#also Mei I love you

[mariposiel]

LMK S4 Spoilers

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Three silly guys!!

[estellardreams]

Wanted to draw a bunch of AUs together so here you go! :p

Eclipsed King Wukong @enka-antix

Shadowpeach Bio-Parents MK @kyri45

Time Travel Red Son @purble-turble

The Bearers of Unity Mei @tbouau

Cursed Macaque @winterpower98

Lovingly Led to Ruin Wukong and Macaque @artepti

Lady Bone Demon (Obviously)

Charcoal Bone King Red by me (and also og Demon King Red by purble-turble)

And Posession MK by @kitkat1003

[average-hua-cheng-fan]

another reason i think that xie lian felt an instant connection on the ox cart is because he and hua cheng both grew up in xianle.

there are maybe 4 people still alive that grew up in that culture. based on my own experience, you can pick up on things like accent, cadence, references, and humor that suggest a person is from the same place as you without consciously noticing it. that sense of comfort and similarity probably played into their instant chemistry.

[levemetal]

Watercolor test to get back into it! It's botched, especially the chair but eh. Gonna post anyway ٩( ᐛ )و

Mei Nianqing, inspired by the lovely @kimbapchan's gorgeous design of him in their swap AU <3

[rainofthetwilight]

anyway uh until I muster up the confidence to finally watch lmk S3 have some doodles

[appleciderjulie]

traffic light trio headcanons for the soul <3 (idk if you can see it but they’re all wearing matching friendship bracelets)

[ningadudexx]

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I got to meet stephanie sheh and micheal sinterniklaas at a con!!!!! :DD I made her fanart to keep and i also brought a version for her to sign! I was dressed as mk and i think i was the most excited person in line to meet both of them, they are like my heros!! this show means the world to me and inspires me everyday, voices like mei and ao lie mean so much to me :)

Ive been a huge fan of this show since season 2 began airing and ive been thinking about it everyday since!! it was so cool to ask him about his favorite part of voice directing and to ask her about her favorite part of playing mei! and after i was done talking to him, he asked to take a picture of my cosplay and sent it to sarah harper!!!!! thank you so much to the both of them for being huge inspirations to me, this show means so much to me!

If i ever see micheal sinterniklaas again at a con, i will print a version for him to have too!! im still super sorry i didnt print a third version D:

[bestcadaverinthejujutsumorgue]

the thing about jujutsu kaisen is that it’s a story with a big, hulking, heaving child exploitation machine in the center of it. all of the grownups are well aware it’s there, they matriculated from the damn thing, and even the children are fairly certain something is grinding up their bones for porridge, but no one can stop it so they all just adapt. “how do you react to the child exploitation machine” is in fact one of the defining character questions on the human side. some people, like nanami, take the high road and refuse to enable the machine and always treat the children inside it as if the machine is nonexistent—this is very noble but does nothing to ultimately slow the machine down. lots of adults go “well, i will be a firm but fair authority figure to the children in the child exploitation machine and get them ice cream.” yuki and gojo are very sure they have the juice to ultimately stop the child exploitation machine… but it turns out that bitch is hard to dismantle so they’re left going “hang in there, children! you’re doing great! mommy’s proud of you! i will definitely save, if not you, then one of the next generations of children!”

meanwhile the beast just keeps on chugging.

[shyhandart]

Comms for @mei !! Always love working with you, and this character is just the sweetest :3

[phantom-of-the-ruckus]

I am not much of an anime watcher

I am watching Black Butler

I will just say these:

1. Literally everyone blushing and crushing on Sebastian makes me go "Same XD)

2. Grell is the main reason why i wanted to watch it (outside Bastian and the ref to Selena in the Latim dub)

3. Dadbastian/Mombastian gives me live and i am standing that He's the demon dad/mom of Ciel (i am getting used to this kid)

[phantomrose96]

is a Riteru read of ABoT the intended one?

It can be if you want it to be buddy. Go enjoy the world!

More genuine answer: I'm an aro-ace writer with a long long streak of gen-fic. Shipping doesn't interest me. I don't hate it; it just doesn't click for me at all. I joke that the only way romance ends up in the story is if it's a plot-necessity (Tetsuo and Jun are there because 'married man suspected of having an affair' is what pulls Reigen into the entire Mogami-possession plot. The Kageyama parents are married because they're, well, the parents. Teru and Mei's relationship is a joke until it's plot-relevant.)

So to me, I'm not writing Ritsu and Teru's relationship as a ship. But also? This is all pretend. It's all transformative. This is for fun. I absolutely know that if I were a ship-writer, Riteru would be the obvious choice. I know they're one angry-kiss away from being someone's enemies to lovers fic. So if you look at Ritsu and Teru in ABoT and say "they're holding hands, to me", go right ahead, go hog-wild, come play Barbies with me.

[azureandcrimson]

Samadhi.

Because I love angst (Making Macaque suffer). I have an Au where Macaque get's the Samadhi Fire instead of Mei. It would happen because Macaque was to close to Mei when Tang started it and he got it instead. And I was thinking about this Au lately. I feel like it would hurt so much. Like, I know it defiantly hurt Mei. But the thing is. Mei has Mk, Tang, Pigsy, Redson. But Season 3 Macaque didn't have anyone that would help him. Sure Mk cares. But I don't think he would jump in the fire to save Macaque. Especially during that timeline when Macaque just threatened the whole group. And after being threatened by LBD and punished and failing over and over. I feel like he would be so emotionally unstable. And again. The point stands that Macaque didn't really have anybody to help him in that timeline and if they didn't help him. He would eventually/maybe get burned to death/taken over by the Samadhi Fire.

[dagwmeno]

They are so the world

[syrupbitee]

this is so ass im so sorry

[imminent-danger-came]

So, this parallel, right.

That parallel and the 4x11 shadowpeach fight as a whole:

Macaque: "No that's YOU! You're the one always running off! Looking for more power, more sources of immortality—you're the one who wouldn't quit while were were ahead! Not the great sage, he's got to drag EVERYONE else into his mess!" Sun Wukong: "You're not in this mess, you're still free! Everything I did was for us!" Macaque: "You did it for yourself! You've become like this, obsessive demon! I told you going against the Jade Emperor was a bad idea, but no, Wukong doesn't listen to anyone! He just does whatever he wants! You put yourself here, not me."

(4x11 A Lifetime of Mistakes)

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A large part of Wukong's motivation to keep getting more power was the freedom of it—the more power you have the easier it is to do whatever you want. It's easier to ignore everyone else and focus solely on yourself. It's also easier to ensure yourself and your loved one's are protected and have the ability to do what they want.

So, a punishment where the great Monkey King is imprisoned and trapped for hundreds of years? It's effective and tragic and fitting. Wukong wanted to have the freedom to protect the people he cared about, and in trying to reach for the power to do that, he completely had his freedom removed. He went from the mountain, to then the circlet, and then all of a sudden he had morals and was bound to those.

And then I think about his end of s3 choice to go face the Lady Bone Demon alone. Once again Wukong was trying to protect his loved ones (not to mention the whole reason he went after the Samadhi fire to begin with was to have the power, the freedom to stop LBD (which in itself is another case of SWK believing he needed to be stronger for such freedom)), but he also wanted to make sure MK and himself both had agency. He didn't want MK to have to fight LBD, and he didn't want LBD to end the world.

This is exactly the sentiment he tells Macaque in the 4x11 flashback:

Sun Wukong: "It's so we don't have to worry about anything or anyone ever again! Just living a lazy life, sitting in the sun, eatin' fruit, and doing whatever we want!"

But where does it all lead him?

To possession, imprisonment. Once again Wukong no longer had the freedom to do what he wanted (which is to protect the people he cares about). Once again in his attempts to help his loved one's, he only hurt them.

This can be applied to his relationship with Macaque, to MK in s2, hell, even Wukong trying to get the map in the first place left him powerless, which then led to him and the gang being imprisoned in 3x02. It's a familiar pattern, one we see with antagonist and protagonist alike.

MK in s2 trained to become more powerful, which in the end only strengthened LBD and forced him and his friends on the run. Mei in 3x12 protects MK by letting herself get captured and placed into LBD's crystal. Mei in 4x05 goes to protect MK, breaking her sword and leaving her vulnerable to being captured by Kui Mulang ("How am I supposed to protect everyone without my sword?"). DBK reached for more power and then became possessed by LBD, hurting his wife and son. Azure reached for the Jade Emperor's power and bound himself to that role, jeopardizing Peng and Yellowtusk in the process.

It's a cycle of reaching for power, endangering others, and then being imprisoned.

So anyways, here's why MK is going to lose control (his agency) next season and hurt his friends with his own- *get's shot*

[disabled-battlekukku]

Nǐ hǎo from the Dragon Kingdom