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Ao Lie from Lego Monkie Kid

I watched the OSP recap of Journey to the West (part 4) and in it the White Horse Dragon shapeshifts into a woman and preforms a sword dance to trick a demon. So,,, I drew that

HEY LMK FANDOM

hi besties. First thing (this is relevant) I'm black. Good old African American yippee

Ok.

Let's talk about Chinese erasure.

LMK is a retelling/revisioning of a NUMBER of Chinese Mythologies. Most focused of being Journey to The West a story mostly focused around Sun Wukong.

Now. I have seen, so much fanart, fanworks, headcanons, character redesignes that change the characters from yellow legos (the legos actual colors NOT the fact they are Asian we're not doing that) to more realistic/human looking characters. And a lot of the time these include making these characters Black/Blasian.

Now first of all: I'm not talking about..i think its October? The October challenge to redraw characters as Black/African. I'm talking about art and work just year round.

Hey, first of all, I love that people are drawing more POC characters. But can you make these characters THE RIGHT FUCKING RACE?

The characters in LMK (Redson especially i see so much shit of him being black) are CHINESE they are CHINESE MYTHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS/RETELLING OF SAID CHARACTERS. They are NOT black.

I love seeing the representation and people learning to draw POC characters but please please do it with characters who arent as culturally significant as those from LMK. There's most of the Steven Universe Characters, there's any white characters from media NOT based in mythology you can draw as black but please please please do not forget

LMK is in China.the characters are Chinese. Draw them as such. Learn to draw Chinese characters and hairstyles.

please 🙏 Chinese culture deserves the amount of respect and time your putting into ours

Edit: I am not saying drawing them with tan skin is bad. Chinese people can be tan. but if you give them fucking braids and cornrows aka: black protective hairstyles then your just erasing their ethnicity aka: FUCKING CHINESE.

also please reblog! Tumblr doesn't have an algorithm like other sites so if this spreads it has to spread through reblogging so please do

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I ALWAYS COME BACK

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whit monkeys o(^o^)o

I don't know what I'm doing, I just wanted to draw something..... so... DOODLES!

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Tread where you go

More beans!

All of my DTIYS so far

The people who hosted the dtiys:

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@/shelterd.uno

@/dying_marshmellow

@/_julia_cheesecake_

@/t0ffeec0w

so ummm HII I GUESS, I forget about tumblr again LOL-

there's sketches that I drew a couple of weeks ago?? anyways

my emotional support mlw aka dragonfruit and Ao Lie

Ayla belons to @the-lucky-janitor :DD

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fun fact • this was inspired by my dear partner’s art that they have decided to show me via call, shout-out to @toxicaltt because i love them dearly

Sketches of Aoe Lie!!! I adore him

hc that ao lie comes back to life to be wukong and macaques wingman bc GOD those two are insufferable idiots who have been taking forever to get their nonsense over with. and then sticks around to hang out with his great great x1000 granddaughter.

hc that ao lie has kicked macaque in the face at least once. no I will not elaborate

Here are all the commissions i did in under a week ^_^ thank you to everyone who commissioned me, im very grateful for your support!!

( ocs belong @tay-bee , @magicclownjuice , and @poppyplate ! )

LMK S4 SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

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despite everything, it's still you

This is the greatest show in the entire universe i cant put into words how much this show means to me so i keep saying it through wordless comics HAHAH

in the last page i wasn't trying to imply monkey king is mk's father (cocreator confirmed he is not) i was mostly trying to show that there is a great disconnect between mk and sun wukong :(

I drew the last three images while sick because mnkei kid is the ciooelest shwo ever go watchg please