#but i do love monks
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remembered the monk i was friends with last year and thought hey i should write him an email but literally i never knew his email address or last name nor could i remember his home monastery because we were studying together at redacted and i mostly only talked to him when he was pouring me wine but through a series of convoluted half-remembered words found myself on an abbey's website that sounded right? now of course they do not list their monks online but they DO have pictures. so i clicked in order through all of their site's links and FINALLY saw a picture of my friend and now i have the abbey's email address and i think a message will get to him. what disease do we call this
#it's not catholic disease because i'm jewish#but i do love monks#now to find the other monk we were friends with who does not live at this abbey#rare pic of me in the wild
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reason 1934 why I'm sad the Old Monk Set did not make it into the final cut of the game:
the peak we got at the fur on his neck and backside 😭😭😭😭😭
I will forever be sad about this loss. It genuinely feels like the final model in the game doesn't have much or any fur on the neck. idk if it's because most armors have a high collar so they removed the fur on the neck there?? But ugh, I love how much fur we got see in this old set.
just close your eyes and imagine wrapping your arms around him and kissing that fur exposed spot on his back ok. and now open them and weep at the loss.
#the ham talks#this is why I draw Kiwi / my version of DO with the old monk set top for the the fur exposure#and bottom half with the tiger loin set#I love the tiger loin set a lot too#also also the unreleased old monk set kinda looks like he is wearing a onesie LMFAO#anyway. feeling like a parched victorian lady going crazy at the little's peek of fur we get#black myth wukong#sun wukong#black myth rambling
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my knight-monk agenda strikes again, but this was less of a 'I read something that made me experience several emotions and a strike of inspiration at once,' and more of a 'wouldn't it be fucked up if the bejeweled skeleton saints came to life and and started. eating people. or something. in revenge. medieval catholic horror, or an older horror of not being buried right. zombies, even. a complete bastardization of holy visuals. zombies.'
it's a far away idea, but I still wanted to play around with font layouts. like, if I DID make it into a full comic: these would be visual vibes, perhaps.
it's also a little bit about the kind of intimacy that these kinds of spaces provide, or in the case of this monk: the heavy trauma of war and the death of your brother, the escape to a secluded monastery, spiritual brotherhood to make up for your dead brother, but your role as a physician keeps pulling you back to this violence you want to escape. physician, heal thyself, only you have a holy calling to serve those in need, so instead: physician, open up your wounds again. saint jude, patron saint of lost causes, give us a fucking hand here, man. amen.
Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior, Identity, and Artistic Expression, James M. Saslow
and this one is about earlier history than the medieval period that this comic is set in, but the monk character is sort of an exploration of earlier themes. a little bit. I like overlapping eras with each other, I've done it before and I'll do it again. this character is an exploration of some other stuff too, but mostly this book was interesting to read
From Monastery to Hospital: Christian Monasticism and the Transformation of Health Care in Late Antiquity, Andrew T Crislip
bsky ⭐ pixiv ⭐ pillowfort ⭐ cohost
#i almost made him a benedictine monk but then we would've been reaching territory i do not feel like suffering through#generic medieval tag#i had more tags but i started talking politics and honestly if im going to talk politics i think its better to just make a post about it#i dont actually talk politics on tumblr even tho a lot of my work is extremely political in its subtext/text#because i think that tumblr is very annoying for that. its so anglo-american-western centric in its political theory#and i am WELL beyond that. i use twitter for politics because i love suffering lmao but also its like. still better for getting stuff done#komiks tag
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traditional art of clouded monk. I really like this guy
I'm generally surprised and disappointed people don't draw him much, I can barely find any fanart online. it's odd to me becuz he's one of the More Humanoid Abnormalities, and ppl love those (take into notes: Little Red, Der Frei, Butterfly man, The magical girls, I'd even dare to say Army in Pink). but this guy? everybody forgot about him even though I believe he's genuinely intriguing and good-looking. I know I'm rambling but I'm quite sad, I feel like I'm the only one who's kinda obsessed with him. bro even made me learn what śarīra means lmao.
#lobotomy corporation#lobcorp#lobotomy corp fanart#lobotomy corp art#clouded monk#honored monk#abnormality#i at first wanted to include that rant in the tags but nah i think i want ppl to see that#maybe this'll flop#i mean it WILL#but still. i shall contribute to the little fanart and love this man gets#I'm willing to do that.#maskerat art
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So when she died... Yeah. I think it was a message for me. She was saying, "I have to let go now for a little while. But it won't be forever."
MONK | Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale (S01E04)
#monk#monkedit#tv#*#adrian monk#sharona fleming#tvedit#monk usa#s1 is so. focused. intense.#i wish it went on like this for longer#tho i do love how cute the latter seasons are#tony shalhoub#bitty schram
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Got so mad seeing a forced marriage plot for the 20th time that I got up to draw a design specifically to put a veil on him
#like not to victim blame but you’d think after the tenth time this happens covering up would just be more convenient#rip xuanzang you woulda loved face masks 🕊️#can’t believe he’s canonically such an irresistible pretty boy#I think I watched like two back to back marriagenapping plots and was flabbergasted#season 2 has so many of em…#whenever they start getting real close and touchy with him I get uncomfortable 😭#like girl does it have to be the MONK#surely he’s not the ONLY handsome dude you have access to!!!#they’re like all princesses or demon queens like you have OPTIONS boo 💀#damn put this boy in a veil the way he keeps getting bridenapped#I tried to make him look as tender and chewy as possible enjoy#he’s got the consistency of mochi I imagine 🤤#crap now I want to eat him…#digital art#my art#journey to the west#journey to the west fanart#jttw tripitaka#xuanzang#jttw sun wukong#big fan of his little face there#recognizing another bride plot coming up#put that hat back on or so help me!!!#I’m not drawing that nine ringed staff tf I look like an overachiever?? 🤨#I like the design but not satisfied with the way I executed it ya know?#I’m not Buddhist so do lemme know if any aspect of the design is disrespectful or wrong#feel like there should be more but I didn’t wanna go overboard but maybe I should’ve..#like ribbons and bells hanging off
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what about some sort of buddy cop, same age, enemies to lovers au where obi-wan is a jedi and anakin is a coruscanti detective and they literally hate each other and have no respect for the other (obi-wan thinks anakin is a waste of the coruscant budget and a jedi wannabe; anakin thinks obi-wan is a pretentious space monk asshole)
(anakin has personally arrested obi-wan for speeding three times, drinking in public spaces 4 times -- the public space was a bar btw -- and indecent public exposure once. that last one was, tbh, fair cause obi-wan had his dick out in an alley way lol)
(obi-wan has literally stalked this asshole coruscanti cop off planet before and arrested him in his capacity as Jedi Knight for not using his turn signal when changing hyperspace lanes (once), for podracing betting (3 times), and for possession of a galacticly banned substance (twice))
it's not that they're obsessed with each other, it's just that something keeps forcing them together in the wildest, most unpredictable situations, and it's annoying as hell because they're completely fed up with each other
then the senate moves to have a new task force stood up to solve a series of Force-related crimes in the Coruscanti underworld. the task force would include a representative from the Jedi Temple and one from the Coruscanti guards, obviously. and really, obi-wan and anakin are the perfect choices! they're both highly intelligent, dedicated, trustworthy, and incorruptible.
if only they'd stop trying to push each other off the 51st story of coruscant and actually put their heads together to solve the crime
#kit's silly lil aus#obikin#buddy cop au#lol i hesitated posting this for like five minutes cause i was like this could be my big bang fic#but no i cant do that to my 1k outline i typed out this weekend#ANYWAY anakin was brought to coruscant by qui-gon a la phantom menace#but was not accepted into the temple#because obi-wan was already qui-gon's padawan and was only 14 and absolutely not ready for the trials#so i guess not same age same age cause obi-wan is roughly 5 years older#but i wanted them way closer in age for this one just because i think the pettiness is much more believable#pov: youre a hot shot jedi knight space monk and this hot shot coruscanti dog#keeps using YOUR Force to find you dick out in alley ways to arrest you#its unFAIR#also i love the image of fastidiously dressed jedi obi-wan faced with wearing civilian clothes off the clock black leather and holey shirt#anakin skywalker#the true question is when do they fuck and why is it like. immediately after they get their new office#like oh we have to have a working relationship? not if i fuck you first
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The real mastermind, the unpredictable subordinate, and the 'spies'
My fanarts of the new casts in Touhou 19!
Overall, I do enjoy the game! Really adore all of the new casts, the new music are cool and the story is interesting! Really nice to see more of the old casts come back in here too!
#fanart#touhou#touhou project#touhou 19#unfinished dream of all living ghost#zanmu nippaku#hisami yomotsu#son biten#enoko mitsugashira#chiyari tenkajin#more talk in the tag!#Biten and Enoko's design really strike me at the first sight. XD Cute monke!! Very cool traps!!! I do like the other three too~.#Still love the title theme a lot. <3#the more i keep listen to the new themes - the more i grow up to love them even more especially zanmu's and hisami's one.#Gameplay wise - still don't have a strong opinion here... but I do appreciate how the game seem to give more chance for clearing story mode#No penalty if you can't 1cc ; still reach the character's ending and be able to unlock the next one.#(not very sure if the continue number is limited or not tho...)#yamanoart
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hi....scrapped wip again. im rlly not built for color. yap incoming
sorry my productivity tanked my 7 year old laptop is nearing its final breath and im just stalling buying a new one as long as possible to not violate the boycott but she (laptop) is making this shit DIFFICULT
im gnna be so honest w yall i havent had the drive to do shit all lately like. i need dopamine kicks to function but nothings working for some reason ??? i bought a jjk book and i fucking love jjk so i should be excited but im ??? not????? fucked up how that works
#scp#scp fanart#illustration#dr clef#dr kondraki#clefdraki#scp fandom#scp foundation#fanart#not feeling so cash money rn chat#i have so many responsibilities rn but i cant muster up the want to do anything right now#monke brain needs its dopamine signals n when i go out of my way to do something and feel nothing afterwards its like#????#like what the hell#i love these assholes though#funny thing actually a family member tried to kill me once and i was just really sad i couldn't make more clefdraki art#i dont know how long thats staying in the tags LMAOOO#i dont know how long this ones staying up either but whateva#fuck it we ball#don't suggest drugs by the way i don't even have the drive for that#unfinished art#would anyone b interested in balefire art ......#i say as if id finish anything at all
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Doooddlkdess. Rivulet the best ever
#i love the way i drew rivulet here i gotta do it like this everh time#rain world#rain world downpour#rw rivulet#rw artificer#looks to the moon#rw monk#rw slugcat#rw iterator#scapes artposting#my art
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Sherlock Holmes in the free domain, it’s Sherlock posting time.
Sherlock being autistic, but not uncaring? Yeah I’ll have a few of those.
And here’s some older Sherlock art:
#I love murder mysteries#they’re genuinely such a fun time#I should really do like a big drawing of all my fav detectives#we got Jessica Fletcher. Columbo. Hercules Poirot.#monk. Sherlock Holmes of course. father brown. I’m sure I’m missing some#anyway time to rewatch monk.#my art#Sherlock Holmes#Watson
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The Monk and the Monkey
''What are you?'' The monk asks the animal- no, the creature before him. It stands on its hind legs without any trouble nor struggle. It does not hunch, it does not move. He watches it warily, and his eyes struggle to maintain eye contact, and not to stare at the way he has been carried away from. Where the carcass of the enormous tiger that stands fallen, in a pool of blood and the heavy smell of the metallic blood that he no longer can see or smell.
But to get distracted in the human’s case, would be a mistake if not the being was quite happy yet best not to risk it.
One second, it stares and the next, it stands before him with a bright grin and a tilted head. He startles, dropping his staff as it opens its dangerous jaw to answer his question.
''I am many things,'' It starts speaking, and the Monk thinks it can see the silhouette of a monster behind, watching, in smokes and another thing, another thing that smiles, amused while the human starts to sweat, his palms getting colder and colder.
‘’A wicked demon,’’ It states, grinning with a mouth far too wide, and a grin far too sharp, while the monk gulps with tense shoulders.
‘’A celestial being,’’ It states, as it smiles with gratitude, and a smile full of joy, and the monk relaxes, without being aware, for its genuine smile resembles that of a child a bit too much, tricking him into a false sense of security.
A false sense of security it is,
For a shark may be content, but it still has a mouth full of sharp teeth and a hunger for blood when you cut open your heart and lay it bare.
‘’But moreover, I am human.’’ It says, shrugging and standing back while the monk stares. He continues to stare as it stares up at him, with its tail lazily swaying behind it. He is well aware that he should probably try to find a way to leave, instead of interacting with it, but he blurts out without thinking before his mind can catch up with him.
‘’H-human? Y-you don’t look human!’’ He exclaims, and rightfully so as well, for the being standing before him is a tad bit too hairy, with hands instead of feet and of course, not to mention, the tail it has!
‘’...’’ It stares at him in silence, and it looks up and down while he nervously shuffles.
‘’Your close minded view, as much as it amazes me, is also disappointing.’’ It finally states after an awkward amount of silence and the monk can only drape his bamboo hat over his face, halfway to avoid eye contact since it unnerves him and says nothing to refute its claims more so because he is too meek to argue with a creature who can topple over a demon four times its size.
‘’Tell me what is a god, and what is a demon?’’ It asks, and the monk has no answer which seems to frustrate the creature before him as it invades his personal space once again, forcing him to stare right into its bloody eyes with the moon in them.
The monk stutters as it sighs, snapping its fingers and the human sees magic come to life before his eyes.
‘’A god represents the ‘kind’ side of humanity, while a demon represents the ‘foul’,’’ It says with a crescent smile but a condescending tone, and the monk steps back as his eyes jump back and forth between the mirrored version of the creature.
‘’Here’s a riddle for you,’’ It doesn't look at him as it becomes one, but he thinks it might see inside him anyway.
‘’If I am both, then what am I?’’
The silence scratches on, as tiny crickets pass, and the forest quiets down as if to listen to his answer.
It's a lot of pressure, he thinks when he sees it watching him like a hawk, like the rest of the world that holds its breath.
The human thinks as he lowers his head and thinks. He eventually comes to an answer as opens his mouth as the being before him stares at him nonchalantly, yet with a slightly wagging tail, clearly full of expectations about his answer.
‘’A monkey?’’
The monk, obviously, plays it safe for he feels like this is a trap.
The monkey’s nose scrunches up, and his eyes squint.
‘’Hmph,’’ It- He almost sneers at the human. His eyebrow twitch, irritated, and his tail thumps the ground once, twice and stops still. The monk, for a second, thinks he almost might see a pout.
‘’Typical mortals.’’
He says with distaste and the Monk, Tang Sanzang,can only stare at the tiny murder monkey and think:
What are the chances that if I beg, he’ll leave me alone?’
But the monk can only weep for it will be a long fourteen years.
#sanzang after witnessing a 124cm monkey maul a tiger#wukong be like ''haha you have fallen right into my poetic trap''#i would love to hear what people thought these words meant in their reblogs#i have been thinking some stuff and i decided to turn them into a comic#but you can tell i really wanted to abandon it#esp in the 3rd panel#trying to shade all of it was a mistake#but i was experimenting so#im gonna try to find an easier way to draw comics#ALSO I DISLIKE THE MONK'S DESIGN#IM GONNA RE DO IT#eventually#jttw#journey to the west#sun wukong#wukong#monkey king#jttw fanart#my art#illustration#art#tearex art#comic#xiyouji#tang sanzang#sanzang#tripataka
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there's a quote from brennan lee mulligan that makes me think of why i like star wars and find the jedi so interesting:
Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundanes of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it.” Being good is complex and beautiful and hard.
to me, the jedi commitment to the light is a complex, beautiful, and hard thing. being selfless is remarkable, it's inspiring and surprising. the dark side is boring and predictable, like being selfish, scared, and cruel makes you always make the choice that lashes out or clings in greed, making everything about oneself, so evil is a very narrow way of looking at the world.
it is only by opening up to the needs of others that the entire world becomes visible and important. doing good means shining a light of awareness that acknowledges and appreciates everything for itself, and not its personal significance. it's making the hard choice to help in the face of danger and corruption, and the complex weighing of factors to determine how to act for the best outcome.
that sort of altruism is a noble, beautiful thing to celebrate in stories, the subtle and almost infinite array of bonds that can motivate someone to make the hard, selfless choice, and the humility to recognize there are some things more important than oneself. it's a vital function of art to open the soul, evoking compassion and empathy for others, to remind us that we can choose to be good.
stories like that are simply interesting to me in a way selfish indulgence is not. even with stories of corruption, it's not the darkness that's compelling to me. it's the lingering pull of the light. it's all the friction that bonds and compassion bring to a descent into selfishness. we are social beings, built to give and share, just as much as take. it's a worthy thing to try, but it's never easy.
the jedi are imho just an excellent example of doing good even when it's hard, even when it's doomed. their motivations are complex, with the outcome for many stakeholders considered, not just themselves. they may lose the fight, but they fought well, and the fruit of their goodness returns in the end, their compassion ultimately is impossible to eradicate from the galaxy.
#jedi order#sw#love the altruistic space wizard monks#the jedi do their best to help in a complex world#and i love them for that
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In the vein of your class swap au, I have a crack au where the Bad Kids eventually end up having all the classes between the six of them, and essentially become a self-contained powerhouse. They all start with their canon Junior classes, but eventually-
Riz, in his goal of being the most perceptive person ever, takes to Ranger. It also helps with his long range guns, which he and Gorgug start personalising in semi-illegal ways
Adaine goes for Monk. It’s difficult, because Monk and Wizard aren’t that compatible, but Adaine has the know-how and innate anger to take it on
Kristin looks into the background of her nature/solar Godesses, and takes some levels of Druid to help with interpreting the symbolism and imagery, and eventually uses the spells similar to clerical. Doesn’t use beast forms often, but finds them especially useful when Kristin’s dex or athletics would fail
Not sure how Sorcerer would play into it. Maybe Fig, with already high charisma, would accidentally fall into it, and just decides to keep it because she realises it’s the class they’re missing
this is awesome I love the idea of coming into dnd with the mentality of ash ketchum
#not art#gotta catch em all !!#ngl I do love monk wizard adaine tho that's a jedi#youve made her a jedi. this is great I think since dnd takes from wuxia so much esp. with monk every campaign should get an ip man#a wuxia style dipshit mentor. a funny monk. an evil coven of backflipping magic women#tbh I do think adaine would enjoy having a jjba style stand she would love having a star platinum#actually now Im imagining the monk kids at aguefort being exactly like the high schoolers in part 4 lmao#it would be great if everyone unanimously agrees that the weirdest people at aguefort are the monk kids#I also love druid kristen she would SO be the ''do you know there are fungi with 10 thousand plus sexes?'' kid#she would be slightly concerningly into herbalism. she would be Very enthusiastic about being able to eat raw meat#haruspex kristen owns... love that
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#i love him sm#amazing character#if someone asked me about him I could talk for ages#(please do)#adrian monk
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[jttw oc] cursed to be an obligate carnivore, ate his entire family one particularly bad winter
#guys im being indulgent hear me out#im not giving him a name he just goes by woodcutter#cuz he feels like he doesn’t have the right to use the name his parents gave him#not telling you what it is tho cuz I don’t know either lol#jttw oc#journey to the west 1996#journey to the west#jttw sha wujing#jttw zhu bajie#jttw tripitaka#jttw sun wukong#jttw fanart#digital art#my art#what’s he doing here? searching for a way to break his curse and make amends#yes that’s his cat he calls lucky#when I mean obligate carnivore I mean it is entirely possible for him to grow weak and hungry if not given meat in his diet#not a monk just happy to be there lol#yeah it’s the 1996 version cuz I love that group and im obsessed with it rn :)#I see so many cool jttw ocs on here I wanna make one too :(#he smokes a pipe btw I just forgot to draw it#it keeps the cravings and hunger away and also looks cool af#close enough welcome back luo binghe#real aroace solidarity is letting each other use you like a chew toy when teething#I’m just now realizing I did not draw those flags correctly#or colored them in…#just know they’re supposed to be the ace and aro flags I drew them from memory and was like eh I’ll look em up later#I did not
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