Illness and death are facts of life

– Buddhism teaches us to be mindful but not fearful of it ‘It doesn’t take a deep understanding of Buddhism to acknowledge that sickness, old age, and death are inevitable facts of life.’ The art of developing a healthy relationship with our own mortality lies in neither avoiding the reality of suffering nor obsessing over it By Nadine Levy Over the last year, I have spent a lot of time eating…

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All I want is to go to a trans person's funeral after they lived a full, enriching life. I want to see trans people grow old, I want us to live like the stars. We don't deserve to burn out before everybody else. When we die, I want it to be because we grew old, because we had lived.

something something orpheus and eurdiyce and katara doesn't look back at aang in the cave of the two lovers but she does look back at zuko when she leaves him in the crystal catacombs and love is about looking back its about turning around and seeing them even if it's for the last time

anyway

I haven’t really talked about the news but I will say the one thing that’s been making me smile is people telling stories of Techno continuing to troll them in death, not only w him revealing that his name was actually Alex not Dave and the fucking death merch, but stories like Sophie’s and Jewish fans’ struggling while trying to light memorial candles (matches snapping, the candle taking forever to light or flickering out several times, etc), or like Wilbur’s where Techno visited him in his dreams to call him a loser for dreaming about Minecraft, I even had my own experience when I left the house to try and get my mind off things in which a crow sat in a tree branch right above my head and cawed loudly, interrupting my sad thoughts and only flew away after I smiled and sent a video of it to my brother, it’s just so like him to continue to troll people from beyond the grave and it makes me smile

i think more people should talk about how mr and mrs. everdeen’s relationship echoes that of peeta and katniss’s relationship and what this means for their obvious soulmatery

forgive me if this has been answered previously, but what were the circumstances around vasco finding out about machete's death? i'm heartbroken but fascinated to think about what his immediate reaction could have been

They don't live together, Vasco was at home in Florence at the time. Either someone who knew of their relationship managed to alert him of the murder, or he showed up in Rome to visit him just like countless of times before, and one time he was just gone. He would've missed the funeral for sure, and since Machete doesn't have family, his belongings would most likely end up escheated and subsequently liguidated by the church. He certainly wasn't remembed fondly, for the most part it was like he had never been there in the first place.

I don't want to get into the details but of course he was devastated. The threat of death was a constant presence in Machete's later years, he survived at least a couple of assassination attempts and his health kept getting worse. I think he tried to keep Vasco in the dark about how bad things were exactly, but Vasco didn't miss how his fear of death ramped up in intensity towards the end. So it wasn't a complete surprise when he found out they had finally gotten him. For a long time he had hard time not blaming himself for it, thinking whether he could've done something to prevent the outcome, whether his presence would've changed how things played out. Over the years he learned to live with the sudden and violent end of their relationship, but the first few years were extremely rough, the whole ordeal broke him in unprecedented ways and he never fully recovered to his previous state.

whenever i think of how nikki's personality has changed from her first game to her latest i get so emotional.. bring back silly lazy genki girl nik </3

FUCK would vaggie's Spear! kid have dreams of all the battles she took them into? would the baby cry and cry and when chaggie finally figures out how to, like, use a magic thing to figure out what's wrong- it just projects these shadows of carnage- and vaggie RECOGNIZES all of it- and, she was holding the baby but hands them off to charlie before leaving the room... and the moment charlie's the one holding the kid and singing to them, the crying stops.

vaggie. just on the other side of the door, hearing this. sliding down to sit on the floor and Not Cry over how she brought a life into the world by taking other's lives, and this isn't even just her own thing to bear- just being HELD by her is enough to make the baby remember all the times when she was using them as a weapon..

charlie, alone in the room now, holding their kid a little tighter and singing with a little tremor in her lullaby, scared vaggie maybe ISN'T right on the other side of the door listening to them... or that she won't be for much longer

oh i hate this au now. bad. cursed

I spend my days traversing the stars: lost within your eyes.

Taika et al really committing to the “Ed is Jesus, Izzy is Judas” bit huh

The Day Ram Dass Died

— He taught me to be more curious, present, and self-loving. His final lesson was more surprising. By Christopher Fiorello I woke up every thirty minutes the night before Ram Dass died. Stretching my perception through the big divider that separated his study—where I lay on a narrow couch—from his bedroom, I’d count the seconds between the short, ragged breaths churning through his sleep-apnea…

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A dead parent poem.

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This is from my own personal workings and includes death-inspired designs for that of an aesthetic death witch and has the following pages of...

💀bone meanings and usage

💀A Prayer

💀A Printable ouija board to make your own! (You can use a coin as a planchet ;) )

💀Herbs for working with death energies

💀Crystals for working with death energies

💀How to make an altar for this work

💀Entities that relate to death work Including some aspects relating to the Left-hand path. (both light and dark are needed for this type of work.)

And much more!

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So since I can’t seem think of anything else, here’s another idea for you :

I think that when Ed headbutts Stede, his eyes are suggesting that he’s waking up violently like when you have a nightmare in a movie and you’re sitting up from the trauma.

what if all the sequences with him and Hornigold (Hornigold’s ghost? Just this guy in white?) are a sort of fever dream/coma following an injury or him getting knocked out or drowning?

It’s got this blue haze and Hornigold is always behind him like a mentor figure or a guide.

Ed jumping with the rock and sinking is a metaphor of him choosing to live (« don’t let go ») and killing his past self(« life begins again »).

And maybe it’s Stede’s words « I love everything about you » etc that get him out of it. But that does not mean that he forgave him, just that he’s going to live.