#im using the critical tags not the main ship tag bcs i dont wanna be that asshole

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a HELLUVA blog (haha get it)

helloooo!!! my name is cloudy, i use she/they pronouns, im 20, and this is my hellaverse centric blog!!! bc i refuse to subject my followers to it on my main and general fandom blog.

i am heavily critical of BOTH of the hellaverse series'. i absolutely despise the creator and everything that shes done. any defense of her/general negative anons towards me or this blog will be deleted without being engaged with. honestly all of my enjoyment of them is from a place of nostalgia/the fact that i am having a TON of fun rewriting the whole show and redesigning all the characters with my boyf!!! thats not what this blog is about tho, i just wanted a place to store some content :P check under the cut for my #'s, so you can block/navigate accordingly!!!!! also i put links to my other blogs down there

#hh - hazbin hotel posts

#hb - helluva boss posts

#critical - any criticism/critical analysis towards either of the shows. this is kinda vague, so it can be anything from discussions about viv**ziepop, to critiques on the writing/shipping, etc

#redesigns - other peoples redesigns!!!

#rewrites - other peoples rewrites!!!

#my art - my art!!

#my writing - my writing!!

#answers - responses to asks!!!

#ask games - ask games im open to!!!

#yarnsnake - anything pertaining to me and my partners redesigns/rewrites!! (yarnsnake, as in, like,,,,,the opposite of spindlehorse. lol)

#insp - things that inspire me personally. generally, sometimes itll be things i wish to alter in me n my partners rewrites, to really good character design ideas, or just good concepts, honestly whatever!!!

#fave - my favorite posts!!

#rocketstags - posts specifically for my boyf @rocketfire001 to look at!!!! mwamwmemwemmwe <33333 (thats a kiss for him)

i plan on tagging posts with the name of the character(s) that appear in them, so if theres someone you specifically dont wanna see (ex: valentino) you can just block their name!!* the same is true with ships (ex: stolitz) so you can block those too ^^ specific triggers MIGHT get a tag, (ex: rape, suicide, etc) but im more prone to missing those. let me know if you want something tagged and ill fix it!!

*SOME characters names might be shortened/changed completely. for example, my tag for ""vaggie"" is #vega. i might also have longer names, like ""valentino"" shortened to #val, or ""fizzarolli"" shortened to #fizz. one more notable one is the ship ""chaggie"" is now tagged #fallenstar. keep this in mind when blocking tags!!!

honestly this blog is MOSTLY just for me so its arranged how i personally want it lol <3 but if you wanna see me in other places, heres where to find me!!!

@cloudyssskies - my main!

@cloudysarts - my art blog!

@cloudyscollections - my fandom blog! i put basically every fandom related thing that DOESNT pertain to the hellaverse on here

[waporlock]

So uhh. i feel like this has been stirring inside, poisoning my enjoyment of cr content, so i have to let this out. im sorry for joining in the ship wars, yall. so, i kinda rly want to enjoy Fjorester like most everyone else does? But the way Fjord has been acting in his feelings just. Feels... invalidating to Jester. Like he sees her as naive, as someone to protect, when, with due respect, I think Jester could be the most competent and self-sufficient member of their party. Like, how he actively tried to restrain her in the culmination of the Travelercon arc - when it was her commitment to Artagan, her actions, that redeemed him in the eyes of the Moonweaver. Or, how during the Blueberry Cupcake scene - where Jester was just brilliant, - Fjord still hesitated when she said it's alright (which I'm glad Jester pointed out - "don't you trust me, Fjord?"). It's like - yeah! Of course caring about your SO is important, but, like. At some point it seems like he doesn't trust her capabilities? Her judgement? And in trying to "protect" her, he infantilizes her. Like she's a child, when she's absolutely not. It wouldn't feel out of place to see him restraining her again - just like he implied during the confession. “For her own good”, yeah, sounds great, but. They're equals. But it often seems like Fjord doesn't seem them this way. In these actions, in these statements, it seems like he's okay with taking away Jester's agency.

Which perhaps wouldn't be a huge argument - after all, these are just the two biggest examples I can count off my head, and, while there are more, there must also be loads of examples of the opposite. But. The confession! Felt like the biggest offender? Asking if he can kiss her... and then doing so anyway, without receiving permission? And then just carrying on? And when the cast congratulated them, they were congratulating Travis, on overcoming his feelings about romancing someone in D&D. Which I found precious, from an ooc standpoint! Good for him! Join the nerd club, haha! But. How could a player, in this scenario, reject his character's feelings? It's almost like those scenarios where rejecting a hug, an advance, would be horrible bcs the peer pressure demands you to reciprocate. And the CR cast isn't infallible in this - they're also people, like, for example, Sam has voiced how Veth wouldn't return to her family because "he doesn't want to be the guy who leaves his characters" (from Talks, iirc). And while I can’t really use this as justification for their actions, or the lack thereof, bcs I don’t know them as people, it would be so easy to assume so in general. Social pressure can be real in many different ways, and it’s easy to see how it could be true this time as well. This disappoints me, and feels like a disservice for Jester's character, because, when it was clear that at least 3 of the party members have a crush on Jester... I felt it was so, so beautiful and wonderful how it was Jester's choice to act on her feelings! Not someone's elses - this isn't a dating sim, you guys, Jester is her own character, it's HER choice, HER agency. And in this confession scene Fjord took it away from her, and it. Just. I don't know. It feels icky in ways I can't really shake it off.

From one side, I'm holding out hope that Jester either revisits this issue, or affirms this ship by her own initiative. Jester deserves to make her own choices, on her own volition. Otherwise, idk, this legit feels awful. If there are any Fjorester shippers out there, please, I'm begging to be convinced. Otherwise this just feels sad and icky and disappointing :(