#Mission Antarctica

[blitz-without-the-o]

RACIST PENGUINS?

I don't know what's funnier: the implication that these penguins know enough about imps to have slurs for them that can't be repeated on this show, or the implication that Blitzø speaks penguin

[geekgirles]

I fucking can't with this show

[allweneedisanacorn]

In the evening after the Antarctica mission

[ataraxianne]

Can't stop thinking that while he disastrously licked the crystal he kept looking at Millie and Moxxie (mostly Millie because shes the one who told him to be gentle with it) with that unsure and questioning look, as if he was asking "Like this?? Am I doing this right??"

You know, as in "How would you do it because like you're the most stable and healthy relationship I know and I'm the closest to and I've been using you as an idealised standard and I crave what you have and since I fucked up whatever I had with Stolas and I don't know where - but it's probably the sex since it's the only thing I may be valuable for - can you experts in relationships please tell me IF I'M DOING THIS RIGHT??"

[zuzajs14]

My little impish heart is freezing 💔

[ironyscleverer]

I would argue that yes, Blitz is genuinely terrible at oral. BUT! Stolas loves it.

You know how Blitz is canonically a terrible clown and not funny at all? But Stolas thinks he’s hilarious and laughs at his jokes? Even when nobody else does? Yeah, like that.

[superanimepirate]

This is the funniest goddamn thing I've seen

[paleshroom]

Facts and Parallels in the Latest Helluva Shorts: Mission Antarctica *SPOILERS*

From this 4-minute animation, we learn the following:

- Work as usual is happening post-Apology Tour and Blitz is bad at portals. (This makes me so especially fucking giddy because it gives more canon-compliance to that speculative fic I wrote before Apology Tour came out).

- Loona is conspicuously absent, even from the office when they’re going in and out of the portal.

- More evidence of Blitz’s dyslexia, struggling with the order of the alphabet and so on. I love the added detail of Blitz dictating things to Moxxie for him to type out.

- More (?) evidence that Blitz is exceptionally terrible at math and likely has the wombo combo of both dyslexia AND dyscalculia. Yowza.

- [edit: After seeing some discussion, I don’t think he’s necessarily bad at oral overall, but there’s a lot he does with Stolas that he certainly did not do for Ver or anyone else, and again cunnilingus is VERY different from rimming.] Blitz has terrible head game, throwing back to when Verosika accused him of not reciprocating. Or, at least, he’s bad with cunnilingus. We can only assume his rim game is better, given the coughed up feathers (Harvest Moon Festival) and the implication of a request to “[face]plant that feathered ass” (Loo Loo Land).

- Blitz considers himself a top.*

- Moxxie has good head game thanks to Millie and being a good partner.

- Blitz still has the Moxxie and Millie minis from the “let’s three-way” scene right before Stolas calls him in Loo Loo Land.

- Millie echoes Asmodeus’s sentiment that lust is not about “brute force.”

- Blitz panics at the idea of treating the crystal “gently” like a lover. He doesn’t do gentle caresses. That’s gay, and the night before (or a few nights ago?) was gay enough.*

- Penguins have multiple xenophobic slurs.

Feel free to add on here!

*Headcanon below the cut.

*HC: this motherfucker is a service top but there have been hints (ie: the strapon in Full Moon) that he and Stolas have likely switched a few times. I think he glosses over this and doesn’t tell anyone about it because he’s told himself he’s fulfilling Stolas’s fantasy, but really this motherfucker wants to put his trust in someone too. If apologies are “for pussies and no one fucking deserves them anyway” but Stolas is the exception, what does that mean for being vulnerable gentle in sex? Actual intimacy? The kind where that person shares the same desire for connection that you do? It’s fucking TERRIFYING. It’s easy to shift glances, sneakily take a picture when the other person doesn’t know, look at it on your phone and dream a hopeless dream in private, reminding yourself that it’s only a dream, that you won’t have it, don’t deserve to have it, and will only end up hurting yourself and everyone around you if you even dare to chase that dream of loving and being loved by another.

I love him so much he’s such a fucking mess.

[cerbero2518]

"Penguins don't have teeth. Instead, they have backward-facing fleshy spines that line the inside of their mouths"

Pretty accurate

I love Helluva Boss, but now I have a new fear 🤣

[blitz-without-the-o]

And lastly: my two fave screenshots from this ep

Look at Moxxieeee his little faaaace

This scene has it all. Racist penguins. Millie's face. Blitzø on the floor. Perfection.

[geekgirles]

They have no right to look so cute all bundled up like this.

[lifea16]

[Stolen Observation from Twitter]

Wait what??

Firstly,

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE SHORTS ARE AFTER GHOSTFUCKERS Has Blitz just been bedrotting for a month straight???

Also, another interesting thing, The shorts are in reverse order of release

Mission Antarctica is canonically the most recent short

What's been happening?

Theorists, discuss

[lost-romantique]

reddit really is a cesspool of the worse HB fans...

It's very telling that reddit views Mission Chupacabra as one of the worse shorts out there, but hail Mission Antartica as one of the best.

No flack to Mission Antartica, but the discourse that short caused was fucking disgusting.

And I'm happy that Mission Chupacabra does confirm that Blitz knows how to FUCKING eat.

Also, to the people that say that the animation this episode sucked, here's why you're wrong.

Exhibition A

[the-great-horse-cocktail]

“Blitzø speaks bird bc of Stolas” is a really sweet theory until you remember that the penguin words he recognized were slurs

[cometblaster2070]

My second favorite shot out of the whole episode ngl because every detail about this is just PERFECT.

Millie's just an arsonist and maniacally cackling after setting the penguins on fire while Moxxie and Blitz watch on in sheer horror and confusion.

AND THEN THERE'S JUST THE PENGUINS YELLING SLURS??? AND THE FACE OF THE PENGUIN ON THE RIGHT I ACTUALLY CAN'T IT'S LOOKING AT THEM WITH SUCH ABSOLUTE HATE IT'S MAKING ME CRY.

[helluvahusker]

Moxxie's gun has a little musical note on it, I- 🥹