The more time passes the more I'm convinced what people mean when they say "redemption arc" is "characters gets punished for acting unfriendly towards the characters I like and starts grovelling."

I'm seeing misunderstandings about this post, so I'll try to reword:

The more time passes, the more I'm convinced people see characters whose only "evil" act is to be vaguely rude to the designated protags, and immediately castigate the vaguely rude character as a villain who needs redemption, ie to be punished.

how to explain to these “everyone knows soda has no nutritional value” people that soda has literally kept me alive as a chronically ill cancer patient in recovery from anorexia nervosa. soda is accessible, digestible, helps w my nausea, helps me get solid food down, boosts my blood sugar when i need it, and is also–get a load of this–a significant source of pleasure in a body whose most salient experiences are discomfort and suffering.

if soda were all i could access? at an overpriced corner store? that’s a serious issue, and a gross injustice. i have been food insecure. i study food insecurity. i feel the weight of this.

but stop pretending that your arbitrary food morality (where it’s food itself that is intrinsically “good” or “bad,” “healthy” or “junk,” according to… you) is a step toward food justice. it’s not; you’re not increasing the autonomy or access of people who are cut off from a healthy variety of foods that align with their needs and values. you’re not improving systems of food production or distribution or the fundamental injustice of arranging these things for profit rather than according to need. you’re only stigmatizing people who do eat those foods to meet their needs, under varying and complex configurations of constraint and choice.

dc is so boring for not letting their heroes have jobs that don’t tie directly into their superhero lives anymore. everyone’s either a journalist, a cop (ew), a detective, in some branch of criminology, or just rich enough to bankroll their vigilante thing. or worse, their job/personal life doesn't matter to the story.

let these people be artists, teachers, actors, coffee shop owners, whatever. and let that actually matter to them and to the story. just because a job doesn’t connect to their superhero work doesn’t mean it has no place in the narrative. readers care about their personal lives too, not just the superheroing. how else are we supposed to connect with them?

great day for firestorms 3 loyal fans how are we feeling 🥹

already here to defend him ur honour maybe that town had terrible vibes or whatever who gaf rlly

I see this a lot, no one has actual names, or any reference for names, that are legit Native American, varying among the tribes, for their characters.

Babynames.com and shit like that will give you names made up by white people.

However, I’ve got your solution.

Native-Languages  is a good website to turn to for knowledge on a lot of native things, including native names. If you’re unsure about the names you’ve picked, they even have a list of made up names here!

Please don’t trust names like babynames.com for native names, they’re made up and often quite offensive to the cultures themselves.

Thank you!

Native Languages is a great website. I use it for my fact-checking since it always has reliable links to tribal sites.

Chris Cyprus (British, b. 1971, Gorton, Manchester, England, based Lancashire, England) - Whispering Souls, 2021, Paintings: Oil

Hope for the democratic party?