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lilithfairen · 1 year

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I didn't bother doing a post on the previous episode of Fixing RWBY, but I can sum it up in two points:

Celtic Phoenix at one point makes a (pretty witty) joke about Pyrrha's bedroom being "spartan" in style. This is then ruined by him saying that he can't make many jokes because he's "streamlining" the volume. This is said during an episode of events that are entirely of his own creation and do absolutely nothing to further the plot whatsoever, continuing this trend of grinding the plot to a complete halt in Argus.

The episode focuses on JNR and Roman/Neo, and highlights the fact that Celtic Phoenix doesn't write groups of friends as squabbling assholes who can't get along for five seconds when those groups don't consist of multiple women. (Reminder: Celtic Phoenix added wholly-unnecessary and stupid drama between Nora and Pyrrha in his rewrite of the Beacon arc, creating hostility specifically and solely between the two women of Team JNPR.)

Now that we've gone through that, Episode 17 is about Team RWBY trying to get their friendship back on track! Because remember, streamlining! (Also this entire arc of Team RWBY being Women Can't Get Along is entirely of this misogynistic asshole's creation.)

Anyway, Ruby starts off by talking about how much fun she had with Team RNJR, continuing the trend of Ruby treating RNJR as more of her Real Team than RWBY. Ruby decides they'll all go to the beach!

Except it's freezing out, as the others point out.

Celtic Phoenix really has This Thing for writing the main protagonist of a series focused on female characters as a complete fucking idiot, and I have a solid idea why.

Anyway, afterwards they go to a cafe to warm Ruby up. Weiss whines about Yang drinking her tea hot, because again, Celtic Phoenix being a stupid fucking misogynist. Weiss offers to pay, but then passes the bill to Ruby, and somehow a bunch of drinks at a cafe are super expensive. This makes total sense.

Ruby then says that they can't go shopping afterwards then, so they go to a nightclub. In the middle of the day, when it's empty. Ruby messes up her dance and hurts herself, which makes all of her friends laugh at her(!!!). Yang calls Ruby "Rubes", which makes it even less subtle that Celtic Phoenix ripped off plot details from Volume 9 for his shitty rewrite.

They have a good time, and mock Weiss for not being able to dance(!!!). Somehow Ruby thought their day went poorly, probably because her friends haven't stopped being Women Can't Get Along. But then there's an alert from Cordovin!

They race over to find a bunch of Grimm having broken through the wall, plus a bunch of sliced-up soldiers and Huntsmen. Guess who, it's Adam! So Team RWBY run away from him on their vehicles.

Yes. Because literally the only fucking way Celtic Phoenix can make Adam intimidating is to treat the main heroines of the show as being utterly helpless against him.

And Adam chases after them. On foot, jumping from car to car. Their plan is to lure him to the military base. There's a fight scene, Adam gets unmasked and Weiss is made to care about this psycho piece of shit Celtic Phoenix wants you to care, he then kicks everyone's ass, and then he gets unceremoniously taken out by Cordovin with a cattle prod.

Really.

So, let us repeat: This guy who is so badass that Team RWBY flees in terror at the sight of him and is so badass that he can 1v4 them has been effortlessly taken out by

one drunk guy

one little old lady

But our protagonists aren't allowed to stand a chance against him.

Probably because they aren't a.) military, written by an alt-right POS or b.) men, written by a misogynistic POS.

And all of this is so desperate to make Adam this unstoppable hyper-badass who's so psychopathic and yet somehow you should feel empathy for him because his mom was abused. Celtic Phoenix so desperately wants Adam to be a badass that he proceeds to write him as an entirely uninteresting and pathetic antagonist. He just shows up to be an asshole, that's literally it. If Celtic Phoenix thinks Adam is somehow sympathetic by letting a swarm of monsters into an inhabited city, then Celtic Phoenix himself might very well be a psychopath too.

Volume 6 knew well enough to leave Adam until the end, because it understood tension and drama. It understood that Adam was a terrifying antagonist not because he was more powerful than Team RWBY combined, but because of the kind of hateful, abusive, obsessed psychopath he was. It allowed him to appear at the most dramatic moment possible, ambushing Blake when she was solo and vulnerable. He was pathetic as a person, yet terrifying in his desperation to harm and abuse Blake and Yang, and being strong in the ways Adam was weak was how Blake and Yang overcame him.

Here? Adam is a boring psycho who just shows up whenever Celtic Phoenix wants him to, everyone acts like he's the most badass person in existence, the titular heroines are reduced to helplessness in order to make him look threatening, and then he gets his ass kicked in the most anticlimactic, unfulfilling manner possible.

Because Celtic Phoenix is an incredibly shitty writer.

#fixing rwby #rwby critics #i feel like i may not say this enough #but fuck this “rewrite” and everyone involved in it #every name attached to it is an endorsement of its puerile and pathetic misogyny

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elektra121 · 6 months

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Dear Yuletide Writer 2023...

It’s this time of the Year again...

Dear secret Santa,

this year I wish for world peace more than ever! If for some reason you can’t deliver, I’d be delighted about a sweet little story, too! ;)

Things I really like to read (about):

Happy endings. Period. It may be old-fashioned, I don’t care. It’s christmas, after all. J Name dropping, historical events dropping (is this even a word that exists?). Slash, especially femslash. Historical accuracy – or, at least not blatant inaccurancy. People who are good at heart. People who are interesting/special (in whatever way). People who manage to be good at heart and interesting/special (in whatever way) at the same time. (Why do so often the baddies end up being the only interesting people)? The sea. The seasons. Wordplay and banter. Colours and clothing. Nature. Wittiness. Little moments. The weather. Characters that have deep respect for each other. Characters that are competent at things (but not to a nearly-impossible, „genius“ degree). Characters that are open-minded.

Things I don’t mind at all:

Religion in general and christianity in special. POV/ first person narrator. Consensual Sex (in whatever form). Rainbows.

Things I don’t like to read (about):

Sad endings. No, not even if they’re called „bittersweet“. Graphic violence. Injustice. Bashing of religion. Non-con. Characters dying. Slapstick. Parents who don’t love their children. Friendships or relationships that come apart.

Please. I mean it. Honestly. Even while mentioning all of the above, I had too many Yuletides getting stories about main characters dying (twice! because of time travel), mothers that despised her children, friends that took their farewells forever, characters seriously debating killing babies ... And no, however much some people would find this cool and edgy - I’m not one of them. I’m a hippie at heart! Please, please, love and peace and pancakes (in the end), even if only at Christmas. :)

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Things I love about my fandoms - and some questions and plotbunnies to hopefully give you some ideas:

19 Century CE German writers:

Two years ago, while I was teaching about German Romanticism Writers I really became interested in them. They were such nerdy guys - all of them! And so much of their lives sound like they were taken from romantic novels themselves: dead parents, living at old castles or near a moor, being unhappily in love with each other, having dark secrets, dying of consumption ...

I absolutely like Annette von Droste-Hülshoff best! Because if you read about her in any literary history book (or even wikipedia), she seems like *the* most boring writer ever. Which couldn’t be further from the truth! Only that she very much valued her privacy... with burning letters, inventing tricks like little letters inside of letters, using ‘male’ speakers in her poems, self-censuring her writing to the point of being in danger of not getting across the message. Or, plaing demure Catholic noble lady, exploiting all the stereotypes - which, sadly, backfired into later generations taking them for truths.

So much about her is so worthy to be digged out: her being bilingual from childhood (since she was so small at birth, no one believed she would live, so she was given to a wet nurse who spoke French and called her Annette), her shortsightedness to the point of being legally blind (yet she wasn’t allowed to wear her glasses outside of the house because glasses are “ugly” and the sense of life, as we all know, for women is being pretty), her rap battle roast (well, isn’t “Stegreifreimen” more or less a kind of rap?) of the Brothers Grimm when she was only 15 (and, by the way, she may have been the one who told them Snow White and the Story of the Youth who went forth to learn what fear was), her being a badass natural scientist, trained singer and even composer (even if, to this day still, not a single note by her has ever been performed). Even if she suffered her whole life from bad migraines and other chronic illnesses (a food intolerance, maybe). Or that she was the only German writer who tried something like Catholic Enlightenment literature in her - which mostly got ignored like so many other texts by her. And speaking of “the only one” - besides Heinrich Heine (who, as a jew, had a very personal interest in it) she was the only Romantic writer who, in “Die Judenbuche” wrote against Anti-Semitism.

And of course, all the major queer vibes she gives with her many lady friends (Amalie Hassenpflug even got buried beside her and Adele Schopenhauer fumed with jealousy over a possible blooming relationship between Annette and Adele’s girlfriend, Sibylle Meertens-Schaaffhausen) and rededicated poems (”What do you mean, this poem is about my ‘lady’ friend?! I’m sorry...?! Of course, it is dedicated to my publisher! I really do not know what you’re insinuating here and I don’t think that thing is appropriate to discuss with a decent unmarried Catholic lady like myself.”). It seems crazy to think that even today, this is nearly never mentioned at all in articles or books about her. Because of cause, famous writers have to be gold standard hetero, each and every one, don’t they - and anyway, being queer was not yet invented? And surely, her not marrying was because her heart was broken after her family destroyed her relationship with her boyfriend in the “Jugendkatastrophe” - and of course she never tried her luck in love e v e r again after this. Sigh...

There is so much more I could mention... like, for example, her early (for lack of a better word) environmental awareness... yet, for now, lets free some plot bunnies, shall we?

I’d like to read about her childhood and youth. Some episodes that foreshadow things that will be important in her later life, maybe? Or what really happened in all of those holidays at the Haxthausen house in Bökendorf, with the Brothers Grimm whom she hated? What about her first ball where she got to know that ‘feminist’ writer Katharina Sibylla Schücking that she instantly was so fascinated with (the diary of Annette’s sister Jenny complains that Annette “nearly did not dance at all and only talked with that woman all night”)? Or write about her hiking in the moors, about how a normal day would have been for her. Or how some of her works came into existence. Or some censored (and uncensored) correspondance - (most of which, of cause, got destroyed by her family)?

I’d like for it to be at least a tiny little bit queer... would be such a waste if not! ;)

Das Fräulein von Rodenschild (Annette von Droste-Hülshoff)

Even if I have a lot to do with German literature professionally, I only came across this ballad relatively recently. And I love it!

It would lend itself nicely for a backup fandom, since it is only a ballad with not much (if any) context to it. You can read it here: https://www.droste-portal.lwl.org/de/werk/lyrik/ausgabe-1844/balladen/das-fraulein-von-rodenschild/

I have to say, however, that my headcanon derives from the self-censored earlier version in which she kisses the ghost. ;) Because I very much got the vibe the Fräulein von Rodenschild is a lesbian female ghost huntress in the Middle Ages (or, alternatively, in the Early Modern Era or the early 19th century). And I’d absolutely love for a story about such a woman!

Some ideas:

What is the emotional distress our hero is in in the first few lines? “Schwül” and “siedend(es) Blut” sounds very much like an unfulfilled desire, does it not? ;) What does the ghost want? Why is it there? Is it even a “real” ghost - or some psychological phenomenon? Does our heroine have experience in handling ghosts? Where from? What do the peasants think of her? How does she come to the idea to kiss the ghost? What happened to her hand? What is so very “toll”/”crazy” about her?

Feel absolutely free to merge the heroine of the poem with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, who wrote it to impress Adele Schopenhauer - only to have her judge that “the FRäulein von Rodenschild” got punished to little!

The Sea-Wolf (Jack London)

Maybe my love of the sea may have been arisen partly from watching the German/French/Romanian mini TV series (1971) as a very young child.

If it so happens that you know it, too – I’d be delighted if you write in that canon, where both men know each other (or, at least, Van Weyden does) from their youth. I loved the soundtrack and the wonderful sailing ship and how Van Weyden fells in love with the sea, harsh and beautiful beyond compare, and becomes his true self even under cruel circumstances.

They both make for wonderful slash, don't you think? ;) But please no violence (opposed to story as a whole) or non-con. I don't care much how far they would go (write as much as you feel comfortable or what seems right for you) - instead more for the mutual, grundgingly admitted respect and appreciation that blooms into something more or finds ways to be expressed.

Maud is a very interesting addition to the equation – she makes them all a real triangle, because there is genuine interest and respect and a shared love for literature and not to forget a whole lot of UST between all of them. And Maud is such a great character! She doesn’t need to be the “strong” female to be strong in her own right. She is much more emancipated and feminist than a lot of “wonder women” out there.

So, I absolutely can picture some kind of threesome polyarmory – but it doesn’t have to be one, could also be like a POV from each of them. Or a couple that tentatively explores their interest in the third party? So many possibilities!

And while I’m absolutely aware that the book (and the mini series) goes very deep into philosophilcal and ethical questions about what friendship is or the nature vs. nurture debate and so on… I’d be absolutely happy with good old porn, too! :P

Prince Ahmed and the fairy Pari Banu (Arabian Nights)

This fairy-tale was something special to me when I was a child. I completely identified with the sorceress. How cool to be so competent that they send you as a spy to complete a dangerous mission? And what exciting and amazing mission to spy on a mighty fairy! Also, I didn’t quite understand the tingly feeling when I pictured myself as the sorceress amazed by all the glory of Pari Banu… until much, much later in life. 😉 Pari Banu, who is everything fairy(-tale)- like: has powers and riches seemingly without end, a brother who is a djinni, a kingdom (queendom?) made entirely out of women, that puts even princes in awe, a queen that seemingly can read minds and do magic, the ruler of animals and weather phenomena. Just… wow.

So please, give me a story about that sorceress and let’s just forget about her gruesome ending in the fairy-tale, will we? Surely that was some kind of mistake with the translation…

If you’re comfortable with it, make it Sorceress/Pari Banu, I would love to hear a story that somehow has them both together. I’m relatively sure that not only has the Sorceress any cause of being in awe with the Pari Banu, Pari Banu herself may also be quite delighted in a woman that is clever and cunning and not afraid of danger and may or may not know herself some kind of magic? There’s such a great backstory slumbering within… - don’t you think?

So, after all that rambling - I hope I could get you some ideas! May the muses be graceful! Have a happy Yuletide! :)

#yuletide #dear yuletide author #secret santa

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lynmars79 · 5 months

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No Spoilers Review - The Olympian Affair

Just finished Book 2 of The Cinder Spires, The Olympian Affair. It picks up during/right after the recent novella Warriorborn, though that's not necessary to understand the novel's plot. Does show how and why Benedict gets a Cat name, though.

Picking up 2 years after The Aeronaut's Windlass, Spire Aurora seems to have come up with a terrifying new weapon as Spire Albion prepares for war. Spire Olympia hosts a diplomatic summit, also including some of the other Spires, such as Atlantea--which seems poised to ally with Aurora. Albion's representatives must navigate treacherous schemes politically, socially, martially, and magically in a race against time to secure the information and alliances needed to win the day, let alone the oncoming war.

More of Grimm's POV, more of Espira's, more of Bridget's. Duchess Abigail Hinton joins the POV cast; she's lover of Commodore Alex Bayard, Grimm's best friend since their Fleet Academy days--and one of the few people who was present and knows the truth about how and why Grimm was drummed out, which gets explained in this novel. Abigail and Alex are both duelists which forms a cornerstone of the plot and some of the stresses inherent between them and other characters.

Gwen is now XO of Predator, learning from Grimm. We learn how and why he initially received the ship from Bayard. Benedict and Bridget are courting, Ferus and Folly still aid Predator. Espira, his warriorborn sergeant Ciriaco, and (Grimm's estranged wife) Captain Calliope Ransom, find themselves wrestling with the dangers of Madame Cavendish and her warriorborn attendant Sark, versus their own consciences. I like Espira a lot; he's a man of loyalty, faith, honor, and principle, and it's all tested here. He was an antagonist in the first book, and while still part of the Auroran military, his role is different in this novel.

We don't get Gwen's POV (except for at the end), nor do we get into Folly's head this time. A number of new characters--many of them women--appear, including a much less treacherous love interest for Grimm (Piker Admiral and warriorborn Captain Ravenna), another dangerous etherialist who has rank in another Spire, the sister of Olympia's leader--and Abigail and her assistants. I liked Abigail right off; she's extremely socially and politically aware and rather badass in many ways. She makes difficult choices for the right reasons, even when it might cost her everything she cares about.

The Olympian captain from the first novel makes a cameo appearance to talk up Gwen in front of her father (one of the diplomats) but then vanishes again. You'd think we would see more of him given his home Spire is the central location of most of the action.

We also get a trip to the surface and some of the inherent dangers present in this mutated world. It's mostly follow up to the novella and tying up loose ends, creates some random complications for a character, and in the end...is really there to give certain characters something to do and an excuse to be at the climactic scenes while not actually contributing much narratively beyond a ground view of horror and a relationship shift that could have come in other ways.

And more hints that this is a far future alternate Earth, where some sort of disaster hit--and there may have been outside influence to that. Some story elements of Dresden bleeding through? We'll see I guess. There's a map of the various Spires and some colonies that looks awfully suspiciously North America-like, if heavily altered.

We're left on a cliffhanger and several other unresolved situations that make me think the next story is picking up right off the end of this story; characters in a precarious situation might get rescued in another novella, or at the start of the next full novel. And I really need to know what happens with one of the romantic pairings, as they're going through some roughness due to certain choices. Some characters are going to deal with some permanent physical changes, and one familiar character does die (can't say it was entirely unexpected, though I still cried).

But there's some happiness too, and bonds of friendship and various kinds of love. A lot of hope. Some wins, even amid losses and setbacks.

And the Cats, of course. Still infuriatingly delightful, as they should be.

EDIT: Oh, there's a bit more racial diversity at least mentioned as a thing in the novels; Atlanteans are also noted to be typically dark-skinned, and a few other characters in their descriptions. It's vague but there, or at least left to imagination. More than I can say for anyone who isn't straight, as the characters reactions and assumptions are all pretty stereotypically straight, as is usual for Butcher, I've so far found.

#The Cinder Spires #The Olympian Affair #Warriorborn #Jim Butcher #Captain Grimm #Francis Madison Grimm #Gwen Lancaster #Benedict Sorellin-Lancaster #Bridget Tagwynn #Abigail Hinton #Renaldo Espira #Rowl #Folly #Efferus Effrenus Ferus

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ironwoodprotectionsquad · 2 years

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Your self-absorbed pathetic hero-wannabe was always written as a flawed person and those flaws caused him to spiral into his eventual fate. No one cares if you can't accept that because he's a manly badass and those stuck-up women dared to disobey his god-given authority as a man.

Anon the only thing pathetic here is this ask. All you can do is screech about how wonderful the mains are without actually discussing what in volume 8 they even did to show that. And the only reason you didn’t is because you can’t because you know RWBY where lazy asses the entire volume but you can’t be bothered to admit that so instead you send asks like this trying to make yourself feel better about the situation rather then being willing to take a look with a critical eye at the show you’re worshipping to a worrying degree.

Let me ask you this, what part of me saying, “oh geez it’s hypocritical of the mains to refuse to tell James anything when they lost their shit when Ozpin didn’t and it’s also kind of fucked that they committed treason because they wanted to stand and fight but instead of that they sit around the mansion drinking tea” is me implying my issue is James being a man and him being automatically right because of that? Like really anon? Are we really resorting to pulling insults out of our asses and hoping no one notices how ridiculous they sound?

I would also like to ask how searing the flesh off of his own arm in order to stop a known terrorist is him being a “hero wannabe”? The mains have never had to make a choice or sacrifice like that so from where I’m sitting your precious mains are sitting in the “hero wannabe” zone as they sip their tea and tsk. If they actually where fighting in Mantle to protect people and not moaning and groaning for what little time anyone was giving any shits about the people needing protection from Grimm we’d be having a different conversation. But canon gave us Weiss complaining about not sleeping and Yang visibly groaning when told more people needed help. They threw a fit about leaving Mantle behind then turned around and did it themselves. THATS pathetic.

#rwde #james ironwood #ironwood protection squad #pro james ironwood #pro ironwood #general ironwood #general dadmiral #dadmiral ironwood #fans behaving badly #fndm toxicity #toxic fndm

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godofsexdrugsandrocknroll · 3 years

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Jaune’s Father: “Walk the walk Jaune and talking the talk will come natural”

Jaune: *Stunned by Pyrrha kissing him*

Pyrrha: *About to shove Jaune in the rocket locker*

Jaune: *Feels Pyrrha’s hands on his chest, misinterprets and shoves his tongue down Pyrrha’s throat*

Pyrrha: *Eyes open in shock* MMMMPPPHHH!!!!! *Flustered by her naughtiest dreams coming true*

Jaune: *Enjoying the kiss, grabs and squeezes Pyrrha’s asscheeks*

Pyrrha: *Squeals, tries to push Jaune off*

Jaune: *Thinking Pyrrha’s about to push him into the locker and run off to die, panics*

Pyrrha: *Pyrrha’s brain shuts down as Jaune’s thigh rubs against her core, loses the ability to stand upright*

Jaune: *Spins, pushes a dazed Pyrrha in the locker and sets it off*

Pyrrha: *Already three hundred feet from Jaune* W-what, no! No! NOOOO!!! *Incredibly angry* Gosh flipping darnit girl, you l-let him get you all riled up and now he’s going to get himself killed!

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Jaune: *In an elevator* This is officially the stupidest idea you’ve ever had! Even worse than the stuff with Cardin, worse than the Deathstalker, worse than the time you took the blame for Coral breaking the window and somehow, someway, worse than the time you let Saphron put you in a dress, do your makeup and practice kissing a ‘girl’!

Elevator: *Shakes ominously*

Jaune: *Pale* I mean you just had your first real kiss with a girl, you felt her ass up and holy gods does Pyrrha have a nice, tight, big one, you’re still hard as diamonds and instead of running from the school that literally had a hole burnt through it by some kind of fucking firebreathing Grimm abomination, you go in! *Elevator goes into freefall*

Elevator: *Jaune’s screams replace screeching metal, crashes*

Jaune: *Climbs out, unharmed but aura has shattered* There’s got to be a limit, Jaune! Sure I turned Pyrrha to putty in my hands but that should not translate into running headfirst into certain death! Stupid Dad and his stupid advice! *Is hit in the head by a cane* Fucking ow! What the shit!?

*Witnesses Ozpin firing a gout of emerald fire that clashes with two huge streams of fire from the hot Haven girls hands*

Jaune: Oh what the fuck. And here I thought walking the walk was gonna be cool. Stupid Pyrrha. *Ducks underneath a scintillating jade orb thrown by Ozpin which vaporizes the elevator leaving nothing behind, in a falsetto* ‘Oh I’ll just kiss him and he’ll be so surprised and then I’ll shove him in a locker and go do something that’ll probably get myself killed. Teehee!’ *Breathes out* Not that I’m doing any better. The hot but apparently crazy Haven chick can fucking fly and - is that a tornado, ohhhh I’m gonna die - and Ozpin’s...

*Sees Amber*

Jaune: Is going to go to prison because this is a sex dungeon. Okay, Okay, you’re cool. Sure it was unanimously decided Pyrrha was going into the singles portion of the tournament and you nearly broke your neck twice getting down here, but something tells me sad Pyrrha has something to do with this. *Pauses* Which makes me wanna punch Ozpin, but question the pedo headmaster after you help!

*Sees Ozpin get a glass spear through the left lung*

Jaune: *Quickly* Or not. Okay, she’s monologuing, that’s good. Sneak, sneak, sneak-sneak-sneak. Blah, blah, magic? Really lady? Add delusional on top of crazy. Just get in closer, give her a nice kick to the ass and Ozpin will use his weird green themed semblance to obliterate her. *Hears Pyrrha mentioned* Ignore the urge to kick the dying sicko in the nuts, just focus on hurting the crazy chick who was apparently gonna kill my sorta-kinda-maybe girlfriend. Just nice, slowly, easily, quietleee-- *trips over his shoelace* --EEEEEEYYYOOOOPPPP!!!

Cinder: *Coughs wetly, stares at the sword sticking through her chest* H-how...?

*Cinder falls on top of Ozpin, her body crushed between the Headmasters and the shellshocked Jaune’s*

Ozpin: *Confused and dying* Mr. Arc?

Jaune: *High pitched* IswearIonlymeanttokickherintheasssoyoucouldfinishhereoff!

Ozpin: *Coughs* I believe you. Unfortunately it was not to be. You pierced her straight through the heart.

Jaune: I didn’t mean to?

Ozpin: And in doing so you’ve saved miss Nikos from a terribly cruel fate.

Jaune: Oh. That’s good. I’m pretty sure that if she hadn’t tried to shove me in that stupid rocket locker there’s at least a 50% chance Pyrrha would’ve jumped my bones, Grimm invasion or not.

Ozpin: *Groans in dismay* Only to quite possibly doom yourself to one.

Jaune: *Suddenly at full attention* You say what now?

Ozpin: You’ve stabbed me as well. *Sees Jaune about to speak* You’ve stabbed my other lung, young man.

Jaune: I-I’m sorry?

Ozpin: Not yet you aren’t. Usually when I reincarnate it’s some unlucky, random bastard. But you’ve imprinted on me.

Jaune: What.

Ozpin: I’m an immortal wizard who, when he dies, his soul and consciousness along with all his memories are transferred into a new man’s preexisting body.

Jaune: *Panicking* I don’t want you in my head, headmaster! On the off chance you’re not just a nasty pedophile, I really don’t want you in my head! I don’t think you wanna be there either! *Ozpin doesn’t respond* Professor? *Still nothing* Headmaster! *Ozpin is dead, Jaune* Ozpin you old fuck, don’t you dare, I don’t wanna hear your voice when I’m deep dicking my hot redheaded partner!

Ozpin: *Body explodes into green motes of light which Jaune inhales*

Jaune: AAAHHH, I DON’T CONSET, I DON’T CONSENT!

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Pyrrha: *Bringing dat ass back, clapping his groin* Oh Jaune, oh gods yes I love it, I love your cock so-s-s-so much! *Twists and twirls her booty on his cock* Oh f-fuck, I’m gonna cum agaaaaaiiinn!!

Jaune: *Going hard, closing in*

Pyrrha: Oh yes, please, harder, I’m gonna cum all over that delicious Arc meat again and o-o-oh shit, fuck yes Jaune, fill your slutty Nikos bitch up with your hot jizz!

Ozpin: *Mentally* She’d be cumming harder if you did what I suggested.

Jaune: *Mentally, trying to focus on Pyrrha’s voice and the image of her* Shut up. This is me time you parasite and I don’t care how long you’ve lived, I don’t need advice from the guy who’s ex is out to end the world.

Ozpin: *Mentally* I’m just saying, miss Nikos is a natural born sub. Placing your foot on her head and giving her what I’m telling you she absolutely wants by degrading her, lambasting her the way she does herself and I guarantee you the rewards will be worth it. I know you’ve been eying her anus for quite some time now, give her what she wants--

Jaune: *Mentally, pushes in deeper which makes Pyrrha wail* I knew I couldn’t trust you to shut up! ‘Oh no, the time you spend with miss Nikos will be your own, I’m just an old soul here to help you fight my batshit crazy ex’ and now you’re trying to live vicariously through me! *Eyes widen as Pyrrha spreads her cheeks, lying facefirst on the bed and moaning*

Ozpin: *Mentally, smugly* Oh of course. You certainly don’t want advice from a man who has slept with literally thousands of women. She’s cumming, by the way.

Pyrrha: Ooooohhhh gods, yesyesyesyesyesyesyes I’m fucking cummiiiiiinnnngggg!!!!!!!!! Fuck, fuck, fuuuu~uuuck you’re so fucking gooooood!!!!!

Jaune: *Cumming his brains out*

Ozpin: *Mentally* Good to see you plan on following my advice next round, Jaune. If you feel like paying me back, you could always just tell Pyrrha that you’ve gone through my memories and developed a taste for hardcore, mistress of pain BDSM.

Jaune: *Mentally, lying on Pyrrha’s pronebone body, still inside as they both recover* This is all Dad’s fault. No amount of badass magic is worth this.

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I wanted one of these to have the advice backfire while still working and while I thought about it being an eventual Raven Jaune’s Father, I realized Pyrrha offered the best opportunity ever in the form of Ozpin, the unwanted and overly friendly brain ghost.

Hopefully any hardcore Arkos fans reading this don’t mind this one being the lewder, screwier one.

#rwby #jaune arc #pyrrha nikos #arkos #jaune x pyrrha #rwby vol 3 #au #pyrrha lives #headmaster ozpin #this is what happens when you let a drunk type #what's crack-a-lackin'#shitpost #Jaune's Father AU

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do you have any fairytale/myth/legends/etc books you would recommend? :)

Hell yes I do. (It’s the weekend so I’m allowed to use my brain for this ask.)

My interests lean more towards the Fairy Tale side of things but if what you’re interested in is knowing more about monsters and creatures, my favorite encyclopedia is by Carol Rose: Giants, Monsters, and Dragons. It is a great book for flipping through and reading a little bit about different ‘around the globe’ monsters and creatures from older stories and myths.

The Grimm brothers are basic bitches but they’re a digestible starting point for someone who wants to dip into fairy tales. Plus, all their stories are up in public domain hang out spaces so feel free to go buck wild and read a few online without paying a penny. There are a few really obscure ones and it’s kinda like panning for gold, searching through the stories until you find one that fits you! Here is another link: Wiki

In my opinion Andrew Lang is an upgrade to Grimm bros, thanks in no small part to the fact that his wife played a role in helping him translate a lot of his fairy stories into the colored fairy book collection. (They do bear the language of the time so don’t think he’s woke or whatever for just working with his wife, still kinda racist, but not Grimm.) There are 25 colored fairy books and I don’t have all of them yet, but most of them can be read in part online. My fav is props the yellow fairy book:

Another fun and easy (free) resource thanks to Lang is: The Arabian Nights Entertainments or Project Gutenberg's The Arabian Nights Entertainments, by Andrew Lang: it’s a bite sized sampling of The Arabian Nights

My all time favorite book from my childhood (and one that probably shaped me more than I care to admit right now) is this BAMF story book: The Serpent Slayer and Other Stories of Strong Women by Trina Schart Hyman. It’s an anthology of 18 stories about heroines being strong, smart, kind, and brave. Each story is badass in a different way. It’s a harder to find book in print but if you can, I wish I could convince every family with kids to read this one. It really helped me see fairytales as stories with ‘fleshed’ out characters as opposed to just archetypes. My fav story is probably the Old Woman and the Devil-it’s a good one!

If you’re really serious about getting into myth and maybe wanna academically study these stories you could check out this beast of a headache: The Golden BoughBook by James George Frazer. It’s a monster of a text-be warned! You could also just play these youtube videos of an old dude reading ‘em in a fun, stuffy accent while you clean or paint.

And HEY! If you like videos and you’re tired from reading, try these Crash Course Mythology youtube videos. There are 42 fun videos you can go off on. Start here~

Now, if you’re brokeAF and don’t wanna go out to buy books or rent books or sit too long with books there are a ton of free resources on the web that you can get lost following down: WIKI IS MY FRIEND These are bite sized and fun but not too overwhelming.

Go to:

Africa

Arabia

Armenia

Australia

Bohemia

Brittany

Bukovina

Bulgaria

Catalonia

Celtic

China

Czech

Denmark

England

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

India

Ireland

Isle of Man

Italy

Japan

Korea

Lithuania

Nepal

New Zealand

Norway

Persia

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Sami

Scandinavia

Slavic areas

Slovak

Sweden

Scotland

Serbia

Spain

Turkey

United States mainland

Vietnam

Wales

HAVE FUN!!!

#fairytales #asks #writing #Anonymous

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Dragons of Vytal World Building note 2

Part one located here

To learn about who the four dragons are read this

The dragons serve a similar role as the aspects from WoW.

There are no aquatic Grimm in this universe. But there are large and dangerous sea creatures. They're just not Grimm, see.

Atlo-Mantelian Empire

Following the nuking of the old Atlo-Mantelian capitol at the very end of the Great War they used a magical artifact to create a new city, floating in the sky, safe from the Grimm. Beneath and connected they built the largest military base the world has ever seen. It is not unusual for citizens to hear the distant rumble of artillery whenever Grimm stray too close.

Has the worlds largest and most efficient military, in particular their airforce.

Ruled by the Convention of Twelve

The members of the Convention when Ruby starts at Beacon are as follows:

Doctor Pietro Polendina, Civilian Sector

Field Marshal James Ironwood, Military. Second in command after the Kaiserin.

Henri Marigold, Nobility

Johann von Brahms, Nobility

Headmaster Fenris Lokison, Hunters

Doctor Arthur Watts, seat vacant after his presumed demise, Civilian Sector. Vote to be held for replacement.

Doctor Jacques von Schnee, Civilian Sector

Fleet Admiral Elsa von Wulfenbach, Nobility and Military

Willow von Schnee, Nobility and former Huntress

Frank Sleet, Civilian Sector

Camilla de Nagybánya, Nobility

Miklós Amitola, Civilian Sector, Head of Internal Affairs

Kaiserin Katarina von Carstein, Head of State of the Atlo-Mantelian empire.

Republic of Vale

Vale is a republic, and by the time of Ruby's first year at Beacon is led by the Vale Council (duh) and President Martine Roosevelt because every world needs a badass like Roosevelt.

Has the highest rate of successful hunter teams.

Coalition of Vacuo

Vacuo is home to basically Mûmakils, elephant like creatures of enormous size and strength.

For the most part Grimm are too weak to challenge a mûmakil, which makes those that do all the more dangerous.

The resident tribals spend most of their lives living on the backs of these mighty beasts, wandering from oasis to oasis, or on occasion to one of the academies.

The current leader of the Vacuan tribals is a man known only as Saladin.

Fun fact, did once have a large empire ala ancient Egypt. Suffered Vytal's equivalent of the Book of Exodus for enslaving vast swathes of Faunus

Mistral Ascendancy

Mistral is ruled by the Ascendant Supreme Qin Shi Huang and the Mistral Council.

The Branwen bandit clan was destroyed by a rival clan back when Raven and Qrow were just itty bitty kiddies. Raven and Qrow are the only survivors, and while Raven has entertained the notion of rebuilding the clan, she's not serious.

Argus is, besides Mistral City, the safest location in Mistral. Though quite a few of the citizenry see themselves more as Atlesians than Mistrali, what with the local military base constantly keeping them safe, unlike the so-called Supreme Ascendant.

Chiefdom of Menagerie Zion

Zion was raised from the sea floor by Errier as a safe haven for faunuskind when the Faunus rose up and smote down their Vacuan masters.

A safe place to settle down, for the most part, as long as you stay on the coast.

On paper a tribal chiefdom, in practice a democracy.

Currently ruled by Warchief Ghira Belladonna.

The Academies when Ruby joins Beacon:

Atlas Academy is led by headmaster Fenris Lokison, wolf faunus .

Beacon Academy is led by headmaster Ozpin, the latest regeneration of Ozma.

Haven Academy is led by headmaster Odin Eidolon.

Shade Academy is led by headmistress Sanae, the latest regeneration of Salem.

The Champions basically take the place of the Maidens, except they're not restricted to women.

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Jaune, in an apron: Okay sweetie, can you tell me what’s the next ingredient is in the cook book?

Pyrrha, smiling: Sure. It's uhm.......uh.....*squints eyes* uhm.....

Jaune:........

Pyrrha, squinting while putting the book close to her face: Uh.....what does that saaaaay.....uh.......tsk tsk tsk......so tiny........

Jaune: Honey?

Pyrrha: Yes sweetie?

Jaune: Why aren't you wearing your glasses?

Pyrrha: What?

Jaune: Your glasses. Why arent wearing them?

Pyrrha, awkwardly: O-oh, those things? I don't need them obviously.

Jaune: Yes you do.

Pyrrha: No I don't.

Jaune: Well I think the eye doctor would disagree with you.

Pyrrha: Well what does she know?

Jaune: What would the eye doctor know? A woman who went to college for years to study how eyes function? What would she know? Is that what you’re asking?

Pyrrha:.........

Jaune: If I have to say, probably quite a lot, sweetheart.

Pyrrha, blushing: L-look, I d-dont need your sass, mister! And I also don't need those glasses, either. My eyesight is still amazing. These words are just way too small for anyone to read.

Jaune: Pyrrha—

Pyrrha: It’s the author’s fault really. They should’ve made the font size readable. You need a magnifying glass to read it.

Jaune, reading from his spot: Ingredients are, 1/2 cup of butter, 2 eggs, 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract, 1 1/2 of all purpose flour, 1 1/3 teaspoons of baking powder, and 1/2 cup of milk.

Pyrrha, awkwardly:.........

Jaune: Pyrrha, your mother wears glasses, and your grandma wears glasses, and so did your great grandmother. Glasses practically runs in your family. It's nothing to be ashamed of.

Pyrrha, awkwardly:........I'm different from them though?

Jaune: Honey, go get your glasses for me.

Pyrrha: But—

Jaune: No buts. You need them.

Pyrrha, pouting:....Okay, fine. *Starts walking away in defeat*

Jaune: Hold on.

Pyrrha, turning: Huh? What?

Jaune: Comm'ere.

Pyrrha: What do you wan— *squeaks*

*Jaune pulls Pyrrha into his arms before kissing her*

Pyrrha, slightly blushing: *still being kisses* Mmmmmmm?

Jaune, pulling away: You do realize that you're still my beautiful wife that I am absolutely smitten for, right? That hasn’t changed one bit due to the glasses.

Pyrrha, cheek against his chest: Yeah, I know that.

Jaune: Then what's wrong? Don't tell me you're worrying about your age already. 25 is still very young, and your eyesight is genetic too, and not due to your—

Pyrrha, pouting: Its not that, it's just.....I don't like feeling weak is all.

Jaune:......what?!

Pyrrha: I don't like that I need glasses for things now. It's a handicap and it makes me....as if I’m growing weaker, and it worries me.

Jaune:.......is Pyrrha Nikos, one of the strongest women I have ever known, who just recently ripped a Grimm's arm off and beat it to death with it, worrying that her weak?

Pyrrha, face in his chest: *MUFFLED*.......M-maybe.

Jaune, smiling: Are you serious? Honey, you are still my badass wife that can still kick my ass into next month with one arm tied behind your back. You are a force to be reckoned with, and nothing will change that.

Pyrrha, face still pressed against his chest:.........

Jaune: Now come on and give me smile, because you know I find it beautiful each time you do. So come, where’s that smile at?

Pyrrha: *smiles against his chest*

Jaune: I can feel it against my chest. Now come on and show me it. I’m dying to see it.

Pyrrha, chuckling: Okay, you win. You're right. I'm overreacting. I'm sorry.

Jaune, smiling: Its okay. And besides, if anything this is a plus for you. People are less inclined to punch you in the face now. Think of the advantages.

Pyrrha, giggling: I guess that's true.

Jaune: And also, I must say, the glasses are kinda hot.

Pyrrha, smirking: Oh are they now?

Jaune, shrugging: Hey, what can I say? Those glasses just gives you that sexy professor look. I might go wild each time you get ready for work from now on.

Pyrrha: Oh really now?

Jaune: Absolutely.

Pyrrha, sultry: Well, if you keep talking like that then I might need to discipline you then, young man~

Jaune, chuckling: I might like that actually. I have been a bad student. Now go get your glasses, sweetie, cause I want to finish this cake soon.

Pyrrha, smiling: Okay. I love you.

Jaune: I love you too. *kisses him*

#rwby #pyrrha nikos #jaune arc #arkos #jaune x pyrrha

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Castlevania Season 3 was disappointing

(Spoilers for Castlevania Season 3, if you haven’t seen it yet it’s out now on Netflix. I suggest watching that first before reading this review)

I won’t say it was an awful season by any stretch of the imagination but man was it a drag to get through.

Almost nothing of significance happens for the majority of the season and the things that did happen felt extremely off and weird. 10 episodes, 25 to 30 minutes each, and every single one except for the fucking TWO LAST EPISODES were spent dicking around with a mystery that had little to do with anything from season 2 beyond a really out there twist that I’m sort of iffy on. Top that off with a lackluster arguably stupid ending to leave us off on a needless cliffhanger, and that’s the magic remedy that will leave me feeling pretty damn frustrated.

The best parts, in my opinion, were with Isaac’s massive undead crusade he was waging throughout his journey for revenge, and Trevor and Syph’s interactions with each other as well as with the little villagers. Isaac’s arc going from a servant of Dracula to slowing evolving into the master of the damned felt genuine, intriguing, and badass! I really wish he was the next main villain instead as it makes sense thematically. He carries out Dracula’s nihilistic views of humanity in a similar but now more direct way and that can lead into something really intriguing. However, for some reason, this season left him and his whole journey on a back burner, and virtually everything else that is implemented into main villain role fell flat on its face execution wise.

For example; The new vampires of this season are Camilla’s three other empress sisters, and while they do have a plethora of personality at the very least, that kind of comes at a cost of the main threat being extremely diluted. We go from this hurting sympathetic undead overlord with the power of an anchent GOD, to a couple of wicked sassy sisters who just wanna eat people forever? It’s a bit lame of a progression from what we once had, we know Vampires like to eat people that’s nothing new or exciting. There’s no real twist to it besides it being “led by women in the dark ages” and granted that makes sense here since it IS the dark ages, but come on we literally just had arguably the BEST adaptation of friggin’ Dracula! This shouldn’t be all they got moving forward from that.

Now, I have ZERO issue with the main antagonists being female or even two of the four sisters (not by blood don’t worry) being a lesbian couple. I hate that I have to emphasize this, hell I often defend Cinder Fall in RWBY more than anyone in the fandom at all despite her issues as a complex and sometimes flat out badly written character. However, The four of them in this season have the most basic of plans that it seems arbitrary status quote fluff at best. It felt like just because it’s Castlevania, we HAVE to have the vampires as the villains. Even though in the games the Belmont’s were literally fighting werewolves, dragons, skeletons, and the GRIMM REAPER??

Therefore, the sense of urgency and tense calculating plans of ‘survival vs extinction’ is completely gone. And yknow in a way, I can kinda initially SEE that working in a sort of “Empire Strikes Back” esque plot. Yknow, with Alucard and the gang go around cleaning up Dracula’s leftover horde only for Isaac or even Camilla to have this huge vengeful comeback of dominance? But there’s no one exactly “striking back” or even taking any kind of immediate initiative after Dracula’s death. It’s been MONTHS after the whole event and no one seems like they really care about that world changing event from the last two season’s. Everything is fine and dandy, no one has a single worry in the world! How enthralling...I miss Godbrand 😑

Besides the plan the four empresses have as well as Issac’s revenge, which I hope will both be more explored in season 4, no one really has any goal to warrant THAT kind of length of a season. This is more of a Netflix problem that I have with most of their shows and it’s one of the reasons why I don’t like watching them. Almost every singe show Netflix produces now, feels the need to overstuff itself with needless filler that gets us really nowhere until the very end where it SUDDENLY all comes together. But because of the nature of binge watching and considering how Netflix wants to desperately keep their subscriptions in fear of intimidating competition, they make these shows 12 episodes long with HALF HOUR OR MORE amount of filler content that’s supposed to satisfy us cause it’s “cute”?! No, stop this shit! Granted, Castlevania wasn’t nearly AS bad as the live action shows, but honestly, what exactly was shown to us that couldn’t have been reduced to like 5 solidly paced episodes focused on one or two plot lines ONLY like before? It worked perfectly back then, why change what ain’t broke?

As much as I don’t like the immediate rush of Trevor and Syph’s out of nowhere sexual relationship, I didn’t overall mind it too much since they still somewhat felt consistent. Their characteristics play off very nicely with one another and it’s pretty easy to see the chemistry between the two....HOWEVER I’M STILL GONNA COMPLAIN ABOUT IT SO HERE WE GO!

I get that they were setting them up as an endgame ship of the series, there’s no denying that, but they start fucking for what feels like (to the audience) two days after and I think that’s a bit ridiculous! Even if Alucard states that it’s been at the very least a month worth of time since the events of Season 2, there’s no real physical signs showing that statement to be true. Hell, Trevor’s beard and hair remains the same despite a HUGE passage of time where it would naturally grow out to indicate said time passing by. But both him, Syph, Alucard, and damn near everyone else looks the exact same as last season. So for all I know it could have been like a week since Season 2 and that to me doesn’t feel exactly earned. The Season 2 finale didn’t explicitly leave off Trevor and Syph officially a couple, they felt more like partners in crime more than anything else. Not to say that there wasn’t any chemistry there to develope INTO a relationship GRADUALLY, but going from a little spark of interest to the immediate jump of them sleeping together naked all comfortably as if they’re a goddamn married couple is a STRETCH! Even Trevor himself thinks so too so don’t jump down my throat about not being immediately swooned by the shipping fanservice given to us. I don’t dislike them as a couple at all, in fact I think their dynamic is cute! However, I would have also liked to have this couple feel natural and earned. They most certainly do not feel earned this way, at least to me.

Oh god, then there’s this out of nowhere sexual tension between Alucard and his new two recruits from another region hinted at in the previous season? Mind you, Alucard was doing literally NOTHING throughout the entirety of Season 3. Yep, literally the ONE DUDE WHO BASICALLY KILLED DRACULA gets about fuck all story progression afterwards out of the three. But what they DO give him are these two new vampire hunting student’s who look identical to one another (no racial they just literally look like fraternal twins) so I assumed they were either siblings or a couple, which makes it REALLY WEIRD WHEN THEY BOTH FUCK ALUCARD OUT OF NOWHERE?! I’m NOT making this shit up I promise! What makes even less sense is that it was really just a ploy for them to steal the Belmont knowledge of killing vampires to show to their people who have been enslaved. Which of course ends with them being killed so it really makes this entire conflict in his character damn near pointless besides “sad vibes check”, but here’s the thing...why didn’t they just keep doing training with Alucard?? There were virtually no downsides to having him teach you how to kill Vampires to save your village from being enslaved, he was teaching you both very well and gave you like the eternal knowledge of how to kill literally EVERY MONSTER and even let you live in the castle FOR FREE, food and wine included! What was the turning point for them to want to kill him all of the sudden? Cause he’s a vampire?? THEY FUCKING KNEW THAT ALREADY!!! Why was is suddenly not a problem at first but then coincidentally a problem now? If they wanted to use this to somehow depict this notion of “Oh my dad/Dracula was right humans are the worst” mindset, trust me, it was better conveyed with Isaac. These twins side plot not only made no sense, but also felt unjustified for Alucard to be an emo boi. I get that it’s supposed to be symbolic of him going through the same issues that both of his parents went through, but none of that really showed how bad human’s are. Just that those two twins didn’t think things through apparently. So the point of Alucard having this odd character convenience shift feels by the numbers cliché, and most importantly CHEAP.

It really makes no sense to me why they’re adding so much of this filler for such a long time, especially with some of this filler being oddly sexual. I don’t mind honest depiction of sex between consenting adults of course, but it just felt so misplaced and awkward at parts where it showed itself. I felt like I was reading a mediocre fanfic of Castlevania instead of the actual show itself! Granted, Season 2 had somewhat of a similar dilemma but the lull in between was still showing the character specifically doing things to further the story along. Towards the end, it gave us a way more satisfactory closure of that saga with Dracula that felt natural and well earned. This season however, felt like they were scrambling with different ideas here and there and didn’t know which to go with. Alucard training new recruits in his castle, Trevor and Syph figuring out an estranged (and BORING/GENERIC) cult of Dracula’s plan, Camilla setting up an army with her fellow sisterhood of evil vampires to gain ultimate power, Hector surviving captivity by using his wit and charm, Isaac raising up the dead for revenge on his deceased master, a new character introducing an all new world to the lore of Castlevania as we know it, all of these interesting concepts and ideas that could easily make up for a good season alone! And instead of focusing on one or two ideas to develope into something natural, they ended up saying “FUCK IT! Fucking I dunno what to- WE’RE DOING ALL OF IT I DUNNO!” and mixed the whole thing in a blender of different flavors that don’t necessarily blend together well enough for a tasty satisfactory meal. It just ends up being a mesh of okay at best, and gross at worst.

IN CONCLUSION, Castlevania Season 3 had a rocky start, an okay middle, and a kind of cool end. There was definitely some cool and exciting ideas implemented in here, but not enough to warrant that lengthy amount of time that Netflix seems to love to give to most of their TV shows. Sometimes less is more, and all that shiny cool glitter isn’t necessarily going to turn out to be gold. I’ll give this season a 5/10. It’s not the worst I’ve ever seen but it certainly could’ve been a lot better.

P.S. “Who Do Ya Voodoo” from Dead Island is Isaac’s new theme song, you can’t convince me otherwise.

#castlevania #season 3 spoilers #spoilers #unpopular opinion #review #netflix castlevania #critique

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Will Neo and Cinder be Kidnapping Oscar or ..... someone else

Salutations Luna! Hmm…my money is on Ruby being the key target for our villainousFire and Ice-cream Duo.

It was teasedlast season that Cinder prompted Neo to help her get to Atlas and find Ruby.And once that was done, the rest would be up to Neo to enact her revenge on thelittle red rose as Neo saw fit.

So if anyone is in danger of gettingabducted or lured into any kind of trap by Neo and Cinder, it’s definitelyRuby.

Then again, I also have this smalltheory of what if…Neo and Cinder kidnap Oscar and use him to lure our Ruby into a trap?

An alternative to this would be thereverse where, while down in Mantle, Ruby is lured far away from her friends intoan ambush by Neo who was disguised as either one of Ruby’s comrades and/orteammates (perhaps Weiss or even Penny) or even a Mantle citizen in dire need of help.

Like imagineif…while down in Mantle, Ruby runs into a young woman who comes to herbegging for her help, informing Ruby that her little sisteris trapped somewhere in far Mantle. So without hesitation, Ruby follows the woman far, farout into Mantle. Eventually the woman stops and Ruby asks her about her trappedsister. The woman points to an abandoned building of some kind. Ruby goes intothe building but as soon as she enters, the woman reveals herself as Neo andblindsides Ruby in an attack.

Since CH9 mentioned that Oscar returnedto Atlas Academy with Ironwood, let’s say… that while up in Atlas Academy, Oscar is there with Ironwoodinside of his head office monitoring the Search and Rescue down in Mantle fromafar; keeping as much tabs on everyone’s whereabouts and progress in theirrespective evacuations since I’m assuming it’ll be ‘divideand conquer’ with the JNR_QRWBY and the Ace Opssplitting up all around Mantle to cover more ground and thus save more innocentlives.

Let’s say… Ironwood was communicating with his Ace Ops and Military forceswhile simultaneously working against Watts to stop him from infiltrating Atlas’mainframe or whatnot with his hacking. And while the General was busy withthat, Oscar monitored his teammates’ progress while keeping in close contactwith them on his Scroll. This was inclusive of Ruby until at some point; Oscar suddenly losescontact with Ruby. Her Scroll signal goes dead silent.

This causes Oscar to panic over whathappened to Ruby. He attempts to alert the others of Ruby’s disappearance but…imagine if…thisis thwarted by Watts’ successfully hacking into Atlas’ mainframe and scramblingthe system in such a way that results in Ironwood losing all communication with his troops in the field. Samefor Oscar. Perhaps Watts hacking doesn’t just mess with communications up inAtlas but down in Mantle as well.

Imagine if…while down in Mantle,everyone loses contact with each other since Watts did something to mess witheveryone’s Scroll signal. With the loss of communication with their allies down in Mantleand with no way of Oscar to alert the others of Ruby’s disappearance, Oscar hasno choice but to go down to Mantle to find Ruby on his own.

Let’s say…Oscarhad managed to make a record of Ruby’s last known whereabouts before she went offline and that’s where he headed. Maybe it’s Ironwood flying an airship who drops him off.

So while Ironwood goes on a hunt for Watts in agame of cat and mouse and the others handled the evacuation and appearance of TyrianCallows, Oscar dropped down in Mantle to find Ruby.

As for Ruby herself, as I said my headcanon is that Neo and Cinder lured Ruby into an ambush down in Mantlefar, far away from the help of her friends. In their minds, they had Rubytrapped like a rat in maze with no help from her littlepals this time. So basically no one wasgoing to come to Ruby’s rescue …or so the Fireand Ice-cream Duo presumed.

Do you know what would actually be a pretty wicked thing for theCRWBY to do?

Imagine if…the Rubyversus Neo and Cinder Fight pays tributeto Monty Oum’s DeadFantasy fan animation?

I’m not sure if you’ve seen DeadFantasy but it’s an old fan animation series that Monty had made that pinnedcharacters from the Dead orAlive videogames against characters from the Final Fantasy and KingdomHearts series. In the first Dead Fantasyvideo, it started off with Yuna from Final Fantasy X running through whatlooked like a maze while being pursued by Ayane and Katsumi from Dead or Alive.

The opening fight between these threegirls was pretty badass and just seeing Yuna hold her own while being doubleteamed by two powerful warrior women trying to take her down is pretty cool.Personally I think it would be very badass on Ruby’s part to see her fare onher own against Neo and Cinder working together at first to take her down.Especially if any kind of backup is to come to Ruby’s aid in the end. MeaningOscar.

While the sudden reappearance of Neoand Cinder did bug me since the show didn’t really provide much buildup during this season for them, if we do get another epic rematch for V7 that parallels V3, then this squiggle meister is definitely hoping it’sthe Rosebuds versus Fire andIce-cream.

We know Neo has her personal beef withRuby for holding her responsible for Torchwick’s death. However Oscar has hisown connection with Cinder Fall since she’s the one who killed Ozpin.

And since we never got to really seehow that fight went down outside of the small teaser from V3, it’d be excitingif Cinder and Oscar re-enacted her final dual with Ozpin.

Perhaps we could even get a moment where Cinder unfortunately overpowers Oscar and has him pinned down;menacingly whispering in his ear “Do youwant to know how I killed your predecessor?”before…I dunno, pulling the same move she did with Vernal where she piercesOscars’ stomach with her Grimm arm?

The CRWBY Writers did tease “exciting things for Oscar for V7″. I can’t picture Oscar just sitting out of the finale again. They’ve been teasing him fighting a lot for this season. It’s time for Oscar to kick some ass. Especially if it’s in a rematch against a powerful enemy that killed his predecessor.

Pinning Oscar against Cinder Fall for the V7 finale would be epic!

Not to mention that I’m still banking on my theory that Oscar will unlock his semblance to protectRuby. I’m still hoping for that.

I’m hopingthat CH9 won’t be the only episode this season that teased Rosegarden. Butjust in case we don’t get that, I hope we at least get to see Oscar in action. I hope we get to see Oscar do his ownlanding strategy, coming down to Mantle to aid his true rose in the eventthat Neo and Cinder go for her.

That’s my hunch.

~LittleMissSquiggles(2020)

#squiggles answers: rwby #oscar pine #ruby rose #oscar and ruby #rwby rosegarden #rwby theories #rwby volume 7 theories #cinder fall #rwby neopolitan #rwby volume 7 spoilers #apocalypseluna786 #squiggles answers

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cromulentbookreview · 4 years

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Cinderella! Dead?

And by that, I mean:

Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron!

I do love the Brothers Grimm fairy tales, because, well, all German students cut their teeth translating bits and pieces of the the Kinder- und Hausmärchen. You have never known true suffering until you’ve had to come up with an original translation for bits of Schneewittchen or Rotkäppchen. Oh the horror. I mean, it’s not as bad as doing original translations of Goethe, and definitely not as fun as translating Struwwelpeter - and that was only fun because I was the only person in my class who got that the stories were meant to be a satire on contemporary children’s morality tales. I mean, Mark Twain did his own English translation! The original byline was Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder mit 15 schön kolorierten Tafeln für Kinder von 3–6 Jahren (funny stories and amusing pictures with 15 color panels for children ages 3-6). Once you see the Struwwelpeter stories as parodies of sickly sweet moral lessons for kids, it’s pretty clear that the actual lesson of the Struwwelpeter story (don’t suck your thumbs or else a crazy dude with scissors will literally cut them off your hands) is more dark humor than actual story to teach your kids a lesson and -

Wait, where am I?

Oh. Yes. A blog where I review books. I should probably get on that.

So yes, Cinderella! A story known the world over, with thousands upon thousands of different versions across the globe. The oldest known being the tale of Rhodopis from ancient Greece, and the story of Ye Xian from China that dates back to the AD 860-850 or thereabouts, which itself is similar to stories found around Southeast Asia, like the story of Bawang merah dan bawang putih or the Vietnamese story of Tấm Cám and shit I wandered off again. Sorry. Fairy tale history is quite fascinating. Anyway, the first European version of the Cinderella story was published in Italy in 1634, but the story that we know best mostly comes from the 1697 French version by Charles Perrault in his Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités (don’t look at me, I learned German, remember?). Perrault’s Cinderella story, Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre (Cinderella and the little glass slipper, thanks wikipedia!) features all of what we know of as the traditional Cinderella story: the evil stepmom and stepsisters, the ball, the glass slippers which sound both a) painful and b) super dangerous - seriously, how could you even dance in a glass slipper without breaking them and having shards of glass stuck in your feet à la Die Hard?

Anyway. Cinderella. Very traditional story, mostly French. The Brother’s Grimm version of Cinderella is...weird. Mostly because her name is Aschenputtel, which sounds like something you hack up with a phlegmy cough. (To be fair, though, that’s most German...). There’s also a magic bird instead of a fairy godmother, Aschenputtel’s father is very much alive and doesn’t seem to give two shits about how his new wife and stepdaughters treat his own kid and the slippers are made of gold instead of glass. Gold sounds a sight more comfy than glass, but also super heavy. How can you dance in shoes that weigh roughly 27 pounds / 12.4 kilograms each? That’s assuming that each gold shoe is roughly the same size and density as a standard gold bar and -

OK. Listen to Rihanna, Cromulent Book Reviewer. Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron!!

In the land of Marsailles, Cinderella is dead, and has been for the past 200 years. Her story hasn’t just become canon - it’s become law. Every year all girls at the age of sixteen must attend the mandatory royal ball, where the men are allowed to oogle them and pick out which one they want as a wife. The girls don’t get a choice in who picks them - once you’re selected by a man, you’re his, and if no one picks you, well...you’re only allowed to attend the royal ball three times before your family has to surrender you as a “forfeit.” Forfeits are never seen or heard from again. Attending the ball more than once is considered an embarrassment. And if you don’t want to get picked? Too bad. The girls of Marsailles have no choice - non-attendance will get you thrown in prison, and likely executed, while their families have all their possessions stripped from them. So...have fun at the meat parade, girls! Fingers crossed you don’t get picked by an abusive prick!

Sophia Grimmins (I see what you did there, Kalynn Bayron) doesn’t want to go to the Ball. All Sophia wants is to marry her best friend, Erin, and be free to have a future with her. But in Marsailles, being gay is not OK. It’s straight relationships only, Cinderella married a prince, and therefore, women can only marry men. Men marrying men and women marrying women? Forbidden. No not pass go. Do not collect 200 dollars. Instead, go straight to forfeit town. Sophia pleads with Erin to try and escape their hometown of Lille and head off into Belgium the Forbidden Lands. But Erin doesn’t want to escape - she just wants to keep her head down, go through the whole disgusting selection process, and stay safe. Well, as safe as you can with a husband who is brought up to be an abusive, misogynist prick like many men in Marsailles. Seriously, with the exception of like, 3 characters, pretty much all the dudes in Marsailles are the worst. Not just the worst, but like,

Euch. And they’re the worst in a way that all women and girls will immediately recognize. Is it terrible that I’m kind of glad for the current pandemic because mask wearing has cut down the instances of strange men telling me to smile significantly?

Anyway, the day of the Ball has arrived, and with Erin refusing to escape, Sophia has no other choice - she has to go. Her parents have gone into debt to provide her with the best hair, makeup and dress in order to increase her chances at being chosen. Sophia’s parents know about her feelings for Erin, know that she’s always preferred to have a princess rather than a prince, but even though Sophia pleads with them to do something, anything to get her out of going to the Ball, they refuse. Her parents go full Mandalorian on her, telling her that this is The Way and she’d better just hope for the best.

Mando would NOT approve.

So Sophia ends up going to the Ball and it’s much worse than she could have expected. The dudes are gross, the king is gross, the whole damned system is gross.

Unable to stand it, Sophia makes a split-second decision: she’s going to run. She takes off in the middle of the ball, jumps out a window and escapes onto the palace grounds. Running blindly, she finds herself in an overgrown mausoleum which turns out to be the final resting place of Cinderella herself. There, Sophia meets Constance, a descendant of Cinderella’s supposedly evil stepsister, Gabrielle. Constance has been on the run, resisting the king’s awful laws for years. She tells Sophia that everything she’s been taught about Cinderella’s story is a lie. Constance offers Sophia a choice - escape with her and rebel, or return to Lille and face the consequences of fleeing the ball.

At first, Sophia chooses home. But when her parents make it clear they won’t do much to protect their now outlaw daughter, Sophia meets up with Constance and together they head off into the White Wood in search of Cinderella’s fabled fairy godmother, who may or may not be a witch and who also may or may not be still alive.

Oh man, I do love me a good story in which badass young women fight against the patriarchy. Cinderella is Dead is such a fun story - well, fun in that the misogyny and injustice rampant in Marsailles is both familiar and super scary, but fun in that Sophia looks that system square in the eye and goes “nope.” Cinderella is Dead is all about the power of story - how something as simple as a fairy tale can be used as a weapon to subjugate not just women and girls, but men and boys as well. The fairy tale made law doesn’t just keep women stuck in the role as princess, but men stuck in the role as prince, even if they, too, would rather run off with a prince than marry the princess.

Cinderella is Dead starts strong, though it does start to meander in the middle, before speeding up toward the end. Since this is a standalone book (hurray!! No getting suckered into a series this time! More standalones, please!) character development and world building is somewhat lacking, as there’s only so much you can fit into one book and seriously thank God this isn’t the start of another trilogy I have to keep track of, I’ve got way too many trilogies, duologies, quartets and never-ending serieses I have to keep track of right now. Anyway: yes, worldbuilding and character development are a bit shallow, but such is the way with fairy tales, only this fairy tales features a queer young woman of color burning the patriarchy to the ground. And that’s absolutely something I need more of in my life. Now let us go forth and burn the patriarchy, everyone!

RECOMMENDED FOR: All young girls. All of them. Boys, too. Anyone who has ever read a fairy tale, or been forced to translate Grimm fairy tales for German class, or Charles Perrault stories for French class.

NOT RECOMMENDED FOR: Anyone who has ever used the word “feminazi.”

RATING: 3.999 / 5

BADASSERY RATING: 500,000,000/5

RELEASE DATE: July 7, 2020. So...today! Hurray, I technically got this review done on time! Ahahahahaha the world is on fire what do you want from me.

CINDERELLA RATING:

#cinderella is dead #kalynn bayron #young adult fantasy #ya fantasy #feminist ya #lgbtq ya #own voices #cinderella #book review #smash the patriarchy

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elektra121 · 2 years

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It’s this time of the Year again...

Dear secret Santa,

this year I wish for world peace more than ever! If for some reason you can’t deliver, I’d be delighted about a sweet little story, too! ;)

Things I really like to read (about):

Things I don’t mind at all:

Religion in general and christianity in special. POV/ first person narrator. Consensual Sex (in whatever form). Rainbows.

Things I don’t like to read (about):

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Things I love about my fandoms - and some questions and plotbunnies to hopefully give you some ideas:

19 Century CE German writers:

There is so much more I could mention... like, for example, her early (for lack of a better word) environmental awareness... yet, for now, lets free some plot bunnies, shall we?

I’d like for it to be at least a tiny little bit queer... would be such a waste if not! ;)

Das Fräulein von Rodenschild (Annette von Droste-Hülshoff)

Even if I have a lot to do with German literature professionally, I only came across this ballad relatively recently. And I love it!

Some ideas:

Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897)

When I first read Dracula only a few years ago, I was very surprised it was so different from the common ideas about it. I didn’t found it scary or “horror” at all - instead very much romantic... and I absolutely would never have thought it would be like this. So many of the characters grew so dear to my heart, especially (of course) Jonathan and Mina, which I feel, are, more or less, the main characters. And yet they don’t “act” as main characters at all, would never want to be heroes, yet have to - and are. I love their nerdyness, their fascination with nerdy things. I can absolutely imagine them sitting together and testing each other about timetables for trains and thoroughly enjoying this romantic way to spend the night. Or cooking together. (Has any book hero ever before collected recipes for trip souvenirs? This is brilliant!) And Mina who books tickets over telephone like it’s nothing! (And, every now and then slips in some comments about Lucy, which, to the modern reader, sound more than only a little bit gay... ;) ) Somehow, they both seem to me like modern nerdy hipsters who somehow got transferred into the late 19th century and now are absolutely delighted by all the steampunky-ness of it all! Please, please, let them be those adorable people!

(And, don’t get me wrong, it is not as if it was only their sweet, adorable nerdyness! I absolutely, deeply respect their complete and utter being good - to the point of joining the dark side, even if it contradicts everything in their lives, only to help the other. Without so much as a blinking of an eye.)

Since the 90ies, there was this idea in pop culture that only the “baddies” in a story can be interesting and that they are the real “heroes” - and while that was a fresh new view to a lot of stories, it wore thin over time. Because it went on the expense of the “good people”, which, in turn, were depicted as dull and boring - only for being “good”. But isn’t being good the much harder experience? Sticking to your values, being humble and generous and helping others no matter how high the costs for yourself?

I’d like to see them in a story where they can be (mostly) unharmed by all the horrendous events happening in the novel and be the wonderful, adorable, sweet people they are. (So, better before or some time after the events of “Dracula”. Or are there moments of freedom and happiness even within the storyline of the book?) Feel absolutely free to include as many people as you want to from the novel (or, even, not from the novel, say, Mina’s co-workers)!

Maybe a christmas themed story? How do our heroes spend the season? What gifts do they prepare for whom - and why (or why not)? Is this year different to all other years before? How (and why) so? What do all the people do? Bonus points for mentioning rare characters like Mr. Hawkins! I’d like for the story to be sweet and fluffy - a counterpoint to all the horror. And there should be no doubt about Jonathan’s and Mina’s love for each other. That does not automatically exclude other people from their love, of course. JUst saying. ;)

You can read what I think and feel about some DRacula things, also, in some of my earlier posts on this blog, or here: https://www.tumblr.com/edit/elektra121/173570619424

Oh! And one last point: I see TumBlr has decided for a fanon that has Mina as a PoC. Feel free to write in this fandom. Also, I always thought she must have some “German connection” with her given name so utterly Prussian and loyal to the emperor. Feel free to pursue this idea, if you like.

Whatever fandom you may choose: I wish a very happy writing! May the muses be graceful. :)

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I don't think Jaune fits the rule of cool in anyway. He's the most uncool character of the 2 teams by far. Ruby is cool. Giant scythe and sniper all in 1. Innocent looking, walking through the snow, but will fuck up Grimm when surrounded. That's rule of cool. Not logical, but looks cool. RWBY is at its most entertaining when it's trying to be Dead Fantasy. Pure rule of cool with no thought. Jaune has never fit that to me. Not even close honestly.

Jaune is absolutely coded as being not cool, especially in the beginning (he’s able to grow into coolness, for lack of better phrasing, once the show gets darker and has less need for him as a comedy character), but it has always fallen pretty flat for me. Partly because it was clear from the get-go that a huge chunk of his story was always about becoming cool—we get to see the evolution of this presumed nobody into a badass warrior—and also because although on the surface Jaune acts awkward and silly, all the other characters and the plot reinforce that he’s secretly awesome. He just doesn’t realize it.

Which likewise means he’s not normal. At all. He gets into the most prestigious huntsmen school in the world despite not even knowing what aura is. Jaune becomes leader of his team despite that complete lack of experience. He catches the interest of the most talented and powerful fighter in their year, a girl who was chosen to be a Maiden, and maintains her interest even when he’s pursuing someone else. Jaune manages to achieve enough power to face off against Cinder in just a year, while traveling, despite having none of the previous schooling the rest of the cast got. He carries an ancient heirloom that implies he comes from a prestigious (and cool) family. Jaune lifts his shield and Tyrian says, “You do interest me.”

Jaune, for the most part, just possesses the veneer of not being cool. Yes, we see him acting foolishly, awkwardly, silly, but notably everyone else demonstrate all that too. Ruby falls over herself and panics in social situations. Yang makes lame jokes. Blake goes ga-ga over fish. Weiss stands on chairs, etc.. None of the “cool” characters are entirely cool, which makes Jaune’s “not cool” coding just come across as being a normal teen. Otherwise he’s presented as pretty awesome: in the midst of serious battles he suddenly gets confident and useful. His semblance is support, but it’s used as an active way to save the day: saving Weiss’ life in a volume’s conclusion and helping to save a whole train full of people by boosting Ren’s own semblance. His mistakes and awkwardness, when they do show up more than the others’, are almost always to his benefit, whether it’s Pyrrha happily teaming up with him while he’s stuck in a tree, or everyone loving him for wearing a dress.

Jaune is—like many of the other characters admittedly–a wish-fulfillment. What if I, an awkward, clumsy, silly guy that the girls don’t like, was really just a diamond in the rough? If, when suddenly chucked into battle, I found that I could instinctively keep up with all the others? I stumble a bit, sure, but everyone recognizes how much innate talent I have to work with, everyone from the powerful (Ozpin) down to my teammates whose respect I automatically earn. What if the things I think aren’t cool—like say, a sword—actually have some sort of very cool lore attached to them and get a badass upgrade later, becoming something that everyone respects? What if everyone found my awkwardness charming and endearing instead of annoying, enough to attract the best girl around? What if I could choose to be my normal self and then easily turn that off when convenient to become, well… cool.

That’s at least part of the a reason why the fandom loves him so much, as you say. Jaune is the kind of character every stereotypical geek guy (presumbably) longs to be: a veneer of normality and even lameness hiding the real, badass thing. Handsome guy with armor, a sword, and a shield? Love interest to one of the best women in the show? Suffering now from the tragedy of her death? Obsessively training in the woods to avenge her? Secrets surrounding him in the form of Tyrian’s comments and Salem’s symbol? Getting a solid hit on one of the most powerful characters? Telling the rest of the group that they should steal from the military to achieve their goal?

All of that is considered very cool.

#rwby #mymetas #long post #Anonymous

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crviis-a · 4 years

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qrow + internalised homophobia

james got me talking about this so im gonna subject all of you to my needlessly in depth thought process behind ultimately deciding that qrow was gay when i first started writing him all the way back in vol 3 uwu under the cut cus i think this is gonna get long hgfdhj

he's like 40 odd right? if we take the educated guess that the people back then in rwby time were similar to 40+year olds now-- he comes outta the tribe with minimal knowledge of the outside world and shoved into a school full of raging teenagers/young adults all off the shits horny for each other/whatever girls were around and he's been told he needs to fit in/not stand out too much to get to the point where he knows enough to start killing huntsmen?and then he realises he's got these. feelings. for dudes. while also being constantly subjected to guys talking about how hot girls are and comparing notes on girls. his conclusion? 'oh these Feelings i have for tai/this guy in my class are wrong and Incorrect i shouldn't have them' [represses the living shit out of them] so he grows up both learning constantly that repressing his feelings/attractions is what he's just Meant to do because they’re different from everyone he knows and also grows up in that Very Sensitive Stage of life idolising these gruff, badass heroes that im sure the kids saw everywhere in that time?? no fucking shit he grew up to be like He Is there’s also the huge point that like. he idolised the grimm reaper? ok so she's not the gruff badass male hero u expect but also like. a hero who's hidden Constantly behind a mask... imagine the Message that sends to someone so impressionable as qrow when he first joins beacon... 'u can be like this but only if you hide yourself away from everyone' i always pinned down the constant almost unbearable flirting with women/i like women!/listen to me talk about all the women i have met and i can get to like me to him like. 'well this is the normal thing to do so guess ill just Do That' so he made himself into something else. he forced himself to be this person we meet in vol 3. the flirt, the drunkard who doesn’t give a shit (partly enforced by his own issues but also helped by this ‘act’ that he’s trying to play constantly at all times when in anyone’s company, the asshole who ‘doesn’t have any feelings’ - it’s all an act. something he’s forced himself into to distance himself from the soft, gay, emotional even fucking terrified kid he used to be when he first found himself dropped in a completely different world to the one he knew from the second he knew what was happening. at least... until he's 40 odd and people start being more open/accepting and his tried and tested method of ‘flirting’ with women shifts to being something that people see as creepy or 'wrong' of him to be doing and he's stuck in this limbo his own repressed feelings/internalised homophobia verses this stagnant view of the world that he has because he's always off on missions alone and doesn't spend a whole lot of time to see the shifting views of society until it's all happened and it hits him like a brick wall

it’s also important to point out that this homophobia in a sense isn’t directed at other people? he’s all chill if you have a girlfriend or if that guy has a boyfriend. that’s not his issue. it’s the constantly reinforced (whether deliberately or not) idea that his own feelings are the alien ‘wrong’ type and that his wants/attractions are wrong and that he shouldn’t have them. that they’re somehow only horrible and deserve kicking to the dirt if they’re his own because that’s just how his head works/just how he’s been inadvertently taught throughout his life. he isn’t allowed to feel things. he isn’t allowed to be into guys like a small part of him has always known he is

#as my story came to a close i realised that i was the villain all along (HEADCANON.)#homophobia mention //#ask to tag //#alcohol mention //#drops this here and disappears because it is way past my bed time and i have spoken Far Too Much

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The way that some of the FNDM is so obvious in their misogyny makes me think about how the Charlie's Angels Reboot director made a much maligned quote of how men can't handle female leads. Honestly... she's right. That is, we guys can handle the kind of female leads who do not yield to the men. The strong female lead who bows out of the final act so the schlubby male lead can "man up" and fulfill his destiny AKA Trinity Syndrome.

(cont.) However, with RWBY... we don't get that. We don't get Jaune shoving Pyyrha to the side to deal with Cinder but vice versa. We don't get Weiss being motivation for Jaune to beat Cinder but the catalyst to heal her and get her back in the fight. We don't get Adam to be the badass freedom fighter with a dark sense of honor but a coward who intimidates to get the upper hand right out the gate. I vividly remember fans accusing RWBY of sexism against guys even before Monty's passing.

I have to actually laugh, Anon. First of all because of the complete misunderstanding of the term “sexism” and the fact that cis men (because LBR it’s not trans men who are saying this shit) cannot by definition experience it. But secondly cuz...well...what people seem to expect out of RWBY is so often far from what it actually is. It’s not your run-of-the-mill punchy-punch shonen fighting anime. Monty, Miles, and Kerry crafted this show with a very specific mindset that we saw during the trailers: the focus is on our girls. No matter how many secondary protagonists and side characters they introduce, the show is always at its best when the spotlight hangs over Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang. This proves itself time and again, but to me V6 will always be the best example. IMO it’s the literal best volume to date, and that’s not even the shipper in me talking. They built these incredibly deep four young women, and when the attention is on them, they shine, and so does the show.

It’s not hard to see why men get so whiny over strong female characters who aren’t usurped by men. Our media loves to give the eleventh-hour upgrade and victory to males. We see it in every form of media out there, and I’m glad to see that content creators (usually women) are getting fed up with it. It’s old, it’s overdone, and honestly, it’s irritating as fuck. It’s irritating in the same way that plot-twist endings are irritating. We have a woman set up as a badass with potential to be a decisive force on the plot, but then suddenly that role is given to the absolute nobody she found and trained? Barf. What was all that setup for then? They should stop wasting my time and either let the woman be badass or just stop writing altogether. It’s lazy, misogynistic writing. And we (yes, including men) deserve better.

There’s a very specific framing to the men, both young and old, in RWBY that I appreciate more with each new show I consume. Not only do the young women have the focus, the boys who back them up do just that: back-up. Jaune’s semblance is healing, and while I may have a bit of my own contention with how they handled Weiss in that scene, it’s very important to notice Jaune’s ascension. In almost any other show, Jaune’s semblance would be revealed to be some awesome offensive force, a sort of deus ex machina that would blow Cinder away and win the day. But no, he’s a healer. His primary purpose is to help people get back in the fight. So much character growth from when we first met him, no? Ren’s semblance is pure support, and I LOVE HIM for it. His soul is meant to shield himself and others from Grimm detection. While it’s a shame we don’t get to see them use these to back up Pyrrha, I think the story MM&K told with her is its own kind of impactful. And yes, I will never stop missing her.

You bring up Adam, and as much as I could rant ad nauseum about him, I’ll try to keep the talk about him brief. Our intro to him was as this powerful, mysterious, broody, and admittedly fairly conventionally attractive dude. On the surface, he seems to be driven and strong, if a bit brutal, and it seems that he cares about Blake. That’s what we get from Black Trailer. It makes sense that people would latch onto him; he seems pretty cool! And hey, incel dudes can project themselves onto him to feel cool too (and he got to hold Blake uwu). But, if you’ll notice, I’ve carefully worded all of that. He Seems. Digging deeper, the villainous side of him shows itself even in Black Trailer, the signs masterfully planted to show that he will be Blake’s personal antagonist. We don’t see him for a while, so the people who project on him can easily ignore those signs and fanon about how cool and powerful and honorable he is. But his major reveal as a master manipulator and all-around creep? That wasn’t subversion of what they’d shown us, that was simple expansion atop the sociopathic and homicidal tendencies they gave him from day one. (This was brief, believe it or not...I could and would love to talk more about him as a villain tbh...)

Anyway, I’ve talked long enough for now. Thank you for the ask and for the opportunity to talk more about a show I love and how it seeks to defy the gross and sexist pervasive culture!

#Anonymous #RWBY And Misogyny #And To Be Clear: YES The Director Of The Charlie's Angels Reboot Was Right; Men Can't Take It When A Woman Beats Them #Women Were BANNED FROM BASEBALL Because A Woman Struck Out Babe Ruth And Lou Gehrig Back-To-Back #Like Geez Get Your Shit Together And Realize It Doesn't Make You Inferior...Unless You Think Women Are Inferior To Begin With #Which...Hmmm...Sounds Like Something You Should Maybe Address In Therapy #(Will I Take Any Opportunity To Suggest Therapy For People? Yes Lol)#We All Can Do Better And RWBY Is A Great Place To Start The Conversation For So Many Reasons #So Thank You Again! :)

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