Don't worry, it'll be Monon-OK

"The faces of human beings are their facades after all." Mostly fan-translations for the spin-off novels and adaptations and reblogging other people's stuff with a splash of shitposting Side-blog of @rinofwather

[the-mononoke-facade]

State of affairs

Howdy, Rin here, keeping track of whatever involved Mononoke-related project I'm working on here for one easy post to find everything in

With that being said:

Link to fan-translated stories from Mononoke: Shu (you can get the raw version here)

Kama Itachi Kame-hime Tamamo no Mae Fugurama Youbi Toutetsu Nuppera-hofu

Link to fan-translated stories from Mononoke: Oni

Character sheet Ushi-Oni Enenra(romaji sweep done; translating: ~12% done) Wani Nyodo(romaji sweep done) Oni Gozen(romaji sweep done)

[ekwallace]

Odajima hits "you wanna fuck him so bad it's making you stupid" territory as soon as Kusuriuri kicks him in the chest, and he never really gets better.

[shaorin1108]

Scent of Ramune

[shaorin1108]

I want to see every side of him—every expression he shows.

[ekwallace]

Commission for me by nimphelos! I knew an artist who does a lot of Silmarillion art would do an amazing job on my favorite beautiful man with long hair and pointed ears! <3

[distorted-destiny]

after all this torturous waiting...

WE FINALLY HAVE AN OFFICIAL DATE !!!

[kayk3oli-deactivated20250930]

Fiz esses dias atrás 😰

[oouriuri]

🎐·.✧*。

[distorted-destiny]

address them properly or the mononoke is STAYING in this world

[of-form-and-spirit]

i adore the way that the mononoke anime uses the medicine seller to both fill in for and alienate us as the viewers.

there are moments where he is there to ask the questions we want to ask, to work as a plot device that furthers the narrative of the arc. we fill a sort of kinship to his subtle reactions when the mononoke's story is being pieced together and the depths of human cruelty are exposed to him; the flickers of shock, of anger, disgust, irritation. even in the scenography, we are brought to look at the world from his perspective. for example, the introductory scenes of him in the zashiki-warashi arc, where we look at him from behind, while he looks at the inn. like we're being invited to observe alongside him.

then, sometimes even moments later, he pushes us away. whispers under his breath with no dialogue, leaving us guessing as to who and what he's talking to. where with a lot of other characters in the show, we get to hear parts of their internal dialogues, we never get that with the medicine seller. his thoughts are entirely seperated from us. in those moments, he's less of an audience surrogate and more his own character, like he's pushing us aside to figure it out ourselves.

[heiibo]

[ekwallace]

Never forget the time tumblr sexymen featured Ri Kusuriuri and originally tagged him as tall but the entire Mononoke fandom was like IS HE THOUGH? and then they changed it to make him short.

[geraldinosauria]

Medicine vendor of Kon fits

Starting with the haori i burned and fixed with some custom patches and a skirt i made myself our of the cheap looking cosplay of kon that was way too expensive for what it was.

The quality of the fabric is not too good. On both pieces. It is very plasticy and i also think the haori was overpriced. You cannot iron it and you have to wash it cold and also cannot put it into the dryer.

My bestie has the Ri one and they put it in the dryer. It is still in use but it did get damaged since it seemingly has the same quality as the cosplay. Anyway it looks similar when it gets damaged. Very sad.

Next the same haori but turned around because you can wear this thing two ways (and it has pockets)

And the obi-corset thing is also self-made from the kon cosplay. All i could not save was the top part. Sadly. Maybe i am lucky and i can pay a friend to try and save it for me.

And last but definitely not least the shirt and skirt combo i got from favorite-one. At least thats what i think its called.

The quality on this one is much better. It is still polyester but the fabric feels nice and is very smooth. It is heavy too.

Which certainly does not help if you want to keep it tucked inside the skirt. It will slide back out so i need to make sure its properly tucked and maybe even fixed.

Jewellery close up

My bestie got me the oni-mask from etsy.

The haori and the earrings are not available on the official website where they were offered anymore but sometimes someone on mercari offers them for outrageous prices :')

The earrings also work for people with allergies since i am allergic to a lot of metals. I don't know what the hangers are made of, if they are coated with something or not (it is certainly no real gold, i can tell you that). But i do not react and this is nice.

I also have the hairstick that looks similar to the earrings and i will probably wear it as an alternative to the bandanas since my hair is too smooth and they slip and slide straight off. It needs a lot of patience for me to fix them.

Overall i am very happy i have it but some are just not worth the price, i own better quality clothes for less and for the size of the fandom (on the western side, i do not know how popular it really is in japan) i feel like it is a bit over the top.

I do wear those fits outside sometimes, i prefer the last fit for fancier occasions tho.

[ekwallace]

Looking through some images, I spotted my beautiful commissioned Lady Kusuriuri. <3 This is by Zee! She did such a good job! I love the way she adapted the clothes so she's still cross-dressing. (I asked for that, but Zee worked out the details.)

[mr-palmtree]

Finally finished this long overdue mononoke film fanart ^^''

[miocervos]

I’ve been working on this for ages, it’s still unfinished but maybe someday I’ll get the whole thing done……

For now, preview for funsies

[nihiltism]

I love it when there's a guy who lost their name. forgot it, discarded it, don't use it, can't use it, had it stolen, even just when a title is used to avoid saying it. all good stuff

[nihiltism]

bonus addendum! also guys who never had one! love guys who never had a name!!