#hhhhfgjjg thank you

[perish-the-creator]

Was doing another Godzilla tag scroll and came across your post about how you feel regarding being a newbie to the fandom and what you're doing with it. After 25 years of loving Godzilla, I have this to say: Keep doing what you're doing as long as you want to keep doing it.

Listen: I spent those 25 years hiding my love for a property widely considered hyper-cringe garbage. Except for VHS (and later, DVDs) I had nothing and no one much to interact with outside of the occasional peek at an online debate and a couple purchases of the cheapest scraps of stuff that got to America. I cried when they announced that we'd get another chance at mainstream with 2014, and again when the general reaction to it turned bad. When KotM trailers dropped, I shoved them at every friend I had in the desperate hopes of having someone new besides my husband to talk to about it and giving the movie even one extra ticket sale. I felt so miserably awkward and embarrassed about the fact that I was trying to talk up a Godzilla movie that every time I opened my mouth I wanted to laugh and say I was kidding, crawl under a rock, and never come out again.

And then one by one they agreed and went to see it, and they liked it. One of them actually enjoyed it so much they dove in headfirst and have since stayed stuck in. It was like having ten birthdays at once.

But I was still convinced there was no way it was ever going to get wider approval, let alone standard fandom activities. People were going to nod their heads, say "neat" before moving on if we got really lucky, and that would be that.

But here you and all the other fandom newbies are, RPing and headcanoning and writing. Here you and the others are, drawing and sculpting and sewing. Here are long discussions without intense and bitter gatekeeping, sometimes serious and sometimes the complete opposite. Here are actual honest-to-Godzilla joke posts and memes. Here are people discovering assorted comics eras, and giggling at old product tie-ins, and developing favorite monsters. Godzilla and other kaiju properties are being treated like something honestly worthy of people's attention, and not a thing to only like 'ironically' or something to screw one's face up at and dismiss as bargain bin Saturday morning TV. 

When I first realized that? I cried then as well.

Some of you may stay, and some of you may leave. That's okay. That happens in every fandom. Different people like things for different lengths of time. But I don't want any of you to feel the guilt or shame I used to feel about being part of this fandom while you are here. You're not a dumbass, you're not reducing the characters, and you're not killing me by giving me gay tragic dinosaurs with feelings. What's actually killing me is that any of you think you're doing that.

I love with all my heart that you and so many others have decided to join in and put your mark on things, for however long and in whatever shape those marks may be. It is not humanly possible for me to be any happier that you're all swimming in this kaiju-sized pool with me than I already am. I don't give a rat's ass if you or anyone else didn't know why the outposts were numbered that way, or haven't heard of Varan the Unbelievable, or never had to wait years and years to watch a Godzilla film because it'd been out of print forever. I'm thrilled beyond belief that you're all about to gain access to an entire Showa box set instead of needing to pick off one random title every three years! Waiting sucked! Why would I demand someone go through something I myself hated?

Let me reassure you: You are all exactly as welcome to enjoy this material as everyone else. Anyone who says otherwise is a bigger jerk than Destroyah and not worth the brain cells it'd take to listen to them. If I physically could, I'd throw all the content at every fandom newbie in one great big pile and be overjoyed that there are so many people I could sit and learn and create and share and laugh with.

So you, Perish, go right out on there and write your Rodorah ship content with pride. I'll be here cheering you and all the other newbies on every giant footstep of the way.

PS: Some time when you need a break, take a slow hour or two to read Godzilla In Hell. It's a trip.

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Thank you ❤❤❤❤ oh my god it means so much to hear this. I'm trying not to cry like omg

[perish-the-creator]

I found your account from a draw of one of your incorrect Godzilla Kotm quotes, so I checked your tumblr out & yOURE THE REASON IM INTO RODORAH I THANK YOU ✨ my life had never been the same I thank you & your amazing content !

Ojhfhoutesfgh omg I'm so glad I managed to convert have someone get into a pairing thanks to me!!

I'm glad you enjoy my content!! My goal is to make At least one person happy with my post!! Seriously though fdsderik vddkjf