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mask131 · 5 months
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One thing I love with the seven Princes of Hell in Helluva Boss is that, so far, each of their "song" perfectly reflects what their sin is about. (I put "song" like that because I will count Mammon's stage-apparition at the beginning of "Mammon's Magnificent Musical")
Asmodeus' song at Ozzie's is very clear - the demon-lord of Lust is all about sex, depravity, debauchery, carnality, and abhors, disdains, rejects love in its romantic, sentimental, "pure" way. Of course we learn later that this is not true - but the song in itself, outside of the character, perfectly reflects what "lust" is in the logic of the seven deadly sins (while Asmodeus' personal healthy approach to lust is more about what "lust" is in a more general, broader sense, a play on the various meaning of the words). But the song is clearly depicting what lust is, as defined by the Christian religion and ideology/mindset - "Hump 'til your junk turns to dust". Extreme, auto-destructive sexuality. But more importantly - a sexuality devoid of love.
Due to the Christian teachings great exaggeration of "All sex is bad", a lot of people today remember (or perceive, or preach) lust as being just "Enjoying sex" or "Having too much sex". It was true for certain times, certain eras and certain areas of the world ; but when you look at the old theological texts, at the well-informed Christian teachings, and replace things in their wider socio-cultural context (lessons about love, marriages and sexuality in the Middle-Ages enlightens a LOT of Christian religious texts of the time) you very obviously get what lust was supposed to be about. In Christianity, the divide is between love and lust. Long story short: Christian minds (especially in the Middle-Ages, which was when the seven deadly sins got their true "final form") conceived love as a feeling, an emotion belonging to the mind and the soul, and opposed it to the carnal and material love - romance versus sexuality. Lust as a vice was about enjoying purely the materiality of sex and only knowing carnal relationships with others, without knowing, sharing or caring for actual love, as in romantic feelings. While this whole division went REALLY awry throughout the ages and the continents and turned into the massive "SEX IS EVIL" propaganda of the Christian churches, the original idea behind it all resonates extremely well today if you accept that a good relationship is one with a sexuality motivated by love ; while a bad relationship is one where sexuality is devoid of any love in any shape or form. The "core sin" of the vice of lust stays to this day, rape, the absolute apex of lust in the Christian sinful sense: a selfish, uncaring, harming form of sexuality devoid of any kind of love or care. One's desire imposed onto another simply for the sake of personal gratification and without any empathy, bond or attention towards the other. (Originally, the "core sin" around which lust was shaped, was prostitution, because it was also seen in this optic of being an emotionless and harmful relationship only motivated or justified by money)
If we move on to Beelzebub, sorry, Queen Bee's song, we have again a pure definition of what gluttony is. It is in the catchphrase of the song, a sentence that I personally firest understood while reading Terry Pratchett's books where he makes a clear divide about this: "I'm what you want, not what you need". Again, a lot of people don't get that the seven deadly sins (or seven cardinal vices, or seven evil thoughts, call it as you like) are not evil in their subject - but evil in the way they are done, in their intensity and intentions. The religion's fanaticism and extremes did turn a lot of these into crimes (from "Sex should only be with love and care" we went to "All sex is evil" ; from the sin of gluttony we went to "Enjoying any piece of food is evil"), but again, one needs to look at history, social evolution, and the original texts (plus modern ones) to get it all. What is gluttony about? Gluttony is about excess, not about the food. Gluttony is about eating when not hungry just like lust is about having sex when not loving ; gluttony is about waste the same way lust is about debauchery and depravity. Remember the traditional divides of gluttony (can't recall right now who made this division first): eating too much, eating too early, eating a food that is too costly, demanding a food that has too much sauces or spices, eating too ravenously... "Too much", "too costly", "too eagerly" - gluttony lies in excess. And this was most exemplified (to the point people forgot about the other ways of gluttony) by the idea of "eating too much". Aka eating when you are not hungry, eating when you do not need it, eating not to nourish your body... But because you want it or feel like it. "What you want, not what you need". What Beelzebub proudly claims she embodies.
There are subtle nods here and there about the sin throughout the song number - such as Beelzebub using her magic to make food too big for one's mouth or changing one glass into a giant drink that gets people instantly drunk. But remember what this song is about? "Cotton candy sky ; sweet as apple pie", all in a debauchery of sugar and rain of candy. The choice of these sweet, sugary food and other desserts couldn't be more perfect to embody the sin of gluttony - because this is what all these things are about. They are supposed to be little treats and enjoyments at the end or the side of the meal ; and yet here they form the feast. They are not nourishing in themselves, they just taste good and are comforting and pleasant to look at, yes, but a whole diet of them would be unhealthy and dangerous, as they are not what the body needs... But sugar, like alcohol, being a very addictive product, it is what people "want". And thus we enter the realm of gluttony. Whole feasts of un-nourishing food. Sweet and pretty addictions. (Though I personally do not like much the idea of treating addiction as being "gluttony", because an addiction is a disease while a vice is supposed to be a trait of character, a willful decision, a conscious choice to do something bad - but gluttony definitively leads to the disease of addiction when you go down this path of thought - in fact one of the main things theologian repeated is that gluttony always leads to the most physical diseases and illnesses out of the various deadly sins)
And what about Mammon? Well we do not have any actual song for Mammon - even in his introduction episode, despite being on stage for a very long time, he does not sing, it is just the others that sing. Already we see both an attack on how greed uses others to gain wealth and profit (making others sing for him), and how greed is ultimately a sterile place from which no true art can come out (Vivziepop's criticism of greed and the artistic process is more than clear in Mammon's character). But more fascinatingly is the "non-song" of Mammon when he appears on stage during the flashback to Blitz and Fizzi's teenage years. He is on stage, he has a musical instrument, he is here to perform a concert... But all he does is hype up the audience for a show we ultimately never see or hear ; a lot of decorum for nothing ; a long and complex advertisement and promotion for a very different project (the clown contest) and ultimately just Mammon "bitchin' about taxes" and angrily denying exploitation. Again all of greed is here - selling things that do not exist, using your stage to promote other, more exploitative projects instead of giving what the audience paid for, literaly being distracted out of your own show by monetary topics completely out-of-context like taxes or exploitation accusations.
So yeah, while two of the princes subvert what their sins is about (Asmodeus and Beelzebub seemingly not being as overtly destructive as their sins are supposed to be ; though Beelzebub's benevolence can be put at doubt by the fact she seems to feed off the emotion of her parties, and worries about Blitz because he gives "bad vibes" to the whole thing), so far each introduction song (or non-song for Mammon) clearly perfectly depicts what their sin is about, in a fun and clever way.
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shy-sapphic-ace · 6 months
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List of queer books I read, loved & recommend!
(There isn't any particular order, I wrote these as I remembered them)
Master Of One - Jaida Jones & Dani Bennett (mlm, fantasy, very cool worldbuilding and magic system, funny, cool characters)
Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree (wlw, fantasy, very soft & chill vibes)
The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon (wlw, high fantasy, cool worldbuilding, kinda reminds me of LOTR but with more dragons and feminism and lesbians)
Even Though I Knew The End - C.L. Polk (wlw, supernatural noir, cool 1930s detective story with angels & demons, I loved this one!)
The Love Interest - Cale Dietrich (mlm, science fiction, very cool concept)
The Darkest Part Of The Forest - Holly Black (side mlm, fantasy, cool fae lore)
The Weight Of The Stars - K. Ancrum (wlw, not quite science fiction but space stuff is involved, lovely and complex characters)
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz (mlm, fiction, very nice in general, there is also a sequel)
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee (mlm, historical and vaguely fantasy, nice story but I preferred the sequel honestly)
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - Mackenzi Lee (wlw, the sequel to the one before, more fantasy elements than the first, asexual main character!!)
Gallant - V.E. Schwab (no romance, but in the background one of the characters(?) uses they/them pronouns, very cool dark fantasy vibe)
Stranger Than Fanfiction - Chris Colfer (gay main character, trans main character, coming-of-age, nice book)
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (yes it's the Love, Simon book, mlm, fiction, pretty nice)
They Both Die At The End - Adam Silvera (mlm, sci-fi ish but mostly fiction, cool ideas, but the ending is sad! Very amazing book though, I haven't read the prequel yet)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (wlw, bi main character, historical fiction, cool story, just a neat book in general)
This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (wlw, sci-fi, very cool time travel stuff!! and very beautiful, it felt like reading poetry most of the time)
One Last Stop - Casey McQuinston (wlw, background trans & pan & queer characters, sci-fi or fantasy idk, but time travel, I loooved this book, great)
The House In The Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune (mlm, fantasy, THIS BOOK oh my gosh you should read it!!, just cute and lovely and good)
Under The Whispering Door - TJ Klune (mlm, fantasy, this book is also sooo amazing, great character development and awesome relationships and stuff, it's been a while since I read it but it was so good)
And They Lived... - Steven Salvatore (nblm, fiction, about gender identity and learning to love yourself, read it a while ago but it was very nice)
I Wish You All The Best - Mason Deaver (nblm, fiction, about finding your identity and people who care about you, very cute and sweet)
The Song Of Achilles - Madeleine Miller (mlm, historical, very good in general)
Carry On - Rainbow Rowell (mlm, background wlw in the third book, fantasy, it's a trilogy, basically Harry Potter if it was gay and also better)
Silver In The Wood - Emily Tesh (mlm, fantasy, very pretty, lots of fae stuff and lovely descriptions, it has a really good sequel too)
Pretty much anything by Alice Oseman (all cute and lovely and great, though I've only read Radio Silence so far I hear only good things, Solitaire is on my to-read list)
I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuinston (wlw, fiction, it's been a while but I liked this book)
The Falling In Love Montage - Ciara Smyth (wlw, fiction, this book was so cute and funny and deeply emotional it made me Feel way too many things, I'd definitely recommend it)
What Big Teeth - Rose Szabo (a bit of queerness all around, fantasy, werewolves and monsters, this one was pretty cool!, lots of original ideas for the world/character building)
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lyss-butterscotch · 1 year
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I know you don't draw animals much but I feel compelled to request some SRS and Spearmaster
Love ur gjinka designs btw they're really pretty ahaha
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Aww thanks man glad you like my lil designs! Have the weirdo and their murder cat
Also sorry if I got the asl wrong I googled and tried to get them right
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gaycrittercentral · 9 months
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can we get diligent sam being really frustrated at sloth max?? i just like em eheh-
Oh hell yeah they’re fun! :D although I kinda lost sight of the actual prompt bc I wanted to do a phone gag hjhfjkfdnhdkdhd my bad ^^;
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Pardon the messy coloring and fucked up perspective on the first one hdjdhjdhd I’m tired, boutta have me a nice lil nap just like lil old Sloth here >:3 see y’all tomorrow with more virtues hopefully teehee, I got a day off and I’m hoping to use it for evil drawing
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IGARASHI VICE - Kamen Rider Revice
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PROPAGANDA:
What if your inner demon was genderfluid bisexual and also your wife. What then? They are so full of love and whimsy and also so bad at pretending to be evil
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jerreeeeeee · 2 years
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seven gym leaders
lup and taako are fire and water type, respectively, defeating either awards the wizard badge. magnus is fighting type, defeating him awards the fist badge. merle is grass type, defeating him awards the pan badge. lucretia is ice type, defeating her awards the snow badge. barry is ghost type, defeating him awards the necro badge. davenport is flying type, defeating him awards the sky badge.
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planet8eight · 7 months
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silverlizard012 · 11 months
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Incredibly late to the party but art block be damned I finally finished some vice/virtue fanart!
Envy Max and Sam belong to @pikaflute
Lust Max belongs to @lizardtheartist
Charity Sam belongs to @gaycrittercentral
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janewaysevenlove · 1 year
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When will l see you again ♥️ soon l hope xx. #ViceAdmiralKathrynJaneway #ComanderSevenHansen #TheAdmiralswife #J/7
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lemonmatronicsart · 5 months
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Introducing the first baddie of a new character group I’m slowly working on!
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Val’s overall story is a bit too mature for me to be comfortable putting in the Care Bears tag (it’s nothing crazy, but like,,this is still Care Bears lmao). So! Her full bio will be reblogged to my main later!
(Expect it in a few hours, I wanna sleep first)
For now, how about some smaller facts and getting a better idea of the overall group?
Group Summary
     Based off of The Seven Deadly sins, the Vice Family is a group of orphans that grouped together and formed their own family. All looking out for each other as they grew up, knowing they wouldn’t have any proper parental support. All of them (at first) living in the same cheap, rundown apartment building, most of them having to roommate.
     Each sibling is based off a different sin, with motivation and reasoning for why they are, and have a color of the rainbow to represent them.
(I know pink isn’t an actual color of the rainbow but I am not using two shades of purple when these mfs are already purple on default)
Val Bonuses
•Val was the first one to move out of the apartments •She is the second oldest of the group •While she loves all her family to bits, Lord is the sibling she hangs out with most. Even rooming with him before leaving
All Siblings Vex Valentine Lord Itch Rubee Dally Covet
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kmartmithril · 2 months
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Do you think Gilear won that trip and went “Excuse me, Professor Aguefort, it seems I will be needing to take a sudden sabbatical.” And Arthur Aguefort went “Well this is perfect timing as I, too, was thinking the same thing!”
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doesnotloveyou · 8 months
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the scene where gina's date cancels so she charmingly asks sonny if he wants to come over for dinner and he's like *shrug* "sure" and continues to chaw on a cold candy bar, and gina's like "better than nothing."
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is he? is he, gina?
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philosophybitmaps · 25 days
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gaycrittercentral · 8 months
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if each max sin and sam virtu decited to date eachother, who would each date?
( like would lust max choose chasity sam or? )
ooooOOOOOoooo this is a fun one!! :D also WOOOOWWWW FUCK YOU TUMBLR I HAD THIS ALL WRITTEN UP AND READY TO GO AND YOU JUST FUCKIN CRASH ON ME AND DELETE ALL MY GODDAMN WORK?????? wow. hellsite real fjdksljgds;jfdsj
anyway back to the fun question ^^; this gonna get long so I'll put it under a cut!
Yeah I think you're absolutely right, Chastity and Lust are hysterical together. Like it's too much fun to chase him down and flirt relentlessly and watch him squeak in terror, Lust wouldn't be able to resist lmao. Also as I've touched on in past posts, Chastity is really just barely holding back his own desires and would definitely be into it despite his intense embarrassment. Like they make out in a closet for hours and then he stumbles out with cartoon smooch marks all over his head all woozy and lovestruck lmaoooooo. Now how about the rest of them...
OOH y'know who's really funny together, Greed and Charity. Because Greed wants everything, and Charity wants to give it to him. They are actively making each other worse and it's great <3
but I don't think they'd all match up one to one, like for example, Diligence and Sloth are funny together but would absolutely drive each other insane (or probably just to tears in Sloth's case :'/). Instead, I think Sloth would be drawn to Patience, because Patience won't make him get up pretty much ever lmao. They just sit still all day and Sloth gets a good nap and cuddle in hehe ^^
Now how about the more, er, temperamental ones...Wrath is tough because he just likes to shoot at everybody, so he's not exactly in the market for a partnership, much less relationship. But y'know, he'd be kinda perfect with Diligence because he needs people to shoot and Diligence needs people to arrest, so Diligence just goes around siccing him on every criminal in sight xD Then when Wrath gets bored and starts shooting at Diligence he just scoffs like "Stop that Max I have paperwork to file. Go shoot at some pigeons why don't you" fdsjksdljgs;dhf
Gluttony is absolutely not getting a date, he's getting a snack. And probably it's Temperance. Like Temperance would love to have a proper relationship with at least one of his multicolored husbands, but he happens to get a little too close and Gluttony's just like "ah perfect you look edible >:)" and that's all she wrote lmaooooo
Another tricky one is Humility since he's kind of just a conglomeration of self-loathing, poor baby. Honestly it would be WILDLY toxic, but I could kinda see him ending up with Pride if Pride decided he liked keeping him around for like menial tasks and offering worship and shit. Probably there's more to be said about that depending on whose version of Pride we're talking about, but I'll leave that for @pikaflute or @lizardtheartist to expand on if they happen to feel like it ;>c
And lastly, I'd love to see Kindness and Envy pair off because every version I've seen of that poor boy could use some love and reassurance, and that's all Kindness wants to do day in day out ^^ like Kindness would still be bouncing around helping other people too, but if Envy's clinging to his shoulders the whole time then he'd be able to check in with him frequently and make him still feel appreciated and cared for. What's better for feeling valued than being carried around by somebody who spends every waking moment asking if you need anything and telling you he loves you and idly scritching your cheeks while he does other stuff? ^^<3 Sure, Kindness still needs to calm the fuck down and take care of himself too, but Envy does also need to be blasted with love like that lmao so it would at least be nice in the short term.
Oh and I almost forgot their poor chopped-up counterparts, Bliss Max and Sin Sam! :0 they're interesting because they kind of go in two opposite directions--Bliss Max gets along with everybody and would probably be perfectly chill hanging out with any of the virtues, but Sin Sam is kind of perpetually ticked off and doesn't wanna be around anyone lmao. Probably Bliss Max could get along especially well with Kindness (but Kindness does try very hard to make that a given), but I could also see him being good buddies with Chastity. Since he's not really flirty, Chastity would feel safer with him, and maybe they'd have a nice little chat about hobbies or some such lol. As for Sin Sam, he might be able to have some fun with Wrath for a while, but that's assuming Wrath doesn't just try to shoot him on sight instead (which honestly seems like the more likely outcome). He'd also be able to have some fun with Lust, but he'd get sick of Lust being all lovey dovey and ditch him pretty quickly (what a heartbreaker shhgjfjdskhgsjfs xD). Bastard man. He kinda deserves to get stuck with the irritatingly bubbly Bliss Max lmaoooooo
And that's all I got!! Btw if anybody else makin vice content wants to reblog with ideas I'd love to hear em! Thanks again for a fun ask, bud :D
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laurasoretta · 6 months
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📺 Re-Watching OPLA, random comments:
Episode 5
How much I love everything in the first scene: Garp not needing a cannon, Koby saving Helmeppo, Luffy's crew totally unprepaired for the attach, Garp's laugh. He's much more serious as a character than in the manga but here he was him!I'm just wondering, since this scene was very similar to the one post Enies Lobby, does it mean we can expect to not see that part of the manga and we'll see Koby and Helmeppo glow up in a different context? I'm so curious to know. We'll see... in a decade, probably 🤣;
Poor Nami who thought she only had to deal with Luffy's dumbness but suddenly Zoro, who seemed like a reasonable person, wants to challenge a Warlord of the Sea! I like their scene with the shots and their bond, but I think the all "Because you're my friend, you idiot!" was too quick. She should've realised it later, after he was stabbed for example;
I love Koby and Helmeppo mopping the floor just like the Diary of Koby-Meppo (Ok, I might love literally everything about these two, I know);
I've never been particularly attracted to Mihawk as a character but I loved the fight scene with Krieg in here. I think it's one of the best scenes in the live action! Steven's performance is incredible, his voice and facial expression. It's as if he came straight out from the manga but with a very strong new identity. He's identical but also he has his own specific and new personality. Very great job! (Currently I hate the character because of the whole Cross Guild thing and my poor Buggy, but this is another story...)
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fairestofall · 6 months
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Snow White, what happened with the Evil Queen's(yours) Castle after you married the Prince? Have you ever returned there? 🍎🌼
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"Do you want to know a secret?" came the soft inquiry. The little Princess loved to begin all of her statements with this trademark, as it was sure to draw intrigue and create intimacy. She always knew what she was doing, despite how it might have seemed at times from the outside looking in. "Well, the Prince and I decided it just wouldn't do to have two castles. Imagine how many rooms that would be to clean!" a youthful laugh punctuated the ending of that sentence, sending the lilting voice into a high-spirited chortle. For she, after all, still insisted on doing all her own cleaning. For the rest of her life, Snow White only occupied spaces- whether that be a tiny cottage in the woods or a grand Castle- that she could manage, by her own brush and pail. "So, to make amends on the Queen's behalf, we bequeathed it to the Seven Dwarfs! They jumped with joy when I told them. The Dwarfs love to remodel, you know, and Doc set straight off to work. With my help, they hope to dedicate it to the orphans of the world! And we all have a hand in fulfilling this task. Why, Dopey is the one who will hold the keys to the castle gate! It was Grumpy's idea, really. I wanted the gates to be open forever."
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