#Sleeping in Paradise

[wangxianficrecs]

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Hi!!! I don't know if you already rec this. It's a gen fic with kid!Jin Ling and camatose!wwx. It can be read in one sitting. For me it's an open ending story and hopeful ending. It makes me imagine what will happen after the story ends. Thank you!

Sleeping in Paradise

by daiki

T, 9k, Wangxian

Summary: The cultivation world thought the Yiling Patriarch died from qi deviation years ago. Deep inside Lotus Pier, there is a forbidden area personally created by Yungmeng Jiang's sect leader, Jiang Wanyin and carefully tended by the lady of Lanling Jin, Jiang Yanli. A closely kept secret houses the slumbering form of their adoptive brother. Then little Jin Ling decided to sneak in to the forbidden paradise. (prompt: AU where Demonic Cultivation shattered Wei Wuxian's soul before Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli's deaths and he went into a death-like state. Since nobody's ever done demonic arts before, nobody's sure if Wei Wuxian is alive or dead so they preserve his body and watch over him.)

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[favvn]

Pairing these two scenes together because there's Something about their phrasing that is driving me Insane. (Is it the use of religious imagery turned on its head--purgatory is not a thing to desire much less create for yourself, losing paradise is normally a tragedy to be mourned--to highlight a unifying belief that both Kirk and Spock live by? That both accept the loss of paradise for the uncertainty of life?)

Like. I Know Spock's line about "self-made purgatories" (and what a line! I am gnawing on it like a dog with a bone) is referring both to his Duty to The Enterprise and Kirk as the First Officer vs his experience of love from the plant spores, but it's also referring to him being both human and Vulcan and trying to adhere to one half at the expense of the other and finding himself fitting in nowhere as result (although, I would argue The Enterprise with Kirk is where he fits in as Kirk has consistently shown he doesn't expect Spock to be More Vulcan or More Human but to just be Spock).

And Kirk.... knowing his past on Tarsus IV and how he shouldn't be alive had Kodos had his way.... His dogged determination to beat the odds against him.... Dare I say it's giving Born To Run vibes? The mindset of, "Fine. Paradise is lost, but I'll keep going anyway."

[whatsthelimitoncharacters]

So, in my opinion, Athena is probably dead. I think that it’s dumb and doesn’t make sense but the listening party animatic definitely implies she’s dead

Here we have some before and after pictures. When I first saw the livestream, I assumed that she was just gonna pass out and that people were overreacting. However, the glow fading really implies that she is in fact dead.

Shortly before the earlier images, we see Athena kind of holding onto life with her glow flickering. We can assume she is almost dead because Ares asks if she’s even alive(I will return to this). All this considered, despite the fact she isn’t glowing in a lot of scenes in this song(such as Odysseus showing her Telemachus), her glow fading really does show that she is probably dead.

If you need some evidence from the songs, we can also get some without looking at the animatics. First and most importantly, Ares asks if Athena is dead. While Ares isn’t the most respected god and many would label him as kind of dumb, he would probably know that gods can’t die if that’s the case. Him asking this does show that a god can, in theory, die. If you want mythological precedence, you can look at how Pan died(I know that there’s a bit of debate to that but idc). Another piece of evidence is actually Calypso saying “Last i checked, goddesses can’t die.” Many people take this as proof that Athena is incapable of death but it’s already been established by major gods that a god/goddess could die and there’s a mythological precedent, so calypso may be lying. In honesty, she isn’t being entirely untruthful in saying that she can’t die. Odysseus is just a half dead mortal king and Zeus is the single most powerful god. Odysseus can’t kill calypso while Zeus could kill Athena. This segues very well into how this line fits into the larger saga. Instead of this line acting as foreshadowing for Athena’s survival, it instead acts as tragic irony for Odysseus. Athena is Odysseus’ only chance at leaving and she dies. The irony comes because Odysseus’ problem could be solved if only a different goddess had died. The wrong goddess died and now it’s up to Zeus to decide whether Odysseus should be set free.

Now, if I’m correct, then I have a lot of feelings about this. If I’m wrong I have slightly less. If I’m right, you can see my previous post for a lot of my reasons why I think athena dying is a bad decision, but I’ll give one here. Gods don’t die. Pan is the only death I can think of (not counting stuff like Helios disappearing over time) and the phrasing of pans death could also be interpreted as the cult of Tammuz praising him for his one myth. Even characters that are treated as mortal like Medea (both her parents are minor gods so she probably should be too) don’t get myths where they die. Medea just runs off to a far away land. Kronos is sliced to bits. Typhon is sealed under Mount Etna. Kronos’ children are swallowed whole. ATHENA’S MOTHER GAVE BIRTH IN ZEUS’ HEAD. IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE THAT ATHENA COULD DIE. If she isn’t dead, why is the animatic like that? Jorge had to have commissioned it. I doubt the animator would have added that in on their own. Why would it be framed so much like she’s dead if she wasn’t.

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

pastoral paradise by Jennifer MacNeill Via Flickr: mare and her newborn foal

[palahnyook]

But my dreams are full of apples, and in the dark my body slowly transforms into fruit: tonsils shrinking to seeds and lungs to cores. I dream of white flowers blossoming under my nails, as if under ice. Then my nails break, open up like clams, and in the finger flesh there are little sticky fruit pearls.

— Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval

I will travel far beyond the path of reason Take me back to Eden, take me back to Eden

— Sleep Token, Take me back to Eden

[lookineedsleeps-art-blog]

I was recently reminded how much I love Viva Piñata so I spent some time trying to see how many I could fit on a double page (14 pinatas). This was a really fun exercise in stylisation :]

[medium = alchohol based markers on mixed media paper, click for better quality, close ups below cut]

[dogboy-danielcain]

if you value your mental health at all do NOT think abt "old souls" from winslow's perspective.

[schoolchaos]

Eyes are overrated imo

We love Hera being in a completely different time period compared to the other gods

I want to actually draw Athena and Telemachus one day so if Im ever given an ounce of freedom and motivation, that might happen

[qofdisaster1111]

Dark Paradise

[pulchrasilva]

Holy fucking shit I did NOT survive the wisdom saga

[w3bkinz-t0yb0x]

kingdom hearts worlds title cards pt. 5

[crossgartered]

"Under my spell

we're stuck in paradise

No one can come or go

My island stays unknown"

Something strikes me about these lyrics - Calypso obviously needs to learn to take no for an answer, but when it comes to letting Odysseus go - can she, actually? In Epic, is she trapped, too?

[lesbiangracehanson]

nothing like discussing ur relationship woes in the mess hall at 5am <3 

[star--anon]

Gally hides a lot of his panic attacks and nightmares that he got after he went through the Changing in a desperate attempt to be liked again in the Glade

He was kind of universally hated in the books, apparently becoming extremely unlikeable after he got Stung

which is honestly so sad. What he saw drove him slightly insane and he couldn’t handle it and shut down.

[ofbardsandmen]

zosimos casually exposing kaeya was so funny,, nobody (well, aside from certain individuals) knows about kaeya's lifelong grand act and yet this man recognized it within a moment even tho he was thinking of 'acting' in a totally different sense.

[thepeoplesboyfriend]

sinister gardening going on