Sun Wukong's assorted lingpai (mandate tokens)
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1) An illustration of the two sides of a mostly rectangular lingpai made of wood. One side reads "令" and the other reads "弼马温", both written in seal script. The bottom of the lingpai is adorned by horses facing outwards, clouds by their feet.
2) An illustration of the two sides of a stone lingpai shaped mostly like a rectangle, but flared at the top and bottom. One side reads "令" and the other reads "美猴王", both written in seal script.
The top of the lingpai is adorned with a dragon-pearl surrounded by flames and clouds. The bottom is adorned with mountains, the sea, and coral. The borders of both the top and bottom are decorated with clouds and flowers. The top is swirled in a way that resembles a lingzhi or a ruyi.
3) An illustration of the two sides of a red jade lingpai, shaped mostly like a rectangle but with a curved top. One side reads "令" and the other reads "齐天大圣", both written in seal script.
The top of the lingpai is adorned by a ruyi with a flower and mountain at its center. Below the ruyi is a lotus flower, which sits on top of the forehead of a Yazi carving. Clouds extend out from either side of Yazi and below him are flowers. The two sides of the lingpai have the carvings of cloud pillars wrapped in a stylized waterfall. At the bottom are clouds which could also be the foam from the waterfall. Lotuses float atop this foam/these clouds. At the center of the bottom is a mountain with a ruyi at its foot. This ruyi also has a flower within it.
4) The lineart for the three lingpai, with accompanying commentary. The one labeled "BiMaWen" reads "carved and burned wood," "simple, only horses and clouds," and "ornamental, basically no power."
The one labeled "Beautiful Monkey King" reads "carved from a chunk of Sun Wukong's stone egg," "customized from Ao family royal lingpai template," and "mostly sea, cloud, and dragon pearl imagery."
The one labeled "Great Sage Equaling Heaven" reads "carved from red jade," "fully custom, in style of an emperor's lingpai but HuaGuo," and "flowers, waterfalls, mountains, ruyi, Yazi, and clouds imagery."
At the side are simple doodles of the three lingpai.
The first is light brown with a yellow cord, captioned "simple cord, no tassel."
The second is grey with a red cord and tassel, captioned "silk cord and tassel."
The third is red with a red cord and tassel, captioned "braided cord," "jade and gold accented."
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I’m bored so I shall list off many of my favorite artists.
- Will Wood
-Bo Burnham
-Tally Hall/Miracle Musical
-Lemon Demon
-Mother Mother
-Jack Stauber
-Bo En
-Soddiken
-Cavetown
-Mitski
-MARINA
-Caravan Palace
- Fish in a Birdcage
-The Living Tombstone
-Gorillaz
-Theatre Songs
All these artists plus a bit more songs and different artists are all uploaded to one playlist that I just put on shuffle.
If any of you want it just ask and I’ll reblog with the link.
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LIFE IS GOLD
I find myself awoken from my deep slumber causing me sleep wall from my bedroom to the window.
The moonlight washes over us shining white on me I close the window turning to face the door.
I exit the room in to the hall racing down the staircase hitting the final step as I open the door.
Traveling through the cold dark lit night
sky washing over me as my feet trudges through the sand.
In to the forest my feet zig zag through the area pushing past everything that is hiding from me.
I have no idea why my mind begins to race out of control attempting to figure out all that is transpiring.
Finally my feet come to a halt stopping in a very harsh way, my hands lift in the air feel a door.
Something invisible stood before me as I
am turning the knob and a whole new world tries to appear.
I step up the step on to the stoop entering the strange world as it slams behind me in a burst of energy.
To my great surprise I am at a stand still my hand on my heart finding myself in a literal palace.
This place is ginormous by any means wall to wall spreading endlessly room to room in white.
Plastered in gold a man remains still in the middle of the room adorned with god like golden garbs but a tray in hand.
I marvel the this piece of art it has ancient Roman and Greek statues resemblance it’s uncanny.
The lights roar on with every step I take to this statue naturally like all white men in this field paint it white.
Rolling my eyes this statue looks so realistic even by modern standards I left in awe at this work.
“What the fuck is going on?”
“Why is everything going black?”
“Relax Master!”
“Who the hell are you ?”
“Your slave of course “
“My what?”
“Your slave property”
“Your personal white boi”
“Your slave to do as you please”
“No holds bar”
“Show yourself this is creepy “
“Oh sorry! As you wish”
“Here I am!”
“Will you let me serve you?”
“I am your ace”
“Wield me like pen”
“I will create all”
“Visualize and I will transform”
“Are you planning to stay?”
“Oh! You mean the card ?”
“Nope! It was a mere illustration “
“It’s not my actual extension of my existence “
“Do you love me sir?”
“I want you “
“Kneel for me”
“Submit completely
“Look at me”
“Chooses to obey me”
“Crawl to me”
“You will address me as Master”
“Rise to your feet”
“Can you multiply “
“Anything for you!”
The end
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On the Steps of the Palace
you just leave him a clue
for example a shoe
and then see what he’ll do
now it’s he and not you who is stuck
with a shoe
in a stew
in the goo
and you’ve learned something too
something you never knew
and I’m Phillipa Soo
and you’re watching Disney Channel
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Cinderella never wanted the prince; she wanted to go to the festival
Into the Woods is a satirical take on fairytales which also criticizes them. This is also carried over in Cinderella. I see a lot of interpretations of this character as wanting/loving the prince, but I thought she specifically didn't and that was the point of her story.
She's the first to speak/sing in the musical (besides the narrator) and she sings:
I wish to go to the festival
She doesn't want to find someone to fall in love with, she wants to have fun, for once.
Cinderella is pushed into liking the prince by external pressure, which is represented by the Baker's Wife. Cinderella has nothing to say about the prince except that he's nice and tall, and she only says these things when pressed by the Baker's Wife for details. She doesn't want the prince.
In her song, which is an 'I want' song, she finds that she literally can't tell what she wants. I've seen people interpret it as her not thinking she deserves to be with the prince because of her social status.
At one point in the song she says that going back to her step family would be wrong and going with the prince would be right, but really both those choices are other's expectations and what she really needs is to figure out what she wants.
She ends the song by literally giving up her agency:
And you know what your decision is,
Which is not to decide.
By the end of the first act she's found a way to make both the right and wrong decisions in her song. She's brought her family to live with her in the palace and married the prince. She's fulfilled all the expectations given to her by other people. Her being with the prince is considered a happy ending, even though she's never been shown to like him or love him.
In Act 2 she tells the prince when they meet again in the woods that she'll always love that handsome prince (or something along the lines). She liked what the prince brought her security and she liked fulfilling society's expectation, but in the end they both just loved the idea of each other.
And this all fits with the main theme of the musical: Children Will Listen. She does what society and fairytales taught her and in the end isn't happy and she ends the play single even if she still has more to figure out.
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