#how shitty is thst

[bigothteddies]

cause every time I remember I’m fucking devastated okay !! magazines are just. a fucking fundamental piece of my community’s cultures and they have been ripped and torn from the world with no replacement beyond video driven social media and I hate it. I fucking hate it. I can tell you every article I read in BMX Plus and Decline and Mountain Bike Action and RIDE BMX that I picked up. I can’t describe how connected to your world reading those magazines made you feel. How-To’s, event coverage, rider profiles, Write-In advice sections, the magic of earning a cover shot, even the ads that are relevant to your industry, it’s just. Incredible. I miss the incredible photography that we used to get to witness monthly. I miss seeing a photo or even a sequence of photos of someone doing something impossible looking and wondering how the hell they did it, scouring the photo for hints. I miss when landing a cover shot of a magazine was proof you made it in the industry, something for people to be proud of and hang on their walls at home. I miss when I didn’t have to get my news through billionaire owned social media video form newsfeeds. I miss when photography and riding were hand-in-hand important, when photographers were almost as famous in the industry as the riders. I miss seeing gorgeous photos instead of being spoonfed videos and skits and reactions and podcasts and goofy bullshit content. I remember going to the library and checking out the new addition of BMX Plus every month. I remember begging and begging my parents until they bought me ONE issue each of Mountain Bike Action and Decline. Neither of the covers are on those anymore I read them so many times. I can’t tell you how much I picked up from magazines, how many tricks names, how much community history, how many professional riders names and styles, how many legendary spots, how many inspirations and dreams I had and learned were all directly because of those magazine issues. Sure, at some point youtube played a pivotal part in experience as well, but watching youtube was an individual experience. *I* was watching a video, consuming it. When I read those magazines I felt like I was seeing my people, other people who cared about things I cared about, who wanted to show me things they thought were cool, who were catching me and everyone else reading it around the world with what was happening in our world. I miss the captions, the pictures, the articles, the covers, the features, the stories, the columns, the ads. Just everything. I hate that videoform social media has become the predominant way to get anything. I can’t delete instagram no matter how bad for me it is or how much I hate the company because all those editors for now defunct magazines have moved to running social media accounts. Where I see industry news and event announcements and recent noteworthy tricks is all there, and if I delete I lose my community. I do what I can. I buy the photobooks, the annual honorary physical media magazine, I buy the independent film projects when they come out to support my riders and filmers and editors, I buy from brands that I know support my scene. But it hurts my soul that I had to see one of the coolest and most central aspects of my community fall apart and get replaced with something a million times more hollow.

am I allowed to be bitter about the fall of magazines again or are you guys gonna get annoyed

[mintaikk]

Okay I think I've calmed down. Know more helluva boss rambles

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[crimeronan]

thesis statements. jotted while out running errands. amity and luz don't exactly start out as Enemies in this AU, but they are certainly..... two people at odds with each other. for. reasons

[bluecookiesabi]

Does anyone else feel like they're stagnating in life from their own choices or is it just me

[sensitivegoblin]

Vent

Tw: sewerslide and SH

[29121996]

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[be-good-to-bugs]

wow i actually am capable of enjoying others company

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[crimeronan]

I’m dying lmfao — just imagining Amity being shown the extent of the comfort between Hunter and Luz and having aneurysms everytime. I feel like she’d lowkey be super intrigued and come to just accept whatever weird shit they have going on no matter what. Because of Luz and Amity being so neurotic about each other, Hunter actually acting as the model of what to do is hilarious

just got the strongest mental image in the World of amity asking luz and hunter if they ever go on dates out of uniform bc shes been DYING to know more about wtf the parameters are of their whole Thing & luz is like oh we arent dating!! and amity is like WHAT DO YOU MEAAAN YOU ARENT DATING YOU SLEEP HALF-DRESSED IN THE SAME BEDDDD & hunter, who is fully fucking with her, is like oh yeah that's just a normal captain thing. every royal's captain of the guard in any kingdom has a relationship like this. really weird to question our 100% true real not clickbait cultural norms, blight,

[thatone-highlighter]

Streatney+, you agree

I agree so so so so so much

[fuck-customers]

I don't have a specific customer story I want to share, but I have something related:

So my boss will fire problem clients, and has done so in the past, and I love him so much for it. We're a (relatively) small, standalone business - just the one building and 50 or so employees. A lot of my coworkers are pretty tight-knit, and our boss genuinely cares about us, and we are incredibly lucky for it. A lot of businesses in my field are companies or corporate and they just have to grin and bear with it when clients are being shitty

People will yell at us, curse us out, occasionally threaten us, and also talk about how much they spent here (a recent one was a guy talking about how he spent $700 on one thing, which, yeah, thst's a lot, but it was a specialty thing and some of our specialties will run you upwards of $4,000, so shut the fuck up. Anyway.) He does generally give them 1 or 2 chances before firing them, but our line of work is very high emotion on the client side so I get that. But if someone is repeatedly shitty to us employees, he'll tell them they're not welcome here and to find somewhere else. Which is SO refreshing

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[mintaikk]

Moments I Think Blitzø Realized His Feelings for Stolas, Part 3: Stolas's Chains

Imma just go in backwards order ig. Part 1, Part 2

Truth Seekers is what made me say, "Okay, fine, I ship it!" After denying it for 5 episodes. There so much juicy Stolitz stuff and Blitzø angst to analyze! Many people have done this already, but goddammit, I want a piece of the cake too! Won't analyze the hallucination though, that's veen done enough. But I'll analyze some parts!

Throughout the entire hallucination, Blitzø is being pushed around by the people he's had a romantic or sexual connection with in the past. Moxxie insults him and berates him the entire time, and we know he has sexual feelings for Moxxie (I feel like Millie isn't here because she's never shown hostility to Blitzø, so he doesn't see her as 'bad. Edit: It's bcuz he finally found a friend he doesnt want to fuck im so happy for him 🥺'). Fizz is here making fun of him, and thst was his childhood friend who he had a crush on, but it ended horribly (💌🎂🕯🔥). Verosika is his ex girlfriend and drags him around and gets into his face calling him "a selfish shitty shit fuck." Striker is there as well calling out Blitzø's lies to himself about wanting to do things alone, and that fits well because he asked Striker to join IMP, and we know he had some attraction to him. The point is, everyone in the hallucination is someone he has been attracted too, and they're all including him and dragging him around against his will.

But then we see Stolas and all the insults and berating stops. He simply just asks, "Are you afraid to love people, Blitzy?"

This is the only person Blitzø actually goes towards. He runs up the stares, trying to escape everyone else. Why? For comfort? Because they were there? Or because he wanted to go to Stolas?

He looks at Stolas in awe, with his eyes wide and gasping. And then he starts crawling towards him.

At first, he willingly crawls up the stares. He looks tired and energy drained, but he doesn't look angry. Maybe a bit nervous, but not angry. But as he gets closer, chains appear around him, and Stolas uses them to bring him closer. But he doesn't fight these chains. I looked up some symbolism, and apparently, chains can symbolize "eternal love and human connection" (from gatsbyjewllery.co.uk). But they also symbolize feeling trapped. I think this shows that Blitzø feels trapped by his emotions for Stolas, and like he's powerless against them. He's falling again, despite how his past relationships turned out, but he's still doing it again. And he's powerless against it.

Look at him! He's not having a good time! He looks surprised and hurt and frustrated, but he still goes along with Stolas, because while Stolas is pulling him closer, Blitzø isn't struggling and still goes to him. I think it's multiple things here. He feels like he has to do it for the book, but it also goes back to his emotions again, and feeling powerless against them, and feeling powerless when he's with Stolas.

Look at him. In the first image, he just looks nervous while Stolas holds a hand over his collar. But then, when Stolas tightens it, Blitzø starts blushing and looks both nervous and embarrassed. He's embarrassed because he likes it, and he has feelings for Stolas, but he also feels like a pet or a plaything. He's scared for the same reasons he's embarrassed; he likes it. If he likes it, that's a dangerous slope of falling again, but then leaving Stolas fucked up, and Stolas will see how much of a terrible person he is.

Ah, then my favorite part. The ✨️festhers✨️

Everyone in the drug trip dissappears, with Stolas (and Moxxie) disappearing into golden feathers. I think the gold feathers at this point symbolize the truth, which is why both Moxxie and Stolas disappeared with gold feathers. They've been calling him out on all the emotions he had buried, so of course they're the ones that change. But then, instead of going in the weird tornado thing, Stolas's feathers cling onto him.

In the first picture, Blitzø is just noticing the feathers. He looks annoyed and angry and disgusted ("ew, feelings"). The chains are still on him, but without the actual chains. I'm sure that means something, but I can't figure it out. Maybe symbolizing hisblingering emotions??

In the second image, he's now aware of the feathers that are there and is actiey swatting them away. He's grimacing and hunched over, clearly feeling vulnerable, angry, and scared.

By this image, the feathers have taken over most of his body. He looks confused and angry about it, and they're covering his mouth. He holds his hands up like he doesn't want to even touch them.

And by the last image, the feathers have fully taken over his body, and he's screaming in pain. If the feathers symbolize truth, and one of his truths is his feelings for Stolas, the feathers are his true feelings wrapping around his body until he can no longer ignore or handle them.

Later after the trip ends he says, "I have delt with one two many emotions for tonight, let's fuck these fuckers up!" There he goes, ignoring his emotions again with violence or sex.

This was supposed to be a short series, but my god, there is a lot more.

[tired-hellowl]

here' a comprehensive list as to every problem I have with the current *unecessary characters known as 'Glitz and Glam'

Do they expand the story/worldbuilding in any meaningful way? Do they explore a new hidden dynamic/past conjunction with a differing character and is that explored meaningfully? What was the point of having them animated when Mammon can portray the same level of humiliation/degrading/on stage lack of positive reinforcements. 😐

I'm so sorry but I view these characters as necessary garbage that caused some animators arthritis via too many patterns, not enough screen time to have meat and potatoes worth of dialogue, or really any pretense within the story whatsoever and yes this extends towards every female character on screen but let's not worry about that !!! Even if they are IMPLIED to be from the ring of envy-a color or ring we haven't seen nor meaningfully conveyed to the audience that it even is possible to go in/exists- it isn't conveyed to the audience well enough besides the visual implication of colors???? Instead of having shitty b-plots that go nowhere via Stolas and Blitz goofing off in seeing stars, Moxxie and Millie getting C-plots for no reason, or loona getting a rabies shot- all of that time could have been exploring hell, going to different rings, focusing on other characters besides the main 5, literally I would prefer a quiet episode like BoJack Horsemans 'Fish out of Water'where we can actually see the personalities of the main characters be appreciated and shown to us but that's never gonna happen :/

What I've been worried about is not even the on screen racism/out of touch 'rap/hip-hop parody' leaves a terrible taste in my mouth, if that isn't enough then the sexualization/implication of an incest type dynamic and nothing else besides fetish bait with these characters constantly grabbing one another and not really acting like siblings moreso someone who has never had siblings attempting to write sibling banter and failing terribly :/

Why do you have a problem with 'Klown Bitch' it's so catchy! Uhm, no??? I feel bad for anyone who attempts to defend helluva/hazbin as good modern musicals let me grit my teeth in silence as to the glorification over white people dominating black culture

HERES A HISTORY OF FEMALE HIPHOP ARTISTS: X

Pictured above is very old concept art about twin characters and its the same hairshape viv kept to transfer over to glitz/glam- despite clearly being over designed and way too much going on Alá vivzie style. It just goes to show she recycles even from herself and not every design is always new hot and fresh :/ AND SPEAKING OF CONCEPT ART-

Also also don't forget salems' concept designs thst got passed even though they loon toony, loony, clown enough, and definitely majorly way easier to have animated besides the mess that is the current design meta ???

Love how you can clearly see the silhouettes being so easily identifiable comparably towards the actual amalgamated mess that is their current limbs attempting to hold onto their toothpick body for their head.

All this screams to me is viv using the artists thst try to come onto helluva and they try their best with what their given, viv only picks the best bits SHE thinks is worth her time rather then thinking about the audience or animating anything else besides overglorified white people rap 🤔

Also the episode literally presents its full internalized misogyny/racism within this episode because vivzie herself literally admitted to typing into script with a full chest that

'Women just ain't funny'

. . .

why present misogyny within the series if you as a creator aren't willing to tackle the subject matter? Why write about it or present it as if you're smart over including the joke in your script when it isn't even funny because it just further pushes women out of the entertainment/comedy business which mind you IS ALREADY VERY WELL MALE DOMINATED SO PUTTING OTHER WOMEN DOWN TO PUT YOURSELF UP ISNT HELPING YOUR CASE VIV???

So then what was the point of adding female clowns if all you were going to do with them was make fun of them out of their expense and then profit off of the fact that they are incest coded????????????

?????????Are we watching the same fucking series????????

[godfrey-the-chaos-duck]

AIGHT

i was offline for a long ass time cause i was with my gf, we watched the new helluva boss episode and it absolutely fucking RULED (rant under cut)

also i think my shitty luck caught up to me bc i clearly fell apart after this busy week and am currently sick (nothing serious, just a cold but I will be trying to rest anyways)

gonna rewatch the 87 cent solution at some point bc *relate*

but yeah i'll be fine anyway GHOSTFUCKERS RANT

so first of all listen. I'm not a hater often but there's two things I think I will always be salty af about.

"The Full Moon" not being released on the actual full moon in May.

"Ghostfuckers" not having anything resembling 80s synth music. Like obvs they couldn't do an outright parody of the Ghostbusters theme song bc of shitty copyright but I would have thought they'd do SOMETHING 80s-ish. Now, this is purely my love of cheesy 80s movies talking so I'll shut up. FOR THE LOVE OF GAWD, DON'T @ ME.

Now for the non-hater part of the rant

Blitz not coping at fucking ALLLLLL with his breakup (oh no wait you need a relationship for one of those)

Moxxie losing his damn mind over accounting was so fun to see, omfg LET HIM LOSE IT MORE OFTEN

MILLIE'S LORE AND HOW SHE WAS SO INSPIRED BY BLITZ. I'M. I CANNOT BE NORMAL ABOUT THAT cause like. it's literally how I feel whenever I see other queer and neurodivergent people making their way in the world. If they can do it, so can I, and that gives me something to hope for

The horror vibes. Once again, I'm biased as all hell because I find horror as a genre (and the tropes therein) super fascinating. But like. the animation of the fight scenes? TOP TIER. The concept of the infestor demon thing (Rolando? I think that was his name?) being smth thst can possess people and fuck with their memories and make their minds a living hell? Honestly this is my gravity falls hyperfixation talking (yeah that one ain't going away anytime soon, good fucking luck) but he reminded me SO MUCH of bill cipher. Like I seriously want to write Bill doing a "low-light reel" of Ford's or Stan's life with the unfortunate twin in question just sitting there not able to do shit about it. and fuck i'm rambling IGNORE THIS OMFG I always do this agh

And the SONGS. Especially the fact that "I Wanna Fuck A Ghost" (the credits song) was sung by Erika Lenningsen, aka CHARLIE'S VA. 100/10 no notes, the team cooked here

also FUCK YES to Blitz getting character growth

[blog-names-are-overrated]

So many people are mad at Rick for how he portrayed the Aphrodite cabin and I feel like I’m missing something. Cus like I see a lot of people claiming he made them all rude and entitled and stuff but when I read the lost hero, they weren’t rude? Drew was an asshole who was abusing her power as the cabin leader yeah but everyone else in the cabin seemed like nice people? Like the two kids (I forgot their names) who gave piper some clothes and stuff for her quest, the kids who helped that one girl after she was kicked out of the bathroom in the middle of her shower by drew, silena and piper were straight up hero’s? I just started reading blood of Olympus (like I haven’t even gotten 5 pages in) so there might be stuff later on abt the Aphrodite kids being rude but when I read it it just seemed like drew was a shitty person and the rest of the cabin was alright but had just been taught the wrongs things, like how they had to break someone’s heart as a right of passage, there was also a scene with Aphrodite and piper about this where Aphrodite was like “yeah Drew’s kinda shitty but the rest of my kids really aren’t that bad” (not her exact words but that was the gist of the conversation). The only other thing I remember the poses the Aphrodite kids are entitled/rude is one scene from pjo (forgot which book) where it mentions that the Aphrodite kids prefer to sit out from capture the flag bc they’d rather look at their reflections in the water and stuff, and even then I might be remembering thst wrong cus it’s been a while since I read it.

All in all it really just seems like the Aphrodite kids are alright people who happen to be especially interested in love and beauty which makes sense bc their mom’s whole thing is love and beauty, so like what am I missing here and why do people claim Rick “made Aphrodite kids look bad”??