chatting with @celestialkiri who suggested what would happen if their reader Sophie crossed paths with my own Wukong 🤔he simply would not stand to learn he may not be the one and only most special boy
This is off-topic, but ever since you brought up that fanfic responding to my question, there's been a few people that are curious about what fic you were referring to. I am also curious. I tried searching for it, but no luck.
Peace (and Quiet) Never Felt So Miserable by unnamedmystery
Art and AU and comic is all by @somerandomdudelmao (who is INCREDIBLE)
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Song is Agnes by Glass Animals
I've never edited a comic before so uh please cut me some slack💀
Normally I post these kinds of video edits on Tiktok but I know Cass is mainly on Tumblr so now it's here too! Anyway PLEASE go read Cass' apocalyptic series if you haven't!! It's so amazing and the latest update made me sit in the dark and stare at the ceiling in the best way possible and I just had to do something to express my love for the comic and my appreciation for all that Cass does!
Who are your favorite jttw artists? I've been looking for more content lately and you seem to be dependable on these kinds of things >.>
Hi there @thebeastandthehedgegrowth! Many thanks for your vote of confidence :)
So I would say that my current definite favorite JTTW artist would be Dongzi Liu, who's created some phenomenal Xiyouji-based pieces. Here's a small sampling that I yoinked off of his twitter:
The Pilgrims:
A close-up of Sun Wukong:
And just check out these kings of Lion-Camel Ridge!
Another artist I very much like is Chen Huiguan, who's created some really endearing presentations of the pilgrimage. Irwen Wong has a really good collection of them as part of his extremely helpful summary of Journey to the West. Here's a small sampling of the work:
The stone monkey leaving Mt. Huaguoshan in the quest for immortality:
Sun Wukong feeling the full effects of the headache spell for the first time:
Zhu Bajie trying to convince the Monkey King to return after his first banishment:
Cartoonist Chaiko Tsai has also recently come out with a lovely graphic novel version of Journey to the West, and while other people have posted some really adorable images from it I'll give some samplings of the art that I found online:
Zhu Bajie, Tang Sanzang, Bai Longma, and Sun Wukong looking apprehensive near a body of water:
A student Sun Wukong learning how to fly:
Those are the professional artists that come to mind, but if you're interested in something a little "closer to home" as it were (i.e. hobby artists on tumblr), then I'd say that the best JTTW artists would be @antidotefortheawkward-art, @archrui, @lavaflowe, @sixteenthchapel, @kaijufluffs, and @sunny-days-and-warm-mournings
These are the artists that first come to mind, and as you can see there's some really amazing styles present! I hope you enjoy all this art as much as I do, and it goes without saying that everyone should feel free to reblog with their own favorite JTTW-inspired artists.
It's not like it's hidden, but I haven't seen anybody point it out so...
You know how Casey and Donnie start their conversations? That's their little thing.
Donnie lives in multi-tasking mode all the time and often doesn't even turn his head to greet you if you start talking to him. From the outside it looks like he doesn't care. But he and Casey have this little moment at the beginning of almost any conversation where they call each other by name.
It's Donnie's way of saying "I'm busy, but I know you are here and I'm listening to you."
At first it was a one-way thing, but then Casey started doing that in response too and it became a common habit between them
So now whenever Casey wants to address Donnie, he says his name and then pauses. ...You know..., so that Donnie fills that pause by saying his name in response.