#ok goodbye lmao

[demadogs]

When a typical virus attaches itself to its host, it duplicates, right? It spreads, essentially hijacking the host… What is so unusual here is that this virus, the infected hosts seem to be communicating.

Stranger Things season two (2017)

[bizarrelittlemew]

calling it right now that season 3 starts like this

[opalescent-cheetah]

"my blue, and your orange... I guess something will remember us." --River Song, Archipelago (The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Star-Crossed)

blue and orange.

orange and blue.

they are intertwined, always.

she is blue, like the TARDIS - his TARDIS, her second mother. blue like the diary modelled after it.

he is orange, like the life she breathed back into him, lifetimes sealed in a single kiss. (clock that blue light flare on river too-!!)

blue and orange. orange and blue. the colours where they come to life.

even his TARDIS interior is blue and orange: the echo of a timeline that still lingers in soft whispers.

from an artistic perspective, these colours were probably only used together so often because they're complementary, which can add depth and distinction to a shot. but still, it feels meaningful: they're complementary. just like river and the doctor. so different, and yet they look and work perfectly together.

now, if you'll allow me to stretch the point a little further, let's go back to lake silencio, at the junction where sand meets water:

(i'm calling this a stretch because i'm well aware the sand is more yellow than orange, lol. but those colours are analogous so... i figured the idea was worth keeping in)

she emerges from the water, so cold, so blue.

he descends from the sands, golden and warm.

they meet where land meets water, orange yellow meeting blue. he is the sun and she his sky, and at 5:02pm, the universe folds itself around them, curling in on the point where these colours converge.

[expelliarmus]

[acoraxia]

What are your thoughts on shadowpeach?

Fandom wise? I do not care for it.

Canon wise? I believe in men committing crimes while forming the most toxic, unhealthy attachments to one person could lead to such a dysfunctional relationship that it, eventually, turns into a functional one. And also they’re trans and aspec.

Disclaimer: this is all my opinion and people can do whatever they want, i simply have my gripes with some of the fandom stuff. this is just me explaining what i like and dislike about shadowpeach.

I think the most common thing people fall into when it comes to ships—or shipping in general—is how to domesticate these two characters without fully addressing their flaws, personalities, behavior, and their overall choices throughout the original media/show they come from. 

Macaque and SWK both suffer equally through this mischaracterization: Macaque is often painted as this shy or “edgy” character with little to no ties to his actual character in canon and, more often than not, he is perceived as this “dad” type of character when, in fact, he should not be allowed near children for I fear he will bully them nonstop until they sit there in the corner feeling disheartened and miserable about themselves; Sun Wukong is often portrayed as this dumb himbo with little-to-no means of understanding social cues, not understanding emotions in a way that’s very frustrating, and be this yearning, pining idiot who’s still longing for his childhood crush when he did not hesitate to punch this guy in the face multiple times throughout the show. So when they are paired up together it’s this weird mash of people believing Macaque is the better dad with more understanding of human behavior and Wukong is his dumb, doting husband who’s doing his best and cannot stand up for himself when confronted about things.

The amount of times people choose to make Macaque sympathetic by having Sun Wukong’s family side with Macaque when it comes to Wukong’s actions/choices is so vast I could not count them all on one hand. The common trope of having Princess Iron Fan (Sun Wukong’s sister-in-law) become Macaque’s sworn sister is so disheartening to see for someone who read through Journey To The West and thought of how silly the overall family dynamic of the Demon Bull Family and Sun Wukong’s troops was. Removing Iron Fan as Sun Wukong’s literal sister just to have someone backup Macaque and sympathize with him is funny and a bit silly. 

That being said… the canon version of Shadowpeach and its possibilities are, in fact, very delicious.

Canon wise this is what we know about Sun Wukong and Macaque’s history together: 

Sun Wukong and Macaque meet

The brotherhood is formed after Azure meets Sun Wukong, Macaque tags along with Wukong (note: Macaque is not addressed as “brother” by the characters, only Wukong is)

Macaque tries to warn Wukong about how dealing with Heaven might be a bad idea

They share a peach under a tree; Wukong reassures Macaque this plan will work

Wukong carries on with Azure’s plan anyway (yes, azure lion’s plan, not wukong’s)

The brotherhood is defeated and Wukong gets trapped under a mountain

Presumably no one comes to visit Wukong, only Macaque

During his final visit, Wukong is angry that Macaque is free and can’t see the fact that Wukong was trying to do everything for them and his kingdom

Macaque snaps back at Wukong and calls him an obsessive demon before leaving

They have another fallout and fight

Wukong ends up killing Macaque in the aftermath

500~ years later, Macaque and Wukong fight again with Wukong being more apathetic towards their reunion than Macaque is

Macaque obsesses over Wukong continuously (coughs)

Macaque is biased in his retellings of his and Wukong’s relationship (see: all of shadowplay and the scrolls memories)

They fight (again) throughout S3

They somewhat reconcile by the end of S4

We will address the fact Sun Wukong was groomed into going to war by this former celestial warrior instead of having it be because of his own want to protect his family and friends after Heaven refused to pay him the respect he wanted when he first joined their ranks later. Right now we focus on the fact that Sun Wukong is canonically a person people easily fall in love with (platonically) and have a tendency to want to stay close to regardless of what his future actions will be like and Macaque is sequentially obsessed with him throughout the show.

“The hero and the warrior were like the Sun and the Moon. Their light, a protective glow, shining upon the world. Together, there was nothing that could stop the two of them. Either in the Celestial Realms or on Earth. As time went on, the hero attained power beyond comprehension. As the hero's light grew, so too did his shadow. And soon, the warrior was cast in that shadow. In the darkness, the warrior was forgotten by the hero.”

Fun fact: Macaque is never going to be on par with Sun Wukong’s power and he works best as support than he does a duo-attacker along side Wukong. Wukong is on his own power level and Macaque, while being able of holding his own against enemies, could be stomped to death by Xiaoijiao is he crossed the line.

Macaque’s obsession with Sun Wukong comes from the inability to move on from the past; Macaque wanting things to go back as they were is a subtle theme going through the show — he keeps latching on to biased memories and avoiding the actual problems that caused their relationship to fall apart and it isn’t until Season 3’s big confrontation with Long Xiaojiao’s Samadhi Fire ritual. He realizes he abandoned Wukong during a time of need and proceeds to flee, abandoning him again. 

Macaque has issues. More often than not people call out on Sun Wukong for abandoning Xiaotian or the Monkie Kid Crew all while ignoring the fact Sun Wukong does not purposefully leave Qi Xiaotian, he tries his hardest to make it back in time and is visibly scared/horrified when LBD attacks in his absence. Sun Wukong tries his hardest to comfort Xiaotian while Macaque tries to torment him. 

Regardless, Sun Wukong and Macaque’s relationship is unique to most media’s portrayal of friends turned enemies. Because Wukong does not see Macaque as a threat up until he teams up with Lady Bone Demon — he is only scary by association, not by anything he has done up until that point. You can tell with the way Wukong mocks him and calls him something akin to a puppet during their interaction in Season 3 when Macaque trapped him and Nezha in the ice. 

And even then Macaque doesn’t even bother trying to engage with Wukong in a friendly manner because kindness is for losers HA i’m not apologizing for anything, bye Sun Wukong, you big old LOSER [proceeds to possibly live on the streets and stay homeless until wukong allows him to return to ffm under certain house rules]

You’ll notice that Sun Wukong barely has any opinions on Macaque.

This is because Macaque is favored by the narrative more than Sun Wukong is so we have very little context as to how Sun Wukong genuinely feels towards Macaque. 

Sun Wukong sees Macaque as an annoyance, a bother, a threat, a coward, an imposter and then, finally, an ally. 

But all we get from that is Wukong handing Macaque a peach-flavored ice cream pop as a parallel to him sharing a peach with his old friend back when they were young monkeys before he was trapped under a mountain for 500 years as a result of his abuser’s power hold on him that forced him to fight heaven as a way to “make the world a better place”. 

We love to see it.

Macaque and Wukong’s relationship goes from mutual interest and a supportive friendship established years prior to the original building of the brotherhood to a very weird, uncategorized type of dynamic. The only way to characterize Sun Wukong’s “affection” towards Macaque is, possibly, the same way most people would characterize Macaque to be towards Wukong. Y’know the slightly judgmental actions and eye rolls and scoffs of affection most people write about Macaque when Wukong does something stupid? Yeah.

“But Macaque said “this guy” when Wukong was presenting his plan to defeat Azure—“ yeah have you considered Wukong does a lot of masking in the presence of the entire Monkie Kid Crew and Macaque has a tendency to present himself as this cool persona when in fact he’s just a homeless monkey who’s been crashing on his ex’s couch for the past weeks since the ending of Season 3? 

“OK…. but why QPR Shadowpeach?”

Sun Wukong throughout the course of Journey to the West and all its past and future iterations have always had him be uninterested in both men and women. There are multiple instances where he’s capable of courting women and he instead backs away or does not pay it any mind; aside from this he’s heavily implied to only care about familial love and friendships. He does not see his pilgrim brothers as anything more than family and he views Tripitaka as a mentor rather than someone whom he was chained to. And Azure was his idol and he was groomed by him, and everyone else was viewed to him as a troop — or, y’know, a family.

This and the fact that— both Sun Wukong and Macaque are over a thousand years old. Why on earth would they have a normal type of relationship? Giving them a checklist of what passes on as romantic and platonic when to them the line is so blurred it’s barely existent to them is amusing. 

Sun Wukong and Macaque having their own weird relationship where it changes from frustrated best friends to partners to angry middle aged demons to the tired traumatized immortals who sometimes cuddle while still beating each other up is so deliciously interesting and unhealthy to the point where it is healthy. 

Also Celestial bodies are not the same as mortal bodies; canonically Sun Wukong has transformed into women before and people have addressed him with female-leaning pronouns before. my personal headcanon of sun wukong being genderfluid lves on and now we can have sapphic shadowpeach with transfem macaque.

also im still feverish so if this doesnt make sense then too bad damn im sorry

[fluffytheocelot]

honestly homophobic of netflix to remove the interactive with the julethief canon events in it

AND ON THE DAY CARMEN ESCAPES VILE NO LESS 😒

rip To Steal or Not To Steal. you had the entire fandom in a chokehold over that ending <3

[kawaii-kushami]

having one of those mid-20s moments where you're like well damn. im really not a teenager anymore i dont hate myself anymore actually. like its insane

sorry i gotta ramble but this feels too silly to post anywhere else

[relicsongmel]

Over 2 years later and I still can't believe Gamefreak forced bisexuals all over the world to do the impossible and make a choice between THESE TWO

[charmingradiobelle]

I hope every single one of my mutuals know just how much you all mean to me like I would be so miserable without y’all so thank you

[anonzentimes]

I think i overdramatic or anything you can call me but, Nagito is not a twink

People on the fandom looove to draw him skinny and really down for sexual tension. NAGITO Is a just like other men, you don't need to really so slutty or anything.

i'm going to be so honest i have no clue what you are cooking because he's a queer skinny young boyish beautiful man he fits the definition of a twink perfectly lmfao??

Don't know what you mean by "NAGITO Is a just like other men, you don't need to really so slutty or anything," but I assume you're just saying the fandom sexualizes him and you don't think it fits? I mean that's fair, but I hate to say it the franchise itself after a point sexualizes him too, soooooo, it's kind of expected lol? We also have evidence that he isn't asexual through the information we can gather from his songs and context clues, so again, it's not all that surprising or enraging that the fandom would treat him sexually. Like, he's also one of the tumblr sexyman icons people think he's attractive lol. If that isn't what you meant feel free to drop another ask with more understandable sentences lol!

[ghostinggg3299]

THIS BLOG IS CURRENTLY INACTIVE

So, i decided to abandon this and my other blog and possibly make a new account to start over. There's plenty of reasons I'm doing this:

My profile isn't exactly how i wanted it to be.

It pretty much is dead other than a few of those posts that get a bunch of notes. Not that I'm complaining but i imagined myself interacting with my followers and i failed to do so really?

Most of my followers might be inactive and so its a little underwhelming seeing the numbers.

I want to add new goals and i feel like a fresh start would make that easier.

What might happen to this/the other art blog? Nothing really? I don't plan on deleting them because they still have a lot of art and sketches i think people like to see. It'd be a bummer to erase all that. What's next? I plan on starting with small goals and recording all my little achievements in a new account. Starting over might also help motivate me to actually study some art tricks.

Where can we find you? I'm not sure if i want to post my next profile here but i might change my mind , so check back soon!

What do you plan on doing on your new profile? Probably indulge in my interests again with silly drawings(tf e, lmk. rottmnt, roblox pressure, fnaf content, etc...) Any projects i plan on doing will also be posted there. Its mostly passion things at least.

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Wishing you all well and hopefully we meet each other again! :3 Thank you for your support and time~!

[joyouss-whimsy]

I did it boys… I finished red dead redemption two.

[jrueships]

HAPPY BIRTHBARI!!!!!!!

i love floral shorts!!!!! i love like haiwaiian (HOW TF DO U SPELL THIS) shirt flower floral tho. Not like meemaw stuff

Red and blue !!!

[jalapenobee]

kenta kanata and ryu as a shuffle team. yeah

[cousticks]

i think 16 year old chuuya (pre stormbringer) would have been less miserable if he regularly used power tools or perhaps even construction equipment. and i will not be elaborating. i just KNOW albatross had access to both a mechanic's garage and a forklift or two

[serandipity]

A lot of incoherent rambling under the cut on headcanons. Note: I don't require people adhere to these to interact. I am simply putting this here so people can read my own thoughts.

My headcanons and categorization of the golden goddesses' have kind of changed over time but I do use a lot of astronomy / physics concepts with stars for them.

Where if you stripped away a lot of the religiosity, the golden goddesses' are approximations of some of the stuff that began with the start of the universe.

In this vein -> It's debated whether Din or Nayru is older, given that time (nayru) is thought to have begun with the big bang (din), with farore being the youngest (governing over the beginning of life which is a relatively new concept in the great span of the universe)

This applies to other pantheon concepts are well. While Din and Nayru and Farore created the univerrse so to speak a lot of later elements do not come into play until much later in the same way heavier more refined elements were not made until the largest stars went nuclear and with their "death" / "departure" newer, gods were made.

I base them off the brief concepts introduced in the OoT temples basically, and they're referred to as the Titans (borrowing from Greek Mythos)

So the Golden Goddesseses -> the Titans -> later gods and goddeses'.

This is sort of how I explain away Zelda pantheon the weirdness. The Titans include Hylia and Demise but a few other "original concept" gods which maybe I'll design at a certain point, but the races of hyrule answer to those gods first verses the Golden Goddesses'. While worship of them wasn't necessarily uncommon in the earlier periods, it can be assumed they eventually died out to some extent.

And truthfully, appealing to primordial gods is never really a good idea. (wind waker is evident of ths). They're neutral beings that don't conceptualize laws and morals like later gods do. etc. etc. Think order vs. entropy.

and obviously keeping them as unworshipped primordial pillars of the universe itself gives a rather easy handwave to other potential pantheon interpretations that are sure to exist. I.e. Humans + Gerudo are less likely to ascribe as much mysticism and magic to things and belief in the triforce might be scant in comparison to Hylians.

ok i have rambled thank u good bye