#on sin

[opossum-handz]

[winged-thinged]

Failure is not an existential threat to you. Sin doesn't exist.

Your flaws and mistakes can't separate you from the rest of the Universe. You exist, and you will until you're dead. Nothing else can make you be no longer a part the world, because you are it and it is you. And even when you die, the atoms that built you will remain here. You're not something different than the insects and the birds and the dirt under your feet.

Failure is a part of being on earth. Everyone does it. It's a neutral feature. When you fail, you might learn something, you might unlock a new experience or a new opportunity, or it might just hurt. And that's where the consequences end. There is no punishment coming for you. We are all there is.

[two-bees-poetry]

a sonnet for the bitten fruit

One of several Francesca-themed poems I'm writing for a final project!

[thequotablescollector]

"Sin... is when you treat people like things. Including yourself." – Granny Weatherwax (Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum)

[palaceoftears]

Honestly I really liked the ending for my favourite characters, I love how it ties On Sin's original ambitions with Yi Suen, the only girlie that gets to escape the palace and start a new life, an amazing final for someone that never lived for herself. I also liked the contrast between Hung Mo not wanting to save the concubines-to-be on the first ep and then saving my girlies in the last one (was it needed for On Sin to die tho? Nope, but at least it gave us her brilliant words to Yi Suen on the road, truly my favourite scene of the show). For the rest, it was really meh, I never got the yuk ying x suen bak yeung thingie so seeing them burn didn't really impact me sorry gcssr. Same with the empress surviving, she was such an one dimensional villain that it didn't bring me any of the anger I saw in the comments. Then Yue Yuet staying because living in the palace is all she's known to do it's really sad but I totally get it, she's been there for +10 years and lost two babies so she's way too consumed by her grief to "start a new life", as On Sin puts it:

(also loling to the fact that Yi Suen is going to rebuild her life at On Sin's village and raise the emperor's son as a villager?? Jsjajq this show never cared for that guy)

[dysphoresque]

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones.

George Orwell, 1984

But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

[tenderloincherub]

don’t mind me, it’s just aurora embodying the whole religious angst experience, singing “not a sinner, she’s a lover” and “lord, you keep me crawling on my knees” and “why do I keep begging like an animal? maybe it is because I need to serve someone” and “come and feel the love like a sinner” and “I was given a name before I was given blood, like you were given your faith before there was made a god” and “the innocent life is never enough for the ones who love” and “this is why we live like heathens, stealing from the trees of eden, living in the arms of freedom and everything we touch is evil” and “there’s beauty in your beast, the flesh in the fruit and the blood in the wine” and “if I’m not pure, I guess that I’m too much” and “if I’m loved, I guess that I’m cursed” and “be God in the shape of a girl who walks this world” and “if there’s a God, would he then believe in us?” and “father, don’t blame us for trying to bleed like real human beings” and “does it hurt how I don’t look at you with fear? Do you like to watch me kneel?” and “