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[deeznutslover26]

art by criticaaaaaaaal

i always found it funny that macaque is a theater guy and wukong has stage fright

[miki-13]

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While I love Macaque being a dad-figure to Bai He, I’m like...

This man/monke is in no position to father ANYONE. He’s a feral manchild who trauma-dumps and projects all his insecurities onto other people. Not to mention he can’t take care of himself so how can he take care of Bai-He?

How do I come to this conclusion?

So many think Macaque is the better dresser/takes better care of himself than Wukong and like

No????? No!!!!!!!

Aside from the tail-end of Season 2 and most of Season 3, Wukong is always wearing the best clothes he has

HE WEARS EYELINER

Meanwhile THIS scrunckly ass has a shirt that has mismatched sleeves, tattered-ass cape and lives in a run-down dojo that has absolutely been abandoned due to some shady accident

LITERALLY the best he’s ever been dressed is when he was under Lady Bone Demon’s foot. There is no way he picked this out for himself.

Neither of these monkeys has good mental health but between the two of them, Wukong ultimately functions better and in a healthier manner. Granted, it’s not very healthy, but it’s healthier than Macaque.

How can this man/monke take care of a little girl when he can’t even take care of himself??????

Bai He is the caretaker in this relationship, hands down. She handles him like she does feral pissy cats: with patience and calm without taking any of his bullshit.

She’s the reason he doesn’t wear mismatched sleeves and takes better care of his clothes.

She’s the reason the dojo doesn’t look like someone died in it (which someone absolutely did)

She’s the reason he doesn’t start metaphorically hissing at people he doesn’t like.

Macaque becomes a dad to her AFTER character development.

Bonus: The comic that made me realize the truth. Thanks @criticaaaaaaaal​

https://spookiepookie11.tumblr.com/post/692872796933668864/criticaaaaaaaal-duality

[squidkid15]

WASTELAND AUUUUUUUUUUUUUU *screaming & crying*

i LOOOOOOVE AUS WHERE WUKONG TAKES THE SAMAHDI FIRE YEAHHHHH… this is gonna be so COOL PLEASE drop more lore soon i am LOOKING 👀👀👀👀

what if i told you they're both still horribly bitter and still hate each other's guts throughout this entire thing

[marshmallowgoop]

ryuketsu for the ship meme,,

OTPs of all time... 🥺

They are EVERYTHING to me: This one is probably pretty self-explanatory. I made a whole blog about them, have a page listing my meta about them that's... not small, and they're the reason I watched the series at all. Just in terms of the pure impact it had on me, I'm not sure if any piece of fiction can ever top that scene of Ryuko hugging Senketsu in the bathroom (Episode 5). It's what kickstarted my realization that monsters—and monster romance—is my favorite niche.

Concept is more appealing than execution: Buuuut I feel like there's a lot of missed potential here. An earlier version of the story, where Life Fibers were more individualized, where Senketsu struggles with the two sides of his identity, feels stronger. As I put it before:

I think a more fleshed-out examination of Life Fibers, where they’re not just mindless, vicious beasts, would have provided a much more compelling plot—especially with writer Kazuki Nakashima consistently stressing that Kill la Kill is ultimately a story about “a lonely young woman meeting and losing an irreplaceable partner” and his attempt to “make a form of intimacy that transcends love and species”! I adore Ryuko and Senketsu, don’t get me wrong, but I feel that their love and friendship would have been even more powerful had it actually represented a real coming together of humans and Life Fibers. As it turns out, an older draft of the series does go further with the concept, and while I can understand it getting scrapped for being “too much,” I’m still attached to the possibilities and wish the final product had gone more in that direction.

They drive me crazy/insane /pos: Yeah... that's probably clear....

Relationship goals <3: On the one hand, I'd be the first person to point out their flaws, but on the other... I just think they're so sweet. One of my favorite things about them is their good communication, which I've written... a bit about. But seriously, that moment in Episode 2 where lonely, closed-off Ryuko tries to open up to Senketsu? One of my favorite gosh-darn scenes in this show.

Also... get you someone who looks at you the way Ryuko looks at her uniform.

(I don't think she ever has these sparkly eyes for anyone else in this show.)

People that ship them need therapy I think: I mean... it is a ship composed of a girl and her alien clothes.... But if it can work for Venom, it can work for Kill la Kill, too!

I blorboed so hard that they're basically my OCs now: Yeah, probably, lol. (I say, thinking wistfully of the 150,000-ish words of my Kill la Kill fairytale AU that I've only ever posted snippets of and that probably has so little to do with the actual series that it could pass as original fiction.)

I need a 30k hurt/comfort fic on my desk by Monday: It's been a long time since I looked at Kill la Kill fic, but I remember that Senketsu wasn't even tagged in 10% of the stories on AO3 back in the day. I'm desperate for more about these two, and there's so much hurt/comfort fodder. Death, what it means to be human, feeling like you're unworthy of the one you love...

Who even thought of this?? This is a crackship: It feels like it should be, but... they were totally teasing it, I swear!

They're going to be the death of me: Yeah, probably...

They,,, kimss,, holde handss,,,,: Plz... I think a lot about that one scrapped design of Sync'd Sen where Senketsu's hand was over Ryuko's “so that they would always be holding hands as they fought.”

Plus that time Ryuko deliberately put Senketsu's glove on before going to sleep in the manga.

And how they hold hands on a happy beach date...

Yeah. I will never be over them ever.

[angstandhappiness]

NICE

@angelic-ships: #I'm just reblooging bc holy shit this art???#also boys in skirts always belong on my page

@lokeselfships: #阳光 (my sunshine)

@jadewhisper: #I'm fucking dying to see this is a fucking trend on twitter

@dangerdayyys: #YO THATS SO SWAG

@mortal-mayhem: GOOD 👏 SHIT 👏

@leptosia-nina: #!!!!!#GORGEOUS

@mexcraziness: #the good kush#so hot

@criticaaaaaaaal: #woW#WOW OK#I SEE#i REALLY like how he's drawn here

@squidkid15: #AYOOOOO???#THIS RENDERING???/#GODDAMN???

@lifeiscooking: #i love this trend

@purble-turble: #I am obsessed with all these cheerleader wukongs i have been seeing#😍

finally a trend I can hop on

[chishiyas-wig]

for the writing ask thing, Tell us a fun fact about your current WIP. ? :O

my current WIP is a fic where Hunter, Luz, and King have a sleepover :D

they play bottle flip and build a pillow fort, etc

im tryna make it as fluffy as i can

[lotusmonkey]

THAT COMIC BRAH WHY MUST U HUrT ME SO 💔💔💔💔💔

Just wait for the second part :) (haahahahahajjsndwkxmskxkksd I'm not ready for it [sobs])

[friday-night-unknown]

how tall even is whitty,,,

Demon Whitty m!a: (34/35)

[dragynkeep]

they really made penny human just so she could die "for real"

literally why bring her back at all

[librastrai]

sienna / blake !!!!!!!!!! [DOES A HAPPY DANCE]

no cap i love the concept of sienna / blake sm??? a really good, sexy mentor / student relationship that went so wrong but blake still believes she can save her lost love, the woman who taught her everything... weeps

[the-kiwi-is-not-a-pewee]

isnt aot op the one where its like HGNDJGSKJNSFRS *JAEGER* *intense guitars*

Oh crit my sweet summer childee there’s also the one with the gay smoke

[deeznutslover26]

art by criticaaaaaaaal

[owletarc]

blake is more french then she is japanese, lettuce die on this hill (cinder seems more japanese than blake imo lmao)

characters more asian coded than blake :

yang xiao long

taiyang xiao long

cinder fall (monty said he had her as chinese)

adam taurus

lie ren

sun wukong

sienna khan

ghira and kali belladonna — note this does not extend to blake because we knew nothing about them before v4 and literally none of their coding has gone to blake either, because it comes from their allusions and dress styles and skin colouring. blake is still pretty fucking pale even in v4 compared to her parents.

[squidkid15]

just here to say i am LOOKING O-O eyes wide open at this daydreams au mac and wukong look so COOL (asking to be safe, is fanart allowed cussssss sheesh)

ahdsfjsd thankeee!!! I love the daydreams AU a whole lot fhjs they're so broken but also so fun and just y eah

and omg yes absolutely!!! I'd be flattered!!!

[marshmallowgoop]

you should ,, totally drop the ryuketsu fanfic .....

I won't make any promises, but this fic does mean a lot to me—it was my NaNoWriMo project for three years!—so I'd be sad if I never did anything with it. But it's definitely not at the point where it's ready to be shared yet. It's a real mess!

Buuuut I do have a tag on my blog for it! #klk-fairytale-au

There are a bunch of snippets posted there, as well as a link to the short I started (and never finished) that inspired the full-blown novel. The story has undergone a lot of changes since that initial idea, and it starts at an ending that I'm not sure will be the final ending anymore, but it's maybe got the vibes I'm going for, and I think the link is broken now, so here's a new one!

Thank you for your interest. This fic really is my baby, and I'm touched that others want to read it <3

[chishiyas-wig]

me thinks you give off moth or chimp vibes!

yesss B))))