#helluva boss text post

[rhiandoesfandom]

Thinking about how damn good of an episode The Circus 2x1 is.

-Phenomenal casting of the kids

-cute cute cute

-baby Stolas ☺️

-wormhorse

-the whole scene with baby blitz and fizz

-seeing origins of blitz's resilience and how he tries again and again to reach his goals.

-seeing origins of trauma and daddy issues for them both

-seeing origins of friendship and connection for them both

-"the chandelier scene"

-"I'll hire you!...maybe". "You'll hire me?" Possible season 3 foreshadowing

-flustered adult Stolas and Grimoire wanting blitz

-"you're here to ravish me aren't you"

-"and how much it means that the one who wants me is my first ever friend!"

-*caring blitz* fuuuuuck okay I can do this real fast

-THE NEXT MORNING 'REAL FAST'

-retelling of how they met again and making it canon again "sorry I fucked your husband"

-"that was the sound of a FUCKING DIVORCE HAHAHHAHAHAHAH!"

-Bryce Vocals "owwwwwllll in a caaaaage"

-Asmodean Crystal intention start

-Standing up to his abuser and finalizing his divorce.

I mean-just a fucking masterpiece

[sadhornydemons]

[rhiandoesfandom]

I have written 35k words of fan fiction since apology tour :)

happy one month to apology tour! I am pleased to report that I am STILL looping Stolas' song every chance I get

[demisexual-in-distress]

APOLOGY TOUR SPOILERS

As painful as it is, I know stolitz needs a break right now. Blitz needs to get his shit together, Stolas needs to find out exactly how to know who is worth his love and attention. It's the healthiest thing in this situation. I'm not crying you're crying.

So good for him. Hope he gets laid.

[stagbel]

Just saw this text post and thought of Blitz immediately 💀💀

Also, the whole time I’ve been just imagining Moxx watching this play out right in front of him like: 🧍

[demon-country]

These two pictures absolutely kill me. Stolas is only 17, 18, or 19 in these photos. He is so, so fucking young to be having a baby. There are many parents who have kids at that age that deeply regret it, because raising a child is hard and severely limits your ability to go out and experience life the same way that your peers are. There are also many people who are forced into arranged marriages and pressured into having children as soon as possible that just cannot connect well with said children (Stella seems to fall into this category).

But not Stolas. He loves that little baby with his entire heart and soul. Even though he seems exhausted in that first picture (which, duh, she's a newborn, they're exhausting to take care of, especially for first time parents), he is holding her so tenderly and looks like he loves her so much he could cry. And in that second picture she is maybe 1 year old, and he looks like the happiest person alive. She is his everything. She is the tiny, adorable pocket of joy in his dark, painful, lonely world. She is the only thing that's even worth living for.

He loves her so, so fucking much, and it's completely baffling to me that anyone who isn't an emotionally compromised teenager could look at all of the photos he has with her and say that just because he has made a few mistakes lately and has split his attention to make room for someone else, that he's a bad, neglectful father. There is no one, not even Blitz, who could match the sheer depth of love he has for her. Blitz is his light, but Octavia means everything to him (to a previously kind of unhealthy, codependent degree actually, but that's a little beside the point and at least he's never tried to parentify her or make her play therapist for him despite that).

Just look at those pictures! Just look at them, and tell me honestly that he doesn't love her and thinks of her as solely an obligation. Octavia's feelings of abandonment and belief that he doesn't love her make sense, because she lacks a lot of the context that we have and her life got several major upheavals within the last two years, in addition to having preexisting abandonment issues that color her perception of the situation and a mother who was actively sabotaging his attempts to contact her for a month. But we, the audience, should see those pictures for what they are: a very young man who loves his child deeply, despite having never been demonstrably loved before; who is tender and playful with her, despite having never been shown that same tenderness or playfulness with anyone but debatably Blitz as a child. And the fact that she looks so happy as well is a very good indicator that he is the kind of loving, attentive, and secure parent she needed.

[emptyjunior]

As an Australian who swears Liberally can I say I think other cultures make swearing taboo cause they really emphasise the swears.

If it was a line reading, I'd say they're putting the 'bang', the feature ON that swear word. It makes the swear the Star of the sentence so it's all you can focus on.

You gotta say it casual, nonchalant.

"I am going to FUCKING get you."

-Boring. Not that scary. Hazbin hotel. Basic.

"I am going to fucking GET you."

-Intriguing. Interesting. Emphasis on the Getting and one can't help but wonder what that entails. Sounds like a person who has said fuck before.

When you call someone an ASSHOLE it sounds like that's your first time ever saying asshole. It's novel, it's a Thing. When you say "oh they're a bit of an asshole aren't they?" in a neutral tone it's like oh okay. Well that sounds like objective fact. Observational and True.

You gotta let the swears infiltrate your daily life naturally. "It's a fuckin lovely morning ain't it?" "Well ain't this situation a bitch and a half" "Where's that daft cunt wandered off to now." There's no aggression there. You say it with Fondness. Where HAS that daft cunt wandered off to now. That is the focus of the sentence.

The difference between the cringe Rick and Morty helluva boss CW show swear is you just gotta sound like you swear a Lot! Like you're so bored of the word dick it doesn't even register to you that you've said it.

Anyways blanket apologies to I guess the Many cartoons I came for in this and to my niece because I can't stop swearing around her (this is a risk if you take this path.)

[uselessalexis165]

if i had a nickel for every time a royal has a partner that is either scarred or disabled, i’d have four nickels

which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened four times now

[nochiquinn]

helluva boss text posts

[rhiandoesfandom]

Rewatched S1 Ep 7 and are we just going to forever ignore than Loona has her own sigil in the grimoire that she is so powerful she can just set a beer bottle on and activate????

Like????

Girl is hella powerful and now we don't have the Grimoire, she needs her own damn Grimoire.

[hill-art02]

"Why are all the imps so mean to Stolas? What did he do to deserve this? 😭"

I don't know, maybe because he openly belittled them, mistreats his servants, and coerced an imp to sleep with him

Also, the goetias has oppressed imps for who knows how long, so why should they care for Stolas just because he "isn't as bad"?

[sadhornydemons]

[sugar-autumn]

[hazbinhazmeinachokehold]

[demisexual-in-distress]

B: "I'm---I mean, you're a fucking prince, how could you ever actually care for an imp--- me. How could anybody?"

S: "Blitz, there is a crowd full of people here who cared so much, they throw an entire fucking party about hating you EVERY YEAR!"

[p0rk-guts]

Yapping about The Stolas Animation™️ everyone's been in a tizzy about because this is MY blog and I get to treat it like my personal diary.

Not going into the surrounding drama of the video because i hate drama and it's always a fucking headache. I'm gonna talk about the content of the animation, the song, and my interpretation of them together!!! (Contains discussions of suicide. Obviously)

First off. THE ANIMATION IS AMAZING. But you already knew that. The portrayal of Stolas we see for the first two thirds of it is clearly something dissimilar to his portrayal throughout the entire series thus far—much more callous and cold than playful and cheeky like we knew him to be—so to me it seemed like a portrayal of how Blitz sees Stolas and how he thinks Stolas truly felt of feels about him. Especially since each of those scenes was interjected with clips of Blitzo staggering through that white empty mind scape with the golden feathers like we saw when he was tripping and imagining him in truth seekers.

I also love how the lyrics so perfectly line up to what's happening—"who's gonna rescue you when you're lost at sea? Who's gonna love you if it isn't me?" These lyrics precede clips where Moxxie and Millie— who HAVE rescued him and who WILL love him even if Stolas won't— showing us how Blitz is so deep in his self hatred that he can't even see that despite thinking he isn't loved or worthy of loving that he IS.

The clips of Stolas are more than just Blitz's mind fucking with him though, for us we see just how ironic it is that Stolas could be saying any of this in the FIRST place. "Who's gonna rescue you when you're lost at sea": Stolas NEVER rescued Blitz in any way! (Headcanon here but) Stolas' obsessive yearning for him just made Blitz mirror those feelings of affection in late season 2 (because there were NO signs of Blitz reciprocating or feeling anything other than disdain and ANNOYANCE for Stolas initially)! He wanted that equally returned love and not to once again miss expectations and miss what he saw as his fleeting chance for love!

Anyways anyways ranted and got off topic. If anything Blitz was always the one rescuing Stolas. I also think it's interesting that that lyric fell on a clip of Stolas mocking at one of the goetia parties despite the fact that he was always miserable at them. You could even say that Blitz trying to steal the book -> their night together -> Stolas divorcing Stella was some roundabout instance of Blitz "rescuing" Stolas from his loveless marriage. But that's more of a crazy take I think Stolas would have floating around in his head

And my FAVORITE line of the animatic (and probably the whole song)— "And who's gonna love you if it isn't me?". Obviously. Like we said. He has love surrounding him already! Even in Loona too I guess! Pairing this lyric with Stella wrapped around his arm looking withdrawn while he stands front and center not even acknowledging her?? From the fictitious Blitz perspective we're shown, I saw this as Blitz seeing himself as an unnecessary stain in Stolas' perfect pristine life. Technically, he's married, or was (does Blitz even know they're divorced??? Lol I don't remember), and his entire presence just detracts from this fictitious image of high class excellence and composure he had.

Meanwhile, Stolas did try to maintain their marriage the best he could, but he never loved Stella at every point in the story we've seen so far he doesn't consider her at all. Tbf, she's pretty abusive and insane, but he really did jump through hoops to excuse his cheating and later on didn't even consider how her presence in Octavia's life could affect her (these are all tied to greater issues with the show ignoring Stella's existence but I digress).

Stella is just a prop in this image. She was just a tool for Paimon to get Stolas to produce an heir and keep the goetia conveyor belt moving, and likely even a tool to her own (largely) absent family so she could be used to grow familial wealth and status. Beyond her "liking to torment him", she's never shown to have ANY other feelings about. Anything really. Other than what, liking parties? Her reserved portrayal alludes to her having more feelings and thoughts about everything happening around her but whether it's to keep up appearances or to deny her own emotions, she stifles it all. 100% get how everyone's been saying her .2 seconds of screentime here characterize her more than the entire show does.

Then we switch gears to the real Stolas, getting dressed in something very similar to Paimon's clothes (which someone else pointed out I did NAWT notice that on my own). I have two (ish) theories on what this was about but I'm not sold on them so feel free to tell me what you think this was all about.

Maybe Stolas was putting the clothes on for some unrelated event—some goetian responsibility he forgot he was supposed to attend to— or maybe it was something like him reminiscing on all he's lost after the divorce and the trial (if this takes place post trial. Not sure). One of these maybe, or he got dressed up specifically for his suicide. I could see his romantic and fanciful nature driving him to do something like that.

(didn't have much to say on the portraits around him all turning into Blitz. It's a pretty straightforward showing of his mental decline and destructive obsession. Overall fantastic detail I missed on the first watch)

Then, when he kills himself, he chose to do it in the middle of the street, directly across from and FACING I.M.P.'s place of residence. Which is. Insane to me. Placing it there felt so purposeful with the light glinting off of the horns on the building. Was it meant to be a "look what you made me do" type deal? Some sort of final "fuck you" for all Blitz had done ("""making""" Stolas love him and then not reciprocating)? A last desperate attempt to be seen and acknowledged?

Well who knows fr but that's all my analysis for the animation. Dwinni ate down idc. This was a peak fandom event honestly. But yeah uh what do YOU 🫵🏾 think