Arcan

@identifying-planes-in-posts

I HAVE FINALLY FOUND THE PAINT JOB I NEED ON MY CAR.

driving my newly painted car down to my job at the children’s hospital

a character that's going thru a redemption arc doesn't actually have to be penalized or atone via community service or whatever for whatever bad thing they've done because what's the point of that. suffering can be a motive for the bad things they do just as much as it could be part of the redemption arc - meaning that the suffering in itself isn't what makes a character good or bad. it's just A Thing That Happens. and i think that redemption-related suffering is boring unless ☝️ it is self-inflicted AND ☝️ it is seen as self-destructive/selfish/useless/etc

a previously evil/redeemed character who does good things now should be doing them because they want to, not because they feel like they have to repent or whatever. UNLESS. that repentance is self-destructive, a sign of a lack of actual growth, or sexy

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

We should keep characters on a floating timeline from aging but freeze when the events of their life happened. James Bond should be born in 1992 and mentioning how he fought in World War II. Your comic strip about a bland middle-aged suburbanite can continue to have him be the son of a steel magnate disowned for marrying a flapper. Bc the alternative is that thing The Simpsons do where they update the timeline of the flashbacks & now the Simpsons canonically met ten years after The Simpsons, the show, started

The Simpsons thing is the subject of jokes about how "I'm old haha" but also it is just weird. Like they're altering their show's timeline constantly so they can keep doing episodes no one really likes full of 15-20 year old references. Since the show did it good a couple times and then mostly badly but it's an expected thing from the good seasons so they have to keep doing it (the good seasons were when Marge was canonically in elementary & middle school)

"We're a single income family with a house and a car. This is normal and relatable."