#what if i kill you with a hammer

[everykonan]

ch. 373

[egophiliac]

swipes everything else off of the table to yell about diasomnia flower bookmarks

(I gave Silver one too :D)

[cupidsncheerios]

hammerposting again because guys. we need to talk about this scene more

like. not just because it’s the girlfailure duo and i love them, but also because it makes no sense for them to win that fight

vi is a skilled boxer and could beat the shit out of multiple adults on a bridge even when she was like 15 and didn’t have superpower gloves, however. she’s within a 50 yard radius of jayce so now she has an iq debuff of 50%

and jayce?

JAYCE HAS ZERO FUCKING TRAINING. HE’S A SCIENTIST. THE BIGGEST FIGHT HE’S BEEN IN IS HIS FIGHT WITH BISEXUALITY AND HE LOST THAT ONE TOO

THAT MAN HAS NO EXPERIENCE WITH ANYTHING AT ALL AND THEN HE WALKED INTO A HEROIN FACTORY WITH A LESBIAN AND A 7 FOOT TALL HAMMER THAT SHOOTS LASERS, OF FUCKING COURSE HE SHOT A KID. WHO TOLD HIM ANY OF THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA

[bacchuschucklefuck]

new year new calne u know how it is!!!!

[soup-is-here]

I think we should've started throwing rocks at Jimmy when he got mad at Anya for getting nauseous while giving Curly his meds as if his ass didn't know she was pregnant

[queeraang]

sometimes, you dislike a piece of media that is very popular and objectively well made. the popularity of it will only make it more annoying to you. now, the solution is not to then comb through a thing you don’t like to see if you can find something problematic to harp on to prove it's actually bad (you will find it, no human being has ever created perfectly inclusive perfectly inoffensive art) that just tanks the vibe and discourages new art because what's the point if it can never be perfect, also sometimes you spin out of control and start accusing people of real life crimes over like... a niche webseries

as someone with over three decades of 'bad taste' under their belt, allow me to guide you on best responses using a real life example of a popular film series, i couldn't give less of a fuck about. the nolan batman trilogy

block, mute, blacklist, whatever you have to do to avoid seeing this thing on your preferred webbed sites

allow yourself a quiet “ugh this shit” when things slip through the cracks

pick a neutral element of the thing to dislike when people ask “i’m not really a batman fan" "i like more lighthearted superhero movies"

when inevitably someone can't BELIEVE you don't LOVE the best thing EVER MADE, you make it boring to talk about "yeah couldn't get into it" "it's just not my thing"

it also helps if you admit that it is good (i'm so sorry) just not good to you. the metaphor i use is gordon ramsey could make the most immaculate mushroom risotto ever made, but it's still not going to taste good if you don't like mushrooms

change the subject/leave the convo. i don't sit around listening to ppl talk about the dark knight, i ignore the gc for a few minutes, i go get a drink irl, if it's one on one i go "no, but you know i did like birds of prey, have you seen that?"

if someone really won't let up, stop talking to them! a guy who always wants to talk about how i should watch batman is a fucking weird guy to know

vent about this with like minded people SPARINGLY, too much and you'll fall down the "and everyone who does like it is morally bankrupt" hole

crucially, don't do this to other people for stuff you like. you're not the arbiter of taste, your "best movie ever" could be someone else's "if i have to hear about that shit again i'll scream"

like i'm sure i could figure out ways the dark knight trilogy is racist/ableist/etc if i really examined it, but like... i would so much rather just NOT WATCH THREE MOVIES I DON'T FUCKING LIKE

[your-unfriendlyghost]

ik y’all are here for Outsiders but Jesus Christ- in case ya haven’t noticed, I rewatched Risky Business recently and it has wrecked me

like i watched it a while ago and thought it was weird but funny and a little uncomfortable. But now holy shit. I’ve put like actual thought into it. I get it now. I could write an essay about it. I swear I could.

Something about the combination of weird offbeat comedy, the tragedy of Lana’s story that only is fully acknowledged in the director’s cut, Joel’s obvious inexperience and teenage-ness that shines through in everything he does without coming off as stupid or overly naive…the way Lana’s just a kid too but is forced to grow up so so fast…

the Reagan-era politics that I’m not educated enough to analyze properly…

“Looks like University of Illinois!”

…The fact that Joel ends up successful while Lana doesn’t even though she did the majority of the work because he has privileges she can’t even dream of…and the way that kinda reflects reality with how Risky Business made Tom Cruise a movie star while Rebecca De Mornay (and the director too) faded to relative obscurity…

And fuckin Curtis Armstrong’s character (he’s always amazing in everything ever I think)

Just. My thoughts ain’t the most coherent rn- But holy shit this movie man. Like everyone knows the dancing ‘round in briefs scene -and I mean, fair enough it is classic, I’ll admit- but lord there’s so much more to it and it’s a shame that all I ever hear folks talk about is that. Like I ain’t even touched on the soundtrack yet or the vague surrealist feel or how relatable and human Joel Goodson is- augh

[marvanymacska]

I hope everyone is excited for season 3 of Severance, where I, personally, will be killing Jame Eagan with my bare hands

[percki]

loveybug is too busy thinking about kissing to fight supervillains... anytime an akuma shows up she hits it with a comically large hammer harley quinn style until it's flat and she can go back to unsubtly flirting with chat noir

[more-than-tender-curiosity]

Nothing worse than opening the great gatsby again to find that Nick’s still whining about having to care about other people

[mari-lair]

Hey love your analysis. People like you make this series so great by appreciating the complexness of the story and characters.

I had a quick question regarding your last post about H’s attachment to N and K.

The line at the end “his love is selfish and doomed to fail” do you mean that because his love was initially rooted because H liked the company of N and K that his love will hurt them because of H messy morals and self sabotage that stem from his lack of self value or fail as in his love for them is not substantial not “real” because of it originated from H’s selfishness?

I think H’s love and compassion for the two, himself, and the value of life will make or break the ending if it’s a happy one. N and K have their own personal growth also tie to the series ending. It is too soon to predict the series ending but with this arc I can see N’s character grow to understand about the fragility and preciousness of human life seeing her friends die or getting close to. So hopefully we can see these insights in H’s and K’s characters too.

Thank you, happy you enjoy my analysis! I had to go search up the post you're talking about cause I hadn't done a big analysis about Hanako in 2 years.

I am 90% sure you mean this one though, which ends with this:

I would do some changes on how I formated the whole analysis but my main opinion didn't change in these two years: His love is selfish and doomed. HOWEVER I didn't meant to imply being selfish is the reason his love is doomed.

The reason I believe that his love (which is definitively genuine btw, he is haunted by this love, he becomes irrational and vulnerable and confused and so so fond of Nene and Kou) is selfish and destructive is because of *points at the whole analysis*

But the reason I believe the love is doomed and can't last is because he is dead. It doesn't matter if he start loving himself and figure a way to express his love without being harmful (to himself or others) because he was doomed from the start. What is the best case scenario here? He does the impossible and Nene lifepan is cured without hurting anyone in the process! But then what...? He is 13 forever, stuck in the school forever, while kou and nene will keep growing old, they'll become adults, he will remain hanako. He can lose them by simply being unchanging by nature, and he knows that.

Hanako's life is already over, he can't build a new life, he can't grow with his human buddies and learn/change the same way a human can. Everyone's development will decide how his love will end though. Maybe it can be a happy, bittersweet thing, maybe he will become another school wonder full of even more regrets and no idea how to process his regrets. It's indeed too early to know how the manga will end, specially now that changing the timeline is a thing??

(not that changing timelines make it less doomed, if Amane never dies he would be too old by the time he met Nene and Kou to be their buddy)

[thebestusernamepossible]

I’m mostly staying off the Mouthwashing fandom bc I personally don’t want to put myself through whatever discourse is ever going on there. But know I love Anya and Mouthwashing is one of the best games I’ve played that had an SA survivor AND was respectful about it!! The abuse Anya suffered is never portrayed as a spectical for the audience to leer at. They use the art of implication VERY well, and in the end Anya gets to go out dignified. She’s not just Jimmy’s tradgic victim, she’s her own character who makes her own decisions. Jimmy doesn’t get to kill her, she expresses her own agency to do so. She’s also the one who kept the gun away from him for so long. Also she’s SO fucking strong, she’s so cool. Anya I love you.

Also the game’s overarching (but subtle) commentary on rape culture, enabling, and how capitalism almost makes a set dressing for it is peak.

[viktorarcanedeservesbetter]

side note even astral plane/arcane galaxy viktor (whatever the fuck he was at that point lmao) didn't even care that much that jayce killed salo. thats hilarious to me actually. man saw one of his followers murdered (former counselor no less) and did not cry one single tear. was barely concerned. was more concerned about whatever was going on with jayce.

like damn. was just like hmmmm something else is at work here with my ex. ill have to figure it out. (turns out it was you bro)

[justablah56]

image description "image" my fucking beloathed

[sleepinginmygrave]

can someone explain to me why does my mum don't want me to be in my room and is forcing me to do my work downstairs 😃

[theadhddimsenion]

Some theories regarding the potential return of cash "the ratfuck" buckso.

We saw that cash had sadly escapes the fire unharmed. That's probably the biggest tragedy of that fire in that it didn't kill or even hurt the one person who definitely deserved it. So that means that knowing him he is likely going to come back and try and leech off his sons success but like any other form of (in this case metaphorical) vampire he must be invited in before he can do his dirty work but how could he manipulate his son into letting him in?

Well he could try the classic "I was only hard on you because I love you" crap many emotional abusers like him try even when their victims get away, trying to frame their cruelty as "tough love" when really they were jusf tough for no good reason. He could also try and take advantage of the fact that he and Barbie are the only blood relatives blitz has left and try and pull the "are you really going to turn your back on family?" Card on him and if all else fails I think cash has one last dirty trick up his sleeve and that's weaponizing tila against his son. I wouldn't put it past the bastard to say something along the lines of "now really blitzo what would your mother say about you refusing your dear old day a bed for the night".

Once he's managed to worm his way inside here's what I think his opinions on the other cast members would be and their opinions on him would be.

Moxxie. A weak girl horned loser his son was pathetic for even associating with. I headcannon that cash was obnoxiously proud of his ridiculously oversized horns and a misogynistic asshole who isn't even funny like Adam was. Moxxie is terrified of him as a lot of bad memories of crimson come flooding back to him as he learn his boss wasn't kidding when he said his dad crushed his dreams of musical theater. Specifically he yelled that it was "the gayest shit I've heard all day!!!!"

Millie. A stupid wrath ring broad who had forgotten her place. Mille in turn hates the bastard with a passion, he reminds her of that one creepy carny from loo loo land but worse. She can't for the life of her see why blitz is so instant that he stay without a fuss as while she gets being loyal to one's kin but this dipshit is barely trying to hide what a scumbag he is.

Loona. Blitzs "failed" attempt at parenting because he wasn't doing what he would have and be treating her like a literal animal instead of a person. Cash even had the audacity to demand that loona do your standard dog tricks like "sit, stay lie down and roll over" and he stole her beer! Loona naturally hates him as he acts like every other shit head who wanted to adopt her and they threw her back when she would take Their selfishness.

Stolas, fizz and veroskia are all the same in cashes eyes. Wasted opportunities to leech off them though his son. Stolas in particular as was formerly the richest and cash spilled the real reason why blitz was there for his first meeting. Veroskia would be the same but with adding misogyny and fizz would be basically him demanding a cut of fizz's life as he "made him what he is". Veroskia in particular would finaly get explanation as to why her ex was the way he was.

I believe I remember that vivi said the big themes of season three are family and addiction so a return for cash and maybe crimson and even paimon would make sense. Perhaps we could even get to see loona's bio parents in a flash back and in a twist they weren't awful people they just didn't have the means to care for her. But there's one character who applies to both themes and that's Barbie so I think she deserves a section to herself.

Barbie is one of if not thee most mysterious characters in the whole of helluva boss as we have next to nothing on her character other than she's blitzs angry drug addicted twin sister but we know next to nothing about how far her hatred goes, why she choose drugs, who she was before the fire, or even what she pre/post fire relationships where like. I've seen some people say she should be the one person who never forgives blitz because the other "forgave him too quickly" which i really don't think is the case, fizz is just a forgiving guy in general and their relationship was broken by an outside force *cough* cash *cough*, I wouldn't exactly say veroskia will ever exactly forgive him but rather simply not spend her life obsessively hating him, and stolas loves him so I don't think that blitz anyone who just hates him forever no matter what and plus I feel like that would be a waste of barbies character to just make her nothing more than a spiteful bitch who refuses to forgive her own brother even after being show proof of his innocence. No I think barbies character arc should end on a bittersweet note because while her misplaced anger is gone she still can't separate her brother from the fire and death of her mother in her mind and now blitz is permanent stuck as a walking talking reminder of what had happened to her mother so she still, more reasonably this time asks that he keep his distance from her. I like this as it doesn't reduce barbies character to a spiteful bitch (one stella is already too many) and still shows that not all relationships can be mended. At least not perfectly.

Something that could play into this is having Barbie act as cashes doubting minion by having cash manipulate her into trying to sabotage her brothers relationships to no avail. At first Barbie is all for it but as she sees the good her brother has done she begins to doubt cashes lies more and more and cash begins losing his composure as she starts to see the cracks and holes in his phony narrative this all culminates in a final showdown with cash where he drunkenly confesses to everything he had done, that the fire was his fault because he blew the safety budget on drugs, booze and hookers, that he never loved their mother, that he had abused blitz since the day of his birth and he could care less about it!! Snarling at Barbie "and there's nothin' a little druggie brat like you can do about it!!!" Maybe going as far as to try and hurt her in a drunken rage but at the last minute blitz swoops in a pummles the ratfuck to a pulp. Afterwards Barbie just collapses into a frenzied ball of misery and self hatred as she starts beating herself up over her supposed "failures" but blitz comforts her saying he knows what it's like to hate yourself and no matter what awful things you think you are your wrong and if she ever wanted to talk to him she could.