#*redeemed fuck

[serialunaliver]

seeing anyone praise biden right now after the horrors he saw and dismissed with his own eyes for so long is disgusting. the only reason he's speaking up is the US government would lose credibility with allies from this specific incident of aid workers dying - he certainly did not mind all the aid workers dying before...it has to be "close to home" enough to cause a PR crisis for the white house for any concern to be expressed by his administration. and "threats" are not action. has the money flow to israel stopped? has the consistent military support? he could completely denounce israel and it would mean nothing when he's still aiding the genocide

#so fucking ignorant to claim he has any good intentions or redeemed himself #but i've seen liberals use this to say he's not that bad #seriousposting

[vypridae]

silly thing i doodled of @sleepykittties fic 'Clerical Error' (link here) because i cannot get enough

don't ask how val found out what vox looked like in heaven (vox doesn't wanna talk about it)

#in my head this is how the fic ends #val teasing the fuck out of vox because he looked like THAT??!?!??!?!! #he'd never let vox live down wearing pastel colors and hearts #love redeemed!vox's design btw #xandraws #hazbin hotel #hazbin #valentino #vox #hazbin valentino #hazbin vox #hazbin hotel valentino #hazbin hotel vox #valentino hazbin hotel #vox hazbin hotel #staticmoth #voxval #valvox #vox x valentino #valentino x vox

[bixels]

Cozy Glow is such an interesting litmus test for die-hard bronies. I was checking r/mlp to prep a post and there’s a discussion post about how she deserved what she got and. How do I tell bronies that children should not be tried as adults. How do I tell bronies that psychopaths and sociopaths deserve human rights and treatment and support. How do I tell bronies that cruel and unusual punishments are bad. How do I tell bronies that the death penalty is wrong. How do I tell bronies that a ruling body should not have absolute say over putting someone to death, least of all a 6-year-old child.

These are all my recent google searches.

#delete later #personal #these are all arguments I saw of why cozy glow deserved it btw #“if she was human she’d be tried as an adult for her felonies idc if she’s a child’ ok but she shouldn’t #“clearly she’s a psychopath so it makes sense she’s evil’ do you even hear yourself #reminder that they redeemed the racist politician trying to keep schools racial segregated because he believed in pony superiority #and not the 6 year old child villain #I don’t even really care about cozy glow she’s not gonna be in the AU but people are so fucking weird about her #“some people are just born evil and can’t be changed’ < actual arguement in the thread. do you hear yourself

[tshortik]

Just Amnesiac Durge Things

#bg3 spoilers #Baldur's Gate 3 #it's endlessly funny to me that Gortash talks to Durge as if they fucked before like what's up with that #thank god Karlach left me before witnessing That i guess sdbsdg #Durge if you really fucked that sasuke looking crusty old man then nobody can redeem you sorry to say 😔 get better soon #Gortash #Astarion #Dark Urge #Xenophanes #(that's my drow Durge)

[dovewingkinnie]

well i think i just made the cruelest oc ever

#what a fucked up guy #cant wait to drop his awful lore #there is nothing redeeming about this man!! #hes up there with william afton #i feel like i do have ocs that might be worse than him #but i have so many i forgot LMAO

[gravebadgerr]

That's a fuckin horse alright.

#to make up for how ugly the last one was. #mm tiwlgith sporkle #mlp #my little pony #mlp art #mlp fim #art #i doubt anyones interested in my mlp hcs but #twilight used to be eeeevil #and then got redeemed :3 #how neat #anuwau look at my fucking horse

[the-stray-liger]

I love Dio....

#he's so fucked up and has 0 redeeming qualities #he's selfish and mean and manipulative #he's perfect

[saryasy]

I love you, Erin Greene. I’ve loved you my whole life. One way or another. I love you, too. I did my best. I did my best.

MIDNIGHT MASS (2021) | Book V: Gospel

#midnight mass #midnightmassedit #horroredit #dailyflicks #tvedit #dailynetflix #mikeflanaganuniverse #flanaganhorror #thehauntingsource #horror #my gifs #shoutout to this fucking episode #the only episode to ever make me cry so hard i threw up #i almost cried giffing this #and i watched it TWO YEARS AGO #im not currently stable enough for a rewatch #also hey giffing this i found the script??? #and oh my god #the way this scene is described and written #just shoot me already #''he smiles looking into the redeeming sunlight #and TAKES IT [her hand]. #and he hold onto her #in the silence and brilliance of the morning - #WE CUT BACK'' #LIKE FUCK YOU

[hughmanbean]

The Nurturing Queen and the Greedy Duke

Credit to @sky00asara in this post for this idea I love guys who are moms (if you get what I mean) This will follow the same rough story beats but will still have a little of my own flair.

The Nuturing Queen, Mother of the Wandering Princess and Erratic Prince, has been said to provide protection and inspire devotion to all who come across her. Praised as Balance and Duality personified, she is a large influence and very commonly mentioned in every scroll, book, art piece, and all magic artifacts that Constantine has seen. He's heard from so many beings of how great she is, her feats, and her being the largest connection between the Unknown Realms and Earth.

Here comes the problem. The Nurturing Queen has an enemy who's been around just as long as she has, who's also been seen not long after wherever she goes, chasing her trail and lurking. The Greedy Duke. He wishes to have her as his own, and take the throne to himself, subsequently plunging the Unknown Realms into chaos. Whenever he confronts the Nurturing Queen, legendary battles commence, and he is beat back.

But now, things are going wrong. The Lazurus Pits have been reported as acting, well, erratic. The Erratic Prince, some beings say, has been seen discussing things with the Greedy Duke. They fear his loyalties may not lie with his family.

A shift has been felt in the magics community. Unknown Realms Beings have ventured into Earth, either out of curiosity or to wreak havoc. Now, at the watchtower, JLD work out how to summon a being and demand to know what's going on, the rest of the Justice League desperate.

When they finally do summon one, they're launched into the Unknown Realms as an answer, told to "Find our Queen" as the being dissappears. They're on a floating island in a green void.

#dpxdc #Dcxdp #dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #dp x dc prompt #danny phantom #danielle phantom #dan phantom #queen mother danny phantom #good parents jack and maddie #redeemed vlad #you may notice I love making titlesTM #Literally so fun to make them up #The translator is broken. #Because the guy who worked on it infinitely ago was a bit distracted. #He thought he saw a cool ghost bird. #Gender is very much optional for ghosts. #Ones that came from a living person just have it internalized #Concepts were more concerned with woah I exist holy shit I can do things what the fuck #Clockwork has sent the 3D's on many time travel missions. #The Infinite Realms are known as the Unknown Realms to mortals for obvious reasons. #Vlad is also sent by Clockwork separately. #Lots of people have seen Danny and Vlad disagree and bicker. Certain opinions are formed. #Vlad's mannerisms make him look. Well... #Danny's fine. Vlad just needed to take over for him since he had to focus on schoolwork for a bit. Or maybe something else. It's up to you. #Continuations are accepted and loved. #btw sky if you read this I absolutely loved the painting. Loved it. 10/10 would look at again. #Misunderstanding #ghost king danny #shenanigans

[amygdalae]

Fallout 3 was well a flawed game but the tunnel snakes are such an essential part of the fallout world to me. Whenever i play enother fallout I'm like where's the tunnel snakes

#theyre so fucking stupid but when i was like 13 i thought they were fucking hilarious #fallout 3 redeemed by letting you have a whiny greaser follow you around

[lord-squiggletits]

I think the key component to my personal reading of post-Delphi Pharma is that he's trying to be a horrible person on purpose. Not "on purpose" in the way that people have free will to exercise their own choices, but in that Pharma's "mad doctor" persona is a performance he puts on to deliberately embrace how much everyone else hates him. Basically, if people already think you're a "bad Autobot" and a horrible doctor who just kills his patients for fun, why try to prove otherwise to people who have already made up their minds about you? Just fully embrace the fact that people see you as an asshole. Don't try to change their minds. Don't plead for their forgiveness or understanding. Just stop caring. If you're going to be remembered as a monster, you might as well be a memorable monster, and eke as much pleasure and hedonism as you can out of it before karma catches up to you and you inevitably crash and burn.

I mean, I guess you could just go the route of "Oh, Pharma was always a fucked up creepy guy and Delphi was just him taking the mask off," but I really don't like that interpretation because, for one, it feels really wrong to take a character like Pharma becoming evil under duress and going, "Oh well clearly he did the things he did because he was evil all along," as if somehow Pharma breaking under blackmail/torture/threat of horrible death was a sign of him having poor moral character. As opposed to, you know, suffering under the very real threat of horrible death for himself and everyone he cares about while being manipulated by a guy who specializes in psychological torture.

The second reason is that it just doesn't make sense to write Pharma as having been evil all along. I mean...

Occam's Razor says that the best argument is the one with the simplest explanation. Doesn't it make way more sense to take Pharma's appearances in flashbacks, his friendship with Ratchet, his stunning medical accomplishments, and the few we see of him speaking kindly/sympathetically (or in the least charitable interpretation, at least professionally) towards his patients and conclude "This guy was just a normal person, if exceptionally talented." Taking all of these flashback appearances at face value and assuming Pharma was being genuine/honest is a way simpler and more logical explanation than trying to argue that Pharma for the past 4 million years was just faking being a good doctor/person. I mean, it's possible within the realm of headcanon, but the fact is Pharma's appearances in the story are so brief that there simply wasn't room in the story for there to be some sort of secret conspiracy/hidden manipulation behind why Pharma acted the way he did in the past.

I just can't help but look at things like Pharma's friendship with Ratchet (himself a good person and usually a fine judge of character) and the fact that even post-Delphi, pretty much every single mention of Pharma comes with some mention of "He was a good doctor for most of his life" or "He was making major headways in research [before he started killing patients]" which implies that even the Autobots themselves see Pharma's villainy as a recent turn in his life compared to how for "most of his life" he "used to be" a good doctor.

And although Pharma doesn't know this, we as the readers (and even other characters like Rung) know about Aequitas technology and the fact that it actually works, so... if Pharma really was an unrepentant murderer, why couldn't he get through the forcefield too? The Aequitas forcefield doesn't require that a person be completely morally pure and free of wrongdoing or else how could Tyrest get through, just that they feel a sense of inner peace and lack feelings of guilt. Pharma has murdered and tortured people by this point, and put on quite a campy and theatrical show of how much he sees it as a fun game, so why then can he not get through?

It circles back to my headcanon at the start of this post that the "mad doctor" persona is just that-- a persona. Delphi/post-Delphi Pharma's laughing madman personality is just so far removed from every flashback we saw of him and everything we can infer based on how other people see/saw him before that, to me, the mad doctor act is (at least in large part, if not fully) a persona that Pharma puts on to put his villainy in the forefront.

To avoid an overly simplistic/ableist take, I don't think Tarn tortured Pharma into turning crazy. To me, it's more like the constant pressure of death by horrific torture, the feeling of martyrdom as Pharma kept secret that he was the only one standing between Delphi and annihilation, the physical isolation of Messatine as well as the emotional separation from Ratchet, being forced to violate his medical oaths (pretty much the only thing Pharma's entire life has been about), etc. All of that combined traumatized Pharma to the point that the only way he could avoid cracking was to just stop caring about all of it. Because at least then, even if he's still murdering patients to save Delphi from a group of sadistic freaks, Pharma doesn't have to feel guilty and sick about doing it. As opposed to the alternatives, which were probably either going off the deep end and killing himself to escape, or confessing to what he did and getting jailed for it.

In that light, Pharma becoming a mad doctor makes sense. It avoids the bad writing tropes of "oh this character who was good his entire life was actually just evil and really good at hiding it" as well as "oh he got tortured and went crazy that's why he's so random and silly and killing people, he's crazy" and instead frames Pharma's evil as something he was forced into, to the point where in order to avoid a full psychological breakdown and keep defending Delphi, he just had to stop caring about the sanctity of life or about what other people might think of him.

Then, of course, the actual Delphi episode happens, and Pharma's own lifelong best friend Ratchet basically spits in his face and sees him as nothing more than a crazy murderer who went rogue from being a good Autobot. Then Pharma gets his hands cut off and left to die on Messatine. At that point, Pharma has not only been mentally/emotionally broken into losing his feelings of compassion, he's received the message loud and clear: He is alone. Everyone hates him. Not even his own best friend likes him any more. No one even cared enough about him to check if he actually died or not. He will only ever be remembered as a doctor who went insane and killed his patients.

So in the light of 1. Having all of your redeeming qualities be squeezed out of you one by one for the sake of survival and 2. Having your reputation and all of your positive relationships be destroyed and 3. People only know/care about you as "that doctor who became evil and killed his patients" rather than the millions of years of good service that came before.

What else is there to do but internalize the fact that you'll forever be seen as a monster and a freak, and embrace it? People already see you as a murderer for that blackmail deal you did, so why not become an actual murderer and just start killing people on a whim? People already see you as an irredeemable monster who puts a stain on the Autobot name, so why beg for their forgiveness when you could just shun them back? You've already become a murderer, a traitor, and a horrible doctor, so what's a few more evil acts added to the pile? It's not like anyone will ever forgive you or love you ever again.

Why care? Why try to hold on to your principles of compassion, kindness, medical ethics, when an entire lifetime of being a good person did nothing to save you from blackmail and then abandonment? Why put yourself through the emotional agony of feeling lonely, guilty, miserable, when you could just... stop caring, and not hurt any more?

#squiggposting #pharma apologism #i'm sure the doylist reason for the writing is just that pharma was a designated villain #so since he's a villain and 'crazy' it's fine for everyone even the good guys to treat him like complete trash #i just think from a watsonian perspective taking a sympathetic approach is way more interesting and logically consistent #what i mean is like. from a meta perspective one of the best ways to show that a character is super evil and not worth saving #is when even the good guy heroes. the ones who are supposed to be kind and compassionate and wise. see him as dirt #and this is also kind of a necessity in most plots bc TF is the kind of series that just needs action villains and long-term antagonists #so not every villain is written or has a plot to be made redeemable. and pharma is one of these bc he's not important or a legacy character #so from a doylist (meta) perspective you could read the autobots' disregard of pharma as a sign of #'this guy is not meant to have your sympathy as a reader. pay no attention to him' #but from a watsonian (in universe) perspective it paints a miserable picture of pharma being utterly forsaken by the ppl he served alongsid #and like yeah i'm super autistic about pharma so of course i view him with sympathy but like #the idea of being a loyal and good person for years only to be subjected to a Torment Nexus of #being blackmailed into breaking all of the oaths you held sacred. under threat of you and all your comrades dying horrible torturous deaths #then when your comrades find out about it they focus solely on the 'harvesting organs' and not on the 'blackmail' part #and then you get literally left for dead by your comrades and best friend hating your guts #and then you get rescued by a guy who uses you as a test subject for his evil machine #this is a fucking nightmare scenario like pharma could hardly be suffering more if the author TRIED to make him suffer #and for me it's like. the evil pharma did can't be decontextualized to what drove him to that. as well as the question of like #how easily ppl can write someone off as evil and turn a blind eye to (or even find satisfaction in) their suffering bc theyre evil #and either brought it on themselves or it's just karma paying a visit #like. i feel like if pharma WERE a shitty doctor and a terrible person his whole life then the delphi situation would feel like karma #but the way it's written and the lore retroactively put in makes it feel more pharma getting thrown in a torture carousel #and THEN becoming evil. but then being treated as if he was always evil or was some sort of bad apple #bc like i'm not opposed to LOLing when a villain gets a karmic torture/death related to the wrongs they committed #but in pharma's case it feels less like karma and more like endless torture + being abandoned by ppl who should have been more loyal

[dgot441]

saw a version of this with just the first four panels and had to fix that lol

#really unhappy w how many of these came out especially rodimus but its just a fucking meme. #i have to remind myself that done is better than perfect. ill redeem myself #tf #maccadam #mtmte #draws

[disgracefulthings]

The reward for most disrespected MXTX character goes to OG Shang Qinghua, who gets replaced with Airplane in nearly every fanfic I've read, even if the story takes place in PIDW

And if he does show up, he's usually dead

#does anyone give a shit about him?? #plenty of stories redeeming og sqq #meanwhile mobei jun kills og sqh in every timeline #i honestly dont give a fuck about him either #og shang qinghua #shang qinghua #mxtx #mxtx svsss #svsss #scum villian self saving system

[suppenzeit]

"i hope we get to kill solas in dreadwolf" well i hope we get to hug him. i hope we get to kiss him on the lips. i hope we get to listen to him infodump.

#:V #da #solas #dreadwolf better not go the lazy route of 'redeeming' solas by him getting killed somehow #i think he can try that. but lavellan is just 'no you fucking do not. get loved idiot.'

[columboscreens]

#columbo #season 4 #playback #man shut the fuck up. i can't wait for columbo to kill you #how dare you speak to your beautiful gorgeous sweetheart wife that way #love when they do Not bother to redeem the villain whatsoever. this guy's entirely and unapologetically shitheaded + charmless. beautiful

[klaasje]

L + ratio + thy wheel of fate turns ever to the dark

#objectively one of the funniest withers lines can you imagine being a [REDACTED] trying to redeem yourself and every fucking day #the skeleton who follows you everywhere is like WELL WELL WELL… if it isn’t mister COSMICALLY DAMNED #op #bg3