#mako mori my beloved

[skellabelle]

baby mako is literally the cutest ever no wonder pentacost adopted her immediately

[wagon-is-on-fire]

They can never make me hate you Pacific Rim (2013)

[jedi-kat-18]

ANOTHER: can you expand on the thought Stacker wanted his kids away from the front lines? Because Jake was going to be a jaeger pilot, was already training with his co-pilot, which is further than mako went. Do you think Jake's story about Stacker saying he didn't deserve to be in a jaeger is in character? Cuz I always thought, seeing how he told Mako that *he* was the one at fault for putting her in a jaeger, it was an ooc thing to say but I'd love to hear how u interpret it?

I'll be honest, I Do Not Vibe with that part of Uprising. I agree with you that it seems out of character for Stacker, so I have a different idea for what went down, and why Jake left the PPDC. Pentecost may not have been eager for his kids to join the fighting, but they both really, really, really wanted to be Jaeger pilots. So he let them join the Academy. Their training went well, for the most part. They were a great team, and everybody was sure they'd be full Jaeger pilots in no time. And then came their first Drift. It went bad. Really bad. Mako chased the RABIT, Jake tried to pilot the Jaeger without her, and they both had to be pulled out of the Drift. After the incident, Mako tried even harder to prove herself, but Jake decided he never wanted to get in a Jaeger again and quit the PPDC<

[taintedmind6669]

[dyslexiccheeseit]

Happy pacific rim day 10 year old me is losing their mind and current me is not much better. The first time I watched the movie it stuck in my brain for so long. It's one of the pieces of media that altered my brain chemistry I'm sure of it. Chuck Hansen you're everything to me, you deserved better. So did Yancy Becket. Mako Mori deserves the world. Raleigh Becket my beloved. Actually gonna cry Raleigh before Knifehead was just a baby he was so happy.

Robot...

[entnoot]

Mako Mori (my beloved) sketch in honour of Pacific Rim’s 10th anniversary! Truly one of my favourite films of all time 💕

[gwendolinechristie]

i was tagged by @billhaders to create a poll of some of my favorite female characters and let you all choose your favorite 💖 I chose movie/tv characters and one beloved dnd character to narrow it down!

I’ll tag @ahauntedcowboy, @girljeremystrong, @bruceewayne, @bethrnoora, @valuevillainy, @mifunebooty, @foxantoine, @twinpeens, @frankensteined !

[straightbaittournament]

round 2 results

welcome back baiters. as usual, the results will be posted in reverse chronological order, or whichever order tumblr puts them in when i go through the round 2 tag. LET US BEGIN

CONGRATUSTRAIGHTIONS TO...

KUROSAKI ICHIGO AND KUCHIKI RUKIA

ANGEL AND CORDELIA CHASE

JEFF WINGER AND BRITTA PERRY

RALEIGH BECKET AND MAKO MORI

AVA SILVA AND MICHAEL SALVIUS

ASH KETCHUM AND MISTY

ASAMI, BOLIN, KORRA AND MAKO

BRUCE WAYNE AND SELINA KYLE

FOX MULDER AND DANA SCULLY

LUKE SKYWALKER AND LEIA ORGANA

KATHRYN JANEWAY AND CHAKOTAY

TIM DRAKE AND STEPHANIE BROWN

NOREA DU NOC AND EL5N

JEAN-LUC PICARD AND DR BEVERLY CRUSHER

HARDWON SUREFOOT AND MOONSHINE CYBIN

and a hearty AUF BREEDERSEHEN TO...

MAKA ALBARN AND SOUL EVANS

BUFFY SUMMERS AND SPIKE

GALO AND AINA

ABBIE MILLS AND ICHABOD CRANE

KIPO OAK AND BENSON MEKLER

WILLOW PARK AND HUNTER

EVA GARVEY AND GABRIEL

ALEC HARDY AND ELLIE MILLER

ROY MUSTANG AND RIZA HAWKEYE

ROMAN ROY AND GERRI KELLMAN

BRIENNE OF TARTH AND JAIME LANNISTER

PEGGY CARTER AND DANIEL SOUSA

SYLVIA AND WILL

NATHALIE SANCOEUR AND GABRIEL AGRESTE

AKKO KAGARI AND ANDREW HANBRIDGE

loser results are posted in the same order as winner results, so the first winner is correlated to the first loser, etc. but if you would like to see the polls themselves just search for #straightbait tournament round 2 on this blog, and they'll be there! as always my beloved baiters i will see you around. expect the next round of polls within a week or so. in the meantime, happy heterosexual trails!! :)

[lixxen]

that test is the mako mori test!!! actually!! it’s pretty awesome it’s like the Bechdel test (a piece of media passes if two female characters have a conversation that isn’t about a man OR a straight relationship! it’s fairly widely used) but this one’s a little different.

the mako mori test is passed if a female character has her own independent plot arc that DOES NOT depend on or support a male character’s own plot arc!

it’s pretty darn cool that pacific rim of all movies inspired this test! it’s fairly recognised which is pretty cool, and if you’re more interested search it up, there’s loads of cool stuff like this around!

what’s even better is that it turns up in a plain google search for the Bechdel test, which shows how much coverage it has!

I thought I answered this when I was clearing my asks 😭 by bad moot

But holy shit that's so cool. Mako my beloved is genuinely a revolutionary character. I love her for that

Del Toro and Beachman did such a good job writing her. And the whole movie. I know Del Toro mainly wrote all of the action stuff and the Kaiju, so it's mainly Beachman who made her. But AUGH (I did so much research into the movie's inspirations and references so I found out Del Toro was like "I suck at writing relationships and that stuff. Beachman, do you wanna help?" Not verbatim obvs, but like... Literally he said the sucks at relationship stuff lol)

[soulmatebracket]

Hi ! Could you post a list of who has been submitted so far ? (With the number of submissions for each if possible)

If that's too much work i completely understand and humbly request to know if more that one person (aka me) have submitted Obi-Wan and Anakin

[Disclaimer‼️ Just because a pairing has three or two votes does not mean that they are automatically going into the bracket. Pairings with 1 vote might also make it in if I like them enough. We will not be starting arguments over if they should or should not have made it in.]

Totalling at 235 submissions so far!

Will be in the bracket:

Usagi Tsukino & Mamoru Chiba, Sailor Moon, IIIII (prelims)

Sailor Senji, Sailor Moon, III (prelims)

Link & Zelda, The Legend of Zelda, IIIIIIIII (prelims)

Link & Zelda & Ganandorf, The Legend of Zelda, IIIII (prelims)

Link & Fi, The Legend of Zelda, I (prelims/bc i like this ones)

Inuyasha & Kagome Higurashi, Inuyasha, IIII

Aziraphale & Crowley, Good Omens, IIIIIII

That Guy and Their Cat, Real Life, IIIII

Homura & Madoka, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, IIII

Eleanor Shelstroph & Chidi Anagone, The Good Place, IIIIII

Kim Dokja and Yoo Joonghyuk, Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint, IIIII

Captain Kirk & Mister Spock, Star Trek, IIII

Naruto Uzumaki & Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto, IIII

Grian & Scar, The Life Series, IIIIII

Submission Box

Three Votes:

Breekon & Hope, The Magnus Archives

The Doctor & The Master, Doctor Who

Xie Lian & Hua Cheng, Heavens Official’s Blessing

Hawkman & Hawkwoman, DC Comics

Doctor Doofenshmirtz & Perry the Platypus

Meliodas & Elizabeth, Seven Deadly Sins

Ash & Pikachu, Pokemon Anime

Two Votes:

Sakura & Syaoran, Cardcaptor Sakura

Wei Wuxain & Lan Wangji, Mo Dao Su Shi, II

Utena & Anthy, Revolutionary Girl Utena

Judai Yuki & Yubel, Yugioh X

FitzChivalry Farseer & Beloved/the Fool, Realm of the Elderlings

Yusuf “Joe” Al Kaysani & Nicolo “Nicky” Di Genova, The Old Guard

Finn the Human & Jake the Dog, Adventure Time

Sakura & Syaoran Li, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles

Eiji Hino & Ankh, Kamen Rider OOO

Gon Freecss & Killua Zoldyck, Hunter x Hunter

The Entire Cast of Phineas and Ferb, Phineas and Ferb

Harrowhark Nonagesimus & Gideon Nav, The Locked Tomb

Daniel & Luce. Fallen

Gilgamesh & Enkidu, The Epic of Gilgamesh

Kaidan Alenko & Commander Shepard, Mass Effect

Raleigh Becket & Mako Mori, Pacific Rim

Adrien Agreste & Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Miraculous Ladybug

Bebop & Rocksteady, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Katarina Claes & Sophia Ascart, My Next Life as a Villainess

One Vote:

Mieczyslaw Stilinki & Lydia Martin, Teen Wolf

Spiderman & Deadpool, Marvel Comics

Beavis & Butthead, Beavis and Butthead

Obanai Iguro & Mitsuri Kanroji, Demon Slayer

Emma/Melinda & Dimitri/Edred, Unicorn: Warriors Eternal

Dean & Pharm, Until We Meet Again

Kaiou Michiru & Tenou Haruka, Sailor Moon

Zunzite & Zoisite, Sailor Moon

Phoenix Wright & Miles Edgeworth, Ace Attorney

Witch of Delays & Cure Oasis, Tropical Rouge Pecure

John Doe & Arthur Lester, Malevolent

Hani & Hinino Yamato, Hiraeth: The End of the Journey

Dream /Morpheus & Hob Gadling, The Sandman

Adachi & Shimamura, Adachi and Shimamura

Edward Nygma & Oswald Cobblepot, Gotham (2014)

Zelda & Ganondorf, The Legend of Zelda

Reginald Copperbottom & Right Hand Man, The Henry Stickmin Collection

Henry Stickmin & Ellie Rose, The Henry Stickmin Collection

Jonny D’Ville & Gunpowder Tim, Mechanisms

Merlin & Arthur, Merlin

Vash & Knives, Trigun

Siren & Kappa, Castle Swimmers

Ruby & Sapphire, Steven Universe

Om Kapoor & Shanti Priya, Om Shanti Om

Solane & Sym, I Was Teenage Exocolonist

Will Herondale & Tessa Gray & Jem Carstairs, The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Agent 3 & Agent 8, Splatoon 2

James Sunderland & Maria, Silent Hill 2

Macaque & Sun Wukong, Lego Monkey Kid

Tang Sanzang (reincarnated as Tang), Shah Wujing (reincarnated as Sandy), Zhu Bajie (reincarnated as Pigsy), Ao Lie (ancestor of Mei), and Sun Wukong (ancestor of MK), Lego Monkey Kid, Journey To The West

Nadja & Gregor, What We Do In The Shadows

Catherine Foster & The Ghost, Archivist Wasp

Kaworu Nagisa and Shinji Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion

Kiryu Kazuma & Majima Goro, Yakuza / Ryu Ga Gotoku

Red & Blue, This is How You Lose the Time War

Church & Tex, Red vs Blue

Rand al'Thor and Ishamael/Moridin, Wheel of Time

Birgitte Silverbow and Gaidal Cain, Wheel of Time

Beryl and Sapphire, Beryl and Sapphire

Kiana Kaslana & Raiden Mei, Honkai Impact 3rd

Banjo & Sento, Kamen Rider Build

Orpheus & Eurydice, Greek Mythology

Odysseus & Penelope, Greek Mythology

Emet Selch & Hythlodaeus & Azem, Final Fantasy XIV

Yona & the Four Dragons (Ki-ja, Shin-ah, Jae-ha and Zeno), Akatsuki no Yona

Akane Kurashiki & Junpei, Zero Escape

Ryo Asuka & Akira Fudo, Devilman

Zagreus & Megaera & Thanatos, Hades

Megatron & Optimus Prime, Transformers

Emma Swall & Killian Jones, Once Upon A Time

Rumplestiltskin & Belle, Once Upon A Time, I Snow White & Prince Charming, Once Upon A Time

Percy Jackson & Annabeth Chase, Percy Jackson

Buttercup & Westley, The Princess Bride

Orchid & the Moon Supreme, Love Between Fairy and Devil

Blake Belladonna & Yang Xiao Long, RWBY

Ozma & Reincarnations, RWBY

Raava/The Avatar Spirit & Wan/The Avatar, Avatar: The Last Airbender

Johnny Silverhand & Vee, Cyberpunk 2077

Newt & The Brain/Alice, Pacific Rim

Dr. Strange & Dr. Christine Palmer, Marvel Comics

Bill & Ted, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Lucifer & God, Abrahamic Religions

David and Jonathan, The Bible

Mickey Mouse & Minnie Mouse, Disney

Cinderella & Prince Charming, Disney

Dean WInchester & Castiel, Supernatural

Essek Theylss & Caleb Widogast, Critical Role

Lup Taako & Barold "Barry" Bluejeans, The Adventure Zone

Taako & Magnus Burnsides & Merle Highchurch, The Adventure Zone

Steve Rogers & James “Bucky” Barnes, Captain America Films

Mane 6, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Raven & Lloyd Allen, Shaperaverse

Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, Love Live Nijigasaki High School Idol Club

Shinichi Kudo & Ran Mouri, Detective Conan

Kusuriuri & Kayo/Chiyo Nomoto, Mononoke

Shun Shimotsuki & Hajime Mutsuki, Tsukiuta

Nanami Momozono & Tomoe, Kamisama Kiss

Red & The Boxer, Transistor

Yvaine & Tristan, Stardust

Jayfeather & Half Moon, Warrior Cats

Time & Fate, The Starless Sea

Sappo, Fragment 147

Obi-Wan Kenobi & Anakin Skywalker, Star Wars

Ichabod Crane & Abbie Mills, Sleepy Hollow

Aragon & Arewn, The Lord of the Rings

Will Turner & Elizabeth Swan, Pirates of the Caribbean

Tom & Jerry, Tom & Jerry

Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck, Looney Toons

Batman & The Joker, DC Comics

Akira Kurusu/Joker & Akechi Goro, Persona 5

Mytho & Ahiru, Princess Tutu

Dazai Osamu & Chuuya Nakahara, Bungo Stray Dogs

Koh & Canalo, Ryusoulger

Gai & Juggler, Ultraman Orb

Sonoi & Momou, Donbrothers

Haruka & Saruhara, Donbrothers

The Scooby Doo Gang, Scooby Doo

[ljaesch]

Kodansha Announces Digital Manga Debut for January 2025

Kodansha kicks off the new year with the reveal of January 2025’s new digital manga series debut Killing Line by Satoshi Morie, the creator of the dark romantic thriller Searching for My Perfect Brother. Originally published in the pages of BeLove Magazine, Killing Line is a deadly romantic comedy following Mako, an abandoned and penniless high school girl who one day finds herself at the wrong…

[skellabelle]

can’t decide if i want her or want to BE her

[martyredhate]

mako mori and raleigh becket <333 my beloveds

[jedi-kat-18]

OH ALSO, two men and a kaiju: newt, to someone about kodachi: don't worry, she won't hurt you.

"Don't worry, she won't hurt you." Mako eyed the Kaiju warily. It stared at her with big, glassy eyes, standing just behind Newt. It stuck out its weird, glowing tongue, which started curling through the air towards her. She tensed, half-reaching for some kind of weapon. "Hey, don't worry, it's okay." Newt said. "She's not gonna hurt you, she's just trying to figure you out." Mako stood still while the Kaiju waved its tongue in front of her face, very determinedly not making eye contact with it. She looked at Newt instead, at the blood dripping from his nose, at the unfocused look in his eyes. "It's alright. She's not going to hurt you, I promise. She's just... uncertain."

[taintedmind6669]

[laurelsofhighever]

PACIFIC RIM AU? 👀

Oh, my beloved Pacific Rim AU...

It's pretty much the plot of Pacific Rim but set in Thedas with characters from Origins (and maybe the other games idk) in wardens (jaegers) battling archdemons (kaiju). Because I realised pretty early on I would never get around to writing it, not all the details are set, but in short:

Duncan = Stacker Pentecost Loghain and Anora = Herc and Chuck Hansen Rosslyn Cousland (of course) = Raleigh Becket, with Fergus being the brother she lost Alistair = Mako Mori Varric (?) = Hannibal Chao Merrill and Velanna = bickernig scientists

Various other wardens would be piloted by, say, the three Hawke siblings, Tabris and Zevran, maybe Leliana and Josephine. The templars basically took over running the cities on the edge of the Waking Sea when the Warden Program failed to stop the archdemons attacking everything, but pretty much everything is the same. The archdemons are coming out of the Amaranthine Ocean because of Bad Magic Juju and the summoning circle or whatever needs to be destroyed.

I'm not sure how technologically advanced society is in this AU, if it's like canon Thedas, or like our world with the serial numbers filed off, or if it's some mix between the two, where technological advancement was made possible through magic and enchantments, which would mean things didn't quite look identical but would be some fun worldbuilding. Luckily, I don't have to make a decision because alas it's going to just stay in my head forever.