Debunking The 'Stolas Does Not Actually Like Blitz' Argument That For Some Reason, I Keep Hearing.

Confession

There is not a single ship I like for Severus. Im sorry. It makes reading Severus centric fics so hard but i genuinely dislike every single Severus ship idek why

@throwthemanaway Dont get me started on the " Severus' whole life revolves around Lily" thing omfg. And facts ! why would Lily move passed something as serious as that. It doesnt make any sense

What are some Severus hcs that you guys dislike?

"Severus TOBIAS Snape" irritates me to no end lmao

A lot of Helluva boss fans are so caught up in their hatred for Stolas and Stolitz as a relationship that when Blitz eventually does express his true feelings towards Stolas they will 100% complain and find a way to call it out of character and misogynistic writing or whatever other crap they spew nowadays. (As usual they blatantly ignore Blitz tearing up when he said that what's "between them" is just "Stolas wanting Blitz to fuck him" as if that's not a glaringly obvious sign towards his romantic attraction towards Stolas)

An arrow to the heart

welcome back to me making up dynamics that dont exist

I was looking through the Helluva critical tag today and I had some thoughts about how Vivzie writes her traumatized characters after seeing others complain about it. The way that Vivziepop writes her traumatized characters is so infuriating to see as someone who has "ugly" trauma symptoms and it reminds me of how writers tend to approach writing traumatized characters who don't have "soft" symptoms in general.

There is definitely a place for representing traumatized characters with anger issues and personally I'd love to see this actually done well without demonizing nor avoiding accountability for the character. However, Vivzie cannot hold her characters accountable, because if she does, then it takes away from them being her sad soft uwu babies. Loona physically lashing out at people is just seen as a funny joke instead of something Loona has to actively work on. Blitzo SAYS he's going to change how he treats Moxxie in Truth Seekers, but he never does and the show continues to treat Blitzo's behavior either as a joke or as just something for the audience to go "uwu so sad" at. Angel Dust out of all the other characters is the most tolerable to me personally, and I understand that we really only know how he acts from the pilot and the Addict video. However, I agree with other people that sometimes he acts way too aggressive and he isn't held accountable for that by anyone except Vaggie, but the audience is just supposed to laugh at Vaggie being mocked for no reason. I hope that in Hazbin the writers make him ACTUALLY complex, and give him a mix of kind and standoffish moments while showing his journey to opening up and being more friendly to people. I don't want him to be another Blitzo and it would be a shame if he went to waste.

It feels like writers, mostly neurotypical ones, don't know how to write these types of characters without either implying that they can never heal or making them avoid accountability. Even characters who I enjoy like Catra have issues with them. Catra gets held accountable in season 4 when Adora and Scorpia leave her for good, and she has to earn back Adora's trust by sacrificing herself for Glimmer in season 5. However, the show makes her redemption arc last for only one season, so everyone is forced to completely forgive her in a short amount of time when it would have made more sense for everyone to save her from Horde Prime, but still be cautious around her before fully trusting her. The season also doesn't even focus a lot on Catra getting new coping mechanisms other than Melog, and it feels like Catra's personality and symptoms change too quickly.

I'd love to see a story have a character with anger issues from their trauma or any other trauma symptom that's seen as "scary"/"ugly" (control issues, doing things to push others away because you think you don't deserve them, etc.), but actually handle it properly. It feels like stories will either treat the characters as a lost cause or act as if everyone is mean for not wanting to be bullied or outright abused. It is not a Vivziepop exclusive problem, but one that makes me upset to see in any context. If writers can't even handle writing general trauma victims or characters with PTSD who have "scary" or "ugly" symptoms, then I'm very scared of how writers in the future will tackle other lesser written mental disorders that are often caused by trauma (BPD, ASPD, etc.) My biggest hope is that more people who actually experience these symptoms (who don't excuse bullying people with them) will write characters with these issues, because so far it seems like I can only find other mentally ill people understanding the nuance properly.

An incomplete list of HP fans that I would like to stay away from me forever:  

People who say that James Potter wasn’t a bully

People who say that Sirius Black wasn’t a bully

People who say that Severus Snape wasn’t a bully

People who think James Potter’s horrific bullying should be excused because of Sirius’s throw-way comment that ‘he grew up’ to a horrified Harry

People who think Remus Lupin was a saint and didn’t do the bad things he did/that they don’t matter

People who call Snape abusive but give a free pass to McGonagall and Hagrid

People who let Sirius away with trying to murder Snape, and using Remus - who’s greatest fear was to harm someone as a werewolf - to do it

People who downplay the severity and seriousness of the crimes committed by the Marauders against Snape

People who think Snape – an innocent child – deserved to be bullied/abused/almost murdered because he grew up to be a bully (???I wonder how that happened????)

People who think Draco Malfoy should be excused his bigoted beliefs because his parents were bigots

People who think Draco Malfoy should be excused his vicious bullying of Harry, Ron, and Hermione for their inferiority/poverty/abuse/fame

People who act like Draco was an innocent child brainwashed by his parents in a war that he never believed in/never wanted to be in and who sought desperately a way out, rather than the bullying + bigoted child who realised that he wasn’t cut out for murder/didn’t want to kill anyone/wasn’t a fully bad person, in a bad situation, who turned down help so as to keep all the glory of being a murdering Death Eater for himself, who was neither a soulless monster, or a scared child hiding a heart of gold, but a complicated and cruel boy who did bad things but wasn’t purely evil

People who seriously think that Snape was a bigot his whole life

People who condemn Lily from ending her and Snape’s friendship after he calls her a ‘mudblood’

People who think Regulus Black was a cinnamon roll

People who seriously think Snape was ‘friendzoned’

People who fcking call Harry ‘whiny’ in fcking OotP fcking hell

In general, people in the fandom who look at the characters in only a black-and-white mentality, either only seeing ‘good’ or ‘evil’, rather than the complicated, 3-Dimensional characters they all were, leading them to either condemning them for the bad things they’ve done, or pretending the bad things they’ve done don’t exist, or are their victims fault.

Sydney Sweeney as Cassie Howard Euphoria | 2x04: You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can

should have drawn the handcuffs