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[I usually do my run of “monsters from movies” conversions in October, to coincide with Halloween. But I did Furtober last year instead. So I’m going to slot them into February, as a Valentines present to monster-loving folks. First up, a Korean kaiju! Yongary: Monster of the Deep is a weird movie in a number of ways. First, the original language version is lost, so you can only see it in its English dub–which is very strange in this day and age where every minor property gets super respectful treatment and 4K restorations (although there is a lovely Blu-Ray). As a ripoff primarily of Gamera, itself a ripoff of Godzilla and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, it steals ideas and even shots in a somewhat haphazard way. It feels like cargo cult filmmaking. But it was a colossal hit in South Korea, and even got an official remake/reboot to cash in on the Matthew Broderick Godzilla, so clearly it struck a nerve in its home country.]
Yongary CR 20 N Magical Beast This
creature looks roughly like an oversized dinosaur, bipedal with a reptilian
snout, a few rows of short ridges along the back, and spikes on the tail. A
single glowing horn grows from its nose.
A yongary
is an immense burrowing creature, a relic from the ancient past. Some scholars
believe they are related to behemoths, or perhaps kaiju, but they are decidedly
more fragile than either. Although a yongary is difficult, if not impossible,
to kill with conventional weapons, they are especially sensitive to poisonous
substances, particularly organic toxins and venoms. As such, they eschew
consuming organic matter for minerals and pure energy. They can eat fire,
lightning and even magical force, and may come to the surface to bask in forest
fires or lightning strikes. They are also fond of music.
Yongaries
are of animalistic intelligence, but occasionally will make bonds with small
children, vulnerable-looking animals, and other creatures that rouse a parental
instinct in the beast. These are likely to be oases of calm around its
rampages, and yongaries are especially good at destroying standing structures.
They seek to provoke firepower from other creatures in order to absorb its
energy, and use their breath weapons to set large fires they can gain healing
from. A yongary has a powerful ray that can cut between atoms, and they
typically save this for targets able to actually injure them.
Between the love of singing and their parental instincts, they’re quite adorable.
Yeah, on the scale of kaiju, Yongary is definitely more on the “cute and hapless” side than the “avatar of destruction” side. Which makes the movie’s tonal shifts even more jarring. Yongary: Monster of the Deep is a movie that can switch from a scene like this:
to a scene where Yongary takes four minutes to die of a rectal hemorrhage. That is not an exaggeration in any way. Poor guy
she didn’t lose her internship because “her friends” used a hashtag, she lost it because a bunch of 4chan fuckers found out she’s trans and decided to doxx her and harass her employer about the ~image~ she was sending. like this wasn’t her public face account, she wasn’t spouting racist garbage, she mistook someone in her mentions for one of the randos she gets regularly harassed by (because, yknow, if someone tweets “language” at you on twitter, 99.9% of the time they’re not actually concerned for you) and transphobes used the opportunity to fuck up her life. it’s great that hickam is behind her on this but a lot of people are sharing this and laughing at how hilarious it is that “a furry got fired for swearing”, which is the smokescreen being used to cover how this was doxxing a trans woman to ruin her potential career
The U.S. House of Representatives didn’t bolt its doors on March 4 because of a holiday. It was shut down by threats of a replay of the Jan. 6 fascist assault by Trump supporters.
We can’t trust the capitalist government to investigate its own thugs among the police and military brass. The Pentagon lied about Lt. Gen. Charles Flynn’s role in tardily responding to D.C. National Guard Maj. Gen. William J. Walker’s request for emergency assistance.
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