human error

it's not the waking it's the rising

[laststandx3]

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.

The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.

To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish…

Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!

You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.

Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!

Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

-Final speech from The Great Dictator - Charlie Chaplin

[parkchanwoohoo]

Once you start noticing how the incapacity to handle discomfort affects how people live their lives it's actually pretty shocking how it ruins pretty much every conceivable aspect of existence. Interpersonal relationships, romantic and platonic. Career and education opportunities. Your politics Your willingness to go anywhere. The kind of food you eat. The kind of art you expose yourself to and your ability to read it. It's never just one thing, it touches everything, and once you notice it it's like suddenly being able to see germs or something. Just this horrific catastrophe people look at you askance for screaming about. As I grow older and see what became of my friends and peers who could not learn to handle discomfort, the more I'm like. This is a genuine societal issue

[tooshnado]

we love u vel!

[kylieminvogue]

"COLUMBO" S1E5 - "Dead Weight"

[deertusk]

more fluffy gunk, now in comic format, w/e!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[filthyskunk]

I don't care if you don't love me anymore (italian ver) #radiostatic #radiosilence #vox #alastor #hazbinhotel

[laststandx3]

in my wildest hypotetical scenarios for s3 lute and valentino have a girls night out where they complain together about their shitty boyfriends, torture someone to feel better and then share how much they still hear their exs' voices only for val at the end to pop out vox's head and lute to point at her vision of adam and val's like oh you really are crazy

[laststandx3]

Btw vincent live-streaming murder on tv whitman and broadcast torture radio show alastor are onto the same kind of entertainment

I'd love to say alastor passion for radio is making him broadcasting interesting things but his main program is screams

They do share the same fucked up sense of what's entertaining

[darkstarofchaos]

I just noticed A Thing about this scene.

Charlie is angry here. She wants the Vees gone, Vaggi is supporting her in typical Vaggi fashion, and Charlie has taken on her demonic form in a threat display of her own. She has absolutely no issue with threatening the two if that's what it takes to make them leave.

We switch to a closeup on Velvette, during which she ends up on the business end of Vaggi's spear and Vox intervenes. And in the next wide shot, Charlie's attitude has completely changed.

You'd think she would still be on guard, or maybe relieved that the Vees are on their way out, but instead she appears surprised. Her defensive posture has dropped. And as Vox steers Velvette away, she returns to her normal form, looking even more shocked.

Something happened here which she did not expect. And it's not Vox's casual disregard for the incredibly dangerous weapon, because he's obviously wary of it; far more so than he was when it was pointed at him, in fact. And he just as obviously puts himself between it and Velvette, so it's no mystery why he suddenly decided to take the threat seriously.

Charlie set up an elaborate, sabotaged to be actually life-threatening situation so Angel could "save" Husk, because she thought selflessly endangering himself could be the key to redemption. And then one of the people who spent the entire day mocking her efforts went and did that like it was second nature. And then that same person immediately turned around and asked if she thought he could be redeemed like it was some kind of gotcha.

Like. Sir. You literally just showcased your most redeemable quality to the Princess of Friendship Hell. And she noticed. What did you think she was going to say? (I'm sure he missed her reaction because he was focused on Vaggi, but still).

[laststandx3]

Finally I connected the dots! first the set up from the scene before. Vox gets between an angelic weapon and Velvette vs Vox in the finale completely forgetting about everything and threatening an extended murder-suicide. Really puts into prospective how much of a mental break down it was.

I add these 2 pictures because there's Val in the corner in both of them, in the first one Vox has an open view of both the weapon and Valentino caught in a web of wires. The visual is clear: he doesn't see Val in this scene, he chooses the weapon. And later chooses revenge over the safety of his friends which as it was shown before is really uncharacteristic of him. And now it's even more obvious why the Vees dont leave him after the finale, he really was going thru an out of character phase.

[hypervoxel]

If you forget everything about serial killers in real life and embrace the idea that "fictional murder is just really fun," then Vox's serial killer backstory is not nearly as jarring. However, if you go back to trying to mesh "guy who made his living by killing his competition and also his own allies, his producers who got him his roles, and thought he could take over a network by torturing the owner into signing it over to him and then immediately killing the guy. And did," with "guy who crafted his image around his allies, who tried multiple times to create partnerships, and now acts as an emotional anchor for his partner, cancelling his own work to go check in on them when asked to. The conflict that arises in his relationships comes from trying to please people with incompatible wants: in trying to impress Alastor, he pushes aside the Vees (he immediately looks for Alastor's reaction after insulting Valentino!) The people that he does kill and abuse now are those who are underneath him: no longer does he attack people at his level or above him the way he did in life," then the serial killer backstory still doesn't make sense.

[laststandx3]

Hell where murder is not final and there's no way to actually kill someone, competition especially is harder to get out of the way. A constant demand from the public to be entertained (there isnt much to do in hell for all eternity) and Vox getting what he wanted in life, having the network and the power to distribute everything he wants. He reached the goal he wanted in life and got to a plateau (and this is a man whos envious at the core, he can only imagine something better for himself if he first sees it for someone else, at this point there's only alastor who in his field is above him and he tries to get to his level and fails constantly). At the same time with murder/death out of the picture the only way to beat competition is to have it work for him or for the audience to judge vox superior (sharper, faster, newer, brighter). In life when he murdered competition people could move on to watch HIM, as people do when a trend fades and they latch into a new one. In death he needs to constatly prove himself to be the best thing around.

The way i make sense of it, the serial killing was serving two different needs: his sadism towards people he was envious of AND freeing new career paths.

In hell he can separate the two, he can torture and 'kill' as the law of the strongest rules and he can be appreciated on tv. Like finding out you can have different hobbies

I would've preffered a 1000times he'd be clever about the murders and the sadism, like messing the lives of his coworkers. Also i think hell is the first place he gets to make connections bc in a way he reached his goals so there's something else he needs that will fill him

[deertusk]

eepy part dos

[voxtek-official]

SHARK FACT TUESDAY! with Vox #24

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I bet that you thought all sharks are carnivores, huh? Yeah? Well, wait until you hear this. Yes, the majority of sharks are carnivores, with many being obligate carnivores such as the ever-badass great white shark. However, would you believe that some are adaptable, or, opportunistic with their choice in meals– to the point of omnivorous behavior? ...Well, you SHOULD believe it, because I'm the one fucking telling you. Trust me– this is true, especially for the bonnethead shark (A kind of hammerhead) which has surprisingly been found to include seagrass in its diet. Not true of my hammerheads. The girls prefer their meals wriggling, bloodied, and begging for my mercy. ...Also tuna.

You're welcome. Trust Me With Your Shark Facts.

Vox, Shark Dad, Media Overlord, Founder of VoxTek Enterprises.

[phaeton-flier]

Squidward's whole deal is that he was a scion of Old Money who got really into Marxism in college and decided he couldn't live with himself as a beneficiary of the Bourgeoisie. He cut ties with his parents and went to live as a proletariat for a few years to better his music.

Of course, what was supposed to be a short term service industry job before he lived for his art has bloomed into just being his life, and life as a poor artist is never as romantic as one imagines. While the cost of living of Bikini Bottom is low enough that even a frycook can be a homeowner, it's not quite so low that he can afford the luxuries he was used to growing up.

His view of the Working Class as the downtrodden masses were rather tattered by years of living between SpongeBob and Patrick, who were not so much temporarily oppressed intellectuals as they were, well, SpongeBob and Patrick.

Still, through thick and thin he's never gone back on his decision to leave the money behind. The great irony is that he is ignorant of his greatest achievement—his superiority to Squilliam isn't turning a bunch of randos into a functioning Marching Band or turning a burger joint into a fine dining establishment, it's having the strength of character to look at all the advantages Squilliam had and choose to leave it behind.

He will never be a master Clarinet player, but he will always have that

[sistersorrow]

Wasn't there an episode where he moved to a gated community?

[phaeton-flier]

Look I said he got really into marxism, not that he was all that perfect of a marxist

[metazanni]

He did get bored with the gated community though. Like that was very much something that happened he did get bored because he has become perhaps a little more working class than he thought, and got kicked out for doing something Spongebob would have done for entertainment. And he was happy to be kicked out and go back to living between Spongebob and Patrick.

Going Doylian for a second, I like episodes where the writers understand that Squidward has an inner life beyond being a punching bag for Spongebob and Patrick. Because that really flanderises their relationship, which does have a little more nuance than "Squidward is always annoyed by everyone" like no the man has dimension, and Spongebob and Patrick have dimension also.

[laststandx3]

I cant wait for s3 to roll out where Lilith shows up in all her beauty and Charlie will say something along the line of "stop sexualizing my mom!!" you know the fandom will implode. The only good thing about media literacy being non-existent + fandom police + puritan culture is how fun it'll be to watch the unfolding chaos

[arsvoxinferna]

A big problem I have with Vox is that I sometimes spend hours getting the right expression, only to discover later that he looks better without his face 🥲 based on Mistakes where made FF

[vrawliney]

he's like an angry cat that doesn't want to sit in your lap

[vrawliney]

I bought myself a new tablet and I’m trying to get used to it, so here’s a sketch and a WIP