#Redemption Storyline

[dominozee]

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[wyndlerunner]

The class issues around light and dark eyes being continued in Navani’s storyline was not something I was expecting 👀👀

I would love for it to be more of Kaladin’s story given his history but I guess if his arc is going to continue to focus on mental health instead, I’ll accept this as an alternative

Sanderson including it/showing that the class and slavery issue didn’t go away just because Jasnah said so gives me a little hope for where the series is going

[wendybergmann]

nate thinking he's coming into his own and moving out from ted's shadow only to be replacing ted with rupert to feed his need for the validation he doesn't get from his own father... honey has a big storm coming

[anthonycrowley]

funniest thing that happened after the got finale was when someone on twitter said that you’re a bad person if you wanted a well written redemption arc for jaime lannister and that’s also not how tv works or something i don’t remember the exact specifics and then you looked at his bio thinking he’s some moronic rando but no he was a staff writer or something for fucking how i met your mother. like yeah that’s exactly what i fucking thought you’d say.

[mischiefbuckley]

we lost screen time for Eddie this episode for those storylines tonight like Tim I hope you redeem yourself next episode because seriously what even was that a whole lot of nothing a whole lot of nothing 🙃

[wizardofahz]

Saw a Criminal Minds gifset and suddenly started thinking about canon vs. fanon JJ.

TL; DR: Fanon JJ is the facade canon JJ puts on to hide trauma.

(This discusses JJ's sister, so content warning for suicide)

The obvious starting point for understanding JJ's characterization is her sister's suicide. That's a traumatic event for anyone, and even more so for an eleven year old child. So it's quite understandable that JJ decides she will do whatever she can to avoid experiencing hurt like that again.

In episode 3.17, JJ tells Will about their relationship, "I didn't want to tell anyone because the minute I do it becomes real, and when it becomes real, people get hurt, and I've always run from getting hurt. Always."

But JJ didn't only lose her sister.

In episode 14.12, JJ's mom admits, "I got so caught up in all my troubles that I forgot there was another little girl under my roof who had just lost her sister. You needed me, and I wasn't there."

At eleven years old, JJ was a traumatized child without a support system. So she learned to rely on herself. Other people were just avenues for hurt, and she decided that wasn't worth it.

All of which leads to this confession from JJ in the season 14 finale: "There are only four people I trust in this world."

My three non-negotiables are Will, Hotch, and Emily. The fourth is between Reid and Garcia, but I lean towards the former given Garcia's penchant for invading people's privacy.

Even if anyone disagrees with that list, there's not a lot of room for choice. At any given time, the BAU usually has seven members, and given the amount of turnover they've had, JJ hasn't learned to trust most of them.

Do they know that? They probably know her facade masks trauma, but I doubt they know the extent of it. There's a reason that episode starts with the team playing poker, and JJ showing Reid he doesn't know her as well as he thinks he does.

So let's talk about that facade. In contrast to Reid, who wears his trauma on his sleeve, JJ buries hers as deeply as she can. She takes care of the people around her, and while it's not disingenuous, it's part of a prettily painted reinforced fortress wall that says, "hey, look at me, such a put-together person that doesn't have problems of my own, so I can help with yours."

And it does the job because it has fandom fooled too.

[eternallog]

Have I been this way before?

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Kiki, my beloved dark urge!! Sorcerer/Paladin

King of charisma, really chill and honest guy with the creepiest grey eyes you've seen D:

[chutkiandchotte]

Why is ITV/desi TV (and in fact even Turkish TV) obsessed with reforming abusive men and rapists?

It seems so counter intuitive isn't it? Especially when you recall these are all almost always romance based stories - its women writing, watching, and loving them. Rapist/abusive male leads in stories written by men are almost always unrepentant protagonists and the rape/abuse is never the point. Its women who nurture the fantasy of bringing an evil violent misogynist to heel.

I think its because these stories of an abuser/rapist or someone who stood by watched/allowed as you were abused/raped being secretly a good, kind person who reforms because of YOU, weave a very powerful and addictive fantasy. Acts like rape and abuse are so commonplace yet so inhumane, so monstrous to endure and comprehend, that its an addictive thought to believe that if only, we can explain our pain to the perpetrators, they will feel the full extent of the pain too, and they will stop doing what they are doing and be on our side. Its also immensely addictive because in this fantasy, victims have power. They reform the rapist/abusers. Their words are heard, accepted and understood, by the very person who refused to treat them even as a human at a certain point.

No one wants to talk about how being a surviver of SA, one of the worst things you grapple with is accepting how someone else could ever do that to you. How you start blaming yourself that you must have done something to induce this other person to commit such a cruelty. Making sense of what happened sometimes means blaming yourself, and sometimes it means making a temple out of your prison, just so that you can reconcile the horrific facts with your daily lived reality. And there's no single woman living in our society who hasn't experience abuse, rape, sexual assault, discrimination, powerlessness, exploitation in some form or the other. Is this why women love the violence is love fantasy so very very much?

Unfortunately, it is just that, a fantasy. Overwhelmingly, statistically, rapists and abusers do not reform. The best chance for a rape victim to heal and move on is to get justice and stay away from those who harmed her for the rest of her life. And the best chance of an actual reformation of an abuser - as rare as it is - is also to stay away from his victims or anyone of that type - the same way an alcoholic is advised to stay away from alcohol.

That's what makes it such a dangerous and insidious fantasy - while it is a comforting thought to imagine oneself so powerful as to have truly reformed one's own abuser, to actually pursue such a course in real life leads victim straight back into the arms of their abusers and rapists, and keeps them there until they die, most often horrifically.

[the-prima-vista]

I can't get over people going on about Solas' redemption ending as though it's the best outcome, like... he only agrees to "atone" because he's LOST. If he had won that fight, he would have gone ahead with exactly what he wanted. At no point has he ever considered what he could actually do to help all the people he's wronged, he just wants to fix his own mistake (the Veil).

And to say that his is the best redemption in Dragon Age? When Blackwall is right there? Blackwall gets less content and has a much better redemption arc than Solas could ever dream of. Blackwall makes the decision himself to accept the consequences of what he did, even if those consequences mean death, and he's angry with an Inquisitor who takes those consequences from him. But if he is allowed to live? He then spends the rest of his life making up for his actions. Solas doesn't even consider other options until Rook's holding a dagger to his throat.

[heavenlyvixen]

This moment. This moment right here!

I think we, as an audience, were rooting for Portia to redeem herself throughout the season. After being chewed out by Colin “my wife” Bridgerton, she seemed to realise her error and was trying so hard to be better. She was slowly redeeming herself, even if she had some setbacks along the way. But in this moment the redemption was complete.

However misguided, and she was spectacularly misguided, she loves her girls. All her actions were her attempt to ensure better lives for all of them. That was how she showed her love.

Portia had made a million and one mistakes. But in this moment, this incredible moment, she stood by her baby’s side, ready and willing to face the Queen herself. She was willing to take on all of England for her girl. Her brave, smart, tenacious girl. There is fear, yes, but above all else there is determination. No matter what happens, she’s staying right by Penelope’s side. If she goes down, Portia’s going down with her.

[sonknuxadow]

theres multiple reasons i dont like s/urgeamy but one of the things ive seen people do with it that annoys me a bit is the idea that surge and kit are going to become good because surge is gonna fall in love with amy and thats gonna be her only motivation to change.. and im sorry but am i the only one who thinks it would suck so bad for such fun antagonists to instantly switch sides just because one of them was "fixed" by romance and no other reason

[assassin-artist]

my drow: sees sunlight for the first time in her life also my drow: immediately begins collecting animals

[parisofpeoplez]

I feel like Love Next Door has been dragging since ep 5.....

I wouldn't have minded it tbh if only the payoff would have been good smh

What I would have given for Syeok-ryu to pine over him and confess first aaaaaaa

Anyhoo I hope the confession scene actually has some depth to it when the ep starts tom, since they ended it at 'I like you'.

[cocoabubbelle-newblog]

My personal opinion

Spoilers

Marvel Writers: Hank McCoy/Beast is irredeemable. He is a despicable villain. The version you will see in the upcoming comics is a clone of himself with only up to his mid-1980s memories/portrayal. If original Beast does come back, it will still be as a villain and he can never come back to the original team as a hero. He has no one to blame but himself.

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