#win rambles

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just a pro tip, if you ever feel the urge to say, "wow I wish [mental health issue] could be treated like [physical health issue] because then it would be taken seriously" I Promise you it's not

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The entire Brighter sequence actually rewrote my brain chemistry like i'm still going insane over it. Like I'm used to horror and gore, I've gotten really into horror this year, watched a lot of horror movies, did every haunted house at horror nights, but still that fucking sequence was still probably the scariest thing I've seen in a long time, particularly the death scene at the end! It was genuinely SO chilling and disturbing. Despite all the violence we've seen in both shows, I don't think I've ever been that horrified watching Hazbin or Helluva before holy SHIT I saw someone talking about how it really emphasizes how tonally different the two shows are and they're SO RIGHT because it's not like Helluva Boss hasn't had scenes that are just as violent and gory if not more so, but it's always played as a gag and I rarely bat an eye, but EVERY MURDER DURING BRIGHTER WAS SO FUCKING CREEPY and it all leading up to that ending, the gruesome animation, the way everyone in that room died with him, his agonized scream that echoes afterwards.... holy fucking shit

anyway best villain song ever, Christian Borle the man that you are

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I need you all to know that no matter how hard i try to convince my brain not to, this is how I am picturing Jeremy while I'm reading the Sunshine Court:

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neil and andrew really did match each other's freak

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some of my initial thoughts on the Hellaverse crossover trailer (minus ones that I've already seen a lot):

I did predict that this would be the announcement, and I'm overall happy about it, I think it's gonna be good for indie animation, especially having Viv maintain creative control! It does suck how some people won't be able to watch the episodes right away due to not having Amazon, but our fandom is pretty decent with fandom etiquette so I'm hoping that people will be chill and tag spoilers and stuff

I noticed Angel Dust was absent; one of the only hotel residents not included (the other being Nifty) but what worries me more about it is the way that as soon as Blitz started to say his name, Charlie looked panicked and shushed him and told him not to spoil things. So. that has me Wondering

Along those lines, Vox was the only villain/antagonist character AND the only non-hotel resident character from Hazbin to be brought in, and considering Blitz was proclaiming this being family and such, it def makes me wonder if that could be hinting at a future Vox redemption arc

I also just really appreciate the commitment to staying canon compliant, everyone's designs matching up with where they are in the show (like with Stolas's outfit, Blitz using the crystal) Which is why I wouldn't expect someone like Pentious to be there, since he's in heaven. however, I do reeeeally wonder about Vox's inclusion and Angel's exclusion

That's all for now! I'm sure I'll have more thoughts, but these were things that jumped out right away!

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so as a former employee of RMS Titanic Inc, I have some thoughts I need to get out about this whole current situation, or I will literally explode.

for context, I worked for RMST Inc. for a year and a half as a tour guide and artifact specialist. The company owns the salvage rights to the wreck site, and partners with Oceangate and other companies to retrieve artifacts. the artifacts are used for educational purposes only, in the museum that I worked at, although they weren’t above selling little bits of coal from the Titanic in stupid little tchotchkes like snowglobes and hourglasses.

i dedicated so much of my life and passion to that company and that museum and was treated like absolute dirt lol. and I didn’t even get the worst of it, I had friends and coworkers whose safety and wellbeing was consistently disregarded for the sake of profit, fighting desperately for corporate to stop pretending to care about the legacy of Titanic when all they really cared about was making money

so despite my initial shock at reading about what was going on with the missing submersible, I can’t say I’m surprised. This is what fucking happens when you cut corners and put profit over everything else. If only there was some big historical event that we could look to that would show us just exactly how dangerous that can be...  oh wait.

Jack Thayer, who was 17 when he survived Titanic, said that “the world woke up on April 15, 1912″, which pretty much sums up how SURE people were in 1912 that they would never make those same mistakes again. They realized had gotten complacent and swore things would be different. They enacted safety laws, pointed fingers at survivors, created conspiracy theories to try to explain what happened, all out of fear of it happening again. And yet, history always repeats itself

and now people are fucking OBSESSED with the Titanic, they find it fascinating,  they won’t fucking leave it alone, and the company I worked for, and Oceangate, and others, capitalize on that because they’re greedy and want to make money off of it. all they care about is how to profit off of it. they PRETEND to care about Titanic but they don’t. They never did.

I also actually have a personal connection to one of the five members of the team in the submersible. I met P.H. Nargeolet at the event our museum did commemorating the 110th anniversary of the sinking, I spoke to him and heard firsthand some of his accounts of dives to the wreck site, I even took a picture with him. He cared, he cared so much about Titanic and its legacy, and so do I and so did so many of my friends I worked with. The company we worked for took advantage of our caring, it took advantage of how passionate we were about it in order to line its executives’ fucking pocket

I’m horrified, I’m devastated, I’m vindicated.

on the one hand, I hope this ruins them. i want to watch the company die. there’s a satisfaction in that. but the shitty thing is how much suffering has to happen for things to change. i just wish good people didn’t have to die to make change happen. I wish people cared first, before tragedy strikes. I wish our world wasn’t so fucked up and shit like this didn’t happen. But it did. And it does. And money won’t save any of those people any more than it saved John Jacob Astor or Benjamin Guggenheim, or any of the other rich greedy assholes who died on Titanic. I’m not celebrating their deaths. But I won’t ever forget who suffers the most. The coal trimmers and the stewards and the minimum wage guest service associates at the museum I worked at.

I’m glad I don’t work there anymore. But some of my best friends still do. And I don’t want them to suffer more because of this. All I can hope is that it enacts meaningful change that actually lasts. But I know that’s just wishful thinking.