#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.

[maureen-corpse]

lol I was so mad about that Christian fiction book that I updated my review special when I exported my Goodreads data to StoryGraph:

It was an extremely weird creative choice to write a book that makes sure to condemn homosexuality between men but prominently features a love story between two women (namely Hadassah and Julia).

This book sucks for many reasons, and I'm still mad about it, which is why I can find the date I finished it five years ago and why I have placed it on my shelf of books I believe I deserve financial compensation for.

This was originally a Goodreads review, so here is where I'll add a little something extra for users of The StoryGraph: Christians are allowed to have nice things! We are allowed to have standards! You do not have to read and fawn over bad books simply because they have the right "message" or something. This book is long and boring with a contrived and not remotely developed M/F romance that is completely undermined by the presence of the formation of an actual relationship (which I chose to interpret as romantic just to try to inject some joy into the experience of reading this thing; but you don't HAVE to, obviously, because platonic love is beautiful and good) between the female lead and a completely different character who might be the most real person in the whole thing and consequently gets perpetually dumped on by the book for being a normal human being. Christians. We can do better. We deserve better. We should demand better.

Christians make good art and stop promoting bad art challenge

[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.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[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:

[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.➳♥

[thisbibliophiile]

Books of 2022 #42

A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers

[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"

[courtesanofdeath]

just (1) grumpy sleepy bofurin boy

[stargirl230]

Listening to Ado sing is a religious experience

Also happy pride! Snuck some bi flag colors in here for the occasion 🌈

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

[hastalavistarbaby]

✨SHE✨

[englishotomegames]

Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom (薄桜鬼 真改 風華伝)

Release dates (Nintendo Switch) Japanese: September 16th, 2018 English: August 1st, 2024

"Two legendary visual novels come together in Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom, a remastered compilation of Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms and Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds, each among the most beloved entries in the acclaimed Japanese otome series. Players take the role of young heroine Chizuru as she is surrounded by the handsome warriors of the Shinsengumi. As battle ensues, who will emerge victorious and who will claim Chizuru’s heart?

Embrace the political and interpersonal drama of feudalism while navigating romantic scenarios and witnessing events inspired by Japanese history, brought to life through beautifully illustrated cutscenes and passionate dialogue sequences. Explore multiple story routes across both epic visual novels, renowned by long-time fans of the series while serving as a standalone jumping-on point for new players.

This updated version includes revised text for the best possible experience, making Hakuoki: Chronicles of Wind and Blossom the definitive way for players to enjoy the game!"

This is a remaster / port of the original Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom, called Shinkai Fuukaden in Japanese. Like Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms / Kyoto Winds, it includes six additional routes with three new characters, a new soundtrack, and an enhanced UI.

You can get the digital version here, or the physical version here!