heavily implied that he’s sapient and just being a jerk to us little bugs ‘cause he can (not at all inspired by a childhood bully who would step on bugs in front of me because he knew it would upset me /s)

Klige is based off of hagfish, olms, viperfish, frilled sharks, and so on! Earlier concepts included insp from chimaeras and some of Beebe’s unidentified bathysphere fish, especially the “pallid sailfin” and “giant dragonfish”. Kaiju who went into him include Shin Godzilla’s earlier forms, Zilla’98, some of the Pacific Rim kaiju, and the Cloverfield monster. His name (which is a placeholder I may end up keeping) is a combo of the German word for “blade” and the Russian for “tooth”. Allegedly. A friend got that off Google Translate when I was asking around for name ideas.

The bird monster up in the upper right corner that he’s fighting is named Nauhanokka as a placeholder name (yes I know that’s Finnish for ribbon-beak and makes little sense, but it sounds nice for now). She’s the protag kaiju, based off of secretary birds, herons, hoatzins, Rodan, Mothra, and Litra. More on her later if people show interest. She was designed first, and Klige was designed to contrast her.

As for Klige’s abilities, he has hagfish slime (not sure if I wanna make it toxic or not). This makes him incredibly hard to grab or bite down on, and grants him some protection from fire and heat based attacks! He’s a slippery lil guy :D his teeth are also sharp, and he’s a very fast and agile swimmer. Slower on land, though. His biggest drawback is not having any ranged attacks (yet). He also has a standard kaiju’s durability, and seems to be immune to depressurization/the Blobfish Effect, allowing him to function at surface-level waters and even on land, even if he prefers the deep. His weaknesses include bright light (blinds him) and getting dried out if he’s out of the water for too long!

That’s all so far!

@fishyfishyfishtimes because you liked my Manda ideas and I thought you’d be interested in another feesh kaiju!

[arsenicolada]

What are your thoughts on Gigan/Megalon?

In all honesty, I never knew the ship existed until recently, but I enjoy it!

They just have pure “dumbass frat boys who ransack people’s backyards then make out afterwards” energy and I love that for them.

[shuttershocky]

I love kaijuposting

[thechaosgods]

Lore Masterlist!

https://www.tumblr.com/kaijuposting/737547236369661952/jaegers-of-pacific-rim-what-do-we-know-about

https://www.tumblr.com/scalar/136688158178

https://www.tumblr.com/californiannostalgia/744727632778854400/things-i-noticed-on-my-pacific-rim-rewatch

https://www.tumblr.com/monsterblogging/744895099137409024/ohohohohoho-there-are-answers-to-your

https://www.tumblr.com/monsterblogging/738558701156352000/you-know-what-theres-no-way-some-of-hermanns

https://www.tumblr.com/monsterblogging/738636092504522752/recently-noticed-that-k-sci-and-loccent-have-the

https://www.tumblr.com/monsterblogging/728182265728958464/jeffreycombs-pacific-rim-2013-deleted

https://www.tumblr.com/idonotbitemythumbatyou/178163338610

links-to-pacific-rim-creator-travis-beachams-own

[likecrapthroughagoose]

The full version of my banner. I call it "Great Moments in Kaijuposting"

[monsterblogging]

Behold! My pinned post!

Right now I am massively into Pacific Rim - specifically, the first movie and the adjacent comics and paratext. I'm deeply interested in the mystical, animist, fairy tale subtext underpinning del Toro and Beacham's worldbuilding, and the allegorical intentions behind the first movie.

I posted a bunch of resources over on kaijuposting.

I'm really not a fan of The Black and what it does with Pacific Rim.

I lean toward looking at media from a holistic, "what's the narrative saying?" point of view. I'm not a fan of approaching issues/possible issues in a story like an Evangelical pastor doing Bible apologetics in this context. Headcanons/mind caulk are wonderful for personal media enjoyment and transformative works, but terrible for meaningful media analysis.

I'm not a fan of reading every text as if it's written as a moral tract where we're supposed to agree with the protagonist or an obvious figure of authority. Some media is written like that. A lot of media isn't. Determining what a text is saying is more about examining the conclusions validated by the narratives than what the characters say and do.

Also if you project western Christian dualism onto stories written without that perspective (for example, the works of Guillermo del Toro), you're going to come away with a wonky reading, just saying.

[kaliido-s]

Delirious and looking at shin godzilla merch

[inkleyart]

MerMay '24 Kaiju

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[bethanythebogwitch]

Had a dream of a Monsterverse AU where Gamera was around during KoTM flying around the world to keep his villains (specifically Monsterverse versions of Viras, Legion, and Zedus) from joining Ghidorah but nobody noticed because everyone was so focused on what Godzilla was doing.

[kingg-ghidorahh]

Was gonna clean this up at least but artblock has been killin me so here's just the final sketches for these guys so far.

[retic-pithon]

M. My lizard brain. I'm just a giant reptile. (Kaijuposting)

Me tooooo

stompy prehistoric chomper

[kaurwreck]

Super appreciate your correction! I'm gonna turn reblogs off on the original post to try and keep people from spreading it; then once I stop getting likes on it I'll change it and reblog your correction again. -kaijuposting

Thank you for your attention to this matter! (And for being so polite even after I rudely hijacked your post 😭) Your original post brings up a really fascinating and important facet of American cultural hegemony; I enjoyed learning more in the process of exploring the source material.