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katshelluvacritic · 4 months
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Charlie Morningstar is probably one of the worst written characters I’ve seen in the series.
(This one’s gonna be a long one…)
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Ok…. So I watched all six episodes and to be honest I’m pretty much pissed off by this character specifically. This might be more of a rant rather than a critique, so I do understand that not everything I say in this will end up being as constructive exactly but I genuinely need to get this off my chest, especially since she is a character I’ve specifically and recently been hyper fixating on before the show released…
(Side note: I realized the post was very long so, to have it be easier to read I added titles for each section! Hope this helps)
!!WARNING FOR SPOILERS FOR THE SERIES BTW!!
> Charlie lacks the qualities of being a main character.
Now besides the piss poor excuse of an introduction for her (and the rest of the cast) in the main series, I honestly question why exactly Charlie specifically is the “protagonist” in the first place (and I say protagonist with the biggest of quotes here, you’ll see why).
In the first episode of the series “overture”, we don’t really see much of her character, most of the time we’re shown screen time of Vicky (a nickname I made for v*ggie since I’m not gonna call her by her genitalia thank you) trying to make an ad for the hotel and even when we do get the screen time of her, she’s barely doing anything other than hearing viv’s self insert- I mean- Adam just go on and on about whatever he’s talking about.
And when Charlie does go on to explain her plan to redeem sinners she’s just interrupted and then stands there when they start singing hell is forever, she doesn’t “go off” like the hazbin Twitter says, she just stands there and then tries to say something only to get interrupted again and again and then gets pushed out of the meeting room before going back to the hotel to see it’s spread across in the news that the next extermination happens in 6 months.
Now although one might argue “Well didn’t Charlie at one point said in the show that giving orders is so mean?” Well yes but again, Charlie is literally the princess of pride ring, you would think that since her parents are literally rulers of pride, they would’ve probably teach her how to stand on her two feat, especially if your RUNNING A HOTEL. And the thing is, she has stood up and did so in episode 6 and the goddamn pilot (which is at this point is probably canon due to Charlie calling it the hazbin hotel instead of happy hotel), even going as far as to fight Katie Killjoy because she thought it was stupid.
Not only that but the episodes after overture, her screen time lessens until somewhat in 5 and 6. She doesn’t really appear that much in the between these episodes to the point where she feels like a supporting character rather than a protagonist. And when she does get screen time, she’s either forgettable at best and infuriating at worst.
> Charlie’s character is poorly written and just dumb.
In the episodes past overture, she’s literally rock solid stupid that I literally screamed in real life multiple times “you’re a fucking idiot” because of how frustrated I was from what she was doing, In episode 2 she literally trusted sir pentious to go to her hotel even though he almost destroyed her place and in episode 6 thought it was a hunky dory idea to let a person who literally exploded buildings to take charge of giving her employees a “good time”. Yes it could be played off as her being naive but if she’s that naive of a person then maybe she shouldn’t be a boss of a hotel to rehabilitate sinners.
Heck, in episode 4, Charlie gets pissed off and turns into her demon form because val literally started hurting Angel when he followed him into the room (and rightfully so) but when angel tells her to leave and drags her out of the studio, she’s just in her normal form and fucks off??? Reminder she’s literally the princess of hell! She could beat the shit out of val if she wants to, why did she just fucked off after angel had her leave?
“But Kat, what if something bad happens to angel if valentino dies?” Like what? If it was explained that if an overlord dies then the sinners that made a deal with them die too or something like that then yeah, that would make sense but we don’t know that whether or not that’s the case, if anything angel could be just fine after Valentino dies but we don’t know that.
And even when Charlie had the opportunity to go out there and apologize to him herself after he stormed out of the hotel, she and Vicky just send Husk to do it. And I have to ask, WHY? HUSK didn’t know what was happening to Angel earlier. HUSK wasn’t at the porn studio that Angel was working at. CHARLIE WAS….
“Well Kat, what if Charlie was scared about making things worse?” Fair enough, but again sending Husk is a stupid idea, I feel like it would’ve AT LEAST made sense if she sent Vicky out there. Because Charlie didn’t know if husk could fight (if you could even call it that, all he did was throw cards at people), BUT SHE KNEW VICKY COULD THOUGH. But nah we gotta do it for the ship right?
And then Charlie had the gull to be crying that angel forgave her after she fucked up, like shut the fuck up… it’s like if viv looked at a bunch of chars that had the optimistic care-free ‘ish personality and thought that meant making her as pathetic as a baby crying that they didn’t get a lollipop from their mommy.
Like I’m gonna be honest with you, it’s literally gone to a point where I think Orel Puppington (aka the 11 yo Christian kid who worships Jesus and gets harmful lessons from other Christians) makes a better Charlie Morningstar than the Charlie Morningstar herself!
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And that thought is justified when he tried to go help people in Sinville, “Kat he ended up turning into a pimp at the end of the episode” yeah but AT LEAST HE TRIED TO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING! Which leads me to another question….
> How is Charlie gonna redeem sinners exactly???
Like honestly, I’m serous with this one. How is Charlie gonna redeem these guys?
I ask this because in the series, she barely does ANYTHING to help these guys, she and the rest of the characters just sit around and then do an activity that is the equivalent of something you would do in kindergarten except it’s with ADULTS.
I don’t know about you but If your idea of helping people is doing just that and nothing else, then the only thing the people around you are gonna get is them being annoyed at first and eventually walking out with thinking your not helping them but rather just treating them like a baby who doesn’t know anything, and the only thing your gonna get personally is nothing because you did dick all.
Like other than that she pretty much just whines about sinners not going to her hotel and oh gee I wonder why, it’s not like your not doing anything to help these sinners not committing sins anymore, oh definitely not, your absolutely being helpful.
“Oh but Kat! Charlie was born in hell, how can she know how to help people? She’s not from the human world so, she wouldn’t exactly know how to help these people!” I would tell you to look at the world building for the series and it’s spin off but that’s a whole other can of beans that I don’t wanna cover today and this is already getting to long, so y’know what? We’ll go with that.
If Charlie didn’t know how to help people and was trying to figure out what she can do to help sinners get better, then why didn’t she just ask her employees for suggestions? Y’know, the other sinners who were from the human world and had experiences while they were alive and such?
Yeah, I get that not all of their advice would be exactly good or healthy (since they’re sinners who’ve done many bad things after all) BUT ITS AT LEAST SOMETHING FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!
She literally does nothing, she just expects you to immediately get better after some improvisations or whatever other activities she does and once you’ve done one nice thing then boom you’re close to redemption.
> Conclusion.
Charlie Morningstar is (like I said in the beginning) probably one of the worst characters in the hazbin hotel series, she at best a stereotype of the “everything is sunshines and rainbows” character tropes and at worst is a pathetic excuse of a main character and is nothing but a rotten shell of her character from the pilot.
I would go on about how her design’s also bad but I’m sure millions of people have already said the same issues and I’ve already posted my redesign of her before the show dropped.
I might plan on posting a rewrite of her or maybe explain my problems with another character or episode but I don’t know.
But until then, I’ll see y’all later!
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I've read someone saying that Husk is just telling Angel to suck it up and victim blaming him.
Yes he's saying Angel to suck it up, but he isn't saying anything about him having fault into his situations, but he can understand regretting bad choises. He's saying he isn't alone, and he can in some way, understand him.
Husk is the first one who Angel reveals that he had sold his soul to Valentino, and the same goes for Husk that reveals that once he was a overlord and he had made a deal with Al.
Now, the situations are obviously not the same. Valentino is abusive, manipulatine and a r*pist. Al is yes, a sadistic overlord and he is not a good person, but he is evil for his own entertainment and in the pilot he calls Husk to fulfill his favor, making him work at the bar, probably just because he enjoy making Husk do it just for the sake of ordering him around.
What Husk is saying to Angel Dust is You are not alone. You may be a loser, you may feel you're at the bottom and screwd up, but that's okay. Cut yourself some slacks, forgive yourself and start to accept your flaws. You are not alone and together we can help each other.
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blackkatmagic · 1 month
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I'm always a little weirded out by just how much both the movies and the fandom gloss over how utterly uncomfortable Padme was with being around Anakin in the beginning of AotC. Like, this is a woman who grew up under a microscope from the time she was 14, but she still goes so far as to cover all the cameras in her room, knowing that a bounty hunter is after her and just murdered one of her handmaidens, because Anakin watching her creeps her out so much.
And yeah, most of that is because the movies forget about it too in favor of reducing her character to "girl in forbidden love", but still. It's so deeply clear in the first half of the movie just how much Anakin makes Padme uncomfortable. Like. to wild degrees.
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kankat11 · 5 months
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I have to right a wrong in the Good Omens fandom. Over and over again I see edits of Crowley to the song killer queen, and while they are fun and entertaining you couldn't be more wrong. Crowley is good old fashioned lover boy of this pair.   Aziraphale is the killer queen. I am very passionate about this. Just look at the lyrics the literal first sentence from the song is "She keeps her Moët et Chandon In her pretty cabinet" sound familiar right?
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The subtitles are awful but you get my point.
And that is far from the only time the lyrics sound suspiciously like Aziraphale. Just look here.
" "Let them eat cake," she says Just like Marie Antoinette"
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Need I say more. Till this day I am not sure he's actually eating cake.
"Caviar and cigarettes"
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Sushi is close enough.
"Well versed in etiquette"
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Yes!
"Extraordinarily nice"
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Bit too nice at times.
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It's almost creepy at times. Please ignore the subtitles.
"She's a Killer Queen"
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Just look at her.
"Insatiable an appetite"
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We aren't talking about this scene.
"To avoid complications She never kept the same addres"
I'll admit that this one doesn't fit Aziraphale.
"She spoke just like a baroness" 
"Met a man from China"
Probably at some point.
"Perfume came naturally from Paris (naturally)"
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Naturally.
"For cars she couldn't care less"
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Just look at his poor face.
"Gunpowder, gelatine"
He owns a gun and loves sweet things.
"Playful as a pussy cat"
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Don't mind the subtitles.
"She's out to get you"
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She is definitely out to get Crowley.
Moral of this the story is: can someone please for the love of my SANITY make an full video edit of Aziraphale to the song killer queen or if it exists please tell me. I desperately require it.
Yours sincerely KanKat,
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kayatoastkkat · 2 months
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as a very wise man once said: "the only universal language is violence"
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am I the only one that's cheering as Jekyll FINALLY resorts to violence like GET HER ASS HENRY RETURN THAT FUCKING PUNCH SHE GAVE YOU 9 CHAPTERS AGO
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AND HE KNOWS IT TOO HAHAHA OH FRANKIE HOW DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO GET A TASTE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE HUH? HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE ON THE RECEIVING END? HOW DOES IT- *reboots*
(sidenote Creature checking if she's okay is so cute like damn he still cares about her-)
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you know for a sick old lady she sure recovers fast-
and also runs faster than I ever could like come on she's only a few steps behind Jekyll now
ANYWAYS GUYS GUYS GUYS I THINK THAT ONE SKETCH OF JEKYLL SURROUNDED BY HIS FUCKIN MESS OF A LAB IS GOING TO COME VERY SOON I CAN'T WAIT AAAAGH
IS HE GOING TO TELL FRANKIE AFTER HE'S DONE OR??? you know at the very least he should it'll be fun
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star-kovs · 1 month
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the bellamy drawing in clarke’s head is driving me crazy because she also had a drawing of lexa there as in the two loves of her life and still between him having that much of an impact in her head and the way he fought for her and brought her back with the cpr and they still never got together has me sick
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blackaquokat · 7 months
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I go through this phase of obsessing over one or two Amazing Devil songs at a time and they rotate every few weeks and lately Pruning Shears is in that rotation and not just because "my entire life is going way too fast / watching everyone I've ever loved walk past / never really quite getting the knack of / knowing that no one will not ever come back for you" makes me go absolutely mad, the whole song does but DAMN this part--
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katchleeifyoucan · 10 months
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can i say something real quick?
this goes out to everyone in the tickle community:
you will not die if you don’t get teased every time you’re in a mood. yes, we all love tickling and teasing here, but no one owes each other teases. just because someone is a ler doesn’t make them your ler. just because someone is a lee doesn’t make them your lee. and even if you are lucky enough to have a lee/ler to call your own, that still doesn’t mean they’re obligated to be at your beck and call. and if a person doesn’t respond to you right away, it probably just means they’re living their fucking life. let them.
this has been a PSA.
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reunioninn · 4 months
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Daisuke's Notes on Venom's Concept and Design:
Like Millia, he was raised in the Assassin's Guild from an early age. He adores Zato.
He was set up to be a long-reach character and flier. I wondered what kind of character I should make. Originally, he had a cello. He actually had a fan for a weapon before Anji did. He also had a large cross, which I thought was the best concept, however, we were told that it was OK to have it as a part of his design, but not to hit anyone with it. When I was struggling, I went out to play games as a distraction. One time, as we were playing billiards, we talked about how interesting it would be to have a fighter who fights with a pool cue. But I thought the character would be too boring with just the cue alone, so I made it so that his hair also covered his face and added a mark on it with a bit of paint. Since the head had such a strong personality, I wanted to keep the body simple. However, I wanted to change the overall shape of the body to make it similar to Zato's, so that's why the legs are like that. As for the pants design, if I wanted to keep it simple, I would have made each leg the same color, but that would've made his figure appear more naked. To find a way around this, I made one leg light and the other dark to add more of a mysterious flair.
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I think the MHA fandom would be so much better if people stopped being upset by the fact that others like the villains. Accept the fact that someone is gonna have different taste and will like characters you don't. Everyone is different. People have liked villains since the beginning of time. It does not mean they condone what they do. It's a story, a work of fiction.
Oh and when you see someone worried about their favorite dying don't comment on how horrible they are or that they deserve it. Can we not be considerate . If I see someone loving a character I hate it doesn't phase me. I keep scrolling. Never have I thought "Oh I need to tell them they are wrong"
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katshelluvacritic · 2 months
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Usually im not interest that much in redesign but wow your kiki's redesign is gorgeous! I love how creative it is. With her face being a keyhole.
Thank you! I was honestly really disappointed that her design was just “cat with cyclops eye” tbh, not only that just didn’t look that demonic overall despite her being a creature from hell.
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Like this thing’s name is supposed to be word play of the word “key” and is supposed to “represent the hotel” but yet she barely has anything that makes her resemble a key.
I also noticed when I watched the series that besides her not getting as much screen time other than being a bg char, she also barely ever turns into a key or even does anything too.
Like the only times she’s ever turn into a key besides the intro was once in ep 1 and twice in ep 8
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Which was also very disappointing to see since for a character that’s supposed to “represent the hotel”, I expected her to have a much bigger role in the series than what we got. Especially, when it was said in a livestream that this character has SPECIAL POWERS that can affect the hotel.
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Which again, very disappointing that I had to learn that in both the wiki and/or the livestream instead of it being shown in main series.
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toiletphotoshoot · 30 days
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I like how most sycamore-enjoyers agree that he’s tan. It gives me a sort of peace I’ve never experienced.
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blackkatmagic · 4 months
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I am fully in support of all of those posts that critique fandom's obsession with making the clones completely Mandalorian in every way curse you Traviss, and I think it's valid to take a second look at the impulse, but I also take umbrage with the idea that the clones have nothing to do with Mandalorian culture at all. Literally the most visible clone in the whole of TCW wears jaig eyes, used the same way the Mandalorians use them, and so do multiple other clones. Multiple clones also picked Mando'a names for themselves, or wear traditional Mandalorian hairstyles, and Boil isn't the only clone who wears some sort of Death Watch insignia (which is fascinating in its own right).
There's just - nuance to all of it, I think. The clones aren't wholly Mandalorian, but they aren't not Mandalorian either. Whatever canon you want to take re: Jango and the trainers he picked, the clones clearly picked up bits of the culture from them, whether because of or despite them. Especially considering Mandalorian culture was largely spread through conquest originally, and adoption, the clones have as much of a right to it as anyone, and writing that off or ignoring the fact that at least some of them clearly do consider themselves part of the culture in some way removes a lot of the grey area from them as their own thing, imo.
The clones are a grey area, as a whole. I think that's part of the tragedy of them. They don't have one people who are their own except other clones. They don't have one specific homeworld or culture. They were created literally to die as cannon fodder, and they made themselves into a people despite that. Taking away one of the major pieces they incorporated into their lives (in strict canon, even if you want to ignore everything Traviss ever touched) is weird and overlooks a lot of what's presented about the clones in TCW.
They don't have to be perfectly Mandalorian in every way. That's just as much of an injustice to them. But removing the Mandalorian bits entirely strips away a lot of how they clearly see themselves, too.
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hit-with-rock · 11 months
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I quite am literally done with all men in geology
I am so sick of the undergraduate male students I'm teaching treating their women partners or their women instructors like they don't know what they're doing
I did not get a master's degree to be told off by guys who think having a dick = geology experience, geology experience is the only thing that equals geology experience!!! And I have more! That's why I'm teaching and why they don't have a degree yet! So they should learn from me, showing what a bedding surface is, instead of using a "bedding" measurement they took off a fucking crossbed that's not even in place!!!!!
I'm sick of having to reinvent plate tectonics or something to be taken seriously. When does it end? If I get a PhD? If I publish 10 million papers? When do I know enough that my credentials outweigh "girl"?
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kayatoastkkat · 4 months
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happy new year to everyone except the tgs main cast ig
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whoop they're all storming around the Society…also isn't it like devoid of Lodgers at this moment? all they'll find is their stuff which…oh no that's not going to help is it it's just going to support the "science is evil" claim.
Wait. Shit. Frankenstein is still in there isn't she? With the Creature??
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oh! It seems Jekyll has fully transformed back! Good for him!
Hyde has a point though, do these people just have the power to materialise pitchforks out of thin air just in case there's a mob to participate in??
Sincerely hope they're not going to set the Society on fire… we are not having any more arson chapters and that is final.
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love this panel. little guy. little. it's like the earlier page where Hyde peeks out too
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Well if the Society has a back door, he can try.
The stakes for him are high right now though, what with all the protestors, the police and the Blackfog Crew after him…this is going to be exciting >:D
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pacinglikeghosts · 10 months
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assigning ronance signature scents
because i am obsessed with fragrance and this is kind of like my hidden talent and i want to use it on robin and nancy. 
this is not historically accurate because i really am just out here having a silly goofy time, i mostly just use this as a resource in my fics and wanted to share!
nancy: 
starting with my best girl because i actually have info to help me with this! during the filming of s1 natalia bought a vintage bottle of charlie blue (which i also bought, as an experiment) to wear and get into nancy’s headspace (it was literally awful. she made joe keery sneeze or cough according to the story). but to get to the point, charlie blue is a floral fragrance, leading me to pick two floral perfumes for nancy. more specifically, i picked “pure white linen” from estee lauder (left) and “sun moon and stars” from karl lagerfeld (right).
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not only do i think nancy would stick with florals, i also think she'd stick with name brands (like what you could find at macy's). charlie blue is a revlon perfume, so it led me to believe that while the wheelers have money, they aren't exactly spending it on something like fragrance that is just going to be drained. i also think karen may have bought nancy her first fragrance based on what she knew, because that's what her mother did, and nancy never bothered to venture out until she was older. "pure white linen" gives me daily use vibes, while "sun moon and stars" is more special occasions/dates. i also think she has a permanent lingering smell of ink and paper but that's not featured here.
robin:
oh robin. to the surprise of no one, these are a bit more gender-neutral to masculine than nancy's. when thinking about robin, i wanted things that were masculine, but still had a touch of softness and sweetness to it. fragrance has no gender, but a lot of masculine fragrances created in the 1980s were very masculine (think branding for men like GLACIER ICE FREEZE vs soft vanilla woods for women) so if she were to buy fragrance in the 1980s, i think she'd steal steve's cologne or spend five hours trying to pick a cologne that is slightly less overly masculine. that all being said, i picked 'skins x vilhelm' by vilhelm parfumerie (left) and 'ambre topkapi' by mdci parfums (right)
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as you may notice, there's a lot of lavender, sandalwood, leather, and tea in these fragrances. that is completely on purpose, because i find that those pull especially gender neutral-masculine on a lot of people that is soooo appealing. they also don't flag incredibly masculine on first sniff, making it so most people can get away with wearing them and not smelling like a forty year old man named Tim that works a 9-5 and plays golf. the floral and spice notes work as countering pairings of each other but in the best way, and i could totally see robin wearing this in her full butch glory. also, the queer history of lavender is not to be ignored and robin certainly wouldn't ignore it. to me, i see robin wearing 'skins' on a more day-to-day basis, and 'ambre' as a special occasion/date thing.
anyway that's it! i love talking about fragrance and i don't think i've ever really talked about it here except for the coco chanel poll so PLEASE talk about it with me if you'd like.
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