Mundane Things About My Version Of The Gatsby Gang

I’m not anti-Vivziepop and in fact I’m a fan of HB but I’ll be using tags accordingly to try to reach the right audience

I’m gonna be honest, I dropped this series for a couple of years and I did after watching “the circus. “ to me making Stella evil since birth just so Stolas can be let off the hook (rather than having an interesting and nuanced situation where maybe both characters are imperfect) just felt like such a BAD writing choice. Every now and then, the writing kindaaaa reeks of…misogyny maybe? Regarding Stella and the way she’s written so Stolas can be an uwu innocent gay bean. Keep in mind, I LIKE Stolas, I just wished this part of the story had been written better.

Anyway, I actually got back into it because someone told me that Striker came back again so. I guess if Stella didn’t put a hit on her husband, striker wouldn’t exist so silver lining

Edit:and let me add-it’s not like I don’t like Stella at all. I like her, she IS a funny villain and her toxicity kinda amuses me tbh. I love seeing women crash out. I think despite the bad writing, the VA’s performance REALLY saves her, but I also feel irked by where said writing is coming from and the fact that we COULD have had better.

Vincent: I know you have been under a lot of stress recently Thomas, and I would like to help 🥰 please, let me help 🥰

Thomas, suddenly so erect he can't see: can you. can you put me down like a dog whilst staring into my eyes and telling me im good

mickey 17 was so good robert pattinson loves to play a wet little freak and do a silly voice and god bless him for it

old marg & sansa sketch 💐

Celebrating 100yrs of The Great Gatsby🦚

some rebellion characters i’ve been wanting to draw ^o^

closeups under cut!

every time i see one of those posts joking about the hh & hb specific color red or how everyone has a bow tie, stripes, and a suit, i giggle a little because it’s true—however, i’m not necessarily sure it’s a bad thing? it’s hell, and i think the main cast are meant to compliment that thru their colors. besides, it’s not as if i’m having trouble differentiating the characters and i do think the clothing, flawed in design as many characters are, for the most part reflects the aspects of that character. vox stands out so much from the main cast because he’s supposed to—it reflects his medium. idk i feel like the red identifies it as hazbin more so than being an active issue with the show. it’s like saying why does the first twilight movie have that blue filter-looking thing over everything. whether or not you agree that it looks good that’s just the show’s aesthetic coherence.

The seventh son

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hazbin hotel review!

yeah, i’m late to the bandwagon. i saw the pilot when i came out, was fiercely praying for the rest of it, but fell out of love with the fandom tbh for a while. but it’s good to be back on the air!

solid 7/10 show. very fun to watch, enjoyable characters and musical numbers, and compelling visuals. misc observations below the cut; some of it will be critique, some of it analysis.

i really liked zestial but the writers switched between thou/you so inconsistently and even incorrectly

carmilla was a compelling character, but i don’t think they can give her that moral code and also make her an arms dealer. why wouldn’t she want war? why wouldn’t she want to sell the only weapons that can aid demons in this war? “i need to protect my family” wasn’t enough of a motivation for me. they could’ve easily given her a different profession and it would’ve made perfect sense. i also didn’t like her hands.

favorite characters: alastor, vox, lucifer, charlie

least favorite characters: cherri bomb and,,, im sorry,, angel dust

favorite/least favorite status comes from how interesting or annoying they were for me to watch, not which ones were the most sympathetic (i thought angel was quite sympathetic, just poorly written)

angel mostly just got on my nerves in the first half of the show because every bit of dialogue was either a sex joke or exposition about his trauma and why he is the way he is. but mostly just talking about sex. and they gave him jack shit to do in the second half of the season. i think conceptually he’s a great character but in execution there’s not a lot of depth to him; they need to give him a personality beyond his profession imo

alastor’s best moments came ‘seeing him in action’ like in his songs and the scary animation moments (those were soo good). i also really liked the cannibalism town scenes with rosie. i often thought his dialogue was lacking and they sometimes didn’t do a great job separating things he would say from generic things any ‘vivziepop character’ would say (‘i’m going to fucking kill you’ or whatever he said to adam)

charlie could be grating at times but i feel like all in all she was a solid and sympathetic protagonist and kept me rooting for her the entire time

one aspect i really really liked is the fact that no one knows what gets souls into heaven. i think that’s a good way for covering the lack of a cohesive standard of moral degeneracy in hell—most people just drink, fuck, and do drugs. the murderers and cannibals make sense, val makes sense, etc, but most actual characters in hazbin and helluva boss seem to have an inherent understanding of right and wrong that is quite standard. i really hope the criteria for salvation is explored further—is it conservative christian values? is it something else? is it predestination? is it haphazard? this is really really interesting to me!!!

furthermore, the fact that sir pentious died and went to heaven is obviously a sign in charlie’s favor that redemption is possible, which paints hell as more of a purgatory or even ‘second earth’ than a traditional christian hell. i wonder what god/jesus will be like in the hellaverse. i’m half predicting a sort of wizard of oz situation

my only other theory is that by the end of the show a shift will have occurred from charlie focusing on reforming souls to get into heaven and instead on reforming souls and hell itself to be a better place

The Character Design of Hazbin Hotel

The output of the animation studio Spindle Horse has rapidly gone from the personal OC playspace of an enthusiastic animator to a merchandise-funded animation empire, attracting attention and financing from A24 and Amazon, besides doing millions and millions of views on YouTube.

Hazbin Hotel, the animated musical series that was picked up by Amazon Prime and which probably introduced a lot of people to the sensibilities of the studio's output, is in my opinion kind of a 7/10 sort of show, but it has attracted a fanbase that operates on K-pop stan levels of intensity. This is usually a pretty good sign that something interesting is going on artistically, so... let's have a look, I guess?