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zombie-bait · 5 days

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Full Moon

Ok so I don’t normally post about Helluva Boss but the newest episode touched on an interesting concept I haven’t necessarily seen represented in media. Back when I was on Twitter (derogatory) a few years ago there was this now deleted viral thread where someone discussed how their struggles with mental health affected their relationship with their partner and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.

This is such a good, short example of how anxiety and depression can play tricks on you. It becomes so easy to envision yourself as a nuisance, a constant burden to those closest to you because they cannot possibly genuinely enjoy your company, right? But in doing so you create this arbitrarily cruel version of the people you love, people who would otherwise never behave like this outside of your own mind.

It's mean. Because your mind wants to be mean to you under these circumstances. It wants to put everyone else's emotions and desires above yours, both in worthiness and validity. And that starts bleeding into your understanding of other people, especially those you care about.

Now. Helluva Boss.

"Can I get a fucking MINUTE to think after everything you put me through you pompous rich ASSHOLE? Treat me like one of your little butler imps, you can’t just dismiss me like that! I mean, you royal fucks think you can do this every time, like you can just play with our feelings because we’re smaller and not as important. Well I’m not letting you, BITCH! Let’s go!" - Blitz

I find it really interesting how Helluva Boss decided to approach this conflict between Stolas and Blitz. Obviously, the difference in power matters. It's the underlying tension of their entire relationship and their lives. Stolas is burdened by the mountain of expectations thrust upon him from a very young age while Blitz is constantly reminded that he can NEVER be part of that world, that he is "smaller and not as important" not just in Hell's hierarchy but in his own life and family. Stolas very literally has power over Blitz (through the grimoire, the arrangement, his position in society) and Blitz uses their relationship as an excuse to reverse those roles. But that power dynamic, in one form or another, never truly goes away. And for Blitz, it's a lot easier to paint Stolas as this manipulative symbol of power and himself as nothing more than Stolas' plaything. It's easier to be angry than to be vulnerable and accept that someone might care about him.

"Dismiss" is the keyword in that quote. All that Blitz has been able to process is that Stolas has decided to end the relationship that they have. He feels ls like a choice has been taken away from him so he lashes out because he's not ready to emotionally tackle what the rest of Stolas' offer might entail. If Stolas hates him, just wants to play with him, then he is justified in his anger, his self-destruction, his isolation. If the world is mean, you're "allowed" to be mean back.

But

In that moment he forgets that Stolas is someone he actually cares about. Someone he's known for way too long and clearly wants to keep in his life, no matter how reluctant he can be to admit it. Someone who is not innately cruel or manipulative but sad and desperate for connections in a lot of the same ways that Blitz is. And Blitz immediately sees that he's miscalculated something.

Somewhere along the way the fictional version of Stolas that he's allowed himself to be mad at and the real one that he's not ready to admit he cares about have merged into something real that he has actual power over. Stolas can get hurt and Blitz can be the one who does it. He has once again allowed his greatest fears (which Stolas so frequently symbolizes) to co-opt his loved ones, to give him an "out" even though he didn't actually want one in the first place.

I'm definitely not the first person to say this but I think this is an example of the miscommunication trope done right. Their individual struggles are what cause them to be unable to connect during this conversation or to even have a proper conversation in the first place. There is no convenient misunderstanding or third party fabricating this rift. Both of them have preconceived ideas of what the other one is thinking but those ideas are flawed and rooted in self-hatred. They also both shutdown in their unique ways when the conversation starts heading in the direction they'd feared it would.

Blitz and Stolas work because they're both fucked up in similar ways, because they want similar things. That's the same reason why they're uniquely designed to hurt one another. A fear of rejection and a yearning for happiness. To borrow a quote that has been used by literally everyone from Spiderman to Evangelical preachers, "hurt people hurt people."

anyway, I really liked this episode.

(twitter thread screenshots sourced from this reddit post)

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lesbianwillbond · 4 months

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it’s really so fucking crazy to think that there are children out there who aren’t growing up listening to one direction

#harry styles stans kill yourself and take columbia records favourite little zionist down with you #en

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mspaint-flower · 9 months

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ghost type flower needs to be real

#vflower #v4 flower #v4flower #vocaloid #vocaloid flower #pokemon #chandelure #my art #my designs #ms paint #GOD MY HAND HURTS SO BAD this took so long but it was worth it #ghost type miku is one of my favourite designs but i thought flower would fit really well too #for the record i have barely drawn any pokemon so i hope it looks good KJHSFHJDHKJ

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spllwys · 2 months

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endless ghifs 3/? ⛧ source — "Through the spillways of your soul!"

#this colouring was hell on earth(photoshop). hence why it looks a bit funky but we're not getting much better than this #the band ghost #papa emeritus iv #spllwys all tag #eg_series #might just be me but it seems like he gets really into every spillways performance. ik it's 110% effort 24/7 but spillways is different #seems like he gets so much enjoyment out of performing it. & as a consequence it's my favourite one to watch live #if i was actually there i'd be hyped for year zero over anything else but in terms of recordings #it's just very very good #spllwys edits

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uhbasicallyjustmilex · 1 month

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don’t mind me, just thinking about the little pat on the head alex gets after moonage daydream

#he really deserved that pat #it was an INSANELY good performance #probably my favourite moonage daydream cover #he just really nails it #they both do #WHY didn’t they do a recorded version 😩#tlsp #the last shadow puppets #milex #my gifs #lulu posts

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swallowtail-lotus · 2 months

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Qin Shi Huang with a Mitsuri!Reader

Repost lmao

Still in love with him 😍

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Your first meeting with him would've most likely took place after he destroyed the walls. Or maybe before that. Either way, the first meeting will be interesting.

Qin did get distracted by your hair and eye colour, as it was a rare sight to him.

You told him you ate too much Sakura mochi and that gave you that hair colour and that confused him.

It wouldn't take long for him to notice how you fawn over him and that just boosts his ego. A literal goddess, fawning over a human.

Will tease the hell out of you just to watch you practically malfunction.

Thinks you're cute when you hide your face in your hands. It gets worse for you when he grabs them and places kisses on them.

Was quite surprised when he witnessed you destroying a wall with one fist. Will gladly fight you if given the chance.

Does get quite peeved when your attention/admiration is on someone else, whenever it's another god or human.

There may have been literal hearts floating around you when you saw his eyes for the first time.

He can respect your admiration for his kind.

Only likes you out of all the gods/goddesses.

Honestly, he thinks you're more beautiful than most goddesses.

#he'll still be my favourite 💕#record of ragnarok #record of ragnarok x reader #qin shi huang x reader #ror x reader #snv x reader #ror qin shi huang x reader

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spineless-lobster · 2 months

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I have so much respect for charon’s business model if I beat the store’s manager in 1x1 combat after stealing I think I SHOULD get a loyalty card

#guess who beat their favourite stygian ferryman #I love how zag is like ‘you’re not mad at me are you? 🥺🥺🥺’#like girl what do you think #the record scratch was insaneeeee #hades game #charon hades

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mecchantheotaku · 6 months

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send this to your crush with no context

#slay the princess #for the record she's not even my favourite of the princesses #my favourite is the adversary

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wakinguponsaturday · 9 months

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Dark Urge bringing Gale and Wyll to kill Ketheric and just going guys. GUYS. shut the fuck up about your suicide pact. I know that's your dad but what the fuck are we going to do for him now. Pretty sure that's my ex-boyfriend and my sister up there plotting world domination and you don't see me giving away our position

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #dark urge #gale dekarios #wyll ravengard #for the record gale is my favourite companion and i would do anything to make wyll smile. these are my boys #but my rogue/monk is having a crisis of the soul and she cant even engage with it because shes busy swatting at their arms #bet karlach says something special when gortash is revealed too but alas. needed my best friend Lae'zel by my side #need a mod that works with the new patches for unlimited party size. ill play on tactician idc i just need all my friends with me #to stage whisper their reactions while we're in stealth. as if we arent tElEpAtHiCaLlY cOnNeCtEd #maeve #em.chats

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fuckmewithyourtoespj · 1 year

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jamie tartt in ted lasso 3x03, “4-5-1″

#ted lasso #jamie tartt #tedlassoedit #gifs #my gifs #his look in this episode is still my favourite this season i think #the hoodie + skull jacket combo #and the cross earing i want to be him #the colouring is wildly inconsistent. we pretend we do no see it #i haven't made gifs in a really long time so the fact that i figured out how to do it at all was a miracle lol #i can't believe the last one looks least consistent considering how out of whack the restaurant colouring was in comparison to everything el #se #took way to long w the 4th one #anyway where are people getting these high quality sources of ted lasso #i couldn't find it through any of my usual sources so i had to screen record apple tv

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bruciemilf · 11 months

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I love love LOVE adorable Baby Jay to death but imagine Baby Tim.

Imagine a baby casually stowing away to your space HQ via your bottomless cape. GL spots it wiggling but no one believes his eldritch cape theory & Batman gaslights him.

GL: IT MOVED!

Batman: It's a cape over a living body.

GL: So you admit there's something under there!

Superman: Uh, yeah? He's wearing it??

Dying at the thought of Baby Timmy being bold and fearless around Batman, saying he'll come with him, help him, protect him, and there's nothing the Bat can do about it.

With Bruce? It's completely different. Tim shape-shifting from this overly confident, cocky, devil may care toddler to Bruce's silent, -- too silent, -- shadow?

Bruce doesn't like that. At all.

"He reminds me of you when you were younger, master Bruce."

Bruce really doesn't like that.

It worries him that Tim doesn't have a favorite color, a favorite food, snack, game, TV show, subject, or a hero he can annoy Bruce with. Not like his brothers.

"He's not my brother, B."

"You can't take him to show and tell, then."

Jason, 12, an angel usually, a little devil when Dick's around, is trying to stuff Tim in his backpack. " No!"

#bruce wayne #dc #dc comics #batdad #jason todd #tim drake #bbysssss #text #text post #tim is not at all a normal kid and bruce picks up on that in record time. and hey maybe tim doesn't have a favorite color #but he has a favourite sound. it's alfred pouring tea and bruce humming while writing reports for clark #because he's nothing if not competitive and he's sending these to a Journalist #tim has a favourite animal and bruce takes him to the zoo every week. he has a favourite bug. a favourite time to nap #and bruce learns it all because to love is to know

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saym0-0 · 5 months

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it stopped letting me reblog my tma thread but um uh yeah new one 👍

#mag 39 start goes WILD #this is my favourite part when they talk to each other #the tone of voice shift when jonathan goes from talking to recording a statement is so cool #>>>

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listen-to-the-inner-walrus · 2 months

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One of the most underrated jokes from Game Changer has to be Zach Reino's improvised newsie joke of "Extra, extra, read all about it! The fish are gone."

It knocks me out laughing every time I watch the episode. I cannot imagine a funnier headline to come up with for a local newspaper.

And the fact that he somehow managed to tee up the next joke for Zeke by cosmic coincidence is just *chef's kiss*.

#kai rambles #dropout #zach reino #game changer #the official cast recording is one of the funniest episodes of any season of the show #the lore created for it is just #its so good #zach reino is one of my favourite dropout stars

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hhhhleb · 21 days

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