#the mental image was intense

[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!

[bacchuschucklefuck]

mentally speccing bard!riz for a tentative class swap idea and then in reverse thinking abt rogue!fabian and I have to clutch my heart that shit is lethally tragic

[goodomensao3tagoftheday]

[recents]

i Love that anders’ clinic delivers babies and treats STDs. thank you for calling planned parenthood of Kirkwall. we are one guy in the sewer. they’ve been trying to catch him for Years . for birth control inquiries, press 1. for hormone therapy, press 2

[dykedvonte]

HELLO idk if youve seen me around spam liking ur stuff but i rlly like ur takes and ur fics too! :3

anyway have some fanart i made for that one scene in Orthodontics, its not colored cuz i got a bit lazyyy

yeah, Yeah, YEAH!!!

I've seen you in my stuff, I like the little comments you leave! Very interesting!

I like to think Curly couldn't actually see most of Jimmy in that scene, just the light in his eyes and its gonna haunt him big time i'll tell you that. This depicts that very well.

In a world where Jimmy got burned instead I feel like both his eyes would remain in tact cause he has like a staring problem. Both because he does it to intimidate and skeeve people out and because he just looks like that.

[drlickitysplitty]

So I'm playing new vegas for the first time (technically second) but I'm in freeside doing the door guard for the van graffs and I turn to look at simon...only to see Arcade making direct eye contact with Simon staring him down.

[the-lord-of-the-things]

Riding the Rails

[the-insomniac-emporium]

what if I started another writing WIP because I love Mia Winters. and what if it's one that I know I'd have to finish in one sitting to actually finish. and I know I won't have time to finish it in one go. what if.

[domeniudulce]

About to make an awful new brand of my typical scholarly OC: the idiot who thinks he's a scholar.

[clone-fighter]

Stage 2 Anger... just for entering the scene?

Man I haven't done art in a while...

I know I also said before that I was playing TGAA2, but I couldn't help myself (Athena is so precious to me)

(The state of the Mood Matrix is actually based on one of SoJ's sequences, by the way!)

[birchbow]

Travye always looks and sounds so serious so I have to ask, what makes him happy besides scripture ofc.

I do think he's pleased or amused more often than he appears to be, he's just got a very solemn face haha. He's got a different sense of humor than most of his colleagues, but he definitely does have one--less wacky slapstick and more dry deadpan, which means that he does make jokes, but they tend to fly over peoples' heads.

As far as like, general pleasures and comforts, I already mentioned book-making. He likes a night out every so often to get his braids re-done and his claws buffed and sharpened, and he likes either very serious, intense blueblood drama plays or very trashy, badly-produced reality television shit with no in-between. He likes a hot bath, which is not something that I imagine most trolls often have access to, living on spaceships with limited room--especially since he's not a small guy. But you take over a planet with hotsprings one time, and you really get the taste for soaking in hot water.

Also I think he likes to debate and argue! Primarily about scripture, but about other things he likes or cares about as well--he likes to be pushed to argue about things and defend his position on them, which is a completely foreign mindset for me the author but I have heard some people are like that haha. Put your opinion in an argument and let him gnaw on it like a tiger with a barrel full of meat....enrichment activity...

[skitskatdacat63]

How about 2 + 70 Vettonso?

Royal AU x Locked in a Room

Keke I'm assuming you're asking for boy king au? 🤭🤭 I feel like they often get locked in rooms together because everyone is so done with their bickering. Like oh noooo we lost the key, you guys are gonna have to wait in there. Together. Alone. Unfortunately the locksmith lives across Vienna. Btw he’s scared of horse carriages. Oh no.  Don’t worry, Mark makes sure to lock them in a room with a notable lack of sharp objects. I think when they’re away from everyone else, away from their situation, they feel a lot more comfortable with each other. They’re stuck in a room for the foreseeable future with no one else watching, what is the real point of putting up a front anymore in this situation; this is the man they’re going to be stuck with forever after all, just not in the confines of this specific room. They are both a very specific breed of ultra competitive and devoted, so even though they’re having a perfectly “normal” conversation about literature they enjoyed(Fernando: Machiavelli’s The Prince, he says it's a very good, relatable and interesting guide. Seb: Don Quixote, he told Fernando it reminds him of a certain someone), to everyone outside, it’s like “oh god what is that muffled yelling, are they scuffling???” When they’re not being scrutinized by the rest of the palace and court, I think they can have very calm constructive conversations about running the kingdom(no matter how seemingly competitive they sound.)  Also even if Seb cares less about image than Fernando, I think he still definitely puts up a front, it’s just a lot less negative than Fernando; so this situation gives them a situation where they can be their most free and open selves. Yeah yeah they spend time alone together often, like in their bedchamber, but that still has a notable time limit most of the time, and technically one of them could just dip at any moment. So everytime they get conveniently stuck in a room, they come out of it a lot closer and a lot more aligned, and a lot more fond of each other. I say “come out of the room” but more often than not, they’re found passed out, cuddled together on some surface, the furniture and their clothes in disaray. I’ll leave it up to your imagination how they ended up there, and what their state of undress is 🤭

[byanyan]

i really need to stop writing so much bc i end up exhausting myself after just one reply

[queerpyracy]

i think it would be cool and chill if i Didn't have the situation where it seems like every medication or supplement that can affect my dreams, Does

[absoloutenonsense]

y’all, get ready for the beautiful piece of art jo made for the (almost) exes to lovers fic post it’s so cool

[rodeoromeo]

pride for not wearing a bra is great but what about the people dealing with physical pain due to their chest size that have to wear it as a supportive garment, not a political statement? how about we stop judging people based on the ways they have to dress or support their body types. that poll is pissing me off