#redemption struggles

[meeks-just-wants-to-scroll]

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[michsmeesh]

I'M ALIVE!!! i'm struggling a lot with my health recently so i havent had the energy to draw but... heres a little arthur for compensation

[arthursfuckinghat]

My favourite journal entry 🫶💔

"My lord, I'm a fool. Went fishing with Charles today and somehow caught feelings instead of fish. I don't know why a man like him would ever want a man like me, but I always appreciate his company. Hope I won't throw this away too."

[shelleysmary]

sauron is so *sighing facepalm* frustrating. he crawled, walked, sailed across middle-earth, made up the halbrand identity, did a boomer in-person job application tour around númenor, didn't lie to galadriel and he has the mental gymnastics to prove it, sailed back to middle earth with an army, fought a whole ass battle, faced his murderer with a mostly straight face, got impaled... somehow, risked sepsis on a six-day ride to eregion, brainstormed magic rings with celebrimbor, wielded tools and operated heavy machinery after said mysterious injury, clocked that his would-be girlfriend was starting to get the ick around him, took radical action, asked her to be his non-platonic business partner (the business being mass-brainwashing and dictatoring), took the L, regrouped, rode back to the southlands (now mordor) to enact plan b wherein he faces his murderer again, gets beat up, goes on a hunger strike (rage and self-pity are his fuel), relives his murder trauma for The Master Plan, back on a horse, rides from mordor to eregion, sadface emoji because he's not allowed to go in, stands in the square, gets rained on, risks regency-era pneumonia, flatters celebrimbor, comes up with plan b part 2 wherein he is now a representative of the valar with a great haircare routine and possibly a stylist, begins his campaign to gaslight gatekeep manipulate everyone in eregion, balancing a full-time job with psychological warfare...

my guy. you could've lived on a nice farm somewhere. gone on vacation. adopted an elven dog. being "good" is too much effort for you??? what do you call THIS?

[kayomin]

to the reblog tag “can they kiss” from the original post with their dumb tshirts, yeah sure i made them kith :3

[chipper-smol]

So...... Loop and Odile huh?

v THE OTHER RESPONSE I DOODLED v

yeagh

[river-of-wine]

Rip Sadie Adler you would’ve loved The Wedding List by Kate Bush

[raccoonscity]

Make Me Choose: Favorite Town in RDR2 → Saint Denis (asked by @hereticstations)

[architectureandmorality]

Today’s 30 min sketch in my sketchbook of faces before I have to go back to regular work 🥹

[oakenrootss]

sooo i found this picture of all-dolled-up mr marston and was asked to draw him <3 so i did

[toxooz]

replaying rdr2 (mainly to just stay in ch2 shhh) and my Arthur infection has flared up again 🥺 there may b long haired Artar fanart in the future cause that look is growin on me 

[bakedcrossaintt]

i honestly love it when people say "nobody gets (insert character) like i do" because yeah! everyone experiences media and relates to characters in a different, personal way and i think that's beautiful :3

[rdr2gifs]

riding o’er the plains serve all the western 🏜️

[ursachaotic]

Was brainstorming ideas for the AU with Bill and my sona and got this idea! Mason would absolutely call Bill out on his bullshit lmao 😭

(Also my idea is that they get stuck in a spooky forest at one point after breaking out of the Theraprism and, while trying to figure a way out, Mason starts calling Bill out on the stuff he's done lmao. Bill most likely wouldn't have his powers or his powers would be going haywire from being a traumatized triangle, too!)

[normalbrothers]

s03ep04 | s06ep05

[akirathedramaqueen]

You know what I love about this show so much?

The kindness. The understanding. The redemption.

And that's in the setting of fucking Hell. The irony.

The characters are deeply flawed. They make a lot of mistakes. They fuck up even trying to fix things.

But they are trying. They have a lot of virtues, too, even though they don't see them themselves. They slowly but surely process their problems. They work around their trauma and the conditions they were raised in, deeply affected by it, hurting but still powering through, learning, and developing.

Although we are far from the end of these characters' journey, the SpindleHorse team does an amazing job of making these characters sympathetic, believable, and real. They give you the information and the opportunity to understand how complicated things are, how both sides of the conflict can be understood and blamed at the same time.

And the main thing? The forgiveness and redemption. You want these characters to do better, to be better, of course. But you also want them to be loved, despite the fact that what they did was obviously wrong.

You, as the viewer, already forgive them, and you just want them to forgive themselves. To allow themselves to be loved.

When I watched the show and saw them making the same mistakes I did, some horrible things I wouldn’t forgive myself for and struggled with for years, I suddenly understood the struggle. I empathized with them. I wanted to give them a hug. I wanted to comfort them and promise that things would get better and encourage them to give it one more try, one more talk. I wanted to scold them for self-loathing because I know all too well the kinds of dark places it can lead you to sometimes.

And then the thought comes to mind, "Can I afford a bit of this empathy for myself too? Just allow myself to live with the fuckup and allow myself to be human?"

It didn't fix me. But it eased my turmoil and taught me to understand it better. It taught me some empathy, too, and I thought I was the one with the emotional ingelligence of a nightstand. Well, I still kinda am, but at least I learned to listen to people sometimes.

I just want to thank the whole team who worked on Helluva Boss for all the self-reflections I experienced with their creation.

Thank you.