now that we're finally moving on from the horrible shit post aus phase are we moving onto the incredibly random but super specific au phase? for example;
au where blake is that person who like never checks her voicemail and everytime she misses one of yang's calls yang leaves a really weird voicemail always starting with "you're never gonna hear this anyway" until they start getting really cute cause yang is falling in love until one day she's like "you're never gonna hear this but I think I'm in love with you" except what yang doesn't know is that while blake never listens to anyones voicemail she has never missed a single one of yang's because "I don't know its just always felt like I could never miss a word you say"
I am so in love with this volume because I am so in love with the way Blake Belladonna is finally allowing herself to love Yang, you feel me?
Blake has always had this love fer Yang, we all watched their slowburn unfold over several volumes, but she kept this love close to her heart and only let that affection slip through cracks of her walls and/or during dire life or death situations. The simple, domestic, everyday ways to express love? Holding hands just because and softer words spoken freely and casually? Blake couldn’t do it because she was still afraid.
Afraid to hurt Yang and scare her away with her affections, because she had hurt Yang so much already and couldn’t bear to risk burdening her even more. She had left, she had abandoned the one person who she trusted most, and she had to prove she was staying for good this time. They still had to repair their friendship first and foremost.
Afraid to be the one hurting for exposing herself, because love had burned her once so throughly before. She trusts Yang with her life, but that haunting nightmare that is Adam makes it hard fer her to trust the brightest thing in her life with her heart. Blake had to overcome the bullish knife hanging over her head before she could be in another relationship.
And then when these issues were slowly getting resolved, Blake still held back. Sure, there were more tender moments between them, but they were more brief and far between. Blake was still holding back because this slowburn slowdance was all she knew when it came to Yang. They had to focus on the threat of Salem, of Atlas falling, of all that. It was better to play it safe, now was still not the right time.
But then? But then Blake watched Yang die, and suddenly all those cautious moments of ‘playing it safe’ racked up to an indescribable amount of missed opportunities and regret. Suddenly waiting all this time for the ‘right’ time didnt matter at all anymore because Blake completely ran out of any time.
Blake isn’t going to hold back anymore, she’s finally comfortable enough to be who she always was deep down under those trauma walls, this openly affectionate silly goofy little book nerd who just wants to make her beloved smile, and she’s going to absolutely s h o w e r Yang with flirty tones and dumb jokes and longing touches and be such a dorky romantic because she doesn’t want to waste anymore time. As Weiss spoke fer all of us, it’s, “About time”. The ‘right’ time is right the fuck now screw that ‘not concerned with sands of time’ bullshit she wants to kiss this stupid pretty face and she WILL let Yang know. I think about Blake this volume and I’m just SO PROUD OF HER. Nothing like a little taste of death to push a slowburn along, huh? Seriously though, witnessing Blake’s arc come full circle to open up and be the person she once was before Adam crushed her into taking up as little space as possible, before she deemed herself as nothing but a coward and a fool, seeing her laugh and smile openly and shoot every damn shot she can- it’s so, so damn good.
Anyways, I am also in love with Yang Xiao Long having no idea how to handle Blake being incredibly openly in love with her. 10/10 watching experience, truly.
So besides Genetic Chronic Gay Disaster Diesease™️, we are adding Puppy Dog Eyes Towards The Woman You Love Most™️ to the list of ‘random shit Yang inherited from Raven besides great hair and greater tits’.
What I love about Cleo being Frankie’s first crush is them not knowing what a crush even feels like up until that point so like??? What’s their sexuality?? Bi, pan, demi? WHO KNOWS!!! All Frankie knows is that they’re a Cleo kisser and I think thats so cool, the cutesy baby gay first love of it all, esp with another favorite character of mine recently confirmed to have an undefined sexuality outside of being Blakesexual <3333
Frankie Stein 🤝 Yang Xiao Long
“Idk who I’m really attracted to but I am sure you’re my first love and tbh? That’s all I really need to know” @ super cool bisexuals shorter than them
Did your OTP have an entire Alice in Wonderland alternate dimension shipping them so hard it manifested in literal magic platforms and the sky changing into their signature colors and gardens full of white lilies- which represent rebirth- blooming as they kissed? No? Thought so.
shoutout to Arryn Zech fer voicing the gayest purple/black sapphics ever like call that shit The Birds and The Bees™️
This shit is just SO funny like rwby may be dead (fingers crossed it’s not tho!!) but it the fact that it posthumously infects other completely unrelated fandoms is so alfkskgkwkd to me
Hey can someone start making Villain Bumbleby art of possessed Kilgore!Yang and Negative!Blake from Ice Queendom kissing sloppy style while standing on a pile of bodies and the world crumbling behind them in ruin? They are EVIL and SMUG and AWFUL but the only thing not toxic about them is the love they have fer each other. White Fang leader Blake and her right hand man Yang, both immensely loyal to the other???
Give me dangerous female villains who can and WILL end your life on a whim all while smiling with stained teeth.
Give me “We’re protecting each other” taken to the absolute extreme, any soul stupid enough to try and get between them regretting that decision fer the rest of their lifetimes.
Give me battlebonded lovers who would burn down the entire world without a second’s hesitation just fer one last kiss goodbye, lips covered in the blood their enemies and everything.
Oh great bumbleby gods out there I need your help, I want to reread one of my FAVORITE bumbleby fanfics of all time that I haven’t read in over two years and can only remember that I THINK it was called smth like “the weight of memory” please if anyone has it I would be indebted to you forever it was like modern au bumblely exes who were together in college but broke up and eventually meet up again at like??? A wedding of mutual friends??? And its tenseeee with the flashbacks intersecting the present day scenes
Man I love the ship where one’s got shorter black hair and the other has iconically long, floofy as hell blonde hair and their eyes are the color of the other’s soul and the less hot-headed one calling their more defiance-laced partner ‘extraordinary’ is like a Wholeass Love Confession™️ and oh yeah they’re both traumatized sapphics but at least they’re canonically mega in love traumatized sapphics together
The gays have gone absolutely rabid over Blake’s almost hand hold and heartstopping, “How disarming” comment the same way the straights go feral over Mr. Darcy’s iconic hand flex and I can prove it with this bare bones edit (it’s me, I’m ‘the gays’):
Your honor. Your honor it’s about the hand holding. It’s about the reaching, it’s about the the stretching, it’s about the wanting the wishing the wondering the longing the YEARNING- it’s about the way my hands finds a way to fit in yours like it was always meant to be that way.