kellymvrietran:

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) 

laurenftagnart:

Space Champion

(available as an art print at inprnt.com/gallery/lauren_ftagn/)

If you dig deep enough there’s an early version of this somewhere on this blog but idk man, so much art that features Hermann focuses a lot on him either being sad or else the angry second banana to Newt’s chaos. I love the character and felt like he deserved something appropriately iconographic and badass.

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thylaas:

pacific rim tropes + hermann gottlieb

television-for-dinner:

Hermann Gottlieb is the gay disabled action hero we deserve.

unlikelymilliner:

K-sci special with Hermann and Newton! (full view recommended)

soyonscruels:

okay so i haven’t really talked in detail yet about how what i’m most glad about with newt and hermann is what they entail w/r/t disability

hermann is very obviously disabled in the film, the first shot we see of him (it’s not actually the fight in the lift!! you can see him and newt arguing over a crate outside as the camera pans past them) he’s using his cane, and he maintains doing so throughout the film— when bad things happen, newt has to slow down a couple of times to let hermann catch up (which, btw, truly made me love him, because do you know how often people do that in real life to me, NOT MANY) like he is un-fucking-mistakeably disabled, and you know what? it matters, yeah, because when the world’s fucking ending he can’t run that fast, but it also doesn’t, because his worth in the shatterdome is predicated on the fact that he, like newt, is basically a weapon all by himself

and then novel canon cements newt as neuroatypical — ‘borderline manic personality’, so probably bipolar — so like, we’re talking about someone who would probably never be allowed to be a jaeger pilot, because speaking as someone who shares a brain with bipolar disorder, i would not want to mind-meld with someone and then operate heavy machinery. newt, like hermann, would not have worth in most action movies of this type. like, yeah, maybe they’d get to be comic relief and get to contribute some minor ~~~science thing~~~ of importance, but they wouldn’t be the focus. they wouldn’t be the motherfuckin’ heroes. 

BUT IN THIS FILM, THEY ARE. of course, they’re not the heroes alone, but they get to do this terrifying amazing glorious thing, this thing they’re not even trained for, and the information they gather at great personal and mental and emotional and physical cost SAVES THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE FROM EXTINCTION

also, they’re not punished for anything, and the moment where they come together to form a literal left brain/right brain organism is a lovely one. lots of films like this would take the TEACH THE NON-HEROES A LESSON!!! ARROGANCE IS BAD!!! but nooooope. actual scientist rockstars who mind-meld an alien and predict a double event with a chalkboard. they’re scared and physically small and ‘weak’ and they’re allowed to be all of these things, frightened and vulnerable and bleeding, and we aren’t supposed to respect them any less for having such human reactions, for having the reactions of the untrained in a war zone.

in this movie, a guy who walks with a cane and may well have done so since birth and a guy who clearly spends at least some of his time talking to himself at 3am while obsessively eating cereal and spinning through the emotional gamut like he’s a catherine wheel got to save the world, and you know what, other summer blockbusters try

geniusbee:

pixiepunch found Hermann a good shirt and we decided everyone should draw him in it wahooooo 

geniusbee:

My extremely last minute entry for Raleigh’s Wall! You know how much I love Mako and Hermann building robots together. This was probably their very first one - they got a little more complicated after that. 

pirategf:

_{hermann gottlieb moodboard}
numbers are as close as we get to the handwriting of god.

rationalisms:

the beautiful thing about hermann gottlieb is that he’s terribly wounded at his core (”politics, poetry, promises, those are lies–”) because he’s someone who has been beaten down by life over and over and over and he buried himself in this defence mechanism in which he pretends like he has abandoned faith and only trusts in rationality and tangible rules (”–numbers are the handwriting of g-d”) because their inevitability is so comforting to him

but of course he’s lying. not only to other people but also to himself. the very language he uses to talk about this betrays him already.

and that’s what makes his story work: that this man who by all accounts presents himself to everyone as someone who scoffs at irrationality and avoids the company of human beings as a protective measure is also the one person who would, against all logic, be ready to sacrifice his life and all rights to privacy to protect the people he loves and the world in general

it’s ironic because drifting is a promise in a sense, and the type he and newt attempted is probably the biggest one of its kind, and he doesn’t even hesitate when it comes to it. he’s ready to tear down every single wall he’s built up over the course of his life because he believes so deeply in the cause and in people in general and i love him so much i could cry