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maybe the real journey was the west we made along the way

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Hopefully this is legible if you click into it. With the popularity of Nezha 2, I wanted to give recommendations for other donghua but also to help clarify some Nezha 2019 vs Nezha Reborn (2020) confusion.

They are different movies with different plots! Nezha 2019 takes place in a more traditional past whereas Nezha Reborn is a Steampunk reimagining of Nezha 1979 and the original Nezha Myth.

Nezha 2019's studio Coloroom also produced Jiang Ziya, also based on Investiture of the Gods. God of Three Eyes was a slated addition that follows Erlang Shen but I have not seen news about it. Monkey King is Back is also the same studio and I would say kicked off the revitalization of animated movies based on myths. You can watch the intro scene and skip the rest.

Nezha Reborn has a cinematic sequel with Yang Jian which follows Er Lang Shen/Lotus lantern myths in the steampunk setting.

★I would recommend the classic Lotus Lantern which follows Sanshengmu and her son Chen Xiang who goes on a hero's journey to defeat Erlang Shen who is evil in this movie.

★I love Butterfly Lovers, it follows the myth of Zhu Yingtai who wants to be a scholar, dresses up as a man to do so. She meets Liang Shanbo and they really hit it off as they study and Zhu Yingtai falls in love, reveals her identity, and then the end :) . This particular movie has three musical numbers that are all great in my biased opinion.

Little Door Gods plays on the idea that people used to keep images of two door gods pasted on their doors but with cultural progression and economic slumps, the gods are at risk of being obsolete.

White Snake. I have no words for White Snake, I didn't like them but you might like them. It is a romance between a Snake Spirit and a Human.

★ 30,000 Miles from Chang'An. Stunning movie, I loved the heavy art inspirations for the proportions of everything. Follows the life of Gao Shi and his crossroads with the burgeoning poet Li Bai.

My little area! Can't go wrong with any of these movies I think.

Big Fish and Begonia was a big hit, especially for the historical round house representation. Zhou Shen propelled to fame and OST career with this movie.

★ Dahufa is a weird movie! The less you know the better, honestly just strap in for the ride. This one is a bit violent.

Legend of Hei follows a black cat, Hei which is a prequel movie to the animated series with a similar name. He is trying to find a home but encounters humans and monsters along the way that cause him trouble.

I am who I am is about a group of misfits who overcome challenges and become Lion Dancers. The only movie that I included that isn't that fantastical but extremely touching.

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How we feeling Ninjago nation? because this is how I feel.

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So in full unglamored/transformed Monkey Form, but not including the War Forms!

I am bored and want people's opinions on this, and because it's really something I think about!

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I’m sorry I had to

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The MONKEY REANIMATED on Reanumated AU yt channel is chaotic and I love it. Here are some screenshots, check out the video themselves and don't forget to leave a like or comment to them

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I also mentioned this before in DMs, but I want to point something out.

Wukong gave Macaque a peach popsicle after the fight with Azure. At this point into their relationship, they're only jsut to the point of beginning to reconcile, not quite trusting each other yet, but the first thing Wukong does is give Macaque a peach flavored treat. Is this because he's just extending an olive branch? Did he somehow get his hands on more immortal peaches and made modern treats out of them to make it so they last longer for his friend who needs to regularly invest them to manage his chronic sickness? A little bit of both?

Ref.

Wukong 100% planted a divine peach tree or two on FFM from whatever pits he had left over.

I *love* the idea that when Wukong realised his bestie-turned-rival was alive again, he started thinking of ways to add the Peaches of Immortality to modern day snacks/sweets so Mac wouldn't have to wait potentially months or even centuries for a new dose.

In the lore; the special Life-Extending Peach trees in the Celestial Realm supposedly only fruit every 3,000 years (300 celestial years?), and two other variants that take 6,000 (makes you light as air and youthful) and 9,000 (super boosted first variant) years respectively. This is why so much of the harvest is converted into Peach Wine that the immortals can sup on throughout the orchard's fallow season. And why the Peach Banquet is so important to the Queen Mother. There *is* a possibility that there are other sections of the royal orchard that were planted at different times to make the waits a little shorter tho. Irl peach trees take about 3-4 years to grow to fruiting sizes, so the Immortal Peaches could take a few hundred years to sprout anything on Earth - unless someone crossbred them with local peach trees to shorten the amount of time needed.

Also! Hilarious thing I discovered while looking up peaches; the specific trees Wukong is assigned to as an Peach Orchard Attendant are called "Pan Tao/Coiled Peaches" aka "Doughnut/Saturn Peaches"! My fave variant! Ironically in chinese mythos "Saturn" is an earthquake star god - A Stone/Earth Monkey to look after the Earth God's Peaches.

Wukong seems like the sort of guy to plan way ahead when it comes to his fave fruit. Even as a little monkey I could see him eating a Peach of Immortality and deciding to plant the pit or graft a few sticks onto a FFM tree so those on earth could enjoy them. The grafting (basically Frankenstein-ing a divine peach fruiting branch onto a normal peach tree) in particular would produce a tree with hybrid fruit!

The hybrid fruit could act like a "lower dosage" for Macaque's condition, and still treat him albeit requiring more frequent consumption.

And with Wukong's special interest in medicine and herbalism; why stop there?

He could use the little islands around the archipelago for breeding new variants of peaches and other prunus fruits he can graft on to. He'd be more interested in the medicinal/healing properties than the "makes you live for hundreds of years" part, so he could accidentally make an entirely new breed of Peach that massively boosts physical health/treat rare illnesses, but also be safe for anyone not wanting the burden of living so long.

In Wukong's mind, if he could no longer treat Macaque, then he would help treat he entire world to the medicinal properties once exclusive to the Celestials.

Note: in the events of the AU, Heaven def finds out. Mostly because Wukong accidentally info-dumps during his appointments/check-ins with Lao Tzu + Nezha finds one of the FFM orchards during his bodyguard duty of the monkeys.

Xiwangmu is willing to let the peach theft be bygones IF... Wukong gives her a sapling or two for her personal orchard. The variants he's managed to cultivate are super tasty after all, and Lao Tzu wants one for his own medicinal research.

(We ended up calling them Vitality Peaches in the dms. XD)

Wukong wouldn't stop at making wine from his peach orchard; he'd make jams, desserts, canned peaches, dehydrated jellies, dried peach crisps, persipan/marizpan from the kernels, vitamin gummies, and ofc Popsicles from the juices and pulp. The Brotherhood could have eaten entire dishes made with the stuff and not realised it!

So when he confirms that Macaque is back home for good? He busting out the modern treats. He remembers Macaque not caring for the texture of ripe peaches, so a nice cooling popsicle is an easy thing to pack for the beach party without making it obvious that Wukong wants Mac to start having some again.

If Macaque learns that the peach and plum products he's been eating are in fact medicinal, Wukong can easily bluff and say the shadow monkey's immune system is 1300 years out of date and that he'd rather not have Macaque get super-sick from a modern sniffle.

Macaque secretly thinks the concern is sweet, but he really doesn't like being tricked into taking medicine. Just ask him next time okay Peaches?

Macaque will eventually figure out his condition from some digging around and his own summons to the Underworld to review his Draft Scroll. And he will be pissed that Wukong didn't tell him. Then he will hug him.

I ended up on a peach rabbit-hole while writing this as you can see.

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Best you stay down. | We won't ask again.

Currently not really drawing Ninjago stuff, but I found this old wip of the Spinjitzu Brothers based on one of my favourite panels from the Garmadon comics that I thought was fine to just upload. Maybe I'll revamp it sometime but I still like how they look!

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FINALLY

it took me far to long to figure out how to post on tulmblr website

@kyri45 I got the courage to post this from the discord stream

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listen mk isn't stupid but pretty much everyone else around him is hyper intelligent

Mei - runs a successful social media, a champion race driver, partentionally also builds her bikes, and can weild a sword

Sandy - he somehow managed to turn a flying drone into a van with no tools. also unless he brought the drone (which I doubt) he probably built which is a massive undertaking

Mr tang - super nerd and designated smart guy. not to mention a very accurate depiction of a gifted child who wasn't challenged enough as a kid. enough said

Red Son - super genius inventor/engineer/ computer scientist maybe? he built an army of robots, a gornlet that let him pick up the staff, and Armor that transformed presious items into power. that's just the staff he did in episode 1

Sun Wukong - his species is literally named for his intelligent. what more can I say

the only other person in the group that is not excendently intelligent to an almost (or literally in Wukong and Red son's cases) inhuman degree is Pigsy. which is a hard comparison because Pigsy is mk's dad and has way more life experience so ofc he's going to make smarter desions.

Mk has a average intelligent but he is surrounded by very smart people and people who are many years his senior or of course in comparison he seems dumb. it also doesn't help that plays dumb too

now all this to say mk isn't secretly super smart either and he doesn't have a super high emotional intelligent like some people claim. if anything he tends to neglect to notice others emotions he's gotten better but it's not anything to write home about.

mk is avaerge and that's not a bad thing!

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dump pt 5(?)

i was too busy on christmas to do draw anything christmas related...

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Gonna share my animation for a M.A.P i joined in months ago!! i had so much fun doing this and i hope i get to join more M.A.Ps in the future X)c

Here's the whole reanimated M.A.P!!

and here's my little vid too aaaaaaaa

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Wukong, what have you done this time!

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traffic light trio? more like neurodivergence station. mei had ADHD, red son is autistic, and MK is AuDHD, and while they understand each other in ways other people just don't get, they also piss each other the fuck off.

like mei and MK keep repeating movie phrases at each other and red son is getting overstimulated by the constant noise. MK keeps pacing and mei's legs are tired looking at him. red son keeps rambling and mei hasn't been able to finish this message to her mother in twenty minutes.

sometimes they're so in sync, sometimes they wanna blow each other up for breathing.

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I need him to get so so much worse. But after that he can get better. But the better means different. And everyone in his life can't really understand that. They want him to be better and the same. He can't go back. He can never go back.

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I’m starting to run out of ideas for the news stuff ;-;

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Sorry this is shorter than usual