Y’all wanna see some quick kindergarten maths lol
1+2=3
1 (driver is experiencing a car with oversteer)
2 (driver’s car is not responding in a way he’s entirely comfortable with in a very fast, winding, NARROW, and DANGEROUS circuit with very strict track limits)
=
3 (driver is antsy with the car about crashing it and costing a lot of money and risking even more of negative view of himself with a DNF than with a low finish. Driver doesn’t feel 100% confident with the car’s controls on a track that tests your ability to control the car. He is nervous and careful and cautious. He is also already undermined and under scrutiny for his performance and already has high expectations of himself that he wants to achieve. He has also showed that he will send the car to his abilities but is also anxious as he’s not a perfect human being.)
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Hello! Are you into Lmk and if so do you ship anyone? Do you like shadowpeach?
LMK isn't my favourite interpretation of JTTW; it's a show with a lot of passion and good animation and great voice acting - it's just not MY favourite so all these opinions are my own biases.
So anyway I'm not a huge fan of the show so I don't really think I have a basis to ship anyone in the show, it would've been funny to see some tension between Pigsy and Wukong since Zhuhou has a little place in my heart.
And uhhhhhhh.....
I don't like shadowpeach at all, I've made it no secret that how they write Wukong as a bumbling old fool with the flavour of a store-brand DB/Z Goku and Macaque as some brooding hurt edgelord with a 'good heart' really gives me cognitive whiplash given how much I love the novel.
I'm all up for interpretations and changes and I love seeing different views - I personally think the best Wukong and Macaque relationship ever written was in the Monkey King 2009 cartoon where they pretty much grew up together and stuck closer to the book to show how Liu'er Mihou grew steadily more jealous of Wukong's powers and popularity and what lengths he would go to one up the Monkey King whilst trying to desperately cling to and preserve what little of their friendship they had left.
I've always interpreted them as two sides of the coin as that was the intention of the book, the Macaque was the violent, heartless side of Wukong that didn't care for anyone's feelings and emotions and focused more on the glory that came with Wukong's name - thus why he tried to take over his life. (OH AND SUBSEQUENTLY WHY HE REALLY MISTREATED THE MONKEYS ON HUAGUO, TO THE POINT OF MAKING THEM EAT THEIR DEAD FRIEND, WONDER WHY THEY REWROTE HIM FOR A KID'S SHOW EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE FINE TELLING KIDS IN CHINA THAT, HMM)
They're the two halves battling one another and subsequently that's why Wukong wins because in the novel that's the point, it's an allegory for the journey to Buddhism as well as a heroic tale; Macaque is the bad guy, Wukong is the good guy, even if Wukong fumbles and foils some of the time he will inevitably win.
I have no personal idea how they've written these two, but the ship makes me uncomfortable; it makes me think of that 'Would you fuck your evil clone?' question. But that's why I have it blacklisted and probably why I won't tag it in this post so people who enjoy it don't see it and get sour over it.
People are allowed to enjoy things even if I don't enjoy them after all so if you enjoy shadowpeach? Good for you, create, have fun, don't be weird about it to people who have reasons not to like it and live a good life in your lane and I'll enjoy my life in my lane.
Have a great day.
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You know, people joke a lot about the OCs you come up with as a 13 year old, but I personally think that there's something to be said about the ideas that a person can come up with when "fun" is their primary motivation to create and they're not held back by any fear of being cringe/unclever/etc.
Every few years I revisit this set of characters I came up with as a 13 year old and plug them into new scenarios to see if I can make something better of them with all the experience I've gained as a writer. Over the years, they've (predictably) changed a lot, but today I was thinking about one of them in particular as he was when I first dreamt him up.
Stripping away superficial details of appearance/personality for the sake of clarity, he's like... a cool character! A profoundly sad character! He's a young shapeshifter who is deeply troubled and isolated by what he is. People distrust him automatically when they know what he is, and he wants so desperately to prove that he's good and worthy of trust! Beyond that, he has this fear of having no *real* sense of identity because he's inherently so malleable. Does he even KNOW what he really looks like? Would he have blue eyes if he wasn't a shapeshifter, or did he at some point in his early childhood *decide* to have blue eyes because his mother does? Would he have freckles if he hadn't seen them on his brother's face and decided he liked them? Is he growing and developing naturally in his "true" form, or is he subconsciously developing in the way he wants to/thinks he should? And between these two fears, he ends up driven to dig scars into his hands over the course of months, opening the healing wounds again and again until one day they just. Stay. No matter what form he takes. So that there can be one aspect of his appearance that he CAN'T change, that he can be recognized by and rooted in.
Anyways, this is a long ass rant just to pat my 13 year old self on the back, but for real! What a cool character! And (in hindsight) kind of an interesting look at a young teenager's feelings and fears about change and development at an age when those things are very much in flux both in terms of personal identity and physical appearance.
Anyways anyways, we should all cut our 13 year old selves some slack and give those old OCs the credit they deserve! Just because teenagers lack writing experience and intentional insight doesn't mean they're lacking in creativity and cool fucking ideas
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self indulgent got concept.
Ned brings Jon home, Cat hates the boy, everything stays the same... until Robert Baratheon is charging through the halls of Winterfell looking for the babe, ready to butcher the poor thing where he lay helpless in his cradle.
in a matter of moments Catelyn learns three things:
The babe was never a bastard, Ned had only lied to her to protect Jon, and that she would die before she let Robert lay a finger on the babe she'd previously wished death upon.
cue Catelyn Stark snatching Jon from his cradle, holding him, protecting him, loving him as she would her own son, risking it all to keep him safe, all care for herself thrown to the wind.
like they say, what a mother's love holds no bounds, and what it makes her capable of had no limits.
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