Can i get uhhhhhhhh

Strangling Pomni isn't something I see Jax hesitating to do at all. It would not distress him and he would not hesitate. Especially with how he 'plays it off' in the fantasy as well by laughing at her for being distressed. I was honestly very shocked there was no disclaimer for that scene, it was genuinely upsetting and sudden and I don't want to sound sensitive but it could've been triggering to someone.

I also think his harassment of Gangle is not an intrusive thought either. And seeing people treat his bizarre sexual harassment as a Ribbun ship moment gives me the worst feeling in my gut. It is not cute. She's actively manic in that scene and grieving someone Jax seems to think Gangle loves (considering his fantasy where Gangle abstracts has Zooble claim she was the only person they loved). Along with Jax just blatantly mocking Zooble's gender identity at their own funeral. I can genuinely believe that Jax would've harassed Gangle like this if Zooble wasn't around.

In general, I think the framing of this finale doesn't condemn Jax like it should. He drove Ribbit to suicide, because abstraction is treated as suicide. He is revealed to be, in his own thoughts, a violent person who enjoys tormenting other people. And I feel like his talk with Ribbit was supposed to make me feel bad for him, but I don't. He is not the only person in the circus to suffer, but he is the only person in the circus to take it out on everyone around him. Pomni hugging him really took away any potential theme of "there's no excuse for hurting others" there could've been in here. I'm definitely considering making a post comparing Jax and Ted because there's a lot in common here but Ted is actually more interesting to me.

Everyone putting Jax in his tent and Gangle crying for him pissed me off so bad. It just came down to a "bully was bullied actually" thing, except Jax didn't even force out an apology as Pomni was hugging him. He couldn't even be bothered to apologize and instead was whining about how she's not supposed to care about him, GET OVER YOURSELF. Pomni is a whole other can of worms but I will not be touching it because I don't want to.

The use of Isn't She Lovely actually took me from "disinterested and not really feeling anything" to actually fucking incandescent though. And some of the defenses I've seen of the writers taking a song about Black joy from a Black man about the birth of his daughter? They piss me off so bad. I don't care if the song was picked because it's being "reinterpreted for Jax being transfem", I don't care I don't care I don't care GET OUT OF MY HOUSE. It IS THAT DEEP. You can't just DO THAT. And the man who covered the song is associated with 'anti-woke' creators which is just racism with fancy wording. Now every time I try to search this song I'm just going to be assaulted by TADC, thanks Goose. Also, a song written by a Black man being chosen sits so poorly with me personally after everything that's come out about the cast and Goose herself regarding their less than savory "Nega" jokes.

I genuinely don't understand how 'Nega Angel' was funny, or the black shirt with 'Nega' on it. "Hahahaha 'Nega', it sounds like a slur" I was literally called "Nig" throughout middle school because, and I quote, "You're only half black so we won't call you the whole thing" and a pair of boys would split it between themselves with one calling me "Nig" and the other calling me "Ger". A slur isn't funny. A word sounding close to a slur isn't funny. It's lazy, hateful, insulting, and Ashley, Michael, and Goose should be ashamed because they are and were grown adults. I don't see how a word being close to the N-word is funny, because I've had words that were just shy of the N-word said to me while people put gum in my hair since I was 12 til I was 14. Maybe I'm just being sensitive, but I do think there are good places to tell race jokes like in South Park or the Boondocks. I get that people can grow and change, but Goose didn't even apologize for the nega thing, and then they appropriated Stevie Wonder's beautiful song for his daughter and put it in a fucking AMV montage about an abusive asshole who is so miserable and can't accept himself that he feels like hurting others is acceptable because it's all "fake". Jax feels like the kind of person who'd abuse his Norns in that weird 90s game Creatures.

I return to the critical community bearing the gift of more refined redesigns of the Hazbin Cast! Mainly because I've been looking at my previous ones and kind of hating a lot of them. Especially my Vaggie, I have no idea how I thought she looked good. So I thought what better than to start with the redesign that I felt needed the most help? She looks much better this go around than my first attempt.

What is this? What is she wearing??

This sickens me. It's some sort of visceral reaction, I think. This is a horrible design choice! Just objectively, right?! It looks like she's wearing a skirt over top of pants! Is that supposed to be an undershirt?? Is it a skirt???

And after doing some looking, apparently she was always supposed to wear pants:

I hate it so much 😭

It looks like she's wearing a dress with a blaze over top - why is she wearing pants under a dress?? If she wasn't supposed to be in a dress, then it shouldn't go over her hips like this. I'm pretty sure everyone thought she was in a dress with a sweetheart neckline and mini pencil skirt cut just based off of the few glimpses we got in the pilot.

Also, her feet are no longer pointy in the official show.

This was a family photo style sketch of Andrealphus and Stella I was going to finish for my rewrite of the two. Then I decided I wanted to merge Stella and Andrealphus into a single character by making Stella Andrealphus. This was a sketch from when I was trying to figure out colors for her with that in mind:

Really not a fan of the colors I was working with here for her tbh, I might go back and try to alter her if I ever feel tempted.

First up, I found several of the full redesigns I never posted!

Alastor, who's design I absolutely adore. I posted some drawings of him, but not the full redesign I did.

Husk's design, which is my absolute favorite second to Alastor!

And Cherri, along with a sketch of her I scanned:

She died in an explosion, and her wounds are constantly smoking and blistered!

If I had to pick an episode I disliked the most (so far), Mastermind would win. I feel like it's just a culmination of things about the show that I dislike. This episode is just ughhh. It feels like a mental chore to sit through.

The episode in the very first minute and ten seconds, the literal first minute and ten seconds, made me think the plot would be Stolas on trial.

That's the biggest fuck up in my personal opinion. The 'case' against Blitz is utter bullshit, but the fact that Stolas has broken the law can be proven! He should be on trial for giving his grimoire to imps and giving lower class demons illegal access to the human realm!

If Andrealphus' plan is to get Stolas in trouble, then make a case against Stolas. He looks horribly bad in this situation! He broke the law by giving Blitz the book, which Stella and Blitz can attest to. And he had an affair, blatantly, which would certainly add to a poor view of his character in the eyes of the others.

If I were to try and work this into my rewrite, wherein Stolas is a villain, this episode would be his comeuppance. This would be an entire episode where he's railroaded by consequences and truth. Another thing I would rewrite, is Andrealphus. I would literally just merge Stella and Andrealphus. Stella is Andrealphus, meaning she's a Marquis, and has a position of power and ability to make such claims. Plus, it keeps Andrealphus from stealing her spotlight. Vasago is pointless, so he shuts tf up and doesn't interject the entire episode.

And Stolas would get what he deserves in the end!

He loses his powers and his status (temporarily, but still)

He loses his daughter

He hears Blitz's point of view about the deal, and how Blitz truly feels about him

Imagine this.

So, um... I have some conflicting feelings pertaining to your hate for Stolas, I honestly didn't know he was a terrible person until I read you're anti-stolas posts.

My question is WHAT made him a terrible person, cuz as much as I see him as the victim, I can't help but be morbidly curious as to why he's such a terrible person.

Just so you know, I only heard he was terrible through the grapevine, but I want to hear your thoughts.

Of course! Personally, I think Stolas is specifically a terrible person because of how he's been written to never takes accountability. The narrative bends over backwards to make it so Blitz is the one who needs to make amends and is in the wrong, but does very little for Stolas.

Stolas started a quid-pro-quo 'relationship' with Blitz, asking sexual favors and encounters in exchange for the book, which Blitz needs for his business. He constantly makes sexual, degrading, and unwanted remarks towards Blitz (such as calling him Blitzy in Harvest Moon, which Blitz has made clear he doesn't like), but then later on claims that Blitz was the one always making things about sex. He calls imps little and small and then is confused as to why Blitz feels like he's being degraded and disrespected. He harasses Blitz constantly with sexual advances, which is especially noticeable in the Loo Loo Land, which actually brings up my next point that makes Stolas terrible.

He constantly apologizes and swears to do better and claims he wants change, but falls back into the exact same behavior that was the issue to begin with. For example, he promises he'll make time for Octavia in Loo Loo Land, but in Seeing Stars does the exact same thing. And then he spends the entire episode with Blitz doing the tv show side plot, completely forgetting about her in favor of trying to get his rocks off. Loona has to go find Octavia and convince her to give Stolas a chance.

Now, Sinmas was just... Something.

Alright, now for some reason Blitz and the others hesitate to kill their target? So all of the sudden because it's gay it's an issue, when they did the exact same job in the first episode with no qualms? This show is so obnoxious.

I also hate how spoiled Stolas is, because it's not really funny. I think if I didn't hate him so much, i'd actually find some of his antics humorous, but... uh, nope. I just hate his guts. I hate how he's just some woobie at this point. The narrative is acting like he's done all these things to earn all the sympathy in the world, but he hasn't. Am I supposed to like him because of Mastermind? Well, that's not happening.

Millie being pregnant is fine, I don't care. At all. Which is just more proof of how little character she has to the point that I was just meh to the reveal. Now, the reaction to this development is more interesting than the actual plot point - Why in the name of god do people think it's SALLIE'S??? It makes my brain melt out of my ears just thinking about it.

Loona's hellhound form is just a wolf with a furry face and I hate it. She should've looked actually cool, but that's more of a subjective opinion rather than an actual criticism.

Now, the main point I want to rant about: Stella and Octavia.

First off. The way Octavia is treated as some sort of villain or in the wrong for cutting Stolas out of her life after he repeatedly hurt and chose Blitzo after her, her after the many chances she gave him to do better is just terrible. She's completely within her rights to cut him out, speaking from someone with similar experience with cutting out terrible family. Stolas is in the wrong, no matter how much the narrative tries to say otherwise or tries to act like he's taking responsibility. Her rant at Stolas is one hundred percent correct, she was absolutely in the right, Stolas is a selfish asshole and he chose Blitzo over her. She doesn't need to listen to him, she doesn't owe him anything. And I know the narrative is going to make her 'come around' like Blitzo said, but I really wish she wouldn't.

Second. Stella, sweet, poor Stella god why have they done this to you? She's so one dimensional and has no relationship with Octavia. Are Viv and the crew just allergic to Stella having any potential redeeming qualities? I think if she genuinely cared about Octavia and was irritated by Andrealphus taking her divorce and using it to further his agenda, then that would instantly give her the tiniest bit of depth. But we can't have good things in the Hellaverse.

In my rewrite, Stella's scorned and just wants to take her daughter and be happy and hates Stolas and her brother in equal measure. Enjoy a drawing I did of my rewrite versions.

Phew... Sorry just needed to get this off my chest.