Do you know what I love about Hazbin Hotel though?
That the angels are clearly sinners too.
Not only the fact that Adam curses all the time and talks about casual sex (which, he’s possibly even cheating on his wife then??) but also, the angels kill demons and Adam even admits they enjoy doing so. He calls it entertainment.
And Vivienne’s making an excellent point: when you do something bad to a group of people who are considered beneath them, minorities, everything else…
What you do to them suddenly isn’t bad. It’s okay now, it’s righteous, because you’ve dehumanized these people.
And then when they try to fight back? Like the single slain angel exterminator? Well then magically it’s a problem.
When Lute said that “the only reason [Charlie’s] still around” is that Lucifer gave her and all the hell-borns some kind of pardon or protection from being killed in these exterminations, I was like ok, that makes sense. I was starting to wonder/assume that the extermination was something that only applied to sinners because it didn’t seem to affect any of our Helluva Boss cast.
But then I was like, wait, why would they want to kill hell-borns anyway? For sinners you could argue that they “earned” it through their bad deeds, but hell-born have no choice but to be born there? And they seem to have a functioning society, just one that’s “edgier” than human society. Also, plenty of the hell-born are good people?
But THEN, I remembered that is a fundamentalist Christian belief: that you can already be born bad, and that the same deeds can be good or bad depending on who’s doing them. Lute taunts Charlie that her life doesn’t matter…that’s a sin, right? Except no it isn’t, because of who’s doing it and to whom.
I love queer people’s takes on Heaven and Hell, they’re always great.
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the view that sexual predation is based on 'brain development' rather than life experience and social power is, like the common view that incest is bad because of 'inbreeding' rather than the control granted by the family structure, one where the issues of social power imbalance are replaced by an unhelpful bioessentialism - one that both makes permissions for these abuses (whether it's in the cases of non-blood relatives, or of an 18 year old being exploited by a 50 year old), and targets non-abusive relationships (if the reason for incest's immorality is that it might produce a disabled child, how does that logic continue towards people with inherited illnesses?). working within this essentialist logic, it's impossible to rectify these issues - neither extending the supposed 'undeveloped brain' to greater ages, nor simply deciding that there exists no real power a middle-aged man has over a new graduate, can fix the errors generated.
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Possible redesigns of the guards!
Since they haven't done much in the past hundred years, im guessing they're pretty dusty in the creaks, poor Y/n has to deal with two large cats who see y/n as a toy
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I halt the train to bring you some STICKERS!
But hark! They are not the only stickers that are available! Check out:
Hosted by @cecilioque !
These bad boys are a limited run and for 20 bucks you too can have 50+ stickers, and at least half of them would be about the funny train men! The other half of this sticker pack is about Unova (and we all love and cherish Unova).
Here’s a bonus archeops, getting bribed to the photoshoot.
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Roy and cass side profiles for the secret band AU!!!
Roy is backup guitar cass is the lead bassist
Roy and Jason on stage are feral and everyone loves it
Cass bends in inhumane ways while she bass solos :)
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