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Rihanna performing LIFT ME UP at the 95th OSCARs

After the successful Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show, music superstar Rihanna will perform the Oscar®-nominated song “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” at the 95th Oscars®, executive producers and showrunners Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner announced today.  Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the 95th Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on Sunday, March 12,…

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95TH OSCARS® ROUNDS OUT SHOW PRESENTERS

      Halle Berry, Paul Dano, Cara Delevingne, Harrison Ford, Kate Hudson, Mindy Kaling, Eva Longoria, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Andie MacDowell, Elizabeth Olsen, Pedro Pascal and John Travolta round out the slate of presenters at the 95th Oscars®, executive producers and showrunners Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner and executive producer Molly McNearney announced today. Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the Oscars will air live on ABC and broadcast outlets worldwide on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at 8 p.m. EDT/5 p.m. PDT.

          Previously announced Oscars presenters include Riz Ahmed, Halle Bailey, Antonio Banderas, Elizabeth Banks, Emily Blunt, Jessica Chastain, John Cho, Glenn Close, Jennifer Connelly, Ariana DeBose, Andrew Garfield, Hugh Grant, Danai Gurira, Salma Hayek Pinault, Samuel L. Jackson, Dwayne Johnson, Michael  B. Jordan, Nicole Kidman, Troy Kotsur, Jonathan Majors, Melissa McCarthy, Janelle  Monáe, Deepika Padukone, Florence Pugh, Questlove, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver and Donnie Yen.

         The 95th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.

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Rihanna Set To Perform At The Oscars

Nine-time Grammy Award winner, Rihanna, now, has her first Oscar nomination and is set to perform live at the Oscars on Sunday, March 12th, 2023 #UndefinableVision #TV #UVTV #Entertainment #Music #Film #Movie #News #Oscars #Oscars95

Rihanna Set To Perform At The Oscars® Executive producers and showrunners Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner announced the Iconic Entrepreneur and Music superstar Rihanna will perform at the 95th Oscars® Fresh off her highly talked about recent Super Bowl performance Rihanna is slated to perform the Oscar®-nominated song “Lift Me Up” from “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” (Photo By Dennis…

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Okay, RWBY theory time. If Ruby is confronted with her younger self in the caterpillar’s smoke clouds, who’s to say that Blake, Yang, and Weiss aren’t having a similar experience? What if, in order to become big again, they need to show that they’ve matured? What if they’re all confronted by versions of themselves from their early beacon days for whatever reason? Say, versions who were struggling to figure out why they wanted to become huntresses around a certain campfire in Mountain Glenn?

In the smoke, Blake is confronted with her younger self, uncertain of how to undo so many years of hate and injustice, and now she can tell her younger self that it’s not just up to her, but if she looks around her, she’ll find many people who are willing to fight that fight, and she doesn’t have to carry that weight by herself. Maybe she couldn’t turn Adam away from a dark path, but she and her family convinced Ilia and other Faunus that there is a way to fight back against prejudice that doesn’t involve violence. That results in saving lives. And even when things go wrong, she won’t need to feel like running away all the time, and if she does, well, she knows there are open arms waiting to welcome her back. Maybe a particular set of arms, of which one is yellow.

Weiss confronts a version of herself worried about living up to a family legacy, and although she may feel at first like that legacy is gone along with the rest of Atlas, she realizes that the legacy isn’t just up to her. (Wait a minute, this sounds like something I said in a previous paragraph…) Although her father’s actions are still a sore spot for older Weiss, she can tell her younger self she successfully stopped him from messing up more lives when she had the chance. And once the rest of her family was out from under Jacques’ control, they all acted in ways that made her proud, and now she realizes that family is about more than legacy, that she can do good not because she is tied to the Schnee name, but because she is who she is: she’s Weiss. And her family values her for that. Her family being team RWBY as well as Winter, Whitley, Willow and Klein. As a huntress she can do more for them, and more with them, than she could as a Schnee. (Although the company perks almost helped…)

Now, Yang might meet a younger version of herself who still has both arms, who’s not thinking too much about tomorrow, who’s just in it for the adventure. But an older, more harrowed Yang, down an arm, reassures her young, naive self. Things got a lot harder than just, “go with the flow, you know”, but she made it through. And now she knows that not having any expectations and just seeking thrills were ways to avoid thinking about the things she had lost, or never had, ways to fill an emptiness inside of her that reflected her insecurities and self-worth issues. Sure, she still doesn’t quite know what tomorrow will bring, but she does know that her team will be there, and that they’ll always try to help others, so they don’t have to have a missing mom. Some things are better off being certain. Tomorrow used to bring a certain kind of loneliness in its unpredictability, but not anymore. Maybe some things should not stay uncertain. And when she gets out of the smoke she’ll look at Blake with that fond look and make the audience melt (and Blake blush). Don’t worry there will be more clouds to help you confess your damn feelings! Ahem, sorry about that.

Lastly, Ruby, at her lowest, most uncertain, down on her luck, and depressed, meets a younger version of herself, who was so sure, so set in her path, who was already a huntress at heart. And now, when Ruby is questioning herself, her own actions, and her worth as a huntress, her younger self asks her, “what are you gonna be?” And our Ruby won’t know how to answer. She will feel like she’s not a huntress, she’s barely Ruby Rose, she’s just a girl. How does she move forward? How did she end up so far from this hopeful girl she was in the past? A long string of failures have led her here. And Ruby can tell her past self nothing. She either breaks down, in the safety of the clouds / hallucination, or bottles that feeling up to come back to at a later time. Maybe she’ll find it in herself to say, “I don’t know. I don’t know what I’m going to be. But I know that I am going to do whatever it is I need to do to get out of here.” Not learning the lesson, but refusing to stay still. There will be time to learn that lesson later.

Anyway, that’s just what I think will maybe not happen, but wouldn’t it be cool if some of it did.

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Calypso’s Comic History

The full comic history of Calypso, voodoo witch and partner of Kraven. It's a wild, problematic ride.

We recently talked about Calypso in our latest episode of Weird Lore Bullshit Corner, a podcast where we talk about Spider-Man’s strangest stories and characters. You can find that here.

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Wants and Shoulds

I’ve been thinking about that talk Weiss, Blake and Yang had in Mountain Glenn. Y’know, this one.

To summarize, they were starting to wonder if the paths they’ve chosen for their Huntress careers were the right ones. Yang wants an adventure, Blake wants to fight for equal rights, Weiss feels she needs to restore the Schnee family’s honor. The segment indicates that these personal desires are in fact selfish, and that what they should be doing is “helping people”. And while there’s nothing wrong with helping people...

It’s clear that the Schnee Dust Company’s corruption plays a big role in the suffering of the people. From the first Volume, it is established that the company  is definitely in deep muck, and it’s overwhelming monopoly over...everything... plays a huge role in why things go bad for most of Volume 7. But by reconnecting with her mother and brother, Weiss was able to set into motion the changes that should restore her tainted family.

And then, there’s the White Fang. As much damage as the SDC and Atlas was doing to the Faunus, the White Fang’s response did not actually help the division, and some ways, actually gave the humans an excuse to keep putting on the pressure. As much as some people see saving Haven as helping the selfish humans, I should point out that it’s probably better for Faunus to stop other Faunus, and the act gave them the stepping stone to force the humans to seeing them as equals.

And finally, Yang. While Yang’s stated dream seems the most selfish, she does have an additional goal of wanting to find the answer to her mother’s disappearance. And it’s clear that her entire family is so wrapped up in Oz’s Anti-Salem Racket that learning more is crucial to figuring out the true dangers of the world. And on another note, as moments from Ren’s flashback to the Brunswick Farms legend that not all towns can benefit from the protection of Huntsmen, who apparently charge more than they could afford. Just like in the beginning of Volume 4, these places could have used a powerful wanderer to blow by...

Well, that my Not-Ted Talk. BYE, Y’ALL!!!

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Danzig, 1988, © Mark Weiss

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Maggie Gyllenhaal's Jaw-dropping Oscars 2023 Acceptance Speech Goes Viral - Find Out Why

In 2023, executive producers of the show Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner stopped with that nonsense and finally leaned in on what the Academy Awards should all be about: A celebration of the year in cinema. 

This is not a new phenomenon. We said in our 2016 review that producers seemed to forget about that celebration of movies. 

In 2020, just ahead of the global shutdown, for the 92nd Academy Awards, we said the ceremony featured funny and memorable moments, but that it didn’t always pass the logic test: Most of the ceremony moved along smoothly with no host, but I can’t help wonder if a Master of Ceremonies would bring some well-needed glue to create one cohesive show.

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Hey so to anyone whose ever wondered why I like Jaune I could probably give a good amount of reasons.

From his knight aesthetic, to him not being a Gary Stu, but a very flawed, believable character whose trying to improve himself. Hell I LOVE that he is a reference to Joan of Arc.

That he's not classically played masculine, but also isn't portrayed effeminate or flamboyant to oppose it either. I like that Jaune feels like someone who at a glance could be from a earth.

He feels like he was a Civilian, and you know what, I also have a weakness for blue eyed blondes... Maybe that's why I Love the idea of there being a whole family of them.

Heck conceptionally Jaune has a lot in common with the stereotypical Shonen protagonist... But then again so does Ruby and Yang. And Blake fit the more edgy manga Protags...

But if I had to name one thing I like about Jaune, even more then his determination/ Willpower (Stubbornness when it's misdirected like it was in Jaunedice)

I think what I like most is, well... That Jaune is arguably the bravest character in RWBY (Oscar could be argued to be that too though)

Let me explain, so... Everyone else in Beacon is different then Jaune mentally. And the reason is simple. a combination of their aura and training...

All the main cast besides Jaune were overpowered teenagers with strength like Captain America. And there in lies the reason.

They don't view things the same way Jaune does, in the Red Trailer, we literally see Ruby tear apart a horde of Beowulves in minutes on the way to visit her mother's grave. Which implies she does this regularly on said trek.

Now for those watching we gain the same mentality and understanding as the girls of RWBY. Beowulves aren't that strong, their mobs... Weak, easy to beat and need big numbers to be even a bit challenging.

But if you simply look at them, compare them to Ruby... Every Beowulve is a freaking WEREWOLF!!!

That is fucking terrifying, take away the aura and that is a brickshitting situation Ruby is in. But to her it's really not, because she has spent her whole life killing these things to the point where she can do so effortlessly.

Hell we see this again in Yang when she literally doesn't just enter a fight with a gang of known armed criminals but starts it! Literally grabbing the kingpin by the balls.

Which, why wouldn't she, she punches fucking armored Grizzly bears to death. And so everyone one of JNPR and RWBY outside of Jaune look at Grimm and Criminals in the sense of...

Oh neat, a bad guy, let's kill/ beat them up...

When their being fired at their not thinking they could get shot, NO! Their thinking it's okay to get shot a few times cuz they have aura that'll protect them.

And that's why Jaune is so brave, he went to Beacon as a civilian, unaware of aura. Now stop and think about how far behind Jaune was actually in his own mind.

Because remember, he didn't know about aura, the stuff that lets everyone else be so OP. Jaune fought a Ursa Major and killed it without prior training and wasn't using aura techniques, he had enough physical prowess and strength to cleave through it in a single shot...

A literal Marine couldn't do that... But Jaune did, if it were a world without aura, Jaune would've easily been one of the physically strongest people. But because aura existed, people who were trained their entire lives with it are worlds apart above him.

But my point is this, everyone else isn't so much brave as confident and in Yang and Weiss's cases moreso arrogant. Ruby looked at a Goliath while she was in Mt. Glenn and her first thought was to go and kill it... That thing was a fucking Kaiju. And she wasn't scared of it, oh no she was excited to kill it!

Initiation was literally fun for Yang, she had a blast during it, Nora too, Blake wasn't concerned and until she was forced to ride a Nevermore Weiss was so at ease that she was willing to strike out on her own instead of teaming up with someone else, not once but twice.

But Jaune is different, to him, a Beowulf is a monster that can kill him in a single strike...A Ursa is a beast that could kill the strongest men... A single attack could end you life...

And yet he was still willing to take initiation, there was no second chances, or magic barrier to protect him, hell he didn't even have a gun.

Dude was gonna fight bears and Werewolfs with a sword and shield. In his mind a single blow would kill him, this wasn't fun, this wasn't exciting or something to be taken lightly.

It was a life or death struggle, and just because Pyrrha gave him aura doesn't mean that mentality magically goes away. No to Jaune Grimm still are threat, it why he shows nervousness when fighting them unlike everyone else.

But he still does... everyone else fights Grimm like it's a game or chore. But to Jaune he is actually fighting for his life, these things scare him, fighting scares him, and mentally he is still very much leaning more towards civilian.

But it's because of that that when he fights he is being braver then all the others. Not to say their cowards though.

I think ultimately that's why I like Jaune most, because I never stop realizing that he is fighting in a darksouls game while everyone else feels like their in DMC.

But despite that he doesn't hesitate to fight beside them, to try and help and is willingly putting his life on the line when everyone else is just having a easy run of it.

And I'd argue this is why Ozpin made him leader.

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That whole scene was a parallel to Mountain Glenn in v2. Except that back then, Weiss, Yang and Blake were the lost ones, while Ruby was the one who was sure of who she was and wanted. Now, Weiss, Yang and Blake have found themselves... And Ruby is the one who's lost and confused.

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Alright so what am I looking forward to NSAF reacting to in V2… Hmmm…

- Food Fight

- Cinder (even though I already know she’s a simp)

- Weiss Being Better (I love my girl but she was… a lot in V1)

- Burning the Candle

- New Outfits

- Roman vs RWBY Mech Fight/Neo

- Arkos Drama

- Burning the Candle

- Pyrrha Kicking CRDL’s Collective Ass

- Pyrrha In That Red Dress

- JNPR Dance

- Burning the Candle

- Cinder In That Black Outfit/Dress

- Will She Pick Up On Emerald’s Cinder Issue?

- Oobleck During Mtn Glenn Arc

- WBY Mountain Glenn Talk

- Coco

- Will She Catch Ironwood’s Shadiness?

Oh, yeah, and Burning the Candle. Can’t believe I almost forgot that one.

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Yang: Hey, Y'all want Glenn Mountain oysters?

Ruby: No.

Weiss: ... I don't trust that smile.

Blake: OYSTERS? Yes please!

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The way that we’ve just come full circle since Mountain Glenn…Weiss, Blake, and Yang being the ones who are sure of who they are and what it means to be a Huntress while Ruby’s the one struggling to find herself. And it’s in part because they’ve been challenged on what it means before.

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Box-topz of fame.

After Ruby and Yang went to go catch up, Neo and Jaune walked through the halls, trying to find their lockers.

Jaune: So, I can't believe Yang's sister is the same girl I helped out of a crater, small world.

Neo: 'Hmph.'

Jaune: Oh? Is someone a little jealous?

Neo: 'Me? Jealous? Of whom?

Jaune: Ruby, afraid she is gonna steal little sister Yang from you?

Neo rolls her eyes.

Neo: 'as if I have anything to worry about'

After that, it was just menial chit-chat about the layout of the area, Roman hadn't messaged them yet, so outside of finding their lockers, they could do nothing but wait.

The pair finally approached their locker, but in front of it was that same white-haired girl and some red-headed woman as well, and from the looks of it, the white-haired girl was trying to convince the red head of something.

Jaune looked at Neo, who just shrugged.

Jaune: Uhm, hi!

Neo: 👋

Weiss: And how may I help you two? Can't you see I'm trying to get my partner for the year?

Neo: Crabby bitch...

Jaune: Sorry, it's just you're in front of our lockers.

Pyrrha: Oh, our apologies.

Her and Weiss moved out the way as Jaune and Neo moved right up and opened their lockers.

Weiss: Excuse me, but don't you know who we are?

Jaune: Uh, potential students of Beacon?

Weiss: No, you dolt! I am Weiss Schnee of the Schnee dust company.

Neo just rolled her eyes as Jaune just raised an eyebrow.

Jaune: I think I heard of the company, but YOU? nah.

Weiss: Hmph. Well, maybe the Schnee name hasn't reached your back of the woods.

Neo: I hate her.

Jaune: Oookay?

Weiss: At least do you know of THE Pyrrha Nikos?

Pyrrha just waved awkwardly, not happy about having her fame put out their.

Jaune looked at Pyrrha and shook his head.

Jaune: Nope. Not a clue.

Weiss: What!?

Pyrrha just looked at Jaune with a small smile.

Jaune felt Neo give him a nudge before pulling out her scroll and showing him something.

Jaune just gasped.

Jaune: She's the mascot for pumpkin pete!?

Pyrrha sweat dropped.

Jaune: Ma'am let me tell you how many box tops I had to use to get this sick jacket.

He pulled off the Pumpkin pete jacket and showed it to Pyrrha.

Jacket itself wasn't out of the ordinary. Black and white zip-up denim jacket with two rabbit ears on the hoodie itself. Pumpkin Pete's bunny logo in the center. It was worn with some distress, and it had some little stitching patterns symbols, but Pyrrha wasn't sure what the symbols meant.

Jaune: Good to meet you cereal lady!

Neo just giggled as well as Pyrrha, who was happy to be referred to as something else other than 'Invincible Girl'.

Weiss: NO! This is Pyrrha Nikos, a 4x time mistrial champion!

Jaune: oookay? Anywho, it was nice meeting you, Pyrrha. Let's have a good four years, eh?

With that, Jaune and Neo made their exit as Pyrrha waved goodbye at the pair while Weiss just hmmp'ed .

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Roman whistled as he stood infront of a large tower.

Roman: Ozpin, Your student has returned, I bring the destruction of Beacon! Heh I always wanted to say that!

Smirking as he spun his cane around Roman, he looked at the top of the tower.

Roman: I know you're hiding something... and I'll rob you of it like you robbed my family of Mt. Glenn.

Roman then went to go find his team.

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It's kind of depressing when you realize out of Team RWBY, Weiss is the only one who get's constant development. Ruby doesn't get any character development until maybe Vol 4, and it was still sporadic at best. Yang and Blake got some good development up until Vol 7 where it feels like if it didn't involve Bumblee, then they didn't get anything (And in some cases you could argue going backwards...). So, this might be my bias talking (Weiss is best girl), but Weiss is the only one on that team to me that got anything in a constant enough rate. Only time I think she didn't develop was in Vol 9, but that was Ruby's time to shine so I'm not really upset with that one.

Yeah, when you think about it, there really wasn't much character development for any of the supposed "main characters" of the series, especially since they're also the titular characters.

Ruby's character development was like a David Cage game of Beyond: Two Souls, showing us Ruby's highs, lows, lows, lows, and LOWS of her character development, all before circling back to a HIGH just in time for her series to get canned. It's a sad sight.

Blake's character was centralized on the White Fang. She was in the White Fang until she left, then she finds out the White Fang are up to something in Vale to the point that it exhausts her, then she helps stop the White Fang in Vale and Mountain Glenn, then Yang was framed, and Blake thinks she's becoming Adam again, then the White Fang attack Beacon and Adam cripples Yang so she runs away to Menagerie to protect Yang and everyone she knows and learns the White Fang are up to something in Menagerie until she breaks everything up in Haven. Things go right for Blake overall until Adam shows back up and she and Yang murder him with no consequences. It is from this point that Blake's character arc with the White Fang ends and her entire character now becomes Yang's girlfriend. I've said it before and I'll say it again; Blake is the worst girl of Team RWBY.

Yang's character trait is that she has no character trait. None that's ever properly established. She's Ruby's sister and/or mother figure, but hardly interacts with her. She likes to party and get into fights, but we don't see her do either. Her mom is a bandit, but we don't know if Raven really loves Yang or not. She lost her arm to Adam, but she didn't really learn anything from that whole experience; again, nothing that we can see. And now Yang's character is Blake's girlfriend. I put Yang higher than Blake only because what story COULD be told isn't just the same story over and over.

So, now that I've gone over some issues of the others, let's talk about Weiss' character arc. Weiss is physically scarred by a trial set by her father in order to get into Beacon, and once she arrives, she's an uptight spoiled brat who expects to be handed the position of Team Leader. After she's humbled by Professor Port, she steps up as Ruby's second-in-command. She's pursued romantically by Jaune, whom she rejects outright multiple times until Neptune shows up, whom she romantically pursues until he starts flirting with other girls in front of her, though Jaune helps Neptune ask her to dance, and from there she and Jaune are on better terms as friends (which can be seen in V3 when he calls Weiss after getting out of the locker Pyrrha shoved him in). During V3, she's approached by her sister and financially cut off by her father. After the Fall of Beacon, she's forced to return home and is basically put in a sort of Brittney Spears house arrest, where she's only allowed out by her father to do whatever he wants her to do (I think that's what happened, I'm not really aware of what exactly happened during the whole "conservative house-arrest" thing from a few years back), until she escapes and is then captured by Raven until she's rescued by Yang. They then go to Haven and reunite with Ruby and Team JNR, and once Blake comes back, Team RWBY is back in full swing!

Okay, I think that's enough to make the point, but I do want to bring up something that is going to piss people off, because of course it will. It's about Weiss' likely endgame ship, White Knight. I said before that RWBY doesn't know how to do romance, but... Looking at the character developments of both Jaune and Weiss and they just somehow start leaning closer and closer, contrary to how they started out. Like, I know I'm not the only one seeing two characters with full-developed characters starting to get closer, so how is it that BMBLB sucks so hard with their story if it's the canon flagship?

Don't believe me? Think about what I was talking about with these characters. Do you know what the biggest difference is between the stories of Weiss and Blake and Yang? The answer is that Weiss actually has a story. Blake and Yang just are just... two halves of one whole. Weiss is completely independent of Jaune, and yet they both managed to grow without each other. I'm no relationship expert, but if you're relying on another person to have a character arc, that's not a healthy relationship- That's codependency.

Oh, but what do I know? I'm just an idiot on the internet who makes incorrect quote posts. My opinion is invalid and should be tossed out and disregarded. Tata~!