#expy idea

[phoenixlionme]

I saw this on Twitter and wanted to make a poll.

[turtleblogatlast]

I unironically love how blatantly late 80’s early 90’s all the brothers’ styles are in “The Clothes Don’t Make the Turtle” because like…of course those are their styles! The majority of the media they grew up adoring is heavily influenced by that time period, so it makes perfect sense that they all took inspiration from it. It’s honestly super cute to see, they’re such kids I swear.

[princess-ibri]

Some of the Rapunzels' of my life I’ve enjoyed for ya’ll :)

[gallavanger-mars]

my new berserk idea:

[phoenixlionme]

I wouldn't mind a show based on this concept.

PONYO (2008) —

dir. Hayao Miyazaki.

[id in alt]

[rayroseu-reblogs]

this is low effort sketch i just wanted to see dawn with princess aurora curls and boyyyy dont give me more reason to complain to twst KSDJKLSDKDSF

[scaramutual]

miku hcs in honor of my lovely friend lara bringing them up

[phoenixlionme]

Mama Odie from Disney's The Princess and the Frog

Luz Noceda from Disney's The Owl House

Prudence Night from the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Black Witches

Black Witches

Tabby || The Craft: Legacy

Nynaeve al'Meara || Wisdom || The Wheel of Time

Calypso || Sea Goddess/Witch || Pirates of The Carribean

Jada Sheilds || Whitelighter-Witch || Charmed (2018)

Leta Lestrange || Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald

Eulalie Hicks || Fantastic Beasts: Secrets of Dumbledore

Fringilla Vigo || The Witcher

Seraphina Picquery || Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Kaela Danso || Charmed (2018)

Macy Vaughn and Maggie Vera || Charmed (2018)

[phoenixlionme]

Fictional Badasses with Prosthetics

[eyeballjazz]

Here’s some sketches of Abbot Verrin, from Referendum! I haven’t drawn him much (especially for a guy I wrote 50k about) but he’s a delightful little nut. I left my travel sketchbook at home so we sketched him middle school style, and then we’ve got some initial sketches from a couple months ago. AND a shot of the real life inspiration for the Chapel itself: First & Franklin in Baltimore!

[235uranium]

for a character to be "of all time" they need to have smth that distinguishes them from the usual archetype they fulfill in an insane as fuck way. they need to leave you reeling with their every life choice. and those choices are always in character which increases the degree of insanity.

[macbethz]

*starts making an evil doctor who expy/deconstruction for my comic that’s already clearly inspired by doctor who* am I in too deep. No this is normal.

[massivecheesecakewolf]

Story idea. Inspired by (surprisingly) the noise from Pizza Tower and the likeable villain with standard tropes like Jack Spicer

You are a (wannabe popular) teenage supervillain genius who Livestream the "crime"( fighting superhero and causing a bit of mayhem) you are committing while in a secret identity of a high schooler. You are not well liked by other villains for idiotic reasons like: you do not use magic from a 'being' as you built your gear and your floating camera robot to stream, you impose yourself with a standard of not seriously harm or kill any people so you be more likeable( also you do not want to harm people unless they cross a lot of lines)while the other villains for some reason are part of a group that want to kill all life, you did not take the offer to join the group because of the last reason so you had to scavenge through the scrapyard for metal and thrift store for electronics while the group of villains get money by a mysterious being, that you don't know about, command the villains to cause destruction and find a person for some reason.

Sure you may be annoying and weird but you have your streambot, your determination to be famous, and that weird group of vigilante that opposes the villain (but you are not focused for some reason, like if a vigilante has to either fight you who caused more mayhem then the other and a villain from the evil group, the vigilante chose the villain instead of you) that you may call them frienemy as they are confused of your tech and the weird fact that you don't know the person that they are defending.

[narzissenkreuz-ordo]

its 3 am and i need to sleep but *brain is buzzing abt hsr & (more) possible fan oc designs*

[comicaurora]

hi red!! i'm doing an analysis of sun wukong's (and journey to the west in general's) impact on modern culture for my world mythology final, and for some reason i'm having a hard time finding sources. is there anything you can recommend?

The fact that Journey to the West has contributed an enormous number of tropes to modern media is very clear when the media in question is examined, but I don't know of a specific secondary source that's already done that analysis for you. However, this IS a very good excuse for you to plow through a metric buttload of shonen manga, since the lineage is basically Sun Wukong -> Son Goku -> like a solid third of all shonen action heroes written in the last forty years.

Dragon Ball kicks things off:

Started in 1984 and almost unquestionably the most influential manga ever made. Its first arc features the weird super-strong monkey-kid Son Goku - which is just the japanese pronunciation of the characters of Sun Wukong's name - meeting up with a wacky crew of thinly-veiled expys of the Journey to the West crew, with teen inventor Bulma filling the role of Tripitaka, Oolong the pig-man filling Zhu Bajie's role and Yamcha the desert-based bandit as Sha Wujing.

Hijinks ensue, and while the story drifts pretty far from Journey to the West's original plot, it actually stays pretty solidly referential in weirdly unexpected ways. Several the villains of the week are JttW references, and even the later appearance of three more Saiyans lines up with the surprise reveal of three more Wukong-like mystical apes in the original story.

The connection between Dragon Ball and JttW is very unsubtle and a frequent reference in the chapter covers and supplemental art.

Not every subsequent JttW reference is the result of Dragon Ball popularizing it or anything, since it was already enormously popular, but I think it's pretty hard to extricate Dragon Ball's influence on anime and manga from the original influence of Journey to the West itself.

One way that a distinction can be drawn is in the differences in characterization between Goku and Sun Wukong himself. A lot of the next generation of shonen protagonists were kind of Goku-alikes - pure-hearted dumbasses who only care for the three Fs: Food, Fighting and Friendship.

But the original characterization of Sun Wukong is not really all that similar. He's a trickster, sure, but he's far from a young, friendship-motivated goober. He's profoundly intelligent, pretty much the most well-educated entity on the planet, and routinely brings up that he's centuries older than most of his peers. The Goku-alikes from the later decades of shonen anime are tellingly far-removed from that original characterization. So you get characters based on Goku's cheerful idiocy, but it's just a small subset of the broader influence of Journey to the West on the space of literature.

In general, Journey to the West frequently shows up in very small, bite-sized tropes in other stories. It's less "this is wholly based on Journey to the West" and more "oh, I know where they maybe got this idea/aesthetic/power/weapon/villain of the week from." There are way too many to list, but some of the ones that tend to jump out at me are-

Sneaky characters with monkey motifs:

Tricksy, highly mobile characters who fight with a staff:

Characters afflicted with a magical restraint artifact that allows a much weaker character to stop them from misbehaving:

Specific esoteric weapons, eg. magical fans, rakes, gourds, namedropping The Sword of Seven Stars, etc.

Villains with prominent ox or pig design motifs:

Characters whose primary combat strat is just making Shitloads Of Disposable Copies Of Themselves:

Honestly it just keeps going like this. It's kinda everywhere. Finding the JttW in things is my favorite conspiracy theory rabbit hole because it's 100% harmless and more often than not completely correct.

[tatterdemallionsails]

Thank you @amarriageoftrueminds! AND the mansplaining, AND the Marvin Gaye, and quite frankly this guy makes my teeth itch. Dude has the balls to say it wasn't personal, but compare his reading of the HYDRA code words with Karpov's. Zemo's was pure malice while Karpov might just as well have been reading his grocery list.

Every so often I see… interesting takes about Zemo that leave me questioning if we… all saw the same stuff.

Like, you know he commanded a death squad before his fam even died, right? This man is not a good dude. Sure, maybe it was in the name of his country but also… his country was a shit show and he said as much.

So I am absolutely perplexed by the number of “he wouldn’t do x” and “why does everyone make him so toxic” kinds of things. He actively waterboarded Vasily Karpov like one of the first times we saw him. He was put in the RAFT because he is a fucking terrorist.

This feels like another one of those things I guess that reminds me of Hannibal. Him being polite doesn’t make him any less of a cannibal. You can be both polite and a bad person.