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#every time i make a story theres 3 main characters who all suck tbh
kradnie · 3 months
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made a new oc btw her name is Lolya feel free to ask about her
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lesbiten · 3 years
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I can't seem to read ANYTHING fiction rn that isn't DW, DW adjacent, or scifi that's been on my to read list forever BUT. Hypothetically if I am ever capable of reading anything else ever again, what's the best reading order for WC for people who were too busy rereading Percy Jackson for the 87th time to read it before. Most skippable books? Least skippable books? Will cat Ianto be enough to convince my brain that WC is DW adjacent?
first of all. yes cat ianto DOES mean wc is dw adjacent and i will die on this hill <3
anyways i would definitely start with the prophecies begin arc aka start with into the wild. i feel like all 6 books in that arc are super important for world building and understanding how clans work etc etc. the authors still didnt really know what they were going for when they wrote this arc and it makes it? better? in a weird way? also it has two of the coolest and funkiest villains in the entire series (being scourge and brokenstar)
(anything below this point is just me rambling LMFAO sorry i didnt realize how much i typed)
the second arc (the new prophecy) is kind of boring and sucks and like. yes it has very important and permanent plot stuff in it but the only book thats rly good that i remember is sunset...
the third arc (power of three) fucks ummm like every book is good i think. characters are cool the story is fun and it makes me want to eat concrete like every good book series should
the fourth arc (omen of the stars) every book is good except sign of the moon which made me stop my reread originally because its literally so fucking boring
the fifth arc (a vision of shadows) is ok..........the villains kinda make it worth it but kind of not ? shattered sky is really really good but the rest of it is kind of forgettable.....
the sixth arc (the broken code) is ongoing. however so far it is definitely my second favorite arc and its fucking insane!!!!!! really good writing compared to some of the other books imo!!!!!!!
the dawn of the clans arc is the Best and most well written arc imo!!!!!! i definitely wouldnt start with it but its kind of like a prequel for the whole series. like shows where all the clans came from etc etc and thats where clear sky is from!!! unfortunately the least likeable character is in fact the main protagonist (hes kind of just ...... boring and annoying hsdfbdshfsbd) but i think the plot and rest of the characters make up for it!!!
the super editions are very hit or miss. same w/ the novellas. here r my recommendations
good super editions: bluestar's prophecy, crookedstar's promise, tallstar's revenge, HAWKWING'S JOURNEY (this one explains a lot of whats going on in the fifth arc and imo is like.....way more fun to read than that whole arc HGDBGH),
okay super editions: firestar's quest, yellowfang's secret, moth flight's vision, tigerheart's shadow, crowfeather's trial, graystripe's vow
PLEASE GOD SKIP THESE: bramblestar's storm, skyclan's destiny
the novellas r a bit harder to assess bc some of them i really havent read since i was 11 but like. uh. tbh id say all of them are worth a shot EXCEPT for spottedleaf's heart. fuck that book and fuck everything that happens in it and fuck the authors for writing it <3. other than that i either think theyre pretty good or i just dont remember the events that take place HDBHFDBSFHSD
theres other stuff like the graphic novels and fields guides but i have already said. so much
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neopuff · 4 years
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OKAY I’ve finished Love Death & Robots, so here’s my short review/summary of each one where I also rate them on accuracy to the show’s title:
"Sonnie's Edge" - excessively violent. setting is neat. animation was cool but watching a lesbian get stabbed and then get her head stomped on repeatedly isn’t fun.
Love Rating 2/10 (there were tits and make outs) 
Death Rating 10/10 (plenty of on-screen and an off-screen death) 
Robot Rating 8/10 (there was robotic tech but this felt more like futuristic monsters than robots...)
Overall I give it a 4/10
"Three Robots" - really fun! it was funny and charming and cute. animation is nice. Josh Brener and Chris Parnell do some voices...yeah. it was fun!
Love Rating 0/10 (no sex? no romance? alright) 
Death Rating 7/10 (no death but lots of skeletons) 
Robot Rating 15/10 (robots!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Overall I give it a 9/10, would watch again
"The Witness" - this one is really cool. like, i dont know...its cool, i enjoyed it a lot. the animation is amazing i LOVE the style and the character designs were nice.
Love Rating 8/10 (lots of sex and idk. erotic dancing. lots of tits and bush) 
Death Rating 8/10 (yeah. well. yea? not gory but it was there and it happened) 
Robot Rating 0/10 (i recall no robots)
Overall I give it an 8/10 only because there were no robots
"Suits" - a LOT better than i expected! animation was cool, story was interesting, characters were lovable. i highly recommend this ep though it is sad its very good.
Love Rating 10/10 (many emotions. no tits and no sex but much love) 
Death Rating 10/10 (a good emotional onscreen death. quality storytelling style) 
Robot Rating 10/10 (lots of robots!)
Overall I give it a 10/10 but its still not my #1 favorite it just gives you everything the show title says it will
"Sucker of Souls" - ehhh. like the animation was really cool and the cat stuff was funny but overall its just pretty boring? character designs uninteresting story is blaaahhh. best part is Gary but she doesnt make up for how boring the rest is. 
Love Rating 0/10 (some cats fuck at one point but thats it) 
Death Rating 12/10 (everybody dies)
Robot Rating 0/10 (were there robots???? there were draculas. so many draculas)
Overall I give it a 2/10 but really its just boring
"When the Yogurt Took Over" - this one is fun. i mean, its only 6 minutes long and it was funny and entertaining and the art style is neat so yeah id recommend it to anyone.
Love Rating 0/10 (i recall no love) 
Death Rating ?/10 (genuinely cant remember if anyone dies but the economy collapses so thats significant) 
Robot Rating ?/10 (i think the yogurt was mutated rather than filled with nanobots soooo...no robots? idk)
Overall I give it a 7/10 cuz it was fun
"Beyond the Aquila Rift" - too confusing to be good and yet also somehow pretty good? animation was nice and pretty. greta is hot. but i dont know, something about it felt like....lazy. the story was lazy.
Love Rating 8/10 (we get tits and sex right on screen) 
Death Rating 0/10 (i dont think anyone dies?) 
Robot Rating ??/10 (really hard to say. very matrix-y story so whats a robot? whats not? who knows bitch)
Overall I give it a 5/10
"Good Hunting" - :( this one is really sad and violent. theres a lot of tits including i believe on a very young character??? but it wasnt in a sexual context but still kind of uncomfortable. anyway the story is interesting and good but mostly just REALLY sad. theres a scene where you watch a guy saw off a girl’s legs while she screams and even tho it only lasts a brief moment it really gets to you.
Love Rating 10/10 (i know liang and yan dont actually get together but their relationship was really good) 
Death Rating 10/10 (plenty of death, thats for sure) 
Robot Rating 9/10 (yea! robots! but in a sad way)
Overall I give it an 8/10 because the story is interesting but the girl character just goes through every possible kind of torment and even if things end up alright it still hurts to watch
"The Dump" - i just didn’t really like this one. it was sad and kinda gross and didnt really give me anything to work with. the animation was cool at least.
Love Rating 1/10 (man and pet love? idk) 
Death Rating 9/10 (two deaths at least, and one implied animal death? or we see a dead dog? or something? i dont remember) 
Robot Rating ???/10 (i mean...is otto a robot? i dont think so??? i dont know)
Overall I give it a 3/10 cuz i didnt like it at all
“Shape-Shifters” - yeah this one should not have been boring but it was. the characters were fine but i feel like US Army stuff just makes my brain turn off (then again, i do love gi joe, so who knows). anyway the werewolf soldier concept i guess could be interesting but, again, it just wasn’t. it sure was sad though.
Love Rating 8/10 (those werewolf soldier boys were kind of, like, pals) 
Death Rating 10/10 (lots of death, for suresies) 
Robot Rating 0/10 (werewolves are not robots)
Overall I give it a 6/10
"Helping Hand" - so, like, this one is super boring unless you like watching someone floating in space and then ripping their own arm off with realistic crunches and screams. the girl was cute at least.
Love Rating 0/10 (she sure didnt love her arm) 
Death Rating 0/10 (she didnt die, so) 
Robot Rating 0/10 (no robots!!!!)
Overall I give it a 4/10 cuz the animation is cool and the girls design is good but it had none of what the show title promises
“Fish Night" - this one was cool but weird. Yuri Lowenthal plays a guy who gets eaten by an astral space shark. so i guess theres some anti-shark propaganda but it sure LOOKED cool.
Love Rating 0/10 (i guess old guy and young guy were close but not close enough for me to care) 
Death Rating 10/10 (yea) 
Robot Rating 0/10 (i mean...there was really cool astral space ocean thing whatever but it wasnt robots)
Overall I give it an 8/10 because i liked it a lot
"Lucky 13" - i wanted to like this one cuz of Samira Wiley but it just wasnt very interesting. it had potential but tbh it just wasnt memorable? i remember how it started and how it ended but nothing in the middle which isnt a good sign.
Love Rating 2/10 (cuz she loves that ship? i guess) 
Death Rating 9/10 (yeah. i mean, yeah) 
Robot Rating 0/10 (i could be remembering wrong but i have no memory of any robots)
Overall I give it a 5/10
"Zima Blue" - FAAAAAAVE! FAVE FAVE FAVORITE!!!! i fucking LOVE this one i watched it twice cuz i loved it a lot. really really great and it was done in the style of Motorcity/Tron: Uprising which made it even better. a really cool story and just fun to watch and interesting and charming. really really enjoyed it.
Love Rating 10/10 (a love for ART!) 
Death Rating 10/10 (two deaths and one was on screen and very sad but non-violent) 
Robot Rating 10/10 (yeah!!!!!!)
Overall I give it an 11/10 because i love it and want everyone to see it tbh
"Blindspot" - zzzzzzzzzzz. i mean ok it wasnt terrible but it just wasnt interesting. girl robot’s design is cute at least.
Love Rating 0/10 (some sex jokes but thats it) 
Death Rating 9/10 (fake deaths) 
Robot Rating 11/10 (yea its 100% robots)
Overall I give it a 3/10 cuz i was bored
"Ice Age" - this one is really funny and charming BUT the animation is almost...TOO realistic? uncanny valley or something. it looked like live action and it was a little weird but its fine cuz it was really really really good and just fun to watch. funny/charming/cute you name it!
Love Rating 7/10 (main couple seems to be in love or whatever but its not relevant to the story) 
Death Rating 10/10 (an entire civilization dies and starts over again, so) 
Robot Rating 8/10 (i mean...at the end of the civilization there was something robotic going on or something idk it was cool looking)
Overall I give it an 8/10 cuz i just really liked it a lot
"Alternate Histories" - this one is funny!! nothing really special just a bunch of funny shorts about how hitler sucks. a lot of these movies went for a hyper realistic animation style so this one is a nice change of pace.
Love Rating 1/10 (one of the shorts has a lot of fucking but that one was just kind of uncomfortable) 
Death Rating 10/10 (how many times can you watch hitler die? a whole bunch) 
Robot Rating 4/10 (future hitler appears in a robot suit at the end, so, like, i guess?)
Overall I give it a 7/10 cuz it was funny
"The Secret War" - okay so initially this one was super boring to me but it REALLY kicked it up a notch towards the end. i ended up rewatching it because i wanted to fully take in everything before it got good and yeah i liked it a lot. 
Love Rating 8/10 (family love no sex no titties no romance) 
Death Rating 16/10 (yeah. its a lot of limbs being ripped off and a guy shoots himself in the head) 
Robot Rating 0/10 (there were monsters and airplanes but no robots that i can recall?)
Overall I give it an 8/10 because there were no robots
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scarletrebel · 7 years
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a thing about rw.by
this is a whatever. not a meta or a theory or really a well-thought out critique. if anything I guess im just voicing my frustrations. if you like rw.by, please, please dont read this. you wont like what i have to say and i am in no way looking to upset rw.by fans, i just need a good old fashioned shout into the void. theres some things i liked in here too that actually came out whilst writing aha, so its not all my bullshit.
my main gripe with rw.by at the moment is the lack of character development for ruby rose. you know, the main character? which i think is the reason why my heart breaks a little that i dont love it as much as i used to. i identified so much with ruby. a little girl with a heart too big for her brain, who just wants to protect and help, having to come to terms with the fact that the real world doesnt make noble goals like that easy? thats my childhood right there. 
the latter is something that hasnt been touched on as far as ruby rose’s character development goes until this season, and even then it hasnt really been touched, or lightly brushed, its been mentioned. ruby thought saving the world wouldnt take that long, that the world wasnt as big as it is; she apologises to jaune for dragging jnpr along with her. all INCREDIBLE MOMENTS I was really happy about, but they werent expanded upon. it was like the writers wanted to hit a checklist of ‘make sure the audience knows ruby is naive and sad but hopeful’ rather than making it more engaging to learn about as aspects of her character, which is just lazy storytelling. 
show, dont tell. they’ve done that with juane. they’ve shown that he’s upset about phyrra’s death, they’ve shown him get mad at the situation and with qrow. he’s never outright voiced these things about his character like ruby has about herself, and we all knew she was a little naive. season one, weiss accusing ruby of being a bad leader and them showing the audience ruby trying to get better was so much better than just having her be like ‘im a little naive but ill fight for the greater good!’ like she has so blatantly been this series. 
like, why would she not get mad at her own uncle for keeping her in the dark about someone wanting to kill her?? ruby’s what, 16 at this point? 15 at the least? would she not at least be a little bit annoyed, and would that not show some character growth on her part if she was? my naivety ended, personally, when i stopped trying to be so dang optimistic, (this can become more complicated to explain, as obviously you still have to have hope in the world while keeping a level head and ruby is still young, but, thats another conversation) and if that moment hasnt happened for ruby after 1. penny dying 2. phyrra dying 3. her uncle keeping important information from her 4. her sister having her arm sliced off 5. her friends being split up from her 6. nearly dying to a foe way more powerful than she is, even with her silver eyes -- then when?! 
and lets just get it out of the way -- i dont fucking hate juane. i really, really like him as a character but i just fucking wish he got less of a spotlight because so much more attention is being payed to him and his journey and how everything affects him over ruby. it just is, and it sucks. i like theorising about his semblance, im pretty certain he’s really fucking powerful just like ruby is, but if he unlocks and masters his thing before ruby does i will be so pissed, and the only reason i say that is because it feels like thats the way its headed. 
juane is a lovely character. he’s heroic, he’s actually quite brave and smart, and he’s a good fucking friend. he’s a brilliant support character. but for the love of all that is holy, focus more on ruby when they’re in the same scene. about how he’s helping her on her journey, why could they not have had one conversation about phyrra on screen is my question. they did it really, really well it season one, and i was very loud about the fact that no, juane doesnt get more screen time or attention, but during season four it feels like he -- like everyone that isnt ruby or the other three titular characters -- has over ruby. 
just, please, rwby season five -- give ruby rose more character development. prove me fucking wrong and reveal that you were playing the long game, please.
also; i havent watched the last two episodes, but if it turns out the ‘’’cure’’’ to yangs ptsd is a new arm. fuck, man. please no. but i cant really comment on that yet so, we’ll see. i actually, up until seeing the preview for her spraying her arm and all that, really liked yangs journey. and taiyang is such a sweetheart i adore him. he was so patient and gentle and loving with yang, a few moments had me cringing but overall, an enjoyable part of the season. i hope yang gets to punch adam in the face. 
blake’s journey is one ive enjoyed also. and tbh, i think sun following her and thinking she was on a personal mission to take down the white fang is a very sun thing to do, and i think blake surprising us all by saying no im not gonna do that is a very blake thing as well. sun is spontaneous, carefree to a point and very dedicated to taking down bad guys. projecting that onto blake was his mistake, and im really glad that blake is the one to voice the audiences frustrations at how annoying it is that he follows and harrasses her into taking action (even when a part of us knows that she should -- a really, really well written aspect of blakes journey actually, i really liked it) (sun really needs to have a ‘okay im being a creep im really sorry’ moment but i dont see it happening. again; prove me wrong, guys.)
blake so, so needed to see her family. im glad she could see that and im not surprised that she wanted to run under the guise of ‘resting’ like. come on blake, we all know you’re scared shitless. her characterisation was on point, probably the most out of the four girls. blake was a+ in this season and im really happy about that, come to think of it aha. i hope she gets to punch adam too.
weiss im satisfied with too, although i really wish that ironwood and her got to talking. he didnt necesarily need to save the day for her, i would think that a guy fighting her own battles -- even if it is a ‘good one’ like ironwood -- would irk her, so it wouldve been nice for them to talk. (im still fucking salty about juanes ‘you can have her’ to neptune like lmao fuck off you fucking dudebros THAT WAS SO ANNOYING anyway) weiss being able to call off the thing she summoned before it hurt the lady would be a sign that yeah she’s getting strong but she’s learning control, so. shrug. 
papa schnee is an asshole, where is mama schnee?? and i FUCKING LOVED THE PLOT POINT THAT HER DAD MARRIED INTO THE FAMILY. please let this be an opening for a badass but subdued for Reasons mama schnee (although my hope is not that high)
my main, number one, OVERALL problem with rwby since the end of s3 to s4 is that they dont give the characters that need and deserve the most time and attention just that. i know its a small crew, i know that what they do and the time they do it in is amazing and admirable, and i do admire it and applaud it, they work so fucking hard and deserve praise for that. but they dont use their time wisely when it comes to assigning it in the narrative. and thats more of a writing issue, anyway. 
and another fucking thing. the majority of the interesting characters that arent the main four and are alive and have been developed or made mysterious enough to warrant interest from the audience are fucking men. and yeah, no duh jade, welcome to every piece of media for fucking ever. qrow is an asshole that everyone loves, raven is probably going to turn out to be a bitch -- the majority of salem’s ‘court’ or whatever are dudes. ironwood. ren got backstory over nora. blakes dad. adam taurus. for all that i love him, fucking juane. did we learn anything about phyrra that wasnt her explicitly telling us her backstory? no. we felt sad that she died because of her connections with other people, but, lets face it, mostly juane. im still adamant that she didnt die just for him, that she knew there was a bigger picture and genuinely loved him, but from a narrative pov him and his reactions was a bigger focus point especially in the aftermath with season 4. 
(ruby fucking unlocked an ANCIENT POWER BECAUSE SHE SAW PHYRRA DIE AND SHE DOESNT GET TO HAVE THE SAME EMOTIONAL SCENE ABOUT IT THAT JUANE GOT??? PLS LAST TWO EPISODES. GIVE HER THAT AT LEAST. PROVE ME WRONG.) 
i remember at a rwby panel at rtx one year, when asked about making a series that has four female protaganists, the guys said that they didnt see it that way, that they were just writing a story about a bunch of kids and yeah, i get that. but its not. 
its a story about four strong, tested, young women and they need to stop being oblivious to that because the narrative is fucking suffering. 
end rant/
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