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31 years old, she/her. Loud, awkward being with one (1) braincell. Occasional Cosplayer and Video Editor ✌️💖

[hello-sunni]

From before the Beginning to the End times and beyond: Chronological Omens is finally here ✨

🔗 https://t.ly/kzkKr

All 12 Episodes of your favorite show in chronological order are now up for you to enjoy! Happy Good Omens Day 🥰

The easiest way to watch them in the best quality is to download the individual episodes. Google has processed the first 5 Episodes at least, though, so you could start watching from the drive and wait a bit for the others to be ready 🙏🏼💕

[polukhina-sonya]

reaploading my hardest helluva boss banger

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.

"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?

"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?

"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??

[helluvalaura]

I am coping with the combo of new Hazbin episode stress + the wait for season 3 by rewatching the entirety of HB on a loop more often than even my hyperfixated ass can really justify (lol) and today I am thinking about Oops. As one does (constantly).

And most of the time I, like a normal person, am thinking about the Blitz + Fizz side of the episode... but today I find myself thinking about the Stolas + Ozzie side of things for a change. Because the thing is, I think it's an incredibly revealing episode about Stolas's character.

Stolas's side of the episode starts out with Asmodeus rejecting Stolas's request for a portal crystal for Blitz out of hand, for fairly cryptic reasons. (To be clear, it's very appropriate that Ozzie keeps Fizz's confidence about the history between Fizz and Blitz, because that's not something you just blab about to any old person, of course.) But for Stolas, the stakes are so high— this isn't a wooing gift, as Ozzie seems to assume, this is the only solution he's managed to come up with that will allow him to disentangle Blitz's livelihood from their sex life. He's trying to give Blitz back the agency he feels he's stolen from him, and Asmodeus turning him down almost flippantly (from Stolas's perspective) is a serious setback.

Stolas is visibly distressed by this impediment to his quest. It's a serious blow, and as far as we know, he doesn't have a backup plan.

Then of course the ransom demand from Crimson comes in only moments later, and we get this fascinating little reaction from Stolas as Crimson reveals that he has Fizz captive and lays out exactly why he has the cajones to target Fizz and Ozzie:

"You probably just asked if I know who I'm dealing with. And oh yes, I know: the weakest and most non-threatening of the Sins—"

"—the King who will do whatever it takes to save the worst-kept secret in all of Hell."

This look Stolas gives to Ozzie here speaks so loudly. Stolas is a character who I don't think is naturally overflowing with empathy, but he is a deeply, deeply compassionate person. In this moment we can see him recognizing that Asmodeus is in a similar position to himself— in love with someone that the rest of their society would consider an inappropriate match for Hell's royalty. He sympathizes, and he's concerned, and he makes some rather interesting choices as a result.

We don't know what happened between the termination of Crimson's ransom message and the arrival of his lawyer, but the next time we pick back up on this side of the story, Stolas is still there.

I will confess to not being fully up to date on the exact etiquette surrounding what to do when your business meeting with another head of state is interrupted by a ransom demand for their secret lover, but I think it's fair to say that most people in that situation would probably wish their host well and elect to make a tactful exit. This is not what Stolas does. Instead, he stays to lend his help.

And the thing is, it really does not seem like Asmodeus wants him there.

He's annoyed as hell that Stolas insists on actually reading the contract, and when Stolas's lil autistic self gets all giddy and excited about reading an extremely lengthy legal document, he throws a little hissy fit about it:

Which, you know, fair. As usual, Stolas is terrible at reading the room. He is not matching the vibes of the situation lmao and tbh if I was Ozzie and it was my wife who'd been kidnapped I'd probably be crabby too.

But this irritation with Stolas for sticking around is further underscored when Asmodeus later relates his side of the whole misadventure to Fizz, stating "[he] was stuck with Stolas all day" in a fairly annoyed/slightly disgusted tone. He says it the way you say you have to take out the trash or get caught up on laundry. It's a chore. It seems like he would have preferred Stolas go away. This pretty much tracks with what we've seen of Stolas up until now— he's kind of the boring, awkward, wallflower weirdo of Hell's royalty. Asmodeus is polite to him up until shit hits the fan with Fizz's kidnapping, but he has no desire to socialize with him, and mostly seems irritated that Stolas stuck around (presumably uninvited) while there was a crisis on. Despite knowing full well that Stolas, of anyone, could understand his situation (given that Stolas literally just that day shared some of his own situation with Blitz), it really doesn't seem to occur to Ozzie to think of why Stolas stayed.

But the thing is?

Fizz and Ozzie would've been royally fucked if Stolas hadn't stuck around, just as much as they would have been if Blitz hadn't just so happened to be caught with Fizz. Asmodeus was angry, not thinking about the situation clearly, and he was making reckless, impulsive choices. In his haste to ensure Fizz's safety, he was rushing to sign things without reading them and putting Fizz at greater risk by doing so. It was only Stolas's clear-headed intervention that kept things moving in a direction that didn't nuke Asmodeus's entire business empire and put Fizz in even more danger than he already was.

Stolas's compassionate choice to stay and support Asmodeus, because he related to his situation and felt compelled to try to help however he could, is what indirectly ended up buying Blitz the time he needed to resolve the live fire side of the situation. Despite having been essentially given the brush-off on his own needs, he immediately stepped up to help however he could, and it paid dividends in ways that Fizz and Ozzie don't realize at all.

It's very much a testament to his strength of character that he did so, and this episode is so fascinating because it really is a look at another couple coming safely through a very risky situation, not because of Blitz or because of Stolas, but because of both of their skills combined.

It's such a testament to how complementary their respective talents are, but that's a post for another day. Mainly I just find myself feeling irrepressibly fond of Stolas because despite the neglect, despite the abuse, despite the callousness of the society that raised him, despite everything... Stolas is still very kind.

[helluvalaura]

#zamothac saying ‘maybe staying wasn’t the Polite thing to do but it was Right’… #that’s like stolas’ whole thing. when he’s at his best #he does the thing that feels morally right (according to his own hell-based values) even when it’s uncomfortable or will suck for him #like the entire thing with the crystal and ending things with blitz #he was doing it bc he cared but not JUST bc he cared how blitz felt. he was doing it bc he couldn’t live with himself otherwise. #there was no other option. the same with saving blitz. the same w staying w an abusive wife for decades to try to give his daughter #a good life. the same with going to see his daughter w no protection knowing he’d probably be killed #a lot of his choices aren’t healthy bc he has no real regard for his own life. and that needs to change #and also he’s terrible at listening to what other people actually want instead of deciding what’s best For Them #but his values are not something he will compromise and i think that is so so amazing considering the world that he lives in

@helluva-jester-nonconforming once again bestie I am NOT letting you leave this in the tags bc it's really The Whole Point with Stolas. He doesn't always stick the landing with how he executes on his moral code, because just like anyone he has his blind spots and his presuppositions, but he is fundamentally incapable of seeing something Wrong and not trying to do something to make it Right.

[hello-sunni]

This is *so* good and also, I'd like to add, Stolas stayed despite the fact that last time he saw Ozzie, the Sin literally belittled and exposed him for having an affair with an imp in front of his whole club. He was, quite frankly, rude and a big fat hypocrite, yet when Stolas realizes they're in a similar situation, he chooses to help. He doesn't even mention how ironic the whole thing is or tries to use it to his own advantage. He doesn't expect to be granted the Crystal after this. And it really says so much about his character.

[soymsan-entro]

So my sister is on vacation and has sent me a photo of the store she was buying clothes in.

I'm going to lose it.

[tophuukiey]

There's a wicked production somewhere where Elphaba kisses Glinda on the cheek sometime in act 2... And because I can't find it anymore I sketched it 🥹

[vidavalor]

Crowley referring to Gabriel, Michael, and the others not as "angels" but as (the honestly more accurate) "angelic entities" in front of Aziraphale is such a wonderful bit of flirt.

Crowley very deliberately not using "angel" to describe anybody else as a nod to Aziraphale that Crowley's romantic pet name for him is a word that he sees as belonging just to Aziraphale is really sweet.

Romancing his angel and shading angelic entities have always been the twin passions of Bildad the Shuhite.

[maestro-psychopomp]

I think Blitz would advise, "Don't fall in love, kids. Do drugs." Please don't listen.

[elleapdraws]

I got distracted by these two and had to sketch them, but I might’ve gotten carried away a bit.. can’t wait for the 'BIGGEST announcement' where they finally get married or smth 🤨

Don’t use without permission, don’t repost, please. Ok to reblog! Thank you! 💛

[emr-dgmn]

Gradually closing the distance.

[kbondoxxxxav]

he’s kenough

[sorasodas]

Standin' by your side!

[eddie-redcliffe]

Come back to me.

[the-maw-consumes]

lost

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[starrystolas]

[fuzzandfeathers]

Man, that early Season 3 dynamic is gonna be interesting