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1 million people are required to sign, but there's barely 100k. The form takes less than a minute, it only requires your ID, name and surname.
Please, help spread the initiative so that it can reach the goal ASAP!
The Plush Campaign is Finally over, with over 500 sold~
As promised….
Spicy Shiro 👁️
and if you turn to ur left you’ll see the emos
Do you think the handwringing over Zelda changing back at the end of TOTK is rooted in the idea of "dying for a cause" or the obsession with punitive media? As in, a character who undertakes a drastic action like sacrifice MUST face consequences (i.e., death or similar punishment) in order for it to have impact or meaning? Essentially killing off Zelda would have been a disservice to her after all the development she went through and all the people she befriended post-BOTW, especially considering she avoided "inheriting a kingdom of nothing" like her father warned her. It would have been an emotionally vacant and cruel ending for her.
I think not only the obsession with punitive media (although why they might think Zelda would deserve to be punished is beyond me), but the glorification, in literary circles, of tragedy and suffering, and the corresponding conviction that hope is naive and unqualified happy endings for immature audiences. Victory, in this view, must always come at a steep price, and any remuneration of losses suffered makes the price not steep enough.
Something I really like about both Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss is that while romance is a big aspect of both shows, they aren't actually all that much about characters falling in love so much as they are about BEING in love. Or rather, in a relationship.
Just look at how many romances are already firmly established at the start of the respective shows: The M&Ms and Fizzarolli/Ozzie in Helluva Boss, heck the main heroine of Hazbin STARTS the show already in a loving relationship with her partner.
And as for the two major developing 'slow-burn' romances, those are clearly not about something as simple as two characters 'having to admit their feelings' but rather more about two people needing to work and figure out an actual relationship with each other.
Heck, Blitzo and Stolas are technically already in a relationship, just a super messy and dysfunctional one that can't continue in it's current state and needs both members to work out something better. Meanwhile Angel and Husk have more or less made their mutual attraction fairly apparent at this point, and it's clear that any real challenge in building a relationship will come in working through their respective issues.
There really aren't any major romances in either of these shows that are the standard, straightforward 'these two just need to admit their feelings and have a big confession and everything's great' love story. Instead they're much more about people in or figuring out actual relationships.
And I think that makes them both feel like something really special.
It’s a shiny rock, what’s not to like?
It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.
I want to see a sci fi universe where we’re actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.
How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldn’t be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare “animal” races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?
Like that old story “they’re made of meat,” only we’re scarier.