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In enjoy spicy scenes in romance novels, but it's the quiet moments of intimacy that show the foundation of the relationship.
WEAR. A. MASK.
I want to apologise to
- Britney for making fun of her when she had her breakdown
- Monica Lewinski for judging her when she was a 22year old temp sexually assaulted by the most powerful man in the world
- Ke$ha for ever thinking she was trashy when all she wanted to do was make party music
- Kristen Stewart for ever thinking she was dumb when sheâs actually one of the coolest people ever
- Megan Fox for ever thinking she was just a slut when actually she was an actress being harassed by her employer.Â
- Hating all the women who made a career out of having a hot body. Being is shape is hard, beauty is a weapon and auto promotion is hard work.Â
- All the Mary-Sues, who exist because young girls everywhere want to be part of a story they love so much
- All the female characters I ever snobbed because they got in the way of my ship.
- Hating the color pink during my teenage years, when itâs actually a lovely color and what I resented was societyâs pressure to perform femininity.Â
This is what sexism does. The media runs a smear campaign against women. And when we were younger we knew no better and trusted them. Now we know better.
âOut of the Cageâ
A drawing companion to For Me This is Heaven by thunder_nari, as part of Supernatural/J2 Big Bang. Please read the fic ^o^ PDF version available
I actually had the most fun drawing this one lol
I almost forgot about this artist and Iâm so glad (s)he showed up on my dash again!

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oh my god
if you read in a frog paper âspecimen was released in the field immediately after captureâ chances are very good that what it actually means is
âi dropped the damn frog and despite the fact that we fell all over each other no one could recapture itâ
sometimes when i am sad i go read through the tags on this post, because they are 70% other biologists saying things like âAND ALSO FUCK FIELD MICEâ and âTHAT CRAB ALMOST BROKE MY FINGERâ and I am reassured that I am not the only one who has bobbled a wood frog right into their cleavage.
plus six or seven people who justâŚ.canât figure out what a frog paper could possibly be. (guys itâsâŚa scientific paper. about frogs.)
and this one
which made me laugh despairingly because i mean
bro you donât even know.
what is the code entomologists use for âi stepped on it, iâm so sorry, it was dark out and the specimen was very smallâ
âImpromptu dissection was performed under less-than-optimal lighting conditions.â
âimpromptu dissectionâ is an alarming phrase in any context and i thank you for it
Whatâs biologist for âthe little fucker BIT me and I yote it into the undergrowth on reflexâ?
âSpecimen was removed from the study pool due to abnormal interaction responsesâ
I am reblogging this 98% for the second to last comment holy shit Iâm fucking choking
Iâm enjoying the tags/replies discussing the proper conjugation of âto yeet.â I am in favor of the decision that the future perfect is âwill have yitten.â
Expanding this, NASA has a few gems from their report language:
âUnderwent unplanned rapid disassemblyâ â it exploded, and it wasnât an explosion we wanted to happen
âLithobraking maneuverâ â it stopped because it hit the goddamned ground.
âEngine-rich exhaustâ â the engine bell melted or evaporated, or the engine ejected itself out the back of the rocket without having a very good reason to do so.
âFishing orbitâ â the craft is in the ocean instead of space and we didnât mean to put it there
âThrust was observed along an undesired vectorâ â the engine leaked and the rocket spun off into oblivion.
âWearing his manager hatâ â a moron who shouldnât be an engineer (a reference to the infamous quote âtake off your engineer hat and put on your manager hatâ in the meeting in which the Challenger was cleared for launch)
âReceived an unrequested transferâ â heâs dead.
LITHOBRAKING MANEUVER
Everytime I reblog this it gets better.
received an unrequested transfer-
whatâs the biologist for âmy dog ate the specimen iâm so sorry he thought it was a toyâ
âSubject was misidentified by aide, and unexpectedly returned to the food chain.â
Yessssss
Whatâs code for âWe thought it was a frog but we were actually very tired and didnât realize someone pulled a prank by mixing a plastic frog into our poolâ?
Specimen #437 was removed from pool due to misidentification caused by unexpected outlier influence.
Ok, so I was reading this news story:
So far so normal, right? But then:
Like what. And then:
Like, I think Alaska State Trooper Ken Marsh wants to be a romance novelist.Â
well would you look at that
Saying that man and woman are the only genders is actually LESSÂ nuanced than saying that earth, water, air, and fire are the only elements.
Absolute shenanigans
this is the best video on this whole website

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I hearby declare war on yellow jackets.
Then donât buy them????
Bro why you starting a war over fashion choices?
OH, YOU MEANT THE WASP FUCKERS
THOSE SHITS CAN BURN IN HELL!!!
Well that escalated quickly
I am a ball of untapped rage waiting to be unleashed
...good thing you're pretty.
Why thank you
Iâm reading the first chapter of my Ichthyology book for homework and so far my favorite quote is:
âHumans are not the pinnacle of evolutionary progress but only an aberrant side branch of fish evolution.â
women want me, but fish? fish pity me
important!
I havenât seen this on here so I thought I might share:
Imagine an Internet where the law required every message sent to be read by government-approved scanning software. Companies that handle suc
The Honorable Lindsey Graham
There isnât a petition for this yet (as far as I know) but sign the #JunkTerrorBillNow petition
Contacting your reps directly will do literally so much more than signing a petition, and it really doesnât take that much longer.
Just so you know, this isnât partisan either, so donât think you donât have to act just cus youâre from a hard red or hard blue state. The billâs current cosponsors include such notable names as D: Dianne Feinstein (CA) Dick Blumenthal (CT) Doug Jones (AL) Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) Dick Durbin (IL) R: Ted Cruz (TX) Josh Hawley (MO) Lindsey Graham (SC) Chuck Grassley (IA) And it passed the Senate Judiciary Committee by unanimous approval. So make sure you call your reps and senators because everyoneâs out to screw you right now.
Hey folks â I really encourage everyone who posts action stuff like this to put the date of their post in the text at the top! Itâs so hard these days to tell whether a post thatâs going around is something happening RIGHT NOW or something that happened months ago.
In this case â as of July 7, 2020 â this is an active issue!
So yes, NOW really is the time to call your reps and senators! Sign petitions, sure. But please call or write, if you can. (Remember that an original email, rather than one using a script, is usually more effective, even if itâs only one line.)
In trying to figure out the status of this, I came across these other possibly useful links:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s3398
(Where you can track this billâs progress and status.)
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/01/us-senate-should-reject-earn-it-act
An article on the Human Rights Watch website. Pull quote (the letter referenced below is linked above):
The United States Senate Judiciary Committee should reject a proposed law that would jeopardize privacy and free expression rights without effectively protecting children from online sexual exploitation, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the committeeâs leadership.
https://fcw.com/articles/2020/07/06/johnson-earn-it-act.aspx
An article on the website of Federal Computer Week. Pull quote:
Civil liberty and digital rights groups were unmoved by the changes. The Center for Democracy and Technology said the amendments âdo not fix the problems that are core to the billâs misguided approach,â while the American Civil Liberties Union issued a letter saying the legislation is well intentioned but âwould undermine the privacy of every single American, stifle our ability to communicate freely online, and may jeopardize the very prosecutions it seeks to enable.â
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), said the new version of EARN IT âwill do even less than the previous version to stop the spread of child sexual abuse materialâ and urged the committee to table the bill so lawmakers can further vet the proposal to determine if it would do more harm than good.
âBy allowing any individual state to set laws for internet content, this bill will create massive uncertainty, both for strong encryption and free speech online,â said Wyden, who instead called for Congress to pass legislation that would boost funding and modernize IT systems for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Iâm including these pull quotes here because this is a complex issue, and I wanted to highlight the basis of the opposition to a bill that, on the surface, seems like itâs about protecting children from online exploitation and abuse, and banning the online exchange of child pornography. That is certainly the intent of the bill, but as with any bill, itâs really important to dig deep enough to figure out if the bill will actually accomplish what it says it wants to.Â
That is frequently a problem with bills that come before Congress! Bill sponsors always know that they should give a bill a snappy name and summarize it in a way that makes it sound great, and that also makes it sound like opposition to it is supporting the thing the bill is against. Itâs not even always a matter of looking for the âpoison pillâ within bills. Listen to experts who examine bills that sound reasonable on the surface, but that have unanticipated (by the billâs writers) complications with implementation.Â
I am not at all dismissing the testimony or aims of the victims who sent statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee. This isnât a case of âeither you want to curb online sexual exploitation of children or you donâtâ. This is a case where people in the government received those testimonies and requests for action, and then crafted this bill. But, they may have done a bad job crafting the bill, and this may not be the way to actually take effective action.Â
And, forgive me, but I am wary of a bill that targets internet privacy when itâs written by the GOP and someone like Lindsay Graham.
Sir Elton John has admitted to having sex with a Russian spy on a hotel roof during a trip to the Soviet Union.
The 66-year-old singer believes that the KGB spy was planted in his entourage by the country's secret police at the height of the Cold War to follow his every move.
He says that after discovering that the man was a mole who worked for the Russian security agency, he slept with him to compromise him.
"I went to Russia in 1979 and I knew we were being watched all the time," John told the Observer.
"I had an interpreter that they'd clearly set up. I ended up having sex with him on the hotel roof."
John became the first Western popstar to perform behind the Iron Curtain when he took to the stage in St Petersburg, formerly Leningrad, in 1979.
In 1985, The Rocket man released Nikita, a song about a westerner who falls for a Berlin border guard. The track, which featured George Michael, was a worldwide hit.
suddenly every dumbass dnd-bard-seduces-their-way-out-of-trouble plan/joke iâve made seems way more plausibleÂ

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Non-Americans who escalate inter-nationality teasing immediately to âschool shootings and trumpâ stop challengeÂ
Americanâs Teasing England: Tea in the shower, u have a queen, other relatively benign stereotypesÂ
Americanâs Teasing Canada: u have moose and beavers, maple syrup u like it
Americanâs Teasing Australia: kangaroos and koalas, itâs hot there, summer time, toilets flush backward
Canada, England, and Australia retaliating from that teasing: school shootings, kill a child today hm? your police murder you, youâre gonna die from a preventable disease, everyone in the country is hopelessly poor and dying, everyoneâs in debt, you canât even afford to die. THATâll teach u to tease us about having ANIMALS in our country!Â
I mean, sure, itâs all fun and games to you. But Iâve had friends legitimately try to kill themselves just thinking about a future in this country. I have co-workers who cried on the first day of school because they were scared of dying. While I was working at a school there were three school shooting threats in 4 weeks. I had friends break out into tears after the massacre in 2018 talking about it in class, terrified that they were going to die while workingâor watch students die.Â
My high school history teacher was shot in the back on campus. Everyone here knows someone whoâs been affected by gun violence. Everyone knows someone whoâs been affected by healthcare, or lack thereof. Everyone knows someone whose life has been ruined by college debt.Â
The day in, day out nightmare of living in America is not a fucking âGOTCHAâ for when youâre trying to tease America. Why is this so hard to comprehend.Â
Non-Americans: Ugh americans are so entitled and mean and rude
Also Non-Americans: Oh youâre gonna make fun of me drinking tea? Well youâre gonna be violently murdered and then youâll go into thousands upon thousands of dollars in debt from the act lol this is an equivalent comparison and doesnât make me look like the asshole in the situation at all!! Americans are soooo rude!
Any examples of what we can tease you about then? Any universal Americanisms that cause the right amount of offense without stepping over the line?
Imperial system
Shoes on in house
Smiling too much
High school football
Opossums, raccoons, deer, etc.
Carpet (Iâve heard other countries arenât as obsessed with carpet as Americans)
Sales tax (how much will this cost? Nobody knows!)
Roadside tourist attractions (worldâs biggest ball of yarn etc)
âitâs only a 6 hour driveâ
Buying tea in a gallon jug
Being in the prairie states and there literally being nothing in any direction for miles not even trees
Tornadoes anything to do with tornado culture
Waffle house
The mere concept of semi trucks / 18 wheelers
Every state except California claiming they have the weirdest weather
five petrol stations within a two block radius, sometimes two of the same brand ketchup is too spicy mayonnaise on/in literally everything we put noodles and mayo in a bowl and call it a salad i shit you not absolute failures at geography deep fried everything. seriously. we deep fry BUTTER.
Absolutely everything and anything somehow being a casserole
HELL IS REAL billboard here in Ohio
The giant dinosaur roadside tourist attraction out in the middle of nowhere
Route 66
Corn fields, everywhere you look
Weird salads (like ambrosia)
Fanny packs
Prom (Iâve heard other countries donât have prom? Or any of the other 100 school dances a year??)
People microwave their tea instead of boiling it
The white people half-jog-and-wave combo when crossing the street
Endless ads for pharmaceuticals
the spelling and pronunciation dissonance of âArkansasâ
Everything in Texas being shaped like Texas itself. Iâve teased Texans about this and the responses are always either a frustrated yet resigned sigh or a boisterous âHell yeah, it is! TEXAS! WOO!â
Freeways. Look a Californian in the eyes, say âthe 405âł and watch a piece of their soul flicker out.
Our collective inability to decide the pronunciation of âkebabâ.
Sweetened tea is somehow the default.
That every restaurant claims to be âworld famousâ and somehow nobody ever gets called out on that bullshit.
The utter nonsense that is our continued fascination with disco.
Stomp your foot twice and then clap your hands once. Repeat several times. See what happens.
[Image description: a stock photo of a woman holding an apple in both hands. If you are not from the United States, the apple is fucking huge, at least according to my British friends. If youâre from the US, itâs normal.]
^ That? Is a normal-sized apple. Three apples at the supermarket = about 1 Âź pounds. (Thatâs about four-tenths of a kilogram.) According to my friend from Bristol, this is FREAKISHLY large. I sent him a photo of one of our so-called âlunchbox-sizedâ apples and his response was âthatâs a normal apple. WTF do you think a full-sized apple is thenâ and I just about gave him a damn heart attack sending him a picture of a regular one, which covers my entire palm and then some.
âOur milk takes like three or four weeks to expire. No, I am not shitting you. Same friend and I had an entire argument over Sherlock because of the âsheâs been gone at least two days, the milkâs gone offâ in the second episode, with me insisting that was too much bullshit to be believed and him insisting that no, milk goes off in 3-4 days, what kind of freakish Frankenstein milk am I drinking. ( @rowanthestrangeâ, paging you for this conversation.)
âAmerican cooking: âlook! I put three cans in a pot and added ketchup!â If you can do closer to âfrom scratchâ than this, people will look at you with fucking awe. I make a salsa for company parties thatâs functionally âchop things and put them in a bowl, do this at certain times for three days so all the flavors meld rightâ and people think Iâm some kind of wizard, and, in spite of the fact that you should not be able to fuck this up, they always always always do in fact manage to fuck it up when trying to recreate it.
--I have never had British bread, but I have been told by multiple British friends whoâve been to America that our bread is almost as sweet as British cake. Same with our milkâapparently itâs weirdly sweet.
âwe have to refrigerate our eggs.
âapparently we say aluminum weird? (I personally think YâALL say it weird, but whatever, again, Rowan can confirm we have had entire arguments about this)
âschedule. We say it so the first bit is like âschool,â WHICH MAKES SOME FUCKING SENSE.
âa certain subset of Americans just being like. Wildly obsessed with historical reenactment. And Iâm not talking about the douchey Confederate ones, either. There are like entire groups that go out and dress as Ben Franklin and do âIâm standing on a literal soapbox teaching you about the Founding Fathersâ stuff at Fourth of July festivals and stuff. Iâve met some of them. They use historical sewing tools and methods. Can you imagine sewing an entire fucking colonial dress and all its undergarments, by hand, with a bone needle?! FOR FUN?!?
âtimezones. There are seven time zones in the United States (Eastern, Central, Mountain, Arizona, Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii-Aleutian) . If youâve ever seen an American commercial that says something like âat 8PM Eastern, 7pm Central,â itâs referring to the two easternmost timezones.
NONE OF US UNDERSTAND THE SLANG. IF YOU TELL AN AMERICAN YOUVE NEVER HEARD OF A TERM (EVEN IF YOURE AMERICAN) THEY LOSE THEIR SHIT
football! seriously, american football and everything surrounding it.
football parties, including massive âsuper bowl partiesâ that can have dozens of people. going to high school football games even as adults. watching football on tv, especially on holidays.
the weird obsession with potlucks that is apparently not quite as common in other places. i mean we have potluck dinners for all sorts of gatherings and parties, we even have them for weddings
corn and soybeans, everywhere you look
midwesterners saying âope!â about everything
the absolute inability of like half the population to pronounce âcaughtâ correctly (itâs more like âcot,â and this is also true of other â-aughtâ sounding words like âthoughtâ)
âhow far is it?â âabout 20 minutes, 10 if the traffic ainât badâ
oranges the size of softballs
massive portion sizes at restaurants because we take half the meal home (not because we always eat everything in a single sitting, but because we have enough left overs for a second meal)
breakfast foods being predominently sweet
the way people in tornado alley will literally just sit on their porch and watch the tornado go past their houses with little to no alarm
*midwesterner sees a cow for the 92783916207439735825th time* âcow!!!â
how you can stand the parking lot of one church and toss rocks to hit 6 other churches in some towns
deserted highways
saguaro cacti (the stereotypical wild west cacti) and how they can literally reach like 40ft in height and are illegal to cut down
our unholy obsession with cheese
area 51
vast temperature differences from region to region
the fact that alaska could consume us all at any moment, considering itâs sheer girth
florida man
the fact that we talk about specific states and get confused when nonamericans donât know where the fuck weâre talking about
Our obsession with teeth
Be careful with state names bc a lot of them are from indigenous languages
Traffic laws. Also, tell anyone in Georgia â285âł and watch them flinch
Hazbin Hotel and VivziePop Drama
Iâve been hearing/seeing a lot of drama concerning Hazbin Hotel and itâs creator VivziePop, and while I donât know her personally or really care what people think, I do hate slander and the spread of misinformation. Truly nothing in this world upsets me more than when people believe rumours while making no effort to fact check, and thatâs exactly whatâs happening right now. That said, I wanted to try and clear up some of the rumours going around about Vivzie and the show, because I think some of them are absolutely outrageous and need to be addressed.
1. Vivzie hired an abuser onto the show.
Now, Iâm not here to burn anyone at the stake, especially since I donât know anything about Chris Niosi (the alleged abuser), who I believe openly admitted to the allegations? Regardless, this is a moot point. Heâs not credited anywhere at the end of the episode. So either he was booted before production wrapped up or he had nothing to do with the show in the first place.
2. Vivzie supports bestiality.
Admittedly I thought this one might be true, since she draws so many anthropomorphic animals. In the very least, I figured she was probably a furry, but I havenât seen any evidence supporting this accusation either. Near as I can tell, this rumour started for two reasons. One, because of her famous Zoophobia comic, which revolves around a therapist named Cameron who gets assigned to work with human-like animals. Ironically, poor Cameron suffers from crippling zoophobia, which makes for some pretty decent comedy. I didnât read the whole comic because, quite frankly, itâs not my cup of tea and I just donât have the time. But from what I saw there are no examples of bestiality anywhere in its contents.
Two, this message, which blew up all over social media:
To me, this just proves that people are more interested in virtue signalling than checking to see if their claims are actually true. Everything about this message is 100% false, which Iâll touch on in my next point.
3. Vivzie is a pedophile and sheâs drawn child porn.
This is hands down the worst allegation and holy shit, I really wish people would stop using it to defame someone when they donât have any proof. This is a life-ruining accusation and youâre disgusting if you believe it based solely on hearsay. This rumour began to spread when Vivzie allegedly shipped the two underage characters in the above photo and drew them NSFW-style. At the time, one character was 19 while the other was 14, and the relationship was a very illegal student-teacher relationship.
This is WRONG! The characters were not 14 and 19, they were actually 18 and 19, the legal age of consent! Additionally, the relationship wasnât student-teacher. One character is a student and the other is Alumni (a student teacher). This one pisses me off the most because itâs obvious the person who sent that message didnât even bother to conduct any research. They said, âHeâs a teacher, sheâs a child.â Both characters are MALE!
Since then, Vivzie has apologised for any NSFW art she drew in the past and stated that itâs not a reflection of her art today, and Iâm inclined to believe her. Almost every artist has drawn NSFW content at some point in their career, and hers wasnât even distasteful. Other than this one example, there is no evidence anywhere that suggests sheâs drawn âchild pornâ. In fact, sheâs never even drawn explicit NSFW.
Please stop spreading this rumour. Itâs dangerous and completely incorrect.
4. Vivzie said the âNâ word!
This is the only claim I found that was actually credible. Yes, she did indeed say the âNâ word on Twitter, and it was pretty brutal. However, she was only 17 and it was meant to be an edgy inside joke with her friends. Am I making excuses for her? No. Was she wrong for saying it? Definitely. But this was over 5 years ago, and sheâs apologised for it ad infinitum. People change, and I donât think itâs fair to hold her accountable for something she said when she was a dumb teenager. She hasnât repeated the mishap since, so as far as Iâm concerned thereâs no reason to dwell on it. I mean, how do you expect people to mature and grow as individuals when you constantly rake them over the coals for something they did when they were barely out of puberty?
5. Vivzie is copyright striking every video that criticises her!
No she isnât. YouTubeâs DMCA is automatically striking people who are using full clips without permission. Vivzie has gone public several times, telling people exactly how to avoid getting a copy strike from the algorithm, which is something she absolutely does not have to do. At this point, she doesnât owe you anything. In my opinion, she should just sit back and watch these channels burn.
6. Vivzie copies and traces other artistsâ work.
This is another one Iâve seen going around, but I looked into it as thoroughly as I could and failed to find any concrete evidence to support the allegations. As of right now, there are only two examples of Vivzie âcopyingâ or âtracingâ other artistsâ work, and both of them can be explained. The first is a gif she made with a character from her Zoophobia comic, which looked a lot like the girl from ME!ME!ME!:
Damn, thatâs pretty incriminating. She obviously stoleâ oh, wait. This gif was part of a ME!ME!ME! MEP (multi editorâs project) and Vivzie didnât take full credit, despite the fact that itâs not even a direct trace. Itâs supposed to look like the original, which she fully cited. The second example comes from a short dance sequence from her Timber video, which seems to have been inspired by several Disney movies. As Vivzie herself stated, that was an homage to the original animations. Lots of artists and shows do this, including the beloved Stephen Universe series.
Regardless, this doesnât count as stealing character designs or plagiarising someoneâs work. Itâs meant to be respectful, an admiration of other projects. Other than these two instances, however, there is no evidence of her tracing or stealing other peopleâs art. From what Iâve discovered, all other designs sheâs been accused of âstealingâ are characters she bought and paid for. Theyâre quite literally HER characters.
7. Vivzie supports problematic creators.
Iâm getting really tired of guilt by association. Vivzie follows and enjoys some controversial figures, but who cares? We can argue all day about whether or not the accusations against them are true, but it ultimately has nothing to do with the show or Vivzie as a person. I do the exact same thing, to be honestâ follow and listen to people on all sides so I can learn, understand, and form my own opinions. The fact that some people think this is bad, to me, is absolutely mesmerising. Vivzie doesnât control what the people she follows post, and if they do something overly questionable she publicly criticises and denounces it.
From Vivzie:
Now that thatâs been dealt with, Iâd like to address some complaints/claims about the actual show.
8. Vaggie is an angry Latina stereotype and a lesbian stereotype. Vivzie is appropriating Hispanic culture and misrepresenting the gay for profit.
First off, I see a lot of people passing around yet more misinformation regarding Vivzieâs race. So many people seem to think sheâs white? Well, Iâm here to tell you theyâre wrong. Very incorrect. Vivzie is in fact Latina, and Vaggie is meant to mirror some of her own personality traits.
Second, who is Vaggie mad at? Context matters, and if we take a look at the episode, we see that Vaggie is literally only mad at two specific people: Angel Dust and Alastor. Why? Well, for starters, itâs her girlfriendâs dream to run a rehab hotel for sinners, and Angel Dust nearly demolishes that dream single-handedly. Vaggie has every right to be over-the-top vitriolic. Then thereâs Alastor, a known sadist, narcissist, and murderer who loves trapping people in his nefarious schemes. He invites himself in, effectively takes over the hotel, and pushes both her and Charlie aside. At one point he even sexually assaults her by slapping her butt during his musical number. So yeah, I think her seething ire is totally justified. Keep in mind, however, that when sheâs around Charlie sheâs calm, collected, and happy. I wouldnât call that a stereotype.
Thirdly, the lesbian stereotypes. I keep hearing this argument but I really donât see it. Both Vaggie and Charlie have so much personality and trust for each other. Maybe Iâm wrong, but the stereotype I know always totes a more butch, tomboyish woman with a ditsy, innocent, naive woman. Charlie is optimistic, but she isnât stupid. She refuses to shake Alastorâs hand because she knows heâs likely trying to screw her over. Sheâs also not entirely innocent herself and uses words like âfuckâ and âshitâ. I also wouldnât call Vaggie butch or tomboyish. She has a cute, girly presentation, complete with a pink ribbon in her hair, lace stockings, and a dress. Sheâs protective of her girlfriend, as I think we all are with our partners, and thereâs nothing wrong with that. Theyâre flawed characters, as every character is meant to be. This isnât a problem.
9. The show is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, blah, blah, blah.
Iâm amazed this is even an argument. The show is supposed to be a dark comedy that takes place in HELL. You know, the place the worst of the worst end up after they die? What were you expecting? Everyone gets a shot or two fired at them, but that doesnât make them bad characters nor does it make the show itself horrible. Take, for example, Katie Killjoy, the news reporter so many people are up in arms about. She says she doesnât âtouch the gaysâ because she has âstandardsâ. Well, hereâs a newsflash of my own: weâre not supposed to like her! Sheâs an antagonist. Not to mention ten seconds later Charlie insults her and isnât the least bit slighted by her pretentious attitude. The characters are strong and donât take shit from anyone, because to some degree theyâre all terrible people who can throw down when itâs called for.
Obviously if you donât like the show or think itâs offensive, Iâm probably not going to change your mind. Thatâs perfectly fine. Youâre entitled to your opinions and you donât have to watch the show. Just stop lying and stop trying to take it away from everybody else. Stop attacking Vivzie and spreading misinformation without checking the facts. I realise a lot of people probably arenât trying to be vindictive and only want to do something good, but just remember this: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.