#The Journey to the West

[daintyspeedwalk-draws]

Sun Wukong

(done in Procreate!)

[ismaeldrawsthings]

The worst part of being fan of mythology stuff is that there's always a bunch of mfs that have a superiority complex because they read and prefer the ancient source better. It happened too when I was in the lmk fandom with jttw. And for some reason those mfs are always white

[m4el-1t0]

The Journey To The West is considered the foundation of Eastern literature and its western equivalent would be The Odyssey so then why is there no mpreg in The Odyssey

[starsfic]

Sun Wukong: Goodnight moon.

Sun Wukong: Goodnight tree.

Sun Wukong: Goodnight ghosts that only I can see.

Tripitaka: "What?"

Wukong, pulling out the staff: "Don't worry about it."

[natdafat]

So, we are all familiar with the story of the journey to the West, and how could we not know and recognise its most famous character, sun wukong

Okay, two things one im bloody numpty and secondly, the version of the story I had didn't have pictures. So before lego monkey kid came out and made it so whenever I think of jttw my brain thinks this

I had no idea what wukong properly looked like and well.. it wasn't till last year, did I think

'Huh, maybe wukong didn't look like a normal monkey'

That's right for nearly a decade whenever I pictured wukong in my head, weather if their fighting or goofing around. I pictured them looking like this. Just a regular rock monkey.

It made sense to me, okay

[violetsmokes]

LMK AU ~ The Journey to the East

I have no idea were to begin with this au but instead of Sun Wukong and Tripitaka and the Journey to the West it's about Macaque and Princess Iron Fan heading east. Why are they heading east? Well long story short after Wukong left Flower Fruit Mountain to join tjttw he was gone for a long time and after several years Macaque chases after Wukong and is pissed when he finds out about the fillet. He does try to kill Tripitaka but Wukong does stop his, after our monkie babies fight it out Macaque tries to get someone from heaven to remove the fillet but is told that they can't. But in the far East of China there is a temple with many magical artifacts including a scroll will an incantation that could remove the fillet. One problem, the artifacts are guarded by a ruthless demon king that doesn't like to share and rules with no mercy. So that explains Macaque is on this crazy road trip but why is PIF tagging along? Well at this moment PIF and DBK have met and fell in love but their families despise eachother in any effort to keep them apart PIF'S family gives DBK a list of impossible trials he must complete to marry PIF. Now you remember that temple of ancient artifacts, well apparently one of those artifacts once belonged to the Bull family but it was stolen and no member of the family was ever able to get it back. PIF task is the travel East, find the artifact, and bring it back.

I'm thinking about adding the Scorpion Queen but there is so much that happens here before and after the tjtte that by the end Macaque is referred to by to Monkey Queen and even Buddha is a litte scared of Sun Wukong and Macaque. Yes Buddha is still stronger but a fight between the three would cause more damage then it's worth. Tell me Tumblr, would you like to know more?

Part 2 https://at.tumblr.com/violetsmokes/lmk-au-tjttw-part-2/15wx3qds8w73

[violett-orwhatever]

Friendly reminder that in JTTW the Azure Lion fucking ate wukong

...also Peng is the sibling of BUDDHA'S GODMOTHER WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

[theblogoftimelines]

Just bought volumes 1-4

I'm going to start reading.

[mordenandmerry]

This is twice now that I’ve gotten really obsessed with a piece of classic literature and the tag is just filled with content of a modern adaptation that is a little loose with the source material. Please just give other gay classics nerds.

[abyssdotwav]

So after looking up images for a stupid Lego monkie kid joke I was going to make, I’ve learned that the entire show is based off of a 16th century Chinese novel called The Journey to the West, attributed to Wu Cheng’en

Like it’s very similar down to Sun Wukong and the Six-Eared Macaque being direct rips from the original text, the powers Sun Wukong (also called the Monkey King in the text) has, down to the number of polymorph transformations, Tang (or rather his ancestor) is incredibly similar, the white dragon-horse, and Pigsy. His name is actually Pigsy in the English translation and that’s the most surprising part to me.

And now I’m invested in that entire thing I will be looking for an unabridged English translation because I do not know chinese

I will never shut up about this

[laurasimonsdaughter]

What if Disney adapted Journey to the West?

There's no need! Overly Sarcastic Productions is giving me all the English-language Journey To The West my heart desires:

This is also literally my only exposure to this epic, so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I'd say that any adaptation of this would definitely have to be a series. There's just too much to squash it into a single movie and the episodic nature of the adventures is actually important to the development of the characters.

I've never managed to read the book myself, but I highly recommend this (ongoing) YouTube series summarising it with wonderful drawings and fun commentary <3

[mxgreentoons]

A small interaction of the two of them, on how they meet! Also some doodles when they brought chaos among heaven realm lol also some concept art of V Lee aka the Jade Warrior

[dreadful-arachnid]

Obviously, LMK’s myth varies from the original Journey to The West myth a little bit, for certain details and whatnot, but currently the only thing I can think ab is when Macaque impersonates Sun after Sun gets booted from Tripitaka’s crew and all that but it’s LMK Sun and Macaque. And after Tripitaka boots Sun and he’s just floating aimlessly he’s like “I seriously have no one. I can’t go back to my brothers, they hate me. I can’t go back to the mountain. I’m alone” and then when they visit the buddha to figure out who’s the real Sun Wukong, it takes Sun a minute to process that Macaque is impersonating him, and he gets all pissy. Because Macaque really couldn’t pick another time to get back at him? Had to kick him while he’s down? And that’s when Sun kills Macaque, as relative to the original myth.

[starsfic]

Sun Wukong: You often use humor to deflect trauma

Tang Monk: Thank you

Sun Wukong: I didn't say that was a good thing

Tang Monk: What I'm hearing is, you think I'm funny

Wukong: "You are cracking jokes. There's clearly something wrong."

Tang: "What does that mean?!"

Wukong: "YOU DON'T HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR! TRAUMA HUMOR IS MY THING!"

[avatarpabu97]

LMK Theory and speculation

Ok! I think I know how some parts of the season 4 special or season 5 or whatever we’re getting is going to go.

Since the scroll plates clearly came from the realm of darkness or the realm of the dead. The noodle gang will probably make a journey down their to get Wukong’s plate fixed.

Which’s means they’ll probably end up back in the scroll. Maybe it ends up being special trials for the Noodle gang and that’s how they get the special matching outfits.

This means we’re going to see one particular memory At least since they based a set off of it.

The Dragon of East Palace

If the noodle gang end up being separated and they all get the golden weapons and save Wukong via trials of the scroll. MK’s trial maybe set in where Wukong got the staff. Which was originally a pillar that held up a river in the OG novel.

The box set even depicts Wukong mischief and his tea time with Ao Guang.

My guess this is where MK either restores the Monkey King or has to prove his worth for the trials. Or he ends up just observing the events that transpired.

As for the golden weapons and the matching outfits the Noodle gang get I believe their enchanted items to help them fight Azure Lion and whoever else is the big bad for the next season or special.

Bonus:

Does this look like an egg to anyone else.

[thegirlwiththelantern]