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Movie extra: Spirit Gathering

Original on the LXH weibo

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE

The writers are staying on it seems! (With the exception of Sarah)

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CARNIVAL AU

Cutscene: Room 4 - "The Rabbit"

Come get your slop <3 I've starved you long enough <3

BIG props to @greyssketches for inspiring Jax lore with their AMAZING jax fanart!

kofi✨

another silly purple asshole to add to my collection

Jax from The Amazing Digital Circus, created by @gooseworx

Wukong holding Xiaotian

“Oh, Xiaotian you outshine the morning sun… my son! Look at my son! Pride is not the word I’m looking for.. there is so much more inside me now.”

said as he’s holding Qi Xiaotian in his war form.

I've heard that Wukong has a heart of gold (literally), as well as iron lungs, and a metal spine from being in Lao Tzu's furnace and eating molten Copper from Guan Yin and was wondering if this is true.

Monkey states that in ch. 34:

When old Monkey caused great disturbance in the Celestial Palace five hundred years ago and was refined for forty-nine days in the eight trigram brazier of Laozi, the process in fact gave me a heart strong as gold and viscera hardy as silver, a bronze head and an iron back, fiery eyes and diamond pupils (Wu & Yu, 2012, vol. 2, p. 131).

The legend of his adamantine body predates the 1592 JTTW. For instance, Sun claims the following in the early-Ming zaju play:

I plundered Laozi’s gold Pill of Immortality, and have endured so many alchemical transformations that my muscles are brass, my bones iron, my eyes fire, my pupils gold, my asshole lead and my prick is pewter (Ning, 1986, p. 142). 

Another example comes from the 13th-century JTTW. He is referred to as the the “Bronze-Headed, Iron-Browed King of the Eighty-Four Thousand Monkeys of the Purple Cloud Grotto on the Mountain of Flowers and Fruits” (Wivell, 1994, p. 1182). And the story ends with the Tang Emperor Taizong enfeoffing him as the “Great Sage Steel Muscles and Iron Bones” (Wivell, 1994, p. 1207).

Sources:

Ning, C. Y. (1986). Comic Elements in the Xiyouji Zaju (UMI No. 8612591) [Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan]. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global.

Wivell, C.S. (1994). The Story of How the Monk Tripitaka of the Great Country of T’ang Brought Back the Sūtras. In V. Mair (Ed.), The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature (pp. 1181-1207). New York: Columbia University Press.

Wu, C., & Yu, A. C. (2012). The Journey to the West (Vols. 1-4) (Rev. ed.). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.

Bonus:

They all got matching jackets

even more tadc sketches

Someone was talking quietly of lanterns—but loud enough to light my way.

prints here

Sunhaven character :))