#TOM IS REDEEMED

[the-owl-tree]

i promise i won’t make a habit of this but look a bad take about bumble is a bad take i have to wield my blade against. she was being threatened and beaten!! the scene where they reject her she’s pleading for safety from her abuser!!!! the moor cats weren’t concerned about turtle tail they literally just thought about how fat and useless bumble was and it was framed as a good thing

[wolha]

REDEEMING LOVE 2022, dir. D.J. Caruso

[kathrahender]

Some people always get angry when a villain is redeemed. They say things like "Stop redeeming the villain" "Villain redemption is such a terrible trope" "Not all villains deserve redemption" "Villains redemption are ruining media" "You are afraid of villanous characters because you can't bear people making mistakes" "Villain redemption is toxic/unhealthy" "You shouldn't try to fix someone!" and- Well- I have to talk about this because I seriously don't understand why people don't want to accept villains redemption.

"Villain redemption is such a terrible trope" "Villains redemption are ruining media". No, it's not a bad trope. Is not ruining media. It's an awesome trope, a wholesome trope, and I'm gonna say why. A villain redemption means nothing more than a person realizing they did bad things. It means a villain becoming a better person, a villain leaving the Dark Side because humanity and honor were more important than evilness and cruelty for them. And that's a beautiful concept. A villain becoming good? A villain who stops being bad because after all, they have a good side, because they are human? Where's the bad thing there? Where's the bad thing in realizing how much pain you've caused, and changing your morals for good? Seriously, people who hate villains redemption, where's the problem in this trope?

"Not all villains deserve redemption". Again with this tiring argument. When will you understand it? A villain redemption is not based on if they deserve it or not. It's based on the villain himself. It's based on their thoughts, on their morals. It's based on them changing from "I want to hurt/kill everyone who is against me" to "Oh God I'm a monster, what have I done?". Villains don't "deserve" redemption. They just redeem, or they don't, and it has nothing to do with "deserving" it. Some of you could think "Not all villains should be redeemed then!". I will talk about that argument in the last paragraph.

"You are afraid of villanous characters because you can't bear people making mistakes". That's definitely not true. That's bullshit. We're not afraid of people making mistakes. If that was true, we would be afraid of a hero making mistakes. And we aren't afraid of heroes who make mistakes. Because making mistakes makes you human. But- realizing you made a mistake also makes you human. That's what we like about this trope. A bad person, a villain or an anti-villain being actually human deep down.

"Villain redemption is toxic/unhealthy!" Actually- you know what's actually toxic? Hate. Hate is actually toxic. Hating someone is unhealthy. Of all the things you can do in your life, hating someone is the worst thing you can do. Why losing time hating when you can do better things for your heart and for your soul? Because the only thing you will get with hate is your heart/soul corrupted. A villain redeemed is not toxic nor unhealthy. Why a person changing for the better would be toxic or unhealthy?

"You shouldn't try to fix someone". Why? Why shouldn't I try to fix someone? Why shouldn't I want a bad person to turn good? Why shouldn't I want a villain becoming a hero? Why should I want the hate in this world to grow? Why should I want evilness to win? What you're saying doesn't make any sense. I want to fix villains because I believe in goodness! Because I want the good side to win! I want people having a happy ending, and the only way a villain can get a happy ending is being redeemed. And I want the villains to have a happy ending too because dying or getting tortured/being imprisioned after being suffering in your past is horrible. Yeah, I know villains hurt people, but some of them also were hurt, and although I don't justify them, I still want their pain to end and I want them to live, not just survive. I want them to change for the good, why is that so bad?

And even if they were "born evil" (what I doubt because for me villains are made not born) and "didn't suffered"- I want them to have a happy ending after redeeming because I want to believe in their goodness, in their humanity, and I don't want them to die because I think they also deserve a second chance in life and a chance to be happy (because if you can't be happy in this life, what's even the point?).

"But why would you want a villain having a happy ending after all they did????" Because I don't want them to suffer. "They made other people suffer, why would you want them to have a happy ending?" Because I believe no one deserves to have a bad ending in life. "So you defend the monsters in real life??? You support the real killers?? You are a murder apologist!!" Now hold on a fucking second. There's a fucking difference between liking a villain in fiction and want them to have a happy ending and want the real life villains to have a happy ending. Fiction is not fucking reality and you should know that. I want villains in fiction to redeem because I want to believe in their goodness, because I want to believe everyone is capable of being good, because I want to believe love and goodness can conquer all. Because I want to believe that no matter what, the good side will always win. Besides, most of the villains live in magic worlds, where sometimes death is not permanent, where you can see your loved ones even if it's not for a long time. And in fiction time-travel also exist. None of these things happen in reality. There's no magic, there's no time turner who can help you travel back in time to erase the villain's actions, there aren't Force Ghosts of your family or friends. Real life villains' actions are irrevocable and unforgivable. You can't bring back the dead because in this world once a person dies, that's the end of the line. But that doesn't happen in fiction. So stop comparing a real life villain actions with a fictional villain actions. They're not the same.

To end this post I want to say that the ones who like villains redemption (I'm a part of those people, of course) don't want all villains to be redeemed. There are villains we hate with all our heart, villains who are pure evil who doesn't deserve anything good. Villains like Gerard Argent, Dolores Umbridge, Sheev Palpatine, Captain Turner, Sebastian Shaw and Azulon. And more villains like those. So yeah, we do not want to see every villain redeemed.

[in-love-with-movies]

Redeeming Love (2022)

[stackofstories]

as a kid i don’t think i really understood the gravity of PJO being about kids. stripping down all the supernatural stuff, it’s so easy to see that the kids are surviving and responding to their environment. As an adult, I think about Ares’s kids being so angry and bloodthirsty and so mean and you can blame domineering rage filled Dad for that one. I think about Athena’s kids where nothing is ever good enough for their perfectionist mother so of course they overcompensate, they are a know it alls, they can’t tolerate failure, how rigid and fixed they are in perspective. I think about Hephaestus’s kids and good they are with their hands, how witty and defensive they are, how shy they are with compliments, how they let their work speak for them because everyone calls their father ugly, a mistake, a laughingstock. I think about Aphrodite’s kids and their feigned incompetence when it comes to battles and logic, how they choose partners based on adoration, how they trade secrets on looking the best, how they struggle to say no because Mom says love is enough and you’ll only matter if everyone thinks you’re pretty. I could go on… idk, I just think all these kids deserve a break because they’re doing their best and moving forward in the world the best way they know how.

[timetravellingshinigami]

That time Marvel did a collab with Bleach and Tite Kubo drew Aizen in the same style of Lokis first poster.

[bonefall]

I don’t know if the Erin’s are romanticizing abuse, don’t realize they’re writing it, or both because this is genuinely getting concerning

They’ve written how many abusive husbands and then said that those husbands are actually great people who deserve everything?

Well, let's apply Occam's Razor. Which of these makes the most sense;

The writing team has accidentally written at least 3 (more like 5) realistic depictions of domestic abuse, and just happen to be consistently more sympathetic to the men in the relationships, and find that romantic involvement makes a character humanizing in general Or

The writing team has a warped perception of what healthy love is supposed to look like, and think that the behaviors they depict are normal and just part of relationships.

I think the phrase "romanticizing abuse" is kind of unhelpful tbh, because it's not totally accurate. Most people believe they're doing the right thing. It's not likely that they KNOW what they're doing is destructive, and are secretly twirling an evil mustache as they write it into a teenage cat book series in the hopes of making more victims.

It's not entirely romanticism/glorification, it's deeper. It's the idea that these behaviors are normal, understandable, and they as writers either a total disinterest in the internal lives of the victims (Turtle, Bumble) or the desire to "explore" the relationship as if both sides are on equal footing/mutually toxic (Squilf)

And Tom... Tom's redemption ties into the narrative about blood that DOTC tells. It says that having children produces a goodness in men, and biological connection (even to people you don't know) is an intrinsic, sometimes tragic fact of life. The only time Tom ever does something that wasn't actively malicious was saving his daughter, Sparrow Fur.

For that, and that alone, he is redeemed. And thus deserves a cutesy reward in his afterlife.

[elijones94]

🦜 “Why am I NOT surprised?!”~ Iago 🕌✨

[thenonbinarydetective]

Everything I’ve said about trinity is right. She is such a dogshit character Jesus fucking Christ

Genuinely if you like her you hate Wonder Woman. That’s it. I won’t believe anything else

[tragically-but-finnally-yours]

i never would have been able to take voldemort seriously. like what do you mean that you couldn’t kill a toddler? you want me to devote my life to you but a baby bested you??

[fagbearentertainment]

Also Toffee is one of the best Disney cartoon villains of all time I will forever be salty that they ditched him in the last two seasons even tho he would’ve played perfectly in the story stuff they did there

[akanothere]

The Tomione same age/peaceful/crack AU in my head

1) Tom Riddle Sr. wasn’t forced/bewitched like he was in canon but a very drunk night with Merope Gaunt

2) He still disliked the Wizarding world but fire whiskey? That shit was GOOD (wouldn’t admit tho)

3) Sometimes dragged along to the Potters (technically the Gaunts and Potters are relatives)… where he would only speak to Lily, Arthur, Mrs and Mr Granger lmao

4) Bought Arthur a muggle grill Tom Sr. wouldn’t tell him he considered him a friend

5) “You will only marry normal…” *elbowed in the ribs by Merope* “… OUCH! Muggleborn or muggle.” to his son

6) lucky you sir your son was actually into one muggleborn ahem ahem

7) “So the Grangers are dentists? Not bad.” STOP BEING SNOBBISH

8) Tom sr. facing one of the biggest life decisions— rooting for Ron Weasley his buddy’s son or his own son

9) “I gave you my good looks. Make use of it.” Thanks dad very helpful no wonder Tom Jr was an arrogant ass like you

10) actually teared up when Tom Jr. boarded Hogwarts Express for the first time murmuring his son should go to Et0n not SCOTLAND while Merope was sobbing too but son in Scotland= more romantic time with husband she couldn’t complain

[ficquotesviaao3]

”An ode to the Marauders Four friends who walked these halls before And left your map herein Whose influence I still can feel Reflected in my grin I solemnly swear – and always shall – To heed your sacred oath I am up to no good – and always will be - Me and my brother, both For what is life without a laugh? Without a bit of fun? Like the sky so vast above Devoid of moon or sun Messrs who once, paved the path For hijinks, jokes, and jest Be sure the Mischief Managed here Was never laid to rest Pioneers of wreaking havoc Trouble makers true Heroes of this sacred creed Marauders through and through” ~ Fred Weasley’s Poetry, Luna Lovegood and the Dark Lord's Diary » by The madness in me

[fizzycitrusss]

“minha alma canta, vejo o rio de janeiro”

- tom jobim ❤︎

[tomionefinds]

Hi! Could you recommend fics that feature Tom with trauma? Preferably long fic with a happy ending, but I understand this might not be a popular concept(it's usually only Hermione with trauma) so I'll be grateful with whatever you can find. Thank you!♡♡

Hi Anon:

As you said this is not always a terrible popular trope and I certainly don't read it so I can't speak as if these are going to be up your alley but they have Tom going through it. You might want to look at our Tom: Redeemed tag -Haus

Ultima Ratio by Winterblume M| Complete | 737k

Ultima ratio - the last resort. At last the day of the Final Battle against Lord Voldemort has come. Harry, Ron and Hermione fight bravely against their nemesis - but then something goes wrong. And Hermione finds herself alone in a precarious situation.

Jagged by hiccupfound

E | Complete | 151k

He’s not like what she learned about. Not how Harry described him from the Pensieve.

Have You Ever by Lady Moonglow

T | Complete | 180k

With the war looking bleak, the Golden Trio, Ginny, Draco, and Lavender go back to Tom Riddle's 7th Year to destroy Lord Voldemort once and for all. What Hermione DIDN'T count on, however, is a shared common room, a curse, and a crazy little thing called love.

*****

Edit:

Perhaps the following

Experiment of the Mind by NerysDax

T | Complete | 17k

Healer-Trainee Hermione Granger finds herself in a pickle when confronted with a most troublesome patient.

[mairateixeira10]

"Ele riu com ela, abraçou-a e beijou-a: Sentiu seus braços quando ela retribuiu o beijo. Tinha voltado para casa para valer dessa vez. Nem mesmo a morte poderia separá-los."