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This just sums up the insanity of our world so perfectly...

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the ways in which the wikipedia article on zionism has become biased towards anti-zionism with loads of bogus information and subtle comments is really upsetting to me. “zionists wanted to create a jewish state in palestine with as much land, as many jews, and as few palestinian arabs as zionism as possible.” is such an unreal statement to have on the wikipedia page and the fact nobody has gotten rid of this yet is fucking insane. i cant do this anymore it’s unbelievable to me that goyim feel they can take a word they know nothing about and then change the meaning of it to equate to “racist, genocidal colonist”

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I also continue to see the widespread false and antisemitic belief that today's Jewish people are not "real Jews" all over posts regarding Palestine.

If you take on this point of view, you are willfully choosing to ignore historical, cultural, and scientific facts.

I'm not Ashkenazi, but boy have I needed to defend my siblings to a crazy degree. I will never forgive you all for making me have to talk about genetics and genealogy in this way, but here I go. Studies show that Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jews share a common Middle Eastern (Levantine) ancestry.

Ashkenazi Jews also have MENA Y-DNA lineages (J1, J2, E1b1b). The majority of Ashkenazi Y-DNA lineages are more closely related to other Jewish groups and Middle Eastern populations than to populations in Europe, supporting Jewish origins in the Middle East. This is science. Deep ancestry tools that break down DNA further, and research/studies also show the significant Levantine ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews.

Yes, due to the forced diaspora, they do have European ancestry as well. However, that does not change the FACT that they do indeed descend from Jews who came to Europe from the Levant and are NOT "fake Jews". I refuse to give people the "They are just uninformed" pass on this. The diaspora from ancient Judea into Europe is documented; it is a historical fact that this happened and that Ashkenazi Jews descend from them.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but more than one group of people can be indigenous to an area. Both Palestinians and Jews are indigenous to that land. Acknowledging this does not mean you think what the state of Israel is doing is okay. But lying about the ancestry and very real roots of Jewish people is not helping Palestinians. It is only spreading a lie. If you genuinely believe you do not conflate the State of Israel with Jewish people, it should not be an issue to acknowledge any of this.

What is happening to Palestinians breaks my heart, and I will continue to stand up for them in the ways that I can. However, I can not stay silent on this massively growing attempt to make Jewish people into something we are not and erase our connection to our history and ancestors.

People need to be better with their activism. You do not have to resort to one of the biggest antisemitic false narratives to support Palestine.

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I think Nora would've been an amazing choice for the rusted knight, genuinely a missed opportunity. It would've/could've been so good for her charcter

She might've but I both don't like Nora and think there's other characters that are better fitted for the Rusted Knight than her.

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Weiss should’ve started with long hair and then got a pixie cut while Blake should have started with a bob and grew her hair out..

You

You understand the vision.

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Blake’s redesign should have some kind of memento to symbolize Adam methinks…I already have it so Gambol Shroud was a gift from him in my rewrite AU

I think in AUs where obviously you're writing the Adam/Blake relationship different, it's a nice touch for Blake to carry on Adam's memory.

The redesigns I'm doing here are for canon RWBY rather than any rewrite or AU, so I wouldn't have Blake having anything of Adam's given their abusive relationship.

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I honestly don't intend to watch Volume 10 if it does get made, especially since they apparently aren't replacing the writing team after RoosterTeeth went under. After Volume 9, it just isn't worth it.

Me either. My friend group were already checking out halfway through V9 and I was only there because I was the only one who could stream it lmfao

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So, little question just for fun: who’s your favorite non-Jaune candidate to be the Rusted Knight?

Either Penny or Weiss. Both have knight/defender imagry and fit really well into the story of being influenced by the Ever After following their failure in protecting their homes, resulting in the loss of Atlas and many people that trusted them.

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Hello! This ask if for Luke:

I very much enjoy the redesigns for RWBY that you have been creating recently. I have no art expertise (aka I can't draw or color for shit) but I always enjoy reading critiques and the behind-the-scenes of redesigns/fan designs. You're redesigns of the Atlas designs are all amazing and correct many of the problems I have with some of the designs (I could prob go on a 15 minute rant about the things I don't like about Blake's design, with prob half of it being taken up by the useless zippers).

You can ignore the next part if you'd like, as I know that some people don't like being compared to others, but I was wondering if you have ever heard of Twiins iink? She's a former RWBYtuber (no longer makes RWBY content) who often critiqued the show. Specifically, she has had multiple videos on character design, which I really enjoyed and still go back to every so often. Some of the points that you have brought up, reminded of things she's talked about before (such as: the not-so-great use of colors, the inconsistent skin tones between Ein Lee's art and engine modeling, how Yang's Atlas look is reminiscent of Vernal's, how Weiss looks so much like a princess despite being cut off from the family now, etc.).

Don't get me wrong, I don't think you're copying her or anything. I just thought the similarities were funny and was wondering that if you did know who she was, what your thoughts on her opinions on character design in the show?

This is so funny given the brief drama that we and Twiins got into because she was being racist.

Yeah I know her and actually liked her videos back in the day, but while I think she has some good points in designs, she also just has bad points and none of the skills to back up in her own designs. Even the more recent ones aren't that great and she's one of the ones who thinks that all of Team RWBY needs the entire team's colour on them.

Which is why we keep getting Weiss stuck in yellow even though her established palette doesn't look good in it.

But the biggest issue is her blackwashing incident where she refused to show any Blake designs that had her with darker skin because it was "Blackwashing" and "erasing Blake's Asian-coding", and when POC fans including myself tried to educate her, she had a meltdown on Twitter, misgendered my nonbinary sister, and said that our Filipina friend should keep shaking while she defended Asian people.

Plus after that she put Blake, who she said was Japanese, in Malaysian clothing, showing a complete lack of understanding in issues like Pan-Asia and Orientalism.

Sorry for being negative anon, and I do appreciate you liking my series so far, but I cannot stand Twiins or her sister.

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So apparently, Jay's college ex has outed him as an abuser and the fandom is ignoring it. Jay even responded to her "apologizing" for being abusive. Epic the Musical really is filled with rot.

https://x.com/jxstarrz/status/1933921991880315079

https://x.com/emilymahonn/status/1897381563110973766

The thing that always gets me is that whenever a victim has to delete their posts because of relentless harrassment, the people doing it then turn around and use that as "proof" that the thing never happened.

It's a classic tale. Piece of media made by a rotten person with very questionable choices in it, becomes popular and fans completely ignore what the creator did in favour of harrassing the victims. Must be a day ending in Y.

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So Luke since you have objectively correct opinions. I come forward with this daunting philosophical debate that has raged for generations. Dog boys/dog girls vs cat boys/cat girls. Which is superior.

I'm a cat person so I gotta rep for the feline squad. Cat boys just hit different.

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Throwing it out there, Weiss’ redesign should be her in one of Taiyang’s shirts.

Weiss in any of the Xiao Long family's shirts is a bonus-

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okay but for real please stay safe and take care king

Thank you, I'm back now uwu

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Awww, I’m so sorry about that! I send you my sincerest condolences. Take as much time as you need, monarch, we know you’ll continue cooking us five-star meals no matter how long the wait may be.

Thank you and everyone who's been sending in good wishes! I'm much better now and my sister is now outta hospital, so I can carry on with the redesigns <3

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I use this map on the plane over to the US and end up in Hawaii

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#WeissSweep

Weiss fr doing a flip from the girl who I struggled the most to redesign in the past oop

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YESSSSSS OUR ICE PRINCESS IS FINALLY HERE! Wonderful job as always OP, hope you’re doing alright

Thank you! I'm glad I've finally managed to write up the post since her design has been sitting in my folder for nearly a week lol

Now onto Blake!