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Wong, Doctor Strange and the bystanders save Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown by fighting off the Nian Monster.
Mighty Marvel Holiday Special: Year of the Wong Infinity Comic #1, 2022
#Wong#Doctor Strange#Dr Strange#Stephen Strange#sorcerer supreme#mighty marvel holiday special infinity comic#infinity comics#Nian monster#infinity comic#marvel#digital comics#webcomic#digital comic#long post
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two beans meeting
#touhou#sukusuku hakutaku#keine kamishirasawa#arknights#nian arknights#nian bean#the two monsters meet!#my art
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#dltext#nian literally picked this scrawny sarkaz out of everyone in the world and laid claim to her#making movies where lava is the chosen one mary sue hero#who defeats the evil monster (played by nian herself)
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One of the demon nobles in Belial's court; Ronove. He's designed after a nian beast.
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The Nian is a fearsome beast, yet it is effectively scared off through the use of its very own fears.
~ Originally posted Feb. 11th 2021
#BriefBestiary#bestiary#digital art#fantasy#folklore#legend#myth#mythology#chinese mythology#chinese folklore#nian#cny#chinese new year#lunar new year#mythical creatures#monster#beast
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Love how for the arknights events with recurring casts theres always a gimmick that they recycle for their story elements to really make them feel unique
For the Abyssal Hunters, every single one of their events is a mystery intrigue/horror story that always ends up with the most boldfaced Bloodborne references they can get away with. The Endspeakers final form after having absorbed Amaia is basically the arknights version of The Moons Presence.
For the Sui gang, their events always start as mystery inrigue events, but ends up as Wuxia movies where every single guy is the goku of their respective martial arts while a giant monster is inevitably lurking in the background. Nian specifically being into movies and dressing herself up as a movie director lampshades this because in all of these events, shes the one behind the scenes pushing things along for her grand master plan of stopping Sui's full resurrection
For Gavail's events, it turns out that the recurring element is that not only is there no real villain in any of the proceedings, but also that Gavails fists are indeed strong enough to handle any situation. Every character exemplifies the idea that through violence, world peace is achievable.
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Blacknight’s recruitment line implies she had a showdown with the Doctor.
Now, you might be thinking, “was it physical?” Not likely, Blacknight would wring Doctor like a wet towel, obviously, and she said “showdown”, not “fight”, specifically in light of Doc being the best tactician of Rhodes Island, which would imply a competition where tactics are involved.
This would lead one to imagine, then, Blacknight and her beasts, the slumberfoots, versus Doctor and their beasts, but this would be far from fair because Doctor’s beasts are the actual wildest freakshow in Terra. If we take “beasts” literally, that means Doctor sics Nian, Dusk, and Ling at her, which is like if you showed up to the knife fight with an orbital laser. If we take “beasts” as “direct underlings and bodyguards”, then Blacknight’s still abso-posi-you-better-believe-it doublefucked because that means you have Blacknight’s funny little critters going up against absurdly dangerous assassins like Gravel, Platinum, Projekt Red, Phantom, and Schwarz, or straight up an Abyssal Hunter, Skadi (whose lines suggest she’s been put in Doctor Protection duty a few times so she counts as bodyguard). This is like if you put 5 dogs with knives taped to their collars against a squad of five distinct Doomguys and one lv. 750 umbilical chord-ending Bloodborne Hunter. For the untrained eye, this might seem like a close fight, but trust me on this one, I think the Doc wins.
Clearly, their showdown could only be one thing:
In one well-ventilated room, Blemishine set up two computers, the two most juiced up gaming rigs most Operators have ever seen in their lives. Blacknight sits in front of one, and the Doctor, like a regent taking their rightful place on their throne, gets comfortable in the ergonomically designed Rim Billiton-made gamer chair.
Blacknight’s feeling confident because her APM is 650. Her time in the wilderness taming beasts has given her both an incredible physique and superior gamer instincts, but what she doesn’t know is that the hooded freak in front of her regularly reaches an absurd 2200 APM when hooked up on Monster, and brother, that mason jar they are drinking from currently isn’t Sanity Potion.
4 minutes later, Blacknight is on the operating table. Kal’tsit curses Doctor again under her breath. “What’s the diagnosis?” she asks Warfarin.
“Zerg rush, 2:37 minutes. She’s on critical state, I give her a 34% chance of survival.”
Kal’tsit, Folinic and Warfarin spend the next 8 hours saving Blacknight’s life.
“I should’ve... Picked Age of Empires II...” muttered Blacknight mid-surgery.
“You fool,” quickly retorted Kal’tsit, “Doctor plays Lithuanians in AoEII... You would’ve died.”
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I HEARD WEREWOLF ADAM?
THE POM-MURRAY-NIAN?
YES?
GAHAH
Yeah were-Adam is still a thing in this au. It just. Fits him to me-
Might as well dump the last monster au doodle I made today while I’m at it- /VLH
Fucked up lookin dog, maybe take him to the vet
#asks are neat#tmc monster au#monster adam#face horror#body horror#don’t know. when to main tag this au but. yea#funky lil guyes. weirdos.#adams design hasn’t changed much but still-
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Random drawing of a nian monster I did!
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Chinese New Year
What's better than one new year's celebration?
TWO new year's celebrations!
While most of the Western world marked the beginning of the new year on January 1st, most of Asia celebrates the the Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year, that can fall anywhere from January 21st to February 20th. The reason the new year falls on different days is because it uses the lunar calendar that marks holidays not by set days but by stages of the moon. This year the new year will fall on the 10th of February. An estimated quarter of the world's population celebrates this new year. Are you ready to celebrate too?
The first thing to know is that, if you're celebrating the new year traditionally, most businesses will be shut down, usually for at least a week, sometimes more. Not only does this give everyone plenty of time to prepare and celebrate the days of the new year, it also gives people time to go home to visit their relatives. The Lunar New Year is the cause of the largest annual migration of humanity each year. Family is a large part of the celebration and that includes the dead as well as the living. Graves are visited, offerings are made, memories are shared. On New Year's Eve a family reunion dinner is held, with family coming from far and wide to gather together to welcome in the new year. There's plenty to do for people who can't visit family as well because visiting friends is an important part of the holiday. And lets not forget the festivals themselves with delicious treats, fireworks, dragon and lion dances and floating lanterns. This is the biggest celebration of the year and there's no doing things by halves.
Let's talk about some of the traditions and folklore of the celebration.
First off, the legend is that the new year is celebrated the way it is because, long ago, there was a monster called the Nian that would come out every new year's eve to hunt and devour helpless villagers, creating destruction wherever it went. The Nian had a special fondness for the taste of children too. Finally, one year, everyone decided to hide from the beast. As they were gathering to leave, an old man approached them and said that he would stay behind while they hid and he would get their revenge on the monster when it came. While they were away, the old man hung up red papers in the windows of the village and set off firecrackers during the night. When the villagers returned, their village was unharmed but the old man had disappeared. Realizing that he was a deity that had come to help them and show them the way to defeat the Nian, the grateful villagers followed his example and hence the tradition of firecrackers and the brilliant color red became a tradition.
In some stories, its a brave boy that sets off firecrackers to drive away the Nian instead of an old man. In others, its an old beggar that a poor woman gives shelter to for the night.
No matter the story, firecrackers are still set off during the new year's festival, their loud sounds thought to drive off evil and to welcome in good luck. They're set off again during the Lantern Festival that ends the New Year festivities.
Red is still used everywhere too. It's the color of prosperity and energy, driving off the negative. Evenly paired couplets like:
Yīfānfēngshùn niánnián hǎo, wànshìrúyì bùbù gāo
"Smooth sailing with each year; success with each step."
are hung or painted on double doors or to either side of them in red as even numbers (the characters of the couplet that match length on both sides of the divide) are considered lucky as well as warding off evil spirits. Sometimes pictures of gods or heroes are hung in pairs on doors for the same reason. Red lanterns get hung up and much like some people cut snowflakes out of paper, symbols for luck, prosperity and health in the new year are cut out of red paper and hung on windows. There are even red diamond paper decorations with the Chinese character 福 (fú /foo) hung so the symbol is upside down. This is because 福 means luck and when it is upside down over a door the luck pours out over the entire household.
If you want to keep that luck in your house, make sure you do a full spring cleaning just before the new year. This will sweep all the bad fortune out and have your house ready for new blessings to come in. Once the new year arrives though, don't wash yourself the first day. You don't want to wash all that good luck down the drain. For the same reason, there's no cleaning, and especially no sweeping or throwing out trash, until after the fifth day of the celebration. You want to start the new year the way you want it to go on. As such, don't get into fights, say negative words, swear or try to rush people around. Don't use sharp objects like scissors because it will cut off your good luck; for the same reason, don't cut your hair either. Treat yourself to new clothes for the festival, red is best, avoid black and white which have unlucky connotations. Don't buy shoes as the word for shoes sounds a lot like 'evil' or 'bad luck'.
Don't forget the red pockets either! These are red envelopes with money in them. Elderly family give them to the younger generation as a way to symbolically pass on their wealth and blessing and the younger generation gives them to their elders to show appreciation and wish them prosperity and longevity. These are so standard that there are even phone apps these days so you can give them electronically. Remember, an even amount of money is lucky so don't give out an odd one.
And let's not forget the Chinese zodiac. The upcoming new year will be the Year of the Green Wood Dragon. The dragon represents power, success, honor and luck and will bring a creative and auspicious year of progress. People who were born in the year of the dragon however should be careful to wear red underwear every day of the year to keep bad luck from settling on them. And, if you can, be sure to watch the dragon (and lion!) dances as these too chase away the bad and bring in the good with them!
#chinese new year#lunar new year#spring festival#year of the dragon#folklore#superstition#nian#lion dance#dragon#there was really too much to fit into one post#I may do another post for food and the lantern festival#and we didn't even get into the kitchen god
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Happy Lunar New Year!
It's the Year of the Dragon!!
I've seen the new Dislyte banner and it just reminded me about some fun thing about how we talk about Lunar New Year and some things surrounding it.
So as a primer, the Lunar New Year is based on the Harvest Calendar 农历 (Nong Li) as opposed to the Gregorian calendar that we use in most of the world today. The Nong Li Calender follows the cycles of the moon, hence the reason it's known as the Lunar Calendar in english and other western languages.
So when we mention Spring Festival 春节 Chun Jie it encapsulates the entirety of the first 7 or 15 days of the Lunar New Year (16, if we count New Years Eve). All 15 days are significant and depending on how big or how close your family is, there's slightly differing tradition.
New Year's Eve - 除夕 Chu Xi - Everyone arrives home and we have a big reunion dinner with our immediate family.
New Year's Day - 大年初一 Da Nian Chu Yi - Officially Chinese New Year, we'll go around visiting our eldest relatives to wish them a happy new year bai nian. Families tend to congregate at the home of the eldest living relative (great-grandparents' homes, grandparents' homes, eldest uncles homes)
Wearing red, Firecrackers, Dragon Dances and Lion dances are all common parts of the celebration! By legend it is used to scare away the evil monster Nian who used to eat people!
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(Lion Dancers will go up to people's homes and businesses as a troupe to usher in the new year! It's also a highly acrobatic sport with its own institutions, definitely check it out!)
Seventh day of New Year - 人日 Ren Ri - Day of Humans - we consider it the day where the first humans were created by Nuwa, so it's everyone's birthday! Festivities for most households tend to end on this day or on the eighth of New Years.
Fifteenth day of New Year - 元宵节 Yuan Xiao Jie - Lantern Festival marks the official end of the New Years/Spring Festival. In Hokkien we call it Chap Goh Mei 初十五 (literally 15th [of the new year])
You can read about the other days of Lunar New Year here: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/02/11/15-days-lunar-new-year !
Furthermore in my home city of Johor Bahru we have a special procession on the 21st of the new year's called the Chingay Parade.
So how should I wish people who celebrate Lunar New Year?
Happy Lunar New Year! is good (abbreviating to Happy LNY! is cool too) this is for consideration of for example Koreans, Vietnamese, Hmong, and other diasporic Chinese Lunar New Year celebrators!
In my country of Malaysia, Happy Chinese New Year is the norm because most people that celebrate Lunar New Year happen to be ethnically chinese.
恭喜發財 (Gōng xǐ fā cái) - Wish you wealth and prosperity
身體健康 (Shēn tǐ jiàn kāng) - Wishing you good health
萬事如意 (Wàn shì rú yì) - May everything go well for you
Bonus:
What are Red Packets and how do I get one? (lol) 🧧
It's also generally alright to go visit or 拜年 bai nian with your neighbours that celebrate Lunar New Year during this period of time, remember to bring a pair of mandarin oranges with you! (Remember to always bring mandarin oranges in pairs as it's seen as good luck.) You might want to contact them ahead to see if they're around XD
Unmarried folks can get a red packet from the hosting family for wishing them a happy new year. It's kind of like trick-or-treating lol.
新年快乐！！
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Is Nian Baiyu’s idea to have TTJ enter the netherworld to meet Susu’s soul insane and unlikely to result in prolonged life for TTJ? Yeah, but he is literally doing and saying anything to keep an actively suicidal man in the middle of a suicide attempt from completing said attempt! Anything will do.
Of course entrance requires blood, requires TTJ to hurt himself. He has never had anything he ever wanted, or even a chance at anything he’s ever wanted, without paying for it in suffering.
If your man isn’t willing to pour out his blood into the river of the dead for a chance to see your soul, what is even the point?
When he thinks he sees her but it’s an illusion, designed to drag him in and basically strip the flesh from his bones because the water is corrosive...
He hears that and he DOES NOT CARE! He is willing to be devoured, body and soul, for the chance of seeing her again; he was willing to destroy himself because the world was a void without her, so to destroy himself for one glimpse of her feels like a bargain.
He knowingly walks into a supernatural acid bath. That man! All that suffering in his life was supposed to prep him to become a world-destroying monster but instead it prepped him to withstand any pain in pursuit of her.
God. He is not even unhinged because the hinges have long flown into another universe.
He is channeling Mo Ran/Taxian Jun AND Chu Wanning both here so hard btw.
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no u don’t understand mr. tsa agent sir,,,, i need to bring these fireworks on the plane so the nian monster doesnt get us,, do u have any idea what DAY it is?????
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Court of Belial
Raum, Ronove, Bune, Vepar
#bune#hydra#xiangliu#vepar#snake#feathered#dragon#belial#raum#crow#raven#som#seals of malediction#ronove#nian#demon#demonology#oc#ocart#snarkart#monster#royalty#noble#court
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Seeing your art of Nian being physically dominant over Lava got me thinking about ways that Lava could return the favor. But Lava can't do it the same, because it's obvious to them both that Nian is still the one in control. Except.
Except if what binds Nian isn't physical, but a promise and a threat, and if what Lava uses isn't force but tenderness.
Lava gets Nian to promise to sit still and not move, or else Lava will stop and Nian will never get her to voluntarily do this again. Nian accepts, full of bravado, knowing that she can endure and enjoy any roughness. What will it be? The paddle? The strap?
Nian doesn't realize she's been tricked until Lava pulls out the hairbrush and horn-polishing kit.
The fiend intends to torture the dragon with tenderness, and even when Nian begins to fight back by teasing Lava about betraying her self-image, Lava counters that she's the bad bitch who trapped Nian in chains of her own making. They can stop whenever Nian wants, but Lava might never muster the confidence or trust to do this again. So, is Nian ready to be a good girl?
Nian: "I've made a monster."
Lava: "And I've tamed one."
Hmm! The imagery is nice, but Lava needs to be a bit more tsundere and awkward.
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