#original maple post

[maplesugarcookie]

I love her. I hope she has cotton candy for brains.

I believe her name is Princess Loolilalu but please correct me if I'm wrong. What do ya'll think about her? I wonder if she's an AI or a human?

[maplesugarcookie]

warning: spoilers for season four!

I agree with the mischaracterization but,- and please correct me if I'm wrong- in defense of the series, the storytelling is so crazy and complex because it's all about perspective. I mean, they basically make that clear right off the bat in the first movie, A Hero Is Born, by having Tang's version of the Monkey King appear while he relays his story, his version of the events. Monkey King was portrayed as this smug heroic hero who was completely in the right, silently doing his job of serving justice, when we see in the same movie that that's just not who he is! The king is playful and impulsive and somewhat of an antihero, who we later see is willing to kill a child for the greater good instead of being patient and finding another way.

In Season Four, Azure Lion talks to MK and villianizes Monkey King and the other pilgrims because, from his point of view, they were the villains trying to stop them. From the point of view of someone who's watching a strong spirit, his sworn brother who's had such an impact on his life, have such big character growth and a change in his moral compass makes it seems like the pilgrims were manipulative toward Monkey King. Not to mention hearing about the hoop tightening spell used to tame Monkey King must seem like an even bigger indication of manipulation.

However, in the same season, we get Macaque's take on it now that he has a clear head. Macaque tell MK about how corrupted Monkey King's morals were before he met Tripitaka. He even goes on the talk about how Tripitaka saved Monkey King from "becoming a villain" and redeemed him! From the point of view of the Six Eared Macaque, who is said to have full comprehension of the past, present, and future, who basically spent his life watching Monkey King grow up, I think his point of view is far more trustworthy than Azure Lion's perspective, who's judgement is clouded by vengeance. Macaque even throws in the MK should read the book, crediting it as a reliable source of what really went down in Monkey King's past and his relationship with Tripitaka in particular.

But I'm not completely disagreeing with you. Tripitaka is very different from the original but that's also ok, given this is inspired by Journey to the West and not directly from Journey to the West. Familiar tale, new adventures, my friends!

writer's note: i wrote this around 2am so i hope this holds up in the morning...

Great Tang Rant (LMK)

Alright I need to get this off of my chest

I love LMK so much but they way they mischaracterize Tripitaka is atrocious. Literally his reincarnation (Mr.Tang) acts more like him then their representation of the tang monk. 

Tripitaka has like three main character traits, being humble, reacting like a human being, and being to kind for his own good and LMK pulled a complete 180 on us and said “That’s Tripitaka for you, self righteous, eternally calm, and antisocial”

The only thing they got right about him is that he studied a lot, grew up in a monastery, and is a monk. 

They didn’t even get his clothes right. he doesn’t wear the fancy robes because he finds them to ostentatious and bhudists have that whole thing about vanity. That is until he goes to the Thunder cloud monastery to collect the scrolls, which was the exact occasion it was given to him for. The only exception to that is the time he was asked to put it on by the leader of a small monastery and that ended with monks trying to burn him to death to steal his clothes so obviously he never did it again. 

The worst part it that their representation of Tripitaka has lead to people genuinely believing that the character is abusive which is the farthest thing from the truth. Like yeah he used the tight hoop spell on Sun Wukong but only when he literally murdered someone. Also it wasn’t even his idea, Guanyin told him to do it and who was he to disregard the advice of a Bodhisattva. Seriously though, what punishment would you give a murder monkey who feels no remorse and would kill again? A slap on the wrist? Tripitaka is just doing his best to make sure that the journey ends with as little casualties as possible

Tangent aside, please if you like LMK then do your research on the actual pilgrims, they are all very cool and very different then they are depicted in the show 

[voidedjuice]

More of my Animal Crossing guy ft. some Ilta/Cecily variants

[16archive]

in honor of mitch's 28th, the handshake line after the ottawa series, and in remembrance of this 2017 worlds team where some iconic quotes originated (an all time favorite being "I wish I could take him to denver with me. I think carry-on would work." - nathan mackinnon), here's claude giroux pouring beer on mitch for his birthday that year

there's a lot going on in the rest of the image as well

[chloekphotography]

1/15 s - VanDusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver.

[allysilly]

My oc Rosey <3!!

Inspired by a Rosy maple moth :3

[luvuwite]

recent doodles

[maplethedarkshine]

This thing took way to fking long

This is the ref btw

[maplebunie]

Murders oc animation!!

(neocities link)

[thewillowoaklady]

Japanese Maple Tree

[maplesugarcookie]

(Disclaimer: Macaque's picture is flipped to show the similarities)

Just two theatrical men who wanna take a young adult away from an overpowered dork just cause they think they'll be the better dad figure.

[pseudobun]

They're girlfriends

[wrenthewrenbird]

Repost of my rosy maple moth Mumbo art cuz I feel it was underappreciated and it's like, one of my favorite drawings I've done.

(The original post got like, 4 notes :'D)

[xxiamrainxx]

AOAOHWKSKSK LOOK AT HER! LOOK AT MY BABY GIRL!!! <3 HER NAME IS MAPLE ROSE AND I WOULD DIE FOR HER SHE IS PERFECT <3<3<3<3

Some of the colors are probably gonna change slightly once I do a full body drawing for her, but for now, I am so happy with how she turned out apapajjsjsks

[orangedogsquad]

[dansnotavampire]

gale would let you stack donuts on it