#pacific rim fandom

[monsterblogging]

Military wankers are literally incapable of designing good Jaegers because they cannot comprehend that first and foremost, a Jaeger must be a kind of Weird Guy.

[thechaosgods]

Get Otachi’ed

[kaijuposting]

I feel like The Avengers (released in 2012) might have played a role in shaping how people perceive stuff in Pacific Rim (released 2013)? Like, Raleigh Becket has this reputation as a himbo/"golden retriever man" even though he's really just... not that. It's like people just kinda projected early MCU Thor onto him because he also happened to be blond and muscled. And then it's like people kinda see the PPDC working kinda like the way the SHIELD in the early MCU was presented, with the jaeger program being equivalent to superheroes in general and the k-sci lab being the PPDC equivalent of Tony Stark and Bruce Banner. (Hell, some people even referred to Newt and Hermann as "science bros," which was literally how some people were referring to Tony Stark and Bruce Banner.)

People also kinda treat the crusty old farts at the beginning of the film as if they're like the World Security Council from The Avengers; basically an outside organization trying to interfere with and undermine the PPDC's efforts, when said crusty old farts are actually the leaders of the PPDC itself. They treat the Wall of Life as if it's the nuclear missile the World Security Council lobbed at New York, when the Wall of Life is also a PPDC program. And they kinda act as if the jaeger program would have been able to keep on going forever if only these crusty old farts had just gotten out of the way, when like, a major plot point was that the jaeger program had begun to fail spectacularly, to the point where they were losing jaegers faster than they could build them. (Not to mention, the crusty old farts didn't even try to stop Pentecost; they let him take what's left of the jaegers to Hong Kong and give him eight months' worth of funding.) So yeah, I think The Avengers has kinda influenced the way some people see Pacific Rim, and that this influence continues on to some degree in the fandom today.

[casyawn]

what's fun about newton and hermann is that they're both extremely cheesy but in totally different ways so they're still never in sync like newton would tell everyone he and hermann are going to save humanity with the power of love and hermann would blush and scoff and roll his eyes but then late at night he'd whisper things like i ache for you dr geiszler and newton would be like ahhhaha what. oh my god. awesome

[prokopetz]

It feels like there's been this very particular subset of the Pacific Rim fandom who were into it specifically for how its central conceit blurs the line between intimacy and codependency, but felt constrained by the fundamental optimism of the source material – like no matter how fucked up they made it, there was something basic and structural embedded in it that meant it could never be fucked up enough.

And then Armored Core VI came along.

[groovygrub]

[lisondraws]

...and they were drift compatible!

Newmann four pieces acrylic standee is up for preorders on my shop for one week only!!! I've wanted to make this standee for a year now, and I really hope that you will like it!

[natesmack]

I know we talked to you a lot at the beginning of the year about playing with Nate..you obviously had such great chemistry with him, knew where he was going to be back in the day. Seems like you guys are starting to find that a little bit again (...) just how is that coming with him? [x]

[lumpofcohle]

[do-you-ship-it-polls]

Do you ship it?

specific to the first movie

reason: Enemies to lovers scientists. Drifted together to save the world with the power of love. They are so obsessed with each other it's embarrassing. Years of passionate love (scientific) letters to terrible first meeting to 5 years working in close proximity pipeline. *layer voice* I'll quote Everything the actors said in interviews as evidence your honor

[hawktims]

since my pacific rim brain rot doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon, i'm thinking about how losing your drift partner while still connected to them through the neural handshake is the cruelest way to lose anyone ever. even crueler when you consider ghost drifting. so after all those years of piloting together how much of yancy's mannerisms thoughts etc has raleigh retained? has he dreamt yancy's dreams? how much of him is now yancy too? yes, raleigh might have lost a piece of himself when yancy died, but it's also the way yancy's ghost will forever be inside his head (in a very literal sense). he has to grieve someone who will live inside him forever and that makes me very sad because how are you supposed to move on from that?

[monsterblogging]

Reminder that Pacific Rim was not made for far right weirdos, and the creator never supported that kind of nonsense.

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[thechaosgods]

Happy birthday to my favorite movie of all time!! It’s a decade old now! Happy Tenth birthday!

[kaijuposting]

Don'tcha all just hate that cycle where people idolize a creator and their work, then realize they've actually been a little problematic all along and throw 'em both to the ground and disavow them forever? This is why y'all need to get Guillermo del Toro off that pedestal. I'm not saying that you have to cancel him or Pacific Rim, but eventually you're going to start realizing that he's not pure and unproblematic, and that his work does have issues. At the end of the day, Guillermo del Toro is just this guy, and he occasionally fucks things up. You can like his work without building him up as this perfect godlike figure in your minds.

[k-science-betch]

the haters expect me to "do" my "job" when im CLEARLY busy thinking about those two nerd ass science dorks from that one movie who are definitely In Love

[sennamaticart]

I can finally share my finished piece for the @edgeofhopezine

Sasha and Aleksis were always my favorite pilots in the movie, they're so cool, and Cherno Alpha is such a neat mech design! I had a great time channeling some vintage poster aesthetics for this one <3