#hell has a new boss

[ammonitetheseaserpent]

Something something abt how a clown’s whole thing is to make themselves the butt of the joke and take everything thrown at them while a jester’s whole thing is to freely call out & ridicule the king however they choose something something…

[bookofmac]

I actually really love the anticlimax of the 60's hyped up meeting being a zoom meeting that only 16 of them attend. so much of the show is about how fickle and personal Evil acts are, yes they are gross and disgusting, but also systematised and impersonal. and what better way to represent that than showing Leland trying to tell a demon what the mute button looks like.

[trashogram]

Sooooo tired of the idea that a character "following their heart for once 🥺" makes them a good person.

Anakin Skywalker's whole story is literally about that.

He chose love over his responsibility to the Jedi and the people in the universe and ended up killing the very woman he chose over everything and everyone else.

Rose Quartz's story is exactly the same. She followed her heart and escaped her abusive family but was too naïve to deal with and truly understand the consequences of her actions and it led to centuries of war, thousands of deaths, and her son blaming himself for things he wasn't even alive for.

Sometimes responsibility and duty DO come before love. Sometimes you DO have to make sacrifices for the greater good even if it destroys you. Because that is what a good person actually does. A good person puts others their own fucking daughter over themselves and wants to do right by them.

Yes, and at the very least the creators for both of those characters understood that the “following your heart” route for their respective characters would lead to tragedy. That was actually the whole point for Anakin and Rose.

Vivziepop appears to really believe Stolas is in the right for doing terrible things for the sake of his own selfish desires, and yet to make it justifiable to her audience she’s destroyed the story, the characters, and completely abandoned the worldbuilding in Helluva Boss, specifically the class system and commentary, so that Stolas comes out looking sympathetic. I can’t stand it and I can’t stand the thousands of misguided yet hostile fans that accept that BS.

[cocosnowlo-drawings]

Some of my favorite Van + family scenes so far 😂

[threepoint14art]

something happened here for sure

[w1tchybusiness]

i could write a 100 page essay about what a fucking masterpiece warframe is. i will write many words in the tags. please readem if you want my 'tism.

[risingsunresistance]

happy 9/11!! may we all remember your cheetah talisman!!

i'm so glad you have it on a calendar KJGHFDG

it's recombobulated now 🥰

[hells-greatest-performers]

say, Angel, how ya feeling?

Angel Dust: *sees more royalty and higher ranked demons coming in for Lucifer’s baby shower* Uh…I’m a bit nervous…like…I knew these people were coming but I wasn’t expecting like…so many royalty, ya know? *walks around and tries to talk to people but he gets brushed off because he’s a lowly sinner*

???: Excuse me but can you help me? Where do I put the presents?

Angel Dust: *looks up and sees Owl Prince and then notices something else* Oh uh, there’s a table over there *points in direction* I can help you with that*

???: Oh thank you. But I can see you’re pregnant

Angel Dust: Yeah and by the looks of it so are you.

???: *blushes in embarrassment* is it that obvious?

Angel Dust: Oh uh…I guess I have a radar for this sorta thing. I’m Angel Dust. I’m a friend of Lucifer’s.

???: Pleasure to meet you Angel. I’m Prince Stolas Ars Goetia. But you can call me Stolas.

[amarithecat]

Excuse me?

[electricpurrs]

it is now my new goal in life to convince people to play spark the electric jester. extremely underrated and niche game. like 5 people posting about it. liiterally some of the most insanely good and fun indie games I've seen in a while. it's so good. nobody seemingly knows it exists. i NEED people to know about spark the electric jester

[angelsdean]

i am like. at my limit with interacting w/ ppl bc *gestures vaguely* holidays. and now my old boss, who's also a long time family friend, is texting me out of the blue asking what i've been doing? if i'm working? etc and like. i Cannot talk to u rn (this was yesterday) and then i wake up (8AM) to 2 recent missed calls from her like. i cannot talk to you rn!!! i hate ppl who expect you to always be available / able to respond immediately.

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

Archon quest talk!

Oh man all I can say is HE FOUND IT!!! Our boy!! I dare not get my hopes up too high but in another Hoyo game, Star Rail, they just rereleased a character with an alternate form (Dan Heng and Imbibitor Lunae), and it'd be SO COOL if we got that in Genshin with Legacy, but I cannot bring myself to hope for it yet, gotta know more --

YEAAAAHHAHAHAHHHH HE FOUND IT OUR BOY FOUND IT!!!!!! i'm so proud of him he's going to get into SO much trouble!!! >:)

listen i know they probably won't, BUT. if hoyoverse ever releases Foul Legacy as being playable i'm going to go insane. absolutely bonkers. off my rocker. if they release it as a skin though i'm gonna be so conflicted because on one hand, i don't want to spend money but on the other hand..... moth...........

[altruistic-meme]

FINALLY!!! we love some communication!!

[kozidraws]

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[bloodpen-to-paper]

I enjoyed "Unhappy Campers", but I feel like Moxxie's character was inconsistent. For one, Moxxie does have an ego, and he does enjoy having said ego stoked appreciated by others, but he seemed downright obsessed with getting the attention of the humans he was trying to get intel from which seemed very strange for his character. Moxxie is very much a "will tell others about how great he is without caring much about their response unless its a positive one" kind of person; he's never really needed the random people he tells his greatness to to reciprocate those thoughts. But here he seems obsessed with getting that reciprocation. For Moxxie to be so needy for the attention of strangers to the point where he would resent Millie, the person he adores so much he literally sung her praise at Ozzie's, and not support her when she's clearly happy... its completely out of character. Not to say his character couldn't go in that direction, but this episode brought the idea out of nowhere, with no build up that I could see, and had it resolved in minutes which tells me it was a change brought just for this episode to give conflict. Its a move I think everyone can can agree is very... meh.

Which sucks to me because one thing they did well was Millie's character, but she needed more. Millie's feelings of being seen as overly aggressive and never being really appreciated by anyone but her husband make sense for her character, but we've never really seen her have these issues past the Harvest Moon Festival. She needed more buildup for this plot point (aka more screen time in previous episodes that showed off this internal struggle) and way more build up on Moxxie's part to get him to a point where he would actively seek out approval from others, because he just didn't do that before (with exceptions for Blitzo maybe).

Likewise, the entire confrontation between Millie and Moxxie was super rushed. Moxxie getting chewed out by Millie and immediately realizing his mistake is fine, but I feel like we should've had more time to stew in Moxxie's regret and Millie's disappointment, (the moment when she was about to perform and became sad when she realized Moxxie wasn't there to support her was great, but it was instantly resolved, making it feel not very important). The resolution happened way too quickly and it felt hard to get invested in the conflict.

One positive I will give is Millie's reaction to Moxxie's selfishness. She started tearing up and pouring her heart out to him before getting angry and giving him the cold-shoulder. It makes sense, because Moxxie being the person she loves and trusts the most means she would show a side of herself she wouldn't show others, and so her response would be different than her usual reactionary outbursts. But at the same time, she's a Wrath demon with a lot of anger, and her shutting Moxxie down felt very accurate; it fits her take-no-bullshit attitude, and made her feel more like her own unique character. She's still Millie at the end of the day, and her willful attitude won't be clamped down for anyone, not even Moxxie.

Overall, I probably would have pushed the Barbie Wire storyline into another episode and had this one be dedicated solely to Moxxie and Millie's development, especially considering how lacking meaningful screen time has been for Millie. It would've been a change of pace from the usually action-packed episodes (I say this as someone who enjoys the action the most and believes it is Helluva's strong suit) and a good chance for Millie to have her spotlight, as well as to give more attention to MnM's first on-screen conflict.

[risingsunresistance]

also sorry for the absolute radio silence but i have just had nothing interesting to say. been on the grind. mining update was so good for my soul I Love Mining

been doing some off camera mining