#newtlieb

[bitmeddler]

Lycanthropic Myopic

Fic by Bitmeddler

Art by @foxglovecove

Contribution to the Newmann Hallozine: Weird K-Science

Story and art now on Ao3!

Fandom/Pairing: Pacific Rim / Newmann (Newt Geiszler x Hermann Gottlieb) 

Story Summary: When Newt keeps taking unexplained monthly work trips despite extensive PPDC budget cuts, Hermann begins to investigate. But things are not as they appear and he uncovers a shocking truth about his colleague beyond his wildest imaginings.

Tags: Alternate Universe - Werewolf, AU within Canon Universe, Werewolf Turning, Transformation, Jealousy, Pining, Misunderstandings, Bit of mystery, Bit of spooky, Humor, Fluff, Pre-Relationship, Pre-Slash, Visual fic, Illustrated fic, Fic/art collab

[thekenobee]

Hello, deer friend <3

Can you believe it's been six months since I fell head first into my Hermann Gottlieb obsession. Stared baffled-ly at the internet trying to figure out why the heck it isn't called Newtlieb (it is now I've decided). Realised the guy from that meme has like a name and a career and stuff. Realised one of those names is Peckham are you kidding me. Decided I wasn't interested in him unless Burn was also there. You know the story.

ANYWAY that's not what I came here to say. What I came here to say was, post-pitfall headcanons? What happens to our boys? Where are they now (like actually now, June 2025)? Or whenever. I do think it was rather neat of me to watch the film almost exactly when the events of the film were taking place. I'm so clever. Do you have different headcanons for a PRU-compliant universe vs. a pretending-PRU-never-happened-because-we-hate-that-for-them universe?

AHHHHH MY DEER, happy 6monthsversary!

I'm so happy you fell into the same 🐇 hole (Black Velvet Rabbits Band), it's such an absolute joy to have someone so special like you to talk about someone so special like Burn <3

Re: the question

I have seen. Things (in my mind, mostly) and I have read fics and What I think we could pass on as PRU compliant universe:

Hermann figuring out a way to sever the connection between the Precursors and Newt. Maybe by Drifring with Newt and empowering THEIR connection because Newton is not lost, no. We could see him beg Hermann to help him and who's more than capable of doing that than the love of his life, who waited for him for 10 years and who shared his most intimate moments and memories? Hermann eventually disconnects the Precursors from Newt, smashing tank with A.L.I.C.E. but not before getting the vital intel from her in his attempt to drift with the vile thing. Hermann carries both Newt and Himself in his mind everywhere he goes and the man who coded Jaegers can do ANYTHING.

If we were to pretend PRU doesn't exist, cuz it doesn't, however, I would go with this scenario:

Newton and Hermann never got separated. When I watched PRU for the first time it was such an abstract thing for me to imagine that Newton, lovely, messy Newton just. Left. Hermann for a cool job with a cool salary and cool clothes. Like. I was just given that on my plate when I didn't even order. He could never. After drifting, these two cannot stop rambling about k-biology, astronomy and why Star Trek TOS is a great show. Newton would take Hermann to the pub- No Newton, Black Velvet Rabbits is NOT the most amiable name for a band I could think of and I shall not entertain the idea of - yet he listens to the little man sing and after a couple of pints (German stuff) he even agrees to karaoke.

Newton also makes Hermann lose the grandpa style but not the suspenders. He loves them.

He's the one trying to figure out a way to stop Hermann's MS from progressing and that's his main job these days, apart from giving all the interviews and attending the lectures. He's a rockstar, dude

Newt also saw that Hermann's military haircut is reminiscent of his dreams of becoming a pilot, on their second date he takes him to Duxford Air Museum.

They continue to be rockstars-turned-husbands who defeated the kaiju, by Jove!

Oh lord I could go on and on. I'm afraid I drifted with so many fanfics we shared a bond

This was so lovely to reply to ❤️

[ao3feed-geiszlergottlieb]

by buckgaybarnes

Ten years after the world didn't end, Newt and Hermann discuss buying a house. Predictably, they don't agree on much.

Words: 4957, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Pacific Rim (Movies)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Newton Geiszler, Hermann Gottlieb

Relationships: Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb

Additional Tags: Post-Movie: Pacific Rim (2013), Not Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) Compliant, Established Relationship, middle-aged man yaoi. as they say, Miscommunication, Insecurity, (to an extent), Zine: Ten Years of Experience: A Newt/Hermann Ten Year Anniversary Zine

[bitmeddler]

Get excited, because you’re in for a treat, by jove! So much incredible talent and time from a truly impressive array of writers and artists went into this massively monumental Newt Geiszler / Hermann Gottlieb fanzine in celebration of the 10 year anniversary of Guillermo Del Toro’s forever classic Pacific Rim. You can get yours right now here!

Here’s a little sneak peak of my fanfic for the zine, in which Newt gets hold of an interview feature Hermann is working on about their drift experience and makes some *cough* extensive edits…

🩵HEY HEY HEY our #Newmann10yr fanzine is FINALLY COMPLETE! Please check it out if you can and a massive thank you to everyone who helped @hermannsthumb and I put this thing together! 🩵

🩵🩵🩵Store Link!🩵🩵🩵

[rorykurago]

So I'm watching "Mech Cadets"

because I'm still a giant dork for Pacific Rim and this looked like good PR-esque content.

Friends...

it is PR fanon. Animated. Only mild AU.

Like... There's genre fiction, then there's this. Let's count:

Jaegers Ro-bos fRoM sPaCe that have to bond with a pilot so there are two (2) minds controlling the body? Check

main Jaeger Robo is blue and yellow with a glowy heart? Check

J-Tech Mech tech department? Check

Neon/steel/grimy urban aesthetic? check

Marshal and Old Guard Pilot are old buddies? check

Angry Ace Pilot who is child of a Marshal? Check

Angry Ace Pilot who tops the class but still doesn't get the recognition they think they deserve? Check

Angry Ace Pilot mad the wash-out gets to go around the system and still gets a Jaeger Robo? check

Kwoon? Check

Drivesuits? Check

Pilot duels in the kwoon with hanbos? check

everybody wearing Air Force-style dress blues or flight bags? check

Cadet Academy in the middle of a desert nowhere? Check (technically that's a 'Training Day' X-over, but I'm counting it)

Cadet Academy is a giant metal tower full of shiny lights in the middle of nowhere? check

enemy are bony insect critters from another dimension world? check

enemy critter bleed bright blue? Check

chief scientist is Newtlieb? check

chief scientist misappropriates resources to sell/militarise kaiju sky-ju biology? check

...which goes very badly? CHECK

Big Scary Skyju is a threat physically bigger than and with features unlike anything seen in decades of war? check

the threat is Coming From Inside The House? check

Mech-Tech maintenance crew rivalry? check

drivesuit pain feedback that disables the pilot? check

Jaeger with a busted arm? check

Pilot with a busted arm? Check

Girl Ace Pilot and Boy Ace Pilot sitting side by side on a gantry leaning on each other to look into the glowy heart of a Jaeger-Mech? CHECK

More to follow lmao

Don't get me wrong, this is great (occasionally terrible) content and I'm immensely enjoying revisiting Jaegerland. But, like, .... I'm on ep FOUR and there's already so much crossover. Nobody is going to convince me PacRim had nothing to do with this. The Mech Cadet comics were released from 2017. Come on. Come ON.

[krakenandcracker]

shut it herms

lets just chill. Okay?

smoke break, night fanart, made by me

[missanthropicprinciple]

TAKE TO THE SKIES: A WWII Newmann AU fanfic cephalopod_groupie

    R.A.F. pilot Squadron Leader Hermann Gottlieb and U.S. Air Force pilot Newton Geiszler face war, love, and a giant octopus. 

Approximately 23,000 words total. Rated Explicit. 

TW - contains: war injury, swearing, dealing with historical homophobia, mild violence, mild torture, and sex

Chapter 1: A Rousing Start

Chapter 2: Communication

Chapter 3: Plummet

Chapter 4: White Lies and Hard Truths

Chapter 5: Sea Dance

Chapter 6: Upon My Brow

Chapter 7: Bonding Rituals

Chapter 8: Conjugate

Guerra, la pasión, el pulpo! (Also on ff.net)

Sticker of just the octopus and plane here. 

[thisjaegerisourgetalongshirt]

Newt, post kaiju-hermann drift: "dude, are you okay?"

Hermann:

[loveaintforkeeping]

[bitmeddler]

This is very specific, but could you write a newmann one-shot that takes place just after operation pitfall and newt has to spend the night in the medbay just to make sure that he's ok after the kaiju drift, so hermann goes to spend some time with him?

Hi lovely anon! What a treat to get this prompt! I have to be totally honest here, I've never really done a prompt fill before, except for holiday exchanges. I've tweaked a few elements, but hope I've done your ask justice and that you enjoy it.

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You know those moments in life that completely alter your entire existence? One of those things that when it happens, it creates a clear ‘before’ and ‘after?’ Those ‘nothing will ever be the same after this’ moments?

Yeah. This was one of those.

You'd think after everything, after six postdocs at MIT, after giant alien monsters busted out of an extra-dimensional hole in the ocean, after studying said aliens and pioneering (and yeah, some would say perfecting) the totally new and very, very punk rock field of xenobiology— you'd think one of those things would've been that profoundly life-changing moment for me.

Or hell, even something in the 24 hours before it happened. Like closing the breach. Cancelling the apocalypse. Nearly getting either a) shot by gangsters b) crushed to death in a bunker, c) killed by a mob in aforementioned bunker, or d) eaten by a kaiju. 

Or even something more personal. You know, like drifting with my long time lab partner sort of frenemy turned begrudging colleague. Seeing the raw, unaltered data of every single one of his memories and letting him see mine.

I mean, you might even figure it would’ve been something after all that. Like our first kiss which led to, uh… a lot of other firsts. Or the morning-after cuddles the next day. Or our first anniversary. Moving in together. Our wedding! Honeymoon! First pet! I could go on…

You'd really think it'd be one of those moments.

But it wasn't.

This is what went down: one second, we were all in LOCCENT as the war clock stopped. Raleigh and Mako— those crazy kids— actually pulled it off and saved the world. Well, with a little help from their friendly neighborhood K-Scientists who totally Bletchley Park-ed the hell outta the hivemind code. Anyway, I’ll never forget the cheer that went up. I remember looking out over the swarm of people, then suddenly he was there, inching closer to me with the dorkiest little smile on his face. So I threw my arm around him for a proper bro hug.

The music started up not long after that and people were dancing, crying, kissing, laughing, drinking, yelling… just, you know, living. Finally, for the first time in over a decade, living like there might actually be a tomorrow. 

Then the heroes of the hour showed up after getting picked up from their floaty, escape pod thingies by about twenty helicopters. They started weaving through the crowd to make their way over to the control deck and I was about to give them both the first bump of the century…

And the next thing I knew, I was waking up in a hospital bed.

I sat bolt upright. Which was a mistake. My head felt like a literal hive of angry bees. Every muscle in my body was screaming at me. I couldn’t find my damn glasses. I felt like shit. I probably looked like shit too, I could feel the dirt, dried blood and god-knows-what-other-gunk crusted into my skin and hair. 

“You passed out,” a voice said next to me and I jumped so far out of my bed I nearly wound up on the floor. 

“Jesus fucking christ, dude,” I said, clutching a hand to my chest, feeling my heart going like a jackhammer. “You scared the hell outta me.”

Hermann was sitting by my bedside in a scuffed-up plastic chair that warped a bit every time he shifted position. He was wearing the same sweater as before, so I was guessing (hoping) not too much time had passed. He kinda looked like crap too, honestly, but definitely nowhere near as bad as me.

He arched an unimpressed eyebrow— maybe at my general state or maybe my “cussing,” as he puts it. Probably both if I had to guess. He blatantly ignored my reaction and answered a question I hadn’t actually asked. “You’re in the med bay.”

“Yeah, man, I’d worked that much out already,” I said, maybe a little harsher than I meant to. The other eyebrow went up. Oops. 

“Uh…” I tried to course-correct. “I mean, like, thanks, uh… for, um. Bringing me here? I guess? I don’t actually remember.”

He crossed his arms over his chest. “Oh, I can't take credit for that. Ranger Becket scooped you up in his arms and carried you here.”

“Wow… not sure whether to giggle and blush or, like… die of humiliation,” I said, as Hermann very exaggeratedly rolled his eyes at me. “Soooooo… how long have I been out?”

“About three days.”

“Three days?!?!?!” I yelled, my voice pitching up in that screechy way it does sometimes.

Hermann winced slightly, then nodded. “They’ve been running tests while you slept. Your stats are surprisingly good, all things considered. Although I'm sure they will want to keep you under observation for a while yet. Come to think of it, I should let the doctor know you’re awake...”

“Wait, wait, wait,” I said. “What about you? You’re, uh, you’re still wearing the same clothes you were when we, um…” I could feel my cheeks heating up. “When we, you know… drifted. Did they run tests on you too?”

“Indeed,” he said dryly. “But I had the advantage of not passing out in LOCCENT. They discharged me within the day.”

Meaning that he hadn’t gone back to his room since they let him go. Meaning also that he’d stayed here by my sorry-ass comatose self for two fricking days. 

We were both silent then. Over the whir of the aircon and the beeping of the medical doo-hickeys I was hooked up to, off in the distance, I could hear the echoing thump-thump-thump of bass and an occasional cacophony of woooooos. The ‘Dome practically vibrated with it.

“You've been missing the party of the century, dude,” I said. 

He shook his head and his lip twitched up in that funny little way it does sometimes. The way that makes me forget every damn time that breathing is an important thing that I should definitely keep doing.

Then he said, “I am right where I need to be,” as if his words in that moment didn't just squeeze every last bit of oxygen out of my lungs.

What happened next was… I mean, honestly? I was tired. I was so fucking exhausted and it had been a day. It had been a week. A year. A decade. Christ.

I couldn't help it. It just bubbled up. I'm almost 100% sure it started as a laugh. That was the intent anyway. I felt myself shaking and the sound… yeah, it definitely started as a laugh. But then the next thing I knew, the shaking kept up and then tears started coming and they just wouldn't stop. 

And then… the thing that happened next was the big moment. The one that changed absolutely everything.

He hesitated for just a brief second. And then he just… he took my hand. Just took it and held it in his. Didn't make eye contact either. But he spoke. He didn't look at me, but he said:

“I'm here, Newton. I’m here.”

Then he squeezed my hand so, so gently.

“I always have been.”

[thekenobee]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/936761?view_adult=true

@occasionallynotwatchingroger I'm 🐻 ing MORE offerings

[skepticamoeba]

Wips wips wips

[sailoreuterpe]

I may not be as active in the PR fandom as I was but these are still some banger stories. I miss my Shatterdome friends. T_T

Any recommendations for a long angsty fic with a well written Hermann? (Besides the wing au)

Before I get into my recommendations, I want to remind you (and everyone else) to check the tags, warnings, etc. for any fanwork that you may come across in any fandom. The tags and such can warn you off of triggers, personal pet peeves, and the like. For example, many of my recommendations have explicit content in them and some people just don’t enjoy that. It’s better to go into everything with a clear head and a good eye than to be blindsided.

That said:

pickleplum’s other great work is “Apples, Trees“ and features a large age gap between Hermann and Newt. Their relationship is familial because of that, but Hermann is still wonderful in this work. Pickle’s put (the unfinished) "Apples, Trees” on the backburner for now to focus on “Athene,” but it’s still worth getting into.

“A hell of a coincidence“ by soididthisthing is heartbreaking. Both Hermann and Newt are trans in this series of vignettes, so there is a lot of frank body talk, and soididthisthing weaves a beautiful story of friendship. Each little chapter can be read alone, but I’m hoping for more someday.

If you like fantasy, I highly recommend “At the Dragon’s Side” by spirogyra. It’s a dragon AU and Hermann has a lot of issues to work out before he and Newt can be happy. It’s not finished, but spirogyra updates regularly.

“Blood and Pumpkin Spice“ by decadent_mousse is adorable and fun, though it’s more fluff than angst. Newt is a vampire and it’s a "No Kaiju” AU, so if that’s not your scene it probably won’t be much fun for you. There’s some shit about to hit the fan in the story, so be prepared for that if you read it.

I absolutely adore “This Love Isn’t Good Unless It’s Me and You“ by catsielnya. It’s another "No Kaiju” AU and Hermann is amazing in this work. catsielnya just finished it yesterday and it’s got angst in spades.

Also, I would be remiss to not mention some of the bigger fics that I haven’t started yet. “Anthology“ by irisbleufic, ”Designations Congruent with Things“ by cleanwhiteroom, ”Infinite Regress, Under Duress“ by jamnesias, and ”Occam’s Razor“ by blairrabbit are all super-long and unfinished, but I’ve heard nothing but great things about them all. I’m waiting for the stories to finish before I start them, since I already hate the wait for "Athene” and many other works. XD

Finally, some authors that I love that I haven’t mentioned yet are: artificiallifecreator, classyfangirl, curiumKingyo, emmalyn, irinokat, jadinacookie, knightphoenix2, the-oxford-english-fangirl, and so, so, so many others. There are countless amazing, talented artists and writers in the Pacific Rim fandom. Just check the tags on Archive of our Own, DeviantArt, Tumblr, and other art sites to find some real treasures.

[pomeplanetary]

Here's the end of my seasonal boys theme: spring boys! Springtime activities have a relaxing feeling so drawing this was very calming. It made me want to pay a visit to a farmer's market!  These two deserve some relaxation and having a picnic with fresh fruit from their garden sounds wonderful!

Summer / Autumn / Winter / Buy Sticker

[ramenthiefart]

Hermann: My father never wanted me to reach the stars. Fortunately I found my own whole new galaxy right here. *boops Newt’s nose*

Newt, tearing up: C-Can I marry you again?

[missanthropicprinciple]

Gotye’s “What Do You Want?” is my first Newmann song where I thought about them while listening to it. Reblog with your “Newmann song.”