#dat ask

[avoskorm]

Hey. Hey. Hey bro.

What's the difference between a Vietnamese Restaurant and an Indian Restaurant?

One is a pho profit and the other is a naan profit.

GET BACK HERE, SIR

[mercedesrollinballer]

From your incorrect quotes universe I feel like by the time Jackie figures out shes gay she's outside thr cabin, and it will be like the but im a cheerleader reaction.

She actually did realize and then immediately forgot (if repressing feels was an olympic sport she’d have a silver metal (Shauna would have gold))

[helluvalaura]

I like your tags on the post about it starts with sorry/live to live bc I've been saying that. It's one of the reasons so many people are so adamant this show has terrible writing. I've been rewatching season one and so much of the stuff that happened there was setup for later plot points in season 2. I also was kind of upset about how Lucifer was handled at the end of season 2 but then I gave it some thought and realized they were saying a lot with his behavior and how he responded to everything - he's desperate to do anything to prove he's a good dad, he's never had to fear anything or anyone since he fell, he's so powerful he barely felt anything from being hooked up to a machine that could raze buildings until it has been used continuously for quite a while, Charlie has never had to worry much about him... Etc.

[context]

Yeah that's the thing about engaging with a canon that's not "closed" yet— you are allowed to have any kind of feelings you want about the direction a story is taking, but also you have to recognize that you don't know what the purpose of those writing choices is yet.

There is always room to be asking "is this bad writing that X wasn't addressed, or is it a possibility that this is something that will be explored in a future episode/season?" There is always room to be asking "did plot point Y not make sense, or is it a possibility that the questions you still have about Y are questions that will be answered when more information is revealed later?"

In my experience, when people online decry "bad writing," what they are actually describing is usually one of three things:

Writing that does not function well on a technical level

Writing that isn't to an individual's personal taste, or

Writing that does not match the expectations they had going in and caused cognitive dissonance between what they thought they were getting and what the writer(s) was actually attempting to do

You may notice that 2 and 3 are not actually bad writing. One is a matter of taste, and the other is a function of a clash between expectation and reality. I think most of the criticisms of the writing on Hazbin that I've seen over the years fall into these categories.

That doesn't mean that there are no criticisms that fall under category 1, of course. For instance, I think some of the writing on Hazbin suffers from the limited season length that has been externally imposed by Amazon— to tell the story Vivienne and the rest of the creative team are trying to tell, which is a story with an epic scope and a huge cast, these seasons really should be ten episodes at a minimum, and probably realistically should be at least 12. By trying to compress that into eight-episode seasons, it does mean that many of the major characters aren't quite as fleshed-out as one would wish after two seasons, and that is a technical flaw that's fair to talk about.

But the thing with an open canon that is still a work in progress is that sometimes you don't know what's a technical flaw and what's a "wait and see" until the thing is done. Maybe something that seems like a weird choice or that doesn't mesh with your (general "you" here) understanding of what the story was doing up until now actually is a technical flaw in the writing... or maybe you (again, general "you") have missed something in your analysis and the story is actually doing something different from what you initially thought and future installments will elaborate on what's actually happening.

I see this a lot because I have a habit of coming into fandoms either well after the canon is closed (seriously, my first internet fandom experience decades ago was for a show that went off the air before I was out of diapers) or when the canon is in its final chapters and very nearly complete already, so I will often go wading into the archives of fan writing and meta on the source material and see complaints people made about a series as it was airing and go "well this is nonsense, it's so obvious that X thing they were complaining about was a setup for Y that happened later in the season" but like.... you don't know that when you don't know what comes later because it hasn't been released yet.

That's a huge part of why, although I will always analyze and discuss and have opinions, I always try to remember to take my own thoughts with a grain of salt or two if I'm working with an open canon— you never know when a new development could completely upend your understanding of what's going on, and that's not a bad thing!

[bunniemothwrites]

hi moth!

i was a huuuuge fan of your "take the edge off" one shot. such a fan that me and my friend would routinely talk about it and sing it praises. i was wondering if you would ever plan on uploading it elsewhere? or if the removal was intentional and something had happened.

Looks like I need to update my fic index.

Take the edge off is still here, but since I reshuffled pseuds, some of the links on my index are borked.

[rokurookajima]

re: saw your yangvik tags on a reblog earlier

1. yes you’re gonna love them

2. funny enough i fear i’m starting to get invested in raava due to the yangvik parallels

3. my partner and i recently joked that the reason yangchen is Like That (aka a dom) is because she has wayyyyy more raava connection than the other avatars do and that is now canon in my brain so take that as you will

OH I KNOW THATS RIGHT!!!!

i definitely have. A Type with so many ships… i can tell they’re gonna fill that so good.

and i feel the same way the opposite because of nightmare’s yangvik/waava analysis post !! what can i say, i love a high strung dominant woman and a pretty boy that worships her and looks like he whimpers (and i think kavik is a thief at some point too right? perfect). i haven’t even read the books yet but that’s also canon to me, when the time comes i’m going into it with those goggles on - reading yangchen as extremely raava coded.. she is her mother’s daughter (i will always perceive the avatars as waava’s children, it’s the only interpretation i will take personally it’s everything to me)

also i totally did read your newest smut fic the other day because i CANNOT resist a man with a praise kink 🙈🙈🙈 beautiful work

and i love that you’re getting more invested in raava!! the fandom ecosystem at work :’)

[korrafitness]

I started lifting recently so I now look at your progress pics w a more informed perspective, and damn your arms are goals! That line between your delt and tricep is to die for 💪😍🫠🥵

Thank you for the anon msg, haven’t received one in a long time 🤠 I wish you many gains

[eye-lantern]

Do you think BOE names are foreshadowing?

Commander Wake, last name "oops there goes gravity", died falling from space.

Oh yes.

I never thought about this one specifically (her other names are great but I'll Comme back to them later), but I believe that the names always have at least a bit of a link to the true nature of the character or their role in the story.

I don't think anyone in the tlt universe is able to understand it, except maybe John, as he does name people with the knowledge of what those names meant before he nuked everything. Like a twisted inside joke or a wish that it would "take". Kinda like some parents chose a name for it's associated virtues.

But on the other side, BoE has done kind of the same. They don't live forever and meaning will get lost over a myriad, so they tried to preserve their culture by giving names with meaning, but a lot of it is lost to them (I think they still have some context because a lot of those are way too close to their original meaning even if they don't seem to make any sense at first. They are the only one appart from God to use names like he does.

About Wake, I don't think anyone in BoE ever pronounced Wake's last names like in the song but there is no way Jod did not take psychic damage the first time he heard it. Because it is a stupid reminder of what he destroyed, and then erased from everyone he resurrected.

Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead:

From Shakespeare's Henry V, meaning "remind yourself of the great deeds of your ancestors". It speaks to Wake's strength and unification of BoE, she is the incarnation of the survivors or Jod's carnage, and of the rebellion's myriad of history.

But to me it also is a call for Gideon. The original sentence is meant to convince Henry V that he should raise an army to take back what is rightfully his, the throne of France. Gideon's heritage is the throne of god, and the command of BoE. We could say she took the first as prince Kiriona Gaia but she didn't do it by Valliance. To do that she would have to kill Jod.

"Awake", is also in a very simple way what she does, she has tried to wake Alecto, she "woke up" Pyrrah by giving her a reason to take control of Gide1n more frequently, she took control as soon as she was woken up as a ghost and became a revenant, and when her daughter's sword entered the mithraeum she regularly woke up as a dead lyctor. And she is of course the Sleeper, who won't stay sleeping. Like, almost on the nose there.

Kia Hua Ko Te Pai (let goodness flourish):

That one is a slap in Jod's face. He is at least mixed Maori/indigenous. This is a part of the Maori version of the New Zealand national anthem. New Zealand's beginnings were bloody and monstrously racist. Having the Maori version of God save New Zealand become an official anthem was the recognition of decades of fighting done by Maori activists for their rights, against the imperialism of the state. Jod's pretty recent ancestors have known that fight. And now he is that oppressing, cruel and inhuman empire. And Wake is throwing this reminder in his face.

If those choices are conscious from BoE then the choice of this precise verse could be used to ground Wake, ala "don't forget why you are doing this".

Snap back to reality, oops, there goes gravity

For BoE necromancy is a crime against nature, an unwelcome alteration of reality itself. And Jod is the incarnation of that. Killing him would make the world "snap back". It would also "kill" the sun again, creating a giant gravity well, absorbing everything in the system, or just disseapear, flinging the system all across the galaxy. Either way, gravity's gonna have quite an effect.

As the phrase comes from "loose yourself" by Eminem, it could also be taken as a reminder of the daunting task ahead and a way for Wake to steel herself and "take her shot".

And she, as you said, died falling out an airlock at the edge of space.

Our lady of the Passion:

This one may be one of the most fascinating. Sure she is passionate and all but, Pash is named after a painting, on of a madone and child. The lady in question is mourning the future suffering of her child, his Passion.

I think BoE names are codenames, given when entering service by a superior. Because Pash would not chose that name. But someone we know would choose a powerful sounding name while also being a sorrowful reminder of the pain this child entering a fighting force will face, Wake.

And suffer she did.

All of those are both a good fit if chosen in universe, but also include prophecies or dramatic irony. Seeing that House names carry that dramatic irony/prophecy too (Corona was almost called Cainabeth), I believe it is a intrinsic property of the locked tomb universe.

[gecsplaining]

How does it feel to be the only active blog that Spike the trainfucker follows

HE WHAT