This is an important post about Pacific Rim

[rivkat]

Can we talk about the Pacific Rim bonus materials? Because I really want to talk about the character profiles where Raleigh’s says “Current love interest: Mako Mori,” and Mako’s says “Current love interest: training/Raleigh Becket.” And about how Raleigh is totally ok with that ordering. Happy to have been nominated! Also I would like to talk about “current,” since that recognizes that they are people moving through time and that there might be other love interests in their histories! (Not their futures. I don’t want to talk about that, unless the word “threesome” is involved.)

Also this set of graphics on expectations v. reality of Pacific Rim perfectly sums up my reaction.

Comments

[brownbetty]

Yes, I'm super in love with "I knitted you a helmet-cozy, pls wear it" Raleigh, and it makes me a little sad that Raleigh/Chuck is a bigger 'ship than Mako/Raleigh, although I do see that Chuck is a perfectly engineered bit of fan-nip.

[rivkat]

I have selective vision: I am unable to see fanworks that don't have Mako/Raleigh. I could make an exception for stories that had them as platonic life partners finding sexual outlets elsewhere. This selective vision also applies to the scientists, since I found them offputting.

[brownbetty]

I should probably just killfile the german scientists, since it annoys me every time I come across it, although I make an exception for stories where one of them is secretly a kaiju.

(I once read an amazing story where Herman was a kaiju, and Newt was (understandably) all about that, and totally sexed him up, and I was like "Wait a second, kaiju juices are corrosive, use a condom! Also, no way Newt wouldn't want to bag a sample, c'mon.")

(Fandom problems.)

[rivkat]

Secret kaiju seems a harder secret to keep than the usual ones. Vampire, werewolf, those can be worked around ... kaiju, less so.

[brownbetty]

Well, the general work-around seems to be that since kaiju are engineered, if you're engineering a kaiju for infiltration, it can look like whatever you want.

This is actually a genre.

[rivkat]

Unsurprisingly, I had that thought as soon as I posted. Fandom: not only stranger and bigger than we imagine, but stranger and bigger than we can imagine.