Yes Yes Yes New Real Life Pope Whatever. I Just Watched Conclave (2024) And Got So Hard I Passed Out

Finished reading the book and I felt compelled to summarise my thoughts on Lomeli/Lawrence

Somebody give this man a hug or something😭

so i started watching the boys

WTF why didn’t anyone tell me other people are lowky obsessed with this movie

some book armand descriptions that tickled me

inexplicably, reading helluva boss critique for which i had no context led me to getting into it

i do know why it’s because i’m a judgy bitch and i need to have an opinion on everything

ADWD and AFFC being concurrent books is really funny because people in essos will be like "I'm sure the lion queen is well aware of daenerys' dragons in meereen and is preparing the kingdom for when she decides to come for the iron throne" meanwhile cersei is having the crash out of the century because of a 16 year old who likes to play dolls with her son

Mundane things about my version of the Gatsby gang

Nick sometimes sleeps on the ground instead of his bed. He sleeps more soundly that way

If he isn’t needed, Gatsby sleeps in til past noon if he can, he has the WORST sleep schedule

Tom and Jordan- even if in the same room- will almost never engage with the other unless to talk about sports, the funny pages (something they both like reading), or to jeer at someone else’s expense between whispers and laughs

Meyer has that grandfatherly “Have you eaten? Are you hungry? Come let me fetch you something” way about him around Gatsby (he’s partially the reason Gatsby has put on extra weight but Gatsby himself over indulges in food)

Daisy is the only one who doesn’t smoke

But Daisy can throw back straight whiskey and keep her demeanor well enough(Tom likes that about her)

Daisy can actually shoot really well and knows how to ride side saddle (Tom REALLY loves that about her)

Nick and Daisy- despite being raised Catholic- are both atheists. Daisy won’t bring it and Nick occasionally mocks believers under his breath

Gatsby legally shouldn’t be on the road….

Gatsby will pronounce the same word differently throughout a conversation

Nick can’t hear that well out his scarred ear

Jordan has a strong sweet tooth

Gatsby has a fear of dogs

Tom is a momma’s boy, big time

Daisy doesn’t like blondes and that they get so much attention for being blonde

Despite seeming tough, Jordan scares easily. She would not last in a haunted house attraction

Nick studied Law before switching to English for his degree. That’s actually how he met Tom, by sharing some classes together. Despite arguing Nick should’ve stayed in Law, Tom does often ask how Nick’s writing is coming along

Meyer doesn’t like pets at all, just finds them dirty

Nick can’t pick Gatsby up but Gatsby can easily pick up Nick

Nick caught on quickly to Gatsby’s Sunday workout routine and spies on him from the foliage border between their houses. Gatsby does feel he’s being watched but never sees who it is

tysm for all the love on my other starlight drawings!!!!! here's some more fanart, featuring other characters this time :DD

Someone needs to beat Hyde with a pan until he is as flat as a fucking pancake

hazbin hotel review!

yeah, i’m late to the bandwagon. i saw the pilot when i came out, was fiercely praying for the rest of it, but fell out of love with the fandom tbh for a while. but it’s good to be back on the air!

solid 7/10 show. very fun to watch, enjoyable characters and musical numbers, and compelling visuals. misc observations below the cut; some of it will be critique, some of it analysis.

i really liked zestial but the writers switched between thou/you so inconsistently and even incorrectly

carmilla was a compelling character, but i don’t think they can give her that moral code and also make her an arms dealer. why wouldn’t she want war? why wouldn’t she want to sell the only weapons that can aid demons in this war? “i need to protect my family” wasn’t enough of a motivation for me. they could’ve easily given her a different profession and it would’ve made perfect sense. i also didn’t like her hands.

favorite characters: alastor, vox, lucifer, charlie

least favorite characters: cherri bomb and,,, im sorry,, angel dust

favorite/least favorite status comes from how interesting or annoying they were for me to watch, not which ones were the most sympathetic (i thought angel was quite sympathetic, just poorly written)

angel mostly just got on my nerves in the first half of the show because every bit of dialogue was either a sex joke or exposition about his trauma and why he is the way he is. but mostly just talking about sex. and they gave him jack shit to do in the second half of the season. i think conceptually he’s a great character but in execution there’s not a lot of depth to him; they need to give him a personality beyond his profession imo

alastor’s best moments came ‘seeing him in action’ like in his songs and the scary animation moments (those were soo good). i also really liked the cannibalism town scenes with rosie. i often thought his dialogue was lacking and they sometimes didn’t do a great job separating things he would say from generic things any ‘vivziepop character’ would say (‘i’m going to fucking kill you’ or whatever he said to adam)

charlie could be grating at times but i feel like all in all she was a solid and sympathetic protagonist and kept me rooting for her the entire time

one aspect i really really liked is the fact that no one knows what gets souls into heaven. i think that’s a good way for covering the lack of a cohesive standard of moral degeneracy in hell—most people just drink, fuck, and do drugs. the murderers and cannibals make sense, val makes sense, etc, but most actual characters in hazbin and helluva boss seem to have an inherent understanding of right and wrong that is quite standard. i really hope the criteria for salvation is explored further—is it conservative christian values? is it something else? is it predestination? is it haphazard? this is really really interesting to me!!!

furthermore, the fact that sir pentious died and went to heaven is obviously a sign in charlie’s favor that redemption is possible, which paints hell as more of a purgatory or even ‘second earth’ than a traditional christian hell. i wonder what god/jesus will be like in the hellaverse. i’m half predicting a sort of wizard of oz situation

my only other theory is that by the end of the show a shift will have occurred from charlie focusing on reforming souls to get into heaven and instead on reforming souls and hell itself to be a better place