#major missing happening

[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!

[simspaghetti]

mega confused chat, i just went to follow someone on here after i found their tutorial for something on youtube and found out i was blocked? lmao

i literally do not participate in any sims community discourse / drama etc - not even because i can't be arsed to comment, but literally cos i don't keep up with tumblr that much apart from for posting my stuff, and i've never been tagged in anything or a part of anything dramatic / tense in the community up until now (to my knowledge anyway)

so if you guys could let me know if i've missed a major faux paus / unintentionally been an arsehole to someone that would be appreciated 🫶 it just seems like bizarre behaviour and i would rather know if i'm the one in the wrong cos i've not heard anything!

[merverelli]

dec 2023 - jan 2019 - sept 2017

its a redraw of a redraw!

(psst: here's a speedpaint if you're interested! https://youtu.be/9nn73oxU7eg)

[alaskan-wallflower]

don’t hate on my girl cherry she ain’t done shit

[royalarchivist]

Richarlyson: [ What happened? ]

Roier: Richarlyson, I'll tell you what happened, ok? I'll tell you what happened. What happened is... Quackity was murdered, he was murdered by Maximus and Badboy because they thought it was the best decision, but...

Son, sincerely, I don't think it was, because Quackity is now very angry, and we know that Quackity is– well, I know at least, that this Quackity is not my carnal, he's not the friend I know. Everything is very strange.

Richarlyson: [ Is pa Quacks dangerous? ]

Roier: I think that right now he is, that's why I was going along with him, because... I had this feeling that maybe it was actually him. You know? But now, with the way everything has happened…

Richarlyson: [ Like a friendly feeling? ]

Roier: Yes. It kind of felt like it was him and everything was fine, and we were friends– and we are! But now he's mad, and I don't know what he's planning to do. I'm afraid for your life, and everyone else's, because everything is surely going to go to hell. I'm sorry Richarlyson. It's hard.

Richarlyson: [ I'll be fine, pa. I have you and my other papas on my side. ]

[dykedvonte]

I think the most baffling thing about the Tulpar as a vessel to me is the fact that the ship really did only have a one way communication system.

I know it was cheap but even the most basic of vessels regarding major transport would have some way, shape or form for outside communication. Not only that but there was absolutely no form of innate emergency signal to show they may have been offline or in trouble despite clearly having a system to dock credits if they went off course. It's another factor that really shows that bad situations are made to get worse by design. One person who is required to relay all information to the crew and make all the choices without feedback. No way to update or call for help in case of a dire situation. No way to inform of inner personal conflicts and acquire procedures accordingly.

It really is like they are all in some sort of fucked up solitary confinement. They have their own world with strict roles that are meaningless in the end, as long as the cargo makes it, it doesn't matter what happens on that ship to the company. They don't want to hear anything and will come to conclusions on what happened based on how much pay they can withhold from the workers. Even what they do send is short, sterile and corporate to the extent it was likely written and sent out with a command by some random unmanned computer in an office.

There's something to be said about how unfair it is to force absolute power and control onto one person when you as an entity could do so much more to offload it but I've said it many times before so I won't again.

[iridescentoracle]

so like, what if harrow hadn’t lied to mercy about her age?

like. i’ve assumed (and seen other people assuming) mercy was asking bc she thought harrow might be gideon (i.e. the result of dios apate major), but alecto told harrow to lie about her age, and she did, and mercy left, disgusted by the idea of a baby lyctor but believing harrow really was just harrow

…but (aside from the fact that gideon is older than harrow and so the timing shouldn’t quite work out, bc i can imagine mercy having potential explanations for that) what was mercy asking for? was it just curiosity/a hope of getting answers? or did she have an actual plan (or at least the beginning of one) for the moments when she wondered if dios apate major hadn't quite completely failed yet after all? in either case, why would alecto want mercy convinced it wasn't true?

or, on the other hand, something i honestly hadn't thought about until i started writing this post and had to stop and check myself: is that even why mercy asked? was that what she thought, or did she have some completely different reason to want to know harrow's age, with a correspondingly completely different reason alecto thought harrow needed to lie?

[valkyurii]

so apparently radahn has to be dead before you can access the dlc. wow i wonder why that is /s

[orcelito]

Hey I'm graduating college in may and I just kinda realized that I'll be Done Done with school after that. Not fake-done like I was graduating high school, where I'd have to go to college at the start of the fall. And not fake-done like I was in any of my semesters I took off.

Done Done. As in I accomplished my degree, and I won't ever have to go back to school if I don't want to. What a beautiful, beautiful thought.

[loadsofcats]

I missed them

[simphic]

literally me rn....

[8bits-of-wingdings]

Deltarune AND Undertale trending!?

[sluttyhenley]

I held off on saying any of this before, because I figured scolding and shaming doesn't actually get anyone to the polls but apparently neither does anything else and I am so angry. Angry and grieving, because the majority of voters have said this country hates black women more than the promise of fascism. To everyone who couldn't bear to sacrifice their so called moral purity and fucking vote, all I say is it is so disrespectful. It is disrespectful to all of the people who fucking died to get this right expanded to all adult citizens and to have those rights enshrined in the constitution. It is so disrespectful to everyone who fucking died to actually make those constitutionally enshrined rights accessible. And that's not hyperbole. That's historical fact. People who chose not to vote, who looked at these two candidates and said well I just can't do it because of a conflict happening on the other side of the world, a conflict that will be so much worse when one of those candidates wants to wipe the very people you claim to care about out of fucking existence. And I haven't posted anything about that conflict because I have literally studied it academically. It was a large part of my academic focus. And like it or not it is complicated and long-standing and literally any sort of international pact/truce/treaty takes so much negotiating and so much framework. Policy is work. You can't just wish it done and make it so.

And literally all you had to do was vote. The easiest fucking way to make your voice heard. Especially in states with early voting and mail-in ballots. You just have to show up. But voting isn't as important as getting your internet moral purity points. And now here we are staring down the barrel of another trump presidency because you can donate your money to fundraisers that may or may not be supporting real families in Gaza but you can't take some time to fill in a box and now the single issue you purportedly care so much about is going to be a casualty of that moral failing.

Because that's what it is. It's a moral failing. And I think with the loud anti-semitism heard in all of these protests and the fact that apparently you hate fascism less than black women. And a well-educated black woman with an astounding political background and policy that would have been good internationally and domestically. Maybe we should call it what it is. Sugar-coated white supremacy.

I don't know. I am so fucking angry and I am so fucking tired. I was there in 2016. I’ve been here living with the fallout. I know what it is to be directly affected by the Trump presidency. I haven't forgotten.

All you had to do was vote.

[call-me-oracle]

barbara gordon in batgirl #1

bonus:

[killerchickadee]

I worked 3rd shift in 2021 which means I slept during the day so

Sorry but this was a hilarious Facebook post.

[nullians]

It’s actually insane how fandom in general has become so scared of making weird and dark and ugly works. Like I look at myself and see how I have also subconsciously adapted this instinct to self censor and make things “marketable” and it’s making me want to crawl out of my skin. I need to get weirder and worse and more off-putting hello