#oh tumblr image limit how i loathe you

[galionne-vibin]

[Part 1] Going through the new Godzilla Singular Point trailer frame by frame to check out what's new

I can't promise I caught everything but here are some new characters (+ cool new shots of already established characters)

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3

The Man, The Legend

Probably not Rodan (but a cool birb pterosaur nonetheless)

GUN JAGUAR (tho it might also just be a motor piece or something like that)

Anguirus, who looks smaller than I expected but still so, so freaking awesome

Titanosaurus

Manda but with a shark head?

Manda and Titano fighting? (Or maybe another one of the Fs)

[makeste]

literally just another giant post of Bakugou faces.

so I did this last year, but I only got up to chapter 120 before I ran out of steam. happily, though, this left me with an additional 190 chapters’ worth of glorious gremlin faces to choose from for this year’s edition! which I figure I had better do, before tumblr finally pulls the plug on my poor sweet image limit.

so without further ado, happy birthday to Kacchan, and happy birthday to Kacchan’s asymmetrical HAH face where his eyes do the thing like ( ◣益◢).

why I like it: so this is from Kirishima’s flashback in chapter 133, where Kirishima was getting all down on himself because his quirk Only Does One Thing, and Kacchan was all “nah bro don’t worry about it because your One Thing is totally fucking rad, and you’re strong enough to withstand anything.” so that of course was incredibly sweet, and one of the few times we’ve seen him give an actual heartfelt pep talk without so much as a single insult thrown into the mix. but what really puts this scene over the top for me is the fact that you can see the ever-so-subtle hints of guilt and regret when he talks about All Might and Kamino. for just a moment, he gets this distant look in his eyes, and his expression turns soft and contemplative. basically this is a rare collector’s edition Kacchan face you will not find in many other places.

why I like it: because this frankly needs to happen in every damn fight until this kid finally gets it through his thick skull to ditch the mask so we can see every fantastic facial expression in full 4k glory. work with me here please Kacchan.

why I like it: because character growth!! this was our first big moment of post-DvK2 Kacchan development, and the payoff was well worth the wait. it only took him 166 chapters to realize that it’s hard to grow as a person if you’re determined to be a humongous dick to every single person you meet!! lmao, but it’s progress though.

why I like it: these two panels are criminally underrated. the way his face transforms when Deku gets the answer wrong dlkjfldk. this is easily one of the funniest subtle gags in the entire series.

why I like it: “hey Bakugou do you want to play in our band?” “fuck you, no.” “pretty please.” “fine, but I refuse to call it a band.” “well then what do you want to call it -- ” “MURDER.”

why I like it: GONNA MURDER EVERYONE BY PLAYING THE DRUMS!!!! SOMEHOW WE’VE SUCCESSFULLY COMPARTMENTALIZED THIS SCHOOL-SANCTIONED DISPLAY OF PERFORMING ARTS AS A DEATH MATCH. OH TO UNDERSTAND THE INNER WORKINGS OF THIS YOUNG MAN’S MIND.

why I like it: hah?! I love how he has to tilt his neck all the way back every single time he does this. he’s so cute I love him so much.

why I like it: somewhere around this point in the manga Kacchan decided to do away with being handsome and decided to just be a full-time gremlin in every single panel. this persisted for the next 90 chapters or so and he was very dedicated. I’m pretty sure he was going for vulgar and intimidating, but unfortunately for him he’s too inherently adorable and so the end result is just endearing and almost charming in its own way.

why I like it: this was from chapter 194 when Aizawa was announcing that they’d have a special guest for the Joint Training arc, and so Kacchan was all “BOY OH BOY A NEW ASS TO KICK.”

why I like it: more character development! and just look at that confidence! he’s fully recovered from his low point after Kamino and the provisional exam. he knows what he’s about now, and he is THRIVING. and once again you can see how his conviction inspires the people around him and makes them more determined. just, he is going to be such a good number one hero you guys.

why I like it: it’s the three little “!!!” lines hovering in the corner next to his head for me. “oh my god it’s All Might, All Might saw me being cool and Saving To Win and stuff, what’s he gonna say what do I do omg quick act natural.”

why I like it: QUICK HIDE YOUR FEELINGS!! WE CAN’T LET THE NEIGHBORS KNOW WE CARE. fjkdlsjklk

why I like it: this is his expression when he first sees Deku activate Blackwhip for the first time. it’s one of the few unguarded expressions of complete surprise that we’ve gotten from him and I love it thank you.

why I like it: classic asymmetrical HAH face. he truly has perfected this look. look at him, casually clinging to a pole for no reason other than to look dynamic. this boy truly cannot sit or stand or walk or do anything normally. he spent three months working his ass off to catch up to Deku and the others, and now that he finally has he’s filled with so much pent-up energy that he simply cannot hold it back anymore and he’s gotta climb a pole. he’s just gotta.

why I like it: because he is so fucking good at saving people now you guys, he’s like a whole-ass professional and shit, and yet it hasn’t changed who he is one single iota. he will save your life and he will SCREAM AT YOU WHILE DOING IT and you’ll sit there and be grateful goddammit.

why I like it: o noo he was caught unawares. All Might was all “I’m gonna have a dad moment and nobody can stop me” and he walked right up to him and put his hand on his head because he’s All Might and so what is he even gonna do about it. nothing, that’s what. you got played, Kacchan. outmaneuvered and outfoxed. all he can do is stand there and make that grumpy face he makes when he’s receiving unwanted affection (҂⌣̀_⌣́).

why I like it: more unwanted affection. now they’re even feeding him ffs. how could he let this happen. mm chicken.

why I like it: GREATEST ASYMETRICAL HAH?! FACE OF ALL TIME. out of all the people to befriend him against his will, Todoroki is by far the most confusing to him and it’s just so great.

why I like it: this is when Hawks is staring at him in chapter 244 because he fake-killed his mentor and stuff and he feels sorta guilty about it. but meanwhile Kacchan just thinks he’s trying to start some shit, and so he’s all “I WAS FASTER THAN YOU BACK THERE YOU KNOW” and Hawks is all “hahaha okay little buddy you just keep telling yourself that”, because as previously discussed Kacchan is too adorable to ever be intimidating.

why I like it: this is from 246 when he’s in the middle of arguing with Burnin’ and all of a sudden Endeavor calls to him and he’s just like o shit what’d I do.

why I like it: because Endeavor’s mentoring them and shit and he’s just casually sitting there eating his lunch like yeah. with his lil hamster cheeks lulz.

why I like it: the look that instantly became iconic. this panel cured me of the misconception that Bakugou “goes to bed at 8:30pm” Katsuki was a morning person. the truth is he loathes all times of the day equally.

why I like it: this one is a team effort because Deku’s faces are equally as good. I’m genuinely shocked that this family dinner with the Todorokis didn’t prematurely unlock Danger Sense. you can tell that he and Deku have a silent agreement to call a temporary truce on their rivalry for as long as they sit at this table as outsiders in this strange land. this is by far the most hazardous meal Bakugou has ever experienced, and yet the mapo tofu is too good to go to waste, so he’s just shoveling it down his throat trying to finish as much as possible before shit inevitably hits the fan.

why I like it: Kacchan is New Here so he doesn’t yet realize that if the Todorokis are spilling family secrets, there is always inevitably going to be someone listening in the shadows just outside the door.

why I like it: the battle with Ending was probably peak gremlin!Kacchan. like, we’ve had gremlin before and afterwards, but never quite to this same degree. Horikoshi really decided to push the limits of contorting this child’s face in the strangest ways.

why I like it: peak. gremlin.

why I like it: nothing to see here, just Kacchan quietly realizing after 252 chapters that he MIGHT have been just a BIT of a cartoonishly villainous asshole to Deku back at the beginning there ha ha ha oh god oh fuck.

why I like it: because he found the answer to What It Is That He Lacks, and he’s all cool and calm and infuriatingly secretive about it. it’s such a sudden and stark contrast to the gremlin faces he was making only moments earlier, and it makes this moment hit home that much more.

why I like it: because this is him being friends with Deku!! like for real though!! because he’s fucking around and insulting him and making weird faces and stuff, but it’s because in his mind That’s What Friends Do. they clown on each other and help each other train and shit. half an hour after this they’ll go down to the training gym and play Catch-A-Kacchan, and then he’ll quietly confess to All Might that he wants to atone. he may be a gremlin, but he’s a gremlin with layers goddammit.

why I like it: because this is right after TomurAFO shows up out of nowhere and scares the shit out of him and Deku and makes them see a terrifying death vision and stuff, and you can see how shaken up he is by it. he definitely understands how close they came to dying just then and he’s sobered the fuck up. this is the moment when it really sinks in that shit has gotten real. eight minutes from now he’ll move without thinking and save Deku’s life.

why I like it: hydro homies. nothing restores those electrolytes like good old Raquaius Sports Drink.

why I like it: because this panel was when it started to become clear that the real reason he grabbed this sports drink was to pretend like he was busy so he could act like he wasn’t interested in Deku’s training because god forbid the neighbors know that he actually cares.

why I like it: because the sideways glance!! and the fact that he doesn’t deny it!! in fact he does the opposite of denying it, and he basically starts pouring his heart out about how goddamn worried he actually is. he’s guilty and anxious and restless and this entire conversation is amazing.

why I like it: he looks so goddamn young here. when he finally stops scrunching up his face and putting on his usual tough guy act and for once allows his actual emotions to show on his face instead, the result is so damn striking. for once we got an entire conversation with no gremlin faces, because Horikoshi had to drop them completely in order to show just how serious he is here. which was incredibly effective btw.

why I like it: because he’s basically just fidgeting with the bottle now to avoid making eye contact with All Might because he just revealed a deep dark secret to him and he’s precariously vulnerable right now. that’s the body language of a kid who knows how badly he fucked up, and just wants to hear from someone else if it’s going to be okay, if he can still make it okay. he looks so small here.

why I like it: the worry lines under his eyes. the look of uncertainty and wanting to believe that what All Might says is true (“you’ll get a chance to talk eventually”). the hesitance to turn back and look at him, and the way he doesn’t dare until he finally gets that small bit of reassurance. All Might isn’t judging him. All Might understands him and understands where he’s coming from, and he’s giving him his blessing. he’s giving him a thumbs up and reassuring him that he sees the change in him and sees that he’s sincerely trying, and basically saying that he has faith that he and Deku will be able to work it out. and you can see that it means a lot.

why I like it: because this kid spent his entire internship with Jeanist doing nothing but bitching nonstop, and then later on when Jeanist went missing he was all tight-lipped about it because once again NOBODY CAN KNOW THAT WE CARE GODDAMMIT, and it was all very Classic Bakugou. but then Jeanist finally shows up again at Jakku, and we get this little moment of happy, smirky FUCK YEAH, I KNEW YOU WEREN’T DEAD YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE, and it’s just the best.

why I like it: HE’S SO UNABASHEDLY PROUD GOD BLESS HIM.

why I like it: because he nearly died and then he woke up here in the hospital two days later not knowing where anybody else is or whether they’re even still alive, and this, my friends. this is finally the moment. the moment where he was all FUCK IT, MAYBE WE CAN LET THE NEIGHBORS KNOW WE CARE AFTER ALL. character fucking development. you love to see it.

BONUS:

WHAT HAVE I BECOME, MY SWEETEST FRIEND. EVERYONE I KNOW GOES AWAY IN THE END.

happy birthday Katsuki. feel better sweetie. HORIKOSHI YOU BETTER TREAT HIM RIGHT I AM COUNTING ON YOU.

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as a blogger abt space and space history and whatnot, what did you think of first man? i have seen it 2 times and my love for spaceflight and neil and everything increases tenfold with every watch but i have noticed on this side of tumblr, a lot of ppl didnt like it/didnt like the casting/didnt like they didnt show the flag/the "mistreatment" of buzz and so on lmao. but as someone who doesnt have much of a stake in this, i just wanted to know your thoughts if you would mind sharing!! :-)

I actually did a 20-page essay about First Man that I haven’t shared part of yet, because I still don’t feel like I said everything I could have said about the movie there.

Putting a whole wave of assorted opinions under the cut.

I have mixed opinions on First Man myself, but I don’t think it was a bad movie. I thought the Buzz hate was a little intense, but honestly, I doubt it’s the worst anyone’s ever said about Buzz, lol.

As far as the flag goes, I wasn’t bothered by it. First Man felt very patriotic, but it was subtle (though whether non-Americans thought it was subtle to see “UNITED STATES” on the side of the Saturn V leading up to the launch in big red letters, I can’t say!) I respect First Man’s choice to be subtle, because I think in a way, if it had been too patriotic, they’d be risking conflating Neil as a person with the icon of Neil.

Which, let’s be honest, was the real point of First Man. They didn’t intend to celebrate the communities which made spaceflight happen, a really big departure from previous spaceflight films that may have been kind of hard to process at first. (Think about it. TRS? Mercury 7. Apollo 13? Mission Control & the crew. Hidden Figures? Their computing team.) They focused on Neil Armstrong, and they specifically focused on every way in which he wasn’t Superman. They show how much his astronaut career put strain on his family, and hinted at his eventual divorce. They highlight every tragedy that happened from when his daughter died to when he landed on the moon.

In terms of making it clear Neil Armstrong wasn’t a superhero? I think they did a good job, because a lot of the people I see who genuinely loathe this movie still seem to want to think that’s who Neil is. The realization that our idols aren’t all we’ve made them out to be is uncomfortable. It’s something I wrestle with a lot behind the scenes, as someone who reads a lot about spaceflight and looks up to a lot of the people who made Gemini and Apollo happen.

Unfortunately, a lot of those people end up being dismissive of the movie and finding other flaws with it. It made the capsules look too dusty, therefore Neil Armstrong was a superhero. The movie is wrong, not my limited knowledge of who Apollo astronauts were as people! But oh well.

Something incredibly subtle and genius, that I want to credit @taiwaneseprick for noticing, is that First Man doesn’t make Neil any less masculine for dealing with his pain and, yknow, feeling things. In fact, it does a good job of highlighting both the positive aspects of Neil’s masculinity and the negative (or, to use a buzzword, “toxic”) ones. Neil is a brilliant engineer, who keeps his emotions out of his work… but on the flip side, he still won’t allow himself to mourn his own daughter with his wife. He goes to work the morning after his daughter’s funeral. He leaves his wife to do most of the work raising his kids. They aren’t in-your-face about it, or accusative, and I’m not accusing Neil Armstrong of sexism. But his inability to admit he’s in pain, running away from his wife, leaving her to deal with their kids… it strains his relationship. It’s a blunt, fact-of-the-matter take that does a great job at tearing apart the icon of Neil.

Something Vintage Space pointed out, though, with regards to their image of Neil, is that Neil was more than his demons, and First Man doesn’t do a too good job of pointing that out. The Neil Armstrong who was witty and friendly when he opened up to you was almost nowhere to be seen in First Man. They cut out that entire aspect of his personality, and in doing so, I think it made him feel less human… Or maybe just more like Ryan Gosling.

I also want to say, I think this movie was a little overwhelming with how damn sad it was. And yes, I understand rationally that that’s the point, and I’m glad they included some of the things they did. But within the first few minutes of his movie, his daughter dies of cancer. Then Elliot See and Charlie Basset die, and we sit through their funeral. Then, to put the cherry on top, we have to sit in the capsule and watch the Apollo 1 fire happen. It’s overwhelming. That’s the point. But it’s… it’s a lot. Sitting through Apollo 1 put me in a pretty nasty mental state for a good few weeks after that movie came out, I won’t lie.

Overall, First Man was a good movie. But it’s not a triumphant movie about one of the men who landed on the moon and how he got there, which is what a lot of people expected. It’s a good tribute to Neil Armstrong, but not something I would play at a party (well, maybe with other space nerds, but not at a party for people who still think I have a life.)

For the record: I think this movie could have been made to be triumphant. It very easily could have been another Apollo 13, or hell, The Martian, where we see astronauts overcoming incredible triumphs to accomplish amazing feats of courage and engineering. It would be harder to pull off, though, without making Neil look like a superhero. Could it be done? Totally, and part of me wishes they’d put some more time into the concept of this movie to tie together who Neil was with how incredible landing on the moon is. But I’m honestly happier with this than like, The Right Stuff, The Third Coming: Neil Lands On The Moon. You know?