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been bingereading Usagi Yojimbo! lovin it so far, especially the dramatic shifts in tone. get you a ronin who can do both

full images on my patreon !

#OH MY GOD????? #THE COLORS THE STYLE THEWHAT???? #FERAL #EEATING IT #CHEWING DOOR FRAMES #RHEHDHHF #USAGIII

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LMK mandarin dub (and how characters address eachother) ; an old and. mostly unfinished project I was working on a bit ago. only got mk & mei, alongside past swk & macaque

mk (qi xiaotian) calls mei (long xiaojiao) her full name, and she does the same inversely. I did not find any notable exceptions, but to be honest I did not look very hard. if anyone is interested in seeing how they call eachother in specific episodes or whatever ; send me an ask and I'm open to looking. but I don't feel like combing every single episode to try and find them aimlessly.

my full notes on past macaque (liu'er mihou) and monkey king (sun wukong) via the flashbacks in the season four special. notably, I've yet to go through the flashback in season four episode two yet. I can only talk about part one of the special.

peach tree segment :

- Sun Wukong greats Liu'er Mihou (swk and lmh will be used as shortenings henceforth.) with his full name. followed quickly by Xiongdi/兄弟. literally composed of the characters for Elder Brother and Younger Brother - used as 'bro,' sort of. it's a way men call close friends/comrades. notably doesn't denote that one or the other is older or younger.*

* age and respect is like. a really big deal in chinese culture. really really big. I'm assuming everyone in the brotherhood refers to eachother as XiongDi to denote that they see themselves as on equal standing. though don't quote me (I'm not an expert; I did most of this post in. january. and stuff like this can get confusing when it comes to immortals)

- lmh greets swk as 'Hou Wang Bixia'/猴王陛下 - [pronoun] majesty, the monkey king. the pronoun in question is between his majesty, your majesty, my majesty. pretty sure this is translated as 'my king' in the english dub, so I'm leaning towards my majesty. the way swk reacts ('come on, don't be like that! eat some fruit, enjoy the sunshine!') as well as how he delivers it can make it very safe to assume this is not a sincere term of address on lmh's half.

mountain segment :

-lmh greets swk as xiongdi. when swk replies, swk calls lmh his full name.

-when lmh rants at swk for his inability to consider others, he calls him Sun Dasheng/孫大聖 - great sage sun. intended to highlight his arrogance within context. also, with consideration, I personally believe to put an emotional distance. (pretty sure he says 'great sage wukong' sarcastically within the dub, or something of the ilk, which is rather close to it's like. tonal goal. though it is missing the fact lmh calls swk by his last name, a rare occurance in mandarin. from observation I think it's usually only to show. really high respect? don't quote me though.) it's a variant shortening of his full title, Qitian Dasheng (great sage equal to heaven.)

* notably, lmh does not call swk a demon/variant of demon at any point, which is contrary to the english dub. shortly before calling swk sun dasheng, he says exactly - "你已经着了魔" ; which can be translated as 'you are possessed,' but I'd say it's closer to other translations like you're obsessed/you're obsessive.

I'm, ironically, struggling to find the mandarin dub of season four (I remember having literally the exact opposite problem around this time last year but you know. life goes that way sometimes.) when I do find it, though, I'll be quick to note it down ; though I don't think they directly address eachother in that. so.

mostly this was a pet project for. me. I realized it was actually really hard to find people who noted this stuff down and I was like. hey you know what. why not. though due to extenuating circumstances I ended up too busy to finish it ; I still thought what I already had was pretty interesting. though I don't really go into as much detail as I could have, as I was assuming I'd be noting a lot more character dynamics in this post than I did

#I LOVE IT #I LOVE LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES #ITS SO COOL #jttw made me want to learn Mandarin/Cantonese just to get the full juicy context #sun wukong #lmk

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Guilty >:)

#lmk sun wukong #wellllll shoot

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Doodles of the silly goofy guys in the silly goofy future

Sorry I made them look so slutty :(

#2003 leosagi #tmnt 2003 #tmnt fast forward #it’s not technically 03 cuz it’s my own version? #same thing happens #sorta #may make a comic #anyway it’s why Leo has spots

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I want to see Wukong as a serious and powerful king outside of the mountain of flowers and fruits, but gentle and affectionate with his subjects when he returns home after showdowns with various monsters.

#lmk #monkey king #HEHEHEH HES SO SILLY #yummy art

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woe, fuzzy Alastor propaganda be upon ye

#fuzzy alastor propaganda 🫡

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I vuv Raf so much... :3

Just a small headcanon:

Donnie has his own fridge (mostly because of Leo and Mikey who's constantly stealing his food and drinks... It still has a pin code on it though) and one time, returning to his lab, in the middle of the night, he saw... This

Raph is getting hungry very easily, especially at night. Because of his big hands he couldn't enter a pin code, so he didn't find a decision better than stealing Don's fridge and trying to open it in the more safe place.

Run Raphie, run

#rottmnt #THEYRESOFRGRGEGE #THESTYLEEE #IM EATING IT

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Doctor: $140,000 a year

Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year

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art dump prt 24703 by urs truly ⬆️⬆️⬆️

artblock is torture im decaying 😭😭 I miss mk the monkie kid

#THE STYLE #ASHTBRH I LOVEIT #lego monkie kid

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Oh no! They lost MK! 😱

I have no idea where the vine is I based this one on, but you get the idea

#lego monkey kid #lmk sun wukong #lmk macaque #lmk pigsy #lmk tang #shadowpeach #I’m trying to absorb this art style into my veins

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#he’s me #I want his skin #jk jk #…unless?

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some frames of the animatic im working on

#THE COLORS THE TEXTURE NOMNOMNOM #hazbin hotel

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farts

#shadowpeach #lego monkie kid #lmk #lmk wukong #lmk macaque #ogohoho silly

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Them.

#OH MY GOODNESS #THE STYLEEE #THEYRE SO FLOWY AND SQUISHY #EATING IT

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greetings followers. i had an idea, blacked out for an entire week and woke up with my fingers and wrists obliterated into bone porridge and with this on my screen. welcome to doomed by the narrative, otherwise known as the world is ending but at least they got the drip, otherwise known as me projecting my severe existential crisis on the innocent sillies. these guys are toast lmfao, but maybe hope isn’t always about survival.

featuring my dumbass sense of humor, questionable creative choices and the following idiots

#AT MY LACK OF A DOOR #BONE PORRIDGE #IM GOING TO DIE

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⚠️ I am not chinese, so if any chinese person in the fandom wants to add something or just point out any mistake, please do ⚠️

I've seen people in the fandom call Macaque's smoke monster 'kaiju', but this is not a correct denomination.

It is better to call it "法相" (fa3 xiang4), meaning "image of (commonly Buddha)"

"佛教术语，指诸法之相状，包含体相（本质）与义相（意义）二者"

Trans.

"A Buddhist term that refers to the appearance of all dharmas, including both physical appearance (essence) and righteousness (significance)"

Following this definition, a 法相 is your true self, your essence, both physical and spiritual... meaning that Smokey (little guy) is not a 'kaiju'. It is an essence, Macaque's.

Same goes to all manifestations of characters who have a version of their 法相, it's their true essence.

Yes, you got it right! This little (not so little) guy is also a 法相.

(Don't call them 'kaiju', please).

Just to add, they can also be called 'war forms', since they appear in the original jttw.

#this is so COOL I LOVE IT #lego monkie kid #lmk macaque #fa3 xiang4 #法相 #lmk mk #lego monkie kid mk #lmk analysis