#can be read as they're playing dnd or just silly quotes

[forbiddentaako]

hazbin hotel characters as dnd quotes

ive already done this with ninja go might as well do it again asbjafdkbj

Husk: can that be a thing, can Alastor starve to death

Vaggie: no, you did not just fantasy eat soggy bread

Adam: he hits the whoa, and you hit the … die

Lucifer:I’m not in tip top shape I have fantasy depression

Alastor: that’s a 31. Eat your corpse

Angel: I’ll sell you crack I have some Sir Pentious: The only crack you have is your arse

Charlie: Nifty where did you put the ashes Nifty:of the deceased Charlie: ya Nifty: I cleaned them Charlie:where did you put them Nifty:the garbage

Angel Dust: she wants me? Sorry I don’t do women.

Vaggie: we’ve heard it with our own eyes

Lucifer: i’m having pregnancy sickness

Angel Dust: So what do you think, Angel becomes a male stripper? rolls nat 1

Angel Dust: one hand on my penis, one in Husk's

Charlie: will you be the truck to my other truck

Lucifer: next time i'm gonna cast the spell of internalized homophobia on Adam

Alastor: That’s my title actually Rosie: The aroace icon? Alastor: 😔 I’m not an icon

Charlie: that 17 I just rolled for hotness? flips hair Oh its leaving

[wheelercore]

The church scene with Jason was actually so important to the Wheeler parents and it's not talked about enough... Lucas said it best when he said "normal" wasn't real it's just for psychopaths like Jason (not the direct quote but that's the gist of it), because that's what everyone realized that season. Karen goes from nagging Mike hardcore to making it clear by the end of the season that she loves him before hugging him. Ted goes from calling the DnD club the high school dropouts club to calling the media satanic panic bs. It's subtle, but it's there.

And it's important in understand how both of them interact with Mike. How Karen focused on laying onto Mike about his troublesome behavior and punishing him without doing enough to Mike him feel safe to open up around her. Her problem was always that she wanted Mike to come to her while simultaneously never making him feel like she should. How can Mike feel safe coming to her about the fact that he's gay if she's always harping on his flaws trying to make him a "perfect" child?

Karen realized in that church scene, watching Jason, the good looking heterosexual popular basketball star, the child that every mother at that time would have wanted, the opposite of everything Mike is, ranting and raving about Mike's DnD club and how they're satanist and murders and realized: holy shit who raised him? Who gave him that hero complex? Who indoctrinated him this way? And her realizing that she's glad Mike is uniquely who he is and she loves him for it and she would never change it. And she should show it.

Ted doesn't nag Mike often, but his jabs are almost always related to Mike presenting in any way queer. (I actually was writing a post on this because it's so fascinating but the gist of it is that there's most likely a cycle going on here. It's sitting in my drafts but idk if I'll post it because ~ social anxiety~). Anyways, things like "see what happens", "our son? With a girl?", referring to the DnD club as the "high school drop outs club", and "no sweetie pie" (idk if Ted even knows El exists lol).

"Anything is possible" he says and Karen snaps at him that their children aren't murderers, and of course he knows that... It's not what he meant he says, but he did say it. The DnD clubs are "queer" and "satanic" in the media he reads and watches right? It's his scripted line from what he sees, what he should say because it's what everyone else is saying. But he doesn't believe it. He doesn't believe Mike and his friends are murderers. However, as long as he follows the script, as long as he partakes in this "silly, terrible play" (as Henry called it) where he wakes up, works, eats, sleeps, reproduces, and dies- which are the only things we see Ted ever do bar death- doing the bare minimum performance as a father, then he doesn't have to think about that cognitive dissonance. He doesn't have to think at all.

He could just sit there and eat, letting Jason come and go with his mob, just like he does when Karen is scolding Mike at the dinner table. Except his donuts are uneaten because for once he can't just distract himself when there's someone making his son's DnD club out to be satanists capable of serial murder in a church of all places, and when there's a mob ready to chase them down. And so, for the first time he goes off script- it's subtle, he's just not eating the food in his hand and paying attention. But then in the next scene, he goes even further off script saying that the media satanic panic is tabloid bs rather just just absorbing it or sleeping.

Both Karen and Ted are evolving, it's subtle, but s4 was a turning point for them I think.

[justthesauce]

Okay, I never post/add to a post outside of tags, BUT it drives me insane how many good webcomics are out there that changed my brain in such a positive way that no one I know has read, so I AM going to recommend a few just 'cuz I can!

Go Get a Roomie, by @cloverscomics: they're doing a rerun with commentsry, since it ended a couple years ago, and it's the most loving, goofy, adult, queer, story I have ever read! I love it to bits! I could talk forever about it! If you read nothing else, go read this (plus, if you go back to the original run, I actually have some guest art in here)! The creator has two other webcomics, only one of which I've read, but both are excellent! You can find them through the link above.

Sunstone, by @stjepan-sejic: I've only read the first arc (book?) with Allison and Lisa, and the veeery beginning of Mercy. I only know how to find it on deviantart, so you will need an account to read it there, because it's VERY much about bdsm. It's very sweet and silly and queer, and such a fun read! The art also dips into erotic at times, if you're into that, but the story is really good too if you aren't.

(honestly GGAR and Sunstone got me through being a queer teenager more than my family and peers did, so I love them extra for that)

Octopus Pie, by @octopuspiecomic: this also a finished comic, though the author does toss in some epilogues every now and then. It's a slice of life comic about a woman in her early 20s through to 30s, and it's just......... GOOD. Like, it's really just following a bunch of people's lives told in a sincere, kind, matter of fact kind of way, and I don't know how to describe it better than that?? Check it out!

Goth Western, by Livali Wyle: short, but packs a punch. This one is also complete. If you like lesbians, westerns, tragic love, weird death magic, and creepy gods, this is your moment. Go to them. This is such a good story. I will keep this one short (like the comic) because you should stop and go read it now.

Atomic Robo, by Brian Clevinger and @swegener: think Hellboy, but more atompunk and goofy science jargon than gritty occultism. It's still going, and continues to be a delightful romp of robots punching monsters, monsters punching robots, robots punching robots, SCIENCE, wise-cracks, and adventures. There's also a spinoff that I haven't read that can be found through the link above.

And finally, because I have to stop somewhere:

Order of the Stick, by Rich Burlew. This one's been going for a WHILE. Like, pre-teen me started reading this, and it's STILL going. It starts as a loving self-referential jab at D&D, from the perspective of someone who clearly played (plays?) a lot, and slowly becomes one of the best goddamn fantasy stories I've read. It's very discworld, in the sense that the author originally was just having a good laugh, and then began to actually tell a nuanced and thoughtful story. That still has stupid jokes all over the place. I still can't believe that I quote this stick-figure dnd comic to my friends unironically. If you check it out, you'll see what I mean.

i’m not joking about how much i love webcomics btw. this is why stuff like webtoon feels so hostile to human life. webcomics are supposed to be for like, sporadically updated comics made by hobbyists about their unpublishable YA premises, or shockingly competent polished graphic novels that have nevertheless been running for 100 years and make no fucking sense, like, niche, labor of love projects hosted on vaguely pre-web2.0 sites and available to read completely for free. this is the best kind of media that exists