Sarah Last

Sarah Last is a writer and science teacher. Her blog Capes and Cool Scarves is a place for ramblings about heroes, stories about hereos, and hero-related accessories. She is on Twitter @sunglasspri.

Incarnation and Mediation: Ultraman and Humanity

Sarah Last July 17, 2022

A sort of kinship develops between Ultraman and humanity, adopted brothers and sisters, a community united by...

Ultraman and the Eucatastrophe

Sarah Last July 9, 2022

Part three of "Kaiju and the Problem of Evil"

Kaiju and The Problem of Evil: Sin, Suffering, & Imbalance and Tsuburaya’s Legacy

Sarah Last July 2, 2022

Conflicts and disasters in kaiju works from Tsuburaya happen when human beings start relating to the universe...

Kaiju and the Problem Of Evil Kaiju

Kaiju and the Problem Of Evil

Sarah Last June 26, 2022

I do believe there are some crucial connections between Tsuburaya’s work on Kaiju, Godzilla, the Ultraman franchise,...

Dark Matter in reply to North on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025almost twenty years after the Gazan withdrawal, I don’t think anyone can pretend the settlers aren’t…
Jaybird on Weekend Plans Post: Caffeine RitualsBack in 1997, William Topley went solo and came out with a really good album that nobody bought call…
Jaybird in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Dave has a thread! They’re trying to change the rules because I'm not currently breaking them. As we…
Jaybird in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025"Nut picking" Imagine, if you will, one of the Sunday shows in the US. This Week, maybe. Meet the Pr…
North in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Probably the worst part of Trumps inviterate idiocy is how well suited and situated the strongman st…
James K on Pope Francis Dead at 88As an outsider, both to Catholicism and to Christianity, what I found interesting about Francis was…
North in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Sure. And you can point at them and scream all you want. But they aren't in power, haven't been in p…
North in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Yes, and before the Vikings and their thralls settled it Iceland was empty. Those original settlers…
Dark Matter in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025I haven't been following the protests. However we need to be careful not to read too much into them.…
LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025Beijing calls out Trump's lie on the United States and China actively discussing tariffs. https://ww…