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tibli · 2 months

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I love when arthropods have a pseudopupil. It's so whimsical and cute, and they come in so many varieties!!

little kitty cat eyes!!!

bombastic side eyes!!!!

cartoon character eyes!!!!

bigass anime eyes!!!!!

BE NOT AFRAID eyes!!!!!

#biology #arthropods #crustaceans #insects #crab #praying mantis #grasshopper #damselfly #butterfly #sorry i just googles -athropod name- eyes #so im not sure exactly what species these bugs are (yes crabs is bugs)#honestly im not sure if thats actually a praying mantis #it could just be like. a regular mantis #who cares anyway pseudopupils are so fucking cool!!!!!!!#i ESPECIALLY love damselflies they are so fucking cute and have no right to be that way #also grasshoppers have such funny faces #they all remind me of like. distinguished and rotund victorian gentleman. no idk why that is

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uncanny-tranny · 3 months

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Scientists ought to study the chemical link between Butches and trans men* and transmasc* people. Like, they say that the triple bond is one of the hardest to break, but I don't think they've looked at the bond between a trans guy and a Butch

#trans #transgender #queer #butch #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #nonbinary #every time a butch gives gym advice or how to behave like a gentleman i shut up sit down and get out my pen and paper #like butches may not all be men but they know what i want and frankly i will kill and die for butches #very unfortunate that the 'u' key is RIGHT NEXT TO the 'i' key because i really do not want to say 'bitches' on accident :/#something i love about the trans scene is the way the venn diagram between butchness and transness overlap often #thank you to all the gym butches in sports bras who are WAY more jacked than me for giving me their wisdom 💛💛💛#yes obv this INCLUDES trans butches who aren't transmasc* or trans men*#the THINGS that butch trans women have shared? innumerable. they rival the grains of sand on earth

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poetrybyonur · 8 months

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She doesn’t want gifts from you. She wants your time and attention, your heart and mind. She wants your presence, not your presents.

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beanghostprincess · 3 months

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Winry is way stronger than me because if somebody ever did something as intimate as this to me I would lose it so fucking fast I would start crying and kissing the shit out of Ed what the actual fuck

#this is the most romantic thing #i am starting to lose it actually #edward elric the gentleman that you are !!!!!!!!!!#he loves her so much i am going fucking insane #edwin is doing things to my heart i swear every time they're together they do stuff like this #inventing love that's what they do #i just love how my favorite character changes every ten episodes and right now i am in my edward era #hoping i stay in this era bc if your fav character is the main character it means the show is good af #fmab #fullmetal alchimist brotherhood #edwin #winry rockbell #edward elric

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strangersatellites · 10 months

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pride, envy, wrath, sloth, gluttony, greed, ao3

Seven Deadly Sins Series (NSFW 18+)

lust (noun) - a shortcut to sexual fulfillment, but it doesn’t actually get you there. When you lust after someone, you are objectifying that person for your own selfish pleasure.

The summer heat beats down with a strength that must rival that straight out of Hell, Eddie thinks.

The thermometer Wayne keeps on the porch outside reading somewhere between ninety degrees and the devil’s asscrack and Eddie can feel all of it.

Sweat rolling down his spine even where he’s sat in the shade, sunglasses and baseball cap on and a glass of ice water pressed to the back of his neck.

You couldn’t pay him enough money to set foot in the grass, to feel the sun hit his skin and start burning it instantly.

The only thing keeping him even outside is Steve.

Steve who is washing his car like it's the most important job he’ll ever have. He’s paying attention to details that Eddie’s never even noticed, let alone noticed were clean.

But that’s not what Eddie’s paying attention to anyway is it?

No. There might be one thing in the steamy July air that is hotter than the sun, and it's the thoughts running through Eddie’s head. There’s nothing cool about those.

See, Eddie’s covered in a layer of grime and his hair has gone frizzy and he’s sprawled across the couch in a way he knows makes him look less like a man and more like a deflated balloon.

But despite the heat, Steve looks like a vision.

He’s got on a tight little pair of cut-off shorts that do absolute wonders for his thighs.

He’s ripped the sleeves off and cropped one of Eddie’s old band shirts, a white one at that, and Eddie’s eyes can trail all the way from his shoulder to his happy trail, view unobstructed.

He’s got his hair pushed back with a pair of sunglasses that started on his eyes but were apparently hindering his vision too much. Whatever. Eddie’s not complaining. He looks sexy with his hair pushed back.

It started out innocent enough. With Eddie mentally making a note to tell him he looks cute the next time he’s close enough to the porch.

But that was before he took a break from scrubbing to douse himself under the hose.

Because now Eddie’s old, white band shirt is stuck to his skin like glue. Like it was painted on just for him. Eddie loves Steve’s strong arms, he does. But he’s never going to pass up an opportunity to watch the way the muscles in his back ripple under his skin. The “Metallica” stretched across his shoulders is just icing on the cake.

When faced with the wrath of the sun, Eddie’s skin turns pink and tender. But Steve goes a beautiful warm golden and his freckles seem to multiply.

Right now Eddie’s eyes are glued to Steve’s legs. The way his muscles go taut when he squats down to scrub at his hubcaps. If he squints hard enough against the harsh afternoon light, Eddie can almost make out the indentions of his own teeth on the underside of his thigh. The fading purple bruise he’d sucked into soft skin, sweaty for an entirely different reason.

He thinks of the way he’s made those strong legs tremble and shake. The way he’s had them wrapped around his waist, his head.

Steve shifts and sits on the grass, leans back on both of his hands and throws his head back with a sigh. Eddie’s gaze gets redirected to the shirt clinging to his chest, his soft, but still strong tummy.

He wants to lick his collarbones and leave bruises on his neck. More bruises, that is. There’s already a few mottled across his skin because Eddie just can’t help himself. How could he? How could anybody help themselves with Steve in their lap whimpering their name like a prayer? Eddie gave up trying to hold back a long time ago.

When his eyes come back into focus Steve is stretching to reach across his windshield, back muscles stretched long and strong. If Eddie closes his eyes he can imagine the feeling of the welts he’d left across his skin. Claw marks drug all the way down his back. Can almost imagine the feeling that elicited them. The groan he’d pulled out of his boy in turn.

Eddie snaps his eyes open and is met with Steve’s lazy smile looking his way and he really can’t be blamed for the heat it sends dipping into his stomach and the strained huff he grits out.

The way Steve throws his head back again, this time in a laugh at Eddie’s distress, doesn’t help his case.

It gets the worst though, when Steve sets to detailing the hood.

Now he’s got his back directly facing Eddie. He’s bent over at the waist, hips popped back and his spine dipped low and Eddie’s not a praying man, he’s not.

But he’s about to send up one of gratitude because sometimes he can hardly believe Steve’s his.

And Eddie’s not stupid. He knows Steve’s onto him. He knows because he’d laughed. Because he’s peeking over his shoulder every few seconds to see if Eddie’s eyes are still on him. He knows because he’s tugged his little shorts up enough that the crease of his ass and his thighs sits right below the frayed denim hem.

There might’ve been a time where Eddie would’ve tried valiantly to redirect his train of thought. To stop himself from making a fool of himself. But now Steve’s his boyfriend. And Steve knows Eddie’s thinking about getting him naked more often than he’s not these days. He’s just as bad.

So Eddie lets himself sink into it. Into the visions of the bounce of Steve’s cheeks when Eddie smacks him. Of the tiny freckle just shy of his hole and how he loves to sink his teeth around it. The tiny heart tattoo on the back of his right hip that Steve totally should not have let Eddie give him, but they both love nonetheless.

He thinks about the way his normally strong voice, breaks and goes soft when Eddie fucks him. The way he squirms when he rides Eddie’s face.

The goosebumps that break out across his skin on the comedown and his glassy eyes and soft smile.

His eyes are wide open but he’s so lost in the memory of his boy’s ass pulled against his hips that he misses when Steve stops washing his car and climbs the steps of the porch. Doesn’t see him until he feels his weight drop down across his lap and hears Steve ask what he’s thinking about in a sultry whisper.

So Eddie really doesn’t feel all that bad about his thoughts burning hotter than the summer sun when he says, “Nothing, baby. Just you.”

#seven deadly sins series #lust #steddie #steddie smut #steve harrington #eddie munson #gin writes #join Eddie on his slow descent in to Steve-induced madness #welcome to the final show!#thank u all for coming on this blasphemous journey with me #about a month or so ago I asked the audience how I could make an installment about lust stand out in a series of smutty one shots #thank you to that anon who suggested that lust be the only installment without sex #you are a gentleman (gn) and a scholar #this one's for you bestie #there's a mean girls reference in here that if no on catches I'll cry #Eddie is Down Bad #right on my guy #I would be right there with you #i asked the group chat what mundane task steve should be doing #and then i went with the option they didn’t choose 🫶🏼#sdss masterpost coming in the a.m. probably also #okay bye kisses mwah #edit: forgot to add this this one was an excercise in writing without dialogue #dialogue is my specialty so i wanted to try something without any!#okay bye fr

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fortunatefires · 8 months

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kqluckity · 1 year

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how some people can look at Zhongli and Venti's dialogue during this Lantern Rite and interpret it as beefing instead of, you know, flirting truly blows my mind? like it's not just what they're saying, but also the way they're saying it. it's flirting, they're flirting. and even if they aren't flirting, that's obviously an inside joke? look at Venti's face when Zhongli acts like they're strangers, does it look like someone who can't stand the other and isn't willing to play along with the other's dumb idea? please. I don't understand how people can still think they hate each other even tho it's established that they're friends, not only through items lore and their own character stories (I really doubt someone like Zhongli would let a guy he hates forge his sigil, let him destroy his precious vase, let him pour wine on his head, and then yearn for him for 500 years bffr), but also in the first Liyue Archon quest Zhongli talks about "a friend from Mondstadt" who used to bring him wine all the time, and Venti has a "refined gentleman friend from Liyue" he wishes he could spend more time with. a friend he still visits often, so much so that madame Ping commissioned Tubby to make a Mondstadt-inspired house for the teapot with good acoustics so he could play inside with no problem.

#oh i heard about the refined liyuean gentleman who ordered tea instead of wine and is very knowledgeable and cute #well I've heard of a bard that is truly elegant and eloquent and whose rhymes are unmatched anywhere #hope this makes sense also yes this makes no sense because it's 11pm and I can't write and and and #also sorry they are melting my brain fr I've been shipping them since 2021 but never felt like sharing here #but now I am so you better suck it up #those two are literally always talking about each other I don't blame Xiao for being a little bit homophobic during that dinner #he needed a breather because of the embarrassing old men and I respect that #xiao: right in front of my salad? what if I killed myself rn?#<- it's what he should've said anyway. it's what transpired from the way he looked at the Traveler tbh #okay I'll stop talking about them for a bit. probably. maybe. but only on here #I'll talk about them especially irl for a little bit longer probably I love them #OKAY I'M SHUTTING THE FUCK UP NOW #Zhongli #Venti #zhongven #genshin impact #gi tag

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tub3rculosis · 6 months

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watching ofmd bc my dad wont stfu abt it and okay yeah i get it. 15 mins in and im already obsessed w this fucking loser boy captain. hes so fucking cringefail good lord i just can't figure out what it is. hes such an interesting critter. he's so simple and easy to understand and he just speaks to me yet he seems so multifaceted. i need to examine him with a comically large magnifying glass.

please note that i have seen exactly one (1) episode so do not spoil this for me in the reblogs lol. thank you dad for having gay person television taste so i can take tv recs without running the risk of being klanced.

#ofmd #our flag means death #i forget what his name is #isn't it like.#steade #or smth #steade is not giving me any results #steade bonnet? is that right??#bro i have no fucking clue #the gentleman pirate #that guy #STEDE! thats it #stede bonnet

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batsarebetterthanpeople · 1 year

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Alright everyone, new personality test just dropped pick your fav shitty white guy

Edit: I have polls now

#no idea what this tells you about your personality #the right answer is black pete obviously #however im always happy to be wrong for my boy (Calico Jack)#ofmd #our flag means death #calico jack #calico jack ofmd #izzy hands #stede bonnet ofmd #stede bonnet #the gentleman pirate ofmd #the gentleman pirate #black pete ofmd #the white guy members of the crew are not here because they dont have douchebag energy

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experthiese · 3 months

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been seeing a lot of that "asking [fandom] men to buy you pads" over on twitter, and I feel like it's my civic duty to let you all know that lupin falls somewhere between these three

#▸ minor headcanon #if you read them from left to right you could argue he sends all three of them #despair (no sex) -> acceptance (he's a gentleman; he wants his love to have everything they need) -> confusion (what pussy size you wear??)

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breathing-the-same-air · 6 months

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For this week I'll be mentally at the end of season 2 after Ed and Stede reunited...

Warning: fanfic ahead. No real facts from the actual episode/teaser. Just my heart bleeding for them and needing some hope💔

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*Stede is standing on the deck of the Revenge in the evening, after an eventful day. Ed slowly approaches him*

Ed: 'I'm sorry. Maybe I did... Panick. Just a bit. I think. *Pauses for a moment, looking at the sea* ... But nothing that happened that night was a mistake.'

Stede: 'No, look, I'm sorry. You did ask me to take things slow. I just... Almost lost you, again, and I...'

Ed: 'I know. It's okay. I mean... I wanted it too. It kinda... Liked it, also. Quite a lot, if I'm honest.'

Stede *smiles*: 'So, what about your new fisherman's life?'

Ed: 'oh, shut up. Couldn't catch a fish in a million years'

Stede: 'Perhaps we could... *leans closer, still smiling* Learn together. Go live in a hut by the sea, just the two of us. Learn how to fish. Take the time to.... Take things slow and figure it out together.'

*Ed just stares at the ocean… not looking at him*

Stede: 'So, what do you say?'

Ed: 'You don't have to say that to make me happy, you know. You were right... That fish was... Whatever. And you love your pirate life, just look at how good you are at it. *Sighs* I don't think there's room for me in that life. I just... I'm sorry, Stede. But I can't come back to that.'

Stede *holds out a hand to touch Ed's*: 'Hey. I don't... I don't fucking care about a 'pirate's life'.' *Ed raises his eyebrows in mild amazement at the word* 'I was so lost. I was so sad. In my life as a married man. Then I left it all behind, looking for something new... And I thought it was just that, becoming a pirate, my dream of a lifetime! What I didn't know is... That what I had been searching for all along was you.' *Ed slightly turns his head to look at him. There is the light of tears in his eyes* 'I don't care where we go or how we live. I just want to do it with you. I want to be with you... For the rest of my life. If you want it too.'

*Ed is actually crying right now and not even trying to hide it. He smiles sadly as he cups Stede's face with his hand and looks at him adoringly for a long time, as if looking at a miracle he doesn't think he deserves, then kisses him slowly, softly, and Stede doesn't push for more this time, just follows his pace lovingly. Ed moves away, just enough to look at him in the eyes, and he looks absolutely scared and sad and hopeful at the same time*

Ed *in a whisper*: 'I love you, Stede Bonnet'

Stede *smiles, with tears in his eyes too*: 'I love you too, Edward Teach'

They kiss again and the scene zooms out and we see the sea behind them and the ship grows smaller.

Lights go out and next thing we know we are on the Revenge, the crew happily singing as they clean the deck. Their Captain, Izzy, also sings with them. Then he smiles up at the sky and at a seagull that's passing by.

The camera follows the seagull as it flies until it reaches an island, deserted except for a small hut close to the water and under the trees. It's such a beautiful place. The hut looks so nice it seems like a proper house. Kitchen, bathroom, a nice bed, and a big collection of books. We go out of the house and to a small boat that's sailing in the calm water of the sea. Behind the boat the sun is setting, lighting up the clouds with a wonderful orange and pink, and the birds fly up high, and the water is so welcoming and safe here. Soft music in the background, the same of their first kiss.

Then the sun goes down in a moment, like that instant when it seems it's been swallowed up by the water, and the Moon shily appears in the now slightly starry sky.

In the boat sit Ed and Stede, smiling at each other. Ed holds out his hand in between them and Stede takes it.

And here it is, the end, Ed and Stede on a boat with the Moon watching over them.

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Except it's really not the end. There's so much more to explore in season 3, when after some years they did manage to figure things out together and someone from the Revenge crew comes to their island almost drowning, desperately asking for help. And they come back into action, except it's different now, as they both have grown and know who they want to be. As they both have the mission to spread kindness among pirates because as Stede always says, we should just talk things through as a crew. And there is so much softness and love in all the broken people who have chosen to undertake this path. We'll get fun adventures, somehow less dangerous this time, and two people who are now in a mature relationship and finally at their best individually.

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daguerreotyping · 1 year

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Cabinet card of a pair of early 1900s actresses dancing in the costume of much earlier eras

#1900s #early 20th century #cabinet card #historical costuming #historical fashion #theater #have I mentioned how much I love historical-historical costuming? :D #the lady on the left wears what looks to me a 1790s gentleman's suit while the lady on the right wears a maybe 1820s gown #that's just my best guess though please feel free to correct me!#my collection

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incorrectfigureskatingopinions · 1 month

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Flips are fake, lutzes too, only charisma is real

#quad sals can have rights this once #i just adore him what a performance #awww what a gentleman returning the cane #season’s best!!!!!#new pb!!!!!!!!!!#yes mark we DO love it when good things happen to good people #donovan carillo #figure skating #worlds 2024

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dollypopup · 10 months

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colin should 'suffer' for penelope

aka: 5 short reasons why wanting colin to 'suffer' or 'grovel' or whatever other bullshit this fandom keeps pulling is stupid and makes no sense and should have been buried ages ago, how is this still a thing?

1: it sets a terrible and unhealthy dynamic between an endgame couple

especially considering Polin's motif is that of a mirror, if Colin is expected to grovel or suffer for Penelope's affection and forgiveness, it only stands to reason that Penelope then, too, would have to reciprocate. how Penelope treats Colin's ills is setting the precedent for how he's expected to handle her own against him, of which there are many. giving him the cold shoulder, holding what he said over his head and rubbing it in his face, potentially not even explaining why she's upset at him: these are not signs of a mature woman ready for a marriage to ANYONE

2: Colin's slights against Penelope are considerably less harmful than Penelope's against Colin's and it makes no narrative sense for her to be on her high horse about it

'he ruined her prospects' 'he talked about her behind her back' 'he laughed at her' (we don't even know if that one's true, frankly speaking)

but Penelope did the exact same to him and she did so first. Please remember that Penelope is the reason Colin and Marina broke up, and it was her express goal the entire time. Penelope humiliated Colin and Marina both by exposing them publicly (not to mention rubbed the salt into the wound for days afterward). Penelope didn't even think about Colin's feelings because she tried to confess her crush on him immediately after his engagement went poof. Penelope holding Colin accountable for what he said without herself recognizing the ways in which she's hurt him, too, makes her out to be a hella hypocrite

3: it's weirdly catholic on main?

love isn't about suffering points or penance or guilt and i'm tired of Christianity pervading every damn thing. sorry not sorry, some of us want an actually fulfilling love story

4: y'all are just mad Colin didn't love Penelope back from jump and it's a revenge fantasy

which, fine, that's what fanfic is for, but it's OOC, y'all are aware of that, right? because if he DID want her from the start, we all know that it wouldn't be Polin? why are you shipping a friends to lovers ship if you INSIST that the friends to lovers dynamic is less than? guess what? unreciprocated love is kind of part of the deal. you don't hold a grudge against your friend for not loving you back immediately. Colin shows he cares about Penelope in SO MANY WAYS that somehow are completely invalidated because it isn't meant to be romantic? imma say it: fuck you if you think that way. friendships are important and beautiful and deep and fulfilling with or without romance. Colin sticking his neck out for Penelope to help her family from Jack's scheme? an act of love. Colin sending Penelope letters after her father passed? act of love. Colin telling Penelope she's 'really very good' and holding her hand in appreciation of her coming to talk to him? act of love. if you think those acts of love mean nothing just because he isn't fucking her seven ways to sunday, maybe analyze your own viewpoint of relationships and ship Pen w/ some random stranger who makes heart eyes at her tits from jump

5: it makes Penelope an asshole to her own long term partner

dude, if a friend of mine insisted I crawl on hands and knees to determine whether they want me back in their lives, i don't want to be around that person? so many of these narratives make Penelope a straight up terrible person. if you want your partner to suffer? you probably don't actually like them very much, but Polin is narratively MEANT to be the couple that likes AND loves one another. be real, if your friend ghosted you for months, gave you the cold shoulder when you tried to talk again, treated you like shit (you can't argue that him 'suffering' isn't treating him like shit in some way shape or form) as you tried to apologize, and then you find out that she was the reason you and your ex broke up and she wrote straight up nasty things about your family for YEARS, you would want absolutely nothing to do with that friend. why should Colin be expected to be any different? do these two not deserve a lovely love story built on love and affection and trust and honesty? a healthy happy relationship in which they see one another and appreciate one another for all they are? no? so why do you ship them?

+1: it's oversaturated in this fandom

polin is a fantastic ship. how is THIS their main trope?

find a new fucking idea, PLEASE

#polin #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #dude i have so many more #it's OOC for both of them #it strips colin of his character (and let's be real this fandom has proven they don't give a shit about him anyway)#it continues to open the door for weird crack and sideships this fandom is strangely obsessed with #why is it weird that when i say i ship Polin i mean i ship POLIN #like. . .exclusively. as my otp. i don't give a SHIT about your dumb pen/oc or whatever bullshit crackship y'all pulled out your arses #it's BORING #there are at least five other people ahead of colin who should be apologizing for their actions to their love interest #like. . .you do realize one them literally almost married his wife's sister yes????#what exactly does colin have to 'grovel' for?#'oh the groveling gentleman is a popular trope and colin and penelope are a good match for it'#when anthony is RIGHT THERE????#on a meta level it's been noticed for ages that polin doesn't have any or very little love for Colin #there are other ships that step to BAT for their couples and we're here constantly shitting on half our OTP #you don't have to put down one half of your ship to make the other half desirable #they literally live a love story #OBVIOUSLY he's gonna make her feel desirable #without having to be treated poorly whilst doing so #could i just shut up about this dumb trope? maybe so #but i am first and foremost: a hater

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symbioticsimplicity · 2 months

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I have a theory that someone else has probably already put out but I haven't seen it so here we go.

I don't think Alastor is actually all that powerful.

Propaganda under the cut.

There are a lot of things that make me think this but we'll start with the first and frankly most obvious to me.

His methodology. Alastor's main thing is making contracts and deals. When we're first introduced to him in the pilot, its with a warning to never make a deal with him. While plenty of other Overlords obviously wheel and deal, I think Alastor's are different. They're more binding and more dangerous because they're his modus operandi.

Another thing is his seeming lack of territory. Every Overlord has actual terf that we see them in, except for Alastor. This could be from lack of interest, or due to having been gone so long, or what have you but it seemed like a strange thing to have not mentioned. In addition, Carmilla, who was leading a meeting on the property and interests of all the represented Overlords and how to protect it, was utterly dismissive of his sudden return. Which to me implies that whatever he controls is likely minimal at best. Meaning him being there is pretty inconsequential to the larger picture. Dude was able to disappear for seven years and it was mostly fine? So what does he actually have?? (My only thought honestly is that maybe the air is his space since radio waves and all. That would honestly be broke as hell but there's no real evidence for this, is would just be really cool.) As much as Vox as making a dig at him, he did have a good point that the reach of radio has certainly died down over the years. While that alone doesn't mean Alastor's power has waned, its not really a *good* sign for him. He still has speakers all over but that and one really rundown store front with a single radio are really the only traces we see of him outside of the hotel.

This bit is conjecture, but when talking about his past, not only does no one ever mention HOW he killed so many powerful Overlords, they don't go into detail about much at all. There's every chance that he could have contracted them the same way he did with Husk and either forced or waited for them to break their end of their deals and THEN used them as fodder to terrorize the masses. Most of his power comes from fear and word of mouth. Most people don't even bother fucking with him because they've heard the stories, or the broadcast.

Which brings me to my next point: The Broadcasts. There are a LOT of ways that Alastor and Vox parallel each other and I can't help but wonder if using their medium to deceive people isn't one of them. So far a lot of the magic we see Alastor use is largely illusionary. Phantoms and shadows and temporary changes of environment. So what if his broadcasts are the same? What if he DOESN'T kill the Overlords he claims to have and instead used his broadcast to simulate it instead. Like War of the Worlds, but on purpose. Honestly it would be smart of him, especially if he's NOT as strong as he seems. This is also conjecture but if he made deals with those Overlords instead, he could still have them stashed away somewhere and just be calling on them and their power as needed. (Also: Husk. This man is a constant pain in the ass and usually disrespectful at best. The only time he pops off on him about it though is when Husk mentions his deal which is really just a big No-No. But he still only *threatens him* which to me implies that he actually does need him. If not for his services, even if only for the power granted by his contract. In the same way that Val doesn't actually kill Angel or anything because he can't REALLY afford to, so he controls him in other ways. If Al isn't this super strong demon, he can't really afford to just go wasting the contracts hes got due to momentary irritation when he can bring them back to heel with some light terror.)

The next thing that makes me think he's probably not super powerful is his fight with Adam. Not because he lost (I firmly believe he only actually lost because he was fucking around most of the time/ wasn't fighting for loved ones) but because of the form he took to do it. He was in a life or death fight with an ostensibly high ranking angel, and yet he didn't pull out anything more than he would have used to fight other sinners. Sure, that could be him being prideful, but I just don't think so. Home boy was being recorded and presumably knew that, if he was being prideful shouldn't he have gone balls to the wall??

In relation to that, he also made a deal himself. Not that we know what it was for or who its with, but would someone as control oriented as Alastor really make a deal if he didn't HAVE to? Overlords don't just DO that, there had to have been a compelling reason and honestly assuming Alastor isn't as strong as he makes himself out to be gives a very good opening for it.

Smaller detail, but it still matters, the smiling. He very clearly uses it as both a shield and a tool to help him maintain control of a situation. Thats not really the kind of thing you think of and commit to if you're the strongest person in the room. Covering up weaknesses obsessively is the sort of thing someone who's fronting does so their secret stays exactly that.

In the same vein, the way he reacted to Lucifer. He was threatened, which is understandable given that Luci is leagues above even the strongest Overlords, but I think it was slightly more than that. Having Lucifer around would make it drastically obvious very quickly that Al isn't as strong as he claims. So of course he tries to unbalance the situation and put focus somewhere else, the same as he always does. (Its actually the same thing he does in his duet with Vox. I'm almost certain Vox IS actually stronger than Alastor but hes so wrapped up in Al's head games he might never notice.)

It's honestly unclear if this has always been the case with him, or if its a result of his deal or his time away or something else entirely, but to me it seems incredibly likely. Alastor mostly keeps order and power through fear, not through enormous shows of power. And even those when he does them are strategic and mostly against opponents he knows are weaker than him. He's clever as all fuck, and still very dangerous for it but I don't think hes actually all that physically powerful.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin alastor #the radio demon #i love him I really do but this has been bothering me since the pilot #hes a mover and a shaker and I'm pretty sure hes hustling all of hell #which is frankly fucking impressive #what i wouldn't give for his backstory to show his daddy being a conman #mama is respectable but black in 1920 something #and daddy is a pos conman #alastor the gentleman con artist just FEELS right #especially ESPECIALLY if he was a white passing mixed race man #like actually that would be amazing #and then he just kept up old habits when he died and learned he could FINALLY have the power he never had in life #except its still all a lie #I'd be fucking foaming at the mouth I'm telling you #also i didn't mention this but hommie is a fucking DEER #hes a PREY ANIMAL #that alone seems pRETTY FUCKING TELLING

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harrykim and tomparis hopelessly awkward in the cafeteria what social blunders will the commit!!

#tom just discovered he has a crush on his buddy who is basically married and he's like . oh my god i can never let her know #oh my god she's right there harry what do i do. ignore her right #and harry is like. shit eating grin. you wouldnt want to be RUDE #i actually think the tom kes neelix thing is so funny because neelix has zero to worry about #his girlfriend who was one years old when they met is hopelessly in love with his jealous ugly ass #but tom paris is a perfectly nice handsome humanoid man . and it's LOGICAL that since he and kes are already buddies #something might spring up between them . but the thing that springs up is neelix's obnoxious emasculation #tom himself is being a completely dogged gentleman about the whole problem and is like. well sensible really #oh i would never interfere in a friend's relationship. plus our lifespans aren't compatible and i like being friends #like it's very funny how little neelix has to worry and how sincerely he's determined to make his unfounded fear everyone's problem #star trek #star trek: voyager #q

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