#theres so many people

[applestruda]

little group design thing i wanna do for them

[kcbutontblr]

the worst feeling is actually when u really like the storyline of a game but you are ASS at the gameplay so ur just stuck on a level for the rest of eternity dreaming of what may be

[life-series-school-blog]

Happy Easter + Trans visibility day, it’s the perfect day for the ultimate egg hunt.

Your teasing me >:(

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No I won’t do it!!

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Fine he’s an Easter special with some of my trans babies! It’s a fair instead of a egg hunt though (they all voted that they were too old for one) {bone would’ve won if it was a egg hunt [just saying]}

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Crystal: and maybe put the piñata over there..

^wouldn’t it look prettier over there though?^

:nah over there is better.:

#%put it upside down and just give us the candy#%

Crystal: sigh.. I hate all of you.

#%pleaseeeee#%

Crystal: you can’t even eat!

#%a guy can dream.#%

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Mushroom: I got five more batches needed for the day!

Shadow: on it. But we won’t be able to complete it in time. Everyone is so busy..

Rancher: um.. hi.?

Mushroom: oh rancher! How can I help you?

Rancher: actually how can I help you? Velvet taught me a bit of baking and I thought I could help since.. you know..

Mushroom: well then you came just in time! You can help us with the chocolate batches. I’m sure she’d be happy to know you’re here.

Rancher: I certainly hope so.. I miss her..

Mushroom: well, when she comes back I’ll let you have a pastry on the house so you can give her

Ranchers: thanks mush.. your the best.

—

Dahlia: got everything bone?

Bone: yep!

Dahlia: great cause I finished your makeup.

Bone: do I look like a good Easter bunny???

Dahlia: yes yes, you look great, go on. People need their chocolate eggs.

Bone: thanks miss dahlia! I won’t disappoint! *leaves*

Dahlia: *smiles*

Red: uhh hi..

Dahlia: oh, what do you want?

Red: sigh, I-is t-there anything you nnneed help with-with..? Gods why is that so hard to say?

Dahlia: *snorts* wow, that’s a first! Yes actually! Sit down and let me do your makeup. We certainly could use another Easter bunny.

Red: ugh..

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Hour: I can’t believe they partnered us together for the stands! I hate you!

Daffodil: same.

Hour: I want to burn you to ashes and sell you to the black market!

Daffodil: same.

Hour: I want-

Coral: Ooo! Can we play?

Hour: you got a ticket?

Coral: here!

Hour: hm. Shoot the target, if you get it you win one.

Coral: Kay! *hits target but it doesn’t fall* yay! Got it!

Daffodil: it didn’t fall so you didn’t get it.

Coral: aww whisper you try!

Whisper: it’s rigged.

Coral: please!

Whisper: fine *same thing happens.* I hit it.

Hour: it didn’t fall! Sorry! Give us more tickets or leave.

Coral: aww.. *they leave*

Hour:…. you put the glue right?

Daffodil: of course I did! Those tickets can get us free chocolate and if it’s rigged it’s even better!

Hour: ah, how I hate and love you.

Daffodil: what?

Hour: nothing.

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Winter: the stage is set.. decoration done.. blood!!!!

Blood: yes sire?

Winter: is everything ready?

Blood: yes sir!

Winter: perfect! My evil plan to brainwash people with le theater of Easter will commence! Hah!

Blood: sir.. no one’s here..

Winter: oh.. then order them to appear!

Blood: they’re all enjoying the fair sire..

Winter: oh.. then uhh..

Blood: I was wondering if you wanted to enjoy the fair with.. me.. sire..

Winter: oh! You got a plan?

Blood: actually with no evil intentions..

Winter: huh.. well then. We will both enjoy the fair and delay evil for tomorrow! How’s that?

Blood: I like that.

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Grian: ….

Sunny: oh I didn’t know someone was gonna be here.

Grian: hm? Oh hi sunny. You also like the rooftop?

Sunny: yea.. it’s easier to breathe here away from others. I thought no one would be here considering the fair. Specially an academic..

Grian: yea.. it’s just a lot happening at once..

Sunny: I get that..

Grian:…

Sunny:…

Sunny:… want a flower? Even though they hurt they calm me down a bit.

Grian: oh! T-thank you..

Sunny: you’re welcome..

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Velvet: ….hm.. I feel like I missed an important day.. then again I’m always missing important days here.. sigh.. I miss rancher…

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-Our trans besties-

Crystal

Bone

Hour

Coral

Winter

<3

[daddyjackfrost]

my sandman series taglist is insane. why r there so many of u

[crimalwx]

streamers are playing ponytown and its so crowded lmao

[bb-donghae]

This is a fanmeeting?! 😭

Shindong IG Story

[feargrin]

Guys I'm scared

[warcrimetime]

Whoever invented Costco really HATED autistic people, huh?

[sunfoxfic]

We were so close to smoking not being cool anymore. We were so close. Then they flavored it mango and now it's taboo to criticize it anymore. People don't ask if they're allowed to vape indoors, they aren't considerate of people who may have health problems that are triggered by the chemicals or if it just bothers them, people don't care that they're supporting an industry built on corruption and greed, they can't see it draining their pockets and much less their health. We were so close to smoking not being cool anymore.

[skizabaa]

Sun's purposely not telling him how to tie his shoes.

[turnipoddity]

Steddie learning the dirty dancing lift

i might went a little ham over this

bonus:

[dawnleaf37]

HELP

[hinata-boke]

tiny birthday boy doodle!!

[raegnorwi]

It's a lot of good memories

[zarnzarn]

i see all these comments talking about this after the new episode, but. i would like to state for the record that stolitz isn't. toxic.

first off, the concept of a toxic and a healthy relationship are such... vague terms. when you're online, drenched in language and tight moral boundaries, trying to put a nuanced story like helluva boss's into boxes is easy to attempt and impossible to do.

a toxic relationship is one where one or both parties is maliciously affecting the other. I'm talking fetid, nasty, rude interactions where there is more hurt than love. they're unhappy more often than not when they're with their partner, there's no respect or give from the other side.

stolitz is nothing like that.

Stolas actively cares about Blitz and actually has no fear or hesitation in ADMITTING IT OUT LOUD TO OZZIE. he has been calling, texting, commenting, laughing and finding ways to spend time with Blitz. he's throwing everything he has to the wind, finding the courage to move forward with the divorce, putting everything he has into trying to keep him. he's been alone in a palace since he was born, on medication, with such less people dear to him that he remembered the circus boy who spent a day with him DECADES ago- so when blitz comes into his life and brings back in laughter and color and sex, he's holding on with everything he's got.

and blitz does care!!! he cares a LOT, the whole series we see him falling in love with stolas through SHOW NOT TELL (his expressions, his choices, his fear, his lashing out) and utterly unable to process that stolas cares about him too when talking to fizz; almost a desperate kind of denial-

cause yknow. the first time he tried to confess something to someone he really liked, he accidentally killed half the people he knew and ruined the lives of the rest?

thats gonna leave just a teensy impact on the will to express your emotions in the future, methinks.

even before that, he clearly felt like on some level that he was unworthy and he's said twice that he despises himself for the accident even though it wasn't actually his fault. being self aware doesn't stop the emotions from emotioning.

he keeps insisting its only sex so urgently to anyone who doesn't ask because he can't even imagine it being anything else. he's both disappointed and relieved when he repeats that stolas sees him as a novelty, because what else can it be?

(there's a whole other spiel of how brave both Stolas and Blitz have to be to say it out loud even when asmodeus can't afford to, considering how publically and completely beaten down both were at the club.)

(there's also another whole spiel about how frustrating it has been for ME to see all these comments over time with such bad takes based on like,, 20 min worth of info of a show that takes months to release an ep. like godDAMN have some patience?? let the story UNFOLD MAYBE? IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE AN EXPLANATION WHY WOULD YOU CRITICIZE THINGS THAT ARENT EVEN FINISHED ESPECIALLY AN INDIE ANIMATION- i digress)

mind you, this has NOTHING to do with abuse. an abusive relationship is one where one is actively harming the other with full awareness. Stella is an abuser and their marriage is abusive.

and stolitz isn't that; it isn't even unhealthy or toxic. it's a consensual, transactional fuckbuddy relationship that slid into something more for both of them.

but!!!!! one of the main reasons for the problems that everyone looks over is-

they're in a BDSM relationship.

I can't possibly delve into dynamics without making this a 10k research paper BUT even though we've gotten only hints and costumes and dialogue- they're very clearly and undeniably in a BDSM contract. Behind the scenes of this crazy show is a whole different story, of these two delving into the most hardcore kinks out there- knifeplay, painplay, bondage.

if you've gotten into the community, if you've read a couple dozen particularly good fics by authors who know what they're talking about, hell; even if your only experience is fifty shades or 365 or whatever- you gotta know that BDSM scenes are crazy fucking emotionally heavy. there's so much that has gone down between them during their full moons that helluva can't get into!!

but you know how in so many of these popular medias and fics, the dom in the relationship is also like,, the billionaire/mafia heir/prince, etc, the one with financial and physical power? this isnt that. it has been very clearly stated that stolas is subbing, blitz is domming.

now take a moment and think about how much that fucks up the dynamics.

in stolas' eyes, blitz is a confident, dangerous individual who's an old friend and cherished memory of his, who he's trusted wholly with his safety during sex and he's lucky to have; and he has been in an abusive arranged marriage for the past eighteen Years, he's probably not going to be pushing his luck with his dom that much in the first place. plus, blitz is never cowed by him during their conversations- think back to the first phone call right after he stole the book, completely unafraid.

and for blitz, it's someone trusting him again- but it's also a royal- a blue blood who's nearly untouchable and so much more powerful- who couldn't possibly like a piece of shit like him, apart from the sex he gets out of it. he only flirts once he gets some sort of cue from Stolas; he's desperately trying to view this as only a Goetia trying to get his rocks off, despite all the evidence to the contrary, because anything else is unfathomable to him, no matter how clearly Stolas shows it, because of the ptsd.

both of them thinks the other has the power. both of them aren't expecting the other to keep shut if something's bothering them.

and there's so much conflicting messages from the other too!

stolas calls him a plaything when trying to intimidate the humans; stolas cups his face gently and asks if he's alright

blitz asks him on a date and tells him to get better soon; blitz yells that it's only sex and doesn't reply to his messages

ya see?

bring it to fizzozzie for a second now; even though they do look all good on surface, you can still see fizz's trauma and doubt in all their interactions, they're still forced to keep the relationship secret. do you see his face when Ozzie says in hyperbole that he's never leaving the house again, or when someone accuses him of being a pampered house pet or when he got sexualized in the 7th ep? whatever happened in the interim between the accident with mammon, it fucked him UP. even though oz seems to be well aware of this when he tells him not to apologise and in their general interactions, fizz still visibly has trouble separating plaything/commodity from healthy relationship.

shout the fuck out to Ozzie btw, man knows whats UP. rooting for these two so much omg.

i forgot where I was going with this point, I'll edit it when i remember. but yeah! lovely fucking relationship, but damn what angst filled issues.

anyway, to sum up- stolitz is not a toxic relationship. the relationship is stuck sludging through misunderstandings and careless microaggressions and trauma responses, but it's not unhealthy or toxic because of the simple reason that most of the current hurt comes from... a misunderstanding. stolas didn't realise blitz would need reassurance about what they were and blitz didn't see stolas as someone who could get hurt.

unecessarily calling it toxic, even online, is more impactful than people think too. almost all spindlehorse ARE on all social medias; so MANY YouTube animators i know have found jobs there; they see your words, especially since a lot don't tag posts with "anti hb" correctly to keep them out of the main tag. there are Very few queer medias made BY queer people that haven't gone through heavy corporate revisions- helluva boss is practically a historical landmark in its success. it's very very very fucking easy to forget that not ten years ago some of the only queer videos on YouTube were butter lover (one kiss at the end post credits), dirty paws and welcome to hell (subtext).

the amount of "critical talk" helluva boss gets for what it is is very unprecedented. it's a beautiful show. can't wait for the next episode.