gonna post some christmas gifts i made so here’s newmann and newmann-au-jmart for my lovely @coulson-is-an-avenger 💖💖💖
the story behind this: i was initially just gonna do jonmartin in the iconic newmann pose tm but then i was like. well i like the stupid scientists too. so. i did both
anyway, in the pacific rim jonmartin au we all need:
jon is hermann; martin is newt. jon makes more sense for hermann bc cane and also general temperament; and martin makes more sense for newt bc vibes also martin tattoos hot. BUT ALSO. jon is the more likely of the two of them to do the "drift with a kaiju to learn more about them" bc of his Eye / curiosity tendencies. ergo! in this au, jon/hermann drifted with the kaiju even though he absolutely hates them, beholding bullshit and he has no self preservation and even if he outwardly is skeptical of newt/martin’s hive mind theory he just Has To Know. also yes exactly!! like in tma he’s all “the supernatural is bullshit all these spiders are fake this is fake but also fuck i'm scared of this im gonna go to the institute of the supernatural” … im gonna go drift with the kaiju brain.
and then martin coming in finding jon collapsed on the floor, blood dripping from his nose, and just a desperate croak of “you were right.”
also timsasha as raleigh and mako. ur welcome.
(ID: A digital drawing of Newt and Hermann from Pacific Rim. Newt is sprawled on the floor, gripping tightly to Hermann with a frightened and desperate expression. Blood is dripping down his face from his nose. Hermann kneels beside him and supports his body, holding him up. The drifting machine is askew on Newt’s shoulder.
Hermann is a thin white man with dark hair and light skin. He is wearing a suit and looking off with a distant and frightened expression. Newt is a thin white man with fluffy brown hair, wearing a shirt and tie with rolled up sleeves that expose the kaiju tattoos on his arms.
2nd image: A drawing of Jon and Martin from the Magnus Archives in the same pose, with Jon on the floor bleeding from the nose, and Martin clinging to jon with his arms covered in kaiju tattoos. They are both wearing ace rings and Jon’s cane is beneath his legs on the floor.
Jon is a thin Persian person with medium brown skin and long curly graying dark hair. He has a thick beard and is wearing a suit. Martin is a fat Black and Filipino man with dark freckled skin and short curly graying dark reddish brown hair with an undercut.)
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It hurts
After talking with people in discord for the week that this has been going on, I think my feelings on the Project Moon situation are just. Like, this was a company I felt was "safe". Obviously corporations are not your friends, but this was a studio that consistently pushed out games with progressive - and at times even radical - messaging. This was a studio that has consistently written solid characters with gender as an absolute afterthought. Emma is a boy! Harold is a girl! That's how little gender matters, which, ironically, is something that matters.
I can't think of another franchise I've engaged with that just... writes women as people. I've heard George R.R. Martin is like that, but I never engaged with the TV series that introduced the US to the concept of filler or the book series it was based on. I'm gonna gloss over Lobotomy Corporation a bit here because the story only has 13 characters, but 12 of them return for Library of Ruina. In Ruina you have Binah, Angela, Nikolai, and Elena as assertive women that take control of the situations they're in. You have passive uwu smol beans like Hod and Eileen! You have characters who are war criminals and that's not a mark of a villain, that's just a part of their backstory! Some of the women here have just Done Crimes! One of the women IS a crime! And men are treated the same! There are characters with traumas and behavioral disorders who act like real people would! Lesti saw the aftermath of Love Town and started talking about food! Beef intestine no less! Philip saw his colleagues get murdered and physically manifested a mental breakdown! Xiao saw her husband get murdered and physically manifested literal burning rage!
All of the writing has been good! All of it! And it has consistently written women in a way that is flat out rare, even in 2023. And Limbus has been doing the same! Outis is assertive! Ryoshu is assertive! Hermann is assertive! Don is an idiot and Faust refuses to talk half the time! Heathcliff is assertive! Meursault is assertive! Gubo is assertive! Hong Lu is an idiot and Sinclair is/was a pathetic sop! Across the board, the character writing is just GOOD. As Lobotomy Corporation progresses, Ayin's shitty behavior becomes more and more apparent! And that all culminates with Angela being tossed aside like garbage once she's no longer useful to him, as you hear her desperate wishes to just be seen!
All of that, or at least most of that, was Kim Ji-hoon. But Kim Ji-hoon is also the person who hastily fired VellMori at 11 PM, over the phone, while he was out of office in Japan, because some incels accused his company of being sympathetic to feminists in 2023.
And it fuckin hurts that the source of those stories, the stories that I just spent three paragraphs praising, the stories that are so important to me, could turn heel in half a second like that. As if he was writing completely different stories than the ones I've been reading. And I hate that? I hate that. Because there isn't a replacement! I don't get Grandma War Crimes and Dumbass Justice Enactor in other stories! Like, maybe some will come close, maybe some will have the same exact character somewhere, but never all of it together. Never written as amazingly as the City is.
So it hurts. And the silence is loud.
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How many of these "Top 100 Books to Read" have you read?
(633) 1984 - George Orwell
(616) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
(613) The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
(573) Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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(527) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
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(489) The Lord Of The Rings - Series - J.R.R. Tolkien
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(480) Ulysses - James Joyce
(471) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
(459) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
(398) The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(396) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
(395) To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
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(382) The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
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(353) Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
(352) Middlemarch - George Eliot
(348) Animal Farm - George Orwell
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(320) The Chronicles Of Narnia - Series - C.S. Lewis
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(306) Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
(289) The Golden Bowl - Henry James
(276) Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov
(266) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
(260) The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
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(252) The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne
(244) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
(237) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery
(235) The Trial - Franz Kafka
(233) Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner
(232) The Call Of The Wild - Jack London
(232) Emma - Jane Austen
(229) Beloved - Toni Morrison
(228) Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
(224) A Passage To India - E.M. Forster
(215) Dune - Frank Herbert
(215) A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce
(212) The Stranger - Albert Camus
(209) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
(209) The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(206) Dracula - Bram Stoker
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(197) A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
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(192) Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
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(185) An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
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(180) Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
(179) The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
(178) Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
(178) Tropic Of Cancer - Henry Miller
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(176) On The Road - Jack Kerouac
(175) The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(173) The Giver - Lois Lowry
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(171) The Ambassadors - Henry James
(170) Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
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(162) As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
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(158) Anne Of Greene Gables - L.M. Montgomery
(157) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
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