#Wandering Souls

[willisek]

day 11: wander

mild spoilers!

the promised neverland :((( bc its full of lost wandering souls and they're so precious

so here's goldy pond kids with Yugo 🤲🤲🤲 in a field of Red spider Lilies (the flower they pierced through them)

[literatureaesthetic]

wandering souls ; cecile pin

in vietnamese culture, there's a belief that if a body is not buried, the soul will never find rest. it's fated to wander the earth, the equivalent of a ghost or spirit. 'wandering souls', on multiple levels, is a story about being lost, searching the earth, trying to find refuge, security and meaning in the unknown

our main story arc is following anh and her two brothers as they escape communist vietnam, in hope for a new life in the usa. their parents and the rest of their siblings are to follow shortly after anh leaves. tragedy strikes and anh and her brothers find themselves alone, orphaned and refugees

alongside this main arc, we have a narrative following dao, the ghost of anh's young brother. as well as short clippings of real moments in history that are scattered throughout the novel

i think that for such a short book, the decision of having three different narratives (or two with historical inserts) creates a really fragmented, disjointed story. part of me thinks it nicely reflects the fractured lives of our characters, but it did feel jarring at times to keep track of the constant switches to different timelines and historical moments. i do think it was important to include all these different narratives, but i did find myself wanting it to be a little more cohesive or executed more efficiently

saying that, i think that cecile pin has created something that is quietly powerful, moving and impactful. from familial duty to documenting the horrors and struggles of the refugee experience, the racist politics of britain and the psychological aftermath of surviving traumas…. lots of important themes are tackled. i love reading about sibling relationships, and anh's role as the elderly sister had me🥺 and i really appreciated how vietnamese cultural beliefs were interwoven with the character’s journey

‘wandering souls’ felt like a deeply personal, unflinching story that needed to be told, but it does have a few small issues with execution & a lack of space for some of the narratives it was constructing, imo

[soulinkpoetry]

Wandering souls…

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[mar9iech]

Love Itself

Two hearts Two worlds apart What were the odds for the gods to bring forth from South to North two wandering souls as this lifetime unfolds?

Yet, there we were Two perfect strangers of two faraway stars Yet, here we are

As I think of you I know this much is true: Life itself is a separate course destined by karmic force Yet, love itself, it crept out of nowhere Love itself was there

And it is clear that love is here Life is enigmatic Yet love itself is perfect Just as our lips melt into a perfect kiss.

@mar9iech (first posted: Mar 2019)

[pessimistpress]

Wandering Souls

By Doctor Pessimist

My late uncle taught me many legends.

The most famous are the wandering souls.

This links to the old days of the pirates.

Wandering souls haunted Old Sea Cove.

The wandering souls are the dead pirates.

The pirates wander with no rest at all.

Some say the pirates are looking for their gold.

Others say the pirates look for their lost ship.

The wandering souls only appear once a year.

You can only see the spectres after midnight.

You shall hear three bells before they appear.

I have never seen them. So, I am sceptical.

[loveezod]

god i can't wait for essence martins' career to skyrocket like she DESERVES

[theanimatingfanatic]

Rori Rogers

Your average energetic child from a broken home now upgraded with super god like powers and a wacky gaggle of monsters.

Head canon voice: Entrapa (Christine Woods)

Rori's lived a perfectly normal childhood with their workaholic parents. Their mother constantly on the clock with her male clients for long hours while their father worked endlessly at the Unidentified Chemical Factory left little time to love Rori. After their mom stopped coming home, their father decided to send Rori to a nice place where he could go make new friends. As a special treat, Rori even got to go to 'Bring Your Kid to Work Day' with their dad before they were sent off.

The plant was testing a newly found chemical: a substance said to be the legendary liquidized brain of ancient gods who founded the cosmos. It was powerful, vauable, and ripe for the taking as a bunch of organizations broke in to steal the chemicals. Which is what exactly happened when Rori was there. The fighting resulted in Rori falling in the chemicals, absorbing the,, and being captured the victor: Jewelya.

Now Jewelya and her gain or were little demons and monsters are training Rori how to use their godlike powers. Whether if it's for the forces of good or evil are left up to debate but, what does Rori really have to worry about. There's no chance things could go wrong now. 

[afictionalpoet]

New books (that I already posted haha) have been purchased! Wandering Souls is one I’ve already read and loved. The other 4 will be favourites I’m sure! :)

[justforbooks]

A highly anticipated Book of 2023 in Vogue, An Other Magazine, i-D, Independent, Evening Standard, The Bookseller and Huffington Post A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope. Heartbreaking … a deeply affecting reckoning with history, original and heartbreaking debut novel about the bonds that connect people even when separated by seas or death itself, from a thrilling new voice. There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies - everything in between is speculation.

One night, not long after the last American troops leave Vietnam, siblings Anh, Thanh and Minh flee their village and embark on a perilous boat journey to Hong Kong. Their parents and four younger siblings make the crossing in another vessel but as weeks go by it becomes clear that only one party has survived the voyage. Anh, Thanh and Minh suddenly find themselves alone in the world, without family or home.

They travel on, navigating refugee camps and resettlement centres until, by a twist of fate, they arrive in Thatcher's Britain. Here they must somehow build new lives with only each other to turn to, but will that be enough in a place that doesn't seem to want them? In this piercing debut, the siblings' faltering journey is deftly interwoven with the voice of their lost younger brother, Dao, following them from a place between the living and the dead, and the records of an unknown researcher intent on gathering together the strands of their story. Revelatory and inventive, Wandering Souls paints a heart-wrenching portrait of a family in unimaginable adversity while exploring the power of stories to heal generational wounds.

It heralds the arrival of an essential new voice in fiction. Meticulously researched and beautifully imagined, tells one of the most important stories of our times. Deeply moving and deeply generous. Searing, sweeping and intimate.

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[lilianeruyters]

Cecile Pin || Wandering Souls

Wandering Souls is a story of sadness and hope. Sadness for losing a home and family, hope for the chance of starting a new life in a new place. In the 1980’s many people fled from Vietnam, they became known as the boat refugees. Pin tells the story of three refugees ending up in London. It becomes clear quite soon that the Vietnamese family trying to flee their home will not arrive at their…

[starsonablackboard]

are you sure?

[bet-on-me-13]

Kitty was from Gotham.

So! Kitty was on her way to her old hometown to see what ever happened to her Dad.

See, she used to live in Gotham with her dad, mom nowhere to be seen of course, before running away to be with Johnny and subsequently dying.

She thought it would be better for her dad, not having another mouth to feed on a tight budget and not having to deal with their constant arguments every day. Looking back on it though, that might not have been the best idea. She hadn't even left a note, and for all they argued he did care about her enough that her disappearance would distress him.

But that was fine, she was going to check up on him right now!

He wasn't dead yet, she knew that much thanks to the Kid letting her access the Records of the Realms, but there was apparently some kind of Complications with his File which made it hard to pin down exactly how he was doing and where he was. So right now she was just wandering the streets of Gotham looking for him.

And guess what? No she still hadn't found him yet, he was suprisingly hard to track down. But she did find her apparent BROTHER!

Yeah, apparently sometime after she ran away, he had gotten himself another kid! He was too old to have been a bio kid so it was probably an adoption, but he definitely had a Connection to her Dad, the same kind that all parents and their kids have on their souls.

Well, if he adopted a kid that was fine by her, after all she always wanted a little brother (the Kid didn't count yet), but she kinda wished she had known before now!

She was gonna go introduce herself!

...

Tim was having a very weird day.

Well, it was a normal day for the most part. It became a weird one when a teenage girl walked up to him and introduced herself as his Sister, asking where their Dad was.

This wouldn't have been too distressing, Tim looked fairly average by the standards of Gotham and it would be easy to mistake him for another person with black hair and blue eyes.

The Distressing Part was that the girl in question had green hair, paper-white skin, and blood-red lipstick all covering a face he knew all too well. He saw it every time he had a nightmare about that night.

This Girl was the Joker's Daughter.

[mizukamiyaseiryu]

hearts from murim dudes (ft. two silla men) pt.1 (?)

(will i ever finish part 2? who knows...)

[massiveladycat]

if you didnt get a coin in your mouth when you died in ancient greece, you weren't able to go to the underworld, and no men at sea got a burial (elpenor was actually very VERY lucky) so technically polites and all the others are just wandering alone and afraid and confused in their death places. polites sits in the cyclops cave, eurylochus and 580?? men are forever at the bottom of the sea, and 6 are still near scylla

[fael-draws]

That's how it went, right?

[kashuan]

some recent ds sketches :^)