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Late to the party but here's sun wukong showing off his new fit to the huaguoshan monkeys in chapter 3 @journeythroughjourneytothewest

This swk design is based more so on a combination of the 1999 animated series and 1961 havoc in heaven movie rather than the book description just because I love those adaptations a lot :)

#journey to the west #jttw #journeythroughjourneytothewest #sun wukong #xiyouji #my art

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Hello and Welcome!

This is a blog dedicated to Journey to the West, where anyone interested many join in and follow along in a journey through Wu Cheng’en’s classic. This reading group will be focused on the Anthony C. Yu English translation, which the ever-interesting @journeytothewestresearch has helped provide completely free to download and read as pdfs! The link can be found below:

https://journeytothewestresearch.com/2019/06/07/archive-10-journey-to-the-west-2012-revised-edition/

In full awareness that everyone has their own busy lives and differing schedules, this reading group is working off of a “do-as-you-want” model. Everyone is welcome to submit their analysis, art, reactions, memes, criticisms, additions of context, etc. as we make our way through the journey, but there is no pressure but to have fun with the work!

That said, there is a reading schedule. This reading group encourages all interested to read one JTTW chapter per week. This group will then “meet” every Sunday, which is be the day participants are encouraged to finish that week’s chapter and/or submit their creative/analytical pieces about it. Sunday will also be the day where I will give a quick recap on that week’s chapter, and will mass reblog anything participants submitted to have that work in the archive. This blog will start keeping to this schedule starting July 16, so please have read “Chapter 1: The Divine Root Conceives, by then.” You’ll find the reading schedule for Volume 1 below, and while not necessary I do encourage everyone to give a look at Yu’s introduction to this text as well.

Thank you in advance to anyone who wants to participate and to everyone who has expressed so much enthusiasm for this reading group! I’m very happy and excited to embark on this literary pilgrimage with you all.

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Journey to the West Volume 1 Reading Schedule

July 16-Chapter 1: The Divine Root Conceives

July 23-Chapter 2: Fully awoke to Bodhi’s wondrous truths

July 30-Chapter 3: Four Seas and a Thousand Mountains all bow to submit

August 6-Chapter 4: Appointed a BanHorse, could he be content?

August 13-Chapter 5: Disrupting the Peach Festival, the Great Sage steals elixir

August 20-Chapter 6: Guanyin, attending the banquet, inquires into the cause

August 27-Chapter 7: From the Eight Trigrams Brazier the Great Sage escapes

September 3-Chapter 8: Our Budha makes scriptures to impart ultimate bliss

September 10-Chapter 9: Chen Guangrui, going to his post, meets disaster

September 17-Chapter 10: The Old Dragon King’s foolish schemes transgress Heaven’s decrees

September 24-Chapter 11: Having toured the Underworld, Taizong returns to life

October 1-Chapter 12: The Tang emperor, firmly sincere, convenes a Grand Mass

October 8-Chapter 13: In the den of tigers, the Gold Star brings deliverance

October 15-Chapter 14: Mind Monkey returns to the Right

October 22-Chapter 15: At Serpent Coil Mountain, the gods give secret protection

October 29-Chapter 16: At Guanyin Hall the monks plot for the treasure

November 5-Chapter 17: Pilgrim Sun greatly disturbs the Black Wind Mountain

November 12-Chapter 18: At Guanyin Hall the Tang Monk leaves his ordeal

November 19-Chapter 19: At Cloudy Paths Cave, Wukong takes in Eight Rules

November 26-Chapter 20: At Yellow Wind Ridge the Tang Monk meets adversity

December 03-Chapter 21: The Viharapalas prepare lodging for the Great Sage

December 10-Chapter 22: Eight Rules fights fiercely at the Flowing-Sand River

December 17-Chapter 23: Tripitaka does not forget his origin

December 24-Chapter 24: At Long Life Mountain the Great Immortal detains his old friend

December 31-Chapter 25: The Zhenyuan Immortal gives chase to catch the scripture monk

#for anyone interested #i will be participating #coincidentally I bought the book a couple days before coming across this #journey to the west #jttw

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look a luke

#this is from like february #i have nothing else worth posting at this time #luke skywalker #star wars #my art

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So funny seeing my last post being my new year’s resolution to draw more and keep up with reading. I have been doing neither.

#but i have been touching grass

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Last year my resolution was to read and draw more, so I had a goal to read a book a month and draw something for each book

Final score was 28 books and 0 drawings…

#attempt number 2 this year #wish me luck

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~ opera ~

(ref)

#self reblog #for the today crowd

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you're the only person on here i have post notifications on for

well I only post like 3 times a year so I guess they’re necessary

#in all seriousness im very flattered! #asks

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~ opera ~

(ref)

#sick of these tassels lol #beijing opera #chinese opera #my art #ok i hated how i cropped it before so i edited this with the uncropped version #sorry theres just two versions of this post now

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harrow doodle

#idk what happened to the image quality here but I’ll pretend it was intentional #harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #tlt #my art

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vmas lil nas x

#learning how to use procreate #been over a year of super mega turbo art block #and literally not drawing anything during that time #lil nax x #vmas 2022 #my art #study

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meese

#my little mouse passed away yesterday #rest in peace sweet baby #self reblog

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inspired by Sun Queen’s Complicated Allies

#happy birthday Tolkien #very old art #idk I think this is cute #self reblog #I’ve been reading lotr and in the mood to draw for it recently

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uhh water 💧

#hello I have not drawn in months wheeeee #self reblog

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I’m getting some big “guy who has only seen boss baby” energy from some shang-chi reactions, but with like avatar the last airbender instead of boss baby.

#don't take this too seriously

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I’m getting some big “guy who has only seen boss baby” energy from some shang-chi reactions, but with like avatar the last airbender instead of boss baby.

#and pokemon

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the fortune teller

#no new art i am busy becoming a gym rat #self reblog

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boop

#little hands #pitter pat #mouse #mice #mouseblr