#they pride themselves on it yet don't actually give a shit

[rajakun]

don't you just love (hate) when youth groups claim they're allergy friendly when in reality the only allergen they care about is nuts and if you have any of kind of allergy then you're just gonna have to deal with it

[tarjapearce]

soccer family

how did miguel propose 👀💍

The serious questions yo ❤️✨

Hope you like 🥹✨

Time and life were funny. Sometimes funny in the good kind of way, sometimes in the oddest sorts. If someone would have told Miguel those three years ago, in that evening at Peter's carneada that he would meet his future wife, he'd surely would've just rolled his precious mahogany eyes at cuss in spanish at whoever speaking such nonsense.

He wasn't in the look for someone, yet there you were, his serendipity. Coming into his life like an unforgiving hurricane of things and emotions he had never had the time nor the interest in experiencing at their fullest.

Yet, there you were.

Blatant, not giving two shits on his scary nature, fascinated by him through and through and brazen for making a move. That had surely sealed the deal for him.

He wasn't one for backing away from difficulties, he knew much the challenge he represented to others. And still, you did not only pass it with flying colors, but had actually enjoyed it. Enjoyed him; and in all truth, he enjoyed you too.

Enjoyed the push and pull you offered, the demented moments that certainly earned his brain another wrinkle since he was learning so much from you. Enjoyed your attention and how willingly you'd bask him into it. You were his nepenthe.

How gentle and patient you were with him, when everyone expected so much out of him. Of course he was a genius, or else he wouldn't be into the Lab's head division back in Alchemax. But the way you made him experience things felt surreal, and the feeling increased ten times fold when you shared your first kiss.

The way your lips had tasted and devoured each other was engraved into his core memories. The way you both had explored and shared your emotions was exciting, thrilling yet oh so scary for him.

He wasn't one used to be taken care of. He was the caretaker. A self imposed role he always seemed invested in. But your little ways of weaving into his heart and mind showed him a new perspective of the world he often ignored.

He'd never forget how gentle and careful your tiny fingers were, when helping him patching up in that dirty soccer game. How shameless you were enjoying his reactions. How gorgeous you looked when your eyes wrinkled when laughing your ass off at his suffering. Cruel, but so so hypnotizing.

You'd soon become his wonderwall. His obsession and the only reason he'd go to social gatherings really. If you were there, everything was as it should be. Wonderful, the world would keep spinning normally, but in the few times your absence said present, he'd go home early. Bored out of his mind, the rest was too simple and unworthy of his attention.

Of course, women threw themselves at him. Appearance wasn't something he indulged too much neither care. He was aware of his looks, specially on his little pair of abnormal fangs you loved to feel, for whatever reasons.

"I just do." You'd tell him. And that was more than enough motive to stop worrying over them. You loved them. You loved him.

Every bit of his unwanted self, you made sure he'd know how much you enjoyed it, how much you cherished that certain part he had grown uncomfortable with through his younger years and he'd do the same for you.

After you had shared your bodies, there was no turning back for him. He gave everything of himself into you. His flesh, his scent, his energy and love to you. Something so raw yet pure that turned you into his inspiration, his muse.

You always strived to be better, for yourself mostly.

"How can one be the best version of oneself if we don't grow ourselves as individuals? I want you to have the best of me."

You'd shared in between giggles and drunken thoughts.

He adored your drunk self but would never admit it out loud. You'd come up with the most random yet brain eater questions you could imagine.

He'd fear that day that nearly lost you completely over his stupid pride. A fight ignited by your family. A reason to rarely and never visit them.

He loved your mind. And as months passed on you both, he learned how to love your flaws as well.

And now, three years after, you had given him one of his most precious gifts. His firstborn. His daughter. His child. The result of his unbridled love towards you.

You were his. But of course you had no ways to prove it to the world.

He'd spend hours if possible, watching you through loving yet stoic eyes, feed his little bundle of love, that was overjoyed whenever he held her.

A little Gabriella that was now deep asleep into her crib, in her own room, under his roof. Of course you'd move in with him when Gabi was born. It was the right thing to you.

Six months had passed since her birth, and three years with six months had passed since he met you.

You crawled under the sheets, quanked, yet with the little bits of energy you had left, curled into his chest. Seeking his blanketing warmth. His chest your safe space.

"Took me longer this time to make her fall asleep"

"Yeah. Maybe we should take her to the doctor."

His brows knitted together briefly before kissing your forehead.

"I'm pretty sure she'll be fine."

Silence crawled on you both as you just relished into each other's company. His heartbeat kept pounding in his ears.

The past year and a half had gone through but a certain question was always present. Why hadn't he ask you sooner? It didn't matter.

You remained at his side. So ever loyal, so brave, so rident and brisk. You were exactly what the hypothetical cupid delivered him after his secret longings.

"Mi reina?" (My queen)

An endearing term he only used when discussing serious matters. Despite the exhaustion taking your body hostage, you inquired him with a small and sleepy 'Hm?'

"Would you marry me?"

Eyes looked up at him, a mix of surprise and anger. Surprise that he'd ask such thing out of the blue and anger for the question to be so... powerful and simple that left you speechless. And still, you couldn't help but chuckle out of nervousness.

"It's not a laughing matter corazón. I mean it. Would you marry me?"

You felt your left ring finger being adorned with a golden band that against all odds was perfect in your finger. Like he had forseen this for quite the time.

But it also made sense. All those little moments of him touching and examining your hands resumed into this moment.

"Of course I wanna marry you, tontito" (dummy)

He chuckled as he caressed your hair in his own self grounding and reassuring touch.

"Good. Good."

"Te amo."

His heart wasn't raging anymore, but soaring into this quiet and maddening joy. You had said yes. The words he so yearned for you to say , finally spoken to his heart.

"También te amo, preciosa."

Your own heart soared in bliss at the words you had been secretly practicing over and over. You no longer had to practice, since one of your secret and wildest dreams had came true.

[the-delta-quadrant]

6 things i learned in 6 years of being out as nonbinary

1. not all nonbinary gender is derived from male or female.

i used to have a very simplified understanding of the gender spectrum as a triangle with the corners being male, female and agender and you could slide around on the sides or in the middle. gender is much, much bigger than that and learning that was an important lesson for both my own self-discovery as a maverique and my understanding of other people's experiences.

2. a lot of trans & nonbinary people still hold on to gender-related binaries.

somehow i wasn't aware of this until 3-4 years ago (ignorance was bliss!), but gender-related binaries are really common even in spaces that pride themselves in breaking them. male- and female-aligned used to be very common, classifying especially nonbinary people by AGAB still happens constantly, transmasc and transfem are being treated like a binary and people created a men vs non-men binary 2 years ago. we can't escape binaries even in our own communities.

3. there are a lot of people who treat nonbinary as a blank slate to project whatever is convenient to their argument on.

i'm nonbinary until i disagree, suddenly i'm a man. i'm nonbinary until i'm openly asexual, suddenly i'm a cishet female invader. nonbinary is not a single third gender, it's man-life or woman-lite. but actually nonbinary men and women don't exist, because the only way to be nonbinary is to be neither.

4. nearly every single nonbinary term either gets rebinarised or a lot of hate.

transgender used to be a term that mainly described people who we'd now call nonbinary, yet it now has a pretty binary connotation with nonbinary people still being pushed out on a regular basis. genderqueer was an earlier term for nonbinary, but binary people decided it wasn't inclusive enough if it didn't include them. people are trying to turn nonbinary into an ideology that binary people can follow rather than an identity. people hate the word enby because it gives us even the tiniest bit of legitimacy that is given to men and women by default. people lose their shit about labels that describe attraction to nonbinary people because apparently we're not a valid group of people to feel attraction towards.

5. binarism doesn't describe a general antinonbinary sentiment, but specifically bigotry against cultural genders.

we have the terms sexism, ableism, racism, classism, so it would only make sense that bigotry against nonbinary people would be called binarism, right? wrong. binarism is a form of colonial violence that frames the western gender binary as the only real gender system, and punishes cultures that recognise more than two genders. the -ism term for nonbinaryantagonism would be exorsexism.

6. binary people are gonna think you're a cringey weirdo no matter what you do, so you might as well prove them right.

no matter how palatable we try to be, at the end of the day they hate us all.

[gynoids-over-androids]

Some thoughts on the Brianna Ghey case as a radfem. I only use sex based pronouns:

- Obviously it's very sad that someone killed a minor! And it's extremely deranged to mock Ghey's death!

-Again I don't wish death on any children. Including boys who peruse the pedo doellete coquette aesthetics, who follow bimbofying hashtags and sissy and autogynephile accounts on social media and who exhibit themselves in female toilets (the "skirt go spinny with my ass out in female toilets" tiktoks that I won't put here). It's very wrong and very disturbing but doesn't warrant death.

- He def looks like he was groomed (see the previous point) and unhappy (self harm scars in pictures, ED memes). He also seems to be a groomer himself since Vice cites SIX trans-identified boys whom he helped to transition. It's unclear how exactly...was diy hrt involved, for example?

On keyboard activists :

- I see so many transactivists using the occasion of someone murdering a white male in order to weaponise his death. They definitely give it more attention than to any murders of trans-identified gay males of color, who are often sex-trafficked. Last year when a trans-identified female was killed by a homophobe during pride, they didn't give a shit. When Dana Rivers killed a lesbian family, they didn't give a shit either.

- I see TRAs appropriating #sayhername with "say her name. say her pronouns". Yet again you're stealing a slogan from black activists.. A slogan which was used to draw attention to black femicides... to use it for a white male's murder. Racist and misogynist.

- TRAs are disinforming on social media. The police said there's no evidence of a hate crime (yet). Again I don't see this type of energy for murders of young girls. So no, TERFs didn't kill him (I'll change my mind only when it's actually proven that the teen murderers are Dworkin-reading radical feminists). And certainly it wasn't JKR or whatever.

- Using his death in your personal vendetta towards JKR or some other women ("omg guys JKR HaS bLOoD on hEr HaNds" ) is ridiculous and just shows you don't care about his death

[delete-the-kisses]

i love people who don't give a shit about being "socially acceptable". i love people who have gotten yelled at on the street solely for dressing differently. i love you trans people. i love you queer people. i love you lesbians. i love you therians. i love you alt people. i love you neurodivergent people. i love you poc. i love anyone who used to play warrior cats as a kid. i love anyone who dances or sings when they hear good music. i love anyone with a pride pin on their bag. i love anyone who had the courage to come out to someone. i love anyone who stands up for their opinions. i love anyone who felt weird or different as kid and couldn't yet understand why. i love any girl who watched a katy perry music video when they were young and didn't know why they felt butterflies in their stomach. i love any guy who wears jewelry and makeup and nail polish and skirts and doesn't give a fuck if it's not how they're supposed to dress. i love anyone who's not a guy or a girl but just something else. i love anyone with "weird" interests or hobbies. i love anyone who has a collection of rocks or seashells or just anything you find beautiful. i love the girls who find themselves in books more than anything else. i love anyone who notices the beauty around them. i love anyone who smiled today - yes, you too - because you have a gorgeous, amazing, pretty smile and the world deserves to see it. i love people who don't care if something's "cringe" because being yourself does make you happier. if someone didn't say this to you today, i love you, i am so incredibly proud of you. keep being yourself. wear that outfit you want to. tell that person how you feel about them. don't change for anyone else. be unapologetically yourself and if someone tells you not to it's because they're scared that you're actually making a difference. <3

[dio-the-thot-exterminator]

who's the scientist why r they eating chilis like theyre candy 😭

Super sad I don't have a picture of him grrrrr my coauthor never designed it, so just pretend he’s looks like this instead. 

The Scientist is a part of the very special and totally uniquely named group of semi-aquatic creatures called “Sea People”. The Scientist is (well yeah a scientist but like everyone else is too) kind of a nobody. Just a regular intelligent sea creature doing his job.

The “Sea People” area can be split into 2 dominions, they don't have names yet, but we can call them the Hippies and Scholars.

The Scientist is a part of this “scholar kingdom", that is driven in the pursuit of knowledge. They are VERY academic.

They kind of pride themselves on being neutral and unbiased (it's a fucking lie). They have entire cities dedicated to preserving, categorizing research, and making information widely available (except they don't share it with anyone but themselves fucking hypocrites).

Everyone is always on the scholar grind it's wild. The Scientist worked in the department for Genetics/DNA (or whatever the equivalent would be as they're not humannnn) and then switched over to robotics + construction and now he’s earning his degree in tortureeeeee. 

The Scholars would tolerate the “Land People", as they hate everyone and everything that is not from the sea... The water was already shaky *wink wink* but then...the Sonic Pulse happened, it was literally an "until the fire nation attacked scenario". The Scholars would welcome anyone into their kingdom as an exchange student. They really fw niggas who tryna learn.

But The Lord attacked their kingdom (almost killed everyone with her stupid sonic pulse) and The Scholars basically shut everything down and are now refusing to cooperate with anyone on ANYTHING.

A “fuck you and yo mama good luck on your own” if you will (they petty) as they need each other's resources to function.

The Scholars hate this limitation and are working diligently to be able to exist independently. But for now, everything is thrown out of balance (thanks Arlinda). 

The Scientist was originally sent to the surface as a spy researcher of some sort. Even though The Scholars are "beyond petty governmental disputes" and "don't engage with stupid ideologies like speciesism, classism, etc" they are still discriminatory asf in the kingdom

The Scientist is kinda a peasant and The Scholars see him and others like him as disposable (they literally eat the peasants).

It's not in his nature to argue or say no (accepting rules and authority is ingrained into everyone who lives there), but he is still really pissed about it…how dare they take him away from super important research!

He's rereading his favorite book written by some random from 200000 billion years ago while giggling and kicking his feet...

Going to the surface to be with the "Land People" is kind of a death sentence. The "Land People" have a reputation for being horrendous, bloodthirsty, dirty, freaky monsters. Not to mention The Rabid spreading like crazy. The Scientist hates being on the land so much but it's unlimited new information to learn...he’s creaming. (would never admit it tho).

He got lost in the sauce and after a while, stopped reporting to The Scholar that was assigned to him. Everyone assumed he died and forgot about him.

The Scientist doesn't care about fame and fortune, though he did want to use the new information he learned as leverage to get himself into more elite circles.

Which would give him access to classified or secret projects The Creators were working on. The Scientist also REALLY wants the meet The Elders.

However, as he adapted to "Land People" he found that he can survive comfortably there (so far) so now he doesn't give a shit about "Sea People" and is focusing on learning actual NEW information. 

(Since The Scholars hate "Land People" and think their kind isn't worth learning about, no one knows anything about them).

The Scientist still doesn't think they’re worth learning about but it's not like he's NOT going to record everything he’s experiencing while he's here. (He's obsessed). 

In a sense, you can say he turned on his own kind. While on land he quickly learned about The Lord and joined up with her. He’s only there for the resources and learning experience. During this time he came into his mad scientist era and hasn't left, so now he can go balls off the walls and there are only people who encourage himmm (The Scientist sees The Lord as his Elder so he is in awe of her, and wants to get closer to her. If you point this out he'll kill you).

The Scientist has a daughter, her name is Natalia, and she is an android (but not fleshy, she's full metal).

Natalia is reminiscent of a porcelain doll (and she's also the fucking Terminator) he made Natalia at the request of The Madam.

The Madam wanted to make the humans they captured feel safer and at ease but boi that does NOT work. 

(He also has a second daughter her name is Pheobe, The Doctor made Pheobe as a "warning" to all humans who disobey or cause trouble. Pheobe is kind of like a Frankenstein blob creature. Her and Natalia are sisters!! Natalia hates her <3) 

The Scientist is always fighting with The Madam about Natalia. 

The Scientist: "You know nothing about technology, I am not changing its primary programming. This weapon was made to provide security to the base. You will not adorn it with useless trinkets. Leave my lab, now." The Madam: "...you...you stupid fuck...what are you talking about???? i PAID you to make her FOR MEEEE!!! I AM YOUR SUPERIOR!!!"

The Scientist hates her <3 

His personality is almost non-existent mostly because he never had a chance to develop one (lame ahh nigga) but he gets irritated easily (especially being on land).

So he’s very mean and doesn't fuck around, if you’re not behaving within the first 2 seconds of meeting him he'll put you in time out (the electric chair) but out of all the creature he’s the easiest one to become friends with.

As long as you word whatever you want to do as a new learning experience he'll stick around. 

He gets a lil sillay after he leaves the kingdom and is no longer constantly watched to maintain societal expectations.

A lot of the information gathered by The Scholars is learned by observing rather than experiencing.

Being on land kind of…changed him and now he’s a little reckless. (the chaos of the land is getting to him possibly maybe?)

Think Brave Wildness and how the guy lets himself get stung or bitten and ranks them. Or the video of the girl eating the black death candy?

Yeah, that's something The Scientist would do too :)

So to answer your question...

The Scientist: "wtf is a chile?? Wtf is chile oil??? It is spicy? How spicy?................ Uh so is anyone going to taste and meticulously record each of thes-"

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sorry for typos oof

[cool-kink-sis]

All elfy headcanon stuff

I really love thinking about Ancient Elves and how the status quo used to be and how the Solas we know fits into that because Goddamn, at some point he must've been fine with slavery and then slowly had his character arc give him the realisation of that they are people and deserve the same privileges that he has.

There's so many codex's and other stuff basically showing Solas as Mythal's right hand man, little side kick, whatever. He had that privilege even when he was her slave with her vallaslin on his face and there was something that happened that made him argue with her, made him say no, I don't want to be bound to you and come up with a spell that would erase those markings and by extension that visible bond.

Mythal works within these same border and I wonder if she bought her own shit? As in she saw the vallaslin as a good thing, herself as a good person, like why would Solas not want this? He's rejecting me personally. Because if she WASN'T delusional and understood that people, slaves, were people and didn't deserve this, then it uncovers a whole other issue of why the fuck would Solas remain friends with her unless it was for protection.

I feel like it was a friendship of personal gain: Solas stuck with Mythal because I doubt at the start of his own freedom he had any standing without her. He needed her, I bet the man fawned for a millennia to get her to give a shit about him as a friend and even then "friend".

Mythal's been in this game too long to have actual friends and not have contingency plans to backstab them if need be, I guarantee she has fucked him over at some point. Which probably drove home to Solas that he truly could not trust her and that formed a big part of his character in Inquisition-- "Lean on your friends, Solas. Forgive me, Inquisitor. I have learned not to do that."

He's like a paranoid batman, imagine rich people in Orlais combined with the Magisters from Tevinter, all that pride and snobbery, all those slaves and Solas cannot trust even the slaves he has freed because freeing them mentally is not so cut and dry, we see that in DA2. Stockholm syndrome at its finest, slaves thinking their masters care and even then there can be so much fear.

And that leans straight to Solas having his followers kill themselves rather than be taken and questioned. Ruthless yes, but's he had to be to get the title, to get the standing, to get the power to free slaves and now to undo his previous mistake. He cannot afford to not be ruthless.

All this came from me seeing that mural of Fen'Harel taking the vallaslin off slaves and freeing them--

The still slaves on the left are bald, the freed ones on the right now have hair so I feel like having no hair isn't the best fashion trend (like I previously thought) it's dehumanising for one but also no personal upkeep, it can't look untidy, they can't stand out in any way if they all look the same, dress the same, same hair cut, same vallaslin.

Complete depersonalisation and I love LOVE that Solas shaved his head and uses magic to keep himself that way. To show he used to be one of them and yet now he's more. To have that pride in himself, I look like a slave but I'm not, I am more and have always been, look at me and know your worth!

Again, I just wish to know what pushed him to that realisation. Was it a big dramatic thing or was it a slow learning process over time to see that both he and the slaves around him mattered.

No point to this post, I'm rambling.

[isaysorryverysoftly]

the form of all evil is the same

Don't ever say things like 'you stupid monkey' 'you dog'... all evil wants to do is take things that exist fine and happy on their own and put them in a hierarchy of unworthy to worthy in order to manipulate people. The concept of unworthyness is so dogmatic that anyone who does it even once is incapable of coherent thought, to impose unworthiness on anyone is so arbitrary yet so corrosive that it is seemingly the primary sin. The pride to say that another existent being doesnt deserve something is so EVIL and yet so COMPLETELY IMPOTENT AND DOES NOTHING TO BENEFIT YOU. Like seriously, imagine actually believing in making someone feel bad by calling them a dog, and thus beleiving in the idea that being called a dog was bad, you lose TWO times, and for what... like a tiny thread of an nessecarily solipsistic ego boost. Not only do you fear being compared to a dog, but you also disrespect dogs for no reason now. You just gain a 'standard of unworthiness', a standard which posits dogs as unworthy, which doesn't do anything... you cant do anything positive with that standard, all it does is make you less likely to interpret a dog in a beautiful manner, and the other thing you get is like, an insecurity about being compared to a dog now... Like fucking good one you idiot. Good one! It's just making so much nothing out of so much something. It breaks my heart. I want to name this evil technique of pitting innocent parties against eachotehr in a heirachy. Im calling that shit Noggling, because i find it BOGGLING... but in a NOT good way. Dont noggle, not even once, no matter how inaninmate the things you are noggling with are. Never even say 'your being such a chair'. The idea of trying to convince someone of the lowered value of chairs, and then trying to convince someone to apply that lowered value of chairs onto themselves, thus causing them to feel bad about themselves at the price of also having a very close minded and uncreative view of chairs is so collaterally useless and depressing. The evil is in the form of noggling itself, not even the things you noggle against eachother.

NEVER NOGGLE!

You can goggle though, you can call someone a diamond, thats just what a metaphor is. Because it's simply asking someone to imagine if their traits were represented in the same form a diamond is.

Like when someone says 'you are my diamond' they are encouraging thought, they are encouraging you to think 'ok, so in what ways could i be like a diamond... hmm

Ok so this person subjectively feels like i am lustrous, and that i am like a little precious object that they want to keep connected to their heart'

The fundamental difference between noggling and goggling is the latter encourages thought and expereince and the former doesn't. The latter doesn't actually have a specified symbolic meaning, it doesn't make a virtue or heirachy out of diamonds and then apply it to you, for example it doesn't posit a heirachy between coal and diamonds, and then says something like 'good job not being a coal today' no, that would be noggling. Goggling gets its value by offering you a creative task of trying to imagine how you could possibly represent this 'goggled-object' in another persons mind.

Another goggling could be 'oh darling you are like my coal' and then you have the task of being hmm... what do i do that is coal like. Oh, they mean that i am that really inexpensive ore in minecraft that can be combined with A SINGLE STICK to make fucking FOUR WHOLE TORCHES! Thats wonderful...

Right, to goggle someone, to say 'you are like X' in a goggle sense, is to give them a relation that you have made in their head, in order for them to work how they feel about you. To boggle on the other hand, is to posit a heirachy and then denigrate someone on the basis of that heirachy, in which case even being at the top of the heirachy is a form of denigration, because it is denigrating them by implying that they nessecarily have to even BE A PART OF A HEIRACHY AT ALL, AND THAT THEY NEED PEOPLE UNDER THEM. You know, jesus was the king of this world, and yet he didn't denigrate himself by not hanging out with peasents, and removing himself from them in some form of heirachy. To be in a heirachy is to loose surface area is to be in contact with less objects out of dogmatic subjugation of those objects. GOSH I AM SO MAD!

[lesser-mook]

Stop Emasculating Men, Then Wondering Where All The Good Men Went

BY: GREG ELLIS

Women Are Human Too — With Human Flaws

As Macrocreeps will tell you, women are goddesses apparently.

Can do no wrong, above us greasy mere mortals known as men that are here to serve. According to society, women's shit don't stink.

As a society, we buy into an unspoken and pervasive bias in favor of women: as the fairer sex, they must be inherently more righteous and loving than men. Yet we are all human, and capable of being slaves to base passions. Just as men’s, women’s passions can manifest in destructive and ugly ways.

Well this isn't a modern phenomena, bias toward women is in our DNA, they bear the babies. So we associate women with children and babies, it's why we treat women with the same tolerance & lack of accountability we spare for children who don't know how to make sound rational decisions.

The problem is society has progressed but it hasn't "advanced", progression just means you moved in a direction, it doesn't mean it's the right direction.

Advancement is to go in a better vector than previously, to advance is to evolve.

Civilization hasn't evolved, we infantilize women then wonder why some women act weird, we wonder where Karens come from, why young Women are so entitled yet so useless in a utility sense of a relationship.

We're raising them to be passive bystanders in their own lives and encourage them to be bosses and produce absolutely nothing.

That's not our bias toward women being a construct of modern society, it's natural, but the same energy we exert to keep men in check we need to exercise it to keep women in check as well.

Because infantilizing women ,giving them trophies for being "the first women to-" [insert thing a man has already done[ is just treating women like actual children.

They're winners for playing, not actually doing anything worthy of praise.

The bias isn't the entire issue. It's the hypocrisy.

Recognizing this doesn’t negate the plight women have endured in a historically male-dominated world. It simply suggests women hold no monopoly on virtue. Women’s ascendance past centuries-old barriers is remarkable and praiseworthy. Almost all the men I know look with pride and amazement at the mothers and daughters in their lives, and understand the “Me Too” movement is a long-overdue reckoning for bad men. But why must success for one sex automatically include derision for the other? The laudable, original objective of the feminist movement urging us to better our traditional manhood has warped into an assault on everything masculine. It strips away empathy for boys, who must navigate a world that assumes the worst of them.

Apparently women aren't flawed. Criticizing them is misogyny and could result in you losing your job.

Their word alone can send you to jail and if she lied well oh well, you lost years of your life and her identity will be protected.

Oops? Welcome to honorary Second class citizenship, dear males. Acknowledge your privilege to go die in any situation that threatens women to preserve the lives of women and if you don't you'll be canceled and lose everything:

Remember, women are oppressed in first world countries.

And don't you dare tell a woman she looks nice today that's considered violence.

See we drive men and women apart, we don't challenge articles that are doing nothing but inflating the problem, then wonder why society is going down the crapper.

It's a real mystery.

Ostracizing Masculinity

Men kill themselves at a rate almost 400 percent higher than women. They also make up the vast majority of combat deaths; more than 97 percent of American military fatalities in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom were men.

And nobody cares because men suffering is beneath our notice, it's normalized into the culture. So normalized there's a fetish that specializes in emasculating men to the furthest extent possible as an inferior derivative of the human species and painting women as omnipotent & superior, even actual goddesses.

(overcompensating much?)

Male suffering is all part of the plan baby, it's how you bring a country down to it's knees. Better believe it.

The quick ascendence of this concept to cultural gospel is reflected by how common the phrase has become. Although The New York Times has since removed its calculator for word frequency in its coverage, screenshots posted to Twitter suggest the term “toxic masculinity” was basically nonexistent in the media until recently. After that, its prevalence appears on the graph as a slope verging on vertical. The same is true for related terms like “patriarchy” and “male privilege.” A Google search for the term “toxic masculinity” yields more than 7.5 million results. Start scrolling, and you’ll see articles like The New York Times’ “The Boys Are Not All Right,” Scientific American’s “How to Fight Toxic Masculinity,” and The Atlantic’s “Toxic Masculinity and the Brokenness of Boyhood” — which appears to have been stealth-edited with the new title, “The Miseducation of the American Boy.”

“Toxic Masculinity and the Brokenness of Boyhood”

Brokenness of Boyhood, listen to that language, the insinuation of inherit defection. I can just taste the venom through my screen. Holy shit.

Imagine it: "The Brokeness of Girlhood"

Now mind you, the inherent toxicity of women manipulating people, their propensity to be passive aggressive, jealous, vindictive, & turn people against each other, plot murders, warp a situation by feigning weakness or using tears to turn a situation- Things girls learn subliminally as children to influence the behavior of their parents and then authorities to the best of one's ability.

It even happens in classrooms or parties. Women are not stupid and it's a natural instinct of women , but it's actually very dangerous.

The entire point of GONE GIRL is to show how effective a woman can be if she really wanted to mess someone up without putting her hands on anyone.

See the problem is we've made it so "toxicity" is only defined by what men normally do wrong, not by women's standards too.

So that way when it's time for women to take accountability, it's never time, because there's always an excuse or a phantom patriarchy to blame.

The “toxic masculinity” narrative deepened further in 2019, when the American Psychological Association, for the first time in its history, developed official guidelines for working with men and boys. The document is discouraging, calling for recognition of “the impact of power, privilege, and sexism on the development of boys and men” and casting what it considers “traditional” male behavior as inherently problematic.

That's the point. That's how you destroy what makes a Country a threat. Masculinity.

North Korea is not shaking in their boots because we have Sensitivity Classes or because THE VIEW has an opinion, hell this is only an argument if pretend women never start fights or cause trouble.

When people say if women ruled the world-

Harnessing electricity would've been postponed, don't kid yourselves. We might be a more cultured world for sure with women on top, but our advancement ?Technology? Say bye bye to your vibrators kiddos.

All in all, America is very effeminate, that's partly why it's failing.

Where Is the Empathy For Men?

Ignored, Americans have an inclusive, sensitive, tolerant society (Gemini A.I will tell you this bullshit)-- Unless Men or White people are involved in the conversation.

It’s debated whether certain masculine behaviors are born of dubious socialization or are the function of natural, hormone-driven biological traits. Meanwhile, many of the people shouting about toxic men also inexplicably claim there are no differences between the sexes. The idea that men can only redeem their fundamental brokenness by acting more like women is not limited to the gated community of elite academia. It permeates the nation’s mainstream reading lists. Just one example from late 2019 was the book “For the Love of Men” by Liz Plank. On the very first page, we are told toxic masculinity is more dangerous than nuclear war, followed by chapter after chapter of dodgy research in which toxic masculinity is essentially defined as any behavior Plank doesn’t like.

there's legitimate criticisms on women's part, men do commit majority of violent crimes but they also build the cities in full, bridges, die doing it too- are men going to get articles on mass presting that fact ? No.

#MenAreTrash looks better on a T-Shirt, meanwhile they're out right now building your goddam malls

First world societies need masculinity when matriarchy fails civilization and then in peacetime men need to closely emulate or turn into women or else they're problematic.

That's exactly how it works.

Where is the empathy for men? The question doesn’t require us to disregard women’s historical suffering. Rather, it simply acknowledges most men are neither predators nor abusers, and asks the same empathy and sympathy for men that our feminist society demands for women.

"-and asks the same empathy and sympathy for men that our feminist society demands for women."

So we're asking people to exercise equality between men and women......

- which is what our foremother's wanted in the first place but their daughters inherited a hybrid of privilege and Platinum First Class Protected Status, damn near ranking above the elders and children.

We're asking Feminist society to do it's fucking job, lmfao.

[inhumanheresy]

@visionhcld from here:

aw, shit. here we go again— it would take someone particularly dense not to notice the entirely too-familiar tone coming from this particular prisoner. and while he's been called that before, sure, wriothesley's not about to fall for any sort of feigned pleasantness. he knows, of course, to whom he speaks. it's his job to know each and every person here. and this one must want something. still, there's no reason to be rude. they are, after all, all equals here. he is no better than anyone else despite whatever title he carries. " yep. that's me. " he answers simply, crossing his arms over his chest as he looks the man over. he notes, of course, the man's eyes moving over him as well. he's content, really, to let the conversation go with just that, to simply sit back and see how things play out. but of course, he knows that won't be the end of it. and he's right; it isn't. " don't get used to it. " he notes, though there's no warning in his tone. again, it's merely a simple statement of fact. he raises an eyebrow at the... toothy grin he receives, half-ignoring the words themselves, mostly meaningless. this one could be trouble, he thinks. maybe. but then again, maybe not. he'll simply have to wait, watch and see. it's true, of course. he does have an agenda with this particular visit, though he's hardly going to give it up in one, short go. he can fool— or, perhaps, threaten— most people, but not wriothesley. and what happens in the ring... it's something sacred. and he won't have its peace disturbed. that he can undoubtedly promise. " i'm not here to forbid anything, actually. at least, not without a reason. not my style. " he begins, seeming a bit more curious, interested, than before; he meets, holds, the man's eyes. though quite casual in both his stance and expression, he seems to pick his words with care. " but, you're new here. so, just so we're clear— you understand the rules, right? can't have you overdoing it or we are going to have problems. other than that, i couldn't care less. go ahead— fight. "

Wriothesley remains entirely unbothered by his mild provocation, which, in all fairness, wasn’t much of one anyway, especially since in the Fortress of Meropide he holds little to no social power and zero reputation at all. Still, he knows that Wriothesley knows Who He Is in the grander scheme of the world, and yet, no reaction. Not bad.

The news that the man isn’t here to forbid a damn Harbinger from picking on — or picking off — the prisoners in his custody isn’t quite what he expected, though, especially after the Pankration organizer’s spiel about not letting too-powerful contenders challenge others in the ring. He’d downplayed his abilities well enough so that they’d let him both spar and compete, but Tartaglia couldn’t help the slight sting to his pride when his skill wasn’t estimated ‘too high’ for their matches.

“The rules of the Fortress or the rules of the Pankration Ring? I’ve picked up on what all wasn’t explained to me during the initial… I guess you could call it an orientation?” He shrugs. Said ‘orientation’ consisted of a tired-looking woman guiding him from the ‘dock’, if one could even call it that, to the central hub of the Fortress, pointing out the mess area, the elevator to the Production Zone, and then guiding him upstairs to his assigned sleeping quarters. Decidedly unentertaining and only mildly informative, but not a terrible experience all in all. “As for the ring?”

The cocky little smile on his face says far more than his words will.

“I’ve made basic assumptions: no killing, maiming, or otherwise severely injuring opponents, though if someone takes a hit to the tenders that’s on them. I’m not sure if there’s any restrictions on using elemental abilities, but as you can see—” Spreading his arms wide for an unimpeded view, he glances down at himself — left, right, then back to Wriothesley with one eyebrow cocked. “—no Vision on me.

“And really,” Tartaglia laughs in his best Childe manner, testing to see which direction the Warden will take, “do I look like the kind of fighter that’s able to inflict much damage barehanded? Some of those people trying to knock me on my ass might need a warning on ‘overdoing it’ far more than I do.”

[softxsuki]

Hii can i request Obey me, Tokyo revengers and jujutsu kaisen romantic matchup? I liked your event so i decided to participate.

I'm female she/her pronouns, I'm fine with any gender.

My mbti is intj 5w4 548; my horoscope is Sun:leo Moon: libra, Rising: Capricorn, Medium Coeli:Scorpio, Mercury: leo, Venus: leo, Mars: gemini, Jupiter: Sagittarius, Saturn: leo, Uranus: Pisces, Neptune: Aquarius, Pluto: Sagittarius, Lunar Nodes: Pisces, Lilith: Scorpio, Chiron: Aquarius

I'm ambivert,I'm very laid back and prefer to go with the flow of life but sometimes come off as ego-centric and domineering. I have to admit I’m a lazy person who prefers having a leisure more than anything else. But once i find my motivation I'm actually pretty hardworking, I won't stop or take breaks until i completely finish what I started. I mostly spends my time as a stoic and a calm person and i might even come off as apathetic towards the world around me [even tho I’m not]. I’m usually perceived as being insensitive because i generally prefer to deal with emotions in my own head rather than openly [and somehow I'm still well liked?!] tbh I often think I’m above others, yet I am always willing to acknowledge that I’m a total piece of shit [very rarely tho] Sometimes i have fantasies and ideals that I want to start creating or becoming but i give myself a reality check and let the dream fade away. I’m very innovative but still choose the practical route a lot. It’s easy for me to create goals and envision the end results but it’s ridiculously hard for me to remain committed to the process. I have a very big ego but one word alone is enough to destroy it. i Will never admit my wrong, unless internally. I'm playful around people i like [friends, family, classmates] and if I believe I'm right I'll passive agressivly fight you to prove my point [even if I'm wrong]. Like i said i have hard time committing to something i loose interest, motivation and get bored rather easily. If I'm stressed about something i bottle everything up and worry about it alone. Not because I don't want to burden other or anything simply because my pride and ego is getting in my way. I'm not really a jealous person and even if i get jealous i keep it to myself and try my best to hide it. I care about what others think of me [more like what others think of my parents] so towards strangers and people that know my parents I'm very polite.

I like horror genre [movies, books, analogue horror and etc], watching movies, listening to true crime, reading books and listening to music. I love indie and alternative rock, gothic novels, Victorian and vampire goth aesthetic, grunge aesthetic. Researching and learning more about myself. I love reading greek mythology and Japanese urban legends, reading about horror/supernatural creatures such as vampires, sirens, wendigos and etc. I'm interested in psychology and prehistory [especially prehistoric religions even though I'm not really religious person myself]. I wouldn't really consider this as a hobby cause i do it once or twice a year but i also play volleyball and piano.

I value honesty and loyalty, I'm more attracted [romantically or platonically] to people who are confident in themselves and their abilities. I also value partner/friend that isn't overprotective and allows me my independence and let's me do things my way.

I don't think i have a specific type i just want my partner to keep me entertained as i tend to get bored rather easily.

Extra:

i love colour red, i sometimes even gatekeep it.

i want to get pet snake in the future

i might not have a best relationship with my parents but I value and respect them a lot.

i might act as a mean older sister most of the time with my siblings but I'm willing to get agressive if someone besides me or my parents upsets them.

i went to music school for 6 years, art school 2 years [with completely different teachers] and i went to dancing classes for 2 years, 1 month and 5 days [with four different teachers]

i speak three languages [English, Georgian and russian] and I'm planning to learn greek.

Scenario:

them reaction to their partner showing cute aggression.

Like when i find something cute or Adorable i want to pinch their cheeks & squeeze them to death lovingly and kiss and bite all over them.

1000 Follower Event Matchup #18

This event is CLOSED. You can see the masterlist here.

Note: Hey! Sorry for the delay on your matchup, life has been crazy. Hope you enjoy :)

I match you with RAN, ASMO, GETO

No runner ups, these are literally perfect for you :D

Ran:

(I don’t write for him so I don’t want to edit a pic so here’s a gif instead lo. Enjoy him and his brother 🫠l)

I’ll be honest, I struggled a little finding your perfect match but then Ran came to mind

I’ve seen him in only a few manga panels, but based off what I’ve seen I think he’s everything you’re asking for

He lets you do your own thing so long as it isn’t blatantly dangerous, then he’d have to step in and try to reason you out of doing it, but he loves the way you carry yourself

Others may misunderstand you and your intentions but Ran knows you like the back of his thumb

How does he react to your cute aggression?

He’s obsessed with it and kinda craves to see it

Honestly he finds any aggression from you very attractive and might go out of his way to bring it out of you 

Not in a bad way ofc, but he’ll wear something he knows you’re crazy about just to get a reaction out of you

Asmodeus:

I feel like his aesthetic is the complete opposite of yours, but opposites attract, right?

I think you’d both bond over being misunderstood

Everyone thinks he’s nothing more than a pretty boy who only cares about himself, but he too also cares deeply about his family and you and would do anything to make sure they're safe and happy

The other brothers are so overprotective, but Asmodeus is more carefree about things

Obviously he’d make sure you’re accompanied whenever you want to go out, because the Devildom can be dangerous for a human like you

But you can dress and act however you please with him–he encourages it all

How does he respond to your cute aggression?

Another one who is obsessed with it

He responds similarly when he finds something cute, so you both have that in common

Bite his cheek in excitement, he likes it lol

Geto:

(Again I don’t write for him so enjoy this gif)

I don’t know much about him, but he gives off “i don’t care” vibes along with lots of confidence so…I think it matches

As for your fantasies that you just brush off, yeah, Geto works to make those fantasies become reality for you

You’re his queen and probably the only person he’d take orders from, so literally whatever you want, he’d make it happen

You won’t have to work for anything with him around (unless of course, you’d want to. He won’t stop you)

Literally doesn’t care what you do, he’s backing you up all the way

He keeps things exciting for you so there’s never a dull moment with him

How does he react to your cute aggression?

He doesn’t get it really

What’s so cute about that thing?

But as long as you’re happy, he doesn’t mind it

Might like to see you react like that to him one day…even if it is only once, he wants to know what he feels like to be on the receiving end of your aggression

EVENT REQUESTS ARE CLOSED

REGULAR REQUESTS ARE OPEN

Posted: 5/25/2023

[divergentexarchickeyblade]

I never really post on here. I'm just a fandom account, really, and I tend to dodge the news like the plague, as it has a habit of negatively affecting my mental health. But I just need somewhere to shout into the void, about what's happening in the UK. This might be a long read, so I'll add a read more. If you just want some advice, it's after the TLDR.

Also, trigger warnings: racism, riots, current news. I know it's too much for some people, especially today.

Right now, in the UK, there are far-right groups doing scheduled marches, touting some anti-immigration shit. It's stupid. It's infuriating. It's scary. There's one down the road from where we live.

None of them actually give a shit about migration, or the socio-political-economic side of migrating vs. living nationally. This is all about racism (and a dash of classism). How do I know that?

Both me and my partner's grandfathers are not from the UK, or have a family background outside of the UK. They would only hate one of us. They'd think I'm one of them, because I'm paper white, and my grandfather is Southern Irish. My partner's grandfather was Romani, and my partner is (as they themselves say) 'not entirely white'. Both of us were born in the UK. Both of us have English parents.

And yet, they'd absolutely hate my partner, but be fine with me. Because I'm painfully white.

Maybe to some people I'm stating the obvious. Of course these riots are about racism. Racism, from a country that notoriously conquered half the world, had an empire, and were surprised that the people of those nations came to the UK. From a country with a high amount of ex-pats. From a country with entire cities built from multiculturalism and diversity. From a country that, in academia, encourages us to look at sources from a variety of locations across the world.

Yet, here are the riots. Here are the racists. Some places in the UK have had to EVACUATE their workers, like it's a bomb threat, such as Sunderland University. People living in the cities have been told to avoid the centres and find alternate travel measures. Town centres are being plastered with stickers, covered in racist remarks.

I'm reminded of the Nottinghill violence. If you don't know what that was, please read about it. It was a horrific event, and the victims of that violence should never be forgotten.

We are a nation that says 'never again' when we see WW2, but are happy to be just as vile to others who don't fit into our little idea of 'UK'. We are a nation that prides itself on the quality of our degrees, and their popularity across the world, yet reject non-nationals. We are a nation built of years and years of fighting for freedom and rights, yet snatch them away when it's convenient for us. We are a nation that is about the people and collective, when we are threatened from exterior forces, but when that dies down, we attack each other.

It's brain-dead. It's terrifying. It's the stuff of nightmares. And I'm not even the demographic being fucking targeted. I can't imagine how much worse they feel.

TLDR: Fuck racists. Fuck your 'protests'. Go read a fucking book. It's not 1960, anymore - the web has so much free information you can access, like archives, documentaries, etc. Fucking use them. Then, grow up.

As for people like me, who are worried for their families, spouses, friends, etc. Please, check on them. Text them, call them, anything. Even if they've just been hanging out at home, make sure they're okay.

To the people who are being targeted, I'm so sorry. This is such a BS situation, and my heart really goes out to you. The only thing I can do is offer the following advice:

- Avoid city centres and areas with large crowds. Try not to use public transport that links cities, too. Rioters will likely be taking these routes.

- Please, stay home, make sure all of your windows/doors/gates are locked, even if you're in the house (moreso at night). Considering how hot it is, close your blinds/curtains to block out sunlight. You can, also, use fans or dehumidifiers to keep your house cool.

- Make sure you have a torch/flashlight/candles/etc., just in case the power goes out. People like that tend to be looters, or looters hide in the crowds to go unnoticed, and will steal copper wiring out of electrical pylons and stuff.

- If you're still outside, make sure to keep your phone on you, and record ANYTHING that happens. If anyone attacks you, physically or verbally, record it all, and hand it to the police. Chances are, you won't be the only one, reporting that person.

- Take longer, quieter routes home.

- If your public transport breaks down, get yourself a taxi. It'll suck, but your life and safety are worth more than money. Uber works in the UK, and local areas have their own taxi services.

- Keep cars in a garage, or somewhere quiet/difficult for other people to get to.

- Try not to travel alone.

- Please, above all, STAY SAFE.

- Keep pets indoors.

- If you have nice neighbours, let them know where you are. Try to stick together, and keep each other safe. Their company can, also, do wonders. Maybe do go round for that cup of tea you both keep putting off.

- If your home has CCTV, security alarms etc., keep them on. Even if you live in the nicest neighbourhood, keep it on for now.

- Try and keep your kids at home. They will target children, too. A lot of people have pointed at the Southport murder as evidence of this.

- If you, or someone you know, is homeless, or needs somewhere safe to stay, the charity SHELTER is a great place to start. On top of that, each area has local charities that might be able to help. Sometimes hotels will, also, offer a safe room for situations like this, but it is hotel dependent.

- It might sound obvious to state, but the number for emergency services in the UK is 999. You can call this number, even with bad signal. You'll be asked if you want police, fire fighters, or an ambulance. If it's a medical issue, but not urgent, call 111. This number directs you to an NHS health department, that can advise you, or escalate the problem to Accident and Emergency, if they feel it's appropriate. These numbers are FREE, even from mobile phones. 111 has seriously saved my ass with medical problems, so don't be afraid to contact them. They just wanna help.

- If all of this is getting to you, and you take a crash in your mental health, you can contact the Samaritans charity, or MIND charity. They're not long-term, but can help you in times of crisis. Much like the hotels thing, some areas have their own charities that deal with this sort of thing, and they can help you.

- If you're ordering a prescription, you can ask for it to be delivered to your address. Even if it's just a temporary measure. They'll understand. I'm not sure if you have to pay for the delivery, so be mindful of that.

[mystech-master]

Putting in my own long response because I have my own word-vomit

first off, keeping those tags in

Secondly, my personal gripes with the series:

I feel like changing the Extermination motivation from "Overpopulation" in the pilot to "Preventing an uprising" hurts the premise of redemption. Before, the Overpopulation problem meant the exterminations were a necessary evil that they had to deal with, accept, and work around. They needed to happen so there is no arguing against them, and the Angels are too powerful to fight back against. The Hotel and redemption are the only hope. Now, not only do we know it is more about "Fuck you Sinners know your place" but now we know that they can easily fight back against the Exorcists, so it just makes me wonder. With the reason no longer having any justification and now knowing they can prevent it, why would anyone bother trying to "save themselves" from extermination when they know the reason is bogus and they just need to be strong enough to fight back (like the usual way things are in Hell)?

This series really doesn't want to bring up the massive timetable it is working with. For the Sinners, these are people who have lived up to around their 30s minimum and then spent decades in Hell, PLENTY of time for tons of shit to have happened. Then you got Charlie and her family who should be centuries to THOUSANDS of years old, and yet if you were to tell me these guys were their listed biological ages (Charlie in her 20s, Alastor in his 30s, etc.) I'd have no reason not to believe you. Charlie's massive lifespan and time alive is SO much room to fill in stuff like "What made her want to redeem Sinners in the first place?"

More of an issue with the broader Hella Verse, but the fact that so much shit is locked behind Helluva Boss and cannot crossover. Especially when it comes to Charlie and Lucifer. For Charlie, when it comes to her dream of redemption, one of the big reasons she gives in the show is "These are my people/These are our people", which feels weird when we will never see how she feels about the 85% of her Kingdom of her fellow Hellborn locked in the other show. People say that Charlie is kind of a flat character, learning more about her backstory and how she grew up could help mitigate that and naturally as Princess of Hell she should be interacting with the Sins and the Goetia, but NOPE. As far as Hazbin's canon is concerned it's just her, her parents, and she stayed in the Pride Ring. As for Lucifer, when you look at him and his relationship with Charlie in a vacuum, it seems fine. He is just Charlie's dorky yet distant dad. But when you remember that this is the King of Hell, shit looks weird. To start, it looks like after the fall Lucifer just became a depressed duck man while Lilith was the Queen girlboss running Hell. The Overlords and the Goetia seem to be doing most of the work doing ANY governing, and much like with Charlie, having him not be able to interact with the massive other chunks of his Kingdom, the Sins, or the Goetia and vice versa really feels like something is missing. Also, to go back to my first point. The "Preventing an Uprising" thing doesn't make sense when no one we've seen on the Sinner demon's side is capable of GETTING TO HEAVEN TO CAUSE AN UPRISING IN THE FIRST PLACE! Heaven portals clearly need to be opened by an Angel, no one else. But, even without that all of the people even remotely capable of getting to Heaven with portal magic either don't give AF about the Sinners (Lucifer) or are locked in the other canon and also probably dgaf about the Sinners (the Sins and the Goetia).

Those are my personal gripes though

Thirdly, moreso responses to some of OP's points. Not all of them, just the ones I feel like I could actually talk about.

First off the redemption thing. Asking about the crimes, and if they want to change and why not. Again this is an issue with the show not wanting to acknowledge the massive timetable, and therefore never bringing up the characters' human lives. As for what rules they are working with, "Who is throwing the book" no one knows apparently. It seems like "Sin" in the Hellaverse is any generically "Bad" behavior, for any reason (sexual deviancy, murder, stealing, doing drugs, greed, cannibalism, the most classic easy to call-out "evil" shit).

The Sexual assault being a joke one moment (Angel Dust to Husk I imagine) to being treated for drama and seriously the next (Valentino to Angel Dust) I imagine is also a problem I see in Helluva Boss where, they are going all "Ha ha we're an adult cartoon, Murder Drug Sex Joke LOL" where people can be charming assholes one moment but then you have the super serious moment next because you want characters to be sympathetic and relatable but that just ends up looking tone deaf. I've seen people say that Angel being all promiscuous (I hope that's the right word) is meant to be an SA victim's method of having control or something but again it looks like it clashes too much with the method.

For the Gay relationships being better than the Lesbians. I can't remember any Lesbian shops in this franchise other than Chaggie, but is it boring probably because it's attached to Charlie who many think is flat? If I am forgetting any Lesbian ships in HB then please remind me.

As for the specific character points

With Charlie I agree that she doesn't seem to add an arc, but what annoys me is when I see everyone online now start all repeating how she should meet someone too far gone who doesn't deserve redemption which just kind of feels edgy. I get what they mean, but it just feels like those guys who want to break the optimist with the cold hard reality. I'm just reminded of the "Naruto tries to talk no jutsu Hitler" or "When Steven Universe meets a bad guy * insert long paragraph and Steven crying pic * while another guy would kill them" or some joke like that. Again, I get what they actually mean, it just tends to come across like that, at least to me.

As for Charlie showing off more of her power, that leads me to ask "WHY is Charlie the Princess of Hell?" Like, narratively, what does it do? Almost no one respects her rank and she doesn't like to fight/resort to violence. The only thing it SEEMS to do is A. give her a reason to care about the Sinners (the "These are my people" reason, but like I said before that has its own issues) and B. give her the resources to start the Hotel and grant free room and board to its guests. BUT, if we go the opposite then we have another problem. If Charlie is instead someone willing to throw the power around, doesn't;t that basically eliminate almost ANY threat? Like the stuff with Valentino, if Charlie could just snap her fingers and Thanos him, that entire conflict would mean nothing. Even if she isn't someone who likes to resort to violence Val is clearly someone who'd push her buttons enough. If she just has enough resources or power to throw at any problem that isn't an emotional one, all conflict means nothing.

For Alastor, his not wanting Redemption may be true, it's what his big mystery is that keeps him around. We don't know WHO he is contracted to (most people theorize it is Lilith not Roo, due to their shared 7 Year Absence). Based on the final episode (pre-battle and the finale song) he seems like he could either be slowly coming around to liking the Hotel goers genuinely, or he is going to double down as a secret true bad guy in the final hour. We'll have to wait and see. As one of my old favorite shows once said "The Mask worn too long becomes the face"

I agree on the point of Sir Pentious being infantilized for the show. I honestly thought he was going to be a bit more of a recurring bad guy before staying at the Hotel at a mid-point way of the season, but when I learned we were only getting 8 episodes I was fine with it because it would be better to get that over with ASAp so it wouldn't;t be crammed in at the last minute in this already crammed story.

Nifty being infantilized and sexualized is the fault of the main show making her this chaotic gremlin thing. Yeah she was sort of nutty in the Pilot, but Pilot Nifty at least felt like she, at least mostly, had all of her cognitive faculties with her and could actually be talked to.

Those are all my points.

a comprehensive list of everything wrong with hazbin hotel.

quick note before i lose myself in madness, my standards for helluvaboss are non existent because its a free show on youtube. also i kinda like helluvaboss and i will indulge in any bias i damn well please.

oh and spoilers. i guess.

the greater narrative of the entire season is "White lady civilize inner city hoodlum". ex: The blind side. rich girl, affluent family yadda yadda.

the story is set up to be like amphibia, owl house, svtfoe, steven universe, that being starting as something episodic then transforming into story driven narrative. why? because we know the benefits and drawbacks, episodic starts allows us to wander the world, it allows us to understand the dynamics, we are not forced to reckon with anything because there is no deadline. characters are allowed to bloom and shine and the audience can actually get attached.

the source material is Vary Clearly formed from remnants of something out of a middle school edgelord narrative. the usage of transformation, the big spooky grins, the "and then i smile as my eyes glow and-"-isms which in most cases i don't mind because in some instances but in a vary Particular case its astoundingly annoying and that annoyance is like a mold, shit spreads quick.

the color Red. as a lover of homestuck cherubs and karkat and aradia, as someone who fucking loves the color red, it is so painful to say but holy shit tone it the fuck down, i know its hell but their are so many other colors that you can use, its everywhere, the streets, the air, the windows, the screens, the characters, i know the pride ring is represented with red but change up the palates every so often for backgrounds

the rush, this ties into the second point made but i think the story itself is rushed. we know everything way to early. i know way to much and it makes it hard to care about anything because im still trying to digest the last chunk of info. "oh ok, so they clear out hell once a year. oh hell has a heaven embassy? ok. oh that adam the angel, i though he wou- oh its every 6 months now. wait the exterminators die a lot? then why is everyone sca- people in hell already have weapons that can kill angels? w- oh we are in heaven now, ok ma- no one in heaven except for the elites know the exterminations occur? how do-" and its that, just this incessant rush to explain everything to you. notably that's just the god damn spark notes, we need to know everything about the characters now, every single bit of their story, their insecurities, what charlie needs to fix, how she can fix them, the major bad guys, everything. you are never allowed to dwell on a character because we need to rush towards something else. it almost feels like this should have been like... season three, it would have been a fantastic season three if you dropped the introductions honestly.

the concept of redemption. for a story of redemption to work you need to look at three things. What is there crime, Do they want to change, What is preventing them from changeing? there is only one single character that has a notable path of redemption, angel dust, but if you look through their story it feels off. What Exactly is he guilty of? he has sex, does drugs and drinks. his apparent nymphomania is tied to his sad backstory as someone forced into the sex industry so how is that their fault? then if you think about it you start to spiral and notice "hey why are most of these people in hell?" like sure some of them may deserve punishment but then you see the fucking dichotomy and its like "I was a inventor in england and died of the fucking plague, i may have made evil little contraption hoohoohoo" vs "I was a cannibal, a full on cannibal, i fucking killed people and ate them and then someone shot me". ONE OF THESE THINGS ARE A LITTLE MORE FUCKING EXTREME. i'm going to go fucking nuts, the thing they went to heaven with when presenting a case to angels on the idea that redemption and becoming a better person is actually real was angel dust not drinking at a party and not having sex with consenting adults and i want to go fucking insane. WHAT IS THE CRIME, WHO IS THROWING THE BOOK, WHAT DOES THE BOOK INTEL, ARE WE ON GOOD PLACE RULES?! half the cast dont Need redemption they need fucking help, and the other half of the cast do need redemption but they do not seek it making the point moot. sir pentious acts like he has the brain of a hyper intelligent toddler tossing about toys, its almost like he did his one bad thing of spying and then got caught, sank his little diddy about forgiveness and second chances and become a null point through out the rest of the series, sure their was Some weight to him sacrificing himself, he was a decently funny character and he had good moments but him popping up in heaven felt like a fore gone conclusion, he didn't deserve to be in hell so why do i care that he is suddenly in heaven? because its working on the concept the good place already made. no one actually deserves eternal punishment they just need help processing what makes them a dick, but instead of looking at all the parts of the afterlife that make it bad, inefficient and then creating and trying ideas to see if it work instead over a few seasons, we crash dick first into all the major plot points in regards to that and say "tada, we fixed it.".

having a sub-plot about sexual assault and its victims then having multiple sexual assault related gag ruins your point.

don't make a bunch of stereotypically jewish characters into cannibals, that was a big thing, really shouldn't have to say it.

if you are going to make a character black, make them black, you can say alastor was black but sweet seren-fucking-dippity that's not a black man.

pot meet kettle but yeah the cursing could be a little less liberal. maybe just blue hair or the pronouns, not both.

there is a very distinctive art deco/jazz aesthetic which normally i love but i feel as though it is not used to its full extent and in some cases really hurts the character design in and of itself.

this is a vary obvious bit but the story is a million times more interested in gay men then it is of lesbians, which culminates in this insane thing where the writers clearly have more talent or perhaps it would be more abt to say practice writing male gay pining then they are with lesbian pining. which i personally think is hilarious because i did not know you could min max fujoshi-ism that hard.

this next section is more to do with each character on a fundamental level, for the sake of brevity whatever there is left, i'm just doing ones with speaking roles.

13. Charlie:

(see what i mean about that red thing?)

as originally stated charlie fits rather comfortably into every white saviour narrative, though that seems to be part of her joke. though i'm not entirely sure how much of a joke it can be when its rewarded and expected to advance the plot.

her character design says nothing, it has the motif of old puppets or dolls, she wears something vaguely similar to service suits, her demonic form is just some extra horns.not to say every character needs to have their life on a clothes rack but some more snake and goat imagery would be nice

its not the chol design of charlie with snake hair, not an actual problem but its a problem to me, damn you @cholvoq for ruining my ability to look at any of the characters without wishing i was seeing your designs instead.

character wise aside from the white savoir bit, i'm having a bit of trouble understanding what the arc of the character is. she is shown to be naive, someone who doesn't understand how the world works but everytime she says something its something astoundingly clear like "people can actually get better". and its treated like someone demanded faygo in every water fountain. is the joke that the world around her to cynical or is so to naive? please pick one or the other.

now if you know me, you know i fucking hate overpowered characters with a blinding passion, one that would set alit the god damn abyss but in this one special instance, i feel like its warranted, she's the direct descendant of fucking God, she can swing her weight around a little, i mean god damn. she in so many instances looks like shes cowering so often, why would the daughter of lucifer get backed down by some rando pimp? why wasn't she the one to fight adam? sure you can say she is young but how young? her parents were there since pre-abrahamic times, most of the characters showed up in hell in the 1900s, some of them showed up in the 1600s, how old is charlie??? how long does it take for her to learn how to be strong? The story does not suffer if charlie is strong and knows she is strong. it can easily be a case of "i don't believe in violence to a weird degree". fit it into her apparent naivety about the world to believe that violence is never the answer even when dealing with a being that is unilaterally horrible and abusive and monstrous.

she ga- no im kidding, i do think her romance was waysided a bit, it would have been fine to have more scenes of them togather and in love you know?

14. Vaggie

why did you name the lesbian vaggie...? Don't do that maybe?

I like how her design is almost moth like but again i feel as though you could have amped that up.

she feels as though someone tried to combine undyne and pearl from steven universe, same story beats and design elements. it makes it hard to really distinguish her as a character.

i honestly dont have much to say about her. she is fine.

christ kill me, lets just get the big one out of the way

15. Alastor.

God Damn

where to start.

"alastor is mixed race" mixed with fucking what? concrete? there is not a single black feature on that creature, now im not saying you have to make him a png of louie armstrong but it wouldn't hurt to add a curl to the hair maybe? make it a tiny bit more wavy? Something? a crumb i beg of thee?

his symbolism is all over the god damn place, native american monsters (you know the one), voodoo, radio, puppets, stitches, circuses??? and Tentacles i guess. two of those are from closed religions so if you dumped those you would actually get a more concise character focused on the concept of vox populi as a means of societal control and influence as we see in his first song. but again that gets drowned out repeatedly by all the other random toy box bits shoved into him.

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he serves no purpose in the story. he does spooky stuff, pretends to do things and then goes back to sitting around looking spooky. i understand that his motif is supposed to be aloof mastermind but maybe have him do more mastermindy things? if you remove most of alastors scenes, bar the songs, it doesn't change all to much. husk and nifity can still be at the hotel, they could be looking for outs in their contracts the same as angel dust. hell it even helps with the one scene where he dose some spooky shit, asking charlie for a favor in exchange for his help in the fight with the angels instead of asking him about angel weapons which should have remained a strictly vaggie scene.

his presence in a way delegitimize the story, as I noted in in the section regarding redemption, the three parts are "what is the crime, do they want to change, what is stopping them?" and alastor kinda just spits in the face of that. he is a serial killer cannibal that has no qualms about how evil he is and apparently must continue being evil due to being under the control under someone legitimately called the Root Of All Evil. show him take a slight interest in the idea that maybe shit for him could be better, make him Want Change at the bare fucking minimum or dont have him at the hotel.

his stupid little fucking horns, big shot the troll liker wants characters to have big fucking horns, make them noticeable or dont have them.

he looks more like a dog boy, which could have been an interesting thing with the collar motif but fuck me i guess.

personal pet peeve but i fucking hate characters that have a million plus powers, stick to a set number, be creative.

im getting more petty as i go on so last point: he could have been in less episodes, he didn't need to be in dad beat dad, that should have been just a lucifer and charlie episode. inverse the red and black and i think he would be fucking great color wise, his body type is the same as ten different characters, he isnt radio enough, aside from the voice and and staff if you told me he was the fucking Cat Demon i would have been just as convinced.

16. Angel Dust

what the fuck, gay spider? its hard to actully articulate all the thoughts i have on angel dust, not in the sense that he is a deeply thought provoking character but in the fact that there is not much meat on the bones.

all around i think angel dust is kinda middling. he has a decent enough romance with husk, he has a decent enough story line that revolves around battling addiction and removing yourself from an abuser (which the story tries to brand as "Redemption???")

I dont like that most of his jokes would qualify as sexual harassment, i don't mind him being sexual as a character but continuing on when clearly someone doesn't like the jokes hurts the character.

not a critique but he is pink, which honestly ill fucking take at point, as long as its not more fucking red.

i think his design is an improvement over some of the old vivzie designs but it feels like it could have done with going a few more rounds of design changes.

same thing with alastor, charlie and vaggie, there is not enough of the animal that they are supposed to be. You could have told me angel dust was a fucking bee or something and i would have had to believe you. nothing about angel dust initially says spider, hell he dosent even have enough limps to be a fucking spider.

17. Carmilla carmine

are... are you supposed to be a rabbit...?

Big Yoai Hands

ballet fighting style, could have been cool, wish she fought more like sanji or chun li.

A single mom that works to hard, who loves her kids and never stops-

her song was decent, not great, decent. it feels as though the actress has experience singing but not in the way they tried to make her sing during her two songs. they have a obvious mexican influence, honestly just let her sing in spanish in the english dub. go listen to the spanish dub, "out for love" sounds great in spanish.

i wish i had more thoughts on them, fucking rip.

18. cherri bomb

that's not a punk aesthetic that's 2010s alt

decent character, they showed up once or twice i guess, no real thoughts.

19. egg boiz

absolutely perfect, i have not notes on them, these are perfect creatures.

20. Emily

im so fucking happy to see a singular blue character

does the naive dreamer bit better then charlie

We really shouldnt have seen her until the end of season two or middle of three.

good contrast with the other angels on screen.

Wait she is supposed to be black??? Where???

21. Husk

keith david you absolute delight, Why on gods green earth did they only give you one singing part?

one of the few charecters where its clear husk is a cat, i do like the kinda... marquee design, he is a magic cat, thats neat. i still think you can toss the wings and eyebrows and still have just as good of a charecter.

has a deeply intresting story of someone who died as a nobody, became the fat cat of hell and then was forced back to the bottom by their own vices, not used at fucking all.

huge potential, little pay off.

22. lillith

I know nothing about her except she ditched her kid and husband to vacation in heaven and i think thats kinda funny.

alot of werid things floating around her, again she shouldnt have been shown in the show at all until next season.

23. lucifer morningstar

no notes, funniest charecter, did a song based on friend like me.

few notes: i do like the idea that the immortal symbol of pride is a constant emotional wreckage constantly seeking approval through grand showmanship and manic energy that threatens to take over anything they touch.

would have liked more snake stuff on him, maybe some more goat things like horns.

that is such a stupid fucking staff lmao.

24. Adam.

alex brightman you absolute fucking delight, you should have had more songs.

I wish his design was more focused on the idea of him being a glam rock wash up

I fucking hate his mask

We shouldn't have met him until the end of the season.

25. Niffty

again she is supposed to be a bug or cockroach but nothing about her points to that.

token straight

keeps rocketing back and fourth between sexulization and infantilization

you had kimiko glenn but didnt give her a single fucking song?

26. Sir Pentious

the secret season one redeemed.

the pilot version of him felt more like someone that could do a season one redemption arc, a megalomaniac constantly attempting territory grabs, there is something you can work with, actual character flaws to work through.

essentially a child after the first episode.

actually a snake which i appreciate.

no where near steampunky enough.

27. the villians of the show dont make much sense, each one feels like they should be season long deals on their own instead of a bunch of team rocket esque idiots that show up on occasion, do a bad thing and then leave.

28. Valentino

gOD THERE IS SO MUCH RED

only a moth some of the time.

sucks as a villain, maybe they need more screen time to show why they suck in a more substantial way aside from being told that he sucks.

it is interesting that angel dust is only under his magical control when in the studio, it shows that angel dust has to make a conscious choice to return, which in turn can be made to show how abusers can draw back their victims. I do not think it was done well in this circumstance as it shows him to be cartoonishly evil, constantly flying back and fourth between sweet and utter psycho, there is no actual reason for angel dust to ever actually go back to the studio, he just does so every so often.

29. Vox

legit who cares? the only thing about him that is in any way substantial is all the dope ass fan art we get.

propaganda machine angle that is not explored at all, just hinted at. no actual barring on the story whatsoever.

why didn't he try to do the same shit as alastor by the way? he knows its bad if alastor gets in good with charlie so shouldn't it be a ass kissing race?

same body shape as literally every other male character.

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30. Valvette

the actual poster child of the shows huge problem of "Show me, don't tell me".

apparently the glue that holds the villains together. never shown.

apparently the one that makes the love potions that valentino is famous for. had to learn about that in the fuckin wiki trivias

we know so much about her from things outside of the show.

was there to call carmilla a coward, that's her plot contribution. she shows up every now and again but its never anything substantial and serves to more around take up run time for people We Don't Need To Know Yet.

im not trying to be mean, animation is animation, we need smaller studios to have success in the industry so that other indie studios can have that success, felling a tree makes it easier for others to follow. showing that its possible to number brain rot exacs helps all animators.

but this show has so much bullshit attached to it, it has so much fucking potential that it fries my brain with unyielding frustration.

this took a bit to write, im tired, thanks for reading.

[kaermorhenatnight]

TW: religion, suicide, drugs, pedophilia, abortion, death

I fucking hate religion. I really want to say that "I hate the church" or "I hate ORGANIZED religion", but at this point I can't. I come from a very catholic country and was raised catholic (not by very strict devoted catholics but still) so I speak mostly from that perspective. And every time I hear someone say "not all catholics support the views of the church" or "you can't dislike christians just because of their religion, they are not necessarily homophobic/transphobic/anti-choice" my blood fucking boils. If they don't share the views with the catholic church, why do they still support it? Even by saying they are a part of it? Even if they don't personally give them money, they give them power. They claim they don't support the messaging of the church and yet still go to the mass every Sunday and bring up being christian and still progresive in discussions about homophobia in the church - can't you see you are just giving them more power, trying to claim they are not that bad (because of course you are not bad and you're christian so Christianity is fine, actually!!!) you ignorant potato?

And don't even get me started on "cool" priests. They are always an argument used to prove "not all priests are pieces of shit". Yet they still support fully that piece of shit of an organization, they belong to it. We have no problem screaming acab. Well, all priests are bastards.

But my biggest issue is that it's easy to say "you can believe whatever you want as long as you don't hurt others." It would be so nice if it was that simple. But religious people often hurt others in the name of religion while being fully convinced they are not hurting anyone. A religious parent kicking their trans child out or sending their gay kid to a conversion camp doesn't think they're hurting their kid. They are just practicing their religious beliefs. Motherfucking president of my country saying "LGBT are not people, it's an ideology", priests preaching "LGBT is a plague" - it's hurting people but they don't see it as such. Ikea worker quoting bible saying queer people should be killed and him getting fired cause he refused to remove that comment and claiming they fired him for his religious views - they really believe that. That them being bigots is not bigotry, it's just their religion. So what about that "not hurting anyone"?

Most religious beliefs (yes, not all of them, but the big majority of mainstream religions I came in contact with) rely on believing you're right and others are wrong - so your definition of morality and what is and isn't hurting others is the only true one.

Either no one's gonna see this post or I'm gonna get angry reactions but I just needed to get that off my chest. I might delete this later when I am less angry but right now I fucking hate how catholic my country is. I fucking hate nazi salute with a rosary on pride parade. I fucking hate hearing about another queer kid killing themselves because of the bullying and abuse they endured from religious people around them. I fucking hate the cult of John Paul II who was a fucking pedophile protector. I hate that people get sued for "hurting religious feelings" (this is a real fucking thing here) for making a saint Mary graphic with her halo being a rainbow. I hate that I lost a friend to drug overdose because he wanted to go to rehab but couldn't find one that wouldn't call him a "she" cause he was trans. I hate that pregnant people are dying because instead of performing necessary abortions the doctors wait for the fetus to die on its own and by that time the pregnant person has sepsis and dies hours later. Because the government is made of religious fucking fanatics. I hate the abortion "compromise" which basically makes abortion illegal completely. I hate all of that. Yes, I am an angry person. But if you're not angry at this point, you're just not paying attention.

[but-a-humble-selfshipper]

Actually L.L. in Dialtown real so let me ramble about them (I'll eventually give them a proper design [working on it but y'all know I hate drawing clothes] and introduction post but I just need to ramble now ok? ok.)

For starters the main people they'd have relationships with: Randy, Mingus and Hobo

Maybe Norm too but I didn't think of them both together much aside from the normie solidarity angle

They didn't actually replace their head but at the same time they kiiiinda did because after a while the tv they put on themselves kinda started merging with their flesh

This can be removed but it's not as easy as popping it out. Well, it is, but know. Yeowch.

L.L. also goes by a different name here because when meeting their first person (idk who that'd be) they didn't understand if they were asked "what are you" or "who are you" so they tried to say TV and Luly at the same time and just blurted out Tuvy and then were too embarassed to correct it.

Hobo logically realized pretty fast that they're not one of the creatures he made but he was like Eh Whatever bc who give a shit

L.L. is actually homeless here because they're piss fucking poor (like Norm, all their money is useless since it has a human headed president) so they either sleep with Hobo or with Randy

Now for some character specific things:

Randy:

I can't tell yet if they're dating. Maybe a little?

They most definitely fucked though

The only thing that differentiates L.L. from Gingi is that they can keep their thoughts to themselves. But they also want to eat this guy. Probably for way hornier reasons than Gingi does though.

They're still very protective of him tho trying to make him grow a spine but ALSO feel comfortable and capable of trust.

They also want to teach him how to fight but that's more of a pipe dream

Hobo:

They definitely have something going on of some sort. Probably not sexual bc i think that man doesn't care about the horizontal mambo but they're something gay.

They also have a sort of... Solidarity as beings who don't exist on a single universe because of the problems this cause that helps them bond.

By this I mean L.L. went to cry to his dumpster when they first realized holy shit Peter is here and he's alive (but I can't do anything about it because he won't recognize me, he doesn't know who I am.)

Hobo understood their despair all too well and did their best to try comfort them. Also offered them booze so they both got kinda drunk together and he taught them the pros of fucking ignoring stuff 👍

Aside from that incident though they're just low-key lovebirds. TV4TV love. He's very chill and L.L. really enjoys hanging out with him.

Also they're both doggies.

He's just rlly attractive.

They also like genuinely care about him and hate when he gets all self deprecating.

Oh yeah also they cook him actual food which he LOVES ❤️

Mingus:

Romantic + sexual they're so fucking .

Falling for them was DEVASTATING for Mingus like a huge blow to her pride like The Mayor™ falling for this random loser guy⁉️

Yes.

They're so cute together though sometimes when Mingus purrs L.L.'s head starts vibrating or vice versa

Also L.L. has experience being a scratching pole so that's no issue.

Mingus is both possessive and detached. You're mine but also go for a hike I am very busy right now do whatever you want idc.

Mingus is also Way nicer to L.L. than she is to anyone else. Her morality pet if you will. They're her favorite y'know.

And just like the previous two L.L. really worries for her and does try to help but she's stubborn. Probably could get somewhere post chapter 3 though.

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L.L. really likes Tango too

Def nothing more than platonic going on there though but they often see him when they are staying over with Mingus

First time they met L.L. was weird bc they're just weird but also bc they realized this was THE Everett Harry spoke about so it was a shocker but they were trying hard to be respectful

Another time they outright flirted with him bc they were experiencing POST nut psychosis and were still very loopy. He was very flattered AND flustered.

They're definitely restricted from dating though. Sad!

[eatingfireflies]

Hello! Sorry for reblogging this like ages after the fact, but I miss Ratio so I'm gonna talk about him 🥺

There are a few things that we know about Ratio:

- He has given up on trying to become a Genius Society member (based on the screenshots I posted above)

- He will never become a Genius Society member

Granted this could be a chicken and egg situation, where we don't know if Ratio identifying as a Mundanite is why Nous would never look at him. Or if he calls himself a Mundanite because Nous never looked at him.

(in passing, I don't like the word 'Mundanite' because it calls a lot of attention to itself, like it's some kind of club or movement that people have to join when what he's saying is simply 凡人: ordinary, mediocre people like you and me)

And there are a few things other characters don't know about Ratio

What Screwllum is saying here is that he thinks Ratio's actions are meant to challenge the Genius Society and show that they're not as good as their press.

Ratio tells him he is wrong: Ratio is here to cure stupidity, but this medical doctor is not merciful. Sometimes the best medicine is to have people figure shit out themselves.

Basically, Screwllum got the focus wrong: he thinks Ratio's primary motivation is to pick a fight with Geniuses, but what Ratio wanted was to teach the researchers at the space station a lesson about not resting on Herta's laurels too much. He's there for the ordinary people, not the Geniuses.

Screwllum who's generally good at reading people and who knew Chadwick was lying about why he developed his weapon... That Screwllum doesn't understand Ratio. Because, like Ratio said, the two of them walk different paths. Chadwick and Screwllum are Geniuses, while Ratio is an ordinary person.

Sunday also gets Ratio wrong. Remember 'learner who sees the pursuit of knowledge above all', we'll come back to that.

But in this conversation, Ratio tells Sunday that he (Sunday) should know that a competent scholar knows his place and will not give up on his beliefs for the sake of pride. Ratio does this even though it is part of his partner's plan for him to make this deal with Sunday. Ratio came here to say yes to Sunday's offer, but he still had to go 'Actually' 😂

Conclusion: Screwllum and Sunday assume Ratio thinks and acts like a genius and they trip themselves up because he doesn't.

Let's come back to Sunday's line 'learner who sees the pursuit of knowledge above all'.

This is Ratio's voice line about Herta. What he's saying here is Herta's studies basically amount to nothing since they matter only to her and serves only her own personal enjoyment.

It sounds like more than knowledge, Ratio values the practical aspect of it and whether knowledge can be of use at all. (Which is not to say he doesn't study for the sake of studying, but he's a lot more self-aware as a scholar about the useless theoretical aspect of learning.)

One of the most chilling moments in Chadwick's quest is when he finally admits why he went through his dangerous research

Ratio's voice line about Herta is kind of tangential to this. What good is your talent and research if you serve no purpose but to satisfy yourself?

Did Ratio try to follow Chadwick (and probably other geniuses before him)? Probably. But this was very early on in his career and he probably hasn't fully formed his own opinions and ethics yet.

We do know that the weapon was finished and was fired successfully, which is why he got the IPC invite:

But I'm guessing even back then he was unable to cross the line between ordinary people and geniuses.

Speaking of, one of the more popular theories why Nous has never acknowledged Ratio is because Ratio is kind.

And people have also pointed out that Aiden exists so the kindness is probably Not the main factor. Aiden has been described as altruistic and also worked with the IPC. He's the first Genius to have extended any kind of hand to normal people.

We don't know shit about Aiden aside from what the readables and Herta tell us. But you can be kind to ordinary people and still think they are nothing like you.

Anyway, I don't think there's One Reason why Nous never looked at Ratio... Probably it's the summary of his personality that makes him a bad fit for the Genius Society.

Also I want to say that Ratio is kind but not necessarily nice 🥹 Thank you for reading all of this, if you got this far.

Had to pull this quote up while talking to a friend about an interpretation I disagreed with, namely: Ratio never sought the gaze of Nous, Margaret was stupid for even interpreting Ratio's character story 3 as him being disappointed about getting invited by the IPC instead etc etc. and his self-deprecating laugh was only because he's so disappointed that he was invited by Capitalism Company despite all his achievements proving his ethics (but do they?)

I disagree, this is Margaret slander. That woman was Ratio's assistant, I doubt she was stupid.

Tell me this man is not bothered by it. Tell me it's not a sore point, even if he's over it by now he was/is bothered enough to actually talk about it.

Honestly I was gonna make a light-hearted joke about Aventurine being that person who shows off his relationship with Ratio, 'He's always like that, please don't mind him ☺️' 'He's the one who understands my way of fighting best ☺️' 'I thought you'd given up on this dream you've never told anyone else about except presumably me because I'm just dropping it in conversation so casually like this ☺️'

But let's talk about that anti-planetary weapon

I hand tinfoil hats to everyone who clicked on read more. Please don't believe anything I say. Especially under here where no one else can see us.

- No mention of what affiliations Ratio had before the invitation from the IPC. If we trust HSR timelines (which we shouldn't but we have nothing else), Ratio was already a full-fledged professor in Veritas Prime University before Aventurine became a Stoneheart. So: before he joined the Intelligentsia Guild, his main affiliation was with the university.

- The anti-planetary weapon was already completed when he received the IPC invitation

- Which still leaves us the question: whom did Ratio develop this weapon for and why?

There's some echoes of Chadwick in there that I think is probably a coincidence but something we might want to keep in mind. Ratio also provides schematics on how to turn the Express into a weapon.

One thing tho: Chadwick was a Genius Society member. Ratio is not.

- Minus the Astral Express weapon (which we do see in action in the Penacony Boss fight ? So like was that connected? 😂), everything else Ratio has done that we know of is mostly about improving people's lives. That anti-planetary weapon is like a blight on his otherwise stellar CV.

- My conclusion: he developed that weapon solely to catch the gaze of Nous. And he failed and it was a moment that felt like selling his soul for one corn chip. The IPC invite was a nail on the coffin: this is what he sold his ethics for.

Like the 'Ofc Ratio laughed because he can't believe the audacity of Capitalism Company asking him to join them when he's completely against everything they stand for'

But my friend, he joined the IPC. He's an IPC delegate. He's married to an IPC superintendent.

Ratio had to give up on the Nous deal and had to go with the next best thing. But Ratio from Story 3 was young and probably still felt some pressure to prove something, or meet expectations. The Ratio we met in 1.6 knows better.