My Reasons

My Reasons

So I felt like putting this, especially when posting up stuff is whenever I feel like it. And since I gave the new music video about Stolas a shot, I think I can list reasons why I still watch Helluva Boss and will plan to watch Hazbin Hotel when it's possible to.

For one, I got someone I watch the show with. I forgot if I ever specified who they are to me but they're someone I love and care about and they enjoy the show more genuinely than I would nowadays. So I get to enjoy watching my friend's reactions and have banter with them during it

Another, and it took watching the music video to realize it, but Helluva Boss is basically just a spectacle show. The problems I personally had with the show was more about characters and story so I didn't focus on any critiques of visuals. I do hear about the overabundance of red, at least some of the same characteristics showing up in every single introduced-in-show character, and visuals going by too fast. With or without, though, I get my moments where it is at least kind of cool to watch, like Millie's slaughter in Exes and Oops or Glitz and Glam singing their song. Sure, they may not do anything for the narrative or plot, maybe even make it worse, but I'm just saying they're cool to witness. And the newest music video was pretty to watch, like I thought it would

One last reason I got is that I do enjoy some characters. Moxxie, Fizz, Ozzie. Granted, for Moxxie, I'm hoping to never get another Unhappy Campers and I couldn't fully enjoy the Midseason Special because I kept being taken out of it. (And I feel a little bad, actually, for not being able to fully enjoy it since it did have the spotlight on Fizz and Ozzie. Maybe I get into that more in another post sometime)

Maybe it's not much why I continue to indulge in the show but some reason has gotta be better than none, right? Because then I'd be hate-watching and I would only have the energy to do it for a while before I just give up entirely

The Amazing Digital Survival Show (Characters, part 1)

So yeah, finally joining in on the AU game for The Amazing Digital Circus. I mean, I actually have been working on one for a while. Just wanted to make sure everything was ready before I revealed it. Then I thought of how I can join that burger thing that the creator of the Marvelous Mechanical Harlequin started despite not being an artist (I sure wish I had art, especially for my own AU)

Anyways, I thought of telling everyone about the character designs and a little of my AU - though that's gonna be another post - because at least writing is what I can do (I'm more of a writer at heart than an artist, which is why I don't have art). And to think, this is all for the sake of yet another post that I wanna do, in order to have it make more sense, ha ha... but one thing you should know about my intended AU right now is that I'm intending to use an island as an setting for it

Okay, first up...

Pomni - She wears an one piece swimsuit with one half being red and the other half blue. She's without her gloves but in their places are yellow bracelets with seashell charms and painted fingernails of red and blue. There's flipflops on her feet, again with one red and the other blue, but the straps to them are yellow. The hat is the same but the charms on the tips of the hat are seashells. Finally, there's a pair of yellow goggles around her neck

Ragatha - Ragatha has a flower crown of purple (or blue, since I heard that the purple is actually intended to be blue and the lighting just didn't work as intended) hibiscus around her head. She wears a coconut bra held together with purple straps and she's got a hula skirt resembling the bottom half of her canon dress. There is a smaller green grass skirt above it, though. And lastly, Ragatha's barefoot

Zooble - Zooble's got a ukulele for a body, the handle being their neck, and the ukulele is designed like the canon body. The pink triangle head is the same but there's tropical stuff for the limbs and the antenna and extra stuff. Like there's a telescope and a squiggly eel for antenna and an octopus tentacle for one of the legs, and a lobster claw for one of the arms. Examples of the extra stuff would be a sand dollar hanging from the chest and a palm tree leaf attached to the back

Jax - Jax is in a full diver's suit, mostly red like his overalls but with streaks of yellow down the sides. And when I say diver's suit, I mean the ones you wear for scuba diving, those skin-tight kind of things. The gloves from canon are still on his hands and he's still barefoot

Kinger - Kinger's bare-chested but has on a purple grass skirt. The skirt has white fluff at its hem and the fluff is specked with black. There's two leis around his neck, one stretching longer than the other. The shorter lei is the same as the fluff, white and specked with black. The longer one is completely purple

Gangle - Her mask is still the same but she's adorned with a feathery, flowery headdress, primarily with reds but there's also some yellow joined in. Of course, her mask still breaks

Caine - Caine is simple-dressed for a kahuna, with the red Hawaiian shirt with the white palm tree design and a pair of black swimming trunks. He does have a black hibiscus flower on the side of his head (whichever side is the one that says that he's spoken for, will need to check that again). His feet has on black flipflops and his cane is the semblance of a palm tree. You know, brown handle, coconut ball at the end where Caine would hold it, and there's palm tree leaves surrounding it. Finally, there'd be a lei of black hibiscus flowers around his neck

Bubble - Bubble's an orange-red color, the same as lava. That's because he's a lava bubble, even dripping bits of that stuff from himself

I'll even include the two abstractions we at least know about so here goes!

Kaufmo - Kaufmo has a yellow tank top with red dots going down the front and also a pair of blue swimming trunks. He's got on a pair of red flippers and a pair of blue googles around his neck. Finally, on his head is a yellow cap slightly tapered to a point on the top, adorned with a red ball. Though the part of the cap that gives his face some shade is blue

Queenie - Queenie has a red grass skirt with the same kind of fluff as Kinger's but she also had a red cloth wrapping around her torso (think of the top to Lilo's hula outfit). And she's got a lei, too, and you probably guessed that it matches the fluff to the hem of her skirt

Yeah, I stuck to canon designs as much as I could, just changing it for an island setting, but hey. That's what I wanted. As for the characters to Candy Carrier Chaos, I'll have to think on that. These ones here are the ones I got for now

Moments of Stupidity 14

One more episode before I catch up so let's not waste anymore time

Oops -

First up, Fizzarolli when he came down to Greed with a limo, dick-shaped fireworks whatevers, and a pack of cumfly dogs to do a little show with. All the while still believing that he's out of the spotlight. Even without the shitshow that is the Crimson/Striker teamup (love the idea, just not the execution), Fizzarolli obviously would have been attacked and/or taken hostage and/or killed. All because Fizz couldn't be bothered to learn what the fuck 'low-key' means

Next is Blitzo, who had the fucking bright idea to buy coffee specifically in Greed. Did fucking Crimson, who you should know by now is in Greed, really means nothing to you? You apparently couldn't be bothered to check just where Crimson was so that you wouldn't bump into him?

Now Ozzie's got about three moments, starting with the one during his meeting with Stolas. So Ozzie gets a text video from Fizz and he's eager to open it. For some fucking reason, he doesn't send Stolas away and just opens the text video. If it was just a video in your phone, fine, but text videos in Helluva Boss apparently grow as big as a fucking flat-screen TV or whatever so it was in completely perfect view of Stolas. Why the fuck would Ozzie feel so comfortable just opening a text video from Fizz if he's supposed to keep up some kind of charade with him when Stolas is right there? Ozzie said everything he wanted to say so he should have sent him away. If it wasn't, then Ozzie should have gone somewhere private

The next moment was the fact that Ozzie wasn't at all willing to read the damn contract to save Fizzarolli. Because the contract apparently had been asking for signed permission to hurt Fizz, despite how Ozzie would have done to get him back. Fuck seriously, there's nothing wrong with wanting to protect your loved ones. How you protect them could be the fucking problem

The third moment of stupidity on Ozzie's part is that he never just goes down to fucking Greed and wreck havoc or even just send some team to rescue Fizz while he entertains the lawyer. For some fucking reason, he's completely entertaining this ransom and never even tries to hurt the lawyer until Fizz comes right in. (I'm not counting Stolas here because he apparently doesn't have a life if he's going to think that reading paperwork to help out a demon who denied him a crystal, isn't actually very close to, and has no other special reason to help is fun)

An incredibly stupid moment goes to Crimson, for goading the fucking sin of Lust of all demons. What the fuck does it matter if Lust is the weakest sin? It's still a goddamn sin! Sins still ruin people! And what does it matter if Ozzie's the weakest? He's a far more powerful demon than Crimson ever will be!

Quite an abundance of stupid moments go to Crimson's goons and to Crimson himself. And let's not forget Striker; the cowboy is just as guilty of being just as stupid as everyone else.

But first just the goons in general, when one goon decided to just fucking start shooting just because his. Then some goons at the pool table decide that they're just making annoying noise and not even look up to see what's going on until they're about to be run over by one of those

Then there's the part where all the goons just fucking watch Fizzarolli in his weird entirely-improvised show. Here's where Crimson and Striker are just as stupid, too. In fact, Fizzarolli and Blitzo say right in front of everyone about the whole 'steal dad's booze' plan and they still fucking fall for it

In fact, Fizzarolli and Blitzo are idiots for saying the plan right in front of their goddamn captors and they're only lucky that they're just as stupid as the hostages that the plan even fucking works

A stupid moment goes to the lawyer, who thought it was super important to get all his paper shit packed in a briefcase before hightailing the fuck out of there. It's thanks to that the lawyer took too long and was heavily implied to have gotten killed

Oh, and the final stupid moment goes to both Fizzarolli and Ozzie for killing the lawyer but not going after fucking Crimson, or at least make sure that Crimson's dead. Fuck seriously, the lawyer was never the fucking mastermind to this and what the fuck is stopping them from going after said mastermind? Fizzarolli knows exactly where he's been held hostage and knows exactly who held him hostage. Ozzie knows that second thing, too! And given Ozzie's position and money and influence, there's no reason he can't find Crimson to fucking END him. Sure, I would have liked Moxxie to have gotten a win over him but my desires don't change a damn thing about this moment of stupidity

Established But Not Quite Couples

And what I mean by that is that, yeah, we know a couple is together. We just don't know how, exactly, they're together. They could be dating or they could just be fuck friends. If nothing is outright said or confirmed directly, either in the show or even by the mouth of anyone in charge of it, then I'm not running on my assumptions. So far, there's only one couple I really know who applies so here it goes.

Mayberry and Martha -

This couple is living together but that doesn't automatically mean a relationship. Like I said, they could just be fuck friends. Not to mention, more importantly (at least to me to bring up)...

These two women being together doesn't make any fucking sense to me. Mayberry caught her husband cheating on her with Martha and went on a literal murderous rampage. Martha not only got almost killed by her but had to deal with assassins that Mayberry hired because she hated that much that Martha died.

Even if Martha doesn't know about the hired hit part, there's still the 'I-almost-got-killed-by-you' part. Why the fuck would anyone want to be intimately involved with someone who tried murdering them? Typically, you gotta be outright forced to be with someone who does that shit. And while Mayberry may have gotten revenge on who she wanted dead, I doubt that means she completely got over it and would be - likely should be - incensed if she ever came across Martha again.

Seriously, of all the female same sex couples for the show to put out, why did have to be the two women who, by all logical means, shouldn't even want to be in the same fucking room together, let alone be fuck friends?

Then there's not getting into Martha's family, which is its own can of worms. Sure, maybe the family managed to escape before the cops came since Moxxie did tell them that he would call them. Or maybe Ralph and the kids landed in a different spot from Martha when falling down in Hell and couldn't find her, especially Hell should be a huge, overpopulated place. All in all, it's one of the most improbable things ever that the family would personally want their beloved wife and mom to be with someone who tried killing her

Martha cheating on her husband, that's something people bring up sometimes. Except I don't think that was ever a problem because she and her family are cannibals. Wouldn't be surprised if Ralph not only allows his wife to seduce men to lure into their home to trap and eat later but also that Ralph does the same thing for women (and of course gay men for Ralph if the man swings both ways, like how Martha likely seduces the gay women). As for the kids, they're likely told by their parents that Martha just takes men to their home and get all close to those men because it's all part of the trap

New Thoughts on Blitzo

Warning, people who love Stolas should stay away. And okay, so I've been through tumblr, I heard about the new episodes, and I even saw the trailer for the rest of season 2. I gotta say, I have a new perspective on Blitzo. At the very least, I'm feeling sorry for him

Not that the situation with Stolas was never anything to brush off. To be exact, from the very beginning, I was more infuriated at Blitzo's behavior. The shit he did to Moxxie and to an extent Millie, the shit he did to Verosika, to Fizzarolli, to Barbie. Really, to me, the crap that Blitzo did was far more noticeable to be than the crap Stolas was doing. Like a favorite child and an unfavorite to an abusive parent. Yeah, you'd think it's super obvious who has it good just by looking at it, but you end up missing how the favorite child suffers, too, from their position. In this case, I paid more attention to the the unfavorite child's acting out that I didn't notice how problematic the favorite really was.

Hearing what I heard, though... and seeing the trailer. Well, Blitzo's situation with Stolas has gotten worse and worse over time. Now it's reached a point where not only can I not look at it and think nothing of it anymore, but I actually feel bad for Blitzo. Really, being guilt tripped and attacked over and over to get with the one who made you feel like it really is just about sex, someone who would get mad at you for not loving them like they wanted when you fail their test... that's something I wouldn't want to wish on my worst enemy. No matter how much I hate Blitzo, I wouldn't wish this on him.

Even without that, there's so much ACTUAL shit that Blitzo has done that warrants the relentless attack that the trailer showed snippets of. Stalking, harassment, video taping and watching people have sex without even their knowledge, let alone their consent, breaking and entering, maxing out credit cards and leaving debt for others to take care of, leaving someone to highly likely die regardless of the reasons for doing so, tracking someone down for a week straight regardless of whether or not they want to see you and make THEM the bitch for the voluntary week-long search, and constant insulting and belittling and sheer disrespect in general... yet the thing that Blitzo is gonna ever be held accountable for is not being in love with Stolas. What the fuck? It's like the show's writers are saying that not being in love with someone is the only real crime down there in Hell

And yeah, for the two paragraphs above, I said 'test'. Because ultimately, at seeing that sneak peek of that 'duet', that's what it feels like Stolas's end. That he just wants to see that he doesn't really need the grimoire to have Blitzo. What's more, Stolas clearly has his expectations. He says things like 'can' and 'could' when dreaming about that little fairytale ending with Blitzo that he wants but from the way he carries himself, it's like he's taking it for granted that he will get that fairytale ending. I guess his test will just be something like a formality instead of a test, now that I think about it

I legitimately will never understand people who sees this show as a masterpiece that's perfection representation and all that jazz. If they can enjoy it, fine, but when I hear praise like that, it feels like to me like you're drinking water and you claim it's actually liquidized macaroni and cheese. With no flavor packets with a mac-and-cheese flavor at all

Expectations Going Forward

As much as I put this title, this post isn't anything much. Really, it's just a bunch of things I wanna say about Helluva Boss and, to a lesser extent, Hazbin Hotel. Still stray away from this post if you don't want shit talked about these shows

First up, I used to get pissed over characters and writing decisions in Helluva Boss. That's how I was able to make a list of posts about how stupid the characters are which led me to believe that the show is just an universe where everyone's a dumbass in some shape or form. Then I dulled down in my anger when making a realization: it feels like Helluva Boss is just an edgy soap opera.

I mean, I don't watch soap operas so the most info I got is when it's being parodied on shows I do watch or when I hear about real soap operas in passing. If I got it right, soap operas have mainly three things: clearly defined heroes and villains, lots of relationship drama, and big emotional moments

Like sure, the heroes might be as despicable as the villains or maybe more so but the show makes it obvious who you're supposed to root for no matter what the heroes do. Then there's the big emotional moments thanks to either the heroes and villains that the soap operas clearly define or relationship drama. The relationship drama doesn't really need to have chemistry in soap operas just as long as it's a spectacle to watch. And the first two things create the big emotional moments to give us relief after a whole episode of it pounding in either how much of an evil bad guy that they were when oppressing the heroes or how two people are tragically kept from being a couple (or best friends again in the case of Blitz and Fizz) because of a misunderstanding or lack of communication or whatever other cliche tropes that soap operas like to use. It might even matter how much anything was built up or how well it was built up, either, just as well as it was to a certain extent before giving the big reliving emotional payoff

Really, from the sounds and looks of it, Helluva Boss checks all the major boxes of a soap opera. It's just more edgy because it has a shit ton of swearing and sex instead of a shit ton of Spanish. Sure, there's people who say that this show is some big masterpiece and they can go ahead and think that. I just can't think of this show as anything more than, as stated before, an edgy soap opera. It has gotten easier for me to see the show once I settled into that opinion

And honestly, I'm fully, completely expecting Hazbin Hotel to be that, too. Just a show full of spectacle, clearly defined heroes and villains, and big emotional moments. In another words, another edgy soap opera. I think it'll even have some relationship drama in the form of Angel Dust and Husk and that'll probably not have any actual chemistry, just as long as it looks sweet. Pretty much like Stolas and Blitz, although that one also has 'tragic' along with 'sweet'