Been watching that new Hazbin Hotel show as it's coming out (🏴☠️) and I'm pretty disappointed with it. I'm not super familiar with the Everything about it, but I remember watching the pilot way back when and liking the premise.
I hadnt kept up with it after the pilot because I wanted to see it with fresh eyes. Now that the show is coming out, somehow I feel like an outsider watching it lol. It presents a lot of concepts, but it just assumes the watcher is already familiar with the characters, and it makes the pacing reeeeally odd. It's all payoff, no buildup (unless you count the years fans had to wait for it as 'build up'). I feel like I REALLY need to look for supplementary material to understand what's going on,, like.... why was there a whole emotional power ballad for a character who was only introduced 10 minutes prior?? Was I supposed to know who she was?😭 (her heels were cool though)
Tonally it's strange, too. It feels like an adult show written for teenagers a lot of the time, which is the BIGGEST disappointment. I was really hoping for more thoughtful explorations of the characters, but we really only get that for Angel Dust and like .... no one else lol. (Sir Pentious is the 👏FUCKING👏BEST👏)
Charlie and Vaggie feel ESPECIALLY underbaked. Considering how overtly sexual the show is, it's SHOCKING how little chemistry they have. Like, it's not there at all. I watched the show with a friend who had no knowledge about Hazbin Hotel whatsoever, and during episode 4, she asked me,"So why is Vaggie helping here?" which I feel is the best example I can give for how poorly developed their relationship is.
I like the music. The song transitions are usually really jarring (Respectless and Hell's Greatest Dad come to mind) but the songs themselves are usually bangers. I'm a big fan of Loser, Baby.
The designs are ..... not for me. But that's not necessarily a criticism. A lot of the character designs feel very dated, but I respect them for sticking so hard to the aesthetic they present, even if its not for me. I wish there was more outfit and body type variety in the characters, but literally EVERYONE says that, so I'll just leave that there lol.
Overall I think this show is a shining example of why """"filler"""" episodes are so important. If this were a 12 or even 24 episode season I think it'd be way better, but as it is, they're trying to cram like 15 different character arcs + a dramatic overarching story into 8 episodes, and it's really REALLY suffering for it.
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I noticed your hair seemed to be shorter, if it brings you comfort-- cutting hair mostly represents an end to a chapter, cutting bad memories or simply change, so hang in there! :)
Only until summer break I fixed to cut the rest completely. I felt more than comfortable and dyed it with my favorite color! And you are completely right about those analogies, because since then - I've been back on track to improving and putting myself out of my comfort zone.
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I am commenting math artist Fomenko"s book "Mathematical impressions" with random quotes that pop up in my mind - and my own artwork and partially related stuff.
(This book gives me incredible joy.)
"I think of my drawings as if they were photographs of a strange but real world, and the nature of this world, one of infinite objects and processes, is not well known. Clearly there is a connection between the mathematical world and the real world.... This is the relationship I see between my drawings and mathematics." Anatolii Fomenko, in the Introduction
[Well said. He describes it like I would describe it myself. ]
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Fomenko" s words on page 11:
["As individuals, we are so small that we can see only a small part of this larger world, which is sufficiently bigger than our capacity to understand it. But through mathematics, we can get some general sense of what this larger world is like, though we certainly cannot understand all the details. That is simply impossible."]
My "comments" below:
At the center there is a picture with black background and a quote by Ian Stewart on the left:
If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.
And my drawing with an impossible object from 2014 on the right.
Glued on that centered picture is a folded black-white photo of a page from my book "Mathematical landscapes" (I published it in 2019 in German as well as English under the publishing company united p. c. ) - besides the German version of the book. It is folded so only a quote is visible:
The depicted quote of my book says:
"Could you even recognize the entire picture if you only saw a few pieces of the puzzle?"
[The title of the text this quote belongs is "Islands".]
In the left corner is another one of my drawings from 2022 (last year): A puzzle piece with the quote:
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts, because it contains both the parts as well as the interaction patterns between the parts. "
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i think women. should be able to conduct frightening experiments with power unchecked if that’s what they want t o do. who am i to say what a woman can and can’t do
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