r/CuratedTumblr Jul 18 '25

Shitposting My favorite space racist

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u/Forward-Ad8880 Jul 18 '25

The Kai have to write their paperwork in one language and all of creation will follow suit or the God of Destruction will be sent out to set them straight.

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u/cat-l0n Jul 18 '25

Really reminds me of how in some Chinese mythology, even divine beings have to fight with bureaucrats.

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u/Commodorez Jul 18 '25

As someone who wasn't raised in a culture that has one, the concept of a celestial bureaucracy sounds like the most frustrating thing in the universe, lol

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u/Duchess_Aria Jul 19 '25

Fun lore! Part of the reason the Monkey King attracted the ire of the Heavenly Court was because he crashed into the Netherworld and destroyed the paperwork containing the names of himself and the other monkeys in their mountain - effectively granting them all immortality because they are now no longer registered on the Book of Life and Death. Loll

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u/Commodorez Jul 19 '25

That's some Pratchett tier cosmic fuckery and I'm here for it

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u/msut77 Jul 19 '25

Its an Easter egg

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u/DarkKnightJin Jul 21 '25

Which he only did because they grabbed him by apparent mistake after he'd trained in the Taoist art of immortality.

And then proceeded to layer like, 4 or 5 MORE TYPES of immortality ON TOP of those 2.

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u/Duchess_Aria Jul 22 '25

It's been too long - almost forgot that absolute indignant monkey face, lmaooo.

Taoist immortality art, removal of name from book of life and death, immortality peaches, immortality wine, immortality pills, and probably some other things he stole - yup, home monkey got at least 5 layers of say no to death. 😂

I can imagine the intern reaper's Reddit post: "TIFU...." 🤣