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[sulkingnskulking]

i'm aging like keanu reeves and it would be unconditionally wonderful if it didn't also come with complete disregard when i initially try to network and the person whose hand i'm shaking thinks i'm still in college

[watchmebitch]

So do we think Alastor just has a radio station that is full time permanently dedicated to the screams of the damned or is that shit for special occassions

Related question. When he’s actively torturing someone to death on a live broadcast do we think it’s just on one channel that you could tune off of, like okay your options are “graphic and horrible murder” or “today’s top 100” for the drive home from work—OR do we think he does it like a national emergency broadcast and takes over all channels for the duration. we interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you Alastor’s latest deranged grudge.

[sulkingnskulking]

I hope alastor gets his own rent-lowering gunshot scene in S3 like vox did with angel dust so the algorithm pushes fewer 'al is really a feminist/woke/isn't that bad' posts to my dash

[charish-cherish]

[persephoneme]

the people already know that i love alastor’s human design despite thinking demon alastor is ugly af. but have we talked about his cunty little glasses with the chain. alastor voice oh I can’t wait to murder the first man to test my patience tonight! whoops it seems I’ve stumbled headfirst into being a sexy librarian again. time to go back to my murder cabin and summon a demon. in my fashion frames. like come onnnnn

[knownhag]

Don’t stop make it blog dj blow my haters up

[dorfs]

getting overtaken as a pedestrian: people are seriously so caught up with themselves they can’t get somewhere 30 seconds later

overtaking people: come on girls it’s not a statue garden

[sulkingnskulking]

while I’m on a tipsy roll, I can’t believe how much fun I’m having in the Hazbin hotel fandom as an asexual. ten years ago i was asexual in the Les miserables fandom, a hard-core book fan, and saw asexuality in enjolras, which 99% of the fandom had zero interest in ever exploring. and tumblr in 2016 was horrible for asexuals. tons of discourse about how asexuals weren’t queer and didn’t face any oppression, and were cringe and evil and stealing resources if they so much as called the It Gets Better suicide hotline or whatever. you never knew which seemingly cool mutual was going to throw you under the bus next. i learned that what i experienced in childhood was conversion therapy, from a post that claimed asexuals aren’t oppressed like REAL queers and then explained what conversion therapy is. still probably one of the funniest things to ever happen to me. but i did leave tumblr and never thought i’d be back. and maybe this is the passage of time but there is something to be said about how low-brow art is outpacing high-brow art when it comes to asexuality and probably all queer identities. you can read about asexuals in teen vogue. we’re in there. we’re not in the new yorker. and that hurts my literary fiction enjoying heart because tbqh i don’t care if that video game character is asexual or whatever. but i am having a lot of fun with this silly cartoon and its asexual demon in literal hell and the fans who also love him.

[prairiedeath]

[sulkingnskulking]

shout out to cinnamaroll hot bitches love cinnamaroll

[sulkingnskulking]

there will be no ‘polyvees shipping is lesbian erasure’ slander on this blog

every single polyvees shipper I’ve seen is a lesbian down bad for Velvette who thinks everyone else should also be down bad for Velvette

[velvetteunderground]

ranking configurations of vees dying + grieving by fuckability

[velvetteunderground]

Vox dies - Highly context dependent. If Vox is murdered I think Valentino crashes out majorly and Velvette is left trying to make sure he doesn't quickly follow by trying to get vengeance. The shared tragedy brings them closer. 4/10 fuckability.

Valentino dies - I think this is the beginning of a slow descent into madness for Vox. First he plasters Valentino everywhere in an effort to manufacture grief from the public, then he sits and stews in his terrible man-cave. Velvette tries to get through to him but there's genuinely nothing she can do. The shared tragedy fractures them apart. 5/10 fuckability.

Velvette dies - Vox and Valentino go nuclear after their babydoll gets tragically murdered. I think they self destruct really spectacularly and Velvette would be thrilled at what an incredible dead wife she is. 7/10

Only Velvette survives - The one scenario I think genuinely gets her to act impulsively and lose her cool. She can be the cool head or the voice of reason to her boys, but without them? I think she'd feel like she has nothing left to lose. 10/10

Only Valentino survives - I think rather than crash out, Valentino totally wilts. i think the grief is too immense for him to even consider trying to do something about it. he is functionally destroyed. 8/10

Only Vox survives - I think eeriely close to how the end of s2 plays out. I think its murder-suicide city baby, but maybe after a period of trying to go solo- he's done it before, can do it again, etc. He is wrong <3 6/10

[volatilevale]

how life feels when there's a sicko on the same disgusting freak wavelength as you

[subaru-copilot]

im so sorry that you're doomed by the narrative but i really need you to answer my message on Microsoft Teams

[sulkingnskulking]

I know people love to give Vox a 'dad who hits him' backstory but he's not giving 'physically abused at a formative age'. he's fearless with physical threats and asking Angel if his dad hit him wasn't projection that was insider insight from Val. Vox dreads emotional wounds he would rather blow himself up than deal with failure!

and that S2 dynamic with Alastor? oh it's verbal/emotional abuse vs. physical abuse, and not just because Al is tied up and not because Vox is re-enacting what was done to him. That dynamic is so suggestive of one person having the real or perceived psychological upper hand. with radiostatic it’s a little bit of both. Al can make Vox’s hands shake with just words. Vox can’t do that back. he’s not good at intuiting what will hurt Al the most, didn’t realize Al has always hated the shoulder thing.

Al looked especially uncomfortable when Vox got out of bed with Valentino, and Vox doesn’t really seem to clock it at all. IMO the possibility of direct sexual assault crossed Al’s mind. His body language unwittingly says This is How You Could Really Hurt Me, but Vox just blows smoke in his face. The first scene we get after S2 E4 is Al goading Vox on, having clearly re-established a dynamic where he’s in control. and Vox’s feeling of helplessness only encourage him to get more and more monstrous, until his inability to Get To Alastor literally results in a mass murder-suicide attempt, because having the man in a bleeding heap on the ground is still somehow not enough.

and for the record? you will never convince me Vincent didn’t have a similar dynamic with his mother. put THAT in your radiostatic fic. i will literally be the Sickos meme.

[sugaredpiecrust]

Omg OP don’t leave all this gold in the tags

I’m 99% sure that freshly fallen Vox fell for Alastor because Alastor was a version of his mother that actually seemed to enjoy his company. He probably thought, “see, it wasn’t my fault! It was her! She was wrong about me!” Only to have Alastor turn around and reject him with the same type of language she probably used- pathetic, embarrassing, overly-reliant on others, worthless.

[sulkingnskulking]

ummm how about YOUR tags because...you get it! #I hc that Mrs Whittman hated being a mother and resented her son for being so dependent on her#I’m betting she berated him constantly for not being ‘normal’ like the other kids#and only displayed approval when he made her look good in front of other people#probably called him into the living room to ‘do that little song of yours’ for the guests at dinner parties#and then went cold again when they left. I bet he’d ask her to tuck him in#thinking she’d be in a good mood after his performance impressed all of her friends#only for her to explode on him and scream about how she can’t believe a nine year old can’t put himself to bed#‘can’t you do anything for yourself?! do I have to do everything for you?! you should be ashamed!#and that manifested into a desperate need for approval and the feeling that he has to perform 24/7#combine that with the fact that his victims were disproportionately red headed and…yeah#he was never going to be able to be normal about Alastor#hazbin meta

[sulkingnskulking]

I know people love to give Vox a 'dad who hits him' backstory but he's not giving 'physically abused at a formative age'. he's fearless with physical threats and asking Angel if his dad hit him wasn't projection that was insider insight from Val. Vox dreads emotional wounds he would rather blow himself up than deal with failure!

and that S2 dynamic with Alastor? oh it's verbal/emotional abuse vs. physical abuse, and not just because Al is tied up and not because Vox is re-enacting what was done to him. That dynamic is so suggestive of one person having the real or perceived psychological upper hand. with radiostatic it’s a little bit of both. Al can make Vox’s hands shake with just words. Vox can’t do that back. he’s not good at intuiting what will hurt Al the most, didn’t realize Al has always hated the shoulder thing.

Al looked especially uncomfortable when Vox got out of bed with Valentino, and Vox doesn’t really seem to clock it at all. IMO the possibility of direct sexual assault crossed Al’s mind. His body language unwittingly says This is How You Could Really Hurt Me, but Vox just blows smoke in his face. The first scene we get after S2 E4 is Al goading Vox on, having clearly re-established a dynamic where he’s in control. and Vox’s feeling of helplessness only encourage him to get more and more monstrous, until his inability to Get To Alastor literally results in a mass murder-suicide attempt, because having the man in a bleeding heap on the ground is still somehow not enough.

and for the record? you will never convince me Vincent didn’t have a similar dynamic with his mother. put THAT in your radiostatic fic. i will literally be the Sickos meme.

[sulkingnskulking]

Been thinking about the Vees and how Valentino seems to be the most grounded of them by not fully subscribing to Velvette and Vox's intense need to be perfect. Val will have private and semi-public temper tantrums and be unapologetically emotional and messy, because his idea of perfection is visual. So he's got an eating disorder (like Velvette) but he doesn't apply the same straitjacket to his behavior.

My hc is that Velvette and Vox get along so well because they have this intense need to control their public perception and it's a relief to relinquish that with each other occasionally in private. And imo the reason Velvette shares this 'can't let anyone catch me slipping' attitude with Vox is because Alastor reinforced it in him. Because it's a defense mechanism shared by Alastor and Velvette across a century of Black experience.