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Damian coming out. Posted to Viv's tumblr October 8, 2012.

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Okay, okay! Just imagine! The last song of the entire series. The last season, the last episode. And they sing the song 'Welcome to Hell!', which references the song 'Welcome to Heaven!'. I love this concept

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ok so who remembers hunicast???

i used to love these animatics so much in like 2021

that part of the hazbin hotel fandom is gone now i fear /neu

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Alastor, holding up Husk: Stinky

Charlie: No! don't be mean!

Angel: Stinky bastard man

Charlie: No!!!

Nifty: Naughty boy. brat cat

Charlie, distraught: NO!!!!

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Angel Dust: So. I’ve started looking into current affairs Charlie: That's great, Angel! Angel Dust: *pulls out a list* Charlie: What's that? Angel Dust: Here’s a list of everyone in the hotel who's currently having an affair.

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cackling

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hey gang

Lute: really worried that Adam will be pissed because Eve kissed her

Adam: fuck yeah my wife and girlfriend made out!

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Alastor: “Now, let’s talk about literally anything else please!”

Me: “Good! Cause I don’t know where you went so I can’t go further with this!😂”

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the way stolas's face is drawn in this scene makes me unable to take this moment seriously

sorry :(

i know this is a big moment for Stolitz fans an stuff, but the shading here makes him look like this:

I know this moment has significance but I cannot grasp it with such a comically drawn bird distracting me

maybe this is a hot take idk tbh

sorry hellaverse :(

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cant believe this is the note we’re starting pride month with

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this is a beautiful depiction of 99% of the fandoms I'm in

Genuine question:

I’ve been seeing posts talking about how Helluva Boss isn’t good as it used to be and it’s shit now and how they don’t like it anymore and it’s like—

Then don’t watch it anymore??

Like I’m seeing literal profiles dedicated to criticizing the show and, yes, criticism IS good don’t get me wrong, but pretending you hate it while simultaneously making your whole profile and every post about it seems a little hypocritical

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does he know he gets ten times hotter when he looks insane

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WE. NEED. MORE. BEELZEBUB.

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The gang and their goofy little angry faces that they do that I can't get enough of.

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i love how the entire fandom just latched onto Vassago after the last episode (dw I love this man, too)

silly parrot guy

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Something I think is very much worth considering when analyzing the oppressive, classist societal system we’re seeing in Helluva Boss, most notably in the latest episode:

Satan is not really a ‘tyrant’ in the way I think a lot of people have started viewing him as. At least, he’s NOT some ‘usurper’ who has ‘seized power’ in Lucifer’s absence and now ‘rules with an iron fist’ with no one powerful enough to stand against him. For one, I think it’s pretty clear that this position as the ‘Lawman of Hell’ is a role that Satan has always held, even before Lucifer left.

Rather, let’s consider the fact that while Satan might be the one enforcing this oppressive system, he is FAR from the only one supporting or BENEFITING from it.

We have Mammon, possibly Leviathan, and basically the ENTIRE Goetia royalty who are clearly in FULL, enthusiastic support of this system.

Meanwhile Leviathan and Belphagor (assuming the former isn’t in full support of this system like Mammon) seem to be either too apathetic or too blissed out to really care, which likely also applies to pretty much any ‘not enthusiastically classist/racist’ Goetia as well.

Which just leaves Asmodeous and Beelezbub and MAYBE a handful of Goetia like Vassago who actually DO care and want to do something to help.

Really, I think the ‘vote’ we saw this episode is a clear demonstration of why there is only so much Ozzie and Bee can actually do. They are outnumbered, even among their fellow Sins.

I think it’s not so much that Satan ‘seized’ power in Lucifer’s absence. Rather, without Lucifer there is no one to truly CHECK the power that Satan already has. Sure, maybe a majority of the other Sins might be able to do that as well, but as we see, THAT isn’t happening either.

Satan is not some all-powerful tyrant running an oppressive system. While he may be considered the ‘face’ of that system, he is simply the enforcer of an oppressive system run by many powerful people who benefit from it. With any in power who might want to change things being too few to really do anything about it.

This is why I feel like what we are seeing here is not so much setup for conflict in Helluva Boss, but rather setup for a future plotline in Hazbin Hotel.

Because unlike Blitzo, Stolas or even Ozzie and Bee, CHARLIE is in fact someone who COULD do something about all this.

Even without Lucifer’s help (who I imagine will be indisposed due to other factors for the sake of not making all this TOO easy), Charlie DOES have the influence, charisma and if all else fails the raw strength to actually change things.

Whether by giving Asmodeus and Beelzebub the support they need, snapping/slapping Belphagor and Leviathan out of whatever detached apathy they’re in or maybe just giving Satan, Mammon and the entire Goetia court a brutal ass-kicking.

Probably all of the above.

All in all, I think Satan is a really great example of an antagonistic character who is very much A 'bad guy', but at the same time is not THE 'Bad Guy'. In the thematic sense that Satan is very much part of the oppressive system yet is very much NOT the root cause of it.

And in the narrative sense; both short-term in the fact that Andrealphus is very much the actual 'main bad guy' of this episode, and in the long-term of Satan likely being much more of an antagonist for Charlie in Hazbin Hotel, rather than anyone in Helluva Boss.

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pure love