#puppet play

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The worship of Sun Wukong is complicated. Fujian, China, the home of our hero's cult, is known to have worshiped monkeys in general as far back as the Tang Dynasty. A prime example is the "Spirit protecting hills and woods" (Bao shanlin shen, 保山林神). As the story goes, the enraged monkey-spirit was appeased with worship after its mortal body had been killed and taxidermied to make an idol.

A Song-era story mentions an evil monkey-spirit titled the "Great Sage Equaling Heaven" (Qitian dasheng, 齊天大聖; "GSEH" hereafter), just like Wukong. But he is portrayed as a fiendish, wife-kidnapping sorcerer, while Monkey's Song-era antecedent, the "Monkey Pilgrim" (Hou xingzhe, 猴行者), from the 13th-century JTTW, is cast as a white-robed scholar immortal. (Interestingly, though, this precursor is given the title "Great Sage Steel Muscles and Iron Bones" (Gangjin tiegu dasheng, 鋼筋鐵骨大聖) at the end of his story arc.) If the local Fujian people considered the Song-era GSEH a real threat, I could see them also attempting to appease him through worship.

Having said that, it's interesting to note that a Fujian shrine dedicated to both the GSEH and the "Great Sage Reaching Heaven" (Tongtian Dasheng, 通天大聖) appeared by the 14th-century. These two figures eventually appeared in Yuan-Ming zaju and puppet plays, by which time Sun Wukong had already become associated with the GSEH title. I'm not sure when the switch happened, though. This then raises the question: did the switch happen later, leading to Monkey being assimilated into the GSEH's cult and taking over the main focus of worship, or did it happen earlier and the GSEH title was just absorbed by Wukong and his already existing cult?

The Magician, from the glove puppet play for children "The Good Magic Spell".

1969 Production. Costume by Gisela Lohmann. Figure by Martha Stocker.

———–<.thom.>———– THE GREAT WORKS PROJECT a puppet play in many parts Season 07, Episode 02 By Thomas Typewriter (c) 2026 Jason Arcand ———–<:type:>———– FADE IN TO BLACK From the bottom of the screen scrolls up the following text: “07-02”. It moves upwards, pausing a moment in the center of the frame, then continues upward, exiting the frame at the top edge. FADE OUTFADE IN EXT. THE…

Ever since I found out earlier this year that a 'world puppetry day' exists I was very excited to write something sefikura in honor of it. I haven't specifically listed these prompts as sefikura, because I know there are a lot of mind control and manipulation kink characters out there and I wanted to leave that open for anyone else to use for their fics as well. I'm not going to make a whole page for it because it's just a one day thing.

Do one prompt, do all of them, whatever you like! If you want to share with other deviants on here just share this post with a link to your fic or art!

I'll queue this to share it a few times, leading up to next March, so people have time to see if they want to play with it.

Days 18+19 - Purpose and Ghost.

Mini diary/audio log thingy under the cut :

[Alt Title : Why did I choose to draw some more angst on an INK DEMONTH PROMPT?? 😭]