#Redemption

Mark’s Forever Star Wars 🏳️‍🌈

djmmarquis

Redemption is an important theme in Star Wars for sure and it’s important to allow people the chance to grow and learn from mistakes. But when someone is showing an

Joseph Brassey

JosephBrassey

More redemption arcs need to include the subjects never being forgiven by the people they hurt, and this needs to be treated by the story as being just. Redemption needs

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samsonet3

One of the... things about fiction & analysis is how people react to antagonists that kill people vs antagonists that abuse people Someone said that it’s a case of some

Jane

janeelisabethh

A bad theology of redemption leads to a lack of accountability in the church. This also makes it easier for predators and abusers to hide and/or get away with their

There's magic in a Bard's song

imclosetocaring

Redemption arcs need to be less "it's never too late to do the right thing" and more "you're responsible for your actions and being good is something that you have

Rebekah Weatherspoon ... is forever on deadline.

RdotSpoon

Here's the deal. White people view Nazis as bad, but also like them in whiteness. They like redemption arcs for Nazis because they want to feel like they will also

K Tempest Bradford 🖤🤍💜

tinytempest

I want to add something to the discussion around apologies from these problematic, harassing, manipulative s-holes of SFF, & it's this: Geeks (okay... humans) love a redemption arc. So much

squidia lastname of calmethar fame

squidias

abuse ment for this Whole thread, jicbrennan: i dont like the concept of "redemption" because it implies that we have to earn kindness or balance some cosmic scaled20 fans, apparently:

Joseph Brassey

JosephBrassey

I don’t think redemption arcs are bad. I just think a lot of people don’t understand what they mean.Redemption doesn’t mean being forgiven. It means accepting that you may never

Kurt Busiek

KurtBusiek

I was thinking earlier today (always a dangerous thing), because the Dark Phoenix Saga had come up, and I saw reference to Marvel having wanted, at the time, to take

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lokkorra

azula deserved a redemption arc because the only difference between her and zuko’s abuse is that you can see his scar YES azula was manipulative with her friends and did

Lux 🤷🏻‍♀️ Alptraum

LuxAlptraum

Three separate (but related) concepts that frequently get conflated:- apology- forgiveness- rehabilitation/redemption Of these three, I’m most interested in apology, because the primary function of apology is the recognition of

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LowArctic

Considering the recent salience of prison + police abolition I think redemption arcs may be good imaginative ground to examine what happens someone does harm but are accountable to repairing

rumi ★ friendly neighbourhood queer

rumireads

{ january wrap up thread } The Bright Sessions S03 by Lauren Shippen 4.5 "These characters aren't out saving or ruining the world -- they're just

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sofiabikes

personally i hope ricky's arc ends with him going back to oath of redemption or switching to oath of glory. though i love oath of redemption and it's a great

A.B. Allen

A_B_Allen

I just realized I have a saucy SW take that has been sitting in my drafts since, like, March that I am now ready to unleash upon the world. God

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