#liu’er mihou

[esmeblaise]

Liu’er Mihou the Six Eared Macaque

[saroscy]

“You came.”

“You called.”

Gifs from an old Tik Tok I made! Please enjoy <3 the files were huge, so sorry about the quality drop 😭

[freetalessimian]

2009 MONKEY KING ART DUMPPPP from most recent to oldest

I get burnt out very fast so I might not finish this Wip for a while. I do however really like how its turning out and have a whole folder of old 2009 fanart so I wanted to share.

ALSO! I really love the art style of 2009. Especially the way the draw limbs so I tried to recreate it as best I could. I gave Liu’er or ‘Six Ears’ darker skin because when he gets possessed his skin gets darker. I thought that was….an interesting choice. So I decided to just make it dark, im also a fan of warmer colors so its a warm tone.

I have a whole theory and idea. In my Au Im going to give the Demon King of Confusion/Havoc black fur so I want to change Liu’er’s to black as well, the reason for this isn’t going to be explained here. Im still working on designing ideas. Which you can see I was tracing to play with colors. This was originally going to be a fic but I’m a perfectionist so I struggle with plot holes.

Here are also two designs sketches I did last month. As you can see my art style has no bounds

Four months ago also DW this is not a ship, I was upset that Liu’er and Jade Rabbit didn’t get an arch together when they were our only main cast left on the mountain when Wukong went to train and the fruit baby snuck off to join him.

Because seriously He gets possessed and she points out that he’s acting unusual but then that plot went NO WHERE. So I made art if Jade Rabbit found him after the demon put that mark on him. As you can see I didn’t bother cleaning it up.

AND SHES A HEALER WHO WANTS TO HELP PEOPLE BUT DIDNT HELP HIM? suspicious. Also…the two of them are love interest coded so I really wanted them to become friends and bond over their weird ears. I WANTED THEM TO BE GIRLBOSSES TOGETHER 😭

And finally some old traditional doodles of them as Legos

[elirastudio]

SHADOW KING AU ~MASTERPOST~

Before

-my warrior

-them

-Captured

-their last hug

Reference

-liu’er mihou The monkey king

-sun wukong

-Qi Xiaotian

Shadow king au

-little explanation

-for your own good

-the weeping moon - {amazing fic}

-sleeping sun -wukong mind

-days

-meet tang

-love

-his shadow

Season 1

-little kid

-his first word

-monkey pajamas {part1} - {part2}

-first steps

-my son

-glamour

-sick days

-funny memories

-how to swim

-imaginary friend - {part2}

-whispers

-hurt each other

- new job

-time together

-maybe one day

-training

-compassion

-tonight or never

-thanks kid

-free the king

-he is alive

-leave for heaven

Season 2

-just a human

-birthday - {part2}

-idiot

-love does move mountain

[thedangoratio]

Saw that cheerleader wukong was resurfacing, so I thought I’d have a little bit of silly fun with that 🤭

[marokra]

Week 14 - What Needs Fixing

did this as art homework lol, hence the title. guess this is what happens when you girlboss too close to the Sun (he gouges your eye out)

[smilesatdawnmain]

When you go in for a kiss but your partner decides to tease instead~

(Hands are the bane of my existence )

[butterisanerd]

im not sorry

[imnowapinecone]

BET

[frrruuuuit]

The Hero and The Warrior.

(Click the image for better quality)

[arttrashking]

Forgot I can post here, currently writing a LMK fanfic with my own au so some doodles!! I AM MY FIRST FANARTIST AHAHAHAHAA

[anunwelcomedspirit]

Have some whiteboard fox drawings!!

I LEARNED HOW TO DRAW FACES LETS GOOO

the last ones a bit goofy, i didnt really put much effort on it lol

[saroscy]

Doodling some Liu’er Mihou designs! (Both prior to mimicking Wukong and after!)

I’m having a really tough time with this one, but I’m hoping it’ll all come together! I want to give him a more Tibetan vibe, so I hope that’s coming through!

[ruibaozha]

I saw how some people use historical figures from Chinese mythology, folklore and religion for NSFW, literally, turning them into their own OC's, and I was wondering, what do you think of that? Because it seems like they just took them, and didn't do more research asking the question of "is that right?"

As per your second question for me I will leave that unaddressed and instead invite you to discuss those matters properly in private, especially if this answer is dissatisfying.

I personally do not care much if NSFW or suggestive content of such deities exist (except for the child Nezha, leave his child form out of this.) or that it’s being produced in the first place. The numerous Chinese social media sites like LOFTER, Douban (豆瓣) and Xiaohongshu (小红书) feature fan art of Daoist deities like Nezha and Er’lang in these kinds of situations. Fan fiction of these deities are similarly of the same attitude. It has nothing to do with if proper research has been conducted, especially in the case of Er’lang Shen who cannot act on romantic feelings even if he wanted to.

It feels to me that there’s an exception regarding Chinese deities and folk heroes when deities of other religions have been sexualized. This screams of not only hypocrisy but of ignorance in being offended on behalf of the Chinese. In the few months I was active in the LMK fandom I’ve come to realize a majority of the other Chinese in the fandom are either adopted or second generation immigrants with no real cultural background; and as a consequence have severely inaccurate biases on matters like this because they aren’t aware of how insignificant this is.

I’m admittedly not active within the LMK fandom anymore and as such I don’t know what’s happening there unless someone is compelled to talk about what is going on. But it feels to me that as per usual people are holding Journey to the West as the be all end all on numerous fronts when the books really cannot and should not be heralded as such. Moreover, it’s strange that the fandom is completely okay with sexualizing Sun Wukong, the Six Eared Macaque, and the Golden Winged Peng while any other character is unacceptable.

I assure you that numerous derivative works feature Chinese deities in relationships and sexual contexts, even Tang Sanzang is featured in movies or television shows with a romantic partner despite relationships of that nature betray his Buddhist faith.

I’ve been considering making a post about the cultural dissonance that’s happening here and various attitudes or opinions other people have because they lack the cultural context to realize how insignificant and misinformed a lot of this “discourse” actually is.

What is it about Chinese mythology that sets it apart from Nordic or Greco-Roman mythology in these ways? Why is it perfectly acceptable to sexualize Loki or Achilles, but not someone like Muzha (who was a very real person that became deified, in the same fashion as Guan Yu, as who he was studying under was seen as an incarnation of Guanyin)?

I don’t think this type of thinking will ever make sense to me as a true testament to how different the fandom (especially on Twitter) and myself feel about this matter.

[elirastudio]

I made this drawing to color for my kids, I thought it turned out nice and decided to color it✨💕

[thedangoratio]