#the villains were the worst

[rubydubydoo122]

I’m just gonna say this, the main reason people don’t like Damian Wayne as a character is the same reason people didn’t like Jason Todd back in the 80s

People don’t like either of them because their favorite Robin (Tim Drake and Dick Grayson) got replaced by them.

Damian and Jason are both really interesting and complex character, objectively more complex than both Tim and Dick, but some people (cough, obnoxious Tim fans, cough, and Dick fans who over sexualize him, cough) don’t see that and just want their little blorbos to never grow into their own character apart from Batman.

[nipuni]

A story about the flu and revenge in two pictures 😤

[cruelplatonic]

my personal headcanon is the vees were unremarkable nobodies when they were alive. i just love it as a thematic throughline for them. they love to let the public of hell speculate on them being famed and acclaimed since before death, but the the truth is they were a d-list failed influencer that got by on cheap controversey and scamming, a broke junkie who burned every shaky bridge he ever had, and a worn-out broadcast production assistant with more rejected auditions and tossed out script pitches than he could count. nobody missed them when they were gone, nobody cared who they were until they were dead.

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

I used to despise Eridan and think he was the absolute worst character (barring Cronus ig) but you have shown me the light and completely turned my opinion around and now I think he is such an endearing little freak <3 I read your whole blog already but if you've got any more thoughts on eri or anyone else then I hope you post them bc I'd love to hear more abt it!

i have sooo many controversial opinions about the dancestors you have noooooo idea

[kibby-reaper]

liam @ his dad vs jude @ kate

- mod kibby

[lcatala]

the three types of sci-fi: Blindsight: wouldn't it be fucked up if the universe had no meaning? Children of Time: wouldn't it be cool if the universe had no meaning and we get to find our own? Exordia: wouldn't it be fucked up if the universe had meaning?

[spaghetticat3899]

When you absolutely despise something a lot of people like, and no matter what way you look at it you cannot see the appeal, but you know you can’t talk about it in public or else you’ll get dogpiled to hell and back, so you just kinda sit there frothing at the mouth like this

[wisebeth]

why does the pjo series have to unnecessarily villainize goddesses (hera & athena) or show them as silly ladies (aphrodite & demeter) BUT posiedon and apollo are somehow shown as the coolest/most likeable gods, even though arguably, they're right after zeus on terms of corruption?

ares shown as the worst god after zeus and hera amuses me. last time i checked, he was the patron god of amazons and literally killed a man for attempting to rape his daughter but guess who cursed women for rejection? apollo. guess who raped women when they said no (aside from zeus)? posiedon.

[pmpknsoup]

i actually am a defender of georgie and melanie and basira being mean or rude to jon bc that man really needed to be put in his place sometimes. like i understand that they were also wrong sometimes— basira is hypocritical and the other two could be nastier than necessary, but i literally cannot blame them at all. jon was so out of line sometimes

[epickiya722]

Honestly, it was so funny seeing some people jump on the "Maki is female Toji" train when it's actually the other way around and they just forgot that Maki is a twin.

Like, no, Toji is the male Maki and Mai.

Mai has the personality, the hair, and uses a fucking gun.

Maki also has some of that personality, uses cursed weapons, gets scarred, Heavenly Restriction.

The twins were mistreated. Toji was mistreated.

Maki became feral because her twin, the one person she loved died. Toji became the Toji we knew before and after Megumi's mother died.

Maki "abandoned" Mai. Toji abandoned Megumi and Tsumiki.

Given that the twins came first, Toji was just them fused together, aged up, a bit more evil and turned into a dude.

EDIT: Deadass, it just feels like straight misogyny to me. Maki and Mai were written more sympathetically than Toji and Maki was able to do what Toji couldn't. I think some "fans" dragging her for "being a female Toji" is just want to do that because she is a female character. Had she been male, they would have been like "YEAH!!! SHE'S JUST LIKE TOJI" and "ugh, she's just like Toji".

Some people just get in their feelings whenever a female character does shine in a story and not in a way that puts them on the backburner. Heck, I just saw a comment under a video FOR A FIGHT SCENE when someone was like "the writing sucks". A fight scene. The kicker is that the female character was putting the paws on the male one, she was able to match up with him and mind you, she's always been a strong character. Centuries old and polished her fighting skills for all that time.

Again, example of some people just being upset when female characters shine.

[fruitsofhell]

I am amazed by so much about Hazbin Hotel now that I'm finally, FINALLY watching it. There's so much to comment on but I have GOT to get this out of the way that has been distracting me going into the final episode. I need you to know that I'm like grimacing in a mix of pain and amusement rn. I feel like a teacher about to tell a student their essay earned the most entertaining F I've ever seen.

I want to do a little case study in Vivziepop's design ethos in the Cannibal Town bit y'know. I don't have the steam to write a full essay right here but I will try to get into this and how it relates to something that so fascinates me about her art. I was a fan of Vivziepop back in like 2014 when she first gained some notoriety in the animation community from her Die Young short and I watched nearly every piece of her old art content where she expressed her character designs and story ideas. I was really invested in them when I was younger, I thought and still do think her designs and ideas are very evocative in a good way, but which have slowly unraveled with time and scrutiny in all respects.

In her show... there's a district in hell run by cannibals, and the WHOLE gag of them is that instead of being your usual sort of racist stereotype they're a kitschy little victorian looking district who still sing about loving consuming flesh and blood and all that. See, this was evocative IN 2014, but it's not 2014. Which is not really interesting to say in itself because the show is utterly drowning in early 2010s Hot Topic-ass design sensibilities that I will probably talk about some other time, what I'm really getting at is the hypothetical thought process behind this.

Vivzie is a lover of all things impish and vintage, so of course in hell she thinks there should be a place full of cannibals who go beyond the usual stereotypes. And in her mind she's imagining how evocative the idea of smiling genteel demons running around eating human fingers is and goes with it. And a plus for her, it skirts around the racialized baggage attached to the taboo of cannibalism, maybe she even thinks its anti-racist to spin things like this. But like. It really really just stops there.

Hazbin Hotel wants to use its framing of heaven and hell to make a social commentary on morality obviously, and in the way its doing it it also is creating a sort of statement on class. There is this idea of moral meritocracy that angels are exploiting to keep themselves and those humans they like above those they dislike for arbitrary reasons, and just in the language - written and visual - of how heaven and hell are distinguished you see this slums vs metropolis thing going on. But I mean, someone else can probably tell you about how busted it is so I won't get into it, I'll just say that comparing hell to any sort of metaphor for a ghetto where disadvantaged and flawed people are grouped together unsafely looks bad for Vivzie lol.

This is where I come back to Cannibal Town which is so so so SO obviously a chance to make the most blunt-obvious social commentary on human exploitation that Vivzie just DOESN'T cause she finds people in victorian pristine garb talking about eating flesh funny and that is the full extent of her conversation on these ideas together. There's really really nothing else it seems that Vivziepop feels like saying about a kitschy upper-middle class town of people who eat other people other than isnt it funny when upper-middle class people want to eat others. And it does boggle my mind when so much other talk of exploitation, abuse, and class stratification is so laid bare on the table of this show.

In design and narrative this show really likes to touch on these deep but kinda basic tenets of social commentary but keeps doing the 2014 Hot Topic reversal of motifs and then just leaves that there like its something in itself. MMMaybe we could be doing more to say something about how when a bunch of people are arbitrarily thrown together in a lawless area under very broad assumption of moral degeneracy some seek to wield powers over others by reinforcing their simultaneous dehumanization. And how then those slumlords try to sell scraps of privilege to enrich themselves and stuff and how bad that is.

Like we kinda do sometimes, but then you have Cannibal Town which could have so fucking obviously been about liiiike??? IDK, the overlord of the area is someone who takes peoples souls and then gives them an insatiable urge to consume both physically and material goods that is symbolized through cannibalism and exploitation of other demons so that they are further reliant on the overlord??? ANd they all sit in their little village thinking theyre above others because they keep everything so orderly only by running themselves on the exploitation and consumption of other human resources. I don't even fucking know man but I just know that the Cannibal Town in the show is nothing but a joke and wank session for Vivziepop's historical fashion fetish and it drives me up the wall.

I want to be really invested in the politics of this world but this Vivziepop motherfucker just wants to create things like the town of white middle-class victorian cannibals for the lolz.

[rosedosed]

Hard thing to come to terms with is that most of the irreparable damage dealt to you isn’t gonna be done by evil people hellbent on torturing you. It’s gonna be done thoughtlessly by people who don’t know better, or weren’t thinking much of you at all, or just briefly forgot that you are a human being.

[crookedunknownarbiter]

I think one of the most tragic aspects of the whole Damian death story is that he got buried with his baby teeth.

Like canonically. He loses a tooth in his solo comic when he comes back and Morgan laughs at him cause it’s funny right the tough assassin that killed your father still has his baby teeth.

But this is after he came back so he was buried with them. He was young enough to not even have a full set of adult teeth yet.

I think it’s something none of the other bats what to think about this was the brother that dick got to bury. Got to hold before he took his last breath (and in a different world could have held him when he took one of the first)

Tim’s rival (but brother they were always brothers even before Jason became Tim’s brother Damian was) still had baby teeth. Tim probably saw juts how young Damian was after this tells the hallucination of his brother that kids shouldn’t have to do this.

I think Damian might have been the youngest hero at this point as well.

It’s probably unintentional but it’s so tragic.

[apepthehero]

Daegon's Greatest Dad

"What must I do, dad Shinnok?"

[momentomori24]

"I don't think a fictional rapist/sex trafficker should have merch even if it's for adults because it's sExuALisInG rape (bzz), so Viv and Morgana are terrible people (bzz) who deserve to be haras-- I mean criticised for their actions (bzz). Anyway, let me explain to you why characters like The Joker, William Afton and Makima are totally valid merch material to sell to kids instead and not problematic unlike Valentino whatsoever (bzz)"

Too many of you fuckers unironically 💀

[weregonnabecoolbeans]

Sam said in that podcast that they had a real true villain this season who they called the spider and I have decided that it’s Jean.

Please tell me you’re thoughts on this.