#godzilla-reads

[leatherjacketmixtapes]

January Mini Challenge

So since I’m only doing one official reading challenge this year (Popsugar) - never mind that I’m also doing a book bingo created by a friend too - in typical Capricorn fashion, that isn’t enough and I need to make more work for myself, so I’ve added on the 2023 challenge created by @godzilla-reads. Which is a lot less involved but still some added fun prompts! And I made myself a copy of the list for my bulletin board as well.

Actually, one of the downsides of doing too many challenges in the past few years has been not having time for rereads, which I really miss. I grew up going to the library constantly and only really buying books if I’d already checked them out and reread them again and again a few times… at that point it’s easier to own a copy yourself! Rereading old favorites is one of the best parts of reading in general to me, so I’m glad for the excuse this month to revisit a favorite! So for choose a book that you enjoyed as a teenager to reread, it was an immediate reaction to pick up Just Listen again.

#currently reading #2023 reading challenge #godzilla-reads #books

[stefito0o]

@godzilla-reads did you start Persuasion???

#persuasion #reading #godzilla-reads #my posts

[kaiju-krew]

she knows whats up that one new clip

#she can read minds you literally cannot fool her #mothra supports enemies to lovers old man yaoi #its about the polycule vision okay #f tier shitpost sorry #not even watermarked i didnt bother LMAO #mothkongzilla #godzilla #mothra #kong #my art

[booksandwords]

All Hallows' Eve by Annabelle Jacobs

Read time: <1 Day Rating: 4/5

The quote: Dominic was hot, even in the harsh light of the kitchen, and looking rumpled and a little used. Sexy and adorable was perhaps a more fitting description. Hot made him sound one-dimensional, and Caleb sensed there was a lot more to Dominic Ashworth than he let people see. — Caleb Jones

Warnings: In Annabelle Jacobs' words "This book contains material that maybe offensive to some and is intended for a mature, adult audience. It contains graphic language, violent scenes, explicit sexual content and adult situations." I will specify this includes severe (period-appropriate) homophobia.

Someone I'm connected with on Goodreads was reading All Hallows' Eve in the run-up to the 🎃 spoopy season👻 and I thought it looked appealing with a promising premise. I've read this author before, another seasonal title that proved unmemorable. That said I expected this more than I expected to. The characters are likeable, the plot engaging and the ending well thought out. Unfortunately, I think this book may follow the same route. It is a good entry into a Halloween reading list but by no means a must-read.

It is appealing to read a book with Halloween as a core concern that isn't set in America. All Hallows' Eve is set in the North of England, I think we get an exact location but I can't find it again. The linguistics of it were a dead giveaway even before we got a location. The slang in particular. I like all the characters, in both time zones, as you are supposed to. Main characters Caleb Jones and Dominic Ashworth are written in a way that makes me both relatable given their own situations. Caleb is so much stronger than he appears to be. Dominic is so adorable in his want to protect his family. I appreciate their shared interest, it is an unusual one but perfect for the story. I like their relationship as it develops, collapses and rebuilds. Their supports are the sort of loyal that is perfect to me. But it is a joy to see different forms of siblings and best friends, an aunt and a father. We need those different representations of family. There are lines and references and relatable thoughts. In all honestly, if I were Caleb I likely would struggle to trust or believe any of this was really going on.

The background, that tragic story of Isaac, Alexander and Liam is in some ways better done than the main story arc. It is key to the whole plot. I like the way everything is interwoven. I spent so much time trying to the situations, to figure out how the two connected together. I probably should have seen the ending coming, should have suspected the connections but I didn't. It is that sort of book for me. It is a well-written book. The writing is well balanced between darkness and humour and angst and sexual euphoria.

Some lines I quite liked.

“Can I get your number?” Dominic blurted. “I realise you don’t know me at all, but I’d like to change that.” Caleb’s smile widened. “I’d like that, too.” He rattled off his number, and Dominic entered it into his phone. “I’m trusting you not to give me a fake one.” Dominic glanced up to meet Caleb’s gaze. “You’ll have to use it and see." Dominic grinned. “Yes, I will.” — For a book that relies on magic and the other in the plot there is a feeling of follow of the instinct and fate to their first meeting. Both of them kinda bumble through it a little. (Dominic and Caleb)

A bubble of laughter threatened to escape as he suddenly thought of Harry Potter and the Dementors—Dominic was his chocolate. — This is a fairly common highlight. But it's just so cute. (Caleb)

Christ, it was like they were bringing their seconds—duelling at dawn instead of meeting his boyfriend on a Sunday afternoon. Or was it ex-boyfriend now? Dominic’s stomach sank. He was looking forward to the afternoon even less now. — I'm not entirely sure what about this tickled me so much but it just does. There is a sense of pain to it but there is a truth to it. I quite like it. (Dominic)

A huge thank you to these wonderful people: alpha reader Jay Northcote, beta readers Con Riley and RJ Scott, cover artist Natasha Snow, editor Sue Adams, and proof readers NR Walker, Kirsty Bicknell, and Lily G Blunt. — This is in the acknowledgements. Damn look at those names, all the talent in this one list. I just needed to say it.

Read for @godzilla-reads​ Simple Reading Challenge. Filling the October prompt: "Halloween/Samhain Book!! or Spoooooooky Poetry"

Halloween and Samhain are both used in All Hallows' Eve. The season is key to the plot, both of the brothers and the lovers. While it isn't scary per se it is somewhat spooky, there are ghosts and hauntings involved. And old age homophobia of the highest order. Which may just be the scariest thing of all when we get to read it happen to a character we've fallen in love with.

#all hallows eve #halloween reads #godzilla-reads #book review #ktreviews #holiday reads #read 2022 #annabelle jacobs #tw violence #tw homophobia #booklr

[godzilla-reads]

I keep seeing lists and recs for short books/stories to cram in before the year is up to meet the “reading goal” and it makes me feel sad that I know how that feels. I feel sad that people need to feel rushed to read.

Slow down, friends. Read what you want, read what you must, but don’t force yourself to consume. I feel like reading should be about quality over quantity.

#godzilla reads #booklr #goodreads #bookworm #reading #bookish #book blog

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

“Godzilla usually cuddles her every time, inhaling her lovely scent.”

He’s so real for that

"You've got to be kidding me, aren't you Goji?" The Queen asked, her voice muffled by her fluffy fur.

Of course, why would it be? Thought Godzilla, his face squashed on her delicate fur, the loveliest scent of rare flowers are addicted, for a King to his Queen.

Both were tired dealing with almost a month of checking the humans and Titans. So much that the King of the Monsters yearned her scent. When the two finally met each other, they settled down on a huge cozy cave.

That didn't wipe his goofy smile upon landing his golden orange eyes at Mothra's lovely sapphire blue ones.

Something that he really, really meant to cuddle her for a long time.

The King bring his tongue out to lick her fur, nipping it tenderly. She squirmed a bit, almost feared if he squished the moth too much, but he was a gentle King.

"Feeling better?" Godzilla asked, earning a nod to Mothra.

Adjusting one more time of their position, the moth finally fall asleep.

He took one last inhale of her scent, feeling his mind become lightheaded, dreaming of their never ending love and loyatly to one another...

"Good night, My Queen."

#that was supposedly on valentines day and i am super late btw due to college stuff #but anyway #here's a short but sweet and tender fic involving around our King and Queen #thank you for reading my own MV Mothra's Headcanons #GODZILLA IS ADDICTED BY HER SCENT #SO MUCH THAT HE HARDLY TASTE IT #LOL #asked and answered #godzilla #mothra #godzilla king of the monsters #godzilla kotm #monsterverse #kaiju #mothzilla #godzilla x mothra #mosugoji #short fic #adm starblitzsteel 4305 #anonymous

[cinewhore]

discussing that horror imitates our fears as a society and culture and a perfect example is Godzilla because he represents the sheer terror of the nuclear threat/aftermath of WW2 that japan had to make sense of so they created him and recent films made by the Japanese are depicting him back in original form where he wreaks havoc to their lively hood and shames the western version of his character and i firmly belief that only the Japanese should have access to his IP because they know the true depth of why he exists and-

#if only i had a podcast #i mean i did but ya know #i need to do more reading about Godzilla and just about the origins or horror in general #so many interesting things to be learned! #but I’ve been listening to the Godzilla minus one and shin Godzilla scores #both so perfect! #shin godzilla #godzilla #godzilla minus one

[glitchyred]

I think my issue with a lot of modern takes on video game creepypastas, particularly the concept of "fixing" video game creepypastas, is that a lot of them seem to believe video game horror revolves around making things visually scary and not like. Considering what would actually make something like Super Mario scary

I've been on kind of a Mario kick recently so I've been interested in recent creepypasta fangame projects revolving around it and they all have the same energy of like. Distorted faces and bitcrushed noises and running from a demon and all that. Analog horror stuff. In an abstracted way it seems more like they're trying to fix Sonic.EXE than anything, but what was wrong with Sonic.EXE wasn't that it's designs weren't scary enough. It fundamentally didn't understand how to take Sonic and twist its concepts in a way to make it scary

Like, take Mario 64 horror and compare it Super Mario horror. 64 has a legacy as a kind of lonely, vaguely uncanny game in the minds of many people. Lots of Mario 64 horror banks on this with surreal imagery and emphasis on extreme feelings of isolation. The early Super Mario games don't have a history with this sort of innate unease, so what do they have to distort and corrupt?

I think the best example of Super Mario horror is Coronation Day. It understands the assignment, that being - Mario games are whimsical, they tell a story without giving much information, and they rely on graphics to immerse the player in the fantastical world. Coronation Day twists these; the story is whimsical in a very dark way, it uses corrupted, vague messages to convey its plot, and it's backgrounds and assets immerse the player in the feeling that something is deeply deeply wrong. Coronation Day absolutely does rely on scary designs and gore and stuff, but I think it would still be impactful without it.

Idk I'm not sure I'm communicating a coherent point here, I just wish these modern "fix-it" takes on Creepypastas would apply more depth than "good horror art = inherently good horror game/story"

#thoughts are kind of all over the place on this topic hopefully i'm making some sense #txt #i feel like some of these people read like. godzilla nes. and were like oh you make a good creepypasta by making really good art #and like the art absolutely helped that story that story has AMAZING art but. it wasnt the only reason it was good #it had a good story too. you need a good story you cant rely on art alone djshdjsj

[graspingremlinhands]

Ichi: I don't understand, people who get in relationships and call each other cheap pet names. Like sugar or honey. They should raise the bar and call them expensive things.

Godzilla: Good morning my beautiful electric bills.

Mothra: I love you grocery list.

Rodan: How's going my dear student loans?

Ichi: I hate you all.

#read it as platonic or poly #inspired by a reel on insta #incorrect quotes #incorrect godzilla quotes #godzilla #mothra #rodan #king ghidorah #ichi ghidorah #godzilla king of the monsters #monsterverse #legendary godzilla #kaiju #daikaiju #my au #sort of

[louiejoyce]

The covers for Godzilla: Skate or Die #2 have dropped! The first cover is mine and the second is Juni Ba’s amazing variant cover for this issue. Out in July, make sure you’ve ordered through your local comic store! 🦖🛼🛹🛼🛹🦖

More on the comic here: https://godzilla.com/blogs/news/louie-joyce-godzilla-skate-or-die-comic-book-interview

www.louiejoyce.com

#Godzilla skate or die #godzilla #Varan #varan the unbelievable #kaiju #toho kaiju #idw #godzilla art #louie joyce #illustration #comics #drawing #comic art #art #comic artist #comic books #new comics #godzilla comics #skate art #skate #skating #aggressive inline #aggressive skating #rollerblading #inline skating #quad skates #skateboarding #australia #port Kembla #read

[incomingawn]

Okay so remember how in the KOTM credits Monarch found a Mothra egg? But we didn’t get a scene of her hatching in GxK???

“Could giant insect egg be a second Mothra…or something else?”

HERE’S HOW WE CAN GET BATTRA IN THE MONSTERVERSE—

#BRING BACK THE BAD (moth) BOY #HE WAS IN ONE MOVIE AND DIED #MAKE LIKE MOTHRA AND COME BACK BUDDY #I know he’s in the comics #but I haven’t read those yet #I should probably get on that #eventually #godzilla #godzilla x kong: the new empire #godzilla x kong spoilers #mothra #monsterverse #battra #godzilla king of the monsters #gojira

[poebrey]

Hiroshi being neither Billy nor Lee’s biological son but rather the stepson of Billy who he raised as his own but also Lee considered to be like a son because both of them love Keiko and therefore her kid is somehow giving the trio more throuple energy

#monarch legacy of monsters #I have to give the show credit #when they had Cate say that she suspected Lee #was her grandpa I was shocked at the genre-savvyness #I need to read Matt Fractian’s comics honestly that sold me more than godzilla #(sorry goji)

[gotham-at-nightfall]

The final battle begins!

Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong #6

#jl vs godzilla vs kong #justice league #batman #green lantern corps #legion of doom #lex luthor #mechagodzilla #dc comics #dc spoilers #dc elseworlds #monsterverse #crossover #matt reads a thing #i posted this

[cookinguptales]

what the fuck

all this time I genuinely thought that godzilla was a girl

like she'd been assumed to be male but at some point early in the franchise was revealed to actually be female

so like 1. how did I osmose this so badly and 2. why do I feel so deprived of something that never existed in a series that I never watched??

I wanted to support women's wrongs!!

#i mean I read some scholarly works on godzilla from a japanese history standpoint but like #I've never actually seen one of the movies lmao

[booksandwords]

Raise Up, Heart by Leta Blake

Read Time: 4 Days (Intermittent) Rating: 4/5

The quote: Poe can speak to you of hearts: the ticking of them, the secrets within; he knows their ferocious strength. Poe understands. Hearts can’t be tucked beneath the floorboard of a house. They will not rest there, complicit and quiet. He knows they are stronger than that, louder, greedier— vengeful. He knows that a heart can come back for you, take you over, take you apart. It only has to beat. Ba-boom. Ba-boom. And within that sound there is infinity, and within infinity there resides the untold and unspeakable. These stories of Poe’s, you’ll never believe them, though they may chill you through. Yet they are true all the same. True like a darling heart is true blue. — Alex

Warnings: death, murder (???)

Raise up, Heart is a story with gothic themes, some might say ideal for the 👻spoopy season🎃. In the gothic tradition, there is a dark romance involved. In this case, the relationship involves Cole Hart, Damon Black and Alex, though there are only two bodies involved. It is a decidedly strange, intriguing and at times disturbing novella. I wanted to like it much more than I did, unfortunately. What keeps it from being three stars is the way Leta Blake writes. She draws the reader into her world and characters bringing them to life.

The whole story takes place over only a week, the exception being the prologue set two years before the main plot. It is written in two perspectives, Cole's and Damon's. Cole is written in the third person and Damon (also Alex) is written in the second person. It's rare to see the second person used at all, but it does work well in this context, it drags the reader in and makes them wonder the extent of the truth. Damon is the character that Leta Blake wants the reader to attempt to empathise with, using the language is the best way to force the reader to try that.

While the second person didn't work for creating empathy for Damon for me it definitely did for Alex. While I say the relationship essentially involves three people, Alex is dead, more than dead just gone, his soul and spirit consumed by Damon, by the force of Damon and Cole's love. I wanted to cry for Alex. I was reading this on the train on a commute. I skipped the smut that was happening around the same time but read intently the Alex moments. It was a struggle to weep. His voice destroyed me. "The fourth journal is very short. Only about twelve pages, and then there are five pages with two words written over and over. Help Me Help Me Help Me Help Me Help Me There’s no punctuation; each plea is scrawled any which way across the page, sometimes overlapping with others. Cole knows that it wasn’t written as a chant but as an intermittent plea in the midst of a sea of great pain and horror." (Cole and Alex) But that is the sign of good writing, something Leta Blake does.

I liked Cole well enough he had a sort of innocence about him that leads to him developing a backbone throughout the story. Cole has a past and secrets and I like the slow reveal of his background. His desperation for Damon makes sense and I don't dislike it. But he seems to lose a part of himself to Damon, potentially not knowingly. Cole and Damon's chemistry was explosive and executed in a way that makes it feel like a gut punch at times when they both remember the cost. I did not like Damon. I understand the point of him, I see why we are supposed to like him but I don't. His is supposed to be a love that even death couldn't kill but he just comes across as wrong, broken. Like Leta has written a monster but without the consequences of that. Some of his actions are just... wait, what, no.

My wish for this book is that it had been less smut and more conversation or angst. I just couldn't deal with Cole and Damon jumping into bed that fast and that consistently. I struggle with it because they almost use it to put off the requisite conversations and pressing issues. This could have something to do with my personal reading preferences too, I have always preferred plot or character-driven stories rather than smut. The balance here just feels off. I think I'd even have been a be happier if this ended without a HEA or HFN, not a cliffhanger just a moment of reason. I like Frankenstein for that ending, that doesn't give you that, it feels more final. I know this is mm romance and we don't go there as a rule. But you know a girl can dream.

I did read this in three sittings, over two days, with a gap in the middle for a library book on ghosts. One thing I will add, this is one of Leta's favourite works (or it was when she wrote it). I get the feeling this was a true passion piece for her. It just didn't work for me. Ugh this review is a total mess but whatever. Sorry Leta

Read for @godzilla-reads​ Simple Reading Challenge. Filling the October prompt: "Halloween/Samhain Book!! or Spoooooooky Poetry"

I wasn't going to use Rise Up, Heart for this then I read it. Let me add the last paragraph from the blurb... "Rise Up, Heart, is a stand-alone, second chance gay romance, inspired by the famous gothic, short stories of yore. With head nods to Edgar Allen Poe and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Rise Up, Heart, is dark, epic, consuming, and dreamlike." If that doesn't sound like Halloween what does? It's haunting and dark and a perfect ode to two of the greats of gothic literature.

#ktreviews #godzilla-reads #book review #read 2022 #holiday reads #halloween reads #raise up heart #free reads #leta blake #tw death #tw murder #booklr

[godzilla-reads]

Being nonbinary I sometimes feel like I’m not “trans enough” or I don’t look “androgynous enough”.

I’m constantly struggling with my identity, but I just wanna say I am not cis, so Happy Trans Day of Visibility.

I am here and I exist.

#godzilla reads #trans day of visibility #personal #nonbinary #tdov