is this Jo In Sung which i see before me?
he sure did take his time
tbh i was almost sure (i mean, i haven't seen past ep1 yet but i flipped through the rest because i just had to see In Sung. what a confusing journey that was) he'd be a villain and his son's mom was hiding the boy from him. and based on what i have glimpsed, he is just ... adorable? goofy? like father, like son. heart eyes all around. i didn't know i needed a goofy In Sung in my life
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“one day im going to have to make like a three hour long video essay that's just called In Defense of Helluva Boss” Please do. I see more anti videos than I do with defense ones. Like the ones that say season 2 is terrible even though it’s barely completed and the ones that say Stolitz is a bad despite them barely having a relationship.
no literally i am sick of seeing more anti content than actual appreciation videos but the anti talking point i see most that drives me up the fucking walls is that it's "bAd RePrEsEnTaTiOn," as if that is all that queer people are allowed to have; just the vague nebulous concept of "Rep(TM)." the fact that if a straight character is a bad person then it's just that This Character is a bad person, but if a queer character is a bad person then This Is Bad Representation Of The Community And Is Homophobic. can we not just HAVE characters?? vehicles to tell a story??? tools to craft a compelling narrative??? this is part of why Helluva/Hazbin being adult shows is such a THING because i see this get shut down a lot under the guise of "uhh well just because it's an adult show doesn't mean that it can handle whatever topic it wants however it wants" and like. yeah buddy! that's true! and that's not what this is fucking about!! when people say "it's an adult show" what they mean is that it's made to be engaged with under the assumption that you would know better than to take information to shape your worldview and perception of other real life people from a fucking cartoon! the show doesn't NEED to tell you that Um Hey Guys Just So You Know This Isn't Actually Meant To Reflect How All Real Life Gay Relationships Are because you are an adult who should already be able to discern this.
"bad rep" doesn't mean "characters that are nuanced, morally gray, or just bad people." "bad rep" would be if helluva boss was a show that said "the REASON these characters are in toxic relationships / are bad people is BECAUSE they are queer, or at least directly correlated to that fact." which is. you know. very fucking different than "these characters are in toxic relationships / are bad people because they 1) live in a classist society that actively encourages them to be their worst selves and 2) are extremely traumatized."
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I feel like my main take away from the Somerton situation is, thinking about it, the sheer damage he’s done to a certain subset of the queer community due to that information being passed on and shared around. And how much of that needs to be fixed or reversed.
Particularly by making sure anyone who got trampled by his actions get the compensation they deserve, and by learning what the red flags associated with blatant misinformation and outright plagiarism are.
…Given Somerton’s main internet presence has all but been nuked at this point, I can only hope he’ll one day come clean without the truth being twisted, and actually do better by the community to make up for it.
But that’s just wishful thinking on my part. The best thing here, is he just stays gone and the rest of the community can start to heal.
It’s enough of a spectacle as it is, what with various blogs cheering and shouting, parading the corpse of his Youtube channel around at this point. The next step is making sure anyone who honestly got caught up in Somerton’s lies get the guidance they need.
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