#overly sarcastic productions journey to the west

[thechildbesuffering]

Muh-COCK hehehehe

[menaceoffandoms]

So, I saw a theory from @mumatsi and it reminded me of a theory I had before season 5 came out, so I wanna talk about it!

In the journey to the west, the Buddha says their are 4 celestial primates that exist within the world; the intelligent stone monkey (Sun Wukong), the red-buttocked baboon, the long armed gibbon and the six eared Macaque. As far as I'm aware, (all my knowledge about jttw comes from overly sarcastic productions, so I'm very much not an expert) Wukong never meets the other celestial primates during the journey. With only their names and vague powers being listed, the celestial monkies are perfect bases for characters in a cartoon. We've already seen the writers take advantage of this with Macaque, who is the only other celestial monkie we met in jttw. So it makes sense to me that the others would show up at some point.

My initial idea was that MK was the red-buttocked baboon, mainly cause their cited as having knowledge of ying and yang, an understanding of human affairs and the ability to avoid death and lengthen its life.

It just sorta fit in my mind at the time, but after season 5 I don't think it dose anymore.

MK is the harbinger of Chaos, a created by Nuwa with the express purpose of restoring the pillar of heaven and restarting the cycle of the world. MK's not meant to exist beyond that purpose, he only has a life because the Nine-headed serpent wakes him up early and brings him to Pigsy. He, and the stones, are made from the chaos beyond the world, unique to anything else in the world.

So therefore, MK can't be one of the 4 celestial primates, because he wasn't meant to really be a person to begin with. It's why none of the guardians or Nuwa ever call him by his name, or any name for that matter. It's really fucked up when you think about it actually.

I do think it would make sense for the other two celestial primates to show up later in the show, but I don't think season 6 would make sense for that and I don't think they'll be villains. Antagonists, maybe, but not big bad's about to end the world.

I feel like they'll show up sometime after Wukong and Macaque get their shit together, if they do at all, and that means we'd be look at post season 6 at minimum.

But, going back to mumatsi's idea, I do think whatever the "he" the Nine-headed serpent was referring to could have something to do with the celestial primates.

We already know Nuwa made MK and in jttw there is never a definitive reason why Wukong came to be, other than a combination of earthly and celestial energy creating him seemingly at random. But since they both came from the same stone egg, I think we can guess that Nuwa might have had a hand in Wukong being created.

No idea why, but that's a train of thought for later.

I mention this because I think "he" is another God, some opposite to Nuwa who thrives in chaos instead of rejecting it. Their is a Chaos God in Chinese myth named Hundun and I think he could be our best bet at who "he" is.

I don't know much about this deity, I literally just did a quick google search, but given the only evidence toward who this character could be is chaos and the Nine-headed serpents vague mention, I think its as plausible as anything else. At the very least, I'm confident "he" is a God of some kind.

With that idea in mind and the thought that Nuwa created MK, we could assume that Hundun had some part in making Macaque and that is who he got his power from.

It would explain how he was able to stop the Nine-headed serpent, seeing as he seems to have made his own connection with the chaos after "escaping the cave" as he said, but Macaque would have a stronger connection by being made of the stuff.

It could also explain Macaque's death, since chaos and madness go together quite well and the laughter we hear from him in Wukong's flashback sounds very crazy.

TLDR: I wanna know more about the mystic monkies and why the fuck they were made. Hundun is probably the big bad of season 6 giving he's a chaos god and is likely linked to Macaque just like MK is linked to Nuwa, meaning we could get villain Macaque again in season 6 if his madness in Wukong's flashback is any indication.

Basically, there's a lot of potential for drama and I have many, many questions that will likely never be answered.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[sleeplessdreamer14]

“why are you the way that you are?”

forget joy anger sadness disgust and fear. these guys are running the console in my head.

[karppie]

Old art again. Aaaagh

[our-happygirl500-fan]

Overly Sarcastic Productions art of the Four Celestial Primates is absolutely beautiful 

[magsinthe]

important announcement from the “i am in jttw purgatory”

[smallpwbbles]

LETS FUCKING GOOOO NEW OSP JTTW EPISOOOODE

[deadlandsqueen]

The Lumberjack and the Monkey

Ive been reading The Monkey and the Monk, this scene lives rent free in my head

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[jedineedlove]

THEY ARE BACK!!!

A new episode of the Overley Sarcastic Productions series

Journey to the West XI :)

[blackchrysalys]

Most of the jttw fandom everytime they see canon jttw Tripataka

[gr3at-s4ge]

happy OSP JTTW day everyone

[zamypachi]

As a contributions to Overly Sarcastic Production’s new episode of their Journey to the West series.

[journeytothewestresearch]

What do you think of Overly Sarcastic Production's overview of JTTW? Is it accurate at all? Oversimplified to a degree it effects the accuracy and/or serves its purpose as a general overview well, though it may lose some details? I've been reading the novel in tandem with their videos, and it seems pretty accurate so far, but I'm very much new to JTTW in general lol

I'd say it follows the story in simple, entertaining chunks. But I certainly wouldn't use it as a source in an online discussion like I've heard some people doing. For me, I just turn off my brain and enjoy the humor and bright, pretty colors.

I'm happy knowing that, when Red doesn't have access to the physical books, she uses the JTTW PDFs archived on my external blog.

[jttwconfessions]

blaming osp for something you people got wrong (the whole nezha being 12 years old thing) is insanity actually. It was just a single thrown away joke that went too far lol

[overlysarcasticpolls]

Semifinal: Match 2

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[astroaaron]

I’ve been learning to draw for a full year now.

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2023 vs 2024

Inspiration from OSP Journey to the West