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ei-mugi · 10 months ago

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im not a even a fan of the "hellaverse" but i have seen helluva boss and with all the twitter uproar over the hazbin ep4 leaks i went and found a reaction video of the full ep on yt so i could see how bad it really was and. jesus christ. theres certainly analysis of the visuals that could be had regarding the original criticisms but for me the episode was more like... 1. angel dust is the exact same character as fizzarolli 2. hellaverse is never going to break away from writing its characters like a whump fic is it and 3. this is an absolutely horrible portrayal of sex workers. vivienne pleaseeeee get your head out of the yaoi bin and remind yourself of like. women and misogyny. and stop writing all your sex worker/sexually abused (notice how that is grouped together) characters in the same way. sex workers arent all victims who need to be saved from their jobs

#sorry i just already had a ton of thoughts on how poorly i thought fizzarolli was written #half for the writers riding too much on whump standards and thus ignoring the glaring fundamental issues in his life #and then blaming all of his problems on being cutely insecure #but also in the like. misogyny. i get it we fandomers like yaoi but please. HOW could you look at those 2 women villains #in s2e7 and decide that was okay. that was egregious #ive just been thinking about this shit way too much and i kind of want to dump a proper analysis of it but also. sigh.#do i REALLY want to be blogging about hazbin and helluva #then again i also feel the need to say stuff because im willing to bet that anyone on YT whos making hellaverse analysis #isnt familiar with whump and like. as someone who enjoys whump i think it should be required reading for understanding how narratives like #fizzarollis are constructed #because there are very obvious tropes and character archetypes being taken directly from whump-style stuff and it is NOT good in this mediu #as much as i enjoy a bit of catharsis you cant just carry over the same stuff from it and expect your audience to suspend their disbelief i #the same way. because once you start thinking about the actual politics and personal implications of it...#well. you end up with a poorly written show with poorly written characters that inadvertently end up being misogynistic #sigh. if someone wants me to i can share my thoughts on this #i dont entirely hate the hellaverse im more ambivalent on it i guess. i did like some parts of it but as a whole its not my thing #i am someone who enjoys thinking about this stuff and doing some casual textual analysis though #so i cant help thinking about this stuff when watching or reading anything

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