#lilith saga rants

[lilithsaga]

Gluttony Is Not Just Excessive Eating

Yes, it is a main component of gluttony, but that's not all it is!

(And yes, this is also in response to people complaining about how Helluva Boss's Queen Bee-lzebub is not fat despite representing the sin of Gluttony)

Gluttony's etymology originates from the Latin word gluttire meaning "to gulp." This is to emphasize how someone can over-indulge in food and drink.

While gluttony's base definition focuses on the act of overeating and overdrinking, it is also important to note how people overeat and overdrink.

Many church leaders dating back to the Middle Ages have expanded on gluttony in one way or another. But the most popular interpretation comes from St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica. He goes over 5 different ways that gluttony can tempt us!

Laute – eating food that is too luxurious, exotic, or costly

Studiose – eating food that is excessive in quality (too daintily or elaborately prepared)

Nimis – eating food that is excessive in quantity (too much)

Praepropere – eating hastily (too soon or at an inappropriate time)

Ardenter – eating greedily (too eagerly)

The fact that there are at least 5 different ways gluttony can be interpreted is already incredible enough.

But it is also important to note that the first 3 ways focus more on the eating of food while the last 2 focus more on the speed in which food is consumed. Also, the food in question doesn't just refer to quantity, but quality of food can be seen as gluttonous too!

So, with that out of the way, how does this all relate back to Queen Bee?

⚠ SPOILERS FOR HELLUVA BOSS SEASON 1 EPISODE 8 ⚠

Throughout both the song "Cotton Candy" and the majority of the party itself, she encourages her guests to eat and drink to their heart's content.

Whether that be enlarging their food, offering giant kegs, or raining candy down on the guests, there is no doubt to anyone that she is encouraging gluttony from her guests. (At least, in the party-girl hedonistic approach and not to feed one's sadness like in the case of Blitzo).

Since excessive food and drink can often make a person feel good, I like the idea of an extroverted party-girl representing gluttony. And she is a fun character with both her performance and making sure her guests are well entertained and taken care of. It's honestly a refreshing take on the deadly sin.

The main point here: you do not have to be fat to be gluttonous.

As long as you have the core concepts of inspiring gluttony, I think that's all that really matters in the end, and Queen Bee knocks it out of the park.

And lastly, while this might be a headcanon more than anything else, I bet all of that dancing and flying is amazing exercise.

If she is putting that much effort into her performances and parties, she must be moving around a ton to organize, rehearse, and interact with everyone. So, if people out there really need a reason to why she is not fat, that's just my thought.

Anyways, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. I honestly just wanted to rant to get it out of my system.

Feel free to let me know your thoughts! I'm sure there is probably more about the topic that could be covered by others but I just wanted to rant about my perception of it all. Thank you!

[eway]

Ok. If you like Quest, fine. But I'm about to go on a rant.

My thoughts are similar to my thoughts on Fire Emblem Heroes, another gatcha game.

First of all, how they treat non original villains. While it's much worse in Heroes (Grima what did they DO to you!?) Let's consider something:

In Fever 2, a spirit possesses a child's body, intent on killing another child. Klug, the possessed child, has no real friends outside of Lemres, whose not around much. Klug isn't stupid, but he has insecurities (revealed in his lyrical theme in 20th). In 15th, he still has the book. It's even compared to a security blanket. Well, it's pretty easy to infer that the spirit is manipulating him. It's evil. Pure evil.

And then the stupid gatcha game makes him "just a little guy". It's an official version of my most HATED fandom trope

But you know who DOES get to be evil? OCs! Not the prestablished characters, but original characters!

Speaking of which, there's too many of those! You can't flesh out all the OCs and all the returning characters, and it's the returning ones who tend to get the short end of the stick!

And the Madou Monogatari a.k.a SORCERY SAGA characters do not fit well into SCI-FI stories!

Now, it's not as bad as Shin Madou, which I find downright offensive due to how it uses things from my religion. But like Shin Madou, there are aspects I see as worth salvaging.

In Shin Madou, it was the idea of Chaotic Final's Exam's Doppelganger Arle being The Dark Prince's dead wife who he was in a healthy relationship with and also her name was Lilith. Nothing else about her do I add to my headcanons. Not her personality, the goddess thing, the Arle reincarnation thing NONE!

I salvage more from Quest. The SpaceTime Detective Agency in their entirety is what I have salvaged, and I am including them in a fic.

I'd also salvage Poison Ringo. Cool villain

However. I don't see how to incorporate any of those characters into this film series.

But honestly, my opinion doesn't really matter. My favorite Pokémon games are Sword/Shield, my favorite Pokémon anime season is Black and White, I defend Sonic 06. I like bad things so I guess take my opinion on an allegedly good thing with a grain of salt. But I'll never like Quest

(Also I brought up FEH to show that Quest isn't the only Gatcha game with these issues. It isn't exclusive to Quest)

Another thing about these potential movies is designs. I mean I briefly touched on it but still

Arle's outfit in the first film will be the outfit in Madou Monogatari I Honoo No Sotsuenji

So cute!

Camus and Lala retain their designs since they have no additional designs. Schezo...well he starts like this

But like Arle and the others gets some sort of Armor that I haven't designed

That's perfect to start with! About the Suzuran ARS trio, how will they look?

[butterfly--empress]

At 5x18...ish OUAT...

Decided to binge watch so I could catch up to the current season on netflix...

I’m still waiting to get all caught up BEFORE I decide whether or not to make a tl:dr rant post on what I like and loath about the show.

That being said, here is a mini rant because why not? *spoilers ahead maybe?*

1. Why this show constantly has a need to try to make me like Rumple and by extension, Rumple x Belle is beyond me. I’m not going to get into too much detail as I’m trying to keep this post short and to the point. But I DID NOT LIKE THIS SHIP during it’s conception and I STILL DO NOT LIKE this Ship now. 

Also, if the show was so hell bent on keeping Rumble/Mr. Gold alive, either make up your mind and keep him a damn villain or give his character a REAL redemption arc, so the contrived I know your gonna fuck me over anyway by giving this bastard his happy end that he doesn’t DESERVE when it’s all said and done feels a bit more satisfying.

2. Speaking of former villains who deserve their goddamn happy ending and I will fight anyone on this: Regina. If there is one character this show likes to drag through the mud, it’s her and from where I’m at, she’s come a long way, one of my favorite characters on this show hands down. 

And ISTFG, if this show doesn’t end with Regina x Robin being a family with Rolan and that baby, I will flip shit.

3. I like Emma Swan, I also liked Emma as the Dark Swan (even though it was hella funny), I would’ve liked to see a more compelling story, expanding that than what we got, because god forbid Rumple can’t take a goddamn back seat for ONCE! Also, while I don’t mind Hook also becoming a ‘Dark One’, it felt unnecessary. 

4. I wished Merlin’s story had a better resolution, especially with his love Nimue, It feels unfinished to me...maybe (and I hope but it’s really unlikely) Merlin comes back somehow, him and Nimue because I really feel this arc was resolved and if it was, it was so...underwhelming. 

5. Can Mulan and Lancelot get a decent love line? Anyone? (considering if Lancelot doesn’t end up with Arthur’s wife or something *shrugs*, not really feeling that ship either)

Fuck it, why don’t we ship Mulan x Lancelot, how’s that for an crossover fairytale ship. *Screw RumpleBelle for ALL TIME, she would’ve been better off with Gaston in this version, honestly*

6. Well at LEAST Ursula did get her happy end. 

7. Huh, Red x Dorothy is a thing...okay....kinda rushed, don’t wanna say it was shoehorned in, but okay show, whatever. I mean, as long as they spend some time developing this ship further in the later episodes, I’m fine with it. 

8. I am sort of liking the whole messed up shipping of Hades x Zelena, it’s cute in a fucked up villainy sort of way. LOL

9. Going back to some missed opportunities with the ‘Black Swan’ arc, will Lilith ever returned? Like, this show is good more or less with handling story arcs that may take a back seat for half a season to come back in the next to be incorporated within the overall saga that is OUAT.

The whole story the writer’s built up between Emma and Lilith better come back. (In fact, I thought they would’ve done that with the Black Swan arc but I guess better compelling story arcs have to take a back seat when it comes to goddamn Rumble...*groaning instensifies*)

10. Snow x Charming...never change, if there’s one breath of fresh air that I enjoy about this show when things get too serious or I’m so done with Rumble’s shit. Are these two and their unwavering love for one another.

And I’m going to stop it here because I still have about five or six episodes left of Season 5, all of Season 6 and whatever I can find of Season 7 to get through before I give a full final thought analysis.

[lilithsaga]

Guess who's gone back to reading komahina fanfiction for her daily dopamine rush?

It used to only be a weekly thing until life got busy.

[twilightguardian]

Ah, Lilith, Lilith, Lilith, I'm actually impressed you read past the preamble. I would have thought for sure you'd have dismissed my post right off the bat. It's so heartwarming, I already feel like we're best friends~

Of course, you likely just skimmed it to get to the parts specifically about you, because I know reading is hard, and in a post calling you out on how you don't read, you did exactly what I thought you might.

It was not a "Don't criticize the critics" rant. I was calling out the entire fandom, yes, even members of the "critics/HTDM"(Also nice to see you admitting that meme you made on r/FNKI was about critics even though you tried to hide that fact because you view critics and HTDM as one and the same!)

I wasn't whining about your little original fic, sweetie. I was critiquing it as a fellow writer. You know, that thing you went to that critique group for. Shock of all shocks, but did you know that you can critique something without any emotion about the work itself? Because when have you ever heard someone unironically say the name of the person they're speaking to four times in the span of two minutes? Nobody does that.

Also, apologies about not censoring out what was apparently a spoiler. I'll put my future critique of Glints under a readmore. I look forward to you complaining about me reviewing your work in the future~

Just because you're a little spite gremlin doesn't mean everyone else is. So when I take a look at Glints Saga, I'll be giving it a fair critique. It's up to you whether or not you'll take my criticism or wave it off as being "spiteful". I have no spite toward you. The reason I went through months of your blog's backlog was so that I could respectfully understand you based on what you yourself say. But that seems to be a foreign concept to you.

Critique is there for those who will actually learn from it, after all.

That lovely overlap between "how dare people in the fandom criticize the critics!" and "I am going to rifle through months of posts on someone's blog for the sake of petty insults"~

[lilithsaga]

While waiting for my upload to finish, I watched the new Helluva Boss episode.

I was already gay for Millie since Day 1, but I'm super gay for her as she stole the spotlight and even got to sing her own song! Millerd/Millie, I love it all! 😍

[lilithsaga]

Pillows are the true gods of the world. So are squishy thighs.

[lilithsaga]

The last few live big agency vtuber debuts, I've missed them since I was out of town visiting bae. Looks like its happening again.

So, anytime I travel out of town, vtubers debut, right?

[lilithsaga]

People talking about old Yu-Gi-Oh video games has me nostalgic for the Falsebound Kingdom game.

It's not as popular as others, but I liked the format. I could visualize monsters to do battle instead of cards and create fun teams to fight with!

Anyone else feel the same?

[lilithsaga]

There somehow is a God! 🙏

I somehow recovered a corrupted After Effects. Not from reimporting, not from refreshing, but just out of a sheer miracle that I don't understand. Hoorayyy!! 🌠

[lilithsaga]

Started upload last night around 1am. Woke up around 8:30am. 43% uploaded. Frozen?

Reset the upload at 8:45am to try again. Leaves tab open as I head to office. Checks upload progress throughout the work day. Stalls again.

Time to throw hands and try Plan C

[lilithsaga]

Becoming a strong independent adult in 2024 so far:

Bad - started crying when trying to figure out a budget 💸😢

Good - successfully identified a scam before anything bad happened 🛠️��

Only goes up from here

[lilithsaga]

Nothing slower in life than waiting for taco bell to digest so you don't have any interruptions for your next activity. 🌯

[lilithsaga]

If you noticed me being quiet for a few days... I was visiting my significant other. Posts tend to be less frequent when I'm spending time with them. 💜💞

That being said, LDR is hard. It hurts having to leave and go home when I want to live with them. 😢

[lilithsaga]

Ordered a large 3 topping pizza to share with Saga Mama, and another succubus named Lilith ordered at the same location. What are the odds? 🎲

*Almost* took their side of hot wings with me. 😋

[lilithsaga]

This week has been hard trying to get life together, but today I feel a lot more optimistic and happy!

Doing things I love is the true key to happiness! 💜🖋 🗝