Behold, Yingge And Longnü

Sweet Helga!

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DON'T judge my cartoon gals.

Sorry Nate @ask-the-devils-advocate but gale can't say she is happy your back so she hugged you. Kind of hard being a mute and kinda deaf bird girl. I will get her off ya do not worry.

“And I don’t like being hugged!”

Howdy, everyone!

It’s been a while, hasn’t it! We apologize for the radio silence, as there’s been a lot of shuffling and getting things done behind the scenes. Rest assured; the game is still on its way toward completion!

To start things off, we’ve been in the process of getting things organized on our end. Our lovely coordinator has been hired and has been doing a lot of the back-end work to get us in shape and ready to finish the game. Unfortunately, our initial goal of all assets being completed by the end of 2024 is no longer a likely goal as a result, but things should be a lot faster going forward.

It’s not all bad news, though! With things well underway, we’ve got a few more surprises that we hope to release to you soon. The demo re-release will be on its way hopefully by early next year, with some updated art that we hope you’ll all enjoy! Plus, maybe some new dialogue, if you know where to find it ;)

As one last note, we’ll also be giving quarterly updates starting today! We want to keep our fans better informed, and we’re sorry for letting things fall by the wayside. Hopefully you’ll enjoy the content we bring you soon…with maybe some surprises in tow.

Thank you all for following our game, and we hope that you enjoy the final product on its release!

-The BHC Devs

She is what?!

I made a Spindrax rp account on twitter and so far she’s swallowed a bottle cap, started beef with two macaque’s, called syntax a highlighter, is having some angst with her twin brother and they’re in trouble with the cops!

Love roleplay

Jester+Princess / Butch+Femme lesbian fantasy story idea with a focus on secret identities and forbidden romance.

Fear my poison witchy ways with my toads! Be free my poisonous children!

*internal screams of joy*

She drew my mushroom gremlin! I love this artist, go check out her art, blogs and writings! I wanna draw her something now. To the sketch book!

Just started following you and I am already loving your couples! My favorite is Kitty and Tall Morty, which you probably get alot but you did them really well and I like them. I also like the ending with Teacher Rick and that other lady but I don't think I saw her name, those two are my second fave ship.

Omg!!!! Yes 😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️ Welcome welcome to my blog! I’m so happy you love them it’s ok he more the Marier!!!! Thank you so much for liking my stuff and going through my blog! I welcome thee with love and I hope to fulfill your need of shipping!!1

I love them all, Marshal Liu is such a good teacher taking all the new soldiers out to capture Bajie when he came on the mountain.

Also now imagining the one just a monkey to be in armor cause they want to defend the mountain just like the monkey demons are.

Did lil edit

I gave them tail armor too

Can we know who the unmoved soldier is? Is it one of Wukong's generals or marshals maybe?

They just look so done and are probably playing elevator music in their head while pigsy lays on thick narrative to wukong. I would like to give them some tea and a nice blanket to wrap in for whatever break they seem in desperate need of.

Oh yeah, so the one on the right with the neat headpiece is Marshal Liu! One of Wukong's advisors and generals! I have drawn him before but I finally made a design update for him bc I wanted him to look more like a general than a solder! He is tired and he needs a holiday honestly- :'D The cute boys on the left are just normal soldiers but Liu trains them and sometimes takes the boys to the 'missions' like this one. I need to draw them honestly bc I already decided that they will be my characters!

Hmmmmmm I’ve heard and seen that villainizing Erlang Shen is becoming more common in the western jttw-adjacent fandom and so I do think we should all keep in mind that besides Erlang Shen still being a very important deity in the Daoist pantheon (to say nothing of his role as a deity who’s saved countless humans from floods) he also does have a number of understandable reasons for many of his actions. For example, he played a vital part in capturing Sun Wukong on account of that monkey wrecking heaven, & to a degree even his role in imprisoning his own sister Sansheng Mu under a mountain is comprehensible because of the mindset that the gods absolutely can’t afford to have any human emotions under any circumstances on account of the chaos they could wreak if they let feeling such as jealousy, anger, want, etc. define them. I mean, one popular myth even says that the first goddess Nüwa had to give up her own life to repair both heaven and earth because of a catastrophic, nearly apocalyptic war that the gods waged based on the desire to control heaven, so you can understand why the rule that the gods can’t allow themselves human emotions would be absolute.

Now don’t get me wrong, I think that Erlang Shen makes an amazing antagonist when done well, and the possibilities involved in exploring things like his unrelenting belief in the righteousness of all his actions even for things like (again) imprisoning his own sister & burning thousands of the Mt. Huaguoshan monkey yaoguai to death could make him a terrifying figure. HOWEVER, I think it does a massive (and potentially really disrespectful) disservice to his character from both a story-telling & a cultural standpoint to paint him as a 100% despicable villain who fully deserves to be demonized. He’s a figure who’s done SO MUCH for the good of humanity, and that’s not something that should be immediately dismissed.

As always I need to note I’m in no way shape or form an expert on Chinese mythology, but I am relatively confident in saying that when it comes to the conflicts between humans, yaoguai, and deities there is plenty of violence and strife, but the narratives you can weave about them are much more interesting & meaningful when you’re not reducing any of these groups to being the one designated “bad guy.” If anything, as Journey to the West itself makes explicitly clear, the line between the three groups is blurry at best, they are ALL responsible for numerous atrocities, and there’s plenty of blame, as well as opportunities for truly doing good, to go around.