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An observation
#journey to the west#jttw#xiyouji#sun wukong#monkey king#the complexity of monke#still!#you do have to give og classic swk props#for being so cheerfully honest about his general assholery#and as always props to wu cheng'en#for making it impossible to ignore that he's far from the only one
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Did I ever post this I don't remember
#chonny jash#chonnys charming chaos compendium#fanart#cccc#cj mind#cccc hms#cccc mind#commisions open#still!#see my pinned 🤞#the mind electric
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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters - 1x04
#mlomedit#monarchlegacyofmonstersedit#monarch: legacy of monsters#monarch legacy of monsters#cate randa#may olowe-hewitt#kentaro randa#anna sawai#kiersey clemons#ren watabe#monarch legacy of monsters 1x04#cate x may#femslash related stuff#but subtext#okay so again isn't this quite blatant#and to clearly frame kentaro as sad about it#I mean of course it could just be that she hasn't forgiven him yet#still!#cate getting in that thumb rub here and the earlier scene#and lol at kentaro and may being all chapped and icy through the ep#while cate looks like she's in a catalogue#she and her grandma are SO stunning it's crazy
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his twinky looks and animated movements have captured my attention
first video -- second video
#he is an odd bug to me. study-able. gifs of him on my computer are like many specimens pinned to a corkboard#emrys awards#awsten knight#waterparks#the blue poptarts#ok technically the second one is from when they were wo9k i believe#still!
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Who are you?
#cult of the lamb#cotl#saw the little teaser from the steam page#the little fella looked neat! so i drew them :D#multiplayer cotl maybe?#that would be hella cool fr#though lore-wise i wonder how the devs are gonna implement multiplayer#still!#neat new character :D#cotl goat
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I am having fun :>
#fun times ahead#crafty things#pokemon#crafting#perler bead art#perler bead pokemon art#problem is now my back hurts ugh#i still havent ironed emmet#not fully happy at how ingo came out but#i should just do it#hot tho so maybe ill wait longer#the problem is i want to do alt poses but#that's a bit much i think#i already want to do them all lol i know that wont happen#still!#i like recording the colors used in case i want to try again#dont have to reinvent the wheel and all
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Because I haven't made my KOS-MOS cosplay complicated ENOUGH, I'm drafting and making gloves! For the first time!
But y'know, honestly, this is way better than I expected the first try to go! The middle and ring fingers fit great, I just need more space all around (and to be honest, this does not surprise me in retrospect lol), so it's back to the drawing board and then we'll try again!
Fortunately the final gloves will be in stretch vinyl, so they'll be much more forgiving than muslin lol
#cosplay shenanigans#kos-mos#xenosaga#patterned these on vibes and dreams#traced my hand and added gussets#guessed where the thumb should go#and i DEFINITELY didn't add enough space for the pinkie and index to account for only have one side with a gusset#same for the hand circumference#didn't even think about that lol#still!#we are learning!
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“Then honor her.”
I wanna talk about SHIELD Agent Hope Van Dyne
...who joined to honor her mother (the same reason she took Janet’s name), even though her father begged her not to and to work at Pym Tech instead.
...who bonded with Sharon over the weight of legacies and all the whispers behind their backs from those who doubted that their places were rightfully earned.
...who attended the SHIELD Academy alongside Maria, becoming fast friends (and soon, more than friends) and remaining each other’s favorite sparring partner long after.
...who took a long time to trust Natasha (both because of Nat’s past and her own generally standoffish nature), but with time, they became a formidable team on the field and off were known for their dry verbal sparring.
...whose faith in SHIELD was shaken upon meeting Ava Starr and worked in secret to help her, only for their plans to be cut off by what turned out to be Hope’s final mission.
#there's so much to work with!#i considered throwing peggy in this#but drew a blank#still!#sooo i wrote most of this back when this episode of 'what if..?' originally aired and never posted it#but since i've been rewatching season 1 i figure i might as well finally post it#hooray#though i'll always be sad the show and fandom just used her as fodder for manpain#and yes i will imply hope/maria at any opportunity. deal.#hope van dyne#janet van dyne#sharon carter#maria hill#natasha romanoff#ava starr#what if...?#maria x hope#headcanons#scribbling things
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Ryan in a recurring role in 2024 is literally a dream come true
#i know where I'd rather he has a recurring role in but I'll take it! so joyfully!#and another period drama? so so good#a period detective drama at that!#need him to be the killer#unfortunately everyone i ever really cared about on casualty is gone#apart from dylan i guess but i grew away from him in later years#still!#another show both ryan and louise will have been in and I'll watch only for them
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If you were put in charge of making a JTTW movie/TV adaption from start to finish what direction would you have the show go?
*SHAKING AND FROTHING AT THE MOUTH FROM THE THOUGHT OF BEING IN CHARGE OF MY OWN ULTRAVIOLENT BODY HORROR-ESQUE JTTW ADAPTATION* Oh I am so normal about this prospect anon.
But in all seriousness I think I would DEFINITELY want it to be a lengthy animated tv adaptation because there's so much rich backstory and plot in the og classic that a movie length doesn't really let you delve into, AND because the wild transformations and different entities seem like they would be best conveyed in the limitless possibilities of animation! Like just imagine how terrifying a havoc in heaven would be where the Monkey King is shown taking FULL advantage of every single one of his abilities (as-you-will cudgel size transformation, tons of monkey clones, transformation from one creature to another, invulnerability, truth-seeing eyes, transformation into a three-headed six-armed towering monstrosity to fight an Erlang Shen who does the same, etc.). In addition, I also do think that the length of time it took for the pilgrims to warm up to each other and for Sun Wukong to go from a practical and ruthless yaoguai warlord to the Buddha Victorious in Strife is an important part of what makes Xiyouji the classic that it is, and this is all something that I think could be well captured in a lengthy animated series.
I know for sure that I'd want to spend a good amount of time on Sun Wukong's transformation from a relatively innocent stone monkey to the most viciously powerful of the yaoguai warlords to a sincere Buddhist, especially since the very understandable fear of death for himself and his loved ones seems to constantly be a driving force behind a lot of his actions. I think seeing the transformation of the monkey from loving and wanting to protect a relatively small group of people (47,000 monkeys & his friends) to extending that active love and compassion to individuals of all sorts, both human and yao, could be a really cool arc for the Monkey King too. This is especially so as it raises the interesting question as to whether compassion and love can end up being destructive if it's only offered to some but not others, and what atonement for past violence might be.
Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing also present a potentially fascinating case of dealing with disgraced deities who start off by considering their time on Earth and time on the journey a punishment before they eventually come to develop genuine compassion for the mortals they encounter. Stories about a fall from heaven leading to the fallen ones developing greater empathy for those who were once literally below them is my jam, and I think these other two pilgrims could offer a neat way to explore that! Also I want to note that I'm fully on team "Zhu Bajie is constantly complaining that he's hungry and tired first because of his own appetites and then as a way to get the other four self-destructive idiots to stop and take care of the basic necessities of life." For sure I'd also add in that potential hint noted by others that breaking a vase during a banquet had a precedent of being used as a signal to start a coup, thus explaining why Sha Wujing's punishment on Earth was much worse than Zhu Bajie's. And one simply can't do without the indication that it was everyone's favorite Friar Sand who had eaten eight of Tang Sanzang's reincarnations! He may be one of the pilgrim group's straight men, but he also spent centuries as a cannibal <3.
Also yeah hard agree with others that both Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing start off the pilgrimage pretty terrified of Sun Wukong because they saw him at his violently worst in heaven. As a treat :3
I think I'd also have Ao Lie spend more time outside of his horse not just so that he can be a dragon-ish guy as well as an actual dragon, but also so that we can get more insight into how his transformation from a destructive prince to a humble steed changed him. I think it also would be cool to spend a little more time on the dragon kings and how, for example, it does raise some uncomfortable questions about their whole deal if Ao Lie could commit arson & destroy a pearl and be punished pretty brutally while Ao Guang could run a weather-based protection racket for centuries and get a 12 year old to kill himself and yet they all seem to be cool with that :[
I'd also want to make my adaptation one that deals more with the aftereffects of the absolute bullshit the pilgrims go through. For example, it's pretty rare to find an adaptation out there that gives full weight to the stuff Tang Sanzang went through, and while it is understandable why and can be funny to characterize him as one of the "straight men" of the pilgrim group or as the weepy useless guy who falls off his dragon horse all the time, I've literally never encountered an adaptation that for example has him react at the age of 18 to his mother committing suicide after Xuanzang went through so much to try and help her, or him having to see both of the human companions he started the journey with get eaten alive by yaoguai. I'd want to make Tang Sanzang more of a dynamic character than he is even in Xiyouji itself, and I do think delving into this background--you knowing, showing why exactly he does in fact have good reason to be suspicious and even hateful of yaoguai and perhaps more secretly certain humans (his mother was after all brutalized for years by a bandit chief)--would be good to deal with in showing Tang Sanzang's journey to enlightenment. And for sure I'd want to make Tang Sanzang a little more like the historical Xuanzang in having him both be a master translator and a canny rule-breaker; I think that having the story follow history in that Xuanzang was in fact forbidden from going west in search of Buddhist scriptures but went anyway, for example, would be a good path to follow. Might give him an interesting point of relation and sympathy to SWK as well, in that both of them would be challenging authority to do what they think is right.
I do think that this all could also make for a really interesting point of tension and later comprehension between Tang Sanzang and SWK, where you would have the monk and the monkey on the same journey for very different but in some ways similar reasons (Tang Sanzang wants the scriptures because he sincerely believes that they will save countless souls, SWK wants to finish the journey so that he can go back home and protect his monkeys). Like Tang Sanzang would be starting the journey at age 28 and after going through some pretty intense trauma, but having lived in a monastery for most of his life wouldn't have much of a sense of what dangers the world contains as SWK, even though he is determined to complete the journey no matter the cost to himself. SWK, on the other hand, would be starting the journey after the bitter defeat in heaven and the anguish of 500 years in solitary confinement, and would likely be enraged about everything he lost but would still be operating under the terrible elation that came from his vast violent power. As someone else once put it, it could be a similar dynamic to a late middle-aged triads boss having to watch out for a beginning grad student lmao. So you'd have a lot of tension between SWK and Tang Sanzang's world views, with the former thinking that violence is a perfectly acceptable way to solve problems or get what you want, while the other abhors violence of all sorts, and they'd both have plentiful reasons to criticize the other.
While the film The Monkey King 2 is far from the best JTTW retelling out there (though it is one of my personal favorites lol), it also has this pretty great and rare scene for JTTW retellings that I feel I'd like my own retelling to somewhat emulate. Here, Sun Wukong saves Tang Sanzang and a bunch of little kids from the violent actions of a king, but he's only able to do this because the Monkey King is more powerful than the king and is able to legitimately threaten the king with death if he goes back to his vicious ways. Tang Sanzang does get Sun Wukong to spare the king, but the king then directly calls the monk out on the seeming hypocrisy of his mission. I forget the exact words, but the king's accusations were basically about how Tang Sanzang is a fraud and a liar because for all that he preaches peace and forgiveness he wouldn't be able to make it anywhere, he wouldn't be able to save anyone, he would have in fact been killed long ago if it wasn't for Sun Wukong's power and willingness to violence. And I do think in a lot of ways this is the crux of a lot of interesting questions that Xiyouji brings up even if it never provides one solid answer: that we all want to be relieved of suffering, and yet what do we do in a world where violence is something we both constantly suffer from as well as commonly inflict upon others?
I guess ultimately I'd want this to be a retelling that really focuses on the many forms and roles of violence in the shaping of a society, what the consequences of this violence often is, and what might be done to create a more just and peaceful life for all.
I'd know I'd want to spend a lot of time on SWK getting back home to Mt. Huaguoshan and finding it this burned-out ruin with the vast majority of his family dead or otherwise gone, only to realize that this was done by heaven in retaliation for the war and his havoc in heaven in a true case of mythological M.A.D. I feel like this, as with other scenes, would be a good way to bring up Xiyouji's frequent refrain that "for the strong there's always the stronger," and how the devastation that violence and warfare wrecks on a landscape, even if it seems awesome and justifiable at the time it's being waged, leads to horrific problems that don't go away even after generations and which could very easily be turned against you and your loved ones. I've said before that one of the things that I like about the Monkey King is that he almost always has a very clear reason for doing what he does, and I think this would be a great arc for it to really and painfully hit home that ultimately violence does not exist in a vacuum, and, especially when you care about so many, it ultimately serves to create a world where your own loved ones can easily become the next who will suffer. Yet even here the complexity of the situation doesn't stop, because while SWK is able to vastly improve the lives of his monkeys by doing everything he can to restore Mt. Huaguoshan back to its former fecundity, he also protects them by well killing 1000 human hunters who had been going after them for years. The violence may never stop, but neither do the efforts to make the world a more peaceful place. And as it is, no one can live by the sword alone.
Just some sketchy thoughts anon, but I hope you like what I'm laying out :)
#anon answered#jttw retelling#some studio hire me#please#also haha man skimming through it I got surprised all over again on how violent JTTW is#still!#lots of instances of people loving each other and trying their best as well#sun wukong#monkey king#tang sanzang#zhu bajie#sha wujing#ao lie#bai longma#violence
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Shitty blog summary:
New name: Azalea
Variety of interests
A lot of reblogs
Some wizard stuff
A lot of language related stuff
One of the few blogs I don't read in my own voice, even other blogs whose voices I've heard/know irl I read in my own voice but I hear yours when reading your blog
"i hear your voice" oh gods that's fucking terrifying. more motivation to do voice training i guess
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Hello! Trick or treat! :3
GASP!!! You've given me such a lovely treat already, what a cute gif--here's a treat in return! <3
#Ask#coolcatlover4#Kitties#Trigun#I think this was one of the verrrrry first Trigun images I saved I think#Before I read the manga? Immediately after???#What is time#STILL!#One of my favorites
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An assortment of pen sketches of mostly OCs from Anti-Chronicles, and one who isn't mine! From left to right; Diomede, Judith who belongs to @ratscrap (I don't think I got the softness quite right and possibly made him more of a Tolkeinesque elf but it was a fun experiment!), Saccade, Ucalegon, Vítor Cadogan and an attempt at Potentate Clymene, although she's the one I'm least happy with 😔✊
#brieuc.img#have not been writing so have some art of the guys#i also did a Sylvester that I'm pretty happy with that I might share#I attempted Hendrix but he's very difficult to draw#still!#Anti-Chronicles#diomede#other's ocs#saccade#ucalegon#vítor cadogan#potentate clymene#art#my art
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my top drawings of 2023
tbh these are my favorite drawings from this year… (no explanations tho it’s literally just vibes & in no particular order)
#this year hasn’t been a terrible art year but it could’ve been better#still!#i’m glad i made some progress#ren art
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draft sneak peek
#no one asked no ones cares#STILL!#gwaine sweetie i'm so sorry. i'm so sorry i wrote you as a stupid drunk when i know you're so much more than this#still. you are also this.#i mean sometimes. canonically#look it's fine when *i* do it!! because i love him#merlin fanfiction#100% sure I'll spot a typo after posting this#*
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