#Monkey Typhoon

[the-monkey-ruler]

Monkey Typhoon (2001) アソボット戦記五九

Director: Mamoru Hamazu / Osamu Sekida / Ittoku Tanahashi / Kyousuke Mihara / Takenori Mihara / Yoshiaki Okumura / Shunji Yoshida / Kazuo Nogami / Yoshito Qin / Hiroshi Haraguchi / Akihiko Nishiyama / Yuki Kinoshita Screenwriter: Shinobu Shinobu / Hashimoto Yushi / Nakaze Rika / Urasawa Yoshio / Kobe Kazuhiko / Shizuya Isao Starring: Kappei Yamaguchi / Tomoichi Seki / Masaki Iizuka / Takeharu Kunimoto / Nozomi Sasaki / Minami Takayama / Atsuko Enomoto / Shinichiro Miki Genre: Comedy / Science Fiction / Animation / Adventure Official website: http://mv.avex.jp/asobot/asobot.html Country/Region of Production: Japan Language: Japanese Date: 2002-10-01 Number of seasons: 1 Number of episodes: 52 Single episode length: 23 minutes Also known as: Association Robot Goku / Asobotto Senki Goku / Five-Nine Wars / Aboto Senki Five-Nine / Monkey King Five-Nine / Journey to the West / Assobot战记五九 / 五九战记 / 阿波特战记五九 / 猴王五九 / 西游战记 IMDb: tt5916944 Type: Reimanging

Summary:

On December 31, 2052, in order to prevent the scientist Ryutaro from destroying the world, Xuanzang Jiuzou asked his son Xuanzang Sanzang to select some robots from 99 robots numbered 1-99. Sanzang finally selected five robots: Gokyuu, Tongoh, Jou, Suuji, and Mioto. On January 1, 2053, Ryutaro modified the program of supercomputer Eve and began to destroy the world. In order to protect Sanzang, Zero, the first generation robot manufactured by Jiuzao, was destroyed along with the robots Soichi Fujimura and Souka Fujimura created by Ryutaro. Robot Tai is Wujiu's opponent on the surface, but in fact he is protecting Wujiu and his group. In order to restore the supercomputer Eve's program to its original appearance and return to December 31, 2052 to stop Ryutaro, they must find 49 parts to save the world. Head east! For Abbot (a life form of opportunity) to coexist with humans...

One thousand years in the future, the world has lost its balance. All the giant trees up to 10,000 meters high have been cut down by humans as obstacles. The entire world has turned into a desert. Only humans and Abbot are left in this world that is heading for destruction. As if guided by fate, Sanzang and Gokyuu meet. Traveling together, Sanzou - a young man shrouded in mystery, Gokyuu - the strongest and worst Anbot around, Tongoh - an Anbot fond of drinking, Jou - someone who is great with machines, Suuji - a female Anbot thief, and last but not least, Mioto. And so, their journey begins to the boundless East, to the land where the sun was born!

Source: https://myanimelist.net/anime/3193/Asobot_Senki_Gokuu

Link: https://gogoanime.be/anime/monkey-typhoon-xDRN/

[dengekiboys]

Asobot Senki Gokuu / Monkey Typhoon episode 49

[best-female-villain-tournament]

A villain is someone who is evil and has ill intent

most villains are antagonists but not all antagonists are villains

[dez-ku]

"But it's raining in manila 🎶" 🏊‍♂️🍑📱🪷

Btw, Typhoon Carina hit the Philippines and Filipinos got their house/city get flooded.

I only made this for jokes bc of how Filipinos make some situations fun and lighthearted for everyone despite it being something serious.

/reference photo

[newkatzkafe2023]

Monkey King and Pucca Reader but genderbend?

Either they're already together or they meet for the first time and Monkey Queen thinks he's a normal dude until she sees how crazy powerful he is and is just like "...Hey, you wanna get married?"

MEET THE GOD EATER😈😈😈

(LMK Wukong) You are the apple of each other's eyes. You met her during the journey of the west, and she was head over heels in love. Years later, you both meet Mk and learn that the girl was her successor, and you congratulated her with a smile and peace sigh. During the training is when Her, Mk and the rest noticed you abilities for example, Mk was working on strength, and she threw a Boulder for Mk to catch, Unfortunately, she totally missed and it was heading for you. Both of them tried to get your attention, but the second was the Boulder, which landed on your head, and it turned into a pile of rubble. The crazy part was that you were so unbothered by it that you didn't even look up from your phone. Which caused both females to pale and faint, then their was the time Macaque stole mk's powers and you were so angry you yanked the staff off of Mk and beat Macaque's ass so bad Wukong and Mk wondered if she was still alive😨. There was also the fight with the spider king went to save our friends and wife, and beat up Huntress and Galiath with you bare hands, and I'm pretty sure you scarred Stacy (fem syntax) for her short life😰 it shocked everyone and scarying the spiders into surrendering. Then their was the fight with lord bone demon Your demon form was in the form of a typhoon as you and Mk defeated her and Everybody so over in shock when all you had to do with to break Wukong out of lord bone demon's control was to kiss her🤣😘. Then, finally, when Mk's monkey form was unlocked in the final fight with Azure, you stood next to her, showing that you too had a monkey form and had every natural disaster surrounding you. You are just full of surprises, and Wukong does not know how to feel about you anymore, Like what other surprises do you have for her and the world?🤯

(HIB Wukong) You're the father figure of Luier and Silly Boy. When HUN Dun attacked your home, you had sent Luier and Silly boy away to go find the monkey queen Then you went to fight off Hun Dun and hold him off until the kids escape, which is why Luier was urgent to find Wukong to save us and her village. Luckily, you were quick to reuite with them and that when you and Wukong met each other for the first time. You thought she was the cutest thing and blew kisses at her, making her blush and roll her eyes at your antics. She time and time again got bamboozled by our strength and abilities such as breaking hills and mountains, running on water so fast we spilled it in half as we chased a dragon that grabbed silly boy, Then jumped high in the air, landing a punch of the dragon so hard that that flying lizard was headless, and you grabbed Silly boy and landed on the ground, leaving a giant crater. Wukong and pigsy's jaws fell so hard on the floor that you would think it was dislocated. The final straw was when you both saw Luier fall off the mountain and shattering your heart in a billion pieces, you yourself jumped off the mountain driving the final nail in the coffin and Wukong got her powers back. Then began fighting Hun Dun, and soon the two of them were joined by you, in your demon God form and floating in the eye of the hurricane as you held Luier and Silly boy. We left the kids with pigsy and joined Wukong in the ass beating you both delivered to Hun Dun together. In the end, in silence, Wukong asks you if you wanna be together with a blush. You immediately showed her the peach engagement ring you got for her the second you two met.

(MKR Wukong) Well, it was love at first fight for the both of you. You loved her immediately, and she was left in a daze. She was in a state of shock. How a big buff male demon slaughtered a group of demons that attacked her. You turned to smile at her as you punched a demon away without breaking eye contact. You were quick to join their journey, and you showed some unusual abilities. How you would left tons of heavy boulders and punching mountains breaking through them. Wukong felt herself get excited whenever you displayed a surprising amount of strength. She would purr and blush quietly, and then when fruity came around, you immediately took fruity in and treated her like your child/daughter. Wukong felt her heart and body burn when you displayed fatherly traits, then at the end against the demon king and his army you joined her and your demon form in the middle of a tornado and used her staff to fight the demon king along with Wukong. In the end, when master tang was back, Wukong looked desperately for you and saw that you were under a peach tree holding a sleeping fruity using your god powers to not only amplify her powers but kelp her from dying. Wukong teard up and ran to you, begging you to be her husband. You smiled at her before giggling out

You are my wife already😁🥰

(NR Wukong) She instantly purred at you when you two met years ago. You both spent time getting to know each other, and soon, you both were making out. She met us during that stupid journey that made her go on, and she found you looking sad in your home village when Wukong noticed you, and she made moves on you. What surprised her was how you purred and chirped into her neck, and soon, the relationship began. Years later, Li finds out that she's Nezha's recarnation and is learning how to handle it, but of course, things were getting crazy which leads you to helping Li and your wife. During the final battle, you ran across the water so fast you made a split in as you were fearful of the safety of your little family, especially when you learned the dragon gang kidnapped her. Everyone in the city saw how you turned into your demon god form with a tsunami happening behind you and joined Li in the final battle against the dragon king. Li even told her that when she accepted his identity, she saw how we whispered to Nezha as you bumped heads with Nezha as we said goodbye to her.

Wukong had realized that 500+ years of marriage and she didn't know a damn thing about you 😦😦😦

(Netflix Wukong) She didn't think much of you at all. Then again, she doesn't think too much of anyone she barely pays attention to Lin. You immediately had a crush on her and would follow her around like Lin would. We followed her when she went to fight 100-1000 demons, their was an ambush on her, and you quickly stepped in, and you and Wukong fought against the demons. Then she got into a fight with the dragon queen, and she saw how we punched through mountains during the battle as we go and rescue the village people. You can imagine how surprised she was when she was in her kaiju form when she was fighting both heaven and dragon queen was when you appeared behind her in your Storm god kaiju form and it was bigger and taller then hers. You got pissed at heaven for mistreating her, and together, you crushed the dragon queen like a bug and leveled the celestial realm for their transgression. In the end, you both shrunk down as Wukong finally kissed you and made sure you took the immortal Elixir as you joined her under the mountain. (Ps you ejected the elixir into Lin's bloodstream because A he is basically your son and B Well you wanted your cubs to have a big Brother😉)

FEEL FREE TO REBLOG😘

[starshower1215]

Post-War Levihan Idea [No. 4]

TW: Suicidal thoughts, gaslighting (self-gaslighting)

Levi didn't look when Hange left. He wouldn't meet their eyes, he just touched his fist to their heart and gave them his forgiveness for leaving. He never quite said farewell, not to them, at least, nor did he see what it was that his squad was crying about as the plane took off. Eyes downcast, he said only this: "So long, Hange. Watch over us."

Levihan lenses on. Let's investigate, shall we? Levi doesn't know how Hange died. He never saw them fight, never saw them burn, he has no idea of their last words. In the depths of his wildest nightmares, Hange dies over and over and over. In thousands of ways. Crushed beneath the feet of the titans, knocked into the ocean where they drowned, shredded to bits by their hands, roasted and charred alive as they had been. Had they cried? Had they felt alone in that last flicker of life? Had they smiled, or had they screamed? What had his squad seen, for them to be reacting like that? Levi jolts awake every morning, brittle and half-crumbling beneath the weight of the responses that his mind provides.

But then again, Levi has no clue how Hange died. He didn't see their wounds, didn't watch the light flicker from their eyes. He didn't see the pain. Their last moments in his mind? Unconfirmed. And how does Captain Levi Ackerman document soldiers who are unconfirmed to be alive or dead?

Missing in action.

So Levi is wheelchair-bound, broken, exhausted, falling apart, and alone save for this single soul who went missing. Well, what was it again that everyone kept telling him? Armin, Mikasa, Jean, Connie. Even Onyankapon, now. Oh, yes: "You've done enough to help us, Captain. Rest now, and live for yourself."

So he does. And he chooses to spend his life searching for his lost friend, his Hange.

In the initial idea, Levi was hallucinating once again (this account has been over his hallucinations, but it's not done yet). He's sad and depressed and has nothing to live for anymore, so his Monkey Brain has to design something to keep him going.

He lays in bed some nights, unable to fall asleep, even after Falco came by and made him tea. Even after Onyankapon embarrassed them both by trying to set him to sleep with a story. Even after Gabi sang, albeit terribly, to try to soothe him. He just pretends at that point, afraid to be a burden, until they go away and his eyes pop right back open. The thoughts run rampant, then, when his mind conjures up the ghosts of his loved ones, their bloodied and bruises corpses staring back with empty eyes.

"Wouldn't it be better if I just died, right here? Nobody would have to come by anymore, or see me in this pathetic state, pushing myself in a wheelchair because I can't stand for even a half hour. I wouldn't have to wake up anymore, go to physical therapy, try to feel happy when there's nothing for me to be happy about. We made it to the end, didn't we? Why can't I rest?"

"Why would you rest?" He sees for the first time that Hange isn't there. The voice is a hush in his ear, but still it overtakes the volume of his thoughts. "Hange is missing from you. Where is Hange, Levi?"

He stiffens. "Hange is gone."

"Gone where?"

"Gone..." Levi is baffled into a scowl. He really, really doesn't want to think about that. He doesn't want to cry himself to sleep. "Just gone. Shut up and let me sleep."

But he swears he hears their voice, low and deep in the air. "I haven't been gone that long, clean freak. Don't you remember me?"

Levi jolts, wide awake.

Where is it coming from? The curtains billow, as though disturbed by the sky's cold breath, yet he feels no breeze. Hange's voice comes again. "What have I been trying to teach you this whole time?"

Lightning flashes outside his balcony, then the night is invading. Pressing into his bedroom from every crack in the walls, from the balcony, the slit beneath the door, rushing in like water. It's a typhoon of indigo, speckled with light, and it twists and whirls until it's sunken into the shapes and curves of Hange's body.

He's been here before. "The paths," Levi and Hange both say.

Hange grins. "I didn't know how else to find you."

"But you found me." Levi blinks several times, shakes his head like a dog, but they're there. Hidden in a cloak of night, but they're there. He feels his eyes welling up and he swipes at them quickly. He wants to see.

"I don't think I can stay for long." Their voice reverbrates in the cavern of the bedroom. "But we'll see each other again, won't we? You'll come find me. You always do."

"That's not possible. You're gone."

Hange's gaze softens. "I'm right here, Levi."

A tear slips down his cheek. He can't believe they're making him say it out loud, and he hates how helpless it makes him sound. How small he feels when it's out in the open. "You're gone."

Hange regards him, quiet for once. "You don't believe that. I refuse to believe that I didn't rub off on you. You have more hope than that, Levi. Even in this hopeless world." Their fingers brush his, and he's shocked by the flush of warmth their touch brings. "I know it. I came all this way to find you, didn't I?

"The least you could do is find me, too."

Levi jolts, wide awake.

He stares at his ceiling in a cold sweat. He feels as though he's being torn in two directions. On one hand, Hange was gone. They had to be gone. He'd gone through all this pain, knowing they were gone. To delve back into the past was to undo all he'd fought for since they'd left.

But what if they weren't gone? What if they really were out there, broken bodied and half-alive, but alive? It was difficult to think about either way, but could there be a possibility?

Levi recalls their voice, their touch, their reminder. He turns over his thoughts in his mind one last time, then pulls himself out of bed. He can't stay for long, after all.

Hange is waiting.

-----

At some point, I transitioned into fictional writing. Hopefully that made sense. Anyway:

So, deep down, he knows himself well enough to trick himself. He's always been a hero. He can get up if it means he'll be someone's hero, because Captain Levi is Captain Levi, and who is Levi, if not the person who feeds others when he's still hungry himself?

And to be Hange's hero, when they've saved him so much? When they came to him, warm as a hearth and inviting as a home, like no one ever had before? It isn't even up for discussion. He'll do it.

After all, what did he dedicate his heart to?

End Note: I think in some languages, the verb "to miss" is kind of translated directly like "You are missing from me." The source was likely a delusion, but that in mind, this may just be Levi missing Hange to a big, big extent.

[count-alucard-tepes]

Headcanons for my OP hotties: what are they doing during mild typhoon season🌀

He’s just chilling and relaxing at home as it passes by:

Akainu🌋: he’s trying to also get a hold of Ryokugyu to come and save his plants🤣🤣🤣

Kizaru ✨

Sir Crocodile 🐊

Fujitora 🐅

Benn Beckman 🔫

Katakuri Charlotte 🍡

Killer🔪

King 👑

Queen👑

Izou🔫🔫

Oven Charlotte 🍞

Buggy🤡

Marco the Phoenix 🦅

Who’s-Who ❤️‍🔥👹

Gecko Moria🦇

Iceburg💜

Gild Tesoro⚜️🏅

Rob Lucci🐆

Karasu🐦‍⬛

Koby🦸💘

Douglas Bullet🚅

Meanwhile everyone else😂😂😂:

Ryokugyu 🌱

Dragon D Monkey 🐉🐒

Doflamingo Donquixote 🦩

Rosinantè Donquixote aka Cora-San💕

Kaido🐉

Eustass Kidd🤘🎸

[incorrectjttw]

Question for all pilgrims (Bai Log Ma, Bajie, Wujing, Wukong, Tripitaka) + Six-Eared Monkey.

How was the "talk"? How did they tell you or how did you discover the origin of the babies?

Tripitaka, why did you want to listen to Bajie's talk? 🤨

Tripitaka: Well, when I was an acolyte, there was this older monk, who was a total creep. Once I found some yellow literature he'd smuggled in from outside, and got really confused. So I showed it to the abbot. I've never seen him so angry ... anyway, he kicked the creep out, explained to me why those smut books were bad and burned them in the next fireplace. I think I was nine at the time? At least I was very young. And then during the Journey, there were all the instances of sexual harassment. Not to mention that scorpion demoness, who ... I'm sorry, I don't want to talk about it.

Tripitaka: As for Bajie's "talk", I was simply waiting for him to get roasted by his brothers. That's what he gets for being lewd.

Sun Wukong: I got the birds and the bees talk from one of the elderly monkeys in my troop, when I was freshly hatched. It blew my mind, that normal monkeys don't hatch from stone eggs.

Bai Long Ma: Ugh, the talk. Moang gave it to me, when I was in my dragon teens. Really had me question life itself. -_-

Zhu Bajie: Oh, to be honest I don't remember when or how I found out how babies are made! I just remember that after I got my first taste of the process, I wanted more. ;)

Sha Wujing: Before I became immortal and a Celestial, I was a mortal man with wife and children, but they died during a typhoon. I think my wife taught me how sex works? I'm not sure, it was so long ago ...

Liu'er Mihou: *suddenly has a thousand-yard-stare*

Tripitaka: *sighs* Let me answer this for him: before he joined us in our pilgrimage, Wuhuan had gotten a whole lot of ... involuntary practical lessons, so to speak. Even today he has days, when he lets no one come close, except for maybe me and his sworn sisters.

[defectivealtruist]

exciting day in japan!

caught the shinkansen to kyoto first thing, after getting about an hour of sleep thanks to the snoring gentleman in the adjacent capsule

tried to visit the monkey park, but it was closed due to weather. an ominous sign of things to come

instead went to the deer park in nara:

on the way back, i changed trains here

a second ominous sign. not sure if taking pictures was really appropriate. perhaps i angered his spirit.

when i returned to kyoto i realised two things:

my phone battery was in single digits

all the shinkansen trains that afternoon were cancelled/delayed by >7 hours, due to a typhoon

which means i am not going to be able to catch my plane! which leaves about ~3 hours from time of writing! exciting!

[sagurus]

for playlist prompt,, hmmm, you are standing in a church which you have just set on fire. but not like in a satanic or evil way, you just accidentally set fire to a church and everything is feeling aw hell at the moment. It's like a metaphor, you've ruined everything disastrously by accident and you can't even pray for your sins because the Gods are surely angry at you for burning the church. So you just have to sit there, melancholic, head empty. Everything is bad

this is in response to a playlist prompt post

title: you really did it this time, huh? - spotify link

each song has a youtube link, if you don’t use spotify

where is my mind - safari riot, grayson sanders not havin' a blast - demi the daredevil nightmares & flare guns - seb adams liar - the arcadian wild dance little liar - arctic monkeys hunger and thirst - typhoon santa fe (acoustic) - autoheart what am i becoming? - pop etc achilles come down - game of youths (cw for suicidal ideation in this one)

and a fun fact about this one: majority of the songs came from my Kaito playlist.

[theultrablog]

Starting now: PULP STORYTIME!

I’ve been running one of the best games of my life over the last few years. I’ve been writing them up over at SA, but that site is gated and I wanted to share those stories with a larger audience. I’m gonna be posting some tales of pulp adventure from my table, weekly. Enjoy!

The Park-North Snipe Hunt!

“You don’t have a piece,” laughed the gangster, “and now you won’t see your 14th birthday.” “Bang,” said Devika, pointing a finger gun. Kulfi obliged from a block away. The mook wouldn’t see the sunrise. In this game, we play a collection of pulp gentlemen thieves, grabbing & nabbing in 1930s New York. And an errant detail changed the course of the entire session. The session started with us trying to steal the Doomsday Clock, a pastiche of the Antikythera mechanism. Someone beat us to the punch, forcing us to investigate…which led us to the local Syndicate. While looting a safe in a mafia speakeasy, I decided to forge a note, taking credit, signed “the Gray Gargoyle”. Who’s that? Well, it’s a costumed adventurer who smashes crime, especially art crime! Total ass-pull, but it fit the setting. We didn’t think much more about it, until our adventures led us to an upstate airfield, where mafiosos were trying to smuggle the Clock out of the country. I spent a fate point to declare that they were already being stopped… by the Gray Gargoyle! Yes, he dove off the air control tower and with his Gliding Cape, intercepted the plane! We rescued him from airfield security, but we had a plan. Since we were gentlemen, it wouldn’t make sense to just kill the guy and take the artifact. After all, that’s not thievery, that’s mugging. So we engineered a plan where we gathered the mob boss who was after the artifact, killed him with a sniper rifle, and escaped in the confusion. Unfortunately, the Gargoyle didn’t take the bait and get himself killed in the fracas, instead watching our escape from the valet stand.

Running the circus from the monkey cage!

The campaign continues, with a rotating GM. This week and last, we were joined by Evelyn St. Cloud, insecure Circus Aerialist*. This week was a flashback featuring her and mystic orphan Devika Velyapur, trying to pull some scams at the Hagenbeck–Wallace circus. And while we prevented an accident, saved the circus and altered history, most notable were three things: —Evelyn only agreeing to help prevent a train crash because of Devika goading her, targeting her aspect “Anything you can do…”. —In order to chase the villain, we convinced the circus strongman to bend the frames of two penny farthings together to create an ersatz duo bicycle. —We discovered the villain of the adventure, Mabel Smith Douglass, was someone we met last week. And since this was a flashback, that limited our options. Highwire-walker Evie jumped onto the plane. But while she couldn’t open the door, all she could do was force a landing. And without a suitable escape route, there was no way to convince airport officials that the villain had stolen property. So after some fisticuffs, we swore revenge on someone who died at the end of last session. *There was a brief cameo by Smuggler ‘Typhoon’ Mike McGinty, but he had to leave after the first hour. He discovered a tiger sleeping on his boat and used his connections to try and sell it to a buyer in Canada.

For reference, Devika, Lord Simon, and Javid, our initial trio:

[dengekiboys]

Asobot Senki Gokuu / Monkey Typhoon episode 43

[austin-in-taiwan]

June 23 - Tapei -> Yilan - Air raid drill, Clog museum, Boba, Hotel hot spring

Today was our last morning in Taipei. I woke up and wrote my independent excursion reflection at a nearby Starbucks. Afterward, I still had plenty of time, so I met up with some of the guys on the trip and got some scallion pancakes with egg and some pork buns from nearby restaurants, which were absolutely delicious. Then, there wasn’t much time till we departed from the hotel.

Once on the bus and onto the freeway, we soon received notifications about the air raid drill. The drill happens once a year, and unless you are on the highway (which we were), you are required by law to stop and follow police instructions (either stay in place or go to the nearby shelter). Unfortunately, we didn’t hear any sirens or see anything besides the notifications on our phones. Our tour guide, Peter, sent us this article if you want to read more about it: https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202407210012.

Once in Yilan, we stopped at a wooden clog museum. This museum was fun. First, we tried a massage clog, which was just a clog with large wooden grooves where your foot goes. It really wasn’t comfortable. Then we tried clogs inclined upwards so your toes point to the sky. These were for stretching your calves, so we put those on and followed a stretching routine by the guide. Finally, we designed our own leather clog keychain! I put a monkey on mine because that’s my Chinese zodiac and my initials (see picture below).

Next, we went to Kili Bay and made our own Pearl Milk Tea. First, we dipped the tea bag in hot water 80 times, mixed in the cream powder, shook it with ice, mixed in the syrup, and finally poured it over the boba tapioca bubbles. It was delicious, and we even got to keep the cool glass mugs. At the gift shop, I bought some Taiwanese milk tea packets and instant tapioca so my family can try them at home!

Finally, we went to the hotel and checked in. This hotel was a spa hotel, and they had hot springs in the back. There were cold springs (60 degrees Fahrenheit) that were like ice baths, some hot springs that went up to 110 degrees, and even a sauna. It was super relaxing and a great break.

Tomorrow, a typhoon will hit, and our activities have been canceled. We went to 711, grabbed a few instant ramen and water, and will be ready to eat during the typhoon!

Academic Reflection

As many people know, boba tea is one of the most famous products invented in and exported from Taiwan. Today, we made the milk tea and added it to the tapioca pearls, which was a fantastic experience. The readings, however, have made me appreciate that experience more. Boba tea isn’t as old as I thought, as it was first made four decades ago in one of two tea houses (Chun Shui Tang in the central city of Taichung or Hanlin Tea Room in southern Tainan). They both believe that they were the ones who invented it in 1986. Learning how it is made was exciting and made me appreciate it. The pearls are made from starches, brown sugar, and water. When rolled together and boiled, that’s what makes them gummy, chewy, and glossy. Overall, learning about the invention of the famous milk tea, how the tapioca is made, and experiencing the tea itself made me appreciate it much more.

One other super exciting thing I learned today wasn’t from any activities but from traveling from Taipei to Yilan. There were tons of tunnel systems through the mountains that we went through on our bus ride. During the travel, we were taught that building that tunnel freeway system took about 2.8 billion dollars. It was complicated to build with the amount of volcanic activity and water pockets. Apparently, a giant tunnel drill is still underwater in the mountain. Overall, the building of that system made a 2.5-hour drive around the mountains into a 45-minute drive from Taipei to Yilan. I find it interesting how critical highways are and how challenging and expensive building them can be.

[elijahhendley]

7月29號 Day 18: Breakfast and the Black Sand Beach

So today was a free day. After going to bed around 2:45, I planned to wake up early for breakfast, but both me and Jack, my new roommate for this hotel, woke up around 10am. Missing breakfast was so sad. But then, all the guys, minus Andy, met downstairs and we decided we were going to hike monkey mountain, which is the trail Yeh Laoshi recommended to us. While on the way, we realized that we missed our bus and the next bus wouldn’t come until 18 minutes later. So we decided to go find our favorite breakfast item, SCALLION PANCAKES. We found a nearby store and I was able to use my chinese to order us all scallion pancakes with some extra spice of course. So we sat down, checked the weather and saw that it was going to rain around 3pm. So we decided it was best to cancel our monkey mountain plans and instead, go to the beach! After walking in the brutal and humid heat, we made it to the MRT to take us to a ferry. Lo and behold, the first ferry dock we went to was closed, so we had to walk to another one that was fairly close by. About a 10 minute walk. The ferry was pretty cool. People could just drive their motorcycles and scooters straight from the road directly onto the ferry. It was like a fast and furious movie watching all of those scooters exit the ferry. But we made it to Cinjin beach after a short ferry ride and to all of our surprise, it was DIRTY! I think it might have been due to the typhoon washing up some trash. But it was still crazy to see such a dirty beach when Taiwan is one of the cleanest countries in the world. The sand on the beach is also black. It was really cool because it was my first time seeing a dark sand beach. It felt softer and a little more grainy than a normal beach, but maybe that is subjective. The water of the south china sea was very nice and soothing. In the sand, Austin wrote “GO GATORS/UF” and then Jack was whistled to get out of the water. The guy that blew the whistle was on an ATV and he ran over part of the “GO GATORS”. Very sad. Then we got back on the ferry and went back to the mainland to get some lunch. For lunch the 4 of us shared 68 cabbage and chive dumplings. They were good and we were all so full. Then we went back to the hotel and this is where I stayed for the rest of the day. Some people went to go see a movie and I went on a short 10 minute walk with the others that stayed behind. It was a pretty chill and relaxing day. I also burned the bottom of my feet on the sand pretty bad at the beach but It is fine now. We have free time in the morning tomorrow, so the plan is to hike the monkey mountain for real this time with most of the group.

Until next time, 再見！

[orphancookie69]

Nintendo Switch: DDLV-A Rift In Time...Part 1!

Where I thought this was going to be Update #6, it is taking a path all its own and happening at the same time as Update #6. Let's jump in.

Before the Update: So, there is a lot to unpack in just one image. Left to right. Left, you see the vitalys crystals found in the mines. Waterfalls and the almost antlantean rocks. I would love that snake as a pet. A sand land, Jafar was teased at the end and he does come Arabia. The castle from Aladdin is in the center. Shifting right you have Tangled house, with the main character from tangled below. You see wall-e's garden, but you also see Eve. I would love for wall-e to have his other half. You see the encanto house, not that I saw the movie or generally liked that-but that is a large family as far as I know. Maybe we get another family member? I almost forgot about Gaston, glad to see more characters from that story coming. He could look better. The staff tool looks original. I can't place the animal on the right. I can't place the boat but some have said it's Typhoon Lagoon, Tarzan, or Jungle Cruise. Maybe Mickey's ship? New realms means new flowers and seeds and foods. Also, THE MONKEY.

Welcome to Eternity Isle: So there is a lot to unpack here. First off, check your mailbox. There will be some intended and unintended goodies in there. This is somewhat story based, you will need to have completed a couple of missions (4 or so that show up more in the beginning of the game) that you need to be able to start your journey to Eternity Isle. You talk to Jafar via a holographic device. Merlin shows you how to get there. (I was so surprised when I saw it, the developers are being very smart in leaving so many future options open for this game)

Once you get there, You see mostly what we saw in the preview as a video. The first area is ancients landing. This is essentially another valley but its smaller (and called an isle). It functions not unlike your valley, but with different everything. Animals, fruits, trees, crystals, spices, etc. You do have a copy of your house there-which begs the question-should storage be inside your house to transfer to both areas better? You follow the story and most of what you need to know is explained as you go.

Characters can come and go to both locations. Mickey introduces a game you can play with villagers, seems chess like. I have not played this yet but plan to next time I jump on. You have Eve, Gaston, and Rapunzel on this side to meet and level up. You can house them here or in the valley. There is a restaurant from Remy to work on, stalls for goofy, and a shop for Scrooge.

I personally really like it so far. A lot of content now, and coming up, for the price. It is hard to imagine how much it cost behind the scenes to make this. Yes, at some point the company will profit-but if they do not, they go out of business-and if we want to play games we need the company around. Next update is in Spring of 2024, part 2-the spark of Imagination. What part of this do you love so far?

[disneyparktournament]

Here is the bracket:

Group 1 - The Frontier

Barnabas T Bullion (Big Thunder Mountain) vs Jason Chandler (Big Thunder Mountain)

Big Al (Country Bear Jamboree) vs Henry (Country Bear Jamboree)

Billy the Goat (Big Thunder Mountain) vs Rocky, Mother Lode, & Nugget (Big Grizzly Mountain)

Constance Hatchaway (Haunted Mansion) vs Melanie Ravenswood (Phantom Manor)

Hatbox Ghost (Haunted Mansion) vs Hitchhiking Ghosts (Haunted Mansion)

Ghost Host (Haunted Mansion) vs The Phantom (Phantom Manor)

Madame Leota (Haunted Mansion) vs Mayor (Phantom Manor)

Sun Bonnet Trio (Country Bear Jamboree) vs Swamp Boys (America Sings)

Group 2 - The Future

Cynthia Lair (Body Wars) vs Go Go Scientist (Spaceship Earth)

Dreamfinder (Journey into Imagination) vs Nigel Channing (Honey, I Shrunk the Audience)

Figment (Journey into Imagination) vs Kimballum Horriblus (World of Motion)

Grant Seeker (Dinosaur) vs John (Carousel of Progress)

Officer Zzzzyxxx (Star Tours) vs Sonny Eclipse (Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Cafe)

R-3X (Star Tours) vs Seeker’s Puppet (Dinosaur)

Robot Butler (Horizons) vs SMRT-1 (CommuniCore)

Timekeeper (Le Visionarium) vs Tom Morrow (Innoventions)

Group 3 - Adventure

Albert Awol (Jungle Cruise - Magic Kingdom) vs Nigel Greenwater (Jungle Cruise - Disneyland Park)

Albert Falls (Jungle Cruise) vs Merriweather Adam Pleasure (Adventurer’s Club)

Albert the Monkey (Mystic Manor) vs Prison Dog (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Alberta Falls (Jungle Cruise) vs Paco (Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Crystal Skull)

Fortune Red (New Orleans Square) vs Shrunken Ned (Adventureland)

Harrison Hightower III (Tower of Terror) vs Henry Mystic (Mystic Manor)

Mara (Indiana Jones Adventure) vs Q’arác (Roaring Rapids)

Mary Oceaneer (Disney Cruise Line) vs Redd (Pirates of the Caribbean)

Group 4 - Fantasy

Bill McKim (Test Track) vs Patrick (Soarin’)

Betty (Expedition Everest) vs Harold (Matterhorn Bobsleds)

Buzzy (Cranium Command) vs Chuuby (Runaway Railway)

Chandu (Sindbad’s Storybook Voyage) vs Small World Cactus (It’s a Small World)

George (Cinemagique) vs Sage of Time (Tapestry of Nations)

Ice Gator (Blizzard Beach) vs Lagoona Gator (Typhoon Lagoon)

Jose (Enchanted Tiki Room) vs Orange Bird (Sunshine Tree Terrace)

Monorail Voice (Monorail) vs Skyliner Voice (Skyliner)

(Characters are listed by the attraction they first appeared in)