weltraumbesty has returned to first principles

no muss. no fuss. simple layout and nothing but the shit. for better or for worse. if you like what i'm doing here then please drop weltraumbesty a buck on ko-fi or tip weltraumbesty via neocities. barring that, please consider sharing whatever you enjoyed here with a like-minded strange person who may also find value in it. thank you. xox

~ weltraumbesty / krp

projects:

subtitling the showa daiei giant monster trilogy ⫽ an ongoing effort towards high quality bespoke translations for 1965's Giant Monster Gamera, 1966's Giant Monster Duel: Gamera vs. Barugon and 1967's Giant Monster Dogfight: Gamera vs. Gyaos.

media essays and reviews:

a eulogy for the last of the radical bigfoot fuckers ⫽ an essay about capturing bigfoot, a 2026 documentary about the 1967 patterson-gimlin film. published 31st of october 2026

so about those "horrors of spider island"… ⫽ a film review of one of the more infamous exploitation curiosities of the 1960s. published 10th of january 2026

a sorrowful swedish snowman: terror in the midnight sun ⫽ aliens land in lapland and a dubiously related yeti-monster walks around. a film review, published 20th of december 2025

toshio only draws turtles ⫽ an essay about outsider monsters, neurodiversity representation and the watershed 1965 kaiju film giant monster gamera. published 10th of october 2025

of birds and battleships ⫽ concerning my favorite film, "the giant claw", and originally written on the event of its 60th birthday. published 24th of september 2017

essays and nonfiction:

weltraumbesty is born again ⫽ an essay intended primarily for my family and friends about finding out i was autistic at nearly 41 years of age. published 5th of september 2025

where coast guard crews still take their leave quite listless in the sun… ⫽ an exploration of my plague-time mental health struggles masquerading as a 50th anniversary essay about the 1973 blue öyster cult album tyranny and mutation. published 11th of february 2023

fiction:

so long as i be fed ⫽ a brief horror about a man shipwrecked on a deserted island who is growing very, very hungry. published 7th of december 2023

old shit:

yesterday's portable future ⫽ an overview of the jvc 3020 ic, an adorable portable television set of the space age. published 11th of january 2025

a note on accessibility

i am endeavoring to make weltraumbesty as accessible as possible via screen readers and other alternative and accessible browsing methods. the redesigned layout utilizes html landmark elements (header, nav, main, footer, etc) across all pages. embedded images are limited, with rare exception, and all imagery now carries a more or less formalized alt text noting the type of image and offering a brief description of its content. i am working to make the nature of embedded links clearer, either through the link text itself or summary description of the same.

weltraumbesty is tested in lynx, the text-based web browser (lynx.invisible-island.net), and the open-source screen reader orca (orca.gnome.org). it remains a work in progress.

~ weltraumbesty / krp