The Goddess' Gallery

Mind Your Manners or Join the Display

[thedreamons]

Trying out some things.

[thedreamons]

Sometimes your girlfriend gets stunned! Sometimes you stun your girlfriend! Don't ask questions.

[thedreamons]

Back from the 80s, it’s Remona Iris!!

[thedreamons]

Gotta pick a good pose, every day.

[thedreamons]

Another golden day with Lumina.

[thedreamons]

Dance all night… Become stone all day… Resume dance at sundown. That’s entertainment! 

[thedreamons]

Who?

Holo-Owl.

[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

[fictional-me]

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.

[jaspurr]

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.

[idreamtofmanderleyagain]

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.”

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

“Indefinite suffering = justice” is a basic premise of Christianity fwiw

[tyvadi]

Of course, it’s other basic premise is grace, aka forgiveness with no strings attached and no work required. That’s the whole point of Christ’s death, dying in place of everyone else, which makes it doubly sad how many people who call themselves Christians forget it.

[ignorantsanonymous]

[eilti]

Go all the way off

[thedreamons]

♫ Piragua, Piragua. New block of ice, Piragua. Piragua, Piragua. So sweet and nice, Piragua.  ♫

[apocalyptic-cake-deactivated202]

Listen up!

You see a post like this? Where OP might hurt/kill themselves? You hit that button that I circled

Hit that.

Click Suicide or Self-harm Concern

Yes.

Fill in the rest of it, and hit submit. The "content you reported" will fill itself in

Tumblr will follow up and help them.

Warning: this is only for mobile. If anyone knows how to do this for desktop, please add it!

This could SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.

YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOT TO REBLOG THIS.

I DON'T GIVE A FUCK IF IT DOESN'T GO WITH YOUR BLOG'S THEME.

And yes, REBLOG. Liking does no shit at all. This isn't ig.

You reblog, people see it. You don't, people don't see it. This shit's that simple.

This could save someone's life. It's not a joke.

[gyrsaker365]

This isn’t some ‘oh yeah sure it could’.

This could legitimately do so.

Don’t you dare fucking scroll past.

[obscureoldguy]

This is good stuff to know!

[thedreamons]

Tamara Vs The Sinister Sculptor This magic powder is really good. I don’t know why other sculptors muck about with clay.

[thedreamons]

If I had a nickel for the number of times I’ve been petrified while eating toast… I’d have 15 cents. Which isn’t a lot, but still weird that it’s happened more than once.

[akron-squirrel]

Today is the only day ever for the rest of time that you can reblog this

[thedreamons]

Proud Warrior of the Gorgon People. I found a really cool gorgon cosplay on the internet and thought I’d draw it. More credit to that person than me. 

[thedreamons]

100% Pure! Boxing with Tamara!

[thedreamons]

Super Sentai Kiramager Tamara! Now in mannequin form!