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jimbodyson · 8 months ago

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people seem to love redemption arcs but absolutely despise a character doing something bad to earn the redemption. it’s exactly why i hate things like ‘well actually ____ didn’t deserve a redemption arc!!’ like bruh you do know someone has to do something bad before they redeem themselves right. like that’s the point of it.

#writing #analysis #redemption arc #redemption #yes this is in part about my own stories #there are a few characters I can think of that fit into this #negan smith #it’s so annoying because it’s like #you want them to be bad…#before they are good…#but not THAT bad #media literacy #like i once had someone tell me in the comments of one of my fanfics #that a character was being ooc #because they didn’t beat up the mc of the fanfic for doing the bad thing

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kikmessenger · 5 months ago

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sits on my own blog like it’s the edge of a lake wistfully

#remambering the good times in my life before i kick da bucket

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monstermonger · 5 months ago

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i love when i look into a window and find a cat there... | minizine ♡

#art #fantasy illustration #inks #artists on tumblr #cat #really old piece #LOL #I just have a few old wips that i wanna finish before heading out for my long trip #feels good….#theres actually a few more pics on this theme i’ll finish soon too #and add on to this post #cats #cat art #garden #window

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goomyloid · 2 months ago

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The remorseful player

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leupagus · 4 months ago

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It's worth noting that there are some extraordinary people in the world who have been quietly doing the work for decades, and they should be celebrated with all the fervor that we denounce the villains. I first read about Harrison twenty-odd years ago, when he'd already been doing this for about fifty years, and this is one of those guys whose life can, indeed, be summed up by his headline.

James Harrison saved millions of lives. Millions. Not with anything flashy or dramatic, not with profound speeches or brilliant strategy or any of the things we insist are the ways to impact the world. He simply kept himself as healthy as possible so that every few weeks he could go and sit quietly in a room and give away a fundamental part of himself — quite literally his lifeblood — to people he'd never meet, for no pay and no expectation of acknowledgement. (He was, it should be said, acknowledged quite a lot per this article, but that's beside the point.)

When we talk about the kind of people we want to elevate and celebrate in our societies, I often think of people like James Harrison. I hope we get more of him; not just for his blood, but for his heart.

#it's incredibly sad that he passed #though at 88 I'd say that's a pretty good run #but I wanted to highlight this guy who you might not have known about #as one of the people who were out there doing the work #there isn't always glory or glamor in doing the work #but there is satisfaction #and I think Harrison more than many people on the planet died satisfied #that he had done what he could in this world before leaving it #anyway

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batcavescolony · 1 year ago

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Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

#katniss everdeen #the hunger games trilogy #the hunger games #primrose everdeen #hunger games #batcavescolony reads the hunger games #suzanne collins #'now it seems i have become someone precious' NOW? GIRL BFFR you're their hunter girl #and this isn't negative just bffr girl #your WHOLE DISTRICT did the three finger salute that you yourself says means admiration thanks and goodbye to someone you love and on top is #old a rarely used. your WHOLE DISTRICT decided in that moment that they needed to bring back this sign of respect for YOU #...................................................................#idk why some people are thinking i mean this as negative i don't she is unreliable but its not intentional. like when Peeta heart stoped in #CF she doesn't know what Finnick is doing at first cus she doesn't know off the top of her head what cpr is. she also thinks Peeta after the #reaping is acting for the cameras. he isnt we dind out later his mom basically told him Katniss was gonna win and he would die. obviously #shes not doing it on purpose shes just for lack of better words uneducated? as in she doesn't know everything shes not omnipotent #so when Plutarch (? second games guy) shows her his mokingjay hiden watch shes like *wtf that's weird?* then the people traveling to #district 13 show her the mockingjay cookie and explains it and she then goes on the difference between his watch and their cookie #and why does eveyone act as if district 12 is as bad as the capital? they CANT help Katniss and Prim in the way you want. they cant give #them food. none of them have any! and im not putting iton Katniss but they hid they needed food so they could stay together. it sounds like #some of you are in this our world mentally of what people do after a loved one dies (brings food constantly checks on them etc) district 12 #cant do that. they dont have food and they're all suffering. you cant give someone food when you have none to give. then theirs the fact #that peeta DID help. Peeta buring the bread and tossing some to her then taking a beating from his mom is a HUGE thing in the books.#he used his resources to help her like you all said someone should.#district 12 DID (rip) care about Katniss before the hunger games. why do you think she was allowed to hunt? or how her trades were good #these are the little ways 12 can shows Katniss they love her. but again Katniss doesn't see this and YES its because she had ptsd before the #hunger games as well. i swear some of you make it seem like d12 was all living a life of luxury and glaring down at Katniss.#other things that show Katniss is in hight standing with at least her people of d12 is her dad was known enough through d12 for peeta dad to #comment on his singing along with his commenting on her mom. also her mom is a healer in the community. yeah her parents arnt the top but #of d12 but they are/were definitely high staning in the Seam.

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pyrus-salicifolia · 4 months ago

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“Normal” test results are not the relief people think they are. When you wake up in pain and continue to be in pain for hours every day and your tests come back normal you don’t stop being in pain.

#chronic pain #I guess #cripplepunk #crip punk #<— correct me if that’s overstepping #what do I tag this with #I obviously didn’t get a diagnosis #personal but I’m also really scared of needles #and having to go through the fear and pain and crying and screaming #for nothing #doesn’t feel good #people tell me it’s not “nothing #but I know exactly what I did before the tests #which is nothing!!#and I didn’t have to go through that pain for that!!!#also å few months ago I genuinely thought it was completely normal #later I realised that spending hours each morning warming up my hands to feel usable might be more pain and stiffness than other people #experienced #I genuinely didn’t expect all of my friends to say they didn’t feel ANY pain at all #and now I’m just hyper aware of how not normal this is #and I’m still in pain #and now I’m not gonna get any help other than a “try heat therapy from the doctor #which is what I was already doing #like no im not crying cause I’m not sick #it would be great if I wasn’t sick #but clearly something’s wrong

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za1ka · 6 months ago

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noooooooo Aziraphale don't turn around you won't survive the cunt this diva is serving

#good omens #go fanart #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #good omens fanart #ineffable husbands #angelcake #auaurghgh it didnt turn out the way i wanted it to but there's simply no more steam left in me i hate coloring i hate “rendering” i hate ha #hate hate hate killing violence #sometimes you just gotta say it's what's it's and truck on huh #i just wanted to shit it out before leaving for the airport in 20 min lol #anyway crowley looks like an evil little conspirateur straight out of a barbie movie and that's a W in my book

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cronchy-baguette · 5 months ago

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thank you for loving me

#gelphie #wicked #elphaba thropp #galinda upland #character designer #character design #character art #digital illustration #the caption goes both ways #read a time travel gelphie fic before drawing this where postcanon glinda wakes up to find herself 18 again #and about to leave for shiz for the first time #and she realizes she's about to meet elphaba for the first time again #so she vows to redo things right this time #and i just imagined her at the ozdust hugging elphaba and remembering how good it felt all those years ago #even though this elphie thinks it's the first time

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dimeadozencows · 6 months ago

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My personal understanding of the situation

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 medic #tf2 miss pauling #tf2 pauling #i wish i was home and could draw this digitally or at least well #i found out medics name at 2 am and couldn't go back to sleep from hysterics. funniest choice of a name for him istg #and i realized we were given miss Paulings name in the comic 5 minutes before drawing this #i love both their names. i will forever mourn Joseph Ludwig #but #this is so funny its so worth it #and flo..... Florence Pauling.... okay lesbian omg......... i #good for her #i hope she's happily married to the loveliest woman who loves her sm #and i hope medic doesn't cry himself to sleep after heavy laughs at his name for 3 hours

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ahsokalegend · 4 months ago

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One of my favorite choices the Apothecary Diaries made was making the Emperor a “normal guy” (as far as I know as an anime-only). He’s not evil. He’s not hindering Mao Mao’s journey. He respects the concubines.

If anything his lack of autonomy and presence as the most powerful person in the country further enhances the show’s themes of working within the confines of class and gender inequality.

The previous emperor was a horrible, horrible pervert. Okay, then this emperor only weds women of age… Until he’s forced to take his father’s precious wife due to politics. The current emperor reasonably avoids her.

Eunuchs exist? Bam! now the surgery is outlawed, but this will create a reduction in male labor around the palace.

The emperor clearly favors few women. Well, now he must recognize a concubine with a powerful politician father playing the system.

He supports Mao Mao toeing the line of social expectations for women, but hasn’t removed the law against women preparing medicine. It makes one think, if he wanted to, could he make the change at all? For every two steps forward, he’s forced to take one step back.

In this universe even the Emperor is limited by social pressure and the expectations of his station. His life and that of his children is out of his control, and if that isn’t such a compelling piece of world building I don’t know what is.

If that’s how the author twists the narrative of the Emperor you better believe her female characters dealing with women’s issues in this society are even better written.

#you should all watch the apothecary diaries #I’m all caught up and starting the manga #never read a manga before #and despite knowing what’s going to happen in a MYSTERY I’m still locked in #guys it’s so good #I can’t wait to finish the manga and then jump into the light novels and read it all AGAIN #the apothecary diaries #kusuriya no hitorigoto #and if I’m wrong about the emperor please don’t tell me #no spoilers please #though this has spoilers up to the most recent episode #maomao #tagging the queen because she’s mentioned #these characters!!!!#wrote this instead of my discussion post for class🤪

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orions-aether · 21 days ago

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eastern european haunted emily axford pc, transfem daughter of libertarians ally beardsley pc, spot on pub representation grizzled old british lady siobhan thompson pc, nasty old gun guy zac oyama pc, posh boy brian murphy pc, famous explorer with a book series that really falls off lou wilson pc we're fucking eating this season my god

#the comment about old white women who don't know what suncream is and have only ever worked outside sent meeeee #is that just every person I've ever met growing up in rural england I think so #this was so fucking good I just smiled the whole way through I love them all so much #transfem pc time let's fucking gooo!!!!#there's nothing funnier to me than the fact that the gotch sons names get more normal as you go down the line #like the fact that they started at samwell and then there's hatwell and wealwell and we end with maxwell is so fucking funny #van using normans as an insult had me crying #the wildly impressive old woman married to just a guy and they have a pub and are like completely infatuated with each other is perfect #and very accurate #the fucking gentrified pub idk why I'm only thinking about the gentrified pub in all of this but it's so real #also everyone slagging off lou's book series before he even gets to introduce his character screaming #I'm literally obsessed with all of them #cloudward ho!#cloudward ho #dimension 20 cloudward ho #dimension 20 cloudward ho!#d20 #dimension 20 #marya junková #van chapman #olethra macleod #daisuke bucklesby #montgomery lamontgomery #maxwell gotch #the names are fucking banging as well omg #love steampunk with all my heart

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onewithblankets · 24 days ago

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this week on game changer, I am faced with the realization that good actors are, in fact, good actors

#game changer #game changer spoilers #god they got me SOOO fucking good #truly was not expecting it at all #I really wanna rewatch it again with context now because like erika and izzy and jiavani especially i fully believed were fucked UP #but no they just! are like that!!#also in hindsight makes me respect sam/the showrunners even more #of COURSE he would get consent from them to drink on camera #of COURSE he would keep them sober for the duration of the episode anyway #like obv we’ve had drinking on game changer before (sam says 3) but that was fully voluntary on the party bus #and this would’ve been a ‘u gotta drink as part of the rules of the game’ thing instead #but nah they’re all sober as shit!#which makes all of their drunken kissing and ass touching etc both funnier and more fun to watch from the audience #bc u know their judgement isn’t impaired at all from alcohol #they’re just fully committing to the bit #yippee!!!!!

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 2 months ago

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hero/villain showdown but one of them has a spontaneous medical emergency and the battle gets put on hold while their archnemesis drives them to Urgent Care

#it should be like. a hernia. or diverticulitis #something intestinal for maximum Awkward Scenario #and the entire car ride alternates between awkward silence and the driver lecturing their nemesis on the importance of regular check-ups #this is funnier if the hero is the one having the hernia tbh. but both options are Very Good #want to emphasize that it is a 'medical emergency ' that is clearly not extreme enough for the emergency room #and the sidekick/henchperson gets stuck in traffic so the hero/villain stays for moral support #they spend 8 hours in the waiting room playing Uno (it devolves into a screaming match)#at the end of the ordeal one of them vows to burn the hospital to the ground with their laser eye powers #and it's Not The One You Think #oh oh oh! ALTERNATIVELY:#it's an allergic reaction; one of them accidentally poisoned the other by using like. soybean derivative in a tranquilizer dart #emphasis on *accidentally*. yes they were technically fighting but That Wasn't Supposed To Happen #so now they're obligated to take responsibility and Stay In The Waiting Room #(can't decide if it's funnier if it's the hero or the villain stuck in this situation)#(probably the villain)#“why didn't you TELL me you were allergic to soybeans???”#“um because you would use it against me in combat?”#“as opposed to NOT telling me! which has worked out fantastic for you!!!”#villain being genuinely offended bc they have a biochemistry degree and have invented literally dozens of untraceable poisons #they have the scientific skill to poison their favorite jackass in hundreds of ways #(and have done so before! in admittedly non-fatal outcomes but that was by design okay)#but it's “dangerous” to do them the simple curtesy of informing them about a SOY ALLERGY????#above all else they consider themself a scientist #and they're LIVID that their favorite (reluctant) test subject lied about their medical history #“technically i didn't LIE--#“I read you the questionnaire! the very first time i held u hostage i READ YOU THE QUESTIONNAIRE!!!”#“...the what now”#“the MEDI--holy shit you weren't even paying attention were you #i had you bound and gagged over an ACTUAL BUBBLING ACID PIT and you couldn't even be bothered to--#“--so i was obviously a bit BUSY at that moment! I'm sorry i ignored your VILLAINOUS MONOLOGUING while the BLOOD WAS RUSHING TO MY HEAD but

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randomsufff · 11 days ago

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I can’t believe Nicepants cannon in the year of our lord 2025

(Yes it is supposed to be cut off at the bottom because bros in such disbelief that he just goes in a loop for an hour)

#a comic idea that I had and just made real quick lmao #this is just an elaborate excuse to draw Blue Ears in his fuckass little scarf and jacket combo #what a cutie #deltarune chapter 4 spoilers #deltarune #pizzapants #blue ears #nicepants #deltarune spoilers #never drew these guys before hope it looks good lol

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