Can we talk about how Macaque sees what other people (LBD Peng Wukong) do and mimics them? Can we talk about how his whole thing in jttw is copying monkey king and trying to replace him and how LMK actually keeps that going but in the context of a performer? You can hear echos of the way Peng talks to Macaque in how Macaque talks to Mk during shadowplay and every other interaction before he starts to chill out. You can see and hear echos of how the Lady Bone Demon treats and speaks to Macaque in how he interacts with Mei and Mk and the rest of the crew during season 3. You can see the way he tries to mimic what he believes Wukong is until he realizes he's way off-base. You can see how he mimics Monkey King's cockiness when he needs to feign confidence. You can see the way he mimics those with power to show he has power. And when that performance ends... well, he's actually pretty chill. Look at him he's quieter and more chill, less broody, content with not being the main focal point when they're planning, he doesn't even argue with Monkey King during the season 4 finale at any point because the performance is over. i DUNNO I'M JUST THINKING AND I THINK IT'S KINDA NEAT I DUNNO IF THEY DID THAT ON PURPOSE OR IF IT'S COINCIDENCE I FEEL LIKE IT WAS ON PURPOSE IN THIS ESSAY I WILL-

When you know the human's a demon in disguise but can't go apeshit on them like last time because of a certain headband so you gotta HOPE the monk will learn.

woahh more art dump. anyways i really want to practice the lego artstyle and have fun creating fake scenes (and fake leaks too)

Immortality be damned

What's that bro? You began interacting with a media from a different country than yours and/or was made in time period different than the recent present day? Haha that's sick bro! Keep expanding your horizons bro! You're remembering to take into account that sociocultural norms, gender roles and genre expectations are different from what you are used to and meeting the story halfway, instead of forcibly superimposing your ideals into the story, right bro? Right? Right?

my work from my book illustration class!

🌙lady of the moon

Monkey is honestly such an icon

Lmk is funny to me, because it takes the ridiculously over-powered character, Sun Wukong, and then gives him every reason possible to not be that.

Most of all, his unspoken desire to not let his student see the "real him".

Because it's not that he isn't still just as endlessly powerful (except for a few narrative driven exceptions), but that he is actively holding back. He is a changed man so to speak, and he'd like everyone to stop bringing up his past, 'monstrous' self, please and thank you.

It's fascinating really, how well a 10 minute per episode children's series (made to sell legos) so nonchalantly explores the inescapable truth of one's past, and in extension: the haunting reality of outliving all your friends and very little of your enemies.

To destiny...

reading jttw is so funny because everyone is so genuinely AFRAID of wukong and that fact never truly sunk in for me while watching lmk and other second hand retellings of the book on yt. most of the time his mere presence is enough to get literal gods and deities doing backflips tryna get him out of their face LMAO

lmk is "do you think we'll be friends in every lifetime?" but for the jttw crew *slithers back into the darkness*

LEASE. EPLALSE. to make myself feel better I'll say that like- they achieved enlightenment so they'll be together forever

Do you know why most of your links for your aus in your masterpost dont work? /gen

no actually, would you like to give you the link again of whichever post you're looking for?

I love your burned monkey au. Is MK alive in this au?

Yes he is! Just very, very worried for his mentor.

I come bearing a question of unfathomable greatness. Some might say it would alter the mortal perception of reality.

So, here I go.

Women?