#yin yang asks

[applehopshonor]

Jasmine and Jade before their falling out. Truly tragic

oh my god this is a friends to enemies situation?? this really is tragic :(

[daily-yin]

Day 136 drawn by surprise guest @pankiepoo !!!

[sillys-little-blog]

Baby YinYang being put down for a nap by mama Candle bc they’re cranky, bottle and paci included of course :>

[badgalsasuke]

Hi! I was wondering if you seen that academic article “Gender boundaries in Saiyūki by Kazuya Minekura: the queer family as a model of leadership” and what you think about it? They talk about Naruto and sasuke relationship. Btw love what you’re doing for the community!

Hi anon!

I had read the excerpt Narutouzumakiarchive has posted every now and then on her blog, but I searched it and read the whole thing, here it is for anyone interested in it [LINK]

I really like how they talk about this contrast between West and East. I feel this is the aspect of Naruto and Sasuke's Yin and Yang we don't talk about as much in Narusasu spaces because we're too focused on the feminity/masculinity aspect or telling annoying Sakura stans that she is not a part of this dynamic so she can't be the Earth because Sasuke is already the Earth to Naruto's Heaven.

However, Kishimoto somewhat discusses this West/East dichotomy when he talks about the creation of both Naruto and Sasuke's designs how he wanted to create a fantasy world where you could see things that you found in modern and ancient Japan but also he wanted to give Naruto a foreign look so that he wouldn't blend in with all the other ninja designs across Japanese media.

In the 4th Databook Kishimoto and his editor Yahagi discuss how it was important for them to make Sasuke complementary to Naruto in his looks, paying attention to his eyes which would also denote what's being described in the paper of Sasuke being "an introvert with Asian traits", as his eyeshape is supposed to suggest an alluring look with a thoughtful personality, more aligned with traditional Japan, in contrast to Naruto's bright and energetic image. So it was 100% intentional from Kishimoto's part.

This difference in looks that makes them look like West and East clashing it's also intentional to show physically the difference in ideology between Naruto and Sasuke. Naruto believes in collaboration whereas Sasuke believes in doing it all by himself to avoid others getting hurt or "contaminated by hate"

It's really all a part of a whole, yin yang, femininity/masculinity, moon/sun, earth/heaven, East/West, individualism/collaboration. The amount of time and thought Kishimoto dedicated to Naruto and Sasuke to make them perfect complementaries of each other is insane, love that fujoshi 50 year old man.

But I also found very interesting this conversation on how the Sun was initially a woman therefore representative of feminity unlike the Western perception of the Sun where it's a male. But in Kishimoto's writing it he takes Sasuke and he then ties him to both Amaterasu, a woman and the sun, but also to the crescent moon in complement to Naruto's sun. A transition of femininity from the sun to the moon.

I wonder if Sasuke being linked to Amaterasu also has anything to do with Itachi and how Kishimoto constantly links him to the full moon in representation to Tsukuyomi jutsu. Or if the Uchiha clan having both the Tsukuyomi and the Amaterasu justsu once they achieve the mangekyou Sharingan has something to do with some sort of yin yang balance achievement now that they've "completed" the Sharingan.

I'll need to think more about this, though.

[serendippertyy]

A3 Rarishy? It's a bit of a rarepair so I apologize in advance

never apologize for rare pairs I eat them up!! 💜💛

[ask-yin-yang1]

*throws dr. fizz flavor water at you*

-ruby (object) anon

Yin: AHH!!!

Yang: EWWWWWWW!!!!

[catboygraveunboxing]

9 months, 9 orbs, 9 posts

its been about 9 months since i started liking ii (and yy) so its the perfect opportunity to make a 999 reference…

probably gonna need a Lot of context tags for this one so rip my tag limit i suppose. the backlog is now up to…. march!!! thats not too bad!!

other art dumps

[cloudyayers]

Can you draw. Yinyang please

yeah sure!! i need to draw more ii folks tbh

[riptidesblog]

Headcanon:

In Yin-Yang proposal it's always the person asking their partner to be their yang regardless of gender or any other factors,because it's asking to not only be their second half,but their better half(yang means good).

[casscainmainly]

Kon fan! I haven't had the chance to read much of his later stuff but early on? Yea absolutely he talked like that.

One of my favorite panels with him is from this spinoff series he had in the 90s (Superboy and the Ravers) where he joins an illegal interdimensional space rave and has some adventures with the people he meets there. One such friend comes out as a gay man, and another starts being loudly homophobic about it. To which Kon's immediate response is just "why are you being so uncool about this?"

And now the idea that Kon's first response to bigotry is to call the offender a wet rag lives in my head rent free.

Oh my god I love this so much. You heard it from Superboy himself - homophobia is uncool!

Also the way he talks is, like, absolutely incredible. The more I read the more I love him:

This is TRUE comic book writing. This is TRUE allyship. This is the man Cass chose for her first comphet relationship for a reason!

(Panels from Superboy & The Ravers #19)

[drconstellation]

Come Back When You Can Make A Whale

This is going to contain some speculation for S3, so you know what to do! Or not do!

SITIS: What did God say? JOB: Um... I'm not sure. I didn't understand much. Things too wonderful for me. Ostriches came into it. SITIS: Ostriches? JOB: And whales. God's very proud of the whale. Went into some detail about... how great whales are. SITIS: But did They explain? JOB: [shakes head] I think the point was, if you want answers, come back when you can make a whale.

Whales, huh?

If you aren't well read, this could be quite the misdirection. It should be reasonably obvious, given who is doing the talking - Job - what he is actually referring to, then we can join a couple of dots to make some speculative leaps.

You still with me?

No? Then let us start with how do you make a whale?

By giving it another name.

Leviathan.

Chapter 41 of the Book of Job is all about the Leviathan, a great sinuous sea serpent with impenetrable scales and breath like fire. It sleeps beneath the sea until the end of days. Over time it came to be associated with any sea monster, then anything large, and what is the largest animal ever known to have lived? The whale.

The top of the matchbox is also worth a look. We have a skull and crossbones, which is classic Memento mori symbolism, fitting in with the resurrection theme of the Second Coming - but look at the way the address of the pub is spelt! Now, this not the same way it is spelt on the record single Maggie gives to Aziraphale; Goatgate is spelt as one word, not two. A little bit of searching reveals the meaning behind this fictional address that backs up and reinforces the quote on the side of the matchbox.

Strong's Concordance for 66 gives us "wild, savage, fierce." Goatgate is an interesting one, because it turns out to be a relatively modern term from the urban dictionary, and I'm just going to refer to the polite version of it here - it's another word for "mouth." So 66 Goatgate is a "fierce and savage mouth." Yes, that does sound about right - in more ways than one, once you know who it is. (If you want to look up the impolite version, go ahead - I'm sure you will still find the connotations very amusing.)

Our metaphorical Leviathan is Crowley. He gave the game away at the end of S1 during the appearance-swap.

This also means Aziraphale is his counterpart, Behemoth. Why - well, I made a bit of joke in my post here that he was playing at being a "river horse" while he wallowed in the bath of holy water during his part of the appearance-swap scene. Modern day scholars think the description of Behemoth in the Bible may be that of a hippopotamus in real life history. If that is so, I'd still be betting this is what the "dark horse" comment from Nina in S2E1 is foreshadowing.

Maybe none of this new to you if you've been hanging around the the fandom for a while. That's fine, I'm just trying to establish the scene. And the next bit we need to talk about is this one, where Job gets a lecture from God.

During this sequence, we hear lines that come from Job 38 and 39.

GOD: Job, if you have questions for me, I have questions for you. Do you know how I created the earth? Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth, Job? Were you there when all the morning stars sang together and all the Angels shouted for joy?

These lines are paraphrasing some of the beginning of Job 38.

Then we have:

GOD: Do you know the rules of the heavens? Did you set the constellations in the sky? Can you send lightning bolts and get them to report back to you? Did you give wings to peacocks, Job, or teach the ostrich to run?

These lines are again, paraphrasing Job, half from 38 and half from 39.

So then, we need to ask, why highlight these lines in particular?

Job 38 is mainly about setting the boundaries of the universe around us. The Earth might seem impossibly huge to a human, but it started with a single stone at its foundation. Earth and the other planets obey certain laws as they move around the Sun. The patterns of the stars in the sky take so long to change that it seems like they are set and inconstant. Even the chaotic form of lightning respects its Creator and returns to its point of origin.

From the last part of Chapter 38 to the end of 39 God challenges Job with a list of animals. The theme here is about freedom and wildness. Whether it is a noble lion, a loathsome crow, a nimble mountain goat, the head-strong wild ox or the willing war horse, they all flourish upon the Earth under the sight of the Almighty. Even the mightiest and most fierce beasts of all, Behemoth and Leviathan, have a place, although only God has the means to control those two.

None of this needs a human to be involved. We are so often the center of our own universe, and try so hard to control every aspect of the world around us that we lose sight of the bigger picture. Shit happens. Some things are out of our control. That doesn't mean its your fault and you're wicked and damned to go to Hell because of it. And that was the point God was trying to make to Job. The world is a far bigger, wilder and chaotic than you can imagine, but its also incredibly beautiful, and it runs itself within the rules and limits that seem to be set by invisible forces you can't see.

So back to the script from the show.

The first set of questions from God could apply to both of the duo. They were both around when Earth was created and were more than likely there when the "morning stars" (the highest angels, such as Lucifer, Gabriel, Michael and angel!Beelzebub) sang together.

The second set of questions are the ones that seem to have got the most attention so far, with ops cross-matching them to things Crowley does in S2.

Do you know the rules of the heavens?

Did you set the constellations in the sky?

Can you send lightning bolts and get them to report back to you?

Did you give wings to peacocks, Job...

(I make a suggestion this has something to do with Michael, but also see comments below)

...or teach the ostrich to run?

The first three of those questions are fairly straight forward, and I doubt many would dispute what they are referring to. But the reference to the peacock and the ostrich are more subtle and curious, and I would like to take a moment to look at the actual verse - because it is only one verse that is providing both questions - that is being paraphrased here.

Job 39:13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich?

Did you realize that the King James Version of the Bible is the only one that mentions peacocks in this particular verse? All the other versions mentions the first sentence of that verse in relation to the wings of ostriches: "The wings of the ostrich wave proudly." The ostrich is considered a cruel and witless bird in the Bible, pleased with the way it looks, and seemingly careless about its young.

Why does that sound familiar...

Shax thinks this ostrich feather-clad angel in disguise isn't too smart either.

So using the peacock line is a curious choice in the script. Other than the "eyes" in the tail of the peacock having a connection to Michael's many watchful eyes on the world, it's still not clear how Crowley helped them upwards. Unless both lines are supposed to refer to Gabriel, and how the vain peacock was helped to both fly and run to a distant location in the stars.

Edit: Since I first wrote this, @beebopboom pointed me to some more peacock lore, and this helped me delve a bit deeper into them. Peacocks were associated with wealth and royalty, but they were also associated with immortality in early Christian beliefs. There was a belief that the flesh of the peacock did not decay after its death. The bright colours in its tail came from its eating venomous snakes, which reminded people of Christ becoming sin for humanity's sake (think of Crowley downing the laudanum to save Elspeth from Hell in the crypt in 1827, its a similar action.) The "eyes" on the males tail also represented the all-seeing eye of God. So we have a connection with both royalty and resurrection here.

(Oh - just as an interesting connection here - a number of the newer versions of the Bible not only don't mention the peacock in this verse, they compare the ostrich to the stork! The meaning is meant to be that the stork cares more for their young than the ostrich, but if you read the words at face value, you could take a double meaning away...)

Let us return to questions, answers, and whales.

Questions. Always questions. It's like the proverbial toddler who's always asking a never-ending string of "but, why?" for funsies and you just want them to shut up for a moment and think about the last thing you said first. They, too, are a bit like Job. They are the center of their own universe at that age, having not had much experience of the world. They have no grasp of how far it extends beyond them, and how little even we as adults know.

If at this point you're going "oh, no, no, no, no, op, please don't tell me the point of this meta is it's all ineffable," relax. I'm not.

The point was to set you up for some nice, juicy, awesomely sweet S3 speculation.

Because I believe Crowley will finally get to ask his questions of God.

(oh lordy, I made the mistake of taking a break to have a shower before trying to finish this off, because I was having trouble seeing how to finish this in a tidy way, and that caused me to have "shower thoughts" and now the nice sweet simple speculation has turned into a slightly bat-shit crazy kind-of one, although still on the same track as what I was originally thinking. Here goes...)

We have this three card spread from waaay back at the beginning of S1. We all think its something to do with the three babies.

What if its not?

Because we need something like this to happen again - Aziraphale and Crowley either side of a third protagonist. What if it's the King of Kings, Love personified, Jesus, in the middle? (Or Adam again, I wouldn't discount that option either...)

If you would look at the GIF and the screenshot together again and go, well that makes, sense, white for the angel on the right, and green for the demon on the left, I would jump up and shout at you - NO!

Look at the cards again! In the Tarot, that's the Ace of Swords on the right - it belongs to Aziraphale. It's a very powerful card, about new beginnings and change.* Lets call the one of the left Knight of Wands, which also represents the element of Fire. Knights are all about movement and journeys. Who owns the Bentley? And look what Gabriel has instinctively done with his hands - he has held his screen-left hand out to Aziraphale, the Sword, the angel who wears green, and his right hand out to Crowley, the Knight of Fire. The yin and yang qualities are actually swapped. That was what I was trying to tell you in this post. They aren't as obvious as they seem at first glance.

And love is the answer, it turns out. Did you see my comment the other day on another post? In Strong's Concordance 25 = to love.

Anyway, we should get a third parallel scene somewhat like this, and like when Aziraphale and Crowley took Adam out of time to talk to him in S1.

Only this time the three of them (with who ever is in the middle) should be having a talk with God about what is or isn't supposed to happen.

JOB: I think the point was, if you want answers, come back when you can make a whale.

Crowley could be a literal serpent (though I would be very surprised if he did manifest that way) but it should be a metaphorical Leviathan that stands before the Almighty to ask his questions and get his answers. And it will be that he has earned the right to be there, because he finally understands the lessons of Job.

@makewayforbigcrossducks I hope this answers one of your questions

*The Ace of Swords speaks of new beginnings, but it is a two-edged sword that can cut both ways. It is strength in adversity, victory out of struggle, good out of evil, a change in the old order on the way.

[guardiansofbalance]

One roll of the infinite dice for Nightmare, Dream, Yin, and Yang.

(Everyone is beat up and bruised.)

(Especially yin and Yang, the kids need a break!)

(In two days I timeskip five years and release their teenage designs.)

(Tomorrow Nightmare and Dream leave.)

[daily-yin]

Can u draw paper and yin being best buds

Day 16

[sillys-little-blog]

Haii , can u draw little! Yinyang and cg cabby or candle plzzz :3 thx uuu

[zu-is-here]

I'm not sure if you're okay with super random infodumps in your inbox (really hope you do.ngl!) but i really like the cultural inspirations that Ink's character has, it's just so facinating to me that him being created after japanese/chinese ink brushes literally shaped his character as the way he is! Since those inspirations can be found in his ink powers (even broomie!), design, musical themes, speaking font, etc... really cool stuff indeed!

That's the reason to why i always translate him as being French-Japanese in human versions! I heard some people headcanon him as being called ''Ián Satō'' in those interpretations and that sounds SO him. The name is also supposed to mimic 'Ink Sans', which is genius to me.

I always am, feel free to share them anytime! (〃ω〃)

Indeed, Ink is such a unique and colorful character, a true prism that reflects both the creative life of the fandom and the cultural features ☆

I've never heard of this headcanon before but this name does suit him! *^* I respect both his Asian and French sides, though the latter is more of a tribute to his creator than a canon distinct trait <3

[ask-yin-yang1]

Yin: He…HE WHAT!?

YIN: Wake up yang!!!

Yin: he won’t wake up…I guess I’ll just wait…

:(

(Guys help yin he’s dumb)