#apologetic

What would be a better use of your time? Watching the entirety of Hazbin Hotel (including the Youtube pilot, because let's be honest, that is more or less required viewing), or watching Disney's Wish and The Little Mermaid (2023)? Because both clock in a little under four hours.

I've seen Wish, The Little Mermaid (2023), and all of Hazbin Hotel, and frankly, the simple fact of the matter is that one indie animator who clearly struggles with a lot of writing hang-ups was able to provide a WAY more entertaining four hours than THREE professional directors working for the most successful media company in history who've been doing this for decades.

These were Disney's two BIGGEST films of 2023. And Hazbin BLEW THEM OUT OF THE WATER. The characters were WAY more fun and engaging, the stakes were infinitely higher, the songs, oh my God the SONGS! Who even REMEMBERS any of the songs from Wish? And The Little Mermaid doesn't count, all those songs were basically just covers (and I've seen several people express that they weren't as good as the originals). Meanwhile, Hazbin Hotel's Poison and Loser Baby are a pair of absolutely stellar original pieces that are getting a ton of praise and deserving every ounce of it!

Is Hazbin perfect? Absolutely not. Is Hazbin good? Debatable. Is Hazbin the best we're currently getting, in terms of feature-length musicals that aren't just adaptations of something that was already successful before? One. Hundred. Percent.

Self awareness starts with acceptance.

Knowing you have to admit failure

to move past your feelings for the sake of someone else

is the most difficult concept I’ve had to sit with.

It’s not Algebra or AP Calculus,

It’s nothing any academically challenged subject can teach;

It’s the way you treat people the same way that you would want

without taking it so personally if something were to go wrong.

School is the easy part. You become absorbent and reiterate 

the information you were given.

With people, you have to learn through experience.

Emotions aren’t logical

Logic isn’t always moral

Morals aren’t meant to be decided emotionally.

I’m sure there has got to be a connecting factor 

without having to rely upon one of the three

in any interaction I have. 

I’m sorry to anyone I have caused pain to from

my heuristics. I hope to make peace with the 

people around me and eventually with myself.