#heck’s angels

[lilybug-02]

Patience and responsibility....that's a promise....right?

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--Full Series--

An exorcism? In my family-friendly Deltarune? It's more likely than you may think. The backgrounds here were very interesting! Much more complex than how I usually do them (especially that computer).

Player POV:

Feral energy.

[2022dirt]

Aerial view of the wildfires in Los Angeles.

[supercalifragipopculturevomit]

Daniel Brühl Smoking Hot, a collection:

Me, a non-smoker for life: dying from secondhand smoke watching these DB characters puff a cigarette up close wouldn't be the worst thing in the world...

Marek, Honolulu (2001)

Daniel, No Regrets / Nichts Bereuen (2001)

Paul Krantz, Love in Thoughts (2004)

Jan, The Edukators (2004)

Salvador Puig Antich, Salvador (2006)

Klaus Prompst, In Tranzit (2008)

Dr. Georg Rosen, John Rabe (2009)

Álex Garel, Eva (2011)

Iván Pelayo, Winning Streak / The Pelayos (2012)

Thomas Lang, The Face of an Angel (2014)

Sebastian Zöllner, Me and Kaminski (2015)

Inspector Escherich, Alone in Berlin (2016)

Lutz Heck, The Zookeeper's Wife (2017)

Wilfried Böse, Entebbe (2018)

[faeriegirl]

❤️The Devil and His Bride❤️

[matchstique]

I have no idea what I’m doing

[randomly--accessed--memories]

Decided to nail down some exact years for the events leading up to this AU. These are basically just my headcanons for the main series with a few minor adjustments, such as Velvette's birth and death years and Niffty being an overlord.

Wait, forgot to specify: Vox officially gains overlord status in 1968 and Rosie gains it in 1900.

[fruitsofhell]

I am amazed by so much about Hazbin Hotel now that I'm finally, FINALLY watching it. There's so much to comment on but I have GOT to get this out of the way that has been distracting me going into the final episode. I need you to know that I'm like grimacing in a mix of pain and amusement rn. I feel like a teacher about to tell a student their essay earned the most entertaining F I've ever seen.

I want to do a little case study in Vivziepop's design ethos in the Cannibal Town bit y'know. I don't have the steam to write a full essay right here but I will try to get into this and how it relates to something that so fascinates me about her art. I was a fan of Vivziepop back in like 2014 when she first gained some notoriety in the animation community from her Die Young short and I watched nearly every piece of her old art content where she expressed her character designs and story ideas. I was really invested in them when I was younger, I thought and still do think her designs and ideas are very evocative in a good way, but which have slowly unraveled with time and scrutiny in all respects.

In her show... there's a district in hell run by cannibals, and the WHOLE gag of them is that instead of being your usual sort of racist stereotype they're a kitschy little victorian looking district who still sing about loving consuming flesh and blood and all that. See, this was evocative IN 2014, but it's not 2014. Which is not really interesting to say in itself because the show is utterly drowning in early 2010s Hot Topic-ass design sensibilities that I will probably talk about some other time, what I'm really getting at is the hypothetical thought process behind this.

Vivzie is a lover of all things impish and vintage, so of course in hell she thinks there should be a place full of cannibals who go beyond the usual stereotypes. And in her mind she's imagining how evocative the idea of smiling genteel demons running around eating human fingers is and goes with it. And a plus for her, it skirts around the racialized baggage attached to the taboo of cannibalism, maybe she even thinks its anti-racist to spin things like this. But like. It really really just stops there.

Hazbin Hotel wants to use its framing of heaven and hell to make a social commentary on morality obviously, and in the way its doing it it also is creating a sort of statement on class. There is this idea of moral meritocracy that angels are exploiting to keep themselves and those humans they like above those they dislike for arbitrary reasons, and just in the language - written and visual - of how heaven and hell are distinguished you see this slums vs metropolis thing going on. But I mean, someone else can probably tell you about how busted it is so I won't get into it, I'll just say that comparing hell to any sort of metaphor for a ghetto where disadvantaged and flawed people are grouped together unsafely looks bad for Vivzie lol.

This is where I come back to Cannibal Town which is so so so SO obviously a chance to make the most blunt-obvious social commentary on human exploitation that Vivzie just DOESN'T cause she finds people in victorian pristine garb talking about eating flesh funny and that is the full extent of her conversation on these ideas together. There's really really nothing else it seems that Vivziepop feels like saying about a kitschy upper-middle class town of people who eat other people other than isnt it funny when upper-middle class people want to eat others. And it does boggle my mind when so much other talk of exploitation, abuse, and class stratification is so laid bare on the table of this show.

In design and narrative this show really likes to touch on these deep but kinda basic tenets of social commentary but keeps doing the 2014 Hot Topic reversal of motifs and then just leaves that there like its something in itself. MMMaybe we could be doing more to say something about how when a bunch of people are arbitrarily thrown together in a lawless area under very broad assumption of moral degeneracy some seek to wield powers over others by reinforcing their simultaneous dehumanization. And how then those slumlords try to sell scraps of privilege to enrich themselves and stuff and how bad that is.

Like we kinda do sometimes, but then you have Cannibal Town which could have so fucking obviously been about liiiike??? IDK, the overlord of the area is someone who takes peoples souls and then gives them an insatiable urge to consume both physically and material goods that is symbolized through cannibalism and exploitation of other demons so that they are further reliant on the overlord??? ANd they all sit in their little village thinking theyre above others because they keep everything so orderly only by running themselves on the exploitation and consumption of other human resources. I don't even fucking know man but I just know that the Cannibal Town in the show is nothing but a joke and wank session for Vivziepop's historical fashion fetish and it drives me up the wall.

I want to be really invested in the politics of this world but this Vivziepop motherfucker just wants to create things like the town of white middle-class victorian cannibals for the lolz.

[starriesse]

WILD to talk about ableism when you say shit that triggers moral OCD!!

"if you consider yourself a good person you should read under cut--" Stop! Shut up. I'm sick of guilttripping bullshit that's like "oh if you consider yourself a good person you have to do this-"

You can spread information without guilttripping people!

[momentomori24]

Someone on twitter said it best: The title should actually be "How NOT to show support for SA victims that don't fit your desired demographic."

"His character is reinforcing negative gay stereotypes" and it's a hypersexual gay man who died in the 30s struggling with addiction and drug abuse to get through his life of exploitation, repression, trafficking and ipv doused with fake glitter and glam so no one can see beneath the cracked surface of his tortured soul.

"I don't think I've ever come across a character so poorly represented yet so greatly praised by the general audience" Because Angel isn't "representation", but an actual character with his own unique struggles and issues and responses that thousands of people (inclusing myself) can deeply relate to and if not "relate" then sympathise with. He isn't "SA rep". He isn't "Gay rep". He's Angel Dust. He's a person, and a broken one at that. If you don't relate to him the way so, so many others do, then maybe it's not for you. I already hate you 💀

[mutatedleemon]

A redraw of a sketch

[someonefantastic]

ANGEL REWATCH ↳ 1.11 “Somnambulist“

[inkandpaperqwerty]

“I want to stay out of Hell. I will do anything.”

To stay out of Hell, you have to stay away from hunters, monsters, demons, and angels. Essentially, you can only associate with normal humans, and Xal had gotten very, very good at that over the last six thousand years. Yet somehow, despite his lack of participation in the supernatural world, the Winchesters found him. They found him, and now he has to keep them both alive, or he gets a one-way ticket Downstairs, and that’s about as far from an easy job as you can get.

He's done everything they asked. He trusted them—like an idiot—but even when he came to after the fact, he didn’t dare go against them. He put his head down and forced one foot in front of the other. Obedience to the best of his ability, right up to the line in the sand where compliance becomes dangerous. He has to walk that line—sometimes, he has to dance on it—but it’s not like he has a choice. He belongs to Sam and Dean Winchester. What else can he do?

Want is a Wasting Disease - Chapter 1 AO3 // fanfiction.net

[killerlittlerejects]

Judge Angels redesign go brrrr Sorry it messy it just a sketch.

[pixel-leaf]

yet another twitter meme

Original

[anonymous-harpy]

I call character assassination on Striker

So I'm going to do like I usually do and just work with my favorite bits of Striker when I'm able to reignite my motivation to write his origin story

[dean-winchesters-adhd]

My best buddy @momwool drew these for me. I am in awe 💙💚