One of the things I love the most about Alastor is that he refuses to stay down.
So many people, both in and out of universe, want to crush his spirit, want to see him ‘humbled’ but you can’t humble someone who refuses to lay down and just take it.
No. Alastor bites back.
He fights back.
And if he loses?
He regroups. He plans. He fights again. And he prevails.
Even when he’s at a clear disadvantage,
even when he’s weakened and injured,
even when he’s cornered,
even when he’s humiliated and jeered at,
even when he’s at his lowest point,
He fights back.
He keeps getting up.
And when he triumphs?
It’s that much sweeter, because his victory is earned.
That took way longer than i thought it would eeeaoaoeeee
Also while drawing i realised, Alastor's type (of friend) - trigger happy idiots lol. Like he gets along with people like this easier, and finds them fun and entertaining.
my mom entered the room when i was saving it and said that it looks very good, and i was like :0 reallyyyy 🥺🥺 and she said that the colors look good (she's an artist so her opinions are important) (but only positive ones idgaf about critiques) (ego bigger than the pride ring) (we kinda have that in common with Al)
all versions on sepparate pictures below cut
and now my mom says that its too late to go to bed (it's 9 am), and she took my bed (i mean she's lying in it), so i'm gonna go fight her over it bye
Blinded / Nephilim's eye AU (alright i'm keepng this name, i can't come up with anything else...)
Baxter saves the day once again...
They kept Alastor unconsious for like a week until regeneration finished and he wouldn't need to be watched... because Baxter was fairly afraid for his life, after learning that nobody actually asked Alastor if he wanted it.
And Alastor isn't happy. HOW DARES SHE HELP HIM????
They kept Alastor unconsious for like a week until regeneration finished and he wouldn't need to be watched... because Baxter was fairly afraid for his life, after learning that nobody actually asked Alastor if he wanted it.
Anyway. this au got me in a chockehold. Possibilities are endless... and it's also much funnier with Alastor and Charlie being related LOL
Have an early 1930’s Alastor fashion catalog page! 📻
More outfit descriptions under the cut.
More vintage Hazbin catalog pages: Fem!Alastor, Fem!Vox, Rosie, Niffty, Angel Dust, Sir Pentious, Vaggie, Valentino, Charlie
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A. You’re never fully dressed without our finest wool worsted silk suit, handcrafted by our master tailors. With its six-button vest, high shoulder jacket, cuffed slacks and neat stripes, you’ll cut a tidy and intimidating figure!
B. This fleece lined Sinnerskin shirt is the perfect outerwear for less formal, messy work! The central zipper makes for speedy fastening and won’t rust no matter how much blood you get on it!
C. Keep warm on the rare colder days in Hell in this wool shaker stitch sweater coat with large shawl collar. It’s widening effect in the shoulders and narrow waist emulate the flattering effect of a well tailored jacket. Why pick between style and comfort?
D. You’ll like this Melton coat which features an all around belt with metal buckle and peak lapels for added gravitas. Just what young men are looking for!
E. This double breasted sports jacket features a stylish new diamond weave design, perfect for the snappy young man! Make your wardrobe stretch further in extreme good taste! (Almost as tasty as sinner flesh!)
F. Active men love this sleeveless pullover sweater with sporty “U” neck. Made from wool worsted yarn, its roomy armholes allow for an increased range of movement - perfect for cutting down those who dare cross you! Can be worn under a jacket for added warmth.
genuinely one of the saddest parts of this new era of the internet is how hard it is to rick roll someone now. with people's attention spans shortening so much, they wouldn't even get through the first few bait seconds before clicking off the video. like i saw a comment that ended with "btw i made all of this up" and the replies kept treating it so seriously because none of them finished the entire 4 sentence comment. and We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit
mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters
me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU
Why are so many of you mad about Alastor demanding Rosie pay him for work for the first time in ninety years instead of just doing everything she says for free like guys I thought we were woke enough for this
For the first time in his life—alive or dead—Alastor can truly stand face-to-face with another society member and demand, “We are equals, and you will treat me as such.” Rosie yanked him around for nearly a century, but now, in this moment, he is no longer a puppet on a string.
Yes- part of me wishes Alastor had acted to help Charlie out of his own fondness for her/the hotel. But that disappointment doesn’t mean we should ignore the power behind this scene.
Alastor—a mixed-race Black man from the brutal, segregated South of the 1920s—looks his white-presenting former owner in the eye and tells her, in no uncertain terms, to fuck off. She is no longer his master.
Not today. Not ever again.
And if she wants something from him? Then she will have to pay the fee just like everybody else.
And the price?
Not her soul, her power, or her cannibal army.
Just the staff that she should have fixed several episodes ago.
I deeply love the transatlantic accent they've given Alastor, but just once, I want to hear him slip into a heavy New Orleans accent. Bonus points if it gets to the point that the other characters can barely understand him.
Pleaseeee I need it. Call it a Mardi Gras gift. Maybe I'll ask Amir during his spring donation stream.
I humbly suggest that true crime freaks should get into learning about scammers instead of serial killers. I LOVE reading about fraud and grifts and pyramid schemes. true crime ppl have all this paranoid energy about murder, which is rare in the grand scheme of things.....maybe instead that could be channeled into some productive rage toward capitalism.
And u know a side effect of learning about scam artists is that you start to understand certain things about economics, and just how STUPID these systems are and how easily they are taken advantage of....and I'd much rather people gained a passing familiarity with economics than whatever armchair psychologist shit these true crimers get on. We need fewer people who think they're experts on "sociopaths" and more people who understand how people like Elizabeth Holmes and the WeWork guy were able to do what they did
Here are some of my favorite books about financial scams:
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (about the 2008 stock market collapse).
The Caesar's Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Corruption of the Private Equity Industry by Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap. (I admit I've never finished this one; the writing is hard to read.)
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, by Zac Bissonette. I bought this book because of the subtitle and I have never regretted it. You must read it.
Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale. They turned this one into a movie! The book was very different and is worth reading.
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion, by Elliot Brown and Maureen Farrell. I haven't read this one yet, but it's on my tbr pile!
Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, by Gareth Gore. I'm reading this one right now. The author is a financial journalist who stumbled onto this story by unraveling a bank failure in Spain.
And here's a list of more non-fiction books about fraud and financial scams. The first book on this list is about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, which I also haven't read yet.
If you are a podcast fan, I recommend Scam Goddess, which is run by Laci Moseley who is fucking hilarious and frequently approaches the trade from a pro-scam perspective. She is also having a Moment: she's published a memoir and recently got a television show of her own with a limited run on Max. The episode on Dixon, IL is my favorite: that small town was scammed out of $53 million by Rita Crundwell, who pissed the money away into her small empire of western pleasure quarter horses. Laci is very much an indoor cat and goes in for a fairly hyperfemme fashion style, complete with long fake nails, and she is hilariously visibly bewildered about why anyone would pay money to ride horses. And skeptical of the entire concept of horses, for that matter. As someone who quite likes horses, it was incredibly funny to watch--and the scam itself is one hell of a humdinger, too.
Stolen World by Jennie Erin Smith is a slight change of pace: it's about the early acquisition of herps (reptile and amphibian species) by zoos and museums, which was cartoonishly corrupt and involved a lot of animal smuggling. It was truly fascinating.
I would also love it if more people got into medical scammers and grifters, because boy howdy, if you want to look at a death count, those folks often beat the serial killers all hollow. In that vein...
Charlatan by Pope Brock is all about the goat balls-themed radio empire of Charles R. Brinkley, who made himself cartoonishly wealthy by selling surgeries in which he would cure whatever ailed you by tucking freshly-removed goat testicles alongside your own testicles, nestled nicely in your sac. (If you did not come with your own ready-made testicles, he did not have a lot of thoughts unless your problem was infertility. In this case, he would tuck some goat balls or some goat ovaries--your choice depending on what sex of kid you wanted to have--right alongside your own ovaries instead.) Brinkley was so successful he inadvertently spurred the creation of the American Medical Association, which lead to getting knocked off the airwaves and spurred him to run for Kansas governor as a write-in candidate on the platform of "give me my medical license and also my radio show back", and he nearly won.
I’m currently reading The Woman Who Fooled The World (the basis for the Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar), which is about an Australian influencer who pretended to have cancer, but also about the dangers of relying on the pseudoscience of the “wellness” industry.
I enjoy watching Hannah Alonso on YouTube. She does a really good series on Multilevel Marketing companies (MLM), both with MLM Fails about MLM huns and the weird and sketchy shit they post on social media; as well as MLM Horror Stories, wherein she shares stories people sent her about their experiences, which can be themselves, their family, people they know, whichever. Some of them are just, just infuriating.
Hannah has a masters in education and a background with teaching, but her husband is military and moves around, so she decided to do videos on the marketing companies. (Amway, DoTerra, Monet, It Works, Beach Body/Bodi, Mary Kay... just to name a few).
She does deep dives into the different companies, talks about the impact of these scams on people's lives, it's all really super cool.
Hannah also does Influencer Insanity videos, about how influencers just get crazy, like the Stanley cup thing, and the restocking vids, and rage baiting. She also did one talking about the Social Media Dads recently that was really insightful.
Hannah is also SUPER respectful, especially with the marketing vids. She doesn't name names and will blur faces because even if these people are just being weird as hell, they're also victims themselves. She even had a Horror Story recently that came from a woman who showed up in one of the Fail videos and she specifically thanked Hannah for being compassionate and blurring her face and stuff and then went on to tell how she fell down that rabbit hole.
People say about Gen AI ''well its going to be basically in every game in the next few years so get used to it" like, no... do you have any idea how stubborn I am? I will never play another new game in MY LIFE if that is the case. There are plenty of old ones I missed. "Oh what about books and TV?" SAME. I do not care. I will stop consuming new media forever if GenAI is going to be in everything.
Yes, This is absolutely the hill I will die on (AND WE WILL ALL DIE ON IF COMPANIES DONT STOP PUSHING AI AND BUILDING FUCKING DATA CENTERS EVERYHERE FUCK)
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