#redeeming the lost

[grangerdangerschuylersister]

Elizabeth Kerner's Song in the Silence trilogy has been the absolute perfect Autumn reread.

The Song in the Silence, the Lesser Kindred, and Redeeming the Lost are such wonderful perfect books in my mind. Peak fantasy. True love. Real emotions. Laughter and magic. Dragons and demons.

They hold such a special place in my heart.

#elizabeth kerner #song in the silence #redeeming the lost #the lesser kindred #books #fantasy #reread #lansip #dragons

[artist-issues]

Christians, start talking about why homosexuality is a sin. Stop avoiding the topic. If we can’t talk about it with people who disagree with us, it only says something untrue. It’s just a sin, like all the other sins. It’s just a twisted desire, just like all the other twisted desires. “Such were some of us.” It put Christ in the cross, it condemns the person who sells their soul to it to eternity without Him. Don’t make it any less or any more than that by avoiding the topic. The Bible doesn’t treat it like a taboo topic.

Honestly so many people are deconstructing or dropping away from the faith because they don’t know how to be loving and talk about how the Bible is right when it says homosexuality is a sin. So they don’t talk about it, but everyone who disagrees with the Bible does—so no truth is coming in, just lies, and no wonder that one thread unravels the silent “Christian’s” whole faith.

Because listen, listen, marriage is a picture of the Gospel, and love is Christ. So when they twist those two things, and you decide they’re right, everything else falls apart because they’re all connected.

So yes, it’s too not-special-at-all, just another twisted desire, for you to be afraid to talk about it. But it’s also too important to know the truth about it, and replace the lies about it, for you to be silent about it.

Just tell ‘em it’s like every other sin. Your desires are twisted and you can either choose to identify with them, or you can submit them to Christ and identify with Him while he untangles the desires. You can be god of your own life until it’s time to spend eternity without Him, or you can admit He’s God. That’s it. By making it “special” you’re feeding into the lie that homosexuality is some special, unique, sacred part of a person’s psyche that has to be treated as such. Even if you’re against it. No, it doesn’t. The Gospel conversation is the same, whether the sin they embrace is homosexuality or not.

You want to be with someone of the same gender romantically, sexually? Well, I want to turn my car wheel into oncoming traffic. The difference between me and you is, I agreed with reality—my life isn’t mine, so my desire to end it isn’t right, and I won’t live by it. I’ll give it to the God who made me. You, on the other hand, aren’t there—yet. You’re still living out the lie that you were made for you, and every passing twisted desire that doesn’t line up with reality is your governing authority.

But the answer is the same. Jesus took the punishment for me, and you, committing cosmic treason against the loving God who made us to be god, ourselves, and twist up the love He invented us for. He took the punishment for all that, and He can straighten out the scoliosis of your soul. The answer’s the same. So why’s the conversation taboo? Because Barnes & Noble put a whole celebratory bookshelf out? Because Instagram shows you reels of people wailing when it’s brought up? Get over it. Stop treating people who celebrate their sin like their sin is more powerful than whatever sin Christ saved you from.

#didn’t mean to preach #but I’m very over it #it’s like we all decided this is a losing battle #we either won’t have a loving conversation out of fear #or we talk ABOUT LGBTQ+ people like they’re lost causes who’s actions have to be condemned but can’t be redeemed #and it’s shipwrecking faith #it’s not a sacred topic #truth in love #Corinthians #that’s all it is #Bible #homosexuality #Christianity

[leverage-ot3]

okay but the parallel between hardison using eliot as an example of redemption to harry in the panamanian monkey job and eliot saying he could never be redeemed (and he’s made peace with that) to sophie in the finale

#something something everyone can see how eliot has been redeemed but eliot. eliot will never believe it #something something hardison looks at the man who has stood beside him and protected him for over a decade and seeing him as redeemed #hardison watching him risk his life day after day after day month after month year after year #and knowing in his heart that this is what they stand for. this is what they strive for. to do better. to be better #and to hardison? eliot is the epitome of that #it breaks his heart that eliot can’t see that #parker wants to shake him he’s being stupid ‘ELIOT CANT YOU SEE’ ‘YOU ARE GOOD’ #hardison as he joins in shaking eliot: ‘YOU ARE A GOOD MAN PLS BELIEVE US WE ARE RIGHT UR WRONG’ #insert me with the always sunny conspiracy corkboard with red string connecting these two plot elements #i’ve connected the dots #i’ve connected them #I am Not posting this at peak time or anything I just had this thought just now and almost lost it #leverage redemption #leverage ot3 #meta #parker x hardison x eliot #eliot spencer meta #eliot spencer #leverage #parallels #the panamanian monkey job #the crowning achievement job #leverage redemption s2 #leverage redemption s1 #leverage redemption 2.13 #leverage redemption 1.02 #mine #people pls like this show me I’m not going crazy

[ziglikesrain]

and if i said husk?

#him watching angel get redeemed :( #and not trying himself bc he thinks he’s a lost cause :( #owch owch owch #song: valentine by fiona apple #ITS SO SAD #hazbin hotel husk #hazbin hotel #husker hazbin hotel #huskerdust

[antianakin]

It's so interesting how people reacted so drastically to the criticism against the Prequels, disliking both Anakin and the Jedi while liking Obi-Wan, that Anakin and Obi-Wan managed to be basically merged into almost the exact same character.

Anakin has the "relatability factor" of being the protagonist who goes on a journey and has the flaws that are explored within the story. But he's COMPLETELY unlikable as a character, especially in AOTC (and I hear people find child actors grating in general which is a personal taste problem but caused people to dislike Anakin in TPM too). He's whiny, rude, disrespectful, awkward, unforgivably uncool, and comes with a HEFTY dose of secondhand embarrassment in nearly every scene he's in.

Obi-Wan has the "cool factor" of being the one who is the Adult most of the time who is there to showcase how far the teenaged protagonist has to go still, so he gets all of the clever quippy lines and the better fight scenes (and his actor was a little older and more seasoned which probably helped a bit). But he's not the protagonist and so his flaws are not on display and it's not his story being told at all.

TL;DR Obi-Wan is an actually likable character with redeeming entertaining traits, but Anakin had all of the character story beats and protagonist bias.

And this meant Obi-Wan got out of the Prequel Trilogy a lot easier than the rest of the characters, especially Anakin (and the other Jedi).

So then we got The Clone Wars. And TCW is a show that is much lauded for being the show that "saved" the Prequels, generally by "saving" Anakin as a character. How did they do that?

They took away all of those pesky uncomfortable qualities of Anakin's and instead just gave him all of Obi-Wan's more fun likable qualities. TCW Anakin is turned into a dudebro action hero, with tons of cool action scenes to show off just how badass he is, endless amounts of quippy dialogue so he can equal Obi-Wan in their scenes together, capable of flirting with a Queen SO WELL that she doesn't even realize he's faking it until he pulls out a lightsaber. Gone is that secondhand embarrassment, gone are the whiny moments, gone is the inability to have a cool fight scene to save his life. The awkwardness stays just enough to make him ENDEARING, but not enough to cringe at so much you want to turn off what you're watching or just fast forward to the next scene.

And this is the version of Anakin that feels more "right" to people, more true to what they anticipated in a baby Darth Vader. He's angry a lot, violent, prone to lashing out if things don't go his way, but he's also just charming and suave enough that it's mostly understandable why people around him are willing to write off his worse behavior as a momentary struggle. Gone are the tears, gone is the fear of loss being his most obvious motivator. Because THIS is how people expected a villain like Darth Vader to act in his youth.

And then you get fanon Obi-Wan. Because people hated the Jedi, rejected the warrior monks who destroyed their visions of gallant medieval knights, and created a whole new interpretation positioning the Jedi as the villains of the story in order to try to make their peace with that dissonance. But they liked Obi-Wan, and Obi-Wan CAN'T be the villain.

So how do you save him from that fate? You make him more like Anakin. He gets to keep the cool fighting abilities and the fun quippy dialogue of course, but he's now completely repressed to the point that he never told Anakin he loved him until Anakin was burning in pieces on Mustafar. Now he's someone who can barely keep himself together and regularly forgets to eat and sleep like a normal person and has to be taken care of by other people. Now he's constantly being portrayed as just as attached to Anakin as Anakin is to him, just as co-dependent as Anakin is in that relationship, just as inclined towards anger and willing to walk away from the more stuffy traditional Jedi Order so he can have the more natural, healthier domestic lifestyle he's always truly wanted and never known he could have. TCW even decided to help out here by giving Obi-Wan a love interest who is for all intents and purposes just a knock-off of Padme, his own forbidden star-crossed love story. He takes on ALL of Anakin's flaws that make Anakin so "relatable" as a character, keeps his more charming likable traits, and loses all of those things that make him a Jedi, that make him Obi-Wan Kenobi.

So now Obi-Wan and Anakin are both cool, charming, suave, silver tongued, attached, repressed, struggling against the Jedi Code. They're effectively the same person, but one of them just happens to commit genocide and the other one... doesn't. What made each of them distinct and interesting characters in their own right is washed away in order to merge them both into two copies of the One Perfect Character and who you like better at that point is probably just down to who you found more attractive or something equally banal.

And through fandom osmosis, this is what is considered their true/"canon" interpretation, regardless of how inaccurate it actually is.

#star wars #prequel trilogy #obi-wan kenobi #anakin skywalker #the phantom menace #attack of the clones #revenge of the sith #the clone wars #star wars the clone wars #tcw #swtcw #i could probably add something to this about fan reactions to the kenobi show being so polarized #because so many fans just know the fanon obi-wan who is perpetually cool and perfect and quippy #and were so taken aback when what they got instead was an obi-wan who was depressed and lost and broken down #because this wasn't THEIR obi-wan #this isn't the obi-wan who had been so likable in the prequel trilogy #who had been the only redeeming factor of those movies even #this is RUINING obi-wan because now he's NOT COOL so what's the point? #clearly deborah chow just didn't understand obi-wan or why fans liked him because he's LOSING and he's BORING #the real obi-wan would never cower before owen lars or run from a fight or struggle to use the force

[lord-squiggletits]

"IDW Megatron got a redemption arc and Starscream didn't it's so unfair--"

Do not slander Metalhawk, Bumblebee, and Windblade's hard work trying to fix this man they didn't work for half the continuity (and in 2/3 of their cases) literally die and come back as zombies/ghosts for y'all to be out there saying no one helped Starscream get redeemed and have friends and be a better person

#squiggposting #i'm so fucking confused why people keep saying this honestly #'M got a redemption so why can't SS' HE LITERALLY DID LIKE HE LITERALLY DID #this was the subject of most of his character development in exrid/op and wb/taao did you just not see it? #i don't get it bc like. even if you try to argue that M got to have friends and validation and shit. so did SS #SS lost his power and then died saving the world at the end #M also lost all his power and prestige and then went to his execution at the end #STRICTLY IN TERMS OF IDW1 they literally both got redeemed idk why ppl are piss fighting about this #and i would expect ppl who are SS fans to like. BE AWARE OF all the story content he got in idw1 #mscott clearly liked SS based on how she made him so sympathetic (even dealing with his M related trauma!) #barber said via word of god once that SS is his favorite decepticon #you literally can't even claim that the writers were just biased against him #i dont get it. like of all ppl to know all of SS's lore i would expect SS fans to be the one to know it #is it bc their hateboner for mscott and non-reading of barber is just that strong? i dont get it

[dramoor]

"What we lost, Christ has restored."

~Fr. Stephen Freeman

#Lord Jesus Christ #Fr. Stephen Freeman #Orthodox Christian #What we lost Christ has restored #Savior #Redeemer

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

The Xenoblade 3: Aionios Moments Art Books Leaks Saga:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

As far as I can understand these are the most relevant tweets for the situation, what is y’all’s opinion on this subject?

#xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles 3 #xenoblade 3 #aionios moments #future redeemed #polls #while I do think the interactions are cute #personally‚ I’ve looked at all the other art books online already this isn’t really putting a dent in whether or not I’ll look up a scan #i know the whole 400 pages have been scanned and uploaded somewhere…. #I saw it once but lost the link 😭

[mismefancy]

He suggested pancakes in the finale, so I'll draw pancakes for the father and daughter. : )

I'm not really in the Hazbin/Helluva fandom nor do I consume their content as often. There is also the fact the fact their type of content isn't my usual content...

But you know the drill: Family stuff convinces me of anything, lol. Lucifer became an instant favourite character of mine. He was absolutely hilarious to watch, his relationship with his daughter made me emotional, and his song "More than anything" absolutely wrecked me gosh darn it! :'D

And with the implication that he might become part of the main cast gives me so much excitement for season 2.

#Just a bit of rant: #I do hope they actually explore more of his relationship with Charlie throughout the series now that the two talked it out. #Because as much of a loving father he is.. he was still no perfect father. But I hope he actually tries to improve. #Many years of a distant and awkward relationship with each other takes time to fix. #So there will be bumps here and there but I think they can do it. #Aside from his dad arc... Lucifer slowly growing to the idea of a sinner's redemption would also be cool. #Because let's be honest he doesn't seem to have hope for the sinners. He's not even into Charlie's cause considering how hesitant he was. #But he was still willing to help Charlie's dream even if he felt scared that she'll end up badly rejected like him. #So the idea of Lucifer slowly believing in that dream as he watches sinners actually try to redeem themselves sounds really cool #He would have a small glance of the good in people(or sinners in this case) and it gives him hope that things could get better. #And it was Charlie who showed him that hope. Who continued on his dream of bringing good. A dream he thought he lost forever. #Long story short: Lucifer becoming a better and more present king/father arc lol #hazbin hotel #hazbin lucifer #hazbin charlie #lucifer magne #charlie magne

[jabberwockprince]

catching up with s5, she's just like me fr

#miraculous ladybug #mlb fanart #chloe bourgeois #mlb chloe #artists on tumblr #purinsu art #look ive followed this show for years. zoe exists exclusively bc the writers didnt know how WHAT to do with chloe anymore #every remnant of her being redeemable was lost in the first seasons bc THEY JSUT HATE HER FOR SOME REASON!!!!!!! #AND SHE WOULDVE BEEN SUCH A GOOD ADDITION TO THE GANG #im mad im ma d i love her so much this is the mean girl rep i needed #shes YELLOW and BLONDE and MEAN shes everything

[snackugaki]

.... no forreal, how late am i actually to this?

it’s not gonna stop me but I like knowing how late I am to art challenges, ‘cuz there’s late and then there’s necromancy reanimation-late

#but also this shit is dangerous #for me #paper dolls are one of my many weaknesses #i have lost COUNTLESS hours in eLouai #thousands more in MMO char creation screens #picrew is a sin #and i suffer daily temptation from it #its multiple choice siren song calls me #damn #do I really wear that much black tho #SIGH #swore my shit was more colorful #just gonna hafta redeem myself with April & Co. #(watch it be mostly black too) #draw the turtles in your outfits #art challenge #i love those loud obnoxious custom chucks #but the tongue keeps slipping down #and it slowly raises my aggro #nothing I do keeps it from shrugging down #still dope tho #did I also put them in poses I've done? #yes #my mother hates it #can't you take a normal photo? #NO MOTHER I SHAN'T #MY HS HAD NO THEATER DEPT. #SO NOW ALL MUST REAP #THIS UNUSED POTENTIAL

[chippycore]

a little comic about a headcanon i have about rex's kids of them being all musicians: mio plays the flute, glimmer plays the lute, and mythra's kid the drums (specifically a little hand drum)

This comic takes place after time has resumed after Aionios fell and i thought its possible that everyone may not remember exactly but they're memories may be triggered by something, as we see here with mio remembering noah and miyabi thru her playing the flute and glimmer remembering practicing the lute with A.

eeeeee i hope yall enjoyed it ijsnkjbodn

#xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles 3 #xenoblade chronicles #xenoblade 3 #glimmer xenoblade #mio xenoblade #noah xenoblade #a xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles future redeemed #headcanon #illustration #art #artists on tumblr #digital art #fanart #fan art #comic #sorry for the quality of it i lost energy to color it #and also for the half-assed ending page lol #in my head it involved complex angles which is out of my skill level #also about thr drums i based it off of beetz from totk fyi

[lubotomies]

remember back in 2016-2018 where the general consensus regarding tords morals was 'if he has no prosthetic hes good and redeemed but if he has his prosthetic hes evil red leader' So glad we left that behind

#if you guys dont know what im talking about i envy you but basically #tord not having a prosthetic was seen as deserved punishment by the community if he was to be redeemed #tord covered in bandages with a stump for an arm was synonymous with redemption LOL #whereas if you gave him the prosthetic ... yk... because he lost his arm.... he was seen as significantly less sympathetic #Which btw. Horrible way to view disabilities. As something to add pity factor. So im glad this shit was left behind #alongside art of trans characters in binders with the others looking shocked around them saying 'WAIT... SO YOURE A GIRL?!?'

[bericas]

josé olivarez / yves olade (alt. version) / cab calloway / oscar romero

#twedit #sceoedit #tw #sceo #HI TEAM. I FEEL CRAZY #scott mccall #theo raeken #so its the first scene with scott and theo. scott recognizes theo but doesn't instantly trust him. scott is coming off of s4 #he needs people to be good because he knows he can be bad. there has to be redemption because he needs to be redeemed #his own goodness doesn't feel inherent and so believing in the good of others is how he can believe in himself #he worries love is violence. he still can't trust theo on sight. #he trusts him by that scene in 510 where he says his friends have left him and theo says he can get them back for him. #theo is why he has lost his friends. theo has made this happen. theo has made scott love him so he can best hurt him. love is violence #and then the hug which breaks scott open. the skepticism on his face vs the way he clings to theo with his chin pressed into his shoulder #face half hidden in the bulk of theo. the way his chin falls onto theo's shoulders the same way when theo impales him #the way theo nestles closes in both gifs. the way both are acts of violence in different ways. #so we have the doubt and the trust in the first set and the act that finally made scott fully trust theo #and the act that fully destroyed that trust in the middle #in the last pair we have theo back in the position where he needs scott to trust him. scott wants to. the slow rebuild of their trust #bc now theo is vulnerable and scott cannot help himself! he can't. but he still tries. there's only love and violence #and then the scene that shows scott is willing to trust him again. theo at scott's back with claws raised. #theo standing still instead of walking toward or walking away. #scott looks to theo and theo looks away. but he raises his claws for scott. the violence we must do #the end is the real beginning #(also with the yves olade quote that's not the one in the book but it is a version circulating! and it worked for this!! so!!!!)

[sophsicle]

it is not merely a question of whether or not we have learned to analyze in particular kinds of ways, or whether people are able to intellectualize about a variety of experiences. It is also about coming to believe in the possibility of a variety of experiences, a variety of ways of understanding the world, a variety of frameworks of operation, without imposing consciously or unconsciously a notion of norm - Elsa Barkley Brown

#school readings #but like it feels relevant to the conversations i feel like i have on here #about whether or not characters are good or bad #or whether or not they are redeemed #and about the right way to read texts #and the right way to write stories #and like multiple things can be true at once #every situation is made up of different people coming from different places who are effected differently #and most of the time there are not absolute villains and absolute heroes #depending on your experience of the world #depending on your framework #your hero might be someone else's villain #or vice versa #it is all so messy #and you need to be able to hold multitudes in your head #to see humanity as a kaleidoscope not a window #or a mirror #i might have lost this metaphor #tedtalk over #soph rambles #text post #quote #wow fully misattributed that quote by accident because i am a terrible academic #i have fixed it now #from a paper by joy parr but she is quoting brown #no one cares probably but i do #my bad ELSA