#why don't you play in hell?

[kaipanzero]

Why don’t you play in hell?

地獄でなぜ悪い (2013)

[technically-human]

We're drawing the idiots with traditional clothing from our countries? hell yeah, here's stobotnik as Argentinian gauchos!

Plus a very normal and not at all unhinged rant about mate (the thing they're drinking) in the tags.

[shellibocs]

gone off with the sunrise, reno never felt so slow / a wednesday child with a rented ride and a head that's full of woe

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heavily inspired by this edit owo

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[thatcorridorman]

I archived the magnus archives

idk link to the full thing is here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vA6kin0H5bk_Nu15WTnwmAEPTAx9MLVO/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117712544114786577413&rtpof=true&sd=true

I genuinely don't know what anyone would use this for, and honestly doing recreational paperwork is crazy and i need to sit with myself for a bit and think about this one

anyway john's case numbering system sucks so i made a new one, not really that good but it acts better as a call number system. In real life there would be albums and catalogue numbers but thank god the magnus institute archive does NOT exist so that's not an issue

[sunderwight]

Thinking about the weird camaraderie that exists between demons but not angels in GO.

Have we ever seen two angels who are actually friends? Or even friendly to one another? We have met angels with a capacity to be friendly in general, but I think the closest we've come to two angels actually getting along would be Gabriel making a point to laugh at Sandalphon's terrible "can't have a war without War" line in S1.

Most scenes between the angels actually seem to have an undercurrent of absolute hostility. Teeth-clenched teamwork. No wonder it took them so long to notice that Aziraphale wasn't on the same page as the rest of them! The rest of them are barely on the same page as one another, either! When Gabriel goes against the majority vote, no one bats an eye at demoting him and wiping his memory. Michael and Uriel immediately begin vying for his job. The only times we've seen angels team up is when they're working together to bully someone else, like when they're trying to intimidate Aziraphale in S1 or going to the aftermath of the bookshop raid in S2.

Saraqael's overall neutrality towards Muriel is the closest we get to two angels in Heaven getting along, and it's more a lack of hostility than any kind of friendliness. At least until Gabriel loses his memories and Muriel shows up to spy on Aziraphale, and Aziraphale decides to be kind to both of them.

Demons, on the other hand, actually seem to form alliances and even friendships among one another. Hastur and Ligur are awful, but Hastur seems genuinely distraught over Ligur's death, not just fearful of suffering the same fate. Shax and Furfur conspire together and even though the 1940's investigation into Crowley's fraternizing doesn't work out for Furfur, it's not due to any double-crossing on Shax's part. Unlike the angels, who stick almost exclusively to making threats until the Metatron decides to try dangling a carrot at the end of the season, demons actually offer rewards to other demons when trying to work together. Beelzebub offers Crowley a promotion if he can bring them Gabriel, Furfur offers to back Shax up politically if she goes for the Duke position opening, and Crowley successfully stalls Hastur in S1 by pretending everything was a test and he's going to be put in charge of a legion as a reward for passing. They're still not great at socializing, but they're significantly ahead of the angels.

Of course, it's a fact that demons are awful to one another (Eric's treatment is really bad, they throw that random demon into holy water just to test it, "it'd be a funny world if demons went around trusting one another", etc) but they still seem more capable of forming friendships than the angels do.

I think that's because Hell cramps and crowds everyone together to try and increase their suffering and hostility, whereas Heaven isolates angels to decrease the odds of questioning or rebellion. Hell's methods are unpleasant, but it still ends up putting demons together, and some of those demons inevitably forge alliances and make friendships. Because as Crowley and Beelzebub demonstrate, demons are still social creatures with the capacity for love and affection, even if it's strongly discouraged and buried under nine million layers of trauma and a cultural mandate against kindness.

Angels are the same, but isolation makes is harder to form connections than overcrowding. Muriel and Jimbriel are both so eager to make friends, but Muriel's spent the past millennia shut in an empty office, and Gabriel has been distanced from his peers both through his position and also through Heaven's culture of fear and surveillance. He only breaks away from it when he finds something that's stronger than "choosing sides" (stronger than the fear of being rejected by Heaven and Falling, in fact strong enough that Falling seems worth it if he gets to be with someone he loves). Both Muriel and Gabriel are only able to start forming connections when they're away from Heaven.

I just think it's interesting that demons, despite being supposedly devoid of love, have an advantage in forming relationships compared to angels. Angels are supposed to love, but have far fewer opportunities to actually do so. Demons aren't supposed to love, but they make connections anyway.

[croquettish]

Further kicking the hornets’ nest but I’ve seen such wild takes re: Hans being bisexual. Such as he has to be or he’s not “choosing” Henry because he could be happy with a woman but chooses not to. ????? Do people even know how attraction works? How incredibly disrespectful to bi people to say Hans would be happy with any woman thrown at him because sexual compatibility. I can’t believe we’re arguing about headcanons about characters’ sexualities from a very high horses in 2025. This is so old.

I think you and I may have seen some very similar takes on this exact topic! I read this shit and just end up frothing at the mouth. Somehow this manages to be disrespectful to both bisexual and gay people in one fell swoop.

Apparently bi love is more special than gay love because you have the option of choosing from a larger sample group but only picked one person. Because you are at all times interested in everyone around you. Consequently, if you're a gay man, you must by default be interested in all men around you at all times as well, right? Don't be fooled, however! That's not nearly enough people to make your love special!

If Jitka is heterosexual, this argument would suggest that she should be jumping for joy at the idea of being married because no matter who her husband is, she'll automatically love him because she's into men. Which is absurd.

Let's say Hans is bisexual. Are these people saying that he could just choose to ignore his feelings for Henry to go waltz off into the sunset with Jitka? Because maybe it's just me, but as far as I'm aware, even if you are alloromantic/allosexual, you're not going to want to be with just anyone off the street. Even if these people are arguing that this is about risk, Hans could still choose not to be with Henry either way, even if he is comphet gay. He's choosing that risk regardless of his sexuality.

Fandom should be a space that we peacefully co-inhabit, where we do our best to be kind while we share together in something that brings us all joy. We're all playing with our toys on this shared playground. I don't think it's our place to go around shouting that one person or another is playing with those toys wrong, I really don't.

[amoresenza]

frothing at the mouth as i break into mike white's home at 3am and ask him why he chose a take where SN reacts normally i.e. bewildered at the suggestion of kissing a sibling while PS fucking blushes and sort of sits there waiting for something to happen

[akuma-tenshi]

would you still love me if i was a worm frequently possessed by the spirit of richard sterling every time i play him

[pennamepersona]

mr wines: [screaming and sobbing on the cricket pitch about how it used to be a king]

me, twirling my very short hair: you're REALLY tall.....

[clownboybeebop]

the amount of praise veilguard gets for accessibility is actually going to drive me up a wall

[revvethasmythh]

liara's takes on the protheans are so funny to me. "the protheans had a galaxy-spanning empire. they did this by being friendly and uplifting other species :)" source? vibes. logic? absent. understanding of how empires work? MIA

[simantopia]

honestly if sims RLY wants to improve and be good competition for inzoi. they shouldn't just focus on what makes inzoi so great -- but instead focus on what made sims so great. they should make sims 5 and go back to the roots, take the best things from sims 2 + sims 3 and then add even more.

the problem with sims 4 is that it took way too many steps back. i often feel like sims 4 is sims 3 and sims 3 is sims 4 because of how basic sims 4 feels in comparison. fuck, sims 4 even feels like it came before 2 with some of its stuff. (lack of animations, bland graphics such as flat snow?? unresponsive characters/simulation, lackluster "emotions", still lacking content such as cars and for 10 years until now, burglars. not to mention the stuff it lacked at launch)

like yes, sims 3 didn't have everything that sims 2 had -- but it didn't matter because it makes up with all the stuff it adds. the only thing i can say sims 4 "100%" improves is the build buy, and even it isn't as good as it could be because it lacks the sims 3's design tool / color wheel.

sims 5 should take the very best from these two games, and then add + improve on the franchise as a whole. (another problem with sims 4 is that it doesn't rly add either, it takes in order to sell it to you in another overpriced dlc)

but they won't. even after their stupid inzoi survey, i'm sure they're planning on doing what they've always done. which is doing the most low effort thing in order to trick players into thinking they've done something bigger.

[hellonerf]

i love crazy contrasting 1p2p in every way(not every way). so i always subconsciously have 2P rusame be friends. unlikely friends etc. in whatever weird school au theyre friends. meri was probably bullied until he started hissing at other kids or something while rus2 was just like huhh okay yeah okay what fine. rus2 found him in a broom closet and it was as awkward as it sounds. in the weird stuckin1Pcoldwar au i have theyre friends also in the torturous existence. 1P rusame is too weird life is too short lets tomodachi✌️

[kaiserouo]

uh

[tortoise-teapot]

ahhhh the relief i just felt after deciding avery convinces the veilguard crew that the veil's gotta go (if for no other reason than besides it's the practical, prudent thing to do given its state and nature)(lol and lmao at 'veilguard') and they all figure it out amicably (or at least nonviolently) while facing the larger threat and solas helps clean up the south (after putting up like one million more wards around the black city) and then when the dust has settled he and avery go soothe the blight tesseract thing (takes a few centuries) and then-- ok i'll stop

is it as high tension as the narrative in canon? nope! but it felt like getting in a warm bath

[marshmellowtea]

i'm a "sandra fucking hates raymond bean so much but she's willing to play nice with him because she knows it's important to chris that he respects him and his drama society even though she knows that'll literally never happen for him" truther.......raymond actually likes her and she knows that and will play into that when she's around him because chris keeps looking at them with these pleading, hopeful eyes, like she can somehow help convince his father that this little acting thing he's doing is worth something, but the entire time she's thinking about gutting raymond like a fucking fish because he's an asshole to her and their friends and ESPECIALLY to chris but chris is so blinded by his desire to be loved by him and his absolute paralyzing terror of him to recognize that and her sympathy for him over that has won out over her anger that he brought this man into their theater <3