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Marcus/楚萱 - Cantonese-American ENG/中文- 20 - He/Him/佢 - art blog @antidotefortheawkward-art

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In the first chapter of Journey to the West, the macaques proclaim that they would honor whoever dared to jump through the waterfall as their 王。Female macaques tend to lead the communities, and 王 was historically a gender neutral title. Sun Wukong is trans and transitioned after gaining the throne, and in this essay I will-

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Most people are aware Sun Wukong was appointed BiMaWen due to a traditional Chinese belief that monkeys can ward off disease when kept in a stable with horses. However, what’s often overlooked is how the original belief specified monkeys that menstruate would keep horses healthy, therefore-

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JTTW Emoji Ask Game

📖 Do your current feelings about JTTW differ from your childhood ones/from when you first heard about it?

🥔 Which adaptation was your first impression of JTTW?

✋ Got any fun JTTW-related anecdotes?

🪔 Random JTTW thing you find interesting?

🗣️ If you grew up more on family/oral tradition or region-specific storytelling, what's a fun quirk in how your version JTTW differs from Wu Cheng'en canon?

🍃 Favorite arc?

🏐 Least favorite arc?

🌄 Favorite minor character?

🤝 Underrated dynamic?

💬 A quote you love?

🐵🙉 Choose between these two arcs/characters (specify)

📹 Favorite adaption?

🎥 Least favorite adaptation?

🤔 Has an adaptation ever reshaped how you feel about a character or arc?

📝 Favorite thing an adaptation changed in their version of the story?

🪶 Best character design you've seen?

🔥 Worst character design you've seen?

🕹️ Favorite piece of JTTW media that's not an adaptation?

🎁 Favorite piece of merch?

🎵 Favorite JTTW-related song or piece of music?

💢 Hot take?

💭 Random headcanon?

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you are very quiet. Are you okay?

yeah im fine i just have a compsci thing im cramming. ill either be back by like 11:59 tonight OR i will have died

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i'm still in lecture rn. and did you know Tathagata Buddha's actor in 1986 was formerly a guerrilla war fighter.

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got misgendered in my introduction 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

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havent rehearsed this shit ONCE wish me luck

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVENT SLEPT >:(

i had a canned espresso its fine <3

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I think the people who will think you’re a furry will be furries themselves then

fair

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Do they know furries exist or are they normie enough so you could normie pass

bestie you know what school i go to

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You’re. You’re NOT a furry?

whether or not im a furry is up to debate but do you think i want my class to know.

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bestie have u slept like. At All???

.......no

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will people think im a furry for this picture yes/no time sensitive question

furry suspicions from a class who thinks jttw and swk is dumb y/n

yeah it has vibes

no youre only worried bc you know the context

Voting ended onApr 13, 2023

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FOR REFERENCE THESE ARE THE ONLY SWK THEY KNOW.

THEYRE GONNA THINK I FUCKING YASSIFIED HIM

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will people think im a furry for this picture yes/no time sensitive question

furry suspicions from a class who thinks jttw and swk is dumb y/n

yeah it has vibes

no youre only worried bc you know the context

Voting ended onApr 13, 2023

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how im gonna look on wednesday in my Great Sage Equaling Heaven Sun Wukong shirt presenting about the Great Sage Equaling Heaven Sun Wukong with animations and art dating back to 2018

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im not done with my slideshow yet godbless. its in like 4 hours.

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🫤 Anthony C. Yu's translation is by far the most credible and accurate translation on the market rn but I guess we all need reminders that biases will leak through any translator. Personally I'd translate this as "Wicked/deceitful-classed idiot!" cuz like. If he said 贱辈，I'd understand "hussy" but there are no sexual/slutshaming connotations here at all per my understanding at least.

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bisexual Zhu Bajie dialogue. to me.

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the original isnt even gendered. it's "take in marriage" versus "marry off to."..............

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these sentiments are in the same genre to me