#he was one of the cool christians

[nikikikiko]

i wonder if kid ever got his music taste from justin. like it’s a thought but it haunts me sometimes while i read the manga & see scenes between them (esp their scene’s while kid’s with noah and by proxy with justin)

bc kid most likely knows all the death scythes thanks to his dad and all of them probably met kid. who’s to say justin didn’t visit from the europe branch and run into a tiny child death the kid and decide to let him listen in. who’s to say justin didn’t influence kid’s sassiness? his chill and laidback attitude? he certainly didn’t get much of that from his upbeat cheerful papa death and justin is plenty parts sassy and chill

and what if the sound of kid’s laughter was music to justin’s ears and he’d take out his earbuds to hear it because that little boy he’s watched (from slightly afar) grow into a silly pre-teen is happy. what if they’ve talked about artists they like and justin introduced kid to all kinds of music?

and bonusly:

how much would it hurt then, for kid to see justin while he’s held captive and see this warped twisted version of the man he used to know? to see justin not only turn his eye to gopher’s beatings but laugh and mock him? to have THAT what gets his earbuds off now because this version of justin is just /that/ fucked up?

though its a headcanon, it haunts me bc of the angst potential it has

[inamindfarfaraway]

The Exorcists’ Masks of Virtue

The vast majority of Exorcists in Hazbin Hotel have a notable design element that other angels don’t: their masks are missing an eye. Specifically, the right eye.

I believe this is a reference to the Bible, Matthew 5:29. Jesus says, “If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.”

He’s being hyperbolic. Mr Free Healthcare was not pro-mutilation. What he means is that you have to be willing to make sacrifices to prevent sin. The context of the eye metaphor is him condemning adultery and warning that even something as easy, casual and small as a look full of lustful intent can lead to further, worse sin if you don’t notice your sin, hold yourself accountable for it and do the work to not let it influence your decisions. This will probably be hard. It could be very, very painful. Changing your perspective can feel as horrible as plucking out your eye, so many people can’t bring themselves to do it. But although it won’t feel that way in the moment, it’s healthier for our general wellbeing in the long run to abandon traits and behaviours that damage ourselves and/or others.

(You may notice that Jesus’s teaching that you can have sinned, redeem yourself by giving up sin and thus escape damnation is the founding principle of the Hazbin Hotel. You may also notice that it contradicts everything the Exorcists believe.)

The Exorcists seem to follow this idea of painfully excising badness for the sake of the greater good devoutly to the point of placing it above teachings like ‘Thou shalt not kill’, with their job being to remove sin, in the form of sinners, to protect Heaven. Hence the missing right eyes. They’re a declaration of moral righteousness and inability to stumble.

But the truth is that the Exorcists all have their right eyes. Their flawlessness is a facade. Underneath, they are untouched, think themselves morally untouchable and, as shown by their horror and outrage when even one of them is killed, would much rather be physically untouchable too. This perfectly represents their complete unwillingness to acknowledge their own faults, let alone improve. They are never the ones who sacrifice. They force the sinners to sacrifice and don’t compensate it with any salvation. They metaphorically rip out the sinners’ eyes, but still condemn their entire bodies as inherently, permanently sinful. So they’ll just have to do another Extermination to get the other eyes! And another one to cut off their right hands! And so on until there’s nothing left.

The only exception to the rule is Vaggie, both in appearance and character. Her mask has the left eye crossed out instead. Even before her expulsion, she’s set apart to the audience as an Exorcist who has the capacity to, shall we say, see a different side of things. Her mask having its ‘sinful’ right eye reflects her understanding that the Exorcist worldview is wrong.

When she almost kills a demon child, her hateful vision clears. She discards the part of herself that’s an unquestioning, merciless agent of death, terror and grief… and as punishment for what Lute perceives as treacherous weakness, gets her eye plucked out.

Of course Lute leaves her with only the ‘sinful’ eye. It brands Vaggie forever as the inversion, a perversion, of what the Exorcists are meant to be.

You know, all this talk of eye removal in the Bible reminds me of another line - ‘an eye for an eye’. Adam directly quotes it in “Hell is Forever”. He uses it to frame the Exterminations as Old Testament-style punitive justice; the sinners did harm and so they receive it. But putting aside the debate about how ethical the concept of revenge is, the entire point of taking an eye for an eye is that it’s proportional. The punishment fits the crime. If someone cuts your eye out, you shouldn’t murder their whole family in front of them and then slowly disembowel them to death. That would be the sin of wrath. You should just make them pay without excessive pain or collateral damage. This is the fairest form of revenge.

The Exorcists don’t do that! The Exterminations aren’t proportional to the wrongs of all they hurt, nor was Vaggie’s brutal punishment equivalent to her extremely mild insubordination. Lute literally takes Vaggie’s eye, and more, after Vaggie does nothing to her! That’s the opposite of the phrase! Adam and his soldiers are wrathful and cruel, deriving satisfaction from others’ suffering. But they just can’t stop going on and on about how disgustingly evil the sinners are, in total hypocrisy… despite some of the sinners being far better people than the genocidal Exorcists are… it’s like they’re obsessed with specks of dust in the sinners’ eyes when they have massive logs stuck in their own. Oh hey, that’s in the Bible too!

[sssnakeparty]

little wolf

[the-casbah-way]

hazbin fans who don’t know christian borle are like “why isn’t he at any of the cast events” brother that’s his whole thing. man gives the performance of a lifetime then immediately disappears never to be seen again. get used to it he is an enigma

[dummerjan]

Pride is full of evangelicals that tell queer they want to save us. I know we have plenty of those idiots around these parts but they usually don't talk to you. And this is the first time I see them at a Pride event. There were so many, I kept being offered pamplets and chick tracks. I wish I could stay calm but I told several people to fuck off.

[talesofwhimsy]

I'm 100 pages into Moby Dick and they just got on the goddamn boat

This book actually kinda fucks hard it's great?

[esteemed-excellency]

ok i'm almost done with the new firmament chapter, i have So Many thoughts 👀

[kazeharuhime]

The Tournament, Page 1

[the-girl-from-another-place]

ok ok hear me out arthur lester is the pearl poet

[c-kiddo]

also i realised i double hate that take because it takes away fjord's agency. fjord who threw ukotoa's falchion into the lava in the forge and went to pray to the wildmother in the snow, fjord who made his oath to the wildmother on the sea. i like fjord so much so im booing everyone with the take that cad evangelised him even more now. boooo booooooooo 👎

[brooklynisher]

It feels weird to say because it's such a popular song and it was also a big meme song back in the Vine days, but I think Mad World is very Commander Cosmo-coded

Specifically the Pentatonix version because I don't associate it with the meme and also it sounds a lot more intense compared to the original which sounds very soft. I feel Commander Cosmo is more intense than he is soft. Also, I just like their version more

[not-a-vegan3]

imagine you don't watch youtube mutch, and your friend has been begging you to watch this certain youtuber. After awhile you break and decide to watch them...and for some reason they seem REALLY familiar to you, you don't know why though. You watch them for a few years and then you learn a piece of information that explains everything: They were a teacher at one point, They were YOUR teacher

[ourladyofghouls]

I’m working on a presentation about Moulin Rouge for a class and i found this picture and im sobbing

like what is the context. what is jacek playing that has ewan and nicole so amazed. I’m looking at the costumes and trying to guess what scene they were filming and if this is during like a break during Roxanne bc of jacek and ewan’s fits thats somehow funnier. “funky recorder”.

[www-pinkhearse]

I’m sorry

[gxlden-angels]

What if Hell was just a big pot of perpetual stew? Oh you killed 5 people in cold blood then stole candy from babies? Sorry you're going in the Forever Sin Soup

[queer-trashmouth]

Coolest thing on my trip has been today when we went to Hieropolis (?) in Türkiye and I got to do some oracle readings for our group (right next to the temple of Apollo!!!)