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falling-red-petals · 6 years

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Okay, but for real, I’m super glad that that part of the fandom has more or less migrated to the "tag-that-shall-not-be-named.”.

Y’know the ones that...

a.) Will attack you if you have an opposing ship

b.) Hate any male character that isn’t Ren for often no reason other than “They have a dick/they get in the way of my yuri.”

c.) Accuse male characters of doing things they never actually did to justify their dislike, or dramatize what they did do in an attempt to villainize them.

d.) Have the double standard of ignoring all the shit their waifus do, even if it’s similar to something that they use to shit on the male characters. Especially bad if the female character in question does something worse than one of their hated male characters ever did.

e.) Claim they support the LGBT+ community but when discussions of certain characters possibly being non-hetero come up they’ll get pissed if you say any character outside of their yuri OTP. (One of the most jarring examples I’ve seen is someone claiming they only ship girl/girl ships and that they think boy/boy ships were “gross.” This person proceeded in another post to claim they were an ally despite, again, saying they thought the idea of two men being in a relationship was “gross.” No, just no.)

e-2.) Also they’re the type of people who’ll foam at the mouth if you say you headcanon Ruby as asexual because it “gets in the way” of their ship, seemingly ignoring that asexual people are fully capable of romance.

e-3.) When actual LGBT+ members of the fandom tell them they’re being irrational/sending a bad message/bullies/fetishizing different sexualities/[insert about a million other things] and that they should stop the bastards will then turn on the people they’re supposedly “allies” to and tell them they don’t have any right to say how LGBT+ characters should be presented even though they’re literally speaking to people who are LGBT+

e-4.) Just the misandry, biphobia, acephobia, heterophobia (and several others I can’t think of at the moment) that these fucking hypocrites spread around while claiming they’re allies??? Like WTF???

f.) Will send death threats if you have a different opinion than them.

g.) Over react to things before we get the full story/completion of an arc. (Calling Illia a “psycho lesbian” before that arc was even over/Shouting about Jaune and toxic masculinity even though his first major character arc was about him getting over that and becoming a better person as a result.)

h.) Not understanding that while Team RWBY are the protagonists, Team JNPR are the deuteragonists, and are also main characters and YES THEIR SCREEN TIME IS NEEDED WHY DO YOU ASK!?

i.) Saying that Kerry and Miles are “ruining” the show and subsequently claiming that they have a better idea of Monty’s vision than two of his close friends who had been helping him write the narrative since the beginning and who have said that Monty had left behind a ton of notes, including possibilities for JN_R and RWBY as adults. (Like most of them have probably never even met Monty face to face except for a few seconds at a con at most but then go around and shout that his friends, his brother, and his ex-fiance are disgracing him. Like, what the actual fuck.)

i-2.) Just using Monty’s death in general as an excuse to be a dick to his two friends who are trying their best to keep their deceased friend’s dream going. (Like seriously, the fuck is wrong with you?) (You’re lower than scum if you’re one of the people who are shitting on his brother and fiance.)

i-3.) Shitting on the animation staff for not being able to replicate Monty’s unique style of fight scenes, even though that’s entirely subjective, and ignoring the hard work they’ve put in to make the non-fight scene animations look amazing (which is something the first three volumes struggled with considerably due to tech limitations and budget restraints). (Like the scene in V4 where Ruby finds Jaune training at night is visually stunning, how do you willfully ignore that kind of progress???)

i-4.) Acting like the only thing important about the show is fight scenes even though it’s been character driven since V1 and then turning around and raving about the “lack” of character interactions (aka the lack of “moments” between their ship.)

j.) Try to claim that the character designs fetishizes teenage girls (the only characters that can be argued for this imo is Emerald and MAYBE Pyrrha. The rest dress like how you’d expect nearly college aged teens to dress in a fantasy setting), but then go ahead to draw and then post nsfw images of Ruby Rose and Oscar Pine, who are only fifteen and fourteen years old respectively.

k.) Go around telling other people that their ships are toxic and abusive when no such thing happens in their on screen interactions and then hypocritically ship pedo ships like Qrow/Oscar. (Yes, this is a ship that’s getting passed around that part of the fandom and it’s disgusting.) (Like Qrow is in his thirties [???] and Oscar is fucking fourteen!!! What is wrong with you sickos!?)

l.) Weep tears of joy whenever a female character shows emotional conflict/turmoil over something (which is often) but when a male character shows even a smidgen of emotion they get pissed and call it “man-pain.”

m.) Try to claim that you’re lgbt+phobic if you have a hetero ship that isn’t Renora or Arkos. Still do this even after members of the LGBT+ part of the fandom have asked them to stop.

m-2.) Claim that CWBY are lgbt+phobic despite the fact that several members of said crew, including VAs, are part of the LGBT+ community. This is especially bad when they shout at the writers for taking “so long” to confirm that a character (Illia) is LGBT when they’ve repeatedly stated that the characters are a.) going to discover their sexualities as time goes on like RL people do and b.) that they wanted to introduce these characters organically in hopes of avoiding the much hated “Token Gay” trope. (Only gets worse when that confirmation wasn’t for a member of Team RWBY and it became clear these fuckers only wanted a gay character for their ship and nothing else. Like I saw so many posts being mad that an important supporting character was gay but their OTP was still unconfirmed. All from the same people shitting on CWBY for taking so long. Like???)

m-3.) Also them trying to say that the appearance of lgbt+ people in the background (like the SSSN fanboy and the two cutie-pies with the weird bamboo-heart-plant thing) is queer-baiting when really it’s inclusive because it’s showing that yes, there are lgbt+ people in Remnant outside the main and major-supporting characters.

There’s so much more bullshit I could call them out on but I’ll stop here because this will be like twenty pages long if I don’t. Feel free to add what bs you’ve seen from them.

#RWBY

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