#karmic balance

[welcometoteyvat]

“Did… did you know Shenhe before?” They are sitting near the edge of a small lake in Minlin, and Chongyun is diligently studying a blade of grass. He does not look at Xiao.

“I heard about her occasionally, from Cloud Retainer. We have met briefly.” He wonders what Chongyun wants to hear. If the boy assumes they’re close… well, then he has forgotten the most important rule governing Xiao’s life, the one that colors all his relationships. Involvement with mortals has never ended well. Despite all Shenhe’s unusual blessings and worse misfortunes, she is no different.

“Oh.” He must not have given the right answer, because Chongyun’s brow stays furrowed, and he fiddles with his black fingerless sleeves absentmindedly. “I just wondered— if you knew what she’s been up to, these past years?”

“Are you very worried about her?” Chongyun looks at him now, and maybe Xiao’s gaze is still too piercing, still not gentle enough, because his eyes flick away again, hesitant.  

“She… is studying under Cloud Retainer, and the last time we talked, her master was very proud of her accomplishments. As far as I am aware, she has done well for herself—you need not be concerned.”

“Really? That’s good, then.” Chongyun’s face melts into a small smile, a tender ray of sunshine. This response, and the thought that he has successfully lightened some of Chongyun’s apprehension, leaves Xiao oddly gratified. “The elders are very enthusiastic about having her rejoin the clan… but, perhaps it might be better to properly talk first. I barely know her, even after she helped me, and she still doesn’t know me. I just—don’t want to make her feel uncomfortable.” So, this is the root of Chongyun’s troubles. He is still so kind.

“You need not worry.” Chongyun looks at him again, and his doubt is written across his face. Xiao cannot explain it—it is simply something he knows, in his bones. Despite his trouble finding spirits and seeing through pranks, Chongyun will not have any difficulty making his aunt feel welcomed.

“I am somewhat familiar with Shenhe’s story. She—” reminds Xiao of himself? “She is both reasonable and forthright, even though she does not dwell in your mortal society. You have—” you have the same tenacity, and a heart of clear water, and a warm soul, and those are surely enough—“I know you will get along.”

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on ao3

#this is 400 words exactly. wasn't 100 bc i kept going over the exact mark and being like ehhhh i still have more things to say so it's fine #<- still struggled massively trying to get it to an exact multiple of 100 #ok i looked on ao3 and IT IS NOT 400 WORDS WTF. whatever i hate my life #biting winds drabbles #there are many things i am not satisfied with but . here you go. have the blorbos #chongyun #xiao #xiaoyun #kinda ???????????? #karmic balance #genshin impact #genshin xiao #teyvat thoughts #魈重 #genshin impact fic

[team-frightfur]

Yuna coming out as straight halfway through the Gayest Yugioh Character Tournament is the evil version of Yuhi coming out as gay after losing the prelims.

#go rush spoilers #karmic balance #equivalent exchange

[bobowhips-blog]

さっきの空だ。もう明るくなってしまったが

#sailor moon #moon and sun #buddy daddy spoilers #karmic balance #bobowhips #authentic #originalart

[thehindudeities]

The Benefits of Worshipping Shani Devta: A Guide to Spiritual Transformation

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#Benefits of Worshipping Shani Devta #Challenges #Cosmic Judge #Discipline #Fairness #Hindu Mythology #humility #Inner Growth #Justice #Karmic Balance #law of karma #Lord Shani #Overcoming obstacles #Personal Growth #Saturn #Self-Control #Shani Devta #Spiritual Transformation

[wisteriagoesvroom]

I humbly request a snippet from your ominously vague emoji poll🔫

from my white whale fic, the lestappen bond au i was meant to do for the kinkmeme (and probably still should)

via the vague emoji poll 😂 which I hadn’t intended to originally post snippets for but what the hell why not

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Charles leans in. Max thinks that this might be it, when the other agent tells him what is really going through that clever mind of his, what secrets he is hiding. The thing he has carried with him like armour, pretended to be bigger than, pretended that he is beyond mortal coil.

Charles’s voice is low, susurrated.

“I wish I didn’t care so much about you.”

“Nobody asked you to.”

Charles smiles into the side of Max’s neck. When he sighs, it’s content, the sound of someone who feels safe and protected. Max is not sure when he was able to put enough of his own interests aside to be that person to someone, because he is not someone who grew up taught to put others first. But in this moment, it feels right, and it feels good.

“We could leave all this.” Max says. “Run. Go somewhere.”

Charles presses his palms into Max’s chest, firm there where his gaze isn’t.

“And be what?” Charles says.

“I don’t know. You could paint. I could… hunt.”

“You would play house with me?”

“For a little while.”

Charles’s gaze goes watery. Max stares back, willing him to feel what he is feeling, see how they could move the chess pieces around so that the two rooks wouldn’t need to be sacrificed. Just once, they could be kings.

“For a little while,” Charles repeats. “I like that idea.”

#lestappen #1633 #3316 #<- my god I haven’t used these tags in FOREVER #wiz.wips #my OG otp i actually miss you v much #and i should return to you #in karmic compensation I should write a super fluffy fic to balance out the angsssstt #asks #lestappen u will always be famous!!! #thank u Lo for asking abt this btw

[lovelydwyn]

When two powerful beings who have done a lot of healing come together in sacred partnership, it illuminates the world.

Erika Elmuts

#erika elmuts #tarot #october #twin flame journey #soulmates #sacred union #divine masculine #divine feminine #spiritual awakening #healing #love #twinflame #karmic cleansing #twin flame #oracle #sacred feminine #tarot messages #balance

[stuckinnet]

the universe saw the raw homosexuality of sid wearing speedos while he flirts with european men on holiday and gave us the raging homophobia of the nhl banning pride tape

#karmic balance and i hate it #sidney crosby #pittsburgh penguins #homophobia tw #hockey

[karmaismyfriend]

Remember what you give out you will get it back 💜

Karma is about how to balance the scales💜

☮️💟☯️

#positivity #positive thinking #be your best self #be your best you #beautiful women #bepositive #beyoualways #empoweredwomen #strong women #manifestation #karma is a relaxing thought #karmic cycle #karma's a bitch #what you give out you will get back #you reap what you sow #balance #liars #clout chasing #manipulative #pr relationships #pr shitshow

[stealthnoodle]

Quick Gronch-posting on main! His ranks continue to dwindle.

Clear eye, full heart, free dick, can't lose. I respecced The Gronch to better reflect his approach to life.

I wouldn't want this motherfucker accidentally succeeding in too many social situations, after all. I regret only that this means he blew his chance to do something that I imagine would have been extremely funny in Act 3:

Out of spite, he's keeping the actual githyanki egg. Will it hatch? Who knows! I sure hope so! Cutscene animations suggest that he stores his stuff in his kidneys, so there's some real Alien potential.

The Gronch also for obvious reasons could not deescalate the situation between Shadowheart and Lae'zel at camp, so I found myself pondering which character's life The Gronch was best positioned to fuck up beyond repair. So I made an informed decision, and then I discovered, to my delight, that you can rename and tweak the appearance of the hirelings.

Anyway, then I got the non-standard game over where Vlaakith wishes you to death. And I got it twice, because it's actually quite difficult to get The Gronch through that scene alive without getting too OOC.

I am also feeling so bad for Astarion, whose relationship status is still Very High despite the fact that The Gronch acts like the bad boyfriend in a Lifetime movie. Everyone who's ever been in this party should be calling some kind of hotline.

I think the enslaved gnomes at Grymforge might be the only people whose situation has been improved by The Gronch so far. I mean, he didn't help them or anything, but he killed all the duerger after he got caught stealing a trap disarming kit and didn't want to pay 50g to smooth things over, went to bed, and woke up to find the rubble cleared, Nere dead, and no sign of the gnomes. Heroism!

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers #stealthnoodle plays bg3 #gif #video #is the glimpse of flaccid dragonborn dick nsfw? that's up to you and your place of business #astarion has had one (1) good time in my playthroughs and it was with his platonic bff durge lisa frank #someday i need to play through with wyll as my origin character and let this wretched little man have a healthy romantic relationship #and also let wyll have a relationship with someone who won't repeatedly cheat on him before dumping him to fuck a bear #wyllstarion as karmic balance

[creekfiend]

I went to the vet yesterday and had the following interaction which I now in retrospect recognize as Evil

Me: Hi I'm here to pick up meds for Lambchop

Vet receptionist #1: Oh that reminds me of that show I watched as a kid!

Vet receptionist #2: What show? Was it a cartoon

Me: No like puppets.

Vet receptionist #1: Yeah Lambchop! And there were songs

Vet receptionist #2: I don't know what show you're talking about

Me: Hmmm... like you know the song that doesn't end?

Vet receptionist #2: No...

Vet receptionist #1: THIS IS THE SONG THAT DOESNT END

Me: *takes my meds and exits the building thus leaving vet receptionist #2 alone with the chaos I have wraught*

#SORRY MA'AM #lambchop the dog #then again receptionist number one was SO DELIGHTED to get to sing the song thay doesnt end #maybe it balances out #like karmically #karmicly?

[impishglee]

my post where i was mostly just whinging abt The Nuclear Family nearly blowing up before i killed it in the cradle did have the side effect of making people click my blog and see my webnovel. w

#karmic balance restored to my activity tab

[orchideae]

I have so very much to catch up on, my sincerest apologies, seriously— there's been mental madness going on behind the scenes, including this weekend. Please, let December be the month where normality starts and stays.

And on a more IC note, I often talk about solitude and isolation (and its origins in a very specific kind of loneliness) that is chosen and accepted, but I don't know if I ever talk about what that looks like exactly, and why, quite frankly, it's a little... for lack of a better word, concerning. Do me a favor, if you're in Genshin, turn your clock to nighttime, then go out into any of the cities, villages, camps, footholds and look up, no matter the nation you're in. How many characters are able to do that, and see a night sky that is nothing but void of any and all bounds and limitations? How many of them see that endless array of stars that illuminate it, and how many feel the cool fresh air that tickles their skin? For many, they can leave the four walls that house them, and experience that sight and sensation, because all of us to an extent, crave that. And honestly, so can Yelan— but she also, if not more often so, chooses to see something else. And the unusual concept of choosing that, is a driving force to my decisions for her and why I deem them so incredibly important: it's about the state of mind, it's about the mental that drives her.

On many days and nights especially, this is what she sees, and this is only if she doesn't descend further into the Chasm (which we know that she does), closer to the Abyss and to the Celestial nail itself that rests at its heart. And yes, it is beautiful in its own way, a pathway illuminated by the light of the moon and the nail, but it's also a cruel reminder of just how far the surface, and humans that live there (that she is by all accounts a part of, of course), are. But then, when she returns her gaze to the ground, her surroundings are void of light and dare I say, void of hope. The Chasm isn't just one of the places where you can get the closest to the Abyss, but it also consists of ruins of more than just one civilization. We see glimpses of Khaenri'ah (which we explore more closely through Dain's quest), but we know there is 'fauna' down there, even deeper, that is referenced as belonging to an even more ancient civilization that predated it. The Chasm is surrounded by reminders of death, ruin, and in that, it feels as if it's the direct foil of the world above it. The Chasm was almost the end of Liyue five-hundred years ago during the fall of Khaenri'ah, just as it had, apparently, once been to a civilization before it (please remember, the impact of the meteorite/fallen star that created the Chasm occurred roughly 6000 years ago), and its creatures wouldn't have stopped at its borders. The Chasm is the engulfing darkness in direct opposition to the light of life overhead, and the hope that humanity holds in the palms of its hands. It's dark, it's grim, and it's cold in more ways than one (See one, two, three, four).

And this place is a choice that Yelan makes to venture to and stay in, yes, yet calling it a choice is where it gets so interesting. Once upon a time, long before she got her vision, she was part of a team that surveyed the surroundings of the Chasm, and like many others before them that have descended into it, all members of this team, excluding her, died. The circumstances aren't clear, but following Yelan's line to Ning, I'm lead to believe that the Chasm's surroundings, which are all rather clearly threats to non-vision holders in specific (which Yelan also was at the time), were directly responsible for their demise. I'll note my hypothesis on what could have happened to them in a different post in the future, as I don't want to go far off-topic, but despite having likely witnessed what occurred to them, seeing the ruins of the Chasm, the threat of the Abyss and barely understanding what the Abyss even is, she continues to venture down there because the possibility of what could happen to the people of Liyue, is more important than her own existence and/or survival. And this bears even more weight following the events of Perilous Trail part 2, where she witnessed just how much the Chasm is capable of. Is this walking engima of a woman also drawn to equal or greater mystery than herself, much like a moth to a flame? I think that's part of it, but I definitely think it's infinitely more multi-layered.

Mostly, I think that this plays into the heart of what Fontaine has shown us that 'hydro' seems to represent: it's not merely a sense of responsibility (and/or justice) or selflessness, but a semblance of self-sacrifice either during the duration of one's life or at its end, either literally or figuratively. But keeping that in mind, what I really want to shine a spotlight on, is what kind of self-sacrifice seems to be the case with Yelan, and the way in which she seems to not just be at peace with it, but has truly accepted it almost as something akin to normality. And more importantly, note how this isn't normal behavior. An acceptance of solitude in such depressing surroundings is incredibly saddening, because it's not something that we ever crave by any means or should ever come to crave. Any regular individual, even most vision-holders surely, would find what she does insane to some extent. And yet, she walks the depths of the Chasm, of all places, with a similar routine as a Millelith guard patrols the outskirts of the harbor. Regardless of her clear reason for it— god, I have difficulty explaining what I'm trying to say; how does someone get to a point where they no longer do something so depressing out of necessity, but because it's... normal? That's her. The Chasm isn't... as eerie to her as it is to others, even if she knows better than most what these surroundings are; the Chasm it isn't as dangerous, even if she knows that it is and it's why she's there in the first place, to her as it is to others. Perhaps it's simply an acceptance that regardless of its dangers, that her fate lies in those depths as it did for her ancestors, that the Chasm's ruins will include her own legacy one day. But again, how does one come to terms with that? How do you come to make the decision that you will sacrifice yourself for others, especially when it means resigning yourself to a place like the Chasm, a place that is home to a pathway to the Abyss, which inherently holds the power to drive mortals to madness and death. Many wouldn't do this, or rather, many couldn't do this, not until they had no other choice and even then, think of Boyang, and even Bosacius, granted the latter had lost his mind by then. And that's where I think she's unique, because she technically has a choice, unlike individuals like Xiao whose... direct 'responsibility' and contract it is to do what he does. She could walk away tomorrow if she willed it, but she doesn't. Yes, responsibility plays into it, but the Chasm really hits differently when you tie it into that.

Now, I do need to note that I firmly stand against any believe that she a death wish or is thoroughly depressed. She isn't going down there over and over because she seeks an end to her life in some way or because she believes her life to be worthless. Quite the contrary, actually, and one could argue that the reasoning for that lies with her survivor's guilt. But all in all, before I get sidetracked again: Yelan embraces solitude to a rather extreme extent, and yet she doesn't seem to harbor a dissociation from the rest of humanity or dislike of it, but she does seem to place a firm line between non-allogenes and herself (and others who hold a vision). But what I mean with embracing solitude, is that while she is social, and she understands the laws and diplomacy of social behavior, she isn't one to always engage in it, simply because many don't seem to quite... share her headspace.

#[ meta. ] the chances are if i open this door; there can be no witnesses left alive. is that a sufficient reason for you? #[ honestly this is the biggest mess; but i've wanted to touch on this for a while even while this is a mess. ] #[ it's just the concept of-- there's a difference between dynamics where this on surface-level doesn't matter so much. ] #[ but it does explain the differences beween /some/ dynamics and most. xiao and yelan is one of them-- ] #[ but with xiao there's arguably the concept of karmic debt and how dangerous it is to non-allogenes. ] #[ and this sense of solitude is inherently ingrained in him in vastly different ways. but there /are/ some similarities. ] #[ but all in all-- this for example also plays into why i can only ship yelan at present with wriothesley. ] #[ and it's mostly because of the way his life seems to have led him to make a similar decision of likely staying in the meropide... ] #[ for the rest of his life. that's a specific type of decision to make that i think many couldn't make as easily. ] #[ not saying he made it as easily-- but it's this concept of... i think the only ones who really would understand are the ones... ] #[ who are able to make a similar decision or have already. i don't think every characer's 'loneliness' should be supplemented... ] #[ or 'fixed' by another's or someone who's the opposite. it needs to hit right; it needs to click just right for me. ] #[ and this one does. ] #[ it's the similarities with /just/ enough differences that you create a balance in which there's a semblance of peace. ] #[ but a peace that isn't constant. ] #[ i don't know how to word-- i just. 😭 one day you guys will get a proper meta from me on this. ]

[bobowhips-blog]

Hilltop Thailand

#artists on tumblr #sun and moon show #sailor moon #looks to the moon #karmic balance #karma

[haganez]

i just don’t wanna like some characters bc people are annoying about them. not their fault tho but i have a hard enough time as it is

#i would love to look more into kaveh but i cannot fathom willingly putting myself thru that #if u notice im childes and silica biggest haters it’s also cause of this. Karmic balance #WHYS IT CORRECT TO SILLICA? DILUC.

[cryoexorcist]

SOMETHING I TOTALLY MISSED OVER THE FEAST SEGMENT

Chongyun is protected from the negative karma thanks to his yang energy.

Xiao can't hurt him, because that means their energies canonically cancel each other out

#/ ᴅɪsᴄɪᴘʟɪɴᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʙᴀʟᴀɴᴄᴇ ᴄᴏɴǫᴜᴇʀs ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ / headcanon #THIS IS ACTUALLY CANON I'M SO EXCITED #god i love this #chongyun and xiao being both yin and yang and being each other's balance makes me feel all the emotions #i know chongyun followed it up with “it's not the same” #but i feel like it kinda is? #if chongyun's energy is based on positive + elements #and the karmic debt is negative #then chongyun's energy CAN protect him from xiao's energy #it's vaguely hinted at but chongyun's energy #probably actually does soothe xiao #at least to some extent

[lionheartapothecaryx]

Happy Friday Beloved Patrons ✨💜

Todays message is about cultivating inner balance within. You may have been seeing 11:11 or 11 lately and it’s a call for you to sit back and reflect on upon your inner wisdom.

Are there any karmic lessons that you should be learning from currently ? And what can you take away from them.

Today we are encouraging you to practice mindfulness and openness. Take the time today to find one way to spread joy and happiness with others in your space.

Peace & All Love Always 💜

Lyonessa

#hoodoo #messages from spirit #inner balance #zen #peaceofmind #black femininity #haitianvodou #leveling up #witches of color #pagan community #black history month #bipoc mental health #karmic lessons #the love witch #self love #black owned business #daily tarot