#DISCPLE

[asktheironheretic]

are you single? if not, can your matesprit fight?

SIGNLESS: Can y9u fight??

[cautiouslyyyoptimistic]

Everytime a bingqiu tiktok edit gets made with the song "teacher's pet" by Melanie Martinez unironically a baby hedgehog dies.

[maskedchip]

MASKED DISCIPLE M-M-M-M-MONDAYYY *AIRHORNS*

[hefellasleepinthesnow]

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[revisitingfandoms]

Thing I've had

Soooo, Like any with cookei run OC's, I have one.

This my lovely viewers is my half-decently drawn picture of Mirror Moon Cookie. (The uncolored verison.) Hence I feel the need to add a color palette. sort of.

Sorry its so big-

Anyways.

Mirrior Moon Cookie was once one of the many cookies that lived under the glorious days of the five heros, until their fall. She lived to witness their destruction and desolation of the world around her.

As a former discple and student under Shadow Milk cookie, this broke her heart and left a deep scaring betrayal. In the chaos of the ongoing disaster, she prayed to the witches for assitance, she remained ignored by most, yet one answered her.

Between this, the witch crafted and gifted her a seat of chains, 'I cannot trust another with the full power of our might' The witch said, 'You see what happened with the fallen heros' The witch whispered, 'Yet, only one of their power can aid in defeating them'

Gifting the chains to the cookie, allowed her to chain the beasts and pause their rampages yet also changing the cookie once known as Fortune Cookie into Mirrior Moon Cookie.

By accepting the chains her once of yellow crust into a deep black, her tied by brown frosting into pure white and her soft sun yellow eyes into the deepest purple, her once soft scent of flour changing into the wind at night and of sweet moonlight.

Lending her assitance to the witches in sealing the beasts, the chains kept them down long enough for the witches to seal them with the forks. In this act, she was granted an extened lifetime.

The witch who original gifted her the chains spoke to her one last time before they disappeared, 'Go to the wizards' The witch said, 'Find the wizards and gain a new purpose. You linger too much in the past and upon your mentor.' The witch loosened Mirror Moon cookies chains before sending her off.

She would later travel all the way to the city of wizards, she was glazed upon with a unique wonder and questions, but also hestiation. One Wizard asked her, 'Why should we, wizards, allow the cookie creation of a witch to live amoung us?' Mirrior Moon lowered her head, 'Because I have no one else, My mentor is lost, my friends gone and my family in graves. I come here, because I have no where else. I come here seeking a new purpose.'

The wizard hummed, 'Then you shall study under me, for all that wizards and witches argue over which is better or more accurate, I find we all use the same magic. The same can be said for their creations.'

The wizard took in Mirrior Moon cookie as their assitant. She would bond with this wizard and his students- both learning and teaching.

One day the wizard in a empty classroom spoke to her, 'us wizards cannot linger here for long' He said, his eyes saddened, 'and we cannot take you cookies with us,'

She stares at him, 'Why not? I.. I do not wish to left alone again. Take me with you.'

The wizard shook his head, 'I cannot, the archmage forbade it. It would kill you.' She looked down as tears welled, 'So I shall lose both you and our students.'

Wizard picked her and slowly and carefully wipped her tears, 'Oh Mirrior moon cookie' He spoke, 'don't be so sad, this only goodbye for now, I am sure we will meet again one day.'

She nods and with a whispered request speaks, 'May you sing that song, my friend?' The wizard gives a half hearted chuckle and with a nod sings.

'Leaves in the vine, falling so slow..'

He leaves and inside of the city of wizards, in an empty classroom, lingers a cookie. A lost cookie, who lost those who were family thrice over. Atleast until the stars fell from the sky, crushing all the stood before them.

So thoughts on my characters background?

(Also song is 'leaves on the vine' from avatar the last airbender. )

[fluffyblue-multifandommess]

binged too much of a chinese novel and suddenly felt weird referring to myself by a normal first person pronoun in a formal-ish setting

[archerdepartures116]

If you're still taking hcs i wanna offer one!:

Lgq is a lil smitten by sj and has no clue how communication works.

So whenever sj is around, he'd smash the juniors or diciples extra hard to show off his skills. Sj is kinda confused about why the bai zhan diciples are terrified of him coming near.

(i'm always up for the headcanons, i just won't be drawing all of them cause my hand hurts from last round lol😭)

Anyways yes, he's trying to show off "Look I can protect and provide for you, look at what I can do!" and Shen Jiu is not impressed in the slightest cause that's a grown man against an army of children

though Bai Zhan disciples probably run away in fear after a quick greeting and Shen Jiu feels kinda good about not having those discples be bothersome towards him

[dragonnon]

Masked Discple cowboy AU

[fwol-jintu]

would Yanqing be a Bai Zhan brute or some other peak's disciple?

Would Yanqing be Bai Zhan's brute or Bai Zhan's only person who actually thinks before drawing their sword?

Would Jing Yuan be Yanqing's parent or Yanqing's older brother? Or would he be Yanqing's big cat that he carries around?

Would Yanqing be the mother hen of the Bai Zhan disciples (cuz we all know they were abused) or would he be the Bai Zhan cub?

Would Yanqing be the 2nd oldest discple or the 2nd youngest?

[aquarii-doodles]

Just realized that I never posted my Dualscar or Discple doodles. Did these back in march or so. Below are the refs for both doodles

[johnmcclane1987]

>posts about gay gooner tcc

>gets mad when mfs get mad

>why

this is uncalled for

this face of confusion from lee harvey oswald explains my conundrum

i will send my soliders from the midwest and south to kill all the gay gooners expect for the gooner discple mlk he did had gay orgies search it up im not kidding he is allowe since he is based but for all you gay gooners who are gooning to eric harris gore diaries my soliders will await you with browning automatic rifles converted to 556 and modified to belt feed shooting you all down biscari massacre style fuck you

@tacticledizzle

[hefellasleepinthesnow]

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[revisitingfandoms]

Now I mentioned him brief in a previous post- Caramel Shade Cookie.

Now first things first Caramel is genderfluid in the sense of fuck gender I dress how I wanna dress and use whatever pronouns I want to use, respect those.

Now here is his pallet and design.

And here he is! Now onto the story.

Caramel Shade Cookie was not born in the great times of beasts or in the chaos of the dark Flour war. He was born from a Dark Cacao warrior seeking a male heir. Yet unbeknown to either of his parents fate crept around the cornor. To the horror of his mother, his father bundled him up and upheaved their lives from the republic to return to the winter lands of the dark Cacao kingdom.

Under his father, only high expectations and broken promises laid. One day, tired of the endless march to the Cacao Kingdom and the daily training, Caramel Shade Cookie- back then Caramel Flour Cookie- ran into the woods much to his fathers rage.

The boy ran between trees, over logs and a slow growing grin over the feel of grass. Yet in his running he failed to notice he was lost- much less that he'd lost his father. It would be hours until the sun was ready to set that did he notice.

The boy nervous as he was continued to move forward, unwilling to return to his father at this moment- it was only minutes after he discovered an animal- a cream wolf trapped under a log. Using the bare strength he had he helped manover the log off of the wolf pup. Looking down at the pup he hestiantly pick up the squirming pup.

He blinked as growls where heard and paled when he spoted the cream wolves. The boy ran- wolf cub in arms, scared, fearful and likely to be eaten, yet he came to a cliff side, a massive gapping hole, looking each which way as the growls came closer, the boy jumped for his life.

And he fell.

By an odd turn of luck, he would survive the fall and find a shut pair of doors with an eye drawn onto them. As the cold set in and with desperation to find medical supplies the boy pushed the doors open with a struggle, as he made his way into the building the doors shut behind him.

The boy would stay within that delve for years- living, breathing, learning alongside his now familar. It was when he came across a spell at twevlve years old that would change the boys course forever more.

A poton brewed, a handful of magic dust and a spoken incantion, the boy placed his hand over his eye and casted the magic. It wasn't anything at first until the pain set in- he wanted to remove his hand but he couldn't- he shook, cried and broke under the pain before collpasing with only the wolf.

Waking up the boy is different- he is changed. The eye- his eye- is now a reflection of somebody elses and anytime he closes it- he can see what the other is doing. The boy recovers and he learns from this. He loses who he once was and becomes somebody new.

Years later the boy leaves with his wolf, opening the doors with ease and a key around his neck. He looks at the sun above him and sighs, "...I believe its time to head home, Frosted." He pets the wolf as they set off- all the way back to where he was once taken from.

Funky little guy- Long story story the delve is one of Shadow Milks hide outs of knowledge and Caramel Shade is very resislant. If you have any questions about him, I will be glad to answer them! Also yes- It is shadow Milks eye he can see from and No shadow Milk doesn't know about someone having his eye- If someone wants I can expand upon it later

[moved-to-shijieswife]

au where wcz and csr are targeted by the wen, wcz for being a brilliant talisman inventor, and csr for being and immortals discple. csr is still killed, but wcz survives and is taken into qishan wen as a prisoner/talisman inventor, and little wei ying has to grow up there

[canmom]

Animation Night 165: New Gods

嘿朋友动画的晚上正在上映电影！

One day I'll make a new friend who speaks Chinese and I can ask to come up with a different intro for donghua-related posts ;p

Long time Animation Night viewers might remember Animation Night 102 a little over a year ago, in which we watched a film called 新神榜：哪吒重生 (New Gods: Nezha Reborn) - not to be confused with other recent Nezha-related films like Ne Zha.

And it was pretty sick. Essentially you've got a CGI film set in a kind of FF7-like dieselpunk world in which various mythological figures now run crime syndicates or ride cool motorbikes. The film followed someone who turns out to be the reincarnation of Nezha - where Nezha's old enemy, the East Sea Dragon King, is also reincarnated as a kind of mafia kingpin who doesn't know to leave well enough alone, and picks a fight, hoping to stop the new Nezha fully incarnating.

As CG films go, there's not a lot to compare it to - except perhaps Lupin III: The First, which also has the kind of smooth, slightly stylised figures and fancy effects. It was a bunch of fun, lots of twists and turns, guys who look like Sun Wukong but aren't (...maybe?), betrayals, and of course plenty of slickly choreographed fantastical martial arts.

Well, sure enough, Nezha was the first in a series! The second film in the series, New Gods: Yang Jian came out last year...

This one focuses on another character from the Investiture of the Gods, Erlang Shen (二郎神), who's got a bunch of other names, notably Yang Jian (楊戩), which is the name he takes in Investiture of the Gods. I definitely needed to read up on this guy, so here's a primer: Erlang Shen's a god, nephew to the Jade Emperor, and a rather righteous one, associated with traits like purity, decency, and slaying monsters. Physically, his major trait is the truth-seeing third eye in the middle of his forehead; he also likes to carry a three-pointed spear, and his signature technique is '72 eartly transformations', i.e. turning into pretty much anything.

In Investiture, he shows up as a discple of the immortal Yuding Zhenren (玉鼎真人) during Chapter 40, in which Jiang Ziya battles the four 'Diablo Brothers' Mo Lihong, Mo Liqing, Mo Lihai and Mo Lishou, essentially a bunch of evil wizards who are causing havoc. Now, bear with me here. Mo Lishou has a powerful flying mink (or maybe an elephant). Yang Jian deliberately lets himself get eaten, and then when Lishou sends the mink out to attack, he transforms inside its stomach, popping it from the inside as it's about to fight Jiang Ziya.

Then, Yang Jian transforms himself into the mink, and uses this disguise to get close to the brothers and steal a magic umbrella from Mo Lihong, giving Jiang Ziya the chance to win the battle. Pure TTRPG player strategems here honestly. Love it.

He also shows up in Journey to the West, in which he's sent to try and deal with the Sun Wukong problem. They have a classic transformation battle, which Yang Jian eventually wins by seeing through Sun Wukong's clever disguise as a temple, and teaming up with Laozi (yeah¸ the Tao Te Ching guy) to capture him.

All in all, Yang Jian is not a god to be trifled with.

However, the main story about Erlang Shen/Yang Jian is none of these, but a folktale called The Magic Lotus Lantern, in which he plays the role of antagonist.

The Magic Lotus Lantern tells of the goddess Huayue Sanniang, who falls in love with a mortal scholar called Lui Yanchang. Her older brother Erlang Shen, here a god, does not approve, to the point that he's willing to fight her about it. However, Huayue Sanniang wins the fight using her magic lotus lantern, and marries Liu Yanchang. Together they have a child called Chen Xiang. With me so far?

Unfortunately, Erlang Shen isn't about to take this whole thing lying down. After seven years, he tracks them down by the light of that same lantern, and briefly abducts Chen Xiang, before stealing the lantern and sealing Sanniang under a mountain (Mount Hua).

Nine years later, Chen Xiang - now 16 - learns what happened to his mum. He goes on a journey running into a number of mythological figures, including Sun Wukong, who teaches him martial arts. Indeed, Sun Wukong is like you know what kid you're pretty strong, I'll make you a big old axe to get your mum out of that mountain. At the end of it all, Chen Xiang goes and battles his uncle, and loses... but at the last minute he gets a special lotus lantern powerup, which gives him the chance to win the battle and free his mum from the mountain.

Incidentally, if you will permit a tangent (that is at least animation relevant lmao) - this story was adapted to animation in 1999 as 宝莲灯 (Lotus Lantern), and in fact that's quite a notable film in itself. To briefly tell the story again, from the 50s onwards, the vast majority of animation in China happened under the roof of Shanghai Animation Film Studio. However, during the Cultural Revolution, most of the major animators at SAFS such as Te Wei were cast as reactionaries sent to the countryside to do hard labour, practicing drawing only in secret. Chinese animation entered a period where the only permitted form was propaganda films in a narrowly defined realist style.

Following the end of the Cultural Revolution, many of these animators returned to the studio, making celebrated films like 哪吒闹海 Nezha Conquers the Dragon King (1979) as well as all sorts of short films celebrating an end to their ordeal and railing against artistic censorship. However, the studio's output - and Chinese animation in general - declined in the ensuing decades, with Chinese studios mostly doing outsourcing work and younger audiences turning to anime and western animation. So far so familiar.

In 1992, the studio started to reorganise itself along Western lines, collaborating with a company called Prrfect Animation from San Francisco. [This information comes from an article in Animation World Network, which is incredibly light on details. I can't find any other mention of Prrfect Animation outside of its connection with SAFS.] The studio would soon become part of the new Shanghai Film Group Corporation.

And in the middle of that period comes this movie - a kind of turning point for donghua. You can a restoration on Youtube, albeit unsubbed. Visually it's definitely got traces of the Cultural Revolution-era style, narratively it hews fairly close to the Mouse's formula complete with songs; indeed, allegedly this movie beat them at their own game in 1999.

Anyway, we're not watching this movie tonight - vibeswise it would be a weird combo, and it's going to take a little work to find suitable subs and mux them in, but put a pin in this, we might just come back to it.

So what about this film? In this world, Yang Jian is now living a quiet life as a bounty hunter. Here's the official English-language plot summary, which is very brief:

Twelve years after imprisoning his sister underneath a mountain, Erlang Shen, a god known for his all-seeing third eye, now works as a bounty hunter. A woman hires him and his crew to prevent his nephew, Chenxiang, from obtaining a magical lotus lantern that holds great power.

Beyond that? I can tell you that at some point he wears a fedora. Look, it's in that gif right there. Yeah, I'm flying a little blind on this one ^^'

As things turned out, I didn't end up seeing this at Annecy, since it clashed with Rintarō's new short film... but fortunately, it is now available in the usual places. So the plan tonight is pretty simple: we will be watching both New Gods films, first a reprise of Nezha and then the new Yang Jian.

Also! We're actually on time! I'm gonna go live a lot earlier than we've managed lately, namely 8pm UK time, which is about 3 hours from this post (if you're in the States, that will be midday Pacific time, 3pm Eastern time). The place is, as ever, twitch.tv/canmom. Hope to see you there~

[antiquelaceartist]

The discples and gang in seeing Mary with her jar of anointing