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2010s Black Tumblr didn't die organically. It was killed. Not just by staff, not just by the porn ban, but by the white userbase as well. Black bloggers were (and still are) being mass-reported and harassed off the platform constantly. White Tumblr users would post gore in problack tags, racefake left and right in Black people's askbox, pick random AAVE to call racist/misogynistic/transphobic, etc then get the Black people who were nice enough to explain what it means to them mass reported for harassment, the list goes on.
Silly goofy dog Pokémon
Now available as stickers on Etsy!
FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT WHILE VALENTINES DAY ITSELF IS LOWKEY A CORPORATE CASH GRAB TODAY IS STILL ABOUT CELEBRATING LOVE BUT THAT MEANS ALL LOVE NOT JUST ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL LOVE YES I MEAN PLATONIC AND FAMILIAL LOVE PLEASE REMEMBER THAT ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL LOVE ARE NOT THE ONLY TYPES OF LOVE WORTH CELEBRATING ON THIS LOVELY WEDNESDAY
PLEASE UNMUTE THIS. PLEASE.
Something came over me
ugh, with all the "Beelzebub redesigns", i just wanna go on a fucking rant or tangent about how characters can look different from the original source material, just saying this since people are getting pissy over a demon lord being more hellhound than insect, and while i get it, they still kept the insect part integrated in quite well. Sorry, it's just that there are many characters before queen beelzebub, whose designs differentiate what they were originally based on that kept the elements in just fine, and yet now that it's a hellhound-bee hybrid, now people get mad, the fuck?
omg new episode of Helluva Boss is buzzing frfr
amazing character design
we love it
Maybe they need to stop shitting on her designs then? People are always so negative about everything just shut up and enjoy the show or don't watch, if it makes you that miserable.
Vivzie being like "oh well yall redesigns are wrong too cuz Beel is a fly and not a bee"
They are redesigning your goddamn character you dumbass
She's fucking picking fights with fanartists redesigning her character now?
I hate this spoiled woman-child of a woman. I really, really do.
I think it's pretty obvious that the Reason Raven is such a train wreck till this day is because of her own fear of Salem and how she realizes she isn't immortal nor is she as fearless as she thought, especially since she now has something Salem wants, the Maiden Powers. There is no doubt that Tai is Ruby's father, Because when Raven confronted her in Volume 5, the line you spoke of once, "You sound just like her." Was definitely filled with disgust and resentment. Probably because whatever happened to Summer, Raven tried to talk her out of it, but her Relentless optimism is what got her "killed."(IF she was killed 👀)
Also, In the scene we got in V9 it's clear that Tai and Summer were definitely together in a loving relationship. There is no doubt about it. But this was an interesting post to read through.
"Likely cared about her the most out of her teammates. Given how she’s clearly taken Summer’s loss far harder than Qrow or Tai." Its literally been a major plot point since V2 then Summer's disappearance caused Tai to completely shut down for actual years. Straight from Yang. How can you possibly ignore that to make a claim that Raven cared more? I know your a Rosebird truther to the extreme, but come on your ignoring the words of characters who actually were there
So this is a great example of what I’ve been saying about how much of the fandom’s idea of the background of Team STRQ is based on some major assumptions. And many of them drawn from sources that are not entirely reliable.
To the point, IS Tai ‘shutting down’ after Summer’s disappearance really a major recurring plot point? It’s only been brought up twice in any kind of significant way, and more notably is something we’ve only ever heard about and never actually SEEN. Now that’s not to say that Yang has been lying or somehow wrong about Taiyang’s grief, rather that the only place we have actually seen that grief is through the effect it had on Yang and Ruby. Whereas we have thus far seen basically nothing of that grief from Tai himself. Seeing as how we have never seen him so much as speak of Summer, outside that one episode of Fairy Tales of Remnant that only had an inference of his grief. Simply put, the narrative of RWBY has treated Taiyang’s apparent grief-stricken breakdown as a key aspect of Yang’s backstory and character development, rather than part of Tai’s own character.
And more to your point: How can I claim that Raven cared more about Summer and took her disappearance harder that Tai?
Simple. Just note the past tense in ‘Tai completely shut down for years.’
Regardless of how hard Tai apparently took Summer’s disappearance in the past, when we look at him in the present, it’s clear that he has been able to heal and move past that grief and overall looks to be in a pretty good place now.
Contrast that with Raven who is clearly still wracked with grief and trauma over whatever happened during that mission and whatever happened to Summer.
Reading between the lines, the show has made it pretty clear which among Team STRQ took Summer’s disappearance the hardest: On the one hand we have Qrow and Tai, who after all these years, seem to have coped with their grief fairly well, all things considered. And on the other hand we have Raven, who is clearly still a complete fucking wreck.
What I think much of the fandom is missing is that there is a slowly growing disconnect between what we heard about Team STRQ’s backstory and what we are actually SEEING play out.
Back in Volume 2, we took everything Yang told Blake at face value and assumed that she actually knew everything she was talking about and was right about everything.
When in reality it’s becoming more and more clear that there is a LOT about her parents’ team that Yang, and by extension Ruby, have had NO IDEA about.
With how consistently RWBY has utilized the ‘unreliable narrator’ trope, especially when it comes to our heroines’ parents and mentors, when it comes to formulating theories, more and more I’ve taken to putting MUCH more stock in what we SEE of our characters over what we might simply ‘hear’ about them. Especially when it comes to characters as shrouded in mystery as Team STRQ, and particularly after what we saw in the Volume 9 finale which flat out TOLD Ruby ‘there’s a BUNCH about your family that you have been completely wrong about’.
It’s not that I think Summer didn’t care about Tai and Qrow, or that she and Tai weren’t very close. Ruby’s vision from the Tree proved that pretty conclusively. Nor do I think Tai isn’t or hasn’t been a loving, caring father to both Yang and Ruby. Again, the story has shown that quite definitively.
Rather, I think there is a LOT more going on with Ruby’s and Yang’s parents than we realize. And that a LOT of what we have assumed base on what characters told us in the show’s early volumes is going to turn out to be either VERY incomplete or even outright wrong.
Like when the story has told and shown us basically nothing of Summer’s relationship with Tai, while at the same time leaving more and more narrative breadcrumbs about Summer’s relationship with Raven, or in the case of the V9 finale, clubbing us upside the head with a wholeass baguette, it gives more and more of an impression that THIS is the relationship of most narrative significance and consequence among the team. And that some things both we and Yang and Ruby assumed were not actually the case. Say for example, Tai not actually being Ruby's biological father...
That doesn't make sense in the slightest to be honest, her having parents and being the only member of team RWBY to not speak about them because of how badly she treated them makes perfect sense. Imagine hearing your teammates going through all their life being either 1) proud of their family name or 2) missing out on their family and you have not only a loving family, but a loving family you hated. It makes absolute sense for her character arc because she was always ashamed of who she was, and her parents were apart of WHO she was. So it doesn't make sense for her to be an orphan.
"Blake Belladonna should have been an orphan". No, I didn't stutter
Rant incoming. If you feel the onset of symptoms like malding and seething, just click away and you'll make an immediate recovery.
You cannot tell me that Blake's parents weren't randomly created on the fly post-Volume 3.
By all evidence given onscreen, YES, technically Blake never mentions whether she had parents or not.
But she also doesn't say that she has an evil twin named Bleu Bougainvillea living on the broken moon. Doesn't mean it suddenly justifies her having one. There's equal importance in reading what Blake doesn't say.
RWBY and Team RWBY in particular are very focused on family, especially in Volume 2. Weiss mentions her father and family name. Yang talks about Raven and Summer, by extension including Ruby. Blake talks about Adam, i.e. the White Fang. Not her parents. Almost like we're supposed to think that Blake believed the White Fang was her family.
It's even weirder that Ghira and Kali actually love and support Blake, and she had no bad blood with them. For someone on good terms with her parents (just she wasn't willing to confront them), she really doesn't like, mention them at all. Not even longingly or wistfully, like a prodigal daughter wanting to return home.
But she has sketches of Adam in her notebook. Almost like maybe Adam was one of the few people on Remnant she was close to. But the world is never ready for the Adam conversation.
Honestly it's made all the more worse because Kali and Ghira are so well-liked in the fandom, because "Well, now we can't get rid of them. Look at how lovable and pleasant they are! And it's good that someone on Team RWBY has a happy home upbringing."
The latter is true - in a vacuum, but Blake is not the person to be having a happy home life, if she even has a home at all.
I'm not saying this to be mean (as if the catgirl pixels on my screen can take offense to me saying she shouldn't have her nonexistent parents), but Blake is very clearly portrayed to represent the dregs of Remnant's society - she's a Faunus, a non-citizen of the Kingdoms and likely displaced from any home she would have once known to join the White Fang. She is an underdog.
There's adding layers and nuance to a character, and there's adding just plain contradictory elements to them. I don't write "Blake is an outcast of Remnant's society, forced into an extremist group just to survive and feel heard" and then write "But also she was actually born onto the lap of privilege and led such a hard life not out of necessity but out of impulse". It's totally backwards.
Not to mention that she quite explicitly says "If you can't fight, you can't survive"... for an organization she joined and did crimes for of her own accord, when her cushy mansion, comfy bed with pre-fluffed pillows and her parents who run the place is a 20-minute walk away.
It reeks. It smells of "While you were painting your nails and drinking coconut water in your fantasy Australia/Malaysia/Polynesia frankenstein island, I studied the blade" energy when Blake says this and she isn't in any way someone who's had to suffer. Who's had no choice but to fight.
"But she's a Faunus! She's still marginalised in Remnant!" Wow, then good thing she was born and raised on the island where she's only surrounded by Faunus and probably never faced a single discriminatory act by any humans whatsoever, because the closest human around is probably 500 miles away across the ding-dang ocean.
Plus, the "we need someone in Team RWBY with normal parents" argument doesn't hold water as well, because had CRWBY committed to their writing and kept Blake an orphan or some no-name runaway, the same people would be praising Blake either way. "I'm so glad someone on Team RWBY doesn't have living parents, because 'found family' is just as important to show for Blake's arc - first for the White Fang, and now for Team RWBY". See how the reaction changes to match?
To say nothing of the fact it completely screws over the whole identity thing? Not only are you a former White Fang agent in our school, you're also the daughter of the former leader? No amount of "How many politicians' or civil rights leaders' daughters' names do you know" is going to sweep this under the rug - one shouldn't be bending over backwards this much to justify this.
The truth of the matter is the fandom would have eaten up whatever narrative CRWBY spun for Blake, and gone to any necessary lengths to justify it in hindsight as "what the show needed". It's the whole "planned from the beginning" nonsense this fandom falls victim to far too often, which is frankly embarrassing.
Had CRWBY never shown that Blake had living parents, we would have happily eaten it up, but at least they wouldn't have to change what they already said about Blake to do it. It's like saying Weiss is "the loneliest of all" and then later reveal she actually lived under the same roof with eight siblings, four uncles, five aunts, a godmother and three dogs.
"Oh, but that would have been even more effective! It would have been, like, *✧'You feel the loneliest when in a crowd' *✧, it's so deep."
Okay? And?? You've told me nothing besides "I actually would have been happy to bullshit any reason to enjoy these writers' poor-piss decisions, so might as well give me the worst version of what I would have been happy with anyway".
Please, I implore you to put aside your love for the "nice big loveable bear dad" trope and the Kali NSFW art and actually think about what this character's actually about.
This shit is not hard. Like it's hard to write and execute, sure - writing of any kind is a challenge, but you know what's not hard? Keeping the parents dead like you implied they were. Letting found family be Blake's arc.
Letting her look at the White Fang and at Team RWBY, and knowing she has to choose between two families she loves, instead of her running away to the convenient third family she had lying around as her golden parachute in case either one turns to violence or has their school blown up, basically wrapping her in a nice warm blanket so she doesn't have to grapple with any tough moral and emotional choices.
Blake was my favourite character in RWBY until this shit came around; I loved that her hardened nature and upbringing was tempered by a pure conviction and willingness to heal, even when everything she knows and grew with is broken beyond repair. Her conflict felt real and visceral.
Ruby's the daughter of a big Huntress and has silver eyes. Weiss is the daughter of one of the most prestigious families in the world who owns half the world's economy. Yang's the daughter of a bandit queen who's also a Maiden. Blake should have been the nobody. Someone with no greatness to her name, other than the greatness she sees in her new team, and the greatness she can strive towards with her own two hands.
She could have shown that you can come from the absolute bottom of society, hated and overlooked by everyone, and still be a hero, especially in a show where most of its villains (Cinder, Emerald, Adam, Roman, Neo, Mercury) are also outcasts, felons or nobodies in their own communities. Great message, CRWBY. Of course the company robbing their staff of their livelihoods and ousting them when they're no longer useful would demonise the poor people and rebels.
But oh look, now she's the daughter of the former leader of the entire freedom fighter movement and the chief of an entire fucking island nation. Isn't that so much cooler? Don't you look up to Blake so much more now?
Fucking. Yawn.
why do they let the worlds most boring people direct movies
Because you're just being sensitive? If Yang herself has come to terms with her prosthetic arm and likes to make puns and encourages others to make jokes at it then why are you acting like everyone else is the problem. As someone with a disabled sister who has a prosthetic arm she loves this stuff and always gets a laugh out of it.
Yes let’s further make Yang having her arm stolen, something that would be traumatic and terrifying to deal with, into a joke. Fucking hilarious. Comedy gold /sarcasm
Does no one at RT care? Why do none of the fans care? Why does no one care about the rampant ableism within RT and the fan base?
ok I may be a little obsessed with the funny himbo cookie
arcanine and hisuian arcanine
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i've been. a lil bit of a fan of @sundaeserenade 's Gone and Back Again... oops!
Old habits die hard, I guess <3
VIVZIE MADE A THREAD ABOUT PEOPLE SAYING MILLIE "LACKS DEPTH"
Please read through this and STOP saying she "lacks depth" when even Viv says that we are only on the third ep! Goddammit....thank you, Vivzie! I've been repeating this shit and it's so nice to basically be right! Ugh!
It just feels like Yang is barely a character anymore, she needs to worry about herself, being an actual person. It's either about Blake or Ruby, but never herself.
Oh boo fuckin hoo. STOP Thinking Yang needs to only worry about Ruby!!! Jesus.
Damn, I love him so much.
SHOUTOUT TO REALSHADOWFAN01 ON TWITTER DOT COM FOR THE SIZE OF THIS MASSIVE FUCKING W
I tried to be more creative with their designs this time and I think I'm pretty happy with them for once
Sugar Swan isn't part of the main 'cast' and is more of a side character, but I thought I'd add her anyway
Edit: Black Pearl has been added!
u know i did this whole thing for a single visual gag
Please take this away from me
Every time you reblog a monster gets a throbbing erection.
i’ve like never played a resident evil game and don’t intend to but i still just cannot stop fucking thinking about stupid manthing i’m fuckin ballin tweet