#the-path-to-redemption

[dragynkeep]

Black people in RWBY either gets sexualized or demonized I fucking hate it hereeeee

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& added on because i had no further space but the company behind this show is incredibly antiblack. there was documented abuse of a notable black woman, including telling her to kill herself & writing the n slur around the workplace that continued until hr famous father had to get involved & call them out.

miles has said the n slur. other employees have done blackface & also said antiblack slurs. various antiblack stereotypes have also been employed in the show, including the basis of flynt's entire character.

as well as centering all of these black characters around their white counterparts. they are not allowed to exist in their own space without becoming a white characters subservient, villain or thrown off screen.

#the-path-to-redemption #rwby #rwde #alyx #alyx rwby #lewis #lewis rwby #emerald sustrai #fox alistair #elm ederne #harriet bree #flynt coal #sage ayana #pietro polendina #marrow amin #roane ashwood #hanlon fifestone #joanna greenleaf #racism in media #racism in fandom #antiblackness #anti black racism #ais.txt #answered #q

[unofficialadamtaurus]

Sometimes I am concerned about the hate anons. The extreme hate spreading, the accusatory tones towards critics, the weird vibe of "You're all terrible for the way you think and act?" Very cult like. And honestly, I'm just here wondering if their friend circles will threaten abandonment or smth because this is just wild.

I think it’s like three people max (at least one of whom is probably an outright child) and they’re all terrified of not being part of that group anymore. The takes are too braindead to be genuine.

#the-path-to-redemption #unofficial adam answers #rwde #‘I am occasionally concerned with the ways of the hate anons’

[commander-hill]

Azula: Mai, could you pass the salt?

Mai: Could you pass away?

Ty Lee (to a horrified Gaang): This is normal

Zuko: *nods in agreement*

#path to redemption and reconciliation is hard #incorrect avatar quotes #atla #avatar the last airbender #azula #ty lee #mai #zuko #the gaang #tyzula #maizula #maizulee

[bebx]

#this is about me writing the 83821st fic about Henry Creel’s redemption arc with Eleven helping and guiding him to the right path #self indulgence at its finest #writing #writing memes #whump #angst #archive of our own #ao3 #writing challenge #writing prompts #writing tropes #whump tropes #whump prompts #prompts #tropes #writing meme #writer #writers #fanfic #fic #fanfic writing #meme #memes #fandom #fandoms #stranger things #self indulgent

[askblueandviolet]

Hey Macaque, have you ever used your shadow abilitys for pranking? Or just jumpscaring people?

#lego monkie kid #lego monkie kid fanart #monkie kid #monkie kid fanart #lmk #lmk fanart #lmk macaque #monkie kid macaque #lmk baihe #monkie kid baihe #lmk hostess #monkie kid hostess #lmk little girl #monkie kid little girl #blue and violet #yes he does #he abuses his power constantly for his own enjoyment #because he's an arsehole #no amount of redemption will ever steer him away from the path of being a menace to society #baihe does not approve but its not like she can do anything about it #no these people are not naked I just couldn't be bothered giving them clothes #which... i guess makes them naked #but does it even matter?

[heraldofcrow]

Setting aside the obvious massacre of the villagers and the guilt Maria would have felt over that alone, I think it’s brilliant that what probably pushed her over the edge to the point where she actually felt the need to completely bury her past was the violation of a mother and child.

Maria’s life as a hunter was, likely in her mind, dedicated to protecting innocent people, especially those as vulnerable as mothers with their infants.

But to oversee the dissection and brutalization of a god-mother with such an obviously humanoid face and child….to watch the infant itself be ripped from the womb and its umbilical cord severed….yeah, of course she didn’t want anyone to see that. I can’t even blame her for fighting to hide it, because that is just horrendous.

But at the same time, the concept that what forms Maria’s nightmare is a loop where she fights to conceal the truth is fascinating to me. She was only free when her sins were revealed and she could stop fighting to hide them.

#i compared her to lucrecia ONCE and now i am going down this path lmao #but it’s the same “great sin” of violation #it’s the horror of cruelty against and desecration of mothers and infants #and maria had probably been so kind-hearted once that this basically broke her #so yeah sue me but maybe i feel like the Doll basically adopting a baby squid hunter at the end #is a bit of a redemption for maria #great now i’m gonna cry #it’s called “childhood’s beginning” too like #UUGHHHH #lady maria #bloodborne #CrowNotes

[championsandheroes]

You're going to regret being mean to me when I get super powerful and cool, Minthara D< Just watch me romance Astarion again and know that it could have been you if you hadn't called me an abomination.

… and yes, obviously I'm romancing her in another playthrough with an evil drow. As if I wouldn't be batting my eyelashes at a mean drow woman.

We've got a support system for drow lovers over at Patreon, society6, and redbubble. It's... mostly talking about how much we love drow though.

#champions and heroes #baldur's gate 3 #Baldur's Gate #Minthara Baenre #Durge #Dark Urge #drow #the joys of playing a half-drow #all the causal racism and none of the fear #unfortunately it dies out after act 1 #I would like to request more please and thank you #I picked this option for a reason #well two reasons I suppose #it was mostly because of the face #seeing how faces are for some ungodly reason limited to races #but after that it was definitely to have everyone side-eye my poor character wherever he went #it's ok he's not on a path of redemption #he deserves much worse

[shadebloopnik]

It started with Sorry

#the path to redemption starts with sorry #hazbin hotel #sir pentious #hazbin pentious #hazbin hotel pentious #general pentious #angel pentious #hazbin spoilers #hazbin #pure snake boi

[fantastic-nonsense]

I assure everyone that I would never give JJ Abrams of all people credit he doesn't deserve. But the man has given multiple interviews over the course of the last nine years about the narrative trajectory he originally envisioned when he, Michael Arndt, and Lawrence Kasden created The Force Awakens. I'd have to be both flat-out stupid and ignoring basic tenets of media literacy to pretend he didn't set up clear and obvious character arcs for the new cast of characters in TFA that Rian Johnson then deliberately chose to ignore

#star wars #sw fanwank #jj abrams #local Jewish man creates Neo-Nazi convert who kills his last major avenue to de-radicalization at the end of the movie #and then somehow people came out of that with 'he's on the path to redemption!' instead of 'he's actively choosing the Dark Side' 😭

[future-cryptid]

i would like to personally advocate for more art of Vash in this state and not just in his more elegant full angel form(s)

#trigun maximum #trimax #trigun #vash the stampede #trigun vash #its from trimax chaper 33: Let Us Walk the Path to Redemption in case you want the context #i love his winged form i love his angel arm but im also a body horror guy i want to see him melting sometimes

[dragynkeep]

Demon Slayer for the new ask game :3

GIVE ME A FANDOM & I'LL TELL YOU:

my favorite female character: mitsuri hands down. my blorbo.

my favorite male character: tengen or obanai.

my favorite book/season/etc: the entertainment district arc.

my favorite episode: layered memories from season 2.

my favorite cast member: i don't know about any of the cast members & i want it to stay that way lmao.

my favorite ship: obamitsu, giyushino, giyushinoyae, inotan, nezumitsu, tamashino, inonezu.

a character i’d die defending: mitsuri, i have to defend her from the fandom weirdos. throw in shinobu & daki too.

a character I just can’t sympathize with: none? like all that are meant to be sympathized with have very compelling reasons to do so, while those that don't like douma or muzan are interesting in other ways.

a character i grew to love: muichiro, i was already obsessed with others like tengen, obanai & mitsuri that he slid under my radar for a while. the recent season has done a lot to help with that.

my anti otp: zennezu lmao.

#the-path-to-redemption #demon slayer #kyn #kimetsu no yaiba #ais.txt #answered #q

[tadpoled-ranger]

Imagine being a teenage githyanki and some fucking half elf monk called “The Dark Urge” goes up to your teacher like “I’ll stab him for you, I’d like to stab him, let me stab him, I will stab him, would you like for me to stab him? I like stabbing. I do it for free.” And then your teacher fucking lets him stab you.

#Sam #the dark urge #bg3 #urges they be dark #baulder’s gate 3 #I wish I got inspiration for doing it #just because Sam is on the path to redemption doesn’t mean he’s not a murder obsessed little rat

[tonberrykins]

So, having finally come to the conclusion of Astarion's questline--having romanced him, too--I think I finally understand what bothers me about the whole train of thought of "fixing him" that seems so pervasive. It's that helping him choose to be the better person, to do the objectively right thing, IS NOT the start of a redemption arc. There is no real redemption for anything he did in the past 200 years; he says this himself. There is no "fixing" anything, people's lives have been irrevocably ruined, STOLEN from them, and he may not have done it himself but he is 100% to blame for having gotten them there in the first place. HE KNOWS THIS.

There is zero redemption for Astarion, but again his story isn't about redemption. Astarion's story is that of a victim overcoming the centuries of trauma and abuse and deciding, no, I can be something BETTER than what you made me. I CAN BE BETTER THAN YOU.

Astarion, with enough care and pushing from the PC, can choose to end the cycle of hatred and abuse by cutting it off at the source. From there he can choose to cast it off and free the other victims rather than using them for his own ends. He can make the choice to BE BETTER. That does not absolve him of his guilt, which he has pointed out several, SEVERAL times previously, and he'll have to live with that. BUT he gets to live it as a free man making his own decisions and having cast off the shadows that bound him into a form he no longer recognized.

Astarion does not need to be redeemed and the writers knew this. What he needed was someone who cared enough to show him that he could be better than what some abusive cockwaffle told him he could be, that freedom did not have to come at the expense of other victims, and that not everyone in the world only wanted to use him. Astarion is as much a victim as everyone else, and you can see how Cazador's exact thought processes went if you talk to the skull of his sire. That is what Astarion can be, depending on your own choices and how you approach him, or he can be himself and take the time, once the tadpole situation is dealt with, to figure out EXACTLY who that is now.

#bg3 #astarion #bg3 spoilers #minor spoilers #this man does not need a redemption arc #and making the arguably better choice does not put him on the path to one #he is who he is for better or worse #but honestly he hasn't known who he is in two centuries #hell he was barely old enough to know who he was before he was turned #so now he's broken the cycle #given the other victims a modicum of peace #and offered safety even if it's temporary #and only surface level #and now he can look to the future and figure out who he is #and he has friends by his side who can help him #and in some cases someone who loves him truly and sincerely #anyway yeah food for thought

[goldens0422]

you know what would have been funny? i was busy thinking of some Imperial! Anidala AUs and there's one which just crossed my mind.

Imagine Padmé joins Vader on Mustafar, Vader beats Obi, and kills Sidious to take over. Vader tries to deepen his connection to the Dark Side as he and Padmé rule over the galaxy. Vader tries to portray himself as this evil, fearsome autocrat but is way too popular: he doesn't create the Death Star because neither he nor Padmé likes it, he abolishes slavery because duh, literally all of the clones (they don't get replaced) love him, he's still seen as the war hero, he's very handsome, and Padmé's presence + coregency mellows him out a lot. Padmé and his children are also there, and his love for them is wayyyyyy too much that he isn't nearly as evil and dark as he should be

Eventually, Vader comes to Padmé crying about how his connection to the Dark Side is weakening because of how much he loves her and the children and how he can't fuel his inner darkness anymore. He isn't really a Sith anymore and eventually Padmé convinces him to just let it go, renounce his darkness, and let the love flow through him so now he's just emperor anakin, former jedi and failed sith

emperor vader: suffering from success

#anidala #alternate universe #anakin skywalker #padme amidala #headcanon #imperial anidala #goofiest path to redemption ngl #hey at least he's still ruling the galaxy with his wife #if vader is portraying himself as the evil autocrat then padme's probably portraying herself as the empress girlboss xd #empress padmé: good good let the love flow through you #emperor anakin #emperor darth vader

[bonefall]

How did you decide Leopard killed Crooked via poisoning, or was that from one of your AUs? If so, which AU does that come from?

It's gone through incarnations. I'm still very fond of the idea that both he and she have a form of diabetes, and because of that, she knew how to fuck with his doseage and just weaken him without killing him outright.

But then I wasn't sure if that would be in good taste or not, so I've swapped it over to just good old fashioned poisoning for now.

The original idea of Leopardstar poisoning Crookedstar started with Fire and Water iirc, which is an AU written by someone else following a RiverClan Firestar. I can't recommend that fic enough, but I also remember getting the poisoning as ask suggestions a few times.

But anyway it's always been BB, and goes back to when I was still calling it the Bonefall Rewrite. I think it's fitting for her and her ambition, as something underhanded and dishonorable that she felt was neccesary but still regrets.

#Fire and Water really is a great series btw especially if you're fond of Leopardstar redemption #I crave a continuity that doesn't redeem her though #I like my Leopardstar with a sense of beastly poise #Like a regal animal #One who accepts the path she feels destined to walk and most of all despises humiliation #Idk what it is about RiverClan girls man Misty and Leopard feel like knights to me #Both alike in dignity. Both miles apart in heart. #A knight and a leopard #And then sedge in the corner just being a silly billy #The tyrant queen. The usurper hero. The court jester #Im not normal about these three #Bone babble

[lionblaze03-2]

everything about husk makes me insane. Hes a bitter old alcoholic with a heart of gold. He is owned by alastor. He’s pansexual. He used to be an overlord himself, opening the door for SO many storytelling possibilities. Gave it up for reasons not entirely disclosed. Holy shit husk forever

#I love this man… so dearly #What was he like as an overlord? #How did he win his souls? How did he treat them? What did he do when he stopped being an overlord? #Release them? Are they still under contract just wondering forever if he’ll return? #I love a man who’s done horrible things and then redeems himself and helps others on said path to redemption #husk #husker #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel husk