#the burden of memory
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John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)
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My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.
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#legend of zelda#loz#twilight princess#loz tp#i'm still reeling that someone sent me an ask about this one.. that they took the time to find my tumblr and tell me they liked it#it really meant a lot; thank you to anyone that stops to leave comments like that. they make me happy#but yeah! here's the usual symbolism ramble:#i thought it'd be cool to have the 'spirits' flowing one way and the cats walking through them the other way#to kinda show the difference in life inhabiting the village in the past and present#link's face is covered because impaz was just waiting for 'the hero' so his clothes are what matters; not his face#and it (hopefully) gives a surreal and intangible sense to 'the hero' she could only hope would actually show up#you can feel free to interpret the glowy blue sheikah as ghosts or just as memories of the past! i couldn't decide either way#the one on the bottom left is oot impa since she's implied to be the village founder. so i guess she would be a ghost actually?#fan art#my art#project stuff#and ahhh the book-- everyone's stuff is so beautiful!!#especially the writing. some of the fics made me really tear up and some were so fun and clever. i really love them#a lot of them captured the sheer burden of the role of the sheikah; all of the time and grief and doubt#i know i always say this stuff about every project but. the people i get to work with in these are truly so skilled every time
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the thing about Harry’s wound placement is that it required removing
his pants
his underwear
to clean and remove the bullet. it was his upper thigh. it was his upper thigh. that drives me insane from so many angles, two touch starved men, experiencing closeness in the most horrific way possible. like!
Kim, who has dedicated his life to a career that has separated him from the gay community and hasn’t gotten laid since when. Kim who wants to heal the city, who worked with corpses in processing AND Harry, a repressed bi who has a history of experiencing sexual abuse who can't get through sex without being intoxicated. deathly ill and mostly unconscious.
it’s so intimate and so deeply twisted with how it mirrors their respective traumas and lonelinesses. am i making sense because i feel insane
#imagine Harry after the case free to imagine Kim touching him without the burden of the memory to agonize over#disco elysium#kim kitsuragi#harrier du bois#new genre of hurt comfort where it’s the narrative tormenting you both#kimharry#disco elysium blogging
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none of the statues of the hollow knight have the loops on the armour. do you hear me. can anyone hear me. is anyone home
#the armour always makes me feel so. so. (gestures vaguely)#to carry such a burden and then the memorial/statues just. make it seem like it was so much less awful than it was#trying to sanitize the whole situation of condemning them to. all that#it has now been 4 months of hollow knight replay induced brainrot
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In RWBY weapons are a part of a person, an extension of yourself, as Ruby puts it in V1. So, a weapon can say a lot about a person in how it appears and what it's used for.
Looking at Crescent Rose compared to our other main characters' weapons and it's immediately one that stands out from the size alone, it immediately draws our attention, it usually takes up the screen.
Like Ruby, it's striking, awe inspiring and larger than life. It's beautiful, resilient and strong, but evolves to be more adaptable during the Atlas Arc, when Ruby herself has to be more flexible and think outside the box, and her worldview is consistently challenged. It's also very easily the most intricate and complicated design, by her own admission:
"I guess I did go a little overboard in designing it..."
Which, while on the surface means it looks cool and flashy, it's also incredibly complex, just like Ruby.
And as we know from V9, a weapon like that would also be a heavy one to carry at all times too, and it weighs on her. Just like being "Ruby Rose" means to shoulder all the responsibilities and entanglements that come with being who she is, a huntress, a leader, a hero, a spark of hope and light who inspires others. In the end her resolve as a huntress and in who she is, and her purpose, is renewed and stronger than ever before, and wields her weapon once more with confidence.
That doesn't mean her burdens have gotten any lighter though, in fact upon returning to Vacuo, because of her message, all of humanity is now looking to her. No matter how strong, confident and resolved she is, that's a heavy weight for one person to carry alone.
Which brings me to Oscar's weapon, the Long Memory. Which is a cane, smaller, simple and straightforward, but has it's own hidden light stored inside. A cane is meant to take someone's weight by design, that's it's purpose. To be something that's leant on as a crutch when you're hurting to alleviate the pain by taking the pressure off yourself, so moving forward is made easier. Because everyone needs that support sometimes and it's okay to be weak, it doesn't make you lesser, it just makes you human. And it is incredibly human for us to care for and lean on one another for support. That vulnerability leads to our greatest strength as humans.
The one who carries the heaviest weapon vs The one who has a weapon that can be leant on to take pressure off yourself. Ruby who carries a heavy burden and Oscar being someone that can be leant on for support. ooooooohhhh the cymbal ism of it all.
#and if they swapped weapons at some point?#oscar carrying ruby's burdens in being leader and ruby letting herself be supported??#one becoming more active and the other more introspective???#ooooohhhhh. it'd be all over for you bitches.#another fun thing they could is if Crescent Rose breaks from Ruby pushing too hard#and her team help her piece back her weapon together for her#as a reference to Gift of the Moon and trying to help Ruby the way she has for them#that'd be so sweet#anyway I love the weapon symbolism in rwby hehehehe#also I love rosegarden#I feel like there's more weapon symbolism I could dig into with the Long Memory for Oscar but honestly#I mainly wanted an excuse to gush about Crescent Rose a bit#rwby#ruby rose#oscar pine#rosegarden#greenlight volume 10#rwby meta
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Mahmoud Darwish, from The Butterfly's Burden; "This Is Forgetfulness" (tr. from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)
[Text ID: This is forgetfulness: that you remember the past / and not remember tomorrow in the story]
#mahmoud darwish#the butterfly's burden#this is forgetfulness#fady joudah#words#poetry#typography#palestinian literature#on memory
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Dean remembering Hell in Supernatural: Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting.
(for context they're up against a Greek Goddess that is feeding on their memories--preferring the good ones--so Dean starts remembering all his worst ones to hurt her)
#society if dean got a proper hell trauma arc#also notice how sam only remembers SECONDS of his time in hell. dean vividly remembers years worth of brutal torture.#like not diminishing the fact that sam suffered at the hands of lucifer but their hell trauma IS very different.#sam's was mostly psychological. he was never on the rack like dean was. he was in the cage with lucifer playing mind-games.#dean's trauma was bodily. physical. unimaginable brutal pain and torture.#sam gets his hell trauma taken by cas. effectively lifting the burden. he knows factually what happened but the trauma response is gone#dean never gets that. dean never has the memories scrubbed clean or the body's trauma response lifted.#dean is the one that teaches sam the 'pain trick' to distinguish between reality and hell hallucination. why does he know this?#bc he's dealing with his own hell trauma. probably seeing Alistair like sam sees lucifer. the difference is we never get to hear abt it#bobby's guide to hunting#hell trauma#dean and hell
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the dream state… -> historians -> triple dog dare pipeline has me in shambles btw
#first a tragedy happening to you then a tragedy happening to me and then a tragedy happening to us both.#okay!#first your death and my continual love then my death and you preserving my memory then we both die because we ran away together and also#we’re in love. well what the fuck!#lucy dacus#no burden#historians#home video#the overdue asteroid strikes again#boygenius
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the past i can’t help but forget, the history you can’t help but bear
i’ve been wanting to write something about these two for a while but haven’t quite thought out how i want a story between them to work out yet but. they’ve been on the brain
the fascinating thing about whisperain is that with her being a serial amnesiac and also a travelling doctor… you could really just justify her having a past with basically any character? that she just cannot remember? (free headcanon real estate)
the way she’s clearly haunted by knowledge that she doesn’t even know what she’s lost (see her module text!!) is sooooo ripe for exploration. iirc the game lists whisperain’s birthplace as iberia but tbh how would she know? she could just have put that down to fill out her hr file
also, the travelling doctor thing. on one hand, she’s afraid of forming onesided attachments (again that module text!!!!) and so imho she’s picking an occupation that’ll let her isolate herself from society. but at the same time. considering her frail physiology, it’s possibly also a self destructive act. god she’s so fascinating
meanwhile, dusk, arknights #1 loner. similarly avoids attachment, but where whisperain throws herself into moving, moving, never allowing herself to stay still, dusk sits herself by the stream of history and watches everyone leave her instead. but she clearly still has a strong sentimentality in her (see: dawn + the painting that who is real is set in) that she hasn't let go of...
anyway, i’m just saying, i think they might have a fun time bonding over films. and if they met before… and got to know each other… and one of them is cursed to remember, and the other is cursed to forget… weeell
#yes this is. my rarepair propaganda#i just…the way their relationships to memory and the past and its burden are so opposite but complementary#btw READ WHISPERAIN OPREC/MODULE/LORE#arknights#arknights dusk#arknights whisperain#my art
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You know, I feel like Kratos forgetting Calliope’s song was a wee bit harsh on the part of the writers.
I think his explanation of how he would’ve given up everything for a few moments more with his daughter, but when he met Faye, found the world worth living in again, would’ve been enough. Imo that illustrates his journey well in of itself.
To add onto that that when he found his new family, he could no longer recall Calliope’s song (played on the flute he made for her)…I dunno, it doesn’t make me think, ‘oh look at Kratos’s growth and development’ as I’m sure the writers intended. I understand the symbolism they were aiming for, but honestly it just made me sad
It’d be different if he was struggling to remember just due to the passing of time, but the fact he says he forgets it specifically after meeting Faye changes the meaning imo.
Kratos could remember his daughter’s song - presumably her favourite, that she played often, if it stuck in his memory - just because he loves her. To remember doesn’t intrinsically mean he’s haunted by it. memories of, and a love for, his Grecian family isn’t inherently negative, or something that has to be ‘let go of’ for him to progress as a character.
#like she’s his *daughter*????#I just feel he could remember the song and the message still works fine#he can reach a better place mentally. it doesn’t meant he has to give up or forget the vestiges of his Grecian family#he can still love them#their memories don’t have to be inherently a burden#and tbh i feel like it’s sometimes assumed he loves Faye and Atreus more. but like. can’t it be equal? does it have to be competitive?#all four of them are wonderful!#but anyway#in my headcannon he still remembers the song!!!#he loves that little girl so so much! I’ll die on this hill!#Kratos#god of war#he also loved Lysandra very much. as seen in the books and the game#‘No matter how many women I find. they all remind me of her’#… crying in the club rn#:(#god of war dlc#god of war ragnarok#calliope#god of war valhalla#Lysandra#god of war lysandra#god of war Ragnarök#god of war calliope
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Angela Carter and Folk Music: 'Invisible Music', Prose and the Art of Canorography, by Polly Paulusma (2022)
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He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
-- Gabriel García Márquez
(Regensburg, Germany)
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*takes a deep breath and leans in so close that my lips touch the microphone*
the tragedy of dick and jason’s relationship as brothers is not that they hated each other and then jason died, or that they were super close and then jason died. the tragedy is that dick did not know enough about jason to know how to mourn him. were they brothers? were they rivals? dick sure doesn’t know, and jason doesn’t either! but it’s fine bc they have plenty of time to figure that shit out, they don’t need to know each other right now bc there will be time to know each other later.
except.
#sorry saw a long post about this and had Thoughts#dick doesn’t know jason!!! he doesn’t really try to know jason!#and jason doesn’t so much give a fuck about knowing dick!#but then jason is *gone* and they will never get the chance to be brothers/rivals/friends#and the only way dick has left to know him is to mourn him#but bruce guards that like he guards nothing else in his entire guarded life#dick can see the memorial and dick can know bruce failed#but dick does not get to mourn jason bc only *bruce* has that burden/comfort/responsibility#and so dick has nothing. no happy memories to comfort himself w no bad memories to make it easier that jay is gone#and *that’s* the fucking tragedy. dick does not get to keep any part of jason whatsoever#and so he makes sure to bond w tim and w damian#bc he knows not to count on a future that may never happen#he knows that the potential of a relationship is not worth a fraction of an actual one (good or bad)#jason doesn’t care enough about dick to include him in his plans for revenge#it’s not hatred or love or jealousy or even *friendship*#the tragedy of dick and jason’s relationship is that they never really have one#and no matter if jason comes back from the dead if dick makes up for it w tim and dami#they’re never going to get that time back
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i wonder how darryl and henry reacted to the blue sky like… they’re both still in san dimas and alive presumably?
#dndads#kasey rambles#was talking about this with cal and now i’m thinking about it#i’ve always assumed that neither one of them remembers much of the doodler cause of the memory syringes#with the hc that it was the kiddads who did code purple#but either way like. how fucked would that be#has a burden lifted off of henry’s shoulders. does darryl have any regrets#food for thought !
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S3! Mahidevran sultan + The burden of love and duty
I'm ready to burn in hell to keep you safe.
Orla Gartland / Anne Carson / Japanese Breakfast / Benjamin Alire Sáenz / Margaret Atwood / Sarah Kinsley
#this is a messy mix of a web weaving and a mahi edit but anyways. just trying something new#is this about the burden of her old memories?#or is it about her duty as mother of mustafa & the burden of just being alone as a parent & as a counselor with a sehzade thats is learning#and a Sultan that will never get it#or maybe the burden of feeling you need to do anything for your sehzade's future. at the cost of your conscience#??? well actually is about mahi carrying the burden of the whole show on her shoulders /j#I'm not really sure tbh. but there's really something about having your whole life dedicated to raise a good ruler to the empire you're an#slave of#that's crazy to me like oh god#and having NO WAY to win because you're just doomed by the padisah's favouritism and your son's love for his father#like when is my girlie resting. she gave her all#sisyphus type of role as kosem's...#mahidevran sultan#magnificent century#muhtesem yuzyil#perioddramaedit#my edits#mc edit#graphics#graphic edit#web weaving#(kind of)#forgot to say I kinda tried drawing thingies here#they look weird when you zoom so don't look at them very much. they only work if you see them from the distance#filter credits to crownedfilters in ig
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all my ocs have to be beasts or creatures of some kind, I can’t control this rule. yes even the human ones. they require teeth and claws and tails and the lively soul of a wild animal
#crow thoughts#I burden my ocs with the things I desire#oh my god this unlocked a memory of me telling a friend ages ago how much I wanted bird feet because of how cool I thought they were#….I do not have an oc with bird feet. yet.#grabs the bone saw
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