#i love peachbuds

[coralillom]

Fan art based on a fanfic I read on Shadowpeach

[that0nestranger]

The besties getting up to no good as per usual

[cave-monkey]

Monkey King 2009 Episode 8 (Part 1/2)

This episode makes me scared for the future. It's so wholesome. This episode was all about what great friends these guys are, how much they care about each other, how important these relationships are to them, and I mean. It did a great job. It did a wonderful job!

They are definitely getting ready to rip them apart. They might let it ride a few episodes more only to spring it on us when we've let our guards down, but it's coming.

But!

Okay, so I already broke and talked a bit about Six Ears and Stone Monkey in this episode, so I won't go too crazy on that (maybe), but I do want to mention Stone Monkey's furiously intent expression while running to save Six Ears's life, and then how the second he was in range to attack that expression flipped to a smile. He also ripped Six Ears out of there and slipped back to a more serious expression when he asked him what he was doing out here all by himself. This entire episode Stone Monkey's kind of flipping between...really intense and then really flippant, which was interesting to watch? But also a bit whiplash-inducing. Jade Rabbit definitely took it as 100% real, and maybe it is - it's not like you can expect any version of Monkey King to not to be a little cocky - but...I dunno. I think there's some nuance there. It reminds me a bit of how he'd go from 0 to 60 when confronted with the four generals in Episode 6 compared to how carefree he might have been acting even just seconds earlier.

That smile is also only moments after he just watched the Demon King send Six Ears flying, and we got a shot of his face immediately after that too, and he wasn't happy about it. Stone Monkey, I think, can smile maliciously, but he still...hm.

I get the impression Stone Monkey doesn't really like showing that something's actually getting to him, especially when his "enemies" can see it. He'll pretend he's more confident than he is, or otherwise that it doesn't actually bother him at all, at least until he can't hide it anymore and it comes out of him snarling (we saw this in action in Episode 6, where he went from avoidance/running away at the beginning of the episode to passive-aggressive antagonism in the middle to having to be held back from squaring up to Marshal Ma at the end). Even when he's genuinely (or "genuinely") annoyed with someone, there's generally a sort of playful air of exaggeration, or he'll teasingly escalate for fun. What it looks like to me is Stone Monkey enjoys confrontation so long as it's basically harmless, but he doesn't like being actually angry. This might have something to do with the fact that when he actually loses his temper, he gets violent. We see this with the Demon King and with Ginseng Fruit.

Which isn't to say all his quick changes in mood are deliberate obfuscation. That's going too far. But I do think it's a part of his character that pokes its head out of the brush every now and then.

We also see a little of how people react to it. Stone Monkey was visibly struggling enough during his fight against the Demon King that Jade Rabbit was moved to help him a few times even though she was still very angry with him, and when she'd knock the Demon King down or trip him up (from hiding, Stone Monkey didn't know (maybe) that she was there) he'd immediately flip over to mocking laughter and confident poses like he hadn't been worried at all. This PISSED her OFF.

It also makes me kind of wonder how Six Ears perceives it. Both Stone Monkey and Six Ears will default to mocking and taunts and making fun when they can during a fight, so it's not like Six Ears isn't familiar with the tactic, but he also doesn't see how stressed Stone Monkey gets when trying to get to him before a rescue, either. He only sees the smiling entrance.

I'm feeling this out because of the part in this episode where Stone Monkey - for probably the first time ever - refuses to let Six Ears fight with him, and even throws him away from danger. (I LOVE that scene.) I have a lot to say about it, actually, and I'll get into what I think was going on from Stone Monkey's perspective there in a second, but from Six Ears's side that cannot feel good. Yeah, Stone Monkey's just trying to protect him, but he's also not trusting Six Ears to help. He's forcing Six Ears to leave his best friend alone in the middle of an enemy war party, because he doesn't trust him to help. That's got to feel like a horrible slap in the face, at least once the battle is over and Six Ears has time to process it.

And I'm sure that's not going to have any consequences whatsoever.

From Stone Monkey's side (didn't I say I wasn't going to talk about them that much? well I lied), going back to their earlier conversation where Stone Monkey asks Six Ears what he's doing out here alone, and then the look on his face when Six Ears explains (plainly and almost casually for the situation, like he doesn't realize he's rocking Stone Monkey's entire world) that he noticed Stone Monkey missing and went looking for him because he was worried that he might be in danger somewhere.

Stone Monkey's shocked.

It isn't that I think he didn't realize Six Ears cared about him before this moment; it's that this is the moment where I think it really clicked. That Six Ears will notice and miss him when he's not there, that he'll worry about him, that Stone Monkey has someone who will come try to find him when he's lost and help him when he's hurt. Six Ears has been doing this for him since they met, even outright scolding him for always vanishing without telling anyone, so Stone Monkey's definitely been a little slow on the uptake here, but I also think this is the first time Stone Monkey's heard Six Ears actually spell it out like this.

The progression of Stone Monkey's face during this conversation.

Six Ears also tells him not to apologize or say anything about always getting Six Ears into trouble, since Stone Monkey's always having to save him anyway. I mentioned before that I thought the sworn brothers thing was really important to Stone Monkey at the time, just because of how rough things had been with the troop and how nice it probably was for him to have someone willing to claim him and to let him claim them in turn, and I think this is something very similar. Confirmation that he's as important to Six Ears as Six Ears is to him. That they'll take care of each other.

Then fast forward a couple minutes and Stone Monkey throws Six Ears to the top of the cliff instead of letting him fall with him. I think this conversation is definitely a huge part of that.

It's not that I think Stone Monkey wouldn't have wanted to save Six Ears even before it, but I do think his emotions are running a little high at that moment. He saw Six Ears get flattened by the Demon King not long ago, they just had a very important conversation for Stone Monkey, and I think in that moment the thought of losing Six Ears when he probably feels he just got him (or had just allowed himself to believe he really had him, not much difference) was probably overwhelmingly horrible. He's already proven himself protective of Six Ears in the past, and I think that feeling is probably dialed up to a million at that moment, and so it's probably not surprising if he panicked and took a chance to shove him up on a high shelf for safekeeping. (Maybe Stone Monkey's mystic universe powers make him capable of recognizing narrative death flags and he said NOT TODAY.) (I kid.) (Or do I?)

There's also a possibility - way more of a stretch, not sure how I feel about this idea one way or another honestly - that he maybe now feels he can trust Six Ears to come back even if he isn't right next to Stone Monkey. That Six Ears won't leave him for dead, but will go get help and bring it as fast as he can, or will return to help on his own.

Or it's just that Stone Monkey 100% would have thrown Six Ears to safety in the past, but this is just coincidentally the first time there's been an opportunity. (Stone Monkey, shrugging: If you don't want to be tossed out of the fight, don't be so tossable.)

This ties into what I was talking about above (way, way above, oops) that Six Ears isn't always privy to the times Stone Monkey isn't confident. Maybe Stone Monkey didn't like even their combined chances and chose to save Six Ears because he genuinely thought they were going to die there when that tree went down, maybe he really did think he had a better chance of holding out longer than Six Ears, maybe he was going full big brain and knew that if he went back and tried to bring the army, there was a good chance the four generals just wouldn't listen to him, and it's just good luck that sending Six Ears lets him get his best friend safely out of the way. Maybe it's a weird mashup of many different reasons.

I don't think he genuinely believed he could single-handedly fight his way out of that canyon. I'm not sure if Six Ears knows that.

I'm not finishing this thought now, but I'm stewing on it.

And anyway, on a lighter note, most of Stone Monkey's intentions are totally moot because Six Ears - the universe's favorite trouble magnet - manages to either run immediately into another division of enemy soldiers (tiger guy probably had a grudge and went looking for him, actually) who bailed out of the canyon for their own reasons and gets tree-ed again for awhile.

There's also the possibility he took it upon himself to guide off some of the army from the canyon so Stone Monkey wasn't overrun while also handling the Demon King!

Anyway, I love these monkeys. This also totally derailed from being about Episode 8 so I'm going to do a part 2 to get things back on track.

[quitealotofsodapop]

Peachbuds scenario:

Shihou: hey all the other us have something called a pet name for the other yous. It's a name of affection and we should have one!

Mihou: what would it be?

Shihou: what would you pet name me?

Mihou: hm... -blushes- sunflower.

Shihou: -gasps and hugs him- I love it! I'll pet name you opal! You're ears are pretty with your fur and reminds me of an opal!

Mihou: -red and hugs back, absolutely happy-

Shihou is such a sweetie, he probably doesn't even care if him and Mihou are a confirmed couple yet. He wants them to have names only they can share together.

Mihou def blushes like crazy the first hundred times he uses the pet name/hears his own.

Mihou, still flustered: "When does it stop making me feel goofy?" Plum: "It never does." *turns to LMK!Wukong* "Aint' that right, peaches?" ¬‿¬ Peach: "No." *giggling blushing mess* (つ≧▽≦)つ

Some of the other monkeys claim that they have no such pet names for eachother.

Dasheng: "Just seems a little... immature. Embarassing even." Peach, suspcious: "Is that so?" *turns to HiB!LEM* "Hey Zhanshi. What do you call Dasheng when you're alone together?" Zhanshi, no hesitation: "Oh, I call him Hot Cheeks cus of his butt. Otherwise it's Husband and Love in front of the kids." ( •̀ω •́ ) Dasheng: *covers blushing face with hands* Peach: "Don't ever lie to me again." Zhanshi, fondly: "He also calls me Tiānshǐ [angel]." （ﾉ´∀`） Peach: "Aww!" Dasheng: *embarassed wheezing sound* (/□＼*)・゜

Also since the LEMs have built-in lie detecting ears, they can all tell when one of them is lying about petnames. The Smash duo call eachother "dumbass" as petname.

[eeve-ly]

For Sun and Lui Er, did they ever get scared or fear that they might end up fighting like Wukong and Macque did (including the matter of Macaque's death)? You know, because in the multiverse the general rule is that you don't get along

Yes,they are both Liu-er and Wukong are afraid of lose eachother after Liu-er turn to evil(i don't know if he was controlled or possessed 2009's cartoon ok?Im still finding where to watch with eng sub) and after they know what happend in Shadowpeach,they have so much to think,some point of vision from Monkey King and Macaque and figure out was Azure Lion fault all the time

But the good news is Liu-er doesn't will die in this au,because of knowing the future with ShadowPeach,they future gonna be better(im still thinking if i gonna post about Peachbuds future,i have some ideas:Liu-er and Wukong Marriage,Jttw more calm,about Wukong introducing in the Journey and Liu-er reigning Flower Mountain Huaguo when Wukong is in Journey)

But the point is Wukong Will not Kill his love because of tripitaka

[ritz-writes]

I'm sobbing, crying *sobs* I loved so much your song! It's so precious! Question: Your song is free of interpretation? like it could be as shadowpeach (i love it btw) and for people who sees them as a platonic relationship of them??

Hi!! Thank you so much!!! :D

And yes, it I can 100% be seen either way. The original file name for the lyrics was actually "rotten shadowpeach song i guess" lmao. But after making the extended version I realized it could be seen as either platonic or romantic. So please feel free to see it as either shadowpeach or peachbuds <3

[peachbudstoy]

Children:

 You are the apple of your parents’ eye,

The most precious blessing in their heart,

I want you to have a brisk childhood;

 You are the sweetheart of your grans,

Every of your innocent grin, toddling and babble would unfurl wrinkles on their faces,

I want you to grow up happily under blinding blue sky;

 You are lovely flowers, hope, and bright future of our country;

You’ll have good education, unfaded heart, joyful life, the best of everything,

In the peaceful world…

 Love you forever with all my heart and wish every child a very enjoyable Children’s Day!

#Childrensday #Childrensday2020 #Childrensdaychina2020 #PeachBud

[bigheaux]

Guilty or Innocent Tag Game

tagged by the lovely @siriusbxack

rules: you can only say guilty or innocent. you are not allowed to explain anything unless someone messages you or asks you.

asked someone to marry you? innocent kissed one of your friends? guilty danced on a table in a bar or tavern? innocent ever told a lie? guilty had feelings for someone whom you can’t have? guilty ever kissed someone of the opposite sex? innocent ever kissed someone of the same sex? guilty kissed a picture? guilty slept in until 5pm? innocent fallen asleep at work or school? guilty held a snake? guilty been suspended from school? innocent stolen something? guilty done something you regret? guilty laughed until something you were drinking came out of your nose? guilty caught a snowflake on your tongue? guilty kissed in the rain? innocent sat on a roof top? guilty sang in the shower? guilty been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on? innocemt slept naked? innocent made a boyfriend/girlfriend cry? innocent been in a band? innocent shot a gun? innocent donated blood? innocent eaten alligator meat? innocent eaten cheesecake? guilty still love someone you shouldn’t? innocent have/had a tattoo? guilty been too honest? guilty ruined a surprise? innocent ate in a restaurant and got really bloated that you can’t walk after? guilty erased someone in your friends list? guilty dressed in a man’s clothes? guilty dressed in a woman’s clothes? guilty joined a pageant? innocent been told that you’re beautiful by someone who totally meant what they said? innocent still have communication with your ex? innocent cheated on someone? innocent got totally drunk one night when you had an important exam the next morning? innocent a total stranger treated you by paying your fare? innocent got so angry that you cried? guilty tried to stay away from someone for their own good? innocent actually murdered someone? innocent thought about mass murder? innocent actually committed a mass murder? innocent rode in a stranger’s vehicle? guilty stalked someone? innocent had a girlfriend? innocent had a boyfriend? innocent totally drunk during a holiday? guilty

I tag @peachbud, @poivsonivy , and @yolandalesbian  !!

[adjacent-thoughts]

Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law by Adrienne Rich

1.

You, once a belle in Shreveport, with henna-colored hair, skin like a peachbud, still have your dresses copied from that time, and play a Chopin prelude called by Cortot: "Delicious recollections float like perfume through the memory."

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumor, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

Nervy, glowering, your daughter wipes the teaspoons, grows another way.

2.

Banging the coffee-pot into the sink she hears the angels chiding, and looks out past the raked gardens to the sloppy sky. Only a week since They said: Have no patience.

The next time it was: Be insatiable. Then: Save yourself; others you cannot save. Sometimes she's let the tapstream scald her arm, a match burn to her thumbnail,

or held her hand above the kettle's snout right in the woolly steam. They are probably angels, since nothing hurts her anymore, except each morning's grit blowing into her eyes.

3.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. The beak that grips her, she becomes. And nature, that sprung-lidded, still commodious steamer-trunk of tempora and mores gets stuffed with it all:  the mildewed orange-flowers, the female pills, the terrible breasts of Boadicea beneath flat foxes' heads and orchids.

Two handsome women, gripped in argument, each proud, acute, subtle, I hear scream across the cut glass and majolica like Furies cornered from their prey: The argument ad feminam, all the old knives that have rusted in my back, I drive in yours, ma semblable, ma soeur!

4.

Knowing themselves too well in one another: their gifts no pure fruition, but a thorn, the prick filed sharp against a hint of scorn. . . Reading while waiting for the iron to heat, writing, My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun— in that Amherst pantry while the jellies boil and scum, or, more often, iron-eyed and beaked and purposed as a bird, dusting everything on the whatnot every day of life.

5.

Dulce ridens, dulce loquens, she shaves her legs until they gleam like petrified mammoth-tusk.

6.

When to her lute Corinna sings neither words nor music are her own; only the long hair dipping over her cheek, only the song of silk against her knees and these adjusted in reflections of an eye.

Poised, trembling and unsatisfied, before an unlocked door, that cage of cages, tell us, you bird, you tragical machine— is this fertilisante douleur? Pinned down by love, for you the only natural action, are you edged more keen to prise the secrets of the vault? has Nature shown her household books to you, daughter-in-law, that her sons never saw?

7.

"To have in this uncertain world some stay which cannot be undermined, is of the utmost consequence."                                         Thus wrote a woman, partly brave and partly good, who fought with what she partly understood. Few men about her would or could do more, hence she was labeled harpy, shrew, and whore.

8.

"You all die at fifteen," said Diderot, and turn part legend, part convention. Still, eyes inaccurately dream behind closed windows blankening with steam. Deliciously, all that we might have been, all that we were—fire, tears, wit, taste, martyred ambition— stirs like the memory of refused adultery the drained and flagging bosom of our middle years.

9.

Not that it is done well, but that it is done at all? Yes, think of the odds! or shrug them off forever. This luxury of the precocious child, Time's precious chronic invalid,— would we, darlings, resign it if we could? Our blight has been our sinecure: mere talent was enough for us— glitter in fragments and rough drafts.

Sigh no more, ladies.                               Time is male and in his cups drinks to the fair. Bemused by gallantry, we hear our mediocrities over-praised, indolence read as abnegation, slattern thought styled intuition, every lapse forgiven, our crime only to cast too bold a shadow or smash the mold straight off.

For that, solitary confinement, tear gas, attrition shelling. Few applicants for that honor.

10.

                                               Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I see her plunge breasted and glancing through the currents, taking the light upon her at least as beautiful as any boy or helicopter,                     poised, still coming, her fine blades making the air wince

but her cargo no promise then: delivered palpable ours.

1958-1960

[quitealotofsodapop]

I imagine lmk!Macaque would try and help Meihouwang!Mihou come to a conclusion to his feelings, more accidentally asking him if he'd be fine if Shihou was courted by someone else. Meanwhile Mei and MK accidentally point out Meihouwang!Shihou's rather affectionate behavior towards Meihouwang!Mihou and Shihou has a mental glass break. Now both kiddos would angst about this new emotion, not wanting to ruin their friendship.

LMK Macaque tries to approach the situation calmly, not wanting to scare his younger counterpart.

LMK!Macaque: "It's ok to have such conflicting feelings on someone you hold dear." Meihouwang!Mihou: "Really?" LMK!Macaque: "Yup. Me and Peaches... we've been everything to one another. Best friends, blood brothers, rivals, enemies, lovers, and now mates." Meihouwang!Mihou: "But... I don't know if I see Shihou in the way you see your Wukong. Or if he even feels like that for anyone..." LMK!Macaque: "Thats cool. I've met a few other monkies who never had romantic feelings for another. Perfectly normal." Meihouwang!Mihou: "But sometimes when I see him laughing with other monkeys I feel... icky." LMK!Macaque: "Oh? What sort of icky? Like maybe...?" *smug look of realisation* "How would you feel if a big strong lion demon started courting Shihou?" Meihouwang!Mihou, face red: "I'd want to toss them into the sea and wear their hides as pyjamas!" LMK!Macaque: *even bigger smug look* Meihouwang!Mihou: "...Ok. I'm starting to understand what I feel."

Meanwhile...

MK, trying to be delicate: "So... you and your Mihou are really close huh?" Meihouwang!Shihou: "Yep! I love Mihou! He's my closest friend!" Mei, jokingly: "Nothing wrong with kissing your homies goodnight." Meihouwang!Shihou: "Yes! I'd kiss Mihou if I could- wait." *lighting blot of realisation* MK and Mei: *realise that they might of just broken this poor fruity monkey lad's view of his and his best friend's relationship with a single sentence*

Theres a mutual moment of "I don't want to ruin our friendship!!" between the Peachbuds, not knowing that the other has come to the same conclusion. Eventually they decide that they can be friends AND in love at the same time! It's very cute <3

[quitealotofsodapop]

Mihou: I don't wanna ruin our friendship! I mean a lot happened *mumbles*possession*mumbles* between us!

Plum: I mean, you don't have to treat him differently. Both of you are used to showing affection towards each other you don't need to change it.

((I imagine that peachbuds confession will just be like "You're into me" scene from the 2017 Jumanji movie. Except it's kiss to the cheek since Mihou might faint from overjoy.))

Plum just keeps finding Mihou listening to "Jenny" by Studio Killers in the dark and is like "oh dude, deja vu."

Meanwhile with the SWKs;

Shihou: "What does love feel like?" Peach, eating: "Feels like you wanna sit on the beach and eat fruit together forever." Smokey, dramatically: "That your very heart has been stolen from you and you hesistate to retrieve it." Dasheng, chuckling: "Like you would walk into Diyu just to see them smile." Ace: "Like you would die for them. Kill for them. Either way what bliss." Starfruit: "They can make you feel the best and worst things like UGH!!" *frustated loud groan* Cherry, tail curled into a heart: "Like you wanna burn heaven together while smooching." *giggles and kicks feet in air* Sugar: "When the thought of being two and us makes you smile!" Shihou, face red and determined: "I feel all those things about Mihou!!" *gets kinda sad* "But I don't think he feels the same way." All the SWKs who've seen Peachbuds interact: "Odds are; HE DOES."

Most of the LEMs overhear this convo and are like "Aww!!!"

And oh gosh the actual Peachbuds confession would be so awkward and messy. They're teenagers after all.

(The Jumanji confession scene in question)

Mihou & Shihou: *about to have a dramatic kiss moment* Ginseng, interupting: "C'mon! I dont want to see that - not today. While you two were professing your love for eachother, I found the Havoc Demon's cave."

Also the comparison to Jumanji 2017 is making me think of the "Baby I Love Your Way"/Dance Fight scene but with Mihou as Martha. He sees all his alternates as these beautiful warriors, femme fatale-esque fighters, or charismatic idols, and he's feeling like "oh... I'm just me." :(

All the other LEMs disagree full-heartedly. They think Mihou has figured things out a lot better than they did at his age. A big feelings/self-esteem talk happens where the LEMs talk about aspects of themselves they don't like/praise the "flaws" the others see in themselves.

[quitealotofsodapop]

Tengo una pregunta sobre Peachbud (niño Wukong y niño Mihou) ¿como es el desarrollo de su relación de amigos a pareja?¿hubo momentos donde uno de ellos sintió pánico por sus crecientes sentimientos por su mejor amigo?¿Wukong (¿también se le decía Shihou a esa versión?) Tuvo su primer Gay Panic cuando vio a Mihou en sus inicios como amante del teatro (también conocido como Drama Queen)?

¡¡SON PREGUNTAS QUE NO ME DEJAN DORMIR EN PAZ!! ★-★

translated via google:

"I have a question about Peachbud (boy Wukong and boy Mihou), how is their relationship developing from friends to couple? Were there moments where one of them felt panic over his growing feelings for his best friend? Wukong (is he also What did Shihou say to that version?) Did you have your first Gay Panic when you saw Mihou in her early days as a theater lover (also known as Drama Queen)?

THESE ARE QUESTIONS THAT WON'T LET ME SLEEP IN PEACE!! ★-★"

I have an older post dicussing Peachbuds + Wukongverse, and how they try to tackle their feelings for one another.

I feel like they wouldn't have Gay Panic, simply because they don't live in a society that denouces homosexuality (they are monkeys). But what they *would* panic over is being in love with their Best Friend. That's scarier to them than the other being the same gender.

Shihou and Liu'er Mihou are adorably unable to admit their feelings to one another because they care so much about eachother.

[peachbudstoy]

As of today, I have been working at PeachBuds for 15 years since I joined on Sep.23, 2004.

 I had worked in a massager company for over a year after graduated from my hometown

#Zhengzhou.

I was bored of the three bosses’ endless argument on different opinions and dropped out.

 After interviewed several companies, I wondered if I took offer from the current company.

Because the product is #adulttoys, how could I answer them if my friends or family asked me?

As you might imagine, 15 years ago, people’s mind was not as innovative as nowadays.

 Finally, I decided to work at PeachBuds cause the boss is kind and the company doesn’t have much rules to limit employees’ activities.

Also because Love Toy is a booming industry, I saw the bright future and huge consuming markets.

 As days slipped by, time is always best proof for your decision.

 Most colleagues are friendly and easy to get along with, now I’d rather say we are more like sisters and brothers rather than colleagues at PeachBuds.

We help each other on the works, go shopping and hold parties during weekends…

 I fall in love with the atmosphere here as time goes by, so do my lovely customers.

Besides business, we became good friends who can talk about secrets in the deep heart. Whatever in China or in their countries, we have dinner and hang out…

 So looking back today, I am sure I am so lucky to meet so many nice people in my life, you make my life valuable and colorful!

I love and cherish all of you and looking forward to being with you for decades!

 Amy Lee

Sep. 23, 2019