#Burdened Souls

[wickedzeevyln]

Angels are Allowed to Feel Broken Too

This poem expresses the anguish of witnessing a loved one's self-destructive path while remaining steadfast in their devotion.

Their heart aches seeing you like this. They would clip off their wings if they could to be with you, but you would rather lay in the dirt, and you take the love they for you as breaths on a window, fleeting and ethereal, but they have to stand firm in case you recognize the need to reach out for them to help you on your feet.   They ghost their sleep, They sit there patiently wishing they…

[bixels]

vague-posting about this here cuz i don't feel comfortable yapping about my su takes on twitter, but after everything that's happened the most interesting thing about the su fandom to me is that so many are 100% there for applying the "everyone can change and deserves a second chance" message to everyone, even the diamonds. except for one ☝️ she doesn't count. cuz she's dead.

[just-bee-lieve]

the ferryman

[gingerhastoomanyobsessions]

random thing but. I think part of the cultural migration that vampires have made from unsympathetic to sympathetic has to do with modern awareness of the many, many ways one can harm others without even trying

like. this is just me rambling cause my brain is in the Vortex but. it’s the guilt, right? it’s the guilt. so so so many people feel guilty for just existing, because by just existing we are complicit in harm. existing as a human being in a modern industrialized culture harms the earth. existing as a majority demographic group harms those in minority demographic groups. every single thing some of us touch is built on bones

phones and cheaply made goods (ie most goods) are products of slave labor and resource exploitation. food is grown in ways that harm the environment. food that used to be animals? almost all of it is from animals that suffered. we are all prolonging our lives via the consumption of animals, the difference is that most of us aren’t killing them ourselves. vegans aren’t exempt; farms are all too often staffed by abused workers, some of whom are literally enslaved. countless -isms are ingrained into our brains and we perpetuate them often without realizing.

and on a more personal level, we have all become hypervigilant towards toxicity and manipulation and all of the ways that we can hurt the people we love completely accidentally. yah, a lot of people direct this blame at others, but who hasn’t quietly freaked out about it like. what if everyone I know would be better off if they had never met me. what if I am parasitizing them by existing. feeding on them emotionally. what if there’s no other way to exist. what if I can’t stop. what if that’s just what I’m made of

and that’s vampirism! vampirism is, to some degree, about parasitizing the world around you and being unable to exist any other way. some vampires can mitigate it— feeding off of animals or willing donors— but they’re still feeding on the life force of others. harm can be lessened but never undone.

maybe I’m just being mentally ill about it, but I can’t be the only person who relates to vampires out of fear of being a parasite. burdening others with my existence. i don’t think I’m alone. so we’re being more sympathetic to vampires in the modern day, because we have to be, right? if you look at the monster and you see your own traits in it, then what does it mean about you if the monster has to be destroyed? so modern vampires can feel guilt, even if the older source-material vamps didn’t, because the wider culture has started to align itself with monster more than with victim. the monsters feel guilty and they try to mitigate their harm and they try not to hurt the people around them. because that’s all any of us can do, yeah?

[mxtxfanatic]

I know I'm kinda late but Happy Birthday month !!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

I was wondering if you wanted to talk about the parallels between A-Qing and Wei Wuxian in the Yi city arc ?

💜

Thank you! As long as it’s November, it’s never too late 💝

I kind of compared them in this wwx bday meta, but I didn’t get too deep into the parallel. While I said that A-Qing represents Wei Wuxian’s adaptability and unwillingness to passively accept evil simply because it’s cloaked in civility, I would like to highlight here another shared trait: their tenacity towards doing the right thing.

A-Qing is in a position of powerlessness in the trio due to her lack of cultivation skills and cultivation world knowledge, similar to how Wei Wuxian is made powerless—despite being a part of the cultivation world—by his lack of status and faithful allies. Yet despite this, both characters thrive in their environments and use their situationally-acquired skills to protect those around them. A-Qing did not have to stay with Xiao Xingchen, especially after Xue Yang came along, but her own sense of morality made her stick around to ensure Xiao Xingchen’s safety, something she was only able to do by feigning blindness. Even when she fails, she, Xiao Xingchen, and Song Lan die, and Xiao Xingchen’s spirit disperses, she uses the last moments of her life to doggedly seek help. After dying, she uses the entirety of her afterlife to scare ignorant strangers away from Yi City (mind you, she didn’t even die there. She made her spirit go back) and try to find ways to stop Xue Yang. Even at the risk of destroying her soul, she goes against Xue Yang to the very end, no regrets in any of her actions.

In the same way that A-Qing used her “blindness” as a shield, Wei Wuxian weaponized the cultivation world’s fears of him first to protect the sovereignty of the newly rebuilt Jiang then to protect the Wen remnants liberated from the Qiongqi Path labor camp. When he was still schemed against and the Wen siblings told him of their plan to turn themselves in, he still never thought to abandon them or let the punishment fall on anyone else’s shoulders, just as A-Qing refused to abandon Xiao Xingchen. After his resurrection, Wei Wuxian still goes out of his way to rescue and protect the junior cultivators, entering back into the lion’s den of the cultivation world for no benefit of his own just to continue to help others, in the exact same way that A-Qing went back to Yi City to guard against passersby wandering in to their deaths. And just like with A-Qing, at no point in time does he regret having rescued the Wen in his first life or having endangered himself in his second life to protect the juniors (or later their bloodthirsty parents).

Even though they faced negative consequences for following their morality to the bitter end (and even beyond), even if the people they wanted to protect were still murdered before their eyes, their reputations tarnished and legacies buried, at no point do either A-Qing or Wei Wuxian stray from their course nor regret their actions. This is their shared tenacity. There’s a reason, after all, that Wei Wuxian experiences the Yi City arc as her.

[soulinkpoetry]

We don’t write to burden anyone’s soul with our thoughts, we write because it’s the only way to unburden ours .

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[stillwithmeisonlyyou]

Im truly born to listen and obsess over music and nothing else

[s0ull3ss-p3rs0n]

The God™️ is literally a child with trust issues and guilt give him a break :(

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

(so many of my favourites actually don't fit in the poll options ffs 😭)

[hhhhleb]

based on this concept they got soul bond and sans can feel when smth wrong with papyrus

good thing that sans didn't see the actual injury.. grillby knew that would greatly upset sans, so that's why he pushed him away. it also could have trigger some really bad memories for Sans..so grillby did good job x2 (more thoughts in tags)

[nikoisme]

Nothing like a story where the happy ending is death aaghh

[boyswanna-be-her]

Thriller novel where someone very far away in a remote part of the country hires me as a specialty traveling pet sitter and offers me a huge bonus to be there for their pet 24/7 and when I show up, the pet is...

a tamagotchi

[cherryys]

I keep thinking of Totality being a metaphor for itafushi, like how the white divine dog died the same day Yuuji did and the black divine dog having its white counterpart's power passed on to it after death. It makes me wonder if that's how JJK will end? By Megumi somehow absorbing Yuuji's power after death and using it to defeat Sukuna, thus making him be defeated by the power of love, a concept he thought was worthless before.

[petejj]

My spirit has no slumber

my soul’s sounding

my body awakens

ancient ancestors speak

callings

visions

of knowing

we are one

• • •

burdens burning

bring

your peaceful

practice

remembering

reconnecting

reclaiming

Release

[vulturevanity]

When the crew asked Dot to do job ads for them and she replied with "sounds like a pain" I was fascinated.

Most of Dot's characterization these past few episodes was doing things for others without being asked, and then downplaying her work when they complimented her on it. So when she hesitated to do the little job ads for the crew, my first instinct was "She Would Not Freaking Say That", but then I mulled it over and... I actually really like that choice.

Dot is a very nuanced character, full of subtleties. She's not exactly averse to new experiences, but she is very selective with what she's willing to go along with. She likes doing favors for others but only on her own terms. She has an interest in learning about pokemon training, but only recently had the motivation to become a trainer herself. In fact, she only seems to do things when she feels especially motivated. She's hard on herself, alarmingly so at times (namely when Spinel messes with the Volt Tacklers and she falls for it), and from what I can see she thinks very lowly of herself, which, along with Murdock's general attitude toward her (simultaneously overprotective and hands-off in a desperate attempt to see her come out of her shell) is why I headcanon her to have clinical depression.

So maybe she was having a bad brain day, or managing expectations. Or maybe she just hates doing graphic design for ads lmao

[nyan-bynary]

I'm gonna have to wait out a few weeks to be able to complain about jjk's ending bc rn half the ppl are bashing everyone who expected more as ppl who just wanted gojo back