Dont Know If You Were Joking About Needing Catboy References A Couple Of Weeks Back But Here Ya Go

Look at the cutie! Look at that precious face! I will love 'em even if Ditzy never had a Morty! Huzzah for @lilfluffyginger ! Keep being amazing in all you do oh Lord of The Fluffies.

@poison-toad-witch This is what his morty would look like if he had one!!

Hmmmmmm I’ve heard and seen that villainizing Erlang Shen is becoming more common in the western jttw-adjacent fandom and so I do think we should all keep in mind that besides Erlang Shen still being a very important deity in the Daoist pantheon (to say nothing of his role as a deity who’s saved countless humans from floods) he also does have a number of understandable reasons for many of his actions. For example, he played a vital part in capturing Sun Wukong on account of that monkey wrecking heaven, & to a degree even his role in imprisoning his own sister Sansheng Mu under a mountain is comprehensible because of the mindset that the gods absolutely can’t afford to have any human emotions under any circumstances on account of the chaos they could wreak if they let feeling such as jealousy, anger, want, etc. define them. I mean, one popular myth even says that the first goddess Nüwa had to give up her own life to repair both heaven and earth because of a catastrophic, nearly apocalyptic war that the gods waged based on the desire to control heaven, so you can understand why the rule that the gods can’t allow themselves human emotions would be absolute.

Now don’t get me wrong, I think that Erlang Shen makes an amazing antagonist when done well, and the possibilities involved in exploring things like his unrelenting belief in the righteousness of all his actions even for things like (again) imprisoning his own sister & burning thousands of the Mt. Huaguoshan monkey yaoguai to death could make him a terrifying figure. HOWEVER, I think it does a massive (and potentially really disrespectful) disservice to his character from both a story-telling & a cultural standpoint to paint him as a 100% despicable villain who fully deserves to be demonized. He’s a figure who’s done SO MUCH for the good of humanity, and that’s not something that should be immediately dismissed.

As always I need to note I’m in no way shape or form an expert on Chinese mythology, but I am relatively confident in saying that when it comes to the conflicts between humans, yaoguai, and deities there is plenty of violence and strife, but the narratives you can weave about them are much more interesting & meaningful when you’re not reducing any of these groups to being the one designated “bad guy.” If anything, as Journey to the West itself makes explicitly clear, the line between the three groups is blurry at best, they are ALL responsible for numerous atrocities, and there’s plenty of blame, as well as opportunities for truly doing good, to go around.

The cuteness believes they can fly!

I miss Bland Potion and the bad wizard that made them. They were adorable together. I would join the Bland Potion club!

They are the perfect duo!

I read about The Gold Star of Venus and just went "WHOOOOOO", it's my favorite actually logical being showing up! My confucian immortal buddy shall at least be in the background huzzah!

But also intrigue and mystery aplenty on MK and possible immortal food shenanigans, I look forward to it!

So after the first special what happens in your season one? Red Son not going to be a villain so it’s up to only Pif,DBK and whatever Red Son left them. Though something tells me that the help got to modify DBK armor is going to be important for later.

Well that's the thing, after the special, S1 is almost a full overhaul ajhdajdbdhdw not to mention the later seasons, i rly did take the ol' hammer to them xD

it would be too long to explain all the changes. most surface stuff stays the same, i rly like S1 for the small episodic stories we get and the lower stakes. i do overhaul the Spider Queen/LBD overarching plot and Macaque's introduction.

my au has instead the whole cannibalism deal as an overarching plot. MK still trains in FFM with the monkeys there and occasionally Wukong or one of his clones, but he also has to go around with Red Son to recover bits of himself that slipped into the underground black market, which does eventually leads to the S1 finale.

though because Red Son is a celestial agent and MK is basically a nepo baby, the celestial realm heist is more about avoiding all the heavenly court trying to congratulate or pay respects to them to yknow, save Megapolis in time. at least the Gold Star of Venus is a champ and trooper and helps everyone out!

however there's the inter-season plot of well, what the fuck is up with MK being a celestial monkey?? that one is mostly on Red Son's ballcourt, as when he tells Guanyin about the whole incident, she makes him responsible for investigating the missing uuuh, feast ingredients but since he found out about MK's monkey form very early on, he goes to investigate if well, anyone in the celestial court knew about that. which leads to a whole sprawling rabbit hole involving the Diyu, Macaque and the other celestial monkeys, heavenly bureocracy, time distortion, red herrings, a couple missing dragons and a whole web of people missing memories and records of events.

sorry i have so many thoughts in my nogging, i need more directed questions to give a more detailed answer than this TvT

Some fun bits of art I did of these guys!

You can get these as Sparkly Vinyl Stickers from the shop, and there are still spots available to get them both free with any order~ (Last image, link below)

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Adorable being of light and clam head, this is now all I can think of for head pearls/mother of pearls.

✨ Nacre Head

Can't stop fanart, if it exists there is fanart of it~

in the lorax movie (1970s version) you can’t see the onceler except for his gloves and he has no redeeming qualities.

we could’ve avoided oncest but modern lorax movie creators had to make him visible and sing songs…[speech on how this is modern capitalism]

MK in a Peach Banquet costume cus he would eat a Monkey King role and leave no crumbs and yall KNOW I'M RIGHT

more Opera actor!MK cus it's good for my soul uwu