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24-46. Be the Peace
Sara’s View of Life with Sara Troy, on air from November 12th I recently had a wonderful conversation on my podcast with David Wick, a dedicated peace advocate who’s been with the UN and involved in global peace efforts for over 40 years. It’s a conversation on peace—its possibility and its necessity in today’s world. So often, people think of peace as a distant ideal, something that may never…
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#Be the Peace#cultivate peace#love#Orchard of Wisdom#podcast#Sara Troy#Saras View of life#unexpected challenges#www.selfdiscoverywisdom.com
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Integrating the Spirals: Ancient and Biblical prophecies or self-fulfilling prophecies that seem to align
After binge-watching the entire third season of Never Seen Again, and then perhaps synchronistically watching the latest from Gregg Braden (click on the YouTube link to watch–see the images to get the gist of it), I came away with this thought, “Are we all walking a predestined (prewritten map) kaleidoscope path to some final war between Good and Evil or is Awakening happening to give us the…
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#ancient#biblical#cultivate peace#Gregg Braden#heart#heaven on earth#Holy Bible#Never Seen Again#peace on earth#power to change#prophecy#rapture#war
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The return of Wei Wuxian after his 3-month disappearance is meant to evoke this terror and sense that something is wrong, and it definitely does, but like…
Do you not see the playfulness in which Wei Wuxian handles the ghoul child mirrored in how he later handles A-Yuan in the Burial Mounds?
A white child squatted by his feet. Like a young, carnivorous beast, it was gnawing on something that Wei WuXian fed it. Wei WuXian took his hand away after patting on the white ghoul child’s sparse-haired head.
—Chapt. 62: Evil, exr
Lan Sizhui replied, "I'm not sure either, just that when I saw Chenqing, I thought that it was extremely familiar......" It was unsurprising that it was Chenqing that made him remember. Wei Wuxian said, "Oh, of course you'd find it familiar, back then eating Chenqing was your favourite habit and you would drool all over it and make me unable to play it."
—Chapt. 111: Wangxian - Everyday Means Everyday, chiaki_himura
Do you not see the gentleness in which Wei Wuxian handles the blue-faced woman mirrored in how he handles Wen Qing when he takes her to the Qiongqi Path labor camp?
When she had been fighting, her face was almost hideous, but now, with her dark face against Wei WuXian’s lap, she somehow seemed to be a charming concubine, obediently pleasing her master. Giggling laughter came from her mouth as well. Wei WuXian sat leaning to one side, his right hand stroking her soft, long hair over and over again.
—Chapt. 62: Evil, exr
The shock that Wen Qing received was too strong. Finally, she couldn’t hang on any longer and passed out. Standing behind her, Wei WuXian caught her without saying anything, letting her lean onto his chest.
—Chapt. 72: Recklessness, exr
And then they both go on to reciprocate that care via over-protectiveness, even when Wei Wuxian isn't actively controlling them:
The curvature of Wei WuXian’s lips dropped slightly as he glanced at him. Jiang Cheng had also heard the dissonant tone, “Second Young Master Lan, what do you mean by this?” Lan WangJi’s eyes were glued to Wei WuXian, “Answer me.” The ghoul child and the blue-faced woman began to stir. Wei WuXian turned around and looked at them. They backed off slowly, reluctant, and sunk into the darkness.
—Chapt. 62: Evil, exr
After reading the entire novel and seeing how he maintains this same level of care towards everyone he has no antagonistic relationship with, alive and dead, how could I not be moved when circling back to reread this moment?
#mdzs#human metas mxtx#yeah it’s meant to be horrible#but also?#after seeing how the *other* cultivators treat the dead#why *should* i feel horrified that wwx treats them so familiarly?#that's a woman and child whose lives were stopped short#and with that fact maybe wwx is the first one to be kind to them even counting the living portion of their life#but even though their dead does that mean they don't deserve care now?#anyways i hope they found peace after this#god i love you nameless dead woman and baby#rereads really be having you look at scenes in a new light
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machete is like a delicate looking white flower, one where the petals turn transparent when it rains. vasco is a marigold for many reasons.
Ooo I like that! It never even crossed my mind to assign marigolds to Vasco, but it makes perfect sense. I had to look it up but the flower that turns transparent in the rain is called skeleton flower, and yeah, I can see how that would fit Machete.
I tend to associate irises, damask roses, and forget-me-nots with Vasco
And red carnations and poppies with Machete
#answered#anonymous#you know flower symbolism? there's room for interpretation but many familiar flowers tend to carry specific cultural meanings#irises symbolize valour and nobility#roses symbolize beauty and love#forget-me-nots symbolize remembrance and faithfulness#red carnations symbolize admiration and love#poppies symbolize sleep peace and death#don't quote me on this but I'm under the impression that all these five are either native to the Mediterranean#or would've already been introduced to Europe and widely cultivated there by the time Machete and Vasco's story takes place#darn that marigold is such an excellent fit#I love marigolds how come I never thought of that#I don't think it had been imported from Mexico to Italy by the late 16th centrury though
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the way so many people who hate jc spend more time talking about why they hate him then they do talking about characters they actually like is kinda insane. the power he has to live so rent free in people’s brains.
#I’ve stumbled upon multiple creators who essentially create page long essays on why they hate him every other day#I mean peace and love but that could never be me#I prefer to dedicate my time to things I actually enjoy lmao#jiang cheng#mdzs#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#the untamed#briar.txt
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a little comic about post canon wangxian and coming to terms with some things!
#wangxian#mdzs#mdzs fanart#wei wuxian#lan wangji#yiling laozu#hanguang jun#mo dao su zhi#grandmaster of demonic cultivation#jessbye#egg#yayyy its finally done :D#YALL i didnt realize drawing in black and white can be so hard!! ><#but anyway it was fun nonetheless#a scenario like this has been in my head for so long now#i did smth .. similar recently where i came to terms w smth and simply admitted it outloud#and i kinda realized how much difference it can make#anyway wangxian deserve to feel at peace and trusted and safe to finally talk abt their trauma#ON THEIR OWN TERMS!! with no outside interference!!
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There is a cyclic tragedy inherent to Mori's character wherein he's actually a deeply lonely man, but it's mostly because his resolve to do morally reprehensible things and think of people as pieces on the game board is something he prioritizes over his relations with those very same people, and this inevitably pushes them away (for very understandable reasons). And it kind of sucks honestly because the most frustrating thing about Mori is that he 100% has the potential to be a fantastic teacher and mentor, and more than that, I think he loves it! Just look at Beast! But for as long as he decides he needs to be the one to make "the hard calls" to "preserve peace", then Mori will inevitably continue in this cycle of alienating all the people he has a fondness for.
I do feel as though Mori's loneliness is something he views as a necessary sacrifice that he is making for the greater good (and if he is so willing to sacrifice, then Dazai's unwillingness to do the same comes out of left field because - "what do you mean? you're supposed to be just like me!").
Anyways.
Mori voice: "I'm so alone"
Also Mori: *continues to prioritize pure logic over the emotions of his people and himself*
The people: *get rightly angry and/or become extremely traumatized and leave him*
Mori voice: "I did what needed to be done"
Mori: "..."
Mori: "..."
Mori: "I'm so alone"
Sir. You are doing this to yourself.
#thing is he works well as a mafia boss because those people who take orders know in advance they are going to be commanded#to do whatever is necessary#mori has cultivated strong bonds of loyalty so people like hirotsu and tachihara have no issue with doing what is demanded of them#since that is just what you do in the mafia.#but for people mori is closer with. his actions frequently feel like betrayal to them. because that may be how you treat a soldier#but it's not how you treat a child a mentee or a friend.#the thing i want to know is why he thinks being ruthless in the service of yokohama's peace is his own personal responsibility#in the first place#bsd#bsd mori#bsd meta#<- sort of. i'm mostly just rambling#storyrambles
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When Will the Bud Burst? The 1945 Legacy of France’s Peace Rose
#This rose commemorates the end of World War II.#Cultivated in France in 1945#peace#rose#bud#Jindai Botanical Gardens#peace rose#war#20231027
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Day 11: Crossover + Day 12: hair for mxtxtober23
Hmm?? He's in ghost city?
#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#wei wuxian#wei ying#yiling laozu#yiling patriarch#tgcf#tian guan ci fu#heaven official's blessing#hua cheng#san lang#mdzs fanart#tgcf fanart#mxtx#mxtxtober23#let him rest in peace for a while
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Day 8: Healing
Well I finally fell a day behind
But Wen Qing deserves my best. All the best 🥹
Prompt List by Jamiedraws__ on Instagram
#mxtxtober#mxtxtober23#cql#the untamed#mdzs#mo dao zu shi#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#lan sizhui#wen yuan#wen ning#wen qing#healing#hi plz I want an extra about them giving wen qing a proper burial#so I can cry in peace
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Characters, book, and author names under the cut
Wei Wuxian/Lan Wanji - Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation/ Mo Dao Zu Shi by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu
Robin of Berecrofts/Katelijne Sersanders - House of Niccolò by Dorothy Dunnett
Nina Zenik/Hanne Brum - King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo
Gene Forrester/Phineas - A Separate Peace by John Knowles
#Wei Wuxian#Wei Ying#Lan Wanji#Lan Zhan#Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation#Mo Dao Zu Shi#mdzs#WangXian#MXTX#Mo Xiang Tong Xiu#Robin of Berecrofts#Katelijne Sersanders#House of Niccolò#Dorothy Dunnett#Nina Zenik#Hanne Brum#King of Scars#Rule of Wolves#Six of Crows#soc#grishaverse#Leigh Bardugo#Gene Forrester#Phineas#A Separate Peace#John Knowles#polls#lgbt books#queer book ship tournament 2024
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A lot of people say that Wei Wuxian's demonic cultivation is inherently disrespectful to the dead. I personally disagree but I'm not really sure how to say that, especially when they bring up how he treated the ghosts for the war or the torture session.
It's confusing 😔
Ok, to answer this question, we must first cover the basics of both what Wei Wuxian's cultivation is and how cultivators deal with the resentful dead in the orthodox path. 1) Wei Wuxian is not s demonic cultivator. He is a ghost cultivator, hence why his cultivation path is called "the ghost path" and why the title of the novel is a misnomer. The cultivation world calling him a "demonic" cultivator is meant as a slander of his work, not a neutral description of it:
“Let me ask you, are fae, demons, ghosts, and monsters all the same kind of being?” Wei Wuxian smiled. “No.” “Why not? What are the differences between them?” “Fae come from living non-humans, demons from living humans, ghosts from dead humans, and monsters from dead non-humans.”
—Chapt. 13: Elegance III, fanyiyi
By definition, Wei Wuxian is not a demonic cultivator, and every cultivator is taught this distinction from a young age. Moving on, 2) this is how orthodox cultivators deal with the resentful dead:
[Lan Wangji] nodded his head politely, and quietly said, “First, release the spirit from suffering. Second, suppress it. Third, eliminate it. For the initial approach, use the loving memory of his parents, wife, and children to comprehend his deepest desires and fulfill them. If this fails, move to suppression. But if the crimes are too great and his resentment too bitter to dissipate, eliminate him root and branch; his continued existence must not be permitted. Cultivators must conduct themselves carefully in accordance with this sequence of measures, without error.”
—Chapt. 14: Elegance IV, fanyiyi
The ideal goal of dealing with the resentful dead is that you get them to move on. That is why these are not three separate paths but a single route:
Lan Wangji said, “Thus release from suffering is the primary strategy, suppression, supplementary, and elimination, the last resort.”
However, only the first part of this route leads to peace for the suffering spirit; the other two either lead to prolonged suffering or utter destruction. Wei Wuxian's ghost path opens up a second route, the so-called fourth solution:
Everyone inside the elegant room stared at them in shock. The old man suddenly shot up. “The purpose of subduing demons and exterminating ghosts is to alleviate suffering! Not only have you forgotten this, you want to incite further resentment! You are inverting the means and the ends, without a care for humanity!” “If some people’s suffering can’t be relieved, why not make it useful?” Wei Wuxian replied. “When Yu the Great tamed the floods, redirection was the superior strategy, and obstruction the inferior. Suppression is like obstruction, it can only be worse—” Lan Qiren flung a book at Wei Wuxian, who quickly ducked out of the way. The color of his face unchanged, he continued to run his mouth. “Spiritual energy is energy, but resentful energy is also energy. Stored inside cores, spiritual energy is able to cleave mountains and drain seas, and is available for human use. Why can’t humans use resentful energy too?”
The end goal remains the same as the orthodox path's, just with the addition of using the dead's resentment to achieve your own goals in the meantime. To say that Wei Wuxian "creates" the resentment by which he then controls the dead he summons is to ignore that he actually can't create resentment and must rely on the resentment the dead already have. We learn this in the opening chapters of the book at the Mo Mansion where he must summon the corpses of the Mo family to fight because the other walking corpses that were already in the house had too little resentment to be useful. It's even in this very example of him pitching the theoretics of the ghost path: he doesn't say "just dig up any corpse" but specifically that the heads of those executed by the executioner (and therefore who would have resentment remaining in death) should be dug up to deal with the fierce corpse of their killer. And when everyone has burned off their resentment, it goes without saying that it would be easy to liberate them.
Now to address the whole war time torture session stuff: if we remember what I just said about Wei Wuxian being unable to create resentment and that in his speech he believes that the best dead to summon in order to subdue another resentful being are the dead who were killed by the being, then the fates of the Wen involved in the fall of Lotus Pier makes sense. Wei Wuxian does not control any of the dead like puppets, as explained here, so the ghosts got their own revenge themselves. It's not accidental that every Wen supervisory post was covered in ghost repellent talismans where none existed previously. As for the ghoul child and blue-faced woman, they had some sort of history with each other and Wen Chao and Wang Lingjiao that probably wouldn't be too hard to guess:
[Wang Lingjiao] collapsed onto the ground. Back then, the second that she opened the chest, she saw what was inside. There was none of her beloved treasures, only a pale-skinned, curled-up child!
—Chapt. 61: Evil, exr
The ghoul child, however, had bit out an entire chunk of the flesh on his hand and spat it out. He continued to devour the palm. Wen ZhuLiu grabbed the child’s head with his left hand, as though to put so much force on the small, cold head that it exploded. The blue- faced woman threw the bloodstained bandages on the ground and, like a four-limbed creature, she crawled to Wen ZhuLiu’s side almost instantly.
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Wei WuXian, “Of course it’d be with a certain thing gone.” Jiang Cheng was disgusted, “You’re the one who did it?” Wei WuXian, “It’s nasty if you think about it that way. Of course I wasn’t the one who cut it off. It was bitten off when his woman went mad.”
—Chapt. 62: Evil, exr
"His woman" can't be Wang Lingjiao, because Wang Lingjiao died suffocating on the stool leg she stuffed down her throat. When Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji find her body, the stool leg is still halfway out of her mouth. "His woman" is the blue-faced woman, who obviously holds extreme enmity towards Wen Chao. It's the same situation when Wei Wuxian resurrects Wen Ning:
Wei WuXian, “Congratulations to you for successfully draining all my patience. Since you don’t want to speak up, let’s let him answer on his own.” As though it’d been waiting for his words for a long time, Wen Ning’s frozen corpse suddenly moved, raising its head. Before the two nearest inspectors could even scream, each of their throats was clenched by a hand as firm as iron. Expressionless, Wen Ning raised up the two short-legged inspectors high in the air. The empty circle around them grew larger and larger. The head inspector shouted, “Young Master Wei! Young Master Wei! Please go easy on us! Doing this in the heat of the moment would lead to irreversible consequences!” The rain fell heavier and heavier. Drops of water trickled incessantly down Wei WuXian’s cheeks. He suddenly spun around, putting his hand on Wen Ning’s shoulder before shouting, “Wen QiongLin!” As if a reply, Wen Ning let out a long, thundering roar. The ears of everyone within the valley ached. Wei WuXian spoke one word at a time, “Whoever caused all of you to be like this, let them meet the same end. I give you the right to do so. Settle everything!”
—Chapt. 72: Recklessness, exr
Wei Wuxian didn't "make" them do anything; he just corralled them and focused their resentment.
While Wei Wuxian is being very glib in his Cloud Recesses discussion—because it was an on-the-fly theory posed specifically to piss Lan Qiren off—the way he uses it in practice is actually much more contained. He also, personally, treats the dead more respectfully than most other cultivators, who react to the presence of non-aggressive dead with violence or disgust (reread how he interacts with the ghoul child and blue-faced woman, or the ghost girls in the restaurant, or the skeleton hand, or A-Qing, etc. etc.). So to answer your question: no, Wei Wuxian's ghost path does not disrespect the dead. It gives those with too much resentment or a who have a grudge too difficult to fulfill another way to burn off their resentment in order to achieve peace. While an individual can use it disrespectfully (Xue Yang, who uses it as a basis for his demonic cultivation), it is not inherently disrespectful in and of itself.
#mdzs asks#anon#human metas mxtx#now you could argue that him digging up graves was disrespectful#which sure but he was also doing that during war time#against an enemy that too was disrespecting the dead of their foes#and this isn't inherent to the ghost path#he was digging up graves to create an army#whereas the wen (and eventually the other cultivation clans) were throwing bodies into mass graves#and making it so that they never know peace#that's not a cultivation style-specific problem#that's a morality problem
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if ppl don’t start being normal about nonbinary people who happen to fit the stereotypes then i’m taking my dangly earrings and hawaiian shirts and bags of moss and 5 names and im going the fuck home
#if you have exceptions to your acceptance you don’t deserve our sparkle#you deserve the boring hateful community that you’re trying to cultivate#idk where i was going with this i just wanna be tacky in peace#trans#nonbinary#transgender#trans nonbinary#pizzacrustdisposal
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re: your post about jin guangshan: i think examining him in the way you've described really highlights the absolute horrors of the gentry in the mdzs world. because to examine WHY he is the way he is highlights a society that has absolutely no interest in reigning in the desires of its nobility. jin guangshan is the end point of that, and wen ruohan is as well; the difference is that they exercise this in different ways. jin guangshan attacks the vulnerable largely on an individual and interpersonal basis, using and discarding individual people; wen ruohan attacks the vulnerable largely on a more collective basis, conquering sects and families. they both want power, they just have different methods of obtaining it. and the other members of nobility have very few methods through which they can curb this behavior, outside of an all out war!
jin guangshan and wen ruohan must have been children, once; i doubt they ever experienced any kind of deprivation or guidance and the environments of jinlintai and nightless city's upper nobility likely only exacerbated that. i don't think it's a coincidence that the characters who likely grew up with the most power and privilege, and who exercised this in the most destructive ways, are killed by the guy who arguably experienced the Least power and privilege in his early life!!!! of course jgy would be the one to kill them both!!!!!
bam 🙌 nail, head, you just absolutely hammered the shit out of it.
i want to print this out and frame it. edited to add: because you know who does rein in those desires once he comes to power?
😌
#asks answered#mdzs meta#jin guangshan#wen ruohan#and man what a badass jgy really is for taking these two titans of selfishness and greed out of the jianghu#editing to add: this is not to say that jgy does not exploit his position because of course he does#but i think it is critical to examine what he does with that power too#he does not wage wars#he does not continue the political opponent-to-demonic cultivation pipeline that flourished under jgs#he builds watchtowers that centralize jin power. yes.#but these watchtowers objectively save thousands of lives#the juniors grow up in a world where they do not have to cultivate so aggressively in preparation for war#there. is. peace.
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Blue’s initial feelings of jealousy or insecurity at what Adam not telling her about his home life being so quickly replaced by concern and feeling for him and how horrifying she finds the idea of him not having a family because hers is so central to her identity …. Yeah… she’s so empathetic at her core which I feel gets lost sometimes when her judgemental streak is over focused on which she is very judgmental and I love that about her but like the minute she makes a decision to put that on hold in a sense she’s so empathetic
#also throughout the book we see so many examples of the women around her giving her bits of her personality Persephone’s eccentricity and#being at peace with it and then Calla’s resolve and sarcasm and determination and temper and Maura’s#confidence and pragmatism and irreverence. And both Calla and Maura’s senses of humor. and maybe even though she would never admit it Orla#cultivating her own fashion (even if Blue would set hers up purposefully to be different from hers)#so of course to Blue not having a family would be the most horrifying thing! And despite parts where Bluedam misunderstand each other#she’s very much understanding him here because Adam Does feel like he lacks an identity and ties that to his home life#s speaks#s rereads trb#trc reread notes#blue sargent#trc#300 fox way women#Blue and Maura#Blue and Calla#Blue and Persephone#Blue and Orla#Blue x Adam#my meta
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