did the aliens from star wars just enjoy that band in the cantina playing the exact same fucking song over and over again or was it a situation like that diner with Whats New Pussycat on repeat
considering that han solo was in that cantina, I think we all know the answer
and then when i was about to request the song for the seventh time, my buddy chewbacca, genius that he is, stopped me and said “rrrRrrrghghghhHh”. and that is when the afternoon went from good to great.
“Come closer,” she said. “Let me see how you’ve grown.”
“I’ve been grown for some time,” said Kell.
She drew a nail down the arm of the throne. “Yet you do not fade.”
“Not yet,” he said, managing a guarded smile.
“Come to me,” she said again, holding out her hand. “Or I will come to you.”
Kell was not sure if it was a promise or a threat, but he had no choice regardless, and so he stepped forward into the serpent’s nest.
This was the first A Darker Shade of Magic fanart I wanted to do before the other one, but this one was hard!!! Astrid Dane (on the throne) is described as “She would have blended in with the rest of the room if it wasn’t for the black veins on her face and hands that made her stand out” And the room is described as all white stone that gave Kell a shiver as it reminded him of Ice and the cold, so I tried to keep the grey’s a little on the colder side. I hope you enjoy it!
I’m a dumb idiot who needed Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria to hit in the same month to realize Kaijus in Pacific Rim were a metaphor for climate change and hurricanes and, like, the movie isn’t even subtle about it
there’s a very long tradition in monster movies (and kaiju eiga if you wanna be specific) of monsters as allegory for natural disasters, pollution and climate change. Godzilla vs Hedorah is a really good example where the enemy is literally sentient pollution, and pacific rim does the same thing it did in taking widesweeping environmental issues and linking it DIRECTLY to the appearance of these monsters, both with the above examples and newt’s dialogue after he drifts with the kaiju brain and points out that climate change and co2 emissions means we practically terraformed our planet for these aliens to come BACK and take over. Monster movies are a LOT of different things and can be very silly and absurd but they can also be built around very serious and specific messages about the condition of our planet, and in many ways messages about human impact on the environment has been built into modern monster movies since the very beginning (looking at the impact the original ‘godzilla’ had on pop culture and monster movies the world over)(its also worth noting that this probably extends into many other monster films and franchises from many other countries that i havent seen)
I'd Much Rather Have a Dragon 