#speculations.

[wondersofspite]

I just realized that most of Helluva’s main cast are POC (Alastor is mixed race, Vaggie is Salvadoran, Nifty is half Japanese) + Nearly all the center characters are heavily implied to have had bad past/current life condition, and that Charlie, a rich white person, is painted as the ones to help them/”redeem” them. (Not exactly biologically “white” per se, but look at me in the eyes and tell me she isn’t an walking talking white chick both in appearance and personality).

While that bit thought, popped up a possibly of “White Savior” sort of situation that was pretty darn uncomfortable, but at the same time, interesting. Like, if the writers fully twists the knife and actually delve into that concept. Charlie, a very privileged aristocrat who’s the least equipped to understand, deal or even have experienced any hardship, thinking her very simplistic, ignorant ideas of rehabilitation would be clue to all sinner’s problem. Like:

“Homeless? Here’s a hotel! Just ignore the horrors trauma you seen living on the street and be expected to completely obey every one of my orders! I am very friendly! Why would you paranoid of me? I in fact do no see the trouble with how folks like me (rich/upper class demons) who is the reason you got kicked out in the first place shall be untrustworthy and unreliable!”

And with that sort of attitude, let’s say, the hotel absolutely fails miserably. Because it’s both funny and slapstick and kinda reasonable. Patronization can only go so far till it turns off people. So, with that, let’s hop down to when the narrative hits it’s absolute lowest point. Thematically an era of the story where every character/narrative/protagonist are at their lowest point. Of addictions becoming worse due to the minimum supervision, grudges igniting out of bitter entitlement and poor communication, and people like Angel and Vaggie who are in possibility of begin attacked by outsiders/dragged back by abusive figures -

Except Charlie. She, at best, is stressed. There is no permanent physical or mental harm threatening her.

Now, say, the only redemy for this is for the hotel is to release all the occupants, for them to gain distant, to rinse itself and try again with other set of people. But, despite the character’s suffering, ironically, perhaps the hotel is in it’s peak popularity. People actually keep coming due to the lax law, for the free place, perhaps something even the main cast did attracts traffic. But the original occupants: The people most important and central to Charlie’s pitch is begin seriously hurt under her terrible management.

But Charlie, the old girl here, cannot truly comprehend the gravity of it cause she never faced those type of issues. Never ever had to.

So she keeps it going on, promising and swearing that things will get better, speaking of everything in rose-tinted glasses instead of facing the harsh truth. That what matters is the hotel is becoming mainstream, more people are coming: Unintentionally, prioritzing her hotel over her friends.

In an odd way, it would actually suit her premise as the child of Lucifer.

> Promising better future, only to actively benefit from other’s suffering.

> Constantly lying, lightening the gravity of situation, making “tempting” offers and promises

> Feeding into other people’s bad habits and keeping them in harmful environments.

[frankierotwinkdeath]

Y’all want Taylor Swift to be gay so bad but you won’t even write femslash about her

[lylahammar]

My take on unicorns! I'd really love to make a mythical creature field guide someday, since the Spiderwick Field Guide is what inspired me to start drawing in the first place 🥰

[theantiazdarcho]

The Lancetfish is a species that looks like it comes straight out of a realistic fantasy world building project.

[armadillorollup]

biology of a stapler

[t00thpasteface]

here's something stupid: the catcatfish

some quick facts:

they're nocturnal and tend to roam around while awake.

they have keen senses of smell and hearing, but terrible eyesight. despite this, they also have a tapetum lucidum, making their pupils "glow" in the dark.

their fur is short, dense, and oily to waterproof them.

they prefer a diet of mostly meat and are attracted to strong-smelling food like fish, cheese, and anything fermented.

the elongated dewclaw on each front paw is sharp, flexible, and nonretractable. it injects a venom that causes respiratory failure and cardiac arrest in prey and, in extreme doses, humans. veterenarians typically remove the dewclaw venom glands during the neuter/spay procedure.

they grow to an average of 1m and 23kg (3ft and 50lb) but can reach up to double that length and triple the weight!

[vcreatures]

if you’ve been following me long enough you know I love a mimic. From my false faced mermaids that I’ve been painting for years to butterfly dragons, I’m a big fan of illusion in the bestiary world.

I bring you the Ginkgo Draco, another member of the Botanical Drakes. 

[iris-of-the-lambs]

Behold, an angel

some anatomy musings on winged ppl and also clothing furgonomics

[valdevia]

Biogeodes, also known as Flesh Stones, are organisms that live encased in a rock deep underground. It is thought that they survive for millennia in this stable environment.

Breaking the rock and exposing the creature to outside air invariably kills it, making its study difficult.

Inconclusive genetic studies have suggested biogeodes descend from an ancient clade of sea urchins.

How they arrived underground, how they manage to survive and their method of reproduction remain a complete mystery to science.

[fesenmoon]

no fucking way

[dougielombax]

I wonder what the largest shellfish is?

Edit: Okay this post is getting a LOT of traction. What is going on?

Edit: Fucking hell.

This post has set off a fucking MINEFIELD!!!

What have I DONE????!!!!!

I’ve lit the blue touch paper and found there’s nowhere to run to!

I’ve summoned a wolf only to unleash a tiger!!!!! Made of fire! And nails.

Probably….

Idk.

Edit 2: 5,000 Notes! Good god! What the HELL do you want from me. I’ve never had a post of mine take off like this until now.

Some got close like the one about homeowner associations (fucking powertripping middle aged mediocrities!) which got at least 1.5k notes but this is the most I’ve gotten on a single post so far.

Anyway.

AND this post has officially gone to hell. (6,666 notes)

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WHO THE HELL TURNED OFF THE REPLY THREAD FOR THE REBLOGS?!

Okay never mind it’s back. For now at least.

Anyway.

[wondersofspite]

 Due to some accidents involving scalding my left hand, I am currently bit high off of morphine, and apologize so if it degraded my cohesion a bit. But, after staring at the wall for 7 hours, I come to an realization that, Stoliz, in a way almost by accident, is vaguely resembling of Chaggie.

Like. So far, I’ve noted that:

- Blitzo and Vaggie are both people of marginalized group, both racial and societal (as an Imp and an Sinner/WOC)

- Due to that, they both likely have an rough past and are still troubled by it. While this is a bit debatable on Vaggie’s part, she seems to deal with it in a way that is (somewhat) less harmful/heinous/much more reserved. (After all, by looking at some of Vivzie’s art, it’s heavily implied she ended herself)

- They both likely suffered from poverty/money issues till they encountered a Royal.

- Both of them are in an socially imbalanced, financially dependent relationship with their Royals. While it’s very vague with Chaggie because not only are we limited to the current status of Vaggie, the couple itself isn’t even explored.

And while Charlie and Stolas share even fewer links, in between their archetypes as optimistic loving sweeties, their flawed tendency to infantilize and treat an issue smaller than it is/completely miss the point of it is an important note as well.

I don’t know what’s up with writer and their deal to make almost every relationship incredibly power structured but then treating them in story as if it won’t have impact. A whole season into Helluva, and not once did the show even highlight an conflict between Blitzo and Stolas’s different philosophies made of vastly different life styles. That possibly, as someone who lived in poverty, that Blitzo not only loathes, but could possibly envy how Stolas was born with a sliver spoon in his mouth. That not only his motivation of getting close to Stolas consists of the grimoire, but some equal want, a desperate want, to at least experience the life the wealthy lives.To show to some part, that Blitzo just wanna experience what it feels like to live well-fed and privileged.

While Chaggie on another hand, we only have pilot version of. But even with a 5 minute screen time, I think it’s a particularly agreed even in the fandom that the ship is rushed like something added at the last moment (Which, it really is). This would’ve have been alright with me, since, once again. Pilot runtime. While I admit some underwhelming disappointment to see how the episode barely spent more than 10 second in the relationship between the protagonist and one of her most intimate partner, I could’ve waited it out.

But with the development of Helluva and seeing how it writes it’s female cast, I am growing more apprehensive for the future of the only wlw relationship in the franchise that is actually main focus.

Like, with how complicated Stoliz’s dynamic and it’s messages is, I would actually cry if they made Chaggie the typical wholesome lesbian relationship. Not in any normally wholesome way that is simply cute, but a wholesome way that literally turns blind all to the complexity and issues both characters share. Like. A thinly veiled Flanderization. Making up some “common relationship drama” conflicts instead of an really serious ones like their class and power difference. That unlike Blitzo, Vaggie literally can’t walk away since not only does it seem like Charlie is one of her only connection and home (which, once again, debatable. We literally don’t know anything beyond her interpersonal life outside of Charlie), but that she’s also stuck with the very daughter of the king. Like, if you put it on paper, things take a really sinister turn if Vaggie ever want to leave, there’s a high chance she won’t. And personally, I think it would be even more interesting if Charlie acts just a bit selfish, just a tad possessive: Anything more than this perfectly clean moral puppy the fandom and the pilot makes her out to be. 

From all my brief pondering, from the main show to it’s spin oft, Stoliz and Chaggie foil and almost parallel each another.

That, say, if HB grows a pair of white eyes and takes Stolas and Blitzo’s power imbalances seriously and explore it, it can be an story that started with a clear distaste, unhealthy and malignant, starting ugly till it slowly wan into something more... for the lack of better word, tragic. Not romantic, certainly not romantic, but something more mutual . About two bad men whose connections to each other are just as bad, but beyond their classicism and gap in power, that at some point, they see each other - love each other - as equals.

But with Chaggie, of which it’s foundation started young and fuzzy, full of juvenile love and clumsy affection, actually start to decay and fall apart when at some point, the narrative nosedive into it’s darkest point. Of where Vaggie wants to leave, but Charlie doesn’t let her.

Foils.

[watchyourbuck]

[sabrebash]

Furby field notes

[theantiazdarcho]

The Takin is such a whimsical herbivore, like God commissioned Dr. Seuss for this one.

[agoodomenssideblogiguess]

Good Omens Season 3 Predictions:

(it took all my self restraint not to just use Bildad the Shuhite pictures)