Would Have Tried Dragon Fruit Soda But I Would Have Wanted Sugar To Go With It. At Least Its A Nice Pink

Would have tried dragon fruit soda but I would have wanted sugar to go with it. At least it’s a nice pink color

Moments of Stupidity

What I mean is, I feel like listing all the instances I can think where a character does something stupid, whether it be their natural inclination to be or just taking a turn holding the stupid stick. By the time Oops rolled around, I wasn't at all upset by the characters' stupidity because, around the time Exes and Oohs came around, I learned that Helluva Boss is one of those universes where plots only happen because everyone is naturally an idiot. The degrees of which are varying but most, if not all, the plots happen because someone's a moron.

And like I said, I feel like doing this so why not? So whatever examples I can think of as I recall the whole series by far, I'll list here. Now for those who have this seriously favorite character of theirs - which is bound to be everyone, especially those who give some of their time to read this list - sorry if they end up on this list. But please remember that I'm in the belief that Helluva Boss is an universe full of idiots and that the only true difference is the varying degrees of it. So that means even my favorite characters aren't exempt from this list and I'll put the examples of stupidity when I come across it in my head. And what are my standards of stupidity, at least in this case? Instances of someone doing or saying something that leads to consequences that could have been avoided if they just had common sense and/or information that should have told them the more sensible thing to do or say but didn't because it's clearly shown that they weren't inclined to using a fucking braincell (And yeah, I know that Viv and her writers are in control over how stupid the characters are but I believe my point still stands. If someone doesn't want others to say shit about them, then that someone shouldn't do shit so stupid that it gets others to say it)

And I think I'll post it one episode at a time. That way, it'll be easier for me, especially when I'm posting late at night because that's usually when I do it, and because new episodes of Helluva Boss will come out and I'd have to make another post anyway. Seriously, if I'm hearing right, then another episode of Helluva Boss is already going to come out on Halloween. Finally, I think I'll either save the pilot for later or even pass on doing it since, as far as I know, pilots to shows aren't really canon. Haven't decided yet. Finally, please let me know if I missed any instances of stupidity because I'm just going off on memory and I don't love the show enough to go back and rewatch episodes

Anyways, without further ado...

Murder Family -

No one putting fire safety procedures or even just any safety procedures on the book. You'd think that if Blitz cared so much about getting screwed over in the worst way possible, then he'd make sure it's for sure safe in wherever it's kept. And yeah, I'm feeling that Blitz didn't do that when demanding if 'the fancy book is still intact'. As in, it sounds like there was a chance that the Grimoire could have been destroyed in the fire and Blitz knew it. So it was probably just lucky that Loona. Maybe it's slightly better that Blitz kept the Grimoire in the safe but, as Seeing Stars shows, it's its own moment of stupidity. (Which I'll get to in due time)

Blitz happily telling Moxxie that they're gonna ruin a family rather than killing a family. I guess this example isn't as bad as blatant examples latter down the line but it still resulted in his softer-hearted employee to intervene. All because Blitz is fully expecting Moxxie to be as cold as him. So it's still understandable given that Blitz is bound to not know the exact details of Moxxie's mother - that already giving Moxxie a reason to care so much about a family being ruined even if he was as cold-hearted as his boss - but I'm pissed off that Blitz at no point even thinks that it was his fault that they were in that mess and keeps pinning the blame entirely on Moxxie. Seriously, if Blitz didn't happily gloat about how they're going to ruin a family, then Moxxie wouldn't have interfered with the shot. What makes this a little stupider is that Blitz should have known Moxxie well enough by then since they apparently met each other in jail and broke out together. Meaning that Blitz should have known well enough that Moxxie isn't as cold as him or at least not enough to enjoy the thought of ruining a family. Because yeah, Millie was all 'if that's what the clients want' due to professionalism so it made a difference when it came to Blitz's attitude on the matter; I was able to tell that he liked the idea. (Which is seriously messed up given the episode Oops now that I think about it). Even if Blitz didn't know a single damn thing about Moxxie other than his name, Moxxie acted clearly enough that he didn't like the idea of killing a family so why would he find it better to ruin one? Yet Blitz just keeps up the anticipation over doing that like it wouldn't cause Moxxie any distress

Moxxie messing up the shot. Same thing as above example, it's understandable, especially when you get the context, but it still led to the family of Satan-worshipping cannibals to go after Moxxie, his wife, and his boss. If an action brought on by impulse and/or emotion leads to disastrous results, as stated above, then I'll be hard-pressed to call it smart. Blitz is to blame but just by half or at least partially. I can't ignore that Moxxie did mess up the shot and got them discovered by the crazy-ass family and put them all in danger

Blitz for fucking confirming to Martha when she gets the idea to just shoot him and Millie. Just because the fire didn't hurt you didn't mean you were invulnerable to fucking dying in general. Especially according to Viv who says that imps are just as vulnerable as living humans when it comes to dying and to just as many things (as much as she's being inconsistent about how she writes her characters and her show) Just because Martha would have thought of another way to kill you off when she inevitably discovers that the fire doesn't work, as well as her husband no doubt going to help brainstorm in permanent killing solutions, doesn't mean you had to confirm that shooting you will work. If Millie actually bothered calling you out, then it's a stupid move. Moxxie put you in that situation but you definitely didn't have to add more fuel to the fire, especially if your employees - with one of them right there with you and in just as much danger as you - is supposed to be so fucking important to you

Oh, and let's not forget the fucking phone. Blitz didn't put his phone on fucking vibrate. Considering that, in the human world, with his two field employees with him, there'd be no one but Loona to call or to be called by. And just because Blitz never expected to be running for his life. He's supposed to be an assassin. As in, no one's supposed to see him or notice him. As in, Blitz isn't supposed to be drawing attention to himself. So why the fuck would he not even put his phone on vibrate? That way, he'd just feel someone calling him instead of broadcasting his location to anyone and everyone who can hear it. And in the case of Murder Family, that includes a serial killing, Satan worshipping cannibal who's trying to shoot him dead. It's just that, in the dangerous situation that Murder Family provided, not putting the phone on vibrate became even stupider

Let's not forget Stolas now that I think about it. Yeah, he's incredibly selfish and self-centered for calling Blitz for transactional fucking when the imp is in the middle of trying not to get shot. He's still stupid because, if getting imp dick was so important to him, then he should have known that distracting Blitz in a survival situation like trying not to get shot could result in him DYING. Unless Stolas is gonna bring Blitz back from the dead or just outright perform necrophilia, then that horny owl won't get any transactional fucking whatsoever!

I'll probably include Mayberry, too. After all, she was completely overrun with emotion that overrode common sense when finding out that her husband was cheating. She never at any point turned off the computer, not before she left the school and especially not before shooting herself, especially if Mayberry is gonna act like her students are precious to her. Although I said I'll 'probably' include Mayberry because her actions have been inherently selfish. When she left the school, she thought about getting revenge to satisfy herself, well, she never thought of turning off the computer so that the kids wouldn't have to see it. Then Mayberry realizes what she did and she still never turned off the computer before committing suicide, which just traumatized the kids even further than what the teacher would have wanted. So maybe Mayberry genuinely loved and cared about her students but got so emotional that she lost common sense concerning the computers and her students, which would make it stupid. If not, then the concern for the students' mental well-being was just a facade and the only stupid thing she did was still not turning off the computers so that she wouldn't have witnesses and so wouldn't feel the need to kill herself to escape being convicted (okay, so I did still find a stupid moment in there)

(And yeah, I bitched on Blitz far more on Moxxie. There's probably favoritism, at least partially, but all this still seems and feels pretty damn logical. Besides, it does help my opinions on my most favorite that Moxxie took responsibility for his goof-up, complete with apologizing, while for my least favorite, it only hurts when Blitz fucking pinned the blame entirely on Moxx and threatened to rape him and Millie for another screw up. Besides, this is just the first episode of the series proper. I'm sure everyone will take a turn in being an idiot, and in large quantities)

A Thought That Came To Me

You know, I think I came up with two concepts for myself when it comes to character portrayal. The Pink Diamond Effect and the Stolas Geotia Effect. And I'll be more than happy to explain more into that. (Warning, though, if I rant here and there. Kinda of spontaneous as I write down opinions and all that) (Another warning, Stolas lovers should stay out of this one)

So I felt like watching Helluva Boss videos on youtube. I would come across Steven Universe ones, too. And I noticed something kinda peculiar about Steven's mom, especially when I compared her to Stolas. Both the gem woman and the demon owl man are exact opposites in character protrayal.

Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond was initially this big force of goodness, who couldn't do anything wrong and was thoroughly, absolutely perfect. The most to mistakes we would hear about is from Greg and, even then, it made Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond more, well, human. (And now that I think about it, did Greg ever find out that he had a child with a diamond? Like, before Steven was born or was it at the same time as everyone else?)

But then the series would go on to reveal how awful Steven's mother was, over and over again. Like I heard from Sarcastic Chorus, was there anyone Pink didn't traumatize when she met them? And really, the main series was already enough to pound in how demonized Pink Diamond is. I'm not sure if much people can keep in mind the good that she did do before being, well, gone for good.

Yeah, Pink Diamond foolishly thought that her family would be discouraged by her death and then be happy that she's gone, had left behind Spinel, and we're not touching all the shit between her and Pearl. But she was the only one to see value in organic life and fought to defend Earth. And the thing is, Earth was her first planet so she likely never saw any planets up close that would still have life on it. So I would like to believe that she's the kind of person who would instantly love whatever her planet is as it is and would fight to defend it. She did it in a way that wasn't rocking the boat too much, up until she did it in a way that ended up overturning the boat. But she at least never realized that and, compared to the other diamonds who just get a weirdly-constructed turn from evil to good, Pink Diamond had a more natural turn from evil to good.

Then there's Stolas. At the start of the series, Stolas was just a closeted gay who discovered a new source of elation and wanted it. Badly. He wanted it so badly that he chose when Blitz was currently being shot at so that Stolas could talk to him. So that Blitz couldn't exactly say 'no' the arrangement presented. Then Stolas gets the bright idea to distract his daughter from the troubles at home by inviting the most painfully physical reminder of the troubles at home as bodyguards and spend a good chunk of the day graphically flirting with Blitz right where Octavia can see and hear it. Even after they made up, Stolas kept focused on sleeping with Blitz (Just because Stolas promised to never leave Octavia for Blitz doesn't mean it can't leave a bad taste in one's mouth if Stolas continues to screw around with Blitz even after his daughter exploding with built-up frustration at Loo Loo Land). And Stolas kept up the baby talk and demeaning names to Blitz until the second to last episode decided that he loves loves the imp for some reason.

Season 2 starts and the show pretends so damn hard that Stolas was never an asshole who just wanted imp dick. Now Stolas is all of a sudden a sensitive, lonely woobie boy who was forced to marry a horrible, abusive girl against his will and has always loved Blitz since first seeing him. And now, whenever anyone tries holding him accountable for anything anymore, it's either by Stella or Striker - antagonists and/or villains who are meant to not be in the right anyways - or by Octavia or Blitz, who are made out to be tragic cases that will resolve itself in an episode's time anyways. In Blitz's case, he'll likely ignore the problem just like how Stolas does, even if it's the opposite way from how Stolas likes to ignore problems. (Although the show itself seems to be doing that. And ironically enough, I would have just been fine with the show if Blitz and Stolas just remained what they were before: mutual assholes to each other, especially if the series was supposed to be episodic)

Long story short, Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond started as an undeniably good person who was beloved by all but then got demonized more and more and more as the show went on. (And seriously, the movie and the sequel series didn't relent on that, either. At fucking ALL). But with Stolas, he started out as an asshole only for the show to eventually start pretending that he never was. And I'm certain the show will keep pounding it in that idea of Stolas being a poor woobie as it goes on

So I'm calling the whole thing, respectively, the Pink Diamond Effect and the Stolas Geotia effect but if anyone has any other ideas, go ahead and tell me. It'll be fun seeing your ideas on what to call it

Moments of Stupidity 2

Quick recap - I feel like listing instances of characters being stupid because I'm thinking that's just how the show is. Plots in this show only happen or at least progress because characters are dumbasses

Loo Loo Land -

And the first instance is a big one, on Stolas's part. Inviting Blitz to be security. Because even just taking out how self-serving it was for Stolas to have his affair coming along on what he promised was father-daughter time, it was stupid. Even if Stolas really had good intentions behind the trip, the way he went about it was stupid. The whole damn purpose of suggesting the trip to the theme park in the episode was for the sake of distracting Octavia from the drama at home. Yet he invites the most physical reminder of the family drama along on the trip as security?

Oh,, and this is a layered moment of stupidity, too, because Stolas spends a good chunk of the time flirting with Blitz right in front of his daughter AND acts shocked when Octavia storms off. Not just Octavia storming off when she did but I'm sure he was shocked that she stormed off at all.

Finally, there's Stolas saying shit like 'I take it you're not having fun?' It's like, did Octavia ever seem like she was having fun. And yeah, I did read a post explaining how Stolas had little to no interactions, especially not meaningful or insightful ones, growing up. So it makes it that he has a hard time reading people, especially ones not straightforward with what they're thinking and feeling. Except I don't want to excuse Stolas on this layered moment of stupidity because 1) smart people are vulnerable to making stupid mistakes like how anyone else is. In fact, some smart people can make stupid mistakes precisely because they believe themselves too smart to do so. And 2) if Stolas didn't think through on what the fuck he was doing, then that means I can't exactly call it smart. And seriously, who would call it smart when someone does what Stolas did in this episode? Some things are just so obviously stupid you shouldn't have to actively search for the stupidity to find it

I guess one extra moment of stupidity on Stolas's part was thinking that it'd calm Stella down when telling her that. Not that Stolas ever faced major consequences - the most being Octavia's anger at him that lasted for only an episode - but if, at that moment, they were gonna act like it was important in whether or not Stolas even trying to keep the affair secret, then it wasn't going to be a good thing that you apparently would have wanted to check into a motel. As in, going out in public and risk being hounded by paparazzi and letting out much easier that there's an affair going on

Onto other characters, there's Moxxie just spending money after money on the same rigged game. I guess Moxxie's childhood makes it that he wouldn't often go to amusement parks and not often enough to learn the open secret of the games there being rigged. I'm thinking it still counts because one would think that Moxxie would eventually catch on that he's just wasting money on a target that isn't even budging, let alone falling down

Then there's Millie just letting Moxxie spend all that money in the first place. She should have realized that Moxxie fell for a common trick that is amusement parks' rigged games, especially since she has a higher chance of knowing about it than her husband does. Yet she never does and all that money goes down the drain

Oh, and on the game stand guy, a moment of stupidity for burning the money he scammed out of Moxxie. You wanna taunt Moxxie, fine, but why burn it? Who the fuck burns money? It's not even like Granny from that Looney Tunes short where she's a rich widow and could literally afford to burn money in the fireplace. That guy looks like he can't afford to burn money

Wally and I guess by extension Mammon for the sale of hell fire torches. Seriously, that's a fire hazard. This episode proved that. So they should have thought that someone could - would - get careless and spill some hell fire and burn down the damn park. Even if Mammon didn't give a fuck about anyone and everyone who could - again, would - die from that, you'd think he would care about having to pay for repairs and/or replacements and/or workers to do the jobs. Maybe he could threaten lower-ranked demons to do it for free and give away things for free, though, so I guess there's that

There's Blitz for escalating a fight to the point where the park catches on fire. Sure, he told Millie and Moxxie to go check on Stolas and Octavia but he still decided it was more important to bicker with a robot who began insulting. If it was just words, like in the beginning, okay, but like I said, he decided to escalate it to a physical fight and that increased the threat to his and his employees' lives. And all over what? Petty grudges and fragile egos?

Now the most painful character to call out on being stupid... Octavia. And I say painful because it's like, I love Moxxie but I won't ignore it when he does stupid things - trying to be fair here; fuck, Unhappy Campers will be so fun (definitely sarcastic) - but Octavia... something about doing it to her is nagging at me but there's really something she's doing that I can't call smart. And it's for being confused about Stolas's affair and that's despite the whole worry of being left behind for Blitz. Because yeah, the show goes in and out of shit, like the whole thing about Stolas not being ashamed about openly and blatantly flirting with Blitz to being ashamed. That means the show has done a retcon at the very least concerning the family situation with the Geotia family. Instead of being at least decent enough for Stolas to marry and have a kid with, Stella has always been evil since birth and never keeps quiet about things she hates, which is just Stolas and being married to him. So it doesn't make much sense for Octavia to be upset that Stolas doesn't love Stella

What makes Octavia's moment even more noticeable is that, since her mother constantly shouts at Stolas or shouts that she hates Stolas and her marriage to him, then how the fuck is Octavia still under the impression that her parents didn't hate each other? Viv says that Stolas has always managed to keep it a secret from Octavia but that so fuck doesn't work given the beginning of the episode. The part where Octavia wakes up to screaming. Her first instinct was to put in earbuds and put on music to drown it out. Her question to Stolas was if the screaming was finished for today. That had to have happened so many times that that's the learned behavior and responses and it's doubtful that Octavia acted that way so naturally in a short amount of time. It had to have been happening long enough for her to do those things or act that way like it's been learned. Yet Octavia apparently still thinks that her parents didn't hate each other

Octavia's moment of stupidity only gets layered with Seeing Stars (which I'll save it for then) and possibly leaked episode content. From what I hear, it's about Octavia still being upset that her father doesn't love her mother and fuck, if that's true... anyways, given that I don't know how Stolas kept Octavia in the dark and probably away from the entire world for most of her life but, unfortunately, Octavia has to not be so bright if she's going to think that her parents didn't hate each other until this episode. Kids are normally nowhere near as stupid as adults like to dismiss them as so stupidity is more of an individualistic thing. So the fact that Octavia never picked up on the lack of a spark between her parents until 17 years old and only when an affair happened is... not good. Especially when, as far as we know, the mother never agreed to keep it a secret in the first place. It's a good thing that this is a fictional character because this sharp contrast of awareness and obliviousness doesn't feel like anything a real person would have, at least on average (because yeah, given the billions of people on this planet, I can't completely rule it out so maybe it's possible)

I guess I wanted to make a first post. Don’t know what more I’ll add but I guess I’ll figure it out as I go.

For now, I’ll just say, Cherry Coca Cola’s a pretty good soda. Makes me thinks of things.

the number 111

shark week

Jurassic Park

If only because I feel that Cherry Coca Cola was my mom’s favorite soda. Anyone who bothered reading this, thanks

As autistic myself, I’d like to look back on this from time to time. Thanks to whoever made this (new to tumblr, that’s why I said it)

(also reblogging something for the first time so I’m learning how that works)

Do autistic kids "grow out" of their autism? Why does it sometimes seem like there are so few autistic adults?

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