#but he does NOT deserve redemption

[artsymeeshee]

[sebille]

Oh the little change in his expression

[wizardsix]

just saw people on twt getting mad that gale said a literal god wasn't good enough for him . i need people to understand that he didn't mean it like "I deserved more than a literal goddess" he meant that his actions were foolish and made it LOOK like he thought himself above one. that he should've been content with what he had, but felt he had to prove himself to her.

if you romance him he literally realizes that he didn't need to find validation in a god but within someone who understands humanity more than a god ever could.

please learn reading comprehension before making yourselves look stupid I'm so tired of this

[rewritingcanon]

my sister and i just yapped for almost three hours and we were just talking about how genuinely weird people in fandom are surrounding characters who have explicit mental illness. like they can never ever be normal. there are characters who are romanticised and glamourised for their mental illness (eren. wanda. joker. kaneki. nico. almost any danganronpa/ddlc character). characters who are consistently ridiculed for their mental illness either because it simply isn’t getting taken seriously (reiner) or because no one takes the character seriously (armin). and there are the characters that get blatantly outright DESPISED for it (basil, harry potter, korra, gale, also eren etc etc). like yes im seeing a correlation but its still so astounding how selective people are about where they draw the line with mental illness and what traits they can accept.

[redr0sewrites]

i would talk about harry potter on here but no one agrees with my headcanons i fear

[lightlytoastedcashews]

sk8 ova isn’t enough i need adam to die

[newvegascowboy]

I feel like the concept of redemption/forgiveness in fiction is so fucking fascinating, especially with regards to who the fandom decides "deserves" redemption

[woolly-aph1d]

Soon enough act 2 is gonna be out and i am prepared

[batfamdcposts]

Cass and Jason are such interesting foils. To me. Cass. Raised with assassins, found freedom (also trauma and difficulty, but still freedom) in the streets, then found her way to the bats. Her mother issues deserve their own post. Her complicated reverence for Batman deserves its own post. Dying was a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. (not great but not the worst thing that happened to her) Jason. Knew love, was orphaned, and the streets were a downgrade. The vigilantism was an upgrade, "magic", for him, while for her the assassin part was a stain she could not wash off. He tried to protect his mother until the end. THEN. Training with the League (differs based on the comic but a pretty consistent thread). Dying was earth-shattering, world-ending, table-turning. Given this, one could almost expect their opinions on killing to follow suit--Jason found death earth-shattering, perhaps he cannot inflict it on anyone else. Cass found death to be not as earth-shattering, perhaps she would have a more cavalier response. but NO!!!!!! Because Jason never killed as a child, and Cass was coerced into killing as a child. To Jason, death will always be something he was the victim of, and to Cass, it will be something she can never wash her hands of. One would THINK. Maybe this scares Jason. NO!!!! Because they FLIPPED!!!! Cass came at the conclusion she cannot kill, Jason came to the conclusion he must. And they got there because of their life experiences do you understand me

[starseed-awakening]

Dou Ming was so innocent and naïve, and her whole life was so miserable. She deserved so much better. All the more reason why Wei Ting Yu needs to die. Wang Ying Xue as well.

[freehideoutpuppy]

I'm once again on my I hate Bakugo train stay tuned for more rants. Or don't I do this for myself? The fact that people seem to enjoy it is just a bonus, lol.

Anyway, something that both canon and the Fandom have in common is that a ton of people seem to blame both Bakugo AND Midoriya for Bakugo's bullshit!? Like wtf!? I mean yes Midoriya can absolutely be unhinged in a fight especially if lives are on the line, but for fucks sake! Bakugo starts every single issue the two of them have, and Midoriya, for the most part, tries to freaking passify the asshole. How do so many people ignore that!? Are they stupid? Blind maybe!? And don't get me started on Aizawa. Is he a bad ass in a fight? Yes. Is he a good teacher, though!? Fuck no! Dude sees this explosive asshat try to kill his classmate on the first day and just tells him to grow up!? Uh, hello!? You expelled an entire class the year before why the fuck would you let a kid who tried to attack another kid in front of you off the hook!? What's the fucking point there!? That's villain behavior not heroic in the least. I don't care how much potential Bakugo has power wise trying to maim if not kill another student is expulsion worthy at the very least. And how the hell does no one see that Bakugo's a freaking bully!? He's constantly name calling and treating everyone around him like they're lesser, and yet everyone acts like he's God's gift to man kind. It's disgusting. Also, as I'm writing a fix it right now, I need some opinions. I'm planning on fixing Aizawa's behavior along with several other issues. I've had problems with Bakugo's special treatment being another one. It will be a TodoIzu fic because I adore them and want those boys happy. But my question that I need some opinions on is this. I have two different ideas for dealing with Bakugo as far as him getting expelled, mostly for drama but partially for catharsis on my end. One would involve the OC I'm adding as a fix it device manipulating the third round of the sports festival so Bakugo goes against Shinso and gets humiliated and goes on a violent rampage on live TV gets expelled and arrested for his stunt (I'm leaning towards this one because it's cathartic and I feel like it fits his character). Or having him get expelled after the battle trials as he should've been for using his gauntlet on Midoriya. But I'm not sure which people would enjoy more, so that's the dilemma. Opinions are welcome, as are suggestions if anyone has other ideas.

[writebackatya]

[bottomlessabyssposts]

"Mike as of now doesn't deserve Will", "Mike isn't good enough for Will", "Mike redemption arc!" BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU

[cookinary]

I redrew (and redesigned) my Portal boi because he definitely needed a refresh!

Sum details:

His mask broke during the long fall in Portal 2 but he kept it anyway

I'm going with the stupid "Portal 2 happens 50 000 years into the future" theory because it's complete nonsense and I fucking love it so, because he spent so long in the Relaxation Vault, he got very pale (he was already pale in Portal 1 but not as bad)

For the same reason, his hair grew pretty long (he shaved it after escaping)

He got the massive burn scar on his left arm from an energy pellet grazing him

Oh yeah, trans rights also

And I just realized that I never shared his backstory here so it's under the cut if you're curious!

In chronological order:

Mitch creates Aperture

He puts Ophelia at the head of the entire facility

Ophelia realizes that Pedro would make the perfect test subject so she wipes his memory -it's the first and only time that a full memory wipe is done on a subject- She then realizes that watching him test would make her feel bad so she gives him the mask to hide his face. That way, she can watch him test without any remorse.

After a few tests, she puts him in a cryo-chamber (because she wants to put him through much harder tests that have not been invented yet)

Mitch and Denny are (forcefully) hired as test subjects but are brainwashed. They are both put in cryo-chambers

Not long after, Ophelia decides to turn herself into an android so she can live forever and control the entire facility. The scientists warn her that this can cause severe memory loss and mild insanity. She does it anyway and loses all memories of her human life. She now has full control over Aperture.

Judging all the scientists useless, Ophelia floods the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin

Portal 1 happens

At the start of Portal 2, Pedro is woken up by banana Pedro (who is a core in this AU) who wants to help him to get out of here.

Basically the same story happens. But Pedro eventually encounters Mitch and Denny who try to take him down. He kills them in return (Denny didn't have his long fall boots)

They finally get to Ophelia. Though, contrary to Wheatley (who got corrupted by the mainframe), Core!Pedro was actually planning to take Ophelia's place from the beginning. He stuffs Ophelia in a potato battery (she appears as an hologram being projected from the weird eye/circle thingy on it) and sends she and Pedro down the elevator shaft

Pedro's mask breaks during the fall, which leads Ophelia to realize that his face feels familiar after they reunite

While going through old Aperture, Pedro and Ophelia learns the truth about themselves (thanks to all the pre-recorded messages)

The rest of the game happens pretty similarly, except that at the end, after shooting Core!Pedro into space, Ophelia tries to get Pedro back to testing (after all, he IS the perfect test subject). Pedro refuses and attempts to destroy her. He fails, but Ophelia gives up and lets him go as she does not want someone who will try to destroy her 24/7

Basically like in Blue Sky, Pedro ends up in a small town where the people help him back to full health. He settles here and eventually finds out he has great cooking and baking skills and gets his own little cake shop (I'm not sure I still want this to be the post-game for this AU but I'll leave this here anyway)

These notes date back to 2020 HOLY SHIT IT'S BEEN 4 YEARS

[findafight]

Me, lying face down on the carpet: I don't know how many times I have to explain that people love characters like Steve Harrington and Zuko, is that they have done things that are bad. They have said things that are bad. Possibly reprehensible. Possibly violent.

But then. And this is THE fundamental aspect of them that you must understand, they realized they were wrong. They realized that what they did and who they were were not things they were proud of. Were not things they liked doing or wanted to continue doing. Were things that hurt people. They realized that they didn't want to be that person anymore.

And then they changed. They went and tried to apologize to those they wronged. They worked to fix what they had done or helped do. They made strides to be different from what they once were.

Zuko stood up to his father, he apologized to the Gang, admitted to them he and his people were wrong, and taught Aang Fire bending. He changed and he helped and he apologized.

Steve helped clean up graffiti, he went to Jonathan's house to apologize for the terrible things he said and their fight(and got dragged into monster fighting and saved Jonathan and Nancy's lives), he replaced the camera he broke.

They owned up to their mistakes and apologized and did their best to remedy them. The apology and the changed behaviour make these characters likeable. They have flaws that have glared but they have accepted those things, tried to do better than them.

I need you to understand that there are characters out there that do the same things but never apologize. When you question why someone likes character a but not character b, when character a has also done bad things, I need you to think about whether or not that character has apologized and since changed that behaviour and thus been sincere in their apology. That is why. No excuse or justification. Did the character apologize and change? Did the other not? There you go.

Me, sitting up with the imprint of the carpet on my face: Woah haha where'd that come from?

[princerevelucide]

i like drawign bill cipher as a little darling. he's small and has tiny hands and legs. this guy only comes up to your waist and weighs as much as a bunny.