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A solid form is both shackle and strength.
It affects more than you imagine.
Inspired by this gem I captured. I love that they are looking at each other through a literal spirit of command.
anyway... this has been rattling in my brain for a week. And now it is out.
#solavellan#dragon age fan art#dragon age#solas dragon age#inquisitor lavellan#nyssa lavellan#burdens of command#But then it's a man and he wants a woman#I lowkey hate she shares dragon imagery with mythal#she is a reaver#you know the history will fuckup#Lavellan will be so sorry she teased solas about being allergic to halla in a few thousand years
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family tea party.
(in my mind, Radagon is the pure Order with no kindness half, and he always yearns to converge with Marika + be on equal footing with her, so in my drawing he’ll always be kinda nuts)
#elden ring#radagon of the golden order#queen marika the eternal#believe it or not this is ship art#my conspiracy theory is that he took advantage of Messmer being sealed and Godwyn death to slowly ursurp Marika#since those two command the two largest armies that were loyal to her just after Godfrey’s#in an misguided attempt to ease her burden. like oh if I’m in charge you won’t be sad again :) kinda way#also lowkey alienating Miq and Mal from their mother#so he’ll be the only one Marika can lean on. but joke is on him she dragged him down with her too alright#I can’t write another essay on this so pls just take the art#they r so funny in my head now#messmer the impaler#albi’s art
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Still not used to this life or death situation stuff. That's good, 'cause I'm not either. You never get used to it.
#swedit#starwarsedit#starwarsblr#star wars#poe dameron#flashing gif#nym.gifs#thinking about how in the stuff pre tfa he just. he wants to be a /pilot/ he wants to be a /soldier/ because he doesn't want to have to#carry the burden of the moral calls and the weight of so many people's lives in his hands#especially when strategies go /wrong/#'point me at the bad guys and let me do my thing'#he works alone SO often.#and there's something so genuinely tragic that poe's just. /so/ good at what he does that he ends up catapulting himself into the position#that. he didn't want.#and the thing that /pushed/ him into joining the resistance to prevent from happening again (losing someone he cares about under his#command /keeps/ happening). and worse he ends up in these positions where he /could/ blame himself for things that /aren't/ his call.#like u know he's got to feel responsible for the village on some level not to mention fuckin /kijimi/#it was /his/ idea to go there#the world should've protected you. instead you've been chosen to protect it.#what an honor. what an injustice.#not all of these fit this theme but mostly i just wanted to focus on his reaction/responses to some of the bigger tragedies in the trilogy#and tbh there's also. plenty more shots.
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#positive affirmations#soong family#soong bros#star trek the next generation#star trek#star trek tng#star trek data#data tng#data star trek#lt commander data#tng data#tng lore#lore star trek#star trek lore#b4 soong#noonien soong#star trek memes#its ok to ask for help#youre not a burden#murder is okay#your feelings matter
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There’s nothing sadder than seeing a new Starfleet character you don’t recognize onboard the USS Voyager, and knowing that by the end of the episode, they will have died, lightyears upon lightyears from home.
#anyways guess who’s watching Voyager right now?#I’m hopeful for her#she might have just been a way for Harry Kim to yap about the burden of command to someone who isn’t himself#star trek voyager#star trek#WAIT YAY THE DOCTOR IS IN THIS EPISODE YAY LESSGO#I love doctor you guys
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one must imagine sungsiphus happy
#it’s actually atlas but the caption made me giggle#ythink if he was burdened for all eternity to hold grobb on his shoulders he would?#twrp#twrp band#doctor sung#art#commander meouch#havve hogan#lord phobos#tupperware remix party
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Official art by Isayama of Eren putting a blanket on Levi after he’s fallen asleep :,)
#I can’t with how much of a sweetheart Eren is#‘he’s mean and angry’ he is? cuz I’ve only ever seen him respect his elders until s4 where he had the burden of the world LITTERALLY on his#shoulders#he always listened to commands and helped his comrades unlike some…#but he kept his identity and morals through it all ofc#anyways!#love this love them#mwuah#<3#eren jaeger#attack on titan#eren#shingeki no kyojin#aot#eren yeager#anime#levi#Levi Ackerman#Aot oficial art
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non-Angela Bassett related post but my husband and I fell back into the Battlestar Galactica rabbit hole on Mary McDonnell’s birthday without realizing it.
I completely forgot this happened on the show, but it’s just brilliance on top of brilliance. Happy Birthday, Mary!
thank you, @bestbuddybobby for pointing out it’s her birthday because i literally had no clue
#mary mcdonnell#laura roslin#edward james olmos#william adama#battlestar galactica#bsg 2003#bsg#roslin/adama#2x19#lay down your burdens#admiral adama#commander adama#president roslin#happy birthday mary!#happy birthday#birthday post
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despite everything, it's still you.
#aka aveline shepard through the years#mass effect#me1#me2#me3#mass effect spoilers#commander shepard#anyway i finished the trilogy for the first time#don't talk to me i'm sad about commander shepard#and the burden of being the most relied upon person in the goddamned galaxy#literally dragged back from the dead against her will because she was still a necessary tool#knowing she has to see this through no matter the cost#and without the promise of being able to go home when it's over#always an angel never a god and all that#aveline shepard#kale original
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When going up against Mars Neto—John overdid it, displaying the "overkill" signature of a disrupted psyche.
But his anger saved Carlos. Carlos knows this, and thanks him, but he's unsettled. Perhaps he senses that this experience... injured John terribly.
Carlos just doesn't want to see it... or his part in it.
He tentatively offers this:
CARLOS: Thank you for what you did back there. JOHN: You're welcome. CARLOS: If you ever... want to talk. You let me know, okay? JOHN (an uncomfortable smile): Yeah. I wi—I will.
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What a difference from the flippant pressure Carlos put on John to talk earlier in the episode—the very thing that triggered John and left him feeling cornered!
After delivering a somewhat more philosophical take—not a specific personal trauma—Carlos bailed to do the investigation. He spoke about how they’re all the same, but it wasn’t rooted in an intensely personal grief or loss.
It was about the shape of his life, mostly.
And then he left John to sit in the fallout zone.
Anyway, I’m just saying that why on earth would John want to talk to Carlos now? Carlos accidentally made himself an unsafe figure in John's world of emotional vulnerabilities:
CARLOS: My friend would actually love to go next, right John?
spnwin 1x04
(This is... a little analogous to how Sam Winchester operates with respect to talking it out with his own loved ones.)
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With respect to John's overkill, I can't help but be reminded of Mary seeing Jack's overkill signature in Game Night.
Both Carlos and Mary are "big heart" characters, who sometimes unintentionally lean on others too hard in service of The Cause and The Need to Protect—until those they lean on break wide open.
(NOTE: We see Mary also do this with Cas in First Blood.)
There’s just something so crunchy about circumstances where someone’s so useful, so powerful that you never bench them—because you just need them too damn much. (But well…that kind of weight is way too heavy for anyone to carry.)
14x17
BONUS:
“You left them!” she shouts. John’s not around for her to be mad at, so she takes it out on Cas. (But also, she realizes that she left them too. Sees the error of her ways and apologizes.)
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Sam does this on occasion:
DEAN: Oh, what? You think he's ready? He's had a pretty rough go of it lately. SAM: Which one of us hasn't? Seems insane to leave our one and only angel friend on the bench. DEAN (resigned): I'll call him. SAM: Thank you.
11x06
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So, ofc, does Dean.
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Dean wants Cas to be invincible to both keep them safe as a family... and also to be strong enough to take care of himself.
Jack-Dean-Mary all tend to trade in having great expectations for Cas in particular.
When Dean marshals the forces, Cas often ends up with the heavy burdens—partly because of tragic circumstances of the narrative, and partly because he’s so often physically the strongest.
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And so. The "courage" characters often get revved into overdrive:
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Even Cas has an "overkill" signature on occasion
Godstiel is the obvious example, but the moments in 15x03 and 15x06 often go unnoticed. Respectively, they’re signs of Cas rising to the occasion—but also, like Jack and John, of a worsening psyche. We’ll see how his resilience sometimes slips into something else: the dreaded “destiny.”
Above: Cas overkills Belphegor, destroying Lilith’s Crook and Jack’s vessel in the process—cutting off any chance of getting Jack back, at least for the time being. It’s a decisive move, yes, but also a glimpse of his fraying resilience.
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How Cas kills the sheriff in 15x05 is also... disturbing. Angry. "Savage."
And the “Take who you want, when you want”shows us Cas’s anger at Chuck. It connects to his later words to Dean: "When God took [Jack] from us…"
We get so locked in and amazed by the strength of certain characters that sometimes we miss these signs.
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No one is unbreakable.
Sometimes, with certain people... we just forget.
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Like:
BELPHAGOR: Funny— they didn't seem to think twice about it—
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Just like The Cause keeps winning out over care in SPN prime, the truth is that the Core Four in SPNwin don’t really hesitate to send John into danger—whether it’s taking on a monster in episode one or facing off against a god:
MILLIE: You sent John into battle against a god who's immortal?
(She didn’t know that, Millie. But it’s true that she sent him into that minefield. That's how soldiers operate... and it's tragic.)
Above: Like Dean, Mary can at times be prone to a mission-oriented (or safety-oriented) insensitivity. She runs hot and cold—tender one moment, tough the next.
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Mary's hypocrisy and immaturity is every bit as delicious as John's grief- and fear- induced anger:
Later in 1x06, Mary will accuse John of throwing himself into danger, and it never occurs to her that her own hypocrisy might be what chafes. "Everyone's worried about you!" she says.
Then she accuses him of "running towards danger." She says, "this isn't a game; this is life or death." But is he the one who doesn't know that... or is SHE? (See above.)
The bottom line is this: she feels that she can put him in danger, no problems. Because she trusts her own judgment. Her own judgment gives her the illusion of control.
As for John, she wants him to be strong and to be resilient and take on what she determines to be the acceptable level of danger. He should slow down when she says slow down, and most importantly... he should make sure not to actually be in danger, even when and especially when she's sending him into that danger.
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In 1x06, she asks to be let into his head, but she turns cold the minute he does. "I don't need you using me as an excuse to avoid your issues," she says, even as she verbally minimizes his anger and fear, and sidesteps that the root of his running is loss. (Loss of his father and the terrible fear of losing her too.) That's an approach that shuts down conversation, even if she is right.
Best part? She's doing all this while avoiding her own hypocrisy re: John's safety and her role as his battle commander.
Far from a warning sign, this is actually a sign of the maturing love between John and Mary: namely, that it's scary to care about each other. They want to be stronger for and more cautious with each other’s safety.
(SEE: Dean and Cas in Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets: -> "Wow, this Benjamin seems like he's pretty cool, you know. Like he wouldn't make any half-cocked, knee-jerk choices.")
It's an impossible tightrope. The pot and the kettle!
It's the duality of being a comrade-in-arms with him and the burgeoning desire to be his lover. She wants to be protected by him and protect him from harm.
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John the weapon
Eventually, in SPNwin, they’ll have to reckon with how they use John (and they will, in 1x06 The Art of Dying). It's about the fact that they know John’s struggling, but they lean on him anyway because he's strong and they need him. (Ironically, they do this even though John's the newest to the hunting world!)
It's so interesting to me that in SPN prime, John starts out as an innocent civilian—lied to, unarmed, and unprepared to protect himself or his family. Afterwards, he overcorrects, becoming the hardened, cruel father we know so well.
But in SPNwin, he steps into the life and becomes John the weapon almost immediately. And right away, Mary starts to lean on him in ways that echo how her Season 12 prime counterpart instinctively tried to lean on Cas.
Like Henry before him, John seems unbreakable—like "nothing can kill the guy" (SEE: Larry in 8x12: "So, Henry is dead. I was so sure that—that he had survived.")
In SPN, characters like John—and especially Cas and Jack, sometimes Dean—are often lost to that same sense of duty. Not because they aren’t loved, but because they were so often needed too much to be protected. It's an agony, really.
DEAN: So you're always thinking to yourself, he's indestructible. He'll always be around, nothing can kill [him]. (2x03)
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JACK: Since I've been alive, everyone assumed I would be this special person who goes on forever. (14x07)
#spn 1x04#john and jack and cas#jack and mary and dean#sam and mary#carlos and mary#spn 14x17#spn 14x20#spn 15x03#spn 15x01#spn 15x06#john and cas#overburdened protectors#the duty to protect the family#war fathers and war sons#the burden of the soldier#jack's powers#mary the commander#carlos the commander#dean the commander#sam the commander#john the weapon#jack the weapon#cas the weapon#carlos and mary parallels#john and jack parallels#the overkill signature#overkilling in SPN#hypocrisy in SPN#no character is untouched by this... it just depends on the arc#certainly we see sam’s anger and overkilling throughout the series
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writing a fic featuring cody without using sun / light imagery challenge impossible
#it’s just so good !!!!#the capacity for life / destruction#power and the beauty of it#all the fun themes of fire you can use and how that fire transforms into the sun#being the centre of a galaxy and yet so far away from everything (metaphor for the burdens of command)#(and then we get to the codywan binary stars imagery)#(this post isn’t about that though)#star wars put a sun motif on his armour and expected me to be normal about it ???#ally’s sw thoughts#commander cody#*solar system not galaxy oops#science people pls ignore the fact that i don’t knwo what i’m talking about
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I honestly didn't even realize how attached I was to Marvel Phase 1 until the very last arc was complete.
#loki#i mean as much as robert downey junior is credited with launching the mcu#robert downey jr wasn't the one who commanded comic con's hall h to kneel#AND HALL H FUCKING KNELT#and now we're here#loki is burdened with his glorious purpose and so are we#this has felt more 'end of an era' than endgame ever could have#and my god what an insane era it was
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Crafting a little world where Stone and Thorn both went on the Scipio mission. Idk why I wanna, just coz.
#may just kill off everyone except Thire and make the youngest commander bear the burden#i wanna explode and die so making stone do that instead#comms
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The Vulture is a creature found exclusively in the desert regions in Forbidden West. I got these shots in The Stillsands region specifically though. Judging by the brown feathers, red head and feet, and location it lives in compared to real world locations, I’m fairly certain that these birds are based off of the Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura). They’re quite large for a bird the player can hunt, and are programmed to be skittish and flee once the player gets too close. We also see one when going through the “Burden of Command” sidequest, as Yarra has a pet Vulture named Meat. I would include photos of Meat if she looked any different from the standard vulture.



Hunting these birds is quite useful, as not only will they always drop bird meat and/or wild meat, but they have the chance of dropping rich meat, vulture feathers, or a vulture wishbone.
#hfw#horizon forbidden west#virtual photography#ps5 screenshots#hfw photomode#Fauna: Vulture#Sidequest: Burden of Command
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: CT-7567 | Rex & CC-3636 | Wolffe Characters: CT-7567 | Rex, CC-3636 | Wolffe Additional Tags: Wolffe Wednesday, Trooper Thursday, Inspired by Fanart, Dialogue Heavy, Drunkenness, Burden of command, Fluff, Light Angst Series: Part 7 of Wolffe Wednesday, Part 26 of Trooper Thursday Summary:
Rex and Wolffe are going out for a few stiff drinks. They’ve deserved it.


#fanfic#tcw#sw#wolffe wednesday#trooper thursday#wolffe#rex#burden of command#drunkenness#fluff#light angst#dialogue heavy
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Skyhold - 9:41 Dragon
(Continued from X with @chasindtrevelyan)
chasindtrevelyan answered:
“If I mix three elfroot with the…” Eli trailed off, his musings drifting into barely audible mumbling as he scribbled notes on his latest herbal mixture. It was a work in progress, something for pain management for those members of the Inquisition who suffered lingering injuries or chronic pain. While smoking the plant could indeed offer temporary relief, it also dulled one's senses too much. Going into battle or even simply out gathering while under the influence could be dangerous, and his hope was to make something that offered the same effect, but without the side effects.
The knock at the door startled him from his thoughts, and he snapped his head up to see who had come by. The knock, though appreciated, had not helped as much as the visitor would likely have wanted. It wasn’t her fault however, it was simply how he was, and he offered the Commander a shy smile. “Good evening,” he greeted, and flushed a little at being called out on his lack of meal attendance. The great hall of Skyhold was wonderful, truly…but Eli didn’t like being around that many people all at once, and typically took his meals at odd hours to avoid the crowds. Dear Elissa however, seemed to have spared him the effort this evening.
“I am actually,” he continued, “got a bit lost in my experiments and forgot to raid the kitchen. Thank you for bringing something. Have you been well?”
Ever the healer, he worried for her even as she came to offer him aid in her own way.
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Elissa winced just a hair and she offered a sheepish look of apology when Eli jumped and startled despite her efforts at subtlety. Even with her training, when it came to any situation outside of combat or subterfuge, it had never been one of her strongest suits.
"It is no trouble," she began, balancing the tray on the edge of his desk as she reached out a hand in a silent offer of help in shifting his work aside enough to clear a place directly in front of him. "I'd have been here a bit sooner, but Bryce was particularly difficult to get down for sleep tonight. He misses his father terribly, and is worried he'll not see me again when I leave to find him with the Inquisitor and Champion for Crestwood tomorrow. I..." She stopped mid sentence and sighed quietly. "Forgive me - you have your own business and burdens without having to listen to mine. I am well enough, all things considered."
#world state: warden reformation#verse: The Burden of Heroes#chasindtrevelyan#muse: eli mason#warden commander queue-sland
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