#cw: immolation

[rwac96]

Type: Ask

AU: RWBY AU

Fandom: RWBY

Summary: What If: What if Jaune was the one who fought Cinder and managed to succeed in killing her at the cost of his life?

Meme: What If Meme

The budding swordsman panted heavily, as his Aura crackled around him, signaling that he was on the verge of breaking. Jaune Arc had always wondered why his father and grandfather never pursued being a Huntsman, and now, he was figuring out why. Before him stood an ambered-eyed woman, hands engulfed in flames as she approached him. His ocean eyes shift to his shattered shield, and then towards the approaching woman, the one responsible for the siege. The blonde lets out a battle cry, charging towards the now Fall Maiden.

He met with her fireballs with each swing of his family's blade, but missed a few and felt the intense heat of those attacks. But he kept sprinting. Cinder yells in anger, as she runs towards her opponent, aiming to end the young man. Then, when the flames struck Jaune again, his Aura shattered, causing him to feel the horrific pain of his flesh burning. But despite the agony he was experiencing, he drove Crocea Mors into the woman's heart, who gritted her teeth in hatred.

"A-All that," she said as she spat up blood, grabbing the leader of Team JNPR by the throat. "f-for a rookie strike..."

"A-At least I got you," Jaune chuckled weakly, his pupils shrinking as he felt her hand growing hotter than a humid Summer Day.

The youth falls down onto his knees, as the Fall Maiden uses every ounce of her strength to perform her Semblance: Burning Caress. As flames surrounded the aspiring Huntsman, Two redheads arrived on the scene, despite the intense battle and the Wyrvern that circled Beacon Tower. Ruby Rose, Jaune's first friend, and Pyrrha Nikos, his partner, friend, and confidant, witnessed Jaune Arc's body turning an ominous orange and his entire body is reduced to ashes. All that remained were Crocea Mors, his armor plates, and a cloth of his hoodie.

"JAUNE!!!" The Gladiator recoiled in grief-stricken horror, having just witnessed the demise of her partner, leader, friend, and crush.

"...Jaune...?!" The wielder of Crescent Rose drops her weapon, as her friend's killer falls down onto her front, letting out a lowly moan that she couldn't hear. "....Jaune," tears filled Ruby's eyes, as her pupils began to glow brightly.

The winged Grimm roared, turning its attention to the two young women, as a strange orange light traveled to Pyrrha, noticing the now dead Cinder staring at her with her emotionless eyes. As the Wyvern shrieks, proceeding to charge towards the duo; intending to add more to the already large body count of the Siege of Beacon.

"JAAAAUUUUNEEE!!!" Ruby hollered at the top of her lungs, as a bright, white light erupted from her eyes, blinding both Pyrrha and the Grimm. It engulfed the two students, the dead infiltrator, and the beast in an eerie, blinding, bright silver light.

#answer #answered #answer post #cw death #cw: death #cw impalement #cw: impalement #cw immolation #cw: immolation #what if #what if...? meme #rwby #rwby au #rwby vol 3 #ruby rose #jaune arc #pyrrha nikos #cinder fall

[simstryingtheirbestok]

I thought she was a goner, and I was so upset. But Carlos--Carlos was utterly devastated. He immediately spawned a wish to Resurrect Undine.

No need, Carlos. Undine is on it.

I gave her that Death Flower ages and ages ago--not quite back in Sunlit Tides, I don't think, but very shortly after they moved to Hidden Springs. Carlos has one, too, and I think Tierney does as well. I wanted some insurance.

But I'd completely forgotten about all that. Undine's inventory is always a wreck, thanks to her dabbling in Alchemy, taking up painting, helping with the harvest, and collecting relics. It's all I can do to find her Multitab or her umbrella in there.

Once Grim departed, Carlos went straight to Undine's side.

Eternally Faithful, all right.

Then they both took the Fireproof Homestead reward. We're not chancing another narrow escape like this one.

#ts3 #ts3 legacy #the sims 3 #the sims 3 legacy #planetary legacy #generation earth #sim: undine estrada #sim: carlos midnight #sim: grim reaper #cw: death #cw: fire #cw: immolation

[lowqualitygarbage]

When two of your housemates need to use a stepstool to reach the stove and are made of very flammable materials, some chore assignments are a given.

#cw: fire #cw: immolation #dhmis #dhmis x fnaf #fnaf x dhmis #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #don't hug me i'm scared #comics #so does purple have a vivid imagination or is he remembering something?

[notaplaceofhonour]

An American man self-immolated in the name of Gaza, and I’m seeing two different responses:

from American leftists, acting like it’s a brave/commendable thing while do

from Palestinians, begging people not to do this

This is a man who was incredibly mentally unwell and committed suicide, initially planning to livestream his suicide, and people are applauding it—which inevitably encourages more people to follow suit, throwing their lives away too. And for what? How has this helped Palestinians in any way?

Suicide is not the answer—not to your personal struggles and not to global conflict and geopolitical struggles. If you find yourself around people who are encouraging you to see suicide as a beautiful or commendable political act, get out.

Think of all the good things you can keep doing for Gaza if you keep living. Think of your loved ones. Think of your own life. Your life has value, and you deserve to keep living.

I think Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, someone from Gaza, put it way better than I can in this tweet:

#don’t give in to despair #cw suicide #trigger warning #tw sui ideation #tw self immolation #i/p

[paintingpuff]

When there's not enough official Outer Wilds merch so you make your own poster

#outer wilds spoilers #outer wilds #outer wilds fanart #the hatchling #oh boy so many cws #cw death #cw gore #cw suffocation #cw crushing #cw immolation #cw anglerfish #not a real cw but fuck those guys #cw body horror #eote spoilers #ow spoilers #cw electrocution #cw explosion #Fanart #brazilian artist #br art

[dimitrippy]

i don't know who the fuck needs to hear it but as someone who has wanted to die since they were 5 fucking years old -

self-immolation is not suicide.

suicide is a way out - a way to get rid of all the pain you've ever felt. many people who have made a plan to kill themselves feel calm, and even may seem to be doing better mentally! They may be peppy and have more energy - because they know it'll all be over soon.

Pills, poison, self-inflicted gunshots, and jumping. These are popular because they are quick and, if done right, usually don't hurt.

That's the whole point of suicide. Leaving the hurt behind.

People who want to die just want the pain to end. Burning to death is the most painful way to go and if you arent successful, you will be in pain and disabled and disfigured for the rest of your life.

Self immolation is not suicide any more than a hungry strike is an eating disorder

#suicide cw #suicide tw #self immolation #current events #aaron bushnell #okay to rb

[captaindarkiplier]

this is what I think of the Glime debut

#genloss #generation loss #ranboo #slimecicle #charlie slimecicle #gl!slimecicle #GLIME #horror #immolation #cw torture #my art

[pearwaldorf]

These tweets say what I wanted to about Aaron Bushnell.

#palestine #aaron bushnell #suicide cw #self immolation cw #i'm so tired guys #so tired and sad

[itsbansheebitch]

Active Duty Air Force Member sets Themselves on Fire. "I will no longer be complicit in genocide" "Free Palestine"

An active duty US Air Force member set themselves on fire outside the embassy. He introduced himself as an active duty member of the US Air Force, and said that he would, "no longer be complicit in genocide" and then set himself on fire. He said "Free Palestine" while he was ON FIRE.

I'm not going to share the pictures because it's quite graphic, but they are out there if you seek them out.

I saw this & the picture from a post that turned reblogs off. It had a lot of notes, but still, EVERYONE needs to know!

#tw fire #cw fire #tw self immolation #palestine #free palestine #israel #politics #us politics #world politics #military #air force #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtq #lgbtq+ #queer

[alihartwrites]

Sacrifice or Suicide?

I don’t see Lilly’s self-immolation as an act of suicide but moreso as sacrificial and symbolic.

Bushnell didn’t show any signs of suicidality - if so she would’ve been discharged out of the military held in a VA psych ward. Especially with a security clearance as high as hers.

Lilly was incredibly methodical about her self-immolation it was to symbolize and force the globe to see what’s happening in Palestine.

Bushnell wouldn’t have wanted copycats and I do not condone anyone to self-immolate whatsoever.

Yet, I still think it is important to understand and remember these people for who they were based on their own accounts rather than mainstream media accounts which already hate anarchists like us.

PSA: If you or anyone you know are feeling suicidal, please reach out for help!

Call 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

Text HOME to 741741 for the Crisis Text Line

Call, text, or chat with The Trevor Project https://www.thetrevorproject.org/get-help/

Link to full list of posts about Lilly (Aaron) Bushnell > https://www.tumblr.com/alihartwrites/745361994322984960/list-of-posts-about-aaronlilly-bushnell

#sacrifice #self immolation #suicide #suicide or sacrifice #cw suicide #tw suicide #lilly bushnell #remember lilly #lillyanarkitty #the sacred feminine #free palestine #palestine #free gaza #bushnell #aaron bushnell #alihartwrites #oc #highlight

[vizthedatum]

CW: self-immolation is a sacred testament that cannot be silenced (Free Palestine)

During my current spiritual awakening as a scientist, healthcare data scientist, writer, and varied-trauma survivor, not only am I growing into myself, I am growing into what it means to truly be a citizen of the world.

I grew up Hindu, and I only really connected with it spiritually to my core after a series of traumatic events I faced in this lifetime, including events I brought on myself.

Being spiritual has brought me so much peace. However, I am still living in a world, where there is so much turbulence, where there is so much suffering.

In so many religions and spiritual practices, the concept of worldly suffering is heavily discussed. Everyone has their own justifications and their own way of mitigating (or propagating) suffering.

In this post, I will be addressing the genocide of human life in the Gaza Strip, along with the various other genocides that have plagued my lifetime, including the Rohingya genocide. The following topics will be mentioned as well: the constructs of hierarchy that somehow lesson some people's lives and elevate others, self-immolation as a spiritually grounded form of protest when your soul cannot find another way, suicide and attempted suicide, complicit-ness, and generational and worldly abuse/trauma.

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When Aaron Bushnell self-immolated on February 25, 2024, I avoided the news even more than before.

I fully understood why he did it, but it also brought back memories of the time when my brother, in his teenage years, went behind his high school to self-immolate. He failed and went to the hospital with burns. This suicide attempt was one of several that he would face for most of his life.

Aaron did it out of protest to Free Palestine. My brother did it out of an intention to commit suicide because not only did he not want to live, he did not feel wanted in this world.

What makes a person not wanted? What compels whole swaths of people to either protest or support mass murder?

These are some of life's big questions, huh?

Spiritually, I consider self-immolation an act from the soul. My belief stems from my worship of the matriarchal depiction of godly being from Hinduism. She is known by so many names: Mahadevi, Devi, Shakti, Ma, Mahamaya, etc.

One of her forms is Sati. Later, "sati" became the name of the self-immolation practice that widows perform on the pyre of their husband's body, during his funeral.

The term, "sati," stands for nobility and truth in Sanskrit. It's not literally about self-immolation - it's about standing up for what you think is right and being very clear about what is suffocating you to the point of your soul being burned alive.

In short, Sati's story is about her protest of her husband, Shiva, not being respected by her family. She marries Shiva - her godly companion through every reincarnation of the Mahadevi - and her father doesn't like it.

Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu are the male counterparts of the "holy trinity of Hinduism" - they're considered *the supreme Gods.*

Her father prepared a ritual sacrifice event (a yajna) and did not invite his son-in-law. There are so many details to this - including that her father was human (well this is contested since he was a part of Brahma) and had devoted himself to Brahma, that all these figures were among the early humans (and gods) in Hindu mythological lore, and that despite factuality the stories are metaphors and descriptions of the layered nature of humanity.

Sati wanted Shiva to come, but he refused since he wasn't invited. Sati instead went to the yajna and she was humiliated by her entire family. Her husband's name was also tarnished.

She couldn't take it - not only was Shiva in the same class of deitic prolificness as Brahma, Shiva was her husband.

She threw herself in the fire of the yajna and self-immolated. She sacrificed her life's energy to go back into the universe or higher power, because she could not stand for this injustice.

Shiva became so stricken with grief and anger, he destroyed the yajna (later the yajna was restored) and threatened his father-in-law's life.

He took his wife's body and wandered around. 51 pieces of Sati's body fell to the earth and became what is known as the Shakti Pithas.

These 51 sites are in South Asia, and people still pay pilgrimage and worship at these sites.

I've personally only been to one - the one in Kalighat where my maternal family line lives. I'm a strong worshipper of Kali Ma, and I believe she spoke to me there, amongst the crowds, when I was 25.

The number, 51, is contested of course - but that's not the point.

The reason why Hindus make pilgrimage to these sites is because of her great sacrifice. It was a test of divinity.

She recognized what was important to her and that Shiva was indeed a supreme deity - and then she sacrificed her own supremeness to both defend him and herself.

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In South Asia, self-immolation is spiritually considered a noble act of protest due to this story (and so many other stories).

Unfortunately, it becomes a problem when people are FORCED to self-immolate (as in the case of the sati practice where it's rooted in misogyny and patriarchy) or when people are COMPELLED to self-immolate due to lack of community and mental health resources (such as in the case of my brother).

I don't think it becomes noble or truthful in those instances, even if there are hints of the truth underlying these issues.

I think back to Sylvia Plath in these cases sometimes - she committed suicide by suffocating herself in her oven. Her poetry and words will probably inspire generations upon generations. But I understand why she did it - I am of the opinion that she was surely abused by her husband and traumatized by the lack of support from her community. In short, I believe her husband (whose second wife died from the same method of suicide) was abusing her in the form of narcissistic, sociopathic, or psychopathic abuse to the point where she felt suffocated. Since she could not bring herself to break free, she suffocated herself.

And in the case of mass genocide where a person who has dedicated his life for the protection of humanity (Aaron was a serviceman of the United States Air Force) - I can see why he had to stand up for what he believed to be noble and true.

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It's hard to look away when someone so young gives up his life for a cause. I think that was precisely the point. He knew he had power as a young, white man serving a militaristic force in America.

There are so many people who are doing nothing in the face of all of these mass genocides in the world. I don't think it is fair to leave the concept of human suffering up to the higher power.

It is not the higher power's job to fix this for us. I believe that to my core.

Being silent about human suffering is being complicit in it.

I know that many people are not able - or they don't even know - to have an impact on the lessening of suffering. But we must do what we can. A quote I often quote on many, many occasions is by Angela Davis: she says: “Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.” Do something, take inspired action - don't be silent. You don't have to self-immolate, but please consider the sacrifice and the severity of the situation.

#free palestine #self immolation #cw abuse #cw suicide #cw trauma #cw war #cw genocide #cw spirituality #spirituality #war #palestine #gaza #rohingya #aaron bushnell #angela davis #humanity #hindu #hinduism #sati #jai Ma #mahadevi #Devi #sacrifice #trauma #heartbreak #harm #harm reduction

[defundthepolicedestroythegop]

The person, whom officials did not identify, is in critical condition, Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said at a news conference. The guard's condition was not immediately clear. "We believe this building remains safe, and we do not see any threat here," the chief said. "We believe that was an act of extreme political protest." The protester arrived around 12:17 p.m. at the office building, which houses the consulate as well as several businesses, and used gasoline, police said. The FBI's Atlanta office said it was coordinating with local law enforcement. The consulate and the Israeli embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

#cw suicide attempt #palestine #israel #palestinian genocide #atlanta #self immolation as protest

[simstryingtheirbestok]

How is this game still surprising me after all these years?

I would have sworn, before this, that either she or Carlos had Fireproof Homestead, but apparently not?

It started after Undine got home from dinner at the bistro, when she automously chose to sculpt with metal.

The twins were out at the Summer Festival.

Carlos was out earning the scorn of his neighbors, i.e. delivering Sing-a-Grams in the guise of Carlos Midnight.

(You can tell he's become inured to this sort of reaction, and I love that for him.)

There was no one at home to put Undine out, and the family owns neither a swimming pool nor a hot tub.

Desperate, I tried the sprinklers at the gardening station.

They didn't help at all.

Supposedly, you can direct Sims to take a shower to put themselves out--but y'all, it's been so long, I mean so so so so long, since I had a Sim on fire, that I made the mistake of clicking on one of the bathtub-only tubs instead. That gave me no options besides nraas.

With the clock running out, I canceled Carlos' next SAG engagement and sent him home to extinguish his bride. He was closer to the house than the twins were--if you play in Hidden Springs with Seasons installed, then you know that the Summer Festival is held at the Beryl Forest park, way way WAY across town from where most of the community lots are.

He didn't make it in time.

#ts3 #ts3 legacy #the sims 3 #the sims 3 legacy #planetary legacy #generation earth #sim: undine estrada #sim: taslin estrada #sim: tierney estrada #sim: carlos midnight #sim: grim reaper #cw: death #cw: immolation #cw: fire

[reachartwork]

What is a Cybersaint?

A cybersaint (pictured above 30 of the 40 days into their ascension pyre) is a form of physicalized egregore created via a critical mass of belief in a cause, concept, or individual. Upon the breaching of a particular threshold of belief, an individual bursts into flames, consumed by their "ascension pyre", which lasts for 40 days and 40 nights. During this process, their mortality is burnt away, and, through an unknown process, the burgeoning cybersaint takes their "Ascension Vows", the strictness of which determine the strength of their resulting powers.

The resulting cybersaint, should they survive the ascension pyre, is a being of immense, physics-defying power even at their weakest. The process inevitably radically alters the individual's mental state to the point where the vast majority of cybersaints willingly discard their old identities, despite possessing continuity of consciousness.

The first Cybersaint ascended during the period of extreme political and military turmoil shortly before the first Geneknight Conflicts in order to defend a heavily at-risk group of humans. Afterwards, the floodgates opened, allowing anyone to ascend with sufficient belief. Every side of the conflicts rushed to puzzle out the ascension process, leaving many dead in their wake - this was the first and only Cybersaint War, before the timely development of World Government to bring everything in line and standardize the process.

Find out more about the Cybersaints here

#cybersaint series #body horror #cw body horror #religious horror #fire #self-immolation #cw self-immolation #neocybersaint series #ai art #reachartwork #midjourney #lore #yes you spontaneously ignite if enough people believe in you. #this is a horror series after all

[kaiasky]

lots of people in my local sphere are praising bushwell's self immolation as a brave thing to do and it does kinda fuck me up. In my worst moments there is no greater comfort than the fact that if I killed myself in a specific way at a specific time then I could turn all my suffering and pain into something commendable and people would love me for my death in a way they never could in life. I think that's a little incoherent but you get what I'm saying right? I don't want to live in a world where that is an "necessary" or "beautiful" or "brave" sacrifice to make but when people refer to it as that- I'm forced to confront the fact that I do live in a world that thinks like that. That I live in a world where I really would be of more use dead. Again I'm being a bit incoherent but I felt the need to say something and get it off my chest I understand it's a complicated and touchy topic for everyone.

(re this) yeah.

idk, it's... i think we valorize lots of people for dying as a part of broader culture. war heroes, people who were assassinated, every martyred christian saint. including Jesus Fucking Christ. And so in that sense i think it's hard to blame someone for seeing somebody who killed themself and go, this is martyrdom, this is heroic, reblog reblog reblog. it hits you on a gut level.

But then like you said, you think about it and you go, oh yeah, valorizing killing yourself is a terrible thing (both morally, in that it encourages other people to consider killing themself, and politically, in that if all the most devoted fucking adherents to your movement kill themselves who will be around to fucking fight for change??)

I hope and suspect that the people who reblog this kind of stuff are simply unaware of this logic and that through having it gently pointed out to them they'll also come to see what's wrong with valorizing suicides.

Ultimately like, I think the choice to continue existing or stop existing is a decision everybody (gets/has) to make for themself, but we should do as much as possible to tip the calculus in favor of "keep existing" as possible.

It goes without saying and sounds sappy, but to all of you, you wouldn't be of use dead. if you were gone, regardless of how or why, it would be nothing other than a tragedy and a huge, irreplaceable loss.

(Tangentially related, but the only advice I've ever found that like, worked for me (ymmv) for dealing with suicidal thoughts is a post like, "alright, if you're seriously contemplating suicide, then you can do that whenever, there's no rush, it's be a waste to not fuck around before ending it, so you should 1. quit your job and become one of those cool ski bum guys who couch-surfs in the summer and works as a ski instructor in the winter, and try a year or two of that out first." And so whenever I'm doing bad, I think alright, is today the day I pull the trigger on the ski bum lifestyle? And for whatever reason that feels more extreme than suicide and so it snaps me back to "hm, maybe there are less-extreme solutions than those two")

#cw suicide #cw self immolation #thanks for the ask! #(hugging you anon. if you would like.)

[dingusdemeanour]

Day 31: Fire

There's always that one guy at the party that has to ruin it for everyone else... 🙄

And it's done! My first fully completed inktober! Yay!

#dingusdemeanour #my art #inktober 2023 #day 31: fire #the terror amc #cw: self immolation? #cw: body horror