#My stuff

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Training my parents to be funnier

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Two very different shen sibling dynamics that i both enjoy equally and some other svsss drawings

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dean sucks cas good and hard through his jorts

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TOM STURRIDGE as Dream of the Endless in The Sandman: Season 2 | Official Trailer

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modern au hansry golfing >:)

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Look I just found out abut this character last night but OHH MAN

player i need to press my screen against your face for scientific reasons

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Red Robin pls come back🥀

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floaty businessmen

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Something something burningcheese kids idk

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blind justice

art swap/collab with @d0gtoothjones - og sketch under cut. check out their piece linked above.

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💥 HAPPY late FATHER'S DAY PIGSY 💥

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I have been summoned—the mutual who knows that it was a heinous sin for a prince to condemn one of his innocent subjects to a painful death!

OP, your post is over 7 years old, so I don't know if you hold the same opinions now, but I would like to respond to it regardless, because it reflects a criticism I've seen others level at the film.

Also, I'd had an idea for some nerdy charts I wanted to make for a while, and this was the perfect excuse to finally make them!

Before I get to the charts, though, we have to clear up the philosophical point about whether anyone "deserves" redemption or if it must be earned. My viewpoint is that everyone deserves love and everyone is capable of redemption, but it is up to them to make choices to achieve it rather than being entitled to it.

I agree with you, OP, that someone's circumstances make it easier or harder for them to make choices that lead to redemption—that's just life—and that Gaston is surrounded by enablers of his bad behavior.

However, Beast is surrounded by enablers too, as Windy pointed out. His servants do encourage him to be kind to Belle and occasionally criticize his poor behavior, but they don't call him out on kidnapping Maurice—how could they, he's their boss and ruler, it is literally their job to enable him! And they actively help him with his kidnapping of Belle. Lumiere happily, sneakily leads Belle to Maurice when he's locked up so that she'll run into Beast and not just leave, Mrs. Potts dismisses Belle's concerns about being trapped in the castle, all of the servants get super upset to learn that Beast let Belle go, and so on. They are very pro-keep-Belle-prisoner. They are totally his willing accomplices on what you yourself, OP, seem to think is Beast's biggest sin.

(Side note: Is she a prisoner though? OP, you said "But the only reason why Belle was with Beast is that she couldn’t leave," yet she literally can and does leave twice, and then comes back voluntarily twice. But I get the point—it's unethical for Beast to take her deal, regardless of whether he enforces it. Let's move on.)

Going back to Gaston being surrounded by enablers, we don't know how much that itself was a choice on his part that he has cultivated over the years. It's very unlikely that they all loved him since the time he was a baby—he wasn't assigned servants to dote on him as the Prince was. He had to make his own friends just like any normal person, and these are the ones he picked. Most likely, Gaston did things over the course of his life to gain others' attention and admiration in whatever ways were easiest, and once he saw how good it felt, always sought more and more and more. He most likely chose to surround himself with enablers and cut out people and viewpoints that were critical of him.

Because you missed the core difference between him and Beast, OP: his ego. Gaston loves himself above all others, and Beast hates himself above all others. Gaston's ego leads him to make choices that doom him.

So here's the charts, showing how bad each guy's behavior is and how bad the stuff that happens to them is:

You can niggle with me over the exact placement of certain dots, but the overall conclusions to gather from these charts are this:

Prince/Beast had a much deeper hole to dig himself out of in terms of how shitty he was. His sins were much bigger than Gaston's in the first act of the film, making redemption harder for him, and his options were much more limited being trapped in one place with one set of people. Yet he did it.

Bad stuff happened to Beast when he chose to do bad stuff. Good stuff didn't start happening to him until after he started behaving well, and Belle doesn't love him until he undoes his earlier sins. He was not "rewarded...for holding a woman hostage." He's punished by a wolf attack for that bit! The curse can canonically only break when he "earns her love in return"—earns. He does earn it through selfless behavior.

Just like Beast, bad stuff happened to Gaston when he chose to do bad stuff. His consequences are linked to his actions. This is fair.

Gaston does have an opportunity to change—that pink dot in the top right corner. He is shown mercy by Beast. He's treated with kindness he doesn't deserve. That's his chance. That's his moment.

He blows it.

He chooses evil all on his own in that moment.

And that's why he dies.

He has earned his punishment, just as Beast has earned his reward by doing the literal exact opposite of Gaston's choice.

(Another side note: Isn't the parallel at the end so beautiful: Gaston's best consequence is followed by the worst behavior in his life, while Beast's best behavior is followed by the worst consequence in his life? Perfection. God I love this movie.)

Now, if we shift this conversation away from does Gaston deserve redemption to is he capable of redemption—of course he is! I have written two separate longfics (here and here) where I redeem him and give him a happily ever after with a loving spouse/partner, and I enjoy reading others' stories where he's redeemed. Redemption and change are beautiful—that's why I love Beauty and the Beast! I love that path for Gaston too, in another universe.

Narratively and thematically, it doesn't make sense to redeem him in canon, since he's the needed foil to Beast in that story. The point is to see what could have happened to Beast had he made worse choices. I do enjoy Gaston as an out-and-out villain too. A good villain is fun and satisfying. But it's still sad and tragic to me that he chooses that path when he had the opportunity for redemption.

Gaston deserved redemption tbh.

He had the same character flaws as Beast. In fact, the movie paints comparisons between them. The only two differences is that Beast was unpopular while Gaston wasn’t and that Belle was with Beast to reform him, while Gaston was surrounded by enablers like LeFou.

But the only reason why Belle was with Beast is that she couldn’t leave. So, in the end, Beast is rewarded with true love and his curse breaking for holding a woman hostage. While Gaston was rewarded with death because he never had the opportunities to change.

And really, the true villain of the story is the Enchantress who decided to curse an 11 year old orphan prince for not letting a strange woman into his house in the middle of the night.

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"Her eyes opened. A small, astonished smile creased her mouth. The smile transformed her face into an affliction of beauty that Gideon had heretofore managed to ignore."

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pool scene. literally the gayest shit i've ever read.

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Storm's coming

[ambernotember]

Bobby’s kids, part 2

(part 1)

“Harry!” Hen called over the loft balcony in surprise. “What are you doing here?”

“Came to pick Buck up,” he called back, spinning the Jeep keys around his finger.

“I thought you were at your study group,” Buck said, appearing behind Hen.

“We wrapped up a little early,” Harry said. “Thought I’d save you from ubering home.”

“Thanks, man. Wanna come up and grab something to eat?”

“Is it your food?”

“Muffins,” Buck told him. “The lemon blueberry.”

“Sick,” Harry said, speeding up the stairs.

“I’m confused,” Chimney said, Hen and Eddie nodding in agreement behind him.

“Harry’s staying with me for a little bit,” Buck said. “Athena’s staying with May and her apartment’s not that big.”

Harry headed for the muffin tray on the kitchen island and took one for himself, pulling the wrapper off and taking a giant bite.

“No offense, but — why you, Buck?” Hen asked. “Harry, you have family here.”

They both shrugged. “May decided and dropped me off,” Harry said around a mouthful of muffin.

“You mind stopping at the hardware store on the way home?” Buck asked. “I need to get a new gasket for the tap.”

“Ah, the joys of home ownership,” Harry teased. “It’ll cost you another muffin.”

“May wasn’t lying when she called you a garbage disposal,” Buck grumbled. He looked at Hen and Eddie. “Are Denny and Chris like this yet?”

“Home ownership? You own your place? I thought you were renting?” Chim interrupted.

Buck looked at Chim and then glanced away. “Uh, yeah, I own now.”

“How?” Chimney pressed. “Maddie and I had to ask your parents for help.”

“Uh,” Buck hesitated.

“Bobby,” Harry said. “He left the three of us money.”

The rest of the 118 looked between the two of them, expressions varying between shock and confusion.

“They didn’t know about that?” Harry asked Buck, now working on his second muffin.

“Well, they do now,” Buck sighed. “Bobby split the money he'd saved for his kids’ education between May, Harry, and me. I didn’t know about the money until Athena told me.”

“So you bought a house with it?” Hen asked.

Buck shoved his hands in his pockets and shrugged awkwardly. “Breaking a lease and getting kicked out of a sublet in the same year doesn’t really make you appealing to landlords. Had to live somewhere.”

Eddie at least had the decency to look apologetic at that statement.

“So, how long is this 'little bit’ that Harry’s staying with you for?” Chimney asked.

It was Harry’s turn to shrug. “It’s been seven weeks. Mom hasn’t found a place she likes yet.”

“Athena can be … particular,” Hen said.

Harry snorted. “That’s one way to put it.”

“Hey, why haven’t we seen your new place yet?” Chimney asked.

Buck shrugged again. “Things have been… you know. Didn’t seem like the right time.”

“So you’re just crashing on the couch?” Eddie focused on Harry again.

“No, I’m in the guest room.”

“You have a guest room?” The rest of the team looked surprised.

Buck felt defensive. “I mean, I wasn’t going to live in a loft with no walls forever. If I was buying something, why not buy something that has room for other people? Like, say, my niece and nephew who will one day be old enough to sleep over?”

“At least none of you were there for the great paint debate of 2025, figuring out the kids’ rooms colours was not easy,” Harry said, going for a third muffin. Buck was pointedly ignoring the food theft.

“That wasn’t what I meant,” Hen said. “It’s very… putting down roots of you.”

Buck’s mouth twitched, not quite sure how she meant that.

“You can head out a little early if you want,” Hen offered. “We’ll be able to cover the last hour.”

“Oh, I’m fine to wait here,” Harry said. “I have my books and a couple things I can work on.”

“Don’t be silly, you were nice enough to come get Buck, I can let him go early,” Hen insisted. “Captain’s orders.”

“I mean… only if it won’t put you guys out. I wouldn’t mind having a little longer to work on the sink.” Buck shifted from foot to foot, feeling torn.

“Go, go,” Hen shooed them towards the stairs. “See you next shift Buck. Harry, you're welcome to stop by any time.”

Harry flipped the Jeep keys back to Buck as they walked down the stairs. “I don’t know how you drive around this city every day. The drivers are insane.”

“They’re insane everywhere,” Buck told him, his voice fading as they got closer to the firehouse doors. “You get used to it.”

“So… no one else knew about this development either?” Chimney asked when the other two were out of earshot.

“Nope.” Hen shook her head. “Maddie didn’t say anything about an inheritance from Bobby?”

“As far as I know, she thought he was renting too.”

“Eddie, he didn’t tell you anything about it?”

Eddie shook his head. “He just told me he found a place and he’d need a few extra days to get movers.”

“I wonder why Athena didn’t mention the inheritance, or that Harry’s staying with Buck,” Hen mused. “Karen and I had dinner with her last week.”

“She probably assumed you knew?” Chim suggested.

“Yeah, I guess. Anyone else catch that Jee and Robby have their own rooms, and there’s a guest room?”