i made some more stede designs in animal crossing because i physically cannot be stopped. more are to be expected
my creator code is MA-3913-9754-5168 (or 'stede bonnet' in the criteria search), so feel free to grab some coats :)
obsessed with the bbc stating how so many people have lived with the queen as the monarch & how we won't be able to imagine or feel like we can survive a different time like quick someone queue up flint's black sails speech of just because people can't imagine a time without colonial powers doesn't mean we can't survive without them
Anonymous asked:
/gen did queen elizabeth did something problematic recently or are people just celebrating her death bc she's rich and a royal ? Asking bc i havent seen any callouts or negative headlines about her recently
she ships reylo hope that helps
Not being funny but tumblr needs to give us the unlimited crab button again right now
You're laughing. The royal necromancer just lost their job, and you're laughing
Hey guys accidentally destroyed a painting of this decrepit woman in the attic of Buckingham Palace lol .did anything happen while i was gone
Just read this Rhys quote:
I've said it before, but I just have to say again that there's something so undeniably powerful about taking a guy who's been honing his craft as a character actor/comic relief for decades and handing him such a nuanced starring role in a such a unique romantic comedy. Usually he's having to communicate a character with mere minutes of screentime, making the most of every second, and let's not forget that comedy is harder to execute than drama. Rhys Darby stepping up to play the romantic lead in Our Flag Means Death is the acting equivalent of Rock Lee taking off his ankle weights.
I couldn't stop thinking about the Rhys Darby as Rock Lee metaphor so...
itasasu
Some rando: This character should not have the chance to become a better person
Me: Why
Same person: Because they are a bad person!
Me: But what if that character was allowed to become a better person so that they are no longer a bad person?
Same person: You’re an abuse apologist
I would love for every bad person to become a good person. I’d think most humans think that it’d be a cool and great thing if all bad people became good.
A cool and great thing, which we can play pretend with in fiction, knowing it’s not realistic, just to feel a little better about the shitty real world we live in.
tbh, I think the problem is that people confuse “getting a redemption arc” with “being rewarded with what comes after a redemption arc”
like, redeemed villains are generally friends with the heroes. they get to experience love and The Power of Friendship for the first time, if they haven’t already. they generally get to experience forgiveness. if their motives are based off of some kind of trauma or pain (like a lot of redeemed villains) then they will probably have that resolved and get some sense of closure or inner peace from whatever is hurting them.
so when they say that “this character doesn’t deserve a redemption arc” what they mean is “this character doesn’t deserve to be loved. they don’t deserve happiness, peace, or companionship”. the alternatives I have seen are:
“I hope that this character realizes how awful they are and they kill themselves”
“I hope this character is redeemed by a heroic sacrifice” (meaning they would be redeemed but wouldn’t be alive to experience the “reward” afterwards)
“I hope this character begs and pleads for forgiveness over and over again, but is never forgiven”
it’s pretty disturbing tbh, to treat basic things that every human needs (like being loved) as a “reward” that you get for good behavior. or more accurately: never being bad in the first place. that once you fall from grace you’re damned for eternity.
I think this post exposes a really gross underbelly to purity culture bullshit that I don’t think I examined quite this way before.
If redemption is unacceptable, if bad behavior can never be forgiven, what is the alternative?
Because it sure seems like the alternative is “Indefinate suffering = justice.”
BINGO.
That’s what purity culture has always been.
“Everyone who who has ever made a choice I disapprove of should suffer for eternity” is the origin of the concept of Hell. Fandom purity culture is fundamentalist Puritanism without the religion.
I’m not even wild about the “redemption arc” phrasing, and I’m trying not to use it anymore. You can just … stop doing bad things. Like, nobody has to forgive you (ever), but there’s nothing stopping you from just … stop doing stuff that hurts people, and just try to live your life.
You don’t have to crawl a thousand miles through the desert, over broken glass, to be worthy of love or compassion. The idea that have you to engage in some kind of literal or metaphorical mortification of the flesh is … deeply troubling, to say the least.
Pain doesn’t generally make people better. USUALLY it makes people worse.
One time i got sucked up by a ufo im not joking
what happebned
On god they were being super mean to me like they were flicking my head and shit the grey aliens were flicking my head and punching my nose and giving me noogies and shoving me and shit....
