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Can you imagine how Blitz must have felt, walking into Stolasâs bedroom every month and being met with someone so genuinely excited to see him?
I know he purposefully compartmentalized and rationalized it as Stolas just wanting his dick but even soâŚhow must it have felt, to be wanted like that?
To know his actions, his words, his touchâŚall of that could make someone feel good?
We know Blitz pushed it down, never allowed himself to believe what it was becoming, but do you think he ever just basked in it for a second?
Turned toward Stolas who had his eyes closed, breath still heavy after his orgasm, and just ruminated on being called darling, and remembering every moan and sigh and Stolas telling him over and over how good he made him feel.
People can only fake something like that in the heat of themoment for so far, right? SoâŚStolas had to be genuine in his words, in his touches, in his sounds, right?
I wonder if Blitz would subtly move closer, allow their shoulders to touch. Tell himself he would get up and leave in a second but then Stolas would let out a contented little hoot, wrap himself around Blitz, nuzzle into his cheek, and Blitz would justâŚlet it happen.
Trying to tell his rapidly beating heart to shut up, that it didnât mean anything. But he would just feel his body leaning into the touch, accepting it...craving it.
Allowing himself to think, for just a second, that he belonged there. That he was wanted there.
Tall, tall horse
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Healing is messy, but so is love. Who else is excited for Helluva Boss Season 3?
Guys what if the next time Blitz says "I love you" to Stolas he's just rambling about work stuff in the office and it doesn't even register he's said it. Like Blitz is going on about work supplies and goes "you know I love you, birdie, but you gotta learn to let the printer ink run out before you refill it, mkay? That shit it's expensive as fuck..."
And he just keeps on going. Meanwhile Stolas is staring at him like. You WHAT đł
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If Stolasâs face looks like this when Blitz brings him this plant that boy is going to melt into a puddle on the floor for being able to make his bird smile like that.
Stolas still doesn't understand social class
And I love it.
When the clip starts, we get thrown into a classic romance novel trope.
Stolas wears flowy clothes, literally all buttoned up. He smells flowers and wanders his world with a type of bright-eyed awe often reserved in media for children and Disney princesses. We take in a make-believe castle landscape that seems to . . . strangely have a lot in common with his actual palace and garden that he's been banished from.
He wanders into a stable which seems to be located on his driveway. There, he runs into Blitz, the stable boy. Is stable boy a little on the nose with the class stuff? No one actually calls him that. But look- based on what Blitz is wearing, and the context, and what does get said . . .
Okay, but am I reading into this a bit much? Doesn't Stolas just love Romance novels? It doesn't have to be about their real social positions.
It's a stereotype that came out of the Fabio era of romance novels (which Blitz's hair and general look in the fantasy is a direct reference to) that women who read romance fiction fantasize about being prim, proper, virginal noblewomen, who get ravished, sometimes in dub-con situations, by strong, tough, rough-around-the-edges, lower class dudes.
And yeah, there are exceptions, but the class thing is big in this trope. And not the only thing that's big. SNL knew it. Check out this Aidy Bryant sketch with John Cena and Kenan Thompson circa 2015. The entire joke is that we know this trope, and it's absurd.
The appeal, assuming the stereotypical audience is heterosexual women. . . is something about being desirable and repressed and pursued, and being so overwhelmed by the raw appeal of this sexy brute man that you give into something primal and animalistic and um . . . being freed. Notice Blitz literally opening up Stolas's shirt and letting all the chest fluff out.
The trope is as society-laden as any other trope. Which is to say, I fully support enjoying it, and I kind of get the appeal but. Social class is there. And I don't really think Blitz would like learning that in at least some of Stolas's fantasies, after everything, he's an actual stable boy, a servant, with his big hands and big bulge and big abs doing some serious heavy lifting when it comes to his look.
The problem is that Stolas actually is a prince, and no amount of banishment can make Blitz his social equal. It's no mistake on the part of the writers that the fantasy setting is just a transformed version of Stolas's own house.
Is Stolas aware? Not at all. If Blitz were to ask, Stolas would probably say that he understands now. He doesn't.
Now. Some good news. Stolas's fantasy world is unstable as it meets the reality of Blitz's life and the new situation Stolas finds himself in and the trauma and emotional baggage that Stolas is having trouble keeping separate.
I say good news because, while I'm sure it will be a long road with ups and probably devastating I'm not scared who's scared?? downs, Stolas's framework for understanding the world is crumbling, and he's going to have to rebuild something new.
This aspect of the clip just signals to me that addressing The Class Thingâ˘ď¸, really addressing it and the way it lingers in the corners of a mind that means well, is going to have to be part of that journey, and I'm so glad.

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Stolas' budding S3 arc: his relationship with want, shame, and queer liberation
So. About that Helluva Boss season 3 clip.
There is so much to unpack for a clip that's less than 2 minutes long, which is not surprising for Helluva Boss. But today, I want to delve into this particular line from Stolas' imaginary version of Blitz, which gave me a lot to think about:
On a surface level, this is your typical, trope-y smut scene: the romantic interest meets the main character and is so allured by them he cannot control himself. As he throws himself onto the MC, he teases the MC about how obvious it is that they want this. In smut, this teasing can take many forms: think "I can smell your arousal" in omegaverse or the more generic (and physiologically realistic) "you're blushing so hard, you're breathing so fast, you're not resisting me at all, you're so wet/hard for me already".
Stolas' fantasy plays with their power imbalance: despite having visible pupils and a hair streak, this is still a royal self-insert; one with magical power. Indeed, if he didn't want Blitz to be touching him, Stolas could easily overpower him and get Blitz off of him. But he doesn't, because he does want Blitz, because that's the whole point of this kind of smutty fantasy. So Blitz teases him about it.
Without the context of the rest of the show, Stolas' fantasy is... actually pretty generic, with the exception of the details that signify their particular likes (ie. horses, plants, and blonde wigs).
But with two seasons worth of context, I find Stolas' sexual fantasy tells us quite a bit about the emotions Stolas is currently struggling with, both in his past and present relationship with Blitz and in his life at large.
So let's dive in.
When the ice cream and hours of trashy tv werenât enough to cope, Blitz decided to get a plushie instead. đŚâ¨
Someone got a fantasy hair upgrade
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Feels like Stolas has been watching with interest any time Blitz, and IMP wigs up for a mission.
and agrees Blitz makes a cute blondie.
mmmm y'all Stolas's fantasy still involving the prince/pauper dynamic is not surprising or that concerning because Blitzo represents freedom to him.
that was like, the entire appeal and conflict of their relationship, in s1 and s2. the security vs freedom dichotomy. Stolas was Blitzo's security, and Blitzo was Stolas's freedom.
in the beginning of s3, Stolas still hasn't really processed that this has changed. (tho Blitzo definitely has, and has adjusted)
the whole kink thing with Blitzo specifically was never really about "being ravish-ed by the lower class" (tho it's probably part of it, that thought is pretty hot). it was because Blitzo was freedom and kink/sex was the safest and most available way to experience that. and the fetishization of the power differencial that was present was extremely secondary.
because Blitzo represents freedom to a man that's never had any

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This scene made me giggle. I think itâs a head canon in the fandom that Blitz is obsessed with Stolasâs chest fluff and I know heâs just undresssing him here but this is the only thing he undoes before they start making out. Almost like Blitz needed to see it first before they could continue.
Iâm glad someone at Spindlehorse very much agrees with the importance of the chest fluff â¨
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For months I've been saying that I thought that part of the Stolitz journey in S3 was going to be them having to change up their sexual dynamic once they start becoming intimate again, specifically because of what happened with Striker.
In order to survive that encounter, Stolas had to relate the torture he was going through to his sexual experiences with Blitz as a way to taunt and fluster Striker. His desire for sexual submission is now mentally linked to an actually traumatic experience of extremely real, not at all play-pretend-sexy-fantasy torture. And while that desire for submission is not going to go away, it's also going to be a lot more complicated now and Stolas has emotional needs for (sexual, but not just sexual) control and agency that can't necessarily be met through submission.
And now the very first clip we get fed for S3? Is Stolas attempting to write up a fantasy of sexual submission (and one which plays into the elegant prince/rugged peasant kink he definitely has not unpacked yet but that's a subject for a whole other post lmao) but immediately stumbling into the problem that the very idea of sexual submission also carries with it some significant PTSD triggers now.
Anyway team "Stolitz are going to have to experiment with switching sometimes for everybody's mental health" for life
YEEESSSSSSS this!!!! And I've also been saying Blitz has grown so much through the show, and no longer has such a big need to be in control during sex with Stolas to stay detached from his own emotional vulnerability. What he needs now is to let himself be vulnerable, to let himself be wanted and cared for, in a way he couldn't fathom before the events of season 2.5. He knows Stolas' feelings for him were genuine, now. He knows the lengths Stolas would go to to protect him; he's ready for the domesticity, for the tenderness, for the love.
Once they open up to one another, these two are going to fall into a dynamic where Stolas is Blitz's soft dom and Blitz unravels at his praise kink and I cannot fucking wait for it, let me tell you.
Literally this!!! They obviously enjoyed their previous sexual dynamic and had a lot of fun together... but things have changed in a BIG way for both of them, in ways that make the previous dynamic untenable. Not necessarily to say that I think we'll see a complete and permanent role reversal, of course. I think (eventually) they're still going to play with Blitz doing his whole Dom Top⢠routine and Stolas subbing because I think they do both enjoy that a lot... but that's not going to be feasible right now because Stolas has PTSD that makes submission fraught and Blitz has emotional needs that aren't going to be fulfilled through domming.
Being forced out of their sexual comfort zones by outside circumstances will be really good for them as a couple, I think, and let them build a more complex understanding of themselves and each other (both sexually and otherwise). And Stolas reclaiming a sense of safety and agency through domination I think is going to be key to that.
I fucking love that this show treats kink as just another aspect of the characters' lives that is affected by their emotional development, and their sexual needs as another part of them that evolves and changes throughout their character arcs. It's like hanging out on AO3 reading beautiful fanfiction, except it's animation on my screen. With voices <3