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uh oh, someone (me) has a new hyperfixation !

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hey don't cry. matt gaetz withdrawing from attorney general nomination ok?

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just saw this clip and i think itd make a funny reaction image what do u think... does it have potential

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How long until Dr Oz becomes Surgeon General

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and heres a ren before i go to sleep ok bye

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Percy listens to those whale noises that people use to sleep but he just listens to them like a podcast.

And any time he hears someone like Annabeth listening to them he's like "Wow Daphne is really something else. Honestly I can't believe she would do that"

And Annabeths's like "what?"

And Percy just translates the entire thing to her and instead of calming sounds to help her concentrate she now has Percy tell her all the whale drama which she is oddly immersed with.

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Daily marine animal #21

I think rays, especially manta rays, are sick. Big friggin fsh.

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Wait. Wait.

The Blacksmith gives people who die and ascend in the Ever After a new form.

Oh my god she's a magic plastic surgeon!

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Is there a Jaune problem?

This is not a topic I've personally thought about much, but lately, I've seen it come up more often so I've been diving into it. The question is "Does Jaune get too much preferential treatment compared to other main characters?"

The answer I got is complicated

One debate around Jaune is how a lot of characters are arguably fridged for his development. To fridge a character, means "to harm a character solely to help the growth and development of another character." This can happen to anyone but it is statistically more common to harm a female character to develop a male one

Pyrrha is a difficult one. On one hand, her death is supposed to be a source of grief for Ruby, Ren, and Nora as well as Jaune, and all of them do think about her. On the other hand, Jaune is the one most likely to mourn her or be the focus of grieving her whenever she comes up. I think the flaw here is that even though she's supposed to have connections with other character, she rarely interacted with anyone besides Jaune

It's also important to remember that Pyrrha's death was a result of her own choices and agency which does counter the fridge argument. Pyrrha was chosen as the next maiden. Pyrrha chose to accept the responsibility. Pyrrha chose to confront Cinder to claim the maiden powers from her. Her sacrifice had everything to do with Pyrrha as an individual and nothing to do with Jaune

Weiss getting stabbed so he can unlock his semblance is another problem people bring up. Cinder genuinely only attacked her just to spite Jaune. While she did bounce back afterwards, since her feelings about it never come up, it can feel like her attack was more for Jaune

In comparison, Adam did cut off Yang's arm to spite Blake, but we did get a lot of focus on Yang's trauma from the incident while Weiss does not. This one is the best example of possible fridging for Jaune's benefit

Penny's second death is another conflicted one. Penny's death had a major effect on both Ruby and Jaune. Ruby who feels immense guilt for not protecting her. Jaune who hates himself for helping her do it. I feel like Penny's death was used against Ruby and Jaune to an equal degree, so if you do think she was fridged, I don't think you could call it a Jaune-specific problem

The other main debate is if Jaune gets too much attention compared to the other main characters. Jaune did get a mini arc in volume 1 before Yang got any focus episodes. However, volume 2 did address this by giving more focus to Team RWBY as a whole with JNPR only getting the one romance episode. Volume 3 mostly used him as a support character in Pyrrha's arc. Volume 4 gave everyone equal attention with only one moment I'd call Jaune-centric

Volume 5 actually does have some merit to this argument. Cinder has a established hatred against Ruby and the show's been hyping another fight between them for years. So giving the fight to Jaune when Ruby's right there didn't sit right with a lot of fans. It was a group battle so both of them could've fought off Cinder at once instead of one-on-one

Volume 6 and 7 are fine with the Jaune scenes. Volume 8 was mostly fine before the infamous Penny thing

Volume 9 presents a very complicated issue when it comes to Jaune focus. Ruby's ascension is a very divisive plot point, and the fact is, every time Ruby was about to express her mental distress, she was interrupted because of something involving Jaune

After that Jabberwalker fight, they all saw Ruby panic when Jaune tried to give Crescent Rose back to her. It felt like they'd finally realize just how bad her mental state is, and then something happens to Jaune and all of them give their attention to him. And worse, the first thing one of them says to Ruby after this is to ask for reassurance from her when she literally just raised a red flag about her mental state

In all fairness, the show does try to clarify that the way they put too much pressure on Ruby was a flaw on WBY's end. Weiss directly admits that they're partially to blame for Ruby not feeling comfortable opening up to them. However, if you think the show resolved this plot point poorly, it's easy to direct criticisms against Jaune and feel like WBY cared too much about him at Ruby's expense

After considering all the arguments for and against Jaune, I don't think he gets too much more attention than most characters. It just feels that way because of his proximity to the most controversial parts of the show. The Haven fight is known for being poorly written. Penny's second death got a lot of negative reactions. Ruby's ascension has a fierce debate about its connotations and the events leading up to it

Jaune is directly connected to all of these plot points, so if a fan takes issue with one or multiple of these moments, it's easy to blame him specifically as the root of the problem and then view his previous moments more negatively in hindsight

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I love my show that doesn't make sense

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i just think its great that adam cut yangs arm off and yang had a whole arc of depression+ptsd and overcoming it and got a banger song talking about how next time she'll fucking kill him and then 2 volumes later she fucking kills him

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PEOPLE PEOPLE !! YOU ALL MUST SEE THIS !!

I just stumbled upon this animation project on Youtube and it's simply A-MA-ZING !! Crime, musicals, references everywhere !!

The pilot was aired just 4 days ago but guys, I already love it and i'm sure you'll do too, please give it a try and let's support the artists so we can get more material soon !! ✨

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Alright. We’re settling this discourse once and for all.

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