#amnesia rules

[icy-watch]

Excuse me, four rings?

Where's the fourth?!?!

[violett-orwhatever]

LMK lore both fascinates and confuses me.

Like, what of JTTW even is canon in the show? I never questioned it much since it was obvious the the Journey in LMK is different from ours. Macaque's backstory, the Samadhi Fire, you name it.

So I rewatched Amnesia Rules and noticed something:

When Wukong tries to "remind" Tang of who he's supposed to be he says:

"We're on a Journey to deliver sacred texts to the West!"

Which? No?? They're on a journey to get sacred texts from the west!

A mistake on the show's behalf, or is really even the reason they're on the Journey in the first place different? How much do we actually know about the Journey to the West in LMK? Because it looks like until s4 is out, we actually don't know anything.

[nic-liveblogs]

ok when they said amnesia rules in the title i thought they meant "amnesia rules!" not amnesia rules as in actual rules

also oh my god what secret are you keeping this time wukong i cant with you literally SPILLLL what do u mean 4 rings 😭

[doshi-sukiru]

thinking about Amnesia Rules. Imagine if Wukong loses his memories to some extent and asks where Jinzi is.

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Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-

[angstandhappiness]

Handsome lovable menace. Adorable little monkey.

@vegalocity #the only time we've seen the man truly happy#i'm so sad

@natdrinkstea #forcing my mutuals to look at him#holding him up to you and shaking him

@weekend-whip #the last one ;w;

@sixxearedmacaque #🍑#I have no use for swk icons but Im rbing this because I love him#and especially in this episode

@bugdadships #perfect peach [r]#my love....

@fluffypotatey #mayhaps 👀

Sun Wukong / Monkey King icons from s3e5

feel free to use

[theydidntstaydead]

some games i enjoy a very normal amount!!

AMERICAN MCGEE'S ALICE (2000) BAYONETTA (2009) LITTLE NIGHTMARES (2017) AMNESIA: THE DARK DESCENT (2010) MANHUNT (2003) SILENT HILL 2 (2001) RULE OF ROSE (2006) BIOSHOCK (2007) INSIDE (2016) ALICE: MADNESS RETURNS (2011) LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW (2012) HAUNTING GROUND (2005)

[shaylai]

That's not who he is anymore, Macaque.

[imminent-danger-came]

One detail I've noticed is that Wukong's outfit is different before and after Tripitaka places the circlet on him (and Wukong was notably unwilling to be chained):

Which is distinctly different than every other iteration of this scene we've been shown:

Other retellings of this moment have Wukong kneeling in servitude...when the reality is he was kneeling after being subdued—continuing lmk's tradition of biased/false narratives (like what was done with the multiple explanations of the samadhi fire). I think it's interesting to see the ways in which Wukong's past was made easier to swallow as time went on (or if you were Azure and didn't want to believe that Wukong had been changed by his journey lol)

[xxdrowninglessonsxx]

[p3ach-bun]

I love them if you can’t tell by my username lmao

[icy-watch]

Oh, YT

[emcapi-gaming]

Roevember: Name

Baderon: "So what do they call y─ Nay, don't tell me. 'Tis on the tip o' me tongue... 'Tis...'tis...'tis bloody gone is what it is. Bollocks."

???: "...You know what's real funny? I... just realized I don't remember either."

Baderon: "They say this forgetfulness is some lingerin' effect o' the Calamity. I say it's a Leviathan-sized pain in the arse. Mind, yours seems especially bad. I've seen plenty o' folks what can't remember other names, but not rememberin' yer own? Hmm. What's the last thing ye can remember?"

???: "I... had a strange dream. Then I woke up on the ship, just as we were pulling into port. But before that, it's... fuck, there's nothing."

Baderon: "Well! That's mighty strange. No good frettin' about it too much, though, I reckon. Either it'll come back to ye in time, or it won't. Could be the Calamity. Could be as simple as ye took a bad knock to the noggin - ye look like a fightin' sort to me. Trouble is, though, I can't get ye properly registered with the guild without some sort o' name."

???: "I swear, it's right there, I just can't quite... I think... Ar... Ar-something?"

Baderon: "Take yer time, lass."

Ar???: "Think there's a D in there somewhere. ...Snrk. Ahem. Ard...? I think maybe... Ard...win? Yeah. Yeah, I think that sounds right."

Baderon: "A-r-d-w-y-n?"

Ardwyn?: "No, with an I, like wind. Or winner. I'm pretty sure. My first name."

Baderon: "Good a name as any, I reckon. Fits ye pretty well. Care to venture a guess at a family name?"

Ardwin: "Oh, gods, no, I've got a splitting headache already from trying to dredge up that much."

Baderon: "Hah, fair enough. Just Ardwin it is, then."

[nic-liveblogs]

evidently. not the spider queen shes a scorpian queen which is like pretty much the same thing right like tomato tomato

[askamnesiamoonjumper]

woahohohhhohoohhh story of flowercrown,,,,

[mylittleredgirl]

every time i see one of those posts about how fans can’t send their headcanons or fics to professional writers because then they can never use those ideas, i think about going back in time just long enough to tell teen me to fold up my “scully gets pregnant with a magical baby and it might be mulder’s baby or it might be an alien and we just don’t know” fic, put it in an envelope, and address it to chris carter. could have saved us all a lot of trouble

[bootleg-nessie]

Collective amnesia is crazy. It’s almost like nobody remembers that time that Italy invaded Wisconsin to dismantle its counterfeit cheese market