#hous of black

[kind-hufflepuff]

REGULUS BLACK

[angryvampire]

MONKEY KING PLUSHIE DONE!!!

I finally finished the accesories (minus a peach that i decided to make after i finished everything, i'll post a picture once its done) and im so happy with the result, it looks so cute!!

We got the Ruyi Jingu Bang

The golden circlet (It looks better on the plushie)

The tiger skin skirt, that looks absolutelly adorable!!! (I learned how to stitch a button because of this :D)

And the gourd, inspired by the Trailblazer Gourd from Black Myth Wukong

Put it all toguether, plus a cotton Nimbus Cloud for the picture, and voila! Sun Wukong comes to life!

Sunny kept flopping down before, but now she can stand up because of the skirt :D It was very fun to make and i learned new things too

I love it so much!!!

[takingasterix]

fanart for wither and bloom by tskmo

this is really, really old (and never fully finished), but the fic just updated this morning for the first time in a while and I realized that if I wrote 65k of anything, I'd probably want to see fanart for it even if that fanart was not great

anyways, if you like jiuyuan, i absolutely recommend this fic! it's one of my favorites of all time and i'm totally obsessed with it (you have no idea how excited i was today when i saw it updated!!). that being said, it does cover some darker subjects, so make sure to heed the warnings that the author gives.

[inkyminx]

I couldn’t resist so have a character that appears in most adaptations of JTTW cause I like the concept and that it’d be fun instead of sticking a character to one series.

Experimental & whatnot. R.I.P spine and sleep schedule BUT HEY— IT FUN.

Have Some Trivia ~

The name’s Kaihua Haizi!  开花孩子

Kai Zi for short.

Panamanian White-Face Capuchin.

Gay, He / Him

Is a mystic, not born from stone.

Born on Flower Fruit Mountain.

Be loyal or kneecaps be backwards, sassy, strong-willed, brutally honest, curious & aggressive.

May have broken someone’s bone in an arm wrestle. Or two. Or ten—

A singer & performer: mostly ballet & acrobatics.

Has some kind of romance or camaraderie with Wukong (depending on the version) & often a mentor for successors and young.

This guy will make a sh!t ton of movie references (mostly Emperor’s New Groove) .

Kind of a busy-body.

Pretty much an older sibling type/guidance for the younger monkeys in FFM.

That or the guy that trains said youngins and newcomers, often times the kiddos being dragged back by him unconscious later.

Is a tad older than Macaque and Wukong. (Headcanon: Don’t know if it’s proven, but to me- Macaque is older than Sun Wukong) (more related to LMK) .

Gained Immortality through witchcraft and that one time Wukong stole the longevity peaches.

Possesses appearance manipulation, flora & black magic.

Uses hairpins, needles & a Guandao-like blade.

Was burned with an iron as punishment by the Heavens for being connected to Wukong and taking part in his war against them (hence the mark on his chest) .

Will Lion King his own kid (MK, Destined One, Fruity & Chenxiang watch out) .

And for the adaptations, continue under the cut!

Mei Hou Wang

Was raised alongside Liu’er by the former king after losing his parents as an infant (Headcanon, not sure if proven) .

Nicknamed “Hua Hua” by Shihou right after meeting him.

In a kind of love triangle with Liu’er & Shihou as they got older.

It’s unknown how their ending will go but it remains lighthearted and fun regardless (fvck off Nine Headed B!tch) .

Close friends and dance partners with Yutu.

Accompanied Liu’er during his training with the deer master (more so to keep an eye on him/babysitting) .

May have spied on Liu’er much after noticing something was up after his first encounter with the Nine Headed demon (can’t remember his name, sorry) .

Definitely hung Ginseng on a tree branch a few times as discipline.

Likes to tease Havoc and the monkey generals for days on end.

Nicknames Shihou “Shidi” for fun.

Started wearing his hair with a braid after Liu’er started it one day while enjoying the sunshine.

Played a LOT of pranks on the generals as a cub.

Was born with the mark on his chest as a symbol to his power in flora in this version.

Was taught singing and dancing to “ease his buffoonery” by the former king.

Kinda went the other way but still kinda worked?

Owns a flower-made promise ring Shihou made for him.

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LMK

Calls Macaque “Shidi” to mess with him in this version.

In their youth, Kai & Sun Wukong were in a relationship for a couple of years (basically a friends-to-lovers situation) .

PET NAMES ARE A TRADITION.

Introduced the shy Macaque to Wukong.

BOI this version’s chaotic tendencies go through the Heavens compared to the others (minus one) .

Was friends with the Brotherhood and often hung around together, getting drunk most times (minus Peng) .

Sorry Macaque, gonna have to drag TWO drunk primates back up the mountain this time.

Pranked tf out of Peng and lesser demons in his youth.

Got into an argument with Wukong right before the Brotherhood’s attack on the Heavens, leaving some strings torn.

“I’m not gonna stand on that battlefield and watch you die!”

Stayed with Macaque on FFM until his fight with the King.

Left FFM after his friends’ battle.

Now lives in the mountains of The Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey (Headcanon as seen in Sheng’s story) .

Plays a similar role to Macaque with MK in S1 but doesn’t try to uppercut the kid.

In fact, this guy is a pretty frequent customer of Pigsy’s Noodles before this but hid his history during that time.

Kinda.

Tang: YOUR THE MONKEY KING’S LOVER! 🤩 Kai: Ah sh!t, here we go again.

Makes up with Wukong after season 3, seeing him interact with MK and Macaque, and his change.

While not back together completely, the two go DAYS being menaces & buddy-buddy once more.

MK: Your technically my fifth dad, right?  Kai.exe Stopped Working.

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Reborn

Is Sun Wukong’s close friend & comrade instead of pursuing a full relationship.

Appeared briefly in the town during their search, covering most of their face to hide themself.

Was caught by Fruity at one point in the town but the monkey not carefully shoved the baby in the pile of a vegetable stall.

Was hinted by Wukong when Fruity asked if he had someone waiting for him back home.

This guy is a lot more…mysterious & dark vibes in appearance than the usual chirpy but still holds that prankster/fun vibe.

Aside from that, there’s not much about him in the movie since he only appears in the background and is only mentioned verbally once.

~

1996

TBA

Will be created once I finally find a decent translation without signing for a subscription and whatnot.

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Black Myth

Like most, Kai and Wukong were close comrades and eventually started a somewhat more intimate relationship before the Journey.

MANY years later, Kai plays a supporting role and guide for the destined one (similar to Zhu Bajie) .

In this version, Kai does appear as an elder (though not as much as the old monkey in the beginning) but does revert back to his true age near the end.

Age Appearance Manipulation do be like that.

Lost his right arm & left eye a period after Sun Wukong’s death.

Kai, to The Destined One: “When I was your age—“  Zhu Bajie: *repeats in spongebob mocking*

Despite not actually being able to be so GOD does this guy have a great time being an old man/monkey.

To Destined One: “FVCK ‘EM UP, SONNY!”

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Havoc In Heaven / Lotus Lantern

This version doesn’t really do much in the story of both aside from what’s already been said, including an intimate relationship w/ Wukong, mentoring and taking care off the young monkeys, etc.

Their romance is more subtle in this version.

His design is more of a mix of the opera & ballet, but simplified to match the style of the animation.

If you thought LMK PeachSong (yea) was a chaotic pair, BOY LET ME TELL YA—

In the latter, Kai is sometimes seen either behind the lotus Wukong sits on doing his own thing (mostly just listening & basically giving off the “old married couple vibe” or being a guardian type to Chenxiang as he trains.

Grandpapi & Grandpapa be here wrecking so much havoc (badum chsss) .

[danmeigirl]

[poisonhemloc]

aaAAH I commissioned @vaspider for a lemur Hawaiian shirt and it came today (faster than I was expecting! I didn’t think it’d make it here ‘til May) and it’s good! The pattern is great (I asked for black and white ruffed lemurs specifically because I love them, and the pride flag flowers so it’s stealth pride) it’s a nice lightweight fabric.

I won’t keep gushing about it but new favorite shirt

[yingtan]

Hou Minghao "Wander Wilderness" April 2023│NeufMode Magazine China

[sparklingwatermelo]

Sirius Black… the failure of the house of black.

He knows. He knows. He knows.

It’s carved into his body…into his soul. He shouldn’t care, he shouldn’t but he does.

[dorothygale123]

So, we've talked quite a bit about Hou Yi before, but his story always seems to start with him slaying the 10 Suns, doesn't it? He never seems to have much going on before The Incident. Well, one of my sources may shed a bit of light (no pun intended) on his pre-banishment history.

See, my newest book says that a god named Yi, who is the descendent of the Black Emperor, hung out on Riyue Mountain (the place where the sun and moon set) and was in charge of making sure the stars stayed in their lanes and didn't bump into each other. A celestial traffic cop, if you will. Now, my source doesn't say anything about this Yi being the same Yi that shot down the suns and, as it's written in English, I don't know if they're spelled with the same characters, but when has that ever stopped me before? These are called sh*tposts for a reason!

Besides, I think it fits with Hou Yi and his role in his most famous myth really well. As a deity who spent a lot of time on the mountain where the suns set every night, it would make sense if he knew and was friends with them. This would add another possible reason to why Di Jun would choose Hou Yi specifically to try and convince the suns to chill out- he was hoping their friend could talk some sense into them. As a consequence, it seems a lot less stupid that Di Jun would be surprised "the arrow guy he commissioned to shoot arrows shot arrows at the people he pointed him at" (Red, OSP). He probably thought their friend would be thr last person to hurt them.

It also makes the fact that he did shoot shoot them down all the more tragic and juicy! They were his friends, he knew them, and he tried to get them to see reason, but he failed. He couldn't convince them, and the world was still dying. He had to do something. Anything. Even if it meant killing them with his own hands. And then you add in my idea that he, Shen I, and Erlang killed the suns together but Hou Yi took all the blame himself-!

Oh the DRAMA!!!

Sh*tpost Masterlist

[daegorth]

Ouch.

Leo's face😭😭😭😭😭

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Enchanted Rocks

Photographer: Huibo Hou

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS™

[atopvisenyashill]

siri what is class privilege

[naorende]

[orgasmic-rock]

Narcissa Malfoy (according to me 😋).

Dongni Hou (Chinese b.1987)

https://www.instagram.com/douni_hou/

[thatrickmcginnis]

HOU HSIAO-HSIEN, Toronto 1989

Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien brought his film City of Sadness to the film festival in 1989, a picture that would be acclaimed as his first masterpiece after the critical success of films like Dust in the Wind (1986) and Daughter of the Nile (1987). Films from both mainland China as well as Taiwan and Hong Kong were having a creative renaissance starting in the '80s, and I remember every year bringing new, talented directors to the film festival - people as different as John Woo, Ang Lee, Zhang Yimou, Wong Kar-wai and Jia Zhangke. I'd end up photographing many of them, as well as the stars of their pictures, over the next fifteen or twenty years.

Director Hou Hsiao-hsien was born to a Hakka family in mainland China but was raised in Taiwan, and most of his films - like City of Sadness - tell the story of the upheavals in Taiwan's history since its founding at the end of World War Two. City of Sadness, the film he brought to Toronto in 1989, was about a family trying to survive those violent early years in the country's history, and won a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival that year. I didn't know much about him when I got the assignment to photograph him, but I took the title of his film as a cue and shot two rolls of mostly somber portraits in a downtown hotel - probably the old Four Seasons in Yorkville.

It was early days in the decade I spent shooting for NOW, the Toronto free weekly, and the 35mm shots I took of director Hou Hsiao-hsien show me trying to fit in with the paper's "house style", using a relatively wide lens (probably a 35mm) on my new Nikon F3. I had brought my own light to the shoot, and a new camera - the Rolleiflex that I'd bought to replace the more cumbersome Mamiya C330 that I'd sold. It forced me to produce a different sort of portrait, and would become my main camera for portraits over the next decade as I tried to develop a style of my own while working for the paper. Hou Hsiao-hsien would go on to an acclaimed career over the next twenty-five years, with films like The Puppetmaster, Good Men Good Women, Cafe Lumiere and Flight of the Red Balloon, but his last film was The Assassin in 2015 and last year his family announed that he had Alzheimer's and had retired from directing.

[jaredthebc]

Sorry for the self reblog spam I was looking at my old BW PokeMas posts and I miss that era. I used to clog the N tag with all that LMAO