#hazbin commentary

[india422]

Carmilla being confirmed by Viv as a mother figure for Vaggi… Oh, I’m excited for the future.

[hulderet]

Some sketches I did of Charlie in my friend’s sketchbook! I’d have loved to work more on the foreshortening on the arm holding Alastor’s staff but meh. I really should draw Charlie more, she has such a great character design. (Yes yes, I’ll hear all of you screaming about the amount of red on her - but I follow the belief that Alastor and Charlie both follow narratives wherein the colour red represents specific things to them personally. I’ll actually write a whole essay on this if literally ANYONE asks lol.)

Other than her character design? I feel Charlie is an incredibly well-thought out and complex female character, and the main reason people don’t forgive her - is (imo) due to misogyny (conscious or not).

- That’s not to say there aren’t issues with Viv’s writing, though I don’t feel following a train of “I saw this opinion on the internet and took it at face value” to be conductive to media literacy, and I HIGHLY encourage people to actually analyse the source material rather than having a surface-level gander and simply deciding the opinion formed from that limited experience to be the end-all. (Though of course, this is a large overgeneralisation I’m making here - not all opinions come from the internet - and not everyone agrees to one “truth” when it comes to interpretation, though I felt as though it could be used as an allegory regardless.)

- I would happily elaborate on my thoughts about Hazbin Hotel’s weaknesses, but I feel like Hazbin’s strengths are never talked about, so here is at least one! The characters are ridiculously well thought through, and are written logically based on the life experiences they have, or reasonably would have based on their other characteristics.

Ex. Charlie wears a red suit not just because she is the princess of hell, but because red is the colour of the pride ring. She represents the sinners, she is THEIR princess. Dressing in the colour of the people that at best ignore her, and at worst hate her entirely - is also incredibly naive. Additionally, she wears a suit as a mask - bravado. It makes her seem more confident than she is. Perhaps you can understand where I’m going with this?

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Did not expect that to come tumbling out lmao, but regardless of whether you end up liking Hazbin or not, my hope is that you engage with the material with as much effort and diligence as you can.

- Hulder:3

[pianokantzart]

The Vees are living up to their reputed entertaining dynamic.

Also... Sir Pentious had better be careful, if he keeps behaving like this he might end up being a new blorbo.