#burden of memory

[mnemosyne-xiv]

𝔸𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕦𝕘𝕦𝕤𝕥, 𝔻𝕒𝕪 𝟙𝟞 - 𝕋𝕚𝕟𝕪

"𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘰 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘭𝘦𝘵, 𝘺𝘦𝘵 𝘐 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯. 𝘚𝘰, 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵?"

Prompt list! for everyone who wants to join in! ((it's canon that mnemo has an entire collection of smol minions bc she misses everyone since she's sorta stuck in sharlayan unless something big goes down also, i've accepted my fate of being eternally one day behind on auraugust, but it's the thought that counts right? heh...))

[neekosystem]

family tree with newly reborn madoka c:

[gnossienne]

John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989)

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

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[ltmctrung]

guy who said "this is blue archive to me" was unfortunately not /j rkgk

[capricoopla]

Ig a cool part of taking up a less process-heavy and more agile, mobile form is that it allows actual physical contact

Yay

Bonus fan symbols that may or may not be important

[buildoblivion]

i think the reason why thunderbolts works so well is that the team is like 80% legacy heroes/ knock off avengers but they’re all old enough to remember when princess diana died

[checkadii]

The first two drawings are the nicest. They stay up here (but also because Jesus this takes Space)

Aggressively points at the entire Shallow Bed album

GODDD IM HAVING SUCH. BRAINWORMS WITH LIKE 5 SONGS INCLUDINF HISTORY BOOK IN REGARDS TO TRIGUN ITS INSANE

BIBLE BELT? WOLFWOOD. UUAHHHGGHGGH

[misstrashchan]

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.

[sunlight-shunlight]

personally i think solas is bald because of one or more of these reasons:

woke up after uthenera, couldn't immediately access the fade without effort, had a nervous breakdown and shaved his head. who among us hasn't had an Emotional Haircut.

he does have a bit of the facial structure of a silmarillion elf, and might blow his cover as a Nondescript Elven Apostate™ if he also had the long flowing hair of a silmarillion elf.

easier to maintain and keep clean while doing his hobo lifestyle of wandering around alone in thedas.

he's worried about any surviving murals/statues of him with hair still existing, because that would be awkward if someone sees one and goes "wow, this 5000 year old artifact looks exactly like you! how funny :)"

mourning/penance ritual in elven culture. possibly even bc he feels bad about felassan but cannot otherwise acknowledge the implications. since that would imply that a) it was unnecessary to do that and b) if felassan was right, that means they ran a whole insurgency together, he survived the fall of arlathan and however long in a hostile thedas afterwards, and then fell to his oldest friend's hand for no reason. this would also make sense with zathrian's baldness.

some kind of "i'm locking in, i'm shaving all my hair to show i'm really serious about this quest and nothing will stop me" ritual in elven culture. this would also make sense with shartan, since his ashes ghost is bald too.

[mnemosyne-xiv]

𝔼𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕜𝕒 𝕆𝕣𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕤

"𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞, 𝐌𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐞. 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬."

"𝒜𝓅𝑜𝓁𝑜𝑔𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝒶𝒾𝓉 𝓈𝑜 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔."

[misanthropicgardener]

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

[skyward-current]

since hofmann referenced the reason for her transfer to eilean mor was to work with laplace on ley line research… someone please write me a fic where windsong (and vila, if she works up the balls to confess) adopts marcus in honor of her late friend in a household where semmelweis pops over sometimes as the cool aunt. i believe their reading and ley line detection arcane skills would complement one another.

Z visits too, except whenever she visits marcus will still trip over herself every time and 恭喜發財 her, considering her new mom also gives off sobbing wet academic vibes and they bond through research, barely leaving their house to help marcus work her social skills again—

(except for when windsong, down and about as she is, reluctantly heads out for clients to put bread on their table i suppose)

[gayladygrey]

im going Feral about how charles' mutation is always treated differently from everyone elses. charles (rightly) gets a lot of flack for only taking in the pretty mutants, but i think thats bcus he knows how isolating it is to have a power that is considered inherently a violation of consent. unless charles is 100% 24/7 a paragon of self control, hes GOING to hear your thoughts. asking him to stay out of your head is like asking him not to look at you, its just one of his senses like any other. and i think also thats why he snowballs so easily into huge violating acts like memory wipes and segmentation of identity - if everyone reviles him anyway for his natural, unconscious sensing of surface thoughts, feelings, vibes, traumas, etc etc, then why not do the huge messed up stuff they will also hate him for? he has to keep everything he knows about everyone a secret anyway, so as not to damage their sensibilities, whats one more horrendous secret? one more violation? and erik, of all people, who tells mystique not to cover up, who tells beast to be blue, tells charles "get out of my head".

[angelsdean]

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)

[forgetfulmachineart]

[ID: A black and white 6 panel digital comic. First panel: Gojo stands with facing away from us saying "... Hey, Yuuta" Second: A close up on Gojo looking annoyed saying "I'm not going to lose so I don't need to do this-" Third: He's looking down while saying "but just in case" Fourth: A close up on his hands as he summons two balls of energy saying "Here's how I create red and blue" Fifth: His hands now relax as he says "And more importantly..." Sixth: A side view of him hugging himself tightly. He's surrounded by speech bubbles of affirmations and apologies to a theoretical future Yuuta. Some of these include "I'm so proud of you" and "You're not a monster" and "Shoko can fix us up... right...?" /End ID]

Do you think Gojo left messages for Yuuta to look back on?

(full page and inspo under the cut)

[ID: A full page of the above described comic. /End ID]

[ID: A manga panel of Gojo's body's hand in a flicking pose. The monologue says "I'm being thorough... ...going through Gojo-sensei's memories one-by-one." /End ID]

Yuuta's going to find a lot of weird stuff in there but I've been thinking about Gojo leaving apologies and maybe a few helpful things in there...........