The Konggodzuko Show

The animatronic Godzilla Cybot, constructed for 1984's The Return of Godzilla (aka Godzilla 1985).

Standing in front of the robot is actor Ken Tanaka, who played reporter Goro Maki in the film.

This comic is quite concerning to me.

It's framed as romantic. Aangsty.

I think it's anything but that.

Aang tries to pry an answer out of Katara about their kiss before the invasion. She avoids the topic, as she has done so before. Aang’s frustration produces a dangerous lava blast. Katara has to hide behind a pillar to avoid getting singed. Its dangerous. Its reckless. But Katara immediately redirects sympathy toward his fear of him being the one harmed.

Once again, it's Katara - despite nearly getting walloped - that reassures him. That she's 'fine'; even praising him. Her fright and the recklessness of what he did are barely acknowledged.

Now it's worth noting Aang doesn't deliberately try and hurt Katara, but its absolutely a point-blank showcase of Aang losing control and endangering Katara because he cannot consider her romantic boundaries.

Does he apologise? Yes. But in the end his actions are still framed as 'valid.'

fav character of all time. here's some """tribute""" art.

Attack her until she becomes your girlfriend

I'm afraid they'll become engineers and sign off on bridge designs that collapse - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become medical professionals who don't know what they're doing - and people will die.

in fact, the restaurant used the vegan identity and environmentalism as fuel for their marketing in quite cynical ways. at the same time they had a deal with Whole Foods (implicated in prison labor allegations btw) to source ingredients, meaning that there were transcontinentally shipped produce lol. for example we used frozen blueberries that were product of Chile. for a restaurant in the pacific northwest region in the united states of america. there are blueberry farms in oregon, washington, etc. But it’s cheaper to exploit south american farms than get local blueberries i guess. (which still by and large exploit the labor of migrant farmworkers from mexico and south and central america, but i digress)

There's an Australian game show called Hard Quiz where contestants pick an expert subject to be quizzed on. One of the contestants picked the Barbie movie as their expert subject, and for one of the questions which referred to the character of Midge, they used this picture as a reference.

I can kind of understand why because when I, at least, google "pregnant Barbie", it's the third image that pops up.

The source is a Today.com article that talks about discontinued Barbies. And if you use Google Lens to reverse image search the picture, the AI confidently explains that it's a Happy Family Midge doll.

However, as I am sure that you can see from the other pictures in the Google image results, that isn't what Happy Family Midge looked like at all. There were a couple of variations on Midge, one with the classic red hair and an AA variant, but none with blonde hair.

The much pictured blonde doll is a Judy, a completely different 11.5 inch fashion doll with no relation to Mattel.

There's even an article I can find from well before people clutched their pearls about Happy Family Midge talking about the problems with Judy and her having a baby.

But I will admit: Judy looks more like our mental picture of a Barbie than Midge does, so she does make for a good shorthand for "pregnant Barbie".