#goji is so cool

[ruubesz-draws]

It's true

#godzilla #kong #godzilla x kong: the new empire #ice cream truck song #meme #it's true #we loved the ice cream truck #we still do #also their running is fo goofy #i love it #goji is so cool #:') cries #he's beautiful #tho he's a bit skinny now... #what's up with that?

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

One thing I think many gloss over when it comes to Godzilla is the motivation and personality of each iteration, and how their design reflects that.

Shin is a being of pure agony, a living cancer that kills and destroys as much as it can out of pure rage and hatred at its own existence and those who made it be so. Over the film, it goes from what looks like a dead shark to a monster with razors for teeth and eyes of pure suffering and hate.

Minus One is basically hate personified, a monster that somehow manages to hold a deep personal rage against each and every individual member of humanity. It's hatred runs so deep that it commits actions just to terrify and kill. And it's design forces a terrifying glare, one so viscous you'd believe it really hates you personally.

Monsterverse is more of a disgruntled hero. He kinda gives the vibe of a dude who stands in the corner at a party acting like he doesn't want to be there. He has specific motivations in taking down particular kaiju, motivations that are often confused for attacks. He does what he needs to do and retreats back to the ocean when he's done. And he looks consistently miffed. A face that does lean into a menacing rage when necessary.

Classic goji is, like most iterations, an already existing being from the sea, enraged at the destruction of its home and mutation of itself. It has come to simply destroy, destroy all that has allowed this to occur. It causes hurt and suffering, agony and destruction all in its shared pain and rage. Its design is literally shaped like a mushroom cloud since, yknow, nuke mutation.

#and i can go on and on #showa goji is just a silly funky guy #godzilla #ugh and i love how shin and MO adapt the story of the original #shin focuses on the suffering of the creature. the nuclear mutation caused an immoral suffering. an existence of disgusting agony #MO focuses more on the rageful revenge #and monsterverse has its own little thing going on #i love it #goji is so versatile he can be literally anything and i think that's so fucking cool #gojira #kaiju #toho kaiju #king of the monsters #monster island #anyways hey with the monsterverse headed into silly territory i only ask one thing #PLEASE let me see my boys anguirus and gigan i beg of you. and maybe jet while we're at it #godzilla minus one #godzilla minus 1 #monsterverse #monsterverse godzilla #legendary godzilla #shin godzilla #anyways I'm super late but CONGRATS GOJI LET'S GO #and congrats to the team who put that amazing film together #that Oscar was well deserved #godzilla king of the monsters #ooh and minilla too maybe please 🥺. i bet he'd look real cute with his dumbass face in modern effects #oscars #godzilla oscars

[littlepuffy4ever]

I may not know how to draw humans (and maybe I forgot how to bc last time I did it was with fnaf--) but that's not stopping me from drawing Madison Russell interacting with her adoptive monster family ‼️❗‼️❗‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

#mostly mv goji and mv minilla but ahrug #*shrug #i like the hc that they use an orca like device to communicate #and i also like to hc that she eventually tries to find a way so it isnt... as big as orca and she doesn't have to carry it around lol #like an earplug or smt #also *cat eyebrow raised emoji* #she gets to have a monster family sure why not thats the canon #ohhh later on i should draw maddie giving the egg to goji #bc since hes canonically adopted and goji is the last of his species #it somehow SOMEHOW managed to go kind of dormant in that egg and eventually monarch finds it #and madison is like 'oh cool when are we gonna give it to him' #and mark is like 'hmmmmm u know-- maybe we shouldnt bc we dont know what he would do with it' #and she drags it to that... deck thing we see in castle bravo and calls (?) for goji to come pick up his new son djxjxjxnzxjxjxjzj #and he picks up with his mouth and swims away #to which; cut to him cuddling the egg and getting a nap bc he needs all the naps

[pussypilled]

my sister made this goji berry tea simple syrup and i use it a lot. goes well with some other teas or coffee and it'll jazz up a cake pretty fancy.

#maybe i'll try it with something caramelized? onions could be a cool combo idk #funny story actually i thought she was making tea so i added my own goji berry tea in to surprise her w the flavor #happy accidents #now we make it on purpose and use it a lot #food #stfu i'm typing

[startheskelaton]

Why do i have a feeling that mothra is the main char in yhe urban au??

I mean like goji has big backstory and cool this and cool that and he and mothra r a thing but just re-reading or re-looking at your art and storyline and lore it just gives me the vibe thay mothra is main character or am i wrong?😅

Maybe there is no main character??😱

To be honest yeah!

Mothra is my favorite so obviously I draw her the most, but I don’t wanna limit the story to just her point of view. I have a lot of characters I wanna explore and show off, but for all intents and purposes…. Mothra is the main character

#digital art #drawing #illustration #fanart #artists on tumblr #fantasy #art #web comic #oc #legendary godzilla #urban kiju au #Godzilla au #Mothra #anthro mothra #mothra queen of the monsters #monstervers #legendary monsterverse

[kaiju-krew]

Hey there! Firstly, big big fan of your art and headcanons, ty for your cool and awesome big brain ❤️ Now that you’ve seen the movie, I’m wondering what your thoughts are on Shimo??? I’ve just seen impressions of her so scattered. (I saw your post on how she will NOT be treated as a pet, and I so appreciate that.)

I will say, for me the ‘old gal’ vibes are so strong and I’m here for it. Like when Goji blasts his atomic breath into the sky at the end and she’s looking at it with such awe and her cute super gummy smile, it reminds me of when a grandma gets shown some common piece of technology that the rest of us are used to, but she just can’t heckin believe it because she lives in a damn cave??? I loved that.

hi hi! omg u think i have a big brain...... compliment of the century.... i must have ppl fooled bcuz i am viscerally dumb most of the time

anywAYS. gxk spoilers below (and a lot of ranting)

shimo my beloved💙 i appreciate most interpretations of her, besides people who are just straight up caling her a dog. and like, not in the way i’d compare goji to a cat? for me it's more mannerisms based, so for goji my main expression/mannerism inspirations are cats, wolves, and komodo dragons (obviously), and for mosu it's owls and cats, with a crumb of horses because of their 'ear' communication so i use that with her antennae.

sorry for tangent but anyways. i dont need someone barking at me that i call goji a cat/draw him acting like a cat so calling shimo ‘kong’s pet dog’ is fine. i think its the difference between goji having the personality i characterize him with + mannerisms inspired by other animals, vs. him having no personality besides Being A Cat. like, he’s a dumbfuck but he’s clearly an intelligent creature capable of communication and understanding. i make a lot of shitposts but truly in my personal hc i’d never reduce him to ‘pet level intelligence’

i think i’m extra touchy about people calling her ‘kong’s pet’ because like. dawg. did you watch the movie? she was JUST freed from being skar’s slave/beast of burden/abused pet whatever you wanna call it. why would you want her to become another creature’s pet again?(obviously minus the abuse) idk mannn it just feels…. reductive somehow. she clearly shows intelligence and understanding when she realizes what’s happening during the fight and helps to kill skar. i just refuse to reduce her entire character to kong’s pet status bcuz that makes me uncomfortable asf.

as a disclaimer, you’re welcome to have whatever hc you enjoy. me expressing my personal thoughts on the matter isn’t an attack on anyone who characterizes her that way, i’m just not interested in engaging with it in the slightest.

DOUBLE ANYWAYS i just needed to get that outta my system. TIME FOR CUTE FUN IDEAS YAHOOO

i’m seeing mixed info about her age so idk where she actually sits there?? i remember seeing something like she’s the First Titan but i also think the novelization of the movie said she’s only 3 million years old?? when im p sure they’ve said goji is 250+ million years old so…. i have no clue there lol. personally she feels less jaded and grumpy than goji does to me so my brain automatically sees her as similar or younger bcuz of my Grumpy Old Man bias.

i’m still workin out my ideas for her but based on how the movie ends i like to think she helps kong with relocating the apes to a better home, and they mostly live in HE. her n kong venture up for surface dates bcuz she gets what she fucking deserves 💙

goji nearly has an aneurysm the first time they come up, since mosu literally takes them for a lil tour of monster island. bro standing there clenching his fist like the arthur meme, he begrudgingly knows she’s right and eventually he gets used to it

i got more ideas cookin for her but this post is already too damn long cuz of my ranting time to stfu

SHIMO BEST GIRL 10/10

#gxk spoilers #kai talks #KAI FKIN YAPS SOMEONE SHUT ME UP #godzilla #mothra #shimo #kong #didnt have time to spellcheck dont @ me

[hrodvitnon]

What if they were exes?

Shimo:

Goji:

Shimo: ...when did you get so tall?

Goji: ...humans keep giving me nukes.

Shimo: ...you still with Mothra?

Goji: Yeah.

Shimo: Cool. Pink's a good look on you.

Goji: Thanks. So... how've you been doing?

Shimo: Well, I'm kinda working for this guy. Big orangutan-looking guy.

Goji: Wait, the big orangutan-looking guy with the bald head and the whip-bandolier made from the spine of one of my kind?

Shimo: Yeah, why?

Goji: FOR FUCK'S SAKE WOMAN

#gorillageek27 #godzilla #shimo #godzilla x kong: the new empire #monarch shenanigans

[ruubesz-draws]

My boys getting attention again! What a wonderful time!

I drew this before the trailer was released so MV's design is the old one

From this:

#godzilla #kong #godzilla vs kong #godzilla x kong the new empire #godzilla minus one #AAAAYYYYYY!!! so happy we're getting FED today!!! #so excited #I can't wait! #who's ready?!?! #also live Goji's new design lmao #so cool #time to return with Goji shitposts again! #do not repost #my art

[sepublic]

Kinda disappointed with the official Shin Ghidorah, which is just regular Ghidorah but with a 'creepier' face like Shin Goji's. Because I always saw the design philosophy behind Shin Godzilla, and by extension any hypothetical Shin counterparts for other Kaiju, to be going back to the basics; Taking the original core idea behind a monster, and amplifying it.

Godzilla is an allegory for nuclear destruction and in some stories was created by radiation, so naturally Shin Godzilla is an irradiated mutant in constant agony over its transformation, whose final form resembles a black mushroom cloud.

So Shin Ghidorah for me should be more along the lines of... A radiant, cosmic alien god. Something so bright and overwhelming in its light that it's like facing the sun itself. A creature from the cosmos, representing one of the most powerful aspects of it. I hate to admit it, but something like the anime trilogy Ghidorah is more in lines with what I'm thinking of.

Shin Mothra would lean into the motherly guardian of nature vibes, while also embracing the fact that she's a magical girl kaiju. She's a beautiful goddess, her presence is comforting, may as well make her extra fluffy. She's easily the most conventionally good of all the monsters.

Some Shin counterparts could be more along what we got with Shin Godzilla; Shin Hedorah seems very straightforward. I also like to think of Shin Gigan, who is this reanimated, cyborg frankenstein's monster that constantly gets torn apart, only to come back each time, even more cybernetic. A creature taken apart and put back together, several times over, constantly losing itself as it gradually becomes more mechanical, a Theseus' ship. A creature that simply isn't allowed to die, its corpse pumped full of adrenaline, its heart and brain jump started, until it comes back wrong. So like Shin Godzilla, a suffering creature tormented by human technology. Gigan’s agony ramps up until it suddenly goes silent, indicating that last problematic bit of its soul has been replaced.

I wonder if a Shin Destoroyah might be reimagined as a plant monster, or some other type of organism that doesn't require oxygen to survive; Given it's to the Oxygen Destroyer what Godzilla is to the nuke, Shin Destoroyah should constantly be, well, destroying oxygen. Every living thing dependent on that is automatically suffocating just being in its presence.

Shin Jet Jaguar? A colorful tokusatsu superhero, Gurren Lagann mecha, and Pacific Rim jaeger rolled into one. Just lean into the corny cheesiness, that goofy and charismatic grin. Shin King Caesar is an ancient stone deity, a shisa statue brought to life. He’s a mythological protector who strikes fear into the hearts of evil. Gorosaurus is meant to be the biggest, baddest dinosaur ever, when a T-rex isn't enough to threaten Kong anymore. And given the dinosaurs in King Kong represent the return of the prehistoric past, Shin Gorosaurus would be like the Indominus Rex, in that it's designed to lean into all of the stereotypical cool factors of dinosaurs for kids.

#shin godzilla #godzilla #king ghidorah #mothra #gigan #destoroyah #jet jaguar #king Caesar #gorosaurus

[creampuffqueen]

tell us about the tlok gen 2 kids

ask and you shall receive!!!! making fankids is such an obsession of mine lol

so i have futures and kids planned out for pretty much everyone, but i'll just go over the main krew ships + kainora for now. and i'll try to keep it kind of brief but i have So Many thoughts about them so we'll see if i'm successful. i have like. an entire labelled timeline. it's wild

under a cut because this got so long holy crap

the easiest to start with is the bopal kids. they get married a couple years after the end of tlok and start having kids pretty soon after. they end up with four kids (somewhat considering adding a fifth but we'll see. there's already so many ocs)

their eldest is jade, who is an earthbender. then they have a pair of identical twin boys, named san and goji. san is named after bolin's father. san is an airbender, goji is an earthbender. their fourth child is a girl named tempa, who is an airbender. she actually ends up becoming blind later in life. not whatever toph had, as she was born seeing, but she had some degenerative disease that slowly took her eyesight. she actually ends up developing a technique similar to seismic sense, but with airbending, to help her get around! she keeps her head fully shaved so she can always feel vibrations in the air

the next up to have kids is, surprisingly, kai and jinora. this was not intentional on their part. but they've been dating since they were like 12-13, so i honestly don't think it's much of a stretch that they would end up becoming parents as teenagers. pema and tenzin are a bit upset that their daughter got pregnant at 17, but at this point they've accepted kai into the family, and they respect the young couple's decision to keep and raise the baby

and then after they have their first baby, they decide that they're going to hold off on getting married until their family is complete, so all their kids can be a part of the wedding. like bolin and opal, they end up having four kids as well. all of them are airbenders. their first born is a boy named sangye, second is another boy named tadashi, third is a girl named zaya, and fourth is a girl named tara. it's the jinora and tenzin parallels for me lol. two boys, two girls, four airbenders. despite their young age they are very good parents

then we have the korrasami babies. they have the smallest family, with just two kids. i did some research and as it turns out, sperm donation/artificial insemination procedures were a thing in the 1920s. of course they were WILDLY unethical at the time but hey, they did exist. this is how they end up with their kids. mako is the donor, which i know some people may find that weird but mako is their best friend, i feel like they would rather have a donor that they know and trust than just. some random guy

korra is pregnant with their first baby, who they name katara. she's a waterbender. asami is pregnant with their second baby, a little boy they name hiro, after asami's dad. hiro is a nonbender. they are literally the best moms ever <3

and last but not least, we have wuko's kids. for the longest time they are the cool, childless gay uncles. i think they're both really good with kids, but neither are ready to be parents for a long time. not to mention in my timeline it takes a solid ten years for wu to get the new democratic earth kingdom up and running smoothly enough that he can abdicate. and even after he abdicates and he and mako get married, they're still unsure about kids for a few more years. when they do decide to have kids, they both for sure want to adopt. i have a whole separate post i could make about mako quitting the police force to become a social worker and opening up a youth shelter. but he knows he wants to help out kids, so hopefully none suffer the way he and bolin did. wu does not want to have any bio kids, as he wants the royal bloodline to end with him so there is no possible claim to any kind of throne

but then korra and asami are like 'hey, if you guys want a baby, we're cool with helping out' because i mean mako already helped them have their family, they can do the same for him and wu. and since they're offering, mako and wu decide to take them up on it. korra ends up being a surrogate for them, and they welcome a little baby girl that they name naoki, for mako's mom

then, soon after naoki is born, they end up finding a trio of very young sisters out on the streets. their mother passed away, their father walked out on them, and they have no other family. the eldest girl is only 8 years old. when mako meets her it feels like he's looking into a window at his past self. the girls are very frightened, but mako and wu are able to earn their trust enough to help them out. and in the process of caring for them, they end up totally falling in love with these kids. they ask them if they want to be adopted. all three say yes

the girls are named kasumi, ryoko, and hikari. all three are firebenders. naoki also ends up being a firebender. there's so many firebenders in the wuko house. i'm also spreading my girldad mako agenda. him and wu taking these girls in and giving them a family is actually super emotionally healing for him. he's able to make sure another set of siblings out on the steet has a family

anyway that's a very basic rundown!! i love chatting about my next gen kiddos so so much so thanks for asking! and of course if anyone has any questions about specific kids or families please feel free to ask!!!

#tlok #bopal #kainora #korrasami #wuko

[dragon-tamer-1]

Time for the og Godzilla!

The detail is so neat! He looks so good! Well, unless you look at his face straight on XD

He be looking derpy, but that's okay, I still love him. Also, I love that they colored him in black and white cause we never saw the og Goji in color. It's only really noticeable with the inside of his mouth, but still. Also his asymmetrical dorsal fins/spines are very cool, and accurate to the film. It was only a matter of time before I bought this one, I could not resist getting the very first Gojira, we would not have a kaiju as famous as he is if this one was not made. Or any of his friends/foes.

He may not be my favorite design, but he's definitely up there with the best. If anyone's interested, I can line up all my Godzilla(and others) figures and have a group photo. I'll probably still do it, but let me know if you want me to tag you in the group photo.

#dragon talks #godzilla #gojira #sh monsterarts #gojira 1954 #og goji #clever rhyme #i recommend anyone who hasn't seen the original Godzilla movie to watch it if you can find it #go ahead and pirate it #it's in full japanese tho but if that doesn't bother you then go ahead

[partikron]

Godzilla X Kong hot take:

If a Japanese Godzilla film had designed Goji the same way Legendary is doing in the new Godzilla X Kong film, loads of us would be saying how different and interesting it is, like a callback to Godzilla 2000 but with a neat tweak. We'd think the pink spines and leaner design were quirky, but cool.

While I admit that I'm not the biggest fan of the new design, the hate is undeserved. But this is the same community that lost their collective shit over Godzilla 2014's stumpy feet, so....

#godzilla #gojira #godzilla and kong #godzilla and kong the new empire #godzilla movies #kaiju films #kaiju #tokusatsu #science fiction #scifi

[likecrapthroughagoose]

Godzilla x Kong gets... probably a 7.5 or 8 out of 10 from me. I liked it a lot, but the last act felt like it was rushing (which should never be the case for a 2+ hour movie). The action was really good though and the visual effects, while dwarfed by Minus One, were excellent.

Spoiler-y opinions below:

Okay so- Kong's portions of the movie were actually really strong. Granted, I'm easily amused by anything that involves monkeys falling down a lot. But in all seriousness, you can tell they had the most story ideas for Kong. His fights are good, the monsters his arc introduces are cool, and the way they've aged his design is also pretty nifty. You will believe a gorilla can be daddy.

That said, the strength of Kong's part of the movie brings me to my main complaint. The other two focal points, Godzilla and the human cast really didn't feel like they had as much to do. Less so for the human cast, which I'll get to in a moment, but it kinda felt like Godzilla was sidelined.

Weirdly, that isn't to say he wasn't in the movie. Godzilla's scenes are almost as plentiful as Kong's, if not equally so. The movie, to its credit, does a pretty good job of giving everyone equal-ish screentime, so Godzilla does get plenty of scenes. The problem is that most of them are just him going from point A to point B to point C and so forth.

In fairness, Goji's scenes are at least entertaining. He gets some superb city destruction and the best fights in the movie (and it has plenty) are his. Though speaking of fights, I am disappointed that we didn't get to see any new-old monsters. Scylla is a cool enough design on its own that I don't mind it, but Tiamat is similar enough to Manda that I felt like SOME acknowledgement could be made. I mean shoot, just have them be called Titanus Ebirah and Titanus Manda on the computer radar thingie they keep cutting to. Problem solved.

At least we get Godzilla sleeping in the Colosseum like a cat. It's a cheap pop, but I'm still here for it.

The human story is decent, if nothing special. The only returning cast are Rebecca Hall, Kaylee Hottle, and Brian Tyree Henry. Dan Stevens joins them as... I guess Kong's veterinarian for lack of a better word, rounding out the quartet of focal characters. I don't know if I enjoyed his character or if he annoyed me. Hottle and Hall deliver more of the "constantly mildly uncomfortable deaf girl who just wishes everyone would leave her pet gorilla alone and her overprotective adopted mother" stuff. It was fine in the last movie, it's fine here. Henry's conspiracy theorist character is... less irksome than he could have been. While in the previous film he was a surprising amount of depth for the archetype he was portraying, here he's firmly in the comic relief role. It never quite veers into annoying, but there are parts where it does leave you going, "okay, but why does he need to be here?" He at least makes it out better than Stevens, who may be the world's first example of a token white guy.

All that said, the human plot was actually kinda working for me. The whole "lost civilization deep within the hollow earth that harnesses mysterious natural powers and also worships/summons Mothra" thing felt like a really fun tribute to the kind of story you'd see in the classic Showa Era films without being anachronistic.

As much as I complain, there was something I noticed beyond the movie itself that made me happy. The theater was packed, which is great to see, but more than that there was a ton of kids in there, right around the same age I was when I was first getting into Godzilla. The same age I was when I got picked on for liking it. I couldn't help but look around the theater after the movie and feel vindicated. I was right, this shit is cool as fuck. Suck my ass, Samuel from fifth grade.

Anyway yeah it's fun. Worth seeing.

#godzilla #godzilla x kong #godzilla x kong: the new empire #kong #movie review #ramble #kaiju

[roxynychus]

Part of Godzilla's strength and longevity as a character is that he's very versatile, ex he can be a goofy superhero, a force of nature apathetic to morality, etc, but I like bad guy Godzilla the best. GMK, Shin, etc. Other interpretations are cool and valid but he's my favorite when he's just being That Bitch. Excited that Minus One so far looks to be about bad guy Goji.

#godzilla #kaiju #kaiju movies #godzilla minus one #but fr we love a king with range

[kaiju-krew]

the Godzilla fandom kinda scares me a little, I mostly saw the diehard fans who would gatekeep a lot of stuff. But I'm glad I found your art, you seen very nice!

you're too kind :')) tysm!!

honestly after being in some anime fandoms the godzilla fandom is a walk in the park LOL

but you're right i'd say its worst feature is definitely the gatekeeping. i personally haven't seen any goji artists being gatekeepy? :O but im honestly not super engaged compared to others within the fandom so i may have missed it. i think gatekeeping art stuff in general is Weird??? and this is coming from someone who gets traced somewhat regularly, like it doesn't dissuade me from sharing in the way i think it does for some other artists :(( in fact, i think sharing techniques and resources can stop people from resorting to tracing, in a way? if you show someone more of the stepping stones to how you reached the end goal they're more likely to follow them, as opposed to jumping ship and going straight to tracing? it can seem impossible to reach anything close to what an artist you like achieves if you have no clue how they got there, kinda thing. but that's just my uneducated guess on how it may work haha (sidenote: this isnt a criticism on artists who keep their techniques private, nobody is obligated to share if they dont want to)

but anyways YES i'm always happy to engage with people who are interested to know how i achieve certain things with my art or wanna know what my resources are!! or just have fun chitchats abt the big lizard mans and how cool he is =w=

#kai talks

[hrodvitnon]

So it clear that kong doesn't really like the other titans or doesnt want to associate with them because they keep trying to kill him, but i like to imagine that mothra actually tries to be kong's friend and to show him that not all titans are as bad as he thinks they are.

Mothra: Come on, how many Titans have you met besides Goji?

Kong: The Skullcrawlers, that Kraken asshole, Camazotz, couple of Warbats and Hellhawks. Also that Mechagodzilla thing, are we counting that one?

Mothra: But you haven't met Methuselah or Behemoth! I think you'd get along with them if you give them a chance! Please?

Kong: ...okay, fine.

[Later...]

Mothra: Hey guys, how are things?

Kong: You didn't tell me Methuselah was so cool!

Mothra: ...say again?

Kong: No, seriously, check this out! Meth, tell her what you told me! About how you can beat 10 Titans in a fight!

Mothra: ...that's a nickname all right...

Methuselah: Yes. I can beat 10. I did it when I was knee-high to a Kumonga.

Kong: Could you beat them if they caught you going to the bathroom?

Methuselah: Yes.

Kong: But there's no way they'd wait for you to finish before they ganged up!

Methuselah: They better.

#gorillageek27 #kong #mothra #methuselah #monarch shenanigans #methuselah is the easy pete of titans