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Today is the first day of the weeklong strike for a ceasefire in Gaza.

I have realized that I do not think the message has spread far, at least on this website. This might be due to the lack of internet in Gaza, it has been down for days. Not much can be said by the citizens there, it's like some people forgot about them. I encourage all of you to share this post, or make your own, letting everyone know about this strike. This is something that should transcend the aesthetic of your blog. My blog was a gimmick blog, but for this week, it is a blog for spreading information and awareness.

Bisan Odwa (@wizard_bisan1 on instagram) has called for this strike. She is a journalist from Gaza, who has been experiencing this horrid violence for 15 weeks. 107 days. 2568 hours.

These were the images she posted, calling for this strike:

Reblog this, share this. Do not stop until every supporter of Gaza knows what we must do this week.

THIS IS AN ACTUAL SAFETY CONCERN! Whether you like Helluva Boss or not, if you actually care about trans lives- please don't skip this post!

As of this month, it's been announced that Helluva Boss S2 episode 5 is to be released this month. The reason why this is concerning, is the fact that the episode revolves around the premise of a grown man dressing in drag and sneaking into a high school to spy on freshman girls to murder them. Which sounds like an "average Helluva Boss" episode at first... until you consider the fact that there are laws against the drag and trans community now taking place:

The reason why this is a state of emergancy at this point: Is because the newest episode is going to present the very stereotype that caused this man to be in office- in the first place! By representing a drag queen as a "danger to children" or "predatory." Here, we see a drag queen being depicted as a "danger" to kids by pretending to be a teenager to spy on them, stereotyping drag queens as inherently "dangerous" to children, which is the exact type of stereotype that is contributing to the common paranoia towards the drag community. -and though it may not effect you, doesn't mean that it wont effect others or increase their paranoia. Not joking, imagine a transphobia catholic parent who has had the thought of voting for Desantis coming across this episode since it's out there, put on trending, and on Youtube- imagine how that would impact their vote, imagine the further public paranoia this could further cause if this episode was released to the public in the current state that it's in.

Honestly, look at this and try to tell me that it's a "positive drag representation!" Because even from the trailers alone, Moxxie is clearly being represented not just hyper sexualized, but as a actual danger to the children in the episode! This kind of representation is going to further cause dangerous misconceptions towards the drag community. So regardless of your stance on "fiction", you need to realize that representation like this is further putting lives at risk!

Drag queens are now at risk of genocide in Florida because the public see's them as "a danger to kids!" or an outright "sex predator!"

What Vivziepop needs to understand is that stereotypes arent "silly jokes!" They come from a place of discrimination, and ignorance. It's what they spread, and the more episodes portay minorities in this kind of stereotyped light, in public, where anyone can watch it, the more we are closer to acts like this being put into place. the fact that there are now laws threatening to kill drag queens as an act of genocide in Florida RIGHT NOW because Florida thinks that they're "child predators that try to get freindly with children to harm them/kill them/prey on them." So this episode isn't just poor timing- it's outright dangerous timing! I dont care if you see me as an "anti" or whatever you want to demonize me as- drag and trans lives are now even more at stake, and for the past two years, Florida has been highly paranoid towards the lgbt+ community, especially since it's Pride Month, and releasing an episode with stereotypes that have been used against drag queens at a time where the public is now highly paranoid of drag queens and those that are trans could literally contribute to the votes towards a man that is now attempting to cause a law that could mean the end of being openly lgbt+ in America- as a whole. This effects all of us! Everyone is harmed by lgbt+ and poc stereotypes- everyone! Please dont skip this!

Florida has now had repeated cases of violence towards the trans and drag community, and now they're targetting their rights as an attempt to force them into death row for being androygnous.

A literal minority genocide waiting to happen.

So really, the last thing you'd want to do, is to release an episode of a show depicting a drag queen as a "danger to kids!" at a time where the public is now trying to kill drag queens because they think of them as just that- a "danger" to children! Scene at 1:24

-and I get liking lgbt+ porn, but it's coming to a point where im starting to see so many dangerous stereotypes and fetishization on Twitter alone (this will be further mentioned in my next video) that this has now gone from "this show is offensive!" to "This show is showing stereotypes that have literally contributed to real life deaths of minorities!" The fact that Vivziepop is releasing this episode this year despite the news of this new law being widespread could potientially spread further panic amoung both consersative and lgbt+ social media alike, not just "Oh, the transphobes will be offended!" but "They're going to use shows like this as an excuse to demonize the trans community and drag queens at a time where America's law is literally trying to kill them!"

They're depicting a drag queen, in 2023, a year where Florida is trying to cause genocide to the trans and drag community since they see them as a "danger" to children! When they're not! -and presenting these stereotypes in public at a time where the world is already highly paranoid towards drag queens being around children, at all, and see drag or being trans as a "fetish that's dangerous to kids!" as a "danger" to children, is actually putting queer lives at risk! So though I get that you're excited for the latest episode, but this is actually the worst time to release media like this- the public has been highly paranoid towards the drag and trans community, and releasing an episode like this at this time with these kinds of stereotypes, I dont know if you understand this since so many of you are so young, but this could spread actual danger to these communities!

Your love of a cartoon is not more important than the lives of those around you! This goes for those many of you have harassed in the fandom as well. Stop disregarding human lives over a cartoon! These kinds of stereotypes have been contributing to the discrimination against the trans and drag community for decades, and right now, at a time where trans lives and drag queens are more at risk than ever before, there needs to be a caution towards how we treat lgbt+ representation. We need to do more research, we need to be cautious, for the sake of our safety we need to care, because the more you support these kinds of stereotypes, the more you're causing more votes to put this man into office! He's trying to become our president, this could actually put us in danger, stop representing lgbt+ this way! I understanding liking villains, but presenting us in a derogatory light will only hurt lgbt+ lives!

This isn't "old news." These are bills that are currently being put into Florida law that can severely injure or even kill real people in the lgbt+ community! It's becoming less and less safe to be out once again, so please dont release this episode so soon! Please dont release this episode at a time where drag queens are now being highly perceived as "a danger to children!" around the world! Please put genuine care into your representation, for the sake of the safety and protection of our community the least you can do is be more careful! Please be patient, im begging at this point, for the sake of the lgbt+ community and our safety please stop encouraging the use of these stereotypes and remember to boost this post as much as you can!

To sum up, I would argue Spindlehorse's main problem is the structure of more or less letting an Indie Darling direct, write, produce, etc.

Vivzie's always had problems with professionalism, her reputation precedes her, HOWEVER, I would also be quick to point out the sheer absurdity of her work load, and argue its a factor in how the "abuse" and allegations are more so inevitable than a result of intentions of some diabolical, calculating villain of indie animation.

She's living a dream a lot of Indie Darlings have fantasized, being in complete creative control of her IP. None of the critics I find seem to discuss that aspect, so let's get into what her having that complete control probably means for the show.

The production schedule is insane. While working on her original pitch, Hazbin Hotel, she gets into making Helluva as well, and has the creative control to apparently grant the audience regular updates that necessarily requires a team pulling major overtime.

To put it simply, TV production of the before streaming times would never have pushed a schedule this insane. As much as everyone complains about executive producers, networks, and what not, they are the guys who often have to voice of reason on a creative project, "Now hold on, if we push out Episode 1 of show B before Episode 1 of show A, show A will be delayed before Air Date A, and there's a contract for Show A to be completed by this date, blahblahblah..."

And then there would be other ways of fixing writing and plot issues like if they had the management and the process in place to say, "Hey so, this writer pointed out this plot hole, can we rework x and y so that z makes sense?"

Spindlehorses's problems, to put it simply, is the result of dubious delegation and management because this is the result of the experiment, "what if a creative had TOTAL control over EVERYTHING."

I admire Vivzie's ambition, however, I really chalk up a lot of the issues of her production to, "not having gone through enough ego death to understand the rotten position she's put herself and everyone around her in."

It’s not just Vivziepop!

That's not to say we shouldn't acknowledge that it's terrible to play the same game as the rest of the industry and pretend to be different, but we do have to put in that acknowledgement that the issue does not begin and end with just her.

And as far as the rest of my point, i have a hard time believing personal artists who criticize spindlehorse wouldn't be guilty of similar or the exact same mistakes, given complete control of their IP with little to no oversight and a pile of money.

It’s why ive pointed out the standards of Japanese animation studios on my channel “RaySquid” (I think I remember doing that… hopefully this is not a accidental leak of my own future script lol!) and tend to use other parts of the industry as an example instead of “ITS JUST VIV!” because the Vivziepop hate boner blogs are honestly not exactly helping when their hate boners are the very causing them to not see the full context of the problem and anyone else involved within it.

One of them even outright DELETED THEIR ENTIRE BLOG and all the evidence within it just because they got “bored with the drama” like- WTF?! Someone cant just claim that they “care” and then delete all of those asks and posts full of screenshots and it’s a good thing that reblogs exists, or EVERYONE in the situation would have suffered from not having the information they needed from that blog.

Really just goes to show just how much these kinds of people only value these things as “drama entertainment off of Vivziepoo in the moment!” and not “I need to archive and spread awareness to help these people by being as accurate with my information as humanly possible!” and it’s the reason why I dont follow hate mongering blogs such as the now deleted “Helluva Bust” (the one I just mentioned) that also made racist comments towards Vivziepop being mixed race and it’s just- not helping ok?! That shit barely helps, and the only reason why action was taken was because people started to put their hate boners to the side by talking about the full issue and everyone within it such as Sam Miller or Adam instead of just mostly targeting Vivziepop for her race and sexuality and harassing her fans (including myself) for just liking it and using a cartoon criticism as an excuse for said harassment.

Im just sick of all the hate boner shit.

All of this “HAHA PRESS RETWEET TO MAKE HELLUVA BOSS’S FANDOM DIE FASTER! Lol the toxic people mean that you cant wear a t shirt of a Helluva Boss character or say that u enjoy HB or you suckkkkk!” bullshit.

I wish that more people would actually take action by focusing mostly on well… REAL people and not just “This plot baed!” (It is, but you get my point.) or “VIVZIE EVIL BECAUSE CARTOON BAED!” instead of actually trying to actually help stop the problem by viewing everyone involved in how those people were treated instead of just Vivziepop and how bad her shows are. It’s come to a point where actual action needs to be taken. People are being harassed and slandered and our attention needs to be taken towards not just Vivziepop, but SPINDLEHORSE and how horribly the artists are treated within it by taking this to not just closed in Tumblr tags but other tags and sites such as Reddit, Twitter, Youtube, Tiktok, etc!

So you know what? Just for that-

Im adding a new hashtag to talk about the issues with the animation industry as a whole-

#StopSpindlehorse!

-and:

#FreeTheFreelance!

“You can always drop off the book on the full moon and I can leave it for you” …

That part of the message makes me so angry bc like the fact that literally dropping off the book and stuff was an option that they can do… WHY THE ACTUAL FUCK DIDNT THEY JUST DO THAT?

WHY DID STOLAS MAKE BLITZO FUCK HIM ON EVERY FULL MOON FOR THE BOOK IF HE COULD LITERALLY JUST DROP IT OFF???

“But Kat stolas was just comforting blitzo-“ I DONT GIVE A SHIT THE FACT THAT THIS WAS AN OPTION EVER LITERALLY JUST MAKES THIS SHIP EVEN WORSER. STOLAS DOESNT “LOVE” HIM, HE JUST WANTED SOMEONE TO FUCK AND FOUND BLITZO AS THE PERFECT OPPORTUNITY SINCE HE NEEDED THAT BOOK FOR HIS JOB

Striker was SO interesting even just from one episode. he had such a good mysterious vibe to him, a much better design then the rest of the characters (tho its not perfect), an incredible voice actor, and from what i could tell he is a person who wishes to take down the oppressive classist system placed in hell. which i highly supported for his character motive

of course yes he did want to kill Stolas because he was just hired to. but it was clear from how he talked to Blitzo that he has a strong hatred towards people like Stolas because of how privileged they are and their constant bad treatment towards imps.

honestly the only thing i didnt like about Striker was him targeting Moxxie for no reason. it could be taken as he just has a distaste for the weak-willed which would make sense for his character. but a lot of it was unnecessary.

point im making is that Striker has great potential to be complex. but nooo if we make Striker's reasoning actually valid then that would mean Stolas would ACTUALLY be in the wrong. and Vivziepop just CANT have that for her favorite innocent baby boy who could do no wrong and is just misunderstood 🥺

so OF COURSE we have to make Striker this bland asshole because she can't write morally grey characters for SHIT

it reminds me of how in The Batman the Riddler was actually making good points about how Gotham is an oppressive classist city where the rich 1% are corrupt and push for a system that mistreats the poor

and then the directors realized the Riddler was making a little TOO much sense and made him flood the city so he didn't look as valid—

That is what Helluva Boss is to me. After the most resent episode, that's what I realized what the show was and that was when I finally understood the proper meaning of "Have its cake and eat it to."

The show tries to preach about how queer ≠ sex and private parts obsessed in regards with Moxxie and his father, while at the same time have the majority of queer men in the show be sex obsessed. Their newest queer man character introduced in the same episode was sex obsessed.

They want to tell you that Stolas is trying to be a better father for Octavia and he is improving, while also avoiding the effort of actually having him act as a better father. In fact, he keeps messing up.

The show wants to acknowledge that the way Stolas treated Blitz as a sex thing was not okay, while at the same time, never developing past that and have them go back to flirting with each other like their last interaction never happened.

The show wants to let you know "Hitting and abusing someone is not okay" with Stolas and Stella, while having Luna beat the living hell out of Blitz for laughs.

The show keeps threatening to have deep messages and lessons and character arcs, but never goes beyond acknowledging it's existence and even pretending those past arcs never existed.

The show wants to have its cake and eat it to.