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Agatha Vega and Liya Silver

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The touches,the looks.....ahhhh 😻😍🥺😭

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Just came across this while browsing YouTube. I bet this was a pretty cool event to have seen back in the day. Anyway, the video above is timestamped to an almost blink and you'll miss it moment between Xena and Gabs that I thought some of you might like to see if you haven't come across this yourselves.

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looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3 be like:

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what the actual fuck

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ooh that sounds- what the fuck

unfinished

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the best fic ive ever read in my life. this absolutely ruined me and ill never be the same ever again

dont care

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RWBY Cast Spotlight: MCM Birmingham 2023

Notes from attending the panel at Comic Con featuring Barbara Dunkelman, Arryn Zech, Kara Eberle, and Lindsay Jones.

Barbara's engaged to her partner Trevor. Apparently she cannot stop staring at the ring at random moments.

The cast mentioned one previous con they remember was when someone brought up a jar of gold glitter and said 'It's Pyrrha'.

Everyone was nuts about the Bumbleby kiss. Barb apparently watched it 83 times.

Lindsay- "I do seek out media to destroy me". (Same tbh)

Lindsay was very glad to do Season 9 and the topics of Ruby's emotional repression and subsequent breakdown.

She loved the line 'What if I choose me?'

Therapy: The Season

Kara personally loved the rock throw moment for Weiss.

The actresses get no insight into future volumes until they've already been written. However, they did say that they hoped RWBY would get time for a vacation. Beach Episode!

They'd also like something where the Schnees make reparations to the White Fang.

Fan Questions

What Crossovers would they want to see with RWBY?

-Fortnite, Smash, Harry Potter, and The Simpsons. Also possibly a RWBY/RWBY Chibi crossover.

Advice for picking up girls?

-Barb- First lift weights, then you can lift girls. Beeeee yourself.

What Pokemon would your character be?

Barb: Charizard for Yang, but Snorlax for herself.

Arryn: Umbreon

Kara: Ninetales, preferably the Alolan ice version.

Lindsay: Scizor

If you could be a Faunus, what would you be?

Barb: A Dragon Faunus if possible

Arryn- A mermaid

Kara- A Puppy Faunus

Lindsay- A Cat Faunus, preferably a Tiger

Favourite side characters?

Barb- The Shopkeep

Arryn- Neptune

Kara- Jaune

Lindsay- Ciel

What do you wish you could go back and tweak in the series?

-Maybe tweak Season 1 and 2. Like a Disney Remastered edition.

Favourite lines?

Barb- I think I love you/ High five!

Arryn- I love you too/ I think we're already falling

Kara- Couldn't remember the exact line, something like 'Is a home a home if it doesn't exist' (If anyone knows, please tell me)

Lindsay- I'm just trying to save everybody

Interactions you'd want to see

Barb- Would like to see Yang and Sun meet up and bro out.

Arryn- Blake and Ren, probably sitting together in absolute silence.

Kara- Weiss and Nora getting along, now that Weiss can put up with shenanigans better.

Lindsay- Ruby encouraging Qrow to talk with Yang more

Would you do it all again for £1000000?

Relive the time from the beginning of the series until the present? Absolutely not, what with Covid and all.

Redo the entire series? Definitely.

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With every smile you told me

I love you

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the re-cap show | episode 8 | 44:03

c: “if you could have a lifetime supply of something, what would it be?”

t: “eggo waffles.”

c: “you never eat eggo waffles! i’ve seen you eat one eggo waffle in ten years.”

t: “i feel like they’re not really allowed in our home.”

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lycoreco staff are replacing episode 11′s eyecatches due to it being a potential dangerous influence on viewers since the lycoris flower is poisonous and trying to replicate the images can have terrible results (a shame since they were one of my favorites but understandable)

the good news is that they’re replacing them with brand new ones :) 

someone on twitter said it cheekily connects to ordinary days chisato which also had a thing for takina’s hair 

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I know a censored kiss when I see one.

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Some people seem to think they aren’t canon, but I will simply state that they’re missing the point that they don’t need to explicitly say it.

“”The themes speak for themselves, and make it clear what the intent is. In this actual mini-essay I will actually talk a bit about why focusing on ships being “canon” is wasting the potential of queer representation, in particular reference to Lycoris Recoil.

Lycoris flowers represent a lot of different things, most famous is that red variants symbolize death and final goodbyes. However, of that same species are also a pink variant which symbolize love, passion, and … ahem “feminine beauty”.

There are also yellow and blue variants in other species of Lycoris plants. Yellow represents cheerfulness, courage, and cherishing what you have. While blue represents being calm and dependable, but also freedom.

It hardly gets more on the nose and it’s clear how these apply to the characters and the themes of their arcs. And how the story overall is at the intersection between love and death.

Plus there are literally multiple homages to pieces of media where the characters have been thought of as gay in the story or by audiences. In particular the scene in Stand By Me where the characters kick each other, which the animators made the deliberate choice of copying the overall mannerisms of to draw a direct parallel.

The story is about a hell of a lot more than just a romance, and that is a good thing! I don’t need every piece of representation to be about just romance. And you’d also have to be joking me if you don’t see them using the term “partner” even after retiring from being Lycorises to describe their relationship, as being tongue in cheek about how there is so much media where the characters are obviously but not explicitly queer. Throughout the show they are constantly making references to other ambiguously queer media, and using common language that is unclear about the exact nature of their relationship. Like, everyone wants their confirmed representation I get it, but could we also not call the show doing the most on the nose and tongue-in-cheek queer coding of their main characters “queer baiting”.

The creators have clearly purposefully evoked when not just directly referencing other media where the characters have been queer coded, or queer audiences have resonated with the experiences of the characters. This isn’t subtext that went nowhere, this is a deliberate choice to code the leads as queer by reclaiming things and phrases that have been used as subtext. And then, this is the important part, actually reframing the context to emphasize when they are doing it. See no further than the picture below this. “Partner” has a long and storied history of being used ambiguously, because how we use it slots between purely romantic and purely platonic, and can mean either depending on … that’s right the context. Now let’s imagine you’re a restaurant employee, two women come in and order drinks. When one of them gets up to pick up their drinks and brags about the other woman being her “partner”, and reiterates the point. Now what sort of meaning can we imply from that context? Because if it was a straight couple, nobody would for a moment doubt that partner is in a romantic context.

Like c’mon people, they aren’t hiding it, but they don’t have to look directly into the camera saying they’re a couple for it to be obvious they aren’t “just besties”. Also I don’t even have time for going to go over how all the official art that’s come out since, and the fan art by the creators hasn’t been at all shy about showing them being more intimate than you’d expect from “just friends”.

Or that the season ended with them vacationing in Hawaii of all places. Or that the whole show had a rather open ending clearly hoping for more seasons, and this probably isn’t the end of their story together. Or that one of the original writers who was behind the entire idea for the show, and was a lead writer for the screen play has publicly stated on twitter he’d love to make them official, and told fans asking if the show would end up being a yuri show to “stay tuned for future stories“

Update: and behold, literally new art and products just got released of them literally in wedding dresses together. It’s more than obvious what exactly their intentions are with these characters. So please, please, understand that queer baiting is not just when a relationship you wanted doesn’t happen on screen. Queer people don’t only start existing once they’re in a fully intimate relationship. And queer people not ending up together at the end of what will probably be the first of multiple seasons is not the same as queer baiting. Especially not when the creators have clearly taken a lot of time and effort to consistently code them both as queer, in high effort and direct references to other media. (In a country like Japan where acceptance of queer people is certainly rising, but is also let’s be frank, far from in a good place and there are clear pressures to not show genuinely good representation for fear of upsetting a bunch of weirdos from the publisher’s perspective) (Yes I know the new Gundam show has lesbians in it, that’s also one of the biggest, most profitable, and longest enduring cross-media franchises in Japan, which is in a lot safer position to risk alienating bigots in their audience than a fully original animated show that didn’t get manga or light-novel deals until after the show was already being released and doing well)

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If this doesn’t prove they’re canon idk what will

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Gundam Witch & Lycoris Recoil by misskiwi

The crossover I never knew I needed. 

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First image of Miorine's original Groom (on the right) before the Holder System went into effect:

Tell me that's not a Saber? 🤣

From what I'm seeing the part in the book she appears in is supposed to take place between episodes 1 and 4, so if she's made fully canon it's possible she makes an appearance in the second cour either as another rival or potential ally.

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Lesbian Wisdom

Euhpie *between episodes 11 & 12*: I call upon my lesbian ancestors, how do I save Anis from her self destructive tendencies? Nanoha: Blast her in the face with your magic at full power! Euhpie: This works? Fate: *nodding* It's also the reason I fell in love with Nanoha. Euhpie:*furiously taking notes*