Name - Swampy (Inside joke that became my online alias)
Age - 23
Pronouns - She/They
This is a blog for adults and will deal with adult themes and subject matter. I will trigger tag things upon request but I am not great at remembering things, so even if you ask for things to be tagged, it is possible I will slip up.
I'm a multi-shipper and can be persuaded to ship almost anything but my main ships are--
-VoxVal - Obsessed with them and they are the main focus of my blog and writing.
-Polyvees - Obsessed with them to a slightly lesser extent.
-RadioStatic - I don't necessarily ship them romantically but I am obsessed with them.
Things I Want You To Look At
My Ao3
My first VoxVal Fic
The prequel to that fic
A polyvees fic from Velvette's perspective that explores some of my Vox backstory headcanons
My ongoing VoxVal Hollywood au fic where they are messy and awful
An au I both like a lot and have written things for.
You can read more about them over on @raisedxbyxtelevision! Some things about their human lives are in flux, but overall, I was pleasantly surprised by how little I had to change them after Season 2. Thank you @valc0 for accepting my commission and helping me get Queenie, Thalia, and Buskin's designs just right!
Hot take but I don’t actually think Carol Sturka is a mean lesbian. She’s not mean. Yeah she pokes fun at her fans in private but she also keeps their fanmail and spends hours with them at signings. Yeah she complains to Helen a lot, but she still goes on their weird vacations and deeply values Helen’s opinions. All of Carol’s “meanness” would be called bluntness or humor or righteous indignation if she was a man. Why do people talk about her like she’s catty. Why are people perpetuating the idea that a woman being honest about her anger is mean
Imagine being an alcoholic and you’re surrounded by people who will give you everything you want forever and call it love. No matter how selfish or inconvenient or stupid. They have your wife’s memories but they can’t be her. Your wife wouldn’t love you like this.
fear NOT carol i know times are BLEAK and they all LAUGHED at your VLOGS but very SOON your ONE ALLY whose MOTHER you CURSED will be ARRIVING to TEAM UP and HIGH FIVE
I’m thinking of the complicated dynamic my oc, Birdie, might have with Angel Dust.
They’re both sexworkers and they’re both addicts, but Birdie was a runaway teen who was trafficked and forced into prostitution and Angel was the son of a Mafia Don who was probably at the very least complicit in some form of trafficking.
I don’t think they’ll ever do this, because it raises a lot of uncomfortable questions I don’t think the show wants to answer, but could you imagine if Hazbin Hotel introduced a child Sinner whose sins were genuinely grave and would be easily considered “hell-worthy” if committed by an adult?
Now do I trust Hazbin Hotel to handle such a topic sensitively? Not really. Do I trust the fandom to handle that level of moral complexity? Absolutely not.
quick reminder that you're actually not obliged to feel any empathy for someone who would have described your death as 'necessary' if the exact same thing had happened to you
I commissioned @emositecc to draw (and slightly redesign) my Hazbin OCs, Fineas and Ondine. These two are Vox's kids from his human life and they've been slowly taking over my brain for the past few months. Nepotism may get you a safe, comfortable life in Hell, but one thing it won't get you is a healthy relationship with your obsessive megalomaniac of a father.
So, now that we're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the start of RAM, I finally decided to write up a relatively short summary of the main plot of this AU. Vox whump, Vee angst, one-sided Radiostatic await below.
RAM (Randomly Accessed Memories) is a collaborative Hazbin Hotel AU based on the theory that Niffty is a former overlord that Alastor drove insane, and asks the question: What if he did the same to Vox?
Animation commissioned from @/__shmoki__ over on Twitter
Seven years ago, Alastor and Vox had their final battle. After fifty years of rivalry, Vox finally gained the upper hand; in a moment of desperation, he used his hypnosis against Alastor… and it worked. Briefly. Terrified of what Vox might do if he managed to gain power over him, Alastor lashed out and knocked Vox unconscious. He knew he had to neutralize Vox somehow, but he found himself hesitant to finally kill his old friend. Instead, he chose a different tactic.
Alastor took Vox to the basement of V Tower and began a broadcast, torturing him live on the air for all the city to hear. Valentino and Velvette, believing that the two were most likely at Alastor’s radio tower, rushed off to rescue Vox, unknowingly leaving him to his fate. After hours of torture, once Vox’s physical and mental defenses were lowered, Alastor was finally ready to enact his true goal: using his powers to reach into Vox’s mind and remold him into something more palatable.
Once the broadcast was finished, Alastor dumped Vox’s dismembered body in the lobby of V Tower and then vanished for the next seven years. Valentino and Velvette were initially relieved when they discovered Vox was still alive, albeit comatose, but once his body was repaired and they finally turned Vox back on, they immediately knew something was wrong. Vox had no recollection of the past fifty years; his memories of his life after his falling out with Alastor were simply gone. Worse than that, he appeared to be trapped in a perpetual state of channel surfing, unable to stay focused on anything for more than a minute and forgetting new information soon after learning it. On top of it all, Alastor was now the center of his world; Vox asked for him constantly, wouldn’t hear a word against him, and his only goal seemed to be to reunite with him.
Valentino and Velvette, unwilling to kill Vox but knowing that if anyone discovered his condition, it would put a massive target on all three of their backs, confined Vox to a private suite in the tower and told the public that he had died. Vox spent seven agonizing years locked away in the tower with only Vark for company. Valentino and Velvette visited frequently, trying to coax non-existent memories out of him or at least trying to build a new relationship with him, but Vox’s memory always reset after every interaction with them. Valentino fell into a self-destructive spiral upon losing his lover, taking out his grief and frustration on everyone in the vicinity. Velvette had no choice but to take on Vox’s role as CEO of VoxTek (renamed VTek) and spent the next seven years trying to project invulnerability to the public, even as she was overwhelmed with her new responsibilities, trying to ensure Vox was safe and taken care of, and dealing with Valentino’s destructive outbursts.
After seven long, miserable years, Alastor finally returned. Eager to see if his plan worked, he slipped into V Tower and, at long last, reunited with Vox. Vox was ecstatic to see Alastor again and begged him to rescue him from his “prison,” andAlastor happily obliged. Alastor was thrilled with his handiwork; Vox was once again the man he had known all those years ago. He finally had his friend back… right?
Alastor brought Vox along with him to the hotel, ready to begin a new era of their afterlives— one where Vox would never change and always do as he was told. Charlie and Vaggie didn’t recognize Vox, so saw no issue with accepting him into the hotel. Angel Dust and Husk, on the other hand, were fully aware of who Vox used to be and what Alastor had done to him but were forced to keep quiet by their respective contracts. Alastor assigned Vox the role of hotel handyman, and he and the other staff members settled into their new lives at the hotel.
Valentino and Velvette were horrified when they discovered that Vox had gone missing; they were livid when they learned that it was Alastor who took him and brought him to the princess’ new hotel. However, fearing that if they made a move to attack Alastor/the hotel he would simply take Vox and vanish into the ether again, they were forced to bide their time, waiting for an opportunity to rescue their friend.
Vox spent the next six months at the hotel, participating in the canonical plot of the show. His frantic, high-energy behavior, volatile memory, and habit of frying the electronics he was meant to be fixing often made things difficult, but hesoon found his place among the Hazbins. He became very close with Niffty due to their shared decade of death and the fact that they were the only people who understood how the other’s mind worked. Vox also ended up forming a friendship with Sir Pentious, who had been sent by the Vees to keep an eye on Vox and spy on the hotel. However, as time went on, things between Vox and Alastor became more strained. Alastor gradually came to realize that his plan hadn’t worked quite as well as he’d hoped. Vox was stuck in the past and saw him as his closest friend, but he wasn’t the person Alastor had once known. Vox’s erratic behavior began to grate on him, and Alastor eventually realized that he had liked the way Vox used to challenge him— now, he was little more than a sycophant or a needy pet. However, Alastor could not admit he had made a mistake; he was in too deep now, and there was no undoing what had been done.
This AU has multiple endings, but the one I consider “canon” consists of Vox participating in the hotel’s battle with Heaven and getting noticed by some reporters once the dust has settled. All of Hell now knows that Vox, the former Television Overlord, is alive and at the Hazbin Hotel. Charlie, horrified to learn what Alastor did to Vox and Niffty, kicks him out of the hotel. She contacts the Vees and starts trying to negotiate with them for Vox’s return on the condition that Valentino break his contract with Angel Dust. The details about what happens next are a bit murky, but in the end, Alastor disappears once again, and Charlie’s deal with the Vees goes through. Vox is returned to V Tower, although with far more freedom than he had before— all of Hell knows he’s alive, so why bother keeping him locked up? The mental block Vox has regarding retaining information about Val and Velvette lifts in Alastor’s absence, and the Vees are finally able to start rebuilding their relationship. It's different from how it was before– always will be– but that doesn't make it any less valuable. Change is inevitable, after all.
