#maddie godzilla

[lilpuffyart]

Based on this comment from Twitter in a this drawing

Well, now he's also becoming pink!! (but it's just because Madison is coloring his dorsal plates)

#godzilla #king of the monsters #madison russell #minilla #minya #maddie godzilla #i threw this together quick bc its nearly bed time uhfdbsdjfhd #so its pretty messy bc of it xDD #kaiju art #godzilla au #legendary godzilla #puffy art #fanart #artists on tumblr #digital art

[scarlet-cavern]

Hello! I have a question for Jade that's kind of not a question..

Your shattered horns are so rad... How come they look like that, if it's not rude to ask?

jade: thank you!! I'm quite fond of them myself.~ i'll allow you to gaze upon them head-on, since you're so intrigued!

jackalope antlers are these crystal fractals that catch and store magic for later use. they tend to shatter if you store too much magic in them! I, however, am not a physicist.. Maddie! did I get all of that right?

maddie: uhh... basically? i went ta school for engineerin not biology. way i understand it, with castin stuff, more surface area means more power, and more expensive to make. magical fractals are great at both catchin lotsa magic and gettin bloated from too much. too much bloat without lettin it out means it breaks.

jade: yeah, I think what happened with me specifically was that I passed by someplace.. or someone? something? with a lotta magic that my antlers simply could not handle.

now, what jackalopes do with a set of broken antlers is up to them. some like to grind up the shards into a fine dust, which can be used as a secondary in some mana-recovering medicines and potions. some sell them off since they're a rather useful component for creating self-sustaining magical items.

me personally? I use what little magic I have left (and whatever magic they're able to draw now) to have them float and reform. I can reform them into tools, weapons, armor. or floating platforms, which can support my weight. or in this case.. Maddie's weight!

maddie: it is somehow not the least comfortable place i've had to sleep

#cave talk #jade #maddie #scarlet letters #godzillas-pet-human

[graspingremlinhands]

Kidnapper: We have your father.

Maddie: Oh shit, that's bad. Which one?\sarcasm

Kidnapper: Which one?

Maddie: Yeah fucko, I got a whole bunch of them; so keep the mouth running I don't have all day.

Kidnapper: Ok. This one is tall, blonde, jacked enough. And he keep growling and grinning at us.

Maddie: Well, that's Ni for you. I guess his brothers must be not far away.

Kidnapper: Brothers??

Maddie: Bye then, it wasn't a pleasure talking to you. And good funeral.

*Maddie hangs up*

#godzilla incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #godzilla #Maddie deserve all the titans as parental figures #here i said it #should I tag all the ships? #nahh #monsterverse #my au #godzilla king of the monsters #rodan #mothra #king ghidorah

[the-star-is-a-fire]

[Maddie trying to reenact a meme]

Maddie: you’re not my dad!

Godzilla:

Maddie:

Godzilla: *tears up*

Maddie: no wait-

#godzilla #gojira #madison russell #maddie #godzilla monsterverse #godzilla legendary #godzilla king of the monsters #shitpost #shitposting #memes #dadzilla #godzilla is maddie's dad now i don't make the rules

[dappercritter]

Critter Fic Update

(bet you weren't gonna see one of these again anytime soon, eh?)

Entrapdak Fic #2 AKA Unconditionally LUVD (Yeah that's right. I gots a title now!) - After spending so long in development hell, I've worked through some things and settled on the story. It has been difficult with me not being into SPOP as I once was, but I'm going to buckle down and finish it for my friends in the Entrapdak fanbase--and for the lovely lab partners themselves! I've also decided to stop trying to write my rough drafts in paper then transcribe them, and just go straight to doing it all on the computer so that will hopefully help.

Maddie's Delivery Service (AKA The Spraddie One I Promised Approximately a Handful of You Guys) - No, I haven't forgotten about it! I just got distracted with life stuff and other fandoms. Namely The Owl House There was also a wrinkle with the story but what that means is just debating whether to set this it in season 1 or after the finale.

Godzilla: The Monster Age - On the back burner, still early in development. Where it belongs.

Tired of waiting for these? Good news! - I've been dying to make a one-shot to let everyone I'm still alive on AO3 AND for practice writing actions scenes! And I have just the fandom in mind...

#critter fics #critter update #writers on tumblr #writeblr #unconditionally luvd #maddie's delivery service #godzilla the monster age #metroid fanfiction

[godzilla-reads]

🐸 Maddy Kettle: The Adventure of the Thimblewitch by Eric Orchard

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Eleven year old Maddy Kettle loves working in her parents’ bookshop with her floating toad. But when the Thimblewitch turns her parents into kangaroo mice, her whole life changes. Maddy is about to embark on an adventure to save her parents.

I loved the art and the concept of this story, but the plot was very loose and the writing was just ok. It left off open ended and I wish it had been longer to go more in depth to the story. This would be a good book for kids learning to read or first diving into graphic novels.

#godzilla reads #Maddy kettle #the adventure of the Thimblewitch #eric orchard #book review #graphic novels #reading #reads #booklr #bookworm #book blog #young readers #bibliophile

[star-going-supernova]

Taking the Plunge

Chapter 8

You morons, Mark thought victoriously. But he remained silent. Hey, if they couldn’t figure out that where Maddie went, Godzilla was sure to follow, who was he to clue them in? And if they were especially stupid enough to believe the King of Titans himself wouldn’t gladly stomp them into oblivion… Mark had no room for pity for people who wanted to cage his little girl. 

read it on ao3! // COMPLETE (finally!!)

#godzilla fic #mutated!maddie #star's stories #life and times of star

[hrodvitnon]

I imagine that Biollante!Maddie at one point steps fighting Godzilla and almost loses-but not because she's weak, or because Godzilla wants to kill her. Rather, he asks her a question: how would she feel if humans desecrated her brother's remains to use as a weapon? It causes her to freeze up and Godzilla to gain the upper hand in the conflict-because she doesn't know how she'd react. Godzilla doesn't kill her and eventually stands down, but that question haunts Maddie for a long time.

Good addition! Apologies, forgot about this between work and the trailer dropping, heh.

#Anonymous #post abraxas genocide route #biollante!maddie #godzilla

[mothnem]

Okay! This is based on a post where Godzilla dies instead of Mothra, and if I knew how to link posts on mobile I would.

But this is how I imagine the aftermath would be.

Monarch discovers an unknown egg, but Mothra is viciously protecting it. One day it hatches and out tumbles a baby Godzilla. Not a Rebirth of her beloved King, but an heir. However, this leads to her savagely keeping the other Titans in line... it's almost as if the gentle Queen died with her King.

Since humans were involved in the death of Godzilla, she only tolerates them now. Although there are a few exceptions. All in Monarch.

Well, for an MvK event, Mothra is out to eliminate threats to her son, Junior. Thus her attack on Kong. There is no reason for her to believe he won't harm a baby Godzilla. And MechaGodzilla? A twisted facsimile of her beloved, built on the bones of him and his greatest enemy.

Now, Junior hasn't been able use his beam yet. Which is how he got captured. In fact, that was the original reason Mothra attacked the first Apex facility. She was looking for Junior. Maddie, Josh, and Burnie find the baby Godzilla, and realize that's why Mothra is rampaging. Simmons intended to celebrate his fully functional Mecha by having it kill Junior.

So Mothra manages to beat Kong. She's slightly better off than him. But MechaGodzilla is loose now. And it has Junior as a hostage. So Mothra is trying to rescue her Godzilla Pup and... it's going.... strange. Sometimes it will try to attack her and other times it deliberately deflects the attack. Almost as if it's at war with itself. Yes. The spirits of Ghidorah and Godzilla are fighting inside. And Godzilla is encouraging his beloved to destroy this body. But there is a very big part of her that doesn't want to. He's BACK.

But Ghidorah is too, and he wants to kill the baby. Kong joins the fight, and during it, Junior finally uses his atomic beam for the first time. And charges the axe. Kong and Mothra come to an understanding, he won't hurt the Godzilla pup. And she won't try to shank him again.

But, Monarch wonders, if the Ghidorah skull is removed.... could Godzilla come back to life?

@paladin-of-nerd-fandom65 @weirdgirl92

#godzilla #godzilla au #mothra #Ghidorah #kong #godzilla junior #mothzilla #mothra is not doing her grieving well #she can come back from the dead #godzilla can't

[uhhhyaenbyjade]

How I Would Change Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (if i was smart enough to direct and write movies)

DISCLAIMER: I loved GxK, and I believe it is an entertaining movie! This is just my take on how I would've liked to see things happen, with it connecting to the previous installments more, as well as tweaking some minor details here and there.

SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT! DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE

So, the biggest change I am adding is that Madison Russell from Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs. Kong. I was honestly surprised when I heard that Millie Bobby Brown wasn't involved in the project at all, and I feel like Maddie's presence could have really helped flesh out some of the human aspects of the movie.

The only other thing I am really changing from the movie is adding cameos that link the movies together better, as well as making some minor attempts at making the science less... fantastical. I am not deleting any scenes from the movie, just altering them and adding a few more. Hopefully, this keeps a good balance between the human aspect versus the Titan aspect. So, the movie would probably turn out to be approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes in length, compared to the 1 hour 55 minute run time. I am only going to have bullet points for the parts I am altering/adding, so anything I leave out from the movie is otherwise unchanged or doesn't have enough of a difference to warrant a bullet point.

During the scene where we see updates of MONARCH over the past few years, we don't just see Dr. Ilene Andrews in interviews, but also cameos from Dr. Ilene Chen and Dr. Ling Chen, and possibly some other cameos like Sam Coleman or Mark Russell. Less emphasis on being thankful for Godzilla's help (because yeah he's helping, but also thousands of people are dying directly from him), but more emphasis is placed on MONARCH helping with relief efforts, and the usage of the Titan Warning System we saw in MONARCH: Legacy of Monsters. Also, instead of the other MONARCH person we see in charge (who I think is Hampton, Rachel House's character?) we see Deputy Director Verdugo.

Another small change is that MONARCH isn't trying to "stay ahead of DC" here. I understand why they did that, but from my understanding of the previous iterations in the Monsterverse series, MONARCH was supposed to be considered trustworthy and the top Titan research group after King of the Monsters, especially after the fall of APEX. So, instead, MONARCH is just trying to find what answers they can give to the United Nations as soon as possible.

When Godzilla kills Scylla, we get an explanation of how Scylla was causing problems to the natural world, as well as directly challenging Godzilla for Alpha status, which was explored in Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted.

At the MONARCH school (which I really hope is a school for children of MONARCH employees, or at least a school funded by MONARCH, and not an indoctrination school), we see that Jia is a student at the school, and Maddie is there as well (I don't know what year this movie takes place in, but it takes place sometime after GvK in 2024. Timeline-wise, Maddie was 17 in 2024, and probably a junior/senior in high school, so depending on how long it's been since GvK, she could be a teaching assistant of some kind, or a senior in high school) and friends of each other. They both have visions as the Hollow Earth signal is received; Jia has flashbacks of her past on Skull Island and of her time in Hollow Earth, and Maddie has flashbacks of her encounter with Mothra, Godzilla, as well as when she faced Ghidorah and MechaGodzilla. Both of them also have the same quick flashing vision of the future events of the movie.

When Ilene comes to check on Jia after the incident of her drawing on the desk, Maddie is there, and there's a new scene where all three of them talk about what is going on. Maddie says that MONARCH is too rigid in their thinking, and mentions that there's someone who could help them.

In Miami, Maddie and Ilene meet up with Bernie, and Maddie is integral in helping Ilene convince Bernie to help.

During Trapper's introduction scene where he gives Kong his new tooth, we also have Nathan Lind and Mark Russell show up to witness the event. They are both there to say goodbye to the Hollow Earth transport team, and Maddie joins Trapper, Ilene, Jia, Bernie, and a MONARCH military member (instead of the asshole Mikael, it would be one of the G-Team members from Godzilla KOTM to add more emphasis on their death; either Jackson Barnes or Anthony Martinez would probably be the most recognizable ones)

Instead of Godzilla going to France's nuclear power plant and destroying the place to absorb the radiation, and therefore attacking the humans who attacked him (which kind of went against the whole "the Titans are the guardians of nature" thing and the previous characterizations of Godzilla in the Monsterverse), he goes to some abandoned nuclear site. I would say Chernobyl, but I doubt they'd put that in the movie due to Russia's Invasion right now. But just some abandoned nuclear plant somewhere would work.

Inside Hollow Earth, there are issues with the HEAV due to the signal disrupting the systems, but they are quickly able to figure out the best way to traverse the land; when Jia and Maddie sense the pulse, the HEAV lands until it is over, and then repeat. On their first landing, the G-Team member dies. After they find the Mothra temple, it is Maddie who approaches the glowing dragonfly and presses the button on the wall, allowing them to find the Iwi civilization.

In the scene where we first see Shimo, there is more emphasis and origin on the crystal that Skar King uses to control her; perhaps the crystal is a part of Shimo's ice crystals that we see on her back, and has strange properties due to the Hollow Earth's radiation? We also give Shimo more of a personality. When she first appears, Shimo would be curious about Kong, but flinch at sharp movements from anyone. And then when she is forced to attack, it'd be obvious that she doesn't want to, but Skar King forces her to with the crystal.

I want Shimo to have more characterization in the movie. I've seen people complain that she was just... kinda there. Like, her whole purpose was to keep Skar King from getting bullied too badly. So, by really showing that Shimo is being forced into this and that her natural state is curiosity and warmth (as opposed to her icy nature ;D ), it provides more depth to her character, making the viewers want to see her freed.

When Godzilla arrives at Tiamat's lair, they fight again, but instead of killing Tiamat, Godzilla is able to force Tiamat out like he did in Godzilla: Dominion. Again, too much unnecessary (although insanely badass) murder for a "guardian of nature". He goes into the hibernation to evolve himself.

In the Iwi civilization, we get a more scientific look at the Iwi culture. I don't understand the gravity thing the movie tried to go for, so instead I want to focus on the cultural aspect; they are similar in most aspects to what was seen in Kong: Skull Island, but there are clear differences in dress, the markings they wear, and their ceremonies. This would also be where we go into more detail about how essential Mothra is to this group of Iwi people, instead of her being shoehorned in when all we've seen previously was the Iwi and Kong's species. We see Jia figuring this out and clearly being happy at this. I would also go into them using crystals more, like how we saw with the guard's spears, instead of the gravity-based science. These crystals would be seen to have a mystic quality, explained by Mothra's radiation, perhaps.

When Kong arrives at the Iwi civilization with Suko, that's when Trapper leaves to go back to the Outpost to retrieve the gauntlet for Kong, THEN we go into seeing the lore behind Skar King and Shimo at the temple. This provides a better sense of time between Kong's arrival and his getting the gauntlet since it honestly felt way too fast.

Inside the crystal temple itself, we see the history of the war between Skar King and his ape versus Godzilla and Mothra. I'd love to have Shimo seen more as a threat, with them explicitly saying and having a longer conversation that Shimo was the one who started the last Ice Age, and that before she was captured by Skar King, she had frozen Ghidorah in Antarctica. There is perhaps slightly more exposition here, with the prophecy including not only the "Iwi from Skull Island", but "a girl touched by Mothra".

In this scene, I want to explore Maddie's connection to Mothra. In the Godzilla: King of the Monsters Official Novelization, it is implied that there is some connection between Mothra and Maddie after the scene in the Temple of the Moth. It is hinted at when Maddie has a vision of Mothra while she is unconscious during the Boston battle. I would love to explore that more, and there'd be a deeper explanation in the Official Novelization, something with Mothra bonding with Maddie since there weren't any twin priestesses like there usually is, perhaps.

This is when Trapper returns and gives Kong the gauntlet, and when Jia sends the latter up to bring Godzilla down to help.

Maddie and Jia both go up the crystal temple to the top, where they find that Mothra has a cocoon up there; Maddie realizes that this is what Mothra must have been doing before she arrived in Boston to help Godzilla (I remember reading somewhere that the director said that Mothra was likely off laying an egg during her absence between showing MONARCH where to find Godzilla and her arrival in Boston. This would work really well in my opinion, and a lot better than her materializing out of magic crystal dust.

When Kong arrives on the surface to summon Godzilla, they still fight a bit. However, it becomes clear early on that Godzilla really isn't into the fight; he has obviously been sensing the signal the whole time, so he knows that something is happening with Skar King and Shimo. With previous movies (and especially MONARCH: Legacy of Monsters) trying to convey Godzilla's intelligence, it isn't a far stretch to suggest that Godzilla would figure out that Kong is trying to get his help. Still, the fight goes on for long enough that Mothra arrives to keep them from beating each other up too much. We see Jia and Maddie reach out to Kong and Godzilla respectively.

When Skar King arrives at the Iwi civilization, the Iwi tribe uses their knowledge of the region's radioactive properties (again, nothing gravity-based science-wise because that was all confusing and likely very bad science) to try and send energy through the crystals, messing with the portals from Hollow Earth.

There is no more anti-gravity fight scene. Although I enjoyed it a lot (seeing Godzilla swim through the air and the apes use the rocks to climb around were honestly so cool), it doesn't fit with the "improved" science I am attempting to do. Another ground fight, but they go around the tunnel so they're all still fighting on different planes.

Due to the close proximity to the surface, Ilene is able to warn MONARCH, and they work with the United Nations to evacuate Rio de Janeiro, since there is a tunnel appearing there. This brings us back to the beginning, where I wanted to do away with the "be grateful for Godzilla even though he destroys thousands of people's lives every time he's on the news" thing at the start.

When Skar King and Shimo arrive in Rio de Janeiro, since Kong, Godzilla, and Mothra are unable to stop them due to the immense amount of apes in Skar King's army, there is a lot of destruction. We see Skar King force Shimo into starting another Ice Age, though again, we see that she really doesn't want to do what he says. She starts freezing the city, and the MONARCH evacuation teams there panic as they get closer to their position, before Godzilla, Kong, Jia, Maddie, Trapper, and Bernie (the humans are in the HEAV, with a brief exposition that Mothra was staying back to stop all of Skar King's apes from destroying the Iwi civilization).

This fight is pretty much the same, but the civilians are barely present, and we only see them evacuating a few people away in the HEAV. The final battle still focuses mainly on the Titans, with a heavy amount of emphasis on the crystal from Skar King's whip. I'd keep the absolute bullying that Skar King got the same, but the explanation for this is that Skar King is much older now, and his opponents over-leveled themselves expecting him in his prime.

Mothra arrives from the tunnel, and this is what distracts Skar King long enough for Suko to use Kong's axe to break the crystal that controls Shimo. Once this happens, we see that Shimo can feel it, and she immediately stops attacking Godzilla and looks around in curiosity and amazement. She flinches when Skar King is trying to order her around while he is being bullied by Kong, but with a trill from Mothra and a growl from Godzilla, she joins in bullying her tormentor.

After the fight, there is more of a delay before the ending; we see Bernie on the news talking about his podcast, achieving his movie-long wish to be believed; we see Maddie saying goodbye to Mothra as she leaves and Maddie reunites with her dad and also Josh from GvK; Jia stays with Ilene, but she has a newfound connection to the Iwi sister tribe in the Hollow Earth; Mothra flies across the ocean while Godzilla swims below her to emphasize the symbiotic relationship, and they both take a nap in the coliseum (Godzilla is considerably more careful as he steps through the city this time); Kong returns to the Hollow Earth with Suko and Shimo, and he leads the apes out of their imprisoned area and to the main area of Hollow Earth, where his kingdom is.

For an end credits scene, it'd be Ilene and Jia in the Iwi civilization, where they get permission from the priest lady to see a special part of the temple, where it reveals prophecy-art of Kong, Mothra, and Godzilla fighting against their next enemy.

Obviously, without anything known about future projects, we don't have any end credits scene for this movie. If there is another movie (I thought I saw somewhere that Adam Wingard wanted to direct a trilogy of Monsterverse movies, which means another GxK installment could be in the future, perhaps?), I don't think they'd do what many people want and bring back a Toho villain. Based on the trend of what they've done in the series so far, the next installment would include an original villain with some connection to both of them. So I'll list out some options of what I'd like to see, of both Toho villains and original villains:

Toho: Hedorah, Biollante, Destoroyah, and my personal choice; Battra.

Original: Methuselah, Leviathan, another threat from space (not SpaceGodzilla, since that'd be difficult to work out in this series I think, but maybe something along the lines of Ghidorah's family, since I think they were briefly mentioned in the King of the Monsters Official Novelization), or another threat that goes against Hollow Earth and the surface. Maybe a giant worm-like creature or burrowing Titan could be a good idea, since it'd be able to go back and forth between the two worlds. It'd provide a nice background for how the portals are made.

So, there it is! I hope you guys enjoyed it and like my ideas for how Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire could have been improved. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

#godzilla #gojira #kong #mothra #skar king #shimo #monarch #monsterverse #legendary monsterverse #gxk #gxk spoilers #gxk: the new empire #godzilla x kong: the new empire #godzilla x kong

[cartoonartistpng]

Random idea of “hey, what if movie mobians actually grew to be giants?”

Ultimate cuddle piles

Transformers-sized fights

Maddie and Tom call them their “little Kaiju’s” (Sonic called dibs on ‘Godzilla’)

“Look at my little boys, aren’t they so cute?” Maddie says affectionately in reference to the behemoths whose eyes are the size of her head

At this point, their existence is public knowledge, so they don’t have to worry about hiding

Bonus: Sonic, as the shortest, is sometimes mistaken for a high-quality fur suit ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

#sth au #sth fanart #movie sonic #sonic movie #movie knuckles #movie tails #maddie wachowski #tom wachowski #sonic wachowski #knuckles wachowski #tails wachowski #all the wachowskis #sonic movie au #sonic movie fanart #sonic au #giant mobians #random idea #sonic movie 2 #baguette art

[lilpuffyart]

Feeling annoying tonight so I also share Maddie and Goji comic page wip

#godzilla #madison russell #maddie godzilla #legendary godzilla #monsterverse #godzilla au #puffy art #fanart #traditional art #wip #toho monsters #kaiju art #king of the monsters #yeah #i need to finish the first two pages lmaooo and then maybe color it #and its done!! #but kinda avoiding the first two pages bc humans centered pages lmaooo #anyway!! have a nice might!!

[bookishfeylin]

Racebending vs Whitewashing 101

In this essay we’re going to be answering two questions: Why is it ok, from a race perspective, to make white characters POC but not the other way around? And why don’t you make original characters that are POC instead?

There are quite a few reasons, and I’ll be discussing them all below the cut for anyone who's genuinely curious about this and wants to educate themselves :)

⭕️ Firstly: most white characters have no plot relevant reason to be white. White people are considered the default human being, so their race or culture *usually* does not affect or contribute to the plot or story or game in any way. Like, pick your average piece of media with white characters in it and see if they actually *have* to be white for the story to work/make sense. Unless being WHITE plays some important role in the story, then in most cases, characters do not need to be white. This is especially true for non human characters depicted as white (mermaids, faeries, aliens, etc.). Unless being a *white* non human is important to the story for a specific reason and then they can be almost ANY race. For example: In Gremlins do Billy and his family have to be white for the story to still work? Does making the Skywalker family POC impact the plot in any way, shape or form in Star Wars? Is being white relevant to Iron Man's, Batman's, or Superman's stories at all? Why do the main characters of Jaws have to be white? Do Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler, and Claire Dearing and Owen Grady, from Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, respectively, need to be white in order for the movies to make sense? Does being white play an important role in Indiana Jones' character, or would the movies still work if he was another race? Does it impact the story if I were to change the Russels (Maddie, Emma, and Mark) in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, from white to black?

⭕️ Conversely, people aren’t as used to seeing POC in media, so often their existence is “justified” with some form of racism. It would not make sense to make a character facing racism (say, antiblackness) white (for example, in Disney's The Princess and the Frog, Tiana lives in a segregated Black community that is decidedly poorer than the wealthy white community Lottie lives in, and is denied the ability to buy the mill to make into a restaurant because it would’ve been too hard for a woman of her “background” to run a business)

⭕️ Another way POC are “justified” in western media is making something specifically about their culture. Unlike most white people in media, we cannot simply *exist* and, say, survive an alien invasion, or steal the Declaration of Independence, or get sucked into portal to a magical land, or survive a natural disaster, or have a very very very bad day, or solve a mystery about a haunted house, or worry about prom. No, our culture almost always has to play some SIGNIFICANT role to “explain” to the audience why that character is not white. Not that that’s a bad thing. For example, Mulan is about a Chinese woman overcoming the deeply ingrained sexism in China and becoming a soldier. The movie is all about China and Chinese culture, so it makes no sense to make her white.

⭕️ Making a POC white plays into whitewashing and colorism (the basic idea that paler skin is better/more beautiful/less “savage”). For example, in slavery lighter skinned ppl were “better,” and were allowed to serve in the house because, being lighter, they were viewed as closer to white and as being “more human.” Changing or “improving” a POC by making them white is just feeding into that nasty idea that people with darker skin tones are “less than” or aren’t real humans. Conversely, there is no relevant history of white people being considered “less-than”, or, you know, NOT HUMAN for having lighter skin, in fact lighter skin tones have been promoted as desirable for centuries. White people by and large aren't harmed psychologically from seeing a character being redesigned with darker skin/being racebent, because society has never told them that their lighter skin makes them nonhuman or undesirable, unlike I, a Black woman, who’s been told all my life that darker skin is masculine and ugly on a girl and that I would be pretty if I only had lighter skin :)

⭕️ All those reasons are important, but there is one MAIN reason why racebending works but whitewashing does not: representation. Representation is very important and very powerful, impacting our own self esteem as well as impacting how we perceive groups of people who are different than us (x, x, x, x, x). Representation can help you develop empathy for a certain group, or it can perpetuate harmful stereotypes about them. White people are represented literally everywhere in Western media--books, movies, TV shows. Even most toys. It’s not taking representation away from them if we make a white character a POC--they have tons of other characters to make up for it! Even if we NEVER had a white main character in any movie or TV show ever again, white people still have the past century's worth of media with themselves as the main characters for them to watch. Conversely, we have comparatively few prominent characters that are POC in Western media, and even fewer that aren't just side characters or walking stereotypes. Making them white takes away the limited representation POC have in the west. Racebending (either in fan art or in reboots of a series/movie) is typically done by people who lack representation and want more.

Why don’t you make original characters that are POC?

⭕️ Most of us would prefer original characters. I WANT original characters of color. But when we do make new characters that are POC, or new stories with POC leads (especially if they are dark skinned POC) they are usually ignored or overlooked by consumers in favor of white characters or white-led stories (Finn and Rose vs Kylo Ren and Hux from Star Wars; and Black Lightning being wayyyyyy less popular than white-led DC shows; Still Star Crossed being, like, forgotten?). This often happens on movies and on television shows, and usually the end result is that the new characters of color are written off or are minimized in the show/following movies because they are not profitable (once again, what happened to Finn and Rose in Star Wars) or the shows are canceled (Black Lightning, Still Star Crossed). Or the story is labeled “woke” and “political” and is boycotted by the same people who said we should make original characters in the first place.

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I'm not saying you have to *like* racebending white characters. I am merely EXPLAINING why one way is racist and the other way around is not. But the sad thing is, all these reasons are common sense. Most people know we have a racist history, they know it’s wrong to make Tiana or Black Panther white even if they have problems articulating *exactly* why: because the point of these characters existing in the first place is to show that we’re human too. That we can be heroes and princesses and role models too, despite centuries of being told we were nothing. We still live in a world where being white is considered the default human, and nonwhite people have to be *justified* in their existence, because most of us weren't viewed as human for centuries. If it truly bothers you that much, then support original characters of color and diverse franchises instead of white characters and predominately white franchises. That way you will send a message—we all will—that we want more original characters of color. In the meantime? I, a Black woman living in a white-centric world, am going to enjoy all the characters of color I can get.

#antiblackness #anti blackness #racism #racebending #whitewashing #equality #equity #real world issues #the little mermaid #the flash #iris westallen #diversity #representation matters #representation #princess ariel #ariel #the little mermaid 2023 #little mermaid #on media #halle bailey #disney #misogynoir #blackwashing #PJO #HOO #annabeth chase #percy jackon and the olympians

[laylanatorseventeen]

watched Godzilla x Kong in theaters yesterday and perhaps mild spoilers, I want the next movie to be the world flipping out about Godzilla and Shimu having hooked up and laid giant eggs somewhere in the ocean

Like think about it.....Godzilla is suddenly very territorial to one specific area in the ocean. Shimu has vanished and noone knows where she is. They discover the existence of eggs.

One faction, probably government, wants the eggs destroyed bc why would we want more Titans.

Another, probably the heroes, probably Maddie Russell included, think that's shitty and also a great way to piss off Godzilla.

Another, probably some kind of fascist evil organization, wants to steal the eggs in a misguided attempt to control them ala Scar King and Shimu.

And Godzilla just wants to keep his fucking babies safe, can y'all back off? Mothra is the vodka aunt.

Hire me, Legendary. Kong got his personality fleshed out great in G x K, lemme have my big boy

#godzilla x kong spoilers #godzilla x kong #bc they are of approximately the same size and are both lizards #sorry mothra but you are a moth and he is a lizard and tbh i doubt titans subscribe to human standards of monogamy #ive been watching a lot of reptile videos. so now i think the idea of Titan eggs is super coo #cool

[the-star-is-a-fire]

Maddie: you're my dad! you're my dad! boogie woogie woogie!

Godzilla: happy godzilla noises

#madison russell monsterverse #godzilla #godzilla legendary #godzilla monsterverse #godzilla king of the monsters #gojira #shitpost #shitposting #memes #godzilla is maddie's dad

[i-mean-technically]

help my brain won't stop thinking about an Ice Age/Monsterverse type crossover

but like. different ofc. its more like taking the premise of the first Ice Age movie (the best one imo) and making it Godzilla.

so! our cast!

Godzilla as a mix between Manny's role and Diego's attitude

Anguirus kind of as Sid the Sloth

Rodan kinda sorta as Deigo

also Kong shows up and is like "wow y'all know nothing about humans" and helps them keep the tiny human they found alive, who is ofc Jia and possibly Maddie???? maybe later on.

Ghidorah as the leader of the sabertooths, with Gigan as the skinny one who's my fav just so you know.

idk even what i'm doing but if anyone is interested in this hmu i guess lol and i'll explain more

#godzilla #gojira #monsterverse #kaiju #ice age #godzilla au #anguirus #rodan #kong #ghidorah #gigan #jia andrews #madison russell #just a couple dudes road tripping across a continent with child(ren) to return them #and having a Good Time #i wish i could draw y'all don't even know