#giant spirit god

[the-monkey-ruler]

Uproar in Heaven (1976) 闹天宫

Director: Liu Wenyu / Liu Yuhe Starring: Wang Mingzhong / Liu Yuanhan / Song Feng / Lou Zhenkui / Niu ​​Fenghua Genre: Opera Country/Region of Production: Mainland China Also known as: An Tianhui Type: Retelling

Summary:

The Jade Emperor planned to restrain Sun Wukong with a heavenly official title because of his great magical powers, and conferred him the title of "Great Sage Equaling Heaven" to manage the Peach Garden. Sun Wukong then enjoyed the peaches in the garden to his heart's content. The Queen Mother held a Peach Banquet, but did not invite Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong was very angry and broke into Yaochi and stole the wine and fruits. He also entered the Tushita Palace and stole the golden elixir refined by Taishang Laojun. Then he returned to Huaguo Mountain. Li Tianwang led the heavenly soldiers and generals to capture him, but was defeated by Sun Wukong.

Source: https://chinesemov.com/1976/Uproar-in-Heaven

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[ex0skeletal-undead]

Vengeful God of Prey by GrayLadyDesign

[madcat-world]

The Polar God - Amin Talebi

[hellishgayliath]

By the way if you’d like to update pico’s Spirit design completely up to you

(Ya don’t gotta answer. I’m a super secret person ya would never guess who I am🥸)

How’d you know he’s been on my mind lately mystery person that is totally not Coko huehue

The only tweaks I made for his look was longer ears, a lion’s like mane cuz cmon that’s just cute, and different eye markings but it might change cuz I’m still indecisive on one I want to settle with. And the fun part is you can go crazy with the foliage that grows on his back, there’s no specific one way to do it cuz just like nature, it’s inconsistent and all over the place :D

Some additional stuff I wanted to add onto him. He himself is only tethered to the forest, he can’t leave it whatsoever. Maybe it’s cuz he’s the guardian of it or maybe just some unexplained mystical mojo is at play, but all he knows is he can’t step foot outside the forest. Another thing is the way he laughs, kinda similar to sounds regular opossums make, he gives off a “ch” noise. Also he’s always gonna be dirty and covered in dirt and grass stains and not really care about how he looks. But if those he’s assisting want to offer a lil groom he’s not gonna refuse. He quite likes flower crowns :3

OH and his favorite resting place is a giant weeping willow tree cuz those are my favourite trees to place in a fantasy setting >:0

(your babie is so cute I couldn’t resist adding him again @cokoweee )

[goryhorroor]

wes anderson’s favorite movies

[subsequentibis]

reposting this commission i got from @neonjawbone a little while back! these are two characters from a sideblog that i'm working on shaping up to put into underbelly and i love them very much <3 the guy with the short hair is luther and the guy with the braid is cam and there's a lot going on with them just in general

[luvsavos]

for how mentally ill i am about monster hunter and shara ishvalda specifically i sure am always noticing new things about them

[bluespiriteddragon]

A statement to all my fellow mystical beings and creatures

I just want all my brothers and sisters in the mystical/ spiritual space, from the smallest of the fae to the largest of the dragons to know that if your forest is cut down, your river drained, your hoard stolen or your followers leave, my home is open. I might not be the richest or most able to provide, but if you need to place to stay while you find a new sacred location or to recover, my door is open. I'm hoping to build Fae homes soon (I'm injured ATM), as well as places in my back woods to leave offerings for different spirits. Once I get things sorted I'll leave offering of fruit, eggs from my chickens, trinkets and a general safe space for my fellow mystical beings. My door is open as long as you mean no harm to my home, loved ones or other mythical beings staying with me. I ask for nothing in return, just heal and stay as long as you need.

[majestick-posts-op]

I had this flash of a dream where Imj got defetead the same way as emperor Belos from toh and it looked like this.

[rullikka]

Leave me in the woods

[kitkatmonsterfox]

The fsm fought a war of oni and dragons when he was only a newborn, or 4... idk how the timeline works, but it's funny to think about it

[omarwolaeth]

It's such a tiny innocuous thing that really doesn't matter, but I feel like calling duel monsters a children's card game (when it's fundamentally baked into everyday life, and your social existence is judged by what you play and how you play it so very intensely, for everyone in-universe) is an absolute injustice to what it is for that universe of people.

[avatardoggo]

“i’ve never had a girl write me a letter before”

“yk what? i’m going to frame it fr”

“if anyone asks im going to say someone ✨Special✨ gave this to me”

[kakusu-shipping]

mouse & turkey with kuro-sensei? ^-^

Yay question for Koro-Sensei!! I feel like I haven't talked about him as much as I usually do this year

🐁 Mouse ― Are you and/or your f/o easy to scare?

I startle easily but other than that I'm not an easy person to scare with typical horror content like scary movies, stories, or games.

Koro-Sensei on the other hand, despite being you know. The ultimate life form capable of going mach 20 is terrified or really just about anything. A scary movie will stick with him for a week. He'll act all paranoid and cautious checking around corners and sleeping with a light on and jump at basically every noise in the dark.

Some people have tried to convince me when I tell them this that it sounds like he's just doing it so I'll comfort him, and he's the type of clingy person to do that... But people who really know him know. He's a coward.

🦃 Turkey ― Have you gone through a haunted house with your f/o? how did it go?

I love the concept of haunted houses but they're mostly jumpscares and plastic props, so sense I don't particularly like them and Koro-Sensei can only fake being brave so many Masked Guy Jumps Out At You in a row we've only really been to a few, just because there happened to be one at a Fall Fest/Pumpkin Patch event we were at.

Though I did pitch to the class back in the day an idea of an assassination attempt by turning the 3-E building into a haunted house. Sense Koro-Sensei is so jumpy I figured scaring him would open up a chance to attack him.

It probably would have worked as intended if I hadn't gone through with him and let him cling to me the entire time. The kids complained to me afterwards about being in the way the whole time... I brought in some Candied Apples the next day as an apology.

[randomnameless]

May I request some headcanons for Nabatea and Agartha, before the mole people went apeshit and tried to kill god?

I'm really sorry,

I really tried my best, but unfortunately I never really thought a lot about Nabateans and Agarthans before the Nuke Wars !

But here goes -

From what we can see in the opening CG (Sothis's FB?) there used to be buildings and skyscrappers like our modern ones. Sothis apparently brought "elevators" with her from her spaceship - wherever she came from - since they are mentionned in the Holy Tomb.

So I guess before the Nuke Wars they'd be pretty advanced, more than what I usually write about/play in terms of background cities - save for maybe Xillia's Elympios, where you are warped from a traditional medieval (albeit with a lot of central asia imagery!) magitech world to a world where people live in buildings and complain about their government and taxes lol

Granted if Sothis brought Nukes, elevators and IA (to make robots!) I suppose Agartha should have make a fucking giganormous jump in time/the technology tree, so maybe they adapted to it quite fast, spent 5k years getting used to it - to the point where they now complain about their taxes - or didn't get used to it, and the second they managed to get their hands on high-end weapons/nukes, they started vaporizing other countries.

Granted, given what Solon says to the Summoner in FEH, I'd rather believe the original Agarthan World - with their shiny Sothis tech - was closer to Elympios, thus to our own, than some sort of steam punk/ultimate technological one.

(in B4 Thales was a random salaryman who filed papers every day, until he decided to join a terrorist group to rule over the world, because his firm wouldn't give him free healthcare)

Now, as for Nabateans...

I'd say the first "city" they lived in - near Sothis's landing site - was still the Oghma Mountains, but it wasn't the Zanado Village we see (in ruins) in the game.

What their first settlement looked like then? In the FB, we see Sothis overlooking a lot of people from a city below, and there's a huge tower behind her - but it's still a desert.

I wouldn't say all those people looking to her were Nabateans, some humans would also be there - maybe the city was fitted with elevators and travel commodities and stuff to accomodate humans? (remember, Rhea can jump 50 meters in one jump, even after her 5 stars resort vacation in Enbarr, so I'm pretty sure Nabateans don't need elevators!).

So as much as I want to copy-paste the fantasy lands of Shangri-La and Shangdu (per Marco P), given the tower and the setting, I was thinking of something more in lines with the “mythic Babylon”, the tower of Babel in the background and the Hanging Gardens etc etc. Pre Nuke Wars, the Nabatean Settlement would be a hub, not of trade, but a site of pilgrimage and where people, humans and nabateans, could freely move in and out, etc etc. 

Sothis would gift her wisdom and tech kind of freely, and everything was well (or so she thought)

Of course it would create "difficulties" with the humans who were busy filling their taxes and wondering about healthcare, because in Nabatean land, people are free to come and go, they can get food for free, water etc etc, without paying taxes or being part of a community/society like Agartha is (tfw Nabateans, with their magic, don't need agrary planification, roadworks, reforms and what not, they plant whatever they want, use magic to make it grow and share the fruits with everyone who wants some. Thales's dental care? A Light Dragon could heal his cavities without needing him to pay any insurance or something).

Nabateans can live more "easily" than humans because they are different and have their magic to help in their daily lives, happens what happens, Nabateans are seen as "superior" to humans and asked to rule, or at least are looked up to.

Agarthans with their complex socio-political (?) organisation see more and more of their people refusing to pay taxes and participate in the life of their city/state to migrate to a land ruled by lizard hippies who can afford to be so generous because their magic is, well, magic. Nabateans are thus, inherently superior to humans, and that's not something that makes people happy - especially humans.

Their first reaction would be to flatten the rest of the world, to display their might and show everyone that no, they're still in the game and are more important - or maybe they can also live as "freely" as Nabateans do, if they have randoms from other cities to work for them (let them be the ones to pay the taxes).

The conflict grows, some people run to the Lizard Hippies for protection, which prompts Agartha to try to nuke them - they want to be the ones on top in Fodlan, and not be subservient to some other party - and here goes.

As for their cultures...

Agartha would be MAGA - and hell bent on making Agartha great again, even if it means they have to flatten other humans to do so, but some people just wanted to live normal lives and when the Agarthan lifestyle was too much for them, they safely ran away to Zanado 1.

After the realisation that Nabateans can do things they do because they have magic and all, some Agarthans would really be obsessed with developping new technologies to finally be "superior" to them (funded by, as you can guess now, lot of taxes). 

Why couldn't they just accept Nabateans were different and leave it at that? 

Because Agartha would have been a very prideful nation, maybe it was the leading one on the continent before Sothis landed, and even if they were the first with whom she exchanged tech - they were at the “top”. Growing jealous at Nabateans who are inherently “stronger” than them causes them to try to gather more and more allies - nuking some in the way - until the Nuke Wars.

For Nabateans in Zanado-1, life was pretty chill, some humans came and asked for their help, they provided and I suppose before humans started to do human things, there used to be several humans living in Zanado-1 (which prompted them to build elevators and all).

There were a lot of humans and half-humans there, still, was Zanado-1 an utopia? Well... I don’t think so. Just like Nabateans aren’t evil because they have pointy ears, I don’t see them “good” because they have pointy ears, they are people, and people can be good or bad regardless of their race.

So, of course, some Nabateans would get cocky and grow arrogant (tfw modesty isn’t Sothis’s forte) and some might see humans as inferior, or things who need their help - obviously, because humans always need help and guidance. Maybe those ones would leave Zanado-1 and try to spread “civilisation” or “help” some other country, and they’d be the ones “revered as gods” the interview mentionned. 

Of course some of them were happy living with humans, and I HC there used to be a lot - well not a crapton but more than 10 - hybrids in Zanado-1, showing that at least, some Nabateans thought humans were fine enough to be “life partners” or to get babies with.

Until the end Sothis wanted to believe in coexistence, and how Nabateans and Humans (and herself!) could live in Fodlan, she even named her last born in the way the most hostile humans - Agarthans - name themselves and tried to raise her as human does, being called “Mother” instead of “Progenitor God” and all.

But things don’t happen like expected, she didn’t foresee how humans from Agartha would resent her because of the imbalance of power between her kind and, well, their own kind and in turn grow fearful, or how her attempts to “help” would be seen as scorn instead, from a being who flaunts her power over powerless people.

Morale of the story?

Uh... a lot of power imbalance creates resentment and fear? Maybe the Nabateans should have tried to adapt their lifestyle to the one humans had, or not provide a free utopia to everyone who asked, idk.

The playable (lel) Nabateans wouldn’t have lived long in Zanado-1, Cichol would maybe have been a tad bit younger than current Flayn, and Rhea would have been somewhere like as old as a kid who entered elementary school a few months ago and still needs a plushie to sleep when the first Nukes were launched.

As a result, Rhea wouldn’t remember well Zanado-1 - but she remembers hiding in what would become the Holy Tomb to hide from the “flashing lights” outside, but Cichol would remember it better as pre-teen (maybe that’s where he got his tendency to give lectures, he saw older brothers giving lectures and providing advices and counselling to humans who asked?), Indech would have been part of the forces Sothis had with her to fight against the Agarthans while Macuil would be at that age where he is in his dinosaurs phase, save that dinosaurs was “magic”, and he never grew out of it.

Macuil would remember Zanado-1, only because it was the place where he was supposed to do a lot of “magic” and learnt how to do it and how it was his kind’s gift from the Progenitor God (cf magic meta) but then humans turned it against them, and they suck.

(Then Zanado-2 happens and he’s pretty sure they’re ultra sucky).

[kon-konk]

Well, I guess the good news is that it did indeed turn into option 1, where I went to sleep at like 9 at night. Bad news is that I'm now awake and hungry and trying to finish my sleep and failing