#a voice in the wind

[bookfirstlinetourney]

Round 1

The city was silently bloating in the hot sun, rotting like the thousands of bodies that lay where they had fallen in street battles. An oppressive, hot wind blew from the southeast, carrying with it the putrefying stench of decay. And outside the city walls, Death itself waited in the persons of Titus, son of Vespasian, and sixty thousand legionnaires who were anxious to gut the city of God.

-A Voice in the Wind, Francine Rivers

My mother thinks I'm dead. Obviously I'm not dead, but it's safer for her to think so.

-Legend, Marie Lu

My friend Tomie died. Her dead body was found here and there, in pieces.

-Tomie, Junji Ito

[cheesearchives]

List of Books I'm reading currently (meaning that I started them and intend to finish them but I started another in the middle so finishing them all will take time):

A Voice in the Wind - Francine Rivers

The Well of Ascension (Mistorn #2) - Brandon Sanderson

Beartown - Fredrik Backman

Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint - Sing-Shong

I'm halfway through the first and the last one and barely on the first few chapters of the second and third. Will I finish them all? I intend to. Will I potentially abandon one and add a random book to this list thereby further delaying the completion of this list? Yes.

[underasettingsun]

Book 21/50

So. Heavy.

But that aside, it was a really good book. Set in Rome, roughly 40 years after Christ. Main protagonist is a late teens christian girl who is a slave of a Roman family.

Lots of awful Roman society, some characters getting better and some getting worse as the story progresses.

I'm pretty sure I read this like 10 years ago but I couldn't remember the plot so it didn't hinder the experience.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[lanashelltsuha20]

Atretes be like:

[lanashelltsuha20]

Spoilerrrsssss of that one book nobody cares about for some stupid reason

Still thinking about that book

I cant move on- help!

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Guys guys Hadasaah is so FREEEE rn o my lorddddd

She can do anything, pray, laugh, talk, Kiss her handsome husband

Whenever i remember her happy ending i just- i can't its perfect!

And i Felt like i needed more of this two- like, the ending, at least i wanted a scene of this two living a happy life- with dialogs- not Just a mention that they are together!

Because i love their dynamic so much!

THINK WITH ME:

First of ALL neither had a plain good reason to be in love with eachother

Hadasaah looked at Marcus handsome face and was like "well, he is hot but he IS a Roman- and a pagan- so i can only dream of us two together" and then she gets to know him more and more and discover that he is super rich, smart, and caring. BUT still a pagan- and, a jerk! A super jerk. And she is not dumb at all- she knows what she is into- but she does not follows along with her feelings, she is down to earth and calls god for help!

Of course things get worse when she discovers that he is also into her- and she doesn't understand why

But she's got into the conclusion that the only reason why he is into her is bc she is a challenge, a girl who doesn't fall too fast and wont do It for anyone, and she wont go to bed with a man as long as he's her husband, and most important: a Christian.

In Marcus side, part of that was true, and If he didn't had a redemption arc on the Second book, and Hadasaah actually Said yes to him, this marriage would be a failure, he would get tired of her and abandon her.

But there is also the fact that he actually did love her, but was way too mundane to love her properly!

So, Marcus had no reason to love Hadasaah as much as she did? Maybe, she was not as attractive as the order girls he had been with ( even Tafata was prettier than her) but she was something else- a slave who was obedient with no fear but love, she served people with care, and grace.

And of course there was God behind It all, making Hadasaah shine in away no other girl did in his life, being that source of light and confort, in a cruel world. NOW THAT was the main point for his love for her, she had peace inside of her heart, and HE wanted this, he wanted to have peace, but he couldn't find It nowhere.

And when he convert, he discover that what she had ALL this time was God with her, taking Care of her heart and anxieties, promissing that he Will be with her no matter what, and now, Marcus understands her, Marcus understands why she was so devoting to the Lord, and he can't help but devolt himself to God too. He also Fell in love with him, and now he has inside him the peace he always craved in Hadasaah.

BUT- that does not take away his undiyng love for her

Because, he still craved for her- he wanted nobody else, but her!

And God knew that

He showed him another Sweet jewish girl, who was Just like Hadasaah to him, and he rejected her lol

Marcus was sturbborn, but i think that he genuinely Fell deeply in love with her, because even after his conversion he does not want anybody else...BUT HER

Marcus had such a level of yearning that it surpassed death, and even face transfuguration

And when i say, that i wanted then to Interact more after the reuniting scene, IS because they are so adorable together, and both were so desparate tô be together that- Lord, i nerd more conversarmos between those two! Principally now that Hadasaah doesn't hold herself back anymore! She says what is on her mind without fear and Marcus is sturbborn and makes stupid choices sometimes- theis fights are always entertaining to see XD

[princ3ed3n]

May get some hate for this but……. Stop using angel numbers if you do sexual acts on these platforms you ruin it for the actual spiritual community you are representing yourself as a spiritual person but your not

[raycatzdraws]

Local insomniac and amnesiac accidentally scare the ever living daylights out of each other for completely different and very personal reasons.

I like the headcanon that the chain end up sharing and learning each other's songs! (Whether on purpose or by accident in the case of Legend here. It also ties into how Wild knows a bunch of their songs in totk!)

As usual, there's some extras under the read more!

I started coloring and then decided not to! Anyways- Pink Link Pink Link! Wind and Legend are crafting~ Wind's making what I know from camp as a pirate's rope bracelet >:) (though the actual name of the craft is kumihimo!)

[imaginariumwanderer]

Can't get over how this line was said in the trailer, bro may be Shadow Milk but he's as zesty as lime

Bonus tiny Wind Archer:

[gray-dubs]

Trees Amiright

Credit to @sallufix as the artist!

All the cookies voiced by me

[chloesimaginationthings]

They all share the same voice actress,,

[nanakorobiyaokii]

09.21 : ʜᴀᴘᴘʏ ʙɪʀᴛʜᴅᴀʏ ᴜᴄʜɪᴅᴀ ʏᴜᴍᴀ! ☆♪.⁽⁽ ◝꒰´꒳`∗꒱◟ ₎₎₊·

ᴍᴀʏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʟɪꜰᴇ ᴀʜᴇᴀᴅ ʙᴇ ꜰɪʟʟᴇᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʟᴏᴠᴇ, ꜱᴜᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ, ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴀᴘᴘɪɴᴇꜱꜱ.➳♥

[octobertomarch]

He ain't winning this game

[courtesanofdeath]

just (1) grumpy sleepy bofurin boy

[stil-lindigo]

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I can't properly put into words the amount of disgust that I feel seeing someone who looks like she could be my cousin fight for a genocidal occupational force like Israel but I will say this.

If you are Chinese, Korean, Japanese or any one of these Asian ethnicities that the West deem "acceptable" and you align yourselves with western-backed racial supremacy, you are making fools of yourselves. You have fallen prey to the myth of the "model minority" and you are suckers for it.

The premise of racial supremacy is based on exclusivity. And here's a dose of reality - the myth of the "model minority" is nothing but a tactic to placate you. To sow divide in the ranks of people of colour. To artificially manufacture another realm of racial supremacy in minorities so that you're distracted from how we all suffer under colonialism.

Did we all forget about the skyrocketing of sinophobia in the wake of the first COVID outbreak? The transformation of Chinese people into fiends with barbaric eating customs, poor hygiene, and mass conspiracy to infect the world with biological weapons?

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What about the hate-crimes? The attacks in the street against anyone visibly asian? The rampant discrimination and ostracisation from society?

In 2020, Donald Trump referred to COVID-19 as "The Chinese Virus", "Kung-flu" at a campaign rally to raucous applause, a chilling echo of the times where fears of the "Yellow Peril" had the western world in a stranglehold.

For all that Chinese people have been lauded as "prodigies" and "well-mannered workers", the moment our existence was incovenient, were were nothing more than another target. And although Chinese suffering then wasn't close to the scale of suffering that Palestinians now endure, we all received a reminder on what it was like to be in the world's crosshairs.

Now, in 2023, Biden dismisses death tolls as unreliable and remains proudly Zionist even after Netanyahu described the genocide Israel is inflicting upon Palestine as the "struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle." At the same time, Palestinians are being compared to fleeing rats in a gesture of dehumanisation that mirrors how the Nazis portrayed Jews during the Holocaust.

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And let's not think Abigail's Jewishness will save her, not when it's been proven that Israel has administered contraceptives to Ethiopian Jewish immigrants without their consent. Racial supremacy is an exclusive club that never stops getting smaller, and there is nothing that you, as a minority, will ever be able to do to fit in. One day, you too will be a target and there'll be nothing you can do but blame yourself. After all - it's already happened.

So shame on Abigail. Truly. With the memory of knowing what it's like to be targeted for factors out of your control fresh in her mind, she happily fights to do the same to others. And that says more about her than I ever will be able to.

[tatakaeeren]

Umemiya Hajime | Wind Breaker Ep. 3 " The man who stands at the top"

[lanashelltsuha20]

I hate the feeling of falling in love for one series that nobody has ever cared about. It drives me insane, because these books are PERFECT

I Just fineshed an encho in the darkness, and I'm so happy and Sad, because -SPOILERS AHEAD!

Julia died😭, she died with Christ but still, Very happy for her, but i've got to love her, you know?

I wasn't kidding.

And o my gosh I LOVE Marcus in this book he is just- SUCH A MAN he envolved so well! I was sooo happy when he became Christian🥹

And HE DIDNT EVEN BLINK WHEN HE SAW HADASSAH like, he was so Head over heels he DIDNT EVEN CARE for her face- ALL messed UP because of the lions- he Just was like "you are beautfull- beautfull-"

THAT IS HIS WIFE , AND SHE IS PERFECT

HADASSAH girl YOUR PRAYERS WERE WORTH IT

THE Lord made him A MAN

HALLELUJAH

And they like, had SEVEN KIDS AND THREE GIRLS?

SO ADORABLE

I am so content with that ending, that i Will not read the third book so early - Heard my girl HADASSAH IS not EVEN there- so whats the point??

(better she not bc shes too busy with her own life now)

(*sobs* My girl IS so happy rn she totally deserved It🥹💕💕)

AND the New carathers- Alexander and Rashid, Tafata (loved her such a cutie) and Esdras.

I Will talk about then, nobody Will read till here anyways-

Alexander: i knew he would fall for Hadassah from the start, and i Just loved How he is an Younger version of Caludio but a doctor- i Felt bad for him when my girl Hadasaah puts him on the brother in Christ zone- he was a real person, he had doubts about the Lord, and his ending Felt open to me, i didn't have sure he repentented and became Christian. But maybe he did.

Rashid: he IS the most loyal member of the "touch-hadassah-and-you-will-die" club ( i founded the club, Marcus is the president, Julia was the vice, but quitted and Alexander took her place) and when i say loyalty, i mean, he would die or kill for her without thinking twice- and that was a problem because Hadasaah never liked violence (a diva) and well, he didn't care. Im kidding, Hadasaah made sure the Man wouldnt comit any crimes for her. He was really mad and violenta sometimes- BUT NEVER TREATED HER WITH DISRESPECT- neither him or Alexander ( kings, i know??) But, like Alexander, his ending Felt open to me, he did convert? I had no Idea!

Tafata: i Felt like she was a version of Hadasaah If she lived a normal life with her family. But not converted to christianity. She had a soft heart, was really Sweet and caring. She Fell for Marcus btw- but WHO WOULDNT?

(Marcus's rizz is imaculate)

And last but not less important-

ESDRAS: A trully jew Man who converts by listening to a Roman- who was doubting everything about his own life, and hating God for it- such an amazing charather, in less than some chapters made me so interested about him and his faith- and How he would know about Christ- trully awesome How him and Marcus were against the same things- but because of diferente reasons. Opposites in the sane coin- both deperately trying to find the truth!

And they FOUND IT🥹